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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
DIFFERENT NOW.
Since the sIugger, Coffee, Was Abai-
doned.

Coffee probably causes more bilious
ness and so-called malaria than any
one other thing-eVen bad climate.
(Tea is just as harmful as coffee be
cause it contains caffeine, the drug in
Coffee.
A Fl Worth man says:
Il have always been Of bilious tenn
permanent, subject to malaria and up
to one year ago a perfect slave to cot
fee At times I would be covered with
boils and full of malarial poison, was
very nervous and had swimming in
the head.
Il don't know how 1t happened, but
I finally became convinced that my
sickness was due to the use Of coffee,
and a little less than year ago [
stopped coffee and began drinking
Postum.
From that time I have not had a
boil, not had malaria at all, have
gained IS pounds good solid weight
and know beyond all doubt this Is due
to the use Of Postum in place Of cot
fee, as 1 have taken no medicine at
all.
Postum has certainly made healthy,
red blood for me in place Of the blood
that coffee drinking impoverished and
made unhealthy" Name given by
Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
Postum makes red blood.
There's a reason and If is ex-
planned in the little book, ''The Road
to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are geRIine, true, and full of hu1naa
interest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
MIX for Flesh Reduction.

The simplest article containing com
plete nourishment is milk. That is DR..
MitchelPs cure for obesity, but he puts
his patients to bed while he gives it
to them. An amount of milk suff1 cient
for the nourishment of a healthy &C
tive person presents digestive difficult
ties for many. 1t is not the simple
liquid diet it seems, but presents
solid mass of curds in the stomach.
Lime water makes it more digestible.
In the form of buttermilk, it is easier
to digest and makes a very effective
reduction diet 1t Is wise to take with
it a little gluten bread with butter.
since the fats have been removed from
the milk.-Harper's Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
cHAprER V lcontInuedl

Suddenly the rolling thunder peaIs
concentrated. balls of fire Ieaped out
Of the heavens and struck the noun
tafns where she could actually see
them. There we're not words to de-
scribe the tremendous crashlngs
which seemed to splinter the hills, to
be succeeded by brief periods OF 81
Ience, to be followed by louder and
more terrific detOnatiOns.
In one of those appalling alterna-
lions from sound to silence she heard
a human cry-an answering cry to
her own? It came from the hills be-
hind her. It must proceed, she
thought, from the man. She could
not meet that man, although she
craved human cOmpaniOnship as never
before, she did not want his. She could
not bear it. Better the wrath OF
God, the fury Of the tempest.
Needless Of the sharp note Of warn
ing. of appeal, in the voice ere it was
drowned by another roll Of thunder.
she plunged on In the darkness. The
canon narrowed here; she made her
way down the lodges, Ieaping recE-
lessly from rock to rock, slipping,
falling, grazing now one side, now
the other, hurting herself forward with
white face and bruised body and torn
hands and throbbing heart that would
fain burst it's bonds There was once
an ancient legend, a human creature,
menaced by all the furies. pitilessly
pursued by every malefic spirit Of
earth and air; like him this sweet
young girl, innocent, lovely, erstwhiie
happy, fed before the storm.
Then the heavens burst, and the
fountains of the great deeps We're
broken open and with absolute lit
teralness the floods descended. The
bursting clouds, torn asunder by the
wild winds, driven by the pent-up
lightning within their black and turgid
breasts, disburdened themselves. The
water came down, as it did of old
when God washed the face of the
world. in a flood The narrow Of the
canon was filed ten, twenty, thirty
feet in a moment BY the cloud burst.
The black water rolled and foamed,
surging like the rapids at Niagara.
The body OF the girl, utterly unpre-
pared, was caught up in moment and
flung like a bolt from a catapult down
the seething sea filled with the trunks
Of the trees and the debris of the
mountains, tossing about humanity in
the wild confusion. She struck out
strongly swimming more because of
reason. A helpless atom in the boil
ing flood. growing every minute great
er and greater as the angry skies dis
gorged themselves of their pent-up
torrents upon her devoted head.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
Renartee Off the STAGE.

