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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
The Week
in Congress



Discussion of the rivers and har-
bors bill occupied the Senate during
most of the session Monday. The
House considered many measures Of
local Importance in various sections
of the country 1t also passed the
Mccall campaign publicity bill and
bill regulating sealing on the PribiloT
Islands, Alaska.
The rivers and harbors bill carry
Ing appropriations of s52,500,000 was
passed by the Senate Tuesday. In the
House the entire session was taken
up by a discussion of the railroad
bill. Toward the close of the session
there was so little demand for time
to discuss the measure that plan
previously made for night session
was abandoned
The administration railroad bill and
the resolution authorizing the expen-
diture of $4,000 for an extension OF
the Senate's inquiry into the cost of
living occupied the attention of the
Senate Wednesday, but no action was
taken on either measure. Senator
Purcell spoke at length in opposition
to the railroad bill, declaring that it
was the purpose of the administration
to so change the personnel of the SUI
preme Court of the United States SO
as to reverse former decisions on the
rights of States to control questions
involving railroad legislation. A bill
authorizing the President to make
Withdrawals of public lands for pur-
poses of conservation was passed by
the House The entire session was de-
voted to the Consideration OF this
measure, which, it was stated, met the
APPROVAL of the President
The Lodge resolution to appropriate
$500 for the expenses of the cost of
living inquiry was under consideration
in the Senate, Thursday, but no action
was taken. The traffic agreement Of
the railroad bill was under considera-
ton nearly all day. Representative
Fowler, of New Jersey, introduced
resolution in the House designed to
take away from the speaker the power
to name all committees. For time
everybody thought the recent Insured
ton against Cannonism was TO be re-
newed and the excitement continued
until Mr. Fowler announced that he did
not intend to press the resolution until
May 2 1t was sent to the new COM
mittee on rules resolution was
passed which calls on the Attorney
General for information regarding the
trial of Antonio l. Villareal, R. Flores
Magon and Liberado Rivera, now in
prison at Florence, Ariz., having been
convicted of violating the neutrality
laws between the United States and
Mexico Mr. Russell Of Texas made a
speech in favor of the railroad bill.
The House held a night session on the
railroad bill
The traffic agreement provision of
the railroad bill was under considera-
ton in the Senate Friday Senator
Crawford took occasion to eulogize
former President Roosevelt as the
foremost figure in the United States.
In the House the railroad bill was
under consideration. Upon the con-
clusion of the general debate upon the
measure Mr.. Mann of Illinois an
nounced that next Tuesday the read
ing of the bill for amendments under
the five-minute rules would begin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

Many who used to smoke 10c cigars
are now smoking Lewis Single Binder
straight sc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

Instruction ends in the school room,
but education only with life. A child
is given to the universe to educate
Robertson
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

SORE EYES, weak, infamed, red, wat
cry and swollen eyes, use PETTIT'S
EYE SALVE. All druggists or How
ard Bros, Buffalo, n. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
Inst Fec Inside Patient.

Many surgeon has had to repeat
an operation to recover bits of sponge
or other medical equipment left in the
victim on the operating table But
the story is going the rounds here,
says a Paris correspondent of the st.
Louis Republic, that brilliant French
surgeon has distinguished himself by
leaving his fee in the sufferers aldo
men when he stitched it up.
The patient was a merchant, who
saw to all the arrangements himself,
up to the commencement Of the opera
tion for appendicitis. The last thing
he did before going under the anes-
thetic was to pay the surgeon the fee
with a check for $1,000. The great
man tossed it aside on a pile of alb
sorbent wool that was presently in
use.
Later, when the last stitches were
being put in after the operation, he
looked for the fee and could not find it.
He opened the patient again and found
the Doodle, according to the story that
is diverting medical circles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

When young a girl wonders if she
will ever meet a man she would mar
ry; after she gets older, she wonders
if she will ever meet one she wouldn't
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

Stranger Ito prominent clergyman
i came in here, sir, to criticise your
church management and tell you how
it ought to be run.
Prominent Clergyman (amazed)-
What do you mean, sir? How dare
you? Who are you, anyway?
Il am the humble editor of the pa
per you have been writing to."-Life.
It's awfully hard to convince the
young man in the case that all the
world loves a lover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
ReautiruI wan Coatings for Homes.

