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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05
"MR. DooLEY" ON FUNERALS.
Joyous Occasion in City Boys Life,
According to Humorist.

Joyous Occasion in City Boys Life,
According to Humorist.
"Whin I was little boy, I classed
fun'rals among tn greatest iv me ad-
ventures. They give me ride in
hack through parts Nv town that I'd
niver seen befure an out into tn
country where I niver whit except
l was invited to a fun'ral, an I had
jovyal company an something to eat
different firm what I got at home.
Lookin' back on how felt whin l was
kid, can't remember that amy dis
tant relation made himsilf unpopular
with us by dyin'. Even if wasn't let
go to fun'ral there was something
exciting about it. 1t stirred up tn
neighborhood. There was something
to talk about. Ivrybody asked: Did
he leave annything?' as if tn poor
man was a burglar or a fire. People
got out their good clothes an busted
off their high hats. On tn day iv tn
fun'ral all tn childher iv tn neighbor-
hood gathered around tn house an
envied their little playmates that had
tn luck to lose fond parent P.
Dunno, in American Magazine.
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mouth and eyes. 1t was a complete
deadlock, the world said
Then John was sent abroad for a
year by his firm to buy fancy goods.
He and Hannah correspondent regu-
larly. Toward the years end, by a re-
markable coincidence, each received
from the other letter, tho two letters
crossing in the mails. They said:
Friend John-The obstacles that
stood in the way of our marriage have
at last been removed. This day was
received in full membership in the
Presbyterian church.-Hannah.'
Dearest Hannah-We have no
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(Copyright.)


Even the superficial student OF GUS
toms knows that the idea of matri-
mony as a two-sided affair in which
woman has as much interest as man.
with her individual tastes as much to
be regarded, is scarcely two genera
tons old Even now, marrying is not
exclusively the. result of devotion OF
man to woman and of woman to man.
Marrying formerly rested wholly with
the man as it yet does among depend
ent women. Probably when the pri-
meval man raped over the head and
carried off the woman who attracted
him, he was showing as much senti-
ment as was needful, and her opinion
was not sought The girl who escaped
such masculine attention was an un-
fortunate, despised by her companions
and by herself, too, that she was al
lowed to walk in safety.
After clubbing went out of style,
and barter became the rule. it was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05
Whether By Clubbing Purchase Man Until Recent Times
Had Sole Voice in the Marriage Compact-Women NoU
Haze Hand in Bargaining and Multitude Sell Themselves
BIZ DORA MA Y MORRELL

ly in the years when women's career
was domestic or nothing-when, in
fact, she was a superfuous woman if
not married.
Even to-day with all the possibilities
open to the young woman she will be
heard discussing the respective merits
of Fred or John, and weighing one
against the other, exactly as she would
do if third were to come into the
bidding. Still, you see, matter of
sale, and sale no less that it is done
under the guise of law and of respecta-
bility. If a woman is influenced by
worldly conditions in her considera-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05

chosen, should become an object of
pity and scorn, for by being left she
was proved lacking in those feminine
attributes which attracted men-she
had not been true to her sex, so to
speak. Thus, "old maid" became a
stigma to avoid at any cost of ones
feelings if one possessed more pride
than heart; and many a woman did,
and many a woman has married, not
for love or even for home, but that
on her tombstone might be written
Wife Of" 1t scarcely seems that
such a motive could inspire one to
so vital a step. Yet it did, and strong
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05

still the male who selected, and the
female who accepted the result with
out demur. With the twentieth GEN.
turythe form of bartering has changed
somewhat, for do we not see our rich
girls becoming buyers of dukes, and
other titled men not too proud to be
sold in as open market as if put up
to auction? Indeed, throughout the
world, in civilized and uncivilized
lands, marriage remains more mat
ter Of sale than of sentiment, but the
reaction has started which will some
day make all of this entirely i'm
possible.
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Entering a Demurrer.

