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and pick out fifty men who are better qualified for the presidency than Is Will liam Henry Harrison"
 The battle of Tippecanoe was disas- trous in more ways than one for there fell the distinguished Ia wyer of whom Judge Rowan of Kentucky said: "When l argued d case against Davies I burned candles; but T give you my honor, gen tlemen, that I never burned an inch of candle for Henry Clay in my life"
 Human nature holds its own through all the ages. "The Acts of the Apostles" Is one of the best managed stories ex- tant; and in that treatise Luke gives us in chapter 19. a most vivid account of mob at Ephesus where Paul was preach ing at the time. The Ephesian silver smiths were getting rich by making sl- yer images of the goddess Diana. They were smart enough to see that if Paul s preaching were accepted 1t would put them out of business, and so they col lected a crowd which soon became a mob, of which Luke says: Some there fore cried one thing and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together" Soon, however, they hit upon slogan, and for about the space of two hours they howled: Great is Diana of the Ephesians."
 The town clerks speech to the mob is finely conceived. He told the mob that If the silversmiths had been wronged the courts were open, and the law would re- dress their wrongs; but that there was no excuse for mob. One of the great est excellences of the constitution of the United States is it's wise division of the powers of government Unto. legislative, ex- ecutive and judicial. The first makes the laws, the second executes, and the third interprets them.
 A mob of lynchers must then be one of the most unconstitutional things that can exist, for 1t makes, executes and in- terpre.s its own laws. or rather it's own lawlessDess.
 The bowling philosophy is not to be commended. It is bad In politics, bad in religion, and perhaps worst of all when 1t pretends to administer justice.
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scatter drops of light. mark this par ticular stage of the voyage. As the ship drives the curling and foamcrested waves from her bows, streaks of phosporescent light illumine the waters and reveal the beautiful and countless varieties of algae existing in their depths.
 The good ship is now at her best. "She walks the waters ike a thing of
 life,
 And seems to dare the elements of strife"
 If she could be seen as she approaches, what a picture of beauty and poetry. Onward she comes with all sails set; white cloud on the horizon growing larger and larger. Her tall and taper masts pointing heavenward, her swayng, grace full sn1otion like an immense bird soaring in nid-air, while away astern stretches a smooth and silvery streak, which the waves have bent into serpentine curves until it appears like a gigantic constructor whose fangs arc buried in the vessels side and whose body lies extended along the surface of the ocean TOT miles be- hind
 This is the sailing ship. the merchant man, filled to the hatches with articles of trade an6 aerce which are being carried to the ends of the earth. To her the trade winds owe their name; to her poetry and oratory are lmmeasurably in-
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THE GREAT WHITE WA y

lights were witches candles or devils torch. If Evelyn halted on the brink of The Great White Way, it wasn't for long for she saw therein the common things of life robed In poetic charm and romance and the soft sensuous temptings of the soul said gather the roses while you can, Evelyn, sip the warm wine that will make yonr brain dance a mad waltz, fair women seem more fair, their embraces more tender their kisses more tempting" Afar off, Evelyn did not see the sombre shadow looming up across her bright way.
 She didn't hesitate long. She took the plunge where the water was deepest and bluest, and so fast and fierce did she play the mad game, The Great White Way lost it's spell, and we next see her buzzing along at a wild pace the boulevards of Paris under the staring, admiring eyes of that city of gilded sin-that witch-like weaver of magic spells. Then, for a brief season, we get a glimpse of her amid the voluptuous scenes enacted nightly at the Dead Rat, where the sensual can-can and cake-walk madden and infame the sated voluptuary and inspire the young profigate to widest, maddest capers of abandon and unreserye
 Wine is merely a moderate inspirer of dreams; deirous absinthe, now.
