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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-07-28
CHAPTER XVII.

When Mary came in about one O'clock
to clear the table and lay the cloth for
dinner she found her uncle in a very
surprising condition. He was in tears
Daniels papers lay untouched upon the
table. and he had turned his head unto
his pillows. as Ahab turned his unto the
wall.
why, uncle" cried Mary, whatever
is the matter?
Il wish | was dead, Mary. | wish I
was dead and buried, and that it was all
over! / would rather be i'll. l could
bear any pain, | think, better than this"
'Then what is it? You are trembling
Will YOU take a cup of tea?"
mo, | can't afford it. l can't afford
any luxury now. Mary. You will have
to watch over every penny for the flu
ture."
What has happened, then?"
i am miserable man. | have been
miserable for six years, thinking over
my papers; but l always hoped to find
them. Now they are found-that is all
They are founl, and l never really lost
them till they were found"
Where were they, after all?"
Il cannot tell you. Mary. l only heard
to-day-by post-by a letter-not by
word of mouth-that they are found.
And they are in the hands of a-of a
villain; a villain, Mary, who will rob
me of l know not what, before l get
them back. Don't ask me any more.
don't tell any one what have said. /
must have told some one or | should
have died. Don't speak to me about it;
I must think-I must think. Oh, never
in all my life before did l have to think
SO hard
He could eat no dinner; this morning s
business had taken away all desire for
food. He made pathetic illusions to the
workhouse.
Come, uncle" said Mary, you will
make yourself i'll if you fret. You have
said for six years that you had lost this
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-07-28
THE UNITED STATES FIAT is LAW.
BY EHhu Roof, Secretary of State.

The questions which are liable to
arise under the assertion Of the Mon
roe doctrine will not come by frontal
attack, by any broad and unqualified
denial Of our right to maintain that
doctrine as a rnle of national safe
ty. In the long process of years I
think we can safely say that there has
weight Of assent upon the part Of for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-07-28
CHANCES FOR SUCCESS.
BY Genrre 2 fYrnnc

Losing ones job is often blessing in disguise.
My advice to the young man who loses his job is
to stay out Of job permanently. If your
ployer discharges you-don't try to hire yourself
to anybody else unless it be to a rich trust or
great company of one of another kind. Get into
the service Of big company, go into business
for yourself-even though it be selling buttons or
shoe strings. 1 knew young man in Chicago
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-07-28

one time owned by General Ethan AL
len, Of Revolutionary fame, a tower in
memory Of the hero Of Tieonderoga.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock. Secretary of
the Interior and q direct descendant
Of Ethan Allen, was present as the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-07-28

ground stream or lake, but the people
can not understand how so many fish
could have lived there and why they
now come to the surface.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-07-28
Omro Pioneer No More.

Omro, Wis, July 21.-[Special.l IT.
J. Campbell, aged 81 years, an old resi-
dent of Omro. died this afternoon of
general debility.
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HONOR ETHAN ALLEN.

Monument Erected TO the Memory of
the Hero of Ticonderoga.
This year on the holiday known in
Vermont as Bennington Battle Day,
there was dedicated on the farm at
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-07-28
SOCIETY WOMEN ss6REATEST MODERN PEST"

Right Rev. n. O'Connor
- If asked to give advice the most impor
M tant step in your preparation for the ardent and
~ exacting duties Of life, 1 would say first that
vi ievery woman, matter what her wealth posi-
NJ ton in society, should at least for time become
n lself-supporting in field Of modern useful
IL ness; should make her living Independently
! ~ at least for time.
80 Above all things, would you against be-
coming that greatest Of modern pests the idle society
who devotes her time to the performance
she calls social duties following after social pleasures
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-04

