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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
Savings of Farm Laborers,

In the interesting life OF the late
Henry Fawcet comparison is made
between the provideEce of the peas
ant proprIetors IN France and the i'm
providence of the agricultural labor
ers of England. The large subscrip-
ton to the French loan by peasant
proprietors was demonstrative proof
that beyond the little land they pos
sessed there was a reserve of personal
property ready for investment in
Government securities whenever the
national exchequer tempted it forth,
irrespective of the nature of the Gov
eminent in authority at the time.
Fawcett writes to Prof. Cairns in ia
vor Of peasant proprietors IN England
and says: 81 am staying in the midst
Of one of the most prosperous agricul-
tural districts in England. It would
be almost impossible to find laborer
who has saved sovereign, and not
one in a thousand of these laborers
will save enough to keep him from the
poor rates when old age compels him
to cease work" How can this be a
matter for SURPRISED A laborer IN this
country earns on an average fourteen
shilling week, out of which he prob
ably has to feed, clothe and house
himself, wife and an average of four
children. Although four pence a day
each for the laborer and two pence
day each for his four children, Is
pence out of the "a is absorbed in pro-
vidlng a minimum of food by which
life can be sustaied. The wonder is
not that the laborer does not save, but
how he can possibly manage to pro-
cure the bare necessaries of subsis-
tence out of his scanty earnings. Lady
Verney, in an interesting description
of peasant properties in France,
sketches melancholy picture of the
poverty Of the peasant proprietors;
but there remains the fact, which
strongly impressed Prof, Fawcett,
that Che French peasant proprietors
can and do save money for invest
ment, while the English peasants can
not. How to help the latter to better
his condition is a problem well worthy
both the politician and the humani-
tartan, and any government that may
come into office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
Actresses Illus bands.
New York Telegram

new IOrK Telegram.
The most conspicuous appendages
to theatrical performers just now are
the husbands CT actresses. Several
separations and divorce suits have
made the subject public. The belief
is common among actors that no mar
ital union between an actress and q
professional man can possibly
last agreeably, and the exceptions to
that rule are invaribly met by the re-
mark, or it's equivalent, "Wait and
see."
Modjeska is playing Camille here
once more, just after the marriage of
her son. Il am delighted with his
choice of a wife," she says, mot only
because the girl is lovely, but especial
IL that he did not wed an actress. My
own case proves nothing. As q gen.
eral thisg, little happiness results
from matches between women on the
stage and mea off, We have in
that Modjeska is right. There is one
man VINO was for many years the
managing clerk IN wholesale house,
with an income of 81. 600 year. He
fell desperately in love with a girl
who sang IN comic opera chorus.
They married and lived quietly for a
few months, when she insisted on 1e-
turning to the footlights. She then
advanced rapidly, while her husband
retreated correspondingly into the
background. Her acquaintance grew
numerous, and he became wildly jeal-
Gus. He was obliged TO be at his Of
fee during the day time, while she
was at liberty. Next ne neglected his
business to run up town for look at
what she might be up to. That soon
lost him his place. Since then he mas
lived On his wife, her salary being
ample, and ne q convenience. She
has grown more and more open and
bold in her disregard of his feelings,
and now Of nights she coolly parts
from him at the stage door, after the
performance, to drive away in her
carriage TO keep trysts that are scarce
ly secret. Only his unexpired love
keeps him attached to her, and he is
about the most miserable being to be
seen around town.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
In the Ballroom.
Detroit Free Press.

Major-Who is that young lady on
the opposite side of the room.
Widow-That is my daughter. This
is her first season. She is not quite 19
yet.
Major Will you please introduce
me?
Widow-Certainly. Rosa, nay dear,
this is Maj. Guns. Major, my daugh-
ter, Rosa.
Rosa-Good evening. So you were
In the war;
Major-Yes, I enlisted after the bat
tie of Bull Run and served until the
close.
Rosa-My dear father was killed in
that battle.
The major was buried in a deep
thought.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
A Pretty Good Potatoe Yield.
New England Farmer.

