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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-05-24

THE law on trusts would fit uncom-
fortably snug on ready print publishers
doing business in Iowa.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-05-24
SIR MATTHEW, 3548, (62s9,) VOL. X,

Foaled June, 1885, Color bay, small
ratch on forehead, hind legs white, fore
legs white. Bred by Matthew Nimmo,
Foot O'Grecn Sterling, Scotland.
Sire, Bonnie Hawthorn, (3449), Vol. VII;
dam, Betsy; sire of dam, Baron Kier, go,
Vol, i; grand dam, Maggie, (274D, Vol.
vi; sire of grand dam, Young Lord CLYDE,
Q365) Vol. II; g.g., Blossom, by Compsie,
Ql9), Vol. l. Sire of Sir Matthew, 354s,
(6299), Bonnie Hawthorn, (3449), Vol. VII,
by Prince Charlie, (G34), Vol. i, BY Cid
Times, $50. Old Times won first prize
at Glasgow Agricultural Show, and was
commended at the Highland Society's
Show, at Kelso, in 1872. He travelled in
Ayershire, and was best known as the
Knockdon Stud Horse. Old Times, 1870,
by Lord Clyde, (47S). Lord CLYDE won
first prize at the Highland Society's Show
in 1868, at Aberdeen. Baron kier, (3l,
1875, was imported from Scotland, August,
1876, by Singmaster II Sons, Keota, Keo-
kuk county, Iowa, and was kept at the
head OF their stud for twelve years. Baron
kier won first prize at the Highland Soci.
ETY. and Agricultural Society's Show at
Aberdeen IN 1876, and the Earl Of Tanker.
vile S Tenantry Premium, $4,000, for the
same season at Glasgow Spring Stallion
Show. He was sold at the Aberdeen show
for expectation to Singmaster & Sons for
$1,000; the largest sum ever paid for a
CIydesdale stallion to come to America.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

creates a thirst for more drink; but
II water is withheld there is great dan
ger, especially Is no grain is fed.-Dry
corn fodder, which mas been exposed
to the weather is similar in character
to slough hay.-It pays, wherever
practicable, to run the coarse hay,
corn fodder or straw through feed cut
ter, then mix With grain food given out.
By little experimenting and some cal
culation, the proper proportion Of
rough and grain food can be determined.
More grain is needed with good hay than
with poor, of course. By mixing the two
together before feeding, each aids in
rendering the other more digestible. The
grain as well as the coarse food is then re-
turned TO the mouth in Illuminating ami
mails and is masticated before passing on
to the second, third and fourth stomachs.
When eaten alone by cattle, grain usually
passes over the opening of the first sto-
mach, and whole undigested kernels find
their way into the droppings. The grain
passing into the stomach of the horse or
the true stomach of the OK is more easily
assimilated when mixed with the trough
ness" The rough hay gives bulk to exer-
else the muscles used in digestion and
furnishes some nuiriment, while the con-
densed grain foods make an average pro-
portion of digestible substance for the
whole. Equal parts of oats and bran
thus mixed with sufficient amount of
coarse fodder viii make a pretty good
ratIon-the needs of each animal vary so
much we do not venture the exact pro-
portion. Rather more weight of hay
should be used that of grain. Corn meal
and ground oil-cake occasionally added
will give profitable variety to the food
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
PRAIRIE ARMERISMS.

Cover the strawberries with 1 or 2
SO it will bear team.
Do not forget to furnish protection
TO half hardy ornamental shrubs before
it is too late.
Apples and other fruits in the cellar
will spoil if allowed to remain damp.
Do not mulch trees or small fruits
with straw or othr coarse litter, if you
wish to keep out the mice.
Dirt m ounds should be placed around
small fruit trees before the final freeze
up.
It is often better to purchase fruit
trees from the nursery in the Fall when
there is more leisure, aud heel them in
until Spring. They are then ready to
plant without a trip through the mud to
the nursery, and can be set out at the
most favorable moment.
Let the smooth-topgued tree agent
alone, unless you know, not merely be-
ieve, be is all right.
Do not listen to him who claims he
has something wonderful which has Just
been received from Russia, or other
foreign country. There are few good
Russians already known, but you should
depend upon your loo or State Horti-
cultural Society to inform you concern
ing them.
Before talking business to tree agent
require entirely satisfactory proof that
he is. representing a reliable and honest
house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
WORTH MAKING NOTE OF.

