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Wichita eagle., 1888-08-28
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Daily eagle
"AMONG THE LILIES"

Three years ago, on this same silver stream,
We doated idly on our holiday;
Do you remember, love7 in my dream,
You In your old impassoned, willful wayi
The meadows were as rich in flowers now,
As full Of perfume was the summer air,
The holy light of love was on your brow:
My soul was fettered to the fend despair.
Then, as we glided through the lilies free,
You taught q life to come, a love to bel
Three years ago whispered might long
To float with You toward distant land,
Making our life one melody Of song,
Feeling our heart beat, sitting hand in hand
Somehow we parted, and the night crept down,
Folding our scene In mantle Of regret
You TO your cottage went, I to the town
Your voice was laughter, but my eyes were wet.
Night locked the fields, and shut each rosy
grove.
You taught me patience, and whispered
Lowell
Once more upon the river where we met,
Gliding once more upon its silver thread
OF stream, that parts our rapture from regret,
And strangely binds the living 20 the dead.
NY pray'r is answered; God has granted me.
So good he is, his best created thing.
The worthless love il dying; can see
All that was beautiful, but base, take wingl
Oh, hold me closet and, looking In your eyes,
Let me behold heavens blue Of paradisei
Clement Scott in Once Week.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-28
Because the Queen Said 1t.

Queen Victoria recently, it is said, de-
sired to inspect detachment of Ceylon
Rifles that were In England. None OF
them knew any English. When they
were paraded in the grand corridor at
Windsor the queen, passing among them.
asked one; Have you been long in Eng
land?" The answer was in pure Cingalese.
and the queen, without betraying any
embarrassment, answered: "Oh. indeed!"
and dropped the conversation. All tho
soldiers caught the remark and remem-
bered it. and when they went home TO
peated il TO their comrades and friends,
and now in Ceylon the principal English
phrase heard is: "Oh, indeedl" which i.
very important, because tie queen USED
it-Nsv York Sru
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-28
Why Absinthe Is Poisonous.

Il appears from recent researches Tiado
by Mr.. 6. Varenne that absinthe is of It
self not by any means so poisonous IS ii
is usually supposed to be. This investi-
gator finds that its toxicity is due to the
use in its manufacture of the failing of
the spirit stills, i. e.. the residua which
contain all the impurities of the alcohol.
It Is said that abSinthe made with pure
rectifed spirit produces none of the effects
ordinarily known as absinthisrn. Tho
amount of oil OF ahSinthe used in making
the drink is very small, and the tempta-
ton to use the worst kinds Of alcohol in
its manufacture is Of course large, BE-
cause the bad favors are easily disguised
in so aromatic o drink.-Druggists' Bull
la-in
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-28
EUROPE'S ARMED PEACE.
The Terrible Strain ON the Nations-Ths
Next War.

The Terrible Strain on the Nations-Ths
Next War.
The whole continent seems TO be under
some horrible enchantment. The armed
peace sits ike vampire at the bedside
of the people, draining their life blood
while they sleep. Hence, say some, war
is certain. The nations cannot stand the
strain much longer. Sooner or later,
and sooner rather than later, they viii
rush to war rather than wait 10 be slowly
sufocated by the sheer weight Of their
amor.
As the armed peace is nightmare
fouler than the world has yet suffered, SO
the next war is an appalling catastrophe
from which Imagination shrinks aghast.
For there is nothing in modern history
that it viii resemble. Hitherto, down
even TO the last wars, when empires have
gone 70 battle it has been war OF SOL
diers. The next war viii be war Ct
peoples. In the Russo Turkish war it was
an army framed On the old system which
was repulsed st Plevna, and ultimately
Srent in 1-irIrnnh 70 CarS-antinnTlls- In
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-28

As many as 5000, 600 women in the United
States work for money.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-28
GLOBE iron WORKS.
a. FLAGG, Proprietor.
Cor. I'd and 9Th ayes, Wichita

Manufacturer Of Steamengines.
Boilers Pumps and all kinds OF
mill gearing. Architectural iron
a specially Iron and brass cast
inCS made 10 order. Estimates
made on al class Of work and
orders promptly attended 70.
&c W. 4 FONDA. Supt.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-28
Dishonesty In Conversions.

