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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
GREAT SHOOTING.

A few exemplary old citizens who
did their deer hunting before the noble
game was as scarce as it now is. were
recalling feats of Workmanship when
they were the nimrods of the day.
I very seldom pulled a trigger that
l didn't get venison," modestly de-
Jared one veteran whose hair and
voice have grown thin. In one in
stance I brought down a fine buck that
| never expected to get. I saw him
coming on the dead run. That is. L
saw his antlers, for he was on ledge
about a hundred yards away and Just
enough below me to cover everything
but his horns | tried to get his head
or body in sight, but he was going too
est. Just because I was mad, | let
fly at the trunk of one horn. l fol-
owed along slowly, muttering at my
hard luck, when l found my buck dead
as a herring"
Shot him dead through the horn.
hey" sneered the man who will soon
be 80.
Better wait till you hear it all. That
bullet struck the lower inside Of one
CT the prongs, glanced and went
through the head of the deer. 1t was
natural enough and | only tell it to
show what strange things may hap
Pen"
Couldn't have been much stranger
said the old man who has been bald
so long that he is proud of a little
tuft of hair above each ear. Il once
had peculiar experience myself while
out killing deer just for the sport of
the thing. I shot a deer in the hind
foot, the same bullet going through
his brain"
"Caromed on the hoof, l presume"
chuckled an old cynic who looked as
though he didn't believe word that
had been told
20, no; the deer was scratching his
ear with his foot when l shot. De
troit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
WOMEN BULL FIGHTERS.

Spanish Beauties Who Make Fortunes
Annually.
Two of the most popular and two of
the best and richest bull-fghters in
Spain are women.
The income of each Of them is more
than the salary paid to the president
of the United States.
These courageous heroines of the
arenas of Spain are the Pretel sisters.
They are, curiously enough, natives OF
Brandenberg, Germany.
From their "short-dress" days they
were earning the bitter bread OF circus
life. Then a wise manager, struck by
their bravery in bareback riding, car
1ied them off to his training quarters
to learn how to attack and conquer the
tercest steers. This place of practice
is a large, circular Enclosure, similar
to the amphitheaters Of Greece. Here
IL stuffed bull is used as target by
the novices, and the number of rents
made in the hide of the dummy tells
the progress OF the pupils. After a
time the real, live animal is freed,
either to breathe its last before the
beautiful female Espadas or, chance
tavors, to howl VIGOROUSLY over the
dead carcasses of horse and rider.
he bull-fighter must keep up train
ing every day, even after entering the
ring as a professional.
The Pretel sisters were successful
rom the beginning. Now they are
| owners of a large troupe, or quadrilla,
composed of women banderillos- fight
| ers on foot-and picadores, or horse
| back riders. They take this troupe
from town to town in Spain, giving ex-
hibiti0ns wherever they are booked
| during the season, which lasts from
May to October each year. Each of
these women earns about 1000 pese-
| tas in d single season (S75 ,000). Out
| Of this amount she must furnish all
| her elaborate costumes, for indeed she
| is all dressed in 'spangles and gold -
! and pay all expenses of the quadrilla.
| Their superiors among the men today
lare only Mazzantini and RoVerte, two
| OF the most famous toreros thai ever
lived. ''These men," said Miss Lola,
though our rivals, can never make the
hit we have, for the Spanish nation is
enchanted at the sight of graceful and
daring women in the arena About
five hundred is the number Of cor
ridas, or bull-fghts, which take place
every year in Spain, during which 200
bulls and nearly 5000 horses are killed
The sisters Pretel have made enough
Imcney out Of their profession to buy
a handsome villa near Madrid. which
ithey have equipped with magnificent
Training quarters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
7IIIIIlII III:lII:IIII

