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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
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| Mr. Sam came in and slammed the
door behind him.
What's this about Mr.. Dick not be
ing here?" he shouted
Well. he isn't That's all there is
to it, Sir. Van Alstyne,' | said calmly
But he must be here he said i
put him on the train myself yester-
day, and waited until it started TO be
sure he was off"
Exactly what was he doing when
you last laid eyes OIL him. / asked
'.He was on the train
'Sitting?"
No. standing. WHAT the deuce.
Minnie"
Waving out the window to you?"
''Of course mott" exclaimed Mr.. Van
Alstyne testify 'He was raising the
window for girl in the next seat
Precisely" | said. Would you
know the girl we'll enough to trace
herr"
That's ridiculous, you know" he
said, trying to be polite. "Out of a
! thousand and one things that may
/ have detained him"
only one thing ever detains Mr..
Dick, and that always detains him."
said solemnly. That's a girl. You're
q newcomer in the family, Mr.. Van
Alstyne; you don't remember the time
he went down here to the station to
see his Aunt Agnes off to the city. and
we found him three weeks later in
Oklahoma trying to marry d widow
with five children"
III have to tell my wife," he said.
| Who's running the place, anyhow?
| You?"
exactly" l explained, but, of
course, when anything comes up they
consult me. The housekeeper is a
fool, and now that the house doctors
gone"
Gone! Who's looking after the
| patients %
We'll, most OF them have been here
| before" | explained, and l know
| their treatment-the kind of baths and
all that"
"Oh, you know the treatment" he
said, cycling me- And why did the
house doctor go?"
| He ordered Mr.. Moody to take his
| spring water hot. Mr.. Moodys spring
water has been ordered cold for eleven
years, and | refused to change. It
was between the doctor and me, Mr..
| Van Alstyne"
oh, of course" he said, IF it was
matter of principle He picked up
| his hat and looked at his watch.
Eleven thirty" he said, land no
| sign of that puppy yet. l guess it's
up to the police
| If there was only something to do"
| said, with a lump in my throat, but
| to have to sit and do nothing while
| the old place dies; it's-it's awful. Mr..
Van Alstyne.'
We're not dead yet" he replied
| from the door, ''and maybe We'll need
you before the days over. II anybody
can sail the old bark TO shore, you can
| do it. Minnie. You've been steering
| it for years. The old doctor was no
navigator and you and | know It,"
The storm stopped a little at three
and most of the guests waded down
| through the snow for bridge and
spring water. BY that time the after
noon train was in, and no Mr.. Dick.
| Mr.. Sam was keeping the lawyer. Mr..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
Worlds Largest Concrete Arches.

With the general use Of concrete in
construction work, engineers have
been steadily increasing the length Of
the huge arch in which this material
is the principal supporting power, says
Engineering News.
For two years the 328-foot Risorgi-
mento arch across the Tiber at Rome
has been the longest reinforced-con-
crete span in the world, taking the
title from the 320-foot Grafton arch at
Auckland. New Zealand, completed
about a year earlier. Now comes
Switzerland with the latest largest
masonry arch" in the 330-foot span at
Eangwicz, on the meter-gauge rail
way between Chur and Arosa.
Read the records of the largest
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
FAXED" THE CITY FATHERS
Hotel Man Selected Weu-Dressed
Guests to Form Reception Com
nittce for President

The Cape May spondent Of the
Pittsburgh Dispatch sends in the fol
lowing "reminiscences:
George ". Boyd, who occupies q
handsome beach front cottage OF CO.
lonial architecture in the next block
to the mammoth Hotel Cape May,
and Mr. Frank A Richardson, a re
tired Washington newspaper CORE
spondent who was for many years a
representative of the Baltimore Sun
at the National capital, were telling
stories OF old Cape May in the lobby
of the New Hotel Cape May the other
night
They recalled an incident of the re
ception at old Congress hall, de-
stroyed by fire in 1879. of President
Grant on his first visit to Cape May.
The proprietors of the hotel were j.
Frank Cake. long a hotel man of
Washington. and Waters B. Miller, a
native of Cape May, and at the time
the mayor of the resort, Miller was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
BABIES INJURED BY ROCKING
English Mothers Are Being Told That
They Should Stop This Time
Aonored Practice.

