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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
HIS WELL-CH0sEN RESPONSE
Old Frenchman's Words, in Acknowl.
edgin5 Gift, Were Certainly Short
and to he Point,

In a certain country town there
lived an old Frenchman named Lee
Blanc. One night some of his friends
gave him a surprise party and pre-
scented him with watch chain. That
week the local paper printed an ac-
count OF the affair. saying that in ac-
acknowledgement of the gift MIR. LIE Blanc
responded in "a few wel-chosen
words"
Curious 20 know what the old
Frenchman said, someone asked the
reporter who vas present what those
well chosen words" we're.
Well, I'll tell you. he answered.
When Charlie finished his presenta-
ton speech and held out the chain,
the old mGn-who had been eying it
greedily all the while-suddenly
snatched ii nom his hand and ex-
claimed: Ply chez. dat was a good
one!' Youth Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Hiuh Finance,

Henry, dear" announced Mrs. Up
to-date, Il guess you will have to ad-
nit that l am pretty good business
manager after all. | took Willie with
me to the movies this afternoon and
as it was raining when we came out
of the theater, gave Willie 10 cents
car fare and had him hurry home and
get an umbrella for me. In that way
l saved my new hat from being
ruined"
"Uh, huh" replied Mr.. Up-to-date.
Yes, I see, my dear; but WHY the
Sam Hill didn't you both ride home for
your 10 cents in the first placer"
Henry! You-boo hoo-you never
give me credit for anything l dol
Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
HAD TO HAVE MORE ROOM
Wobby Man Needed Extra Accommo-
dation Before He Could Really
Enjoy Seeing Play.

During the run of a play in New
York last winter a wobbIy person tee
tered up to the box office one Satur-
day night wh-r the place was packed
and demanded a good seat.
Nothing left except standing room"
said the box-office man. Sell you
standing room for a dollar"
The waverins one produced a dollar
and went inside. But so many gen
eral admissions were grouped at the
rear that. 9vel the intervening hedge
or heads no caught only vagrant
glimpsCs of what was going on upon
the stage
He foggily considered the situation
for a spell. Then he rocked his
weaving way back to the box-ofiice
window and put a second dollar OIL
the shelf.
Gimme nOzzir one of them standin
rooms" he ordered; cant see the
show at all if you only got one. Sat
urday Evening Post
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09

venient for use than the drawstring.
The bottom of the bag should be left
open and one side cut longer than the
other, say about six inches or so.
This flap is hemmed and worked with
four buttonholes to correspond with
tour buttons sewed to the bag. To
empty the contents release the but
tons.
All children love bright colors, and
any one of them will appreciate a
school bag of pretty cretonne. This
is a suggestion for using up an odd
piece on hand. Make the bag in en-
yelOpe shape, binding all the edges
close with button and loop. Instead
of sewing handles to the bag, which
the weight of the books may pull out,
buy a scent pair of small leather
straps and catch in place at the bot
tom of the bag through loops, just to
keep them from becoming mislaid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09

buttons used to fasten the blouse, will
give another opportunity to Introduce
the touch of black. For instance, if
oval buttons are used, an oval frame
of outlining would be placed around
them; around diamond-shaped buttons
would be a diamond-shaped frame, and
so on. Therefore, til design of the
button would also determine the ma
ture of the design to be worked on
the collar and cuffs of the blouse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
FIounces Held to Stockings.

A new idea for the summer girl
was introduced at a shore resort the
other evening by a young woman dan
Ger, who had butterfly flounces of
plated lace attached to the back of
her silk stockings and to the inside
Of her wide skirt. These plated
founces extended and folded after the
manner of an accordion at each step,
and suggested a modern winged vic
tory of feminine persuasion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
NEGLECT YOUR SCALP
And Lose Your Hair. cutcura Pre-.
vents 1t. Trial Free.

Cuticura Soap shampoos. cleanse
and purify the scalp of dandruff while
the Ointment soothes and heals the
irritated scalp skin. Dandruff and
itching are hair destroyers. Get &C
quainted with these supercreamy emoI-
ients for the skin and scalp.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. KY,
Boston. Sold eYerywhere.-AdY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Sources of Rivers

The great majority Of the frst-class
rivers commence from chains of noun
tains, because springs are there most
abundant, perpetuaIly fed by the melt
ing of the SHOWS and glaciers. They
have almost invariably an easterIy di-
rection. the Westward bound streams
being few in number. and of very sub
ordinate rank OF rivers flowing east,
we have grand examples in the st.
Lawrence. Orinoco, Amazon, Danube,
Gauges. Amour, Yangtse-kiang and
Boang Ho.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Use for Old Garnet

a good way to use an old carpet
when il has become faded is to turn
it on the wrong side, tack it to the
floor as firmly as possible (the tacks
may be removed later and give it a
coat Of dark green floor paint It may
require a second coat. You will have
a carpet resembling crex and one that
viii last q lifetime.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Theory and Practice.

