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United States Does Not Make IRE
mendousEy Good Showing in
Worlds Financial Column.

For all its Wanted wealth the Unit
ed States, in so far as per capita ratio
goes, does not make such a tremen-
dousIy good showing in the worlds
financial column. The wealth in the
United States in 1910 was estimated
at $125. 0OO, 100000, by far the greatest
amount credited in bulk to any one
country. Yet the per capita wealth
was only $3.50. Great Britain in 1909
was worth SIS .725 900, 900, each person,
according to the census. thus getting
$1,972. France, with $50. 900, 900 900 in
1910, had a per capita wealth Of
S2,O70; Germany had S63,500, 100000,
with a per capita of $1,000. Russia's
total wealth was s60,000,000.00 but
its enormous population dragged the
per capita down to $500. while Swift
zerland, with a total wealth of only
SO, 030, coo, 600, has a per capita rating
Of 1856. The per capita division in
Sweden amounts to 1902 out of a total
of s2.197, 900, 000 Switzerland. in the
last few years, made 9 20 per cent
gain in national wealth. The average
per capita wealth in the Is cantons
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
Not His Line,

Harry Lehr's favorite story has to
do with couple Of ambitious appli-
cants for admission into the exclusive
social set of Chicago.
They were wealthy, a circumstance,
it seemed to the young wife, that
should make their progress a smooth
one; but there was one obstacle to
their success that gave her no little
uneasiness, and that was the utter
lack of confidence displayed by her
husband in his ability to play the
game"
When on one occasion they were
talking things over and she had of
fered various suggestions as to his
future lie of conduct the unhappy
husband interrupted to offer this OBJ
servation:
It's no use in me trying, Marie.
I'm not qualified for this game at all.
When talk have to stop eating, and
when 1 eat have to stop talking. |
was never cut out for a society mani"
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down the canon; her bloody sweater
still lay on the ground with other
things of which she was needless. 1t
had grown colder, but she realized
that the climb down the canon would
put her stagnant blood in circulation
and all would be well.
Before she began the descent of the
pass, she cast one long glance back
ward whittier the man had gone.
Whence came he, who was he, what
had he seen, where was he now? She
thanked God for his interference in
one breath and hated him for his
presence in the other.
The whole sky was now black with
drifting clouds, lightning flashed above
her head, muttered peaIs of thunder,
terrifically ominous, rocked through
the silent hills. The noise was low
and subdued, but almost continuous.
With a singular and uneasy feeling
that she was being observed, she
started down the canon, plunging des-
perately through the trees, Ieaping the
brook from side to side where it mar
roWed, seeking ever the easiest way.
She struggled on, painting with sud
den inexplicabIe terror almost as bad
as that which had overwhelmed her
an hour beforehand growing more
intense every moment, to such tragic
pass had the day and its happenings
brought her
Poor girl, awful experience really
was to be hers that day. The fates
sported with her-bodily fear, out
ragged modesty, mental anguish and
now the terror of the storm.
The clouds seemed to sink lower,
until they almost closed about her.
Long gray ghostly arms reached out
toward her. 1t grew darker and dark
er in the depths of the canon. She
screamed aloud-in vain.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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Gone to Stay.

Booth Harrington was telling stor-
les to a group of college graduates in
a New York club, when one of the
party suddenly inquired: What has
become of Davis?'
HE has gone out of town on bust
ness for few days, l guess" re-
piled another of the party.
He has gone for a long while" oh,
served Mr.. Harrington, with a smile.
Davis is one of those men who leave
unmistakable evidence of their pur-
poses. Whenever Davis goes away to
stay long period he takes with him
an old mouth organ, which he loves
dearly to play while he occasionally
nibblos at gingerbread. l have made
an investigation of Davis room, and
have found that the mouth organ dis
appeared with him. The presence or alb
sence of that instrument is enough to
tell me what Davis plans are"
The party learned soon after that
Davis had left for Wisconsin to re-
side permanently.
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CHAPTER V.