Talk about the superiority of mind
over matter!" said the argumentatiye
boarder. tits just the other way. If
you want to be sure not to forget a
thing you don't trust it to your mem
DRY. You take a pencil and a slip
of paper and make a memorandum
of it."
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Barrier Still Between Them

Bishop Fowler used to tell about a
young couple.
John Smith was a Presbyterian.
Hannah Jones was a Baptist. They
hesitated about marrying because
they feared that in later life, when the
little ones came, religious disputes
might arise. Thus the years passed.
Neither would renounce his church.
John Smith grew bald and Hannah
Jones developed lines about her
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sIeiahs Used All Year.

in Madeira. The lichens which grow
abundantly on the stone-paved streets
make them slippery, and at the same
time prevent dust. 1t has been sug.
gested that the dust problem might
be solved elsewhere by cultivating
these nchena.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05
The Happiest Children.

The happiest children are those who
have happy mothers. The young life
which grows up in the shadow of dis.
contented, repining and gloomy moth
er is like plant unwatered by kind
ly dews. It is apt to be dwarfed
and stunted. Even when things are
crooked and temptations to be harsh
come, let the mother, for her sons
and daughters sake, try to be happy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05

There are women who do not marry
because they will not marry without
the sentiment that to them is the true
sanctification of the marriage relation.
There have always been such women
not many of them, for they had to
be strong enough to walk alone, and
that is painful at best; and they had
not only to walk alone, but to face
scorn for being Drawer and truer than
the average of their sex. The more
intense her nature the more a woman
is controlled by sentiment, and so, as
few men can, she can carry in her
heart the memory Of love that had
no earthly fruition, and find her life
sweetened by it.
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Unkiad Trick Played by Fate on Fond
But Unfortunate Lovers.

THE late Bishop Fowler" said a
Buffalo Methodist. was broad
minded man. Rigotry he abhorred.
Greed, he claimed, should never hedge
one good Christian from another.
Sincere creeds, no matter how diverse.
should on the contrary bind Christians
together.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05

who does not esteem feminine lowell
ness as something beyond price
something to live for, to strive for,
to suffer for. and, if necessary, to die
for.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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When there was open to women no
career but matrimony, to which any
respect was attached, it was natural
that she should marry as she had op
portunity, all the more that she real
lied so little before entering upon il
what matrimony meant. 1t was equal
ly natural that the woman who did
not marry presumably because not
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chivalrous Chicago.

In Chicago more than in any other
place is woman regarded in the light
of thing of beauty and joy forever.
There is hardly man in Chicago
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Wherein Modern Marriage Is Usually Matter of Barter

ton of mans proposal, or if she goes
to him for any other reason than that
he is the complement of her nature.
the being who makes her glad she is a
woman, she sells herself as truly as If
she did it without the sanction of the
law
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LOOKING for a Similar One.

"Hezekiah," said the Kansas matron
as she adjusted her bone-rimmed
glasses and opened the local paper.
ut says here that woman was car
ried two miles by cyclone and didn't
speak a word for three weeks.
The sun-tanned farmer grabbed his
hat and spy-glass.
Where are you going now, Heze-
kiah?" r-.
Where am I going, Lucy? Why,
am going out to see IL can't sight one
Of them thar kind of cyclones"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05

longer any ground for delaying our
union further. united myself this
day with the Baptist church.-John.' !"
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Triumph Of Mind.

Victim of Delusion-Doctor, I'm
awfully afraid I'm going to have brain
fever.
Doctor-Pooh, pooh, my dear friend!
That's all an illusion of the senses.
There is no such thing as fever. You
have no fever, you have no br-h'm-
no material substance upon which
such a wholly imaginary and suppo-
sitious thing as fever could find
any base of operation.
Victim-Oh, doctor, what load you
have taken from my-from MY
have a mind, haven't I. doctor?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05

FITS, st. Vitus' Dance and Nervous Diseases per.
manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer
Send for FREE % 90 trial bottle and treatise Dr.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05

Germany's Export Of Feathers.
Germany sends 100000 feathers
year to England for millinery pur-
poses.
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Il Cures While You Walk.
Aliens Foot-Ease is certain cure foc
hot, sweating, caiious, and swollen, aching
feet. Sold by all Druggists. Price 25c. Donr
accept any substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address Allen 8. Olmsted. LIE Roy, n. T..
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A Logical Conclusion.
"Mr Pursington says he believes q
man should pay as he goes"
Judging from the way he gets in
debt, he must be accustomed to trav-
cling backward. "-Washingto Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05

People never help man blow hi,
horn because they like the music.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05

important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that II
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A louicaI Conclusion.