Mrs. Blough-I don't try to suit
everyone. always want people to
take me just as I am.
Caller-Glad to hear it, for we're
in a big hurry. I'm the staff pho
tographer for the Scarehead, and the
Sunday editor sent me out to get a
snapshot Of you
Mrs, BlOugh-Good heavens! Wait
till | run and friu up a bit and put
on some more powder.-Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Rain on the Diamonds.

Madge-Do you think Mr.. Phan
loves you more than he does baseball?
Maude-I really don't know Last
night he told me that my eyes were
like diamonds.
Madge-That is a sign of affection.
Maude-Then little later he said
that when cried it made him feel
like q postponed game.-Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Both Exnosed to Dancer.

The man who makes a shell is just
as much hero as the man who fires
it,
81 guess that's right In these days
u Zeppelins and aeIOplanes, you
never know when an aviator is going
to drop bombs on an ammunition fac
tory"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Embroidered Blouse.

The woman in mourning who de-
sires to have a touch of black on an
otherwise white blouse can carry out
the following idea: Down the front
of the blouse, along the line of fasten-
ing, a double row - outlining can be
worked in black and white. Outline
stitches. following the shape Of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Increasing the Distance.

We have an anti-cigarette league
IN our town. All the girls who joined
have pledged themselves never TO
marry cigarette smokers. How are
the men taking it Some Of the
younger ones are worried, but a num-
Der OF confirmed woman haters have
recently acquired the cigarette habit"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
A Benevolent Refusal.

Senator. wish you would give me
a JOB as your private secretary.
"Oh, my boy" responded the oily
senator, don't get mixed up with the
government service. Nothing to it.
Ruins young man. Besides, have
promised that position to my som
Louisville CourieT-Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09

ana q weakness al
caused by fem ale
trouble, and I took
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Y e G 9 ia bic Com
pound with such ex-
cellent results that l
am now feeling fine.
I recommend tn e
Compoundand praise
it to all. | shall be
glad to have you
publish my letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Avoiding Cancellations.

Il understand Doppel is neutral"
And strongly entrenched, too"
How does that happen ?''
His favortte barber is a French
man and his favorite bartender is q
German"
How about his favorite waiter?"
He doesn't have to be on his guard
while eating. His favorite waiter is a
waitress, haiIing officially from Kan
sas City.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
USED to II.

you got pretty well tanned while
you were at the seashore. didn't you,
Willie?" said the visitor
That's nothing retorted Willie. Il
get tanned most every day while I'm
home, too
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
The Conductors HOPE.

Il hope" said the car conductor.
pensively. after taking the names Of
the people wso saw the lady lose her
balance. that women will vote. and
that they'll have a political party of
their own and a convention and a
platform"
And then what?"
And that they'll advocate capital
punishment for anybody who gets of
the platform backward"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
A Little Less Darninu to Do

Paste pieces of velvet, soft side Up,
into the heels of your shoes, bottom
and back, and you will find your
stocking darning reduced by a big per
cent.-Woman's World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Some Hard.

Bill-They say horsehair cushions
are very easy.
Jill-Believe, they're not.
Ever try one?"
Sure"
"When?"
One day rode a horse bareback"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Experience of a Nurse.

Poland, n. Yin my experience as a
nurse I certainly think Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound is a great
medicine. I wish all women with fe-
male troubles would take it. took it
when passing through the Change of
Life with great results and I always re-
commend the Compound to all my pa
tents if ! know Of their condition in
time. will gladly do all I can to help
others to know of this great medicine. "
Mrs. HORACE NEWMAN, Poland, Her
kimer Co., n. Y.
IF you are i'll do not drag along until
an operation is necessary, but at once
take Lydia z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
IF yOu WantsPecia1 advice write
Lydia +. Pinkham Medicine Co.,
(cOnfidentiaD Lynn, Mass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09

Did you ever try a fountain pen,
judge?" asked the lawyer.
Yes" replied his honor, "aud
found ii guilty"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09

Full crew" did not mean toda7
what the same words meant % or .
years ago-Dallas News
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Drink Denison's Coffee,
For your health's sake.

It is impossible to hatter some won.
en-: they are dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09

81 suppose. warden, you have men
of various bent here?"
We'll, sir, they're all crooks"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09

Of thousand women who can drive
q bargain not more than half a dozen
can drive a nail
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09

course. a padding of asbestos must
be slipped into the homemade coy.
Be sure TO keep this fact in mind when
selecting doiIies. so that they will be
sufficiently large.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
Drink Denison's Coffee,
For your health's sake.

