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The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
Kept Awake LiafeninR.

What makes Mrs. Henpeck look SO wor- ried these days, wonder?"
 Her husband has developed habit of talking in his sleep, and it's driving her crazy."-Philadelphia Press
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

The doomed man had a last request to make. Pray do not tell my parents" he implored, "that I was hanged," What shall we say killed you, then?" we asked, suspecting nothing. "The dropsy!" cried the wretched fellow, with loud laugh Detroit Journal
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. IT. Greens Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists Tn the world. Read their adver. tisement Tn another column of this paper.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

Tngby, does your club play whist regu. lariy! No; the women talk regularly, and we men play whist when conversation flags {" -lndianapolis Journal
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

Did l understand you to say that one of your ancestors fought during the revolu- tion~ Yes, my great great great grand father fell at Bunker kopje Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

The man who cracks his fingers several times while mailing down the carpet knows what it is to take pains with his work Philadelphia Record
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
Showing on.

Every time a man tries to show ofl something is sure to go wrong.-Chi- ia0o Daily News.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

have used Piso's Cure for Consumption both in my family and practice.--Dr G W. Patterson, Inkster, Mich, Nov. 5, 1894
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
You Can Get Aliens Foot-Ease FREE.

Write today to Allen $. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y., for FREE sample of Alen's Foot Ease, powder to shake into your shoes. It cures chilblains, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. It makes New or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bun- ions All druggists and shoe stores sell it. 25c.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

It is not always the most successful fish erman who can tell the most catchy story Star of Hope.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

The Best Prescription for Chills
 and Fever is a bottle of GRovE's TAsTELEs. CHILL TONIC. Itis simply iron and quinine ir atasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price, soc
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

To Cure Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
A Mad Dog Scare.
A Wise Monkey.

A pet monkey belonging to a son of Rev. w. G. Herbert, pastor of the Car olire Street Methodist church Of Bal timore, got into the study of the cler- gyman, opened volume of the En- cyclopedia Britannica, and tore out l6 pege of the article of Darwin s "Orign of Species" Then it turned to But ler's Analogy, and it was examining it with great apparent delight when tue clergyman returned and put q stop to the proceedings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
For Woman's Eye.

A person with a mathematical mind
recently announced that in a pro-
gramme of twenty waltzes, four pokas
and two quadrilles a dancer covers
nearly twelve miles. Young women
should make a note of this, so that
when old fogy parents advise sweeping
as an exercise they can triumphantly
quote the mathematician to prove that
dancing excels it by far
That children tall for their ages are
generauy born in the summer is a
novel theory. AS far as boys alone
are concerned, those who first see
light during autumn and winter are
not so tall as those born in spring and
summer. Those born in November
are the shortest, in July the tallest
Averages for girls show that those
| born in winter and spring have less
| length of body than those born in
summer and autumn. The tallest girls
are born in August.
! Servant girls in Boston who rea(
Homer, Goethe and Schiller are Spoken
of in the labor bulletins of Massa
chusetts just issued. Boston kitchens
| showed that while cook books Of
various makes are the most common
good books of other kinds were not a
all unusual. In two or three cases
history, either of the United States ~
England seemed to be preferred. II
one philosophical critical wort
and Schiller and the poems of Homer
were specified, and in one tbs
| Chautauoua course was followed
Queen Victoria's Christmas present
Of ? cake of chocolate to each Of he
soldiers, that at the time everybod,
wanted TO make fun Of, but which no
body quite dared to do. has had its use
It may go down into history as {
means of life-saving on the battle
fold. One man in South Africa ~.
other day was struck by bullet tina
might have gone straight through hi
heart had it not been stopped by tn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
FACTS REGARDING COFFEE.
Both Consumption and Production
Largely Increasing in the World.

