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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09
PETER LEFT FAR BEHIND.
Authenticated Cases of Boards from
6 to II IL Feet in Length.

Men with enormous growths of
beard are more numerous than the
average man imagines. One of the
earliest of the American bearded
freaks was Louis Jasper, who lived in
southern Virginia at about the time of
the close of the Revolutionary war.
His beard was nine and One-half feet
long and correspondingly thick and
heavy. He could take his mustache
between his fingers and extend his
arms to their full length and still the
ends of the boards were over a foot
beyond his finger tips.
In 1880 Philip Hansen, planter re-
siding near Corinth, Miss, was be-
lieved to be the possessor Of the long
est beard Of any man in the known
world He is said to have sent the
Washington AnthropOlOgical society
single hairs plucked from his chin
which measured seventy-two inches
(six feet in length.
In 1882 Adam Kerpen. a German,
sixty-six years old, at that time resid-
owner of the longest growth Of
whiskers. He was large man. nearly
six feet in height, and had a beard
more than twice the length of his body.
Kerpen's beard had been growing
steadily for twenty-five years.
Legrand Iserow, who lived in Bar
ton county in the state of Missouri at
la ST JY1rS hos n hos p1 hn -nTrvy
sight Of which would cause a Turkish
prophet to turn green with envy. Mr..
LeroW was born in TOmkins county,
New York, and came west, settling in
Barton county in 1877. His beard,
which is of Missouri growth, was over
seven feet long a year ago, and was
still growing. On several occasions
Mr.. Lerow has been written up" as
being the owner of the longest beard
in the world. but according to the st.
Louis Republic this is a mistake, sew
eral others. notably Louis COulon,
French sculptor. and Richard Latter, a
London bird fancier. having boards
which exceed the length of that of the
Barton county farmer by several feet
Coulon the French hirsute freak. was
compelled to begin shaving whep only
twelve years of age. At the age of
fourteen the beard was growing so
rapidly that the boy was forced to
shave every day. At fifteen he aban-
doned the idea Of trying to keep his
face smooth and beardlesS like those
Of other boys, and by the end Of the
year he had a beard two feet in length.
At present Mr.. Coulon's beard is be-
tween eight and nine feet long and as
white as snow. he being sixty-nine
years of age. The beard of Mr. Lat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09
HER TRUST BETRAYED.
Sad Fate of One of H X Cavelle's
Victims

A letter was received in Chicago ad-
dressed to H. X. Cavelle, who sWindled
SO many women with his matrimonial
schemes and jumped his bond when
arrested in that city city by the postal
authorities, which tells the fate of one
woman who trusted in him. The
woman, Uucella NJ. Hall, lived with
Cavelle in San Francisco, and short
time after he left her word was sent
her that he had been killed in New
Orleans. The shock nearly drove the
Hall woman insane, and on Jan. l Of
this year she was taken to the asy-
lum at Stockton, Cal, where a few
days later she died from the effects of
opiates administered to her.
This information was written to Ca
velle by Mrs. I. NJ. SlOper of San Fran
cisco, under the impression that Ca
velle was the brother of the dead
woman, he having been in the habit of
addressing her in his letters as "My
Dear Sister" Mrs. SlOper also re-
turned several letters which had been
sent to the Hall woman from Chicago,
the last one being dated Feb. 4. In
this he abuses the woman with whom
he was living in Chicago, tells how he
is inducing her to buy clothes for him
and speaks of going to Paris with
Lucella Hall during the coming sum-
mer. The woman who died in San
Francisco is thought to have come
from New Orleans, one of the letters
intimating as much.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09
EVOLUTION OF THE TEACUP.
Today the Afternoon Tea Table is the
Altar of Society.

The afternoon tea table has been
dubbed the 'altar of society" and
time is said to be the daily sacrifice.
Treasures in silver and porcelain are
collected and laid upon this altar, and
many hours are spent in determining
the names and marks of cups which,
whether inherited or found in modern
shops, are of priceless worth to their
owners.
The loving cup of olden time was
surely never more lovingly offered to
guests than is the teacup of today.
All through the years cups have sig
nified sOcia bility, whether the
wreathed cups offered by the Greeks
one to the others, the loving cups or
'tygs'' handed by our English ances-
tors to guests, or our own treasured
teacups.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09
A SHY LITTLE MAID.

