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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

"A good way to clean black kid gloves,
says the Scientific american, is to take a
teSpoonful of salad oil (sweet uiD, drop
few drops Of ink in it, and rub it over
the gloves with the tip of a feather; then
let them dry in the sun.
Am eminent physician of Boston robs
scarlet fever of many of its terrors by pre-
scribing for the patient warm lemonade,
sired, and the application of warmth TO
the stomach. He directs that sheet
should be wrung out of hot water and laid
on the stomach, renewing it as often as it
coOls. Nothing but lemonade is to be
given.
Graham Gems.-One-quarter pound
of flour, the same of Graham meal, one
spoonful of sugar, good pinch of salt,
two teaspoonfuls baking powder, we'll
mixed in the flour; add two beaten eggs,
and milk to make stiff batter; stir well,
heat and butter the gem pans, and put at
once into quick oven. A few minutes
will bake them. Serve very hot They
are not :" bad to take' at breakfast, of a
cold morning
Lemon Drops.-Upoh half a pound
of finely powdered sugar, pour just enough
lemnn-iuice to dissolve it, and boil to the
consistency of thick strip. Drop this on
plates, and put in warm place to harden.
Or, pour four ounces of lemon Juice on
one pound of loaf-sugar, with four ounces
of rose-water. Boil to strip, add grated
lemon-peel, and proceed as in the first
recipe. BY adding raspberry strip, in
stead Of lemon-juice, you have raspberry
drops.
The following bits of farm wisdom
are taken from the Ioaca State Register:
Give COWS plenty of salt and water,
winter and summer. DO not let the
wheat and corn fields cause any one to
neglect the garden :. DO not waste soap
suds. 1t is healthy for hogs, and highly
fertilizing to grape vines. . Potatoes
which are to be planted had better be cut
few days before and placed so the cut
part can be dried before planting. ;" Be
careful aohdt y0u S5gn," should be printed
in large capitals and put up in promi-
nent place in every farmers house. q. g. &.
Pure milk contains about e;ghty-nine per
cent. of water, and yet many of the milk
retailers insist this is not water enough.
Seeds of the squash family are said to
be improved by age, as the new seeds run
to vines, while old seeds produce more
fruit. a. Animals, especially cattle and
hogs, should be fat always, from a calf or
pig up. Then they are always ready for
the shambles. Fat steers turned out to
Craze will shrink for few days, then
they will gain rapidly. +. An hours open
air work daily in the garden is refreshing,
invigorating, remunerative and productive
of cheerfulness and health to merchant,
professional man, mechanic or loafng
gentleman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
housekeeping.

In order to keep house acceptably, one
must be endowed with method, judgment,
taste and eif-cOntrol; but as these rarely
meet IN the same person, many houses are
conducted solely by means of one or the
other, while many more are run at the eX-
pense of neither and the result is hand
to-mOuth kind Of housekeeping, credita-
BILE to nobody, atfording anxiety to all and
pleasure to none. To be a good house
keeper should be the aim of everyone who
has a house to keep, be it palace or cot
tage; and this does not merely include
living in a state of constant warfare with
the ubiquitous ogre, Dust, which lies in
ambush in every crack and Granny, nor in
preserving the paint unspotted, the glass
unclouded, the closets in perfect order,
and the floors in such condition that one
could eat off them, as the saying goes-all
this may be accomplished, and yet the
house answer only to the description of
well-kept inn; the good housekeeper must
still call herself an Improbable servant,
when she has dictated the terms upon
which the home may exist, unless she has
not only attended to the bodily require
ments, not only seen to it that the meals
shall be well and regularly served, that
the apartments shall be aired, lighted and
and civil, but that the eyes shall be de-
lighted as we'll as the palate, the mind be
nOurished as well as the body, that each
individual shall dwell at ease, without
dread of a possible hitch in the household
machinery, if ne fails to pursue a pre-
scribed and wearisome routine. Who has
not seen people moving in their own
homes as if afraid Of doing some mischief,
who had the air of being about as much
at home as unlimited guests; children
who stood in awe of the best parlor; sons
who felt so Ill at ease under the paternal
roof-tree that they made haste to exchange
it for the happy go-lucky atmosphere Of
the billiard saloon? Surely housekeeping
as we'll as the Sabbath was made for man,
ana not the reverse, as many seem to sus-
pect. 1t is not necessary that we should
exhibit wOOd-carving, ormOlu and Palsy
pottery in our houses, but it as imperative
that we should have freedom and absence
OF cOnstraint, that we should he able to
treat our family and friends with more re-
spect than our possessions. Let there be
nothing in the house too good for human
natures daily enjoyment, if it is going to
bea stumbling block to any; let us have
nothing under glass cases, but everything
for use and profit, remembering that 1t is
quite as important to provide pleasure for
the household as food and clothing. Let
us not live in such dread of ga weeks
warning that we dare not ask friend to
dine, or order roast for washing day.
nor allow ourselves to be disturbed by
morse} of dust, or a nicked dish to de-
stroy our equanimity, if we would keep
house for the purposes of happiness and
OmfOrt.-HaTper's Bdsar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
A Family Journal.

