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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

amount. and it was better to be truthful
She shrank away from me and looked al
me in an agonized, piercing way, as
though she would read, once for all
whether I recognized and inwardly de-
spised her. She found only love in my
eyes, for she suffered me to lead her out
upon the porch where we had long, sat
isfactory conversation, which / will not
nov give. Suffice to say that at its close
Mr.. Braintree said il was shame that
we should have to part on the day of our
engagement, and insisted on my staying
with them another week.
Mildred and I have been married now
three years. L keep the pocketbook that
stayed behind, as sacred relic, and its
leather covers will have crumbled to dust
before Mildred, my reverenced, worship
ped wife will ever know that I share the
secret of her having, in her guileless
earnestness, first told me of her love. Her
father is (may be forgiven the expires
sion) fortunately long since dead. Had
he lived I should never have won Mildred
such was his venom.
Long since, too, I have berated Mrs
Braintree and Stewart for conniving witE
Mildred against me on that memorable
visit. Stewart says be could not help it
His wife made him, without, what is more
telling him why. And Mrs. Braintree
says she couldn't help it, that it lay be-
tween Mildred's going the moment she
heard of my proposed visit, or staying
through it on her own conditions of self
imposed silence. The truth of the mat
ter is, nobody could help it. We were al
in the clutches of fate that had singled
out Mildred and me for each other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
Work for Winter.
Practical Farmer.

As this lis the season of the year when
most farmers have some little leisure
time it would be we'll to employ it in
| cleaning up the the fields. 1t is advis-
| able to cut the brush even with the
| ground or a little beneath the surface
| thus, when they sprOut again next spring,
| they can easily be cut with an ordinary
| scythe, and this treatment repeated year
after year will finally free the fields of
these pests. Another way in which ths
farmers spare time can be profitably en-
| ploy ed at this season of the year is haul
| ing and storing away old leaves, which
can be used 20 great advantage during
| the winter as bedding. This will save a
| large amount of straw, which can be
always used more profitaoly for feed than
bedding. Leaves, besides, are much
more easily hauled and spread on the
| land than stra e, and being much shorter
| they more readily assimilate with the soil.
| If this plan of saving the straw for food
was more generally adopted, very much
more stock could be kept during the
winter. Of course it would be necessary
to take more care of the straw than is
usually done, and it should IL every in
stance be kept under shelter, so as to be
| bright and clean. Cut up and mixed
with bran and a small amount of corn
meal it makes excellent food for stock
cattle, and while not particularly strong
| food for milk COWS would insure far bet
ter returns if fed to the animal in a warm
stable than GLOWING them to wander
about in the snow and mud and stand
h1vering around the straw and fodder
stacks with an occasional ear of corn
thrown to them as food.
AT this season of the year, also, every
farmer should see that his stables, cow
houses and other buildings where live
stock are kept are in a thorough repair,
and any little expense he may be at in
this direction will be amply repaid in the
amount of feed that will be saved An
animal kept in warm, comfortable quar-
tiers will thrive on half the feed thai one
exposed to all kinds of weather would re-
quire. While 1t is not advisable in all
instances to closely stable all cattle, they
should be provided with places where
they can always find shelter from rain
and cold winds. If these direction in re-
gard to cattle are followed, the farmer
will certainly be pleased at the result
next spring, and he will, besides, if be at
once tries it, realize profit which will in
sure repetition Of the same system next
winter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20


Franklin, Pa, will live in history as the
local habitation of the Holstein COW
Sbadtiand Boon. who has just given 1,772
pounds of milk that made 125 pounds II
ounces of butter in the space of thirty
days, and in four of them lacked but 512
ousces of making pounds of butter per
day. This is a most excellent record, and
calculated to give that particular breed a
boom, yet the wool gatherer has knowl-
edge of an animal OF native blood de-
scended wholly from the Carolina scrub
stock that went with the pioneers 10
Tennessee and Kentucky, which, as a
3 year old, within six weeks after calving,
and wholly without grain or meal, but
with all the fresh clover she would eat,
gave daily six gallons of rich milk that
with the unskilled methods of a negro
dairy maid and common dasher churn
made 215 pounds of sweet butter each
day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
FARM NOTES.

