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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-20
Influence of Grass in Cattle Diseases.
Western Agriculturalist.

In describing case of disease in an
animal, lady correspondent says her hus-
band thinks it will be all right as soon as
the grass comes. This has suggested to
US that few words on the subject might
be of great benefit. 1t is probable that
nine out of ten cases or sickness twill
come out all right" as soon as the animals
can be got upon grass. Our animals have
been fed all winter, in thousands of cases,
upon dry, concentrated food, and in one
way or another they are now showing the
effects of it. The owner feels thathe must
do something, and often it is necessary
that he must give medicine at one. But
as soon as grass comes stop the medicine
IN ordinary cases at least, and turn them
into the pasture. At first the grass will
lack nutritious qualities, and it may some
times be Necessary to feed sick animal
something IN addition. Animals that are
not diseased ought to have something be-
sides the very young grass. But a sick
animal will often be greatly benefited by
stinting it in diet, and in such cases it
may need nothing more than what the i'm
perfect young grass can give. If we had
an animal that was out of condition., or
in any disease short of being or verging
upon desperate case we would turn it
upon grass as soon as grass comes, and
give that trial before resOrting to medi-
cal treatment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-20
A Lover Of Nature.
Rambler

Native Ito tourist who is standing rapt
in contemplation of an enormous rock
I see, sir, you are charmed by Sunset Rock,
and I don't wonder. 1t is considered one
of the most picturesque objects in this
part of the country.
Tourist-It is glorious
NatiVe-What point do you particularly
admire?
Tourist-The face of the rock 1t awes
me with its grandeur.
Native-It would make good picture.
Could you paint it.
Tourist was just thinking of that.
1t Is just the kind of surface on which to
inscribe, Boxes Bullion Bitters cents
a bottle" [ never saw anything offering
better opportunity!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-20

NO" said bankrupt merchant, sadly,
advertising doesn't pay, ried it just
before l failed, so know what I'm talk.
ing about" ''What newspaper did you
advertise in?" Not any newspaper.
pasted five hundred dodgers on a barn
just out of town, and I'm a sinner if a
windstorm that same night did't scatter
that barn over a ten acre cow-pasture.
Don't talk to me about advertising"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-20

ties will suffice to poach the custards,
wnen they must be turned out of the
molds on napkin, and afterwards placed
IN the soup tureen, and the PURGE poured
upon them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-20
OAIEIET.

Break six eggs in bowl, skim out the
yolks into a large coffee-cup, beat the
white to stiff froth. Now beat the yolks
enough to make them smooth, fill up the
cup with milk and pour this into the
bowl containing the whites Of the eggs
Put In little salt and stir enough to mix
the whole, that is, as little as possible
Have the frying pan warmed and piece
of butter as large as an egg melted there
IN. Now pour in your eggs and milk; let
1t cook slowly. Be sure and not burn. If
there is danger of this lift it from the bot
tom with knife. When the froth sets on
the top it is done.
CORN VINEGAR.
Take one quart of grains of corn (just
common field corn,) pick over and wash
clean; then put in pan or pail and cover
plth warm water. Let it stand on the
back of the stove all night. In the morn
ing when the stove is hot set the dish
with the corn in, over the fire,
and let it boil some hours, at
east until the grains burst open, keeping
the corn covered with water. Then strain
off the water and add to that until you
have three gallons. To each gallon add
thre 'fourths of a pound of brown sugar.
Ii you have mother" that has formed
on other vinegor add a little of that and
set IN warm place, either in open Jars
or jug, and in a few weeks you will have
beautiful vinegar at surprising low
price.
The London Queen recommends the
following as an excellent way to wash
lace: Fold it smoothly, four-fold or more
lay 1t on marble washstand or table, and
with the band or a soft sponge rub in
clear, tepid water, pressing it smoothly
to the marble. Then rub on some kind
of white soap, and with the wet hand rub
it into lather. Take a round stick,
piece of implanted broom-handIe is the
best, and roll it over the lace, which it
will take up as it rolls. Dip it in clear
water, and repeat the soaping and rolling
until the lather pressed out is clean.
Then rinse in clean water, spread on
towel and put in the sun to dry. 1t will
need no ironing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-20
Agricultural Items.


