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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-02-21
whose homes are in Milwaukee, and

whose homes are in Milwaukee, and
it's dissemination into the various
channels of trade in the city, in the
support Of these men and their
families, was certainly not without
an influence In increasing the
monthly receipts of great many
concerns doing a retail business. 1t
is interesting to note the list OF
products turned out of these shops
during the last year. There are
probably plenty Of people in Milwau-
kee who think. these great shops ale
devoted chiefly to repairing the
rolling stock of the road. Doubtless
many would think that when this
force of over 5000 men employed had
given thorough repairs to the $3.50
freight cars brought to them in
crippled and dilapidated conditions,
and sent out again practically as
good as new, there would be little
time left to devote to new work, yet
the following list shows there besides
repairing crippled freight cars. Here
is the list Of products for the year
1904:
Nine six-wheel switch engines.
Ten consolidation freight engines.
Eight ten-wheel freight engines.
Eight baggage cars.
Nine mail cars.
Ten box cars, $4,000 pounds
capacity.
One thousand box cars, $4,000
pounds capacity.
Three hundred stock cars, 10000
pounds capacity.
-Four hundred and thirty gondola
cars, 10000 pounds capacity.
Ten fiat cars, $4,000 pounds
capacity.
Fifty-six thousand five hundred
and fifty-nine freight cars repaired
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-02-21

Read the Reporter. That's all.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-08
READING CIRCLE
Is DISCUSSED

2
State Super1I1t lent l0Inds g.
Ter issried tile folloygin ing open
letter concerning the young peoples
reading circle
great evil of the present day
Is the influence Of pefnicious lit
eratuTe upon our youth. Cures are
often difficult, and prevention is bet
ter than cure. Formation is better
than reformation If we can pre-
vent the reading Of Objectionable
literature we have successfully soly-
ed the question Good books full of
charm adm just as inviting may be
found, and taste for higher and
better literature through them may
be easily cultivated. This taste for
literature is formed earlier than
most persons think. A wise mother
guards not only the associations of
her children, but their reading as
well. Teachers, therefore, who for
a part of the time take or stand IN
place of home influences, should be
none the less judicious in aiming to
throw about the youth thus commit
ted to their care the most helpful
and ennobling influences The
library has become very important
factor in our educational progress.
City, town, village and school librar
les are multiplying everywhere, and
CIautauqua, Teachers and Pupils
Reading Circles have become very
valuable aid to our intellectual ad-
vancement. Not the least import
ant of all these is the Pupils Read
ing Circle. OF this work in Indiana
a prominent educator says: while
the Teachers Reading Circle is dos
ing work of such great value to the
schools of the state, it is believed.
however, that the Young Peoples
Reading Circle is doing even more
This statement was made, doubtless
because this course is influencing a
much larger number, and those es-
peciallv who are in the formative
period Of life
Trusting that all our teachers
may become interested in directing
this Course of Reading, and still
further hoping that these and other
good books may bring truth for the
intellect and beauty for the souP to
many an unfolding mind, it is very
hopefully presented "
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-08
THE FOUR AGES.
So Life Goes. Always Has Gone and
Always VIII Go.

Always VIII Co.
Here are mans four views OF time:
you still have forty years to live"
said the guardian spirit to the youth.
at is a long. long time the youth
replied, and will do great deal
before it is past"
You have thirty years yet to live"
the guardian spirit said to the still
young man.
"WelI, that is quite awhile" was the
reply. Probably 1 cannot do all had
intended, but I will make. quite show
ing"
You have twenty years to live" the
spirit said to the middle aged man.
"Only twenty! We'll, suppose
will have to do the best 1 can in that
length of time
For the last time the guardian spirit
appeared You yet have ten years
left he said to the rapidly aging man.
The man sighed. But ten years, y
he whispered in reply. And what can
one do in those few daysi"
And when the end had come the man
looked backward and moaned, II am
leaving 1t nearly all undone''
And so life goes. although youth Will
not believe it, and only old age fully
realizes that it is so.-Philadclphia lii
quirer.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-08
RETURNS RECEIVED
III OPERA HOUSE

