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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29

But recently, in returning home on
the train, Aunt Mary had chance to
! demonstrate her theories. In the seat
ahead Of her was a young couple who
enlisted her favorable attention. She
! conceived them to be newly married,
/ and her heart warmed toward them
/ without delay. The train soon stopped
at small station and they left her
car. She observed them on the plat
form outside. and just before the
train started she happened to spv a
pasteboard box tied up with bit of
string in the seat they had deserted.
| Goodness" thought Aunt Mary.
they're 50 intent on each other that
they've forgotten their luggage" She
seized it and looked out of the open
window. The girl stood by the bag
gage-roOm door the man having appar-
emily some inside. Aunt Mary waved
the box at her. She answered, but the
clang of the engine bell drowned ont
what she said. Again she waved the
box; the other shook her head. The
train started: Aunt Mary cast the box
out violently. 1t struck the platform at
the feet of the girl, the string broke,
and out rolled a half-dozen pairs of
new socks, several starched cuffs and
collars, a pair of suspenders and a
couple of white shirts They've got
EN- anyhow" thought Aunt Mary, as
she settled back in her seat. Lucky I
saw it. Curious how forgetful young
folks can be. But" She looked mp and
net the reproachful gaze of the man
standing by his seat.
Madam he said 'the-er-young
lady stops at that station, but I go on
to Buffalor'
"But how was body to have known
it?" says Aunt Mary, when she relates
the incident.-Harpers Magazine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
Hrbor and
Bird Day.


State Superintendent Emery has is
sued q manual Of aids for the appro-
pirate observance Of arbor and bird
day, April 80. It is a publication Of
more than so pages and contains. be-
sides useful suggestions to teachers,
much matter appropriate to the occa-
sion-stories. poems, incidents, songs
and the like. Among the Wisconsin
contributors are Mrs ". H. Upham,
Eta NJ, Gardner of Platteville, Mrs.
Mary Adams, Prof. F. H. King and
Col. ". ]. Anderson, of Madison, Prof.
c. ". Smith Of Kilbourn City, Mary F.
Tucker Of Omro, B. S. Hoxie of Evans
vile, Henry Nehrling of Milwaukee
and others. A program suggested for
arbor day by L. E. Gettle of the state
superintendent office is also given as
well as much miscellaneous prose and
poetry. Some poetic extracts are ap-
pended.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
CLEAR THE ROADSIDES.
One improvement That is Almost Sure
to Lead to Others

Good roads seems to be the cry all
around at this time. If we ever get
better roads it must be by someone
starting out and doing something be-
sides talking. 1t has already been
talked till there is danger that it will
end in talk. | want to See a move in
the direction of better highways. Sup
pose the legislature at it's next session
makes a law compelling towns at the
towns expense to cut all the weeds.
road IN the months Of August and Sep
TENDER next following such enactment,
and cause the same to be burned except
such as shall be left by special diree-
ton Of the municipal officers for shade,
ornamentation or use.
Then compel the owners or abutters
20 cut them each year thereafter; and
to insure the execution of the law let
the towns attend to the matter, cut
the bushes themselves and carry the
expense Of the same into the next years
tax bills in a separate column with the
same process of collection of other
taxes.
Do this and in the end it will harm
no one, for the roadsides will be worth
moving for hay, and it will add to the
selling value of nearly every farm
enough to pay the first cost.
[ know it is agreeable to ride in the
shade on an August afternoon, but it
is disagreeable to ride in mud up to
the axle, after the driving road is dry
and easy travelling, as is almost always
the case when the road is shaded. Then
take the old walls that disfgure so
many fields and dump them into the
bitches and cover them from the old
rOadbed, and you may have road that
will be hard the first day after the
snow is off and keep so till the snow
comes again.
l occasionally, though l admit not
very often, pass a farm where the
stones are picked down on the roadside
and the bushes, weeds and grass moved
down every year. When l pass such a
farm [ expect l am passing a thrifty
farmer.
One improvement always opens the
way for others. Let us clear the road
sides and be ready for the next ad-
vance.-D. H. Thing, in New England
Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29

