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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16
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Eiks parade before the dedication OF
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belongs to the Canton. Ohio. chamber
Of commerce.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

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AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 16.-The San
Antonio-Austin post road, the frss
built In Texas, was practically COT
pleted today. It is 81 miles long and
cost 100000. The government paid
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-16

1--WE x6at expect 20 have any
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22
FOUGHT TO DEATH OVER PIG
Sharp Skirmish Between Ger
mans and French.

Even pigs figure sometimes in the
news from the front and, as might be
expected, in somewhat of a comical
light. But, says a Paris dispatch, they
have caused a tragedy also. One pig
was the cause of a battle in which 30
Germans we're killed and another was
made to pose as a corpse to save him
from the enemy.
In Ban-dc-Sapt, north of Saint Die,
both French and Germans from their
trenches s9i,,d out a fine fat porker in
a pen, just between the two lines. Both
formed parties to go out and capture
the porcine delicacy, but the French
reached there first. They fastened a
rope about the animals hind legs and
dragged him back to their trenches
with the Germans close behind
So heated did the controversy over
the pig become that it finally de-
veloped into a night battle in which
the Germans were beaten, losing, be-
sides the 80 dead, number Of
wounded
The other pig had just been killed
by farmer in Flanders when it was
reported that the Germans, always
eager for such titbits as fresh pork,
we're near at hand Determined to
save his property, the quick-witted Bel
gian took the carcass to his room,
tucked it in his bed, placed candles
over the sheeted form and was pray
ing fervently when a German soldier
entered the room. The soldier tip
toed out when he discovered that he
had come upon a chamber of death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22
Differentiatinu piriqibIes.

The London crowd which gapes
cheerfully at the army airship maneu-
vering over the city always asks itself
whether it is looking at a friendly yes
sci or a Zeppelin. 1t is apparently
ignorant of the difference of design,
and so free from nerves" that the
doubt does not disturb it. Probably
if a Zeppelin really did come the av-
erage Londoner would crowd up for a
good place to see the bomb dropping
The instinct for front seat seems to
be stronger than that of self-preserva-
ton. The Schutte-Lanz airship is not
unlike an ordinary nonrigid airship in
the shape of the balloon. 1t is not
cylindrical, but whale shaped, like a
submarine. But in construction it is
like a Zeppelin, with a rigid aluminium
framework. 1t is evidently considered
a successful type, for Germany has
been building as many of the Schultz
LAM type as of the Zeppelin. The
name is a compound of the names Of
designer and builder. The inventor
was Schultz, and LAM is the name of
the firm that constructs them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22
COMING DOWN TO LANGUAGE
Congressman Surely Named a combi
nation That 1t Would Be Hard
to Beat.

At a dinner the other evening the
talk topic turned to a bunch Of things
difficult to pronounce, whereat an ap-
propriate anecdote was exploded by
Congressman Edwin Y. Webb of North
Carolina.
Down at the cigar store some time
ago, the congressman said, the regu-
lars were talking about the war and
remarking how it gave one something
worse than the faceache to pronounce
the Russian names. A man named
Benners, who was sitting near, largely
smiled.
Those Russian names are moth
ing" he remarked. you just ought
to hear what I stack up against in
my own home every day Of my life"
Whats that?" demanded one of the
regulars, with an amazed expression.
do you mean to say that you have
somebody in your family who can put
a kink in the cars syllable twists %
Well I should say that I have!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22

