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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21
BOULANGER'S REBUKE.

As constitution maker General Bou-
LANCER is not success. A cruder scheme
than his was never offered in a representa-
tive assembly, and no leader before him
displayed fewer qualities of statesman
ship. 1t is gratifying, therefore, that he
has been sat down upon with vigor that
he cannot fail to find stunning. Indeed,
must be added that the minority that
supported him was more disgraceful to
him than the adverse vote that condemn
ed him. His supporters comprised only
the Royalists who acted with him in the
hope of seeing the monarchy restored and
the Radicals who wish to overturn the
Republic that the reign of anarchy may
begin. Against him were all the better
elements in French politics. These facts
give TO his rebuke peculiar significance,
and it can scarcely fail to destroy the
vicious influence of the man on horseback.
General Boulanger's failure must end
his pretensisns not only to dictatorship
but to leadership. Bitter as was Nj.
Floquet's gibe that at ifty-one, Boulang-
er's sge, Napoleon died, it Is not his age
that disqualifies him from the Napoleonic
rule. BoHlanger is not Napoleon. He
is the idol of only small part of the
French rabble. In the Chamber of Dep
uties he could find no more reputable
supporter than Nj. Felix Pyat. NJ. Glenn
enceau was against him. All that is best
in French politics voted against him. In
the Chamber he has been rendered harm
less, and his influence in the Legislature
being destroyed the destruction of his
prestige must follow. Boulanger's
scheme for the adjustment of the Presi-
dency in France shows how sinister and
selfish his designs have been. With the
Presidency gone the only alternative
would be anarchy or dictator. This is
his aim. His constitution means only
his own elevation. Fortunately he can
not impose either his constitution or him
self upon the French people. In due
time new constitution must be framed
for France, but, happily. neither Bou-
LANCER nor the Boulangerists are to frame.
t.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21
AN ANRCDoTE OF WEBSTER.

Some OF the Legal Methods and Arguments of
the Great Expounder.
One of the very best anecdotes of
Daniel Webster, "a illustrative of that ex-
allied and exalting character which his
mind prominently possessed, was told by
the late st, George Tucker Cambell. of
Philadelphia, himself lawyer of great
AMI deserved distinction.
Mr.. Cambell said that having been re-
tanned in a somewhat famous case at the
time with Mr.. Webster, who was detained
by his senatorial duties at Washington, the
conduct of the case through all the pre-
liminaries devolved upon him, it being
agreed that Mr.. Webster shomld deliver
the closing argument. But" said Mr..
Cambell, day after day went by without
bringing the great expounder, until the
very last day before that on which the
closing argument was to be delivered, aud
was in desp pair. was sitting in my
room at the hotel debating with myself
what to do when Mr.. Webster was an
nounced. After the little civilties had
passed he asked me to tell him about the
case.
"'Why, Mr.. Webster said 1, is it pos
slble you know nothing of the caser
ANoOliiuS "AdSSNSE, Sdlu ne. j ell me
about it.
II was utterly dumb founded, and point
Ing to pile of testimony foot deep on
the table, said: How am 1 to convey
all that to you in the little time that is
left us?'ss
Gle said: 'Oh, never mind details
Give me the case generally and the salient
points,
70 SoA Of
and gave him rapid synopsis of the
case, which took two hours and more. One
point l especially called his attention to.
The opposing counsel were bent on Sc
curing a continuance OF the case, while
our interests demanded an immaculate de-
cision. AS q reason against granting the
continuance, I cited the fact that the
other side had protracted the eross-ex-
animation excessively, occupying six days
In the case of one witness.
Mr.. Webster bade me good night after
[ had concluded and went to bed. The
next morning he came into court as Sc
rene and majestic as Jove himself, while
| was nervous and apprehensive to the
last degree. He began his address to the
court with that slow, ponderous gravity
that was so characte ristic of him in the
ally warmed and quickened. 1 listened
spellbound, for in essence it was nothing
but what had pumped into him in the
two hours and half talk of the day be-
fore. But how transmitted and trans
formed. To give you an idea of the
transformation I will take the point to
which 1 have alluded. He rendered it
thus:
"They ask for continuance! Why
may it please the court, they have taken
at this hearing as much time in the cross
examination as it took the Almighty to
create the universal"
That represents the difference between
his speech and my talk; my simple six
days grew to the colossal figure L have
described under the magical touch of
his genius and this instance was charac-
teristic of the whole.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21
The Yankee Farm Hand.

