davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1876-10-10
LEISURE HOURS ON THE FARM.

Every farmer should keep his books
and accounts so posted that he can tell
at moments notice what is paving
and what IS not. He would then be
able to put his hand upon the leaks
and stop them at once. AS you are
not accustomed to the work suppose
assist you in calculating the worth of
that fine red steer in the meadow. Now
what will he weigh by Christmas?
"About 1900 lbs" Well, you paid
sixty dollars for him early in the
Spring, and if the prices remain as at
present, you may possibly get 81 cents
per pound out of Mr.. Cleaver, the
butcher, after great many complaints
about its being too big for the market.
and of the probable loss to himself in
the sale of large amount of fat at 8
cents per pound. This would make
his price just $sS. You will probably
put twenty-five bushels of corn into
him before you think him fat enough
to go; that is worth to you about 90
cents per bushel, or fifteen dollars,
which leaves you Just thirteen dollars
to pay for the hay and grass that he has
eaten during the year, the interest on
your money; labor and risk for the same
time. II don't look like very big pay,
does it? Well, now let us see what
MIR. Cleaver, buying him at $50, will
get out of him. A sixteen hundred
steer will turn out eight hundred
pounds Of salable meat, two hundred
of which he will sell at from 90 to 25
cents per b., say 90 cents, 5000 lbs.
will bring is cents per lb., say 200
lbs. at 10 cents per h., and 100 lbs. will
bring him cents per Id. Now if you
could buy at his stall in market at retail
exactly at these prices, you would pro-
badly more frequently find them above
than below. Ii you wanted plate ribs,
you would not get them for less than
about 10 cents per h., the butcher pre-
ferring TO wholesale them in Philadel,
phia at cents rather than break down
his market here at home. Taking
these prices. the meat brings him in
$40, then say $50 lbs. of fat at 5 cents,
and hide, 100 lbs, at cents per Id.
would add $3.50, making 1923. so or a
prof. of $35 so. AS the cost of killing
and dressing a steer for market is one
dollar, it leaves the butcher $34. so for
standing in market perhaps one day to
dispose of his beef. That looks as
though it might pay pretty handsome
ly.
Now suppose we see what profit has |
been and may be in the Old Brndle |
that you bought with her calf last
spring, for $65. The calf you sold for
$40, and she has now for say 80 weeks |
been giving on an averge quarts of |
milk daily, which, at cents per quart,
would make $67.20. The cost OF feed
consumed by the cow in the 80 weeks
that she has been milking, with 10
more before she is fat enough for the
butcher, at one dollar per week must
be deducted. AS she is good, large
animal she may bring You S39, when
the account will stand as follows
DIZZY cash paid for COW IL calf. $65 90
Feed. 40OOl
Dr.-To cash received calf $1,000
Milk sold. ........ G7.20
Fat CO.. .w.......... $500
The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1876-10-10
DRUG STORES.
DRUG STORES.
w. E. WILLIAMS,
ID r. u G G Is T,

Ninth and Marked Streets,
:Keeps'a full line of
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Pure, fresh, and carefully selected for
DISPENSING PRESCRIPTIONS AND
FILLING ORDERS for FAMILY USE.
FIRsr-THE BEST QUALITY OBTAINA-
BILE.
Never sacrificing quality for cheapness.
SkooND-REASONABL PRICES.
Special attention paid to compoun1ing
CAREFULLY AND AC-
CURATELY, BY
W. E. WILLIAMS. Druggist.
Corner Ninth and Market streets.
febS-tf Wilmington. Del.
The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1876-10-10

TATIINGs-W have now In stock W bfte
.S5 ami check canton nattiras. nv th5piece
"'de. at 'he eweet prices
W. l.. >AAhF,
ttolrtB amt Markit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17
Extraordinary Enterprise.

