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Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-05-04
Ten Years Younger.

Mrs. Mary Montgomery, of Boston.
writes: "For years, l was compelled
to wear u dress cap to conceal bald
spot on the crown of my head but now
/ gladly lay the cap aside, for your Hair
Vigor is bringing out new growth. 1
could hardly trust my senses when 1
first found my hair growing but there
it is. and l am delighted. took ten
gears younger"
A similar result attended the use of
Ayers Hair Vigor by Mrs. o. o. Pres
colt, of Charlestown, Mass, Miss Bessie
II. Bedloe, of Burlington, VT, Mrs. j. j.
Burton, of Bangor, Me-, and numerous
others.
The loss of hair may be owing to i'm
purity of the blood or arrangement of
the stomach and liver, in which case,
course of Ayers Sarsaparilla or of
Ayers Pills, in connection with the
Vigor, may be necessary to give health
and tone to all the functions of the
body. At the same time, it cannot be
too strongly urged that none of these
remedies can do much good without
a persevering trial and strict attention
to cleanly and temperate habits.
Ayers Hair vigor,
Prepared by DR.. j. G. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by Druggists and Perfumers.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-05-04

The Champion Corn Drill has no equal
Sor planting corn in rows-will more than
qay for itself in len acres-sold by The +. L.
Moore Agricultural Company.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-05-04

Cooley Creamers pay for themselves in
one season. Send for circulars to tbs F. L.
Moore Agricultural Company.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-05-04
The sales of Oliver Chilled Pioys

IHe SAFES oI OlltcT CHttcp ptvTs
during the past month by the .. l.. Moore
Agricultural Company has far exceeded their
expectations; farmers know what plows TO
buy and always take the Oliver Chilled.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-05-04

Of all good fiours Royal York is the best
s. D. Higgins & Son, Agent.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-05-04
HEISKELL'S
Potato Fertilizer.

This Guano is rich in Ammonia, Bone
Phosphate of Lime and Potash. Cou=
bines what the nature Of tho POTATO
needs. Produces rapid and effective re-
sults--early maturity, perfection Of size
and the largest yields
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-05-04

Grange Meeting The Liberty Grove
Grange, No. 81, received Montgomery Coun-
ty Grange, No. 7, on the 28th of April with
her well known hospitality, although the
meeting was so large that there was scarcely
room for another person to stand in the hall.
We had the pleasure of having State Mas
ter Murray with us, as well as Past State
Master Moore. who belongs here. Six Mas
ters reported their sub oranges as in healthy,
growing condition. The State Master has
organized new Grange in Prince Georges
county with over fifty members, and others
are about to start in Frederick and Ale
gany, so that there is very hopeful out
Loo. for the future of the Order. The time
of the meeting YES chiefly occupied with
the report Of the advisory cqmElittee of the
Washington Branch Agency, WHICH did
more business in March than any other
month since il was started, little over
year ago
Brighton, April 30, 1888. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
Seine Of the advantages of Fall Rye.
Phila6elphia Record.

Rye is a crop that can be made to rem
der more service 70 the farmer and dairy
man than any other, yet it is more fire.
quently overlooked and discarded than it
should be. It is a plant that not only
endures the cold of winter and the heat
of summer, but it will grow on the rich
est soil or the poorest sandy land. In
some sections it is really tie clover of
sandy soils, for without its aid the advan-
tages of green menuring would be I'M
available, and as it can be made to i'm part
more to the soil than it takes from it
there is no risk in gro wing it under any
conditions. Even the seed is cheap,
while the cultivation necessary is very
little compared with other crops. AS G.
profitable grain crop is is behind oats,
wheat, barley and corn, but the straw is
more valuable than that of any other
| crop, for which it is sometimes grown
| alone.
Leaving out the value of rye as a grain
crop entirely it still ranks high in more
ways than one. The fact that it can be
sown in the fall, and made to produce q
late supply of green food after other
grasses have ceased growing, should
prompt farmers to devote space to rye
every season, but its usefulness extends
| further. The severe cold of the hardest
winters will not in are it, and early in the
spring, long before grass begins to grow,
| rye appears in its green condition to af
/ ford supply of succulent heritage to the
stock at a time when it is most needed.
It allows the stock the privilege of eating
off the early growth, and whsn the grass
appears, and the ryeis no longer required,
it VIII grow out again and make a crop of
grain. 1t can then, in early spring, If
preferred by the fsrmer, be plowed IN
| der instead of being allowed to seed, and
il Will provide,,an excellent manure for the
| corn crop.
In one respect rye is cheap crop be-
cause it requires no land for its growth,
| to certain extent. That is, if the seed
is sovn in the fall on land intended tor
corn in the spring, and the rye turned il
before planting corn, the rye simply
holds the land that would otherwise be
unoccupied during the winter. 1t is also
excellent on land intended for potatoes,
and, as it assists in keeping down weeds,
it saves much labor in that respect.
AS rye can be pastured at nearly all
stages of growth, and can be turned under
as a green manurial agent at any time,
| the farmer who fails to SOW it will de-
prive himself and his stock OF a most val
liable plant, and as 1t can be seeded down
| at any time ct this season, the land for
! that purpose should be prepared without
delay. Of course it thrives best on rich
land, but even the poorest soil should be
| sowed to rye rather than have it unoccu-
pied.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
PIowed by Fire.

