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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

tied that he is unable to see anything
before him, but he can see plainly any
thing at the side of him. There have
been but few cases of its kind before
and they have been caused by whiskey
or tobacco. Leach has never used
either, but has been a great coffee
drinker and the specialists have decid-
ed that the case has been caused by
this. Leach stated himself that for
several years he had drank three cups
of coffee for breakfast, two at noon
and one at night. According TO the
records Of the specialists of this coun-
try this is the first case ever caused
by the use of coffee.
The nerve is ruined beyond aid and
his case is incurable. The fact that
makes the case a queer one is that the
sight forward has been lost and the
| side sight has been retained. Accord
| ing to the doctors statement the young
man will have to give up coffee or the
| rest of his sight will follow and the
entire nerve be ruined.-Register-G Ga
sette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

restore the family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
SO good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no money, and
little credit. Their first laboratory
herbs were stepped on the stove,
gradually filing a gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
it, for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired a job
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the medi-
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons in
Boston, New York, and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties Of
the medicine We're, to great extent,
selfadvertising, for whoever used IL
recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fare
lily had saved enough money to COM
mence new paper advertising and from
that time the grow tn and success of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia E. Pinl<ham and her Vege-
table Compound have become house.
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu-
ally in its manufacture.
Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work as
effectively as she could have done it
herself.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she was always careful to pre-
serve a record of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-receive
careful study, and the details, includ-
ing symptoms. treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since, are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent vast collabora-
ton of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaled in any library in the
world.
With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
daughter in law, the present Mrs.
Pinkham. She was carefully instructe l
in all her hard-won knowledge, and
for years she assisted her in her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally 5ell the
direction of the work when it's origina-
tor passed away. For nearly twenty
five years she hal ontinued it, and
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her
pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham,
now the mother of a large family, took
it up. With women assistants, some az
capable as herself, the present Mrs,
Pinkham continues this great work and
probably from the office of no other
person have SO many women been adj
vised how to regain health. Sick wo-
men, this advice is "Yours for Healths
freely given if you only write to ask
for it.
Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound made
from simple roots and herbs the ono
great medicine for women's ailments,
and the fitting monument to the noble
woman whose name it bears.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Seemed to Have Him Cornered.

The teacher was discoursing to the
class on the wonders of nature. take
the familiar illustration of the sting
Of the wasp" he said, 'as compared
with the finest needle. When exam
ined through microscope the sting is
still sharp, smooth and polished, while
the needle appears blunt and rough.
1T is so with everything. The works
of nature are infinitely superior to
those of art. Try how We may, we
cannot improve on nature"
1T isn't so with my eyes, teacher"
said a little girl in the class.
why, how is that, Nellie?' he
asked.
"'Cause nature made me cross
eyed" she said, land the doctors fixed
my eyes all right"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18


Far and away stretched the waving
grasses and the low hills.
On and on wandered the little boy
He did not know where he was, and
yet he did not weep.
He was very brave little lad and
q mere child withal, so that, although
he had lost his bearings, was not
alarmed.
For did he not have his nice new
rubber bali with him? And would it
not be fine to bounce ii about over the
hard. smooth ground?
Selecting Il spot bare of grass he
threw the ball down, with all his
might.
But it lay rfcless just where it had
alighted.
Again the puzzled lad threw it down.
but the resilient gutta percha spheroid
lay dead and inert exactly as it had
fallen.
Then, as the fearful truth broke
upon the lad. he broke forth into walls
of despair. lie was on the boundless
prairie.-Judge.
The clock in Exeter cathedral, Eng
land, is 700 years old. The dial is seven
feet in diameter. The dial shows the
time of day and the moons age.
Sir Alfred Harmsworth. the London
newspaper man. has added another to
his long list of publications, in purchas-
ing the London World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Unrepentant.
there is an
between right and :
there wnl1ldI
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has ben able to cure m
all its stages, and that is Catarrh Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure
Send for list Of testimonials
Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. Toe.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

Let it be remembered that the eyes
may be attacked in one case and the
stomach in another, while in others it
may be kidneys, heart, bowels or gen.
eral nervous prostration. The remedy
is obvious and should be adopted Le-
fore too late.
Quit coffee, if you show incipient
disease.
1t is easy if one can have well-boiled
Postum Food Coffee to serve for the
hot morning beverage. The withdraw
al of the old kind of coffee that is do
ing the harm and the supply of the ele-
ments in the Postum which Nature
uses to rebuild the broken down nerve
cells, insures a quick return to the old
joy of strength and health, and it's
we'll worth while to be able again to
do things" and feel well. There's
reason for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
ELoPEMENT PROVES FIAsco.

