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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
MALIGNED MEXICANS.
They Do Not Steal Cattle Along the Border.
St. Louis Republican.

Col. A. G. Bracket, an old-time army
ofhcer, now stationed at Fort Davis, who
Is proud of the honor of having made the
nfst indian raid into Mexico in the fifties,
writes as follows on the subject of the re-
| ported Mexican cattle-stealing on this side
of the border:
A good deal has been said lately in the
| puolc prints IN regard to cattle-stealinu
along the Rio Grande by Mexican soldiers.
Lit is very strange, to say the least of it.
that we who live here have heard NOTHING
about 1t except as it was returned To Ms in
the columns of a newspaper printed q
! long distance off. Scouting narties of
| United States soldiers are kent movino
| along the river, and they know nothin0
whatever about the socalled outraoes
/ What they do know is that American
cattle stray IN large numbers across the
river, where the grazing is better and
where they are looked after by their own
ers as carefully as if they were on our own
grounds.
This certainly has not much the appear.
ance of cattle-stealing. Soldiers see hun
dreds of cattle crossing from Texas
Mexico, but nobody drives them over
they are going of their own free will
where they can Craze enough to keep life
in them, which they find is very difficult
to do IN Preside county. The fact is
| that there is an unprecedented drought
IN this section of the country, and many
hundreds of cattle have died of starvation.
This fact is an unpleasant one. but the
truth has to be told sometimes, however
much 1t may be against our interest to tell
1T. The carcasses of dead animals not
the plains and slopes in every direction.
Against the drought and consequent total
lack Of grass no man can success fully
combat, and the cowboys are only too will
Ing to have their cattle lover in Mexico.
where the grazing is comparatively good,
knowing full well that they can drive
them back whenever they please The
animals go over the slopes to drink in the
Rio Grande, and seeing the inviting pros
poets of the other SIDE cross over doing
no harm TO anyone.
These are the facts of the case, and if
any Mexican has crossed on this side and
driven cattle over he has merely been tax
ing back his own property, the same as
our people do from the other side.
Americans along the Rio Grande own a
great many cattle, while our neighbors
own comparatively few. Our soldiers
keep a good watch a Ong the frontier. and
Gen. Stanley is well advised as to every
thing transporting and looks well after the
interests of our citizens. Under the con-
dition of things stated here, there must
| aecessarily be some Irregularities, bu
that the Mexicans come onto our side and
drive away cattle is not true. If true
though, it would be perfectly easy to do,
and still more easy to drive away Ameri-
can cattle already on their side of the Rio
Grande.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
STUDYING TORNADOES.
Work OF the Signal Service Bureau ons the
Subject.

Work OF the Signal Service Bureau ons the
Subject.
The signal Office at Washington has
been making a special study of the
facts reported from the great tornadOes
of April 18th by which the cities of ST.
Cloud and Sank Rapids, Mimi, were near
ly destroyed. The farthest westerly ap-
pearance of the storm was at jamestown,
Dakota. The total path of the storm was
thirty-five miles long, and destroyed over
100000 worth of property. At the same
time there was storm at Benton, Mills
county, Iowa, which proceeded in the same
general direction and passed through
a dozen towns in the course
of ITO miles. Another parallel storm
was noted at Wetmore, Kansas,
and Stella, Nebraska, and was traced for
about thirty miles. Another was re-
ported from Monroe, Missouri, about
thirty miles long, All these storms hap
pened between five and eight o'clock in
the evening. There was a uniform pro-
cession from west to east, the most east
ern tornadoes occurring four or five hours
later than the western. The signal SER
vice people are inclined to build theories
somewhat different from those which have
been accepted with regard to tornadoes.
The principal authority in tornadoes is
Prof. Terril. He says that when Oh &C
count of greater heat, or a greater amount
OF aqueous yapOrS, the atmosphere at
any place becomes more rare
than the surrounding portion, it ascends,
and the surrounding heavier atmosphere
flows IN below to supply its place, while a
counter current as is produced above.
As the lower strata of atmosphere gen
orally contain certain quantity of
aqueous vapor, which is condensed after
rising to a certain height and forms
clouds and rain. the caloric given out
in the condensation produces a still
greater rarefaction, and doubtfuless adds
very much to the disturbance of equili-
Drum, and to the motive power of storms.
The signal Office finds the following OBJ
jections to this theory: They say it de-
mands a more Sudden and complete mix
ing of warm and cool air than ever
take place in nature; that there is no such
sudden uprush Of air due to possible
heating by the sun. While the earth's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
Farm Work For June.

