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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
THE RED BADGE IN HOOK"
Some Interesting Facts About the
Famous Story Of Stephen Crane.

Hamlin Garland IN a sketch of
Stephen Crane in the Saturday Even
ing Post says:
When Crane came next day he
brought the first part of a war story
which was at that time without a
name. Such mastery of details of war
was sufficiently startling in a youth of
twenty-one who had never smeIled anv
more carnage than a f1recracker holds.
but the seeing was so keen, the phrases
so graphic, so fresh, so newly coined.
that l dared not express my admira-
ton.
The next day I asked for the other
half of the novel. We must get this
published at once I said. 1t is a
wonderful study. A mysterious product
for you to have in hand. Where is the
other part?''
He looked very much embarrassed,
It's in hook" he said, to the type
writer
I'VE all laughed, but it was serious
business to him.
How much is it hung up for?'
" Fifteen dollars!'
Il looked at my brother. I guess
we can spare that, don't you think?'
so Crane went away joyousIy and
brought the last half of The Red Badge
of Courage, still unnamed at the time.
He told us that the coming of that
story was mysterious, and I can believe
it. 1t literally came of its own ac-
cord like sap flowing from a tree.
4 had given him letter to a Syndi-
cate Press company, and with them he
had left the manuscript of his war
novel. In a letter written in Novem-
Der, 1894, he makes sad mention of his
lack of success:
My Dear Friend: So much of my
row with the world has to be silence
and endurance that sometimes [ wear
the appearance of having forgotten my
best friends, those to whom I am in
debted for everything. AS a matter of
fact, l have just crawled out of the
fifty-third ditch into which I have been
cast, and l now feel that I can write
you a letter which will not make you
ill.-- put me in one of the bitches.
He kept The Red Badge six months I'M
til I was near mad. Oh, yes-he was
going to use it, but Finally | took
it to B. They use it in January in a
shortened form.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
HOW THE STARFISH EATS AN
OYSTER.

The oyster when at home lives in a
hard lime shell, which nicely protects
him from the attack of enemies. Man,
with his tools, can open the shell and
remove the soft animal, but besides
man the oyster has few foes Oddly
enough, his greatest foe is not, as
might be expected, an animal with
powerful jaws and strong teeth, but
one wholly without Jaws. 1t is the
starfsh, so common everywhere at the
seashOre.
Now, the starfish is soft, flexible
creature, very sluggish, seemingly
helpless and utterly unable to attack
such an animal as the oyster. It's
mouth, which is in the center of the
disk, has no teeth of jaws. How can
such a helpless creature open the for
midable oyster shell, and get at the
animal concealed within?
It's method of doing so is odd enough
1t first clasps the oyster in its arms,
wrapping it's five arms around the
shell tightly. Having thus seized the
oyster, it quietly waits. Just exactly
what happens next even our scientists
do not exactly know The two shells
| of the oysters are held together by q
| hinge which opens by a spring. The
spring is so adjusted that the shells
will be pushed open unless they are
held together by the muscles. Some
scientists tell us that, after the starfish
! has held the oyster for a while the
| oyster opens the shell in order to get
| food, and the starfish that has been
waiting for this now injects into the
shell little reddish LIQUID. his acts
as a poison, paralyZing the muscles
and thus maxim git impossible for the
animal to close it's shell. Others tell
us that the process is simpler, and
that the starfsh simply holds the
shells tightly together until the oyster
is smothered. AS soon as it is stupe-
| fed by the suffocatiOn the muscles re-
lax and the shell opens,
| Whichever of these two accounts is
true, it is certain that after q little the
oyster shell fys optn. Now comes the
oldest feature Of all. The stomach Of
/ the starfish is very large and elastic,
and it is now thrown out OF the ami
mails mouth much as one would turn a
bag inside out. This stomach is then
thrust inside the oyster shell, and
wrapped around the soft animal, be-
ginning at once to digest it. The star
fish does not take the trouble even to
remove the oyster from the shell, di-
costing if in IFS own home and event
Ually crawling away, leaving behind
the gaping, empty shell.-H. W. Conn
| in ST. Nicholas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
IT WAS HIS WIFE.