A love-lorn lad wooed a coy maid once,
ALI Of a summers day he plead,
Oft he spoke of the bonds of love
the duncel
And shyly she shook her head.
When from his heart hope had almost
fed,
He spoke of bonds he had in town,
Still the silly little maiden shook her
head.
But she shook it up and down.
"'Tis club night dearest, don't sit up,
Twill be too late for you;
1 have my key. She smiled at me,
Her words are always few;
If 1 were you she murmured,
I'd take the keyhole too"
In the river at Paris had lain
The corpse of man, self slain;
Which called forth a bit
Of the coroner's wit,
Who gravely declared him "in-Seine."
He who courts and goes away
Will live to courtzanother day,
But he who weds> and courts girls
still,
May go to court against his will.
Richard-"A horse, a horse! Ny
kingdom for q horse
Voice from the Gauery-"Won't
donkey do as well?'
Richard-'Aye, sure, come you down
this minute"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09

ter, the London man, is now the long
est beard known, being twelve and a
half feet in length. He wears it
braided and wound around his neck.
and at a distance is often mistaken
for a snake charmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09

The longest continuous street raj
way in the United States is the forty
two mile strip from Lowell to Haver-
hill, Mass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09


to be-"
Come along, my fine fellow" said
the captain, collaring Sam and march
ing him off in the direction of the old
red barn 1--WE don't need any lantern
in this moonlight, that is one comfort .
where are the stairS?" demanded
the captain. as they entered the barn
Amt none" said Sam ITS a lad
der"
Up with you then" said Logan. but
Sam shrunk back.
Il wouldn't, not for $50" said Sam.
"Old John Kendrick hanged himself
from the middle beam fourteen years
ago, and folks say he stands up there
with a rope around his neck every
moonlight night
''Stuff and nonsense!' cried the cap
tain. in accents of contempt You
cowardly lout, stay where you are then
and I'll go myself"
He sprang lightly up the rounds OF
the ladder and disappeared through the
trap door.
Where is it?'' he called.
THE ghost? Right under the middle
beam by the windy was the place
where
"Blockhead l mean the string O.
BELLS
Look for 'em yourself" said Sam
sulkily. L don't know where they be
and what's more, L don't care
''I'll settle with you my fine fellow
when l come down." said the captain
threateningly, as he CROPPED about il
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09

tage, with it's barred door, would
speedily have fallen into ruins under
the beating of the rain: but they kept
it intact, as q sacred altar.
/ The spring arrived, and Justine be-
came a happy mother. With the
spring, too, came a long and heavy
downfall of rain. Michel, Bruno and
the women, who sometimes trembling
entered the dead mans domain, went
to see what effect the deluge had had
upon the empty cottage. They opened
the door; a breath as from the tomb
eXhaled from the deserted DIV ing
They sounded every side-the shat
tered building Of stones and reeds was
ready to fall at any moment. Michel
sadly and vaguely gazed on the ruin
But the clouds had passed to the far
end Of the plain: the sky had cleared,
and suddenly a flood of sunlight
spread over the lands of the departed
miser.
Then from the highest part of the
roof the desolate cottages broken tiles
! began to fall, and a shapeless some
thing was laid bare to the sun-a
coarse canvas bag, which moved and
, burst; the miser's treasure, The
peasants sprang back, and pieces of
money, white and yellow, poured down
in a torrent
Ah,-Old Roch might well have
laughed to himself. Vainly the domain
might have been searched till dooms-
day, Doubtless he met his death in
the act of forming that final hiding
place for his beloved treasure And
still the shower of gold continued
slowly now-now at intervals-now
drop by drop.
Michel collected the whoIe-thou-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
ourFOrurn.

