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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURES,

Madison, JAN 29-The upper house
resolution by Senator Mills, instruct
ing the dean of engineering at the
university to investigate the feasibil-
ity and cost of erecting and operating
an electric plant for lighting all state
buildings, including those at the uni.
versity, was concurred in by the as
sembly Mr. Lenroot submitted a
Joint resolution for an amendment to
the constitution permitting munich
palities to raise their debt limit from
5 to 10 per cent in order to permit of
the requirement of public utilities.
Bills introduced were as follows
Giving town supervisors the power to
license and regulate the sale by hawk
ers and peddlers and, if license has
been granted, to fix the price of such
goods as are offered for sale; also
raising peddlers' license fees some
what; making the maximum penalty
for breaking into any building with
intent to commit rape, robbery, MUIR
der or larceny 20 years instead of Is;
making registers of county courts ex
officio clerks thereof; appropriating
$500 to establish and maintain a scien-
tific dairy and bureau of information
at the state fair; permitting bicycle
riders to build and maintain paths.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07

Madison, Feb. lin the senate
nothing of moment was accomplished
but in the assembly the sensation of
the day was Mr.. Cooks Discrimination
to go On record on the anti-pass con-
stitutiOnal amendment. Mr.. Cook is
democrat whose Morathon county
seat is being contested by G. E. Van
dercOOk. He asked to be excused
from voting and was so favored. The
resolution was ordered engrossed with
but II votes against. The senate
memorial to congress in favor of the
ELECTROMAGNETIC bill was concurred
in unanimously. Two measures, one
regulating telephone rates and COM
polling rival companies in the same
city to make connections and the
other to tax phone property as any
other is taxed were perhaps the most
important bills introduced. Rates are
fixed as follows: In cities of 100000 or
more, 81 month; from 10000 to 100,-
600 So; 10000 to 10000, $3.50; less
than 10000, 81 month"; for talking
100 miles or less 10 cents a minute.
Other bills were of permitting counties
to adopt a system of uniform text
books by popular vote and forbidding
changes of text systems oftener than
once in five years, and permitting the
admission to the state school of
Sparta of crippled children Of sound
mind. Another bill seeks to effectuate
the constitutional amendment adopted
in 1885 by which women were en-
powered to vote at school elections.
1t merely authorizes separate ballot
boxes. Among the bills indefinitely
postponed was one exempting under
takers from jury service, another per-
hitting police magistrates to solemn
ize marriages and still another reduc
ing sheriffs' fees for railway travelling
to 5 cents a mile.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07

Madison, Jan. 30.-Nils P. Hauger
is now a member of the state tax
commission. His nomination was
confirmed in the senate as was also
HalfOrd Erickson's as commissioner of
labor statistics Among the bills in
troduced were the following: to in.
crease the salary of the justices of the
supreme court to $1,000 each and OF
circuit judges to $1,000 eacn; to pre-
vent and punish the dissertation of the
flag Of the United States; providing
than any person may change their
names by filing proper declarations
with the register of deeds in the
county where they reside; extending
to telephone companies the right of
eminent domain in acquiring rights of
way and providing for the separate as
sessment of land and the improve
ments on it,
Among important bills introduced
IN the assembly was one adopting the
Torrens land title system, which
practically means that, after a title
has once been made perfect and duly
registered, it may be transferred with
the land by simple endorsement, thus
obVlatlng the necessity of costly
looking up of titles with every realty
sale. Another measure contempIates
the state going into the publication of
school books and their sale at cost.
Still another permits counties to es-
tabllsh agricultural schools and yet
others raise railway taxes some $780,
600 a year. Other important bills
were: making it lawful for any person
carrying firearms to enter upon the
premises Of any other person, when
such premises are occupied by owner
or tenant or are partially or wholly
under cultivation, without having
first obtained permission from the
owner or occupant; making the alter
ing or forging of railroad tickets or
passes misdemeanor punishable by
of from one to seven
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07
aggregated s344,4S0 Practically all
the beneficiaries reside in the south.