In the big Weber-Fields dressing
room Joe Weber and George Beban
sat tense over a game Of checkers.
I'm working him up to his part" muir
INJURED Mr. Weber, in a kind voice.
He must go on the stage in a tan
trum in a few minutes. Every night
I beat him a game of checkers In here
before his entrance. It has just the
right effect on him" Every night
you don't beat mel" cried his oppo-
nent. " owe you $190 in Y weeks. Is
that much?" Not so much. but I'd
be glad to get it." suggested the sweet,
voiced Weber
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

peal. The desperation in the cry left
him no moment for thought, the de-
mand was for action. The cry was
not addressed to him, apparently, but
to God, yet it was he who answered.
sent doubtless by that Overlooking
Power who works IN such mysterious
ways His wonder to perform!
He Ieaped over the intervening
trees to the edge of the forest where
the rapid waters ran. To the right
of him rose a huge rock. or cliff. in
front Of him the canon bent sharply
to the north, and beneath him a few
rods away a speck of white cleaned
above the water of a deep and still
pool that he knew.
There was a woman there!
He had time for but the swiftest
glance; he had surmised that the voice
was not that of a mans voice instant
ly he heard it, and now he was sure.
She stood white breast deep in the wa
ter staring ahead Of her. The next
second he saw what had alarmed her
"a Grizzly Bear, the largest, fercest,
most fOrbidding speciman he had ever
seen. There were few Of those mon
sters still left in the range he him
self had killed several
The woman had not seen him. He
was a silent man by long habit, &C
customed to saying nothing, he said
nothing now. But instantly aiming
from the hip with a wondrous skill
and a perfect mastery Of the weapon,
and indeed it was a short range for
so huge a target, he pumped bullet
after bullet from his Winchester into
the evil monarch Of the mountains.
The first shot did for him, but max
ing assurance double and treble sure,
he fired again and again. Satisfied at
last that the bear was dead, and OBJ
serving that he had fallen upon the
clothes of the bather, he turned, de
scended the stream for a few yards
until he came to a place where it was
easily fOrdable, stepped through It
without a glance toward the woman
shivering In the water, whose sensa-
tion so far as a mere man could, he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
Did Burglar Get Cow?

A muley COW, fifteen pennies and IS
cents in change was the harvest reap
ed by burglars who burgled a COW lot,
saloon and stuck up" a man on
West street Friday night.
August Merkt, saloonkeeper, Sol
Massachusetts avenue, reported to the
police Saturday that some one had en-
tered his place some time Friday night
through the side door and plundered
the cash till Of fifteen pennies A. B.
Barnes, Ala North Capitol avenue, re-
ported that he was stopped on West
street, near Indiana avenue, by two
negroes and relieved of IS cents. a
L. Noble, 6216 East Washington street,
reported the loss to the cow. He
thinks it was stolen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
CUTlCURA OINTMENT HEALED
BAD SORE ON LIMB

Some time ago I was coming up
some steps when the board crushed
under me like an egg shell, and my
right limb went through to the knee.
and scraped the flesh off the bone
just inside and below the knee. 7
neglected it for a day or two, then it
began to hurt me pretty badly. I put
balsam fir on to draw out the poison,
but when l had used it a week, it hurt
so badly that I changed to -- ONT
ment. That made it smart and burn
so badly that / couldn't use it any
more, and that was the fourth week
after 1 was hurt.
Then began to use Cuticura ONT
ment for the sore. 1t stopped hurting
Immediately and began healing right
away. It was a bad-loolling sore be-
fore Cuticura Ointment healed it, and
/ suffered so I couldn't sleep from two
days after I fell until I began using
Cuttcura Ointment.
"Cuticura Soap Is the best soap I
ever saw. l have used all kinds of
soap for washing my face, and always
it would leave my face smarting. I
had to keep lotion to stop the smart,
no matter how expensive soap 1
used. l find at last in Cuticura Soap
soap that will clean my face and
leave no smarting, and do not have
to use any lotion or anything else to
ease it. l believe Cuticura Soap is the
best soap made" (Signed) Mrs. M.
E. Fairchild, 800 Lafayette St, Wich-
tia, Kan, May 8, 1911 Although
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold
by druggists and dealers everywhere.
a sample of each, with 32-page book,
will be mailed free on application to
"Cuticura," Dept. l.. Boston.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

