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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
LONG HEAD AND ROUND HEAD
Thought Inspired by Observations
on Two Classes of Boys in
City School.

1here are men today who in fancy,
at least, are navigating the air. and
the most ingenious machines have
.been Quilt. That dream will be real
fZed and the air will be filed with
human birds. What lacks today is
not counsel, but only sufficient power.
10 into the schools OF the city and
you viii see there two classes of boys.
Ihere is the long-headed boy, who
gives promise of thought and inVen-
ton. He sits long over his books and
IN moments Of reflection his eye has a
far-away look He is the seer. And
by his side there sits the road-headed
boy. Pick him out for action. He is
into all kinds of mischief and cares
less for books than for play. But he
VIII grow up to be the executive of
his country. He will be the soldier.
He may not be the statesman, but he
can be the politician and will bring
Things to pass. The same difference
may be found among the girls, for
every home has its Mary, who sits and
learns, and its Martha, who is cum
bSAOo with much
This condition is essentially human.
Some are giants in thought and others
are giants in action. But why cannot
we do all that we plan?
Well, we are feeble in action be-
cause OF the uncertainty of human
life. This little moment Of three-score
and ten Is not long enough to 10 very
much, writer in the Christian World
says.
We begin as children Have you
watched the child with his blocks and
toys? AS he rocks his hobby horse
he thinks he is securing the plain and
he encourages his toy with his infant
chirrup. He plays at soldier with his
little gun and as he builds his blocks
into house he fancies himself a mas
ter architect. But if you see that
child in 80 years and he still plays
with the same tops your heart is sad.
We expect the child to grow. We
youth have no place in the thought of
the man. The boy smiles at the wish
of the child, the young man smiles at
the boy, maturity smiles at the young
man and old age smiles at US all. Walk
down the street with your child and
observe the objects which attract his
fancy. Go down with him 80 years
after and see how different are his
tastes. And so we walk down life's
highway and could now doubtless buy
all that we once wished, but they have
no charm for us now. And the plans
that once we formed are today only
matters of amusement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Blind Like Fiction Only.

A New York woman who is inter-
ested in home missionary work
thought 1t would be a good idea to
place some religious literature in the
various institutions for the blind, pro-
vided some one In charge would read
It to them. She accordingly visited
one such asylum and made the sug-
gestion to the matron. She was re-
ceived graciously and the matron said
they would be glad to have the litera-
ture placed In the library, but that the
blind did not care for any kind of Sc
rtous reading.
1--WE do read to them, of course"
she explained, "but they want only
fiction. They do not care for anything
else. If we try to read to them books
of any other character it is time
wasted, for they do not give any at
tention. Ne, do not know why their
taste runs to fiction, but probably be-
cause 1t makes the strongest appeal
to their Imagination"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Trousers Tax in France,

In France women are taxed from
SO to $3.50 a year for the privi-
lege of wearing mems trousers This,
however, does not accord to every
woman willing to pay the tax the right
to don such garments. On the con-
trary, the government confers the
right only as a tribute to great merit.
making it, in fact, sort of decora-
ton given to women as the ribbon of
the Legion of Honor Is given to men.
The only women to whom has been
granted the right to wear male attire
were George Sand, Rosa Bonheur,
Nine Dieulafoy, the Persian archae-
ologist, Nine. Foucalt and the sculp-
tors, Mesdames Fourreau and La Jean
cite.
An instance Of the jealous care with
which In France this right has been
guarded ives shown in the case of
Nine. de Valsayre, the lady who, some
years ago became SO well known by
reason of her propensity for fighting
duels and her endeavors to get elected
20 the French assembly. Her petition
to the government for the right in
question was refused time and time
again
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Nominated But Not Elected.