ricano sc sacrincaba al raaonamiento;
quiso fortalecer este por la experien.
riencia, y para clio hizo correr 81 mis-.
mo caballo, primero con el ginsts 90.
bre los hombros, despues sobre 10
grupa, y midi6 los pasos. De este mo-
do comprob6 que los primeros eran de
dos 8 tres centfmetros mas largos que
los ssgundos. III sistema tenfa puss
en- su favor para 81 10 raz6n y la eKpe-
riencia. Fue adoptsdo, y asegur6 81
triunfo de los jockeys americanos.
Lo mismo sucede con los dsmAs
sports, con Ia bicicleta, el tiro, el ten
mis-, Ell golfo, el polo, el cricket, el
football, el patin, el reno, 10 marcha
yla carga.
No contento con veneer & los otros
paises en- sus propios ejercicios, los
americanos tienen adn sports que les
pertenecen exclusivamente. Y asf ss
como, mientras los canadensss de orr.
gen frances practican un juego lla-
mado la brosse, que no 60 juega sino
entire ellos, los yankis han inventado
uno con ell nombre de Base. Ball que
les asegura durante largo tempo atn
una especialidad original.
Fl hombre evoluciona, pero la ra-
z6n persiste. Los sports SO trsnsforman
los metodos contindan .siendo los mis-.
mos en- tiempos de Roosevelt como
en- Ia epoca de Alejandro, los que tie.
nen mas probabilidades de veneer son
los que toman q Arist6teles Dor macs.
tros.
Roosevelt! Como dejar de discer.
mir al termino de este e1iicu.o cons =.
grado al sport, una n,snci6n { etta
gran fgura que Sc destsca hoy ertre
sus conciudadanos, al honbre qua se
puede presentar como el tipC coppleto
del americana, y que, puede decirse,
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-04

ha escrito el programa de Ia existencia
de este pueblo, al reunir sus discursos
sus escritos, & 10 que es 10 mismo
sus propios pensamientos con el su.
jestivo tftulo de La Vida Internal Es
este sin duda un libro de una sans
singular energ1a, que Sc conocs ys
On casi todo ell mundo gracias al pre-.
dominic de la lengua inglesa ca Ia 40.
tualidad y q las traducciones que Sc
han hecho en- algunos pafses.
NADIA me parece mas interesants
que traducir algunas lfueas escritas
por el americana que es q Ia vez un
hombre de estado, un fil6sofo y I'm cru.
ditto. Las palabras que siguen fue.
ron escritas hace ounce amos 90 In.
sertaron en- un peri6dico dedicado 4
la niflez que Sc llama The Saint Nieo-
las. En- ese artfculo estudiaba Mr..
Roosevelt al niho americana y EXPIRE
saba su sentimiento respecto al pues.
to que debe ocupar el sport en- ls vida
de I'm hombre.
Habla Mr.. Roosevelt:
SHacs cuarenta 6 cincuenta afios,
cuslquiera que escribfa sobre Ia mo-
ralidad americana no podia deiar de
deplorar las costumbres afeminadas
y lujuriosas de los i6venes america
nos nacidos de padres ricos. En- esa
epoca, ell ioven acomodado, en- Las
grandes ciudades del Este especial.
mente VIVA rodeado del mayor luio,
Sc entregs al iuego del billar como Ia
mas inocente de sus diversiones, v no
sentfa sino ligera verguenza por su In.
capacidad para los pasatiempos cue
exiifan mas esfuerzo y para los sports
al airs libre. En- nuestros dfas, Ia
opinion de todos sus cam aradas do
edad, le obliga q portarse bIen en- los
ejercicios viriles y desarrollar gu
cuerpo en- los rudos sports que exiien
amino, resistencfa y destreza tisica.S
rs la raz6n la que habla en- 81 pG.
rrafo que antecede, siendo evidente
que ell papel del sport es consider able
en- Ia vida, psro que no podrfa ser el
principal, exception hecha de los pro.
fesionales.
EULOGIo HoRTA.
New-Y York, 1904.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-04
Para ia Democracia'

