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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-04
HERE'S A GREAT CHANCE
FOR AN AMERICAN GIRL
Italian Nobieman, With Long List OF
Titles, Looks for Wife I'm This
Country.
HE'S SHORT OF MONEY NOW
VI Course, She Must BE Rich, but
Would-Be Husband Expects to
Make Much Money Some Time
When lie Finishes His Education.
Especial to The Tlmes-Dispatch. J

Special to The Times Dispatch.l
NEW YORK. April 3.-Here is a
chance for an American girl An Ital-
IAN nobleman. with fifteen centuries of
ancestry and titles from prince down.
is looking for n wife. lie will intro
duce her to the exclusive salons OF
Rome. She must, OF course. have Il
sHfiicient dowry 10 support the dignity
OF her and her husbands position. but
he is willing to contribute his share
AZ soon as he completes his education
as an engineer.
The prince describes himself as
twenty-five years old. amiable and OF
good character. He freely admits his
lands and castles have disappeared
through unfortunate management. but
he believes all could be satisfactorily
restored with the aid OF suitable
American girl OF beauty. refinement,
social ability--and money
The international match seekers
longings are expressed in letter re-
ceived here by a New York business
man. He asks that his name and that
OF the ardent Italian be not made pub
bc. Here is the letter. the spelling and
punctuation OF which arc the princes:
"n.or CT. ,,, 49,, ,darn,, fro-
an Aro,,o,r ,,s,i,,, ,,a ,n,ly
IN vour Ltnd omco ,o- w.. ir,or,,n,
and de,,c,,e matter
81 ho,or, -, =, ,,.,o-,c,, ,nd b,oh,
poh,e ,a,nu. ~, ro,,, o-,o,, uh,ct,
hsa .Iwo.o hoo, ,mo,, ~. moot now
.r,uI and ,,,u,,r,io,. y, I,a,y ana T
nos..,, moro over many nrec,ous TILE.
~ 1e,,ry ~ ,-t,c. auLo ,,,r,,,. .,c
..knowinr -. also nanv instances
thereof MAJ ho cited ,ho, rim Amart-
can yo,nr Ladies verv d,enosad N
marry ruro,e,, ov., u.i,hou, any for.
,un. I'm, bavlrg ye, ,I,,.s ~, rohili,v
desir. vou tn nrocure u ,ossihlc me
marriau. win such :, one H,,ura,lv
nttcr copcIusjon yo,. work sh,ll no
very generously co.pneDs,,.d ,ro,or.
finally TO the dowry a, .aos, hv several
hundred dollars
The Importance Of INC family tn
which belong and commemorative ~,
the name bear is so great ina, /, IL
Quit. ImpossihIc to do.crirc I, IN
fcw words Know; ,h., moro man
hundred writer's have WRITTEN Tho story
az tho family or have widely snokon
~ +, and tina; all the state libraries OF
Italy ar. Obliged 10 contain ,h..n
This family counts more ,non n-,oor
ron,uries ~ cxis,.,c. ,,I =. ,,.,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-04
liz Body Rccorered.

LYNCHBURG. VA, April 3.-The body
Of Andrew jackson. coiored man.
who was drowned in the James River
at Big Island January :. has Just
been recovered. The body was not
great distance from where the man
drowned when a boat capsized with
him during a fresnct
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-04
FIGHT GALLANT FIGHT
AGAINST GREAT ODDS

Here is an English hospital which
has tried 10 do the impossible and
failed Six doctors and twelve or
derl!ca--they had no nurses-took over
the control OF some $500 sick and
wounded. They have fought gallant
fight against terrific odds, but typhus
has beaten them. At this moment two
ord"rlics arc dead, three have been in
vaiided home and three are now laid
low by typhus: two doctors are suffer-
ing from the same disease. and one
has gone home. Three doctors and
three orherlies are all that remain on
the active list. and the work OF tho
hospital has had perfotce 10 lie tenn
porarily abandoned Wha, could six
doctors do with $500 men?
Worse stIli are tho conditions under
which tho Serbian doctors have la
bored. The poor Austrian prisoners
the only assistants the doctors have
there no Serbian nurscs-do their
best. but thcy are not trained ordcrlies.
Take a large Serbian hospital which
! know. II is practically Impossible
TO go near ii: so disarreeable is IL
that nobody who is not compelled to
approach the building can bear 10 be
in its vicinity.
Since the commencement OF the war
siNty-thrce Serbian doctors have died
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29
PRINT PAPERS IN TRENCHES
Soldiers Advent Into Foreign Lands
Productive of Journalistic
Oddities.

