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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
FEARED FOR NIEcE,s FUTURE
Peculiar Bent of ChiId's Mind Dis.
mayed Uncle.

Il hate to think it." grimly said
Uncle Timrod Totten, but I am
nightly afraid my little 10-year-old
niece, Luclla, is going to cause a great
deal Of worry and unhappiness in the
world when she gorws up" What
makes We think SOP" asked old Squire
Belcher, who had come over to borrow
a whifietree. 'She seems to be a real
nice. thoughtful, good-tempered child
now. Well" was the explanation,
tother day, our gray gander got
tangled up in discussion with the
shepherd pup, and when the fracus
was over there was skurcely a feather
left on the fowl And little Luella
took and dyked him out in a pair of
-pantaloons-and a chim-slip,
mean-of white cloth sewed by her
own fair hands. And, somehow, l can't
help fearing that when she attains
an appropriate age she will wear nose
glasses and several double-chins, and
go crusading against all the common
and unimportant indelicacies that hui
man flesh is heir to."-Exchange.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
AS Miqht Be Expected.

A man who, with his family, had
spent several weeks at a fashionable
summer resort, discovered one morn
ing that he had lost his pocketbook.
Thinking it possible that it might have
been found by some employee of the
hotel at which he was staying, he re-
ported his loss to the landlord.
That's too bad, Mr.. Johnson" said
that functionary "Pll make inquiries
about it. What kind of pocketbook
was it,"
Russian leather" answered the
ledger.
What color?"
Dark red"
ANY distinguishing marks about
it,"
1T had clasp"
What was the shape of it?"
Flat, OF course" said Mr.. Johnson.
Haven't l been here more than a
month ?"-Youth's Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
The LARGEST of Blasts.

One of the largest blasts ever fired
in France was discharged recently at
the quartzite quarries at Cherbourg,
and is said to have displaced 10000
tons of stone. A tunnel measuring six
feet wide and six feet high was driv-
en- into the face of the cliff for dis
lance of 70 feet, and at its end two
branch tunnels, each 20 feet long,
were driven to the right and left re-
spectively. These branches ended in
chambers 43 feet apart and 70 feet
from the face of the cliff, and meas
uring each ten feet by six feet. The
chambers were charged with eight
and one-half tons of blasting powder
and 2S0 pounds Of dynamite and the
blast was fired electrically. The
quartzite obtained from this quarry
finds much favor in England as a
road material.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
The Doqsmith.

"The dogsmith will soon be busy in
Alaska" said miner of the Yukon.
He'll have his work cut out for him,
very severe.
The dogsmith," the miner went on,
shoes, of course, dogs, or he wouldn't
have such name. The sledge dogs
of Alaska have day by day run over
miles of rough ice that is as hard on
the feet as broken glass, and hence
were they not shod they would soon
grow so incurably lame that they'd
have to be killed.
Eyes, there is need for the dog
smith up there. He shoes the dogs
very neatly in shoe made of wadding
and leather"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
Cures "Sleepinq Sickness"

Prof. Koch, the great German med
lcal authority, who has been in Africa
about Is months, inquiring into the
causes and cure of that strange and
widely prevalent malady, the sleeping
sickness, has become famous through
out a large portion of the dark con
tinent. He has treated and cured
hundreds of black men afflicted with
the dread disease mentioned, and has,
therefore, been given the title of
Great White Wizard" He is continu-
ally receiving appeals from all parts
Of central Africa to come to the res
cue of sick and dying persons. The
professors treatment consists of an
Injection of atoxyl, and the results of
this have usually been favorable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
Turkish Labor Too Cheap.

An American manufactures of laun-
dry machinery tried to introduce it
into Smyrna, Turkey, but Consul
Ernest L. Harris has reported that so
long as the price of labor in that
Turkish city remains so low the prac-
tice will continue of doing the wash
ing at home, and there will be no op-
portunity for the sale of laundry ma
chinery. OF late years in Smyrna it
has become the practice, he says, to a
certain extent to send the washed
linen to public laundries for ironing
and starching, but even this is ceas-
ing. Specifications were drawn up for
the establishment of a laundry after
the American plan, and careful consid-
Grafton was given to the price of coal
and labor 1t was found that the mar
gin was so small that the undertaking
was bound to be failure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
Practical Poet.

