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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
A PULLING TITLE.

The title Of Doctor" in our country
has become so mixed and so common
that when you are introduced to a
Doctor So-and-So, you cannot for the
life Of you tell where to place him.
He may be a doctor Of divinity, or a
veterinary surgeon, doctor Of osteo-
pathy, faith or Christian Science
curist or a magnetic healer. His title
may have been bestowed on him by
some great university or by some
crossroads college, or he may have
conferred it on himself. In view OF
this puzzling and embarrassing state
OF things some anonymous person ut
ters the following complaint: when
| am introduced to Doctor Jones
don't know whether to consult him
about my soul, my rheumatism, my
horse, my toothache or my libel suit
l have no way Of knowing whether he
can best inform NE about the religion
Of the Ethiopians or the malleability OF
iron"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
HUSH!

0 hush thee, Earth! Fold thou thy
weary palms,
The sunset glory fadeth in the west;
The purple splendor leaves the noun
tain'S crest;
Gray twilight comes as one who bear
eth aims,
Darkness and silence and delicious
Gains.
Take thou the gift, o Earth! on
Nights soft breast
Lay thy tired head and sink to
dreamless rest,
Lulled by the music of her evening
psalms.
Cool darkness, silence, and the holy
stars,
Long shadows when the pale moon
scars on high,
One far, lone nightbird singing from
the hill,
And utter rest from Days discordant
jars;
o soul of mine! when the long night
draws nigh
VII such deep peace thine Utmost
being fill?
Julia R. G. Door.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
THINGS THAT NEVER DIE.

The pure, the bright, the beautiful,
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulses to wordless prayer,
The streams Of love and truth;
The longings after something lost,
The spirits yearning cry,
The striving after better hones-
These things can never die.
The timid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother in his need;
a kindly word in grief's dark hour
That proves a friend, indeed;
The plea for mercy softly breathed,
When justice threatens high
The sorrow of a contrite heart
These things shall never die.
The cruel and the bitter word,
That wounded as it FELL
The chilling want of sympathy
We feel, but never teu
The hard repulse that chills the heart,
Whose hopes were bounding high.
II an unfading record kept
These things shall never die.
Let nothing pass, for every hand
Must find some work 10 do;
Lose not a chance to Waken love
Be firm, and just, and true;
So shall light that can not fade
Beam on thee from on high,
And angel voices say to thee
These things shall never die.
Charles Dickens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
A FAMILY FEUD.

Kentucky does not have a monopoly
of family feuds. There is one right
here in Detroit, and in a section where
such state of affairs would be least
suspected. There is no danger of am
bushes or assassinations such as char
acterize the Howard-Baker vendetta,
but this is attributable TO early train
ing and associations rather than
want OF anger or a desire to make
things just as uncomfortable as pos
sible. Factions have arisen, and there
is no more sultra partian than the
man of all work in one of the fami-
lies.
II tell you how it isl he said.
Blanks had one of them parrots some
Of the soldiers brought back with
them. 1t made more nose'n a fife
and drum, and sassed everybody in
the neighborhood most scand'lous.
Our folks had a big pet cat One
mornin' there was the allfiredest
racket in the neighborhood you ever
heard. 1t sounded like a whole
menagerie had broke loose and was
fightin' a free-fur-all After the
shower O. feathers had settled down
there was no parrot, and the cat on the
fence agrinnin.'
Blanks folks made bouts much
fuss as the cat and the parrot did, and
give it out straight that if they
couldn't keep pets we couldn't neither.
That very night the cat disappeared,
and we hain't got no track O. him
since. I have strick orders if one of
them Blanks git on our side O. the
fence to throw him right back ag'in,
and whenever any ~ their kids see
me they go meow You jest say
we're Twin in a powder magazine
right round here. detroit Free
Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17

