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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-28

Verse %. chapter Z, of Ezra, has
all the letters of the alphabet ex
cept -" Just brush the dust off
your Bible and see If this is not true
No man liVeth to himself and no
man does business independently of
his fellow business men Take your
home paper Don't imagine the big
daihes fill up all this space. There
are many little creyices of good
cheer, social sunshine, personal men
ton, in the home paper that the big
dailies de not print.
The ill-omened, the croaker,z can do
a town more harm in a minute than
the good citizeas can repair in a
month
The man who owes a debt and per
sists in spending money for Injuries
is spending money that does not be-
long to him And yet how often it is
done
Harry Wildish returned Tuesday
from Marshfield where he spent Sun
day and Christmas with his wife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-28
5000 FOR
NEW CHAPEL.

Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Schneck. Wau-
Watosa, have been delegated by the
Sunday school of the Wauwatosa
Methodist church to carry greetings
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-28

At 4the last regular meeting of
branch No. 104, Catholic Knights of
Wisconsin, the following officers were
elected for the year 1922.
Spiritual Director-Rev. VIM. Red
ing.
Presidential A Bogoger.
Vice President-P Mulroy.
Financial Secretary and Treasur-
er-Dennis Mccarthy.
Recording Secretary. r. Raglan.
Trustee for years-John Schin-
go.
Trustee for 2 years Ignatz thinner
man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-28
ASSESSOR
OF INCOMES
Andrew P. Fen OF Amherst Sc.
lected for This District.

Frank E. Doty, secretary and chief
examiner of the state civil service
commission, has submitted to the
state tax commission the names of
persons who qualified in the recent
examination for the position of as
SCISSOR of incomes, and who are
eligible for appointment in their re-
spective districts.
The question as TO the constftu'
tionality of the income tax law is now
pending in the supreme court and
any appointments of assessors OF in
comes that may be made will be con-
tingent upon the decision OF the
court.
It is expected a decision viii be
handed down by the court this week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-28

Lulu Campion left Saturday 10
Montello where she will visit with
relatives during the holidays.
Miss Sarah Snyder, principal of the
Lowell school will spend the holidays
with relatives at Clinton.
Miss Irma Johnson who attends
school at Baltimore. Nd, is home
to spend the holidays.
Clarence Christensen, Dean Brun-
dage, George Arpin, and Ryland Boor
man are home from the University
to spend the holidays.
Miss Anna Mcmillan, who teaches
at Menominee is in the city TO spend
the holidays.
Miss Mabel Hamilton who teaches
at Oshkosh arrived home Friday e
vening to spend the holiday vacation.
Miss Mildred Mcneil who teaches
at Mellen arrived in the city this
morning and will spend the next two
weeks visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. H. Mcneil on Fourth Ave
]. w Cotey, who was born in
Grand Rapids, and moved to Merrill
as a young man and lived there for
many years He afterwards moved to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-28

R. Milne of Minneapolis, spent
Christmas in the city at the home of
his parents, Rev. and Mrs NJ B.
Milne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-28

John Jacobson, the local architect,
who is building a steam power plant
for a paper company at Grand Rap
ids, Mimi, is home with his family
for the holidays.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24
Tho Little Babes That Go Away.

All in q quiet moon OF sleep sometimes
they go away;
All little shadows up the hill and down
the hill in gray
To some strange land where only we
have trust that they are sweet
They go away. they go away, but not
on dancing feet!
Now If you wonder whittier, oh, it
clutches so the heart,
And here they are and there they are
and everywhere they art:
HALF flutterinS thru a fevered night
they close their little eyes,
And suddenly another rose has bloomed
in paradise!
Ev'n tho we waited for them long at
bottom Of the stair.
Or at the gate, or in the hall. or almost
anywhere,
They would not come, they could not
come, but oft in sleep we feel
Their little velvet hands again across
our faces steal!
Oh little babes that go way, just any
how well wait,
And linger by the little stair and linger
by the gate;
Perhaps some dusk and holy hour We'll
see the little gray
and holy company Of the babes, the
babes that go away!
Baltimore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24
WORKING JOE ALIEN.

