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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
Common Sense I'm Ohio.

The action of the Ohio Republicans
in State convention was of national sig
nifcance in what they refused to do
rather than in what they did. Having
Endorsed the national administration
the convention refused to indorse LESS
cordially" the Ohio Senators for think
ing for themselves and somewhat diff
ferently from Mr. Roosevelt Oh certain
questions of public policy. They in
dorsed their Senators just as they did
their President.
The omission of any mention of the
Hon. William H. Taft may beregarded,
and by the country will be regarded, as
putting an end to any Presidential as
pirations for 1908 on the part of the
Secretary of War This was expected,
as Ohio conditions are plainly not pro-
pitious for the marketing of Presiden=
tial timber at this time.
The convention refused to commit it
self to any demand for immediate"
revision of the tariff, and also declined
to take proposed steps toward the cleo
ton of Senators by popular vote. On
the later point it was content to rec
ommend that measures be taken for as
certaining the popular preference, with
out necessarily binding the members of
the Legislature.
In word, with respect to the vital
issues Of national concern before them,
the Ohio Republicans showed them
selves common sense Americans and
that they are still Republicans.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
HIS ONE FAILING.
! . RTCEWICH had been Ii

80 RUCEWICH had been living in
lk< his new home about week
u when Cooke introduced himself
as neighbor. The house Krucewich
had taken and the premises surround
ing 1t were not in very good condi-
ton, a circumstance that had been CON
sidered in the rent, and the newcomer
was standing in the weedy and Uttered
back yard, contemplating the ram
shackle gate of the old fence, when
Cooke stroiled up.
you've got a job before you fixing
this place should say" he remarked.
Il seem to have" assented Kruce-
wich. I've got to get man to NOW
down these weeds about the first thing.
You don't know of anybody, do you?"
Nov 'em yourself" said Cooke.
"Shucks! That's no job You'll have
to take the scythe to EN-, though"
4 haven't got a scythe," said Kruce-
wlch, land l wouldn't know how to use
It If I had"
Easy" said Cooke. I've got one.
I'll so to the house and get it and
show you how to swing it. No trouble,
it's just across the alley. Cookies my
name. Just wait there a moment"
Before Krucewich could demonstrate
ne had hustled away and in minute
or two he returned with a scythe.
ut isn't everybody who knows how
to use a scythe." he said. But I was
brought up in the country and when I
was a boy a moving machine was a
good deal of curiosity. Here's the
way to hold 1t. See? Now you bring
it around close to the ground this way"
He started off and moved a swath
the length of the yard and then stopped
and mopped his face as Krucewich
came up.
Say, tbc.'s fine" said Krucewich,
admiringly. q believe that beats a
lawn mower, anyway. Let me try it,
Cooke handed him the scythe show
ed him how to place his hands acain
and then stepped back Kruce,rich
brought the implement around with
what would have been a beautiful
sweep if the point had not stuck into
the ground.
That's funny" he said
You want to keep the point raised"
said Cooke. Here, this way"
He made complete circuit of the
yard this time. Krucewich, though
watching him with intense interest, had
waited for him to come back. Then he
took the scythe again and made a few
more ineffective motions.
q don't seem quite to get the hang
of it yet" he said, handing the scythe
back again. You seem to do it so
neatly and easily. you have a sort of
drawing stroke, haven't you? Show
me again, If you don't mind"
There's a knack, of course" OBJ
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
Sentimental Surgery.

