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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
Foreign.

The Fifteenth parliament Of Queen
Victoria opened.
1t is now expected that the czar
will recover from his attack Of typhoid
fever.
4. H. VANDERBILT, the we'll known
actor died at London from Brights
disease.
Mrs. Abbey Sage Richardson,
American author and literary critic,
died in Rome, aged Sc.
The deaths in and around Manches-
ter, Eng, resulting from poison in
beer thus far number 60.
The report of a surgical operation
On the pope is denied and the asser-
ton is made that he is well.
Gen. Auguste MERCER created a SEN
sation in the French senate by de-
claring that England could be invaded
with ease.
Miss Lillian May Langham, Ameri-
can heiress. was married in London
to Baron Speck Won Stenburg, a Ger
man diplomat
The duke of Manchester was ex-
cluded from the English house of lords
until his debts have been paid He
spent the day in buying dog and in
entertaining his friends.
The quarantine office at Bremen has
ordered that, on account Of the out
break Of the plague in south Africa,
ships from Cape Colony and Natal
are to be subjected to special ex-
animation.
The elections at Lima. Peru, passed
off with Insurance The result is
favorable to the electoral coalition
in the district of whose candidates
appear the names Of some of the most
respected citizens of Lima.
a dispatch from Manaos. announces
that volunteer corps is being organ
lied there to support the so-called re-
public of Acre against the Bolivian
troops. 1t is reported that the Be-
livian ministers in Washington and
London are negotiating for the sale
or Bolivian's rights in Acre to an
American syndicate.
w. S. Cherry, who left his home in
Chicago in the summer of 1896, is now
on his way to his home in America,
having experienced in the heart of
Africa adventures more thrilling in
many respects than those of Living
stone or Stanley. For four years, Mr..
Cherry has been living among the
Congo natives. He tells terrible
stories Of cannibalism.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
Curing Warts By Suggestion.

Among the curiosities of disease
which pathOlogists must somehow
explain and put in line with their
other observations before they can
dogmatize is as to the permanence of
warts, often apparently under nervous
influences of the character of sugges-
ton. AS is well known. the stories
about warts and their cure by strange
devices are infinite, and in many cases
are so strange that it is only on the
hypothesis OF suggestion that they
can be explained or even believed.
Needless to say, however. the theory
that such solid and obvious over
gTOWths as Warty masses can be made
to shrivel and die off under the in
HuenCe Of such a mental process as
suggestion has bearings which reach
far and can hardly be limited to warts
alone. A case is related by DR.. Dlbble
Staple Of a girl Is years old who had
a large number of warts on both her
hands. She had counted as many as
"a on the right hand. Having read
in one of the medical journals that a
of warts had been cured by
vaccination, the doctor determined,
with the consent Of her relatives. to
give the plan a trial. He therefore
revaccinated the patient on June 1.
The vaccination was successful, but
no effect was produced on the warts
until seven weeks after. when they
gradually disappeared. leaving tenn
porary white spots, and when she was
seen on August 80 she had no trace
Of them.-The Hospital.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13

laymen appointed by the last general
assembly to the Pres byterian church
to make a recommendation to the next
general assembly, which meets in
May, on the question as to whether
there shall be a revision of the con-
fession of faith, assembled at Wash
ington.
The report of Gen. ]. C. Brecken-
ridge, inspector general Of the army,
earnestly recommends that the bene-
fits of the law of March 8, 1899. pro-
viding for the retirement Of officers of
the navy, under certain conditions,
with the rank and pay OF the next
higher grade, be extended to include
officers Of the army.
Walter D. Glenn, wanted for en-
| bezzlement for nearly $4,000, has
been arrested at Rawlins, Wyo., and
| an officer armed with reQuis.tlon pa
pers is on his way to bring the
prisoner back to Chicago for trial.
| Glenn was a bookkeeper for the Me
chanics Building and Loan associa-
ton Of the latter city.
Robert Patrick was shot dead by
Samuel Keel near Tishomingo, l. T.
Patrick attempted to act as peace
maker between Keel and quarreling
ineighbors. Keel was shot through
the shoulder and seriously wounded
| by Sim Tyson, who escaped. Pat
rick's father. who was so years old,
upon hearing of his sons death DROP
| ped dead
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
She Surprised the Heather.

