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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14

Upper Columbia river, in Oregon, owns
lariat made Of the hair OF white
women who have been scalped. The
l5riat is strong enough to hold an in
furiated buffalo, and vet is pliabIe and
soft. Long Wolf used to make a spe-
c-alty Of sc3lping women, but now he
calls himself a heap good Indian. -
He is a Blackfoot
The British Medical Journal reports.
with reference to the Australian col
cnleS, that during the month of Janu-
airy. when 800 persons died of sun
stroke, a request was made of the
medical board to issue some instruc-
tons for the avoidance of this grave
disease. The board stated to have de-
clared that, Of all predisposing causes.
undue indulgence in intoxicating
Liquor is the most common and tho
most dangerous; further, that during
the attack it is dangerous to employ
Intoxicants as a remedy. To this the
Journal adds that in many cases sun
stroke has practically been alcohol
stroke, and in other cases an iniudi-
cicus resort to alcohol therapeutically
has endangered the sufferers life. All
usual precautions being observed. the
strictly abstinent are least liable to
heat apoplexy.
Jim is one of the fayorite donkeys at
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14

Glen island, but he got into disgrace
lately, and was locked up for intoxi-
cation and disOrderly conduct Early
in the day he walked out of the en-
c.Csure in which the donkeys are kept
at night, a careless attendant having
left the gate open. Later Jim was
discovered drinking beer at Beach
Lawn. The pumps at the cafe were
Icing cleaned, and two buckets of
stale beer, which had been left out
side the building, had attracted the
attention of the donkey. He is a do
cile and goOdnatured animal as a
rule, but with two buckets of beer in
bis stomach he became unru1y. He
kicked one man into the water and
ade his way into the cafe, where he
knocked over chairs and tables and
frightened the walters. Then he went
out on the lawn, lay down. and went
to sleep. The animal men tied his
legs together, rolled him into a cart,
end carried him to a box stall, in
which he was locked up all day.-New
York Tribune.
There was a great excitement in the
railway station at Berne one day last
week at the arrival of an eccentric
passenger whose whole costume con-
sisted of boots and stockings. Every
other article of dress he had deliber-
ately stripped off whilst the train was
steaming between the stations Zolli-
kofen and Berne, hurting successfully
out of the carriage window his hat,
collar, necktie, waistcoat, coat, and
t. ousers. AS soon as his fellow-pas-
sengers informed the station inspector
of the mans proceedings and condi
ton that official locked up the crazy
Adamite in the carriage and tele
phoned to the police for clothing. The
man was dressed by force, protesting
against such an interference with his
individual right and liberty ''to &c
naked for a sign" like the early
Quakers. When he had been duly
clothed he was allowed to march out
of the railway station, but as nothing
has since been heard of him it is sup
posed that his friends have taken
steps to prevent him from making this
public demonstration against the ty-
renny of clothing.
A story highly characteristic of two
eminent prelates and of their respec-
tive styles is now going the rounds
Soon after his appointment to Canter.
bury Archbishop Temple was sum
moned to dine and sleep at Windsor
At dinner he sat on the Queens right
hand. On the left. few places further
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
GRANT IN DISGUISE.
A Reconnaissance on the Quiet Which
Took the Boys by Storm.

Zone day at Chattanooga says one
of the soldier boys writing in the Chi
cago Inter Ocean, "a lot Of us were
loading hard tack and bacon into a
wagon train that was to be sent to hall
starving men, and were giving more
attention to badgering each other than
to the work in hand, when a lame man
in fatigue dress, walking with some
difficulty with the assistance of a cane
passed along the high porch of the
quartermaster's shed and looked down
at the boys for a minute or two with
out word. Then he spoke quietly
saying: That is not the way to load
boxes, men. Put them in straight
and carefully. Do your work like
soldiers
"Old Hannibal, who was slouching
a good deal at his work, turned with
impudent bTavado toward the officer
and was just in the act of saying that
he did not want any quartermaster's
clerk to give orders to him, when he
started III surprise, saluted and, much
to the establishment Of the boys
lifted his hat The look of impudence
went from his face like a flash, and
he said, All right, general, we will
do it just as you want it done Then
all the men recognized in the quiet
man the commanding general of the
army.
Grant followed every look and word
and he probably understood old Han
nibal better than that rough old figh,
ter understood himself. There was g
twinkle in his eye as he said: Re.
member, men, these provisions are go.
ing to half starved soldiers. You ought
to get as many boxes in the wagon as
possible. When mules are so scarce
and roads so dangerous, the more
men you feed The boys got up in the
wagon, Strengthened out every boz
and loaded all carefully as the genera
directed. This was only three OF
four days before the battle of Chatta-
nooga, and while the fight was il
progress old Hannibal said he knew
that Grant wasn't limpin round Chat.
tancog for nothin''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
A PAIR TO DRAW TO

