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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-25

which was delivered by Prof. JOS
Emerson, of Beloit College. It was
an entertaining and carefully thought
out production treating of the agri
cultural growth of the great north
west, and the influence which this
growth had had upon its intellectual
progress. A handsome tribute was
paid to the work which the dairy
mems association had accomplished
in bringing this about It is begin.
ming to be recognized now, that the
| farmers home is the nucleus of our
nation. His effort was accorded the
most careful attention.
At its conclusion D. @. Cheney, OF
Clinton Junction, arose and moved
| that the thanks of the audience be
rendered Prof. Emerson for the able
and thoughtful address which ne had
mously and enthusiastically carried.
Jules Hubbard, of Chicago, who
was present, then sang Rocked in the
Cradle of the Deep" and was obliged
to respond to an encore, rendering
'Nancy Lee"
Major A. P. McKinstry, of Winnie
bago City, Mimi, in the absence of
Mr.. Adams, of Madison, who was
billed to speak, came forward and said
that Abraham had left is Isaac in
Madison and he was the ''critter" in
the bushes that needs must be sacri-
feed in his stead. Mr.. McKinstry
is a clear writer, and handled his
topic 1.-THE gathered cream work
and the value of the test sys-
tenn" in an entertaining and
instructive manner. The rest of
the evening was spent in a general
discussion of dairy topics and ia a
lively repartee between President
Hoard and Clinton Babbitt, who to-
gether constitute the life of the con-
vention. Mr.. Babbitt attends all the
sessions of the convention, and has
taken an interested part in its proceed
ings from the start.
THURSDAY MORNING.
First IN order came an exhaustive
discussion of the question, "How to
Reduce the Cost of Farm Products, !"
by the Hon. FL. @. Adams, of Madi-
son. Following him came paper on
the "CIover Question" by Stephen
Faville, ex-president of the North
western Dairvmen's association,
which brought out many valuable
ideas on this important question.
Fl. B, Gurler, president of the
Illinois dairymen's association had as
his subject, Feeding Dairy Cows, :"
and brought out clearly the need of
enlightened views and usages in this
line. J. A. Smith, of Cedarburg,
Wis, gave an answer. to the perplex-
ing question, "What is the Matter
with our Cheese"
The afternoon programme was as
follows:
1.-THE Difference in Creamery Patrons and their
Profits" Lovejoy Johnson. Stillman Valley,
Ill.
Discussion.
Common Sense in Dairying." Hon Hiram
Smith, Sheboygan Falls. Wis.
"My Experience in Dairying." S. K. Bartholo-
NEW, Marengo. Ill. -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-25
Food, in It's Relation to Health.

The first meal of the day, or break
fast, is in this country-with those
in health, at ali events-a fairly sub
stantial ore, although some people
try-but, thank goodness, try in vain
to assimilate French and English Gus
toms IN regard to breakfast. France
and its folks are different from Eng
land, with its solid men and women ;
it's CHM ate is different from ours its
notions as regards eating and drink
ing can never be engrafted on English
bone and muscle.
Yes, breakfast ought to be q hearty
one, eaten early in TIE morning. and
eaten slowly, SO as to preclude the
possibility of eating too heavily,
WHICH would materially interfere
with the business of the day.
4 man or woman who Is no break
fast eater must either be heavy
over heavy-suppere Or be IN a
bad state of health. A person who
requires the stimulus of a cup of tea,
or any other stimulus or stimulent
whatever, before partaking of solid
food is not in the hey day of health
[ like to see man have his break
fast first. and then feel round for his
cup of coffee, tea or chocolate. have
known the strongest and healthiest
of men positively forget all about
the liquid part of their breakfast, and
leave the table without it. I have
known men who scarcely ever touch
ed a drop of liquid of any kind and
yet were in robust health.
What a person eats for breakfast
often gives noe clue TO the state of
his health. One example; if while
sojourning at an hotel, | see man
come down to breakfast between ten
and eleven. and sit down to deviIed
kidneys with plenty of sauce
(piquant, and perhaps one poor, puny
egg to follow, / would be willing to
aver that he carries white tongue
and that his liver sadly need seeing
to.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-25
STATE NEWS.

