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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
ELEVATOR FOR THE OCEAN.
Pino's Method of Raising Material
from, the Sea Bottom

from the Sea Bottom.
The Italian Giuseppe Pine, who has
invented an apparatus by means Of
which things on the bottom of the sea
can be seen just as clearly as if they
were exposed to the eye on land, calls
his apparatus microscope.
1t consists of a platform of steel
supported on the surface of the water
by strong cork girdles, says the Phil
adelphia Record The platform can
easily bear the weight of twenty men.
From this platform descends a large
steel tube, provided with spiral-shaped
steps on which a man can go down to
a chamber provided for at the lower
end of the steel tube From this cham
Der electric searchlights of great pow
er are displayed. whose rays penetrate
to the bottom of the sea.
This submarine chamber connected
with Pino's microscope affords also
room for a diver and a complete out
fit for same After a certain thing
las been discovered by means of the
electric rays, a safety-yalve can be
opened large enough to allow the diver
to descend to the bottom of the sea.
Trials with this new apparatus have
been carried on on the Italian coast,
between Genoa and Spezia, and, ac-
cording to Italian reports, they have
been very satisfactory The inventor
is of the opinion that his apparatus
will be of especially great value to har-
Dor and port authorities, river author
tiles, navies, shipyards, etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

When boiling cabbage the odor will
be much less noticeable if the lid is
left off the pot.
Cold drawn linseed oil, rubbed on
with a soft cloth, is best for cleaning
mahogany furniture.
When a soup is poor try the ad-
dition of grated cheese; it will give
it richness and flavor.
A cloth wrung out in ice water and
applied to the back of the head will
often relieve insomnia.
Iced tea can be given a piquant
flavor by the addition of half dozen
cloves to a pitcher Of tea.
To prevent green vegetables from
fading when they are boiled, put a
pinch of soda in the water.
Slight iron scorches on linen will
often disappear if the piece is laid for
a while in the bright sunshine.
Iron rust stains should be rubbed
with lemon and salt and held in the
steam of rapidly boiling kettle.
Salts of lemon will remove ink
stains from wooden floors. Use two
tablesDoonfuls to quart of water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
SHORT METER SERMONS.
OOO~~O~~OO~~

