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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03
THE STRAWBERRY.
Timely Hints in Regard to Mulchin Straw
berries,


Mulching Strawberries as far north as
the forty sixth parallel with anything ex-
ceps spruce Or fir boughs, which abound
here are positively injurious; if laid on
properly they do not press down the
plants, while with straw mulch the three
or four feet of snow, which we always
have here, brushes the plants so that they
are injured; but where the snow fills in
between the fir leaves they come out
clear and bright in the spring. The
boughs are put on quite thickly TO ex-
clude the heat and light in early spring,
not removing them until after the middle
of May, when plants begin to grow where
the boughs admit any light. This pre-
vents thawing and freezing when we
have an early spring; which, however, is
not usually the case.
An important advantage of this treat
ment consists in the fact of its retarding
the bloom until after the late frosts, thus
producing late fruit which is an advan-
tage here. We commenced to pick last
season, about July 5, and continued
nearly three weeks. As probably wild
strawberries never grow larger or more
abundant than in this country, especial
ly as the farms are new, tb csc berries
come into Il q market SO plenGifully that
We strive to keep back the cultivated
fruit until the wild If gone. A profitable
business for us is raising wild straw
berries for the Boston market. We grow
mostly Sharpless and Manchester which
do not have al insect enemy, as is also
the case with the raspberry and black
berry. MulchIng is not especially es-
sential, as the snow generally comes on
in November and remains until the mid
die or last of April, the ground freezing
but little, often not any.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03
HIN Is FOR THE HOUSE.

To remove lime from an iron pot wash
in strong vinegar.
Tissue or printing paper is the best
thing for polishing glass or tin.
Pigeons are good when the breasts are
plump end red looking. The flesh of an
old one is dark, and the breast is not so
plump. Squads are plump, soft-skinned
with pink flesh.
Keep large squares of thick paste
board hung conveniently to slip under
pots, kettles, stew dishes and spiders
when you set them down.
Ola boot tops cut into the right size
and lined, make good iron holders. The
leather keeps all heat away from the
hand.
No kitchen should be without scales to
test the integrity of things purchased by
weight and to measure the quantity of
various recipes.
To clean pieplates that have long been
used for baking, put them in large
kettle of cold water and throw on them a
few hot ashes or cinders and let them
boil for an hour.
Be very particular about disinfeotIng
the kitchen sink. Washing soda, two
tablespoonfulls TO a gallon of boiling
water makes an excellent wash to pour
hot into the sink at night after you have
finished using it.
Soups are cheap and nourishing. Two
or three pounds of meat are not as neces
sary for the foundation of a good soup
as the cook hooks would have us believe.
Bones cracked, put in pot covered with
cold water and slowly simmer for hours,
make an excellent stock and with this as
a basis, many kinds of soup can be
made.
The white worm, which sometimes
mak.s the earth in plant jar look as If
it were alive, can be driven out by stop
ing the mole at the bottom of the jar;
then cover the earth with water in which
you have dissolved a little lime. Let
this stand several hours and it is not
likely that you will be troubled with
worms again.
For cold on the chest there is nc
better specific for most persons than
we'll boiled or roasted onions. They may
not agree with everyone, but to persons
with good digestion they will not only
be found to be a most excellent remedy
for a cough, and the clogging of the
bronchial tubes which is usually the cause
of the cough, but if eaten freely at the
outset of a cold they will break up wha
promised, from the severity of the at
tack 80 have been a serious one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03