The Bear, the Man and the Flood
The water was deep enough to re-
ceive her dive and the pool was long
enough to enable her to swim a few
strokes. The first chill of the icy wa
ter was soon lost in the vigorous mo-
lions in which she INDUCED, but no
more human form, however hardy and
Injured, could long endure that frigid
bath Reluctantly, yet with the knoWl-
edge that she must go, after one more
sweeping dive and a few magnificent
strokes, she raised her head from the
water tapping her white shoulders and
shaking her face clear from the drops
of crystal, faced the shore. 1t was no
longer untenanted, she was no longer
alone.
What she saw startled and alarmed
her beyond measure. Planted on her
clothes, looking straight at her, hav-
ing come upon her in absolute 81
lence, nothing having given her the
least warning of his approach, and
now gazing at her with red, hungry.
evil, vicious eyes, the eyes of the
cOvetoUs filed with the cruel lust of
desire and caTnaI possession, and yet
with a CLINT of surprise in them, too,
as if he did not know quite what TO
make Of the white loneliness of this
unwOnteG apparitiOu flashing so sud
denly at him out of the water, this
strange invader Of the domain OF
which he was sole master and lord
paramount, stood q great. monsrous,
frightful looking grizzly bear. Ursus
HorTibilis. indeed.
He was an aged monarch of the
mountains, reddish brown in color
originally, but now a hoary dirty
gray. His body was massive and
burly, his legs short, dark colored and
immensely powerful. His broad square
head moved restlessly. His fanged
mouth opened and a low hoarse growI
came from the red cavern Of his
throat. He was an old and terrible
monster who had tasted the blood OF
man and who would not hesitate to
attack without provocauon, especially
anything at once so harmless and so
Whitley inviting as the girl in the
pool.
The girl forgot the chill of the water
in the horror Of that moment. Alone,
naked, defenseless, lost in the noun
tains, with the most powerful. san
culinary and ferocious beast of the
continent IN 'front.' Of her, she could
neither fight nor fly; she could only
wait his pleasure. He snuffed at her
clothing a moment and stood with
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Wisconsin News Briefs.

