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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
A Japanese Colsiery.

Among private enterprises the most
remarkable i'll Japan is unquestionably
the Takashima colliery which takes its
name from the rocky island on which
it stands. In its early DAYS, and these
are but twenty years ago, it was petty
affair, producing a few hundred tons
annually for the use of japanese salt
manufacturers and occasional steam
ers. Now its yearly output is, says
the Japan Weekly Mail, about 100000
tons-the sales last March amounted
to 50,000-and its vicinity to Nagasaki
has the effect of bringing to that port
large number of vessels, some to OBJ
tain supplies of fuel for themselves,
others to carry the mineral thence to
Shanghai, Hong-Kong, and Singapore.
1t seems that a certain Mr.. Fuka Kei-
kichi, who is treated as the agent of
people recently dismissed from the
colliery, has been ''ravin@ of the mine
as though it were an inferno of min
ers and suffering" and ''lamenting
over the work-pcople as though among
Gods creatures none were SO wretched
and foTlorn," and as a consequence the
JapG11 Mail proceeded to give quiet and
comforting, though deeply interesting,
account of the great japanese colliery.
But first the writer affords a glimpse
of an extraordinary feature of the col
liery work at the port of Nagasaki, a
few miles distant from the mine. Not
less than five thousand women are
kept upon the staff of the enterprise
for the purpose of filing the bunkers
of vessels there arriving. The method
pursued is peculiar to Nagasaki-
Lighters carrying the coal come along
side the ship to be supplied, and with
each of them is a regiment of women
and girls. These form themselves into
the loop of a chain connecting the hold
of the lighter with the deck of the
steamer. In a moment the hands and
arms of this chain begin to move with
surprising rapidity and the precision
of long practice; and little bags full of
coal pass up one side of the loop and
the same bags descend the other side
empty. There is not a seconds delay.
The business goes on with lightning
like nimbleness, amid the laughter and
chatter of the cheerful workers. The
results achieved are most remarkable.
Under favorable circumstances as to
receiving capacity, a vessel can have
four hundred tons of coal put in her
bunkers in an hour, and the neatnesS
of the process is scarcely inferior to its
celebrity. Such an organization would
scarcely be possible outside of Japan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
alter in the slightest degree the course
of his opponent

alter in the slightest degree the course
Of his opponent.
Let no person fatter himself that
because man is loud of voice and
blunt in speech, ever ready with cruel
judgment of others and free with ad-
vice on all matters. that he will pleas
antly accept such treatment from 9TH
ers, for he is quite as likely to resent
interference with his affairs as the
man of gentler speech and greater
charity.
1t is so easy to form the habit of
meddlesomeness to persuade ones
self into the belief that ones mission
is to be s'private investigator and
public advisor" that one is apt to for
get that in the regulation of ones own
conduct life presents enough perplex-
ing problems without trespassing upon
the rights of others in mistaken zeal
to convert them to a better way
PittSburg Dispatch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
German BarmaidS.

1t is only during the last twenty
years that barmaids have become COM
mon in Germany, but now there is
hardly restaurant in Berlin and its
suburbs where there are no female at
tendants. Their number is given as at
the least 10000. nearly all of whom
are offered only board and lodging. al
though they are compelled to wear
pretty and fashionable clothes and
work from early in the morning till
late into the night. In the great ma
jority of cases, SAYS writer, the bar
maids not only receive no pay at all,
but every glass of beer, every slice of
meat they may take during the day
they have TO pay for at the same rate
at which it is served to any visitor.
Their only receipts are the gratuities
given to them by the visitors, and it is
therefore their chief endeayor to at
tract and detain as many of the latter
as possible. OF course such life is
demoralizing, and most of the women
fall into evil habits
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
CARTER HARRISON IN CONSTANTINOPLE
The Jewel of the World.