Good men takers have sometime:
been accused Of certain dishonesty in
conversation That is. bring the subjec!
round to point On which they talk well
lying in ambush, as it were, and
springing their own subject On the CON-
papy.-M. E. W. Sherwood.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-28

Free reclining chair cars are now running
on all trains on the c., X & ~ railway,
Rock Island Route" between Wichita.
Topeka Kansas City. g. Joseph. Chicago
St. Louis sU
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-28

Of all hetwenty-six barons who signed the
Magma Charta, only three could write their
own names.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26

The same story of exhausted soils is
true OF the New England States, with the
addition that the soil was never so deep
and seems to be more completely worn
down to the gravel and stone underly.
Also in many portions of Tennessee the
same absence of grassy covering is no.
tlced. And now the statement comes
that "a Northern man purchased an old
WORKOUT cotton plantation for song at
Durant, Miss, two years ago, ind this
year he has sold $4,000 worth CT straw
berries"
The tendency has long been TO follow
the style Of the Indians and the locusts =
when game and food is exhausted move
on. But the remedy for this evil is 2
promising one, and there Is q little cues
ton but the next boom viii be IN a re-
possession and recovery OF these exhaust
ed lands. There is no question but there
IS moLey in even the poor lands, esDeoi-
ally where they are in the vicinity of
good markets. The craze for big crops
of wheat and fax and corn by skimming
-skimming soil, is passing over,
and fruits, and vegetables, poultry, sheep,
and other styles, where larger crops and
going over less acreage, is TO be the new
era of farming. The long distance to
transfer products, with the fact that the
corsunpti7e demands is increasing, sug-
gests that there Is safety and profit TO
men of industry and brains in the old
farm lands now to oe purchased for q
song.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
BUTIERNILK IS MEDICINE.

! Number OF Cases IN Which 1t Has Excl ciSed
4 Very Beneficial Effect
With the rapid growth Of the recon
structive medicine, comes opporturelv
the reintrOduction of old and we'll known
domestic remedies, among which butter
milk demands respectable place, says
the Popular Science News. 4 young lady
patient of the writer was suffering from
a severe c1nsum ptive cough. None OF
the usual antispasmodics, expectorants,
etc, seemed to do any good, simply be-
cause her stomach was too weak to bear
enough medicine to effect the purpose.
Finally l suggested TO her mother the
use of hot bUttermilk. It was adopted at
once. Her first nights experience was
one Of comparative freedom from cough
pain, and pleasant slumber for several
hours. It was continued for a long time
with an unvarying relief OF all her pre-
vious distressing symptoms, and an
almost perfect freedom from cough for
several hours after each draught Of hot
buttermilk.
Lingering at one time for weeks from
an attack of conjestive fever, dosed with
calOmel and quiuine almost beyond en-
durance, the writer began to desire but
termilk TO drink. The physician "didn't
believe in humoring the whim5 of
PATIENTS" as he expressed it; besides, he
commended that a single drink Of the OBJ
noxious fluid might produce death, as
acids and oalOmel were incompatible
jewellers in the same stomach. But [ was
a good persuader, and my mother was a
susceptible subject. The buttermilk,
"fresh from the churr," was procured
and drank. No evil resulted; instead
came a perspiration and a speedy re-
covery.
Many years afterward I had missed my
usual noon meal. It was about 2 or 3
O'Clock p. m.-dinner, of course, was
over-when Z reached a farmhouse
weak, tired, hungry and ''all out OF con
dition" for active work. Dinner was
suggested by the housewife. "No in
deed!' said I, mot this time; an nearly
home. But if you have any butterm1ik
will take drink of that to stay my
stomach" 4 good, kind-hearted woman,
she soon brought up pitcher of butter,
milk from the cool spring house, while I
examined my patients and prescribed for
them. Perhaps pint was drank d-.ring
the stay of nearly an hour. For months
indigestion had held his unfriendly grasp
on my stomach. From that notable day
forward his reign was broken; my stom-
ach was healed, and I could ride all day,
if necessary, without feeling SO woe-be-
gone from the lack of food as before
drinking of the buttermiIk.
There are people, however, who can
not use buttermilk at ell, and some who
can net use any kind of milk, nor butter;
but to others it proves both food and
medicine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
Canadian SilOs.
or. Rural New Yorker.

