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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-07

AN, there, President Cleveland You
WIN occupy the White House until Mach
4, 1893
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
Taking Medicine.

Physicians prescribe less medicine
now than used to be the custom in
former days, and possibly would give
still fewer doses, if it were not for the
preiudices of their patients, who feel
that nothing is being done for their
cure unless they have something to
take. The truth is that often pure air,
rest, and absence from food for a time
is all that is needed to give relief, and
the conscientious doctor hesitates to
order drugs which he knows are IN
necessary. e person who is suffer
ing from fever is shut up in an I'M
ventilated room, breathing the same
air over aud over again, covered with
twice as many bed clothes as are re-
quired, for tear he might take cold.
and given whatever food he can be
persuaded to eat, the fever is not like
ly to abate. Yet if when the physician
came he were to say, ''open the win
dow, take off all the blankets but one,
give him a cool sponge bath every
three hours, and let him have nothing
but milk, cracked ice, and cold water, u
and then go away without prescribing
further, tie friends of the sufferer
would shake their heads and sigh to
one another, 1--WE must send for some
one else at once. How can he get we'll
without medicine?' Whereas the doc
tor really would have done much
more to promote the recovery of his
patient than if he had left him in the
unsanitary condition in which he found
him and prescribed quinine and
acOnite adj libitum Medicine is not
omnipotent; it cannot take the place
of fresh air, pure water and suitable
diet, but it is exceedingly useful in its
own sphere and in the hands of wise
physician plays an important part in
the treatment of disease. Too much
cannot be SAID against the evil prac-
tice of indiscriminate dosing. Many
people ruin their health by taking
some favorite nostrum every time they
feel little out of order, when if the
matter was left to nature it would
probably right itself.-SprinaJfcld,
NaSS. G0Ol HOuSebeeDiu1.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
Some Welsh SAVINGS.

Three things that never become rusty
the money of the benevolent, the shoes
OF the butchers horse, and a woman's
tongue. Three things not easily done
to allsy thirst with fire, to dry wet with
water, and to please all in everything
that Is done. Three thirgs that are as
good as the best-brown bread in famine
well water IN thirst, and gray coat in
cold. Three things as good as their bet
ter-dlrty water to extinguish the FIRE, an
ugly wife to blind man, and wooden
sword to coward. Three warnings from
the graye-"ThoC knowest what I was,
thou seest what 1 am, remember what
thou art 70 be-" Three things of short
continuance-a lady's love, chip of fire,
and a brook flood. Three things that
ought never to be from home-the cat,
the chimney, and the housewife. Three
essentials 10 false story-teller-a good
memory, a bold face, and fools for an
audience. Three things that are seen
il q peacock-the garb of an angel, the
walk of theft, and the voice of the devil.
Three things it is unwise to boast of-the
flavor of thy ale, the beauty of thy wife,
and the contents of thy purse. Three
miseries OF mans house-a sm@Ly
chimney, q dripping roof, and scolding
wife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
Effects of Plants Upon Sleep.
Texas SiffjupS

The question is very important one
90 the banker, the student, the type writer
the hack driver, the cowboy, the burglar
and TO the members of all over learned
professions, and more particularly TO the
policeman who sleeps in the open air.
When the question, "Are flowers perilou
IN sleeping -room?" has been dispose
of, the next problem that should engag
the attention of the scientists should be
What effect on the plants does it hay
TO keep them over night in the sleeping
room If the inmate has asked whisky:
the purpose of changing his breath?
Perhaps putting plants, cereals, etc.. in
the room OF q sleeper will cause them to
expand, as they were supposed TO do
under blue glass.
We Halter ourselves that we can assist
the scientists in their wild search for
truth.
In Texas, farmers who raise watermei.
ons in the vicinity of q negro camp-meet-
ing have noticed that sleeping in water
| melon patch with shotgun causes
the melons to ripen much sooner than
| they otherwise would. On the other hand
when nobody sleeps in q watermelon
patch the fruit dwindles away over night
so that the melons are not visible in the
morning. Unless somebody sleeps in
the melon patch they are never liable to
ripen at ali. The same phenomenon has
| been observed in q peach orchard located
near boarding school. The fruit never
natures unless SON ebody sleeps in the
orchard with dog or gun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

