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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
DWikDLINC OF ARMY
GIVES CUE TO CRITICS
Military Men Say Force Is Reduced
Beyond Point of Safety for
the Nation.
NEED OF REFORM IN SERVICE.
Low Pay and Requirement of Hard
Practice Marches Are Main
Points of Attack.

The War and Navy Departments are
trying to reach an agreement by which
the marines are to be withdrawn from
the Isthmus of Panama and two regi-
ments of infantry are to be sent to take
their places as guards. 1t is fully ex-
pected that before long two regiments
or foot will be on their way to the
canal zone. This diverting of army
regulars to a new field will mean that
the forces in the United States are to
be depleted beyond that which officers
believe to be the danger point.
The infantry problem is one of the
most serious factors in the greater
problem of the army's weakness. On
paper We are supposed to have 10000
tnfantrymen, but in truth we have 10th
ing like that number. and unless the
increase of pay bill pass Congress, it is
perfectly evident that the ranks will
be thinned still further. An army Off
Ger who knows conditions tells Il Wash
ington correspondent that in a case of
emergency there would be less than
1000 infantrymen who could be brought
with anything like dispatch to any
threatened point within the limits of
the United States proper.
There are two chief army measures
now before Congress, one dealing with
the matter of the increase of pay and
the other dealing with the matter of
the increase of the infantry. A CORE
spondent says there is precious little
hope that both bills can pass. 1t prob
ably would be folly to pass the second
bill without passing the first, for it
would be useless to provide for an in
crease in the ranks if no inducements
were held out by which the increase
could be effected.
Objections to Army Life.
Interviews with enlisted men disclose
three chief objections to army life, and,
in order of numerical precedent, they
rank like this:
Monthly practice marches.
Poor pay.
Non-military duty required of the en-
listed men.
Some of the ranking officers of the
army have inveighed constantly against
what they call the folly of the frequent
practice marches. The men are kept in
fine physical condition and as hard as
walnuts through the daily drills, the
guard duty, the good food, and the reg
ular living generally. Yet they are
compelled at least once month to
hike out on the road under heavy bur-
dens and trying conditions for the pur-
pose of keeping in trim so that they
will be ready for the field in case Of
hostilities. The practice march, fairly
long continued and to come at long in
tervals, has its uses, and the men like
it.; but they don't like it coming rs it
does every three or four weeks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
KRoUT LIKES PRISON LIFE.

ParOled Prisoner Wants Life Term
-Smashes Window.
Unless he gets life sentence for
smashing a $3.50 plate glass window in
clothing store in Appleton, Charles Krout,
Detroit, Mich, says he will kill some one
and earn the penalty. Krout likes prison
life, and it made him angry when he
was released on parole two months ago
from the Michigan State prison, where
he was serving a sentence of FIVE years
for malicious destruction of property at
Battle Creek. Krout came to Appleton
from the upper peninsula of Michigan,
and at once set about securing a winters
lodging by throwing a stone through
window
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
DAWN IN THE COUNTRY.

The sun Is lifting up It's head
And nodding to the world:
The morning glory's left its bed,
It's petals pink unfurled.
Dawn chased away the will-o'-wisp;
The owls no longer see;
The bird-notes float. out clear and crisp
From yonder willow tree.
The brook is ripping fresh and bright
Along the deep ravine.
Past violets blue and violets white,
Past ferns and grasses green;
The dew has left the clover sweet
Where bees begin to hum;
And to the peoples in the wheat
The butterflies have come.
So waken, ere the scene Is gone;
Refresh your weary eyes
Upon the beauties of the dawn
Meath summers country skies.
Ladies' Home Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
SAY sCHooLBoY WAS DRUNK.
Waukesha SalOOnkeeper Alleged tG
Have Sold Minor Drink.

Waukesha SalOOnkeeper Alleged to
Have Sold Minor Drink.
Charges that a high school boy had
come to school in a partly intoxicated con-
dition and that a saloonkeeper had been
selling liquor to high school minors were
made at the meeting of the board of edu-
cation in Waukesha. Supt. A. W. Cham
berlin stated that during a recent basket
ball game at the school one of the boys
had left the building. He was followed
by the superintendent, who saw him en-
ter saloon and drink at the bar. The
board passed a resolution asking an inves-
tigation by the city authorities and the
revocation of the saloonkeeper's license if
a conviction is secured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Divides with Employees.