Berlin.-The war is responsible for
the appearance, on every battle front
and in almost every fortress, of Sc
ries of newspapers which, for obvious
reasons, set quite new style in jour
nalism. In parts of northern France,
where German troops are trying to get
out German papers with French type
cases, issues are already coming to be
priced as curios in which the letter
'v" has to be used for the "w'' and
the %" for the g." so comparatively
unusual in French. The 81" is fire.
Quently missing.
At points where troops are stationed
for long periods it has been possible to
make frequent use of the cartoon,
and war has drawn into the ranks so
many artists, writer's and skilled
tradesmen and printers that the re-
sultant output is often astonishingly
good.
All over Europe, especially in dis
tricts that have been conquered, are
being issued papers in the native Ian
guage, for the purpose of educating
the civil population to the conqueror's
viewpoint and of combating the claims
and statements of native papers. Many
are printed in two languages. Bust
ness houses, banks and factories are
publishing papers full of home news,
which they send to employees at the
front
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29
Small Eirh pnndn

The American Fisheries society IA,
theirs a project that has already re-
ceiyed serious consideration in many
parts of the country, and should, If
put into practice, help to reduce the
cost Of living. This project is the
creation of small ponds, an acre or
two in extent, on every farm large
enough to contain them. The ponds
should be six or seven feet in depth
and furnished with vegetation suited
to the needs Of the fish with which
they are stocked. AS no other food
would be required the cost Of provid-
ing continual supply Of fish would
be very small. Trout have been for
many years Matched and reared in the
waters Of sporting clubs, and i'm
mense numbers of them have been
raised for commercial purposes. In
small pond fed by cold springs they
can be bred in great quantities so as
to furnish sport as well as food Carp.
pickerel, eels and perch can also be
reared without great expense. DR..
Charles H. Townsend, the director Of
the New York aquarium, has shown
his interest in the project for estab-
fishing these small ponds by prepar-
ing booklet giving detailed infOrma-
ton in regard to their stocking and
maintenance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29

disfgured the bludgeon he always car.
ried with pride. But the argument
was a sorry one and in itself would
have broken down the prosecution had
he been a man of better repute. Now,
those few chips taken from the handle
of this weapon will carry different
significance. For in my folly l asked
to see this stick. which still exists at
police headquarters, and there in the
wood l detected and pointed out a
trifie of steel which never came from
the unbroken blades of the knife taken
from Johns pocket"
Fallen was the proud head now and
fallen the great mans aspect. If he
spoke it was to utter a low oliver!
Oliver!"
The pathos of 1.-THE heart-rending
wonder in the tone brought the tears
to Deborah's eyes and made her last
words very difficult.
But the one great thing which
gives to these facts their really dan
gerous point is the mystery you have
made Of your life and Of this so-called
hermitage. If you can clear up that,
you can afford to ignore the rest"
THE misfortunes ofmy housed" was
his sole response. THE misfortunes
of my house,"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29
Welsh SONGS Promised.

A Cardiff correspondent of an Eng
fish newspaper says:
"Cymric ardor on the battlefield is
going to be inspired and sustained by
Cymric music. Not the least impress
sive sight today, and during the past
week, among the Welsh units training
at Porthcawl has been the gathering
of the soldiers for choral singing
When the new Welsh army of 100000
men take the field It. will go to battle
to the sound of Ctmric war chorus,
which experts have described as the
finest martial music in the world.
The organization just formed is
known as the Welsh Army Male Voice
chorus, and as the recruits include
some of the finest singers in the
Welsh valleys, men who have com
peted in scores of Eisteddfods, the sol
diers' practice sings at Porthcawl par
take of the character of frst-class
concerts, which attract to the vicinity
Of the hall large numbers of residents
of the town and visitors.
Miss Gee of Denbigh, an ardent
patriot, is distributing a fine selection
of Welsh war songs, with a request
for the rendering of these and less
singing Of 'Tipperary.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29
Repeated Like Machine Gun.

