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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
MAN OF 70 YEARS WORTH S17.13!
Down East Doctor Fixes Age Values
of Men

A special to the New York World from
Boston says: "What is a man worth in
dollars and cents" "Can flesh and blood
and brains be reduced to figures, with The
dollar sign before?" These questions
were considered Wednesday at a meeting
of the section of ophthalmology of the
American Medical Association, when DR..
Erastus e. Holt of Portland, Ne, show
ed by tables that mans value in money
could be actually determined by taking
into consideration his occupation and
age.
DR.. Holt reaffirmed the famous DR..
Osler theory, and by a table indicated
that the economic value of laboring man
began to decrease after his 25th year,
and that the economic value OF profess
sional man began to decrease after his
10th year.
DR.. Hollis table rates boy of 10 years
to be worth $2,601.62, at 10 years he is
worth S4,263.66, at % he is worth So
48S.03 and from that time on his value
decreases, until at 20 years he is worth
only S17.13 and at so years he is a
drawback on the community to the ex-
tent of $872.S4.
A professional man at % years has an
economic value of S25,S9S.94 and his
highest value is at 40 years, when he is
worth S29, 3446S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
ExOnerating VenabIes,

Once when ". Holman-Hunt, the
English painter, was dining with Thack.
cray, he noticed a marble bust of the
novelist as boy. The bust was we'll
modelled, says Hunt in his recently pub
lished volume Of "reminiscences of Pre-,
Raphaelism and the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood" and admirable for its
open expression. 1t registered the form
of the nose, the sinking of the bridge
which distinguished his handsome. dig.
nified face.
AS Hunt gaZed he recalled the report.
ed remark OF the housekeeper at Char
terhouse, after Thackeray's pugilistic
encounter with Venables, and on see
ing the bruise which Thackeray's face
had received:
You have destroyed the looks of the
handsomest boy in the school"
When Hunt had silently decided this
Thackeray noticed him, and exclaimed
Il know what you are wondering at
You want to know whether the bust
was done before or after Well. il
was done before"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
JIMMY THE DREAMER


- RIMlrS "Goblins" began 1t for
~ Jimmy Traut-Grimm's and"The
~ Arabian Nights" OF course there
were other fairy stories Jimmy got
hold of where magic finder boxes, rings
lamps and the like brought treasure and
consequent happiness to their lucky pos
SCISSORS
Jimmy used to dream over these de
lightful happenings by the hour in his
childhood, and he found 1t great com
fort. When he was struggling with his
home lessons that tangled themselves
up hopelessly in his puzzled brain it
was so sweet to imagine some beneficent
brownie or other appearing unexpected
" to wave a wand and cause the ex-
asperating examples to arrange them
selves In neat and correct solution on
the tear-blistered paper before him and
to picture the subsequent surprise and
f1attering concentrations of his teach
err Or when circus day was approach
Ing and he was bemoaning the parSi-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21

but a substantial gain. Sound character and de-
serving influence in public life the part of any
must be based on honest and strict accountability
only the public but to self What need just at
this moment baptism of self respect baptism that
will enable to stand high in the public respect In
spite the almighty dollar We look to the coming
from universities maintain the high quality of pub
lie service. the universities alone indie
pendence by education.
This is time for ndiscrminate criticism of men in
public life Rest assured that the machinery ready for
operation by the will handle these matters,
however questionable, in exacting manner Let the
men who have done wrong be identified and punished.
and let the honest his reputation unsued and
with the added good will and strengthening such
deserves in the confidence of the public.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
HORRORS or THE koNeo.
Soldiers Committed MasSacreS 1
Boom the Rvhher- Trade

&a tAc
According to London correspondents.
the Kongo commission. which was call
ed into being for embarrassing purposes.
has been forced practically to admit
The truth of many of the most terrible
charges which have been made against
the kongo Free State. Among the allie
cations made against the government.
founded by King Leopold, have been the
following:
That it has ruled the country not
with a regard to the good of its inhabit-
ants. but almost solely with a view to
increasing the profits of the rubber COM
pany, in which King Leopold is the
chief stakeholder. That when the peo-
pie have failed to bring in as much
rubber as the representatives of the
company thought they ought native sol
dierS have been sent out, who have per-
petrated the most horrible massacres
to stimulate the workers energy. On
one expedition 900 natives were MUIR
dered on a six weeks rubber "hunt,"
and on another of three weeks 800.
That cannibals have been officially en-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
Thoroughly Cooked.

