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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-01

Politician see that you men
toned my name as that of a possible
candidate.
Statesman-Yes; l wanted to give
them quiet hint as to how much
worse they might do if they don't take
me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-01

Said He-Courtship is a great pleas
ure, isn't it?
Said She-Yes, if the man in the
case means business.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-01
Tobacco.

Tobacco Injuries many a man.
Its use is surely not a joke
And yet it's rather better than
The substitutes we sometimes smoke.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-01
a NearPoet.

"His case IS hopeless"
What do you mean"
Despite the fact that the diction-
ary is full of words that rhyme with
Valentine" he hasn't been able to
write a coupIet for his sweetheart"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-01

Hindus venerate the common mari
gold and frequently adorn their idols
with wreaths OF Its golden foRers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-01
Accounted For.

Il hear so many society women
find themselves in deep water"
"Why?"
Because they fall down on their
bridge work"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-01
Comparative Proportions

This crime wave they talk Of"
began the stranger in a metropolis.
That isn't wave" protested the
policeman. tits only a ripple of in
terest."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-01

Germany in 1914 devoted 1.342,420
acres to sugar beets.
Newark post., 1915-12-29
What Do Parents Desire?
(From Chicago Tribune)

One of the most persistant falla-
cies among parents these days is
that they send their children to
college to lear nsomething. There
is good reason for sending young
persons to college, but it is not
education. Parents do not want
their sons and daughters, but par
ticularly their daughters, to learn
anything really important.
Father, nevertheless, is likely to
complain when John comes home
for the holidays that he has
brought back nothing but more
expensive appetite for enjoyment
and a few new dance steps. But
if the boy showed a reason convic-
tion in favor of free trade or doubt
ed the efficacy of capitalism he
would do more than complain. He
would assert that the professors
were teaching anarchy.
Susie comes home her mind full
of house parties and good-looking
professors, and mother thinks that
she might betteer devote her time
Newark post., 1915-12-29
ASCEPTIC METHODS
IN DENTISTRY

The possibility of the transmits
sion of disease through the med
ium of dental instruments has
probably been considered by
every occupant of the dentists
chair. 1t constitutes one of the
fears with which a patient is pos
sessed the moment he adjusts him
self for his period of treatment.
Authoritative instances of the con-
veyance of contagion in this man
ner are extremely rare, it's fire.
quency not being determinable, al
though few will deny the possibili-
ties of occurrence of this charac-
ter.
The list of organisms which may
contaminate dental instruments is
formidable, but this does not mean
that the diseases of which they are
the causative factors necessarily
ensues if they are accidentally car
ried into the mouth. Their pres
ence upon dental instruments is,
however, an indication of what
the surgeons call poor technique.
In surgery poor technique is usu-
ally attended with disastrous re-
suits; but in dentistry errors of
this character may produce no i'll
effects. In spite of this relative
freedom from danger, dentists are
determined that their methods
shall equal the highest standards.
Cleanliness should be the pri-
mary consideration in all dental
operations. The white coat of the
operator represents more than
comfort; it is the symbol of neat
ness. The dentist who works with
unclean instruments, who provides
soiled linen, or who places a COM
mon drinking glass before his pa
tient, should be judged according
ly. Fortunately the members of
the profession who do these things
are criticized and suffer from loss
of patronage, so that there is a
strong tendency on the part of
dentists to maintain their sur
roundings above reproach. With
the sterilization of instruments
some carelessness may manifest it.
self, partly owing to the fact that
many instruments are injured by
such processes, are too complicat-
ed to be treated in this manner. or
that the public is not competent to
detect errors of technique. How
ever, the public is rapidly learning
the value of asceptic methods and
the proper equipment is now found
in nearly all dental offices.
Thorough studies of the steriliz-
alton process have recently been
made for dentists by the United
States Public Health Service, at
| the request of various dental asso-
Citations throughout the country,
and in recent publication of that
Service detailed information will
be found as to the accepted meth
DDS for the sterilization of all den
tai Instruments.
Newark post., 1915-12-29

to cooking school or learning to
supervise the servants.
But if Susie shows a tingle of
feminism and announces a deter
mination to give up dances for the
law, afternoon teas for the study
of nursing, her mother complains
that college has spoiled her. She
points to the girl across the street
as a desirable daughter, with none
of these modern and subversive
whims.
Parents do not want their child
ren to believe anything they them
selves do not happen to believe.
1t is perhaps fortunate for the
future of higher education that so
small a percentage of students
really get anything out of their,
For higher education would not be
tolerated. Ideas are uncomfort-
able things to have about any
easy-going household, especially if
you do not happen to agree with
them. Parents. know that in the
case of girls real higher educa,
tion rubs some of the innocent
bloom off their daughters cheeks
knowledge is not an asset in the
marriage market.
Newark post., 1915-12-29