Many Of. the contributions to the
Forum are too long. In the future we
must insist that they be made shorter.
Most of them could be condensed into
600 words. If this is done it will en-
able the REPRESENTATIVE to print
more and a greater variety. Here.
after the shorter letters will be
given preference. Write them on one
side Of the paper only. Ifwritten on
both sides they will not be printed I'm.
der any circumstances.
Write them plainly and with ink.
Do not crowd the lines closely to
gether. A plainly written letter con-
forming to these rules will stand by far
the best chance to be printed.
Within certain proper limitations
we admit the widest liberty of thought
and expression upon the part of ouI
correspondents while we do not hold
ourselves responsible for any views
which may be put forth.
The Forum. as its name implies, is
sort Of debating school, for the discus
sion of the important questions OF the
day. We ask our correspondents to
avoid abusive personalities and to
keep clear of the shoreless and bottom
less sea of religious debate. ED.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
PAPER
Us CENTS

wealth, with men servants, and maid
servants and armies of idle men ready
to murder one another,-these are not
the things that sensible people want to
be taxed for, nor are they needed to make
people free, prosperous and happy; but
what they do need, and must have, even
If it be to the destruction of Babylon,
is plenty of God given sunshine and air,
water and land; for when one and all
are equally free to the use of these natu-
raj resources, by the simple law Of proper
limitation will one and all be abundantly
able to feed, clothe, shelter and educate
themselves; for these are things chat the
people want, not vain and useless gold
and silver, pearls and precious stones
that, of themselves, never yet fed,
clothed, or sheltered single human
being, and never will.
Gold, as money has occupied the same
falsely so called, are no more fit to min
cohol has in regard to drink. But the
time has come when gold and alcohol,
ers, must go. Not that gold and alcohol
are evils In themselves; but that they
must hereafter be confined to moral and
legitimate uses. namely, for chemical
and mechanical purposes and arts, and
gold and silver would not be worth one
hundred part OF their fictitious value.
Gold and silver, "the precious metals"
falsely so called, are nomore fit to min
gle among the people as money, the life
blood of the body polite, than alcohol
is fit to mingie among the members as
blood of the physical body; for as the
blood is mere conveyer of every vari-
ETY. of nutriment to the different parts
of the body, so is money a mere conveyer
of everything that is wanted by the men,
bers of the body polite, and needs to
have no value in itself except the Gov
eminent stamp, backed by the people
and all their wealth, which should be
sufficient in volume to represent, in or
der to circulate the same to every part
or member Of the body polite; and is
sued directly to the people for the mere
interest necessary to the support of the
money department., which interest is per-
fectly just, while ell other interest is
forbidden of God through Moses and the
prophets whom Christ came to fulfill
and who will THEREFORE condemn all usury
mongers and brokers as thieves, their
opinion to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
Estate banks" robbing poor honest
working people of their hard earnings;
which Is the scOundrel, state or bank?
Certainly, both! The bastardly banks,
therefore, must also so, with their gold
basis on which to contract and control
all wealth. For let the people but dis
own their unjust claim to control the
money medium by gold or silver with
which the kings and merchants of the
earth have made themselves powerful
and rich, and the foundation of wicked
Babylon is at once doomed to destruc-
ton, when no man buyeth her mer-
chandise any more"
Therefore we are not only to come out
Of this monopolistic Babylon, in which is
found the blood of all that have been
slain on the earth, from Abel down, in
| order that we receive not of her plaques
| but we are even commanded to give her
back doble the misery she has heaped
upon defenceless and suffering human
| ity.-Monssini.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
GOD OR GOLD, WHICH?

After all that may be said or not said
on subjects Of reform, it is but the old
question over and over again, as present
ed to humanity from the beginning, al
ways avoided, but always to the point:
Whom will we serve, God or nam
mon?"
For, as the love of God and neighbor
is the root of all good, bringing forth
fruits Of justice unto eternal life; so the
love of gold, or money and power, is
the root of all evil, bringing forth fruits
of injustice unto perdition of ungodly
men, who in all ages have chiefly mani
tested themselves through the monopoly
of land and money, royalty and wealth,
the dragon" and the beast" and their
lying politicians. the false prophet, .
the upbuilders of capitalistic Babylon
now, more than ever, treading down
the nations of the earth. And what is
the chief power Of her incarnation to
deceive the people, but her yellow god
gold!
For when or where was there ever a
political power that gold and silver
schemes lay not at the foundation of its
existence as soon as it began to tyran-
nize and torment the people? It is with
these, her glittering articles Of vanity
that the kings and merchants of the
earth have comitted fornication and
made themselves royal and rich, at the
expense and degradation Of the toilins
millions in every land. But the time will
come, and is already begun, when wick
ed Babylon can deceive the people no
longer with her money or merchandise
of gold and silver, pearls and precious
stones; in short, everything that goes
to satisfy and sustain the greed and
covetousness of pampered royalty and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
KEEP UP THE FIGHT.
STAND BY THOSE WHO ARE ABUsEI
To the Editor.