Washington, Feb. 2.-The senate
devoted the entire day to the discus
sion of the ship subsidy bill. Sena-
tors Turner and Mallory were the
speakers in behalf of the opposition.
The house spent the day in consid-
Grafton OF the postoffice approximation
oil. The struggle over the questions
OF restoring the appropriation for the
pneumatic tube service and of the ra-
duction of railway mail pay were pre-
cipitated by amendments offered hut
no action was taken. Members paid
tribute to the late Senator Davis of
Minnesota
Washington, Feb. 4.-The ship sub
| sidy bill was laid aside informally by
the senate to permit consideration of
the appropriation bills. This action
was taken late in the day on Mr. ALI
| sons request that the District Of Co
Iumbla appropriation be taken up
The shipping bill holds it's place ana
as unfinished business can be take
up when the appropriation bills are
not occupying attention. Senator Ba.
con of Georgia spoke on right of the
senate to demand information on file
in the executive departments.
The house passed the senate bill to
create a commission to adjudicate the
claims of United States citizens
against Spain which the government
of the United States assumed by the
treaty of Paris, after having amended
the bill so as to refer the claims to
the court of claims instead of to {
commission. A bill was without de
bate passed to extend the charters OF
the national banks for another period
of 20 years after 1902 when the pres
ent extension expires.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07

A party Of scientists Is to yis>k
the mirage Of ''the silent city"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07

Washington, Jan. 30.-The shipping
bill was kept at the front in the senate
throughout the day. No appreciable
progress was made, most of the time
being occupied by Senators Turley
(Tenn.) and Jones (Ark.) in speeches
opposing. the bill.
In the house when the section max
ing appropriations for the agricultural
colleges Of the several states was
reached in the agricultural bill. Mr..
Lands of Indiana offered an amend
ment providing that no money should
be paid to the College of Utah until
the secretary Of agriculture was salts
fed no trustee or teacher in the insti-
tuition practiced polygamy. Mr.. King,
who succeeded Roberts, inveighed
against it as simply al aftermath of
the Roberts crusade. He insisted that
polygamy was thing of the past. Mr..
Lands replied by alleging that two
professors of the Utah agricultural
college were polygaTists and that one
trustee has seven wives and thirty
seven children. Upon this showing
the house adopted the amendment, but
subsequently, killed it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07

Washington, Jan. 31-After an
eventful legislative experience begin
ming with the present session of con
gress and covering two months, the
bill for the reorganization of the
United States army passed the last
stage in congress and now goes to
the president for signature.
The house passed the Notifications
appropriation bill and made fair pro-
gress with the postoffice appropriation
bill. Mr.. Loud explained the postal
measure, which he said carried Sl22,-
1883, being $9,124,450 more than the
appropriation of the current year. Mr.
Lentz of Ohio offered a series Of
amendments for the graduation Of sal
aries of clerks is charge of stations
and sub-stations. They were defeated.
Washington, Feb. 1.-The shipping
bill was kept steadily at the front in
the senate. Senators Rawlins Of
Utah and Berry of Arkansas occupied
most of the time in speeches OF vigor-
Gus opposition. A spirited discussion
was precipitated by an amendment of
fered by Senator Clay of Georgia, pro-
posing to link the Nicaragua canal bill
with the shipping bill. The
proposition was strongly opposed
by Senators Frye and Chandler. The
bill was passed providing for the cree
ton of a public building at Superior
Wis.
The house passed the omnibus
bill carrying 191 claims for stores and
supplies taken by the union army dur
ing the rebellion. The claims were
passed on by the court Of claims and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07

Madison, Feb. Among the bills
introduced in the senate was one by
Senator Green, providing that no per-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07
FEDERALLAW MAKERS.