selling for $4,000 to $4,000. AS
am writing this, there is a syrup can
under my head with $4,000 of gold
dust in it.
Jim Elwell gave his brother half
interest in the claim when he got
here, and has promised us work for
next winter, so | consider our pros
poets for the future rather bright. We
will be ready to start drifting in Oc-
tober and will have months in which
to drift. He says he ought to take
out twice as large a dump as he did
last winter. Of course if Elwell gets
a chance to sell out for what he wants
for it, he will sell, and I suppose we
Will have to look for something
else then. There will be all kinds
of work and miners seem to think
men will be scarce be-
cause other discoveries are bound to
be made before winter I don't think
there will be any trouble in getting a
lay on a piece of ground; but if we
don't succeed in that we can get SIS
a day all winter. Have made over
5000 in Is days that | have been work
ing. We worked last Sunday Decor
alton day. but are not working today
ElWells rush is about over now as he
has his dump about sluiced. He is
going to drift few more fires before
he shuts down that kind of work for
the summer. He took out more dirt
last winter than any miner I ever
saw back home turn out in the same
length of time. I mean the dirt pile
was larger and he only drifted weeks
So you see it cannot be as hard to
work here in winter as you thought it
would be. A great deal of gold is
being gotten out this spring, but moth
ing to what it will be next spring.
We are living in a 10x12 tent now
five of us. We are going to build a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
FAWNS AS PETS.

Although they do not appreciate con-
fnement in a paddock, it is easy to
tame fawn, and it makes a delight
ful pet until it attains years Of indis-
erection. A tame roe used to follow the
children everywhere round the old
castle of DuntroOn, and even up the
stairs and into the rooms. One Of lis
little play fellows had been Obliged
to give up his room to a gentleman
who had come to stay there. and the
surprise of the guest was unbounded
when the head and neck of a roe pro-
truded through his half-open door
Dear me-" he said, game must be
extremely plentiful in these partsl"
Yet, just as a kitten would be the
most delightful OF pets, except for its
unfortunate habit Of growing into a
cat, so a roe, and especially buck,
becomes too much of handful as a
pet when it grows up. Their beauti-
full little horns are both sharp and
dangerous, and tame roebuck very
nearly put an old woman off the road
and into the Crinan canal by its 3b-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
HERE AND THERE.

| met traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless
legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on
the sand,
Half sunk, shattered visage lies,
whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold
command
Tell that it's sculptor well those pas
sions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these
lifeless things,
The hand that Knocked them and the
heart that fed;
And ON the pedestals these words ap-
pear:
my name is Ozymandias, king of
kings;
Look on my works, We Mighty, and
despair"
Nothing beside remains. Round the
decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and
bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far
away.
Shelley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19

Huron under the Detroit river, COM
prise all the subaqueous undertakings
of this sort of any note. Of course,
there are the Mount Gents, st. Gothard
and other tunnels, which are both I'M
der and over ground, but the difficult
ties in their construction were hardly
of the sort to be compared with those
which confront the builders of the
proposed tunnel between Scotland and
ireland. With only the methods OF
a quarter of century ago to depend
upon, the construction of so great a
tunnel beneath a vast body of water
would have been possible-Modern
Machinery, Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
FOUND A DEER.

A gentleman who was fishing on
Seventh lake few days ago became
I'd sleepy. So he anchored his
boat near the shore in a shady spot
and lay down in the bottom for a
by something blowing upon his face,
and when he opened his eyes he saw
a buck standing up to his belly in the
water beside the boat and with his
nose close to the fsherman's face.
The gentleman lay quite still, rather
time another boat came around the
corner into the little cove, and the
buck with bound disappeared in the
woods.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
MODERN CHURCH MUSIC.

I happened to sit just behind some
postal union congress people last Sun
day in church. It was at St. Mat
thew's, by the way, and I think that
the devout attendants at that church
mey be interested to know how the
service impressed our foreign visitors.
They followed it all very closely and
with evident interest, looking very
often toward the choir. They did not
speak til they rose to go. Then the
woman of the party turned to a
Washington man who was with her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
AVERAGE HEIGHT OF MEN.

