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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
THE TABLE.

An excellent accom- panim ent to q break
fast chop is a delicate preparation of cab
bage, made famous by Dumas, the invent
or. Chop cold boiled white cabbage, and
let 1T drain till perfectly dry; stir in some
melted butter, pepper, salt, and four tab
lespoOnfuls of cream; after it is heated
through, add two Wen-beaten eggs; then
turn the mixture into a buttered FRYING
pan, stirring until it is very hot and be-
comes q delicate brown on the under side.
Place hot dish over the pan which
must be reversed when turned out to be
served.
Caulidower stewed with such a sauce as
this adds a delicate zest to the chop or
steak at breakfast. In q saucepan put
some butter the size of an egg; while it
bubbles stir in half cup of flour, stir
well the addition of the white of an egg
until cooked, then add two teacupfuls of
cream, pepper and salt to taste, and stir
until perfectly smooth. Pour the sauce
over the caulifiower and serve. A cupful
Of grated cheese may be added while the
sauce is hot, if preferred.
The stomach is Justly called the father
of a family, being who requires the
most gentle and cautious treatment
otherwise given to bad temper when neg
lected by the Indifference of the cook,
Leigh Hunt insisted that breakfast is the
foundation of the days enjoyment, and
oftentimes health. Breakfast should be
a recreation, charming contrast to the
coming labors of the day. saw likes to
be cheerful" said an old parishioner one
day; land So, after l eat my bit of por-
ridge l sits here in churchyard on the top
of grayestone in the sun, and I feels
glad I'm alive. What sermon might be
preached to the one who presents a dole
full face at the breakfast table,
Breakfast potato Puffs are worthy of
their German ancestry. Crate a quart
of wellpoeled large potatoes and drain
all the water from them; mix the drained
potatoes with six grated onions, one and
half tablespoonful of flour, six eggs,
and salt to taste. When thoroughly mix
ed fry in cakes in butter or fine sweet
lard.
Breakfast is a most important meal.
In fact, the state of mans mind gener-
ally depends upon the first meal, always
supposing the wife is amiable and presid-
es gracefully. Sir Henry Thompson in
sists that the process of digestion and
the condition of mind which results
from it should occupy no subordinate
place in the practical arrangements of
life; that good breakfast, if it be ever
so simple, with cookery, would be an alb
solute safeguard against crime, and that
the costermonger would never begin
jumping on his mother" had he just
partaken of filets de poulet aux truffes,
with glass of good wine. Testing aside
there 1s no doubt of the humanizing
eHects on the mind and physique of we'll
cooked, seasonable food. The breakfast
table Is not complete without the morn
ing paper, which the head of the house
may scan at his leisure with his coffee be-
fole he enters into his busy life for the
day. Talk is not necessary-no one ex.
poets it. The man should be allowed per.
feet rest at the morning meal, more es.
pecially if he is ''buli' or ssbear."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02

is one thing more; the maker of Prlvl-
lege only receives the money for which
he sells the privilege, while the holder
may make thousands, or nothing.
"The mention of puts and calls re-
calls the exciting times two years ago
last spring when the market went down
with rush and the holders of puts
issued by Mr.. Sage infested his Office like
an army. After the above explanation
it will be seen that their privilege of put
ting stock to Mr.. Sage was exceedingly
valuable. Their privileges were so many
contracts whereby Mr.. Sage agreed to
take those stocks at price which was
considerably above the market price.
During five days Mr.. Sage paid
out what few mon in New York
were probably able to pay out-about
100000. He kept on deposit then, and
he does now, $4,000 90 in available money
at the Importers and Traders bank.
Since that excitement the probability is
that Mr.. Sage has drawn out of this very
business on puts and calls more money
than he then paid out. A great deal of
the stock certificates which were then put
to him he held and realized on when the
market advanced"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02