They were two minor or near poets
They had surrounded several drinks,
but it was only the shank of the
evening and the coin hadn't held out
TO burn.
They sat at cafe idly marking
berry rings upon its polished surface
7 wish Burns was here" moodily
remarked the first bard.
UNI"
II wish Keats was here"
UNI"
Il wish Petrarch was here"
UNI"
81 wish Omar was here"
81 wish Croesus was here" peev.
ish1y interrupted the other half Of tt
sketch.
Because none of those other fel
lows would have a cent"
Then they wandered out into the
night.-Puck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
East African Religious Ceremony.

Recently strange ceremony was
performed at Changamwe, East Afri-
ca, to bring rain. A kouse-to-house
visit was made among the natives by
a self-appointed committee who col
lected from each hut the sum of two
annas. With the total thus collected
an OK was purchased. A procession
was then formed, in which all the
available children took part. After
the procession had proceeded around
the district for a period of two hours,
the OK was sacrificed, prayers from
the Koran being sang by the children.
The meat of the OK was then boiled
in pots by adult participators and
given to the children to eat until the
whole was consumed. The bones and
remaining offal of the carcass were
later put in a sack, carefully carried
to the sea and thrown into deep water.
Circumstantially rain fell for a few
hours on the succeeding day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
: OFAPERSONAL NATURE

l.. M. Lockner left for his home in
Arpin Friday.
+. Geo. Conklin left for. his home in
Seneca Friday morning,
John Possley of Biron is seriously
ill with typhoid pneumonia.
Roy Stringer, of Wausau, spent Sun
day in this city visiting friends.
Frank Boyanowski, of Stevens Point
was visitor in our city Monday.
viii Scott, of Port Arthur, Can, is
here for few days business visit.
H. H Voss, of Nekoosa, was bust
ness visitor in this city Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Schumacher left
for Chicago Sunday night on business
w. H. Doenitz, of Almond, was a
business visitor in this city Saturday.
Robert Conner, of Marshfeld, was in
the city Thursday attending county
court.
Fred Kerr, of Belvedere, H., was in
the city Tuesday visiting with his
many friends.
David Levine: of Babcock, spent
Sunday with his brother, NJ. r..
Levine of this city.
Miss Louise Martin was in Wausau
Wednesday where she attended the
Meservey-SeXton wedding.
/. Franks. formerly in the fruit
business here, but now of Chicago, is
visiting friends in this city.
Mrs. Anton Hartel, of 1873 Ninth
Ave. N, is suffering with a severe
case Of neuralgia in the face.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
WHEN THE OTHER MAN is HIT.
Misfortunes of Others Frequently
Cause of SeIf-Congratulation.

Il wonder why it is" said the mel
ancholy man, that, when we hear of
misfortunes that don't come very close
to US, there is usually feeling-well,
won't call it one of superiority of
fate, but certainly one of recognition
of the fitness of things by which we
are not picked out for such evil case.
And We are careful to give ourselves
all possible credit for exemption.
Jones, you hear, has failed. Poor
Jones. You know him, and you know
that if you had been in his place you
would have seen the signs of disaster
and taken warning. Browns son has
made runaway match. Well, well!
That is tough on the Browns, but it is
clear that they didn't understand
bringing up boy. And so it goes.
There's a preening of the feathers, an
assumption of an air of conscious rec
titude. Does it come from innate
selfishness? Or is it because there
has been no personal experience of
sorrow along the lines indicated?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
The First War Balloon.