r. 4. Welch, apioneer of the town
of Bloomington, Grant county, re-
Gently dropped deaa while engaged III
his evening chores.
Forest Hoffman was instantly killed
by q tree falling ON him while he
was cutting ties in the town of
Forest, Richland county.
Another branch police station is
proposed at Milwaukee at cost not
to exceed $18, 900.
A report shows that the number of
deaths reported in Madison for one
year was 1877, the number of births
115 and marriages Isl. 4
A gang of young loafers at Racine
are said to make a practice of disturb
ing the services at the Union NJ. E.
church every Sunday night.
The Upham Manufacturing Com
pany of Marshfeld estimate that the
cut of their saw mill for the season of
1886 will be 100000 feet.
A boy named Michel was sent to
the state reform school from Tomah
for assauiting a companion with a
knife. .....
A paper mill is to be built at Hurley,
stock company composed of J. D.
Witter, E. B. Poster, and others, hav-
ing been formed for that purpose with
capital stock of $50, 900.
There are in Wisconsin thirty-
three lodges of the Royal Arcanum
with membership of over 1900.
The Royal Arcanum in the United
States has membership of over 81,
900.
While on a drunk a man named
William Charlton living about three
miles from Spencer froze both his
hands up to the wrists. The doctors
claim that both his hands will have to
come off.
The Berlin w. @. T. .. now mum
bers forty members. The ladies have
succeeded in placing their temperance
in the public schools.
Clinton Welsh, who has served ten
years in the penitentiary for murder,
now appeals to the supreme court for
release on the ground, that the jury
did not specify what degree of murder
| he had committed.
Mil Haukee broom makers have de
cided to advance the price of brooms
% cents per dozen.
A $50 900 hotel is urged as an addi
ton to the metropolitan Institution:
of Sheboygan.
At the next meeting of the Milwau
kee merchants association the mem
bers will discuss a suggestion made
at the annual meeting that the Nil
waukee merchants, to the number O.
twenty -gve or fifty, make monthly
visits in body, to the leading towns
of the state for the purposes Of recrea
ton, promoting acquaintanceships
and developing closer relations be
tweny themselves and country mer
chants. II the plan is adopted ar
engagements will be made with thu
railroad companies for a special ca
once a month, the members to leave
Milwaukee in the morning and return
at night.
i Milwaukee brewers have voluntaril.
, reduced the hours of work of their em
ployes from thirteen to ten hours pc
day without change IN pay. Nearl.
four thousand men have been effected
by TIE change.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-25
Prospects OF African Civilization.

DAVID her, III darperS Magazine Tor laaTch.
The prospects of African civilization
are aptly summed up In the elder
Prince Grotschakof's terse definition
of the equally undeveloped vastness
of Siberia as ga good bill payable at
a long date" Vast as are the results
achieved during the last few years,
they are as nothing to the work which
still remains to be done: but the outer
world is at all events beginning to
learn for the first time what Africa
really is, and what she really needs.
AS lately as 1880, civilization hail
ed as great discovery the announce
ment that John and Richard Ian
dor, having voyaged down the Niger
from Yauri to the sea having salts
factorily ascertained that it is not the
Congow Even after this amazing re-
velatlon. and indeed, almost up to the
date of Stanley's famous finding of
Livingstone" the, few Europeans who
thought of Africa at all, thought Of it
as a. vast sandy desert, with floating
population consisting chiefly of hun
CRY lions and robbers more ierocious
still, they beng in the habit of career
ing over the waste" on swift horses
without any obvious cause for their
hurry, living comfortably where
there was nothing to eat, and amas-
sing stores of ill-gotten wealth where
there was no one to rob.
But the great tidal wave of civiliza-
tion which is now bursting into the
Dark Continent has swept away these
delusions at once and forever. The
supposed ''desert" proves to contain
wide tracts of alluvial soil as fertile
as the Cashmere Valley, forests vast
enough to swallow up all the woods
of northern Russia, lakes to which
Ladoga and Oaega would be mere
pools, mountains as high as the state
Hest peaks of the Alps and Caucasus,
and rivers forming q series of watery.
high-roads as magnificent as those OF
Siberia itself, with the additional ad-
vantage Of having no winter TO I'M
pcde them. Indeed, the future his
tory OF Africa will be written along
the lines traced by the Nile, the NJ
ger and the Congo, as certainty az
that of Central Africa has followed the
course of the Syr-Darya and the Oxus
and with these three great naturaf
highways any survey OF Africa's de-
velopment must necessarily begin.
The proprieGors OF Mount Auburn
the most famous of the many beauti
ell ooDoo+orIpS about Passion nAV(
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-25
A LIST OF CENTENARIANS.
TWenty-Four People In Iowa One
Hundred Years Old.

