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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
OUR OWN WAR.

gen. Wood has begun The reform OF
.tuban prisons.
I4awton fund contributions will be
received until Jan. l.
Filipfnos attacked the American gar
s.ison at Subig, but were repulsed.
Democratic congressman will oppose
.are increase of the regular army.
American battaliona in various por-
fIons of Luzon scatter the insurgents.
Sailors killed by the Maine eXplo-
sion were buried in Arlington Thurs
day.
Legislation proposed by the war de
oartment is strongly opposed and like
4y to fail.
Prompt relief prevented many thou
sands from starving after the recent
hurricane.
Naval officials believe submarine
goats are destined to become important
in warfare.
The sixteenth infantry will garrison
aparri and other towns in the province
, 2f Cagayan, LuzOn.
Chairman Schurman of the Philip
S{Nue COHlHllSSlOh 0'iSo hilooioAhe'' 40 ca -
needed in the islands.
Home rule for Porto Ricans will be
the first thing considered by the insu-
Ear committees of congress.
General Young has been appointed
military governor Of northwestern Lu-
zon, with headquarters at Vigan.
.Gogernor-G General Wood Of Cuba will
begin reforms in the roads, the school
system and the judiciary of the isl
and
Colonel Lockett, with $500 men
routed the Filipinos near MOntalban
americans fought at San JaCinto knee
deep in mud, killing over 100 insur-
gents.
The war department has given out a
statement in regard to relief work in
Porto Rico, in which it is asserted that
1000 additional tons of food will be re-
,1uired for the destitute.
.[2on. Otis has issued a decree per-
uniting civil marriages in the Philip
pines Heretofore all marriages were
celebrated by the Catholic church, pro
slibiting wedding Of pro estants or non
Christians.
Army officers who have recently re-
aurned from Manila declare that Gen.
ao.iS' policy in the Philippines is dis
,lnal failure, and that the FilipinOs
Will not be pacified as long as he is re-
tanned in command
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
FARMING IN PORTO RICO.
Gen. Davis Views of the Plan to Es
tablish Garden Schools.

Some prominence has been given to
the idea that the daughters of the
American revolution should establish
in Porto Rico a system of kindergar-
tens for farming, and thus enable the
inhabitants of that island to become
self-supporting. Under the sanction
OF the Secretary of War and the Com
missioner Of Education, the project was
referred to Governor-GeneraI Davis
Tor his views as to its practicability.
and Mrs. A. NJ. Wilcox, of WASHINGTON
who has devoted Is years to the prose-
cution of outdoor kindergarten work,
has received a reply from General
Davis, who writes: Cup to 1898 the eff
forts OF the sovereign power seemed
70 have been conferred in the direction
or educating few to compose the
governing class. In the past not over
2Z,OOO youths were taught anything.
whereas there are in Porto Rico of
school age almost 100000 children
According to the Spanish educational
| system, he says, education meant
immunity from manual toll, and
while the educated youth was WILLING
TO accept a clerkship or some other DO
sltlon, he did not care to soil his hands
with labor. This instinct or inclina-
ton, he says, will take a long time
to eradicate"
| 1 am afraid to make a prediction as
TO the success you would attain in es-
ta0hshlng school gardens in Porte
Rico. II you wrought only to the end
that the pupils would graduate with
Sedentary positions. permitting much
leisure and little work, I assure you
would find throngs of pupils. If, how
ever, the ultimate result involved is
the following of the pillow or other
heaVy work, | fear the success would
be less evident. | hope to establish
model farms and experiment stations
so as to improve agricultural methods
nave to begin at the bottom, however
Tor there is no foundation to build
upon. Ii such an establishment as
you propose is seriously contemplated
would suggest that you, or some
other intelligent person, come here and
study the social, moral and economic
conditions that must environ you"
President Clark, of the Porto Rice
board of education, writes: The estab,
llshment of such school gardens as are
here proposed is desirable from many
considerations. If teachers. materia'
and equipment for a few such gardens
to be started on an experimental basis
| l,C
OF the American Revolution, the lana
for such gardens and possibly neces-
sary rooms for any indoor work con
nected with them could be furnished BY
the municipalities
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04