MadisOn.-FO insure a better quail
ity of canned peas for consumers the
agricultural college at the Uniyer-
sity of Wisconsin will conduct ex-
periments this year to ascertain
whether a vine can be grown on
which practically all the blossoms
will appear at one time and the pods
develop simultaneously One of the
handicaps of the industry in peas is
that while some pods are dead ripe
the plant bearing them may also be
in blossom.
OshkOsh.-The body Of Bert Hicks,
son of e. r. Hicks of Oshkosh, for
mer attorney general of Wisconsin,
who was killed by Chinese pirates in
the province of Ichang several weeks
ago, has been shipped from Shang-
hal and will arrive at San Francisco,
May 20. The body was recovered by
the American consul and at the re-
quest of the father was shipped to
the United States.
Stoughton.-This city stands to
lose a 100000 gift for library be-
cause of a recent court action in
which the daughter of Jerome Blk
by, a wealthy farmer, was accused
of assault by a neighbor. BiXby says
that, owing to the attitude of city
officials, he regrets to state the be-
quest has been cancelled.
Green Bay.-Ptomaine poisoning
nearly resulted in the death of the
Of "a,
Oconto when the oldest child after
purchasing a can of preserves, shar-
ed it with the little ones.
Marfnette-Gunnar Hanson, aged
40 years, who has been committed to
the insane asylum, imagined that he
had been a. passenger on the Inflated
Titanic and it is believed that brood
ing over the catastrophe, combined
with an injury to his head, unbal-
anced his mind.
Manitowoc-Theaters of the city
must continue to pay a license fee
under the action of the council. The
action is the outgrowth Of the cam
Daign by ministers of the city for
Sunday closing of the theaters, fail
ing in which they demanded the
playhouses be licensed.
Green Bay.-Herman Ansorge, a
deputy state fish and game warden,
who was discharged from the serv-
ice a year ago, was sxonerated on the
charge of illegally purchasing fish, in
the municipal court. The complaint
was made by State Game Warden
John Shots.
Green Bay.-During severe cleo
tricaI storm lightning struck st.
Mary's hospital over an electric light
wire and caused a fire which did
damage amounting to several thou
sand dollars. Firemen removed 4
dozen patients from one part of the
building.
Washburu. - Assessment officials
state that fraudulent methods have
been employed in efforts to eyade the
income tax in this district and it is
proposed to summon a large num-
Der of citizens before the board of
review
Sturgeon Bay.-The property of
the Equity Elevator company in Stur-
geon Bay viii be sold by the referee
in bankruptcy.
Fond du Lac.-Despondenc over
Ill health caused Fred c. Kobs, a
pioneer resident, to commit suicide
by hanging himself to a neckscarf to
a bedpost.
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Foured, that was small thing, but
that she should be so outraged in her
modesty was uncomfortable. She wished
the hunter had not come. She sunk
lower in the water for a moment fain
to hide in its crystal clarity and real
lied as she did how frightfulIy cold
she was. Yet, although she froze
where she was and persisted with cold
she could not go out on the bank to
dress, and it would avail her little,
she saw swiftly, since the huge mon
ster had fallen dead heap on her
clothes.
Now all this, although it takes min
utes to tell, had happened in but
few seconds. Seconds sometimes in
cIude hours, even a lifetime, in their
brief composition. She thought it
would be just as we'll for her TO sink
down and die in the water, when a
sudden splashing below her caused
her to look down the stream.
She was so agitated that she could
make out little except that there was
a man crossing below her and making
directly toward the body Of the bear.
He was a tall black bearded man, she
saw he carried a rife, he looked Meth
er to the right nor to the left. he did
not bestow a glance upon her. She
could have cried aloud in thanksgiving
for his apparent obliviOusness to her
as she crouched now neck deep in the
benumbing cold. The man stepped on
the bank, shook himself like a great
dog might have done and marched
over to the bear. He uprooted a small
nearby pine, with the ease Of Her
cules-and she had time to mark and
marvel at it in spite of everything
and then with that as a lever he IN
cOncernedly and easily heaved the
body of the monster from off her
clothing. She was to learn later what
a feat of strength it was to move that
inert carcass weighing much more
than half a ton.
Thereafter he dropped the pine tree
by the side of the dead grizzly and
without a backward look tramped
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ellipse of her imagination. Another
moment or two and all coherency OF
thought would be gone. The grizzly
still unsettled and uneasy before her
awful glance, but not deferred by it.
turned its great head sideways a lit
tie to escape the direct immobiIe
stare brought his sharp clawed foot
down heavily and lurched forward
Scarcely had a minute elapsed in
which all this happened. That huge
threatening heave Of the great body
toward her relieved the tension. She
found voice at last Although it was
absolutely futile, she realized as she
cried. her released lips framed the
loud appeal.
Help! for Gods sake"
Although she knew she cried but
to the bleak walls of the canon, the
dropping pines. the rushing river. the
distant heaven, the appeal went forth
