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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-08
HOLDING THE BABY.

Introducing Nice Point in Baby
Carriage Etiquette.
THAT fellow doesn't know the first
thing about the etiquette Of the baby
carriage" remarked one of a group of
men at Thirty-frst and Main streets.
The comment was made to all in a
general way. One of the group, the
man with a frayed collar and a look of
patient resignation, gaZed anxiously at
couple about to board a car. The
mother was sparring in a desperate sort
of way with one of those baby car
riages which shop statesmen can open
and close in a minute and the users in
from five to thirty minutes.
Don't see anything wrong with
that" said the man with the frayed
collar. Hes got to hold the baby
even if she does have to wrestle with
the carriage. You don't think ne ought
to hold the baby and take care of the
carriage, too, do you?"
"Well, there's one thing sure" re-
joined the objector-"the man doesn't
know a thing about baby carriage Ell
quette. What you want to do is this ::
If the baby weighs more than the car
riage, it's the mans place to hold the
baby. If the carriage weighs more, he
should hand the baby to his wife"
ooh, piffle!" interpolated the man
with the big black cigar. You're way
off. What he ought to do is to hand
the baby to his wife and the carriage
to the conductor. "-Kansas City Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-08
Canadian correspondence:

Canadian correspondence:
What are the settlers of Western
Canada-and most of all the farmers who
have emigrated from the United States
doing this year, l was asked by the
editor of one of our big American maya
zines a short time ago, by which | was
assigned to travel through the great wheat
provinces of the Dominion West to dis
cover just what the conditions were there.
and how the many thousands of Ameri-
can farmers in this "Eldorado of Wheat
were prospecting.
This was my fourth journey through
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. l
followed close upon the 10000 good Amer
lean farmers who left the States to make
new homes for themselves in these prov
inces last year-and in different words,
this was how l answered the question
of the editor quoted above:
Imagine first of all, train of forty-ton
cars 1,454 miles in length-a train, in
other words, which would reach from
New York City to Denver, or from the
Canadian border through the States of
North and South Dakota. Nebraska, Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Texas, and for $50
miles down into old Mexico, and you will
have some idea of this years production
of grain in the three great provinces of
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
In other words, it will take more than
100000 cars to carry the grain production
of these provinces alone this autumn.
If a person were standing at one point,
and this grain train passed him at the
rate of twenty miles an hour, he would
have to remain in that one spot for just
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-08
a GiIt-EdGed Candidacy,

The paper of an individual business
man, of undoubted probity and ability
and of known large resources. is gener-
ally considered a very safe investment,
even without an iDdOrser. But when
such paper bears. in addition, the name
Of another business man of like charac-
ter and resources, it becomes. in bust
ness parlance, gilt edged There is
no better paper to be had.
Transferring the term to politics. tie
Republican party presents, in that Of
William II. Taft, a giIt-edged candi-
dacy. His character and ability have
been tested in more ways than have
those of any presidential nominee who
ever before asked the suffrages of the
American people His resources have
been found equa to any emergency. He
has everywhere made good" and more
than made good the expectations Of his
friends. His promises, then, are accept
ed as certain of fulfillment-accepte
on the basis of his own record alone.
Added to this, Mr.. Taft has the in
aorsement, free, hearty, enthusiastic and
without reserve, OF that other man on
whose word the American people have
for years delighted to bank" Theodore
Roosevelt. What Our Theodore" says
always goes" With the board Of direc-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-08

