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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-18
Instead Of Liquid
Antiseptics orP Peroxide
100000 people last year used
Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic

The new toilet germicide powder to ba
dissolved in water as needed.
For all toilet and hygienic uses it is
better and more economical,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-18
The True Observer.

He alone is an acute observer who
can observe infinitely without being OBJ
| serYed.-Lavater.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-18

To save and beautify the
teeth, remove tartar and
prevent decay.
To disinfect the mouth, de-
stroy disease germs, and
purify the breath.
To keep artificial teeth and
brid clean o6orIaSs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-18

When girl yawns it's up to the
young man to get in the home stretch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-18

Verify your references.-Dr. Routh
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-18

Ever read the above letters A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF humam
Interest.
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GENERAL FUNSTON,
FIVE FEET THREE.

analogy. although the immortal Napoleon
proved him worth while once and for all
In our civil war one has only to remem-
her little Phil Sheridan, the f1rebrand OF
the Union troops, one. of the few rea
Federal soldiers, and Grant Lees gen
erouS opponent. himself a little stocky
fellow. but brave and fearless as lion
and an ideal soldier.
One of our military medical soldiers.
who is marshaling all the forces of
science to combat the great white plague,
the terrible enemy Of this century, is very
small in stature. This man IS Gen. George
NJ. Sternberg, who after a lifetime of
service in the military ranks of the medi-
cal profession is devoting his remaining
years to scientific destruction Of consump-
ton, that disease that yearly takes as
toll more lives than the most disastrous
of wars.
Despite his slight frame Gen. Sternberg
is very active and Is known as one of the
most efficient surgeons in the service.
From 1901 to 1908 he served as surgeon
general OF the United States Army and
during that time made many striking and
original changes, improving the service
vastly. Under his direction yellow fever
was banished from Havana after the
American occupation. He has had strik-
ing success In the treatment of cholera
and yellow fever and has written several
brilliant treaties on the care and treat
.nent OF bacterial diseases.
George Miller Sternberg is the son of
Vi New York minister and entered the
United States Army surgeon in 1861.
An ideal surgeon. his advance in the serv-
ice was rapid and he did notable work
during the civil war. At the close of that
war. as Maj. Sternberg, he was i'm charge
of the United States General Hospital at
Cleveland, Ohio. where so many Federal
soldiers We're sent to recover from wounds
received in conflict. Recently Gen. Stern
berg has been interested in the Washing
ton Sanatorium, where stern hight Is TO
be made against the plague. experiments
on news treatments tried. and all that
science can discover and give to alleviate
the sufferers is freely distributed under
the direction of this little Napoleon OF
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ailors and BARRIERS,
According to Cullen

"Hls will be about the pee people .
who, with work or material or
both to sell, seek to change, by
persuasion, the minds OF pa
irons who are perfectly &C
uuainted with what they want and VINO
want what they want when they want it.
First: BARRIERS.
| like BARRIERS. Some Of the most agree
able, well informed. amiable pen know
are BARRIERS. l get along with BARRIERS
first rate j don't take the least stock in
the frazZled gag about the BARRIERS who
talk their customers to death. 1t isn't
true. The costumer, in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred, wants to talk with the
barber. and begins the talk. And ninety
nine BARRIERS out of hundred, when they
perceive that their man r. the chair ISM
Il gassy man and doesn't want to con-
verse. don't open their mouths; they per-
nit the customer to nurse his crouch and
keep still.
BARRIERS l repeat, considered socially
and from nearly every other reasonable
angle are distinctly all right
But
Well, no, it wouldn't be exactly fair to
call them mulish But they do want to
do the tonsorial trick the way they want
to do it, and not your way; not always,
of course; but often, often-toO often,
For the purpose of illustration, permit
me to stick in, at this point, sort of
composite conversation that l have with
the barber-no matter IN what city / hap
pen to be-whenever l desire to have my
locks Shorn.
Me-Hair trimmed, please. Round in the
back, and shave my neck. Get it off
above the ears, but let those droplocks
forward of the ears alone; that Is, don
chop them off or thin them out too
much. Go light on the top; merely want
it trimmed.
The Observation-Disclosures in the back,
you say?
Me-Ye-eh. Round in the back.
The Barber-But they're not wearing
that kind of a cut nowadays suppose
you know that?
Me-Yes, l know that Round in the
back, please, and shave my neck.
The Barber-Oh of course, If you really
want it that way.
Mel do, I do.
The Barber-The way they're wearing 1t
now is a clipper on the neck, you know,
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GENERAL. .STERNBaRG,~
TIVE FEET FOUR

