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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10

saunter in and sit in his consulting
room when they ought to be with
their families, and he wishes to be
with his. Doctors have a hard life.
for they are liable to be called out at
any hour and to be worked from
morning till night, but they are at
least protected from casual visits and
twaddling conversation by the simple
fact that if man comes to their con-
sulting-rOOm he is not allowed TO stay
longer than fifteen minutes, and he
has 10 pay for the time he stays. Of
course minister is at the service of
his congregation at all reasonable
hours, and at any hour he is ready to
go for the service of the dying and
bereaved; but if every stranger who
has no claim upon him, and who
comes TO him about his own affairs.
had 10 pay reasonable fee, and this
fee were doubled if he came in the
evening, then minister's children
might come to know their father. and
a minister's wife would not have to
complain that she saw hardly any
thing of her husband" g
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
ETIQUETTE OF THE DANCE.
Customs Which Polite Society Ap
proves as Good Form and Correct.

When a man is presented to a
young woman at dance he usually
says almost at once, May l have the
pleasure of this dancer"
After dancing and walking about
the rooms two or three times the
young man may take the girl back to
her chaperOn and plead another en-
gagement-or better, she suggests
that he take her to her place near her
mother or ChaperOn.
The lady is the one to first intimate
her desire to stop dancing.
If man holds a girl too tightly she
should drop her hand from his shout
der, so as to bring it between her
partner and herself. If he does not
take the hint let her stop dancing at
once under some pretext so evident
that he may realize her displeasure or
disapproval.
A chaperon should not be lacking in
personal dignity; nor should she
dance while her charge is unprovided
with partner.
girl should be attentive to her
mother or her chaperon, presenting
her friends to her and occasionally
stopping to say a few words.
Both young men and maidens should
be careful to remember that their
dancing engagements must be kept.
A girl must not refuse to dance with
one man under some pretext, and
then dance with another: neither
should she dance with the same man
more than two Or three times.
A young man invited to q house
should dance as early as possible with
the daughters of his hostess, and pay
them every possible attention.-Mrs.
Burton Kingsland in Ladies' Home
Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
TWO KITCHENER STORIES.

What Lord Kitchener is doing may
be best summed up in two stories that
are going the rounds in regard to him.
1t is said that he was asked the othe
day whether he did not propose to re-
organize the transport. His reply was
mo; I am going to organize it, The
other story is that he paid a surprise
visit to the principal hotel in the city,
the resort of all those among the off
GERS who can, while in Cape Town
afford the luxury of life at the Mount
Nelson. He called for the visitors
book and carefully ran his finger
down the list of military guests. He
subsequently inquired of each officer
his reason for being at the Mount Mel
son hotel and not at the front. In
most cases, of course. there were ex-
cellent reasons for the presence Of
these gentlemen in Cape Town. In
some, however, the reasons were not
SO good-were not, in fact, satisfactory
and in one or two cases the leave
was Immediately Cancelled and the lag
gard soldiers sent to their regiment
London News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
A LEPER MONEY KING.

Sixteen years ago John c. Whey
landed at Honolulu from a sailing YES
sci, young, strong and ambitious. He
settled in the prosperous island COM
munity TO make his fortune, and for
years worked hard at his trade as a
carpenter. He became prosperous
contractor Now, with an income
of over $500 a month, he is a money
king of a leper settlement.
Whey went to San Francisco in 1890.
1t was in that year that he began to
suspect that he had fallen victim Of
the malady once so prevalent in the
Hawaiian Island, but now, thanks to
Anglo-SaXOn methods of quarantine,
very seldom seen away from the island
of Molokai.
One night Whey lifted a hot lamp
glass in his home, where he was en-
tertaining friend. The glass was SC
hot that smoke rose from his scorched
fingers and the friend uttered an ex-
clamation of horror, but Whey showed
no signs of having felt the pain. He
saw the smoke. 1t was a grim confr-
nation of his worst suspicious. The
thickening skin that comes with the
first advance of leprosy could not have
been shown in more startling man.
'ner.
After that night Whey Stunned hi.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