STAND BY THOSE WHO ARE ABUSED.
To the Editor:
In the issue Of June of the Brainerd
Tribune, one of the leading Republican
papers of this part of the state, appears
the following clipping from the Granite
Falls Tribune:
"The Tribune interviewed a gentle
man recently returned from England,
and in reply to our inquiry, What do the
English think of our money contention p
he replied that they were more anxious
for us to adopt the free coinage act than
our most ardent enthusiasts supporting
silver can be. He disfavors the free
coinage of silver in consequence. When
England favors project it is time for
us to disfavor it and understand that
our prosperity is not mutual"
Indeed! When did the old party ar
rive at this conclusion? If they had
only practiced what they preach the
Republican party would not go down to
posterity such an object of disgust and
loathing as it now appears. l think the
man who wrote the above clipping is a
fit representative of the g. o. p, as it
seems that truth is stranger to him than
fiction. But what more can we expect
from the tools of the old parties who
have been following their lies and mis-
representations for the past 20 years
But how long since England has favored
the free coinage act we would like to
have the old parties tell us.
But keep up the fight, friends and
members of the Peoples Party. Let the
past defeats only spur you on to greater
effort; for truth crushed to earth shall
rise again." And feel assured that ii
cannot always be with truth forever
on the scaffold wrong forever on the
throne"
Boom the Representative" as you
have no better exponent of your rights
than Mr. Donnelly, for whenever you see
one of your leaders assailed and ma
ligned by the old party papers, as he
has been, rest assured he is doing his
duty to you and your cause. We car
expect no redress from government
whose judicial ermine even is party tt
| the crimes and corruption that hold &
| rampant sway over our liberty Fol
| their past decisions have proven to us
| that they are prostituted to the Money.
power. Stand firm, brethren, your home
| and children demand it. Aud surely
| victory will yet be poised upon your
| banner Yours, with hopes for success
Deerwood, MINI. r. NJ. ROBERTS
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03

THE BONDS COME DUE-OUR PROAlI-
NENT PATRIOTS ALL IN SHEOL.
Skunk Mizzery, Mimi, Joon %, '95.
To the editor;
/ dreemed a dreem the uther mite
which hez upset me considerable. / thot
1 wuz in Washinton and the gold bonds
wuz due and long unpade. tho't the
bond issu'm he'd bin overdunAand tibet
nobuddy wud by eny moar and they
he'd to be pade. The most NV 'em he'd
gone to England and Their wuz no way
out NV the trubble. Ez I lookt seed a
fleet of redcoats landin' and takin'' pos
session NV the city. Peepul wuz clad in
rags and acted ez eff Their manhood and
Independents wuz gone and they didn't
Civ dam. ~
The bloc coats, who he'd bin called out so
meny times to shoot the labrin' classes
wuz invisible. The Britishers maccht
to the Capitle where Congress wuz in
seshion and demanded ther pay and af-
ter little time Congress agread to farm
the revenors out to England to pay off
the bonds. The oldest son OF the King
NV England wuz vested in the titul
King Of Ameriky" and TUX the Pyesi-
dents chare til a throan and pallis cud
be bilt The peepul aksepted the chanje
joyfully, sain enything wuz better than
what they'd bin hevin. Then the, seen
chanJed and l wuz transported to hell.
Ther see Benedict Arnold and Judas
Iscariot and various ylthers node sittin
on throans NV ice kuvered with ashes
tos, drinkin beer and isu'm orders; the
devil told me that the wards they he'd
okkepied wuz full and the traitors Nv
later yeers he'd bin SO much wurse and
SO menny that them fellers WIZ honored.
seen hull rooms full NV korporashun
lawyers and! raleroad men, meny whome
node In life. DR.. Mayo and Stebbins
Nv rochester wuz there. Kinyon wuz
thaYe ID peeces bein torn linn from lin
for aktin as bank undertaken instid wv
physician. Satan sed when he went to
bring him home he cud hardly git enuf
NV him together to bring along. In a
! larg room where wuzn't allowed to en-
| ter saw a tremenjus -kittle l begged
ernestly to hev it turned over but hell
| trembled at the thot. Why sed the devil
| do you kno whose under thare. The
| fust is oil Jon sherman, then thares Knut
| Nelson, Dave Kluff, Grover Cleveland
| Shiras and Jay Gould, Rockefeller, the
Rotheschildren and menny uthers too
| numerous to tell NV. Eff they wuz to
wuntz get out they'd sell hell out to
| England fer a cent and eny wun NV 'em
| is a worse devil than I EN- and hell wud
be to pay. They told me Jonsherman
wuz chaned to the inside Nv the kittle
Then l woke and wandered I spoze
them bonds hez got to be pade
sumtime, but l never thot NV that way
| HowSumever, none Nv us won't hev to
| help pay nun NV EN-, so let the bondis-
| suin continuer. We don't care what
| happens to the kentry afterwards. Ez
| fer the latter part NV the dreem, all !
| dowted wuz the punishment bein eny-
wher neer sufishent, but Their fondness
| fer sellin Their nativ country l didn't
| dowt. I no it. The only thing I wunder
at il tibet they didn't let Judas and the
uther Teller out.
Feelin respondent but troothful fer
wunts, OLE O'MARJERIN.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
DUNN DETERMINED.

