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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
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Count Tolstoi neither drinks, smokes,
nor eats meat.
The Duke of Wellington is, by inherit
ance, a grandee of Spain.
The King of Portugal is said to be an
enthusiastic and able amateur painter.
Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman. pre-
mier of England, is noted French
scholar.
The total cost of the prince and p1in-
cess of Wales recent trip to India was
approximately 100000.
The public executioner of Austria wears
a pair of new white gloves every time he
carries out a capital sentence.
A statue of Gen. Nicholson. the mutiny
hero, was recently unveiled at Delhi by
Lord Mimic, the viceroy of India.
DR.. Frederick Hegar. the foremost
Swiss composer, has retired from public
life after forty years activity as a CON
ductor.
King Edward is said to know a little
Gaelic. 1t is probably merely a sInatter-
ing, as even Robert Louis Stevenson. a
born Scot, could not master this difficult
tongue.
Sir Jonathan Williams. q retired ply
stefan of Great Britain, declares that the
ourest English spoken in the United
States is in Kentucky.
Herr Joseph Rouchett OF Ornovasso,
near Novara, is said 10 be tile possessor
Of the biggest beard in Europe 1t is
more than six feet long.
The Emperor of Austria was the first
royalty to have a newspape, specially
condensed and written out for his private
reading. This was established thirty
years ago. Nothing which concerns him.
whether pleasant or the reverse, is omit
ted.
The Marquis of Graham. who was per-
suaded recently by his fiancee. Lady Mary
Hamilton. Britains greatest hei-ess. to
run for Parliament. failing of election.
is known now as ''Mary's Little lamb. y
| King Leopold Of Belgium has mania
| for building. He spends almost as much
time out of his country as he does in it.
has several residences which he seldom or
never visits, yet he is constantly adding
to them.
George Leygues. the French minister
| of education. began life as poet He
has been reproached in verse for treason
1 TO the muses. in preferring a poIitica; to
! a poetical career. but his interest ia lit
erature has remained.
II. Charles Robert Edward ron Hart
mann, the noted German philosopher. is
| dead. His most famous book is said to
/ be The Philosophy of the Unconscious. .
Victor Emmanuel III. of Italy frankly
! detes;ed music and said when the cannon
/ were roaring at the battle of Solferin J.
/ .'that is the only music l have ever been
| able to appreciate" His son, King Hum
| bert. was OF much the same opinion.
In appointing his son, Lord Bruce as
| his Or .vate secretary. the Ear. of Elgil
| only followed the example of the lats
| William +. Gladstone, who. when he be-
| came prime minister in 1880, appointed
| Herbert Gladstone. then a young man OF
| 20. TO a similar position.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
Frs * 5fxnE PEOPLE

useful, being the common literary tongue Of Europe,
and spoken well read. BY the most unspeakable
cruelties in his deplored by young Agrppa
dAubigne sensitive boys goaded up the path TO
Parnassus sturdy boys will endure great deal Of
pain stoicaly they did not learn. The professional
their specially Greek and Latin for things
universally necessary to mankind Beyond bodily exer-
cses nothing else to teach Yet the Greeks
themselves barbarans; they had little literary edu
cation compared with their physical education
Years of empty grammar make youth wreched If youth
is sensitive Those who not sensitive rub along
they may the system of intellectual truantry The
grammar appIauded in itself education III logic;
ct best it education of the memory. Boys have al
ways this and have said exactly what their elders
are saying had invented all the arguments against
compulsory Greek before l was IA, when took up
Homer and were launched into literature that good
enough and there grumbling. But many boys
present travel far Homer. Meanwhile
parents coming agree with boys and, things
stand boys and parents in the right.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
TROOPS USE CANNON.
MANY JEWS DIE IN A POLAND
MASSACRE.
Russian Batteries Fire on Jewish
Quarter in SiedIce-SoIdiers XIII
in Frenzy-Outbreak of Pi1Iage