We have two silos, or rather ono divid-
ed into two apartments, for the pur-
pose of experimentation. One, 12x6x12
feet, has cut corn, and the other, of about
the Same size, has uncut corn, They form
part of the eud Of the root cellar under
the barn, having cemented floors and
brick walls. The partitions are made 4x2
with double inch boards and tar paper
between them. We lost only about four
inches Cd top.
Corn alone is used TO cut when IN the
tassel and checked by rough analysis to
ascertain if it contains more than IS per
cent OF water. It IS allowed to lie on the
ground for half day; then we haul and
pass through straw cutter, and the silos
filled with about feet at a time, and no
more IS added until the heat is over 1902 !,
when another batch is added, and so on
until the silo is filled. Taxpayer is
placed on top with inch boards loaded
with stones. The cost is about $1.75 per
ton including everything.
am decidedly of the opinion that the
extension of winter dairying and the Zee,
essity of more than green fodder for the
animals during the winter, for the sake
of health and cheap maintenance, will
call for more silage. Our silo cost less
than so. AS every progressive farmer
has straw-cutter, idle horses in winter
and plenty of time on hand, ten-ton silo
can not fail to be appreciated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
What the Cow Gives Us.
American Breeder.

American dairy interests are startlingIy
enormous. They represent an invest
ment of nearly twenty-five times the en-
tire banking capital of the country-that
is to say, the bank capital is a little less
than 1911, 000, 900, while the dairy interests
amount 80 more than S3G00,0 100000.
Of course our readers can not swallow
such frightful figures in lump, and we
therefore arrange them IN several smaller
but still heroic doses.
The number of mich COWS is estimated
at Fl ,0OO,OOO,OOO. They gave an average
of $50 gallons of milk annually. This
would give an aggregate milk production
of 7,25O,0OO,OOO gallons, a. miniature OCEAN,
a fair-Eized Niagara. Four thousand mil
lions are used for cheese and the remain
iEg 2,650,000,OOO pass through the adul-
terating hands of the milk-man and
grocer and down the throats of 60,000,-
600 men, women and babies in this land
of freedom.
The quantity of butter manufactured
and used is about 1850, 100000 pounds.
The value of our dairy products for last
year was nearly $50O,OO0,O00. This is $780,
100000 more than the value of our annual
wheat yield, while it closely approximetes
that of our corn crop, which is the most
valuable of our farm products.
To supply this immense dairy herd 100,-
100000 acres of pasture land are required,
worth S250,000,O00. It is easy enough TO
see, therefore, that the 100000 farmers
IN this country are an important element
Of our national welfare and prosperity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
How Gresham Saved His Leg.


In the spring of 1864 Gresham was re-
lieved from duty at Natchez and ordered
to the command of a division in the
Seventeenth Corps of the army of the
Tennessee to take part in Sherman's
campaign against Atlanta. Gen. J. B.
Mcpherson commanded the army and
Gen. Francis I. Blair the corps, and with
both Gresham became a favorite officer
He was at the head of his division in the
battle OF Kennesaw Mountain, and in all
the engagements until the army arrived
in front Of Atlanta.
Then in the battle of Leggett's Hill.
July 20, 1854, he was riding in advance of
his men with a view Of locating q posi-
ton for battle. As he halted on an
eminence and raised his field glasses to
his eyes his tall figure attracted the at
tention of the confederate sharp-shoot-
ers, and he fell With 2 bullet below the
knee. The limp which yet affects his
walk is the result of that wound. Nc
Pherson gave his personal attention to
his transportation TO the nearest railway
station, where he lay several days before
a train started for the north.
Placed then In a freight car at night,
the light OF lantern revealed near him
a long boz, over which two soldiers were
standing guard. It contained the corpse
of Mcpherson, who had been killed the
day after they separated. Gresham was
taken to his home a5 New Albany, where
for more than & year he lay prone unon
his back, nursed by mis- faithful wife.
Several times the surgeons thought the
limb should be amputated and so advised
but just as often the general objected.
de saved the leg, but was com PEELED to
20 on crutches for several years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
The Wheat Harvest.


