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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
San Spots and Rigorous Weather.

The remarkable fulfllment of Cen
eral Myers daily weather forecasts has
almost ceased to create surprise.
These achievements Of science are be-
ing dimmed by other triumphs in the
same field. When, on Tuesday morn
ing, our people walked to behold fall
Of snow that would not have done dis
credit to mild winter, many doubtless
thought the great Enchanter of the
North had wrought upon gentle Spring
the
Charm of woven PAGES and of wavins hands.
And that beneath the heavy mantle of
snow she was, like Merlin,
Lost to life and use and name and fame.
Yet, in the early summer of 1874,
the eminent Russian scientist, DIR.
Hopper, of the St. Petersburg Observ-
atory, predicted, after a series of most
comprehensive observations taken in
various portions Of tbs globe, that in
1915 there was every reason to expect
a phenomenally cold year. The Doc
tors Iabors were called out by the wide
discussion Of the subject of the infu-
eDce Of the spots on the suns surface
upon our thermal condition. He re-
futed the common notion that the ele-
ven-year maximum of solar spots cause
an excessive rainfall, and declared such
an occurrence rare and exceptional. To
insure correct results, he decided that
simultaneous observations must be
made upon every section Of the globe.
70 facilitate his work he placed the
different meteorological stations in zones,
frigid. cold, temperate, warm temper
ate, sub tropical and tropical. De-
scribing a curve according to the mean
temperature of each zone, he found
that there was striking agreement
among them, and that there are indeed
eleven-year periods Of maximum and
minimum among them but the most
remarkable is the fact that under the
tropics the maximum heat occurs
about year before the maximum of
sun spots, and north Of the tropics,
about two or three years after the min
imum of spots, Further, that even as
in the case of the solar spots, the per-
iod Of time between the minimum and
succeeding maximum Of spots is short
er than the period between the maxi
mum and succeeding minimum, so the
temperature follows corresponding
change. Further, it appears that the
spots do not act like an eclipse, hiding
the radiating part Of the solar body,
and SO diminishing its heat, but that
often the remaining luminous portions
Of the solar disk fully, and often more
than fully. make up for the apparent
diminished light caused by the number
Of spots --New YorE World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
FOR sale.

a SECOND hond, 30 horse power Engine 21
IA inch bore, "a inch stroke. This Engine
at the Grand Rapids Foundry, and is nearly as
good as new. Harties wishing TO purchase can
apply to the Grand Rapids Foundry for particu-
lars, terms Of payment &c.
RABLIN BRO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13

The Rev. J. S. G. Abbott writes to
The Independent as follows concerning
the famous class IN which he was grad
uated from Bowdoin College in 1926.
s'George Jheever and I learned our
alphabet together; longfellow and [
were classmates in school, fitting for
college; Hawthorne is painted upon my
minds eye as silent. solitary, with mel
ancholy mein, he walked the college
grounds; Jonathan Cilley, who might
have been one Of the greatest men in
the nation, but who was early shot by
Graves in duel, at Washington, rises
sadly before me. In the preceding
class was Frank Pierce, with whom /
have had many tusoel to see which
should throw the clothes on the bed.
Socially he was one Of the most lovable
Of men. and his wife; Jane Appleton,
the friend Of my childhood. was certain
Iy one OF the most beautiful and accom-
plished Of women. Pitt Feseden, ru-
dy boy Of seventeen. was admitted by
all to be the 'smartest, little fellow in
his class. Calvin Stowe was the wit
You could generally tel where he was
by the roars Of laughter. John P.
Hale, in lower class, was an incessant
joker. His fund Of humor was ex
haustless. He had ability to make a
frst-rate scholar, but his genius led
him IN other directions. S. S Prentiss.
or little Prentiss," as we always call
ee him, was mere boy in the college;
but he was then brilliant. chivalrlc, and
the soul of homer. No one who knew
him could be surprised at the brilliant
career which opened before him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13

ing. A million shadowy arrows such
as these spring from Apollo's golden bow
of light at every step. Flying in every
direction, they cross, interlacing each
other in soft network Of dim lines.
Meanwhile, the clouds drop shadow
like anchors, that reach the ground.
but will not hold; every browsing Great
ure, every fittering bird, every moving
team. every unconscious traveller writes
itself alnng the ground in dim shadow.
-EU.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
The Beecher Case-A Weiglty
EGreiGn 0ninion.

