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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18

the boat landed at our wharf the horses
were given the reins, the whip applied,
and off dashed the bridal party for
Charlestown, the county-seat. The pur-
suers were too close to tarry at Jefferson
vile. A brisk, rapid drive of an hour
and fifteen minutes brought them to
Charlestown. Clerk Ingram was aroused
from pleasant dreams and the marriage
license obtained. Next Elder Howe was
awakened from his slumbers, and in less
time than it takes t. tell it Mr.. Okana
Owens was the true and lawful husbapd
of Miss L. Jessie Parent. After spend
ing pleasant hour the newly-married
paif left Charlestown, returned through
Jacksonville slower than they went up,
much less disturbed in mind and as hap
Ply as newly-elected country squire How
those Kentucky lovers do laugh at lock
smiths!-Jef6rsonoile (Indl Ledqer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
The Rotation of Crops.

WHAT should be the purpose of a rota-
ton of crops? Should it be to take out of
the soil every element which can support
vegetation or should it be the object to
fill the soil with these elements! To re-
store, to improve, to make the land more
productive?
No farmer will admit thathe is exhaust
ing his land, though he may be obliged to
acknowledge that he does not get as large
crops as he once did What is the reason
| for this? 1t is because some element of
fertility, or elements, have been used out
and the land cannot turn out so large q
growth. A prosperous, vigorous plant
may be compared to a prosperous man.
| As man grows in wealth and finds him
| self surrounded with an abundance of the
means of life his wants increase rapidly,
and as he reaches out and finds plenty
within easy grasp new wants grow out,
| and everywhere they find sustenance and
qualification. A plant in rich soil Seems
to desire to take up all within its reach
it sends out new roots, double the number
it would if it grew in a poor, thin soil
and grasps and consumes and produces a
heavy yield. 1t is the purpose of good,
proper rotation to keep the soil in this
condition, and this should be the purpose
of good farming everywhere.
AS the most important element in the
growth of plants is nitrogen the first OBJ
ject in any rotation should be to see that
those plants which yield this in greatest
quantity should be introduced most freely
| and often. The air and the soil are the
stOre-houses of nitrogen in the forms Of
| ammonia and nitric acid. Seventy seven
parts by weight of the atmosphere is nitro
gen; and among agricultural chemists
there is a perfect agreement as to the at
mosphere being source of nitrogen as
plant food. Different plants require diff
ferent proportions Of nitrogen; but when
we undertake to grow maximum crops
| throughout a rotation we must by some
artificial means supply portion OF the
nitrogen required.
In some seasons and in some localities
the atmosphere would supply all the
nitrogen a crop might need, yet 1t would
not be prudent to trust to such favoring
combinations. 1t is getting to be more
than dubious experiment to trust to the
seasons for the moisture our arabic crops
need, and the means Of supplying this
necessary element artificially is beginning
to be earnestly sought after by agrlcult-
wrists in many places.
The atmosphere yields nitrogen, and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
The Cheerful Face.

NEXT to the sunlight Of heaven is the
sunlight of cheerful face. There is no
installing it, the bright eye, the unclouded
brow, the sunny smile-all tell of that
which dwellS within. Who has not felt
its electrifying influence? One glance at
this face lifts US at once out of the arms
of despair; out of the mists and shadows,
away from tears and repining, into the
beautiful realms of hope. One cheerful
face in a household will keep everything
bright and warm within. Envy, hatred,
malice, selishness, dependency and a
door, they may even look within, but they
never enter and abide there-the cheerful
face will put them all to shame and flight.
1t may be very plain face, but there IS
something in it we feel, we cannot ex-
press, and its cheerful smile sends the
blood dancing through our veins for very
Joy. We turn toward the sun, and its
warm, genial influence refreshes and
strengthens our fainting spirits. All,
there is a world of magic in the plain,
cheerful face! 1t charms us with spell
of eternity, and we would not exchange
it for all the soulless beauty that ever
graced the fairest form on earth.
1t may be very little one that we nestle
upon our bosom or sing to sleep on our
arm with low, sweet lullaby; but it is
such bright, CHEEKY face! The scintilla-
ton Of joyous spirits are flashing from
every feature. And what power it has
over the household, binding each heart to-
gether in tenderness and love and sympa-
thy! Shadows may darken around us, but
somehow the face ever shines between,
and the shining is SO bright that the shad-
ows cannot remain, and silently they
creep away into the dark corner, where
the cheerful face is gone
1t may be a wrinkled face, but it is all
the dearer for that, and none less bright.
We linger near it, and gaze tenderly upon
it, and say: " God bless the happy face!'
We must keep it with US as long as we
can, for home will lose much of its
brightness when the sweet face is gone.
And after it is gone how the remem
brance of it purifies and softens our way
| ward nature! When care and sorrow
would snap our heart.strings asunder,
| this wrinkled face looks down upon US,
and the painful tension grows lighter, the
way less heavy. AS is the spirit, mind,
| disposition, so are the features. Humane
Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
SYMPTOMS of Catarrh.

