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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
DON'T be an InduIgent Mother.

Don't be an InduIgent Mother
II child IS told he must not do
certain thing, no argument Should
change the verdict, and if he disobeys
he must be made to pay penalty one
way or another. He need not be treat
ed with severity, but he may be de-
prived of so2ce pleasure or Toy and in
that way will be made to understand.
Induleent mothers should remember
that they are treating unfairly and I'M
kindly the little creatures whom they
love most Of all. Your kind of kind
ness is not kindness at all.
You who are so careful what the
child puts into its stomach. watch Just
rs carefully what it puts in,o its brain.
Through lack of proper teaching he can
acquire a state of mental dyspepsia
that viii become chronic and which will
make it impossible for him to enjoy the
very sweeter things in life. Think
about it. will you? Help your child
to be splendid, unselfisn, beautiful of
character. There are enough Of the
other kind in the world, and it is peo-
pie of the better sort that are needed.
The jails are crowded with people
who, when they were young. had every
thing their own way. Their tempers
knew no rein and what the mothers
might have directed with the greatest
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Bees Faster Than Pigeons.

1t is not generally known that bees
are swifter in flight than pigeons-that
ago a pigeon fancier at Hamme, West
phalia, laid a wager that dozen bees
liberated three miles from their hives
would reach home in less time than a
dozen pigeons. The competitors were
given wing at Rybern, a village nearly
league from Hamme, and the first
bee reached the hive a quarter OF
minute In advance of the first pigeon.
The bees were also slightly handicapp-
ed, having been rolled in -four before
starting for purpose of Identification.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26

bottom of the skirt, on both sides; at
other times it extends a little below
the hips.
Somewhat heavier and rougher goods
will be fashionable this fall. Scotch
cheviots of fancy design will be much
used in the construction of tailored
gowns.
Trimming ideas are numberless. Tiny
ball drops tassels and pendants of all
descriptions are shown on the new
models.
Two distinctive features may be
noted about sleeves. They have much
more fullness at the top, some of them
even being laid in deep plaits, and they
are very ornate, even to the point of
business.
There appears to be some controversy
about the wearing of hatpins. Some
say that none should be visible at all ;
but, on the other hand, the most ex-
quisite designs are seen in wrought
gold and colors to harmonic with hat
or gown.
The engagement bracelet is quite a
new fad and, while not exactly taking
the place of the engagement ring, it
accompanies that gift and is of a like
pattern. Tiffany settings are very
handsome and the bracelets are the
perfection of skilled workmanship.
Some Of the new hats show wings of
exaggerated length, which prove the
milliners' skill to outrival even nature
III the length of certain wings. The
feathers are mounted on wooden can
vas, and they are colored to match
every kind of hat we see.
Two of the leading features of the
fall models are the development of the
tailor-made and the japanese effects.
each of which draws upon the other to
form an entirely new style, which,
while it has the characteristics of both,
is at once more practical and more
artistic than either.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26

The present style of having the arm
hole outlined by Il wide bias fold of
silk the color of the frock opens up
great possibilities for the gown that
his grown too narrow across the back
or chest, and so do the bias folds in
lex effect with which many of the
newest dresses are trimmed. When the
arnhalc is trimmed as mentioned, the
rest al the waist is generally in eton
coat effect with a Thankfully cut band
ut border, and is worn over a lace or
net waist with rutiied sleeves in elbow
length. What was formerly the sleeve
in the waist can be transformed into u
sleeve cap. loose and short, and with
these few touches the old waist is COM
pleteiy up to date.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
State News in Brief.