Mr.. Charles Badger, who reported
q yield of potatoes from a single square
rod equal to $50 bushels per acre, and
who showed a full five bushels of the
marketable potatoes at the recent
Franklin Farmers Club Fair, gives
us an account Of the method of cult
vaticn pursued. The land was in eorn
last year, and was well manured. The
character of the soil is sandy loan.
It lies in a valley, and though never
too wet, seldom suffers severely from
drouth. Last spring good horse
load Of stable manure, from a barn
where horses, cows and hogs are
kept, was spread and spaded in. the
work being thoroughly done. On the
18th Of May it was farrowed out as
closely as the burrows could conven-
iently be made with spade, ten rows
to the rod. A half bushel of seed was
used, cut into from two to three eyes,
or more, medium-sized p otatoes being
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
Raise Good Horses

A serious mistake In the raising of
good horses is made by the almost
universal employment of dams that
are aged and whose days of usefulness
are well-nigh spent. Very MANY
farmers are burdened with old and
faithful mares that are no longer
available In working team. So long
have they been on the premises that
they are looked upon as almost indir-
pensable and somewhat as members
OF the family, entitled to care during
the lingering remnant OF their life for
the good they have done in the past.
The spirit that protects the aged SER
wants is. commendable spirit. 1t is
just that after lifetime of usefulness
they should be pensioned instead of
being TUNED adrift to pick up pre-
carious living or die. But the attempt
to make them pay for their living by
raising colts each year is not a good
plan, If they are entitled to good
treatment for their past services they
would be INDUCED in unproductlye-
ness. 1t is not good policy to turn
out annually from wora-out dams
colts 10 keep up the supply of common
farm stock. 1t may be said that it is
not profitable to keep unproductive
stock on the farm year after year.
That is true. Then the proper course
te pursue is to turn off the stock before
1t becomessso far worn out as to be I'M
salable, and by means of young hors-
es raised on the farm, or purchased,
as may be most convenient, to keep
the working teams intact. If it is
profitable to raise colts it is doubly
profitable to raise none bat the best.
Such can be raised only by the use of
sire and dam in the best physical con-
dltlon. There are too many stations
and too many mares kept in use that
possess none of the requisites that tend
to the production of the best stock.
Stations Of this class are frequently
employed simply because their SER
vices may be obtained cheaply. TAus
is perpetuated on farms throughout
the country the worst scrub horses
possible. With the facilities now OBJ
tainable in every community no rea-
son exists why the farmers of the
country should not in time owa and
drive SIS fine stock for working and
carriage purposes as are found In the
cities. It will require good judgment,
patience and care to produce such
stock, but in the end it will pay.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
AN ADDING MACHINE.
Continuance of A Bookkeeper After
Twelve Years Work.

G, G, Spalding, who keeps books for
Day q johnson, says The Springfield
(Mass,) Republican, has perfected a
machine that is designed to aid brother
bookkeepers or accountants in run
ming up long lines of figures. He has
been at work on the invention since
1878, and had the thing patented some
thing ike a year ago. The machine
is encased IN a wooden box about s
inches square and deep, and, lifting
the cover, the interior is seen to hold
an enameled white surface, on which
are two dials, and which shows the
brass key board In the lower left hand
corner. The larger dial of the two is
of the left of the machine, and is d.
vlded into one hundred sections, The
rim of the smaller dial is like wise cut
into twenty sections. the hand which
moves the smaller one is called the
hundreds and the first dial is called
the unit pointer. That which moves
about the pointer. A little fngerplay
on the brass keyboard makes the OBJ
ject of the dials and the reason of the
pointers names quickly understood
The nine keys on the board are
numbered from one TO nine and are
placed IN regular order but also in
two rows, 2, 4, 6 and being above
and the odd numbers below. The
key is q brass upright, and as the fin
ger draws on it spring allows it to
slip back toward the lower end of the
box. The pulling of each key on the
board sends the unit pointer along on
It's journey around the dial as many
points as there are units In the num-
Der of the key. Pull the key and
the dial set at 0 goes to 9. Pull the
same key again and the unit pointer
moves TO Is. Pull 1, 2, and 8 keys
now and the pointer goes consecutive
ly with g. hop, skip, and jump to "a.
When the unit pointer, keeping up it's
agile athletics has reached It's starting
point again, there is quick little mo-
ton on the right hand dial. The
pointer then has 'dotted and gone
one" The machines internal clock
work is more accurate than human
head can be. 1t isn't troubled with
malaria, Or is it ever larger in the
morning than it was the night before.
Ali the accountant has to do is to run
his eye up and down the columns,
pulling each respective key as he
reaches the corresponding figure. A
day is sufficient in which to learn the
key board, and the motion of the hand
quickly becomes involuntary. The
expert can run the figures in his head
and on the keyboard simultaneously,
thus proving" his work by one trip
up o. down the column. Carrying is
performed by setting the pointer at
the number to be carried. To set the
unit pointer all that is necessary is to
hold down key 1 and turn the pointer
forward to number one less than the
one carried. On releasing key ] the
pointer is On the desired number. The
hundred pointer can be moved IN
either direction. The hand easily
operates the nine keys thus: Nos. /,
2, and 8 with the first finger, 4 and
with the second, 6 and 7 with the third,
s and 9 with the fourth. The inven-
tor claims for the machine unerring
accuracy and surprising rapidity. He
says an expert can add 249 figures q
minute with it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
A SONG OF THE ROAD.
ROBERT L. STEVENSON, IN MAGAZINE OF ART FOR
FEBRUARY.