In view of the success of the new
army airship and the part it will
probably play in the next war it is
interesting to note that balloons were
fisst used in war as long ago as 1884,
when Guyton de Morveau made two
ascents and obtained important in
formation during the battle of Fleurus
Their next appearance was during the
battle of Solferino, in 1859, and two
years later the federal army employ
ed them near Washington, while their
use for conveying the mail bags out
of besieged Paris is almost too we'll
known to need mention. The word
balloon, by the way, has many mean
ings, although it is now almost entire
ly confined to the aeronautical sense.
Originally a balloon was simply
large inflated ball, like a football,
from which it came to be applied to
the game in which it was used. A
large, short-necked glass vessel and
a method of training fruit trees are
also among its meanings, while the
king of Siam travels III his balloon,
which is, however, state barge of
gorgeous design.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
British Scientific Farming.

A new era in British farming seems
at the Cambridge university farm at
Impington. During the last eight
years all known varieties of wheat
have been collected, and, while most
of them could not be acclimated, few
have been selected for resistance to
rust, good cropping capacity, free mill
ing quality, stiff straw, ETC., and have
been crossed with British wheat so
successfully as to promise an immedi-
ate increase in value of 10 per cent or
more Like improvement of barley
and other plants is anticipated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
Saving Waits Of ENGLAND.

Mrs. Close has a 185-acre farm for
pauper children in Canada. She has
there Is boys and girls from England.
They attend the public schools and
at the same time exercise practical
training in agricultural work and
other useful subjects. She makes it
a rule that the children shall be sent
back to England when they show any
disposition to join the army or the
navy or the merchant marine, or
when situations can be found for
them in England. The experiment
promises to be successful in every
respect, including saving to rate
payers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
Women in Public Life

There are, it is estimated, something
like 1000 women on various publicly
elected bodies in England and Wales
at the present time, and of this num-
Der about 1900 are members of boards
of guardians. Of the 644 unions in
England and Wales 407 now have
women guardians, the proportion of
women to men being one in every 81
or o. In London there are 100 wom-
en- guardians distributed among 81
unions. The new qualification bill
will open up All more public bodies to
women-namely 326 town councils, 63
county councils and % London bor-
ough councils.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28

Ing.
How long have you lived here?'
they asked
Long enough to know better"
Don't you like the country"
When it goes to suit me-
Ever been up in an airship?"
mo. When / make up my m.ns to
fly, I'll know whar to light
Ever ride on railroad train?'
mo. highest / ever come to it wuz
bein' bowed up by a sawmill'
We'll, tell US what 'moonshine'
liquor means"
The Billville man shifted his
"chaw' of tobacco from one jaw to the
other, spat on the greensward, and as
he prepared to climb fence, said:
H, and heap of it!"-Atlanta
Constitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
Violin as a Hair Restorer.

1t is now a scientifically proved fact
that music exercises great influence
on the growth of the hair. 1t is with
good reason that great musicians,
such as Paganini, Listz and Paderew-
ski, are represented with growth of
hair which Absalom might have en-
We'd. Science has proved that stringed
instruments have favorable influence
on the growth of the hair, while brass
instruments act in the opposite direc-
ton. Every one has probably OBJ
served that a bald violinist is as rare
as bald horn player is common.
Wood instruments, such as the flute,
seem to have no pronounced influence
either way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
Merely Preparatory.

ct don't mind telling you," said the
pretty girl confidentially, that l want
to take a thorough course in cooking
in order to fit myself to be a good
wife" You are doing the right
thing, my DEAR" said the matron in
charge OF the cooking school. May
l ask how soon you expect to be mar
ried?" How should l know" re-
joined the pretty girl, daintily rolling
I'D her sleeves. II haven't found the
man yet"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
WAS GOOD BARGAIN
WIckY cAlLAN MADE MONEY ON
PURCHASE.
Owner of Outfit Was Laid Up, but
Still He Had a Right to Feel
Good Over His In
veStment