4 3-weeks-old girl was left upon the
doorstep of Mr.. and Mrs. f. c. Howard
in South Byron.
Rev. Father L. J. Vaughan of Eau
Claire has severed his connection with
church work in that section and he will
hereafter devote his time to lcturing.
Nine persons were injured in a rear.
end collision of freight and passenger
trains on the Chicago and Northwestern
road at Racine. Slippery rails was re-
sponsible for the freight's crashing into
the passenger train.
A case of State wide interest will be
tried in the municipal court in Chippewa
Falls Sept. 26, when John Gallus of
Cadott is arraigned on the charge of
keeping his saloon open on Sunday. The
charge against Gallus is not that he sold
any liquor on this day, but merely that
the door of his saloon was open.
Freight and passenger trains on Wis
consin Central short line between Eau
Claire and Chippewa Falls colided one
mile from the Eau Claire depot. Thomas
Morrow, the passenger conductor, was
injured. but not seriously.
Fred c.. Slecker, a cheese dealer of Nee
nah, has filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy, giving assets at S2,471.66
and liabilities at S9.21S. His real estate
IS estimated at $4,000 He holds thirty
shares of stock in the Dale Cheese and
Butter Company, and other stock having
a total face value of $500, all of which
he estimates as worth 500.
William B. Henderson of Chicago was
sentenced to from one year to eighteen
months in the State reformatory at Green
Bay for working a fake subscription
scheme in Oshkosh.
Charts E. Ryan has been arrsted on
a warrant charging him with the murder
or Walter Eccleston, who was killed by a
gunshot wound at the Ryan homestead,
seven miles west of Tomahawk.
Declaring that her octogenarian hus-
band should be Oslerized, Mrs. William
Bronson. the young wife of prominent
La Crosse hotel man, brought her aged
spouse into court in an application for
divorce.
The first arrest under the law creating
the Office of State fire marshal was made
at Belo;t. Within a few days there have
been three fires on the farm of David
Moore. The renter, W. J. Clark, was
suspected. and he was arrested on three
charges. two for arson and one for at
tempting to obtain money from insur-
ance companies under false pretenses.
Bail was fixed at S2,4OO.
AS the result of quarrel over a game
of cards, Stephen Guides of Milwaukee il
charged with stabbing Joseph Smith, a
Iaborer. three times in a La Crosse board
ing house. Guidos was bound over for
to kill. Smith nay recover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26

Kindness and loving discipline the law
does later by means less loving and less
kind All humanity is not made up of
indulgent mothers, and that fact the
child finds out in time, much to his
sorrow He should be properly adj
justed to the regulations of proper con
duet. and let this regulation take place
early in life, when the litle mind ac-
cepts the ideas that are the foundation
of character.
There should be school in which
mothers should be taught the art of
bringing up their children. 1t is upon
this teaching that the character of the
future generation depends.
The spoiled babies will never be pres
idents of the United States. They
won't even be able to hold down the
Job of Office boy. Many a man strug-
gled unsuccessfully all through his life
to overcome the frightful havoc
wrought by the silly indulgence of Il
devoted MISUNDERSTANDING
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
New Life-Restoring Apparatus.

e. G. Hall, writing in the August Tech
nical World Magazine, asserts that Prof
George Poe Of South Norfolk, Va, is able
to restore life to apparently dead animals,
his treatment being based upon the we'll
known method of forcing oxygen into the
lungs. For this purpose he has devised
an artificial respirator, modelled in all
respects after nature. 1t embraces two
small cylinders, each having an inlet and
an outlet, with which plungers work sim
ultaneously, and from which tubes are
conducted to the nostrils or mouth of the
patient. One cylinder is supplied with
oxygen, and the outlet of the other dis
charges directly into the atmosphere. The
plungers are worked by hand and timed
according to normal respiration. Thus in
one movement noxious gases from the
lungs are drawn into one cylinder, while
the next movement forces oxygen from
the other cylinder into the lungs. This
device has been patented and will soon be
upon the market.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Raising Camphor in Florida.

