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New-York tribune., 1901-06-16
COsTUMERs AND ARMoRERs.


VAN HORN & SON. 81 EAST 20TH-Sr
near Broadway Theatrical Historical
Bal Mssque and Tableau Costumes made 10
order and 10 hire. Telephone
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pICTIKFs AND FRAMES.
NEW DESIGNS ir Flemish and Dutch oaks
~ my show room - Johu-st.. corner OF
Nsssau-sf JAMES r UNpERHILLA
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GAS AND GAsOLENE ENGINES

STAR GAS AND GASOLINE ENGINES. -
Simplest. most reliable and economical.
Save money By buying q manufacturers
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CsII'OEDt.IST.

DIR CLARA DA R1'ZA.-Au diseases of
the scalp and feet permanently cured.
Inventor and practitioner 81 the new
method Of scalp and foot treatment -
West isth-st. corner II 6th-ave.
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FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET.

18TH ST. 12S WEST.-Nery pleasant. neat
square room. hot and cold water bath,
famllv nriNate. Eentlemen
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FOUNTAIN PEN BARGAINS.

4 SOLID GOLD FOUNTAIN PEN. worth
s. ~ mailed to YOU for 7OC in silver or
stamps BANK 60. 23l Broadway. New
York upstairs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21

to So the week. and meal tickets came
irregularly. I was driven by cold and
hunger into the patent medicine bust
ness. Until 1890 I worked in the life
saving department, directing the sale
OF proprietary drugs, writing adyer-
tiseme0ts anu doing miscellaneous
work. In the meantime, my old friend,
John McCutcheon, had gone to Chi
cago, where he was drawing passably
good pictures on the Morning News.
later the Record. He enticed me 20
join him, and for several months sat
on tic [9- watch at the Office, and
later o. IN handling picayUue assign
ments, a"d playing uc1erstudy to al
most every man on the paper. The
world fair did us a good turn in pro-
ducing some very timely stuff. and by
the time the fair was over the paper
had got into the special story habit,
and McCutcheOn and myself were told
off TO fill two columns that had been
set aside on the editorial page. Our
two columns were next to Eugene
Fields inlmitable Sharps and Flats,
and that helped 10 draw attention to
our efforts"
AIDES fables now appear in syndi-
Gated form all over the country, and it
is said that he sends from $500 to $500
a week to Kentland. Up north of
town he owns $50 OF the best acres of
Newton county, each one worth s10O
or more. Once or twice a month
George AIDE comes out from Chicago
to look over his farms and direct the
improvements and the crops. The
people of Kentland point out as one of
his virtues that though the world has
favored him unusually, he is the same
man as of old.-Indianapoli News
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
DIVORCES IN MAINE.
An increase of More Than IS Per
Cent. in Last Decade.

The report Of the State Register of
Vital Statistics just issued shows
that the number of divorces granted
by the Maine courts has grown from
$50 in 1892 to 100 for the last year,
an increase of 43.11 per cent. In
nearly two-thirds of the cases the ba-
sis of the suit is given as either cruel
and abusive treatment or desertion.
1t is declared that the charges of de-
sertion are made in many instances
with the collision of both parties to
the suit and the same is true Of the
allegations of cruel and abusive treat
ment.
The laws of the state are very lib
eral in the matter of divorces, and,
apparently, their Interpretation by the
courts is gradually growing more adj
vantageous to persons seeking free
dom from matrimonial ties upon triv-
ial grounds. The statistics for the
last year show that only seventy-one
suits were successful in which adul-
terry was alleged. In this number the
husband was the libellant forty-six
times and the wife twenty-five times.
Out of the whole number of divorces
granted the wife was the libellant $40
times and the husband only eli times.
The complaints alleging extreme
cruelty numbered only four and in
each instance the complainant was a
woman. This charge is set up only
when it is possible to prove personal
violence, blows upon the body, and
actual injury. Intoxication was al
legged in ninety-four suits, of which
only five were brought against wives.
For some time the growth in the
number Of divorces has been apparent
end the legislature has been asked to
make the divorce laws more stringent
According to lawyers the divorce laws
Of Maine are as liberal as those Of
any state in the union, with one or
two exceptions.-New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
CURING OF pRuNES,
Great industry in Santa Clara Valley,
California.