Il
The Grand Opera House vas com.
fortably filed Tuesday evening the
occasion being the receipt 81 the Il.
turns from the various states and
cities in which elections were being
held.
From Z 80 o'clock until Inidnigth
the crowd kept coming and going.
The greatest interest seemed center
ed in Ohio, but no returns couId be
obtained. The Western Union SER
vice reported that even Pittsburg
had not received any news of the
election in that state.
Quite a number Of ladies graced
the scene, and they seemed quite n
thusiastic, and applauded with equal
vigor both Democrats and Repub-
licans. During the intervals be-
tween the reading Of the messages
Crows orchestra rendered beautiful
music.
Prof. Deimer, the physical instru-
tor of the z. NJ. G. A., entertained
the large crowd by swinging alcohol
torches, the house being darkened
for the occasion. Quite number
of fancy evolutions we're given, and
this proved quite feature of the
evening.
All the old regulars of both poll
teal parties were present and at the
first announcement Of the word
Democrat from the stage, Hack
Crummit Immediately began to or
ganize his drum corps.
The returns were read by Mr.. s.
r. Bentley, IN an eminently salts
factory manner. When the news
was coming slowly Mr.. Bentley in
jected some merriment into the oc-
casion by reading some original dis
patches of his own invention.
The crowd remained until II
o'clock, when it was seen that moth
ing further could be learned. The
service was furnished by the Tele-
gram, and NIessrs. Robinson and
Prof. Grow very generously donated
the use of the opera house, and the
services of the orchestra
On any occasion of public interest
the Telegram will always be found
ready and willing to supply full and
correct information.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-08
LETTERS

List of unclaimed letters adver-
tised in the Clarskburg, w. Va.
post Office, Nov. 6, 1905.
Katona Anna, B. N. Butcher, Iuf
Bethen, B. E. Bailey, Miss Beth
Brown, George Boals, Geo. Lee
Bush, TT. G. Brown, Mrs. Jennie
Boyd, ]. d. Bolen, Miss L. Burton,
Miss l.. Burton, Porter A. Blake,
RADIO Baker, Andy Chanc, Larry
Chircostra, NJ. L. Campbell, Mrs.
Mary Cornell, Miss Clara CLAYTON,
p. G. Collins, Antonin Driska, Barly
Davis, Gladis Davis, John Dent, X.
f. Dorsey, Mrs. Mamie FIashilia,
Strand Freeman, Mrs. Agnes Car
felt, Chloe Griffin, Miss Bessie
Hughes, Eugne Gray, Miss Bessie
Hughs, Miss Bessie Hughs, Frank
Hammell, Mrs. G. Hornet, Thomas
Horton, Claude johnson, Mrs. Flora
Hurst johnson, Frank King, Miss
Olive Leonard, Frank Mckay, w,
G.. Moline, T.. p Morris, Frank Nc
Kay, r. T. Morgan, Harry Nickel
w, Miss Jennie Mealy, J. G. Nc
Gregor, T.. B. Morrison, Miss Lizzie
Mitchell, Miss Marie Madison, Mrs.
r. Murth, Sweet Morrison, w. J..
Martin, Alfred Lemavre, j. A.
Reeder, Miss Martha Belle Rove,
Miss Belle Rowe, w. B. Rector, W.
B. Rector, ". J. Rankins, Miss Brit
tie Shafer, Miss Blanche Smitch,
Miss Brittle shaffer, Miss Flo Small
wood. Miss Eva Sandy, Frank r
| Stout, Miss Laverd Snyder, w. C.
| smith, DIR. J. NJ. Turner, George
rrimnins. Will p. Thompson, Basi
Wright, b. V. Wilson, Esq, Cor
neIi9s wilkins. Mrs. G. s. West
Mrs. Camealia Wright, F. J. Weigcf
GUY Wright, Joe Watson, Karl wit
therg, NJ. D. Wilson.
S. g. DENHAM, P. NJ.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-08
ElppLERs ANo pRuMMERs.
The Two Classes OF Insects That Pro-
duce Audible Sounds.