I have spoken Of Constinople as the
imperial heart of a mighty continent,
but now would, if I had the power, paint
1t N its beauty-the jewel Of the world.
Nature was in high revelry when she con-
ceived the site, and the genius of beauty,
drunken with ravishing dreams, was hand
maiden at its birth. All of natures
treasures were ransacked for material to
build it, and not a color was lacking on
the pallet from which it was painted as it
grew. Mountains were dwarfed into hills
for its foundations-hills retaining all
the bold outlines and picturesque contour
of mountains. Seas were spun into
rivers and woven into the structure-sea-
rivers of vastly depth and so darby
green that they look like liquid emeralds
thrown in deep shadow; while the hills
are so bright that they seem carpeted
with emerald velvet bathed in a flood of
sunlight. Not exhausted by her work
when the site of the city was com pleted,
nature scattered he rsurplus treasures and
built beautiful islands in the deep sea
close by. She would leave nothing I'M
done TO make this city imperial in beauty,
so she spread over it sill sky gloriously
bright, yet tender and soft.
The Bosphorous is about fifteen miles
long, winding, twisting, and bending aid
swelling into rounded bays between the
Black Sea and the Marmora. 1t varies
from half g mile to perhaps mile and a
half in width and has depth in some
parts of sixty fathoms and everywhere
deep enough for tn" largest ships. 1t
has no tide, but sweeps with majestic
force from the Black Sea, in some points
with a current of nine miles an hour.
Throughout its length noble hills and
mountains lift Cup from the waters edge
| and spurs divided by narrow valleys run
down In bold ridges with here and there
deem creeks run back into the hills. The
largest of these is the Golden Horn, near
the Marmora, over quarter of a mile
wide at its mouth. The point lying be-
| tween the Golden Horn and the sea con-
talks the 'Oid Seraglo" now waste OF
unused palaces and gardens. This is
called Seraglo point and rises rather
| rapidly from the water, and though ne
elected is picturesque. The gardens and
old palaces cover a hundred or two acres,
and are surrounded by high well, which
on the water side is massive and dingy
with age. Within these walls have been
committed more silent deeds of intrigu~
and crime than in ahy other spot of its
size on earth. Many a disgraced favor
tie and many a sus pected wife and con
cubine has been quietly slipped into the
river, whose vast depths never told tale.
Here crime has held high court under
Roman and Christian emperors and
| Moselem sultans and knew no relenting
until fire droye thu rulers to other quar-
! tiers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
THE FARM AND HOME
SOMETIME, SOAWHERE.
ROBERT BROWNING.

Unanswered yet: the prayer your lips have
pleaded
In agony of heart these many years?
Does faith begin to fall? Is hope departings
And think you all in vain those fal ing tears?
Say not the Father hath not heard your PRAYER:
You shall have your desire sometime, somewhere
Unanswered yet? though when you first pre-
scented
This one petition at the Fathers throne,
It seems you could not wait the time of asking
SO urgent was your heart to make it known;
Though years have passed since then, do not des-
pair,
The Lord viii answer you sometime, somewhere.
Unanswered yet? nay, do not say ungranted-
Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done;
The work began when your first prayer was ut
tered,
And God Will finish what he has begun,
If you keep the incense burning there,
His glory you shall see sometime, somewhere.
Unanswered yet? faith cannot be unanswered;
Her feet are firmly planted on the rock;
Amid the widest storms she stands undaunted,
Nor quails before the widest thunder shock,
She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer
And cries 1T shall be DONE" sometime, some
where.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
Corn-Northern Seed and Cultivation.

A correspondent of the Kansas Farmer
tells what he knows about Northern grown
seed. He says: have very little ex-
perience in farming in Kansas, but have
had quite large experience in Illinois.
1 have farmed in Franklin County for
the past two years. adopting the plans of
farming I had taken up in early life.
My observation is good blowing, plenty
of rolling, narrowing and cultivating.
This year bought my seed corn in Shell
by County, Ia. I planted as pear as /
could three grains in hill. Harro we'd
my ground before planting. Immedi-
ately after planting rolled, then harrow
ed, cultivated twice and rolled again
through the dry weather, then laid away
the cultivator and used gopher, the
same tool / used in Illinois before I en-
listed. Ons would think I was behind
the times using old tools like this, but I
use the gopher in preference to anything
else to lay by corn. My Iowa seed corn
I claim Is only part of the reason why
ny crop is good. My corn stalks with
Northern seed are from ] Is feet to 2115
feet shorter than Kansas corn, and the
ears from one to three more on each hill
and just as large, if not larger. I have
about fifty acres, and have been over the
State several times since this season, and
l have failed to see any better corn than
l have. Whether it be Iowa seed or good
farming, claim the latter the greatest
season to be given for good corn crop.
I would further say before the late July
rains my corn was out of the milk and
would have then made good crop. This
is where the benefit of Iowa seed comes
in as we'll as being we'll cultivated.
will give you below the number OF
workings my corn got after planting
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
Removal of Superstition by Science.

