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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15

there, why we may soon be able to re-
tore some Of our iate-lamented buried
ones to life. You say that DR.. Norman
claims to have made Mr.. RoUss see
his own hand. I have had men totally
blind in my office who imagined they
could see their uplifted hand, but they
could see no one else's. It was purely
a matter Of imagination. There are
cases OF blindness caused by some pc
CUliar, and to us ineXplicable, hysteri-
cal state A shock is liable to effect
cure in such a case It is impossible
that Dr.. Norman imagines Mr.. Rouss
to be afflicted with blindness of this
character and hopes to effect a cure by
his occult Or hypnotic method. But
where the optic nerve 6bres have
wasted away no human hand or brain
can devise a restoration OF the part.
eff Norman is a quack, should the
public be protected from him and his
kind? | say it certainly should and
there are laws on our statute books
which make it possible. But the public
is not quite prepared for this general
prosecution. 1t still imagines that
medical laws are formed for the pro-
tecton Of he medical fraternity. We
have no laws to protect cobblers, tai
! lors, grocers or any other class of
tradesmen, then why should we have
laws to protect doctors? The laws deal
with Tho p,,I,I;o health md II :c tho
public that needs this protection, not
| the doctors. It is a strange thing that
we Of New York state should imagine
a graduate of the University of Penn
sylEania, one of the best medical
| schools in the country, to pass an ex-
animation before permitting him to
practice here, and yet an occulist from
| India can come here and without
| molestation treat so delicate a part OF
| the human system as the eye. In my
opinion the states of this great nation
! should all legislative on the subject in
! such a way that it would be the duty of
! the district attorneys to ferret out and
j prosecute these cases. At present in
| ILLS CITY the OOuuty MVUlCdl society
pays an attorney $1,000 a year to secure
+ evidence and to push cases through the
courts. All the expenses OF the prose
cution are borne by the medical society
and still it is matter of the greatest
Importance that the public health
should be safe-guarded by it's own
officials. In my opinion there should
be an assistant district attorney in
charge of this subject, and prosecu.
tons would then become gradually
recognized as really in the interest OF
the public and not in the interest OF
doctors.
''The great body OF physicians OF
this country have one object always in
view, which carries with it the effort
to protect the public, and that is the
elevation of the profession.
"One of the objections made to the
raising of the standard of medicine Is
that the whole thing savors of trade
| unionism., and that medical men al
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To be continued.
"cear Sir" and "Yours Truly"

To shorten labor and save time is to
lengthen life. When, therefore, our
contemporary, the Haberdasher, pro-
poses to reduce the burden of business
correspondence by abolishing Dear
SIR and yours very truly" it is pro-
posing to reform in the interest of
longevity.
Actual eyoeriment has shown that it
takes a typewriter one hour to write
the formal words with which they are
opened and closed on a batch of 500
letters. The Haberdasher finds that
mail of the world, which is 100000
900 pieces, the Dear sirs" and yours
very trulys," even if all written by ma
chine, would take the time of one type,
writer $500 years, counting 800 days
to the working year. The cost of the
typewriting thus needlessly done every
year, allowing $40 per week as the
typewriter's wages, is s3,35G,0OO.
Why not, it asks, drop these mean.
ingless phrases and begin right of
John Smith & Co.," say what you
have to say, and sign it 'T. Brown &
| Coz"
Why not, indeed? Is telegram any
| less courteous and effective than a
letter? But we never use any more
words in kilograms than are needed te
i convey our meaning.-New York
| World
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Continued.

