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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
New Napoleon" Is ReveaIed-Ed
nund Davis, Back of Present
Manipulation, Likes the Title
and Dresses the Part.

I.ondon.-The records of quick
profits made in the rubber boom have
been beaten by those established dur
ing the rise in tin shares, which has
been going on quietly the past year.
Only now is the public, outside of the
stock exchange, beginning to take no
tice of the tin boom, which is still far
from attracting as much general at
tention as did its predecessor, the rub
Der boom. in which all London seemed
TO have taken a hand.
Last year Anglo-Continentals were
despised and rejected and stood at 7
shillings ($1.75). Only a few days
ago they were bid for greedily up to
S35. Thus the lucky person who had
a thousand shares at Z shillings, cost
ing him s1.75O, if he held them, would
have been able to sell for S35, 900.
This is a stupendous profit and beats
anything the rubber boom gave US, at
any rate as far as the speed of max
ing Is concerned.
Edmund Davis, the man at the back
Of the tin boom, is one of the most
picturesque figures in the city He has
been associated with West African
properties for many years, likes to be
called a Napoleon Of Finance" and
rather dresses the part. He also likes
to be thought a great connoisseur of
art At one time he rented the Piazzo
Desdemona in Venice, and perhaps
still retains it. He is almost as well
known on the continent as in London,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
COFFEE HURTS
One in Three.

1t is difficult to make people believe
that coffee is a poison to at least one
person out of every three, but people
are slowly finding it out, although
thousands of them suffer terribly be-
fore they discover the fact.
4 New York hotel man says: Each
time after drinking coffee 1 became
restless, nervous and excited, so that I
was unable to sit five minutes in one
place was also inclined to vomit and
suffer from loss of sleep, which got
worse and worse.
"A lady said that perhaps coffee was
the cause of my trouble, and suggested
that / try Postum. / laughed at the
thought that coffee hurt me. but she
insisted so hard that I finally had
some Postum made. l have been US
Ing it in place of coffee ever since, for
/ noticed that all my former nervous
ness and irritation disappeared. ! be
san to sleep perfectly. and the Postum
tasted as good or better than the old
coffee, so what was the use Of stick.
ing to a beverage that was injuring
me?
One day on an excursion up the
country I remarked to a young lady
friend on her greatly improved appear.
ance. She explained that some time
before she had quit using coffee and
taken to Postum. She had gained a
number Of pounds and her former pal
pitation Of the heart. hUmmiug in the
ears, trembling of the hands and less
and other dtsagreeable feelings had
disappeared. She recommended me to
quit coffee and take Postum and was
Tevy much surprised to find that I had
already made the change.
Sue said her brother had also re-
ceived great benefits from leaving off
coffee and taking on Postum. There's
3 reason.
Ever reno the above letter: new
enc appears from time to time. The-
are genuine, true, and full of hunan
Interest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
What Caused the CLEARING

Secretary Knoxs experience with
the Central American crowd was not,
as he supposed, cheering for him, but
applauding a local idol in his party,
recalls the story told by a sportsman
who went fishing last summer on the
Pecos river.
Leaving the train at Glorietta, he
took a wagon for Windsor's ranch. 1t
was long, hard pull for q miles, and
the sportsman looked eagerly for the
resort long before it came into view.
Finally the wagon rounded a point,
and Windsor's ranch was revealed be-
low. Almost as soon as it appeared
the wagon in turn was discovered
from the ranch. Some Is or 20 men
boiled out of the cabins, and a ire
mendous cheer arose in the valley
The sportsman was at once puzzled
and fattered.
Great Scott!' he exclaimed. us
that for me?"
The driver clapped on the brakes
and reared back on the lines.
For your" he laughed. Not on
your life. I'm bringin' the boys ten
gallons O. whisky!"-St, Louis Post
Dispatch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
what He Wanted to saw.

