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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
The Potato Rot.

The State Agricultural Experiment
Station of Maine gives the following
directions for guarding against the
spread of the fungus which causes the
potato rot, and which lives over Winter
in the spores contained in the stems,
leaves and tubers: First. burn the
tops and leaves in the Fall, after the
crop is gathered. to destroy the spores
contained in them; second, gather all
the small potatoes, for if allowed to
decay in the field the spores in them
will start the disease the following
Summer; third, select seed for plant
ing, if possible, from fields or local
tiles exempt from the disease the fol-
lowing season; fourth, rotate the potato
crop, as the Winter spores terminate
the following Spring, and finding no
food plants must perish; fifth, burn all
decayed potatoes taken from the cellar
or bins and other potato refuse; do not
throw them on the compost heap, as
the spores retain their vitality and are
spread far and wide with manure;
sixth; the Winter spores do not ger
inmate very early in the Spring. The
planting of early varieties that mature
before the parasite can get start has
been recommended; seventh, if cut seed
is used, the surface should be allowed
to dry; for when placed in the ground
the Winter spores would find ready
entrance through the freshly cut sur
face.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
Record Of a Day.

What is the life of fashionable and
emancipated lady? Let Us turn to the
Nineteenth Century and read what Lady
Catherine Mines Gaskell has to say.
Here is a specimen of the days routine:
She plays with the children.
She gives orders to the cook and
other servants.
She arranges for the reception of
visitors Expected and UNEXPECTEDLY.
She takes turn at Herbert Spencer.
She settles dispute between butler
and gardener (the gardener had "given
orders" to the butler).
She COMPUTES the French governess,
who complains of the eldest daughter
(qu'elle etait dune impertinence in
croyable).
She soothes the board schoolmaster
(the curate had been presuming).
She pacifies tenant who wants his
rent reduced and doesn't like being
bitten in the leg by pet mastiff.
She goes for drive with her hus-
band.
She opens a music hall and makes a
speech.
She reads the Bible to a sick woman
in the parish.
She receives her guests.
She explains to her husband why the
fish isn't up to the mark.
And then perhaps she writes an ar
ticle for a monthly magazine. No
wonder that nervous exhaustion is be-
coming as frequent among hard-living
women as govt among hard-drinking
men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20

of the Justices of the United States Su-
preme Court for the past forty years.
and she gets 500 for each one of them.
They are all made alike, the only diff
ference being in the material, the
Chief Justice wearing black Chinese
satin, while his associates are robed in
black silk. The Chief Justice always
wears new gown when he swears in
President. The new gown is always
subject to good dea of criticism bv
the older Justices, and it's tit is closely
scanned.
If Henry George, the apostle of So
cial reform, wero penniless tomorrow.
he would have very little difficulty in
getting employment as typewriter.
Several years practice have enabled
him to attain such speed on the iu-
strument as would put hundreds of
professionals to the blush. A friend
had occasion to call upon Mr. George
at his house, on Nineteenth street. re-
Gently, and was surprised to learn that
he did very little work with the pen.
all his literary work. business letters
and even his private correspondence
being typewriter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
The Dog Had to Climb.

We were comfortably seated around
the hearth at Porter Lake, in Pike
county. Pa, and the spirit of story
telling was strong upon us, because
the fishing had been unusually good
and the supper bounteous. The flash
and sparkle of wit filled the upper air
of the room as with fine aurora. and
halo of calm bliss encircled the brow
of each entranced listener. But first
the drug and then the antidote. The
benevolent Colonel drew us down
gently from the giddy heights with a
story of a coarse plebeian, locally
known as a catfish. Thus ran his tale:
"A man and his dog went fishing in
the Mississippi. In short time the
man felt mighty pull on the line, and
he knew that catfish had taken hold.
The giant came along peacefully
enough until he happened to change
his mind, and then he decided to
double on his course and take the man
along. The faithful dog, seeing his
masters danger, rushed to the rescue
bravely enough. The willy catfish,
when he found the dog pursuing,
turned upon him and terrified the dog.
who incontinently turned tail and
swan vigorously toward the dry land,
the catfish holly following. Presently
the dog gained the land and ran hastily,
the catfish madly surging after him.
The dog, sorely pressed and fearing a
painful death. in his extremity climbed
a tree, the catfish still pursuing"
Hold on!'' we cried in chorus; dogs
can not climb trees
Cant climb tree?" responded the
Colonel. But the catfish was close
upon him, and this dog had to climb. u
Forest and Stream.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
Raising Calves.