Meanwhile, the happy bride anc
bridegroom had left care and trouble
behind. The day was glorious, the
bride beautiful and we'll content, ii
not in raptures, the bridegroom beside
himself with delight. He was SC
deeply, so uttrely in love himself that
he did not observe any deficiency in
her.
That she was delighted, smiled at ali
she saw, enjoyed everything with such
sweet simplicity, seemed enough to
him. A man who is dazzled by the
light Of the sun does not see the faint
light of a star. He was SO dazed with
his own love, $50 mighty, so pure, and
true" that he did see any deficiency
in hers.
He thought himself the most fortu-
nate man in the world that he had
won SO fair and innocent a BRIDE He
kew that in his sphere the rule was
to marry for money, rank, or position,
how often he had laughed at barefaced
angling for a coronet, and how with
his laughter had been mingled con-
tempt. He had seen some Of the fair
est girls in England led to the altar
by men who were not worthy to touch
even the hem Of their garments; yet,
their vices and sins being we'll gilded,
one ever resented them. He re-
membered this, and congratulated him
self that his marriage would be one
Of thousand he was married for
himself, for love; married to one who
not only was ignorant Of his claim to
birth and fortune, but actually detested
both, and would not knowingly have
married him ha? she known who he
really was, for the teachings OF Miss
Anterior had sunk deeply into the
heart and mind OF her niece
The happy young bridegroom lis
tened with smile Oh his lips to Vio-
let's denunciations OF the aristocracy
How little she dreamed that she was
speaking to a representative man of
the very class she abhorred,
He was young, and the world lay
bright before him. He never thought
of the day in which she would learn
the truth, and perhaps resent having
had SD deception practiced upon her
He did not look beyond the happy pres
ent, this beautiful wedding morn, the
honeymoon that was never to end, with
the neyer-ceasing melody of it's sweet
love story.
He was too young to anticipate
trouble; and ne began his married life
as blithely as if he had not had the
proudest woman in England for his
mother and the most thorough hater
of all aristocrats for his wife.
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incompetent they are, the greater will
be the contrast between himself and
them. and the larger will be the fees
he can command. There is very little
doubt that medical laws, by raising the
standard Of medicine, have increased
the competition between equally quail,
fed men and have reduced the size O.
medical fees. That medical laws entail
hardships to quacks a4d ipcompetente
OF all sorts is true, and that they pro
tect the public by SO doing is also
true; but they do not increase
the fees Of medical men, and they
never Will It may be said without
lear Of successful contradiction that
medical laws are made for the sole
purpose Of benefting the public and
protecting it against quacks and char.
latans, and that is the emily just reason
why such laws should be on the statute
books"
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BLACKSTONE AND DIME NOVEL
Study Prescribed by Missouri Judge
for Young Law Student.

When / was d Jaw STUDENT III the
ONCE OF young attorney" said New
York man, my first lessons IN oratory
we're learned by listening to my pre-
.eptor read selections from Seth
Jones' the dime novel hero. The law
yer was aftecward judge, congressman,
and at the time OF his death a United
states district judge in Arkansas, hay
ing been appointed by Grant in the lat
Cer's second administration. You have
heard OF him, Isaac c. Parker, for
some OF his decisions made his name
lamiliar to the bench and bar Of the
country.
II was a STRIPPING when Parker
swung his shingle in st. Joseph, Mo.
He was a young man, and young men
at that time had to wait. After l had
been in his Office a short time he quick
iy discovered, l think, that | required
some sort Oh diversion in order to whet
my appetite for WendelPs Blackstone,
N the first volume of which he drille,.
me as assiduously as any student was
drilled in the primaries.
''Beadle's dime novels were the only
easy reading for boys in that town.
The dealer who had them on sale dis
posed Of them surreptitiously. Novels
Of any sort we're not countenanced
then by the best society. Cards were
the devils device. But dime novel
was the broad road to destruction. The
boys who bought and read them
formed circulating library, the rrin-
cipal books Of which we're Tom Bea-
dies press. The reading room was in
a hayloft. Here the volumes were con-
cealed when not in hand. I carried
our only copy Of Seth Jones' to Par
ker's law office one day, and while on
an errand | left it hidden under my
Blackstone, Volume l.
When returned Parker was read
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/ tillIA | read more pages OF
1.aeASto1e is ,na. E.our tAal was my
..o4-t. %. Gne reason InaI Parker held
u 20 nay Beadie during that time AS
/ remember the story, whea rne star
character IN the rovel IS confronted by
ts--otheI, VINO Inqaires, Who is Seth
JoEes?' the hero replies, I'm Seth
Jones, from New hampshire This,
II tie estimation OF Parker, was the
dramatic situation in the story, and he
jumped from his chair and read it
aloud with fine declamatory effect. l
shall never forget how his reading i'm
pressed ne
Finally | had to return Seth Jones'
70 the Library, Or stand a fine, six sto-
gies for cent. A few days afler PAR
ker asked Tor it, and when l told him
had returned it he wanted to know
where another copy could be bought. l
told him confdentially, and he sent me
to purchase copy. The dealer re-
FUSED to sell 1t to me without on order.
This was his rule, forced by stern par
ents, who doubtless did not imagine
that they were thereby encouraging
their progeny in forgery. | returned
to Parker with the information and
he wrote an order for one copy of Seth
Jones, which l laid before the book
man with a good deal of pride. When
ne looked at the order he said the writ
-ng was illegible and he couldn't read
It, for Parker's chir9graphy was not of
the kind one could read even when it
vas carefully written. Again | re-
turned to the Office with the order, and
crestfallen.
Parker was furious He picked up
a pound weight, which was his paper
holder, and, putting it in his pocket,
left with the remark that he would
hammer the bookman's eyes open until
he could read Chinese. I remained to
contemplate the righteous assault.
Soon after Parker returned with the
novel and laid the weight back in it's
place. He was my ideal of hero at
that moment.
Now, ne said, opening the novel,
we shall resume our Seth jones'
readings After he read several pages
he turned to me and asked:
W nat was it that other man asked
Seth Jones?'
WHO is Seth Jones?' l replied
more promptly than / had ever an
swered a question about primogeniture,
or any other subject in Blackstone
This was Parker's cue, -. .iirew
down the book, and, srrlKIng a heroic
attitude, he numbered: I'm Seth
Jones OF New Hampshire!'
j continued in Parker's Office Tor
year. / followed his successful career
to It's close. He was q powerful plead
er, a fearless jurist, and a representa-
tive OF more than average ability, hav-
ing served three consecutive terms in
congress. [ frequently heard him On
the stump, but in all his efforts he
never impressed me as he did when he
used to turn from his examination of
Blackstone and exclaim with dramatic
force: I'm Seth Jones from New
Hampshire
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
GOLD AT CAPE NOME.
Many Curious ReeeptacIes for Great
Wealth.