The Gauger walked with willing foot,
And aye the Gauger played the flute;
And what should Master Gaugsr play
But "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Whenever buckle on my pack,
And foot it gaily in the track,
o pleasant gauger long since dead,
/ hear your fiuting on ahead.
You go with me the self-same way
The self-same air for me you play,
For do think, and so do you,
1t is the tune to travel to.
For who would gravely set his face
To go to this and t'other place?
There's nothing under heaven so blue
That's fairly worth the travelling to.
On every hand the roads begin,
And people walk with zeal therein;
But whereso'er the highways tend,
Be sure there's nothing at the end!
Then follow, you, wherever HE
The travelling mountains of the sky,
Or let the streams in civil mode
Direct your choice upon road.
For one and all, or high or low,
Will bring you where you wish to go;
And one and all go night and day
lover the Hills and Far Away"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
BEYOND THE GATE.
KATHARINE Mcdowell RICE.

Two dimpled hands the bars of iron grasped;
Two blue and wondering eyes the space looked
through,
This massive gate boundary had been set,
Nor was she ever known to be but true
Strange were the sights she saw across the way.
A little child had died some days before
And as she watched, amid the silence hushed
Some carried flowers some q casket bore
The little watcher at the garden gate
Grew fearful, hers such thoughts and wonder
ingS were,
Till said the nurse: Come here dear child Weep
not,
We all must go. Ills God has sent for her
''If he should send for me''-thus spoke the
child
''I'll have to tell the angel: DO not wait
Though God has sent for me, cannot come:
never go beyond the garden gate.'"
Harper's Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28

feeding of hogs is one of the most pay
ing occupations eff the farm.
1t requires quite an amount of labor
and care to force flowers and vegetab-
les in winter, but the prices obtained
more than compensate for the extra
expense while larger profits are sec
ured than from summer products.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28

Two thousand years age cereals
were grown in Great Britain. In that
country they are still grown In the
highest perfection. Here there is food
for thought for the farmers of the
older portions OF this country, where,
in general way, cereal growing is
no longer success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
The Household.
CINNAMON BISCUIT.

Mix one pound sugar with twelve
yolks of eggs and teaspoonful of es-
sence of cinnamon; work the batter
vigorously with a wooden spoon for
quarter of al hour. and then mix In
the twelve whites whipped firm; four
ounces of potato flour and four~ounces
best Hour; I'LL small paper cases with
this, sugar them over, and when the
sugar Is melted bake them in an
oven of moderate hest of very light
color.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28

