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

The libel law is very pote.rt factor
In British journalism, therefore
yelled hints and thickly muffied sug-
gestions concerning the doings of
royal and noble folk usually take the
place of the interesting statements
such as one would be able to make in
a New York paper, for example. PEG
pie are always wondering why on
earth the second daughter Of the
prince and princess of Wales has
never married, and why she is SO little
seen in pubic.
The exploitation is simple enough,
only people are afraid to make it. This
little known princess has, as a matter
of fact, since her fifteenth year, been
subject to epileptic fits, which I'M
fortunately have been increasing in
violence year by year. 1t is a matter
of comment how seldom she has ap
peared in public for the last three or
four years, but, of course, a simple
statement of fact makes the matter
no mystery.
Princess Victoria, however, is not
the only member Of the prince Of
Wales family in whom turks the sha-
dow of a tragedy Princess Maud,
who has always been counted the
beauty of the family and who married
some years ago handsome young
Prince Charles of Denmark, has since
her marriage developed an alarming
suicidal mania, which makes it i'm
possible for her to be left alone for a
minute. Since her childhood she has,
like her mother, the princess of
Wales, been subject to fits Of melan-
choly, but it is only within the last
few years that these more serious de-
velopments have occurred.
The first symptom Of this dreadful
complaint appeared during the prin-
cess first visit, after her marriage, to
Copenhagen. After a very dull state
dinner party she suddenly disappeared
into an anteroom, and, being missed,
one of the ladies in waiting went in
search of her A curious gasping
sound was heard in one corner of the
room, and the royal bride was dis
covered lying on the ground with the
blind cord tightly drawn about her
throat and almost in the last stages of
strangulatlon.
Princess Maud also mas developed
other tendencies and tastes which
nave by no means increased the very
slight popularity which she was first
awarded when she arrived in her hus-
bands native land. Mysterious hints
are given concerning her other
manias, which are perhaps even more
distressing.
The last time | saw her l was
shocked at her appearance, for from
being pretty, dainty and smart look
ing woman she has changed into a
haggard, hungry-eyed creature with
dyed hair and painted cheeks, and
hands that were ever neryously grasp
Ing and fumbling with fan and hand
kCrchicf
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
FORTUNE TELLING.
Some Tricks of Trade Now Quite in
Vogue.

Some Tricks of a Trade Now Quite in
Vogue.
IF | had room to describe all my ex-
Deriences with these modern witches
and wizards, | should like to tell you
about the amiable old fraud that cast
my horoscope. He has been to states
prison for sWindnng, but he adyertises
IN the Sunday papers just the same as
usual, and his Office is full of people
whose dollars burn in their pockets. i
should like to describe the doctor with
three framed diplomas, two medical
books and half-pint Of pills, that went
into trance for me hardly distin.
guishable from the early stages of a fit.
His wrist shook like a fiddler's playing
Schubert's 'Serenade,' and his eyes
rolled up till they looked like hard
boiled eggs with the shell Off, :
should like to tell about the psychic
medium that did a little miracle for me
IN the way of reading the answers TO
H. questions through the envelope in
which they were sealed. I could TX,
plain how he gave me dummy to hold
While he opened the real envelope I'M
der cover of washing his hands
should like to tell how wrong in every
particular was the lady that read my
palm by the light of pure science. No
fortune-telling about it, OH dear, no.
| should like to tell about the true and
reliable fortune-tellers' that ran the
cards for me, and saw trouble from
dark man and luck in the lottery with
the number s, or 500. or 5000. and how
there was money coming to me in
letter from across the water. ct has
to come to me that way or 1 could not
pay the grocer, for l live in Brooklyn.
and Brooklyn is on Long Island, and
my little girl has just come home from
school with the information that an
island is a body - land completely
surrounded by water. | had suspect
ed as much."-Harvey Sutherland in
Ainslee'S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
Prussian State Railroad Rerort.

