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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28

you are purified. By the commission
OF crime you learn real practical
morality. FamiliariZe yourself with
every crime. Take them in rotation.
There are not more than two or three
thousand. Stick TO the task diligent-
ly. Commit two or three crimes every
day, and by and by, when you have
done them all, you will be proof
against the temptation to commit any
one of them, morally perfect vacci-
mated against all wickedness
Il will tell you story about the
first time I stole a watermelon. That
is, l think it was the first time Any
how, it was right along there, some
where. I stole that melon out of a
cart while the farmer was attending
another customer Stole is a harsh
term. I will modify it and say that I
withdrew the melon. I carried it to a
secluded bower and broke it open
and it was green! 1t was the green
est watermelon that was raised in the
valley that year. The minute l saw
that watermelon was green I was
sorry.
Il began to reflect Now, reflection
is the beginning Of reform. If you
don't reflect when you have committed
a crime-why, that crime is no use to
| you at all. I said to myself, what
ought boy to do who has stolen a
green watermelon? What would
George Washington do? George Wash
ington, father of his country, couldn't
| tell lie. He was the only American
who couldn't. What would he do?
Why, there was only one right and
! high and noble thing for boy to do
who had stolen a watermelon Of that
character. He must make restitution.
He must restore the melon to its right
full owner
And 1 said, L will do it The mo-
ment l made that good resolution l felt
the noble eXaltation which comes after
you have done wrong and you deter
mine to do right. l rose up spiritual
ly strengthened and refreshed and l
carried that watermelon back-what
was left of i'll restored it to the
farmer, and-made him give me a ripe
one instead"
Having delivered himself, amid
screams of laughter, of his shining ex-
ample, Mr.. Clemens returned to his
morals.
1T is" he said, this constant i'm
pact Of crime upon crime, this stack
ing up of iniquity after iniquity, and
thus protecting yourself against the
commission of those crimes in future
it is this which builds up your moral
edifice and completes it. You cannot
become morally perfect by stealing
one watermelon, nor by stealing a
thousand. 1t has been tried. But
every little helps"
And so Mark Twain concluded with
the hope that the VagabOnds would
grow in practical morality until they
died-and might that be long time
hence.-London Mail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
A NORTHERN COLONY.

The colony of the northern people
who are to locate near Hillard,
Florida, are making arrangements to
come south at an early date this fall.
An agent of the company, with several
of the new settlers, are already on
the ground, and are much pleased
with the location, and will send a
most favorable report to those who
are still in the north. Those who pro-
pose coming are all thrifty farmers,
and will prove very valuable acquisi-
tons to the population of Nassau
county. The people Of this country,
and especially those who reside in the
vicinity Of the new settlement, should
give their new neighbors an old-fash-
toned Southern welcome and encour-
age them in every manner possible
Fernandina Mirror.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
PLENTY OF FISH IN SAMOA.

One strange feature Of this sea life
Of the tropics is the regular recurrence
of migratory swarms OF fish of very
small size that return in huge num-
bers year after year with such abso-
lutte regularity that the natives calcu-
late on the event on certain date
in each year, and even within an hour
or two Of the day. One such swarm Of
fish forms the occasion Of an annual
holiday and feast at Samoa. The fish
is not unlike the whitehall for which
the English Thames has so long been
celebrated, and each year it arrives in
Samoa on the same day in the month
of October, remains for a day, or at
the most two days, and then disap-
pears entirely until the same day the
following year. Why it comes or
whence no curious naturalist has yet
discovered, nor has anybody traced its
onward course when it leaves the Sa-
moan group; but the fact is unques-
tionable that suddenly, without notice,
the still waters of the lagoon which
surround each island within the firing
ing reef become alive with millions of
fishes, passing through them for a
single day and night and then disap-
pearing for a year as though .ney had
never come.
A visit to Samoa enabled me to see
this strange phenomenon for myself,
and to witness the native feast by
which it is celebrated year by year.
had been in Samoa for month, and
in that month | had enjoyed almost
surfeit of beauty. | had coasted the
shores Of it's islands in native canoes;
| had bathed in the warm, still wa
ters of it's lagoOns, fringed to seaward
by the white reef, on which the ocean
| broke in golden spray, and to land
ward by the silver beach of coral sand
fecked with the tremulous shadows OF
the sWaying palms. l had climbed
with my native guide the abrupt hills
covered with dense forests of tropical
luXuriance, through the arcades OF
which l caught glimpses of the flash
and luster Of the oceans myriad smiles
and again we had plunged into deep
valleys among the hills, where little
headlOng streams murmur under the
shade of the wide-spreading bread
fruit trees and wave the broad leaves
of the great water lilies of the Pacific
| islands.-Lippincott
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
FOREIGN.

