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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30

all shining in his face as he sat and
lived parts of it over again with those
men that day. He dubbed with laugh
ter continually.
The men, l thought seemed a little
embarrassed by his opeI,-handed cor
dlallty and good-fellowship. He him
self evidently wanted to forget the
present, and to live only In the memory
of those wonderful ranch days-that
free, hardy, adventurous life upon the
plains. 1t all came back to him with
a rush when he found himself alone
with these heroes Of the rope and the
stirrup.
How much more keen his appre-
citation was, and how much quicker his
memory than theirs. He was con-
stantly recalling to their minds Incl
dents which they had forgotten. and
the names of horses and dogs that had
escaped them. His subsequent life, in
stead Of making dim the memory of
his ranch days, seemed to have made
it more vivid by contrast
when they had gone, 1 said to the
President, L think your affection for
those men is very beautiful
How could help itT he said.
"'Still, few men In your station
could or would go back and renew such
friendships
Then pity them, he replied. He
said afterward that his ranch life had
been the making of him. 1t had built
him up and hardened him physically,
and had opened his eyes to the wealth
Of manly character among the plains
men and cattlemen."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
Boys Use of Barometers.

Every English schoolboy who can af-
ford 1t has a barometer that he keeps
hidden under his bed or in his trunk.
for in all English schools barometers
are strictly forbidden to the pupils.
Why should they be forbidden? Why
should they be desired? Through the
autumn and winter the English school
boy plays football every afternoon,
weather permitting. He must play two
hours each clear day. These two hours
are taken off his recitations. They
make his school tasks two hours light
err; hence when he knows beforehand
that the next day will be clear he may
spare himself two hours of useless
study the night before. His barometer
pointing to fine" saves him a lot of
toll. But when the instrument points
to change" then the schcolboy knows
that there will be no football. He Of
ten sells weather predictions at a pen
ny apieee.-Philadelphl Bulletin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
City Hall and Police Buildings Of
Portland, Ne, Destroyed.


Fire which caused damage of ST.
100000 destroyed the Portland. Me-,
city hall and police buildings and en-
dangered the lives of more than roc
persons. The city hall was occupied by
city aud county offices, while the police
building sheltered the Supreme, judi
cial and municipal courts, in addition
TO the police department Delegates at
tending the Western Maine Knights of
Pythias jubilee were in the auditorium
of the city hall when the flames We're
discovered. but only few persons were
hurt.
The estimated financial loss does not
include papers in the office of the reg
istrar of deeds. where everything was
destroyed. Other city departments lost
everything. with the exception of the
city clerks and treasurer's offices. One
of the most valuable libraries in the
State. the Greenleaf Law Collection,
was destroyed, with loss estimated
at $4,000.
The fire originated in the city cleo
trician'S office and was caused by
crossed wires, which made it impoSsi-
bic to ring call for the fire depart
ment in any of the boxes.
The city hall survived the great fire
of 1866, although it was damaged at
that time. The building had front
age of $50 feet and was 80 feet lor>S
Its central dome rose 80 feet above the
roof. The building was constructed of
colored Nova Scotia Albert stone, and
contained eighty rooms.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
PROGRESS OF THE
THAW MURDER TRIAL
Court Refuses to Exclude the Public
While Defendants Wife Is
on the Stand.
EVELYN A MATCH FOR JEROME.
Drops Child-Like Pose and Fences
Well-District Attorney Merciless
in His Examination

Just as a year ago, Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw has been the star witness in the
second trial of her husband for the
murder of Stanford White District
Attorney Jerome. of whom ii had been
limited that he would spare tie woman
no mercy this time. asked that the pub
lie be excluded. and Littleton. for the
defense. raised no objection. but Judge
Bowling held that the prisoner had a
right to a public trial.
During the first week Littleton de-
voted himself to demonstrate TEaw's
insanity, by right of Inheritance and
by his actions from infancy to the eli
max of murder. His purpose in putting
Evelyn Thaw on the stand was to dem
onstrate how the story of her abuse
by White. which she says SIZE told
Thaw in Paris, acted ON his erratic
brain with such force as to make him
irreSponsibly insane
Under his questioning she maintain
ed her pose of the ingenious school
girl who in her innocence had been
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
! A LEGITIMATE APPLICATION. I
Observation-Disclosures

