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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30
Can See American Tourists Going BY
In Hired Motors.

the historic Hudson and devoted to the
enclosing and polishing Of the Fee
male Progeny of those who have got
away with it, she began working the
Snuffer on all the Would-Bes back in
The Mill Town, and when she got
through extinguishing, the little Group
that remained looked like the Rem
nant of the Old Guard at Waterloo
Father had to stick around because
occasionally the eight thousand Good
Tempered Boys on the Pay Roll would
begin to burn with Wood Alcohol and
The Wrongs of Labor and pull off a
few Murders, merely to hasten the
Triumph of Justice.
By the way, Kathryn had Mother
who used to hide in a room upstairs
and timidly inspect her new Silk
Dresses.
Kathryn applied the Acid Test to
her People and decided that they new
er could Belong.
She swung on the General Manager
for a Letter Of Credit big enough to
set Ireland free and went trapsing off
10 the Old World under the chaperon-
age of a New York Lady who had seen
Better Days although she still re-
1ained her Lorgnette.
Now it will be admitted that VIII
liam J. Burns is Some Sleuth, but
when it comes to apprehending and
running to Earth a prattling American
[ngenue with a few Millions stuffed in
her Reticu1e, the Boy with the mil
lewed Title who sits on the Boulevard
all day and dallies with the green and
pink Bottled Goods has got it all over
Burns like Striped Awning.
All the starving members of the
Up-AgainstIt Association were waiting
at the Dock to cop the prospective
Meal Ticket. Not one of them had
ever Shaved or Worked, and each
wore his Handkerchief inside his Cuff
and had Yellow Gloves stitched down
the Back and was fully entitled to sit
in an Electric Chair and have 10000
Volts distributed through the Steel
Ribs of his Corset.
AS soon as Kathryn began to meet
the Roqueforts and Camemberts she
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30
ECZEMA !TCHED AND BURNED

r. F. D. No. 4, Box So, Holland.
Mich.-"My childs trouble began by
getting led and sore around her neck,
and her face, behind her ears, under
her arms, and different parts of her
body were affected. The eczema ap-
peared in rash first. 1t was wet
and looked as II it was sweaty. 1t
seemed to itch and burn so that she
could not sleep or rest. Il got so bad
at last that behind her ears was one
crust or sore so that had to cut her
hair. There was a hard crust cover
ing her neck. She could not have her
clothes buttoned at ALL ! could hardly
change her clothes. 1t caused an aw-
full disagreement for the time. She
would cry when had to wash her.
I'VE had her treated for some time
but without success. I got one cake
of Cuticura Soap and one box Of Cuti-
cura Ointment and I had not used
more than half of what bought when
she was all cured" (Signed) Mrs. G..
C. Riemersma, Mar 81, 1914.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post,
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. ADV.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30

thought that Shirley was suffering,
too. II seemed incredible that he
should now be raging along a country
road at nightfal to fEd something
that so horribly hurt them both.
1t was almost dark-saYe for the
starlight-when he saw the shadow Of
the square ivy-grown spire rearing
stark from its huddIe OF foliage
against the blurred background. He
pushed open the gate and went slowly
up the worn path toward the great
iron-bound and hooded door. Under
the Iarches on either hand the outlines
of the gravestones doomed pallidly,
and from the bell tower came the faint
inquiring cry of small owl. Valiant
stood looking about him. What could
he learn here? He read no answer to
the riddle. A little to one side of the
path something showed snow-like on
the ground, and he went toward it.
Nearer, he saw that it was a mass Of
flowers, staring up whitley from the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30
QUESTION RIGHT TO SWORD
University of Pennsylvania Has
Evoked Discussion.

The gold sword that Louis XVI pre-
scented to John Paul Jones in recogni-
ton of the fight he made with the Bon
Homme Richard against the Scraps
has been presented to the University
of Pennsylvania by Edward G. Dale,
son of the late Richard c. Dale, a for
mer president of the Society of Cincin-
natl. The sword has been in the pos
session of the Dale family for more
than a century.
This is the sword which Charles
Henry Hart, a local historian, de-
clares now should be in possession
Of Admiral Dewey. 1t had been gen
orally accepted that the sword passed
by will of Commodore Jones to Com
modore Dale, a forbear Of Richard c.
Dale Mr.. Hart denied this. He de-
clares that the sword was in posses
sion of John Paul Jones when he died
in Paris, in 1892, and that Jane Tay-
lor of Dumfries, Scotland, a sister of
Jones, went to Paris and took posses
sion Of everything left by the sea
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30
Historic London RuiLdinu.

