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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
VAGARIES OF THE VOGUE.

Crossed corsages and fichu effects are
steadily growing in favor.
Fine French lawn is an excellent
substitute for silk for lining thin sum
mer fabrics
The box or sack coat, which the
tailors are trying to introduce, will
find favor very slowly because of their
very unbecomingness.
The shops are showing lightweight
leather betting in all colors, to be
bought by the yard, and mounted with
your silver buckle after the manner of
the ribbon betting.
Capes still maintain their own Wig
Orously against the efforts to make
early Jackets proper. They will con-
tinue to do so while the large sleeves
and fluffy trimmings are so much in
evidence.
Those fortunate people who require
yachting costumes seem to cling very
conservatively to the regulation dark
blue. Some few white duck suits are
made with sailor collar and collar
less shield
Black seems to be the accepted color
for the gutter sort Of bathing dress this
year, mohair or alpaca being the favo--
lite material. The younger women re-
lieve the somberness by sailor col
lar, shield and head kerchief Of light
blue, white or scarlet. The blue fan
mel white braid trimmed affairs are en-
tirely out Of date.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

All this means that the ponderous
machinery of the presidential campaign
is moving. 1t has started with a swing
and roar which bespeak liberal sup
ply of oil, or, in other words, that the
preliminary work of the respective
treasurers Of the two campaign COM
mittees has been fruitful. 1t is no Sc
cret that this is campaign OF money,
and it is now glaringly apparent that
it is to be a campaign by money and
with money.
Cornelius n. Bliss is treasurer Of the
republican anpaign committee. He Is
millionaire just four and a half
times over, and most Of his friends are
millionaires. In the business world he
is wholesale dry goods merchant, but
just now he is letting the dry goods
end of his concerns slide and is busy
writing letters to his millionaire
friends inviting them to come and see
him III the Metropolitan building.
1t has been said that the Mckinley
managers expect to spend s., 10000 be
tween now and the Sd of November.
William P. st. John, treasurer of the
democratic and silver parties, is not
saying what he will spend, but his first
assistant, William G. Mclaughlin, is
more frank, saying, I'VE will meet
them dollar for dollar" If S10,000,000
are to be spent in this campaign it will
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
ROMANCE OF THE STREET.
How French Tenor Filled a Blind
Ballad Singers Purse.

Unusual, indeed, was the sight wit
messed the other night in the west Of
London. Two gentlemen, one an
American and the other a well-knOWn
French tenor engaged at the Paris
opera house, paid a visit to the skating
rink at Knightsbridge, met some old
acquaintance there, and spent a lively
evening, parting with their friends
soon after IL p. M, comfortably eXhiI-
arated and joyous.
Walking along they came across a
blind man dolefully singing a ballad to
the accompaniment of a guitar I'm
mediately the Frenchman was seized
with an idea. Going up to the blind
man and giving him coin, he asked
leave to try his guitar, and in few
moments passers-by realized that some
body was handling an instrument In a
manner quite unexpected in the streets.
Promptly a crowd gathered, and then
the rich voice of the operate singer
burst forth on the night air as he &C
companied himself ON the guitar.
Such melody in a London street
proved irresistible. Soon the entire
thoroughfare was blocked, rich and
poor alike stopped eager to hear the un-
wonted music, while rumors of all
sorts flew around the crowd as to the
td d6eg we're 81 the h4fnkn9wn singer whose
Meanwhile the blind man stood enrap-
fured, tears falling down his face as
he listened. ... ..ta., a4t
The American, needless to q say,
promptly grasped the business side OF
the question and went round the crowd
wit his hat, soliciting donations. They
came, too, thick ana fast, in coins of all
sorts and sizes When at last the TO
lice felt it incumbent on them to take
steps to avoid the increasing block Of
traffic, the philanthropic gentlemen
turned over to the blind man the con-
tents of the hat, which amounted to
over "a, and, jumping into a hanson,
drove off amid the cheers of the crowd.
Westminster Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
HOW TO HIDE A DOG.
Men Who Take Tickets Might See
Much with X-Ray Glasses.

| saw a woman stop at the entrance
to one of the big railroad stations TIE
other day, remove her macintosh and
seize a handful or so Of dog which had
been trotting along beside her.
1t was a very wise looking dog, with
long hair, which all but hid two eyes
that told of rare sagacity.
Don't you dare move" she said to
the woolly thing. do you hear?'
The dog heard and seemed to under
stand. IF you make any noise you're
a dead dog" she continued. The woolly
thing, by its eyes, seemed to say that
it understood.
She hid it under the cape of her
macintosh, and one could have sworn
that she had nothing under the cape
but her arm. I supposed that she was
going only a little way out Of town
To my surprise she bought a sleeper
ticket and paid SO for her regular
transportation.
There was never whine or mo-
ton under the cape as she offered he1
ticket to be punched and passed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
RESTRAINT IN DOING GOOD.

