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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS.
However They Could Alternate in Their
Attendance at Service.

1t was approaching the end of loves
young dream, says the Washington Post
George b. Jawkins was to be married in
one short week to Marie Anne Tungletitty
In seven days Marie Anne would merge the
house of Tungletitty In the proud name of
Jawkins. Yet George B. Jawkins was not en-
tirely happy. Ever and anon as he squoze
the fair Marie Anne to his heaving bosom
the black shadow of carking care would
creep over his face. Fight it down as
hard as he could, yet care would cark, like
a brood hen on a three-mlnute scratch for
grub. In the evening prayer-meeting
when George was wondering how In thun-
der he could get the bag out of the knees
OF his best trousers, care would set up a
cark which would make people turn around
and stare at him.
The secret lay heavy on the breast of
George B. Jawkins. But with the stern
integrity of man who has been brought
up behind calico counter. he resolved to
confess to Marie Anne. As they sat to-
gether that evening he began to screw his
courage to the speaking point. He screw
ed and screwed and screwed but the thread
must have been broken 1t was worse than
the night he popped the question. His
throat was parched, his tongue dry, but a
cold stream of perSpiration trickled down
his spinal processes.
Marie Anne, " he gulped.
''1es, Jawge. His name was George,
but she called him Jawge
Il have confession to make; fear the
result. 1t may cause you to discard me.
If it does | shall wander into the cold
cold world to die.
''Oh! Jawge, never, never. | will never
discard you. Besides all my dresses are
made and the invitations are out. What
have you been doing?"
Il dare not tell you. It is too horrible, :"
shuddered the poor young man.
''Have-have you been unmarried? p
boohooed Marie Anne.
No"
Have you f-airted with any other
g-girl?"
No"
''What is it, then?'
Il am-can you bear it?'
I'll don't know; I'll try"
Il am a--Oh! it is too dreadful"
Tell me and have it over with. l shall
die, l know | shall
Marie Anne, am somnambulist. p"
"A WHAT"
"a somnambulist. -
us that ALP" Why, what goosie you
are! I'm a Presbyterian, but after we are
married I'll go to your church every other
Sunday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
TEA-TIME IN MOROCCO.
How the Moors Prepare the Cup Tha
Cheers But Not Inebriafes


Cheers But Not Inebriates.
While the Arabs of Algeria are exceed
ingly fond of coffee. and skillful In their
preparation of it, their Arab neighbors of
| Morocco take little or no coffee, but are
great tea-drlnkeTs. says the Youth Com
| panlon. A European traveller, who recent
| ly went through the country, asked Moor
lsh chieftain why there should be such a
remarkable difference In the customs of
the two Arab races.
The Arab said the chieftain, IF left
to himself. drinks nothing but water If
he takes either coffee or tea. it is because
you have brought it to him and taught him
to drink it. =
1t is certain that the Moors take to tea
as If 1t were quite natural to them. though
their manner of preparation of it is singu-
lar to foreigners
When a party of guests enters the house
or the tent of a rich Moor. one of the near
relatives of the host is charged with the
duty of making tea. He squats in one
| corner, having ON one side of him large
server or platter. Upon one of these serv-
ers is a number of cups. and upon the
| other a sugar bowl, pile of fragrant
menthe leaves, a copper apparatus for heat
ing water. and tea-urn
The tea-maker sets the water to boiling
with a little fuel. and then pours the
boiling water into his tea-urn, quickly
adding to it some tea and some sugar,
, and allows the compound to
, steep few moments. Then he pours out
a cup of the tea and tastes it, smacks his
lips, shifts the odor of the liquid, and
draws deep breath i all with an air
which says: Il am going to get this tea
just right. .
The chances are that he does not find the
compound to his taste at the first attempt,
for he pOurs the tea IN his cup back In the
tea-urn, adds a little sugar or little tea.
and pours QUO another cup for a second
! test.
The process goes on, the tea-maker tast-
ing his tea and pouring it back again, I'M
till ne gets it just to his mind.
Then the guests are called and if any
one of them does not finish his cup he is ex-
pected to pour it back into the urn, for it
is the custom in Morocco to take three
cups in succession, and the tea-making has
to be begun over again.
The first Of the three cups offered is plain
tea with sugar, and the two succeeding
are perfumed with menthe or vervine.
, In preparing these successive kinds of
tea the cups 60 back to the tea-maker and
change hands at the next serving without
any washing.
If this change of cups is somewhat dis
tressing to European guests it is not so
much so as the next course in the little
feast, which consists of kind of Moorish
| confection which travellers can compare to
nothing else, in appearance and flavor,
than the sticks of cosmetics sold by apoth-
ecaries and hair-dressers It is best eaten,
they say. with ones eyes closed. But the
natives find il HIGHLY annetizin0.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14