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Frye
gave notice in the senate that he in
tended to keep the shipping bill to
front, even as against the appropria-
tons, not yielding to them without a
vote of the senate. 1t indicated a dis
position on the part of the senate
leaders to force to an early issue the
question whether of not the shipping
bill is going to pass at this session.
Senator Turner of Washington spoke
in severe arraignment of the bill, de-
claring it to be a '1awless, piratical
raid upon the public treasury" in the
interest of a few private benefciaries
and committing the government to eX-
penditures aggregating $270,000,00o
passed. The house took up the agri-
cultural appropriation bill. Mr.. Wads-
worth explained the measure, which
carries $4,377 ,229, being an increase Of
$353,370 over the amount of the cur
rent law. A feature growing out Of
White IN. c., the only colored men,
Der of the house. He declared the
negro on the threshold of the TWEEN
tieth century was to be reckoned with.
He was no longer the negro of forty
years ago. Since that time illiteracy
among members of his race has de-
creased As per cent, he said. His
race now included 1000 lawyers, as
many physicians and negroes had ST.
100000 of school property, S40,O00,00O
of church property; they owned 140,-
| 900 homes and farms of the value Of
| $3.50, 100000 and personal property 10
| the amount of $170,000 900. All this
| he said, the race had accomplished in
| the fact of almost insurmountable OBJ
| stacles, lynchings, burnings and dis
| reimbursement and Notwithstanding
the fact that the door of every trade
| is closed against the colored man. Or
| their behalf, he asked no special ia
vors, but only a fair field. Mr.. Corliss
| (Mich.) made an attack upon the work
of the bureau of animal industry
The growth Of this bureau and the ap
preparation therefor he declared al
| together too rapid. He made a point
or order against the increase of the
salary of the chief of the bureau anC
it went out of the bill. He also
moved to cut down the appropriation
Tor the bureau from $1,050,0Oo to 81,
100000 A host of defenders came tc
the rescue OF the bureau and the
| amendment was defeated. Mr. Mann
| Gll.) made a point of order against
the provision to empower the secre
tary of agriculture to inspect dairy
products for expectation and the pro
vision went out of the bill.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-19
4 Shadow on Her Life.

Somebody once asked a tranquil old
resident of Nantucket if her life had al
ways run as smoothly as She could wish,
if no great sorrows or disappointments
had ever come to mar its serenity.
The old lady sat looking out of the
window for a moment and then turned to
her qucstioner with a little smile on her
sweet face.
Il suppose you'll think it's foolish,
maybe" she said, but | did have one
great disappointment, and I've never for
gotten it. There was man that came to
the island once with hand organ and
monkey. He got as far as the corner of
our street, and thought he was coming
right this way, but he didn't.
Il was housed with cold and couldn't
go out to see MIN and his monkey, so
only caught just a glimpse of them. They
played half an hour in the next street.
"Disappointmcnts like that stay by
folks all their lives" she added after
sympathetic ejaculation from her visitor.
at was more than 80 years ago, but
I've never ceased regretting | didn't see
that monkey. Eve been wonderfully bless
ed in every other way, dear; but that or
gan grinder never came to the island
again, never!"-Yo uth's Companion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-19
HAS A THIRST FOR BLOOD.
Instances of the Ferociousness of
the Common weasel.