Dull, heavy headache, obstruction Of the
nasal passages, discharges falling from the
head into the throat, sometimes profuse.
watery and acrid, at others thick, tena-
cious, mucous, purulent, bloody and putrid;
the eyes are weak, watery and lntiamed;
there is ringing in the ears, deafness, hack
ing or coughing to clear the throat, eXpecto-
ration of offensive matter, together with
scabs from ulcers; the voice is changed and
has a nasal twang, the breath is offensive,
smell and taste are impaired; there is sem
SETON of dizziness, mental depression, hack
ing cough and general debility. Only a few
of the above-named symptoms are, however,
likely to be present in any one case. There
is no disease more common than Catarrh,
and less understood by physicians.
DIR. sAGE'S CATARRH REMEDY
is bevond all comparison the best prenara-
ton for Catarrh ever discovered. Under tba
influence of its mild, soothing and HEALING
properties the disease soon Yields. The
Golden Medical Discovery should be taken
to correct the blood, which is always at fault
and to act specifically upon the disease3
glands and lining membrane of the nose,
The Catarrh Remedy should be applied 2rarga
with DR.. Pieyce'S Nasal Doache-fbe only in
strument by which fluids can be perfectly
injected into all the passages ana chambers
OF the nose from which discharges proceed.
These medicines are sold by Druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
Titbits.

IF we could only learn to forgive others
as readily as we forgive ourselves one-halt
of the troubles of this life would be over.
Some people are born just expressly for
fools, and if they undertake to be any
thing else they spoil
1t is easy enough to grow old, but to
grow old easily is another kind of a job
There are certain kinds of economy that
don't pay; trying to straighten crooked
pins is one of them
The only thing that man can do well
when he is in passion is to fight hornets
and mosquitoes.
There is only one time in our whole
lives when we can with safety lay aside
our caution and be careless, and that is
when we are fast asleep.
When the guilty go free the innocent
suffer
never saw man yet who was really
in love who didn't act more or less fool
ish
There is nothing that mankind are so
smart at as finding good excuse for any
act they have made up their mind to com
nit.
Good opportunities must be taken by
the forelock; most people take them by
the tail.
We all complain of the shortness OF
life, but most folks outlive their useful
ness.
1t is very common thing to make q
blunder, but it is avery uncommon thing
to own it.
There are folks who can't bear to dc
anything unless there is a profit in it; i
| they subscribe thousand dollars for the
heather they want 10 per cent thrown of
| for cash down.
Men who have but one thing to recon
mend them soon play out; fiddling on one
string is dreadful funny for spell.
Young man, if you doubt the propriety
of thing, it is always safe to give youl
judgment the benefit of the doubt.
If you expect to get through this world
without being censured and abused you
have got to take back road and travel by
moonlight.
People who blow their own horn never
| play but one tune on it, and the world
soon tires of hearing that
Wisdom that we get from our own ex
| perience costs US a hundred cents on
dollar we can learn from others at half
price.
never knew a busy body yetwho spen
his time hunting for good news.
Revenge is no victory; it is like killing
hornet after he has stung you.
1t is safer to guess than it is to prophe.
sy, and it is full as certain.
| Look out for the man who IL humble
when there is no particular cause fol-
humility; he il either setting a trap o.
| batting one.
l notice one thing: the more leisure PEG
pie have, the less time they spend in i'm
| proving themselves.
No man ever yet sailed under falls,
| colors but that he had to strike then
sooner or later.-Josb Billings, in n. 7
! Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
Kentuckians Getting Married in In.
diana.

''SToP that boat!'' was the cry on the
Louisville wharf at ten O'Clock Thursday
night, but the cry came too late, for the
ferry-boat had cut loose from her fasten-
ings and was steaming proudly UP the
river, fully 100 feet from the Kentucky
shore. The cry came from two men who
had holly chased young man and his
sweetheart from back county in the State
to the river and there lost them by being
about two minute. too late for they were
safe on the boat, sitting side by side in a
carriage. The horses painted and the low
ers sighed and congratulated themselves
on their escape from the dark and bloody
ground and their cruel parents. When
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
CiSternS for Barns.

