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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
Short Personals.

Herbert II. d. Peirce, the newly an
pointed American minister in Norway,
has arrived in Christiania.
Charles Francis Brush, the noted CIeve-
land electrician, has on his office door.
office hours, II 80 to 12' He is al
ways there promptly and never works
overtime.
Bishop Henry Y. Satterlee of Wash
ington, ID. c., has arrived from Furona
where he spent six weeks inspecting the
English cathedralS with a view of ADOPT
ing all that is good in them in the con
structIon of the new Cathedral of St.
Paul and st. Luke, in Washington.
One of the few bells cast by Paul Re
we're now in existence is to be taken from
the belfry Of the old Baptist church in
Warren. r. l., to be recast at Troy. \.
\. member of the church will oversee
the job and will write an account of the
undertaking for historical purposes.
Justice Brewer of the United States
Supreme Court says he spends the whole
vacation period loaing. From June to
Oct. / | am absolutely no account to any
body IN the world and l don't make a
single unnecessary move from the time
leave the Supreme Court till l get back
20 it"
Captain Sverdrup. the arctic explorer
who recently added 100000 square miles
OF ice to the King of Sweden's domin-
ions. spent his boyhood days on a forest
farm.
Thomas y. Edison has planned 1900
mile automobile trip for the coming
month. which will extend into Canada.
where he will extensively explore the CO.
bait deposits
John Jacob Aston is the largest private
owner o. automobiles in this country.
They number twenty-four the average
cost of each is about s. 900. making A
total of $4,000 Invested in his ma
chimes.
Lord Strathcona stated at the annual
meeting Of the Hudson Bay Company in
London recently that forty years ago the
compdny's land in Canada could NOT have
been sold for cent an acre. Now the
average price is $3.50
Bowman H. McCalla. recently retired
as rear admiral Of the United States
navy, was noted as the strictest discipIi-
marian in that branch Of the service. Dur
ing the Spanish war some marines from
the Marblehead signalsd: Come and take
Us off; we are getting the worst of it
here" The only kind of marines l will
take on my ship will be dead marines
McCalla answered, and the marines staid
and won.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
DISASTER IN AWHILE.
Great Loss of Life that Excited the
Small PeopIe.


oh, yes, 1 feel we'll enough, but I'm
not in my usual spirits, maybe" The
woman spending the summer in the
cabin on The hill dropped in to see the
tent-dwellers in the orchard.
You know can't bear to kill any
thing, but lately the ants have been
getting so numerous in the cabin that
concluded l just must The ants
seemed quite excited, naturally, but at
first I didn't notice anything in partic-
ular, though Of course I'd always
known that they're intelligent
Last summer We had wasps, and
somebody told me to leave the slain
ones around in view-it would help to
make the other 0aspS go elsewhere to
build. Why wouldn't ants take the
same hint? I thought. SO I collected
a lot of dead ants and decorated the
window-sill.
Pretty soon I happened to remem-
Der, and-bless your perfect
multitudes Of ants were coming in pro-
eeSsions tony morgue.
DO You understand? They were
identifying the bodies of friends and
relations. 1t was no time before every
single dead ant had been carried away
for decent burial, no doubt-by the
fathers. mothers, brothers, husbands
and wives that 1 had made mourners
of ="
How interesting" commented one.
such an opportunity to study natural
historyI' -
Yes" Imply asSented the cabin
dweller, but in studying natural his
tory, give me some benevolent role
the part of San Francisco earthquake
and eruption of Yesuvius isn't cond,r-
Give to the scientific attitude.
Then she continued, thoughtfully,
while l didn't actually see the note
books. yet after the bodies of the vic
timS''-she shifted uneasily in her
chair-"had been removed, a lot of
strenuous, inquiSitive ants went dash
ing about on the scene of disaster. and
I'm positive from their manners-I was
once interviewed myself that they
were reporters
You'll probably receive a copy OF
the San Antonio Times suggested a
sympathetic nearer.
Don't believe I'd care to read the
account from that side" said the cabin
lady, ruefully. Doesn't anybody know
some powder or something that drives
ants away without killing them? Iden-
tifying friends and relations Think
of that, will ?"-Youth's Compan-
ion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
CREDIT WITH PETER.

