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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-15
BROKE INTO SEMINARY.
Force Used to Dislodge Bishop-Hus-
sars Sent to Barbentanne.

sars Sent to Barbentanne.
ARRAS, France, December 15.-When the
bishop of Arras was expelled from his resi-
dence today under the church and-state
separation law. gendarmes were several
times compelled to charge manifestants
who barricaded the doors Of the seminary.
Eventually the doors were broken open
with trees used as battering rams
Two squadrons of hussars have been dis
patched from Tarosson to Barbentanne,
where the inhabitants have imprisoned the
officials sent to take over the church prop
erty under the church-and-state separation
law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-15
Great Storm in Italy.

ROME. December 15.-Terrific storms of
snow, wind and rain have caused serious
damage to all the Italian Geographic lines.
Throughout the morning Rome was entirely
isolated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-15
URGENT DEFICIENCY BILL.
Some Items Included in the Measure
Reported to the House.

The urgent deficiency bill was reported
to the House today from the committee on
appropriations by Representative Littauer
of New York The bill carried the follow
ing items.
Under the Department of Agriculture to
carry out the provisions of the pure food
law, $4,000.
Under the Interior Department to COM
plete the work of the commission to the
five civilized tribes, $4,000.
Under the Department of Commerce and
Labor: For the immigration service,
$40, 900. and for light houses, beacons and
fog signals, $s6.5OO.
Under the military establishment: Nile
age to officers and contract surgeons, $780,,
COO, making in all total of $JS1.5o0.
The bill also carried provision for re-
pealing an appropriation of Sl5o.Ooo made
in the sundry civil appropriation bill for the
year 1907 for a steam light vessel off the
entrance to Juan de Fuca strait, this item
having been included in the act through
error.
The Bill Passed.
After some general discussion the bill was
passed as it came from the committee.
The remarkable feature about this years
deficiency bill Is that 1t makes no appropri-
alton for any real genuine deficiency in the
generally accepted meaning OF the term.
Most of the appropriations are to carry out
laws that were passed at the last session
of Congress. The urgent deficiency bill for
the second session of the Ftfty-eighth Con-
gress carried 100000. This bill. as will
be noted. carries only about hall a million.
In other words, the bureau officers and
heads of departments are obey ng the con-
gressional prohibition concerning the con-
tracing of deficiencies, and consequently
there none such as there used to be
simply because a government official spent
more money than he had and--hen went to
Congress with outstretched hands looking
for the balance. Chairman Tawney of the
House appropriations committee has worked
hard to bring about this desirable result
and the House Is giving him the credit
for it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-15
Count Lamsdorff is Ill.

ST. PETERSBURG. December 15.-couat
Lamsdoi-.', for ner minister for foreign af-
fairs, II sT.oIsIy Ill with heart disease,
accompxStsf W other weaknesses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-15
To Restore the Rights Lost.

Representative Roberts of Massachusetts,
introduced a bill today making the nom
commissioned officers and enlisted men of
companies B, C and D. 18th Infantry, the
men discharged from the service by order
Of the President, eligible for re-enlistment
in the military or naval service. The bill is
intended to restore to these men all the
rights lost under the order of discharge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-15

sus:n.ss Once. 18th Street and Pennsylvania AvsnuA
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
Airs. 21es/enIurr

A nervous, irritable mother, often on
the verge of Mysteries, is unfit to care
for children; it ruins child's DISPOSE
ton and reacts upon herself. The
trouble between children and their
mothers too often is due to the fact
that the mother has some female weak
ness, and she is entirely unfit to bear
the strain upon her nerves that govern
ing children involves; it is impossible
for her to do anything calmly.
The ills of women act like firebrand
upon the nerves, consequently nine
tenths of the nervous prostration, ner-
vous dependency, " the blues" sleep
lessness, and nervous irritability of
women arise from some arrangement
of the female organism.
Do you experience fits of depression
with restlessness, alternating with
extreme irritability? Are your spirits
easily affected, so that one minute you
laugh, and the next minute you feel
like crying?
Do you feel something like a ball ris-
ing in your throat and threatening to
choke you; all the senses perverted,
morbidly sensitive TO light and sound !;
pain in the abdominal region, and
between the shoulders; bearing down
pains; nervous dyspepsia and almost
continually cross and snappy?
If SO, your nerves are in a shattered
condition, and you are threatened with
nervous prostration.
Proof is monumental that nothing in
the world is better for nervous prostra-
ton than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table compound; thousands and thou
sands of women can testify to this fact.
Ask Mrs. Pinkham's AdyiCe-A Won
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
HE WAS HAPPIER, ANYWAY.