In Use For Over 80 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

If the Republican party, through its
legislative and other official repre-
sentatiyes attempt to force the cleo
ton of Ike Stephenson upon the
people of Wisconsin as their represen-
tative in the United States senate,
they are in danger of turning over the
state to Bryan. The progressive Re-
publicans will not stand for no such
man, or the methods he pursues in
obtaining control of the party. A
firm stand and fight must be made to
prevent his election Of the chairman
of the Republican State Central Com
mittee and the members thereof on
on the 22nd inst. We urge and want
to impress upon every progressive
Republican to stand shoulder to
shoulder and protest against any such
outcome. Organize in every hamlet
and county in the state. Solidify
your forces and cement them together
in one solid phalanks against any
such attempt. Fight for the right is
the slogan, fight to the last ditch is
the orders and when that is done
victory will crown the efforts of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
MEEHAN

John Wolosik attended the stock fair in
your city last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hemmis attended the stock
fair last week.
Frank Winkler and family and Mrs ]. w
Petus attended the Stevens Point Fair We'd
nesday.
Andrew Lutz threshed buckwheat for Geo.
Williams last week.
Kate Borman is working for Mrs. John
Clauser.
Arlene horde is working for Mrs. Jose
phine Clendenning.
Andrew and Henry Lutz attended the
stevens Point fair Wednesday.
Arnold Khrone was at the fair Wednesday.
Mrs. S. c. Munger visited Mrs. Mary Fowler
Thursday.
Frank Pascavis and family were at the
Stevens Point fair Friday.
Mrs. A. E. Pike and daughter Minnie of
Adams County, who have been visiting
their daughter and sister Mrs Arthur Glen
denning returned home last week.
Mrs. Geo. Williams from Byron marsh
visited Mrs. Hemmis Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Esther Harroun OF Biron, visited her
grand parents Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. H. Munger
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
LARGE WATER MELON CROP

Frank Whitruck's melon farm locat-
ed Two miles south of this city in the
town Of Grand Rapids, is probably
one of the most popular resorts at the
present time of any in this vicinity.
The attraction is due to the excellent
qualities of water melons and musk
melons that Mr.. Whitrock raises in
large quantities. This year he has
acres planted in melons, one-half
musk, and the other half water
melons and bad the season been favor
able he would have had again as many
melons. Business men in Grand
Rapids send there for wagon loads
at tine while our citizens drive
out there in parties and eat all they
want and then bring home many for
use later Mr.. WhitrocK has estab-
lIshed reputation for raising fine
quality of melons which give him no
trouble in diSpOSing of his crop. Its
nothing for him to sell a 1000 or more
melons day. Saturday he sold 1900
and he says he has no trouble in sell
ing all the melons he can possibly
raise, in the local market and there
fore never has any trouble to find
ready market. His "Monto Christie"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

The forest fire conditions continue
all through northern and central
Wisconsin and no rain in sight, Fires
are raging close into Biron and the
residents of that berg have been back,
firing and fighting fire for several days.
Thus far no valuable property has been
consumed. Of course much of the
marsh lands are burning and some
timber, Unless we get heavy rains
soon there will be damages Of various
kinds to crops by drought, to timber
and marshlands by fire and, timber
and buildings may be destroyed
Strict vigiIence is practiced by every
one and should continue to the end
Everybody look out for fire. A serious
conflagration now would mean a great
loss to the community.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
RUDOLPH

