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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
IN THE UNDER WORLD.
8 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

DR.. Thomas Darlington, health COM
missioner of New York City, became
interested some time ago in the cheap
lodging house question. The doctor
had a theory that a definite relation
exists between the lodging house and
beggary. To test this theory, he began
making tours on the lower East Side,
and questioning every beggar that
asked him for aims. All went we'll un-
til the commissioner reached the Bow
cry. There he met an old "panhand
ler," who asked him for 2 cents with
which to buy cup of coffee.
Before 1 give you the money" said
DR. Darlington, tell me whether or
not you live in a lodging house."
The beggar, accustomed to being up
braided for his shortcomings, was
struck by this novel question. What
business is that of yours?" he asked,
suspiciously.
Here the commissioner made a fatal
mistake. Il am an officer" he be-
gan, but got no further. The tramp
was logging it, down the Bowery as
fast as he could. Struggling his Shout
ders and resolving next time 10 be
more cautious, the doctor continued
on his way.
When the beggar found he was not
pursued, he stopped running. To him
'officer" meant policeman, and cop"
who would not arrest a beggar when
he had the opportunity was beyond the
tramp's comprehension. Measuring the
stranger by his own standard, the beg
gar decided the stranger must be at
tempting some new kind of bunco. His
curiosity was so aroused that he pre-
ferred to solve the mystery rather than
to get the 2 cents. So he FASTENED
after the commissioner, and tiptoeing
close behind him, slapped him vigorous
" between the shoulders.
AS the startled commissioner turned
hastily round, the tramp said, with
brotherly familiarity, Say, pard, what
is your game, anyway"
That was too much for DR.. Darling
ton. Since then he has left the investi-
CATION of the lodging house problem to
those less ignorant of the under world
and its ways.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
TIE HARBOR LIGHT.

How welcome Ger the sea that night
The twinkle of the harbor light;
A star that trembled on the foam
With beams of love and dreams of home.
The bells rang DER the tossing bars
The white sails dipped beneath the stars
But fairer than all stars of night
The harbor light-the harbor light!
20 sailors singing in the spars
A merry challenge to the stars
. captain. at whose glad command
Our brave ship leans toward the land
Within far vine-clad cots OF white
Love hears the sea- bells in the night;
Swift as a seagulPs be our flight
Toward the light-the harbor light!
And swift we sped from storm ana gloom
To smiling shores of light and bloom
The sorrow of the voyage past
Sang in the joy Of Home at last
Home where the ships in shelter rest
Home where the light-the love is best;
Over the plunging seas OF night
Loves blessing in the harbor light!
o ships that In the darkness roam,
Sweet sing the harbor bells of Home;
Though far the shore-the voyage long.
The dark will drift to morning song;
The bells sing DER the tossing bars
The sails bend sure beneath the stars :;
Still-still the distant shore we sight
And gain the light-the harbor light.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
An Anecdcte of Shelley.

The poet Shelley tells an amusing
story of the influence that language
hard to be understood exercises on
the vulgar mind. Walking near Co
vent Garden, London. he accidentally
jostled against an Irish navy. who,
being in a quarrelsome mood, seemed
inclined to attack the poet A crowd
OF ragged sympathizers began to gath
err. when Shelley, calmly facing them,
deliberately pronounced:
Il have put my hand into the ham
per. 1 have looked on the sacred bar
ley. l have eaten out Of the drum. l
have drunk and am we'll pleased.
have said Knox Ompax.' and it is fin
ished.''
The effect was magical. The aston
ished Irishman fell back. His friends
began to question him What bar
ley" Where's the hamper What
have you been drinking?' and Shelley
walked away unmolested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
TRY A MAN-sroPPMe BULLET
Arsenal Authorities Find 1t Mush-
rooms in Flesh, PuIveriztng