A comparison of The average height
o. men in various trades and profess
sions in different countries brings out
the fact that the Engi as nation,
are the tallest men in the world. 1t has
been found that the English profess
sional classes, who are the tallest adult
males, average feet IL inches. Next
on the list come the males of all classes
Of the United States Most European
nations average for the adult male 5
feet inches, but the Austrians, Span
iards and Portuguese fall a trife short
of this standard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19

trusive attentions 1t meant no harm;
1t really expected to get a lump of
rock salt, with which it had usually
been rewarded for its caresses, but
the old dame did not appreciate its
uncanny approaches, and narrowly es-
capped with her life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19

"Ah," said she, SIS it always like
this-your music in church,"
YES" he replied with pride, The
foreigners face took on look of dis
tress.
1T is not good" she said earnestly,
1T is not church, it is dance music
did not want to pray. l wanted to
dance. ''-Washington Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
STE ~ STATE NOMENCLATURE

When Lincoln's turn comes to have
a new state named after him, by all
means let our scholars insist upon
Lincolnia. If the bad linguistic taste
which dictated the naming of the
state of Washington had prevailed
among our forbears. we should now
have Virgin, a George and q North
and South Caroline, instead Of Vir-
glnia, a Georgia and two Carolinas.
st Paul Pioneer Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19

In one Of H. G. Welles' tales a man
explores the bottom of the sea in a
steel cylinder made so as to resist the
enormous pressure of the water. Now
M. del POzZo of Paris has constructed
such a cylinder, and it is to be tested
in the deep sea depths off Havre and
Brest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19

David Ellsworth Bates, who is under
arrest in Chicago. is alleged to have
six wives living.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
INJURED IN 4 WELL.

Shell Lake, Wis, Aug 15.-Frank
Pease. 2 pioneer, while at the bottom
Of a. 14G-foot well. was struck by
piece of falling plank and fatally in
jured
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05
Real Bargains!
We Have Others

We want your property for rent. We
want your property for sale. Read n lew
of our many bargains. "a
1O-loom brick dwelling. Southwest
$50.
See this! Groom dwelling nicely pa-
pered, near West End Round House.
Price $3.50. Small cash payment
Broom dwelling Second avenue n. w.
Price 81, 100; easy payments.
room dwelling northwest, nice LOT
S400. '
7-room dwelling southeast convenient
to shops and schools, $50; easy terms.
Worth your attention.
Groom dwelling, hot and cold water.
marble mantles, with all conveniences.
Price 81, 400. Terms easy.
1O'room dwelling, stable and shade,
near the, depot. 81, $50. Easy terms
Groom dwelling in Vinton, stable on
LOT. Great bargain. Price $780, cash $50;
monthly SIS. Worth $500.
ID acres garden land one mile from
city. Will sell as II whole or cut in one
acre lots.
acres in Melrose addition. beautiful
bu' lding lots, or will make fine garden.
Price SO per acre; 1-3 cash, balance one
and two years.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS.

room dwelling, mcdern improve.
ments, large corner lot, on Terry's Hill:
$500.
7-room house, modern improvements.
large corner lot, good location; 81 geo.
room house in southwest. good CON
dition, $1,000, SIS cash and STA Der
month.
Groom brick house, large lot, nice
shade; 81 900
broom, house, in southwest, large lot
and stable, near the center of the citv.
81 600, small cash payment and $40 per
month.
Sroom house, near center of citv Iaroe
lot, beautiful grounds; 81 800, easy pay
mentE.
Groom residence, in southwest in
beautiful condition, nice grounds and
shade; $4,000. This is a choice piece of
property and very cheap
Nice corner house in Belmont. 6 rooms
500, 500 cash and IS per month. Come
quick if you want this.
G.room house in northeast. convenient
to shops; $3.50, $50 cash and SIS Der
month.
10-room he use on Terry's Hill. large
lot and fine stable; $4,000, easy pay
ments.
Several pieces of first-class property in
center of city. renting now for 13 per
cent. of prices asked. These are choice
investments.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05
RIP JAMS
Packed Without Glass.
TEN FOR FIVE CENTS.