The Copeland & Ryan Shoe Company
of Jefferson has just divided 10 per
cent dividend amongst its stockholders
and has awarded its employees a gratuity
of 3 per cent on their. wages. The Off
GERS of the company say that this policy
promotes efficiency and is a guaranty of
good results
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
WOMAN IN INDUSTRIAL UPBU1LDING
BY Carroll D. Wright

The rich and powerful employer,
with the adjuncts Of education and
great business training, holds in his
influence something more than the
means of subsistence for those he
employs; he holds their moral we'll
being In his keeping, in 50 far as
1t Is In bis power to hold their
morals He is something more than
a producer; he Is an instrument Of
God for the upbuilding of the race.
Woman shares in this upbuilding,
for the new industrial order has
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Abolish Sunday Funerals,

Sunday funerals are thing of the
past in Appleton, the liverymen having
won out after long fight for that point
The directors of the Riverside Cemetery
Association have voted at the annual
meeting to abolish burials on that day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Found Freezing i'm River

Partially frozen and in an unconscious
condition, John Jewson, aged 20 years,
was found by truck driver in the water
below the South Division street bridge
in Fond du Lac. He was taken to the
police station and restored, but could
give no explanation of his predicament
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

After she had taken the fat and pla-
cid 6-mouth-old youngster and herself
back to her own people in sheer des-
peration the maledictions which her
relatives poured out on Ted Bingle en-
Outraged her to the point of seeking a
divorce. The current OF bitterness in
Lessie's own heart had only required
tently brutal toward her she could
have hated him with better grace. but
she could not forget the brief intervals
when he could stay at home. laughing
and careless and attractive as ever
with the few dollars he had earned
the day.
Then would come long spells of alb
sence or drunkenness, followed by re-
pentance. Meanwhile the family ex-
cheauer was absolutely empty.
Those had been years of hard tiol for
ems homes at housekeeping time. The
townspeople gave her credit at least
for bearing her lot uncomplainingly.
But the baby had changed all this
What she had stood she refused to en-
dure for the child
After the decree LESSEE left the baby
at home with her mother and sister
and went to work for the Grahams
The Grahams had the incest house in
town. Lessie's room, which was gor-
geousness itself compared with what
she had always had, was not the least
of her good luck. There actually was a
servants bathroom at the Grahams
done In white enamel. Likewise she
had a gas stove and Mrs Graham
rarely came into the kitchen to inter-
fere.
Three Pines, looking over all these
Items of good fortune, sighed in salts
@&actfon and said 1t hoped LESSEE ap-
preciated what luck she was in. She
was more comfortably housed than
nIne-tenths Of the population and actu-
ally earned money, though she did not
work as hard as she had done previous
iy. Since she had seen the error Of
her ways there still might be hope for
her. Ted Bing'e was eliminated from
her lie and perhaps now she could
gain . little peace and happiness
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Maniac Beats Mother.

Patrick Lee, Cooperstown man, who
has been at the asylum at Oshkosh for
two years, made his escape and appeared
at his old home the other night and made
a vicious assault upon his aged mother
The injuries may prove fatal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
The Failures of 1907.

Dun's Agency reports total of 1,72J
commercial failures during 1907, repre-
senting S197, 3S5, 225 of indebtedness de-
faulted, as compared with 1862 failures
in the preceding year and Sis, 201, 515
liabilities
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Indian Freezes to Death,

Jim johnson, Chippewa Indian, was
found frozen TO death in a thicket on the
Yellow river, at point near the Spooner
lake settlement. He disappeared about
week before and since then an almost con-
tinuous search had been made for him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
No LIQUOR; suicide.

Unable TO secure any liquor because
the common council had posted him,
and shamed and humiliated by the stigma,
John Pollack committed suicide by hang
ing himself in a barn on his premises in
Manitowoc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
LIQUOR MEN TO SHUT CHURCHES.
Waukesha SalOon1sts to Start Big


Waukesha SalOOnfsfs to Start Big
Counter Movement.
Retaliating for the activity of the pas
tors of Waukesha in enforcing the Sun
day closing law, Waukesha saloonkeep-
ers will take steps to have the churches
closed on Sunday. alleging that preach
ing and taking collections entails work,
and that for that reason churches also
come under the operation of the Sunday
closing law. The barber shops were
compelled to close Sundays. Legal adj
vice will be taken by the saloon men to
ascertain just how far they may go in
their plans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Student Gets PositioD

Arthur HI. Lambeck of Milwaukee, a
graduate student at the University of
Wisconsin, has been appointed assistant
private secretary to Senator Isaac Ste
phenson, and has left for Washington to
begin his duties
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Stung.