The largest legacy Paris has ever
received comes from a woman. Mile.
Tanies, in the shape Of 100000 francs
for an orphanage and a school of
architectural design under the direc-
ton of the Municipal Council
A bequest Of 100000, by Astra-
chow. Russian merchant, for the es-
Enlistment Of university for wo-
men at Moscow. has been accepted by
the government. 1t is proposed to es-
tablish faculties of medicine and
science at once.
Miss Cora A. Wellman has been ap-
pointed by the New Hampshire SUI
preme Court as assignee to wind UP
the affairs of the Hinsdale Savings
Bank. She had been acting as treas
mended for the present appointment
by the incorporators.
Mrs. Henry N. Couden is the only
person, outside of the members Of
congress, who is allowed in the speak
er's lobby while the house is in ses-
sion. Her husband. the Rev. Mr.
Couden, chaplain of the house, is blind
and it is necessary for Mrs. Couden tc
accompany him.
The Woman's Journal calls attention
to the fact that Corylon, Wayne
County, Ia, will have system Of cleo
trio lights, largely due to the way
the women turned out to vote on tina
question at the recent election. It Ii
often said that If women had the bal
lot they would not use it,. but III
Corydon almost half the votes were
cast by women, and this without any
canvass being made to urge them tx
vote The report says: "The ladie!
were treated with the. utmost respec
at the polls, and were usually accom-
panied by husbands, fathers, or sons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
EDITOR CONVINCED HIM.
Merchant Found That People do Read
Advertisements

Once, when l was publishing a pa
per in the Midlands, l convinced a man
in the most emphatic way that it paid
to advertise" said an old journalist.
He was fairly prosperous merchant,
and 1 had tried for long time to
getshim to insert an advertisement in
my paper.
"'Oh, it's no use he would say. 4
never read the advertisements in a
paper, and no one else does. I believe
in advertising, but in a way that will
force itself upon the public. Then it
pays. But in newspaper-pshaw!
Everybody who reads a newspaper
lodges the advertising pages as if they
were poison
Well, if I can convince you that
people do read the advertising pages OF
my paper, will you advertiser
"'Of course l will. I advertise
wherever l think it will do any good
The next day I had the followins
line stuck in the most obscure corner
of the paper, between a couple OF
patent medicine advertisements:
What is Cohen going to do about
it?'
The next day so many people an.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
GOOD STORIES OF CELEBRITIES.

A gentleman told me that on going
into Sandy" RusseTs room on one
occasion the latter remarked, Dear
me, how white you get" cat last"
rejoined his friend, Il have a great
deal more than you" oh" replied
Russell, who was bald, my hair long
ago preferred death to dishonor."
When Landseer was presented to
the king of Portugal, His Majesty
said: 'Ah,I am glad to see you; al
ways like beasts
Col Hay, who in writing Loncoln's
life declared that his time was largely
occupied in destroying mots falsely at
tributed to the president, repeated one
recently told to him which he believes
to be genuine. A man from Buffalo
went to the white house and said. as
he shook hands, I'VE in Buffalo put
our trust in God and in Abraham Lin
coin" well, my friend" said the
second in the partnership as he passed
his visitor on, you are more than half
right"
Peter told us last night that the
Master Of Trinity once heard Words
wroth preach ere yet he was a bishop
of Lincoln and when he was only a
cathedral dignitary. He devoted much
time to expaining to his congregation
that canon in Greek meant originally
a straight pole or rod. Surely" said
Thompson, sit was unnecessary to ex-
plain at such length that a canon
meant a stick"
Newton told us that -, being in
one of his periodical mad fits, was
walking with a keeper. Don't you
think you had better go 'ome?" said
the man. Don't you think" was the
reply, that you had better go to ell
| and bring back the letter h?'"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
EMERSON AN ART CRITIC.

