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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
WILHELM AND WILHELMINA.

Among the many accomplishments
of the German Emperor not the least
must be reckoned his finished gal
lantry. At a court concert given by
young and pretty Danish virtuoso,
Miss Frieda Scatta, William II evinced
the greatest pleasure throughout her
performance. When she had finished
he turned to her and said: "You play
the violin admirably. When | listen
to you with my eyes closed | think |
am hearing Sarasate-and yet | pre-
fer to keep my eyes open! In evidence
of the severity that has always reigned
at the Court of Holland, a prominent
diplomat tells an amusing anecdote Of
Queen Wilhelmina in the days when
dolls were her greatest source Of dis
traction. One day, in anger at one of
the favorites, she lifted it up, and,
looking it straight in it's glass eyes,
said: Look here, if you don't do as I
tell you III make you a queen, and
then you'll have nobody to play with"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
BAD FOR THE BACHELORS.

Great joy reigns among the fair sex
in Hesse. The principle Of the taxa
ton of bachelors has at last found ac-
ceptance in the diet of the grand duchy
Of Hesse, and unmarried men are to
pay surtax of % per cent on their
incomes over and above what the mar
ried men pay We await the result of
the experiment with some interest.
The marriage rate in Hesse ought to
go up by leaps and bounds, for in that
frugal country a bachelor will be able
to keep a wife On the odd % per cent.
easily; so that we shall see how far
a mans marital tendencies have been
checked by pecuniary considerations.
If the estimate Of the Hessian diet Is
realized the Hessian bachelor will be-
come as rare as the Hessian boot.
Then we shall have to alter the prov
erb, for marriages will no longer be
made in heaven, but in Germany
London Daily News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
BRADDOCK'S GRAVE.
The British Generals Resting Place
Near Uniontown, Pa.

Not long since, says a writer, I had
occasion to visit Uniontown, which is
the county seat of FTayette, in south
western Pennsylvania, and is included
within the tract that was originally
embraced within the territory Of West
Virginia, having been transferred to
Pennsylvania as one of the results Of
complex and prolonged controversy
in regard to boundary lines, the details
of which are familiar to the special
student of our political evolution and
expansion. While sojourning in this
energetic and progressive Pennsylvania
town I awaited myself of the oppor-
tunity it afforded to visit the grave of
General Braddoch, which lies near the
line of the famous National road, some
II miles west Of Uniontown.
A visit to the grave Of the heroic but
unfortunate British commander had
been an ardently cherished but unful-
filled longing of mine from my earliest
days. The story of his march and his
defeat has never lost it's charm; age
has not withered it, nor ceaseless rep
etition stalled its infinite variety
1t has been glorified in romance and
idealized in poetry, and historic re-
search has exerted it's supreme dill
gence and the highest results of scien-
tific method in the endeavor to exhibit
every feature, however minute, and
every incident, however seemingly ir-
relevant or subordinate, in the progress
of thic dn1of111 rcb
Every reader of Thackeray will recall
the Virginians, in which the fateful
expedition is described with some
traces or "reminiscences of the SOW
ereign artistic touch that had in Henry
Esmond idealized the Augustan age,
the achievements Of Marlborough and
Eugene, the very form and pressure Of
Steele and Addison, the radiant beauty
Of Beatrix and the incompatible" love
illness of Lady Castlewood. It has been
travestied by Holmes with characteris-
tic humor in one of his best-known
poems, and upon it's elucidation in the
broadest and amplest form Francis
Parkman lavished the resources of his
rare and original research and his
LChdNlouo anu uEYOLlOH "
that era Of our colonial history during
which France and England engaged in
a Titanic struggle for supremacy upon
the North American continent
The details Of the expedition are
familiar to every schoolboy-the
struggle in the wilderness near the city
Of Pittsburg, the hopeless rout of
Braddock's forces, the pathetic recital
Of his death, and his burial in the
road over which the army wagons
passed that all traces Of his resting
place might be removed and his re-
mains preserved from dissertation at
the hands Of the savage. If the ira
dition that Washington read the burial
service at the improvised grave of
Braddock be true, the scene must have
been one Of the most impressive and
sublime in the early annals of our
country.
The remains of Braddock rested in
the rude and unknown grave that had
been provided for them from his death,
in July, 1855, to the year 1912. While
the road was in process of repair the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
CUBANS LIKE AMERICANS.