Canada thistles can be destroyed by
repeated plowings.
There is less danger of sowing much
| grass seed than too little.
Clean saw-dust, with a little sulphur
sprinkled in it, is as good as any material
for the nests of sitting hens.
In sowing timothy with wheat or
other grains, the best results are obtained
by having the soil dragged and rolled
first.
| Lard and sulphur, or any mixture of
grease and sulphur, says Fanny Field in
the Prairie Farmer, should never be put
on young chickens or turkeys.
Dig garden soil only when the ground
is warm and dry. Do not be in hurry,
or you may get behind When clot of
earth will crush to powder when you tread
on it, it is time to dig-not before.
In planting trees it should be remem-
bered that tree is not post, requiring
only small, deep hole. To insure sue
| cess with trees broad hole is required
and this should be filled up with rich, fri
abe earth.
Professor Cook, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College, says the most of the fail
uA00 w o0opIoJ PoUdIO-DuSSD y paris green
| comes from waiting until eggs have been
laid on the vines before applying it. Make
the application just as the plants come
up.
Manure for hot-beds should be fresh
| and well worked, as we'll as free from
coarse litter. Bleached muslin, oiled, may
be used instead of glass, and later in the
season cold frames, and sheltered from
the Winds, will answer for late cabbage
plants.
The great secret of raising large shoots
of asparagus is to give the plants plenty
of room. Set the roots in rows four feet
apart and four feet in rows; keep the land
free from weeds, and manure every day
on the surface. No man who has a plot
of ground should be without an asparagus
bed.
Vast quantities of marsh lands are be-
ing reclaimed by ditching in Indiana. The
work is most probable done by dredging,
work being begun at the head of the ditch,
where sufficient water will soon accumu-
late to float boat carrying the machin-
cry. The work done by these machines is
at the rate of $50 lineal feet per day, a
five-foot cut twenty-five to thirty-feet
wide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-20
The Colonel is Arch.
AIIhJlrp nianatab
anyway.

"Dan," said the president the other
day, fare you engaged just now?"
mo, your excellency." said the Colonel
with an arch expression, "are your"
A rubescent tinge wandered in a ser
pentine curve around the self shaved
presidential cheeks. There was no pie
for dinner that day.
Fanny Field writes to the Ohio Farmer
that nine-tenths of the incubators adver-
tised for sale are as valuable to the pull
trymen as flying machines.
1t is said that in all sections of the South
the sale of snuff for dipping purposes is
annually increasing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-20
Joking Justices.
New Work. HaraI1

Among the latest bon mOts ascribed to
Chief Justice Waite, who, it will be re-
membered, administered the oath of
Office to President Cleveland, is the de-
claration that legal objection may be
urged against the coming marriage.
"The president took an oath to support
the constitution, you know" the chief
justice is reported to have remarked.
Certainly" was the rejoinder.
Every well. The constitution pre-
scribes his compensation, and declares
that it shall not be increased or deminish-
ed during the period for which he shall
have been elected and that he shall not
receive within that period any other
emoulment from the United States or any
of them Those are the words, 1 believe y
said the chief Justice.
"Yes; you have quoted them exactly"
''Then is it not clear that $4,000 is the
full sum for him, and no other?'
The patient listener died of shock, it is
believed.
Associate Justice Gray, who is bache-
lor and is not credited with matrimonial
has since ruled on the opin-
ion uttered by his chief. He asserts that
a wife can not be classed as an emolument
or compensation, but quite the reverse.
From his point of view, he asks that an
exception to the chief Justices dictum be
noted in the presidents favor.
The Dominion criminal statistics, re-
Gently published, show that Manitoba is
the most criminal of the provinces, there
being one indictable offence for each $50
of the population charged with crime.
Convictions IN Manitoba were forty-seven
in 1854.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30
the democratic party, but it believes he is
grossly mistaken or misled.
TIE EXPRESS AND THE TARIFF

