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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
POmpadOur Clerks Win strike.

The young women employed in a Pitts
burg department store. upon being told
that they would not be allowed to wear
their hair in pompadour fashion. formed
a union and notified the managers that
unless the order was rescinded they would
walk out in a body. Thereupon the man
ager surrendered Internationally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
auestion for euestten.

"Farthest north, hey?" sneered the
lawyer. why don't you go cellar to
the pole?"
why don't you close up that viii
case that you've been living on for the
last sixteen years ?'-Washingt Her
old
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
YOUTH MAKES FINDS IN SKIES.
Wisconsin, Boy with Homemade
TeIescOpe Locates Two Comets.

Telescope Locates Two Comets.
]. L. Mellish of Cottage Grove dis
covered another comet the other night
making the second comet he has located
this year. Mellish is 90 years old and
works with telescope of his own manu-
facture His discoveries are considered of
great Importance by Prof. G. S. Com
stock of the Washburn observatory, who
has informed the observatories of the
country of the exploits and discoveries
of the youth
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
Ban ON Church socin1a.

The Methodist congregation at Knapp
has decided to abolish the old custom Of
having ice cream socials and similar func-
tions to raise money for the preachers
salary. At a meeting in the church it
was unanimously agreed that hereafter
the funds must be raised from some other
sources
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
TWO DIE UNDER ENGINE.
Threshermen Meet Horrible Death
When 1t P1unges Through Bridge.

When 1t P1unGes Through Bridge.
Caught under a heavy traction engine
as it crashed through a bridge in the
town of Wyoming, four miles south Of
Spring Green, the other night, George
Smith and Charles Culver were crushed
to death. Smith, the owner Of the thresh-
ing outfit, was instantly killed. Culver,
caught under the engine, was slowly
scalded to death. The bridge was a IT,
foot span across a dry run. The front
trucks of the engine had cleared it, but
the rear part crashed through and the
engine toppled over backwards, carrying
the two men with it. While assisting in
removing the bodies, James Lloyd Jones,
a member of the board of regents of the
State university, fell and broke his left
leg
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
Hazers Pay Fine of S25.

Four young men at River Falls had
to pay fines of S25 each for the fun of
hazing Normal school students. One
freshman was stripped and forced to run
through the main street Of the town. All
the buttons were cut from another's
clothes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
Harm and Nine Horses Bprp

Fire of unknown origin totally destroy
ed the livery barn belonging to Con Shan
non in Ashland. Nine horses were burned
TO death, together with a considerable
quantity of hay and feed and several vehi-
Giles. The loss is about $4,000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31

The planning mill and w0od-finishing
plant at the West Milwaukee shops of
the St. Paul road were destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
STOCK KILLED IN FIRE.
Seven Cows and Two Horses Burned
to Crisp in Ground Barn.

The round barn" of the well-known
Bulls farm in Albion township, owned
by Judge Sherwood, was struck by
lightning and completely destroyed by
Are. The loss, which is covered by little
insurance, is about $4,000. Seven cows
and two horses were burned to death.
One COW, which the hired man was milk
ing, was struck and burned but the man
escaped unhurt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
ROBBERS CLAIM IS ODD.
Wants Cashier of Bank TO Pay Him
for Time In RefOrmatOry

for Time in Reformatory.
Stewart Jelleh, who pleaded guilty TO
the charge of robbing the Mineral Point
bank of $4,000 some years ago and was
committed to the Green Bay reformatory
for five years. has served his sentence and
returned TO Ripon. He said that the
cashier and others interested in the rob-
bed bank promised him that ii he would
plead guilty and give up the money he
had taken that he would only have to
serve one year in prison Since he was
sent up for FIVE years and served them. he
claims to be entitled to compensation
Tor the extra four years. Jelleff has gone
to Mineral Point to interview the bank
cashier
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
Wins the .Lobs.

"She is fitting herself for a position
to apply or a job as typewriter
"Patro, .zing a shorthand school?"
NO, a beauty doctor. "-Pittsburg
Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
Rsd~ar clerk Is Promoted.

John o. Cornell of Monticello has been
promoted from a $1,000 clerkship to the
$3.50 class in the Office of the recorder
of the general land Office in Washington.
d, C.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31

Nine new Atlantic liners promised by
President Bruce Ismay Of the Internal
tional Mercantile Marine Navigation
Company six months ago in his address to
the stockholders have been laid down and
the first one, the Alberta, will be ready
next spring for the Canadian trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
posxum,s RESCUE of Her Babies.