1t is true that the people of Cuba
are clannish, and that they would
| probably stand by their own race in
case Of serious friction: but they do
not detest all foreigners. On the con-
| trary, they are particularly friendly to
and fond of well-meaning and well-be-
haVeG Americans. There is no dis
position on the part of insurgent
chiefs to resent reasonable dictation:
nearly all Of them, including the Com
mander-in-Chief, Gen Gomez, are
holding important positions under
American occupation at the present
moment; and there is no reason to be-
lieve that the whole island will soon
be in ferment Of na,5ivist conspira-
cies.' Nor will they denounce or op-
pose health officers. Gen. Leonard
Wood, military governor of the pro-
vince Of Santiago de Cuba, has already
IN his reports to the war department.
commented favOrably upon the dis
position of the people of that province
not only to obey his orders, but to
learn and practise the requirements,
sanitary, social, and civil, of our
regime in Cuba. Gen. Carpenter has
made similar report from the city
and province of Puerto Principe, as
has the general commanding the
American forces in Pinar del Rio
Ex-Chief of Police NTcCullagh of New
York city recently returned from the
island, has stated that the city of
Havana is one of the most orderly COM
munities in the world. The only
'groans" that have come from the Gu
ban coast Of the Caribbean sea have
been very quiet ones, in the shape of
protests against drunken colored
soldiers of the United States army, the
so-called 'immunes," who have with
out invitation insisted upon occupying
sofas and hammocks upon the gal
leries of private residences.-George
Reno in Forum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
BIDE YOUR TINE.

When fortune treats you snghtingIy
And everything goes wrong,
Remember that you still are free
To labor and be strong.
To him who bravely does his part
Misfortune is no crime.
Just hold your grip and keep , heart
And learn to bide your time.
The surest road to greatness lies
Through hard and patient work,
The glorious name that never dies
Comes not unto the shirk
Fame sits upon the eminence,
A pinnacle sublime,
He who would win must seek her
thence,
Strive on, and bide his time.
The man of hope and energy,
Who keeps one goal in sight.
Who goes his way with constancy,
Will sometimes win the fight.
The man whose life glory lends
To every age and cline
Is he whose purpose never bends,
Who works, and bides his time.
Go onward Ger the futures hills
The dawn falls cool and sweet.
Go onward. He can win who wills
And bows not to defeat.
Go onward, though your path may lie
Through calumny and slime,
The day will brighten bye and bye,
Go on and bide your time.
And when the fight at last is DER,
The toll at last is done;
When standing on LIES farthest shore
Beneath her setting sun;
Beyond the futures unbarred gate
The bells of heaven chime,
And justice, love and glory wait
For him who bides his time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05