The Des Moines Capital is booming
State Senator Joe Allen, of Poca-
hontas. for governor in the hope that
a. candidate can be found who will di-
vide votes enough with Lieutenant Gov
ernor Clark to permit Governor Carroll,
Dave Palmer or some equally as OBJ
noxious a candidate to slip in between.
II Allen Is even thinking Of yielding
to the desires Of these political friends
who do not like him, he should think
twice before he leaps.
There is room enough in the Tenth
congressional district for Allen to try
out q three cornered contest with
Wood and Speaker Stulman for the
congress ional nomination. One of the
three would win and as all are fine
fellows there would be no serious harm
done when the other two fell, but If
Allen or any other strong man should
precipitate d three cornered contest in
the state for governor, the political
chances would promise that Allen and
his next best friend would both go to
the scrap heap. In this lies the hope
of people like the Capital. 1t would
give US a candidate like Carroll or
Palmer and elect a democratic gov
ernor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24

| a decision Of tho supreme court dis
closed q weakness In the law under
! which the government has been prose-
cutting the makers and sellers Of nos-
| trums processing to benefit children
and to cure incurable diseases in
adults. The court held that congress
could not leglslate against an express
sion of opinion on q label. since medi-
| cal science Is not 20 advanced or ex-
act as to warrant condemning as q
Wilful Misrepresentation q statement
that any given compound will be help
full in mitigating or overcoming CIV
en- disease. Congress can compel a
| manufacturer to state the components
of his mixture accura tcly, but can not
| prohibit him from predicting that 1t
will be serviceable for such and such
purposes. even If the prevailing opin-
| ion Of the medical profession is that it
will not be serviceab BILE.
The prohibition in the present law
was upset as going beond the author
ity of congress. and the suits brought
by the government against about $50
dealers in fake" nostrums will have
to be dismissed. That is to be regret
TED. but worse situation will arise
unless new law IS passed. for the in
dicted dealers and others who have
been more wary about advertising their
wares will begin to flood the market
again with their impositions on the
credulous. The president suggests that
provision be made for the punishment
OF those who Knowingly make false
statements as to the effect Of their
remedies. and under that authority
suits against the worst offenders could
be reinsttuted
The
poor and the ignorant. and especially
In the case Of children do a vast
amount of injury by accustomine Their,
to the use of harmful drugs ANY ac-
ton which congress can take to check
these drug frauds will be Of great ben
eft to the two classes in the commun-
ity-the credulous and the very young
who are least able to protect them
selves
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24
va. John Wesley Pro.y7

A lay journal has undertaken to dis
parage the poetic gifts Of the founder Of
the Methodist denomination, and, ma
turally, he encounters champions on the
other side. 1t was CT editorial writer
in the Chicago Evening Post who VEN
tured to call John Wesley Church
man, but no poet" He finds recent
writer" also as blind to Johns gifts,
who has declared that John Wesley.
SO far from being a great hymn writer.
was, in fact, a proser of the protest"
Surveying the whole poetic output OF
John he finds but six lines which may
in the slightest degree he compared
with even the average output OF
Charles" They are these:
10! on a narrow neck OF land.
'Twixt two unbounded seas stand
Secure, insensible:
A point of time a moments space
Removes me to that heavenly place
Or shuts me up In hell.
The writer finishes off his generally
disparaging comments by observing
that "these lines are scarcely sufficient
to establish much of a reputation for the
sainted John" But both these writer's
are apparently caught mapping by this
one in The Northwestern Christian Ad-
vocate (Methodist, Chicago), who takes
up the cudgels:
III either the recent writer or his
editorial commentator had given the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24
CUMMINS DEFENDING THE WEST.