In certain farm house twenty years
agoa great blank book was kept, and
labeled Home Journal. Every night some
one made an entry in it. Father sat down
the sale of the calves, or mother the cut
of the baby's eye tooth; or, perhaps,
Jenny wrote full account of the sleigh
ing party lastnight; or Bob the proceed
ings of the Phi Beta Club; or Tom
scrawled, tried my new gun. Bully.
Snet into the fence and hit Johnson's old
cat"
On toward the middle of the book there
was the entry of Jenny's marriage, and
one Of the younger girls had added de-
scription of the bridesmaids dresses, and
long afterward there was written, q this
day father died" in Bob's trembling
hand. There was blank of many months
after that.
But nothing could have served better
to bind atfamily of headstrong boys and
girls together than the keeping of this
book. They come back TO the old home
stead now, men and women with grizzled
hair, TO see their mother who is still Iiv-
ing, and turn over its pages reverently
with many hearty laugh, or tears COM
ing into their eyes. 1t is their childhood
come back again in visible shape.-Scr6b-
Ber's lfontblg.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31

where the cold, damp air will drain off in
quick moving currents. Stagnant air is
as bad for the health as stagnant water.
As refinement and beauty are among
the highest qualities of the works of the
Creator, so in constructing dwelling we
should seek TO place our house where 1t
will be in harmony with all around. 1t
should not stand too near the highway nor
within smelling distance of the barn-yard
and pig pens. If good farmer can be
known by his barn, an Intelligent one may
be known by the location he selects for
his house. Many farmhouse in this
country of boosted intelligence takes a
place inferior TO that of the barn.
If possible, the farm house should CON-
mand a pleasant outlook. This is i'm
possible sometimes on large, level prai-
ries, but even on those there are slight
elevations, and these are always prefer
able to the lower portions. Water settles
away more quickly, the soil is warmer,
because drier, vegetation starts earlier in
spring and frosts are not so severe.
Next in importance is sunshine. The
house should stand in the sunshine all the
day. There is life and health in sunshine;
palsies, rheumatisms and neuralgies
where there is none. Trees should not
shine, but occupy places at a respectful
distance. Trees are more needed for pro-
lection against cold winds than for shad-
ing the dwelling, If they are introduced
for the purpose of ornamentation they are
quite as effective at a little distance from
the walls of the house. If sunlight
takes the color out of the carpets, ittrans-
fers it to the complexion of the children;
if there is no sunlight in the house there
will be little in the souls of the occupants.
Another important consideration we may
mention is that plants cannot be grown
satisfactorily without sunlight at all times
Of the day.
A farmers house should be two full
stories, and broad on the foundation
Never build cellar nor a cellar-kitchen
below. They are, at best, damp,
noisOme, uuwholesOme reservoirs of NAL
aria and nervous diseases. They are sell
dom effectually ventilated, owing TO the
fact that the damp, cold air settles to the
ground, while ventilation is secured only
by means of windows at the top. a
two-story house costs but little more than
one or one-and- a-half story. The wall
and roof cost no more, and when it is fin
ished there is an air of comfort and
character of force about it which are
worth good deal, for there is indeed
comfort within as well as expression
without. The rooms are high and airy,
the windows are also high, admitting
better ventilation The posts should be
at least twenty feet in length.
As to outward finish, that is of less mo-
ment, though in an artistic and refined
sense, we'll worthy of consideration and
study.-Detr0gt Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
The Farmers Home.

