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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-05
ROOSEVEUTS TOUR
THROUGH THE
DARK CONFINED

In the seventh and last of the
articles describing tho scenes, ad-
ventures and other experiences
that befell Winston Churchill. un-
under ecrctary for the British col
onies, on the route which Colonel
Roosevelt is now pursuing from
Mombasa to Cairo In Africa, Mr..
Churchill deals with the journey
down the White Nile TO civilization
again. And besides being IL most
interesting account of river travel
in Africa's heart, the article brings
out vividly the big game hunting
and the periIs from disease that
Will he Colonel Roosevclt's 10 the
very last day of his sojourn in the
African interior
THESE ARE JUST
A FEW OF THE
GOOD THINGS
. that will be found in Tho Sunday
Tribune tomorrow. 1t will he like
every Issue, a complete paper the
best paper printed in the inter-
mountain empire. and as good as
any In the country. You would
better order il sent to your home.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-05
TO THE NEWSPAPERS
SHOULD GO MOST

OF the local merchants advertising money
NO other medium is as desirable in all
respects Some other kinds-booklets
folders, mailing cards, letters. etc-ars
always effective, but as usual result
they cost much more.-Erom Mail Order
Journal, ono of the best advertising au-
thorities extant
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-05

l"A PAPER IN THE HOME
rs WORTH "A THOUSAND
on The highway" SAYS a notable authority.
Others may like the highway delivery
and call II circulation, but The Tribune
lgoes home IT is read by every member
| OF the Family, from the lead story to tho
| smallest classified ad, The home and
highway circulation tell the story and re-
fleet tho contrast between The Tribune
and the others.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
BUGGY UPSET AND
OCCUPANTS THROWN OUT

d. J. Arpins automobile with H.
D. Collins at the wheel, was coming
up First street near the G. T. Row
land store corner, when they met
Geo. Wood driving their family
horse and Miss Lucy Wood and Mrs.
Robt. Rowland were occupying the
seat with George, when they met
the auto. This frightened the
horse and he commenced back.
ing and in that manner upset the
rig, throwing the occupants to the
ground. Miss Wood was bad1ybruiseG
and shaken up, but Mrs. Rowland
and shaken up, but Mr.. Wood and
Mrs. Robt. Rowland were unhurt. The
buggy was broken some and Miss
Wood is confined to her bed. 1t
is hoped that she suffered no SER
ious injuries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
Dancer in Eve PouItices.

Do not poultice an eye in any cir
cumstances whatever. Binding a wet
application over an eye for several
hours must damage that eye, the as
sertions of those protesting to have
personal experience in this to the con-
trary notwithstanding. The failure to
aggravate an existing trouble by bind
ing moist application over an in
famed eye, which application is sup
posed to remain for an entire night,
can only be explained by the supposi-
ton that guardian angel has watched
over that misguided case and has dis
placed the poultice before it had got
in it's fine work.
All oculists condemn the poultice
absolutely, in every shape and in
every form. Tea leaves, bread and
milk, raw oysters, scraped beef.
scraped raw turnip or raw potato, and
the medley of other similar remedies
popularity recommended are, one and
all, capable of producing irremediable
damage to the integrity of the tissues
of the visual organ.-Family Doctor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
In the Good Old DAYS

I'm the old days, as remember
them, on southern plantation said
Maj E. G. Eldon of Vicksburg, Miss,
at the Hotel Herman, there was al
ways the most lavish consumption of
eatables, and the good housewives
never failed to load their tables with
five times the quantity of food neces-
sary for the family use.
This lavishness-indeed waste is
the better word-grew out of the
cheapness and abundance of food ma
terial. Every family grew many
times the amount of vegetables it
needed. Many things that command
a high price now had hardly any
money value in the days of which I
speak If, as happened at rare in
tervals, eggs got over ten cents a
dozen the price was deemed exorbi-
tant A big fat fowl was thought well
sold at 25 cents. Nobody ever
dreamed of selling fruit, and peaches
that are now a source of great reve-
nue., were given to any one who asked
for them.'-Baltimor American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
Settled Order of Precedence