Every time refuse to drink liquor
am improving my manhood.
Every time spend dollar foolishly
am opening pauper'E grave.
Every time I pay rent I am taking so
much away from home of my own.
Every time speak kind word I am
adding brick to my temple of manhood.
Every time buy an article am en-
coureging the manufacturer or producer.
Every time I pay debt I am doing
right and helping to put money into cir
culation.
Every time L refrain speaking in de-
Tense Of a friend prove that I am not
a friend.
Every time I speak cross and impetu
ously I'm weak eningsmy nerve power and
adding to the misery of others.
Those who place their hope in another
world have in a great measure conquered
dread OF death and unreasonable love of
life.
Here joys that endure forever fresh
and in vigor, are opposed to satisfaction,
that are attended with safety and surfeits,
and fatter in the very tasting.
The fortitu de of Christian consists in
patience, not in enterprise which the
poets call heroic, and which are common
ly the effects of interest, pride and world
ly honor.-Dry-G Goods Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
Slough Hay For Stock.

j. j. c., Hamilton Co.. L., writes: I
have plenty of slough hay, no time and
but little upland wild hay. I have also
some oat straw, and have cut up a little
corn fodder. l have corn and oats and
can purchase bran. I desire to keep
what little upland hay l have for my
work horses next pring. How can mix
my food so as to have good rations for
horses, colts and calves? I can get my
grown cattle TO do we'll on this rough feed
by using some grain, but fear the calves
and colts will not eat enough to thrive.
. Your fears that slough hay is not good
for calves are well founded. Though in
dry year like the one just passed, it is
of not so rank a growth, and of better
quality than it usually is, it Is at best
composed mainly of indigestible woody
fibre, and quite deficient In flavor. 1t
gives neither tone TO the appetite nor di-
gestive organs proper, nor is it safe fed
in large quantities, as it may cause dry
murrain, especially if water is not plenti
ful, or is so cold that cattle will not drink
much of it. A very common, but dan
gerous practice is to sprinkle little
weak brine on the favorless hay at each
feed to induce the animals to eat more.
If plenty of good water is furnished, no
great injury may be done, as the salt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
Peppermint, Hops, Grapes, etc.

Few people in using peppermint or the
extract ever stop to think of its origin,
Wayne county, New York, supplies pretty
much all the peppermint oil that is used
in the United States. Miles upon miles
OF the land there are devoted to the cul-
tivation of peppermint, and the expert
enced traveller always knows that he is
nearing Wayne by the refreshing odor
thet reaches him in advance. Every
farm has its peppermint, and no part of
the acreage is more profitable. Onondaga
county, New York, is great hop center,
hundreds of tons being annually raised
and sold to the beer brewers. Canaan
diagua is noted for its grapes. All the
country surrounding the pretty lake town
as far as the eye can reach is covered
with vineyards, and the air is heavy with
the delicious perfume of the fruit. Thus
far this year Canandiagua has sent to
market 800 tons of grapes. The valley
of Chemung, not far beyond the Penn
sylvania boundary, is famous for it celery,
the heavy black, rich soil being especially
adapted to its cultivation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
The Larynx or Voice Box.

The American Laryngological Associa-
ton is composed of physicians who make
a specially of the treatment of affections
of the larnyx, or voice box. Hitherto
such specialists have been, as we think,
rather too prone to treat these affections
by local measures and surgery alone, and
we are therefore glad to see that DR.. 5.
W. Langmaid, OF Boston, said at meet
ing of the Association: However I'M
portant and interesting the morbid
changes in the upper air passages may
be locally, the important lesson should be
learned that they have underlying consti-
tutional causes, which must be removed
in order to effect a cure. Local treatment
is in the nature of repair, while constitu-
tional and hygienic treatment must be III
the direction of the renewal of normal
processes" - From DR.. Foote's Health
MONTHLY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
The Women of Mexico,

