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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18

decisively. You're not going to. You
don't know who had it. 1t may be full
of germs for all We know"
They has been standing still in the
middle of the pavement looking fixedly
at the dainty white trif,e, and by the
time the mother had impressed upon
the young woman's mind the indiscre-
ton of an act that might result in asso-
ciating with germs, quite a crowd had
gathered around TO find out what the
attraction was. A fat Irishman was
the fifth person to arrive on the scene,
and he, too, seemed actuated by a de-
sire to possess the handkerchief. He
an inch or two above it, then, looking
up suddenly, he encountered the sus-
IiCious glances OF the bystanders and
concluded he would rather not
The crowd grew momentarily larger
Whats the matter here?" asked the
policeman who had been called over
from the opposite corner.
For answer the Irishman pointed 20
the handkerchief.
The policeman bent forward singeriy
and was about to turn the suspicious
looking handkerchief over with the
end of his club. The crowd drew back
to insure personal safety in case any
thing should happen.
At that moment a pretty woman
came hastily down the steps of the bank
and pushed her way into the center of
the group.
''Oh, here it is" she cried, excited
Il was so afraid l wouldn't find it. /
just bought it last week." she explained
to the policeman. ut cost SIS"
Now" said the girl in the brown
fedora, don't you wish you had lie. me
Alone minneapolis Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
NOTES OF ALL SORTS

The small empire puff is i popular
sleeve lor evenings gowns. WIRE Is
sometimes used to make it stand OUT
enough to hold the cape trimming
around the neck.
Indian meal mOistened with a little
vinegar or lemon juice is excellent for
the hands where the skin has been
roughened by work or cold; it Will heal
and soften them. Rub the hands
thoroughly with the moistened meal
then wash them in warm water AID
DaUhe them with glycerln lotion.
A little thought anG attention paid to
the left overs will transform maLy Of
item into dainty anG palataDle dishes.
Even cold boiled cabbage may be used
by mixing it with a little grated chees >
seasoning and putting it in a but red
baking dish, and then moistening 1t
with milk and thickly covering it with
bread crumbs. When baked this will
be found a very delicious dish.
A delicious sauce is made from graf
ed horse-radish root mixed with lemon
juice. little salt and a suspicion Of
white sugar. Served with cold meats,
it makes them much more inviting and
palatable. This sauce will retain lts
flavor for some time if kept well cover
ed when not being used Made with the
juice of lemon, the roots do not dis
color SO quickly as when made in the
old way with vinegar.
If the family, particularly its younger
members, grow tired of the wholesome
and economical bread pudding as 1t is
usually served, try cooking it in GUS
ta1d cups. These are first buttered and
then filed wit ~~Tding Bake them
standing in a pan OF hot water. Cover
each one with a tiny spoonful of bright
colored jelly and meringue. In this
form the despised pudding will take
a new lease of life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
DREAM TRYST.
R. l.. Hendrick.

The breaths of kissing night and day
Were mingled in the eastern heaven;
Throbbing with unheard melody
Shook Lyra with all it's star~chord
seven.
When dusk shrunk cold and light trod
shy,
And dawn's gray eyes were troubled
gray;
And souls went palely up the sky,
And mine to Lucide.
There was no change in her sweet eyes
Since last I saw those sweet eyes
shine;
There was no change in her deep heart
Since last that deep heart knocked at
mine.
Her eyes were clear, her eyes were
hopes,
Wherein did ever come and go
The sparkle of the fountain-drops
From her sweet soul below.
The chambers in the house Of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air
That times boar wings grow young
therein
And they who walk there are most
fair.
| joyed for me, | joyed for her,
Who with the past meet girt about;
Where our last kiss still warns the air
Nor can her eyes go out.
Francis Thompson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
FOREIGN NEWS.

