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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
IS LAUDED

Here again Stolypin's far-seeing brain
came into play. He planned that
mujik should be a speculator in the
worlds grain trade. He opened hun
dreds of farming schools and hundreds
more are being founded. Besides.
Stolypin arranged that money should
be advanced to the peasant farmer at
low rate of interest, AZ per cent
something unknown here hitherto.
The imperial bank builds granaries
and keeps the peasant informed on
grain prices by posting official quota
tiOLs several times a week in railroad
stations, inns and markets. Co-opera-
tive stores have been opened in the
markets; the peasants can buy agri-
cultural machines on easy terms;
mechanical experts give instruction
gratis to farmers who desire It.
The results are as obvious as benef1-
cent. A sturdy, Woodworking yeoman
class is slowly but surely growing in
Russia; this in six years, and the plan
will not be worked out completely for
several years more The fact is be-
coming clearer and clearer that agrar-
ian reform has done more to calm
Russia than all the repressive dictates
from the city. Socialistic and revolu-
tionary agttators have no success
where the mujik owns his land, be-
cause it is all he really cares for in
this life and once he has it he viii
run no risks.
A tremendous cutlery against StOIy-
pin arose when he set this work on
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
Welsh Railroad Man Confident Of
Proving Title TO Part of New
York City.

London.-Thomas Williams, a re-
tired railroad man, who lives in a cot
tage at Caersws, a Welsh village, tells
me that he is confident Of proving his
right to a fortune in America of S275,-
100000
He bases his claim on his belief that
he is the nearest surviving male rela-
tive of Edward Edwards, a Welshman,
who emigrated in the 18th century
and amassed an enormous fortune, but
died intestate Edwards was a ma we
Of Llanymynech, near OsWestry, and
removed to Silyerdale. where he mar
ried. His wife's Behavior caused him
TO emigrate to New York state, where
he acquired cheaply the marshy land
on which part OF New York city now
stands
When the British government recog-
nized American independence Ed
wards leased his land to the United
States government, but the lease ex-
pired in 1880.
Edwards also acquired collieries at
Edwardsville (named after himl.
Williams told me that he was sixty
four years of age, had worked on five
railways including the Northwestern,
the Great Central and Brecon,
Merthyr & Cambrian. He saved mon
ey, but lost some in the Liberator
frauds and more recently in a London
bank failure. He has engaged a first
class lawyer in America and is himself
collecting data here. He showed me
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
HANDS WOULD CRACK OPEN

About two months ago my hands
started to crack open and bleed, the
skin would scale off, and the good
flesh would burn and itch dreadfUlly.
When my hands first started to get
sore, there were small blisters like wa
ter bIisters which formed. They
itched dreadfully, it just seemed as
though 1 could tear the skin all off.
would scratch them and the skin would
peel off, and the flesh would be all
red and crack open and bleed. 1t wor-
ried me very much, as l had never
had anything the matter with my skin.
/ was so afraid | would have to give
up my employment.
MY doctor said he didn't think it
would amount to anything. But it kept
getting worse. One day l saw piece
in one of the papers about a lady who
had the same trouble with her hands.
She had used Cuticura Soap and Oint.
ment and was cured. I decided to try
them, and my hands were all healed
before l had used one cake of Cuti-
cura Ointment [ am truly thankful
for the good results from the Cuticura
Soap and Ointment, for thanks to them
I was cured, and did not have to lose
a day from work. I have had no re-
turn of the skin trouble" (Signe0
Mrs. Mary E. Breig, 1922 Brown
Street, Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. u, 1911.
Although Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment are sold everywhere, a sample
of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cuti-
cuTa" Dept. L, Boston.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
WOMEN'S LEAP YEAR RIGHTS
In Scotland Years Ago They Were Rec
ognized as Real, and We'll De-
fined by Law.

