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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03
DIS DEBAR AGAIN.
Supposed to Have Been in Boston and
Leaves Mysteriously.

Anna O'Delia Dis Debar, high priest
ess of sp0okdom, painter Of spirit pic
lures, adventures and all-around con-
fidence worker in the occult line, has
shaken the dust of Boston from her
feet-f it were indeed she who was
there last week-and has gone away
without leaving her address.
1t may be merely a coincidence, but
as soon as a certain Miss Helen Rus
SELL who had a room at 304 Columbus
avenue, read in the Sunday Globe that
Dis Debar was in Boston and had been
al that very number on the avenue, she
packed her grip, paid her rent and told
the landlord that she was going to New
York. Then she left the house and the
landlord does not know where she is.
Another coincidence is that Miss
Helen Russell answers the description
and stout, of uncertain age and has
light hair Her landlord also thinks
she had a scar on her face. That is
one of the never-failing marks on Dis
Debar, for with a new name, a new
gown and a new shade of hair, she can
rot get rid of that scar.
According to the landlord at 304
Columbus avenue, Miss Russell came
to his place about two weeks ago and
asked to see a room. She was easily
suited, and paid her rent promptly
when it was due, seemed to be without
occupation. She told the landlord she
was theosophist. She received a
rumber of letters. They all came
from New York. Sunday when she
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03

corner in trying to avoid him. One
morning she placed her hand on a hot
register. 1t must have hurt her for
there was a red mark on her hand.
But she said not q word, made no
sound, and any amount OF begging
could not induce her TO utter syllable.
The other patients regard her with
wonder, not unElixed with fear. and
even the nurse is afraid that she will
break into some violent act before
long. She is becoming weak, however,
because she viii accept no nourish-
ment.
In a neatly kept but humble home
at 611 South Third street lives the old,
widowed mother Of Kate Schneider.
Her form is bent, almost doubled,
caused by hard work. She is II years
aid too feeble to care for her I'M
fortunate daughter. In broken Eng
fish Mrs. Schneider told the story of
Hates life. She said that her daugh-
ter had to go out to work early be-
cause her father had died, leaving the
family penniless. She was always a
jolly, light-hearted girl and ambitious
to get on. She grew up a handsome
woman, and many eligible young men
sought her acquaintance. When about
20 years old she fell in love with one
OF them. Her lover proved faithless
however, and on the day she learned
the news her demeanor commenced tn
change. She lost all desire for COM
pany, amusement or recreation. and
never went cut of the room after her
work was done. "She continued this
way for six years, said Mrs. Schneider.
"Remonstrance was of no avail, and
noticing that she was breaking down,
| begged her to drive away her mel
ancholia. Persistent in my entreaties,
one day she turned round and said:
There, I'll never speak to you nor
anyone else again, if l live to be so
years Old Then followed symptoms
of insanity. Then she became hope
lessly i'll. At times during all these
twenty years she has. regained
strength sufficient to enable her to be-
about the house. During these inter-
walls she would be violent. | feared
bodily harm and sent her to the hos
p1tal. About six years ago Kate re-
piled No to question asked her.
That is the only word I heard her ut
ter IN twenty years. Sometimes she
would laugh at a joke, but not if she
was observed"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03

left the house she said she would be
back in four or five days, but she paid
the landlord in full and gave up her
room. He did not know whether to
expect her back or not.
Sec Crosbie of the Theosophical So
ciety said he had not heard that Dis
Debar was in town. She is not theo-
sophist, he says, though she pretends
to be. She was run out of MilWau-
kee, Mr.. Crosbie says, after joining the
theosophists under an assumed name.
Since being put into prison in 1887
on the charge of swindling Luther Il.
Marsh of New York out of several
thousand dollars through her psychic
teachings Dis Debar has had fly
by-night career. She has visited many
cities, and she seems to have had
different alias in each one. The last
time the public heard from her was at
Milwaukee, when the theOsophists
there paid her fare to the east, and saw
that she got on the train all right.
Whether the Miss Helen Russell,
late of 304 Columbus avenue, is the
real Dis Debar or not, the circumstance
that she looks very much like the real
article, coupled with the fact that some
of the Onset spiritualists declare Dis
Debar has been in Boston, makes 1t
seem as if Boston had really been hon
ored with visit from the resourceful
and energetic observation-disclosures
Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03
LATEST FAD OF SOCIETY.

