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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
NEW COLLEGE.

A Danish-American college is to be
built in Racine to cost about $50 600.
Plans and specifications are under
way, and it is expected work will be
begun early in the spring. The insti-
tuition will prepare young Danes who
desire to enter the Danish ministry.
From 200 to 500 students will be en-
rolled the first year and increased
thereafter. The move for the college
was inaugurated four years ago when
the Danish-American Investment asso-
citation was incorporated. Since that
time the members have worked hard
raising considerable money. 1t is the
intention to issue $4,000 worth of
bonds, 400 in number, S25 each, and
little difficulty is anticipated in sell
ing them. Articles of incorporation
have been filed with the secretary OF
state at Madison, the capital stock be.
ing $4,000. The incorporators are:
The Rev. Jens n. Jersild, Neenah
Wis; the Rev Charles H. Jensen
Racine, and l.. A. Laursen, Racine. II
is to be known as the Lutheran high
school and college for American Dan.
ish students. The plans will be com.
| pleted in about two weeks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
MANAGING A HUSBAND.

There is positive exhilaration to be
derived from bringing all ones
efforts to bear upon husband whose
business worries have pursued him
from the office. writes Lillian Bell In
Harper's Bazaar. There is a genuine
delight to fight with the unknown
anxieties which his love will not per-
nit him to unburden at home. 1t
brings out all the tact and patience
and diplomacy all the charms and
graces, OF a wOman's character 20
transform cross, tired wornout hus-
band into a new man-iust by good
dinner and a little tact.
But to manage a husband when
there are so many kinds of husbands
requires, more than any other one
thing, thorough study of your SUD-
ject. To meet your husband with a
smile" which is the old-fashioned
rule for all ills, is enough to make a
nervous, irritable man frantic Look
him over before you even smile.
You ought to know how to treat him.
Don't sing or hum if he has head
ache, or begin to tell him the news
before you have fed him. If there is
one rule to lay down-which there is
motor if l were giving automatic
advice-which l am mott should
say at most men come home like
hungry animals, and require first of
all to be fed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
WHAT WOMEN DO.

The Washington Post reports that
English women have taken up with
the charity sewing clubs with re
newed zeal since the return of the
Princess of Wales from her tour.
The Ophir brought home, it is said,
an astonishing number of frocks,
flannel petticoats and wraps that the
future queen had taken time to cut
and make during her trip, assisted by
her ladies in waiting.
In one of the canyons of the beauti-
full Los Gatos foothills, at the west
ern end Of he Santa Clara Valley,
the home acre of Mrs Reed has been
held by the proceeds from the
stuffed prune industry which she
has developed. Chicago and New
York markets demand all that she
can supply. Her success is due
largely to her dainty and artistic
manner of packing the export.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
YOUNG ALFONSO OF SPAIN.

Alfonso XIII. will not be crowned.
None of his predecessors has been
crowned, for the ceremony of the
coronation of kings does not exist
in Spain. The only essential act
of an official character to precede the
taking possession of the sovereign
power by The young monarch will be
the oath Of fidelity, according to the
constitution, and this will be sworn
to before the president of the
chamber If deputies and the as
sembled cortes, says an exchange
The ceremony of the oath will be
celebrated with great pomp in the
hall of assembly of the chamber.
All of the senators and deputies will
be gathered there, dressed in uni
form or evening clothes. The king,
accompanied by all the royal family
and followed by his court, will go TO
the parliament in the historic coaches
which are one of the curiOsities OF
the palace, and one of the external
signs the most priced of the addi-
tional nagnificence of the kings OF
spain NSoLl6 III lilcSS SOdCuSS VIII
the panels painted by masters, cover
ed in tortoise-shell or constructed OF
fine wood Of the Indies and ornament
ed with bronze engraved like jewels,
date from he time OF Philip ". and
are copied from those belonging 20
Louis XIV. There is one in pal
ticular in ebony, held up by leather
straps that is called The Foolish
Jane
Those OF the coaches at the head
OF the cortege conduct the officers Of
the crown. They are harnessed 20
four horses. The carriages destined
for the infantas and for the great
dignitaries Of the palace are drawn
| by six horses. The one in which will
ride their majesties will be drawn by
eight horsese wearing the Isabella
robe. 1t IS surmounted by the royal
| crown. The harness is extremely
rich. The coach viii be accompanied
/ by powdered footmen
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
I'M ERE WOMAN"

