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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
PA YlNG OLD DEBTS

Tench was organized It built the
Manhattan bridge, IS at work on the
Pennsylvania railroad terminals and
is recognized leader among firms
which take enormous contracts, for
structural steel work, excavations,
and do other work of that sort No
undertaking seems too big for Terry
& Tench, and they try to do things a
little better and little quicker than
others.
As the firm prospered Mr. Tench
began to pay the debts of his father.
The claims of all persons whose
whereabouts he knew were settled
with interest. A couple of weeks ago
the residents Of ST. Cathrine's, On
tario, were surprised when they read
in their local papers advertisements
for the addresses of the creditors of
w. E. Tench & Son, who had failed
in 1888.
Some of these creditors were dead.
some were near the end of life's jour
ney, and others had moved away years
ago. Among those who answered the
advertisements was Capt William
Ross of Port Robinson, Ontario He
is now ninety years old and has very
little money. He wrote Immediately
setting forth that his claim amounted
to $145.46, and that when Mr. Tench
found it convenient to pay the money
it would be greatly appreciated.
He was gratified to get few days
later not check for $145.46, as he had
expected, but check for $298.39, the
amount of the claim and the interest
accrued.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Teacher Opened Nation's Eyes

school teacher in Troy, n Y, Mr.
Wells sprang into national fame as an
| economist, and from then on till the
day of his death in 1898. he was an
authority in economic matters
About decade after he had done
| this good work for the nation, | met
| Mr.. Wells for the first time, and one
day, months later, when our acquain-
| tanceship had ripened into friendship,
/ l told him that l was curious to know
/ how he came to write the essay which
| had served so greatly to change the
| business world from a condition of
| despair to one of enthusiastic optim-
| ism
well" said Mr.. Wells, as he tugged
| gently at his whiskers, which grew in
| clumps each side of his ears, when l
was a college lad back in the fortfes
l was intensely interested in all SUBJ
| jects that related to the natural re-
| sources of the country. For example,
| found deeper pleasure that | have
! ever received from fiction in reading
the statistics which aimed to tell how
much prairie land we had and how
much of it was available for growing
wheat. This liking 1 carried with ne
| from college, INDUCED it at every op-
portunity, and, finally,I became con-
WINGED that the American people had
not begun to realize what their natur-
al resources were.
This was my frame Of mind when
all that unreasonable doubt about our
not being able to carry our heavy
| Civil War debt was filling the country,
and one day l went for a walk over
Mount Ida, the high hill back of Troy,
N Y, to think about the problem. On
the way back | made a detour which
| took me by some freight yards. There
l saw cars marked with the Initials
of railways of Illinois, Minnesota and
/ Wisconsin, and it was easy to guess
| that most of them were filled with the
natural products of those states. And
! there were other cars carrying the
manufactured products of New Eng
| land and of New York state. Why
[ said to myself, as l looked down
upon them all, what Is three thousand
million dollars to country with such
! inexhaustible resources as ours? Cur
railroads alone are soon to have a
| greater capital than our debt And
with that there propped into my head
The thought. Why not publish an es-
say that will show the people what
they've got in the way of natural
wealth, and what they must dc in or
| der to get material results from it?
| Put it simply, and they'll see it, and
there'H no longer be this foolish doubt
of our ability to meet our national OBJ
legations.
So concluded Mr.. Wells, Il went
| home and wrote pamphlet along
these lines. 1t was published. 1t at
tracted wide ate Ition. l had letters
of thanks from members of the fed
eral administration. | was told that
what | had written had at last opened
the eyes of the people. Perhaps it did.
| At any rate, | know that | enjoyed
immensely writing that little essay
on the subject that has always been
near and dear to me-"
Copyright, 1910, by E. j. |Edwards.)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Frankly Told General Blair He Would
Not Vote for Him, Before Accept
ing Hospitality in 1856
Campaign.

