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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15

choice dishes of meat, game pies, new
rolls, fruit, and the whole was finished
with ices and bon-bons in the true Amer
lean fashion. My new friend. the doctor,
said nothing as | ate but when the re-
past was removed he began to talk at
once.
Il regret" he said, shat l cannot
supply you with morning newspaper ::
the latest journal that l can lend you is
copy of Saturday last. There is pas
sage in it which may interest you"
The paper was folded and marked in
certain spot. | read it with blank
amazement. for it was a full account Of
the nameless shic's attack upon the Amer
lean cruiser and the Ocean King. The
matter was the subject OF a profound
sensation, Tot only in America, but
throughout the world. The Gillian gov
eminent had been approached at once. but
had repudiated all knowledge OF the mys-
terious ship. Meanwhile war vessels from
England. America and from France had
set out TO scour the seas and bring such
intelligence as they could. The whole &C
count concluded with the rumor that a
gentleman in New York had knowledge
of the affair and would at once be inter-
viewed.
"You see that interview was unfortu-
nately interrupted" said the doctor. You
are the gentleman with the full particu-
lars. I am here to ask you to write accu-
duately for US a complete account of every
step you have raken in this matter since
you were fool enough to follow Martin
Hall"
"And otherwise?'
Otherwise, you would give all you
possessed il l would shoot you now as
you sit. If you would still have life, not
altogether under unfavorable conditions,
you have but to ask for pen, ink and pa
per-and to make yourself one of u.s."
"That | will never do ~
ooh, you say that now: but we shall
give you some days to think of it. Let
me advise you TO be a man of common
sense, and not run your head against a
stone wall. We are now bound on a four
days voyage. During these four days,
you need fear nothing. So don't disturb
yourself unnecessarily until Captain
Black puts the question to you"
10 be continued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15

He held to the rope with one hand
while he put the can of hot stuff to my
lips with the other l drank half of it
with great gulps, feeling fine warmth
spread through my body 70 my very toes
as the broth went down; and a great hope
consoled me. for I had his knife having
snatched 1t from him when first he stoop-
ed. The good luck of the theft made me
quick to empty the pot of gravy. Four
Eyes went over the side again. and the
yacht moved onward lazily in the softest
OF breezes from the west
When | deemed that | had waited long
enough l cut away the remaining ropes at
my feet, and creuched unbound in the
boat. / crawled to the bow, and began
to cut the strands of the hawser one by
one. | felt my boat go swirling away on
the backwash. It was a moment of su-
preme excitement, and l lay quite fat,
waiting to hear il I were missed but
heard no sound, and looking around me
presently, | saw the yacht away a mile,
and / lew that l was a free man.
WhnI a couple of hours had passed
took a new consolation in the thought that
I must be in the track of steamers bound
out from, or to, New York and in this
hope | covered myself in the tarpaulns
and lay down again to shield myself from
the wind which blew with much sharpness
as the night grew. | did not Sleep but
lay half-dazed for an hour or more. and
was reused only at a curious light which
flashed above me in the sky. The light
was clearly focused, being volume of
intensely bright. white rays which passed
right above me with slow and guided mo-
ton. and then stopped altogether. almost
fixed upon the jolly-boat | knew then
what it was, and sat up to see the great
beams of a man-of-war's searchlight
showing an arc of the water almost as
clear as by the suns power.
The light shone in all it's brightness for
some five minutes; then it died away sud
denly, and on the spot whence it had
come l could just distinguish the dark
hull of a steamer. Some moments, long
moments to me, passed in feverish con-
lecture; and then in the pathway of the
light rekindled | saw in all distinctness
the outline of a long-boat fully manned
and she was coming straight to me. Its
progress seemed slow; the men in it
made me no manner Of signal. They came
in a Decline towards me. and the radiat-
ing light never moved once whilst they
rowed. In the end, l myself broke the
silence, shouting Justify to them. but get
ting no answer until I had repeated the
call thrice. The fourth cry, loud and in
something desperate, brought the response
so eagerly awaited but when | recognized
the voice of him who then hailed me
fell down again in my boat with a heart
stricken burst of sorrow, for the voice was
the Irishman's, and Four-Eyes spoke:
"Avast hailin', young 'un," he cried :;
I'VE amt goin' to part along o your soce-
ty no more, don't you be frettin'."
They dragged me into their boat, and.
taking my own in tow, they rowed rapidly
to the distant steamer, on whose deck I
stood presently; but not without pro-
found fear, for l knew that at last l was
a prisoner on the nameless ship.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
A Woman Can Keep n Secret.

