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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

IS immaterial whether it is done when
the cast is new and clean or after
it becomes dirty, provided only that
it has not been painted or in any way
coated with foreign matter The only
object is to make it impervious TO
water. SO that subsequent applications
Will not sink in
Then the cast is washed over with
a coat, Of whiting and water with &
little glue practically a fine white
wash, applied quite thin with a
brush, and stiDDled or bounced on,
so as not TO show brush marks a lit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
Not LIaed 70 mHiah Life.n

An old farmer was in London visit
ing his son, who had got on in the
world, and who kept a large house,
servants, etc.
When the two sat down to dinner
the first night q manservant waited
upon them, and was most assiduous
in his attentions to the old farmer.
After watching his antics for bit the
guest exclaimed:
What the mischief are ye dancin'
about like that for? Can ye not draw
in yer chair and sit down? I'm sure
there's enough here for the three Of
us."-London Mail
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

During the campaign around Ma
nassas. Bull Run and Fairfax, General
Phil Kearny, inspecting his command
one morning, found a man who had
polished the front Of his shoes, but
not the heels
The general looked him sharply in
the eye for a moment. What do
you mean" he said, by coming to
inspection with the toes Of your
shoes polished. but the heels muddy?"
General" the soldier said, persua-
sively, you told US good soldier
never looks behind him
General Keany passed on down the
line.-New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
Lazy Hens.

Some coffee coolers sent one of their
lumber to a farmhouse to get some
eggs without the farmers consent. He
returned and said there were no eggs
to be had, much to the disgust Of his
comrades.
The hens was just staGdin' round
dom nort him, s"
80 you got northin'?"
so 7 just brung one O. the lazy hens
along" he continued, pulling it out
from under his coat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
VITAL FACTS ABOUT LIFE

demonstration, oxygen. nitrogen
and hydrogen. It IS now recognized
as the fundamental basis for all life;
the smallest particle of it goes
through what is known as the cycle
Of iife-free motion. feeling, feeding
and reproduction. When in some IN
conscious way it grows q membrane
for a covering, or 4 little nucleus. a
kernel somewhere within it-science
calls it cell. These cells are the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
The Difference.

At one time both Randolph Mat.
tEews and Matthew Randolph we're
members Of the same com any. Mat.
thew was powerful giant Of a man
and Randolph was thin and emaciated
The captain was continually getting
the two confused.
4 cant understand it" said Ran
dolph one day. There's as much diff
ference between US as there is be
tween a horse chestnut and chest
nut horse
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
Calls of Animals and Plants Alike
Proved to Be Governed by the
Same Laws.

Pr0toplasm- literal translation
CT which means the FIRST man made"
was the name given by 4 German
scientist III IS4S to She shiny granular
seni-fuid contents Of vegetable cells.
It looks like the white Of an egg and
It can be anaIyzed INTO four chemical
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
What He wouId BE Dofno.

During a quarrel between two Irish
men in camp the following dialogue
was overheard:
"Shure, an if it weren't for yer puir
mtther Id knock ye into next week. "
oh. We would" replied the 9TH
er; and phwat I'D be thinking Of to
let yez do it,"
Well" replied the aforesaid az
gressor, there would be so many
sthars and stripes flying about that
ye'ud think We we're in the battle Of
Missouri Ridge and Wondering where
the mkt ball was going to hit yez."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

it that sple ndid thing
Mother Goose" or that en-
trancing production The
Yellow Dwarf?
Such things are conjured
up by just that one pipe Of
tobacco smoked in the cot
tage on Olympus. and on
that night a gentle breeze
blows up through the well.
laden with the poignant,
eternal memories OF child
hood, and the candles on
the Christmas tree are
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

tie yellow ochre is put into the wash.
so that it will not be q blue or dead
white. This wash is perfectly soluble.
and when it gets dirty it is easily re
moved and fresh coat applied. It
is obvious that the cast is no more
coated or loaded after the twentieth
application than after the first,
It is surprising in fact how little
the modelling is obscured, even when
it is delicate and detailed It is
doubtful if anybody, however, skillfuI-
can tell at distance OF eight or ten
feet whether z cast has been wbitaned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

9 q ri s I mas
them.
work begins
own job and
hers. Clown
the laughter
spring up in
and ripple as
barley field
Harlequin to
or common
appear beau
and a penny
wealth Of the
PantalOCn to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
Two Guesses.

