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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
In Love With Herself.

The kittens admiration was for her
beautiful self, and she was, and is, the
perfection of feline beauty, SAYS Ed
munk Kirke, in The North american
RevieU. She has Il full, shapely head,
a rounded, graceful form, large dark.
speaking eyes, and q clear black and
white coat, as soft and glossy as silk.
While still so very Young, she never
tired of gazing at herself in glass.
One day / set a small mirror upon the
floor, SO that she could see her reflected
image. She gazed unconcernedly up
on it for few moments, but as soon
as she observed that the kitten in the
glass responded to her every move
ment she opened her eyes wide with
establishment. Then, looking up at
me inquiringly, she proceeded to in
vestigate the toilet glass, walking
round and round it, and now and
then tapping its wooden back with
her paw. When she had apparently
become convinced that it did not con-
ceal her own counterpart, she again
set herself down before it and began
to smooth her coat and stroke her
whiskers, all the while keeping one
eye fixed upon the reflected kitten
which was performing the same cere-
monies. At last she fell asleep, and
set tie glass away upon an upper
shelf in my library; but she no sooner
awoke than She came to me, looked up
at the mirror, and by pleading me"
asked me to place it again upon the
floor. This [ did day after day, to the
great delight OF Miss Kitty, who would
sit before it for an hour at a stretch,
prin king and pruning herself like any
human coquette. One day, having a
visitor, | failed to respond as promptly
as usual to her request for the glass,
and she suddenly darted into an adj
joining room, where, half an hour
later, | found her perched upon the
top of bureau, and surveying herself
in the larger glass that hung above it.
She had detected tie likeness between
the two mirrors. After that she never
petitioned me for the toilet-glass, for
one of her communicable traits is never
to ask of another what she can do for
herself. But even now, in mature cat
hood, she exhibits this feminine vanity.
Often l come upon her posed before
mirror. and l think no four-footed
creature ever assumed quite so many
airs as she did little time ago, when
sne first saw upon her neck the refec-
ton of a gorgeous leather collar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
Our Old Friend Neyerfail.

Oh, it's good to ketch a relative ats richer
and don't run
When you heller out to hold up, and'n joke
and have his fun:
It's good to hear man called bad and then
find out he's not
Err strike some chap they call lukewarm ats
really red-hot;
Its good 10 know the devil painted Sest a
leete black.
And its good TO have most anybody pat you
on the back:
But just the best thing in the worlds our
old friend Neyerfail,
When he Nags yer hand as honest as an old
dog wasss his tall
I like to strike the man owe the same time
can pay,
And take back things I've borried, and
81 prise folks thataway;
ike TO Ind out that the man / voted fer last
fall.
That didn't git elected, was a scoundrel after
all;
like the man that likes the pore ard he'ps
EN- when he can;
like to meet ragged tramp ats still gen
tleman;
But most Iike-w1th you, my boy-our old
friend NeyerfaiI.
When he ways yer hand as honest as an old
dog wags his tall
james Whitcomb Riley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
WATERING HORSES.

The water given horse should be
pure. Do not have the we'll in the
barDyard, for the wash will soak into
it, and pollute the water. If q run
ming brook of clean water be conven-
lent, lead the horse to drink from it.
A good cistern can be made of large
bogshead sunk half way into the
ground, and the water from the barn
roofs led into it will be preferable for
the horse than very cold well-water.
A horse needs at least two pals of
water day, and if given half pailful
before meals, or four times a day, it
will be sufficient, unless when hard at
work in sultry weather. Do not give
warm water at any time of the year,
but the chill may be taken off in win
ter, so that it will not be icy. Do not
water or feed directly after coming in
very warm, and do not work hard i'm
mediately after eating heartily
Ameracan AgricuIturjSt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19

