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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
The End of Books.

What brings about the end of books ::
Is it fire, water. worms? As every
ship launched is bound to be wrecked,
every theater to DE burned, the fms of
the book is its reduction TO ashes.
What became of the AleXandrian Ii
brary? Did the Saracens burn it in
G4O? There is this question asked ::
Was there any library at Alexandria
containing 100000 books? Gibbon in
clines to the opinion that there was no
such library. Canon Taylor insists
that if there had been library it was
burned in the time of julius Caesar
Tradition seems to indicate, however,
that there was a library in the sera-
peum, by no means large collection.
but whether destroyed by Theophilus
or Theodosius is not known. 1t looks
as if the charge brought against the
Arabs rested Oh no foundation. EXplo-
rationS of Alexandria in 1886 show
no traces of the serapeum. The sea-
port of Egypt was built on a damp
foundation, and granting that there
was a library, if not destroyed by fire.
then the papyri might have suffered
from decay due D. water. Books of
to-day taken to India, to the Southern
States and to the West Indies perish
through mildew.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
NO MEDICINE
But Change of Food Gave Fina
RnIs af

But Change of Food Gave Final
Relief.
Most diseases start in the alimentary
canal-stomach and bowels
A great deal of our stomach and
bowel troubles come from eating too
much starchy and greasy food.
The stomach does not digest any of
the starchy food we eat-white bread,
pastry, potatoes, oats, etc.-these things
are digested in the small intestines, and
If we eat too much, as most of US do,
the organs that should digest this kind
of food are overcome by excess of work,
so that fermentation, Indigestion, and
long train of ails result.
Too much fat also is hard to digest
and this is changed into acids, sour
stomach, belching gas, and a bloated
heavy feeling.
In these conditions change from in
digeStible foods to Grape-Nuts will
work wonders in not only relieving the
distress but in building up a strong di-
gestion, clear brain and steady nerves
A Wash. woman writes:
About five years ago l suffered with
bad stomach-dyspepsia, indigestion.
stipation-caused, know now, from
eating starchy and greasy food.
Il doctored for two years without
any benefit. The doctor told me there
was no cure for me. l could not eat
anything without suffering severe pain
in my back and sides, and became dis
couraged
"A friend recommended Grape-Nuts
and began to use it. In less than two
weeks 1 began to feel better and inside
of two months 1 was well woman and
have been ever since
Il can eat anything I wish with
pleasure. We eat Grape-Nuts and
cream for breakfast and are very fond
Of it" Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tie Creek, Mich Read the little book,
The Road to MELVILLE" In pkgs.
There's a reason"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
WhnIeS Young Mt 100.


Elephants are probably the longest
lived members of the animal kingdom
averaging 100 and 200 years.
AS a general rule, there is a direct
relation between the duration of life
and the time required to develop fully
but to this there are exceptions. The
cat is mature before it is year old
and many live twenty years.
Size, also, seems to have a certain
relation to longevity, the elephant and
whale being the longest lived of mann
mails, but here, again, we have the
little beaver with a life more than
ros.
The average age of other animals are
as follows:
Ass, 30; bear, 20; beaver, 50; cam
ell, rs; cat. Is; chamois, %; COW, 10
deer, 20; dog, IA; fox, IA; goat, -;
Guinea pig, 4 4; hare, 8; hippopotamus
20; horse, %; hyena. %; jaguar,S %
leopard, %; lion, 40; monkey, II;
moose, 50; OK, 80; pig, 10; rabbit, Z;
rat, Z; rhinoceros. 20; sheep, 10; squir-
rel, s; stag. 80; tiger, %; wolf, 20.
While the average age of the whale
is somewhere between 100 and 200
years, Baron Cuvier. the celebrated
French naturalist, asserted that it was
probable that some attain the age of
1000 years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

