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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-17
CHAPTER II.

No shade has come between
Thee and the sun;
Like some long childish dream,
Thy life has run.
But now the stream has reached
A dark, deep sea,
And sorrow, dim and crowned,
Is waiting thee.
A. A. Proctor.
Javotte felt the change more than
any one else. Perhaps the actual
parting from the chateau was not so
painful to her as to it's owners, but
the life at Paris was far less concen-
ial. She was too rustic ever to feel
at home in city; the stairs tried her
temper, the noise tried her head, and
altogether she was for time most
unhappy. Esperance only discovered
a small part Of her miseries, for the
good old servant was far too unself-
ish to complain, and devoted herself
more than ever to the service of the
De Mabillons.
The winter was over, and the
bright spring weather was pleasant
SAAohS5h III c1l 10, sven 10 LuOSG dCCuS-
toned to country life. Esperancc.
as she sat with her needle-work by
the open window, could think of her
old home almost without a sigh, so
sweet and clear did the air feel and
SO bright and cheerful was the sun
shine. The room in which she was
seated was bare of all Injuries: a
polished floor, a stove, and the neces-
sary chairs and tables sound cold
enough in description, nevertheless,
there was an air of freshness and
grace in the arrangement of the whole
which is often wanting in better fur
nished rooms.
Esperance was thoroughly French.
and had all a French woman's deli
cate tact and taste. Her mother had
been of English birth. but had appar-
emily beuueathed little of her nation
atty to her child-perhaps. rather to
NJ. de Mabillon's disappointment: ne
would have been pleased to have some
likeness to his fair little English wife,
but both Esperance and Gaspard were
Enthusiastically De Mabillons. Esper-
ance was not, strictly speaking, pretty,
but there was freshness and glow
about her complexion which made I'D
for any want of actual beauty. Her
low, smooth brow and regular features
were not in the least striking, but
the power of the face lay in her eyes,
which, though not large, were wonder
fully bright and of the richest brown
color, soft and velvety in the shade,
and clear as amber in the light. Her
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-17

the shore; and, heading the revolu-
ton, brought it to a successful issue.
In 1877 Diaz was elected president of
the republic. Now, almost for the
first time in her history. Mexico had a
hand firm enough and a head clear
enough to rule. How, during the last
twenty years, the strong arm and
brain OF this warrior-statesman lifted
Mexico from her low estate and nut
her in a place of honor among the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-17

llAssll la&kl.,aaslll Observation-Disclosures

Porfrio Diaz, president of the re-
public of Mexico, may visit the United
States; and there are indications on
all sides that cities and states if he
does will vie with each other in pay
ing tribute to his worth. Diaz is one
OF the great men Of the age-great in
achievements, and great in all OF those
qualities Of mind and body which
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-17

lowered and the fugitive brought back.
As he was coming up the side of the
vessel he was recognized by a few of
the soldiers, before lady, who was
partisan of his cause, ran up and
threw a sheet over him in such
way as to conceal his face.
The friends of Diaz now appealed
10 Pursuer Coney to save him. He
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-17

SO you are going to marry him.
after all? I thought you said a week
ago, that you hated him."
But that. you know, was before
the papers had said anything about
MS working that big Corner on
wheat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-17

The busiest time on the Atlantic
cable is between the hours of 10 and
Il in the forenoon. During that time
on an average about 900 messages pass
over the cable each way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-17

The new custodial building at the
feeble-minded home has been formally
opened at Chippewa Falls. It will
accommodate $50. The total capacity
of the home now is $50, and twice
that number OF applications for ad-
mittance are on file.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-07