An exchange gives the following pic
ture of a well-known character of forty
years ago, but now seldom seen. This
was the Yankee farm hand. The writer
says: "What an institution he used to be
in the days when we were young. A
thoroughbred Yankee; not drop of i'm
ported blood III his veins; strong and
1.-THE and active and tireIess-intelligent.
fairly well educated, skilled in his bust
ness, and, as a rule, industrious beyond
the belief of his ten-hour generation.
From the time he drove his ak into the
woodpile in the doCr-yard on the 1st of
April until the CLOSE of the season, after
harvesting, he expected TO work, pot
from sun to sun, but from dawn to dark
ness, and then did the milking and fed
the pigs afterward. His day was four
teen, fifteen, even sixteen hours long
and it never occurred to him that it
should be shorter. He was no specialist.
He could do anything. He was smart
with scythe, handy with hoe, cute with
a cradle, and experienced with an ak. He
knew how much grain and grass were re-
quired to the acre, when grass was fit to
cut, and when it was hayed enough to
go in and he did not need to be told
when to drop turnip seed in the corn
field, or how to put corn in the shock.
He could build wall, make cider, shingle
the barn, make hay-rack, or doctor
sick hog. 1t was safe to leave him to
work alone. And he got for his service
SO, $12, possibly SIS for eight months
aud sa7ed three-fourths of 1t. Then
when he had worked eight or ten seasons
and accumulated a few hundred dollars,
he probably married the hired girl
who had been at work for dollar week
and saved half of that, bought a farm,
got out of debt little by little, educated
his children and sert them to the city to
preach or to practice law or work in the
store or shop, while he stays on the old
homestead and sees it grow up to bushes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21
FARM NOTES .

In using seed corn that which shows
the slightest degree of injury should be
avoided. Smut can easily be carried
from one year to the other.
The bright spring days Will cause the
young pigs to grow rapidly. Turn them
on grass as soon as they are 10 weeks
old, but gradually at first, or they may
have the scours. 1t will cost but very lit
tie to raise few pigs if they be given
the privilege of small grass plot and
fed twice a day.
Within the past five years many flock
masters have abandoned wool as the
source of profit from sheep and given
more attention TO mutton, the result be-
ing that sheep have paid large profits.
1t is being demonstrated that farmers
have placed too much Importance on
wool, which is mistaken policy. The
sheep will give larger profit than any
other animal on the farm, but not only
the wool hut the mutton, lamb and ma
nure must contribute.
Young peach trees that made rapid
growth last season have been apparently
killed in some places the past winter. Do
not remove them as yet, but wait for the
buds to appear along the trunks, as will
be the case if only the tops be dead. Cut
off the tops down TO the nearest buds and
permit the trees to make new tops. The
peach tree can stand any amount of cut
ting back.
The cheapest and best mode of keep.
ing lice out of the poultry house is to
add a quart of kerosene oil to each bucket
of strong soa psuds on washing days and
thoroughly saturate the floor, walls, roosts
and every portion of the poultry house
forcing the liquid into the cracks and
crevices. 1t will kill the vermin as soon
as it shall touch them, being one of the
best insecticides known.
1t is important that the sheep sheds be
we'll supplied with racks and feed
troughs, so that the sheep will not crowd
each other in their endeavorer to get
their share of feed. Often the smaller
and weaker ones are crowded away en-
tireiy aud do not get any grain and only
the refuse hay. Abundance of room
should be given, so that each animal may
eat its fill at its leisure and without
crowding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21

generally be al that is necessary. But
sufficient cultivation must be given to
keep the weeds down and have the soil
mellow.
At first the plants are very small and
tender and need clean mellow sell its
order to grow well, and the surest plan in
to commence when the plants and weeds
are small. If the weeds are allowed to
grow and get good start, the work of
Keeping clean, as well as mellowiug the
soil, will be materially increased, so that
1t Is quite an item to keep clear from the
start, and this can only be done by com
mencing the cultivation early ard repeat
ing Sufficiently often to keep DOWN. be
weeds and loosen the soil up Thoroughly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21
Water in Milk.
Prairie Farmer.

