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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

tops of the sleeves are covered with
three hemstitched shingles to cor
respond with the trimming OF the
bodice, an insertion of lace breaking
the plain nainsook of the upper arm,
while a ruffie Of lace finishes them at
the elbows. A little turnover of lace
and lawn is to finish the cravat stock
Of blue taffeta.
1t is both pretty and easy work to
make the little lingerie waists of lace
and lawn which are to beso much the
thing this summer The prectiest are
built Of insertions OF yalenciennes and
tucked lawn, or perhaps entierly of
lace insertions in two widths, run to-
gether with fancy headings of lace.
They are unlined. and their principal
TT is about the shoulders and IN the
correct shape and fit of the sleeves.
which may be tight or in shirt shape,
with soft turned-down cuff or lappet
Of lace over the hand Their trigness
comes from the perfectly-corseted
figure and from the perfect touch
" AA-S-A 60 4 -NA1S $S ~ L1e]S(S4 4uAAs IuS Idl-
feta ribbon stock and pointed belt.
A plain white lawn waist in simple
bebe shape is pretty, with a sleeveless
bolero of lace insertions which has
pointed front pieces to tie over the
bust with hanging ends.
Gathered skirts, fichus, elbow sleeves
and stomacher effects are the chief
new features, one of which will I'M
doubtedly distinguish every summer
frock of any pertensions to smartness
The gathered skirt and the fichu are
especially desirable in summer ma
terials. and when one is of striped
taffeta and the other of white gauze
and valenciennes, one might think the
days of the grandmothers had come
again.
AS for hats for the spring, musIins,
chiffons. flowers and leaves are the
principal materials, often combined,
as for instance, in a toque built en-
tlrely of green rose leaves with a
bunch of roses atop, or a turban of
plated chiffon with wings of ruched
chiffon iaring from a paste buckle,
but no goddess feathers of innocent
birds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17
ONE RI0TER KILLED.

st. Louis, May 16.-Th6 81. Lotus
Transit company made no effort TO
run Its cars yesterday and the St.
Louis & Suburban made none until
late in the afternoon when, with police
massed along thelineand detachment
on each car, it succeeded in getting a
number through. Far from relieving
the situation, however, this demon
stration had no further effect than to
show that by massing forces on d
single line, the police could keep that
line open. At 9 o'clock last night as a
suburban car was passing the Bap-
list sanitarium number of men gath
cred in the grounds Of the institution
and threw rocks at it. Some one on
the car fired a shot at the crowd. kill
ing Frank Lebrecht.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

hibited (yet rarely by very strong
healthy men of so or 65 years of age.
1 was Mr.. Hopes guest, and as l had
two or three appointments to preach
(perhaps at Bethel, Chestnut Grove
and Aberdeen), Mr.. Hope kindly Of
fered to escort me. This very kind
offer | accepted and I much enjoyed
the trip and his society. His mind was
clear and his memory good and withal
ne was a keen observer of things
around him.
On this trip Mr.. Hope gave me an
account Of visit he had made in
company with his father, TO General
Washington when he was about 19
years old. General Washington was
on a visit to Baltimore, which was
some 80 miles distant When he and
his father arrived in Baltimore they
went to the Town Inn Hotel, where
washington was stopping, and at his
invitation they remained and took
supper with him
When supper was announced they
sat down to a plain table and I think
he said that Washington said grace
and then they were waited on by the
servants. And after that Washington
turned to the waiter and asked him
about his supper" when he replied
that The had forgotten it." He then
went out of the room and soon re-
turned and placed before the General
"a bowl Of mush and milk which
constituted Ibis supper"
A bowl Of mush and milk, Surely
a dish fit for a king, president, a
governor, a congressman, a citizen, a
clergyman or an editor! But I think
that there are not many Of our young
people, trained as they are, who would
have imagined that General Washing
ton could have chosen for his supper
at Baltimore hotel a plain bowl OF
mush and milk But thus it was that
uncOnsciously he showed his greatness
constantly, in his plain, commonsense
way of living and doing, in his entire
lack Of pOmposity, and of effort to
make those around him think Of his
greatness. And it may always be put
down as unquestiOnable that when a
man is trying to impress those
around him as to his great capacities
however able he may be, in some re-
spects he will always be found great
ly to lack capacity. Sun
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17
CENSUS DIFFICULTIES.
Summer Resorters May Miss the Roll
Call.