accompanied by the mightiest con-
Duration known to man.
For Gods sake, help!"
How dare poor humanity so plead,
the doubter cries. What is it to God
if one suffers, another bleeds. another
dies? What answer could come out Of
that silent sky? Sometimes the Lord
speaks with the loud voice Of mems
fashioning. instead of in that still
whisper which is his own, and the
sound of which we fail to catch be-
cause of our own ignoble babble.
The answer to her prayer came
with a roar in her nervous frightened
ear like clap of thunder. Ere the
first echo Of it died away, it was sue
ceeded by another and another and
another, echoing, rolling, reverberat-
ing among the rocks in ever diminish
ing but long drawn out peals.
On the instant the bear rose to his
feet, sw&yed slightly and struck as at
an imaginary enemy with his weighty
paws. \ hoarse. frightful guttering
roar burst from his red slavering jaws,
then he lurched side ways and fell
forward, fighting the air madly for
moment, and lay still.
With staring eyes that missed no
detail, she saw that the brute had
been shot in the head and shoulder
three times and that he was appaT-
emily dead. The revulsion that came
over her was bewildering; she swayed
again. this time not from the thrust
Of the water, but with sick faintness.
The tension suddenly taken of, IN
strung. the loose bow of her spirit
quiveTed helplessIy; the arrow of her
life almost fell into the stream.
And then a new. and more aDDaIIing
terror swept over her. Some man had
fred that shot Actaeon had spied
upon Diana With this sudden reveIa-
ton of her shame, the red blood beat
to the white surface in spite Of the
chill water. The anguish Of that mo-
ment was greater than before. She
could be killed, torn to pieces, de-
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determined the end. In spite Of her
assurance there was some little ap-
prehension in the glance that she cast
about her, but 1t soon vanished. There
was no one. She was absolutely
alone. The pool and the chance of
the plunge had brought her down to
earth again; the thought Of the en-
livening exhilaration of the pure cold
water dashing against her own sweet
warm young body changed the cur
rent Of her thoughts-the anttcipa-
ton of It rather.
ImpulsiveIy she dropped her rod
upon the grass, unpinned her hat,
threw the fishing basket from her
shoulder. She was wearing a stout
sweater; that, too, joined the rest
Nervous hands manipulated buttons
and the fastenings. In a few moments
the sweet figure of youth, Of beauty,
CS purity and Of innocence frightened
the sod and shed a white luster upon
the green of the grass and moss and
pines. rejecting light to the gray
brown rocks Of the range. So Eve
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one fore foot advanced for a second
or two growing deeply, evidently. she
thought with almost superhuman
keenness Of perception, preparing to
leap into the pool and seize upon her.
The rush Of the current as it sRirled
about her caused her to sway gently,
otherwise she stood mCtionIess and
apprehensiYe, awfuIly expectant. She
had made no sound, and save for that
low groWl the great beast had been
equally silent. There was an awful
fXity in the gaze she turned upon him
and he wavered under 1t 1t annoyed
him. II bespoke a little Of the dom
nance of the human. But she was
too surprised, too unnerved, too des-
perately frightened to put forth the
full power Of mind over matter. There
was piteous appeal IN her gaze. The
bear realized this and mastered her
sufficiently.
She did not know whether she was
in the water or in the air; there were
but two points upon which her con-
seriousness was focused in the vast
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swiftly and steadily up the canon
through the trees, turning at. the point
of it and was instantly lost to sight.
His gentle and generous purpose were
obvious even to the frightened. agt-
tated, excited girl.
The woman watched him until he
disappeared, few seconds longer,
and then she hurled herself through
the water and stepped out upon the
shore. Her sweater which the bear
had dragged forward in its advance,
lay on top of the rest Of her clothes,
covered with blood. She threw it aside
and with nervous, frantic energy, wet
cold, though she was, she jerked on
in some fashion enough clothes to
cover her nakedness and then with
more leisurely order and with neCes-
sary care she got the rest of her ap-
pareI in its accustomed place upon her
body, and then when it was all over
she sank down prone and PROSTATE
upon the grass by the carcass of the
now harmless monster which had so
nearly caused her undoing, and shiY-
cred, cried and sobbed as if her heart
would break.
She was chilled to the bone by her
motionless sojourn, albeit It had been
for scarcely more than a minute in
that icy water, and yet the blood
rushed to her brow and face, to every
hidden part of her in waves as she
thought Of it. It was a good thing
that she cried; she was not a weep
across the sky toward the other side
of the canon and the mountain wall
A storm was brewing such as she
had never seen, such as she had no
experience to enable her to realize its
maIign possibilities. Nay. it was now
at hand. She had no clew, however,
of what was toward, how terrible
danger overshadowed her. Frightened
but unconscious of all the menace OF
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Wealth Of the Nations