 The shadow, which awhile ago, had just emerged from its pavilion of darkness, is now lengthening it's skeleton arms across her bright way. Care. too, lightly yet, sits on Evelyn's brow. Systematically, the baleful lights of The Great White Way beckon her back to its glare. The shadow lengthens; 1t envelops her in gloom and despair amid scenes of blood and death. The trial scene, of which she is the storm centre, savers both of the boudoir and the prison-the undefned scent of the violet and rose is waited across the foetid fumes of cell and court room; Jerome's examination Is merciless as cruel as Satan interrogating poor sinful soul at the "crimson wicket or
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in the backwoods, give him a barrel of haI cider and a coon-skin cap, they might rid themselves of him forever. The whigs at once took up the slogan of Log cabins, hard cider and coon-skins." Nabobs, who lived in palaces, shouted themselves hoarse for "log cabins" Epi- cures, who imported their own cham pagne, yelled Tor "hard cider Aristo- crats, clad in ermine, howled for "coon- skins.'
 A great thinker said that If a foreigner had landed here during ths uproar he would have thought that the object of the campaign was to prove that log cabins were the most desirable Of all resdences that hard cider was the most delicious of all drinks. and that coon skins were the most valuable of all furs. The democratic editors slur acted as did the Rev, Mr. Burchard's alliteration which elected Cleveland forty-four years later. Moral: Mind how you abuse your opponents.
 Captain Davis, who ran tho steamer Curtis Peck" on James CT, saw man standing on a distant wharf frantically waving for the boat. The captain put in" and there stood negro holding up a live coon. The gangpank was thrown out ,and the captain impatiently cried out: Why don't you get aboard?' The negro replied: 'Why, Marse Cap'n, I didn't want to git aboard l did want to see if you did want to buy dis here coon." And what do want with coon?' Eat him, sir; he's fust rate" Eat coon! I'd as soon eat a cat" Well, Marse Capn, dat jist depen on how man Is raised. I rather eat coon" As Captain Davis was a decided Harrison man that story prob ably stuck to him for long time.
 Harrison was elected; held office only a month; died, end was succeeded by Tyler. who vetoed the United States bank, split the whig party, and opened the way to his democratic successor, James K. Polk. The whig ruse. apparently so Sue cessfuI, ended in dire disaster to the party.
 Justice P. P. Barbour of the United States supreme court was of Orange county Virginia, and used to say: T can go to Orange court house on court day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-17
BY A. E. CAFFEE

direct male line of Marlborough became extinguished and the successors Of the great Duke are not Churchills, at all, ex- cept by act of parliament, but Spencers.
 Upon the death of Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, her nephew Charles Spencer became
 3rd Duke of Marlborough; his son George became
 4th Duke of Marlborough; his son George became
 9th Duke of Marlborough; his son George became
 9th Duke of Marlborough; his son John Winston became
 7th Duke of Marlborough; his son George Charles became
 Sth Duke of Marlborough. who first married the daughter of the Duke of Abercorn and was divorced in 1SS3 The Duke then married Mrs. Lilly Warren, daughter of Commodore Price of the US. Navy; the Duke dying, she married Lord Beresford.
 9th Duke of Marlborough (present duke) son of eighth Duke Is Charles Richard Spencer-C Churchill He married Nov. 6, 1895, Copsuela, daughter of William Nissan Vanderbilt, of New York, and has two sons-John Albert Edward. Marquis of Blandford, 10 years old, and Ivor Charles, years old. His titles are Duke of Marl- borough, Marquis of Blandford, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Spencer, etc. The ducal seats are Blenhelm palace, Wood stock, and Oxford. Clubs-Carlton, Marl- boroubh and Constitutional.
 The ninth Duke of Marlborough enjoys a rich heritage of blood and ancestry Not so much through the Churchills and Spencers perhaps as through his lady mother-Albertha Hamilton, daughter of the first Duke of Abercorn. The Hamil- tons derive their origin from the magnih- cent Norman race of DeBellomonts, Earl of Leicester, through the ancient Lords of the Manor, in the country of Leicester, who hourished there previous to the extinction of the DeBellomonts.