Senator Cummins course as regards
tariff revision measures should be
watched with considerable interest by
general support. Cumrins is fighting
Cor a square deal for the west and
whatever western interests get out Of
tariff legislation, II they get anything
Of value, they will owe to Cummins
ana to the men who stand by him in
the present fight.
His opposition to the Root amend
nent Thursday is but premonitory
pain. The Canadian reciprocity pact
had been negotiated by Secretary
Knox. Knox halls from Pennsylvania,
the citadel Of protected industries and
himself the political creature OF the
Pennsylvania machine operated by the
protected interests. Very naturally
when he came to make a trade with
Canada and found the northern do
miuion wanting freer entry for her
agricultural products he arranged to
exchange tariff reductions on her
on the manufactured goods Of our
eastern states. Knox took care Of his
friends.
But then comes Senator Root from
New York where there are vast paper
mills and complains that Knox stopped
over when he promised free wood
pulp, so the senate committee amends
Canadian reciprocity taking care Of
Roots constituents, the paper mills,
and Root being a powerful fellow, the
president promptly accepts the amend
ment.
This is the way tariff bills have been
made for fifty years until Dolliver and
Cummins exposed the game. The west
east got the protection Free hides
went into the Payne-Aldrich bill but
free shoes We're kept out.
Now arises Cunmins to protest
that the print paper industry is con-
trolled by a trust which is VIGOROUSLY
/ true. Competition in print paper has
! been practically unknown for ten
years Cummins thinks that free wood
pulp as originally provided by Knox
in the deal with Canada should stand.
In this respect he is defending the
original bill from mutitating attacks,
you know. But Cummins is frank about
1t. He says that there will be some
more tariff revision before the sena-
tors get away to the lakes. If Knox
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24

subject any serious consideration they
would probably have exercised them
selves to quote the six lines with accur-
acy, when, too. they might have dis
covered that the lines were written not
by John, but by Charles Wesley. That,
however is a minor matter.
The truth Is that nobody knows just
how many OF the hymns ususally cred
tied to Charles actually belonged to
John. Take the most familiar Wesley
an hymn, Jesus. Lover OF Ny Soul It
is universally credited to Charles Wes-
ley But what are the facts? The
hymn appears first in the Hymns and
Sacred Poems by John and Charles
Wesley G740). In the collections where
the names Of both brothers appear on
the title-page 1t was agreed between
them that the individual compositions
should not be designated It is there
fore quite impossible to tell to which OF
the brothers Jesus, Lover Of My Sour
should be assigned. The Wesleyan
Hymn-Book OF 1875 marked hymns
from such collections W. to indicate
this doubt So far as the critics know.
this most beautiful and popular hymn
may belong to John and not to Charles.
And so Of many more.
Nor is this all. From the beginning
all hymns translated from the German.
appearing in the Wesley publications.
nave been attributed to John. And this
for the sufficient reason that Charles
had no working knowledge of the Ger.
man language. These translations are
twenty nine in number. Among them
are some which have achieved wide"
spread popularity and the recognition
of scholars alike for their high poetic
duality and their fidelity to the spirit
of the original. Such are:
''1hou hidden love OF God whose
height"
Commit thou all thy griefs."
Jesus, thy boundless love to me-"
Now have found the ground
wherein"
Jesus. thy blood and righteousness"
High on his everlasting throne"
1.-The TRANSACTIONS says Professor
Hatfield. who has made the whole
church his debtor by his critical essay
on John wesley's Translations Of Cor
man Hymns the translations are not
only used thruout the wide circle of
Methodist adherents, but find them in
not less than 100 important collections.
including all phases Of religious confess
sion. with the exception, as far a. !
have found. of the Roman Catholic.
LAS to the poetic quality of these
translations, Professor Hatfield has this
Discerning note: @Tne true poetic gifI
shows itself in creative touches, where-
by a new and wholly Individual Wsoe
is infused into the matter treated, rails
ing the product far above that dead,
unreal thing, a mere version. There 10
a freshness and spirit in handling the
original which makes these hymns
masterpieces of translation"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24
GOOD ROADS WORTH THE PRICE.

