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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16

her spirit. She had been So certain
Of what would happen that evening
/ that when her father (between cigars
on the porch with Judge Chalmers
and Doctor Southall) had searched her
out under fag-of-truce, she had sent
him to the right-about. laughingly de-
clining to depart before royalty. But
number followed number, and the
knight in purple and gold had not
paused again before her. Now the
scarlet cloak no longer Haunted
among the dancers, and the white
satin gown and sparkling coronal had
/ disappeared. The end OF the next
"round-dance" found her subsiding
! into, the f1ower-banked alcove sudden
~ distract amid her escorts sallies. Il
was at this moment that she saw, en-
tering the corridor from the garden,
| the missing couple.
It was not the faint flush OF Shir-
/ ley's cheek-that was not deep-nOt
was it his nearness to her, though they
stood closely, as lovers might. But
/ there was in both their faces a some
/ thing that resurgent conventionality
/ had not had time to cover a trem-
/ bling reflection of that Tight that
never was, on sea or land'-which was
er than Katharine's heart her pride.
| She drew swiftly back, dismayed at
the sudden verifcation, and for an in
/ slant her whole body chilled.
| A craving for a glass of water has
! served its purpose a thousand times !;
as her cavalier solicitously departed to
| fetch the cooling draught, she rose,
and carelessly humming the refrain
| the music had just left off, sauntered
| lightly out by another door to the open
! air. swift glance about her showed
| her she was unobserved and she STEP
/ ped down to the grass and along the
winding path to a bench at some dis
! lance in the shrubbery. Here the
! smiling mask slipped from her face
and with SILVER she dropped her hot
/ face in her hands.
There were no tears. The wave
/ that was yelling over her was one of
! bitter humiliation. She had shot her
! bolt and missed-she, Katharine Far
! 60! For three years she mad held
John Valiant, Economically speaking in
the hollow Of her shapely hand. Now
/ she had all but thrown herself at his
feet-and he had turned away to this
! fiame-haired, vivid girl whom he had
not known as many months!
Heavy footballs all at once APPROACH
! ed her-two men were coming from
the house. There was the splitting
crackle of a match, and as she peered
out, its red flare lighted the massive
face and floating hair of Major Bris-
tow. His companions face was in the
shadow. She waited, thinking they
would pass; but to her annoyance
when she looked again, they had seat
ed themselves on bench few PAGES
away.
To be found incoming in the shrub
berry like a schoolgirl did not please
/, her, but it seemed there was no re.
course, and she had half arisen, when
the majors gruff-voiced companion
spoke a name that caused her to sit
down abruptly.
tTO BE CONTINUED
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
ConcaVe Cinema Screen,

Eliminating false perspective and
making every portion of the picture
equally distant from the projecting
light, Chicago inventor has patent
ed and placed on the market a con-
cave screen for which much is claim
ed. The screen is a segment of a
sphere, the less Of the projecting ap-
paratus being at the focal point of
the screen, and as a result all the
rays of light strike the surface at
the same angle, and are reflected to
the visitors without distortion. An
other virture claimed for the concaye
screen, says Popular Mechanics, is
that it improves the acoustic proper
ties of the hall, or theater, In which
it is used. AS sound waves are pro-
jected and reflected IN the same man
ner. the concave screen reflects the
music of the orchestra and songs to
all parts of the theater, avoiding a.
very common fault.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16