The report of the Prussian minister
of public works On the government
railways of Prussia and Hesse in 1898
SO shows a mileage of 8,494 miles.
Their cost was S1,802, 129,336, or $97,-
444 mile. There is large yearly
increase of equipment, the cost of
which in the year under notice was
$27,330,000. The purchase value of all
equipment in use is put at 1857, 100000,
or 1852 per cent. of the total invested
capital. The passengers transported
numbered 522,280,0OO, of whom 1,74O,.
were first-class passengers, 51,550,O00
|second-class, 26O,36O,0O0 third-class
and POI 100000 fourth-class. AS many
as 100000 persons travelled on mill
tary tickets. The average receipts per
passenger were Is cents. The ton
mage of freight carried was 192,780,000
tons. Total receipts from passengers
and freight were 80,500,000, and
from all sources s300,SO0,000. The ex-
cess of receipts over expenses was
s127,770,000, and the net profit was
7.07 per cent. Traffic, receipts and ex-
penses all show yearly increases, but
the rate of profit is declining.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
CHINESE POLICEMEN.
Curious Regulations of the Force of
10000 on Duty at Pekin.

In costume Chinese policeman is
something between a circus clown and
a football player His breeches are
always baggy and very we'll wadded-
so clumsy you wonder how he gets
around in them, particularly when, as
is often the case, he wears a coat, also
thick and clumsy, coming we'll below
the knees. Dark blue is the prevailing
color, set off with bands and facings
OF lighter blue, red, green, maroon, and
brown, but never yellow. That is the
sacred or royal hue, permitted to no.
body below the rank CT viceroy.
In the treaty ports, that is to say,
those open to foreign influence and
commerce, the police force is largely
made up of Sikhs from northern India
The reason, perhaps, is that the Chi
0ese themselves are essentially unwar.
like; they have a proverb to the effect
that mo good man is ever a soldier
AS men in the pay of the Chinese gov
! eminent, whether natives or not, they
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
Art Gallery for Buffalo.

The city of Buffalo is soon to have
one of the best fine-art galleries of
the country. which will cost something
like s35O,OOO 1t is the gift Of J. J. AL
bright, one of the leading citizens Of
the place and an art patron. The
only conditions imposed were that the
city should furnish the site and that
the Fine Arts Academy of Buffalo
should raise a maintenance fund of
500, 900. The lot has been decided,
and is within the limits Of Delaware
Park, overlooking the beautiful Lake
park. The academy has also raised
the maintenance fund, and the build
ing will be completed in time to serve
as the art palace of the Pan-American
Exposition. The edif1ce will be $50
feet long by $50 feet wide, the princi-
pal facade looking toward the east.
The architecture will be classic Greek.
The stone will be white marble.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
THE IDEAL BED-CHAMBER.
1t Should be as Large and Airy as Pos
sibe, and Not Overfurnished.

The Importance of the sleeping and
bathing arrangements of a house is not
half appreciated" writes Maria Parloa.
in the Ladies' Home Journal. giving
some suggestions as to furnishing the
house. Every bedroom should be
provided with the essentials for health,
full sleep and the daily sponge bath.
AS nearly as possible, the room should
be kept free from anything that would
tend to contaminate the air. 1t should
be as large as one can afford, and the
windows SO arranged that they may be
opened at the top and bottom. If pos
pible the floor should be bare and the
rugs so small that they can be taken
outdoors with ease for cleaning and
airing. Everything about the room
should be washable. The bed should
be light and fitted with strong casters,
so that it may be readily moved; the
springs ought to be firm and strong
and the mattress of a kind that will
not allow the heaviest part of the body
to sink, and so cause the sleeper to lie
in cramped position. My own pref
erence is for a cheap hard mattress
next the springs and light one OF
hair on this, but any kind of firm
mattress is better than one that is toe
soft. Above all. do not overfurnish
the bedroom"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
HOW.

