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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-19
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The News ~

If you happen to be short Of cash, just
issue clearinghouse certificates.
Better get your coffin now. All the lum-
Der will be gone in twenty years
The spool-cotton trust certainly spins
lot of money in the course of a year.
"There is need of more currency" de-
clares the New York Times. Indisputa-
bly,
Those big speculative corporations
could stand a good many more ''resigna-
tions.
New York is paying 70 cents dozen
fol eggs. How about eggs for a national
currer ny?
The old stocking and the tin box are
mighty poor places for people to keep
their money.
Everybody stop worrying; the New
York health officer says there is no dis
ease in money.
There are lots of things more com
Portable than being a Wall street inan-
cier these days.
Whatever the exact amount the James
town Exposition owes, there is little dam
ger of it being paid
Considering that it has cost us $780,
OOO.COO the Panama canal is not such a
big hole in the ground.
So many ''Napoleons of Finance" have
gone down that Wall street must have
large collection Of Waterloos.
The average man could stand panic
better if the price of bread and meat
would fail 10 points at the time.
St. Gaudena' woman on the new gold
coin is clad in war bonnet. Well, wom-
en- do most Of the fighting, anyway.
John d. Rockefeller. Jr., says that
some people have a gift for acquiring. He
ought to know. He has an example close
at home.
When will an automobiles learn that
when he begins to dash along through the
dark at a miIe-a-minute clip a man takes
his life in his hands?
The European powers seem to have an
idea that China is piece Of pie which
somebody viii eventually have to serve
around among the nations.
4 Massachusetts minister mas resigned
his pastorate to devote his entire time to
golf. Probably his church duties kept
him from playing on Sunday.
After years of work. the government
investigators are finding out what every
body knows-that the Standard Oil Com
pary is practical monopoly.
The Massachusetts judge who has de-
cided that a woman who runmages in her
husbands pockets is guilty of cruelty
could be elected to the presidency.
4 southern astronomer is pulled up
with pride because he has found four new
stars. a New York theatrical manager
finds that many almost every season.
Horace Fletcher. the foodist. recon-
mends spaghetti and onions as a steady
diet. 1t might be all right if a man
didn't mind losing his family and friends.
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DISPLAY OF RUSSIAN P0Mp.
Crippled and Star-Spangled Veterans
Who Fought Japan at Fortress
There in Force.

Before brilliant assemblage of his
old comrades in arms. Lieut. Gen.
Stoessel was placed on trial in st. Pc
tersburg to answer with his life and
reputation for the loss of Port Arthur
on Jan. l, 1905, and in firm tones and
with confident manner the general
pleaded not guilty to the charge of
needlessly surrendering the fortress
and thereby humiliating the Russian
army.
The trial took place in the audito-
rum of the Army and Navy Club. The
room resembled more a social gathering
of officers of high rank than the scene
of a court martial. Among the judges,
spectators, and witnesses were Gen.
Kuropatkin. Gen. LinevitGh. Gen. Rem
nenkampf. Vice Admiral Wren. and
scores of other prominent leaders i'll
the Russo-Japanese war. There were
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THE. WEEKLY
lH'IEEAHISI0RlAn