81
Foreign Opinion.
Professor A. Remand, Of the Held
elberg University. one Of the most en-
inent jurists Of Germany, publishes in
the 4archiyes Of Modern Jurisprudence,
the leading law journal of Germany,
an exhaustive review of the Beecher-
Tilton case. The Brooklyn Eagle
translates from this paper the follow
ing passages
Having carefully examined the open
ing address Of the plaintiffs counsel,
the evidence Of the plaintiff witnesses
and the opening address of the defend
ants counsel, / cannot but arrive at
one conclusion, and from conversation
with many OF my professional brethren,
who take an equal interest with myself
in this great trial, ] herewith deliber-
atelv contend that it is the conviction
Of the legal minds Of Germany, Aus
tria and France, that the plaintiff Til
ton has no case whatever and to us
it is matter of surprise, that under
the laws Of America, he should not
have been non-auitcd after his evidence
was IN.
In actions of this kind, character
should always weigh more than any
thing else. The plaintiff. from his
own words, stands convicted Of having
told different stories on the subject.
His charges against the defendant grew
more serious as his animosity against
HIM, from causes disconnected from the
case increased. First, it was alienat-
ing his wife S affections he accused the
defendant of. Then improper propos-
ais, then adultery. And, oddly enough.
while he prefers this terrible charge
against the defandent, he speaks with
maudlin tenderness Of the, if his story
be true, Infamous wife From this
twaddle about the whiteness of the
soul of this alleged adulteress alone,
impartial minds would justly infer thag
the plaintiff mind is singularly un-
balanced. His moral perception, from
the way he judges her, would seem to
be diseased. And this is proved by
the disgusting letters, Of which Amer
lean journals have published, with his
consent, and it appears at his instiga-
tion-an avalanche abounding in the
most preposterous sentimeutalism, such
as would be inexcusable in love-sick
boy, and which render a full grown
man-moreover, one who lays claim to
refinement and intelligence-unft to
miDgle in decent society.
But this is not ALL The plaintiff is
tainted with the worst social doctrines.
He wrote and gloried in a biography
of al American free-love she-wolf.
He published poetry, weak-minded and
shallow, but intended to be sensual and
amorous. He seemed to have plunged
headlong into the worst heresies Of the
age-even the Paris Commune found
an ardent admirer in him, and q gift
of CAB, as they call it in America
caused his constant obtrudlng his ride,
ulous notions upon the public. He
He was a public lecturer, and with un
blushing effrontery discoursed on love
and marriage, as we understood by the
underminers of domestic life in Ameri
ca, before audiences largely composed
of youths and young girls.
To US it seems absolutely incompre
hensible that so mischievous a spiri
should have been permitted to occupy
conspicuous place in American jour
nalism, and equally inexplicabIs tha
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
Baby Thoughts.
BY LUCY INGERsOLL.

guess the sunset is Gods paipt-box,
Don't you mamma dear?
l wish He'd let me see Him paint
The brooks so silver clear.
I would love to see Him color ~.
The beautiful blue skies
think the paint was just the blue
lie put into your eyes.
guess the brushes He mnst use
Are the little sunbeams,
And when they're falling from His hand
" catch their Qulvering CLEANS.
0 dear JUS think how many paints
God has with coiOrs bright;
There's gold, and blue, and scarlet,
And purple, and pure white,
And green, and pink. and violet;
But cannot name them all;
And now bright He paints the flowers
With His golden brushes small.
guess the birds we see mamma,
are HoHers with shining wings;
They Whirl III circles through the air,
Like blue ana scarlet rings.
And every spring, guess, mamma,
cod sends Ills angels round
To setter through earth and air
His blossoms 0 er the ground.
I am almost sure the little stars
That ghnmer through the night
Are the stones that angels play with,
The baby angels bright.
7 guess God takes the buttercups
And dips them in the sun,
Then drops them through the meadows
" hen the night is coming on.
I guess-I guess I'm sleepy;
Please ask the daisies white
To pray iOr me to heaven,
For i am tired out tonight.
Ghe sunny curls are dropping,
The baby's day is done;
Her head SINKS softly on my arm,
Like a second golden sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
BEAUTIES OF SHADoWs.-Tht