When Emerson, at Concord, in
1879, saw his bust, modelled by Daniel
Chester French" says William A. Cof-
fin, il the Century, he remarked ap-
proVingly, after looking at it intently.
That is the face that shave'-not al
together an unconscious tribute to the
fidelity of the work, for he recognized
that in detail it conformed to nature.
Turning to another bust of himself
that stood in the room, a portrait quite
without character, he said, This one
is as harmless as parsnip.' The phil
osopher thus, in homely speech, gave
very good art criticism, and one that
in general terms may be applied to all
Of French's work"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
THE WOMAN'S VEHICLE.

Women have taken possession of
the automobile as something distinc-
lively within their province" writes
Walden Fawcett in the Woman's
Home Companion. There are at pres
ent in the city of Chicago twelve wo-
men who are entitled to classification
as full-fedged automobile operators,
since they regularly make trips about
the city in automobiles, unattended
or unaccompanied only by lady
friends. In New York city there are
twice as many. The city of Philadel
phia has two or three feminine auto
mobilists, and upward of a score Of
other women are found in the smaller
communities throughout the country.
Several women physicians in various
sections Of the country are already
using automobiles regularly in max
ing their professional calls, and the
new mode of travel has so many adj
vantages that it is certain OF general
adoption. Two classes Of women to
whom the automobile will mean much
strange though it may appear at
first thought-are the professional
nurses in the hospitals and kindergar-
ten teachers in the large cities. The
automobile ambulance, with its great
er speed and reduced Earring and jolt
ing of patients, will Indirectly prove
helpful in many ways to the white
aproned workers in wards Of suffering.
To the kindergarten instructors the
horseless vehicles will prove a great
convenience in returning the little pu-
pills to their respective homes. One
benefit it will confer. which will
doubtless be appreciated to a greater
or less extent, by pretty nearly every
woman in the land, is the improve
ment Of the postal service Especial
| ly will this be true in the rural dis
| tricts, where the automobile will do
| much to hasten the day OF universal
| delivery, and will be best appreciated
by farmers wives and daughters who
have experienced the disadvantages of
| life in isolated districts"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10

eyes, and she invited them to pur-
chase. Holding up some trifie she
said: This is only a dollar; won't
you buy it?' No, replied one Of the
sailors, I won't give you a dollar for
that, but I will give you five for a kiss
off your blooming cheek Quick as
thought Mrs. Otis turned her glowing
cheek to receive the caress, which
was given with all a sailors bluff
earnestness, and as he laid the five
dollar bill in her hand she turned to
q friend and said: That's an easy
way to earn five dollars for the old
sailors!' Of course, Boston society
was terribly shocked at this incident,
but as usual Mrs. Otis went her way
serenely, and the ripple subsidized. 1t
was impossible to try to overcome the
personality of this imposing dame,
and no matter what she did her posi-
ton was as secure as ever
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
A MIGRATORY FISHERMAN.

I have noticed habit of this bird
that I believe is entirely unique, and
one l am surprised that our authori-
ties On birds have not mentioned
that is, that the males are entirely mi
gratory and the females are not At
ter the lakes and still waters freeze
the mergansers go to the rivers which
are open in some places on the rapids
all winter For more than twenty
years l have seen female mergansers
on the Au Sable river all winter, and
I have frequently seen them on the
other Adirondack rivers: but | have
never seen male merganser in the
winter, and in the late fall the males
and females gather in separate iocks,
and when the male mergansers appear
in the spring they are always in focks
by themselves.
| think the merganser lives entirely
IN fish, and it is surprising to one
who has made no observations on the
subject to know what an enormous
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10