Gejargi, butcher by trade, who wore a
long knife. Lots were drawn in a hat,
and the marked paper was drawn by Ge-
iargi. Hassan was standing five yards
OF. In az imploripg tone he called out,
Il have sixty pounds at home, and you
shall have it if you save my life" The
brigands laughed increduously. Hassan
was not killed directly. He was left in
mental agony another eighteen hours.
Towards five o'clock the next morning
Gejargi and three others Jagged bshind,
and We knew Hassan was to die. Soon
afterward they came up with Hassan, and
the horrible Gejargi, with an air OF salts
faction, wiped his knife from which the
Turks blood was dropping. They ssid it
was to cut off Hass sans heao. The exc
cutioner had TO try three times before he
succeeded. Hassan's murder furnished
the brigands with matter for conversation
for whole week.
The band is organized on a military
footing. After our capture they took
down our names, nationality, religion
and profession. Five of the band are
first class brigands, four belong to the
second class, two act as spies, and the
others are called "fox tales" the rest TO
do the drudgery. The executioner, Ge-
iargi, is first class bligand. The band
is made of Bulgar:ans, with the excep-|
ton of two, who are of the Albanian
origin. One of them speaks Polish and
Russian. Kassareff wears modern civil
ian clothes, the others the Bulgarian
national dress. They repeatedly said
that they expected to be pardoned in
case there was change of regime in Bull
garia. The brigand, Mitri, said he had
been to the Stay committee in Odessa and
Kalafat. Kassaretf made no secret OF it
that he had spent the winter with those
committees. The brigands announced
their intention of shortly carrying out a
gleat coup. They said they only wanted
the ransom for political purposes. We
had no more forced marches IL Macedon-
ia, where the brigands felt at home.
When our ransom money came there was
q quarrel as to how it was to be divided.
Eventually it was distributed in four
categories. We ourselves got four
pounds each as lucky money, with the re-
mark, "This is present from our band"
The thirty-two pounds found upon Us
when we were captured was also returned
to US. The brigands who took US are
pious. They cross Themselves morning
and night and bafore each meal. They
live in accordance with certain laws.
None of them may marry. as they are
afraid a woman might betraY them.
They are not even allowed to talk about
themselves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03
Tempting Food For COnYalescents.

During and after most kinds of Illness
it is now the custom to give the most
nourishing and digestibie kinds of food.
The day for 'wishy-washy" spoon food
is fairly over, and beef jnice, cream and
eggs, and meat jelly are given when once
tea and Cruel would have been rigidly
prescribed.
To prepare beef juice properly, as it is
done in hospital practice, select thick
cut from the round, or better still, from
the inside of the shoulder. The butcher
will probably understand if you ask him
for the "bread and butter" piece. Cut
off piece half as large as mans hand,
boil 1t only long enough to thoroughly
heat it and start the juice. Put it in
hot bowl, standing it in a pan of hot
water to keep it from cooling. Cut it
with a sharp knife in many places and
squeeze out all the juice with lemon
squeezer. Salt the juice slightly and
serve it Immediately in hot cup, cover
ing it until it is handed to the patient,
who may eat as an accompaniment thin
bread and butter or delicate cracker.
The juice must be taken directly after
it is prepared, as it is unpalatable unless
hot, but on no account mt It it be heated
over the fire, as strong heaS coagulates it
and thus changes some of its most de-
sireabls qualities.
A disa that trained nurses frequent,
offer their charges Is raw beef sand
wich; but it is never to be so named to
the patient, who would very likely refuse
it unseen. Scrape very fine piece of
fresh, uncooked tenderloin of beck. Cut
two circlss with q cake cutter from slices
OF thin bread, spread them lightly with
butter and then with the scraped beef.
Sprinkle on little salt and pepper, lay
the circles together and cut across each
way to make four pieces and serve.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03
LIFE AMONG BRIGANDS.
Diet of Beach Leaves, Glover and Grass-A
Head That Was Hard to Cut Off.
Allahabad Morning Post.