This is the busiest month for the farm
er. Corn planting, which is 'planting''
par excellence, over a large part of the
country is not over before corn tillage
presses, for the weeds grow very fast, and
the grass grows too, so that haying ought
to begin. Millet and fodder corn must be
sowed, and in many sections Swedish tur-
nips or rutabagas need to be in as early
as the 25th, though in others good crobs
may be depended upon when sown a
month later. Those who have orchard
grass and clover in some fields will be glad
that they may begin the hay harvest by
cutting these long before timothy and
red-top meadows are ready for the now
ing machine. This saves a great deal of
worry, and when the timothy is ripe it
may be cut at once if proper balculatians
have been made. AS to the age when
timothy should be cut it is we'll to bear in
mind that for ones own use it can hardly
be cut too green after the heads are well
out, but for sale for city feeding it is pre-
ferred as old as it can be without the seed
Smelling off from the heads. It is used
not so much as nutriment as for bulky
food with oats Or ground feed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
Printing a War Picture.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER


In painting war picture the artist
must first select battle of national in
terest and with certain dramatic value
of It's own. Now comes the almost endless
task Of collecting the material.
"The soldiers who take part in a great
engagement often represent almost every
locality in the country. All the sources
must be consulted. One can't afford to
be mistaken IN a single instance. It
would be detected the very first time an
old soldier who was in the fight visited
the picture. But to make you under
stand I will tell you how I collected the
material for the Siege of Vicksqurg, that
Mr.. Morgan is now finishing First I
obtained access to the war department at
Washington, D. c., and collected every
photograph and sketch pertaining to the
fight. I also obtained copies OF the roll
call Of all the federals engaged in the bat
tie. To $4,000 of these men I sent circu-
lar letters, requesting them to send me
| their full name, age, weight, height and
photograph. Thousands of these letters
| have been answered. If they were all col
| lected and printed in book form I honest
ly believe it would be the most interesting
and most unique contribution to the his
tory of the rebellion extant
y Lew I'd y NIOIe u COlOn6l FRED
Grant asking him to send me a photo
graph of himself at the age when he was
at the battle Of Vicksburg with his father
His wife answered the letter, sending
his picture, representing him a lad of Is.
She writes:
dear General: Inclosed find pho
tograph of Colonel Fred Grant at the age
when he was at the battle of Vicksburg
with his father, General Grant. 1t is the
only one We have of him while at that age.
and, as his mother prizes it very much,
will you kindly return it when your great
picture is finished?'
Here is the photograph of four men
all standing in row on crutches- You
viii notice that each man has lost his left
leg. They wrote me letter stating that
they were all engaged IN the battle or
Vicksburg, al were from the Same neigh
borhood. all knew each other, and all lost
their left leg. Now, isn't that a bit of re-
marbable war history"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

does not find time to be as much with his
family as every father shonld be. "From
early dawn to dewy eve," and often into
the night, he must toll to provide for his
offspring. He knows but few, outside of
his own family, and those he meets in
business. This is the rule with fathers
and families in the city, and not the ex-
ception. A man was murdered by foot
pads, at midnight, within a stones throw
of his home, in Louisville, not many weeks
ago. His next-door neighbor looked at
his dead features and knew him not; he
died at home, stranger. Who would
claim that the city is a solitude? And
yet. in one sense, it is true. The principle
Of brotherhood does not implant itself
upon the character of men raised in the
city as it does upon that of those raised
in the country. Each looks upon his fell
low being, to some extent, as his prey, or
as an enemy, to escape whose clutches he
must use his utmost vigilance. The city,
like the desert, is full of lyons and hyenas,
is populated with gazelIes and timid ante
lOpes.
Dream not of going to the city, We stout
country yeomen! Be contented to raise
your boys where you are. Spend the
long evenings of winter with them at
your country home. The fireside is a
wOndrous school-the best school for the
boy, because its curriculum is character
alone.
The country-raised man never ceases
to pine for his old surroundings, when
transplanted to the city. He may be sue
cessful, and he usually is, in eluding the
lions which he is a gazelle, or in slaugh-
tering the gazelles when he becomes a
lion, but he never enjoys the feast. The
school and the home are both necessary
to enable boy to fight successfully the
battle Of modern life. The city has its
schools, but not the homes. The country
has its homes, but not the schools. Which
has the advantage in the race? a count
of the lions on Main street to-day would
startle the one who made the count. A
majority of the successful business men
in Louisville, known to the writer, were
raised in the country. The lesson from
all this is apparent. 1t is to build up our
rural schools and tear down our city
homes. We are going too fast, and our
chase is after an igHiS fdtuuS. Those who
acquire wealth may escape the slough,
but what is to become of the massive
cities?
A street-car driver told the writer, with
tears in his eyes, that he had not for IL
years eaten a meal with his family. So
ciety is built on a wrong basis when it
thus condemns family of children to
orphanage; they might just as well no
father at never tee him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

Then again, there ought always to be at
any rate one enameled sauce pan for boil
ing milk, making custards and such things.
1t is very risky to attempt using an ordi-
nary pan for these purposes.
1t is important that a kitchen be kept
sweet and clean in every corner No rub
bish ought ever be allowed to accumulate:
all refuse from vegetables should be dis
posed of as soon as possible. If
close stove or kitchener is used, the best
plan is to burn these things at once.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
The Corn Root Worm.
Iowa Register.