An English method of raising calves
after having let them have the cows
milk for few days-which should al
ways be done, not only because the
milk is fit for nothing else, but because
it is just suited to the needs of the calf
during the first week is to feed milk
not colostrum-in obedience to the
dictates of nature and there is now less
need to feed it sparingly and often. As
a matter Of fact it may be said that a
calf will do very well, at all events
when is is week or ten DAYS old, if it
is fed twice day. but even then it
should not be allowed to drink all it
will or can. The pail should be re-
moved while it is still able and will
ing, and even anxious to drink some
more. The impression of the English
writer whose article we have been
reading is that a careful attention to
this feature of the process is better
than allowing given quantity of milk
to all calves alike, of the same or SINH
lar age. But it certainly involves care
full watching, and when the work is
left to help it is probably as well to
limit each calf to a given quantity. 1t
must be borne in mind, however, that
calves appetites and digestive capaci-
ties vary a good deal. and each calfs
appetite and requirements may vary
on different days, and that to feed by
strict rule or measurement does not
properly meet the case. 1t is advisa-
BILE that each calf should receive fresh
milk during the first three weeks, dur
inc which time it will have haooma
vigorous enough to assimilate other
kinds of food less strictly in harmony
with nature, and it will have learnt to
nibble a little sweet hay, or grsss if
there is any, out of net or rack.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
IngerSOll On Crime.

Before the ninth annual convention
of the State Bar association Col. Rob-
ert G. IngerSoll delivered an address
upon the subject of Grimes Against
Criminals" in which at the outset he
demonstrated that punishment by tor
ture and death had failed to abate
crime. The following were among Mr..
Ingersoll's utterances:
Degradation has been thoroughly
tried, with its maimings and brand
ings, and the result was that those who
inflicted the punishment became as de-
graded as their victims. 1t is safe to.
say that governments have committed
far more crimes than they have pre-
vented. L am perfectly satisfied that
there are millions of others incapable
of practicing certain virtues. There is
no reformation in degradation. Who
ever is degraded by society becomes
it's enemy. A punishment that de-
grades the punished will degrade the
government that procures the inflic-
ton. Is there any remedyP Can any
thing be done for the reformation of
the criminal? He should be treated
with kindness. Every right should be
given him consistent with the safety of :
society. He should neither be degrad-
ed nor robbed. Why should these men
after having been imprisoned for years
be turned out without the means Of
support? Would it not be far better
to lay aside his earning SO that when
the convict is released after five years
of imprisonment he will have several
hundred dollars of his own, enough to
keep the wolf of crime from the door
of his hearth If we are to change the
conduct of men we must change their
conditions. Extreme poverty and
crime go hand in hand. Ignorance,
filth, and poverty are the missionaries
of crime. AS long as dishonorable
success outranks honest effort-as long
as society bows and cringes before the
great thieves-there will be little ones
enough to fill the jails."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
SKETcHINC FROM THE NUDE.
Peep Into the Studio of a Chicago Art
Glass.

On a platform raised about three
feet above the level of the floor stood
what appeared at the first glance to be
a magnificent model of a woman in
wax. One hand rested lightly on
table, the other on her hip. The figure
was of robust build and beautifully
proportioned, while the pose was
graceful, easy and as immovably main
tanned as that of statue. A faint
wave of color mantling the cheek was
the only thing which warned the re-
porter that this was no triumph of the
wax-worker's art, but in reality living
woman clad in nothing beyond bushes
and her native modesty.
As the Journal man made a tour of
the easels and efficiently compared the
different studies with the original, not
word was spoken, and the work went
on as unconcernedly as if the living
model had been nothing more than one
of the plaster casts from which the
young women in the antique class were
working. AS for the model herself,
after one furtive glance at the stranger,
she again fixed her eyes on a point
high above the heads of the students
and devoted all her energies to the ex-
tremely difficult task of standing per-
fectly still. This relieved the news
paper man from his natural embar-
rassment, and he was able to critically
examine the various sketches.
The human figure is one of the most
difficult things to draw, and perhaps
for this reason the sketches were not
nearly SO uniformly good as the work
had been in the other rooms. At the.
same time some OF them were vigorous,
accurate and effective, and one study
in oil was a particularly strong piece
of work. A strange fact noticed was
that no matter how slight an amount
of work had been put on the face. and
Notwithstanding that the whole figure
had been sketched in every case, thus
reducing the head to small size, every
student had caught a likeness of one
of the most entirely unattractive faces
it was ever the reporters lot to look at.
Apart from head of magnificent
blonde hair there was nothing even in
teresting in the dull, cold features.
The model was evidently quite used to
posing, the students treated the matter
as one entirely of business. and after
the first uncomfortable barrassment
had passed away even the reporter
forgot the entirely unconventional
presence and made his notes with even
more sang froid than had been the case
in some of the other class-rooms.-
Chicago Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20

