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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

was no pantomime, it is true; but
there was a Lord of Misrule, elected
in every important household, at court,
at the universities and above all, at
the Inns of Court and it was his busi-
ness to see that there were no lapses
into seriousness during the Christmas
holidays. He was very expensive in
stitution, it seems; for in Edward WIS
reign, when it was the business of the
authorities to make the poor little boy
king forget all the murders that were
keeping him on the throne, the Christ
mas revels were particularly costly and
the Lord of Misrule's costume alone
cost f52 SIS. Sd-New York Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
After the WeddinQ
--11~S-~-o--oo--

The maid Of honor settled herself In
the carriage with a great futter of
laces and chiffon and gave q long sigh
Wasn't Cora just the loveliest bride
you ever SAW" she demanded breath
lessly of the tall young man who climb
ed In after her.
''She was certainly a winner" admit
ted the young man. 1T made me kind
Of blue, though, ushering for Toms
wedding, l tell you! He's the best
ever and | hate to lose him.
Lose him. cried the maid Of honor
Il think it's perfectly hateful for a
mans friends to act as if he had been
snatched from them eternally by a
cruel fate, just because he marries a
nice girl and settles down. It's
''Oh, 1 don't mean it that way" pro-
tested the tall young man. I'm not
down on matrimony. I think l was
blue because 1t wasn't my wedding.
If"
Aren't you frightfully tired?" broke
in the maid of honor hurriedly. 81 am
standing up at that reception for
three hours straight! I can't imagine
why Aunt Matte went home without
me!'
81 hope" said the young man, stifiy,
you don't think l forced myself on
you! Cora's mother asked me to take
you safely home"
"Oh," said the bridesmaid, with equal
haughtiness, 81 knew of course 1t was
something like that! I knew you never
would condemn yourself to an hours
ride with me unless you simply couldn' t
get out Of it. I'm very sorry you should
be so bored"
Now, Genevieve," said the young
man, don't be so foolish! You know
perfectly well I'm not bored"
81 suppose" said the maid Of honor,
icily, that was the real troubie-my
constitutional foolishness! That was
why you discovered it was all a mis-
take"
81" cried the usher. "If 1t wasn't
you who broke Off our engagement fair
and square I'd like to have some one
point out to me what really happened"
II thought you wanted 1t broken
:" said the maid Of honor. Pm
glad 1t wasn't announced and nobody
knew It I'd hate so to put you to
any trouble or annoyance. As 1t is,
nobody is the wiser. l don't suppose
Cora's mother realized she was picking
out the one girl in all the world you
disliked most for you to escort home.
Isn't it funny"
Perfectly killing" said the young
man. "It makes me feel about az much
| like laughing as funeral would It's
a shame. too, when the best man obvi-
ously was yearning for my chance"
why didn't you give 1t to him,
Them inquired the maid OF honor,
smoothly.
Great guns! :" breathed the usher.
You don't really care anything about
Tad Kirby, do you? He hasn't enough
brains 20 put In peanut shell, for all
| his money. He"
| "Your temper certainly hasn't I'M
proved any" broke in the maid of hon
or You haven't particle Of right to
object TO Tads paying me attentions if
l choose to let him"
I'm quite well aware of thatH said
| the young man, stormily.
We'll" said the maid Of honor, 1ft
doesn't make any difference to you, sc
| it can't worry you much"
That's all you know about it" said
the usher. "Why-if things hadn't gone
to smash we-you and would be
having our wedding just about now!"
Think of it," cried the maid OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

readily admit that they were necessaries for them
In tracing the historical process of development Of
satsfactions each earlier element
important each succeeding the need of food
and physical protection being more pressing and essen
tial than the needs Of 'the higher nature Logically
however in the order of nature, considered
plete system process-each subsequent need
or satisfaction is important and valuable
than preceding in time because 1t represents
higher type of life From this latter standpoint the
early functions valued chiefly as the means
teria basis of higher spiritual life.
The higher need and its satisfaction-the soulsavng
intellectual education important when
viewed by ITSELF away from relations and condi
lions which attach 1t to other aspects of life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