Mrs. Howard Kingscott Ducas
Cleve) is creating a sensation in New
York by her comments on American
women. She began a discourse at
the WaldOrf-Astoria with the ques-
ton: Are American women holding
to the Gals that made them what
they are-the freest, the happiest and
the most worshiped women on
earth?' She warns of danger ahead
in the fact that young American
women are becoming too cosmopo1:-
tan and losing their individuality.
THE greatest thing that the queen
did she said, was to make OF
womanlinesS an art, of motherhood a
science and Of wifehood a religion
Many consider it bourgeois to be
fond Of ones husband but Queen
Victoria's example is good enough
for mei-although a statesman once
said that the queen is not IN
society,""
THE new woman too often wastes
her energies in asserting what she
can do. Everybody knows that
woman can do anybody she tries to-.
sc why spend time in shrieking in
stead of acting? Of course. she is
superior to man. Why cannot she be
content with that, without insisting
OF usurping his place in the order Of
life. Women have their rights. but
they are different from mems rights.
and neither should be allowed to en-
croach on the other"
The lecture was enlivened by MANY
sharp thrusts at existing conditions,
and by numerous anecdotes of
famous Enlishmen and women per-
scnally known to the speaker illustra-
tive of her theme. One that created
lively interest, as showing how the
seven women to one man" ratio in
England had demoralized the lower
classes, referred to Lord Randolph
Churchill. He was seated beside
me at dinner" she related. and we
We're arguing some question rather
warmly, when he said. laughing. All!
some day you may give me a half
crown to walk down the street with
you on Sunday. 1t is an actual fact
that nursemaids and shopgirls who
cannot secure beaus otherwise pay a
good looking young man half a
crown to walk out with them on Sun
days! So you see what the American
woman may come to if she is not
careful, as the same disproportion is
coming to exist here, I am told"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
KING OSCARS HABITS.

King Oscar of Sweden is popularity
supposed to combine his undisputed
virtues as monarch with some per-
sonal weaknesses, says the New York
Sun. Only few years ago a Danish
Journalist. Owe Rode, published an
article about the real Oscar H." in
which he pictured the old king as a
very merry monarch who nearly killed
his chamberlains by making them
drink cognac with him night after
night till 4 and o'clock in the morn
ing, and who then sought the aid Of
morphine in order to procure a few
hours sleep for himself.
The story was never denied official
" and the wellknown fact that the
king is fond of late hours, although a
very early riser. helped various people
TO believe it An entirely different
version OF the kings character and
habits was given the other day, how
ever a man who for many years has
been the intimate friend of his sover-
eign.
General Sven Lagerberg. the oldest
officer in the Swedish army and a man
known beyond the limits of his own
country for his frankness bordering
| on rudeness, his biting Wit and his
! frugality, celebrated his eight;eth
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
Disease Germs in Money.

According to American medicine.
the dislufection of paper money
should attract the attention OF
EyGienists. When patients with
smallpox or other contagious dis
eases are quarantined they must
purchase and pay for food, etc, and
it. is certain that bills sent by them
may be carriers of contagion.
1t is almost impossible for the
larger banks to carry out thorough
d1s1nfection of money with the
present devices, and for the small
stores and working men it is more
difficult. A simple, cheap and
effective disinfection device is highly
desirable. Banks may lessen the
danger by returning to Washington
Tor redemption notes that are not
only badly soiled or damaged, but
that are slightly so. 1t would be well
If the English system of redemption
were also in use in our country.
Cur government should be more
liberal to banks in this respect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
SPEAK PLAINLY.