There were some things the man who
had fought in Cuba bore with com
posture, and some which reused his
wrath.
Its a wonder such a lot of raw re
cruits did such good work." somebody
said in his hearing one day.
Look here said the soldier. "Af
ter a mans baked in that heat for q
couple o days, he isn't so raw as yor
seem to think ~
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
XVII is A SINGULAR BIRD.
New Zealand Native Product Seem.
TO Have No Wiurx

New Zealand Native Product seem,
TO Have No Wings
When the first skin of a kiwi wa,
shown some English naturalists about
seventy years ago they were greatly
perpleXed as to its relationship. The
kiwi is native of New Zealand. and
while once very common there is now
becoming extinct Its remarkable ne
culiarities are-frst, the apparent alb
sence of wings, as the plumage so GOV,
ers the small, rudimentary, sticklike
appendage of a wing that none what.
ever is apparent. The situation of the
nostrils at the bills extremity is a sec
0nd peculiar feature. While hunting
for earth worms it probes the soft
ground, making a continual snuffing
sound; thus the scent is evidently of
great help in finding food and the rea-
son for the position of the nostriIs
quite apparent.
A third popularity is the very dis
proportionate size of the egg in COM
parison to the bird, it being little less
than one-fourth the birds own weight.
One kiwi's egg found weighed four
teen and one-half ounces, while the
bird weighed just under four pounds
(sixty-four ounces) and was about the
size of an ordinary hen.
The plumage of the kiwi is a dull
brown streaked with light gray, and
the body resembles a miniature hay
81 hoI aTT
rear part, as nature has not provided
the kiwi with such decorations as a
tail The absence of wings, is compen-
stated for by their swiftness of foot
and the large, clumsy-looking legs,
which are sometimes used as weapons,
are placed far back on the oddly shaped
0ody.-St. Nicholas Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
our wonderfuI Banking Growth.

With only a twentieth of the worlds
inhabitants, the United States has two
thirds (S14OO0G00,000) of the worlds
banking power Capital, surplus, depos-
its and circuiation). Our ascendency
has been obtained in the past two de-
cades. Since 1890 the worlds banking
strength has grown 105 per cent, while
that of the United States has expanded
10 per cent, and that of New York
City 200 per cent. Of the S2,5UO,0OO,-
600 of the weekly average of the bank
clearings of the ninety-three cities
which make reports, New York contrib
utes two-thirds, New York City's bank
clearings average % per cent in ex-
cess Of London's.-Leslie' Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21

In spite of the fact that the thinning
of growing fruit insures a better quail
ity, encourages more even yields year
after year, and prevents the overload
ing that often breaks down the trees,
there are comparatively few farmers
who make any attempt to cut off the
unusual and unnecessary strain upon
the strength and vitality of the tree.
Men have become accustomed to re-
lieving the weight on the limbs by prop
ping from beneath, and while this
method often prevents the breaking
down of the tree, it does not foster the
vitality which is so severely drawn
upon that the yield for the coming year
is virtually ninimiZed.
Among the fruit growers the prob
lem of thinning is becoming recognized
for its merit The thrifty horticulture
ist prefers a medium yield of fruit
every year of superior quality rather
than an enormous output every other
year Of ordinary quality. Experience
has taught him that he can profitably
destroy from 60 to so per cent of his
fruit crop by thinning, inasmuch as he
secures more desirable fruit, lessons
his labor and in the end realizes more
profit
While we recognize the fact that
the average farmer is not in a position
to compete with the fruit specialist,
still this is no evidence that he cannot
shape his methods along the lines sug-
gested by the successes of the other.
Therefore we venture to assert that the
farmer with a fruit tree promising to
break under the overload can better af.
ford to relieve it of n portion of its
crop, rather than seek props to assist
its over-production and subsequent de
teriOration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
Storing Potatoes.

There is more loss in storing pota-
Barring all wastes from rot, there is q
heavy shrinkage, both in quantity and
weight. a bin holding 100 bushels will
shrink in size nearly one-tenth, besides
a greater loss in weight. a busheI bas-
in October, when taken from the soil,
will not weigh SO much after being
stored in the cellar through the winter.
The shrinkage in weight is much less
when potatoes are kept in pits closely
covered with earth, for there is then
less chance for evaporation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21

dumbness that lays hold upon naturally timid people
believe that tmid backward people nearly always
misunderstood
Then there is the person who suffers from absent mind
edness They persenty misunderstood and accused
of GOODNESS friends of saying the things
making all sorts of mistakes They meet people and
forget speak Them they forget Names they fail to
answer one friends letter and write to another twice
succession They get to thinking about something and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
Making Fodder PaIatabIe

While we would not advocate the sub
stitution of fodder for grain by any
means, there is no doubt but what
more fodder may be fed to advantage
by the majority of dairymen with d
corresponding cheapening of the grain
bill. For example: During the first
month when the cows are on pasture,
before the feeding is very good, we
follow the same plan of feeding as dur
ing the winter-namely, preparing
mixed rations of fodder and grains.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
A Matter of Taste.