There was a young man on q Liver
pool tram some days since who had
good reason TO be a very angry man in
deed. The tram was crowded, wnen
a corpulent German, accompanied by
an equally cOrpulent wife, eIbOwed his
way inside.
The woman was not pretty or at
tractive. and most Of the male pas
sengers did not even resort to any OF
the familiar tricks of the experienced
passenger when he conveniently wants
to overlook the fact that lady is
holding on to the toprail while he en-
Joys comfortable seat.
But weu-dressed young man arose
and, touching the woman's arm to at
tract her attention, politely said:
Here is a seat for you, madam
The woman started toward the va
cant seat, when her obese male COM
panion, with sigh Of satisfaction, set
tied down into it before her.
The young man was surprised, but
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
MORGANATIC MARRIAGES.

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the
former heir to the throne Of Austria
and nephew Of the emperor, at the
HOfburg. June %, in the presence of
the emperor, archdukes, ministers and
state dignitaries, took a formal oath
that he and his future wife (the Prin-
cess Chotek) will both regard their
marriage as morganatic. Consequent
y his wife will never assume the pO-
sition of empress, and the children by
their marriage will never claim the
right of succession. The marriage took
place Sunday. IL this step Ferdinand
followed the example Of Emperor
Francis Joseph himself, who is re-
ported to have married a few weeks
ago an actress who was the rival or
the empress during her lifetime in the
affections Of her husband. The mar
riage however, is morganatic, and it
is said that no paper in Vienna has
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16

were busy devouring man they had
just seized"
The fearful shrieks CT the victims
rang in their ears night after night,
till no one knew whose turn would
come next. Sound men lay and lis
teed to the cracking Of bones and the
tearing Of limbs within fifty yards OF
the place where they were, and sick
men in hospitals expired from sheer
terror as they listened to the mon
sters Quarreling over their feast.
Twenty shots were fired in the dark at
the sound Of the lions eating man
and they finished him to the last
bone
They would spring over the high
est thorn BONA" pick up a man and
trot round with him looking for the
best way out, as a cat carries rat.
Everyone will ask, why were these
men not armed? The answer is that
the ordinary coolie does not know the
use Of arms, and that, even when
the lions were fired at, unless actually
hit, they cared nothing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16

Ne Dig f1Orn. SeLQeF ana go
bounding down the cliff like a rubber
ball, until it reached the valley and dis
appeared in the woods AS she leaned
over the edge she saw something NOV
ing on the shelf of rock that the sheep
had just left, and it took her but an in
slant to conclude that it was a lamb
whose mother had left it for few
moments perhaps that she might get
a drink at some spring or rivulet in
the valley
In a moment she had brought her
father and then, swiftly and silently,
she slipped stout harness about her
body, and, with her father to pay out
a rope knotted fast to the straps, she
dropped over the edge and made her
way, by clinging to the crevices and
vines, to the ledge. There lay the
lamb, little, soft, cIay-colOred bundle
that would some day be a mighty, sure
footed big horn sheep of the Rockies.
1t started to its feet in fright and
tottered to the edge. The girl gathered
it up under one arm and signaIled to
her father to draw her up. That night
the lamb was in a mountain cabin
learning to drink milk from a pudding
pan.
The girl who was swung out over the
precipice to capture big horn" lamb
was Miss Olive Jones, and her father
was Buffalo Jones" whose efforts to
raise the buffalo in captivity have
given him his nickname. He is now
in Colorado at the head of a party of
hunters to capture mountain sheep for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
NOT IN THE NEGATIVE.
Fun in the Studio of a Rural Photog-
rapher