Germans want better tariff rates for |
their sugar.
A woman's university is to be estab- |
lished at Berlin.
Servia will pardon the alleged assail-
ants Of ex-king Milan.
Hilda Blake, Manitoba woman,
was hanged for murder.
Canadian officials laugh at the report
Of a projected Fenian raid
Mexican gamblers have won millions
Of dollars from Americans.
Russia continues to ship reinforce
ments to the Pacific coast.
The Paris football club will play
| games with the English teams.
| 4 new treaty between China and
| Mexico is signed in Washington.
The medical department of Heidel-
| berg University will admit women.
The French government refused to
promote Marchand or allow him to lee
ture.
Brazil is seeking commercial treaties
with France, Germany, Italy, and
Spain.
Cardinal SatolH denies that the pope
has authorized Latin American priests
to marry.
The prosecution of six royalists was
discontinued by the French for want
of evidence.
The kaiser will promote Colonel Won
Schwartzkoppen, who figured in the
Dreyfus case.
Cinnamon are charged with wreck
ing a Methodist mission in Victoria,
B. c., with dynamite.
The German government will not
try to buy the Danish West Indies; due
to American opposition.
Berlin reports that Portugal has sold
African colonies to England and Ash
attic possessions to Germany.
Queen Victoria gave a Christmas
party for children of the Windsor
guardsmen serving in Africa.
III health may force the resignation
of Minister of Public Works Tarte
from the Canadian cabinet.
: A Russian girl killed her parents and
: seven other persons because hel
. parents forbade her marriage.
| A strike of miners has begun at St
Etienne, France, which it is feared
will spread to large proportions.
A preliminary convention has beer
signed for extending to Bagdad ths
German railroad in Asia Minor
. DR.. Metchnikoff of Paris is expert
menting to find means of prolongins
: life by suppression of senile decrepi
l tude.
S AS indemnity for the assassination
of two officers China gave Franc,
1 money, territory, and railway and min
r ing concessions.
l The first performance of a German
star at Paris theater since tn
K Franco-Prussian war took place whel
r Agnes Sorma played Norma.
0 Christmas gatherings Of royal per
sons and their children and grand
: children were held at Windsor, Eng
e land, and Potsdam, Germany.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
DOMESTIC.

F2amora ran a mile in l:39%t at Oak
13nd
Senator Stewart of Nevada favors
sNpausion.
\ severe storm prevailed on the
great lakes.
several Ch.o-Aicbigan railroads will
consolidate
Beriug sea seal herds are 20 per cent.
5,sss than in 1898
Dallas. Ten. had number Of Christ
zNeGs shooting ARRAYS.
carlisle Indians defeated California
students at football to 0.
Che Lowell Arms company of Boston
d@ss made an assignment
senator p!att announced he favors
Ns20druH Tor vice president
West Superior man was arrested
Ks Virginia on charge of murder.
Congressman BouteIle of Maine is
--ssrorteA 10 be suffering from naresis
Sue holiday trade of the country is
~ ner cent larger than it was a year
,agy2
1aIlaua teachers deplored COMPEL
JUs7 children to study distasteful sub
.Fas>ts
senator Sullivan of New York gave
Christmas dinner to about 5000
men.
The annual chess tournament be-
tween Yale, Harvard and Columbia is
%
a pro-boer resolution is ruled out OF
order in the New York board Of alder
men
Chicago neurologists are skeptical
as 20 starvation treatment for in
sanity
The arrival of American gold pre-
vented a smash on the London stock
exchange.
Thomas E. Clark has been appointed
general manager of the Iowa Central
railroad.
thousands of poor persons were
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
BOER-B BRITISH WAR.