Miss Estabrook's system of philoso-
ply is SO satisfying to her that she
likes to acquaint others with it. Sci
dom, however, does she find 50 ready
and sympathetic an acceptance of her
point of view as she encountered the
other day in an adherent of a we'll
Known peripatetic school of philoso-
piers. She was taking her regular
four-mlle-a-day exercise along a coun-
try road, when she met tramp to
whom, earlier in the day, she had
given a quarter. The benevolent lady
called after him:
Just a moment there, my man, If
you please"
The tramp paused doubtfully.
Il merely wished to state that in
granting your request just now l am
wholly free from the common delusion
that any real harm could result to
you, even suppOsing that you are act
ually In want and unable, by your own
conscious effort, to extricate yourself
from apparent deprivation of good
knowing. as l do know, that an abso-
lutte justice, insuring the individuals
welfare. reigns throughout the cosmos"
The tramp stared, round-eyed, open
mouthed.
Nor do cherish any obsolete notion
of myself as Lady Bountiful.' My
actual motive in giving the quarter
should properly be classed as selfish.
Not having as yet quite fully overcome
n foolishly sympathetic temperament.
l should undoubtedly-if | had not
given the money-have been annoyed
for some time afterward by mental pic
lures of you as suffering for food. In
short. | did what did simply to make
myself slightly more comfortable.
THAT Is all. l merely wished to
explain my motive" added Miss Esta-
brook for the tramp fingered, gazing
with glistening eyes at the countenance
of his benefactress, where the lines
with merciless accuracy, reflected her
hahitual painstakingness
Yes, ma'am, an | ketch on all right
now he said, eagerly, in his eye
no such absent expression as Miss Esta-
brook is becoming accustomed to see
In the eyes Of relatives and friends to
whom she consclentiously expounds her
philosophy. AN I'm interested in them
inside workin's o your mind, But say,
ma'am, you'd sure oughter think n
little mite more about them feelin's
O. yourn. ] bet you'd feel downright
comf'table al through, fer oncet in yer
life, ef you'd jest make this quarter
a dollar"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
Prussian Suffrage Uprising.

The desire for manhood suffrage in
Prussia and the refusal of the German
chancellor, Won Bueow, to meet the de-
mand with consideration, eliminated last
Sunday in a tremendous demonstration
at Berlin, where more than 10000 So
cialsts and their friends attempted to
parade the principal streets and to hold
public meetings. Prior to this a pro-
cession before the Parliament building
had been dispersed by the police with
great violence after the Landtag had
voted down the suffrage proposition with
out division. Won Buelow had told the
Landtag that p2rades and riots would not
influence the government a bit. Sternest
measures were taken to preserve order on
Sunday, large bodies of police and sol
diers being stationed about the city. In
most cases the parades were broken up,
the police charging with swords and the
people resisting with clubs and stones,
so that many on both sides were injured
Thousands of women joined in the demon
STATIONS. marching and singing with the
men. Resolutions for the suffrage and
the secret ballot were passed by all the
meetings The movement extends through
out Prussia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30

preparatory schools in New York City
caused a meeting of twenty angry mothers
at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Moore
Their first purpose is to break up the
local organization of the Sigma Gamma
Society, and their second is to start a
campaign throughout the country against
secret societies among school girls.
1t was the story of Julia Mills, not yet
| II, as told by her to her mother, that
caused Mrs. Mills to take the first steps.
Julia Mills was initiated" the other
night.
Miss Mills, according to her story. was
summoned to appear at the Moore home.
When she was ushered in she was led into
dimly lighted room between two col
umns of black robed, black masked fig
uIes. up to the high priestess.
This will be a test of your fortitude,
| of your fitness to be a sister. You are
ordered to thrust your hand into a small
caldron of molten lead, which you see be-
fore you. Ready! Obey orders ~
| Miss Mills dashed her hand into the
| liquid and sank TO her knees in fright.
After she recovered her composure in part
she was surprised to note that the caldron
was filled with mercury.
Suddenly the lights went out. Miss
Mills felt the floor give way beneath her
and she felt herself go down. down. and
then land on the pillows.
The candidate was ordered to grasp the
hand, for which she could only feel. Shud-
dering she involuntarily drew back her
arm when she felt the clammy fingers.
She had grasped a wet chamois skin glove
filled with sand.
Again she was led forth this time to
drink a nauseating liquid out of a skull,
which liquid would serve to make her
of one blood with her other prospective
sisters"
Revolving at each gulp, she was COM
PEELED to drain the skull.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
PHOToGRAPHING MARS.
Some Details of the Making of the
Andes Photographs.