Queensland is offered land at 8 pence
$25.
Japan now possesses 100 iron and
steel steamships registered for foreign
trade, with gross tonnage Of 231,139
tons.
Belgium, like Italy, has adopted the
twenty-four hour method of marking
the time for railroads, post and tele-
graph, and the old distinction Of a. m.
and p. m. is to be abolished.
Honolulu now has magnificent new
opera house which has just been open
ed with a performance Of I'll Trova-
tore by local amateurs. The old Ha-
waiian opera house was burned in 1895.
The new building has the most modern
stage machinery.
There is to be a railroad direct to the
pyramids. The government has granted
concession to the Cairo Tramway
company to make a line to the pyra-
mids and to fill up the Khalig canal
running through Cairo. The latter
scheme will remove one Of the causes
of malarial fever.
The German agricultural papers say
that the imports Of American apples
into the German empire last year were
more than twenty times as large as
in any previous season, the shipments
in 1896 having amounted to no less
than 100000 double centners-the
centners being equal to a hundred
weight
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
ROBERT BURNS.

The song of Burns, a century old,
The ills Of his brief life retrieves;
And shines thro' years, in rays of
gold, 49,:
Like sunshine raining thro' the
leaves.
He sang the song Of Brotherhood,
Of all mankind, thro'out all time;
To him all natures works were good,
The humblest in his sight sublime.
He sang for all, to all, of all,
The lowly cot, the lofty towers;
He sang Of memories that recall
Youth, crowned with wreaths Of rosy
hours.
He sang of love it's laureate,
By heart-its birth, it's life, it's cure;
He sang of friendship, consecrate
AS love, as worthy, true and pure.
His faults we cover with our tears,
A perfect flowers imperfect bloom.
They died with him; one only hears
The bird left singing on his tomb.
George Birdseye in Boston Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
HINTS FOR HOMEMAKERS.

Do not let stale flowers remain in a
sick-room.
Wear clean apron when ironing or
bedmaking
A clean, well-aired, and we'll
managed house results in good-natured
inmates.
Rub vinegar on the isinglass in stove
doors and so have them clean.
To have brooms last. put them for
three minutes in hot suds once a week.
Let them stand with the broom end up.
The eyes should be bathed every night
in cold water just before retiring. and
they will do better work the following
day.
Oil stains may be removed from wall
paper by applying for four hours pipe
clay, powdered and mixed with water
to the thickness Of cream.
In busting, carefully take up the dust
on cloth and shake it out of the
window. Do not firt it from one piece
o furniture to another and call It
busting.
The dirtiest frying pan will become
clean if soaked five minutes in am
monia and water.
The musical world of Dublin has been
having merry war not unlike that be-
tween Mr.. Damrosch and his men, over
the question of employing foreigners in
the orchestra. Prof Villiers Stanford
was obliged to resign his appointment
as director of the Dublin festival because
of the objection to the engagement OF
players from Manchester.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
FOR SALE AT 4 SACRIFICE.

You buy up bankrupt stocks, don't
you?" he asked as he drifted into a
big auction-room.
When we can get them cheap en-
ough," replied the man in charge.
oh, I'll let my stock go for almost
nothing" said the stranger.
Less than actual COST" asked the
man in charge.
I'll let it go for half of manufac-
turer's prices.
The man in charge became a little
suspicious.
Nothing crooked about it, is there p
he inquired.
mot a thing. It's all bought and
paid for, and 1 have the receipted bills.
I've simply made up my mind to retire
from that line Of business
Well 1 guess we can reach an agree
ment, them said the man in charge
cheerfully. What does your stock
consist OFF,"
Bryan buttons"
Then he left-in great haste
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
CAT AS WATCHMAN.
She Faithfully and Vigilantly Protects
Wares Left in Her Charge.