A teacher who had taken great trOu-
bic to impress every detail of the his
tory lesson upon his class was sadly
disappointed, on asking the name of the
king who reigned previous to Queen
Victoria, to find only one hand up
held.
Boys" said the teacher sternly
pointing as he spoke to the boy whose
anxious desire to impart the necessary
information compelled him to use
strenuous efforts to increase his dimin-
utiye stature. "one of your intelligent
little schoolfellows will tell you what
none of you have the brains to know.
Although the youngest in the class, his
is an example that it would be a
credit for many of you to emulate.
Now, then, Johnny, tell them"
Please, teacher, Jim Mills bin and
ruined pin into mel"
Then the intelligent little boy sat
down.-London Weekly Telegraph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
WE'D YOUNG AND BE HAPPY
Fewer Divorces Follow Early Unions,
a Medical Expert Ssys-Most
Separation After.

Cambridge, Mass.-"Men should
marry young" said DR., William F.
zoos, the Harvard Medical expert
He added:
statistics show clearly the great
benefits Of an early union. An impor-
tant feature is the better health. The
offspring Of youthful marriages as a
rule inherit greater mental and physi-
cal well-being.
"Our ideas on the subject Of the
marriageable age and the require
ments for the union are all wrong. A
father, instead Of opposing a youthful
marriage, should encourage. Statistics
show marriages that usually end in
divorce are contracted by people mora
shan thirty years Old
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
Old Jim Forrest, Paroled From Sam
Quentin Penitentiary, Sees Miracle
in Prisoners Statue.

San Quentin, Cabin Forrest, an In
dian chief Of the AIodoc tribe, found a
sermon in stone when he recently was
paroled from San Quentin prison aft
er serving seven years Of long term
for murder
Testing first the air of freedom on
the day of his liberation, the gray-head-
ed Indian espied on the hillside near
the steel door through which he had
come a clay statue Of an Indina vel
coming the genius Of civilization
Hurrying toward the clay present
ment OF his race. the aged chief fell
on his knees and with arms outstretch-
ed prayed to the symbol of his people.
The tears welled from his eyes as he
knelt on the cold sod.
Below stood group Of prison at
tendants, TRUSTEES in stripes and visi-
tors at the penitentiary, deeply moved
by the silent tabIeau on the hill
side In another part Of the prison,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
NEW YORK is POLYGLOT CITY
Less Than Fifth of People Born Of
American Parents-Yiddish Is
Mother Tongue Of ,265,o00.

New York-That New York, in ad-
dition to being the largest city in the
country and the second largest in the
world, is now the second largest Ital-
ian city, the largest Yiddish-speaking
city. and that less than one-tifth OF its
population is accounted for by persons
born of American parents, are some
of the interesting facts made public by
the completion Of a census OF races
and languages.
The figures give the city an Italian
population Of 1904, an increase OF
302, III in the last ten years, thus max
ing it larger than Rome or Genoa, and
second only to Naples.
The largest single group is that
from the Russian Empire, with a total
of 724,112, an increase of 416,429 in
the last decade. These figures make
New York the third largest Russian
city in the country, with a population
larger than that of Odessa and equal
to about half that of St. Petersburg.
Yiddish was given as the mother
tongue by 100000 persons and less
JlGl4 ~ per GENT. VI me lOldl DOJuld-
ton is made up of native whites and
OF native parents.
Ireland is represented by 500, 308
persons, a decrease of 10000 in the
last decade. The figures throughout
show marked falling off in immigra-
ton from the countries of northwest
ern Europe and a much greater in
crease from southeastern Europe
In terms of percentage New York's
population in 1910 was 1872 per cent.
British, 1919 per cent Russian birth
or parentage, 1874 per cent. German,
11.16 per cent. Italian, 8.35 per cent.
Austro-Hungarian 1877 per cent. Sean
dinavian, 13.49 per cent. of mixed for
eign or mixed native parentage, 1888
per cent. native whites Of native par
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
TAKE TIME TO ENJOY
LITTLE SENSE IN OVERWORKlNG
TO The BREAKING POINT.
Virtue That Is Excellent, in Modera-
ton, Can be Transformed Into
Vice-HoW One Woman Con-
serves Her Strength.