There Is the story of the first meet
ing of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and
Francis P Blair, Jr., who, as leader
of the Union party In Missouri, pre-
vented that state from joining the
COnfederacy, served under General
Grant in the west as brigade com
mander and is praised by him in his
mentors, and, when Grant first ran
for the presidency in 1868. was the
tail of the opposing presidential ticket.
l am able to repeat in substantially
General Blair's own words the anec-
dote as he related it during the COM
paign of 1868 to the now venerable
Smith Ely. who was mayor of New
York city in the late seventies.
I'm 1856, said General Blair, 81 be-
came a candidate of the Free Soil
party for election to congress from
one of the districts of which st. Louis
was a part. You know, my father,
Francis P. Blair, was 2 very pTomi-
nent Free Soiler, and my brother,
Montgomery Blair. afterwards became
a member of President Lincoln's cab
met. So, you see, 1t was in my blood
to fight hard for the Free Soil cause,
and in order to do this to the best of
my ability, as soon as l was nominated
for congress, I planned a series of
open air meetings which, as whole,
would cover my entire district
AT one of these meetings-and it
was one of the best l had noticed
shat one of my attentive listeners was
a man seated in a two-horse country
wagon and smoking a pipe. After
had finished my speech did what was
infrequently done during the cam
paigns of those days invited my
friends TO join me in drink to the
success of our cause, and we ad
journed to the little bar room of the
near by tavern.
AS We were standing there, wait
ing to be served. some one touched
me on the arm. Mr. Blair, he said, :
want to introduce you TO an old army
officer. His name in Captain Grant
and he has been listening to you
speech And as Captain Grant wa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04

animals removed. The object of the
tuberculin test Is not only to safe
guard the milk supply but to protect
the herd from the ravages of this
disease. The feed of the herd should
be wholesome, and the water supply
should be protected from contamina-
ton
Dirt and dust adhering to the COWS
are responsible for most of the con.
tam1natiOn of milk. 1t Is therefore
essential that the COWS be clean-not
necessarily washed every day and
dried with a sterile towel, but clean
In a common-sense meaning-that is,
free from accumulation of dirt and
manure, and thoroughly brushed If
the hair on the udders. tanks and
tails is clipped, this will aid in keep
ing the animals clean.
The COW stables should be free
from communicating surroundings and
well drained. An abundance of light
is very important. About 500 cubic
feet of air space should be provided
for each animal. Proper ventilation
will keep the air fresh and pure at
all times. A coat Of whitewash twice
year will make the stable lighter
and the air sweeter and will destroy
countless germs.
The milkhouse should be located
at convenient place where there is
good drainage. A cement floor is very
important and should be extended I'D
on the sides at least six inches, or bet
ter still, to the window castings.
An inexpensive and conveniently ar
ranged milkhouse as shown may be
built to accommodate Is to 60 cows.
The building Is divided into four
rooms, arranged to eliminate unneces-
sary labor and at the same time to
provide sufficient space for the appa-
ratus, its operation and care The
best location for the milkhouse would
be about halfway down the length of
the barn and IL to Is feet distant from
1t. A door In the side of the barn at
this point, opening from a cross alley,
makes 1t convenient for the mixers
and saves unnecessary time and travel.
A driveway should be placed between
wi 41iAhhOOoN lO1
empty cans, bottles, fuel, ice, ETC., to
the milkhouse, and for loading milk
/, upon the delivery wagon.
In one corner of the building a
small weighroom is partitioned off, the
floor of which is raised "a inches
above the main floor; this room is
entered from the vestibule The milk
or n tho mill Of TO To-
room, where it is weighed, recorded
on the milk sheet, and emptied
through the funnel ca. which is pro-
vided with cheesecloth strainers and
q hinged cover. The milk passes from
the funnel by gravity to mixing tank
and cooler OBJ, from which it empties
into can which is carried over to the
bottle filler Co for immediate bot
tling, or into shipping cans which may
be placed in the pool built into the
bottom of a refrigerator (E). If it Is
desired to separate the cream, a steam
turbine separator would be provided
! at N, run by steam from the boiler.
The milkroom is so located that it is
not necessary to enter it except to
care for the milk, thus making 1t easy
to keep clean and cool and free from
flies, dust and other contamination.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Man Living in Gotham Liquidat-
ing Obligations Contracted
by Father.
Advertises for Addresses of Creditors
of Firm Which Failed Twenty
Eight Years Ago-Many
People Suffered.

