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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

companion Tor nm.
Brink Thorne, who captained the
eleven last year, has also put in a
couple of hard weeks work at his home
at Black Rock, Conn, educating three
of the leading candidates up to all of
the intricacies of the game. One of
them, Benjamin, is the most
promising of the trio, and at half-back
should give a good account of himself.
He is a six footer, with bundles of
muscle, but he can outsprint any man
on the team. His best point, however,
is that in the hottest kind of scrim-
mage he is clear headed and never fails
to make the most Of every chance
which comes his way.
Mills will not play in the early games
but will be held for the Princeton
match. He rowed at bow in the Yale
Henley crew last summer Letton has
played two seasons as a substitute be-
hind the line, and would be a first class
man if he had less respect for his physi-
cal we'll being in hot work At puntins
he is the equal of any man on the grid
iron today, and if he accumulates a
little more sand in is composition he
will do
On Wednesday, the 30th, the Yale
will face the eleven of the Brown uni
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
MILADY'S NEW VEIL.
1t Heads the Lists of Dress Wells,
and Is Fetching Affair.

A new veil is in town that will in
terest all American women who have
reached the veil age as we'll as those
who ask the aid of misty dotted face
webs only for coquetry's sake.
For general wear there are few It's
sues more generally becoming than the
dotted moisseline de sole and chiffons
that have been favored all summer.
Used with straight edges they are
hardly in the list of dress wells. This
new arrival, however, has taken it's
place as dress veil. It can be worn
any time, up to o'clock.
The effective form the new arrival
has taken is yard and an eighth
length of white mousseline de sole,
covered with large black dots. Around
the bottom and ends is two-inch frill
Of the same material. Where the frill
joins the body Of the veil quarter
of an inch band Of black ribbon vel
vet covers the seam. A similar bit of
ribbon velvet edges the frill
1t is a very coquettish veil, as the
frill hangs below the chin, and the
veil is not drawn up tightly at the
back. A similar veil is all black, or
black dotted with white. The white,
with black dots, is most fetching.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

second eleven is made up of Hedges,
right end; Mack, right tackle; De Sill
yer, right guard; Stearns, center; Han
cock, left end; Zeigler, left tackle;
Goodman, left end; Rice, quarter back
Wood, left hafback; Newman, right
halfback; Morice, fullback.
Cornell's veterans at work are
Sweetland, Taussig, Lyle, Freeborn,
Fennell, Fitch, Young, Richie and
Starbuck. Of tie candidates there are
White, Patten, Tatum, Enrich, Miller,
Tracey, HUMPHREYS, Lender, Frank and
Bassford.
The big games Of the season will be
with Harvard, Princeton, and Penn
splvania. Trainer George Corners,
formerly Of the Chicago Athletic Club,
is looking out for the Cornell boys this
year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

few exceptions, no English woman to-
day is writing either intellectual or
wholesome fiction. Leaving the silly
novelist out of the question, what does
the enormous success of the neurotic,
morbid and decad9nt effusion denote?
One need hardly think twice to an
swer that it means a general degener-
acy among English women. [ hear
several thousand people remarking:
These same books have had great
sales in America. Sc they have, but
because the United States is intellect
ually under the yoke of England and
is as yet too heterogeneous to have a
mind Of its own on the subject of liter
ature. None Of these books would
have achieved success if written in
America-in fact, they could not have
been written in America. AS it is,
they are read out If curiosity, tossed
aside and forgotten.
To return: 1t is inccnceivable that
the women who read and exist on these
novels as the expression of their inner
selves do not bore and disgust men.
Englishmen, taking them generally,
are the most wholesome, healthy
minded men in the world. They live
a clean, outdoor life, love sport better
than women, and make history along
the natural lines of evolution. In
them there is no faint of morbidity,
and it is easy to imagine how little
attraction the quality has for them in
womankind
Do the advanced women" and their
following actually believe that they
can reconstruct these men-the most
dominant, perfectly balanced, rapidly
deVeloping-along the lines laid down
by themselves-and highly developed
race of men the world has ever
known? AS well try to harness the
sun. The end will be that these men
will let them severely alone and mar
ry American women. In the feminine
literature of today and in it's success
is the note of decay; one can smell the
mold.
1t seems to me that this is the
secret of the affinity between Ameri-
Cdu WOuSu anu LnSl1SQ men. Inc
vast majority of American men are
composed of two elements only
money greed and sensuality. They
are the very beginnings of their own
development, the most elemental race
Of men in all civilization today.
American women have so far flashed
past them that hey stand ON the
plane which English women would
occupy if they kept pace with their
men. They are alive to their finger
tips; they have asst off the yoke of
conventionality, cut-and- dried re-
ligion and all the old forms and tradi-
tions which should be and must be-
come obsolete as the higher civiliza-
ton develops; they premise all that
seems to be moribund or stunted in
the older race Of women; in short
they are at point in their evolution
where, mentally, spiritually, and sex
ually, they are the natural compan-
ions of Englishmen; and Englishmen
with or without analysis, have recog-
nized the fact. &c ,trude Atherton in
London Daily News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
PRODUCE GEO. ELlOT'S ROMOLA.