4 young woman at watering place
this summer made a reputation as
profound linguist in a rather odd man
ner. She called one day at a Chinese
laundry, where she had left a shirt
waist, but it could not be found, as
there was no entry in the book of
hierOglyphs corresponding to her
pink slip, After a half hours search
the Chinaman found the entry. A
mistake had been made, the entry
crossed out and a new set of hero
glyphs in tiny characters placed be-
low. She was told that the waist
would be laundered and she could get
it the next day.
The next day the young woman
called for it, accompanied by three
other young women. At the seashore
the excitement of a visit to the
Chinese laundry is not to be de-
spised. The Chinaman to whom the
pink slip was presented was not the
laundryman Of the day before, and he
experienced the same difficulty in
finding the identifying character,
finally saying, mot in book" The girl
answered calmly, II can find it" and
the Chinaman allowed her to take the
book. Turning the leaves until she
came to one that had an entry crossed
out with another in tiny characters
under it, she handed it to the China
man. There it is" and to his sur.
prise he found it.
You only lady l know spike
he said. And the other girls
looked upon her with admiration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
Domestic.

Chicago December wheat, 1912 and
705sc.
Chicago packers corner the egg
market
Brewers expect to set reduction
in the tax on beer.
Fhe duke and duchess Of Manches-
ter have arrived in New York.
Andrew Carnegie will give $4,000
toward a public library for Pekin. III.
Thlrty-two miners, caught by cave
IN at Dunmore, Pa, dug their way out.
A railroad from the great lakes TO
Hudson bay is in course of construc-
ton.
George S. House, attorney Of Joliet,
Ill, died from effects of a scratch on
his toe
The ". G. T. U. convention at
Washington adopted a protest against
this attitude of congress on prohibit.
ton
Sarah Kuhn, Sigourney, Ia, was in
dlcted on the charge Of poisoning her
husband
Commodore Alexander Henderson.
U. S. N, retired, is seriously i'll at his
home in Workers.
Governor Pingree at Detroit. par.
doned Gen w. L. White, who is under
sentence for frauds.
Four masked burglars cloroformed
the family of Charles Steiner, Alton,
ILL.,, and stole $3.50.
A New York packing firm paid 81
40, or $3.50 pound, for a steer at the
Chicago fat stock show
The new church of the Sacred
Heart, in Augusta, Ca, was dedicated
by Cardinal Gibbons.
A bill for the adoption of metric
weights and measures in 1903 was
introduced in Congress.
Tod Sloan's license to ride in Eng
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
T he Beers,

Mr.. Kruger says that he has placed
all his hope on the czar.
Mr.. Kruger plans to visit st. Peters
burg, Vienna and Rome.
Paris paper says Switzerland may
offer to mediate III the boer war.
Lord Roberts handed over to Lord
Kitchener the command of the British
troops in south Africa.
Emperor William, it is now learned
had planned to receive President Kru-
ger, but afterward reconsidered.
James G. Stowe. United States con
sulgeneral at Cape Town, predicts
that the south African war will end in
four months
The French senate, following the
lead of the chamber of deputies,
adopted resolution of sympathy with
President Kruger
An anti-English demonstration took
place in front of the British consulate
at Cologne, Germany, in which city
President Kruger was.
De Vets force attacked a British
convoy, killing fifteen and wounding
twenty-three before being repulsed.
Roberts sailed from Durham for Cape
Town.
The British premier, in parliament,
save notice to Europe that mediation
will not help the beers. Lord Rose
berry made savage assault on the
policy being pursued in south Africa.
Kruger received an enthusiastic
welcome at The Hague and every
where after reaching the Holland
frontier. He was officially received by
The burGomaster. Pro-boer demonstra-
tions occurred in Berlin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
THESE TAXES TO co
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
OFFERS AN EXPLANATION.
OF WHAT 1T WANTS DONE
Bank Checks, kilograms, Express Re-
ceipts, Proprietary Medicines,
Notes, Mortgages and Deeds Among
Things to be Relieved of Stamps
Beer and Cigars Also Favored.