| How u ChUrci1-GOer put 10 cents In
| Contribution Box.
Being an occasional church-goer, he
was supposed to be able to behave prop
| erly and preserve his equanilnity
| through any ordinary service. His
family was therefore somewhat curious
when he returned from church one Sun
| day noon with a most disconsolate air,
says the Providence Journal.
Didn't like the Sermon asked his
wife
"Oh, the sermon was all right, 1
guess said he, glumly.
We'll, what's the natter she per-
! sisted
.'NotEing's the natter he retorted
| sharply. Cant man look solemn
when he gets back from a solemn relig
| ious service without causing 4 riot in
his own home?
His wife said nothing for time, and
then, with happy inspiration, asked
casually:
"How much did you put in the contrl-
button box to-day?'
There was a pronounced pause and
then the reply came with serious DELHI
Grafton:
''Seventy-five cents
Wasn't that rather liberal?'' she in
| CURED, knowing THAT he usually played
a quarter limit.
Rather" he answered. Rather lib
| eral. il struck me. Rather too liberal"
Then he chuckled and went on with
out further urging.
You see. II was this way Was sit
! ting alone in a back seat on the other
| aisle When the deacon started down
for the contribution l felt for some
| change and found had just two pieces,
a quarter and Il half. Somehow. l felt
! pretty good-natured and was thinking
of putting in the half instead of the
/ quarter. as usual. While | was deliber-
| ating I'm blessed If the half didn't slip
| out Of my fingers and roll out into the
| aisle. close to the second pew in front.
| didn't want to scramble for it then
| and figured | could get it at the close of
! the service SO | sat back and waited
/ for the box to come along. dropping In
| the quarter.
Just as he got to me. the deacon no.
| ticed that he was half a lap ahead Of
| the deacon on the other side. and
! stopped there to wait. And naturally,
while he was waiting. his eye lit on
the half-dollar lying in the aisle In front
of him. 3
| And what did that old sinner do but
! grab for it. look around curiously a
minute and then drop it into the box.
| And didn't have the nerve TO breathe
a word. Just sat like a dummy and
! watched the half go with the quarter.
| Scvelty-five cents gone to the angels
| and me without another cent in my
clothes, having to walk home instead
! of taking trolley. Wouldn't that make
you mad:"
Then he added. chuckling again:
'What I'm wondering now is whether
! [ get credit from st. Peter for giving
the whole 10 cents or just Il quarter"
You won't get credit for any of it,"
observed his wife. est Peter'll check
off the credit for the quarter TO cover
your wicked feelings when you saw the
/ half-dollar so, too"
"That'd be Il mean trick" he respond
ed, as he reached for his Sunday paper
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
TAKE MILLIONS FROM AMERICA
records Show that Immigrants Send
Earnings to Home hanks

Records Show that Immigrants Send
Earnings to Home Banks.
Millions of dollars in American gold
is being boarded annually in the banks
OF Italy by temporary italian residents of
the United States. This is news that
has just reached the government. along
with statement from the general com
missioner of immigration at Rome that
The total immigration to the States from
Italy in the year 1866 approached the
100000 mark.
The idea of most Italian emigrants.
says the immigration comm issioner. is to
accumulate something like fortune in
the States and return with it to I+aly.
The intimacy of the home connection is
shown by the exhibit of the Bank of Ma
pies, which, having advertised that sort
OF business as its speciality, has more than
fS3,OOO accounts opened by italian emf
grants in the United States and placed to
their credit during the fiscal year lust
closed more than 100000.
During the same period Italians in
Argentina sent to this single bank $685.
600 and $42J,O00 came from Brazil.
The total receipts from such sources
at the Naples bank were 100000 above
those of the year before. And that is
only one bank among dozens in Italy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
What's the Bill Good For.

