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Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02
Victoria, B. c., Feels Earthquake.

Victoria, B. c., July 90.-At 2:2O
Sunday morning a distinct earthquake
shock was felt, awakening many peo-
pie out Of bed. 1t was not, Of course,
strong enough to do any damage.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02
weII Known Editor seriously III.

r. G. Michaelis, the well known
publisher Of the Stats Zeitung and
Chicago Freie Presse of Chicago, is
critically i'll at his summer home near
Medford, Wis.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02
THE PRIVATE is POORLY PAID
In Comparison With Enlisted Man
in Canada.

1t has been assured that Uncle
Sans soldiers were by far the best
paid in the world, and that belief
mas in large part been the cause of
the failure of attempts made in the
past to secure increases in pay for our
own soldiers. But now, in connection
with the systematic preparations that
are being made to lay the subject of
something wrong with the army" be-
lore congress at the next session, it
mas been discovered that this belief
is founded in error and that several
nations are much more liberal In treat
ment Of their soldiers than is the
United States.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02
HANGS IN CELL AFTER MURDER

Pape Kills Sister Because He Ojects
to Her Fiance.
San Antonio, Texas, July 30.-Chas.
F. Pape recently killed his sister
Christina, at the family residence,
eight miles from here, because she
was engaged to marry man he did
not fancy. Pape was placed in jail
and an hour after hanged himself. The
Pape family is prominent and wealthy.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02
Prices Paid to Producers.

Five stock-Steers, s4.50@5 cwt;
COWS, s9.25@3.75; cwt; sheep, SAC
425 cwt; hogs, $7Q7.25 ewt; mutton
Sc lb; veal, 61a@6%c lb; veal, fancy
small, No. 1. 7QSc Id; fancy large, so
&c Id; pork, Sh@9c Id.
Poultry and Eggs-Live hens, 1SC
Id; live spring chickens, 15@16c; hive
roosters, 1Vc; dressed hens, 15c
ducks, live, lac; dressed, Ice; turkeys
live, 1Sc; dressed, zoe; fresh ranch
eggs, $5@5.50 acse.
TIfdes-Green, &c lb; sailed, 1c high
er; dry hides. 16@17c; calfskins
green, 5000; cows. &c; kip, Sc lbi
sheepskins, 50c@$1.25.
Creamery produce, f. o. b. Spokane
First grade creamery butter fat
25hc.
Feed-T1mothy hay, $2O@21 ton; al
falfa hay, SIG ton; whole barley, 95'
@$1.05 ewt; wheat, $161.10 cwt.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02
Lived in Three Centuries.

Railway, N. J.-Catherine Moore
died here recently, aged 112 years
Her faculties, except for slight deaf
ness. were well preserved.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02
ALMOST 100 YEARS OLD.

Mrs. Mary Ramsey L. Wood, Of Port
land, Oregon, will soon reach her 120th
birthday.
II always tried to keep from worry
ing about little things" she said. Il
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02
MINES AND MINING

Boundary smelters treated ore as
follows: CRANKY, 1929 tons; B. G.
Copper company smelter, 1888 tons;
Dominion Copper company smelter
557S tons; total treatment for week,
34,739 tons.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02
SPOKANE MARKET REPORT.
Wholesale Feed Prices.

Bran, SIT ton; bran and shorts, SIS
ton; white shorts, $22 ton; corn, $1.9o
@1.40 cwt; cracked corn, s1.40 cwt;
alfalfa, SIG ton; rolled barley, $1.25
cwt; wheat, $3.50 cwt; red shorts, SIS
ton; timothy hay, $22; grain hay, SIS
ton; oats, $1.40 cwt; alfalfa, $19;
wheat. S1.25@1.35.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02

Somebody has said that hate is love
turned wrong side out
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02

It's a wise son that knows he knows
less than his own father.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02

Phoenix, B. C.-The ore output OF
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-02
SHIPMENTS OF BOUNDARY OH
From the Mines.