BEAUTIES OF SHADoWs.-The
shadoUs all day long play at silent
games of beauty Every thing is dou-
bic if it stands in light. The tree sees
anunrevealed and mufied self lying
darkly along the ground. The slender
stem of flowers, golden rod wayside
asters. meadow dasies, and rare lilies
(rare and yet abundant in every nice.
level meadow cast forth a dim and
tremulous line of shadow, that lies long
all the morning, shortening till noon,
and creeping out again from the root
all the afternoon, until the sun shoots
it as far eastward in the evening as
the sun shot it westward in the morn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
W atchmnakjnE

z would respectfully announce to the citizens of
EGrand Rapids and surrounding country that l
have rented part of the Store Room now occu-
csed by o. G. Neeves and am prepared to exc
iute all work entIust ed sto me, promptly and
satisfactorily On either Watcher Clocks or jew
Try.
H. D. LORD,
Practical Matchmaker.
tf: Water St., Grand Rapids, Wig
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
NIiEler'S Brick Store
Grand Rapids, Wood County, W IS:
S :S.s222 p IFS SaIe-~Ira foreclosure.


STATE OF WIsCONsN-CIRcUIT COURT FOR Woop
COUNTY.
Marshall Field, evi T. Letter, Lorenzo G. Wood
house, Henry Field, Henry J. Willings and Jo.
seph \. Field Partners under the firm name Of
Field, Letter 81 Co. plaintiffs. against Mary Hsr-
rold and Minor Harold, her husband, Defend
ants.
{ n pursuance and by virtue Of a judgement Of
& foreclosure amp sale. rendered in the above en-
lJed action, by the Circuit Court for Wood Coun-
ty, Wisconsin, the ninth day of February, A!
u. 1875 the subscriber, Sheriff of said County OF
Wood, viii sell as directed in said Judgement a:
public auction TO the highest bidder, at the front
door Of the Court House, in the City of Grand
Rapids, in said County Of Wood, on Tuesday, the
first day Of June A. ID. 1873, al two O'Clock in the
afternoon OF said day all the following described
lands and premises. situate, lying and being il
the present city of Grand Rapids, in the County
Of ood. and State Of Wisconsin, and appurten-
ances thereunto belonging, to-wit.: "Commen-
cling AT point thirty (3U) feet east Of the south
west corner Of the north half of the northwest
quarter of the south quarter Of section No.
seventeen QI) in township No. twenty two (22l
north Of range No. six Toy east, running thence
due north one hundred and two G02) feet, themes
due east one hundred and thirty-five (135) feet
thence due south one hundred and two Q02) fee t
thence due west one hundred and thirty-hve
Q35) feet to the place of beginning.
Dated Grand Rapids " is. April 18th, 1917
L. b. CASE,
GEO. Il. GARDNER, Sh'h Hood Couety
Plaintiffs Atty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
II, B.. PHILLE0, Editor.
aughtering News :!
Good News
Special News
Encouraging News +!
Cheering News /.

WINE. =. MILLER is selling good, Of every
w description, way down TO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
Old Iron,

Brass and Copper wanted at the Grand Rapids
Foundry aad Machine Shop.
81. JOHN RAR4&&.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
ADVERTISING RATES:

square.
mead Of Business Notices, 10 cents per line l9r
FIRST insertion, and 5 cents per line for each sub
scquent Insertion.
Marriages and Deaths inserted free.
Transient advertising payable in advance.
Legal Notices recurring proof Of publication to
be paid for before said proofs deliyered-al 9th
ers payable IN advance
All advertisements viii be inserted until for
bid" unless some specified time is stated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13

The NIGHTS in Iceland are still
seventeen hours long, and lovers can
spark until 10 O'Clock in the fore
noon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
DISSOLUTION OF Co-pARrNrHsuIP

Tsyhe Co-partenership heretofore existinipc be-
u tween y, Gerard, IL. w. Webster and a. j:
Drake known by the firm name of N. Gerard l.
Co., aas been dissolved by mutal con-
sent. The bushes IN fnture viii be conducted
n the firm name OF Gerard Drake who, will
ettle all outstanding accounts.
Graad Rapids, March 24th, 1875.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13

