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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
CHINA is GRATEFUL.
Uncle Sam Makes Her a Present of
Many Millions of Dollars.

Through her representative in Wash
ington China has expressed her gyati-
tude to the United States for an ex-
hibition Of consideration not often dis
played by a strong nation toward
weaker one. The Empress Dowager
later will personally acknowledge
China's appreciation of our generosity.
1t is not often that one nation practi-
cally makes to another a present of
about S2I.O0O,0OO, but that is what
President Roosevelt and Secretary Root
propose to do and the people Of the
United States will agree as to the jus
tice Of the act.
In 1900 there was q sort of rebellion
in China on the part of the anti-for-
eign element. This is known as the
Boxer outbreak. The legations were
besieged and lives and property en-
dangered. The European powers and
the United States sent soldiers and
these marched as a united army upon
Pekin, restoring peace.
Then came up the question of pun
ishment and indemnity. for, of course,
the nations could not be expected to
stand the expense of the expedition
and suffer the wrongs of their citizens
to go unrighted. Some of the Euro
pean nations were for slicing up China
and dividing the slices, but Uncle Sam
frowned on this and the proposition
was abandoned An agreement was
reached on September I, 1901. by which
China bound herself to punish the Of
tenders and to pay to the injured ma
tons the following sum:
Russia SS15O0,00O
Germany ................. 6OO0O,O0O
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
Short News Notes.

All of the mail carriers Of Butte
Mont. went on strike, the men declar-
ing they could not live on $500 to $3.50
a year, the wages now paid.
\ severe earthquake shock was felt at
Anglesey, England. Buildings were rock
ed, but no damage was DONE Seismic
graphs in Austria and England record
ed violent shocks at distances of from
$500 to 1900 miles.
Henry NJ Walker, a resident of New
Jersey, has sued Edward H Hartman
the railway magnate, for 100000 dam
ages for alleged Breach of contract and
conspiracy to prevent the construction of
the Portland, Nehalem & Tillamook rail-
way of Oregon.
Dispatches state that Florencio Morales
and Bernardo Mora, the Guatemalans
who assassinated Gen. Barrillas. expires
ident of Guatemala, have, after two days
trial been sentenced to death. Mora con-
fessed that he was instigated by Gen.
Lima, aid to President Cabrera of Guate-
mala, who gave him $500 to kill Barrillas.
1t is stated that Count Won Posadow-
sky-Wehner of Germany, who recently
resigned as minister of the interior, has
planned an extensive foreign tour to
study the developments in social legisla-
ton. He will visit the United States,
France and England in his tour.
Thousands of soldiers have been thrown
into the wine-growing provinces in the
south of France. At Narbonne, Mont
pellier and other points, three persons
were killed and more than 100 soldiers
and civilians injured, while similar riots
were reported at other points. Several
of the leaders of the revolt were arrested,
including Ferroul.
The eighth international congress of
the Red Cross Society met in London on
Tuesday. The delegates were welcomed
by Lord Roberts, who read communica-
tons of best wishes from the Queen of
England, the Dowager Empress of Rus
STA and the Florence Nightingale assem-
bly,. There were representatives from the
armies, navies and diplomatic corps of
nearly every country in the world The
congress is paying particular attention TO
the recital of experiences of nurses and
surgeons in the Russo-Japanese war. Sew
eral entertainments were planned for the
delegates, concluding with reception at
Buckingham palace, to be attended by the
king and queen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
SOUND OF SHOOTING STARS.
4 Some Cases Kissing Is Said to
Hnxe Reen Heard