Allahabad Morning Post.
Herr Binder, one of the men who was
captured by the brigands at Bellova, has
given an interesting narrative of his e1-
periences. He says: "Messrs. Scrikof-
sky, LANDER, Mitklol and myself were
sitting quietly at the Cafe Manto, in Bel
Iowa, when five hrigands entered, their
yatagans in hand. The chief approached
Lander and said, 'Signor Ian der, follow
mel Before Lander could answer ne re-
ceived two blows in the face and was led
into the next room. TIE brigand chief
then came up to me and seized hold of
me by the wrist. As I hesitated I also
received two blows in the face. The
brigands brandishsd their yatagans over
our heads, and all resistance would have
been in vain. Scrikofsky was released,
while Lander, Nitklol and I, together
with laborer, had our hands tied. We
were taken away about one kilometer to
pit where the brigands had put me
already in 1884. There we found thir-
teen brigands waiting for Us. We march
ed the whole night until three in the
morning when we rested until noon. On
the Monday We sent the first letter 20
Frau Lander, asking her to make every
effort TO obtain our release. The laborer
captured with US served as messenger.
The same day the brigands heard the
mounted gems d'armes were coming, and
conseq uently changed their quarters.
On Wednesday our provisions, consisting
of bread, mutton, tommy fish and cognac,
taken by the brigands from tie cafe at
Bellova were exhausted. The next two
days al we had to eat was beech leaves,
clover and grass. Tobacco we had in
abundance. Six of them were sent to
capture somebody provided with eataoles.
In four or five hours they returned
with Two Turks, one of whom received
swelve francs the next morning logo and
buv bread with. He was told that if he
did not come back MS comrade would be
put to death. We withdrew to small
wood three kilometers off. The Turk,
fho~eyer, did no5 return The chic was
furious and wanted to slap the other
Turk with bis yatagaE, but his followers
prevented him from doing. Afterwards
We set out again and marched fer some
time. The bri. ands took bread and
buck wheat from shepherd, which was
distributed among themselves and US as
prisoners. Towards nine O'Clock that
morning the Turk, whose name was Hass-
IN, asked to go on one side, which, &C.
com panied by several of the band, he was
allowed to do. Presently We heard ter
ribIe bowling. Hassan had tried to es-
cape end the brigands had beaten him
till he lost consciousness. It was then
decided that he should be killed. The
question arose as to who should do the
deed. Among the brigands was one
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03

me and I was glad of it. / could not
bear the sight of that woe-stricken
face.
The mate, Garley, how hated him
He was as cool and unconcerned as
though he had no remembrance of shoot
ing the poor wretch.
At Cayenne l resigned my ship Go
ing to the city I made all my arrange
ments and took the steamer for New
York. placed ample funds in the hands
of a trusty friend and told him to send
Laurette to me at the end of six months.
I could not see her until her grief had
lost it's edge.
Weary, sick and careless of my life, l
wandered off into York State, and finally
bought little place where hoped /
should lie down and die.
I sent for Laurette. Poor bird!
must gee her-I could wait no longer.
One summer night [ sat on the porch
of my house, smoking my pipe and gaz-
ing down the road. Soon the rumble of
wheels was heard, and the stage halted.
The next moment a pair OF soft arms
were around my neck, and the head of N =
sobbing Laurette was on my bosom.
"Oh! you dear, excellent captain"
Heavens! who is that behind your"
There stood the fine manly form of
Antoine HindscIear, the convict.
"Whet does this mean?" I demanded,
hardly knowing whether I was dreaming
or aot.
care you glad to see me!"
"Thank God!-thark God!' was all that
I could calculate.
l understood It we'll. The mate Garley
had read my heart better than I did my
self. After leaving the brig in the boat
he arranged the whole affair. The volIey
was fired, but no bullet touched Antoine
Hindsclear. he was smuggled into his
berth again, and took care to avoid my
sight. The whole crew were in the plot,
and thank God, was auped.
l sent Garley a thousand dollars as a
reward.
l am now an old man; but / am happy.
My children and NY grandchildren Il call
them nothing else) seem to think old
Captain Fontainbleau is not such wretch
after all.-London It'd Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03
Bold paylight Robbery.

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 2S.-A bold robbery
occurred here this morning in Que of the
busiest portions of the city. Henry
Ashoff. clerk of Wholesale millinery
establishment, had drawn $1,000 from
the bank AID put the money un III
three packages, one of $1,000
and two of $3.50 cash. As he
was returning he was iostied
by three men, and shortly after dis
covered that $500 was missing. He gave
an alarm and one man was arresi ed. the
prisoner gave the name of G. W. Ward
bat afterward admitted his name was
Cliff ". Ely, and stated that he was a
travelling man for Chicago firm. The
money was not found on the prisoner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03
Pure Air.
DemoreSt's Magazine.

Do not be afraid to GO out of doors be-
cause it is a little colder than usual. The
cold air will not hurt you if you are
properly protected and take exercise
enough to keep the circulation active.
On the contrary, it will purify your blood,
strengthen your lungs, improve your di-
gestion, afforl healthy. natural stimu-
lus TO your torpid circulation, and
strengthen and energize your whole sys-
TEN. The injury which results from
going into cold atmosphere is occasion
ed by lack of protection to some part
of the body, exposure 10 draughts, or
from breathing through the mouth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03
THE FARM AND HOME
THE SIN OF OMISSION.
MARGARET E. sANGSTER.