Jewish massacre surprising IN
seriousness all previous ones in the vi
cinity took place at Siedlce, Poland,
Saturday and Sunday. 1t wascarefully
planned beforehand, the soldiers warn
ing all of the Christian population in
advance to hang out their ikons so
that they might remain undisturbed.
Saturday night some terrorists killed
two soldiers, and thereupon the Libau
regiment broke forth in unreStrained
fury. They began numbering Jews on
every hand, and continued the work
of slaughter all night Saturday night
ana all day Sunday.
The CHASTITY work Of numbering and
nillaging continued until an early hour
Monday morning, When Governor Gen
eral Skallon telegraphed for permits
sion to use the artillery. Four bat
teries then opened fire down Pienkna,
Warsaw and Aliena streets, which were
inhabited by thousands of Jews. The
destruction was horrible. As a result
of the general slaughter it is estimated
that fully 200 Jews have been killed
and 1000 wounded. There are 400
prisoners in custody, great many Of
whom are wounded.
Monday morning a squad of soldiers
were parading through the streets sell
ing pillaged watches and jewelry. The
army officers openly countenanced the
selling of loot. The local governor,
Englke, took no steps to prevent the
outrage.
Six buildings in the big bazaar of
the city were set on fire, adding an
other terror to the killing and plumber
ing. Hundreds of Jews assembled at
the railroad station awaiting means of
getting out of town, but Siedlce is sur
| rounded by troops, who do not permit
exit or entrance. Field guns occupy
streets
There seems no doubt that the terror
lists are responsible for provoking the
massacre by their fusillades from
roofs and windows on Saturday against
| soldiers and policemen patrolling the
streets. Troops surrounded the houses
from which this firing came and poured
in volleys through windows and doors.
| This was followed by search Of the
premises, which soon developed into
wholesale plundering and subsequently
into massacre and slaughter
The trouble began on Plenka street
and spread rapidly to a large portion
of the town. Almost all the Jewish
shops have been looted. Owners who
defended their property were killed or
wounded. Any person seen leaving
house or looking out of a window was
shot without mercy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20

listed men similar to that at Newport be
constructed there. At Honolulu he found
health conditions satisfactory.
At Yokohama the United States has a
large naval hospital, over which the med
ical corps exercises complete jurisdiction.
This was found in good condition and
work was in progress upon a new admin
istration building. At Nagasaki and
Shanghai the sanitary conditions of the
hospitals where the sick sailors are taken
were found in a fair condition but not as
satisfactory as the hospital at Yokohama.
Surgeon General Rixey passed some
time in the Philippines and not only visit
ed the hospitals of the navy, but went
through the hospitals in Manila and es-
pecially studied the sanitary conditions of
that city. The naval hospital at Cana
Gao, near Cavite, is declared to be in good
condition, especially from a sanitary
point of view. At Olongopo, which is the
proposed naval station for the Philip
pines. but which is still in state of in
completeness, the sick quarters were
found unsatisfactory.
At Paris and London the general Wis
tied the hospitals. From the naval hos
pital at London. an institution similar to
the building this government is erecting
at Norfolk, he obtained information that
will be useful in the arrangements of the
Norfolk hospital
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
.SSSSSSS&&&&&&SSS&2sS
IN A BALLOON.
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50 \ athlete tells this thrilling
J9N story Of his adventure in bal
loon.
can do anything that any other
man can do on trapeze bar, but [ don't
care to perform on trapeze above the
clouds, with nothing but 4 big silk UNI
brella between me and the sky and
bank of mist between me and the solid
earth several thousand feet below.
was TO go up 5000 feet, then come down
with a parachute, performing on bar
as | descended.
When l reached the grounds the
mammoth air ship was stretched out
upon the grass, but soon it began TO
swell as the workmen began to initiate
the great silken bag until ut last it
bounded up and down held only by two
stout ropes.
At last all was ready, and to the net
work each side of the balloon was 1T
tached a folded parachute, so arranged
Tint the weight of Il mans body would
breok the strings that held them in posi-
sion. and allow him to descend.
The huge bag of air, 80 feet by so
foot fioated free. and We stepped into
Tho circular wicker basket. 1t was my
first ascension but l did not feel in
the least afraid. Instead a feeling of
axhilaration took possession of me. and
watched the men below as we scared
inward with the speed Of a rocket, A
slight breeze carried us toward the riv-
or. and | noticed an anxious look on the
professors face as we f1oated out over
the siiverv surface
I'VE will strike another current of air
higher up" he said, and threw out sew
eral bags of sand.
Now quickly we shot upward, right
through Il cloud like an arrow, then
through another, and for several mo
ments the earth was shut out from our
view. The professor was right, we did
strike an opposing current of air, and
80 suddenly that we were almost thrown
from our seats. The big balloon f1utter
ed. then almost collapsing. it darted on
In an opposite direction.
several tsnuuleS pdSSSU .tlu we CotiiI
see through Il rift in the clouds below
us that we were once more above dry
land. The professor prepared to leap
''you will not drop through tht
clouds, | gasped.
Certainly" he replied. at will b,
something novel, and people seeing IN,
fall from the clouds will marvel tn,
more"
/ have always been considered dar
ing. but for the first time in my life
began to feel nervous. l watched tn
professor seize the bar of his trapez
and put his legs over the edge of tn
car.
You had better descend few thou
sand feet" he said as he turned hi
head, then sliding from his perch on tn
edge of the car he was gone.
Down he went like lead. l though
his parachute would never open and IN
blood ran cold. But just before he CT
tered a fieecy cloud the silken umbrell
opened wide and swayed from side I
side, then it was lost in the white ocea
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20

