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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

continue to suffer rather than submit
TO examinations which so many physi.
clans propose in order to intelligently
treat the disease; and this is the rea-
SON why 80 many physicians fail to
cure female disease.
This is also the reason why thousands
upon thousands of women are corre-
spending with Mrs Pinkham, daughter
in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, at Lynn,
Mass. To her they car confide every
detail of their illness, and from her
great knowledge. obtained from years
of experience in treating female ills.
Mrs. Pinkham can advise sick women
more wisely than the local physician.
Read how Mrs Pinkham helped Mrs T.
.Willadsen, of Manning, Ia. She writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
g can truly say that you have saved my
life, and l cannot express my gratitude in
words. Before l wrote to YOU telling you
how / felt, had doctored for over two years
steady, and spent lots of money in medicines
besides, but it all failed to do me any good. I
had female trouble and would daily have faint
ing spells, backache, bearing-down pains, and
my monthly periods were very irregular and
finally ceased. | wrote to you for your adj
vice and received letter full of instructions
just what to do, and also commenced to take
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and have been restored to perfect health.
Had it not Deem for you l would have been
il my grave to-day"
Mountains of proof establish tie fact
that no medicine III the world equals
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for restoring women's health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
MEXICAN RACE WAR.
FORTY-FIVE AMERICANS KILLED
IN MINE RIOT.
Outbreak Follows Strike and De-
mand for Increased Wages-Mex-
leans Fire on Foreigners and
Many Fall at the First Nolley.

In a desperate race war between
striking Mexican miners and Ameri-
cans forty-five Americans were killed
Friday at Cananea, Mexico, where is
located the great copper camp Of Col
onel W. c. Greene. The camp was set
on fire and it is reported that the Mex
leans defed all authority. They were
reported to be using dynamite in blow
ing up the great shelters and mills
owned by the Greene company.
The trouble arose at Cananea over
the demand of the Mexicans for an in
crease in wages from $3.50 to So per
day. Colonel Greene addressed prac-
tically the entire population of the
camp in an effort to pacify the excited
Mexicans. However, between and .
o'clock in the afternoon the Mexicans
opened fire on the Americans and forty
or more were killed.
Colonel Greene wired at once to Bis
bee for all the armed men that could
be sent to protect the Americans and
their property at Cananea. The pOpu-
Iation of Cananea is $4,000, of which
5000 are Americans The family of
Colonel Greene arrived at Naco, Ariz.,
Friday afternoon, but the colonel re-
manned with his property.
There has been bad blood at Cananea
for some time and only a month ago
the home of the superintendent of the
mine was dynamited by unknown par
ties Friday one of the policemen O.
the city was killed by an American,
who claimed it was personal griev-
ance he had against the Mexican.
George Metcalf. who was in charge
of the large lumber business of the
Greene company, was one of the first
men to be killed. The Mexican labor
ers had been gathering in a great
crowd during the forenoon and Friday
afternoon about 1900 of them started
from the vicinity Of the Sonora hotel
toward the lumber yard.
On the way they stopped at livery
stable and tried to persuade two Next
cans at work to join them, but they
refused, and when the proprietor told
them the stable was his individual prop
erty and was not connected with the
mining company they left At the lum-
Der yard a large fire hose was brought
out and as the crowd approached the
office water was thrown on them.
At the same time Metcalf advanced
on the crowd with rife. The Next
cans closed in on him, took the gun
from his hands and beat him to death
with it. William Metcalf, a nephew,
rushed to the rescue of his uncle, when
he was shot by Mexican. Three Mex
leans We're killed at the lumber yard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
Dear Little Soul.

There was company to dinner, and
little Edith was seated at table in all
the glory of her best dress and pima
fore.
Dinner was proceeding amicablS
enough, but there were one or two aw-
full pauses, and in the silent depths of
one OF these the sweet treble of little
Edith was raised.
oh, mamma" she cried, what is
this?'
This, was a very obvious hair. but
mamma, although red with confusion,
had sufficient presence of mind left to
say:
Hush, dear you can see what it is
1t is 4 crack -
Silence for a moment. and then:
"Oh, | say, mamma, isn't it funny?
l can move this crack about !'-An-
swers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
An EccIesims1icaI Hnt.

