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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
Would Ask Nothing Better.

After twelve years of unexampled
prosperity under the Dingley law,
which emphasizes in its schedules the
policy of protection, a platform which
should declare protection not only un-
lawful, but a snare, would make
mighty interesting reading" and give
us a text for a stirring campaign.
And then the result might afford an
answer to a question which has long
engaged the politicians What infiu-
ence secured the Democratic triumph
in 1892? Who killed Cock Robin that
year? a." said the Free Trader. II
did it with my little deliyerance
against protection Grover" said
the ardent Clevelandite. "Mr. Cleve-
land did it with the force of his per-
sonality. He was the platform 1.-THE
Homestead strike" said the disguised
Republicans But for that General
Harrison would have had a walkover."
And so the contention has continued
to this day, and still continues.
Now, if it was the tariff plank in the
Democratic platform which did the
work then, why not ask history to re-
peat itself? Why not next year again
challenge protection to another battle
to the death? The protectionists would
ask nothing better. They would rush
to take up such challenge, and then
we should all enjoy the campaign huge
issue, and especially in the light Of
what happened to the Democratic party
after it carried the country in 1892 on
a free trade Washington
Star
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13

Great social and industrial problems confront us, and
their solution demands part unfalterng courage
and yet a WISE good-natured selfrestraint,
One great problem that have before US is to pre-
serve the rights of property and these can only be pre-
served if remember that they in less jeopardy
tory of wealth.
The of the nation must be eXerted to stop crimes
of cunning no less than the crimes of violence
Every Federal law dealing with corporations with
railroads that has been put upon the statute books dur
ing the last six has been step in the right drec
ton.
There can be no swervng from the course that has
been mapped in the legislation actually enacted and
in the messages in which have asked further legsla
ton.
There must be vested in the Federal government full
power Of supervision and control the railways doing
interstate business
1t should be declared contrary to public policy hence
forth to allow railroads to devote their capital to
thing but the transportation business certainly not to
hazard speculation.
The business of railroad organization and manage
should kept entirely distinct from investment
brokerage business.
The movement to regulate railways by law has come
to stay The people of this country made up their
minds to exercise closer control all kinds of pub
lie service corporations Every honestly managed rail-
way will gain and not lose by the policy.
The great need of the hour from the standpoint the
general public is the for better Transportation ia
ctes with the least possible delay Ample, safe and
rapid transportation facilities necessary
than cheap transportation.
We who believe in steady and healthy progress stand
unalterably the widest publicity. and of
fair dealing the part of railroads with stockholders
passengers and shippers.
AS a matter of shall punish any criminal
whom convict under the law but have no in
tenon of conounding the innocent and the guilty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13

few By any udged and sweeping scheme of vengeance
Wherever evil doors they shall be brought JUS
tce; and no criminal, high low, whom reach
will receive immunity.
There must be such rigid laws will prevent the
development of the country, and development
only be had if are offered an ample reward
the risk they take
There has been much wild talk the extent of the
overcapitazaton of railroads. The reports
on the commercial value of the railroads country
together with the reports made to the Interstate Com
merce Commission by the railroads, tend show that
as whole the railroad property of the country is worth
as much as the securities representing it.
Ample provision should made by Congress to enable
the Interstate Commerce Commission undertake the
physical valuation of each and any road IN the country
Physical valuation is panacea, it will ulti
matey needed essential instrument in adminstra-
tive supervision The effect of such valuation and
pervision of securities cannot be retroactive.
There need be fear the part
movement for national supervision and control over
railways will be for their detriment
ask that full power be given the Federal govern
ment because single State by legislation effect
uay cope with these powerful corporations interstate
commerce.
There must be just and reasonable regulation
There be question to the desirabity of doing
away with rebates any method of favorng ship
per at the expense of competitor.
emphatcaly believe that positive restraint should be
imposed railway corporations and that they should
be required to meet positive obligations the interest
of the general public.
Let the local attorneys the big roads keep out of
politics; and when they have to appeal
tonaI any State Legislature let their put
special register and let their business be above
board and OPEN There blackmalers in public life
Let the of wealth remember that while using
and enjoying it he must nevertheless feel he is in
a sense trustee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
Mule Against Horse for Army.