A great desire to administer Justice,
and even 10 execute vengeance. op-
presses many persons writes Mrs.
Lyman Abbott in August Ladies Home
Journal. They can hardly keep their
hands off where they see What appears
to be tyranny; they long to put the
driver in place of the abused horse,
the large boy in place of the small
fag,' the elder sister in the younger's
position, and so on, to the end of the
chapter. When the temptation be-
comes toe strong, and these would-be
'malIe-rights' do Interfere, they are
more likely to make things far worse
than to improve them. Theirs is a bet
ter attitude toward life than that of
one who takes pleasure in the exhibit
ton OF mans evil passions-a DISPOSE
ton we see manifested when quarrel
arises in the street and a crowd t1ocks
at once to encourage and enjoy the
spectacle. The retributiVe feeling may
be right, but We must not put into &C
ton all our right feelings; restraint in
doing good is important as we'll as re-
straint from evil. | suppose children
have suffered quite as much from the
interference of friends, who would
modify too strict diet and enlarge a
too limited list of amusements, Us they
have from their parents restrictions"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

should not have hard time gathering
in the shekels, and Mr.. Bliss is Just the
man not to allow an opportunity of this
kind to pass him without wringing it
dry.
William P. st. John, who is gather
ing in the funds for the Bryan cam
paign, has not such a fertile field in
the east to work upon, but he is an
ADLER inancier than Mr.. Bliss. For
many years he was the president of a
large New York bank, from which po-
sition and a salary of $4,000 a year he
resigned six weeks ago because mis-
free silver ideas We're not in harmony
with those of the directors Of the
bank.
The democratic headquarters in the
BartholGi comprise fifteen rooms, and
Mr.. St John has the choice one in the
corner. The clerks and the literary
bureau take up most Of the other
rooms, and Oliver Sumner Teall has a
suite of fine apartments, where he en-
tertains silver republicans.
Over in the Metropolitan building
Mark Hanna's room is on the Twenty
third street corner, and from his win
dow he can look over at the Bartholdi
and observe what the opposition is do
ing. Vice Presidential Candidate Ho-
bart will share this room with Mr..
Hanna, as the former will be in charge
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

s5,O00,00O or s7,OOO,OOO if it were
needed. Heretofore the great indus
trial institutions and corporations have
subscribed literally to both the repub-
lican and democratic campaign funds,
giving the same sum to each and show
ing no preference for one side or the
other. This was done simply as a mat
ter of good business policy, for no mat
ter which way the election went the
concern would stand we'll with the new
administration.
In this campaign these conditions are
changed, as all of the big moneyed con-
Germs of the east will subscribe to the
Mckinley side of the battle alone, and
not only will they give what would or
dinarily go to the democratic commit
tee, but they will enlarge on the total
contribution. This single instance
goes to show that Treasurer Bliss
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
BY 4 PHILADELPHIA LAWYER

This is an after-dinner story told by
a well-known lawyer the other even
ing, illustrative of legal difficulties that
may arise even in the carrying out of
the most amicable contracts:
There were once four brothers who
had inherited a storage warehouse
from their father, and who equally di-
vided the property among them.
Among the appurtenances thereto was
a cat, a fine animal, excellent for
housing, and this, too, was divided
the elder brother owning the right
front quarter, the second brother the
left front quarter and the younger
brothers the two hind quarters. Now,
unfortunately, the cat in one Of it's noe
turnal prowls injured the right front
paw and the elder brother attended to
that portion of his property by bind
ing the injured member with creased
Tag. The cat, thankful for this relief
to its suffering, went to sleep content
eddy before the fire, but on the midst
Of it's slumbers a falling coal ignited
the rag, and the animal, bowling with
agony, dashed through the warehouse,
and, coming into contact with some
com bustibles, set the building on fire.
when the loss came to be figured
out the three younger brothers wished
to throw it all upon the elder, upon
the ground that had he not tied up his
part of the cat with the infammable
rag the building would not have been
destroyed. He, on the contrary, con-
tended that had the cat only been pos
sessed Of the front right paw, his prop
erty, it would have stood still and
burned to death. 1t was the three
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

