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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
FINEST IN THE WORLD.
Great Legislative Hall Where the
Russian Donna Sat.

russian DONNA Sat.
By one of those strange freaks of
history the Tauride palace, st. Peters
burg, in which the Donna sat, happens
to be one of the most characteristic
| WhimS and eXtravagances of that ex-
traordinary woman, Catherine the
Great, empress of autocrats, the Cleo
patra Of modern times. She built it in
1888 to bestow upon her most enduring
favorite and lover, Prince Potemkin.
He was an able general. He subdued
the Tartar Khan of Crimea and added
that beautiful peninsula to the Rus
sian empire. The territory vas then
called Tauride, and Catherine christen-
ed the palace in honor Of 'the hero of
the Tauride' when she gave it to him
as his reward with a fortune as we'll
us her own robust but tickle affections.
With Potemkin as her escort she
made the journey from ST. Petersburg
to the Black Sea TO inspect her new
possessions, and in order that she
might be properly impressed with the
value of the conquest the prince hur-
riedly built model villages along the
route which she stopped to admire.
Some of them have since become places
of Importance, and several, like Kater-
inoslav and Katerinodar. We're named
In her honor.
After taking possession of the palace
Potemkin gave his Empress one of the
most SumDtuOuS entertl inmantS eyer
contrived by human extravaganza. He
rivaed Belshazzar. Nero, CaIigula and
other ancients in prodigaiity and splen-
dor. He invited 600 guests and received
them standing at the side of the EN-
press in a uniform that was almost
covered with diamonds and other lew
els. 1t weighed as much as a coat of
mail; and his golden helmet studded
with gems was so heavy that it could
not be worn, and an aid de camp car
RED it upon Il cushion at his masters
side. The banquet was served on dishes
ot gold, and in the middle Of the feast
a ballet was danced by the Grand
Duke Alexander and Constantine and
200 of the daughters Of the nobility
and the most beautiful young women
OF the court The banquet occurred and
the ballet was danced in the very room
occupied by the Douma For it's sittings.
Potemkin lived in Tauride palace for
six years until his death in 1871. when
Catherine bought back the property
from his heirs at an extravagant price
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

out that the doctor had loved Claire
for ever so long, but she had held him
at a distance, so that he never got a
chance to tell of his love. One day the
doctor had been standing at the win
dow, and overheard the girls talking
about the neatness of Claire's work,
when she was mending a tear in
Louise's gown. He decided to take ad-
vantage of this knowledge, and took
this way to get a chance to offer him
self to Claire-you see, he was pretty
sure who would get the prize. 1t was
very clever of him, I think
That is all. The wedding Is to be
the first of next month, and the doctor
insists that the girls shall all be brides
maids, but l cannot. because, you see,
Ned wants me to make it next month,
so it may be double wedding.-Bos-
ton Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
WHERE PRESIDENTS REST.
what to Do with Bodies of Chfet
Executives Is

What to Do with Bodies of Chief
Executives Is n Question,
The proposal of the descendants of
Andrew Johnson that the Federal gov
eminent should take his last resting
place as national cemetery of the
fourth class suggests a new obligation
to our Presidents. What shall we do
with our ex-Presidents has long been
familiar topic of after-dinner discus
sion wherever any surviving members
OF the craft have gathered, says the
Boston Transcript. What to do with
the bodies of our Presidents has not
before become a national question. A
wholesome sentiment directs that their
graves should not be neglected. The
efforts which are expended abroad
upon memorials to distinguished rulers,
notably the Albert memorial in London,
the grave of Napoleon in Paris, the
Pantheon in Rome, to say nothing of
the pyramids, contrast noticeably with
the democratic simplicity which has
allowed so many of our Presidents to
the fathers of the hamlet sleep"
Three stages are already apparent
in American practice regarding the last
resting places of our Presidents. Seven
of them lie in what was originally pri-
vate grounds Of their old-fashioned
estates, in accordance with the custom
of their time. These are: Washington
at Mount Vernon, which is visited by
thousands Of tourists annually; Jeffer-
son at Monticello, Jackson on a part
of the Hermitage near Nashville; Polk
in the garden of his home near the
same city; Taylor in the Taylor fam
lily cemetery, five miles from Louis
vile, Ky, which is a part of the old
farm where he was born, and Andrew
Jackson, whose remains have rested on
Monument hill, near Greenville, Tenn,
where the monument is pointed out
from the windows of passing trains.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

for an entirely different purpose is
altogether the finest, most convenient
and appropriate ever seen. It sur
passes in every way our own hall of
representatives, or the House of Com
mons, or the Germa1f Reichstag and
every other parliamentary chamber in
Europe. 1t is twice as large as the
hall of representatives in Washington,
and has perfect light, ventilation and
acoustics.
1t is a splendid square room of per-
feet proportions, the ceiling between
thirtyfive and forty feet high and the
corner rounded so as to furnish sound
ing boards. The roof is supported by
arched iron Orders, resting upon
massive pillars of succeed brick, with
simple Dorfc capitals, ard the walls
and ceiling are perfectly white. At the
end toward the garden is large bay
extending the entire width of the
chamber and about fifty feet deep with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
SECRET OF THE PYRAMIDS.
American Engineer Says the Tools
Found Explain Construction.

