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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
Preacher Says Coquetry Is Door
to Divorce Court.
Potent Cause of That Coarseness and
sestiai VuIgarity Which Is Do
ing So Much to Diminish
Home Power.

ChIcago.-"If the true life story of
the 1888 Chicagoans divorced in the
last ten years were written, it would
be found that the first station which
led toward the divorce court was fire.
quently romantic Irritation at an
amusement park or fashionable sum-
mer resort"
This was one of the Introductory
comments made the other evening by
Rev, PerciVal H. Barker in a sermon
on The Pace That Kills" at the First
Congregational church, haywood
Flirting is potent cause of that
coarseness and bestial vulgarity which
IS doing so much at present to impair
the beauty and diminish the power Of
American home life, degrading mar
rage to the low level of a convenience
and to the still lower level of SEN
suality. Flirtations foster the social
evil" he continued
The mother who permits her six
teen-year-old daughter to sail about the
city in an automobile until two O'Clock
in the morning with a counterfeit
opOA I VI "Cch ia anu WSdh6I HUT
ais, opens the front door to grief and
disgrace. If you don't know what
company your daughter keeps or what
time of night she turns in, your roar
when gossips get busy will sound
about as pathetic as the wheeze from
a 1eWsharp.
This is the time for the modern
minister to shun idle and toothless
generalities and speak in unequivocal
language. There is something almost
criminal in the blank ignorance of
parents concerning the whereabouts OF
their children during the evening
hours
1T is more difficult to marry off
girl who has been paved over by
every chap in the community than it
is to fatten sheep on pineapple ice.
And should they come to Hymen's al
tar, they assume the responsibilities
of wifehood with the enthusiasm of
one legged man at a society club
dance, for they have firted away their
hearts until they are incapable OF
truly loving their husbands.
"The firt is likely to discover af-
fnities In other homes and put the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13

not be engaged at ALL at least as far
as your aunt's property is concerned?"
Il know" he said. Nobody sees
that any palmer than l do. That's
why I'm SO upset. What can have pos.
sessed the girl, do you suppose?
didn't think she was the trifing
kind!"
Nonsense" declared my wife, author
1tattvely, "a little coquetry in the right
place is perfectly admissible! She
didn't want to make it too easy for
you, that's all Very feminine. and
quite delightful of her, l call ito
That's all very WELL" replied Ter
hume with some heat, and proper
enough dare say! But think what
that same coquetry may cost mel"
And you could see as he said it that
he already beheld in his minds eye
that third cousin of his aunts sitting
on the veranda of the house on his
aunt's property in Australia, with his
feet on the railing.
We'll, if that's all you care about!
If you're only interested in getting
that silly old fortune of your aunt's.
hope, yes, I positively hope, that she
will keep you waiting until it is toe
late!" said Dearest Unexpectedly.
Terhune stared in surprise at this
point of view and l own | couldn't
help siding with him a little
But my dear girl" he protested
how can l help being interested In
it? a fortunes fortune, and besides,
isn't it for her, too, that l want it, as
well as myself? And then, you know,
how absurd it is if she's going to &C
cept me anyway, as I'm rather sure
she is, that she can't say so in time
to get HE fortune as we'll as a wife?'
Come, nowi" l put in. that does
seem reasonable, doesn't it, Dearest?'
Il thought you understood better
than that, Wilfred," she said, with
look almost of severity at me, and tc
Terhune. I see you must be chastened
still further, Archibald" she told him
until you learn what true love is,
| DISTINGUISHED unselfish love,"
fTO BE CONTINUED.)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
SEE PRAIRIE HENS END

