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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22

London, Oct. lit has been est
mated that within the past year and a
half 10000 Christians have been
slaughtered by the Turks. This is a
conservative estimate of the total of
the atrocities instiglted by the wretch
ed monster governing the Ottoman
empire.
In view of this, it becomes a prob
lem to the average mind why the
great powers of Europe, with more
than enough force at their command,
allow the massacres to go on. No one
doubts their ability to knock the Sui
tan off the throne twenty-four hours
after they have agreed to do it, but
every one knows that the reason the
agreement is not arrived at is the fear
of a general European war over the
of butchers.
The leading statesmen of Great Brit
ain, France, Germany, Russia, Aus
tria and Italy, could they come to an
agreement as to division of the OF
toman empire, would set to work the
next moment to depose the Sultan and
crush into small pieces the dynasty
which has heaped SO much shame upon
the close of the nineteenth century.
But this agreement is a long distance
off A few of the powers above men
toned want pretty nearly everything
now ruled over by the Turk, leaving
territorial partition of the Turkish
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22
FASHIONS IN NAMES.

A young person whose mother was
commonly called Bessie, her grand
mother Lizzie, and her great-grand-
mother Betsy, will now be apt to look
on such playful diminutives with scorn,
and her visiting cards will pre- badly
contain something like Elizabeth
Tompkinson Smith. What method
her daughter will adept there is not
much to indicate; but, whatever it may
be, it can hardly differ more from the
Elizabeth Tompkinson style than that
does from the earlier Lucie form or the
still earlier Dolly fashion. Even Daisy,
after it's evolution from Maggie and
Peggy and it's vast popularity, has
given way, to a great extent, to Mar
garet or the yet more dignffed Mar
garetta.
The parted-in-the-middle style was
once loved of many men for its supposed
inherent elegance, and Of not few be-
cause it allowed them to hide an impos-
sible first name by using only it's first
letter. As the prevailing fashion would
now demand of the latter class some
thing like Abimel9cn Walworth Jones,
they no longer have such convenient
means of avoiding the difficulty, unless
they are willing to be behing the times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22
EDUCATION IN RUSSIA.

When we come to decide the question
Of solid learning among great numbers
of women, the balance is, | am sure, in
favor of American women; that is, II
solid learning be considered desirable
in a woman. AS human nature is much
the same, Independent of climate, one
hears plenty of complaints about the
superfciality of the education obtained
in the government Institutes and in the
fashionable schools generally. [ retain
a very distinct recollection of an eX-
tremely amusing case Of that kind.
One of the cadets from the Pages Corps
favored me with a. lively sketch, accom-
panied by mimicry, of the most fashion
able private school OF st. Petersburg,
where accomplishments alone were in
culcated on the usual plan and at high
price. The young page clamored for
"the more solid instruction of our girls,'
as if he had been the sedate father of a
family of girls, instead of eighteen
years of age or Whereabouts. 1t was eX-
cellently done, but [ could hardly re-
strain my daughter at his apparene in
uOCClCS VI SSll- CtIl1ly cIlo lIo Oil
cerity. I was perfectly well aware, if
he was not, that if he were offered the
choice, at that moment, between one
of these specifically educated girls
and a girl brought up according to his
exceedingly positive and mature
theories-a member Of the Higher
Courses, for example-as his partner
in a ball room, or for life, he would
promptly turn his back on the we'll
educated, well-behaved girl, like the
rest of his sex, in Russia and elsewhere.
There are a very few exceptions. II
the "other sort of girr'-the girl of his
choice-made his life wretched and
eventually landed him in the divorce
court or some other equally unpleasant
predicament, 1 could fCresee that, in
stead of recalling and abiding by the
sentiments which he was expressing to
me, and attributing his unhappiness to
his own folly in not having been
guided by them, he would blame the
woman, and howl for sympathy in his
woes.-Isabel F. Hapgt cd in LippiD'
colts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22
NEW FISH STORIES.

