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Evening journal., 1891-12-21

Watches for the Boys
And girls from &4.00 to &S 90 Rt Mil
lard r. Davis, 8 East Second street.
DID anyone calf" asked Mrs. Wick.
wire. "Only an unfortunate gentleman
with ligneous limb after aims, said
the new girl. "Ehf Ah--Jane, II youth be
kind enough TO 60 into the parlor and en
tertAin Professor Potterby I'll cook the
dinner indianapolis Journal.
TAKE your crayon pictures to Yerger's
TO have them framed at the right
prices. No. 410 Market street and No
4l9 Shipley street.
CLERIcUs-"Going to church after a
while gets TO be purely matter OF
habit CYnicus- True; and those who
wear the most expensive ones are as
signed TO the best pews. New York
Herald.
II you want 10 make Christmas
present get prices from all ether stores
then 20 TO Adair's and see how much you
can save.
FoR your trunks and bags 90 to F. s
Dure's, No. 407 SIMPLIFY street.
1.-TWO years ago. said the editor, "be-
fore we struck the newspaper business,
all our wealth consisted Of 50 bill /"
"And nowY I'VE are trying TO remem-
Der how that So bill looked Atlanta
Constitution.
Banjos, guitars, mandolins violins,
flutes. music boxes, accordions, etc, at
4 + Rooelen's Piano and Organ Ware
rooms. No ITO Market street.
Mrs HIcKs-"There is man being
murdered out Ia front, / guess; he is
crying for help Hisks lsleepily)-'1f
he don't know the difference between our
house ana an intelligence office 1t ought
to 90 hard with him New York
Herald.
DON'T wait till 1t is too late before you
order your Christmas work. Yerger's
are very busy. No. 4ls Shipley street
w. O. d. r. II.
Clothing cleaned. dyed and repaired by
skilled workmen at Oh Market street.
PATER (empbatically)-"Co Come, now
No prevarication. That young noodle has
proposed to you. You might as well
acknowledge the corn. Daughter
(bravely)-'I DO It is true. laoknowl-
edge the popcorn. '-Plttsburg Bulletin.
RoBEs, blankets and whips for Christ.
mas At F. 8. Dure's 407 Shipiey street.
Don't miss going to Adars, No. ais
Market street, before buying your
presents
HER Sisters Intended Minnie, IL
you'll come and slt on my kuee III give
you nice present. Minnie Jagged Il vel
-lth that what made you give thithfer
a diamond wing Y"-Boston Post.
ALWAYS take your erayon pictures to
Yerger's, No. 4l9 Shipley street and No
4l9 Market street, to have them framed
al the right prices and styles. Esses snsAs,.,
,~ -exefl 1sss-.--A - sra''-----aaBEg
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

We are not advertising SO 90 spestscles
out are selling spectacies that cost US
~ % piece for $500 to close out our
immense stock. AYARs & SON
800 Markat efraat
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

- ! on Will miss it II you do not 20 to
a. AMI see his stock Of goods for
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

j. III. Harkins
Has just received fresh lot OF Rio
tobacco, 215 West Fourth street.
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

HIRE piece IA the paper ABOUT n
foot ball player who fell out OF a second
story window" you don't say sop ex-
claimed her brother. Yes; his alighting
was what you would call a touch down,
wasn't itg'-W Washington Star.
Singing canary bird and cages, at J..
b. Harkins, 2l5 West Fourth street. A
written guarantees with every bird
HE very MISUNDERSTANDING, You are
the only girl that | ever loved. She
(coquettishly)-"Oh, pshaw, you can't
Imagine how much fun you have mis- ed. .
Judge.
BEFORE you make any Christmas
presents inspect the prices at Yerger's
Art Gallery No. 4l0 Market street, You
will save money.
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

BY the hundred, at Davis. 8 East
Second street.
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

And girls from $500 to $500 at Mil
lard +. Davis, 8 East Second street.
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

DID anyone calf" asked Mrs. Wick
wire. "Only an unfortunate gentleman
with ligneous limb after aims, said
the new girl. "EhY Ah--Jane. II youth be
kind enough to 60 into the parlor and en
terrain Professor Potterby I'll cook the
dinner Indianapolis Journal.
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

TAKE your crsyon pictures to Yerger's
10 have them framed at the right
prices. No. 419 Market street and No
10 Shipley street.
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

CLERIcus-"G Going to church after a
while gets TO be purely matter OF
habit CYnicus-' True; and those who
wear the most expensive ones are as
signed TO the best pews New York
Herald.
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

