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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Erash ON Delivers

Jack-Some one has compared kisses
to old wine.
Katharine-Poor comparison.
Jack-Why so?
observation-disclosures kisses must be
fresh. What good would bottled kisses
be?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

"Are prize fights allowed in New
York now?
Yes; but they call them charity
euchres. Transcript
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
The Farmers Day.

The statistics up to this year show
that since 1900 farm real estate val
ues have increased 33 Is per cent.
Fewer men are going in the business.
All the good land is in hand. The
growing population demands more Of
the products of the soil and with the
constant desire of immigrants to re-
main in cities or in small manufactur-
ing centers, the farmer finds sale for
all he can produce. This Is the day
when the tiller of the soil can buy
automobiles for his family.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
New York Leads in Dairy ProductH

New York Leads in Dairy Products.
According to figures compiled up to
the LIST of July by the dairy division of
the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington, there are POI cows to every
thousand of population in the State of
New York. and the annual output Of
milk reaches 772, 100000 gallons, which
in the Union. Wisconsin has 4S3 cows
to every thousand inhabitants, yet its
production of milk reaches only 472,-
275,000 gallons. In the District of Co
lumbia the production of milk is $780,
900 gallons yearly, and the District has
but four cows to each thousand Of
population.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

Nut trees, as a rule, have long tap
roots, and it has been handed down for
years that to cut thin tap roots when
TRANSFORMING them meant death to the
tree, but experience shows differently.
If the long tap root is cut many lat
erals are sent out, and thus a fine,
strong root system is established, which
will make a good tree.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Finds No Support.

With the Presidents views that CIV
en- rates or schedules should be modi-
fed whenever they are clearly disad-
vantageous TO the country, the most
stolid stand-patter agrees. There Is no
argument on that question possible.
of revision; or to increase the importa-
tiens of foreign merchandise to replace
American goods in the home market !;
or merely to injure the trusts, finds no
support from Mr.. Roosevelt-Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
A JEW IN THE CABINET.

Oscar s. Straus to Be Secretary OF
Commerce and Labor.
The selection of Oscar S. Straus to
be Secretary of Commerce and Labor is
of more than ordinary interest for the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

There Is only one thing to do at
picnic: sit around and lie about having
q good Tina
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
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! cream that is only about % per cent
pure butter fat often develops too much
acid and makes poor butter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Another Viewpoint.

There is at least one thing to be
said in favor of boarding houses" said
Wedderly.
whats that?" queried Singleton.
1.-The man who boards usually gets
what he kicks for" explained Wedder-
II. "but in his own home he kicks in
vain"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Tho Unexpected,

at Is the unexpected that always
happens"
"Yes; ] read about 1t
About whatY"
About that man being wounded In a
French duel."-Houston Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

One of the most important factors in
increasing the wheat yield is early
blowing If you don't believe it, pillow
a portion of the field early in August
and the balance at the end of Septem-
Der, and in the part plowed first, you
may have an increase of ten bushels an
acre over the other Early blowing is
especially necessary in clay lands. Cen
orally speaking, the field should be
rolled as soon as it is ploWed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

Relative to the time of harvesting
apples, the author of a bulletin, issued
by the Idaho station, calls special at
tention to the necessity of harvesting
Jonathan apples when the seeds have
turned a light brown. If the fruit is
not picked until well colOred and the
seeds are dark around the edges, it is
likely to rot at the core while still
sound on the outside.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

If horse has the heaves feed less
hay and more grain and water him be-
fore feeding A horse with the heaves
should not be worked hard for an hour
after eating and too much should not
be expected of him. Feed wet feed
when it is convenient.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

There are mean hogs as we'll as
mean men, and when the two are
found On the same farm there is GER
tainly a great mess.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

The wife and daughter should not be
required to ask for every quarter they
get for spending money. They should
be recognized as part of the firm, and
should have good share Of the funds
without having to beg it. Come, now !;
be generous and see how much better
you'll feel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