Can any little boy" asked the new
teacher, tell me the difference between
lake and an ocean?"
Il can" replied Edward, whose wis
dom had been learned from experience.
Lakes are much pleasanter to swallow
when you fall In"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
Chicago Inter Ocean.

in way and he was liked. Nobody
could help liking Jimmy. He had lit
tie to say for himself, but he had a won
derfully ready smile and an equally
ready sympathy for anybody's trou-
bles. He was careless with his money,
too, it may be remarked. He didn't
have a great deal, but what he had any
body could get away from him. He was
what is known as an easy mark"
In the course of few years he had
one of the great happinesses of his
life. He met the princess. She was
the only daughter of his employer and
was young and beautiful. Jimmy open
ed the door for her as she came in one
day and she smiled graciously at him
as Il princess should, and ten minutes
after that Jimmy had won her blush
ing acknowledgment of her love for
him and her fathers consent to their
union. The same old partnership fol-
lowed, of course. Just then Tammit.
the chief clerk, touched him on the
shoulder and said: IF you've got
those invoices ready, Mr.. Traut, I'll
take EN-"
For two years that happiness lasted
and then the princess married Albert
p Wrenshaw of Wrenshaw & Biddles.
Perhaps that ought to have cured jim
my, but it didn't.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21

In France the wearing of certain
flowers is likely to invite the disagree
able attention of the police. Thus the
white carnation betokens monarchical
opinions and royalist sympathies. 1t is
affected by those misguided people who
are foolish enough to believe that
France would be better off under the
scepter OF the disreputable and COM
pletely discredited Duke of Orleans
than under the sagacious rule of the
republic to which she is indebted for
thirty-fve years of unparalleled pros
perity The violets have always been
the emblem Of the house of Bonaparte
since the reign of the first Napoleon.
At the memorial services held each
year at Paris on the anniversary of the
death of Napoleon III. anG of the I'M
fortunate prince imperial who persisted
in Zululand every man and woman in
the congregation may be seen wearing
bunch OF yiolets. Red carnations
were the badge of the partisans of Gen
eral Boulanger. and for a time were in
great demand as such; but the manner
in which they suddenly vanished from
button holes when the ignominious
flight of lie bray' general to Belgium
and to England became known was al
together phenomenal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
Potato Men Must Fall in Line


The recent bulletin of the Geneva
On. " experiment station gives re
suits Of cooperative tests made by
thirty growers which together show a
let profit of $4,000 from spraying The
average increase in yie1d from spraying
was 62A bushels per acre, done at a
cost of $4.9S per acre. The cost for
each spraying was 90 cents. The net
profit per acre was S24.S6. These re-
suits are in line with those obtained
with similar experiments in 1908. The
spraying was found to lengthen time of
growth By preventing late brack. Not
only was the quantity greater, but it
was found that the potatoes contained
One-siXteenth more dry matter in the
sprayed fields and One-ninth more
starch, and as might be expected were
more mealy and of better cooking quail
ity. Spraying is almost q universal
practice in the Aroostook region, it
being declared that there is scarcely
an acre in the whole section not regu
larly sprayed. Growers use the large
power sprayers which treat four rows
at once and do the work very quickly,
making three to eight applications dur
ing the season, according to circum-
stances.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
By Juliet Y. Strauss.

Our attitude toward other people
is so frequently mistaken. I often
hear people accused of haughtiness
who are quite the reverse, and it is
quite the common thing for peoples
entire mode of living to be misin-
terpreted by their neighbors. Timid
people often suffer the charge Of hau-
teur. There are many people to
whose lips the pleasant and familiar
word they would like to speak sim
ply will not come. 1t is not dignity
+hnf hnIdr II hnnLc. IL IL q dariI Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
Reading Courses in Agriculture


The reading courses started Big the
agricultural department of the Univer-
sity of Maine are under the supervision
of A. W. Gilbert, who is associated
with Prof. w d. Hurd in that depart
ment. Bulletins are issued from time
to time to be used as a supplement to.
the reading courses along a prescribed
course of outside study. Only the new
est and best agricultural books are
used. The special bulletins or pam
phlets are furnished free of charge, but
students taking the course are expect
ed to buy the books Written aues-
lions are sent from time to time, giving
the student an opportunity to express
what he has learned by returning
written answers to the questions The
cost of the books is the only expense.
The object is to bring the farmers into
close touch with the college of agri-
culture in solving the problems which
present themselves in the course of
their daily occupation. The subjects
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
Too Many Hens in a House.