Disregard of the rights of others is
certain to meet with retribution.-Re
E. K. Bell, Lutheran, Baltimore.
The greatest power in the world is
not money, but intellect.-Reu J. H.
Mcmahon, Roman Catholic, New York
City.
To-day is the best day in the history
of the world, but tomorrow will be
better day.-Rev. c. F. Aked, Baptist
New York City.
The family should be the unit of
worship in some respects more sacred
than the church itself.-Rev. j. Proude,
Methodist, Providence.
Women should be strong is,
they should be strong physically, NOR
ally and intellectually.-Rev c. F.
Thomas, Roman Catholic, Baltimore.
To feel that life is sacred, that high
deeds are noblest liturgy, that work is
worship, makes each day a Sabbath,
and every act a prayer.-Rev. l.. w.
Sprague, Ethicist, Chicago.
Christianity consists of righteous
ness between man and man in daily
life 1t consists Of mercy, charity, JUS
tice, kindness, square dealing and good
works.-Rev. w. G. Partridge, Baptist,
Pittsburg.
Our churches have followed theology
to the forgetfulness of Scripture and
proclaimed conviction of sin instead of
the converting, revitalizing power OF
the Gospel.-Rev. R. Macdonald, Bap-
fist, Brooklyn.
The struggle with sin is lifted by
new beliefs out of the hOpelessness in
to which Christianity had thrown it,
and we see on every hand the possible
ty of redemption.-Rev. E. Barnes
Ethicist, Philadelphia.
The rich men of to-day were the
poor men of yesterday Wealth is more
evenly distributed among the people
in our fair land than ever before in
the history of the race.-Rev. B. B
Tyler, Disciple, Denver.
We want a host of Christian men
and women with settled resolve to dc
the bidding of Jesus and go out into
the streets and alleys and compel at
| tendance at church.-Rev. F. J. Van
Horn, Congregationalist, Seattle.
To accomplish the impossible, the
| guidance of God is first of all re
| quired. There is no impossible where
He guides. By strength of wisdom, by
spiritual strategy, more than by mere
force of compulsion of heavier forces
are we to conquer.-Rev. w. H. Will
son, Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
He who moves forward in harmony
with the great spiritual laws of the
universe and finds in Jesus his pat
| tern for exalted choice and sublime
| faith is the man who in this day OF
struggle wins against circumstances
and rises to a victory that lasts
Rev. C. R. Minard, Baptist, Denver.
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few words of prologue or argument,
and Immediately the chorus breaks
into song.
From this moment to the end, eight
long hours with only one hours rest
at noon, the movement of the play is
continuous.
How incomparably the effects are,
in sunny weather, heightened by this
background of mountain and sky, fine
distances and vistas of mountain and
meadow, and the canopy of heaven
overhead it is impossible to express
When birds fly over they cast f1ut-
tering shadows of their wings on the
front of Pilates and Caiaphas' homes,
as naturally as did Judean sparrows
1000 years ago Even butterflies fit
ting past cast their tiny shadows on
the stage; one bird paused, lowered,
as if bordering what it could all mean,
circled two or three times over the
heads of the multitude and then
alighted on one of the wall posts and
watched for some time. Great banks
of white cumulus clouds gathered and
rested, dissolved and fioated away, as
the morning grew to MONDAY, and the
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parture from Bethany, the Last Jour
ney to Jerusalem, the Last Supper, the
Final Interview between Judas and
the Sanhedrim, the Betrayal in the
Garden of Gethsemane
The performance OF the play up to
this point consumes four hours; and
as there is here a natural break in the
action. an interval of an hours rest
is taken. 1t comes none too soon
either to actors or spectators, after so
long a strain of unbroken attention
and deep emotion.
The next act is the bringing of Jesus
before the High Priest Annas; Annas
orders Him taken before Caiaphas, and
this is the ninth act of the play. Then
follow: The Despair of Judas and
his Bitter Reproaches to the Sanhe-
drim. The Interview between Jesus
and PLATE, His Appearance before
Herod, His Scourging and Growing
with Thorns, the Pronouncing of His
Death Sentence by PLATE, the Ascent
to Golgotha, the Crucifxion and Bur,
ial, the Resurrection and Ascension.
The whole lesson of Christ's life, the
whole lesson of Christ's death, are
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thus shown, taught, impressed with a
Vividness which one must be callous
not to feel
"On the morning of the play" says
a descriptive writer, 'the whole vii
lage is astir before light; in fact, the
village proper can hardly be said to
have slept at all, for 700 out of its
/ 200 inhabitants are actors in the
play, and are to be ready to attend a
solemn mass at daylight.
Before o'clock every seat in the
theater is filled There is no confu-
sion, no noise, the proportion of those
who have come to the play with as
solemn feeling as they would have
followed the steps of the living Christ
in Judea is so large that the conta~
gion of their devout atmosphere
spreads even to the most Indifferent
spectators, commanding quiet and seri-
Gus demeanor.
THE firing of cannon announces
the moment of beginning. Slow, swell
ing strains come from the orchestra;
the stately chorus enters on the stage;
the music stops; the leader gives a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03