Mr.. Taft is in some matters far less
explicit, and in general far. less pro-
life, in promises than Mr.. Bryan has
been. Mr.. Bryan has a personal plan
for everything. Mr.. Taft knows that
some of the problems are so complex
tat no one man can furnish a COM
pIte solution for them. But, seeming
~ nothing is too complex for Mr..
Bryan to grasp. He reaches conclu-
siO1s and he urges his conclusions as
though he embodied all wisdom. But
Mr.. Bryan has discarded as many of
his plans as he has adhered to. Mr.
Taft has never declared for a policy
or a method that he has been obliged
to abtndon. He has never undertaken
a task that he has not completed. He
is a practical man, having a just COM
prehensiOn Of the vastness and COM
pleXity of great practical problems. He
does rot profess to know it all But
he has demonstrated extraordinary
wisdom in the public service has an
Astounding faith in the right develop
ment of present national policies, and
inspires confidence as to his Judgment
as'well as his purpose.
Mr.. Taft may be counted upon to do
something more than he promises to
do; Mr.. Bryan could not possibly ac-
cOmplish all that he has pledged him
self to do.
AS for Mr.. Taft's qualifications and
purposes surely President Roosevelt,
who has been intimately associated
with him in the administration of ma
tional affairs, is a better judge than
Nr. Bryan, who is a not disinterested
critic.-Kansas City Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-08
Interesting Bits.

More than one-fOurth Of all English
newspapers are published in London.
In Russia there are no fewer than
eighty-six general holidays in the year.
The Great Wall of China will soon
be undermined in one place by rail
way tunnel.
CaliforniaDs buy more baseballs and
bats. proporticlately than the people
Of any other State.
Every day the inhabitants of the
United Kingdom wear away 100000
worth of shoe leather.
1t is said that Lake Erie produces
more fish to the square mile than any
other body of water in the world.
Yellow is far the most permanent
color in flowers. 1t is the only one not
affected by sulphurous acid fumes.
To save Andoyer Seminary it is pro-
posed to make it a great training
school for missionaries, home and for
eign.
The person who, discovers a method
of communication between planets will
receive $4,000 from the French Acad-
envy of Science.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-08
The New Sport of Gliding.

With practice remarkable feats OF
soaring can be accomplished by this de.
vice. Mr.. Herring, who is the most &C.
tomp!ished glider living, scared more
than rine hundred feet, and has mount
ed higher in the air than his starting
point! On one occasion, after a flight,
he was actually able to soar back to a
point dill ectly above the bank from
which he started. But such feats are
only Cor the long practiced. The first
glides of a novice are not more than
ten or twelve feet.
Gliding is not only a practical neces-
s4ry training for those who mean to
be aeroplanists, but it is also in itself
delightful and relatively cheap
amusement-a glider costs only about
fifteen or twenty dollars. Already a
number of these air craft are being
built about New York. and it seems
highly likely that within a short time
they will be as common a feature of a
boys equipment as are, say, canoes,
and that gliding races will be part of
every Saturdays amusements. Thus
we shall train a generation that will be
prepared to direct and balance aero
planes Success Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-08
The Supreme Courf

The national election this :all VIII
I not be the selection of a president and
/ a vice president alone. 1t will not be
| the choice Of the people as to the brand
/ OF policies which most please them.
| 1t is farther reaching than the per-
| sonnet Of the administration and the
! drafting Of new laws, conservative.
! radical, progressive, or impracticable.
The nation this year will be Gecid-
| ing the character of men who will
| have the balance of opinion. or more
| truly the balance of power, in the
| United States supreme court. In an
| exceedingly thoughtful article by Eu-
! gene 2. Lyle, Jr., in Hampton's Broad
| way Magazine, it is pointed out that
| three vacancies are almost certain to
| appear III the supreme court Nefore
the close Of the next adminisl. alton
Five are quite probable. Chief Justice
Fuller and Judge Harlan are now 10
years of age. Judge Brewer has reach
ed II. Judge Peckham is only a year
younger. Judge Holmes is 81; White,
| s.; Day. 80; Moody. 90. The chances
of life are against those who have
passed three score and ten remaining
| on the bench until March 5, 1918. Who
ever is elected President will put his
stamp upon the character of the SUI
preme Court. If he is wise in the judg-
ment Of men he will be doing we'll.
But he will be influenced by other
things than the sole question Of merit
The Presidents individual views OF
government will enter into the problem
of picking successors to the ones who
will have dropped out.
There is a chance here for much spec
ulation. For the judges of the United
States Supreme bench hold office for
life AS the saying is, they seldom
die and never resign" Their influence
upon the conduct of the government
continues long after the President who
has made each individual appointment
has ceased to be a factor in his coun-
try's politics, often many years after
the one to whom they owe position has
been garnered to his fathers and his
body become ashes. One vote swings
the scales of decision where four judges
agree in an opinion and four others OPP
pose.
1t is great authority to be vested in
one human creature. 1t is necessary,
then, that he shall be deeply versed in
the law-far more than this, that he
be a man of broad breadth, Of wisdom
that it not all of book learning and ex-
perience in the ways of courts, that he
be in sympathy with the institutions
of the nation and above all, that he
be immovable to the pressure of fam
lily, friendship or politics.
The next President will be called on
to deliberate much before he names
the new judges. He must be thought
full not alone for the present, but also
for the many years to come
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-08