There are a number of ways in
which you can test woman's beauty
and prove that it is vain. You can see
her after she has danced until dawn
and drives home in the cold, blue light.
You can drop in upon her when her
neglige is such in reality, and not a
matter of rufies and lace. You can see
her rise dripping from the surf, no
daughter of home and fire, but a
creature of dank locks and purple lips.
Or you can look at her after she has
gone twice round the links in the blaz-
ing sun and dust-fraught wind. All
these are likely to convince you of the
deceitfuiness of beauty. But some
women are so fair as to bear each
other and all of these tests. Yet If
you were to put them in a, smoky
close sleeping car, anywhere between,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
THEY SHOW ENTERPRISE.
Occupation in Which Women ar,
Achieving Success,

Achieving Success.
The weaving Of baskets seems a
commonplace enough occupation as a
means of support, yet its discovery as
such as made only the other day by
Misses Mabel and Stella Campbell
two young women scarcely out OF their
teens. The idea came through seeing
little baskets made Of pine needles anc
brought to hotels for sale by many
country women. These young women
learned how the baskets were made
and, being in the far west-in the
Indian country-Where grasses and
suitable material were procurable,
they became interested in the art of
curing the grasses, inventing, them
selves, numerous patterns and designs
for the novel little baskets. They are
making a comfortable living at it in
their cottage near the Adirondacks.
Miss Margaret Oliver is an enter
prising young southern woman who
has made bulb-growing a profitable
business. Her home is within a few
miles of Augusta, Ga, and comprises
between so to Is acres of land which,
when she inherited it, the neighbors
said was too poor to sprout cowpeas
means OF trying out-or-door life for he1
health, broken by the confinement and
worry of the schoolroom.
Marjorie Deana of New York is the
romantic name of very practical and
successful young business woman and
perhaps the only femme landscape as
sistant to an architect in the United
States.
Miss Carrie H. Lippincott is not only
the pioneer seedswomen of America"
but has achieved the distinction of
being the sole proprietor of the largest
house in the world dealing exclusively
in flower seed. She declares she has
never had a year when the balance
was on the wrong side of the ledger.
Her employees are always women.
When her work is heaviest she keeps
from Is to % clerks in her Minneapolis
offices.
Another profession in which Bos-
ton girl has met with success is that
Of bric-a-brac surgeon. She makes a
speciality of repairing all sorts OF
porcelains, statuary, fine cut glass and
precious pottery. In one year she
patched up 100000 worth of fragile
ware and she got nearly 10 per cent.
on the value Of the goods redeemed.
Another woman of many talents is
Mrs. Madeline Yale ). nm of Chicago.
Although a successful story-writer,
painter, modeler and designer and
brilliant society woman, she is also the
only woman silversmith in the world.
Marion Daniel Mcconnell in the
Alkahest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
Mr.. Maxim's Hand.

L read with more than ordinary
interest your recent interview with
Hudson Maxim, the inventor Of smoke
less powder" remarked a New YORK.
merchant. "One reason why it was
interesting to me was because of an
unusual incident which vas the means
Of my becoming ecquainled with Mr.
Maxim
The inventor, you know, has but
one hand, the other having been blown
off while he was experimenting with
some high explosive. "ne first time
ever saw Mr. Maxim was one night on
an elavted railroad train. He was a
stranger 10 me at that time, and my at
tention was attracted to him by the
actions of half-drunken burly ruffian
who sat in the cross seat opposite and
persisted in annoying him in one way
and another. A quiet protest from the
stranger brought torrent of vile
language from the rufian, accompanied
by q hostile demonstration and a pro
lane threat to push his head The
stranger paid as little attention to the
outrage as possible and Kept on read
ing his newspaper. [ noticed that the
stranger had an artificial left hand
which was gloved and looked very
much like the other one. When he got
Up to leave the car at his station the
Oh
from his seat followed him out. II
wasn't my station, but feeling almost
certain that the stranger would need
some protection, followed them out
OF the car. The stranger went down
the stairs first, the ruff1an a few steps
behind him, grumbling all the way
and I next. When the stranger
reached the bottom of The stair he
stepped out to the middle Of the side
walk, apparently making room for the
ruffian to pass him Instead Of accept
ing the opportunity to go his way, he
made directly for the stranger who
sent out a good Highlander, Wnicf
caught the scoundrel on he point Of
the jaw and knocked him clean across
the curb and landed him ali in a heaI
in the gutter, where he lay quivering
like beef hit with an ak. A grew
| some part Of the midnight incident
| vas that as the stranger landed his
knockout blow his artificial hand be
came detached and fell to the pavement
with a clatter. l confess that I was
| little startled at this, and before
| could recover myself he had picked VI
his artificial hand, put it under hi!
arm and walked off. Although he hal
| demonstrated his ability to take care
! Of himself up to that time, I did no
! know but he would need NE as a wit
ness later, and overtaking him, gave
| him my card. He gave lie his il
return, and not till | got home AM
looked at the card did 1 know that tn.
stranger who had so handsomely pro
tected himself against rufian wa
Hudson Maxim. Since then we hav
become very good friends, and hav
often wondered what sort of an &C
count of the affair the police got from
the man we left at the loot of tn
| stairs. New York Commercial.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
Tattooed Girls.