ReartffuI Wall ContinEs for Homes.
In line with the progress of all other
things in these modern days is the
beautiful, perfect and sanitary wall
coatings for our homes Alabastine is
the name of a rich, soft and veIvety
preparation for the decoration of walls
and ceilings. 1t adheres to the walls
of its own adhesive qualities It is in
expensive. clean, artistic and SO easily
put on that any one can follow the
printed directions on every package.
Any shade or tint is easily produced.
Alabastine is proof against insects or
disease germs so prevalent in wall pa
per. It does not rub off and fake like
kalsomine. A complete color plan for
the walls of the home and stencils to
help make the home beautiful, together
with a book about home decorations
and samples of color effects win all be
sent free by the Alabastine Company,
482 Grandville avenue. Grand Rapids,
Mich. This liberal offer to home deco
rators deserves careful perusal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

Every time man hunts for pleasure
he bumps into a Keep off the grass
sign.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
While the

While the Sparrow Cop Looked On.
Ardly Keap-W'y don't We roll fur
der along under de tree, an git out
O. de sunshine?
Scion Boddey-Too blame much like
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

Constipation causes and aggravates
many serious diseases 1t is thor
oughly cured by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets. The favorite family laxative.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

Mrs WlnsInw-s SOOTHING SYRuF for Children
teething softsns the gums, reduces inflammation al
lays pain. wind collie Is . bnttlr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
A-D-C IINIlFENT

for man or beast, the best pain stopper.
ALL dealers. Insist on the genuine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

Prescribed and recommended for wom-
ems Ailments scientifically prepared
remedy Of proven worth. The result from
their use is quick and permanent. For
sale at all drug stores.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
For Red. Itching EyeIids.

Falling Eyelashes and All Eyes
That Need Care Try Murine Eye Salve.
Aseptic Tubes-Trial Size-25c
Ask Your Druggist or Write
Murine Eye Remedy Co, Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
EXPOSURE TO COLD

and wett Is the first step Pneumonia. Take Perry
DdUiS' Painkiller and the danger is averted. I'm
eQualed for colds throat qunsy Csc 35c Soc
The man who claims to be always
right is always slow to acknowledge
the rights of others
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
DIR. MARTEL's FEMALE PILLS.
Seventeen Years the Standard.

"Shucks! "-Chicago Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

The genuine have W. 7.
stamped on the bottom.
ASK your dealer for WI.
not for sale in your town "
giving full directions how
ordered direct from factol
all charges prepaid w. L
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-20
TEACHERS.

Once year Topeka has the privilege
of playing host to the school teachers
of Kansas. 1t is a high honor, TOD.
and one that is appreciated by Tope-
kans. They are proud to entertain the
school teachers of Kansas, who are of
the bone and sinew of the common
wealth And if wishes were all that
were needed to assure the teachers an
enjoyable and profitable visit in To-
peka during their convocation for 1910.
they would have the best time of their
lives However, the wishes of Topekans
in this direction will be supplemented
by all possible effort. They may fall
far Short of accomplishing what they
should. If they do the teachers must
take the will for the deed.
Many serious problems. all looking
toward the betterment of the public
school systems of Kansas and other
states, are pressing to the front these
days. The agitation for them is but
another instance of the progressiveness
of the people. Changing conditions in
life call for changes in all human en-
deavors and activities. And the
changes in the school systems, their
development along more modern, more
practical lines, have been slow in get
ting started. But they are ON their
way, and the teachers will play the
paramount part in bringing them
about. The teacher is the Keystone in
the school arch. The success of the
structure, it's durability, its usefulness
depends upon her, or him, as the case
may be. These are great responsible
ties. Are they adequately rewarded?
1t would not seem so, and particular
ly among the teachers in the grade
schools in the cities and the grammar
schools in the rural districts. In many
instances their pay in such positions
in Kansas, proportionately one Of the
wealthiest states in the Union, is really
meagre. The teachers in these ele-
mentary schools are expected to DO
wonders with the children whose edu-
cation is entrusted to their care. And
yet their remuneration is so paltry in
many instances as to give them no en-
enlargement to do even as good as
they know how. Many cities and rural
communities are staggering along I'M
der heavy school debts. But such debts
have never been created by the wages
paid to the teachers. They have been
brought about through needless ex-
travagance in the construction of
ornate and elegant school buildings
and their fancy equipment. If just Il
share of the money that has been need
lessly wasted in Kansas in this fash
ion had been applied to the salaries of
the teachers, the schools of Kansas,
excellent as they are, would come much
nearer fulfilling the functions which the
people Who support them have right
to expect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atehison elobe.l