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The present house of Hamilton trace di- rectly back, in the British peerage, to Sir Gilbert de Hamilton in tho twelfth oen- tury, during the reign of Alexander II. King of Scotland; and far back of that through the ancient DeBel1omonts until lost in the twilight of fable" The most illustrious of the Marlborough
 family were the first Duke of Marlbor- ough, the Duchess of Dovenshire-fourth in line from Sarah Jennings and figured in that brilliant era of English statees-
 manship made glorious by the genius of Pitt. Burke. Fox, Sheridan, Lord North,
 Dundas and others; and Randolph
 Churchill who is known to the present
 generation as a brilliant English states
 man anddiplomat and who married Jenn Jerome of New York-now Lady Corn
 wallis-West.
 The present Duke and Duchess of Marl- borough are not unfamiliar with the law of divorce and separation. His father
 and mother were divorced, and his father
 married again. Her father and mother are
 divorced, and both arc married again;
 her mother Is now Mrs. Belmont of New York. Three members of the Marlbor-
 ough-Spencer house married American women.
 It is far cry from the fordly manor of Blenhem to the court room in New York. But The Great White Way knows no dis
 tinction in fortune or lineage; 1t holds out
 It's sinister hands to duchess and to par
 venu alike; It's white phantom-like lights
 fascinate the moth from the palace or the purleius, and she of the palace or the cottage who pursues the ignis fatuus be- | yond the borders. leaves behind all hope of that love which enshrined in the heart becomes a hallowed glory, and makes of l marriage a true sacrament. When the phantom of fancy shall have been chased | through this glittering realm of illusion to desires fulhillment, there will be inf- nite bitterness.
 "The soul that steeps itself in the de- lirium of qualification has stripped life of l It's supremest joy"
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Falry lakes where tender thoughts
 Swam softly to and fro''
 There is perhaps no greater torture than to be compelled to remember, in suffering, joys and glorious opportunities gone forever. Here Is a page torn fresh out of the book of human life. Three American girls, of different fortune, who once smiled and coquetted with "splendor high as heaven" are today pathetic vic- tims of tortures deep as inferno. Clad in all the sacred weakness of girlhood, each gazed fearlessly into the eyes of the Spinx and cast off her life line.
 When Evelyn Nesbit first flashed before New York strumpetocracy, she was perchance innocent of physical sin, but full to the very brows of folly. She fell under the protection" with her mothers aid and consent, of one of the many in New York who have an undefined idea of what was the famous Grove of Daphne, near Antioch, where Grecian eloquence flourished until late period. In the Grove of Daphne an empress once said to her escort: Love is plentiful on this spot, help yourself to as much as you want" This ''protector" was "bust- ness man." His business was of the ''order of trapping singing birds and drawing the knife across the throat of the fawn." In the meantime, The Great White Way was holding out it's hands-hands as white as those of duchess, to Evelyn-as she peered into it's may depths with her soft wondering eyes Those white lights of sinister mock cry glittered and becloned. Poverty and coquetry-her two fatal counsellors, were constantly whispering in her ear all the warm suggestions of fancy. Evelyn gazed on the witching sorceress of The Great White Way. It Is not known that she wondered whether those dazzling white
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esque presidential campaign that
 X this country has ever seen was that of 1s4o From the beginning of the century till 1s4o. the opponents of the democrats had never elected a President. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson and VanBuren had all been pronounced anti-federalists The op- position were terribly tired of being out in the cold, and they were desperately hungry for pie.
 They had now taken the name of 'Whigs." It was a splendid name-the name of the grand old English party which had struggled for liberty through the reigns of Charles the First, Charles the Second and James the Second, and whose annals were adorned with the names of Milton, Hampden and Russell.
 Tho whigs were now bent upon beat ing the democrats at their own game" and 50 they made frantic appeals to the Common people" They headed their ticket with William Henry Harrison of Ohio, perhaps the weakest man that ever occupied the White House. Some thirty years before this time General Harrison had fought the battle of Tippecanoe, where he had been surprised by the h. dians had lost 1sO killed and wounded; had found some sixteen dead Indians on the battlsfield; had buried his dead, burned the private baggage of his officers and retired from the field. These are the facts as given in his own official re- port of the battle, which made him Pres ident of the United States.