NO need to go to the dime museums
or sldeshows Of the circus these days
to see the tattooed girls" said a man:
all the summer resorts. but particu-
larly the seaside resorts, TEEN with
them. Evening dress reveals the tat
tooing. Why, half the necks and
arms and shoulders displayed by the
girls at the Hotel Mosquito-by-the-S
hop the other evening were all criss-
cross and speckled, for all the world
like war map or guide to a golf
links, at least 1t was what you might
call a checkered career laid bare nv
those decollete bodices. My sister
says it isn't tattooing at all, but sun
burn, and she also says that it's all
due to what she calls the diaphanous
shirt waist. 1 think I know the kind
of shirt waist she means-that very
thin, fluffy sort, you know, that is Dat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
"A MISTAKE OF AMERICAN WOMEN
Overfurnishing Bedrooms is Bad
Taste, Besides Being UnheaIthfui.

Overfurnishin9 Bedrooms is Bad
Taste, Besides Being UnheaIthfui.
In furnishing our chambers, per-
haps, we commit the grOssest viola
tons Of the laws of good taste and Of
good health at the same time" writes
Edward Box, in the November Ladies'
Home Journal, in a plea for the
simpler and better furnishing of our
homes. instead of keeping sleep
ing apartment perfectly simple, put
ting into it only such articles as are
absolutely necessary, We load into it g
confusing mass of all manner Of use
less things which have no place there.
dainty. Truthfully speaking, the
average sleeping-room is a mess OF
trifies never brought into use, which
have absolutely no business nor place
there. Whereas a sleeping apartment
should have the freest circulation Ct
air, it is almost impossible for a current
of air to work it's way through. We
need not seek to have the barrenneSs
of the sleeping-rooms of monasteries
or hospitals, and yet there is lesson
in them by which many might richly
profit. Here health comes in even
before good taste. We can scarcely
keep a sleeping-room too airy and
devoid of articles of furniture. Only
what is absolutely needed for actual
use should be in an apartment where
we spend one-third of our lives. The
private chamber is, really, an unerring
reflection of either wisdom Or folly, Of
| good taste or bad"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
OUR OVERFURNisHED HOMES.
Health, Comfort and Taste Sacrificed
for Display in American Houses.

for Display in American Houses.
More simplicity in our homes would
make our lives SIMPLER" writes Ed
ward Box in plea for the exercise OF
better taste in furnishing our homes,
in Ladies' Home Journal. MANY
women would live fuller lives because
they would have more time. AS it is,
hundreds of women of all positions in
life are today the slaves of their homes
and what they have crowded into
them. Comfort is essential to our hap
piness. But with comfort we should
stop. Then We are on the safe side.
But we get on and over the danger
line when we go beyond. Not one
tenth of the things that we think are
essential to our happiest living are
really so. In fact, we should be an
infinitely happier and healthier people
if the nine-tenths were taken out Of
our lives. 1t is astonishing how much
we can do without, and be a thousand
times the better for it. And it doesn't
require much to test this gospel of
wisdom. We need only to be natural:
to get back to our real, inner selves.
Then we are simple. It is only be-
cause we have got away from the
simple and the natural that so many Of
our homes are cluttered up as they are,
and our lives full of little things that
are not worth the while We have
bent the knee to show, to display, and
we have lowered ourselves in doing il
surrounded ourselves with the trivial
and the useless and filing our lives
with the poison of artifciality and the
unnatural, we have pushed the Real,
the Natural, the Simple, the Beautiful
the best and the most lasting things
out of our lives"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
Woman SpeIIbinder for Bryan.