We'll" said the proud father as
the docto~ entered the room. what
is it-a boy or q girl?"
.Ill give you two guesses. and even
then you won't guess right" said the
doctor
"Tushl nonsense!" said the proud
father Boy
Nope. said the doctor.
"Ah-gtrl, them" said the proud
father
Nope, said the doctor.
All know. said the proud
father. sadly.-Harper' Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

bring lng the
tire 6 with
Now their
each TO his
CClUmbine to
to preparing
that n Il S t
this season,
easily as a
in a breeze.
his N a gic.
things must
tiful n o ".
must buy the
Indies. And
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

1lle citizen put the solicited coin
in the hand Of the tramp
And uov want your assurance"
he said, that this money will not be
used for any unworthy or unnecessary
purpose
The tramp drew back
You don't think f'r . minute that
Id waste j, en- food an clothes, do
you" BE Indignantly demanded
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
Expert Approval.

Car you tell me anything about
TIE existence of a money trust that
absolutely controls the circulation of
funds?" NO" replied Mr.. Dustin
Stax. 4 don't know of any such un-
dertahEg But it's q mighty good
suggestior- Va Washington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

of the year
to SOW those
grow to flow
still innocent
are the infu-
makes you
fifty c e n t s
quarter. And
" b o S a y S
mess Of life
than the SEN
better hang
ing on Christ
zee what it
find nothing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

of the rest
They c o m e
s e e d s that
ers in the
hearts. They
ence t h a t
give a man
instead of a
the b elm &
that the bus
weighs more
timent h a d
up his stock
mas Eve, and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
Countrynan's Notion.

Farmer (seeing a water cart for th6
first time)-Dang me, Halbert, if
these Lunnon chaps amt smart! Just
look what that feIler's fixed up at tho
back of is wagon to keep boys from
hangin' on rehabilitation Sketch.
Sketch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

and the chimes will be
very meIodiously for you
and for those whom you try
to make happy. And r~
member, you can't feign
Christmas without being
caught as an impostoy,
both by your own con,
science and by the feel
ings Of those about you.
The very value Of Christ
mas is that it puts the gen
uineness Of everybody to an
unerring test
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

head there with her hand in your
hair, and forgot to be afraid of the
dark"
Columbine has her own very par
tucular work. and she calls it in
her mind Secret Delights. She calls
1t that because she delights in max
Ing up odd names for emotions, as,
for instance, when she pointed out
two lovers to me one day in the
spring. who were seated under
hedge, yelIow-fushed with prim-
roses; they we're holding hands and
looking at the hills beyond just as
if some wonderful thing was about
to come over the hills to tell them
what their feelings meant And the
peace was so great and the moment
SO held that the World seemed to
have stopped breathing, and some
thing suparhuman to have poured
out a cup Of stiffness. And she
called it Liquid Velvet. A Liquid
Velvet moment. And l understood
1t is Columbine who watches that
beautiful comedy of the newly mar
ried, who steal about their house
hand-in-hand. fearful of waking the
very new servants, fearful Of creak-
ing the boards as they gaze enrap-
tured on the very new furniture,
looking with joy on the very new
pots ard pans in the kitchen, turn
ing the electric lights up and down
all over the place to see the effect
in their new bedroom. And he has
a dreadful brooch for her hidden
where he keeps his razors; and she
has knitted him a tie he will have
to wear. But it is all perfectly
beautiful
Someone wrote the other day that
people who read are more interest
ed, nowadays, in business than in
love, and I'm so sorry for that man.
He is more blind than I thought
ANYBODY could be. Business may be
the means to an end, but Love is
the beginning and the end. And it
is Just at this season that Love
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

same in plants and animals. Prof.
Jacques Loeb showed the Importance
of this fact Although plants, he ex-
planned have no nervous systems,
they have instructive movements" In
analysis Of instincts, he bound togeth-
CT in the cell common to them the
plant and the worm at the root OF the
plant (as some day, perhaps. the
tree of life and the serpent may be
bound); and he called their reflex &C
lions tropisms." Then he pointed
cut that trOpisms are mechanical acts
that moth and fly and ivy leaf move.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

There are Pagan Saints who find Arcadia every
where. Pan pipes much in the crowded city
Mount Ida when the is high. And
Coumbine finds roses where the world sees
thorns and Harlequin finds magic in motor
buses; and Pantaloon digs away for pleasant
memories in the most unlikely Places and finds
them bright and clean, and good as new
These half-gods of mine land yours) come
down at Christmas 10 correct the bilious attitude
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

cf the good old tines
Holly and mistIetOe and
robins. and church bells
sounding over the snow.
And hampers all packed to
be sent away, and plenty
TO eat at home.
And then mbir
steals aP TO the windows,
and taps them with the
rose from her hair. and
she whispers:
open, open to ne al
you who have no children
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