A party of college students, celebrat-
ing a football victory in New York, ran
into an unexpected difficulty in the
shape of some policemen, and after the
smoke of the battle had cleared away,
as the political orators say, it was
necessary to cart one Of the young men
to hospital and fix up his head.
The young surgeon in charge Of such
cases put the collegian on the table and
looked him over He had a long cash
in his forehead. The surgeon cIeansed
the wound and began to sew it up. He
labored for half an hour and then burst
into the office of the doctor in charge.
Il can't do anything with that young
chap in there" he said.
whats the matter?" asked his su-
perior.
"Why, every time l put in a stitch
he pulls it out and says: She loves
me, and when put in the next enc he
pulls that out and says: She loves me
no. Saturday Evening Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
naps four feet square done when. Cooke

haps four feet square done when. Cooke
came up.
You don't seem to be getting along
very fast" he commented.
"Why, the sod seems a little tough"
1T isn't the soil, it's that spade
you're using" said Cooke. You can't
expect to do much with that-and you
aren't turning it we'll under. l guess
you never did a great deal of this sort
of work, eh?"
Not a great deal" admitted Kruce-
witch, abandoning the spade to his
neighbours grasp. Perhaps it would
be better to have it plowed."
"a little patch like this? Nonsense.
See here" He jabbed the spade into
the ground. forced it down almost YER
tically with his foot, wrenched back
and dropped the inverted clod well
forward.
1T takes muscle to work like that"
said Krucewich. as the third spadefuI
was turned over.
Cooke made no answer until he got
to his end of the row. Then he said,
1T is pretty hard with this spade. I've
got a good one over at the house. I'll
run over and get il"
Certainly Cookies spade did the work
far more effectively. Krucewich. smok-
ing a cigarette as he watched the ener-
getic Cooke, admitted that it did. But
l don't want you to spade up the whole
garden" he said presently. Let me
try it for a while"
You're not going deep enough" said
Cooke You don't want to hold the
spade slanting-at least. not so much
on the slant. The way you do you just
skim off the top. Now you look"
you're a wonder" said Krucewich
lighting another cigarette.
He showed Erucewich how to sow
his lawn seed; he showed him how to
fix the back gate, how to repair the
fence, how 70 string it for cucumber
vines. He showed him how an out
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27

round it. Bohemia to-day is affected sign manual which
stands for license that is without social penalty. Once
in its best possible might
an easy disregard for the formal usages of society and
social relations. 1t apology to a friend for a
cold dinner served In dark bedroom a makeshift
dressing table. 1t frank confession to the bo
hemans circle of acquaintance that he immune
largely to the things that required money in social
tact Bohemia in the modern usage however, is the 9f
ected, posing aggressons of the affected, posing
heman of every type License and immunity its motto
and its plea. At o'clock in the morning bohemia re-
spectacle before the written law, where o'clock
the afternoon it would be locked up in police stations.
The most bohemian spot know of to-day is the
home of married couple who have two children There
is servant in the household The home home when
it is desired that it shall be. But home it is, it is
secondary to the household bohemans To the chance
friend at mealtime there always is plate ready Home
is not accepted the place for household
Should choice between the piano washing of the
dishes present itself, the dishes go unwashed This
bohemia All else in the acceptance close to
the line of danger and death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
"a n @e ,ar Side
{,GesgFy ~.
The News "
NO-NNNOO-ON~