CRANKY smeIter Receives 2o,ss2 Tons
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27

The rest of the journey was performed
without any incident, and they reached
the quinta twenty minutes later
The skirmish had taken place scarce
two miles from the country house. On
reaching the gates. Valentine took leave
of his friend without dismounting
What" the latter said to him, "are
you going, Valentine, without resting for
a moment"
Il must, my dear Rallier," he an
swered; you know what imperious rea-
sons claim my presence in Mexico"
But you are wounded"
Have l not Curumilla to attend to
my hurt? Do not be anxious about me
besides. 1 intend to see you again soon.
This quinta appears to me strong enough
to resist surprise. Have you a garri-
SON."
Il have a dozen servants and my two
brothers."
I'm that case I am easy in my mind /;
besides, there is only one night to pass.
and l believe that after the lesson his
people have received, the general will not
venture on a second attack, for some days
| at least. Besides, he reckons on the sue
cess Of his pronunciamento. You will
come to me tomorrow at daybreak, will
you not?"
Il shall not fall
''In that case l will be off,
"Will you not say good-by to the Ia
dies?"
They are not aware of my presence
and it will be better for them not to
see me; so good-by till tomorrow"
(To be continued.l
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27
Washing Cut Glass.

In washing cut glass use little bo-
raX in hot water. Remove the dust
and dirt from the small carvings by
means of a paint brush with strong,
supple bristles. When thoroughly
cleaned set aside to drain and dry
thoroughly with a clean cloth.
To wash any kind of a cut-glass bot
tie, such as vinegar cruet OF a vase.
peel and chop up a raw potato and put
into the bottle with just enough warm
soap suds to cover the potato. Set aside
for several hours, now and then giving
it an occasional shaking Then empty
the bottle and rinse well.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27
"MoMENTUM IN VARIATION
Explanation of Growth of ''Use1ess
Animal Organs

Animal Organs
In many animals there are certain
organs which, useful in their earlier
stages, have apparently been 50 greatly
developed as to become rather him
ORANGES. The horns of certain deer,
for example. useful as weapons of de-
Tense when smaller, have become so
large as rather to handicap the animals
in the struggle for life. The huge over
grown teeth, or tusks, of certain of the
boar family may be cited as further ex-
ampleS. These are sometimes explain
ed as organs which have been more use
full in their present state under former
different conditions, and which have
persisted through herediy In the
American Naturalist, however; F. B.
LOOMS brings forward another exDla-
nation. He thinks the growth of such
organs is due to what he calls mo
mentum in variation" AS a variation
proceeds in a certain direction it ac-
ouires, like a body moving under the
action of gravity, a momentum which
may carry it past the stage of greatest
utility. This factor in evolution, Mr..
Locals thinks. has not been assigned
the Importance it deserves.
Other evolutionists, however, have
suggested that when m animal or plant
has once started to vary in 4 given di-
rcction, it acquires tendency TO go
on varying in that direction. And this,
although the word momentum is nor
used, agrees with the above theory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27
THE ENDLESS CHAIN.
A Favor That Was Very Consider.
atelN Passed On.

n Favor That was very COnS1Ce1s
ateiy Passed On.
Did you read that sweet little story,
The Girl Baby in the last number?"
asked Mrs Ord of the woman from
whom she was Buying magazine.
NO, I didn't, and l meant to, too,
because there was such a pretty poster
with a picture of The Girl Baby but
we sold the magazines all out before I
got a chance"
IF we have 1t at home I'll bring It
to you" said Mrs. Ord, and the next
day she stopped in at the stationer's
with the magazine.
How kind you arer' said the sales
woman, gratefully. Il found The Girl
Baby poster. Would you like to have
it?"
''why, yes; thank you very much"
replied Mrs. Ord, who was as generous
in receiving as in giving.
Her errands that morning included a
visit to a free kindergarten. When she
left, the roomful of little people were
all looking at 1.-The Girl Baby" poster.
which the teacher had pinned on the
wall when Mrs. Ord gave it to her.
The picture of the quaint little maiden
with her cunning toy bear furnished
material for language lesson of un-.
usual length and absorbing interest.
The school janitor, coming in to attend
to a leaking radiator, stopped and lis
tened to the vivacious conversation
which the teacher was carrying on with
the children.
"Why, 1 didn't know you could get
such lot of talk out of a picture" he
said, with an expression of amused ad-
miration.
There's a good deal In this picture"
said the teacher, pleasantly.
when you're through with 1t, I'd
like to take it to my little boy. You
know he can't come to school,"
The teacher took down the poster
and handed it to the janitor with a
smile. Il think we have learned all
we can from It," she said. That even
ing small crippled boy sat on the jan
itor's lap and listened with eagerness
while he related as best he could all
he had heard the teacher and the chill
dren say about 1.-The Girl Baby"
While alone the next day the little
"shut-in' kept the picture by his side
and talked to it In an imaginative way
he had learned during many hours Of
solitude. Late in the afternoon the
boy who lived in the fiat above paused
at the window to say "Hellow and
when he saw the poster he came in.
Say, whered you get that picture?"
he inquired. There was one in the
corner store awhile ago, and 1 asked
for it, but they wouldn't let me have it.
1 like that kid. She's cute with her
BEAR"
Father brought it to me from
school,"
sWould you trade it?"
what for?"
For anything-my magic lantern?'
your lantern I"
"Yes, some OF the slides are broken,
and it don't work as we'll as it did
when twas new, so I'd trade, though
It's worth lots more than the poster.
But you know I'm getting collection
Of posters"
Father, just look!'' said the boy,
joyously, that night. See what trad
ed for the picture of The Girl Baby
Isn't it fine? I always wanted a magic
lantern. Will you run it for me to-
night?"
why, I'd enjoy 1t myself, and let's
have the little girl across the hall come
in to see 1t. She doesn't have much
fun" YOUTHS Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27
AN ANTHEM FOR KINGS.