Washington, Dec S-Chairman
Payne of the ways and means commit
tee has submitted the report OF that
committee, signed by all the repub-
lican members in favor of the bill re-
ducing the war revenue taxes about
S40,000,000. The report says in part:
In making the reductions in the bill
reported, the committee have sought
to remove the more annoying taxes
in the war revenue act by the entire
abolition OF those which were the most
vexatious and by the reduction Of
those which seemed to have proved a
great burden upon the several
branches of trade to which they ap-
piled. The committee recognize that
manufacturers of beer have some
claim in the general reduction Of war
revenues and they believe the amend
ment proposed in section l of the bill
making a net reduction of % cents
per barrel, gives them all the relief to
which they are entitled in view of the
reduction carried by the bill.
In the war revenue act the tax up
on cigars averaging more than three
pounds in weight to a thousand was
made $3.50. This so cents per thous-
and was very onerous to the manu-
facturers, especially those engaged in
small Way in making the cheaper
grade of cigars. The committee have
therefore reported an amendment re-
ducing this tax at the rate of so cents
a thousand.
THE two cent stamps on bank
checks, certificates of deposit, drafts,
postal money orders, ETC., were very
annoying to large class of people
and much complaint has been
made to the committee, es-
pecially from the smaller towns
and from farmers. Another source Of
annoyance has been the tax of one
cent on express receipts and telegraph
messages. There is no doubt that this
taxation caused more widespread an
nOyance and trouble than anything
else in the act. The committee there
fore have stricken these taxes from
the law. The tax upon deeds and
conveyances has been quite burden
some in numerous instances, as well
as the tax upon insurance leases. The
tax upon promissory notes and mort
cages has been very onerous upon the
debtor class. These are the principal
items that are stricken from the
schedule. The committee have re-
pealed all OF schedule 3. excepting
the tax upon wines. This includes
the tax upon proprietary medicines
and articles of similar nature"
After giving the reductions in detail,
aggregating $40,0O0.346, the report
says: ''After this reduction shall
take effect, leaving revenue $65,OOO,
900 under the war revenue act. that
sum will be barely sufficient to meet
the train Of extraordinary expendi-
lures which follow the close of actual
hostilities. We are certainly justified
in maintaining the war revenues up to
a point equal to the extraordinary ey-
penses entailed by the war"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13

ment as first and second lieutenants,
and the provision for retiring officers
who served in the civil war as of the
next higher grade was stricken out.
washington, Dec I'm the execu-
tive session Senator Teller offered an
amendment striking out of the treaty
the prohibition against the fortified.
ton of the Nicaraguan canal when
constructed. He contended that if the
United States desired to build a canal
it should proceed to do so without
trying to secure the consent of Great
Britain.
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE house to-
day passed the Grout oIeomargarine
bill by vote of 1876 to 80. The sub
stitute offered by the minority of the
committee On agriculture which i'm
posed additional restrictions on the
sale Of oleomargarine to prevent its
fraudulent sale as butter and in
creased penalties for vfolators was de-
feated by vote of 113 to IT'S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Survivors OF the cruiser Yosemite's
wreck at Guam say all that was pos
sible was done to save the ship.
Several plans for a constitution
were presented to the Cuban conVen-
ton. It was decided that the repub-
lie shall be unitarian instead OF fed
eral.
The Porto Rican house of delegates
met in Joint session with the executive
council the two bodies adopting res
olution to cable greetings to President
Mckinley.
Thirty native scouts under Lieuten-
ant Jernigan defeated 800 rebels near
Santo Domingo, LuZon. The rebel
leader Aguilar and fifteen insurgents
were killed.
BY direction of Major General Wood,
the cavalry troops in Cuba are en-
gagged in a series of practice marches
of not less than two weeks duration.
Commanding officers have been in
structed to give special attention to
the needs of actual service in cam
paigns.
l.
affairs of the war department has
prepared for PUBLICATION statement
showing that the total receipts from
customs sources in Cuba for the 10
months ending October 81. 1900, were
$13,215 ,499, while for the same 10
months of 1899 they were $12,120,991,
an increase in 1900 Of 1894, 507
Major Gorgas, chief sanitary officer
of Havana, IN his report for November,
shows that 444 deaths occurred in the
city from all causes, this being the
lowest number for the same month
during the last ten years. The deaths
due to yellow fever were fifty-four
twenty below the figures for October.
One hundred and ten thousand dollars
has been appropriated for the pur-
chase of 5000 cattle and 500 brood
mares, to be distributed among the
Cuban farmers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
China.