monday wore en- toward night This
cloSeness of nature is an accessory of
illimitable effect; the visible presence
of the sky seems to witness to invis-
ible preSences beyond it, and a direct
bond with them. There must be many
a soul, l am sure, who has felt closer
to the world of spiritual existences,
while listening to the music of the
Omerammergau Passion Play, than in
any other hour of his life
All over the world people are al
ready planning to go to Omerammer-
gau next SUMMERTIME summer of
the 10th year" The first performance
will be given the third Sunday in May,
and on every Sunday and feast day
thereafter until the coming of fall, the
play will be presented to great au-
diences. The playhouse" now in use
was erected eleven years ago at a cost
of $4,000.
There are no hotels in Omerammer-
gau, but the villagers seem to have no
difficulty in looking after the comfort
of the thousands who claim their hos
pitality every ten years. Every house
becomes a hotel and it is said there
are no more hospitable people in all
the world than the Bavarians
In the coming production, Anton
Lang will portray the Christus. He
took the part for the first time in
1900 and is said to be a truly wonder
full actor. He is by trade a potter.
Whatever there may have been of
theatrical show and fantastic conceit
in the beginning of the Passion Play
was long ago eliminated. Generation
after generation of devout and holy
men have looked upon it more and
more as a vehicle for the profoundest
truths of their religion, and have
added to it, scene by scene, speech by
speech, everything which in their es-
TEEN could enhance its solemnity and
make clear its teaching. However
much one may disagree with its doc
trines, reject its assumptions or ques-
ton its interpretations, that is no rea-
son for overlooking its significance as
a tangible and rounded presentation Of
that scheme of the redemption of the
world in which to-day millions of men
and women have full faith.
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emotions reused in the Oberammer-
gau child's breast. The greatest honor
in all this wide world which may fall
to a man is to render the part of the
Christus, while the most shameful of
all miSfOrtuneS which may be visited
upon a resident Of Oberammergau is
TO have taken from him. because of
his unwOrthiness. an important part
he has once portrayed One man to
whom this happened became insane
through grief. Right here it might
be we'll to explain a phase of the great
mystery play, which. strangely enough.
is seldom understood and is often the
subject of sarcasm on the part of
many tourists who, putting it frankly
do not know what they are talking
about This is the financial end of the
undertaking. Every dollar of the
money received goes into the hands of
a committee selected by the people
When all the costs are paid the profits
are divided into four portions, one
quarter is set aside to be expended for
the church, for the school and for the
poor; another for the improvement of
the village, for repairs of highways,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
ATCHISoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

Very few words mean much,
If you keep right. other things will
keep right.
If the difference between two opin-
that both are wrong
A man pursues bad luck oftener
than bad luck pursues him.
1t is as difficult to transplant peo-
pie as it is to transplant trees.
Much of the art" and culture" you
hear so much about is simply loafing.
When a married woman is only 20
years old she is mighty proud of the
fact.
When a boy breaks his own bicycle,
he breaks his sisters while his is be-
ing mended.
If you think everyone has it in for
you it viii not be long until every
one will have.
Let a wise man have good luck a
few years and he will do as foolish
things as anybody.
The evangelist is not the only man
disposed to send to hell all those who
fail to agree with him
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
DIPLOMACY.

Sunday passed, Tuesday rolled
around, and still his tall form did not
loom in the vestibule when the cuckoo
clock was sounding s. Thursday he
came, and the beautiful girl was burn
ing with wrath
$50 this is the way you neglect mel"
she Kissed. What have you to say
for yourself? Why didn't you Gomez"
81 couldn't" faltered the young man.
81 had the dyspepsia, and the doctor
advised me not to come"
"What-the doctor told you not to
come to see me because you had the
dyspepsia"
We'll, he told me to keep away from
all sweets"
The next moment she had him seat
ed on the parlor sofa, telling him he
was the incest young man in the
world.-London Express.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
SPLINTERS.

Hop dealer-The dancing master.
The magistrate is usually very
fine speaker.
Some bakers know more about hand
ling a role than an actor.
The mint is not a hotel, but you
can get good quarters there.
You cannot always jump at conclu-
sions without taking a tumble.
You can't expect to keep your &C
counts balanced if you don't walk
steady.
Bowers-Did you say that Jones lost
his money in a bank? Powers-Yes;
he put it in a faro bank.
Gas Man-Your bill for the month is
ten dollars. Consumer--Holy smokei
You must think that l own balloon.
Diner-These are certainly brave
sandwiches. Maternity? Diner
I can't find a yellow streak in them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
THIS The YEAR Of THE
GREAT PASSION PLAY
Most Wonderful of All Human At
tempts to Tell the Christ Story.
WHY 0BERAMMERGAU EXISTS.
Peasants Who Possess Wonderful,
Dramatic Ability-Great Honor
to Portray the Christus.