The American colonies knew
no Christmas trees until German
emigrants brought with them to
this country the beautiful custom
of the fatherland. Yet after all,
the Christmas tree is of no one
people-it is of all peoples. Whis-
pering of Immortality in it's ver-
dure; upholding tn esmybol of the
closs in its LEAKAGE; Christ, the
light of the world, suggested in it's
glowing candles; Christ, the gift
of God, suggested in the offerings
of love hung upon it's branches,
the Christmas tree stands in our
midst today.
Newark post., 1915-12-29

Deal so plainly with man and
woman as to constrain the utmost
sincerity and destroy all hope of
trifling with you.
Your goodness must have some
edge to it,-else it is none.
God offers to every mind It's
choice between truth and repose.
Take which you please-you can
never have both.
Our culture therefore must not
omit the arming of the man. Let
him hear in season that he is born
into state of war, and that the
commonwealth and his own we'll
being require that he should not
go dancing in the weeds of peace,
but warned, self-collected and
neither defying nor dreading the
thunder, let him take both reputa-
tion and life in his hand, and with
perfect urbanity dare the gibbet
and the mob by the absolute truth
Of his speech and rectitude of his
, behavior.
Towards all this external evil
the man within the breast assumes
warlike attitude, and affirms his
ability to cope single-handed with
the infinite army of enemies. To
this military attitude of the soul
we give the name of Heroism.
! Do not tell me. as a good man
did today, of my obligation to put
all poor men in good situations.
Are they my poor? l tell thee,
thou foolish philanthropist that
! grudge the dollar, the dime, the
cent l give to such men. There is
a class of persons to whom by all
spiritual affinity I am bought and
sold; for them l will go to prison
if need be; but your miscellaneous
popular charities, the education at
college of fools; the building of
meeting houses to the vain end to
which many now nd;-though l
confess with shame / sometimes
succumb and give the dollar, it is
a wicked dollar, which by and by |
shall have the manhood to with
hold.
Newark post., 1915-12-29
Harvard Advocates
Better Farming

DR.. Chas. w. Eliot, president
emeritus of Harvard in an address
before the Pan-American Scienti-
fc Congress at Washington yes
terday, took the stand that too lit
tie attention was being paid to
the training of the senses and that
agriculture should have a promi-
nent place in country schools.
This advocacy from Harvard will
add argument to the Agriculture
lists enthusiasm.
Newark post., 1915-12-29

I am not careful to justify
myself. But lest l should mis-
lead any when l have my own
head and obey my whims, let
me remind the reader that l
am only an experimentor. DO
NOT set the least value on what
Newark post., 1915-12-29
Gems From Emerson

A man is relieved and gay when
he has put his heart into his work
and done his best.
What l must do is all that con-
Germs me, not what the people
think.
We know that the ancestor of
every action is a thought.
A friend is a person with whom
l may be sincere.
Newark post., 1915-12-29
Explosion At Hagley Yards

One of the grinding mills in the
Hagley Yard of the DUPONT Pow
der Company, at Henry Clay, ex-
ploded last Thursday afternoon,
with roar that could be heard
for several miles. No employees
were in the building, which was
badly wrecked. The cause of the
explosion is unknown.
Newark post., 1915-12-29
For Sale

Newark Opera House Buildingand
furnishings, Togetherwith theMotion
Picture Business, corner store room
unoccupied, size l9x IS #. which
can be leased anytime to a desirable
party, but with thought purchaser
might need itlease not cons,,mated
ApplytoNewark OperaHouse Co.
Newark, Delaware
Newark post., 1915-12-29

do, or the least discredit on
what l do not, as if l pretend
ed to ettle anything as true
or false. unsettle all things.
No facts are to me sacred;
none are profane; l simply ex-
pertinent, an endless seeker
with no Past at my back.
Newark post., 1915-12-29

