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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01
CHAPTER x.

The 22d Of September was one Of the
fairest days that ever dawned, bright
and warm, with a clear blue sky.
The wedding day had come quickly.
Once, and only once, had Violet men
toned her approaching marriage to-
the stern woman whose heart had been
scared in her youth.
Aunt" she had ventured to say,
when girls are married. they have
a nice wedding-dress, do they nOt?''
Some do. and some do not" she
replied.
'eThey have new clothes, do they
not? Do you know, aunt, that I have
but two dresses?"
Eyes, I know" replied Miss Ather-
ton; "but l cannot help it. l have
found the money to educate, clothe,
and feed you. 1 shall not attempt to
defray the expenses of your marriage"
The tears rose to Violet's eyes.
Must I leave home. then" she said,
"even without a decent dress to be
married or to travel in?"
4 am afraid So" replied Miss Ather-
ton. IF you were going to settle in
any other way, I would part with half
my income to be of service to you; but
| will not raise one finger to help you
to get married.
Violet said to her lover that same
evening:
Randolph, did you tell me one day
that you liked the blue dress I wear
better than any you have ever seen?'
Yes. a thousand times better" he
replied-"better than the royal robes
of a queen, or the court dress Of a
duchess"
What do you know of queens or
| duchesses?" she asked, laughingly.
! He checked himself just in time.
AT least, Violet, like it better than
any dress I have seen worn by royal
and stately danes in picture.
Il am so glad" she said. Then
looking at him with sweet, panied
eyes. she whispered, Randolph,
want to speak to you about something
! very important"
He was delighted, charmed.
What is it, my darling?" he asked
You make me the happiest man IL
i the world What do you wish to speaf
J, to me about?''
Il wonder if you will mind it very
much,' she said, clasping her white
) hands around his arm-the neares
approach to a caress that she had eve
given him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01
tn LITT.-- LADY OF PEKlN.
From the Chinaman's Point of View
His Empress Is Perfection.

The Chinese empress does not
meet completely the AngIo-Sa1on de-
mand for female beauty" writes PouIt-
ney Bigelow in Woman's Home Com
panion, but then the Chinaman is not
wholly satisfied with our type, and on
sound democratic principles the celes-
tial has some color for his opinion, see
ing that he is one of four hundred mil
lions, While our ideal represents but
seyenty-five millions. Personally. it Is
hard for me to appreciate beauty in
one who is short and fat: whose feet
are the size of saIt-ceIlars: whose flesh
has the modelling If a bolster; whose
eyes are obAQue and whose natural
skin is overlaid with white and red
paste. Yet what l am pleased to con-
slider my taste is, from the Chinaman's
point of view, merely outlandish pre-
judice; and on the standards prevail
ing in Pekin the dowager empress is
easily one of the handsomest women.
exercising a personal fascination
which entities her to rank with such
heroines as Catherine of Russia or
Queen Louise of German. And as to
antiquity of pedigree, the Romanoffs
and Hohenzollerns are mere upstairs
in dynastic enterprise compared with
the power in Pekin, which draws its
authority directly from celestial
sources in prehistoric eras.
Let us then admit at the outset
that in the matter of birth and beauty
of China eclipses not merely anything
Of its kind in Europe, but throws into
the shade anything dreamed Of in this
fair country of ours, whose boast it is
that we have set the standard for soy
ereign woman The Chinaman in gen
eral is completely convinced that in all
that constitutes higher civilization he
is the superior of the white man. He
has invented more different kinds of
mechanical improvements than all the
rest of the world put together; mis-
wise men were masters of science
when Europe was a bowling wilder
ness; no other country has held to-
gether so long as this huge empire,
and its subjects not NATURALLY con-
clude that such grand results must
have sprung from institutions whose
excellence is unrivaled elsewhere. Of
these institutions the highest exponent
is the dOWager empress and her
party"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01
To be continued.
End of Century EPitaph.