Gne German army will use an ar
loaFtad train.
Another lively engagement occurred
ri Lsadysmith.
Gen. Methuen is well intrenched at
sz0dder river.
Yhe hundred Britons captured at
srogmberg have arrived at Pretoria.
The total British casualties at Mate
Eigg are % killed and 50 wounded.
1ie Transvaal secures food, NUM-
zsCR1s of war and recruits by way of
E1sslag0a, bay.
General Butler is waiting for i'm
nsored artillery before beginning
aaprher advance in Natal.
The beers crossed the Tugela week
Ego, and were moving upon General
Bs1lier's camp at Chieyeley.
The Times correspondent at Cape
GOWN said none of the recent battles
e9rept Belmont were victories.
g,he beers claim the British lost
. ,tB99 men at Colenso; $50 new pris
esners have arrived at Pretoria.
Captain Armes said that nearly
-Esk-5SJb AiIlCllCdllo nave fOAuiIIC11 ~ ~
1G5n his expedition to south Africa.
The official Pretoria account or the
battle of Colenso, Natal, states tha
G3e boer loss there was only 80 men.
Gen. Schalk Burger officially report
Szsz that the battle at Colenso resulted
sHz a. most crushing defeat" of thu
GErflish
che LOnuon war office states 1t ha
aad no news since the goth and expect
NONE until Roberts arrives, as the gen
erals were ordered to suspend opera
E1snns until then.
Many loyalists in Cape Colony faVo
martial law. The Dutch aid the boer
secretly and open rebellion is imml
nent. They are said to have plotted t
capture CapetOwn.
It is reportedsthat the pope will at
Eaapt to end the TransVaal war in hon
or of the holy year and ask cooperatlo
s3G Catholic powers.
j. v. L. Pruyn telegraphed to Presl
Gent Mckinley urging him TO tende
Che good offices of the United States t
end the south African war,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04

walk, and that same night Mr.. Ward
ner was flying eastward on a Canadian
Pacific train. Arriving at Montreal
Wardner went to Shaughnessy to ex-
tend his thanks, and when the general
passenger agent saw him he threw up
his hands
& How did you get here so soon?' he
asked
Over the Canadian Pacific, OF
course, responded Wardner.
But how? Didn't the agent get
my telegram
Yes, and it said: Don't let Mr.
Wardner walk" and I didn't, smiled
Jim.
Great Scott exclaimed Shaugh-
messy, that telegraph operator LEFT
out period. The telegram should
have read; Don't. Let Wardnel
walk.
Then Wardner gave Shaughnessy
the ha ha, and Shaughnessy gave
Wardner a dinner and Wardner didI
have to walk on to New York, either
He's great chap. is Jim Wardner, anC
he'll be on top again by and by. see i
he isn't. New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
ABOUT EDWIN MARKHAM.
Poet Claimed as a Thorough West
erner.

Edwin Markham, the universally
discussed author of the most success
full single poem of the decade, The
Man with the Hoe, is a thorough west
erner. He was born IN Oregon City,
Oregon, forty-seven years ago. His age
being mentioned, it is pertinent to
state that, notwithstanding that he is
in the prime of life, his flowing gray
beard and hair give him a patriarchal
appearance. The dignity which thus
attaches to him, and his strong, earn
est face, are made all the more inter-
esting by dark, piercing eyes that beam
benefcence and goodness.
Mr.. Markham is descended from two
historic American families. His
fathers people are kin to Colonel
William Markham, a cousin of William
Penn, who came to Pennsylvania as
PENIS secretary and later became
vice-governor of the colony. On his
mothers side he descended from the
Connecticut Winchells, who are asso-
cfated with both the universities of
Minnesota and Michigan. With such
good ancestry giving him character,
the boy sprang to manhood under the
spell Of the vivid and eager west. His
bOyhO0d was spent on a cattle range in
central California, where his widowed
mother had gone unaided for the most
part save by her son. In these early
years he had no companions save
deaf and dumb brother and his strange
~ silent and severe mother. She was
a remarkable woman-fxed in her
purposes and gifted with a singular
power OF condensed and graphic ex-
preston. The child doubtless inherited
his gift Of poesy from her. With hard
work and little schooling, but with
much education in the love of nature. |
the years Of youth passed away in the |
In the cabin were two |
precious books of poetry-Pope's Had !
and bulky volume Of Byron. These
The boy early learned to love and often |
carried with him in his long rides after |
cattle. Under the spell of this read
ng he tried his hand at verse. and at
Is boldly wrote a number of stanzas
jailed "a Dream Of Chaos"
One day young Markham saddled his
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
CIGAR STORE INDIANS DEAD.