God offers to every mind its
choice between truth and repose.
Take which you please-you can
never have both.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-29
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE

Furnished By w. .. Hibbs 4 Co.
Chesapeake L Potomac Telephone s., 5000 at
lM
Potomac Electric LIT S. 900 at los.
Potomac Electric Consolidated e. N.oW At lol.
81 o00 at l0l
Washington Railway common. 3 at ~.
American Security & Trust Company, At 2,
After call:
Washington Gas 50, s.. 900 at lo4k 81 900 at lo41s
Capital Traction S. 81 600 at 1854 500 at loC1I
s. 600 at lDlz.
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BONDS FEATURE TRADING.
Bonds of Potomac Electric Score
sharp Advance.

Bonds featured the trading on the
Washington Stock Exchange yesterday,
the principal change from Thursday be-
ing a sharp advance in the price on Poto-
mac Electric Power consolidated per
cent bonds. The latter issue, which sold
Thursday 100 Ii, was not offered yester-
day under lol. at which price 81, 1000 worth
was quickly disposed of. The closing
figures were 1Ol bid and 1o1 1-2 asked
Capital Traction stock continued to
drop. going from Sc to 50 "a without
a sale being recorded. Washington Gas
stock also slumped, the bid being
lowered from Il IL to 70 on quotation
lots. There was no stock offered, how
ever, under % IL.
Another strong bond was Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone SIS. which adj
vanced a full point to 1O4 over Thursday
on a sale of 5000 worth. block Of
Potomac Electric Power SIS amounting to
s. 600 brought los; 5000 worth of Wash
ington Gas SIS were marketed at 1O4
"a and 104 IS, and $500 worth of Capt.
tai Traction SIS sold at los IA and los IL.
A meeting of the executive council of
the Bankers Association of the District
scheduled for $3.50 o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon was postponed until the same
hour next Friday.
The headquarters of the Association of
American Railway Accounting Officers,
representing the big roads of North
and South America. Cuba. and the Philip
pines. has secured a suite of rooms In
the Woodward Building and will move to
this city from Chicago, June l. The as
ISOLATION Is engaged in standardizing rail-
way accounting practices.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-29

New York. May 2S.-Bradstreets' re-
view of trade for the week tomorrow
will say:
Coll wet weather over wide
area has reduced retail trade in season
BILE goods; pending international polit-
ical matters, though not given much
| prominence, make for caution in
! financial circles, and winter wheat
and corn crops prospects are not so
glowing as heretofore. The large dis
tribution of staple articles seem to
be doing quite well.
Complaints Of scarcity Of skilled
mechanics are numerous. Business
in war materials is rushing. Ship
building yards are filled with orders.
Railway traffic is heavier. Buying OF
rails has enlarged.
The United States stands in a unique
position, in that it is the only country
in the world favored by increase ex-
ports. Money is easy. buying of COM
mercial paper is freer and collections
are about fair, save in the agricul-
tural South and in the lumber manu-
featuring parts of the Pacific North
west.
Cotton and spring wheat crop re-
ports are good. and stock market oper-
atoms, though checked by uncertainty
as to Germany's reply to the remon-
STATIONS made by our government dis
plays a fairly steady undertone.
Reports from most centers agree
that buying of drygoods for forward
shipment Is in excess of last year.
Manufacturers of agricultural imple-
ments and jewelry and brewers and
distillers of liquors as we'll as furni-
ture plants are working on SUBJ
normal basis. The situation as to dye
stuffs continue to cause concern in
textile circles, but it Is thought that
some relief may be afforded by new
OUTPUTS from domestic sources.
Harvest time in the winter wheat
sections Is appearing. and barring
great damage to spring wheat, the
country can easily raise another bum
per crop.
Pay rolls are increasing, over time
is common in a number of lines and
the spread of progress seems. to be
reaching out to all but the most I'M
favorably situated industries. while en-
terprises born of the necessity OF
supplying articles cut of by the
European war are coming into view.
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COTTON MARKETS.