under his gaze for SO long that he
finally made up his mind that COM
mon humanity required him to go to
her assistance.
He rose to his feet on the instant
and saw the woman also lift herself
from the grass as If moved by a SINH
lar impulse. In his intense preoccu-
patton he had forgot to observe the
signs of the times. A sense of the
overcast sky came to him suddenly as
it did to her, but with a difference.
He knew what was about to happen,
his experience told him much more
as to the awful potentialities of the
tempest than she could possibly mag
inc She must be warned at once,
she must leave the canon and get up
on the higher ground without delay.
not. He could not. The pressure
upon him was not yet strong enough.
A half dozen times as he watched
her deliberately sitting there eating,
he opened his mouth to cry to her,
yet he could not bring himself to it.
A strange timidity oppressed him;
halted him, held him back. A man
cannot stay away five years from men
and women and be himself with them
in the twinkling of an eye. And when
to that instructive and acquired reIuc-
lance against which he struggled in
vain, he added the assurance that
whatever his message he would be
Unwelcomef on account of what had
gone before; he could not force him
self to go to her or even to call to
her, not yet. He would keep her IN
der surveillance, however, and If the
worst came he could intervene in time
to rescue her. He counted without
his cost, his usual judgment bewil-
dered. So he followed her through
the trees and down the bank.
Now he was so engrossed in her
and so agitated that his caution slept.
his experience was forgotten. The
storm in his own breast was so great
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
The Prime Of Age.

81 understand that Lemuel Holland
has come back to Dandy to end his
days" said a former resident Of the
village to Peter Hobbs, the stage
driver How old is hep"
He's only 49," said Mr.. Hobbs, "and
I guess you've made a mistake about
his ending his days here. He came
home so he could get the new library
started and the bank organized right
up to date. and see to the drink
ing fountain that's to be put on the
green.
"He calculates to spend a year or
two with US, but he told me the other
day he'd always promised his son
out in Californy t he'd pass the latter
part of his life out there, and he's
planning to go before he fails any,
SOS to have the full enjoyment Of
the trip across the country. Youths
Companion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
DictOQraph.

The photograph consists of a series
of sensitive metal plates set in a hard
rubber cylinder. In it's elements it is
telephone transmitter magnified.
Used in business way it enables a
man to sit at his desk in his private
Office alone and talk off his CORE
spondence without the stenographer
being present The stenographer may
be in the next room or on the other
side of the building, bat she hears the
words as distinctly as though she
were at his elbow, and sets them
down The photograph promises to be
of great service in detective work.
and is already being used in that line.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
SYNOPSIS.

Enid Maitland, a frank, free and IN
spoiled young Philadelphia girl, is taken
Robert Maitland. James A rmstrOng,
MaftIand's prOtege falls in love with lef
HIS persistent wooiug thrills the girl, DuL
she hesitates, and Armstrong goes east
on business without a definite answer
Enid hears the story Of a mining ehRs.-
neer. NewbOId, whose wife fell on q c! Gnu
and was so seriously hurt that ne Was
compelled TO shoot her to prevent her pc
ing eaten by wolves while he went LOT
help. Kirkby, the old guide who tells the
story. gives Enid a package OF lsILGL5
which he says were found on lu5 1 sZ4
at Kirkby's request keeps them. " ME
bathing In mOUntaing stream Emo rs So. a.
tackled by a bear which Is nysJeLlouSLS
shot A storm adds to the girls terror
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
For Cure Of Pneumonia