The census of 1885 shows that in the
state Of Iowa there are twenty-four
centenarians, fifteen of which have
passed the one hundredth mile post;
the Oldest one having reached the
advanced age of 121 years.
Here is a list of names, together
with the name of the counties in
which they reside:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-25

w hen at s o'clock the session wss
opened by President Hoard the opera
house was we'll filled with an audience
of representative dairymen of the
northwest, and with goodly repre-
sentation of Beloit people. A selec-
ton by the orchestra paved the way
forD anaddress on the Golden Age,
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-16
The Years.

Marching onward. ever onward, like a serried
host, appears,
With its slow and measured footsteps, the pro-
ccssiOn of the years;
Looking far adown the ages, one unbroken
line we ken;
Nhither, whittier do they journey? for they
come not back again.
On they go, across the river, silent river. deep
and wide;
There the long procession halteth, marshaled
on the other side.
Waiting till the last one crOsseth, till the angel
10y the shore
Shall proclaim with voice of trumpet tones
that Thine shall be no more"
Each division is in order, for the discipline is
Every regiment is numbered, every company
Is named;
Eighteen cighfy-five'' has vanished, with its
blessing ANA Its We;
''Eighty-six" iS pr Ssinp onward, pausing not
Tor friend or foe.
January'> snowy whireno IS February melted
fast:
March came on with noise ard hustle and its
StOrm-ciOudS whirling past;
April skies looked down upon us, viOets bios
sumed by the way,
Aud, while birds sang sweetest carols, April
giided into May.
May. with all her happy voices, laughter in
the very air.
Fragrant with II thousand springing budding
blossoms everywhere.
Deeper grew the blue above us, tender grew
the song-bir!s' tune.
Life, and joy AMI love cxulted with the thrill
of bissful June.
While the breath of roses ravished all our
sens"s with delight.
Lo! the July sun was shining in its splendor
clear and bright;
And the gorgeous. golden, g,owiRg summer
days went swift and soon,
AS the ripened fruits of August shone be-
meath the August moon.
Then the cool September mornings showed us
many Il falling leaf,
And another summer left us only memo
ries sweet as brief;
And October with her rainbow hues has
bnthed the maple tree.
And her brilliant cOlOIs FURNISHED all the
wood from sea to sea.
Soon again. with garnercd harvest, we shall
gather round the fire,
In Thanksaiying's gIad rcuniOn-maid and
mGtrOn, son and sire.
While November rains are falling, tenderly we
say good night;
In the morning. 10! d rcember's SHOWS are
giistcning pure and white.
All! December, with its Christmas, with its
waich-night and gOod-by
To the Old Year; how the parting touches
every heart and eye.
So they leave uS-while they Journey on
ward, whittier we shall go:
Sweet the thought, we there shall gather all
their gifts to us below.
Boston Transcript.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-16
Superstitious Business Men.

An observing Broadway street-car
conductor tells of the odd way in which
one passenger, a business man whom
he brings downtown every morning,
deports himself As soon as he gets his
seat he grabs two pins from his coal
lapel and sticks one into the cushion
on both sides of him. He goes through
the same programme every morning.
Ii he gets into car and has to stand
he holds a pin in each hand. He does
it for luck, so he himself explained to
the conductor. This man is an infiuen-
tial officer in one of the biggest corpora
tions in New York, and everywhere he
is regarded as q conservative, intelli-
gent man.
81 have tried to break myself of this
superstition for years." he said to the
be in the mood for conversation and he
and the conductor had the car to them
selves for long distance. ut is silly
practice, of course. l realize that; yet
somehow if | ever fail to have my two
pins with me and don't come down.
town hedged in on each side, everything
goes wrong. l keep it up because I'm
nervous if don't"
There are some men who will not ride
up or down town except with the same
conductor daily. Not that they love
any special conductor particularly, but
for the blind reason they believe luck
attaches to regularity.
One Broadway dry-goods merchant
always leaves street-car in which. by
any chance he may find a red-haired
woman or child. and he uniformly looks
sharply for this sort of a hoodoo be-
fore he takes q seat.-ketO York Times.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-16
The American Abroad.