''but not Lady Helmswortn On.
Victor, she goes ON. a she rcla-
Alright the look of increduious Joy
which irradates his pale face. - i
you think that l had forgotten ms
promise that wherever You shonIi 20.
there my heart would follow you?'
Victor had been passing through his
native town, intending to remain only
few hours, when the fire ut Marche-
mont Hall had been discovered. lie
had not made any inquiries concern n4r
Florence. for he had taught himself to
think Of her as one dead to him. ever
since the rumor had reached him OF
her engagement and projected union
with Lord Helmsw0rth.
The following day would have seen
him far on his departing way, bad not
Fate interpOsed rs we have seen.
So it was that to the perilous ordeal
which they had undergone together
the long-parted lovers owed their pres
ent happy reunion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
BOwie-flnfre Bowie.

DR.. Thomas H. Maddox, besides be-
ing one of the most distinguished Ct
zens Of his adopted State. is celebrated
as having been for some time the un3 !
survivor of startling GuelIng ep sude
in 1885. celebrated as tie ''sauj-bar
duel which took place oppuS te
Natchcz, Miss, and attracted wide
spread attention. Dr. Maddox and :;
brother OF Governor James Madison
Wells were the principals in the duel,
and Colonel Blanchard, father OF the
present Congressman Blanchard. Cpi-
0nel Grain, Major Wright, General
Curry and James Bowie OF Maryland.
were the seconds. The Original J.iI
Guilty was settled on the ground, bu1
the seconds had terrible quarrel, III
which James Bowie, the Inventor OF
the Bowie" knife, was shot down a",t
another man was killed by Colon !
Grain While Bowie was down Major
Wright rushed at him with sword
cane, and three others joining il ~.
the wounded man was carved to y e'"s
with his own knife. DR.. Maddox spent
some time in St. Mary's county last
summer visiting Frederick Maddox
and Others James Bowie was of the
old Maryland family of that name,
and went to the then far Southwest
with his brother Allan in the Old bor-
der days.
Henry Clay, who knew Bowie we'll,
used to relate at the old National Ho-
tel at Washington kept by Charles B.
Calvert, uncle of Governor Ogden
Bowie's wife, the story of his first
meeting with James Bowie 1t hap
pencd in stage coach going across
the country to Washington, An in
valid, a quiet man, in a big cloak, a
border desperate and Senator Clay
were in the coach, The rough began
to make great smoke from a strong
pipe, whicA caused the invalid to be-
come very sick. He lowered the win
dow, and the tough threatened to kill
him and throw him out. Bowie quiet
" opened his cloak and said: You
may keep that window open; / myself
suffer somewhat from the cold, but
not so much as you do from that
smoke"
'What in - have you got to do
with it?' said the desperado, drawing
his revolver.
Up went Bowie's hand to the back
OF his neck, and quick as a flash ne
placed himself, bowie knife in hand,
in such position rs to have the adj
vantage OF his adversary. Then lie
said: ''NOw fire away!"
Il guess you're jim Bowie" said
the other, putting up his weapon. IT
strikes me we've met before. don't
care to smoke. "-Bditjnaore San.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
Points on Porkers.
Practical Farmer,

The farmer who raises the best stock
of all kinds acquires reputation that en-
ables him to obtain the highest price for
all he may have to spare. The mere name
of his stock commands the highest price.
The animal with a strong constitution is
never IS liable to contagious or other dis
eases as the one with more feeble sys-
tenn. Some farmers are very careful to
keep their cattle and horses healthy, while
in a little yard they have large lot of
hogs, old and young, weak and strong, in
the mud and filth up to their bellies, taeir
corn thrown in the mud, and their water
into trough half full of fifth, and these
farmers complain that hog raising does
not pay! Get the best stock, both male
and female, fully developed. Give them
good, comfortable and airy sleeping
places, with dry, clean yards in Which to
run and feed, and, if convenient, good
pasture in which to run few hours each
day. Give them plenty of good clean
water, milk or house slops TO drink; in
short, give them good, comfortable,
healthy treatment, based Oh natural prin-
ciples, and one may be sure Of success.
If otherwise, failure is certain. Hogs
need salt as regularly as cattle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
One Girls Kindness to Another.