A man in looking over a paper saw
the prices of hogs and he said to him
self. why haven't l Il few hogs 20
sell?o In another part of the same pa
per he read of the cholera being very
bad in one locality and he unused, Il
am glad 1 have no hogs to die with
the cholera. So after ALL it may be
we'll enough that this man did not
have any hogs. This is a good time
to be in the hog and sheep business.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

In shocking grain the bundles must
be set down in a vigorous manner or
they will not stay 1t is surprising
what poor Shockers we have on farms.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

Fall is as good time as spring to set
out fruit trees. Get good trees and
plan to give them good care in the
future. This is the only way to have
natures medicine-fruit, to keep set
ting out trees; it does not take long
to get your reward.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

TO those who are familiar with trans
planting operations, the best time to
transplant rose bushes is in the spring.
Autumn planting may sometimes be
done to advantage by those who live
In mild climate and are familiar with
such work, but beginners had better do
such work in the spring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

Have you observed that some farm
ers almost always have good crops? Or
course in bad year they do not have
as good crops as they do in good years,
but it is safe to say they have the best
crops in the neighborhood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

Do the boys turn the horses out OF
the barn by soaring them out and max
ing them run? 1t is not the best plan.
Slapping them with the halter and
saving Get out of here" makes fools
of them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

The dewberry is propagated by tips,
the same as blackcap raspberry; and,
with the creeping propensities Of its
canes, the grower will have no difficulty
in increasing his stock of plants very
rapidly. If the natural rate of increase,
however, is not sufficiently rapid, the
method of propagation from cuttings
Of the canes when in a proper state Of
ripeness will satisfy the most eXacting
propagation. 1t is said that some vari-
cites may be propagated very readily
from root cuttings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

Guinea fowls are good layers, and
when not toe old their flesh is tender
and pleasant to the taste, but darker
than chickens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
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A pile of cobs burned and then
sprinkled with salt makes a nice APP
petizer for hogs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

40 HE general opinion prevailing In
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

Tame hens sit and lay better, and
fowls of all kinds fatten better when
not subject to sudden fright, as is Of
ten the case with those that are tame.
In making the best quality of butter
for market there are five essentials ::
Uniformity in color, i'll texture, in salt
ing, in packing and in leaving no water
in the butter.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-06-01
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
Mississippi June Weather.

The following data covering q period
Of eighteen years has been compiled
from the Weather Bureau records at
siyty-dyc observation stations in Mis-
sis,tppi. They are issued to show the
conditions that have prevailed in tho
State during june for the above period
u years, but must not be construed as
u forecast of weather conditions for the
month.
Tcmpcrature-Me Mean Or normal tenn
pcraturc, 70. The warmost month was
that Of 1902, with an average Of 81,
The coolest month was that Of 1890,
with an average OF II. Some of the
highest temperatures recorded were as
follows: l05 at Greenville and l03 at
Water Valley in 1902. Some Of tho
lowest temperatures recorded were as
follows: - at Corinth in 1894 and 40 at
bonneville in 1850.
Precipitation-Avcrag lorthe month
500 inches. Average number Of days
with 0.Ol inch or moreS. The greatest
average monthly precipitation was 1910
inches in 1900, Tho least average
monthly precipitation was lilo inches
in 1897. Some Of the greatest monthly
amounts of precipitation recorded were
as follows: 20.2l inches at Bay st.
Louis, 20.08 at Meridian and 11,2S at
Waynesboro in 1900. Some of tho
least monthly amounts Of precipitation
recorded wore as follows; ola inch at
Batosville in 1897, O.O2 at Duck Hill,
O,26 at Port Gibson, and OPT at Canton
In 1902,
Clouds and Wcatber-Aycrage num-
Der of clear days 10; partly cloudy days
.; cloudy days G..
Wind-Tho prevailing winds have
been from the south.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-06-01
.TYPEWRITERS CATCH COLD
Machines Soon Get Out Of Order If
Left in a Chilly Atmos-
pheTe.

