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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

the night Is rarely seen. The Ierva has
something of the character of q measur-
ing form. Il is larger and longer than
the butterfly larva, and is less hairy. Some
years they are scarce, in others that are
more numerous and destructive than all
others. The eggs are mostly laid oA the
upper surface of the leaves, where no
water will reach and destroy them.
OF the many remedies tried for the de-
struction of these cater pillars the three
which stand at the head for efficiency are
hot water, pyre.hum, and kerosene emul
sion. Other remedies are of little use,
When the temperature of the water is
above 160 degrees the plants are scalded;
and below 140 degrees the insects are not
killed. Between these two points the
remedy is efficient.
PSrethum is safe and perfectly effect
i've, if fresh, when mixed with from six TO
twelve parts of plaster, Or fifteen to
twenty of air slgked lime. Or pyrethum
powder, a tablespoonful to six or eight
| quarts of water, answers well, and also
destroys plant lice when sprinkled on the
plants.
Kerosene emulsion made as recon-
mended in the Country Gentleman on
| former occesions) diluted with twelve
| parts of water, is thoroughly effective
| Its odor also acts as repaliant, by pre-
venting the butterhys from laying their
eggs on plants SO treated.
| No good remedy has been found fol-
plant lice, but pyrethum powder applied
with hand bellows, has been found mos
eficacious. The cabbage-root fly may be
| killed With weaker solution of kerosene
| emuIsion or one mart to fifteen of water
the roots at planting being dipped in it
and twice afterward enough poured
around the plant to wet the soil an inch
The roots being more tender than tn,
leaves, a weaker solution must be used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
CASTLE IN THE AIR"
Sale of the Beautiful Country Home of the
Late Mir. Beecher.

Sale of the Beautiful Country Home of the
Late Mir. Beecher.
Boscobel, the beautiful country retreat
of the late Henry Ward Becher at Peeks-
kill, has been disposed of by private sale
through Phillips d Wells, real estate deal
ers and brokers, to G. 81. Butler of this
city, for $4,000. The property covers
thirty-six acres of ground, on which is a
beautiful, large three-story mansion OF
Gothic architecture, built only few years
before Mr.. Beechei's death. It stands in
the midst OF one of the most charming
spots on the Hudson river, commanding
view OF the surrounding country fol-
nearly twenty-five miles.
Thirty years ago, when Mr.. Beechel
first bought ground, it was a patch OF
plain meadow land, with an ordinary
little cottage as residence. This he ia
habited during the summer for many
years land he became SO attached TO the
little domicile that when the larger and
more imposing residence was built he
deemed it duty 10 preserve the cottage
as an old landmark. The new house is
magnifcently proportional and is fitted
with all the latest modern cow eniences
Speaking of it to visitor not long be
fore his death, Mr.. Beecher SAID: 81 love
this house. 1t is very pretty, but do you
know how l built it? [ wanted 1t. / had
set my heart on it, but was poor. SO
went and lectured until I earned the mon.
ey. You have heard of castles in the air
Here you find one. regular castle OF
wind. That's how I got it,"
The grounds which surround the house
are laid out with exquisite taste, every re-
gard being paid to the effect of blending
colors and variations of tint. The notan
jcal collection is unsurpassed is this coun
try with the exception of that of the
Smithsonian institution in Washington
There are specimens of the rarest plants
and shrubs, gathered from nearly every
country in the world. The number OF
trees on the grounds have been oompui-
ed at 5000, besides over 1000 fruit bear.
ing plants and vines.
The house has been inhabited only
during brief portion of the time since
Mr.. Beacher's death and it is now mach
in need of renovation. Mr.. Butler, its
new owner, has workmen preparing il foI
occupancy and making some new alter
atoms. He intends, however, as much
as possible to preserve the house and
grounds in the style in which Mr.. Beechel
kept them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
The Whitechapel Murders.

