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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
MADE BIG PROFIT FOR STATE
Purely Business Argument for the Es-
tablishment of Sanitoriums for the
tuberculosis.

According to figures contained in the
annual report Of DR.. H. L. Barnes, SUI
perintendent Of the Rhode Island state
sanitorium, the earnings of the ex-
patients of that institution during the
year 1911 would amount to over $685.
GOO. This is a sum three times as
large as that spent each year for main
tenance Of the institution, including
four per cent. interest and deprecia-
ton charges.
The actual earnings in 1911 of 40
ex-Datients were obtained by DR..
Barnes. These ranged from 50 to
$31 per week, the total earnings for
the year amounting to $102,7 52. On
this basis, Dr.. Barnes computes the
figures above given. He says, how
ever: While institutions for the cure
OF tuberculosis are good investments,
there is good reason for thinking that
institution for the isolation of far
advanced cases would be still better
Investments
Out of a total Of 46,450 hospital days
treatment given, 39,147, or "a per cent,
were free, the treatment costing the
state on an average $500 per patient
Out of 1873 free cases investigated, Sc
had no families and no income on ad.
mission to the sanitorium. Out Of
l32 patients having homes. the mum
Der in the family averaged SO, and
the average family earnings were
SAG. In So cases the families had no
income, and IN only five cases were
there any savings. none of which
amounted to as much as 500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
How Bethlehem Was Named

with his wife, an aunt of Paul Will
stach, who made the dramatic version
Of That's, when he drafted the con
stitution and bylaws Of the Mutual
Help association, retaiIs the New York
Sun, in mentioning the incident
"Everybody's business but my own, -
was the motto of the association. I'm
der the head, Declaration Of Pur-
pose," appeared this paragraph:
THE members of this association,
recognizing that there are realms of
indecisiOn and irresolution difficult for
the single mind to grasp, penetrate
and fully explore, have formed an as
sociation for the specific purpose that
the individual members may have
the advantage of every other mem
ber's opinion on all conceivable ques-
tons affecting his or her personal vel
fare, believing that by so doing they
will add the variety which is the
spice of life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01

With my body I thee worship" and
with every fibre Of his physical being,
he loved this woman.
1t would be idle to deny that, i'm
possible to disguise the facts, but in
the melting pot of passion the pre-
ponderant ingredient was mental and
spiritual; and just because higher and
holier things predominated, he held
her in his heart a sacred thing. Love
is like a rose: the material part is the
beautiful blossom; the spiritual factor
is the fragrance which abides in the
rose jar even after every leaf has fad
ed away, or which may be expressed
from the soft petals by the hard cir
cumstances of pain and sorrow until
there is left nothing but the lingering
perfume of the flower
His body trembled if she laid a
hand upon him, his soul thirsted for
her; present or abseI, he conjured
before his tortured brain the sweet
ness that inhabited her breast. He
had been clearsighted enough in an
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01

him by, and Of such he knew -1thiEg.
but he could talk inteIligentIy, inter
estingIy, entertainingly upon the great
classics. Keats and Shakespeare were
his most thUmbed volumes. He had
graduated from Harvard as a civil
engineer with the highest honOTs Of
his class and school and the youngest
man to get his sheepskinl Enid Matt
land herself was a woman of broad
culture and wide reading and she de-
Iberately set herself to fathom this
mans capabilities. Not infrequently,
much to her surprise, sometimes to
her dismay, but generally to her sat
isfaction, she found that she had no
plummet with which to sound his
greater depths.
Did she seek in him that fine flow
er Of good breeding. gentIeness and
consideration? Where could she find
these qualities better displayed? She
was absolutely alone with this man.,
entirely in his power, shut off from
the world and its interference as eff
fectually as if they had both been
abandoned in an ice foe at the North
Pole or cast away on some lonely is
land in the South Seas, yet she felt
as safe as if she had been in her own
house, or Der uncle's, with every pro
lection that human power could give.
He had never presumed upon the sit
uation in the least degree, he never
once referred to the circumstances
Of their meeting in the remOtest way,
he never even discussed her rescue
from the food, he never told her how
he had borne her through the rain to
the lonely shelter Of the hills, and in
no way did he say anything that the
most keenly scTutinizing mind would
torture into an allusiou to the pool
and the bear and the woman. The
fneness of his breeding was never so
well exhibited as in this Teticence.
More often than not it is what he
does not rather than what he does
that indicates the man.
1t would be folly to deny that he
never thought of these things Had
he forgotten them there would be r.
merit III his silence; but to remem-
Der them and to keep stiIl-aye, that
showed the mani He would close his
eyes in that little room on the other
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
The MIddle-Aaed Woman.