Miss Mary S. Anthony, sister of the
noted Susan B. Anthony, says that it
is not true that women tell secrets: at
least, they only tell trivial things that
harm no one. They do not tell secrets
that would affect their husbands or
children-that is. very few women do
and when such a thing does happen.
women are the first to condemn the
tattIing woman. She related a story
of a woman whose husband refused
TO tell her about n business transac-
ton, saying, sneeringly. that no woman
could keep a secret John" said the
wife, did 1 ever tell the secret about
the engagement ring you gave me
about eighteen years ago? Did 1 ever
let any one know it was only paste?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
ckin Diseases OF sheen.


Sheep are sometimes infested by
parasites which cause diseases of the
skin other than the scab insect. The
So-cailed Texan mango or itch is caused
by variety Of louise known as demo-
dex, which infests the dog and all the
canine race wolves, foxes and all the
related animals which range over the
west and south, and which cause a
Watery eruption on the skin, which
forms scabs. This special parasite does
not affect cattle. Another one infests
sheep, cattle and horses, forming scabs
on the skin. but they do not burrow
under as the scab mite does. The uni
Versal remedy is to dip the sheep as for
scab, breaking the crusts formed SO
as TO reach the parasites and clean the
SKIN. The common sheep scab dip is
the best remedy for this. indeed for
all this class of skin diseases By
dipping regularly twice a year, as
preventive of all these diseases ccm-
plete immunity Is secured. Whenever
a sheep is seen to be biting itself Ii
is time to use the dip without delay.
Much trouble will be saved if this work
Is done twice year.-Field and Farm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
FAMILIES OF OLDEN DAYS.
often Remarkably Large Accordin:
to the Authentic Records

oGIen LefnsarAaBiy Large According
to the Authentic Records.
The north OF England seems to be a
fertile soil for large families. for in
1897 we read of Cumberland man and
his wife, accompanied by thirty of their
children, all attending the christening
of the thirty-frst child, and in earlier
years another north countryman,
Thomas GreenhiIl, applied to the then
duke of Norfolk, early marshal, for
an augmentation to his coat of arms on
the singular ground that he was 1.-The
seventh SON and thirty-ninth child Of
one father and mother"
In Conway churchyard there was to
be SCENT can scarcely be there to-
day-a tombstone bearing the follow
ing remarkable epitaph: Here lyeth
the body of Nicholas Hooker of Con-
way, gentleman, who was the forty
first child of his father, William Hook
err, by Alice, his wife, and the father
of twenty-seven children, 1851"
If a mans family be considered as
including all his descendants that of
Peter Smith, who fourrshed in New
Jersey, in the seventeenth century, is
entitled to a high place of honor, for at
a recent annual gathering of Peters
progeny no fewer than 1000 men and
dined together to the ancestral home
stead.
In families it is not an unknown
thing for one child to be old enough
to have sister or brother young
enough to be his or her great-grand-
child. Thus the eldest son of Thomas
Beatty, of Drumcondra, has passed his
seventy third birthday when his young
est brother qualified for the cradle
When William Frost, of GaIphay, near
Ripon, died in 1879 his eldest child
was a sturdy boy of SO summers and
his youngest was barely Is and the
Lady PowerScOurt Of to-day is half a
century older than her latest brother.
There are cases on record where a
century or more has divided the we'd
ding days OF father and son. The first
earl of Leicester was first married in
1915, and his son led his second wife
to the. altar in Angus 1875; while Cap
tain Francis Maude, who was married
on June IS, 1S49, was following the
example Of his father, Lord Harvard
en-, had set him ninety-three years
earlier, in 1856. But both these cases
are quite eclipsed by that of General
G. Stevenson, of Bristol, who was 81,
and whose father was first wed in 1904,
the year of Blenheim. This seeming i'm
possibility is accounted for by the fact
that the father, who was born in 1850,
was married for the third time at the
age of 20, and the general was the son
of this late union. Thus we get the
remarkable result of a man whose
father was born in Charles lis reign
wooing and wedding within the men,
DRY of many people still living.-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
Why Build n SiIoy

