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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-07-08

In speaking about the good work being done by
Mayor Gill in Seattle the Kent Advertiser says HE
is one of the few honest upright officials" all of
which may be absolutely correct, but it certainly
sounds a good deal more like fiction than facts
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-07-08

John A. Johnson the worlds fstic champion, now
occupies field of his own, and in the is
to be found to measure arms with him. He occupies
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
Plymouth Rock.

Plymouth Rock has become an OBJ
ject Of generation in the United States
because of its interesting historical as
sociations As is well known, it is the
rock or ledge on which the pilgrims
are believed to have landed when they
first stepped from their boats in the
harbor of what is now Plymouth,
Mass. In 1775 part of the rock was
removed to the vicinity of Pilgrim
hail. but was afterward restored to its
original site, and is now under the
stone canopy that surmounts the main
rock on Water street. Charles Sumner
said: From the deck of the May
flower, from the landing at Plymouth
rock, to the Senate of the United
States is a mighty contrast, covering
whole spaces of history hardly less
than from the wolf that sucked Romu-
lus and Remus to that Roman Senate
which on curule chairs swayed Italy
and the world"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
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The COunTrN'S Hog Famine,

Hogs this week sold at the Chicago
stockyards at the highest market price
since Chicago began making prices for
the world. Why the hog crop is short
requires going back some years TO ex-
plain, TO the ruinous markets Of two
years ago, when the packets set the
price at 81 to $3.50 for what they now
are giving SO to 1925. At the prices
two years ago the hog producers had
no profits, and that years porcine crop
passed into the packers hands under
cost of production. In consequence,
many farmers went out of the business
of producing hogs, and il is stated that
until q few months ago breeding stock
was reIentlessly shipped to market.
The natural result is a famine in hogs.
The Chicago packers, if this analysis
be true and it is that of the experts,
have themselves to blame. In their
greed, when the opportunity occurred,
they forbade the farmer his profit. Now
the inevitable punishment retaliates
upon the packers, who are forced to
pay the farmer an exorbitant profit. Ii
the packers had been pound-wise and
not penny-fOolish, they would always
have allowed the producer a reasonable
profit and would have avoided the
present famine prices. The packers,
moreover, will now suffer cOndem-
nation of public opinion. They were
not in the pubIic's good graces as
things were. They are much less like
ly to be in those good graces when the
effect in full of the hog famine which
they have created, is felt by the con-
sumers.-Minneapo Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
WAYS OF COURTING.
They Are Many, but Woman Gener-
ally Manages to Make Selection.

They Are Many, but Woman Gener-
ally Manages to Make Selection.
A new idea in courtship is con-
tanned in the story of the Redwood
City man, says the San Francisco
Chronicle, who pursued his inamorata
and his rival in an automobile, tried
to board their car armed with a pis-
toI and a sheath knife, and although
defeated in the melee which followed,
ultimately took the young woman to
San Rafael and married her. OF
course tradition has it that man al
ways was the pursuer and woman the
pursued, but recently man has been
stripped of his conceit and relegated
to his proper place.
To the mind of Alfred Fred Won
HOfen man is still the purSUer and
woman the object of pursuit. 1t is
a consoling thought for the sterner
sex to believe that counting is con
trolled by the same judgment and
method Of procedure that characterizes
his business activity. 1t fits into his
philosophy of life and distinguishes
him from woman.
And yet. after all, is this not de-
fusion? Man is never happier than
when deceiving himself in matters OF
love. Hence, by the way, the bliss Of
counting. A man thinks he wades into
love with his eyes open. But does he?
Is he not, on the contrary, led?
Take the Redwood City case. Here
the woman resorted to no such crude
method as to awaken the suspicion of
Won Hofen that he was the man she
sought for a husband. That might
have wounded his delicate sensibili
ties; accordingly she went for an au
tomobile ride with the other man.
taking care, it may be hazarded, to
let Won Hofen gain an inkling of what
was afoot. That afforded him later
an excuse for imagining that he was
the one who made the selection.
There are different ways of achiev-
ing the same object, and how wom-
an does it all no man knows, nor will
he ever know. 1t is an art exclusive
ly feminine. And as, take it all in
ALL it has probably increased human
happiness and made the world better,
why should we wish to penetrate this
veil of mystery?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
INDIANS IN STRAIGHT WAY
Campaign for ''MoraI UpIift" and
Temperance Shown to Have
Borne Fruit.
BANIsHING THE FIRE WATER. :"
Seven Hundred Navajoes Give Up
Gambling Devices, Which Are
Exhibited at Washington.