1492-Columbus discovered the island
now called San Domingo and Hayti.
1512-The British admiralty Office es-
tablished by Henry VIII
16S0-Penn. colonists met at Chester to
organize the territory
1I54-Prussians defeated the Austrians
and Saxons at battle of Lissa.
1775-American force appeared before
Quebec.
1T71-New Jerseys first newspaper is
sued at Burlington.
1TS0-Gen, Nathaniel Greene assumed
command of the Southern army.
11S3-Washington took leave of the Off
GERS of the army.
1TS7-Delaware, the first State, ratified
the constitution.
1196-Washington delivered his last ad
dress to Congress.
1S04-Napoleon l. crowned in the Cathe-
dral of Notre Dame, Paris.
1S10-Mauritius taken by the English.
1s14-Gen. Jackson took command of
American forces at New Orleans.
1S29-Suttee, the Hindu rite of burning
a widow on the funeral pyre of her
husband, abolished in India.
1S3S-French evacuated Vera Cruz.
1S50-Gen. Louis Kossuth, the Hunga-
rian patriot, arrived in New York.
1S55-Railway communication opened be-
tween Hamilton and Toronto, On
tario.
1S59-John Brown executed. :. Province
of Queensland, Australia, established.
1S61-Secretary of the Treasury Chase
recommended a Encouragement of the
national banking system.
1S63-Gen. Longstreet raised the siege of
Knoxville.
1S65-United States protested against
the French occupation of Mexico.
1S66-Great reform demonstrations by
London trades unions.
1S6S-Disraeh ministry resigned and
Gladstone became premier.
1S73-Serious riots at Vicksburg, Miss.
1SI5-President Grant recommended
non-sectarian and compulsory educa-
ton in his message to Congress.
1S7G-Daniel H. Chamberlain sworn in
as Governor of South Carolina. -.
Several hundred lives lost in the
burning of the Brooklyn theater.
1SS1-Electric street lights introduced in
Philadelphia.
1eS2-Royal Courts of Justice opened by
Queen Victoria.
1SS6-Panic on the Stock Exchange in
San Francisco.
1SS9-Henry NJ. Stanley arrived at ZaH-
zibar on his return from an explor-
ing expedition to central Africa.
John J. Ingalls, introduced the Chi
cago Worlds Fair bill in Congress.
1S01-Great damage by forest fires in
California.
1S93-Senate called upon President Cleve-
land for all correspondence in the
Hawaiian matter.
1S94-U. S. Treasury reserve reached its
highest mark in years, standing at
Sill, 142,000.
1S96-Defeat of the Cuban insurgents
and death of the rebel leader, Maceo.
1S97-German marines took possession
of Kiao Chan, China.
1905-Massacre of Jews at Kiev, Russia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-19
CHAPTER XII.

| was drawing up some papers the next
afternoon when Mr.. Lynn Yeames was
announced. l slipped the papers in
drawer, turned the key, and rose from
my chair as the young man was shown in.
He had the decency to assume a limp,
albeit he had come over on horseback.
Il want to see Mr.. Flexmore's WILL"
he began after brusquely nodding a sal
utation.
The will itself is not in the Office"
said / but you can see the draft from
which that will was drawn up" And l
fetched from a tin box that precious
draft.
He knew the sight of it at once, and
holding it in his hand. he looked steadily
at me through his half-closed eyes, with
his lips firmly set, and his brows knitted
as though he were saying to himself:
You confounded old vagabond ~
Surprising l am prepared to swear
that this is not Flexmore's last will?'
I'm that case. l might be compelled
to prove that it is
How would you do that?"
In the first place. there are the wit
nesses to the signature. and then there is
IL -A"uIeS, WHoSe eNlueHCe L COu4u Or4uS
if any evidence were required
DIR. Awdrey." he exclaimed. did
he know that this will existed?"
Certainly he did. 1t was in conse-
quence of that knowledge that he induced
the late Mr.. Flexmore to decide upon
making that second will, which was pre-
vented from getting duly signed
SHOW me that second WILL" he said in
a tone of authority.
1T is destroyed. If it were not I do
not think l should show it to you. # ii
were in your possession even, and you
could prove that Flexmore intended to
sign it, there could be no possible change
in the result. There is no revoking the
first will
He nodded. still looking at me stead
tasty with his half-closed eyes, his brows
knitted and his lips set. 1 suppose he
thought to intimidate me. He didn't sue
coed.
Now tell me- said he presently. why
you led me to suppose that this first will
was favorable to me, and the second an
tagon;stic. Tell me that
Because" said l. lit is professional
rule to conceal ones clients affairs from
those who seek TO discover them. and be-
cause | saw no harm TO my client in al
lowing you to form any conclusion you
pleased, and by whatever means YOU
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BY MISADVENTURE
f r A ~ K e A r r e T T
-
CHAPTER X.-(Continued.)