Both Consumption and Production
Largely Increasing in the World.
In 1896-97 the amount of coffee, raw
and manufactured, upon which duty
was paid in our custom houses
was only about 10000 tons,
whereas, according to lie
Bulletin de Statisque ct de Legisla-
ton Comparee"-a French official pub
ication-the total amount consumed
in Europe and the United States was
no less than 623, 800 tons. Holland,
we learn from the same authority, is
the country where the drinking Of
coffee is most in vogue, the quantity
disposed of per head per annum being
upward of 10 Kilograms. Denmark
and Belgium come next with seven and
five kilograms respectively, while in
Franch the allowance per inhabitant is
no more than ~ kilograms On the
continent it is apparently the sum
levied as duty which determines he
amount consumed. In Holland coffee
is entirely untaXed. In Denmark and
Belgium the charge is insignificant,
but in France it amounts to the almost
prohibitive rate of 157 francs per 100
kilograms, or about I'd. pound avoir
dupois. The tax with us is only 11ad.
a pound for the raw article and I'd.
when it is manufactured, so our trifiing
consumption of about third of a
kilogram per head cannot we'll be due
to fiscal causes. The production of
ic, 70 bo Sro ,,iJ Nv
in South America and to be assuming
large proportions in central Africa. In
the Rio districts alone the augmented
output for the four years ending in
1897 was equal to 100000 sacks, or
about 10000 tons. Writing in the
Revue des Deux Mondes for July, 1898,
M. De Castries says: 'They are plant
ing at least 100000 coffee plants every
year in the Congo Free State, and
everything favors the hope that in a
few years the output will have risen to
upward of 26,000,000 kilograms" If this
in the case the price Of coffee should
soon fall, when in all probability our
consumption of six pounds Of tea per
head per annum will suffer diminu-
ton. 1nere can be no doubt that
coffee affects the human economy in q
peculiarly agreeable and benefcent
manner It is fairly cheap, easily pre-
pared, although less so than tea, an ad-
mirable calorifacient, and there is
nothing whatever to forbid its habit
ual use in moderation, whether with
meals or at other times. On the
whole, it would seem that its more ex-
tended utilization is highly to be de-
sired.-Medical Record
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
Louisiana's Prairie Parishes.

One night the wife of a northern
farmer lately come south heard pit
eous bleating from the rice marsh.
She supposed that a lamb was lost
there. She took lantern and went to
the pond in the marsh to see if lamo
had got fast in the mire and to rescue
it. When she got to the pond she
found a little green frog. 1t was
bleating like lamb. 1t is commonly
known in Louisiana as the lamb
frog" or sheep frog" Often after a
rain one may walk through the yellow
pine woods and hear the bleatings of
thousands of these tiny frogs. They
give one the impression that a vast
flock of sheep is roaming in the forest.
The sensitive plant is found in the
north in poetry only. Here the woods
ere carpeted with it. The plant grows
wild as long trailing vine, lying on
the ground. If you touch one of its
stems all the narrow-pOinted leaves on
the stem slowly fold up; and then in
turn all the leaves on the vine, which
may be 20 or 80 feet long
In the north the prickly pear leads a
languorous life in hothouses. and
| yields no fruit Here it f1ourishes out
| Of doors from Christmas to Christmas,
and bears a wholesome fruit with a
| pleasant flavor The juice of this
fruit is deep purple, and is used to
color frostings on cake. The farmers
wives make preserves of the fruit and
flavor them with lemon.
| The French inhabitants hold the
prickly pear in much esteem as medi,
cine They peel the leaves, take the
pulp from them and place it in a bowl
of water The patient drinks the wa
ter, and in a short time it breaks an
| ordinary fever. The northern settlers
have borrowed this novel fever quelle'
from the French and use it success
fully.
At this season one may look abroad
at night and see or 10 prairie fires %
once They are burning at every
point Of the compass. and make z
great but broken circle Of fire. The
farmers light them to burn off the dry
grass, which is from three to five fea
high, to permit the tender green herb
age to come up for the great herds n
cattle to Craze on. These fires may
easily be seen 10 miles away. The
farmers select still nights for them
when the winds are laid. and the dew;
are so heavy that the flames make only
a gradual progress. They burn al
night.
Sometimes these prairie fires be
come dangerous, threatening houses
barns and crops. Under ordinary cir
cumstances they move slowly. The!
DO not travel as fast as a man walks
But when the grass is dry and tn
wind is strong the prairie fire gallops
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
What One Woman Thinks.