Science has delivered religion from its
heaviest incubus, superstition, by putting
events in connection with their natural
causes. flaming sky was shown to be
not an angry portent but display of
electricity. Thus in many ways science
relieved the world of an incubus of fear
and misery that well-nigh outweighed the
Joy of existence. The Church for cen
turtles utilized for its own purposes the
dread phenomena of nature, turning their
terrors into instruments of torture
through the ignorance and credulity of
the people. It may have been sincere
enough, but il was the sincerity of q
common and universal ignorance.
Science has nearly put an end to all of
that, and thus has rendered a service to
religion as we'll as to humanity; for it is
fatal to the Church co cling to supersti-
tions which the intelligence of the world
has discarded. The ecclesiastical body
which recently voted down evolution hurt
neither science ncr the Bible, but it in
ficted an enormous injury upon itself,
an injury from which only science can
deliver IT, as it surely will in due time
Rev. DR.. Munger in the Forum for Sep
teuber,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27

About a year ago asyndicate of New
Workers set out 1 200 acres of land in
Florida as an experiment in growing
tobacco. Two kinds of Havana, SUI
matra, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and
Connecticut and the old Florida broad
leaf tobaccos were planted, all of which
have grown luxuriantly. and it is ex-
pected will average from 600 to 1,5OO
pounds per acres. There are now only
about 5000 acres in Florida under cul-
tivation for tobacco, but if success shall
crown the present experiment great
increase in acreage may be expected In
few years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
THE HORSE.
Study Your Horses.


It is doubtless if One-haIf the horses of
this country live out their full number of
days of usefulness. There are so many
sources of danger to their health, and SO
many ways in which they become Grip
pied or injured, that this state of affairs
is not to be wondered at. Really sound
horses of more than the average life of
horses are scarce indeed. When acct
dents and ill-health are escaped, it is not
an unusual thing for horse to be badly
injured by hard usage. Kind hearted
men are guilty of crime of overworking
horses sometimes. Not being able to
tell when they are not feeling able for
the tasks imposed upon them, it is
reasonable to suppose that horses become
out of condition physically, and when this
occurs even ordinary labor may be very
injurious. 1t is an important matter to
be able TO know when horses are indispos-
ed, and relieve them from work when
they are SO; not only because it is kind
and merciful to do SO, but because by do
ing so you will be able TO preserve the
health and life of your horses. Badly
ventilated and filthy stables are response
BILE for the short lives of many horses.
The health of horse depends upon pure
air just as well as the health of man.
How long do you suppose one OF your
family would live if compelled to breathe
the foul air found in the average stable
Pure water is also essential to the per-
feet health OF horses, yet you would
probably not feel the better for having
to drink water which is in the same CON
dition of that which your horses are
obliged to drink. The cleanliness and
purity of the food and water of the horse
may not be essential as it is for yourself
or family, Dat the nearer you approach
to it the better it will be.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27

First harrow, then one half roll and har-
row again, cultivate twice and roll again,
and twice through with gopher. Ny way
of farming is to begin in corn as soon
90 row is seen, and continue till corn is too
large TO work. My cornfeld is living
witness to any who desires TO question
the above statement, and any of your
readers who desire 30 try Northern seed,
also adopt cultivating as I have stated,
will, in the majority Of years, have corn
enough ano TO spare. This is my opinion
after little experience.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
HEAVEN AND EARTH
BY f. W. FARER.