ply such rules as are herein suggested
they would be able to reduce their
losses to a minimum and cope success
fully with the disease. If there should
be an outbreak, separate all healthy
from the diseased hogs as soon as pos
sible. The healthy hogs should be re-
moved to new and uninfected past
ure or pen, and carefully watched by
an attendant. Should any that have
been thought to be well become weak,
or appear to be sick, ailing, or off
their feed, take them out and kill them.
All diseased hogs should be killed and
cremated as soon as possible. If the
hogs be healthy it is advisable never
to allow new hogs to intermingle with
them in the herd until after having
them subjected to strict quarantine
of not less than seven weeks. Neither
is it advisable to allow any one to go
into hog pens after returning from an
infected place without first changing
his boots. There should be but one
attendant to look after sick animals,
who during such service should not be
allowed to leave the place. Hogs
should never be watered at a stream
if it should run from where the disease
is known to exist. Dogs or other ami
mails belonging to infected farms
should not be allowed to roam about
at will where hogs are kept, as they
may carry the infection with them.
If these rules be carefully observed
there need be little fear of hog cholera
causing any serious loss or spreading
to any alarming extent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
A Lodging-HouSe Tailor.

There is a man who earns a good
living in novel way" said the keeper
of il clearinghouse to a reporter the
other day, pointing to q stoop-should-
cred individual who sat in corner of
the big reading-room busily engaged
stitching away at coat.
He is tailor. and used to earn $40
or $12 a week in the shop" continued
the speaker, but now he earns twice
that much and only works half the time.
He does the mending for the men who
make the lodging-houses their home.
A good many of them haven't any
other clothes than those they have on
their backs, and. naturally, they want
to make them last as long as possible.
TIE tailor comes around once OF twice
week and sews for them while they
wait He is good workman, and [
guess ne doesn't charge too much.
Il have seen him take as much as 50
out of this place in the forenoon. He
visits all the lodging-houses on the
Bowery, and is quite benefactor in
this way. The only thing the boys
complain about is that he won't do
work on credit. l have seen him take
a coat, which he had repaired and for
which the owner declined or found it
inconvenient to pay, and keep it until
he got his money. -NeW YORK. Hortd.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
THE BEST PIG-PEN.

A pig-sty, writes T. D. Curtis in The
Country Gentleman, can scarcely be
too warm, if it is we'll ventilated and
dry. A hot, damp and reeking sly or
pen is very unhealthy for hogs. They
should never come from the nest
steaming, or they will surely get colds
and perhaps die. Sleeping under
straw-stacks is an unhealthy place, or
piled up on top of each other; for when
this is the case, those underneath get
too hot and are liable to get smoth-
cred. The ground is the best floor,
provided it is dry. The sly should
have no floor, but be constructed so
that the manure can be easily taken
out Dryness can be insured by put
ting a ditch around the sly and rails
ing the bottom of the bed foot or
more above the level of the ground
around. A pig pen should always be
long, with the feeding place in one end
and the bed in another. This arrange
ment will help to keep both ends clean.
Hogs are generally more neglected
than any other animals, whereas they
require to be carefully handled. Hogs
are more susceptible to colds and in
flammatory diseases than many suspect
They cannot relieve themselves of the
surplus heat by evaporation or sweat
ing, like some animals; and when
made hot in their nests the surface
cools too rapidly in winter and the
blood being driven in will cause in
ternal Inflammation, These extremes
should be avoided
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
Rebels.

Rebels.
Clara Louise Kellogg is said to be a
mascot for men who bet on horse
races Half a dozen gentlemen in
New York, who depend on this diver
sion for their bread and meat, say that
to shake hands with the prima donna
is sure to bring luck. The Duke of
Newcastle once took her fancy for a
horse at Ascot and won $4,000. He
afterward presented Miss Kellogg with
magnificent brooch, in which her
portrait appears surrounded with anne
thysts and diamonds.
Samuel J. Tilden never spoke of his
wealth, but it was variously estimated
all the way from 100000 to $4,000
600. His executors have lately stated
in court that his assets footed up S.
225, 900 in real and personal property
1t was also admitted that after the
legacies provided for in the will are
paid over four millions will remain
for the erection of three public IL
braries contemplated by Mr.. Tilden in
New York, Yonkers and New Leba-
non, where he was born.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
Carried a Bats Liver.

