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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Bond Thcfts Now 100000.

Later details of the bond robbery Of
the Trust Company of America came to
light through the examination OF Loan
Clerk Douglass confederate, Broker Den
nett. 1t was found that the actual value
of the bonds taken was not less than
100000, and that Douglass had laid
aside 100000 more for convenient abb
straction on the morning that suspicion
caused his sudden departure. Douglass
and his associates had raised about $780,
900 in cash and loans on the stolen col
lateral. 1t was admitted by the trust
company officials that they had paid out
S165.000 to recover most of the bonds
which had been placed with various brok-
ers, and that the actual loss would be
$4,000 considering the $4,000 bond OF
the loan clerk. The effort to connect a
prominent Boston man with the deal was
not successful, although it was believed
that a third party assisted in the nego-
tiations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Learned Wnmen

If woman to-day desires TO be
learned, she may become so. The time
has passed when any suggestion of
scholarship for a feminine head was
fouted as against nature" The num-
Der of men who give themselves to re-
search is always relatively small. and
that of women is likely to be still
smaller; hit for the exceptional wo-
man opportunities for the highest study
are now open.
The Association of Collegiate Alum
nae at a recent meeting listened to
addresses from six women who had
held fellowships from the associa-
ton. Four of the six may write
"Ph. D." or Lit D." after their
names. Their researches have been in
diverse f1elds-Roman archaeology, old
English, comparative psychology, es-
thetlcs. Their stories of their work
show their vigor and ingenuity In the
pursuit Of knowledge, and humor In
facing the difficulties of their tasks
For example, one of them wished to
study manuscript in the monastry of
Monte Casino. She found the rules
of the order forbade any woman TO
work in the library or any manuscript
to be taken out. But a gentle appeal
to the abbot resulted in his sending
the desired treasure to the porter's
room at the gate. BY free construc-
there said to be sin" and the maiden
was said to be out" and all require
ments were met.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
What n Wife Needs.

She needs good temper, a cheerful
disposition and knowledge of how her
husband should be treated. She needs
a capability of looking on the bright
side of life and refusing to be worried
by small things. She needs a secure
grasp of such subjects as are Of inter-
est to men and should not be above
studying even politics in order to IN
derstand should her husband speak of
them. She needs a sympathetic ma
ture in order that, should sorrow fall
upon them, she may be able to give
comfort to her husband. She needs to
understand something of sick nursing.
A wife with no notion of what to do in
the case of illness is but a useless
thing. She needs considerable tact and
patience-the one to enable her to
know when to remain silent and vice
versa, and the other to put up with
him when his temper is rrIffied.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Race Suicide Stirs Roosevelt.

An article in a recent number of the
Review of Reviews by DR.. Cronin on
"The Doctor in the Public School," up
holding small families. has drawn from
President Roosevelt letter to DR.. Shaw,
editor of the Review of Reviews, protest
ing against such teaching. DR.. Cronin
makes the statement that physical defects
go hand in hand with large families,
whether of the rich or of the poor, but
this the president says is not true. In
proof of his position the president points
out the fact that athletes are most apt
to be found in fair-sized families, and he
points to the vital statistics of Massa-
chusetts showing that the average Amer
lean family has so few children that the
birth rate has fallen below the death
rate. He reiterates his belief that tie
tendency of well-to-do families to die
out means the elimination instead of the
survival of the fttest, and he declares
that our country could not continue to
exist if it paid heed to the expressed or
implied teachings of such articles, which
furnish excuse for every unnatural pre-
vention of child bearing. and for every
form of gross and shallow selfiShness in
American social life.
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nunciamento which was to be attempted
| immediately-ga audience to two of his
spies, who assured him that the person
whose movements they were ordered to
watch had not yet arrived in Mexico.
When the hour for going to the the
ster arrived, the general prepared to be
present at an extraordinary performance,
but at the moment when he was about to
give orders for his carriage, the door Of
the room, in which he was sitting. opened,
| and footman appeared on the threshold,
with respectful bow.
What do you want?" the general
asked.
"Excellency," the valet replied, "a
caballero desires few minutes CONVEX
sation with you"
''At this hour" the general said look
ing at the clock, impossible; anyone you
know, IsidroT'
No, excellency; he is a cabellero whom
have not yet had the honor of seeing
in the house"
Hum" said the general, shaking his
| head thoughtfully, sis he gentleman"
That l can assure your eXcellency /;
he told me he had most important COM
munication to make"
In the generals present position, as
| head of a conspiracy on the point a.
| breaking out, no detail must be neglected
no communication despised, so, after re-
| fecting a little, he continued
You ought to have told the gentle
man that l could not receive him so late
and that he had better call again to-
morrow"
Il told him so, excellency."
And he insisted?"
Several times, excellency."
well, do you know his name, at
least?"
when l asked the cabaliero for it, he
said it was useless, as you would not
know it."
what a strange person." the general
muttered to himself; very good" he
then added aloud, lead the gentleman to
the small mirror room, and l will be
with him Immediately.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Rate of Forest Destruction