Line advance IN the price of sugar will
make many of US look sour.
Europe proposes to prevent the Shah Of
Persia from hiding under the bed.
Palma might catch those recalcitrant
Cubans by putting pinch of pie on their
plates.
Bank Wrecker Stensland doesn't know
so much about its being Home, Sweet
Home"
The Chinese Emperor is getting to be
almost as great a promrser as the Gar
of Russia.
Before the court gets through a Pitts
burg divorce suit, they arrest most every
| body in sight.
1t is claimed that Gen. Trepof's death
was due to natural causes. Natural to
Russia, no doubt.
What Cuba especially wants is to learn
the difference between a ballot box and
a waste paper basket.
'Segal got all the money; was fool
| ed says Nipple in his confession. So
were the rest of 'em.
How fortunate would be all nations
who go to war if they had some big friend
to make them behave!
| Cuba knows a hint when one as large
| as a skyScraper begins taking ominous
strides in its direction.
The insurance companies are not all
cutters. They have paid S55,OOOOOO of
! their San Francisco losses.
| Between being arrested and committing
suicide. our poor bank wreckers are hav-
| ing a very unpleasant time
The Car is beginning to find out that
you can't govern an empire nor lay pave
ments merely with good intentions.
Heat, say the scientists, causes every
thing to expand everything. that is but
pocketbooks and church congregations
The officials of the wrecked Real Estate
Trust Company of Philadelphia seem to
have been ARRESTED for taking a rest.
Women are reckless in their generosity.
One at Portchester, \. Y. gave a man
So just for finding $4,000 she had lost,
The men who try to sail boats when
they don't know how are still contributing
vacant places to the family supper table,
\ Michigan professor has been engaged
by the interstate commerce commission to
teach the railroads what they don't know
about the railroad business.
The sImplifed spelling has been taken
up by China, which leads to the hope that
we may get an ineligible laundry ticket
yet.
Yes. Cuba thinks it will behave
Since Uncle Sam is on its track:
1t doesn't like the barrel stave
He has behind his back.
That million dollars worth of scrap
iron discovered in the Panama canal re-
gion Is only a small portion of the scrap
ping material down there.
Those Chicago bank officials who got
away with million dollars were no doubt
imbued with that boosted spirit of the
West which does things on a large scale.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
WRECKED BY DYNAMITE.
Explosion at JeIIico, Tenn, Does
S1,OOO,OOO Damage.

S1,00O,OOO Damage.
A terrific dynamite explosion at JeIlico,
Tenn, caused the loss of at least nine
lives and more or less seriously injured
not less than fifty people. Property dam
age estimated at S1.O00,000 was done and
the town of Jellico. KY, was practically
destroyed. At least 800 people are home
less. Without exception every business
house in the town is either totally wreck
ed or badly damaged. The union station
of the Southern railway and the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad, located about
100 yards from the scene of the explo-
sion, was shattered to spIinters. This cut
off all telegraphic communication and
news of the explosion was handled by
telephone.
The explosion occurred upon the Ken
lucky side of Jellico, and in consequence
every business house on that side of the
town was wrecked. Not one was spared
A large number of residences located near
the railroad on the Kentucky side were
demolished. As a result it is estimated
that one-seventh of the population of the
two Jellicos is homeless.
A car loaded with dynamite, and con-
signed to the Rand Powder Company, was
brought in by the Southern railway from
the direction of Knoxville and was side
tracked in the yards used jointly by the
Southern railway and the L. & n. 1t is
believed that the explosion was caused
from spontaneous combustion in the car
The spot where the car stood is marked
by a crevasse in the earth fully twenty
feet deep and about thirty feet in diane
ter.
Word was received in Winnipeg, Man,
of a dynamite explosion, which occurred
on the right of way of the Grand Trunk
Pacific railway near Finmark, northwest
ern Ontario, in which FIVE were killed out
right and six injured. A gang of Finland
ers was engaged in tunneling, according
to one story, when the premature explo-
sion of large quantity of dynamite oc-
Cured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
RUSSIAN HORROR.
Victims of SiedIce Massacre Perish
MiserabIy of Thirst

The full horror of the massacre at
Siedlce will never be known. The off
cial report is that 100 were killed, but
this is far belowt he total. Whole
blocks o. houses were burned and ire
mendous damage was done by shells
from the battery of artillery that fired
recklessly into the mob.
All this, however, is merely incident
al, being as nothing when compared to
the awful details of that Russian ira
gedy. A terrible feature of the woe of
Siedlce is that many persons died Of
thirst. The drunken soldiers and police
cleaned out blocks, leaving only the
dead and wounded behind. Many of
these buildings were not entered for five
days and it is said twenty bodies of
men and women, who died from their
wounds and thirst, have been picked
up.
One Jewish girl was found uncon-
sciOus on the floor under water fau-
Get. Two policemen had broken both
her legs and cut her in the side with
- SHOAN" AoA1C A4tAA OAe lS5Cu AC1 Sell
across the floor, but was unable to rise
to the faucet. There she lay in agony
for nearly five days. She revived just
long enough to gasp Water. Waterr
and then died.
An old white-headed Jew, one of the
wealthiest men in the city, was found
dead in a bathtub in his house. He had
been shot twice in the body and evil
dence was found showing he had spent
two or three days helpless on the din
ing room floor. Blood clots showed
where he had dragged himself to the
bath room. Apparently, in a delirious
ecstasy at getting water, he had turned
on the faucets, struggled over the side
into the bath and was drowned.
A few days ago, with prayer for
Russian freedom on their lips, Senaise
Konoplianikovo, the girl who assassin
| ated Gen. Min Aug. % i'll the Petnrhof
railroad station, walked with firm step
| up scaffold and was hanged. When
the black cap was being pulled on the
| girl in loud voice called: Long live
| the social revolution for land and lib
| ertyr'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
ooNO~~~~Oo

