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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-19
He Knew Tony Beers.
Arkansas Traveller.


A man on horeback rode up to a cabin
in the backwoods of Mississippi. An old
fellow with an amusing squint in his eyes
came out and, bidding the visitor good
morning, seated himself ON a stump.
''Do you know a man named Tony
Beers !" the stranger asked.
Beers? Let me see. Believe do-yes,
| know | do. y"
where does he live?'
''Well, you take this road, 90 about FIVE
miles and come to a gum spring. Then
you turn to the right, go about two miles
and come to the river; cross over and keep
on to the right till you come to an old
log house. 1t used to be church, but it s
a still house now Then take the left hand
road and that leads you right to Tony s
house. Is he friend of yourn %
mo, y" the traveller answered. what
sort of a man is hep"
"Oh, he's a purity strikin' Teller y
''ls he quarrelsome?"
mo- can t say that he is in particular. +"
''Will he fght-that is, would you term
him a desperate man? '
Don't believe | would say he is desper-
ate
do you suppose he would rather shoot
than submit to arrest? ?"
Don't think he would. | had a diff
Guilty with him once and he didn't try to
shoot me.
''You don't like him very well if you had
difficulty with him, do you?'
mo, don t.
''Well then, I'll tell you my business with
him. He stole a very fine horse in
Texas some time ago and he is wanted in
that state"
''You don't say so! | amt surprised,
though. The reason l didn't appear to
know much about him when you first asked
was because | was afraid you were a friend
of his Stold boss, hah? Well, you can
jest slip over there and nab him as easy as
slippin' off a sycamore log. I'd go and
help you, but I ain t got nothing to ride"
Il wish you could. | suppose, though,
that | can make inquiry along the way?"
Il wouldn't do that, for he's got good
many kinfolks scattered along and they
mout drop on you.
you are doubtless right. am glad you
cautioned me-
When the stranger had gone the old fell
low got off the stump and, taking up a
bride, said: ''Mr Tony Beers, you We got
to do some riding now on that fine boss
from Texas. That chump will have nice
wild goose chase while l am getting out
of the country in another direction. It's
a good thing for some of us that every
man WASH t born smart.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-19
Detroit Is Way Behind.


I've had all of Detroit want, +" observed
a man who was waiting for a train at the
Wabash depot the other day.
Don't you like the place." queried the
one addressed.
Nav! l came here hopeful, but am
going away Disguised
What were you looking for?''
why was thinking of going into the
milk business. That's my business In st.
Louis.
DO you find it overcrowded?''
Not exactly overcrowded, although
there are enough in it, but | find that there
is law under which milk is Inspected -
But shouldn't it be-"
Its an insult to the dealers, sir-a
regular insult. It's the same as saying
that they would be dishonest if they could.
| wouldn't stand it one minute, sir-not
a minute!''
He got up to walk around and cool his
wrath and paper which fell from his
pocket was picked up and passed around
the group. 1t read:
TO one pound of whiting add four
gallons of water and mix with ten gallons
of milk
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-19

Rats on Which Rice and Vegetables Are
Successfully Cultivated.

In the month of April bamboo raft,
ten to twelve feet long and about half as
broad, is prepared. The poles are lashed
together with interstices Of an inch be-
tween each. Over this straw an inch thick is
spread, and then a coating, two inches
thick, of adhesive mud, taken from the
bottom of the canal or pond, which receives
the seed. The raft is moored to the bank
in still water, and requires no further at
tention. The straw soon gives away and
the soil also, the roots drawing support
from the water alone. In about twenty
days the raft becomes covered with the
creeper q 20 naa reptans) and its stem and
roots are gathered for cooking. In autumn
its small white petals and yellow stamens.
nesting among the round leaves, present a
very pretty appearance. In some places
marshy land is proftably cultivated in this
manner.
Besides these floating vegetable gardens
there are also floating rice fields. Upon
RATS constructed as above, weeds and adj
herent mud were placed as flooring, and
when the rice shoots were ready for
transplanting they were placed in the
floating soil, which, being adhesive, and
held In place by weed roots, the plants were
maintained In position throughout the
season. The rice thus planted ripened in
sixty to seventy, in place of hundred
days. The RATS are cabled to the shore,
floating on lakes, pools or sluggish streams.
These floating fields served to avert fam
ines, whether by drought or food. When
other fields were submerged and their crops
sodden or rotten, these foated and flourish
ed, and when a drought prevailed they
subsidized with the falling water: and while
turity. Agricultural treatises contain
plates representing rows of extensive rice
of rivers or lakes which existed formerly
on the lacustrine regions of the lower
Yangtse and Yellow river. China Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-19
HIS MARCH TO THE SEA. "
Solution Of Gen. Sherman's Raid
Through Georgia.
The General, in Letter, Gives His
Reason for Going to Savannah In
stead of to Augusta.