Very much the same kind of men
haunt both places. Some of them have
whiskers and bear the unmistakable
imprint of hailing from the rural dis
tricts. Others have the slick, we'll
groomed look of the prosperous man of
affairs. Some walk in with a defiant,
independent air, and these are the men
who are not wondering what there is in
it for them. Their opposites are those
who slip in quietly, speak deferentially
to the negro card bearers, sit down I'M
easily in the chairs in the waiting
rooms and glare sullenly at others of
their kind. Some men walk in jauntily
and emerge despondently. Others
creep in dejectedly and reappear smil-
ingly. Over ali, hover heavy clouds of
cigar smoke. Most Of them take de-
light in splitting anywhere but in The
cuspidors, and the carpets show it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
MEMORY.

What we miscall our life is Memory;
We walk upon a narrow path be-
tween
Two gulfs-what is to be, and what
has been,
Led by guide whose name is Destiny;
Beyond is sightless gloom and mys-
terry,
From whose unfathomable depths we
CLEAN
Chaotic hopes and terrors, dimly Seen
Reflections of past reality.
Behind, pursuing through the twilight
haze,
The phantom people of the past ap-
pear;
Hope, happiness and sorrow, fruit
less strife,
And all the loved and lost Of other
days;
They crowd upon US closer year by
year,
Till we as phantoms haunt some
other life.
Charles Lotin Hildreth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

May Be Thrown up and out OF the Way
When Necessity Demands.

Every attendant at baseball games
is in the way when he runs to catch a
foul ball. He must first throw the mask
off and then run the chance of stepping
on it or stumbling over it. Then,
when the play is over, there is a delay
while he adjusts his cap and mask. A
Hartford, Conn, genius has invented
a mask which can be instantly thrown
up and out of the way, like the visor
Of a helmet, and may be as readily re-
placed. The inventor is William
Gray, who long ago conceived the idea
that mask to protect the catcher's
face would be a good thing. His idea
was then laughed at by ball players
so he did nothing with it. Not long
after that a Harvard man invented
and put on the market just such a
mask. Now every catcher wears one
when playing up under the bat Some
time later Mr. Gray invented and pat
ented the catcher's pad, which is now
universally used He is also the in
ventor of the Gray telephone pay sta
| ton.
| His latest invention, the improved
mask, is well protected as to patents,
1t is as much of an advance over the
| old mask as that was over no covering
at all for the face. AS the picture of
the mask shows, it is attached to the
| pad frame by pivot joints. The pad
frame is held firmly on the catcher S
! head by the usual arrangements of
straps. When the catcher wants to
cover his face, he lets it down and it is
| held in place by a spring. If a foul is
popped p in the air, touch Of the
hand th.ows the mask instantly up and
back, leaving the catcher's vision free
from interference. The mechanism is
Of the simplest kind, there being moth
to get out of order.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
CAUSES OF HEADACHE.

The ordinary headache which is so
extremely common among the inhabi-
tants of our Atlantic seaboard towns is
the outcome of conditions affecting the
nerves through impoverished blood
containing poisonous matter absorbed
from badly-digested food. So-called
liver torpidity and the catarrhal affec-
lions due to our changeabIe climate
also aid in effecting it's spread Nerv-
fast living, plays an important part in
its causation. Nervous strain, espe-
cially of the eyes, and infiamed It's
sues about the internal bones of the
nose are special causes. Nerve irrita-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

eof the campaign during the latters alb
'sence. Next to Mr.. Hannas room is a
private consultation room, and adjoin-
ing that is the room of Senator Mat
thew Stanley Quay. Four rooms are
given up to typewriters; there are two
mailing rooms and two press rooms, a
large waiting room, two large rooms
for clerks, one for Colonel Swords and
two or three others for various uses
making twenty in all.
These rooms are all finely furnished
and are formidable TO fcok at, but one
sage who will surely find way to fol-
low the fashion visited them said that
tho real rop"blioon headquarters was
under Mark Hanna's hat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

go down in history as the costliest on
in the history of the nation. 1t i!
doubtful if $4,000 were spent to secure
the election of Abraham Lincoln thirty
six years ago, and even in the Cleve-
land-Blaine campaign of 1884, which
was considered an Outrageously eXpen-
sive one, the combined outlay was less
than 100000. 1t took $4,00O,000 to
run the Decentralization campaign
of 1888 and about the same amount four
years later. Even allowing for heavy
eXaggeration in the estimated figures of
the cost of the present campaign it is
a certainty that the flow of money will
be more cODious than ever before.
Those who are familiar with the sys-
TENS of raising campaign funds can see
no reason why the Mckinley managers
should have any difficulty in getting
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

