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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
QUAINT OLD STEAMBOAT
TURKISH CAPITAL PLACE OF I'M,
TEREST TO THE TOURIST.
Quarters Allotted 70 Foreigners Are
Pera and GaIata-Three Sundays
Celebrated During Week
Method of Telling Time.

Constantinople, or STEAMBOAT, as the
Turk calls his metropolis, is a much
discussed city just now. But of it's
important foreign quarters, Pera and
ls&lata. the stay-at-home Briton hears
little
Galata is separated from CONSTANT
nople proper by the Golden Horn, and
lies principally between the two
bridges which span that world-famous
waterway.
Formerly these bridges had cap
tains and crews exactly as if they
were ships Later they became re-
markable for their shops, beggars
and dogs. Shops, beggars and dogs
have gone, but still the bridges are
objects of intense interest to the
stranger.
In Galata may be found a sort of
Petticoat lane in full swing every day
of the week. But, unlike Sunday mar
ket in the East end of London, the
avenue is shifted each morning. For
example, the indescrihable bargain
ing and din is to be found on Thurs
days at Pershembeh, which means
the Thursday market.
Dealers in secondhand clothing
have a more or less permanent rem
devious at the Bit bazaar or Louise
market-an appellation more apt than
delicate.
Pera, which is modern Greek for
hnN III e.4F 10 ~ l. Z
Galata, which in a double sense it
looks down on considering itself the
superior suburb. Both are despised
by the real Turk, who, if he wishes to
tell you that another Turk has gone
hopelessly to the bad. will say "he
has gone to Pera," or, more correctly,
ito Bey Olou," for the ..r refuses to
recognize the Christian des En don Of
either Constantinople or its suburbs.
A stranger stranded at Pera might
possibly go hungry; but 1t would be
his own fault if he thirsted. Elabor-
ate drinking fountains are in nearly
every street.
There is a superabundanCe of post
offices-but no postmenl No letters
are delivered. Each European power
has--or habits own post office.
Thus, one calls at the English estab-
lishment if expecting letters from
home, at the French if correspondence
is likely to arrive from Paris, and
so on.
Three Sundays a week are observed
in both suburbs-Friday by the Turks,
Saturday by the Jews, and Sunday by
the Christians. And three distinct
calendars are used. This year the
Mohammedan is dating his letters
1888, the Jew 5675, and the Christian,
of course, 1915.
But the inconvenience of using three
different calendars is slight compared
with the bewildering method mostly
used in computing the hours of the
day. A watch which kept correct
time on the shores of the Golden
Horn would be, somewhat paradoxical-
ly, rather an erratic timekeeper, &C
coTding to the standard laid down by
Greenwich. For, as twelve o'clock IS
reckoned always to fall at the exact
moment of sunset, ones watch has to
gain or lose a few minutes each day,
according to the season of the year
Answers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
Coffin Made for Darvf, Mo- t,.s

The funeral took place at Downe
churchyard, near Bromley (Kent). of
John Lewis, aged eighty-one, carpen-
ter, who made the coffin in which II
was intended that Charles Darwin
should be buried. 1t was afterward
decided, says the London Daily Mail.
to bury Darwin in Westminster abbey.
and the coffin vas not used, being sub
seQuently exhibited in the district as
a curiosity. Mr. Lewis twenty-five
years ago made collins for himself and
hi wife. and these were Kept in their
cottage,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

were Two lines OF tre1C1es, N LTOuL
of which the earth had been piled up
in superdefenses. Projecting from
Ioopholes in this earthwork were the
barrels of rifles. Twenty boys, armed
to the teeth, filed the opposing
trenches.
The German eagle waved over
one trench and the flags Of the al
lied powers few over the other. The
forces were evenly divided, and It
was evident from the tenseness Of
the situation in each french that an
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

UuIIuIHS eLHu s5ILI5U Oh IHe 10" IUOL
of the Central club. There they
picked out a ventilator hood as their
home and, headed by their queen,
proceeded to set up housekeeping.
Office boys were beating tin cans,
while people on the roof stood aloof,
when Ernest Deacon, an insurance
man, saw them from the Empire
building, two blocks away. He re-
membered his early bee-c catching
days in the foothills of Georgia. With
a hacking box and a snuare of can
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
Blessing in Disguise.