IN some StSeS Sstlu
Have Been Heard.
\ great many people believe that
shooting stars emit sound as they ig-
mite and volatilize; and there is no
doubt that they do, says the London
Chronicle. But it is a good deal more
than doubtful whether anybody has
really ever heard the hiss or explosion
Of 4 meteor, in spite of the reports of
such occurrences, which occasionally
find their way into print. In Symon's
Meteorological Magazine, where CORE
spondents occasionally write to give
notification of kissing meteors, a cor
respondent quotes the opinion of w. f.
s. Denning, who is the chief authority
and recorder of meteor flights and
Swarms as observed in Great Britain.
Il have SEEM" writes Mr.. Denning,
some thousands of meteors of various
magnitudes and kinds, but never in q
single instance detected any kissing or
rushing sound attending an object.
THE attention of an observer at
harrington, Berks, was attracted by
distant kissing sound, and looking up
he saw the meteor. Another observer
at Bath distinctly heard a slight con-
tinued kissing. The observer in Berks
was $50 miles distant from the meteor.
a number of the observers, who
have confidently affirmed that sounds
We're audible simultaneously with mete-
ORIG outburSts, were distant 100 or $50
miles from the objects, whereas other
| observers much nearer to them say
that the flights We're absolutely silent"
The only authenticated case where
a practiced observer has reported the
audibility of meteors is to be found IN
letter from Lieut.. Col. Tupman, who,
| when at aSehor in the River Platte,
saw shooting star of the first mag
nitude traverse some 40 degrees of the
sky. and less than a second after heard
Il gentle kissing sound from its direc-
tion-which greatly aStonished me-
Lieut.. Col. Tupman merely reported
the incident as curious, without at
taching undue Importance to it On a
review of the evidence. therefore, the
! kissing star must be put in the same
| category of illusions as the thunder
| bolt, and brain fever" to which, by
the way, in a novel published recently
a popular author condemned one of his
| characters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
His Little Pile.

Mr.. Corson, owner of the sawmill,
had his eye on every stick Of timper in
the county, and the owner of every poor
little Gump and grove had his eye on
Mr.. Corson and the rising prices of
humber.
George Wales cut his thin squad of
pines, trimmed the logs, and piled them
in his front lot by the road. Then he
waited for the time when he should ac-
cidentally be visible on the place and
Mr.. Corson should drive by.
The encounter took place in due time.
Mr.. Corson ratified past in his wagon,
took sidelong look at the pile of logs,
and called, "Say, George, don't you
know it amt polite to throw your
toothpicks round the front yard?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
GREAT WATER DUEL.
Cornell Defeats Columbia Oarsmen
After Desperate Struggle.

After Desperate Struggle.
In probably the greatest rowing race
ever seen in this country Cornell Uni
ver.ity won the big intercollegiate
aquatic event over the Poughkeepsie
course on the Hudson River recently.
Columbia University made a desperate
fight for the honor and was beaten
only by three feet The two crews
rowed side by side for four long, hard
miles and the men il both boats We're
thoroughly exhausted at the finish.
Columbia's grand showing was a big
surprise, as it was figured that the
struggle lay between Cornell and the
Annapolis crew. The navy could do no
better than third. Pennsylvania was
fourth, Wisconsin fifth and Georgetown
sixth. Syracuse did. not finish, her
shell being swamped in a big swell.
The water was unusually rough and
some of the contenders We're badly
handicapped by their shells shipping
water.
Cornell won by a magnificent burst
Of speed in the last ten strokes, the
nose of her shell just sweeping across
the finish line ahead of the New York
ers But from the first dip of the oars
at the head of the course until the
winning Ithacans dropped their sweeps
and fell back, half senseless. in their
victory. not twenty-five feet separated
either shell, and at the end the Column
bians were so close up that the great
crowd on the banks thought the tri-
umph was theirs. Unusual picturesque
ness was added to the scene by the
fact that darkness closed so quickly
that the glare of the great searchlight
from the United States monitor Arkan
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
Light-TOed Gentry,

'SThe best pickpockets," said the de-
tective, "are the Hindoos. You have to
call them light toed as well as light
fingered, for they can lift a watch or
purse as easily with their feet as with
their hands.
TRAINED from childhood, these bare
footed rascals are wonderfully skill
full with their toes. This gives them
a great advantage. A Hindoo in a
crowd will stand with his arms osten-
tatiously folded and sneak with his
foot tho wallet from your trousers
DOcket"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
HAPPENED ON A RIVER BOAT.
Trying to Find Genesis of SnOre
Drummer Sticks in TransOm.