Recent illusions to the precedence
of the members of the diplomatic
corps at the Inauguration recall, says
the Buffalo Commercial, an incident
connected with the visit of an Eng
fish minister not so many years ago.
Incident to the visit there was din
ner and the committee having it in
charge awoke the question as to
whether certain physician or a GER
tain lawyer was to have precedence
at table. A dispute threatened, when
it was decided to leave the matter to
one of the college professors to de-
eide classically. Asked to quote a
classical authority on social prece-
dence, but without knowing to whom
reference was made, the professor
said: 'Diogenes says, Let the thief
go before; let the eXecutioner follow
after" That was satisfactory in the
extreme. When the dinner took place
the lawyer was given precedence, and
the doctor came next. '1s that not &C.
cording to your friend Diogenes ?" the
chairman asked the professor, as he
indicated the places.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
GEORGE MINEHAN MEETS
WITH ACCIDENT

A letter was received Wednesday
by Henry Rablin, secretary of the
/. o. o. F. lodge inthis city, from
the secretary of a similar lodge at
Grand Rapids, Mimi, notifying him
that Brother Geo. Minehan had been
seriously hurt while loading saw
logs on to the cars on Monday, April
26th, and he had been sent to a
hospital for care and treatment. 1t
stated that his left arm and one leg
were broken and his back injured.
The letter gave no particulars as to
how the accident happened, simply
stated that it occurred while he
was loading saw logs upon cars.
George Minehan has been very
unlucky as he had his leg broken
once here while working on the Con-
solidated w. P. e Paper Company
dam several years ago. 1t is to be
hoped that no serious results will de-
velope from the injuries he received
to his back in this last accident.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
GIVING NEW LII 20 EGYPT.
Nile Dams Have Restored Prosperity
to Once Great Country of
the Pharaohs.

Damming the Nile is a fulfilling
hope of Egypt. The Esneh dam, re-
Gently opened, has been built for the
purpose of storing the food water and
providing perennial irrigation to a
tract of land containing 100000 acres,
IN which at present only one crop of
cereals can be grown When irrigated
the land will be capable of growing a
second or summer and more profitable
crop OF sugar or cotton.
The Nile is one Of the largest rivers
in the world, measuring more than
5000 miles form mouth to source. Ow-
ing to the fact that it has no tributar-
les for the last 1900 miles of its
course and the great amount of evap-
Grafton under the tropical heat of the
sun, it presents the peculiar phenome-
non that the quantity of water flowing
down the river decreases as the lower
length of its course is reached.
In floods it carries in suspension
soil derived principally from the vol
swampy regions of the White Nile.
The quantity of material thus trans
ported from the middle of Africa and
Abyssinia has been estimated at g.
0OO,0 tons a year, raising the level
of the cultivated land in Egypt at the
rate of 315 inches in a century, and to
a depth which in some places extends
to 80 feet.
The Nile being fed from lands hav-
ing wet and dry seasons, it has regu-
lar rise and fall, the water through
Egypt being at it's lowest in June and
reaching it's maximum in October. The
reading Of the nilometer at Rodah is
watched with the greatest interest, as
the prosperity of the country depends
on the height of the flood water. The
discharge of the food water is greater
than needed at high floods and def
Gent in low floods and in summer, SO
system of dams at different parts of
the river has been carried out for stor-
ing and regulating the supply.
These dams are leading factors in
the evolution of Egypt since it has
come under British control, and on
them the agriculture of Egypt largely
depends for it's existence.
The principal crops grown along the
Nile are wheat, sugar, cotton, rice,
maize and other smaller vegetation.
Where the supply of water is sufficient
two crops of cotton can be obtained
in one year. The cultivation of cotton
Is rapidly extending, the value of this
crop alone being nearly as great as the
whole revenue Of the country. Less
than thirty years ago Egypt was on the
verge of financial ruin. Now the peas
ants are prosperous and contented, the
revenue shows surplus, and the yield
of the crops has increased enormously.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
International Crisis,