straw, more than can be used for feed
ing to good advantage. 1t is less work
to haul direct from the stables to the
fields, but this can not always be done
to the best advantage, and to avoid too
large a quantity to accumulate in the
stables it will be necessary to pile out
side.
A shed will protect considerable, and
especially viii avoid teaching.
When this can be done, piling in a
circular heap, putting good LAYER of
straw underneath, and covering with a
lawyer of straw or litter will protect
considerably.
To throw manure out of the stable
without cover or piling so as to shed
water is to lose considerable part of
the most valuable properties, and as
the expense of handling and applying
is the same it should be the aim to save
all the soluble portions as fully as pos
sible.
Manure should be considered
product of the farm, and should be
handled SO as to realize the best posi-
BILE results, avoiding waste and securing
as far as possible all the benefits in or
der to increase the profits,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20

Eff anybody was sick he was the fust to
hear OF it an go to nurse EN-; eff any
body got hurt he allus knew jist what
ter do. Stranger, couldn't begin to
tell yer how many folks he'd helped in
that way. No trouble warn't too great
fer him ter take ter relieve sufferin'
Well, we'll; l think it was erbout five
years ergo las fall er crowd NV us fell
lers was going down ter the south in
the country lookin' fer stray cattle
Purcell was along lookin fer some of
Hickman's branded ones. Els we come
nigh ter Monk Morrison's we saw a
powerful commotion goin' on in the
corral. At fust we couldn't make out
what the racket was, the cattle were
snortin' an cavortin' an bellerin' So
We pushed up clost ter the fence.
"'By George, they're KILN Monky'
one Nv the boys said. Sho nuf thar
was Monk down on the ground in the
pen. Yer see, he'd lariated a mad
cow. and she had got the better of him
and was teariD' round the corral drag
gin Monk after her. an all the cattle
was in stir, stampin' an kickin' an
hookir' like mad. 1t ermost makes
my hair stan on end ter think about
it. We all jest sot thar on our ponies,
not one Nv us KNOWN what ter do.
''All of suddint we seen Purcell
jump into the midst Nv the mad beasts.
Fer mint we couldn't see what was
happenin', the cattle stirred erbout SO;
but presently we seen Purcell a-holdin'
on ter Monk. He'd cut the lariat an
was comm out with Jim. We hoped
the pair Nv 'em over the fence. Monk
was purity badly bruised, but he didn't
seem ter have no very serious hurt.
But in mint we seen it was all up
with Purcell. He jest fell down by the
fence an lay thar ez limp ez er rag,
the blood a spoutin' from his lef' side
where a cows horn had stuck. / seen
his Iii s er movin', an | bent down
clost ter hear what he had ter say.
"'Monk's got wife an chillun',' he
said, 'an' thought eff / saved his life
it 'ud sorter be es eff I'd saved theirs,
too, that is the only way-give life,
give life
1.-The boys TUX Monk over ter the
house, but we didn't try ter move Pur-
cell; he was too fer gone. We jest
waited thar with him till he was dead.
1--WE buried him on er little rise Nv
ground. not fer fun Monks house
Monk said he wanted him ter be thar
AM long toward spring, when one NV
the boys was goln' east, we all throwed
in an got him ter bring back a tomb
stone fur Purcell. It's mighty purity
thing, stranger-we wanted a purity
one IF ver'II ride over thar re rmOrrar
yer kin see it fer yerse'f.
AN yer say yer come to sarve er
warrant on Purcell-er warrant fer
murder? Well, yer kin 60 back an
say that he's been called ter er higher
court than theirs, an eff ever a man
paid debt for life that man was
Purcell. "-Patience Oriel IN Philaclel-
phiG Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
The Deadly Cold Bed.

If trustworthy statistics could be had
of the number of persons who die every
year or become permanently diseased
from sleeping in damp or cold beds
they would probably be astonishing and
appalling, says Good housekeeping. 1t
is a peril that constantly besets travel
ling men, and if they are wise they
will invariably insist on having their
beds aired and dried, even at the risk
of causing much trouble to their land
lords. But the peril resides in the
house and the cold ''spare room" has
slain its thousands of hapless guests,
and will go on with its slaughter till
people learn wisdom. Not only the
guest but the family suffer the penalty
of sleeping in cold rooms and chilling
their bodies at time when they need
all of their bodily heat by. getting be-
tween cold sheets. Even in warm sum-
mer weather cold, damp bed will get
IN its deadly work. 1t is needless
peril, and the neglect to provide dry
rooms and beds has in it the element of
murder and suicide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
The knight.