Two girls at Pass Christian, Miss,
recently stole eight baby possums from
their mother, says a special dispatch
TO the New York World. The next
night the mother crawled through a
window and bore away her little ones.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31

DR.. Frank P Norbury, in addressing
the State conference of charities at Jack
sonyille, declared Illinois is in nursing
bottle STAGE in caring for insane
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31

W. W. Westcott Richard a. Canfield's
most formidable rival in the gambling
business. and a brother of Katherine Ting
ley, theosophist leader, is dead an his
home in New York City as the result of
pneumonia, complicated by Brights dis
GA So
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31

Sixty-three steam shovels are working
on the Panama canal at the present time
Twenty-Five other shovels are to be de
liyered during this year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31

When a man is good he travels in
a rut, but he never knows how COM
Portable the rut was, and how free from
jolts, until he has climbed outside.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01
MODERN HISTORICAL FICTION.

Herbert w. Horwill in Forum. II
is certainly reasonable to expect that
the gains of modern historical study
should in some measure enrich his
torical fiction also; that the novelist
should benefit by the new light thrown
by research upon the motives OF
great men and upon the conditions
with which they had to deal, and cs-
pecially that he should not misrepre-
sent, through carelessness or igno-
rance, the main significance OF the
periods he processes to depict. There
is level of general accuracy which
the writer Of historical fiction should
be required to reach before being
taken into account at ala qualifying
entrance examination, so TO speak, co
meet him at the threshold of his en-
terprise. But he is to be judged, in
the main, not as historian but as a
and he forfeits the end for
the sake of the means if he allows
the interest of exact scholarship to
obscure or deaden the imaginative
element.
read the other day, in a complacent
euiogy CT the progress of historical
research, that it would no longer be
possible for any one to write "Ivan-
hoe, and that if by any chance sucn
a book were written its author would
not have the ''imprudence" to publish
10. That no Scott may readily be III
mitted, but if there should be latent
anywhere a genius of this type ne
need not stay in hiding from the fear
that the achievements of more scien-
tific writer's will have spoiled his well
come.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01
Presence of Mind.

A negro minister from Georgia, who
was giving friends in New York city,
went one Sunday to- the Cathedral on
Fifth avenue
RE was very much impressed by the
service, especially the choir boys in
the professional and occasional.
WneE he returned to the south he
resolved to Introduce the same thing
into his church; SO he collected ff-
teen or or twenty darkies and drilled
them until he had them well trained.
One Sunday the congregation was
greatly surprised 90 see the choir
boys marching in, singing the pro
dessionai The minister noticed that
soraething was wrong; the boy in
front was not carrying anything. He
leaned over the pulpit and in order
to avoid attracting attention, he
chanted iIa tune to the song they were
singing,
'What-have yen done-with the
incense pot?"
The littIs darkeg, with great pres
e'Tee of mind, chanEed back
left ii in--tEe afs5e-it was too
hmm he5. "-HaspeTs Weekly
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01
A Return to the Methods
Of Benjamin Franklin

Washington, April 24.-In one
Of the laboratories of the George
Washington University in this city
stand the models from which a new
system of protection from lightning
has Just been adapted for all the build
ings and chimneys in the various
yards of the United States navy, Per
haps no better pace for paying with
lightning, after the sober. serious
fashion exists anywhere Typica.
among the models is miniature
brick chimney about two feet high
and four inches in diameter. bearing
four little metal rods whose most
noticeable popularity is that they are
not insulated from the chimney by
any of the ordinary glass devices, hut
are so constructed as to allow what
ever electricity is induced on The
broad surface of the chimney to drain
off instead of remaining there 20 dis
integrate the brick-work should dis
ruptive discharge occur.
A copper spider" spread across
the top of the chimney radiating
network of wires, connected with the
vertical rods-is another special
feature Down the interior of this
toy shaft, and the case applies to the
big, real stacks of our industrial cen
ters, no chance is offered the bolt
from overhead to pursue its way
dealing death and destruction in the
Iengine and boiler rooms about the
base
That's a vital consideration, too
When a chimney is daily pouring
lheayenward a column of smoke AMI
other products OF combustion, includ-
ling not little water vapor which al
ways accompanies combustion of fuel,
there is every likelihood that duriug
some thunderstorm a swift discharge
from above may send an alternating
current of incredibly swift vibration
down the long bore of the shaft
Many a valuable stack, supposed to be
protected from the electrical hazard
by system of exterior rods, has oeen
badly damaged through the failure Of
its builder to appreciate that a gas
cots conductor reaches much higher
and is often better conductor. than
the rods. and may therefore serve IS
the chief channel along which the op-
posing electricities of SKY and earth
rush to meet each other. On the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01
ETIQuETTE.