A GENTLEMAN from New Hampshire
who visited the farm of the agricultural
editor of the NeD England Farmer some
time since wrote to learn more particulars
about the barn cistern which supplies
water for the stock. To this the editor
replied: This ciStern has been built and
in constant use some twenty years. 1t is
cemented on the gravel, without bricking
or stoning, except on one side next to the
cellar wall; here it is strengthened by
thin wall of stones laid in cement. From
near the bottom pipe is run through the
cellar wall and carried under ground to a
warm and convenient corner of the cellar,
where it emptles into tub for supplying
water to the stock without requiring the
labor of drawing or pumping. The cistern
is shaped like common tea Kettle or
farmers boiler, being about ten feet deep
and eleven feet across at the top, and
holds about 100 hogsheads. 1t was COW
cred at first with two-inch chestnut plank
laid on chestnut sleepers, but the planks
rotted and have been replaced by green
chestnut timber, hewed on two sides and
laid close together, filling the crevices
with cement. These are still sound and
bid fair to last many years.
Over the timber there is about eighteen
inches of leam, which entirely excludes
frost from the water and sides of the els
tern. Owing to an imperfect waste-way
the cistern had occasionally in years
past overlooked and softened the bank be-
hind the cement, allowing the pressure of
water from within to crack the cement
shell and cause a slight leak. The leaks
were stopped by brushing the cracks over
with thin coat of cement 1t has been
tight now for several years. The cost at
the time it was built was only about fifty
dollars, including the piping and cave
troughs on the barn, and a pump for
drawing water from the top. Six barrels
of water-lime were used, with about
double the quantity of clean, sharp,
coarse sand. The lime cost at that time
only little over two dollars per barrel
The pump cost about ten dollars and the
eave-troughs little more, leaving some
fifteen dollars for the digging, covering
and work of laying the cement. The dig
ging was all done in March when other
work was not pressing.
If we were going to build again we
should by all means build larger, This
has never been dry but once in twenty
years and the number of animals kept has
seldom been less than ten and often near
| ly twice the number; besides, water is
used freely for washing carriages and in
dry seasons it is drawn from for washing
at the house and to supply neighbors who
are less fortunate in water supply. Still
there has not been full supply at all
times, because the capacity of the cistern
is insufficient for holding all the water
| that falls on the roof.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
Douglas JerrOld's Wit.
the cutter

JERROLD's wit was of the keenest and
most transparent character, like Sidney
Smiths wit, like all true wit; for genuine
wit is the same all the world over. "Wit
gives you ned in passing, but with
humor you are at home" You must be
on the alert for wit; it flashes, and is gone.
Take walk upon an empty stomach, y
said the doctor to Sidney Smith. Upon
whose 2" asked the dean. That is wit. So
is Tom Hoods description of fellow
whose height of folly constituted his own
monument
column of flop,
A light house, without any light atop.
So was Sidney Smith reply to the church
wardens when they wanted wood pave
ment round St. Paul's: " Lay your heads
together and the thing is done;' while
his remarks to a little child who was
scratching tortoise, that it was like
scratching the dome of st. Paul. to please
the dean and chapter, is fine example of
perfect humor. The wit of Jerrold is
often equal to that of the Dean, and many
a brilliant saying is attributed 10 both of
them. A score Of stories OF Jerrold occur
to me, though it is too late to add any
new ones to the record, for his wit and
humOr" have been carefully collected
and published. There are few good
things, however, which will bear repe-
tition. Mature has written honest
man upon his face" said a per-
son trying to make interest for his
friend with Jerrold. "Then nature must
have had very bad pen, !" was the prompt
reply. Everybody knows how he re-
venged himself on pompous fop, who
had made himself ofensively conspicuous
at a club-dinner where sleeps head was a
fayorite dish. Pushing his plate aside,
the stranger exclaimed: "Well, | say
sleeps head forever" "What egotism !"
remarked Jerrold. This, no doubt, led
up to a kindred flash of wit on another
occasion at the expense of literary friend
Of Jerrold's, who had just ordered Some
sheep's-tail soup, waiter" "Ah!" said
Jerrold, looking up, and smiling with his
great eyes, " extremes meet sometimes"
There was an old gentleman who drove a
very slow pony in ramshackle gig; and
he was anxious one day to pay Jerrold a
little special attention. The humOrist was
on his way to the station from his house
" All, Mr.. Jerroldn' said the old gentle
man, "shall [ give you a lift?" "No,
thank you," said Jerrold; Il am in a
hurry" In the country, on a visit,
Jerrold was told, among other gossip, of a
young man in the neighborhood, named
IRE, who had cruelty Tilted his sweet
heart. IRE. seems to be base 'un,"
said Jerrold. AT a ball, seeing very tall
gentleman Waiting with very short lady,
Jerrold said: There's a mile dancing
with milestone "-L0nd0n Society,"
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decaying organic matter in the soil Yields
the former source alone, we must seek TO
keep supply always on hand in the soil.
And it is of the first Importance to pro-
vide it for the young plant in its earlier
stages of growth, for its presence aids in
the formation of cells, roots and leaves.
and thus it gives the young plant Wig
orous start. 1t is stated by Weiska that
the nitrogen left upon the soil by the stub
BILE and roots of a good average crop per
acre of red clover amounts to $50 pounds;
of lupine, to 5S pounds; OF peas, to SO
pounds; of buckwheat, to As; of rye, 81
pounds; of oats, %; barley, %; of wheat,
% pounds. These figures correspond with
the practical experience of most farmers
who have taken any pains to observe and
compare the results Of their varied farm
operations. 1t is apparent from these ex-
periments of Dr. WeiSka that clover,
peas, buckwheat, rye, etc., enrich the soil
with heterogeneous plant food, and should
be introduced into all rotations as fire.
quently as possible.
Yet further, we cannot rely on these
crops for full supply of nitrogen as plant
food. We cannot dispense with stable
manure in the course of a single rotation
and expect to get maximum crops every
year and keep the soil fully up to the
highest standard of profit and excellence.
If we do we neglect one of the most es-
sential conditions of any rotation. A re-
tation without manure is not proper ro-
| tatiOn-Det7Oit Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
Good Yeast-An Old, Tried and Un-
failing Recipe.