The plague to the great staple corn
crop is still menace to unskillful and
careless farmers. 1t says to them palmer
than any agricultural writer ever has,
that there must be rotation of crops. Mr..
Clapp. a careful farmer of Illinois, says
that this beetle not only works on the
roots, but that it goes up on the stalks
later in the season, feeds on the leaves,
husks and silk at the end of the ears. In
some sections of Illinois and Iowa for the
past seasons they have been numerous,
and have done so much damage where
corn has been raised three or four times
on the same ground that the crop was
nearly failure. But no case is known
where they did any considerable damage
where it was the first crop for two or three
years, except where the year previous they
became so numerous that they spread
out on adjoining fields of grass or other
crops. But the corn field is their natural
home, and corn roots and blades tn cir ma
tural food. And their presence is an
admOnitiOn to farmers in the right direc-
ton, that of the rotation of crops There
has been no other way devised to destroy
this pest except to starve it out by remov-
ing the corn to another field. The worm
is not great traveller, and yet by some
process it has managed to spread over
considerable territory in few years. Or
1t has been. spontaneously produced to
teach farmers their duty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
HEALTH HINTS IN RHYME,
PAIL MALL GAZETTE,

But of all things the most would have you be-
ware
Of your breathing the poison Of once breathed
When in bed, whether out or at home you may
be,
Always open the windows and let 1t go free
With clothieg and exercise keep yourscl yes
warm,
Ard change your clothes quickly if caught in e.
storm,
For cold is caught by chilling the outside
skin
Flies all once to the delicate lining within
All you who thus kindly take care of your
skin,
And attend to its wants without and within
Need never of cholera feel any fears
And your skin may last you a hundred years
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
Locomotive Boiler Explosion.

GALVESTON, Tex, June 1.-The News
special from Palestine says: While a To-
connective was standing in the round house
of the International & Great Northern
railroad shops, this morning, her boiler
suddenly exploded with a terrific force,
killing the engineer, Henry Rhody, and
d. W. Riggs, maehinest, and injuring
slightly several others.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

[ To promote economy the French gov
eminent has established savings banks in
connection with the public schools. There
are no less than $4,000 of these banks.
and the 100000 boys whose names are on
the books have an average of SIS each to
their credit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
The City VS.. The Country.
Herald of Education.

The writer was boy once, and lived in
the country. He is man now, with boys
of his own, and lives in the city. He
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

above, we certainly need not fail to pro-
duce all the apples can consume, and
some for greater extremes to the north.
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Preston County Sunday-SchOOIC Con
yentiOn.


VeutiOu.
The following is the program for
the Preston County Sunday School
Convention, which meets at the NJ.
f. Church, in Kingwood, w. Va, on
June 7, 1886, at 1907, NJ.
DAY EXERCISES:
!. Devotional Exercises, by the
Rev. Samuel Graham.
2. OBJECT of the Convention" by
the Rev. b. b. Evans.
3 Report on credentials.
4 Permanent Organization.
5. Reports from delegates and
general business of the Convention.
EVENING EXERCISES:
/. "The Model Sunday. School," by
the Hon. John p. Jones, of Terra
Alta.
2. Query Box and general discus
sion.
3. Unfinished Business.
4. Adjournment.
j. AMI MAHTIN, Pres.
J. II HAWTHORNE. Sec.
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"A. +. McNIillen, Of Masontown,
was struck by lightning last Satur-
day evening during the heavy thun-
der storm. He had been driving a
team and had driven under shed
for protection from the rain, and
about the time he got his horses un-
hitched, the stroke came that knocked
him senseless, burning the hair off
the top of his head. His two little
nephews, who were with him, were
badly stunned, and the dog which
had been following them was instant
ly killed. We learned yesterday
that Mr. McMillen, although seriously
injured, will recover.
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To all persons holding liens, by iudg-
ments or otherwise, against the real es-
comb:
In pursuance Of deer oo OF the Circuit
Court of Preston County, Wost Virginia.
made I'm cause therein pending To sub
Joc' the roal estate Of the said j. II. Lips
comb To the satisfaction of the liens there
on, You arc hereby required To present
AL claims held by YOU, and each of you,
against the said j. II. LipscOmb which
are liens ON his real estate or any part OF
II, Tor adjudication, to me at my office, I'm
kiuGwooi, in said county, on or before
the 18th day OG juno, 1886.
Given under my hand this third day of
May, 1856. j. III. HAWTHORNE,
vi NNV-Y vii tiV COmmr'
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ACard from oIivcr Dunn.

Whereas, it is reported that Chas.
Lskel, of Brsndonyilie. stopped at
my hotel. The Farmers Home, in
Kingwooi, during the last court and
went away without paying his bill;
this card is for the purpose ol j'~'-
busing the minds of the poopl,
who hold such an opinion. l
am in duty bound to say that Mr..
Lakel paid his bill as any other gen.
tleman would
OLIVER DUNN.