Were made in her Ventilatug system which
gave a marked Improvement in the tenn
perature below. Her latest reports give
temperatures Of 120 degrees Fahrenheit in
the engiue-room and 14S degrees in this fire
room. Monitors especially are sinners with
regard TO The excessive heat. Nhich may
be regarded as almost an elemeGt OF ser
vice upon these loW-lying bulldogs of the
sea. The figures GAr the AmDhtlTlIe have
been already quoted. The latest Icmpora
lures reported from her sister, the Terror,
are 155 degrees m the fire room and 10 de
grees and 1873 degrees. A bare statement of
these facts gives some idea of the stead
fast fortltude and heroic resistance which
American human nature is opposing n this
war 10 the adverse conditions which envi
ron IT,
1t IL. however, not only the men behind
the furnace fire who suffer, The man
behind the gun" works also. The COM
nander of one of the monitors who was
lately stricken by apopleXy. arising, doubt
less, from his arduOus service, reported
some months since that his ship was al
most unbearabie for her crew, and that
there was no place" on her for weary men
to rest. With the suns ray from above,
the roaring fires beneath, her deck was
but an oven plate. Without a super
structure TO interpose a blanket of air be-
tween them and the baking deck. the suf-
tering OF the men was something which
the laymen in naval matters cannot meas
ure. The conductivity OF the huh also
carries the heat in the living quarters of
the officers. IL is reported that the chief
engineer of the Terrorrwas able but twice
in fifteen months to sleep in his berth ow-
ing TO the uncomfortable temperature of his
room.
on battleshps life is more worth living
They have greater freeboard, are loftier
between decks have superstructure be-
tween the turrets, and, finally, the policy
ted also theIFengine power and the num-
Der and volume of their furnace fires. AS
result there is, relatively speaking, less
heat to be conducted through a greater
mass, with as a consequence, a lower
temperature throughout. Even in these
ships, however. the spectacle is daily pre-
scented of the blowers pumping cooling"
air at It temperature of 100 degrees into
theefre rooms.
The greatest terror of the navy. calor-
icaly speaking, Is the cruiser Cincinnati
In his report for the year 1895 the surgeon
general of the navy referred TO this ship
as follows In the fire rooms the average
temperature under the above conditions
(badly arranged and closed ships may
range from 124 degrees In ships with only
one set of fires in each fire room. like the
Charleston, TO 1S9 degrees within % de-
grees of the boiling pOint of water when
the fire room is between two sets of fires
like the Cincinnati and Amphtrite. In the
case of the Cincinnati when only one set
of fires is used in each fire room, the av-
erage temperature is reduced from lS9 to
159 degrees"
These, st should be noted. were the tenn
peratures Of ordinary cruising condi-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-07
LONDON's PETTICOAT LANE.
A Strange Market That Occupies "A
square Mile to the Big City.

A Strange Market That Occupies a
square Mile to the Big City.
From the Providence Journal London Let
ter.
Pctucoat lane beats any place of the sort
ever saw for size and swarmng human
ity, and for the reflection or demonstration
Of the extreme poverty Of a multiudinous
population. II Is not a slum so much as
it is the rendezvous and market or ex-
change of al the slums. 1t is an outdoor
secondhand shop of mind-bewildering i'm
monsity. 1t covers a square mile of London
just off Bishopsgate street, in 1.-The city,"
ana monopoiizes a score Of streets within
that area. 1t exists only on Sunday and
completely blots out of notice the petty
tradesmen VINO do business in those streets
on the other days of the week. It is Phil
Mays happiest stamping ground, to which
he resorts for types of the coster the IA
kor, the few Hebrews who are not at the
top of high society over here. and for the
Bill Sykeses, and flower girls and stree.
creatures of all the lower orders Ii is the
place where the Jews of London are the
merchants and the very poor are their Gus
toners; where theatrical plunging careers
like that Of Barney Barnato are often be-
gun.
Many cities in Europe have Sunday sec
ond-hand fairs of this sort. That at the
Central halls IN Paris is well known. and
there is a big one in ST. Petersburg, ex-
cellonly housed in a sort of double-arcade
in which the Jews do business lightly all
the week and heavily on the 1rst day The
best and biggest and dlrtiest and most pc
cuiiar exchange of the sort that / ever
saw, however. until last Sunday In London
Is the Louise Market" of Moscow. Not q
pretty name, yet one that must be written
because IL is true, famous, and eminentIy
descriptive. This market is also perennial
but is at its best on Sundays in the sum
mer. It is held beside the walls, on their
inner side. and is such u ragbag and om-
Mum gathorum Of a place that one may
buy either costly jewelry and
diamonds or bits of broken
clocks or furS or WORKOUT
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-07