1t isn't the thing you do dear,
It's the thing you leave undone
Which gives you bit of heartache
At the setting of the sun;
The tender word forgotten.
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent. dear.
Are your haunting ghosts tonight.
The stone you mi yht have lifted
Out of the brothers way.
The bit of hearthsCone counsel
You were hurried too much to say,
The loving t0ucl of the hand, dear,
Tn gentle and winSone tone
That you had no time ort bought for,
With troubles enough of your own.
These little acts of kindness
So easy out of mind,
These chance TO be angels
Which even mortalS find
They come in night and silence.
Each child reproachfui wrath,
When hope is faint and tagging,
And blight has dropped on faith.
For lie is all too short, dear,
And sorrow is ali too great,
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarrieS until too late.
And it's not the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you left undone,
Which gives you the bitter heartache
At the setting of the sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03
IMER0S.
uPp1NcoTT's MAGAZINE.

~. 1,aort a haunted manner is, where Time
Has fumbled noiselessy with moldering hands;
AZ sunset ghosts troop out in sodden bands,
At noon tits vacant as house OF crime
R,,t when unseen as sound the night winds climb
The higher keys with their unstilled demands
It wakes to memories OF other lands
And thrills with echoes of enchanted rhyme.
Then through the dreams and hopes of earlier
years,
A fall of phantom footsteps the stair
Approaches near, and ever nearer yet.
A voice rings through my iifes deserted ways,
turn to greet thee, Love The empty air
Holds but the spectre of my own regret.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03
Shot by the Marshal.

New ORLEANS, Dec. PA Piceyune
special from Vicksburg says that At II
o'clock last night, City Marshal Mcmahon
SHOT A. G. Clay anc Newton Dolan, while
they we're attem pting to break into the
jail for the purpose of liberating a
prisoner named Green, charged with SELL
ing liquor, who was to be tried today.
They had nearly succeeded in breaking
the door down when the marshal fired.
Both men were badly wounded.
It is recalled by the Washington Star
that the state of New York, whose big
Four" are figuring SO extensively in the
cabinet gossip of the day, has held every
other portfolio at least three times, but
never that of the interior departm emit,
which has usually been filed by men from
the west or southwest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03

Rev. James Pettigrew Boyce, president
of the Baptist Theological seminary at
Louisville, died at Pau, France.
Otto Corbett, an accomplish of Shaw in
the Chicago bond theft case, has con-
fessed his connection with the affair.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03

Georgia is 20 have IN immigration
bureau TO encourage immigration TO the
state of industrious and intelligent farm
srs and mechanics.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03

Edward Sherman, of Whitewater, has
become raving maniac as result of an
attempt to abruptly discontinue the use
of tobacco. He had for many years con-
sumed large quantities of the weed, both
by smoking and chewing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-03

tSkIpg-this leaye-taktRg!"
Yes" said 1, "don't behave like child
much better! No taking, if you
can help if, or you are lost"
kept my seat. I saw them walking
arm In-arm upon the deck for about half
hour.
called the mate TO me and when he
had read the letter l said:
"Garley, this is bad business-bad bust
ness; put it in your hands. 1 obey the
orders, but remain in the cabin until it is
over"
How do you wish the thing done?" he
asked in q nonchalant matter.
"Take him out in boat, out OF sight:
do it as quickly IS possible! Don't say
anything of this until the time comes!"
Garley sat five minutes looking at me
without sagiRg a word. He vas a strange
fellow. [ didn't know what to make of
him. He went ont of the cabin without q
word.
Night came at last.
| "Man boat! GO quarter of mile
be quick.
To obey slip of paper-for it was but
q slip of paper after ell. Something in
| the very air must have urged me On.
saw the young man hneel down before
his Laurette, kiss her knees-her feet =
| her gown. l cried out like madman:
Part them!-part them this instant
Part themw
She was dragged into her berth, and
the boat rowed away in the darkness
Some time after q dull volley came ovei
the sea to the vessel. 1t was all over.
How pacei the deck and blamed my.
self! Ali night long l paced back and
forth, and all night long 1 heard the
moaning of the poor stricken bird.
Often / halted and was tempted te
throw myself into the sea and SD end this
horrid torture of brain and heart.
i Days passed. I awnothing of Lsurett'
and / would not see her. She avoided
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-09-21
GRENADl, MISS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER Fl. 1889
IN BLACK AND WHITE.

