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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-04-01
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-04-01
FARM AND NousEHolD.

How TO GET PLENTY OF Fresh Fcqs..-
E. Wright, of Michigan, in the German
torn telegraph. says: "Once. thirty
years ago, l was troubled Just as nv
neighbors now are. I fed nv hens
plenty of corn, and got few eggs. I
reasoned upon the matter, and hap
pened to think the constituent parts of
milk and the whites of eggs were much
alike. Now, it has long been known to
mllkmen that wheat middlings and bran
are about the best Of any feed to make
COWS give milk; why not, then, the best
to make hens lay? tried it, and have
since had no trouble. My mode of pre-
pairing the feed is to mix about five
parts OF bran and one of middlings. In
the morning l wet up with water about
four quarts of the mixture in large tin
pan, taking pains to have it only slight
~ damp. This I set in a warm, sunny
spot south of the shed, and they walk
up, take a few dips, (dont seem to fancy
it like corn) and start off on q short
hunt for something better, but always
coming around in short time for few
more dips from the dish of bran. There
is little time during the whole day, but
one or more are standing by the pan,
and likewise helping themselves. am
careful to mix for them Just as much as
they will consume during the day. AT
night, just before they retire to their
roost, L usually throw them about pint
of shelled corn, we'll scattered, so that
each can get few kernels.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-04-01

New ENGLAND Plum PUDDING. If our
friends will eat this 'sindigestible thing
they should know just how TO make it
good" Here is recipe: Open and
soak about dozen large crackers in new
milk the night before it is made, or use
the same quantity of sliced bread. Some
good cooks butter each half cracker.
Use tin or iron kettle that holds about
a gallon. This should be previously
swabbed inside with fat, that the pud-
ding may turn out in good shape. Mix
four beaten eggs with Two cups Of sugar
equal to pint--a teaspoonful of salt,
teaspoonful each of ground cloves,
allspice, and cinnamon, and one grated
nutmeg Half fill the kettle with alter
nate layers of crackers Oh bread, the
egg mixture, and good muscadel or box
raisins, using pound of the latter.
Make the kettle three-fourths full with
milk, if to be baked in stove oven, as
it swells and runs over; but it may be
filed to bake in brick oven. 1t re-
quires three hours to bake in brick
oven, and some less in u stove (the
baking qualities of stoves difler). Cover
it when baking if likely to burn. 1t is
better cold than hot, but nice either
way, and may be served with or without
sauce.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-04-01
Loss by Flood.

! BosToN, March 2,.-Later advices from
! Clinton, Mass, show the damage occasioned
by the giving away of Messy Pond Dam was
even greater than at first estimated and tina
two hundred thousand dollars will hardly
cover it, The scene to day, for a distance of
two miles, in the track Of the waters resem-
bled the terrible Mill river disaster The
principal losses were at Fullows, which is
now a complete ruin where there was thriv-
ing manufacturing settlement. The Fullow-
Vile comb factory occupied five buildings,
hardly ave>tigc of which now remains
Doctoring the Postal Law.
WASHINGTON, March 21.-The postal bill
reported fayorably from the Senate Postal
Committee to-day, is Hamln's measured
amended, 50 as to provide the rate for third
class mail matter shall be one cent per ounce
for any distance not exceeding one thousand
miles an d two cents per ounce Tor any dis
tance over one thousand miles. The amend
cd bill also provides that transient newspa>
pers and magazines shall pay postage for any
distance at the rate Of one cent for every
three ounces and one cent for e.ch two ounces,
or fractional part of two ounces, additional.
Don't Resign.
WASHINGTON, March 2,.-Col. New has
withheld for the present his resignation as
United States Treasurer, at the request of
the President and Secretary Bristow.
More High Water.
LAWRENCE. Mass, March 21-Some 1900
or 5000 mill operatives here are idle to day.
owing TO the stoppage of many mills, in conse
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-04-01