The Historical Work Painted by the Sioux
..lpdians With Impressive Religious Cere-
monies.
Early last Sunday morning, says the
Winona Times, of the 18th, the big chiefs
and medicine men of all the tribes and
many Of lesser note gathered at the
agency to arrange the ceremony of I'M
yelling the standing rock which had been
mounted upon pedestal, where it is in
tsded it shall stand for all time. For
hours they sat in council talking over the
legends connected with that historical
monument and end0avoring to decide
whom they should honor with the duty of
offering the prayers and painting the
Crock"
It was decided that no man should
touch the rock who had been guilty of
any offsnse or wrong of any kind. Sit
ting Bull said that only the purest man
in all the tribes could perform the sacred
service; they must search until they could
find man whose life was absolutely pure,
that the sacred stone might not in any
the merits and dement's of hundred
chiefs "Fire Cloud" of "Fire Hearts"
band was chosen.
About two o'clock in the afternoon the
Indians gathered about the rock to per-
form the ceremony. According to the
Indian superstition, no Indian could re
move the covering, and they were in a
quandary how to proceed, when Major
Mclaughlin stepped forward and remov-
ed the blanket. In a neat little speech the
Major told the Indians that he had found
this rock. sacred to the Indian and Of
great historic interest to the white, fire.
quently changed from place to place, and
not guarded as the associations connected
with it should lead it to be; that he had
built for it a pedestal and had it placed
thereon, and that it should remain for
ever for their children and grandchildren
for all ages to look upon.
When Major Mclaughlin retired Fire
Cloud stepped forward and spent an
hour painting the rock, praying mean
while. The prayer was a remarkable one
to issue from an Indians lips, especially
as that Indian was a late hostile, and his
audience consisted of Sitting Bull and
braves. Never before has an Indian been
known to pray for peace. Their prayers
are always for success in battle or for in
crease in game. Yet "Fire Cloud" told
the Indians there assembled that il they
had done any wrong in all their lives
they should be ashamed and Inundated
there in the presence of the holy rock,
repent, and henceforth live lives absolu-
tely pure.
He thanked the Great Spirit and the
rock in behalf of all his nation for the
period of peace with which they had been
blessed, and prayed that it might last
forever; and then he closed his prayer
with an appeal to the Great Spirit that
he would not send them any hailstorms
the coming year, and that their crops
would be bountiful and their people kept
free from sickness. A few daubs more of
paint and the remarkable ceremony was
ended-the standing Rock" had been
unveiled according to the Sioux's most
approved ideas of propriety.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
VITAL STATISTICS.
Facts With Regard to the Birth and Death
Rates Of Various Nations.
Demorest's Monthly.

Statisticians are bringing out some Gu
rious facts with regard to the birth and
death rates of the leading nations of the
world. Unfortunately, our tables are not
as accurate as those collected in the
European states. Abroad. there is a
careful record kept of the marriages,
births and deaths. These are col
lected by as without any thorough
ness, save only when census
is being taken. In England and Wales it
has been found that the birth-rate is 1874,
and the death-rate 20.5 per thousand per-
sons. In Sweden the birth-rate is 30.2,
against death-rate Of 1871. In the Ger
man Empire, birth-rate, 1913 and death
rate 26.1. Austria, 39.1 birth-rate, 29.6
death-rate. The official returns state that
our annual birth-rate is So, and death-rate
IL, but clearly our birth-rate is much
larger, as we are growing in numbers
faster than any people on earth. Our in
crease is fully 100000 since the last
census was taken in 1880. Our colored
population have higher birth-rate than
have the southern whites. Among the
latter it is 28.71, while for the colored it
is 35.O8. Although the death rate of the
blacks is quite large, still they are in
ereasing relatively faster than the whites;
it is also curious fact that more colorsd
females are born than whites, but taking
blacks and whites together, the births of
the males exceed those of the females.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
Halloween.