MOBILE, Alabama, April 15.-Captain
Jones, of the schooner Arthur, arrived
today from the Bay Islands and reports
that at Ruatan, last month, Rev. Henry
Hobson, wife and her mpanion, young
girl, all natives of Jamaica, were murder
ed by Joseph Bures. Bures discovering
that Mrs. Hobson had money,
he at night, entered the house,
and cut the throats of all three persons.
He robbed them of what money and
valuables they possessed. The next day
Bures was arrested and made confession
of his guilt. Captain Jones says the
butchery of the three persons and the
mutila zion of the bodies of both women
bore strong resemblance to the murders
committed by the White Chapel murderer
in England.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

Crops would suffar less from many a
noxiou5 insect or animal and its progeny
we're it q az for the shelter of the hedge or
Of the rubbish IN the fence-row.
The American Agriculturist remarks
Rotation of crops is taught by nature.
Anyone may see how nature practices
this rotation, in the springing up Of pines
and other soft wood on lands from which
hard woods have been removed, and the
growths of hard wood upon cleared pine
lands.
1t does not pay to delay manuring the
garden until neatly the time for blowing.
The better way is to manure in Fall and
allow the rains and melting SHOWS TO wash
the soluble parts into the soil. If Fall
plowedsit will be still better, as the sur
face will be ready for planting by merely
cuItivating the manure under to the depth
of three inches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
Farm and Home.
"GooD-BYE-GoD BLESS YOU.
EUGENE FIELD, IN CHICAGO NEWS.

1 like the Angio-Saxon speech
With It's direct reveaings-
It takes e hold and seems TO reach
Way down into your feelings;
That some folk deem it rude L know,
And therefore thy abuse it;
But have never found il So
Before all else l choose it.
don't object that men should air
The Gallo they have paid for
With Eau reUOir,' y .'IdielG, ma cheren
For that's what French was made for,
But when crony takes your hand
At parting to address you
He drops all foreign lingo and
He says: "Good-bye-God bless you'll
This seems to be sacred phrase
With reverence impassioned-
A thing come down from righteous days,
Quantity but nobly fashioned;
1t well becomes an honest face
voice that S round and cheerful;
1t stays the sturdy IN his place
And soothes the weak and fearful.
Into the porches of the ears
1t steals with subtle JUNCTION
And in your heart of hearts appears
To work its gracious function;
And all day long with pleasing song
1t fingers to careSs you
I'm sure no human heart goes wrong
That's told '.Good-bye-G God bless your
1 love the words-perhaps because,
When / was leaving mother.
Standing at last in sole nm pause
We looked at one another.
And II saw in mothers eyes
mne love she could not tell me
a love eternal as the skies,
Whatever fate befell me;
She put her arms about my neck
And soothed the pain of leaving,
And. though her heart were like TO break.
She spoke no word of grieving;
She let no tear bedim her eye,
For fear that might distress me,
But. kissing me. she said good bye
And asked our God TO bless me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

ANOTHER evil of making Washington a
social as we'll rs political capital is a
crying one. A physician there says that
if brand was on every woman who uses
opium in some form, society would go to
pieces. He attributes this frightful con
dition of affairs to the dissipated life Led
by the women of the upper tendon. The
endless round of balls and receptions Is
such strain upon them thai tsey must
seek relief in some way. They begin to
take soothing syrup, as a rule, to put
them to sleep. This, after while fails
to act, then paregorio is resorted to-
From this it is only step to divers
powders, morphine, pure opium and ab-
solute ruin. After while, woman ad
dicted to whiskey, loses all sense of honor
and self respect; she is wreck, both
physically and mentally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
SOUTH DAKorA's BRIGHT OUTLOOK.