Its getting harder every year for a
taker to get by" remarked Attorney
NJ. B. Excel Whatever line mans
In, whether it's politics or selling gro
ceries, it doesn't pay for him to try
much four-fushing. l always think
Of the case of man | knew in a town
near here who ran for county Office
one year and had bright young chap
there to write speech of acceptance
for him, to have ready In case he was
nominated.
HE did get the nomination, and de-
without the use of manuscript of
notes. The speech was wonderfully
well put up, too-so good, In fact, that
everybody wondered who had written
1t, for the speaker himself was re-
garded as q person who would have
difficulty in writing a letter asking for
a seed catalogue without getting some
body to help him with the spelling and
the grammar
when he had finished and sat down.
there went up a wild tumult of ap-
plause above which could be heard
shouts of Author Authorp just like
they do after the first performance of
a play in which the actors have de-
lvered their lines well.
and that cry was the thing that de-
feated the candidate" CLEVELAND
Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
He Who Runs May Also Read.

When | have time," said the gray
headed man, Il mosey along and study
the writing on the sidewalks. In some
parts of the town they carry on quite
an interesting correspondence by
means of these sidewalk hyeroglyph-
les.
Appointments are made, the lie is
cast, broken friendships are patched
up. They make love, too, In those
sidewalk notes.
"A boy of II walked just ahead Of
me the other day in Tenth avenue.
Every few feet he stopped and wrote
on the sidewalk in different colored
chalk, 'Dere Aggie Greenberg.'
1T was cleaning up time on the ave-
nue., and no sooner had the boy passed
than tradesmen appeared with pals
and brooms and washed all those
'Dere Aggie Greenbergs' away. Then
when the sidewalk had dried again |
did very foolish thing for a man Of
my age. | bought chalk, red and
green and yellow, got down on my
rheumatic old ham-bones, and wrote
'Dere Aggie Greenberg, so that when
Dere Aggie came along she would not
be disappointed"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
ONE CUNNING OLD RODENT
Successfully Plans to Get the Cheese
Without Being Caught in
the Trap

Not long ago it became a problem
In Brooklyn hotel how to keep down
the population of rats, which had be-
come SO bold that they stole from I'M
der the very noses Of the cooks. Traps
and poisons were successful at first,
but after few deaths the wary rats
avoided both. The ratcatcher was
then called in, and cats dogs and fer
rets had their turn, but still the rats
increased.
The steward bagged a few with a
small rife, but the rats soon grew too
cautious for him. About all he could
see was the tip of a tail or two bright
eyes that disappeared as soon as he
raised his gun. Then he hit upon an
other idea. He swung a lid on bar
rel with swivel, filed the barrel half
Iull OF water, and fastened a lump of
cheese in the center of the lid. AS
soon as rat alighted on either side
OF the lid, over he would go into the
barrel, and for a while rats were
drowned by the dozen.
1t was at this juncture that the
the number of victims grew steadily
smaller. Sometimes In the morning
there would be two or three rats in
the barrel, oftener there were none at
all. The observant steward felt that
they were all the time trying to fig
ure out how to get that cheese. Some
times two rats would get On the edge
OF the barrel, opposite one another, at
the same time, and balance the lid as
they crept toward the center This
worked well until one or the other
forgot the need for caution, when both
fell in.
Finally one old rat mastered the
game. For several nights the cheese
disappeared, and there was no rat
there in the morning to show for it.
One night the steward caught the rat
in the act of dropping from pipes
right in the center of the lid. He bal
anced himself for a moment, then
quietly nibbled at the cheese When
he had satisfied his hunger he care
fully moved off along the line of the
swivel and dropped to the floor, safe.
At this point the steward acknowl-
edged defeat. He declared that the
man who was smart enough to defeat
those rats was smart enough to do
anything.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Holiday and a Vacation.

The man who Is particular about
the words he uses was talking.
Il prefer the word holiday to the
word vacation" he said, "but l find
a great many people who scarcely
know what I mean when l say man
is away for his holiday. Sometimes
they ask me: DO you mean his va
cation?' Holiday is my choice be-
cause in the first place, 1t has an An
glo-Saxon root and Is, therefore, a
more normal word in the English or
American language. Secondly, like.
its basic word, holy from hazel,
which means health. salvation and
happiness. Vacation comes from
'vacare,' which means merely to leave
vacant. Vacation seems to refer
chiefly to the place which the man
has left, while holiday indicates that!
he is in search of-and I trust is find
ing-holiness, health, salvation and.
happiness. A holiday suggests to me-
cheer and gladness. A vacation is;
merely rest from work. vacation
is good enough If you can't get holt
day, but for my part | want holt
day, when my turn comes, and l want
everybody else to have one, too
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Pennsylvania Strike.