One of the strange traits of little
children is their utter misunderstand-
Ing of many simple things. and the
endurance of this misunderstanding
with them through years and years.
Thus, there is a lawyer of this city
who thought until the was 20 or 81
years old. that there was such a word
as "pard-narsens" in the language.
His father, a religious man, had said
grace always at the table, and the
boy had heard incuriously, three times
a day. "pard-narsens' in the grace.
without compromising in the least
that pardon our sins" were the
words his father actually had spoken.
This boy was always misapprehend-
Ing religious things. The phrase
For what we may receive" entered
his brain each Sunday as What
Mary Seeve," and he would wonder
idly who Mary Seeve might be. Even
the first line of his nightly praye?
meant nothing to him. "Nowalaymv'
he pronounced it. in one swift word
and he neither knew nor cared to
know what ''nowalaymy' meant.
Philadelphia Record
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
To Encourage Population.

In connection with the up-tO-date
question of the depopulatiOn of
France, says the Paris Messenger
several contemporaries have been re
viewing past efforts made to increase
the number oI inhabitants of the
country. They go back to the Roman
period, when Augustus enacted that no
bachelor or married man without chill
dren could claim a legacy, while. on
the other hand, rewards were given
to fathers with large families. In
France, Louis XIV, in 1866. gave ad-
vantages with regard to the payment
of taxes to persons marrying before
the age of 20 and to fathers of ten
children. In 1898 bachelors were
taxed, but this lasted but few years
In the year II of the revolution Ma
poleon proposed that all fathers of
seven children should have the right
to call upon the state to care for the
bringing up and education of one of
them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
The Goinq-to-Theatre Face.

Will some one please explain the
going theatre face of the average
New Yorker? The question is sugges-
ted by long experience in Hobbies
while the auditors are passing into
TIE houses for the evening perform
ances. The writer stood for nearly an
hour engaged in the seemingly nope
less task of discovering ''the cheerful
theatre-goer." But in they poured
men and women, each and every one
with firm set jaw, gloomy brow and
the look of despair. Perhaps it is be
cause the long distances travelled on
crowded cars and the thought of an
equally uncomfortable homegoing
makes night at the theatre seem just
a bit like work to the residents of
this narrow isle.-New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
THE SkI-RUNNER,

Ere yet the mornings golden bars
Have put to flight the paling stars,
Rap-rap along the frozen way
Goes the skirunner, brisk and gay.
He leaves the hard-bOund track below,
And seeks the rolling fields of snow,
There where the valley opens down
Upon the quain-set wooden town.
Up leaps the sun with glad surprise
And clothe with green a frozen land,
He tracks the elk and in his lair
Awakes to life the slumbering bear.
Up leaps thes un with glad surprise
And under his O rmastering eyes
The snowy bosom warns and glows
And melts into a flood of rose
Frost diamonds glitter in the rays.
And thro' falling golden haze
The runner passes to the bright,
Glad, herald burst of morning light.
What recks he that he bold intrudes
Upon the Frost Kings solitudes?
Scales the unbroken slopes, and rides
Triumphant down the mountain sides
Long burrows clean the good ski make,
AS down their wild, mad course they
take:
To right, to left, grim boulders lift
Their cold, gray noses through the
drift.
The forest maZes in and out.
This way and that they twist about;
They whistle shrill, the trees divide,
And down the long, white lanes they
glide.
Below the twinkling lights appear,
The lights of home the wanderer steer,
And far athwart the northern sky
Are flung the wizard searchlights
high.
The red wood fire. the wholesome
fare,
The hard, clean life, the kindling air
Are his, and blithe the Norseman
sings
The glories of his wooden wings
London Spectator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
JUDGE cLANCY's DIVERSION
uncertain and Wandering Survey of
the Montana Man Accounted For

