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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
From Far and Near

Mrs. Lydia w. Clark died in Victoria.
n. j., aged 81 years, leaving ninety-seven
descendants.
Gov. Magoon reports finding over 1.6OO
insane in the national asylum at Havana
in quarters built for not to exceed 400.
a warehouse containing 1000 bales of
cotton was burned at Greensboro. Ala
causing loss of 100000. The struc,
ture was owned by J. A. Blunt and T. r.
Ward.
The Lincoln, Neb., City Council adopt
ed the report of a committee declaring
the Lincoln Gas Company without A
franchise and instructed the city attor-
ney to begin suit of custer.
The Drake investigating committee.
created by the Ohio Legislature last win
ter for an inquiry into Cincinnati's GOV
eminent, is without power in a legal
sense, according to a decision of the Ohio
Supreme Court.
Only employees of railroads and their
families, compelled to move from one
place to another, are entitled "a passes,
says the interstate commerce cc1D1,issIon.
Mrs. Nellie .CahiI, wife of 3. F. Ca
hill, a government clerk at Washington.
committed suicide by jumping from a
third-story window at the home of John
Mcdonald on North Fulton street, Bal
timore.
marble shaft and fountain erected
nv the Order of Elks throughout the
United States in memory of Meade d.
Detweiler of Harrisburg, twice grand ex-
allied ruler of the order, was unveiled in
Reservoir park, Harrisburg, Pa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
NERVOUS COLLAPSE
Sinking Spells, Headaches and
rheumatism all Yield to Or.
Williams Pink Pills

Mrs. Lizzie Williams, of No. 416 Co.
dar street, Quincy, i'll, says: Ever
since l had nervous prostration, about
thirteen years ago, have had periodical
spells of complete exhaustion. The doc
tor said my nerves were shattered. Any
excitement or unusual activity would
throw me into a state of lifelessness.
At the beginning my strength would
come back i'll moderate time after each
attack, but the period of weakness kept
lengthening until at last | would lie
helpless as many as three hours at q
stretch. l had dizzy feelings, palpita-
ton of the heart, misery after eating,
hot flashes, nervous headaches, rheu-
matte pains i'll the back and hips. The
doctor did me SO little good that gave
up his treatment, and really feared that
my case was incurable
When began taking DR.. Williams
Pink Pills my appetite grew keen,
my food no longer distressed me, my
nerves were quieted to degree that 1
had not experienced for years and my
strength returned. The fainting spells
left me entirely after 1 had used the
third box of the pills, and my friends
say that / am looking better than have
done for the past fifteen years"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are recon-
mended for diseases that come from i'm
poverished blood such as anemia, rheu-
matism, debility and disorders of the
nerves such as neuralgia, nervous pros
tration and partial paralysis. They have
cured the most stubborn Indigestion.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills agree with the
most delicate stomach, quiet all ner-
vousness, stir up every organ to do its
proper work and give strength that lasts.
Sold by all druggists, or sent postpaid.
on receipt of price, so cents per box, six
boxes for $3.50, by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Co, Schenectady, N. Z.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
Ito be continued.)
WORKINGMAN IN GERMANY.
Gets Lower Wages, but Receives
Much Care from EmpIoyers.