While patroling his beat in the
small hours of a recent morning an
officer behe1d suspicious looking lit
tie figure shutting along in the shad
ows, bearing a bundle.
''Looka here" said the officer halt
ing the wanderer, where are yez
goin %
Me go home" was the short reply
Where did yez come from?''
Mort fghland," grunted the little
chap.
North iv Ireland. Indade an yez
did not" declared the officer. What
is yer name?"
Tara Makata."
Just at that moment a well-dressed
couple arrived ON the scene.
why, it is our Japanese servant
exclaimed the woman. ''He is carry
ing home our fancy dress costumes. -
she explained. He is all right. Off
GER"
'Oh, he's all right" said the officer.
releasing him reluctantly. well, thin,
what tn divvle does he name by tell
in me he's from tn north iv Ireland
an his name is Terry McCarty pr
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
Generosity and COMPASSION.

Generosity is more tried by an equal
than it is by an inferior, for the same
reason that it is so with humility
viz, that you are in competition with
your equals, and not in competition
with your interiors. We know that
the great obstruction to generosity in
our nature is jealousy-at least with
regard to such advantages as touch
our pride. 1t would be easy to be
generous to the intellectual claims of
other people, to their merits, to their
character, were there no element of
jealousy in ourselves. But compass
sion is relieved from this trial; com
passion cannot be jealous; its work
is with one who lies at it's feet, who
deprecates the slightest comparison.
How generous then will a man be to
the fallen; but let the man get on
his legs again, and it will sometimes
be hard to him who has been so
superabundantly generous even to be
barely just. 1t is thus that generos
lty to an equal is more difficult tina
generosity to an inferior.-Canon
MOZley
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
Danger in Diphtheria.

Chicago's health authorities are
starting an active campaign against
diphtheria, the disease which is giving
the department the hardest fight at
present. Dr. Evans, the health COM
missioner, declares that the diphtheria
patients themselves are not the great
est menace to the health of the COM
munity, but that the disease is spread
by those who have recovered and have
resumed their daily activities, or by
those who have been associated with
diphtheria patients, According to
Dr. Evans, it is possible for a perfectly
healthy person to carry diphtheria
germs in his mouth or clothing. The
aim of the department will be to iso-
late all patients until they are abso-
lutely free from the diphtheria ba-
cilIi.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
Bill Stubs of Kansas.

Kansas views the activities of the
new governor with feelings of almost
unmixed joy. But the railways, whom
he disciplined with an anti-pass law
and several other forms of drastic leg
islation beside the public commission
bill, have another idea about him
What do you think of Stubbs?" a
visitor asked one of the ex-railway
lobbyists.
WELL" he replied, she reminds me
of the story of North Carolina we'd
ding. They as the Lord have jined,
let no man put asunder says the par
son.
'Parson,' says the bridegroom, Z
rises to question your grammar in
that sentence. We wants this we'd
ding done right
when the smoke had cleared away
the bride looked around on a dead
minister, dead brother, a dead
bridegroom and several other dead
men lying near, and sighed:
Them new tangled, self-cockin'
revolvers, said she, sure has played
hell with my prospects Boston
Transcript
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
Mr.. G0sLlNGToN Fl EELs GOOD.
Has Discovered That He Can Wear
New Clothes Without Being
Stared at in street.