IN connection with the richer heterogeneous
foods. OIL meal, corn and bran. so that Ii. /,
cost will be less and the grain and condi-
ton of. the animal greater than If 1t was
wlntered on hay alone. Cattle that run to
straw stack and are fed six or eight
pounds OF the above named foods mixed
each day will winter In better condition
than if fed all the hay they will eat with
out grlan. Straw pays In the additional
comfort of the stock. Our cattle need a
little outdoor exercise each day and it is
not good practice to allow them to
roam over the farm or stand in a muddy
barn--yard, and by stacking the straw In
small well-drained yard convenient to
the barn, so that the waste from the
managers can be scattered over it. the
waste from the straw-stack with this will
keep the stock dry under foot. and in
bright winter days the cattle are the pict-
ure of comfort as they stand to the leeward
side OF a stack. Then the horse stable Will
be comfortable and pleasant if the horses
are furnished with a generous bed, and the
urine, instead of escaping through the
floor, will be absorbed by the straw and
will add generously to the value of the man.
ure. Never carry over straw-stack unless
you find there is likely to be a failure of
wheat and shortage of straw the ensuing
summer | try to get all the straw under
foot IN the barn yard before the last of the
stock go to pasture, and if / find the stock
are not getting it down fast enough | cut
1t down with a hay-knife and throw it
down part of 1t at time and scatter it
over the barn-yard. After the cattle have
gone to pasture, when there comes heavy
rain all hands go to work and fork the wet
straw and manure which has accumulated
during the winter into fiat piles four or
five feet high, shaking it up and mixing
it well. We then feed our hogs for few
days on these heaps, so as to make the
surface fine and pack enough to prevent
the escape of ammonia In from two to
four weeks It is ready for second turning.
and the wetter it is at the time the better
This second turning fits it for top
dressing the wheat or grass land. as it viii
be fine enough so as not to interfere with
the use of the drill Another use of straw
which | think would be profitable in
mulching the wheat with it. If you would
have field of wheat which has not made
growth enough to protect the roots and
have an old straw-stack, the first time the
ground freezes enough to bear the team
scatter a light coating of straw over it and
l think you will find it profitable way to
use 1T, as it not only protects from freezing
and thawing, but it also fertilizes to some
extent. In conclusion let me say, utilize
Your straw in some way. There is a mine
OF wealth suffered to go to waste by neg
Letting it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
THE ONAS.
Our Primitive Brothers Who Are Inhabit-
ants ofTerra del Fuego.