Many ludicrous developments hap
pen in the studio of a country photog-
rapher, aside from what the chemi-
calls bring out in the darkroom, -
said man who has photographed
rustics for many years. 81 recollect
one Fourth of July that a young
farmer and his sweetheart came to
me to have some tin-types taken to-
gether. I posed them on a flight of
stairs with a baIustrade between
them. When I came from my dark
room after developing the plate, the
young fellow stepped up to me and
said, 'Sa-a-y, couldn't we take that
over again?'
Why, what's the matter?' I asked
in surprise.
I'VE amt goin' to like that picture
a Bit he answered evasively.
But why not?' | persisted
Wall he blurted out, blushing to
the roots of his hair, she's too DANCED
fur Off He refused to pay fifty cents
for a new sitting, so at last they bore
away the tintypes as they were. But
the next day he came back to my gal
lery, very wrathful. 'Sa-a-y,' he fairly
shouted when he saw me, take that
burned girl off this picture I'm mad
with her!'
"Often, when l hid my head under
the cloth to get the focus, loving
couples, confident that I cannot pos
sibly see them, take advantage of the
moment to kiss each other fervidly
but with great silence. | remember
too coming out of my darkroom one
time to find a rustic with one of my
bottles pouring a thick, dark liquid
into the hollow of his hand. I guess
you don't mind if I use a little of
your hair ile,' he said, and promptly
rubbed the stuff into his hair. It was
varnish for negatives, made to dry
and harden very rapidly, and before I
could get that picture taken, hur-
rying feverishly, he had to go out and
get his head shaved 1t is hard to
believe how green people can really
be in this age and generation until a
man drives a tintype studio on wheels
through the rural districts of our fair
land" Thus concluded the photog-
apher-Caroline Dockhard in Lip
pincOtt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
CIGARETTES
Western Railroads That Have Placed
q Ban on Their Use.

The action of the officials of the
Rock Island road in placing a ban on
cigarette smoking on the part of en-
ployes, following similar action by the
Burlington road, will not fail, says
the Chicago Times-Herald, to impress
the public mind with the fact that
the movement against the cigarette is
one of business and not Of sentiment
Discussion of the cigarette habit
has been confined largely to the do
main of ethics, although we are
treated to occasional disquisitiOns
from the medical fraternity upon the
deleterious effects of the practice upon
the mind and body. The public has
learned, however, that it is not al
ways necessary to take the doctors
seriously upon these questions. The
doctor has been found to be a very
faIIible human being, given to much
guessing and learned speculation. It
is found that men quite often grow
fat on diets and drinks that are con-
demned by the physicians.
But when lot of hard-headed rail-
way officials, who are not animated
in their business by sentimental con-
siderations, promulgate iron-clad
edicts against the use Of the cigarette
among their employees, it is a safe as
sumption that they have found the
habit to be positively harmful, so
much so that it impairs the useful
ness of those who are addicted to
it, and, if INDUCED in to excess, rem
ders them unfit for the peculiar re-
sponsibilities that belong to the rail-
way service.
There is perhaps no industrial ser
vice in this country that depends for
| it's success upon the steady nerve and
the unfinching fidelity Of employees as
does the railway service. 1t is found
! that excessive cigarette smoking shat
! ters the nerves and clouds the intel
Iect. Men who become slaves to the
| habit are not dependable men. They
cannot be relied upon in the emerg-
| encies that are incident to the railway
I business. Rather than make any
rules governing or regulating in
! diligence in the habit the railway
| companies wisely concluded that the
| safest course is to forbid the practice
| entirely.
! When the railway managers and the
| doctors get together on the cigarette
question all defense Of the pernictoua
habit might as well be abandoned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
OLDEST HOTEL IN AMERICA.

In side street of this good old
Quaker city there is a hotel known
commercially as the Chambers, and
fiippantly as the Wafer. It is thus
called because it is so narrow from
front to back that heavy delegates
like Sam Raymond of Chicago and J.
Z. Baldwin, Jr., of New York, had to
enter and leave it sideways. The
building was erected to fill a long-felt
want, and it is said by it's patrons to
do it, although it fills no material
space.
The structure is % feet in depth from
the sidewalk to the room register be-
hind the clerks desk, and a uniform
giant stands at the main entrance to
warn ignorant incOmers with long
noses of the danger of striking the OPP
pOsite wall. The elevators are hung
along the interior, like picture frames,
and are "sandWiched" because only one
piece of meat can be put in at a time.
On each floor a red light at the ele-
vator opening indicates the sign halt"
while the startled passenger decides
whether to turn to the right or the
left, not being able to go forward
without hitting brick wall, or back
ward except down the elevator shaft.
If a guest unfortunately happens to
meet a chambermaid in the hallway,
he bows and retreats to the elevator
while the woman goes by.
The cafe occupies a strip along the
side walk from one end to the other of
the house, except where breaks are
made for windows and doorways. A
feature of the Chambers is "a telephone
i'll each room," and the reason of this
is found in the fact that if bellboys
were employed there would be no I'M
occupied places for guests to squeeze
intO.-Philadelph Record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
AN OVERWORKED EDITOR.
The Queer Things Expected of Him
and What He Recommends