or the many ways in which the mid
dle-aged woman may vary the effect
Of her afternoon gowns none is sim
pier than the use of a collar and cuffs
Of white wolfe edged with scalloping
an dembroidery in a floral design. An
other change may be the frock set Of
white chiffon with border Of black
malines, and still another is the one Of
black net hemstitched with silver
thread. Some Of these collars are SO
long in front that they terminate only
at the waist line, where they cross in
surplice effect and are tucked away
Under the girdIe. An excellent model
Of this sort is of light blue lawn en-
broidered with black dots, and a sec
Ond is Of white agaric trimmed with
tiny folds of broadcloth, alternating
with eponge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01

that he would accomplish, that de-
cision and capability were incarnate
in him.
But after all the things are said
love goes where it is sent. and
I, at least, am not the sender.
This woman loved this man Meth
er because nor in spite Of these
qualities. That they were might
account for her affection, but if they
had not been, it may be that that af-
lection, that that passion, would have
inhabitated her heart still No one
can say, no one can tell how or why
those things are. She had loved him
while she ragged against him and hat
ed him. She did neither the one nor
the other Of those two last things,
now, and she loved him the more
Mystery is a great mover; there is
nothing so attractive as a problem we
cannot solve. The very situation of
the man. how he came there. what
he did there, why he remained there,
questions to which she had yet no
answer, stimulated her profoundly.
Because she did not know she ques-
toned in secret; interest was aroused
and the transition to love was easy.
Propinquity, too, is responsible for
many an affection. The ivy clings
| to the first met tree" Given a man
and woman heart free and throw
them together and let there be decent
| kindness on both sides, and it is al
most inevitable that each shall love
the other Isolate them from the
world, let them see no other compan-
ions but the one man and the one
woman and the result becomes more
inevitable.
Yes. this woman loved this man.
She said in her heart-and l am
not one to dispute her conclusions
| that she would have loved him had
! he been one among millions to stand
before her, and it was true. He was
the complement of her nature They
| differed in temperament as much as
in complexion, and yet in those diff
| ferences as must always be to make
perfect love and perfect union. there
were striking resembIances, necessary
points Of contact.
There was no reason whatever why
Enid Maitland should not love this
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
The Dark Face of His Wife Rose Before Him.

alyzing the past, he was neither clear
sighted nor coherent in thinking Of
the present. He worshiped her. he
could have thrown himself upon his
knees to her; if it would have added
to her happiness. she could have
killed him, smiling at her Rode she
in the Juggernaut car of the ancient
idol, with his body, would he have I'M
hesitatingly paved the way and have
been glad Of the privilege. He longed
to compass her with sweet obser-
seryances. The world revenged itself
upon him for his long neglect, it had
summed up in this one woman all its
charm, its beauty, its romance, and
had thrust her into his very arms.
His was one of those great passions
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
SYNOPSIS.

Enid Maitland, a frank, free and IN
spoiled young Philadelphia girl, is taken
to the Colorado mountains by her uncle
Robert Maitland. James Armstrong
MaitiaHd's prCtege, falls in love with her
His persistent W0Oing thrills the girl buL
she hesitates, and Armstrong goes east
on business without a definite answer
Enid hears the story OF a mining engl-
ueer, EewbOid, whose wife fell of cllII
and was so seriously hurt that he was
compelled to shoot her to prevent her pc
ing eaten by wolves while he went LOT
help. Kirkby the old guide who tells me
story, gives Enid a package OF letters
which he says we're found on the ued4
wDman's body. She reads the letters ana
at Kirkby's request keeps them. w ME
bathing in mountain stream Enid IS al
tackled by a bear, which is myste-Iously
Huot A storm adds to the girl terror
A sudden deiuge transform brook into
raging torrent. which sweeps Enid INTO
gorge where she is rescued by noun
tain hermit after a thrilling experience
Campers In great confusion upon dlscOF-
ing Ends absence when the storm
breaks Maitland and Old Kirkby 90 in
search Of the girl Enid discovers that
her ankle is spTained and that she is I'M
able to walk. Her mysterious rescuer
carries her to his camp. Enid goes TO
sleep in the strange mans bunk. Miner
cooks breakfast for Enid, after Wfich
they go on tour Of inspection. The her
uit tells Enid OF his unsuccessful attempt
to find the Maitland campers. He admits
that he is also from Philadelphia The
hermit falls In love with Enid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01