Sd11-
June l the census enumeratOrs begin
the task of numbering our people:
and the task will not be a light one
for beside the number of inhabitants
to be ascertained a multitude of other
facts are to be gathered on general
conditions, and the census to be taken
this year will probably be the most
complete in every way that we have
ever had. One of the first difficulties
the enumerators will encounter, in the
cities, will be on going to many houses
to find the inhabitants fed, he knows
not where, probably to some summer
resort hundred or more miles away
He may learn the whereabouts Of the
family from the neighbors, but that
is not sufficient Much of the infor-
nation he is required to get is of such
nature that it can be given by some
member of the family only. What is
he to do? On this point the law is
short, for it fails to make adequate
provision for this contingency; and
the enumeration is forced to accept
such meagre and possibly inaccurate
reports of the absent family as neigh
bOrs or relatives may give.
1t has been suggested that winter is
the proper season of the year for d.
rectory agents to ply their trade, and
the rule might well apply to the CEN
sus enumaratOrs The directory man
strikes the city in the spring just at
the time that people are afflicted with
the moving fever, and hundreds
change their residences after the di-
rectory copy has been turned in. The
census also falls at the time of year
when the population is most unstable.
City dust and heat drive many res
idents to summer resorts.
One Of the city enumerators was
seen yesterday, and he said the prob
lem was a serious one, and there ap-
peared to be no solution. 1t is prob
able. however, that meeting of all
the enumerators of the city will be
called before June l at which this
among other matters pertaining to
their work will be considered. In
some of the larger cities orders have
been issued by census supervisors to
the enumerators, instructing each to
keep an account of persons in his dis
triet leaving town before June /, these
accounts to serve as memoranda when
the actual work of the enumerators
begins, 1t is possible such plan may
be put into use here, but no move has
yet been taken in the matter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

A good story is told Of the departure
of one of the Birmingham reservists
for the front, showing the sublime
confidence which a British soldiers
wife nas in the prowess of her spouse.
As her husband left in the train a wo-
man was to be seen weeping bitterly
Full of sympathy, bystander tried 10
speak words of comfort to the grief
stricken wife, when he was met with
the following answer: "Oh, it amt
i'm I'm troubling about; it's them
poor beers I'm a-thinkin' of. Bits
such terror when e starts. New
York Home Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17
Growth of BIRD Day" Idea.

He owns the bird songs of the hills
The laughter Of the April rills;
And his are all the diamonds set
In mornings dewy coronet-
And his the dusk's first minted stars
That twinkle through the pasture bars
And litter all the skies at night
With glittering scraps of silver light;
The rainbow's bar, from rim to rim,
IN beaten gold, belongs to him.
So sings James Whitcomb Riley of
the child, says the Chicago Post. To
the tender in years, looking out with
wide-eyed wonder on the strange new
things Of the world, all nature is a
heritage, and it is fitting that he be
taught to look on these things as
sacred, as intended for his pleasure,
instruction and uplifting. This seems
to be the central thought in the bird
day idea which is growing in such an
encouraging way. 1t is for the child.
1t strives to acquaint him with the
beauties of nature, to find kinship in
every living thing, to read the music
bin the trill of each feathered songster,
beauty in every leaf and flower, to find
tongues in trees. books in
the running brooks.
Sermons in stones and good in every
thing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