LFrom the Atchison GIobe.l
There is nothing quite so ugly as a
naked man.
Men who have married wives with
money, say they are hard to manage.
We don't like to hear man talk of
his old sweetheaFts in the presence of
his wife.
The trouble with a lot of men is
that, when they want help, they think
they need it.
DID you ever know two men friends
to write to each other oftener than
once year?
1t must be nice to be a baby, and
howl when things go wrong. regard
less of appearances.
This is going the rounds: The wo-
man who Keeps on going to the doctor
will be operated on at last.
''The trouble with women" q
Crouch says, sis that they would
rather have diamonds and silks than
babies"
What has become of the old-faSI-
toned woman who thought she MUST
have a roast or chicken for a company
dinner?
We never sat around in the evening
with a lot of women that we did not
hear one of them say: Il think Millf-
ners do you up"
When a farmer comes to town on
Saturday, he shakes hands as many
times as Colonel Roosevelt when he
stops at a country station.
What would satisfy the people In
the way of good times2" Nothing to
do for anybody, and all the money
everybody wants, might do it.
| It is always possible to stir up ex-
citement in Atchison. A story that
the beer wagons from East Atchison
have been stopped will do it any day.
| Every year you hear of things that
went on behind your back last year,
/ that would have greatly displeased
you, had you known of it at the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-20
THE CASE or Mrs. BARCIlAY

On the consent of Mrs. B1eakley,
the case and kidnapping charges against
Mrs. Stella Barclay, who instigated and
engineered the theft of the little
Bleakley girl a year ago, have been
dismissed. This is the first intimation
that the people of this commonwealth
have received that Mrs. B1eak1ey, or
any other man or woman outside of
the courts and juries, is the arbiter of
the fate of a person who has COM
mitted a crime against the state of
Kansas. And 1t would appear fur
Their that justice has been tfifled with
in this case.
Two detectives who were employed
by Mrs. Barclay to carry out her plans
for the kidnapping of Marian Bleak
lev have been tried and convicted for
their offense. That is right and prop
er. Kansas wants everybody within
and without her confines to know
that even hired men, in kidnap-
ing affair are criminals in the eyes
of the law, and will get the punish
ment that is due them. But this
! shielding, this protection which has
| been given to the arch conspirator in
| this particular kidnapping case is not
| to the credit of Kansas, nor her Of
| ficials who are responsible for it.
Mrs Barclay may be entitled to sym
| pathy for her endeavors to obtain
| possession of the child to which she
| became greatly attached by having
| brought her through the perilous
| shoals of early childhood. Her love
| for the child and her idea that she
was legally entitled to the possession
of the youngster, may pardon her de-
sfres to regain control of the little one
But Mrs. Barclay had no right, after
having been beaten in the courts, or al
any other time, to plan and execute
a crime in an attempt to satisfy these
desires. 1t is admitted that she die
this. And the law should have beer
permitted to take its course in hel
case just as it did in the cases of two
of the men who did the dirty work
in the actual commission of the crime
Ever since there has been common
J law, the accessory to crime, and par
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.l
The Indian babe is born to blush
unseen.
A medicine glass is one kind of sani-
tary measure.
Instead of her face, girls figure may
be her fortune.
If Adam had remained awake he
might still have that rib.
Many actresses find it easier to get
married than to stay married.
A fool can make friends, but It takes
a wise man to keep them.
Too many cooks spoil the digestion of
the policeman.
We feel sorry for the 250-pound girl
who has a wild desire to dance.
It takes an expert to stand a cross
examination without getting confused.
In the dark ages men were tortured
on the rack. The music rack is still
with us.
If you could see yourself as others
see you the chances are you wouldn' t
believe what you see.
And once in a very great while a wo-
man doesn't imagine her husband has
been drinking because he calls her an
angel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-20
Kind words for Kaisera

