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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-03
CAUSED RUBBER-NECKING
Man on Top Of Car ssfakes People
Stretch Their Necks

Car number Jos of the Wichita electric
railway line caused some rubber necldng
on the part of pedestrians on North Main
street yesterday afternoon, and the cause
OF interest was q. man riding on the roof
of the car and holding the trolley pole
up against the current wire while the
car was being run to the repair shops.
It seems that on the return trip from
Riverside towards town. number los broke
the spring on her trolley pole, and an
employee Of the company mounted the car
and held the trolley in place until the car
was run into the barn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-03

timely advice and wish prosperity your noble
blessing 10 broken
Lydia e. Pinkham Vegetable Compound "GRACE STAINS
BURY, Herington, Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-03
Grateful Letters from Cured Women.

" DEAR Mrs. PUKH
about a year and q hall
nothing helped me. l
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-03

A kidney remedy that can be depended
on viii ne found in Prickly Ash Bitters.
1t heals and strengthens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10

ert coats with velvet collars and with
lapels half or full-faced with silk, but
such things are wrong, and are rarely
turned out by smart tailors.
The covert is the shortest of all
top coats, and next to it come the
medium-length Chesterfield and the
various other styles of single and
double breasted box coats hanging to
the knees or few inches below. This
is the most common length, but it has
not the style, I think, Of the long
loose overcoats, or Of the long coats
with marked waist line, such as the
kernel and the newmarket. The
raglan has become so common as to
be no longer smart, except as a storm
coat, although it is, of course, still
worn by many well-dressed men. The
long loose Chesterfield is a good
model for all-around wear, either with
day or evening dress, and some of the
yoke coats and semi-ulster styles are
in vogue
Taken all in all the various fashions
are diversified, so that man may
have large range of choice and in
observation-disclosures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
Table Decorations for Wedding Feasts

The usual decorations for all we'd
ding feasts are white and green.
Bride roses are always preferable.
Where they are not obtainable any
white flowers may be used. In these
days the many varieties of trailing
asparagus lend themselves to table
and room decorations. White violets
with smilax are exceedingly beautiful;
and it must not be forgotten that just
now baskets are much used; open bas-
kets with high handles, and small
square and round baskets with flowers
peeping out of the half-open lids. On
the center of the table is usually placed
a bunch of white ribbon. Maiden.
hair fern is always dainty and appro
pirate. Where chandelier is i'm.
mediately over the table, white rib
bons may be festooned from the
chandelier to the corners of the table
The ribbons may be plain or laden
with flowers Candelabra, either OF
silver of glass, with dainty silk ore
paper shades, are also attractive
When possible, the color Of the
flowers should be repeated in the
china.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
A Feminine 4aedeker.

The address-book Of any intelligent,
experienced naval officers wife is an
institution that must not be over
looked. There is scarcely sea-cOast
town in the United States. where she
is by any possibility likely to go, in
which she has not among her notes
the names of one or two at least pos
sible clearinghouse the least unde-
sirable hotel. and the terms summer
and winter Her book on Europe, en-
larged and altered year after year by
returning pilgrims, is thing that
might with profit be made more &C
cessible to the general public. There
are also the names of physician, OF
music and language masters; per
chance an American dentist; millin
ers: dressmakers of the homely, avail
able order not found in guide-books; q
laundress, perhaps, tried and true;
each town fairly complete and up to
date, the whole sort of purely practi
cal, entirely feminine Baedeker
Anna A. Rogers in Woman's Home
Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
St, Helena and DEVILS Island.