with corpses covered over with earth,
and everywhere arms and legs stick
out.
February 10.-One of the people
was shot by a territorial guard who
was frightened to death. These PEG.
pie are not to be relied upon and have
no idea of a soldierly life.
Ypres Devastated.
February 12.-The destruction in
the vicinity of Ypres is terrible, hard
~ one stone on another in the vii
lagos, and Ypres itself, with all it's
beautiful buildings, is almost de-
stroyed. Yet the city is so large that
we can always still find protection for
advancing division nearer. Daily we
await an attack, and the report is that
the Germans are going to assemble
a million soldiers in order to break
through to Calais. Ny cough still
causes me a great deal of trouble, and
it is bitterly cold in the trenches.
Not one of us yet has seen those
comfortable quarters mentioned in
the newspapers, and our troops are
by no means in good cheer or happy.
Prays for Protection.
February 14.-This war is terri
BILE, and it were time that it came to
an end. On both sides so many worthy
people fall! My guardian angel must
reach out his protecting hand to me
during the next 4S hours, and l pray
that he Will bestow upon me strength
and courage to fulfill my duty, so that
in case of need l can give my life for
my country and the honor of my fam
lily"
With that the journal breaks off.
The guardian angel came, but he
brought the last wreath There is
much in these pages to stir human
sympathy.
The widely accepted idea in England
that this war is a sort of dangerous
sport Immediately collapses in face of
the stern and memorable truth. While
German recruits long to have their
baptism of fire over with so that they
may become seasoned veterans, this
English captain writes:
THANK God we have not yet been
under fire"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22
SYNOPSIS.

A curious crowd Of neighbors invade
the mysterious home Of Judge Ostrander,
county Judge and eccentric recIUses fol-
lowing q yelled woman who proves % be
the widow Of a man tried before the judge
and electrocuted for murder years before.
Her daughter is engaged to the judges
son, from whom he is estrauged, but the
murder is between the lovers. She plans
70 clear her husbands memory and asks
the judges aid. Deborah SCoville reads
the newspaper clippings telling the story
Of the murder Of AlgernOn Etheridge by
John SCOviIls In Dark Hollow, twelve
years before. The judge and Mrs. SEQ
vile meet at Spencer's Folly and she
shows him how, on the day Of the muir
der, she saw the shadow Of a man, whit
ting q stick and wearing q long peaked
cap. The Judge engages her and her
daughter Fseuther to live with him in his
mysterious home. Deborah and her law
yer, Black, go to the police station and
see the stick used to murder Etheridge.
she discovers a broken knife-blade point
emgedded In Il. Deborah and Reuther 90
70 I'VE with the Judge Deborah sees
portrait Of Oliver, the judges Son, with
PACK band painted across the eyes. That
night she finds in divers room, a cap
with peak like the Swallowed one and
2 knife with a broken blade-pOint. Anon
ynOus letters and a talk with Miss
Weeks Increase her suspicious and fears.
she finds that Oliver was in the Tayine
on the murder night. Black warns her
ana shows her other anonymous letters
AiHtlug at divers guilt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22

Morning passed and the noon came,
easiness. When lunch was over and
Reuther sat down to her piano, the
feeling had grown into an Obsession,
which had soon resolved itself into a
definite fear. She found herself so
restless that she decided upon going
out Downing her quietest gown and
veil, she slipped out Of the front door,
hardly knowing whittier her feet
would carry her.
They did not carry her far-not at
this moment, at least. On the walk
outside she met Miss Weeks hurrying
toward her from the corner. STUN bling
in her excitement. At sight of Debo-
rah's figure she paused and threw up
her hands.
"Oh, Mrs. Scoville, such a dreadful
thing!" she cried. Look here!" And,
opening one of her hands, she showed
a few torn scraps of paper whose
familiarity made Deborah's blood run
cold.
"On the bridge" gasped the little
lady, leaning against the fence for
support. Pasted on the railing Of
the bridge. I should never have seen
it, nor looked at it, if it hadn't been
that +"
Don't tell me here" urged Debo-
rah. Lets go over to your house.
See. there are people coming"
Once in the house, Deborah allowed
her full apprehension to show itself.
what were the words? What was
on the paper? Anything about"
The little woman's look OF horror
stopped her.
TITS lie, an awful, abominable lie.
But think of such a lie being pasted
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22
DOOM FOR DEER AND HARE
determination of Game Animals
Planned to Avert the Annual
Great Forest Fires.