There are, no doubt, men and wo-
men who having witnessed that most
wonderful of all human attempts to
tell the Christ story, the Passion Play
at Oberammergau, Bavaria. are utter
ly unimpressed and who stoutly main
tain that the whole thing from start
to finish is little more than a show
of mountebanks acting for money"
This sort Of person is not to be envied.
The quality or condition of mind
which can remain to the end either
unmoved or antagonistic is some thing
incomprehensible to the ordinary NOR
tal. For setting, aside every considera-
tion of the moral quality of the play
and looking at it simply as a dra-
matte spectacle, it is impossible to
deny to it a place among the most
mastery theatrical representations of
the world.
To the masses-that is, to the Baya-
rian peasants-the Passion Play is to-
day as holy as it was when, nearly 300
years ago, the people of Oberammer-
gau, stricken with terror because of a
plague in their village, knew no better
device to stay it than to vow to God
the performance of a Play of the Di-
vine Passion of Christ. Once in every
ten years it is presented and then the
quaint little village swarms with all
sorts, kinds and conditions of people
the great majority of whom are for
the time. at least, filled with awe and
profound sense of eXaltati0n.
THING FOR WHICH THEY LIVE.
Acting in the play'-to the Oberam-
mergau people there is but one-has
been not only the one recreation of
their life, otherwise hard worked,
somber and stern-it has been their
one channel for the two greatest pas
sions of the human heart-love of APP
probation and the instinct of religious
worship; for the Oberammergau peas
ant, botE these passions have centered
on and in his chance to win fame,
please his priest and honor Cod, by
playing we'll some worthy part in the
Passion Play. The hope and the am
bition of this have been the earliest
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buildings, ETC.; a third is divided
among the taXpaying citizens of the
town who have incurred the expense
of preparing for the play, buying the
costumes, etc. The remaining quarter
is apportiCned among the players, &C
cording to the Importance of their re
spective parts; as there are 700 of
them, it is easy to see that the indi-
vidual gains cannot be very great.
THE PASSION PLAY.
The play-giyen on an uncovered
stage before an auditorium the greater
part of which is uncovered-is divided
into eighteen acts, and covers the
time from Christ's entry into Jerusa-
lem, at the time OF His driving the
money changers out of the temple,
till His ascension. Before each act
there are given tableaux of Old Tesla
ment events which are prophetic of
the scenes in Christ's life which are
depicted in the act following. In the
second act is seen the high council
of the Jewish Sanhedrim plotting
measures for the ruin and death of
Jesus This is followed by His de-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
ART OF GLASS CUTTING
Delicate Work Which Accounts for
the High Price of the
Genuine Article
PRESSED GOODS ARE DECEPTIVE
Some Simple Rules That Will Safe
guard the Ordinary Purchaser at
Retail-Closed-In Ware.

Buyers for large houses are some
times deceived when buying cut glass,
and find they have bought what is
commercially known as pressed glass
instead of the genuine article Yet
there are few simple rules that will
safeguard the ordinary buyer at retail,
the Boston Globe says. The chief one
is to pick out only what the manufac-
turer calls closed-in articles. By this
he means vases, jugs, pitchers, bottles
and the like. These cannot be dupli-
Gated in pressed glassware, which IS
first nodded in patterns and the edges
ground. This process gives it so close
a resemblance to real cut glass that
even experts may be deceived. The
kind of cut glass that is counterfeited
is called open work, such as plates,
naples or any fiat article through
which the workman can readily see
when finishing it. Another help in Sc
Letting cut glass is its weight. The
genuine is made from pure lead glass,
made GRIZZLY in America, especially for
cutting. This lead glass is very heavy.
The process of making cut glass is
fascinating to watch. The first step
toward cutting is to mark on the blank
that is, the dish in the clear glass
in red or other paint the design that
has. been selected for it. The most
common designs are diamond shapes,
stars or various points, crosses and
squares, and other geometrical pat
terms. The design must be marked on
the glass exactly to stand the test of
compass and rule. When all lines are
in perfect accordance with the pat
tern, and also fit the blank, the rough
ing begins. This is cutting the heavy
work, such as the necks of vases and
bottles, and the heavy lines on the
stars.
This is done on a machine called
the mill" a big, wooden-framed af-
fair, on top of which is a hopper hold
ing about half a ton of Berkshire hills
sand. This sand is the only kind in
this country that has proved satisfac-
tory for this work. The sand runs
down through the hopper, is moistened
With water and Genes out of a large
steel disk, the edge of which is sharp
This disk is turned by power at a very
high speed. The wet sand of the disk
gives it a TOOTH" which, when the
glass is held against the edge of the
disk, cuts very rapuidly.
After the design has been all cut
comes one of the most difficult parts
of the work, the polishing. This is
done on the outside of the work with
very high-speeded brush wheel COW
cred with moistened pumice stone,
powdered. This stone is lava thrown
off by a volcano. Large wooden disks,
made to fit the cuts and fed with
pumice and water, are used for polish
ing the fine work in and around the
delicate tracery of the pattern. The
hand of the glass-cutting expert must
be steady, strong and accurate, for the
least mistake spoils whole pattern
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
Lot of Mexican Neiyhhnrs