Intelligence alone will lift men out of
the caves of ignorance and place them
above the dwellers in mud huts In this
country, where every man is a sovereign
and has access to free schools, there is no
excuse for ignorance, nor for lack of
self-respect nor is there any good reason
for the half-f1edged notion that is quite
common, that farmers and their families
must occupy lower positions in social life
than professional men and their families.
Equal intelligence will secure equal po-
sitlon, equal influence, equal usefulness,
without regard to the particular class to
which one, in this country, belongs, or to
the particular sphere in which he moves.
We are led into these reflections be-
cause we know that the farmer and his
family, as they have steadily advanced
since the organization of Harvard Univer-
sity in 1886, to the present time, owe it al
TO the increase of knowledge among the
class to which they belong. Among the
good things which knowledge brings, and
teaches US to enjoy and value, and which
assist in giving US position and influence
in life, we may class good house. 1t
may be, and often is, that a fine house is
not home in the true sense OF the word,
for complete home includes not only
IdSteIu MUSE, III u HeoItuI vi loOfslity bul
also cultivated minds and affections iu the
occupants.
But we must leave these aesthetic con-
siderations for the more practical details
which in the construction of home are
of the most immediate Importance. The
first matter relates to a site for the house.
1t is a great mistake to select low situa-
ton, which is done sometimes in order 70
secure the advantages of reaching water
more readily aud to avoid the strong
winds which rake the higher points. As
cold air settles into the lowest places IL Is
found that though not liable to wiud-cur-
rents, these locations are colder and more
damp than the hills. It is important then
to place the house on high, dry ground,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31

and spread it over the floor, aid got on
the top of it and stamped and stamped,
and IN mint there wasn't no fire. And
then | reached up and made grab for
the shot-pouch, and ran off down the
road-I can go pretty fast yet, Mister
Jones-down to Hagley's folks. As good
luck would have it, the baby had the
measles, and some of 'em was up and let
me in. Then I told 'em about it, and
Hagley and his boy Jim and the hired
man got up and went to see about it with
lantern. Oh, it was awful! They found
that man stun-dead. a piece of that ker-
risen lamp had gone right into him and
made a great hole. Ought fearful I
never could look athim. I'd seen him all
I wanted to. They told me about it; that
was anough for me-
"He was J. o. F., was he?" the lank
Jones inquired.
"He was J. o. F. Grundell found out
he was a 'reg'lar bugler by trade, ana he
had him laid out in the graveyard very
respectfully. Grundell set up that stone,
and | made up them lines, and he cut
'em in himself; and, not wantin' to say
anytEin' bad Of a dead man, we only put
it that he died by a lamp not Stain
how"
"Welll but who was the other man
Arthur who %
con! I won't tell. Some few knows
it, but not many. I let him know pretty
soon after that l see him, and said I'd
never tell no one who it was if he'd never
do anything of the kind again. But he
run away pretty soon after that, and like
to broke his poor mothers heart. the
dear soul! They think he's gone to Cali
forny."
Then the lank and specialized Jones
thanked Mrs. Grundell for the story of
j. o. F. and the lamp, and departed for
the home Of his beloved Susanna; med
itating, as he walked thither, upon the
veriication, in special instance, of the
statement that no home is without its
skeleton.-Cdrlos Chester, IN Christian
Unicn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
10 A GORILLA IN A MENAGERIE.
20 mighty ape.
Half beast, half man,
Thy uncouth shape,