determination Of deer and rabbit
in New Jersey is planned by the state
forestry commission as the only ef-
fective means of protecting the state
woodlands against forest fires such
as destroyed nearly 100000 worth of
property during the first two weeks
of the recent cunning season
The commission decided to seek the
cooperation of the state fish and game
commission in procuring legislation
frevoking the closed season for deer
and rabbit. In the discussion preced-
ing the adoption of this resolution It
was freely admitted that such
course would ultimately result in tbs
determination Of deer and rabbit,
which are now to be found in consid-
cradle numbers in various parts of the
state.
That the action of the forestry COM
mission viii stir up the opposition of
most of the 10000 hunters with which
GeH Jersey is credited seems almost
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22

doom, lay in all its weight upon every
ear and heart, as the clerk, advancing
with tie cry, Order in the court" put
his momentous question:
Gentlemen Of the jury, are you
ready with your verdict"
A hushi-then, the clear voice of
the foreman:
I'VE are"
How do yOu find? Guilty ar not
guilty?"
Another hesitation Did the fore
man feel the threat lurking in the air
about him? If so, he failed to show
it in his tones as he uttered the words
which released the prisoner:
Not guilty.
A growI from the crowd, almost like
that Of a beast stirring in It's lair.
then a quick cessation of all hubbub
as every one turned to the Judge to
whose one-sided charge they attrib-
uted this release.
Deborah experienced in her quiet
corner no alienation Of the fear which
had brought her into this forbidding
spot and held her breathless through
these formalities.
For the end was not yet. Through
all the turmoil Of noisy departure and
the drifting out into the square of a
vast, dissatisfied throng, she had
caught the flash of bit of paper chow
introduced into this moving mass Of
people no one ever knew passing
from hand to hand, toward the soil
tary figure Of the judge, its delay as
1t reached the open space between the
last row of seats and the judges
bench and its final delivery by some
ohcious hand, who thrust it upon his
notice just as he was rising to leave.
Deborah saw his finger tear its way
through the envelope and his eyes fall
frowningly on the paper he drew out.
Then the peoples counsel and the
counsel for the defense and such
clerks and hangers-on as still fingered
in the upper room experienced de-
cided sensation.
The judge, who a moment before
had lowered above them all in mel
ancholy but impressive dignity, shrunk
with one gasp into feebleness and
sank back stricken, if not uncon-
scious, into his chair.
It happened suddenly and showed
her the same figure she had seen once
before-a man with faculties sus-
pended, but not impaired, facing them
all with open gaze but absolutely dead
for the moment to his own condition
and to the world about.
But, horrible as this was, what she
saw going on behind him was infinite
ly worse. A man had caught up the
bit of paper Judge Ostrander had let
fall from his hand and was opening
his lips to read it to the curious people
surrounding him.
She tried to stop him. She forced
a cry to her lips which should have
rung through the room, but which
died away on the air unheard. The
terror which had paralyzed her limbs
had choked her voice.
But her ears remained true. Low as
he spoke, no trumpet-calI could have
made its meaning clearer to Deborah
6aoville than did these words:
We know why you favor criminals.
Twelve years is a long time, but not long
enough to make wise men forget.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22
CHAPTER XII.
~The Misfortunes of My House."