Secretary James Wilson of the De
partment of Agriculture, in a recent
address delivered before the Americas
Club of Pittsburg, declared that the
United States was successfully expert
menting In the production of camphor.
He said, in part:
For years the department has been
distributing camphor tree seed, and
thousands of trees are now growing
throughout the South and in the Pa
cifc Coast States. Two years ago a
serious effort was made to develop the
manufacture of camphor from these
trees.
"By improvements in manufacturing
processes satisfactory results have
been accomplished, and large manu-
featuring concern is now building up
a camphor grove Of 1000 acres in
Florida, from which it hopes to make
its camphor. This firm uses more than
100000 worth Of camphor every year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
MANIAC LEAPS TO DEATH.
Audience Is Thrilled with Horror
When Madman Is Crushed.

sands of persons in attendance at the
State fair in Milwaukee when Charles
FAIRIES, a maniac of Decatur, H., sud
denly dashed forward and threw himself
in front of huge steam roller, being in
stantly killed and reduced to a shapeless,
unrecognizabie mass. The crowd was
watching the ffty-ton roller give an ex-
hibition of good road making when the
mailman, who was in the front row, dart
ed forward, and before the attendants
could stop him, literally dived under the
ponderous iron machine. Many women
who saw the occurrence tainted and the
exhibitions were abandoned for the day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Farm Wood Lots.

Throughout a very large portion of
the United States nearly every farm
has a certain part Of its area nnder
wood, either planted, as in regions
otherwise treeless, or of natural
growth. The value Of this wooded por-
ton, besides affording protection from
the wind, is chiefly for fuel, fencing
and railroad ties, with some building
material and the wood needed for spe-
cial uses about the farm. Without th4
wood lot the farm very often woulSIDe
an Improbable investment, because the
farmer could not afford to buy the
wood which now costs him very little
except the labor of cutting and moving
it, but in the majority of cases this
part Of the farm is far less useful than
it might easily be made. This is true
because the farmer does not study it's
productive capacity as he does that of
his fields and pastures, and hence does
not make it yield as fully as he might,
with little or no additional labor, if he
went about it in the right way.-Gif-
ford Pinchot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
women More Honest Than Men

Statistics compiled by American
guarantee companies show that. as re-
CARDS honesty, women are superior to
men. Women are employed in bust
ness as extensively as men. and yet the
record shows that almost every en-
beZzIer and defaulter was man, says
Home Chat There are more women
cashiers than men. The universal
stores and shops of almost every kind
employ women to handle their receipts
and to give change; yet, says the Tele-
graph, there were hundred cases Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
BEATS A SLOT MACHINE.

Saloon Man Sells Continuance to
Farmer for Joke for $3.50.
Hank Katrine, a saloonkeeper at Al
mena, sold an old slot machine that orig
inally cost $3.50 to a tipsy farmer TO-
$3.50 and thought it a good joke, as the
machines are worthless since laws passed
IN Wisconsin and neighboring States pro-
hibit their running. When the farmer
was loading his purchase on his wagon,
preparatory to taking it home. hejlost his
balance, the machine tipped over and
$3.50 in nickels rolled out OF a corner
where in some way they had escaped
from the coin chute and lain for the last
five years unknown to anyone. The mar
ket for old slot machines is now on the
boom at Almena.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
CUPID MUST BE NOISY.
Legislature Fixes the Minimum
Price of @. T. Marriages.

Legislature Fixes the Minimum
Price of @. It. Marriages.
a moose has been placed around the
neck of cupid, by the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture. After Oct. l couples married on
the quiet who attempt to keep the event
secret, will be subject to a fine of not less
than 500. a new law passed at the last
session of the Legislature will deal a
severe blow to the business of magistrates
of Rockford, Freeport and Chicago who
annually wed hundreds of couples from
Madison, Milwaukee and other places in
southern Wisconsin. Likewise the ro-
mances eliminating in Menominee, st. Jo-
seph and Winona, will cease forever. The
law permits couples going across the
State boundary and being united but it
will do away with keeping the knowledge
from their friends and relatives by COM
polling them to obtain a certificate from
the county clerk of the county in which
they reside, prior to the marriage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Some Hand Rules.