Mrs. Allie Koch was shopping in your city
last week Wednesday.
DR.. and Mrs. Jackson were in your city on
business last Thursday.
Robinson and his crew of men have been
looking around on the Compton and La May
farms with view of drilling.
Mrs. Robinson spent Sunday with her
husband here.
Ed. Brandsteadt of this place and Tom
Foley, of your city served chicken chowder
to about $50 guests, in Nick Ratelle woods
north of the house last Sunday.
Mesdames Joe Grandshaw, Bat Sharkey
and Carl Omaholt returned home Saturday
morning from their Canada trip.
Nick RateIe and sons Denis and Lloyd
and Arthur Jacoby spent Thursday at the
Stevens Point Fair.
Ida Jacoby went to your city Tuesday 70
work.
Miss Mae Babe has so far recovered from
her recent illness as 10 be about the house
Miss Mary Meyers who is employed in
Rhinelander but who is visiting her parents
at Mill Creek, attended the dance here
Thursday evening and was the guest of Mrs
n. G. Ratelle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Clark returned home
Wednesday eve from a three weeks visit al
Tomahawk.
Mrs, Charlie Martin OF Port Edwards
spent Sunday with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Aug. JacobY.
John HasseIl spent Sunday in Green Bay
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Kuiawa returned home
Monday eve from a ten days visit in Mil
waukee, Chicago and Fond du Lac.
Miss Louise Spalenka returned to her
home at Stevens Point Saturday morning
after spending the week with her sister Mrs
John wilkins.
Selmer Hassen spent Sunday in your city.
Clara and Ida Jacoby of your city spent
Sunday at home.
Mrs. Kate Townsend of your city, sold her
farm which is across the road from the
| Catholic church to Walter Dixon.
Father Redding of your city visited FIR.
Van Sever Monday.
| Miss Mary Crabb, who has been in Stevens
Point for some time passed is now visiting
her friend Mrs. Geo. Elliott
| Mable Benson is working for Mrs. Jack
| son.
Mrs. viii Piltz and Norma Babe went to
the Rapids to see VIII PiltZ who is in the
hospital there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
SUBSCRIPTION $3.50 A YEAR In ADVANCE
Thursday, September II, 1908

The readers of the REPORTER can
not understand why the sidewalk COM
mittee will permit some property
owners In the city to build hemlock
plank sidewalks and insist on others
building cement walks We under
stand that there is an ordinance pro-
viding that only cement sidewalks
should be land since it's passage. Will
some city official please explain
through the columns of the DAILY
REPORTER why some owners of pro.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

Ihere IS more catarrh IN this section of the
country than all other diseases put tOpether
and until Che last few years was SuppOse 10
be incurable. For great many wears doc
tors announced ii local disease and nre-
scribed local remedies, and by constantly
failing to cure with local treatment pr0-
nounced ii incurable. Science has DrOyen
catarrh to be a constitutional disease and
therefore requires constitutional treatment,
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by + !
Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio, is the only con
stitutional cure on the market. 1t is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system. They Offer
one hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials
Address: f. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
Ohio.
Sold by Druggist, 75c.
Take Halls Family pills for constipation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

We. often wonder why it is so
marty young men can be seen loafing
upon our streets until late hour of
night Many of them are from our
best homes. The fathers of these
young men, many of them at least,
are numbered among our best citizens.
If their cow or their horse or even
their favOrite dog was away from
home after dark they would be out
on search, but their own children
can roam the town all night with ap-
parently no effort being made to find
them. The boy seems to be turned
loose at tender age to wonder at
will into the paths Of sin and vice
and then we wonder where all our
trampS and worthless specimens of
humanity come from. Itisa regreta-
BILE fact that to many of them come
from seed terminated in good homes
and then sown in 4 careless manner
upon our streets and back alleys
Reader, is your hoy wasting his time
upon our streets? If so had you not,
at least, look after him as carefully at
nightfall as you would your horse and
COW. We do not intimate that this
evil exists to a greater extent in this
community than in our sister towns,
but the evil seems universal and IN
creases in magnitude as the years roll
by.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