"Wicky Callan is laid up, but he
feels pretty good" said Doc Peters, as
he took seat in the studio and helped
himself to corncobful of tobacco.
And what ais him." asked Red
Bruce, who was making scrawls with
stick of charcoal on a piece of coarse
paper.
We'll, it was this way: Wicky, he
got hold Of some money last Saturday.
Got complete outfit Of clothes and
then started to get an Unfit He got it
all right and took it home with him
some time Sunday night.
Monday morning he woke up and
searched himself carefully. Found a
twenty-case note tucked away in the
fob pocket of his trousers and made
a Decline for Plunkitt's, where he
broke in some. After half an hour
he was feeling fine and concluded to
go down town and see If there was
anything doing.
He rode couple Of blocks on the
back platform of a car when he
happened to see an old buggy standing
in front of a junk shop with For Sale
on it
"'stop the car said Wicky, and
jumped off.
Now, Wicky never owned horse
or buggy, never drove horse in his
life, but something told him he ought
to have that particular vehicle.
How much do you want for it?'
he asked the junk man.
"'Ten dollars
"'Give you five.'
Take it along
"Wicky coughed up the fve-speck-
er. At sales stable he knew about
he bought a pretty good looking old
skate for $3.50, with the bride at
tached.
"A light secondhand harness cost
him four dollars. Thus equipped, he
started off in great shape. The whole
caravan cost him about SIS, includ-
ing drinks.
He was down to fish scales when
he got through and it worried him
some, but he knew of a roadhouse just
out of town where he could always
make a touch, SO he started to go
out there. Wicky wasn't much on
the drive, and the horse soon found
it out and had pretty much his own
way.
He was going along at pretty
good clip on the river road when, a
trolley car turned a corner suddenly
and scared him so that he stopped
still. The car hit the buggy and the
horse at the same time, and Wicky fell
through the vestibule into the front
platform of the car, knocking the mo-
torman through the door
1.-THE horse went into the ditch with
both hind legs broken and the buggy
was knocked to flinders Wicky lay
where he fell until they fetched an
ambulance and took him to his board
ing house.
"They killed the horse and carted
it away and burned the ruins of the
buggy, but before this was done there
was an investigator from the trolley
company sitting on the side of Wicky's
bed with piece of paper and a foun-
tain pen in his hand. What's the
answer? Well Wicky settled. He
signed a release for $780,
HE asked the man for rs, meaning
dollars, but the man must have
thought he meant hundreds, and dick
cred until he cut him down to three
of 'em. Hurt? Well, yes. He's got
a bruised elbow, a scratch On tn
wrist, and cut chin, but he'll soon be
out buying buggies and SIGH"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
A Cold Nose,

A lady who owns a dog, and incl
dentally little girl, heard a commo-
ton in the adjoining room Upon in
vestigating she discovered that the
commotion came largely from the dog
You naughty child" she said, ARE
you trying to burn Fido, that you hold
his head so near the crater
mo, mamma" replied the little
girl; I'm only trying to warm his
nose"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
The Jewel Of Forgiveness.

Nothing is more moving to man
than the spectacle of reconciliation;
our weaknesses are thus Unidentified
and are not too costly, being the
price we pay for the hour of forgive
ness; and the archangel who has
never felt anger has reason 10 envy
the man who subdues it. When thou
forgivest, the man who has pierced
thy heart stands to thee in the rela-
ton of the sea-worm that perforates
the shell of the mussel, which
straightway closes the wound with a
pearl.-Richter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
Was Clothed In Tobacco.

A priest has been arrested at Agin-
court, on the Franco-Belgian frontier,
for smuggling. His luggage was full
of cigars, and when he was stripped
he was found to be wearing around his
body a layer Of tobacco and cigars
over an inch in thickness. The man
was clothed in tobacco, and 1000 Gig.
ars were taken from tho layer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
Dense Population.

Of the worlds greatest cities Paris
has the greatest number of inhabi-
tants to the acre. For its 2,731, 900 in
habitants an area of only 1925 acres
is available, so that each acre has 142
inhabitants. Berlin is almost as thick
ly populated, inasmuch as its city
ground (now almost entirely built up)
comprises only 1865 acres, and in
this space 2,034,U,0 people live, or 131
to each acre. The conditions are con-
siderably better in London, where A..
$780, 900 people live in an area Of 75,-
$40 acres, or go to the acre.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
The Cutting Retort.

you don't have to brag of success"
declared the big woman when she
had listened to the little woman's &C.
count of how well she was doing with
her work; sit shows for itself" And
you don't have to tell outright of the
decline of success once you have been
successful remarked the little wom-
an, who had listened first to the big
womans talk; "it shows in the bitter
ness with which you complain of ex-
listing circumstances"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28