Some Details of the Making of the
Andes Photographs.
The Andes photographs of Mars were
made with a large planetary camera
which carries with it an simplifying
lens, says e. C. Slipher in the Century
The camera was fastened to the lower
end of the large telescope of eighteen
inch lens and each of the many little
images shown on the plates was taken
separately. The telescope was ad-
justed so that the planet was in the
center of the camera field; then the plate
holder was placed in the carrier of the
planetary camera and set in position for
the first image, the slide then being drawn
from the plate holder. A bulb in the
right hand opened the shutter Of the
camera, allowing the light from the
planet to fall on the sensitive plate
Then a bulb In the left hand shifted
the plate quarter of an inch for the
succeeding image and so on through
the entire series Of images taken on one
plate. Sometimes the plate was ar
ranged to shift from right to left anc
sometimes In a vertical direction.
Inasmuch as the photographs were
made at night, virtually no light except
that from Mars reached the plate, and
the latter was not incapacitated by one
exposure from receiving other sensitive
impressions. About half an hour was
consumed In taking the sixty images
on some of the plates and eight or ten
plates were exposed in one nights
work In all about 10000 negative
images were taken.
AS the best seeing" occurs in
flashes" the successive images on the
same negative may differ somewhat in
wealth of finer detail; TO the skilled
eye all show the larger canals with re-
markable clearness, though the more
delicate details are lost in reproduc-
ton. OF the 10000 separate images
of the planet none Is destitute of canals
and in some cases as many as twenty
five or thirty canals have been counted
In a single image. Several Of the pre-
viously observed double canals show
their duality on the plates taken dur
ing the intervals Of best atmospheric
conditions
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

In an attempt to rob the Citizens
National bank at Long View. Texas, Alex
Walker, a negro, was shot by Sheriff Lit
tie and probably fatally wounded.
The new whitehead torpedo developed a
speed of thirty-one and thirty-two knots
in tests off Newport, r. L., of consign-
ment recently purchased abroad.
Bright sunshine and summer breezes
called a summertime crowd to Coney ISL
and, \. Y. the other day. 1t is estimated
that 10000 people went to the island.
Rioting followed the announcement in
Mid Devonshire, England, that an cleo
ton to fill a vacancy in the House OF
Commons had been won by the Conserva-
tives.
President Roosevelt has approved the
recommendation of the isthmian canal
commission approved by Secretary Taft
to increase the width of the canal locks
to no feet.
Senator Jefferson Davis of Arkansas
said, Il don't believe any man on earth
ever made a million dollars honestly in
an address before mass meeting of the
Progressive Democratic League in Cooper
Union hall. New York.
Frank Pixley, the Chicago playwright,
is quoted as saying in Los Angeles. CAL,
that King Carlos of Portugal recently
conferred on him the decorations of the
Order of Christus and also the Order of
Vasco de Cana in appreciation of his en-
joyment of 'The Prince of Pilsen." Mr..
Pixley displayed the jewels of the orders.
Ticket scalpers lost their fight in the
United States Circuit Court in New Or
leans to save part of their business from
the recent Supreme Court order making
ticket scalping Illegal. The scalpers ask
ed for DECREE making the Supreme
Court decision applicable only to those
tickets bearing the signature of the pur-
chaser.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
DEFENSELEss PACIFIC COAST.
One Cruiser ona Foggy Night Could
Destroy Seattle and Tacoma.