Down on Vesey street the other
day Mail and Express reporter
asked the fish man with the big
mustache to tell aim a fshe story.
Il can tell you real fish story"
said the fish man, land it's no lie,
either Did you hear about the big
catch Of wall-eyed mackerel last week
up in the Coney Island creeks? Well.
there was the biggest kind of catch
of them up there, and nobody ever
heard of a mackerel up there before
How did there happen to be so many
of them up there last week, did you
| say? Now you're talking, and I am
the only man in this country who
! knows. Something drove them up
there, that's sure, and everybody said
it was sharks; but it wasn't sharks,
and l know what it was One day
| last week I was fishing off East Forty
third street, and 1 caught three striped
bass that averaged twenty-seven
pounds apiece. HOw's them for bass?
And you can put it in your paper that
I said so, and I'll back you I'D. Ny
name is Andrew Napier, and the fish
man here, John B. Layton, was in the
boat with me. Now, about that big
school of wall-eyed mackerel up in
the creeks-it was no sharks that
drove them up there, but a school of
those big striped bass. See?"
Fish story?" said the man at the
stall on the corner. There was look
of suspicion in his eye. well, I'll
tell you how it was. There was three
of us out fishing last Sunday, and we
bet the drinks on who could catch the
first fish. See? Well, finally one of
us caught the first fish, and it was
the funniest looking fish you ever saw
and then we bet the drinks there
wasn't anybody in the crowd coul
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22

brushed the smoothest. The day OF
wild and artificial curls is over, though
one does see some poor benighted
creatures who insist on cheapening
their appearance by drawing their
tumbled locks over their unfortunate
little ears.
A famous sculptor recently made the
assertion that women could not enter
this branch of art with any degree OF
success. He fairly pooh-poohed the
idea of woman undertaking anything
so difficult, SO mastery, so stupen-
dous He insisted that she possessed
neither the brains, the skill nor the
physical strength for any such work,
and as for competition with men, why
it was simply ridiculous. Whereupon
q painter who is champion of the fair
claiming that women had as much tai
ent and as much ability as men in this
direction and would be as successful if
their efforts had not been continually
! hampered by the 3kepticisms and jeal-
GUS criticisms of masculine cynics
such as the sculptor in question.
To the reasonable outsider, however
it would seem that the gallant painter
goes a little too far in his defense OF
the gentle 'sculptr9ss." Indeed are
women fitted for this beautiful, noble
| art, which requires not only grace, del
icacy and feeling but power, endurance
and mechanical accuracy of execution
Emphatically no; and there is nothing
to prove the contrary, unless it be the
charming work of our own Miss Bessie
Potter, who has the wit and grace to
turn this strictly masculine feature OF
art into q, dainty feminine one of her
| own. That some women have the fire
of genius in their frail bodies cannot
be denied. They have that rare tim
Der and sensitive vibrating quality that
goes to make up the soul of genius
| But if they be true to their natures
they also possess that delightful incon.
! sequence which is a awback to any
serious career.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22