Inc wooden Indian, like his flesh
and blood prototype, is rapidly becom-
ing thing of the past. The march of
civilization, the increase in splendor
and luxury which prevails in this end
of the century, have driven the wooden
Indian before it just as the settlement
Of this continent has almost extermi-
mated his human counterpart
Twenty years ago the wooden Indian
was almost as inevitable a sign for a
cigar store as striped pole is for a
barber-shOp. Now a walk through the
principal streets of Philadelphia will
scarcely disclose one mute warrior.
They are, indeed, becoming very
rare, so much so that the attention of
archaeologists has been drawn to the
fact, and one prominent scientist con-
nected with the university is making
an extensive collection of them They
are OF every conceivable variety, and
when the collection is completed he
proposes to present it to a museum.
1t may perhaps, seem strange that
the humble cigar store Indian, so long
the stock in trade of the humorous
paragrapher, should actually engage
| the serious attention of those who
study the habits and customs of man
kind, but when one considers how we
treasure as antiquities equally UMPIRE
tentious relics of earlier days there
| IS nothing so very strange about it
| after all. Perhaps the day is not sc
very far distant when the wooden
Indian will be such rarity that pos
terity will treasure them as drawing
room ornaments if possibly as statuary
in their gardens, just as we now delight
in a genuine sundial or an ancient
! bench.
Ever since the courtly Sir Walter
Raleigh introduced that doubtful
blessing to Observation-Disclosures, ant
during the earlier days OF this coun-
try's history when tobacco was chiefly
purchased from the Indians-''t the
weed has been more or less constantly
associated with the American aborigi-
mes. 1t was the natural outgrowth Of
such an association that the image o.
All Indian should become the recog
niZed outward and visible sign for {
| tObaccOnist
| The noble red man was counter
feited in many shapes and attitudes
! but the favorite, perhaps, was the i'm
preSsiye chieftain, armed and &C,
counted with all the pomp and cir
cumstance Of war. Such a one, his
war bonnet of feathers extending
down his back, his drawn bow in his
hand, and his foot resting upor
Dowlder, his eagle eye gazing stead
| faStly-such a warrior
Armed with all his warlike weapons
Painted like the sky of morning,
Streaked with crimson, blue and vel
low,
Crested with great eagle feathers,
such a chieftain, if properly carved
and painted-and many of them were
really works of art--was calculated tc
inspire The passerby with respect and
admiration.
Only the smallest and oldest speci-
mems were actually constructed Oh
wood, metallic compositions, plaster
Of paris and other materials being
used in those Of later manufacture
! Philadelphia Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
4 THIRTY-SEVEN POUND 'FGoSUN

\ Spartanburg man. travelling in the
harness and saddlery business, is re-
sponsible for the following, the truth
OF which he ycuches for: The negroes
of Greenyille county held stock
show at Pine Hill, in that county. on
October s, and a 'pOssum. weighing
IS pounds and having tusks inches
long, was placed on exhibition. It's
tail had been cut off and marked in
Puddy Shaw's mark He would not al
low any hunting. on his lands and the
'possum must have been marked by
him during his lifetime. He has now
been dead 20 years. and the plantation
is now owned by Mr.. Wistar Babb.
This 'possum is now in the possession
of negro named Bob Roseman, who
lives about one mile from Tumbling
Shoals. For q witness to the truth of
the foregoing this Spartanburg man re
fers to ". D. Sullivan. of Tumbling
Shoals.-SDartanburg IS. c. Free
Lance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
UNCLE DAMS PHILOSOPHY.
Ever heard Of Uncle Dan?