The manner in which the boer prls-
oners have been treated by the British
is ANYTHING but creditable to either
English humanity or chivalry. Many
of the prisoners have been kept for
weeks. and some of them for months,
cooped I'D on transports under cond1-
lions that are said to have affected the
health of a large proportion or them
and which have given rise to out
breaks Of typhoid fever and other dis
eases that have resulted fatally for
many Of the unfortunate captlyes.
The protests of President Kruger and
even of the Premier of Cape Colony
have until recently gone unheeded,
and this in spite Of the humane ana
even generous treatment given the
English prisoners at Pretoria, where
they have been allowed opportunities
for exercise and recreation and where
their needs in the matter Of clothing
and in other respects have been kindly
supplied. There appears to have Deen
absolutely no excuse for crowding the
boer prisoners into the restricted
quarters afforded by the transports,
where they were necessarily subjected
to many discomforts and to the more
serious evils resulting from want of
proper space for exercise and to the
dangers of contagious and infectious
diseases. There is plenty of space in
south Africa for healthy and comfort
able sites for prison camps, and the
fact that the boer prisoners were left
so long upon the transports in spite of
earnest protests from both friends and
enemies seems to indicate either bru-
tai Indifference to considerations Of
humanity or extraordinary respect for
the proves of the captured foe.
! The recent determination to deport
them to the rocky and distant prison
of ST. Helena savors of both brutality
and fear. Cronje and thousand of
the boer prisoners have already sailed
for this isolated little island, and
Others, it is announced, will soon fol-
low. While the compliment paid to
the valor Of the boers by this virtual
confession that England is afr : to
allow them to remain in south Africa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
WITH CLEAN HANDS.
No Political Jobbery in Boston's Great
Reservoir.

GA brief study of the great enter
prise by which greater Boston will
have the largest reservoir in the
world, is refreshing in these days of
municipal corruption. With New York
stirred and agitated by an alleged at
tempt to foster upon her what has
been openly characterized as the
greatest steal of the century, and
other towns both here and abroad find
ing trouble with municipal questions,
it is certainly to Boston's credit that
she has been able to inaugurate and
partially to complete such a gigantic
enterprise as the new Boston water
works system, without one breath OF
scandal.
cit is interesting to epitomize the
inception and progress of the work.
When in the fullness of time, it became
apparent that the citys water supply
was running short, there was no great
TODD, no scare-head articles in the
press, no fuss and feathers, but SIM
ply action on the part of those i'm
mediately responsible, and the taking
OF steps loduluS W d UeCtel suppl
"The question, Where shall we get
more water? was answered in practi-
cal way-simply by looking through
the state. After thorough investiga-
ton and search it was found that the
so-called Clinton watershed afforded
greater advantages and purer water
and it was selected.
"a reservoir was necessary, and a
reservoir was Therefore planned. There
was no bombastic civic glorification,
calling for the greatest reservoir IN
the world, but people with pencils and
brains commenced to figure, and
found that it would be to the benefit
of Boston and adjacent cities if a res
ervoir providing for half a century
growth could be constructed.
"In the life of a city like Boston.
whose foundation rests upon the bed
rock of American history, half cen
fury of time is brief span, but in
the providing of such a vital necessity
as public water, looking forward even
fifty years is an achievement not to
/ be over-estimated. Nor is it simple
matter.'-H. H. Lewis in Ainslee's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10

will not escape recognition, it places
the great British empire in an attitude
not calculated to increase the general
respect either for its magnanimity or
nerve. TO the boer accustomed to a
| free life in the open air on the prac-
tically limitless plains and ranges of
| his native country no punishment
could be more cruel than to be trans
ported over thousand miles out to
sea and shut up in a small section of
a little island, cut off by the ocean
from friends and home and from even
the ordinary consultations and compen-
| sations that tend to ameliorate the
condition of the prisoner of war. The
French government incarceration Of
a single prisoner on Devils Island ex-
cited the criticism of the whole world,
including the English press, though
Dreyfus was alleged to have been
guilty of the worst of crimes against
his country But Great Britain sends
not only one but thousands of men to
st. Helena, and these men, including
the heroic Cronje, are guilty of no
crime but that of CALAMITY defending
their native land against aggression.
st. Helena to these boer prisoners is
as much Devils Island as was the
French island of that name to Drey-
fus, and in sending them there the
English government is guilty Of a
moral brutality utterly unworthy of
her power and greatness. The suffer
ings inflicted upon American patriots
during the Revolution on British pris-
on ships in New York harbor and DUR
ing the war of 1912 in Dartmoor prison
have long ago been forgiven by the
American people; but neither they
nor the people of any other civilized
nation can witness without the deep
est regret and emotion the revival Of
methods and practices which belong
rather to the dark ages and to savage
tribes than to the closing year of the
nineteenth century and to the boosted
leading exponent of Christianity and
civilization.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
Houses in Elizabeth's Time.

