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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-10-25
Skin Diseases.

For the speedy and permanent cure of
letter. salt rheum and eczema, Cham
berlain's Eye and Skin Ointment il
without an equal. Il relieves the itch.
ing and smarting almost instantly and
Its continued use effects q permanent
cure. 1t also cures itch, BARRIERS itch.
scald head, sore nipples, itching piles.
chapped hands, chronic sore eyes and
granulated lids.
DR.. Cady's Condition Powder for
horses are the best tonic, blood purifier
>ndvermifuge. Price, Is cents. Sold by
Martin Friedman, Druggist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
RUSSIA'S INTERNAL WATERWAYS
Great Results From Few Miles of
Canals.

For more than one hundred years
after the commencement Of Peter the
greats life work the waterways were
the only pracI1cat means of cheaply
transporting the products Of Russian
soil and industry from one part of the
vast domain to another. No other
country is so prodigally endowed with
naVigable rivers. In European Rus
STA alone fully $4,000 miles Of inland
waterway were navigable to the sim
pie barges of those days. The rivers
of Russia have their sources within
a comparatively few miles Of each
other. all of the great streams rising
within the area of the broad plateau
of the north, so that it was no difficult
feat to connect the headWaters of the
numerous rivers. The construction
Of less than 1000 miles of canals and
canalized rivers, of less than 900 miles
of actual canals, made it possible to
travel by barge from Archangel, on
the Arctic, to Astrakan on the Cas-
plan, distance of more than 1000
miles, from st. Petersburg to the foot
of the Urals. and from the Baltic to
the Black sea by three distinct routes,
to say nothing of Moscow and nUmer-
Gus other inland cities which were
brought into direct water communion
ton with all parts of the empire.-A
H. Ford in Engineering Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
The GossipinQ Tribe.

Curse the little things unspoken
That one quite unwilling hears
Whispered loud, and by that token
Knows intended for his ears.
Mrs. Grundys, matrons naughty,
Long beneath their tongues have
Dainty morseIs-something naughty
Hinted at, but never told.
How discreet they seem IN giving
Out the secrets known to them!
Someone's home life's not worth liv.
ing,
Someone saw-ahemi ahemi
Well, it would not be surprising
If he'd find out she's so bold.
Always something compromising
Hinted at, but never told.
Curse the little things malicious,
Things they hint but ne'er describe ,
Regulations vultures vicious
Are the Mrs. Grundy's tribe
Peace destroyers, common vandals,
Wolves within the social fold,
With their lengthy list of scandals
Hinted at. but never told.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28

prophet. She's just plain scientific
person, and she reads the answers te
her questions of the future in the stars.
A year ago the stars told her that in
1901 the passions of men will be
stirred and there will be uprisings
and riots in which blood will be shed. .
Miss Adams also said that 1901 would
be famous for exposures of municipal
fraud in this city and would be noted
for the scourge of disease which
would affect the citizens of New York.
It isn't often that one gets a chance
to square a latter-day prophets pre-
dictions with the events as they actu-
ally happen. 1t is possible, however,
to do this in the case Of Miss Adams
She put herself on record, and the
record has been preserved. For in
instance, she said that in June and
July of last year there would be an ep-
idemic of summer diseases greater
than had ever prevailed in New York
before. She added that a scourge of
sickness would pass over the country
and that deaths would be frequent and
terrible.
AS a matter OF fact, It is pleasant to
remember that New York wasn't visit
ed by an epidemic Of summer disease
in last June and July, and the scourge
of sickness, followed by deaths fire.
quent and terrible" didn't pass over
the country. She prophesied that Oc-
tober, November and December of
year would be marked by many
strange and appalling events, which
would stir up the minds Of the PEG
pie and cause a feeling Of unrest and
uncertainty as to what the future
would bring forth" Except with
few persons whose digestion was bad
or who had fingered too long over late
suppers, there was no special feeling
Of uncertainty about the morrow dur
ing any of the months mentioned.
Miss Adams made a particularly bad
guess when she read in the stars that
by great celestial phenomenon. ST.
said that the morning of Dec. 2, just
before sunrise, all the planets but one
would be in the sign Sagittarius, form
ing a grand planetary conjunction,
thing which had not occurred before in
thousands of years. 1t is quite pos
sible that all the planets but one were
in the sisu ~ Sagittarius the morning
of Dec. 2, but the fact didn't disturb
anybody and the phenomenon didn't
attract any n9rticuIar attention
Whether or not the conjunction of the
planets presaged a war in which all
Europe will become involved, as Miss
Adams stated, remains to be seen.
From the present outlook. however,
Miss Adams deduction from her star
reading, that great municipal frauds
will be unearthed this year in this
town, stands d chance of being borne
out by the facts. With all the puri-
fers at work. something of that sort
ought to happen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
GAMBLER AND BANKER,
Siq-JaWed Man Who Warned The
Banker About His Cashier