Mr. and Mrs. Emil Rasmussen
spent Friday in Marshfield, as the
| guest of relatives and friends.
Messrs. L. NJ. Alexander and g. f,
Steele, of Port Edwards, were bust
ness visitors in this city Thursday.
Brainerd Worthington, formerly of
this city but latter of Beloit, is in the
city for few days visiting friends.
Miss Mason, who has been visiting
in Wausau with Mayme Kavanaugh,
has returned to her home in this city.
Miss Abbie Marshall, of Green Bay.
arrived Monday to spend Thanks
giving with her sister Mrs. F. r.
Warner.
Judson Hall, of Hartland, travelling
representative of the Razall Mfg. Co.,
of Milwaukee, was visitor in this
city over Sunday.
Harry Weiseberg, of Chicago, who
visited with his brother Joe of this
wy o'CA bQIIodN 1ClO lOl ltlSNtll6
Monday morning.
Mrs. w. E. Martin and daughter, of
Mosinee, visited last week at the
home o. her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. W. Baker, Sr.
Most of the supervisors left for their
respective homes Thursday evening,
! immediately after the adjournment
of the county board.
Sam Church's handsome hunting
dog, which has been sick for some
time past, died Friday night. The
animal was valuable one.
Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette, of
Madison, and Congressman E. A.
Morse, of Amigo, left their respective
homes for Washington, d. c. Satur-
day.
Thomas McGraith and Walter
Burns, who have been in Northern
Minnesota during the past week look
ing over timber claims, returned Sum-
day night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Yetter and
family left for Rudolph Wednesday
where they will visit friends, after
which they will 60 to Crandcn, Wis,
to make their future home.
E. Roenius. of the Grand Rapids
Foundry Co., left for Milwaukee Fri
day night to witness the starting of
the first ice machine in the establish
ment of John Weber, of that city.
Judge Webb and Court Reporter
Robt. Morse. returned to Stevens
Point Monday where they ex-
pect to finish up the jury cases for
Portage county before Thanksgiving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. B. Brazeau left
yesterday for Asotin, Washington.
They will spend the winter in that
state and return to Nekoosa next
spring. Wood County Times.
The many friends of F. E. Nc
Govern in this city will be interested
to learn that he is among the
mayorality possibility in Milwaukee,
according to the press reports this
week.
Joseph L. Whitney arrived in this
city Thursday from Plover, and visited
for day or two with his many old
friends at the Witter House. Mr..
Whitney appears to be much i'm
p'oyed since going to Plover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rintelman, par
eats of Mrs. A. l.. Fontainp, who
have been visiting with their daughter
Mrs. Chas. Humphrey, of Mellen Wis,
arrived in this city Thursday for a
three weeks visit after which they
will return to their home in MukwOn-
ago, Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.. Dukelow and
son, of Delavan, Wis, arrived Friday
at the home of Mr.. Dukelow's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. +. Armes.
Mrs. Dukelow and son Donald will re-
main here this winter while Mr..
Dukelow is in the west searching for
new business location.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
A JoiIier,

Mayor Douglass of Niagara Falls
said the other day of an ofice-seeker:
"He is a jollier. He reminds me
of a chicken thief Of Utica.
"a police reporter wrote of this
thief, The prisoner laughed aloud for
mercy And when the night editor
asked for an explanation of that queer
sentence, the reporter said:
Its exactly what happened. Every
poor old feeble joke the magistrate
made, the scoundrelly thief roared At
to split his Sides
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
Seeks National Independence.

as an independent nation has affected
Iceland, which has a party that also
seeks national independence from the
mother state, Denmark. King Chris
tian's early visit to the islands is de-
signed to quiet the secession spirit.
Iceland might become the model indie
pendent republic If given the oppor-
tunity. In any event, observes the
Springfield Republican, it would be
an interesting study compared with
the little republics of the tropics. The
relation between political science and
<ha weather would be Illuminated.