~oNN%N~@~~

Emma Thursby, the noted singer, In
her "reminiscences, appearing in the
New York Tribune, tells some very
pretty incidents in regard to 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner"
1t was always Mr.. Gilmore's custom,
she writes, to put THE Star-Spangled
Banner" at the close Of the program in
the days that l sang with him, when
his popularity was at it's height. Tie
custom grew with me, and at a ship
concert one Fourth of July, while cross
ing to England, l sang it as matter
Of course.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British
minister at Washington, was in the au
dience that day. At the close of the
national song he sprang to his feet, his
face beaming with enthusiasm, and ex-
claimed:
q didn't know you had such
thingr'
Prince George of Hohenzollern, a
nephew of old Emperor William, was
another enthusiast for our national an
lLCl1i. liz was q wy NuAIAfoICu man,
had written a number of plays, and
was a great lover of music. Nothing
that l sang seemed to stir a deeper
chord in him than that same Star
Spangled Banner" Once when / sang
it in a concert in Baden, when three
generations Of emperors were present,
he came to me and said:
You must sing it again."
At the time the Americans presen,
thought 1t bad taste that 1 should sing
our national anthem to the ruler of an
other people, little knowing that the
emperor had expressed a strong wish
to have 1t included in the program.
The three royal personages sat In
front of the rest of the audience, and
l could see the excited glow in the EN-.
perors face as 1 sang it. Just how
deeply it stirred him 1 did not know
until years afterward. When Mrs. Cor
bin, then Miss Patten, was received By
him in audience, he said to her:
Il always thought that we had tn,
most beautiful national air in the
world until I heard your Miss ThursbJ
sing The Star-Spangled Banner"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27

club, town, friends, church-is by q
careful arrangement of its different oc-
equations and pleasures.
The hOuSemoiher's bureau drawers
must be so well ordered that she need
never waste minute hunting for rib
bon or glove. Her bread-making must
not be done at an hour when it is like
ly TO be interrupted by a caller. Club
day and sweeping Gay viii each have
its place in the weeks program.
The motto of our grandmothers, do
the first thing that comes to your
hand" will no longer serve in this
strenuous age. The head must plan
the work of hand and foot, if the home
to to be well kept. and WEAKNESS held
at bay.
Even the children in an orderly
household catch the infection of sys-
tematic living. A 5-year-old daughter
of an ''up-to-date" family announced
in twilight talk with her mother re-
Gently. Mamma. 1 have decided not to
ask so many questions. 1t wastes so
much time. I'm just going to keep my
ears open and remember all the things
| hear, and then after I go to bed, I
shall sort them all out" There is the
promise of an orderly home-maker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27
COCOA GUSHING TEAAND COFFEE
| ImpOrtatiOns of Two Latter Show
Decline I'm Last Ten Years.