DR.. Serbert has since employed the
same treatment in 81 cases, one Of
which was extremely serious, since it
was question of double complicated
pneumonia in woman seventy-two
years old. All these cases recovered.
1t seem certain that the camphor pro-
duced these effects, since there was
no real crisis, the cure being gradual
and slowly effected. = Philadelphia
North American
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

IN depth, that hangs from the trees.
At a distance the E1est resembles a
huge matted cobweb. The insect
makes no cocoon, but weaves the silk
in layers and skstns around the In
side Of the nest From Tegucigalpa
there were sent to England some
years ago six pounds OF this silk
There it was made into handkerchiefs
not easily detected from common silk
of equal strength and delicate texture.
There is a curioues silk-producing
spider in Central America, the arana
de seda, which may be seen hurTying
along with e load OF fine silk on It's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

prised her at frightful disadvantage,
he knew instinctively, although the
fault was none of his, although he
had saved her life thereby, that she
would hold him and him alone re-
sponsible for the outrage to her mod
esty, and although he had seen little
at first glance and had resoluteIy kept
his eyes away, the mere conscious
ness Of her absolute helplessness ap-
pealed to him-to what was best and
noblest in him, too. He must 90 to
her; yet stay, she might not yet be
clothed, in which event. But no,
she must be dressed, or dead, by this
time, and in either case he would
have a duty to discharge
1t devolved upon him to make sure
Of her safety; he was in a certain
sense responsible for it, until she got
back to her friends, wherever they
might be; but he persuaded himself
that otherwise he did not want to see
her again, that he did not wish to
know anything about her future; that
he did not care whether it was well or
i'll with her; and it was only stern
obligation which drove him toward
her-oh, fond and foolish man!
He compromised with himself at
last by climbing the ridge that had
shut off a view of the pool, and look
ing down at the place so memorable
to him. He was prepared to with
draw instantly should circumstances
warrant, and he was careful so to con-
ceal himself as to give no possible OPP
portunity for her to discover his
scrutiny.
With a beating heart and eager
eyes he searched the spot There lay
the bear and little distance away
prone on the grass, clothed but wheth-
er in her right mind or not he could
not tell, lay the woman. For moment
as he bent a concentrated, eager gaze
upon her he thought she might have
tainted or that she might have died.
In any event he reflected that she had
strength and nerve and will to have
dressed herself before either of these
things happened. She lay motionless
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

thoroughly understood and appreciat-
ed, and whose modesty he fatn would
spare having not forgotten to be
gentleman in FIVE years of his own so
ciety-high test of quality, that.
He climbed out upon the bank, up
rooted a small tree, rolled the bear
clear of the heap of woman's clothing
and marched straight ahead of him up
the canon and around the bend.
Thereafter, being a man, he did not
faint or fall, but completely unnerved
he leaned against the canon wall,
dropped his gun at his feet and stood
there trembling nightly, sweat be-
dewing his forehead, and the sweat
had not come from his exertions. In
one moment the whole even tenor of
his life was changed. The one
glimpse he had got Of those white
shoulders. that pallid face, that golden
head raised from the water, had swept
him back five years. He had seen
once more in the solitude woman
Other wome he had seen at dis
lance and avoided in his yearly visits
to the settlements. Of course, these
had passed him by remotely, but here
he was brought in touch intimately
with humanity. He who had taken
life had saved it A woman had sent
him forth; was a woman to call him
back?
He cursed himself for his weakness.
He shut his eyes and summoned other
memories. How long he stood there
he could not have told. He was fight
ing a battle and it seemed to him at
last that he triumphed. Presently the
consciousness came to him that per
haps he had no right to stand there
idle; it may be that the woman need
ed him; perhaps she had tainted In
the water; perhaps. He turned to-
ward the bend which concealed him
from her and then he stopped. Had
he any right to intrude upon her
privacy? He must Of necessity be an
unweIcome visitor to her; he had sur
said: ''Wen, you have spent very little
money during the last few years"
And when I spoke of the folly of
other landlords, he added: There are
very few who would be content to live
in a cockIoft like this"
And looking round my room I real
! lied that what he said was true; was
living IL a cockloft, bitterly cold in
winter and sitting in summer; the
sun beating fiercely on the windows In
! the afternoon, obEging me to write IN
my shirt sleeves.-George Moore in
Ave"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
Too True.

