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The Green Forest tribune., 1902-01-25

WIRELESS telegraphy gives promise of being of some use, and the stock by and by may become valuable. When that time comes it will be in the hands of few, as is usual in such cases. The early investors will have to let go.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-01-25

A CHICAGO man has just died whose life was insured for a mill ion dollars. He had paid about one-tenth of the amount in premiums. The insurance com- panies will make much of this as an advertisement.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-01-25
S"oSE"SSESSESsSEcSESSlSESSESsSE%sSlSS
 Announcements.

EssESSESSESSESSESSESSESSSEsS THE TRIBUNE is authorized to announce the following gentlemen as candidates for office, subject to the will of the democratic primary election, to be held March 29, 1902: For State Senator
 F. o. BUTT. For Representative
 w. F. JACKSON.
 c. A. FULLER.
 w. R. PHILLIPS. For Sheriff
 TOM MORRIS. For Collector
 R. l.. ANDERSON. For County Clerk
 J.O. COLLIER. For Circuit Clerk
 E. M. BARE. For Treasurer
 w. E. GEORGE. For Assessor
 F. B. DODSON.
 FRANK CARROLL.
 JOE s. FANCHER. HICKORY TOWNSHIP. For Justice of the Peace
 w. A. BUTT.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-01-25

THE Panama canal question is not new. It was agitated hun- dreds of years ago, and is not cut yet.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

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a reporter for a paper of opposite
politics being most persistent.
This reporter lost no opportunity
of writing unfavorable things, and
yet Mr.. Mckinley admired his
cleverness and shrewdness. The
late presidents admiration was
not unmixed with compassion, for
the reporter was very i'll and poor
ly clad, and had also an annoying
cough.
One night President Mckinley
took a closed carriage for near
by town at which he was an
nounced to speak. The weather
was wretchedly raw and cold, and
what followed is thus described:
T., l,,/l 81 rr0,,N -,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

L ~ .E
cess for April, Mr.. Reid recalls the
incident which occurred fifty years
years ago, in the Atlantic & Ohio
Telegraph office in Pittsburg, as
follows: ~
~ He was SO determined that 1
became interested in him at once.
He seemed to have determination
written on his face. His eagerness
to work and learn were very no.
ticeable. Before he had been with
me month, he asked to be taught
biography When consented, he
spent all his spare time in prac:-
-tice, transmitting and receiving by
sound and not by tape. He was
the third operator in the United
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

The testimony given by representatives of
anthracite Commission shows
that almost starvation point.
girls testified that they worked all night
their fathers along The claimed that
$1400 and $1,000 for themselves
each When miner has to help him. he pays him
On the other hand these fathers testified
mentioned divided between Judge
Gray made remarks in this connection which
be practically the opinion Of the whole
that if the operators really afford
they ought to get out of the business
the opera tors.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

world is the career OF. Colonel Rob
5ert G. CloWry of Chicago, presi-
dent Of the Western Union Tele-
graph company. 81
Colonel CloWry was born in
Will county, illinois, in 1899; at
the age Of 10 he became mes
senger boy in the office of the
Illinois & Missouri Telegraph COM
pany. attending public school at
the same time. After two years Of
work as messenger boy, he be-
came an opera tor, and a year later
was transferred to st. Louis.
At the age of 20 he was APP
pointed superintendent of the St.
Louis & Missouri Telegraph COM
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

- f11
the telegraph the Lincoln
who asked him to enter the accepted
cevlng the appointment of captain and assistant
master OF the United States At the
he was promoted lieutenant colonel by President johnson
mertorious services and devoted application duty
MI CloWry appointed assistant general supern-
tendent of the Western Union company 1s78
years later was made general superintendent of the
tory west of Pennsylvania the
1855 has been vice
the Western Union Telegraph companys territory
James D. Reid the veteran teegrapher who the dis
tinction of giving Andrew Carnegie his job
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20


families in China. His wife died
about a year ago, and it is be-
lieved he will not bring his chill
dren here for the present.
Fl Sir LANG Chen until recently
was the tutor of the son of Prince
Ching, the prime minister of
China. go II. -@-'-. ..-. --z
Mr.. Chen is 80 years of age
He was one Of the large number
of young Cinnamon who were sent
to the United States in and after
1872 to study American methods
and laws. He first studied at
Phillips Andover Academy, Mas
sachusetts, and subsequently en-
tered Amherst College.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