Uncle Sans campaign for moral
upl1ft' among his army wards, which
has been carried on with vigor since
1t was begun by the Roosevelt admins
tratlon, has been marked chiefly by the
suppression of the sale and use of
fire water among the braves and the
consequent reduction in the number
OF warlike outbreaks on the reserva-
tons
Annual reports of reservation super
intendents attribute their success to
the cooperation of state and federal
authorities, which has been more gen
eral during the last year than ever
before. This campaign Of we'll direct
ed effort among the Indian officials
has been fraught with good results
in other directions and gradually the
tribesmen are being drawn from many
Of the destructive habits of their for
mer nOmadic existence.
Washington officials evinced deep in
terest in the report to Assistant In
dian Commissioner Abbott that 700
Navajo Indians went to their white
father superintendent recently and,
surrendering an enormous stock of
gambling paraphernalia, enrolled their
names beside those of the simple life"
opponents. The gambling devices were
shipped to Washington and have been
placed on exhibition with the immense
collection of relics and trophies at the
Indian bureau
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
The Week
in Congress


No Senators being prepared to dis,
cuss the postal savings bank bill Mon
day, that measure was laid aside for
other business. The Senate passed the
House bill requiring the census emu
merators to include IN their reports all
the cattle slaughtered in the United
States, and incorporated an amendment.
requiring the collection of statistics
regarding national and state irrigation.
After considering the rivers and har-
bors appropriation bill for about seven
hours, the House succeeded in dispos-
ing of 10 of the 100 pages of that
measure without making any import
ant changes. Speaker Cannon obtain
ing the floor, gave his approval to the
pending bill, incidentally telling the
Democrats if they should ever come
into control Of the House they would
realize the necessity of providing meth
DDS of procedure that will allow them
to transact business, or else by mac
ton disapDoint the people who had
placed them in the majority.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
DOUBLING OUR IMPORTS.
This Is Our Remarkable Record I'm
the Year Recently Closed.

This Is Our Remarkable Record I'm
the Year Recently Closed.
Some remarkable features in foreign
commerce of the United States last
year are shown in the official govern
ment figures. The total imports dur
ing 1909 were valued at $1,475,600 900,
compared with $1116, 100000 in 1908
Manufacturers materials formed ac-
tually more than one-half of the total
imports and increased in value nearly
so per cent when compared with 1908
Wool imports more than doubled in
value, having been $55.500,O0O in 1902
against S23.333,0OO in 1908. Hides and
skins nearly doubled in value, having
been $104, 100000 in 1909, against $685.
100000 in 1908. India rubber imports
also nearly doubled in value, having
been $7g,OOO,OO0 in 1909, against S45,-
100000 in 1908. Raw silk increased
from S640OO,OOO in 1908 to $74,OOO,0OO
in 1909; lumber from S14,500,OO0 to
$1S,333, 900; tin, from $24,O 600 to $27,-
100000; copper in pigs and bars, from
$23OOO00O to $50, 100000, and cotton,
from S13,5OO,000 to $15,O0O,0 600.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
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Sporting
- World Wt6fr
~@ON~~-~~~~~

The La Crosse normal school basket
ball team recently defeated the Vino
ma five at Winona by a score of 80 to
%.
It has been decided that June 80
shall be the date for the annual Har-
vard-Yale boat race at New London,
Conn.
Racing in the East will begin at the
Pimlfco tracks, where the racing dates
will be from April 20 to May II, in
elusive.
The fastest trotter of the new
year is said to be Elma s., 2:2612. She
has demonstrated her ability to gain d
record of 2:10 before the end of the
season.
The Motor Boat Club of America has
decided that Aug. 20 shall be the date
for the races for the British interna-
tfonal trophy. The races will be held
at Huntington Harbor, L. L
John G. Lathrop, formerly coach of
the Harvard University track team,
has been appointed by the regents to
take charge of the training Of the track
athletes of the University of Wiscon-
sin.
The greatest gathering of famous
American and European skiirs ever
held in this country occurred 1T
Stoughton, Wis, when the Stoughton
Ski Club held the biggest ski tourna-
ment ever held in Southern Wisconsin.
Carl SoIberg, who recently came TO
America, took three prizes, the best
amateur two jumps, the most graceful
jump and in winning two jumps.
Jay Gould, who has been racing a
stable in France and Italy this winter.
has a fine string of thoroughbreds
which he will race upon the continental
turf this season.
Charles Koehler, a wealthy piano
manufacturer of New York, is said to
have purchased S. c. Hildreth's Fitz-
herbert for $4,000. Fitzherbert was the
champion 3-year-old last year.
Statistics recently compiled in Lex
ington, KY, show that the fifty largest
money-winning thoroughbreds on the
American turf have, together, won
total of $3.50. $50, an average of s107,-
139 a head.
Louisville's base ball club would like
to establish a farm for the develop
ment of talent and has made overtures
to the president of the Ohio State
League in an informal way to take ur
the Newark franchise, now in the
hands of the league, and operate
team there. If local talent cannot be
interested in that town. Louisville
stands a good chance of getting the
franchise on payment of $1,000 table
which the league has assumed.
Five United States Kinks defeated an
equal representation of Canadian curl
ers at Duluth, Mimi, in the lnterna
tional event, the feature competition OF
the annual Northwestern bonspiel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
All Eyes on HaIIey's Comet.