l never tell a story unless it is true,
says a commercial traveller in the st.
Louis Post-Dispatch. That's the beauty
of my stories and Mark Twain's. I've
just got to have basis of fact Now
there's Ike Falkenburgs ears, for in
stance. We had a time with Ike the
other night coming down on the boat
| haven't told anybody about it and
I'm not going to. But confidentially
for publication, l don't mind saying it
was funny.
Ike and I were strolling through the
cabin early in the morning They had
changed some of the boys staterooms
but we didn't know it. We were some
where around where we thought Billy
Leach and others of our crowd were
bunked wnen we heard a snore. Falk-
enburg insisted it was a member of the
Jefferson barracks band tuning up his
oompa horn.
I'm going to see who that fellow
is" he said. You know these little two
by four transoms they have on the
boats Well, Ike showed his head
through and peeked.
In a second he was kicking and
Scrambling.
holy smoke, it's a woman" he whis-
pered.
Duck quick" said I.
81 can't; my heads caught" answer
ed Ike. l climbed up on a chair, and
sure enough he was damned there.
His ears had caught at both sides of
the transom. l had to go to my room
and get my shoe horn. / got him out
all right, but I took a plot of paint
off the transom.
'The ladykept on snoring I'm mighty
glad she didn't wake. 1t might have
been awkward for Ike"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
The Knockout Blow.

The blow which knocked out Corbett
was a revelation to the prize fighters.
From the earliest days of the ring the
Knockout blow was aimed for the jaw,
the temple or the jugular vein. Stomach
punches were thrown in to worry and
weary the fighter but if a scientific man
had told one Of the old fighters that the
most vulnerable spot was the region of
the stomach, he'd have laughed at him
for an ignoramus. DR.. Pierce is bringing
hope to the public a parallel fact; that
thd S6omaefa is the most vulnerable organ
out of She pTfze ring as we'll as in it. We
protect pun. hanks, throats, feet and lungs,
but theNasJsna6l\We are utterly indiffer-
ent to, until diseASA finds the solar plexus
and knocks rs out. Make your stomach
sound and strong BY die Use Qf Doctor
Plerce,s Golden MedicaI Discovery, and
you protect Y0rrself in Your yulner-
abIe spot. Golden Medica! Discovery"
cures weak stomach" indigestion, or
dyspepsia, torpid liver, bad, thin and i'm
pure blood and other diseases OF the Or
gans Of digestion and nutrition.
The "Golden Medical Discovery has
specific curative effect upon all mucous
surfaces and hence cures catarrh no
matter where located or what stage it
may have reached In Nasal Catarrh it
is well to cleanse the passages with DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy fluid while using
the Discovery as a constitutional rem
edy Why the 0Golden Medical Discov-
cry" cures catarrhal diseases, as of the
stomach, bowels, bladder and other pelvic
organs wilkabe plain to you if you will
read booklet of extracts from the writ
ings of eminent medical authorities, en-
dorsing its ingredients and explaining
their curative properties. 1t is mailed
free on request. Address DIR. r. v. Pierce,
Buffalo, n. Y. This booklet gives all the
ingredients entering into DR.. Pierce's
medicines from which it will be seen that
they contain not a drop,of alcohol, pure,
triple-refined glycerine being used instead.
DR. Pierre's great thousand-page illus
trated Common Sense Medical Adviser
will be sent free, paper-bound, for p one
cent stamps, or cloth bound for 81 stamps.
Address DR.. Pierce as above.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
A CRY FOB HELP.
Thousands of Men Needed in Rapid
Iy Growing Northwest.