Of all the queer superstltionS that
ever heard, there is one possessed by a
man on change that caps the super
sttious climax, says the st. Louis
GlObe-Democrat. won't tell you his
name, but he is one of the most
prominent grain and pork dealers in
the city. One night last summer he
was visitor at the fifth district police
station. We were bothered a good
deal just then by bats, they kept flying
up and down through the stable at
tached to the station. Our visitor and
the stable boys killed several of the
bats, and the liver was taken from
each of them and carried away in the
merchants pocket. He wanted them,
he said, to give him luck in his bust
ness transactions, for he declared
there was more good luck in one bats
liver than there was in half a hundred
rabbits feet, which were well known
to possess luck of no mean proper
tions. He told us where he had dis
covered the bats liver charm. It was
on lower Mississippi steamboat.
about year ago. A party of colored
deck hands were playing craps. One
of the party had bats liver, and he
laid it on the deck floor everytime he
picked up the worries to throw. As a
result he won all the money his COM
panions had. After doing this four or
five times on the trip up from New
Orleans to Memphis, the bats liver
holder was barred from the game. He
couldn't lose. The merchant TO whom
l refer carries his bats liver to this
day, and never thinks of going on
change without it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
HOW TO RAISE GOOD CALVES.

The choice OF a pure-bred bull of
some acknowledged dairy breed and
of good character should be made,
and in three or four generations the
progeny, if well selected, will partake
of the good qualities of the pure breed.
Half-br Jersey, Guernsey or Ayr
shire calves have been found equally
valuable for product with the pure
bred ones. The calf thus well bred
must be well fed and trained. 1t is
by no means necessary that the calf
should be fed upon fresh milk from
the COW. Cream and fat are not re-
quired for calf intended for the dairy,
but a good frame of bones covered
with healthful muscular tissue. These
are well and fully supplied by skinned
milk, and the milk is we'll and fully
digested when given warm, and at a
temperature almost equal to that of the
stomach. Eighty degrees is a very
good temperature for the milk for a
young calf. An excellent method of
feeding a calf intended for the dairy
is as follows: Heifers only should be
reared, as the cost Of fattening a male
calf is greater than its value for veal,
and males can only be reared when
their value for breeding purposes off
ers a chance for profit. american
A0TicultzIriSt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
WHY BOYS LEAVE THE FARM.

"Why do the boys leave the farm?"
walls writer in an agricultural jour-
nal. Well, dear brother, there are
several reasons. One is because the
boy is not 90 years old at his birth.
Then, if there is hoe on the farm
weighing IA ounces, bright as nickel
plate, and sharp as razor, and an
other hoe weighing somewhat less
than breaking plow, with an edge
on it like hammer, and n sapling
with the bark on for n handle, the
hireCi man takes one and the boy gets
the other, and every man in America
knows which is the other. Did you
ever stand with such hoe in your
hands away down in q corn row on
some airleSs, still, hot summer day, 20
acres of corn blades and tassels wilt
ing about you, standing Ia inches
higher than your head, shutting out
every last trace of breathable air, and
then hear locust down in the edge of
the timber strike UP his long, strident,
monotonous call to make it ten times
hotterp And all this time cool creek
not mile away, lettering in deep, ST.
lent pools in shady places in the woods,
or breaking into merry dancing rip
pies over the pebblesP And in the
deep holes, the fish just lying around
waiting for a boy? Well, then. you
know why some boys leave the farm.
Still, boys can be kept on the farm
and made to stay there ali their lives.
You drive Il long spike through boys
abdomen and through live oak tree,
and clinch or bolt it on the other side,
and then saw off the boys legs and
break his back, and he will stay on
the farm. Yes, there are some other
ways we know, but this is the only in
fallible method. -Burdette in BurIing-
ton HaUkeye.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
A Combination Fence.