The Rev. DR.. Aked, in an address
on generosity in New York, said:
"a woman remarked to me the other
day:
Mrs. Blank is very shabby this
spring. Mr.. Blank adores the ground
she walks on, yet he won't allow her
enough to dress decently.'
All, madam l replied, 1T isn't al
ways the deVoutest worshipper who
puts the most money In the collection
plate'"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

Keep your head cool-your feet
warm-your mind busy. Don't worry
over trifes. Plan your work ahead
then stick to It. rain or shine. Don't
waste sympathy or yourself II you
are a gem. someone will find you
Don't whine Tell people you are a
failure and they VIII believe you.
Talk and act Ike winner, and Ia
time you viii become one.-Stephe0
Harta.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
Wild SILK Worms

The world is indebted to the Chin.
csc for the discovery of the virtues of
the silk worm. It's product was IN
known in Rome until the time OF
Julius Caesar. and so costly was the
material that even the Emperor Au-
reIian refused a dress of this lustrous
fabric to his empress. Now 1t, is nur-
tured in almost every country, and its
products are within the reach Of all
Besides the several domesticated
species there Is Wild silk worm
found In Central America, which
weaves a baglike structure two feet
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

old clothes, and spending from two
shiTings to half a crown on my dinner,
because / felt, and instinctiveIy, that
that is the natural life of a man of
letters; and I can remember my sur
prise when my brother told me one
day that my special agent had said he
never knew anybody SO economical as
George.
Some time after Tom Ruttledge him
self came painting up my stairs, and
during the course OF conversation re-
garding certain large sums of money
which I heard Of for the first time, he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
AN AUTHOR IN A GARRET
Wearing Old Clothes and Eating
Cheap Meals Was Nc Hardship
20 Moore.

In Paris I had lived very much as
lived in Victoria street, but it had
never occurred to me that I showed
any merit by accepting, without muir
muring. the laborious life in the Tenn
pie that sudden reverse of fortune
had forced upon me; it was no suffer
Ing for ne 10 live in a garnet, wearing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
Babies at Half Price.

Little Bessie and her mamma were
doing the sights of the town. Soon
they came to a show where a ticket
announced Children half price"
ooh, do let us go in, nanny" said
the little one, land buy a baby, now
they're so cheapi"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
Tested and Not Found Wanting

Kind Father-My dear, If you want
a good husband, marry Mr.. Goodheart
He really and truly loves you.
Daughter-Are you sure Of that, Pa?
Kind Father-Yes, indeed. I've been
borrowing money of him for six
months and still he keeps coming
Stray Stories.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
Circulation

There may be plenty Of money in
circulation unused the Country Edi-
tor, "but what are you going to do if
you have no circulation ?"-Lippin-
colts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

Women commiserate the brave, men
the beautiful. The dominion of pity
has usually this extent, no wider
w. S. Landor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
a Selfish Motive.

Does your husband ever dig In the
garden?"
only when he wants wor--s for q
fishing trip"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

Discriminating persons should know
that Garfield Tea is a uniquely efficient
remedy forliver troubles and costiveness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

Ask nothing but what is right, sub
NIT to nothing wrong-Andrew Jack
SON
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

A double wedding is one kind of a
four-in-hand tie.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

men happy than happiness makes
them good.-LandOr.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20

There's music in the squat of a
baby-to its mother.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-20
Recipe for Success.

back, from which trail numerous del.
icate 1laments.-Harper Weekly.