Spirit of Husband Not in Heaven In
terviewed by Wife.
Prof. Matteucci, superintendent of the
Vesuvius observatory, was dining with
some Americans at the Royal Hotel in
Naples.
The dining room fronted the sea. The
waves crashed against the massive en-
bankment of stone and showers of
white spray rose high in the sunlit
air.
This is heavenly. But what is it
like in your observatory when Vesuvius
is actiYe?' a young woman asked.
1T is not like heaven" said Prof
Matteucci at reminds me of a story
about 4 Neapolitan widow whose hus-
band had been dead some years. One
night she was persuaded to go to a spir-
itualists' seance, and there the spirit of
her dead husband appeared and spoke
with her.
my dear Agostino,' said the widow
to the shade, are you happy now?'
"'I am very happy Agostino an
swered.
Happier than you We're on earth
with Ele? asked the widow.
YES replied the shade; I am far,
far happier now than 1 was on earth
with you
''The widow was silent a moment
Then she said:
"'Tell me, Agostino, what is it like
in heaven?
Heaven said AgoStinO. 4 am not
in heaven New York Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
Her Wise Choice,

Among the litigants before the En-
glish courts some years ago was Il Mrs.
Weldon, who. indeed, was so constantly
at law that Baron Pollock once remark
ed: This lady has now such a very
large business at the bar that we must
give her every indulgence" Mrs. Wei
don was not abashed by the judges and
said many clever things in court. The
"reminiscences of the late John George
Witt, X. c., includes an anecdote of
one of her appearances in the court of
appeal. She was endeavoring to upset
judgment of Vice Chancellor Bacon ana
one ground of complaint was that the
judge was too old to understand the
case. ThereupOn Lord ESher said :
The last time YOU were here you COM
planned that your case had been tried
10y my brother Bowen. and you said he
was only bit of 4 boy and could not do
you justice. Now you come here and
say that my brother Bacon was too old.
What age do You want the judge to
be?' Your age" promptly replied
Mrs. Weldon. fixing her bright eyes on
the handsome countenance of the mas
ter of the rollS.-Rochester Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
DiScOurEEed.

The Puritan rejected the church or
gan as an instrument savoring of pop
cry, and a precentor set the music for
the service Hymn-bOoks being scarce
in the early New England days, hymns
were read line by line by this official,
and the congregation sang each line as
it was read. The effect was one OF
mournful monotony and horrible dron-
ing. That the precentor had troubles
Of his own is revealed in the quaint
records of Judge Sewall
Without the aid of notes or instru-
ment to guide and steady, the congre-
cation would often get off one tune
and sing another. The judge, who was
a precentor of long and worthy stand
ing. makes these entries in his diary:
In the morn 1 set York tune, and,
in the second going over, the gallery
carried it into St David's, which dis
couraged me very much
Il set Windsor tune. but the congre-
CATION ran over into Oxford, do what
l would"
Il set York tune, and the congrega-
ton went out of it into st. David's in
the second going over. They did the
same three weeks before 1t seems to
me an intimation for me to resign the
precentor's place. l have through the
divine favor done it for twenty-four
years. The Lord humble me and in
struct me that 1 should be the occa-
sion of any interruption in the worship
Of Cod
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
DiUlOmapv-