AUGUSTA, Ga.-The question 'swhy didn Z
Gen. Sherman come to Augusta instead of
gong to Savannah, when he made his
great march through Georgia. has been so
often asked and commented upon and with
out satisfactory solution, that Mr.. P. A.
Storau editor of the Chronicle. recently
wrote Ten. Sherman on the subject
and now prints the Generals reply as fol-
lows:
My Dear Sir-I am just back from a
visit to my daughter, who resides at Rose
mont, near Philadelphia, and find your iet-
ter of the 10th
The march to the sea- from Atlanta
was resolved ON after Hood had 0of we'll
ON his way to Nashville. then detached
to Gen. Thomas force sufficient to whin
Hood, which he. In December. 1864. yery
handsomely and conveniently did. Still +
had left very respectable army. and re-
solved to join Grant at Richmond. The
distance was 1000 miles. and prudence
dictated base at Savannah or Port ROYAL.
Our enemy had garrisons at Macon and
Augusta. | had figured ON both, and passed
upon Savannah.
When star ing northward. the same
problem presented itself in Augusta and
Charleston. | figured on both. but passed
between. did not want to drive out their
garrlsons ahead of me at the crossing of
the Santee, Catawba, Pedee, Cape Fear.
ETC.
The moment passed Columbia the fac
tories, powder mills and old stuff accumu-
lated at Augusta, were lost to the only two
Confederate armies left-Lee's and Hoods,
So, If you have a military mind. YOU will
see | made better use of Augusta than if
| had captured it with all its stores for
which had no use.
L used Augusta twice as a buffer: its
garrison was just where it helped me. If
the people of Augusta think | sighted
them IN the winter of 1864 IS by reason of
their personal friendship for me in 1864,
they are mistaken; or if they think /
made mistake in strategy let them saw so.
and with the President consent I think I
can send a detachment of 100, 900 or. so Of
sherman bummers'' and their descend
ants, who will finish up the lob without
charging Uncle Sam cent
The truth is these incidents came back
to me In humorous vein. Of course the
civil war should have ended with Vicl1s-
burg and Gettysburg. Every sensible man
on earth could have then seen there could
have been but one result. The leaders of
the South cared not to Idle in the last
ditch, and left brave men like Walker.
Adams, Pat Cleburne, ETC., to do that.
Yours truly,
w IT SUEPNfAN
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-19
A Pathetic Picture.
Once a Week.

A deeply pathetic scene from the drama
of real life was enacted a short time ago
in an auction room in Atlanta. Ga. It
was during a sheriff sale, and the bailif
was selling a lot of old furniture which
had been levied on to pay the house rent.
The levy was made on a distress warrant.
The furniture was sold piece by piece I'M
til a rickety old cradle was reached. Some
body in the crowd bid ten cents and the
crowd laughed.
A lady, dressed In a threadbare black
dress, with face upon which was stamp
ed a rooted sorrow, approached a gentle
man present and said:
''Will you please buy that cradle for
me? My baby girl died in it, and oh, sir,
1t is so precious to mel
Tears trickled down the woman's pale
cheeks. 1t was her furniture which was
being sold. The cradle was old, and it
was doubtless many years since she
watched the little sufferer tossing about
with the fever that burned its little life
out.
The cradle was bought and given to
her
And the crowd laughed no more, and
there was a tear In the eye of the man
who bid ten cents for that old rickety
cradle
James Ruxton, one of the aldermanic
candidates IN Chicago at the late election,
has been arrested for casting two ballots.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-19
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
THE KATYDIDS.
LISA A. FLECHTER.

let-her-lover-kiss her.
So the little katies say
Every evening when the twilight
Softly falls upon the day.
katy-let-her-lover her,
Is the strange, old-tIme refrain
Of these little insect singers,
Repeated DER and Ger again.
Katy-let-her-lover her
Sounds from vine and bush and tree,
Yet unless with care you seek him,
The tiny minstrel ne'er you seei
t-her-lover-kis her
When the autumn days drew near,
Yet the how, or why, or wherefore,
In the tale doth not appear.
REHABILITATION her
Is some DOOM decreed that race,
Time forever and forever
May not, cannot e'er efface.
let-her-lover-kis her:
FIlmy mist and gauzy wing,
Though among Gods tiniest creatures,
Thou art still beautiful thing
let-her-lover-kis her,
Sylph-like fairy of the night!
Ever as the autumns follow.
Thou may be my hearts delight
New Orleans Picayune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-19
Sailing Butter.