Miss Busch and Lieut.. ScharreF
May Not Marry After All.
The two principals in the str, 1uous St.
Louis romance, who apparently are not
to be married after all. Brewer Adolf
plus Busch's daughter went to Belle
vile, Ill, with Scharrer, who is a sutton
from Stuttgart, Germany. They sought
marriage license, but could not get
one. The girl communicated with her
father, who ordered her home, saying she
could be married there just as well. How
ever, Miss Busch has been taken to the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
FOUR YEARS OF AGONY.
Whole Foot Nothing but Proud Flesh
Had to Use Crutches-"Cuticura


Remedies the Best on Earth"
''In the year 1899 the side of my
right foot was cut off from the little
toe down to the heel, and the physician
who had charge of me was trying to
sew up the side Of my foot, but with
no success. At last my whole foot
and way up above my calf was moth
ing but proud flesh. l suffered untold
agonies for four years, and tried diff
ferent physicians and all kinds of oint-
ments. l could walk only with
crutches. In two weeks afterwards l
saw a change in my limb. Then l
began using Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment often during the day and kept it
up for seven months, when my limb
was healed up just the same as if I
never had trouble. 1t is eight months
now since 1 stopped using Cuticura
Remedies, the best on Gods earth. l
am working at the pre- day, after
five years Of suffering. The cost of
Cuticura Ointment and Soap was only
Sc; but the doctors bills were more
like $500. John NJ. Lloyd, 71S S. Arch
Ave, Alliance, Ohio, June 81, 1905"
Unrepentant.
Visitor-But there is an essential diff
ference between right and wrong
COnvict-Oh, there wouldn't have been
so much difference if l had had a good
lawVer-Puck
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Domestic Joys.

"Such a man as you are" snapped tn
angry better half of the combine
doesn't deserve to have a wife"
That's right, my dear" calmly re
piled pa. Give often wondered what
ever did to deserve such an affliction.'-
Chicago Daily News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
PATTIsoN NOW GOVERNOR.
Democratic Anti-Liquor Man Inau.
Eurated in Ohio.

Eurated in Ohio.
Under unwonted conditions-both ply
steal and political-John NJ. Pattison
was inaugurated at Columbus as Gov
ernOr of Ohio Monday.
The political popularity of the cere-
mony was that the new executive is
Democrat-the first the buckeye State
has called t. Office in many years Mr..
Pattis0n introduced a unique feature at
the inaugural ceremonies by retrieving
the parade while standing in a glass cage
which had been erected on the reviewing
stand TO guard him from the wintry air.
Gov. Pattis0n had been il with a severe
cold for several days and under no other
conditions would his physician permit
him to venture beyond his home
The spectacle of new Governor
standing in Il glass case to review the
parade celebrating his induction into Of
lice attracted an immense crowd Of pe0-
pie. every section Of the State being rep
resented.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Bad Stomach Makes
Bad Blood.