American Engineer Says the Tools
Found Explain Construction.
A Brooklyn engineer Of note who spent
several years in Egyptian exploration is
OF opinion that the mystery of the pyra-
mids has been solved. The most ex-
traordinary pictures showing 100000
men hauling on a rope to raise 2OO,-
0OO-pOuno stone into its proper niche
near the pinnacle of old Cheops is IA
miliar to all of us. Theories as to the
mode OF construction are legion. But
all the engineering logic and expert
ence of to-day and for the last 100 years
have failed to cast more than a shadow
over the mystery. Piazzi Smith thought
he knew all about it, but nothing Of a
practical nature has come of his re-
searches.
1t is singular that our wise men did
not think of examining with critical eve
the tools found in the catacombs. The
old saw-a workman is known by his
tools. Our Brooklynite says that the
tools are not those of rock masons nor
mere plasterers' implements for filling
the cracks between stones, but are
plainly the crude Egyptian plant of OPP
eratives engaged in mixing and laying
cement What a splendid patch of sand
they had as a foundation for their CO.
ment.
Cement is the coming building mate
rial. Railroads are renewing their steel,
iron and stone piers, abutments, cul-
verts, ETC., with it, and it is expected
to last forever. No great skill is re-
quired in manipulating it, There are
no chiseling, hammering, doweling, 10
heavy lifting with derricks, no misfits.
The industry has already grown to
enormous proportions. Drop a sack
of dry cement to the bottom of a river
and in few minutes you will have a
solid stone that will never wear away.
Drop 1000 sacks on top of it and round
it and presently you will have a foun-
dalton that will sustain for all time a
million-ton bridge.-New York Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

walls Of glass. This Is used as a lobby
exclusively for members. Floods OF
light come through these windows and
through a series of wide square win
dows under the cornice on two sides
Of the room. During the evening ses-
sions the chamber is lighted by five i'm
mense gilded chandeliers, fitted both
for gas and candles, and rows of side
brackets around the wall.
On either side of the chamber are
immense withdrawing rooms, with long
tables, desks and comfortable chairs
for use Of the members and such
friends as they chose to admit to this
privacy. They We're audience chambers
in GATHERINGS time. These beautiful
rooms and the legislative chamber open
into an enormous hall elliptical In
form, 400 feet long and so feet wide.
which is used as a lobby. The ceiling
IS the same height as that of the legis-
lative chamber, and from it hang
twenty or thirty massive gilded chan
deliers. The semi-circular ends are sn-
Hrely inclosed with 81 5 which admits
light and plenty Of ventilation. No leg
islative body in the world has such
splendid accommodations. no parua-
mentary chamber has such an ante
room.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
i PACIFIC PEARLS WITH
GOOD WILL AND FIXTURES
THROWN ON THE kARKET-I
OPPORTUNITIES oGET INTO
TIE KING BUSINESS"

they are British possessions. Unless
the demand for coral necklaces be-
comes more insistent than il has been
for a hundred years or SO, the Islands
will have little value so Ear as their
natural production is concerned, 50
whether the Union Jack or the Stars
and Stripes float over these micronesia
Is a matter of no serious Importance.
1t must be admitted, however, that
they have some strategic value, for
they lie almost on the course Of steam
ships from Hawaii to New Zealand,
and Tanning Island is at present a sta
ton Of one of the "all-British" cables.
This fact has caused some heart
burnings among patriots in Australia
and Great Britain. They have sounded
an alarm. They have written to their
newspapers, and have described the
sale as amazing" At this stage, the
High Commissioner of the Western Pa
cific relieved all the agitated minds by
declaring the purchaser of the islands
must hold them subject to the rights
Of the British Crown and the terri
torial rights of the Pacific Cable Board.
Tanning Island, the most important
Of the Tanning group, which also in
cludes Palmyra, Washington and
Christmas Islands, was discovered by
Captain Tanning in 1898. The same
year he saw Washington Island for
the first time, and named it for the
American general and patriot Christ
mas Island, the most southerly and
easterly of the group, was discovered
by the English navigator. Captain
Cook. Tanning and Washington Islands
were afterward occupied by Gregg and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
THE WIND.