and shreds O. SKIS, and many feather
Compacted cunningly together
Wen, here has boarding been and living,
And not L little good contriving,
Before home Of peace and ease
Was fashioned out of things like these!
Think. had these odds and ends been
brought
To some wise man renowned for thought
Some man, of men the very gem,
Pray. what could he have done with them
If we had said: Here. sir. we bring
You many a worthless little thing.
Just bits anu scraps. so very small
That they have scarcely size at all;
And out OF these, you st contrive
dwelling large enough for FIVE:
Neat warm. and snug: with comfort stored
Where five small things may lodge ard
board
How would the man Of learning vast
Have been astonished and aghast,
And vowed that such a thing had been
Ne'er heard of, thought of, much less seen
All! man of learning, you are wrong;
Instinct is, more than wisdom, strong;
And He who made the sparrow, taught
This skill beyond your reach of thought
And here in this uncostly nest,
These little creatures have been blest;
Nor have kings known in palaces
Half their contentednesS in this
Poor simple dwelling as it is!
MARY HowITT.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
BOBOLINK CHIMES.

A whir of wings DER covered meadows,
The CLEAN of a harness and crown,
And low on the swaylng maple
a bObolink settles down.
chime as if from bells of silver
Owe the clover soft doth float,
Fer yet the rapturous song-burst
Outpours from the Ieathered throat
whir Of wings, CLEAN of yellow.
Faint-heard notes, ana int the throng
Of cover heads gently nodding,
Drops softly the bird and SON
AS Wordsworth saw in dreamy wakings
Daffodils nodding in seas Of gold,
For me the hills and meadows will ever
The chime of bobolinks hold
journal of Educa ton
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29

only one name mentioned, and that
was Florence Nightingale.
Miss Nightingale now spends most
of her time at Clayton, the beautiful
home of her nephew, son OF her sister
the late Lady Verney, in Buckingham
shire. At long intervals she goes to
London to the Verney town house, but
these visits are becoming rarer, as the
journey is too fatiguing. Miss Night
ingale, however, is as mentally bright
and as strong as ever, and her interest
in all branches of hospital work has
never suffered a decline through her
physical infirmities. She has been
deeply interested in the relief work
extended to the famine and plague
sufferers in India, and has had much
correspondence with the heads of the
various relief societies on the subject
She also keeps abreast with all the
doings of the Nightingale home, an in
stitution for the training of nurses
founded Immediately after the close Of
the Crimean war. Parliament voted
a gift of $4,000 or $250,000. to Miss
Nightingale on her return to England
as a recognition of her services, but
she declined the money for herself, and
it was used to establish the Nightin-
gale home.
Miss Nightingale is a wealthy wo-
man and was considered q great heir
ess in her youth. Her father was
William Shore Nightingale, OF Embley
Park, Hampshire, and of Lea Hurst,
Derbyshire, two of the finest OF the
oldtime estates in England. She was
co-heiless with her sister of her
fathers wealth, and were She so in
clined brilliant life in the fashionable
world was assured her
Miss Nightingale was born in Flor
ence in May of 1920, while her parents
were touring Italy. She was named
after the City of Flowers" and she
has been called "a song bird from The
lanG of flowers" During her in.
fancy her parents returned to England
and made their home at Lea Hurst. al
old Elizabeth manor house, where he
childhood and young womanhood wer,
passed.
She and her sister were educated b,
goVerresses and their studies wer
of an advanced order for girls of tina
period. Before her seventeenth birtn
day Miss Nightingale was skilled i,
science, the classes and mathematics
had a wide acquaintance with stand
ard literature, and was a fair artist
clever musician and an excellen
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
It When she was IS Miss nightingale