between the Iadrones and the Sandwich
Islands, and from the Sandwich to san
Francisco. The trip VIII not take over
sixteen days, and most of the nuts and
substantial fruits can be so packed as to
be transportable for that length of time
The bread fruit here is singuarly large
and nutritious A single bread fruit tree
equals an acre Of wheat in life-supportng
properties, and four bread fruit trees will
keep a family a year. They can be Sc
lected so as to yield fruit at different sea-
sons, just as there are harvest apples and
winter apples ana spring wheat and win
ter wheat and a poor man in the Lad
rones needs only four bread fruit trees
with which to support a family-one each
for spring, summer, autumn and winter
The scenery in the Ladroues is the
most remarkable in the world. You have
everything from a sandy beach to a high
mountain. You get the fiery eruptions
OF the center in one view; and you get the
placid SCIENCES of the lakes at the other
The islands are thickly studded with la
goons which are natural ponds full of
fine fish, and these lagoons are somewhat
responsible for the inactivity Of the ma
tives; for the Islander has only to get
permission to drop his liue into the pond
and he can bring up fine big fish sufTi-
cient for a meal.
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queens, she viii enjoy life as well as
ever she enjoyed it in the days when
all the world was paying her compliments.
And how is she getting her daughters
ready for this enviable position Of So
ciety beauty. Oh. by wise ways that any
mother rich or poor would do well to
initiate Beauty is never glut on the
market and the handsomest woman win
tell you that she never saw the day when
she regretted her gift. The homelest
win tell you how often she has lamented
its lack
This woman is giving her children the
easily bestowed gifts of fine compilations,
rosy checks, good hair and a well pro-
portioned figure. She takes them out In
the morning 10 the barnyard which She
has stocked with goats. These animals
in the afternoon draw goat carriage
and afford sport for their little mis-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-07

New York, Aug. 4-There is a woman in
this town and She is wondrous wise!
She is possessed of a million dollars and
her husband is the proprietor of at least
two million morei
Having lived her life of belledom and
having enjoyed all the tribute which the
world pays to youth beauty and wealth
this wise woman is getting ready to live
her glorious young life over again, in
the shape of her little daughters whom
she is bringing UP to reign as she
reigned
This wise woman is unselfsh as all
wise women are, for to the unselhsh
person Is given, while from the selfish
one even that which he coyets is taken
away. This woman knows that, in be
ing the mother of two reigning society
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every word tell who has a queer incisive-
ness but who never could bring a tear to
my eye nor make me think of her as any
thing else than an actress She is referred
10 as "a highly finished actress. Look at
Attle MaUde Adams. DO you think Agnes
Booth, no matter what she played. could
bring tears 20 the eyes aud make the
hearts beat as this girl woman does? Now
! know YOU viii an disagree with me- but
while acknowledging the charm of her
acting 4 have never felt that there was
anything IN Ellen Terry that controlled
me personally.
You think this Is dense III tell you
how mean. / have shed buckets Of tears
over her charming characterization of tho
wife Of Charles I, but never for one instant
did l forget that she was acting 1 have
wept for the Queen because of her past
soIrows, OF her sad life but never
dreamed of thinking that the real woman
was standing before me She was always
Ellen Terry, who or the stage was "A
rather elderly very doWdy and a very odd
hammered person. and when actresses go
into society they should assume if they
have not naturally The manners that are
polite But tho divine Sara, the sad Duse-
all, how different they arei
They become the women they represent
They live during the few hours the life
time Of some other woman.iuto whose soul
they have crept ana learned every heart
beat and every sign Of JOY aud grief that
she has had DO YOU know that there are
few men who ever control an audience as
women do? Why is that?"
We ali tried our best to think our best
and at last Molly said: 1T is for this
cause: If a woman is properly cousdtut-
cd her heart controls her BRAIN and she
is unseNed when she is an brain and no
heart"
Their we looked at the stare for awhile
and wondered what the man in the moon
was bordering over and tried to believe
that away off somewhere the one each
loved best would some day be a little
nearer. Molly unabashed in her real love.
drew littlc closer TO the ensign and put
her nttle hand i'm his 1 said that the
life of the average girl begins when she
cries over her first broken doll, and from
that time on her education is a serious
Of hopes and disappolntments. She is al
ways believing that some day she win
meet her affinity who. understanding her,
VIII remind her that she must not cry
either for a broken doll or a broken heart
Life is the great melodrama. 1t is the
story Of suffering. Of JOY. Of sorrow ard
forgiveness.
After that there was long silence. and
the captain, standing at the end of the
boat, looked as if he were trying to get
the great deep sea TO whisper of the truth.
We SAID Good night in unison, but the
colonel with his perfect politeness, an
nounced, Good night TO an IDEAL party,
for that is an ideal party where we can
think or speak as we please"
Molly's eyes laughed the question she
did not ask but he bowed to her and
answered it, surely this is an ideal
party, since 1t consists of Miss Molly, the
captain, the ensign and the colonel not to
mention Bah"
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FEARFUL HEAT on wARsnrps.
Two Hundred and Five Degrees Reg
istered on the Cincinnati.
FROM the Now York Trlbune.