again to twiddIe between his teeth.
If you know the way, and the Cheshire cat viii
l.. you, you walk down the garden path. past the
butterfly lime and arrive at the neatest little
cottage in Olympus.
Now this Is the dwelling place Of the HaTle-
quin set-HarIeQuin COIumJine, Clown and Pan
taloOn It is one cottage in a little colony on
the lower slopes of Mount Olympus (wheTe the
high gods dwell Jupiter and the liEe), and is
most important because it contains the Oldest
Inhabitants
The Clerk Of the Weather lives a little higher
up. The Four Queens and Kings live in a square
OF pagoda-like houses, and are waited upon by the
Knayes Pierr0t and Pierrette live in romantic
seclusioH by d pool in a tumble-down place Gov
cred with blue roses And away behind the
fields Of stars where the nocI-s Of clouds Craze
there is another village where the Seven Prin-
cesses live. and the Third Son and an Ogre, and
a Talking Rabbit, and all those peculiar and
beautiful people who are entangled in our minds
with the memories of night nurseries, and the
scent of our mothers who bent over US in Won
derful t0iIettes, and told us to go to sleep, or
they'd be late Cor dinner.
When it geto to be about Christmas there IS
a sort of aroma of excitement on the lower slopes
CT Olympus and, especially in the house where
Harlequin lives-a delicious sense OF something
exciting happening.
Columbine opens he lid Of the we'll that looks
down onto the world, and there comes up a muir
muir of children's voices and you can near the
quaintest things being said about the hanging
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12


and 10 friends and no hope and I viii be the
warm, nesting thing you covet for your frozen
hearts, and you shall feel my soft cheek against
yours ull the tears come and your heart takes
life again. You shall give Joy to other peoples
children. And if you have no friends who have
children. are there not thousand, thousand chill
dren who have no friends? Go to them, and give
them all you can, and you will be rewarded al
most more than you bear, for there is a link
between those who suffer. Are there not some
you have forgotten or neglected? This lonely
man, that lonely woman whom you have left IN
cared for perhaps for years. Put on your hat
and your coat, and put your heart on your sleeve,
so that all may know your errand."
To see her pleading before black. sombre houses
where a thin light shines under a blind; to see
her face pressed against the window of some big
mansion where a woman sits alone with
hearts like stone; to see her tears as she essays
to melt an aching heart is to see something so
touching and beautiful that one almost wonders
the doors and windows are not instantly opened
to admit the spirit of love she begs for so pitt
fully
Look at yourselves. Messieurs ct Mesdaues
Importance and remember the funny little things
you used to be when you bit at coral and bells
and wore bibs, and thought everybody in the
TO bed early, and crept downstairs in your night
gowns TO listen over the bannisters to the voices
IN the dlnlng room; when no jam for tea was a
tragedy. And when your mothers knee was the
throhe or justice and mercy for you buried your
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

To man the most fascinating wo-
man in the world is the one he almost,
but not quite, won.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

IS \ the left, just past
Il II the weather hens
nest and not more
than Two steps from the
bCE where they keep the
cuckoo. there is the long
bed where roses bloom all
the year round. And they
grow ike this so that
ColumBine N ay always
have one to stick in her
hair. and that odd, mock
ing. soft-hearted cynic Pier
rot NAV Gull one now and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
Just Before the Battle.

Would you marry him if you were
me?"
I'd marry anyone that asked me, #
7 were you
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

The detective may be an earnest
seeker. but he doesn't always find.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
Gloomy Outlook.

It's going to be a hard winter"
How can you tell?"
BY the size of the salary I'm get
ting"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

in spite of themselves, in chemical
subsection of light. heat and doors
(Which the scientist calls "emana-
tons From the Metropolitan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

If one gave voice only to ones
thoughts one wouldn't talk so much
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

c not, and eight or ten feet is not q
great distance at which to view a
life-size statue. The larger forms ara
lot in the least Affected by the process
OF whitening
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12
Awful to ContemnIate.

Laying down the voluns of Words
worth, Of whom she was an earnest
disciple, the precoc;ous child turned
to her mother with a slk1. IF
Heaven lies about US IN our infancy
as the poet says, she queried, what
viii happen to us when We are grown
up?''-Life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

hTrs. WtEs.aNs Soothing syrup for Chldrer
tcetainE, sOtseas the gums, reduces iufauma-
zion. sllays pa II. cures wind collie, Sc bottle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

Every woman should have an aim
III life. even if she can't throw a stone
with any degree of accuracy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

The honeymoon is on the wane
when hubby quits taking wife every
where Ee goes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

Percy Gust introdUced)-Ah So
you're the chap who makes mud
leads
Sculptor Net all OF them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

arate stomSch. liver and bowels. SugaF-eoated,
Tiny ganules, easy TO- take as candy. ADV.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

Most Of the SO called theatrical stars
are rockets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