Frank Leslie, the publisher of eighteer
illustrated newspapers and magazines, has
just added to the list his Neso Popular
Monthly, a marvel of elegance and cheap
ness. 1t is nearly double the size of any
magazine published, each number con-
tanning 1913 quarto pages, eighty fine
illustrations, beautiful chrome litho-
graph frontispiece, and is brim full of
choice literature We name as few of
the admirable articles in the first number
one completely illustrating and describ-
ing the Centennial Exhibition at Phila-
delphia-also Degrading Punishment of
Women illustrated-an interesting sketch
of the life and assassination of Marat,
the French revolutionist, with portrait
the different modes of fire producing
among the aborigines, illustrated-bio-
graphical sketch and portrait of the great
millionaire, VIM, B. Aston, and view of
Aston library. Among the excellent sto-
ries which give so much life to this maya
zine we notice " How we Shot the Falls"
an Adirondack adventure, Pearl Nor
CANS Revenge "Huldah's Defeat
Diamond Cut Diamond" Zone
Night by Eta w. Pierce, "Paurs
Choice,'' ''Flint and Steel.'' The Story
of Raephel Velda," The Fix Mr.. Fer
rers was In" There are over sixty arti-
Giles illustrated by eighty-two engravings,
and is furnished one year, postage paid,
for $3.50. The Popular Monthlg has
already reached a circulation of * 0nO
copies-a success never before recorded of
any publication of its class. Send twenty
cents to Frank Leslie, New York. for
sample copy, by mail free Canvassinc
agents should secure territory for this sue,
cessful magazine. An elegant chrome is
given as premium. Write at once for
terms
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17

CoNsUMPTIvEs, TAKE NoTIcE-Every moment.
OF delay makes your cure more hopeless, and much
depends on the judicous choice of remedy. The
amount of testimony in favor of Dr. Schenck's Pull
monte Syrup, as cure for consumption. far ex-
ceeds all that can be brought to support the preten
slons OF any other medicine. See DR.. Schenck,s
Almanac, containing the certificates of many per.
sons OF the highest responsibility, who have been
restored to health after being pronounced ncurable
by physicians of acknowledged ability Schenck's
Pulmonic Syrup alone has cured many as these
evidences will show; but the cure often promoted
by the employment of two other remedies which
DR.. schenck provides for the purpose. These ad-
ditional remedies are Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic
and Mandrake Pills. By the timely use of these
medicines, according to directions, DR.. Schenck
certifes that most any case of CONSUMPTION NAV
be cured
DIR. schenck is professionally at his principal
office, corner Sixth and Arch streets Philadelphia
every Monday where all letters for advice must be
addressed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17
A Valuable Work.


The Centennial History IF the Unsted
States, from the Discovery IF the american
Continent to tie Close Of the First Century
Of american Independence. By James d.
McCa6e, Author Of !" a Manual Of General
History y " Pathways Of the Holy Land, T"
Etc, Etc. t1 Ill
There has long been great and uni
versally felt want of a History of the Unit
ed States suitable for general USE This
want is now being supplied by the Ma
tional Publishing Co., of Chicago, H..
who have issued handsome volume,
styled 't'The Centennial History of the
United States,' by James D. McCabe, a
well-known historical writer This work
will, undoubtedly, take rank as the Stand
ard History of the United States. 1t is no
dry mass OF details-no bombastic effort
to infame the national pride, but is a
clear, vivid and brilliant narrative of the
events Of our history, from the discovery
Of the American Continent down to the
present time.
We most heartily commend this book to
our readers. 1t gives very interesting
account of the Indians of North America
from the time of the coming of the white
men. The voyages of Columbus, the ex-
plorations Of the different nations of Eu-
rope, and the wanderings of the Spaniards
in search of gold and immortal youth, are
told with graphic power.
Evsry step of our colonial history is
traced with patient fidelity, and the sources
Of those noble, and we trust, enduring in
situations which have made our country
free and great, are shown with remarka-
bic clearness. The causes of our great
struggle for Independence are told with a
logical force and ability unsurpassed in
any work of the day. Then follows a
clear and succinct account of the forma-
ton of the Federal Constitution; the es-
Enlistment of the Union; the course of
affairs until the breaking out Of the Sec
ond War with England; and q full and
comprehensive account of that War and
its results. The events of our career from
the close OF that contest to the commence
ment Of the Civil War, follow in their or
lated with intense vigor, and with a strict
fidelity to truth and the work closes with
an account of the course of affairs since
the end of that great conflict The au-
thor writes throughout with the calmness
and importantly of historian, and
pleads the cause of no party or section.
He states facts, points out the lessons
which they teach, and appealing to neither
passion nor political feeling, trusts to the
good sense of his oountrymen to sustain
his views. In order to render the work
complete in every respect, the author hiss
added to it an appendix, giving an account
OF the approaching International Centen-
NAL Exhibition.
1t is comprised in one large, handsome
octave volume of 925 pages, and contains
Az fine enguavings on steel and wood of
historical personages and scenes. The
price is SO low that all can afford to pur-
chase copy, and each subscriber is pre-
sented. with superb lithographic engrav-
ing of the Centennial Exhibition build
iugs and grounds. The book is sold by
subscription only, and ne publishers want
agents in every county. See advertise
ment lin another column.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17