wishing House, and II was in the mid
die of the Never-Neyer Land sort
OF beautiful fairy country ii which
everything happened right. I know
now that the Neyer-Never Land was
Virginia, and that Wishing House was
Damory court. No wonder my father
loved it, No wonder his memory turn
ed back to it always I've wanted to
make i as it was when he lived here.
And l wan: the old dial to count happy
hours for me-
Something had crept into his tone
that struck her with a strange sweet
terror and tumult of mind The hand
that clutched her skirts about her
knees had begun to tremble and she
caught the other hand to her cheek
in vague hesitant gesture The moon
flowers seemed to be great round eyes
staring up at her.
Shirley" he said, and now his
voice was shaken with longing-"will
you make my happiness for me?"
She was standing perfectly still
against the sun dial, both hands laced
together, against her breast, her eyes
on his with a strange startled look.
Over the hush Of the garden now, like
the very soul of the passionate night,
throbbed the haunting barcarole of
Tales of Hoffman,"
Might of stars and night of love"
an inarticulate echo of his longing. He
took a step toward her, and she turn
ed like one in sudden terror seeking
a way Of escape. But he caught her
close in his arms
Il love youi" he said. Hear it now
in my brides garden that I've made
for you! I love you, love you!"
For one instant she struggled. Then,
slowly, her eyes turned to his, the
sweet lips trembling, and something
| dawning deep in the dewy blue that
turned all his Ieaping blood to quick
silver MY darling!" he breathed,
and their lips met.
In that delirious moment both had
the sense of divine completion that
comes only with love returned. For
him there was but the woman in his
arms, the one woman created for him
since the foundation Of the world. 1t
was Kismet. For this he had come to
Virginia. For this fate had turned
and twisted a thousand ways. Through
the riot of his senses, like a silver
blaze. ran the legend of the calendar:
Every man carries his fate upon a
riband about his neck" For her, some
thing seemed to pass from her soul
with that kiss, some deep irrevocable
thing, shy but fercely strong, that had
sprung to him at that lip-contact as
steel to magnet. The foliage about
them fiared up in green light and the
ground under her feet rose and fell
like deep sea-waves.
! She lifted her face to him. 1t was
deathIy pale, but the light that burned
on it was lit from the whitest altar
/ fires of southern girlhood. six weeks
ago. she whispered, you had never
/ seen mel"
He held her crushed to him. She
could feel his heart thudding madly.
! I've always known you" he said. tive
/ seen you a thousand times. l saw you
/ coming to meet me down a cherry
! blossomed lane in Kyoto. I've seen
/ your eyes peering from behind veil
in India. I've heard your voice calling
| to me, through the padding camePs
/ feet, from the desert mirages. You
are the dream I have gone searching
always! All, Shirley, Shirley, Shir-
/ levi"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
LONDON TO HONOR FRANKLIN
Movement - Set Up Statue of Philoso-
pher in Chapel Where He
Worked as Printer.

Few London people would connect
romance with the name of Benjamin
Franklin, but there is a chance that he
may be commemorated in the most TO
mantle of England's few medieval
churches. St Bartholomew Smith
field
Some one has discovered from the
parish rate books that he once worked
at the case in an Office housed in his
day in the Lady Chapel Of the church
Franklin records that he was en-
ployed on setting up the second edi-
ton of Woolaston's Religion Of Ma
ture" and in that book there is a
Quaint little engraving showing the
top floor of the factory with the COM
positors' racks.
The posts Of these racks were still
there in 1885 before the Lady Chapel
was cleared Of its workaday fittings
and prepared for worship again.
In the wall over the Lady Chapel
altar land in Franklin's day actually
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
MADE HIM FEEL LONESOME
Sam Blythe, on the Water Wagon,
Found That He Had No One to
Play With.

Two years ago Sam Blythe, the
writer, elected to mount the water
cart. He became boastfully, painfully,
selfshly arid. For time false friends
tried to lure him back into the shack
les-between September Is, 1911; and
June %, 1912, he received AIS bottles
of whisky from 312 persons-but they
finally gave it up as a bad job. The
other day Blythe was talking with two
serfs of the demon at the Waldorf.
By and by their mania came upon
them. They began to edge toward the
bar
We'll, Sam, see you later" they
said.
No." said Blythe. Dunno. You
may not care to have me in your lit
tie party, but l am going right along.
l will drink water, or buttermilk. or
ginger ale, or any non-alcoholic thing
you say. but | am not going to stay
out here all alone"
Why, Sam, you're welcome" said
the bond slaves, feebly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16