Mr.. Jawback-Did any brainless
idiot ever propose to you before mar
ried you?
Mrs. Jawback-Yes.
Mr. Jawback-Well, why In thun-
der didn't you marry him?
Mrs. Jawback-I did - Cleveland
Leader.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
sucee>. of ParolinU Boy,

The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children at New York re-
ports that 80 per cent of the 1,497 boys
and girls accused Of various offenses and
paroIed during 1907 have mended their
ways.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Tot.I o, Cotton Ginned

A bulletin issued by the Census Bureau
shows 9,955.427 bales of cotton ginned
up to Jan. 1, as compared with 11,741,-
O39 last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

Eight-car trains are to be run on the
Boston elevated line in the endeavor to
cope with the traffic offered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

1t Is an easy matter to accomplish
some great things, otherwise the av-
erage man wouldn't even have look-in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

Some men are able to do nothing
we'll except eat, sleep and find fault
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
RHINELANDER HAS FIRE.

Three Stores Destroyed EntaiIinG a
LOSS of $4,000.
Fire originating in meat market on
Brown street, in Rhinelander, destroyed
three stores and entailed property loss
of about $4,000, partly covered by in
surance. The losses are Albert Baril,
restaurant, $1,000; Francis Quinlin, mil
linery, $1,000; Herman Holschuh, mar
ket, 81 800; Marie Quinlin, dressmaking,
$1,000; Brown Bros, on buildings, ST.,
600
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
DON'T TAKE LOVE FOR GRANTED
BY Helen OfdfeId.

! ! J.
a There is an old story of who wrote to
WI the editor of famous newspaper asking for
W. simple and certain directions how to distn-
4 MI | guish toadstools from edible mushrooms He
M | complained that he unable to understand
the difference as explained in the books, and
l ~ said that he wanted something plain and def
ZN | mite The answer given Eat them.
go If they kill you, they toadstools. II you
survive without the aid Of stomach pump, you may
conclude they are mushrooms"
In like manner when man is in love with a woman
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

The right ear is generally larger
than the left.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

According to Terence V. Powde-ly,
formerly grand master of the Knights
of Labor and now connected with the
government Bureau of immigration, OK
tensive railroad building in Italy, the
approach of the presidential election
and scare headlines in the newspapers,
aside from the financial furry, are the
causes for the present exodus of aliens
from the United States. NO alarm
need be felt because of the ebb in the
tide" he says. There is more work
to do in this country than there ever
was before; there is a nece ssity for
men and women to do it, az he first
months of the next year see a re-
turn of aliens, who will 7 tble to find
remunerative employmeat in this coun-
try"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

LESSEE was going In at the kitchen
door at dusk a few days later when
Ted put out a OBTAINING hand and
stopped her. II want to talk to you,
LESSEE" stammered he. AN 1 want
to hear about the-the baby"
When Mrs. Graham handed LESSEE
her wages Saturday night the girl
raised her head defiantly. I'm going
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

Three Pines was disposed to mitigate
its opinion Of Lessie's intellect and to
think that perhaps she had some sense
after all.
Whenever she could take time from
her work Leslie always hurried home
to see the baby.
"Of course he's getting along all
right" her mother would say. "Better'n
when you were with him! Oh, he cries
some, but then l have to do my work
and can't hold him all the time. That's
foolishness!"
LESSEE had been working for the Ora
hams four months and was thinner
and paler than ever when Mrs. Ora
ham came into the kitchen doubtfully
one day.
"Lessie," she said. Ted Bingle Is
in town. Mr.. Graham saw him in the
street yesterday. 1 thought you might
like to know
Leslie frightened her lips and the
cake spoon bent in her hand. II don't
care" she said in a hard little voice.
what difference does Ted Bingle make
to me"
"Lessie has got all over her infatua-
ton for that worthless fellow" Mrs
Graham explained to her husband with
a satisfied sigh that evening.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

1t Is better to work than to be
worked
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

The War Department has published
a general order of the President requir-
ing every field officer to make each year
practice marches of three consecutive
days of not less than thirty miles each.
In his order the President says it is
Just as much the duty of army officers
ito pursue such habits as will maintain
a physical condition fit for active ser
vice as to cultivate their minds for the
intellectual duties of their pro-
fession."
There are 5000 men and women
holding positions under the government
and when one of the departments dis
misses the working force for the day
there is an appreciate activity in the
streets about them.
The report of the recent trials Of the
new bettleship Idaho sent to the Navy
Department shows that on her twenty
four-h hour endurance run she maintain
ed an average speed Of 17.10 knots,
thus exceeding her contract speed,
which was II knots
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The United States government Is adj
yertising for bids for heavier-than-air
flying machines. Acceptable machines
must be able to carry two persons of
combined weight of $50 pounds, besides
fuel sufficient for a continuous flight OF
125 miles. They must also be able to
make at least 40 miles an hour. They
must be able to start from any open
field and land in like surroundings
without damage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