| was shown into a sitting room, as
pretentiously genteel and chilling as Mrs
Yeames herself, and there / waited till it
pleased the woman to come to me. She
waved me to a chair, after seating her
self, without giving me her hand, for
which | was grateful, though hitherto she
had allowed me to take the tips of her
clammy fingers. Her lofty air and pat
ronizing smile showed that she partici-
pated in her precious sons belief with
regard to the heritage
Il have called to see your son, Mr..
Lynn, madam" said l.
He Is not hyah," said she with that pc
culiar pronunciation which your "supe-
riah" person affects HE is in London,
where he has met with an accident re-
curing medical treatment which confines
him to his room"
Can you give me his address" / ask
ed. i have business to transact with
him"
No, | cannot give you his address. l
have received a wiah from him, in which
he begs me to act for him in all matters
OF business nature until his return"
About three days after this, client
who had just returned from a business
journey to the south of France dropped
in to have a chat with me, and amongst
other things he said:
"By-the-by, Keene, l crossed over with
young Yeames"
'When?" l asked.
On the ifteenth-night service. He
pretended not to see Inc. so | did not
bother him. | know a man at such times
as this doesn't care for coincidence and
that sort of thing"
lie was going to Paris, suppose?" I
Ventured to suggest.
Oh farther than that. l caught sight
OF nm at the station where the line
branches off to Monaco"
You are sure of your fact?" l asked,
though | had little doubt of it.
am as sure it was he as l am that
you are before me now"
Now the 10th was the very day he had
left Coneyford for London. Was London
not gay enough for him, that he must
60 on to Monaco for amusement? One
thlng was certain Mrs. Yeames to have
received a telegram from him, must have
known his whereabouts, and could not
give me his address in London simply be-
cause he was at the other end of Europe.
Why had she told me that lie? Because
she did not wish it to be known that
her son had gone to Monaco, lest it might
be inferred that he had gone there for
pleasure! That was the conclusion |
came to.
1t never entered my head that he had
got out of the country for prudential
reasons, and that the cause of his precip-
itate flight was that little paper pellet
which was lying quietly in my handy
drawer. There are things which escape
even the suspicion of a lawyer some
times.
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& WONDERFUL CAVE.
Marble Halls of Oregon Described
by Joaquin Miller.

Marble Halls of Oregon Described
by Joaquin Miller.
In Southern Oregon, hugging the Cal
ifornia line near the famous old min
ing camp of Kerby, is cave that prom
ises on further exploration to be the
greatest in the world. 1t is in the Sis
kiyou reservation, seventy-fve miles
from Crater lake and eight miles from
Briggs mines on Sucker creek.
The wonder of marble and crystal
beauty has just been explored to great
er depths by party composed OF
Joaquin Miller, c. B. Watson and JEFF
ferson Myers. Mr.. Myers returned to
Portland enthusiastic with what he had
seen, says the Portland Oregonian.
1T is truly wonderful, that place is"
he said 1--WE went over all that is
now known of it. Joaquin Miller and
myself named it the Marble Halls Of
Oregon
1--WE went from Kerbyville under the
guidance of the two men who have
spent twenty years in and around the
liams, Ore, and Frank NJ. Nickerson,
of Kerby. We left Portland Aug. l and
just got back.
From Kerby we went to the mouth
Of Cave creek, then up that stream
over a good fat trail seven miles to the
mouth of the Halls Here the river
Styx comes right out of the mountain
and tumbles over a fall Of twenty feet
1t is about as large as an ordinary
door in the face of a marble cliff 800
feet high and 800 feet long and clear
white, a beautiful sight in itself. This
| entrance was found in 1874 by hunter
named Elijah Davidson, who trailed
white-faced deer into the place. Three
years later, in 1877, Davidson, Nicker'
son, one of our guides, and John NJ
| Chapman made the first exploration.
| They went over the same route within
the cave that We did this trip.
1.-THE first owners were Homer and
Ernest Hardness, brothers, who squat
ted there in 1880 and spent over $1,000
trying to open up the place. They
made trails and all that, but gave it
up for there were not people enough
to come to see to make it pay. L. NJ.
| Nickerson and A. J. Henderson next
took up the property in 1887. After
| them came Capt. A. B. Smith, who
! spent about $1,000 Our party went in
Aug. 10 just past, and through the eff
| forts Of NJ. J. Anderson, Chief Of For
| estry for Southern Oregon, the govern
ment withdrew it from private entry
! and will make it national monument
'The halls are so far as we know,
on four levels of floors. From the low
| est to the highest is about 600 feet.
| These levels, as in a mine, are con-
nected here and there. Above the lower
entrance is another and smaller one
about 300 feet farther up the noun
| tain.
1.-THE hills cover perhaps township,
| and contain not less than twenty miles
| of chambers, halls and rooms, many of
| which have not yet been opened up.
! The interior is composed of solid mar
| Bile. white and snow, and solid stalac-
| tites. some of them over a foot through
and fifty feet long, clear as diamonds.
| The color effect cannot be expressed
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the zeal and sefsacrce that they vanity rivoiy
and sensual delights they would exhibit zeal that would
give them place in the book of martyrs.
The time has when speak Of the big, splen
did virtues of former generation as oldfashioned
tues. Well, the od-fashioned flowers in mothers gar
den the sweetest flowers that grew. We
will ougrow the virtues of fathers that rooted
in faith mature courage, illustrated in struggle for
liberty and compacted the laws and institutions of
the land These poor, silly restless folk that want to
off the yoke and faith of their fathers choose yokes
of iron. They want easy yoke. But when it is too
late they find the yoke is ron and that the shoulders
are worn raw that the feet are cut and the heart is
broken and that hope is dead.
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The Common Danger.