81 don't see any billboards about
here" said the visitor. DO the resi-
dents object to that kind of advertis-
ng?"
Eyes, but their wishes in the matter
had nothing 70 do with the disappear
ance of billboards hereabouts," said
the Kansas man. we have provi-
derce to thank for that"
I don't understand"
well, every time We accumulate a
flock Of billboards a cyclone comes
along and scatters them over six or
seven counties"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
Well 70 Know When TO Sion.

The fellow who talks TOO much is
usually a little of balance. 1t may
be that he has nothing particular to
say and so keeps talking. He makes
up in words what he lacks in ideas.
If you want to be good talker you
must have thoughts. The more broad
and varied your knowledge the better
you are qualified to talk. The more
you have n your head the less you are
likely to parade with your tongue.
Make yourself a factor in your sphere
and folks viii want you to talk. Be-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
There are 176 packs of foxhounds in
sss3E?GG::

There are 176 packs of foxhounds in
England and Wales.
In proportion to population, Japan
has more suicides than any other CIV
ilized nation
The Young Women's Christian asso-
citation possesses a world membership
of $500
In the schools of Austria boxing has
been introduced as a regular exercise
for schoolboys.
King Alfred made the earliest at
tempts to form a navy for the protec
ton of Great Britain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
PLAGUE SPREAD BY HOBOES
Tramps Infected With tuberculosis
Are Appalling Menace in the
Southwestern States.

Under this designation Dr.. A. j.
LAMA describes in the Public Health
Reports a class of persons who have
proved a serious burden to the health
authorities in the southwestern United
States. They are usually young men
who wander from one place to anoth-
er, working when they are physically
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
Genius.

Genius appears to be nothing more
than associative faculty of high order
High order OF associative faculty be-
longs to the group of phenomena ~
individuals whose cell protoplasm hiss
been sensitized beyond the mean de-
gree. This sensitization is due to mi
crobe influence, no matter whether
from direct toxic impression made by
bacterial products, from liberated en-.
dotoxins or from proteopytie end-re,
suit poiSons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

able and can get employment In WIN
ter they seem to be most numerous in
Arizona, while when the hot season
comes on they depart by passing
freight trains for Colorado or Cali
fornia. It is said that the extent OF
their wanderings is often remarkable,
as well as the length of time they can
keep going before they are finally
disabled. "These tuberculous tramps,
says Doctor LAMA, are pitiable and
miserable class, always looking for
some other place where they feel sure
they will improve" Their wanderings,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

in
yeniaor
the handful n the box
a
the
They viii
cam;
The colony installed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

Old-timers. The automobile in service
is one of the large green-painted ma
chimes owned by the police depart
ment Remarkable as it may seem,
the sightseers are men in blue. They
are police rockies, who are assigned
to duty in the park on Saturdays and
Sundays to help out the short-handed
park squad. Usually veteran park
cop who knows every blade of grass
goes along with the rockies as Of
fetal announcer A typical trip runs
in part very much this way:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
The "Stockino Bank F"

The banking of small change in
stockings is strictly original with wom-
en-. Mems socks extend only q trihe
above the ankle and usually have
holes in the heels, which make them
rather unsafe repositories. while a
Iadv's stocking has its entrance at the
knee cap, hence it would be difficult
matter to draw upon her bank unless
the draft we're duly certified by the
lady herself.-"Zim" in Cartoons Mag
azine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
At the VILLAGE Inn.

Stranger Impatient isn't that
newspaper to be had yet? I've been
waiting for it for two hours
Waitress-Ill see about it. Farmer
Cross has it in the side room. He's
teaching his little boy to read.-Fiie-
gende Blaetter (Aunichl.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
Wha+,s Blue EIood2

"She never tires of telling how her
ancestors came over in the May
flower"
Still, that sort of story doesn't
make much impression on her rich
nseighbors, who know that the present
generation Of the family can't afford
to go back to Europe as first
cabin passengers aboard an ocean
liner"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

Donkey hill will will
didn't like be disturbed by the old coming
calling assigned
Heers HILL bear in mind that ghosts don't walk in the daytime You
tradition"
pointing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
His Anxious Query.