empire. American people naturally
fail to understand the force of this OBJ
stacle, but in the intricate game Of
European politics it is the dominating
factor greater than the rescue of
whole race of people from the swords
only a few crumbs for the others. Nat
urally, the latter refuse to accept these
terms, the others are obdurate, the
agreement hangs fire, and the massa-
Cres go on.
1t is the peculiar distribution of the
Turkish domain in Europe and Asia
Minor that makes it a most difficult
task to divide it. All of the powers
to some part of the Ottoman empire,
above named have territory adjacent
and owing to the proximity of one
to the other, their claims on certain
territories conflict.
Russia is the leading obstacle to an
agreement according to a member Of
the diplomatic corps having access to
certain information at the foreign Of
flee. 1t is well known that the car
and his advisers claim that for the
present the integrity of Turkey is a
political necessity for the peace of Eu-
rope, and that its disintegration would
be the signal for general war dozen
times more disastrous to life and prop
erty than the massacres in Armenia.
The motives of humanity prompting
this claim are questioned, for Russia
is rapidly Strengthening her navy and
army, and every delay she gains
makes her more formidable and
stronger to enforce her wishes upon
the others.
AS matter or fact, Russia is schem-
ing to obtain the most valuable por-
ton of Turkey in Asia Minor, or fully
two-thirds of the whole of the Otto
man empire. If her ministers have
their way they will draw a line from
the intersection of Persia, Russia and
Turkey, across Armenia to the Taurus
boundary of Syria, then down to the
mountains, marking the northern
seaport town of Tarsas on the Medit-
erranean, taking in all that territory
bounded by the Black sea, the Medit.
erranean and the Aegean sea.
Not only this, but they want to con-
troll the Sea of Marmora, the Darda-
nelles and the Bosphorus, by taking il
a slice of European Turkey, including
Constantinople. This would give them
absolute control of the whole of the
Black sea- and afford a waterway
through the Bosphorus to the Medit-
erraINaan.
Russia does not seem to care for
Syria and that part of Asiatic Turkey
running along the Red sea, and the
eastern side of Arabia along the Per
sian gulf. Neither have her ministers
seemed solicitous about European Tur.
key, except as before mentioned, 6
narrow slice of the coast line from
the Dardanelles to the Bosphorus.
But these sections are of small mo-
ment compared with those she does
want and is plotting for. From the
Persian line on the east to the Aegean
sea on the west, Asiatic Turkey i:
some 1000 miles broad, and contains
all of the most fertile cities and pro
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22
ASSAULTED A WHITE WOMAN
A Miserable Negroes Lust Causes the
Sacrifice of His Life

Atlanta, Ca, Oct. 16.-Miss Blanche
Gray, young lady of fine family, was
going form a friends house to her sis
ter's in the northern part Of Spalding
county late Wednesday, when a negro
named Henry Milnder slipped up be-
hind and assaulted her in a horrible
manner. About 1 o'clock yesterday
morning the negro was caught and
taken to Griffin. While in the hands
of the police a crowd took him to
where he was hung and shot to death.
A placard attached to his dead person
read: Thus we defend our women
from outrage"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22

tell what kind of a fish it was. And
there wasn't a man could tell. And
now what would you call it?
But l can't tell a fish story, but
there's a broker on Wall street, named
Wallace, that's daisy. He come
along here the day before last
Thanksgiving and wanted to buy q
shad 1 told him he couldn't buy no
siad; that they was out of season.
He says: Out of season! What are
you talking about I caught one yes
terday myself, with a hook and line
off Long Branch Now, what do you
think of a man that's got the nerve
to tell fish dealer he caught shad
with hook and line off Long Branch
Thanksgiving time? Amt he a good
one?
But here's something funny. You
see these bonita fish here? They
weigh seven and eight pounds, and
you see they look like mackerel.
Well, every once in a while along
comes a young woman who has just
commenced housekeeping, and she
says: My goodness, what big mack
erel! They're the largest ever saw!
And then I say: Yes, ma am. They're
very fine We raise them on our own
farm. And she says: Indeed! I'll
take one
That's the same woman, you know
who asks what's good to keep a fish
from smelling, and I tell her to cut
off is nose, and she goes away won
dering if I am trying to guy her.
New York Mail and Express.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22
POTTED PALMS.
Artificial Light and Dust Are Disastrous
To Them.