 For his running mate the whgs chose John Tyler, who had always been an un- compromising state-rights man. This ruse caught many voters who did not like VanBuren.
 The alliteration, "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" was immensely effective In an evil hour some democratic editor had unluckily said that if the democrats would furnish Harrison with a log cabin
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ment to the blood-won honors of John Churchill. first Duke of Marlborough, on foreign soil. The Duke of Marlborough was by birth an English gentleman, being the son of Sir Winston Churchill and Q daughter of Sir John Drake, at whose country seat he was born. The most im- portant acts of his life were his marriage to Sarah Jennings, playmate of Princess Anne, afterwards queen, and his joint victories with Prince Eugene of Savoy at the battles of Blenheim, Ourdenande, and Malplaquet, although, on the last fright full field they lost 25,0O0 men. The access sion of Queen Anne, the girlhood friend of Sarah Jennings, opened to him bril- . liant career of bloody glory abroad and power at home He became commander in-chief, and was created Duke of Marl- borough in 1702. About this time he began to act in concert with Prince Eugene of Savoy--one of the greatest war captains of any age, whose mother was the niece of Cardinal Mazarin, and for her to avenge the fancied wrongs she had re- ceived at the hands of France, he took up arms for Austria and gave her his courage and transcendent genius. The English give the credit of the allied vic- tories to Marlborough, but history, in it's grave and venerable accent" tells diff ferent tale; for along the bloody trail of Prince Eugenes numerous victories, 1t may. be truly said of him, where Ajax stands the battle never breaks" The faults of the Duke of Marlborough were many and glaring, and often criminal. He was dismissed in disgrace from all his employments in I'll, but was somewhat restored to favor by George I. He died
 in 1722. Having no living son, his daugh- ter, Henrietta, inherited his estates, and by act of parliament was created Duchess of Marlborough: and, she dying without male issue, the estates and titles descend ed to the male heirs of her sister Anne
 who was married to Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland. Hence we see the
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CasteIIanc.
Awake poor troubled sleeper;

Awake poor troubled sleeper;
 Shake off this torpid nightmare"
 Experiences bring mortals back from the chase of illusions.
 The anomaly of so wise and honorable a man as George Gould selling his sister to such a monumental scamp as Castel- lane astonished normal humanity. That he partook of his sisters infatuation for the glitter of foreign title cannot be ex- cused. Surely two such strong characters as George and Helen Gould could have saved their sister from the cruel error, had they not, too, become afflicted with the vain title-mania which spread like a pestilence over this country. The Gould's are of a humble origin, and do not seem to have been attracted to the showy, vul- gar society arena which money has erect ed without regard to merit or intellectual worth.
 Anna Gould has suffered more than any American woman who purchased titled husband. Years and years she wept like Niobe, who was "all tears.' But wo- man weeping over her wrongs that she is unable to avenge, often reaches the very sublimity of ferceness through her tears. And thus did Anna Gould turn on the thing which she had purchased for a great price and cast 1t from her in dis gust and loathing. The fine spirit and res- olution shown by Miss Gould is perhaps
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hell" And while this fierce drama Is on, Gotham society is in its Iow-necked dress. How well 1t looks!
 Where and what will she be hencefor- ward? She will die some day? Yes. like Desdemona, she will be ''cold, cold my girl, as pale as thy smocK.'
 Thou art some mans daughter, Evelyn! Courage, luckless daughterl 'Imbibe the oil and wine which the compassion of stranger now pours into thy wounds; the Omnipotent Being who sorely bruised thee can only bind them up forever"
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the most valuable object lesson that could be given to any woman in similar difficulties and carries a wholesome warning to marriageable girlhood and lugubrlous menace to foreign fortune hunters. Society has been largely bene- fited by the tears of Anna Gould. It is her debtor. It should soothe and tran quilize her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-21
Few Know This.

A well-known specialist is authority
that Kidney and Bladder Troubles of
all kinds are in nearly every instance
readily relieved by taking a few doses
of the following simple homemade
mixture:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce;
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three
ounces.