Since the general introduction of
barb-wire fences, says The Country
Gentleman, the Importance of hedges
has great diminished, but for both
ornament and utility they may still be
employed to advantage. The most
perfect and really substantial are a
union of wire and hedge-plant. For
merly the honey locust and the Usage
orange made the best barriers; but the
honey locust requires much and fire.
quent cutting back, and the Usage
orange as much so, with the additional
drawback of winter-killing in regions
of severe winter. The buckthorn and
the barberry are both hardy, and both
have hedge-like growth, but neither
are stiff enough alone for farm barri-
ers. But with two OF three barb-Wires
included with them, stretched success
fully while the hedge is growing in
height, they become perfect-requiring
but little cutting back, forming a stiff
hedge and presenting fine ornamen-
tai appearance when kept in good
shape. The purple barberry is as
hardy as the common sort and makes
as good a hedge, and when in bloom
early in the season, or in scarlet berries
later, is an object of great beauty.
The plants are easily raised from seed
and are very readily and safely trans
planted. The privet has naturally
hedgy growth, and is often recon-
mended for hedge but it is not per-
fectly hardy, and is liable to die out in
patches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19

Peter Alfred Anderson. of Terre
Haute, claims to be the worlds cham
pion water drinker." He thinks it no
feat at all, scarcely, to drink half a
gallon in fifty seconds, and has drank
five gallons in five hours and thirty
gallons in a day, which exceeds the
capacity of any horse. His appetite
keeps Up with his thirst pretty we'll,
for he can sit down and eat as much
as can ten men
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19

The woman question: What are
YOU gong to trim it with?'-St. Al
bans Messenger.
The Archbishop of Grau. the Hunga-
rian primate, struggles through life on
a bare pittance of $780, 900 year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19

''I'll teach you to play pitch-and-
toss!" shouted an enra@ed father. III
fog you for an hour, will" Father"
instantly replied the incorrigible, as
he balanced a penny on his thumb and
finger. III toss you to make it two or
nothing. Boston Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
PREVENTING HOG CHOLERA.

The livestock commissioners of Ne
braska have investigated hundreds of
cases of hog cholera, and state that if
farmers and swine-breeders should APP
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
Origin of the Sandwich.

Of the millions of travellers who have
partaken OF the luscious sandwich as
they travelled through life and dined
at the gorgeous lunch-counter, few
probably know where this hungry-an-
Initiating Wand got its unique name.
1t was not from the islands i'll the Pa
cific Ocean, as some suppose, nor from
tie sand (Which" is found in some of
them. The sandwich is the invention
of Lord Sandwich, an English aristo-
crat, who was such an inveterate gam
bier that he would not leave the gam
ING table, and had slices OF meat placed
between slices of bread, which he de-
voured during the progress of the
p:lnles.-HoteE World.
The End ofTime.
Sat the piano again, Charlie, l see,"
said his pretty cousin, as she entered
the room
"Ya'as, Maude, responded Charley.
..Ive been playing for an hour or
more. merely to kill time, y know"
For an hour or more! Why,
Charlie, time must be dead by now"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-31
MIR. Blaine on the Sackville Letter,

