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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
A Little Heroine.

Quiet heroism really talks loudest
1t would be hard to find a Drawer
heroine than little Pittsburg girl, of
whom the following story was told to
me yesterday. says the Topical Talker
of the Pittsburg Dispatch:
The little girl, 3 years old. bound to
see all to be seen and to do all to be
done in her small world, was sitting
with her mother in a second-foor
room. Presently she got up and went
to the window overlooking the street
and sat on the window-sill. Her moth
er's back was turned toward the win
dow A party of the child's playmates
came down the street. The little one
at the window, of which the lower sash
was raised, leaned out TO hail them, lost
her balance, and fell out. The cry of
the child as she fell apprised her
mother of the accident.
The terrified woman ran downstairs
and to the street. The child was lying
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Appetite of the COreans,

The Coreans are egg eaters and
many of the japanese like their eggs
raw, says Current Literature. Raw fish
is common article of diet in both
Japan and Corea, and | attended a
Japanese dinner in Toxic where slices
of white, uncooked trout were brought
in covered with ice and served as one
of the entrees. 1t was not bad to taste,
and my Japanese friends ate it with
great gusto. In Corea it is not I'M
common for the fishermen to take
bottle OF pepper-sauce along with them
and eat a fish as they take it from the
hook, sprinkling bit of red-hot chill
over it, and eating it down without
cleaning anything off except the scales.
The Coreans are by no means par
tcular as to the manner in which their
fish and meals are served. The en-
trails are sold and eaten as well as the
rest OF the meat. and a common dish
at big dinner is chicken baked,
feathers, entrails and all. and served
whole on the table. The Corean is the
greatest eater in the world, and more
than any other man in the world he
lives to eat. The average man the
country over eats everything he can
get his teeth on, and he will take a
dozen meats a day if he have the
chance.
| had sixteen chair-bearers in trip
which | took into the interior. and
these bearers stopped at every village
and almost every house to rest and
feed. They would dart off one by one
into fields of turnips by the wayside,
and for the next half-mile would go
along eating raw turnips.
The bigger a mans stomach is in
Corea the more wealthy he is supposed
to be, and you see pot-bellied young
sters everywhere you go. A Corean
has a short sack which comes down
just below the middle of his waist, and
his full. baggy pantaloons are tied up
under this. Some of the baby boys
have outgrown the size of their jackets.
and you see a belt of fat, yellow skin,
between the ends of the pantaloons and
toe beginning of the coat.
Some of the wealthy ones wear bus
ties over their abdomens in order to in
crease the size of their fronts The
king usually makes a present to those
who have an audience with him. He
sent lot of provisions to the Ameri-
can generals a few days after they ar
rived in Corea to recognize the army,
and there is no lack of good things in
the palace. The Corean country pro-
duces good meat, and the Coreans are
greater meat eaters than the Chinese
or the japanese.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

for the prevention OF wrinkles. es-
pecially under the eyes: Draw the
mouth hard into the semblance of a
smile. Do this before the glass, and
next place the index and third and
fourth fingers of each hand on the
small mounds formed at the top of the
cheeks and press lightly downward
with the tips. Then relax the face at
once: again draw up into smile, then
relax; do this with increasing rapidity
over and over until the muscles are
tired, always maintaining the down
ward pressure with the finger tips, but
not so hard but that the contraction of
the muscles in the smile viii raise
them each time"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Grants First Speech to His Men.

Maj. Joseph W. Wham, the army
paymaster at Tucson, Ariz, is in town
looking after the adjustment of mis- ac-
counts. Early in the war Maj. Wham
was a lieutenant in Gen. Grants regi-
ment, the Twenty-First Illinois. We
were in for thirty days at first, and had
a colonel who wore two pistols in his
belt and made speeches on dress pa
rade,' he said to circle of friends at
the Ebbitt last night. We refused to
re-enliSt unless we could have a new
colonel, and the case was presented to
Gov. Dick Yates when the regiment
was camped at Springfield. 1t was
then that Col. q. S. Grant was assigned
to our regiment, and the Governor
suggested that the boys be enthused
with some speeches by Logan and one
or two others. The program was car
ried out, and the boys, who had been
worked up to three-cheers-and-a-
tiger state of mind and were accustom-
ed to speeches from their old colonel,
called for Grant Grant Col. Grant,
with the accent on both words. There
was slight Hesitation, and then Col.
Grant, who had been sitting down,
arose and made an effective address
without exhausting the English Ian
guage. 1t could hardly be divided into
the three parts required by rhetoricians,
for it consisted of but four words-to
wit: Go to your quarters told the
story once at a reunion when Grant
was present, and the veterans took it
with storm of applause, but the Old
Commander never smiled. 1t was one
of those incidents of necessary army
discipline which he thought ought
never to be alluded to at reunions, and
l have never told itsince. Washington
STAR
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

on the pavement.
Il was dess trying to Diet up" the
child said. as her mother raised her.
She did not cry nor even moan. Yet
when the doctors came they found both
of her legs were broken. If there is
any pain harder to bear than incidental
to the knitting of bones l don't know
it, but this little heroine bore it and
the sleepless nights. the cramped con-
fnement without complaint.
Surgical skill saved her from being
a cripple, l am glad to add, and she is
now a madcap youngster again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
The Giants of All Guns,