The advantages claimed for stopping the
churn when the butter has just arrived at
the graduated state are: That the butter
Is then distinct substance from the butter
milk and the main part OF the buttermilk
could be drawn off and the remainder
could be rinsed out without working and
that the salt could then be evenly worked
through the butter before the butter was
worked into solid balls by the revolution of
the churn.
From some mysterious cause it was found
that butter sailed In this way was at one
time sailed enough and at another not sufi-
GENTLY sailed. To obviate this difficulty
brine sailing was recommended. which with
me failed to make he butter sufficiently salt
and took more time These difficulties have
led to considerable discussion. and l pro
pose to solve the mysteries that surround
the subject
It is claimed by scientists that butter
does not absorb salt-that it exists In but
ter as brine or in an undissolved state-the
latter of which is highly Objectionable
The market calls for moist butter evenly
sailed; not dry with undissolved salt an
pearing in its texture From this [ reason
that the moisture that remains in butter
cannot be too strong a brine or rather that
there is no danger of its being too strong
that the difficulty in sailing in the granu-
lar state is that it has failed in many cases
to be salt enough.
To explain this matter thoroughly. we
will suppose we have churned in a No. 8
rectangular churn fifteen pounds of butter
to granulation. If the cream was Just
rightly acidifed butter floats and
the buttermilk can be drawn off without
ceremony. If the cream was too sour or
from some cause the butter fails to separ-
ate from the buttermilk and float. put In
half a pint of salt, and a pail of water.
which, with few revolutions of the churn
| destroys the albuminous character Of the
mass, and The butter will be found to sep
arate and float, and the buttermilk can be
drawn off without difficulty. | always
draw off the buttermilk into a clean vessel
so that what butter escapes can be skimm-
ed off and returned to the churn. Brine
Is heavier than water, hence will float the
butter more perfectly than simple water.
and use it when the butter does not float
or the churning was stopped while the but
ter was In quite small grains. | see no
special advantage In using brine in max
ing butter only as an acid to make the
butter float. The last washing is allowed
to drain until the stream is quite small
when we will put In our cork and stop the
drainage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-19

candidates In Chicago at the late election,
The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-14

TIE republican members of the legislature threaten to defeat the resolution extending the session twenty days unless the democrats agree not to call up the election bill. This bill has passed in the senate and stands a good chance of passing the house if it can be reached before the expiration of the constitutional limit. It is generally conceded to be long step in the direction of ''a free ballot and a far count" and the sudden change of front on this ques- tiou on the part of tue republican members would be surprising if their tactics were not so thoroughly well known. It does well enough for them to cry aloud for free and fair bal lot for campaign purposes, but when it cemes to putting such restrictions around the ballot that frauds and de- captions cannot be practiced, they object and use the force of thelr in- fluence against It. Poor old repub- hcan party.
The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-14
A Tribute Long Delayed but
 None the Less Just.

The following from the Globe Democrat published just ss the dem ocratic officials were gong out of power is greatly in contrast with what has frequently been proclaimed by that paper while democrats were ill power. It comes rather late, but it is a splendid tribute, neyerthe- less:
 In March, 1885, when Daniel Man ming assumed the duties of secretary of the treasury, the net gold fund of the government was,in round figures, $l26,000,000. The minimum limit of safety during the eight years of the Republican supremacy immedi- ately preceding, had been considered to be about $l35,O00,000. Bond calls were seldom issued by republican secretaries, when the net gold in the treasury fell below $l40,000, ,000. But toward the close of Arthur's ad ministration the gold fund began to lower, getting down to the $126, ,000,, 900 mark at the close of the republi- can riglme, with the tendency still downward, It had dropped to Sll0,. 900, ,000 few weeks after the Demo crats came into power, but there the movement was stayed, and soon it started slowly in the other direction, Seven or eight months later the gold fund had been expanded to an amount far beyond the average ac- cumulated during republican days.
 The Democratic treasury officials have often been blamed, and with some degree of justice, for the hoards of gold which they have piled up in the treasury and for the smsllness of their bond purchases, IL can not be denied, however, that the gold hoarding process has had the effect of largely decreasing the vol. tune of silver going to the treasury through the custom houses, restoring confidence in the nations ability to meet all it's o jgations in gold, and improving the monetary situation generally. The country's finances were perilously near dropping to the silver standard in the first half of the calendar year 1885. The danger period was safely passed, however, and the "silyer problem" for the immediate future, has lost much of it's menacing character. 4 large part of the credit for this change in fnanGiaI conditions IS due the skill, earnestness and persistence with which the affairs of the treasury de- pertinent have been conducted on sound monetary lines hy Daniel Manning and his successor, Charles $. Falrchild. The treasury chief chosen by President Harrison may perhaps make a record still more fa- gorable than this, but the country will have no cause ts complain If he meets
The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-14