a most positive and definite stand and
has not wavered since. He Is rock
against which storms beat to no avail.
He is unconquerabe. Yet his pudgy lit
tie figure seems a strange harbOr for so
militant q spirit.
A Napoleon of the south is Col. John
Temple Graves of Georgia. who now re-
sides in New York and edits newspaper.
Col. Graves is an orator whose silver
tones. his friends say. would charm Il
snake away from a charmed bird. Words
to him are literally things, and the mel
low tenseness of his rich southern voice
is a delight to his audiences:
But Col. Graves is not only talker, he
is a does and writer as well, and his
speeches always have political acumen be-
hind them As a forecaster and interpreter
of current and past American political
events. Col. Graves * without peer in the
present day. He is veritable mine of pO-
itica information. In Washington, where
for two winters past Col. Graves has been
watching the trend OF political events, he
is among the most welcome of newspaper
men. Statesmen. officials of the govern
ment the noted in every capacity are his
intimate friends and companions. Good
tempered and kind-hearted. the colonel
has host of friends and he has a social
engagement list that looks like that Of a
popular debutante.
Col. Graves made his mark first in the
south many years ago. \ gallant Geor-
gian, lie is the son of Gen. james Porter
field Graves "a brave soldier OF the south.
and of Katherine Calhoun, thereby max
ing him descendant of the famous John
{. Calhoun. After graduating from the
University OF Georgia. the colonel entered
journalism and began his oratorical ex-
periences. He became one of the best
known editors in the south and wrote
widely the subject of the proper treat
ment of the negro problem
In 1909 Col. Graves ran for Vice PreSl-
dent of the United States on the indepen-
dent ticket. and a bright political future
is before him il he chooses to take it, al
though his personal preference is said to
be to remain in the newspaper business.
The small soldier is somewhat of an
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and then just gradually feather up the
back hair. They don't have their necks
shaved at ali any more.
Me-Don't they? That's too bad. Round
in the back, please: and shave my neck.
The Barber-All right. if you insist on
having it that way. But do you want
those sdelocks to stick? They're going
out, you know
Me-The sideiocks are to stick, please.
The Barber-Only the young fellows
kids, you know-wear the sidelockS now.
They're going out fast for sroWn-up men
.Me-Sad sad! Where do they go when
they go out? Mine are not going out;
theyr re going to stick where they are;
that is if you'll let 'en stick.
The Barber-Oh. it's all the same to me.
of course. Sure YOU don't want to nave
much taken off the top! It's pretty thlck
and lumpy there
Me-Triinmed at the top-only trimmed.
Then | take my chance. If the barber
is a friend of mine. and We're on chummy
terms, the likelihood is, generally, that
he'll stake me to the kind of a haircut
that | ask for Not always, but gener-
ally: sometimes the chummier you are
with barber the more he feels that he 5
entitled to bestow upon You the kind OF
a shearing that he thinks is the kapoo
kink.
But if | don't know the barber. why.
then, even after all of that preliminary
and specific conversation, the chances are
about even that he'll plunge right ahead
and dish me out just precisely the kind
of a haircut that I've told him L didn
want but that he had told me L did
want.
This happened to me less than a month
ago in Philadelphia. Ills a piffiing. fool
ish thing l grant, for man to Cherish
such frivolous and wholly profitlessi
things as the drop-down locks in front OF
his ears And yet. after all, lMe hasn't
SO many compensations that We can af-
ford willingly to surrender any of 'em;
and if a man really wants those fool lit
tie hirsute attachments and isn't violat-
ing anybody else's peace of mind or hap
piness by keeping 'em, why shouldn't he
be allowed t3 hang onto EN-?
This Philadelphia barber. despite my
Introductory preamble as to the kind OF
a haircut desired, seized upon his shear
ing snickersnee and about the very first
thing that he did was to snip OK those
side locks as ruthlessy as any GhenS1s
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ration of the Valley Forge of colonial
days. and he has a handsome home there.
where he breeds the fast trotterS that are
so dear to his sportsman heart.
The Senate and the House of Repre-
SentativeS abound in little giants, the
most notable of whom at the present day
is Robert Marion La Toilette, senator
from Wisconsin.
Whatever one may think of Senator La
Folette's particular brand of politics and
radicalism. there is no gainsaying the
fact that he is among the brainieSt men
of the upper house. Yet small of
stature is he that it is always a distinct
shock when looking behind that fine
leonine head with its shock of pompadour
hair to see the ground near.
Senator La Toilette has had long
life full of usefulness. Five years ago
he stood in the United States Senate, a
new member, a solitary fighter of the
trusts and interests that pervaded that
august body. The SuaVe senators We're
inclined To treat this little new member
with scant courtesy. One day they open
IL deserted the chamber when he was
ma king a radical speech. Nothing daunt-
ed. the brave little fighter rom Wisconsin
paused in his Grafton and said: y on may
go. but | DrGphesy that your seats Will
h.. vacant by the ballots of Il free peo-
pie" Thirty of the se12tors who ran
away that day To avoid hearing some OF
La F'oIlrttes argument have since lost
their seats in the upper house of con-
ereSs and the radical changes at work
now date from that speech Of the Ma
poleOn from Wisconsin.
Senator La Toilette was born in Wis
conSin. is It graduate of the state uni
Versity and served his state as district
attorney of Dane county in iSSO-lssl be-
fore coming to Congress q member OF
the House of Representatives where he
had an important part in the framing
OF the Mckinley bill The people of
Wisconsin are soiidly behind him. and at
present he is looming up candidate
0f the insurgent republicans for the
presidency in 1912. No man is better
fighter than La Toilette. He is the stone
wall OF his cult In early life he took
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the Crack that if he wanted to go in
for such TomnyrOt he could be Din
ing with the aforesaid Dowager Duchess
within Year. His Friends hoOted at
the Suggestion, and the Outcome Of
the Controversy was a Wager. Albert
was To storm the Citadel and land in
side before the Expiration of Twelve
Months or else blow the whole Gang
to high-priced Feed.
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of becoming world renowned. But the
farmer boy Allies was a dreamer and
while doing the homely chores of the
farm his mind was intent on the air
castles of youth, which, when matched
with adult deeds, bring success to men.
So he labored away from the early dawn
till the early bedtime of the farmer boy,
going to school and studying hard when
ever opportunity came his way.
An education was his ideal and present
~ the boy, with one last look backward
to the homestead, went over the hills and
far away, pursuing this light of learning.
His destination was the Sidney Ohio
High School, and during his course there
he supported himself The law was his
first aim and after graduating from the
high school he came to Washington and
enrolled himself a student.
This was in 1857 and in the same year
influence secured him an appointment as
messenger In the Treasury Department
The old law that declares small chance
for the government clerk Cor promotion,
proved false in Allies case. Step by step
the faithful messenger boy rose through
the classified service. studying night and
day and taking the civil service eXamina-
tons regularly. He fairly bathed in the
atmosphere of finance. became thoroughly
cOnyerSant with each phase OF the Treas
urv work as he passed through it, and
finally became known as one OF the best
informed clerks in the service on intricate
depar tment matters, very genius in ng-
ureS.
The then Secretary of the Treasury
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ing as Volunteer Secretary and Whis-
pering Soothsayer to the Queen Bee
and had won his Bet by Mile
His Former Associates stood ready To
make Good on the Feed. but when they
looked them over and could not find
them entered in the Blue Book. so he
turned them down cold and pulled the
Old One about a Previous Enga cement.
Moral: One never can tell from the
Sidewalk just what the View is to some
one on the Inside, looking out.
Copyright Iy11, by George AIDE,
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Next Sunday he began to take Part
in the High Church Ceremonies and
wait on the Steps to make a Fuss over
the Women whose Names appeared on
the List of Patronesses
He ignored the Buds. and Debutantes
and worked overtime to Solidify him
self with the Matrons.
Whenever there was anything Doing
that required the Services Of Hand.
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SEcREIARY KNOX, Y \
FIVE. FEET THREE.
ChNEOtNS7
@ CLlNEOiNSv