A macadamized country road ex-
tending from any good market town
i've or ten or any number of miles
into a farming section would add more
than its cost to the value Of the land
within reach of it,
Dirt roads are not to be the per
manent roads in Iowa. 1t is time we
We're getting something started in the
way Of permanent improvements. Road
dragging is good and there should be
more Of it done. But dragging is
largely in the nature of temporary
work. 1t makes the roadway smooth
and keeps it in that condition until it
rains
The permanent roadway will be one
IN which the hills are cut down and
the valleys graded up in such man
ner that heavy loads of produce may
be marketed with a minimum expendi-
ture Of potential horse or gasoline
energy. When the Northwestern ex-
tended its line across the Des Moires
afford to construct level roadway
from bluff to bluff The result was
the Moingoina line and the bridge af-
terward to become known as the Kate
Shelly. For years pushers We're used
to help trains out of this valley.
Something like ten years ago the
Northwestern concluded to cut out
this depression and to do so they con-
structed one Of the highest railway
bridges in the world The company
did this because it was a good in
the road with less trouble and ex-
pense.
That will be the underlying motive
in the construction Of permanent good
roads. They will be constructed be-
cause it will pay. Preliminary profile
Here is the fulcrum for the lever of
auto enthusiasm Let good roads men
get busy and make plans for per-
manent highways. They can be con-
structed from funds voted by interest
ed parties on low interest, long time
bonds. A few miles each year in each
township in the state would in a few
years give Iowa network Of macadam
roads which would make her broad
acres the envy of the world. Make
and bond road districts as we now
create and bond drainage districts
This is a practical proposition and
would be worth more than the cost
Once properly constructed, the cost OF
upkeep of permanent roads would
scarcely be equal to that Of dragging
the dirt roads. The advantage in the
permanent country road is the adj
vantage Of the paved city street over
the present dirt road which in spite
of draggin Is sometimes almost out
of commission for three months out OF
the twelve.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24
a NAN WHO GREW.
IRriff Na1ArS1

Ed Chassell whose name Is being
widely mentioned and approved Of for
secretary Of state and member Of the
executive council. is man who grew.
Mr. Chassell, long newspaper pub
Usher. printed a good paper with edi-
torial Judgment and sincere desire to
give the news and stay OH the right
side Of public questions. He was es-
termed highly by his townsmen and by
those who read his paper. 1t had in 1t
the unmistakable evidences Of hard
work and sincerity. It's opinions were
carefully considered. it lacked the SEN
sational which exploits scandal and
ninimiezs real news. The paper and
Ed Chassell grew.
Chassell outgrew the newspaper.
When he came into state politics and
state office, he was the same con-
scientious, sincere and hard working
man. He took care Of his work be-
cause that was what he was there for.
He looked after it. So far as known.
no man has had complaint to make
that Chassell was not on the Job and
taking care Of the states business as
he had cared for his own. There was
no scandal or suspicion of scandal. He
ran the business of the state as he ran
his own. quietly, methodical1y, and
successfully.
He has grown in the confidence OF
the people he serves. He is a grow
ing man, one of those useful men who
never have a boom but who are al
ways to be depended upon to take care
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24
INVEST YOUR MONEY At HOME,

The advantage favoring the invest
ment Of idle capital Of the individual
at home as against engaging in specu-
lations away from home are so superior
in number and merit that the wonder
is anybody who has had the business
acumen and thrift to accumulate a
surplus of cash should ever seek to
improve his financial condition abroa d.
Yet 1t appears the lure Of promised
wealth in such ratio as would inspire
distrust and suspicion in the average
citizen pulls the money from the pocket
as magnet attracts bit of steel And
1t quite often has been proven that the
greater the risk. the least likely the
prospect Of return, the greater the
pulling power Of the magnet.
Quite recently. a daily newspaper in
a southern Nebraska city, led TO an
investigation of the results of this fad
OF foreign investment by its citizens by
the exposure of a fraudulent Texas
iand scheme, made some remarkable
This newspaper found that the peo-
pie of its city had in years past in
vested sum in outside specula lions
aggregating nearly a quarter of a mil
non dollars. And what is more to the
point it found also that of this large
sum of money handed oyer to agents
of this and that promotion scheme. al
most threefourths Of it had been
absolutely lost
Lurid-looking plans backed by high
ly-colored and artistic results Of the
engraver's art in most instances. are
all that the investor has to show for
his money.
Granted that the Nebraska case Is
an exception, it is believed and has
oeen proven, that the average foreign
Investment is not worthy considera-
ton. Moreover the spirit which
prompts it is wrong and is spirit,
which. If persisted in by any consider
able number of the people in COM
munity, must sooner or later result in
partial If not total dissolution Of the
city. The life of community is Slapped
away. Its action is insidious and dan
gerous. 1t is unpatriotic and breeds
Ficiousness. and is contrary to the
spirit which builds up
Invest your money at home, and at
least enjoy an easy conscience.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24