A milliner who works in large city
says that one day a woman came into
the store very much excited, and want
ed the trimming on her new hat
changed. She said that it had been
trimmed on the wrong side.
But" said the saleswomap, ''the
trimming is on the left side. That is
where it ought to be-"
1T doesn't make any difference
whether it ought to be in front or back.
or right or left, it's got to be on the
church side"
Church side" gasped the astonished
girl
Yes, church side. l sit right next
the wall in church, and I'm not going
to have all that trimming next the
wall. l want it on the other side, so
the whole congregation can see it,
The trimming was promptly placed
on the church side" of the hat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
PAINTING SPELLS
Cured by DR.. Williams Pink Pills, the
Kennedy Which Actually Makes
New Blood.

ffShfSoy WHICH ACtGaiiy mdkeS
New Blood.
Anamia makes the patient short of
breath so that there is often sense of
sufocation, sometimes there is cough
and the sufferer seems to be going into
consumption, at others there is MUIR
mar of the heart and heart disease is
feared. In the following case severe
fainting spells were an alarming symp-
tom resulting from ''too little blood
Mrs. George Forester, of Curtis
street, Watertown, NY, says: "Some
time ago took heavy cold and it left
me III very weak condition. I be-
came worse and worse until finally I
had anRmia. l lost flesh and appetite,
had no color and was subject to fainting
spells. Sometimes they would attack
me suddenly and would fall to the floor
with hardly any warning.
had one of our best physicians,
but after he had been attending me
about month without any improve
ment III my condition, | decided to see
what DR.. Williams Pink Pills would do.
1.-THE pills We're well known to me
for, about two years before, members
of my family had taken them with the
best results. l soon found that the pills
were just what / needed for l soon be-
gan to notice an improvement. After
had taken them while longer Twas en-
tirely cured, and we all believe in Or.
Williams Pink Pills and recommend
them highly"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills actually make
new blood. They do that one thing and
they do il well IMPOVERISHED blood is
deficient in red oorpuscles. DR.. Williams
Pink Pills increase the number of these
red corpuscles and i'll this way send
health and strength to every tissue.
All druggists sell DR.. Williams Pink
Pills or they will be sent by mail, post
paid, on receipt Of price, so cents per
box, six boxes for $3.50, By the DR.. Will
Hams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
OLD MAIDS AS MOTHERS.
How Spinsters Display ParentaIism
When in Charge of Children.

How Spinsters Display ParentaIism
When in Charge of Children.
A woman may not be especially de-
voted to children, or feel any acute de-
sire to possess them, and yet, nine
times ont of ten, if she has to take some
small boy or girl shopping or walking,
she will, half unconsciously, begin play
ing mother.
There are certain ways of pulling
down little skirts and settling caps that
are distinctly parental and possessive,
a manner of grasping small hands and
answering shrill questions that pro-
claim to all the world, This is my jew
ell" Few parents can avoid a trace of
self-conscious pride when treating the
community to sight of their offspring
But let spinster take a small relative
In charge, and she will outmother the
most demonstrative mother Of them all
in her airs and gestures.
Her dear" is a masterpiece of indul,
gent parentalism, and if the unappre-
ciative youngster shouts out, "Aunty,"
q look of sharp modification comes
across her face. She buys little shoes
and socks with an air of mature DELHI
Grafton tempered by a half humorous
tenderness, and the clerk, if she knows
her business, asks questions about the
age and size and smiles alphabetically
over the small garments.
A woman may restrain herself from
obviously making believe in the street,
but before counterful of frilled caps
or Dutchy little trousers she is a moral
coward and cannot resist the alluring
mantle of motherhood. She may love
her spinsterhood and exult in her free
dom, but down beneath the eternal fem
mime is awake and clamoring for its
birthright.-Chicag Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
PERFECT TlMEkEEPER.
Clock Made of Floating Cups Which
Measured the Hours Correctly.

SI0ckN hade OF Floating cups !" a1cn
Measured the Hours Correctly.
Apropos of the recent paragraphs
about timepieces, William c. Yivash,
according to the New York Press, says:
The floating cup of your friend Paul
Virgins recalls a device used aboard
the Prahus, cruising in the waters ad-
Jacent to the Malay peninsula, Java,
etc. As late as the year 1910, when
that famous Englishman, Sir James
Brooke, held sway in Borneo, as rajah
Of Sarawak, it was in extensive use
both ashore and afioat The contriv-
ance consisted of tub filed with wat
er, having a rim running around the
edge. On this rim were arranged twelve
cocoanut shells, each with one fine hole
in the bottom, to insure its filling with
water in exactly one hour. The shells
were connected by certain lengths of
cord. The clock was set by tipping the
first shell into the tub.
AT the end of an hour, the first
shell being full, sinks to the bottom
with a noise, and in so doing drags the
second shell off the rim into the water;
the second, filling, drags off the third,
and so on until the twelve have gone
by the board. 1t is true that this clock
needs winding twice h twenty-four
hours, but at sea, where watches are
kept, this is not much of a drawback,
and the instrument is warranted to
keep accurate time, which is more than
can be said of some pretentious and
expensive timepieces current these days.
1t seems to me that the half hours and
quarters might be easily marked on
the shells so that the time between the
hours could be found by inspection. At
the hour, the striking of the filled shell
on the bottom of the tub, of course,
gives notice to the man on watch
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