Pittsburgh differences be-
tween employees and officials of the
lines west which have been under dis
cussion for some time have at last
been fully and satisfactorily adj
justed."
This was the statement given out
at o'clock Friday night from the of
flee of G. L. Peck, general manager
of the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittshurg after the representatives of
employees had spent another day in
conference. About 5000 men will be
affected by the agreement which
means a victory for the workingmen.
The wages to be paid will be in ex-
cess of the New York Central award.
according to Vice-President G. H.
Sines of the Order of Railway Train
men, who had charge of the confer
ence for the men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Patriotic Names of shins.

Three foreign vessels bearing pa
triotic American names came into
port the other day with plenty of bunt-
ing on their masts and much Amer
lean music in their dining saloons
and on deck. The George Washing
ton of the North German Lloyd line,
the biggest German steamship in this
port, came In from Bremen. While
she was steaming up to her dock In
Hoboken the American steamship
Martha Washington came into quaran-
tine After George and Martha got
out of the way the Scandinavian
American steamship United States,
from Copenhagen, came up the Mar
rows with flying colors. The ar
rival of these ships together on indie
pendence day was not planned for the
occasion-New York Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
MAKES A DISCOVERY
PIPPIN GETS WISE TO CAUSE OF
BUTTONiNG TROUBLES.
Finds That His Wife's Dresses Button
the Wrong Way and Attributes
His Awkwardness to
This Fact.

/ suppose you'll be late as usual"
observed Mrs. Pippin, when she noted
that Pippin was still cooked back in
the big chair with his newspapers.
Yes, it looks as if you would wait
until I'm all dressed before you start,
just as you always do when we're go
ing to the theater" She talked as she
stood preening herself in front of
the mirror.
After those observations of hers
P1ppin started in and got busy at the
quick-change work Even after giving
Mrs. Pippin half hours handicap,
ned have overtaken her-except for
one thing. Mrs. Pippin asked him to
button her dress up the back It al
ways upsets Pippin, a Job like that.
ihls time it was particularly tech
meal task, because there was a layer
OF stun that had to be hooked, then
row Of something like 81 buttons no
larger than cross section of a pea to
De Jabbed into as many buttonholes
that were even smaller.
Pippin always trembles at the pos
through the buttons and buttonholes
may not come out even, and he will
have to go through the entire French
maid job again from the beginning
This time he was careful enough to
overcome that danger, but Mrs Pip
pin made several disparaging remarks
about the clumsiness Of masculine fin
gers, and Pippin felt deep mortifica-
ton because he realized that there
was truth in what the good wife said.
He was awkward. He wondered why
it was that he could button his own
shirts, and other garments, so dex-
terously, and that his present work
seemed so battling.
Then he noticed something Turn
around minute" he told Mrs. Pip
pin suddenly. Now back again" He
walked around her two or three times
sizing her up, as if she were some
thing he was thinking of buying. Then
at his wife's.
Sure they're wrongi" he exclaimed,
elated by the JOY of discovery. They're
been wrong for years. All women s
clothes button wrong That's why it's
been matter of common jest for all
these years that mans awkward
when it comes to fastening up female
garb. Look at the buttons on my
coat. Do they button up on the left
hand side? OF course they don't.
They button up on the right side Just
as the Almighty intended things to
button. Now look at yours Look at
any outfit you've got in the house and
you'll find 1t buttons up on the left
hand side-and wrong side. No won
der you call men awkward. And
what's more, the buttonholes run up
and down instead of crosswise. Well,
I'm glad l happened to notice 1t at
last"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Two RI-LIndual States