assembled. The cold was so intense that
that they bled freely. Soon my nose ne
gan to bleed. l was too weak now TO
think of descending by the parachute.
If was as much as | could do to stand.
Suddenly my fingers clutched some
thing. l pulled it toward me. and a
moment later felt that the balloon was
descending. Pretty soon full conscious
ness returned TO me, and | realized that
| had pulled the string of the valve
and had let the gas out of the balloon.
now became frightened at the We
locity of the descent. and again turned
to the parachute. but the strings that
held the bar to the car had given way
and the trapeZe was now swinging a
dozen feet away. The only WY for
me TO reach it was to jump for it. and
! this | did not feel disposed TO do. Still.
| we were descending rapidly. and as the
car dashed down through the clouds
noticed that the balloon was again IN
/ the under current and driving toward
/ the river. | must either jump for the
trapeZe now or run the risk of being
! drowned. Thousands of times in the
circus l had taken such leaps. but now
| knew that slip of the hand meant
death But there was no time to hest
tate so balancing myself on the seat OF
the car with the aid of a rope, 1 sprang
out into space. My hand clutched the
bar and in an instant l was descending
with terrible velocity.
l was certain that the parachute
would never open. but it did, and 3
thousand feet above the earth my
downward fight was checked. The
great awning above swayed from side
to side and gently descended. ! passed
over the roof of a house. then glided
through the branches of a spreading
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20

but it does make life unbearable to have al
ways and eternally picking on one
A who nags at the table spos her husbands
and her digestion. A man with sick stomach is
dangerous home happiness. The naggng woman lies
wait her husband II she can't catch him at meal
time she'll him at night and pitch into him. A
man who loses sleep is to be the next day.
The naggng woman keeps herself and her husband
the edge of big from morning until night
and from night until morning.
Would / have a knuckle down and be meek
sheep taking everything and standing everything with
an angelic smile: Indeed not! would have her learn
that good, big is worth a hundred days of nag
ging If there must be quarreng in the family, let
woman learn to go at it right. If a deserves
tonguelashng let the wife all she has to say and
forget to weep until she has finished.
There is satisfaction in having quarrel and
being done with it. good, lively, two-sided quarrel
where his say and says with force but there
is nothing but dismal unhappiness in home where
woman finishes the job but is always ready to
begin where she left off.
If a wanders from the path Of rectitude give
and be done with it, II he is good enough he
is be thankful, and for the love of digestion tempers
and home morality. let him alone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
PACKERS BUSINESS INCREASE.
GrilIing Has No Appreciate Effect
on the Domestic Sales.