Our Primitive Brothers Who Are Inhabit-
ants ofTerra del Fuego.
The advertising columns of the London
newspapers have recently announced that
nine cannibals from Terra del Fuego would
be fed three times day In full view of the
audience at the Aquarium. At 2, 6, and
10 0 clock the spectators have enjoyed the
privilege of seeing these specimens of an
extraordinary type of American savage heat
their beef and fish over a fire. and then
tear the flesh to pieces with their fingers
and devour it practically raw
This family of 0na Indians are the only
representatives of their large tribe that have
ever been taken from their homes Many
years ago some natives from the south coast
were taken to England and received there
a rudlmentary education. But the Onas
who are spread over more than four-ffthS
of the great islands, have been almost I'M
known until the recent discoveries of Lista
and Pepper; and the mountain ranges that
parallel the south and west coast have been
barrier which the natives on either side
have never tried to cross.
The family now includes a woman about
so years old, her son, a tall and not bad
looking specimen ofhis race, his two wives,
and their five children, ranging In age from
to Is years. The thing about the Onas
which most stimulates scientific interest and
popular curiosity is the fact that they are
regarded by some as the lowest stratum of
uncivilized humanity that has yet been dis
covered.
The brief accounts given in the London
newspapers of these visitors bear witness
that they are blessed with wonderful appe-
titles. The explorers who have seen them
at home also testify that when food is scarce
they can endure hunger with remarkable
fortitude. Mr.. Stubenrauch, who has a
sheep ranch on the coast, tell curious
story of a captive Ona girl, about Is years
old who fell into his hands while he was
chasing her friends, who had been stealing
sheep. He says she refused to take any
kind of food for eight days. The ninth day
he placed the carcass of sheep beside her.
Breakfast then began, lasted three hours
and when it was over, as Mr.. Stubenrauch
asserts with great solemnity, the girls body
was swollen to extraordinary dimensions
and the sheep had almost entirely disap-
peared.
A wretched little collection of the rudest
hunting and fishing implements, together
with the guanaco skins they wear In winter,
and which also, stretched upon sticks and
PlfGeu W " IhuNddu VI lIIeLu' eit lutI onIy
shelter against the elements, is exhibited in
London. 1t represents the entire range of
the manufacturing arts as practiced by the
Onas. The masculine specimen in London
is taller than the woman, and were it not
for this fact it might be difficult, clad as
they are in their guanaco skins, to tell one
from the other. Mr.. Pepper asserts that
he found it very difficult to distinguish the
sexes but observation finally taught him
that the Indian carrying bow was always
man, while the Indian weighted with
heavy burden was invariably woman
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
WRETCHED RICH MEN
Who Have Immense Fortunes But Take
No Further Interest in Life.

A woman writes to the PHILADELPHIA
Free Press: lone of the saddest things in
the world next to real poverty or distress
Is the sight of man who has acquired
boundless wealth and lost his happiness
and his capacity to enjoy what money Sc
cures. Such cases are by no mems rare.
They are very common. | saw a man to-
day whose income is said to be about ST.
600 week, whose whole day was spoiled
because a cabman overcharged him one
dollar for a short ride. OF course the mil
honaire knew he could not possibly spend
his income, but nevertheless the idea of
losing dollar, of being defrauded out of
1t, of getting nothing In return for it. was
almost agony to him. Many man in
making a great fortune completely loses
the power Of enjoying it. This is one of
the world S compensatlOns. The happiness
of sound sleep and good digestion is often
enjoyed by man with an empty purse.
while the millionaire epicure has neither
painless digestion by day nor healthy rest
by night.
I saw one afternoon one of Philadel-
phia' 5 richest men. He is one of those
wretched old millionaires who have spent
the best years of their life getting control
or bank or brewery. or boom of some
sort. He Is sitting back In a corner of his
swell landau now and wondering what he
did 1t for. He has fine old face. a heavy
gray mustache, bushy eyebrows and gold
trimmed eyeglasses. Heis dressed care
fully, and his face is absolutely empty of
interest of anything. He can t even work
any more, because he has so much money
that all motive is gone. His WIFE Oh,
well, he lowed his wife long ago and he
bows to her now when he meets her in the
hallway of his house, and they never had "a
quarrel. Children! Yes, several of them.
They used to be pretty, and were fond of
him when they were babies. Then board
ing school. college, balls, parties and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
MY MOTHERS PUMPKIN PIES.
W. W. RUNYoN.

When the beautiful autumn time has come
With its wealth of golden days
When river and hill and meadOw-land
Are yelled in purple haze,
Down the backward track of the fieeting years
Unbidden my memory flies
To the autumn time in my childhOOd's home
And to mothers pumpkin pies.
The yellow globes from the field were brou ght
Amid rapture of childish glee,
For well / knew the promise they held
OF delightful things to be.
And mute and motionless / gaZed
On the scene with wondering eyes,
While my mother wrought the mystery
OF those famous pumpkin pies.
Meaty and juicy and sweet were they,
And conjured with infinite care,
With a thin. brittle crust of delicate brown,
And a flavor beyond compare;
And though / should live to three-score and ten
Yet oft will the memory rise
OF those happy times in my boyhood days,
And my mothers pumpkin pies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
JOSH BILLINGS PHILOSOPHY.