We have been used to hear that
while the fear of dangerous negroes
made it hard for white children in the
South to get to school, the negro chill
dren were not in danger, and going to
school without fear or risk had on
that account an educational advantage
over the white children. A Southern
woman who writes to the American
Magazine about race relations in the
South touches on this point 70 say that
the dangerous negroes are dangerous
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N.xer Rurnt Before.

.Will you direct me to Farmer Skin
ner's house?" asked the newly-arrived
boarder.
II will eff you want me to-" replied
the station lounger.
81 shall have to ask you for explicit
directions, because I've never been
there before"
Gosh. l know that, seem we're. so
soft on goin' there now."-The Catholic
Standard and Times.
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1t cleaner and healthier 1t has better class of
pie The average of Intelligence and of character
higher If the small town is without saloons it has that
distinct advantage others, large and small, which
have and the larger usually have the saloon and
the evils which congregate about it The small town
has considerable vicious element, whereas that ele
ment rules many of the larger towns. The air of the
small is clear and pure; that of the big town
times Is loaded with smoke and SCOT and burdened with
the bad odors of dirty streets The small town has
good Schools good churches good teachers and
good preachers recognition in the home society
does not depend much upon money. There is less
snobbery and dissipation. There is juster recogn-
ton of personal worth. At the same time the con-
veniences uxuries of life be enjoyed liv
ing is cheaper
The word that is to be spoken to the people of the
small town is the word of appeal to make the best of
natural advantage If they to into manufactures
economy dictates what they must Pc If abundant
materials exist there is practically unlimited local
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MAKING BUsINEss OF BENEvoLENcE. ID
By John D. Rockefeller.

1t takes a practical mind to make
fortune. Men have often said in
my hearing, "Oh, how 1 wish 1 were
rich. If 1 had money 1 should do this
great work or that" Now, those men
will never be rich. They haven't got
the purpose and practical bent Of
mind for it. They think Of the fruits
of victory without the struggle 1t
is necessary to fix the mind pretty
firmly upon the making Of money be-
fore it is possible to plan its spending.
remember clearly when the financial
plan-if l may call it so-of my life
was formed. l was in Ohio, under the
ministration of a dear old minister
who preached, "Get money; get it hon
estly, and then give it wisely" 1 wrote
that down in a little book I have
the little book yet, with that writing
in If I have tried ever since to get
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world-ghosts of dead creeds dead passions dead
vctions. Ibsen more than morbid breaker Of
victions-he a master and knew life. He perceived
the truth that mems minds controlled not by
much by the long gray of vanished reasons;
not by living, intelligent convictions MUCH by the
crystaized power of dead convictions not by voluntary
will, but by automatic institutions.
We are born into a nagridden world. We find all the
prizes Of life mortgaged by fathers fears. We
hidden to conform die To revolt wildly at all of this
Is folly; for the ghosts too strong for and
they who beat the air. only make ourselves
ridiculous. But the way to freedom is to find the truth
and sell it not to cling to it, to follow unwaveringly
better to find, love and follow that strong Son of God
who is truths self. Following Him into
wider chambers, and last to freedom
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-19