One Of the serious and important
productions of the season was made
last Monday in Milwaukee by Robert
and Julia Marlowe TaTer, who pre-
scented there for the first time on any
stage EIwyn A. Barron's dramatic YER
sion Of George Eliot's famous novel,
RomOla.
Mr.. Barron is said to have accom-
plished his work with nc little techni-
cal skill, and to have carefully pre-
scented the spirit and intent of the
classic original. The only faults found
by the critics with the piece on the
opening night were these that can be
easily cured by editing. Certain scenes
we're too long and a part of the dia-
logUe seemed out of touch with the sit
uation. But the general movement is
swift, sure and dramatically cumula-
tive, and the roles of Tito and Romola
present splendid histr1onic opportuni-
ties for the two young stars.
They are universally declared by the
Milwaukee critics to have fully realized
the demands made upon them, while
the taste and intelligence displayed by
them in the scenic investiture of the
piece is also warmly commended.
Romola is a decided find in these
days, when authors capable of treat
ing the higher emotions find such little
encoura cement to give their pens play
in that direction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
TEETH PULLED BY ELECTRICITY.

If you like you can now have tooth
pulled pain1essly and without gas by
electricity. instantaneous? Why, Of
course; but the point is that there is
no pain. You need not bother with
nitrous-oxide gas, which is very dis
tressing in it's effects upon some peo-
pie.
The up-to-date American dental sur
geon has very simple apparatus,
which consists most Importantly Of a
battery not much bigger than cigar
box. The battery has a queer little
attachment called vibrator" which
is nothing more or less than short
strip of metal fastened at both ends.
When the current is on the strip vi
brates at such rate of speed that it
huns. The operator tunes it up with
tuning fork until it gives out the
note A; then he knows that the cur
rent is just right.
The person in the dentists chair
grasps two handles which are con-
nected with the battery by wires. At
the same time the operator seizes his
forceps, which likewise are on the end
of wire proceeding from the battery
He touches the tooth, completing the
circuit, and instantly a local anaes-
thesia is produced. The tooth and
neighboring gum are rendered for the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
THE WORLD IS ROLLIN' RIGHT

In spite o tempests blowin'-
In darkness an in light.
In reapin' time an sowin'
The world is rollin' right
For still the flowers are sprfngin'
An still the birds are singin'
An sweetest bells are ringin'-
The world is rollin' right!
In spite o tempests BLOWN
The dove is sure in flight:
Beneath the winters snowin'
The lily dreams in white.
An still the blooms are swingin'
In wild winds sweet with singin..
And still the vines are clingin'-
The world is rollin' right!
In spite o tempests BLOWN
The stars are still as bright:
The rose o love is CROWN
In gardens sweet with light.
Here's home with all its blisses-
With little children's kisses:
No world as sweet as this is
The world is rollin' right!
Frank L. Stanton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
FAST GERMAN EXPRESS TRAINS.