from the original prescription but more cconom
,Sniy PIT up for the purpose Of meeting tho
D!RECrI0NS.-Takc one at meal or beb
tine, TINE or whenever you feel poorly. Swallow il
They euro nil stomach troubles Danish raIn
induce sleep; prolong life. An Invaluable tonic'
Best Spring Medicine. No matter what's tina
matter, ono will do You good. One gives RELIEF
cure VIII result u directions arc followed.
The nve-cent packages are not yet to be Ind of
I'LL dealers, although It IL probable that almost
any druggist will obtain u supply when requested
10y q customer to do so but In any case n sinUle
carton, containing ten tabucs, viii be sent post
2ge paid 70 any address for 1--WE cents In stainps,
Spruce ST., New York. Until tho goods are thor.
9lghly introduced 10 tho trade, agents and ped
u.lerS VIII ne supplied at a price which will allow
tons forio ccn,ssby mafl IS cents. Il dozen Ills
carions) Tor Si52.by minl for Si.S9. gross C7a0
500. Cash with the order in every case, and
freight or express charges at the buyers cost.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05
Farms and Trucking lands,

We have large number of farms for
sale in Roanoke and adjoining counties.
many of them very cheap, ranging from
lO to 800 acres. Among them:
000 acre farm with first. class improve
ments, fine orchard, plenty of timber, at
$40 per acre The greatest bargain ever
offered In Roanoke
pieces of trucking land convenient to
the city, one of ;. one of IS, one CT 30
acres and one of 15 acres, at prices IA,
below their real value Anyone desiring
good trucking farm viii profit by see
inc us at once.
Magnificent James river farm of $50
acres, $4,000 dwelling, with modera i'm
provements, beautiful groundsand shade.
all necessary outbuildings, and tene.
ment houses, 20 acres of full bearing
fruit trees, large quantity cf fine timber.
The owner having to leave the State
this property can be sold foi $1,000 on
long time, or paid for partly in Roanoke
real estate. This is rare bargain.
100 acre farm near Roanoke, one-half
first-class river bottom, fair improve.
ments astonishing low figure fo- cash.
small farms on Back Greek. with fine
orchards, one of so and one of 75 acles.
in the famous pippin apple belt; lands are
hillv bnt rich; one at $40 and the other
ut Sl250 per acre. These are comforta
bic little homes and fine investments
L. w. SDimdla a, ID
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05

W. X. ANDREWS & Co, .2lo Salem
avenue, nave had years of experience in
the coal and wood business They know
what IS acquired in the business. They
have the largest ami most convenicp;
va.d in the city. They handle every va
riety OF coal sold in the city. They have
more shed room and keep more teams
than any other dealer in the city They
have polite and accommodating drivers.
and deliver promptly coal and wood,
nice and dry, from thei; extensive sheds
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05
GLAss-woRKERs SEPARATE.

The Cutters and Flatteners Withdraw
From National Association.
Pittsbnre. Dec. 1.-The trouble in the
National Window Glass Workers. Asso-
ciation was amicahly settled this after
noon by President Burns paying SOS, 200
to the cutters and tiatteners, and the LAT
ter formally withdrawing from the asso-
citation.
There will be two organization of glass
workers hei eafier one composed of the
blowers and gatherers, and the other of
the attcnders and cutters. The wage scale
will he adjusted and general resump-
ton of work is eXpt cted before the end of
the year.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05
NEW YORK FOREST RESERVE.

More Than $50, coo Acres Bought by the
State Beard.
Albany, Dec. 1.-THE State forest re
serve board to day practically competed
its purchases from the present appro
priation.
The area of land bought is slightly in
excess CT $50. 600 acres. and the total sum
expended to date is $040,000. This sum
includes less than $4,000, covering the
total expenses incident to the acquisition
of the property.
The lands acquired include many of
the choicest rrimeval tracts in the North
woods.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05
a FEW-...,aaaA
WARM BARGAINS !.