miles on each side of these roads the
great part of the population of settlers
live. Beyond these narrow belts are
millions of acres of the best land in the
world and it is safe to say that within
ten years it will be almost entirely taken
up-and American. farmers will occupy
great portion of it. No farmer in this
country has to carry his crops far, for
every few miles along the railroads towns
or stations are laid out, and at every
place there is huge elevator, and some
times several Of them. each holding from
10000 to 10000 bushels
A few paragraphs back, I made the
statement that many American land com.
panies are trying to give the impression
that the free homestead lands Of the Do
minion are about gone TO show how
ridiculous this is, / will give the figures
which have been secured through w. j.
Kennedy, of the Department of Immigra-
ton, who has made an exhaustive inves-
tigation of this subject. According to
the results of his investigation there are
at the present time more than 1O0,-
600 free homesteads already surveyed
and awaiting settlers, and in addi-
ton to those there are vast tracts of the
best land in the world which have not
yet been surveyed, and which will be
homesteaded.
And from my long experience in the
Dominion West, | confidently believe that
during the next two years nearly all Of
these homesteads viii have been taken up
by good American farmers-the farmers
from our own States who are making
Western Canada what it is to-day. Years
ago the best advice in the world was,
young man, go Vest To-day it has
changed in a small way. Now it is:
Young man, go to Western Canada"
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POINTING THE BONE.
Queer Superstition of the Native
Blacks of Australia

Blacks of Australia.
The native blacks of Australia are
stepped in superstition. A black fellow
will on no account go near the spot
where another black has been buried
He has a deep rooted aversion to one
particular bird-the wagtail-because,
he says, him all day talk, talk along
a white Teller, tellum all about black
feller," and no opportunity is lost Of
killing these little birds.
Many tribes bury" their dead by.
sticking them up into the forks of trees
and there leaving them till the flesh
has either dropped or been taken, leav-
ing the bones clean. These bones are
then taken down, the larger ones buried
and the smallest handed round as keep
sakes to those nearly related to the de-
ceased. Should one black fellow wish
the death Of rival or enemy he points
the bone at him. This means that he
takes one of his late relations bones
from his dilIy bag and points it, in the
presence of witnesses, at the man he
wishes to get rid of, all the time pour
ing forth threats and curses.
Strange as it may seem, the one
pointed at will often languish and even
tually die, perhaps in a month, perhaps
in a year, for no sooner is the bone
pointed than he makes up his mind to
die, and there is no saving him.-IIon-
don Standard.
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three days and three nights to see the
end of it.
1t would carry past him more than
10O,00O,0OO bushels of the best wheat in
the world, 12000O,OOO bushels of oats and
20,O00,000 bushels of barley, for these
figures, according to very best estimates
that can be given at the present time,
show what the settlers of Western Canada
have raised this year in the way of grain.
Never in the history of any country
has there been a more prosperous year
for farmers than the present one in the
Dominion West So enormous has been
the grain production that nearly 2j,000,-
600 pounds of binder Irvine were required
for the crops. Oats this season
have gone as high as one hundred
bushels to the acre. while over large areas
of country the average has been as high as
eighty and ninety bushels. The wheat
yield has been as high as fifty bushels to
the acre, and from figures already in it
is believed that the total will show an
average yield of between twenty and TWEEN
ty-five bushels to the acre throughout the
three provinces.
1t is difficult for one to understand
just what Western Canada means to the
farmer until he takes at least one trip
through that country. AS yet the vast
grain lands of the three western prov
inces, with an area large enough to sup
port the population of a nation, have
hardly been scratched. In other words, it
may truthfully be said that the tremen-
dous production of these provinces to-day
is that of a few pioneers. Last year
sixty thousand of the best farmers in
the United States took up new homes
for themselves there, and from the sta
tistics of the past two or three years each
one of these settlers will be harvesting
from 500 to 1000 bushels of grain next
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OMMENT
-

