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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15

what sort OF vengeance? Such a one
| as l sought must be unique-refned
lre-entless, and complete. l pondered
deeply. The evening wind blew freshly
up from the sea; the leaves of the
!sway'ng trees whispered mysteriously
ttogether; the nightingales warbled on
with untired sweetness; and the moon.
like the round shield of an angel war
rior, shone brightly against the dense
; blue background Of the sky. Heed
lessly Of the passing of hours, l sat
still, lost in a bewildered reverie
There was always a false note some
where when he sung!" So she had
said, laughing that little laugh of
hers as cold and sharp as the clash of
steel. True, true; by all the majesty
OF Heaven, most true! There was in
deed a false nOte-jerring, not so
much the voice as the music of life
itself. There is stuff in all of us that
will weave, an We desire it, into a web
Of stately or simple harmony; but let
the meteor-like brilliancy of a wo-
mans smile-a WCmen's touch-a wo-
mans lie-intermingle itself with the
strain, and 10! the false note is struck.
discord declares itself, and God him
self the great Composer, can do moth
ing in this life to restore the old calm
tine CT peaceful, urspoiled days! So
| have found: so all Of you must find,
long before you and sorrow grow old
together.
To he continued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15

Mr.. Coke, and tell me the first thing
if can trust you"
The correspondent said pleasantly
that he regarded himself as a safe
risk
why ask that" continued the SEN
ator, with smile, lis because have a
confession to make. l don't believe
much of anything about the question
you mention, but l can't afford to admit
that to your newspaper. I take this
request for my views as a compliment.
am new man on the scene and an
interview in as prominent a paper as
yours will help to introduce me.
ought to have some views. What do
you know about the question:"
The correspondent replied that he
had read the bills recently introduced
bearing on the subject, had listened to
the speeches in advocacy of them and
so forth.
The senator's face lighted up. my
young friend, do you want an inter-
view right away?"
mo, SIR" it goes by mail. Tomor-
row will do
Then you go and get copies of some
of those bills and few of those
speeches and bring them here, and we
will have conversation"
The correspondent returned in an
hour with bundle of papers and he
and the senator went over them to-
gether. The senator put in a word,
and then the correspondent would put
in a word. Finally the senator said:
Now you go home and write out
the interview and bring the copy here"
This also the correspondent did, and
upon his return his greeting was a cor
dial one. Senator Coke read the story
twice over, repeating portions of it
aloud, and then, handing it back, said
MY young friend, we work in a
double harness together admirably.
That is all right, and you can send it
on to your paper. Now, you stand up
for me and I'll stand up for the inter-
view"
The story was we'll displayed in
print, and it established a friendship
between the senator and the correspond
ent, which continued to the end
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15
FUN IN THE PROOF ROOM.
To be continued.

The Chicago Record says that the
public ''has been materially benefited
in the matter of rats (rates).
'If it wasn't for that blamed proof
reader could set as much type as any
OF you,' said the blacksmith.
The Chicago Cronicle, referring to
the death of a prominent citizen, SAID.
He lives widow and three children. -
Referring to commercial matters, the
editor wrote Chronic BEARS" which
the copyholder translated into
Chinese beans" Fortunately it did
not get into print that way.
An English bishop, at a thanksgly-
ing service, selected as his text, rs
any merry; let him sing psalms" This
the reporter transmogrified into, rs
any married; let him sing songs"
The Chicago Record says that fields
of wheat, acres of corn, old-fashioned
rail fences and meadows with COWS and
sheep in them may soon take the place
Of the unimproved waists in Jackson
Park"
The following amusing errors re-
Gently appeared in an English publica-
ton, in speaking Of print from
negative taken for a stereoscope: THE
picture taken by the right-hand lens
should be seen by the right-hand eye"
In a Chicago printing Office a COM
position changed Ii Hung Chang to
Sir Henry Chang" while merry
maidens' appeared as "men-maidens. :"
The "Croupiers of Monte Carlo were
transformed into 'ironpiers, etc.
1t is invariably the poorest COM
positor who makes the greatest num-
Der of kicks and kicks the hardest at
the door of the proofroom.
why are quotation marks placed
at the beginning of the first para
graph only and not at the beginning of
each paragraph within the quotation ?"
Because the writer, or printer-or both
is ignorant of the proprieties of the
the occasion. When a quotation con-
sists of several paragraphs, the quo
tations marks should appear at the be-
ginning of each paragraph, so that it
may not, in the readers mind, be con-
fused with or mistaken for the utter
ances Of the writer making the quota
unconditional Printer Journalist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15
CHIFFON AND FEATHER BOAS.