science, eX-Surg. Gen. George NJ. Stern
berg.
One of the finest compliments President
Roosevelt ever paid to an official Of his
Charles II. Robb, whom he was consid-
ering as judicial timber: Il do not feel
that | could appoint him as judge of the
District court because | do not see how
of Justice" Judge Robb was then as
sistant attorney general and this high
compliment was justly due him.
That one man should be deemed so
necessary to the welfare of one of our
smooth governmental machines is note
worthy, for too often the man is lost in
the workman, and his individuality be-
comes lost in the great treadmll-
The little judge. for he is slight. slender
and about five feet two and boyish in
appearance. dffident and modest in man
ner, had done no. insignificant service in
the department of Justice, then ruled over
by the urbane Mr. Moody. AS Mr.
Moody himself has said, Mr. Robb has
had the most disagreeable cases to engi-
neer that have come under the depart
ment in late years. notably the post of
flee investigation and the prosecution of
Senator Burton of Kansas"
He handled these difficult cases like a
veteran with such unfalllng courtesy and
fairness that even the men against whom
he invoked the powers OF justice. insist
remaining his friends. Charles II
Robb comes of New England stock that
is found in Vermont and whereabouts"
With a passion for education when a
boy. the interim between farm duties and
chores saw him studying with might and
main at the village school or out of the
few books his Scanty resources could
command. Later he taught school in his
4 in
Seminary earned by hard toll was fol-
lowed by the good Old-fashioned prac-
tice of learning in a country lawyers
office the art of Blackstone.
\ former assistant secretary of the
Treasury who now holds forth in one of
the great financial institutions of Wash
ington that skirt the nations storehouse
and are even reputed to be connected
Milton Everett Allies. He is not much
over five feet in stature, of boyish fea-
lures and appealing big blue eyes, unob-
trusive and modest, but with genius
for banking and finance that is not eX-
celied in America.
Mr.. Allies is a native of Shelby county,
Ohio, having been born there August 10,
1867, making him now in his fOrty-fifth
year His native heath did not offer
many advantages for boys in the way
and left his Card and told the Secrets
Of his Heart to Women who were old
enough to Understand
Consequently he had eighteen or
twenty Boosters working for him.
At the end of Six Months he was d
Regular at some of the Best Homes,
and was beginning to send Regrets to
those below Glass A
Looking down from his Serene Eleva-
Mistake in camping long in the Val
ley
When the Year was up he was act
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Shaker or Errand Boy he was right
there with the Dark Getaway and
fresh Gardenia-
in Month he had Foothod and
was serving on Committees with
Colonial Danes and Relatives of the
American Revolution.
He was Dependable. Any time an
Extra Man was needed he came burst
ing in with Kind Words for all the
Elderly People He made Party Calls
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nee upon Il Time
there was q Bright
Young Lawyer OF
ordinary Go o d
Looks and Modest
Bank \ c c u n [
who regarded the
so-called $ m a TT
Set with scorch-
ing Contempt.
When he heard
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little NAP0LE0NS
w.. VINO ~ L.: ~ - WHO "A RE-
!! :; LIGHTING Today
SA
~
Ma "a R# Il
Men IL Il
I