Auditor Dunn this morning received a
letter from a farmer down in Jackson
county, who owns farm adjoining a
school section, and through mistake had
located his house just over the line onto
the school section. This spring Auditor
Dunn had sold the right to cut hay on the
section to another man for So In his
letter the farmer says that the lessee of
the hay rights has ordered him to move
his house off at once or sell it to him for
$50. The auditor regarded that as about
as good an exhibition of nerve as he has
seen in a long and nervy career, and he
wrote the lessee that II he heard any more
about moving the house he would cancel
the hay lease.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
A WOMANS-RIGHTER
WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN PRACTICED
POLITICS.

WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN PRACTICED
POLITICS.
To the editor:
Inclosed find one dollar, for which
please send ''The Representative for
one year to the address given Below.
like your paper as whole, but can
not indorse the stand you have lately
taken on the woman question. Can a
party that claims to be working for the
elevation Of the downtrodden portion of
humanity afford to deny single right
to any class or body Of people, or to as
sumo that one-half of humanity, divided
by an arbitrary line having no relation
to fitness. has God given right to gov
ern the other half?' 1 think our women
can be trusted. and that, take them from
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK BEATS THEM
ALL

Albert Martin, Californian, has
Plymouth Rock hen that has not been
laying for some time. The other day
she went on the nest and the family
were astonished to find, upon her leav-
ing it shortly afterwards, that she had
laid live chick. Only few fragments
Of the shell were about it's head and
they were still wet. The theory adj
vanced is that the egg, in some manner
rearded in its progress, was held in the
sac until the germ developed and pro-
ceeded to the stage of incubation. So
far as is known, this is the first case Of
the kind on>record. Poultry.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03

year, and the Is cents for Mr.. Donnelly's
new book on finance.
Your paper in this land Of mossbacks,
duplicity and ignorance is an fndispen-
sible weapon. Out of six papers, all re-
form, your paper stands at the head of
the list.
Wi best wishes for the grand work
of reform and the Representative as one
of the instruments, remain yours tru-
ly, GEO. A. CAMPBELL,
Odessa, Mo-, June 22d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03

all classes of society and all grades Of Gull
ture-woman against man in the same
grade-the women are far ahead in their
readiness to sacrifice self to sense of
duty, and to do right for the sake of
right. / am not believer in s0-called
s'practical politics." but believe that the
sidetracking of principle for the sake
of supposed expediency is always and
everywhere mistake. Yours truly,
A. l.. DART.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
A LETTER FROM MISSOURI.

WARM PRAISE FOR THE PAPER.
To the Editor:
Enclosed you will please find check
for 91.25; 81 of this is to apply on sub
scription for the Representative for one
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
New London, MINI.
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
I am reader of your paper and would
not be without it. Would to Cpd that
every working man in this country would
take "The Representative" If they did.
the 4th of March, 1897, would find the
presidential chair filled by a Populist.
Yours for reform,
To the Editor-"I think can muster a
few subscribers soon in the Royal Grange,
| am a member of it. AS soon as they can
get the means. Your paper takes very
well in our grange" Respectfully,
S. H. SLAGLE.