Near the entrance of Calvert station
may be found any pleasant night i'm
July two or more colored crab vendors.
who sit in polfce-enfOrced silence on
small boxes, with baskets of their
wares on the sidewalk before them.
Sometimes the crab vendors are miss
ing, but the baskets are there. and ap-
parently without any guardian other
than sedate and rusty white cat of
mature years.
This cat IS Nell" who has been
connected with the Northern Central
Railway for nearly eight years in sew
eral useful capacities, and who in her
decline has taken interest in the well
fare of the speechless crabman. She
spends hours at night in their COM
pany, and to their faithful vigilance
baskets and contents are frequently
trusted, confidence which she has
never violated by the theft of a single
claw
The neighborhood is infested with
stray dogs and vagrant cats, that are
attracted by the scent of the crabs But
woe betide the animal, canine or fe-
line, that attempts to pudloin a crab
when the baskets are left in the care
of Nell. She not only makes a strong
show Of her diSpleaSure by the usual
bristling, but gathers herself together
in the most pugilistic way imaginable,
and rushes in to make fur or hide fly,
as the case may be. So far Nell holds
an unbroken record in these exciting
contests, having come off VIGOROUSLY
in every instance. At times she has not
heSitated to show animOrity to- men and
boys whom she suspected of sinister
resigns on the basket of some one OF
her colored friends.
For four Or five years Nell has also
successfully filled another and very
important position, to which she was
self-assigned. The same stray dogs
and Vagrant cats used to have a fash
ion of lounging about the entrance and
lobby of the station at all hours of the
day, whether trains were coming in or
out. 1t was annoying to passegers, and
also to the employs on whom the duty
of chasing the tramps away devolVed
AFCil CNIuChIiy oCuulC'A LliC lliclLLOI OfVi,
and concluded to relieve her friends by
assuming the job of "bouncer" on
modest scale In consequence, the place
has been singularly free Of animal
tramps since Nell instituted the reform
movement. With such industry and
care does she prosecute the good work
that she even objects to the presence
of animals accompanying passengers,
and often displays her dislike in ways
not easily misunderstood by man or
beast -'''i-.s
There are many other G. ntiF
Calvert station, but to these Nell
manifests only evidences of the high
est regard Sun. ~.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
THE QUEEN OF THE WHEEL

The queens of fashion and of love
Of all the varied chimes,
From glorious eighteen ninety-six
Back to remotest times,
Had each her own peculiar fad
In vehicles OF speed;
But Lady Alice on her bike"
Is far. far in the lead.
The maids of ancient Athens drove
A golden tWO-Wheeled cart;
The Roman had her chariot
A thing of wondrous art.
The Persian girl her camel rides,
The Chinese lass chair;
But gentle Alice on her wheel
Is fairest of the fair.
The courtly DANES of old Versailles
Sedan chairs rode, you know;
The Russian has her drosky, and
Her sledge, the Esquimaux;
The Irish lass, a jaunting car;
A coach for London sWells;
But lovely Alice on her wheel
Is tleetest of the bellies.
Yes, Lady Alice leaves them all
Behind her in the race;
With flashing eyes and rosy cheek
She sets old time a pace.
All, what are all these turnouts, pray
ST. Of poverty or state,
Compared with queenly Alice on
A bike right up to date?
-.. Nuggets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
THEIR WHISPERS.

The confessor of Francis II. of France
refused him dissolution until he had
completely removed his beard. ,. ..,u.
According to the ancient German law
a man was not allowed to cut off his
flowing beard until he had killed his
first man in battle.
About the year 200 B. C. the Roman
emperor Scipio Africanus inaugurated
the custom among the Roman mobiles
of shaving.
From the time of julius Caesar until
William the Conqueror the Britons wore
mustaches, but after the conversion Of
the islanders the clergy were forced by
law to shave.
One Of the early popes established the
shaving of Roman Catholic priests SO
as to distinguish them from the pat
riarchs Of Constantinople. The priests
of the Greek church still wear boards.
The first shaving was done by Alex
der the Great, who forced the Greek
warriors to cut off their boards, as he
found them awkward impediments In
the contests Of the time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
NOTES OF THE VOGUE.

The prettiest~ novelties are seen in
neckwear, and these dainty, CONNECTIONS
of chiffon, lace velvet and fur give a
touch of elegance to the simplest cos
tune, while they have the further re-
commentator OF being extremely re-
coming to the Average woman.
It is to be fur sea5on-than which
nothing is prettier or more becoming.
Narrow bands will be used not only
for street costumes, but for evening
gowns and tea gowns as well.
The fur vest will be much worn this
winter, whether in Persian lamb, chin
chiIla, sable or economical ast1akhan.
A sensible fashion, which gives just the
needed warmth to the useful cot and
skirt gown.
The newest skirt models are trimmed
at the bottom, paneled at the si7es,
draped with the effect of an overskirt
and made with fronts-twO kinds o.
material being invariably used to make
a harmony of tones.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
BRYAN'S EARLY ROMANCE.
Met the Lady Now His Wife While
Both Were at School.