George K. Cherrie. curator Of birds
in the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences, gives what should be con-
sidered conclusive refutation to the
assertion Of milliners and some others
that "egrets' plumes are now gathered
from the ground, the birds no longer
being killed; they may be worn by the
most tender-hearted woman" Mr.
Cherrie, after visit to the egret coun-
try in Venezuela, says of the egret
hunters: The hunter and his family
embark and work their way up or
down the river and back, through the
swamps and marshes, to the heronries,
where they live until their provisions
or the herons are exhausted. While
in the heronries the man shoots every
egret that ne can possibly secure,
while the women and children employ
themselves by picking up such plumes
as are to be found under the trees and
along the edges Of the pools and
marshes" Mr.. Cherrie also failed 10
find the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. "egret
farm" The fact. therefore, seems es-
tablished that the egret hunter does
kill the birds and that egret wearers
are in sense partners with him in
this useless slaughter.
As an illustration of the influence
Bird-Lore has on its young readers the
following is quoted from a letter to the
editor after reading of an article in the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17
WAsHINGTON'S GREATNESS.

Forty or fifty years ago Thomas
Hope OF Hartford county, was a gem
tleman most highly respected and we'll
known IN the county, and indeed
throughout the state generally. Mr..
Hope himself was by the way, one of
those remarkable men of whom the
state may well be proud. His whole
appearance was such as to command
respect from all who met him. He
was tall, very erect, and at the time
| met him-when about 90 years OF
ag-he exhibited the springhtliness
and vigor that We see sometimes ex-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

Another publication coming every
month which is doing much to encour-
age love for birds and to discourage an
unnatural tendency to slaughter them
is Bird-Lore, published by the Mac
milan company. The present number
reminds one of the most significant
thing said by Ernest Seton Thompson
during his recent visit to Chicago. He
suggested the substitution of the cam
era for the shotgun, and said that the
hunter could get as much sport and a
great deal more pleasure and informa-
ton from shooting birds and animals
with a camera than in killing them
with gun or rife. In this number
John RoWley, chief taxidermist OF the
American Museum OF Natural History
describes a new camera for bird pho
tographers, which, like gun, may be
fred the instant IT Is sighted, That is,
the mechanism is so arranged that as
soon as the object appears on the find
ing glass, clear and of proper focus.
the plate RAY be exposed, the entire
operation DelnS done with the same
leYer or button.
AS an illustration of the work done
with this camera Bird-Lore presents
as frontispiece scene in Central
Park, New York, showing three wild
geese swimming in one OF the artificial
lakes. The picture clearly gives al
most in complete detail the arrange
ment Of the feathers on each bird, the
smallest ripples on the water and a
bright eye in each well-pcised head
Another article tells Of the photo
graphing Of a robin feeding it's young
There are also papers on the marsh
hawk, bird work at Wellesley college
and the usual notes and suggestions
for young observers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17
THE INNER LIFE.

Purer than the purest fountain,
Wider than the widest sea,
Sweeter tnan the sweetest music,
Is Gods love in Christ to me.
Why love me so?
I do not know
That nothing less than love divine
Could save this sinful soul of mine.
James Mcleod
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

The statement compiled by Brad
streets shows the total bank clearings
OF the principal cities of the United
States for the week of 81, 651 ,891 1899; a
decrease of Is per cent compared with
the corresponding week last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

L notice that Colonel Henry Waiter
son says he got into the publishing
business by paWning his watch"
This will be calculated to make his
enemies shudder every time they see
the three-ball combination-Cleve
Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

Visitor behind the scenes-s'It seems
strangely quiet here when so many
ballet girls are dressing in the rooms
around the stage"
Stage nager-'Well, you see
there is almost nothing going on al
this time"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

Forest fires ragged in the eastern part
OF Jackson county, Wisconsin, and
thousands of acres of blueberry lands
were burned over. Considerable dam
age to young timber occurred. The
area burned is over $4,000 acres.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17
OUR NATIVE LAND.