The Inns OF Court hotel. London,
which is to become the telephone ex-
change for Holborn, began life as the
Blue Boar tavern in Plantagenet times.
taking its name from the crest of the
De Veres, who owned the land there
abouts- When its neighbor and rival,
the George inn, was demolished under
Queen Anne, the Blue Boar annexed
the name George as its subtitle. II
was at the Blue Board that Cromwell.
disguished as a trooper. stopped a
man about to set out for Dover. In
his saddle he found a letter from
Charles l. which determined him Cd
the kings execution.
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IN
81 LANG
81
GEORGE
A[)Fs
co9RH6sv % RopGs so@

discovered that they had Lovely Eyes
and certainly knew how to treat a
Lady.
Kathryn had been brought up on
Philadelphia Literature, and even dur
Ing her most ambitious Social Flights
she had encountered the Type of Man
who remains on the opposite side Of
the Room having trouble with his
White Gloves.
She never had been against those
Willing Performers from Gascony who
wore Red Ribbons and Medals and
who rushed over to kiss her Hand and
then look deep into her Eyes and
throb like a Motor Boat.
This class of Work simply shot her
Pulse up to $50 and made her think
that she was Cleopatra, floating in the
Royal Barge and surrounded by crawl
ing Slaves.
When a certain Markee crawled into
her Lap and purred into her Ear and
threatened to curl up on the Rug and
die if she Refused him, she simply
keeled over with Excitement.
After she recovered she found her
self actually Engaged to the Repre-
sentative of one of the Oldest Families
in the Saucisson District of the Burgoo
Province and as manly a Chap as ever
borrowed Money from a Toe-Dancer.
She hurried home to keep 1t out of
the Newspapers and to tell those who
would listen that American Men were
Impossible.
Then the Markee came over with his
Solicitor and Bottle of Chloroform
and full kit of Surgical Instruments,
and the Wedding was fully reported
by the Associated Press.
The Captain Of Industry sized up
Son-in-Law and knew that when the
Money was gone, the Markee could al
ways get job hanging up Hats in the
D'Hote Restaurant.
From the window of her Chateau in
the Burgoo Province the Lady Cashier
can see the American Tourists going
by in their hired Motor Cars. Her
Cheek f1ushes with Delight when she
1oE1 SiiS ~ ASAA4Cl1lbC1 ILcLI III etlIOIiAOA
Three Months or so Friend Husband
will come home long enough to show
her where to sign her Name.
What is more, she has the Privilege
Of walking out at any time and pick
ing Flowers with the Understanding
that she is not to let it be known that
she is related to any of her Relatives
on either side of the Atlantic.
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PRIZE FOOD.
PalatabIe, Economical, Nourishlng.

A Nebr. woman has outlined the
prize food in a few words, and that
from personal experience. She
writes:
after our long experience with
Grape-Nuts, cannot say enough in
its favor. We have used this food al
most continually for seven years.
"We sometimes tried other adver-
tised breakfast foods but we invariably
returned to Grape-Nuts as the most
palatable, economical and nourishing
OF all.
began to use Postum and Grape-Nuts,
l was almost nervous wreck. l was
so irritable I could not sleep nights,
had no interest in life.
After using GrapeNuts a short
time I began to improve and all these
ailments have disappeared and now
am a well woman. Ny two children
have been almost raised on Grape
Nuts, which they eat three times a
day.
HThey are pictures Of health and
have never had the least symptom of
stomach trouble, even through the
most severe siege Of whooping cough
they could retain Grape-Nuts when all
else failed.
"Grape-Nuts food has saved doctor
bills, and has been, therefore, a most
economical food for US"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek Mich. Read 'The Road to Well
vile in pkgs. There's a Reason
Ever read the absye Ietterf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF human
Interest.
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went into the library and in the Grim
sOning light sat down at the desk.
and began to write:
Dear Bluebird of Mine:
i can't wait any longer to talk to
you. Less than a day has passed
since we were together, but it might
have been cons, if one measured time
by heart-beats. What have you been
doing and thinking, l wonder? l have
spent those cons in the garden, just
wandering about, dreaming over those
wonderful, wonderful moments by the
sun-diaL All. dear little wild heart
born of the flowers, with the soul of
q bird yet you are woman, too!) that
old disk is marking happy hours now
for met
How have I deserved this thing
that has come to me?-sad bungler
that have been! Sometimes it seems
too glad and sweet, and am suddenly
desperately afraid shall wake to find
myself facing another dull morning
in that old, useless. empty life Of mine
am very humble, dear, before your
love.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30
Mexico Rich In Natural Wealth

