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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
The Cigar as a Social Force,

Make no mistake, cigar is great
arbitrator. 1t bel ps break the ice, it
bridges over the gulf of embarrassment
in meeting unexpected or undesirable
parties; it is a sort of passport to good
fellowship and kind treatment. 1t
tides over that awkward first few min
utes when you sit down to business
confab with strangers or men that you
are little shy of, and it fills in the odd
moments when you are waiting to see
which way the cat will Jump. By the
attention which you must give your
cigar you gain time for elaboration,
and it somehow gives you an appear
ance of fortitude and composure which
you don't feel in the least. Why, let
two men light cigars and sit down to
make contract, and I'll guarantee
they'll get per cent. better terms each
side than if they previously whistled
and drummed on the table between
spells. So, in business way, | think
it is often an advantage to smoke. If
were newspaper man l should learn
that and shorthand the first thing
Lafayette (Ii1d.) Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26

supporting thousands OF wax lights, the
wicks of which are all connected so as
to light up simultaneously, hang from
the roof and fall with weblike grace
Imagination can picture them ablaze
and fill the glorious palace with the
splendors of royalty, courtiers, and the
fairest DANES.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26

nobody can answer. only know that
he is not in the office. He is SO consci-
entious, you know. He abSentS himself,
fearing that he may disturb somebody,
or be in somebody's way. But he never
is in the way. Oh, no, John. | say!
hello, John! Where in thunder is that
boy now, Iwonder.-Boston Transcript
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26

Once upon time, says story teller,
ssOuida" asked Charles Reade to sug-
gest name for a new pet dog. Ton
ic," quoth he, instanter, ''for it is sure
10 be mixture of bark, steal and
whine"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26

A piece of cake which the Prince OF
Wales bit into, but did not finish, was
sold at big price in England not long
ago. Wales better go to work biting
cake for business and pay up his debts.
-LoWeH Citizen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26

A Bradford young lady who was very
eager for the company of a certain
young man sent him note asking him
to accompany her to friends house
on certain evening. When he re-
sponded she naively remarked: Il
wouldn't have bothered sending fol
you, but my earrings are real diamonds,
and L M afraid to be out on the street
at night without having some one tc
guard them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
The Art of the Light of Other DAYS.

Talk about accidents in art, I was
looking at one of Ryder's enigmatical
pictures in the American Artists Exhi-
bition when an acquaintance came up.
did you ever see Ryder paint?" he
asked. mo! Well, then, you've treat
in store. have enjoyed it. He lays in
a picture by slapping his palette-scrap-
ings pell-mell on the canvas, and then
painting whatever their eccentric dis
tribution may suggest to him. Twas in
his studio one day looking at his work.
One canvas attracted me especially; it
was clump of trees, overshadowing a
pool, and with white figure alongside
the water. That figure makes good
spot there | said.
/" Fguren said he. 4 didn't put a
figure in it.
" Why, here IS is
He looked at it and laughed.
g It's candle dripping. he said.
But it d oes help it out, doesn't it?'
And he scraped the paraffine off and
painted in a figure in its place. ~. Y.
NelCS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26

'Why didn't you marry your husband
fifteen years ago; he would have taken
you then? asked an Austin lady of a
newly-married friend Il know it, but
fifteen years ago he was too old to suit
me. Teas SJtingS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
DROPS OF

MIR. JOSEPH G. BIcKNELL. No. G42 Main Street,
Cambrtdgeport Mass, writes. April 81, 1888: ~ have
been terribly afflicted for a number of years with gravel
and kidney disease. My urine contained brick dust
deposits, and at times I could not pass my water except
In drops and with great pain; and have had to get up as
many as fifteen times during the night. tried several
physicians: they did me no good, but a friend of mine,
who had used Hunts Remedy. told me to get a bottle
and try it. He had been cured of Il severe case similar
to mine, and that Others had used Hunts Remedy in
Cambridge and pronounced It a medicine of real merit.
After being repeatedly urged 1 purchased a bottle, and
before l had used all of t 1 passed q stone as large as a
pea, followed by smaller ones. Ihavc used in all ten
bottles, and it has completely cured me. My kidneys
are in excellent condition., and for one of my age (GS)
sixty-cight years, l can truly say 1 feel like a young
man with strength and vitality. My family use the
Remedy, and would not be without it, and never fail
to it to our friends and %nctghbors in Cam
bridge and Boston. You are at liberty to use my name
in praise of the best kidney and liver medicine, Hunt
Remedy"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
Farming North and South.