wait until favorable state of weather
permitted experiments with the
mysterious agency which has now be-
come more familiar to us, especially in
its practical employmerts 1t is the
object Of this paper to describe power
full electric sparks, substantially SINH
lar to lightning discharges, which can
| be produced in all states of the
weather.
charges in atmospheric air over six
feet in length, which manifest all the
peculiarities Of lightning, such as the
devious path, and the loud, cracking
; noise accompanying the discharge.
When the discharge takes place in a
glass tube at pressure of air about
two pounds and one-seventh on the
square inch, or, in other words, about
! one-seventh the atmospheric pres
sure, dazzling sparks lightning flashes
can be obtained, thirty and forty feet
in length. At the moment of the dis
charge an observer standing within
! four or five feet of the apparatus feels
| his coat suddenly lift, and is con-
scious of movement of the air, as if a
window had been quickly opened. At
| the same instant sparks one inch long
can be drawn from the neighboring
gas-pipes or other metallic masses, and
if one leans against the brick walls
! of the building, at a distance of five
feet, one feels the prickle Of sparks
through ones coat.
The descriptive or tearing effect of
such powerful discharges is also sig
nifcant, and explains similar actions
Of lightning discharges. When they
are passed through glass tubes six
feet long and one inch in diameter,
filled with ordinary water, the tubes
burst in many pieces. When this
phenomenon is carefully examined, it
is seen that a discharge passes be-
| tween the inner surface of the glass
and the water, and doubtless vaporizes
! the water. The steam or expanded air
is the explosive agent
! When a green stick, such as the
small limb Of an apple-tree, is used
as small conductor, the discharge
| bursts over the surface, burning the
bark here and there. One Of the most
! beautiful experiments Of this nature
which can be performed is to place q
number of oranges between the dis
charging points OF the apparatus in
such manner that the discharge can
enter and leave the oranges by wires
! When the discharge passes, each
orange glows in the dark like a golden
Chinese lantern. This glow is pro-
! duced by discharge inside the rind,
close to the pulp. The inclosed air
! is a better conductor for this high
electrical state than the liquid of the
I orange.
The action of lightning in rending
trees may therefore be explained by
these experiments. The explosion is
not a mysterious attribute of the
lightning-fash it is simply the effect
of the sudden expansion of air or
steam in the cavities and pores of the
wood. The explosion is due primarily
to the heat developed by the spark.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
WHAT JESUS PREACHED.

II. Weinstock, a prominent Jew of
Sacramento, has created considerable
discussion by reading a paper entitled
Jesus the Jew in various synagogues
on the Pacific coast. The following
passage will give an idea of his point
of view: Il found that, according to
New Testament traditions, Jesus was
born Jew, lived Jew, died a Jew. l
found that the thought Of establishing
a new belief, or even a new sect.
was furthest from his mind: that his
aim was not to follow after the
heathens, but to seek out the lost
sheep of the house of Israel. I found
that his mission seemed to be to uplift
the lOWly and to expose wickedness in
high places. | found that he gave his
heart, his soul and his very beins to the
poor, to the sick and to the needy. He
said: I am not come to heal the sound:
| have been sent unto the sick I found
That he was man Of unbOunded
sympathies and Of great moral cour-
age; that he was simply striving 20
practice and to preach the moral code
established by Moses and the prophets,
and to literally put into practice in his
daily life the great lawgiver's precept
of love thy neighbOr as thyself.'"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
DECORATIONS FOR SLIPPERS.

Here is a pretty idea for decorating
evening slippers. One of my girl
designs, and says she bought two
pairs Of slippers-one pink satin pair
and one white kid. The pink satin
ones she has embroidered in gold
thread in a large sort of bowknot de-
sign, and she writes me they are ex-
tremely pretty. The white kid slip
pers she painted in poppies and green
leaves. This time I think I have
struck a really practical idea and one
which we can utilize nicely next win
ter.-Edith Lawrence in Ladies' Home
Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
AT TWILIGHT.