| bones of the fallen General were
brought to light, and after passing
| through several vicissitudes in the
form OF transmigration, were at last
placed by loving and reverent hands
| IN the grave where they now rest. near
the line Of the National road The
spot has been Enclosed with a neat and
appropriate fence, and cluster of pine
trees covers the modest space included
in the little cemetery. To student
Of our historic evolution and develop
ment the grave of Braddock is one of
the most suggestive and Impressive
points in all the vast area of the con-
tinent for the supremacy or which the
two great forms of civilization, the
Romance and the Anglo-Saxon, were
contending in the prolonged and far
reaching conflicts of the War of the
Australian Succession and the Seven
Years War, known in our own his
torical phraseology as the French and
Indian War.
The direful overthrow of Braddock.
the logical outcome ana consequence
of his own arrogance, superciliousness
and imaginary omniscience in the art
of war, has deeper and far more COM
prehensive significance when we con-
template it in the light of conteenpor-
airy developments in Europe as well
as in America, and especially in the
light of that complex struggle in
which it formed merely an episode or
a feature. Braddock, with all the
frailtits and infirmities which his
character or his temperament exhibit
ed, was, in the prosecution of his ill.,
starred campaign, the champion and
the propaganda of the distinctive
civilization of England, with all that
the term implies, as compared with the
civilization of France 1t was the
speech of Longfellow and of Poe in the
field against the delicate and cultured
idiOm of the Academy. 1t was the
method of judicial procedure applied in
the case Of Dreyfus as contrasted with
the humane and enlightened methods
that are characteristic Of the common
law.
When cOntrasted from this point OF
view, the career of Braddock in our
colonial history reveals itself in a new
and unsupported light If the capture
of Quebec by Wolfe four years later,
had not arrested the progress Of
French ascendency in North America
and prepared the way for the treaty of
Paris in 1863, by which the supremacy
of England was established, France re-
tanning not an acre of land upon the
North American continent, the charac-
ter Of our history in all it's essential
and distinctive features would have
pursued line Of development re-
and representing the genius
and spirit of a Roman original, and
New France in America would have be-
come an accomplished reality, not the
mere dream or illusion of aspiring and
designing statesmen, nursing the pride
and stimulating the ambition of the
house of Bourbon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05

regard to the greatest or early Greek
painters, Polygnotus, who probably
exercised much influence ever On the
genius Of Pheidias, we have lately
gained much light. Comparing the
elaborate descriptions Of his works BY
the traveller Pausanias with the designs
OF extant vases, we have by degrees,
Professor Robert, Of Halle, leading the
way, at length reached a point al
which we may claim to have recovered
the general character of Polygnotan
art.-Percy Gardner in the Atlantic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
FRESH Goldfish CAKES.

Pass hot boiled potatoes through a
vegetable press, season with salt and
pepper, add two tablespoonfuls of but
ter and one beaten egg to each pint OF
potatoes, and beat thoroughly Add ar
equal amount of cooked fish, faxed,
either hot or cold, two or three tahle-
spoonfuls Of egg sauce, or a little more
butter, and when thoroughly mixed
shape into fat cakes. Put slices OF
bacon into a hot frying pan and in the
hot fat sauce the fish cakes after re-
moving the bacon to soft paper to
drain. Place a well poached egg on
top of each cake, bacon between and
parsley or radishes around the dish
when ready to serve
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
A DIAMOND-DkCKED DIVA.

The other day Sir James Blythe, one
of the best-known men in London, in
vited Patti to dinner to meet 40 other
great men and women of the art world.
She wrote: my Dear Sir James: | am
in mourning, and | feel hesitancy
about attending a dinner to meet peo-
pie Of my own profession, but if you
will give another dinner and ask only
your friends, | shall be pleased to
come" Sir James, being a most
amiable person, gave a dinner minus
the entree of Patti, and on the follow
ing week issued cards 20 all his titled
friends to meet the diva at another
dinner. To this one she came in the
full splendor of her diamonds and
turquoise, looking like bird of para
disc that had crept into the gilded
aviary Of the kind. Lady Warwick,
the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire,
Lord Rosebery-all the big people
were there, an the diva was delighted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
NATURE.

I weave the beginning, 1 fashion the
end
Life is my fellow, and Death is my
friend;
Time cannot stay me,
Nor evil betray me-
They that assail me, unknowing, de-
fend.
I ravel asunder, l knit every flaw;
Blossoms / scatter, with Rmpests l
awe;
Birthplace of duty,
And shrine Of all beauty
Firmly I govern and love is my law!
Florence Earle Coates In Lippincott.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
OIL USED AS FUEL ON SHIPS.
Russian, Italian and German Navie!
Experimenting With It.