The dose is teaspoonful after meals
and at bedtime. These ingredients can
be obtained at any good pharmacy, and
are mixed by shaking well in a bottle.
Victims of Kidney, Bladder and Uri-
nary diseases of any kind should not
hesitate to make this prescription mp
and try it. 1t comes highly recon-
mended and doesn't cost much to pre-
pare
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-21
Fix United States Area.

The United States geological survey
has issued bulletin 800. by Henry Can
nette, which represents the result of
conference and cooperation of the land
office. census bureau and geological
survey in an effort to agree on what
constitutes 1.-The area of the United
States"
The absence OF a standard of meas
urement for determining the area led
to discrepancy between the tables of
the census bureau made in 1887 and
those OF the general land Office pre-
pared in 1899. The result of the CO
operation of the departments is that
the area of the United States. proper
which is gwen as 3.026, 7S9 square
miles, has been increased over the cen
sus figures by 1,1SS square miles The
bulletin gives the area of Alaska as
59O.SS4. the Philippines, 11j,O26: Ha-
wall, 6,449: Porto Rico, 3.435: Guam.
30: Samoa -. and the Panama canal
strip, 4I4 square miles.
All of the detached territory is sub
ject to change as the limits become
more correctly Scientific
American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-21
Air Tore His EncR

After he stepped out of his machine
at Ormond. Friday, two miles beyond
the finish. Marriott said:
The pressure of the air fairly tore
my face. Ny eyes felt as though they
were melting, even under MY wind
glasses.
Il gripped the steering wheel like
the last thread of life, crouched 50
that nothing but my goggles were
above the top of the hooded car, and
chung there till l thought it was over
/ didn't see the finish or hear the crack
of the pistol. My ears were stricken
numb for the time being, and all sens
es but one-to hold the steering wheel
Steady-left me.
Toward the end it seemed as though
the top of my head would be taken
away."-New York World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-21
A RaHe Old BIRD.

Among the interesting assets which
Moran has to its credit is a goose which
has reached the mature age of II years.
This oldest inhabitant of the fowl
tribe in Allen County is owned by
James Strong. Mr.. Strong has owned
it for many years and is greatly at
tached to it, and does everything to
make its latter days pleasant. There
are, of course, reasons other than those
of sentiment why this goose is safe
from being served up as a table deli
cacy.
In 1871. when William Jones left
Iowa for Kansas, friend gave him q
goose which was So years old at the
time. 1t was regarded as a fairly ven
cradle bird then, but it stood the hard
ship of pioneer life in Allen County
with no complaint. When Newt Strong
married a niece of Mr.. Jones he gave
them the goose. Later they moved to
Iowa and LETT the goose with James
Strong, who still has it.-Kansas City
Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-21
FOOLED THE PREACHER.
Doctors Brother Thought Postum
WIS Coffee.

n DocfOr's brother InouEHt HostuD
WIS Coffee.
A wise doctor found out coffee was
hurting him so he quit drinking it.
He was so busy with his practice,
however, that his wife had to write
how he fooled his brother, clergy
man, one day at dinner. She says:
Doctor found coffee was injuring
him and decided to give Postum trial,
and we have used it now for four years
with continued benefit. In fact, he is
now free from the long train of ills that
follow coffee drinking.
ITO show how successful we are in
making Postum properly, 1 will relate
an incident. At a dinner we gave,
Doctor suggested that we serve Post
um instead of ordinary coffee.
Doctors brother, Clergyman, sup
posed it was old fashioned coffee and
remarked, as he called for his second
cup. If you do preach against coffee l
see you haven't forgotten how to make
it,"
This goes to show that well-made-
fully boiled-Postum has much the fla
vor and richness Of good coffee. al
though it has an individuality all its
own. A ten days trial will prove that
it has none of the poisonous effect Of
ordinary coffee, but will correct the
troubles caused by coffee. There's a
reason" Name furnished by Postum
Co., Ltd, Battle Greek, Mich.