Here lies a poor woman who always
was busy;
She lived under pressure that rem
dered her dizzy.
She belonged to ten clubs, and read
Browning by sight;
Shone at lunchecns and teas, and
would vote if she might.
She served on a School Board with
courage and zeal;
She goifed and she kodaked. and rode
on a wheel
She read Tolstoi and Ibsen, knew mi
crobes by name,
Approved Of Delsarte, and loved to
shoot game.
Her children went in FOR the top
education;
Her husband went seward for ner-
vous prostration.
One day on her tablets she found an
hour free;
The shock was so great that she died
instantly.
-Pick-Me-Up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01
NAMING THE APOSTLES.
Story Told of the Participants at a

Story Told of the Participants at a
Washington Dinner Party.
After dinner in one of the most
hospitable residences in Washington,
a party of very distinguished men
Cabinet Ministers, Senators, diplO-
mats, scientists and soldiers sat in the
smoking room, and the conversation
naturally drifted from politics to the
proposed revision of the creed of the
Presbyterian Church. Much to the
surprise of each other and to them
selves, perhaps, no one of the party
was able to name the Five Points Of
Calvinism,' upon which the theologic-
al system of so large a community is
based. Several undertook rather
rashly to explain for their less learned
companions what Calvinism meant,
and Justice of the Supreme Court
was able to name four points of Cal
vinism to his own satisfaction, al
though his accuracy was questioned
by others, and he could not remember
the fifth. His four points were:
1. Original sin or total depraVity.
2. The freedom of the will.
3. PredeStinatiOn or election.
Then somebody remarked that he
once sat in the Union League Club at
New York, with Roscoe Conkling,
Chester A Arthur and several other
distinguished gentlemen who had been
carefully educated in religious fami-
lies, and that none Of them was able to
name the twelve Apostles.
That's easy" said a Senator, brash-
ly, beginning Matthew, Mark. Luke
and John, bless the bed that | lie on,
Paul, the two Jameses, Jude, Barnabas
=" And there he stopped, with some
embarrassment"
''Timothy,' suggested q major gen
eral, who is vestryman in an EpiscO-
pal Church.
Nonsense" answered a Senator.
"Timothy was disciple of Paul's.
He wasn't one of the twelve Apostles.
''Nicodemus," suggested one of the
company.
Jeremiah" suggested the third.
Judas was one of the Apostles"
meekIy came from q voice in the cor
ner.
'TI be blamed if he was. He was a
disciple" came the curt reply.
! weren't the disciples and the ApOs-
ties the same thing?" inquired the
meek voice, getting little bolder
Bartholomew was suggested and &C
cepted by several.
"What's the matter with Peter"
exclaimed a modest young member
of the Diplomatic Corps, who had hith-
erto been silent.
How many does that make?" some
body asked, and they counted up ten
for sure, with as many more doubtful.
Lets look in the Bible" somebody
suggested, and the Good Book was
| overhauled in vain. Then an encyclO-
pedia was appealed to, but it was not
entirely satisfactory, for it included
Thomas and Andrew in the list, and
the Justice Of the Supreme Court and
two Of the Senators were positive that
Andrew was not an Apostle. All of
which teaches the great usefulness
and need of Sunday schools
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01
S2o,Co0 IN TWELVE HOURS.
One Alaskan Story That Had a Happy
Ending.

This is the story OF Alexander
Mcdonald, one o. the best-known
characters in the Yukon Valley. He
IS a great, numbering 3cotchman-
bern in Nova Scot:a-who up TO the
time OF the Klondike discoveries never
had any idea OF winning a greater
fortune than that of a day laborer.
He worked from mining camp to
mining camp along the Northwest.
So slow was he and so awkward in
his work-his feet entirely III his way
and his bulk a misft for the size of
prospect holes-that he was reputed
never to be able to hold a JOB Tor
logger than three weeks. He was at
Dawson shortly after the first loca-
tons were made on the Klondike. He
went out with numerous stampedes,
but neve. arrived II time to locate a
paying claim Finally he stumbled
across a newspaper man named Hunt,
who had q claim on Bonanza Creek
Hunt had become discouraged because
he had not the funds necessary to de-
velop it. This claim Mcdonald pur-
chased for $500 and set about develop
ing it in his usual slow and aimless
fashion.
FINDING the claim fairly rich, he
put on a force Of laborers, and in a
few weeks had taken $4,000 This
sum he used Immediately to purchase
other claims. All thai year he bought
right and LETT everything of any
promise that was offered to him, often
mortgaging the claims thus bought 10
buy still other ground. Many of the
ventures came to naught, but a few
gave such phenomenal returns that he
speedily took the rating of a million
aire. Out of one claim on El Dorado
Creek Ee shoveled $4,000 in twelve
hours. To-day he is PROBABLY worth
between $4,000, coo and $3,O0O,0OO.
Many others came to success; one
man on Bonanza Greek took out
ninety pounds of gold-about $3.50
in a single day. A pan Of gravel on
Ell Dorado Creek yielded it's lucky
owner $2,100. The same man cleaned
up 5000 ounces of dust and nuggets
from his first weeks work '-Ainslee's
Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01