The condition of the growing wheat
crop in the different states has from
time to time been heretofore reported
by intelligent observers, and may be
summarized by saying that the crop OF
winter wheat will be reduced in quantity,
whatever the quality may be. The har-
vest will, says an Eastern authority, be a
subjoc Of absorbing interest, wherever it
is IN progress, or yet to come. Quality
and condition will deuend chiefly On the
state Of the weather. Notwithstanding
the spring has been q backward one, and
generally uDfevorable, the hope may be
INDUCED that the few weeks of harvest
will be prOpitioUs, and that the crop will
be saved in good condition. By the use
Of the improved agricultural implements
now so universally employed, the harvest.
ing can de done in the shortest possible
time, so that even in a season of catch
ing rains a dry day or two at about the
right time may be counted on, when the
wheat of a farm can be put up in shock
and secured against ordinary mlshaps.
Different opinions prevail as to the
proper time for cutting wheat. Some
favor cutting when it is passing from
the milky to the dough state as proven
tive against rust. Where rust is not
threatened the proper time would seem
to be at a point between the ear-dough
state and full ripeness, and before any
loss will ensue from Smelling of the grain
in handling. The sheaves should be care
fully shocked, and the cap sheaves so laid
on as to make the shock impervious to
rain.
Occasionally wheat is threshed from
the shock, but the usual practice in the
winter wheat growing States Is to haul
the shocks from the field and form the
sheaves into ricks or stacks. Of the two
forms, the round bullying stack is by far |
the preferable one. Where the wheat is |
to remain unthreshed a considerable time |
it is important that the stack be built up |
in such form as will best protect the grain |
and straw from the weather. Only an |
hand should be put on the |
stack. Anybody can pitch up the sheaves,
but practice is reduired in building
handsome and shapely stack.
DR.. Sturtevant of New York said the
injurious effect of distillery grains are
only seen when, fed under unhealthful
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS.

A French gardener has produced a new
and beautiful water lily. The flowers are
six inches in diameter and of Marechal
Neil rose color.
New York doctor has invented an
apparatus with which he removes wens,
moles and other excresepces from the
human form divine by the use of electric
ity.
A brick, says 2 technical paper. being
about es porous as a lump of sugar, and
having six sides, needs a careful filing
for water tight work in cess pools, ETC.,
and thin grout or pOrridge OF cement
| is commonly used. Heating the brick
and soaking beforehand in thick coal tar
has been recommended. A man lay com.
mon wall all his life without learning how
| to make brick water tight.
The Government experiments this
| year in making sugar from sorghum are
said to have been successful. On fair
soil the yield of cane was an average f
twelve tons. The average yield of Sugar
per acre was about 1900 pounds, and
of syrup $50 gallons. It IS claimed that
at this rate, even at the present low
price of sugar, the business of making
sugar from sorghum would be very prof
liable.
More than 100000 bird skins are now
contained in the National History Mu-
scum at South Kensington, London. A
recent acquisition is the collection of 81
900 specimens made by the late Marquis
OF TweeddaIe. This was presented by
| Capt. w. Ramsay, the neturalist's neph-
ew, who has included in his gift the
Tweeddale library, embracing nearly
5000 ornithologicaL volumes, many of
them very rare and valuable.
The highest peaks in northern Europe,
with their heights IL feet FROM the latest
determination, are thus given By Prof.
Mohn Galdnoppiged; South Norway,
s39S; Glitter Tind, 1919; snehaetten,
1866; Oraefajokill, 6427; Suliceima,
Northern Norway, CTS; Petermann's
Spite East Greenland, 11,418; Beeren
burg, Jan Maven, $780,; Mount Misery,
Bear Island, 1855; Hornsund Tind, Spitz-
bergen, 1850; Richthofen Mount. Franz
Joseph Land, elsa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26