William J. Quinn. a Yukon river
miner for seven years and one of the
first two dozen men who located
claims at Cape Nome, is visiting rela-
tives in town. He is investing some
of his suddenly made money in real
estate and preparing to return to his
placer mines on Anvil Greek at Cape
Nome by the first steamer to Alaska
from San Francisco. -tOne Of the
most notable things about the new
placer gold fields at Cape Nome" said
he the other day, was the careless
way that the gold was stored and
cared for last summer 1t was com
mon to find five-gallon kerosene oil
cans half or wholly filled with gold,
standing on the floor of an unguarded
tent or in the corner of a cabin. l be-
lieve that just before the steamer
Bertha sailed from Nome last October
with big shipment Of gold dust and
nuggets to the San Francisco mint,
there was about half ton of gold
stored in all manner of primitive re
ceptacles and odd ways in the tents on
the beach. Beside, there was fully
1900 pounds of gold similarly saved in
the tents and cabins Of the miners
along the creeks and in the gravelly
gulches back of Nome. Any hollow
thing was used-soup tureens, tin
cans, glass bottles, boots, gas pipe.
paint buckets, fur garments and even
stockings and goloshes. Very few Of
the miners failed to get some gold the
first day they PANIED and rocked fol
it. Flieir hoard grew fast and they
had 40 strong box, no pouch in which
to store it. In some instances the
makeshifts were amusing. One man
made great pouch for his gold out OF
an enormous chest and back protector
! "a sort of waistcoat made of sealskin
which he had cured. dressed and mace
himself. Another miner utilized q
joint Of stovepipe. He didn't have
even tent when he went to Nome
Some one threw away a rusty stove
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
CHAPTER XIII.