Don't pull your fingers.
Don't bend your fingers backward.
Don't distort your knuckles or your
muscles; keep them in as normal shape
as possible.
Don't use your fingers as drumsticks,
unless you want to make the ends of
your fingers as round and big as mar
bles.
Don't strain your hands by driving
in pins or tacls or by usiIs; the
roughly, you will surely spoil their
shape.
Don't use your teeth upon your fin
gers, for it loosens the flesh at the
sides of the nails and makes the fingers
stubby.
Don't sit with your thumbs doubled
up; it makes the thumb joints large.
Don't put your thumbs in your
mouth for it makes the tip of the
thumb big
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26

1402-English defeated the Scots at
Homeldon Hill.
1504-Columbus took final leave of the
New World and sailed for Spain.
1609-Henry Hudson discovered the riv-
er which bears his name.
1640-Lord Stirling, to whom James 1.
gave a large section of what is now
the United States and Canada, died
in London.
1645-Covenanters defeated Montrose al
Philiphaugh.
1742-Faneuil Hall completed and pre-
scented to the town of Boston.
1759-Wolfe landed troops at Quebec.
1775-Gen. Washington began to commits
sion war vessels.
177S-Benjamin Franklin sent to France
as minister plenipOtentiary.
17S1-Gen. Washington arrived at Will
liamsburg and assumed command.
11S2-Congress accepted the offer OF
Virginia's western lanus.
17S6-Connecticut decided western land
to Congress.
1ISS-Congress made New York the
capital city of the United States.
17S9-Alexander Hamilton became Sec
rotary of the Treasury :. Henry
Knox of Massachusetts became Sec
rotary of War.
1S03-Lord William Downs appointed
chief justice of Ireland
1S14-Battle of Plattsburgh, n. w..
British made an unsuccessful attack
on Baltimore. :. British bombarded
Fort McHenry, near Baltimore. -.
British abandoned their expedition
against Baltimore.
1S29-Treaty of Adrianople, ending war
between Russia and Turkey.
1S41-Walter Forward of Pennsylvania
became Secretary of the United
States Treasury.
1S46-First Mississippi rifemen, under
command of Company l, Jefferson
Davis, charged the Mexicans at Fort
Teneria.
1S47-American army under Gen. Scott
marched into the Mexican capital.
Many lives lost in hurricane off New
foundland.
1S50-Jenny Lind first appeared on an
American stage at Castle Garden, n.
Y. Alexander II. II. Stuart OF
Virginia became Secretary of the In
terror.
steamship Austria, Southampton
to New York, burned at sea All
lives lost.
1S61-President Lincoln revoked Gen.
Fremont's emancipation order.
1S62-Governors of fourteen States met
at Altoona, Pa, and approved OF
emancipation as war measure. -.
Gen. Mcclellan appointed to COM
mand the defense of Washington.
1864-Gen. Sherman entered Atlanta,
ending the four weeks siege. Gen.
Sherman ordered all civilians to
leave Atlanta.
1S69-National Prohibition party organ
lied at convention in Chicago.
1S71-Henry Irving first appeared IN
'Fanchette" at the London Lyceum.
-. Mont Gents tunnel opened.
1872-Alabama claims against England
decided in favor of the United States.
18S6-Canadian Pacific railway tele-
graph line opened for business.
1S93-Gov. William Mckinley of Ohio
opened his campaign for reelection
with a speech at Akron.
1894-Hinckley and other Minnesota
towns swept by forest fires.
1S9S-British forces defeated the Der
wishes at Omdurman. :. D.. Admiral
Oh.
officers sailed for Spain.
1906-Emperor of China issued an edict
promising constitutional government.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Famine in Hair.

The enormous feminine demand for
artificial coils and toupees is leading
to 4 famine in human hair. Formerly
Swiss. German and Hungarian girls
supplied the world of fashionable wom-
en- with luxuriant tresSes of all tints.
But the governments of many countries
are now making it Illegal for a girl
to sell her hair or for an agent TO buy
II. The supply, in consequence, is run
ming short and the prices of real hair
are frebling.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Phato-ruphin Thoughts,

DR.. Hippolyte Baraduc, noted French
physician, has recently published series
of photographs purporting to represent
different thoughts or prayers, thus offer
ing some confirmation to the theories OF
the Theos0phists. DIR. Baraduc, on the
assumption that the human being is COM
posed of fluid or gaseous bodies as well
as tina; of flesh and blood, exposed vari-
Gus sensitized plates in the dark near to
persons in varying states of mind and got
differing results. He sometimes uses a
green electric light.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
4 Difference of Extremes.