The hand that rocks the cradle and.
Incidentally and metaphorically, rules
the world, is no longer to enjoy IN
disturbed these notable functions.
The anti-rocking movement has begun
vigorously in London, the opening
declaration of hostilities having been
made in a leaflet addressed to moth
ers by the public health department Of
the city of London. This document
most solemnly adjures mothers never
to rock the baby. 1t is here set forth
that rocking the baby to sleep, far
from being the wholesome and al
together admirable performance we
have been taught through centuries
to believe, is one that is rankly
diabolic in possibilities. Rocking the
baby TO sleep, it is declared, is likely
to set up various digestive disorders,
it stupefies the child and may breed
in him or her various bad habits. A
healthy child, it is averred, requires
no rocking to sleep. the rocking being
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
CHAPTER III.
a ghost

| have never reprOached Miss Patty
but if she had only given me the letter
to read or had told me the whole truth
instead of part of it, l would have
understood, and things would all have
been different 1t is all very well fol-
her to say that | looked worried
enough already, and that anyhow il
was a family affair | should have
been told
All she did was to come up to me
as l stood in the spring with her
face perfectly white, and ask me il
my Dicky Carter was the Richard Car.
ter who stayed at the Grosvenor in
town.
He doesn't stay anywhere" I said
with my feet getting cold, but that's
where he has apartments. What has
he been doing now?"
You're expecting him on the eve
ming train, aren't you?" she asked
Don't stare like that: my fathers
watching"
He ought to be on the evening
train" l said | wasn't going to say
expected him. | didn't
The wretch!" she cried, the hate
full creature-as if things weren't bad
enough! | suppose he'll have to come,
Minnie, but | must see him before
he sees any one else
Just then the bishop brought his
glass over to the spring.
Hot this time, Minnie" he said
DO you know, I'm getting the mineral
water habit, Patty! I'm afraid plain
water viii have no attraction for me
after this"
He put his hand over hers on the
rail. They were old friends, the bish-
OPP and the Jenningses.
Bishop" she said suddenly, will
you do something for me?"
Il always have, Patty" He was
very fond OF Miss Patty, was the
bishop.
"Then-to-night, not later than eight
o'clock, get father to play cribbage
viii you? And keep him in the card
room until nine"
Another escapade!" he said, pre-
tending TO be very serious. Patty
Patty, you'Il be the death of me yet
| Is thy servant a dog, that he should
do this thing?"
Certainly not said Miss Patty
Just dear. slightly bald. but still
very distinguished slave!"
There will be plenty OF slaves tC
| kiss your little hand, where you are
going, my child" he said. Sometimes
| | wish that some nice red-blooded boy
| here at home-but / dare say it will
| turn out surprisingly well as it is.
Bishop, Bishop!" Mrs Moody
called. How naughty of you. and
with your bridge hand waiting to be
heidi"
Well, | knew Mr.. Dick had been W
to some mischief; l had suspected il
all along. But Miss Patty went to bed
and old Mrs. Hutchins, who's a solS
| of lady s-maid-Companion of hers, said
| she mustn't be disturbed. l was pref
| ty nearly sick myself And when Mr.
Sam came out at five o'clock and saic
he'd been IN the long distance tele
phone booth for an hour and had
called everybody who had ever known
Mr.. Dick. and that he had dropped
right off the earth, l just about gave
up.
Luckily Mr. Stitt was in bed with q
mustard leaf over his stomach and ice
on his head, and didn't know whether
| it was night or morning.
(Tn RI, C0NTTNTTED
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You're Getting Careless, Minnie" He
Said, Squirting at 1t.

