Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-25
FACES TELL TALES
HERR COHEN GIVES LAkESlDERS.
INTERESTING TALK.
M'ARTHUR ON RUSSIA
tremendous Power Developing That
Only AngIo-saxonism Can Stop
Important Position of President of
United States-HandbeIl Rinuers
Give First Concert.
Madison TuIv %

Madison. July %.
After the terrible heat of Sunday
yesterday was comparatively cool AT
Lakeside, and the campers were par
tlcuIarIy active. A few, to be sure.
lounged by the lake shore with an
no other thought than to loaf
IN luxury. But the majority seemed
nred with ambition ard trooped to the
auditorium from ea1iy morning until
the lights went out at night.
At 10 o'clock the ministerial confer
ence held forth in the big auditorium.
1t was Monday morning, which is not
the minister's day of exertion, and as
a result those who constituted the au
dlence were invited to fill chairs on
the platform, where they lounged
with a due appreciation of the honor.
The Need of Evangelistic Services
was the first subject discussed. Rev.
VIM. Moore of La Crosse and Rev. A.
L.. Z. Loomis of Windsor were the
speakers. Rev. o. B. Bestor of Mil
Waukee and Rev. S. R. Chubb of
Platteville then spoke entertaining
ly of the Prayer Meeting. Tomorrow
the first subject Will be Evangelistic
Services. What? Where? How? Rev.
0. E. Bestor of Milwaukee and Rev.
W. w. Stevens of GAINESVILLE will
speak. Rev. T. W. North will then
discuss the Pastor in the Sabbath
School.
Herr Cohen as Humorist.
Herr Gustavus Cohen who has been
nicknamed the missionary of cheer
fulness," spoke at II o'clock on Faces
and the Tales They Tell. His talk
was delightfully."- funny and he kept
the audience in a constant roar of
laughter with his really clever imita-
lions of various styles of people. He
also drew faces on a blackboard to il
lustrate his talk, showing his aptitude
in the drawing line. He said in part:
''This talk is not theory but the re-
suit of thirty years of observation.
Every face has it's peculiar marks.
Some faces have two faces, and no
one knows this better than the pho
tographer who poses his sitter in a
half-dozen ways to get an artistic re-
suit which will make the best friends
of the person exclaim: oh! what an
artistic photograph. Who is it?'
But every face tells it's own tale
and every body is SO constituted as to
read character at a glance. No one
can do this better than a woman, who
knows a bad face when she sees it. A
woman knows by intuition; a man
learns by experience and he pays
dearly for it, for his wife will say:
I told you so.'"
Herr Cohen then described the feat
ures and their meanings with comical
truths, and finally closed to allow the
people to lunch, after assuring them
that a hearty laugh would do more for
them than pink pills for pale people.
At the close he shook hands with
many of the people, describing their
character by glance at their faces.
Mr.. MacArthur's Warning.
Rev. Robert S. Macarthur pastor of
Cavalry Baptist church of New York,
spoke for over two hours in the after
noon on The Car, the Great Bear Of
the North. He warned the people
that the power of the car was spread
ing and that unless checked Russia
would soon rule the world He said:
cit is interesting to note that
short time ago there were but four
great nations-France, Germany, Rus
STA and Great Britain. But this after
noon there are fve-France, Ger
many, Russia, Great Britain and the
United States of America. Of these
Great Britain is growing the fastest.
She has increased by two acres dur
ing every moment of the nineteenth
century But we too have expanded,
even more successfully than when
Jefferson purchased the Louisiana ter
ritory. | do not hesitate to say that
there would have been no American
territory today had it not been for
that purchase,-for that expansion.
And if some other men-men of today
will only live long enough-and
they may have to live to be 200 years
old, but if they live long enough they
will come to take larger, broader
views of the American government
Today no throne of kaiser, car or
king is higher than the presidents
chair at Washington. I say without
the slightest political partisanship
that the greatest man in the world to-
day is the president of the United
States
Russia added 100000 acres dur
ing the nineteenth century. 1t is diff
fcult for us to get a conception of the
size of Russia. We forget that Siber
ia, the land of the convict, has almost
as many climates as the United
States. We forget that Siberia is so
large that it is an empire in itself.
When the trans-Siberian railroad is
completed man may write of a trip
around the world in 33 days. That
railroad will revolutionize Russia, and
it will to no small extent revolution
ize the world.
siberia is so large that you could
put the United States in it and it
would be no more than a patch on a
garment There are $4,000 square