Ancient, indeed, are the prerogatives
That. are accorded to women in leap
year. They are so old that none can
tell just how or when they originated.
However, the ancient Scottish parlia-
ment gives US a date as well as a law
upon which to hang the right of WON
en- to take the initiative in leap year,
as convention forbids them to do in
other years.
In the year 1928 this body passed a
law which, in it's quaint old English,
expressly conferred on wOmankind the
right to propose marriage in leap year.
Here is the law, just as it was written
in the parliamentary records:
"Ordonit that during ye reign of her
maiRt blessed Majestic, ilka maiden,
ladee of bath high and lowe estait,
shale haze libertie to speak We man she
likes. Gif he refuses to tax hir to bee
his wyf, he shale bee mulct in We sum
of ane hundridty pUndes, or less, as
his estait may bee, except and alwais
gif he can make it appeare that he is
betrothit to another woman. then he
shale be free
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
HIGH COST HITS GOTHAM zoo
Eggs Are No Longer Fed TO New York
monkeys-LittIe Milk Is Given
Animals.

New York.-The latest complaint
over the high cost of living comes
from the Central park menagerie.
where it appears that the monkeys.
lions and hippos are leading the sim
pie life owing to the taking of exDeD-
sive luxuries from their bill of fare
The monkeys have not seen an egg
in two months. They used to get one
apiece every day before breakfast. but
it would be like Offering them pearls
now to feed them eggs, according to
Overseer Keenan,. "he only luxury
they have is milk, and that with
plenty of water in it, for the SUNNY
is only five quarts day, and there
are 80 monkeys to drink it.
Ten years ago" explained Mr.
keenan,, 1--WE could board a monkey
for seven cents a day and a hippo or
elephant for 60 cents. Now it costs
II cents for the monkeys, 81 for the
hippos and $2.75 a day for the ele-
plants.
The big item in the menagerfe bill
however, is the meat. The tigers and
lions need from u to IS pounds of
meat day and the cost runs close
to 10 cents a pound. A decade ago
the zoo was able to buy the necessary
ESQ pounds day around AZ cents q
pound
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14

Religionists chided about their ina
bility to agree on points of faith might
point out that they differ only in Incl
dentals and not essentials, whereas
the scientists differ on everything.
Take the science of living. A week
ago you would have died if you drank
water with your meals" Now they
say it doesn't do any harm at all. One
variety says: Eat meat, lots of it, to
build good rich blood" Another says
meat is poison; that vegetables are
the only food. A third declares meat
and vegetables both increase debility,
and that you will live twice as long
on raw fruits and nuts. Some say
Talk with your meals. laugh; it
makes the food digest" Others insist
silence is never so golden as at the
table.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
COURT DECIDES ODD CASE
High British Tribunal Declares Men
Who Carved Initials in Whale
Can't Be Punished.

London.-The divisional appeal
court has decided that it is not legal
cruelty to stab or carve your initials
on living whale, as long as the ami
nal is not kept in captivity. Last July
a number OF whales were stranded on
the Cornish coast near Penzance, and
the villagers commenced chOpping
them up, while sightseers even carved
their initials on the distressed ami
mails sides.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to animals prosecuted one Of
the initial carvers for cruelty, but the
local magistrate held that as the
whales were not in captivity the Of
Tense did not come within the law.
On appeal the society tried to prove
that as the whales were surrounded
bv. people and could not get away till
the tide turned they were in state
of captivity, but Justice PiCkfOrd,
while admitting that initial carving on
stranded whales was a form Of amuse-
ment that ought to be punished, de-
cided that the term captivity" did
It apply, and dismissed the appeal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
Then Your Kidneys May Be Weak
Need OF Quick Attention

Bachache is enough to suspect the kidneys The
kidneys the small Of the back Congesed kidneys swell
and trob The back naturally aches 1t hurts to bend
stoop sit down.
Kidney trouble may all unnoticed. A cold}
chill fever strain irregular habits may While
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matter when dropsy, gravel Brghts disease
Doans Kidney Pills have made reputation in the of
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Thirty thousand others being published in the newspapers
postage stamp will brig you reports of home.
If you suspect your Kidneys get the besrecommended
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
Revised Version.