Indoor plants, especially palms, need
very careful attention indeed, If the
housewife desires them to appear in a
healthy and fiourishing condition. A
very important thing to be observed in
the culture Of palms is that the leaves
are kept as free from dust as possible.
The surface of the leaves are the lungs
of the plant, and if the pores once be-
come clogged the palm suffers. Thus
the housewife should see that the leaves
are washed down at least once week
with a sponge, while the root should be
well syringed as required.
If you stand palm in the window be
careful that you turn the pot round
every day, so that one side Of the plant
does not get the sole benefit Of the suns
rays. And, as regarding the pot, be
sure that you get one sufficiently large,
as otherwise your beautiful palm will
soon show signs Of falling. When the
blinds are drawn and the gas is lighted,
remove your plants 20 the conservatory
or other cool place, as few things are so
damaging as artificial light.
One of the greatest palm fanciers in
London is said to have discovered that
leaves should be washed, not with pure
water, but milk and water, which has a
wonderful effect in preserving them,
and preventing the appearance of the
brown spots which are so disfguring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22

But it is by no means enough. Who
| is the culprit?''
| 1t was on Gladys tongue to say
Yourself" Instead of that she made
a vague reply, and promised to see MIN
| again.
I'm afraid she said to herself after
wards, with smile, Z have mistaken
my vocation. Thank goodness, it
| doesn't matter if hayer'
/ With three hundred year of private
| income, one can afford to trifle with
ones chances. That is what she meant
| by this soliloquy.
| Several more days passed, and Gladys
was painfully sure of what had hap
pened to her. She wished with all her
disguise herself.
| In the meantime "A Cripple's
Fancies" had been sent to the press,
and the proofs had begun to come in.
From Mrs. Evans down to Rose her
self lin spite of the WEAKNESS of her life
in the trimming-shop), all in the
house were engrossed by them.
One evening, quite late, there was a
knock at Gladys door. 1t was Rose.
! My brother, Miss Major" she said,
would so like you to read this, and
say if you quite approve of it,
I'm sure l shall do that" replied
Gladys, with a smile 'But-''
Rose Evans started and clasped her
| hands, looking earnestly at Gladys.
- j
denly.
You have found me out, DEAR" she
said land / am glad of it, assure you
l have been acting, as | thought best,
for the best"
| Rose covered her face with her hands,
and burst into tears.
| My terrible secret" she sobbed.
1T is quite safe with me, dear. Upon
my word, in your place | should have
been horribly tempted to act as you
did"
1--WE are both saving now, Miss
Dawes, to pay it all back the girl
stammered.
How much does it come TOP
More than five pounds"
! My dear, then" said Gladys, possess
ed by a sudden temptation, leave it to
me, will you? And l too, have a secret
l should like dearly to tell you"
''You-a secret?"
Yes, since l have been here l have
come to love your brother as if he
we're"
''Oh, but" exclaimed Rose, eff you
only knew what he thinks of you, Miss
Major-Miss Dawes, 1 meant
Gwen as l ann"
Gradys peeped at the mirror, smil-
ing.
Ct worships you-he does indeed"
"a woman doesn't exactly care for
that, dear" said Gladys gently.
HE loves you too-or would if he
dared" Rose added eagerly.
The two girls looked at each other in
silence for a moment or two. Then
Gladys kissed Rose on the cheek.
II am SO glad" said the latter, as she
hurried away.
i
In rather less than six weeks Gladys
Dawes became Gladys Evans, the wife
of the author of "a Cripple's Fancies. -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22