The German flag has been raised
over the tombs of the Ming dynasty
near Pekin.
European governments are slowly
but surely coming around to America S
policy as to China.
Baron Won Richthofen stated in the
reichstag at Berlin that the German
course in China was not war. but
armed intervention.
The ENJOYS at Pekin signed new
protocol along the lines laid down by
President Mckinley, Ii Hung Chang
reports the execution of 80 boxer lead
ers.
An imperial edict was issued de
priving General Tung Flu Hsiang of
rank, but leaving him in command of
troops. The court is to remain at
Singan Flu.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13

congress by the committee on foreign
relations, providing that none of the
provisions of the first five sections Of
the treaty should be construed as APP
plying to measures which the United
States may find it necessary to take
for securing by its own forces a de-
Tense of the United States and the
maintenance of public order" He
urged that this amendment had the
effect Of giving greater assurance to
our own people and was a necessary
safeguard.
Senator Money (dem., Miss.) made
brief speech in general opposition
to the treaty. He thought the United
States would best promote its own in
terests by constructing the canal with
out asking aid Of or consent of any
other country.
Under the bill finally reported by
the ways and means committee to the
house there is a reduction of $40 ,000,-
09G in round numbers, from the taxa
ton imposed by the war revenue act
Of 1898 This is S10,000,000 more than
the president recommended and that
sum is more than made up by the re-
auctions made in beer and cigars.
The result of the measure can be sum-
married. by saying that it repeats all
Of the stamp taxes except those upon
transactions in stock exchanges and
boards of trade upon freight bills of
lading, and upon custom-house with
drawals and entries. The special
taxes on commercial brokers, custom
house brokers, theaters, circuses, and
other public exhibitions are also re-
pealed. The tax on beer is reduced so
as to make it approximately SLIGO per
barrel instead of s1S5, as at present.
The tax on cigars is reduced from
$500 to $500 per thousand. All taxes
upon medicines and similar proprie-
tary articles, including perfumery
and chewing gum, are repealed. The
bill is to so into effect 80 days after
its passage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
NATURE STUDY.
Why do You Think a Rabbit Wabbes
Its Nose?

Its Nose?
Have you ever noticed a rabbit wab-
bling its nose? Why do you think he
does it?
Do you think big pigs grunt as an
expression of pain or pleasure? Do
the little pigs show any sign of affec-
ton for each other?
Do robins and chickens walk alike?
When sheep get up from lying down,
do they rise with their fore or their
hind legs first?
These are some of the questions
which have been submitted to the
school children of Maryland by the
lecture committee of the Children's
Playground association. Prizes will
be awarded for the best answers.
The object of the questions is best
stated by President Sylvester Of the
Maryland Agricultural college, who
wrote the committee as follows:
"The questions \ are very pertinent
and should develop the observing quail
tits of the child's mind to a remark
able extent, which is equal to the best
form or educatlOn.
In addition to those given above
some Of the nature questions prepared
by the committee are:
What is your favorite tree-an oak,
or an elm, beach or birth, a syca-
more or poplar, a maple or a chest
nut, a cedar or a pine? Say why you
like best the one you choose. Will you
try to draw a leaf of your favorite
tree? Does the tree change color in
the autumn and what color does it be-
come?
What is your favorite flower? De-
scribe it as fully as possible. Will you
draw it. if you can.
In what month does wheat harvest
come? When is corn harvested? What
do you think is the prettiest crop
growing? Which crops give the best
food for men? Which give the best
food for cattle?
Give the names by which we call
the following animals when they are
babies. Horse, goat, COW, fox, dog,
cat, sheep, rabbit, frog, deer.
Have you ever seen any rabbits? Do
they run? If not, will you describe
their movements?
What is the prettiest bird you know?
What color is it? Has it long bill or
short one? Does it sing? At what
time of day does it sing most? How
many times do crows fold their wings
after alighting?
When did you last see the moon!
Was it a, new moon, full moon or a
waning moon? What makes the moon
give light?
Many of these questions" said one
interested in the works, have been
taken from list arranged for use in
London, but we have enlarged on it.
Many questions have been suggested
by observations made by city-reared
children while on summer visits to the
country They sometimes ask the
most singular questions and have
equally singular theories of their
own regarding the habits of animals
and the nature of vegetation. The
query as to how & sheep gets up was
suggested by a little boy who saw
some sheep on Light street wharf.
Other questions were suggested in
like manner. We think it will prove
interesting to learn the theories of
children as well as the results of act
ual observation"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
FEDERAL LAW MAKERS.