matter discussed in Parliament. Several
warships and cruisers were dispatched 10
the Atlantic, but returned to report the
III result of their mission. Nor was my
oldest friend content with this national
action and the subsequent offer of re-
ward of $4,000 for the capture of the
'nameless ship or of her crew, for he put
the best private detectives in sthe city at
the work, sending two to New York and
others to Paris and to Spezia. When the
weeks passed and I did not come. all
thought that l had died in my self-ap-
pointed mission-another of Blacks vic
tins.
1t was but a few days after this sor-
rowful conviction that Black and | went
to London, and were seen by Inspector
King. who had watched night and day
for the mans coming. The detective had
Immediately telegraphed to the Admiralty.
and to Roderick, who had reached my
hotel to find that l had already left. Then
he had hurried back to Southampton,
there to hear of the going OF the warships,
and to wait with Mary tidings of the last
great battle, which meant life or death
to me.
Long we sat discussing these things,
and very bright were a pair Of dark eyes
that listened again to Roderick's story,
and then to more of mine But Roderick
himself had awoke from his lethargy, and
his enthusiasm broke through all his old
restraint.
Tomorrow, why tomorrow, you'll as
found London. My dear fellow, Wen go
to town together to claim the 10000
which the Admiralty offered, and the f20,-
900 from the Black Anchor Line, TO say
nothing of American money galore. You're
made for life, old man: and We'll take
the old yacht north to Greenland, and
hunt up the place and Blacks tender.
which seems to have escaped the iron
clads, and it'll be the finest trip we ever
knew"
what does Mary say?" 1 asked, as
she still held my hand.
Il don't mean 10 leave you again." she
answered, and as she spoke there was a
great sound of cheering above, and a
great tramp of feet upon the deck; and
as we hurried up. the hands l loved TO
see crowded about me, and their shouting
was carried far over the water and was
taken up on other ships, which threw
their searchlights upon us, so that the
night was as new day to me, and the
awakening from the weeks of dreaming
as the coming of spring after winters
dark Yet, as the child-face was all light
ed with radiant smiles, and honest hands
clasped mine, and the waters echoed the
triumphant greeting. could not but think
again of Captain Black, or ask myself,
Is the man really dead, or shall we yet
hear of him, bringing terror upon the sea,
and death and suffering: the master of
the nations, and the child of ambition
Or is his grave in the great Atlantic that
he ruled in the mighty moments of his
power?
All, wonder.
(The End.)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
ATTRACTIONS OF WESTERN
CANADA.
Magnificent Crop Return for the
1QOR

Magnificent Crop Return for the
Year 1906.
The manner in which the Canadian
West has attracted settlers in recent
years has caused many of our jour
mails and public men to sit up and take
notice, to use a current phrase. From
every European country and from al
most every State in the Union large
numbers of settlers have focked to the
p>airie provinces of Canada, where
free homesteads and wide opportuni-
ties are open to all who desire to avail
themselves of them.
The greatest factor in attracting set
tiers lies in the inherent richness OF
soil and suitability of climate for pro
ducing what is universally considered
to be the finest wheat in the world
the NO. l hard" of Canadian growth
and other cereals that rank in the very
first class. This year the harvest re-
turns were: Wheat, 100000 bush
els: oats, 100000 bushels; barley,
100000 bushels; and when it is con-
sidered that the entire population of
the three provinces-as evidenced by
the quiquennial census just completed
lis only $4,000. it is easily seen that
the lure of tie Canadian West is in its
agricultural potentialities.
Another feature which attracts the
settler is that railway construction is
itH n l.
most every district is within easy reach
OF outside markets, and that good
prices for all lines of farm products
rule practically from the commence
ment of agricultural operations. This
is a factor which did not prevail when
the earlier settlements in the West
were made in Canada and in the Unit
ed States, and has given a great i'm
! Jus to Canadian Western settlement
in recent years
The free grant system of homesteads
which prevails in the prairie provinces.
by which every settler who is able and
willing to comply with the conditions
of actual settlement (by no means on
er0uS) Is given lou acres Tree, except
$40 for entry, is a great drawing card,
and in the last fiscal year gathered in
over $4,000 additional to the West
ern population, of which 57,796 were
from the United States.
The further fact, as is strongly
brought out by the agent of the Cana
dian Government, whose address APP
pears elsewhere, that a splendid com
mon school system, practically free, pre-
walls throughout the entire country,
and is easy of access in even the most
remote districts, is another great in
ducement to the settler who has the
future welfare of his family in mind,
and this, coupled with the fact that
Western Canadian law and order are
proverbial, completes a circle of good
and sufficient reasons why the tide of
immigration has set in so steadily to-
ward the country to the north of our
boundary line.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
LIMB WASTED WITH ECZEMA
Suffered Untold Agonies-Doctor Sale
1t Was the Worst Case-Wonder-