This IS the picture of 4 girl whose
great, great grand-uncle, Ethan Allen.
when colonel Of the Green mountain
boys" Of Vermont, captured TT. Ticon-
deroga Of the British in the war Of
the revolution. Now she is lust turn
i1g over in her curly, but very level
head, the question Of whether she will
50 10 Londo- and capture the British
cl.;.o-I.
E-iss Louise Truax is her name. and
by the same sign she can whistle a
bird off a tree, She is JUST seventeen,
and IS very much in demand for
private evening entertainments in
New York city. Three years ago she
was d somewhat mischieyous school
girl and just whistIed every day in
the year for three hours. Miss Truax
says that most whistlers blow and puff
and that this may be avoided by allow
ing the tongue to lie limp in the mouth
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01

little display Of spirit. Her heart was
just little touched by his handsome
| face and manly way. Perhaps there
was a slight feeling of envy that her
niece should win such a husband,
while the man whom she had loved
had forsaken her.
do you love my niece?" she asked,
with another of those sudden CLEANS
of passion.
81 love her with my whole heart, .
he replied; and Miss Anterior said no
more.
All the chfya1ry of the lovers heart
was touched by the sweet, panied face
of the girl. 1t did seem hard that
her engagement and marriage should
be discussed in this cold, calm manner.
my darling" he said, taking her
hand in his own warm clasp, Il am
grieved for you; but I will make it ali
up to you. In the future my life shall
be devoted to your service"
~ do not wish to interrupt any SEN
timental scenes" said Miss Anterior,
"but | wish to make one remark-it
is a commonplace one, am aware.
You tell me that you hope to keep youI
wife and yourself by your work. What
is to become of your work, if you
are to visit my niece twice each day,
and to spend the rest of your life in
paying her devoted attention."
An amused smile crossed his face.
What a practical, sensible woman
you are, Miss Anterior! You know
the old Latin quotation, TO work is to
play l must change it into this, To
work is to love- I must prove my
love by my work"
1T will be we'll if you do So she OBJ
served, quietly. and now if you have
no more to say on the matter, I will
leave you"
"You will let Violet remain with NE
for a few minutes?" he entreated.
Miss Atherton shrugged her Shout
ders.
''In ten minutes time Violet will be
wanted to make tea; she can remain
with you until then. l wish you good
afternoon" she said ungraciously.
With head erect, Miss Anterior
quilted the room; yet, as she crossed
the little hall, something that had been
long dead in her heart aWOke. and fill
ed her eyes with tears.
All, that sweet long ago! Her hair
was not gray then, but waving and
bright She was not angular, grim,
and stern in those days, but blithe and
happy Alas for the lost youth, the
lost, lost love. Alas for the days
which would return no more!
ut will be just the same with her,
she thought 'She will love and hope,
trust and wait, and meet with betrayal
in the end"
Meanwhile the young lover impa-
tientIy clasped his beautiful sweet
heart in his arms.
MY darling" he cried, what a ter
rible woman for you to live with,
How we'll you have borne the trying
ordeal through which you have pass
ed"
Randolph" she said, gently, why
have you taken me SO entirely by sur
prise? Why did you not tell me you
were coming to see my aunt?"
For the best of reasons, my dear.
You would not have allowed me to
come; you would have found hun
bred reasons why my visit should be
deferred Now, is not that true. VIC
let?"
perhaps So she replied.
And, my dear" he said, cit is all
very we'll; but I could not bear mucn
more of this suspense. Oh, Violet, my
darling, will you ever understand how
tender and deep is my love for you?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01
SAN FRANCISCO BAY MENACED.
Hydraulic Mining Threatens to De-
stroy the Pacific Harbor.