If you're dining with a neighbor it is
well to recollect
That your manner should be pleasant
and your actions circumspect;
For there's nothing more annoying
than the presence of a guest
Who is too reserved and bashful to
be pleasant with the rest.
A joke Is always welcome, and it's
really very neat
To remove chair from under as a
lady takes her seat;
And to pass the time of waiting, while
the butler serves the drinks,
You can whistle something catchy, or
indulge in forty wiuks.
If yoa DO not like your partner do not
shun her in desPcir;
Simply ask her hcT ner grandson is,
or where she buys her hair.
And if questions cannot move her it
VIII not do any harm
To insert toothpick firmly in the
muscles of her arm.
If dish is to your liking, and you
want a little more
Always signify your wish by stamping
loudly ON the floor.
Should the soup be over-seasoned do
not show that you are vexed;
Gently pour it down the collar of the
fellow sitting next.
Vml should always kiss the waitress
If her charms are to your taste,
And Whenever she fingers near you
put your arm around her waist.
Il will please your host and hostess If
you give three hearty cheers
And purloin dozen teaspoons in the
way of souvenirs.
Though you may be deemed eccentric,
your companions will agree
You're the center of attraction and of
popularity.
Only follow these instructions, using
tact and constant care,
And you'll die a social hero and a
bloateti millionaire.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01
More ssnse and Less Science.

Ashland, Ore, Times.-It is hlgn
time that 4 lot of experimenting doc
tors, and yellow journalists quit scar
ing. the people to death, every day.
More. than one.haEl the Illness Of to-
day is caused by lively imagination
fosteFed by detailed publication of the
theories of doctors. They may aes
from. he best motives, but it would be
well if a goodt dea of heir
tNeOFiZiIag were confined to
the hest medical Journals, where It
would he read by those who can take
it for Shat it is worth. Our fore
fathers ate what they wanted, drank
water from the springs and brooks,
with never thought of the microbe,
and they lived to a green old age. We
strain and filter and boil and examine
and test and worry and stew and
most Of IDS die ultimately from di.
gestive trouble, if we escape an oper-
a.ion for appendicitis Let's have a
little more common sense, a little
less popular science and a whole lol
better health.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01

solved at least few of the problems
lof the lightning conductor to his sat
Iisfaction, so that they may be applied
practically to the protection of the
governments valuable property.
Their general application will probably
follow closely, for governmental ap-
piled science in these days is thor
Ioughly practical This series of ex-
periments of Dr. Hopkins is only one
of great number that have been car
ried on in the laboratories of George
Washington university and that, be-
cause OF the lose connection that is
possible between the university and
the governmental departments, can be
brought very directly to the solution
of scientific problems of administra-
ton. First hand investigation has pc
come the rule at Washington. Hence
in the matter vi protection from cleo
Itrical discharges, no lightning rod
agents need apply at the navy depart
ment. The problem has been ettled
in accordance with latest methods and
understanding Of science.
1t merited sttlement. Statistics of
death and accident from lightning
show that it is important to bring the
lightning rod in an improved form
back into favor. In recent years
there were 367 deaths and 491 injuri IS
from lightning in the United States
alone. and property of an estimated
value of sl,50O,0OO was destroyed b.
it. The reason why lightning-rods
! nave been so generally disused is be-
cause they have so often been unintel-
iligently constructed. Franklin, dis
eoverer of many scientific truths, had,
so the experts are agreed, the right
idea as to safeguarding property and
persons from lightning. His notion
was not simply to take care of dis
charges that actually strike, but to
prevent discharges by providing for
the quiet passage heavenward of
electricity induced on the earth by
the accumulated electricity of tire
clouds. That is a main point
in DR.. Hopkins scheme Of doing
away with insulators in the light
ming conductors. 1t has not gen
orally been understood what trouble
is brought about through the colIec-
ton of electricity on the outer sur
face Of cbimneys.
AS showing the misunderstanding IS
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01

special research will bring to the in
Iyestigator, VINO holds so conspicuous
a position in the navy department.
was secured almost entirely at the
George Washington university, largely
under the direction of Professor c. Z.
Munroe, inventor of a smOkeless pow
der and distinguished for large num-
Der OF other important scientific
achievements. DIR. Hopkins's work in
electrochemsitry has received high
praise from scientific publications
abroad, including the British periodi-
cal Nature, which comments some
what enviously upon the MAGNIFICENT
laboratory which the George Washing
ton university must have to enable its
investigators to carry on researches Of
so notable character. Yet as a mat.
ter of fact, the equipment up to .ais
time has always been meagra; but
the laboratories have been in the
hands of men who are able to make
the special apparatus required for
each piece of work as IT, comes up FOR
solution.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01
A Leaend of the pandeIlon.