When she was IS Miss Nightingale
was taken to London by her parents
for the customary presentation at
court. There she met Elizabeth Fry,
the reformer, who had done so much
for lettering the condition of English
prisoners, and her talks with this in
telligent woman led her to take a great
interest in the hospitals and charitable
Institutions Of the city. The following
year she was taken to the continent to
make the regular tour, but instead Of
Gevoting her time to the doings of
society she took advantage of her
visits to The different cities TO examine
the various hospital systems and COM
pare them with the English institu-
; tons.
This interested her so much that she
spent nearly all of the next nine years
of her life visiting the continental cit
les and studying their nursing sister
hoods. In 1851 she enrolled herself as
a voluntary nurse in the Training
Home at Kaiserworth, Germany. Later
she studied in Paris hospital, and
then her health broke down, necessi-
tating a return to Lea Hurst
On recovering her strength she be-
came interested in a London institu-
ton for sick and aged governesses
which at that time was | anguishing
for reed OF proper management. She
placed herself at the head of it and
devoted all her time to recognizing
its troubled affairs. She trained the
force of nurses, for the place was
more of a sanitarium than anything
else, attended to the prescriptions and
the finances, and in q short time sue
ceeded in putting new life into il. The
fact that it exists to-day and is con-
Quoted on the same lines laid out by
Miss Nightingale is sufficient testi-
mony IS to her capable managene nt.
1t was while resting from these la
bors that the Crimean war broke out.
ard reports soon reached England Of
the men who were literally dying by
regiments for lack of proper medical
: attention Popular Indignation rose to
! fever heat over what was recognized
as criminal carelessness on the part of
: the government in not preparing for
: the emergency, and at this stage OF
affairs the war department deter
: mined TO ignore all precedent and So
! licit the aid of women as nurses on the
, battlefield
= Prior to this the fame OF Miss Night
ingale had spread, AMI it was decided
t that she was the one woman who
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29

could successfully carry out such a
plan. A letter was dispatched to her
and at the same time Miss Nightingale
wrote to the war department officials
crossed each other in the mails, and
as result the matter was speedily
arar ged. Miss Nightingale promising
20 leave cor the Levant in eight days.
Miss Nightingale had everything in
readiness for The departure al the ap-
pointed time-Oct. q, 1854. With her
went thirty-eight nurses, and on Nov.
) the party reached Constantinople and
Immediately took up their quarters at
the great barrack hospital at Scutari.
The work of Miss Nightingale there is
known almost to every one. Sanitary
arrangements there were none. The
| suffering soldiers were at the mercy
of hideous vermin, the rats attacking
the limbs of the helpless wounded as
they lay on beds reeking with infec-
ton. The day after her arrival came
the sufferers from the historic charge
OF Balaklava, and then came the
wounded from Inkerman.
Rapidly the hospital was put into
fair shape. Food was served decently !;
beds and bedding were cleaned; wounds
were dressed and cared for, and inside
Of a month complete reorganization
had been effected. For two years she
remained here, with the exception Of
short trips to the battlefield On one
of these journeys she was stricken
with the Crimean fever, and for a
time her life was despaired Of
At the close of the war it was ar
ranged to give her tremendous re-
ception, but she returned to England
quietly under an assumed name, and
no one knew she was in the country
until after her arrival at her old home,
Lea Hurst.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
THE LULLABY IN THE PINES.

Flee home to your nestlings, little mother
birds, fee,
Cuddle down in the nest lest an owlet
should see;
While the primrose Is wakeful and the
whip-poor-will sings,
Tuck your drowsy heads under your soft,
downy wings,
And, rocked by the breeze blowing on to-
ward the deep,
Go to sleep, little birds, go to slp,7.
sleep on! all the night as we sweep to and
fro
5a the dusk, we will sing you our lullaby
low,
Fear not, timid hearts, though high above
all,
The father bends near when His helpless
ones call
Tender and sure is the watch He Will keep,
Safe in His love you may trust Him, and
sleep.
HATTIE A. COOLEY. in Inter Ocean.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
ARBOR DAY.

Upon this bare unsheltered ground
The living germs we strew,
And pray for kindly summer suns,
And fertilizing dew.
And when hundred years have passed,
The oaks, grown old and boar,
Snail serve to form some mighty feet,
To guard our native shore.
By trusty hearts, in peril's hour,
Our flag shall be unfurled,
To sound in fame Columbia's name
In thunder DER the world.
Winds. blow gentle DER them!
Calm thy rage, o Sea!
Bear thy burden proudly,
On to victory!
Journal Of Education.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
HIS ONLY BROTHER.