These antiquity stores have made
many fine old paintings, and they do a
great business with Americans. The
Dutch merchant who presided over the
one above spoken of told me he had
Just sold about 5000 guilders, or over
$1,000, worth of goods to Robert Gar
rett, and that he made sales tO Ameri-
cans daily. He had great faith in
American honesty. too, aud when | adj
mired piece of this same old Flemish
lace and regretted that | had not the
time TO get money from the bank before
leaving to purchase it, he doubled 1t
up and told me TO take il along and
send him the price at INV leisure You
can remit me" said he. from Antwerp
before YOU sail if YOU have time, or, il
more convenient, take ii with you ana
send me the money when YOU get home
to America But / said: You don't
know me. | am a stranger here, and /
leave Amsterdam this afternoon. Sat
urdav sail for New York. You have
no security for your money" Give
me your visiting card and Your address
and that is all I.care Tor. / have often
trusted Americans. and | am never de
ceived." An American merchant whl
did business in this way would Be liasl,
to Imprisonment for lunacy,
laad Leader, -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-16
The Bank ofE0giand Note.

1.-The Bank of England note" says
the Family Tutor, possesses no securi-
ty which may not be known by any
person who will make himself acquaint-
ell with the following characteristics of
the paper, the plate printing. ans the
type printing of the note. TIE paper is
distinguished:
Il. By its peculiar c.lor. such as is
neither sold in the shops nor used for
any other purpose.
-. BY its thinness and transparency
qualities which prevent any portion of
the printing on the note being washed
or scratched out without a hole being
made.
''3. By its characteristic feel, which
consists of a singular crispness and
toughnesS, owing TO the fact that the
bank paper is made from new linen and
cotton, not from rags.
II. By the peculiar wire-mark or
water-mark. which can only be pro-
duced when the paper is in a state of
pulp; consequently the forccr must pro-
cure a mold and make his own paper.
both requiring the skill of such first-rate
artisans as are not likely 10 be met with
in the haunts of crime,
edges. These edges are produced when
the paper is in pulp, two notes beng
placed in tine mold and divided length
ways. The deckie is the raw edge of
the paper and cannot be initiated by
cutting.
''6. BY the strength of the paper; q
bank-note will lift hundred-weigh if
carefully adjusted.
The printing is of two kinds, type
and plate. The paper is moistened by
water driven through its pores by the
pressure of the atmosphere; $4,000
double notes are thus moistened in the
space of an hour. The ink used is
made at the bank from linseed-oil and
the charred husks and vines of Rhenish
grapes This gives a peculiar velvety
black to the mark in the left-hand cor
ner of the note.
The notes are numbered bv a ma
chine which cannot err; and, lastly, are
authorized by the signature of the clerk
The bank-notes are printed on the side
of the paper which receives the water
mark, so that il the paper be split the
imprinted surface only retains the slight
est trace of that mark. ."-EHg{tSh EE.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-16
Once Bitten Twice Shy.

Some years ago Kaiser Wilhelm held
areceptiOn al Bonn. One of the officers
who had the honor of being presented
had been hitherto unknown to the en-
peror, and the adjutant, who had made
inquiries. whispered to his majesty:
HAS just been promoted captain. ="
The emperor spoke kindly to the young
man, and complimentcd him on his
promotion. Quite startled at the happy
news the officer, whose turn had not
yet come to be raised to a captaincy,
hastened to report the matter to the
colonel, who lost no time in seeking an
interview with the adjutant. when it
turned out that the latter had mistaken
the young lieutenant for his elder
brother. who had been recently ad-
vanced to the rank of captain. The ad-
jutant penitently confessed his mistake
TO the emperor. But his majesty only
smiled. saying: If have compliment
ed Herr NJ. on his promotion it must
remain so." Not long since there was
Il leyee at court. Herr Won b.. who had
recently been promoted to the rank of
major, appeared, still wearing cap
tain's uniform, and was presented TO
the emperor. Again the adjutant
whispered: HAS just been promoted
major" The emperor turned round
with knowing smile and said, in gen.
uine Beriinese: NAY. my good friend,
not to be caught this Bonner
ZeituH0.