20 mighty ape!
Half beast, half man,
Thy uncouth shape,
Betrays plan,
The gulf of Being at a bound to span.
Thou art the link between ourselves and brutes
Lifting the lower to a higher plane;
Thy human face all cavilers refutes,
Who sheer at Darwin as dreamer vain.
How earnest thou beneath this canvas tent?
Within this cage? behind these iron bars?
Thou, whose young days In trOpic lands were
spent,
With strange companions, under foreign stars!
Art thou not lonely? what Is life to thee
Thus mewed in prison, innocent of crime,
Become a spectacle for crowds to see,
And reckless boys to jeer at all the time?
Hast thou no feelings such as we possess?
Art thou devoid of any sense of shame?
Rise up, 0 brother, and thy wrongs redress;
Rise in thy might, and be no longer tame!'
paused in my apostrophe; the animal arose;
He seized the bars that penned him in; my blood
In terror froze;
He shook the cage from side to side; the fright
ened people fed;
Then in a tone of savage wrath the horrid mon
ster said:
g Pm hired by the wake to wear the dhirty cray
thurs shkin;
1 come from Tipperary, and me name is Micky
Flynn"
F. w. Clarke, in Scr5bney to, June.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
VEGETINE

Works in the human system in perfect harmony
with natures laws. and while it is pleasant to
fuence he bowels, it is absolute in its action
on disease, and is not a vile, nauseous Biiters,
purging the invalid into false hope that they are
being cured. VEGETINE is a purely yegesa-
principles. 1t is Endorsed by the best physicians
where its virtues have been tested, is recommend
ed only where medicine is needed, and
is not mixture of cheap whiskey sold under the
cloak of Bitters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31

NORMALLY an American carload is
10000 lbs. 1t is also 20 barrels of salt, 70
OF lime, so of -four, 60 Of whisky, 200
sacks of flour, 6 cords of soft wood, Is or
90 head of cattle, 80 or 60 head of hogs,
80 to 100 head of sheep, 5000 feet of solid
boards, $40 bushels of wheat, 400 Of corn,
$50 of oats, 400 Of barley, $50 Of flax seed
$50 of apples, 430 of Irish potatoes, 800
of sweet potatoes, 1000 bushels of bran,
1870 to 100 barrels of eggs, and $4,000 to
$4,000 pounds of butter.-U. s. B. @. Dc r.
Pa1oytea
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31

WILHoFT's Tonic is not panacea-is not
cure for everything, but is a ca-holicon for
malarious diseases, and day by day adds
fresh laurels to its crown of glorious sue
cess. EnQorged Liyers and Spleens, along
the shady banks of our lakes and rivers, are
restored to their healthy and normal secre-
tons. Health and vigor follow its use, and
Chills have taken their departure from every
household where Wilhoft's Anti Periodic is
kept and taken. Dou't fail 10 try it. G. r.
F1NLAY u Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGIsTs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
Xou Can Save Money

By using DooLEY's YEAST POWDER, for less
butter, flour, eggs, etc, are required to ac-
eomplish satisfactory results. This is not a
needles hap-hazard statement, but fact
verified by the experience of many thousand
families. Try it and prove the claim.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.

Don't fail to procure Mrs. WINsLows SooTH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases of teething in chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pam cures wind
collie, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief
and health to the child, gives rest to the mother
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
DIR. y. A. Wilson'S pills

Cure Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Nervous
and Bilious Headache in all its forms, and
arrangements of Stomach and Bowels. To
be had of all the Druggists or from the pro-
prietors, B. L. Fahnestocll 81 Co., Pittsburgh
Money refunded if they do not do all we
claim for them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31

LAME AND PAINFUL BACKS, Weak an
Painful Kid eys, are at once relieved by that
most grateful, soothing and healing remedy,
COLLINS VoLTAIC PLASTER, Thousands Of
sufferers have sent their grateful acknowl
edgements to the proprietors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
Consumption Cured.

An old Physician, retired from active pFac-
tlce, having hat placed in his hands by an
East India Missionary the formula of SIM
pie Vegetable Remedy, for the eedy and
permanent Cure of Consum ption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh. Asthma. and all Throat and Lung
Affections, also positive and Radical Cure
for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Com
plants, after having thoroughly tested its
wonderful curative powers in thousands of
cases, fe Is it his duty to make it known to
his suffering fellows. Actuated oy this mo-
tive, and a conscientious desire to relieve hu-
man suffering, he will send Gree of charged
to all who desire it, this recipe, with full di-
reetions for preparing and successfully using
Sent by return mail by addressing, with
stamp, naming this paper, Dr.. w. G. Stevens,
l26 Powers Block. Rochester. n. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31

WE have sold Hatch's Universal Cough
Syrup for about three years. No medicine
of the kind sells as rapidly, or gives such
uniform satisfaction. It has grown in favor
from the first of its use in this section. 1t
takes the lead of all those preparations that
have been considered standard
ROBINSON d Wendell,
Fairhaven, Cayuga Co., NY.
Sold by FL. A. Hurlbut 81 Co., Chicago, Ill
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
VlE(i]I[ii'I'INIE,
For Bilious, Renlittent, and In
ternlittent Fever.