During the peace negotiations az
Portsmouth last summer there visited
the town well-known American trav-
eler, who for years had been boasting to
his friends of his profound knowledge
of the language and customs of Russia.
When a man declares in this country
that he knows Russian" there are few
in a position successfully to contradict
him. So the friends of the man in ques-
ton had never been able to call his
bluff
Last summer, however, some one had
learned of a meeting between the boast
full person and Baron Rosen. the Rus
sian ambassador Accordingly, the
question was Immediately put to the
Muscovite whether the American had
indeed a knowledge Of the Russian an
guage.
At first the foreigner politely demur-
red the question, but, finally, when he
was asked whether So-and-So was real
ly much of a Russian scholar, the am
bassador smilingly replied:
You mustn't say anything about it.
but your friend is sufficiently well ac-
Quainted with Russian not to attempt
to speak it."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
Airs IbQS ESBroavz

Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader of the
Ladies' Symphony Orchestra, 40 Sara
toga Street, East Boston, Mass.
writes:
Dear Mrs Pinkham:-
For eight years l was troubled with en-
treme nervousness and hysteria, brought on
by irregularities. / could neither enjoy life
nor sleep nights; l was very irritable, nervous
and respondent
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
was recommended and proved to be the only
remedy that helped me. have daily irl-
proved in health until / am now strong and
well, and all nervousness has disappeared. "
Mrs. Charles +. Brown, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Mothers Club, 21 Cedar
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
60 dragged through nine years Of niser-
able existence, worn out with pain and ner-
vousness, until it seemed as though ! should
fly. | then noticed a statement of woman
troubled as l was, and the wonderful results
she derived from Lydia E. Pinkhams Vega
table Compound. decided to tlyit l did SO,
and at the end of three months was a differ
ent woman My nervousness was all gone, L
was no longer irritable, and my husband fell
in love with me all over again"
Women should remember that Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
the medicine that holds the record for
the greatest number of actual cures of
female ills, and take no substitute.
Free Advice to Women.
Mrs. Pinkham, daughter in-law of
Lydia E. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, invites
all sick women to write to her for
advice. Mrs. Pinkham' vast experience
with female troubles enables her to adj
wise you wisely, and she will charge
you nothing for her advice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27

A Pennsylvania mail train broke all
records on that line by the run from Har-
risburg to Altoona, 132 miles in 119 min
utes.
The Illinois Central will soon have its
own laundry in Chicago, where viii be
washed all the linen used on the 4,37J
miles OF this system.
A San Francisco report says that the
Gould lines have secured right of way
across central Oregon to some point on
the Snake river as terminus for the
Corvallis and Eastern road.
The preliminary statement of the Erie
railroad for the fiscal year ended June
30, 1906, shows gross earnings of over
$50,000,000, an increase over the previous
year of S4,277, 900, and an increase in
net of 81 ,547 900. The company incurred
an additional expense of only 100000 in
conducting the transportation of over ST.
100000 additional gross earnings. This
is an indication that improvements which
have been completed are producing the
desired results in lessening the cost of
transportation.
1t is a curious fact that the American
style Of passenger coach, with end doors,
a center aisle and seats on either side,
was an English invention, while the Eu-
ropean railroads cling to the side-door
compartment car and use comparatively
few of the end-door coaches
The Canadian Pacific is the first rail
road in North America to serve afternoon
tea on its trains. Those who wish the
beverage purchase tickets at % cents each
and in the afternoon tea. rolls. cakes and
so on are brought into the sleeper. This
custom, which is English, will be adopted
on transcontinental trains only.
The Postofice Department announced
that the Pennsylvania railroad had agreed
to put in operation On all its lines 7O-foot
all-steel postal cars, with a view to pro-
tecting the lives of postal clerks.
James J. Hill. president of the Great
Northern system, now on the Pacific coast
on a tour of inspection. appeared before
the corporations committee of the City
Council of Seattle and protested against
the route which had been selected ;,y the
Union Pacific railroad for its proposed
entrance into that city. He said there
was traffic enough for all, but that the
route selected was ODJecuOn3Dle to the IN
terests represented by him.
Two japanese railroads have placed or
ders with an American company to sup
ply them with mechanical block-signal
safety devices. This is believed to be the
first time the Japs have looked to US for
safety appliances.
The Illinois Central is to operate a
farmers SDecial train soI1fh of the Ohm
river. For several years the railroads
of the North have run seed and soil spe-
Gals through the middle West States and
now farmers of the South are to be given
the benefit of lectures on methods of in
creasing the diversified crops of Dixie
land. As farming in the South differs
materially from the North, the talks will
be of an entirely different nature.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
THE WAY OUT.
Change of Food Brought Success
and Happiness.