II you want 10 make a Christmas
present get prices from all ether stores /.
then 20 to Adair's and see how much you
can save
Evening journal., 1891-12-21

FoR your trunks and bags 90 to F. s
Dure's, No. 407 SIMPLIFY street.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22
THE OLD PRINTER.
One of the Most Pathetic Sketches Ever
Written by Bob Burdette

One of the Most Pathetic Sketches Ever
Written by Bob Burdette.
And so, year after year, he wrought
among the boys On morning paper.
He went to bed about the time the rest
of the world got up, and he arose about
the time the rest Of tue world sat down to
dinner. He worked by every kind of
light except sunlight. There were
candles III the Office when he came in ::
then they had lard oil lamps, that
smoked and sputtered and smeled; then
he saw two or three printers blinded by
explosions of camphene and spirit gas;
then the kerosene came In and heated up
the news-rOom on summer nights like a
furnace; then the office put in gas, and
now the electric light swung from the
ceiling and dazzled his old eyes and glared
into them from his copy. If he sang on
his way home a policeman babe him
''cheese that and reminded him that he
was disturbing the peace and people
wanted to sleep. But when he wanted to
sleep the rest of the world, for whom, ne
sat up all night to make morning paper.
roared and crashed by down the noisy
streets under his window, with cart and
truck and omnibus; blarad out with brass
bands, howled with hand-organs, talked
and shouted; and even the snrieking news
boys, with CHASTITY sarcasm. murdered
the sleep of the tired old printer by yelling
the name OF his own paper:
Year after year the foreman reared at
him to remember that this was not an
afternoon paper, editors shrieked down
the tube to have blind man put on the
dead man s case, smart young pr0of-read-
ers scrubbed sarcastic comments on his
wJrk on the margins Of his proof-slips
they didn't know how 20 read, long
wlnded correspondents learning to write,
and long haired poets who could never
learn 70 spell, wrathfully cast all their
imperfections upon his head. But through
1t all he wrought patiently, and found
more sunshine than shadow IN the world:
he had J.: ore friends than enemies. Print
ers and toremen and pressmen and re-
pOrters and editors came and went, but be
stayed, and he saw newspapers and sanct-
UNI filled and emptied again and filled
with new, strange faces. He beli-yed in
his craft, and to the end he had silent
pity, that came as near bei2g contempt as
his good. forglving old heart could feel,
for an editor who had not worked his way
from regular devilship up past the cases
and the imposing stone
He worked al, that night, and when the
hours that are so short in the bail-l Dom
and s. long in the omposing-room drew
YEARLY on, he was tired He hadn It
thrown in a full case, he said. and he had
to climb clear into the boxes and chase
the type up into a corner before he could
get hold OF it. One of the boys. tired as
himseh-but printer is never too tired
to be good MATURE d-offered to change |
places with him, but the old man said !
there was enough in the case to last him !
through this taxi, and he wouldD' work !
any more tonight. The type clicked in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22

the silent room, and by and by the old
man said:
Il m out of Sorts
And he sat on the low window sill by
his case, with his stick in his hand, his
hands folded YEARLY in his lap. The
type clicked YEARLY on. A galley of
telegraph waited
"What gentleman is lingering with Is
DIP called the foreman, who was danger
ously polished and polite when he was on
the point OF exploding with wrath and
Importance.
Slug nine, passing the alley, stopped to
speak to the old man sitting there SO
qHietly.
The telegraph boy came running in
| with the last manifold sheet. shouting:
Thirty
They carried the old man to the fore
mans long table and laid him down rev.
erently and covered his face. They took
the stick out of his nerveless hand, and
! read bis last take:
BosToN, Nov. 23.-The American
barque Pilgrim went to pieces off Marble
head in light gale about midnight. She
was old and unseaworthy, and this was to
| have been her last trip
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22
For the HOusekeeper,