At a hospital one day a little boy
came into the room to see his mother.
who was quite i'll He was crying
bitterly and, coming over to the bed,
he looked down at her, saying,
Mother, is there any chance for you
dying?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
CONVERSATIONS
= - = = = = = - =
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Roumania is a little larger than
England without Wales.
The prevailing religion in Roumania
is that of the Greek church.
The commercial failures of the
United States last year were S,344
4 little more than one-third of the
workers of this country are agrfcul-
turists.
The British army dates. as q stand
ing force, from the restoration OF
Charles II, in 1860.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
A Wealthy Class

$50 you have been motoring through
the rural districts?"
Yes. thought { let the farmers
see what a city mans car looks like"
Did they seem duly impressed"
Il should say not. Every one of
them has a better car than mine is.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
Iona WAY To-

How far" asked one automobilist
of another as they met at a turn in
the road, 'is it from here to the next
town where there's a repair shop?"
Eleven miles, three bad bridges,
one long stretch of deep sand and two
arrests. Life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

OF
should year multiply
these hides
$1,000 three yesrs-looks like investment
the scent?
Deodorzed profitable
ma They
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
SusaIcious Sian,

Those two women seem devoted &c
each other
so they do. Their devotion is So
apparent that suspect they are III
yeterate enemies"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

come an authority and folks viii pay
you to talk. Monopolize conversation
with mere words and you become a
joke. Learn to be a talker but shu1
taikativeuess.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
His Handicap.

zone of the penalties Of approaching
age is cIumsiness," confessed Merton
Morose, on whose head the frosts Of
time have been sitting down for quite
q spell. when l move carelessly
about a room knock over five things,
on an average, and when l am espe-
cially careful knock over ten
Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
Suburb of Chicago Finds Itself in the War Zone

IcAGoMogan Park uneonsctousy slipped the
and G0veand
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
Topeka Plans to Make Money Out of Skunk Farm

OPEK KNThe city Of Topeka
Lakewood W. parks,
nouneed There's it, explained
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
Swarm of Bees Causes Sensation in Atlanta

TLANTA-A the
Pachee the Healey
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

various kinds of animals which the
city is keeping at the Gage park zoo.
none is profitable. I have Just pur-
chased eight skunks, and from these
expect the city to reap a good profit
The skunks will help pay for main
tanning the other animals.
The skuEks 7 have bought are
very fine animals. Their hides will
be worth 81 each when they are a
year old. but the value of the fur de-
ponds somewhat upon the kind of feed
the animals are given. If the right
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29
Central Park Shown to New York Police Rockies

NEW sightseeing has established
topoea that wen known
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

without benefting themselves. spread
tuberculous infection; and there seems
at present to be no satisfactory way of
dealing with the situation.--S Scientific
American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-29

The tonnage of the Great Lakes feet
in 1914 amounted to 2,939,786.
This country's travelling public"
last year was an army of 1,009, 0S1, 346.
It has been estimated that nearly
100000, 900 feet, or more than $4,000
miles. Of film are used up yearly to
satisfy the worlds demand for moving
pictures
Every cay the bell Of the Elton col
lege chapel is tolled for a quarter of
an hour for Etonians killed in the war.
q list of whom has been affixed to the
chapel doors.
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23
Demands by Minorities.