You can not make sweet butter in
foul, unclean churn. The stomach serves
as a churn in which to agitate, work up
and disintegrate our food as it is being
digested. If it be weak, sluggish and
foul the result will be torpid, sluggish
liver and bad, impure blood.
The ingredients of DR.. Pierce'S Golden
Medical Discovery are just such as best
serve to correct and cure all such de-
rangements. 1t is made up without a
drop OF alcohol in its composition; chem
ically pure, triple-refned glycerine being
used instead of the commonly employed
alcohol. Now this glycerine is of itself q
valuable medicine, instead of a deleteri-'
GUS agent like alcohol, especially in the
cure of weak stomach, dyspepsia and the
various forms of indigestion. Prof. Finley
Ellingwood M. D., of Bennett Medical
College, Chicago, says of it:
Yin dyspepsia it serves an excellent pur-
pose. 1t is one of the best manufact-
ured products of the present time in it's
action upon enfeebled. disordered stomachs;
especially If there IS liberation or catarrhal
gastritis catarrhal Inflammation Of stomach.
it is most efficient preparation. Glyceripe
and excessive gastric acidity 1t is useful in
chronic intestinal dyspepsia, especially the
fatulent variety, and in certain forms Of
chronic constipation. stimulating the secre-
tory and excretory functions OF the intestin al
slWan bsn combined. in lust the right propor-
tions, with Golden Seal root, Stone root,
Black Cherry bark Queens root, Blood
root and Mandrake root, or the extracts Of
these, as in DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, there can be no doubt of it's
great efficacy in the cure of all stomach,
liver and intestinal disorders and derange-
ments. These several ingredients have
the strongest endorsement in all such
cases of such eminent medical leaders as
Prof. Z. Bartholow, NJ D., OF Jefferson Med
ical College. Chicago; Prof Hobart A. Hare,
M. D.. of Medical Department. University of
Pa; Prof Laurence johnson. NJ. D.. Medical
Department. University Of New York; Prof.
Edwin N; Hale. n D.. Hahnemann Medical
College, Chicago; Prof. John M. Scudder NJ. d.
and Prof. John King. M. D.. Authors Of the
American Dispensatory; and scores of others
among the leading medical men Of our land.
Who can doubt the curative virtues OF
a medicine the ingredients of which have
such a professional endorsement?
Constipation cured by Doctor Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. One or two a dose.
The Empire of India extends over
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

Just think what an outrage it is TO
be robbed of all the benefits Of the
services by continuous coughing
throughout the congregation. whom
Anti Gripine is guaranteed to cure.
Sold everywhere, % cents. F. w. Die
mer. NJ. d., Manufacturer. Spring
field No.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
SHIPS IN A CRASH.
BattIeship Kentucky Run Down by
the Powerful Alabama.

The battleships Kentucky and Kear-
sarge ran aground and the Kentucky
was fouled and damaged by the bat
tIeship Alabama during the passage
of the battleship squadron under COM
mand of Rear-Admiral Robley Evans
through the main ship channel out of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Snfr

'Your words are as sweet as soft
music IL my ears
That's what he meant to say. But
he was somewhat ratified and he got it:
Your words are as soft as sweet
music"
Then she got mad.-Cleveland Lead
or
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
SRcDnu-Hand.

Ascum-Why, thought Cribber one
of the wittiest comedians on the
vaudeville stage. Apparently you
didn't like the sort of jokes he uses.
Reedit-Oh. but I do. That's why
l couldn't laugh at him. He and
seem to read the same joke papers,
Philadelphia Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
AN EVERYDAY STRUGGLE.
Too Many Women Garry the Heavy
Load of Kidney Sickness.
Mrs r W Wright of 10 No in

S t r e e t, Haverhill,
Mass, says: "In
1898 l was suffering
so with sharp pains
in the small of the
back and had such
frequent dizzy spells
that l could scarcely
get about the house.
The urinary pas
81 0pS W.arp also unite
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
THE CALL OF THE CANADIAN
WEST.
The Greatest Wheat Crop of the
Continent.

The Greatest Wheat Crop of the
Continent.
The year that has just closed has
done a great deal towards showing the
possibilities of Western Canada from
an agricultural standpoint. The wheat
crop has run very near to the 100000,
O00-bushel limit that was looked upon
as too sanguine an estimate only a
short time ago, and the area that has
been broken to fall wheat for the com
ing harvest will go a long way to-
wards enabling the farmers of the
West to overlap on the 1O0,0OOOO0-
bushel estimate next year. And while
the spring and winter wheat have
been doing so we'll during the past few
years the other cereals have been keep
ing up with the procession. Rye and
barley have made immense strides, and
peas and fax have been moving stead
lily along. Dairying also has been sue
cessfully carried on in the new prov
inces, and in every stage the farmer
has been striking it rich" To such an
extent has the success of the West
taken hold of outsiders that the rush
of Americans to Saskatchewan and
Alberta, which was looked upon as
marvellous last year, bids fair to be
largely exceeded in 1906, and as there
are still millions of acres of free home
steads available, which the building of
the new railways will render accessi-
BILE to the markets, new wheat lands
will be opened up ere long. Amongst
the first to avail himself of the oppor-
tunity presented will be the American
settler In a large number Of Ameri
can cities Dominion government
agents are located, who are able and
willing to give the latest and best in
formation in regard to the new dis
tricts which the railways will open up,
and there will be no abatement Of the
rush to the Canadian prairies during
the coming season. Some time since
poet in the columns of the Toronto
Star" had the following stirring lines,
which throb of the Western spirit:
There's a sir in the air, there's a thrill
IuIouSH Tue iduu, lhtie d
movement toward the Great
West;
And the eyes of all men for the mo-
ment are turned to the country
that we love the best;
For it's Canada's day in the worlds
calendar, and to this merry toast
let US sup:
Here's to the land, the young giant of
the North
Where the prairies are opening up"
They come from the East and they
come from the South-they
come DER the deep rolling sea-
They come for they know they will
dwell meath a flag that makes
all men equal ana free.
Then. once more the toast, and let
every man rise, and cheer ERE
he sips from the cup:
Here's to the land, the young giant
of the North,
Where the prairies are opening up"
A Good Club.
The weather man said it would rain
to-day and am glad l carried my UNI
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
just How 1t Happened.