and 800 prairie chickens fly over the
town of Grand. Out in the thinly set
tied country, prairie chicken were a
pest. The few farmers were delight
ed when hunters appeared, and en-
couraged the shooting of the hardy
birds that were devastating their
meager crops. Often 400 and 500
chickens would rise from a single
small field.
Notwithstanding its stringent game
laws, enacted since statehood, Okla
homa has been unable to protect It's
prairie chickens. The tragedy has
been that the birds were most nu-
merous in the remote regions, where
game wardens rarely went, and where
they would have difficulty in overta-
king law-breakers. The result has
been that in addition to the native
glInners, others have poured over the
border from other states, and helped
hasten the destruction of the prairie
chicken.
The chickens are trying hard to
stay in their old haunts in the new
county of Harper. Two hunters
secured the Harper county prairies
for two days last week, and got only
forty chickens. This, in all conscience,
was enough, but poor showing COM
pared with other years, when that
many birds could have been killed
easily in half a day.
These two hunters had the good for
tune to see a species of game that is
disappearing more rapidly than the
prairie chickens. Coming suddenly
over sandhill they saw four antelope
and fawn in the distance. They saw
four antelope on the same range a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
SYNOPSIS.

Archibald Terhune, a popular young
bachelor OF London. IS suddenly aroused
from the aimless and iadoIent life he
leads, by the startling news from the law
firm Of Barnes, Wiloughby & Son, that he
Is the heir to a sheep farm in Australia
bringing In an income of $4,000 q year.
The beQuest comes from an aunt, Mrs.
GeoTgiana James Of Essex She makes
him her heir on condition that he marry
within ten days or forfeit the legacy to a
third cousin living in America. The story
opens at Castle Wycl1Off. where Lord Vim
cent and his wife staunch friends of Ter
hume, are discussing plans TO find Ter
hume wife within the allotted time. Tt
seems that Lady Vincent Is one Of seven
persons named Agatha, all whom have
been close girlhoOd chums. She decides
70 invite two Of them to a party at the
castle and have Archie there as one OF
the guests. Archie accepts the invitation
and the Vincents discuss his prospects IN
all their varied bearings. He listens to
their descriptions Of the two Agatha's
and decides that the sixth shall be his
choice. Agatha first and Agatha sixth
arrive at the castle. Agatha the Sixth
strikes Archie as q handpainted beauty
Agatha First is a breezy American girl
Only eight days remain for Archie to Sc
cure a bride. Lady Vincent tells her hus
band that Agatha the Sixth already cares
COR Archie
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
BUILDING GOOD DAIRY HOUSE
Detailed Directions for Constructing
Suitable Structure over Spring
on Hillside.
nv T G. wEATHERsON,

By J. G. WEATHERSON.)
A fine dairy house may be built
over a spring. You know about what
size room will be required for your
work. Build the spring house with
the end against the hillside and ar.
range it so the overflow stream from
the spring will run along one side,
leaving just room enough to walk be-
tween the water and wall Have
space enough on the other side of the
room for work bench and shelves,
also a walk.
Arrange outside shelves on the sun,
ny side for summing and airing the
milk things.
If convenient make a cement floor
If not pave the floor and also the bot
tom and edges of the stream closely
with large fiat stones. Put boards
over the stone floor to walk and stand
on.
Construct drain pipe to carry the
water for some distance after it leaves
the interior of the house so the ap-
proach will not be damp. Have no
board foundations that will rot or
mold. Everything about the dairy
house must be clean and sweet. Have
plenty of light on the side where your
work bench is.
If you have good ventilation a gas
oline stove for heating water to wash
the utensils would be practicable as
it would make little heat If you
must use a coal or wood stove the
room for it should be above the spring
house, not in it.
In placing the stones on the bed of
the stream prop them carefully so
they will be perfectly fat so the pans
or crooks may be set upon them in
the water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13

