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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
Chicago. MAY q 1912

Beeves, 6.1O09.3O; stock
ers and feeders, 4.4O07.1O; cows
and heifers, 3.OO@8.OO; calves.
52508.75.
Hogs-Light, 7.3O@7.75; heavy,
7.35 07.85; rough, 7.35 0755; pigs.
475m6.S5
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06

may have looked on some bright Eden
morning. A few steps forward and
this nymph of the woods, this naiad of
the mountains, plunged into the clear,
cold waters of the pOoI-a water
sprite and her fountain!
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And the SimnIest

Deputation Of Creditors-We've
come to tell you that we are quite
willing to make as easy an arrange
ment with you as possible.
Debtor-The easiest arrangement
you could make would be all to go
away again. --
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Fire in milwaukee, Hotel

Milwaukee.-Sixty guests and en-
ployes at the st. Charles hotel were
forced to flee for their lives when
fire broke out in the fourth floor of
the hotel, which caused a loss esti-
mated at $4,000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06

Madison Friends of Marcus c.
Bergh Of Viroqua, former state com
missioner Of banking, have started
to boom him for governor on the re-
publican ticket.
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j. :. Dockerv Succumbs.

Green Bay.-John F. Dockery, jus
tice of peace here for fifteen years,
died at his home after q long ill
ness. He served as internal revenue
collector under the administration Of
Grover Cleveland.
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Premium List Ready june 10.

Madison.-The premium list for
the 1912 state fair has been deliy-
cred to the printer by Secretary Nc
Kensie, and it is expected that l.
500 copies will be ready for distribu.
ton on June TO-
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ian on the eve of Bannockburn, and
worthy Of Just about as much consid-
Grafton"
So goes another Of the venerated
legends of childhood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06

centration, more defniteness in their
work, and especially more interest and
a different kind Of ideal in their home
making.-Mrs. n. D. Hills in the
American Woman and Her Home.
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Must Account for Meals.

Madison. - Payments for meals
during a political campaign are dis
bursements within the meaning OF
the corrupt practices act, according
to a ruling by Atty. Gen. Bancroft.
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Gets National sororltx Met.

Madison.-The national convention
of Alpha Chi Omega sorority VIII be
held with the Wisconsin chapter here
during the week Of June 24-29
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Minneapolis, May 25, 1912.

Wheat-No. /, hard, 1131a; No.
1, northern, 1.13 Il; No. 2, northern,
1.11A Corn-No. 3, yellow, nc.
Oats-No. 3, white, 53c. Rye-No.
z, 61ac. Flax-2.26.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28
No Answer.