We'll, now" said Mr.. Goslington,
this is. encouraginga | have sported
out IN new suit of clothes without
having anybody stare at me, a great
advance on anything I've done yet.
In such circumstances I used to be
so self-conscious that in my efforts
TO appear natural II made myself all
the more conspicuous, so that every
body stared at Ine, to my further
great embarrassment and confusion,
but this time l seem to have got
through very ni9ely; nobody noticed
me at all.
Il don't know why it is, but we all
seem when we but on new clothes to
imagine ourselves the center of all
observation, and so despite the pride
we may have i'm them wearing them
the first time may be a great trial
knew man once who used to break
iii his new clothes gradually.
This friend of mine when he got
new suit would first wear the
trousers with an old waistcoat and
coat. The next day he would wear
the new waistcoat with old trousers
and coat, and then he'd wear the new
coat, with old waistcoat and trousers.
In this way he sort of accustomed
himself to his new things gradually,
so that he didn't feel SO strange in
them, and then on the fourth day he'd
swell out in the new suit complete.
And he thought this helped him a
heap, and l dare say it did help him
some; but it never appealed to me
and 1t looked like running away,
anyhow; and so when I've got a new
suit have just put it on and worn it
| have seemed self-conscious in it and
| know it, so that | walked differently
and acted differently in some way SO
that l attracted attention; but 1 have
braved it out, and now | realize that
l must have been improving.
For yesterday I wore for the first
time new suit and absolutely nobody
looked at me, and that is encouraging.
l don't know but that I would have
felt little better if one or two, just
one or two, had looked at it, but |
am nightly pleased to have had no.
body look at it. For really it makes
me feel that l am getting on. A man
has really got to be somebody when
he can wear Few clothes without hav-
ing people stare at him in the street"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
HONOR BRAVE DEAD
coMMEMoRAYIoN OF BATTLE AT
CHEMULPO.
Striking Contrast in Ceremonies Par
tlcipated in by Japanese and
Russians in Dismal and Un-
slightly Town of Korea.

The dismal city of Chepulpo, on
the west coast of Korea, recently wit
messed two strangely contrasting cere-
monies, each conducted by aliens in
the land and each commemorating the
historic event which served to make
the name Of the town known around
the world. The occasion of the dem
onstrationS was the anniversary of
the battle between the Russian and
Japanese naval detachments outside
the harbor
Hundreds of Japanese came down
from Seoul, the capital city, so miles
away, to join with the large Japanese
colony at Chemulpo in making the
day typical holiday of their home
land. All of the Japanese quarter in
the town blossomed with bunting,
flags and lanterns, day fireworks
banged off the new stone quay at the
water front and every sendo and rick
shaw man in town was out behind a
brass band, trailing his enthusiasm
through the narrow streets of the
monsrel town.
There were long speeches in the
high sounding formal oratory of the
Japanese, a parade drill of some of
the Japanese soldiers still retained in
Korea for the good of the Koreans
and long night afterward of saki
drinking and dancing by the geisha.
The Russians who came down from
Seoul had no part in the Japanese fes
tivities. With NJ. de Somow, the Rus
sian consul general, there were M.
Birukoff, the archimandrite of the Or
thodox church in Korea; few at
taches from the consulate and half
dozen Russian merchants and travel
erS.
They went out to the little foreign
burying ground on a bleak, treeless
hill back of the town and there,
where all of the dead that had been
recovered from the Variag and Ko-
rietz after the battle were buried,
the archimandrite conducted the or
thodoX service for the repose of the
dead. The responses were sung by
Korean converts.
stood in the cemetery with uncovered
heads while the priest offered up
prayers for the brave dead were those
who remembered the day when the
Variag and Korietz came limping back
into harbor after having stood off for
more than an hour the overwhelming
squadron under Admiral Uriu The
Variag, her unprotected sides pune
tured like sieve, was listing to such
an extent that the blackened shouts
dipping in the waves. The Korietz,
little gunboat hardly bigger than an
American revenue cutter, had been
under the protection of her bigger sis
ter and was practically inhurt
Then it was that, as the foreigners
who ranged the hillsides back Of the
town and the knobs of the harbor
islands saw the conquering Japanese
squadron coming in to take it's prizes,
the roar of fired magazines smote the
ugly little town and the two Russian
ships dropped to the mud of the har-
Dor. Even as the smoke of the explo-
sions mushroomed out in the higher
air strata and the bays waters We're
peppered with the falling fragments
of the fighting ships, the band on the
inner harbor struck up the heavy ca
dences of the Russian national hymn
in a requiem.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
AT AFTERNOON TEA
FUNCTION THAT is EXCLUSIVE
LY BRITISH.
Americans Seem Unable to Treat the
Ceremony with Proper Respect
Remember King George and
His Chumpishness.