I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And oil around | heard you pass,
Like ladies' skirts across the grass
o wind, a-bIowing all day long,
0 wind. that sings so loud song!
I saw the different things you did,
But always you yourself you hid.
l felt you push, I heard you call,
l could not see yourself at all
o wind, a-blowing all day long,
o wind, that sings so loud song!
o you that are so strong and cold,
o blower, are you young or old!
Are you a beast of field and tree,
Or just n stronger child than me?
O wind, ALLOWING all day long,
O wind, tn t sings so loud song!
Robert LOIS Stevenson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
Insect Pests.

The poultry house absolutely free OF
lice and mites is the happy exception
and not the general rule One must be
ever yigilant and constantly aggressive
In the warfare against these pests in
order to even keep them In subsection,
saws Matte Webster In Poultry Topics.
When a breeder tells me that not a
louise or mite can be found in his or
her poultry domain | cannot help think
ing that a thorough investigation of the
houses would discover some Of these
torments hidden away under perches or
in some dark corner. Why this doubt
of my brother or sister breeders asser-
ton, do you ask? Well, the time was
when | made like assertions, and
thought truthfully, but l had a rude
awakening from my dream of louseless
and miteless houses and fowls. Just as
soon as | became aware of the presence
of lice general cleaning was the or
der of the day, but never since have |
declared as Systematically as in the
times before / discovered the unwel-
come residents that there were neither
lice nor mites in my poultry house.
Whether you ..ILow that there are lice
or mites present or not, it will do no
harmto treat the houses as if you were
sure the unwelcome insects were there.
Spray tie perches often with kerosene
and crude carbOlic acid mixed, OF with
some one of the good lice killer on the
market and occasionally dust the fowsa
we'll with good insect powder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

There Is nothing so fascinating to
the man in whom there fingers some
thing Of the romantic aspirations &c
quired by an early perusal Of Robin
son Crusoe" as the possession of an
island To be, like Alexander Selkirk,
monarch of all he surveys has it's
attractions to the person who longs for
some olden-time adventure. Already
there are several Island MOnarchs" in
the world, who find the life not only
delightful but even profitable, and 9th
ers now have a similar opportunity to
become emperors on a small scale.
Three islands, which are "in the
market" are Melville Island, a sat
elite Of Australia, lying about twenty
miles northeast Of Port Darwin; Wash
ington Island, lying in the Pacific a
Few degrees north Of the Equator, and
Lundy Island, which is In the Bristol
Channel. Tanning Island, which is
near Washington, has just been sold In
London to man named Greig.
Ii one desires rest and quiet, he
would probably choose to make himself
king Of either Tanning or Washington
Island, but he would have to take his
subjects with him, for, apart from some
officials and some imported South Sea
Islanders on Tanning Island, the two
Isles are uninhabited. If, on the other
hand, the asplrant for kingshp wants
real adventure, Melville Island will
probably fill the bill. There the new
king will find a hardy race OF saw
age blacks and a land OverrrUn with
big game including 10000 buffalo. The
strenuous life is the only one that has
a foothold there, and an energetic CON
queror can find something doing" ev-
cry minute
Although Tanning and Washington
Islands were discovered by Captain
Edmund Tanning, an American sailor.
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important
has
btes In the bush and the mountain
Of
automobile finds
one n a no
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
Nerve.

'Mr. Farsyte sent me over to ask you
if you'd lend him your umbreller?"
said the boy.
Certainly" replied Suburbs; "but
what does he want with it? 1t isn't
raining"
NO, sir; bat he said 1t was pretty
sure to be rainin' some day soon, and
he'd need it then."-Catholic Standard
and Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
Meeting of Extremes.

In a hunters camp different men
began to unfold their yarns. Among
others a Kentuckian said he once shot
a buck in such a way that the bullet,
after hitting the right ear, passed
through the heel of the right hind foot
Jeering and laughter greeted the story.
Brown" called the Kentuckian to
his companion, ! these fellows II
what 1 say is not as true as gospel !"
why, yes" replied the other, Il saw
it myself. You see, gentlemen, when
he pulled the trigger of his rife, the
buck was just scratching his head with
his hoof."
Then he whispered to his friend:
"Thatwas a narrow escape. Another
time don't lie 50 TAR apart."-New
York Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

Those who have necessity to work study in an
evening are apt to be the miserable of all. Most
people seem imagine that recreation requires
agement 1t is mistake 1t wants plan. If you
resolve read in your evenings, why not first give
evening 10 drawing up scheme of reading to give you
the greatest pleasure and advantage? you want
els why find out the best?
Why will not people play games in a reasonable fash
ion? The games should be thought over. There is
doubt that they can be made excellent bad
There cheaper mental recreation than is to be got
by means of chess checkers You make any
of games unintellecual and wearisome by playing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
Little satisfaction.