Germany's railways, which are own
ed by the government, are more pro-
gressive than the average American
pose. One German express train COW
ers 881 miles in twenty-five and half
hours, a mean speed, including stops,
of 39.1 miles an hour, which is com
parable with some of the best Ameri-
can long-distance express runs. An
express running between Berlin and
Ham burg covers 176 IL miles in three
hours and thirty-siX minutes, mean
speed of 491 miles an hour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
SLEIVE-NA-GHOILE.
The Mountain That Attracts Insane
Persons.

The mysterious disappearance of
Whitehead, the IriFh dynamiter, is
rendered still more strange by it's con-
nection with .ueer old legend.
Whitehead, it Will be remembered, was
insane when released from prison
He expressed a wish tc return to his
relatives, living near Bantry. His re-
quest was granted, End the last time
that he was seen was when he was on
his way to that town with some friends
who made it their duty to look after
him. But Whitehead managed to es-
cape from them, and his underclothing
was recently found on the road near
the mountain called eive-rla-Ghoile.
which in English means 'hill of the
madman," or ''maInan's hill" Now,
according to the old legend, every in
sane man who comes near that noun
tain is attracted to it. He flies to that
hill, and there disappears forever
The number of crazy chieftains and
beautiful wild Irish Ophelias who have
been lost on that mountain would fill Z
directory. But, dropping the legend
completely and coming down to hard
facts, Sleive-na- Ghoile in modern
times has been noted for mysterious
disappearance. Certainly it affords
ample opportunities fer suicide. It is
we'll suppIed with ugly ravines, deep
pools, dismal lakes, and angry streams,
which from time TO time may furnish
circumstantial evidence in support of
the legend. Altogether, it is a dis
mal-looking and lonely hill, and the
peasantry look upon it with super
stitious horror. And yet the legend
does not tell us whether the insane
rush to it in order to be cured or
whether they are drawn there to their
destruction
It may be that Whitehead, probably
remembering the legend, and possibly
to some extent aware Of his infirmity,
left his bundle where it was found to
create the impression he had gone to
join the lost ones of Sleive-na-Ghoile
And, if he met With no accident and
did not commit suicide, it is very
probable that he IS cared for by his
friends and kept in partial seclusion
under the advice Of a physician.-New
York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
THE AVERAGE RABY'S SIZE.

An average child measures about
nineteen and a half inches at birth if
a boy and half an inch less if girl.
A child increases more rapidly in
length during the first week than at
any subsequent period, and should
gain an inch during the first month Of
its life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
THE LIGHTS OF NEW YORK.

New York is one of the best lighted
cities in the world. Thirty thousand
lamps, gas, electric and naphtha, fame
out in it's streets and boulevards every
night at dusk. There are $500 electric
lamps used for street lighting. It
costs the city more than s1.0OO,OOO q
year to light the streets
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
GRIDIRONS ALIVE
THE FOOTBALL SEASON TO Be
GIN VERY SOON.
YALE-HAPVARD GAME OFF

Old Eli to Have Only One Big Match
Princeton Tigers Seem to Have the
Cheeriest Outlook-Yale Men to
Meet the Browns This Week
George Corners is Trainer for Cor
nell.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

moment insensible to pain, and out
comes the offending molar or incisor
with a dexterous twist. Before the
patient has had time to realize what
has happened he is gleefully paying
the fee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

An apple tree may fail to bear be-
cause overbearing the previous year
has overeXhausted the vitality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

Miss Willard has issued an appeal
against the Turkish massacres.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-10
WEST CORNWALL.

Mrs. p. r. Bingham has gone to Troy,
n. Y, for a visit.
The wood-sawvers are about and MANY
a woodplle looms up ready for the axe
of the woOd-splltter.
Mr. and Mrs. James Strong and two
children of Shelburne have been visiting
at Thomas Shackett's.
There will be prayerineetings at the
Baptist church every Wednesday even
ing at : O'Clock and band meeting at the
Methodist house every Thursday even
ing at Z. The meetings are interesting
at both places and cordial invitation is
extended to all to go.
News has been received here of the
death in Rutland of Mrs. Alice Stevens
Nourse. She leaves IA husband and four
children to mourn the loss of a good
wife and mother. She will be remem-
bered by her old friends here as Alice
Stevens, second daughter of Lafayette
and Evelyn Perry Stevens. Mr.. Stevens
died last June. His widow lived with
her son Vilroy.
Edward Lee, wife and child have gone
to Rutland to reside. Their many friends
wish them well, but they will be much
missed here. Mr.. Lee has made many
warm lTleuuS since ne maze COrnWall
his home. and Mrs. Lee, better known as
Flora FOote, was born and reared here,
and as girl, woman and an esteemed
member of the Congregational church,
has ever held "A high place.
The schools in the different districts
will commence AS follows: In Nos. |
and the Doth of the month and the 9th
ers the 18th, 1t is hoped that the truant
officer in each district will do his duty
well and that every scholar due at the
several schools will be IN attendance
and if not, Will be looked after ana unless
some valid reason is given be made attend
school.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-10
NEW HAVEN.