Stroy the Pacific Harbor.
In California renewal of the old
agitation against hydraulic mining has
been started by influential agriculture
lists. 1t is asserted that the restrain
ing dams built under the Camenatti
act, for holding back the debris of the
mines, are Intellectual and do not full
fill the purpose intended, the result
often OF faulty construction or deIiber-
ate Indifference to the careful require
ments of the law. Chinese are the
principal offenders and much litigation
has been the result Floods have
swept away many of the frail struc-
lures, with all the accommodations of
sand and rocks, and the consequences
have been the ruin of agricultural
lands and the increasing shOaling of
navigable streams. Fifty years ago
began the disastrous filing up of
streams, caused by the general and
unrestrained pursuit of hydraulic min
ing. No estimate can be made of the
quantities Of debris washed down by
this process. The evil results are Wis
ible in thousands Of acres of fertile
valley lands deeply covered over with
sterile sands washed down by flooded
The area of navigable waters of the
state is seriously curtailed.
In 1S49 the Sacramento was a clear
and limpid stream navigable for YES
sells drawing seventeen feet of water
as far inland as where the city of Sac
ramentO now stands, and for 200 miles
further for vessels of seven or eight
feet draft. Now steamers and barges
drawing not over three and one-half
feet can navigate the river at summer
stages to Sacramento, and but twenty
inches if they are bound to Red Bluff
The three fathom limit, which in 1849
extended to Sacramento, has contract
ed at the rate of one mile per annum
for the last fifty years, and is now at
Porto Costa.
For over twenty years, or since the
cessation OF hydraulic mining, the
streams of California have never re-
gained their original limpidity and are
even now apparently bringing down as
great an amount of solid matter as
ever. This is accounted for, in part,
by the vast mounds Of debris thrown
out by early operations, which even
tually find their way into the current
through the operations Of floods. But
the process of filing up the bay comes
also through the involuntary assist
ance Of the agriculturists themselves.
Scientific investigation demonstrates
that the silt now flowing into the bay
is not from the mountains altogether,
but is in great part the soil washed
from lands plOwed for agricultural
purposes. The very element that so
consistently demanded and achieved
the destruction of hydraulic mining is
now doing that for which they sue
cessfuIIy denounced an interest which
in the past has contributed so greatly
to enrich the world.-Scientific Amer.
lean.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01

and 10 tremble The bird limitations
she produces by letting the throat
swell, and truly it is said that when
she mocks the mOckingbird, thrush or
nightingale, the listener thinks her
marvellous throat should De feath cred.
When she found that she could wAistle
in three octayes, she stopped Paying
with dolls AID began to develop the
exquisite talent with which SIC is en-
dOwed.
Miss Truax has had IN Ger to go
to London to whistle for Nay a. the
fashionable section ard pm .ps for
the queen, but she has ! OF yee decided
to g. The accompanying port ait rep
reseuIs her in the act OF wnist..ng The
Last RC5o o. Summer, aid 10 bird
could be more natural o. ICss-c0nscious
in its song than this young girl looks
when practicing her graceful art
Little Chronicle, Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01

How brave" cried the world, with
loud applause
Yet this man has done nothing ex-
cept rescue a beautiful woman from
drowning.
Not a word of reclamation has the
world for the man who rides back
ward in the trap which n beautiful
woman drives.
discriminating world,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01

Sheriff (of Frozen Dog)-The re-
ward says, Dead or alive.
Bronco BilI-A1l right, sheriff; I'm
yours.
Sheriff-Thanks, Bill. The boys Is
all ready an waitin' fer ter lynch yer,
an I should certainly feel cheap an
mean if 1 took yer back iead.-Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01
BY No Means.

'Is this what you call expeditions
sarcastically in
quired the passenger who, by reason
of the strike at the power house, had
been an hour and half travelling a
distance Of five or six miles.
mo, SIR replied the sleepy conduc-
tor. This is Fifty-third street"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01

tcries, floral games, c-usades, courts
of love and the magnidcence Of the
reign of Louis Nv, and from our OWL
times. military episodes and corona
ton festivals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01

The chairman of the Nebraska re-
publican committee says Mckinley
will carry the state by 5000 to 1000
plurality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01

What is co-education, MAJ"
TT is education which gives girls a
chance to show that they are smarter
than boys"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-18
BURNING NOT JUSTIFIED.
Denver Press Urges the Restoration
of Capital Punishmcnt.