GlOrif1ed feather boas are Madame
La Mode latest conceit-not those in
terminabiIe things of few seasons
ago, but the lightest, warmest, feathery
chefs d'oeUvre of color imaginable. /
have seen some a friend has just
brought over from Paris. One is in
lovely shade Of mauve fecked, or rather
tipped with white; the next was
sulphur yellow treated in the same
way, and the last and loveliest of the
trio was white ostrich boa mixed
with the faint silvery grayness Of mar
about feathers. These pretty trifies
will be indispensable to our health as
well as to our beauty when the prom
ised Glow necks" are seen in summer
raiment. These boas are short, hardly
reaching to the waist, very full at the
backs and tapering at the ends. Many
are being made Of tulle or chiffon in
very full ruches sewn on to a harrow
satin ribbon.-St. James Budget.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15
HIS GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
How an Iowa Professor BETRAYED a
Mileage Secret.

A capital joke is told on a prominent
educator in central Iowa, who had oc-
c3sion to go to Chicago a few weeks
ago. Business transacted, he con-
Guided there was really no occasion
for his paying 3 cents a mile on the
return trip, when Clark street swarmed
with men with all brands of mileage
they were anxious to dispose of, and ne
sought them The first broker fitted
him out with piece of mileage that
would carry him straight home. He
| pOcketed it, paid the cents per mile,
and invested in q luxurious lunch.
The train left at TO- 5, and what was
/ to hinder a glance at the vaudeville?
Nothing. He went At 1920 he left
for the depot
There was just one berth left an
upper. He took it, and tired out, put
| to bed without delay.
Some time during the night-he had
no idea how long he had slept; only
knowing he was desperately sleepy
he was aroused and, rubbing his eyes,
beheld the conductor.
Your ticket, please; what is your
name?" he asked, kindly.
Horrors! The cold sweat just poured
out of our educator. The thought
flashed across him that he had forgot
ten to take notice of the name on the
mileage. Who was he anyway?
He just stared at the conductor, who
in fact had no designs upon him.
Your name, please, and ticket" re-
peated the conductor.
!ioW co you expect man to know
his name, reused out OF sound
Isleep?" mumbled the learned man.
my name is" at the same time try
ing to fish his mileage from his vest
pocket.
The conductor was smiling.
Here it is-my name is Richards
Harvey Richards" replied our PROBES
sor, sickly, looking at the inside of
the mileage book.
"All right, Mr.. Richards" remarked
the conductor, now laughing heartily,
''how's business with the jamestown
Herald?" handing the book back. "But
be a little more careful next time;
some conductors are more particular.
only wanted your name to make ur
the sleeping car list"
The professor mentally swOre that
he would be-Chicago TimesHerald
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15
AN ATTRACTIVE BREAKFAST.
They Understand the Art of Eating il
New Orleans.