CENATOR BORAH was talking. at a
- dinner in Boise. about an embarrass-
ing question that had been asked at Chi
cago
THE question: he said. smiling. went
unanswered. 1t was like little Willie's
query.
a young gentleman was spending the
week end at little Wlllie's cottage at At
lantic City. and on Sunday evening after
dinner, there being a scarcity OF chairs
on the crowded piazza, the young gentle
man took Willie on his lap.
Then. during pause in the conversa-
ton, little Willie looked up at the young
gentleman and piped:
:" Am l as heavy as sister Mabel?'"
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countenance waxy There are hemor-
rhages beneath his skin. producing the
pLrplish marks which at the time of the
great plague of London were called to-
kenS.'
Death may relieve the suffering in
from five to ten days. Convalescence is
slow. and may be rendered disagreeable
by the suppuration of the gland.
Thanks to the researches of 1ersin,
French scientist who discovered the germ
Of plague, we now have a curative serum.
used much like diphtheria an.itoxin. If
given to the patient early, his chances for
recovery are very much improved by this.
Another preventive for the disease has
been produced by the English bacteriolo,
gist. Haffkine 1t consists OF the dead
doses, injected beneath the skin about
ten days apart. 1t produces a rather high
resistance to plague. lasting about six
months.
1.-The history Of plague in America has
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Almost every species of animal has
its own particular species of flea. Some
times, however. an animal shares its
species of fleaS with several other species
of animals. For instance. there is the
Pulex irrtans, which infects not only
man. but also the hog and the skunk.
But what concerns us most just now
is the common rat flea of America, Cera-
tophilus fascata. This species is found
most commonly on the Norway rat called
by scientists Mus norwegicus, a common
rat in American ports. All of the spe-
cies of household rats in America have
been imported from other countries. The
Norway rat started out from the Scandi-
navian peninsula about 1914 and since
then has spread throughout the world.
On account of it's ferocity and greater
size it has Won out wherever it has come
in competition with other species. The
brown rat, Mus rattus, comes from India
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those whose husbands provide the sinews
of war for the feast. pack the baskets.
I'VE get all our information personally
and We know the needs of each family
to whom basket is sent. If cough strip
is needed We send that. or wooden mittens
or good thick hose. and such things which
tide a family over until the weather
moderates. Every child gets a toy, some
candy and fruit, warm caps and mittens
in addition to a basket which means not
only Christmas dinner. but good food
for days. potatoes, canned tomatoes and
stuffs for soup, a generous round OF beef,
bushel of turnips and several big heads
of cabbage. We have found that this
basket does more good than a turkey.
which, of course, is excellent eating, and
we wish we could give one to every
family in Boston. But 1t is a luxury be-
You'd the means of many making good
wages and a large piece of beef is the
more practical investment
Mrs. Curley was frequently called on to
explain this Christmas feast for the poor
of South Boston, and it Is a safe predic-
ton that many other women who did not
understand exactly how to accomplish
anything so extensive and complicated
have received most valuable and practi-
cal information. Possibly there will be
many imitators of this excellent method
of giving aid and joy on the day in which
tradition demands that all should remem-
Der those less fortunate. Throughout the
year Mrs. Curley and. many other public
spirited women of Boston keep a vigilant
eye on suitable articles for the Christmas
stocking, and this shopping and planning
reaches from one December to another
and joins the year in chain of good
deeds for humanity.
Mrs. Curley has been among the most
popular of the newly arrived congress
sional hostesses Mr.. and Mrs. Curley
have a pretty home on Massachusetts,
avenue near I'D street. and every leisure
moment of the winter Mrs. Curley spent
in making and purchasing things for its
adornment. They did not dismantle their
home in ROxbury, but gathered together
some unique and handsome furnishings
during their stay here There are three in
terestinS children. James NJ. Curley. j.. who
is FIVE. a pretty little maid of three and q
half. called Mary, and baby girl. Doro-
thea. These and her housekeeping would
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with her husband TO the Capitol. Both
are advocates of walking in order TO in
sure good health. ana the morning jaunt
is the only time they have in which 10
indulge this fancy.
Mr.. and Mrs. CLrley are among the
very young people in Congress. as 10
years as well as their tenure in official
circles. Mrs. Curley. though six years az
matrimony are TO her credit. is not yet
twenty five. and Mr.. Curiey IS in uA-
early thirties. Mrs. Curley was educate
under her father. but later she took
course of domestic science IN Hyde In
stitute and is member of that alumnae
She is very proud of her diploma show
ing her proficiency in cooking. sewing
and general home keeping. and visit To-
her home demonstrates her knowledge Of
all. she is an active worker in the ST.
Vincent de Paul Society and is a menu
Der % the RoXbury Improvement Society.
She is also a fine whist player. and be-
longs to the Mayfair Club at home, and
is constantly in demand at the Congress
sionai Club and other whist and bridge
clubs here
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the measures which are to be adopted
that we may protect ourselves against
this plague which stalketh in darkness
and Striketh at uOonday?
Plague is a rodent disease. 1t exists
i'll man in three forms. the bubonic. which
is comlnonest and which has d mortal
WhiCS is less common and more fatal,
approximately % per cent of those at
tackled dying from it. and tie pneumonia.
which is exceedingly fatal practically no
victims recovering.
''All three forms are caused by the
same minute vegetable organism, shaped
somewhat like short. fat sausage 1t
has the popularity when stained with
aniline dyes of taking the color at the
two ends, leaving a clear space between.
Hence the organism is sometimes spoken
of 'bi-polar bacillus
This germ is found in the bodies of
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A Dry Answer.