its own reward. Love may feel itself
unworthy and may shrink even from
the unlatching Of the shoe lace of the
beloved, yet it joys in its own exist
ence nevertheless. Of course its
greatest satisfaction is in the return.
but there is a sweetness even in the
despair of the truly loving.
Enid Maitland, however, did not
have to endure indifference, or fight
against a passion which met with no
response, for this man loved her with
a love that was greater even than
her own The moon, in the trlte aphor-
ism, looks on many brooks, the brook
sees no moon but the one above him
in the heavens. In one sense his
merit in winning her affection for him
self from the hundreds Of men she
knew, was the greater; in many years
he had only seen this one woman.
Naturally she should be everything to
him. She represented to him not only
the woman but womankind. He had
been a boy practically when he had
! buried himself in those mountains,
and in all that time he had seen no
body like Enid Maitland. Every ar
gument which had been exploited to
show why she should love him could
be turned about to account for his
I passion for her They are not necess-
airy, they are all supeTerogatory, idle
words To him also love had been
born in an hour 1t had flashed into
existence as if from the fat of the
| Divine.
Oh, he had fought against it. Like
the cremites of old he had been
: scourged into the desert by remorse
and another passion, but time had
/ done its work The woman he first
/ loved had ministered not to the sDir-
| ituaI side of the man, or if she had
/ so ministered in any degree it was be-
/ cause he had looked at her with a
/ glamour of inexperieGce and youth.
/ During those five years of solitude. Of
! study and of reflection, the truth had
! gradually unrolIed itself before him.
] Conclusions vastly at variance with
what he had ever believed possible
! as to the woman upon whom he had
/ first bestowed his heart, had got into
/ his being and were in solution there;
/ this present woman was the precipitant
which brought them to life. He knew
now what the old appeal of his wife
! lad been. He knew now what the
new appeal of this woman was.
In humanity two things in life are
/ inextricabIy intermingled, body and
soul. Where the function of one be-
gins and the function OF the other
ends no one is able to say. In all
human passions are admixtures of
the earth earthly. We are born the
sons of old Adam as We are reborn
the sons of the New. Passions are
complex As in harvest wheat and
tares grow together until the end, so
in love earth and heaven mingle ever
/ He remembered a clause from an an
cient marriage service he had read.
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the ehurch's blessing would make
them one. To do her justice. in the
simplicity and purity Of her thoughts
she never once thought of what the
world might say about that long win
ter sojourn alone with this man She
was so conscious of her own limo
cence and of his delicate forbearance,
she never once thought how humanity
would raise its eyes and fairly cry
upon her from the house tops. She
did not realize that were she ever so
pure and so innocent she could not
now or ever reach the high position
which Caesar, who was none too rep
utable himself, would fam have his
wife enjoy!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
Name Saved Him.

A rnan brought before the court in
Biddeford, Ne, on a charge Of
vagrancy, when asked by the judge to
give his name, answered, David Co
home" The judge contracted his
brows. Your last name again?" he
asked, "Gohome," was the reply. "All
right, go ahead" said the judge.
that's a new one on me"
to thread the point Of a needle or
humiIiate myself by stopping to pick
up a coin on a car platform and find
it is a nail head worn smooth. I will
turn my old age miIepost as gracefully
as possible wonder" said she with
a sigh, IF the tail of that comma was
perfectly plain, or was it blurred in
the newspaper I was reading?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
Pittsnurq ChlValrY.

What's going on here?" demanded
a man as he came upon two little boys
battling in a vacant lot 0 nthe south
side. The lad who was on top was
rubbing weeds over the face Of the I'M
der one.
Stop It," said the man, grabbing the
victor by the neck and pulling him
away. What in the world are you
trying to do to his face with those
weeds?"
DO? Why, he swore in front of
some girls, and rubbed some smart
weed in his eyes to become a great
man like Abraham Lincoln. Pitts
burg Sun
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
MIsinterurefed

William Shaw, the secretary Of the
famous Christian Endeavor society,
said in a witty after-dinner address in
Boston:
There is a little Back Bay girl who
is much interested in her aunties
Christian Endeavor work The little
girl was writing a letter to her broth
er at Yale one day, and in the midst
Of the epistle she looked up and said:
'Auntie, how do you spell devil"
Dewitt cried her aunt. with a
shocked smile. Why, child, don't you
devil?
But, auntie, protested the little
girl, ! want to tell brother about your
Christian and devil meetings."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
Common in New York

The stranger in New York was star
tied by the changing of an ambulance
bell. The ambulance stopped at the
side door Of a hotel and the attend
ants hurriedly entered the building
with their stretcher. But there was
no crowd, no confusion.
What's the excitement the strau-
ger asked a native.
There's no excitement" the latter
replied. "a stage lady has shot q
wealthy gentleman. That's all"
And he hurried along.-Clevelan
Dealer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
WAS HER EYESIGHT FAILING?
Woman VINO Could Not See the Tail
of the Comma Went to
OcuIist.