worked in the wool -
en- mills and later learned the shoe
making trade. Fifty years ago he was
an active advocate of the shorter work
day, and with Ira Steward, had much
to do with the establishment of the ten
hour law in Massachusetts. With the
support and cooperation of Wendell
Phillips and Governor Clafin he was
instrumental in founding the Massachu-
sets bureau of labor statistics, the first
board of its kind to be created in this
country. In 1888 he joined the Knights
of Labor, but later severed his connec-
ton with that organization because he
did not approve of its policy Of mixed
assemblies. In 1896 he was elected fra
ternal delegate from the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor to the British Trades
Union Congress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
The Giant HOLSTERS.

The largest lobster ever caught on
the coast of America was taken by
Belfast (Me.) fisherman in 1891. 1t
weighed twenty-three pounds and
measured thirty-seven inches from the
end of its tail to the tip Of the long
front claws. The monster was too
large to enter a common lobster trap.
but as the trap was being drawn up
it was caught in the netting and safely
landed. Many years ago lobster
weighing twenty-five pounds was cap
tured near the same place, and the
event was considered to be of enough
Importance to be given place in Will
iamSon's History of Belfast"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

"a. HUNTER CORBETThaS spread through
out the whole of the great province of
Shantung. He is the most indefatiga-
bic traveller and the greatest evangelis-
tic preacher among the Presbyterian
missionaries in the Middle Kingdom.
The prominent feature of his long ca
reer is his great faith in the usefulness
of native preachers, of whom there are
now between forty and fifty attached
to the Chefoo station. When DR.. Bradt
persuaded his Wichita church that it
should have a foreign pastor, the board
assigned Dr. Corbett to the cIAlrch's
support, and the appeal which the per-
sonality of the man made to the Wichi-
ia people helped greatly in increasing
the gifts of the congregation, which
now maintains not only Dr.. Corbett but
many of his native helpers Though now
well past the age of 20, the stalwart
missionary speaks, as he works, with
young mans intensity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
Probable Address.

The Lindsborg News recently receiv-
ed a card from the postmaster of a
town in Idaho asking that the paper
addressed to a certain man of that
town be stopped and gave his reason :
Dead, left no address," As the man
was ten years in arrears and had made
nc effort to pay, though often impor-
tuned by the newspaper to do so, the
editor of the News says he has pretty
fair idea of what that mans present
address is all right, all right.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
DISFIGURING SKIN HUMOR.
Impossible to Get Employment, as
Face and Body Were Covered with
Sores-Oured by Cuticura.


Sores-Oured by Cuticura.
Since the year 1894 l have been
troubled with a very bad case Of
eczema which i have spent hundreds
of dollars trying to cure, and l went
TO the hospital, but they failed to cure
me, and it was getting worse all the
time. Five weeks ago my wife bought
a box of Cuticura Ointment and one
cake of Cuticura Soap, and 1 am
pleased to say that l am now COM
pletely cured and well. 1t was impos-
sible for me to get employment, as my
face, head and body were covered with
IT. The eczema first appeared on the
top of my head, and it had worked all
the way around down the back OF my
neck and around TO my throat, down
my body and around the hips. 1t itched
so / would be obliged to scratch it,
and the flesh was raw. l am now all
well, and | will be pleased to recon-
mend the Cuticura Remedies to all per-
sons who wish a speedy and perma-
nent cure of skin diseases. Thomas
NJ. Rossiter, 300 Prospect Street. East
Orange, n. J. Mar 30, 1905"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
Costly Chickens.

Chan Perdue, postmaster Of Beloit,
concluded to go into the chicken bust
ness this spring just to give his wife
something to do. He bought two incu-
bators and sent off and got 600 high
priced eggs. The eggs Matched the
other day and he got just two chickens.
They have cost him up to date S47.S5
each.-Kansas City Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition Of the mu-
cous lining Of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rumblng
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed, Deafness is the result and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its Hormai condi-
ton. hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed condition
Of the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case Of Deafness Caused by catarrn)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

taking Doan's Kidney Pills l passed
several gravel stones. 1 got well and
the trouble has not returned. My back
is good and strong and my general
health better"
Sold by all dealers. so cents n box.
Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo, n. 7.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
FOrethOught.

Suddenly Archie clapped his hand on
one of the upper pockets of his waistcoat.
Crushed your cigars again, / sup
pose?" said Miss Jarfmer, with a be-
witching blush.
mo, thank heaven !" exclaimed Archie.
81 remember now that / put them in the
other pocket before l came"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
Recoming Great Ports.