"a new fad has taken hold of those
women who have millions to spare,
according to one of the ultra fashion
able jewelers.. 1t is to match the eyes
with beautiful and costly gems. Fab
ulous prices, he says, are being paid
for diamonds of brown, rose, canary
and even black color The woman
with blue eyes, says the jeweler, will
wear the dainty turquoise, and to add
tc the beauty and match the bright
ness thereof often they will be set with
clear white diamonds. Diamonds be-
long most essentially to the deep,
dark, black-eyed beauty, but she can
not have the monopoly of this radi-
ant jewel for so many of her sister
women have bright eyes that they will
have the other stones set with the dia-
mond, and thus add, not only to the
beauty of the simpler stone, but to the
luster of their own eyes. The choice
of the woman with bright hazel eyes
will be the beautiful yellow topaz.
Sapphires belong now as always to the
V1olet-orbed beauty, while the rich
looking ruby is to have it's day once
more, as the brown-eyed multitude of
girls look fetching in the warm CLINT
OF that rosy stone. The up-to-date
woman will be on the lockout for that
odd little stone called cat's-eye, not
expensive, but often as pretty as it is
odd.
Of course, the latitude allowed in
this is not great, but when a lovely
woman makes up her mind to follow
cut the color scheme many pretty
stones which have been uncared and
uncaIled for will come into promi-
nence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03
CHAPTER XXXV.

The ball opened brilliantly. The
rooms were magnifcently decorated
and the soft luster of a thousand
lamps shone on a scene OF splendor
almost BETTING the court OF king.
Some of the stateliest mobiles in all
Italy were present, their breasts gilt
tering with jeweled orders and rib
bons of honor; some Of the loveliest
to be seen anywhere in the world
fitted across the polished floors, like
poets dreams of the gliding sylphs
that haunt rivers and fountains by
moonlight
But fairest where all were fair, peer
less in the exuberance of her trium-
phant vanity. and in the absolute fault
lessness of her delicate charms, was
my wife-the bride of the day, tbs
heroine of the night. Never had she
looked so surprisingly beautiful, and
l, even I, felt my pulse beat quicker
and the blood course more holly
through my veins, as l beheld her.
radiant, victorious, and smiling
veritable queen Of the fairies, as
dainty as a drop of dew, as piercing
to the eye as a flash of light. Her
dress was some wonderful mingliRg
of misty lace, with the sheen Of satin
and glimmering showers of pearl;
diamonds glittered on her bodice like
sunlight on white foam; the brig
ands jewels flashed gloriously on her
round white throat and in her tiny
shell-like ears, while the masses of
her gold hair were coiled to the top
Of her small head and there caught
by priceless cirClet of rose
brilliants- brilliants that I we'll re-
membered-they had belonged to my
mother. Yet more Iustrous than the
light of the gems she wore was the
deep, ardent glory of her eyes, dark
as night and luminous as stars;
more delicate than the
1ilmy robes that draped her was the
pure, pearl-like whiteness of her neck,
which was just sufficiently displayed to
be graceful without suggesting immod-
esty.
their bosoms for the casual inspection
of strangers, as is the custom of their
English and German sisters; they
know well enough that any lady VEN
turing to wear a decollete dress would
find it impossible to obtain admittance
to court ball at the Palazzo Quiri-
male. She would be looked upon as
one of a questionable class, and no
matter how high her rank and station,
would run the risk of election from
the doors, as on one occasion did un-
fortunately happen to an English peer
ess, who, ignorant of Italian customs,
went to an evening reception in Rome
in a very low bodice with
straps instead of sleeves. Her re-
were vain; she was
politely but firmly refused admittance,
though told she might gain her point
by changing kcr costume, which 1 be-
lieve she wisely did.
To be Continued.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03
ASTOR'S COUNTRY HOME.
John Jacobs Said to Contemplate
Building a Magnificent Mansion