New York; should be very sorry
debts in this world is so rare that 1t is
worthy of a newspaper story"
This was what Fred Tench of the
contracting firm of Terry & Tench re-
piled when asked why he had adver-
tised for the addresses of several of
Tench & Son, which failed in 1888.
That he should be anxious to pay off
obligations for which he is not legally
responsible did not occur to Mr..
Tench as anything out of the ordinary
or especially meritorious.
For twenty years it has been the
dream of Mr. Tench to gather all the
creditors of the old Tench firm and
pay them what his father and he
owed when they went down to finan-
cial ruin. Now his dream is being
realized. Thousands of dollars Is be-
ing sent to men the Tenches were I'M
able to pay at that time.
The firm of w. E. Tench & Son was
in business in Chippewa, Canada. The
failure of the firm was heavy blow
and many people there whom the firm
owed for material or work suffered.
From the moment Of the failure IL
was the desire of the elder Tench as
well as of the son to pay all the firm 8
debts, but the father never realized
his ambition. He never recovered
from the shock of the collapse of the
firm, and when he died he handed
over these obligations to his son as a
sacred trust.
The younger Tench went to work
with a will. The firm Of Terry &
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
GRAIN PASTURES FOR COWS
There Are Few Seasons When II
Does Not Pay to Supplement
Grasses With Soiling Crops.
nv NJ / ENG

When dairy COWS have the run OF
good pasture I have failed to find
profit In feeding grain foods, but when
they are compelled to stay in a
parehed pasture and are having green
soiling crops fed 10 them it will pay
to feed some grain foods.
1t is a common sight to see dairy
herds fighting flies and yainly trying
to break through the fences and get
into some luxuriant field of farm
crops.
The loss to the dairy farmer under
such conditions Is severe and yet he
generally hesitates to buy feed. uncer-
tain IS to whether it will prove prof
table.
There are few seasons when it will
not pay to supplement pasture grasses
with soiling crops or grain foods.
1t is much easier to let a cow down
in her milk flow than to ge her back
to It.
Then again, the COW that Is CON-
PEELED to go through the hot summer
weather and fight flies In some SUM-
burnt pasture is in poor condition to
produce a profitable flow OF milk
when the conditions are more favor
able
1t is for this reason that 1t will
many times pay to feed sufficient grain
foods to prevent the cows from falling
away in condition. The cow that falls
away In condition during the summer
and fall is In very poor condition to
go into winter quarters
Much of the lack of condition In the
dairy herd is caused by the COW going
into the winter in poor condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
House Numbers on Curb.

A method placing house numbers on
curbs has been adopted by the city of
Pasadena, Cal.
Formerly there was great deal of
complaint from delivery men and Wis
itors, and also from the police, that it
was almost impossible TO locate
given house number, as these were
generally placed in an lnoonspicuous
place. Recently the mayor has been
authorized to have the names of the
streets and the numbers of the houses
painted on the curbs throughout the
city. and he has employed Two paint
ers TO do this work. The names of
the streets are placed on the face OF
the curb close to the street intersec-
lion and cen list OF black letters 11s
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04

even the most kindly disposed friend
Of suffragism cannot help adopting A
different attitude in his relations with
the opposite sex are two OF the strik-
ing views held by Professor Mary A.
Wilcox, who for twenty seven years
has been head of the department of
zoology In Wellesley college, and who
has just been made professor emeri-
tus
ITO insure the same treatment for
boys and girls alike" says Pro.esso
Wilcox, sit is not sufficient that the
parents of the children dress the boys
and girls alike, allow them to play the
same games and in every sense put
them on the same plane Just as soon
as a girls sex is recognized, men and
women unconsciously adopt a differ
ent and less stimulating attitude to-
ward her than toward boy.
There is no essential difference be-
tween mans mind and a womans
mind, in my opinion, but this is a ques-
ton that cannot be answered cons.lu-
sively until the treatment of the sexes
from childhood is exactly the same"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Pet of New Jersey Man Ran Under
Trolley Car and Its Pursuer
Was Crushed.