The weasel is the holdcst and most
bloodthirsty of our small animals; indeed,
none Of our larger beasts is more SO, says
John Burroughs. There is something
devilish and uncanny about it, 1t persists
like fate; it cludes, but it cannot be
eludcd, The terror it inspires in the
smaller crcaturcs-rats, rabbits, chip
munks-is pitiful to behold \ rat pur-
sued by Il weasel has been known to rush
into room. utter dismal cries and seek
the protection of a man in bed.
y woman in northern Vermont discov-
cred that something was killing her hens,
often on the nest. She watched for the
culprt and at last caught q weasel in the
act. It had seized the hen and refused to
let 90 when she tried to scare it away
Then the woman laid hold of it and tried
choking it, when the weasel released its
hold upon the hen and fastened its teeth
into hcr hand between the thumb and
forefinger. She could not choke it off
and ran to Il neighhor for help, but no one
could remove it without tearing the flesh
from the woman's hand Then some ono
suggested n pail of water. Into this the
hand and weasel were plunged, but the
creature would not let 90 even then and
did not until it was drowned.
A farmer one day heard a queer growl-
ing sound on the grass. On approaching
he saw two wcasels contending over n
mouse. Both had the mouse. pulling in
opposite directions, and they were so alb
sorbed in the struggle that the farmer
cautiously put his hands down and grab
bed them both by the backs of their
nccks. He put them in Il cage and Of
fercd them bread and other food This
they refused to eat but in few days one
of them had eaten the other up, picking
his bones clean and leaving nothing but
the skeleton.
The same farmer was one day in his
cellar when two rats came out of Il hole
near him in great haste and ran up the
cellar wall and along its top until they
came to Il floor timber that stopped their
progress, when they turned Mt bay and
looked eXcitcdly back along the course
they had come. In a moment a weasel,
evidently in hot pursuit of them. came out
of the hole, but seeing the farmer check
cd his course and darted back. The rats
had doubtless turned to give him fight and
would probably have been a match for
him.-Chicago Chronicle.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-19
HORSES MOI AS HAROY AS MEN
During War These Animals Succumb
to Hunger and Fatigue.

There hGvc been many Instances in
which fights have been lost or won ac-
cordin- TO the number and condition of
the horses engaged When the Siege Of
IlrVua commenced. the russians were
bringing all their stores and food from
Slstoya by the aid of $4,000 draft horses
and at Tie end of the siege it was found
that no less than $4,000 of them had
died from hard work and exhaustion
The want of rest ana food tells on
horse far more than on a man. for in
the case Of the latter there are stimulat-
ing influences of patriotism, the glory of
victory and other feelings which are not
existent in the nature of horse Quite
half the horses in England sent to the
Crimea never returned. most of them
having died from hard work and starva-
ton. Indeed, only about 500 were killed
in action
So reduced and starved have the poor
beasts become on occasions of this kind
that they have been known to eat one an
others tails and to guaw the wheels of
the gun carriages. Napoleon took with
him across the Nieman 10000 cavalry
horses and on his return in six months
he could only muster 10000. More than
HdlI inc horses WuiCI were engaged IN
our Egyptian war Of 1852 were disabled
Six hundred of these were killed and
only three-ffths slain in action. In the
Afghan war of 1S3S it is said that 1900
camels and half the horses engaged were
lost in three months
1t viii thus be seen that actual fighting
does not claim so many horses as starya-
ton or oyerwork. Defective shocing,
sore backs, want of food and rest and
other similar causes 90 far toward rem.
dering horses useless for practical war
fare. One more and important cause
needs careful attention, and it is the
danger of injury horses run when being
shipped across the sea. They are in con
slant motion. They continually fall
many of them to be trampled to DEATH
and the rest become frightened, kick and
batter one another about n are render
ed useless. AS an instance of this, it
was found that one regiment on the way
to the Pcninsular war was deprived of
just half of its horses on the voyage
London Golden Penny.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-19
His Queer Gcpgta.

A writer in Temple Bar says that
Frank auckland, the naturalist, used to
delight in entertaining all sorts of queer
people. y neighbour returning home one
day, found an enormous crowd in front
of the house, making the footway i'm
passable and extending some distance
across the street. Seeing u police consta-
bic, he inquired the reason for such a
crowd and requested to be conducted to
mis- front door The officer replied that
there was a dinner party at MIR. Buck
lands, adding, Not that there's anything
extraordinary in dinner party. sir, but
it's the company, for Tom Thumb. the
CircaSsian giantess and the Siamese
twins have already arrived, and some
more Of them are expected"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-19
NAMES CONSUMPTION CURE.
1t Is Said to Be TOlernbly Certain
but Few People VIII Take It,