The humble American mule is the su-
perior Of any Arab stallion that ever
kicked up the sand of desert when
it comes to endurance and speed on
long marches, according to r. E. Bui-
lock, OF Dundee, Mich, who has writ
ten to Ouartermaster General Hum
phrey of the army asking permission
to enter a mule of his own raising in
the proposed long-distance test from
Portland, Ore, to New York, for the
purpose of determining the best mount
for the army. The Michigan man men
tons the Arab stallion because one Of
that breed was offered for the test,
and it was reported that the offer had
been accepted. The champion of the
American mule says in his letter to
Gen Humphrey:
Il see by some Yankee papers what
Arabia is to do. / have little mule
named Mckinley, 6 years old, weight
GOO to 700 pounds, 13 to IA hands high,
which l will let the United States have
to beat Great is Allah In making the
distance from Portland to New York.
he will save half the food and sing
America at the cathedral On Murray
Hill long before any fine Arabian steed
ever reaches there
Gen. Humphrey is half inclined to
believe the Michigan champion Of the
mule is right, but, nevertheless, he
feels constrained to decline the offer
for fear of wounding the susceptible
ties of the army, which would never
countenance the mule as a mount.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
OreCOn,a First Wheat Crnn

In his "Reminiscences of Oregon"
Hon. B. E. Nichols tells in the Laid
law Chronicle of the first wheat raised
in Oregon. May II, 1916, near where
Dallas, Polk County, now stands, Gen.
Gillian seeded ten acres of bottom land
to California spring red wheat, from
which he threshed and cleaned up 100
bushels of red wheat. The crop next
year was volunteer and yielded over
twenty-five bushels per acre of Califor
MIA fall or white winter wheat. The
next crop. 1913, also yielded thirty-two
bushels per acre. The white wheat
that was mixed with the sowing In the
first place did not mature, but spread
out over the ground allowing the
spring wheat to be harvested the first
year and leaving the other to grow and
mature for 1S47. The third crop was
the largest of all, and all from one
seeding. A truly wonderful thing to
those who had come from the cold,
bleak prairies of Northwestern Mime
sofa and Illinois, where the ground is
covered with snow from twelve to if
teen inches deep four to six months Of
the year, and where the mercury drops
to SO degrees below zero quite often
during the winter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
HUMAN SHAPE BELOW PAR.
To Produce Physical Ideal Artists
IdeaIize Their Work.

| To Produce Physical Ideal Artists
Idea1ize Their Work.
Artists we'll know that it is absolute
ly impossible to find living man or
woman who closely approaches the
physical ideal. You may admire a
statue or picture representing bodily
perfection, but you may be sure that
the artist had to idealize his subject
in order to produce such a work. You
can easily satisfy yourself of this by
examining the Photographs Of living
men and women models which are fur
| nished to artists as studies and noting
how ugly they are in comparison with
the ideal figures.
There are few people who can be
said to be utterly lacking in any fea-
ture of bodily beauty, but, on the other
| hand, it is impossible to find anyone
who is beautiful in every feature. The
ideal is an imaginary creation made
up of the most perfect features select
ed from all sources but when you come
to test any given human individual by
this standard you find that he falls
far short of what he should be and
might if he lived properly.
Aye, right living is the only remedy
for the difficulty, but it is almost I'M
possible for the world to rise to this
ideal after being pulled down by self
indulgence as it is for man to lift
himself by his bootstraps. Conditions
have become so artificial and tempta-
tons to oyerindulgence Of every sort
so numerous that it takes heroic reso-
luton and rare moral force to resist
their influence Modern methods have
brought luxury within the reach Of all
and luxury weakens the system as sure
as fate 1t was not so bad in cruder
times, when only a few, comparatively,
were victims of fast living, for society
was constantly regenerated from be-
low, but now the cancer is attacking all
ranks alike and the Infection is becom-
ing general.
Greece, Italy and Spain illustrate the
hopeless condition into which rich
countries peopled by once noble races
can be plunged by a neglect of the
laws OF lie, Iney represent Sllupiy tAe
cycle of growth and decay and nothing
can rescue them now unless it be the
injection OF some powerful supply OF
new blood from without America is
still growing with phenomenal rapidity
but things that grow fast generally
decay fast also and it lies with our
selves whether we shall tread 1.-THE
primrose path of dalliance" and allow
our race to lapse physically-andt there
fore mentally and morally-or wheth-
er we shall by rational living and by
the avoidance of the evils which have
been the doom Of older peoples resist
the tendency to degeneration. We each
one of us have it in our power to throw
our weight on the right side of the
scale by living up as near as we can
to what we know are the true stand
ards and thus serving as an example
which may move others to do the same
Pathfinder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
Fighting the HOLLYWOOD.

