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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-05-27

such commitments at the same time
as can be reasonably done to entitle
him to the pay here provided
4. That no criticism of the pres
ent sheriff is intended by this reso
luton, for in making out his bills and
his charges therein he has simply
followed a long established practice
in this County.
5. That the County Clerk forth
with deliver to the sheriff to be
kept in his office for use, a copy
of this resolution.
Mr.. Brown moved that a commit
tee of three be appointed by the
chair to act with the Judiciary Com
mittee in fixing the Per Diem of the
sheriff when executing commitments
to the state prison. Carried
The chair appointed L. Ward. Louis
Amundson and j. A. Chapman as
such special committee.
On motion, resolution No. 3. was
laid over until the Joint Committee
report and the Board can take ac-
ton on same!
Resolution No. 4.
RESOLVED, by the County Board
Of Wood County at the meeting
thereof, held at Grand Rapids, Wis,
May 6, 1909, that the special com
mittee appointed November 1908 to
have the Wood County Tract Indexes
transcribed into new and suitable
books, be re-appointed or reelected
to serve on the same committee for
the coming year.
Mr.. Lynch moved the adoption OF
the resolution. Carried.
Resolution No. g.
| WHEREAS, there is need of a
typewriter in the office of the
County Judge of Wood County.
THEREFORE, be it resolved by
the County Board of Supervisors OF
Wood County, that the said County
Judge be and he is hereby authorized
to purchase such typewriter as to
him may be deemed best for the
use of said office, and that the Coun,
| ty Clerk is hereby authorized to pay
the bill for the same on the approx
al thereof by the County Judge.
Mr.. Rowland moved the adoption
Of the resolution. Carried
To the Honorable, the County
Board of Supervisors of Wood Coun
ty, Wisconsin.
Gentlemen:-I have in my office,
Wood County Orders drawn prior to
May 4th, 1907, which are subject to
cancellation as per Section 688 Re-
vised Statutes, as follows:
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for the esveral amounts as recommed
ed. Carried
TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF WOOD CUNTY, WISCONSIN.
Gentlemen:-You Committee on
Printing and Stationary to whom was
referred the following entitled claims,
would respectfully report that we
have had the same under considera-
ton and after a careful examination
of all items contained therein, recon.
mend that the several amounts as
set forth in this report be allowed
each claimant respectively, to wit:
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Respectfully submitted,
F. H. EBERHARDT.
County Clerk Wood Co.
Dated May 3rd, 1909.
To the County Board of Supervis-
ors of Wood County, Wis.
conference.-the the undersigned
Finance Committee, to whom was re
ferred the report of f. H. Eberhardt,
County Clerk of Wood County, OF
orders issued prior to May 4th, 1907
and subject to cancellation, beg leave
to report that we have carefully
examined the same and compared
it with the records of the County
Clerk and find it correct, and have
cancelled the stubs and the record
of such orders and herewith present
the original orders and recommend
that the same be destroyed.
E. M. Deming, Chm.
B. Mulroy,
E. Eichsteadt,
J. A. Chapman,
G. A Giese,
q. w. Brown,
Finance Committee.
On motion, the report Of the Fl
nance Committee was adopted.
Report of the Committee on Print
| ing and Stationary.
/ Mr.. Christensen moved to allow the
| bills as read by the Committee on
Printing and Stationary unless OBJ
| jected to and that orders be drawn
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MEN TO PATR0NIZE

Painting aud finishing done in first
class style. Cau on VIII Suhr Phone
279. III
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DR. D. A. Teller, dentist, office over
Wood County National bank. Tele-
phoneNo. so. residence No. 80.
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Your committee on Illegal Tax
claims would recommend that the
Tax Certificates Nos. 247 and 24S
sale of 1906 be cancelled, bill of
s7.07 allowed H. Van Ruth, and s7.07
charged back against the. town Of
Port Edwards.