John Jacobs Said to Contemplate
Building Magnificent Mansion.
by next summer it is promised that
John Jacobs AstOr Will have at Rhine
cllfe the most magnificent of all the
palaces along the Hudson river.
The beautiful Rhinelander and
Starr7Mlller country seats near Mr..
Astor have been completed and Mr..
Astor will soon after this season is
over, demolish his present antiuuated
residence at Rhinecliffe and build in
It's place magnificent mansion
worthy the grand estate on which it
is situated.
Ferncliffe and Rhinecliffe has been
the favorite residence of Mr.. and Mrs
John Jacobs Aston ever since their
marriage. They pass nearly three
quarters of their year there, and their
seasons abroad and at Newport have
each year become shorter and their
stay at heir lovely country home Ion
ger. 1t is here where Mr.. AstOr found
the inspiration to write his book.
where he has his laboratory, and
where he conducts his many scien-
tile experiments. He has built MANY
adJuncts to the original house, and
has beautified the grounds until now
no estate in the country is more mag
nlhcent. Only recently he had extern
sive golf links laid out, and even his
i-
artistic structure.
In the midst of a great park, like
estates in England, there stands an
Anticipated stone and wood house. not
old enough to be even colonial, but
built about fifty years ago, when
American architecture was most
crude in conception. 1t is an ugly and
almost a shabby structure. 1t is one
in which entertaining as it is done
at the present day is impossible, and
Where the guests must perforce. be
crowded, and where some Of the bed
rooms are on the ground floor with
the drawing-room
1T is small and oid-fashioned and
although in it every possible modern
convenience has been produced, in
comparison with the splendid man.
sions that crown the wooded heights
OF the Hudson, it is a mere howell
The present place has no history
worth recording. For many years it
was the country home of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Astor, and before that of
William B. Aston 1t was considered
very handsome in it's day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03

CROSS ITS PECU-
LIAR FEATURE.
GRAND VIEW FOR TOURISTS
FamsS Ruins Of kyffhaenser Discern
able In The Distance-For Centuries
the Same oIuo occupied by a
Notable Monument Of One Kind or
Another.

A mammoth observation tower has
recently been erected on the Josephs-
haehe, mountain 1,731 feet above the
level of the sea near Stollberg. in the
famous Harz mountains Of Germany.
which is attracting as much attention
from tourists as did the Eiffel tower
III Paris or the Ferris wheel at the
Chicago worlds fair. The tower is in
the form of a cross; is 12O feet high
and weighs about $4,000 pounds. The
colossal structure rests on a Quadran-
gle, shaped into an immense bell,
which Will hold five hundred people.
A stairway, formed of two hundred
steps leads to the top and, an eleva-
tor will soon make travel towards its
top easier. When the tourist has
gone up half way, a gallery is reached
which holds a hundred persons, but
the highest platform, covered with an
awning, has room for about thirty Wis
itorS.
The magnificent tower is not the
first one erected on the JOsephshaehe.
For centuries it was crowned by 8
lefty tower, built by the forefathers Of
the present ruling house of Stollberg.
In 1853 it was noticed that the first
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03
INSANE FROM A RESOLVE.
St. Louis Woman Who Has Only
Spoken One Word in 20 Years.