Let him go, my son, said an ancient
father to his boy. who had caught a rab-
bit, and when he gets bigger ketch him
again The boy did az he wus told,
and has been looking for that rabbit ever
since.
The world owes all its energy and re-
fnement tew Injuries Digging roots
for breakfast and going naked for clothes
IL the virtewous innocence of a lazy savage.
There are lots ov folks who eat well and
drink well, and yet are sick all the time.
They are the folks who alwus enjoy poor
health.
If a man hits yu and yu hit him back
w are even; but ifyu don't strike back
he Is your debtor, and he alwus owes yu a
crack
Men, if they amt too lazy, Gv some
times till they are eighty, and destroy the
time a good deal as follows: The fust
thirty wears they spend throwing stuns at a
mark, the seckond thirty they spend in ex-
aiming the mark tew see where the stuns
hit, and the remainder is divided In cuss-
ing the stun throwing bizness and nurs-
ing the rumatizz
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
Johnny's Idea of Seasickness.

Here is a good description of seasickness
by little six-year-old boy:
Little Johnny had been visiting lately
at place where they had a big swing
which Is very popular with the rising gen
Grafton. When he returned home his
father asked him:
"Well, Johnny, did you swing in the
big swing?"
Eyes. a little, papa; but it made my
head ache in my stomach so that / had to
stop. Boston Transcript
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
FARM, HOME And GARDEN.
SIGNS OFsTHE FALL.
NEW YORK MAIL AND EXPRESS.


When the leaves begin TO turn;
When the fires begin to burn;
And Jack Frost
Nibbles off the maple leaves
While the Summer grille grieves
Chances lost;
When the school stakes in" again;
When the equinoctial rain
Softly falls;
When the statesmen fix their fences
and on persons in their sences
Ice cream pals;
When you shiveT in your bed,
When you catch cold in your head,
When you sneeze:
And the s0ng-birds southwark fly,
Leaving nests deserted, high
In the trees;
When the furnace will not 20,
And the plumbers men are slow,
And the coal
Ihat you ordered don't arrive,
And you're sorry you're alive,
On the whole;
When the tennis courts are bare,
And no more is heard in air,
"Thirty, love-"
When the football men get out,
And in frenzy run, kick. shout,
Push and shove;
When the wicked, with leer,
Whisky substitute for beer
As they drink
Then You know that Fail is here,
Then you know that living's dear,
When you think.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
PeruVians.

Miss Elizabeth L. Banks, the private
secretary of the Hon. John Hicks, United
States minister to Peru, writes home from
Lima: ''There are some very pretty
Peruvians girls to be met on the streets
saying their beads in some Of the many
churches. Their dark eyes are the kind
that would make man jump off Pizarro' 5
bridge into the river Rimac if his suit
happened to go wrong. The Peruvian
men pay great deal of attention to their
personal appearance and pass away much
of their time in dress suits and toolhpick
shoes. They are very gallant, but are not
half so nice as American men from any
point of view
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
Monte Carlo.

Instead of abolishing the gaming tables
of Monte Carlo the proprietors are vigor-
ously preparing for new campaign. The
Casino is being enlarged and beautifed
both within and without The new build
ings. which are being furnished with paint
ings and sculpture. will be reached by an
elevator from the railway station, and a
splendid gallery is being built which viii
command magnificent view of the Medi-
terranean. In front of the new buildings
will be placed colossal statues of lay and
Night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14

checks. checks. Now he hardly knows
anything about them. All sympathy is,
lost between them Living under the same
roof their hearts are always wide apart
In fact he doubts whether he has aheart at
all y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
Boyhood-