States to read the Morse signals by sound
This in Mr. Carnegies mind, his best
long and successful years. Carnegie
change <Es-a
MY into the telegraph transition
from darkness to light firing engine dirty
cellar to clean office where there books
That paradise to me, that sent
me to be messenger in a telegraph Office.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20
THE LASTLEAF.

THE LAST1LEAF.
I saw him once before,
AS he pass'd by the door;
And again <-.-. - -.
The pavement stones resound
AS he totters Ger the ground
With his cane. -
They. say that in his prime
Ere the pruning knife of Time "
Cut him down.
Not a better man was found
BY the crier on his round
Through the town. r.
But now he walks the streets,
And he looks at all he meets
Sad and wan; q IT,:
And he shakes his feeble head
That it seems as if he said,
4.'They are gone.' &.
The messy marbles rest
On the lips that he has press'd
In their bloom;
And the names he loved to hear
Have been carved for many a wa
On the tomb.
My grandmamma has said
Poor old lady! she is dead
Long ago
That he had a Roman nose,
And his cheek was like a rose
In the snow.
But now his nose is thin,
And it rests upon his chin
Like staff;
z And a crook is in his back,
And a melancholy crack
In his laugh.
I know it is sin
For me to sit and grin
At him here,
But the old three corner'd hat,
And the breeches-and all that,
Are so queer. IS
And if should live to be
The last leaf on the tree
In the spring,
Let them smile as do now.
At the. old forsaken bough
Where cling.
Oliver Wende
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

China. hat boys were getting
Anericanzed He fond of baseball and rowing
these with other American accomplishments
back with him to Pekng -.
Sir Chens appointment is due it is said to his knowl
edge Of the United States his education
which have made WI Tingfang such valuable
tive China in United States He is fond society,"
and it is expected will do deal of entertaining
Washington.
followed the Chautanauan
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

heard that cough he knew that the riding
with the in the exposed major called on
stop alighted
Get down off that seat, H. he
obeyed thinking the time vengeance
had come
Here" said Mr.. Mckinley, taking off his overcoat
you this overcoat get into carriage"
Major Mckinley, said the reporter guess you
don't know who have been with you
paign, giving you time you spoke going
tonight to rip to pieces If 4 cam
know, said major, you put
this coat and get inside and that You
do good job
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20
A New Dead Sea.

The dead discovered by Seven Henin, in
Thibe is described in extent shallow
that to navigate it must wade half mile
boat must drag the boat half be
foated with load. But the
is the almost Incredible amount of SALT Boats
quickly white chalk: the the
becomes whitehead while spfin-
kle surface leave giobles like drppings
Diamonds.
engraving they white
plunged into sealing withdrawn
san and plunged in again. repeating the
steel becomes cold@The tool will then become
hard diamond
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

va Sc van los reyes,
Bendita rea bios,
Ellos van y vuelven
Y nosOtros no.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20
DECEMBER 20, 1904. s
PEOPLE LDk7O DO THINGS

From messenger boy in primitive telegraph office to
the presidency of greatest
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

Sir LANG Chen, the Ting fang is
finely educated He belongs to the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20
CHRISTMAS IN PORTO RICO
The Real Christmas Comes Twelve Days
Hanging Up Their Stockings
ceive Their Presents In OF
Green Grass