ILL So4 ~
Il used the Cuticura Remedies for
eczema. The doctor said it was the
worst case he ever saw. 1t was on
both limbs, from the knees to the an
kles. We tried everything the doctors
knew of, but the Cuticura Remedies
did the most good. l was obliged to
lie with my limbs higher than my
head, for the pain was so terrible
could not walk. | suffered untold ag.
onies. One limb wasted away a great
deal smaller than the other, there was
so much discharge from it. | found
the Cuticura Remedies very soothing,
and l still keep them in the house.
am very thankful to say that am
cured. l found the Cuticura Remedies
all that you say they are. l hope that
you may be spared many years to
make the Cuticura Remedies for the
benefit of persons suffering from the
torture of skin diseases, such as had.
Mrs. Golding. Box 8, Ayr, Ontario.
Canada, June 6. 1905"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
SOULFUL SADNESS.
1t May Sometimes Be Cured by Very
Material Remedies.

1t May Sometimes Be Cured by Very
Material Remedies.
NO" said Miss Lydia, mournfully.
Nothing 1 could expect another person
to understand. II l have aspirations,
| and my disposition is unfortunately
sensitive-but l consider cheerfulness
to be a duty
$50 it is" assented Miss Serena,
heartily, "only people don't always see
it so. Some folks seem most to con-
slider it's q credit to be as miserable
as they can. Kind of proof they're
high-souled and fine-fibered and pro-
found in their affections. Oh, know!
1 used to be aspiring once, and sensi-
tive, and a martyr, and as proud as
could be Of looking out on a good big
sunny world through my own little pri-
vate pair of blue spectacles. So l can
sympathize.
Isn't that the postman coming?
Well, now, suppose he should hand you
a letter with n hundred-dollar bill in
it, don't you think possibly There,
there! Don't fly off the handle OF
COuISt L hlUW IL 1911 lIOuDltS,
but once when 1 was as blue as blue
myself-and no money about it; all
SOUL happened to have an uneXpect-
ed ten-dollar bill drop in, and it did
make a difference. Yes, truly, Lydia,
it did! l bought new hat with a
wreath of pink roses, and came back
stepping brisk, and holding my chin
high, and feeling those roses down to
the very tips of my toes.
at wasn't till next day remem-
bered how miserable I'd been, and that
pink roses oughtn't to heal a suffering
spirit; and. Lydia, 1 went pinker than
the roses all alone by myself to think
what a goose l was! That's why l
said money just now. You see, I've
found that a bit of material good luck
is a pretty good test Of soulful sadness.
1t wouldn't help the real thing, Of
course, but
why, whatever is there in that post
card you're smiling at so? l don't be-
lieve you've heard a word I've been
saying! For a week? Two concerts?
Why, when did her husband buy an
automobile? No, 1 hadn't even heard
they'd moved. Well, I'm sure l don't
doubt you'll have a grand time, and it
looks besides like 'twould be as quick
a cure for your sensitive and aspiring
soul as cash and pink roses was for
mine. Now doesn't it, Lydia? Own
I'D v'-Youth's Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
CHAPTER XIII.