There is the cafe of the Black Cat in
Paris, there is Monsieur Begue's in
New Orleans! Not to have breakfasted
in either Of these haunts is not to have
been one Of the inner circle, the choice
spirits of Bohemia. 1t is in the very
heart of the French quarter, this shrine
of the gourmets. The door is always
open. There is a clatter Of knives and
forks, for the eleven o'clock breakfast
has already begun, and you hear the
accompaniment of nasal French like
the pizzicato of many violins.
The first course is salad, a cool and
slippery mess immersed in a ravishing
sauce; then there is red fish with
surely it is garlic! But the cook de-
MES it! The guests fight it out among
themselves. Then there is an omelette
a la Burbank; the waiter girl bears it
triumphantly on a huge platter and
places it before our host. Parsley,
sWeetbreads, what is there not in this
huge creature, light as a feather, vel
low as gold? Every one must praise
the omelette; that is one Of the sacred
duties of the occasion. Liver thick as
steak, dish fit for the gods! With this
is served red peppers, which Monsieur
Begue hands around himself, with
great gusto and delight. He seems to
be specially proud Of being able to
swallow large, two-inch chunk of it
himself. He has no rivals in the feat.
1t reminds one Of the story of, was it
Stockton? more like Field, who, as
each course grow hotter than the one
that had preceded it, remarked gasp
ingly as he gulped down the last, that
he felt as if he had swallowed whole
torchlight procession. At which Mon
sieur Begue chuckled audibly with de-
light.
Then there is the beefsteak, tender
as an infants smile, with radishes and
olives, and Of course throughout the
meal, wine galore. It is claret mixed
with apollinaris, twenty-one quart bot
ties on the table at the end, but what
proportion Of apollinaris and what
proportion of wine deponent telleth
not. The bread, too, is in glorious
proportions, each cut half a yard long.
Lastly are brought on the funny little
A. B. C. plates for fruit, which have
caused more than one guest of former
ly unimpeachable repute to break a
commandment in the decalogue. With
the fruit are passed two varieties OF
chees, each louder than the other, both
n1arion-foned To can all the cafe
brulant, hottest, most flaming torch in
the procession. Monsieur Begue has
big bowl to himself and presides over
the central incarnation and the white
ribbon lady from Hartford remarks
ruefully, as she partakes Of the fiery
beverage, that she's afraid the coffee
alone is strong enough liquor to make
her forfeit her membership in the w.
G. T. U.-Exchange.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15
WORKED TOGETHER.
How a Senator and Correspondent
Prepared an Interview.

The late ex-senator Coke of Texas,
though as a rule taciturn and a 70
served man, had a sense of humor and
was something of a diplomat. Shortly
after his appearance in the senate
years ago he was approached by a
newspaper correspondent for an in
tervfew on a leading question of the
day. The request had come from the
home Office, as the correspondent ex-
planned.
'Sit down, my young friend" said
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15
"SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD"

Sand above the sprocket wheel,
Mud about the chain,
Wind at thirty miles an hour,
Ruts and rocks and rain.
Dogs before the farmers house
Chew your legs for fun,
Nails and glass and mud and sand
That's a country run.
Detroit News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15
AN OMINOUS OVATION

Walker Fart thought your next
Africa?
Count d'Ties-It was, but the COM
pany struck. One of them had read
that an ostrich egg often weighs a
dozen pounds.-Puck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15

The population of New South Wales
last year was 97,640, a gain of about
10000 in one year.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
CAPITAL GOSSIP.

The President VIII Leave the 0Rco
Seekers to Illuminate for a Few Day.
The Retirement of Mai.-Gen Ruger-Sec-
retary Gage Determined to Have Some
Time for Business-PaImer Back in the
Printing ONCE.
NEW YORK, April ga Sun special
from Washington says: The president
has decided to flee from the Office seek
ers, and next week he will enjoy a
brief vacation by taking a trip on the
Dolphin, now lying idle at the navy
yard. The trip will last for two or
three days only. The destination of
the president and his party, which will
include few personal friends, has not
been disclosed.
This will be the first vacation Maj.
Mckinley has taken in almost year.
Ever since his nomination at st. Louis
and until he came to Washington he
was obliged to stick close to his home,
and although he tried several times to
get few days vacation, it seemed alb
solutely impossible for him to abandon
his work, except for a brief trip to
Cleveland and another trip of few
days to Chicago after the campaign
ended. His close friends, ever since
election, have been advising him to
take a vacation of week or two
weeks, but he has steadfastly refused.
Recently they have renewed their en-
treaties, and he has finally consented
to go away next week for a few days
on the Dolphin. 1t is not known
whether Mrs. Mckinley will accompa-
ny the president or no
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
THE GOLD BUGS CHANCE.
Invincible Ignorance Exempts from
Responsibility.