tors, 100000 strong, of the great
American republic Roosevelt now re-
peats. in his Kohrs letter-only with
greater emphasis and more elaboration
of detail-aIl that he has before urged
as to the supreme fitness of ". H. Taft
for the presidency. Particularly does
he seek to impress upon the voters the
assurance that in voting for Taft they
will vote for a continuance of the
Roosevelt policies" These have been
from the beginning no more the policies
of the President than they have been
of the man whom he urges should be
chosen his successor.
Contrasted with this gilt-edged candi-
dacy. what has the Democracy to offer ?
what record in its nominee? what IL
dOrsement from some one who holds the
heart Of America in his hand!-St Paul
Pioneer Press.
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-~NNNN~NNoNN

$50 you want to marry my daugh-
teri" said the banker, eying the young
man steadily.
II do, sir"
do you love herr"
More than life" was the emphatic
reply
The banker thought for a while
Let us see,'' he finally said. What
are your prospects? You are poor. but
come Of a good family. You have in
telligence, honesty and ambition; and
you are now working at salary Of
fifteen dollars per week as assistant
to Mr.. Stewart, the cashier. How can
You expect to support a woman who
has been used to luxury all her life on
a sum so small?"
Il didn't think of marrying at once,
sir. l would work hard. and be willing
to wait until I could advance myself
to better position in the bank"
And do you suppose a girl like
Gladys would engage herself to YOU,
and wait years for a husband, while
there are plenty Of eligible young men
among her acQuaintanCeS?
The rich man spoke mildly, but War
rem Lewis detected a sheer in his tone
He hastily arose.
Then you object, sir" he said.
81 certainly do. | may as well tell
you now that Gladys will marry Mr..
Stewart He is the man 1 have picked
out for her, and they think a good deal
Of each other So return to your work,
Mr.. Lewis, and let us hear no more
or this presumptuous nonsense"
Warren went back to his desk, I'M
happy and disappointed He was sure
that Gladys loved him, and Mr.. Wilson
had always treated him so cordially
when he called at his house that he
hoped no objections would be offered
TO his suit. But now all was suddenly
changed. Still he determined TO see
Gladys, and ask her if she was aware
that her father wanted her to marry
Mr. Stewart.
He called on her that evening. and
came at once to the subject nearest his
heart
GLADYS, do you know that your
father wishes you to marry Mr.. Stew
art?" he asked.
She colored and looked confused.
Yes" she answered.
But you don't intend to accept
him?"
Yes" she said again 1.-THE matter
was settled by my father long ago"
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china and syerWare, and she has idea of them. IN
the absence of other ideas she will think them
talk about them, have her whole mind absorbed with
them. The mind must act and this is all the material
has to act upon.
1t is the same Of dress. Her soul is engrossed in
dress since is her important object experience
If wish to make her forsake it you give her
something else to think of. Give interest
great subjects and she will abandon small If
she knew much about the great Of history Of
her age she does about her neghbors she would
cease to talk about the latter and talk about the
Teach her science philosophy law politics. and you Will
do much to put end gossip SANDER and fashion
ship.
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that winch the pOpular general
ly held to be the wisest. This confusion is the chief
danger which democracy is exposed What men want
often contradcts what ought have and to bring
the into harmony is the supreme alike
cation and craftsmanship
Not the camor OF the crowd, however angry or how
ever emphatic, but what Sir Thomas Browne quantity
called the Judgment of the jucous Is stand
ard of merit To it must constantly and hopefully
and resoluely repair We should for any reason
be tempted caoled frightened into deserving it.
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tons army navy exclusive pensions)
aggregated $1626OO0OO0 excess the prior ten
years of $1119O0O0O0 This is why have not paid
the this any better off with its
magnificent fleet of roncads and its larger army, than
1t would have been If it had paid its national debt and
stood to-day the great nation the of the
earth not owing q dollar?
The surplus excess of military and naval expendi-
ture for the last years would have reclaimed every
arid within the limits Of This country and would
given us magnificent canals, stretching from the
North to the South. Every school in the country has
Its military company. We all craving for war; and
cannot be craving for and not have war
contend that the principles OF right and justice are
eternal and be depended on If we can trust God
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GRANDMOTHER.