and Happiness.
An ambitious but delicate girl, after
failing to go through school on account
of nervousness and hysteria, found N
Grape-Nuts the only thing that seemed
to build her up and furnish her the
peace of health.
From infancy" she says, 81 have
not been strong. Being ambitious to
learn at any cost l finally got to the
High School, but soon had to abandon
my studies on account of nervous pros
tration and hysteria.
My food did not agree with me. 1
grew thin and respondent. l could not
enjoy the simplest social affair, for
suffered constantly from nervousness
IN spite of all sorts of medicines.
This wretched condition continued
until l was twenty-five. when l became
interested in the letters of those who
haG cases like mine and who We're being
cured by eating Grape-Nuts.
L had little faith but procured box
ana after the first dish l experienced a
pecuIIdr SauSned feeling that l had
never gained from any ordinary food. 1
slept and rested better that night and
IN few days began to grow stronger.
L had new feeling of peace and
resdulness. In a few weeks, to my
great JOY, the headaches and nervous
ness left me and life became bright and
hopeful. L resumed my studies and
later taught ten months with ease-of
course using Grape-Nuts every day. 1t
IS now four years since l began to use
Grape-Nuts, l am the mistress OF a
happy home and the old weakness has
never returned" Name given by Post
I'm Co., Battle Greek, Mich.
There's a reason Read the little
book, The Road to WellYilIe," in pkgs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
DOCTOR DESPAIRED
Ansemic Woman Cured by Or. Will
lams' Pink Pills Recommends the
Pills TO All Others Who Suffer.


Armenia is just the doctors name for
bloodlessness. DIR. Williams Pink Pills
cure anamia as food cures hunger.
They cured Mrs. Thomas J. McGann, Of
II Lincoln Place, Plainfield, N. j., who
says:
"In the spring of 1903 I did my
usual house cleaning and soon after
ward | began to have the most terrible
headaches. My heart would beat so If
regularly that it was painful and there
came morning when | could not get
up. NV doctor said l had anamia and
he was surprised that | had continued
to live i'll the condition | was III.
/ was confined to my bed for nearly
two months, the doctor coming every
day for the first few weeks, but | did not
improve to amount to anything. AL
together / was sick for nearly two
years. I WAS as weak as q rag, had
headaches, irregular heart beats, loss of
appetite, cramps in the limbs and was
unable to get good nights sleep. My
legs and feet We're so swollen that |
feared they would burst.
g Before very long after [ tried DR..
Williams Pink Pills [ felt a change for
the better. | have taken about twelve
boxes and although l was as near the
grave as could be, now feel as if
had a new lease of life. have no more
headaches, the heart beats regularly, my
cheeks are pink and feel ten years
younger. l feel that have been cured
very cheaply and I have recommended
the pills to lots of my friends
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are sold by all
druggists, or will be sent by mail on re-
ceipt of price, 80 cents per box, six boxes
81 so, by the DR.. Williams Medicine Co.,
Schenectady N Y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
WORK AND EFFICIENCY.
Simple Remedy for Every Man-HOw
Life May BE Made Healthy.