Watch your American at tea, for his
behavior is bound to be individual.
There has never been anything in his
own experience quite like the COM
plete stoppage of toll and thought
which happens here under every roof,
domestic or commercial, at fixed
time OF every day in the year.
The only historic parallel to it is
the working of the spell in the legend
of the sleeping beauty when the cock
was enchanted in the middle of his
Growing and the cook in the middle of
her roast
In nurseries, in gaols, in the houses
OF parliament, in shops, mines, court
rooms, cab shelters, vestries, garri-
sons and along a thousand wharves
and jetties-whereve is the full play
of human activity-suddenly arrives a
moment, armed, as it would appear
with plenary powers, and the habit
able earth of Englishmen sits, crosses
its legs, and drains more than once a
dark, strong fluid out of cup.
This libation has nothing to do with
hunger-the overmeal would seem to
be purely hturgical Woe to the
stranger who looks lightly upon it,
for he is guilty of something more
glazing than Sabbath-breaking
Should he grin at it as a sort of
d1urnal picnic, he must soon be
brought to recognize in it sacrosanct
character, calling upon "aH that a
man has of fortitude and delicacy."
While the clock hands hover be-
tween four and five is no time for a
detached expression on the face of
the outlander
Secular antecedents could never &C.
count for the preternatural decency
and cody gloom of the spectacle as a
whole. Every cIean-collared, meek
eyed schoolboy who tiptoes about Of
fering the condiments which, in his
parents judgment go with tea, every
unnatural schoolboy of them all be-
HAYES exactly as he behaves in church
and as he behaves nowhere else but
here.
Strange that the student of COM
parative mythology has never turned
his attention to this ceremony! The
first sprightly runnings" of it were
not tannin but idolatry The very
word, tea, may have come into use
from the familiar invocation by his
initial of Thoth or Thor.
AS for the Americans, let them rest
in their atheism. Tea is great SYM
Dol, and their awe of tea is not
marked; besides, it is connected with
the memory of a just revolt, against
King George and his ,chumpishness.
That wasteful transaction in Bos-
ton harbor in the year of grace 1775
takes on an added impiety at home
when it is considered that it was not
any common beverage, but the one
unique and adored, which was thus
poured in disdain into the marine gut
ters.
After such a national sacrilege and
the curse attendant upon it, can rebels
be expected to retain the virginia. rap
lures which the subject inspires in
every true English bosom ?--London
Sphere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29

of Mrs. Hetty Green, has endeared
himself to the great woman f1nancier
by his simple tastes.
''Mr Astor Wilks," said a hotel
keeper of New York, ''sneers at osten-
tation. l remember when we opened
our new rocco dining room. 1t was,
| admit, rather empty the first week or
so. Mr.. Wilks, during the empty sea-
ons, dropped in one night for supper
after the play
I Approached him, eager for a com
pliment on our bright new splendor.
He nodded CURLY and said:
Truly magnificent. Thirty tables
for every customer"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
Didn't Know ScripturaI Quotation.

Writing about the tobacco tax pro-
posed by Mr. Sydow in the German
reichstag a reader of a Berlin paper
tells this story: urban VIII was also
an enemy of the weed. He hated to-
bacco and despised those who used it.
One day, after he had expressed him.
self against its use, there appeared a
p1acard on one of the church columns
in Rome, bearing this Inscription in
Latin: Wilt thou break "a leaf driven
to and fro? And wilt thou break the
dry stubble| The pope was so much
pleased with this that he offered a
prize of 500 scudi to the author if he
would present himself. A man came
but said that the prize belonged to
Job, for the words that had pleased
the pope, and the origin of which no
one at the Vatican seemed to have di-
vined, were from the Bible-Job xiii.
25."
Empty Splendor.
Matthew Acfor- Willis the S0u-;n-1aw