Oh when a grandmother is sweet
How very sweet she is !!
Three generations blending meet:
triple grace in this;
For all we feel and all we know,
She too has felt and known,
And to the heights where we must grow
She long ago has grown.
Mothers are lovely dear, and good
AS ever good can be;
And yet it seems they never could
Be quite as quick as she
To find the good and miss the i'll
In all the children do;
But then, perhaps, at last they viii
When they're grandmothers too.
Comparisons how can we make,
Since equal love we give
To each?-for others darling sake
We'd gladly die-or live.
Yet one sweet truth is very clear
And by it we will stand:
Mothers are lovely, good, and dear,
But grandmothers are Grand!
Sunday Magazine.
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For Republicans to Rememb Der.


Amid all the hurly-burly over
whether somebody was more friendly
with the Standard OIL Company than
some other body and a lot of other
with the presidential issue than a last
years birds nest, there are certain
points to be remembered:
l. That William II. Taft Is the Re
man from New York, Washington.
Oyster Bay, or Oklahoma.
2. That Mr.. Taft is running on his
record and the Republican party's rec
ord of public service and of national
government
3. That Mr.. Taft's record as fed
eral judge, as Governor of the Philip
pines, and as Secretary of War is one
of creditable achievement.
4. That the Republican party's rec
ord is one of national efficiency, Of ma
tional work done better than it has
been done by the Democratic party,
and of steady and increasing prospect
ty for the American people as a whole.
5. That while Mr.. Bryan is pro-
fuse in promises he has not been tried
in great public Office, and that Mr..
Taft has been tried and has done his
duty with honor to himself and his
party.
THESE are the vital facts by which
sensible men will determine their de-
cision for record at the polls in No
vember. These are the main points of
the evidence on which such men will
decide between Mr.. Bryan and Mr..
Taft.
Therefore it behooves all thinking
Americans to remember these facts and
to act in accordance with them.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
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Giant Tree OF England.

The biggest tree in the south of Eng
land is said to be the Kings Oak at
Tilford, which stands on the village
green between two ancient bridges over
the River Wey, and is some 80 feet in
circumference at a height of 6 feet
from the ground.
1t is mentioned in the charter of
Waverley Abbey, the Cistercian mon
astery close by. now in ruins, which
gave its name to the works OF Sir Wal
ter Scott. This giant tree is still in
vigorous growth.-London Chronicle
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AJeyauIria E~ynf,,

All correspondents with Egypt in all
parts of the world should be warned
that it is necessary to put the word
Egypt on all communications adj
dressed to Alexandria. as a great deal
of trouble and annoyance has been
caused owing to communications adj
dressed to the Egyptian city being de-
livered to Scotland, Canada, New South
Wales, Cape Colony, Italy, the United
States of America and other countries
where towns Of the same name exist
Egyptian Gazette, Alexandria.