There are no shadows where there is no sun;
There is no beauty where there is no shade;
And all things in two ines Of glory run.
Darkness and light, ebon and gold inlaid.
God comes among us through the shrouds of air;
And His dim track is like the silvery wake
Left by yon pinnance on the mountain lake.
Fading and reappearing here and there.
The lamps and wells through heav'n and earth
that move,
Go in and out, as Jealous of their light,
Like sailing stars upon q misty night.
Death is the Shade of coming life; and Love
Yearns for her dear ones in the holy tomb.
Because bright things are better seen in gloom.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
Does Breed Control the Richness of
Milk.


It is undoubtedly true that the quail
ity of the milk is dependent upon the
breed of the cow, but it is not exclu-
sively dependent upon it, writes Pro-
fessOr Armsby to the Rural Ne1D Yorker.
Two other potent factors in determin-
ing the quality of the milk arc the in
dividuality of the COW and the food
yiduality of the cow is much the more
important and frequently exerts a
greater influence than either the breed
or the feed. Single COWS of any breed
may produce milk either much better
or much poorer than the average OF
the breed, and a single COW of some
one breed may give milk of better
quality than the average of some other
breed which, as whole. gives better
milk than the breed to which the single
COW belongs. The breed and indi-
viduality of the cow, taken together.
determine her capacity as a milk-pro-
ducing machine, both as to quantity
and quality of the milk. The feed
simply furnishes the material to be
worked up by the machine. Conse-
quently while it is true that poor COW
will give poor milk, even upon the best
of feed, it is not true that a good cow
will give good milk, no matter what
she IS fed upon. A good cow means
simply one that has the capacity for
producing large amounts of milk and
butter from her feed It does not
mean COW that can make something
out of nothing. Plainly, then. while
the feeding of food rich in butter-mak-
ing materials to poor cows is a very
Improbable business, it is equally
profitable to keep good dairy cows and
not supply them with abundance of
material from which to produce milk.
Summarizing, [ should say:
1. The quality of milk which cow
can produce depends upon her breed
and individuality, and in this sense,
the quality of the milk ismore depend
ent upon breed than upon feed. On
the other hand, the quality of milk
which any given COW aOiU produce, is
very largely dependent upon her feed.
2. By feeding rich foods, the pro-
portion of butter-fat in milk can be in
creased. The bulk of cream obtained
is dependent upon so many other cir
cumstances than feeding that it affords
no safe guide as to the real effects of
the latter.
3. The standard rations given for
the feeding of dairy cows, presupposes
that the animals are good of their kind.
On the other hand, the standards are
not sufficiently exact to admit of modi-
fcation for each breed of cows. The
feeding standards are intended simply
as guides to rational feeding to be
modified in each particular case, as
experience may show to be necessary.
4. In only two experiments has the
ratio of butter fat to caseine been OBJ
served to change as result of feeding.
Whether that ratio could be changed
by systematic feeding continued
through two or three seasons; | have,
at present, no means of deciding, as
the experiment has never been made,
so far as [ know.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
PRACTICAL RECIPES.
PALESTINE SOAP.