The Michigan Farmer Household says:
"A little tartar emetic in sweetened water
set in places they frequent, will extermin.
ate all kinds of ants. Never known to
fail"
Salt as a tooth-powder is better than
almost any other dentifrice. 1t keeps the
teeth very white and gums hard and rosy,
and the breath fresh
1t is said that to drink sweet milk after
eating onions will purify the breath so
that no oder will remain. A cupful of
strong coffee is also recommended
A German prescription for preventing
cold-sores and boils from coming to a
head is to paint them FIVE or ten times
daily with equal parts of boracic acid and
water.
AFTER stove has been blackened it can
be kept bright and clean long time by
rubbing it over with old newspapers
every morning. Rubbing with paper is
also an easy way of polishing up the side
OF a tea kettle. coffee pot and tinware gen.
orally. For cleaning mirrors, windows,
lamp chimneys and the like. paper is the
next best material TO chamois skin, with
which housekeepers in the country are
seldom provided.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22

barn, where he was getting in some hav.
His attention was called from the lob not
long afterward by wild shrek from his
wife. who rushed out of the rear door of
the hut and beekoned excitedly for her
spouse. He hurried towards her.
While Mrs. Citizens was upstairs in
the garnet she heard a rumblinc sound
below, and looking down the rickety stair
way to the kitchen saw strange sight.
The stove was gone ard in its place was
gaping hole three or four feet across.
Without waiting to investigate. she sum,
moned her husband
Amazed at the collapse of his kitchen
floor, Citizens got lima bean role from
the yard, seven or eight feet long, and
showed 1t down into the gaping chasm to
| test Its depth. Standing back from the
edge, lest the earth should further crum-
| bic, he reached the rod down six feet,
when it seemed suddenly to be gripped by
q muscular hand down below, moved and
! twisted about, and was finally wrenched
| from his grasp.
| He started back, and his wife screamed
| things were serious enough to make call
upon the neighbors desirable 4 number
OF Citizens friends were told of the crisis
and hurried with him back to the kitchen
The hole meanwhile had become bigger.
A piece OF newspaper was touched with
match and tossed into the aperture. As
1t blazed up IN It's descent it revealed some
SORT OF life IN the big cavern. A lantern
was finally gotten and its rays thrown
down the black hole.
And then the three men saw sight
that made them sick with fright. The
whole bottom of the chasm was one
| nrIc ho1 nF
blacksnakes. The reptiles were of every
size. A big head, with open jaws and
daring forked tongue, was raised up
above the squlrming heep that must have
belonged to a huge l2foot crawler.
Wound IN and out through his folds were
scores of baby snakes from six inches to
three feet long. The whole earth seemed
to be wrlggllng, and the party threw them
selves backward from the place. They
took but one look more, and that was
enough. The whole house, it was evident.
would soon be overrun with the horde,
and Farmer Citizens and his wife moved
away o nelghbor's.
Since then they have not set foot neaf
the worse than haunted spot. No one
will approach the place, Even the men
folks are afraid.
But Mr.. Citizens now knows that the
den of snakes is the den of thieves fo1
which he watched for many weeks. The
reptiles had cleaned out the big hole under
the house, and made nest of it, and then
preyed for food on the Citizens provender
1t was these steaithy robbers that made
off with TIE butter and eggs, the chickens
and bread, and that had Tapped the fresh
milk from Mrs. Citizens pans. It was
probably the snakes, too, that seized and
carried of the dog set to watch for rob,
bers and dragged him down into the hole
beneath
Mr.. Citizens swears he will never return
to his rickety old house.-Philadeiph
Record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22

ADELAIDE PRESTON.

J. had an old nanny who, when things went
wrong,
Would look up cheerily and say,
SNOW, nebber lin, honey; just lebe 'em alone;
Dey is sure tome right some day!''
When the rain down poured while the sky over
mead
Wore its dingiest mantle of gray,
Twas Honey. doan' min er little bit er cloud,
The sun am bonn ter shine some dayi''
he years went by, and the dreams of my
youth,
Repining, I'd see slip away;
"Nnw, chile she would say, IVORY mitey poor
hep:
1s you fin for yo'self some dayl
When came trouble and grief, and the whole cath
seemed
Enveloped in doubt and dismay
Twas "My chile jest bide tor the Masters time;
He show you de wherefore some dayi''
When the messenger came, and her white soul
fled
From its poor black body of clay,
She whispered, "Honey, hold to de Masters
hand,
He lead you to heaben some day"
And think this world far better place
If we all would adopt mammy's way,
And look from present of narrowing ills.
To the good that is coming 'some day"
Good housekeeping
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22
SNAKES RUIN A HOME.
Farmer Joseph Citizens Driven from his
Home by Snakes.