Gets Lower Wages, but Receives
Much Care from Employers.
The wages of German workmen are
low, compared with those which pre-
vail in the United States, but the meth
cd of handling the men is one which Is
calculated to improve their efficiency
and aud to their content, and to this
fact is attributed very largely the great
advances which have been made in
German trade throughout the world,
says the New York Tribune. Many Ger
man corporations own dwelling houses
and rent them to their wOrkmen at the
actual cost Others provide restau-
rants and serve meals at cost price, fur
nish fuel at wholesale cost, give trans
portation, in whole or in part, to en-
ployes living a distance from the facto-
ries, pay pensions in certain cases, and
working peoples reading rooms, baths,
hospitals, savings banks and cooking
schools for girls are maintained.
The annual report Of the Imperiol
Insurance department for 1908, just
made public, shows the amounts paid
to beneficiaries under the compulsory
insurance laws in force for protection
to workmen For accidents injuries
S32,4150O0 was paid to 1,434,773 per-
sons injured, or their dependents, which
is an average Of one out of every sixty
of the total population Of the empire
Sick and INDECENT persons received last
year SIS, OSO,000.
Annuities were granted to 152,412
persons, and to these sums Is to be
added S4O,46O,OOO paid yearly from
the local sick funds throughout the
empire as sick benefits and burial
charges, baking a total Of Sill, 100000
annually paid as benefits under the
workingmen's insurance laws. During
the same year 200 companies employing
labor paid in gifts to workmen and in
permanent funds and other provisions
for their welfare, apart from wages,
SGT ,60S,O00.
Special provision Is made for the
miners of Germany, with view to re-
lieving their burdens as far as posi-
Bile. In Prussia S,626 mines houses
have been erected, with room for 49,
962 families. either wholly or partly at
state expense. Thirty-two buildings
with 5,051 beds have been provided for
unmarried miners, and are rented at
low prices.
It cannot, of course, be predicted
how these forms of state and private
benevolence may finally come to be
viewed by the workmen. Some of the
large manufacturing firms which have
been foremost in the work Of improv-
ing the system of handling labor have
not wholly escaped labor troubles dur
ing the last year. 1t can be said, how
ever, that the state has with much in
genuity and skill sought to lessen the
distress due to accident, disease and
old age among wage earners, and that
in all parts of the empire private en-
terprise has done much toward the
same end.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
Flexible Stone.

The stone looked like piece Of dark
gray granite. 1t was a foot long and
several inches thick. Lifted. it bent
this way and that like rubber.
1t is itacolumite. or flexible sand
stone said the owner. 1T is found in
california, Georgia and several other
States. Besides bending, it will stretch.
Look at it closely, and you will see
that it is formed of a number of
small pieces of stone, of various tints,
all dove-tailed together loosely, so as
to allow of Il slight movement.
This movement is what causes the
stone to bend. See how it bends Like
rubber precisely, Ell? But if l bend it
too far, it will break"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
CHApTEp "

For full five days we steamed with the
other vessels, under no stress to keep the
sea with them, since they made no more
than twelve knots, for the sake of the
cruiser which had been so fearfully MAIN
ed in the short action with the nameless
ship. On the early morning of the fifth
day | found myself unable to sleep and
went above at daybreak, to see the white
bulls of the American war vessels mile
away and the Black Anchor boat few
cable-lengths ahead of them Paolo was
on the bridge. | heard Dan the other
side of the skylight, and he was holding
forth with much fine phrase to Roderick's
dog, Belle. | called him to me, and had
it out with him there and then.
What's in the wind now, Dam" ask
ed, that you're preaching to the dog?
Is there any more nonsense amongst the
men forward?"
There's a good deal of talk-maybe
more than there should be-"
And what do they talk about? Tell
me straight, DAN"
We'll, I've got nothing, for my part,
to hide away, and don't know as they
should have; but you know this ship is a
dead man's!"
who told you that stuff"
plain yarns, Mister Mark, is best told
| in the fo'castle. feel more like a father
to you gentlemen than if l was nat'ral
born to it; and this l do say-what's
! this trip mean? what's in yer papers ?
and why amt it the pleasure VICE we
! struck flag for? Where's it going to
end| says the second mate to the men !;
what is yer wages 70. takin' yer lives
where they shouldn't be tookT And what
| follows?-why, white-livered jawings. and
this man afeard to go here. and that man
afeared to go there, and the Old One
amongst 'em, so that half of 'em saws,
We was took false and the other half.
Why not bout ship and home again 2
No, and you amt done with it, not by a
long day, and you won't have done with
it until you drop anchor in Yankee-land,
if ever you do drop anchor there, which l
take leave to give no word upon
Its a curious state of things. You
mean to say, l suppose, that there's ter
ror amongst them-plain terror, and moth
ing else?"
Gay, sureI''
Then it remains for us to face them.
l went to bed at 10 o'clock, and for an
hour or two l slept with deep forgetful-
ness. At what hour Dan awoke me
cannot tell. He shook me twice IN the
effort, he said, and when l would have
turned up the electric light, he seized my
hand roughly. muttering in a great whis
per, Hold steady 1 knew then tina
mischief was afoat, and asked him wha
to do.
Crawl above" he said, "and lie Low
a-deck :" and he went up the companion
ladder when l got my hannels and rubber
shod shoes upon me. But at the topmos
step he stood awhile, and then he fell fla
| on his hands, and backed again down tn
: stairway, SO that he came almost on to-
of me; but | saw what prompted his &C
! ton, for, as he moved, there was a SHADOW
$ thrown from the deck light down to wher
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
STORM SWEEPS THE WEST.
Great Property Damage and Suffer
Inn