An anchor and buoy used by Andree
were found.
The mikado Of Japan may go to the
Paris exposition.
Capt. Dreyfus is supposed to be on
his way to Nice.
Nine people were injured in an anti
Jewish riot in AIgiers.
The Venezuela insurgents have won
a bloody battle from the government
forces.
Jules Guerin, who has been defying
arrest in Paris, has agreed to sur
render.
Prince Henry and his German naval
squadron have arrived at Kiao Chou,
China.
The bubonic plague is raging in
Lourenco Marques, Buenos Ayres, and
Hong Kong.
Florence Marryat CMrs. Francis
Lean, the novelist, is dying at Brigh-
ton, England.
One story says that Dreyfus is COM
ing to America, and another that he
can live only few months.
The French senate began trial of
twenty-five men charged with con-
spiracy against the republic.
The anniversary Of Mexico's indie
pendence was celebrated with great
enthusiasm throughout that country.
NJ. Standardization, former Vice
President Of the French senate and one
of Dreyfus' foremost champions, is
dead
The car is said to have decided to
close all important Russian ports on
the Pacific and Baltic seas to any but
Russian ships.
Mail advices from Picking report the
sudden and dangerous illness of the
empress dowager, and the accompany
ing report that Ii Hung Chang has
been called upon to resume his old
rank and office.
Dreyfus has published the following
declaration in a Paris paper: ''The
government of the republic has given
me my liberty. But liberty is nothing
to me without honor. From today
shall continue to seek reparation for
the frightful judicial error of which
remain the victim
The plague has appeared in the Rus
sian province of Astrachan in a new
and alarming form, according to a re-
port to the state department from Con- !
sui Heenan, at Odessa. He says that |
it there takes the form Of a most NAL |
ignant and fatal pneumonia, yet &C
cording TO diagnosis it is but an OBJ
scure manifestation Of the true bubonic |
plague.
Before the Anglo-Venezuela arbi- |
tratiOn commission eX-President Ben |
jamin Harrison continued his argu- |
ment in behalf Of Venezuela, declaring |
that both sides admitted there was a
common, co-tenminus boundary be-
tween Guiana and Venezuela, and that !
any idea Of a space in which Great |
Britain could advance was alien to the |
views Of her ministers and to those
expressed in the diplomatic CORES
pondence.
Both England and the Transvaal are
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
MARK TWAIN'S MELON.
The Path Of Crime Which Leads to
Virtue.

Mark Twain was the guest of the
new Vagabond club at the Holborn
restaurant last night.
Having a large assembly of Vaga-
bonds to address he made use Of the
occasion to develop a brand-new
scheme Of mortality.
Mr.. George Grossmith, the chair
man, provided the text He said that
was the first time he had ever taken
the chair
"Quite So" said Mark Twain ad-
dressing the gathering. perhaps you
didn't see the full bearing Of that re-
mark. I did. Though he didn't say
it, he meant that he had taken lots
Of other things, but never a chair.
Now Mr.. Grossmith is like myself-a
practical, not theoretical moralist."
And Mark Twain, in his funny,
singing way, and with his Hiawatha
repetitions, explained his practical
morality"
you do not learn it at Sunday
school. There they teach you TO
avoid temptation. That is theoretical
morality. Now, would teach you to
familiarize yourself with crime, so
that you will know what you must not
dc. That is practical morality. I be-
gin by teaching you how to steal.
at is by the fires Of experience that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28

preparing for hostilities, although the
efforts for peace are also making.
President Kruger, in replying to the
latest proposals Of the British govern
ment, states THAI the Transvaal ar
IDENTIFY desires arbitration. President
Kruger is reported to have cabled a
long message to Queen Victoria beg
ging her Intervention to prevent blood
shed. England is thrown into war
panic by the latest reply of President
Kruger. A Berlin dispatch states
that Germany has informed Kruger
that he need expect no help from that
quarter in the event of war. The
beers are massing artillery at the en-
trance to the Transvaal War risks
on consignments to the Iransvaal are
increased so per cent. in view of the
| threatened war.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
THIS AND THAT.

1t would be only neighborly for that
prominent ex-American family, the
Castella mes, to give Mr.. Aston some
information on how to get a title in
a hury.-Washingto Star.
A scientist" holds that Adam was a
colored man. Then the apple was a
chicken.-Kansas Cinty Times.
That fond meeting between the re-
turning wife, and the stay-at-home
summer husband is always touching
the wife being invariably dead broke.
st, Louis Republic.
The photographers assembled in st.
Louis say that it is just as difficult as
ever to photograph a baby, though
prices are lower than formerly. To
make matters worse, there are more
babies than ever.-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
REVOLT OF A SUMMER GIRL.
She Couldn't Stand the City F'al de
Lals When She Was in the Country.