Christmas in the tropics with the thermometer regis
terng 80 degrees is not Christmas
ony In Porto Rico tries observe the
wig keeping house invite friends board
OF Christmas dinner In most
the
All make forget they
To help to out the illusion interiors
particularly the dinngroo
palm leaves and tropic shrubs substitute
evergreens and ivy Mstetoe is entirely lacking:
feature of the Christmas observances here the
taken by the colored people ST. Antigua
Kits and other neighboring islands English
is considerable colony of these people here
mostly aborers imported because
They travel in from house
Christmas singing English They expect
to be asked inside to refreshments preferably
Christmas is not observed the Porto Rcan
to the extent would imagine The day holiday of
course, and is given feasts balls.
Christmas day in Porto Rico at least much of it
tans to the giving receiving gifts days
late January g. Three Kings Day, la Reyes,
the day of the for the Porto Rcan children It differs
only In the the youngsters have of receiving
aguinados gifts While the American vo1ths hang IN
their stockings their this
shoes and pasteboard box filled with grass
window stills the origin
in the Bible story. ~:
The intended hungry mules on which the
three wise Kings supposed ridden the
infant Jesus The children take considerable pains gath
erng the often working before.
San Juan compactly hardly grass
plot in the whole city. Last plot square
yards OF uxriant RACED being picked
by the children After the little the
they usually find at the bottom Of the short
written in red ink signed, supposedly, by
peen good during the past the King doesn't think
to leave better than
box The note then states that gnicent present
left next the children behave themselves during
ensuing twelve months And then postscript
that the mules at little committed
the children and couldn't eat the grass
Grabbing their toys the children into streets
with rumpets and drums singing: 3aa7=
- L. va Sc los
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20
literally translated, is:
Now the kings are gone.
Praised be God, -
For they go and come,
And we don't.

The day is observed general holiday is
suspended and bands from street to trusting
the passerby for contributions Policemen
letter carriers, servants, agunaldos.'
Small parties with stringed instruments raspng
solicit aims from house to house The day with
grand bali at the Spanish Casino.--New Post
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

HE Venez uelan affair has reached an acute stage.
The allies shelled the fort at Puerto Cabeno after
what was considered insufficient notice. Italy
has also joined in the demand for indemnity and
has sent Xarship to the scene. Minister Bowen
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
Fashions in Words.

Everybody is aware of the enormous
popularity that song may enjoy for
season and Of the startling sudden
ness with which it drops into OBJ
security. But, according to COZ
tributor to the current number Of
Notes and Queries, words have also
curious form of f1eeting popularity.
VASTLY" "rugely," "genteel' and ''th9
quality as g synonym for the
aristocracy, which were fashionable
phrases in the eighteenth century, are
seldom seen or heard nowad avs, and
it is suggested that such words as
convincing" weird" and "strenu-
ous," which have a vogue at the
present moment, will also fall into OBJ
security ere long. The prosposed com.
pilation of a list of these rocketlike
words would show some curious
vagaries of verbal popularity.-Detrol
Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
Woman With a Horn.

One of the greatest living human
freaks in the country is to be seen in
Caswell county, North Carolina, which
is in Representative w. w. Kitchin's
district
The other day Mr.. Kitchin received
in his mail letter from the chairman
of the CaswelI county commissioners
requesting him to go see some
dime museum manager and make ar.
rangements for exhibiting the freak,
which is woman with a horn grow
ing from the back of her head
The horn is six inches long, and very
hard. 1t strongly resembles the horn
of a goat.
Mr.. Kitchin saw the woman some
time ago in a museum in North Caro-
lima. The member from the tar heel
state, however has not yet made up
his mind whether or not he will en-.
brace this opportunity and embark in
the dime museum business as a side
issue.-Washingt Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
DeWet an Agreeable Foe.