Whoever comes to Mexico in search of
female peauty is liable to meet with dis
appointments: for though the dreamy
dark eyes and raven hair of the Castailian
Mexican type is very attractive the truth
is one sees more handsome women on the
streets of any northern city in half an
hour than he can find in year at the
Aztec capital. One reason for this is
that aristocratic DANES and DANES sell
dom go Upon the streets at all, except in
their closed carriages and women of the
lower classes are too hard worked and I'M
kempt to retain beauty beyond their
early youth. In the exclusive circles of
the NJ exican upper tendon are som e
very beautiful women. The wife of
President Diaz has claims to that dis
tiRction and so have few others in Of
fetal cirles. The lovl1est girl in the City
of Mexicc-indeed, the prettiest creature
ever saws Eugene Bazaine, daughter
of that Notorious Frenchman (now dead)
who figured here so cons picuously dur
ing the brief empire of Macmillan.
Engine is only twenty years old COM
bining sill the best traits of her French
father. and Mexican mother and is we'll
educated as education goes in this coun
try, where women are supposed to need
no further learning than little knowl-
edge of music, embroidery and the lives
of the saints.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
What Kept Lincoln Awake.

During the darkest days of the war
there was s4uabble in Syracuse over the
appointment of postmaster. Two
factions OF the republican party had
candidates, and each mad sent to Wash
1ngton numerously signed petitions for
the appointment of its favorite. Finally
to get the matter settled, delegation
composed of the wealthiest men of the
town and several Of the most prominent
ministers and lawyers, headed by Cen
eral Leavensworth, visited the national
capital and secured an audiance with
President Lincoln. Gen. Leavenworth
had carefully prepared his speech to Mr..
Lincoln, and it ran something like
this:
Mr.. President: 1t is with great reluc-
tuance that we intrude upon you this
morning. We appreciate the awful re-
sponsibilities and perplexities of your
position, and do not forget that the very
life of the nation is in your hands. But,
Mr.. Presipent, the people of the great
loyal North are at Your back, and they
are praying, sir, that your life may be
spared, aud that you may be given
strength to carry this war through to a
successful issue.
Mr.. Lincoln listned to Gen. Levenworth
with some Impotence until he reached
this point, and then interrupted him
with:
assure you my dear sir, that 1t isn't
the war or the arms shat is troubling
the life out of me, it is that Syracuse
postofficc that is keeping me awake
nights.
Gen. Levenworto did not finish his
speech. The delegation presented their
case in the briefest manner, and felt
more comfortable when they reached
Pennsylvania avenue than 9TH did in
the presence of the president
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
How to Reduce Your Expenses.

You can do it easily, and you will not have to
deprive yourself OF single comfort: on the con-
can you accomplish this result? Easily: cut
down your doctors bills. When you lose your
appetite, ana become bilious ana constipated
and therefore low-spirted don't IRISH off fo the
family physician for prescription or. on the
other hand, wait until you are sick abed before
dong anything ar all; but Just 20 to the drilp-
gust and Tor twenty-five cents get a supply of
Dr. Pierces Pleasant Purgative Pellets Take
them as directed and our word for it your I'M
peasant symptoms viii disappear as il by magic
you viii have no big doctors bill 10 nav. AMI
everybody interested Except the doctor), viii
feel happy.
According to the Boston Record Master Josef
Hotmann recently told Miss Nette CARPENTER
the charming young violiniSt, that since meeting
her he had reconSidered his determination never
to marry. Very WE'LL said she, iii wait for
you ''Oh, but it's l, returned he who'll have
TO wat You're all ready
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
Johnny's Composition on Geese.

This is Johnny's con- position, as made
public by the San Francisco Exeminer:
Gooses are the biggest birds knone to
the human eye, and the he enc is a gan
der. The gander is the monark of the
air. but the rooster can lick him, COS the
rooster he is brave like General Soloman.
but the gander isent tightly, more like
preachers. The COOS is sailer, but not
wicked one like Jack Briley, witch chews
tobaka and swears ana everything, and
it has got feathers between its toes for to
wolk the wotter, lick q thing of life.
Ducks they are sailers too, but the swoD
has got long neck is like geraft, and
wen 1t has got sore throte it is mighty
sick. The little gooses is gosluns and is
green. My sister she see goslun and
she asst Uncle Ned wot made it green, and
he said Uncle Ned did, that is wos cos it
wasn't ripe. Then Billy he spoke up and
said wen it was ripe it would be picked.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
LENGTH OF DAYS
Five Hundred Years Odds Living a Lost
Art?