The employer looked on with a puz-
zled expression while the new stem
ographer carried the typewriter across
the room and placed It on a chair In
the immediate neighborhood Of a
steam radiator, says the New Yor.
Press.
IN be ready In just a minute, Mr..
L." she said. "The typewriter got
cold while the heat was turned off and
it sticks dreadfully."
Does the cold affect them" he
asked. That's something new"
Eyes, sir. | find that 1t does, very
much. Some machines regularly take
cold II left long in a cold room. It's
especially hard on old machines that
are pretty well worn, making them
very manageable sometimes. I've
known the cold to remain In an old
one until it had been several hours in
a warm room, when it gradually be-
came better; but usually a machine
yields to three or four minutes Of
warmth"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-06-01
NEGRO Is ELECTED
From Pullman Car After Beng Re-
peatedly Warned.

Chattanooga, Tenn, May 2s.-Atter
first making an effort to create the be-
lief that he was a foreigner, then feign-
ing deafness and again refusing to obey
the command to vacate a seat in a Pull
man car on train No, II, due to arrive
in this from Salisbury at 1905 pm.
Reverdy c. Ransom, evidently a New
England negro Of prominence, and the
author OF an address urging the inter
marriage of the races in the South, wal
elected from the Pullman car and forced
to take a seat in the car regularly pro
vided for his race.
Ransom is of a ginger-cake color.
about 6 feet , in height, wearing Il red
moustache. He entered the Pullman
car at Salisbury and it was not until
the train had passed Newport, just west
Of the State line, that Ransom was
elected from the car. Even then he per-
sisted in coming back to the Pullman,
and it was not, until he was duly warm
ed that he accepted the inevitable and
joined the other negroes in the car.
Ransom came TO Chattanooga, but
upon the arrival Of the train he could
not be found, evidently having gotten
away so as to avoid further nOtOrlety.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-06-01
T%EHUANTEPEC RAILWAY
Will Soon Be Ready for Business
Across the Isthmus.

Mexico City, May 28.-Managers OF
steamship lines on both coasts of this
country r preparing to take advan-
tage of the Tehuantepec Isthmus Rail-
way as soon as it is opened for interna-
tional business. The ships of the Can.
adian line will make ~Coatzacoalos a
port of call as will also the Texas line
steamers. The Pacific Mail line which
has recently included Salina Cruz on
the west coast on its list of stopping
ports will give that place weekly in
stead Of fortnightly service as now.
Other Pacific lines will be ready to
take freight from a Tehuantepcc line,
and it is believed by the ~Tehuantepec
officials that when the line Is opened
for through business there will be an
immense quantity Of freight offered.
The general business situation is good
and mining shows great activity.
Congress has appropriated s 5000 for
the expenses of the delegates TO the
Pan-American conference at Rio
Jaupirp
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-06-01
SAN FRANCISCANS OWE MUCH
TO THE khaki CLAD REGULARS
History Records 70 More Heroic Fight Against Desperate Odds Than
That Made by the Soldiers From the Preside
Under General Funston.

would have been a crime OF colossal
magnitude in ordinary times, proved
to be the sacrifice that saved The pleas
ant residence district of Pacific Heights
and the western addition, the beauti-
full regions around Golden Gate park,
from being obliterated, and with them
the last trace of the once proud city
of San Francisco.
A battalion of youthful sailors from
the training station at Goat island was
among the first regulars sent to the
relief Of the burning city. Fresh from
the drill ground, they appeared in all
the sh~ip-shape smartness of new leg
gings, white duck trousers, natty blue
jackets and soft skull-caps. They
were so trim and neat appearing that
1t did not seem at times as if they
could be the real thing, but they were.
With them came the far-famed handy
man." the Jolly" soldier and sailor,
too" the United States marine, with
laurels from Guantanamo, Tientsin
and Samar, to which he added the
credit which long sustained and trying
duty under distressful conditions de-
serves, and to him, as well as to his
soldier and sailor brethren will the
people of the New San Francisco some
day dedicate a monument.
A salesman travelling out Of San
Francisco returned Immediately upon
hearing of the catastrophe, to succor
his aged parents. He found their
home destroyed, the family vanished,
Frantically he searched the crowds
packed in the parks and vacant lots.
Suddenly a soldier in one OF the streets
barred his way.
Fight fire."
81 can't. am searching for my
aged parents. They have uisap-
peared."
Fight fret" was the still sternci
mandate. Again the searcher plead
ed. The sentry lowered his gun a11
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-06-01