Bones.
In what is known as the clay test
in the Hof man-stopping bullet red
plastic clay was used during the re-
cent experiments at Springfield. Some
pine boxes, each about 22xS inches, III
terror measurement, were used by the
examining board, each box being filed
with red clay.
The boxes were fired into with the
Hof projectile. Some Of the weapons
used were the Colt caliber 45. carrying
lead bullet; some were self-loading
caliber at 40 and some Of the bullets
were jacketed or sheathed with steel.
After the spluttering of clay displac-
ed by the fred projectile was over
liquid plaster of paris was poured in,
filling the cavity, and the mass was
allowed to cool, after which the cones
were uncased. Some Of the cones
were twenty-five inches long, some
about twelve inches, resembling red
iGcles. Examination was then made
with a view to the recovery Of the
propectile and note was made of Its
condition.
When the Hof bullet is fired into wa
ter or clay the round ball, which is
made Of steel and anthony nodded
into the point Of the bullet, invariably
becomes detached from the bullet prop
err
In water or in soft clay this bullet
mushrooms in a manner very like the
hollow-point man-stopping bullet. The
Hof bullet is claimed to be equal to
the latter in accuracy, combining with
this accuracy man-stopping effect. But
perhaps on humanitarian grounds a
non-detachable compound bullet will be
urged.
The test of the Hof bullet should
properly be made into living flesh of
some animal. Sometimes these tests
are made, using cadavers obtained by
legitimate methods. In the present
case the carcass of semi-frozen beef
was laid horizontally and fired into,
using projectiles Of lead or projectiles
jacketed or sheathed with cupro-nickel
steel, also by Hof's bullet
The arms used were caliber 45. Per-
haps half a dozen shots were fired for
the purpose of infiicting flesh wounds
only; others were fired carefully, aim
ing at the bones. The paths traversed
by the bullets were then carefully meas
ured and probed and the condition Of
the flesh and bones struck by the bull
let carefully noted and made of rec
ord.
When a bullet OF small caliber and
having great energy strikes the bone it
makes hole through it that Is clean
cut When a bullet Of caliber 45 strikes
a large bone or when one of Hof's man
stopping bullets strikes a large bone
it splits or fractures or pulverizes the
bones.-Boston Transcript.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Losses in the War

General Horace Porter, in his Cam
paigning with Grant in The Century,
carries the narrative through the Cold
Harbor campaign. General Porter says
While at the mess table taking our last
meal before starting upon the march TO
the James on the evening of the 18th,
the conversation turned upon the losses
which had occurred and the reinforce
ments which had been received I'D to
that time. The figures then known did
not differ much from those contained
in the accurate official reports after
ward compiled. From the opening of
the campaign, May 4. TO the movement
across the James, June u, the total
casualties in the Army of the Potomac,
including Sheridan's cavalry and Burn
sides command. had been: Killed, l.
621 wounded, 1899; captT--ed or miss
ing, 1896: total, 54.926. Tie services
of all the men included in these fig
ures were not however. permanently
lost to the army. \ number Of them
were prisoners who were afterward ex-
changed, and many had been only
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
"DIAMONDFIELD JACK"
How the Mining Camp bad Ma

How the Mining Camp bad Man
Saved the Newsboy.
The day of the mining camp bad
men is gone forever. Goldtield has
them, it is true, but they are behaving
themselves nowadays, for the man with
record is no longer hero. On the
contrary, he is Stunned.
There are a score OF men now here,
says u Goldteld correspondent, who
have got their men before now, but
they say as little as possible about it
and stick to faro dealing or bartend-
ing. The bad men are no longer the
bosses OF a mining camp.
Probably the best known bad maa
now in Goldield is Diamondfield Jack
Davis. He has several killings to his
credit. Up in Idaho he was several
times convicted of the murder of three
sheep herders and was sentenced to be
hanged. It's a coincidence that the
man to whom he owes his life, eX-
Governor Hunt, of Idaho, died here
the other day
Diam0ndfield Jack, like the rest of
his kind, is living quietly these days.
He has shown only one fash of the
old spirit that brought him 50 near the
galIows. That was while the miners
were boycotting the Goldtield Sun
early last fall.
4 crowd was chasing newsboy
down the street and the lad ran into
Diamondfield jacks brokerage office.
The crowded followed, pell nell.
"Diamondfield Jack" grabbed an au-
tomato gun in each hand and faced
the mob.
Get the -- out of here, you --!'
he roared, ''or I'll blow We all to
pieces
The mob stood not upon the order
of its going It's fight was panic
stricken. Probably almost every man
in the crowd toted gun. but they ali
fed before the terror of the name of
Diamondfeld Jack.
For a quarter of an hour the old
time bad man strobe up and down the
street, a gun in each hand. roaring
like a wounded bull, and calling Oh
the vanished mob to come back and get
killed. But not soul would oblige
him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Margaret's
Adventure.
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Margaret was bored to death.