1NSTABl.ISIIED in lS54 for /. ,a,nrn
Il. of S,\lll and Seminal disc. :, such ~
elect. Structure, =, hills. ia ali
its forms Seminal Weakness, II, i,ot,nr> etc
skin ,liSra~,.SOf wears standing al rtratrd
I,sS successfully treated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

enough under the action of climatic in
fluences to saturate the soil with the
necessary planr-food, which they have I'M
locked from their chemical combinations,
and given to the soil in proper physical
condition. These changes are brought
about more rapidly when certain mechan-
ical changes of condition are wrought up
on the soil.
Carbonic acid is one of the most active
of the agents employed in bringing the
insoluble organic matter in the soil into
that physical condition in which it be-
comes available as plant food In order
that this acid may be formed, it is essen
tial that the carbonaceous matter in the
soil should be brought into direct contact
with the atmosphere, from which thew
procure the oxygen necessary to convert
them into carbOnic acid So long as stag
nant water remains in the soil, or so long
as the soil is in a dense or very compact
condition, it is impossible for the carbon
to be converted into acid.-Jour7aaI of
CHen2iSfTY
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
Unlimited Remedial II esOurces.

People sometimes suppose that DR..
Pierce's Family Medicines represent the en-
tire extent of his resources for curing disease.
This is an error. Experience proved that
while the Golden Medical Discovery, Favor
tie Prescription, Pleasant Purgative Pellets,
Compound Extract of Smart-Weed, and DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy would, if faithfully
used, cure large variety of chronic COM
plants, there would be here and there
case which, from its severity, or from its
complication with other disorders, would
resist their action. These exceptional cases
required thorough examination into their
symptoms, to ascertain the exact nature and
extent of the disease or diseases under
which the patient was laboring, and the use
of specific remedies to meet and overcome
the same. This led to the establishment of
the Worlds Dispensary, at Buffalo, n. Y,
with its Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons,
each of whom is skilled in the treatment of
chronic disorders in general and those be-
longing to his own special department in
particular. To one is assigned diseases of
the threat and lungs; to another, diseases
of the kidneys and urogenital organs; to an
other, diseases of the digestive system; to an
other, diseases of the nervous system and
to another, diseases of the eve and ear
Thus the highest degree of perfection in med
icine and surgery is attained. The establish
ment of this institution enables the Doctor
to meet a long-felt want in the treatment of
the more severe chronic affections By a
careful consideration of the symptoms as
given in writing, he successfully treats thou
sands OF cases at their homes. Others visit
the Dispensary in person. The amplest re-
sources for the treatment of lingering affec-
tons are thus placed at the disposal of
every patient, and those on whom the pro-
prietary medicines do not have the desired
effect can procure a more thorough and
efficient course by q personal application to
the proprietor of the Worlds Dispensary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
Mending Tinware.

HAVING read a communication in the
Rural upon this subject, and, having had
some experience in the art, I give your
readers the benefit thereof
One canvery easily learn to mend their
own tin, and soldering iron is much bet
ter than a candle 10 do it with, as the
solder will adhere to the timed face of the
iron, and may be drawn along a crack or
seam, and spread or rubbed over a hole
If the solder is not inclined to stick, lit
tie rubbing the place with the hot iron will
assist it to do so.
In order to brighten tin or soldering, it
should only be scraped very lightly, that
the iron plate beneath may be exposed as
little as possible; for the reason that solder
does not readily adhere to an iron or un-
timed surface, and if there are any spots
uncovered by the solder, the iron will soon
corrode and make new hole-and this is
the reason why have learned better than
to use acids or soldering fluid They are
SO powerfully corrosive, as your cor
respondent says-that they set up an act
ion on the tin, especially if the iron is ex-
posed, and in little while the whole spot
will be rusted out. Acjds are wh0llg u1o-
necessary IN soldering timed surfaces
Timers do not use them in ordinary tin
work but they are useful for brass, cop
per, zinc, etc. A little rosin, put upon
the place with your solder, IS all that is
necessary, and is not corrosive. If the
iron is heated too hot, so that it is red, the
timing upon it will be destroyed, and at
the same time will eat cavities in it,
making rough face, in which case it may
be hammered down some, then filed
bright, and timed again, by heating it so
that it will melt solder, and then rubbing
its bright face in the melted solder, with
rosin, on brick. The brick serves to
keep it bright until the solder adheres.-
Reuben A,adreaOs, IN RuraI Neao Yorker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
Pasturing Meadows.