Die cOuIul oldlIu JIG SIIy L oil dC
Lals When She Was in the Country.
The first few days of her visit at
country house this summer girl went
about with trailing skirts, Skin-tight
sleeves, a sylphine waist and her neck
properly choked by high stocks, band
ed ribbons and yards of fluff, relates
the Chicago Chronicle.
She looked very we'll, she felt-Well,
every woman who has had to tag
around with company clothes and
company manners as a summer bond
age knows how this girl felt while she
waved her fan, hitched her sWirling
draperies from underfoOt and plucked
viciously at her binding collars when
nobody was looking.
The weather kept growing hotter
and the clothes mere burdensOme.
One morning the fashionable sufferer
drove into the village with a dress suit
case and two big bundles in tow.
When she came back the case and bun
dies were not with her and she looked
mySLcIIOuS, Jul SdClSlISu, IL qulAASh
regarding her mission.
A few days afterward the eXplana-
ton came when she whisked into
the breakfast room looking anything
but la monde and yet so comfortable
that all the women stoppeu tanning
and stared.
That's right, eye me, every one of
you," she laughed. Il expect I'll be
ostracised by such a smart crowd. [
don't care. I'll take these buds and
move on but Pm done, just done, with
style for the rest of the season. That
little village dressmaker has my
gowns and orders to chop off the tails,
shorten the sleeves and saw down the
necks. See this skirt" sure enough
it swung scarcely below the ankle
"and this sleeve?" and an arm bare
from the elbow was waved tantaliz-
ingly before them. AS for my throat,
what's left of it Is going to be saved
Surplice waists like this III wear If
look as old fashioned as a dag1Ierreo-
type. I've put up with discomfort as
long as I'm going to and now I'm just
going to let myself go and be a good
natured dowd."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
NEW UPRISING AT SAMOA.
Excitement Is Increasing and Hostili-
ties May Be Resumed.

Berlin, Sept. 24.-The correspondent
Of the Cologne Gazette, who is max
ing tour of Samoa, telegrahps his pa
per that there is increasing excitement
and anti-German sentiment in the ISL
ands, owing to alleged British machin-
atoms. The correspondent predicts a
new uprising unless the malcontents
are energetically restrained
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
SENATOR WHITE BETTER.

San Francisco, Sept 24.-The condi-
ton of Senator Stephen ". White is
much improved and his friends have
great hopes for his ultimate recovery.
William Schutt of Pennington died
suddenly Of heart disease, aged SIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
DOMESTIC.

A bad fire occurred at Los Angeles.
Army worms are destroying lawns
in Marinette, Wis.
The League of American Municipali-
ties met at Syracuse.
Paul Capeddeville has been nomi-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
CHICAGO PIONEER DIES.

Oconomowoc, Wis, Sept. 24.-Mrs.
Mary K. Peck, one of Chicago's
earliest settlers and mcther of F. W.
Peck, American commissioner at the
Paris exposition, died here Saturday
after a long illness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
Howfson to Greet Dewey.
ashington, Sept. pa mess;

Washington, Sept. pa message
has been received at the navy depart
ment from Rear Admiral Howison,
who is with his feet at the Barbados,
that he will arrive at New York by the
time Dewey gets there. This will dig
place Rear Admiral Sampson as the
chief naval officer receiving Dewey, be-
cause Howison outranks Sampson.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-19

boring work was done by Cuban prisoners
ana poems. 1t was task of long dura-
lion. Roads had to be built and mate
rial hauled by OK teams from the citv
whRrvess The creek to be utilized was
small and it ran down the mountain side
through tangled jungle of tropical veg
citation. Nowhere was it more than a doz-
en- feet in width.
A limestone wall twenty-five feet high
and five feet thick was thrown across a
little borge, ,hen an oblong receiving
tank hardly larger than those supplying
the ordinary American hotels. was built
al one side. The Spanish engineers Ia
bored frem day 90 day throughout the
year, and about twelve months after the
commencement, told Col Alvarez that the
wonderful dam was ready.
How the Water Pipes We're Laid.
Now came the question of laying the
pipe line. The stretch of country between
the nils and the city was rough and
broken A rather high hin interposed in
the direct line, and il would be necessary
10 skirt its base for a couple of miles.
Ihen there were two rivers to be crossed,
and deep gully to be spanned. Strange
TO say, neither the colonel nor his engi-
heers mad gone over the ground before
commencing the construction of the dam
the mountains, but they forgot that a pipe
line over broken country was rather
stupendouS problem. 1t looked at this
stage of the game as if the worthy citi-
zens OF Santiago would either have to go
pack TO their cisterns or else haul water
from the dam by OK teams.
A year passed and then the benevolent
Spanish colonel resumed the task For
various reasons the size of the pipe was
reduced 10 eleven inches, and it was or
dered laid under ground wherever prac-
tcable, and above ground in other places
bitches were dug, masonry supporters and
aqueducts constructed, and finally the pipe
line crawled its way into the city amid
the cheers of the people. Smaller mains
were laid, public water stations erected
in various parts of the town, and a sup
ply equal 10 100000 gallons daily delivered
to the citizens. 1t was barely sufficient for
their needs in those days, and now, with
the great increase of population, the total
supply suffices for only six hours of the
twenty-four.
1t is a serious question in Santiago-a
ques lion beside which the military and po-
litical aspects are as nothing. The health
and sanitary welfare of the city depend
upon the supplying of pure water TO the
people, and strenuous efforts are now be-
ing made by the interchangeable governor,
Gen. Leonard Wood, to solve the problem
before the arrival of the next sickly sea-
son. Ultimately an entirely new dam and
reservoir will be needed but for the pres
ent several pumps will be constructed and
a series of wells dug near the city
The old pipe line will soon have out-lived
its usefulness, but it will remain long in
the memory of those who marched with
Shafter before Santiago, as Gen. Torafs
April fool" Henry Harrison Lewis.
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AN IMPORTANT TEST.
Your Life May De Prolonged by APP
plying IL.