Stitt, in the billiard room, and by four
O'Clock they'd had everything that was
in the bar and We're inyenting new
combinations OF their own. And Mrs.
Sam had gone to bed with d nervous
headache.
Senator Biggs brought the mail
down to the spring house at four, but
there was nothing for me except a
note from Mr. Sam, rather shaky,
which said he'd no word yet and that
Mr. Stitt had mixed all the cordfals in
the bar in q beer glass and had had
to 60 to bed.
| nearly went crazy that afternoon.
! put salt in Miss Cobbs glass when
she always drank the water plain
Once | put the broom in the fire and
started to sweep the porch with a
fire log. Luckily they were busy with
their letters and it went unnOticed, the
smell of burning straw not rising, so
to speak, above the sulphur Of the
spring.
Senator Biggs went from one table
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

the magazine article that told how
Mr. Jennings had got his money by
Tobbipg widows and orphans. and
showed the little frame house where
Miss Patty was born-as if she's had
anything to do with it. And so now
WAS cutting out the picture OF her
and the prince and the article under
meath which told how many castles
she'd have, and l don't mind saying
was smiling a little bit. for
couldn't get used to the Idea. And
suddenly the door closed softly and
there WAS rustic behind me. When
turned it was Miss Patty herself.
She saw the clipping Immediately, and
stopped just inside the door.
you, too" she said And we've
come all this distance TO get away
from just that"
We'll. l shan't talk about it,"
replied not holding out my hand, for
with her. so TO speak. next door To
being a princess-but she leaned right
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
LIVING. but Officially Dead.

NJ Augustin Jeourel, who has just
received the military medal for gal
Iantry at Grayelotte during the Fran
co-Prussian war, has been forty-three
years ii convincing the authorities
that he is alive. He was badly wound
ed in a bayonet charge, and was reg
istered as killed on the roll OF the
regiment When he regained con-
seriousness he found himself in a Ger
man hospital. When he applied TO th6
minister OF war for the military medal
he was informed that he was dead,
killed at Grayelotte by Prussian bull
let
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
CHAPTER II.

Well, we got the poor old doctor
moved bacl. 10 his room. and had one
Of the chambermaids find him there.
and I wired TO Mrs. Van Alstyne, who
wasf Mr. Dicky Carriers sister, and
who was on her honeymoon In South
Carolina The Van Alstynes came
back at once. in very bad tempers,
and we had the funeral from the
preachers house in Finleyyiile so as
not to harrow up the sanatorium
people any more than necessary.
After it was all over tho relatives
gathered in the sun parlor Of the san
atorium TO hear the will-Mr Van Al
styne and his wife and about twenty
more who had come up from the city
for the funeral and stayed over-on
the house.
Well, the old doctor left me- the but
tons for his full dress waistcoat and
his favorite copy OF "Gray's Anatomy. "
I couldn't exactly set up housekeeping
! with my share of the estate.
They thought that was funny, but
few minutes later they weren't so
cheerful You see the sanatorium was
q mighty fine piece Of property with
deer park and golf links. We'd
had plenty of offers to sell it for a
summer hotel, but we'd both been
dead against it. That was one Of the
! reasons for the will
! The whole estate was left to Dicky
/ Carter, who hadn't been able to come
owing 10 his being laid up with an
attack of mumps. The family sat VI
and nodded at one another, or held
up its hands. but when they heard
there was a condition they breathed
/ easier.
/ Beginning with one week after the
! reading Of the willard not a day
| later-Mr Dick was to take charge Of
| the sanatorium and to stay there fOl
/ two months without Il day off II al
! the end of that time the place was
/ being successfully conducted and
could show that it hadn't lost money
| the entire property became his TO,
! keeps. IL he failed it was to be sold
and the money given to charity.
! Well, the family went back TO town
| in buzz of indignation. aud l car
/ ried my waistcGat buttons and my
Anatomy" out to the spring-house ana
| had q good cry. There was a mar
named Thoburn who was crazy fol
the property as a summer hotel, anG
every time | shut my eyes l could see
{ "Thoburn House" over the verands
and children sailing paper boats i'll the
mineral spring.
| Thoburn drove out from Finleyvillt
with suit case, and before he'd takeT
off his oyercoat he came out TO tht
spring-house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
The Twentieth New York.