vinces, in addition to the three rail-
roads. One of these runs from Sou
tart, just opposite Constantinople,
down to Angora, three hundred miles
away. Another extends from Smyrna
| to Adalia, about two hundred and
fifty miles, while the third runs from
Alden, half way between Smyrna and
Adaiia, up to Kanahissan, in the in
terror, distance of two hundred miles.
ALI the rest of Asiatic Turkey is in
a primitive state as far as travelling
| facilities are concerned.
| France is satisfied that Russia
Partition checked. 2
should get what it wants, providing
that she is given the whole Of Syria,
bounded on the north by the Taurus
mountains, on the east by the Euphra-
tes river, and on the south by Arabia,
and as much of the territory running
along the Red sea as she can get This
would leave MesopoIamia, between the
Euphrates and Persia, country
sparseIy inhabited by Arabs, for one
of the other powers, perhaps England.
A@AA5 AbAAo AIA16hI cA1oO 3Ob q OA1cll = VI CAC
territory along the east coast of the
Red sea, and it would be a valuable
acquisition to her holdings in Egypt
and Africa.
That part of European Turkey not
fancied by Russia is wanted by both
Austria and Italy, but if they had to
divide the territory, neither of them
would agree that Russia should have
the most valuable part, that running
along the Sea of Marmora, and includ-
ing both sides of the Bosphorus and
Constantinople. All that Greece ex-
poets to get is the island of Crete or
Gambia, and that will very probably
be her share of the spoils.
Germany has little or no legitimate
claim to any of the Turkish territory,
but as her ministers are acting in con-
cert with the Russian statesmen IN the
matter, she will certainly get some
share.
England, with as many natural
claims as the others, seems to be the
least considered, and her isolation
among the great European powers is
accountable for this. Until recently
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22
WHEEL A FOE TO COSMETICS.

The bicycle craze for this inVig-
Grating sport shows no abatement, and
the number of people who are bored
with incessant wheel talk is very few.
The wheel is certainly doing away
with cosmetics, for every sensible girl,
though she may like to use a dainty
little puff Of powder on her face after
her walk or in the evening, has dis
covered that she appears to better ad-
vantage on her Wheel without powder.
The truly swell and swe gger girl is the
neatest and trimmest and her hair is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22
HOW HE GOT EVEN.

The other day a young man from
London arrived in northern city,
and, wishing to let his friends in the
south know of his safe arrival, he
went to a postoff1ce mot the chief
one) and inquired if he could send a
telegram direct from the office and
how long it would take. The young
lady was inclined to be snubbish, and
cut short his inquiries with, 81 am
not paid to answer silly questions 3"
Her face blanched wonderfully, how
ever, when she found herself com
PEELED to wire the following message:
Arrived safe. Girls here ugly and bad
tempered. Clips.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22

Italy was about her only friend, and
now Italy has joined Germany, France
and Russia because of the success of
the latter in ending the disastrous
Abyssinian campaign, and also for
the cars assistance in making the
match between Helen of Montenegro
and the prince of Naples.
Changing the map of Europe is
lightly spoken of at times, but the lit
era1 act is a matter of deep Importance
and intricate care.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22

A salt water bath has long been ex-
tolled for it's virtues, but only the
bruised and battered wheelwoman, who
has met an obstreperous cabman or an
expressman tenacious Of his rights, can
fully appreciate the hot salt water bath.
Boiling water made briny by sea salt
nd applied to stiff muscles on black and
blue spots gives almost instant relief,
over-exercise timber and ready for new
fields.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22

At Hartford, Conn. the one hundred
and twenty-sixth anniversary of the
first company of the Governors Foot
guard, the oldest contir uous military
organization, in the country, was OBJ
served in a BETTING manner Monday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22
PARTITION CH0KED
RUSSIA'S GREED DELAYS ENDING
OF TURKISH HORROR.
WHAT EACH POWER WANTS

Russia Insists Upon Most of Asiatic
Turkey and a Valuable Slice of the
European Territory, Including
Constantinople-M Changing an
Important Matter.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-01-23

The tables were turned in surpris-
ing manner on an exultant crook by a
smart Yankee deputy sheriff in York
county, Maine, last week. The deputy
was after the crook and came up with
him just across the border in New
Hampshire. The crook was safe from
the deputys warrant there, but in or
der to be safer he boarded train for
the interior of the state. That was his
mistake The deputy boarded the same
train and took a seat near the crook.
At point a few miles ahead the rail-
way track ran across corner of York
county, Maine. The deputy knew this,
but the crook didn't. When the line
was crossed the deputy pulled the bell
rope, STOPPED the train, dragged the
crook out of his seat, put him off the
train and arrested him.