1t was dull day in the shoe-store.
AT length, q richly-gowned woman en-
tered and started to remark Il want
to buy
Certainly, madam broke in the
hesid-salesman, Mr.. Hanna, show
this lady some shoes, please
20, excuse mel" exclaimed the lady,
but | want to buy pair
Yes, madam, we have all the latest
styles and finest feathers and we ham
die only Solem and Heelem's makes,
which it is needless"
"But-but-I, that is, I want to
buy pair of sh-''
Yes, madam, | am just about to
show them to you. Let me see, what
size, please? Surely not larger than
two. Solem and Heelem make a spe-
cialty, madam, of small, dainty"
Yes, yes, but I started to tell YOU
that l only want to get a pair of
shoes"
20, that's all right, madam, that's
all right. The first pair worn makes
a customer for life. Now, as to styIe,
May l advise a more moderate toe
than those you have on. The extreme
points are going out very rapidly
and"
Sir, said the lady, Il want to buy
pair of shoe-strings. am not
over-particular about the make, or the
points, or the number, or the extreme
stylishness, but l want pair of shoe
strings-shoe-strings, sir"
She got them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
The Old Dutch Oh urch at TarrytoWa

abode of millionaires. The richest
man in the world, John D. Rockefel-
Ter, has purchased hundreds of acres
at Pocantico, overlooking the Hollow,
and intends to make it an abode
worthy of a king. Other houses in the
vicinity are occupied by New Workers
of means, such as Col. William f.
Church, Charles Jefferson Leach and
others. Such lOvable, simple charac-
tiers as Irving delighted to paint exist
in the neighborhood only as a fringe
upon aristocracy. The old charm of
new world rusticity has given place to
palatial primness and it is almost with
a sigh that readers Of the Sketchbook,
who visit the old church, gaze around
upon the intrusion of an almost me-
dieaval splendor upon the sweet rural
place of the olden days.
The church stands upon slight
elevation and to the south and east
of it one can look over Sleepy Hol-
low, and the stream over which once
ran the bridge that resounded to the
horse as he scaped from the headless
horseman Battle Hill rises to the
north of the old church and on this
knoll remain traces of old redOubt Of
revolutionary days, when it's cannon
commanded the Albany post road.
Near this reminder of the bloody days
OF '76 is the grave of Washington
Irving and not far off is the Andre
monument, which represents the cap
ture of the spy by Paulding, Williams
and Van Wart These heroes and
others, whose deeds though not less
splendid are embalmed only in the
legends OF the locality, are COM
memorated by shaft that rises on the
crest of the hill.
With its gable end the old meeting
house formed three sides of a hexa-
gon and faced the Albany road in the
east. It's walls were built of West
chester granite and gneiss. To protect
the congregation from the Indians
arrows the windows were placed seven
feet above the floor A bell cast in
Amsterdam in 1856 summoned the peo-
pie to the little church. The interior
was considerably altered after the rev
olution. 1t is now owned by the First
Reformed church of Tarrytown, which
does not worship there as it is too fa1
from the town. However, the old
building is used for Sunday afternoon
services during August and Septem-
Der. Members of the First church are
at present arranging to restore the an
tiuuated structure to its primitive
uuaintness and make it look as it did
before the eighteenth century was
ushered in.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Most cats are afraid of water, but
the tabby that sails the seas on board
her majestys ship Pallas is an eXcep-
ton. From kittenhood it has had a
marked fondness for water, and i'm
proves every opportunity to swim and
dive.
It is well-known that Queen Vic
toria has a great dislike of smoke, SO
much so, that she does not allow smok-
ing in her immediate neighborhood.
And yet the cigar bill for her guests is
very heavy one. The principal item
is the 1000 of the finest Havana cigars
which are specially made for her and
sent to Windsor in glass tubes hermet-
ically sealed. It is said that Queen
Victoria's cigars could not be had even
in Cuba at wholesale prices under one
dollar a piece. The men who make
them receive 80 cents for each cigar,
and none but the oldest and most skill
full wOrkmen are entrusted with their
manufacture. At this rate they can
earn quite small fortune, for 300 CT
CARS a day can be turned out by the
most expert.
The other day in West Australia, as
the wife of a mine manager was at
tempting to christen a new engine, she
took aim, hurled the bottle, missed the
engine by a handsome margin, and hit
her husband full in the place where
Abner Dean of Angels received the
old red sandstone, the blow forcing
him back into cistern full of water.
This should be a christening record.
Long Wolf, an old Indian on the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
THE MILKWEED AND THE BEE