CUT UP two pounds of pared potatoes,
put them in large saucepan, pour over
them three quarts of water, and boil; be-
fore the potatoes are sufficiently cooked
add good, heavy half ounce of hops, tied
up in a very thin cotton bag (if
hops boil too long they make the bread
very bitter) In large kitchen bowl put
pound of sifted -four, two large, heaping
tablespoonfuls of white sugar, one large,
heaping tablespoonful of salt and table
spoonful of ground ginger. When the
potatoes are soft enough to mash through
the colander put the hop bag into pitch
er, and pour over it all the potato and
hop water; pour one quart of the boiling
potato and hop water over the flour, etc.,
and give it good mixing; then mash the
potatoes through colander into it, using
the second quart of boiling potato and hop
water to soften the potato through the col
ander. If you do not have two quarts of
potato and hop water pour some boiling
water over the hop bag, and squeeze. The
flour must be thoroughly cooked with the
boiling hop water, and you must mix it
well, and rub it smooth of all Jumps To
prevent the yeast chilling too soon
have the big bowl, pitcher and
yeast crock heated before using.
1t should never be thinner than
will just pour, but if you think it neces-
sary you can use little more than the
two quarts Of hop water; two quarts are
generally sufficient. Place the colander
over the yeast crock, and strain your yeast
into it. Many do not think this neces-
sary, and only mix it in their yeast crock.
When little more than lukewarm add a
large coffeecupful Of yeast, stir it fire.
quently, and keep it in moderately warm
place for twenty-fo hours, then put it in
the coolest and darkest part of the cellar.
Use two or three gallon earthen crock
tin, glass, or stoneware chill too soon),
with lid fitting well to the RIM. L.
H., "a Country Gentleman.
An excellent housekeeper to whom we
submitted the above says that it is all
right with one exception, which is, that
soft yeast will not keep for any consider
able time. To remedy this, after the
yeast Is made as above, stir in corn meal
until 1t is thick enough to cut up into
cakes, spread them out and dry thorough
", and they will keep for years, if neces-
sary, and be always ready for use.-N. 7,
Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18

land on both sides and was surrounded
with foat-kelp, which made the water
smooth. 1t continued calm all day and
night. At three a. m. was rescued by
tbp pJIttnr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18

The Rev DR.. Eliphalet Porter, the
predecessor of the Rev. Dr. Putnam, who
is senior pastor of First Church, Roxbury,
Mass, was graduate of Harvard in 1777 !;
and if DR.. Putnam lives, as his improved
health promises, a few years longer, that
church will present the rare instance OF
two successive pastors with century in
their combined years of ministry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18

A man who is going up in balloon
in New Haven has received letter from
some amiable husband, offering him $500
to take the writer's wife along and quietly
drop her out
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18

THE oyster dealer is said to be an insti-
gator Of broils, and always in stew.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18

she evanston Common Sense School,
opened oy FroI. w. P. Jones at Evanston,
H., for teaching by the indigid,I0z 1,,etbo5 in
stead OF In classes, is attracting scholars
from all quarters. Winter term opens Dee. 8.