One evening when Laurel was stay
ing here there was q girl dining with
US who said she did not care for dress.
So long as she was neat and tidy she
did not mind anything further. Laurel
looked gravely at her at intervals dur
ing the rest of the meal, and after
awhile she asked. in her loudest and
most aggressive tone of voice: Miss
Floyd, I've been puzzling my poor
brain over you, and I've made you
out at last" Miss Floyd stared at her,
and Laurel went on: Il thought you
we're unnatural when you said you
didn't care for clothes but I've made
you out nov. You lay yourself out to
illustrate the proverb about beauty
when unadorned.' l congratulate you
on your British courage"
Wasn't that straight from the
shoulder? When we afterward re-
monstrated with her on her rudeness
she said: ..She never saw it, poor
thing! A girl that could be fool
| enough to talk such trash to Us Cts
just possible she might get Il man Il
| believe her) is a deal too short-sighted
to see what | meant. She's compli-
mented. most likely, poor souli'-
London Truth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
DesOIafiOn.
in GORGEOUS state.

4 one I sit in gorgeous state,
And view my gathered treasures rare,
" nich seem to mock my cruel fate
Nv lonely lot, so bleak and bare.
Within is wealth and warmth and light,
Close curtained from the whistling wind,
That sweeps and swirls with reckless might
Whose breath brings death to human kind
But the cold wind of her deep scOrn
Has b,ighted all my joy Of life:
Within my soul no hope is born
No rest or peace, but savage strife.
And what care ! for pride or fame,
Since love from out of my life is driven?
All al is hut an empty name-
Ashes the prize of which I've striycn.
Dead ashes from a deep despair,
a heart burned out by passions fire
Con! she was 30 false, SO fair,
And blind was with fond desire.
] loved with love that ne'er grows old;
Ny worship followed where she led;
But weary oil a tale Oft-tOld,
She left mc!-and the world is dead.
Martha NJ. Ross in N. o. Times-DemOcrat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
MOyement of Fine Stock.

The National Stockman gives the fol-
loving information on this interesting
subject: Americans are liberal i'm port
ers of finely bred stock of all varieties
and nearly all standard breeds, and we
are especially free in our purchases from
the United Kingdom, obtaining more
stock from that source than from all
other sources put together. Yet we are
by no meal the heaviest customers of
the mother country in this direction.
Last year, for instance, wo took only
16 OF per cent. or 1873 head, of the horses
exported from the United Kingdom
while Holland took 20,48 per cent, Can
ada 21.7 per cent, and Belgium 24.02 per
cent. For these we paid $29708 per
head, which was higher ACREAGE than
paid by any one of the countries named
except Canada, whose average was $337.-
~. Of the cattle exported we bought
562 head, which was % per cent of the
total, and for which we paid 1854 so per
head. Canada imported 1858 per cent.
of the total, paying therefor $175 so per
head. The Argentine Republic tops the
list with 81 1 per cent, and an average
price of $3.50 81. Oar aggregate impOr-
tation last year were lighter, and the
prices paid probably lower, than fo some
years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
Too Few Spring Flowers Grown.

Isn't it curious that everybody should
say they have such a love for the early
pring flo Ters, and yet that so many who
have the means to grow them do not do
so? for l can not but believe that the
true loving and growing of flowers are
inseparabIe, and, therefore, either there
must be a trlfjng error about the love or
something in the way of a want OF
knowledge that so many flowers may be
had. And, after ell, there may be sort
of fower-lOve as distinguishabIe from
the love of flower culture, even when we
keep III mind that both loves may belong
to those who have garden facilities. 1t
certainly is a fact that many owners of
gardens enjoy cut flowers they might
never see if their production depended
on their personal efforts. The admira-
ton of flowers in ones own garden is a
mere heartfelt pleasure than the pleasure
derived from the flower in the button
hole. OF course there is a deal
sentiment about the button hole flower
love, and iG may not be fair or useful to
compare it with practical flower love, but
it may be curious observation to have
made for years that those who put most
flowers in their coats as rule put least
seeds and cuttings in the ground. l am
not saying that to use and never produce
flowers is wrong in any degree whatever
it Is, perhaps, as well in one sense that
it is so-but the doctrine sought to be
shown is that the greatest pleasures are
reaped from, and the evidences of the
truest flower love are shown by, their cul.
tivation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
FARM HOME AND GARDEN
N SUMNER TIME.
vIcks MAGAZINE FOR MARCH.