Invincible Ignorance Exempts from
Responsibility.
The Dubuque free coinage men are
wide awake, and already reorganizing
for the future. When their club met
the other evening it CHANGED that DIR.
Cleary, of Galena, was in Dubuque and
was roped in for an address. In the
course of it the doctor told of an Irish
workman who differed from another
about the prospect of salvation. One
said to the other:
so, Pot, you think there is no
chance for me to be saved?"
'Oh, no, sir; didn't say that. There
is one chance for you. My catechism
teaches that invincible ignorance eX-
empts from responsibility. You have
the benefit of that chance"
This was the only last chance for the
irreconcilable goldbug.
In the course of DR.. Cleary's address
also he thus well stated the free coinage
position:
1--WE are bimetallists, not from the
fact that we venerate gold or worship
silver, but simply from conviction that
the most important function of our gov
eminent in ministering to the needs of
our people is being neglected, and to cor
rect this wrong we desire to force the
government to issue money in adequate
amount to make our commercial ex-
changes, and to represent the value of
our industries and our homes. We be-
lieve that the opening of our minis to
the coinage of gold and silver alike
would accomplish most desirable re-
suits i'll that direction"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
Highest Water la the History of the COun-
trV.
TWO PERSONS DROWNED.
Result of Wednesday Nights Storm In q
Suburb of St. Louis.

Result of Wednesday Nights Storm in q
Suburb of st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, April AIS one of the re-
suits of the terrific downpour of rain
that deluged the western suburbs OF
this city and caused the River Des
Peres to overflow it's banks, George b.
Tate and Nellie Tate, father and
daughter, were swept from their home
at Berry Place, little place on what
is known as the north and south road
near Webster. The body of the man
was recovered a quarter of mile away.
The body of the child has not yet
been found. Tate was Mexican war
veteran.
There are rumors of the loss of other
lives, but they can not yet be verified.
Cne is that a camp of laborers was
swept away and that all the inmates
are missing.
The police did good service at Chel-
enhlm in rescuIng inha bitants of in
undated houses with Forest park boats.
In many cases the water was up to the
second-stOry windows
The tracks of the KirkwoOd electric
railway are under water.
The following persons are reported
missing: John O'Fallon, Philip Shelp,
and l. others encamped near Brent
wood, and Smith Washington, whose
shanty was swept away.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
THE AWFUL FLOODS.

Nothing Encouraging in the Situation Re-
ported-Greeuville Stiu Above the Tide.
but Threatened with Neutrality-suspicious.
dreds of Towns I'm the Delta Submerged
Floods In North Dakota.
WASHINGTON, April Chief Moore
Of the weather bureau has issued the
following special river bulletin: The
following reports have been received
from weather bureau officials in charge
OF river districts for April L:
ST. Louis-Rivers in st. Louis dis
triet rising rapidly from heavy rain.
River will go to about % feet at St.
Louis within the next two days, and
there will be a steady rise northward
TO higher stages than last week.
Cairo, Ill.-Deep water augmented
by heavy rains; has risen about three
inches during last "a hours. Heavy
rains have brought river to a stand, at
500. High winds of the night caused
slight washings in Big Four eD1bank-
meRt in the drainage district above.
The Ohio river has fallen throughout
its entire length.
Memphis-So far, only four crevasses
on the Mississippi side-one in Wash
ington county and three in Bolivar;
the one at SunnyWlld plantatlon the
most destructive. There was a serious
break yesterday at Westover, and the
Laconia Circle levee is fast going.
Condition in and about Greenvjlle and
Gunnison continues very serious
Helena, Ark.-River rose two inches;
now SIS on guage. Rainfall, la.
Vicksburg, Miss.-Crevasse which
occurred at Westover, Ark, ten miles
below Helena, yesterday is 700 feet
wide and six feet deep. River about
stationary at Vicksburg, but will rise
again from water received through the
YaZoo.
New Orleans-Levees on lower river
had severe test from heavy rains and
southeast winds, but continue intact
Crevasse reported at Bayou La Fourche
levee, between Raceland and Lock-
port; can do but little damage.
WILLIS S. MOORE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
M.klNLEYs MONEY POLICY.
Al FOreshadovved In His Tnaugurs
Address.