Rufus Emo has moved to South
Bristol.
Oscar Farr recently lost one of his
work team.
George Danbrooke has taken c. II.
Commits farm.
The school directors have appointed
Bert Human superintendent of schools.
d. A. Roleau has received an order
for 200 pounds of maple sugar in one
pound cakes.
Miss Augusta Chaplin has been dan
gerously i'll from blood-poisoning the
past week.
William n. French is in quite poor
health and has been confined to the
house for "A number of weeks.
Hiram Wright is now the oldest man
in town. Though aged 81 years. he
reads without glasses and keeps well
Informed upon the news of the day.
G. w. Ward a well-known resident of
this town, who has been an invalid for
number of years, is very low. Mr.
Ward has been totally blind for the past
year.
The district schools of the town will
open April 20, with the exception of that
of Brooksville, which will comnene
April IL with Miss Jennie Moore rs
teacher.
A telegram has been received announc-
ing the death of Mrs. G. w. Mason on
Sunday last at her home in West Lake
Park, Cal. A further notice will appear
next week.
Mrs. Mary Champlin. who died in
Ferrisburgh last week, would have been
100 years old had she lived until July.
She was for many years resident of
this town and IA most estimabe woman.
Mrs. 5. ID. Doud and Mrs. G. w. Rogers
are granddaughters.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-10
BRISTOL.

f. c. Dixie has purchased the ID. II.
Brown farm in Addison
Quite a delegation of the young Re
pubiCans OF town attended the county
meeting at Middlebury on Thursday
Miss Minnie Dl "a e, former teacher in
the village school, now of the Rutland
school, is spending her vacation in town.
n. f. Dunshce went TO New York on
Saturday, to return with his wife, who
has been visiting their daughter, Mrs.
Jesse StearnS, for some weeks.
NJ. w. Wilson has moved into the
Lambert house on Maple street, Frank
GreenOugh to the Smith house on Gar
field street. Daniel Llyne to the house
he recently purchased on Pine street and
p. Nj. LandOn into the ID. X. Gaige place
on West street.
James NJ. Day, who had been in poor
health for some time, died on Friday,
the 3D.. His funeral occurred on Sunday
at , p. M, and was largely attended. He
had been in the ewelry business for
about twelve years. His age was 81
years. He leaves IA widow, but no chill
dren.
The commissioners on the DIR. Hall es-
tate of New Haven met at the office of
w. w. Rider on Tuesday to settle the
accounts of f. B. Palmer, who was
guardian of DR.. Hall. G. NJ. Wilds of
Middleburv represented L. B. Palmer
and w. w. Rider the other heirs. The
hearing was completed on Wednesday
evening. Arguments are to be made at
Vergennes on the 2lst inst.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-10
We ROENNES.