Mother-What! Fighting again? Such
a black eye! If you'd only follow the
lead of the minister little boy
Tommy-Aw, 1 did try ter foller his
lead, but he led again wild his left an
dat's where he biffed me.-Philadelphia
Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
WHO SHE WAS
And True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
Had Its Birth and How the "Panjc of 1872 Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

This remarkable woman. whose
maiden name was Estes, was born in
Lynn, Mass, February eth, 1919, COM
ing from good old Quaker family.
For some years she taught school, and
became known as a woman of an alert
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

irregular. Monthly periods were so
distressing 1 dreaded their approach.
This was my condition for four years.
Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right
away when l began with them and
three boxes cured me permanently"
Sold by all dealers 90 cents a box.
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo. n. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Accomplished.

There is wonderfully trained owl
out at the golf club
What does it do?''
Says mon after every single
'hoot' Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Ouife a rer

First Clubman-Where's Psmith to-
night?
Second Clubman-His wife sent him
one of her "At-Home" cards to-day, and
l guess he's taken the hint.-Cleveland
Lea der
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

country home of the family, and rumors
that he frightened Miss Busch into con-
sent by displaying a pistol are not dis
cussed by Scharrer. He is also reported
to have demanded a million-dollar dowry
for his intended bride
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

1 find Piso's Cure for Consumption the
best medicine for croupy children.-Mrs.
F. Callahan, la Hall street, Parkers-
burg, w. Va, April Is. 1901.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

More than 10000 pilgrims. male and
female, ascend Mount Fujiyama, in
Japan, every year. Fujiyama is 1856
feet high.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Nfexico's lighthouses,

Every town in Mexico has public
bath house. And still the Mexicans are
not the cleanest people in the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
In Old Independent.

An Old Independent.
The death of Senator David Wark,
the oldest member of the Canadian
Parliament, recalls an anecdote which
illustrates his remarkable independ-
ence. At the age of 101 he was still
holding the seat which had been his
for almost half a century.
During his last years his family had
been worried about his habit of trav-
cling alone in mid-winter from his
home in Fredericton, New Brunswick
to his post in Ottawa. They urged him
to let his daughter accompany him.
Senator Wark would have none of
her.
"A man of my age" he said, has
all he can do taking care of himself
without having woman to look
after
At the Hotel.
Guest-Didn't 1 telegraph for the
best room in the house?
Clerk-Yes, sir.
Guest-Why didn't you save it for
me?
Clerk-I've already given the best
room in the house to fifty people to-
night, and 1 thought you wouldn't like
to be crowded.-Cleveland Leader.
There are nearly 23,000,000 horses in
European Russia. No other country in
the world has so many horses as Rus
sa.
\ large proportion of the cooking in
Paris restaurants is done in sight of the
customers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

Mrs. Wins1ow's SOOTHING SYRUP for Children
teething; softers the gums reduces Inflammation, al
lays pain, cures wind collie. Is cents bottle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
BaundIeSs.

Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money II 1t falls to cure
L. w. Groves signature Is on each box. 25c
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Worth Knowing

The Empire of India extends over
territory larger than the continent of
Europe, without Russia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
A Good Climb.

The weather man said it would rain
to-day and L am glad l carried my UNI
bTella."
But it didn't rain at all to-day"
Il know it didn't. but l met the
weather man on the street and I used
the umbrella TO swat him good and
hard. "-Philadelphia Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

that Allcock's are the original and
only genuine porous plasters; all other
so-called porous plasters are limitations.