| An acre of land devoted to small fruits
will sometimes give a larger return than
| five acres devoted to grais.
As soon as grapevines drop their leaves
| they may be trimmed. The WORK can be
done in winter, however, if preferred.
1t is more important to save the liquids
| than the solids of manure. Use proper
absorbants, and use them plentifully.
The small COMBS of the Brahma fowls
protect that breed against frosted combs
which is common to other breeds in
winter.
A drink of warm water, with a small
quantity of cornmeal added to the water,
is excellent for the pigs on cold morn
ings.
A leaky roof on the barn or stable not
only entails loss through damage from
moisture, but also Injuries the health of
| the stock.
It is claimed that Shetland ponies and
0onke ys can be raised at such little cost
as TO give twice as much profit, in pro-
portion to capital invested, as is derived
from raising horses.
Seed coin saved from the portion of
! the cob nearest the tip is said TO produce
the strongest and best plants, followed
by the seed from the butt, with that
from the middle as the poorest.
Go over the orchard at least once g.
month and search for the borers, or they
will bore in too far to be reached. Re
move the earth from each tree and ex
anime the trunk carefully. The borer
may be known by the exudations of the
tree where it enters, and also by the
"chips" it throws out.
Seed corn should be saved from some
variety that has given good results in the
section where it was grown. To change
the seed without first experimenting in
order to learn if the variety is adapted to
the soil and climate may entail loss of
the crop. There is cereal that combines
so many different varieties IS corn, and
the crop that fourishes in one section
may be early and prolific, but when trans
ferred through the seed elsewhere often
proves the poorest that can be grown.
Prominent dairymen claim that by al
lowing the COWS salt freely it produces a
flow of milk. This is explained by the
fact that salt promotes thirst, and causes
the COW to drink more water. It is claimed
that COWS drinking less than twenty seven
quarts of water daily are poor mixers,
milk. Such experiments, however, do
not determine the quality of the milk,
and in one respect shows that the milk
may be watered through the agency of
the cow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

on life full grown, as all the growth is
made in the larvs state. So that those of
different sizes are not of different ages,
but of different species. As is usual in
the insect world in contrast with the
birds, the female is larger than the male.
From Greenland's icy mountains to
Tndia's coral strand they are considered a
nuisance. One OF the old p1onkish caron-
icles is reported as saying that ''the
father of lies might we'll have been called
the father of flies" and this 1 think still
voices popular opinion of the subject.
We know their usefulness IS scavengers
but we cannot like them. Yet there is
one time when they are welcome. The
first f. of the season, is equal to the first
dan6elion. or the first robin in its full as
surance that spring has really come.
They follow man all over the world so
closely that when an unknown island is
reached one may know whether or rot il
is inhabited by their presence or absence.
1t Is calculated that if one of each spe-
cies of living objects were TO stand in q
row, the fly would occupy the middle
space between the two extremes of size.
Does it not therefore follow by easy rea-
soning that the fly is the most truly
mean object knowns
Our argus-eyed little friend with the
wings of fairy, the probosis Of an ele-
plant, the toilet motions of cat using
his lesser wings as nose, his antenne as
ears, what a curious compound he is.
Considered abstractly, how wonderful the
filmy gauze of the wings. But when We
come to stern reality, and are in the
right-or the wrong-mOod, still the won-
der grows that that flmy gauze can make
such an amount of nerve-racking noise.
Wonderful stories are told of their vi
tality; how they have lived in bottled
wine for months, being ex ported 30 Eng
land in the interim and needing only a
sun bath to revive them when released
Their endurance of cold was proved by a
person, who, resolving to test their vitali-
ty, held one one on piece of ise until ii
froze fast; and when, on its being releas
ed, it flew away, she believed the hitherto
Incredible accounts. One that l once
rescued from an -watery grave in early
winter for a long time showed no sign of
resusc1ta ton; but after l lad placed II
with its head to the north, that the cleo
trio currents might have their full effect
it began to show signs of returning con-
seriousness, and l was soon able to pro
nounce it discharged cured, and to say:
Then away. do not stay
Little fly. good day, good day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
Facts About Eggs.
New York Leader.


All the world and his cosmopolitan
wife and family are new-laid eggs. Nor
do We depreciate their taste; on the con-
tIary we share it. The relish of eggs
is honorable. and to prefer them
fresh evinces deep appreciation of the
fitness OF thing" Tradition runneth
not back to the time when eggs, in this
condition, were of evil repute, although
the use of the stale variety 30 missile
has never been popular with the recipi-
ents. Probably the antediluvians were
fond of eggs, for We are given to under
stand that they Toasted high, and what
would a banquet be without "the fruit of
the hen?"
That the Egyptians were fond of eggs
is beyond peredventure, for one of our
snch@ biologists brought homo with him
from Egypt some dozsns, which had been
at least 5000 years in the catacombs,
having been placed there for the accom-
mediation of the mummies in case they
should wake up and feel peckish. These
eggs cackled over by hens that fourished
in the time of the early Pharaohs-laid,
probably before the children of Israel
made their exodus by way of the Red
Sea-we have seen, and many Of them are
as perfect externally ss if they had been
brought in market yesterday; but al
though Egyptian wheat of the same date
is said to have terminated and reproduce
ed itself, We are not aware that any of
the eggs that iIk have been set upon and
Matched.
The Chinese are the greatest egg eat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
IN THE TOY SHOP.