There was bit of diversion in
Judge Clancy's department of the
district court today. Chancellor
ODonnell was arguing his objections
to a certain declaratory statement
made by one of the parties to a suit
which was being argued on demur-
rer. The chancellor thought that the
statement was vague, uncertain and
Indefinite and altogether faulty. and
should not be considered with any
degree of seriousness in a court OF
common law.
Now, listen to this" said the
chancellor as he proceeded to read
the statement. He runs his line 600
feet this way and 1000 feet that way,
and curves around the hill and 1uns
another hundred feet or two and
comes back to the point of begin
ming"
The court sat in his usual position
his legs crossed, his head resting on
his hand, his eyes fastened upon an
object on the side of the wall to his
left.
Il say, listen to that. Where did
he run his lines?"
The court seemed to be immovable.
Now, this, too is a strange declara.
ton, to my mind" continued the
chancellor. Now, where did he go
when he ran this line? I say, where
did he go? Where did he go?'' he
burst forth with vehemence.
Judge Clancy gently lifted mis-
silver-bearded face from his hand
and slowly piercing the scene with
his twinkling eyes, said in reply:
Went to get a drink, | reckon"
The chancellor up to this point was
chin deep in his argument, but when
this unexpected reply came he
waived further argument for the time
and Joined in the laughter which
ratified the old window blinds and
made the court bailiff look like a
happy man.
'I should infer your honor" said
the chancellor, when the ripple had
died away into the coroner'S office,
that this man was from Missouri"
Judge Clancy being a native OF
Missouri. caught the drift of the
chancellor's intent, and he, too, re-
lexed his facial muscles and laughed
with the common herd.-Butte court
report in the Montana Daily Record
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
fmsmtnMtns faets ane fanetss

hanging it should be thoroughly
soaked in water and Sprinkled occa
sionally TO keep it moist. In due
time the ferns begin to appear al
over the ball, coming through the net
work of twigs and the ball becomes
finally a big, fluffy globe of fern
sprays two or three inches in
diameter.
An American way of handling the
Japanese fern ball after it has been
first wet consists in not suspending
it.. where it has to be occasionally
moistened thereafter. but in placing
it upon the top of a suitable tall
cren vessel, as a vase of proper
dimensions, filled with water. from
which it draws uniformly the
moisture required for its develop.
ment
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
BEFORE AND AFTER.

The woman he married was not
In the least what his fancy depicted
But he was content with his lot.
And didn't seem badly afflicted
He thought of connubial life
In way that was purely ideal.
But later discovered his wife
Was most Enthusiastically real.
She lost all her fondness for walks
where the moonlight its soft shadow
scatters.
We're entirely on practical matters.
And all those imagined sweet talks
NO scorn had she now for base pelf
She ate three square meals without
trouble.
And wanted a chair TO herself.
Declining with him to sit double
In fancy he sat as she played
And sung soft and low in the twi-
light:
instead she now pulled down the shade
And turned up the gas to a hish
light
The poets together they planned
10 read while the marriage was
pending,
NOW seldom or never were scanned !:
He smoked and she sat at her mend
ing.
FOND visions. How swiftly they fade
Into gray from their tints bright and
rosy,
And poems OF life We see made
Into something undoubtedly prosv.
But none of this has made the man
sore
Indeed, he'd no cause for detection,
FOR she made all the dresses she wore
And cooked pork and beans to per
lection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
TELEPHONY IN FINLAND.

At Helsinfors the telephone system
throughout is on metallic circuits with
branching multiple switchboards and
self-restoring drops, the equipment of
the exchange having been provided by
Messrs. L. NJ. Ericsson & Company.
Both overhead and underground wires
are employed. The number of sub
scribers on November l was 4,O16.
The subscription varies from 1O2 to
80 marks per annum, or Ton sys-
TEN of ownership of instruments by
subscribers the entrance fee is $50
marks and the subscription is go
marks per annum. Females are en-
ployed exclusively as operators. The
telephone staff, male and female, num-
bers 100 employees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
RlkSDAG OFFICIALS.

Count Gustaf Spare succeeds him.
self as president of the first chamber
of the Swedish riksdag, a position he
has filled since 1896. He was born in
1884 and served in the Life Guards.
The vice president is Chr. Lunde-
berg. formerly a soldier, but now a
wellto-do manufacturer. Count Robert
de la Gardie, now nearly 80 years old,
is president of the second chamber,
of which he has been member during
twenty-siy sessions. Axel Svartting, a
banker at Norrkoping, is the vice
president. A number OF reorm meas
ures are expected from the present
riksdag, particularly in the line of ex-
tensions of the elective franchise
The women are also moving for politi-
cal recognition but are believed to be
a little premature in their demands
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
A VIKING AMAZON.