She's making big money" said a
man to me the other day, speaking
Of mutual acquaintance, a woman
who, beside editing magazine. had
recently undertaken to write a series
of articles that would require lot OF
research, but what she needs is to
learn to spend some of it. What's the
good Of money in the bank to dead
person. She is overworking herself
to the breaking point"
The savings bank habit is a mighty
good one, but you don't want to let it
get the best of you You can overdo
prudence just as you can anything. A
virtue that grows to be an obsession
cannot be distinguished from a vice.
There are times when you ought to
be extravagant, ought to give your
self the best there is" and think it
none too good. We all know what it
is to feel stale. If we realized that
severe nervous breakdowns often
start with that same stale" feeling
we might learn to regard 1t more seri-
ously than we do.
When you feel all tuckered out
cash a check at the bank and run
down to Atlantic City for a couple of
days. They'll do you more good than
month after the doctor has ordered
rest. One woman I know takes four
days every month to play in, going off
Wednesday night and returning Mon
day morning.
As she doesn't take the half holi-
day on the other Saturdays to which
she is entitled, you see she doesn't
really lose much time. She leaves
town either alone or with a chum who
won't expect her to be "sociable," goes
to the sea or the hills or to some 9TH
er city, puts up at a simple hotel
where the food is good, and just plays.
You would never think, if you met her
on one Of these jaunts, that she knew
what work was. She always takes
good book with her, one of the "old
fellows as she calls them, and drops
the magazines and papers, clearing her
mind Of everything in the least like
her usual routine One in a while she
goes to visit friend, but as rule she
prefers the greater freedom of hotel.
And she comes back to her work a
woman refreshed and radiant, thor
oughly convinced that her time and
money both have been well spent
Many of us think we can't do things
because we haven't tried Perhaps few
Of US can arrange to pool our holidays
and have to do the best we can with
those that come along in the regular
course. But we ought to give ourselves
a real treat once in a while, for there
is no greater tonic in the world than
enjoyment. You don't always need to
spend money for it-a lot of enjoyment
comes as free as sunsets, child's
laugh or good walk. But it is better
to spend a little money foolishly, or
what seems foolishly, on oneself every
now and then, instead of to be forever
saving up for that rainy day" we live
In such terror of meeting. You can't
beat health, serenity and growing
fund Of pleasant memories.-Hilde-
garde Hawthorne
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
PREPARING FOR THE WEDDING
But the Old Shoe, Fixed Up for the
Occasion, Was Not intended for
the Bridal Pair.

There was to be a wedding in the
vicinity. Many of the mountaineers
would be there.
Early in the morning of the nup-
tial day Bud Hightower was noticed
filing an old No IL shoe with sIugs
and nails and plaster of paris.
''Wot you dom, Bud?" drawled Sim
BeesIey.
KANT you see wot I'm dom? I'm
maxim moonshine sperrits out'n
cheese scrapin's."
Sim chuckIed.
"Gettin' good an ready FIR tn wed
din, l reckon"
Il reckon
Coin to throw it at tn bride
groom, maybe?"
Com to throw it at him, maybe,
but it amt goin to hit him. It's goin'
to break tn face of Snipe Tolliver,
an do it accidental, too. l been Iayin'
f'r that theer Snipe FIR right smart
SPELL
And he drove an extra railway
spike in the hardening mass.-Cleve-
and Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
HAS RECORD
KiIby's Have Run PoStoffiGe IN
Maine Town 112 Years.
William, the First One, Held Post for
Twenty-Five Years, Then in
Straight Succession, Came
His Son and Grandson.