/ Ever heard Of Uncle Dan?
| Such queer, peculiar mani
Never grumbles, come what may.
What's the use Of it?' says he:
'Frettin' never seems to pay
Any way. it don't with me.
When thing has happened-why,
What's done can't be helped says I,
So, to show you've got some grit,
Grin, an make the best Of iti''
Strange old fellow, Uncle Dan!
Always STAN up for man
When they're down on him" saws he.
Till you know he's in the wrong
frien's amt what they ought to be
When you buy EN- with song.
| go in for trustin' men:
Sometimes l get fooled-but then,
Better trust an be deceived
Than to never have believed"
Dear, old-fashioned Uncle Dan!
Steadfast friend an honest man:
Brave with faith in human kind,
Strong with trust in God above;
To a comrades frailties blind,
Quick to see with eyes of love!
There's a sermon in his creed
Surely he who runs may read.
And the worlds a brighter place
Since he looked it in the face.
-Eben E. Rexford, in Lippincott's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
FACTS ABOUT HUMAN GROWTH
Stature After All Merely a Matter OF
Legs.


do not think it is possible to add
, more than an inch or so to the human
stature, said well known physician in
answer to a question of the writer.
This is one respect in which nature
| insists on having her own way: and
l am quite sure that under no cOndi-
lions would it be possible to raise a
race of giants. Nature is always at
work correcting any tendency to ex-
tremes, though here and there some
one escapes her notice and grows into
a giant or dwindIes into a dwarf.
You might think that tall parents
would have taller children than them
selves, but little observation will
prove that this is not so. Nature al
ways seems to be striving to reach and
maintain a medium height; so that as
rule tall parents have children
shorter than themselves, and short
parents raise taller children; the two
extremes meeting in a few generations
at the average height.
But something can certainly be done
If the attempt be made early. Practi-
caIly man does all his growing be-
fore he is Is, and a woman before she
is 16; although l have known cases
where a man has grown perceptibly in
stature until long past 80.
After all, stature is largely ques-
ton Of length of legs. If you take
three men, one Of six feet, another Of
i've feet six inches and third of five
feet, there will be only the smallest
difference in length Of the body, and,
in fact, the short man may have the
longest body Of the three. But the
long man will have an advantage of 10
inches in length of leg over the short
man
The margin for growth in the legs
Is 50 per cent. more than in the body.
and $50 per cent. more than in the
head This means that the legs of an
adult are five times as long as when
he was born, his body three times and
his head twice its original length.
1t is thus, you see, very largely /
question of legs; and to the legs we
must look for any great increase in /
stature. AS you may know. each leg
bone is i'll early youth in three distinct
pieces, which later unite into one bone.
If you could devise any means of pre-
venting this unison or delaying it for
a few years, there is no question that
you might aid materially TO your stat /
ire, although you would destroy the
and symmetry of the body.
Nothing checks growth more than
illness; and by avoiding it you nelp
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
OPPOSED BY THEIR OWN SEX

Why is it that women are practical
ly debarred from receiving promotions
to the higher places in the government
service?" asked a government clerk of
a quarter of a centurys experience.
The question was put to several ladies
in the treasury department. Before
any one OF them had time to reply the
questioner proceeded to answer his
own interrOgatory.
1t is because they are held back by
members Of their own SEX" he said.
Some time ago lady in one division
[ know of was SO favorably regarded
that she would have been made chief
OF that division, but as soon as her
prospects became known her fellow
clerks of the same sex became indig-
nant, and united in protest They
declared that they could never work
under her; that they would a thousand
times rather have a man than a wo-
man to boss them. They wouldn't
allow her to lord it over them
THAT is only sample of many
cases. Women can be depended upon
to antagOnize women under such cir
cumstances. Not only did they do so
in the case l have cited, but they act
ually gave the marble heart and icy
hand to this woman after they de-
feated her prospects of a promotion.
l am satisfied that one of the most in
tiuential obstacles to women in their
effort to secure equal recognition with
men comes from their own sex"
The man who asked and answered
the questions then moved off, before
his audience of lady clerks had an op-
portunity to reply to his assertions
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