Is life worth livings
In the days of long ago people seemed
to think 1t was, if the length of time they
devoted to becoming acquainted with its
lights and shadows is any criterion.
1t would seem as though life must have
afforded much OF enjoyment IN the good
old days. Sophocles hung on until he
was $50 years old, then persisted by an &C.
cldent. Attila was 12f when he dIeL of
the consequence of revel on the night
OF his second marriage. This is warn
ing to young men. Epemerides was 157
at his regretted decease.
Crowns did not sit so heavily on the
brows of monarchs as they seem latterly
to do. Fohi, the founder of the Chinese
Empire, reigned lis years, and so did
Apahus of The es Egyptian. Tacitus
gives IT'S years to Tuisco, German
prince. Daddon, an nlyrign noble, lived
for 500 years according to Alexander Cor
nelius.
The art of living seems To be one of
the many lost arts which the dark ages
covered over, and modern civilization
has hot yet been able to uncover. Il Is
certain long life was not secured oy using
mineral poisons as remedies for disease.
ha1 As essentially modern practlce. ne
ancients doubtless drew on the labora
tory of nature for their medicines, hei CO
the span of their lives was naturally ex-
tended.
We know that our immediate ancestors
found their medicines in the fields aud
forests, adjoining their log cabin homes.
These natural remedies were efficacious
AMI harmless-left no poison IN the sys-
tenn. Physicians were rarely called ID,
aud the people lived to rugged and
hearty old age. Is it not worth while 70
r.turn TO their wholesome methods of
cure for common ailm ents?
H. Fl. Warner & Co., Proprietors of
Warmers Safe Cure, have introduced TO
the public a line of Log CABIN remedies,
and their name indicates their character.
They include "Sarsaparills." Hops
aid Buchu Remedy" "Cough and Goa
sumption Remedy" Extract for Exter-
nal and Internal use, "Rose Cream for
Catarrh, "Scalpine" for the hair, Liver
Pills" and porous Plaster" They are
carefully compounded from actual recipes,
the most efficacious in use by our grand
parents, and those who would like to try
the virtues of old-time remedies, have an
opportunity to secure the best in "War-
Eer's Log Cabin Remedies"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
The Wine Industry of California.

San Francisco Letter to n. Y. Tribune.
No better idea of the growth of the
wine industry in California can be OBJ
tanned than from the statistics of the
last few years. The acreage planted in
vines has increased from $1,000 acres in
1881 to 100000 acres this year, of which
10000 thousand are bearing vines. Last
years vintage was one of the best in the
history of the State, the most conservative
estimate placing the yield at 100000
gallons. This year, owing to couture"
burning up the grapes by dry hot winds
and extreme hot weather, the yield will
not reach over 100000 gallons, Of
which 100000 will be sweet wine, 3,00O,-
900 brandy and the remainder dry wines.
Next year, if the season is good, the enor-
nous acreage of young vines that will
come into bearing ought to lift the
product to 100000 gallons. The CAPT
tai in viticulture in California is es-
timated at S75,OOO,O0O. The shipments
of wine by sea and rail in 1885 were OPP,
474 gallons; in 1886, 4,141,314 and this
year the shipments will very nearly APP
proach those of two years ago. The dan
ger OF overproduction has been proved a
bogy, for the best wine makers in Cali
fornia have now orders for more four or
five years old wine than they can fill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
WATCHING THE TONGUE.

Keep watch on your words my children,
For words are wonderful things.
They are sweet, like the bees fresh heney:
Like bees. they nave terrible stings;
They can olcss ike the warm, glad sunshine.
And brighten the lonely life;
They can cut in the strife of anger
Like an open two-edged knife.
Let them pass through your lips unchallenged
If their errand be true and kind
II they come TO support the weary.
To comfort and heip the blind;
If a bitter, revrngefu1 spirit
Prompt the words, let them be unsaid:
They may fash through the brain like light
ming.
Or fall on the heart like lead.
Keep them back, if they're cold and cruel,
Under bar, and lock, and seal;
The wounds that they make my children,
Are always slow TO heal.
May Christ gaurd your lips, and ever,
From the time of your early youth,
May the words that you daily utter
Be the words or the beautiful truth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