Margaret was bored to death.
After three happy years at Girton,
and a fourth, almost as pleasant, spent
in earning her own living, it seemed
little hard that she should have to
spend a months holiday with an aunt
uncongenial to the point Of antagonism.
An aunt, too, who had outliyed the few
friends and interests she had ever had.
who lived in the middle OF the most
bleak, fat and uninteresting country.
Margaret had ever seen. After the
first two days she grew very tired of
1t. There was not soul to speak to
in the place, and her aunt gave her to
understand, on the very night Of her
arrival, that nothing was allowed to
interfere with the strict outline Of her
life at Willow cottage, and that she
should not see her niece more than
once a day.
All human companionshlp was evil
IDENTITY denied her, but she was not
quite alone In the world. There was
till her bicycle. and although she ha-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

No old maid ever lived long enough
to admit she was.
Noise is very useful for grand opera
and political debates.
Calomel and spanking are both good
for early love affairs.
A girl can think she is in love when
it is nothing but the stomach ache
from cucumbers.
The man that puts a 10 b. p. empha-
sis into his voice has vacuum where
his ideas ought to come from.
A very good way not to be proud of
your dressing is to have a son who
keeps showing you that you are out Of
style.
When a man steps into the bathtub
full of scalding water and doesn't
swear, it's not because he is a Chris
tian, but because he is speeches..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

slightly wounded. Az We're soon ready
for duty again. Some were doubtless
counted more than once, as a soldier
who was wounded in a battle twice.
and afterward killed, may have been
counted three times in making up the
list of casualties, whereas the army had
really lost but one man.
The losses OF the enemy hare never
been ascertained- No precise informa-
ton on the subject has been discovered,
and not even a general statement can
be made of his casualties. In a few of
the battles of this campaign his losses
were greater than the losses suffered by
the Illinois troops; in the greater part
Of the battles they were less. Our re-
Inducements had amounted to just
about the same number as the losses.
1t was estimated from the best sources
of information that Lee had also re-
ceiyed reinforcements equal to his
losses, so that the armies were now
Of about the same size as when the
campaign began.
All the reinforcements organized in
the North and reported as on their
way to the front did not reach Us.
There was good deal of truth in the
remark reported to have been made by
Mr.. Lincoln: We get a large body of
reinforcements together, and start
them to the front: but after deducting
the sick, the deserters, the stragglers,
and the discharged, the numbers seri-
ously diminish by the time they reach
their destination. It's like trying to
shovel fieas across a barnyard; you
don't get 'em all there"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

fooshnes the detrimnt of moral cond
and hospitality
thing called footing
ambition; placid
establishment abundance good
filled kindly
club
kitchen while the
their they
a
like have humbed at
bodily comfort
daily
V. Straus Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
HRAD GIVEN THREE YEARS.
Young Man Sent to Waupun for
Murder of Edward PinnOM.

Joseph Hrad, charged with the murder
of Edward Pinnow on Nov. "a last and
who was found guilty of manslaughter in
the third degree by a jury in the Cir
cult Court in Racine. was brought be-
fore Judge HelmeS of Hudson, who tried
the case. Attorney Martin Gillen made
d motion for new trial which was over
ruled. Judge Helmes then sentenced
Hrad to Waupun for term of three
years. The crime for which Hrad was
convicted was committed at a dance hall
on the north side. During the evening
Edward Pinnow and his companions got
into an alteration with Hrad and at the
close OF the dance a free-for-all fight took
place in which Pinnow was stabbed by
Hrad, who was defending himself from
the crowd, Pinnow dying the following
day. Hrad gave himself up to the police
shortly afterward.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
A Good Head.