Sometimes a comma makes a good
deal of difference to the meaning Of
the sentence you happen 20 be read
ing. A woman who has reached the
age OF. being called Madam" by most
shopkeepers. but whose friends al
ways tell her how young and girlish
she looks, was reading q newspaper
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
Fit Punishment.

The Wicked Soul was sitting on a
hot stove, drinking molten lava and
tanning himself with a chunk Of red
hot sheetiTOn.
"And who is the poor wretch %
asked Dante.
THAT, replied Satan, els the first
man who said, is it hot enough for
you?' Milwaukee Sentinel
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side Of the door and see again the
dark pool, her white shoulders, her
graceful arms, the lovely face with
its crown of sunny hair rising above
the rushing water. He had listened
to the roar of the wind through the
long nights, when she thought him
asleep if she thought of him at all,
and heard again the scream Of the
storm that had brought her to his
arms. No snow drop that touched
his cheek when he was abroad but
reminded him of that night in the
cold rain when he had held her close
and carried her on. He could not sit
and mend her boot without remem-
bering that white foot before which
he would fain have FRUSTRATED him
self and upon which he would have
pressed passionate kisses if he had
given way to his desires. But he kept
all these things in his heart, pom
dered them and made no sign.
Did she ask beauty in her lover?
All, there at last he failed. Accord
ing to the canons of perfection he
did not measure up to the standard.
His features were irregular, his chin
triie too square, his mouth a
thought too firm, his brow wrinkIed a
little; but he was good to look at for
he looked strong, he looked clean and
he looked true. There was about
him. too. that stamp of practical eff
ficiency that men who can do things
always have. You looked at him and
you felt sure that what he undertook
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01

Little Bobby (the guest
Skimper, when I beard we were goin'
to have dinner at your house 1 start
ed right in trainin' fer it.
Mrs. Skinner (the hostess) by say
ing up your appetite, Bobby?
Little Bobby-NO'm. By eatin' a
square meal first.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
ANTS ARE SMART GARDENERS
They Are Known to Grow Grain,
Sowing and Harvesting Like
Real Farmers.

Man is not the only animal who has
discovered the division of the vege-
table world into weeds on the one
hand and garden plants on the other.
Our ingenious little sixlegged work
ers. the ants, have anticipated US IN
this, as in so many other useful in
ientions and discoveries There are
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
Persuasion

What made Mr.. Chugglns buy an
automobile?"
His wife persuaded him by calling
his attention to the economy of haY-
ing gasoline on hand to clean gloves
with. Washington Star
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
Between Gifts.

q believe III break my engage
ment to Cholly. He cant really love
me"
why not?"
HE writes such short letters. Look
at this-only seven pages
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
CHAPTER XIV.
~ Man, -

Now, love produces both happiness
and unhappiness, but on the whole
think the happiness predominates. for
love itself if it be true and high is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
Her Error.

Mrs. Stranger-Can you tell me
who that stout man is over there? He
is the worst softsoaper ever met.
wager-Yes. He is my husband.
Judge
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
The RrutesI

1T would be a strange and wonder,
full man who would so for long with
out making woman CRY" Mary g
Mann.
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True bravery is shown by perform
ing without witness what one might be
capable Of doing before all the world
-RouchefOucauf
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ants in Texas which grow grain. and
each nest owns small claim in the
vicinity of its mound on which it cul-
tivates a kind of grass, commonly
known as ant rice.
The claim is circular, about ten or
twelve feet in diameter, and the ants
allow no plant but the ant rice to en-
croach upon the cleared space any
where.
The produce of the crop they care
fully harvest, though authorities are
still disagreed upon the final question
= = ~thar they plant the grain or mere
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01

Only q married man can fully APP
pTeciate heaven if there are no wash
days or house cleaning seasons there.
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paragraph. It didn't make any sense.
so she read it again. Then she yank-
ed the paper up close to her face,
leaned toward the window and studied
it out in a better light Then she saw
the tail on the comma. What had look
like q perfectly good period was after
all but a division Of a sentence.
She sat for moment with the pa
per in her lap. Then she rose walk
ed to her looking glass, studied herself
for a few seconds, put on her hat and
fastened to an oculist. Il viii not
wait" said she 10 herself, until I try
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01

Many a fellow is a goner before he
has had a chance to be conner.
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Snica Of Life.

One way Of ironing out domestic
difficulties was originated by the late
Vaughan Kester, author Of ''The Prod
igal Judge" He was living at Guns
ton. an old colonial estate on the Po-
tomac. not far from Mount Vernon,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01

People who are thrifty are apt to
get a reputation for being stingy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01
When He Can't Be Overlooked.

Somehow or other we never take
much notice Of the coming man till he
gets there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-01

The Cheerful Color.
Gabe-Do you ever get the blues:
SteYe-Not if I have the long green.