Montclair, n. IA pet white rab-
bit belonging to Heber Dewitt of this
place. by its ingenuity saved its own
life and was the cause of its enemy's
death. The rabbit was first seen en-
tering Bloomfield avenue from Orange
road on a run for its life, closely fol-
lowed by a collie. Motorman and
conductors of the public service cor
poration we're standing in front OF the
car sheds, and several OF them ran out
to the street and tried to beat the
dog off, but it eluded them.
The chase continued down the street
past fire headquarters, where several
6remen also unsuccessfully tried to
stop the pursuer. The dog was wear
ing down the rabbits strength and
was gaining on it AS the RABBIT neared
Midland avenue trolley car was bowl
ing along up Bloomfield avenue. The
rabbit suddenly turned at a right angle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Clean COWS mean clean milk.

Clean cows mean clean milk.
Keep the calf pals scrupulously
clean.
Cows are gentle unless they are
abused.
The successful dairyman must be a
successful salesman.
Possibly the high price of butter Is
making dairy cows higher.
Every ounce of food you put into a
cow is turned into something.
You cannot get II pounds of mate
rial out of ten pounds of food.
Contamination Of the milk in the
barn may kill somebody's baby In the
city.
The cows that drop their calves this
month should be well protected from
the heat and flies.
The treeless or shadeless pasture is
one form of inf1icting cruelty to do
nestle animals.
domesticated cow is not apt to be
vicious unless she has been raised
amid vicious surroundings.
Dairying Is the salvation Of poor
soil. But It's better to use it as a
preventative than to have to 1ss 1t as
a cure.
Take especial pains to keep the YES
sells clean in which the calves are fed
Hot sun and dirty pals make serious
trouble.
Death to babies sometimes turks In
the dirty milk can and death to young
calves is often concealed in filthy feed
ing troughs.
No matter what some folks say.
cows need salt. They ought to have
at least three or four ounces each per
day, but the best plan is to keep II
where they can help themselves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
WAY of DESIGNATING Best Blooms OF
Plants From Which Seed Is
to Be Saved.

A woman who has fascinating
hardy garden, in which she works
away her worries, has a novel way of
designating the best blooms of plants
from which seed is to be saved. She
has balls of pink, green and yellow
cord, the beauty of the bloom being
graded down from the pink cord in
the order given. Ships of these cords
are tied around the stems, and before
autumn ends the beds present com
ical appearance. just bare stalks with
ends of strings floating out with each
breeze But from the seeds gathered
the gardener can dispense among her
friends the foundation of gardens that
will only have the choicest bloom.
When plants are thinned in this gar
den the roots dug up are planted
cfresh in some outof-the-way srot and
allowed 70 run wild, so that there
are many surprises in the course of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Big Merchant Hid Percentage

waiting my turn in the town barber
shop. In it saw some reference that
led me to suspect that / might be on
the right track | made some in
quiries, and was told that | would
probably find John F. Lewis's mother
living upon a little farm some distance
out of the village.
4 went there and found-a coal
black negress. She told me her story.
She had escaped from slavery in the
South years before the outbreak Of
the war, made her way into Canada
by means Of the underground rail-
way settled in the village nearby, and
In time married a Scotchman Of the
name Of Lewis who was a sort of piO-
-leer in that region. John F. Lewis
was the son of that marriage. In ear
ly boyhood he had gone from home.
determined to conceal the fact that
he was the son of a slave woman by
a white father, and being sure that his
physical appearance would make it
easy for him to do this. From then
on until the day Of his death he had
been accustomed to send to his moth
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Telling Criminals by Hair.