Saturday and Sunday and took in the SIM
day school picnic
mere was a large attendance at the sun
u"S school picnic Saturday and very en-
Joyaole time had by those in attendance.
me Meehan Drum Core discoursed music
and the program rendered by the scholars
was excellent. Speeches were also made by
rev. klchlson. Presiding elder Rev John
ohlleh OF saratoga, and Rev j. R. Miller of
Grand Rapids
Services were held in the church Satur-
day and Sunday evenings by Elder Richard
son.
There will be a grand opening at the
F1ato1 saloon Saturday evening September
18th with free beer. Also Joe Green will
give ball in the hall, tickets for the dance
so cents, supper so cents per couple every
body invited.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

"A pleasing. good, high grade. truely
favored, amber colored cup of coffee
can be had-and without real Coffee
danger,or damage to health-by simply
using Or. Shops new substitute,
called Health Coffee. Pure. whole
some, toasted cereals, malt, nuts. etc.
make DR.. Shops Health Coffee both
healthful and satisfying. No 20 and 80
minutes tedious boiling. made in a
minute. says DR.. Shops. If served
as coffee, it's taste will even trick an
expert. Test it and see. Sold by
J. t. Schumacher,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
We had the pleasure of neruSin

We had the pleasure of perusing Uhe
pages Of the Sixteenth National
Irrigation Congress and Official South
western Souvenir published at Albu-
querque, New Mexico, through the
kindness of A. Decker, who has been
appointed a delegate to said congress.
1t contains 200 pages of eXcellently
prepared articles and addresses giving
description of Federal Irrigation
progress in the southwest, the great
est government undertakings in the
history of the United States. 1t has
handsomely printed cover in several
col0rS showing 1.-THE Vision" from
1912 to 1908 and the advancement
shown during that period. 1t certain
ly is a handsome and interesting
volume.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
VANDRIESSEN.

The marsh fires are making the atmosphere
oppressive.
The Ditching Co. have two of their main
bitches nearly completed
Miss Jennie FeigeI, of Grand Rapids is oul
teacher in school district No. 4.
Mrs. John Potts went last Saturday agair
to care for her invalid mother in Waupaca
Blanche and Marie Camp are attending
Grand Rapids high school.
Ernest johnson and his sister have sold
their stock and crops here and gone TO theil
home at Benson, MINI.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
perty are allowed to violate the
walk ordinance.

Governor Hughes of New York state
was renOminated on the first ballot
yesterday. receiving 1927 votes. Wads-
worth received Isl, and Stewart 81.
William Barnes Jr. Of Albany, moved
to make the nomination unanimous
which was done.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
Nekoosa Vii

Neal Crown Nekoosa Vii
Robert Fl. Day {.
Carl Rhode g."
Joseph Short 3
Emil Garrison Port Edwards
Alex Anderson g Town
W. Schlaupits "
John Robinette Remington town
VIM. krause Rich town
VIM. Trachts -
Hans ii. Paulson Rock town
Chris. Peterson Rock =
Nels Larson, Rudolph town
Otto J. Leu, Seneca town
Chas. G. Ekelund, Sigel town
B. W. Gates, Sherry town
VIM. Henrickson, Wood town
Milo B. Lowell 8
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy one of the
Rest on,the Market

For many years Chamberlain'S
Cough Remedy has constantly gained
in favor and popularity until it is
now one of the most staple medicines
in use and has an enormous sale. 1t
is intended especially for acute throat
and lung diseases, such as coughs,
colds and Group, and can always be
depended upon. 1t is pleasant and
safe TO take and is, undoubtedly. the
best in the market for the purposes
for which it is intended. Sold by
John E DAILY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
Farmers National Congress at Madison
Wis September "a to 80.

Are you going tc attend the conven.
ton of the Farmers National Con-
gress at Madison, Wisconsin, which
will be held September "A to 80? If
so, see that your railroad ticket to
Madison reads via Chicago, Milwaukee
& St Paul Ry. Excellent train SER
vice to Madison via this railway from
most points in the Central West.
Complete information about railway
fare, train service, etc, free from
your local agent, F. A. Miller, General
Passenger Agent. Chicago. 5