Old superstitions die hard, and it will
certainly be long before the festival of
Halloween becomes as much thing of
the past as has practically become the
Guy Fawkes celebration on the 9Th of
November. Long before the Christian
faith made way among the untutored peo-
pie of ancient Britain, the Druids had
performed special rites on what is now
known as Hallowmas Eve; fires were lit
deep in remote forests, upon outlying
spurs of hills, even upon the great plains
that stretched between dense forests and
partially cleared woodlands; mystic rites
were performed, the help of the
true God was implored, the Vaccinations
of evil powers were protested against. The
earliest records bear witness to universal
belief that on this night the powers of
darkness muster in great force, that all
supernatural beings hold revel within the
sphere of humanity, and that therefore
it behooved all persons to be careful on
this night of all nights, for any sin com
mitted rendered the perpetrator liable to
be brought under the influence Of some
evil spirit throughout whole year there
after. To this day any child born in
Scotland on the eve of the 31st of Oc-
tober is supposed to be in possession of
certain mysterious faculties, to hold
if not consciously, at least uncon-
sciously in the midnight hours when
the senses are obscured by sleep
communion with the supernatural
world, and to be at, all times a perso n
whose actions, however eccentric, must be
regarded charitably. Those who have
read Sir Walter SCOTS Monastery will
remember that he has made use of
this circums lance. "She's as hytiO as a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

Washing ammonia, applied with fan
mel cloth, will clean brass ornaU ents.
Put camphor gam with your new silver
ware, and it will never tarnish as long
as the gum is there. Never wash silver in
soap-suds, as it gives it a white appear
anc6.
After buying cranberries spread them
on papers to deepen little in color, but
before they begin to shriVel or as soon
as of good red color put them in water
and keep down cellar. If the berries are
all under water they will keep year with
out changing the water.
Never place fresh eggs hear lard, fruit
cheese, fish or other articles from which
any odor arises. The eggs are all ex-
tremsly active in absorbing power, and
in very short time they are contain
mated by the particles or objects in their
neighborhood, by which the peculiar and
exquisite taste of a new laid egg is de-
strOyed.
Light mplings-Take some hop
yeast bread dough when ready to be
moulded into the pans, cut OF small
pieces, shape them, let them rise a short
time, and then drop them into the soup,
which must be boiling. Cover closely
and keep boiling till done. 1t takes some
what longer to boil than to bake them.
Take care not to have too many or they
will crowd.
bottle of turpentine should be kept
in every house, for its uses are numerous.
A few OOPS sprinkled where cockroaches
congregate will exterminate them at once.
1t is an excellent application for a burn or
cut. 1t will take ink stains out of white
muslin when added to soap, and will help
to whiten clothes if added to them when
boiling.
Hon. Nj. V. Montgomery, commissioner
of patents, sends out word to Michigan
hay fever sufferers that he has found a
cure. 1t consists of little pellets of cot
combating saturated with codaine, shovel
as far up the nOstrils as possible. A
great Joy has come to the house of Mont
gomery over the find, and he makes haste
to impart the glad tidings to a suffering
world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
ReWardiHg a Hero.

A dispatch from Portage, Wis, of Nov.
oath, says: Engineer Thomas Little, whose
heroic attention to duty on the night of
the East Rio disaster undoubtedly saved
many lives, was presented last evening
by Bishop Whippls with an elegant gold
medal. The bishop was on his way home
from Philadelphia whore he had the token
struck off at the United States mint. The
diverse eide bears the inscription, 'Bish-
op Whipple to Thomas Little,'' and the
reverse side, "For His Heroisn in Saving
the Lives of Passengers at Rio, Wis, Got.
%. 1885," The medal is plain but very
neat, being a trifle smaller than a silver
dollar. The recipient was taken entirely
by surprise, and Bishop Whipple left for
home on the night train, after having paid
the charming tribute to honest merit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
A Strange Drunkard.

Atlanta, Ga, has a kerosene oil drunk
ard. Henry j. Burrows drinks gallon of
kerosene oil, taking a half pint of the
oil at one swallow. He says that he had
bought the oil for drinking purposes and
consumed about half gallon a week in
this way. When Is years of age he and
two other beJs went on camp hunt and
they were lost in the woods for three
weeks. Burro VS. became separated from
his friends and had nothing to eat and
could find no water. He had a small bot
tie of kerosene oil which had been brought
along to kindle fires, and from time to
time he would take a small mouth
full to alleviate his thirst. Before
he was rescued he had swallowed
the entire contents of the bottle. It had
an exhilarating effect upon him, and the
taste was pleasant. When he returned
home he sampled the kerosene oil every
day or two, and in a few months was
drinking it regularly in small doses. 1t
seemed to have no injurious effect, and
his parents did nothing to stop the habit.
While in the army he would make regu-
lar foraging excursions for his drink, and
while others secured buttermiik, coffee,
and whisky, he always obtained full
supply of his loved kerosene. Once dur
ing long march his oil gave out, and he
almost went crazy and suffered all the
fortunes of drunkard with the tremens.
He was sent to hospital, and recovered
Immediately after being allowed to swal-
low a cup of kerosene. Mr.. Burrows now
drinks nearly half gallon of oil a week,
and he uses only the very best. His
health is perfectly good, and his appetite
never fails, and he has not known organic
troubles. He says that the oil gives him
a feeling of exhilaration and burns him
as it passes down his throat just about as
whisky would ordinary people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02