The enormous annual draw on our
coal supply is already somewhat les
sened by the use of liquid fuel al
though the actual effect is, of course,
inappreciable Sir Marcus Samuel,
in recent paper before the Society of
Arts, gave an interesting account of
the present position Of liquid fuel in
our own and foreign countries. In
England oil as fuel is in use on the
Great Eastern Railway, and we believe
the results have proved satisfactory.
1t has also been found more or less
in use in the Russian, German and
Italian navies and one or two foreign
railways. We are told that when the
old fields Of Dutch Borneo were first
opened up the oil was not allowed to
be carried in bulk through the Suez
Canal, and there was npa single
port at which obstacles were not placed
in the way Of its introduction. Now
vessels carrying $500 tons, and capable
of discharging over 500 tons Of oil
per hour, pass through the canal reg
ularly. The isnpediments placed in
the way of its discharge have been
done away with, as experience has
shown that there is no real danger
Several advantages are claimed for
the use Of this body as fuel to replace
coal, the chief being the convenience
Of storage, the reduction Of labor in
storing and rapidity of discharge. The
alternate contraction and expansion OF
the fire bars and steam tubes, un-
avoidable when coal is used as the
fuel, is said to be altogether stopped
but against this has to be placed a
risk of heating.-London Chron-
icle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
Continued.

The young baronets horror at hear
ing of the tragedy was unbounded.
Can it really be true, Holland?" he
asked of the trembling servant. When
we left Lady Lynne last evening, she
looked we'll and happy"
ct is true, Sir Allan" said the man
land my master is half mad. There
is no one to superintend any ar
rangements. Will you come to the
Palazzo, for | do not know what is best
to be done? Lord Lynne seems as
though he could neither hear nor
speak"
Tears rose to Sir Allan's eyes as he
remembered the look upon his friend
face last evening, and how he had
smiled when he had hidden him call
at three tomorrow.
As soon as he arrived at Lord
Lynne's, he asked to see Agatha.
Years of bitter sorrow seemed to
have passed over that sweet face since
he saw it last. 1t was white, and
dark shadows were beneath the large
sad eyes
Agatha" he said, my dear one,
you must not grieve so much. You
will be i'll yourself"
But he could give no comfort
Agatha Lynne sorrowed as one who
has ng hope. Others grieved for
what they considered the conse-
quences of a sad accident; she alone
knew the truth, and it weighed her
down nearly to the grave Every
word of that letter seemed burned up
on her heart. She could not forget
it; she could not forget the last de-
spairing Grasp of her sisters arm, on
the look she had seen upon her face.
1t was a fearful secret for one so
young to keep, but she guarded it we'll
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
HISTORY FROM COINS AND VASE!

Some of the most notable work of
recent times has been done in nuEnis-
Atlantic I can remember the time
scarcely a quarter of century ago.
when Greek coins were commonly
called medals, and valued only as
works Of art or as interesting docu-
ments of mythology, or perhaps as
serving to illustrate some passage in
Sophocles or Euripides. The idea of
placing the coins of every Greek city
in strict chronological sequence, so
that at every point they could be
brought into relations with the re-
corded history Of that city, was foreign
to earlier numismatists. 1t was like
the letting out of water when Barclay
Head, now keeper of coins in the Brit
issl museum, published his modest
work on the chronological sequence Of
the coins of Syracuse, in which for the
first time a rigorous and logical
method of arranging the coins was fol-
lowed. This work made its appearance
in 1917 and in the score Of years which
nave since elapsed, the entire pro-
cedure in Greek numismatics has been
changed, and we regard coins as docu-
ments always to be placed in the strict
est relation to history, in a series
which runs parallel to the civil and
military transactions Of every city,
and often casts on these a light which
Is by no means to be despised. 1t is
well known that while works Of Greek
sculpture survive in abundance, the
equally beautiful and important crea-
lions Of the great painters of Greece
have utterly persisted. Our knowledge
of great masters Of the brush in Greece
is very scanty; We even have to fall
| back on the stories, often silly and al
ways untrustworthy, told of them by
| the elder Pliny. But We are now slow
| " working back to them from the de-
| signs Of Greek vases, which cannot
| indeed give US any notion Of the color
| ing which they used, but may serve to
| enlighten us in regard to their treat
ment of subjects, their grouping and
perspective, and their drawing. In
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05