friends. He was seen walking along
the waterfront of San Francisco with
his hat over his eyes, buried in
thought. He avoided speaking to any
one. Whey was contemplating the
step he finally took of placing him
self under the guards that hem in the
thousand or more lepers of Molokai
1t was terrible step to consider In
all the world there is probably no
more horrible place to live than in a
leper settlement, where among a
thousand companions there is not one
with the hope that belongs to the aver
age man.
Many have committed suicide rather
than go to Molokai Others have
risked death to escape from there. In
the wilds of Hawaii there is a canyon
IN which live a few lepers who guard
the approach to their resort with guns,
lest they be arrested and moved to the
settlement. They are not molested as
they are harmless to the world, and
may as well be allowed to live out
their wretched existence in the spot
they have chosen.
1t was TO Molokai that Whey finally
decided to go. He returned to Homo
lulu, surrendered himself and was
taken to the settlement. But for it's
horrible population, Kaanapali, the
Molokai leper settlement is one of the
most lovely spots in the world. It's
climate is unsurpassed, it's scenery
grand. But these beauties are lost in
contemplation of the horror of the
place.
The lepers live and love- marry and
raise children like human beings in
the outside world. They even have
their entertainments and their indus
tries, but the pail is never absent.
Whey built a home there and with
the courage of a man who refuses to
yield to anything but death itself, he
took up again his occupation of con-
tractor.
He is at Molokai yet He has a
home, with servants, Iepers all, but is
still property owner in Honolulu. He
will never see any of his relatives or
former friends again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
A WOMAN'S PERFECT GIFT.
The Flawless Joy Which Comes to Her
Over the Cradle of Her Grandchild.

One crown of glory the elderly wo-
man may proudly wear, and it is a
distinction she could never have had
IN glrlhood or early matronhood: she
may be a grandmother" writes Mar
garet E. Sangster in the Ladies'
Home Journal. Il can think of moth
ing so perfectly satisfying and so
thrilling with "a subtle ecstasy as the
holding in ones arms, and looking
into the face Of the child of ones son
or daughter. 1t is the second genera
ton, and you have lived to see it; that
fact in itself is delightful. You COM
pare the baby face with those of your
own children, and trace the Quaintest
points of resemblance, and oddly
enough you see. what nobody else can
see, fiattering likenesses now and
then to the chiid's remoter ancestors
to some great grandfather or grand
mother long vanished from the earth.
Your granddaughter and you will be
chums; your grandson and you will be
comrades, and good, and only good,
will be the outcome of the beautiful
association for all concerned. One Of
the most perfect gifts which comes
into the life of woman is the Joy
which comes to her over the cradle
of the grandchild It is without
single flaw
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
FORTUNE FOR A S4NuL

The purchasing power Of money in
the seventeenth century is shown by
an article in the Ladies' Home Jour
nal, on the tulip craze in Holland,
which reached its height about 1884.
At sale of bulbs, about that date,
single one of the Viceroy variety was
purchased by delivering to the seller
two hundred bushels of wheat, four
hundred bushels Of rye, four fat pigs,
eight fat oxen, twelve fat sheep, two
hogsheads of wine, two barrels Of beer,
five hundred pounds Of butter one
bedstead with pillows, mattresses,
blankets, etc, one thousand pounds Of
cheese, one suit of clothes and one sill
yer goblet. The money value of the
bulb was one thousand dollars but as
the purchaser did not have the cash
the seller was willing to accept its
equivalent in the form just recited.
Notwithstanding that it was some
what bulky and diversified.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
HOLLANDS FAMOUS TULIP CRAZE
Twelve Acres of City Property Were
Refused for Bulb Of Rare Variety.