Henry NJ. Stanley, who Is expected to
land in New York this week, will be enter
tanned at dinner by the Lotos Club of
that city on Saturday evening next.
Mr.. George W. Childs declines to allow
the use of his name as a candidate for
mayor of Philadelphia. Mr.. Childs be-
lieves he can do more good with the Pub
lie Ledger than the CITY government.
Out west it is proposed to have ballot
boxes in railway car, 80 that country
voters living along the road need not be
obliged to drive SO far.
Secretary Lamar's rumorOd marriage is
now set down as certain to occur in that
vague period known as ''the near future
Cambridge, England, can boast this
year of an unprecedented number of
freshmen. The books show 9S7, against
597 at Oxford.
A HiAdoo made q wager that he would
gaze ct the sun for ton hours. At the end
of the seventh hour he fell down In u fit
and he died.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN
NOBODY KNOWS BUT MOTHER.

Nobody knows of the work it makes
To keep the home together:
Nobodody knows of the steps 1T takes,
Nobody knoWs-but mother.
Nobody listens to the childish woes
Which kisses only smother:
Nobody panied by naughty blows,
Nobody-only mother.
Nobody knows of the slsepless care
Bestowed on baby brother;
Nobody knows of the tender prayer,
Nooody-only mother.
Nobody knows of the lessons taught
OF loving one another;
Nobody knows of the patience sought,
Nobody-only mother.
Nobody knows of the anxious fears
Lest darlings may not weather
The storm of life in after years,
Nobody kDowS-but mother
Nobody kneels at the throne above
To thank the Heavenly Father
For that sweetest alta mothers love;
Nobody can-but mother.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
How MiIlionaires are Made.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

'sWhat makes millionaire?" asked a
man.
Energy" responded one.
perseverance" said another.
"Opportunity and ability" responded
a third.
"Strict attention to business" hazarded
another.
81 should say all these things and add
one or two more in the same line," said
fifth.
''You are all wrong remarked the first
speaker.
"Wrong?" chorused the five.
eyes"
sWhat makes a millionaire them" they
asked.
'The necessary millions"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
EISIIHRt.
Planter and Stockman

The last volume of the Michigan Board
of Agriculture gives an account of a
very interesting experiment made with a
silo. The building, which held $4,000
pounds of ensilage. built of stone, cost
$151.8O. About two acres were planted
early in June with tho Hathaway dent
corn, and it was cut September ID. The
corn was then out in one-half-inch pieces
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
An Indiscreet hendicant.

Mendicant- Gould you help poor man
with few cents, sir?
Old Porter-Well, don't know but l
might. Are you married5.
Mendieant-Yes, sir.
Old Porder-Poor devil? guess I'll
have to give you half dollar.
Medicant-Yes, sir. I've been married
twice.
Old Porter-Well, then, you just skip
along. I'm not wasting money on
blamed fool.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02