OBJ wsoS a. in s an .nteFs ss,s
with a smile:
Your questions about my campaign
are premature. must organize my
thoughts before 7 answer them. You re-
mind me OF William the Conqueror's
son. Robert.
Robert, you know, asked TO be In
vested with the government of Normandy
in his fathers lifetime. But 10 this de-
mand William the Conqueror replied
dryly:
:, 1t is not my custom TO take off my
clothes before I'm going to so 10 bed
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shown that the disease does not claim the
large number of human sacrifices among
white people living in good surroundings
as among underfed. overworked, i'll
housed aborigines. The great danger OF
plague to America is not SO much by
reason of the relatively small number of
people who might lose their lives as be-
cause of the enormous number who would
suffer by interference with commerce
Plague is essentially commercial dis
ease 1t follows highways of commerce
around the world, travelling in the bodies
of loathsome vermin in the holds of ships
It's appearance at port means quaran-
tine and panic and the throwing of a
large number of working people out of
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keep any woman we'll employed without
taking on the work of philanthropic socie-
ties, but Mrs Curley manages to perform
many different kinds of labor in the
course of day. She is a native Of Bos-
ton, and was before her marriage Miss
Mary Herlihy, daughter of Denis Her
lihy, formerly of Dublin. Ireland. Mr..
Herlihy was a well known school teacher
In his native land, and he followed the
same profession for many years in Bos-
ton. where his memory Is greatly revered
Mrs. Herlihy died some ten years ago.
and her demise was followed rapidly by
that of an elder sister. so the care Of the
father and of the home early fell upon
Mrs Curley. But from her parents she
learned those accomplishments so useful
in a successful mental career.
my mother" said Mrs. Curley, be
longed to a family whose name is written
large in the sad history of Ireland. the
McCarthys from about Kerry, the foun-
der of which had the wonderful strong
hold at Barney Cormac Mccarthy. She
was skilled in all the gentle arts of the
Irish lady.
She was an expert in lace making.
never having been Very robust and unable
to aid in more active pursuits. from
her | inherited a love for dainty laceS.
and she also trained my eye to detect err
rOrS In the apparently perfect work Wnlcn
would escape the superficial observer.
Irish lace is so beautiful, and there are
many kinds of which Americans are ig
norant. The bebee and crochet has OBJ
tained the popularity which it deserves,
but some of the finer kinds taught in the
converts and made by the more delicate
of the peasant girls in their homes are
seldom placed on American markets. Yet
some OF 1t is softer and finer and shows
more intricate patterns than the more ia
lac ~ on1c q Erav
l have some exquisite old pieces. some
done by mother, others by her teachers,
the nuns in the Presentation Convent,
and they are simply priceless. not only
because of their association for me but
because they show such skill and such
delicacy in the working.
"Lacemaking is very ancient in Ire
land. as was the Illuminating of manu-
scripts. A visit to the Dublin museum is
perfect revelation to those who
know little of Irish history. | was glad
during recent visit to the Metropolitan
Museum In New York to find many excel
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crossed our threshold in Porto Rico.
Fortunately for us and for our COM
merce. the new head of the national
bureau of public health. Surgeon General
Rupert Blue. the chief guardian of our
coast lines against imported epidemics.
10 the cleverest and most experienced bu-
bontc plague expert in the western hemi-
sphere. and one of the highest authorities
on this disease to be found in the world.
He has twice eradicated plague from our
Pacific coast during the scare of 1861,
and again during 19O1-S.
+
During the past eighteen years." said
he, plague has averaged a human toll
Of 10000 lives. 1t has found Judgment
in every hemisphere of the globe and has
manifested it's presence in many of the
large ports of the world by the human
sacrifices that it has claimed
In the middle ages it claimed % per
cent or the population OF the civilized
world According to the researches of
Pope Clement VII the slaughter during
this period amounted TO 25poOOOO. and
reached its height in the middle of the
nfteenth century Whole stretches of
country We're depopulated and towns
We're completely lost 10 memory for a
long period of time
The disease Law relatively ouia+
throughout the nineteenth century until