In letter to Public Printer Stillings,
directing that changes in spelling advo-
Gated by the Simplified spelling board
be observed in all publications of the
Executive Department. President Roose-
welt says that criticism of this step is
evidently made in ignorance of what
is proposed. He asserts that there is
no intention of doing anything revolu-
tionary, and that the purpose is for the
government, instead of tagging behind
of it, and at the same time abreast of
the views of the GbleSt and most prac-
teal educators OF our time, as we'll as
of the profound scholars men of the
stamp of Prof. Loundsberry and Prof.
Skeat." He explains. further. that if
these changes in tie spelling of 800
words do not ultimately meet with pop
ular approval they will be dropped, and
that there is all there is about it"
After quoting several examples in word
shortening i'll popular use, he declares
that this reform is not an attack on the
language of Shakespeare and Milton, is
not an attempt to do anything far
reaching. sudden or violent, but is an
attempt ito cast what slight weight can
properly be cast on the side of the pop
ular forces which are endeayoring to
make our spelling a little less foolish
and fantastic"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
old Hoss All Right.

Seems to me a man of your stand
ing in the community ought to drive a
better-looking horse remarked the
summer boarder
Il wouldn't trade him for the fast
est roadster in the hull county," said
Farmer Huckleberry. That boss
knows Jest what to do when he meets
an auttymoble. He cavorts around an
topples over an breaks up a dollars
with O. buggy shaft an mebby 90
cents with O. harness. an I'll bet I've
collected much as 'leven hundred dol
lars from the auttymoble owners. The
old boss is all right. Cleveland Plain
Dna lpr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
WINDS AND LEAVES.

Wet winds that flap the sodden leaves!
Wet leaves that drop and fall
Unhappy, leafless trees the wind bereaves /;
Poor trees and small
All of a color, solemn in your green
All of a color, somber in your brown!
All of a color, dripping gray between,
When leaves are down
Oh, for the bronze-green eucalyptus
spires,
Far flashing up against the changeless
blue
Shifting and glancing in the steady fires
OF sun and moonlight, too.
Deep orange groves pomegranate hedges
bright
And vanished frirges of the pepper
trees
And, all that wind of sunshine! Wind
of light.
Wind of the seas!
Charlotte Perkins Stetson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27

wisdom which follows practical experience that personal
independence and sefrespect BETTING who acknow
edge superior secontro to replace that external
troll which democracy rejects respect of the law obed
ence the lawful expressions of the public WILL con
sderaon opinions interests of others equally
entitled voice in the State, loyalty to the abstract
conceptions of ones country inspiring that loyalty
personal sovereigns which has umned the pages
history the subornaon Of personal interests to the
public good and love Of justice liberty and order
All these must seek by slow and patient effort NO
student of times fail to that not America
alone but the whole world is swinging from the
governmental moorings and intrustng the fate OF
civilization the capacity of the popular mass TO govern
Nor fail to that the world is making suDstan
tal progress toward perfect popular selfgovern
ment.
Nowhere is this progress more marked than in Latin
America Out the wreck of Indian fighting, race con
cts and civil strong and stable governments have
arisen Peaceful succession in accord with the peoples
will has replaced the forcbe seizure of power permitted
nv the peoples Indifference The rule of law supersedes
the rule of Property is respected individual lib
ertv respected and the national faith is held sacred
This progress been equaed everywhere but there
has been progress everywhere
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27