Broken engagements are a bad case
Of heart failure.
The care Of valuable jewels is almost
equal to that of a baby.
A lifetime's devotion could not fully
repay the love and self-sacrifce Of a
good mother
Tact is the faculty of doing the
right thing at the right time and in
the right way.
At a picnic there are always a few
people who do all the work, while the
rest sit still and look on.
1t is reversal Of the proprieties
when a mother dresses her daughter
more extensively than herself.
When we are sick the things that
are injurious for us are always the
things We know would Taste the best.
When his wife goes away on a vaca-
ton a man has a chance to put into
execution all his pet theories regard
ing Housekeeping.
4 man can never understand the
glow of satisfaction a woman feels in
buying six articles for SO cents each
and having six cents to be eXtravagant
with.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
Early DAYS in Old CHEYENNE.


A rushing, restless human I: e from
( every state in these domains.
Drawn by the ever-magic power OF go,i
across the spreading plains,
Eyes set in every face aglow with fo2t
anticipation's light,
The great back Hills the only theme
of conversation day and night,
RoUgh-shiTted men in canvas garb
men dressed in finest of attire,
Men seeking victims for their games
men hot with speculative fire,
The man of leisure, man of wealth, the
pauper, and the mining man
Touched elbows in the gold-mad throng
in early days in old Cheyenne.
The bullwhips popped as pop the guns
in battle on the busy street,
The tOiling oxen lolled their tongues
and painted from the summer heat
The dusty drivers swung the lash and
swore as ''whackers" only swear,
The jolting wagons lent their noise to
swell the tumuIt in the air.
The reckless riders of the range, in
leather chaps and wealth of hat,
Upon the backs of bucking bronks at
ease within the saddle sat,
And rough, unshaven faces Drowned by
Rocky mountain weather tan
Predominated in the crowds upon the
streets of old Cheyenne.
The breath of liquor vile as sin cast
poison on the western air.
The glasses clinked in sun-browned
hands in many an alcoholic lair,
Unceasing clicked the faro chips and
danced the BALI upon the wheel,
Untuned pianos beat the time for those
who tripped the toe and heel,
Hand-painted creatures of the sex their
reckless, wasted lives disgraced
Danced in the arms Of drunken men,
their forms in shameful garb en-
cased,
And bold RIGHTEOUSNESS as tide Of hell
inspired fever ran,
In that mad revelry of sin in early
days in old Cheyenne.
Those scenes are but a memory now in
that fair city of the plains;
Morality stepped in and from outlawry
snatched the guiding reins;
Determined men and ready ropes from
her escutcheon wiped disgrace
And wrote the telling word Reform
in golden letters in it's place.
A hint of those exciting days is seldom
heard, excepting when
The few surviving pioneers, brave,
sturdy old gray-headed men,
Meet in reunion as gay and jolly
reminiscent clan
And in Cneir warnings resurrect those
early days in old Cheyenne
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
Irishmen at the Front.

st. Patrick's day this year being the
most popular one ever celebrated,
thanks to her majesty's recognition of
the deeds of her brave Irish sol-
1iers," it will be interesting to give
the names of the various Irish regi-
ments now at Cor proceeding to- the
front, as obtained by Daily Chronicle
representative yesterday. They are
as follows:
First Royal Munster fusileers.
First Royal Irish rifles.
First Royal Irish fusileers.
Second Royal Irish fusileers.
First Royal InniskilIing fusileers.
First Connaught rangers.
First Royal Dublin fusileers.
Second Royal Dublin fusileers.
Fifth Royal Dublin fusiIeers (mil-
itia).
Fifth Royal Munster fusileers (mili-
tia, on the way OUT.
Third Leinster regiment (militia, on
the way out).
Third Leinster regiment (militia, On
the way out).
Fifth lancers (Royal Irish).
Sixth dragons (nniskillings).
Eighth hussars (King's Royal Irish)
With the exception of the cavalry
regiments, the above are mainly COM
posed of men of Irish birth and par
entage, but, for some reason or other
the cavalry regiments contain a far
smaller percentage.
Although not necessarily belonging
to the Irish regiments, many of our
notable generals at the front are Irish
men, They include:
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, V. c
Maj-Gen. French.
Gen. Sir George White, V. G..
Lieut-Gen. Sir G. F. Clery, K. G. B.
Lieut.-Gen. Kelly-Kenny.
Maj.-Gen. Lord Kitchener.
The last named, although not of
pure Irish blood, was born in Ireland
| London Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
RSnOTSe,