Washington, Dec 4-In the house
Mr.. Hull, chairman of the committee
On military affairs reported the army
reorganization bill. He explained the
urgent necessity for immediate action
and asked unanimous consent for con.
sideration of the bill but Mr.. Sulzer
of New York objected so that Mr..
Hull introduced a resolution for a
special order for the consideration of
the bill with a provision for a vote at
the end Of six hours of general debate.
a bill was passed providing for a
detail Of not to exceed 100 retired
army officers and 300 non-comrnis
stoned officers as military instructors
IN the public schools Of such cities as
adopt a system Of military instruction.
The speaker announced the appoint
ment of Mr.. Hamilton of Michigan as
member of the committee on insular
affairs, Mr. Cverstreet of Indiana as
chairman of the committee on ex-
penditures in the department of Just
ice, Mr.. Davis of Florida and Mr.. Nc
Dermott Of New Jersey as members
OF the committee on merchant marine
and fisheries.
Mr.. Sulzer introduced a resolution
asking England to arbitrate the boer
trouble
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13

Jester-"Old Squeezit has agreed
that after his death his body shall be
turned over to the university in the in
terests of science"
Interests Of science?"
Jester-"Yes; all Squeezit's rela-
tons have insisted that he has no
heart. The doctors are going to find
out. State Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13
In the Automobile.
| take my sweet for a quiet ride
In an automobile for two,

L take my sweet for a quiet ride
In an automobile for two,
And on through the lonely lanes we
glide,
AS lovers are prone to do.
No lines to bother, no horse to fret
And lessen the evenings zest;
The lever, obedient, stays where set
And we can perform the rest.
In case our vehicle snug should balk
When far from our home we are,
Don't think we'd have to get out and
walk,
Or wait for a cable-car;
Her lips on mine in a long, long kiss,
And no one near to tell,
Would thrill me so with electric bliss,
'Twould start the machine as WE'LL
Edwin L. Sabin in Smart Set.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13

President S. A. Eliot of the Unita-
rian association calls upon the clergy
of that denomination to give serious
attention to the matter Of influencing
young men to choose the ministry as
a life work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13

Washington, Dec. Ex-senator Frye
concluded his speech upon the ship
subsidy bill. He devoted his attention
principally to technical explanation
Of the various provisions of the meas
ure, explaining with special care that
provision which would admit to Amer
lean registry foreign built ships. SEN
ator Frye said the amount of subsidy
could be no more than 100000 per
year. That limit, he said, was fixed
definitely in the bill $50 far as cost
to the government is concerned" he
added, ''it will be really no more than
S7,5O0,OO0 as subsidized ships are re-
qulred to carry United States mails
free of cost to the government"
The consideration of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty was taken up in
executive session. Senator Lodge
made a speech in explanation of the
treaty urging it's prompt ratification
as preliminary to the consideration of
the Nicaraguan canal bill
Senator Lodge vas subjected to
many questions. Senator Beveridge
asked whether it was not true that the
abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty, as provided for in the pending
treaty, would have the effect of per-
Great Britain to acquire prop
erty in the area affected Senator
Lodge replied in the negative, saying
1t was well known that the Hay-Paunce-
tote treaty, while abrogating the
treaty as far as it ap-
plies to the United States, still leaves
England bound by it's terms. The SEN
ator then discussed the amendment
suggested during the last session of !
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13

Poynette, Wis. Dec. 9.-Peter Baird
had his" hand cut off in a corn
shredder.