Senator Bankhead, discussing an elo-
quent speech that had been rather
poorly reported, said
THE report spoiled the speech. 1t
was like old Hiram Earwig's account
of Daniel Webster's last word. Web
ster, you know, as he lay dying, ut
tered the profound and significant
sentence. q still live Well, Hiram
Earwig of Skeeter Beach said to a
visitor from the city:
"'Yawp, life's onsartin Wot wuz it
that thar New Englander said-Web-
ster, I think? Yawp, it wuz General
Dan Webster. He got off a good thing
just afore he died He riz up in bed
an says, says he:
q amt dead yit! Baltimore Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
Persons Resuscitated by Use of the
Pulnrotor-Governme Adopts
Apparatus.

hfpgton-Thousands Of lives
win be saved in the future in the opin-
ion Of the bureau of mines officials by
means of the pulmoter, an oxygen
humping apparatus with which the bu-
raau's workers during the last year
have restored to life more than thirty
persons who had ceased breathing. By
means of the lung filling and empty
ing machine used by the bureau oxy-
oen is forced in, the poisonous gases
drawn out and normal breathing
started. The machine acts automatic
aIlv any effort on the part Of the in
dividuaI hindering rather than helping
1t.
In drowning cases, gas poisoning
and eIectrocution accidents, there will
be many revivals. it is believed, by
the prompt use Of the oxygen device.
Hundreds of inquiries have reached
he bureau OF mines from hospitals,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
AgTarian Reforms Have Brought
Peace 10 Peasants.
Millions Now Possess Farms-Sociai-
istic and Revolutionary Asitators
VainIy Appeal to These Con-
tented Yeomen.

St. Petersburg. - Agrarian reform
begins to bear good fruit. a CORE
spondent writes It was the greatest
work of Peter A. Stolypin, premier of
Russia, whom Dmitri Bogroff assassin
ated in the cars very presence at a
gala performance in the Municipal the
alter at KieV last September.
While quelling a bloody revolution
Stolypin brought about a peaceful
one" say those today who were the
premier's bitterest enemies.
His great plan Of letting the peas
ants hold land in perpetuity, which
Stolypin inaugurated in 1906, has Civ
en- land of their own to 80, 600, 600 peas
ants; they possess 100000 square
miles in European Russia and 1900
900 square miles in Siberia. And the
face of the land has been changed.
The peasant now lives on his property
instead of miles away. as under the
old communal system, when all the
land was redistributed every three
years.
Besides, the owner works intensive
ly now, for he takes pride in his land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick TO See That Coffee Poison
Was Doing the Mischief.

A lady tells OF a bad case of coffee
poisoning, and tells it in way so sim
pie and straightforward that literary
skill could not improve it.
Il had neuralgia headaches for u
years" she says. and have suffered
untold agony. When I first began to
have them I weighed 140 pounds, but
they brought me down to ITO.
4 went to many doctors and they
gave me only temporary relief. So I
suffered on, till one day a woman
doctor advised me to drink Postum.
She said l looked like I was coffee
poisoned.
so l began to drink Postum, and
gained Is pounds in the first few
weeks and am still gaining, but not so
fast as at first My headaches began
to leave me after I had used Postum
abou. two weeks-long enough, I ex-
pect, to get the coffee poison out Of
my system.
Now that q few Ecc1ths have pass
ed since / began to use Postum, 1 can
gladly say that I never know what q
neuralgia headache is like any more,
and it was nothing but Postum that
relieved me.
Before J used Postum I never
went out alone; I would get bewilder-
ed and would not know which way to
turn. Now I go alone and my head
is as clear as a bell My brain and
nerves are stronger than they have
been for years" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Greek. Mich.
There's q reason and it is explain
ed IN the little book, The Road TO
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above IetterT A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full of hamar
interest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
NEW MAN THEORY
Skeleton Shows Human Race is
Older Than Believed.
Age Over 100000 Year-Being Much
More Like the Modern Brfton
Than the Neanderthai
Type.