Boil three pounds of Jerusalem arti-
chokes in one pint of milk a little stock
of water till tender. Pass it all through
selve, add salt ard cayenne and serve.
EGG ROLLS.
Two cups of sweet milk, two eggs, one
fourth teaspoonful of salt, 3 IL cups of
sifted flour, one tablespoonful Of bak-
ing powder; bake in gem pans.
oEREALINE PUDDING.
Take four ounces of cerealine fakes
mix it up with two ounces wheat -four,
one pint of milk, one tablespoonful of
butter, three egg, four ounces of sugar,
e-half teaspoopful vanilla. Boil this
for five or ten minutes; then put in cup
moulds and bake for fifteen minutes.
BLACK CAKE.
One and one-half cups brown sugar
one cup Of butter, one-half cup molasses
one cup sweet milk, three eggs, two tea
spoonfuls Horsford's Phosphate Baking
Powder thoroughly mixed with four cups
-four, two pounds seeded raisins, one OF
currante, one quarter pound citron finely
sliced. Bake in a moderate oven.
PICKLED CUCUMBERs.
Make choice of those which are small
and not too old; put them into Jars and
pour over them a brine made OF two
thirds of water and one of vinegar, with
salt in the proportion of a pound to three
pints Of liquor. Put the brine on the
fire till the salt is melted; let it stand to
settle and before using pour it off clear.
Whe n it is wished to use the cucumbers
take off the rinds and dress them like
fresh cucumbers.
FRIED GRAHAM MUFFINs.
Mix a cup Of graham flour with cup
of white flour in which teaspoonful Of
salt, a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and
half teas poonful of soda (or two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder) have beeR
mixed; stir all thoroug bly,, then add cup
of milk and one egg; beat we'll, then dip
teaspoon in cold milk and take up a
in hot fat and fry like doughnuts. This
will be very light and tender.
RHUBARB FRITIERs.
Pare and cut into small pieces half a
dozen stalks of rhubarb. Then make a
batter by beating to q smooth paste a
pint of hoar with half pint OF water,
adding pinch of salt, pint of milk and
two well beaten eggs. Stir the rhubarb
into this batter. Have your frying ma
terial boiling hot in the fry ing pap, and
drop the batter in by spoonfuls, patting
them down little with the spoon and
keeping them separate. Fry the
same as you would other fritters, and
when done to bright yellowish brown
on both sides, drain and serve with but
ter and sugar oven each, together with a
little grated nutmeg.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
THE NEW FIRST READER.
Simple Little Tales Which May Not Amuse the
Children but Will the Older Folk.
Detroit Free Press

Simple Little Tales Which May Not Amuse the
Children but Will the Older Folk.
Detroit Free Press.
LESSON I.-"Do you see the MANI"
eyes, [ see him."
"Take good look at him, for he is q
great man."
"He doesn't look to be great. Indeed,
be looks like bully"
snake no mistake my son. rs is a
ward politician, and the destiny Of the
country is in his hands. He is now on
his way to the telegraph Office to inform
the chairman OF the national committee
that, in his opinion, the whole west will
be lost unless more soap is forwarded at
once. Take off your hat as he passes by,
for you may not live to see another great
chieftain."
LESSON II-"Here is q great crowd in
the street. Let us stop and see what
dreadful accident has happened. Every
body seems eager so push into that
grocery, and the grocer is entreating
them to have patience and not break
down the floor"
at is not an accident. It is boy
cott.'
"But thought when grocer was boy
cotted everybody kept away and ruined
his business"
ooh, no; they don't. When business
manis boycotted, everybody with spark
OF principle rushes to trade with him and
increase his receipts. Poor grocer! See
how he sweats, and how weary he is! He
is taking in $40 where he used to take 81,
and he has had to take on three more
clerks"
LESSON III.-"Do you see the lady?"
81 do. How sweet and demure she
looks"
"What is she waiting fort"
"The street car"
"Ahl yes, there it comes. See how
graceful she waves her parasol at the
driver"
81 see, but the car does not stop. Is
the driver blind?"
"He is not, but she is on the wrong
orossing-ju like 81 out of every 100 of
them. Now the car has stopped"
"And she will get on?"
ooh, no. She has already told the con
ductor to cheese it and has decided to
saunter up the avenue on her French
heels"
"And is the conductor grieved?"
very slghtiy grleVeo, my son. he
used to be graived, clear through when
such an incident occurred, but he has
hardened up good deal, and he will now
blow two short whistles, and smile a short
sad SMILE"
LESSON IV.-"Does the man smiie?"
eyes, he smiles, and he seems hugely
satisfied over something"
81 know what it is. He has Just put in
eight tons of coal for the winter"
'And that is why he smiles?"
at is. Last winter he burned II tons.
He has been figuring this summer, and
has made himself belieue that if he looks
after the furnace he can get along nth
eight. He smiles because he is getting
out of it so cheap"
''An6 will he smile about the LIST of
next May?"
''No my son. By that time it will take
all the jokes Artemus Ward ever wrote to
bring one feeting smile across that down
cast physiognomy."
because the eight ton"
"Have increased to 81, with two back
counties still to be heard from. We will
now stand on the corner and see butcher
cart run over and kill somebody"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27

General W. L. Sherman's kindly face is
missed from the corridor and dining room
Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where he has
been living for nearly two years. The
General and his family moved into their
new house at No. IS West Seventy first
street, last Saturday.