lhAS, sugar bnSIn OVER, anu WQen Lie
sugar Is melted bake them in an
oven OF moderate hest OF q very light
color.
COMPOTE OF CHEsTNUTs.
Remove the husks from about fifty
chestnuts and put them TO simmer in
quart of milk and water until done
to the degree of a doury potato; they
must be then drained in sugar bowl
containing twelve ounces of sugar
boiled till it peals on surface; flavor
with pounded vanilla, and, after
working all together, rub through a
coarse wire sieve to a dish. To dish
up this compete first pile up half
pint of firmly whipped cream in the
center Of the compotier; with the fin
gers gently strew the vermicellied
chestnuts upon this in conical form
gsrnish round the base with compete
of oranges with maraschino. This is
a delicious dish.
APPLE PANCAKES.
Put four tablespoonsfuls of flour into
a bowl, with pinch of salt and lit
tie sugar. STIR these ingredients well
together, and form them into stiff
batter with three well-beaten eggs and
a little milk. The batter must be stiff.
er than for ordinary pancakes. Peel
four or five apples and chop them
very small; mix them with the batter
and fry ia the usual way.
FURNITURE vARNIsH.
White wax eight ounces, oil of tur-
pentlne one pint. melt the wax and
gradually mix in the turpentine.
TO CLEAN oIL-CLoTHs.
Use no soap nor scrubbing brush.
but wash off the dirt with warm water
and flannel. Then go over with milk,
and rub with soft brush till dry and
shining.
WATERPROOF MIXTURE FOR BOOTS AND
SHOES.
Beef tallow four ounces, ros1n one
ounce, beeswax one ounce; melt to-
gether, and add when cold, quantity
of neat's-foot oil equal to the mass.
Apply with rag, warming the boot,
and rubbing IN well with the hand.
EsCAPLOPED SWEET PoTATORs.
Slice cold boiled sweet potatoes and
place them in buttered pie plate,
seasoning with little salt and pepper.
Melt one-third of cupful of butter
into half cupful of rich milk, and
sprinkle some of it over the potatoes.
Have the oven hot, and look at ths
potatoes every ten minutes until the
butter and milk are used. A little
sugar may be added to the milk, but
it will bt doubtful improvement.
MUTTON AU CHAUx. Bake a leg or
breast of mutton in the oven, bast-
ing it well, and half an hour before it
is done, put in the pan a cabbage,
chopped fine as for cold slaw. The
cabbage will cook in the rich gravy,
and the basting must be continued SO
as TO give the gravy all possible taste
of the ozmazone of the meat; the
Drowned crust that gives the flavor
and pleasant odor IN all roasting or
baking meats.
New-York tribune., 1886-08-12
COTTON MARKErs-BY TELEGRAPH.

rtvrnpno Aug ll.-l23O p. oiton tTm with fair
d,n,aud MiddiIg plaI- lodi do Middiing orleans.
5ld bales, including 1000 bales for spccu
ation and export Receipts 5000 bales, including 2Soo
bales AIneil,siI ,,.,,,i,,
clause August delivery, D6id; do August and scpten
her i,iv,ry SO4d also JGid do. september and DC
tui,.r dry,ry std also O.OId. do October and 40
y.nh,, 4Uid do. November aud December dc
livery odd also 3Gid. do. December and January do
ivery 4t4d. February ami March delivery o64d;
do September delivery. 0OId.
Tenders ior at days cearngs 1000 bales ne"
" -cotton-Thc sales Of the day included s.4OO bales
American. ,,.,,,..- -,--- ..., 40
lvcrv .J6ld buyers, do. August september del,
,rv : yC4d value September and OctJbber delivery
XGid juyers October and November delivery ibld
i,y,rs: do November and December delivery. b 3Uid
linz do and January delivery sud buy eIs
a." I,nn,,v ana February delivery iG4d buyers do
February March delivery, oOid buyers CO ScPfm
Der delivery. 59-Oid. buyers ,.,.,.
nm closed quiet but steady. tpanafs
Inu Nlddlng clause August delivery OOid scleIs do
August AMI September delivery, sod sellers, do sep
ienLsr aud October delivery 6Cid buyers do October
and SnyrulDcr delivery, 3o4d. buyers; do November
sm1 neeinyer delivery 3B4d buyers. do December ami
I.nuary ,lyery 3Os buyers do January and February
deVrry lGid do February and March delivery.
t,ld ,uyers do September delivery. v-bid SELLERS
a.IyKnI1S Aug. Cotton quiet, Midding iloi
Low Mlddiing sV.lG, Good Ordinary, = l.lOi et anu
gross receipts bales; sales 10 bales stock 81 bales
Mlddlng sL, Good Ordinary. 7S4; net ana gross re-
cruts Ii bales sales 80 bales stock, 4.21J bales -
Hrw tUtEAsr Aug lI.-totton steady, Midding. 3io.
Low Adding lI.lb; Good ordinary bs net AMI gross
r.c,ins n bales exports the Continent, lSJ bos COAST
wise bales; sales lUO bales stock 296lO bsLss
New-York tribune., 1886-08-12
GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS
OF NEw.YoRK pEALrNas