is to let Canadian grains into the
markets Of the United States in COM
petition with the grains Of our western
states, Cummins proposes to let In
Canadian -four and lumber, and iron
and steel and few things which the
westerner has TO buy as we'll as the
in Washington about as much as a bull
in a china shop would be but his viz
ility ought to command the admira ton
of the west.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24
SLOGANING.

IbdXteT New ErAJ:
Newton Is anxious for sloGan-one
that will tear up the ground for miles
around. Catch 'em- goin' an comm "
! was suggested in these columns. but 1t
was rejected with scorn, naughty in
dignation. Now that SO offer is
made that will make the welkin ring,
again we submit slogan, clarion.
"Curfew shall-not ring tonight" call
we are dead certain and sure will win
the pennant, viz: Let ali who enter
here, leave hope behind" There Is no
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-24
Topics of the Times

The president has declined with re-
greet many invitations to spend the
summer with his friends. But there are
some persons who never turn down
such OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Democrat
And still others who never receive
such invita- lions
Why should the Sioux City Journal
be so angry at the insurgents for vot-
ing with the democrats on the wool
schedule? Isn't President Taft relying
on the democrats to get his reciprocity
bill thru congress, and isn't the Journal
supporting Taft for denominations?
The wool schedule is but one of
vast number and the cut in that has
not been TO the quick"
Editor Brandt seems to be stallng
for time in his controversy with the
governor.
Senator Gore is blind but he occas-
ionally makes hit just the same
and the papers there unite In the re-
port that the reserve water supply has
gone back to its normal stage
George will wear the crown all right
but his prime minister will continue to
write his speeches to parliament. Not
only this, but the commons will soon
show the lords were and when to head
in"
Democrats are consoling themselves
be as q disturber of party harmony he
usually, in fact always, supports the
ticket.
The man who hasn't been accused
Of playing politics within the last six
months is at least not in congress or
other public office
The refusal of the Iowa delegation to
distribute the patronage at this time
must be construed. at least temporarily.
as being in favor of the ms.
favor Of waiting for revision until def
mite informal was at hand to en-
able a proper adjustment of the sched-
ules: When that statement was made
he had no anticipation Of meeting old
schedule K just around the corner If
memorw serves us right. too. We believe
the senator is on record as opposed to
an extra session Of congress.
Lincoln. Neb., is wet again. There
always is a little oscillation between
wet and dry when close to the bound
airy line. but the drys will ultima tely
win. The man who rolls his dollar
down a rat hole and goes home sober
and penniless is ahead Of the fellow
who spends his dollar for booze and
goes home with jag and no money.
BY and by these simple truths will be
accepted for what they are worth and
the booze business will go down for
the count
We are for reciprocity, but we really
prefer rain.
Ex- Senator Hopkins of Illinois, called
to testify in the Lorimer case, gave
evidence Of having had hold Of the
same end of the stick with the blonde"
boss.
It is said that the senate confronts
old General Revision. In view Of the
extreme altitude OF the thermometer.
however. it would not be surprising if
a way of retreat were found after deal
ing with wool and reciprocity.
Why not pay little attention to the
merits Of the wool schedule and a little
less to the politics of it7