A friend may well be reckoned the
masterpiece of Emerson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
There is scarcely

There is scarcely neighbor around me
who does not use your medicine. Mrs.
J. F. JOHNSON, R. No. 4, Box 80, Prince
ton, Illinois
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
To Make Lace Yokes Like New.

Apply a white paste such as is used
for cleaning white shoes. Rub the
paste on smoothly, let it dry and then
brush it of.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09
IN ALL OUR
NEIGHBORHOOD
There Is Hardly A Woman
Who Does Not Rely Upon
Lydia E. Pinlkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Princeton, I'LL had Inflammation,
hard headaches in the back of my neck
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-09

Large hopes grow from small seed.
The Spectator., 1915-10-29
Jeb McNash shook his head. A spas

.Jeb McNash shook his head. A spas of battle went through him and shooA him like convulsion to the soles of his feet He had but to crook his fin ger to appease his blood-lust-and break his pledge.
 T done give Anse my hand ter bide my time 'twell war dead sartain." he told himself. q hain't quite dead sar- tain," he told himself q haint quite dead sartain yit Ireckon I've got ter wait spell"
 He uncocked the rife and the other boy rode on, but young Jeb folded his arms on the wet earth and buried his face in them and sobbed, and it was an hour later that he stumbled to his feet and went groggily back, drunk with bitterness and emotion, toward the house of Anse Havey. Yet when he arrived after nightfall his tongue told nothing and his features told less.
 
 Juanita, living in the cabin she had built with the girl who had become her companion and satellite, making ire quent hard journeys to some house which the shadow of illness had in vaded, found it hard to believe that this life had been hers only a few months. Suspense seemed to stretch
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reckon Anse Havey won't hardly let hit go by without doin nothin'. Thank heaven, thar's some men left in ther hills like Anse Havey-but eff Jeb don't do nothin' I'll do hit myself
 Again Juanita shuddered but it was not the time for argument. and so she went on, bitterly accusing Havey in her heart for his wizard hold on these people-a hold which melted them to bloodshed as the fanatical priests of the desert urge on their wild tribes. men.
 She did not know that Bad Anse Ha- vey went every few days over to the desolated cabin and often persuaded the boy to ride home with him and spend part of the time in his larger brick house. She did not know that Bad Anse was coming nearer to lying than he had ever before come in with holding his strong suspicious from the boy because of his unwillingness to incite another tragedy
 So when one day a McBriar hench- man by the name of Luke Thixton had left tho mountains and gone west. Anse hoped that this man would stay away for a long while, and he refrained from mentioning to Jeb that now. when the bird had flown, he knew definitely of his guilt.
 While Dawn. under the guidance of her preceptress. was making the ac- quaintance of a new and sweater life. whose influences fed her imagination and fired her quick ambition. hex
The Spectator., 1915-10-29
CHAPTER xI.

That summer Juanita's cabin rose on the small patch of ground bought from the Widow Everson. for in these hills the raising of a house is a simple thing which goes forward subject to no delays of striking workmen or baking contractors. The usual type, with it's single room. may be reared in a few days by volunteers who turn their labor into frolic. She had owed much to Jerry Everson and to Good Anse Talbott, for had her building force been solidly of Havey or Me Briar complexion the school would henceforth have stood branded, in na- tive eyes, feud institution.
 But Good Anse and Jerry. who were tolerated by both factions, and were gifted with a rough-hewn diplomacy, had known upon whom to call, even while they had seemed to select at random.
 The cabin had been finished just be- fore the news came of the death of Fetch McNash, and Jerry Everson had gone over with her to survey and admire it.
 As he stood under the newly laid roof. sniffing the fresh. woody fra grance of the green timbers. he pro. duced from under his coat what looked like a giant powder-horn. He had scraped and polished it until it shone like varnish. and he hung it by it's leather thong abOye the hearth
 What is it for. Jerry?" demanded
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CHAPTER XII.