The Two Glasses OF Insects Eh@t I,Eo-
duce Audible Sounds.
Insects that produce sounds audible
to human ears have been roughly divid-
ed into two classes-fddlers and drum
ners, ~'he grasshoppgr is fiddler ana
makes music by scrapIng its fore wings
against the rows OF splnelIke teeth that
ornament its Thighs. The lSatydid also
PLAYS an chronological fiddle. 1t pro-
Giuces its notes by rubbing the inner
side of the hind legs over the front
wings.
The locust, on the other hand. Is u
drummer, and loud one too. His
drum is formed by membrane stu.
ated at the base OF the fore wing. and
he can make forest ring with it. The
cicnda, or seventeen year locust. car.
ries n drum Mt the base of the abdomen
and makes with it noise that seems
to be quite as terrifying in the insect
world as that produced by the gorilla
rounding Its resounding chest is among
wild beasts 1t Is said that the cicaGn
sometimes friGhtens away its enemies
with the rattle of its drum.
There are other drumming insects
which make good music, but the Violln.
lists. after all. carry or the palm, fot
the great insect soloIst. the cricket. is a
fiddler.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-08
Mnncr ms n snnItnrInn.

Moses himself was a sanitarian OF
no mean accomplishments. and many
of tile principles established by him IN
sanitary science might we'll be sxpioW-
ed in modern times The type of camp
which he established for he detention
Of unfortunate iarcrS. 'Tcl ino|Hhca 20
suit mode IL principles, W u-a scr e To-
The check and pt2c',c"! Si4ntis',' on
consumption. s"!en5.iic y ner!S..''.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-08

Best quality Velvet carpet made aid &
and liaed ............-...
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-08

Best quality Administer carpet made
lard and lined. ......-z..-
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-08

=e.GGe.e <.Ee GeGGsS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-15
limos |. Hill and the Canal.

James J. Hill. Of Minnesota, who
poses as the wise man in railroad cir
oles. has politely but firmly informed
this government that the Panama ca
nal is mistake, even a delusion. He
says the railways will simply reduce
their rates below the water rates, and
the government will thus lose its en-
tire investment.
James J. Hill is at the head of the
Great Northern railway. a transconti-
mental line, and the wish is father to
the thought. He presents what he
wishes as something that his massive
brain foresees. He assisted in delay
ing the Panama canal to the latest
possible moment, and now he is trying
to embarrass the work Of construc-
ton. He did not succeed in prevent
ing the building of canal, and he
cannot destroy its usefulness.
His plea that the railroads can
starve out the two oceans when united
is too fallacious even for eonsidera-
ton, and if he thinks the railroads
will be permitted to do as they please
in reference to the canal he is also
mistaken. But even If he could wreck
the canal would he not be enriching
the country through low transporta-
ton rates? The dividends from the
canal would in that event go directly
to the people instead of the govern
ment. But the canal cannot be robbed
of all traffic. The Sue canal has not
been robbed, nor the 500 canal, nor
the German canals. Mr.. Hills bluff
is too transparent and speciOus to
deceive any one. He is up against an
isthmian canal, and he may as well
behave himself when dealing with
he cannot prevent, wreck
or bend his way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-15
MARCH OF THE FARMER.

FROM the Philadelphia Public Ledger
Some of the farm journals are inyesti-
eating the kind of reading done by the
farmers of the land, and it appears that
farmers are good deal like other peo-
pie. Naturally, they take in farm mag
azine of some sort, just as banker sub
scribe to financial periodical but for
their general reading they read books and
magazines just like that person known
as the general reader" The farmer is
like other people because the rural free
delivery Is. fiattenng out his irregularities,
sinSularites, id osyncrasies Six yeal
ago there were 200 experimental run a
Tree delivery routes and now the 309sN
routes serve 15,O0O0oo people with daily
mail, and. in many Instances, with more
than one mail a day We Americans see
many developments in a hurry, but this
growth of the rural delivery, when con-
sidered in relation to the influence which
1t must have on the lives of one-hfth
of the population of the nation, is certain
~ one of the most extraordinary the
world has ever seen. Illinois, with PATS
routes, leads in rural delivery. and the
states follow in this order: Ohio, 21S6;
Iowa 2O6S; Indiana, 1894; Pennsylvania,
1917; New York. $780, Missouri, 1898. The
farmers are taking daily papers, wearing
patent leather shoes, making their wants
known by telephone, importing from the
nearest or most attractive cities much
Paris millinery, watching the stock mar
ket-the kind with the ticker attachment
as Wen as the cattle and sheep marts-and
becoming sophisticated man of the
world who no longer wears a goatee an6
says ''by heck" 1t Is great thing for
the farmer and for the country, too, per-
haps, to bind the people into one great
homogeneous family whose hearts beat
as one; but if the real farmer is removed.
we run the risk of being an ntolerably
monotonous collection of people
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-15
Motorbuses on Hard Roads.