The silo enables us to preserve n
greater quantity of the food materials
of the original fodder, for the feeding
of farm animals than is possible by any
other system of preservation now
known. The necessary loss of nutrients
incurred in the SLIDING process need not
exceed 10 per cent, and by beginning
to feed from the silo soon after it has
been filled, the loss will be reduced to
minimum which may not be far from
D per cent. In hay-making or field
curing of coarse folders, there Is au
unavoidable loss Of leaves and other
tender parts, and in curing fodder corn
there will be a Preventative loss oe
nearly 20 per cent under the best Of
conditions, or about as much as is lost
In the silo. The loss of dry matter
will approach % per cent in ordinary
farm practice and will even exceed this
figure unless special precautions are
taken in the handling of the fodder.
The proper construction of the silo
is of the greatest Importance. If the
sizes OF me slIo are not alright, too
much air is admitted and the silage
will spoil. If the walls are not perfect
ly rigid the pressure Of the silage will
cause them to spring out, thus allow
ing air to enter between the silage and
the wall, and, again, the result is de-
cayed silage.
Before building silo the most care
full attention should be given to loca-
ton, size, form and method Of con-
struction. These will differ somewhat
according to locality and individual
understanding
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
For the Sucking Cow.

A Texas farmer thus tells how to
cure COW of the bad habit of sucking
herself:
Make crate for the cows neck.
Build four curved pieces, two for top
OF neck and two for bottom; make four
more round, straight pieces to join
them, with two on each side as YER
teal rounds; make four shorter rounds
as horizontals to join sides, two on
each side and long enough to come
close to horns and extend back to
shoulder. The crate or cage prevents
the COW from turning her head far
enough around, as it strikes the side
Of the head. If. after using a month.
you find frame chatting top of neck, bind
some soft carpet on it and sew on. A
frame built strong that will not bend,
can be made like a chair and require
no nails, etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15