According to a bulletin issued by tho
forest service of the Agricultural De-
partment, every person in this country is
using over six times as much wood as
the individual consumption in Europe,
and the country as a whole consumes
over three times what the forests of the
United States grow during the year. The
consequence Of this policy is an newt
able timber famine. 1t is pointed out
that the increased population since 1880
is barely more than half the increase in
lumber cut, so that the increase of for
est destruction cannot be explained en-
trey on the theory of increased p0pu-
lation. The Northeastern States have
passed their maximum production, and
the Southern States are near their max
imum, while the State of Washington
now ranks first in the volume of timber
cut. At present one-ifth of the total for
est area is owned by the government.
The average age of trees felled for lum-
Der this year is not less than $50 years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
New Ideas in Neckvear.

Irish lace sets are extensively used
but the newest thing in lace is the file
lace Sometimes it is combined with
other laces and the figures are embroid-
cred in colOred threads
Tulle ruches are in vogue and they
are universally becoming. These come
in all colors, but all white seems to be
the favorite Brown, black and smoke
come next, with some dark blue, light
blue and pink.
Ruches are also made Of chiffon
shirred into all sorts of complicated
forms, but does not take so we'll as
tulle, having a fat effect.
There are some novelties in tailored
stocks which are taking well. These
are in stitched taffeta silk with tab
fronts in plain and plaid effects.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30

uduQer. lie was
born at Galesburg on March Z. 1913,
and received his education in old Lom-
bard University. Later he attended
the Albany Law School, where he was
a student with President Mckinley.
and he was but youth when he step
ed from the classroom to shoulder a
musket in the war for the Union. En-
listing in the One Hundred and Sec
ond Illinois as a private, he saw SER
vice in the same brigade with Presi-
dent Harrison, and subsequently march
ed with Sherman to the sea. Before
the end of the conflict he had been
breveted major for gallant ana merito-
rious service.
When the war closed. Mr.. Conger
practiced law for a time at Galesburg,
but in 1868 he went to Dexter, Iowa,
and there began farming and stock
raising, and also entered into the bank
ing business. Naturally he took an in
terest in politics, and successfully was
elected treasurer of the county. and
then State Treasurer In 1884 he was
elected to Congress, and served three
terms In 1891 he was first appointed
minister to Brazil, and was reappoint-
ed in 1897, and the following year ne
was transferred to China. and while
there Mr.. Conger performed notable
service.
He was in Picking during the siege
following the terrible Boxer uprising,
and after the capture of that city by
the allies he conducted the negotiations
on the part of the United States. Sub
sequently he was head of the commits
sion that negotiated the new CONNER
cial treaty with China, which went
into effect in 1902
Mr.. Conger was appointed ambassa-
dor to Mexico in 1905, but his health
failing, he resigned the post within a
few months and went to live at Pasa-
dena, where he was seized with his ia
tai illness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
AT THE FACTORY GATE.