TIE allusions of the Gazette to the little political bosses has excited the RussellvilIe DEMOCRAT as violent ly as the waving of red flag in the face of a wounded bull. It gives every evidence of being not only hit, but hurt.-Little Rock Gazette.
 The bug boss in the Gazette office undoubtedly thinks this a very able argument and images that the public mind is diverted from the question at issue by such witticism. Lay not this flattering unction to thy soul, dear Gazette. The "little political bosses" as you are pleased to call them, are in business at the old stand and will continue to be heard from as long as the big political boss in the Gazette office neglects his du- tv to the public and seeks to impress his new tangled notions upon peo- pie unwilling to receive them. The Gazette's bravado may serve the pur pose of keeping it's courage up, but outside of this It accomplishes noth- ing. The press and people are do ing their own thinking regardless ol the desire of the Gazette to do it for them. The following from the Pine Bluff Press Eagle of recent date is opportune aud appropriate, and is hereby commended to the careful consideration of the b. b. in the g. O.:
 "Nearly every prominent paper throughout the country that has refer red to Gen. Clayton's comments upon the assassination of his brother has strongly condemned his manifest en- deayor to fix the responsibility for that crime upon the Democracy of this State. | His efforts to make political capital out of that deploraDle affair began ere the | body of his brother received intermsnt, and have been consistently continued ever since, to the manifest disgust of all men of proper feeling, regardless of political convictions. In this connec- tioa we are again constrained to remark that our own Gazette is the only Dem ocratic paper of prominence that we know Of that has failed to detect in Gen. Clayton's manifesto, letters and interviews a studied and systematic at- tempt to islander the Democratic party of Arkapsas and make political capital out of his poor brother's blood,"
The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-14

tions of the several grants of lands to aid in the construction ofrailroads which have been heretofore and which may hereafter be forfeited, which were by the act making such grants, or have since been increased to the double minimum price, and, also of all lands within the limits of any such railroad grant, but not em- braced h such grant lying adjacent to and cotermious with the portions of the line of any such railroad which shall not be completed at the date of this act, is hereby fixed at $l.25 per acre.
 Sec. 5. That any homestead set tier who has heretofore entered less than quarter section of land may enter other and additional land lying contiguous to the original entry, which shall not, with the land first entered and occupied, exceed in the aggregate l60 acres without proof of residence upon and cultivation of the additional entry; and if final proof of settlement and cultivation has been made for the original entry, when the additional entry is made, then the patent shall issue without further proof: Provided, That this section shall not apply to or for ths benefit of any person who, at the date of making application for entry here- under, does not own and occupy the lands covered by his original entry: And Provided, That If the original entry should fail for any reason prior to patent, or should appear to be il- legal or fraudulent, the additional entry shall not be permitted, or if having already been initiated, shall be cancelled.
 Sec. 6. That every person entitled under the provisions of the home stead laws, to enter a homestead, who has heretofore compiled with or who shall hereafter comply with the conditions of said laws, and who shall have made his final proof there under for quantity of land less than 160 acres and received the receivers final receipt therefor, shall be enti tied under sad laws to enter as 8 personal right and not assignable, by legal subdivisions of the public lands of the United States subject to homestead entry, so much additional land as added to the quantity previ- ously so entered by him shall not exceed l60 acres: Provided, That in no case shall patent issue for the land covered by such additional en try until the person making such ad ditional entry shall have actually and in conformity with the home stead laws resided upon and cultiva- ted the land additionally entered and otherwise fully complied with such laws; Provided, also that this sec tion shall not be construed as affect ing any rights to the location of sol diers' certificates heretofore issued under Sec 24O6 of the Revised Stat utes.
The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-14
The World Ought to Know it.

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 MRS. ANN BorHwELL.
 Au Sable, Mich, Dec. 2S, 'SS.