ashes and Smothering smoke of perish
ing Pompeii or Herculaneum. Let him
imagine the tide of refugees, stripped of
all human attributes but the primal in
stinct of self-preservation, madly hur-
rying along the avenues of their
doomed city, ferociously struggling
with each other to make their way
through the narrow streets. Then
imagine the jostling mass suddenly cleft
by a column of khaki-clad troopers,
blue-shirted sentinels flung out on
every corner, skirmish lines intercept
ing with bayonets the human tide to
keep 1t from flowing down the most
perilous streets and byways. Think of
the United States army, through its
signal corps, its quartermaster depart
ment and medical service, rushing
the frantic Pompeiians, in tugs,
launches, ferry-boats, automobiles, es-
cort wagons, Doughertys and ambu-
lances, out from the smother and foul
gases, away from the lettering walls,
.vastated fields of the countryside,
across friendly arms of the sea, keep
ing up the Samaritan work, day and
night, until, after a week of such battle
as even the defenders of Badajos might
be proud of, the soldiers, who mad never
changed their clothes, never unlaced
their leggings during the whole terrible
time, hardly had snatched one hours
sleep in 4S or stopped even to wipe the
sweat from their grimy faces, saw old
Vesuvius stand smoking in sullen,
malignant but futile wrath, cheated Of
all but a few neutrality-suspicious. a
Observation-Disclosures, instead of the tens
of thousands whom the demon of the
earth caverns had hoped to claim.
Imagine not only this, but the Amer
lean forces, by desperate feats of dy-
namiting imperiled palaces and blow
ing down menaced villas, checking the
onward rush of co~niagration, and
finally defeating parent Nature in
her work of destroying her children.
Let one picture all this to himself,
and then, with a slight change,in the
setting of the scene he will have an
adequate lued VI now IHe united States
regulars fought to save the people Of
San Francisco and the remnant of
their city.
The shocks began to heave the
foundations of the city at precisely
5:13 on the morning of April IS. 1t
was 1871 years ago that night that Paul
Revere started on his ride that reused
the minute men of Sandy Middlesex.
Longfellow was a prophet when he
wrote:
'In hour of darkness and peril and need
the people shall waken, and listen
to hear
The hurrying hoof- beats of that steed,
and the midnight message of Paul
Revere"
Soldiers Presence a Blessing.
1t was a Godsend to the people of
San Francisco that 1000 soldiers were
quartered at the Preside, so near at
hand. No human police force, OF any
city, no matter how brave and eff
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-06-01

cient its personnel, how splendid its
discipline and organization, could have
COPIED alone with such a situation. The
work of ghouls and looters had to be
anticipated and reckoned with. Be
fore the day of disaster had grown
hardly three hours older %plunderers
and d~espoilers of the dead met sud
den death at the hands of the soldiers.
No questions were asked, no chance
for an explanation were given. Judg-
ment was grim and summary. 1t was
only by resolute sternness that loss
of lite could DO curtailed. People
would rush into the very core of fire in
the impossible attempt to rescue be-
longings. Example is contagious, and
it was necessary to keep fire-mad folk
out of the area of destruction. 1t was
not proper or possible to leave it
to their option whether or not to put
their lives in jeopardy. The cashier
of a bank attempted to enter the tot
tering, smouldering ruins of his insti-
tuition to secure some papers. The
sentinel halted him and forbade him
to pass. He refused to obey, ran by
the sentry, and was shot. 1t seems
cruel, but such incidents restrained
others-perhaps maryland thereby
prevented loss of life, Hence 1t was
humanity. In a short time the panic
stricken learned that martial law was
inflexible, but kind; that the hand of
federal authority was stretched out TO
soothe and relieve, not to smite: that
above all one must halt when the man
with the rifle on his shoulder said
Halt"
Within a few minutes of the time
that the troop Of cavalry deployed in
front of the Palace hotel several com
panies of regular infantry, armed with
axes, for service as pioneers. arrived
in the business district. The presence
of these grim, infiexible regulars was
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-06-01