as most natural result within ten min
utes she had swallowed a pin. There was
panic, of course. The pin had lodged
first in the child's throat, but by the time
the doctor arrived had disappeared en-
tirely. As the little girl, after the alarm
and pain she had felt at first, when the
pin was pricking the membrane of her
throat, grew calm and comfortable, the
doctor presumed that it had passed down
the alimentary canal, and on that pre-
sumption prescribed liberal meal Of new
bread or something of the kind.
It happened that there was no new
bread at hand, but there was q large cake
freshly baked. It was of spongy char
acter, and the doctor thought it would
serve the purpose.
So little Miss Mary was given as much
cake as she could eat. The cake was de
licious, and it didn't require much persua-
sion to induce Mary TO eat pound o.
two Of it.
The pin episode, as far as it concerns
Mary, ends here. The pin is not likely TO
trouble her again.
But on the day following, while the
children we're playing in their mothers
room, Teddy suddenly set up g frightful
howl, and, running to his mothers side,
exclaimed, pointing with one finger to his
throat! use swallowed q pin!"
His mother was Mortified at this dupli-
cation of disasters, and her face, I sup
pose, took on such an air of terror that
Teddy forgot for an instant his own case
and stared in blank establishment at his
mother. Then he proceeded deliberately
to yell, and in the language Of the nurs-
cry, "to carry on" But his mother had
noticed this interval of calmness and her
suspicious were aroused. She knew, too,
that Teddy must have exercised consider
able ingenuity to get hold Of pin, for
after the accident Of the day before pin
cushions and, in fact, all the swallowables
of dangerous nature had been kept
carefully out of the chiIdren's way. Be-
fore sending for the doctor she resolved
to try little treatment OF her own.
She went to the mantel and took down
a bottle containing a medicine that, from
its utter nauseoUsness the children loath-
ed. A liberal dose of this she poured into
tumbIer and offered to Teddy.
Teddy shook his head and shut his
mouth with surprising suddenness.
"But you must take this" said his
mother, "it's the only thing that will cure
little boys who swallow pins"
Teddy opened his moGth to say II
won't; 1 don't like that medioine; I want
caker'
His mother, much relieved to SEQ how
the land lay, gave the precious boy some
thing-but it wasn't cake.
Also, it made Teddy howl with real
anguish.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26

not few of their dead on the island.
among the few losses of the expedition
was the killing of the son of an important
Congo chief.
1t as decided not to venture further.
At the point where the En- Avant turned
down stream again she was sixty-nine
miles due west of the place where Junker
had turned his back on the WeIIe -Makua.
Juaker reported She river divided into so
many channels that it was impossible to
es'3naee rs breadth. At the point reach
GO oy the In Avant the river was about q
inlt e ana quarter wide wide, and no river
II Europe empties into the sea so large
1o non OF water as this mighty river,
l,5OO miles long, contributes 70 The
Congo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
Recovering WORKOUT Lands

In 1860 the traveller standing upon the
top of the Peaks of Otter, in Virginia,
could see nearly an equal amount Of grass
and red dirt. The repetition OF tobacco
cropping mad thus early exhausted much
OF the finest farming land in the Atlantic
States. In the valley of Virginia a
northern farmer purchased 800 acres of
worn-of land for 81 per acre and pro
ceeded to turn up the soil and SOW and
turn under buckwheat and clover, and
thus in few years possessed a fine pro-
ductiye farm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
GOOD SENSE.
suggested by Marart's painting entitled, The
Five Senses"

suggested by Marart's painting entitled, Th'
i've Senses"
Divine sensibility,
RareSt of attributes!
To no sensuality
Hans Marart contributes.
Keen is the scent of hound,
Quick is the ear of a bird,
Nc brighter eyes nave been found
Than those of the eagle preferred:
& feathered or fur-coaUed friend
Fxcels US in more than one sense;
His feet wings or feet often SEND
1t far forward on mission intent
Such as are born without sight,
Senseless for odors or sound,
The years bring perpetu aI nlSnu
With sameness and silence profound;
Darkly and sadly they grope.
VoiceIess and vieWlesS, each day;
Taste vet is sweet. and they hope
For safety while treading their way.
Each word is a sensitive place,
And Nature will finger the keys
Of the organs she's scattered II space
She sits and performs at her ease.
Sweet smells she gives with the flowers,
And beautifully scenes to the sight;
Her music the human ear bowers;
Her touch is exquisite delight.
Rare fruits she yields to refresh US;
Her rich treasures have never been tOId;
Her future is certain and precious,
She is mistress of jewels and gold.
Good sense is the hottest symphony
She evolles from the Tyres Of earth;
1t is nature and arts truest harmony
Experience of mourning and mirth.
Born with good humor and health.
Trained to some art, use or care.
Sound sense is q winner of wealth,
1t finds plenty and something to spare.
The pur blind stand gazing so high
While sharpers are bent quite low3
The old golden mean is too nigh
Men 20 wide of the mark fast and slow
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
Teddy Wanted cake.

In a certain family residing in this
county, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, are
two children, boy named Teddy and a
girl named Mary. Not more titan year
divides their ages, and Teddy. the eldst,
is 3.
One day last week Mary Was allowed to
play with her mothers work-basket, and