Two months hence an occasional
silky messenger will float from the
glistening clouds about the open
miikweed pods, but who ever thanks
the bees of June for them? The flower
is but bright anticipation-an ex-
preston of hope in the being of the
parent plant. It has but enc mission
All its fragrance, ali it's nectar all it's
beauty of form and hue, are but
means toward the consummation of
the eternal edict Of creation Increase
and multiply" To that end we owe
all the infinite forms, designs. tints.
decorations, perfumes, mechanisms,
and other seemingly inexplicable at
tributes. It's threshold must bear it's
own peculiar welcome to it's insect, or
perhaps to its humming- bird friend.
o. counterpart; its hectares must
both tempt and reward his coming
and its petals assist his comfortable
tarrylng. Next to the floral orchids
the mechanism of our milkWeed bios
som is perhaps the most complex and
remarkable, and illustrates as per
fectly as any of the orchid examines
given in Darwin's noble work the alb
soIute divine intention of the depen-
dence of a plant species upon the
visits OF al insect. Our milkweed
flower is deeply planned continuance
to insure such an end. 1t fills the air
with enticing fragrance It's hectares
are stored with sweets, and I fancy
each opening bud keenly alert with
conscious solicitude for it's affinity.
Though many other flowers manage
imperfectly to perpetuate their kind
in the default of insect intervention,
the milkweed, like most of the orchids.
is helpless and incapable of such re-
source. Enclose this budded umbel in
tarlatan gauZe, Ind it will bloom
days after it's fellow-blooms have
fallen, anticipating it's contamination,
but no pods will be seen upon this
cluster.-William Hamilton Gibson in
Harper's Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
HOW TO SAY 1T,

There is a large class who delight
to shine in newspapers as wits or
poets, and announce their wares in
secondhand jokes or in doggerel fit
to set the teeth of dull saw on edge.
If their object is notoriety or a laugh,
this is the way to attain it; but if it
be business, it would seem better to
Use the language of business. Leave
clowns jests to the circus, and let
sober men speak as they act, with di-
rectness and decision. The fewest
words that will convey the adver-
Users ideas are the right ones
Horace Greeley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
NO VERBOSITY NEEDED.

When you have something to say,
say it and be done. Force is either
compressed or lost in words The
fewer words the more force, as a
;ule. Same way with ads Don't say
too much. Get at the essential points
OF your goods-those points that will
attract interest. Then study the brief
est possible expression for them.
sometimes you can express whole
volumes in a picture. Use a picture
Perhaps a few terse sentences will tell
the whole story. Set them in white
space where they will be seen Sue
cessful advertising is frequently the
result of knowing what should remain
unsaid. A good thing will get out and
make friends, if it is properly intro
duced. No verbosity or buster is
notwithstanding Experience.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
TAN AND FRECKLES.

The juice Of cecumt &c pressed out
with lemOnsqueeZer is one of the
most effective and simple remedies
known for removing sunburn.
For removing freckles, take one cup
Of milk ana two spoonfuls Of grated
hCrse-radish and let it stand for one
nour, then strain, and battle the hands
in it.
A half pint Of 1Osewater and one
Spoonful Of lemon juice is considered
excellent for bathing the face in to re-
move tan.
4 complexion wash which is very
highly recommended ami which re-
D'Oves freCkles, is made O. a quarter
Tcund Of oatmeal soap, shaved fine INTO
che quart of soft, boiling water; stir
until it is smooth and cool; then add
half pint spirits of wine and a quar-
ter ounce of Gil OF rosemary,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
SPECIFIC ADVERTISING BEST

One reason why we advertise
specific advertising as better than
general is because Of it's two-fold re-
suits. You get immediate returns
you know whether or not your adver-
Using is effective, and you get all the
general benefit you could possibly de-
rive from general advertising.
You can not trace the results of
general advertising except in a gen
eral way. If at the end of a year, or
a number of years, you have been
successful, it is fair to assume that
your advertising has been of some
avail.
On the contrary, if your advertising
deals with particular items to be
taken at once, you can see an immedi-
ate effect or you don't, and accord
ing as you realize Immediately or
otherwise you are able to Judge Of
the effectiveness of your advertising.
Dry Goods Chronicle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
WIRES A PROTECTION.

People living in cities are prone to
believe that the increasing number
Of telephone, telegraph and trolley
wires increase the danger from cleo
trio storms,' writes Edward W. Box
in the Ladies' Home Journal. On the
contrary, the maze of wires is p o.
lection, and lessons the danger, since
1t is shown that where the wires at
tract the electricity they hold 1t, and
discharge it only at the end OF the
wires in the central station. The fact
IS that of the two hundred lightning
accidents every year only an avegag e
of forty occur in the cities. The -vCes
in the country are far greater Car
ger; they account for the proportion
Of four cases in the country to one in
the city
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14

SLEEPY HOLLOW EDIFICE IN
MORTALIZED BY IRVING.
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Two Hundred Years OF Duty as a
House of Worship to be Duly Com
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Surroundings
OF the Old Fast Giving Place to
Rich Modern Environment.