An interesting variety of opinions
have found their way into the press IN
regard to the nature and possible in
f1uences of Halley's comet, which is
due to approach nearest to the earth on
May 16, and on which the eyes of the
whole scientific world are now center
ed. Prof. Edwin B. Frost of the Yerkes
Observatory in Wisconsin says: Hal
Ieys comet is about 100000 times as
large as the earth, but although the
earth's gravity may change the orbit
of the comet, the earth's path through
the sky will be unaffected by the APP
preaching proximity of the two bodies
He points out that the comet is gas
eous and its mass comparatively slight
and that, therefore, it's attraction will
not affect the planets while the solid
heavy planets are likely to affect the
comet a great deal Prof Edwin Booth.
of the department of chemistry at the
University of California says that if
the astronomers are right in their es-
timation of the amount of cyanogen
gas in the tail of the comet, we may
have a chance to feel the sensation of
the bugs and insects that are being
killed by this same gas. He says we
will be all snuffed out if enough of this
gas unites with the oxygen of the
earth's atmosphere. The astronomical
and Astrophysical Society of America
is equipping an expedition, under Fred
eric Ellerman of the Pasadena Observ-
atory, which will take observations of
the comet from the Hawaiian Islands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
CURRENT NEWS NOTES

Arthur and Willie Ellenberger, aged
and ?, were burned to death with
their home at McClusky, n. D.
Harry X. Thaw's latest application
for his discharge from the NIatteawan
State hospital for the criminal insane
was denied by Justice A. S. Tompkins.
The main building of the Delaware
River Steel Company, formerly the
Tidewater Steel Company, was destroy
ed by fire at Chester, Pa; loss $1,000
Governor Fort, of New Jersey, in a
special message asked the LEGISLATURE
to approve the proposed income tax
amendment to the federal Constitution.
Feud among Italian miners at Mid
way, Pa, eliminated in the killing of
three men, shot in their own homes.
State constabulary are pursuing the
two slayers.
Eight hundred students have been
on strike at the Nebraska State Normal
School because the State board of edu-
cation requested the resignation of
President ]. W. Crabtree.
Lieutenant Governor Cox of Ken
lucky appointed a committee to inves-
tigate rumors that four Senators were
paid $4,000 to vote against the county
unit local option extension bill.
The engine and several cars of the
Cleveland New York express on the
Erie Railroad were derailed at Wanda
liza, but no one was injured.
Experts from the University of Gin
cinnati declared that the explosion
which shook the down town district
the previous night was caused by nj
troglycerin, but the whole affair re-
mains mystery.
Judge Foster in the United States
District Court at New Orleans has de-
cided that the so-called "bleached
flour" case, involving the petition of
the government against the Aetna Mill
ing Company of Kansas, shall be tried
in that court.
Nearly complete returns indicate the
election of A. S. Roddenberry, of Thorn
asville, Ga, to succeed the late Repre-
sentative James NJ. Griggs in the Sec
ond Congressional District
Twenty or more persons were injur-
ed at Chattanooga, Tenn, when a
switch engine backed into and tossed
for distance of more than twenty feet
a crowded interurban street car.
Action for $4,000 damages is to be
commenced against the Panama gov
eminent by Harvey Rosenthal and
Fred G. Ringle, of Tiffin, Ohio, for al
legged false Imprisonment in New Or
leans on a charge of numbering the
Panama police chief
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
Poverty Follows High Prices.

Effects of the increased cost of liv-
ing upon the working classes in New
York are shown in the largely expand
ed number of applications to the city
for aid.
The rising tide of inability to make
income keep pace with living expenses
is indicated in the fact that during the
last twelve months more than $4,000
persons sought relief from the chart
ties department, an increase of more
than so per cent in five years. There
were 32,995 applications in 1904.
In seven years the number of per-
sons seeking shelter in the city lodS-
ing house has augmented until last
year 400 persons applied, an in
crease of more than 100 peS cent for
the period. From 112 in 1906 the daily
average has risen in three years to 28l.
Suicides have increased nearly SO
per cent from 1904 to 1909
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24

The La Crosse normal school basket
ball team recently defeated the Vino
ma five at Winona by a score of 80 to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
Deafness Cannot be Cured

Dy local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies Deafness is
caused by an infamed condition of the mu-
cous lining Of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when 1t is
entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored TO its normal condi-
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh
which Is nothing but inflamed condition
of the mucous surfaces
We viii give One Hundred Dollars foI
any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists. roc.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
Hunting Trumes as sport.