too late that she had Dutched her
Book and backed into the wrong Pad
dock
Fate separated the Young Couples
and many Full Moon Debated itself
before Lib and Angie had another
chance to get away by themselves and
fill up on Oolong and cautiously exhib-
it their Wounds.
Wilbur was a Hustler who lacked
Terminal Facilities. He was full of
ST. Vitus Activity and was always
transferring lot of Papers from one
Pocket to another and getting ready
to interest Capital in some Megather-
ian Enterprise paying 20 per cent per
Annum, but somehow he never Ar
rived.
While negotiating for a Rubber
Plantation in Yucatan he would hear
about Two Million Acres waiting to
be Irrigated in Colorado but before
he could turn on the Water he would
be lured away by the Prospect of de-
veloping some Monte Carlo Proposi-
ton upon the Mesabe Range
In the meantime he wore Celluloid
Collars and owed for every Round
Steak that he had carried home dur
ing the preceding Five Years.
Otis, on the Other Hand, played
nothing but Cinches. He was out for
the Pastry. 1t was not his Fault If
the Widows and Orphans who invest
ed on his Tips all wound up as De-
partment Store Employees.
He double-crossed his Partners and
whipsawed his Customers and bIuffed
the Courts and bulIed his way into the
Strongholds Of Finance.
While the U. S. Grand Jury would
be In Session, trying to get him with
the Goods, he would be motoring in
Normandy and tossing Showers of Sill
yer to the Peasantry.
Do not mistrust the Tale, for every
Buccaneer from Broad Street, N. T.,
to the st. Francis Bar at the Golden
Gate, was once a Poor Boy with Store
Clothes on his Back and Grand Lar
ceny in his Heart
When Angie went to visit LIB, after
the Lapse of Many Years, you can
Gamble that they had Some Talk to
unload
Angie carried Wicker Suitcase
costing s198 and her General Get-rn
was that of the Honest Creature who
may be found in any Hotel Corridor AT
2 A N. massaging the Mosaic Floor
With Hot Cloth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
Various United States Capitals.

The capital of the United States has
been located at different times at the
following places At Philadelphia
from September 5, 1i94. to December
1776; at Baltimore from December 20
17I6, to March. lit; at Philadelphia
from March I, TIT. 70 September.
1777; at Lancaster, Pa, from Septem-
Der p, 1777, to September 80. 1777;
at York, Pa, from September 20, 1777,
TO July, ITS: at Philadelphia from
July 2. IT'S, to June 80, 1888; at
Princeton, n. J., June 80. 1888, to No
yember 20, 1888; Annapolis, Nd, No
vember &c, 1888. to November 80
1884; Trenton, from November, 1874.
to January, 1855; New York. from Jan
uary II, 1885. to 1870; th=n the seat
OF government was removed to Phil
ade1phia, where it remained unt.l
1900, since which time it has :. ~ n
Washington
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16

Get mel" said Wilbrr's wife, drop
ping YEARLY to Divan in the Style of
LONE Quatorze. Pipe the Lid! 1t is
1906 Model and the Aigrette is made
OF Broom Straw. Take q Peek at the
shine Tailor-Made and the Paper
Shoes. Ever since they wished that
False Alarm on to me have been Civ
ing a correct Imitation of Lizzie the
Honest Working Girl. Each Evening
he comes home to give me a Sweet
Kiss and promises me a Trip TO Eu-
rope and a Set of Gray Squirrels, and
next Morning, when l get up to re-
move the Oatmeal from the Ffreless
Cooker, l find on the Back Porch a
large Roughneck In a Sweater who
has come TO shut off the Gas or take
away the Parlor Furniture. Then l
think of you, with your Closets hang
ing full of fluffy Frocks and your Fin
gers crowded with Jewels and your
Man rushing in every few Minutes to
slap you in the Face with a Hundred
Dollar Bill. You can take it from me,
Dearie, l would jump the whole Game,
were it not for the Children. | have
put IN my whole Life trying to realize
something on a Promissory Note that
was Bloomer to begin with He has
kldded me along ever since the
Worlds Fair at Chicago, feeding me
on Canned Stuff and showing me pic
lures of Electric Runabouts and Coun-
try Places on Long Island In the
Meantime l am playing In Great Luck
if l can get a Trolley Car to stop
for me-"
At this point the Wife of Otis arose
and, pulling the rose-colored Silk
Wrapper more closely about her made
to-order Form, interrupted with an
Imperious Gesture.
Back up, Angie!" she exclaimed.
You should be Happy Woman. You
have your Husbands Love and you
have your Children, both of which are
denied a Woman of my Assured Posi-
ton in the Two Minute Glass of the
Terrible Spenders. Talk about Hard
ships! Do you know what it is to lead
the Grand March, surrounded by 500
Assegai-Throwers Harpooners and
; Cannibal Queens, who are pointing
you out as the Wife of the Malefactor
who is about to be Tried in the Fed
eral Courts? Did you ever Stagger
around all Evening with 100000 worth
of Tiffany Merchandise fastened on
to you-eXpecting every Minute to be
hit in the Couture by some Raf1es7
Did you ever, during a Formal Dinner,
/ hear the Door Bell tinkle and find In
the Hallway Reporter from a Morn
ing Paper who wishes to ask your
Husband if he denies his Guilt or can
give any Reason why Sentence c1
Death should not be passed upon him?
Are you Wise to the Fact that the
Wife of a Successful Business Man
now occupies a Niche In the Hall OF
Fame right next to the Sister of Jesse
James? You are in Great Luck. No
one takes a Shot at Failure"
Having, arrived at this cordial I'm
Outstanding, each leaned against the
other and had Good Cry, after which
they chirked up and paid lot of at
tention to a well-preserved Bachelor
who dropped in to get warm and take
| slight Fall out of the Side-Board
MORAL: When Wealth walks in at
the Door, the Press Agent comes in
through the Window.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
The New Fable of the Through Train,
the Two Passengers and Nothing
Doing in the Way
of Transfers.