A most singular scene was witnessed
on Long lake during a storm recently
says the Hartford Conn., Times. The
lake is three miles long, and is divided
into three bays. About S:15 o'clock
vivid flash of lightning Illuminated
the scenery. followed by terrific peal
of thunder. The wind by this time was
blowing with cyclonic force. Sudden
" there came roar, and far down the
lake hugo flame of fire could be seen.
The water for yards ahead was parted
as though by gigantic pillow, and the
pillows seemed to rise at the side of
this furrow for fully twenty feet.
The ball of fire seemed to force the
water aside, and so deep did it go that
the bottom of the lake could almost be
seen as it passed through the narrows.
The parted waters, with their singular
propeller, advanced toward the head
of the lake with great rapidity. When
within one hundred yards of the shore
there came another flash of lightning,
and the fire disappeared as suddenly
as it had come.
The residents along the lake who
witnessed the strange phenomenon
were greatly alarmed. They insist
that the ball of fire was fully ten feet
long, and half of the mass appeared to
be buried in the waters of the lake. Il
was many hours before the waters OF
the lake became calm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
A Cockroach MaiI-Carrier.

A common cockroach was trained tG
act as a letter-carrier between William
Rodifer and starlight Jack" RYAN,
convicts in the Southern India Peni-
Tertiary. 1t is probably the first in
stance on record. too. where there was
any use found for this little creature.
4 writer in It'd Bits tells the story as
follows:
Rodifer occupied a cell in the tier
just above the one where Jack was
confined, and for long time they had
no means of communication with one
another. Rodifer was daring fellow,
but he had not sufficient imagination
to get up a plan Of escape. and he re-
lied on the bright mind of his friend,
Starlight Jack" to suggest an idea.
One evening Rodifer noticed an in
nocent looking cockroach running
about on the floor. After watching its
gambolings for time, he concluded
he would use it. So, writing short
note to his friend, he tied it to the
cockroach's wing, and, kneeling down
on the floor, he put it out on the wall
under the iron balcony in front of his
cell. He calculated that it would run
into the cell underneath; and it did.
Jack noted the paper, caught the in
sect, and read the note. Then he
answered it, and poked the little Great
ure out on the wall from the ceiling
over the door, where he released it.
The roach went into Rodifer's cell and
was caught. Then they fed and cared
for it, and used it in this manner for
some months. In fact, it grew to I'M
derstand its business.
Itmusthave been female cockroach,
however, for one day it stopped to chat
with friend and was noticed by a
warden. The note, which was written
in some sort of cipher, was taken off,
and the hospital steward, DR.. Sid c..
Mcclure, read it. Then the beetle was
put on the balcony floor and it ran in
to Rodifer's cell. Thus the officials
were kept posted as to the two famous
jail-breakers.
After time Jack began to suspect
that something was wrong and he
added a postscript to his letter some
thing like this:
''If everything is right you will find
a hair from my head in this note"
The warden read it as he did the
others, but dropped the hair and lostit
Never mind it," said Captain Craig,
whose hair was red; ''put one of mine
in it."
The answer came back: THAT las.
whipping must have been an awful one,
Jack, for it has changed the color of
your hair"
The scheming of these two worthless
came to naught, however, and they
served their terms.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
Hermes and Charon.