A FOND father on North Hill sent his
young hopeful of four into an adjoining
room to get book. The boy came back
and said it wasn't there. "Yes it is my
son. said the father cts on the
stand" The boy went back and reported
again, no book there. The father got i'm.
patient and sent another child for the
book, and in the meanwhile the mother
brought the book from a different room
with the remark, "Here's your book, pa.
1t was on the mantel." The gentleman
composed himself to read and about ten
minutes afterward discovered young hope
full still standing by his chair and regard
ing him intently. AS he raised his eyes
the boy broke out solemnly. Father,
there's lie out somewhere; and I didn't
tell it." There wasn't a dry eye in the
decentralization Hack Eye.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17

be about equal to that of the Atlantic
States, of the remainder of the country
fully four-fifth Of our whole territory),
one-half has no timber at all; the map
shows uniform blank.
Although there are no available statis-
tics to show the exact raie of speed with
which we are using up our wood supply,
it is easy to see that we are doing so with
great rapidity. Taking the legitimate
use of lumber alone, industries based on
its manufacture constitute the second in
point of magnitude in the country, and
are only exceeded by the iron interest.
About 10000 persons are employed in
producing sawn lumber alone; SAB $780,
900 are invested therein, and 1 ,295, OOO, 900
laths, 1865, 100000 shingles, and IL, 1850
100000 feet of timber are yearly manu-
featured. Considering next in order the
secondary industries based on the use of
lumber as raw material, carpentry, cab
lnet-making, ship-building, and so on
through all wood workers, we shall find
millions of our people employed. Now
add to this Prof. Brewers assertion that
wood forms the fuel of two-thirds the
population, and the partial fuel of nine
tenths the remaining third, and some gen
eral idea will be obtained Of the enormous
drain upon our forests that is constantly
in progress If we restricted our use of
wood to manufactures and its limited EN-.
ployment as fuel; in other words, if we
rlgidly cut off every source of waste, did
not burn forests to render the land fit for
agriculture, and took proper measures to
prevent those forest fires of unknown orr
gin, which, just at present, are colossal
source OF waste, and if we constantly
planted trees, the timber yield would,
without doubt, be practically sufficient
for our needs for some long period to
come. But this is exactly what we are
not doing, and as result we are drifting
to condition which few adequately real
ize
With these considerations before us, it
is easy to foresee. that, with the disap-
pearance of the forests, the conditions of
all our territories will change, and that
eventually, when the land will no longer
become suited to the needs of our de-
scendants, then gradually, but surely,
they will abandon it. 1t may take cen
turtles for this to be brought about, butnot
many, if the present rate Of waste be main
tanned; and thus we are led to face the
fact that a period so near as to be prac-
ticaiiy tomorrow, as compared with the
history of the race, is at hand when our
existence as a nation will end--Sc5entifc
daaerGcsyn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17
Food as Fuel.