DAhUlA'S lLOJh,
The people of South Dakota are very
jubilant over the apparent tidal wave of
prosperity which has tuened in their di
reotion. They are naturally enough.
enthusiastic over the benefits which it is
believed will accrue from the division
and admission of the territory, but in the
famous Black Hills region statehood is
regarded as of less i'm portance than the
opening of the great Sioux reservation
settlement. That vast area, which is
held but not occupied by the Indians,
Includes all of western South Dakoga, ex-
cept shoat 1000 square miles, and the
people believed that the opening OF the
reserve will be the signal for the North
western railroad, now terminating at
Pierre, and the Milwaukee now terminal
ing at Chamberlain, to build to the Hills.
Ex-Indian Agent McGnlicuddy recently
told an Omaha Bee correspondent that
he had no doubt that the Indians would
agree to the submission clause, in the
that he had lately received letters from
Indians on the reservation indicating as
much. A third cause for rejoicing, and
one which the people of Pennington and
Custer counties consider the more i'm
portsnt, is the prospect that work will
soon begin on large scale, in the tin
-, KhoR t. =
that an English syndicate, after careful
and thorough examination By experts,
has agreed TO furnish $4,000 coo for i'm
mediate work on the properties of the
Harvey P, ak tin mining c, mpany. The
tin question is very imp ,rtaut TO America.
The mineral has never been found In pay
ing quantities. IN the continent except
in the black Hills, and has never been
produced from its known deposits, bus
experts are Of the opinion that the Black
Hills mines will be capable, in a few
years, of supplying the American market
with metallic tin. Now the tin used in
this country is imported from Ma!acca,
Australia ard England. The school of
mines at Rapid CITY, OAK, has devoted
much time to the tin question, and from
the many experiments with ores, est
mates that it can be produced at profit
of 81 25 ton, which is regarded as good
showing. Out that way they regard the
problem as solved, and they expect, if
the great operations nos proposed are
fully carried out, that the doubters, as to
the existence of tin in paying quantities
in the Hills. will be convinced. The gen.
eral outlook for South Dakota, is certain
iy fattering and the people are CORES
oondingly happy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
AT THE MATINEE.

Tt prices were heavy. my pin-money light,
But Struggled my pride to subdGe:
And cheerfuly clambered up fight after flight
And sat where the wall shut me IN on my right
And the ceiling INSTRUCTED my view.
heard q faint sound like the scrape of bow,
And | knew that the orchestra played.
A silence expectant-and somewhere below,
/ knew that scene that never should know
Was attractively, grandly arrayed.
A voice fioated upward from regions afar
In words never destined for me;
An echo of plaudltS-a murmur, jar
And knew that the audience welcomed a star
Twas wholly unable to see.
looked at the wall raising placidly near;
/ studied the posts one by one;
Gazed at heads in phalanx and bonnets in tier
Till a stir and rustic Saluted my ear,
And knew that the drama was done.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
LOOK OUT FOR 1T.

Comet Referred to by Prof, E. o. Holden.
SAN FRANofsCo.-T The following dis
patch to the associated press was re-
ceived from Prof. E. d. Holden, of Lick
observatory, at Mount Hamilton, Cali
fornia: An approximate orbit of the
comet discovered here March 81, by Mr..
Barnard, has been computed by
Professor Sehuebele. It is probab e
that this comet will become seven OF
eight thousand times as bright as at the
present, with distance from tbs sun of
about 4O00,000 of miles on May 26 next.
1t should be carefully observed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
Unchristian.
Youths Companion.

The charge is frequently made that the
lives Of Christians are not in accord with
the principles of morality which are
taught by Christianity. 1t sometimes
occurs that these charges are not more
serious than that made by the old lady
mentioned in the following incident:
She had invited another old lady to take
tea with her. After the departure of her
guests the hostess, who was of penurios
turn of mind, said scoffingly:
"WeH, Betsy Blake makes mighty
loud perfession of being good church
member and all that, but I watched her
tonight and she up an puS three heapin'
teaspoons o. sugar in one cup O tea, an
if she calls that Christianity, don't"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
For Whose Interest Was the Bill Passed?

DTLUTH, Mimi, April 15.-Last Friday
night the legislature at ST. Paul passed
the meat inspection bill, which practical
ly prohibited Chicago and Kansas City
dressed beef from being sold III this
state. One result appeared, here today
when Armour & Swift withdrew their
beef business from Duluth, and prices
advanced 25 per cent. Similar reports
have beer received from other places.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
The Samoan Question.