-
Address,
President McKinley's discussion in
his inaugural address of the currency
question is quite like Candidate Nc
Kinley's opinions on the same subject.
Never were there such lot of plain
platitudes strung together. Listen to
the argument and judge: sour finan-
cial system needs some revision" But
what revision the incoming president
does not explain. ''Our money is all
good now, but its value must not be
further threatened" Yet how shall it
escape attack, unless there be effort to
put our money on scientific basis, the
new president doesn't say. The presi-
dent thinks it necessary to devise sys-
tenn which, without diminishing the
circulating medium or offering pre-
MUM for its contraction, viii present a
remedy for these arrangements which,
temporary in their nature, might well
in the years of our prosperity have been
displaced by wiser provisions"
Nothing in President McKinley's ex-
pressed monetary policy offers any
hope of abandonment of the narrow
scheme of gold monometallism which
Cleveland upheld. His party platform
declared for bimetallism, his chief par
ty supporters pronounced for gold.
Therefore he, in his inaugural address,
strives to steer so narrow course be-
tween the two that his words express
neither bimetallism nor monomet-
allism.
The time is passed when platitudes
20
ton. The people have learned that
every man who stops to think can clear
ly and intelligently understand the
problems involved in the management
of our circulating medium. No man
who reads McKinley's shallow, super
fetal discussion of the vital question
which the currency presents to the peo-
pie to-day can fail to note his purpose to
postpone, to evade, to escape the one
grave and vital question before the
American people at this moment.
One single avenue of escape from the
demand for bimetallism is open to the
new president and his party. If they
can accomplish an international agree
hope they have staked everything. If
they fail a new chapter in American
politics will be opened.
President Mckinley goes into office
with the good wishes of every fair
minded citizen and with the hearty
support of the most powerful element
in the nation. But he has. perhaps, the
gravest problem to solve that any re-
cent president has encountered. A
president who defeated national BIZ
metallist on an international bimet-
allism platform with the aid of gold
monometallists is likely to have heap
OF trouble before he gets through
y. 7. Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
MORE SILVER.
Outlook for the Coinage of the SefEn-
Ornge I'm the Treasury.

i
OrnEe I'm the Treasury.
The New York Journal concludes
that there need be no anxiety about
further legislation antagonistic to sill
ver-that protection is afforded by the
situation in the senate. The finance
committee is conceded to have full con-
troll, so far as tariff bill is concerned,
since one silver senator, at least Jones,
of Nevada), will vote with his former
party Otherwise the silver senators
are perfectly agreed, and Senator Jones
would be with them in any emergency.
Not only can there be no legislation
by the senate, as constituted, adverse
to silver, but on the other hand there is
said to be reason to expect that the
silver coinage may be increased by coin
age of the residuum of seigniorage of
silver bullion now in the treasury. This
Carlisle was urged to do, but refused, in
order to be consistent, along with Cleve-
land, in the claim that our financial
troubles were due to silver. If this were
done it would add nearly $40,000,00O to
the amount of cash already in the treas
ury, and silver certificates could be is
sued against it. 1t would put grin on
the faces of the silver men as big as a
barn door to see in each advancing step
the edging in the direction of their
whole proposition.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08

There is law far higher than the legis-
lature of the state of New York-the law of
supply and demand-which controls these
things. and which no trust, however big IL
able to violate
This is what Sugar-Trust SearIes
says to the Lexow committee. Mr..
Searles is right, but he made use OF
this expression for the purpose of de-
ceiving the people. 1t was a play to
the grand stand. OF course no trust
can set aside the law of supply and de-
mand, but the object of all trusts is tc
appropriate the fruits of its operations
to themselves, and the result is an in
jury 10 the people. Trusts cannot con-
troll the law" OF supply and demand,
but they can and do control the supply
by artificiaily limiting it. That inten-
SITES the demand. That raises prices.
And the increased profits which are ex-
torted by the trusts from consumers
are Just as much the fruits of robbery
as * the agents of the trusts had Sc
cured them with the aid of sandbaR
and reyolyer.-Buffalo Times.