If tell you, says S. J. Wooley, in the
Ohio farmer, that pasturing your mead
oWs will make them more productive,
you may doubt it. But such is the fact,
IN many cases. 1t is my experience that
THIS is the only way that very many
meadows can be brought to full product
lveness. Bat itmust be done in the prop
er manner and at the right time Do
not pasture your meadows in the spring
and expect them to produce full crop :;
neither should you pasture off the after
math too close. Nearly all of our mead
ows have failed to produce more than
half crop after from five to eight years,
and after pasturing them one season. the
next year they would produce a good
crop. In one particular instance | rent
ed meadow to man for a pasture: it
had only produced half crop of hay for
two or more years previous. He put
about three times as much stock on it as
should have been; it was grazed close to
the ground all summer. I concluded
that 1t would not amount to anything for
meadow or pasture afterward any more;
but the next spring it looked so strong
and vigorous that | let it alone, and it pro-
duced full crop. have never seen this
accounted for, or seen anything in print in
reference to it, but have no doubt that the
experience of others will coincide with
my own. [ can account for it only in the
following manner: 1t is a well-known
fact that many old meadows are so full of
worms that they cut nearly all the grass
roots off, and in places you can roll the
sod back like fleece of wool. The worms
are so near the surface that the crows and
the red-headed woodpeckers destroy great
quantities OF them; the flicker or yellow
hammer mostly lives on them also If the
meadows are tramped all over with farm
stock, these worms will all be tramped to
death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

fed cattle must be hardened by the addi-
ton of beeswax or treated with solution
Of alum in order to be made to answer the
same purpose. These facts, taken togeth-
er, seem to show that in some senses Ma
ture is more plastic in our hands than we
have imagined her to be, ant in some
sense that the starch and sugar foods, or
the carbonaceous ones, can never be made
to fill the places of albuminous ones, and
0ice 0ersa; but so easily managed in other
senses that, if we want eggs, milk, suet,
fat or muscle in extra quantity or Of a par
ticular kind, we have but to use and feed
the right kind of food to procure them
B. +. IT,, IN Country Gentleman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
A MANS native meanness will some
times make him tell the truth where he
would naturally tell lie.

ALMOST daily some discovery is announced,
which is astonishing alike for its simplicity
and its great value. Such is the invention
by which The Forest Tar Co. are enabled to
utilize pure tar rs a medicine. It's great
healing power has long been recognized,
but not much used heretofore, because of
the inconvenience of handling tar in its
crude state Under the name of Forest Tar
it is put up in various forms suitable for
taking internally and convenient for outward
application. Ask your druggist for these
preparations, or write The Forest Tar Co.,
Portland, Me-, for information.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
The AbsOrptiye Power of Soil.