On the car the other morning l hap
pened to hang by the strap next to
Bimmelstein's. Between begging par
dons of and granting pardons to my
near neighbors, | managed to read a
few paragraphs in my newspaper One
of them told of a remarkable find by
a Nippur expedition of the University
of Pennsylvania. 1t was nothing less
than well preserved and thoroughly
authenticated tailor's bill nearly 5000
years old.
Since Bimmelstein himself is en-
gagged in the clothing business, /
thought he would be interested in this
ancient relic, so | told him about it,
but the story seemed to make no i'm
preston on him
Hang it, man." said /, don't you
understand? It's a tailor's bill almost
5000 years old"
"Vell," he answered, "vot ISIS it good
for? Dey can't COLLECT it."-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
CHINA TO THE FORE.
Advanced More than ANY Otbe,
Eastern Nation i'm Five Na.rs

Advanced More than Any Other
Eastern Nation i'm Five Years.
NO eastern nation, NOT even excepting
Japan, has made greater advances toward
western civilization than has China dur
ing the past five years. A recent imperial
decree makes some mastery Of western
learning incumbent on those who hold
ofhce More than 5000 schools have been
established to enable the youths of the
land to comply with this decree. This
creates strong demand for American
teachers. Eleven thousand Chinese stu
dents are now in Toxic striving to obtain
from the government institutions and
schools the western learning. At least
2,oUO or 5000 of these students would
have come to America to study had it not
been for our immigration laws. Another
sign OF the times is in the increase in
postoftlces and the multiplication of news
papers. -Four years ago there were only
100 postoffices; to-day there are 1900.
In the city of Tien-Tsin four years ago
there were three newspapers. TODAY
there are %. An imperial decree has for
hidden parents to bind the feet of their
glrl babies. The New Testament has been
ordered into all the schools of at least
one large province, thus putting Christian
lty within reach of at least $1,000 OOO
persons. A recent royal decree makes the
christian Sabbath holiday. The only
danger now IN sight is from the reaction
which may follow these tremendous
changes in the policy of the government.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
DATA OF DEATH DEALING
GULF COAST GALE.
S12,O00,000

Damage to property. .Slz,uooooo
T;,,os los+ (aStimated) POO
Whole city inundated; sew
enty-fve lives lost and many people IN
jured. Mobile is in need of provisions ;
property loss, $4,500,OOO
PENSACOLA-Loss of life among fish
ermen and seamen heavy. Damage TO
property estimated at S5,000,0OO. The
navy yard is cut off and several warships
which We're there may have been de-
stroyed.
NEW ORLEANS-Damage done to
the Trailer buildings. TO gardens, tropical
plants and shade trees: wires down and
traffic at a standstill.
FORT MORGAN-Isolated and may
have suffered heavily. Two companies
of coast artillery are stationed there.
ELSEWHERE-Gr damage was
done to buildings and crops all along the
gulf coast. the loss being estimated at
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
COSTLY NEW YORK CHURCHES.


The Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth
avenue and Twenty street, is val
ued ut 81 100000.
Grace Church, at what was once de-
scribed as the head of Broadway, New
York. is valued at $4,000
The West Presbyterian Church. on
West Forty-second street. is valued at
$4,000 st. Thomas's at S1.700,OO0,
and the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church 9 and II West Fifty-ffth
street. at s1,G00000
st. Marks Church, on Second ave
nue. an old landmark in that neigh
borhood Of New York, is valued at
S2T5.000
The Church Of St Paul the Apostle
(the PauliSt Church, at Fifty-ninth
street and Columbus avenue. is valued
at 100000
Trinity Church in New York IS val
ned at SI2JG0.000 This estimate in
cludes tEe land occupied by the church
yard 1t is in the most valuable part
of New York, If not in the most yalu-
able division of property in the world
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04