New York. May e.-There little business IT
cotton todsy but small decline was changed 70
an advance final prices showing . net gain OF u
to points. Bearish visible supply fguies and q
favorable report the Alabama crop from Cordil
restrained bulls in the last hour when shorts FUR
nished about the only support. Several private
crop condition statements were issued. Morden q
Co Placing the status Of the plant at sos and
Clement Curtis & Co. at So year ago the
government made the condition H.3
There was talk of too much rain in the belt. The
sr.t article here advanced five points to go but
there were no sales. The market at Liverpool re-
manned closed and business there will not be re-
sumed until Monday. Exports for the day were
q q, bales including 81 .s3i to Great Britain For
the season the clearances amount to 7sosG against
8 SIS ssl bales . year ago. Receipts at the ports
for the day were l3.il2. against s.23 last week
and I2ie0 last year. The amount brought into
sight for the week Ia. SO against is.oal last
year and SII5 two years ago. For the season
IA 81. ga against H.iE ,4ss last year.
Spot interests said that almost complete stag
nation prevailed in the article. Sales today
were next to nothing and some nervousness is
developing over the large stocks. The supply in
rarehou.cs here is 2D72. against 1858 last year.
Furnished by n. L. Carpenter %.
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The Safest Investments

Are hoss that do NOT nuctuats durtna a.
turbed conditions o. the money o. STOCK mas.
ketA First decd Of trust notes (frss mort
sases,. well occurred on real estate in the Dr.
trict Of Columbia. constitute "rlt-sdss" -
vestments They do not depend upon The
financial rssponsibIty Of Individuals or OF
porstions Tor their stability. and are exempt
iron taxsticn - personal property. We caa
supply such Investments in amounts from ~
upward. Send for oooklet. concerning Loans
and lnvsatmenta"
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New York.
New Orleans.
WASHINGTON PRODUCE.

ouot.tion, given below are for large lots Of GOD
usffetabls goods only. Jobbsrs prices are higher.
Lover pades may Be- sold for lesA FanJ Goods
command higher pdceA.
Little change was seen on the produce market
Yesterday Live poultry Continued unchanged.
Choice sprinsers brought the best figures Receipts
N lambs were heavy and the market easy. Veal
calves remsined unchanged.
while the receipts of fruits and vegetables con-
t;n,,ed heavy and the market easy. moderate trad
in, vas felt on that market. Peas. strawberries.
md tomatoes continued in liberal receipts and
quotations on the berries were at wide range
ne figures were:.
EGGS Fresh. per dox, -: Southern. per doz-. IA
BUTTER-Best psintA new. pr h.. =; tub. pss
M. 81: process. per lh, 2aa3; under grade.
ersu,ery, Der m. aa;s: sforepseksd. Per n. uaA
LARD-iub. pure. psr NJ. nSan: do. con
oouxi per 3D., q. Cottousteed oil. pr can. a.
,MEESE-Nev Yofk. new. per H.. y: oat. psf
\. u: Swiss danestie. pr h. y; d.. foreigs.
LIVE POULrRY-Hena per h.. Il: rooster.
per n, naI1; eaen. p1 n. tAis: tuFsssA eAoisa
~ n. isals: d.. ordinary. -: chickens. per III.
Nh: spxins chickens. per ~. 8a3.
0IIEN GOODS AsparsGus. PR dcaen 6cnesA
neerby, Saies; Northern. Isos20: bsans pr bas..
LsA3W: nna beana ~ as. a@sl~; beta psr
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WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE
Cool Wave Over Country Blamed for Falling Off in Retail
Trade in Spring and Summer Goods international
Situation Also Acting as Damper to Business.

New York. May eS-Dun's for the cur
rent week tomorrow will say:
Steadily expanding industrial opera.
tions-due mainly. but not wholly. to the
big war demands-have stimulating
effect generally. although the many I'M
certainties of the foreign situation make
for caution everywhere.
Hesitancy in new enterprises however,
does not imply any lack of confidence
in the future. but rather a disposition
to await further developments in regard
to this country's diplomatic r.lations
with Germany.
Fundamentally. domestic conditions
gain In strength. gold is again flowing
this way. and the banking position is
unusually sound. with ample funds avail
able for all requirements. Collections
are somewhat less difficult ON the whole,
and while credits are still closely
scanned. commercial failures during May
made much the best exhibit of the year.
Moreover. the purchasing power Of the
people is enhanced as the number of I'M
employed diminishes-more men finding
work as activity at the mills and the
factories revives-while another prosper
Gus season for the agricultural COM
munity is indicated by the favorable
progress of the crops.
Prospects for large traffic movements
in grain and other staples prompt the
transporting companies to enter the mar
ket more freely for needed equipment,
and buying on the part of these interests.
together with the urgent war deman:s,
results in continued improvement in iron
and steel.
Industrial conditions reflect Irregular
ity. New England cotton mills are rum
ming close to full capacity, whereas
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NEW YORK PRODUCE.