ne MlSIorluneS OF WY rouse"
Schooled as most of them were to
face with minds secure and tempers
quite unruffled the countless surprises
Of a courtroom, the persons within
hearing paled at the insinuation con-
veyed in these two sentences, and with
scarcely the interchange of a glance or
word, drew aside in a silence which no
man seemed inclined to break.
AS for the people still huddled in the
doorway, they rushed away helter-skel-
ter into the street, there to proclaim
the judges condition and its probable
cause-an event which to many quite
eclipsed in interest the more ordinary
one which had just released to free
dom man seemingly doomed
Few persons we're now left in the
great room, and Deborah, embarrassed
to find that she was the only woman
present, was on the point Of escaping
from her corner when she perceived a
movement take place in the rigid form
from which she had not yet withdrawn
her eyes, and, regarding Judge Os-
trander more attentively, ahe caught
the CLEAN of his suspicious eyes as
he glanced this way and that to see if
lis lapse of consciousness had been
noticed by those about him.
Wherever the judge looked he saw
distracted faces and busy hands, and,
taking heart at not finding himself
watched, he started to rise. Then
memory came-blasting, overwheIm-
ing memory of the letter he had been
reading; and, rousing with a start, he
looked down at his hand, then at the
floor before him, and, seeing the letter
lying there, picked it up with a secret,
sidelong glance to right and left,
which sank deep into the heart of the
still watchfuI Deborah.
If those about him saw, they made
no motion. Not an eye looked round
and not head turned as he straight
ened himself and proceeded to leave
the room. Only Deborah noted how
his steps faltered and how little he
was to be trusted to find his way I'M
guided to the door. It lay to the right
and he was going left. Now he stun
bles-isn't there any one to-yes, she
is not the sole one on watch. The
same man who had read aloud the
note and then dropped it within reach,
had stepped after him, and kindly, if
artfully, turned him towards the
proper place of exit. AS the two dis
appear, Deborah wakes from her
trance, and, finding herself alone
among the seats, hurries to quit her
corner and leave the building.
The glare-the noise Of the square,
as she dashes down into it seems for
the moment uncomfortable. The push.
ing, painting mass of men and women
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22
Eat Necessary to Health.

Fat, even in considerable amounts,
is not a sign of disease more than
once in hundred times, and is never
a cause of disease. On the contrary,
fat is one of the wholesomest, most
necessary and most useful tissues in
the body. No tissue, not even the
most energetic muscle, or the most
chemically active liver or kidney cell.
or most delicate nerve cell or sense
organ can possibly be healthy without
fat And the more vitality important
and valuable an organ is, the more
certain it is to carry a constant stock
of fat in it's substance. as a margin Of
reserve.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22
Better Kind of Dishnan.

At last man has invented a better
kind of dishpan, says the Philadelphia
Ledger. How very long we have used
either a high, round pan or a low oval
one, neither of which was the shape or
size of the sink. But we have now
vast improvement-namely, square
dishpan made of very heavy retinned
ware. It is much more like the shape
of the sink, and, in addition, has the
peculiar feature of little plug at the
bottom with piece of wire netting so
that the plug need only be drawn out
when the dishwater needs to be
changed. In this way, the water is
strained and food particles prevented
from going down the sink.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22

On the other hand, farmers
who say their crops are destroyed by
deer and rabbits may line up on the
other side and make the fight inter
esting. 1t is scarcely conceivable that
the fish and game commission, whose
ever effort has been directed toward
procuring greater restrictions, will
Join with the forestry board.-Trenton
IN. j. Dispatch to New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22

Of which she has now become a part.
closes about her, and for the moment
she can see nothing but faces-faces
with working mouths and blazing eyes
Thick as the crowd was in front, it
was even thicker here. and far more
tumultuOus. Word had gone about
that the father of Oliver Ostrander
had been given his lesson at last, and
the curiosity Of the popUlace had risen
to fever-heat in their anxiety to see
how the proud Ostrander would bear
himself in his precipitate downfall
They had crowded there 10 see and
they would see.
He was evidently not prepared to
see his path quite so heavily marked
out for him by the gaping throng; but
after one look, he assumed some show
Of his old commanding presence and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22

advanced bravely down the steps, aw-
ing some and silencing all, until he
had reached his carriage step and the
protection of the officers on guard.
Then a boot rose from some far-off
quarter of the square, and he turned
short about and the people saw his
face. Despair had seized it, and if
any one there desired vengeance, he
had it. The knell of active life had
been rung for this man. He would
never remount the courthouse steps.
or face again a respectful jury.
CTO BE CONTINUED