Quite apart from the interest OF fun
gi to the naturalist the temptation
cannot here be resisted to refer to a
method of procuring one kind of fun
gus, which might take rank among
the minor sports. This is the fashion,
originating in France, of procuring the
truf1e by the aid Of swine and hounds.
More ill-assorted sporting companions
can hardly be imagined The truffle
grows underground. Pigs are particu-
larly fond of these delicacies and,
guided by the scent, will discover
them by roofing in the earth After
the discovery of the truf1es the dogs
are employed to beat back the pigs
and prevent them from devouring the
spoil. And every quality dear to the
sportsman Of skill and judgment is
needed to control and obtain the de
sired result from the efforts of a herd
of swine and pack of hounds-Lon-
don Outlook.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24

Few parents realize how many es
Unable lives have been embittered
and social and business success pre-
vented by serious skin affections
which so often result from the neglect
of minor eruptions in infancy and
childhood With but little care an
the use Of the proper emollients. ba5y's
skin and hair may be preserved, puri
fed and beautihed, minor eruptions
prevented from becoming chronic and
torturing, disfguring rashes, itchings.
Invitations and chafngs dispelled
To this end, nothing is so pure, so
sweet, so speedily effective as the con-
slant use of Cuticura Soap, assisted,
when necessary, by Cuticura Ointment
Send to Potter Drug & Chem Corp,
sole proprietors, for their free 32-page
Cuticura Book, telling all about the
care and treatment of the skin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
SHE QUIT.
But 1t Was a Hard Pull.


1t is hard to believe that coffee will
put a person in such condition as it
did an Ohio woman. She tells her
own story:
Il did not believe coffee caused my
trouble, and frequently said I liked it
so we'll l would not, and could not
quit drinking it, but I was a miserable
sufferer from heart trouble and nerv-
Gus prostration for four years.
Il was scarcely able to be around,
had no energy and did not care for
anything. Was emaciated and had a
constant pain around my heart until
l thought l could not endure it. For
months I never went to bed expect
ing to get up in the morning. l felt
as though l was liable to die at any
time.
Frequently I had nervous chills and
the least excitement would drive sleep
away, and any little noise would upset
me terribly. l was gradually getting
worse until finally one time it came
over me and I asked myself what's
tue use VI USluS SICh ali the tine anu
buying medicine so that I could in
dulge myself in coffee?
$50 I thought I would see if l could
quit drinking coffee and got some
Postum to help me quit I made it
strictly according to directions and I
want to tell you that change was the
greatest step in my life. 1t was easy
to quit coffee because I had the Post
um which l now like better than the
old coffee.
"One by one the old troubles left,
until now I am in splendid health
nerves steady, heart all right and the
pain all g>ne. Never have any more
nervous ch1lls, don't take any medi-
cine, can do all my homework and
have done great deal besides"
Read THE Road to MELVILLE" in
pkgs There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
AFTER RETAIL TRADE.
Steel Trust Now Wants the Profits
of the Jobbers.

The United States Steel Corporation
has decided to go after the steel job
bling trade and the steel jobbers' profit
throughout the United States, and at
the same time deliver a telling blow to
Independent makers of steel, according
to a Pittsburg dispatch. It's plan was
revealed recently through the letting
of contracts by the Carnegie Steel
Company for a mammoth warehouse
in the heart of the business section If
Pittsburg. The corporation will deal
directly with the small consumer of
steel in any form, something the trust
has never before done.
The Pittsburg warehouse, which is to
be duplicated in Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo, Cincin-
natl, st. Louis, Omaha, New Orleans
and Dallas, will have power to run
cranes, cold saws, planes, punches, etc.
so that the small consumer, who has
hitherto bought from the jobber, can
have his material cut and fitted before
it leaves the warehouse.
Independent, as well as trust-made
steel, has been handled by jobbers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
Knew the Calendar.

They were little girls, so small that
the teacher was telling them about
divisions of time, and receiving all
sorts of answers to her simple ques-
tons. The little girl who lived in a
boarding house was a year older than
any of the Others
We have learned that years ere
divided into months, months into
weeks, and weeks into days" said the
teacher. Now can any one tell me
how the days are divided?"
The little girl who lived in a board
ing house raised her hand, and was
asked to speak.
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays, beef" she said, glibly;
Friday, fish; Saturday, corn beef and
beans, and Sunday, chicken"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-24
Strike of Miners Threatened.

Fears of a big coal miners strike
were confirmed when the joint scale
conference of miners and operators
failed to organize at Toledo. If no
agreement is made before April 1 it is
generally conceded that a general ces-
sation of all mining in the bituminous
coal fields of the country will be the
result President Lewis of the United
Miners is working on a plan which he
thinks will bring the operators to
terms, and still takes a hopeful view
of the situation.