In the year 1884 the tulip craze in
Holland" writes Clifford Howard. in
the Ladies' Home Journal, became so
great that the ordinary industries
were neglected. No one wanted to do
anything but raise tulips. A rare
specimen offered for sale called forth
excited bidding. Every one was on
the lookout for special varieties. It
was rumored at one time that there
were but two bulbs of the Semper
Augustus in existence in Holland. One
of them was owned by a florist in
HARLEM, and the other by a dealer in
Amsterdam. This rumor was suffi-
cient to arouse the liveliest commotion
in tulip circles, and dealers and
fanciers hurried forward with offers
to purchase-each one endeavoring to
outbld the other. The competition be-
came so eager that finally one man Of
fered twelve acres of city property for
the Harlem bulb; but the owner re-
fused to sell. The bulb in Amsterdam
was knocked down to the highest bid
der for nineteen hundred dollars in
cash, two horses, carriage and a set
of harness. total of about three
thousand dollars, which in those days
was fabulous sum-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
NAPOLEON ON SUICIDE.
The Imprisoned Emperor Had Meant
to Find an Asylum in America.

The April instalment of the Cen
tury's extracts from the diaries of DR..
O'Meara's talks with Napoleon, in
cludes the emperor's views on suicide
and his own account of his intentions
in the event of defeat at Waterloo.
They perhaps think that I will put
an end to myself. No. there is greater
courage in supporting it. A gamester
or harlot may finish themselves, but
1t becomes not man Of my character.
True, [ could do it in an instant be-
yond your help. They seize upon me
with violence, and forcibly trans
port me here, and want me to pay
fourteen or fifteen thousand pounds
yearly for living in such a place as
this. Do they think I am sufficiently
coglione? .Cosa mimporta questa
maledetta isola? She la mandano a
buzzarare! CWhat do I care for this
cursed island? Let it go to the devili)
They tell the governor to let me
spend as much money as like of my
own. 1t is true, | believe, I am above
want, but | do not know how much
money I have, and I do not choose to
let them know where it is, as probably
they would seize upon it as they did
before. I did not settle my affairs
after that battle Of Waterloo; | had not
time, and before it l had other things
to do. Besides, I never was a man
who occupied himself much with
rn0nnv affairs pnvnr lxDow ubo+
had. l thought that would go either
to London or America, and I had bills
for whatever sums l chose to take up
on America. | have probably as much
money as | ever shall want but | do
not know exactly where it is" Here
he said that he had spent sixteen mil
lions of ready money before the battle
of Waterloo which belonged to him
self.
'The people of England want to
know why l still call myself emperor.
| have here explained it, It was my
intention to have lived in England as
a private person, but since they have
sent me here. and wanted to make it
appear that l was never emperor or
chief magistrate, I still retain the
title. The admiral told me that he
had heard Lord Liverpool and Castle
reagh say that the principal reason
they sent me here was that the min
listers were afraid that I would be
caballing with some of the opposition,
and that I would tell the truth of
them, and explain some things they
would not like. They knew they must
let people or rank see me, and were
afraid for themselves. Here 1 said
that the ministers were afraid that if
they left him in England he would
mount again upon the throne of
France and wage another war against
England. Bah, bah!" said he, the
times are changed; the time for that
is over. I am old, and besides, fifty
years must elapse before France will
be able to face England again No,
no; I know all that well; I know that
that is all gone-vanished"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10
ORIGIN OF VISITING-CARD
They We're + irst Used to Guard
Against Mistakes of Servants.

The use of .visiting-cards dates
back to quite an antiquity" explains
Mrs. Van Koert Schuyler, in the La
dies Home Journal. Formerly the
porter at the lodge or door of great
houses kept a visitors book, in which
he scraWled his idea of the names of
those who called upon the master and
his family, and to whose inspection it
was submitted from time to time.
One fine gentleman, a scion of the no
bility from the Faubourg st. German,
was shocked to find that his porter
kept so poor a register of the names
of those who had called upon him.
The names, badly written with splut-
tering pen and pale or muddy ink,
suggested to him the idea of writing
his own name upon slips of paper or
bits Of cardboard in advance of calling
upon his neighbors lest his name
should fare as badly at the hands of
their porters. This custom soon be-
came generally established"