The San Antonio Express quotes from
recent article in the STATESMAN: IRE
move tariff protection from many indus
tries in this country and they would sink, "
and says it tine Expressl is willing to
"shake" on the sentiment. We would not
for a moment impugn the motives of the
Express, but submit, in all candor, that it
is scarcely fair to take advantage of us in
this way. Had the Express quoted
the entire article the meaning of the
above paragraph would have been seen
to be entirely different. What The
STATESMAN did say in the article alluded
to was, that the removal of protection
might indeed cause some INDUSTRIES to
sink, but if this class of manufacturers
could not live without protection they
had better die. Such as deserved to live
would live without protection and be the
stronger and healthier for it.
Whilst the Express is an outspoken ad-
vocate of 'the protection faith that is in
it," to use its own words we desire right
here to correct any error of the Express
concerning the views of The STATESMAN
on the tariff question. We would say to
the Express and its sheep and wool con-
stituency in the west, that The STATES
MAN is and has all along been the staunch
advocate of tariff for revenue only.
Here is where we stand. 1t is the position
of the national democratic party, as de-
clared in recent platforms. If the Express
desires us to be more explicit, we will say,
we are not only for a revenue only policy,
but we denOunce the incidental heresy of
Senator Brown, of Georgia, as a delusion
and snare. We deny having any leaning
whatever to incidental protection as
charged by the Express.
As to Joe Abbotts alleged incidentalism,
suggested by the Express, we repeat we
have seen, as yet, nothing in the utter
ances of the democratic nominee for CON
gress in the Dallas district to warrant
such an assumption. We believe Mr.. Alb
bot to be sound on the t?riff, as Mr.. Well
born has been. If he is not he does not
and will not represent the views of his
constituents.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30
PERSONAL.

Edward Airing, the English socialist. is
a cousin of Henry Irving.
Emperor William is accompanied in all
his travels by three court physicians.
Wilson Barrett, the English actor, will
land in New York on Sunday or Monday.
The widow of Bayard Taylor will pass
the winter among friends in Boston and
New York.
The late Mrs. Ana S. Stevens. the nov
ellst, w6s the first woman to send mes
sage by cable.
Mr.. Walter, the Baltimorean of peach
blow fame, has but recently paid $4,000
for an orchard.
Chauncey NJ. Depew is the guest of
Cornelius Vanderbilt, at the latters beau
tltul Newport villa.
Greenbacker Robert j. Houston is pro-
nounced the best looking of the candi-
dates for governor.
Daniel O'ConnelI is to be perpetuated
IN bronze by Melbourne admirers of his
extinguished genius.
Historian Bancroft is visiting Worces
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30

ter, Mass, his native place, after an
absence of nearly fifty years.
Spain has 600 generals, 1856 colonies
1000 majors, 5000 captains and 10000
lieutenants. Where's the American army
now.
Senator Hoar, Ex-Governor Rice and
Long and Congressman Ramsey will 90
as delegates to next weeks Massachusetts
convention.
Bernard Uhle is to have charge of the
portrait classes at the Academy of the Fine
Arts. The schools reopen on Monday,
October 4.
Prince Bismarck's moustache is now as
white as moustache can be and live, and
his govt has again dOwned him without
asking pardon or leave.
At a conference at the Colonial exhibit
ton the Baroness Burdett. Coutts remarked
that IF young man wants to be econom-
ical, he must marry"
John Youngman, whose letters to the
Times on the industries of Pennsylvania,
have attracted some attention, has become
associate editor of the Bellefonte Watch
man, with Joseph W. Furey.
Henry A. Little, of Warren Summit,
New Hampshire, recently found a swarm
of bees in large red oak tree on the side
of the mountain, from which he obtained
eighty-seven pounds of clear honey.
Mrs. G. p. Bowler has just sold her Bar
Harbor cottage, Devilstoue, which has
been occupied during the past summer by
George w. and Mrs. William II. Wander
bilt, to Mr.. Woodward. of New York, for
the sum of $4,000.
ExMayor Frank BeamisP, OF Scranton
was thrown from his carriage in the streets
of that city on Wednesday, and his right
arm dislocated at the shoulder. His
horse was scared by the fel of a barrel
from wagon and the carriage ran against
the barrel.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30
SariOuS Danger