Let me lie down in the Glover.
Where the Daisy blossoms blow,
And the yellow bee Ike lever,
SIPS sweets from their cheeks of snow.
No prince IN his royal pa lace
Has softer couch than mine,
As | drin6 from Lily chaliee
That the morning filed with wine.
The brook is singing so softly
That l cannot catch it words,
But its voice is ike an ecno
OF the music of the BIRDS
a robin, high up in the Maple,
Sings with 2 ooboliuk.
a duet of merriest music,
As L listen, too i1le TO think
What is the use of thinking:
It Is better J@ dream and rest,
And forg all the thin gS that v+x US,
Though dreams are but dreams al pest.
In this sweet, still, balmy weather.
1t Is easy to quite forget
That life has sill rs toll and trouble.
And put By all vain regret
Happy is be who remembers
Naught of the busy strife
Nauz MT of the din and diScoTd
That jars on the boTds of life.
So. let me lie in the Glover,
And dream the long hours away,
Fora citing the work of tomorrow
In tie peace that is mine today.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
The Carrot.
Vick'S MAGAZINE

An ounce of seed will sow 120 feet of
drill, and of the several varieties in Guilt
Walton the following are the most desir-
able for amateur cultivation:
EARLY SCARLET HORN.
This is the earliest variety, having top
shaped roots which taper abruptly to a
small tap; they are of an orange-red
color, having an indistinct yellow core.
Half Long Scarlet Carentan is an ex-
cellent intermediate, maturing between
the Scarlet Horn and Long Orange. It is
of the medium size, and has no distinct
core.
Long Orange is we'll and favorably
known as q standard sort. The long
roots, which are thickest near the crown,
taper gradually to a point 1t is OF a
deep orange color, and when well grown
a grand variety for exhibition purposes.
To do this variety justice the plants
should at least stand inches apart.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
Bows and Farming

"Why do the boys leave the farm?'
walls writer in an agricultural journal.
Well, dear brother, there are several
reasons. One is because the boy is lot
sixty five years old at his birth. Then, if
there Is hoe on the farm weig hing
fourteen ounces, bright as nickle plate,
and sharp as a razor, and another hoe
weighing somewhat less than a breaking
pillow, with an edge on like a hammer,
and a sapling with the bark on it for a
handle, the hired man takes one and the
boy gets the other, aud every man in
America knows which is the other. Did
you ever stand with such a hoe in your
hands away down in corn row on some
airless, still, hot summer cay, twenty
acres of corn blades and tassels whiting
about you, standing fourteen inches high
er than your head, shutting out every
last trace of broathable air, and then hear
locust down in the edge of the timber
strike up his long, striden, monotonOus
cali to make it ten times hotter. And ell
this time a cool creek, not mile away,
lettering in deep, silent pools IN shady
places in the woods, or breathing into
merry dancing ripples over the pebbles.
And the big deep holes, the fish just
lying around waiting for boyf Well,
then, YOU know why some boys leave the
farm Still, boys can be kept on the
farm and made to stay there all their
lives. You drive a long spike through a
boys abdomen and through a 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 ale some other ways
we know, but this is the only 1nfauible
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
THE GOSPEL OF SUICIDE
Bloody Work Of Russian Fanatics Who We're
Taught self-DestructiOn.