The Southern farmer is now being
tod that the remedy for all his hard
ships lies in variety of crops. If nothing
but cotton is raised, of course corr and
wheat and hay must be bought; as a
matter of fact they are bought from the
North, and the North has achieved pros
2erity with mixed farming, while the
South with its single crop is poor and
in debt. So the planters are urged to
raise more grain and pigs and less cot
ton, and an increase in the acreage of
wheat and corn is paraded as the surest
sign of a States prosperity.
But in the North the tendency is d.
rectly the other way. The old plan
here was for the farmer to raise upon
his own land almost everything he re-
CURED, and for him and his wife to
work with their own hands almost
everything they used and wore as well,
but this rule has been more and more
departed from until in recent years
special farming has come in which fur
nlshes counterparts to the all cotton
plantations. Take the New England
dairymen. They buy wheat and corn
from the West, often all they use, and
one man in an out-of-the-way Vermont
town has proftably devoted his acres
to grass and bought potatoes for his
own table. There is a growing feeling
here that mixed farming is proftless,
except in a degree necessary for eco
nomlcal management, and that in the
competition which has come with rail-
roads and modern appliances there is
ln1Ia nhnr0n <f mr. wick -t %,11s~~
advantage of the division of labor, in
inc wider sense, which is brought about
by "specialties.
The fact is that, North and South,
The question is merely n of economy,
and not of principle. It is certain that
some Vermont farmers who feed Hi
hols corn to their cows make moro
money than others who raise their own
and plainly more than the farmer could
by raising it himself and that ends
me argument. 1t cost money to carry
corn from Chicago to New England or
georgia, and each section and each far
mer must determine whether it is
cheaper to raise it, Or to raise some
.hlng to buy it with. Because the cot
ION planters are not generally prosper
Gus it is not necessary to blindly adopt
farming as a cure-all. The South has
a change in progress akin to that which
mas left the old-fashioncd farmers in
our W chill towns wondering that
.ne old methods do not bring the old
Ptollt. "How do l make both lends
meet. - said a substantial North Caro-
INA farmer the other day, 81 use i'm
proved machinery, manur heavily and
pay cash. Springfield (Mass.) Re-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
BlanleleSS.

A Georgia boy told his folks he was
going hunting in the swamp and he
did intend to do SO, but he went into
the ash house for something and the
door shut behind him and he couldn't
open it from the inside. And all his
believing didn't attract the attention OF
the family, but they missed him when
night came and had the whole neigh
oorhood out searching the swamp and
rnade a deuce Of II time and everybody
got wet and tired and cross, and
finally they gave up the hunt and re-
turned to his house, and then somebody
beard him whoop and they let him out
and his father was so mad about the
affair that he took a harness strap and
lust lathered that boy till the hills :e-
echoed his lamentations. And it wasn't
the boys fault either. -BoSton Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
"DID WONDERS FOR ME-"

The above words are from Mr.. LEWIS KEEN. No. o
Highland Avenue, Maiden, Mass, April IS. 1888. He
says: "Ihavc been troubled for years with kidney
and liver complaint, followed by gravel, with severe
pains in my back and groins. 1 had great trouble in
passing water, it being scanty. and accompanied by
terrible burning. the vessel being coated with brick
dust deposit. L was to use Hunts
Remedy by q friend who had been completely cured of
a similar trouble. l purchased a bottle at the drug
gists. and commenced to improve at once. 1 have
used but two bottles, and it has done wonders for me
no more kidney trouble. no more pain. 1t has given
inc new life, and l would not be without Hunts Rene
dy at any price. tits all that 1t Is to be,
and I chccrfully give this testimony for the benefit of
the many sufferers from kidney disease and gravel"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
HOME AND FARM.