de la existe1cia burocratica, aplica-
ron 4 las rsglas de sus juegos el espf-
ritu de libertad que habian heredado
no consagrando sino las convenciones
indispensables q hombres libres que
nc luchan para matarse.
En- nuestros dias, NADIA causa tan
ia impression como la profunda indi-
ferencia entire las costumbres y las
ideas del atleta americana y las del
atleta ipgles. Ell ejemplo del boxea-
dor es tfpico. Lo cito porque ell boxeo
es la imagen fiel del combate reducido
q los solos recursos de la naturaleza,
y al mismo tiempo un sport naoional
para los Ingleses y los americanos.
81 al ralir de una arena de boxeo
en- Madison Square en- Coney Island,
enoontramos un grupo de caballeros
que SO encaminan hacia una de las re.
sidencias de 10 Quints Avenida, 6 ha.
cia una sbarraca> de professional no.
deada de su alegre jardtn, no nos
asombremos al descubrir entire ellos a
campion que, q nuestra vista, acabs
de ganar diez mil pesos an una hor,
de combate. Entra q acostarse vir
tuosamente, como un burgues, acom
pahado de sus padrinos, de su ms
tructos. de su empresario y amenude
de su esposa.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-04

Sc dirige q su dormitorio como SO
dirije todas las noches, y tomara Ell
msmo alimento que la vfspers, sin
champagne, sin cocktail. No SO cree
I'd obligado de llevar On hombros su
nueva gloria por los emusic halls, y,
81 Sc duerme esa noche un POGO mas
tarde que de costumbre, al 'ifa siguien-
te comenzara de nuevo la practica que
lie ha dado la victoria, despues de- ha-
ber colocado tai vez su ganancia en-
IN banco. Sabe perfectauente que no
Sc llega ser un verdadero atleta sino
por un perfecto equilibrio de Ia vida,
por un metodo riguroso cuya primer a
regla es la moderation en- todas las
cosas. Ejercicio, pero no demssiado; +;
alimento, pero sin exceso; bafios, pero
en- una medida determinada; traspira-
ci6n artificial, pero q sabiendas. To
do esta rsglamentado para 81, todo Sc
halla previsto, no solamente las con.
diciones fsiol6gicas, sino tambien las
condolences psicol6gicss, porque el
atleta tiene un alma, 81 alma estS
unida su cuerpo, y ninguno de am
bos elementos debe sufrir.
Sc le reglamentan las distraccio-
nes como Sc le reglamenta la nutri-
ci6n; Sc le mide la algeria como Sc le
mide el oxfgeno; Sc le permiten la mi
sica, las ;cartas, los mon6logos, el
placer de la iardineria 8 de las aves,
porque es necesario que haya un POGO
de sonrisa en- la vida del boxeador
americana.
Sus ideas son verd rdaderamentecien
tficas y elias aseguran q los ameri-
canos la primacia en- ell sport sobre
todas las vieias razas que los acusan
de excentricidad. Vale la pena, en-
verdad, citar la extraordinaria falsn-
ge de hombres que Sc llaman Corbett,
Sharkey, Rechlin, Kid Mac Roy, Te-
rry, Mac Gowan, y de recordar las
sucesivas victorias del yacht <Colum-
bia1 sobre los diversos eShamrocks> .
que sir Thomas Upton hizo construir
unos despues de otros, con una gene
rosidad y fun empeno genuinamente
britanicos. Y los triunfos inesperados
de la nuevs eecuela de jockeys ame-
ricanos, que tambien han llamado en-
su ayuda q la ciencia, es decir la OBJ.
servaci6n.
Han notado que cuando un hon.
bre quiere cargar un fardo, 10 coIoca
sobre las espaldas y no sobre la Gin
turs, donde el peso paralisarfa ell iue-
go de los mdsculos lumbares, han
comprobado que era absurdo montar
q un jockey sebrs Ell mismo aparato de
locomocion de que SO sirve el csballo
para correr. Esto Sc parece un POGO
al error de I'm cochero que desc vuel-
ia al manivelo del freno 6 encaiase
las ruedas en- suecos & fin de ir mas &
prisa. Y los practicos americanos han
llegado & Ia conclusion, dpTori, que
era meior colocar ell ginete en- los re-
sistentes honbros del caballo, q sea
en- Ell mismo punto en- que el Csrgsdor
coloea sus sacos 8 81 cer6n.
Hasta sutdncss o. SpoTtman ams-
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-04
Exposition Regional
en- Puerto Rico
New-York, 1904.