DENVER, Col, Nov. Flew can be
found who Justify the burning of the ne
gro. Preston Porter, yesterday at Limon.
Nearly everyone. however, believes that
he .hould have been executed. The de-
mand for the restoration of capital pun
ishment is almost unanimous. Following
are opinions of the leading Denver papers
and citizens:
The Times" The primal sense OF hu-
manity at once prompts men to the knowl-
edge that there is no sufficient law for
certain classes of crimes. 1t is the die
tate of common sepse that when this is
the case an outraged community will I'M
dertake the punishment of offences out
side of law
The Times favors the restoration Of
capital punishment at once.
The Post" IF the view of the exc
cutioners had been taken uninfiuenced by
the wishes of the father, they would SIM
ply have hanged the negro without cere-
mony or loss of time, and that would
have ended the matter"
The News If the citizens of Lin
coin County had hanged him or even shot
him, their action would have been IL
legal and could not have been approved
by those who respect the law: but it
of the case"
The Republican, The fact that the
law favorng capital punishment for MUIR
ders was abolished two years ago and the
knowledge that the worst penalty that
could be inflicted upon this precocious
miscreant by the courts would be term
of imprisonment for life, with a proba-
hilty that he would be pardoned out by
some future Governor at the instigation of
silly sentimentalists, made it useless to
appeal to the people to let the law take
its course
The Rev. George Bedell Vosburgh: 81
regret death by burning and wish the men
might have found the ends of justice sat
isiied by hanging"
The Rev. Bruce Brown: 81 think this
will arouse the people to the fact that
for such a heinous crime we must have
capital punishment.
Daniel L. RAIDER: Il am very sorry We
have law that does not permit capital
punishment
Father a. B. Grassy: Myself and all
the other ministers condemn the negro's
crime, but we believe that The law should
have been sustained under all circum-
stances"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-18
Movemeu,. of Naval Vessels.

The naval transport Solace arrived at
Honolulu November .. The supply ship
Zaiiro and the collier Caesar have arrived
at Hongkong. The gunnery practice ship
Amphitrite. the training ship Mononga-
hela, and the tug Potomac at Tompkins-
vile, and the cruiser Atlanta at San Juan
Porto Rico. The gunboat Wilmington has
sailed for Gibraltar for Algiers, the gun
boat Yankton from Port Royal for Gil
bara, the cruiser Bancroft from Key West
for Colon. and the stations Mayfiower
from San Juan for st. Thomas. The pat
ilcships Massachusetts, and Kearsarge will
leave the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Tomp-
kinsviile to take in coal for the winters
cruise, the Massachusetts Oh November 19
and the kearsarge on November 26 The
gunboat Scorpion has been ordered to
cruise to st. Thomas. Antigua. Dominica
Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Cura-
Goa, iVd Guantanamo, arriving at the last
named port March Is, 1901
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-18
THE ALI BABA CLUB.
Annual Fall Exhibit to Begin on
Next Thursday.

The All Bahia Club. an association Of art
students. who study largely in black and
white, will open its rooms at 1412 New
York Avenue for the annual fall exhibit Of
the club, November % and %. The draw
ings will all be in place by Wednesday, No
vember q, but the club will limit the at
tendance that night TO the artists Of the
city and specially invited guests On the
two later days the rooms will be open to
everyone interested in the drawings and
color sketches of young art students.
This club has been in existence some
thing over two years. and is an outgrowth
OF an older association Of art students
which was considered not sufficiently pro-
gressive. Ali Bahia has become accordingly
the secessionist or ultra-aggressive club.
and represents very fairly the radical art
tendencies Of the end OF the century. Most
Of the drawing is done in colored crayon or
in black and white. Some work is at
tempted in color, however. and sufficient
number of such studies will be hung to re-
1ieve the exhibit of monotony. All the fig
ure drawings shown have been done at the
regular Tuesday poses at the club. thus
rejecting the regular club work. That this
work is done earnestly and industriously is
indicated in the fact that nearly all the
prizes awarded by the Corcoran School Of
Art for the past two years have gone 10
members OF the Ali Bahia Club.