That a mans enemies are sometimes
they of his own household" finds az. il
lustrauon in the severe conditions which
surround in their own vessels the gallant
defenders Of the Stars and Stripes at sea
To the Hood of heat poured down by an
incandescent tropic sun there are added the
temperatures, almost beyond belief and
seemingly beyond human endurance pro-
duced by the furnaces in The fire rooms.
A naval officer once wrote describing
conditions on one of the monitors The
scene in the FIRE room that morning vas
not OF this earth. The heat was almost
destructive of life; tools, ladders. doors and
all fittings were too hot 10 touch ana the
place was dense with smoke escaping from
furnace doors, for there was absolutely
no draught. The men collected to buiid W
the fires were the best Of those remaining
III for duty, but they were worn out plrv-
sically, We're nervous, apprehensive and
dsspiritod. Rough Irish iremen, who
would stand, in a fair fight. until killed IN
their tracks were crying like childten ana
besglng TO be allowed TO so on deck. SO
completely were they unnerved ana IN
manned by the cruel ordeal they had en-
dured so lang. Hell alloaf is a nautical
figure of speech often idly used but then
we saw IT,"
IL Is both just and pleasant to say that
before this ironclad. The Amphitrite. be-
gan her service ia the present war changes
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tons" with everything possible done to
reduce them. Since war has come this
ship has shown what she is capable of in
registering a temperature of POS degrees
in the fire room-a fact easily explainable
when one notes that she has 10,000-horse
power on a displacement Of 1928 tons, was
at full speed in a tropic sea, and is made
quately ventilated. She is now undergoing
repairs at Norfolk. ana it Is hoped that
before she sails again means of lowering
her excessive temperature will be found
In reviewing not only the dangers in ac-
ton, but the absolute suffering in the
long days between, which seamen endure,
the nation may well be proud of the men
who have won its victories on the sea.
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The End.



He stands at one side by the hour just
Dluming himself, then gently picking at
shot buttons and finger rings. Occasionally
he is INDUCED in a favorite pastme-that
of taking the hairpins out of his mistress
hair
In nature he is as gentle and affectionats
as a kitten, and as he has never been
leased he has no enmity for anything eX-
cept a dog. one night he was attacked Nv
a strange dog, and since then his hatred
for any canine other than the home dog 10
intense, and as soon as his eagle eye de-
tects a strange dog he gives a cry OF
alarm, and in the most quiet, sedate, but
stately way walks out of range into soue
retired corner. He is more valuable than
a watch dog for at night, should any
strange object inrude the premises, he
quickly gives a warning in a voice so
loud and dangerous as 10 wake even tho
"seven sleepers' themselves
Dick has always been Unfortunately fond
Of his master, whom he makes every Ell
fort to please. 1t is at his command thas
he will dance, bowling and twrling I'm the
most graceful manner; then circling with
wings distended around the yard and back
again to bow and courtesy as before. AM
other very pleasing recognition of his in
telligence is the manner in which he al
ways welcome his owner. He recognize )
the horse and carriage as far as his eye
can reach, and long before the bird is III
view his voice is heard trumpeting a greet
ing, which is continued until the master
reaches the gate, when at the single COM
mand, Louder, Dick" he throws his head
back, and gives forth a long, gurgliuS
note, indicating joy and pleasure. To 40
one else VIII he give this welcome. It IS
unique and pecuiar-for his owner alone.
First Member Musical Committee
Does the new sopranos voice fill the
ohurch?' Second Member" Hardly The
ushers tell me there are always vacan3
seats IN the gallery. "-petroit journal
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tresses, but mornings they give milk to
make them healthy. The girl who nlilks
the goats is made Very picturesque with
a stiff white cap of Normandy and by
her side are charming porcelain bowls
from which the lucky babies drink
The children though in the country do
not run Wild. They are kept scruDu-
lousy clean and the dire is carefully
washed out of their shapely little hands
before it has had chance to harden
them.
Their hair is left undsturbed as much
as possible for nothing kills hair as
much as attention. Il is brushed and
lightly combed twice a day but Is I'M
tortured by curling tongs or braids. The
smallest ribbon confines at.
The little figures are kept 1.-THE by
chasing the butterflies over the hills and
the wise mother is positive that some
day they viii have her own svelte figure
Helen Ward.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-07
EXPERIENCES ON A YACHT.
Bah Tells of Some Which We're Rather
Interesting.