1924, when II stirred into new life Start
ing out from the Yunan province of
emma and spreading out along the com
meTcial highways OF the world il f1aved
port after port. made an entry into India
swept up the Persian gulf, over into
Egypt and Tor time threatened the
entire Mediterranean lttoral TraveIinp
eastward. il effected a Judgment ~
Hawaii ard California sacked the west
coast OF Mexico. travelled around the CONT
nent or South America. appeared in the
azores threatened London from the rown
OF Norwich, and now has placed it's foot
upon our .doorsteps. at Havana Cuba
and IN the island OF Porto Rico.
what Is this disease? What is it's
cause! How Is II carried? And what are
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DROBLEM Attacked From
I Every Angle From Our
Greatest Plague Expert-The
Man Who Twice Stamped
Out Plague on the Pacific
Coast ocular Disease
c hronic Among Ground
Squirrels-The Latter Infect
Rats. Which in Turn Carry 1t
to Man-The Flea the Only
Vehicle of Transmission.
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<HE Is a Handsome Young
- Woman Who Has Be-
come Very Popular During
Her Short Residence in
Washington Representative
and Mrs. Curley Belong to
the New School of Philan-
thropy and Have a Statewide
Reputation for Their Work
Among the Poor-Have Been
Married About Six Years and
Have an Interesting Group of
Children.
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not even conceal their lack of interest in
the Substantials.
THE next year We organized perfectly
and made a quiet house-to-house canvas
of the district, got informa ton from the
police officials. from Sunday school and
public school teachers, from pastors
whose churches are located in the ward,
and we did much better. We also made
provision against waste and foolish lux
ury and adopted the plan long followed
by older and wiser laborers In this field
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employment. Our chief danger from
lague. then, is Indirect.
"Since, as stated, the disease is a
disease of rodents and its vehicle of
transmission is the flea. the way to pre-
vent and eradicate it is to eXterminate
rodents, because thereby both the host
and its parasites are killed.
IF men lived in rodent-free surround
ings the prayer that no plague come
nigh our dwelling would be wanton. To
avoid plague il is necessary for threaten
ed persons to live In rat-free, rat-proof
houses and any house may be rendered
rat-proof by concreting the basement ana
area walls and by screening every open
ing through which a rat might gain en-
trance.
RATS are great climbers. They have
been known to crawl all of the way up
long elevator ropes in high warehouses.
Therefore 1t is not sufficient that only
openings near the ground level be protect
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human beings by infected sputum care
lessly disposed.
when a patient contracts bubonia
plague he undergoes an incubation period
varying from two to seven days, in pro-
portion to his resistance During this
time he suffers more less from malaise
and feeling of uneasiness. The onset is
sudden, with pain at the site of the bubo.
high fever backache and sometimes
nausea. He becomes rapidly more and
more ill, his face is the picture OF fear.
his eyes are staring and bloodshot, his
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The biting apparatus proper consists Of
three parts. Below there are two long
slender affairs, the points of which are
sharpened like lance. Just back of
these cutting surfaces is series of
teeth like those of saw. These two
piercing and saving instruments lie side
by side and have on their inner surface
a half groove. Above them lies a sharp,
piercing stylet which has on its under
surface another half groove. The three
instruments are thrust into the victims
skin together almost as If they We're one.
This explains the function of the two
heavy anchor plates. If the flea We're
not thus tightly fastened to the skin
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persons or animals suffering from the
disease and when injected into healthy
animals il reproduces the disease in them.
Another popularity of the germ of
plague is that when 1t is planted on
vegetable gelatine (asar-agar) containing
salt it changes it's shape in a most sur
prisnG way, taking on the appearance
OF small dots, dumb bells. toy ba looms
and all sorts of odd and bizarre sha pes
RMS organism is found flowing free in
the blood of rodents suffering from the
dkease
As | said. plague is primarily a dis
ease of rodents, especially rats, and it's
vehicle of transmission is the flea
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A Man to MiStruSt.