BERLIN, April 15.-The Cologne Ga
zette says; "The nomination of Sewall
as discussing officer of the American
com missioners to the Samoan confer
ence, together with the appointment of
Bates as member of the commission,
warrants the superstition that the Wash
ington government does not seriously
desire the friendly settlement of the
question concerning Samoa"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Attorney Gen
eral Miller today presented to the su-
preme court resolutions, adopted g. a
meeting of the bar on April 6, to take
action upon the death of Hon. Stanley
Matthews. Resolutions were ordered
spread upon the court records. The at
torney general then delivered a long
eulogy on the deceased, to which Justice
Fuller responded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
AFTER A PARDON.
Brother of Prisoner Neebe Securing a Raft
of Signatures.

SPRINGFIELD, H., April 12-Louis Fl.
Neebe, of Chicago, is in the city, securing
signatures of members of the gen.
eraI assembly TO petition fol-
the pardon of his brother, Oscar W. Neebe.
who is serving fifteen years sentence
in Joliet for completely in the noted
Haymarket massacre. The petitions
which he will present to Governor Flfer
are unusually strong, being signed by
some Of the best known lawyers, min
listers and other public men in
the state. Among the signers are United
States Senator Farwell, Congressman
Mason, Mayor Roche and Ex-Mayor
Harrison. There are over SIX thousand
signatures in all
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
Mountain Fires.

HAGERsTowN, Nd, April I0.-Three
large fires are now raging on
South mountain near Edgemont.
A vast lot of timber has al
ready been destroyed and the wind is
forcing the fire in the direction of the
Blue Mountain house. There is good
ground for fear that the building will be
consumed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

THE part of the Indian Territory that
is to be opened to settlement April p,
Is about fifty niles quare, end contains
90 quarter-sec ions. Each settler can
claim q quarter section, and there are
10000 people on Kansas border ready
to rush in as the clock strikes II of the
appointed day. They will not al get
claims
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
Assigned to a Professorship.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-Secone Lieuten-
ant George A. Gross, of the seventh
cavalry, has been detailed as professor of
the military science and tactics at Knox
college, Galesbury ILL.,, to take effect July
1st.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

By examining the tongue of patient
physicians find out the disease of the
body, and philosophers the disease of the
mind ustin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

The home market idea seems to have
got the better of the Texas Legislature
Gov. Ross has signed bill requiring all
corporations chartered by state or free
city, save only railroads and insurance
companies, to file copies of their charters
at the Texas capitol, and pay from $25
to 5000 each for permits to do bushes in
the state. This law applies whether the
corporation establishes an agency there
or so!icits trade through agents, or il
any manner whatever, and is practically
revival of the old tex upon drummers
which the United States supreme court
declared to be unconstitutional.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

The New Jersey Agricultural College
Experiment Station has issued bulletin
with an account of the insects which feed
on the cabbage, prepared by George D..
Hulst-a plainly written account of the
careful experiments performed for de-
stroying these depredators. The insects
figured and described are the white cab
bage butterfly and it's larva and the cab
bage plusia, besides cut-worms, cabbage
aphis and cabbage root fly. The white
butterfly is commonly seen in the day
time lowering about cabbages, laying its
eggs mostly on the underside of the
leaves. and Matching in from five to eight
plusia is darker in color, and flying in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
Crops and Prices.
Prairie Farmer.