About midnight thunderstorm got uI
| from the south. and the sea, rising some
what with it, wetted us to the skin
The lightning, terribly vivid and incesss
ant, lighted up the whole sea again anC
again, showing each the others face, the
face of a worn and fatigue-stricken man
! And the rain and the sea beat on unit
we shivered, covering and were numbed
Yet Black held TO silence, moaning at rare
| intervals as he moaned when the great
| ship sank. II was not until the sun rose
over the long swell that we slept for ar
hour or more; and after the sleep we were
both calmer. The captain was very quiet
| and he gazed at me often with the ex.
preston l had seen on his face when he
saved from his men.
boy" he said, look we'll at the sun
lest you never look at it again.
~ am looking" / rplied 'it is life tc
me-"
If" ne continued, very thoughtful
.'you, who have years with you, should
live when 1 go under, you'll take this belt
I'm wearing off me; it'll help you ashore
IL it happen that l live with you, it'll
help both of us
Were in the track of steamers" SAID
I: there's no reason to look at it thai
way yet"
That's your way, and the right one,
he answered: ''but I'm not a man like
that. and my hearts gone with my ship
| we shall never see her like again."
The captain pulled himself together
with a great effort, and sat aft, sculiing
with the short oar in a mechanical and
altogether absent way.
Black continued to brood, and when the
sun fell low in the west, and the whole
heavens were as mountains mad peaks OF
crimson fire, 1 knew by his mutterings
that the frenzy of madness was upon him
He raved with fierce threats and awful
cries at the American he had buried. OF
made desperate appeals TO some appari-
ton that came to him in his dreadful
dream. But at the last he grew almost
| incoherent. l was nigh dead with want
of sleep and fatigue, for l had not rested
during the fight with the ironclads, and
I went to sleep at last.
When l awoke for the third time, the
dinghy was held firmly by boat hook,
and was being drawn towards a jolly
| boat full of seamen. l rose up, rubbing
| my eyes as man seeing a vision but
| when the men shouted something to me
in German, / had another exclamation on
my lips; for l was alone in the boat, and
Black had left me.
Then / looked across the sea, and l
saw long black steamer lying to a mile
away, and the men dragged me into their
craft, and shouted hearty words of en-
enlargement, and fell to rowing with
great JOY. Yet l remembered dreaming
i and it seemed to me that the voice I had
heard in my sleep was the voice of Black,
who cried to me as he had cast himself to
his death in the Atlantic.
Was the man dead?. Had he really
ended that most remarkable life of evil
enterprise and of crime; or had he by
some miracle found safety while l slept
| Had the man gone out of my life wrap
| ped in the mystery which had surrounded
| him from the first? Or had he simply cast
| himself from the dinghy in fit of in
sanity, and died the terrible death of the
| puicide? / could not answer the tremen-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
"The Blood is The Life"

Science has never gone beyond the
ABOVE simple statement of scripture. But
IL has illuminated that statement and
given it a meaning ever broadening with
the increasing breadth of knowledge.
When the blood is rbad' or impure it
Is not alone the body which suffers
through disease. The brain is also
clouded, Vie mind and judgement are
enected. and many an evil deed or impure
thoSghtR @-be directly traced to the
impo1sey of the 6foaN Foul. impure blood
can De made pure BY the nse-Qf DR..
flerce's Golden Medical Discovery. Il
enrlches and pnrides the blood thereby
curing, pimples, blotches. eruptions and
other cutaneous affections, as eczema,
letter, or salt-rheum, hives and other
manifestations of impure blood.
O O @ Q Q o
In the cure of scrofulous swellings, en-
larged glands, open eating ulcers, or old
sores, the Golden Medical Discovery has
performed the most marvellous cures. In
cases of old sores, or open eating ulcers,
it is well TO apply to the open sores DR..
Pierce's All-Healing Salve, which pos
sesses wonderful healing potency when
used as an application to the sores in con-
junction with the use of Golden Medical
Discovery" as blood cleansing consti-
tutional treatment. II your druggist
don't happen to have the rAll-Healing
Salve" in stock, you can easily procure it
by inclosing fifty-four cents in postage
stamps to DR.. r. V. Pierce, 663 Main ST.,
Buffalo, n. Y, and it will come to you by
return post. Most druggists keep it as
well as the vGolden Medical Discovery"
O o O o @ o
You can't afford to accept any medicine
of 1trlknOlC1l composition as a substitute
for Golden Medical Discovery" which is
medicine OF KNOWN COMPOSITION,
having complete list of ingredients in
plain English on its bottle-wrapper, the
same being attested as correct under oath.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach. liver and bowels.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Telephones In Sweden.