A pathetic little sketch from life,
Low Life Deeps," is particularly in
teresting just now, when the child-la-
Dor question is SO prominent One
chilly, rainy day Mr.. Greenwood stood
by the door of a factory in England
and watched the laborers go in. 1t
was an establishment where high-grade
work was done, and in it two hundred
girls, from Is to 16 years Of age, were
employed 1t was pretended that no
younger children We're engaged, but
many of the poor little mites could not
have been more than 9 or 10.
They were sharp-shouldered little
things, shrunken and shrewd, with
hungry eyes. 1t was noOntime, and
therefore a free hour. Three clean,
tidy-haired little girls were looking out
Of the factory gate.
Here comes father" cried one.
Father" was a slouching, lazy-look-
ing man, with short black pipe in his
mouth. He had brought the children's
ginner. 1t was not bulky affair.
Here. catch hold." he called. "It's
pretty day for me to come Juggling
up here. Make haste and eat it up and
cut away to your work.
l saw the small parcel unfolded. 1t
contained three morsels Of fried fish
and three slices of bread. This being
fairly divided, the three sisters re-
traced their steps toward the factory,
eating as they went.
Father" turned back, his great
hands thrust deep into his pockets, and
made haste to get home out of the dis
agreeable weather. He may have been
unavoidably out of work. but my in
stinct is at fault if he was
At the end of the noon hour two
shivering little girls were late. I
found them in great distress, locked
out for half an hour, with the certain
ty of a fine. They stood, miserable
and bonnetless, their dirty faces
streaked with rain, and grew quite
confidential with me.
Some one, for lark" had told
them Of a cookshop where might be
bought enormous pennyworths of pud-
ding left cold from yesterday. The
dinner with which they were provided
consisted Of a slice of bread and ha'-
penny apiece. These last they had
made into joint stock, and had run a
mile and a half to get the pudding.
No such shop was to be found, and the
children had returned, hungry, disap-
pointed and late.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
CHAPTER NEII

General Guerro was one of those pow
erful athletes who do not allow them
selves to be overcome easily. His re-
volted pride restored his expiring cour-
age; and since an implacable warfare was
declared against him, he swore that he
would fight TO the end. whatever the con-
sequences for him might be.
Moreover, two months had elapsed since
his arrival in Mexico. and his enemy had
not revealed his presence by one of those
terrible blows which burst like a clap of
thunder above his head
The general gradually began supposing
that the hunter had only wished to force
him to abandon Sonora. and that. in de-
spair of carrying out his plans advantage
ously in a city like Mexico. he was pru-
IDENTIFY keeping aloof. and if he had not
completely renowned his vengeance. cir
cumstances at any rate, independent of
his will. compelled him to defer it.
The general so soon as he was settled
in the capital of Mexico organized a band
of highly paid spies, who had orders to
be constantly on watch, and inform him
of Valentines arrival.
Seven or eight days had elapsed. Gen.
Guerrero. after a long conversation with
Col. Don Jaime Lupo, Don Sirven and
two or three others of his most faithful
partisans-a conversation in which the
final arrangements were made for the pro-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
CELTIC TONGUE Is DYING.
Preserved From Extinction ONLY nv
EMorts of Pafrintin S1..a..

EhorIs OF Patriotic Societies
ReporeS from Wales foreshadow the
passing of the sole Celtic tongue which
has survived to the twentieth century
without the entire loss of its ancient
birthright.
Gaelic IS well-nigh gone from the
Highlands and in Ireland it is IRE.
served from extinction only by the
efforts of patriotic societies. Cornish
died in ITO with the venerable Mrs.
Dentreath, who alone could speak il.
Welsh has remained the native speech
of a considerable community and the
Eisteddfod has kept alive traditions
OF the bards and rhapsodists.
But the dry rot is at work. Accord
ing to the testimony of Welsh clergy
men before the Westminster church
commission, English is fast replacing
Welsh as the habitual speech of the
children of Cardiff All through South
Wales a similar tendency of the young
TO abandon the paternal speech is not
ed. In the parish of the vicar of Trel-
lech, numbering 772 souls, only three
aged persons speak the old vernacular.
When the children give up a language
it is doomed
The passing of the Welsh is merely
an episode in a story of linguistic
deterioration and dissolution" which
is one of the extraordinary things Of
history. Though the Celts have at all
times stamped the impress of a Wig
orous personality on the worlds poll
tics, though they remain one of it's
prominent peoples, with the extinction
of Welsh no living language worthy of
the name will exist as a monument to
them.
They were the first to leave the old
Aryan home to invade Europe; they
overran it from Russia to the Irish
lakes; they established nations in
France, Spain, Italy, Bohemia and
Britain; they created great literatures,
but when conquered themselves they
have invariably accepted the language
of their conquerors as their own
New York World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Her IndorRemenf.