Out Of the dusk, wind-blown and thin,
The shadowy wood-boats gather in,
And twilight bushes the harbor's din
Sleep, little head, on my shoulder!
The gold lights wake through the
evening gray
IN the little village beside the bay,
And few cold stars CLEAN far away
Sleep, little head, on my shoulderl
The sailor turns his face once more
Where his sweetheart waits al the
opened door;
The lone light washes the wave-swept
shore
Sleep, little head, on my shoulder.
Here where the dancing shadows
swarm
Our driftwood fire is bright and warm;
Beyond our window wakes the storm
Then sleep, little head, on my
shoulder!
William Carman Roberts in the
Century.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
RAINY DAY IN THE WILDERNESS

How it rained that day. The surface
Of the lake was beaten fat, and CULVER
ed under the storm Of silver bullets.
Waving sheets of Watery gray were
driven before the wind; broad curves
Of dancing drops swept along in front
Of them where they touched the lake
The dismal clouds had collapsed on the
mountains. All around the homeless
shores the evergreen trees seemed to
bunch their backs and stand closer to-
gether in patient misery. Not a bird
dared to sing-not even a red
breasted crossbill
1t felt as if we were a thousand
miles from everywhere and everybody.
Cities, colleges, laws, palaces, theatres,
temples-what had we dreamed of
these things? They were far off, in
another world. We had slipped back,
who knows how many centuries, into
a primitive life.-F'rom FVallant-
coeur's," by DR.. Henry Van Dyke, in
the August, Fiction Number of Scrib-
ner's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17

omelet for breakfast. She brought
him one-of her own making. He was
| on the point Of telling her something
that wa not to be spoken Of lightly.
But he sighed instead. A work Of art
was act to be expected from Harriet
He did not go to the museum, ana
| strategically contrived to avoid meet
! ing with the base interloper all the
week. But once ne had a very narrow
escape. Re had to wait at the head
Of the stairs while he saw Mrs. Hodg-
son help the interloper on with his
vercoat-convincing proof that a man
who ate mutton pies would stop at
nothing. Though he became the ter
TOr Of the landladies Of Bloomsbury
Saturday found him with strange
trunks in his disordered little room.
and still with no apartment engaged.
1t also found him meek as well as
miserable.
He went downstairs and knocked on
the door Of Mrs. Hodgson's little room
on the ground floor. There was no
answer Harriet came up from the
kitchen to say that missus was making
the other gentleman's omelet. She
opened the door and offered him a
chair. He waited in vexation, longing
for revenge, longing to show up the
muttOn-pie interloper, who secretly
adored omelets in his true colors.
Finally Mrs. Hodgson entered, flushed
with the successful outcome of her
work of art
Really, Mrs. Hodgson," said the
professor affably. 81 have been so
busy and to get room requires a deal
of looking about, doesn't it?''
She did not say whether it did or did
not.
IF it would not be too much
trouble would you accommodate me
again?'
II haven't a room left"
I'm sorry"
There are the hotels, professor"
Mrs. Hodgson-Mrs Hodgson!" he
burst out tragically, will you not go
on making omelets for me forever?"
After little blushing and parrying
she said that she would and put the
seal on her acceptance by Immediately
giving the base interloper a weeks
nOtice.-The Sketch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
TOWARD THE SKIES.

Of old betwixt the gods and earth,
High-headed, girt with cloud,
Dividing misery and mirth,
Old Atlas stood and bowed.
Close to the high celestial gate
He bent a drowsy brain,
While far below his feet set weight
On furroWed fields OF pain.
The earth's lar cry sang faint, and dim
Her face toward him grew;
His head was crowned with light;
round him
The immortal laughter flew.
And yet he tired Of that high place,
And thrust away the prize,
Lifting a dead, indignant face
Of stone toward the skies!
Laurence HOusman
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
FRUIT AND BERRIES FOR MILL
merry.

Very autumnal-looking also are the
hats in deep yellow straws, trimmed
with late fruits and berries. Differer3 /
forms may be trimmed in this way,
the directoire capeline and the wide
sailor being most suitable The
crowns are often bound round with
narrow ribbon velvet, black, claret.
maroon or green, and if the straw is
an openwork one still narrower velvet
will be threaded in and out Of its
meshes. The punches Of fruit-grapes,
blackberries, medalars, elder berries,
or nuts-arranged with their own
foliage, rest on the brim. A pouf of
some contrasting color is generally
added. This is sometimes made in the
form Of circular rosette, with a
bunch Of poppy staments in the mid
dle.-New York Millinery Trade Re-
view.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
THE ANALOGY THAT FAILED.