Home by Snakes
Lambertville, N. j., and its environs
swarm with snakes But the uncanny ex.
perience Of Farmer Joseph Citizens. who
lives about a mile and half from the
postottiGe, gave a rude shock to the towns
men recent iy, accustomed as they are TO
the ''pPsky varmints," and women and
children start nervously today at the very
mention of snakes
Citizens stopped at the old Lambertville
hotel to water his horses, and as he told
his story the listeners eyed him.
The house he calls his home is a rude
log affair. with two rooms on the ground
floor and garnet. It stands back from
the country road In a rocky field. 1t is a
rough shanty, full of cracks and crevices:
rank grass flourishes under the stone steps
in front and reaches up toward the dilaoi-
dated window stills. There is a seedy-
looking acre of land about the hut that
bears no sign of cultivation now or at any
time.
The farmer and his wife have seen
snakes in plenty here and there in the
neighborhood, but so have all the country
folks for miles around, and thought moth
ing Of it. It is land of reptiles.
it was about two months ago that Mrs
Citizens began to tell her husband Of vari-
Gus articles being stolen from their open
iarder in the back yard. Milk would be
dipped out of the pans, eggs and butter
taken bodily away; many chickens disap-
pearei aud almost every conceivable kind
of victuals took their departure In a
strange way. The things were generally
missed in the morning. but not always
Thieves were suspected. Tramps are con-
tinually going back and forth through the
country, and Mr.. Citizens laid the sundry
robberies at their door. He kept his rusty
old gun in handy place and gave his
wife lesson or two in handling it. He
lay in wait nights when he could. He
finally got small black-and- tan dog to
keep watch, but this animal disappeared,
and the farmer gave it up as bad job. |
The things that disappeared were not val
liable enough to give the couple much |
worry, but the thieving went on as the |
weeks passed.
The crisis came at last. As Mr.. and
Mrs. Citizens moved around to get their |
breakfast one morning they noticed the |
earthen floor about the big stove in the |
kitchen somewhat cracked. But they gave
it little attention and went On with the |
meal Soon after o'clock the farmer left |
the house and walked 100 yards off to the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22
The Happiest Bow.

Who is the nappiest boy you know ?
Who has ''the best time? mean. The
one who has the biggest and best bicycle.
Or who has the most marbles, or wears the
best clothes? Let's see.
Once there was king who had little
boy whom he loved.
He gave him beautiful rooms to live ia,
and pictures, and toys, and books. He
gave him pony to ride, and row. boat
on a lake, and servants. He provided
teachers who were to give him knowledge
that would make him good and great.
But for all this the young prince was rot
happy. He wore frown wherever he went
and was always wishing for something he
did not have.
At length, one day, magician came t.
court. He saw the boy and said to the
king:
Il can make your boy happy. But you
must pay me my own price for the
secret"
We'll" said the king, "wnat you ask
will give"
So the magician took the boy into an
other room. He wrote something with a
white substance on piece Of paper. Next
he gave the hoy candle, and told him to
light 1T and hold it under the paper and
then see what he could read. Then he
went away and asked no price at all.
The boy did as he had been told, and
white letters on the paper turned into a
beautiful blue.
They formed these words:
''DO kindness to someone every day
The prince made use of the secret, and
became the happiest boy in the kingdom.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22
HOW WE GET CAMPROR
Destructive to the trees; but They are In
exhaustible in Number.

An interesting description of the
method CT obtaining camplor is given
In report from Formosa. 1t says: The
camphor expert selects tree and scrapes
into the trunk in different places, using
an instrument somewhat resembling a
rake, with the view of ascertaining wheth-
er it contains sufficient camphor to repay
the labor of extraction A tree is said not
to be worth anything for camphor pur-
poses ultll it is fifty years old, and the
yield Is very unequal; sometimes only
one side of the tree contains enough
camphor to satisfy the expert, and in this
case that side alone Is attacked. The
trunk is scraped to as great height as the
workmen can conveniently reach, and the
scrapings are pounded up and boiled with
water IN an iron vessel over which an
earthenware jar, specially made for the
purpose, is inverted. The camphor sub
lines aud condenses on the jar, which is
removed from time to time, scraped and re
placed. The root of the tree and the trunk
for some eight feet up, contain as rule,
the greatest quantity of camphor If the
scraplngs obtain from the trunk yield well
the chipping is continued, until in the
end the tree tails. The roots are then
grubbed up, as it is certain they will give
a proportionally good return. |, however,
the scrapings do not turn out well, the
tree is abandoned and work is commenc-
ed ON another. No attempt is made to ex-
tract camphor from the fallen trunk or
from the branches. In some cases the
trunk is sawn up into timber, but this
depends on the locality; as in many dis
triots, owing to absence of roads, timber
would not pay for its transport. 1t is I'M
possible, adds the report, to imagine
more wasteful method of procedure, and
it is fortunate that the caulphor forests of
Formosa are practically inexhaustible.
A. j. Blethen, ex-editor of the Mime
apolis Tribune, is to become banker in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22
l s. SIP. &U.P.
These Letters are the initials of the
New Line through Wyoming and
Idaho to the Pacific Northwest