Both New Mexico and Arizona will;
be bi-lingual states, as a considerable!
share of the inhabitants of each state,
speak Spanish, and many Of them only;
Spanish. Louisiana was for a time a,
bi-lingua1 state, the French tongue.
competing with English for many
years, and is still used by a large
share of the population. Pennsylvania
has considerable section where a.
mixed German dialect is the language
of most of the native stock. Califor-.
MIA had large share Of Spanish.
speaking citizens In it's early history,
The English language, however, easily
dominates in all these states, and will;
dominate in Arizona. In New Mexico
the Spanish language has firm hold
and will persist, no doubt, for an in
definite period. The enabling act that
brings New Mexico and Arizona into:
the Union prescribes that English
shall be taught in all the schools and
that all state officers and members Of;
the state legislature shall be able to
read, speak and understand the Eng
lish language.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
An Enqlish View of Us,

How utterly different is the way
the Americans view efficiency and in
efficiency! They go for efficiency, we
for character. We lately heard of a
manager of company in the states
who was tried and convicted for pecu-
lating large sum of money which
should have gone to the shareholders.
He was sent to prison, and his Eng
lish friends-with whom he had been
very popular-though they had seen
the last of him. But he was no soon
er out of prison than the company in
stantly took him on again at an en-
HANGED salary. The English were
amazed, confounded; but it was ex-
planned to them that to throw away
the services of such a clever, extreme
ly efficient man would have been ar
rant folly. He is now on the best of
terms with the company and socially
is quite one of the most popular men
Of his city. Here we often overlook,
even ostracise, a man because he Is
capable; In the states a capable man
IS not ostracised even if a scoundrel.
London Saturday Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
RACER DARES DEATH
GRIM NERVE OF MECHANlctAN
AT RiVERHEAD CONTEST.
When the Steering Geer Becomes Dis
abied He Climbs Out over
Autos Hood and Rides
on cranking Shaft.

One of the nerviest spectacIes ever
cen on an auto raceway, says Hamp-
TONS Magazine, occurred in the Long
Island stock car Derby at Riverhead.
Herbert Bailey, mechanician for Louis
Dlsorow and his No. l literary shook
| hands with death.
When the car had passed the stand
on Its fourth lap and was two miles
from the repair pits the pin fell out of
the reach rod, disabling the steering
gear The machine threatened to be-
come unmanageable.
What did Bailey do but climb out
over the hood, lower himself down ON
the little cranking rod and sit facing
the radiator with his feet propped
against the front axle. With one hand
he prevented himself from being DASH
ed under the wheels by holding on to-
the little water cap on the top of the
hood.
The other hand held the disabled
steering gear together. Bailey rode
twenty miles in that manner, with tha
car going full speed, until the circuit
was completed and the repair pits
made
George Robertson had an expert
ence In the famous backstretch of the
Merrimac Valley course which might
have had pretty serious consequences.
we were making seventy miles an
hour" said Robertson in telling the
story, when suddenly I heard a crack
The npYt foil %
floor of the car. The seat had broken
under me. There lay with my hands
on the wheel and my feet sticking up
in the air.
Il could not see the road in front
of me, and did not know where the
car was going. Just before Glenn
Ethridge, my mechanician, grabbed me
by the shoulders and pulled me up.
the car tilted perceptibly. 1t almost
tipped over. l tell you, l thought we
were goners! No, l haven't said any
thing about it. Why should II"
Smiling George they call him, and
his sunny countenance certainly bears
out the nickname. Robertson is big,
solid, good looking youth, who gives
IlO SSSlOh lIdJ uOIuluS COulu
move him. He fairly radiates vitality
In everyday life he is an easygoing,
merry, careless chap.
In race he is another man. At
times he acts like a maniac He has
been known to strike the men in the
repair pits when they did not work,
fast enough to suit him. On the road
he Is absolutely fearless. The other
drivers turn out" for him. On more
than one occasion Robertson has
scraped the paint off a car that was
slow In giving him leeway.
A story is told of Robertson's be-
havior during the Briarcliff race. t.
was said that he had hurled a monkey
wrench at another driver who DELHI
erately tried to block him. When Rob-
ertson was asked about this he APP
peared high incensed.
Honestly. do you think I'd throw
my wrench at any one? Why, ft's
absurd! Suppose l should need that
wrench during the race! If | threw
anything, l throw spare nuts"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Had Him freed.