oEC6k EoPcEty damage ana SuuGI0
Ing Caused.
Scores OF sheep herders, cattlemen
and farmers We're caught in the worst
billiards. that have swept over the
Rocky mountain region in years, and
it is feared there has been great loss Of
life. 1t is known thousands of sheep
and cattle have persisted. The storm
ragged in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mex
leo and Utah. The railways were seri-
ously blockaded. Considerable damage
resulted in Las Vegas, Socorro, Albu-
querque and the smaller towns of New
Mexico.
The Union Pacific Railway officials
carried On a desperate fight to keep the
line clear from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Salt
Lake. West Of Green River, Wye, the
road was so bloekaded that the officials
could not tell when the trains would be
able to make their way through the
mountainous drifts of snow.
In Utah the snow was swept along
by a hurricane that did great damage
in Salt Lake City. In addition to loss
Of life, property over a wide area was
devastated. Fire famed by the gale
wiped out the new plant of the Utah
Packing Company and damage of $780,
600 resulted. The packing plant had
just been completed at a cost of $780,
oOO and was to have been put in use
IN a few days. In Ogden one man was
killed by flying plank.
In the storm which swept over the
entire Republic of Salvador 100 per-
sons were drowned in Coatepeque alone.
A vast quantity of sulphur water was
thrown out of the Chulo volcano, mum
dating the town of Panchinalco and
killing most of the inhabitants. From
other points similar reports of horrible
devastation are received. The schooner
Axelene with a number of passengers
on board was lost. Pimineto and other
towns have been swept away by the
floods and scores of bodies were car
ried down the streams
News of a terrific Weset Indian hur-
ricane which visited the towns of Rua-
tan, Tela, Utilla, Colorado and Ell Pro-
vence, Honduras, was brought to Mo
bile, Ala, by the Norwegian steamer
Harald, carrying a cargo of fruit. A
number of vessels We're wrecked and
buildings in each of the towns men
toned were damaged. The loss to the
owners of fruit plantations will reach
almost million dollars.
The British schooner Southern Queen
was thrown on the beach at Ruatan
and went to pieces in less than an hour.
A tidal wave accompanied the hurricane
and swept everything before it. Ten
thousand punches of bananas were re-
ported swept into the sea at Ruatan.
The officers of the steamer say it will
be month before some of the steam
ers will be able to get any fruit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
Storing the Honey Crop.

Years ago it was the custom to store
honey in the cellar, as it was thought
that a cool or cold place was what was
needed for the preservation of this
product. 1t is yet difficult to get this
notion out of the minds of many.
However, it was soon discovered that
if kept Tor any length of time in a
cool, damp place the honey would com.
mence to sweat or ooze out of the I'm.
sealed cells, while if left in such a
place for two or three months the cell
cappings would assume a watery an.
pearance and finally burst
Some beekeepers work hard all the
season to secure a crop of honey and
then store it in such an unsuitable
place that when it reaches market they
do not get nearly so much for their la.
Dor as they would had they spent
more thought on having their product
reach the market in an attractive con.
dition.
Many in the east store their honey
in an upper room or attic Where this
can be done there is no better place To
keep it.
In two or three weeks time the
honey will thoroughly ripen, when il
can be prepared for market-Farm
Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
TRADE OF CUBA,
Islands Foreign Commerce Is $780,
900 n Year