The investigations conducted by the
United States Bureau of Entomology
during the past three years show that
by the general adoption of the several
means of control herein described loss
es from the bollworm may be largely
prever ted, even during years Of severe
| injury
Tie fact that bollworms do not be-
come numerous in cotton until the
hardening of the early corn about Au
gust Is the basis for the recommend
alton of certain cultural methods not
only advantageous in the presence Of
the boil worm and boil weevil, but de-
sirable practices in cotton growing re-
CARELESS of insect enemies. These
methods are as follows:
l. Thorough blowing OF the land
during the fall and winter. This oper-
alton Is not only the means Of destroy
ing many bollworm pupae, but Is Of
Importance from an agricultural stand
point, in exposing the soil to the ac-
lions Of rain and frost, thus helping to
break I'D the constituents and render
them more readily dissolved and con-
sequently available for plant food. Fall
blowing Is also a requisite for early
planting.
. The use Of early fruting varie-
ties Of cotton.
4. The use Of fertilizers to hasten
and increase fruit production.
5. Early and frequent chopping and
civilizations.
Along with the improved farm prac-
tees above outlined, the cotton crop
mar be materially protected by the use
OF corr. and cowpeas as a trap crop las
described on pages 1919. That the
greatest benefit may be derived from
the use Of the trap crop system 1t Is
urged that each farmer in neighbor-
hood plant at least a few acres OF
June corn and cowpeas about the 1st
Of June.
The use Of arsenical polsons upon
the cotton will be found of value in
proportion to the severity of bollworm
attack Paris green is recommended
at the rate of about three pounds per
acre, applied in the dust form, either
pure or diluted with lime or -four.
Application by either bag or pole meth
Cd or by geared machinery is satisfac-
tory. The work should be done when
the plants are moist with dew or after
light shower. Two applications,
when not followed Immediately by
rains, should be sufficient; the first
should be made when the eggs begin
to hatch In numbers, usually between
July % and August 5 this may be fol-
lowed by a second In about one week.
If rains follow the applications, these
should be repeated Immediately
Destruction Of the early generations
Of bollworm larvae in corn seems i'm
practicable, except in certain cases Of
isolated areas and where the acreage
of corn is small compared with that Of
cotton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13

Ing, 1t also becomes not merely unwise and
unfair, but calculated to defeat the very
ends which those feeling it haYe in view
There has been plenty of dishonest work
by corporations in the past. There will not
be the slightest let-up in the effort to
hunt down and punish every dishonest man.
But the bulk of our business is honestly
done. In the natural indignation the peo-
pie feel over the dishonesty it Is all-essen-
tial that they should not lose their heads
and get drawn into an indiscriminate raid
upon all corporations, all people of wealth,
whether they do well or Ill. Out of any
such wild movement good will not come,
cannot come, and never has come On the
contrary, the surest way to invite reaction
is to follow the lead of either demagogue
visionary in a sweeping assault upon
property values and upon public confidence,
which would work incalculable damage in
the business world, and would produce such
distrust of the agitators that in the re-
vulsion the distrust would extend to hon
est men, who, in sincere and sane fashion,
are trying to remedy the evils.
The great need Of the hour, from the
standpoint of the general public, of the pro-
Queer, consumer and shipper alike, Is the
need for better transportation facilities, for
additional tracks, additional terminals and
improvements in the actual handling of
the railroads and all this with the least
possible delay. Ample, safe and rapid
transportation facilities are even more nee
essary than cheap transportation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
SHOULD RULE ROADS.
PRESIDENT ASKS FEDERAL CON-
TROL OF RAIL LINES.
would Establish Supervision Anal
osous to That OF Baaks-LayTs
Needed to Restore Trust-Much OF
Oyerca EQUALIZATION Talk BaseIess.

At Indianapolis On Memorial Day
President Roosevelt delivered the prin-
cipal address at the unwilling Of mon
ument to General Henry W. Lawton.
The speech was devoted to a discussion of
railway problems, and incidentally paid
warm tribute to Oliver Morton. the
war Governor OF Indiana
The President in his address came out
IN favor OF control by the Federal Gov
eminent of all railroads doing an inter
state business, and also said that it would
not be amiss TO demand Government su-
pervisfon of all purely State roads as
well, since the latter, as mail carriers, are
in measure responsible to the national
Government.
The President would establish a sys-
TEN OF supervision analogous to that ex-
ercised over national banks, and he con-
tends that public confidence in railroads
will not be fully restored until such
supervision is legalized by congressional
enactment.
The Chief Executive stated that much
OF the talk of overcapitalization of rail
roads now going on in this country is
without foundation in fact, and that, in
the consensus of opinion of investors. the
total value of stock and bonds is greater
than their total face value, notwithstand-
ing the water that has been injected in
certain places.
The Hepburn bill, he said, which gives
the Interstate Commerce Commission abb
solute control over the accounts of the
various interstate roads, is a great step
IN the proper direction
The President said in part
kor more than one reason 1 am pecu-
marry glad that this year l speak on Me-
mortal Day in the State of Indiana. There
Is no other class of our citizens to whom
we owe so much as to the veterans of
the great war. To them it was given to
perform the one feat with which no other
feat can be compared, for to them it was
given to preserve the Union.
Moreover, you men who wore the blue
blessed beyond the victors in any other
war of recent times, have left to your
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
Potato Cultivation.