Occasionally secret service infor
nation comes from an unexpected
source, as was the case last year with
New York bank The president Of
this institution, who is something of a
crusty customer, received call one
morning from gentleman whose prin-
clpal claim to distinction rested on 4
preternaturally large and clean-shaven
Jaw overhanging a highly resplendent
diamond Of indubitable worth. The
caller proceeded at once to business.
Introducing himself as being the in
side man with Square Mike Smith
(naming fixed star in the gambling
house firmament).
You think you don't want to know
me- he continued, pointing a fat fin
ger at the disguised presidents solar
pleXus, but you do. l want to put
you onto your cashier
THE urbane banker growIed out his
characterization to hear anything about
his employees. but the visitor only
hitched his chair up foot nearer and
imperturbably proceeded.
He's up in the place every night.
that cash pusher of yours, rolling the
banks sinners across the green.
He's been winning your money,
suppose, and that is why you are here
giving information that nobody wants
sneered the banker.
" Copper that bet unless you want
to go broke said the sport quietly.
What do you mean by that?
Copper it, [ say. You're twisted.
He amt getting our money. We're get
ting his; his or the banks
" Do you expect me to believe that
you came down here =
Say, I'm busy the visitor inter
rupted, with sudden vigor 4 know
you. You're one of those dead ones
that think they know it ALL l amt got
the time to hear you tell it. Here's
the point. Your cashier blows in his
dough at our place. That's all right.
Then he blows in the banks dough.
for few thou, and what happens?
Why you get onto him and you make
horrible beef, don't you? And then it
all gets into the papers and the cops
has to make play by closing us for
couple of weeks right in the rush of
the season. We want that cashier
reeled in He got to his feet That's
all. Take him away; see? Take him
away
"And with a sudden violent gesture
that would have knocked a fly off the
tip of the bankers chin if a presump-
tuous insect had happened TO be there,
the visitor turned and went, leaving
the banker blinking and speechless.'
S. H. Adams in Ainslee's).
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
American Farmer

Shrill crows the cock. The misty
light creeps in
At windows looking on the eastern
sky,
The cattle low and waking fowls be
To raise their voices in discordant
cry,
yawn.
Deserts his bed and stalks into the
dawn.
With ib'ral hand he takes from stack
and store,
And, smiling, feeds his trooping
focks and herds,
Each known by name The weak he
fingers DER
With soothing touch and kindly.
cheering words.
From him they learn obedience and
trust,
They teach him that the gentle are
the just.
Compared to his what pleasures may
they know
Who in dull round of cent-per-cent
engage?
About his feet the billowy grasses
blow,
Fen while the thunders DER the
hilltops rage.
Here tbick-leaved naples grateful
shades extend,
There cowslip blossoms DER the
booklet bend.
And here among these rich sequester-
ed scenes
An independent, peaceful path you
tread;
No tainting substance DER your sky
terrenes,
No marshaled chimneys turn your
airs to lead.
Above you bends a blue, unsullied
dome;
The sun unveiled looks smiling on
your home.
Charles Eugene Banks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
Her Majesty's "Young Man."