SiIas Brink. 2804 Farragut road,
Brooklyn. n. Y, writes the National
Tribune chat the old Twentieth New
York at Gettysburg was in the First
brigade, Third division, First corps,
and commanded in the first days
fight by Col. Theodore +. Gates. They
we're in action on what is now known
as Reynolds avenue until p. N. On
July they were on Cemetery bill,
and on July 3 facing Pickett's
charge
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

told my husband to get me bottle of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and would try it before would
submit to any operation. He did so and
/ improved right along | am now doing
all my work and feeling fine
81 hope other suffering women will try
your Compound | will recommend il
to all / know - Mrs. DANIEL D. B.
DAVIS, 10 Franklin St ,Logansport, Ind
Since We guarantee that all testirno-
mails which we publish are genuine, is it
not fair to suppose that if Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has the
virtue to help these women it will help
any other woman who is suffering in a
like manner?
If you are i'll do not drag along until
an operation is necessary, but at once
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound
Write to Lydia r. Pinkham
Medicine Co., (confidentiaD Lynn,
Mass. Your letter viii be opened.
read and answered by woman
and held in strict confidence.
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ed and he felt himself again. He says
he has been benefited and blessed by
the use of Dodds Kidney Pills. Sew
eral months later he wrote: ] have
not changed my faith in your remedy
since the above statement was author-
lied. Correspond with Rev. E. Hes
lop about this wonderful remedy.
Dodds Kidney Pills, soc per box at
your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co.
Buffalo, N Y. Write for Household
Hints, also music of National Anthem
English and German words) and re-
cipes for dainty dishes. All 8 sent free
ADV.
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mWanted-A Collaboration"

That all persons of artistic or lit
erary aspirations are not as imprac-
teal as they are generally. supposed
to be, is proved by the following
advertisement, which, says the Bos-
ton Herald, recently appeared in d
morning paper: Wanted-A collabo-
rator, by young lady playwright The
play is already written; collaboration
to furnish board and bed until play
is produced.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

after all merely kind of mechani-
cal narcotic. scarcely less dangerous
than the poppy juice of the so-called
soothing strip. The baby should be
put to bed in the dark and allowed to
go to sleep naturally Cradle rocking
say the concoctors OF the anti-rocking
decree. may cause a child to grow up
unhealthy, exacting and petulant. A
has lie herceaui
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

a man Of original ideas and he decid-
ed that if the common councilmen Of
Cape May were TO receive the presi-
dent. they would have to abandon
their boots with their pantaloons
tucked inside of them. their blue
shirts for boiled shirts, and old caps
for high hats Miller, knowing the
opposition which would be put up by
the local city fathers, picked out
among his patrons al the Congress
hotel nine best dressed men 90 pass
them off as the city council of Cape
May and they received President
Grant on his first visit TO Cape May
in 1876. While Grant congratulated
them upon their fine appearance, 1t
was believed that he saw the joke,
but never gave the least intimation
that he was being deceived as to the
/ resorts government.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
Not a FIatterinu Idea,

A noted Sunday school worker, liv-
ing III Kansas, was once asked to talk
TO the children OF Sunday school on
the subject OF temperance. lie is very
earnest in the cause and wears a bit
of blue ribbon as badge OF his prin-
ciples. Rising before the school. he
pointed to his bit OF blue ribbon and
said; Nov, can any OF you children
give me a reason why | am not Il
drunkard?" There was no reply for
a moment; then a childish little voice
in the rear OF the room piped out:
"Cause this is prohibition town"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
Their Calculations Upset