When | regained consciousness II was
because rain beat upon my face, driz-
cling warm rain of late summer, and
there was spray from a fresh sea- For
some minutes l set myself to ask where l
was but l knew that I was bound at
the left hand and at my feet, and when
| raised my head | saw that | lay in
an open boat, but my feet were towards
the stern of it, and | could see nothing of
he power which moved the boat or of the
scene about us.
The boat in which l lay was painted
white and was of elegant build. She
had all the fine lines of a yachts iollv-
boat; and when l raised my head | could
see that her fittings had been put in only
Mt great expense. The silence was broken
at last by shout, and the boat ceased to
move.
"All hands, make sail y cried someone j.
and after that l heard the ''yo-heave" of
the men hauling, as l judged, at a main
sail. The second order. Sheets home ~
proved to me that l was behind sailing
ship. perhaps yacht. There came a sud
den shout from the deck of the ship.
lilo, Bill. is the young 'un gomez"
mo. my hearty"
And then l heard a voice I knew. the
voice of the Irishman. -Four Eyes"
us il the boi we're mindin? Throw him
a sheet, one av yer; it's meself that's NOT
bringing the gunner a dead body when he
wants a live one!"
They tried to throw me sheet as the
man had ordered, and l heard it fall in
the water at my head pondered long on
al IL ~ r. a.
'guvner" wanted me alive. 1t was quite
clear that my life was safe from these
men until they reached their chief
The rain ceased and the sun shone,
drying my clothes upon me. l struggled
and in doing so | found that the ropes
binding my right arm were tied with
common bitches and my experience as a
yachtsman let me get free of them with
very little trouble. l did not sit up at
once, but turned my head TO look at the
boat which towed me, and saw that she
was barque-rigged yacht after the Amer
lean fashion: her name Labrador being
conspicuous across her stern. Ny boat
was towed by double hawser, but no
man watched me, and I lay down again
treasured. The hope of escape was already
in my head, for | judged that we could
not be far out from New York. 1t oc-
Cured to me that if they would only let
me be until night l could get my left hand
free.
Finally there was a change in the mo-
notony of the scene. l heard an order to
heave the barque to. l felt all motion
cease, and then someone hauling at the
hawser, so that the jolly-boat was pulled
against the side of the bigger ship: and.
looking up, l saw half a dozen of Blacks
gang watching me from the quarterback
Then ladder was put over the bulwark
and 'Four-Eyes' came down it with a
great can of steaming stuff. He stepped
off the ladder to the stern seat, and then
bent over me. But | saw this only, that
he had knife in his belt; and l made
up my mind in moment to get it from
him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
Devoted to Powder Pun.

The Cuban woman, octogenarian as
we'll as sweet seventeen" considers
powder more necessary article of the
toilet than soap and water, and utter
" indispensable to her attractiveness,
which it is her absolute duty to pre-
serve. All classes of the community
are devoted to the powder puff, from
the little 6-year-old orphan in the asy-
lum to the lady of high degree. In any
Cuban school, teachers and pupils are
alike unsparingly powdered, and a
powder box is to be found in every
desk, and, as likely as not, keeping
company with the chalk used for The
blackboard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15

The New York Herald says that men
physicians in a certain manufacturing
district of Greater New York are COM
planning about petticoat practitioners.
At first the masculine doctor tolerated
the lady who appeared upon the scene,
but he has now come to think her a
serious evil. The young doctors, treat
ing the men hurt in the factories. and
knowing that the fee was conditioned
on the financial status of the patient
preferred in many cases amputating
the limb rather than giving for next
to nothing Il long course of treatment
The women, being more conscientious.
have in every case tried the treatment
first to save the limb. The men are
grateful and the woman doctor" is
popular with. all of them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
DiGesfibility of Stock Food.


In all feeding materials there are nor
tons which cannot be digested, and
even when digested much is not assimi-
lated. The characteristics of the ami
mails have some influence in digestion,
and the consequence is that the farmer
can convert but portion of any kind
of food into salable products; but the
manure heap RECEIVERS that which would
otherwise be of no value. A ton Of
clover, valued at $40, when used for
food, is added to the profit by the
farmer, but as much as 50 may come
back to the farmer in the manure; and
a ton of cotton-seed meal, costing $50,
may return as much as SIS to tha
manure after producing milk, meat and
butter. the value depending, however,
ON the prices of fertilizer materials.
The reason of this gain to the farmer
is that the larger proportion of these
feeding stuffs consist of fat and starch.
which create fat on the bodies OF the
animals and provide warmth. but fat
and starch are derived from the atnos-
phere and not from the soil +; hence the
real value-the nitrogen and mineral
matter Tor the larger portion) goes
into the manure heap. Both linseed
meal and cotton-seed meal may be used
on the soil as fertilizers, even at 500
per ton, but it is better to first feed
them to live stock, so as to derive tho
benefit from the oil and starch, which
are of no value to the soil or as plant
foods. By feeding all food materials
to animals, they are passed through the
body, after being masticated, which not
only reduces the coarsest to a fine
condition, but the process of digestion
renders the foods more acceptable to
plants. In some cases the results may
not be immediate, but the farmer finds
his soils become more fertile every year
and his crops larger
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15