1t is an important discovery of recent
date, that soils have the power Of separ-
ating not only ammonia, but other bases
also, from their solutions, and of holding
them with great ten&city after their alb
sorption. Thus 100 grains of clay soil,
taken from the plastic clay formation of
England, absorbed 1850 grains of potash
from solution of caustic potash contain
ing one per cent. of the alkai. 1t is inter
esting to observe that the liquid was not
in this case, filtered through the soil, but
the cold solution was merely left in con-
tact with it for twelve hours.
1t has been further shown that soils
have the ability to separate the alkaline
bases from the acids with which they are
combined. When saline solutions are
slowly filtered through soils five or six
inches deep, the liquids which passed
through were deprived Of their alkaline
bases, as potash, soda, ammonia and
magnesia, and only the acids were to be
found in combination with some other
base. Thus, when muriate of ammonia
was filtered through the soil the am
monia was removed, and correspond
ing quantity Of lime, in combination with
murIatic acid, was found in the filtered
liquid. In the same way sulphate of
potash was deprived of its base, and the
liquid collected gave suIphate of lime.
Those soils which have the greatest
amount of capillary porosity will con-
dense the greatest amount of manurial
substances on their internal surfaces, will
retain them longest against the adverse
solvent action of water, and will give
them out most readily to the rootlets of
the growing plant.
A mass of adhesive clay will absorb but
very slight amount Of available manure;
but if this same mass is rendered friable.
by mechanical processes, its power Of alb
sorption is amazingly increased. In view
of what has been stated, it is very clear
that one way in which blowing increases
the fertility of land is by increasing its
porosity by pulverization.
Again, many manurial substances exist
in the soil, which, being insoluble, exer-
else no dCllou Oh uIo SAo"u q plants.
and contribute nothing to their nutrition ;
but by the slow, though regular action of
the frosts and the rain, the air and the
sunshine, insoluble and refractory COM
pounds are reduced to a soluble state, and
are appropriated and held on deposit by
the soil to the credit Of the next cultivated
crop. This explains the we'll known fact
that soils, which have been cropped to
the very verge of barrenness, will recover
their fertility if allowed to remain long
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

ECoNoMY.-You VIII save money by using
Proctor d CANDLES Original Notified German
Soap. 1t will not waste nor become soft
like ordinary yellow soap when used in warm
water, nor is it cheapened with articles inju-
rious to clothes. Remember, you obtain a full
one-pound bar if you purchase their brand.
To protect their brand from imitators
Proctor & Gamble patented it, and the patent
was sustained in the United States Courts.
Eaanaiqe the stamp the bars arAea you
5alz Take their SOaD oralu.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
Map OF the Black Hills.

THE Bismarck Tribune, published seventy
five miles nearer Black Hills than any other
newspaper, gives more reliable information
concerning them than any other. Sent to
any address six months, together with a
pocket map of Dakota and the Black Hills,
showing facts CLEANED by all official surveys
and late explorations Six months for one
dollar. Address G. A Lounsberry, Manager,
Bismarck, d. T.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

FURNITURE is sold by Holton & Hildreth
225 and 227 State st., Chicago, lower than any
house in the West. Goods are first-class.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
DIR. Schenck,s Standard Remedies.

HE standard remedies for all diseases of the
lungs are SCHENClI's PULNoNIC SYRUP. SCHaNCK's
SEA WEED Tonic and SCHENCK's MANDRAKE
PILLS. and, if taken before the lungs are destroyed
q speedy cure is effected.
TO these three medicines DR.. J. H. Schenck, of
Philadelphia, owes his unrivaled success in the
treatment of pulmonary diseases.
The Pulmonic Syrup ripens the morbid matter
IN the lungs; nature throws it of by an easy ex-
pectoration, for when the phlegm matter is ripe
slight cough will throw it off, the patient has rest
and the lungs begin to heal.
To enable the PUlmOnic Syrup to do this.
Schencks Mandrake Pills and Schenck's Sea
weed Tonic must be freely used to cleanse the
stomach and liver. Schenek's Mandrake Pills act
on the liver, removing all distractions relax the
gallbadder, the bile starts freely and the liver is
soon relieved.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic is gentle stimulant
and Alternative; the alkal of which it is composed
mikes with the food and prevents sOuring. 1t as
slsts the digestion by toning up the stomach to a
healthy condition. so that the food and the Pull
monlc Syrup will make good blood; then the lungs
heal and the patient will surely get well if care is
taken to prevent fresh cold.
All who wish to consult DR.. SChenck. either per-
sonally or by letter, do at his principal Of
hce, corner of SIXTH and ARCH SITS, Philadelphia,
every Monday
;, Schenck's medicines are sold by all druggists
throughout the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