STATE OF observation-disclosures COURT FOR Woop
COUNTY.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-06-19

and lever on pin in the hole, and with
arrow resting on lever and against bot
tom of roof. Two men can raise the
roof eight or ten feet from the ground,
but pnt hook in top OF roof to fasten
your pulleys to before raising.
Iou can unload faster than you can
in barn, and when well put ID by two
men will hold one ton to the foot, and
when for hay alone will cost about S25
to $50, and will save enough hay IN one
season to pay for it. Don't be alarmed
about the rain getting through at the
top; give your bottom ventilation, and
you can keep hay ten years. You can
slip your roof up as fast as you load in
the hay, till you got it to the top. 1t is
not uncommon to see hay built thirty
feet high. These barns are used both
by rich and poor. My own is of the size
first spoken of, and tight loft put in
81 feet from the ground, and affords
good stalling for four horses and feed
room of eight feet. 1t is well framed
and boarded up Is feet high, but for
hay alone does not need boarding up.
If the hay is stacked one foot outside it
will be all right and Will keep just as
well as in a barn. J. ". ANDERSON.
Muscatlne, Iowa.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-06-19
Only a Basket of Flowers,

Last evening dapper young gent,
with educated moustache and patropiz-
ing smile, entered an up-bound car on
st. Charles avenue, and having depos-
tied his fare with the tips of ht gloved
fingers, took seat and drew imaginary
maps of Africa ON shining pair of
boots, with a delicate malacca cane.
The only other occupant of the car, ex-
cCpting the Jehu, our informant, was a
modest young lady, who sat next to the
hon. Soon a flower boy entered the
car and proffered his wares for
sale. The self satisfied young
man CALAMITY directed the boy
to present the basket to the young lady
with his compliments, with instructions
to help herself as she pleased. The
young lady slowly and deliberately
proceeded to relieve the flower boy of
his entire burden, which SO pleased the
young man that he smiled a most ap-
proving smile, and promptly paid down
the whole amount TO the boy. When
the lady saw that the boy had been
paid, she slowly proceeded to pile the
flowers together, after which, with an
expression of scorn that added i'm
measurably to her loneliness, she threw
the whole of them out into the street
Tableau ~. o. Picoyttsae.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-06-19
Miscellaneous Recipes,

BLUE INK-Take soft Prussian blue
and 0xalic acid in equal parts, powder
them finely, add soft water to bring it
to a thin paste, let it stand a few days
then add soft water to make the desired
shade of color-adding a little gum
arabic to prevent its spreading.
FEEDING You've TURKEYs-Soak some
good bread in good buttermilk TO feed
the young turkeys, and also good mush
daily, three times per day, 1t is good
thing, and the young turkeys will grow
fast and be perfectly healthy. We
never lose many of them. Many people
feed young turkeys on corn meal, which
is very wrong, and they lose great
many OF them.
RECEIPT FOR GRAVEL, &c.-One gal
Ion of rye liquor; one handful of black
cOhosh, best known as rattle weed"
one handful of poke berries; one do. ell
derberries; one do. of cherry bark wild
cherry tree); one do. dogwood bark;
one do. yellow poplar bark (off the root
OF the tree the BEST; lump of saltpetre
the size of large hazlenut, the root of
that which has the stem and seed on the
top-the other is poisonous. Compound
the whole together in a gallon jug,
or demiiohn. One tablespoonful three
times a day, before eating, is dose. If
too strong at first dilute with water. 1t
Is severe, but sure.
FLOWERS. you wish. to obtain
fresh flowers in winter, attend to the
following directions: Gu. the buds of
the flowers you wish to preserve Just as
they are nearly ready to open, leave
about three inches of stem, cover the
ends with hot sealing wax. In a few
days the buds Will begin to look wrink-
led, wrap each bud separately in paper,
pack them away carefully IN box, and
keep In dry place. When you wish
TO have your flowers III bloom, cut off
the ends of the stems at night, and put
them III water with little nitre, and
the next day the flowers will expand,
and smell as sweetly as If gathered in
the garden in summer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-06-19