Some one wrote in a paper that a
cure for fatigue after 4 hard day was
to hold the feet in mustard water for
ten minutes. bat, reading hastily. the
lady read. hold the face in mustard for
ten minutes" She tried it, but did not
continue the cure for ten minutes by
any means, ana she did not 90 shopping
for several DAYS afterwards.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Men Growing Handsomer.

Have you noticed that the boys are
better looking than their sisters in the
present generation? We are told that it
it is the brother who has the Grecian
features, broad, low forehead and pen
ciled eyebrows; that boys and men
are much handsomer than girls and
women. 1t may be true. but it has not
been generally noticed, unless by the
men themselves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
RETURNS AFTER MANY YEARS.
Chippewa Falls Man Ran Away from
Home When a Boy.

After running away from his home near
Chippewa Falls twenty-seven years ago
because he thought his uncle abused him
B. f. Laduc returned the other day for
the first time. He is now a prominent
citizen and contractor at Raymond,
Wash, and has raised a family. Mr..
Laduc was IA years old when he left
here. He rode on a freight train most
of the distance to Washington and for
number of years did not communicate
with his relatives, and it was believed for
a long time after his departure that he
had met with foul play. Mr.. Laduc ac-
companied the body of Earl Douglas who
had been drowned at Raymond, while
working for him. Douglas fell from
piling and efforts to rescue him proved
fruitlesS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Chicago Man Killed by Blast.

Edward Norton, 30 years old, who ar
rived in Alton from Chicago the other
morning to work in a quarry, was killed
by a rock from a blast within one hour
after he arrived. Just before the blast
he remarked: IF 1 am killed, notify my
relatives in Chicago
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
1t Is Only Natural.

The Queen of Spain is planning to 90
home to visit her mother, and in con-
sequence there are the usual tales
about her being so sick of Spanish for
mality and so on. 1t is very natural
that a girl wife with a pretty baby
should want to go home to talk it over
with her friends, and even queens are
no exception.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26

Dresden and pompadour silk founda-
lions are being used for chiffon and
wolfe dresses.
When one does not have a skirt with
d paneled front, a plain gored front is
often trimmed with buttons and loops.
This adornment sometimes goes to the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
WILD GAME SEASON.
Stead Holds that Quail Cannot Be
Killed from Dec 10 to Noy11.

Killed from Dec. 10 to Nov. IL.
On the request of States Attorney
Graham of Mercer county, Attorney Gen
eral Stead has interpreted phase of the
Illinois game law over which there has
been much dispute. The law reads that
1T is unlawful to kill quail from Dec. 20
to Nov 10 of the following year, both
dates inclusive" The Attorney General
decided that the open season begins at
midnight Nov. 10 and closes at midnight
Dec. 10, holding that the use of the words
both dates inclusive" Dec. 20 and Nov.
10, are wholly included within the closed
season.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Statement Not Proved.

The sta cement of Mrs. Luther Gulick
that not more than 80 per cent of coll
lege-bred girls marry is not proved by
statistics but there is reason to believe
that there is more or less of a reaction
against ileges, and it is now the prov
ince of tie college to find out why and
remedy tee evil. if such exists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Land srrfnd1ers Sentenced.

Judge De Haven in the Federal Dis
trict Court of San Francisco has SEN
fenced John A. Benson and E. D. Perrin,
leaders in extensive California land frauds
against the government, each to one years
Imprisonment and a fine Of $1,000. At
the same time both men were released or
$500 each, pending review in the Court
of ADpeals
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
WY to Cboose Partners.

At an evening party given to an
nounce the engagement of a young
woman. the partners for refreshments
were chosen in this way: The hostess
gave to each girl a picture represent
ing Love in some form. The selections
had been made from a collection of
penny pesss-cards. To the men the same