Not content with engaging an In
dian chief as one of it's staff of cam
paign orators, the democratic COM
mittee has now completed arrange
ments to secure the services of Miss
Margaret ingalls, of Kentucky, who
has already taken the stump for Mr.
Bryan. Miss ingalls, for several
years has been prominent in the eXcit-
ing political life of that state At the
last stormy session of the Kentucky
Legislature she was chosen head clerk
of the house, and she has won name
for herself as an orator in several ex-
citing state campaigns. She is a
ready speaker and is said TO rival even
MI. Bryan himself in the facility with
which she turns brilliant epigrams
which stick in the memory. She is
also noted as a wit and is good
atOry-teller. Her first speech outside
the state was made before the demo
cratic congressional convention at
Charlottesville, Ind. A good many of
Lndiana's male spellbindeTs were pres
e2t and let the eagle soar to the best
OF their powers, but Miss ingalls, east
~ carried off the oratCrical honors in
spite of them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
The Illinois state board oflux .Iekra

The Illinois state board oflux, lekra
ton completed the tabulation of the as
sessment Of all classes of property of
the state as made by local assessors.
The total is SITS, 513,O76 compared
with $685., 1869 900 last year. Sixty
three counties show an increase Of
SIG, 263,769. Excluding the decrease
in Cook county, which is s116, 263,769,
the net increase in the state is ST.
9O7,757.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
BoSToN's MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL
No Artist Able to do Justice to the
Charms of Emily Marshall,

Ut
1.-THE pictures of Emily Marshall
that have been preserved" writes
William Perrine of 'The Loveliest
Women in All America" in the Ladies
Home Journal, "do not realize her
beauty as it appeared to those who
knew her. She was about five fee,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
PRINCESS EPILEPTiC
VICTORIA OF WALES LONG SUF-
FERER.
SISTER ALSO
MORBID

Young Woman Said to be Under Con-
slant Surveillance in Copenhagen
Sorrows of Royalty About Which
the Public Knows Little-A Suici-
dial Streak.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15

General Ian Hamilton's wife was
robbed of jewels valued at $25, 900 in
Paris hotel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15

Two Cornell students while explor
ing a cave were lost underground.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15

ming II, ana taxing 1t 10 SecClOn 4.
Might he offer She looked startled,
but also uncertain.
Its awfully cold and nice"
She reached out hesitating hand
and flushed yet more pinkly at the
reckless brazenness of it. She raised
her glass and Harrington raised his
hat and said Howl"
Then both stopped with the cups
at their very lips, and there was an
interval of sound which her eyes filled
with beautiful light"
Why didn't you tell me?" she cried.
Are you,,- he began.
Yes. Of course. My fathers Major
Hill. 1 might have known you were
too, if had seen your academy but
tom"
You never took the trouble to look
at me-" Harrington suggested. I'm
Harrington, of the Fourth. I came on
from Bliss
''I am going to the Presidio"
Harrington was going to the Presi-
do, too, by virtue CT all of which he
went back to his section and got the
beer bottle and sat himself down in
Section 2, with it beside him on the
window ledge. The cid Indian sa1uta.
ton was password to the ranks OF
friendship. By virtue Of it they had
known each other, and all of each 9th
er's friends and traditions, fer half a
century at least.
1--WE been down to Bliss on a court
martial" Harrington explained
Where have you been?"
Tive been east at school It's very