People come to Truth office with al
most every form of trouble or diff
fculty that afflicts mankind, and |
am always loath to discourage them,
says Labouchere in London Truth.
When you have, somehow or other,
acquired a reputation as the unfail-
ing friend of suffering or perpleXed
humanity, you naturally desire to live
up to it. But l am bound to admit
that it is sometimes rather hard work.
Within the last week or two my ad-
vice has been sought by a simple
swain who desired to know the cor
rect costume in which to meet his
bride at the altar; by lady anxious
to discover an infallible safeguard
against being buried alive; by a
clergyman who wanted to publish a
libel without exposing himself to an
action for damages, and by three
parties (there are always one or two
of these every week. who required
my assistance in escaping from luna
tic asylums. The wedding costume,
the premature burial, the nOnlibelOus
libel and the alleged lunaticS | have
disposed of to the best of my ability,
but, alas! only to find myself thrown
On my beam ends by man with a
mole on his face.
1t is a very pathetic case. The suf-
ferer describes his affection as being
horrid and disgusting" and speaks of
his life as being made miserable by
the little affair." He has heard that
such little affairs" are durable, and
ne sees infallible cures advertised in
the papers, but he distrusts quacks, in
which he shows that he is q wise
man, if an afflicted one. He thinks l
may be able to give him the name Of
some eminent London specialist IN
this line, but though | have had in
quiries made from Saville Row to
GrCsvnOr Square | fail to discover
any medical man with a real reputa-
ton as a mole destroyer. What is to
be done? My correspondent is afraid
that | may regard his trouble as too
insignificant for the notice Of the
editor of weekly paper, but he lit
tie knows the editors of weekly pa
pers. They have large hearts. Were
| Of a fiippant and unsympathetic dis
position l might refer him to the Book
of Job, or tell him not to make
mountain out Of a mOlehill. Being
what | am, | have lain awake at
night puzzling over my correspond
ent's little affair" l have tried 10
think what / should do if | had
mole on my face, and had not the
strength Of mind to regard it with
Indifference. Probably | should either
go into the church or become night
Waterman. Perhaps some Of my
readers, whether or not similarly af-
fiicted, may be able to offer sugges-
ton. | don't like to think Of fell
low creature living on and living on
in daily misery, hoping only for the
end. But my fear is that, although
you may de something to mitigate an
affection of this kind, you cannot
eradicate it. l trust I am wrong.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
SUBDUING A WILD HORSE.
Hamlin Garland's Fine Description of a
Thrilling Incident of the Plains.