One day trod upon heart
Set heel upon it where it lay.
My shoe was purple, and my art
Could wash the stain away.
1t shed a perfume like a rose
Crushed between breasts of lover
pale,
Or like the bruised wistaria does
Beneath a summer hail.
I washed my shoe within a brook
And dried it on the FURNISHED grass
The water laughed up at my look,
But the bent sky was brass!
passed again along the way
When the rich, fallow evening
sWOoned.
I saw the same heart where it lay;
1t never showed a wound
But as | walked my nostrils filed
Full Of that rose scent, overfair,
Like a fine Persian altar spilled
Far faint on the heavy air.
l flung away the purple shoe
And naked footed took the sod,
But every footprint, we'll knew,
Smelt guilty to God.
Post Wheeler.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08

Queens cake of chocolate, reposing in
his breast pocket.
Someone has made the interesting
discovery that an overwhelming
majority of women who sing and play
at concerts are of dark complexion.
The proportion in this respect is, il is
said, far in excess Of that Of the dark
to the fair among women generally.
At recent choral union concert there
were some $50 women in the choir,
and out Of these, it is maintained.
there were not more than twenty fair
haired
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08

The Madison Audubon society, by
special arrangement with the educa-
tionaI department Of our state and
that of New York, has recently pur-
chased seventy colored bird slides
from the American Museum of Natural
History of New York city 1t is the
desire Of the society to make such use
of the slides as will arouse an interest
in the study of birds among the school
children throughout the state. Other
sets of slides are being made from
photographs of living birds in the VI
cinity of Madison and elsewhere and
these will be used for the same pur-
pose. All money which the society re-
ceives over and above expenses will be
expended in the preparation Of these
additional slides. 1t is hoped that in
this way the children of the state can
be made familiar with most of our ma
tive birds and an interest be thus
aroused which will prove an efficient
means of defending them from wanton
destruction. Bird study, as a method
of interesting both old and young in
nature work, can thus be populariz9d.
The society earnestly solicits the aid
of all bird lovers in this work. It is
the ultimate purpose of the society to
have made number of sets of slides
covering the whole range of the ami
NAL world. All amateur photog-
raphers who have negatives of living
animals are asked to aid the society Dy
the loan or gift of such negatives rs
are available for the making of slides
In order that the various schools in
the state may have convenient access
to these slides, the following rules are
deemed advisable
l. The payment of So entities any
school, public or private, to the use Of
the slides for a period of time not OK
cecding three days, from the receipt of
the slides to their return shipment.
Any society or other organization may
have the same privilege of using the
slides, provided that the schools shall
have the preference as to dates.
2, An additional fee of So entities
any school to further use of the same
slides Cor Of any others which the So
ciety may purchase during the cur
rent school year on the same condi-
tions as before.
3. In order to secure the Audubon
society from all loss by accident or
otherwise, the school, society, or other
organization to which the slides are
sent shall furnish a guarantee signed
by three responsible citizens that the
slides will be returned in good condi-
ton.
a. The following additional ex-
pcnsos must be paid for the use of the
slides: ID Express charges both
ways. CD In case lecturer is sup
piled by the society his expenses must
be paid. CD If lantern is required
to be sent with the slides, the expenses
viii vary with the kind of lantern de-
sired and whether an operator is fur
nished by the society.
Prompt application to Prof. w. S.
Marshall, president of the Audubon
society, will assure preferred dates.
The slides will be sent out to the
schools from Dec. to June IS of the
current school year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
On Fame's Pathway.