Or what Is more commonly termed Fever and
Ague, with pain in the loins and through the
back, and indie cribable chilly sensation down the
spine an irresistible disposition to yawn pain in
the eyes, which is increased by moving them, a
bue tinge in the skin, and great listlessness and
debility, VEGETINE is a safe and positive
remedy. 1t is compounded exclusively from
the juices of Gre ully-selected barks and herbs.
and so strongly concentrated ina it is one of the
greatest cIeansers of the blood that is or
can be put together. VEGET NE does not stop
with breaking Chfils and Fever, but it ex-
tends its wonderful influence into every part Of
the human system, and entirely eradicates every
faint of disease. VEGETINE DOES NOT act as a
powerful cathartic, or dehilitate the bowels and
cause he patient to dread other serious COM
pla nts which must inevitably follow; but strikes
at the root OF disease b. purifying the blood I,
restores the liver and kidneys to healthy ac-
ton, regulates the bowels and assists
Nature in performing all the duties that devolye
upon her.
Thou. ands of invalids are suffering to-day from
the effects of powerful purgative nos-
trums, frIghtfuI quantities of quInine,
and po son doses of arsenic, ither of
which ever have, or ever could, reach the true
cause Of their complaint.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
Gives Health, Strength and Appe-
title.

Ny daughter has received great benefit from the
use of VEGETINE. Her declining health a
of great anxiety to all of her friends. few
bottles of the VEGETINE restored her health,
strength and appetite. n. ii. TILDEN,
Insurance and Real Estate Agent
No. a. Sears Building Boston, Mass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31
VEGETINE.
Police Testimony.

II. r. STEVENS. ESQ:
Dear Sir-During the past FIVE years have had am
PIE opportunity judge of the merits of VEGETINE
My wife has used it complaints attending lady OF
delicate health. with more beneficial results than any
thing else which she tried. have given IL 10 my
children under Almost every circumstance attending
large family. and always with marked benefit: have
takenit myself with such great benefit that cannot
find words to express my unqualified appreciation OF
its goodness
While performing my duties as Police Officer in
this CITY, has been my lot 10 fall in with great deal
of sickness. / unhesitatingy recommend VEGETTSE,
and never knew of case where It dld not prove all
that was cIated for it, Particularly in cases of de-
biaIed or IMPOVERISHED state of the blood its effects
really wonderful and. for all complaints arising
from impure state of the blood, II appears
to work like charm: and do not believe there
are any circumstances under which VEGETINE can be
used with injurious results: and it WIZ always afford
me pleasure to give any further Information to
what know about VEGETISE.
WILLIAM B. HILL. Police Station 4.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-31

HOFMANN's HOP PILLS for Fever and Ague.
They cure at once and are preventive.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-08-04

FROM the following dispatches in
Thursdays papers, it would seem that
the Russian advance on Constsntinople
has met with serious check:
BUCHAREST, Aug. 1.-Gen. Krudener
yesterday again attacked Plevna, but
after desperate struggle was repulsed
by the Turks, who were greatly superior
in numbers.
There can be no doubt that a great
disaster has befallen the Russian troops.
To-day reinforcements have been pour
ing southwark as fast as trains could fol-
low each other. Among other reports
current, it is asserted that the car has
begged Prince Charles to cross the Dan
ube Immediately with the main body of
the Roumanian army. That head-quar-
tiers, and ambulances are falling back to
Sistoya, and that disorganized troops are
retreating across the Danube. It is re-.
ported that the Turks occupy Lovatz,
with nine battalions, and are receiving
reinforcements.