DO you know that you're hinderirg
sc people that want to get down town
to their business?" yelled the MOTOR
man of a MISUNDERSTANDING car the
other morning to the driver Of a coal
wagon just ahead"
That's all right" cheerfully re-
sponded the driver. There's a lot Of
people waitin' for this coal"
You'll get there just as quick if you
turn out"
Il can't turn out"
That's lie!'
You wouldn't tell me that if I was
where l could reach your
You can reach me any time you
want to- and you know it, your dirty
faced Algerine. You're a monopolist
and hog, and l can smash the mouth
off you the best day you ever saw
IF it wasn't for leavin' my horses
I'd
mo, you wouldnt, you smuttyfaced
whelp" shouted the motorman.
You're a mean, low, gum-dasked
sneak! you havn't got the decency of a
sewer rat! You're a gol-dinged, insig
nificant, pusillanimous, ragged, dirty,
cheap skate of 10th assistant barn
yard corporal"
Say" interposed a passenger on the
car, that's horrible language you're
using. For the sake of ordinary pro-
priety let up, will you?"
At this moment the driver of the coal
wagon turned leisurely down a side
street, and the angry motorman said,
as the car shot ahead again
I'D have talked a burned sight
worse than that to him if he hadn't
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
THE HAPPY SPRING TINE.

There's something in the air,
That's new and sweet and rare
A scent Of summer things,
A whir as if OF wings.
There something. too, that's new
In the color of the blue
That's in the morning sky
Before the sun is high.
And though on plain and hill
'ffis winter, winter STILL
There's something seems to say,
The winters had its day.
And all this charming tint,
This whispering stir and hint
OF bud and bloom and wing
Is the coming Of the spring.
-Belfnrd's Annual.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
THE NATIONAL FLOWER.

Said Towser to Kitty, with puzzled blink
1.-The grown people round US are trying to
think
Which flower is best for national one;
Now, don't GU think dogwood would be
the most fun"
mo, Towser'' said Kitty, sit seem. to me
Pussy willows or catnip much better
would ber'
-ELEANoRE W. F. BATES, in Lite Men
and Women.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29

inspiration from a dowdy woman in
frumpish wear. No, my gentle critics,
il is not all a question of money.
One Of the best-dressed women l
ever knew had an allowance almost in
chose and planned and succeeded, She
knew what suited her style and COM
p1exion, and she wore it. Perhaps
there was not an exciting variety in he1
costuming, but there was ever a deli
cious Observation-Disclosures Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
THE sPARROw's NEST.

Nay. only look what / have 70 d.
sparrow's nest upon the ground;
4 sparrow's nest. as you may see,
Blown out Of yonder old elm-tree.
And what medley thing it is!
7 never saw nest like this.
SO neatly woYe with decent care,
OF silvery moss and shining hair.
But put together, odds and ends.
Picked up from enemies and friends:
See. bits Of thread, and bits Of rag,
lust like little rubbish bagi
See. hair Of dog and fur OF cat,
And roYings Of worsted mat,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
THE CHILD TO THE VIOLET

oh. little violet, frail and fair
Tell me why you're hiding there,
Let me take a peep at you,
Come now, little violet do.
You are as blue as blue can be
That is, all that l can see,
I won't hurt you. just step out,
Look at the other flowers about.
You are lazy: don't say no.
For the daisy told me So
Oh, you naughty, naughty flower
Hiding off there in your bower,
shall see you yet some day,
When l come out here to play.
-Harper's Young People
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
THE STARS.

'The stars are tiny daisies high.
Opening and shutting in the sky;
While daisies are the stars below.
Twinkling and sparkling as they grow.
The star-buds blossom in the night,
And love the moons calm, tender light:
But daisies bloom out in the day,
And watch the strong sun on his way"
Intelligence, January, 1896.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
THE ROBINS APOLOGY.

When spring comes in the garden,
The robin sings this song:
Il really beg your pardon
For staying quite so long.
If you would know the reason;
Whichever way I flew,
I met Il backward season,
That kept me backward too"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
PULQUE AS A MEDICINE

One drawback to the cause Of Sob
reity in Meico is the fact that pulque,
the national intoxIcant, is strongly
recommended for indigestion, weakness
OF the stomach, consumption, and
other complaints.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
LEAVE THE DRESS ON.

No" explained the editor Of the
magazine with high ideals, 1--WE do not
care for jokes that take off woman's
dress. Our readers are shocked at any
thing inclined that way, except the
Paris fashions, of course. Yes"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
PROCESSION OF FLOWERS.