For some minutes the words bout
ship" were not spoken. The schooner
held her course. and rapidly drew up with
the yacht we had set out to seek. From
the FIRST there was no doubt about her
name. which she displayed in great letters
of gold above her figurehead When she
had made some few hundred yards to-
wards the coast she jibbed round Of
sudden, with an appalling wrench at the
horse and there being, as it appeared. no
hand either at the peak halyards or the
throat halyards the mainsai! presently
showed q great rent near the luff, while
the foresail had torn free from the bolt
ropes Of the stay. and was presenting a
sorry spectacle as The yacht went about,
and away towards France again.
The obvious fact that the yacht we had
sought and run down was without living
men upon her decks had taken. the lit
from the seamen's merry tongues, and
gloom settled on US Gn. Perhaps it was
more than a mere surmise, For an uncan-
ny feeling of something dreadful to come
took hold of me.
Skipper" said l, ''order boat; I'm
going aboard her"
When the wind falls, perhaps; but
now,' and he shrugged his shoulders.
As the dark began TO fall and the night
breeze 20 blow fresh, while the yacht
ahead Of US swung here and there, almost
making circles about US, we hove to for
the time and watched her. l begged
Mary TO 90 below, but she received the
suggestion with merriment.
Go below, when the men say there's
fun coming Why should l go below?"
Because it may be serious fun"
The skipper called presently for a blue
flare, which cast a glowing light for many
hundred yards, and still left US uncertain.
Flash again said the skipper, and as
the blue light flashed we saw right ahead
of Us the wanderer we sought; but she
was bearing down upon us.
(To be continued.)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
Oh DTER ~


1t was on the morning sof the second
day: the wind playing tickle from east BY
south. and the sea agold with the light
of an August sun. The yacht lay with
out life in her sails, the flow of the swell
beating lazily upon her, and the great
mainsail rocking on the boom We had
been out twentyfour hours, and had not
made couple Of hundred miles. The de-
lay angered every man aboard the Celsis,
since every man aboard knew that it was
a matter OF concern to me TO overtake
the American yacht. La France, and that
a life might go with long-continued fail
ure.
The morning passed, a long morning,
with sea like mirror. and the sun as
a great circle of red fire in the haze.
Hour after hour we walked from the fore
hatch to the tiler from the tiller to the
fore-hatch. varying the exercise with
full inspection of every craft that showed
above the horizon. At six bells some dark
and dirty clouds rose up from the south.
and twenty hands pointed TO them. Half
an hour later there was a Shrill whiStling
in the Shrouds. and the rain began to pat
ter on the deck while the booms fretted.
and We relieved her in part Of her press
of sail. When the squall struck us at
last. the Channel was foaming with long
lines of choppy seas; and the sky south
ward was dark as ink.
During one hour. when we must have
made eleven knots. the wind blew strone,
and was fresh again after that. Nor did
the breeze fall. but stiffened towards
night so that in the first bell when we
came up from dinner, the Celsis was
straining and foaming as she bent under
her press of canvas, and it needed a sail
or's foot to tread her decks. We had
hardly come above when we heard Dan
mailing: Ia
"Yachtson the port bow.
WHAT name?' came from twenty
throats.
la France said Dan and the words
had scarce left his lips when the skipper
roared the order:
Stand by to go about ~
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
REVERIDeE REPLIES TO BRYAN.
senator i'm Chicago Speech De-
nOunces NebrasISan,s Doctrine

senator i'm Chicago Speech De-
nounces Nebraslan,s Doctrine
The Hamilton Club of Chicago for
mally opened the congressional cam
paign with big meeting in the Audi
torium. Senator Beveridse proved a
drawing card, and the large hall was
packed to the doors Interest was en-
HANGED by the fact of the Senator's
close relations to the administration.
His utteranceS were regarded as wholly
or at least in great measure rejecting
the views of the President
Therefore what Senator Beveridge
said concerning government ownership
may be regarded as a reply to Bryan's
enunciations on that subject. The pith
of the argument is contained in the fol
lowing paragraphs:
The peoples government should do no
business that the people can do better
themselves; the peoples government
should own 10 business that the people
can better own themselves.
But the peoples government shcdld
control and regulate industries owned by
some of the people that are so great as
to affect the welfare of all of the people.
The people, through their government,
should not permit some of them to prac-
tice business methods that will be unjust
to all of them. But the peoples govern
ment should not own any industry which
private enterprise can efficiently manage
and whose abuses government regulation
can prevent.
Government ownership of nationwide
business is the European theory of indus.
try. Government regulation of nation
wide business is the American theory OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
Her Awful Dread.