CHARLES VI. SCHWAB. at a luncheon
- on the Olympic. praised temperance.
"Mistrust the hard drinker," said Mr..
Schwab. He Is selfish he Is self-in-
dulgent. Otherwise he wouldn't yield to
so bestiai a vice as drunkenness.
Especially mistrust the man who, over
his seventeenth beer. tells you how much
he loves his wife. She always takes IN
washing to support him.
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C1@GEY WIFE THE REPRESENT FROM MASSACHUSETTS

iled with view to application in the
nome communities
Among those who joined this welfare
department IN the early stages OF its ex-
lstence was Mrs. James NJ Curley, a
young natron from South Boston Wife of
the member from RoXbury. She proved
an invaluable acquisition, for she has oh
tanned much valuable experience in works
OF philanthropy since her marriage to one
OF the well known public benefactors OF
South Boston.
Aiding the unfortunate is part of
our daily lives, as it must be in a city
where the resources are so heavily
drained and the population so much in
excess Of its ability TO provide a yoca-
ton for ALL" said Mrs. Curiey. All
the great centers of population, New
York, Chicago. Philadelphia Pitts
burgh, have the same problem and a
number of men and women to whom it
furnishes life duty. Here In Wash
ington life seems TO glide by ilf pleas
ant ways. To me IL seems a city where
all are prosperous, well employed and
happy,
with us it is so different There
seem countless poor families. poor
children needing milk and ice and
for good health in summer: in winter
coal, food and Warm clothing Labor
with what zeali you WILL the work
seems never donf, and cases multiply
with discouragirg rapfdity. Just to
20 down among the poor is enough to
incline one toward socialism. If il were
not for the splendid endeavors which
religion and the state, as well as chart
tably inclined people. are doing to
remedy affairs. But such conditions
must exist where cities are overcroWd
ed. and when 1 feel particularly cast
down. tales which i hear from London,
Paris. the great cities OF Italy and the
Levant. show how much more hopeful
is the outlook for the American poor
than for those across the water.
so. many wise philanthropists have
made it clear that the time is past
when one can discharge debts toward
suffering humanity by money alone.
The time has arrived when We must
give money and ourselves as well, our
time. our energy. some Of our own OPP
fimism and vital force To encourage
the lstless aud hopeless. ] think our
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little Christmas celebrations in South
Boston are among the really pleasant
themes / can touch upon in discussing
d sad subject. 1t is unique because 1T
is the work of an entire political ward.
and its bounty is extended to all within
its geographical dimensions. regardless
of political or religious creed, of color,
race or anything except that food and
good cheer are needed on the greatest
of Christian feasts, the birth of the
Savior"
There are great societies like the Sal
walton Army which feeds a city-full. and
there are church clubs which provide
Christmas dinner for those circumscribed
by poverty and unable to get a good
Christmas dinner But for the young men
of a political ward to band together and
see that every child. every old man and
woman, every one unable to care for him.
self or his family, has some portion of the
good things in Christian homes December
- is something unique at least in our en-
tire state.
The idea originated with some young
men, my husband among the number see
ing a long procession of poor people
waiting at the Salvation Army head
quarters for buckets of soup and some
years ago, and all that could be pro-
vded was just enough to keep off starva-
ton. 1t made an instant appeal. and
though it was too late TO provide
Christmas dinner that year. collections
were taken up at once and some neces-
sites provided. The next Christmas all
the poor children in the ward We're in
vited to big turkey dinner at a hotel in
South Boston. II was as fine a feast as
the hostelry could provide. turkey and
cranberry sauce. every sort of vegetable
relish. and the usual dessert OF plum pud-
ding and mince pie. 1t was a glorious
sight, and many of the wives of those
who formed the committee waited on the
tables and had gotten together candles.
toys and wooden mittens. which were
presented after the banquet. But we
found that TO this dinner we We're just
giving our money and not ourselves, our
wits as il We're, and our judgment. For
many children came who did not need
food. who wasted II and threw il under
the table Many just waited for the
sweet things and for the toys, and did