Does it pay to run water through the
COW and pay for it in the form of milk |?
Plainly the solids are what give value to
milk. The water is not improved by
being wasted through the system of the
COW. We can get abundance of it with
out this expensive process. The nutri-
tive elements In milk are the caseiu, the
fat, the sugar and the ash. The more of
these there are-the greater the per cent.
of solids-the more valuable the milk for
human food; and all these constituents
are the most available when milk is con-
sumed in its natural state, as it comes
from the cow. There is great waste in
making it into butter or cheese-but less
in the latter than the former. The only
excuse for making milk into these prod
ucts is the impossibility of keeping it in
its natural state, and the relish we have
acquired for these extracts from milk
for they really are extracts. But the
solids being the nutritive portion, nearly
all the water is discarded. The aim,
therefore, should be to produce milk con-
tanning as large per cent. of solids as
possible. These vary from 10 per cent.
in So ne milk to 20 per cent in others, but
the usual range is II to Is per cent, to
per cent. of which should be fat.
The flow of milk depends largely on
temperature. On hot summer day, all
other things being equal, the COWS pour
out the largest messes of milk. They re
quire but little food of SEPARATION to
keep up the temperature of the body.
Exercise makes them uncomfortable; so
they are disposed toquiet and rest. They
fill their stomachs in the cool of the day
and early seek the cooling shade, where
they lie down, chew the cud in sleepy lazi
ness and take comfort. This is favorable
to milk secretion. Little of the food be-
ing required to keep up the temperature
of the body, and the gases being, as a rule,
full of albuminoids, most of it is readily
converted into milk. Herein we have the
secret of large flow of milk on hot sum-
mer day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21
FARMER EMO ON CHUR III SINGING.
DETROIT FREE PRESS.

I've been listening to the birds
An hummin' of the bees,
A-blendin' IL the chorus of
The wind among the trees.
The world seemed like a meetin' house,
The congregation there,
All j'inin' in the joyful hymns,
That 'peared to fill the air.
The Lords ole-fashioned meetin' house;
Ole-fashioned hymns of praise.
The world has sung an sung unchanged,
Since them creation days
No bang an hustle worship there,
Got up for show and hire;
But ev'rything that had a voice
Was in Jehovah'S choir.
[ wish they'd quit the proxy plan,
Where you an me belong,
An take the Lords Ole-fashioned way,
OF worshipin' in song.
Let everybody with voice,
In pulpit an in pews,
Just shout the glory in his heart,
An swell the hallelewS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21
lARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
C0RNED BEEF AND CABBAGE.
BY II. c. DODGE.

Spring chicken. roast partridge.
Broiled woodcCck and quail
May please the dyspepticS,
Whose appeti-es fail;
But. for a man hearty.
And healthr and wise,
Pain cJ.ne.i heef and cabbage
Taxes always the prize.
The beef. steak o. fat.
Streak o lean. white and red,
Cut croSswiSe the grain
And as tender as bread,
With cabbage cooked with il
And meaiy potato
Eolled right in its Jacket.
Served in the same plate, 0.
Is something man with
An appetite knows
Can beat any dinner
French cookery shows.
And when he his emptied
his plate heaping high
He never has room for
A pudding or pie.
o. corned beef and cabbage,
-FOUR praises we sing.
For a Sold, square meal
You are truly the king,
You make us intuition
Our vests every time
And fill us with huge
Satisfaction sublime.
We pity the people
Who dwell in the flats
Who, thinking about you,
Get hungry as rats,
And can't. for thy fragrance,
Which heaven doth seek,
Enjoy you but only
One day in the week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21
a Change Not Always Desirable.
Tid PitC

lid Bits.
Pedestrian-"You say you are q beg
gar by professionf"
Beggar-''Yes sir; won't you help me
trife today?"
edestrian-"Why don't yau try to get
into some honest business?"
Beggar-"I am afraid that change at
my time of life would be disastrous! 1t
doesn't do for man to throw up good
thing for an uncertainty"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21
How to Get Rid of Him.
Texas Siftings.