Tarrytown- Hudson, Oct. 10 =.
Lovers Of Washington Irving feel
much interest in the celebration today
and tomorrow of the 2O0th anniversary
OF the old Dutch church at Sleepy Hol-
low, one of the oldest churches in New
York state. The edifice was built in
1897 by Frederick Philipse, who was
first lord of the manor of Philipse-
burgh. The country about the site
of the church has now become the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
STEP LADDER AND SEAT.
A Combination that Might be Found
Useful in Every Home.

One of the prettiest and most use
full devises for the home was that
made by an ingenious householder in
a western New York town. He was
a great student and instead of using
an ordinary ladder to get at the books
on top shelves, contriyed an orna-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14

To check profuse perspiration, steep
one pound of oak bark in two quarts of
boiling water for half an hour: strain
and bottle for use. When desired for
use, take two-thirds Of a cup OF it, with
two teaspoonfuIs OF powdered DCrax
and three of powdered starch in a
Lasin OF hot water and battle the parts
i'll it. Warts are frequently removed
by applications of baking soda moi5-
tened.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
AN EXPLANATION

Simpell-Funny thing about women.
They often read the last page of a
newspaper first.
Duplex-You see the big ads are
usually on the last page of a news
paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14
HIS FEAR

Rixon-Why don't you vote for Plat
ter, the anti-department store candi-
date?
Dixon-Pm afraid if they abolish
the department stores my wife will
want a bigger allowance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14

First Editor-Can you give me an
equivalent for fired with enthusi-
asm," Jack?
Second Editor-Certeinly my boy!
Write it, Rejected with cheerful
alacrity Ill Electrical Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14

turning up of half the seat plank, be-
came a ladder He had the whole
thing made of mahogany, prettily
carved on all sides, and it is now an,
ornament, where a ladder would be
an unsight1y adjunct to the library
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14

ture of pens than in all the sword and
gun factories in the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14

Egbert Starr, former prominent
merchant of New York, is dead
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-02
RAN INTO A WASHOUT.
A Fatal Accident on the Central of
Georgia Road.

Savannah, Ga, April Freight train
No. DC on the Central of Georgia road,
which left Macon last night, ran into a
washout four miles south of Obonee, Ga.
soon after midnight this morning. The
washout was seventy.f1ve feet long and
four feet deep.
The engine and nine cars went into it.
The other sixteen cars of the train re-
manned on the track.
Brakeman Joel S. Bragg, of Macon,
was caught under the tender and
crushed to death.
Engineer w. 4. Ryan, of Savannah,
had his left leg broken and was bruised
about the head.
Fireman Hugh Grady was brrised and
shaken up.
The .wrecking train from Macon ar
rived on the scene six hours after the
accident.
Passenger trains met at the scene of
the accident and their passengers were
transferred.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-02
THE TRUE REMEDY.

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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-02
BIG RECEIPTS.
Government March Receipts Largely in

Government March Receipts Largely in
Excess of Same NTopth Last Year.
Washington, April 1.-The receipts of
the Government for the month of March
were 80, 0O4, 6G4 in excess OF the expendi.
lures for the same period last year. This
increase is attributable to the large i'm
portatons and the rush of impoi tiers to
take goods out of bond by the payment of
duties before the Dingley bill went into
effect.
F8r the month the total receipts were
$50, 1862 and the total expenditures
S17,2l1 ,9O8.
Since July l. 1896, the beginning of the
current fiscal year, the deficiency in reve-
nues has amounted to $3S, 905, 2S1. For
March, 1896, the expenditures exceeded
the receipts'by more than Sl,O00,000
Customs duties for the month just
ended were 50, 400, $40 in excess of what
they were for the corresponding period of
last year.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-02
FREE PILLS.

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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-02
SAYS HEELS NoT SORRY.

Norfolk, April Joe Browa, who
lives near Portsmouth, killed his young
murder his children this evening. He
crushed his wife's skull in with.the broad
side of the axe and then cut her throat
After failing in his attempt on the lives
of his children, he walked to Portsmouth
and.gave himself up to the authorities He
says he is not ut all sorry for what he did,
for his wife was untrue to him. The
murdered woman was only 30 years old
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-02
ADDITIONAL DETAILS.

Guthrie, o. T., April IA messenger
who arrived late last night from the
country southwest of Chandler reports
that many farm houses were demolished
there; that two persons were killed and II
number Of others badly injured. 1t is re.
as Park land was completely destroyed
and that several persons were injured
there