Hermes-Let US 90 through OUR ac-
counts, if you please, Mr.. Ferryman,
and see at once what you owe me, in
order to prevent disputes hereafter.
CharOn-Let us go through them, by
all means, Hermes; it will be better to
ascertain them at once and save future
trouble
Hermes-Very well, then. To one
anchor, procured by me to your order,
five drachmae.
Charon-A stiff price!
Hermes-It's what I had to give,
though, by Pluto; five drachm@, no
less. Then the oarthong, two obols.
Charon = Right. Put down five
drachme and two obols.
Hermes-And a darning-needle for
the sail. That [ had to give 5 obols
for.
Charon-Down with 5 obols.
Hermes-And wax for stopping leaks,
and nails, and the rope you made a
brace OFF dracnme the lot.
Charon-GOod; you got those st a
bargain.
Hermes-Well, that is all, unless
something has escaped my memory.
And now, when are you going to pay
up?
Charon-At present, Hermes, I re-
greet to say | am not in q position to do
so. Times are too bad. If a good
plague now or a war were to send me
down q crowd of passengers [ might
turn an honest penny on the whole
number of them by cooking the &C
counts of the fares.
Hermes-Then [ suppose I must sit
down and hope for the worst-that [
may get my debts paid out of these
calamities.
Charon-I am afraid there is no help
for it. You see yourself what business
is like-how few arrivals there are.
These are the piping times of peace.
Hermes-Well, it's better so, even if
it does somewhat delay the payment of
my debt. But think of the old times,
Charon. You remember in what sort
of plight the men of those days came
down to us-sturdy fellows all, bathed
in blood most of them, or riddled with
wounds. But nowadays it is someone
who has been dosed out of the world
by wife or son, or who has swollen
himself to death, by way of stomach
and lips, with gluttony-pallid miser-
able wretches, not to compare with
their forefathers. Most of them, to
Judge by their appearance, find their
way here through plotting to get each
others money.
Charon-Yes, it's an article in con-
siderable request.
Hermes-To be sure; but how then
could you blame me if I were sternly
to demand payment of my debit
L,scian, Dialogues, translated by Howard
Williams
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
Too Much Modesty.

John" she said, as she toyed with
one of his coat-buttons, this is leap
wear, isn't it?" Yes, Mamie" he
answered. as he looked fondly down on
her golden head that was pillowed on
his manly bosom.
This is the year when the propos-
ing is done by the young ladies?"
YES"
81 hope you don't expect me to pro-
pose to you?"
"Why, Mamie, dear, I never gave
the matter thought-I-er-to-to
tell the truth. I've only known you
for-that is to say"
I'm glad you didn't expect me to
propose. I'm not that kind. hope.
No, John; dearest, l couldn't be SO i'm
modest. L am going to let you do the
proposing yourself in the old-fashioned
way. The old-fashioned way is good
enough for me-"
And the gentle maiden gave her
lover beaming smile, and yet the
youth rejoiced that he had found such
treasure of modesty.-Pittsburg Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
TRIUMPH FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
Mormonism Badly Crippled by Court Decis-
ion-The Case Appealed.