P. n. Christensen,
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TO THE HONORABLE, THE COUN-
TY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
WOOD COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
Gentlemen We, the undersigned
members of the Special Committee
appointed to provide for the index
ing Of the records of wills, writs OF
attachments and such other records
as were not properly indeXed, beg
leave to report, that we have caused
the same to be properly indexed in
a suitable volume therefor and that
the work of such indeXing has been
completed to the satisfaction OF
your committee.
Dated May 9Th, 1909.
P. n. Christensen,
E. NJ. Deming,
Special Committee.
On motion the report of the
Special Committee was adopted.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON IL
LEGAL TAXES.
H. Van Ruth, Illegal Tax Certificates
s707.
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TO THE HONORABLE COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
WOOD COUNTY.


Gentlemen:-Your petitioner, John
w. Schmick, respectfully represents
and shows that he is the owner of
the property described in Volume rs
of Deeds on page 322, Wood County
records; that said property appears
on the real estate tax roll of the
City of Grand Rapids, assessed as
the property described in Vol. 66 %
Deeds, on page 261 and as the prop
erty described in Volume 90 of Deeds
on page So; that your petitioner duly
paid the taxes levied and assessed
on said property on January 27, 1909,
by paying the taxes levied and as
sessed thereon as the property des-
cribed in Volume SO of Deeds on
page 80:
That on the same page of the tax
roll to wit, page 135, the said prop
erty is again assessed as that des-
cribed in Vol. sc of Deeds on page
261. and all of which descriptions
describe the same property; that
the tax levied and assessed upon
said property, and describing the
same as in Vol Sc of Deeds on page
261 is illegal and has been returned
delinquent and said property adver-
tised for sale by reason of such non
payment.
WHEREFORE your petitioner
prays that this Board take su b &C
ton in the premises as may be neces
sary to clear the record title from
the lien of such taxes, and prevent
the sale thereof; that your petition
er for the convenience of your com
mittee refers to the following rec
ords all of which describe the same
property; Vol. &C of Deeds page POI
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COUNTY BOARD PROCEEDINGS
(Continued)
Roll Call on the original motion.

Roll Call on the original motion.
Ayes:-Morris, Searles, Reeves, Ha
brouck, Lynch, Rowland, Henke, Null
roy, Rourke, Goggins, Giese, Mckee,
Amundson, Hooper, Forbes, Eich-
steadt, Reimer, Ross, Bartels, Iver-
son, Worlund Total q.
Nayes :-Kundinge Chapman, Xii
day, Hiles, Christensen, Deckert, Pan
kow, Schroeder, Writer'S, Wolf, Nc
Coy, Kohel, Brown, Kurtz, Ward, Els
ser, Rothenberger, Ayers, Smith. To
tai 10.
Absent and Not Voting: -Deming,
o. G. Lindemann Total 2.
Resolution No. 3.
Whereas, there has heretofore been
much confusion and uncertainty up
on sheriff's bills and the manner OF
making out and presenting the same
to the Board, and in the charges
made for certain services, to wit:
Charges for executing commitments
TO the insane hospital; industrial
school; state public school at Sparta;
state reformatory; and state prison
arising very largely as it is believed
because of the ignorance Of the
law thereon due to the scattered
provisions of the statute governing
the same and the difficulty of find
ing the same and because of the
fact that the statutes in certain of
said cases fix specifically the amount
that may be charged and in certain
others leaves it with the discretion
of the Board; therefore, be it
Resolved: 1. That in all future
bills of sheriffs Of this County, the
Board will not receive or pass upon
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Signed,
James X. P. Hiles, Chm.
d. J. Kilday,
H. Ross,
Geo. T. Rowland,
John Wolf,

TO THE COUNTY BOARD OF SU-
PERVISORS OF WOOD COUNTY,
WISCONSIN.
conference.-the undersigned Com.
mittee on Printing and Stationary,
beg leave to report that pursuant
to request therefor from the old
Committee, as per notice, the fol.
lowing bids were received for the
printing of Ats pamphlet copies OF
the proceedings of the County Board
from May 1, 1909 to May 1st, 1910:
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of Israel? and how did they get their
names?