After the potatoes are planted, the
success or failure Of the crop will, to
a large extent, depend upon the culti-
walton given, says a Colorado bulletin.
The first cultivation should be Civ
en- soon after potatoes are planted, be-
fore the plants are out of the ground.
Set the cultivator to run as deeply as
possible to loosen and aerate the soil.
The cultivator should be Immediately
followed by the harrow to smooth the
surface and re-eStablish the soil mulch.
After the potatoes are up, frequent
shallow cultivation should be given till
the vines become too large to work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
The Expected.

The waitress In a California restau-
mining investment had PANIED out a
million.
Are you surprised?" they asked her.
Not at ALL" she responded, laying
aside her apron. That's what I was
waiting for."-Philadelphia Ledger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
Horses Increasing in Number.

During the last seven years the num-
Der of horses in the country has in
creased about so per cent, from 49,
100000 to 100000 but value has in
creased about 112 per cent The aver
age price on the farm in 1900 is stated
at S445O In 1907 it is .50-the
highest price of which there is any Of
fetal record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
To purifx Milk supply.

The New Jersey State Commission
On tuberculosis in Animals is deter
mined that the State shall have a sup
ply of pure raw milk, pending such
time as State pasteurization of the sup
ply is established. To this end the COM
mission has planned to obtain the aid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
Convenient.

$50 you have three pairs Of glasses,
professor
Yes. One pair to read with, an
other for nearsightedness aud third
pair to look for the other two WITH
Fliegende Blaetter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
A Pair of Queries.

The Doctor-How can a man be a
lawyer and obey the commandment
Thou shalt not steal?'
The Lawyer-How can man be q
doctor and obey the commandment,
.sThnu shalt not kill2''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
Had the Example Handy

Teacher-A tyrant is a ruler that's
hated and feared. Now give me SEN
tence with the word in it.
Scholar-The teacher swatted de
IJ.pil wild his tyrant-New Orleans
Picayune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
The Guinea Fowls.

These birds must be we'll known to
be appreciated. From childhood we
have had them on the farm, from so to
$50 in a flock. They are no trouble
whatever; lay their eggs in nests which
they make in the grass and wheat
fields; we often find nests with from
thirty to sevanty-ive eggs piled on top
Of each other. From some Of the nests
we take part Of the eggs and leave
some Of them to raise their young. They
sit, hatch and raise their broods, and
we often do not see them until late IN
the fall, when they bring their chicks
home, sometimes as many as twenty In
flock. Such chirping! Such flying
up trees! The little keets look much
like cartridges when about that size.
They are splendid meat to fry or roast
or for pot pie and to enjoy the breast
Of fowl one should eat a guinea fowl.
The eggs are considered the richest OF
all eggs and keep we'll. We put them
up to use In winter, and two years ago,
wher illness and death in the family
made me forget the eggs until June, we
found them just as good as when put
away. If you try guinea fowls, you
are sure to have eggs and fowls for
your table, and no trouble to get them.
Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13

A poor man cannot afford to keep
poor COW.
The first requisites of good crop
are, good land, good seed, good tillage
and good manure.
With all growing and fattening stock
anything less than full feeding is sac
rifice Of net profit.
The planting Of plants of any kind
never results in securing the best or
most valuable products.
Nothing pays so well as thorough
preparation of the soil and this can
not be done without good blowing.
ing hay from the farm Is that it car
ries away too much Of the fertility of
the farm.
The average farmer could add from
10 to % per cent to his income from
vegetables and fruit IL he was not too
proud to deliver them to customers d.
rect.
When the spokes Of the carriage get
SO they will rattle, it is pretty poor
business to try to chink them up. Bet
ter take the wheels to some man who
knows his business and have him set
the tires.
Nail long, narrow box up against
post in the barn, one end up. Drive
in three or four nails near the top, and
hang up the saws there You can make
a little door of the top of the box and
fasten it with a handmade hook. Then
put the saws there every time.
There are two certain methods Of
capturing the plum curculio. First is
by Earring the tree every morning for
three weeks, after the plums are set,
catching the weevils in sheets laid on
the ground. The second is by coloniz-
Ing large f1ocks of chickens in coops or
in yards under the trees
In giving salt to animals it should
be done in manner to allow each ami
NAL to partake of as much as it de-
sires and prefers, instead of giving the
salt in the food, thereby compelling
some animal to use more than they
wish. Each animal has it's individual
preference, and the proper mode of
allowing salt is to place 1t where the
animals can have access to it at all
times, as each will use only the guam
titY needed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13
Like Attracting Like.

DO you see any good reason why a
doctor should not be also Doct:''
Certainly not; isn't poetry 4 drug
in the mark ct baltimore American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13

Bantam chickens came from Bantam,
a town in Java.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-13

The most serious objection to sell
ing hay from the farm Is that it car
ries away too much Of the fertility Of
the farm.