Morm0nism Badly Crippled by Court Decis-
ion-The Case Appcale
SALT LAKE, Oct. 8.-The supreme court
of Utah today entered fiual Judgment
and decree in the United States against
the Mormon chuIch, which was pending
to dissolve the church corporation and
have it's property declared escheeted
to the government. The suit was
brought about in the supreme court of
this territory under the act of congress OF
Feb. 10, 1887. In that suit receiver WAS
appointed for the church corpora tion; he
has succeeded in collecting over million
dollars worth of property, real and per-
sonal.
The decree entered to-day is a com
plete triumph for the government. 1t
declares the corporation of the church
dissolved, asserting that the voluntary
religious sect now in existence has no
right to the corporate property except
the temple block and buildings,
which are set aside to it; it de-
MES the intervention of large
number of individuals claiming the
property; orders the real estate of the
corporation to be held by the receiver
until the informations for the forfeiture
for the same brought by the government
can be brought TO conclusion, aud it de-
clares all of the personal property of the
late corporation to have become es-
cheated to the government. This
point was the one most bitter
ly fought as the property of
the church was claimed on behalf of the
incorporated mormon sect as successor
in the interest to the late corporation
and by individuals who were members of
the corporation who INTERVIEWED on behalf
of themselves and all other members of
the corporation. Upon the evidence the
court decided that neither the present
church nor the individuals had any legal
claims; that all of the property had
been held upon trusts, the obje of
which were principally to uphold polyg-
amy, and that these trusts were the only
ones existing to which said property
could be devoted. It furthermore decided
that the present church still upholds,
teaches and maintains polygamy and that
any dedication of property to it
would be for the purpose of unfolding
polygemy and would be unlawful. After
exhaustive evidence the court declares the
property to belong to the government by
operation of law. The defendants have
taken the case to the supreme court
of the United States where it will be holly
contested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
White Glass Again in Fashion.

White glass for table use is again to
have its day. The delicate bubbles of
Venetian glass. exquisite as if an elf
had blown them, the quaint old Dutch
glass are as beautiful and as highly
priced as ever, but white glass is the
novelty of the summer. With the
passing away of the era of plush and
velvet dinner-table decorations and the
renewal of pride in dainty napery has
come call for cut glass, engraved
glass, and crystal clear as running
water.
Glass engraving has jumped from
comparative neglect into popular
favor. A decanter of antique shape,
with long slender neck and scarcely
heavier than a dew drop, overrun with
designs of birds skimmIng over grass
es, is of American make and sells
for SIS. Drinking glasses are
engraved with water weeds and flowers
and sometimes bring from S25 to $50 a
dozen. A square glass with rounded
corners and open faring mouth is en-
graved with gauzy dra"on-fies. Tum-
the favored shapes in these are big and
1uuUGI-IIhe, SOIuSlllIl6S Cub Will s1ldll
facets and oftener engraved with mono
grams or running vines. Glass-en-
craving is pretty thing to see, and
often one finds group of women about
the workmen at Broadway houses
where initials and simple patterns are
turned out ''while you wait"
A novel bit of crystal is a double
vase, perhaps for oil and vinegar. A
rounded bowl has two long tapering
necks, and the partition which divides
| the fluids does not at frat sight appear.
The most elf-like things in the white
glass are carafes, blown so thin that il
| seems as if breath of air would
| shatter them. Sometimes they take
flower forms, initiating the shape OF
old-fashioned Canterbury bell or trum-
pet creeper. Some have handles, which
may be engraved, and which also take
the long, graceful, flower-like curves.
Finger bowls and bonbon bowls
come in a large variety of shapes
Most of them are low and round. Some
are engraved with bands, some in rib.
bon-like, seaweedish designs, some
are wholly plain, but provided with
handles, on which are percheG
swallows, or about which are twinec
flowers in clear glass. Goblets for bon
bons may have circles Of very chubby
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11

Marie, the exiled Queen of Naples,
lives recluse-like life in rented apart
ments in an questionable quarter of
Paris. Her misfortunes, especially the
loss of her only child, make her feel
that fate is against her. Doubtless, y
she says, eff we were to purchase a
house and seek to make a permanent
home it would be taken from US. II
we were to make friends we would
lose them. No, we are exiles and
wanderers, and such we must ever re-
main"
Thomas ]. MayaIl, recently deceased,
started as a poor boy. He invented
the first rubber belt, the first cylinder
printing machine for wall paper print
ing and also for glueing, displacing the
former mode of printing from indie
pendent blocks; invented rubber
cement and satin-fnished paper; helped
Charles Goodyear in the invention of
vulcanized rubber, and also produced
a number of other inventions in re-
volvers, guns, rifles, steam apparatus
for loading and firing artillery, am
muntion, coffee-hulling machines.
self-acting drawbridges and railway
switches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
The Chinch Ruc ScnNrca
Prairie Farmer.