Sir George Biddell Airy, British as
tronOmer royal, told the pioneers of
the first Atlantic cable that It was a
mathematical impossibility to sub
merge the cable TO the necessary
depth. and If it were possible no sig
nails could travel through So great a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
na pa-ec+ Vail

The perfect nail ought to be white
and naturally polished; transparent
without being too thin; slightly pink
and not brittle; length to the ends OF
the fingers. Such are the nails of
those possessing refinement, correct
natural taste and tact
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

distance, Sir George was also asked
about the possibility of making Big
Ben, the great clock in the tower
above the houses of parliament, so
trustworthy that it would not lose
five seconds q day on the average.
He replied that no clock exposed to
the weather could run with so small
an error The late Lord Grimthorpe,
however. said he would guarantee
that degree of exactness. and by de-
signing his gravity escapement he
produced a timepiece that is never
five seconds out with the observatory
at Greenwich, to which it signals its
time each day, and on most days is
dead true.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

Mother Grsy's Sweet Powders for Children
Break up Colds In q hours, relieve Feverish-
ness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething
Disorders, movs and regulate the bowels, and
Destroy Worms. They pleasant To TAX o
children like them. Used by mothers for2i years
At all druggists, 25c. sample matted FBEE
Address, A. s. OlInsted, lie Roy, ". Y. Adv
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a T in.

"Light-haired people. it is said, az a
rule live longer than those having
dark hair."-Dublin Evening Mail.
Remember this when choosing a
fatber-in-law, or dyeing your hair. =
London Opinion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
PUTTING IL Mildly.

Tom-Did you say your friend is
slender?
Tab-Well, she returned sll-
houette gown because she eouIdh
make a shadow in it.-Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

why did you pick Alpha to win that
race? | never thought he would win
Alpha is the first letter OF the Greek
alphabet. / figured that Alpha should
naturally lead"
See what it is TO have an educa'
toni"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
Gettinn Her Moneys Worth

Mrs Kimp-Don't you find DR..
Soakums charges rather steep?
Mrs Simp-Yes, / do. But then he
always gives such dignifed and i'm
pressive names to the most ordinary
ailments that 1t is really a pleasure to
be i'll and go to him for treatment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

ing, was dizzy
and exhausted at
the least exer-
ton. Hands and
feet were cold
and he had SUCH
a dragging sensa
ton across the
loins that it was
difficult TO move.
After using )
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LIr Wss SUPPLIED.

+ Pm Introducing brand-neW In
yention-a combined talking machine,
carpet-sweeper, and letter opener
said the agent, stepping briskly into
an Office. Got one already, an
gwered the proprietor I'm married :!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
ri,b+,r, Mans Enemies

In the battle which is constantly
being waged by the natives Of Africa
and the denizens of the jungle 1900
snakes and 10000 wild beasts we're
killed in one year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
A cLEReYMAN's TESTIMONY.

The Rev. Edmund Heslop OF Wig
ton, Pa, suffered from Dropsy for q
year. His limbs and feet were sYok
len and pulled. He had heart fiutter,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
WOMAN REFUSES
OPERATION
Tells How She Was Saved
by Taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
Logansport, Ind. my baby was
over a year old and / bloated till was

a burden 10 myself
/ suffered from fe-
male trouble so [
could not stand on
my feet and l felt
lik e m iliions Of
needles were prick
ing me all over. At
last my doctor told
m e tn at all that
would save me was
a n operation, but
this 7 refused 4
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

and tell the truth he's apt to lie
about it.
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DR.. Pieree's Pellets, small, sRgar-eoated,
easy to take as candy, regulate and inYig
crate stomach, liver and bowels. DO not
grippe. ADV.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

Three hundred women have made
application for police jobs in Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22
Hence These Tears.

do you ever weep over a story
Sometimes when ! get ii back from
the publishers Houston Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

There are S,1G7,232 widows in the
United States
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-22

Putnam Fadeless Dyes do not stain
the kettle. Adv