After much labor the savant dis
covered that Queen Victoria's 1ather
was one of nine sons; the queen is the
ninth sovereign since the revolution,
and was born in the nineteenth CEN
fury in 1919; the queen has had nine
children; the prince of Wales was born
on Nov. 9, and married the princess Of
Wales in her nineteenth year; the
princess, too, is the daughter Of Chris
tan TX, of Denmark.
With pardonable pride he presented
to the world the fruit Of his researches.
But" the carping critic at once
protested, with his usual cruel sheer,
here are but seven facts! Where are
the other two?"
The sayant swooned, for he was SEN
sitive, and all the world grieved with
him.-Detroit Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES.
Learned Professor Who Produces
Lightning for Fun.

Prof. John Trowbridge of Harvard
tells in the Century of some Of his ex-
periments in the production and direc-
ton Of electrical discharges.
John Adams, on his way to the
Provincial Congress of 1774, stopped at
Princeton to see the college. He says
in his diary that the professor OF
natural philosophy showed US the
electrical apparatus, which is the most
complete and elegant have seen. He
charged the bottle, and attempted an
experiment; but the state of the air
was not favorable"
One hundred and twenty-four years
ago an electric sprak one inch long
was obtained with difficulty. Benja-
min Franklin doubtless often had to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
FLIGHT OF A HERD OF DEER.

How they did seem to look with
their great ears. How they spell
bound him by the soft gaze that he felt
rather than saw, He knew what they
were. Had he not for weeks been
holding ready, preparing and hunger
ing for this very sight! And yet how
useless were his preparations; how
wholly all his preconcepts were swept
away, and a wonderstricken "Oh-h-h!"
went softly from his throat. AS he
stood and gazad they turned their
heads away, though they still seemed
to look at him with their great ears,
and trOtting a few steps to smoother
place, began to bound up and down in
sort Of play. They seemed to have
forgotten him, and the wonderful eff
fortress way in which they would rise
six or eight feet in air by a tiny toe
touch was bewildering. Van stood
fascinated by the strange play Of the
light-limbered, gray-furred creatures.
There was no haste or alarm in
their movements; he would watch
them until they began to run away
till they should take fright and begin
the labored straining, the vast athletic
bounds, he had heard Of And it was
only on noting that they were rapidly
fading into the distance that he
realized that now they were running
away, already were flying for safety.
Higher and higher they rose each
time; gracefully their bodies swayed
inward as they curved along some bold
ridge, or for a long space the buff
white 'scutcheons that they bore be-
hind them seemed hanging in the air,
while these wingless birds were really
sailing over a deep gully.-Ernest Sc
ton Thompson in Scribner's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17

That the architecture Of the white
city is in serious danger of eclipse by
the creations Of French art, which will
shelter the exhibits at the Paris expo
sition is shown by a study Of the cleo
tricity building, for an Illustration and
description Of which we are indebted
to the World, says Modern Machinery
This building will probably be the
most elaborate and ornate structure
ever erected for a similar purpose 1t
occupies a commanding site on the
Champ de Mars at the end Of the vista
from the Eiffel tower, and will be the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17

wanting the rough riders to take part
in the land parade in honor of Dewey
that he "does not want to have them
used for advertising purposes
hardly adequate, or indeed clear, I'M
less, indeed, the governor thinks his
former comrades-in-arms would adver-
tise him anil that such advertisement
on the eve IF the presidential cam
paign would disturb the peace of mind
of Mr. Will'sm Mckinley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17

most striking building seen on enter
ing that portion of the exposition
grounds. The Chateau d'Eaux, most
elaborate fountain Of colossal size, oc-
cupies the center of the facade and
constitutes its most imposing feature.
Above and on either side of this rises
the delicate tracery of the superstruc-
ture, crowned by an Illuminated star
which will be visible from all parts Of
the grounds. The material used in it's
construction is staff relieved by trans
parent enamels, the whole to be treat
ed in color and most brilliantly ilIum-
mated. This building is to contain all
the electrical exhibits except those il
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17