One day in early October young Milt McBriar happened upon Dawn and Juanita walking in the woods.
 The gallant colors and the smoky mists of autumn wrapped the forests and brooded in the sky. An elixir went into the blood with each deep- drawn breath and set to stirring for tions. And in this heady atmosphere of quickened pulses the McBriar boy halted and gazed at the Havey girl.
 Juanita saw Young Milt's eyes flash with an awakened spirit. She saw look in his face which she was woman enough to interpret even before he himself dreamed what its meaning might be.
 Dawn was standing with her head up and her lids half closed looking across the valley to the Indian sum- mer haze that slept in smoky purple on the ridges. She wore a dress of red calico. and she had thrust in her belt few crimson leaves from a gum tree and few yellow ones from a pop lar.
 Juanita Holland did not marvel at the fascinated. almost rapt look that came into Young Milt's eyes. and Young Milt. too. as he stood there in the autumn woods, was himself no. mean figure. His lean body was quick of movement and strong. and his bronzed face wore the straight. looking eyes that carried an assurance of fearless honesty He had been away to Lexington to college and was going back. The keen intelligence of his face was marred by no note of meanness. and now. as he looked at the girl of the enemy, his shoulders came unconsciously erect with some thing of the pride that shows in men, of wild blood when they feel in their veins the strain of the chieftains. But Dawn, after her first blush. | dropped her lids little and tilted her chin, and without word snubbed him with the air of Havey looking down, on a McBriar.
 Milt met that gaze with a steady one of his own and banteringly said: Dawn. pears like ye thought a got | tangled up with rainbow" Her voice was cool as she retorted: "I reckon that's better than gitting. mixed up with some other things" "I was jest a-thinkin'. es looked at | ye," went on the boy gravely. "ther hits better then gittin mixed up with anything else"
 ,To BE CoNTINUEDo
The Spectator., 1915-10-29
SYNOPSIS.
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Juanita Holland. a Philadelphia young woman of wealth, on her journey with her guide, Good Anse Talbott. into the heart of the Cumberlands to become teacher of the mountain children. faints at the door of Fletch McNash's cabin While resting there she overhears a talk between Bad Anse Havey, chief of his clan. and one of his henchmen that ac- quaints her with the Havey Nc Briar feud Juanita has an unprofitabe talk with Bad Anse and they become antagonists. Cal Douglas of the Havey clan is on trial in Peril, for the murder of Noah Wyatt, a McBriar. In the night Juanita hears feudists ride past the McNash cabin Juanita and Dawn McNash become friends Cal Douglas is acquitted Nash Wyatt attempts to kill him but is him. self killed by the Haveys. Juanita goes to live with the Widow Everson. whose boys are outside the feud. Milt McBriar, head of his clan meets Bad Anse there and dtsclaims responsibility for Wyatt S attempt to kill Douglas They declare a truce, under pressure from Good Anse Talbott. Juanita thinks she finds that Bad Anse is opposing her efforts to buy land and build school Mit McBriar breaks the truce by having Fletch Me Nash murdered. Jeb McNash begs Bad Anse to tell him who killed his father, but is not told. Juanita and Bad Anse further misunderstood each other. Bad AnSe is bitter.
The Spectator., 1915-10-29

ing of thunder, but that year the clouds seemed to have dried up, and down in the tablelands of the Blue Grass the crops were burned to worth less stalk and shrunken ear. Even up here, in the birthplace of waters, the corn was brown and sapless, so that when a breeze strayed over the hill. side fields they sent up thirsty, dying rasp of rattling whisper.
 It was not only in the famished forests and scared fields that the hot breath of the plague breathed, carry ing death in it's fetid hostrils. Back in the cabins of the "branch-water folks" where little springs diminished and be. came polluted, all those who were not strong enough to throw off the touch of the specter's finger sickened ana died, and typhoid went in and out or Havey shack and McBriar cabin whis- pering "a pest on both your houses.
 The widow McNash had not been herself since the death of Fletch. She who had once been so strong over her drudgery, sat day long on the doorstep
  guage of her people. 'jest sickened an pined away"
 So, as Juanita Holland and Good Anse Talbott rode sweating mules about the hills, receiving calls for help faster than they could answer them, they were not astonished to hear that the widow was among the stricken. Though they fought for her life. she refused to fight herself, and once again the Eastern girl stood with Dawn in the brier-choked "buryin'- ground" and once more across an open grave she met the eyes of the man who stood for the old order.
 But now she had learned to set a lock on her lips and hold her counsel. So, when she met Anse and Jeb after ward, she asked without rancor: May take little Jesse back with me, too? He's too young" she added, with just a heartsick trace of her old defiance, ito be useful to you, MT. Havey. and I'd like to teach him what 1 can"
 Anse and Jeb conferred. and the elder man came back and nodded his head.
 Jesse can go back with ye." he said. I'm still aimin' to give ye all the rope ye wants. When ye've had enough an quits, let me know, an I'll take care of Fletch's children"
 And on her farm, as folks called Juanita's place, that September saw many changes. Near the original cabin was springing up a new struc- ture. larger than any other house in that neighborhood. except. possibly. the strongholds of the chiefs. and as it grew and began to take form 1t i'm parted an air of ordered trimness to the countryside about it. It was fash- toned in such style as should be in keeping with it's surroundings and not give too emphatic note of alien strangeness.
 Juanita wished that her cabin could house more occupants, for the plague had left many motherless families, and many children might have come into her fold. AS it was. she had sev- eral besides the McNashes as her nu- cleus. and while the weather held good she was rushing her work Of timber-felling and building which the winter would halt.