EN- of small stature
are winning the
battles OF peace to-
day as the fra.i
CorsiCan of a cen
fury ago took Flu
rope by the throa /
and shook il into
submission. T h 9
strength of person
ality. of will, of
brains. is today
diSre Sarding I h =
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ZEN Who Are Like the
1S4 Corsican in Stature Are
Attaining Great Success
The Secretary of State and
Senator La Follette-A Ma
poleon of the South-What
Small Men Have Accom-
plished in Science. Law and
Finance.
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Lyman J. Gage, was not long il
finding out what valuable secretary
Allies would make and appointed him "a
his confidential man in 1897 There the
Treasury clerk learned the ins and out Oi
eXecutiveship in the department. and
when. after changes of administration
Secretary Shaw was anxious to find al
could handle matters with understanding
in his absence. he called on the private
secretary of his predecessor to fill thi:
responsible post.
Assistant Secretary Allies proved a vel
come change from the ordinary political
men in important positions and made
decidedly good. The wiseacres saw fol
him a possible step upward to the secpe-
taryShip whenever Shaw retired for Allies
stood high in the favor of the White
House, with an administration that has
youth.
But the outside world of finance had
been watching the young Treasury clerl
as we'll and especially after he became
assistant secretary of the Treasury wer'
his services sought by prominent banking
to him without avail To give up the gov
eminent until one came that he could no
ignore, so complimentary were its term,
and so promising for the future the pros
pect ii offered As first vice preSiden
of local bank Mr.. Allies ha.
grown to be most promising financiel
and his life story is one that is full of in
spiration to the young. for il shows thai
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G.