Great amusement was caused by
the recital of an incident which oc-
Cured soon after her majestys &C.
cession to the throne. A grand din
ner party was being given at the Buck
ingham palace The probable hus-
band the queen might select was then
matter of much interest and specula-
ton. Lord Melbourne, as prime min
lister, felt the matter to be one in
which he was entitled to obtain in
formation if possible. So he in
CURED of the queen, as neatly as he
could, whether there was any individ.
ual for whom she entertained a prefer
ence. Her majesty was little taken
aback and inquired whether he put
the question as matter of state
policy. If so she would endeavor to
give him an answer. Lord Melbourne
replied that he did. and that under 10
other circumstances would he have
ventured to intrude in so delicate a
matter
Then" said the queen, there is
one person for whom l entertain a de-
cided preference"
"Yes?" said Lord Melbourne, ex-
pecting to hear a great secret.
"And that is-that isl said the
queen, "the duke Of Wellington"
The venerable hero of Waterloo was
past his seventeen year and the story
used to be retailed by Lord Melbourne
at his own expense
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
TRIALS OF CoPY-READERS.
Authors Blame Them for Errors They
Do Not Commit.

Do Not Commit.
Most authors are furious at the
bare suggestion of editing their man,
uscripts," said a man who used to be
a reader in d big publishing house
but you would be surprised at the
ludicrous blunders made by the best
of them When a writer is acces-
sible the usual plan is to mark the
bad breaks on the proof slips and
send them to HIM, with a discreet
note requesting a correction. But
when a house is getting out book in
a hurry, or when the author is abroad
this is often impossible, and then the
situation becomes very ticklish.
remember, for instance, | was once
reading the proofs Of novel by one
of our best known and crankiest wo-
men writer's. She was away on a
visit to Mexico, and had left strict
orders to follow copy to the letter.
In one of her early chapters the hero
was shaving himself after a long hun
ting trip, and was exactly half through
when interrupted by the sudden ar
rival of the villain. A stormy scene fol
lowed, and eventually all hands ad-
jOurned to a fashionable ball The
authoress evidently forgot that the
man was still half shaved, and I took
the liberty of finishing the job. When
she saw the book she was as mad as
blazes because [ had interpolated
eight or nine words, and I sWOre never
again to play the barber to save any
bOdy's reputation.
Another writer for whom we got
out a story made one of his characters
empty his revolver at a retreating
burglar and a moment later sent two
bullets crashing through a window
to show rival how quick he was on
the trigger. | called his attention to
tho ineXhaustible pistol, and he never
spoke to me afterward. In an ear
lier novel by the same gentleman you
will find reference to the hero'S dark,
amOOth-shaver face and on the very
next page he is twirling his nous
taChe. | noticed it III the proof, but
remembered my experience with the
lady and let it go. 1t is a common
thing for writer's to locate we'll known
streets, parks, art galleries and monu-
ments in the wrong cities, and they
make the sun rise and set at all points
Of the compass. We had to delay a
book for a whole season once because
the author located the Windward
islands off the coast of South Carroll
ma, and then went away to Japan be-
fore anybody discovered the mistake.
To make the correction involved
changing the whole action of the
story, which, of course, nobody dared
to do.'-New York Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
Ore Woman's Life Work.

The celebrated Bon Marche of Paris
was the life work of woman, the
justly famous Nine. Boucicault, and il
was literally the first emporium of
the kind ever seen. Nine. Boucicault
was a woman possessed Of great
heart as we'll as Of a great brain, and
her business owed not a little of it's
monetary success to the fact that it
was conducted by her on really coop
erative principles. Each Of her shop
men and shopWomen, as we'll, of
course, as ali those concerned with the
purely clerical side of the business,
was admitted by her to a share in the
profits
Not content with doing this, she fur
Their established in connection with
her employees homes of rest, holiday
homes, hospital and an annuity fund,
and at her death it was found that she
had divided her vast fortune among
her workers, the sum left in each case
being carefully graduated according to
the time the legatee had been in the
service of the Bon Marche. The
beneticent and kindly spirit of Nine
Boucicault seems even now TO exer-
else a good influence on those en-
ployed in the huge shop, and the pass
ing visitor is treated with exception
ally kind consideration, no attempt be-
ing made to compel a purchase, while
with unwearied good nature both the
shopmen and shopwomen will show
everything that is to be seen, betray-
ing no disappointment if the practical
result is for the moment nil.-London
Telegraph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY.
Method by Which Americans Have
Won 1t.