- - n.y. A ELLEN money honestly and to give it wisely"
There is great deal of folly shown in the distri
button of benevolence If substance is trust then it
is serious business this matter Of dispensing it. One
can't simply get rid of it and have free conscience
responsibility attaches to the distribution. l have
idea that point, to this effect Let have benevo
lent manage the business Of be-
nevoence.
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The WAY with Habit,

Joshem-It's almost impossible 70
overcome a habit.
Easyun-Why is it?
Joshem-Because if you take away
the first three letters the whole of sir
is gill there.
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demand for the product it is clear case If there is
great local demand while transportation fig
ure in the cost of the product may pay things
settle themselves when of means are weaned of
speculation abroad and satisfied with modest returns
Of money invested at home.
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Unlimited stock,

Blox CATER ten years ABSENCE
What became of Skinner, the dry goods
man? When 1 left he was in financial
straits-Selling out at cost.
Knox-Oh. he's doing business at the
old stand-still selling out at cost.
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Vain Argument

Brown wasted an hours time in
an argument with Jones this morning.
Smith-How did it happen?
Brown was trying to convince him
that he ought TO pay me the bill he
borrowed of me last spring
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SMALL TOWN IDEAL PLACE TO LIVE.
By Milton Starr.

Some people in happy circumstances are IN
happy. Many who are better off in their small
town would like to live in large one. Big
ness does not mean happiness. 1t does not
insure content, which anywhere is essential to
happiness. The town of 5000 almost any
where in the agricultural regions Of this coun-
try IS more favorable as a place of residence
than is the average town of $4,000 or larger
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PLEASURE IMPOSES YOKE OF IRON
BY Rev. DIR. Newell Dwight Hills,

Consider that all schemes of living
based on pleasure, sensual delights
or worldliness impose on men a yoke
Of iron. If the biography of cpl
cureans tells US anything, if the lamp
Of experience throws any light on the
path Of life, then the way of worldly
pleasure is a thorny way, a steep
path, and pleasures yoke is a yoke
of iron. Strangely enough, if many
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In n Pittsburg Department st,

In Pittsburg Department Store.
what did the store walker say about
me?"
HE said if you didn't obey the man
ayers order and leave off your switch
you'd be sidetracked. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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GHOSTS DOMINATE THE WORLD.
By Rev. DR.. Frank Ora

In Ibsen's play, Ghosts Mrs. Alving
claims, upon discovering the evil bent Of her
son. and realizing that it is traceable to the
father, that she seems to hear ghosts Ex-
tending her thought, she adds that she feels
that her own so-caled principles are but
ghosts. Ghosts, she cries, fill the earth, thick
as the sands of the sea she sees them between
the lines of the newspaper, they dominate the
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Two Tragedies.

A poet had wife and the wife had
little to eat. After several weeks of
failure to get money wherewith to pur-
chase food she ran away with a cab
driver who owned his outfit and acted
as though he owned the city.
'sThe blow will kill him. cried peo-
Die. "She has ruined his career"
1t didn't kill him, for he turned his
sorrow into a sonnet that he sold for
SIS. and reviewers said that the font of
inspiration had at last been opened to
him.
A mans wife deserted him, and the
neighbors were more interested than
he was.
.Poor fellow" they said, at will drive
him to drink"
1t did, for he was one who never lost
an opportunity, and his wife was q
strict tee-totaler.-New York Sun.
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About the best luck that happens to
any town is that all of those who look
at an autumn scene and wish they
could paint 1t, can't
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Conceit may puff man Up, but new
er props him up.-Ruskin.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-01-18

New numbers in c. ?. "Justrite cors>ts al Harrison's.