That such minute insects as the chinch
bug should damage crops to the utter ex-
tinction OF farm profit, over wide ranges
of terriTory, seems strange. Yet iS is
true. In southern Illinois this pest has
gradually so increased as to have caused
actual distress for the necessaries of life
in some localities. It was supposed that
to discontinue the growing OF wheat
would cause the chinch bug TO disappear
for want of proper food. Not so. They
feed naturally on oats, and the pasture
grasses in the spring and later on corn,
and the aftermath of meadows.
The object of this article is to call at
tention to tie necessity of cooperation
among farmers for the destruction of a
pest that is more wide spread than is
generally supposed. Wisconsin, Min ne
scta, Iowa and some portions Of Neb-
rsska, Kansas and Missouri and Indiana,
are the principal points of devastation.
The statistician of the depaI tment OF
agriculture at Washington, Prof. Dodge,
estimates the damage in Illinois at $15,-
100000, and in Iowa at SIS, 000, 900 this
season.
There have really been three sea-
sons favorable to the development of this
pest. The entomologists of the several
states are laboring earnestly to devise
means by which the ravages of these bugs
may be checked. Neighborhood organi-
cations and societies should correspond
with the hntomologists of the several
states, and thus receive many valuable
hints.
No one is working more earnestly in
the study of this insect than Prof. Forbes
or the University of Illinois. From his
we'll attachments in natural his
tory and science, and his practically, we
believe that he will soon present to the
people, that which will materially assist
in graduating this pest.
The work to be done however, and the
means employed to destroy The chinch
bug, must be thorough, systematic and
cooperation. It matters little what q
single farmer may do, if his neighbor
furnishes breeding and wintering places
for the bug. It has been shown that
ceasing to grow wheat Will only drive the
pest into the pastures and other grain.
The proper thing to do as one important
means of eradication is to destroy them
in their wintering places. Use such
means as are already we'll known and
learn every new means possible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
His Report

"h1r. Jones'" said the managing
editor to one of his reporters, did you
attend the Spiritual seance at Library
Hall this EVENING""
Il did" replied the reporter
81 hope you have treated the medium
fairly, Mr.. Jones. You know good
many Spiriturlists read our paper.
How have you written it up?"
Fair to medium replied the re-
porter Texas Sifti77gs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
THE GAMBLERS EXCITED.
Wide Fluctuations in the Wheat Prices in the
New York Exchange.

NEW YORK, O3t. 6.-The wheat pit on
the produce exchange this morning was
eg ain the scene of the widest excite
ment. at the opening prices jumped up
rapidly to 1.19 and I1912 respectively
for December, and 1.125s and 1.12R for
May. For time there was the widest
excitement and everything on the floor
was TEN porariIy laid aside and a general
rush for the wheat pit. When the Chicago
quotations showing an advancement of
nearly f7e cents upon the opening of the
western market in December option,
came over the wires the excitement was
intensified. New York figures for Decem-
Der which had gone back a fraction just
tvfore the news was received, shot up
again to 1.21B and May delivery advanc
ed in proportion. The market closed
strong, 1.21M for December and 12I for
May. During the half days session
100000 bushels changed hands. After
the market closed, the operators congre-
gated In the corridor of the building and
continued to trade for an hour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
DINING ON CATERPILLARS.
The Latest Adventure of Deane, the African
Explorer.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch


st. Louis Post Dispatch
The cable ennoUnced last week that Mr..
Deane, one of the agents of the Congo
Free State had been killed in "a elephant
charge while out hunting. This gentle
man was in command of the Stanley Falls
station when it was attacked Two years
ago next month by the Arabs. On his
retreat from that station he had one of
the most thrilling experiences that ever
befell white man in Africa.
Before the station fell his ammunition
had been almost entirely exhausted and
the greater part of his force had scurried
down the river, leaving him TO his fate.
In the darkness of the light Oeane and
his com rade, Dubois, with three or four
Haussa soldiers, stole away from Stanley
Falls and noiseiessly made their way
westward along the river bank. Il was
not long before Dubois, slipping upon a
stone at the waters edge feil into the re- pid
current and wac drowned. Deane was
left alone with his black comrades and
the prospect that they would escape was
very slight.
They pushed on all night, but in the in
tense darkness they were able to make
only few miles through the thick under
growth. Thoroughly tired out, they
stopped at daylight for short rest. The