He-You say that all you want is
good home and a good husband. l
ian surely furnish you a good home
She-But can you furnish me
good husband?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

up OF stockings, and about Santa
Claus and the likely width Of chin
neys and the running power OF
reindeer. And there is a tremendous
rustic Of cOlored paper, and a great
run on almonds and Taisins, and
quite respectable citizens stand IN
front Of shop windows gazing at
dolls and dolls gaze back at them,
so that the citizens go back forty
years at a rush, and the rush is 50
great sometimes that they get tears
in their eyes; for memory is quick
er than motor cars. and the road il
travels is often dark and broken.
So Columbine leaves the top Of
the well open all day and all night,
and all the people in her cottage
sleep with their windows open, SO
that the sweetly laden air cones up
and gives them wonderful dreams.
1t does more than that. 1t waves
the branches Of the Christmas tree
that grows at the bottom Of the
garden. near the sausage frames,
and very soon candles begin to bud
on its branches
Now when the candles begin to
get ripe which happens at the same
time that geese and turkeys hang
in rows in shops and grow rosettes
all over them, Harlequin takes an
old, oaken pipe from a cupboard un-
der the stairs, and they all sit round
while he puts it to his lips and
blows.
AS he plays, dreams come to them
of their ancient days, for Harlequin
is first cousin to MercSry. and wears
a black mask to hide ia light OF
his face when he visits Coiunbfne,
who is Psyche, the Soul: the Clown
is Menus, the Spirit CT Laughter:
and Pantaloon is CharOn. who has
that grim work Of ferrying the souls
over the Styx.
There's an odd link of memories
and of things held all through the
centuries, but the most charming is
this: Columbine is a fower-Iike per
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-12

SON and there is flower called COIumbfne and
it is so called because it is like four doves with
outspread wings, and the French dove is colombo
and the dove is the symbol of the soul So the
world is never allowed to forget beautiful things
even il the burden of history is borne on tba
back of a flower And the god-like glow and gilt
ter of Mercurys limbs still shows in the gIfsten-
ing seQuins on HaTlequin's clothes, parti-coIored
as they have always been, to show how he GOV
ered his nakedness with rags.
All this. beautified by the essence of Time like
things put away in cedar chest comes back
when Harlequin blows on his pipe that air the
shepherds learnt in Greece from Pan
The next night Clown will take out another
kind of pipe a long churchwarden of white clay
and fill it with tobacco. and then as the fragrant
clouds roll up into the rafters memories come
of all the great people of the Harlequinades they
play down in the world, all inspired BY them and
they see the figure of TarIaton, who was the first
clown, and invented the very clothes they now
wear, hand in hand with Grimaldi that great
clown. And they seem to see all the great Italian
Harlequins. and the dainty French Columbfnes
and the old dandies of ffteenth-century Venice
whose clothes PantaloOn wears.
Do you know that elderly gentlemen in the
World smell that magic tobacco or something
like il. and they forget their paunches. or their
bald heads and they sit and dream of the time
they went to their first pantomime? Was it
cinderella" or Beauty and the Beast? Or was
The state herald., 1912-03-29
The Underwood Proposals.

In the first place. free sugar will
greatly impair, II It does not destroy,
both the cane sugar and the beet
sugar industries in this country. They
have not grown greatly even with the
aid OF protection. Without II they will
be certain to suffer A dispatch from
New Orleans estimates loss 10 the
cane sugar interests OF Louisiana at
SO 000.000-probably conservative
estimate.
In the second place. II an excise tax
can be laid and made to stick in this
case. II can be applied in other cases
and emergencies. Why proceed fur
ther with the effort to amend the Con-
stitution In favor Of an income tax?
Has not the way been found for whip
ping the gentleman with horns and
the forked tail around the stump In
order TO make the breakfast table en-
irely free. or put other articles on the
free list. It will only be necessary to
Increase the excise tax TO cover what
ever loss Of revenue IL 10 follow. The
battle will be won by the establish.
ment OF the excise tax. Raising or
lowering the rate can be arranged
with no great trouble. Washington
Star.
The state herald., 1912-03-29
HANDS BURNED LIKE FIRE

II can truthfully say Cuticura REM
edies have cured me OF four long
years of eczema. About, four years
ago I noticed some little pimples
coming on my little finger, and not
giving It any attention. it soon became
worse and spread all over my hands.
II would have them in water for q
long time, they would burn like fire
and large cracks would come. could
lay a pin in them. After using all
the salves could think OF. went to
three different doctors. but all did
me no good. The only relief got was
scratching.
so after hearing SO much about the
wonderful Cuticura Remedies. pur-
chased one complete set, and after
using them three days my hands were
much better. Today my hands arc
entirely well. one set being all ! used"
tSigned) Miss Eta Narber. II. +. ID. 2.
Spring Lake. Mich. Sept. 2s. 1910.
Although Cuticura Soap and oint-
ment are sold everywhere. a sample
OF each. with 32-page book. will be
mailed FREQ on application to "Cuti-
cura." Dept l.. Boston.