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Harrison. wasn't 1t. who made me POST
.--a.4or lcpara12"

Harrison, wasn't it. who made me POST
master Gcneral?"
ives | believe So" ! said
.Weu 1 wanted TO carry ont my cen.
tralizatiop idea with the postofiices aEu
nave chem all under one roof, say at ~
louis or some other moderately central
noint but the President objected 70 y on
he score of its making il easy for 81.
Touisianians-no, that isn't the way 10 can
'em IL Il? Wen, you know who mean.
ne seemed 90 think IL would be incon-
veniept for Indianapoliticians. He thought
II would be convenient for them and Chl-
rogoats TO go to st. Louis for their mail,
hnf I think It would have saved the gov
Eminent millions Of dollars. ! gave up the
scheme. although It was pet idea But
7 have another one that I VIII put into OPP
Grafton II we ever come out OF this aeci-
dent alive"
what is IT," asked /.
"tust then the carriage upset We were
both thrown out and the horse was stop
ped by a policeman.
what Is that idea?" / repeated. as
soon as he came 20.
why, / intend TO bug all the stores
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IN New York and place them up here in
Cfntr01 pork and i'uf hie roof nver fhs
whole shobang, and II 1t isn't the Biggest
tong. va caItn n4isa lny aaeAa ia y~Y
the park carriages and visitors TO my
store can ride all over it in them. III
devote the lake to its present use, only
instead Of cars I'll have bargain sales 20
make the boats 20, and il an the world
doesn't come 70 trade at Wanamaker's
Central Park Department Store Il won't
be tho fault OF Honest John.
JUST then the ambulance came up ana
we tainted together as If we'd been drilled
to IT, ButI got the interview all right.
afd2 Charles Batteil LOOMS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-19

Miss Helen Sargent Is president of the
Art Workers Club for Women, new or
SANITATION formed In New York for the
purpose. primarily Of improving the So
eial status of the artists model and hav-
ing the model receive al least some OF the
honor resulting from the finished picture.
Another idea Is 20 have che artists and
their models meet each other socially. The
club is so far made up largely Of MEM
bars OF the Art Students LEAGUE
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-19

The Countess OF castellane, daughter
OF the late jay Gould. has just moved into
the palace In the avenue OF the Bots da
Boulogne which has been in course Of con-
struction for several years. The stone
employed is similar TO that Of the Arc de
Triomphe and the marble came from Italy.
The great feature win be the ballroom.
which occupies about a third OF the area.
This magnificent abode promises TO be one
Of the sights Of the French capital.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-19

hereditary faint extended to the grand
Parents Of the patients. 62.3 per cent. show
ed evidences of heredity.
With such startling figures upon the
consciousness Of the disease. its deadli-
ness Is even more appalling. Zubiana
says of H.
OF al tubercular subjects diagnosed by
the ordinary means. IS per cent die. 4
percentage of cures of 20 to % represents
notable progress."
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Not only this, but a society for the
prevention of tuberculosis Is forming in
Chicago. Some Of the most prominent
physicians In the city are behind the move
ment It's chief mission IN the beginning
will be educational II will andeayor to
awaken public sentiment to the vital i'm
portance of hospitals and homes for those
suffering from tuberculosis, and to impress
upon the patient his personal obligations
10 society in minimizing the danger OF in
fecting his fellow man. In The end it
proposes 70 have developed, broadened and
progressed until the tuberculosis no long
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