piled Wonderful good tennis. Dear
est" and dropping our racquets, We
went to speak to Arch.
l wouldn't have told Dearest for the
world, Of course, but the truth was
that in spite of my praise of her play
ing, l had let her beat
Couldn't you find a groom to take
the cart down for your" I inquired
rather Indignantly as Terhune came to
q halt in the road. Lazy beggars,
those grooms!"
THE butler told me you people
were down here playing tennis, said
Arch, and I was in such a hurry to
see you 7 brought it down myself.
Thought I'd walk back with you,
y'know."
Agatha held out her hands to him
eagerly as he got down and stood be
side US.
Then you've got something to tell
us!" she cried, you have!-I know
you haTe!"
In way-yes!" he answered, 'fbut
it's not what you think, at least not
exactly. By JoYe, Vincent" turning
to me, I'm in an awful mess! a beast
~ unfortunate dilemma, don't you
know"
But 1 don't know What's the trou-
bic. Arch? Tell u.s."
Yes, tell u.s." urged my wife.
We'll, you see," began the old boy,
and he mopped his brow with his
handkerchief in an anxious way that
made me feel quite sorry for him,
you see the way of it was, I went
and asked her all right, but" he
paused.
But what, What did she say?"
cried Dearest and 1 together.
For heavens sake!" I added, as he
still stammered, get it out!"
She said,' he replied grandly,
that she cared for me-"
Then what on earth are you put
ting on such long face about?" I
roared, and Dearest asked him anx-
iously what was wrong about that
Why, the trouble is he told US,
in spite Of that admission she won't
give me a definite answer until
month from now"
But she can't wait that Iong!" l
expostulated, as if Terhune himself
We're to blame for this complication.
Don't you see that if you're not actu-
ally and for a fact engaged by the
end of this week you might as well
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
SLAUGHTER DEER FOR SKINS
New York Merchants Get Consignment
Of Ten Thousand Hides-Much
Fear of determination.

Monterey, Mex.-As an evidence of
the woeful slaughter of deer that ia
going on in this part of Mexico, there
was recently shipped from Monterey.
in one lot, 10980 deer skins, consigned
to New York. The animals from which
these skins were obtained were all
killed within radius of two hundred
milcs of Monterey during the last two
months.
Many Mexicans are now constantly
employed slaughtering deer for their
skins. In some localities these ami
mails have been killed off so rapidly
during the last few years that they
have almost all disappeared There Is
no law in this country for the protec-
ton Of deer or other wild game, and
a horde of American sportsmen, chief
ly from Texas, are constantly crossing
the border and slaughtering the ami
mails in this country by the wholesale.
number of legitimate sportsmen
of Mexico have made an appeal to the
government to adopt measures which
will protect deer and other wild game
cSdlliCl LlLE lliuI5CI SldURnIer
that is now going on. 1t is held that
unless this is done all of the animals
will have been killed off in a few
more years.
The chief deer skin shipping point
in Mexico is Tampico Many thou
sands of skins Of deer and the hides
Of various other animals are shipped
annually from that port to the United
States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
DID PAPER IN NEW HANDS
Harrison Family Loses Control of
London Gazette After Tenure
of 1870 Years.

London.-"Old Subscriber" has plen-
ty to think over these days. There is
TO be a jolt in the career of the Lon
don Gazette, England's Oldest news
paper, which, established 243 years
ago, now is nearing it's thirty thou
sandth number. For more than 100
years the Gazette has been printed and
published by Messrs. Harrison of st.
Martins Lane, but the government re-
Gently put up the contract for public
bids and the prize has been taken by
the firm of Wyman & Co.
The paper was started by the court
when it fed to Oxford to escape the
great plague in the reign of Charles
III. 1t then was called the Oxford Ga
kette. On the return of the court to
London the name was changed to that
which the paper has borne ever since.
Copies of the paper are in posses
sion of the Harrison family bearing
the name of the great-great-grand
er of the present manager, Thomas
Harrison, the issues being dated as far
back as 1880 The paper prints all
the official announcements and adver-
tisements under acts of parliament.
It also especially announces all state
events.
Years ago, before the war Office and
admiralty and other government bu-
reaus gave out news direct to news
papers as is done today, 1t held all
othef news publications at its mercy,
for It printed exclusively all such re-
portl. In those days it was the first
TO pablish war news and to obtain in
formation on such events. It has yield
en- an ample profit annually to the
governmental treasury.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13