Corren rumores de que muy prom.
to SO celebrarG una gran exposition
regional en- Puerto Rico. Es hora VA
de que despu6s de tanto tempo yuel.
va hal hacerce algo PRACTICE. Hay
personas que adelantando los aeon
tecimientos, aseguran que Ell primer
premio 10 llevarSn las camss de sEl
Cielo' que son las msiores y mas ba.
rRtss.
Gran surtido de te!as de moda;
prspsrarse { conCurriv,
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-01-04

Pepe Gid que acaba de recibir 200
mente vestidas y con sombreros, az can't
Somoreros para Senoras, Senoritas
50 90 doce)a en- adelante.
Col sal slrtido en- efectos de Carna
tormara gratis cuanto Vd. desee. San
, 1905-10-19

The country has realized for some
time that it has in its Secretary Of
Agriculture a real farmer; its new
Assistant Secretary is likewise a
farmer, and unless all records and ap-
pearances are false, a good one. He
has the valuable faculty of knowing
how to do things, and at the sarne time
to be able to tell others how. This
Assistant Secretary is Willett M. Hays.
Professor Hays was Secretary Wilson's
choice for Assistant Secretary, after
Colonel Brigham's death, and it ap-
pears as though Professor Hays ap-
pointment was anything but a political
one. There is a fine entente cordial
between these two broad-gauge men
and the work of the Department has
taken a distinct forward sweep since
Mr.. Hays appointment. He put his
shoulder to the wheel at once and
seemed able to dispense with the usual
two or three months of breaking in,"
, 1905-10-19
Six Per Cent. Dividends.
UNEXPLODED PROJECTHES.


The dispatch coming from the Far
East of the killing of nearly a dozen
people by the explosion of a mine near
Chefoo, brings to light incidents going
to show that the land in the vicinity
Of Port Arthur is a fertile field Of un-
exploded land mines and shells.
When the Russians were Smelling
the Japanese positions near the vii
lase of Suishiying many shells fell in
the localities desired by the gun
l'ointers, but the ordnance was OF
such a defective quality that they
failed to explode. A good lot of these
projectiles have lain where they fell.
objects of the careful investigation
and inspection of the wondering and
speculative villagers. On one occa-
sion a dispute arose as to the danger
in these innocent-looking pieces of
iron, and a bold native, to prove his
contention that they were harmless.
as well as his bravery, struck one of
the missiles with a big stone. This
was going a little too far, and unfor-
tunately he hit it on the nose, the ten.
der spot Of projectiles. 1t exploded
with a terrible noise, killing ten of the
interested spectators.
Another Chinese discovered q shell
which had found a resting place in
the fresh water lake just behind the
Russian naval dockyard of Port Ar
thur. AT that time the lake was one
mass of ice and the head of the shell
was just sticking up through the
frozen mass. John Chinaman was at
tracted by the shining brass screw at
the top and went u on the ice to try
to get it off. Good metal was worth
having in the land of the Oriental,
and this is what attracted him. He
used an old nail to remove the tempt
ing object. His inquisitiveness was a
dear lesson for his family, although
the pieces were never found.
, 1905-10-19
HYBRIDIzING WHEAT IN THE FIELD.