The main reason why Hamlin Gar
lands accounts of plain and prairie
life, of me and things in the far west,
are accepted as authentic is that he
has been through it all In the Eagles
Heart, which is now appearing in The
Saturday Evening Post, he gives the
following account of how a horse was
Subdued:
"Mose refused to allow his shining,
proud-necked stallion to be roped and
thrown, and asked the boys to help
drive him into a strong corral together
with five or six other horses. This was
done, and stripping himself as for a
race, Nose entered the corral and be-
gan walking rapidly round and round,
following the excited animals. Hour
after hour he kept this steady, circling
walk, till the other horses were weary,
till Kintuck ceased to snort, till the
blaze of excitement passed out of his
eyes, till he walked with a wondering
backward glance, as if to ask: Two
legged creature, why do you so per-
siStcntly follow me?'
The cowboys jeered at first, but
after time they began to marvel at
the logged walk of the youth. They
gathered about the walls Of the corral
and laid bets on the outcome. At the
end Of the third hour Kintuck walked
with a mechanical air, all the fire and
fury gone out of him. He began to al
low his pursuer to approach him close
| ly, almost near enough to be touched.
! At the end of the fourth hour he al
| lowed Nose to lag his hand on his
nose, and Nose petted him and went to
| dinner. Odds stood in Moses favor
as he returned to the corral. He was
/ covered with dust. At last, when all
| the other horses had been turned loose,
Kintuck, trembling and with a curious
stare in his eyes, again allowed Nose to
! Law his hand on his nose. He shrank
away. but did not wheel. 1t was sun
set. and the horse was not merely be-
wildered: he was physically tired. The
! touch of his masters hand over his
ewes seemed to subjugate him, to take
away his will When Nose turned to
walk away the horse followed him as
| though drawn by some magnetic force,
and the herders looked at each other
in amazement. Thereafter he had but
to be accustomed to the bride and sad
die. He had come to love his master. y
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his asConishment soon gave way TO
anger. At first he was inclined to be-
lieye that the putting old Teuton mad
made a mistake, but he soon became
convinced that the action was inten-
l.Onal
Tapping the old man on the shoulder.
he said, quietly:
= beg your pardon. sir, but I gave
up my seat to this lady, and not TO
you
On, yaw, dot is all right. mine
friendt," blurted out the old fellow;
she vos mine wife"
The young man grasped the top rail
for support, and for moment was too
full for utterance. 4 riot was immi-
nent, but at the next crossing several
passengers aIighted and bloodshed
was averted.-Tid-Bits
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
THE COLONIZING POWERS.

Within the last eighteen years 8,679,-
12O square miles have been added TO
the colonial empires of the great col
onizing powers. The total, not includ-
ing Egypt nor the Soudan, is as fol-
lows: Great Britain, 1887, 312; France,
2,936 ,563; Germany, 1,O2O,O70; Russia,
265, 381; United States, 160,501; Neither
lands, 1861; Portugal, 96,605; Spain,
1881.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
WOMEN AS WAGE FARMERS.

Nothing is more vital to the inter-
ests of women than the outcome of the
present agitation as to her tenure OF
place in the wage-earning field.
The TRADE is especially directed
AGAINST those women who hold places
with a good salary attached. A proof
C this statement is made by citing the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16

the national
geological park
in Washing
ton. Mr.. Jones
says there are
no big horns
in captivity.
Very few are
left in the
mountains and
IHCJ al Z GA
tremely wild,
for they have
been hunted so
long that they
are now to be
found only on
the highest
peaks where
~ on 40 ~
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
COMMODIOUS APARTMENTS.

at is awfuIly crowded here"
Why Harry, you forget; we have
nice little paths in every room, and
we don't have to climb on the bed TO
get things cut Of the bureau, as we
did in that other fat"-Chicago Rec
ord
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16

Official reports announce the Siberian
railway now open for traffic from
Tchelianbinsk to Lake Baikal. dis
lance of BOAT versts; also from My
osovsya to Sryetensk, 1,034 versts. A
force of Cossacks which was sent 10
clear the Chinese from the right bank
of the Aigun captured a Chinese gen.
eral, five officers and So soldiers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16

At Columbus, Ohio. F. ". Renick of
Falling Spring, W. Va, Ieaped from the
roof OF the state house and was dashed
TO death on the stone pavement so feet
below Renick was a victim Of the
opium habit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16

CalnS near Red
Colo
RADIO, hunting
with her
father, saw, far
below her, a
big horn"
sheep rise from
a narrow ledge
of rock, brace
its feet to-
pn+har onJ ro
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
AWFUL MAN

Twenty-Eight Coolies Are Deyoured
and the Surviving Five Thousand
Go Out on a Strike-Unexpecte
Difficulties Experienced at Railway
Work in Africa
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BIG HORN" SHEEP
HOW \ GIRL GOT \ FINE SPEC
MEN
SURE FOOTED CREATURE
Grazes in LoWlands but Flees to High
est Mountain Peak When Fright
ened-It Ranges Montana, Idaho,
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New
Mexico, and into Canada.

One day a week or two ago a young
irI who was out on the Rocky noun