very great proportion of the
in the iron and steel trades, machine
tool trades, and Woodworking in
dustries generally, is due to success
in securing orders in foreign coun-
tries. Gains in this direction are won
in international competition largely
by high adaptations of mechanical
equipment and works, organization,
and by the adoption of policies which
secure the fullest possible accord and
cooperation between employers and
workmen IN advancing economy Of
production. The land which is to
gain or to maintain industrial SUI
premacy most perfect methods Of deal
ing between manufacturers and work.
men as she perfects her methods of
building bridges and locomotives.
The operation of her factories and
workshops must proceed as smoothly
and continuously, with as little fTic-
lion or heating or clashing, as do the
sewing machines, the planners, the
looms, or the engines with which
she supplies the four quarters of the
globe. She must hold to and extend
the resort to reason, justice, and
common, sense in the settlement of
trade difficulties, so happily eXem-
plified in the agreement reached last
May in the United States between the
National Metal Trades association
and the international Association Of
Machinists. She must send the lock-
out and the strike to the scrap-heap,
along with the thousands Of other in
thrown out of her shops. Their
wastefulness is intolerable, and
should be Observation-Disclosures Buxton
Going in Engineering Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
PUT A "MASHER" TO FLIGHT.
Simple Method of Girl to Rid Herself
of Obnoxious Attentions,

of Obnoxious Attentions.
1t happened on a Sixth avenue sur
face car shortly after o'clock last
evening. A young woman, we'll known
in musical circles Of this city, was the
heroine When she seated herself she
did not at first notice a fashily
dressed young man who was directly
opposite. But she was soon made
aware of his presence through his
impudent stare and smirk whenever
she happened to look his way. AT
first she was simply annoyed, but
subsequently became positively en-
barraSSed.
People in the car began to notice
his attempt at Irritation, and, al.
though she kept her eyes in any di-
rection other than that which would
necessitate bringing him into vision
she could not help but feel that his
gaze was riveted on her face.
f~lddenly a happy thought seemed
to strike her. She turned her head
quickly, and calmly fixed her gaze on
the fellows feet. Not once did her
eyes waver At first his face began
to flush. Then he shuf11ed his feet I'm.
easily. BY this time other people in
the car had observed the little
comedy, and many smiled broadly as
they noticed his discontinue.
Seeing that she had succeeded in
thoroughly embarrassing him, the
young woman now changed her mode
of attack, and boldly raised her eyes
to his face, and then, with a contemp
tuous curve of her lips, quickly
glanced again at his feet. This
proved too much for the masher, and
he suddenly beat a retreat
AS he alighted from the car there
was faint sound Of applause in the
vehicle, and when later the young wo
man arrived at her street, an old man
| vho was seated near the door, said as
he passed him:
| you deserve to be congratulated
miss. It's too bad more young womer
| haven't your wit"
She merely smiled an acknowleds
/ ment and hurried down the steps. =
! New York Mail and Express.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
FASHIONS DEVOTEES.
How They Are Robbed by the Thrifty
Dress Makers.

How They Are Robbed by the Thrifty
Dress Makers.
Enormous sums are spent each year
by Fashions devotees in that region
of Paris bounded by the Boulevard
HauSSmann, the Rue de Richelieu, the
Rue de Rivoli and the Rue Royal, an
irregular square of which the central
point is the famous Rue de la PAX.
A writer in an English paper states
that Lame de Pougy, Cleo de Ne
rode, Mile. Marsy, the Countess de
many other ladies belonging to very
different worlds in the gay city meet
on common ground in thei; passion
for the latest creations Of the great
mOdistes. They are the women who
pay $1,000 for a dress, $500 for a silk
petticOat, $500 for an opera cloak,
500 for robe de mutt, $25 a pair for
stockings, 800 for a corset. Their
other furbelows, dainty, mysterious,
awe-inspiring, are paid for in proper
ton. There are a number of Paris
ennes whose rare beauty demands
100000, $4,000 and even $4,000 per
annum for it's adornment. The &C.
tual labor involved in the making of a
$500 dress after it leaves the cutters
hands is said to seldom exceed SO.
Where does the rest of the money go?
In the first place, quite 800 must be
allocated to the chief for his origina-
talent. He must provide an expensive
establishment, luxuriously furnished,
in the heart of fashionable Paris He
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
SOMETHING NEW IN CURES.
How the Old Campagner Got Rid of
rheumatism.