The stories of the woman with the
check are innumerable, but the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger seems to have
discovered a new one. 1t adds it to
the long list Of business vagaries laid
to the door Of the gentle sex. A brides
mother had presented her with check
on Christmas day. With feeling Of
the utmost Importance she took 1t to
the bank to get it cashed.
The cashier took the check, then
handed it back politely, saying:
"Will you please indorse it, madam"
Endorse it?" repeated the bride, puz-
zled.
Eyes, across the back, you know"
replied the man, too busy to notice her
bewilderment.
The bride carried the check to a desk,
laid it face downward, and nibbled the
end of a pen thoughtfully. Then in
spiration came, and she wrote triumph
antly across the back:
For Fanny, from mother; Christ
mas, 1906"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30

l264-English barons victorious at
Lewes.
l46t-AorkiStS victorious at Hexham
(War of the Roses).
1oO9-Louis MI. defeated the yenetians
at the battle of Rivolta.
defeated at Franken-
hansen.
MISREPRESENTATION of Henry ". ce
France and accession of Louis XIII.
1642-Montreal founded by Maison-
neueve.
17S3-St. John, n. B., founded by U. n.
Loyalists.
1191-Lord CORVALLIS routed the army
of Tippoo Saib.
1195-Alliance of Paris.
1196-FirSt vaccination by Dr. Jenner
1S04-Lewis and Clarke started up the
Missouri river on their trip OF ex-
ploration.
1S04-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed
Emperor of the French
lS09-British took possession of the
island of Anholt.
1S11-Battle of Albuera, between French
and British.
1S39-Caroline Murat, sister of Ma
poleon l. and ex-Queen of Naples.
died.
1S40-John NJ. Niles of Connecticut be-
came Postmaster General of the
United States.
1S41-Fall of rock from Cape Diamond,
Quebec, killing % people.
1S4S-Insurrection in Vienna. Emperor
fled to Innsbruck.
1SJ3-First railway train left Toronto.
1S56-Queen Victoria distributed medals
to the wounded heroes of the Crimea.
1S60-Republican convention at Chicago
nominated Abraham Lincoln and
Hannibal Hamlin
1S61-Adelina Patti made her first APP
pearance in London.
1S72-Pere Marquette and party started
from Michilimackinac to trace the
course of the Mississippi.
1SS5-Louis Bel, leader of the rebellion
in Northwest Canada, surrendered.
1SS6-Britain took possession of all Bur
nah, annexing it to India.
1S92-Great damage caused by food at
Sioux City, Iowa.
1S95-Count Kalnoky, premier Of Aus
tria- Hungary, resigned.
1S97-Turkey agreed to an armistice
with Greece.
-Battleship Alabama launched at
Chester, Pa.
1S99-Edward Everett Hale resigned
pastorate of South Congregational
church, Boston, after forty-thres
years of service.
190O-Gen. Butler occupied Dundee,
South Africa.
1902 Coronation of King Alfonso XIII.
at Madrid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Sparks from the Wires.