The attention Of the committee of
seventy is invited to the device en-
ployed in Santo Domingo to prevent
repeating; the voters hands are
marked with indelibfle ink It is re-
ported that some Of the voters have
found it possible to erase the marks,
but it is not known whether they have
done this in order to repeat At any
rate, the practice of marking a man
opens up considerable possibilities in
the way Of the purifca ion of cleo
tions. For example, ia one of our
cities recently one-legged negro was
found to have voted six times. He
went to the polls once with an artifi-
cial leg, once with a peg" leg, and
once with nothing but his natural leg
and pair Of crutches. By putting
bandage over one eye and then over
the other, and On ore occasion stick
ing some whiskers on his face, he man
aged to repeat like a machine gun
Philadelphia Record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29
Who Go TO Church?

The facts about church member
ship are contained in United States
census bulletin No. 103, and the per-
centage of church membership in the
total population is given for the year
1906, &c years after Kansas has be-
come a prohibition state. According
to this tabulation, which is the latest
obtainable, the lowest percentage of
church membership was in Oklahoma,
including Indian Territory, the rate
being 1872. The rate in New York was
43,7; in Pennsylvania, As; in Illinois,
38.3; in Nebraska, 1924; in Maine, 29.8;
and in Kansas, 28.4. Forty-thrae
states had a larger percentage of
membership than had Kansas.
Since this tabulation was made up,
two of the four states that had a low
er rate of church membership than
had Kansas, namely Oklahoma and
West Virginia, have joined the ranks
of the prohibition states. Of the six
states, therefore, having the lowest
rate of church membership in the
United States, four are prohibition
states.-RoyaI E. CabelI in Leslie's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29
Humor of German Law.

The Green Bag gives the following
instances of humor in German courts:
In Berlin not long ago an ironwork-
er was sent to prison because he had
laughed at a policeman. 1t appears
that as this man was proceeding along
a street one day his risibilities were
aroused by the sight of particularly
stout policeman giving chase to a dog
The offender was promptly hailed TO
court and sent up for scandal"
"A German, in attempting to board a
moving train, fractured his leg. After
six months in a hospital he was dis
charged, whereupon the state railway
department at once prosecuted him for
infringement OF regulations He was
fined a sum equivalent TO S."
Upon CHEERING an omnibus a man
trod on the foot Of a woman, who was
SO incensed by the incident that she
remarked that he walked like a hen.
For this term Of reproach the lady was
fined 20 marks"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29
EATS WITH HIS MEN
Kaiser Depends on ''GouIash
CannonS" for Meals.
Intimate Picture of the Soldier-Emper
or in the Field-No Special Prep
arations of Any Kind Are
Made for Him.
New York.-An intimate picture of