The departure of the fleet of sixteen
battleshfps for its long cruise has at
least served the purpose of drawing
attention to the lamentably weak and
unprotected condition of our Pacific
coast, writes a Washington CORE
spondent. From Lower California to
the Canadian boundary we have abso-
lutely no protection against invasion,
save at San Francisco Representa-
tive Humphrey, of the State of Wash
ington, made it plain TO President
Roosevelt recently that Il second-class
cruiser on a foggy night could steam
into Puget Sound and shell Seattle and
Tacoma off the face of the earth with
out receiving shot in reply.
The President was so impressed that
he asked Mr.. Humphrey to prepare a
report, in conjunction with his Pacific
coast colleagues, as to what defenses
and coast protection were necessary
and desirable
San Diego and San Pedro in Califor-
mia are equally as unprotected as the
the mercy of any enemy which may
approach from the sea- 1t would not
cost much. however, to give San Diego
reasonable protection and to prepare
there a rendezvous for a Pacific fleet
1t is estimated that S150,000 expended
in dredging out the approach would
furnish San Diego with a splendid har-
Dor, easily defended by land fortifica-
lions and by battleships, the latter of
which would be instantly available for
service anywhere along the coast.
Just what the great Atlantic fleet
will do when it reaches our Pacific
coast is question not definitely set
tied Mexico has granted us permits
sion to make use of Magdalena bay for
target practice, but it is claimed by ex-
perts that the ships will be in no con-
dition for anything except to go into
drydock for a complete overhauling
For this the Pacific coast is absolutely
unprepared. There is not a drydock
or navy yard commensurate for the
task it would be called upon to meet.
The Mare Island navy yard at San
Francisco is absolutely inadequate
There is doubt expressed by those
who ought to know, having had expe-
riences in the commissary end of the
navy, that the provisioning of the
fleet, when it arrived in the Pacific.
may turn out to be as poorly prepared
for as are the other functions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30

made the toy of a monster. But under
Jeromes severe cross-examination she
dropped the mask of girlish innocence
which she had worn when sailing on
the smooth waters of direct eXamina-
| ton. She revealed herself as q shrewd
woman of the world, at times more
than a match for her questioner
She told how, when he had learned
of her relations with White, Thaw
| said: Poor little girl, you have done
| no wrong" And yet, she was forced
| to admit that within two weeks he
| made her his companion and started on
tour of Europe which lasted for
months, during all of which time they
Travelled as man and wife.
Jerome also forced her to admit
Whites kindness to her, his sending
her TO school, his paying her surgeons
bill, and his furnishing both her and
her mother with money She also adj
nitted that White gave her and her
mother money with which to go to Eu-
rope, and that once there she went di-
rect to Harry Thaw's quarters.
Evelyn told her story much as she
did a year ago. leaving out some of
the most indecent details and adding
few more incidents. Mrs. Thaw had
remarkably clear recollection as to
what she had testified to a year ago.
Jerome confronted her with hundreds
of the statements made then. in the
Eope of confusing her or leading her
into contradictions, but she adhered TO
her story in every detail.
Thaw heard his wife's story with
mingled feelings Of joy and sorrow. At
times he put his handkerchief to his
eyes and wept. AT other moments he
smiled with satisfaction that seemed
to have almost touch of pride. Sew
eral times he wagged his head at his
wife in way that caused Jerome to
believe that lie was trying TO prompt
her.
Other witnesses called after the con-
clusion of Evelyn's story brought out
nothing in particular beyond what was
developed at the former trial.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30

And, inasnuch the ignorant will copy the ad-
vanced and the lowy the highly placed, the example
be set by those who lead the social and intellectual
world.
The dawn of the sixth is yet afar in the future
and of that the keynote will be unity indvidualsm
brotherhood combat service oppression spirit
not intellect And the birthnark Of the spirit Is the
longing to pour itself out in sacrifice asking what
1t take but only what 1t give. The fundamental
unity Of mankind Is the central truth of the coming
and the nation which first grasps and practices that
great conception will lead the future humanity falling
into line behind it. Those who it, who teach 1t.
may fail for the moment but in their failure is the seed
Of inevitable
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
Not Certain About That.