Officers of the Chicago and Northwest
ern railroad have sent out inquiries ask
ing for figures on $4,000 tons of steel for
elevating its tracks into the new terminal
The Chicago and Northwestern has Or
dered from the American Locomotive Com
pany II Atlantic type locomotives and II
six-wheel and - ten-whee switch en-
gines.
The organizers of the American Fedora
ton of Labor have formed railway en-
ployes' department in the hope of bring
ing into the federation the big railway
unions.
The Rock Island Company, which il
the holding concern for the Rock Island
railroad and it's numerous branch lines,
with a mileage second only to that of the
Union Pacific, and which has been the
most formidable competitor of the Har-
riman system, has now been brought I'M
der the Hartman spell. Evidence Of
this was made public when it became
known that the banking house of Kuhn,
Loeb & co. had been engaged to act as
the fiscal agent for the Rock Island peo-
pie, as that banking concern finances
all of the Hartman enterprises.
The Chicago and Alton railroad will
soon be in the market for 30 locomotives.
and the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific
is buying go locomotives.
The Minnesota railway and warehouse
commission has denied the application for
a depot at Holman, on the Duluth, Mis-
sabe and Northern railroad.
Tie Ann Arbor railroad has placed
contract with the Lackawanna Steel Com
pany for 40 miles of rail joints. Prices
are being asked on 1000 tons Of steel
for vaduct 10 Denver, to be built by
four railroads, which will use it in COM
mon
A serious strike was threatened by the
locomotive railway engineers of the Penn
sylvania railroad west of Pittsburg,
vote having showed So per cent in favor
of a strike if the railroad officials per
sisted in their refusal TO recognize the
Board of Adjustment of individual griev-
anceS.
At Brainerd, Mimi. the Northern Pa
cific Railroad Company is making prac-
teal test of creosoted blocks as paving.
The company has been putting in 100
square feet of blocks in the center of the
main platform al the depot, where 1t re-
ceives all the heavy traffic of the express
trucks.
There are $4,000 miles of main rail
way tracks to-day. Very nearly one-ffth
of that. or 214000 miles. is in operation
in the United States No other country
in the world makes a close approach to
US in this field. The German empire,
which leads all the other countries of
Europe has $4,000 miles of railway or
less than a sixth of that of the United
States. Next to Germany in railway mile
age come, in this order. European Rus
sia Austria Hungary, France and Great
Britain and Ireland. England was earlier
in the field in the building of railways
than was the United States, but the entire
mileage of main track in the United
Kingdom is 22,000 miles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
SATISFIED.

My days have all been sunny,
My nights all full of dreams;
My gardens sweet with honey;
My groves with singing streams;
My house, from floor to rafter,
Delight forever fills;
My life is joy and-after-
1t shall be if God wills.
My friends have all been true ones
And many have l had;
My thoughts-both old and new ones
Have evermore been glad;
My heart is light with laughter
And song that never stills;
My life is joy and-after-
1t shall be if God wills.
New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
On Vacations.

It is related Of Stewart Edward
Whites book, The Mountains" that
once upon time man happened to
be staying in hotel room which had
originally been part Of suite, but
which WAS then cut OF from the Others
by only a thin door, through which
sounds carried clearly.
It was about II o'clock when the oc-
cupants Of that next room came home.
The man Heard the door open and close.
Then the bed shrieked aloud as some
body fell heavily upon it. There
breathed across the silence a profound
iy deep sigh.
MARY" said a mans voice, I'm
mighty sorry didn't join that Associa-
ton for Artificial Vacations. They I'M
dertake to get you just as tired and
Just as mad in two days as you could
by yourself IN two weeks"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
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AS Prince Helie de Sagan might say,
"AlI is lost save Anna. New York
Mail
1t isn't Germany that's really worry
ing England at present. It's India
Boston Journal.
The cheerful idiot notices that forest
fires do not attack family trees.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
China's 3-year-old Emperor didn't
mount his throne; he tOddled up
Philadelphia Record.
Being but 2 years old probably the
Chinese Emperor is ruled by a nurse
instead of a hancellor-Philadelp
Ledger
John D. may not be the father Of the
Standard Oil Company, but he is very
near and dear relative.-Milwaukee
Journal.
What was the total cost in printers
ink, paper and wages for carrying on
those recent foreign wars?-Detroit
Free Press.
They are building a skyscraper in
New York with six stories under
ground, intending. probably, to scrape
the sky on both sides Of the earth
Philadelphia Press.
Can you recognize a moral on sight?
A member has just resigned from a
mothers club in Boston under con-
viction that her children need her at
home-Detroit Free Press.
The restaurants are talking of tariff
revision likewise, with a view to re-
moving bread and butter from the free
list.-Boston Herald.
We always did think that Anna
Gould would soon repent of marrying
one of the Night Riders of Paris
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
More irony of fate. The daring wom-
an who climbed the highest peak in
South America is seriously Ill from the
effects Of stepping upon nail.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The appearance of snakes is consid-
cred a mild winter sign. 1t is also a
sign that the water wagon is fast be-
coming empty-Philsdelph Inquirer.
The death of Mrs. O'Brien of Phila-
delphia, at the age of 104, shows that
the life Of the inveterate smoker ulti-
mately ends In death-Louisyille COu-
rier-Journal.
When Mr. Rockefeller asserts that
dealing In oil is very precarious bust
ness it is evident that he is still bent
on discouraging competition.-Provi-
dence Tribune.
Turkey follows the example of China
in making the boycott formidable en-
CINE of international controversy
New York Tribune.
The writer of a newspaper communi-
cation suggests that automobiles be so
constructed that they will not be able,
under any circumstances, to exceed the
legal time limit So far the response
has been the same profound silence
that greets the proposal of depatured
fcotbaIl-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
The Worm Turned