A little box of prunes on the gro
Gerry shelf does not look very impos-
ing, but it represents an enormous in
dustry. It is part of an annual crop
which amounted last year to 200, 000,-
900 pounds. These figures are large,
yet they represent less than three
pounds to each inhabitant OF the
United States alone. certainly not
great amount of fruit TO be consumed
by persons who eat, in one form or an
other, three barrels of apples each
year. Yet apples are grown every
where, in every state and territory OF
the Union, while the culture of the
prune is confined almost exclusively to
California, though some are grown in
other sections of the Pacific coast.
The industry is localized even more
than this, for of the $4,000 acres Of
prune trees in California, about 49,
900 are in the single county of Santa
Clara. It is here that the prune in
dustry has reached it's highest devel-
opment IN the world. The old Turkish
prune of Bosnia and Servia, the little,
weakened, skinny, tasteIess thing
which was all the market had gen
Grafton ago, was improved upon by the
French prune, and California growers
now give to those who know what
good prune is, and will not be salts
fed with the inferior kind, q fruit that
is scarcely even a relative in appear
ance and taste of the one which once
made the prune joke from one end Of
the country to the other.
The valley of Santa cara lies at
the head of San Francisco bay. Here
it is, where nature riots, where the
sun shines perpetually, yet where
there is rain enough for luXuriant crops
and a great underground reservoir for
arresian wells for irrigating orchards,
where the climate is equable and there
are neitherthe rigors of winter nor the
heat prostrations of summer, that the
millions of prune trees wear their
white robes in the spring and bear
their own roots, but are grated upon
stock grown from peach stones. This
makes them harder and more thrifty.
Generally the young trees are set in
the orchard the second year, the dis
lance Of 80 feet each way being that
now favored, though the earlier or
chards were set usually at 20 feet.
This was found to be too close for
the best results in bearing, the trees
touching each other in their upper
parts and not thriving SO well as when
farther apart. Trees set too close to-
gether also produce smaller fruit on
| the average than those further apart,
and as the price of prunes is gagged
upon the size, it is profitable 10 pro-
duce smaller quantity of larger
sizes, and, therefore, better to have
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
sKUNK-KlLLlNG TINE IN MAINE.
Hunters Make Much Profit From Hide
and Oil.

The skunk is in danger OF extermi-
| nation. The season for killing skunks
in Maine is autumn. Men and dogs
go out TO the meadows where the fat
grasshoppers are asleep. viii select
their game by the aid Of the moons
rays and will kill and skin all of the
fark-colored skunks they can find
leaving those Of lighter complexion
to survive the winter as best they can
and bring up a new brood for next
falls killing.
Fashion in furs regulates the price
OF skunks skins. Three years ago
the coat of a dark skunk was worth
from $3.50 to So, and there was not
enough TO supply the demand. Since
then the muskrat has supplanted the
skunk as the wearer OF d profitable
skin, and only the very choicest of
skunk pelts sell for 81 this season.
But when there are from 10 to a dozen
fat skunks to be had on every acre
Of meadow land, when a hardwood
club is the only weapon required in
the killing, and when a very fat skunk,
regardless Of its color, holds more
than quart of oil, which is worth SIS
gallon wholesale, there are always
men who will chase skunks for the
money there is in the business.
From 100000 to 10000 skunks are
slain in Maine every year The prac-
tice of killing the black ones and leav-
ing those of lighter color to perpetuate
the race has reduced the income re-
ceived from the furs to q small fig
ure and has practically eXterminated
the dark slIunks, but the demand for
skunk oil is steadily growing and the
price has gone up 81 a gallon since
last year. The oil is not only used by
residents of Maine, who esteem 1t
highly for its virtues in curing rheu-
matism and stiff joints, but the drug
gists send many gallons out of the
state to be sold in Boston and New
York 1t is probable that nearly 25,-
900 gallons Of skunk oil are produced
in Maine every year Most of that
used locally is pure, but some of the
oil sent out Of the state is adulterated
with fat obtained from hens and wood
chucks, practice which has proved
more profitable and less disagreeabIe
than the old way of making the labels
on the bottles tell the truth about
what was inside. AS the impure oil
seems to effect as many wonderful
cures as the genuine article, the men
who work the imposition on the pub
lie stand small chance of detection.
Most of the skunk pelts taken in
Maine are sent to Philadelphia firm,
where they are tanned dipped In
black dye and made up into furs for
export into France and Germany, in
which countries they pass as monkey
skins. 1t is estimated that the Maine
skunks yield an annual revenue of
from s125,000 to $150,000, which is
double the sum made from all the
honey bees in the state and as the
skunk is the greatest enemy the poul-
try grower has to face, the Staying OF
SO many foes adds greatly to the
amount of eggs and dressed fowl pro-
duced.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21