Once upon a time, in tiny green
camp by the roadside, lived a soldier
all alone. He had travelled a long
way from dark underground coun-
try, and meant to see something of
the world. The first thing he saw was
broad field full of waving ban.
ners, and he thought what beauti
full place he had discovered, and
pitched his tent among the green
grasses.
Soon the raindrop elves saw how
tired and dusty he was from his jour
ney, and they soothed him with their
musical stories and gave him re-
freshing shower bath Through the
clouds came the sunbeam fairies,
bringing him a beautiful uniform of
green and gold and a culver of
golden arrows. The soldier was very
happy. and smiled out at passers-by
and cheered many a weary traveller
with a glimpse of his sunny face. By
and by, spring went away over the
hill tops, the birds finished their nest
ing. and the butterflies came to herald
summer.
Then the soldier began to feel tired
and knew he was growing old. His
gay uniform had faded and the golden
arrows had turned to silver. and the
wind brownies shot them far away. SO
the soldier crept down among the
grasses, and his green camp was left
vacant. But everywhere his silvery
arrows fell there blossomed bright,
golden flowers. and the little children
loved them and called them dande-
lions. E. r. #.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01

of Franklin's principle that have been
common, there was in operation Ia
Europe and in this country for many
years an alleged protecting device
known as the repeller. This was
nothing short of lightning rod with
it's most valuable protective feature
its pointed termination, eliminated.
At the top of the rod was affixed a
piece of glass like a thick soda water
bottle inverted The idea was that
this glass would generally have the
effect of repelling the discharge OF
electricity from the clouds, but that if
the bolt must strike the chimney o.
spire in question it would then break
the glass and run down the lightning
rod to bury itself in the earth. The
real effect however, was simply TO
prevent all possibility of silent dis
charge of electricity and to render the
building much more liable to be dam
aged
This city has seen not a little eX-
perimenting before now with the
question of protection from lightning.
In the early days of the Washington
Monument, which, rising to a height
of 555 feet with no other very tall
structures near. is singularly exposed
to the severe thunderstorms that fire.
quently break across the Potomac val
LEY, several disastrous strokes did
damage to the structure. The simple
system IF conductors then in use
Iproved to be ineffective. Of late
years. however, the monument has
been safeguarded by four copper roas
ATTACHED to an aluminium cap which
| fits over the apex of the pyramid.
There are connected with the uprights
supporting the elevator machinery, the
various parts of which abound in de-
vices for harmlessly taking OF any I'M
expected electrical current that comes
wandering down the shaft. Since this
system was adopted the monument
has never been injured in any way by
| lightning.
Prominent officials, like President
Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treas
ury Cortelyou, who have given their
enthusiastic support to the movement
for the endowment of the George
Washington university IS great ma
tional institution. hs e warrant In
such work as this which Or. N. Mon
roe Hopkins has accomplished, for tho
Intimate benefit Of the national gov
eminent. In the laboratories Of the
university. for it is regarded as typi-
cal of the advantages that a large uni
iversity at me capital with facilities FOR
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01

Cyril Burne is no friend of mine
Cyrils hand fell from Jacks Shout
der, and he dropped back into the
chair and hid his face in his hands.
Jack rose and laid 10th hands on
his shoulders.
And then | knew that either some
deyilish work had come between this
lovely creature and the man who loved
her, or that a woman could be as fair
as Eve, look as tender as a lily in the
morning dew, and yet be utterly heart
less, and resolved to go to my friend
and help him smash up his illusions.
help him tear that Fata MOrgana from
his heart, and be a man again. in-
quired about her afterward, and I
heard that the man who won her heart
IF she possessed one-was a certain
.Guilfcrd Berton-''
Cyril started.
Il saw him before came away. A
good-loolSing man-just the man to
touch a statue in the semblance of a
woman; Just the man to take effect
upon Stop. Don't heed what |
said, ladi By Heaven! even as spoke
TIE recollection of her face broke n
Upon me. and l cannot cannot be-
lieve her false aye. even with her own
words in my ears"
Il know. Oh, / know! She has
cast her spell over you! But-but--
oh. Jack, I'd written to her-I was go
ing to send it tomorrow" He took a
letter from his pocket. Here it IS:
See!" He tore it into fragments and
tossed 1t into the wood fire burning
on the open hearth. I'm awake now.
thanks to you, and there goes the great
the one sweet dream Of my life:
Fill your glass, Jack-fill it up, an3
let us drink perdition to all women,
To be continued.