Illustrating electric traction and auto
mobiles, which are to be placed in the
park of Vincennes. Some general ma
chinery will also be placed in the cleo
tricity building, but it is expected that
most of the heavy exhibits of this class
will be placed elsewhere. The United
States section for electrical machinery
in this building consists of a very ad-
vantageous space on the main floor, a
generous section of the Salon d'Hon-
neur which will be devoted to exhibits
of a purely scientific or historical
character, and good sized gallery
space in addition, the three aggregat-
ing about $4,000 square feet, gross.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
CALLS IT A INDUSTRIOUS CRIME .

The trouble with the Transvaal was
got up entirely by the Rodesian mil
lionaires and the mining companies
The alleged grievances of the out
landers have been merely a pretext
Jameson's raid was planned and fnan-
ced by these mine owners, whose n
tention was not disguised. Short of
capturing the whole territory they
would be satisfied with severing the
Rand district and setting up separate
republic on their own account. They
had no idea Of continuing under the
British flag, for they had produced a
flag Of their own, which was unfurled
in johannesburg at the time of the
raid. The issue between the British
colonial Office and the Boer republic is
now narrowed to two matters-the
franchise to the outlanders, who out
number the Beers four to one, and the
raid. Briefly put. President Kruger
proposes to naturalize outlanders in
five years, and two years afte-ward
put them on the list of voters This is
not unreasonable, seeing that foreign
ers settling in England cannot get on
the voting list until they have resided
there five and a half years, and paid
G g for naturalization. As a matter Of
fact, the Out1anders don't care a scrap
about the franchise: they are doing
very we'll and making money; but the
Rhodesians want their votes for me
purpose OF upsetting the republic. The
Beers are entitled to large damages for
the Jameson raid. They called out
15.Co0 men, and thousand or so
fought and beat Jameson, many Beers
losing their lives and many more be-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17

Thomas Sexton, Patrick Ryan. Daniel
O'Conneu and Martin White were ar
rested in New York on the charge Of
numbering James Mcguire. an inmate
of the Manhattan hospital in which the
four accused men were attendants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17
THEIR THIRD DRAW.

New York, Aug. 12-The Dixon
Santry fight last night resulted in a
draw at the end of the goth round
They fought two draws heretofore.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-17

1t is said Eddie Bald, the bicycle rid
er, has retired from the track. He has
sailed for Europe with Jockey Tod
Sloan.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-27

The Northern Pacific actually also tried to
~ se tt track atbs entirely ~ rySysnE nne
In value II these pians OF the Northern Pa
chic are carried out And where are the
c., b. a q. and other railroads. that are
o Z Gwen wsS y aonS Sc pa ns
This matter can't help becoming q poll
tical question" he said. The Republican
this thing goes through the Republican
party will be responsible for It. and / am
not afraid Of Republican voters on this
Mr. Whites speech was frequently pune
tured with loud applause and frequent
laughter.
who VIII BE Dom Paulf
r. H. Lindsay said:
for the interests OF the city and not for
individuals or corporations. (Applause.) 1t
requires no stretch to the imagination TO
e 81 seattle ana has BEEN fo msny
this corporation which has instdiously
bought up valuable property and inter1ect-
ed Itself es this city It's III foT the pnr
Is there a citizen in Seattle today who
does not wish that some Dom Paul should
rise In the midst of liberty-loving people
take 1t as declaration OF war QAong APP
plause) Which one of you, gentlemen OF
the city council, who may be here will be
Dom Paul? (Applause.) I say build your
depot, gentlemen, but dc. not take up any Of
the streets" (Applause.)
Judge Jacobs said in part:
would It be polite or expedient to grant
the vacation Of these streets to the North
ern Pacific on the water front? for one
believe not. Why should not the Great
Northern and other roads have the same
privilege? BY this grant we would have
the water front Theoretically sealed. When
ho rap xUqq oqx w n In,
mass meeting got up to state my oppc-
sitIon, I heard cat-calls and Kisses, and
that was one speech. Mr.. Chairman, that