AS regards the average houses
IN London at that time, they were
built without foundations, and were
cold and damp. The first sign of
growing prosperity and the conse-
quent desire for crater comfort was a
rapid increase in chimneys and the
provision of fireplaces. The rooms
were low and ill-lighted, notwithstand-
ing the fact that glass now replaced
horn or lattice work in the windows.
An Italian visitor eXclaims: 90
wretched windows which cannot open
at day nor shut by night" The
staircases were dark and narrow, the
apartments sorry and disconnected"
The ceilings were Of plaster, often
with very beautiful design nodded
upon it. The walls were either walns-
coted, or more commonly were left
rough and masked with tapestry,
arras, or painted CLOTH which was
hung little distance from the wall to
avoid the damp, and so formed con-
venient hiding place in case of neces-
sity, AID was always a receptacle for
dust and dirt. The floors were strewn
with sand, or more generally with
rushes. Unless these were frequently
removed they became another harbor
for dirt, especially in the dining-roOm,
where bones were thrown to dogs
beneath the table. There was no re-
gard for what we consider sanitary
precautions; and it is no wonder that
the plague in some form or other was
endemic. Sensitive persons carried
with them something fragrant which
they might smell when their noses
were too powerfully attacked by IN
pleasant odors.-Bishop of London in
Cornhill Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
TRANSPORTATION.

Gas one who looks out to the West
when shadow-time's begun,
And sees in splendor on the hills the
pageant Of the sun,
So we will look at life, maybe, when
life is all but done:
"And find old aims, vain dreams, mad
hopes touched with a kindlier
light,
Flash with glory all unguessed upon
the straining sight,
Aye, and be glad to know there waits
the long reward of night"
Arthur Ketchum in Ainslee's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10

painted. 1t has sign hung outside
but it has been shot at so many times
| that the letters are almost obliterated
The manager is a poor widow, and
must say she is a brave woman The
meals are not bad, but too much pork
to suit me. The rooms are simply
terrible. My room has absolutely no
furniture IN it except the bed-and
such bed and such bedclothes, One
sheet, and no one knows when this
one sheet and pillow case have been
changed.
Travesty on a Hotel.
The hotel seems to pay Well, as
quite little travel passes through
here. Most OF the customers are In
dians who are not at all particular in
what kind OF a bed they sleep. The
other night the house was crowded
with lot Of drunken Indians. They
We're having a lively time, ''Whooping
it up and every now and then giving
the war cry. Just before supper the
landlady asked me if l har any objec-
lions to sitting at the same table with
the Indians. l answered no, that l
had dined with Indians before. but
when l saw the condition my compan-
ions were in did object, to myself, a
tridle. But they behaved themselves
well, considering the condition they
were in. Later on as l came in to go
to my room they noticed me and
asked me to join their party. They
were all drunk and drinking some
withholding liquid. They seemed to
have plenty, as l noticed quart bottles
protruding from their pockets. They
handed me a bottle and asked me to
drink, which l refused, telling them |
was heap sick,' but they insisted.
Finally one big drunken Indian
grabbed hold Of me to force ne to
drink. | saw he meant business, so
thought it best to join the party, but
fortunately for me before the bottle
had passed the rounds many times the
Indian policeman made his appearance
and | made my escape. But the Off
Ger joined right in the party, and after
everything was drunk up ordered
them all to bed and told them to be
have themselves and not disturb that
white man. They were quiet after
that, with the exception that now and
then during the night they would give
out an unearthly war cry. Their
drink was alcohol, diluted with lit
tie water, which they seemed to enjoy.
The Sac and Fox agent, Mr.. Pat
rick, can boast of having full
blooded Oneida girl stenographer.
She is said to be the only Indian girl
stenographer in the world, and is a
very expert one. She has fine edu-
cation, dresses like white woman
and is highly respected by all.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
keokuk a Fine Old Chief.