New York.-An intimate picture OF
the kaiser in the field, the soldier
emperor whose sharing of the life of
the common soldier has united the
humblest and the highest in Germany
in love, affection and veneration, is
given in the following dispatch to the
New York Staats-zeitung.
The kaiser, to whom the "goulash
cannOns," the great travelling kettles
of hot food, owe their existence, is
very favorably inclined toward this
important new contrivance on the
field. Many tales are told in evidence
of this, of which the following is one:
A country road in France-soldiers
arrive, carefully carrying dishes. The
dust-covered field grays who are en-
joying their repast suddenly become
attentive. On the road there appear
four riders-officers. One separates
from the group and gallops over to the
''goulash cannon"
Have you a bit left for us?"
"At your service, captain"
Almost Immediately the other three
riders gallop up. The kaiser! in de-
lighted surprise all shout 'Hurrah! :"
and the highest commander thanks
them with a smile
How does it taste?" he asks. do
not let me disturb you; 1 only want
a bite to eat, too; 1 am hungry"
Then he rides over to the "goulash
cannon" where the captain already
has a dish filled for him.
He takes it good naturedly and eats
in the midst of his soldiers.
Excellent, excellent" he says now
and then and asks for a second por-
ton. 81 am taking away your share,
but will prove my gratitude"
The soldiers are enthusiastic and
proud that the kaiser took his food like
each of them from the same "goulash
cannon and "dined" in their midst
A real soldier kaiser! A rousing hur-
rah accompanies him when he takes
leave of his men with. vigorous Good
day!"
In the evening several geese and
cn1cK6nS were sent as accommodation
for the noon meaP' and were eaten
with great Joy for supper.
This little incident is characteristic
of the attitude and life of the kaiser
at the front, for he let's no opportun-
ity pass to take his food from the
"goulash cannon" when he is visiting
his troops along the battle line. For
this reason no arrangements are ever
made for the kaiser's meals on these
trips.
I'VE will meet a 'goulash cannon"
he always says when asked as to what
he wishes to order for his dinner.
This is also proof of the excellence
of the food which the troops receive
from the field kitchens, for the kaiser
never announces his arrival before
hand. No special preparations are
made for him.
Il will eat what my soldiers eat"
he has often declared.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29

cry desire to recognize his worthl
You, who have shown yourself ready
to drop your husbands cause though
you consider II an honest one. when
you saw what havoc il would entail
to mw boys repute. You believe-and
on what evidence?" he broke in. Be
cause Of the picture and the coinc1-
dence CT his presence in the ravine ?"
YES"
But these are pueriIe reasons" He
was speaking peremptorily now and
with all the weight OF a master mind.
And you are not the woman to be
satisfied with anything puerile. There
is something back Of all this; some
thing you have not impaired. What
is that something? Tell-teIl-"
"Oliver was a mere boy in those
days and a very passionate one. He
hated Etheridge-the obtrusive men
tor who came between him and your
self"
''Hated?"
eyes, there is proof"
He did not ask where. Possibly he
knew. And because he did not ask
she did not tell him, holding on to her
secret in a vague hope that so much
at least might never see light.
81 knew the boy shrank sometimes
from Algernon's company" the judge
admitted, after another glance at her
face; but that means nothing in a
coy full of his own affairs What else
have you against him? Speak up! l
can bear it all"
HE handled the stick that-that-''
Never! Now you have gone mad,
madam"
81 would be willing to end my days
in an asylum if that would disprove
this fact"
But, madam, what proof-what rea.
son can you have for an assertion so
monstrous?"
you remember the shadow I saw
which was not that Of John Scoville
The person who made that shadow
was whiting a stick; that was a trick
of divers. have heard that he even
whitfield furniture"
Good Cod" The judges panoply
was pierced at last.
They tried to prove, as you will
remember, that it was John who thus
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29
CRUDE, BUT DOES THE WORK
Primitive System of "WireIess Teleg-
raphy" in Use Among Tribes
of Amazon Region.

In the Juamara region of the ANA
zon the natives use a crude system Of
wireless te1egraphy, which, it is
claimed, has been in operation for
thousands of years. The transmitter
found by an explorer was a followed
trunk of a tree suspended from hori-
zontaI pole stretched between two
stumps. Inside the transmitter had
been arranged much like a violin, and
It was explained that when the in
strument was struck smartly with a
small rubber hammer vibration was
created that carried for miles over the
hills. The receiver is very similar to
the transmitter, except that it i placed
on a hardwood platform, the base Of
the followed tree trunk being ground
ed on the platform. When the mes
sage is struck in the neighboring vii
lage. sometimes thirty miles away,
this receiver catches the vibrations,
causing a jerky, singing sound. The
sound system, it is said, can be read
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29

wand like that deserved a bigger field
and he was detailed to Brussels to
take general supervision over munich
pal, gas, electrical and street railroad
plants in the kingdom. Incidentally,
also, he received the iron cross.
With Captain Drape there was
sent to Antwerp Baron Won Pletten-
berg, a first lieutenant of reserves.
In private life he is managing director
Of the North German Lloyd-a fine
training for a man whose duty it is to
revive the commercial life of the great
seaport of Antwerp.
And so you can go down through
the lists and find expert after expert
whose highly technical knowledge and
whose ability play an important part
in this great undertaking, but always
underneath the uniform of an officer
of the reserves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29
GOOD ANALYSIS OF WORRY
Foolish and Altogether Too Prevalent
Habit Which All Should Strive
TO Avoid.