God bless our native land!
Firm may she ever stand.
Through storm and night.
When the wild tempests rave.
Ruler OF wind and wave.
Do thou our country save. ~.
By thy great might q;
For her our prayer shall rise
To God, above the skies; 800.
On him We wait; =:
Thou VINO art ever nigh, .,
Guarding with watchful eye,
To thee aloud We cry.
God save the statei
John 8. Dwight,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

Weary Watkins-Pardner, did you
know that nigh 80 per cent. OF the
human system is water?
Hungry Higgins-I've heard Of it I
s'pose that's the reason we can't live
orever.-Indianapol Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

The Arbor and Bird day program for
Wisconsin has been issued as a state
publication by the department of pub
lie instruction, and it is one of those
rare things-a public document full of
poetry, sentiment and the best of good
sense. There are appropriate selec-
lions from the best poets; essays on
planting and caring for trees; how
plants grow and feed; enemies of veg
citation; the life of a tree; how to i'm
prove school grounds and parks !;
poems on flowers and birds; papers on
how to know birds and how the birds
work for us. 1t shows in signal way
the growth of the bird-day idea when
a state officially recognizes it's value
and beauty and culls from the best
writer's of the world the best things
they have said about natures never
palling beauties.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

Miss Pechis-Everybody seems to
think I'm the picture Of mamma. Do
you?
Mr.. Gallandt-Well, I should say a
very fattering picture.-Philadelph
Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17
MILLIONS OF BARRELS.

The Minneapolis mills grind 14,O0O,-
900 barrels of -four year and consume
60,000,000 bushels of wheat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

Unfortunately bird day is not estab-
lished by law in Illinois, but it I'M
doubtedly will be before long. 1t is
however, observed in many of the pub
lie schools where teachers are person
ally interested in the work of Audubon
societies. 1t is generally observed
every year in the schools of Evanston,
this years exercises having been held
Monday last and having shown in
creased interest on the part of both
pupils and teachers. It is said that
nearly every school child in the classic
little city is now acquainted with all
sthe birds which frequent the locality,
and can distinguish them by their
songs. And it is only three years since
the bird-day idea became general in
Evanston! Wisconsin, by enactment,
has set apart a day each year as Arbor
and Bird day, and Governor Scofield
has just issued a proclamation naming
Friday, May 4, of this year for the
holding of appropriate exercises in all
the schools of the state, when trees
will be planted and the children will
be encouraged to increase their love
for birds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

Fire destroyed the Mallory steam
ship line pier in the East river, New
York, cost an infants life and caused
a loss estimated at 81 ZOO, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17
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c. Albert Bryant, a London youth,
writes a Madison friend with whom
he crossed the sea last fall, some i'm
pressions of his first winter away
from the great metropolis, having
spent it at Fredericton, New Bruins
wick;
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-02-21
Additional Local.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs ]. H. King,
Market street. Monday, February 10,
a son.
MIR. r. c. Dawes left over the q.
& o. R. Tuesday afternoon for his
home in Evanston, I'll. Mrs. Dawes
and children will remain in the city
for several days, as guests of relatives.
--Ott Steen, whose critical illness
for many weeks was a source of alarm
to his friends, was able to be cut yes
terday for the first time.
superintendent w. Fl. Brlmson
and Train Dispatcher G. w. Plumley,
of the B. G. o. S-w, were in the city
yesterday looking over the yard i'm
provements.
%. NJ. Lowell, of Lathrop, was a
business visitor in the city yesterday.
MIR. ALA Winsor is in Athens ON
a business trip.
j. A Dutton, of Macksburg, was a
business visitor in the city yesterday.
e. r. Bode returned TO his home at
Masterton yesterday after a short visit
with his brother. Treasurer II. P.
Bode.
Judge Leeper will leave this after
noon for Columbus on a business trip.
Charles Stone,who has been teach
ing in Grandview township this win
ter, is at home suffering from a very
severe attack of the grip.
The Senior Reading Club was very
pleasantly entertained last evening by
Mr.. and Mrs J. E. VanDervoort at
their home en- Second street
Jerry Dugan, lodger at Heintz's
on Ohio street, has been taking on too
much bad liquor lately and is now in
the city prison with case of delirium
bremens. He raised a big disturbance
about midnight and Officers Posey
Ray and Latterner went down and
took charge of him. =
The remains of Mrs. Levengood,
who died at Mentor, o., Monday, pass
ed through the city last night, accom-
panied by a party Of relatives. They
were taken to her former home at Bel
pre- for interment.
--Myron C. Long, general manager
of the Etra Life Insurance Co., is in
the city.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-02-21