Decline I'm Last Ten Years.
According to a report issued by the
| bureau of statistics of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, cocoa importations
| into the United States are now averaging
more than a million dollars a month,
against an average of a quarter of
million dollars a month a decade ago.
Meantime importations of both coffee and
tea show a decline, especially during thes
last two years.
The total quantity of cocoa imported in
the crude state in the eight months end
ing with February, 1907, is 81 ,299,4 APT
pounds valued at $S,344,426, against
2,73O,059 pounds, valued at S1,930,S31 in
the corresponding months of 1897.
The total quantity of coffee imported
in the eight months of the fiscal year
1907 is 647. POS, Isl pounds, valued at
S51 1863, 152. against 466 ,204,372 pounds,
valued at $50, sos, in the eight months
of 1897
The quantity of tea imported in the
eight months of 1907 is 72,475,440, valued
at $11, 6O6 O5S. against 81, 22O,S22 pounds,
valued at S1O,247, 500 in the correspond
ing months of 1897.
Taking the value alone there has been
an increase of about S6,500,00O in the
irnportations of cocoa, a decline of ST.
| 100000 in the importations of coffee and
an increase of 81 ,333,333 in tea importa-
lions.
The average valuation Of the cocoa i'm
ported in the eight months ending with
February, 1907, is 1876 cents per pound,
against 9.3 cents in the corresponding
period of 1897, that of tea 16 cents,
against 1875 cents a decade ago. while
coffee shows fall averaging 8 cents per
pound in the eight months of 1907,
against ia cents in the corresponding
months of 1897.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27
Successful Book Agent.

The most successful book canvasser
in the United States is a woman. She
is a Russian, and came over here ten
years ago, unable to read or write En-
glish. Now she is earning $4,000 a
year selling special limited editions"
for a Philadelphia house. This woman
thinks it nothing to sell a set of books
for $4,000, of which she receives 10
per cent The books, of course, are
supposed to be bound in covers of spe-
cial design, the paper, printing, and
illustrations are of the finest, and the
edition is said to be limited. The wom-
an sells the books mostly to wealthy
women. She drives up to their homes
in a magnificent carriage, attended by
a footman in livery. She never fails
to impress the prospective customer
with her refinement, and frequently
poses as a Russian countess. There is
hardly a society woman in the country
who has not purchased a set of books
from this woman
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27

Miss Mary A. Stubs, of Indianapo-
lis was appointed head Of the Indiana
State bureau of statistics some time
ago.
+ The only woman ever elected to Of
flee III Texas by the qualified votes Of
general election is Miss Zena Dali
rymIle, who was elected county and
district clerk.
lie thirty-two women who were wild
Dwell by the explosion at Wattstown
colliery, RhOndda, in July, 1905, have
been awarded by the owners $4,000 in
excess of the sum payable under the
British compensation act, or $500
each.
10 have discovered more stars than
any che else in the world is the repu-
tation of Miss Dorothea Klumpke, an
American girl astronomer, who won re-
nOwn for herself OF Paris. Since 1899
Miss Klumpke has devoted herself to
taking photographs of the heavens from
a balloon.
Miss Marianne birmingham is prob
ably the oldest woman journalist in
England, having already celebrated her
jubilee OF work, since she was writing
for several magazines in 1855.
The first metal thimble with a top on
it was made in Amsterdam, Holland,
for Mrs. Kilean van Rensselaer,, wife
Of the patron who founded Albany. In
1854 the bicentenary of the invention
of the thmble was celebrated in Am
sterdam Dominic Nicholas van Renns-
salaer, who came to New York in 1914,
owned the first watch ever brought to
Amer:C ca.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27
Odds and Ends.

There are $4,000 telephones in New
York City.
Light-haired people live longer than
dark haired ones.
The largest vineyard in the world is
near San Gabriel, Cal.
The Baptist women Of the world are
supporting 300 missionaries.
The government runs the pawnshops
| of Italy, and no interest is required on
loans.
The manuscript of Swinburne's
s.Ffrst Book of Ballads" has been sold
for 81 900.
Is is estimated that three thousand
marriages are performed daily through
hout the world
The newly elected Mayor of Glaston-
bury, England, was formerly a tailor.
So he was able to make his own official
| robes.
Z The latest addition to the London
Museum of Natural History Is collec-
ton of 100000 beetles bequeathed by
Alexander Fry.
The recent regatta on the Zambesi
was so successful that it is proposed
to invite English university crews to
compete next year.
Sir Conan Doyle and other public
spirited men have started in to ascer-
tain whether tobacco can be cultivated
profitabIy in Ireland.
From the windows of British tai
lor: 1--WE have cleared Scotch mer-
chants remains of high-class overcoat-
ings at big reduction
A new suIphurous spring has burst
forth at Hamman-M eskoutine, in Al
geria, with a temperature of 90 degrees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27