Paris.-Professor Bertillon, the ia
nous criminologist, whose inventive
ness is inexhaustible, has thought of
new device further to facilitate the
Identification of criminals.
His suggestion is that samples Of
the criminals hair should be classI-
the shades.
M. Bertillon is collecting samples Of
hair from all over the world to aid
him In his task. Yesterday a large
consignment arrived from Tunis. The
eminent professor has not yet hit upon
a method for identifying the bald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
CATTLE FED MIXED SAWDUST
Not Wholly Worthless as Food, De-
cIares Lord Darlington, in
House of Lords.

London.-Lord Darlington, presi-
dent of the board of agriculture, was
asked in the house of lords the other
day why he had not prosecuted in a
Devon case of cattle food found to
contain 40 per cent of sawdust
Lord Fortescue thought it opened
new prospect for owners of timber.
He replied that it consisted of
mixture of molasses and some absorb
ent material which was undoubtedly
derived from wood sawdust-but had
undergone some chemical treatment
which made it more or less digestible
His board was still investigating the
case. He was informed that the saw
dust so treated was not absolutely
worthless as food
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
and Married Chinese Maiden in
Chicago.

Chicago.-Yun Tchi Ho, prince in
Korea by birth, who addressed the
Mems National Missionary congress
held N that city recently. became a
center of interest to the delegates
when 1t became known that he has
played role in an international ro-
nance for which he was forbidden to
enter the domains of the royal family
of which he was member, or his own
country.
while the Chinese empire shortly
following his return from the United
States, where he graduated from Van
derbilt university at Nashville, Tenn,
and later from a school in Georgia,
where he went to study arithmetic,
Prince Yum Toni Ho, or as he calls
himself, T. H. Yum, met and fell in
love with a girl from a prominent Chi
nese family" said the princes friend.
He knew the law in Korea which for
bids the marriage of Korean and a
Chinese, but his love for the woman
was none the less ardent. Finally, In
desperation he wrote to girl &C
Quaintance in Nashville, with whom he
had become acquainted while attend
ing Vanderbilt, and asked her for adj
vice.
Marry her and let things take their
course" was the cabled response, and
the prince followed his American
friends advice.
Promptly he, and his bride, as well,
were forbade entrance to the Korean
realm. The prince then became a
school missionary in China and per-
formed such notable work that his gov
eminent finally relented and both he
and his wife were requested to take
up their abode in the princes home
land. He became factor in govern
mental affairs and was finally placed
on an important commission to one
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Rabbit Led Dog to Death

and ran under the body of the swiftly
moving car to the other side of the
street The dog, in following, was too
late. and the wheels of the rear trucks
OF the car passed over its body, al
most cutting 1t in two.
The rabbit, on reaching the side
walk, turned around as if to see the eff
feet of its maneuYer, and evidently be-
ing satisfied by what it saw, hoped
up under a store window and stretched
itself out, exhausted John Hendrick-
son, a store keeper. picked it up and
carried it into his store where it re-
NAMED until its owner called for it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Supply Fodder Early to Cows

Young dairy calves, and indeed all
calves, should be given good folders
early. 1t Is important that these
should be given to them early, so that
the proper distension Of the paunch
may take place in due order. If it
does not, the capacity to take food
becomes limited. Even with calves
of the beef breeds the tendency is In
the direction of giving too little atten-
ton to this matter The free feeding
of meal to calves makes flesh in good
form, but it does not distend the stom-
ach. A cow with small stomach ca
pacity can never take front rank as a
dairy COW.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Secondary Dairyino.

Secondary dairying is being prac-
tised by too many farmers. When
anything had to be neglected 1t was
always the dairy, and for this reason
the profits from their daiIies have
been small Where milking machines
have been introduced they have In
fluenced dairymen to clean up their
farms and take more pride In their
work. This naturally will result in the
production of cleaner milk and in some
cases, better prices. ANY practical ap-
paratus which has tendency to i'm.
prove dairy conditions should be wei
coined by the industry.