The spring term of the Vergennes
graded school began Monday.
n. j. McCuen returned Saturday from
a business trip to New York.
Mrs. Mary viii narth and family will
move to Middlebury this month.
Mrs E. B. Flynn and child of st. Al.
bans are visiting relatives in town.
Attorney w. II. Bliss of Burlington
was in town Monday on legal business
in the Addison district.
L. G. Whitford and family of Addison
moved into town last week and are To-
Gated on Green street.
George Chilson has entered the employ
of ii. II. Hickok and Charles Armell
that of o. G. Dalrymple & Son.
The river is about clear of ice, the
snow is slowly disappearing and the
whole county in this vicinity is plastered
with mud.
The graduating class of the Vergennes
graded school gave dramatic and
medley entertainment at Academy hall
Wednesday evening, the Sth.
Milo Crosby is home from the Pratt
institute at Brooklyn, Frank X. Goss
from the college at Burlington and
Charles Il. McCuen from High Rock.
Ira f. Stafford of Rutland has con-
tracted to do the mason work on the
city hall for Paige & Heath, who have
the job. Work will begin on Monday
next.
Saturday, market day, farmers got Is
to 20 cents pound for dairy butter, l3
cents dozen for eggs, II to IA cents a
pound for dressed poultry and $40 to
$l3 ton for hay.
DR.. f. w. Shlpman and wife went to
New York Monday. DR.. Shipman
sailed Wednesday on the steamer Fuerst
/ Bismarck for Germany. lie will enter
the royal hospital at Berlin for study
aud practical work.
Rev. II. p. Grabau and wife were
called to Delhi, N. Y, SundayIeVening on
account of the illness of William
Iemans, the father of Mrs. Grabau.
A telegram received Monday notified
friends of his death.
Union Fast-day services were held
Friday at the Congregational church,
Rev. Thomas Rogers preaching the ser
mon. The regular church services were
held at the usual hours at st. Paul's
Episcopal and the Roman Catholic
churches. At the State Industrial
school in excellent programme was
carried out, the boys and girls of the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-10
CORNWALL.

r. j. Jones is in feeble health
Miss Harriet Frost is in Chelsea, Mass,
visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. AliX Barron are rejoicing
over the birth of son.
Casper Miller IS to occupy the Bond
residence the coming year.
Henry Johndro has moved into the
house vacated by VIM. Watson.
Mrs. Chas. Benedlct's mother has been
spending few weeks with her.
j. l.. Douglas has bought from the
Hooker heirs "a portion of their real
estate.
Fayette Miller of Saratoga, N. Y,
was in town last week, the guest of +.
ID. Searle.
Cyrus stowe has purchased the
Brousso place of A. w. Foote and taken
possession.
Sugar-makers are now reaping their
harvest. The outlook Is for a short but
fine season.
Miss Anna James returned Tuesday
to her school in Amherst, Mass, after IA
ten days vacation.
Carlton CherbinO, who has carried on
Mr.. Jewett's farm, has removed to Bird
port to the Byron Crane farm.
The road from South Cornwall to
Salisbury station is again impassable IN
consequence of high water, as is also the
road at the Piper bridge.
Mrs. S. IL. Barnum and three daugh-
tiers went to New Haven, Conn, to
spend Easter with Mrs. Barnum's moth
[ er, who resides IN that city.
Misses Belle Carr, Lettie Wooster,
Alta WhitlOck, Nellie rrradway, Anna
Bingham, Beulah Sanford and Mary
! SheFbinO are the teachers engaged for
the spring term OF the schools.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-10
WEYBRIDGE.

Miss Inez Fiske was home last Sunday.
Mrs. Dewey Is at her sons, Thomas
Dewey, after protracted absence.
Next Sunday closes the present con-
ference year at the Methodist chuch.
Rev. aud Mrs. Palmer gave IA reception
to their friends on Monday evening last.
The Ethan Allen band will hold a re-
union at the Otter Creek House Tuesday
evening, April II.
+. Elliott has purchased the building
on Main street near the bridge of j. 5.
Cole and will convart it into a dwelling
for himself.
The local w. c. +. L. will give a
maple sugar sociable with musical pro-
gramme at the town hall on Friday
evening, April II, All are cordially in.
vted
The Ethan Allen band at their annual
election continued the old officers. f
Elliott was elected business manager aud
all correspondence should be addressed
to him.
The Sunday school rally was very in.
teresting. Many were prevented from
Attending by the storm. similar meet
ing will be held later in the season. Sec
rotary Miller gave fine talk.
No special exercises were held at the
Methodist church on Easter Sunday
The house was heavily decorated with
house plants. The effort of the day was
the raising of funds for the payment of
church calls.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-10

COUGHING LEADS To CONSUME.
TON. Kemp's Balsam stops the cough az
once.