Some months had passed since the
marriage in the little church at ST.
Byno's, and the young lord was, if pos
sible, more in love with his wife than
ever. She had grown more beautiful,
because the character OF her beauty
was more refined. Lord RIVERS him
self was one Of the most refined OF
men. Constant association with him
had given a grace and courtesy to her
manner that nothing else could have
given. When Lord RIVERS had first
met Violet at st. Byno's she had been
quick and clever in an extraordinary
degree, but her education had been a
simple one. Since that time she had
read great deal, and Lord RIVERS had
been most careful in his selection OF
books for her.
You must read what every one else
reads he said to her one day. $50
many quotations from and illusions to
favorite books are made in society,
that one must be pretty well educated
and well read even to follow the con-
versation."
Il like reading" Violet said, laugh
ing; 'ibut why do you prepare me as
though it would be my fate to mix with
so many clever people?"
ct will be your fate at some future
time he replied.
do you consider all artists clever?'
she asked quickly.
They should be- he answered, cor
they will make very poor artists
Lord RIVERS was very proud Of his
young wife. He had not dared pur-
chase such O. wardrobe as he desired
for her, fearing that by so doing her
suspicious would be excited, but he had
insisted on her wearing beautiful
dresses and, although she had cried
out against the extravaganza, she was
pleased with his purchases, and en-
iOyed wearing her exquisite costumes.
One evening, when they were going
out, he had looked at her with a most
comprehensive glance, from the golden
head to the little shapely foot.
you ought to wear white silk, white
lace and pearls, Violet" he said, moth
ing else would suit your style so we'll. -
Had you not better suggest dia-
monds and satin?' she rejoined laugh
ing merrily. you must have a Gu
rious idea of what is, suitable for the
dress Of artists wives, Randolph
Il know how you ought to look, and
how you shall look" declared her hus-
band.
Randolph" she said, seriously,
you never seem to think of money"
Money" he replied. why should
I, my dear?''
'FWhy should you?" she echoed, with
a smile that he thought the most beau
tiful he had ever seen. why, the an
swer is plain enough! If we go on
spending money as we have done, we
shall soon have none left. Do you
know" she added, looking up at him
with laughing eyes, that we have the
best Of everything?"
To be continued
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The Chaflatans OF Medicine.
Great Ocust Attacks The lien Who Claim To flake
Big Cures.

Charles Broadway Rouss, the mill
ioraire New Yorker, is totally blind.
yet Dr.. Norman OF India, proposed to
resurrect an atrophic optic nerve and
incidentally earn a million-dollar fee.
Dr. Frank Van Fleet, chairman Of the
committee of legislation OF the New
York County Medical society and
lecturer on diseases OF the eye at the
Post Graduate college, when requested
for an interview, took advantage Of
the occasion to deal DR.. Norman an0
his kind, a few sledge-hammer blows.
LAS l understand it, he began. 'Mr.
Rouss is afflicted with atrophy OF the
optic nerve. Presuming this to be the
case, cure is simply impossible.
Atrophy s death, and if it is possible
to resurrect an optic nerve that is not
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
Shocked the Chinese Minister.

Upon Miss Mignon Shannon, of New
Brunswick, N. j., has fallen the en-
phatic approval of WI Ting-fang, the
Minister from China.
When the Chinese Minister and his
nephew, Fung Choo Shee, were at
Cape May, n. j., few days ago they
were invited to attend hay ride.
Now neither WI Ting nor Fung Choo
had ever participated in hay ride be-
fore, anu they accepted without hest
tation
For the first mile or SO of the ride all
went well and the Cinnamon were de-
lighted To them it was more weird
than Chinese theacer is to an Ameri-
can. Therefore they enjoyed it.
But when the sharp eyes of Minister
WI sa,, the arm of a gay youth steal
about the waist of his pretty sweet
heart the OrientaPs smile Of delight
changed to a frown. In China one
does not make love in public. There
was more hugging, it is said, and these
things Jared upon the Minister'S
nerves.
decorum was greatly shocked. He
looked upon the faces Of the young
| women expecting to see them annihiI
ate their companions with a look. But
instead he found the girls smiling and
all too evidently enjoying the frolic that
would have Mortified a geisha and
caused the whole party to be hailed
| IN, IN hn al
| Kingdom.
There was one exception. One girl,
| the fairest in the crowd, liked not the
masculine sport of hugging. She held
aIoof, and her haughtiness was IN
| strange contrast with the abandon OF
the others. This girl became Minister
Wu's heroine She is Miss Mignon
| Shannon.
When the ride was half over Minis
! ter WI and his nephew declared they
would walk to their hotel. He did not
conceal his displeasure.
Goodnight" Mr.. WI said coldly to
J the merrymakers. Then the Minister
bowed low to Miss Shannon.
Goodnight, Miss Shannon" he said.
| Il hope to see you again." And the
two strolled away in the darkness.
well, you know" said one of the
| girls when the ride was resumed, the
Chinese are not thoroughly civilized
even yet"
Il think he was perfectly right, and
l like him." said Miss Shannon.
Miss Shannon is not likely to lose
any Of her popularity because of her
| attitude during the hay ride. She ia
well known at Cape May, where she
goes every summer, and there are al
ways and will probably continue to be
many young men anxious to ait as
caddie when she plays golf or hold
| her umbrella when she plunges in the
| surf
In New Brunswick, her home, she Is
as popular as at the seaside. She Is
| the daughter of DR.. P. A. Shannon, the
city physician, and one of the leaders
of the younger society set.-New York
Journal.
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CHAPTER XII.