antine French plays and books and
this nation should do the same. Baby
lon of old, with its refinement. culture
and art, began to decay because it had
no moral stamina. The more vigorous
Romans conquered them and in turn
became corrupt as they embraced the
vices, only to be eventually subjugated
by the northern barbarians This is
the history of the world down TO the
present time. Nations die of free love
and not of free silver, thus proving
that moral questions are the crucial
ones.
Russia and Germany have not been
out of the forests long enough TO be
spoiled. These nations with Great
Britain and the United States are to
be the leaders of the twentieth cen
fury. Mental culture with moral edu-
cation neglected is not a benefit either
to individual or the nation for a col
1ege graduate can be a greater rascal
than the ignorant man. The religion
of COnfucius and Buddha comprised
the two best ethical systems in the
world, but 1t took no real hold on the
people, as it lacked the power of au-
thority behind it. The civilization Of
a nation determines the value OF it's
religion, the crucial test being, How
does it treat woman? DR.. Crafts in
closing said, it is not the constitution
of a country but the institutions that
determine its life. The great battle
is the continental Sunday against that
of the Anglo-SaxOn and it will be the
greatest in the worlds history. Paris
with no Sunday law requires ten times
as many policemen as London, in pro-
portion to the population. The bicycle
brigade and the golf players, as well
as the Sunday excursionists, are but
the advance guard Of the continental
Sunday, the adoption of which means
sure doom. God of our fathers, spare
us yet, Lest we forget. Lest we for
get"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
a GARLAND FROM THE GRAY.

Weeping skies that would seem t. de-
plore him
Cast shadows on stars and on suns;
Dropped flags that are shivering DER
him
To far-rollng thunder Of guns!
And great bells that rock the starred
steeples
And moan to the heavens above,
But dearer than all things-a people 6
Devotion and love-
0 Northland and Southland far-sigh-
ing
Your grief. in this hour unblest,
He died for his country, and dying
Was folded in Love to her breast.
In the storm of the battle he lowered
A beacOn-a strength to the brave,
And Freedom, low-kneeling, has
showered
Her tears on his grave,
Fall, flags, DER the sod where he's
lying;
Moan, winds of the world as We
sweep
Over States unto sad States replying,
Der oceans where deep calls to
deep!
Clasp hands Time shall never dis
sever,
Though Fate strike with wrath and
with rod.
Where he rests In a worlds Love for
ever
III the great Peace of God
Frank L. Stanton. in the Atlanta
Constitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
Hot in the Arctic Circle.

Mrs. Aubrey lie Blond, whose name
is more familiar to mountaineers as
Mrs. Main, has beer camping at Jae-
gersvand, by Ulfs1ord, in Lapland,
and if any one imagines that a camp
within the arctic circle is a safe ref
uge from the heat of an exceptionally
torrid summer, this lady's experience
should undeceive them, for her lner-
mometer gayly varied from 55 to SO
degrees in the shade during the early
part of August. Close at hand, too,
there is a great lake, from which
clouds of mosquitoes rise perpetually
but on the other side are great peaks
glacier-clad, rising in white majesty
to the silent sky, very paradise
and almost an unknown paradise-for
climbers.-London Standard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
They Were Seven.