ing consciousness that things were 60
ing well with our loveTeTs. pervading
every stroke We had observed with
pleasure on the evening previous that
Archibald had done nothing but de-
vote himself to Agatha Sixth, and had
brought his devotion in public 10 q
well-maGaged termination by inviting
the girl out for a stroll on the terrace
to see the moon." Happy excuse for
seeing each other me-honored and
tfme-worn, but as good as new to each
fresh pair Of lovers! And from this
moonlight walk Agatha had augured,
and I had hoped, great things.
Then again early that morning we
had seen them depart for drive to
the village. where it seemed young
Miss Lawrence had an errand. I don't
know that I have mentioned before
that Lawrence was Agatha Sixth's last
name, just as Endicott was Agatha
First's. l have grown so used to re-
ferring to them as Arch and l were
accustomed to do in the days when
there was a necessity for keeping
their Identities a secret beyond the
knowledge of their first names, that
I'd almost forgotten they had any
other.
The best part of the thing was that
although they had only two miles to
go, the pair had not yet returned. And
1t was now high noon. Dearest
couldn't get over it. and frisked and
hoped so, had to beg her to remem-
Der that she was playing tennis and
not cup and ball"
Forty loVe!" 1 called across the
net, serving my fast serve that I sell
dom use against my wife, in my pre-
occupation as my thoughts would per
sfst in dwelling upon Arch and his
love affair rather than upon the game
L say, do you think they can have
eloped?"
That's too good to hope fort" re-
turned Agatha, though she was not so
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D)4AHYN{mEs
80 7c{1 --Sa1< ~
IL a}gy---lez Sa4s e

Think twice before selling the good
COW and then don't sell her.
Care must be taken not to get the
cream too sour for churning.
Remember the cow likes regular
meal hours as we'll as you do.
See that the dairy COW at all times
has access to clear, fresh water.
The best thing with which to clean
a separator is a small, stiff brush.
If the cow is to produce pure milk
she must have pure food and water.
One cannot properly clean milk
pals without the use of boiling water.
The hand separator has been a step
to greater dairy profits on many a
farm
The real butter-maker of our coun-
try is the farm COW whose milk never
goes to the creamery.
AS the calf is so is the COW. Poor
care in caIfhood means a poor COW
when she comes to maturity.
It's a mistake to imagine that the
good COW is going to be profitable
with haphazard, Indifferent care.
The Iowa state dairy law forbids
selling milk from cows within two
weeks of calving and five days after.
Many mixers object to brushing a
cows sides and washing the udder be-
cause it requires ten minutes time.
Such men have no business handling
COWS.
Clean cows not only have the name
of making good butter, they have the
game as well; but you have got to be
as neat as they are about every sin,
gle bit of your work.
In dairy herds, even where stables
are darkened and the cattle kept in
part of the day, the loss in milk
fields resulting from the annoyance
caused by flies is often quite mate
rial.
1t is poor economy to keep from the
COW the feed from which milk and
butter-fat can be produced When you
cut down on the feed, you cut down
on your profit.
This is the most trying time of the
season for the dairy COW. She has
been fighting flies and poor pasture
Help out the supply of feed if you
want her to do her best.
Milk containing less than twenty
per cent. of butter-fat cannot be
churned at a temperature below so
degrees. but milk containing So per
cent. or more can be churned at lower
temperature with good results
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
Game Bird Rapidly Diminishing in
Numbers.
Driven Away by Settlers in Oklahoma
and Gunners Evade Stringent
Laws and Slaughter Few
Remaining,

Guthrie, Okla.-Hunters of prairie
chicken in Oklahoma this season re-
port them diminishing rapidly In num-
Ders. Like the buffalo, the prairie
chickens in the southwestern prairies
Go not seem able to withstand the ad,
vance of civilization. This is due not
merely to their being ruthlessly
slaughtered, but to their instinct to
seek unsettled regions adapted to their
habits.
-Four or five years ago chickens were
abundant in western Oklahoma coun-
ties bordering on the Panhandle of
Texas, beginning in Beckham county
and running north to the Kansas line.
The chicken did not range east of this
western tier of counties, save in Wood
ward and Woods counties. The few
remaining chickens are found now in
Harper. western Woodward, Ellis and
northern Roger Mills, with scattering
punches in what once was mo Mans
Land" now composed of the counties
Of Beaver, Texas and Cimarron. Across
the line, in the Texas Panhandle, is a
good chicken range.
Chickens were so numerous in Ellis
county for years ago that late in the
fall it was not uncommon to see 200
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13