AsIuhu>s rOreISn commerce Is $780,
900 Year.
The bureau of statistics of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor has issued
a bulletin on the foreign commerce OF
Cuba, showing that it aggregates more
than $20O,00O,OO0 per annum, the actual
figures being given as follows:
Imports, $95,OOO,OOO, and exports,
S11O,OOO,0OO. Of the imports 40 per cent
were in 1905 drawn from the United
States, and of the exports SO per cent
were sent to the United States. There
has been a steady gain in the share of
the imports drawn from this country,
while the share of exports sent to the
United States in 1905 was So per cent.
Of the exports sugar alone amounted to
$63,0OO,OOO; tobacco, crude and manufac-
tured, $27, 100000, and fruits about 3d.
100000. Of the imports cotton manufac-
lures were in round terms, 100000;
breadstuffs, including rice, $9,0O0,000;
cattle, horses and mules, 100000;
meats, 100000; machinery, $6,OOO,-
600; manufactures of iron and steel not
classed as machinery, about 100000;
leather and manufactures thereof 3d.
100000; wines, malt liquors and spirits
and other beverages, about 100000;
manufactures of fbers, nearly 100000;
vegetables, nearly $2,500,000; wood and
manufactures thereof, $E.,000,0O0; oils
md fats for Industrial purposes, $780,,
900; dairy products. a little less than
$1,500,O00; fish, $1,250O00; paper and
manufactures thereof, $1,OO000O; wool
and manufactures thereof, 81 ,O0O,0 and
glass and glassware, a little less than ST.
100000
Of the exports nearly all of the sugar
and a large proportion of the fruits are
sent to the United States and the exports
of tobacco are divided between the United
States and Europe, and as a result 81
per cent of the total exports go to the
United States
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01

we lay and then a man stepped upon tnS
stair and descended slowly. his feet naked.
but in his hand an iron bar; for ne had
NJ other weapon. At the sight of him.
we had backed to the foot of the stair
way; and. as the man crept down, we la.
still. Swiftly and silently he entered thu
place: and. going to my cabin door. he
slipped a wedge under il, serving the 9TH
er doors around the big cabin in the same
way. The success seemed to please him :
he chuckled softly. and came again TO
the ladder. where with a quick motion,
Dan brought his pistol butt full upon the
fellows forehead. and he went down like
a dead thing at the foot of the swinging
table.
There we left him. after we had bound
his hands with my scarf and with hur-
ried knock got Roderick from his berth.
He, in turn. aroused his sister, and in FIVE
minutes we all stood in the big saloon and
discussed our plan.
Dams whispered tale was this. The
watch was Paolo's. who had persuaded
four stokers and six of the forward hands
to his opinion. These men, the dupes Of
the second officer. had determined on this
much-that the voyage to New YORK
should be stopped abruptly. We. being
locked in our cabins, were to have -
voice in the affair: or, if walked. then We
should be knocked on the head, and so
quieted to reason.
1t was a desperate endeavor, wrought
of fear: but at that moment the true
hands of the fo'castle were battened down,
and Dan, who had seen the thing coming,
escaped only by his foresight. That night
he had felt danger. and had wrapped him
self up in a tarpaulin. and lain concealed
on deck.
AS it was, Paolo stood at the door Of
the shippers room; there were three men
guarding the fo'castle. and five at the
foot of the hurricane deck. One man we
had settled with but we were three, and
eight men stood between US and the true
hands.
ITO he continued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
RANCHES BECOME CITIES.
Fortunes Being Made in Transform
ing Texas Panhandle.

Fortunes Being Made in Transform
ing Texas Panhandle.
The western land fever which some
wears ago attacked Oklahoma and then
shifted to Canada, is now raging virulent-
" in Texas. In the last two years prac-
ticalIy all the big ranches in the Texas
Panhandle have been bought by land COM
panies. These have arranged with the
railroads to run excursion trains from as
far east as indianapolis at half fare.
Their eastern agents gather up the farm
ers who will come, and these are all
punched at Kansas City, Wichita or Ell
Reno, and there westerners who know
the land thoroughly and can talk mum
my into a purchase take charge.
Amarillo, Texas, is the center of the
big land boom. Two years ago it was
cattle shipping point, the center of the
gigantic Tx ranch, with several hun
dred inhabitants. To-day it has 5000,
and nightly people have to sleep on the
streets for lack of accommodations. The
old ranch was q miles wide and so long,
and was all under fence. There were
1900 sections, or nearly 10000 acres.
The company bought the land originally
for % cents an acre.
The land boom in the Panhandle be-
gan when the company that owned the
ranch divided it up into sections and be-
gan offering it at from 81 800 to So, 500
a section. A fourth of the land is yet I'M
sold, but the company has gathered in six
millions for the land disposed Of It's
sale value is now from $40 to $50 an
acre. There are other big ranches in the
parhardIa i,, he
they call it. These are all being cut up
and offered to the hungry land seekers
There'll be lot of dead towns in the
Panhandle when the bottom drops out of
this boom, as il will; but while it lasts
the folks are having a good time. Men
who had nothing a few years ago are rich
now. TwO-thirds of the business blocks
are occupied by land agents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01