Chief Keokuk, who is IA years old,
lives here in a fine, comfortable house
of four or five rooms which is kept as
neat as any white woman's house. He
is a thorough white man, dresses neat
ly, with shoes we'll polished, and is a
devout Christian, belonging to the
Baptist church and leading in prayer
every Sunday. Keokuk is the son of
old Keokuk after whom Keokuk, Iowa,
was named. Keokuk sat for portrait
for me. He has a profile very similar
to that of Henry Ward Beecher. He
was boy when the Black Hawk war
took place, and it is interesting to
hear him tell of that conflict, for he
has a fine memory. His present wife
was then a little child. She and her
mother made their escape during the
Black Hawk war by the mother swim
ming across the Mississippi river
with the child on her back.
The Sac and Fox agency is six miles
from Stroud, Oklahoma, the nearest
railway station. The agency is com
posed of three general stores, one
drug store, two blacksmith shops, one
hotel CD and several agency build
ings.
To give on an idea what an artist
has to put up with painting Indians
the following is an example: L am
stopping at the Eagle hotel, which is
a rickety old building that never was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
Between Shores.

How that wind shakes the sashes,
DEAR" said Mrs. Shadyside, nervously
to her husband. while the gale was
high.
Eyes, the windows are having a rat
Ting good time assented Mr. Shady.
side, who thereupon went off to sleep
again.-Pittsburg Chronicle Tele-
graph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
Wide Awake.

Briggs-That medium doesn't know
a thing when she is in trance.
Griggs-Oh, yes she does.
Briggs-What makes you think so?
Griggs-Because the other day
tried to steal away in the middle of
one-without paying.-Detroit Free
Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
WHERE TO PLACE THE BLAME.
Junior Partner Gives Advice to New
ly Welded Clerk.

~ "GQOeO SIeTkr
The young man had returned from
his wedding trip and was again at his
desk in the Office
1t was the day after his return that
the junior partner called him to his
desk and said:
Now that you're married, Mr..
Quilts, trust you will be considerable
in your treatment of me-"
Il don't quite understand you, sir!"
exclaimed the young man in surprise.
"Oh, it's little early, | know" ad,
mitted the Junior partner, "but there's
nothing like taking time by the fore,
lock. I suppose you haven't been out
late at night yet?"
certainly not. SIR
And it's none of my business if you
have. But when you do stay out some
night be considerate. Remember that
l have reputation for fairness and
humane treatment of everybody in this
office that l would like to retain.
Don't tell your wife that you're sorry
you're late, but that that slave driver
at the Office piled work upon you to
such an extent that you had to work
right into the night; don't tell her that
the tyrant you work under told you
that you would have to post all the
books in the office before leaving for
the night. Just invent some other
excuse, you know"
The young man thought the matter
over for minute or two and then
asked anxiously:
well, if l should be late what shall
say?"
"Oh, put it on the senior partner,
as l do. He can stand it"-London
Tid-Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
Holiday Cheer.

Now let's be gay and festive
With true autaumnal cheer.
And set the fireplace blazing
All steadily and clear,
And as we watch with smiling
The flames that upward roll,
Well even toast the harons
Who rule the price of coal.
Come set the roast before US,
And we will eat our fill,
And bid the traveller welcome
With heartiest good will.
But, if he will not tarry,
Well still feel some relief
Considering how Chicago
Has raised the price of beef
The Washington Star
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10

carrying 800 sick soldiers and thirty.
seven other passengers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
WELL-DRESSED MEN
WHAT THEY SHOULD WEAR, AC-
coRDING TO LATEST IDEAS.
THE PROPER ARTICLES