A middle aged but rich widow who had
very disagreeabie temper, being in fact
a perfect virago, complained to her SON
in-law that she was annoyed by the at
tentions Of certain man.
How shall 1 get rid of him?" she
asked.
Marry him." he replied.
SID see him hanged first"
"Just marry him and it won't be long
before he'll hang himself"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21

DR.. Cox, of Springfield, Mo-, who
burned his sons mistress with carbolic
cid, was not indicted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-21

A mysterious dea,h occurred on q
steamer at New York. 1t looks like chol-
era.
, 1888-06-15

What saw of the process of making
coffee requires no elaborate, carefully
considered description The following
plain and justified cook book, English.
will suffice to initiate the careful, pains
taking housewife in the mystery of how
to make a cup of coffee Get YOU Vene-
zuela coffee-the latest, roundest, heagi-
est beans-roast enough of them to serve
for the making of as many large cupfuls
as there are to be drinkers. Roast the
beans, do not burn brown, do not blacken
them; bray them while hot in a mortar
with q pestel; do not grind them in any
kind of n patented or unpatented labor
saving and coffee spelling machine what
soever Crushing does not, and grinding
does. cause the coffee to part with some OF
its aroma Tie the grains thus crushed
to about the size of faxseed in a bag Of
thick white flannel. so thick that no dirt
or dust, If any there be in the coffee, may
escape through the interstices of the
cloth Take a plain earthen pot, fill it
with water and set 1t on the fire till it is
hot, very hot, and the water has been
boiling a minute or two. Throw out the
water, put in the bag, let the coffee steam
q few minutes, the lid of the pot closely
fitting, and allowing no escape of aroma
Carefully lift the cover, pour in boiling
water enough to make one-third of a cup
of coffee for each prospective drinker and
one third of a cup for the pot. Let tho
bag of coffee boil three minutes, the lid
Of the pot still on, letting the steam
escape as little as possible.
In three minutes-the time it takes to
boil an egg-the coffee Is ready. Pour
out one.third of this black. strong, hair
lifting essence, dilute it with twice the
quantity of boiled milk-milk of the An
dalusian COW; sweeten 1t with papelon,
natural Venezuelan sugar crystals, and
you will be prepared to enjoy the delights
that excited me to two cups and a half
that morning John. Hans. Jean Juan gave
me a Spanish lesson while taking my
order for ~desayuno in the hotel of blessed
memory In the sweet vale of Caracas
Cor New York Times.
, 1888-06-15
Diamond Mining In South Africa.

The diamondiferous soil Is quarried out
below by Kafirs and deposited in great
iron buckets which run on standing wire
ropes. and are hauled up by steam to the
receiving boxes on the brink of the mine.
Everywhere is activity and bustle, and q
loud hum comes up out of the vast hole
from 5000 to 200 human beings engaged
at work below. The men themselves look
like 80 many flies as they dig away Mt the
blue soil. and the thousands of wire ropes
extending from every claim to the de
posting boxes round the edge AVE the
appearance of a huge spiders web, while
the buckets perpetually descending empty
and ascending full might well represent
the giant spiders.
Every thirteen or fourteen Kaflrs at
work In the mine nave q white overseer,
to prevent as much as possible that
Wholesale robbery which goes on among
them One would think they would find
it rather hard to steal, and still more
difficult to conceal q diamond on their
naked persons undo the eye of the over
seer; but. despite oil precautions. they dc
steal a vast number of stones, picking
them up and carrying them away in theil
mouths or between their toss The
largest diamonds RIO usually unearthed
In tho mines before the stuff is washed
and an overseer must keep his eyes wei
open. for he cannot be sure of the honesty
OF any one of his 'boys."-Globe Demo
crat Book Review
, 1888-06-15

Good o cut a small figure In love
'lakIng and iucre plays no part at all In
S"uih People have TO get old before
they h'apmr sordid. aud then love has
taken uEs A man may have a voice
Tx" an uIhinEed hnru door. a nose like q
rurumhe. a foot Ike a fiddle box. hands
Ike hans teeth like a step ladder. eyes
Tx II Jay = and II nlouth like u cellar door,
aud It b. sizes imdiciously no arrows Of
misfnrtulr ran keep the wreath from his
uruH provided he keeps clean shaver.
clean linan and a clean mouth He may
be- attcnuuted to the very verge Of ema
cla,ion a. he e~lephantine in movements
and dimensions but %perfumed with the
scent OF fresh linen and possessed of wit
though T. use his tongue, he may win
any woman whom he studies with care.
Chicago Times
, 1888-06-15
OLD