We are to thank The backward spring
| Tor the destruction of the locusts, which
were about to hatch out in uncountable
| numbers. The same frost that laid its
| trigid fingers on the apple blossoms and
the lilacs also gave tweak to the locust
eggs. At least this is what rural per-
! sonages who are posted on such things
| say. But the locusts probably wouldn't
have Matched out, anyway There are
two things that never happen when peo-
| pie say they will one is the coming of
the end of the world and the other is the
! appearance of the locusts. We have long
given up the end of the world as practi-
cally hopeless and have resigned ourselves
to being deprived of that matchless spec
tacle which some more favored genera
ton may possibly witness; and we have
been so often disappointed in the locust
along with weather bureau indications.
We have heard stories by our grandsires
that once the "17-year" locusts filled the
woods with roaring like the sound of
Niagara and that the bark of the trees
was split asunder by the insects, and that
the surface of the earth was made to look
like pepper box by the holes whence
they had issued And we have waited
expectantly for repetition of this won
der. of nature; but, like the end of the
world, it is always being postponed. The
locusts appear to be great procrastinators,
or else their human prophets are great
prevaricators.
1t may be, of course, that the locusts
l..
being able to decide whether the seven
teen years of their Information" has ex-
pired have decided to remain in seclusion
until the matter is Strengthened out, rath-
er than appear at time that would ruin
their arithmetical reputation. 1t is peril
Gus to be premature, to arrive on the scene
before the curtain is up or the audience
seated, especially when your performance
is so rarely given that the only thing
that ranks with it is the Oberammergau
passion play which is presented only once
in ten years. One can understand the
deep modification a seventeen-year locust
would feel in appearing at the end OF
! thirteen years or ten years. or any num-
Der of years except exactly seventeen.
A miscalcuaton never could be forgiven.
| 1t would be as humiliating as Mark
Twan's experience in Switzerland when
| wrapped in a blanket he sought to wit
ness the glorious spectacle of the rising
sun and did not realize until he saw the
smiles of promenading ladies and gentle
men in afternoon costume that the sun
was setting. Punctuaity is of the utmost
Importance. Every properly reared locust
knows this. If the time set for the great
periodical conclave is every seventeen
years, then let it be observed to the in
slant Hardness is not to be extenuated.
If they prove false to their name and
appear any old year, they should be con-
signed to the ranks of the locusts which
appear annually and have no ancient
ancestry or traditions
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27
TO PROBE VICE AT ISTHMUS.
Chicago Girl Goes to Panama to Sc
cure Facts for Government.

Chicago Girl Goes to Panama to Sc
cure Facts for Government.
Miss Gertrude Beeks, Chicago
young woman, has gone to Panama IN,
der commission from Secretary Of War
Taft to investigate the social condi-
tions in the Panama canal zone for the
United States government. Technical
~ her commission is secretary of the
national committee on welfare of gov
eminent employees.
Miss Beeks for several years has
been secretary of the welfare depart,
ment of the National Civic Federation
She formerly worked for the McCor-
mick Harvester Company, and through
her efforts the company adopted many
improvements for the comfort of wom-
en- employees and other great manufac-
turing concerns followed the sugges-
tons. She for several years has de
voted herself to the task of alternating
the conditions under which the mem
bers Of her sex toll in factories.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27

had we'll do the
mentality the harder the and she will
all
which o
bodily
Interruptions phosophcay
pleasure mpanonp dear which is her just
household drudge family
and friends her she becomes and
privilege
the Shal
dishes time when can't visit with friends
is
dishes
whole
resting
dishes
had
1t.
minds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27
DON'T he Too Devoted.

Men In love are delighted to be told
that they are never absent from the
thoughts of their sweethearts, but the
husband finds this consciousness tri-
f1e wearing As bad as the clinging
vine is the woman who makes her de-
votion too inceSsant. She is never
tactful. never conscious that he wants
to be alone occasionally, never capa-
BILE of making herself and her affections
a novelty to him, says Woman's Life.