(which one of these two roadways, pretty
maid, is miner
Where do you, go, sir knight? For that you
Thy bare, brown leg is round. with turn Of
ankle fine;
The basket on thy head brings lovely arms
in play;
Dark are thy lashes. dropping over eyes that
shine.
know not where go, for will go thy way"
Then tbs to find Teo, the goatherd, that you
go,
Towhom my leg SO round shall very quickly
Ny eyelashes, my lips with kisses to bestow,
All that have of love, of beauty, for his
And all too little is to quench the fevered glow
That in his charmed heart my presence can
awake"
Elf unto love alone thy favor thou wouldst
love thee; but if, more than this, to pleasure
One needs must guide flock each day to Craze
Accused then be fate that from mine in
Bet me apart for war and carnage, babe me
WELD
The sword, and gave no shepherds pipe of
"A warrior is king amid all human kindl
The shepherds, trembling, greet the hero
with acclaim,
mind
His house is held in fear, its warder in his
name.
How would love Tee to captains rank as
signed,
With doughty sword in hand that should
maintain my famel'
Spring to the saddle then behind me. Safe
with me
Thou shall be brave and them who envy thee
deride.
Ny part in all the spoil of captured towns shall
be
Jewels and chains of gold to deck thy beau
tvs pride,
And when we pass the folk shall cry aloud to
see:
Behold the glorious bridegroom and the
radiant bride!
'What! Bad man, for your sake you wish me
to betray
The faith | vowed my goatherd in the
meadOwland!
IF abandon him then he will pine away
And die-at least, he gave me so to under
stand.
And how can l. sir knight, mount to your sad
die, pray,
Unless you lend to me your stirrup and your
hand?''
From the French of Emile Augier in Trans
atlantic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
as far as possible all the benefits in or
der to increase the profits.
The Chinch Bug.

In the Insect Life, a monthly maya
zine issued by the Division of Entomol-
ogy of the United States Department of
Agriculture, is note on the chinch- bug,
showing the necessity for accepting
with the greatest caution any conclu-
sions as to the result of intentional dis
semination of the disease among APP
parently healthy bugs. The note says:
The chief difficulty is that at the
time when the disease is prevalen Mt in
one locality the same climatic and
zvmotic conditions are liable to-and
in fact usually do-prevail through
wide extent of country, and that the
disease, if it has not already appeared,
may be about to appear over the whole
area. This at onces establishes the
necessity OF the most careful observa-
tons by means of check experiments.
If the diseased bugs are simply placed
among apparently healthy bugs and
the latter subsequentlybecome diseased,
the proof of direct transmittal by con-
tagion is but negative. If, however,
healthy bugs are isolated from the i'm
ported diseased bugs and remains
healthy, then a probability is estab-
lished in favor of the contagion by con-
tamination. The disease is always
most prevalent in cool, wet wea Their,
from midsummer on, when large num-
bers of the older bugs arc naturally dy-
ing from other causes, and are proba-
bly, more liable to fall victims to any
scourge of this kind.
The subject is of extreme interest,
and while there are reason which
would make us doubtful of any tangi-
BILE and practical results following the
attempted artificial spread and propa-
CATION of the disease, and which may
make us accept with caution the more
sanguine views of men like Professor
Lugger and Snow, vet there is suffi-
cient promise of such results to justify
the fullest and most careful experiment
tation. This will doubtless be had in
the next year or so by the cooperation
of the entomologists connected with
the different experiment stations. The
full life history of the particular En-
tomophthora is of extreme Importance
in this connection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
Plumbing in Old Rome.

Recent Investigations in Rome show
that the ancient plumbers of the Eternal
city We're obliged to be very particular
with their work. There have been I'M
earthed great quantities of lead wa
ter pipe, each plainly stamped with The
name of the owner of the house, the
year of the plumbing the name of the
consulssfor that year, and that of the
relgning emperor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
Farms in Hungary.

Farms may be had cheap in Hungary,
If the owner can not pay the taxes
they are forthwith sold by the state.
and recently farm assessed at EGO
annually was brought to the hammer
and purchased for kreuzers- quite
IL penny.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20

the excess OF prime sailing. Dy el.....
method the butter is salted with brine.
and evenly salted, if the stirring of the
salt into granulated butter is carefully
and thoroughly done. 1t is not neces-
sary to float the butter in brine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20

Rome, from being a city set upon
seven hills, is likely to be seaport.
The mountain is not to be cast into the
sea, but profane American company
is willing, for the sum of $4,000, 900
france, to undertake to bring the sea
to the mountain by means of canal
eleven miles long. The scheme was
suggested by Garibaldi and has since
been approved by Lessons
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20

A calf whose back is covered with
fine fur instead of the regulation hair
is one of the curiosities of Appleton, Me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20

Six of the III members OF the Yale
law school are japanese.