The main idea in keeping a large
number of fowls in one house is to care
for them more easily, but there are al
ways risks to run which cannot be
avoided even by the most experienced
and careful worker. All things con-
sidered, the plan of having one roof
cover the poultry house, no matter how
large, is advisable, but the matter of
division is a thing to be seriously con.
sidered. In our own experience we like
the scratching shed divisions better
than anything else. This is worked out
by building a roosting room, then q
scratching shed, then another roosting
room, another scratching shed. and Sc
on to the end of the house. The idea
is that each house has its own scratch,
ing shed, which is located between two
roosting rooms except at one end.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21

At last Jimmy married. If Mrs.
Traut was not really the princess, she
was at least a mighty capable woman
and did wonders with Jimmy's small
salary. 1t was certainly a wonder that
she could make it stretch to the needs
of that family, for it got to be a siza-
BILE family in time. She was rather in
tolerant of Jimmy's dreaming-his
Speculations on the convenience for in
stance, of a tablecloth that whenever
spread instantly covered itself with a
square meal. adjusted in size to the ap-
petiteS of any number of persons who
should sit around it; or Il CARPET that
would solve the question of family
transportation to Michigan for the an
nual two weeks vacation. 1t was non
sense. But for all that Jimmy Toasted
royalty on the rare viandS of the magic
tablecloth and voyaged on the carpet.
not only to Michigan but to all the
Spice islands, distant AdenS and Tom
Tiddler'S grounds of which he had ever
heard or read; and the children Toasted
with him and iourneyed with him.
People used to say. Jimmy Traut
must have a hard time of it." 1t did
look little that way to superficial
observer. Up in the morning early,
down to the mill that ground him.
Work, work Day in and day out, rain
or shine wet or dry, and for recon-.
pense shabby clothing, scanty fare and
the bare. mean shelter that he called
home. And yet when the doctor told
him that there wasn't any chance. jim
my said, Il hate to so, doctor life has
been very sweet to me-"
little later he said, IF had three
wishes" and smiled.
He didn't say any more, but the
smile never left his face. 1t was there
when they tiptoed up to look at hin
through the little oval of glass.-Chica
go Daily News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
DESPERATION OF AMERICAN LIFE.
By Charles e. Hughes,

Where shall we look for emancipation If not
to the college halls? The American spirit Is to
make good to go higher" at almost any cost
any hazard l could almost liken it to q hun
dred yard dash Sor wealth and position. We
want less Of the desperation witnessed when
men seek to rush through a quintennial or a
Idecennial to some great achievement which will
in the long run bring to them not only position,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
.On-hon !

Small Boy-Boo-hoo! Boo-hooI
Sympathetic Observer-What's the
matter. sonny:
Small Boy-I've EFT my apple all up
and they wasn't any worm in it,
Kansas Citv Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
WaYs and Means

she introduced the bill in the Iegis.
lature, you know"
"The BILL What bill"
why, the bill. Before his time the
grafters were mostly reckless fellows
and used checks. Puck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
Father,


81 suppose l ought to ask your faith
er for your hand"
"Well yes; 1t might please him, and
it can't do any hurt. OF course it
wouldn't be at all necessary if mother
were home.'-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21

Cleopatra was idly dangling her feet
In the Nile.
"If that messenger boy doesn't find
Antony I'll a-nile-ate him"
Convulsed, she munched another
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
It is barely possible that a stand of

1t is barely possible that a stand of
corn may be automatically correct
and not agriculturally perfect An
Iowa corn grower says: "a two-stalk
hill now and then does not surely dim
inish the yield one-third, nor does a
four-stalk hill surely spoil the yield
of that hill. In fact some years a
four-stalk hill will out yield a three
stalk hill. In some years the twostalk
hills viii crowd the three-stalk hills"
1t is be ar % have stalks at every
intersection. Two intersections with
nothing and the next one six does not
average in the right manner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
~O-

include such lines as soil, fertility,
plant growth, farm crops, management,
farm machinery, water supply, breed
ing, feeding, orcharding, forestry, ma
ture study and the li1e.-American Cul-
tivatOr.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21

An Arizona sheep-ranching company
gives the following estimate of the cost
Of running 1000 sheep; Taxes, 1924 !;
wages, four men, S1,6S0; living, four
men, 1892; extra expense, Landing,
$3.50; shearing, 13 cents a head, $500 !;
loss, 5 per cent, and mutton killed,
$3.50; feed for span of horses and two
saddle horses, $2O4.5S; sundries, 5000 );
$500 lambs, extra expense, $500; de-
probation in bucks, $40. Total, ST.
690.5S. This amount divided by 1000
gives as the annual per capita expense,
SLAP.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21

successful federation the cooperative parish plan Sew
era methods have been found successful In village Of
1000 inhabitants the pastor Of the church had house
to house made its results recorded in card di
ecory territory divided into eighteen districts with
secretary over each whose duty report changes
and was thus able his photograph
of religious conditions brought up to date Several church
es can do the by each taking section, mutually
reporting they may employ visitor to look after
the whole in the of ALL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21

The farmer who continually tries to
cultivate a four-horse farm with three
horses will always be one horse behind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21

A good thing about the hog is that
he may be able to utilize much of the
waste Of the farm and orchard.