VIVA 49,
Mention Made "a w q al
A oman'sI Hcr - %
the Yachtin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04
For Boys and Girls

TheaterS with actors, Punch and Judy shows
complete, clowns on horseback and fancy riders,
merry-gO-rOunds and circus rings, mechanical
bears, cows that low, sheep that "baa," dogs that
bark and cats that cry, rabbits and goats, Mary
with her little lamb, lions and tigers, elephants
sand mills, musical toys and tops, foot balls and
hand balls, magnetic toys and fish ponds, pianos
and tambourineS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
DESCRIPTION OF A CRAWFORD TEA
GIVEN AT LAFAYETTE.
Quaint OId-FashiOned Ways Taken
from "a WeII-KnOwn Book
small Talk.

The Monday Club of Lafayette recently
gave a novel entertainment for their guest
dav meeting. 1t was a Crawford tea" ar
ranged after Mrs. Gashelrs quaint story
OF Crawford by Mrs. W. +. NJ. Goss and
held at the home of Mrs. c. G. Thomson.
Mrs Wilson read the following descrip-
ton:
The Crawford tea is given by Miss De-
borah and Miss Matilda jenkins. Deborah,
as she insisted on being called, the name
sake of the Hebrew prophecies and admir-
ar of Dr. Johnson, and the fniIder sister
Matilda, who dearly loved new caps and
centility and was called Miss Matty' by
her friends To them come as guests Mrs.
Jameson and Mrs Forester. Mrs. jamie
son IS Cranfords representative OF the
peerage, apathetic but valuable, and Mrs.
FORESTER the widow of an army officer,
social and c0mpaniOnable and always ready
10 believe the latest thing in ghost stories
Also as a guest Miss Pole, the pOssessOr
al many breaches one much interested in
village affairs and persistent and successful
in finding them out, and the popular Captain
Brown who holds an extraordinary place
as authority among the Crawford ladies'.
The Crawford parties were solemn festiyi-
ties at which the ladies sat about in a
state of grave citation, conscious that the
event was unusual and important, conscious
also Of their company attire, the most dis
tinguished feature of which was a smart
new cap the rest of the costume mattering
not so mucn provided their heads were
buried in rutties and bows and ribbons of
style which was either the latest or one
which they considered the latest. The acts
are one, the scenes one, and they begin
with the tea party"
The tea as described in the book was made
into a short play, in which Mrs Pierce
Mrs. Waldo, Mrs. Miller Mrs. Ankeny and
Professor Moran took the parts and We're
dressed in the old-fashioned costumes of
Crawford. The play ended when Miss Jen-
kns invited her guests to tea, and this in
Guided a general invitation to the club
guests The ladies' who took part in the
play were the hostesses. and in stiff bro
Cades, powdered hair and white caps served
cakes and preserved ginger, which was the
Crawford fashion. The entertainment was
delightful success. Several musical num-
bers were added to the programme. Those
who had read the story again enjoyed it's
charm The Lafayette ladies are noted for
their hospitality and the originality of their
entertainments.