EATING is heating. A dinner heats the
eater. True, it also satisfies the appetite :;
but the appetite is only natures tell-tale,
calling attention to the fact that the body
needs more fuel-that is, more food.
When man has dined, it is sometimes
the case that for little while he will feel
chilly. This is due to the heat, previous
~ ditfused over the body, concentrating
itself in the workshop of the stomach.
There it is busv in the work of digestion.
Digestion is the preparation and dIssoly-
ing of food, 50 that it may enter into the
blood and become fuel. When the work
of digestion is well under way, the heat,
increased by the addition of more fuel or
food, again diffuses itself over the whole
BODY, and the man is warmer than he
was before he dined.
If you did not eat you would grow cold;
the fire would go out, and you would die.
You must keep warm in order to live
The process by which food IS turned
into heat is called, in chemical phrase
ology, oxidation, which is equivalent to
combustion. tits singular combustion,
differing from all other burnings. The
fuel is wet. The food must be thoroughly
soaked before it can be turned into fuel
for the body. The burning takes place
in water, that is, in the blood and muscles,
which contain a great deal of water. 1t
gives out no light. 1t is not confined to
separate part of the body, but goes on
burning, bit by bit, the whole body. 1t
burns as long as there is life in the body.
The burning is called an oxidation, be-
cause it is due to a union of the carbon
and other cOmbustible elements of the
food with the oxygen of the air. The
blood is furnished with cOmbustible ma
terials by the food, and gets oxygen from
the air of the lungs. Thus it carries to
all parts of the body fuel to burn, and
oxygen to burn it with. Everywhere this
burning is going on, because the blood
goes everywhere. This is the reason why
the body is warm.
Several wholesome lessons may be
learned from these facts
Eat only nutritious food, and that in the
proper quantity. If the food is not nutri-
tious, that is, if it is wanting in carbon
and other elements of combustion, it will
not make fuel. 1t clogs the body and in
terteres with the working of the various
organs. If food is taken in too large
quantity it is not consumed; the body
grows heavy and stout and cannot do its
work.
The body requires pure air To burn
It's fuel thoroughly it must be duly sup
piled with oxygen. The purer the air,
and the more freely it circulates, the
greater is the supply of oxygen. Ventila-
ton is not luxury, but necessity, If you
desire a clear mind in a sound body.
The body must rid itself of the useless
products of combustion, the ashes and
clinkers that are in the way Some OF these
products are cast out through the pores of
the skin. 1t, therefore, must be kept
clean. Inside and outside the body must
be washed, or there will be trouble
Remember that food is turned into fuel
by digestion; that poor digestion makes
bad fuel, and that what green wood or
slaty coal is to a fire, bad fuel us to the
body.-YOuth'S COmpaniOn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17
ARCient Discovery.

THE German exploration OF the Pei
oponnesus has been begun very favorably,
having been rewarded by the discovery of
marble statue of Victory, a beautiful
Nike, IN excellent preservation. The in
terest and Importance of the discovery are
enhanced by the fact that the figure bears
upon it "a perfectly legible inscription, re-
'cordingth that it is the work of Paionios, of
Mende, IN Thrace, the contemporary of
Phidias, and was made by him for the
Messenian colonists of Naupactus, by
whom it was presented as vOtive offer
ing to the temple of Jupiter at Olympia,
after the third Messenian war, which had
continued ten years, and ended B. c. 455.
Considering how few works there are
which can with certainty be assigned TO
the age of Phidias, and how small is the
number of those which can be referred to
any one sculptor whose name is known to
us, the success of the German explorers of
Olympia is lasting gain to the whole
world of art. The genuineness of this in
teresting * find'' receives confirmation, as
Prot. Oberbeck has shown, from the writ
ings ct Pausanias, in which the vudive
Nike of the Messenians is described, and
an account is given of the facts which had
led to its offering, and which differed
FROM those recorded by the inscription.
The same writer also refers to Paionios as
the sculptor of the statue, and indicates
the special parts of the great temple of
Jupiter which were the work of his hand
London TeZe09.0q1b
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17
Timber Waste Il National Suicide.