The child had longings all unspoken--
She was naughty child,
She had "a will that must be broken;"
Her brorher drove her wild.
She read the tale. but skipped the moral
She thought: 'One might be good.
If one could never scream and quarrel,
If one were only wood?"
Meanwhile the doll: "Ah, fatal chasm!
Although I've real curlS,
/ am not made of protoplasm,
Like other little girls.
You see on very wooden feature
My animation's nil.
How nice to be human creature
Get cross, and have willi''
And what may be the real issue
There's none hath understood;
But some of us are nervous tissue,
And some of us are wood.
And SOON to suffering, striving wildly
And never quite resigned;
While we CT wood yet murmur mildly
hpinor lsaft hahind
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
EMPEROR WILLIAMS MALADY.

His Ear Troubles Said TO be 9rse-Confired
10 the House
LoNDoN.-There has been reports in
the court circles mere of late, that En-
peror William is suffering from an acute
attack of his chronic trouble-a swelling
inside one OF his eers-about which the
doctors are much alarmed. It keeps him
awake almost continually and drives him
TO constant occupation for relief.
Sunday one of the people best informed
in England on inner Berlin rews, said
that the Emperor had becoms worse dur
ing the lest few days. To day it is an
nouneed that owing to cold he will re-
main indoors during the rest of the week.
If the ear malady should take serious
turn there would be immense excitement
all over Europe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
Corn Smut
Des MoineS Register

Des MoineS Register.
1t is disputed question whether corn
smut is poisonous. 1t is certain that
neither wheat nor corn smut is as danger
oIs as the ergot of rye, and many of the
grasses. But it is of sufficient deleter-
lous matter to be worthy of attention
just at this season of the year when all
hands are In the corn fields. Science is
making many valuable discoveries. I'm
til very recently 1t was not suspected
that Germ smut was 8 parasite, and that
1T was perpe:uated by spores. 1t is stated
by Henry Stewart that these living spores
are very minute; that they have rounded
bodies so small that 25000 of them
placed in a line will measure an inch;
aud that 625,000,00O of them oc.
cupy surface one inch square. So one
of these smut balls on an ear IF corn,
which too many suppose is a mass of
dead matter, contains sufficient number
of living spores to seed thoroughly
large corn field. These spores are carried
about by the wind, after having laid on
the ground during the winter, aud until
the plant is again ready for its propaga-
ton Of another crop. These spores are
not dependent on any peculiar kind of
weather, as they appear so terminate
equally as well in dry as wet seasons.
There is pretty strong evidence that
corn smut, when eaten by cattle, which
they do readily, is injurious. When it is
taken into the stomach, being of a sticky
mass, i. clogs the manifolds, creates
fever, and is claimed by some to be one
among many causes of impaction or dry
murrain. So we call attention to it at
this time, when corn Is being gathered,
to the propriety of carefully gathering
all smut ears and burning them. The
disease is slowly bat gradually increasing
in all the great corn belt, where corn is
raised year after year CD the same
ground. A basket hung to the end or the
side of the wagon is good way to gath
er and destroy corn smut. 1t prevents
present danger in cattle eating it and
destroys the spores for future propaga-
ton,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
Warm Water for Stock.
Oes Moines Register.


Just at the commencement of last win
| ter there came into use continuance By
which water can be chea.ly warmed for
stock. IL is understood that there ia
not patent on it, and that is so cheap
of construction and requiring so little
fuel to run it, that it should be in more
general use. It is known that the aver
age amount of water drank daily by
COW or steer is about so pounds.
To raise the temperature of this amount
of water liz the animal from 80 degrees to
30 or 80, would require large amount of
food to contain carbon enough for that
purpose. We have not at hand the re-
suits of careful experiments to deter
mine just what amount of corn it would
take to produce the result named. But
the saving must be considerable, es pecial-
ly to the mich cow, as she is very sus-
ceptible TO the influence of cold, outward
or inward. With the machine named,
which las been go highly re-
commended by Mr.. Sherman and
also by Mr.. Gabrielson of this
state, there can be 10 doubt about the
economy of every stock raiser providing
in time for thorough trial Of it this win
ter. It costs SO little, if il should prove
failure no man will be seriously Grip
pied, But III 1T should prove as good as
recomm ended it viii be not only a large
saving of food, but very large increase
in milk, flesh and fat.
We are not advised to just what tenn
perature it is recommended to raise the
water, but it is presumed that it should
be nearly the temperature of the blood,
for whatever 1t is below this it will have
to be raised to that degree by food. So.
while warming is being done, it might as
well be brought to the temperature nature
requires, from 95 to 100 degrees. 1t is
stated that there Is no difficulty In getting
cattle to drink warm water. They soon
love it and refuse to drink cold
water. Those who have sried tins expert
ment, especially with the cheap machine
We have named, unanimously approve
and recommend it. And this is IN the
right direction. 1t gives good pay for
more work. And, as we have repeatedly
stated lately, the time of more intensive
farming has arrived, and this is one of
the avenues to success. Warm the water
and make it regular and positive prac-
tice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