This line is composed of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha and Union Pacific Rail.
ways, and reaches more Far
Western Cities than any other line
as follows:
Haley, Boise City, Lewiston,
Moscow and principal Idaho
points.
Walla WalIa, Colfax, Farming
ton, Rockford, Spokane Falls and
numerous Washington points.
Baker City, Pendleton, Portland
and principal Oregon points.
Ogden and Salt Lake City, the
largest points in Utah.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
all California points from Mt.
Shasta to San Diego.
And this line also reaches Butte,
Anaconda and many other points
in Montana.
Also note that by this line
accommodations are furnished in
Pullman Family Sleeping Cars
very low rates to holders
econd-class tickets going to
Washington, Oregon and Califor-
MIA.
When you get ready to go
West, before deciding upon your
route, call on agents of c., St. P,
M. & O. Ry., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through car service over
the "Lake Superior, st. Pail &
Union Pacific Line" and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22
AN OLD MANS DARLING.
1t was His Third Wife, and They had
Been Married only Six Days

1t was His Third Wife, and They had
Been Married only Six Days.
A man whose hair was white, and who
was SO feeble that he walked with diff
Guilty, was moving along Forty-second
street recently in front of the depot, says
Nj. Quad in the New York Evening
World, when woman about 80 years Of
age rushed out of one of the waiting
rooms, seized him by the shoulder whirled
him around, and demanded:
Didn't tell you not to leave that
room AGAIN.
'Lemme lone, ] say!n he petulaptIy
replied. Il guess | an t no boy that IN
going to get lost!''
You wogg into that room!" she said
as she extended her arm.
81 shan't do it,"
Then I'll make you!'
She took him by the shoulder and walk
ed him in, and when he hung In the door
she gave him vigorous boost with her
knee to break his hold. When he had
been pushed to a seat she went on:
This is the third time you've skulked
on me, and now III keep an eye on you'll
II han't skulked! guess I'm of age!7
Want to get out and get lost, and make
me trouble, don't you? 1t would be a
nice thing. wouldn't it, to have all the
New York papers come out with a great
item about an old man mysteriously disap.
pearing-foul play suspected-last seen at
the depot-no clew!,
Nobody han't disappeared yeti" he
growled "When they does it will be
time for you to holler!"
81 don't mean you shall disappear,
either. Is all your bundles there?'
II don know nuthin bout no bundles,
nor | don't care. [ see there han't no
more comfort on this earth fer mer'
did you take the checks?"
Il don t know nuthin' bout the checks,
nor trunks, nor bundles he replied, as
he folded his arms and looked like a mar
tyr.
And don't want you to! You just
sit right there and keep quiet"
''Atl know is that | wish | hadn t,
continued the old man after brief silence.
81 can help what you wish. I'm run
ming this business and | want you to
unde1s and it,
Pretty soon she went off to inquire
about the train and ] took opportunity to
say to the old man:
Your daughter is very solicitous about
you
my darter! Why, consarn her pictur'
that s my third wife and we haven't bin
married but six days!'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22
ALAwYEE OUTwITTED.
BY an Old Whitewater who was Requir-
cd to make Truthful Statements.

ed to make Truthful Statements.
An old white washer stood before the
court as a witness The lawyer for the
defendent tried to confuse him.
''You are Friedrich Muller? ?"
Yes"
"Are you the Friedrich Muller who was
sentenced under mitigating circumstances
for robbery?'
mo, am not that Muller
"You are, perhaps, that Muller who was
sentenced to two years imprisonment for
theft?''
mo, am not that Muller, either"
Were you ever in prison?'
Yes, twice
'How long the first time?"
"a whole afternoon
San afternoon? And the second time?
You must make truthful statements, for
you are sworn. If you were in prison for
so short time, what did you do?"
81 only whitewashed cell for lawyer
who had cheated his clients"
The lawyer did not ask any more ques-
tious ca that subject.