A mother who has restless little
girl has taught her to make paper
flowers, morning glories, roses and 9TH
er triumphs of art in paper. The child
has been much benefited by it, as the
interest awakened has kept her from
the "frgets" at least, and while she
can work as little or as much as she
pleases she is never tired of the pretty
recreation and has decorated her own
and her brothers rooms to her own
satisfaction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
Beaded Evening Slipper.
Rnmnn Wnmen Were Renntiex

Parsley was eaten by the ladies of
ancient Rome as cleanser Of the
breath, and honey boiled in anise seed
and wine was also used for the same
purpose. Care of the finger nails was
given as much attention by the ladies
of those days as at present, and beau
tiful finger nails were among the thirty
beauties of Helen of Troy. Only silver
instruments were used in caring for
the nails, and no lady ever cut her
own finger nails.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
Few Suffering Women.

Suffering women are very rare"
said the physician. Il think it is safe
to say that the average person passes
through life without ever meeting .
suffering woman.
There are two reasons for this.
First, woman naturally don't know
WHY'S less liable to the disease of
stammering than man. Second, if she
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
Pigs Are Naturally Clean.

Inc pig, by nature, Is one of the
cleanest of animals, and in internal
construction resembles the human
Oelng more closely than any other ami
NAL What wonder, then, is it that we
near OF so much disease when they are
kept under such filthy conditions as
we so often see? Give them clean.
healthy surroundings and we shall hear
very little of disease, and they will be
TO US the money-making machines they
have proved themselves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
Married women Attend school.

Nine married women in one of the
high schools near Chicago have enter
ed the school with their children, sit
in their seats and take lessons Just
as the children 90. They are specials.
and are taking courses that were not
in the schools when they attended
Most of them are taking courses in
free-hand drawing in order that they
may be able to do curtain stenciline
and wall paper designing, and some of
the ladies are interested in brass and
nottery work
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15

Gus in temperance work, and in 1903
was chosen president of the British
WOmen's Temperance Association. She
also has been an earnest worker in the
woman suffrage movement in England,
and founded the Woman's Liberal Fed
GRAFTON and became it's president
Countess Carlisle likewise has been en-
ergetic in procuring higher education
for women. She has a warm, impulsive
nature. great strength of character and
a charming personality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
The Na~~in~ woman.

The most despicable woman on the
face of the earth is the woman who
constantly nags. The husband who
permits his wife to nag all the time
is just a shade more despicable. for
even the woman does not respect him.
Nagging grows into habit, and the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
RiUhfinn a Wrnn

Miggles-I understand you told
Hyker that I was a fool.
Wiggles--Never told him anything of
the kind. l merely said that if were
you and got a glimpse of the fool-killer
coming up the street I'd dodge up an
alley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
Judicial Wisdom.

NO" said the gray-haired judge,
I'm not in favor of women on juries."
why not?" queried the young law
yer.
Because" answered the venerable
judge, 1--WE have too many disagree
ments as it is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15

ly, good row being much more likely
to aid in preserving self-respect than
the weakness that wards off the threat
ened war of words. Sometimes it is
the man who does the nagging. and the
wife should then bring things to a
climax. -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
OnTCIaSSR1.

She had just handed him the frigid
mitt.
Then 1 have a rival, eh?" he qdcr-
led.
Hardly that she replied. You
are not in it with the other party
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15
Sounds That Way.

Hicks-I see one of our clergymen
has declared that there is more sin in
Boston than in any other city in the
country.
Wicks--He's wrong. There's more
sin in Cin-cinnati-BoSto Transcript
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15

Christian Temper
ance Union, is the
wife of the ninth
Earl of Carlisle,
and was before her
marriage in 1864
the Hon. Rosalind
Frances S t a n | e V,
youngest daughter
of the second Lady
Stanley Of Adder
ley. She has been
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-15

Pullets and 2-year- old hens are the
most profitable. After a hen is 5 years
old she becomes Improbable for an egg
producer, and is rather tough for table
use