The negro question, reduced to its
last terms, is this: Shall the white man
or black man rule? Law or no law, sec
tion or 20 section, demagogue or nc dema
agogue, politics or no politics. VIII
township, county or State of America
ever, in any likelihood, be permanently
controlled by body of black men, no
matter how numerous the blacks, or now
sparse the white population? If white
men remain on the soil, will they doml~
nate that soil?
This question OF rae, rlSinG ABOVE
law, ethics and reason, If need bc, no"
pushes upon the Southern people: Inc
laws of reconstruction, putatively backed
by the power of the United States, de-
clare that the State of Louisiana, possess
cd as it is by majority OF coored IN
habitants, shall be ruled by the ma]orl-
tv. The State of Georgia, similarly en-
bprrassed, shall be similarly managed;
Agitators in the North, whose personal
conspicuity has arisen from the woes VI
their country, look to tLose woes for
continuance of place, profit and 'aVol.
It il. therefore, an effort OF se!i'Preserv,ae
ton in these agitators early to pit lhe
tide or natural events against the mas
! ti|y conceived statutes of the nation.
The negro has the statutory right to rule
in Louisiana and Georgia; no" lot MN
rule This is the impotent edlct OF
Chandler, Blair. and other Northern
legislators whose racial adherence OF tne
negro far exceeds the repuls'on teIS IN
the breast of any true Southerner'
There is no arrogance so great as the
arrogance of the "popular" ex-sIave lie
not only conceives himself to be the
equal of his former master, but publlshes
a sense of superiority. Urged TO eX-
.remes by frebrand statesmen OF the
North, the black spokesmen OF the
South have lately sounded the trump OF
race war. The black man has been In
voked to rise and establish his statutory
rights. Given the sympathy OF the
North, the negro editors believe the wal
would not 90 against the blacks.
Judging carefully, and reSsurveyin1g
situation of which sensible people nave
but one view the Herald is free to state
belief tnat the laws Of the Unlte'
Ststes will change before human nature
will change. If the black and the whit
cannot live together in the South as lh'
white is willing to arrange, then con5em
porary residence therein for both race
is entirely impossible. The North IN
paroxysm of sectional brutality, mlgh
re-inaugurate negro rule and might TEN
porarily again support it at the point c
q the bayonet and for the editicatlon
another generation cF Pircbbacks' ngi n
legss, Warmoths. Chambe.r'ai1,s, bu
locks but time would again develop
. brood Of whites before whom the lgno
/ rant field hand, the vicious hybrid, an
the white carpet-bagger would ei'hf
: vanish or surrender.
!. This is the negro question. The SouI
is in alarm. 1t fought well again
}; white conquerors. Does the North Of @
d lieve the South will defend ltseh le
t. bravely against Ethiopian thrH'!"om 2
- Chicago Herald.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-09-21
OF THE COUNTY DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTION.

In pursuance to call of the Demo-
cratic County Executive Committee, OF
Grenada county, a Democratic county
convention was held in the Court House
OF Grenada on Monday Sept l6, 1889.
w. G. Mclean, Esq, as Chairman OF the
Democratic Executive Committee, called
the convention to order, and stated the
object of the same, which was to nomi-
nate county and Beat officers. On mo-
tion w. G. Mclean, was elected Chair
man, and A. S. Bell Secretary; Aomi-
nations then being in order, DR., WIN.
McSwine and Mr.. w. M. Dubard were
placed in nomination for Representative
which resulted as follows:
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-09-21

the tract of the railroad from Green,
wood up the Tallahatchie river ana m
thence up Cassiday,s bayou, is now being
cleared Il is now opened from Green
wood above Black bayou, and we learn
mat the contract for building the road
will viii soon be let and the work will soon m,
begin, m This road, when completed, will
be big thing to the people living wesa a
of the Tallhatchie river, and Will be VI.
means Of developing one OF the riches. TT
and fairest portions of our State we
can congratulate our friends of that Sec
tion Of the future which awaits them
Charleston News.