Two goou dwellings with rooms each.
that cost $4,000 TO build, now renting for
-sl9S per annum. Price for the two
$1,000. '"o
most desirable 7-room house ON larue
lot, very convenient to the Norfolk and
Western offices. Price 81 800.
a good Groom house, near in, price
Y'oe; 100 cash, balance $40 per month.
large S-room house with bath cost
$1,000 to build, with 12 lots 5Ox150 feat
each. All for 81, 1870 on easy payments
d room dwelling on Centre avenue n
W., for 81, 900. -
large IL room dwelling with store
attached in good location Price Al 30(,
one OF the bandsemest brick residences
in this city with every pussible convent
ence, laroe barn and beautiful and com.
modious grounds. This property cost
So, 600. iioe
large room dive ling, thoroupb re-
pair, and In most desirable location. cost.
$500. Can now he bought for So. loo. ia
now renting for S240 per year
Three beautiful West Erd lots with.
shade all for 5000
Two most desirable Belmont lots for
$l60; $40 cash, So per month.
~ Dale avenue lot very near the school
house fol $3.50.
a Dout the best vacant lot in the Lewis
ADDITION, certainly In the best neighbour.
hood. Price S175; $50 cash, balance to
suit the purchaser
"A a Jefferson street lot 75x150 feet for
a splendid farm of 457 acres 3 miles
from Norfolk and Western railroad. 275
acres clear. The land is OF the best
quality. This is the best bal gain Il have
ever offered. Prize 81, 600
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05

thousands suffer from catarrh Or CO
IN the head and have never tried ia n
ular remedy. There is no longer INV
cuse, as 10 cent trial size of III
Cream Balm can be had of your drurG
or we mail it for 10 cents Ful, lie
cents. WI si@o
ELY BROS, 1G Warren St " Ill
A friend advised me to trv Flv,s col
Balm and after using it six week . 7
l'eVe myseit cured of catarrh. II 1
most valuable remedy. -.Josenh-
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05
HIS LEG IN AN OVEN.

California University Student Adopts
This Novel Method of Curing Sprain.
berkeley. Cal, Dec 4.-E b. Human,
sophomore at the University of Cali.
forna, has had his leg heated in an oven
at n temperature OF 300 degrees Fahren.
heit to cure sprain
This is IS degrees higher than the tenn
peraturc of boiling water. The sprain
disappeared with wonderful rapidity.
TIE injured leg was treated in n spe-
ciaiiy prepared apparatus, consisting of
Il copper cylinder, resting on iron sup
ports. 1t was Wrapped in absorbent co, o.
ton and placed in the cylinder with rub
her bags closing the interior. SO that the
heat could not escape After three treat.
ments OF this kind the sprain was en-
tirely cured
BIcNcln RI NJ. fr.n Il, \
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05

Bicycle given away free. Goods cL,nper
than ever Gravatt's Fair, 8 Salem ave
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05

Nice modern aweliing in Lewis addi-
ton, low for cash.
Good lOroom house near iu only
81, 100.
S160
Fine brick business BLOCK yielding II
per cent. income
Nice country home miles from Roam
oke, "a acres. good brick dwelling, or
chard, etc, for $4,000.
Fine house, & acres of orchard and
garden, mile of corporate limits, s., 500.
Great bargain in Church street resi-
dence. -
Good country store near city. Price
$500.
Very fine mill for 13 of original cost.
fine tract of tim Der near railroad.
n valuable stone quarry.
A fine stock Of merchandise and good
will Of an established trade.
will swap for anything from bull
pup to gold mine.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05

Whe; a mans stomach is out of order,
and his digestion don't work; when his liver
gets to be sluggish and won't clear the bile
out of his blood it is time for him to look
out for himself He gets no nourishment
out of his focd. His blood gets thicker and
thicker witt: impurities. His nerves get rri-
tated. He loses energy and fighting force
He may say. II can stand it. I will feel
better tomorrow" but the chances arc he
will feel worse tomorrow and worse still
next day. He ought to put himself right at
once. He needs DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. 1t is made for just this condition.
1t rouses up the digestive and nutritivc
organs. and gives them power to extract
from the food all the nutritious clements
and transform them into rich, nourishing
blood. 1t enables the liver to cleanse out all
bilious Impurities and pour into the circula-
ton an abundance of highly vitalzed blood
full of the lfe-giving red corpusclcs which
build up healthy flesh, muscular strength.
and ncrve-energy. 1t does not make flabby
flesh. 1t is the only suitable tonic and
sire myth builder for corpulent people.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-05
JOAlUS McGEHEE, Agent

Loan Association of New York, Masor
Temple, Room No. 9. " ~ -'A''so'