Fashion Hints That May be heao
With Profit to Masculine MINDS
Latitude Now Allowed to the In
divdual.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10
Golf Trousers and Sweaters.
OVercoats.

have now covered most of the
usual and ordinary articles of attire
with the exception of overcoats, and
they may be in so many shapes and
styles that in resume of this kind
detailed description is not possible
The horse show recently held at Mad,
ison Square Garden furnished a good
opportunity for their study and gave
an illustration of how great a dIner
ence there is in the making and
finishing of even the same types OF
coats. They may be broadly classified
under five headings, namely: Long
coats, short coats, those of medium
length, loose coats and coats with &
more or less well-defned waist line
Generally speaking, for all-arounG
wear, long coats are this season some
what the smartest The covert, though
making no claim to fashion, is still
much worn as a morning or business
| coat and put over dinner coat il
the evening. With it, of course, the
Derby is the proper hat; a high ha
should never be worn. The cover
should be rather loose, full in the bacl
and at the bottom edge, so as to hans
well away from the body. In length
it should hang only an inch or two be
! low the sack jacket. The seams ma,
be either plain, double-stitched O
strapped, and there should be no slit
or vents at the bottom. Around tn
cuffs Of the sleeves there may b.
from four to six rows of stitching
There are side pockets with flaps,
small change pocket if desired, and
breast pocket without flap on the lef
hand side One sometimes sees GOV
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-07-05
The Widow Was COmforfed

There Is no accounting for the con-
structiOn which some people will put
upon certain passages of Scripture" re-
marked a clergyman. Il remember the
story of one clergyman who went to
call on a woman whose husband had
recently died. lie had expected, quite
naturally, to find her heartbroken with
the burden of her sorrow and was
greatly surprised when she greeted him
with a very happy smile and ushered
him into the parlor.
'Well-er-sister,' he said at length,
you have my warmest sympathy
Thank you, DOCTOR replied the wild
ow casually. 1 did feel very badly
very badly indeed. But l came across
a verse Of Scripture which comforted
me very much indeed
And what was the verse; sister?
inquired the clergyman.
81 don't remember just where to
find it, replied the widow, but it was
made up of only four words-four help
full words-'Why need careY pr
Brooklyn Citizen.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-07-05
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Cover sandwiches that are not to be
served at once with damp napkin and
bowl.
To clean a kitchen table rub the
greasy stains with lemon juice, and
they will speedily disappear.
Whiting mixed with alcohol is excel
lent for cleaning silver and will give a
much more brilliant polish than If wa
ter is used.
small fat paint brush has n value
In cleaning the corners of the window
sash. Hot, sharp vinegar will clean
off paint spatters, and turpentine will
remove putty.
The small stiff vegetable brushes that
are SO convenient in cleaning potatoes,
etc, are useful in housekeeping time
for scrubbng the holdings and corners
of the woodwork
Loosely twisted knitting silk is better
for darning wooden underwear than
wool, which is apt to shrink. If the
threads of the darn are left loose, after
washing it will have about the same
appearance as the original texture.
If articles of decidedly strong flavor
have been chopped in a wooden bowl,
sometimes washing will not be sufii-
cient to entirely remove taste and odor.
In that case fill the bowl with warm
bOraX water and let stand half an hour;
then rinse in cold water and put in the
SIM
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-07-05

Two boys who became distinguished
in widely different ways We're Jay
Gould, the multimillionaire, and John
Burroughs, the naturalist. They attend
ed together the humble school in RoX-
bury, n. y. John loved books, and
Jason was fond of making trades.
Young Gould had some books which
his school fellow wanted very much to
own. The more Burroughs thought
about the coveted books and more dill
gently he strove to save up his pennies.
Finally be had so cents boarded. TAX
ing his wealth to Gould he found that
thrifty young gentleman quite willing
to do business. The books were traded
Off for the money-mostly big copper
pennies-and both boys were made
happy. Mr.. Burroughs never regretted
his end of the bargain.-Success.