Life May Be Made Healthy.
1t is the kind of work in which
man is engaged which determines for
him the special meaning OF the term
efficiency" The success of his eff
forts may depend upon the quantity of
his output or it may depend upon its
quality. Quality Quantity! Upon
these two hang all the laws OF efficien-
cy.
For each of US it is possible to in
crease the duration of his best mo-
ments and to render them more fire.
quent. 1t is also possible for US to re-
duce the number and the length of
those periods of depression and low
vitality when our work miscarries and
our lives lack snap and enthusiasm. If
we succeed in bringing about such q
change we shall have raised the whols
plane of our living to something higher
and more admir&)le. Our work will be
productive of results that would other
wise have been quite beyond our reach.
There are conditions for each individ-
ual under which he can do the most
and the best work 1t is his business
to ascertain those condition and TO COM
ply with them.
1t is useless for the nervous, high
strung, quickly fatigued man to try to
live by the same program as his phleg-
matte, even-tempered neighbor. The
conditions under which the two men
produce the best results are not identi-
cal. The man who can't work at his
best until after a long period of warm
ing up ought to stick to his job, when
once he has got it, as long as he can
keep up to the high-grade level. That
the other hand, the man who accom-
plishes most when he works by spurts
and takes intervals of play between
times ought not to feel that he is doing
wrong when he gives up initiating the
steady workman. System and continu-
Gus driving decrease, not increase, his
efficiency. Both men can do high-grade
work, but not under the same condi-
tiOnS
Every man ought to discover the spe-
cial conditions of his own best work
and to try to make such conditions for
himself-in so far as he can. Other
wise there is a waste somewhere. Moth
ing is gained and much is lost through
trying to run everybody through the
same mOld-World'S Work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
ANNfuI Shock Tor Him

A Chicago man visited Kobe, Japan,
in the course of his travels and found
that he had been robbed overnight of
all his money and baggage. The theft
occurred from his room in a hotel. The
Chicago man reported the loss to the
chief of police at Kobe. Within TWEEN
ty-four hours his lost property was re
stored, the thief captured, and in less
than ten days the culprit was in the
penitentiary. The Chicago man relates
this incident as the most unique thing
that happened to him on his travels.
1t was unique. 1t was particularly
unique for a Chicago man. To run
across a police department that does
things, even if it be in Kobe, Japan,
is enough to make a Chicago man sit
down and think.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
Next Summer.

A million or two of people who have
spent this summer at the seashore are
strongly disposed to spend next sum-
mer in the back country or the noun
tains. If they persevere in this deter
mination their places will be filled by
persons who have spent this summer
in the mountains and the back coun-
try and don't want to go back. 1t has
been very trying summer, muggy,
foggy, 'skeetry, damp, moist, hot and
miscellaneously plaintiye, but it has
been about as bad in one place as in
another-Harper' Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
SIX HUNDRED JUNKs SUNK.
Loss by TyphOOn at Hongkon:
Reaches AnnaIIinE Figures.

Loss by TyphoOn at HongkonE
Reaches Appalling Figures.
The entire feet of 600 fishing junks
sailing from Hongkong was lost IN the
typhoon, increasing the death toll to TO-
900 persons. Practically all the Baluchls-
tan troops and 300 of the West Kent reg
iment are cooperating in clearing away
the wreckage of the typhoon. Prodiglous
efforts are being made to recover the
bodies, which are being carried off III
carloads. The full extent of the typhoon S
havoc is not yet known, but conservative
estimates place the material damage at
S2O,OOOO00.
Reports of disasters at sea are constant
ly being received. The steamer Albatross,
with fifteen passengers on board, founder
ed near Futuamen pass. Only six paSsen-
gers and two of the crew were saved. They
swan ashore. The steamer Hongkong
also was lost, and its entire crew is miss
ing The steamer Wing Fat, fren Sam
chun, foundered and $50 passengers and
ten of its crew are missing. Only two
of the crew are said to have been rescued.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
Continuous Smelling Process.

Two Australian inventors have found
new process for the continuous treatment
of iron ore, which is to be exploited
throughout the world. 1t is a process for
directly converting the ore into malleable
iron or steel. and is said to effect a saw
ing of % per cent. After the ore is con-
centrated it passes through a revolving
cylinder and is brought into contact with
the deoxidizing gas; thence it falls into
bath of molten iron and is converted into
steel or malleable iron, the whole process
being automatic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-27
A Very Bad Lot.

A vagrant had been taken before the
Police Judge for drunkenness.
well, what have you TO say for
yourself?"
The prisoner squared his shoulders,
lifted his head and began in a softly
moderate tone, MANS inhumanity to
man has made countless thousands
mourn, but if 1 were as ragged as Gold
smith, as dissipated as Poe, as extrava-
giant as Fox, as immoral as Byron
"That enough-thirty days." shouted
the Judge. Take down those names,
officer, and run the balance of 'em in
I've no doubt they are a bad lot"