When the Indians at Fort Yuma the
other day burned $4,000 with the in
tention and expectation of supplying
a dead member of the tribe with spirit
money to spend in the spirit land,
they did something which, if done by
civilized ana educated white men,
would have proved them to be hope
lessly insane. 1t proved nothing of
the kind about the Indians. of course,
but simply that they are still some
distance packard not so very far,
efther-along the road which the more
progressive races have travelled. What
they believe about graveside sacrifices
IS what the ancestors of us ali believed
at one stage of our ethic history, when
that and like beliefs, being in con-
fiict with no known facts or probabilf-
ties could be entertained by minds en-
tirely sane and normal
In much the same way the kaiser
is able, without being insane, to be-
consent of his people, but ky "divine
right for the exercise of +hfch he is
responsible only to God, TIE giver of
it. Since he is not less familiar with
than proud of the history of his house,
it is of course difficult to understand
| how he can see anything of divinity
in its founders or in the acts of their
successors, who not for nothing were
called HohenzollernS, or high-taxers
but in doing so he merely perpetuates
little longer than most nnonarchs
belief which all of them both held
and expressed few decades ago, with
the full acquiescsnee of everybody with
any claims to respeetability.
Even he probably would not claim
that the first Hohenzollerns were
themselves demigods, as once did every
royal house. and still does the ruler
of one nation, that is particularly
proud of its progressiveuess and mod
ernity. But, inclination aiding eduea-
ton, the kaiser is able to ignore the
facts and probabilities which to the
vast majority of Europeans and to all
Am orleans make the idea of a divine
right to rule seem a notion at least
as crazy as that which caused the In
dams to burn their $4,000. In this
particular respect he is not the man of
his time, but the Middle Ages. In
this as in every other respect, however.
he is the man of his place, his train
ing and his immediate environment.
In one thing or another every one
of us las something of the sort of
faith which enables its possessor to
believe what he knows is not so.
The kaiser is peculiar only that his
belated illusion concerns divine right
instead of Friday as an unlucky day or
the new moon as something which it
is not well to see over the left shoulder
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-20
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record1
Some men seem to acquire all their
polish on their shoes.
It's waste of time to fret about
the time you have wasted.
To the struggling dramatist the
height of realism is real money.
In turning over a new leaf it is a
good plan to use a little mucilage.
About the time a girl loses her faith
in fairy tales she begins to believe in
love.
Be sure you are right and you will
also be pretty sure everybody else is
wrong.
A Rensington furniture dealer adj
vertises Something entirely new in
antiques
The proprietor of the picture show
should have no difficulty in getting a
move on.
AT least one-half of the insanity in
the world is caused by the lawyers for
the defense.
A theory is frequently an irnprae-
tieable plan for accomplishing an utter
iTnpossibility.
Blobbs-"Worry will make anybody
thin Slobbs=-" Except those who
marry because they are fat"
wigg-"I wonder why Henpeckkc
feels so bitter toward clergymen. .
Wag- Perhaps because he was mar
ried by one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-20
MONEY REVERENCE.

Much is said about the evil of money
worship and t is an evil, says an edi-
torial in the DeIineator for November.
But there is a greater-and that great
er evil is lack of true reverence for
money. If every boy and every girl
especially every girl-were educated
right, he and she would be taught to
reverence money-the stored-up toll OF
human beings; the concrete symbol Of
brain and Drawn expended in work
We go long journeys to see vast mon
uments of the past that are significant
only as evidences of astounding human
effort. Yet every one of US carries and
uses more OF less carelessly more i'm
posing monuments of human effort.
If the boy, the girl-before spending a
dollar, thought, This represents the
sweat, perhaps the blood, of some "r
many of my fellow beings laboring
hours on hours; 1 must see that it is
used worthily, that I do not give it up
for less than it's full value''-if some
such thought as this were in his or her
mind, peFhaps-well, perhaps many
things, including lower prices for food
and clothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-20

will keep my end of the contract" he
said, land that you will keep yours.
Good-by." He raised his hat to Marie
Laska.
"A little WHILE" he said musing1y on
the way back to his hotel, land the
boy will have learned discrimination
instead of distruSt, and the fine edge
which is so part of him will still be
there. All Nellie, Nellie, it was some
thing 1 could do for you, too, dear!"
On their return to Los Angeles they
went first to Cyrils rooms. There
was a note in Nine. Laska's hand
writing.
Nichols walked toward the window.
He was feeling keenly for the boy as
he went over in memory each word
he had dictated
When you return" it ran, 81 shall
have left California. 1 have only time
to write you a few lines, for word has
come which takes me Immediately to
Poland. My country has need of me,
and still more a man of whom you
have often made me think, and with
whose fate it now seems best I Should
unite my own. For my fathers sake
shall travel under an assumed name.
I shall always think of you and Mr..
Nichols with the greatest kindness and
gratitude. Farewell.
MARIE LASKA."
Cyril read the letter twice and then,
after a moments silence, handed it to
Nichols.
Nichols saw there had been no
shock that would be serious.
Jack" he said, Its all over-nay
dream. She was a star too high for
me to hope to reach, but want you
to see this letter, for you never right
~ understood her. She was so fine
and noble and would risk even her
life for her country and for her love.
I had thought at times she cared for
me, but it was lust that I reminded
her Of that other man"
CyriPS eyes had the trusting look
of E1eanor's-his dead sister-at that
moment and John Nichols turned
away his head.-( Copyrighted 1910 by
Associated Literary Presa)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

People who have many ideas in COM
mon soon get tired of each others COM
pany.
4
Prospectors for natural gas would do
better if they drilled into a few hu-
mans.
Sticklers for doing things according to
rules never accomplish anything very
W wonderful.
There are more successes than dis
asters in married life only you don't
hear so much about them.
-
Men who are chronic offenders in get
ting to work late never have any trout
BILE getting up early to so fishing or
hunting.