Though gifted with the command OF
speech, Miss Kate Schneider, an in
mate of the observation ward of the
city hospital, st. Louis, has only ut
tered one word in twenty years. When
she was q years old, working as
seamstress, Kate made a VOW to her
mother that she would never speak
again. With the exception Of once
saying mo" to a question, she has
most religiously kept her word, and at
AZ is incurably insane. At the city
hospital she is regarded as a mystery
and the queerest insane woman that
ever entered the institution. She re-
fuses to eat or drink and can be
picked up and carried around without
the slightest demonstration from her.
If a nurse lays her on the bed she
remains there motionless. If she is
fixed in a corner of the ward she re-
mains a motionless fixture. She acts
like an automaton. She moves only
when somebody moves her. She seems
afraid of a man. She tries to hide
from him and seeks the most secluded
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03
HOW TO Make A FORTUNE

The following are extracts from a
letter written by Henry Ward Beecher
to his son:
You must not go into debt. Avoid
debt as you would the devil. Make
it fundamental rule: No debt-casb
Or nothing"
Make few promises Reiigiously
observe the smallest A man who
means to keep his promises can't al
ford to make many"
BE scrupulously careful in all state
ments. Accuracy and perfect frank
ness, no guess-work. Either nothing
or accurate truth
Make yourself necessary to those
who employ you by industry, fidelity
and scrupulous integrity. Selfshness
is fatal
''Iloid yourself responsible for a
h gEer standard than anybody expects
o. you. Keep your own standard high.
Never excuse yourself to yourself
Never pity yourself. Be hard mas
| ter to yourself, but lenient to every
body else.'
Concentrate your force on your
own business; do not turn off. Be
constant, steadfast, persevering.
DO not speculate or gamble. Steady
patient industry is both the surest and
the safest way. Greatness and haste
are two devils that destroy thousands
every year"
THE art of making ones forum
to spend nothing. In this country any
intelligent young man may become
rich if he stops all leaks and is not i
a hurry Do not make haste; be pa
TENT
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03
ATCHISON GLOBE MAN.

The easiest story to start is a mar
rying story.
Lunatics are as rare among the Jews
as among bald headed men.
A man who speaks only kind words
of people seldom talks too much.
When a mans wife does not behave
herself he can't return to his mother.
Every woman secretly envies the
woman VINO can get out of work by
falling over in a faint.
What has become of the old-fasn-
toned preacher who had nerve enough
TO preach against card playing?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03
HUMAN LIES MYSTERY.

We SOW the glebe, we reap the corn,
We build the house where we may
rest,
And then, at moments, suddenly
We look UP to the great wide sky,
Inquiring wherefore we were born,
For earnest or for jest?
The senses folding thick and dark
About the stified soul within,
We guess diviner things beyond,
And yearn to them with yearning
fond;
We strike out blindly to a mark
Believed in, but not seen.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03

Every professor has, however, the
right to admit or to exclude women
from his audiences, and the number of
women studying in Berlin increases
every year. It has now reached the
highest figure yet attained-132.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03
WOMEN AT BERLIN UNIVERSITY

Women are not yet admitted to the
examinations at the Berlin university,
nor is there a general permission for
women students to attend lectures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03

Italy proposes commercial treaty
with the United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03


fruit-grower in Avellino with Lila
and her little dowry combined. He
also carried a sealed letter to Signora
Mcnti, which l told him she was not
to open till a week had elapsed; thi3
letter explained the contents of the
box and my wishes concerning it; it
also asked the good woman to send to
the Villa Romani for Assunta and her
helpless charge, poor old paralyzed
Giacomo, and to tend the latter as we'll
as she could till his death, which Z
knew could not be far off.
| had thought of everything as far
as possible, and l could already fore
see what a happy, peaceful home there
would be in the little mountain town
guarded by the Monte Vergine. Lila
and Vincenzo would wed, | knew; Sig
nora Monti and Assunta would con-
sole each other with their past mem
cries and in the tending OF Lila
children: for some little time, perhaps
| they would talk of me and wonder
| sorrowfully where / had gone; theI
| gradually they would forget me, ever
as I desired to be forgotten.
: Yes; l had done all l could for those
who had never wronged me. haC
! acquitted myself of my debt TO YIN
cenzo for his affection and fidelity: The
| rest of my way was clear. L had nt
mere to do save the one thing, the on
deed. which had clamored so long TO
Accomplishment. Revenge, like
! reckoning ghost, had led me on stel
by step for many weary days ant
months. which to me had seemed cy
cles of suffering; but now it paused
it faced me-and turning its bloodret
eyes upon my soul said, ''STike!"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-13
In Boulder.