] There was little interest in the grain specula-
tions yesterday and the changes n prices were small.
Nothing new was developed In the way Of outside in.
nuences and tho main trouble with tho speculation
seems to be tho Indifference Of public. Exporters
bought 10000 bushels Of wheat, largo export
gagements at the West reported Tho net result
the narrow fluctuations In the options s unworthy of
notice. and spot lots we're not qu0tabIy changed The
options ended aa follows: August. s4a; September,
s5A October, s7s, November. Ssaa; December. 9Ois
January, 9lio; May, 96as cents Cash corn was a
cent better but exporters still modes buyers Tho
options ended steady lsa under the best hgures
but up for August At 504 and cent for the other
months At Ola for September, 52l4 for October
and 52os cents for November In oats whta
lots foil az cents but other grades were ged.
The option market was more than steady; August
deliveries closed of s cent at $685. but September at
33i4 and October at 31la cents were Is higher Tho
bull held supreme control Of the lard the
big ongagements OF Tuesday squirting buyers To the
front. Snipp took 900 for export septem.
Der options shot IL points ended quoted at 81 22
October gained 8 at So 80. November at SO 81 aud
December points at So SO.
The receipts Of grain Yesterday at New-York, Pha-
delpha, Baltimore and Boston follows Wheat.
47s9lI bushels corn. 5s,592 bushels oat.. lbs. .2ss
busbels total grain. 665.7s6 bushels -four, 4O,7oI
barrels At Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis Tho
arrivals were Wheat. 200061 DUsnes; corn, 52l.27l
bushels oats 277029 bushels; total grain, 99S, ,3GI
bushels four l5.4U7 barrels.
New-York tribune., 1886-08-12
TILE TRADE In CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, Aug. IL Especially grain
markets we're dull but all day The September
option for corn gotten trfe above Al cents and
the May option winch has just begun TO be operated in
moved all the from IS cents to little above 10
The pit fall OF country
relative the deporable of affairs in the corn
belt Farmers OF these dispatches sad were paying
80 cents right their farms for The anticipated
receipts for tomorrow G76 OF corn, III Of
wheat and 2j0 OF oats.
Wheat barely touched 76 cents and kept about at 7jt
For the september option wheat went to 76i4
cents William Dunn said that ne bought 10000 bushels
here for d export and 80 600 bushels for D
luth. There good proht to-day IN direct ship
meats from New York. Ii asserted that 100000
bushels OF wheat nal been bOught the
hours-about 100 boatOats The charters corn were
10000 bushels. " Puts" on September corn sold this
afternoon at 43od435s cents calls at ALL cents.
The receipts to-day 1872 OF wheat 546 cara Of
corn and 207 oisoats.
New-York tribune., 1886-08-12
CIosyyo PRICES OF pafLt tDELPHri srOGKS
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 11-P. VI.

Tho sneculation at the Stock Exchange to-day affords
litt opportunity for comment In this column or the
detailing OF anything new TO It's readers ihefe co"
tinues the came old struggle to hold prices up Gil
public buying of securities can be seduced into TIC
market All sort OF devices resorted to to induce
selling OF short stocks while nothing Is left nndone 10
convince operators and the public that stocks are
great purchase Three weeks 1t given out that
the Chicago party had sold out s ST. Paul and Nor'h
western stock. At the time we dsoredted the report
and subsequent occurrences have shown tha te rePo
was Issued to induce interest To day from the
same source report that the 81. Paul Company
had or contemplated additional issue OF lis common
,tock There IA reason believe that there Is not
scptla OF fact the report While this sort OF thhH
s worked on one side Wall Street agcn cies are
worked TO distribute facts" about the largo buyns IN
this market London account IL has come /" be uh-
tnat every broker who buys hundred shares
OF Central and Hudson Lake shore Erie is London
AGENT Yet II the stories the last month about London
buying had been only half this market by thsm'
would be depleted OF those stocks And now that tue
money market is working hard and toward strneencJ
there are daily rumors circulated that tho Treas
ury will make extraordinary calls for bonds
There Is no reason to suppose that the de-
parcut will vary from the policy indicated by tS acts
during the year and cali the per cents subject 10
thirty days notice only fast II It's way to meet
the calls In icgaltender notes. Further "a nearly al
the standing 81 held In the reasnry to secure
hank noto circulation q call OF them has htte effect
other than to Increase dues 10 the fund deposited Tor
the retirement oi circulation stock4 NAV be gong up
or going down. but spectators AT TINS time shonh make
their calculations without references to possible Ir' a'HJ
action The stock market to-iay opened tame ana IN
figures generally etronc. but after the nrst hour thero
vas an inclination toward lover prices which con-
tlnuod t the eud giving To the cosing apout per cent
better than the lowest prices of tne dhy. ,
Government bo,ds wrre quiet pnd easT, with IN" his
for the !, and lia' of = per cent Annexed "io t"o
closing quotations;