tate for the money he needed. Bx-
Judge Dillon firmly told him that he
could get only the interest of his wlfe's
estate. Her share is s1S,OOO.O0O. and
there was due Countess de Castellane
$2250O, which was paid to her.
Then came the matter of raising the
larger sum which the Count needed.
Many plans were suggested. Many
conferences we're held. 1t was thought
once chat the loan could be obtained
from Rusesll Sage 1t could have been
save for the lack on one thlng-gilt-
edge security. Mr., Sage was present
at two of the conferences but finally
decided that the security offered was
not sufficient.
Then it was that the family OF the
Countess came to the rescue. Out of
their own pockets they provided
enough money to tide over the Counts
difficulties, for the time at least. Just
what the sum was no one save those in
the secret of the conference knows,
but it is not less than 81 100000.
Howard Gould, it Is understood, did
not participate in this action OF the
family.-New York World.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-02-21
Cigars Sold BY the Revenue
Department.

The sale of $1,000 slgars to Charles
Sherry, Monday afternoon by the in
ternal revenue department, is an echo
of one of the most daring counter
feiting schemes ever detected in this
couitry.
These cigars were, at the time of
conhscation, in the hands of some CT
the most prominent merchants in the
city, who were entirely ignorant of the
scheme and as they had not paid for
the cigars, it was decided that they
were still the property of that most
clever Of counterfeiters, Jacobs, of
Lancaster, Pa, and thus subject to
confisticatlon. The merchants who
had already paid for the cigars We're
allowed to keep them on payment Of
the stamp tax.
Mr. Sherry made the highest bid ex-
cept one, but this bid was withdrawn,
and the cigars went to him at $S.25
per thousand.-Ohio State Journal.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-02-21
Europe's Wickedest Woman
Coming to the United
States.

Fame--such as it is--knows Nine.
Katherine Hannweber, and the mad
anne also knows fame. But the mad
ame's position in the world is not the
kind to endear her to the authorities
OF the United States, and an unpleas-
ant surprise awaits her on these
shores. She will be deported at once.
Across the water they call her the
"Wickedest woman in England" She
is due here on the Phoenicia, from
England, and the immigration officials
are preparing to arrest her before she
can set foot ashore.
She has been arrested so times, and
has served most Of her life in prison.
Up and down the criminal scale she
has ranged, failing in nothing but
murder She has tried that on three
occasions, but has never succeeded.
The nearest she has come to accom-
plishing her aim has been three con-
yictions for feloniCus assault.
At one time Nine. Hannweber kept
the most notoriouF and successful
fence" on the continent. She was
the patroness CT nearly every burglar
Of note, but she was addicted to both
malicious mischief and gossip. 1t was
these two things that made her cap
ture inevitable.
Nearly every capital on the conti-
nent konws her. In nearly every one
of these capitals she has been convict
ed. She has been in Jail for receiving
stolen goods, for burglary, grand and
petit larceny, disor1erly conduct, dis
turbing the peace, arson, assault with
intent to kill, assault and battery,
malicious mischief, SANDER, etc. She
is coming here under the name of
Wilhelmina Sells.-New York Journal.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-02-21
c. R. Richardson's Report Of
Yesterdays Markets.

Oil City Exchange, p. m.-Certlfl-
Gates steady; unchanged. Credit bal
ance 1.6S
New York Stock Exchange, 8 p. M
The stock market was dull and feat
ureless, aside from a drive in Third
Avenue Traction, which was pounded
down to 81 from 81 and 1t rallied to
SO and was again put off TO 92. Sugar
broke to 1.11ss, but rallied to 1,13.
Closing prices dull and steady.
Chicago Board of Trade, lis p. m.
Wheat a shade softer May closed
at 6s cents and July 6S1s. Corn and
cats quarter easier.
Provisions opened weak but closed
at last nights figures. May pork
1897. July pork 1i.02.
Cars today: Wheat, 20; corn, 756;
oats, 267; hogs, 10000.