Leopold Claremont, the well known
lapidary. 1t is a transparent gem
crystallizing in the rhombic system,
generally occurring in right rhombiC
prisms, and is to be found in many
different shades of yellow and brown,
green, white, blue, and, rarely, pink
and pale red.
Some of the dark yellow and brown
specimens can be altered to a deli
cate pink by careful application of
heat. Nearly all the pink topazes upon
the market have been altered, or, to
use the technical term, 'pinked' in
this way. Next to the pink variety
in value the blue and greenish
topaz. Although somewhat resembling
the aquamarine in color and general
effect, these varieties are much more
brilliant owing to their greater hard
ness.
The localities In which the topaz oc-
cur are, among others. Brazil, ST.
IBERIA, Asia Minor, Pegu, Ceylon, Vic
toria, Bohemia, Saxony, Connecticut
(U. s. Az and Japan. The finest spe-
cimens, however, are derived from
Brazil and Siberia. The chief sources
of the topaz in Brazil are Minas Geras.
villa Rica and Nevas mines, the last
named being generally used in connec-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-06-01
Especial Correspondence.)

Rarely has the United States army
been called upon to wage war upon Ma
ture in her wrath, but the San Francisco
earthquake disaster offered the finest
sort of spectacle of the army of a great
nation in action. From the hour when
the earliest heavings and quakings of
The earth began on the morning ofApril
Is until the present hour Gen. Funston
and his men have been fighting a win
ming fight with the titanic cosmic forces
of the neither world, followed by patient,
determined campaign against the law
less passions of the human rae and
the panic fear of a %stampeded populace.
Earthquake shock and fire! What
possibilities of horror and despair the
thought of these two phenomena con-
tains! Let one imagine himself stand
ing at a vantage point amid the falling
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-06-01

to the affrighted populace like a cool
hand upon the brow of a fever patient.
1t helped calm the panic of the peo-
pie to see the soldiers facing the fire
as If it were a human foe, directing the
movementsof the refugees and bringing
order out of chaos. What does not
San Francisco and the United States
owe to the army for its work during
the fire? Had there been no trained
body Of fighting men, disciplined to
obey orders implicitly, yet discrim-
inatingly and with commons sense, to put
duty before everything, even before
life itself, there would have been a
story of horror from San Francisco
such as would have appalled, the ages.
Civil law would have been impotent,
crime unchecked. Looting would have
become an industry, ravishing and
murder pastimes. No hand but the
strong hand of the army could have
held the bestial passions of the GRIM
inal element in check.
Praise for Men of the Navy.
In prafsing the regulars it must
not be forgotten that the term ap-
plies generically to the men of the
navy as well as the army, and
that navy includes marine corps.
To Capt. Mcbride, of the navy, and
the men from Mare Island navy yard
is due credit for the work OF wreck
ing the eastern side of Van Ness ave-
nue., the grewsome work of blazing
a trail" which stopped the flames at
that t~horoughfare. These men, vet
Grams in the handling of high explo-
sives, experts at destruction, worked
throughout Thursday night, April 10,
t%orpedoing alike the palaces of million
aires, aristocratic apartment hotels,
business blocks and churches. The
destruction OF these buildings, which