He had never fshed before, and his
rod was new and shining with re-
splendent varnish. Faultlessly at
tired, he was whipping trout stream
when, by some odd chance, he got a
bite writer in Forest and Stream,
who happened to come along, tells
what occurred. The fisherman had
hooked one-pounder, from the way
the line strained.
He was not playing the fish at all.
With rod held straight ahead he was
slowly and steadily Keeling him in.
How he managed to hold the fish was
beyond me.
Presently the fish was directly be-
low the end of the rod. Did he stop?
No-he kept on Keeling the fish in.
and just as | reached the waters
edge, the fish's head touched the tip
The man even tried to pull him
through the ring.
Just then he saw me standing on
shore, waving my arms. He turned to
me with a bewildered look and said:
What shall | do now?"
The only thing you can do now," l
Faid, SIS to climb up the pole after
him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Freckles to Tan.

We hymned the freckle a year ago.
In lyric periods we demonstrated that
it is beauty spot on the face of man.
kind. What words are left to sing of
tan? For tan is to the freckle as an
apple orchard in bloom is to a single
blossom, as the ocean is to one white
cap, as the armament to a single star.
Tan is the freckle expanded, subli-
mated, softened, raised to the tenth
degree. How mysterious is it's crea-
tion-"beginning doubtfully and far
away. First, guessed by
faint auroral bushes" Like all things
beautiful, tan springs from the travail
of pain. 1t blossoms from the burn"
the first result of the suns rays. 1t Is
as if the sun first tested the temper Of
the individual whom he is soon to
lacquer with his unapproachable pig
ment. Who would think that first
blush-blazing face, crimson neck,
scarlet ear tips-could ever lead to
beauty Collier
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04

Madrid = Margins Emilio de
Ojeda, Spanish ambassador to the
vatican, was recalled tonight, follow
ing a conference between King Al
fonso and Premier Canelejas. It is
now believed that a rupture with the
pope is inevitable. The conference
tonight and its startling outcome
makes it plain that Canelejas has
the support of King Alfonso in his
anti-clerical programme.
On all sides it Is recognized that
the country is rapidly approaching a
crisis that may end in revolt by
the Carlists.
At San Sebastian Don Jaime, the
pretender, has issued manifesto
in which he says he will lead the
Carlists in the battle which he init
mates may be coming soon.
It is expected that Premier Canal
ejas will ask King Alfonso to set
the stamp of his approval upon the
course that the premier has adopted.
The vatican has declared the ne
gotiations looking to a revision of
the concordat cannot be continued
until the imperial decree permitting
non-Catholic societies to display the
insignia of public worship has been
withdrawn.
Canalejas has responded that he
cannot cancel the programme an
nOunced. In some quarters it is be-
lieved that the holy see counts upon
the fall of government. Canalejas,
however, is said to have had the as
surance of the kings support at the
time he determined upon his plan
for religious reform.
The general situation is compli-
Gated by the unrest among the min
ers in the CatalOnian provinces and
the occasional clashes between the
Catholic and non-Catholic elements
throughout the country.
Bilbao.-On account of public eX-
element here over the church and
state question, the government has
interdicted Catholic and other mani
festations which had been arranged
TO take place next Sunday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Swearing by Proxy.

Bishop Olmstead of Denver, tells a
story Illustrative of the fact that cler.
gymen must keep very much farther
away from evil than the ordinary
man. The bishop was once talking
in Olmsteadville With an old fisher
man about neighboring divine.
"a very good man." the bishop said
"a very good man, yes" assented
the old fisherman. "He swears a good
bit for a preacher though"
'Swears!" exclaimed Bishop Ohm
stead. Il can't believe that"
But l heard him. said the old fish.
erman, obstinately. Il sat beside him
at our Thanksgiving treat, you know,
sir. We were both hacking away at
turkey leg. His got away from him.
1t slid across the table toward me,
and lot of cranberry sauce was scat
tered about.
Il said to him, sympathetic like, for
l could see he was worked up: These
legs are damned tough, amt they, sir 2
Eyes, George, they certainly are
Now If that amt swearin'" concluded
the old fisherman, what is it?"