Here. youl" growled the fat man
in the corner seat of the crowded car,
my feet are not there 10 stand on"
That's So replied the quiet of
fender; ''since you're sitting down you
don't need 'em for that purpose, do
?'1Catholic Standard and Times.
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freely give what they freely get believe that ambition
pride and nordnate independence self-reance are
our most dangerous foes. Humility becoming a name
for pous weakness and ambition longer SIM and
the desire to be unknown is considered foolshness
The profound of unworthness, and the deep
seated genuine desire to remain unknown serve God
in silence, the world of day little understands. Now
If the future is to be truly Christian, it be truly
humble and dependent upon God Motives inspired by
religious element within stron. est as relig
ion is the deepest and sacrifice producing power of
nature A consciousness of limitations Is the
result of religious thought and sentiment produces
sobriey of judgment and dependence Most High
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
AND PRIDE NATIONAL FOES.
Ry fHe HoSf Day

Marvellous as has been our progress in SIM
gle century, there is the greater need to pre-
serve what we have gained and to correct where
we have been deficient. Some have stated that our
leading radical fault is, love Of money, amount
Ing TO national avarice. But cannot believe that
love Of money is the predominant fault of the
American people. They are too noble and gen.
erous people to be nation of misers They
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
Strawberry Planting.

If you do not have strawberry bed
in your garden and want one, August
is good time to start If, provided you
plant pot-srown plants.
These pot grown plants are runners
which were rooted in pots early in the
season.
You could not use at this season
plants which had not been pot-grown
because the pots would be so badly
damaged in the transpianting that they
could not furnish the plant with the
amount of water which it would de-
mand. That kind of plant, known as
layer plants" may be set out in Sep
TENDER, but they would not give you
any fruit next spring under ordinary
cultivation, while pCt-grown plants set
out in August will bear next spring.
In bed 10x20 feet, one may grow
100 plants. If the soil Is heavy clay
thoroughly work into 1t dressing sew
eral inches In thickness, of coal ashes,
and half a ton of manure, before set
ting the plants. AS soon as the ground
freezes, spread another half ton Of ma.
nure over the bed as a mulch.
The following spring, as soon as the
first leaves show above the mulch, pull
the manure away from the crowns of
the plants, and work it into the soil.
Such a bed will bear more strawber-
ries than family of three can eat
fresh.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
HOW TO KEEP BOYS AT HOME EVENINGS.
By John A, Rowland

The idea that the evening is q time for amuse-
ment alone is by no means conducive to sue
cess in life The fact that enormous numbers
of young men and women seize on their even
ings to qualify themselves by study and hard
work for better positions IN life may convince
|others, who pin their faith to the notion that
they will certainly die if they exert themselves
too much, that it really is not fatal proceeding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
PLAY IS A FACTOR IN EDUCATION.
By w, III. Winch

We cannot long maintain ourselves in the
heights we descend for rest to the lower slopes,
keeping, if we can, out Of the valleys beneath.
The problem for US is to use play as relief
from work without descending into barbarism
in the process; TO use play as means of main
tanning the physical strength TO which modern
| life conditions are so inimical; to use play as
suggestive of mental development so that we
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
PRS FIN efnE PEOPI

them badly and never trying play them better On the
other hand by taking them up deeming them worthy
OF putting some brain work into them they be made
not merely first class recreaons brain sharpenerA
too
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
A Mistake.

1.-THE mills of the gods grind slowly"
Not on your life if they are gallery
fights" American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

The grass crop that the corn grower
Ices not care to see prosper is the fox
hil grass.
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II the attention OF those you are
talking to wanders frequently. that Is
sign you are not talking Hel and are
talking too much
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

A country woman's idea of shiftless-
ness is to see man doing nothing dur
ing harvest time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

Sometimes the man who sits and
waits for something to turn up is soon
Mrned down.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

Fine emery and oil will make good
paste with which to brighten tools.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

Occasionally You will find woman
who can tell how to make cherry
pie without explaining who planted
tie cherry tree.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

silo six feet square will hold
mough cider pomace for six cattle all
winter and will prove good invest
nent
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ANDRE" CARNEGIE evidences of it everywhere but to
it is not the real solution
With health and good habits and the willingness to
the chances in America as good as they ever
The man who is always complaining that he has
chance is the who is himself to blame.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
~o%~

A good season to raise hay often
heans a poor season to make it.
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OPPORTUNITIES AS GREAT AS EVER.
By Andrew Carnepie

am an individualist and think the
state is doing as much as it should.
If l were young man and alone In
the world l would work for a dollar
a day if. necessary, and 1 don't think
I'd ask any one to help me. There is
always room for the man who is will
ing to work, and when l hear to the
contrary it seems hard to believe /
know Of manufacturers who are will
ing to pay So day for men, and they
tell me they have difficulty in secur-
ing labor. Socialism of sort seems
to be growing in this country. 1 see
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The head may be said to be in good
working order when it can be used to
save the hands. These agents should
De in close cooperation.