Never did life open SO fairly. Lord
RIVERS had taken his beautiful young
wife direct to Paris; he knew that ev-
erything there would be novelty to
her-hotel life, perhaps, the greatest Of
all. He had taken her at once to Meu-
RIGS, and Violet was as much aston
ished as he had expected her to be.
On the morning after their arrival
he asked her what she would like best
to see-parll, palace places Of historic
interest, cathedrals, grand old shrines
what should it be? And she looked
with wonder and interest in her beau
tiful eyes.
'Take me first to the site Of the
old Bastile," she said, "and to the
streets where, in the time of the first
Revolution, the blood of the people
ran like rivers"
The words struck him as being very
forcible; but he yielded at once. She
was bride Of twenty-four hours, and
her least wish was sovereign law.
Would you not like best to see the
Tuileries, the Bots de Boulogne, or the
grand old Cathedral of Notre Dame?"
mo; l prefer what I said. I should
like to see the site Of the grim old
Bastile. My aunt gave me the Hos
tory Of the Old Bastile' to read, and
l have shed many tears over it. All,
what days they were! I think that,
II ever God arose in history it was
at the time of the French Revolution,
when the voice Of the people found
hearing, and their wills worked Woe "
What fierce democrat you are
Violet" he said, laughingly. Il
should think you are the first bride
who has made such a curious choice
Other brides have probably had q
different training" she reioined
They have been taught to admire
what | have been taught to hate.
must say that Aunt Alice has sue
ceeded perfectly well in imbuing my
mind with her own ideas"
Lord RIVERS laughed; but there was
something e ne sound of his laughteI
which suggested uneasiness.
Il believe it is mere theory OF
your part, Violet" he said 81 am sur,
If handsome young earl or marquis
had asked you to marry him, and 70,
had loved him, you would not have re
fused him simply because he was al
aristocrat; now, would your
Yes" she replied, after few me
ments' silence, Il would I would hav
refused him, even if my refusal ha
broken my heart. But then, you sex
Randolph, j could never have loved a
aristocrat: my own instinct woul
have been all against him" And sh
wondered why q shadow fell over tn
face of her young husband. Il detes
selfishness and self-indulgence, an
those a~e the two great characteristic
Of the ar.stocracy. My own instine
could keep me from loving a selfis
man."
Il do rot think you judge fairly. vi,
let" he said. 81 grant that among III
aristocracy there are selfish. self,
dulgent men and idle, useless womel
perhaps worse; must say this ais
that the finest. bravest, noblest men i
the world are tc oe found in the ranl
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ready possessing the right to practice
desire to exclude competitors, the ad-
y0cates Of this plea believing that more
rigid requirements would lessen the
number Of students who would ma
circulate at the medical colleges. But
this is not true, for the number, in
stead CT diminishing, is steadily in
creasipg. and the students OF today
are better qualified to take up this
most important calling than ever be
fore. The idea was, and IS, to protect
The public from incompetent and dis
honest practitioners.
The competent medical man needs
no laws for his protection; If he is
competent. that in itself is his protec-
ton ard the greater the number of
incompetent competitors, and the more
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No Christmas RafTes.

Racine, Wis. Nov. 10.-Chief Of Pc
lice Schumacher yesterday created a
stir by serving notice On the saloon
keepers that raff1es must cease and all
caught violating the law will be arrest
ed and prosecuted. There are 12O sa
looms in the city and during the holi
days week raff1es of turkeys, geese
ETC., haze always been held which re
suited in a large revenue.