In natural wealth Mexico is one of
the most favored of all the lands of
the earth. It's resources are little
short of marvellous. In gold, silver,
and the various precious stones its
possibilities are tremendous. It is
rich in petroleum It's forests are i'm
mensely rich. It's agricultural pos
sibilities are scarcely to be estimated,
SO great are they. In all the elements
Of natural wealth the country leads
all others. AS regards climate, Mex
leo, in it's higher regions, is para
disc; and after what was achieved at
Panama, it is safe to say that even
the coast regions may be made per
fectIy wholesome and safe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30
Bird Man Has Arrived,

On the day after Christmas a RuA
sian aviator at st. Petersburg flew a
new machine Of his own making for
hours, carrying ten passengers in addi-
ton to heavy load of ballast. This
esta blishes the aeroplane as a sure
adjunct of modern transportation, in
GLIDING passengers and freight. A
few days before this even we heard
of the successful use of the flying ma
chine by the French army operating
In Morocco which puts this new mode
of warfare among the arms of military
operations of our day, and hereafter
when we use the expression "aIl
arms" we shall have to include the
flying machine,
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STOOD FOR ANCIENT SPELLING
der Against Reforms" in
English Language.

In the eighteenth century We find
Jonathan Swift. whose mastery OF
prose is one of our delights, writing as
the very first article which appeared
over his acknowledged name "A Pro
posaI for Correcting, Improving and
Ascertaining the English Tongue" He
lamented that the English tongue was
becoming debased, but he attributed
the cause. in part, to the liberties
which Dryden and the other poets of
the Restoration had taken in shorten
ing their syIlables by emitting those
very els which our spelling reformers
would eliminate
These gentlemen wrote Swift, cal
though they could not be insensibie
how much our language was already
overstocked with monosyllables, yet
TO save time, and pains, introduced
that barbarcus custom of abbTeviatins
words to f. them to the measure OF
their verses so that most of the books
we see nowadays are full Of those
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30
Washinaton's Return Home.

On December 4, 1888, Washington
babe farewell to his officers in New
York and rowed across the Hudson to
New Jersey, thence proceeding to
Philadelphia There he handed to the
proper officers a statement of the
money he had spent out Of his own
pocket after he took command of the
army more than eight years before in
Cambridge. The amount was s64,315.
For his services during that time he
refused any pay. When he reached
Annapolis. where congress was sit
ting, he resigned as commander in
chief of the army, and proceeded to
Mt. Vernon, where he had been but
orce during the eight years and a half.
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MOST BEAUTIFUL I'M WORLD
American EthnoIogist Ungallantiy
Awards Palm to Women Of
Tehuantepec, Mexico.

Professor Starr, the ethnologist.
holds that the native women of Te-
huantepec, Mexico, are the hand
soonest in the world. These women
are not like those we usually term
Mexican in a broad sense for the lat
ter have, Of course, mixture of Span
lsh blood which gives them special
type of beauty, but the territory OF
Iehuantepec retains the old Indian
blood which has been kept pure and
has resulted in willowIy tall maidens,
physically perfect, with creamy skins
and beautiful eyes. They wear
curious heaG5ress which resembles
somewhat I. halo of plated gauze in
bright color. Their dresses are bright
with color and the richer among
them wear fortune in jewelry. but
it is a fitting setting to the type.
Superb in carriage, unblemished NOR
ally and physically it is no wonder
that DR.. Starr is enthusiastic over
these AmaZons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30
DnIIhtInn Mark

There was a great gathering Of the
church sisters and brethren down on
Buckalew creek for the baptizing Of
Uncle Mark and Aunt Eliza Mark was
phlegmatic, and disinclined to accept
the supernatural, an unwilling con-
vert Eliza went into the creek first
with the preacher, and was immersed.
She came out shouting, 81 seed glory!
seed salvation, much to the edit
cation and satisfaction Of the breth-
rem. Mark followed, doubling. The
preacher immersed Mark with hearty
good will, and hauled him up sput-
teTing to attest the wonders his eyes
had seen. But he spoke truthfululy:
Il seed a perch" he said
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30
Those New Gowns.