forward way of taking people at their
word and believing just what they say.
l asked him for a photograph to &C.
company this letter, remarking that l
would like to have one of him as he
looked as l last saw him down on the
farm" Che would be arrested il he went
around Washington looking as he was
them, and he gravely responded that
he had no photograph such as l wanted,
but that he would send me one taken
at a later date.
Breeding up Plants.
The work which has made Professor
Hays most famous is his plant-breeding
, 1905-10-19
Milk In o Tea,

'The use Of plenty of milk with tea,'
says The Lancet (London), sis a wise
precaution and must be regarded as a
sound physiological proceeding, since
the proteids of milk destroy astrin-
gency and probably prevent the other
wise injurious action of tannin on the
mucous membrane of the stomach. In
the intestinal juice the proteids are
separated and the tannin probably COM
bines with the sodium salts. The i'm
moderate drinking Of tea Is an I'M
questionable evil, but, on the whole,
we are inclined to think hat the evils
of tea-drinking have been exaggerated.
The real difficulty is to convince people
that a lightly drawn infusion gives
them their moneys worth"
, 1905-10-19
FAR1ER and PLANT BREEDER.
Work of Assistant Secretary Wi|Iet M. Hays.
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

gratifying results. The average wheat
yield of the Northwestern States
Minnesota and the Dakotas-ranges, as
I remember, from thirteen to fifteen
bushels to the acre., which is about the
average for the entire United States.
Increase this say one-fourth by simply
using this new seed, as in the case of
thousands of acres in the State of Min
nesota, and figure out the gain to the
country. And this is only from re-
suits already obtained in seed improve
ment.
To Double the Wheat Yield.
The wheat breeding work is going
on steadily, and Professor Hays says
that he has probably not yet reached
the halfway point in increased yield.
In the work of simple wheat breeding
by selection each grain is planted and
cultivated separately, a thousand of
them in rows, each one like a tree, and
then the best ten heads are selected
from those thousand plants, and the
plumpest grains again selected from
those ten heads. Then you are ready
for the planting of next year.. And SO
on for ten years. In hybridization
there are many more pains taken.
Here the best specimens of two differ
OHL tdiieIicS are CTOSSeu upOu each
other by hand %poilination and the COM
pick system of selection simultaneously
carried on year by year. But the labor
is more than justified by the results.
Other experiments have been success
fully carried along under Professor
Hays with the idea of changing the
constituents of the crops-putting more
protein or muscle-producing elements
in the grain and forage crops just as
the beet grower works to put more
sugar into his beets.
Practical Farm Teaching.
All this work is technical; it might
be the doings of the recluse. The
other side of Professor Hays makeup
stands forth when he gets out on a
swing round the circle and breaches
what he knows; when he distributes
literature and delivers lectures to the
farmers in halls or from the rear plat
forms of trains-a practical educator.
More agriculture in our national sys-
TEN of education is his slogan, practi-
cal farm education that will enable 4
man to farm better and make more
money at it. He urges the consolida-
ton of the small rural schools-bring-
ing foul or five of them into n good
sized school where more competent
teachers can be hired and a much
broader education afforded. The in
teresting thing about his boys at the
University Of Minnesota was that they
were there to study plants and ami
mails and then go back to the farm.
They were at a college, to be sure, but
, 1905-10-19

in this way in the cities, and the result
has beer thai much school garden work
has been organized and thousands of
pupils have learned something of grow.
ing plants.
A small tract Of land back of the De.
partment of Agriculture Building has
been set aside for model school garden
work.
The bulletin in question has illustra.
lions OF a number Of successful school
gardens in various cities, and has plans
outlined for carrying on such work.
The following interesting paragraph is
quoted from the bulletin on the work at
Hampton Institute, Virginia:
when it was announced two years
ago to the children Of the Whittier
school that they were to be taught gar.
dening on a two-acre tract the news
was received with mixed FEELINGS
While the little ones were pleased. he
older girls thought it a disgrace to
work in the fields. After two wears
there are no pupils in the school who
do not look forward with eagernesa fo
this work. If it is necessary to be alb.
from school, they think It must
not be on gardening day"
, 1905-10-19
FROM POLE TO EQUATOR.
Arctic Explorer Now Penetrating
the Heart of Africa.