TWO High School Heliotropes named
LIB and Angie were very Thick. They
had themselves photographed with
their Heads together and used to Dab
themselves with the same Piece OF
Chamois.
Whenever Lib got new Patch for
her Silk Crazy Quilt she would divide
with Angie on a $3.50 Basis And
whenever Angie got ready to sleep on
a Piece of Wedding Cake she would
pinch out a good stable Hunk for
Lib
Each Girl kept a Nightie at the
Other Girls House and, long after
they had retired, the Inmates would
hear smothered Giggles, interspersed
with Fragments of what He said to
Her and what She said to Him.
The Period of their Adolescence
was about 80 years ago, when Ro-
nance was still alive and Knighthood
was in Flower around every Dancing
Academy West of Pittsburgh
The two Chums had made a Pact
They were to be Friends forever and
ever and ever and neither was to hold
out anything from the other
Each carried In a Locket a Four
Leaf Glover presented by One tc
whom she had barred her Soul
After experimenting the Graded
Schools with full course of Mrs
Southworth and learning to play THE
Maiden's Prayer" on the Melod2on,
naught remained for them in the way
of passionate Diversion except to go
ahead and get Married
They waited three years fer the
Fairy Prince of their Dreams to come
gathering down Main Street in his
Coach all White and Gold and then
began to mistrust the Schedule Sc
they effected the usual Compromise
falling gracefully into the awkward
Embraces of two cornfed Lizards
named Otis and Wilbur
In the Shake-off it befell that Angie
got Wilbur and Lib drew Otis. The
two Brides were somewhat envied, as
Wilbur was a Good-Looker with raven
Pompadour and large snappy Eyes
while Otis was supposed to possess
the Faculty of coping the Mazume
However, the purpose of this Fable
is to indicate that each Gal found out
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
Sometimes Thus,

That cry in a London paper of a jour
nalist who finds it impossible to
maintain that appearance so essential
in his profession" carries one back
to the past with a jerk. Back to the
days when appearance was not al
ways $50 essential to the writer One
of Johnson, for instance, who worked
only when his clothes were in pawn.
His dress pledged, he would spend a
few shiIlings thus acquired on meat to
eat with his truff1es and mushrooms
and then take to his bed. There he
would get under a blanket, slit to al
low free play of his pen hand, and
start work with a will.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16

and some by that, but they are abso-
lutely certain. In some instances cor
oners have had to prevent rival iden-
filters coming to blows.
Fraudulent Identification has got to
be regular trade Inquiry Is made
at the morgue for a fictitious relative
by a member OF an Identifying gang
The dead are closely observed In
c;dents of their history and informa-
ton as to what was found on them
are gathered carefully. Then when
another member of the gang has learn
ed these facts he goes TO the morgue
and Identifies the body that Will yield
tbs most profitable return.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16

moonlighted garden at Rosewood, she
had lain in his arm for one brief in
slant then she had seemed like some
trapped wood-thing resisting. Now,
her slender body swaying to his every
motion, she was another creature. In
der the dropping tawny hair her face
was almost as pale as the white satin
Of her gown; her lips were parted, and
as they moved, he could feel her heart
rise and fall to her Ianguorous breath.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
Women for the PuInit

Women will be able to enter the min
istTy in churches in the Canton Of Neu-
chatel, Switzerland, as result of a
vote OF the synod of the Protestant
church, admitting them to the theo-
logical faculty. The decision means
that women who graduate in theology
will be entitled to the status of the
clergy. NeuchateI already has women
doctors, dentists and lawyers, as a re
suit of the non-militant feminist pro
paganda.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
Oil Drives Out Coal.

On account of the large production
of petroleum in California, and its use
for fuel, coal mining has practically
ceased in that state. According to the
United States geological survey, the
production Of coal in the last two
years has been only 10,747 tons in
1911. and 1o,97S tons in 1912. The pro-
duction of Goleum in California in
1912 was S6,4 S767 barrels, of which
not less than 100000 barrels was
used directly for fuel. Large quaint
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
MARKET REPORTS
AIilwaukee, July II, 1914.