Gaby Desleys said in New York Of
the 1914 fashions in gowns:
These revelation gowns, evil as
they are-for everybody says they're
evil, so it must be true-these revela-
ton gowns on a beautiful woman are,
alsa, unquestionably becoming.
''But they're unhandy things, too. A
bootmaker showed me the other day
slipper with tiny purse-pocket hid
den in the heel.
IAN absolute necessity he said,
for the present-day gown affords no
chance for the purses concealment on
any other part of the person.
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The New Fable of the Same Old
Thing, With Improved Trim
nings.

Once there was a Husky employed
to crack the Whip around a smoky
Works that did not offer an attractive
Vista from the Car Window, although
it blossomed with a fragrant crop OF
Dividends every time the Directors
got together in the Back Room.
Most of the American Workingmen
employed in this Hive of Industry
came from remote parts of Europe,
Each wore his Head entirely in front
of his Ears and had taken an Oath to
support the Constitution. 1t was the
duty of the Husky to keep these i'm
ported Rabbits on the Jump and in
crease the Output.
He made himself so strong with
the big Center Poles that they de-
clared him In every time a Melon was
sliced and when it came time to
Scramble the Eggs and pull off the
grand Whack-Up, he was standing at
the head of the Line with Basket on
his Arm.
So it came about that one who
started in a Thatched Cottage and
grew up on cold Spuds and never saw
Manicure Set until he was 3S years
Of age, went home one day to find
Gold Fish swimming about in every
Room and Servants blocking the Hall.
ways.
He had some trouble finding Rings
that would go over his Knuckles and
the Silk Kind felt itchy for quite a
while, but finally he adjusted himself
to his new Prosperity and began to de
plore the apparent Growth of Social.
ism.
This rugged and forceful Character,
to whom the Muck-Rakers referred as
a Baron, had Daughter who started
out as Katie when she carried the Hot
Coffee over to Dad every Noon.
When she got her first Chip Dia-
mond and Father switched from the
Dudeen to Cigars, she was known in
High School Circles as Katherine.
And when Pop got in on the main
Divyy and began to take an interest
in Paintings, the name went down on
the Register at the Waldorf as Kath-
ryn, in those peaked Sierra Nevada
Letters about four inches high.
Katie used to go to st. Joseph S
Hall once in while with Martin, the
Lad who helped around the Grocery.
Katherine regarded with much Fa-
vor a Pallid Drug Clerk who acted as
a Clearing House for all Local Scan
dal
But say, when Kathryn came back
from a vine-clad Institute overlooking
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American catacombs and Mummies

american SdLaCOFnDS ana mumnISS.
Recent publicity has been given to
the wonders of the cliff-villages of the
ella canyon in New Mexico, where the
lofty pumice or tufa walls of the box
canyon are honeycombed with the ex-
cavated dwellings of a nation of
dwarfs, whose mummies here and
there found, preserved by the stone
dust for centuries, are clad in woven
clothes, and ornamented with gay
feathers at neck and waist The re-
mains of an adult man of this people
measured only % inches in height, and
the doors and windows of their
homes In the rock" are hardly pass
able by half-grown girl. Like the
dwarf temples of Yucatan-of which
LIE Plongeon wrote so entertainingIy
-hovel, mansion, fortress, and tenn
pie, seem like toys made with infinite
pains for the children Of remote
past; indeed, an antiquity fixed by the
best authorities at least as far back as
elk thousand years ago-National
Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-30
When the Shoe Punched

She was a British militant sufragist
who, after an eight months absence,
turned up in a state OF Indignation
against the British postoffee. The
postmaster general, she complained,
had been abstracting sufragettes' cor
respondence from the post. Some
of them hadn't received their notices
duly. "Abominable! The complain.
ant lad just done time in prison for
setting fire TO letter boxes and de.
stroying other peoples correspon.
dence!-Chicago News.
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CHAPTER xxvIII.-continued.