If there are not forty-eight stars
on the flag within year or two il
will not be for lack of effort on tine
part of Arizona and New Mexico.
convention Of delegates from every
part of New Mexico adopted resOlu
lions the other day demanding the adj
mission Of the territory as State
The governor of Arizona has reported
that the statehood sentiment in thai
territory is stronger than ever before
Bills were introduced in the Senate on
the first working-day Of the session OF
Congress, providing for the creation
of two new States out of the terrific
ries. AS the effort to pass joint
statehood bill has been abandoned, ii
is now necessary for the two terrific
ries to convince Congress that they are
worthy to be admitted to the family of
States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

Garry the atmosphere Of oyerfowing kindness and SYM
patty all children Make friends with bootbacks
and newsboys the streets. Belong to at least one
boys club class Sunday school settlement Become
friend of poor family Give them good counsel and
advice and In the time of crisis tide them their
emergency. Keep In touch with those noble physicians
who always step In, and. without any charge what
soever help carry poor family child through
their trouble Make friends with the school teacher
lated 30 the workngmans household. Speak for chill
drens Fairgrounds and the park Help 1t
factory has degraded childhood coined
children business commercial asset you fall
under condemnation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
THE CHILD AS A COMMERCIAL ASSET.
By Newell Dwight Hills.

Just as men struggle over oil, or
iron, or coal, 80 they struggle to get
hold of children to make money out
of them. The annual report from
the Southern cotton mills tells US
that 10000 children under IA years
Of age out of 100000 textile work
ers are in the mills. More appalling
still is the story OF child labor In
tho oIaSS industry
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

An unusual view of the army has
lately been presented in u complaint
over the decrease in strength of the
coast artillery regiments. The Tenth
Company, for instance, which mustered
a hundred and one men in 1900, was
able to get out only fourteen i'll the
ranks in October. The explanation Of
fered is that the men in the coast artil-
lery receive training in some branch of
mechanics, and can get employment
outside at good wages. One officer in
structed his company in the art of tel
ephone repairing, and made the men
so efficient that the telephone company
in the neighboring city offered them
sixty and seventy dollars month, and
in some cases bought the discharge of
the men, so that they might begin work
before their enlistment expired. If the
army can train its men as effectively
as this, it ought to be pretty good
school.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

The Signal Corps of the War Depart
ment has made public Specifications Tor
the construction Of a dirigible balloon
to be used in series of tests at Fort
Myer next spring. Proposals for fur
niShing the balloon will be opened at
the department on Jan. 10 next. The
balloon is to consist of gas bag of
preparation. Ths material for the bag
ard the hydrogen with which it will be
inflated will be furnished by the gov
eminent. The dimensions and shape of
the bag will be left to the bidders, eX
cept that the length must not exceed
120 feet. 1t must be designed to carry
two persons having combined weight
OF $50 pounds; also at least 100 pounds
OF ballast. A speed of twenty miles an
hour in still air is desired. and the
scheme of ascending, descending and
maintaining equilibrium must be based
on shifting weights. movable planes or
some method which will not necessi
tate balancing or changing of position
by the aeronaut The balloon must
have all the fittings necessary for sue
cessfhl and continuous flights. 1t will
be accepted only after a trial flight to
be held at Fort Myer next spring
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In a recent address at New York
City Francis Z. Leupp, commissioner of
Indian affairs, took occasion to reply to
some of the criticisms that have been
made regarding the treatment of the
Indians by his bureau. He outlined
the present policy of the government as
that of absorbing the Indian into the
white mans civilization, thus reversing
the old policy of assisting him in his
ardent desire of keeping as separate
from the white man as he possibly
could. He expressed the opinion that
the final solution of the problem would
be reached by intermarriage. He de-
Scribed the success OF the government
in making the Indian work even the
Utes, he said, were now working on the
railroads and helping to build up the
country of which they were part. The
commissioner said it was true that
about So per cent of the Indians that
went to Indian schools, such as Car
Isle and Others and went back to the
reservations sooner or later reverted to
the blanket. But their children started
away ahead of where their parents did
so that the schooling was by no means
wasted.