Bangor, Me.-Horace P. KiIby, at
Ing postmaster at DennysYille, Wash
iHgton county, viii take a civil service
examination, and if he passes ne VIII
succeed H. Howard KiIby, who had
been postmaster since June 30, 1897.
The Office has been in the kiIby fam
lily for 1I2 years, with the exception
Of two brief intervals.
II there is another such, Representa-
tive Frank Guernsey OF the Fourth
district, who has just recommended
Horace P. KiIby for the place, would
like to know il.
The DennysTiue pOstofice was es-
tablished February "a, 1900, with VIII
liam KiIby as postmaster. He held
on for twenty-five years, according to
the records in the postofice depart
ment, and then, on December 8, 1925.
presumably about the time William
kiiby was gathered to his fathers,
John KiIby. presumably his son, quail
fed and remained postmaster TOR
twenty-seven years.
August 20, 1852, Cyrus h. Kilby ne
J.
grandson OF the first postmaster and
the son of the second is not clear. He
held on for less than two years. and
then, April Is, 1854, Benjamin Kilby
became postmaster and held the office
for twenty-five years. December y,
1876, Howard H. Kuby became post
master at Dennysviue and held the
place until February q, 1885, when
Herbert HaIlOweu, a member OF the
kilby family, became postmaster. He
remained postmaster until the Demo
Gratis elected president. It required
a few months for the pleas OF some
Of the good Democrats of Dennysvflle
to move Washington, but on June 1Y.
1887, Edwin H. Smith was appointed
t" the place. Presumably he was a
Democrat.
June l, 1889, Howard H. KiIby came
back into his own and served through
the remainder of the Harrison admin
lsrration and until July l, 1893, when
William P Henderson got the office
during the second Cleveland admin
istration.
again, however, a Kilby was recog-
nized, and June 80, 1897, H. Howard
KiIby was commissioned as postmas-
ter and he served until early in Feb
| ruary last
The Office is a small one, and the
/ emoluments have been small. But it
now pays about 500 a year in salary.
Once Horace P. gets well seated In
/ the office, under the present civil serv-
ice rules, it will not be easy to GUST
! him. So no one can say when the
/ Eilby regime will end.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
MAY TURN COAL TO POWER
New Electric Laboratory at Harvard
Expected to Prove That Great Sum
Can Be Saved by Process.

Cambridge, Mass.-The claims re-
Gently made by certain English scient-
lists as to the possibility of saving
coal mining expense by turning the
energy of the coal into electricity at
the mines has the approval and sup
port of Professor Comfort A. Adams
of Harvard.
In statement regarding the work
of the proposed new electrical labora-
tory here, Professor Adams says that
he believes that some day Boston, New
York and other cities will receive their
electricity for heating, lighting and
power BY wire from the coal fields.
The installation of a million-volt
transformer in the Harvard laboratory
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
GIRL WILL DRIVE A STAGE
Signs Contract TO Garry Mail and %as-
sengers over Dangerous Route IN
Colorado for q Year.

Meeker, CoIo.-Miss May Robertson.
81 years old, said to be the first wom-
an stage driver in the United States.
recently began her daily run between
Meeker and Buford, a distance of 80
miles.
Miss Robertson has been familiar
with horses since her childhood, and
of late years broke bronchos on her
ather's ranch near here
She has signed a years contract to
operate the stage line, which will take
her over an extremely dangerous and
onesome mountain road. The stage
viii carry passengers and mail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
FINDS A JOB FOR OLD MEN
kanses City Pastor Says Aged Can
Make a Good Living Grow
ing Mushrooms.

Kansas City, Mo-"You men and
womep. of the CITY who have been
pushed backward because of age or
for other reasons should learn to
grow mushrooms. Do this as I have
done and the question Of the high cost
Of living for you will disappear"
This was the declaration made here
from the pulpit by Rev. A. T. Osbron,
pastor of the Twentieth Century
church.
Recently Rev. Mr.. Osbron announced
that he had proved his theory that
any man can make a good livelihood
if he will AS the result of long ex-
perimenting he p&oduces from beds
planted in an abandoned tunnel a crop
of mushrooms that nets him $50 a day
six months in the year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
eermans Ruy Nothino on credIt

People in Germany have much
more money to spend than here in
America, even though the ratio OF pop
ulation there is much greater than in
the United States" said William K.
Steinway, just before sailing for Ger
many the other day.
The German way is to pay cash for
what one can afford, and there is ab-
solutely no such thing as living be-
yond ones means, as We do here.
Moreover, there are very clearly de-
fined class distinctions, recognized by
the people themselves, who never
dream OF trying to go above their sta
ton"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
Thousands of EIvinn [ nnns