Say, ma"
'Well?"
There are seven liars in our class
at school,"
ooh, wouldn't say that, dear. You
might be mistaken"
No, amt. Yesterday the teacher
said that all Of us that never told lie
should hold up our hands"
and were there seven there who
didn't hold up their hands,
NO; there were seven that did,
Chicago RecCrd-Hera1d.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
GEORGE ABE, WRITER OF FABLES.
His Short Career, as Told by Himself
Newspaper Experiences.

Newspaper Experiences.
The 'Possum Trot Thursday night
literary, from which a great deal of
Kentland's local history dates, was
held during the cold winter of 1880, in
the old 'Possum Trot school house,
mile south of Kentland, Ind. This in
stitution, as homely as its name,
served in a measure, for the first in
PRODUCTION OF George AIDE to literary
circles. On one occasion he read a
pathetic essay entitled "A basket of
potatoes" which was later reproduced
in the old Newton County Gazette. On
another occasion he took the affirma-
tive-successfully- the popular
theme of discussion that winter: Re
solved, That water is more destruc-
tive than fire" The following winter
he was elected president of the Ply
thonian literary society. When he
was graduated from high school in
1882 he was the valedtctorian. AIDE
was born in Kentland, Ind, in 1865.
His youthful ambition was divided be-
tween two desires-one to become
circus clown, the other preacher.
Here he became a power of the press
the old Washington hand press in
the old Gazette office. The first peri
cd Of his life, covering Is years at
Kentland, did not promise anything
unusual.
When at last AIDE, Sr., decided to
cultivate the juniors mind by course
at Purdue university, his fellow town
banker discouraged the proposition
with the statement that George was
good for nothing but to sit around the
house and read. But, notwithstanding
| this disparagement, George AIDE land
ed at Lafayette at the beginning Of the
Purdue school year of 1883. His ad-
vent to a real town and into college
/ life was told some years ago by George
Barr McCutcheon, writing in the La
fayette Courier, long before he be-
came noted as the author Of 'Graus-
tark" "Ade," wrote McCutcheon in
that pen sketch, wore his trousers in
his boot tops and said 'gol darn and
so afraid was he that the drayman
J udu SNl1 u6SISAS OI llS pei StAdl C1-
fects that he sat on the top of his
trunk as the dray wendell it's way
across the Wabash lowlands and up
over the bluffs to the dormitory." This
probably will have to be taken with
some allowance.
Mr.. AIDE recently told the story Of
his life at Lafayette. He said: when
I entered, in 1888, selected the scien-
tific course, not because I crayed a
knowledge Of the sciences, but in order
that 1 might dodge higher mathemat-
les. By carefully weaving in and out
of the optional courses, also managed
to avoid the ancient and modern Ian
guages. After | was graduated, in
1887, studied law seven weeks, and
then hired out TO a morning paper in
Lafayette. 1t was new republican
organ, started in 1887 so as to get a
long run start for tie campaign fund
of 1888, but before the nominations
were made the Morning News had
passed away. | sat up with the paper
the night it died. Then | was man.
of-all-work on an evening paper in La
= fayette at microscopic salary, part
of which came in meal tickets. Al
last when the salary was cut from Sc
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
PRAIRIE scHooNERs TO RACE.
Equipped With Sails, They Will Fur
nish Sport TO Oklahoma.