AT meeting held this 29th day off
April, 1899, in Breucklyn (Brooklyn),
Benjamin Van de Water, Joris Hansen,
John Garritse Dorlant'' were chosen off
GERS to consider the create inconvenience
and lose" that the inhabitants of the town
suffered because that unauthorized trades
men doe fall and cult the best trees and
sully the best woods"
This appears to be the first step toward
the first law promulgated in this country
against the wasteful hewing down of tim
Der trees, proceeding recognized as an
important waste, be it noticed, alta period
when vast forests stood on the sites of our
now most popular Western cities, and
when, so far as human knowledge of the
continent went, the supply of wood might
be ineXhaustible. Since the date of thi,
local ordinance, State Legislatures, and
the General Government have enacted laws
carrying with them penalties, apparently
OF sufficient severity to deter the reckless
use of the axe The United States statute
Of March, 1875, imposes $500 fine or
years Imprisonment for wanton destruc-
ton or I'M ury to, or the unlawful cutting
of, :" any timber tree or any shade or or.
namental tree, or any other kind of tree"
on national grounds; and $500 fine, or six
months imprisonment, for permitting
cattle to iljure trees and hedges on SINH
lar territory. Despite, however, the strin-
gency of the various laws, their effect has
not been to stop the waste, and the denu-
dation Of our timber lands continues at a
rate which may be we'll deemed matter
of grave alarm.
In the very admirable statistical atlas
prepared by Gen. Francis A. Walker, ST.
perintendent OF the last census, appears a
chart showing accurately the distribution
of forests throughout the country. 1t
seems to us that the Government would do
a good work if it would Autograph this
map and scatter it broadcast, with copies
of the statutes forbidding the destruction
of forests, over the whole land for it GER
tainlv'showS, in q manner little less than
startling, how very small are the heavily
wooded tracts having $50 or more acres of
timber TO the square mile. OF the west
ern domain, Nevada has 20 such districts,
neither has Arizona, nor New Mexico, nor
Texas, nor Colorado, nor Dakota, nor Ne
braska, nor Kansas, nor the Indian Terri
tory. In fact, considering the whole face
OF the country, there is a patch of heavy
forest IN Maine and New Hampshire, a
small one in New York, large areas COW
eflng half of Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan; the largest tract of all is To-
Gated IN the far northwest corner of the
country; and there are heavily-wooded
districts IN Florida, Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas
After eliminating these widely separated
regions, The total area of which appears to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17
Know Thy Opportunfty.3

THE grim monster, Death, was stealthilv
approaching. ucould almost feel his hot,
fiery breath upon my forehead. My faith
less goddess, Hygeia, had utterly deserted
me. Only now and then would Morpheus
befriend me, buto this suspicious day, he
had deigned to mOisten my eyelids with
heavenly amhrosia, and slept. AS l slept,
behold, had a dream! I thought that was
roaming upon foreign soil whittier my ply
stefan had sent me to recover my health I
was in a great metropolis--one of the grand
marts of the world. In one of my strolls
CHANGED to meet a man who had in his hand
"a handsomey-boun volume, entitled "The
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser,m
land who said that he was an agent for the
sale of the book. The title was such novel
,one that [ was impelled to give the work G
casual notice. As | hastily glanced over its
pages, observed that it contained treatises
not commGnly found in medical works But
had too many times been hoaXed by ap-
pearances, and | determined that [ would
have rotling to do with it. voice Within
me, like a faithful mentor, whispered,
:" AEON thy opportunit; in that book is thy
salvationn' began reasoning with myself
Although doubtful and distrustful, vet put
forth myhand to take the book and, 10! the
agent was gone! l was miserable. In my
agony ;awoke. Great drops of perspira-
bedside was friend who had calles
Said my friend, Il have brought
with me "a book, just published, which
thought might interest you" One glance
AT the work, and was assured that it was
" The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adj
WISER" by DR.. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N.
Y. Surely this was the veritable book which
| had seen in my dreams. My friend loaned
me the work, and every day, as my strength
permitted, | perused its pages. Although
mt contained very interesting treatises on BIZ
oology, cerebral Physiology, Human Temper
aments, Nursing of the Sick, etc, yet, be-
ing an invalid, was most interested in the
subject of Diseases and Remedies. / be-
lieved that had liver affection, and vet
more than one medical attendant had pro
nounccd my disease Consumption, and that
would fall with the autumn leaves In
shat book l found my symptoms perfectly
portrayed. was then confident that had
not deceived myself. / reasoned thus: "Any
man who can SO truthfully depict my feel
ings, and apparently understands my con-
stItutional tendencies, must know Just achat
my physical system demands. I will trust
my case with DIR. Pierce. / will take his
Golden Medical Discovery as recommended
for my disease" The result is, that after
having perseveringly followed his prescribed
treatment, / once again enjoy the bless
ings of health. Therefore, I would say to
the affiicted, Know thy opportunity" and
take Dr.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
6 QUIS,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17

1T is astonishing how little notice is taken
OF an ordinary cold or a slight cough, when
so many suffer from Catarrh and Consump-
ton, which are directly traceable to these
causes. La our changeable climate, no one
should travel without being provided with
remedy for sudden attacks of this kind.
Forest Tar is one of the bost preparations
for that purpose, and Forest Tar Troches is
very convenient fornss of it. Prepared by
The Forest Tar Co., Portland, Me-, and sold
by all druggists.