Judge Thurman is a much wcalthier
man han people generally suppose. He
is worth nearly $500, 900 which is mostly
in real property that came to him through
his wife or vas acquired by iudicious in
vestments. He is the son of a Methodist
preacher 10 Virginia, while Cleveland is
the son of a Presbyterian clergyman.
Mrs. Thurman was a Miss Mary Dunn
from Madison county, Ohio, where her
family still WINS twenty or thirty thousand
acres of the best farming land in the state.
They did not marry until late in life
both being over 30-but their domestic
relations have always been of the l~oveliest
character, and their home as attractive as
any that can be found in the world. Mrs.
Thurman is a woman OF strong intellect
ual powers, and has a powerful influence
over her husband. Il is said by their
friends that until nov he has usually been
guided by her counsel, but she has been
violently opposed to his accepting the
nomination, and is still SO unreconciled to
1t that she refuses to see any of the dele
cations of strangers or personal friends
who call To tender congratulations.
They have three cbildren' Allen W.
Thurman is about 40 years of age, and
although a member Of the bar gives his
whole time to the care of his fathers
properly. He wears an empty sleeve and
has a soldierly air, but was never in the
army. He lost his arm in an accident
The other two children are daughters,
one the wife OF Richard G. Mccormick,
fprmerly a delegate in congress from Ari-
Rom aiterward assistant secretary of the
treasury, aud now in business in New
York. The younger daughter IS the wife
of Lieut. Cowles of The navy, in com
mand of the Dispatch, a small vessel
which lies at the Washington navy yard.
and is used for pleasure purposes.
, 1888-06-15

THE latest thing in cards is known al
duplicate whist. The ga'rc was recently
invented in London Having dealt the
cards AS usual they are played according
To existing rules; but then, when the
game is over. Instead OF dealing tue cards
airesh, the same hands which have Just
been played are again taken by the four
players: y and G, however, now having
the cards which B and D held, while B
and d take the hand Just Mayed by A
aud G. Thus the same hands are played
out a second time. and a score is kept so
that it may be seen which pair of part
ncrS has made the most of the cards they
have successfully held. And this process
being repeated with every game, the rub
Der is said to be won by the two PLAYERS
who, under the above conditions, have
shown the greater skill. Skill, in short,
alone tells in duplicate whist, chance hav.
ing nothing whatever to do with the re
suit; for if one pair of partners get all
four honors in their hands in the first
game, their rivals will hold them, as a
matter of course, in the next.
, 1888-06-15

The duke of Simonetta IN Italian noble.
man who Is making a nam as a musical
composer. Is the descendant Of a long line
Of dukes who have a strange popularity.
They have jet black hair. and just above
the forehead n white tuft This they had
for a long series of years, until the father
Of the presaut duke was born some sixty
years Z He Ind a thick. curly head Of
brown haiT without a particle of white,
and with Jim II vas supposed there was
MI end of the special mark But his son
is = tall. handsome man, with a head of
black bair. and he has exactly the same
white tuft New Orleans Times Demo
.rat
, 1888-06-15

Another Important hyglenic rule Is
never To thwart that advance guard Of
,eep-the drUwsy impulse. which In
healthy individuals Will be found to occur
about the salne hour each night. At Its
approach the individual should invariably
petake himself TO rest, nor should he
larry until this drowsiness verges on I'M.
'oiscIotIsness but ut tho very first init
uIution of brain WEAKNESS he should seek
T." assume n horizontal position as quickly
u possible II tins rule be ~scrupulously
maintained II will usually lie found that
,ir.p supervens7 almost "a the head
tnuchrS the pillow II there has been no
prsyi"us ahusr of the pleasures of the
tibt.' u however there has been gor.
aiaudiaing and abuse ot wine shortly be
ior' retiring the asplrHnt for hon0rs in
he I~'un at cerebral combat must not be
..rTi 81 II he be subjected to ali the in.
aun'ri -ure- of semi consciousness. total
nBbIa!y Ia sleep. m sleep in which all the
'crruG- II nightmare are unrulled before
thr rrr' tated Imagination Or J Leon
ara torlIpR