PRUssING's White Wine Vinegar excels all
others in purity, strength and flavor. Try it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

Every Person raising few or many
SHE EP, VIII ind a vast amount of
most excellent, plain. practical informal
ton. all about Breeds. Profits. Feeding.
Care, Diseases, in short, EVERYTHING
ABOUT SHEEP. in new Book of great
value, just issued, viz. the "SHEP-
HERDS MANUAL" 252 Pages. Well
cravings Price only s1.50. sent post
paid. ORANGE JUDD COMPANY.
Publishers, .245 Broadway, New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
TREES, VINES AND PLANTS,

Splendid stock of best varieties Special rates on
large orders for Peach Trees Grape Vines and Rasp-
berry Plants. Correspondence solicited Descriptive
Catalogue "a pages, instructive and valuable. to
Asylum Hill Nurseries, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

ITO SAVE MONEY, avoid annoyance and learn
of the shortcuts" il travelling and sight-see
Ing, read Hints for the Centennial" Practical sug-
gestons and information. True economy for every
one expecting to attend the Exposition buy it, Get
to help mature plans. BY mail 50 cents. Circu
lar free. KIMBALL & CO.. Box 1854. New Orleans
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

SlU $50 5. Il. Bufford's Sons, Boston, Mass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

'chenck's medicines are sold by all druggists
'oughout the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

Day at Home. Agents wanted. Outfit and
Ms free. Address TRUE & CO., Augusta, Ne
The daily gazette., 1876-11-14

some OF its members being candidates for
office. 1t is claimed that only two mem
bers of the board are eligible to serve and
they are both negroes. That there viii
have to be a reorganization of the board,
with fair representation of the conser-
vative element upon it, is regarded us
certain. The fact that the attention of
the whole country is now concentrated
upon Louisiana, with the stern determina-
ton that there shall be no further foul
play, has had the effect to take the starch
out of good many of the radical CON
spirators here.
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
A very important discovery has Just
been made which may have the effect to
simplify very much the momentous
question OF the electoral vote. Distin-
guished lawyers of Louisiana who have
been critically examining the law under
which the returning board exercises its
functions, allege that it makes no pro-
vision vcsting them with any jurisdiction
over the counting of the electoral vote,
but il is confined to prescribing the
method by which the vote for State Of
ficers and members of Congress shall be
canvassed. The law has been submitted
to the inspection of some of the eminent
.jurists who are now here from the North
construction it removes from the return
ing board all power to tamper with the
election returns, and the electoral vote
must be reckoned up as il was cast.
Otherwise if the electoral vote of Louisi.
ana is stolen away from Tilden, to whom
it belongs, the issue cannot be avoided in
the halls of Congress.
POLITICAL HocUs-poCUs.
The conservatives have Dositiye eyi-
dence that the radical election officers in
the parish of East Baton Rouge have
turned democratic majority Ga 600 into
| radical majority of 800.
AN ADDRESS FROM GEN. HAMPTON.
tGen. Wade Hampton on Saturdayilast
issued the following address to the peo-
pie of South Carolina
"lf Offering to our people my heartfelt
congratulations and gratitude for the grand
victory they have won, l venture to beg
them to prove themselves worthy of it by
a continued observance ofgood order and
the rigid preservation of peace. Let us
show that we seek only the restoration Of
good government, the return ofprosperity
and the establishment of harmony to the
whole people of our State. In the houj
OF victory we should be magnanimous
and we should strive to forget animosities
, ,of the contest by recalling the grand re
suits OF our success; prescribing none fo
differences of opinion regarding none a,
our enemies save such as are inimical t,
law and order. Let us all unite in Tn,
patriotic work Of redeeming the State
by such conduct we can only bring about
good feeling among all classes. but ca,
most surely reap the best fruits of vic
tory. "WADE HAMPTON.