8. In Exodus, I'd chapter. 18th verse. is
the word soon" good English? and IL
SO, why? and If not, why not?
g. Where Is the text, "And it shall come
to pass that ye shall not discern the
winter from the summer, save by the
budding of the trees?"
10. Does the Bible touch in any way
upon the last question? and if so, where?
l. e, give chapter and verse
II. What were the names of the II sons
of Jacob, and who were their several
mothers7
IL Who was the Thirteenth Apostle?
and by whom was he appointed7
1t Is probable that these are questions
enough to occupy the Baraca teachers for
some little time, but IL any one of them
wins the offered prize in the course of
the next month I promise to offer another
at once for answers to another batch
of questions. You have a month to work
in, and no answers need be sent after
that. Address me. care of The Age-Her-
ald Birmingham, Ala, and be sure to
say that you have got no help, outside
of the English version of the Bible-no
matter which English version. Number
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dependent upon knowledge OF
books. The seeing eye. the hear
ing and discerning ear, and above
ALL what Carlyle called IAN open sense
may, and commonly will, do much for a
man who possesses them, even though he
does not know letter OF the alphabet
1 have known good. thoughtful and high
~ useful Christians who could not read
a chapter in the Bible.
"Savoyard's article on 'Zebulun Baird
Vance," published in late Age-Herald.
gives an account of the memorable de-
bate between Goxernor Vance and In
gals in the United States Senate on tho
issues between the north and the south.
I cannot agree with either "Savoyard'
or Governor Vance in deprecating Mr..
ingalls, performance on that occasion.
could wildly recall the debate, which
impressed me as a brilliant one on both
sides.
In the presidential campaign of 1860 |
heard Stephen A. Douglass speak IN
staunton, Va He was the first candi-
date that ever ''stumped' the country
in a presidential campaign. In his Staun-
ton speech he said that II the abolition
lists, who were bowling so Justify against
slavery, were only convinced that slavery
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your answers as the questions are num-
bered here.
1t is curious to note how widely lit
erary men of genius differ In their pos
session of what the critics call the his
torical Imagination" that is to say, the
capacity to throw themselves into the
environment of people who lived long
ages ago and correctly to represent their
manners, sayings and doings. Shakes
peare possessed this capacity to a re-
markable degree. He was not "a schol-
ar for Ben Jonson, who was fine
scholar, and an intimate friend and ar
dent admirer of the great dramatist,
says that he had little Latin and less
Creek" and yet his Roman characters
are intinsely Roman, and his Greek char
acters as intensely Greek. True, he now
and then falls into anarchronisms. In
Julius Ceasar," act 2, scene !, he has
peace, Count the clock. The clomk hath
striker three aid he makes Hector
quote Aristotle, who was born hundreds
of years after Hector died, If indeed,
Hector ever lived. But such blemishes
are like spots on the sun; for upon the
whole Shakespeare is remarkably ac-
curate in his delineation of the people,
the manners and the general environment
of a past age. His Romans and his
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must have been at a low stage of civil
ization and culture, because the great
body of the people could not read. This
queer opinion grew out of his own ignor-
ance of the conditions which prevailed
in the ancient Athenian society. Had
Johnson's historical Imagination been cap
able of reproducing those conditions he
would have recognized the truth that,
even so early at the time of Socrates,
the Athenian possessed educational adj
vantages which are utterly unknown in
our age He might be unable to read;
but this did not make him an ignoramus,
nor a Ounce; for he could hear Socrates
deliver. by word OF mouth. the substance
of the "Phaedo," and lecture on The
Highest Good of Man" He could stand
with the crowd, at the corner OF two
streets, and hear a "Rhafsodist,' who
knew Homer by heart. recite the Part
ing of Hector and Andromache," and
"Prianl's Pleading With Achilles for
the restoration of the body of his be-
loved and heroic son. 1t is not at all
certain that Homer himself could read;
and yet he is to this day instructing and
delighting every scholar in Christendom.
Even In our reading and writing age.
neither science nor culture Is absolutely
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would be profitable in their region OF
country. they would establish 1t in Il
months.
During my pastorate in New Bedford.