successful with the ball Camel" l
cried, as it smashed into the net. But
for once Dearest was not Yexed with
me for winning. With smile so abb
stracted and clairvoyant as to make
me guess at once the tenor of her
thoughts, she picked up the ball and
wandered back to the service line.
Ready" she called, but instead
of serving, suddenly let her racquet
fall Gathering to the ground.
"Wilfred!" she cried, as if a happy
thought had struck her, do you sup
pose he will ask her today"
More than likely" I answered ex-
uberantly. and then, coming close up
to the net, but l say, sweetheart,
aren't you going to play any more?"
20, yes!" she cried, starting and
stopping quickly to recover her
racquet. "Of course / am! I was
only just thinking"
so was I! But don't let's any more,
or we can't play the game." So we
succeeded in putting all thought of the
two out of our heads and fell to play
ing some pretty fast tennis.
Agatha First, l may explain, in the
meantime was playing golf all by her
self down on the course by the river
Dearest had offered her the escort of
young Leslie Freer, the rector's son.
who lived down in the village, but
she would have none of him, to my
dismay. In fact l had begun to feel
conscience-stricken almost for fear
we were neglecting the poor girl in
our absorption in our other two
guests, but Dearest had treasured me
by saying she thought Agatha First
WAS the kind OF girl who preferred
oit-of-door exercise and her own COM
pany to any number of young men.
l had just succeeded in making the
score of a holly contested game
deuce" again. when the dog cart in
which Terhune and Miss Lawrence
had driven of that morning appeared.
approaching briskly from the direction
of the castle where Terhune had ap-
parently left his companion on his
way to the stables
Vantage in, Camel" called my
wife triumphantly. You're no good
at all, Wilfred." Game. set" I re-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
NEED GIRLS WHO CAN TALK

She could go home and write an
essay on beautiful sunset.
Parents at home can often teach
children to read and to read right.
Galvanized methods of reading are
quite unnecessary.
The child as baby likes to talk
it IS his nature. When the children
find language bore. it Is not their
fault-it is ours
"As a rule a course of study tends
to pigeon hole child's activities; but
this course is mapped out to stimulate
useful, sensible. profitable co-opera-
ton.
in the high schools, sad to say. the
teacher Of English does not find all
the cooperation she should have. The
teacher of science uses slang and muir
ders the English language.
The pupils in Cur schools. particu-
larry In the lower grades. are like
Tenn-son's brook; they fbabble on
forever
"A principal of Chicago school
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
orn1al Instructor Says They Live
Too Much by Sook-New
Course Is Remedy.

-hicago.-oThe girl gets her Ideas
a !; TO how she should act when she is
proposed to from the books she reads
Snu has no other way to get them.
Sop.al standards our young people
are getting are obtained from the III
sra-are they read"
lanes F. Hosie of the Chicago Nor
7al school made the statement the
Their day at the first monthly meeting
f the Head Assistants association OF
he present school year. His subject
as THE .Iew Course of Study just
1troduced in the schools.
up to a year ago." he said, not
ne out of forty girl graduates from
he high schools that entered the nor
lal school could get up before her fell
0w students and tell III pleasing
lanner what she was asked to tell.
he could not tell how to make bread
how to make a dress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
Rest for the Milk Msker

Whenever a cow has been so bred
as to produce milk continuously when
fairly well fed it is better for the COW
to fed her well and continue to milk
her up to the time of calving. But ii
must be remembered that such cows
are phenomenal and do not represent
the common run of good (not bad)
dairy cows. Hence, as a rule, it is
better to allow the average COW six
weeks rest between the milking pc.
Rod and the freshening.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13

inches in length. Holes, a little larger
than the diameter of the rope, are
bored at each end of the sticks. The
pieces are then threaded upon the
rope tying knot on each side of each
stick to prevent it from slipping out of
place. The sticks are so arranged that
there will be three on each side of the
cows neck as indicated in the accom-
panying drawing. The collar is then
adjusted and seldom fails to have the
desired effect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-13
Our Duty to Ourselves

The duty of a wise care for health
is bigger than merely adding to our
personal happiness. To large extent
It determines the efficiency OF our
lives Many man learns after ii Is
too late that he would have been at
for better and more work If he had
always preserved the sane and sensf
Bile bearing toward the laws of health
and life which experience teaches.
No one In these days has any excuse