Maine, but we have just seen that de-
votion to Republican principles of ma
tional character may be subordnated
to resentment of Republican policies To-
cally. What has happened in Maine
may happen elsewhere. Similar reIuc-
tions of the Republican vote in other
States would give the Democrats con-
troll of the House of Representatives.
1t is of the utmost Importance con-
sequently, that the Republican party
should be right on local as we'll as ma
tional issues and that it should have
unexceptionable candidates for State
officers as well as for Congressman.
This is the lesson Of the Maine cleo
lions and it is no new one. If the Re-
publicans are to control the next house
they must pay as much attention to
State as to national policies The vo-
ter is not disposed to halve his APPROX
al or his condemnation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27

Names Verdict and Admonition.
In advance of the Maine elections it
was we'll understood that owing TO To-
cal issues the Republican majorities,
both for State officers and for Congress
men, would Be substantially reduced.
1t was not expected that the extent of
the Republican victory would equal that
of four years ago. The results of Mon
days election, therefore, are not sur
prising nor disappointing. They indi-
cate that so far as national issues are
concerned a majority of the people of
Maine are Republicans. but that there
is dissatisfaction with the policy of the
party in the State with respect to
sumptuary legislation. If prohibition
had not been in question it is safe to
say that the Republican majorities
would have approached their normal
proportions. As to the whole result,
however, it may be said that it consti-
tutes an admonition to the Republicans
of other States that narrow local is
sues may exercise a dangerous indu-
ence upon the election of a Republican
Congress.
Nobody doubts the Republicanism of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27

HI Squash-Y'd died, Eb, eff ye'd bin
over'n watched one Nv them city fellers
goin' over tn place yestiddy.
Eb Jay-What'd do?
Hi Squash-He looked all over tn
place an when he got to tn hogpen he
lowed he'd like t see where we bred
tn pig iron. An I cd hardly keep my
boy fro larin' right in the durn fuIe's
facp-TOledo Blade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27

there would be any camor about crooked elections
To have the courage to take the initiative in politics is
essential than in other business requires
good judgment to decide to use it after you
have discovered that you have it.
There is no rule for success politically. Some men
born to it, achieve it, some buy it. and
others steal it, and after they have what
with it, and yet they're always ready to fight to
keep it from being taken away from them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
Entrance of Tuberculosis.

In his address before the international
tuberculosis congress at The Hague, DIR.
Lawrence Flick, head of the Phipps insti-
tute at Philadelphia, demonstrated that
the tubercule bacillus has a restricted
habitat and is a delicate organism which
may easily be destroyed. He takes issue
that the view long held by scientists that
he lungs are the principal source Of tu-
berculous incubation. The fact that the
bacillus is a solid and that infection is
found in every part of the body reached
by the circulatory system convlnces him
that entry is gained through the alimen.
tary canal and thence through the right
heart into the circulation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27

cared that required considerable amount of courage
to persevere in the practice honestly had SO
often to fill up the days record Nothing 1t just
the getting annoyed with that disagreeabe confession,
he declared that helped to the resolution to have
something else to record and the system did its OBJ
immense amount of good 1t rendered Sinking
doing what one ought to do difficult system
of making notes means much in life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27

The three finest diamonds worn in
London society are those belonging to
the Duchess of Westminster, the Coun-
tess of Dudley and the Duchess of
Portland. 1t is eminently right and
fitting that these lucky women should
be the wives of three Of the richest no
blemen in the peerage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
Prof. Garner i'm The Jungle.

A letter has been received from Prof
Garner, who is now living in his steel
barred cabin in the African jungle for
the purpose of studying the comparative
intelligence of animals. He says that not
an hour passes during the day that he
does not hear the monkeys and Chin
panzes talking in the forest, and that they
reply to his calls.