London.-English scientists are tax
Ing great interest in the discovery. Of
a skeleton beneath an undisturbed
layer Of powders and clay in East
Anglia, now Norfolk and Suffolk. If
the evidence IS good, this skeleton
must be that Of q man who belonged
20 a race that lived in that district
before the most severe Of the various
ice movements Of the glacial period.
a singular feature of the discovery
is that. IN most respects, the skeleton
resembles that Of the modern English
man and is not of the more simian
type to which the NeanderthaI man.
though : much later phenomenon. be
longs.
There now seems to be a growing
body OF evidence that the modern
type OF man was evolved at IN ex-
tremely early date before the begin
ming Of the glacial period. but that
for thousands Of years afterwards the
primitive, or Neanderthal. type con
tlnued to flourish in Europe.
Until this find the NeanderthaI man
was regarded as the Oldest in Europe
and one Of the scientific commenta-
tors says
Some people were hasty enough to
discern in these NeanderthaI men.
with their monkeylike qualities, evil
dence Of the missing link. It is now
clear that they were survivors Of a
stock which had deteriorated, and not
progenitOrs of our race. If we have
to accept the theory of evoIuton-and
it is still only a theory-it is a puz-
cling fact that man has changed so lit
tie in 100 coo years"
On this point Prof. Keith, anthrop-
oIogist at the museum of the Royal
College Of Surgeons. says of the latest
discovery:
There is every evidence that this
man lived long before the glacial pc
Rod. During this period England was
covered with a great thickness of ice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14

When a certain Baltimore matron
returned home one afternoon not so
long ago the first sight her eyes be-
held was a badly damaged youngster
of hers. Little Bobby's forehead bore
a bump almost the size of a doorknob.
"Heavens!" exclaimed the mother.
What has happened to Bobby?"
"Nuthin' much, num-" explained the
new nurse. You told me, mum, he
might play on the pianner if he wanted
to. Well, mum, wanst while he was slid
ing on the top, he slid a bit too far.
mum; an that accounts for the bump
ye see, num-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
How Mrs. Cline Avoided
Operation.

Brownsville, Ind can say that
Lydia e. Pinkhan's Vegetable Compound
has done me more good than anything
else. One doctor said I must be opera
ted upon for a serious female trouble
and that nothing could help me but an
operation.
II had hemorrhages and at times
could not get any medicine to stop them.
Igotin such a weak condition that would
have died if had not got relief soon.
Several women who had taken your
Compound, told me to try it and I did
and found it to be the right medicine to
build up the system and overcome
female troubles.
/ am now in great deal better health
than / ever expected to be, so I think /
OUGHT to thank you for it. Mrs 0. M.
CLINE. S. Main St, Brownsville, Ind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
The Oldest in LIoyds.

London.-The oldest craft to be
found in LIoyd's register is a schooner
Or ketch of SO tons burden, called The
Purveyor, having just 102 years of
service to her credit. A few weeks
ago she was purchased by Norwe-
gian Captain Reinertsen, who is now
preparing to sail her from BiddefOrd,
IN Devon. to Durham. in the South In
dian Ocean. a distance Of 5000 miles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
cow BREAKS BUTTER MARX
New Champion, CIothide H., Produces
1927 Pounds in Year From $4,000
Pounds of Milk.

Newton, N. 1.-THE worlds record
for butter production in a single year,
held SO long by Colanitia, a Wiscon-
sin Holstein COW, has been broken by
Clothilde II, an eastern COW of the
same breed. The new champion has
just completed her years test. and,
according to the official figures, pro-
duced In 365 days, 1877 pounds of but
ter from $4,000 pounds of milk
1t takes an exceptionally good COW
to make 100 pounds of butter in a
month, even in full flow, but here is a
COW that has averaged that amount
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
LIsed piano for Bed

adelphia-RaIph Bechtel, an old
time actor, known on the stage as
Jack Meyers, was found dead in bed.
The gas jet was turned on, but all in
dications point to an accidental death.
Bechtel was employed as a scene
painter.
Bechtel, like many old-time act
ors, had peculiarities. While there
was a brass bed in the house he pre-
ferred to sleep on top of the piano in
his parlor. Under his pillow was
a sword used by him the first time he
appeared on the stage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
Natural Avotdancs.