4 writer in the Loudou Field strongly
recommends the use of carbolic acid for
destroying insects in pigeon and poultry
houses, asserting that it neither Injuries
the birds nor tends to drive them from
their nests. He uses it in the form of
a solution of two ounces of common +
bolic acid to three quarts OF water, APP
plying this once a week with watering
pot, after the house has been carefully
swept out Besides the lice and acari
that it destroys, it is also efficient III
driving out tleas. For the purpose of
expelling lice from the bodies of pig
cons, the proposed method is said to be
TO mix one dart of Calvert liquid car
bohe acid with thirty parts of water,
first mixing the acid with very little
glycerine, adding the water, and shak-
ing well before use. This Is TO be APP
piled with a small brush to the roots of
the feathers about the lower part of the
belly and around the vent, where the
greatest number of insects will always
be found. This application leaves no
stains, kills the yermin Instantaneouslv
wherever 1t touches them, and two or
three applications, at intervals of few
days, are sufficient TO make the foulest
specimen thoroughly clean. The wri-
ter also uses Calvert's carbolic acid dis
injecting powder, busting it often over
the bodies Of even the young birds, and
with equally good results.
We should use one part of strong IL
quid carbohc acid To eighty parts of
water, mixed as the writer directs. since
Calyert's solution Is an English mixtul e
not easily obtainable in this country.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-06-19
How She Taught Him.

A paper printed in Eufaulo, Ala,
prints the following as veritable in
cident which occurred the other day in
that city: "A lady hired an old negro
woman named Charlotte. who had the
most exalted option of her own indi-
viduality and originality. Whenever a
subject was under discussion in the fam
lily Charlotte would be sure to state her
own superior method of proceeding in
such matters. On one occasion the
lady was talking of sending some of
the children TO school, when Charlotte
put in her oar as usual: 'Lor. Missus, ,
she said, what mex you pay money fur
to send the chile TO school? l got one
smart boy name Jonus, but l larns him
myself But, Aunt Charlotte re-
piled the lady, how can you teach your
child, when you don't know one letter
from another?' How ! teach him :?
! les mex him TEX de book an set down
on de flo, an den | say, Jonus, you
tex 20 eye from dat book, much less
leggo him, an skins you aIiYer"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-06-19
How tn Ruiid n Hay Rarr.

". II. A.. Pana, H.. wants 10 know
how 10 build a hay barn. l viii try to
explain how we do il in this part OF the
country.
In the first place, we take four pieces
OF timber SKIS, from 26 10 30 feet long,
and bore holes IN them ten inches apart
with an inch and quarter anger, COM
mencing the holes about eight feet
from one end. Set the timbers in the
ground four feet deep, twenty feet
apart each way. then get 2x6, 20 feet
long. and bit them together on the out
size. Hold them together with strap
irun-old wagon tire Will do. Give
plenty of room to slip up and down the
timhers, then bolt on the outside cor
ners, 2x6 pieces, p feet long This Is
the foundation for tie roof. and
must slip up--with ease. Take 2x4. 10
feet long. rest one end on cross pieces
III the corners. ana coming together In
the centre. .TEls gives a good pitch for
roof. Their lake inch fencing boards
and Mt between the 2x4. using about
four pieces TO each side. These form
the rafters to put roof on. Take good
flooring lumber and rip in two, making
one half inch stuff; then take a growing
plane and run grooves one-half inch
from edge of boards. and nail on with
single nails as close As they viii lav
together; your roof IS then complete.
Get inch pins, round iron, make q lever
SIX feet long. Bore q hole twenty
inches from the end, put Fia ii hole,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-06-19
Tmrnip- a Mulch Irop.

Many years since Mr.. f. Cable, a
fruit grower near Cleveland, pursued a
satisfactory and profitable course in the
way Of keeping the surface of ground
among his orchard trees shaded, and, as
it were, mulched b. the foliage of crops
of turnips. He gathered and sold some
of the best, but always left the tops
upon the ground. When the first crop
was about grown, dressing of well
rotted manure was spread upon the
ground along with light dressing OF
plaster, and n second sowing made.
This last, except a few of the best, re-
manned upon the ground until plowed
in for the spring crop. We have prac-
ticed sowing turnips among strawberry
and raspberry rows, and believe it has
been valuable as a shade to the ground,
as we'll as in clay soils or loans, loosen
the surface.