New York. May 8.-MILLFEED-Strong: de
mand restricted Spring bran. in loolb. sacks
"A 0oaei2j. to arrive; standard middings. to arrive
g So red-dos to arrive 500; winter wheat. in 100
h. sacks to arrive. August. 200: city bran. in
bulk 2j.cs
RYE FLOUR-Steady; small business. Good &c
choice 6.loas-S5, in sacks.
CORNMEAL-Steady; demand limited. Kiln
dried. for export. SIS. in sacks: coarse meal. in
bags, L5sal.6o.
HAY-Receipts. 62 tons: strong demand fair
Quote: Prime timothy 10: No. ! timothy. u71aa
80: No. >. l6I.all0; No. ,. locales.
STRAW-Receipts 70 tons; finn: quiet dealings
Supply Is small. No. rye. 15as0 cents
PORK-Steady: demand moderate. Mess. 1900
10 iSstsnily. 22.ooa25.oo; clear. ls.5oa2l-a.
BEEF-Steady inquiry is moderate. Packet,
le.oOals5c; family. ls.5oa0.oo: extra India mess.
3I00a4.oo
LARD-Easy; trading i, inactive Prime West
EN-. l025 refined Continent, 1910; South American.
80: rfined Brazilian. in kegs. n.so: beef stear-
inc. cents; lard stearine. dull: New York. IN
cents
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NEW YORK MONEY.

New York. Nay N.-Can money opened IA per
cent, high per cent. low IL Per cent, renewals
tx pr cent. aS per cent. ruling rate II Per
cent.
Ths tims money market continues dull and sasi9.
Leading Institutions are pot unwilling TO extend
accuunodation. psrticular6 for the nearer datsS
bot thsrs b an sxtrsner HIGHT demand fostheo9ins.
Ratss srS s. pr esst foe dxty. and ninety days.
8 Per cent foe four months. Nm pr cent sur i've
and six mosths and gSas Per cent fr csss The
The commercial paper market rsmaans auist.
mainly On account a lack, Of attractive o6ainsA
Rates are unaltsFcd 1t ySai pr esnt for p<ins
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PRICES FLICKER
ON WAR RUM0RS
Stocks Fluctuating and Dull
as Market Awaits the
Kaiser Note.
BROKERSHEAR OF BATTLE
Decline Comes Only Fifteen Minutes
After Opening. When La Cham
payne Loss Is Reported.

New York, May 2S-Price fluctuations
we're narrow and uninteresting in the
stock market today. Trading was very
dull and the smallest since about the
middle Of March. owing to an indisposi-
tion by spectators and investors to make
new commitments in view of the two
holidays and the expectation that the
German note would be received befol e
the stock exchange reopened for business
Tuesday morning.
At the opening prices were generally
higher. but in less ,than fifteen minutes
after the beginning of trading a runner
that another large passenger ship had
been sunk resulted in a slight decline
10 a level fractionally below Thursdays
losing. Subsequently 1t developed that
the steamer La Champagne had run
aground Canadian Pacific was weak,
owing to the sinking of the two British
battleships
Trading continued light I'D to the lose
Of the market. final prices showing only
a small fractional decline
Coppers Are Active,
Copper shares were fairly active. owing
{" larger dividends ordered by five COM
panies-the Utah. Chino. Ray, Butte, and
Superior. and Nevada Consolidated. The
stocks have recently discounted these
larger payments. so that their actual
declaration was followed by small recess
sions in prices. Utah closed with a net
loss OF SIS; Ray Consolidated, IA; Chino,
L.. and Butte and Superior. l. Nevada
consolidated was an exception and rose
about a point. The higher dividends de-
clared by the copper companies effect
increased earnings growing out of the
Improvement in the copper metal mar
ket
Rock Island was feature of STRENGTH
i'm the last hour of the session, rising tn
10. net gain for the day Of slightly
more than two points Buying of thesA
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ADJUSTMENTS.
MOONLIGHT SAIL

Steamer Charles Manchester Saturday evening
May .. Benefit Of the Junior League of the Ma
tional Junior Republic. Tickets. 500 at wharf.