Mayor Gaynor of New York was de-
lending his anti-suffrage views:
Woman has her place and man has
his" he said, and when I thinL of
the confusion that would come from
inIermingling their places, / am re-
minded of an anecdote about Lady
Holland Lady Holland once said to
Lord John Russell: Why hasn't Lord
Holland got a post in the cabineU?'
Well, if you must know Lord John
answered. 1T is because nobody would
work in a cabinet with a man whose
wife opens all his letters
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14

Finally this melted and a layer of
debris was deposited. It was under
meath a deposit of this sort that the
skeleton was found. Hence he must
have lived before the ice age and be
fore the rivers formed.
THE finding Of this skeleton
strengthens the belief that the evolu-
ton of man was an infinitely longer
process than we originally thought, At
one time believers in the evolution
theory thought that mans develop
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
LEAVE STATE; EVADE LAW
why massachusetts, Millmen Drink
Water In Connect
cut.

Perryville, Mass-AIthough tbs en-
pIoyes OF the Perry mill here work in
Massachusetts, they are obliged to go
into the state Of Connecticut whenever
they want drink of water. This is
not much OF hardship, as the factory
straddIes the state line, and the men
have only to cross the room to get
from one state TO the other. A uew
Massachusetts Law forbids the use of
a common drinking cup, so the pail
containing the drinking water is Kept
IN the other state.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
EVidence.

What makes you think our great
public men don't work as hard as
they used tor"
BY the photographs" replied
Farmer COrntossel. when [ was a
young Teller the big men in politics
didn't take near as much time to git
shaved and have their hair cut"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14

ment to his present state might have
taken something like 10000 years.
Later they put the period at something
around 10000 years. The difference,
if any, between this mans bodily frame
work and modern mans is so minute
as to prove that the evolution must
have taken hundreds of thousands of
years.
This discovery shows that England
was inhabited as early as if not ear
Tier than any continental country"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
Air Machine Saves Many

physicians and municipal authorities,
asking about the value of the machine.
An official of the bureau said that
to his opinion the time was near when
every police patrol would be equipped
with one OF the machines
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
TIPS TEMPT FRANCE TO TAX
Croupiers at Gaming Tables Gather In
Riches, Much Coming From
the Americans

Nice.-Declaring the croupiers at
the gaming tables in the big French
gambling resorts carr more than
ministers and ambassadors. and that
the winnings Of the owners are
''princely," a member of the French
chamber proposes that a new tax be
assessed on the tables. graduated &C
cording to the winnings
The croupiers get no salary. They
live on tips" At the Enghein Casino,
near Paris. these amounted IL I,73T.-
900 francs during the season OF 1911
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
Fapa's Past.

Little Helen's mamma was discuss
ing the drink question with a visitor
and the child listened gravely to the
conversation
Papa used to drink" she voIun-
teered suddenly
The visitor turned her head to con
ceaI a smile, and mamma frowned
and shook her head at the little one.
Well then" demanded Helen,
what was it he used to do?"-Lippin-
colts Magazine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14

Wedmore-Before | married, learn
ed to live on half my income.
Straightforward found that it was a
wise step, Ell?
Wedmore-Yes, only a half was the
wrong proportion should have made
it an eighth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
When Your Eyes Need Care

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Murine Eye Salye in Aseptic Tubes, 25c and Soc.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-14
Stou the Pain,

The hurt Of a burn or a cut stops when
Coles CarboIisalve IS applied. 1t heals
quickly and prevents scars. Csc and Soc by
druggists. For free sample write to
}. ". Cole & Co. Black River Falls, Wis.