Mrs Cobwigger- it's true that
women wear mems neckties, you surely
couldn't expect me to appear in public
in such monstrosity as this. Where
in the world did you ever get such a
tie?
Cobwigger-My dear, that's the one
you bought for me last Christmas
Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

the leaves rising and falling IN the absence OF the
accustomed stimulation Since this change Of position is
not due to external conditions 1t must be the result or
the internal conditions which habitualy accompany the
movement This is the characteristic par excellence Of
habtnamey, capacity acquired by repetition, OF re-
acting to a fraction of the original environment
We indebted to Keeble for an interesting case OF
apparent habit among the lower animals. A minute,
workke creature found the coast of Brittany leads
life dependent upon the ebb and flow of the When
the tide is these little creatures come to the surface
showing themselves In large green patches As the rising
tide begins to them they sink down into safer
quarters The remarkable fact is that when kept in
aquarium and therefore from tidal action, they
continue for short time to perform rhythmic move
ments in time with the tide.
1t is impossible to know whether or not plants are
conscious but II consistent with the doctrine Of
tinuity that In all living things there is something
psychic and If accept this point Of view must
believe that In plants there exists faint copy OF what
we know as consciousness in ourselves
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
How to Mail Christmas Gifts

In mailing Christmas gifts have the
package weighed by some responsible
person, place the exact amount of post
age needed upon the parcel, and in
nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out
of a possible thousand your package
promptly. In addressing the package
write the name of the person who is to
receive it in ink, spelling both the city
and state. and do not abbreviate. Place
your name in small writing in either
the unper or lower left hand corner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

Have you seen the handkerchief bag?
1t is just shown in the shops. To
make it Ior Christmas requires two
fat disks crocheted of silk and beaded,
about three inches in diameter. Join
these fatty together, leaving an open
ing at the top. This quaint little af-
fair, which looks like an exaggerated
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

Christmas in King AIfred's Reign.
In King Alfred's time, and all
through the middle ages Christmas be-
gan on ST Thomas's Day and lasted
until Twelfth Night, and was moreover
as much a festival for fathers and
mothers as for their children. There
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
4 Time of Peril.

Clarissa-I'm always glad when New
Years day is safely over.
Fidelia-Yes; it is saddening ami
versary.
Clarissa-Oh. / don't mean that
Clarence and l always have a horrid
quarrel suggesting Improvements in
each others conduct
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

beaded watch and may be any color de-
sired, is swung from the belt. with my
lady's little lace handkerchief tucked
therein. And. in truth. tiny as the
kerchief is. it lust fills the bag
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

thought" she gasped, I'D just d-die all
evening, 1 was so miserable. Do you
really carer
Thank heaven. Cora'S mother hap
pened to send me home with you,
murmured the young man, somewhat
indistinctly.
For the first time the maid Of honor
laughed, a choked. hysterical little
laugh. "She-she didn't happen to,
she confessed. 81 asked her to ~
Chicago News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
"JeSsie Chris mas -

Little Jessie woke up on Christmas
morning and called to her four-year-
old sister Mary:
Merry Christmas ~
Jessie Christmas!' promptly an
SWered the baby
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

"Oh. I'm so glad Mrs. Slimkins'
clothes have come said the washer
woman TO her daughter. Il was just
wondering what we would wear TO the
Christmas entertainment tomorrow
night. Cleveland Leader.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
Stock on Hand.

Bradds-Going to make any new res
olutions this year, Spikes?
Spikes-New ones? l should say not.
I've got a lot Of old ones I've never
used, by Jove!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
WHAT ARE THE NECEssARIES OF LIEF
BY John A. Hobson.