GriIIing Has No Appreciate Effect
on the Domestic Sales.
The output of products of the Chicago
stock yards packing companies for do
nestle consumption, for the first seven
months of this year has increased mate
rally over the volume of business for the
same period in other recent years, in spite
OF the severe grilling the big packers re-
ceived during most of that time at the
hands of federal State and city officials
and the newspapers of the entire world.
The report of the Department of Com
merce and Labor, made public in Wash
ington, shows this to be a fact. The
figures of the trade movements of the
country are given for July and for the
seven months ending with July.
Shipments of packing house products
from Chicago. with comparisons. follow !:
July-1904, 136,660,716 pounds; 1905,
1872, 49O,724 pounds; 1906, 2O3,252, 030
pounds.
First seven months--1904. 400, 000,-
OO0 pounds: 1905, 1.3S0,000,O00 pounds ;
1906, 1875, 436,262 pounds.
The three largest items were 670,941,-
GO pounds OF dressed beef, 510,7f2, 1853
pounds of cured meats and 24S,929, 252
pounds Of lard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
FACTORY PRODUCTS GROW.

American Industries Show Large
Increase In Five Years.
Unequaled prosperity in the manufac-
turing industries in the United States for
the calendar year of 1904 is shown in a
census bulletin just completed, which is
compared by the census bureau with a
similar census for the year 1900. The
number of manufacturing establishments
in the country, as shown by the last cen
sus, is 216, 262, an increase of per cent
over 1900. Capital increased during the
five years from $S,97S,S25,2 200 to S12,-
6S6,265,673, or II per cent. In the same
period the total value of products increas-
ed from $11,411,1 21, 122 to 14,SO2, 147,-
0S7, a gain of 80 per cent
There has been an increase of 43 per
cent in the number of officers and clerks
employed by these manufactures and a
gain of 81 per cent in the salaries paid.
In the same time the number of wage
earners increased 16 per cent and the sal
aries 80 per cent. The number of wage
earners reported for 1905 was $40 321
with an annual income of S2,611, $40, 532.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
Prof. Bells wireless Aiuship.

At Brantford, Canada, last Sunday, in
the presence of a group of scieltists. the
wireless aeroplane invented II Prof.
Alexander Graham Bell had is initial
test and gave promise of success. This
machine is operated by wireless electrical
energy from dynamos on the grc1nd, the
force thus being transmitted to .he pro-
pellers. The ship, navigated by Capt An
glemare of Chicago, rose to a Height of
200 feet. and was brought back to the
starting point after turning complete
circle without miShap.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
"Leve Us Our Langwiga.' -

Commenting on President Rossevelt's
spelling reform. the London Glohs says ::
I'VE RELY think Ruzvelt and his trends
mite leye us our own langwige They
have not left US much else. In sum in
stances it may be pulling, espeshuiy TO a
former and an mature skoolboy. but its
orthografy has sertin historical valu
and we do not like to part with il. Of
kors if Ruzvelt, backed up by Ksrnegi,
seq we hav got TO reform our spelling We
snail hav to, and that vii be the end of
i. for Karnegi has awl the dollars and
Rnzvelt has awl the branes. but aul the
same if vii be dasht hard lines"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
HIS ANSW Err.