II hear" said the man who was
home-hunting, that no one can live
in this place but doctors"
"You are wrong" responded the ma
tive; II live here and I am no Doctor"
Indeed! And might / ask what
you are?"
81, sir, am an undertaken
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05

ga woman, I notice, always lowers
her voice to ask a favor"
Eyes, and raises her voice if she
doesn't get it''-Chicago Record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05

President Mckinley was Monday
formally invited to attend the fall fes-
tival in Chicago and accepted the in
vitation
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05

lowing our bright example? You have
finished pressing with Lord Lynne, l
hope. Agatha is very patient; if you
had been my lover instead Of hers,
you should have stayed in the east
Evelyn, be reasonable" remon-
strated her brother. IF I had come
sooner, Agatha would not have mar
ried me. You do not know the eff
feet her sisters death had upon her.
ut was very dreadful" replied
Evelyn; "but then one cannot live al
ways under an eclipse. The sun
must shine after darkness. Do not
let her put you off again, Allan. 1
have no patience with such delays"
Allan acted upon his sisters ad-
vice. He would listen to no excuses
Agatha said she could not leave Mrs
Lynne; but he declared Lady Florence
would take her place admirably.
'The fact is, Agatha" he said, 81
have waited all my life for you, and
you have been my promised wife for
four years. Do you think it is kind
to make me wait still longer? With
neither brother nor sister at the
Chase, you cannot think my life a very
happy one"
Agatha did not send him away
again. She promised that when
August came she would be his wife.
Old times seemed to have come back
to Lynnewolde. When Agatha mar
ried Allan Leigh she laid aside her
c. dnn oh +,
Lady Florence was bright and ami
mated. Lord Lynne looked happy
once more. Yet, on this wedding day,
in the midst of happiness and fes-
tivity, they thought Of the brilliant
beautiful lady who had once been
queen of the old hall
Agatha went home with her hus-
band to the Chase; and there is no
happier wife in the world than Lady
Leigh. Her husband idolizes her. He
calls her his pearl, his treasure be-
yond price; and if he sees at times a
look of sadness stealing over her face
he charms it away.
In the old picture gallery at Lynne
wolde there hangs a portrait that,
when the family are away, visitors
ask to see. 1t is of a beautiful lady
with lovely southern face and al
mond eyes,-a smile half parts the
rich red lips, and masses of black
waving hair flow over the white shout
ders.
And that" says the visitor, lis
Lady Inez Lynne, the lady who died in
Yes replies the housekeeper; 'Fand
this is my lords second wife, Lady
Florence Lynne"
Then she turns to the portrait of a
golden haired English lady, whose ex-
quisite face and violet eyes tell of |
happiness and love.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05

Ten years afterwards Lady Leigh
watched a scene from the lawn at
LynnewOlde that charmed her 1t was
beautiful evening in June; the soft
breeze was filled with the perfume OF
roses and lilacs. Lord Lynne sat
under the shade Of the great chestnut,
with Lady Florence by his side. Mrs.
Lynne, now a Silver-haired feeble
woman, sat near them, and a group of
children were playing upon the lawn
with large dog, their especial pride
and pet. A fine, handsome boy, the
heir Of Lynnewolde, was trying to
make his sister ride upon the dog; but
the child resisted.
Then you come, Maud he cried,
turning to a lovely little girl near
him. ''You try. Inez is a coward"
Hush, Allan!' cried his father.
Come here, my darling" he said to
the little one;-she had dark, mourn
full eyes, and hair black as the ravens
wing. Come here and stay with me-
Mind, Allan,' he said; remember
what l have so often told you; you
must always be kind to Inez."
He took her in his arms and kissed
her, because she bore his dead wifes
name. He had not forgotten that
grave in the far-off land, although he
had made his true choice at last.
The End.