Prices for all kinds of farm produoe
as well as stock, fuctuate from year &c
year. Whenever prices are low, there Ii
always a considerable class that will sell
out or discontinue growing TO bring il
back to a paying price, md as soon as
prices begin TO advance 80 any consider
able extent, they are ready to start In
again aud do their part towards lowering
prices. Such course is not profitable
at least to the one that is changing and
it is too often the case, that the farmer
who is trying TO raise the most profta-
bic crop each year, succeed in doing ex-
actly the reverse and strikes the market
on the down grace. There are many con-
ditions that will often render it necessary
to change crops, and TO dispose of one
kind of stock and keep some others. At
the same time, as rule changes should
not be made entirely upon the market
prices, as to attempt to judge or guess
the market sufficiently in advance to
raise crop, or feed and prepare stock
for market will, in a majority of cases,
result in failure.
One of the principal objections to
risking the farm profits upon any one
single crop, or kind of stock is the in
growing anything to sell, and second, in
being able to secure good prices, or rath-
er prices that will Tetarn fair per cent.
of profit. There is always some risk Of
this at ali times. and with all classes of
products add stocb, but, With variety of
nops raised and fed to stock, this risk is
reduced very materially. If the same
general line of farming, however, is car
ried on what we fail TO ieceive with one
We can make up with another, so that the
average will be fair per cent. of profit.
Il is hardly to be expected that any one
particular crop will return the largest
percent OF profit each year.
It is possible TO Gull out the worst and
select the best, but not so fully but that
there will be a considerable variation
each year in this respect. AZ least. IN a
series of years the farmer who carries out
a system of farming based up this plan
will be able to show much the best per
cent. of profit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

AN examination of the threats and
roses Of 1000 New York children was
made by DR.. W. Franklin Chappell of the
Presbyterian Hospital last year, and the
results have lately been published. Dr.
Chsppell found, TO quote his own words
81 ,231 OF the 1000 were suffering from
SON 9 anatomical abnormelity, and usually
with its accompanying symptoms of re-
spiratory obstruction and catarrh." Most
of the abnormal conditions appear after
the age of elk years, and children of diff
ferent social surroundings appear to be
equally liable to them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

The titles to nearly one-third Of the
property in Maryland are ciouded by
recent decision, which lays down the
general principle that all the property of
the wife is responsible for the debts of
the husband. That is one state phere a
man can't save himself by hanging on to
the petticoats of his better half.
The Cberokeos have in operation over
one hundred common schools, with an
aggregate attendance of 4,059 pupils,
high school for toys wish an aggregate
attendance of 211 students; seminary
nearing completion, with capacity for
165 students; an orphan asylum contain
ing 145 children, besides number of
charitable institutions
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

In TalIapoosa, Ca, party had run a
large bill with merchant, and gave his
promissory note in payment. To avoid
paying legitimate debt, the said party
brought action to show that said mer-
chant had never had his weights and
measures tested, and for this reason
could not collect any bills for goods sold
by weigh t and measure. The law 1s rigid
on this point, and specifies that mer-
chants cannot collect biss for goods sold
by weights or measures not bearing the
stamp or seal of the ordinary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18

claims
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-01-24
Fncts About sealskins.

A sealskin as seen on the animal is a
very different thing from that seen on
Iady's cloak. 'The fur is not visible; it
is concealed entirely by a coat of stiff
overhair, duh, gray brown and grizzled."
This overhair must all be removed. 1t is
a long, laborious process by which these
pelts are made ready for their final use.
Nine-tenths of these fur-seal skins are
dressed in London and then sent out all
over the civilized world. There are prac-
tically no other seals caught save those
taken on the Pribylov Islands by the
Alaska Commercial company.
The average weight of a 2-year-old skin
Is five and half pounds; 3-year-old skin,
seven, and of a 4-year-old skin, twelve
pounds. 1t takes three skins to make a
lady's sack, which is worth anywhere
from $50 up to $500 This difference in
price is seldom due to q variance in the
original quality of the fur, but to the
quality of the work by which it is made
ready for wear. The carcass is left to rot
where the skin was taken off. 1t requires
about three years to rot away, and, al
though 90 600 of these carcasses are annu-
ally decaying almost within a stones
throw of the village of St. Paul's Island,
yet the people do not seem to suffer any
injurious effect therefrom. The meat Of
he young seals, if perfectly cooked, is not
bad eating, and some Of the steaks will
compare favorably with our beef or NUT
ton.-BoStOn Transcript.