GA British officer in South Africa
says the London Chronicle, sends an
account of ieneral Dewet's passing at
his own request through the English
blockhouse lines in the neighborhood
of Lindley, on his way to confer with
a commando. He came to the officers
mess to afternoon tea, drank coffee
and ate cake. He was in the best Of
spirits, this leader, who is often spo-
ken of as moody even to madness. So,
too, he was when, week later, he re-
passed in the English lines, drank
more coffee, and in more senses than
one took cake. For all the British
who saw him were delighted by his
simple and gay bearing, by the interest
he took in an officer down with fever,
at whose bedstead he sat, and by the
cordially of his promise to extend an
equal hospitality to his hosts should
the fortunes of war, as he put it, ever
bring them within his own lines
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
KITCHEN AINTc

water IN which rice has been
oolied should be saved for starcbine
muslins.
Use boiling water as soon as if hollis
or the gases escape and the wster be-
comes fiat.
Ii the skin of a beetroot has got
broken scar the part with a red-hot
IRON before cooking it. This will pre-
vent the beet from bleeding.
10 prevent cakes from burning dust
a little bran at the bottom of the tin.
The juice of an ordinary lemon is
about a tablespoonful A breakfast
cupful of breadcrumbs well pressed in
equals about four ounces. Very finely
chopped suet slightly heaped up
weighs the same. A heaped breakfast
cupful of brown sugar represents half
pound, and stoned saisins well
pressed in weigh about the same.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
Would Scorch His Moustache.

How is this, Alexander" said Mrs.
POthurst. "You told me at the be-
ginning of the century that you were
going to strictly limit yourself to
smoking 10 cigars a day, and, if I am
not mistaken in my count, here you
aro putting away on your 18TH
True, my DEAR answered Mr.. p,
this is the 18th cigar today, but as a
matter of fact l have only smoked
eight. l never smoke over two-thirds
Of cigar; can't do it without scorch-
think for moment, you must see that
have only smoked eight, which is
two-thirds of II, leaving me still two
and little more to smoke. kindly
pass the matches"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
HOW kHAENZLEIN WON BRIDE.
Jumped Into Her Good Graces With
Record Leap of "a Fl. 8 1-2 In.

Jumped Into Her Good Graces With
Record Leap of "a Fl. 1-2 In.
Kraenzlein. king of the hurdlers,
has frequently ere now threatened to
retire from the amateur field Of
athletics. says the New York Journal.
But each time he has been tempted
! to return.
After his wonderful victories at the
Paris exposition he announced that he
must devote himself to business. His
| friends pleaded with him and he was
! induced back to the ranks to uphold
the glory of American athletics in
England.
He upheld it nobly, so nobly that he
has won English, American. Canadian.
intercollegiate, metropolitan and
worlds championships.
Nevertheless, once again the famous
record-breaker has declared that he
will retire.
This time he announces also his
marriage.
This time it looks as if he nad
turned his back forever upon .ne
glories of hurdle racing and the
recognition of cups and medals.
Yet it was a medal that first won
him the heart of Claudine Gilman, the
girl whom he led to the altar last
week.
Claudine Gilman was among those
who crowded Franklin field when
Alvin G. Kraenzlein, Pennsylvania
university student, made the longest
Jump ever made by human being.
On that day Kraenzlein created a
new worlds record for the running
broad jump.
The wonderful Pennsylvania athlete.
holder of five worlds records, leaped
"a feet 31a inches, more than four
times his own height.
Among the great assembly that
packed the Philadelphia field for the
intercollegiate relay races three ago
was a little Pennsylvania girl VIII,
had come with her class from Drexel
Institution to see the sports.
Some men whom she knew rushed
up to greet her.
Bring that magnificent creature
Up here she cried. please let me
know him.
And so the beginning of the grelr
athletes romance came to pass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
Two Views of the Mater Cure.

Il tell you, suh," said Col. Bugsnort-
er, this watah cure, sub, they are
puhpetratin in tn PHILIPPINES, sun, is
atrocious, subj"
ooh, it is not so bad, Cunnel," ven
tured Major Rockenrigh.
bad? Why, sub, it is infuhnal.
The idea of compellin' those POI, be-
nighted heather to swallow large
quantities of watah! Why-why-
it's
But, Cunnel," interrupted the ma
jor, ''surely yo' wouldn't waste good
whisky or even beer in guidin' those
pagans into the glorious path of free
DOM
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
THOUGHT HE WAS IN HE'LL,
Story of Negroes Conversion to be
Consistent Christian.