Don't scteggs chat are too large, but
40 LARGEST and best shaped of the me-
!Mv sized op1s.-1oledo Blade.
IF YOU wish to pour boiling hot
,;o,,id int a glass jar or tumbler, It can
ny dons safely by putting a spoon in the
dish before you pour. but a draught Of
onld mir must not reach it..
The coat of Il horse is one of the
,,,ost indications of his state of health.
~ in GOOD health the hair is smooth and
.1onL and the slIn soft. When the sys-
,cm is deranged the skin loses it's
,liancv. the surface is hard and dry and
ifhe hair rough and rusty.-N. Y. Herald.
This will be a change from pudding
=, ME: Make a crust for strawberry
shortcake; bake quickly, open it and
mt between the two layers halves or
quarters of canned peaches, sprinkle
nnowdered sugar over, and serve while
Lot with cream.-N. Y. Post.
A successful farmer, of fifty years
oxperience. said the other day that he
found if his low, heavy land were
n)owed only six or eight inches it
would be wet and muddy after every
rain. and not fit to work for several
DAYS after. while if plowed ten inches
or more deep it would be ready to work
the next day after a rain or shower
Chicago Tribune.
To Preserve Clothing from Moths:
Carefully shake and brush woolens
early in the spring, so as to be certain
no eggs are III them; then sew them up
ina Cotton oriinen cloth, putting apiece
of camphor gum into each bundle;
place in trunks Or a moth-proof box.
No moth will approach while the smell
of the camphor continues. When the
gum is evaporated it must be renewed.
Turs can be protected in the same way.
Tile Household.
-Stewed veal need not be the taste
less dish it sometimes is. Cook it in as
little water as will possibly answer, and
with it stew a few thin slices of ham or
bacon. Niaely-cured bacon is one of the
Injuries of modern civilization. Science
has conferred a lasting benefit upon the
world by teaching the farmer to feed
his pigs in such a way that the result
may be traced in slices of f~ine-grained
fat with little strips Of lean. This is the
kind of bacon to look for when market
ing.-N. Y. Post.
There are five methods in which
Persian insect powder may be applied
to destroy insects: AS dry power; as q
fume; as IN alcoholic extract diluted;
by simple stirring Of the powder in
water; as a tea Or decoction. The pow
der may be diluted with ten times it's
bulk of flour, or any finely pulverized
material, as wood ashes. 1t is recon-
mended to mix the powder and other
material twenty-four hours before use.
In a closed room the fumes from a small
quantity will kill or render inactive
common flies or mosquitoes. For appli.
cation to insects on plants the powder
mixed with water, and the tea made
from the herb dried, are more conven-
lent and quite as ef1ectual.-AmerScan
30y1c2L7f1oief
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
Advice to Consumptives.

On the appearance of the first symptoms
as general debility, loss of appetite, pal
lor, chilly sensations, followed by night
sweats and cough-prompt measures for
scrofulous disease of the lungs-therefore
use the great anti-scrofula, or blood-purifer
and strength-restorer,-Dr. Pierce's "Gold-
en- Medical Discovery" Superior to Cod
liver oil as n nutritive, and unsurpassed as
a pectoral. For weak lungs, splitting of
blood, and kindred affections, it has no
equal. Sold by druggists the world over.
For Dr.. Pierce's pamphlet on Consumption,
send two stamps to WORLDS DIspENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

"A California paper states that, q
{Iear or more since, a gate post that
" m, been painted with so-called zinc
S%anlte' was noticed to appear black all
Iday, gray in the twilight, and white
W a1llhg the night. On an investigation
~ 'hls singular property of the paint,
wy cause was shown to exist in a new
metal Which has been named a"ctinium,
u H. account OF its peculiar actinic effects.
IS found in zinc ores, and resembles
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

I AVE used Ely's Cream Balm for dry
Catarrh (Which every Eastern person is
subject to who comes to live i'll a high alti-
tude) and found it the most efficacious ofany
article ever before used. 1t has proved a
cure in my case. B. +. M. Weeks, Denver,
Colo. See advertisement.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
The Testimony of a Physician.