Once more a cry for help is going up
from the West. Twenty thousand men
are needed by the lumber mills oper-
ating IN eastern Washington and Ore
gon and northern idaho, and as many
more are wanted by the Northern Pa
ciic and other railroad companies.
building lines in part of the Northwest.
The situation has become so acute
that unless men can be secured at once
much construction work will be delay
ed and many of the mills will be forced
TO close, sending their laborers into
the woods H. \. Kennedy, general
agent of the Northern Pacific Railway
Company, has a dozen representatives
scouting for men. but, he says, they
are not securing more than half of the
number required. The Western Pine
Shippers Association will send several
agents across the continent as far as
Maine to engage men
". G. Ulford, president of the asso-
citation, gave out this statement at the
quarterly meeting a few days ago:
1T will require 10000 men to keep
10000 men at work, and we will give
steady employment at good wages to
every man we can find. We want skill
ed labor and men Of capability and sta
bility. who will not Quit their jobs
every few days. To men with families
the members of-our association, who
cut more than 1.000.O00,000 feet of
lumber in 1906. will pay a higher wage
than is offered in any other part of the
United States and Canada for similar
work. The men in the woods receive
from SO to SO a month and board,
while in the mills the scale ranges from
$3.50 to so a day.
Probably the best answer to the
question of the shortage of men is too
much prosperity We cannot get men
for railroad work for the reason they
are offered higher wages in other
branches of labor. This is felt also
in the clerical department, where ev-
cry little while some Of the employees
leave to go to better paying positions.
I have canvassed the situation careful
ly in the last ten days, and I can say
that no able-bodied man in the North
west is idle except through his own
choice"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
Tragedy OF n Wooden Leg.

A man who travels on a wooden leg
says: about the worst accident we
ever heard Of Detailing a woOden-legged
man is the time one such unfortunate
was going home after being to a late
supper, about O'Clock in the morn
ing. when his peg leg went through an
auger hole in the grub plank sidewalk,
and he kept circling about that hole all
night thinking he was going home. The
editor of this paper wants it distinctly
understood that we cannot vouch for
the truthfulness of this story. kan
sas City Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
His Near Profanify

Grandfather asked little Clarence,
'did you ever swear?'
The venerable dominic became reminis-
cent, and his eyes assumed a dreamy,
pensive, far-away expression
No, my child" he answered; II never
really swore, but in a moment of ex-
element, and under strong prorocation
1 once SO far forgot myself as to utter
a fearful imprecation. I said to a man
who had tried my patience beyond endur-
ance, 'Corneobs twist your hair 30
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
Need of the Times.

Cardinal Gibbons, in a commencement
address at Holy Cross College, Worcester.
Mass, referring to the great need of our
times for the betterment of society, said
What the times call for is men, sturdy
men. endowed with the courage of their
convictions. Many a soldier who fearless
~ rushed to the lannon's mouth has
quailed before the shafts of ridicule and
the shouts of popular prejudice. The man
who calmly fulflls a duty against public
clamor displays greater courage than the
captain who captures cities"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
ALMOST A SOLID SORE.

Skin Disease from Birth-Fortune
Spent on Her Without Benefit
Cured Her with Cuticura.
II have a cousin in Rockingham Co.
who once had a skin disease from her
birth until shezwas six years of age.
Her father had spent fortune on her
to get her cured and none of the treat
ments did her any good. Old DR.. -
suggested that he try the Cuticura
Remedies, which he did When he com
menced to use it the child was almost
a solid seab. He had used it about two
months and the child was well. l
could hardly believe she was the same
child Her skin was as soft as baby's
without a scar on it. l have not seen
her in seventeen years, but l have heard
from her and the last time l heard she
was well. Mrs. W. P. Ingle, Burling-
ton, n. G., June Is. 1905"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

sas was thrown>>over the crews at the
finish to aid the judges in their de-
cision.
Twenty thousand people saw the
great struggle from pleasure craft, OBJ
servation trains and various vantage
points along the course. Wisconsin was
victorious in the freshman eight-oared
event and Syracuse triumphed in the
varsity four-oared race.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
Relieved.