The living conditions of the work
ers in the larger mines of Mexico are
extremely humble. The average man
and his family live in a Une-room
shack, mud house, stone hut or dug
out along some bank. Their food CON
sists of dried meat, fried -four cakes,
beans and rank coffee. Stoves are
found only in the better homes, the la
borers' meals being cooked over lit
tie fire between stones. At meal times
the family gather around the fire and
they sleep on blankets on the floor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
Little Willie knPHv.

Little Willie, the son of a German
town woman, was playing one day
with the girl next door when the lat
ter exclaimed:
Don't you hear your mother calling
you? That's three times she's done so.
Aren't you going in?"
Not yet" responded Willie imper-
turbably.
Wont she whip you?" demanded
the little girl, awed.
"NaWi" exclaimed Willie in disgust.
She amt goin' to whip nobody! She
got company. So, when l go in, she'll
just say, The poor little man has been
so deaf since he's had the measles.' +"
-Lippincott's.
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Biased Opinion .

oh. man is a peculiar elf
Who braves full many wordy
storm:
Whate'er may benefit himself
He Classics as a reform.
Washington Star.
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so you want to marry my daugh-
ter, do you, young MANI
Yes, sir"
We'll, can you support a family?"
How many are there of you, sir?"
Judge
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The Innocent ictim.

81 believe" said the blunt individ-
ual, 'in speaking my mind and call
ing a spade a spade"
Yes" replied Miss Cayenne. Many
are that way The tendency is what
corrupts the voeabularies of so many
parrots. Washington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03

"A vegetable trust could never keep
its plans secret"
Why not?"
Because there would be sure to be
a leek somewhere. baltimore Ameri-
cau
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A widOwer who was married recently
for the third time and whose bride
had been married once before, wrote
across the bottom of the. wedding invi-
tations: BE sure and come; this is
no amateur performance. Ladies
Home Journal.
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The Retort Cheerful.

Your methods" said the indignant
official, were simply highway rob
berry"
Again you wrong me- answered
the sugar importer. They were low
weigh robbery. Washington Star.
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Annie Proof.

Lottie-Is your young minister, so
very, very fascinating?
Hattie-Fascinatin Why, lots of
girls in our church have married men
they hated, just to get one kiss from
the rector after the eremony-Puck
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vouring their dead comrades, but could
not get close enough to make their
shots effective, as the wolves tooh to
the woods at once Frank and Dawes
consider themselves lucky as neither
were hurt, except that Dawes was
slightly scratched on the jaw by one
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Janauese Public Ovens.

Most of the cooking of the Japanese
cities is done in public ovens, which
are maintained at convenient places
at moderate cost to patrons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
Its Nature.

There is one good thing, or ought
to be, about the society model deity
business"
What's that"
1T gets the cream Of the trade. -
Baltimore American.
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How much does it cost to get mar
ried?" asked the eager youth.
That depends entirely on how long
you live" replied the sad-looking
man.-Philadelphi Record.