success is within the reach OF any who
really strive for il and that understood
ness cannot deter or turn aside the man
who is determined TO make fortune smile
upon him.
Since that memorable May day. 1898.
when George Dewey. American admiral.
met the proud Don on the seas OF the
east and vanquished him. he has been
the naval hero Of the American people
1t ia worth noting. too. that Admiral
Dewey is an extremely small man, the
naval Napoean of the country. His his
tory is SO well known to every patriotic
American that il hardly needs repetition
here. In the meantime in suffices TO say
that Admiral Dewey still lives and acts
as chief OF the general board of the navy.
doing his country good services in the
times of peace.
Gen. Frederick d Funston. guardian
of disaster-striclIen San Francisco might
well be called the Napoean of the army.
In the Philippines and in as, trying a
situation as that Of the San Francisco
fire Gen. Funston proved himself a brave
man and general. He is very small the
effect of which is heightened by a large
head and heavy beard.
These are but a few OF the small men
who are performing monstrous service
for the nation. Attorney General Wicker
sham is cabinet officer SO small OF
stature that he would appear lost i'm the
circle of tall men who surround President
Taft were il not for the more noticea bile
diminutiveness of Secretary Knox The
weight of the Secretary of State plus the
weight Of the Attorney General would
still be some fifty pounds under that OF
the chief executive. Yet the Attorney
General is recognized as one OF the domi-
nent intellects Of the time He had wrest-
ed the laurals of success from the thronRs
OF attorneys that congregate about the
mouth of Wall street before he was call
ed to WASHINGTON to combat the forces
OF aligned capital which he had pre-
viously defended. The success he has at
tanned in the service OF the government
is attested by the disintegration of great
trusts which is one of the marked tend
encieS of the times.
Senator Elihu Root of New York was
the recognized master intellect Of the
Roosevelt administration. For pure intel
lectuality he IS probably without q peer
in public life today. The knottiest OF ma
tional and International questions unravel
themselves as might a bow OF ribbon
when subjected to the analysis of his
clear thinllinG. But for the appropriately
OF his former connections with corpora
tons in ihe capacity of attorney there
is little doubt that he would have been
. selected by Roosevelt as a successor and
would nave today occupied that romantic
old structure known as the White House
Yet Senator Root is small. slight man
who would scarce tip the scales. at 1870
pounds.
So might the case of the small man OF
the large intellect and strong will be re-
peated thousand times and his proto-
. type picked from the men who are today
winning the greatest of battles. But fur
Their detail is unnecessary.
copyright. 1911. by W. \. Du Puyl
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People saying behind his Back that he
was Cynic and Woman-Hater it
made him feel Good.
II seemed to him that any Male
Adult who would go TO the Trouble TO
put his Other Clothes and attend
Functions and subsist on Salads and
bit and have q Baby Blue Ribbon tied
around his Neck
Most of his Friends had attained the
Fo"t-HiiIs Of Society, but had not
scaled the Heights