Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

er country. 1t was a political trap
and ought not to have deceived even
a tyro in politics, but the minister fell
headlong into the trap and replied,
advising his correspondent to vote for
Mr.. Cleveland.
The most Infamous of all such forg-
cries was that perpetrated in May,
| 1864, by two newspaper men of New
York City. The two parties were pre-
| pairing to enter upon a new political
campaign, and the government was
putting forth its strongest efforts to
| put an end to the Civil War One
night, just as all the morning papers
were about to go to press, procla
nation, written on Associated Press
paper, and purporting to come from
the office of the association, was de-
| livered at all of the New York news
| paper offices. The proclamation bore
the signature of President Lincoln, and
was written in the most depressing
| spirit, giving new details of the horri-
| bic slaughter on the Southern battle
| fields, and calling for a new levy of
100000 men. The effect of such a
| proclamation, written in such vein,
may well be imagined.
How many Philadelphia capitalists
mourn the dollars which disappeared
from their Golfers into the cavernous
and rapacious nav of the Kelley mo-
tor, that mysterious invention that
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world! A twin brother to the Kelley
motor was the Logansport, Ind, lamp
| that, once lighted, was to go on and
on, like the brook, and never need re-
plenishing or trimming. The light
went out, and so did the inventor, TAX
ing with him the good hard dollars of
hundred or so of his dupes.
| Pittsburg millionaires, Cleveland
| bankers, New York capitalists and dia-
mond dealers all paid tribute, and
heavy tribute, to the brilliant and mys-
FERROUS schemes of Cassie Chadwick,
just as the Partisan money-makers
did to the Humbert family.
Since history first began to be writ
ten there have been takers ready to
make diamonds out of charcoal and
transmute base metal into the purest
of gold, and they all found willing
| dupes.
Americans Of the last generations
| laughed and grew fat over the fakes
| offered them by that prince of show
men, Phineas T. Barnum. The world
|
was Joice Heth, the negress, 161 years
old, who had once belonged to Angus
tine Washington, the father of the i'm
mortal George, and who was an eye,
witness to the cutting down of the
cherry tree. Dis de Bar, with her
spirit pictures, has been exposed time
and again. Of taking travellers we
have had hundreds of them Witness
Americas Vespusius, who gave to our
continent its name. He faxed the hon
ors which belonged to Columbus, and
saw many lands no one else has seen.
There was Sir John Vaudeville and
Marco Polo. They had their believers
in their day, but in this iconoclastic
age they are put down as takers
1t is not so many years ago that the
false Roger Ticheborne handed out to
the English people a first-class gold
brick when he set up his claim to vast
estates. He won notoriety and a long
term in prison. There was Peter Ney,
! the North Carolina school teacher, who
some fourscore years ago had nearly
all the people in the two Carolinas
ready to back him as Napoleon's great
est marshal, Michael Ney.
There have been receptions which
accomplished a good purpose. Take
that of the Cid, who died on the field
of battle, and his officers tied him,
clothed in full armor, on the back of
| his war steed, sitting upright with
sword clasped in his mailed hand,