ton, which is but poorly understood by
the general reader, is prolific cause
OF so-called nervous headache. | know
OF no more dangerous practice than to
treat headache pain blindly with drugs
OF course, outdoor exercise is the best
possible thing for permanent cure. 1t
is very easy to relieve most forms Of
headache by means Of the coal-tar de-
rivatives, Of which so many are in the
drug market. These form the basis of
the many headache cures found on the
druggists shelves. Their use is not
entirely without danger, for they are
powerful heart depressants if taken in
doses OF any considerable size.-Dr.
Cyrus Edison in August Ladies Home
Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
BOOMERS OF PARIS.

The Bots is there still-a trif1e live
lier for the wheelmen, and, o Lord, the
wheelwomen! Don't ask me to de-
scribe them. Don't expect it. | just
can't, you know. l am neither a Will
liam Hogarth nor a Paul Delaroche,
and, besides, I know what the quality
of mercy is. But l do contend that
those boomers in the Bots de Bou-
e-p'-Courier-J Journal.
1t is an interesting fact, and one
showing how little have been the sur
face changes wrought in agricultural
Wales, that a well-defiIed Roman road
exists to this day in the very heart Of
Llandrindod. and with a few breaks
can be traced to the outskirts of Magos,
a couple of miles away.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

New York, Aug. 16.-Pretty nearly
every one knows by this time that the
presidential campaign of 1896 is to be
q holly contested race, but to appre-
ciate this fact fully it is necessary to
become a student of Madison Square,
first delving into the recesses of the
Bartholdi hotel and again journeying
to the fourth floor of the all white
Metropolitan building, which looks
down upon the musty brown steeple of
DIR. Parkhurst's church.
These two structures-the Bartholdi
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
How to Destroy Chinch Bugs.

The chinch bug has appeared in in
furious numbers in several localities
and requests are coming daily to the
Wisconsin station for information
concerning this pest. For several
years past experiment stations, notably
the Kansas station and that Of Illinois,
have been endeavoring to destroy this
pest by inoculating quantity OF
chinch bugs with disease and scatter
ing the infected bugs about the field
where the bugs were troubling. At one
time it was thought that this means Of
destruction would prove satisfactory
and a CHEAT deal Of interest has been
awakened in this treatment, but I'M
fortunately it does not seem to be suf-
fciently reliable to recommend its use
at this time, consequently we must fan
back on other means Of destruction tor
the pest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
WILLIAM P. ST. JOHN AND CORNE

and the Metropolitan-are perhaps, 200
feet away from one another The Bar
tholdl is at the corner of Broadway and
TWenty-third street and the Metro
polltan building is on the corner of
Madison avenue and Twenty-third
street. Both look out upon Madison
square, and the ever-changing oano-
rama of Broadway is within full view
of both. The Metropolitan building is
of peculiar interest, because it shelters
the national headquarters of the conf
mittec which is seeking to make Major
Mckinley the next president Of the
United States And for the same rea-
son the Bartkoldi is interesting. for it
is the official habltation of the men who
are working with might and main TO
place William Jennings Bryan in the
white house on March A.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

through to the train. The woolly thing
knew, it seemed, that dire things would
befall if the sleeper were not reached in
silence Nothing short of X-ray
glasses would have betrayed his mis-
tress.-New York Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
INFERENCE.

Helen-What makes you think that
Eve rode q bicycle in the garden Of
Eden?
Larkins-Merely inference. The
Bible says she was the first woman To
fall.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
THE MACHINE MOVES
ACTIVITY AT RIVAL HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN NEW YORK.
QUITECLOSE TO EACH OTHER

Mark Hanna Able to Look Out Of His
Window and Watch the Work of the
Opposition-A Campaign that Will
Cost Millions-Rooms Finely Fur
nished.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

Gen. Benjamin Harrison will be at
the disposal Of the republican state
committee Of Indiana during this cam
paign.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

other paws that caused the damage.
The brothers argued the case until
they died, but could never reach On
agreement. ''-Philadelphia Record.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1896-07-01
3pnIftiCateH.
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ribtiet.

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rihtiet.
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nit elmer begeiiterten &unDgebung empfanz
gen. Sin 9o9 na9 Dem anbern brabte bic
perfammelte Menge aus.
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@eranba un6 trug nit f%euriger 8erebtIam=
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Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1896-07-01
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