Threatens every man, woman or child living
in a region of country where fever and ague is
prevalent, since the germs of malarial disease
are inhaled from the air and are swallowed
from the water of such aregion. Medicinal
safeguard is absolutely necessary to nullify
this danger. AS means of fortifying and
acclimating the system so as to be able to
resist the malarial poison, Hostetter's Stom-
ach Btters is incomparably the best and the
most popular. Irregularities of the stomach,
liver and bowels encourage malaria; but these
are speedily rectifed by the Bitters. The func-
lions of digestion and secretion are assisted by
its use, and q vigorous as well as regular con-
dition ofthe system promoted by it.. Constitu-
ton and physique are thus defended againstthe
inroads ofmalaria by this matchless preventive,
which is also a certain and thorough remedy in
the worst cases of intermittent and remttent
feyers,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30
\ REPUTATION.

The indirect cut of The STATESMAN, of
Wednesday, against Capt. Breckenridge,
was mean and contemplate. There is
not better man or more clever gentle
man in the county than the Captain.
Honest, in every sense of the word, ca2a-
bic in the highest degree, gentleman of
large and liberal views, of as kind a heart
as ever throbbed in the breast OF human
being, thorough-going business man,
one whose head is silvered DER with the
frost of years; a man whose stout heart
has been made more mellow by the lapse
of years; a Confederate soldier, and in all
things a true and knightly gentleman.
the attack of The STATESMAN, indirect as
it was, without the manhood to make it
openly, is at variance with all true jour
nalism and common decency.
We clip the above from that highly
moral and truthloving (C journal, the
Austin Record, of which one N. Q. Hen
dersOn is the editor. In its unjust and
unmanly effort to injure THE STATESMAN,
the Record Intentionally and maliciously
misinterprets alocal paragraph which APP
peared IN our columns, several
days ago, concerning the democratic
nominee for county Judge. There was
nothing in the paragraph to warrant the
construction sought to be placed upon it
by the Record. There was no reflection,
directly or indirectly, upon
the character of Capt. Breckenridge, the
independent candidate for this position,
The STATESMAN does not attack men or
measures indirectly, but is always direct
and unequivocal in its charges against eth
er,when it is considered necessary to make
them. Although opposed to Capt.Bracken-
ridge politically, the STATESMAN recogniz-
es him as pure man, one above reproach
in his private character.
The course of the Record in attempting
to injure The STATESMAN and the demo-
cratic nominee for county judge, by
purposely misconstruing language, is un
principed and uncalled for, bur at tht
same time is in perfect keeping with the
course of that paper on all subjects and
at all times -
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30

An interesting iett-r from Mr.. John W. Weekes,
superintendent of DcKa,h Puuper Home.
From feeling of gratitude and tesire to BEN
eft others, VOLUNTARILY make this sta ement.
have great reason to be Thankful that ever heard
OF b. b. , as Know what blessing it HIS Deen
to me. | have suffered with bronchial CataIrh
for number of years. six months. ago was
taken with severe pain in right ear, which in rev
days began to discharge matter, with terrible and
almost unbearable palpitation and all sorts OF
noises in my head. In ten days after the com
mencement of discharge and pain in my ear ne,
gan to grow deaf and In six weeks | was go debl
that could not hear thunder.
Twas then compelled to use conversation tuqe,
and it was often that | could not hear WIN tne
tube. then commenced taking b. b. b., and tne
running of my ear ceased running in five weeks
and can now hear without the tube My General
health has improved, palpitation ceased, ana Ieel
like new being and appreciate the benefit na nay,
received from B. b. z. (inade in Atlanta, Ca WIN
gratitude to God and thankfuness to the pro
prietors for such a medicine. Cheerfully recon-,
mend it TO all who afflicted with deafness anu
catarrh. Try it, persev5re in its use and you WIZ
be CONVINCED of its value. r,r-,o
JOHN W. WEEKES.
Decatur, Ga, May /, 1886.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30
A TEXAS POLITICAL Virgins.