There is a romance connected with
the early acquaintance of William Jen-
nings Bryan with Miss Mary Baird, now
Mrs. Bryan, which has never been pub
Lshed. Only a few persons know the
story. One Of this number is a Topeka
man. who relates it.
At the same time that Miss Baird was
student in the Jacksonville Female
college at Jacksonville, ILL.,, young
Bhyan was attending the Illinois col
lege at the same place. After a certain
hour in the afternoon the young ladies
Of the college were free to promenade
about the college grounds, and while
enjoying this recreation took the OPP
portunity to ''R:'"'' - the bOvs from
the Illinois college, who were invari-
abl.- on hand.
It was during these promenades that
Miss Baird attracted the attention OF
young Bryan, and a filtration was COM
menced This led to an acquaintance.
and meeting was arranged at the home
Of a relative of the young lady, in the
suburbs of Jacksonville. The first meet
of weekly visits by both parties to the
same place.
But the enjoyment OF the young
couple was not allowed to proceed
without interruption. The matter came
to the ears Of the president of the fe-
male college, and he at once called
Miss Baird to hin and questioned her
concerning it. She acknowledged that
she had been in the habit of meeting
young Bryan, and as such conduct was
distinctly against the rules of the col
lege, he1 sentence was expulsion. She
was ordered to be in readiness to leave
the college at certain date.
The news of Miss Baird's expulsion
reached Bryan the same day, and with
out waiting to map out any plans of
procedure he fastened to the presi-
dents office. Young Bryan was even
then the prize orator of the Illinois col
lege, and he started in to convince the
president that he had taken the wrong
course, and that the expulsion was I'M
merited.
A few days prior to this event Bryan
nad written the parents OF Miss Baird
asking their consent to visit the young
lady. Although he had not received
reply, he presumed on an affirmative
answer, and told the president that he
had the consent of the young lady S
parents and that his intentions were
entirely honorable. He also presumed
upon the affections of the young lady
and stated that their formal engage
ment was only matter of a few weeks.
At the end of an hour young Bryan
had the president of the college looking
at the matter in an entirely different
light. Not only was the sentence OF
expulsion repealed, but Bryan obtained
consent to visit Miss Baird at the COL
lege weekly.
Although it was not until after the
young couple had left their respective
colleges that their engagement was an
nounced, it was while at school that
they became fast friends. Both grad
uated at the same time, and a few
years later they were married.-Kan-
sas City Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18

judge appointed the broker to defend
him. The broker was not lawyer in
the legal sense OF the word, but the
judge, who was an old college mate OF
his, said he was an idiot because he
wasn't one in other words that he was
a lawyer by instinct The broker cross
examined the witness briefly, sending
in now and then a sarcastic and dis
comfortable trajectory. When he came
to make a speech, he said:
Gentlemen of the jury, have taken
was a respectable citizen. Ten witnesses
have asserted-on oath, mind you-that
he stands high III his community
The defendant was six feet three in
ches tall, and the jury smiled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
SOUTH SEA ISLAND NURSERY.

When a South Sea Island mother
wishes to chastise her child she seldom
resorts to slapping, and slippers, of
course, she has none. Instead Of US
ing the forms of punishment customary
among civilized mothers, she pulls the
child's hair or bites some part of the
body, generally the feshy part of the
arm. In wandering about the villages
one sees many children having on their
bodies sores produced by wounds in
flicted by their mothers teeth. When
a mother wishes to caress her child, she
deity draws her thumb across its eye
brow or cheek or gently seizes it's cheek
between her teeth. The rubbing of
noses is also mark of affection among
the Kingsmill islanders, as it is among
the Maoris of New Zealand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
QUEEN VICTORIA ON THE STAGE,

queen Victoria will probably be
amused, if not iattered, to know that
she is at present the heroine of
romantic drama, running with success
IN more than one Siamese theater. The
outline of the plot is that the queen
is about to be married in Ceylon to the
King of Siam, when that monarch
breaks off the match and the queen
invades the country only to be repulsed
with great loss. The English are get
ting the worst of it, when the king of
Siam graciously relents and bestows his
hand on Queen Victoria, who is repres-
ented as being madly in love with him
from the first
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
MY SCHOOLMA'AM.