The prohibilioni,S arc to make Il dcuonStra-
ton in Washington and demand not request the
passage oi 4 resolution 10 amend tho Federal Con
>tituiou. The Rev. T.. {. Dinwiddic Legislative
agent OF tho Anti Saloon League is the authority
for this statement. 1t was just twcnty-onc year,
ago when Cen. CoNcy led an army OF the uucm-
ploycd 10 Washington to demand that Congress
should pro, dc employment, for those who were
idle. Gen. Coxcy was denied admission TO the
Capitol grounds and L good many people we're
hurt in the contest between tho army" and the
police. Some OF Gen. Coxcy'S sympathzcrs called
for III, c>tigation, but Congress refused to in
\c>tigatc tho invasion OF mob. Tho Capitol
grounds arc under tho direct control OF Congress
and the Capitol police do not permit the activities
OF the District police thcr>. Only the Joint action
OF the Senate and The House can permit public
demonstration the grass or thc asphalt around
the Capitol
Congress has been generous in its permission
TO people who desire to petition or request cgisla-
tive action. But Brother Dinwddie does not pro-
pose to petition or request He proposes just such
a demonstration that Of Gen. Coxcy, to demand
Legislation, TO overawc Congress and compel it to
grant his demands. He must, therefore, follow
Gen. CoXey's plan and try to break through the
barriers and beat the Capitol police. 1t will be
a spectacle for gods and men Brother Din
widdie in his clerical garb lead a mob up Capitol
Hill in the face OF the police and give battle on
the steps to demand action by Congress The law
is said TO be no respcctor OF persons He who
violates it is guilty, whether he wears long black
coat and white cravat, or a corduroy jacket and
no oravat. Dinwiddc and Coxcy look alike to
the law.
But suppose Dnwiddie should terrorize the
Capitol police and lead his demonstration into the
precincts OF the Capitol. What then 1t took
more than 100000 votes to elect the Congress
which will assemble next December. Some OF the
members had more than $4,000 votes cast in their
districts, and from $4,000 10 $4,000 votes for the
ticket on which they ran. There are AIS members
OF the House and each one represents $4,000
people according TO the apportionment If Brother
Diuwddic has only majority OF the voters in
his demonstration he must assemble 100000 in
front OF the Capitol-and OF course he would not
think of making demand" without the backing
of majority of the voters who went to- the polls
last November 70 elect this Congress.
1t was estimated that 100000 people came to
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23

Washington to see President Wilson inaugurated
and that crowd taxed the capacity of the railroads.
hotels and boarding houses. But Brother Din
widdie must bring eighty times that number, or
about 100000 people Such demonstration
! would crowd the Capitol grounds. There arc
fftyeght acres in the Capitol grounds including
the building, and there 1880 square feet in
an If Brother Dinwiddie could crowd each
one of his demonstrators into one square foot of
space, he could get only 100000 of them on the
Capitol grounds and about five million and a half
would have to remain out in the District He
couldn't possibly get onc-fourth of the American
voters who elected the Congress into the sacred
Capitol grounds. and one-fourth would not DEM
onstrate that the majority is behind Brother
Dinwiddie Our prohibition brother had better
stick to the good old way of ballots rather than
huncombe. He can't follow the example of Gen.
Coxey without making himself as ridiculous as
Coxey appeared. We don't make laws by dem
constructions in front of the Capitol to demand
legislation. We fight it out the polls and
there the majority demonstrates what it wants
by clecing to do it.
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23
HISTORY BUILDERS.
A Business Man Who Knew HIS
Shakespeare.

BY DIR. T.. j. EDWARDS.

BY DIR. T.. J. EDWARDS.
\ few weeks after the death of J. Pier
pont Morgan. Chauncey NJ. Dcpew re-
lated to me several anecdotes which scrv-
ed to show how intimate the relation Of
Mr.. Morgan with the Nanderbilts was.
saying also that it began when Mr.. Nor
gan had barely reached the prime of life.
TO Mr.. Morgan is due the success Of
the transfer from William II. Wander
bilt to English capitalists of a large
block of New York Central stock Of the
par value of n little over $50 600 03G." said
Senator Depew. THE transaction was
the largest of the kind which up to that
time had taken place representing a sale
of American securities of which one per-
son was the owner TO English capital
lists. Mr.. Morgan handled it with Won
derful Skill, and was able to keep the
plan secret until II was successfully com
pleted. The money difficulties. as well
as the skill and strategy which a nego-
tiation of that kind would involve. were
well understood by Mr. Vanderbilt. and
the manner in which Mr. Morgan
handled the transaction gained for him
the absolute confidence of the Wander
bits. and IL was a confidence which was
never in the slightest shaken. 1t was
also the first of the great transactions
in financing with which Mr.. Morgan was
identified all his life.,
But while Mr.. Morgan handled the
transaction there. We're an infinite num-
Der OF details to be worked out These
were committed to +. ID. Worcester. who
for years was secretary of the New York
Central Railroad Company. An error in
the papers. mistake in figuring, an
oversight of any Kind might have seri-
ously impaired the negotiations and pos
sibly have spoiled everything.
Mr.. Worcester worked out every de-
tail His papers We're absolutely perfect.
He vert to London to supervise the
transfer OF the stock. and he performed
that work Vith skill and facility which
matched the qualities Of that kind shown
by Mr.. Morgan himself
What Senator Depew told me reminded
me OF an anecdote associated with Mr..
Worcester which was related to me by
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23
Attacks on the President.