Esther Carter daughter of Z. z. Car
ter, Newark, Ohio, while picking flowers
along a canal fell in and was drowned.
Gov. Folk granted respites until June
q to John and Ameleck Brooks of Iron
county and Tom Clay of Boone county,
Missouri, all under sentences of death
for murder.
Counsel for the plaintiffs in the suit
for an accounting of the estate Of Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy filed at Concord,
n. H.. affidavits declaring that the orig
inal charges are true.
Judge Watts Parker granted the appli-
cation of Bill Britton of Breathitt coun-
ty. Kentucky, charged with the assassin
alton of James Cockrill, for bail, fixing
the amount at $500.
J. r. Dysinger, contractor of Cleve-
land. Ohio, while waiting for a car in
the Pacific Electric depot, Los Angeles,
was robbed of $500. His vest was cut
open without his knowledge.
Many lives were endangered by fire in
the dry goods store Of Macauley Broth
ers at st. John, n. B. Two girls hung
to window sill of the third story until
they were taken down on a ladder by
firemen. The loss is $4,000.
Figures compiled by the New York
Journal of Commerce show that during
April the fire loss in the United States
and Canada was 50, S25, 800, some $10.-
100000 more than for April, 1905. No
fair comparison can be made with 1906
because the San Francisco fire occurred
during that month.
Alexandra Garland, Jr., attache Of the
Peruvian legation, was stabbed and seri-
ously wounded by Charles A. Edwards,
secretary of the Democratic congressional
campaign committee and clerk to the
House minority organization OF which
John Sharp Williams IS chairman, in
Washington. Iaso fought over Miss
Louise Scott.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Where VIII Woman Stop.

This is the age of the woman. And
the future also is hers. 1t is less than
fifty years since American girls were
refused admission TO the colleges their
brothers attended. Now there are more
women in the colleges than men. AL
most every agency of modern times ca
ters to woman. Merchants vie for her
custom. The pulpit wants her strong
support. The press seeks her favor and
patronage. Woman is no longer behind
the throne. She Is the throne
All this change of a few years seems
a radical departure. But cast your
eyes over Europe. The women of
Britain are pounding at the doors of
Parliament seeking suffrage. In Ger
many the gates of the ancient univer-
stiles have been lifted from their hinges
to let women in. In Italy the Parlia-
ment has appointed a commission to
arrange, if possible, for equal suffrage.
The French women have gone ahead of
men in the field of scientific discovery.
And in England of the twelve best sell
ing books every one was written by
woman. Even in darkest Russia wom-
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BioggraPhicaI Tk5dBits
-NNAoN~

Justice W. III. Moody is the blond bach
elor of the United States Supreme Court.
Charles Law Watts, a 16-year-old boy
of Kent. England, weighs 373 pounds and
is still eating.
Theodore Gill. the worlds greatest au-
thority on fishes, works for the United
States government for 81 month
Joseph Lang. the public executioner of
Vienna, wears heavy gold watch chain
and massive watch. which is held in his
pocket By a thief proof hook.
J. P. Nannetti, NJ P, for the college
division of Dublin and mayor of that
city. is working printer. and is fore
man of the Freeman's Journal.
George I'rollope. an English actor of
considerable note. has forsaken the stage
and will enter the Catholic priesthood.
He first appeared in The Sign of the
Cross"
Chief Appah of the Utes holds com
missioner Leupp responsible for every
thing. Being told that Congress makes
the laws, IF you let them make such a
law you are no account in your job"
exclaimed the old chief.
stewart EuNdCu w liLS- EDP duIQOr.
has left his bungalow in California. where
he has been for the last two years. and
Joined the authors COLONY in New York.
Lord Kitchener, the famous English
general, and his brother. in boyhood days,
used to have to drive pigs to market.
They were sent off without breakfast and
had to do without that meal on their
return if the pigs remained unsold.
Chief Pleasant Porter of the Creeks
declares that the act of Congress hand
ing over Indian territory to Oklahoma
was the death knell of his race He
predicts that in 100 years there viii not
be an Indian in the United States.
Louis n Parker, the dramatist, was
born in France: his father was an Amer
lean, his mother an English woman; his
first language was Italian, and he was
educated in Germany.
Henry OldS, assistant biologist of the
laboratory at Washington for thirteen
years, has been studying the music of
birds and has written an elaborate bro
chure on the subject.
Rear Admiral Bronson. when he re-
linquishes the Asiatic station to become
chief of the bureau of navigation in
Washington. will have the honor of COM
manding the entire new Pacific fleet. just
as Rear Admiral Evans now commands
the Atlantic feet.