Mass, the very hot-bed of abolitionists
and the Mecca OF runaway slaves. I at
tended commencement exercises of the
high school and heard sweet girl grad
uate" read an essay on "Red-Letter days
of the Republic or course she dealt
with Mr. Lincoln's emancipation procla-
nation and in discussing slavery size
said: I'VE of the north too. at Que
time owned slaves. but, finding them uu-
profitable, we discovered that it was
wrong to hold them, so we got rid OF
them by selling them south" The naive
simplicity of this remark could be equaled
only by its eminent truthfulness.
We are credibly informed that In the
20's of the last century northern SEN
ator of the United States resigned, moved
to Cuba and took the presidency of a
company engaged in importing African
slaves to be sold to southern planters
When reminded that Congress had made
the slave traffic piracy he replied:
well, all the better, for we Yankees
are the only people sharp enough to
make IL pay under such conditions
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ito protect" the Pennsylvania iron mas
ter. That Is how Andy Carnegie got his
$500, 200. o00-the 'tater-raisers and the other
clodhoppers paid him the insurance.
It is unsafe to predict, but as yet this
country Is free enough to guarantee the
right to predict, and I shall venture to
say that the socialism that is in every
cent of the protection granted to the
manufacturer must be eliminated or this
country will have a socialist judiciary
before the twentieth century is half done
with this old world we live in.
One tariff made plutocrat, like Carnegie
daily and hourly makes socialists by the
score. Your socialist would have the gov
eminent employ the revenues to take
care of everybody. Your protectionist
bestows by the taxing power half bill
lion on Carnegie that he may engage in
what he is pleased to call ''philanthropic
pursuites' He builds libraries by means
Grafton of the taxing power to perpet-
uate his name and then stipulates that
the people shall be taxed by the munich
pality to keep the thing going.
That Is the broad road that leads to
socialism, and one of these fine morn
ings the Iowa later digger will wake up
with pretty good understanding of it.
The sole difference between Cummins
and Aldrich Is matter of fact--"what
Is a reasonable proft?' Aldrich would
make the later digger of Iowa pay the
potmaker of Pennsylvania a little steep
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tariff commission" When he has been
here a while longer he will learn that it
takes FIVE years to convince Congress OF
the wisdom of any important step, and
another five years to persuade Congress
to take the step after It Is convinced. A
tariff commission would be nothing but an
abdication of its constitutional right, and
a Sinking of Its constitutional duty, by
Congress, to make an honest tariff. 1t
would be confession that Congress not
only does net knew right from wrong. but
that it prefers the wrong to the right,
even II, by accident, It should stumble
on q knowledge of the difference be-
tween the two.
Some weeks ago Senator Cummins made
a stump speech on the tariff. I read 1t
with sore disappointment He Is for a
tariff that will compensate the manufac-
turer for the difference in the wage of
labor at home and abroad. and insure him
"a fair profit" on his venture. Where did
Congress- get authority to insure anybody
a profit In any business enterprise? II
it insures one, why not all? If we en-
bark in socialism, why not go the whole
hog?
Mr. Cummins would Insure a fair
profit to the man in Pennsylvania, who
makes a pot in which to boil potato,
but he would express horror at the sug-
gestion to insure fair profit to the
man in Iowa who is growing potatoes. On
the contrary he requires the Iowa farmer
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Greeks behave as they ought to behave
and as they doubtless did behave when
they were alive. Bulwer was another re-
markable example. It is hardly too much
to say that 1.-THE Last Days of Pom
peii'' reads as IL 1t had been written in
Rome and in the first century The auth
or Is venturesome enough to introduce
the man whom our Lord raised from
the dead at Main, and yet bold as he
is. I have never detected an anachronism.
nor a displacement of manners, or of
characters in this admirable performance.
It almost makes me wish that, after writ
ing his three or four best novels, he had
abandoned fiction and taken to writing
history, for he had In him the making
of one of the greatest historians of mod
ern times.
On the other hand, Dr. Sam Johnson
was almost destitute of the historical inn
agination. His "Rasselas" may almost be
called one long series of anachronisms.