Boys when they are boys-are queer
enough. How many ridiculous notions
they have and what singular desires, which
in after life change and shape themselves
into characteristics Who remembers
when he would have sold his birth-right
for rocking-horse, or his new suit of
clothes for monkey? Who forgets the
sweet-faced girl. older than himself.
against whose golden hair he leaned and
wept his griefs away? Who recolects
when the thought of being a circus rider
appeared greater than to be president, and
how jealousy he watched the little fellows
that wore spangled jackets and turned
somersaults, and desired 20 become like
them? If memory preserves not these
caprices, or something similar, the boy Is
lost in the man. Happy visions! They
come but once and 90 quickly, leaving US
ever to sigh for return of what can never
again be-
The Rev T. Wolff, of the Hebrew con-
gregation at Ashland, has in hand the
commendable enterprise of establishing a
free English night school In that city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
FLOATING FIELDS AND GARDENS.
A Chinese Device for Escaping Droughts
and Floods.

A Chinese Device for Escaping Droughts
and Floods.
In the month of April bamboo raft.
ten to twelve feet long and about half as
broad is prepared. The poles are dashed
together with interstices of an inch between
each. Over this layer of straw an inch
thick is spread, and then a coating two
inches thick of adhesive mud taken from
the bottom of a canal or pond, which re-
ceives the seed. The raft is moored to the
bank in still water, and requires no further
attention. The straw soon gives way and
the soil also, the roots drawing support
from the water alone. In about twenty
days the raft becomes covered with the
creeper, and its stems and roots are gather
ed for cooking. In autumn It's small, white
petals and yellow stamens, nesting among
the round leaves present very pretty APP
pearance. In some places marshy land is
profitable cultivated in this manner Be
sides these floating vegetable gardens
there are also floating rice fields. Upon
RATS constructed as above weeds and adj
herent mud were placed as a flooring and
when the rice shoots were ready for trans
planting they were placed in the floating
soil, which being adhesive and held in
place by weed roots, the plants were main
tanned in position throughout the season.
the rice thus planted ripened in from sixty
to seventy, in place of 100 days. The RATS
are cabled to the shore, floating ON lakes,
pools or sluggish streams. These floating
fields serve to avert famines, whether by
drought or flood When other fields were
submerged and their crops rotted, these
foated and fourished; and when drought
prevailed they subsidized with the falling
water, and while the soil around was arid
advanced to maturity. Agricultural
treatises contain plates representing rows
existed formerly in the lacustrine regions
of the lower Yangtsze and Yellow Rivers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
a 1rorn,on priest i'm TroubIe

SALT LAKE Cry, Nov. 7.-GeOrge Ham
cock, a Mormon priest has been arrested at
Payson charged with numbering Mrs.
Hatch and her son Geo. Jones, thirty-two
years OF age. The victims were accused Of
incest when they were slain, but the Cen
tiles say it was a church murder
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14

Viroqua has sent two large boxes Of
people of South Dakota.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-08-31

"ls the bowling dog always followed
by death? f." asked little girl. mot
always, my dear, sometimes the man that
shoots at the dog misses him." But
when a New Home Sew ing Machine is
left with lady on trial it is a sure
thing she will buy New Home when
she buys machine.
The water pipe which conveys water
from the Raymond shaft and discharges
below town, is being taken up and will
be laid from the Raymond to the Reduc
ton Works over the Summit, where
such quantity as is needed will be used
and the balance turned down the MOI n.
tain side.
Applications from different sections 81
the county for positions as teachers are
frequently received now by the Co.
School Supt. and the various schc o.
trustees.
A. D. Rock, Deputy U. S. Mineral
Surveyor, came in from Eureka Thurs.
day to survey several mining claims in
this vicinity for patent.
A. Werner, having finished the alter.
atoms on the Campbell house, moved in.
to the premises last Tuesday with his
family.
c. B. Ball operated stand for liquid
refreshments at the Ball games and found
it fairly remunerative.
The members of the st. George ball
nine left for home Thursday morning.
S. T. Godbe is expected to arrive from
Salt Lake tomorrow.
Did you bet on the first game or on
general results?"
Don't make yourself conspicuous by
loud cheering.
What do you thiak Of baseball!