Young mars feel way up in de
clouds dis day" he said to Aunt
Daphne. "He wake up ez glad ez
eff he done 'fessed ligion las night.
Well. all de foI1ses cert'n'y 'toyed
deyseIves. or Mistah Fargo done eat
bout forty uh dem jumbles. All heah
him talkin' ter Mars John. Reck'n yo'
mus hab er crackahjack cook down
heah,' he say. Hyuh, hyuh!"
"G'way wild yo' blackyardin'!-'
shifted Aunt Daphne, delighted. Don
need ter come eroun' hOney-caffuddlin'
mel"
Oats whut he say" insisted Uncle
Jefferson; he did TO eT faC'!"
She drew her hands from the suds
and looked at him anXiOusIy. 'Jef'son,
yo' reck'n Mars John gwineter fotch
dat Yankee CONAN heah ter Danny
Co'ot. ter be ouah mistis?"
'Humphi" scoffed her spouse. Dat
highfalutin gal whut done swaller de
ramrod? No suh-ree-b ob-taiI! De
oldah yo' gifts, de mo- foolishah 20
citations Isl Don yO' tex no mo-
trouble on 20 back den yo' kin keek
off'n yo' heels! She ain gwineter run
dis place, er OF Devil-John tuhn ovah
in he gravel"
Sunset found Valiant sitting in the
MUSHROOM before the old square pi-
ano. In the shadowy chamber the
keys Of mother-of-pearl cleaned with
dull colors under his fingers. He
struck at first only broken chords, that
became finally the haunting barcarola
of "TaIes of Hofmann." It was the
air that had drifted across the garden
when he had stood with Shirley by
the sun-dial, in the moment of their
first kiss. over and over he played
It, improvising dreamy variations, till
the tender melody seemed the dear
ghost of that embrace. At length he
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mangltngs and authorizations Dis
turb'd, 'rebuk'd," are among the
words ne 1nds especially unpleasant.
Swift was further annoyed at a fool
ish opinion, advanced of late years.
that We ought to spell exactly as we
speak; which, besides the obvious in
convenience of utterly destroying our
etymology, would be a thing we
should never see an end CT" Also he
noted with Impotence in 1872: TT is
sometimes a difficult matter to read
modern books and pamphlets; where
the words are so curtailed and varied
from their original spelling, that who
ever has been used to plain English
will hardly know them by sight" How
many OF our new" controversies were
waged centuries ago!
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Name was a Mistake.

The island of Luzon, the principal
one of the Philippine group, owes its
name to a mistake Of Interpretation
on the part Of the early Spanish dis
coverers, according to Mr.. Kaloa, sec
rotary Of the Philippine commissioner
at Washington. There seems to have
been nc name applied to the whole
island, as such. by the natives; each
tribe, such as the Tagalog, the Iloka-
nos and Others, designated only their
own particular territory.
'Luzon" is q word in the Tagalog
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EDWARD SASSOON.
Forgive US our trespasses. .

The silence seemed to crash to earth
like a great looking-glass and SILVER
into million pieces. The wax dropped
from his fingers and in the superven-
ing darkness a numb fright gripped
him by the throat. Shirley had laid
these there, on the grave of the man
his father had killed-the cape jessa-
mines she had wanted that day, for
her mother! He understood.
1t came to him at last that there
was a chill mist cropping among the
trees and that he was very cold.
He went back along the Red Road
stumblingly. Was this to be the end
of the dream, which he had fancied
would last forever? Could it be that
she was not for him? Was it no hoary
lie that the sins of the fathers were
visited upon the third and fourth gen.
Grafton?
When he re-entered the library the
candle was guttering in the burned
wings of a night-moth. The place
looked all at once gaunt and desoIate
and despoiled. What could Virginia,
what could Damory Court, be to him
without her? The wrink1ed note lay
on the desk and he bent suddenly with
a sharp catching breath and kissed it
There weIled over him a wave OF
rebeIlious longing. The candle spread
to a hazy yellow blur. The walls fell
away. He stood under the moonlight
with his arms about her, his lips on
hers and his heart beating to the
sound of the violins behind them.
He laughed-a harsh wild laugh that
rang through the gloomy room. Then
he threw himself on the couch and
buried his face in his hands. He was
still lying there when the misty rain
wet dawn came through the shutters