1t is powerfully written, If we consider
it's style alone; but, in Depicting brutal
savages who ate raw steaks cut from
living cows, johnson gives them the
manners OF London society people in
the eighteenth century.
Again: Johnson was an excellent Latin
scholar, but not SO strong in his Greek.
He thought that the ancient Athenians
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IN He Hon Albert B. Cummins re-
minds me Of that King of France
who marched up the hin with 10000
mea and then marched down again. Why
his majesty marched up the hill Is
mystery, but no greater mystery than the
Hon. Cummins' insurgence. In an inter-
vitw the other day Senator Cummins ex-
pressed disapproval of the Payne-Aldrich
rIonstrosity, but he says he is opposed
10 a present revision of 1t. What moro
would Aldrich. or Lodge, or Hale. or any
other New England standpatter aslq2l
They don't care q rap how much cussing
the insurgents Of Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska. Minnesota and wisconsin indulge,
ST they will only leave the tariff alone
as New England and Pennsylvania fxed
1T. Like Theodore Roosevelt. Albert B.
Cumrnins thinks it is infinitely more Inn
portant that the republican party should
retain power than that tho people should
be given an honest and constitutional
system of taxation. Senator Dolliver es-
Inmates that while the government col
llects $780, 900 900 annually by way Of tariff
duties at the custom houses, the people
pay in the way Of protective graft to the
manufacturers more than 5000. 900 600.
And that is only part the people pay for
these luxuries, a republican President and
a republican House and Senate. Senator
Cummins would not disturb that sort of
thing at this time. If at all.
But he wants to reform things by a
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20 YE OF LITTLE FAITH"-By Savoycrd

hemians, Huns. Poles, Italians and things
all going by numbers, and so carried on
the ledgers and pay rolls. 1t Is practical
peonage.
The millionaire in his Office in Pittsburg
in the name of American labor" and for
what he calls its dignity" Is the pro-
tected gentleman. He is Ensured
profit, and the tater-digger of Iowa pays
the profit. And Senator Cummins an
nounces that he is against a revision
OF that thing at this time. have some
hopes of Dolliver and Visitor Murdoch. !
feel confident that they will go out OF
the insurance business before long, and
try to lift the burden off the tater-
growers of Iowa and Kansas.
1t is either that or everybody must be
Ensured" The farmer must be insured
against dearth, the lawyer against a
scarcity of clients. the editor against
loss of subscribers, and so on and SO on.
If it is a good thing, let us all In. II
it is a bad thing, take 1t away entirely.
AS I said. I have faith in Dolliyer. In
the extra session of Congress he made
several speeches on the tariff that would
have added additional luster to either Pitt,
or to either Fox, or to Clay, Calhoun,
or Webster If my fat could do 1t | would
make him President, for he has got a
democratic tariff. a Roger @. Mills-old
Bill Morrison tariff in him, and 1t Is some
day coming out. What is finer than this
from Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver?
LAS a result of my observations upon
the different tariffs of the world (and do
not pretend to be wise or deeply read
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er premium than Cummins and If the
thing is just in law or in morals the sem
ator from Rhode Island is as apt to be
right as the senator from Iowa and a
little apter.
AS for the difference in the wage OF
labor here and abroad, that is mostly
a lie. Measured by what he can buy with
his money the wage of the English labor
er is higher than that of the American.
In one of his most instructive letters
from Europe Zach McGhee writes that
the dwelling an English working man
American of his class lives in, and the
rent is one-third what the American
pays. If the Englishman buys the house
he gets 1t for $14O0 whereas the Amer
lean must pay $3.50 for similar house
not half as well built Everything that
goes to furnish tht house of the Eng
lishman, from piano to coal scuttle. costs
one-half what the American pays for it,
The difference in the cost of wearing
apparel and bedding is equally great
Nor Is that all-the food on the Eng
lish working mans table costs no moro
than. actually not as much as, the food
on the table of the American working
man and the food is just as good.
That is what the enlightened and sage
policy of buying where you can buy
cheapest and selling where you can sell
highest has done for England. Her mer-
chant marine represents more tonnage
than the combined world besides and
their wealth is far better distributed