Senator Depew has purchased lot
III Washington, and it is expected that
he vii, build a permanent residence
there.
Senator Beverage does most of his
speechmaking and reading by night.
He says he works better then and his
fstudy lamp often burns until midnight.
IT. c. Steele has just finished life
sized three-quarters length oil portrait
Of ex-rresident Harrison, which is to
be placed in the Commercial club of
indianapolis.
Rev. Judson Ellsworth, pastor OF
Plymouth Congregational church, Mil
waukee, is reading novel of his own
production to his evening congrega.
lions. 1t aims to preach the gospel
ia the story of a young mans con
version.
| John Norton Pomeroy Of California
| who has been filling one of the law
chairs at Washington and Lee univer
sity, has accepted a position at Yale
! to deliver the lectures on equity which
were begun by Prof. E. ]. Phelps.
Mr.. Labouchere responded to an in
vitation to attend a dance, given il
aid Of the Northampton Reservist
fund, by forwarding 10 guineas and 6
note. in which he said: Il have al
ways thought it somewhat grewsome
for fine ladies to get up balls in on
don to help the wounded. The!
would DO better to contribute wha
they can without dancing ovel
graves"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
Life in the PHILIPPINES,

/ Inc Philadelphia Medical = Journal Of
April Z is a particularly interesting
! and valuable number, containing a
| series Of practical articles on Tue
! Soldiers in the Tropics, The Sanitary
Condition of the Far East as 1t Affects
| the United States, Bubonic Plague,
| Cuban Malaria, Control of Leprosy in
the Hawaiian Islands, Notes on the
| Philippines, etc. The aforementioned
article, by a surgeon of our army.
shows that the Philippines can hardly
| become the home of Americans.
! Many of our older officers" it Is
stated, have undergone a process of
rapid aging here without any definite
ailment to account for their condition.
They simply grow thinner day by day,
running down gradually in physical
strength as emaciation goes on, until
finally the general takes pity and
sends them home. 1t is not country
for American ladies, particularly those
who are married. 1t is all very nice
as long as enc is we'll, but those who
get sick don't easily recover here. -
Under the head Of Effects OF Cam
paigning" the writer's, after mention
ing the unsanitary situation due to the
sWampy character of the country, ex-
posture to the sun and rain while
marching and fighting and the con-
slant strain on the nervous system
from being under the nightly fire Of
the Filipino sharpshooters, says that
in his brigade of $500 men after the
first San Fernando campaign there
were 1904 sick or wounded. AS to the
2,307 on the firing line, the brigade
commander estimated that not 100
could march five miles under existing
conditions. In one of the regiments
upon a careful medical examination,
of the $40 not reported sick only Sc
were found in normal condition, 179
had a pulse rate of IS to 100 and 191
ranged from 100 to $50" The COM
plant of the men was that latter
moderate eXertion they breathed very
rapidly and that any sudden noise up
set their nervous belance." 1t is made
clear that the nerves suffer, while
vfgor diminishes, so that we are cot
sui pI 1SSu dI IuS ldI sc pIOpOI llOu VI
our soldiers who become insane. The
diseases that prevail are dysentery,
obstinate diarrhoea, typhoid fever,
rheumatism, malaria. "Washerman's
itch" it is added, exists in an az
gravated form, making marching i'm
possible, while boils and ulcers affect
the limbs from the irritation caused by
soaking in mud and water. Boils and
other suppurative diseases are prev
alent and ultimate. tuberculosis
proceeds rapidly to a fatal issue.
Heat exhaustion is daily seen and 1e
covery is long delayed The climate
is not pernicious for those who can
avoid exposure. but for those who are
broken down by hardship or incidental
disease complete recovery is doubt
full" Upon the whole, the Philippines
are a sort of climate inferno tor
American soldiers who have to cam
paign under conditions almost sure to
be fatal in their results.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
A Big Compromise.

A compromise Of one of the most
complicated lawsuits in the civil
records of Mississippi was effected
last week. The action was styled the
board of levee commissioners of the
Mississippi delta VS.. the Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley Railroad company.
and involved the title to 10000 acres OF
land owned by the board in the delta
country under title from the iquidat-
ing levee board, and on which levee
taxes afterward accrued and the land
was disposed of at public cutlery. BY
the terms of the compromise the levee
receives S125,000 from the railroad
company, and the title of the latter is
forever quoted. The levee board also
has a large number Of suits against
individuals based on the same grounds
and it is expected that these will be
shortly compromised. The terms Ct
! the compromise with the railroad Were
authorized by bill passed at thc
| recent session of the legislature tC
which both Of the concerns at interes
| had previously agreed.