Mrs. Harris.-Mince pies arc luxury
that many wise people abstain from, on
account of their indigestibility, yet from
early habit, special or holiday occasions
hardly seem complete without them;
while in many families, on account part
ly of their convenience, they are the
standard pie for the entire winter. One
essential is very finely chopped, tender
beef, in which there is no gristle. To
each pound after it is chopped, take
lbs chopped apples, half a pound leaf
suet also chopped, 1 Id each of seeded
and chopped raisins and of currants, half
pound citron sliced very thin, one Id
brown sugar, the juice and grated rind of
lemons, half nutmeg, a teaspoonful
each Of Gilman on and cloves, and enough
boiled cider to m AXE it spread easily.
When these ingredients are well mixed, 1
put the mass over the fire in preserving
kettle and cook it carefully until the
apples are soft and the whole has rich
taste. If not found as sweet as liked l
add more sugar.-Packed closely in jars
after this cooking, it will keep all Winter
in cool place, and it is but few min
utes work to make up the pies as needed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
FLUSH TIMES IN FRISCO.
When Hack DRYERS Made $50 Day and The
alter Boxes We're $1,000.

When Hack DRYERS Made $50 Day and The
alter Boxes We're $1,000.
Col. hike Brannigan, the celebrated
guide and hackman of FL Paso, Tex, is
on visit to this city. Mr.. Brannigen
said yesterday: "I have como back to
San Francisco for the purpose of seeing
some of my old friends of the Argonaut
days of 1849, that is, as many Of them as
are alive. l can tell you some interesting
things about early things in this city. l
owned and drove the first hack that ever
rumbled over the streets of San Francisco
In 1851, got $50 night to drive Gath
crime Hays, the famous singer and her
mother between the Rszette house and
Tom Msguire's theater which was then
situated on Washington street between
Montgomery and Kearney. 1 also got
the same sum from several others at the
time for the same thing. These were
good old days, and 1 as we'll I suppose, as
very many others would wish to see them
back again. I saw 81 200 paid for box
at Maguire's theater on the opening
night of Catherine Hayes season. A
Limerick butcher at Sacramento paid
$1,000 for a box when she went to the
capital city to sing.
DOLldTS III blOS0 UdyS W6G0 uOT6 pltubl-
full than nickles are now. When the mail
steamer would arrive I have seen a gam
bier give give man an ounce Of dust
(that is $50 for his place in the long
line of anxious people waiting their turn
outside the old postoffice which was then
at the corner of Brennan place and Clay
street. Then you would have to pay $12
a dozen for articles to be laundried and
men used to throw soiled underclothing
away rather than pay for washing.
81 remember when Lolita Crabtree first
appeared in this city. She used to play
a banjo and dance jigs at Gilbert's Melo-
deon at the corner of Kearney and Clay
streets, and got Sc a week. 1 think that
was in 1854 or 1855. She went to Virginia
City in 1860 ard made hit. Twenty
dollar gold pieces were showered upon
the stage for her benefit. My charges
then as hack driver were $50 day and
all expenses paid. 1 would like to see
that state of things again and We would
have less complaints about capitalists
and the like.
Everybody was a capitalist in the old
days and if only few of the wealthiest
exist now l don't know why they ough
to be blamed. We all had chance to
be milIionaires and if we did not it can't
be helped and there's no use repini1g.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
She Couldn't Understand 1t.

What in the world has happened to you since
the last time saw your asked one lady of an
other when they met on the street the other day;
i can't understand it. Then you were pale, hag-
gard and low-Splrlted, ana remember you said
you hardly cared whether you lived or died To-
day you look ever so much younger and it is
very evident from your beamng face that your
low spirits have taken flight" Yes, indeed -
was the reply; land shall tell you what drove
them away? 1t was DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription. was martyr to functional derange-
ment until began taking the Prescription.
Now am as well as | ever was in my life No
woman who suffers as did ought to let an hour
pass before procuring this wonderful remedy
Laura-"So you are really engaged to him,
dear? He is 30 and you are 20-just twice as old
as you, love. Dear me, when you are 40 he will
be S0.''
Clara-"Good graciousl hadn't thought of