ranges from 1855 in Geneva to $279
in Tessin- Switzerland thus stands
very high. The population in 1921
was 1856, 229, so that in 90 years
time it has not doubled. France. it
will be noted, stands at the head of
the nations with per capita wealth
Of $2,070. That the United States,
with its enormous total, does not rank
higher is because of the rapidly In
creasing population. France, on the
contrary, has reported a diminishing
or at the most a very slowly increas-
ing population, so that the money adj
vance has become greater than the
birth rate.
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Bruce and the Spider

stance so picturesque and illustrating
so aptly the perseverance and pa
thence Of the national hero under des-
perate difficulties.
mo; nothing is heard Of this adven-
ture till long after Bruce and his
comrades had passed away, and then
it makes its appearance in company
with such trash as the miraculous ap-
pearance of the arm bone Of St. Fill
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SYNOPSIS.

Enid Maitland a frank, free and IN
lpolied young Philadelphia girl, Is taken
70 the Colorado mountains by her uncle,
Robert Maitland James Armstrong,
Maitland's protege. falls in love with her.
His persistent Wooing thrills the girl, but
she hesitates, and Armstrong goes east
IN business without a definite answer.
Enid hears the story Of q mining engl-
aeer, Nswbold, whose wife fell off a cliff
and was so seriously hurt that he was
tnR eaten by wolves while he went for
help. Kirkby, the old guide who tells the
story, gives Enid a package Of letters
VII. ch he says were found on the DEAD
Woman's body. She reads the letters ana
u kirkby,s request Keeps them.
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Apparently the little Preside story
about Bruce and the spider is in the
category Of fables. So eminent an au-
Ehority as Sir Herbert Maxwell says IN
fRobert the Bruce
What is the evidence to be found
in support Of it? Not in the writings
Of Barbour, Fordun or Wyntoun. those
most nearly contemporary with Bruce
aud least likely to suppress a circum-
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Subject of Prime Importance.

Weather is the one topic of CONVEX
sation that never grows out Of date.
We are almost as nearly at the mercy
of the sunshine, the rain and the snow
storm as we were a century ago.
Therefore We always scan the sky
when we get up in the morning. It is
almost instructive, even with the city
dwelIer No farmer fails to take a
long look at the sky when he first
rises, for on the weather viii depend
his activities during the day.
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AS times go on We have the two re-
suits to be anticipated. Men reach
the point-usually early in life-Where
business or politics absorbs their
whole attention, and they have little
time, strength or interest left for the
broader culture and the amenities OF
life. while women are prone to be too
much preoccupied with these things
TO the injury of the home-oot, per
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Absorb Water Through the Skin.

Experiments have been made with
frogs which tend to show that those
animals rapidly absorb water through
the pores of the skin. Emphasis is
laid by certain authorities upon the
fact that frogs never take water by
the mouth. On being exposed for sew
eral hours to dry air some frogs ex-
perimented with lost Il per cent of
their weight, but this was nearly all
regained within "a hours when they
were placed in a dish containing wa
ter only one centimeter in depth
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Men and Women

haps, in its smooth running. for in
the average American home the
wheels of its machinery do usually
run smoothly. though at great expense
and to the injury of the home spirit.
II the two could be averaged We
should more nearly approach the ideal.
Men need more relaxation. more rest.
more variety. especially as they ad-
vance in life. Women need more con-
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Senator Bishor.s Wife Dead.

Rachine. - Mrs Lydia Clemens
Bishop, wife of State Senator Isaac
T. Bishop, died at the family home
in Somers, Kenosha county, after a
long illness. Senator Bishop is also
seriously i'll and relatives fear the
shock to him Of his wife's death.
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Will Grow Oats for Oatmeal.

Madison.-WiscOns may soon
grow a variety of oats especially
adapted to the manufacture of oat-
meal. This eventually depends upon
the successful outcome of a series
of experiments, now being made at
the state agricultural college.
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needed no further incentive. she ate
to the last crumb; she thought this
was the time she needed stimulants,
too, and mingIing the cold water from
the brook with a little of the ardent
spirit from the flask, she drank. Some
of the chill had worn off. some Of the
fatigue had gone.
She rose to her feet and started
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He Couldn't cuass

When I marry" said the girl, Il
an not going to marry a man who
drinks, smokes, plays cards or who
belongs to a club. Still, l want him
to have good time"
'Where?" he asked.-Ladies' Home
Journal
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To Ask Pardon for Dietz.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. asking
tull pardon for John Dietz, the Cam
eron Dam man who is serving a life
sentence for killing deputy sheriff
at Hayward, will be circulated here
at the instance of the Dietz family.