Boulder. Nov. l1.-Social matters
were very quiet In Boulder preceding
the election. but II is likely that the
winter whist clubs will now be organ
lied. The dancing club started with a
pleasant meeting, but not a large at
tendance.
At the Epworth League social there
was a goood attendance and all en-
jcyed Mrs. Gillam's hospitality. Mrs.
ID. Halford won the prize. a league
badge, in naming the greatest number
of books from the articles displayed.
Among those here during the week
were Joseph Brien of Basin and James
McKee of Elkhorn.
The Catholic congregations. both
here and in the valley. have been with
out a minister for some time. Father
John Blazer having gone to Butte. but
these missions. as well as Basin. are
now to be visited by Rev. A. Mueller
OF Helena. his first services being held
i'm Boulder Valley on Sunday. in Boul-
der on Monday n at Basin Tuesday.
Service at the Presbyterian church.
which have been delayed by the placing
OF a new furnace. are resumed this
Sabbath.
]. ]. Holmes and Mrs. Trotter have
gone to Meagher county for a few days
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Ber-
kin. who live near White sulphur
Springs.
James Simpkins has gone TO Broad
water county to operate a saw mill.
Miss Kate Weber has gone to Mad
ison county and expects to be away
about two weeks
Under the instruction of his physi-
clan, Mr.. Belcher. accompanied by his
wife and daughter. has gone from
Washington to Southern California
Mrs. A. ]. Locker Is visiting In Elk
horn with her sister. Mrs. Hartell.
L. A. Divine has returned from Oma-
ha, wher he was called to the d
side OF his dying wife. He will now
resume his work in teaching he a
at the state institution. and Mr.. Comp.
who has filled h place during the ABB
sence of Mr.. Divine. will return to his
home in omaha
Mr.. Enoch Hodson IL on the sick list
and Is stopping at the Springs.
Henry G. Rickerts of Boulder. re-
Gently elected clerk of the supreme
court. returned home from Helena
Wednesday. having been Ill there for
several days.
The society OF Ready Workers will
give an entertainment at the Presby-
terrain church Thursday evening. Nov.
18th.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-13
Occupations OF Americans.

Interesting data about h occupa-
tons Of the American people are given
in the bulletin of the 18th census. re-
Gently made public. IL shows that the
total number of people engaged in &C.
equations Of all kinds in 1890 was g.
735. 96l. OF the whole number of work.
ing people the females form 11.22 per
cent. Divided by classes. the working
people Of the country are as follows;
Agriculture. fisheries and mining. a.0ls.-
1896: professional. 94i. 333; domestic and
personal services. 4.360.571; trade and
transportation. 3.S26. 1922: manufacturing
and mechanical industries. 1901. 2s5.
Considerably more than four-ifths OF
the illiterate male population OF the
country and over one-fourth OF the IL
literate female population ere working.
over 80 per cent. OF the workingmen
are married. over q per c single.
over 3 per cent. widowed. n g
fourth OF I per cent. divorced. In man
ufactures and mechanics the carpen-
tiers and j~oiners. numbering 61i.4Se.
make up the greatest element, with
dressmakers and milliners following.
with 499. $50. There are a little over
1000 900 bookkeepers. clerks and sales
men. 690.65s merchants n dealers. g.
PSI, $50 farmers, planters and overseers.
and 1905. 06l agricultural laborers. 34s.-
5ss miners and only a little over co.
900 fishermen and oystermen. Pro-
fessors and teachers. a~ggregating 49,
344. form the most numerous OF the
professional classes. Physicians and
surgeons. 10f. sos. come next; then law
yers. $3.50. clergymen. IS. POS; govern
ment officials, 1864: musicians. etc,
81, 155; engineers and surveyors, sS.2Ss;
artists and art teachers. 22.496; jour
nalists. i.sis. and actors. s.12s.