When Farragut ran the gauntlet of
Forts Jackson and ST. Philip, below New
Orleans. the little gunboat Cayuga
was everywhere in the thick of the
fighting. A colored boy of the crew
was passing powder when a spent
grape-shot struck casting near him,
shattered and flew in many directions.
One piece hit him on the thickeSt part
of his forehead, says the author of "a
Sailor of Fortune" and dropped to the
deck.
He picked it up nonchalantly, put it
in his pocket and kept at work.
When the fight was over and the
members of the crew were Dragging,
this boy. who was not over fourteen.
stepped up to some of them and pulled
the grape-shot from his pocket.
You hush.' he said to the boosters.
Dat shot done hit me on de haid an
broke in two! Dere's de shot and dere's
de place it hit me. You can see fob
y-C11Sn'f'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
How Soldiers Reduce.

Soldiers have an easy way of keep
ing their figures supple and trim. The
officer who finds his waist growing
greater than his chest, thus destroying
the symmetry of his uniform, eats for
little while nothing but lean meat,
and drinks nothing but hot water. Thus
he loses two pounds or so a day. He
keeps this diet up till he has sufficiently
diminished himself-a matter, as a
rule. of but three or four days absti-
nence-and then he returns to his usual
food again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
THING THAT COUNTS IS COMMON SENSE.

l have come to the conclusion. not
very original one, perhaps, that the
keynote of our existence is common
sense. and that the reason why SO
many likes are like sweet bells jan
gled out Of tune" is that there is never
enough of this invaluable commodity
to 90 around.
Common sense consists chiefly In 60
ing ahead and Winding ones business,
not to the entire exclusion Of the
neighbors or the disregard Of society,
but keeping in view the fact that ones
own family and household is the I'M
portant thing to him. There are very
few of us who can do more for the
world than behave ourselves and bring
up a respectable family. Come to think
of it, this is a good deal, and more
than many people accomplish.
OF all things utterly devoid Of COM
mon sense, that which we call society
Is most so. There is no telling just
how far contrary to common sense this
element will go if allowed to take its
own road and all for the reason that
common sense people, being gifted
with that most lovable quality, reti-
cnnce. will sit back and let ii go on
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
PAYS BAIL AND DISAPPEARS.

Superior Prisoner, Supposed to BE
Much Wanted, Now Missing.
William Terrill. who was arrested in
Superior on suspision that he was a
clairvoyant named Professor w. c. Clay
ton, wanted by the sheriff of Little Rock,
Ark, was admitted to bail, the $1,000 re-
CURED being furnished. Later in the day
urgent messages were received from Lit
tie Rock and from Chicago asking that
the man be detained at all hazard. By
this time, however, the man was free
until the day fixed for the hearing. He
was kept under surveillance, but soon
disappeared.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Cell MeIIen Officer.

Merit H. Vought of Mellen was SEN
fenced to a year in the penitentiary by
Judge Vinje of Ashland. The other two
defendants in the Melen graft cases,
Collins and Mcdonald, were acquitted.
A month ago all three defendants were
convicted but were given a new trial.
Three charges remain against Collins.
This is the first conviction following
grand jury indictments of a year ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
New Maps to Be Made.

oh, war is an awful thing" sighed
the croaker.
"Oh. 1 don't know" replie1 the snil-
ing Individual
You don't mean to say you approve
or It"
sure, I'm a photographer. "-Phila-
6eiphia Ledger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Help Boy Astronomer.

University authorities will attempt to
secure a place in the Yerkes observatory
for ]. E. Melish, Cottage Grove boy,
who recently discovered a comet. Prof.
Flint of Washburn observatory has fol-
lowed with interest the experiments made
the last few years by Melish and thinks
he has a bright future before him as an
astronomer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Small RnYs Find Body.