Sweden's government has fostered the
use of the telephone for number of
years, with the result that in some
parts Of that country the instrument
is in more general use than anywhere
else in the world. There is being in
troduced a form of telephone trans
mitter so sensitive that it is not nee
essary to talk directly into the mouth
piece. The new design has very large
bell. which is held anywhere in the vi
cinity, but not directly at the mouth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Worth nOyyin z.

That Allcock's Plasters are the highest
result of medical science and skill, and in
ingredients and method have never been
equaled.
That they are the original and genuine
porous plasters upon whose reputation
imitators trade.
That they never fail to perform their
remedial work quickly and effectually.
That for Weak Back, Rheumatism,
Colds, Lung Trouble, Strains and all Lo-
cal Pains they are invaluable.
That when you buy Allcock's Plasters
you obtain the best plasters made.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
The Nose.

The nose is intended for breathing,
the mouth for speaking and eating.
Who has ever seen horse breathing
otherwise than through his nostrils?
Minute scientific investigation has re
vealed the fact that the number of peo-
pie who breathe through their nostriIs
are becoming gradually but surely few
er in number. The consequence is that
the nostrils decrease in size, while it
has been found that the prevailing nose
is quite an inferior organ to that of our
fOrefathers. 1t is we'll known phys
biological fact that unused muscles and
bones gradually disappear. Fish who
live in the dark, for instance or the
mole, who resides underground, become
blind. Thus if we cease to use our
noses for breathing they will cease to
exist They will become sUperfuous -
Pearson's Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Catholic Priests and Marriage.

Marriage by the clergy was first posi-
lively forbidden in the year 1914 by
Pope Gregory VII. The controversy
however, which had been going on for
centuries on that subject was not alto
gether settled by Gregory's decree. The
council of Trent in 1893 was the &C.
clesiastical body which formally pro
hibited priests from forming marriage
alliances. That permanently settled
the matter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
A Narrow Escape.

The company had assembled in the
church, but the bridegroom was no
where to be found. Finally a messen-
ger announced that the young man had
way to the church.
and just think" she said a month
afterward to a friend, what narrow
escape l had from becoming a widow !"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Advancing.

II can whistle" said the first man
nish girl.
That's nothing" replied the other !;
81 have just had two pockets made in
my tailor-made gown"
And what are they for?'
ITO put my hands in when l go
around looking for a political office.
Everybody expects to see officeseekers
with their hands in their pockets"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Brutality.
Here the far western orator waxed fer

Here the far western orator waxed fer
vent
Fellow citizens" he exclaimed. ''ordi-
narily l pay no attention TO campaign
ISLANDERS, but the candidate on the other
ticket has lied about me so persistently
and maliciously that 1orbearance has
ceased to be a virtue and / am going to
handle him without ,oves -
You can't!" hoarsely beloved a man
with short hair, a thick neck, and bull
dog face.
why not?' demanded the orator.
Cause it's agn the rules. Anywheres
in this State you've got to have gloves
weighin' at least two ounces ~
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Not UD in Tint.

Miss Backbay-You are familiar, in a
general way, with paleontology, are you
not?
Mr.. Carondelet-No don't remember
that / ever happened across it. But
once read Pale on Evidences of Chris
tianity," or something like that, when l
was boy, and l found it awful heavy
reading
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

not reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh
is blood constitutional disease, and in
order to cure it you must take internal rem
edieS. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not
a quack medicine. 1t was prescribed by one
of the best physicians in this country for
years and is a regular prescription. 1t is
composed Of the best tonics known, com
bined with the best blood purifiers acting
directly on the mucous surfaces. The per
feet combination of the two ingredients is
what produces such wonderful results in
curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials free
f. J. CHENEY & CO, Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by DR. ggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Sounded Convincing.

The editor was criticising the poem
just brought in by the literary contrib
utor.
You speak of the spirit of the for
est, he said. do you think there is
such a thing as a forest spirit. as dis
tinguished from any other kind?'
Yes, sir,' iercely responded the liter
airy contributor. Didn't you ever hear
of such a thing as wood a. ohol:'