Whether in the frigid grip of the
north polar country or the burning
sands of tropical Africa, the Duke of
Abruzzi seems equally at home. This
Italian scientist, who made such a high
reputation by his recent arctic explora-
lions, has started for unknown regions
of Central Africa with a fully equipped
expedition, proposing to explore the
Ruwenzori Mountains and climb their
highest peaks. This range crosses the
Equator in the vicinity of the Lakes
Nyanza, whence flow the waters of the
Nile. 1t is some eighty miles long, a
vast pile of blac-. rock hurled upward
in some ancient convulsion of Nature.
The English explorer, Stanley, found
E.uwenzori twenty years ago. 1t was
pointed out to him as a big salt noun
tain. As the assembled, it assumed
shape before his view-a great noun
tain clothed in snow-and it took him
weeks Of travel to find out that it be-
longed to a range. Stanley believed
that the Ruwenzori range and the
Mountains of the Moon, which can be
cording to the old Biographies, the
waters of the Nile rise in the Noun
tains of the Moon.
The Duke of Abruzzi has a difficult
task before him to conquer the Noun
tains of the Moon, even though their
submits fall somewhat short of that
orb. A large quantity of supplies must
be carried on the backs of natives, and
though the start will be made in the
most torrid of tropical climes, the party
will soon ascend into temperate regions
and then trudge for months in a truly
polar climate.
, 1905-10-19

The Department Of Agriculture is
lust issuing IN attractive illustrated
bulletin on school gardens. In his in
.troductory, DIR. Galloway, Chief OF the
Bureau Of Plant Industry, says, that
as agriculture in its broadcast sense is
the primary basis of wealth in the
United States, it seems essential that
efforts should be made in our general
educational system to bring early to the
mind of the child facts which will he
OF value as emphasizing the importance
and necessity of agricultural work.
There is no better way to do this, he
says, than through a well-managed and
well conducted system of school garden
training which early awakens interest
In an industry which means much to
the future prosperity of the country.
When the work of handling Congress
sional free seed distribution was turned
over to the Bureau of Plant Industry
several years ago efforts we're made to
arouse interest on the part of members
OF Congress with large city constitucn-
cies, who might be able % encourage
the school garden movement through
the distribution of specially prepared
seed packages. Since then millions of.
packages Of seeds have been distributed
, 1905-10-19

WILLET NJ. HAYS. ASSISTANT SECRE-
TARY OF AGRICULTURE.
which an Assistant Secretary for a big
department usually undergoes. He fits
his environment well wherever he hap
pens to be. Instructing his classes in
the field at the University of Mime
sofa, located just between the Twin
Cities, you would have suspected that
Professor Hays seldom visited st. Paul
or Minneapolis; on the other hand,
when you see him walking along the
streets in Washington you would
scarcely expect him to be able to drop
a straight furrow. But in coming city.
ward INT wearing a crease in his
trousers he has not lost his straight.
, 1905-10-19

A seventy-page bulletin which Pro-
lessor Hays wrote for the Department
OF Agriculture some four years ago on
the subject of plant breeding brought
his work into great prominence. In 1t
he outlined numerous possibilities Of
increased production of all crops
through plant breeding. Every man
knows that the American trotting
horse has been wonderfully improved
, 1905-10-19

by breeding. And Professor Hays
drew a parallel, step by step, between
the improvement Of the Wealthy apple,
tracing its history and improvement
from the tree developed by Peter M.
Gidden Of Minnesota, and Messenger,
an imported English racing horse,
which became the leading progenitor
Of the American racing or trotting