If in his effort to maintain an attitude OF cor
rect neutrality and at the same time to assert the
rights OF the United States during. time of cx-
Geedng dehcaey OF International relations, the
President has been visited with the fana;cal con-
demnation and is threatened with the political
vengeance OF masses of hybrids whose first allegi-
ance is to the empire OF kultur, may there not be
among Americans reaction of sympathy and
support for a President marked out foT punish
mcnt by the passionate adhcrents of foreign
powers 1t is conceivable that even Mr.. Bryan
may yet be rehabilitated and cease to be comic
i the hopeless aliens among us keep on In short,
dangerous allies may await the Republicans, how
dangerous the Chicago Democrats found out last
weck---Ncw York Sun.
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23

A few of these forces are
coming into something like
prominence. But they arc
not nearly so prominent as
they ought to be.
They include the chcmi.
Gals used to make both food
and drink seem fit for hui
man consumption when these
have passed into the dccom-
position that converts them
into poison.
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23

In View al the invitation extended TO Billy
Sunday by Washington pastors the following
excerpt from an editorial in the Brooklyn Daily
raclC should be OF interest
The action OF tn" 1omrhin> Avenue Coucrc-
gatlonal Church. IN declining to take any part IN
bringing Billy Sunday 10 Brooklyn. and in lis OBJ
Jcction> TO having him campaign here. cannot he
a surprise. SIX OF the church officers went sep
aratcly to Paterson to study tho meetings. and,
without consultation among themselves. all OF
them reported adversely any campaign Nv the
rcEIvalISt here Aside from tho objections to the
character OF Sunday preaching which have been
based upon the stat mCnt that the money which,
= Sunday campaign would cost could be far bet
ter employed for tho Kingdom OF God il it we're
used IN building NJ weak churches and open
ing churches in fields" That view will be
shared by The members OF many other congrega-
tons than the Tompkins avenue
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23

Tive Hon. Jonathan Bourne aud his business
ron III politics had better keep close watch OF,
tho prosperity boom that has been sighted III the
"n1ng. lest the Democrats place their brand upon
ii N mdcEblc form. In Novcmhcr 1910 the voters,
cnrgcd hr lated cait. viii n" be at all par
rlu'ar in nquir1ng Mo raised it.
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23
Be!gium's Future.

DIR. Dernburg in a recent letter says: "Bei-
GUM cannot be given up" Suppose the krhurcd
idea is to make King Albert a sort of janitor for
his dominions.-New York Evening Telegram.
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23
4 Desperate RisL.

They say one gradually grows to look
like constant companion.
"Then If ] were YOU I'd quit going
around with that pug dog so much
Kansas City Journal.
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23
Bv John KENDRICK BANGS.
A GOOD NUMBER.

To get ones Numbcr"-that is fine.
| am not sure just which is mine
But | shall strive whatc'er my Fate
ALWAYS TO be "Compassion-S.
Copyright IsI5.i
The Washington herald., 1915-04-23
Morning Smiles.
The I.axiest Man.

Bing-I understand that Shmeits is
lazy"
BiT-I.azy, You bet. Why, when he
spaDks his child he lays a carpet over
the kid so that he can do two jobs at
nce,-AiichIgan Gargoyie.