ers in the world. They raise more poul-
try than all the other nations of the
earth taken together, and have a way of
keeping eggs for forty years o. more in
some condition. The older the eggs the
more valuable they are, and it is trick
of the Chinese grocer to ring in fresh
eggs on his costumers whenever he can
get chance to cheat them in that way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

The cluster of eggs that may be found
on apple tree limbs should be picked off
during open weather in the winter, and
thus prevent the Matching of the tent
caterpillar. The eggs appear 70 be var
nished, but such is not really the case,
since light coat of varnish or oil would
destroy their vitality by excluding the
air.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Morton have gone to In.
diana polls TO confer with Harrison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

she ran back to the cottage and up to her
own room. The Lexb morning she did
not come down TO breakfast, and I was
forced to leave without bidding her good
by. Arrived at the station [ found to
my CONSERVATION that l had left my
pooketbook on the table in my room.
Railway officials not being particularly
noted for their courtesy to penniless pas
sengers, there was nothing for it but to
possess myself in some way OF the article
in question. The train was half an hour
late. That would not give me time TO go
TO the cottage and back again, but if l
telephoned TO Stewart, one of his trust
worthy servants could bring it in time.
What was my surprise on ringing him up.
! to be answered by the voice of my search,
that Mr.. Braintree was Ct home, and she
would call him up ct once. The truth
flashed instantaneously upon me. Mil
dred and hthe voice were one. What a
oonsummate dolt I had been, binder than
the blind, stupider than the stupid. Or
course girl who had ONE told You she
loved you, was going to all lengths rather
than let you identity her. When Stewart
at length came to the instrument, the
stationmaster alone was there. / was
we'll on my way back to the cottage, hev-
ing determined to join my pocketbook
in staying behind, where Mildred was.
She was sitting with my hostess in the
| breakfast room. Ignoring the presence
of the latter IL my eagerness, walked
directly up to Mildred, and looking down
upon her where she sat in her pretty
breakfast gown. ted her that whatever
motive she had had for coDceaiing her
voice from me, il was now to- late,
that il was I whom she had
spoken with a few moments since.
but that ii I had loved her before l
heard her speak, I lo7ed her doubly
now (this was automatically correct. 1t
would have been more effective TO have
said that I loved her million times
| more, but my feeling for the voice added
to that for her, exactly doubled the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
Cows Worth Their Salt.

Then away, do not stay
Little fly, good day, good day.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-26
A "FaESa" TEXAN JUSTICE
He Sets Him-eif Up Against Uncle Fam
in Belalf of One SNYDER.

He Sets Him-elf Up Against thcio cam
in Behalf of One snyder.
AUSTIN, Tex, Dec 26-Gen. D. s. Stan
lev. commander of the department of Texas,
and his aide David J. Rumbaugh, were ar
rested here Monday on civil warrant issued
from the court of Justice Stuart, and exc
cuted by constable. There is valuable
block of property belonging to the United
States government in Austin, known as the
Old Arsenal block Some months ago the
board of school trustees of Austin set on foot
plan to secure from the government the
block-which is vacant propsrty-for use as
a public school lot. Through Representa-
tive Sayres, in the house, and Coke in the
senate they secured the passage Of bill do
mating the block to tine city of Austin, and
the secretary of war made deed and for
warded the same to the school board. But
in the meantime a job printer named j. M.
Snyder in stepped, and on the ground Of
squatter sovereignty took possession OF the
block
The school board then applied to Gen.
Stanley to put them in possession. Tbs gen.
eral and his aide came up from San Antonio
to turn over this property. No sooner had
he stepped on the ground than constable
armed with a warrant, arrested him and the
aide for alleged attempt to commit an as.
sault on Snyder They were taken before
Justice Stuart, who bound them over In $500
to keep the peace. Gen. Stanley refused to
give bond, and said he would go to Jail first
The constable proceeded to take him to that
institution, hut the sheriff said he would moi
recognize the order of commitment, and told
Gen. Stanley 50.
In the meantime SNYDER holds the fort.
Gen. Stanley has photographed to the war de-
partment at " asuingtOn stating the fact
and I, kin. orders 1t is believed, if be i
SUSTAINED. that Gen Stanley will bring ,
military force from headquarters at Sar
Antonio 10 put tie school board in posses