Professor Guldberg in opening a
burial mound in SOLDER. Norway,
made find which has created great
interest in the scientific world as it is
the first Of its kind ever recorded in
Norway. In the mound was found the
skeleton of a woman in complete ar
NOR, with her steed and it's trappings.
Everything dates back to the Viking
age and the lady was undoubtedly of
high rank and possibly herself a war
tior, who fought with the men as an
equal. The mound will be most care
fully excavated and examined as it is
believed that other valuable discover
les will be made
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
Plesantries.

Farmer Skinem-Doin' yer spring
plowin' yit?
Farmer Wiserube-Yep. Hired the
oat field to Teller to practice golf
New York Sun.
NichClas-"Men appear so different
on their automobiles.
Nathaniel-Yes; the first time |
went out with mine my wife said I
looked as if l had already been upset
and run over.-Detroit Free Press.
Stanley-Hertling is inclined to be
cratic in his opinions. He was say
ing today that there are men out of
prison who are more deserving of pun
ishment than some of the men now
under lock.
Towler-The egotist.-Boston Trans
script
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
THE HOMEWARD WAY.

This is the way, the quaint old way,
Toward hope and friends and home
again:
On through the fields of yesterday,
Back to the sweets that charmed
US then,
On. through the paths of green and
gray,
This is the way, the kind old way.
This is the way; cloud we forget
The wayside flower, the wild June
rose,
The feast of bloom a fragrance set
To lure whoever comes and goes?
Stunning the road of old regret,
This is the way: could We forget
This is the way; fare home with me,
Along old aisles Of joy and song.
Our hounds have run too far and
free.
The wander-hOur endures too long.
Rest, meath the generous roof-tree;
This is the way; fare home with me-
Frank Walcott HUT in the DOS
ton Transcript.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
MINES NOT SOLD.

The reported sale of 800 shares of
the Gellivara Ore company's stock to
S. w. Harrison, representing the
United States Steel corporation, has
not been completed, owing to hind
RANGES which arose at the last mo-
ment There is very little doubt that
the deal will be made eventually and
that the corporation will take charge
of the mines in time
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
LIFE'S LOOM.
Weaving, weaving, weaving,
limo iS the warn

Weaving, weaving, weaving,
Time is the warp,
Raising and throbbing life's loon
goes;
Spinning, spinning, spinning.
Mans deeds the wool,
Quickly and busily the shuttle he
throws.
The little child takes up the task,
AS soon as consciousness bcgfna,
His tiny hands uncertain act,
As merrily he needless spins.
The youth, with pride and confidence,
Loud vaunts the deeds he will
achieve:
The future big with great events,
In blazing light his name will weave.
Hard pressed, beset, the man tolls on,
Sueed by the days, the months, the
years,
Aghast and desperate he stands.
So small his greatest work appears.
Win palsied hand, old age has come;
Slow goes the loom-Fate cut the
thread;
Wide yawns the grave; the web is
spun,
4 shroud is woven for the dead
'Tis thus through life: man spins and
weaveS
Until of time and deeds complete
This mystic robe, his very self,
Becomes for him his winding sheet.
Weaving, weaving, weaving,
Time is the warp,
Pnlsing and throbbing, life's loom
goes
Spinning, spinning, spinning,
Mans deeds the wool,
Ever and ever the shuttle he throws
-Harper's Weekly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
STRONG SWEDES.

Hjalmar Lundin and Gustaf Sand
berg, the Swedish wrestlers, had an
interesting contest at Fitchburg,
Mass, recently, which the former won
Sandberg secured the first fall in
Graeco-Roman style in seven minutes,
and was counting on an easy victory
when Lundin demanded that the next
two bouts be catch-as-catch-can Sand
berg demurred at first, but was OBJ
liged to accede. and after some pretty
wrestling, was thrown twice
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
Wasn't Sure Ii Would Stick

Il intend" said the proud youth
TO make my name imperishable"
Don't see how yer goin' to manage
it said his unimpressed cousin,
"less'n yer paint it on Baldface
mountain with Perkins Indelible
Dab. that they use fer markin' sheen
And l amt sure that would stick
Washington Times