Mrs. Vereigris was enumerating her
various ailments. Il haven't kept
track of all OF EN-" she said, but one
OF the first things I had was the lum-
bago In the small Of my back. Then
had the iniuenzy awful bad. The next
thing was the rheumatic. Since then
I've had neuralgy, nervous headache,
sore throat, indigestion, breaking
out on my skin and ever so many other
pesky little troubles that can't re-
member"
ut would be an interesting list"
said her sympathizing neighbor. why
didn't you take an inventory
"I'm not certain but what 1 did,
answered Mrs. yerdigris. Il took ever
SO many things. I'll try 1t If you
think It'd help me, but unless It's very
mild l just know 1t won't stay on my
stummick youths Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
THEWEEKLY J
l|I ns,H!|'j||I||S'';i'T'I0|RlA

1o46-Martin Luther preached his fare
we'll sermon at Wittenberg
1639-Civil government organized in
Connecticut With the adoption OF
what is said to be the first written
constitution known to history.
1666-Louis XIV. of France declared
war on England.
17O0-Lemoine d'Iberville took possession
of the Mississippi in the name Of
France.
1I12-Robert Walpole expelled from the
House OF Commons and committed to
the Tower.
1I51-First colonial assembly of Georgia
met.
1I66-Pitt advocated in Parliament the
repeal of the stamp act.
1III-Vermont declared itself free and
Independent State.
111S-France recognized independence of
the United States.
11S1-Americans defeated the British at
battle of Cowpens.
17S4-American Congress ratified the
treaty with Great Britain.
1TS9-Charles ". proclaimed King of
Spain.
1791-Weekly mail service established
between the United States and Can
ada.
1S05-Michigan territory formed from a
part of Indiana. v
1SO9-English defeated the French at
battle of Corunna
1S10-Masked balls prohibited in New
York and Philadelphia.
1S13-Americans repulsed the British at
Frenchtown, on Lake Erie. John
Armstrong of New York became Sec
rotary of War.
Thanksgiving in Great Britain for
successes over Bonaparte. . . Bayonne
invested by the British.
1S16-The French standards taken at
Waterloo deposited in the Chapel
Royal Whitehall
1S26-Phurtpore taken by the British
under Lord Combermere.
1S40-Steamboa Lexington burned on
Long Island sound, with loss of AL
lives.
1S4I-Gov. Bent of New Mexico killed
in an uprising of Mexicans.
1S52-New constitution published by
Louis Napoleon of France.
1SJ4-William Walker, the 6libuster,
proclaimed the republic of Sonora
in lower California.
1S61-Lola Montez, adventures who
caused abdcation of Louis Charles
of Bavaria, died in poverty in New
York
1S11-United States Supreme Court de-
clared the legal tender act of 1862
constitutional King William of
Prussia proclaimed German Emperor
1S75-President Grant approved the act
for resuming specie payments.
1S75-Steamer City of Columbus wrecked
off Gay Head, with loss of 81 lives
-. New State capitol at Des
Moines, dedicated.
1SSJ-British force defeated the troops
of the Mahdi at battle of Abu Klea.
1S91-Parnell presided over meeting of
Irish National League in Dublin.
1S96-Capture of Coomassies and end of
the Ashanti war.
10O3-Several thousand lives lost in
earthquake at Andijan, Russian Tur-
key.
190J-Japanese entered Port Arthur.
Fifty-nine lives lost in avalanche at
Bergen, Norway.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
Surgeons Knife Cures Headache.

After suffering excruciating pains in his
head for twenty-five years, Louis Wolf
son of Cincinnati has secured relief by
having the surgeons cut out two nerves.
The pain was above the eyes and at the
temples and required four or five times
a week He had consulted the leading
specialists, tried medicines. various forms
of massage and electrical treatment in
vain. The two offending nerves, one on
each side, were between one and two
inches long and about as thick as a pin.
They are termed sensory nerves--tkat is,
nerves which give the sense of feeling and
not control of the movements of mus
cles The headaches have not returned
this is the first case of the kind on record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30

At the last annual meeting of stock
holders of the American Sugar Refining
Company formal statement was made
that the old policy of secrecy would be
abandoned, and a resolution was adopted
providing for the issue of a statement
showing the company's assets, including
the various plants, active and inactive. IL
was also decided to preserve the accumu-
lated surplus as working capital. This
decision for publicity is attributed large
" to the efforts of Mr.. Claus Spreckels,
who is a large stakeholder in the COM
nanv