NiT. DidIHc Oh tHe SackV1lIe Letter.
VIEW OF THE MATTER EXPRESSED BEFORE
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRESIDENTS
ACTION.
MIR. Blaine addressed large audience in the
fair grounds near Albany, New York, yesterday
afternoon, and made reference to the Lord
Sackville letter, not then knowing of the action
of the President. He said: I'VE are not going
to have the British minister in Washington tell
us how to vote. We will not take instructions
from the court of st. James as to how we shall
vote on protection tariff in America. And
want to say this, further: You are reading q
good deal in democratic papers Just now as to
Lord Sackville being recalled. The Cleveland
administration want to show their indignation
for his Intervention. 1t would only take one
word to recall him. What they are doing is
trying to get the English prime minister in
London to recall him. Three foreign ministers
in the history of our Government thus far have
had their passports given them by the Admin
istration at Washington for doing less than
Lord Sackville has done in intervention with
our affairs, and Mr.. Bayard and President
Cleveland, neither of them Il make that predic-
ton to-day; there Is a week left of the cam
paign) will dare to send Lord Sackvill home
Mr.. Phelps, the American minister at London
as we get news over the cable, is dining out at
Hatfield with Lord Salisbury to see if Lord
Salisbury will not relieve Mr.. Cleveland and
MIR. Bayard by recalling Lord Sackville; so
we are not only to have the British minister
intervening in our affairs, but to have
the British premier in London decide whether
he shall stay and intervene some more. That
is the situation. No republican administration
ever had the Intervention of the British min
lister, and never will. No advocate of pro-
lection in this country ever had the sympathy
OF British minister's and never will"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-31
Presidential Politics.

After the demonstration at Wheeling, W. Va,
described in yesterdays STAR, further DEM
onstration was held in the evening, Judge
Thurman speaking ON the tariff to large au-
dience at the rink.
Secretary Villas spoke to six hundred people
at Detroit last night.
A mass meeting was held in New York last
night, under the auspices Of the republican
ciub, IN cooper Union. Senator Evarts was
the principal speaker. He said, 'It was not
expected that Presidents should issue in the
form OF messages campaign documents, but
Grover Cleveland was also a candidate for the
presidency; 1T was not customary for presi-
dents to review political parades, but Grover
Cleveland, the candidate for President. re-
viewed one in this city last week. 1t was hard
to determine the actions of Grover Cleveland
in his dual capacity of President and candidate
for President.
Mr.. Blaine will to-day 90 to Connecticut.
where he Is to deliver two addresses before
speaking Saturday in BROOKLYN
Senator Hiscock spoke at an Italian republi-
can mass meeting in New York last night.
The New York Sun publishes letter from
Senator Edmunds, in which he asserts that he
is, and has been ever since the nomination of
General Harrison, earnestly and according to
his strength and capacity actively in favor of
the latters election. He gives thirteen reasons
why he thinks General Harrison should be
elected, chief among them being the candi-
dates abilities, his personal and political
purity, and his soundness upon the principles
of protection to American industries and
American labor: In regard to the Lord Sack
vile incident, MIR. Edmunds says that General
Harrison would not for even one dav tolerate
the official presence of foreign minister.
from whatever country he comes, who under,
takes to interfere in our elections even If that
minister thinks that his election or his party
will work to the advantage of that minister
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-31
Yellow Fever Ravages.
PRIVATE LETTER FROM PLAGUE-sTRIcKEN

A PRIVATE LETTER FROM PLAGUE-STRICKEN DE-
CATUR.
The following private letter has been received
in Washington from resident of Decatur, Ala,
dated October %:
1.-The past week has been one Of gloom and
distrust. Three of the relief committee have
died. all the others were sick and unable to
work. The committee has been reorganized.
We have now 2S ON the sick list Hope that a
killing frost will come to our relief soon. We
have been confined here forty-five days with
this dreadful fever. The use of stimulants has
been potent in promoting or increasing the
death-rate. l was sick for two days, not from
fever, but from hard work and constant worry,
for those was trying to help, and especially
over the miserable management here. The
newly-organized committee of Decatur, in con-
junction with the relief committee of New De-
catur, have joined the ex-Federal soldiers and
members of the G. A. r. residing in the two
Decaturs in an appeal to the commander Of the
Grand Army of the Republic for aid. The old
relief committee of Decatur left indebtedness
to the amount of $4,000 to be provided for.
The action of the state health officers has pre-
maturely prevented further aid to such an ex-
tent that there seems to be no other avenue
open for relief. The necessity for aid is imme-
date, to prevent much suffering