How the Old Campaigner Got Rid of
rheumatism.
He is a seasoned war horse in poll
ties and the hero of many a campaign
He tells what happened to him last
Monday night.
Il had been to my mans house and
fixed up little deal that promised
well. On my way home I was in a
block of vacant lots when the cloud
burst"
CLOUD burst?" from a listener
Eyes, cloud burst. More water fell
in five minutes than at any time since
the deluge. l thought at first that
water main must have exploded.
had to throw my umbrella away to
keep from drowning. I waded, f1oated
tread water and went with the tide for
temporary rheumatism in both legs
kept me from running. The first port
drifted into was drug store, and
the storm quit as soon as I escaped.
Il hustled home, and my wife i'm
mediately ordered me to take a big
dose of quinine and whisky Five min
utes later I hurried upstairs and had a
catch-as-catch-can with myself, for
every stitch on me stuck like a porus
plaster. l thought three or four times
that I would lose the contest, but
finally won out and soon had on a
warm, dry suit.
Now, you'd naturally think that
after such an experience my rheuma-
tism would be worse. Not a bit of it.
believe the confounded thing can be
drowned, for l haven't felt a twinge
since. But you can't tell The fact
that I tossed the quinine out of the
back window may have something to
do with it."-Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28

must surround himself with an
equally expensive staff. These items
would absorb another $3.50. Interest
on capital and money outstanding
would represent another $40 Con-
slderlng that bad debts in these smart
establishments are officially declared
to amount to II per cent. of the an
nual turnover, about $40 must be al
lowed for that eventuality. Adding
Sl4O for the material, the total cost
would S510, leaving 10 per cent. or
$50 profit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-28
THE PRESIDENT AT PLAY.

How a Chiid's Visit Added to the Mer-
riment of the White House.
The congressman's wife continues
her excellent stories in the Saturday
Evening Post. Among others she tells
are the following:
well, you should have seen the
President at play few weeks ago. 1t
was very pretty sight. Little Leo
more p, a child five or six, came
one day to the white house to see
Mrs Mckinley. Mrs. Mckinley is
very fond of children and she asked
Leonora to visit her. Well, Leonora
arrived all starched and frilled and
with her best and primmest little
manners to the fore. Her old black
nanny nurse was with her, and it
was evident that Leonora had been
instructed to be very polite, and not
sit down in the presence of the mis-
tress of the white house unless
pressed to do so, and, above al, to
answer all questions promptly. Both
the president and Mrs. Mckinley re-
ceived the child. They did all they
could to make her feel at home, but
Leonora was evidently a good deal
awed. At last Mrs. Mckinley, observ-
ing the years of the old black nanny,
pressed her to sit down, and the child
too, but LeonOra said admonishingly
to her nurse in an undertone, and
holding herself bolt upright:
6 No, nanny; servants must not
sit
Why, Leonora,' said Mrs. McKin-
ley, much amused, 'mammy's an old
woman. And you sit down yourself
" oh, yes'm,' returned the child
gravely, but, then, I'm people,
''This reply nearly bOwled the presi-
dent over, and he and Mrs. Mckinley
smiled broadly. Then Mrs. Mckinley
took out her watch, which contains a
portrait of the president She held
it out and said cOaXingly:
g IeOnOra, you cannot tell me of
whom this is a picture?'
''Leonora drew near and scanned
the open watch. A bright look swept
over her face.
oh, yes'm, I know who it isl
& Well, who is it, Leonora?'
g It's Dewey.
This was altogether too much for
the president. He went off into a fit
of laughter, long and loud"