President Roosevelt would have re-
ceiyed short shrift at the hands of
Dean Swift. The latter roundly de-
nounced the poets who had introduced
the "barbarous custom of abbreviating
words to fit them to the measure Of
their verses" Swift instances "drugg'd"
and "disturb'd" as moral offenses. The
custom so introduced had begun to
dominate prose. .nother cause-bor-
rowed, Swift suggested, from the clip
ping process-which he held had con-
tributed to the manning of the lam
guage, sis a foolish opinion advanced
of late years that we ought TO spell
exactly as we speak, which. besides the
obvious inconvenience of utterly de-
stroying our etymology, would be a
thing we should never see the end Of"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
Stretching II.

An American visiting Dublin told
some startling stories about the height
of some of the New York buildings.
An Irishman who was listening stood
it as long as he could, and then que
ried:
I've haven't seen our newest hotel,
have ye?"
The American thought not.
Well" said the Irishman, 'it's so
tall that we had to put the two top
stories on hinges
What for?" asked the American.
$50 we could let 'em down till the
moon went by said Pat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
Building the Highest Bridge.

The American Inventor says that work
is now in progress on a suspension bridge
over the famous Royal gorge" of the
Arkansas river, in Colorado, at a point
where the channel is only 80 feet wide at
the bottom and go feet wide at the top.
This bridge viii span the river 267 fees
above the surface of the water, and will
be, therefore, by far the highest bridge in
the world The material will be of fat
steel and steel cables, the curved Orders
finding secure attachment in the solid
sides of the canyon. The floor of the
bridge viii be of plate glass ~ inches
thick, to afford visitors the pleasure of
looking down the chasm. On each side
Will be strong, high steel railiT gs. The
bridge is part of an electric railway
scheme, and cars from Canyon City and
Florence will run over it. The Denver
and Rio Grande tracks are at the bottom
of the gorge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
MusseIs that clay" Pearls.

Many attempts have been made to
find an unfailing supply of pearls The
Chinese, it is said have solved in their
own way the problem of how to make
mussel LAY pearls. Five or six
small beads, made of mother-of pearl
and strung together by thread, are
dropped at the proper season into the
open mouth of the shell. Two years
later the mussel, when recovered, is
made to disgorge the beads, now COW
cred with a pearly crust, indistinguish-
able from the naturally made pearl.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
whole Negro Race Indicted.

In an interview concerning the recent
race riots at Atlanta and elsewhere in
the South, Gov. jerks of Alabama said
that the white people indicted the whole
colored race on the ground "that even
the better element lend no assistance
whatever in ferreting out criminals of
their own color" He said that the two
races could never get on amicably until
there was an understanding On the part
of both to make common cause, with the
law abiding against criminals of any
color. No good citizen could afford to
countenance defiance of the law, no mat
ter what the provocation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
Teachers as Politicians

DR.. Elmer E. Brown, the new United
States commissioner of education, spoke
at the open exercises of the school of ped
agogy of the New York university, and
among other things exhorted members of
the school to be politicians. He explain
ed that he would not have them exercise
the lesser arts of politics, but that they
should be utopian in pursuit of the larger
public good. He spoke of the danger Of
materialism as one that education must
meet and resist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
Getting Rid of Sassafras.

Sassafras is one Of the worst pests
that can lind hold on a field. Cut it
down, or even grub it up, and it will
reappear almost Unexpectedly, grow
ing rapidly and taking possession Of
the land. There is a time when it can
be removed to the best advantage, how
ever, and that is by grubbing about the
1st of September, removing the roots,
and then clearing off the field Should
any plants appear next spring, go into
the field and touch a little sulphuric
acid on each-half a teaspoonful will
answer-and repeat should any roots
reappear later, first cutting off all the
plants that show above ground. This
is also an excellent method of eradi.
eating thistles and other weeds that are
difficult to remove.