Why do l love you, you ask? Why, dear .
10 tell half the reasons would take me
year,
For your heads proud poise, and your
graceful walk,
For the way hat you dimple and smile
and tall;
For certain Unborn daintiness
Which shows itself in your mind and
Dress
For your ready wit with no cynic turn,
For the charity which | fain would learn
For your womans heart where all sweet
ness lies,
For the fearless truth of your loving eyes :;
For the soul that is pure as the angels
above YOU
Rut chiefly love you, because-I love
you!
Puck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
auIrx Food for Hogs.

The function Of bulk in the feed IS
more than the mere furnishing Of nu-
trjment, for in mechanical way 1t
aids digestion. Pigs require less bulky
feed than other domestic animals. but
recent experiments show that to a GER
tain extent hay feeding Is very valua-
Bile In pork production. Where herbiy-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
Dead Birds Cause Typhafd Fever.

The cause of 81 cases of typhoid fever
in Three Oaks, Mich, was discovered
recently when a member of the board of
health climbed to the top of the water
works standpipe and found thousands Of
dead sparrows in various stages of decom-
position covering the surface of the water.
Hundreds of sparrow nests have been
built on a ledge around the summit of the
standpipe and the young birds are sup
posed to have fallen down we inside
when trying to fly. A cover made for the
standpipe was never put on.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20


ital service Of the
navies of seyNal
countries, but more
particularly the hos
pital service Of the
United States. At
San Francisco he
found much that
could be improved at
the hospital station
and he will recon-
mend that a deten-
tion hnuSa for on
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20

weather. middle classes the barbarAns. who hate
books and live in the open air than we always have
been. The boy of these classes never learned
anything i'll literary except in the rare cases where
lie was naturally booksh
The thing begun when there was no modern liter
AZURE except poems and romanes. Then Greece was
discovered by the learned. and every gentleman must
learn the classical languages of which Latin really
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20

tree, feltsan awful jar all over my body
and realized that | had reached the
earth once more. l don't care to leave
it-that -again.-Chicago Daily
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
Earthauake. AFecting DIN FtsId..

Since tie latest big earthquake en- the
western coast of South America sosae re-
markable changes in the oil fields of
Texas have been noticed, which are attrib-
uted to the seismic disturbances. New
subterranean channels hare been ooened
and the wells 100 miles from the coast
are not expected to last long Also the
quality of the oil has changed in some
places, a very light oil having replaced
the crude.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20

If horses are put in pasture to rem
edy feet or legs, remove their shoes !;
and do so If they are to remain long
IN pasture for any reason.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20

XIII the head lice of the chicks with
vaseline. Grease their heads slightly
and see that none gets in the eyes
Repeat the dose in ten days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
WARNING TO NAGGING WOMEN.
By Cynthia Grey.

Mrs. George Adler, of Cleveland, recently
accused her husband Of neglecting her and her
children. When brought into court Mr.. Adler
said: Before l will live with my wife again
I will go to the workhouse; she is always
nagging me!''
When man says anything about nagging
he says always nagging. He could stand
nag or two now and then. Any man could,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
DECADENCE OF GREEK DUE TO TEACHERS.
BY Andrew Lang.

The educational trouble about the classics
is really an affair of the history of learning,
and ought to be looked at in historical light.
If, as is claimed, boys end in knowing neither
Greek nor Latin, that has always been 80. In
the enormous ma jOrity of cases boys have not
learned Latin or Greek. or anything else, e1-
cept reading, writing and little arithmetic.
We are no worse among the upper and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
To Restore barren Fruit Tre...

II you have any old trees that have
failed to give profitable crops Of fruit,
good dressing of well-rotted stable ma
nu~e and work 1t thoroughly into the
soil. Then. IL you have them, apply
dressing of wood ashes. If these fall
TO revive the tree. after giving good
pruning, 1t Is past redemption and
should give way to something better.
Good rich soil for three or four years
can be profitably planted to some crop
while the trees in the orchard are grow
ing. but after that the best plan Is Ell
Their to seed down TO clover and use
as hog pasture, or to cultivate with
ont asroring any crop to grow