Taught selfDestructiOn
A few years ago, NJ. Tsakni is quoted
by the New York Sun as saying, the monk
Falare enjoyed greet popularity on the
banks of the VOlga, and taught that the
sole mode of salvation for man was vol
untary death. sit is mpossibie," he
said, "to continue to live in this world
immersed Ia sin and falshood. We must
seek safety in death; we must die fo1
Christ" Large numbers of disci pies
attached themselves TO this prophet OF
death, and one night eighty-four persons
met in cavern prepared beforehand near
river. Straw and fagots were at hand
that they might hasten death if the police
should interfere. They began to fast
and pray, but one woman became skepti-
cal as to the efficacy of death as means
of salvation, and in the darkness slipped
away 80 neighboring village, where she
gave the alarm to the authorities. The
inhabitants turned out en- massc AID
went towards the river. Their coming
was seen by a sentinel of the fanatics
who shouted:
''Anti-Christ is coming. Fly! Let Us
not give ourselves up living into the
hands of our enemies"
The mad band set fire to the straw, and
the peasant villagers endeavored to ex-
tiuguish the flames. A terrible struggle
followed. The police and villagers tried
to snatch the victims from the fire, but
they defended themselves, wrestling with
their would-Le saviors, throwing them
aside and killing themselves With hatch
cts, shouting all the time, SWELL die for
Christi" Many of them were saved in
spite of themselves, however.
After these had been tried and con
victed, one of the condenI ned, Toushkofi
escaped from prison, and himself began
to propagate the religion of suicide.
More than sixty persons in that same
locality decided to give themselves up to
voluntary death. Whole families, faith
ers, mothers and children were included
in the number.
On day fixed beforehand they met for
mutual massacre in the house of one OF
their number. Peasant P. entered the
house of his neighbor, and after killing
him, with his wife and children, went TO
the barn where the other fanatics were
waiting for him With their wives, and
these calmly put their heads on block,
while P played the part of executionsr.
Then the accomp Ice put his head on
the block and begged P. TO cut it off. 2.
himself being subsequently killed by
another of the band, so that in all thirty
five persons met their death in this way
Before a peasant woman, CHANGING to pass
in the neighborhood, was terrified by the
spectacle and ran to give the alarm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

There has been mucn talk among the
Radicals in England about abolishing the
House of Lords. There are many who
admit the inefficiency and entire useless.
ness of that body as legislative power,
but who still are in favor of the institu-
ton because of its antiquity. This "sn
tiquity" has a great hold upon the aver
age English mind. The irreverent Pail
Mall Gazette has undertaken to show how
the present House of Lords deserves the
right of protection on this ground.
There is at present but one peer who
can claim the distinction of most an
cient nobility. This is the Duke of Nor
folk, who is indebted for his presence in
the House of Lords to Henry H., who first
ennobled the family by the title of Earl
of Arundel, the higher title only follow
ing $50 years afterwards. OF the present
membership of the House of Lords (540)
127 peerages we're created by Queen Vic
toria, Ia by William w., and Is By George
". Their predecessors, with the excep-
ton of Charles IL, who created Is new
peers, generally averaged about five apiece
during their rejgns. From this it may be
seen that the present House of Lords is
essentially modern in formation. Lord
Beaconsfeld, who was an authority on
such matters, once said: "I never heard
of peer with an ancient lineage! 4
The thirty years of the Wars of the
Roses freed US from those gentlemen. I
take it, after the battle Tewkesbury
Norman baron was almost as rare being
in England as q Welt is now. When
Henry VII. summoned his first Parliament
there were only twenty nine temporal
peers TO be found" The rest were re-
created afterwards. One-heIf the hered-
itary peerages were created within the
last sixty years, and not one-fourth were
in existence $50 years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
To n Veteran.

o Patriot! would that your last had come.
When, with your war-staincd flag, to roll Of
drum
You marched, mid mems applause,
From fighting the great cause
OF land and liberty.
Now you are stranded like some gallant bark,
Flung helpless on the shoals amid the dark
OF dull and etarleSS skies.
Bravely and well you faced the tempest s
strife.
But to lie sunk meath sands Of common life.
Your pride scorns pity, yet how hard the fate
10 i've through all-ony to die too lateI
"A. S. L. Gray in the Century.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
Too Smart.
Detroit Free Press.

"Mrs. Cesar, have not see your Sam
at school for some time. Is he sick?'
80, no, missus, but he was gittin' too
'tarnal smart, an so I took him cut.
Reckon larnin' haiu't good fer dat picka-
ninny no how"
'-You must not entertain such ideas,
Mrs. Caesar, with a fair education he
might become President of the United
States.
''Sho, now, 1 don't keer wedher dat
chile is President or not. When / axes
him if he drank up dat quart of milk,
don't want him to say 'noy,' when seed
him dc is w;d my own eyes, an then have
dat brat eggsplain he drunk it down an
not up. Next thing he'll be tellin' round
dat my ole man stole an armful of wood
when he only borrowed it. No, missus,
dat chile can't go to school no more"