Mr.. Hal. w. Greer, of the lumber vii
lage of Beaumont, near Sabine Pass
state of Texas, very wisely put off his
nti-democratic Rossophobic convention
at Dallas, until after Virgins earth
quake. The latter disaster, and such a
catastrophe in which the candidates on
the democratic state ticket are to be swal
lowed mp, would have been too prodi-
gious calamity to occur at the same
time. Or, if Greer's convention had
come off before the earthquake, we would
probably have been in too shattered a
condition to encounter the dire events
prophesied by the Canada philosopher.
However this may be, it would be entirely
state politics are concerned, to intimate
that Mr.. Greer's political quake, booked
for Dallas few days hence, will turn out
as ridiculous humbug and fraud as that
of the pretended and ignorant Ottawa
seismologist.
Nobody dreams that the Beaumont
crank, as he has already been dubbed by
Texas editors, can get together enough
sore-head democrats to entitle them even
to the poor boon of ridicule. He may pos
sibly get together crowd of wolves in
sleeps clothing; real republicans dis
guised in democratic livery, like Greer
himself, but that he will pull the wool over
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30

Red Cloud, the great Sioux chief, be-
Iieves that it is better to get a living out
of the white people than to quarrel with
them. He does not favor schools for the
Indian children or the adoption of any
ways of civilized life, "for so long as the
Great Father knows that we cannot earn
our own living he will give us rations and
blankets, but if he thinks we know how to
take care of ourselves we shall get moth
ing more from him. Acting on this
principle Red Cloud complained of the
farmer sent to teach his people agricul-
ture. "Our farmer is not of the right
kind; he expects warriors to work. What
we want is white men to plant our corn,
hoe it, harvest it and put it into the barns
which they will build for us. Warriors
don't work" Red Cloud has long head,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30

The Galveston News says that the pro
lection democratic followers of Randall,
are reaping their reward as follows:
Boyle, of Pennsylvania: Ellsberry. Geddes,
Warner and LaFevre, of Ohio; Henley. of
California; Iron and st. Martin, of Lou
isiana, and Martin, of Alabama. While,
on the other hand, two Minnesota republi-
cans who voted with the democrats for q
tariff revise have been defeated This"
says the News, "shows pretty conclusively
that the parties are properly drawing the
line on the tariff question" There can
be no doubt that this will be the practical
result, and all papers must align them
selves with either party to be decided by
the stand taken on the tariff question. 1t
will then be seen whether local senti-
ment can influence paper to oppose the
fundamental principles of the party.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30

the eyes of any respectable number of
representative democrats appears, at
present at least, to be absurd.
If Mr.. Greer desires to make war on
Gen. Ross and the Texas democracy, let
him enlist under the republican banner,
where, if we aie any judge, he properly
belongs, and has always belonged, what
ever his protestations to the contrary.
His proposed convention, if 1t ever comes
off, will convince him and other soreheads
that the ticket put forth at Galveston,
headed by Gen. Ross, is probably one of
the most popular tickets ever gotten up
in the state, and one thoroughly adapted
to stir up genuine enthusiasm in the dem
ocratic party of Texas, of which Gen.
Ross is a true representative.
Mr.. Greer, however, has a perfect right
to try his luck. We shall see where he
will land.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30

We have always looked upon mescal as
the Mexican national beverage, as whisky
is the Texas, or beer the German drink.
and wherever these several liquors figure
in questions pertaining to their respective
countries in relation to American citizens.
it makes the issue an international one.
TO be treated by the national government.
This is an answer to the following from
the San Antonio Express:
Why is the editor of The AUSTIN STATES
MAN so down on" mescal? 1t is a per-
fectly harmless beverage, with not
headache in a thousand gallons-if left
in the barrel. What is the cause of The
STATEsMAN's "grudge" against mescals
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30

UNCoNsCIoUsLY to himself, perhaps, our
Brueggerhoff correspondent has given us
one of the best and most well written ar
ticles we have had for some time. The
truth is, there are many incidents of the
sensational nature of the Brueggerhoff
item, occurring every day in Texas, which
if written up by an experienced pen-one
who understands where to put in the light
and shadows. would be of real interest to
newspaper readers.