run direct to the silo, and stamped down
as compectly as possible. The ensilage
was then carefully levelled, SO that the
pressure would be equal, and planks two
inches thick and eight inches wide were
nicely fitted as a covering. These planks
were then weighted with stones at the
rate of 900 pounds to the square yard.
The expense of raising the corn and
putting the same in silo is given as fol-
lows:
Marking and planting .........--........-.- a
Three bushels seed at S1-................... O0
tultivating three times ......... .....-..... so
Three hundred hours student labor as
Twenty seven and one half hours team labor
Fifteen hours mems labor st shilling per
hour ....................''.. $50. l 90
This makes the entire cost of growing
corn and placing in silo $500 per ton.
On December Is the silo was opened.
The ensilage was found to be nicely pre-
served. The report says that not one of
the least important considerations of en-
silage is the fact that 80 large an amount
of it can be packed in comparatively
small space. cubic foot of ensilage
from this silo weighs thirty-fve pounds.
From to per cent. of the live weight
of the animal will be daily ration, or
seventy-fve pounds for an ordinary COW.
It is thus an easy matter to compute the
number of cubic feet necessary to contain
the food for certain number of animals.
The silo at the college is 14x15 feet inside
the walls, and eighty feet high, contain
ing 1,640 cubic feet. Allowing forty
pounds to the cubic foot, they have a ca
pacity of almost thirty-nine tons of en-
silage, or enough to feed five COWS 200
days daily ration of sixty pounds each.
During the winter it was found that COWS
did we'll on this feed, and did not let down
hardly any on their milk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02

Some mon are born great" Yes, bat
gracious! how sems Of them do shrink
New Haven News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
STANDING ROCK.

The Historical Work Painted by the Sioux
-.lBdians With Impressive Religious Cere-
|
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02

Boil beef tongue and the same guam
tity of lean veal. Grind separately in
sausage cutter; season tongue with pep
per, little mustard and pinch each of
nutmeg and cloves; season veal same,
adding salt Pack in alternate spoon
fuls as irregular as possible in buttered
crock, press very hard as you go on: put
in cold place, turn out whole and cut
in slices
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-02
CoCOANUT BISCUIT.
LAYER OR LOAF CAKE.

Beat two cups of sugar and half cup
of butter to light cream; add the yolks
of three eggs well beaten and one cup of
milk. Stir in by degrees three cups of
sifted flour, TO which two heaping spoon
fuls of baking powder have been added;
then add the whites of the eggs which
have been beaten to a stiff froth, and
flavor to taste. Bake in three 'laysr''
cake tins or in long pan.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-09-16
IAdertissment.l
GERIRDsrowN, Sept. 10th, 1886
4 FREE Press

GERLRDsTowN, sept. lUth, 1885,.
ED. VIRGINIA FREE Press:
A copy of your paper containing card from
Mr.. J. 5. Melvin is before me. viii you kind
ly allow me word in reply
am sorry for Mr.. Melvin. Sorry that he
has placed himself in such an unenviable po-
sition, but ! want the blame 70 lie where 1t
belongs.
Mr.. Melvin was here in the very early part
of the Senatorial contest He was looking af-
ter delegates favorable to himself presume
the Temperance question had not then entered
so promiue emily as factor in the contest Mr..
Melvin had not become so wary as IN aI'er
days. He did not ask me TO take HIM on iall II.
| took him on his utterance He says my
statement and that of my friend Morgan are
not true. | now wish to give not only the
spirit but the letter of the conversation. In
the presence of Mr. J. b. Morgan | asked Mr..
Melvin this question-"If you are nominated
and elected, will YOU vote for submission OF
the Prohibition Amendment to the people
Mr.. Melvin answered IN these words-'M ny
certainly, ! could not consistently do other
wse-I have been Temperance man all my
life. Was a member of the old order of Sons
OF Temperance, etc, etc, etc. 10 not know
what Mr.. Melvin said to others-thiS is what
he said to me- These facts were thus impress
ed upon my mind. A few days after Mr.. Mel
wins nomination as | was riding along the
road in company with friend, partner in 2
distillery he said to me melvin is going back
on you Temperance people" Whether del
egate to the nominating convention forget
but that man was at the convention and subse-
quent events proved very concusively that he
spake that which he knew. | atfirm-Mr. Mel
vim denies. Mr. Morgan's published statement
suStainS my affirmation.
Mr. Melvins own Acknowledgements virtual
~ do the same thing.
He declines 10 ansrer the Shepherdstown let
tcr-goes in person-by his own printed Ian
g,taqe leads them 10 beiieie he will vote for the
measure, and then votes against it. Deception
is no less deception when left to be understood
than when fully expressed had to draw no
inference The language was too plain for
that.
And thus the matter stands Let the public
decide between us.
J. P STUMP.