Physician-Your boy will pull through
all right. He has a wonderful consti-
tuition
Mr.. Tyte-Phist-I am glad to hear it,
doctor. In making out your bill, Of
course, you viii not make me pay for
what his constitution has done in pulling
him through
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

1t is announced from Des Moines,
Iowa. that Gov Cummins will be a can
didate for the United States Senate, sub
ject to Endorsement at next years pri-
mary election. Whether Senator Allison
VIII also be a candidate is not yet def
nitely known.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

Cardinal Gibbons says that whatever
the opinion of the French episcopate may
be with regard to the separation of
church and state. it would be better for
that country if they could enjoy the real
separation of church and state as it is in
this country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

Certain Democrats in Chicago and 9TH
er parts of the West who do not care to
accept the leadership of William J. Bryan
are now trying to organize movement to
nominate Joseph W. Folk of Missouri for
President and John A. johnson of Mime
sofa for Vice President.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
& S1ah.

Il found her engaged in painful re-
Elections
''She is always looking in her mir
rOr. Houston Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

headaches and sleepless nights. I i'm
proved quickly and after taking three
boxes felt better than I had for Is
years. The effects have been lasting"
Sold by all dealers. 90 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, n. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

James E. MARITIME, the farmer orator"
of New Jersey. enjoys the distinction of
having been the candidate of his party
the Democratic-for almost every Office
in his county and Senate district for the
last thirty years without ever having
won.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
just the Same.

Gladys-You thought Clarence was
making eyes at you when we were play
ing blind mans buff Why, he couldn't.
He was hoodwinked.
Esmeralda all right. He
hoodwinked at me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

Lewis Single Binder" straight sc
cigar. Made of ripe. mellow tobacco. so
rich in quality that many who formerly
smoked Toe cigars now smoke Lewis
''Single Binder" Lewis Factory, Pc
sria, H.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

do you find my daughters voice i'm
proving, Mr.. Sculcher?" asked Mrs. Up
more.
'Improving?~ said the professor of
vocal training. why, my dear madam,
it's-er-not the same voice at all.n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

The gradual abandonment of Fort As
sinniboine, Montana, as an army post is
contemplated by the War Department.
This is one of the Oldest posts in the
United States. Its greatest usefulness
was during the Indian campaigns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

and on for ten
years. Awful pains
started from the
kidneys and cours-
ed down through
my limbs. l sought
the best medical
treatment but in
vain, and when I
began using Doap's
Kidney Pills l was
walking with two
canes and suffering
continual n a n s
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

Fifty years ago, in Switzerland, $780,
900 depositors possessed 100000 in
167 savings banks. There are now 1,4OO,-
600 depoltors possessing S160,0OOOOO in
more than 800 savings banks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
Too Informal.

Johnny-The doctor says Uncle Hum
phrey has Rright's disease.
His Mamma-The doctor may call it
that if he pleases, my dear, but you
could say Mr.. Bright's disease.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
Singing Criticism.

''That man boasts that he always
keeps things humming."
well, the last enterprise he tried,
he got 'stung'"
"Badly?"
81 should say so! He went in for
bee culture. Baltimore American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

Seth Low, educator and former Mayor
OF Greater New York, has been elected
president of the board of trustees of
Booker I. Washington's Tuskegee in
stitute. Mr.. Lowe has accepted the po-
sition "only for the time being" he SAYS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

Water from an artesian well at Ostend
which has been wasted for fifty years has
now been discovered to possess medicinal
qualities similar to the waters of Vichy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11
Rigidly Exact.

81 told you to let me off at the next
corner said the irate passenger, land
you have carried me block past III
This is the next corner" answered
the conductor, jerking the bell rope.
ut isn't anything of the kind! We
turned the corner back there a whole
block ~
''That isn't a corner sir. That's a
curve. Step lively, if you're going to
get off here
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-11

The National Woman Suffrage Society
receives now about $1,000 a month for its
work