Maine doctors send patients suffering
from tuberculosis into the northern pine
woods. There the patient must live far
from his kind, enduring loneliness that
is often as bad as death. People whose
lungs are seriously affected and who
know the conditions upon which their
lives may be prolonged often hesitate to
accept the advice of their physicians and
go thus into exile.
Every man who seeks the proongation
of his life in The woods must pay Il heavy
price. If he could 20 to an up river hotel
and come into contact with persons who
travel to and from the cities, or if lac
could build a sanitarium and make his
environment 10 suit himself, it would be
different, but the physicians have learned
that isolation is one of the most potent
of the curative agents that can be ON
ploycd. Sufficient light work to keep up
the appetite and to occupy the patients
mind, so that he shall have no time for
broodins over his ills, is another part of
the cure. Isolation, occupation and warm,
dry quarters on high land among the pine
woods complete the treatment which the
patient must take, which in time will
probably restore him to health.
There are from p to 80 consumptivc
patients in the Maine woods at all sea
sons of the year, They reside in The
forest year in and year out until their
lungs begin to heal. After this. if there is
no unfayorahle symptom for six months
longer, the exile is permitted to visit his
friends for a few days not oftener than
twice year
After four years of such solitary con
fincmont he is permitted to take board in
sporting camp where not more than
four persons can be accommodated Mt one
time, and to live there until his cure is
completed or he is able to DO a full days
work without fatigue. At the end of
about five years the patient, il hale and
able to work among men, gets n ccrtiG-
cate which sets him ut liberty.
Among the more than 400 Maine PEG.
pie who are taken with consumption cy-
cry year not one in ten win agree to I'm.
dergo the ordeal which is the price of re-
covcry, and Of those who do 20 to the
woods not one in five will stay long
enough to take the full treatment The
majority prefer an early death to the pro-
longcd absence from those who make life
worth living. Yet the records show that
nine out of every ten men who have been
stcadfast enough TO see the treatment
through to the end have come out cured
while of those who have died in the
woods only two out of nearly a hundred
have died from consumpton.-New York
Sun.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-19

Picking is rich in remarkable bells, the
finest specimens being located in the
bell tower ON the western side of the Tar
tar city and the Ta-chung-su, or Temple
of the Great Bell, beyond the city wall.
The latter contains the great bell of Pc
king, cast by order of the Emperor Yong
Lo in l415 and hung in the present tower
by the Emperor Waulch in lbs. This
gigantic object measures II feet in height.
is . inches thick and has circumference
of 81 feet ut the rim. 1t weighs 53l5 tons
and is covered inside and out with in
scrptions from the Buddhist outras in
Chinese characters. How this huge piece
of metal was raised to its present posi-
ton is a mystery which has never been
solved
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-19

stretcher or beneath the mattress of your
bed overnight all these are only aids
and they cannot maintain that perfect
form during the whole lifetime of the
garment.
1t is more than possible that YOU have
never given Thought as to whether there
might he any fundamental cause for this
evil. You will ho surprised To learn that
it is due to disease.
Now, it is NOT meant Of course that the
trousers contract this ailmeut during the
time they are worn. The trouble goes
back further than that. 1t begins on the
Sleeps back-that is. if they are wool
These and other interesting facts were
learned from an expert who has made
wool life study and who buys and sells
more of it than any other half dozen men
in the business. since he is the chief buy
er for one of the biggest wool syndicates
in the world
This gentleman knows by the feel and
appearance of wool Just how and where
it was grown, and by examining a fleece
he will tell in what country it was grown,
what the condition of the animal was, in
health or sickness, during the growth of
that fleece, and during which month Of
the year the animal suffered from illness.
If the fiber of the fleece is short or long
fine or coarse, weak or strong, 50 may the
health Of the animal be judged. Any
thing that weakens the vitality of the
animal affects the fiber of the wool
The animal may have been well in the
autumn and early winter In midwintcr
it may lose flesh for some reason and then
fatten toward spring. In such a case the
wool shows marked structural weakness
The fiber will be weak about the center.
Again, if the sheep is i'll from any
cause. in the autumn the weak place in
the tuer will be near the tip. If the ill
ness was during the spring. the weakness
will he nearer the roots.
When such wool is woven into cloth,
You can understand how slight strains
would break the fiber and cause the cloth
to stretch. Thus. you see. the illness Of
the sheep affects more than the ANIMAL
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