Sing, sing, lily bells ring,
The blossoms are coming to town
Daisies ano lilies and daffy -down-liIes,
Each in a sweet new gown.
Sing, sing, lily bells ring.
The blossoms are coming to to l.,
Pansy and mignonnette, marigold, viole
Each in a rich new gown
Primary Education, Ju 1895
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
AN APRIL FOOL.
o silly Violet!

o silly Violet!
To think that Spring was tapping at your
latch;
Her fingers smell of flowers: did you know
It?
Her pretty voice is like the rain on thatch-
The tinkling rain. with never a wind to
blow 1t!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
MUST NOTIFY THE POLICE

A resident in Moscow or ST. Peters
burg cannot receive the visit Of a
friend who remains many hours with
out notifying the police.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
Incautious Violet!

lncautl0uS Violet!
You sprang from out your bed in such a
hurry,
Tied on your cap and laced klrte blue,
Opened the door, all bright with joyful
furry,
And there stood naughty March awaiting
you!
Poor foolish Violet!
Miscellaneous March. who loves to fool and
tease,
To tickle flowers with hand all chilly
fingered,
Nip them and pinch, and make them shrink
and sneeze,
And wish that they In the warm earth
had fingered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
Misguided Violet!

Misguided Violet!
The moment that he saw you standing there,
He seized and pulled and roughly dragged
you out
out Of the door into the frosty air;
And april Fool!' he cried with laugh
and shout.
Dear little Violet!
The tears are standing in her blue blue
eyes.
Next time my little one must be more
wary,
Keep fast her door, lie still, refuse to rise,
And wait the summons of the April fairy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-22
DR.. Van Flee. D,an,. Libel M.cKeown.

At o meeting Of tho County Medical Society
held on April %, 1898. there was a lively dis
cussion over the admission Of the advertisement
of Joseph J. MacKcown. an optician, OF "a East
Forty-second street, to the columns Of the
Medical Repist, r, and as q result of remarks
said to have been made by him on the occasion,
DR.. Frank Van Fleet was sued for $4,000 dam
ages by MacKeown in the United Stale, Circuit
Court. The case was tried yesterday before
Judge Wallace and a jury. Mr.. MacKeown is a
British subject. Judge Wallace ruled that
there was nothing In the advertisement to cast
the slightest reflection upon MacKeown, but as
DR.. Van Fleet WAS seeking the removal OF tho
advertisement before II body competent to grant
IL. his remarks constituted a privileged COM
munication. and further that there was nothing
to show personal malice on the part OF DR.. Van
Fleet. He directed the jury TO bring In a yer.
dict for the defendant.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-22
BROOKLYN POLICEMEN HoAxED.
They Thought They HAD . Ghnstiy valise Mys-
terry On Their Handn.

Send detectives to my office at once" was
the message Thomas +. Rockford. manager Of
the Postal Telegraph Company at . Court street,
Brooklyn, sent through the telephone to Capt.
Reynolds of the Detective Bureau yesterday.
Whats the matteri' asked Capt. Reynolds.
There's a big mystery and probable scandal"
was Mr.. Rochford's reply.
Detectives Delehanty and Stoddard were
sent at once to . Court street. There they met
Mr.. Rockford, who was greatly excited. He
said that a neatly dressed woman had called
early In the afternoon and asked permission to
leave a valise in the Office for a short time. and
that her request was granted. when she
did not return for the. valise," Mr.. Rockford
said, Il became suspicious, and then remem-
bered that she had acted strangely. In order
to acquaint myself with the contents Of tho
valise, I opened 1t and discovered by putting
my hand inside that l. contained n dead infant"
Neither Of the detectives desired to take a
look at the contents OF the valise, and the female
telegraph operator was asked to wrap the valise
up in paper while the detectives telephoned for
the Coroner. The operator declined to have
anything to- do with the mysterious valise,
and at last Delehanty said that he must look
at the contents, and must have a witness.
He opened the valise, and as his hand trem-
bled the valise fell upon the floor. and then
rolled out, not a dead body, but five juicy APP
pies. The police made an unsuccessful effort to
suppress tho story.