Duluth and Superior City are looming
up among the great ports of the world
They have combined 2SS miles of docks
and the greatest vessel tonnage in the
United States In 1904 they handled TO-
525 vessels of 20,905,0 900 tons. In 1905.
1856 vessels of 24,S06.455 tons. Among
the regular visitors are $50 steamers of
tonnage of 1000 tons each and upward.
There are SO elevators in Duluth and SUI
perior with combined capacity of a.
$4,000 bushels of grain and eight large
Touring mills.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

anu low W cure
them. Mrs. W. g.
Davis, of Groesbeck,
Texas, says: Back
aches hurt me so |
could hardly stand.
Spells Of dizziness
and sick headache
were frequent and
the action of the kid.
neys was irregular.
Soon after I hogan
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

spicuous part in
Russian political
affairs. He was
minister of the in
terror from 1895 I'M
til 1899, and a year
ago was made head
of a commission to
counterfeit the agra
rian movement in
the Caucasus. In 4
general way he is
oolaci1npnI RI ha a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
Conditions of Working Women.

The conditions of working women Eas
the subject of a paper read before she
academy of political and social science at
Bhiladelpha by Mrs. Rose Pastor Phelps
Stokes. She argued that much of the
hardship of wage working women was due
to the fact that they are obliged to con-
tribute TO the support of families who live
in idleness and luxury, and she thought
that it was the universal recognition of
this fact among the working people which
led to the strikes and industrial disturb
ances and to that class hatred and cray
ing for justice which underlie the social
istic program,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
Lax Compulsory Education Laws.

William II. Allen, general agent for the
New York association for improving the
condition of the poor, writing in the
American Monthly Review of Reviews,
calls attention to the fact that from So
600 to 100000 children who are supposed
to be attending the schools of New York
City, under the compulsory education law,
in fact are running the streets or work
ing in tenements and factories. in viola
ton of the child labor law. He makes
this the basis for demand for more sat
isfactory school reports.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

der during the re.
C e n t disturbance
has been in the pc.
lice service of the
French capital since
1888 and has beer
project since 1891
His fitness for the
office, with its mul.
titudinous duties, is
shown by his reap
pointment to the of.
foe nv tho variolJs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
An EXCISE.

Il remember when he first left col
lege his motto was !: There's always
room at the top"
Yes, but he insists now that the top
keeps getting higher all the time
philadelnhia Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

at his carriage,
wounding him, is
hated by the people
of Russia for the
stern measures with
which he put down
the outbreaks in the
old capital of the
Cars. He is charged
with having armed
the Black Hundred,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

Moines, is one of
the greatest preach
ers a n d strongest
N j s S mar les in
China. He was born
in LIE a t b wood.
Pa, in 1885, and
settled as a mission
airy in Chefoo in
1868. His constant
ly growing influence
in gospel successes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
a Good Scheme.

How on earth did you ever get a
messenger boy to deliver your note and
bring the answer back so quick?"
u took his dime novel away from
him and held it as security pPllila-
delphia Public Ledger
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
Smoke Nuisance,

The humorous individual came out
on the back platform and said:
Il love my native soil"
Indeed responded the usual crowd
of smokers. And yhat do you call
your native soil?'
He pointed TO the black streak on his
shirt front.
THAT, gentlemen. 1 live in Chi
cago."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

Nell-You don't mean to say you're
going to marry him?
Believes.
Nell-The idea, Why, you said you
wouldn't marry him if he were the last
man on earth.
Belle {snappily) We'll, my gracious
he isn't is he?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
Caught Something.

Church-Are people with tainted
money liable to catch anything?
GotLam-Oh, yes; old Oilstieks
caught husband for his daughter
Yonkers Statesman
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
Right to Ignorance INDICATED.

The recent decision of Judge Rice of
the Superior court of Pennsylvania, sus-
tanning the lower court in declaring un-
constitutional. the vital section of the law
of 1905, prohibiting the employment of
boys under 16 in the mines and under
IA above ground, is responsible for the
bringing thousands of small boys back in
to the mines and breakers. Although the
prohibition against employment of these
boys stands its effectiveness is totally re-
moved by striking out the provision re-
curing presentation of employment GER
tifcates, including the record showing
the holders attendance at school during
the preceding yeara. Florence Kelly, sec
rotary of the National Consumers league,
says in Charities and the Commons, that
the certificates thus abolished are the
simplest device yet invented for making
the age limit workable, and declares that
these Pennsylvania judges will 90 down
to history as the enemies of The children,
ike the twenty-one Georgia Senators who
last June condemned to deadly toll in the
cotton mills by day and by night little
children" The Pennsylvania case will
be carried to the supreme court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07

on economic sub
1ects. He was pop
ularly known as the
father of the eight
h ur DIRK d a y
movement" from the
part he took in adj
vocating the eight
hour work day. Mr..
Mcneil was born in
Amesbury, Mass, in
1886. AS a boy he