Butter-Creamery. extras, 26c;
prints. PIC; frsts, 24Q 25c; seconds.
20Q 22c; renovated, 20 q 21c; dairy
fancy, 24c-
Cheese full cream, new
made twins, 141a 015c; Young
Americas, 151a q Ice; daisies, IA Z
Q15c: longhorns, 1512 q Ice; linn
burger, fancy, 1914 @14c
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as to
quality, 16 Z Q17 1ac; recandled, ex-
tras, p 22c; seconds, 1345 014c,
Live Poultry-Fowls, lac; roost-
ers, sc; broilers, 259 27e.
Wheat-No. l northern, Gle; No.
2 northern, 50 q soc; No. 3 northern,
$50 SIC; No. velvet, 600 901ae.
Corn-No. 8 yellow, IS 1ae.
Oats-No 3 white, $50 $3.50;
standard, SIC.
Barley-No. 3, 56@57c: wiscon-
sin, SIC
Rye-No 2, SO 5sc.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, $50
q SOS; fair to best light, $500 $50;
pigs, 6.75 $500.
Cattle-Butchers steers, IT'S q
sos; stockers and feeders, $500
$50; cows, and heifers, 5.25 OTIS;
calves, 9.25 01025.
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ties of oil were also used in place of
coal for gas making, and on the esti-
mate Of n barrels Of petroleum being
equivalent 20 one ton of ordinary
bituminous coal, it is probable that
from 100000 to 100000 tons of
coal would be required to perform in
California the service now rendered by
petroleum in the production OF heat.
light and power. There is still. how
ever. some demand for coal il Califor-
MIA, particularly for domestic use and
for the bunker trade at San Francisco,
but this is almost exclusively supplied
by coal from other states or from
abroad.-Coal Age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
SYNOPSIS.

John Valiant. a ri-h society fayorfte,
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor
pGTati1u. which his father founded and
which was the primo pal source OF MS
wealth. has failed r. voluntarily turISi
over his private fortune TO the receiver
possessions consist Of an Old motor car, a
white bull dog and DaUOry court neg
IeCred estate in Virginia. On the way 10
DamOrT court he meets Shirley Dand-
ridge an authenticated beauty, and de-
Cfdes that he is going to like Virginia I'm
ueEsely- ShiTley's mother, Mrs Dand-
ridge, and Major BtEstow exchange rem
luisCenCes during which it is revealed
that the major. Nal.aut's father and q
man uamed SassOOu were rivals for the
hand Of Mrs. cambridge in her youth
Sess8ou and Valiant fought a duel on her
valiant finds DamCrT court oFergTOWn
with weeds and creepers and decides TO
Tehabiitate the place. Valiant saves
Shirley from the bite Of a snake which
bites him. Knowing the deadliness OF the
bite, Shirley sucks the poison from the
wound and saves ais life. Valiant learns
for the first time that his father left Viz
gtHia on account Of a duel in which Doc
tor SOuthaU and Major BristOw acted as
his fathers seconds Valiant and Shirley
become good friends Mrs. DandTdge
faiuts when she meets Valiant for the
first time. Valiant discovers that he has
Z fortune in old walnut trees. The yearly
tournament. a survival of the j0usting Of
feudal times is held at DamOry court At
the last moment Valiant takes the place
Of one Of the knights. who is sick, and
enters the lists. He wins and chooses
the dismay of katherine Fargo, a former
sweetheart who is visiting in Virginia.
The tournament ball at Damory court
draws the elite of the countryside.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
CHAPTER XVI.
The Doctor Sneaks.

While the vibrant strings hummed
and sang through the roses, and the
couples drifted on tireless and con-
tent, or blissfully sat out" dances on
the stairway, Katharine Fargo held
her stately court no less gaily for the
stealthy doubt that was creeping over
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
Wagnerian Relics Stolen.

1t transpires that a casket sent from
Brussels to Germany containing i'm
ssortant Wagnerian relics was broken
open and pillaged during the railway
journey, says the London Daily Tele-
graph. The articles included letters
and photos of the famous composer,
inherited by Frau Titschatschen,
daughter of the celebrated tenor who
first sang the roles Of "Lohengrin' and
"Tannhauser."
Frau Tttschatschen, who died here
recently, bequesthed the relics to the