Consistent Christian.
Back in the seventies" said a man
rom Arkansas, 81 attended a negro
'evival in one of the counties lying in
he st. Francis basin, and the church
vas within stones throw of the St
Francis river, beautifully clear
stream which gurgles out of the
earth somewhere above the sunk
ands, and sweeps along the eastern
edge of Crowley's Ridge, .emptying
nto the Mississippi about ten miles
above Helena. The spirit of religion
lad been stirred up to fever heat, and
he negroes were fearfully wrought up
They made the hills ring for miles
around the place where the meeting
vas being held. There were many
converts, many men and women Who
lad gone up to the mourners' bench tc
De prayed for. The white people OF
he surrounding country would oc.
2asionally go to the church just to
watch the proceedings, hear the
strange, weird music of the singers
md to see the negroes shout Negroes
are great shouters in the back-woods
and they tell the most amusing and
marvellous tales imaginable when they
Ire giving in their experiences
Nahomet's description of his visit
through the seven upper regions is no
marker in comparison. One night {.
Dad negro was suddenly converted
He told of his experience with tho
'edeeming spirit. At the end of his
miraculous story he was overcome by
lis feelings and began to shout, ano
he shouting wound up in a swoon
He was carried out of the church and
aid on the side of a hill in a bed OF
caves. Leaves were plentiful, as ii
vas in the fall of the year, and the
negro convert was almost buried II
hese dry and fallen vestments of the
rees. The negro did not remain il
lis swoon very long. There was
crowd of mischievous boys in the
1eighborhood. One of them stuck
match to the dry leaves and in shor,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17

while the negro was almost enveloped
in flames. He came to, jumped UP
and made a desperate dash down the
side OF the hill. He never knew the
cause of the fire, and the next day he
was telling the most marvellous stories
in the world about the dream he had
going to hell, and he always believed
the devil had something to do with
setting the leaves afire. 1t made
consistent Christian out of him"
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17

the contrary, explode with terrific sud
denness when least expected. and their
eruptions consist of hot water cinders.
and mud. 1t is a singular fact that
both the Central American volcanic
chain and that of the Caribbean ISL
ands belong to this latter Glass;
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
The Game in his Own Hands,

Government Officer-Well, now that
you have perfected an armor for ships
hat is absolutely impenetrable. pre-
sumo you have attained the height of
your ambition.
Great Manufacturer-Not at ALL
have almost completed a gun that will
pierce any armor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
No Conversation,

Barber-You're next, sir. Hair cut?
Peppery-Yes, and here, put this in
your pocket for yourself
Barber-Thank you, sir. l don't
often get my tip before 1 begin, and I
appreciate
Peppery-I don't want you to con-
slider that tip, but "hush money"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
Amateur VS.. Professional

With what furious energy AL
earnestness the undergraduate ath-
letes play ball and strive for honors
in rowing, while the professional n,nes
and crews seem to care for little else
than the drawing of their salaries.
The contrast was never more striking
than it is now.-New York Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
PLEASANTRIES.

A Kansas man has put up a sign:
"Jim Smith, Physician and Under
taker." He catches 'em a comm and
a 'goin. Atlanta Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17

Jack-Didn't you remember the
maxim: when in doubt play trump"
Mabel-Yes, but you see, I was in
doubt as to what was TRIUMPH. Y.
Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17

The recent foods in that part of the
earth prompt the Kansas City Journal
to remark: 'In a number of places
in Kansas they are thinking seriously
Of boring for dry land"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17

How do you spell needle, Bobby'?"
asked the teacher.
"N-e-i-d-l-e needle" was the
reply.
Wrong" said the teacher, ''there is
no ''i'' in needle"
well then, faint good needIe''-
Chicago Little Chronicle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17

Uglicus-That new hat of yours
looks like real Panama.
MISUNDERSTANDING nothing! It's
Nicaragua.-Chicago Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17

A man in Atchison has found it
necessary to write an open letter ex-
claiming that he wears white socks, not
because they are fashionable, but be-
cause socks of any other color hurt
his ankles.-Kansas City Star.