We worry because we are afraid OF
something. Worry is fear Of the con-
sequences of something that has oc-
CURED or something that may hap
pen. A curious thing about it is that
it is never associated with the imme-
date present. It is generally in the
future, though sometimes in the past.
Animals and babies who are con-
scious of nothing but the present can
not Worry. As all creatures, except
human beings, live only for the mo-
ment, they do not worry because they
have no recollection Of what has hap
pened and can form no conception of
what may happen
Human beings having the capacity
TO look back or forward, mentally are
susceptible to the fear that causes
worry, and as most persons live more
in the past or future than in the
present, tlis tendency affects for
worry or not, according to our view
Roint of life in other respects. Worry
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29

which ruDE not Only mas ..-
ing. but il hers Not Til II b0th =.
lures silence had settled again tn,
silence OF despair. not peaceJ. did he
speak When be did it was simply
to breathe her name
Deborah
Startled, for it had always before
been madam" she looked up to find
him standing very near her and with
his hand held out.
i an going through deep waters"
said he. Am l TO have your sup
port?''
"Oh, Judge Ostrander, how can you
doubt ito" she cried. dropping her
hand into his, and her eyes swimming
with tears. But what can I do? If
remain here I will be questioned. II
I fy-but, possibly, that is what you
want-for me to go-to disappear-to
take Reuther and sink out Of all mems
sight forever. If this is your wish.
am ready to do it. Gladly will we
| be gone-now-at once-thisz very
night.
His disclaimer was peremptory.
mo; not that I ask no such sac
rifice. Neither would it avail. There
is but one thing which can reinstate
Oliver and myself in the confidence
and regard of these people. Cannot
you guess it, madam? | mean your
own restored conviction that the sen.
| tence passed upon John Scoyille was
a just one Once satisfied of this,
your temperament is such that you
would be our advocate whether you
wished it or no. Your very silence
would be eloquent"
Convince me; am willing to have
you, Judge Ostrander. But how can
you do so? A shadow stands between
my wishes and the belief you mention.
The shadow cast by Oliver as he made
his way towards the bridge, with my
| husbands bludgeon in his hand"
Did you see him strike the blow?
We're there any opportune shadows
to betray what happened between the
instant of-let US say divers ap-
proach and the fall of my friend?
Much can happen in minute, and
this matter is one of minutes. SEQ
vile had a heart open to crime, Oliver
not. This I knew when l sat upon
the bench at his trial; and now you
shall know it, too. Come! l have
something to show you
He turned towards the door and
mechanically she followed. Her
thoughts were all in a whirl. She did
not know what to make of him or of
herself. The rooted dread Of weeks
was stirring in its soil. This sugges-
ton of the transference of the stick
from hand to hand was not impossible.
Only ScovilIe had sworn to her, and
that, too, upon their child's head, that
he had not struck this blow. And she
had believed him after finding the cap;
and she believed him now. Yes.
against her will, she believed him now.
Why? and again, why?
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-29
ConvsnIence of Truth.

Truth is always consistent with tt
self, and needs nothing to help it out;
it is always near at hand, and sits
upon our lips, and is ready to drop
out before we are aware; whereas a
lie is troublesome, and sets a mans
invention upon the rack, and one
needs a great many more to make it
good.-The crafty man is alwavs in
danger; and, when he thinks he walks
in the dark, all his pretenses are so
transparent, that he that runs may
read them. He is the last man that
finds himself to be found out; and
whilst he takes it for granted that he
makes fools OF others, he makes him
self ridiculous.-John TilIotson.