why dost thou weep, fair maiden?"
My lover, kind sir, has gone on a
foreign trip, and he will not return to
me for a whole year
Cheer up, pretty one. A year is
quickly sped, and he Will return to
thee"
''Ah, yes, l doubt not his return. But
what if some man should come along
and marry me in the meantime?-
Cleveland Leader.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04

tude. headache, pain in the back urin-
airy disorders, rheumatic pain, etc. l
have a box containing Il gravel stones
that / passed, but that is not one-uuar-
ter of the whole number. I consider
Doan's Kidney Pills fine kidney
tonic"
Sold by all dealers. 30 cents a box.
Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo. n. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
Motive.

What inspired you to write that
book?" asked the literary critic.
To tell the truth said the successful
author, my wife furnished the inspira-
ton for it."
Your wife,"
Yes; she said it was time | was doing
something, and that if didn't 90 to wori.
and turn out book that would SELL by
the great horn spoon, she would do it
herself. / was afraid she might"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
CLAM CRAZY.
Minnesota Men Grubbing for Pearls
in Local Waters.

Local w
Many of the prominent citizens of Red
Wing, Mimi, have turned clam fishers.
1t is claimed that during the last year
seven different clam fishers found pearls
ranging in value from $1,000 to 100000
and hundreds of the diggers and sorters
have discovered jewels worth respectable
sums Clam digging is as hard an Occu-
patton as is possible to conceive and can
only be withstood by the stoutest OF men.
Several months ago a poor digger found
a pearl worth presumably 100000 and
several other discoveries followed in the
same bed The natural result was that
hundreds of the people from the surround
ing country rushed to the scene of the
finds and many well-known people donned
the rough diggers' outfit and gathered in
the shells which possibly might bring a
fortune to them. A few had good sue
cess, but the majority found that their
quest was useless and soon gave up the
task
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
Charges Typhoid to Oyafers

DIR. II. d. Pease of the New York
State board of health, speaking before the
sanitary department of the homeopathic
congress at Atlantic City, said that ex-
pert authorities now agree that the sud
den swelling of the list of typhoid cases
during September is directly due to the
fact that at that time people begin to eat
raw oysters. mussels and other shellfsh
He says it is true that persons who han
die these creatures are especially liable 10
infection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04

L pdSSeu ABOUT ~
pounds of gravel and
sandy sediment in the
urine. | haven't pass
ed a stone since using
Doan's Kidney Pills,
however, and that was
three years ago. I
used to suffer the
most acute agony dur
ing a gravel attack,
and had the other
usual symptoms Of
kidney trOuble-lassi.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
I'm To Date.

Dolly Dimples-sSo Reggy Bonds pro-
posed to you the other day? Was he
very nervous?
Sally Smiles should say so. Why,
he was up in the air.
Dolly Dimples-You don't mean it.
And were you calm, dear?
Sally Smiles-No, l was up in the
air, too. You see, he proposed to II e
when he took me up in his new bal,
loon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04

What l want" said the fastidious
tenant, lis a quiet home in the most
desirable neighborhood."
Impossible answered the candid
real estate man. There is always so
much building going on in a desirable
neighborhood that it can't be quiet. =
Washington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
Another shock.

Yes" said the waiter, this cafe is
thoroughly up to date. We cook by
electricity
rs that so?" said the guest, pointing
to platter Then will you please
give that beefsteak another shock -
Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
I'm Against II.

Her-I'm very sorry. dear, but the
roses you sent me don't at all match
my party gown.
Him-Then I'll buy you another
gown. Those roses cost SO Dozen
Cleveland Leader.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04

Charles Hughes
the Republican
is
commission that Investigated
of
Falls nive
Columbia College the
1884 he n Y.
is
his Thirteenth
presidential
in in
publication
public
City
Mcclellan He takes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
An Old Story.

They say the theosophists out in
California worship a dog"
"Oh. well, that isn't SO surprising; a
great many women who errn theoso-
phists do that"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
Inherited Hernisn,

Did he get all those medals for say
ing peoples"
NO: he got them BY Inheritance. His
father did the saving. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.