Good air. large. sanitary houses. plenty OF
wholesome, wellcooked food, adequate changes
Of clothing for the climate, ample opportuni-
ties of recreatlon-is there any one OF these
things that does not sensibly assist to lengthen
the term of physical life? Yet most, If not
all, Of these things would be classed among
comforts or even luxuries for laborers, though
numbers Of the well-to-do classes would
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
His Plainc.

The Christmas cynic's here again
To irritate the soul
He says that he gets neckties when
He needs a ton of coal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

Look yourself over candidly and
honestly, and you will be surprised at
the great amount Of time you devote
to foolishness
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
DO PLANTS HAVE CONSCIOUSNESS
By Prof. Francis Darwin.

II sleeping plant is placed in dark room
after 1t has gone TO sleep at night it will be
found next morning in the light position. and
will again assume the nocturnal position as
evening comes on. We have, In fact, what
seems to be habit built by the alteration OF
day and night The plant normally drops its
leaves at the stimulus Of darkness and raises
them at the stimulus OF light. But here we
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

If woman wants a welcome when
she gets home, she should leave her
husband with the baby when she goes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

The Minister-Would you like. te
come and be my little boy. Robert?
Bobby (prolnptlyJ-No. sir.
MiniSter-Why not?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

So Sanity sadly took
The stockings from their hook,
And in their place he put
One meant for smaller foot;
Nor did he leave behind
A gift of any kind
Next day, at SUNRISE little maid sobbed,
Bitterly crying that she had been robbed,
When right before her the goblin APP
peared-
"Greedness robbed YOU" he said. as he
leered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
Che1 laee ChnsfmdsN lume

Wee Elsie had been told,
BY some hobgoblin bold,
To hang her stockings neat
And then this verse repeat:
''Twickledee, brickledee, fee Fl 70 fun,
Stocking, oh. stocking, much bigger De-
come"
On Christmas Eve therefore,
She said these lines thrice Ger.
.Lo, hardly were they said.
When right above her head
pair of stockings were
That surely seemed, to her
giant to belong
Goodnight to you" she said,
And cambered into bed,
Quite sure next day would show
Them filed from top to toe.
~Whos there. my Jupiter, Gallant and
Gray!
Quietly, r. ndeer, a moment here stay"
And leaving them his sleigh,
Old Sanity made his way
Quick down the chimney fue
And through the fireplace, too.
Dear me, what's this | see?
1t surely cannot be
None but a greedy miss
Would hang such things as this !"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

/ The population of this country in
creases enc and a half millions year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
ENDURING LOVE NOT EXACTING.
BY Helen OIdfeIo

The true philosophy Of content is to make
the best of what we have, which usually is
better than we deserve, instead of arraigning
fate beca use the gods have not been more Law
ish of their gifts; to live in the sunshine
rather than in the shadow, and in faith and
patience to labor and to wait expectantly in
stead Of making the gray day grayer by tears
and repining 1t is an error to be too exact
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

Bobby-Mamma says you get about
twenty pairs of slippers every Christ
mas
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

ing with those who love the better way is to
cept them as they and endeavor to find and to
strengthen the divinity which the Hndoo vedas teach US
dwes in all The coat too straightly cut by
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Cure to Cuticura.

Several months ago. my little boy
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Mexico Missouri message., 1908-10-29
Mike and the Motorists.

An Irlshman one day was told 10 put
mp a slgnboard on which were the
words: ITO Motorists--this hill Is
dangerous"
Away went Mike with the signboard
and placed II at the bottom of very
steep hill A few days later his en-
ployer went to see how the board was
put up, and. finding It at the bottom
OF the hill, sought and found Mike
You blooming fooll' he cried. why
didn't you put that sign In the right
placer"
"Shure and amt ~" asked Mike.
Don't the accidents happen At the
bottom T"-Harper's Weekly.
Mexico Missouri message., 1908-10-29

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than All other diseases put toEether and until the last
few years was supposed 70 Be acurAbla For q great
many yearr doctors pronounced u local dsease and
prescribed local remedies. and by constantly falling
20 cure with local Treatment pronounced u mcurabe.
Science has proven Catafrh 70 BE- a constitutional dr.
Ease. and therefore requires constitutional treatment
Hairs Catarrh Cure. Manufactured by y !. cheney
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TAke Hans Family pms for constipation.
Mexico Missouri message., 1908-10-29
little whaIsbons Now Taken.

The amount Of whalebone taken an.
nually does not now much exceed 90.
900 pounds. The largest part Of this
is taken by the whales sailing out OF
ports on the Pacific coast. A few
years ago the amount taken was as
much as 100000 pounds annually.