Racing of prairie schooners, says a
Wichita report, will be a popular sport
practiced in northern Oklahoma this
month. The racing will be carried on
under the auspices Of regular racing
committee, and will take place on the
road between Newkirk and Ponca City,
a distance of fifteen miles. The road
between these two towns is level as
floor and quite hard. The Newkirs
Racing club will have charge Of the
racing. Rubber tired buggies, outfit
ted with sails, will be the contestants.
They will be managed by experts who
will race with each other. The wind
never blows less than twenty miles
an hour on the plains in that section,
and it often reaches a velocity of forty
miles The roads are wide, but only
two schooners will race at one time.
The road runs along the line of the
Santa Fe railroad, and the spectators
can follow the race on the special
train, which will be run for the occse
sion.-Topeka Capital.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21

means of his shifting weights; that is
TO say, he pointed the nose of his
cigar-shaped balloon obliquely down
ward and navigated to the surface OF
the earth by means of his propeller.
There he procured q ladder and re-
paired his rudder guide. Then he
mounted into the air and resumed his
course without sacrificing a pound OF
ballast; that is to say, ne pointed the
balloons nose obliquely upward by
means of the shifting weights, and SC
navigated on high again by the force
of his propeller.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

states in the Union, according to the
Charleston News and Courier, in
which no lynchings have occurred dur
ing the last 16 years. The other four
are Delaware, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island and Utah.
! The United States government has
increased it's holdings on Staten ISL
and by purchase of several acres on
| the water front near Fort Wadsworth,
for the purpose of giving the 14-inch
| gun a clear sweep over the waters Of
/ the bay.
! K. Hatoyama, a professor in the
Imperial Japanese university, who
arrived in this country to attend the
Yale bicentennial, Is to deliver, under
the Storrs bequest, a series of five
lectures to the Yale students on the
Japanese code of laws.
The editor of a California paper did
not mention the assault on President
Mckinley and the townspeople were
so indignant that they passed resolu-
tons asking some good live newspa-
| per man to come there and start a
paper not quite so anarchistic in its
| doctrines.
DR.. J. S. Trexle of Kutztown, Pa,
! before his death provided that every
one attending his funeral should have
a free dinner, and over 1000 persons
awaited themselves of his offer at the
two leading hotels, where arrange
ments had been made to feed the null
| titude.
| At Budapest d man of IS attempted
suicide by jumping off a suspension
| bridge, because he found himself no
/ longer able to maintain his father and
mother, aged, respectively, 115 and
| 10. Police investigation found the
mans story was true IN every particu-
| lar.
| Christine Nilsson has two of her
rooms in Madrid decorated in rather
novel fashion The bedchamber is
papered with leaves of music from
the operas in which she has sung, and
the dining-room with the hotel bills
she has collected in her tours through
the world.
The commissioner of navigation re-
ports that 1913 vessels Of all kinds were
built in the United States and official
ly numbered during the three months
ended September 30. Of this number
$40 were built of wood and 20 of steel.
The total gross tonnage was $685.
tons.
The advance in the price of linen
adds heavily TO the expense OF main
tanning the equipment of big hotels.
The manager Of one New York hotel
said not long ago that he paid $780,
600 a year for linen to keep up his
supplies and that looms were run all
the year round at Belfast for his hotel.
Gen William J. Palmer Of Colorado
| Springs has just given Colorado col
llege at Colorado Springs 100000 as q
gift toward the completion of the in
situations science and administration
building. now in course of erection.
The structure with its equipment will
cost $3.50, 900 when finished this win
ter.
President w. F. Slocum Of Colorado
college has announced gift OF S1oO,-
900 for the erection of the science
building, the giver withholding his
name. DR.. D. X. Pearsons, the Chi
cago philanthropist, is believed TO be
the giver. He gave $4,000 to the col.
lege in 1894, and January l, 1901, he
gave an additional $4,000 toward the
science building. The building will
be larger than at first planned, and
will cost 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21
Small Dividend at Chiffon,

Appleton, Wis, Nov. IA divi-
dend of rs per cent. was declared yes
terday in the case of the defunct chill.
ton bank, by Paul V. Gary, referee in
bankruptcy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21

The old yacht America. which first
brought the cup to this side of the At
lantic, is still in service and was
among the feet Of spectators of the
last races.