James Beecher, NJ. D., of si%gourney,
Iowa, says for several years 1 have been
using a Cough Balsam called DIR. VIM.
HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS, and in al
most every case throughout my practice |
have had entire success. 1 have used and
prescribed hundreds of bottles ever since the
days of my army practice QSG3), when I was
surgeon of Hospital No. :, Louisville, KY.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

"A Western paper announces the
fact that an acrobat turned a somer-
sault on a locomotive smoke-stack.
That is nothing. We know of an en-
gineer who turned on the steam.-Chi-
cuaO Herald,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

s,mSome concern was aroused by the
dan!u'ng headline, Cheating Provi-
vn.I'; Investigation, however, le-
La Iieo me fact that it was only base
D"A.-M. Y. Graphic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

Why suffer longer from Catarrh and
Gold in the Head? A sure cure is Ely's
Cream Balm. 1t is not a liquid or snuff
n is easily applied. Price so cents.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

THE large stone hand of an idol in a Chi
nese temple recently fell off and severely
injured a worshiper beneath. "Satan finds
some mischief still for idol hands to do."-
Burlington Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

DR.. PIERcE's "Favorite Prescription, is
everywhere acknowledged to be the stand
ard remedy for female complaints and
weaknesses. 1t is sold by druggists.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

FoaT STEVENSON, DAKOTA TER.-Rev.
James McCarty says: "Brown's Iron
Bitters cured me of severe dyspepsia"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

We believe it has never been told who
pulled the lapper that "made the welkin
ring."-Detroit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
Decline of Man.

lmpotency of mind, limb or vital func.
ton, weakness, sexual debility,
etc, cured by WoRLD's DIsPENsARY MED1-
CAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y. Address.
with two stamps, for pamphlet.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

Is 1T any wonder that a man who imbibes
corn juice freely should have a "husky"
voice?-BostOn Star.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

"Mother Swans Worm Syrup" for few.
e%rishness, restlessness, worms. Tasteless.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

LADIES and all sufferers from neuralgia,
hysteria, and all kindred complaints, will
find without a rival Browns Iron Bitters
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

Skinny Men. "Wells' Health Renewer''
restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

AS WARN weather comes on wear Chroli-
thion Collars and Cuffs. Perspiration has
no effect on them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

"Buchu-paiba." Complete cure, all an
noying Kidney Diseases, irritation. II.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

OVER the garden wall-Broken glass;
Puck.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

A TRIAL trip When the jury disagree
N. Y. Nelcs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

Wells Trough On Corns." 15c. Ask for it.
Complete, permanent cure. Corns, bunions.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

FARM1NGToN, ILL.-Dr. M. T.. Gamble
says: " prescribe Browns Iron Bitters in
my practice and it gives satisfaction"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

To THE "pooher" all things are poor
YOnkers Gazette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

A DUMB-BELL can only emit q mute tap
peal.-N. Y. Advcrtiscr.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

THE shades of night gather in dew time.
~. Y. Neecs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
W1sE's Axle Grease never gums.

"Rough on Rats" Clears out rats, mice,
flies, reaches, %bed-bugs, ants, vermin. 15c.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

Glenn's Sulphur Soap
Renders a lady's skin white and soft. Pixies
t%oothache drops cure in one minute.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

25c. buys a pair of Lyons Patent HeelStifen.
ers and make q boot or shoe last twice as long
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

A LITTLE Atlanta boy denounced his
snoring brother for 7" sleeping through his
nose.D
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

VELVET lawns are so called because they
must be kept veil vet toremain so.-Boston
TRANSCRIPT.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

If it were not for dear women the world
would present nothing but s%tag-nation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

No INDUcEMENT.-A land agent wanted
a Kentucky farmer to emigrate to Dakota,
as he was not making his living in the old
Commonwealth. "What inducements do
you offer%' asked the farmer. "We have
the richest lands, the finest wheat, the best
water, the latest stock and the biggest
farms in the world" eyes," doubtingly
interrupted the farmer. "Why man, on
one of those big farms they pillow a furrow
five miles long" "What!" "They pillow a
fu1row five miles long" "That ends it,
stranger. DON'T talk Dakota to me! It's
all l can do to pillow one OF these little fifty.
was five miles long I never would get to
the end of it. Gee, whoa, Buck, git up
there!!" and he started across the patch,
leaving the agent sitting on the fence
Exchange.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

THE foolishness that can't be cured must
be in dude.-N. O. Ptcayune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

Mr.. S. G. GARMo, of Springfield, o.,
writes: az want every one to know that l
was cured of dyspepsia, heartburn, sour
stomach and other disagreeable symptoms
of weak digestive organs, by using only
one bottle of DR.. Guysott's Yellow Dock
and Sarsaparilla. My stomach now readl-
ly digests any kind OF food"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

ALI. recommend Wise's Axle Grease.