The body of Samuel Norquist of Ram
sey. Mich. was found in a creek near
Ashland. Two weeks ago Norquist was
brought TO Ashland for treatment. when
he Jumped from the train before leaving
the station, Guiding his wife and the train
crew. Search had been made ever since
and a reward of $500 will be shared by
the four small boys who found the body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
BARRIERS Bar "Funny'' Stories.

Too long has the barber shop been the
dumping ground for bad stories, say the
Manitowoc BARRIERS, and with the view
of eradicating the evil local shops will
have signs printed and posted asking their
patrons to refrain from the practices of
yore. A general advance in price from
10 cents for a shave to 10 cents is also a
change made.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
BRIGHT CoLORS IN CANDIES.
They Are the Sign of Danger and
should Be Avoided.

They Are the Sign of Danger and
Should Be Avoided.
The superabundance of evidence as
to the harmful effects Of coal-tar dyes
should cause all consumers to beware
Of using any products containing these
dyes. There is believed to be little
chance of their being permitted in any
products excepting butter and cheese,
says What to Eat. However, the pros
poets of their being prohibited has
caused many candy makers to food
the market with candies painted with
them in all kinds of bright colors, that
the dyed sweets may reach the jObbers
and retailers before the law interferes.
Parents should use exceeding caution to
see that none Of these candies comes
into the possession of their children, as
they are positively dangerous and many
have been killed by them.
1t is not difficult to detect the can
dies colored with coal tar, or anifine
dyes (aniline is one of the coal tar
dyes), for they are all of a bright,
semitransparent color. Therefore, the
purchaser should use exceeding eau
ton in avoiding all candidies that are
too brightly colored. The vegetable
color gives a duller, more clouded hue,
not so lucid and clear as the aniline
colors. This excessive brightness has
long since become a synonym for in
ferority in any kind of food product.
and it is carefully avoided by knowing
purchasers. The bright-colored prod
ucts are cheaper, it is true, but it is
better to pay a little more and avoid
the great danger of taking mineral
aniline dyes into the system. These
dyes are employed in coloring cloths.
Here they serve an admirable purpose,
but their use should be confined to
this field and not extended to the col
oring of foods that people have to take
;,,t 70 cvSfoD, 70 n;
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Table Forl, Aged 600 Yearx

The six hundredth anniversary of
the invention of the table fork. which
was used by King John ", Duke of
Bretagne, TO eat fruit with in 1907.
will be celebrated in sundry parts of
the world In Paris several banouets
will be given in commemoration OF the
event
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

The steamer Mataafa, which was
wrecked in the big storm of Nov. %, 1905,
at the Duluth canal entrance, when eleven
of her crew we1s lost, and which has just
been repaired at the shipyards in Supe-
rior, went out the other day on her trial
trip into the lake. She was found ready
for service.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
WORKERS LOSE HOLIDAY.
Plan for Child Hands Rejected Be
of Longer Work Other DAYS.

The State Labor Commission has ruled
against the Saturday half holiday for
child workers in answer to a request from
several kenosha factories. The Kenosha
plants had sought to give a Saturday
half holiday to all of their help but in
order to do this it was found necessary
to work an added forty-five minutes on
each day. Assistant Factory Inspector
d. D. Evans of Racine notified the fac
tory managers that this plan could not
be continued and that the State Depart
ment would insist that the law be en-
forced to the letter and that no child
under is years would be allowed to work
more than ten hours day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Central Train Kills Man

Edward Martin, u years old. was
killed by Wisconsin Central passenger
train at Owen. He ran in front of the
moving train and was caught between the
depot platform and baggage car. His
body was mangled. His home is at Neills-
vile
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Ncxp DENNY CnIIecfnr

Thaxter Reed, for five years deputy
collector of customs for the Oshkosh dis
trict, has resigned his position and will
be succeeded by Otto Conrad of Oshkosh.
The appointment was announced by W.
II. Devos of Milwaukee, collector of GUS
toms