San Diego, Cal.-The first sign of
spring was evident on San Diego bay
when flock of looms, estimated to
have numbered 10000, modified on
the surface of the water and maneu-
vered to the weird calls of the leaders
until their formation was perfect.
Then at a signal the featbered visi-
tors from the north, which have been
about San Diego all the winter. rose.
and in wedge-shaped body headed for
their northern summer home.
Many persons lined the bay shore
and witnessed the strange mobiliza-
ton, which lasted for more than an
hour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

The marquis of Queensberry. apro-
pos of the long sentence of Foulke e.
Brandt. said at a dinner in New York:
1T reminds me of an incident in
London A certain peer drove in a
taxi cab to Westminster and, when he
got out, gave the driver a very small
tip.
The driver mistook him for mem
Der of the house Of commons and
snarled:
81 hope you get turned out next
election and don't never get in again.!
Don't worry, my friend said the
peer, as he set of for the house of
lords Dent worr5 I'm in TO- life "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
BOOM IN TIN STOCK

and he is supposed to be the smartest
market manipulation the city has ever
seen.
He was the creator of the present
boom, and he is now careering round
the continent, carrying the glad news
that Anglo-Continental 10 shilling
shares are cheap at $35 to all the
greedy people in Paris, Berlin and
Holland.
When he is in Berlin he wears the
Order Of the Red Eagle, which he re-
ceived from the Kaiser, according to
the London Evening News, from
which these details are taken, says
the correspondent, "ostensibly because
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
Marie Tempest,s Nose.

At the Lenten musicale at the Wal
dorf-Astoria young matron related
a bon-mot of Marie Tempest's.
Miss Tempest's nose is frightfully
pug, isn't it?' she began. We'll, met
her at tea once, and she joked about
her nose as, if it had belon ed, to some
one else
When the Creator she said, was
looking for a nose for me he took, you
see, the first one that turned up"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
IMAGE CONVERTS AGED INDIAN

clad IN stripes, performing men
tai task, was the creative artist whose
hand had formed the heavy clay figure
which had moved the Indian convict
to reverence. The statue was the
work of a convict
Indian Jim will pass the remainder of
his days with his tribe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
WaII Trained

Hub (angrily) More NOE
ey? When I'm dead you'll probably
have to beg for al the money you
get
Wife calmly -WeIl, I'll be better
on than lone poor woman who never
had any practice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
How Anuravatino.

Brown saw a man drop twenty
stories the other day, and it was a
caution the way he swore.
Greene-Swre after dripping twenty
stories?
Brownies They were in mag
azine he had just bought. and he
dropped it in the mud.-Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
Minis AGAIN

The International Pure Food Show held
in Paris March 1912. has just awarded Cal
umet Baking Powder the highest honors,
giving them the Grand Prize and Gold
Medal.
This. in addition to the Highest Award
that Calumet won Eat the Worlds Pure
Food Exposition in Chicago, gives CaIu-
met the highest honors issued by two of
the largest Pure Food Shows ever held and
proves conclusivelY the superior whole
someness. purity and uniformity Of Calu-
met Baking Powder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

A young widow has one important
advantage over the inexperienced
maid-she can act as her own chap
eron.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

To keep artificial teeth and bridge
work antiseptically clean and free
from odors and disease germs, Paxtine
Antiseptic is uneQualed. At drug
gists, 25c a box or sent postpaid on re
ceipt Of price by The Paxton Toilet
Co, Boston, Mass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
MarksWomanship,

81 am afraid those militant suffra-
gettes are going to give us serious
trouble said one London policeman.
They mean business"
why do you think SOP" inquired the
other
"a lot of them have quit giving pa
rades and making speeches and are
pTacticing with quoits and base balls"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
Family ATTACHED bv Eat

New York.-A ten-pound, 27-fnch
rat fought five members of a family
over the ground floor of their home
IN East New York. It was killed only
after a desperate struggle in which
one woman was badly bitten and an
other driven into hysteria.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
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