In English cities the notorious is
rapidly superseding the electric car.
In London the general omnibus COM
pany, which operates sixteen hundred
horse-drawn buses, is replacing them
as fast as possible with motors Some
of the moto-buses used in English
cities carry twenty-six passengers,
and some only half that number. The
replacing of London buses with mo-
tors is not task that can be speedily
accomplished, but the work is to go
on as rapidly as the motorbuses can
be built and men trained to operate
them with safety and dispatch.
Consul Hanson at Hull, England,
reports that in recent tests the motor
buses did in twenty-five minutes the
work that trolley car consumes thir-
also possesses mobility, being able to
go around a fire or blockade of peo-
Pile, or other distractions.
Some of the new motorbuses in Eng
lang have smoking compartments, and
are we'll fitted up with lights, electric
bells and the like. The use of rubber
tires renders them noiseless; their
mobility is boundless, and there is
feeling in all parts of England that
they will soon come into general use.
London has chung to the horse-drawn
bus, but it will surrender them gladly
when the motorbuses are ready for
use.
The notorious calls for no overhead
or underground wires-no tracks of
iron in the streets. 1t is propelled by
either gasoline or electric storage bat
teries, preferably by the former, and
the English mind appears to be ready
for the impending change.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-15
Closing the Chasm.

! The Portland (Oregon) Telegram
thinks the time has come, after forty
years of waiting to declare the
chasm that once separated north and
south closed. Whenever an orator
rises to speak before men from the
two sections it is customary to close
the chasm anew, and the process has
become tiresome, even boresome. The
Telegram hopes the job is at last fin
ished. 1t says:
Forty years have elapsed since Appom-
attox. In that interim the people of the
south have addressed themselves to the
problems which came to them as a har-
vest adding bitterness to their defeat.
Their fortitude in that great constructive
struggle is as rich a heritage to the ma
tion as their valor upon any battlefield
of the great conflict in which they par
ticipated. There was some irritation, 1t
is true until wounds were healed. But
they have been healed long since. Refer
ence to the scars should no longer con-
template even the lingering shadow of
animosity. Loyalty and fraternity are
supreme and indissoluble. The southern
man knows it. so does the northern man.
1t is time that 1t was fully acknowledged,
and that reference to the chasm should
be as to thing that once existed. but
had long since ceased to be.
The north is at last tired of the
ever-closing but never-closed chasm
and the south certainly is, and both
sides should agree to relegate the
chasm-closing business to the dead
past, and there let 1t remain. The
earnest, brave man, intent upon the
business that comes to him daily. has
never INDUCED in chasm. Having
none to close, he has attended strictly
TO business, and he has, as a rule,
gained ground, while the professional
chasm-closer has stood still or retro
graded. The chasm is closed, the peo-
pie have the affairs of today to at
tend to, and the events of forty years
ago, although a tender memory. are
no longer a source of irritation, discord
and uncalled for feeling.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-15
STATE WITHOUT DIVORCES.

From Public Opinion.
There are domestic tragedies in South
Carolina there is incompatibility; there
is unhappiness in some families. But |
believe the number of such beclouded
homes is fewer in proportion to popula-
ton than in any other state. There may
be no means of clearly establishing that
contention; it is one of the things on
which neither the census nor the eneyclo-
pedas throw light, but the personal
knowledge of many men of wide ac-
quaintance should be accepted as the
best evidence of its truth. The divorce
courts in other states reveal a degree
of domestic infelicity there existing; and
the increase in the number of divorces
recorded is testimony either of an in
crease in immortality by which the old
scriptural warrant for divorce Is given
or an increase of intolerance between hus-
band and wife. AS the courts have re-
moved the obstacles to separation the
petitioners have come with more trivial
reasons for severance of the holy bonds.
What is the case in South Carolina?
The courts of other states are, of course,
open to citizens of this commonwealth
who desire divorce Both North Carolina
and Georgia are readily accessible and
the conditions are not hard. Yet Know
not one divorced man or woman IN the
society of Columbia, Charleston or any
other town in the state. And II there
are, In these quite extensive circles,
cases of grave domestic unhappiness, the
skeletons are securely locked within the
closets. They are unknown to the public,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-15
TRADING OPENED NERVOUS.
Tone of London Stock Exchange FL
naIIy Becomes More Confident.