Her face was dimpled, round and fair,
Her eyes were brown and mild,
And when I saw her teaching there
| longed to be child
But when youngster failed to mind
And thoroughly was spanked,
Those youthful days were far behind
My lucky stars I thanked.
She set me in a lofty place,
And handed me a book,
Behind whose pages at her face
/ ventured oft to look.
And as her pupils spelled or read,
took a passing part,
Permitting them to leave off head
The while | left off heart.
Now. I'm candidate, I feel
A curious elation,
A wondering 'twixt woe and veal
Der my examination.
On passing it 1ny heart is set,
And hardly can I wait
Till she and | together get
A joint certificate.
R. l.. Hendrick
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
CRABS AND EARTHQUAKES.

For some time previous to the day
upon which the great earthquake Of
August, 1857, occurred great swarms Of
crabs of an unknown variety were seen
in the Bay of Payta, Chilli. They all
appeared to be greatly excited and were
literally climbing over each other in
their efforts to escape the impending
calamity. How they knew that the
earthquake was collecting its strength
to desolate the coast is more than man
can say, but that they knew something
unusual was about to happen there is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
THE SUNNY SOUTH.

It's puzzling to adjust her
Her weather signs to quote;
One day a linen duster-
The next an overcoat!
One day her rarest lily
Warm on her breast will glow
The next she knocks you silly
With icic,es and snow!
But still to all the nation
She's winsome, sweet and dear;
She beats the whole creation
Twelve months in every year!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
THE FADs OF COLLECTORS.
Lord Randolph Churchill Gathered the
Teeth of Noted Criminals.

A foreign paper is responsible for
the statement that the late Lord Ran
dolph Churchill had a choice private
collection Of teeth of noted criminals,
to which he was constantly adding up
to short time before his death. The
competition for the Deeming relics at
the Antipodes is too recent and too re-
voting to be enlarged upon, but it may
be mentioned that the knife with
which this unmitigated william MUIR
dered his victims fetched "a 15s. and
the spade with which he dug her grave
brought guinea; his clothing was Gag
erly competed for, even down to half
a dozen pairs of patched socks. Indeed
the collectors of Criminal" curios are
extremely numerous all over the world.
and these mementOes range from Ty-
burn halters to pipes which famous
thieves have tossed in honor of past
and future triumphs.
1t has remained for a Nebraska col
lector to gather locks of hair shaved
from the heads of noted criminals when
they enter the penitertiary, and these
he labels and indexes with great care
Superstition sometimes accounts for
the fancy prices Offered for such ghast-
ly relics. Frenchmen obtain them as
charms against i'll luck. A piece of
hangmans rope is considered a potent
spell against evil in some parts of
France; as criminals are there gull
lotined such ropes are difficult to get
and SO fetch high prices; they are
sometimes mounted in gold and worn
in lockets.-Temrle Bar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
SUSPICION IS MISPLACED.

1t lay on the sidewalk near the en-
trance to the metropolitan bank. The
girl with the brown fedora stopped and
looked at it. She was going to pick it
up, but her mother interfered.
Don't you know any better" she
said, than to do a thing like that?" p
81 don't see why I shouldn't" remon-
strated the girl. "It's made o. the finest
linin and lace and would be a edit
able addition to arybody's stock of
handkerchiefs. Somebo1y'n take it in
q minute"
"Let them said the elder woman,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
HOW HE CLEARED HIS CLIENT

There are four bosom companions in
Jackonville-the broker, the dentist,
the undertaken and the capitalist
Where you see one of them you will
find the Restraining a drink The I'M
dertaker and the capitalist admire the
dentist and the broker because they
tell such wonderful clever stories. The
broker and dentist revere and love the
undertaken and the capitalist because
they are such wonderfully good lis
teners.
One night the broker told of a law
suit in Alabama. A cracker from the
mountains was on trial for shooting
and wounding a niger" He was
arrested and, having no money, the