London, May 14.-Trading on the stock
exchange opened this week nervous and
hesitating, owing to fears OF political trou-
BILE as a result of the neutrality question
Leading securities were rather freely Of
fered. and then a forced liquidation Of
American railroad shares added to the
depression which disappeared in the mid
die of the week with the announcement
OF the failure of f. c. Hawkins. a stock
broker, which cleared the air.
Operators also recovered from their po-
litical nervousness, the bears covered
and the tone became more confident At
the Bank of England gained strength from
cash returning to the country, and the
absorption of gold arrivaE, which led to
renewed hopes of easier money. prices
gradually improved and the outlook was
considered brighter, but it is said that
several small operators were helped over
the settlement
Americans broke rather badly early in
the week, owing to the announcement of
the failure of Mr.. Hawkins, and the bears
were jubilent, but following the strenu-
Gus operations in Wall street at the close
of the week. quotations in some cases
were higher than last Saturday.
Business here is still problematical, the
public abstaining from speculation to any
great extent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-15

some distance behind, SO as to neither be
seen or heard, but at the same time on
such a black night we could not see them.
1t was a puzzle for awhile when l hit on
the burning cigar plan. The confederate
provided himself with number of cigars
and a plentiful supply of matches, and the
plan arranged was that he was to keep
cigar lit all the time they were on the
march, holding 1t frequently in his hand,
so that we could see 1t. When the COM
mittee turned corner he was to strike
a match. as though to light cigar and
on arriving at the house # our quarry he
was TO strike three matches in succession.
So that we might know the fugitive when
we entered to make the arrest the con-
federate was to keep seated on his right
directly alongside. 1t was a long, long
drill in the rain with the three Of us
walking in the middle of the unmade
streets, so as not to make noise that
would have resulted had we used the
board sidewalks. but at last the houss
was reached and In the darkness we fell
into a ditch full of water in approach
ing 1t. Looking through the window, we
found not only the four members of the
committee, but about ten other men in
side. and there were only three of us.
1t was a pretty big order, and the East
st Louis detective wanted to walk back
to town for re-enforcements but it was
case of now or never; the fugitive might
be gone In ten minutes A trick ON that
small army was necessary 10 effect the
arrest, so | stationed Tdy man outside
and then burst in the door with the
East st. Louis man. at the same time
shouting: Surround the house; three of
you men run to the rear; John, take that
gun from the window, well have no shoot
ing, for most of these are honest men,
Then we went inside, but in the eonfu-
sion our confederate handn't been able to
stick to his man. and we marched them
all to the police station. There the man
wanted confessed in order, as he said, to
secure the release of his companions, but
we held them all till we absolutely iden-
tilted him as the perpetrator of the out
rage You see, therefore, worked that
burning cigar trick long lefore a certain
celebrated novelist thought of putting it
into one of his stories as a ruse par ex-
cellence."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-15
CLEAE.
BY Shelley.


The sun is warm. the sky is clear;
The waves are dancing fast and bright;
Blue isles and snowy mountains wear
The purple Moons transparent light;
The breath of the moist air is light
Around its unexpanded buds;
Like many a voice of one delight
The Winds the birds. the ocean-foods
The eity's voice itself is soft like soli-
tudes.
1 see the deep's untrampled floor
With green and purple sea-weeds
trown:
l see the waves upon the shore
Like light dissolved in star-showers
thrown.
I sit upon the sands alone:
The lightning of the noon-tde ocean
Is flashing round me, and a tone
Arises from its measured motion
How sweet. did any heart now share in
my emotioni
A1asl I have nor hope nor health,
Nor peace within, nor calm around
Nor that content surprising wealth
The sage in meditation four |,
And walked with inward glory crowned;
Nor fame. nor power. nor love, nor
leisure;
Others see whom these surround:
Smiling they live and call life pleasure;
To me that cup has been dealt In another
measure.
Yet now despair itself Is mild.
Even as the winds and waters are.
L could lie down like tired child
And weep away the life of care
Which have borne. and yet must bear.
Till death like sleep might steal on me.
And I might feel in the warm air
MY cheek grow cold. and hear the sea
Breathe Ger my dying brain its last mo-
notonv-