The giant of all guns. the 13O-ton
gun recently constructed at the Klupp
gun-works, at Essen, Germany, and in
tended for the Italian ironclad Sardeo-
ia, is 50 1-2 feet long, with bore Is. Z
inches. 1t fires a steel shell weigh
ing 1,730 pounds, with an initial veloci-
ty 2, al feet per second, or one of ?, 314
pounds at 2,099 feet in the same length
Of time. 1t was built after the designs
of Sir W. Armstrong. and is as superior
to the S1-ton gun as that invention was
to the mountain howitzer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Moss on Electric Lights.

A florist in London. England, has
had the happy thought of hanging trails
of moss over and around the electric
lights in his window. The green and
yellow tints of the delicate leaves form
a lovely we'll for the light which glim-
mers through them without being
diminished
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
A Fatal Mistake.

Three children in the Sheffield, En-
gland workhouse were done to death
few days ago by the medical officer.
who carelessly wrote prescription for
twenty grains of Dovers powder in ten
packets, instead of for ten grains in
twenty packets
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Not an Observer.

Mamma-''Wh did young De Richie
say last night when you asked him
whether the moon was shining as he
came in?"
Lillian Why, he hadn't noticed"
'.Hum-m! My dear, / wouldn't
waste any more time there, think
Time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
The Swiss Army.

Switzerland has called out all her
armed force for campaign exercise this
year. Some of the troops will be as
much as two months in the field. The
little country does not propose 10 be
caught mapping by Germany.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

Mount Etna is manifesting unusual
activity, and an eruption is thought
possible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Smiling Keeps Off Wrinkles.

Here is a recipe recently published
!. ENGLAND by recognized authority
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

feet it had upon its visitors that mid
winter night.-ChtcdQo Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

When the button comes off the back
of mans shirt his choler will rise.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-23
HOGS FOR THE SOUTH.
No Reason Why Hogs should Not be Prof
itabIy Raised in tbs South.

NOReason Why Hogs should Not be Prof
itabIy Raised in ths South.
There is no reason why hogs should
not be prolitably raised nearly all over
the South. They are as free from dis
ease as in any other part of the Union.
We can not see that the raising of hogs
or any other kind of stock is attended
with any more drawbacks or disasters
than the production of cotton. 1t is not
uncommon for tho cotton crop to prove
almost total failure in certain local
tiles. Notwithstanding the failures
the cotton farmer will start in
again as the now year springs in
to existence to prepare for another cot
ton crop He never loses hope. But
when failure is made in the grain
crop, if few hogs die of cholera, few
cattle of murrain, he swears eternal
vengeance on them. and VOWS it will
never do to undertake to raise hogs or
any other kind of stock. When visited by
failure of cotton, it is attributed to
the season, worms or frost, and he he Pc
fully tries again. If only a small
amount of the pluck and industry dis
played in producing cotton was applied
to stock farming, Southern farmers
would be more successful, prosperous
and happy.
Swine-breeders must mako a change
of methods to get rid of hog cholera and
sterility They have inbred the consti-
tuition out of hogs to such amextent that
they have not the vigor either to resist
the disease or to mako vigorous breed
ers. We keep our hogs too fat for health
and for breeding. Give them more grass;
more run Of pasture, moro clearly
quarters; get back to the old natural
methods, and we will have healthier
hogs, more prolific breeders, and they
will make more palatable meat. We
want fourteen to sixteen-pound hams,
not too fat, but plump, lean hams.
Corn is the best hog feed in the world,
and our corn belt controls the hog pro-
duction. But too much corn has burned
out the health and vigor of the hogs
and destroyed much of their usefulness
for breeding, while in-and-in breeding,
and breeding so young, has lost much of
the vitality our hogs had years ago
Farmers Home journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-23
DIAMOND DUST.

Brodio is Bostons greats sacrifice hit
ter at present.
Bottenus is playingwith the Buffalo
Courier team.
Boston's League team lis in dilapi-
dated condition.
The Athletics arc still weather
ionahs" to Baltimore.
Crooks leads the Columbus team in
sacrifice hitting.
Sioux City has signed Pitcher Bell,
late of Kansas City.
Cedar Rapids has signed Pitcher
Friend, late of Aurora.
Arson has been making one of the
greatest fights on record.
Clarlson has not been so successful as
usual this season.
Umpire Bob Emslie, of the Associa-
ton, is no home umpire.
Scheffler is the luckiest man on bases
In the Rochester team.
In New Haven the attendance has
NloppCu w ubOuO WV iluiiuICu pNI game.
A. G. Spaldlng sails from England for
New York about October 1.
Ivory and Twineham have been re-
leased by the Burlington Club.
lack Kerins has been reappointed
American Association umpire.
An attendance of less than one hun.
dred will set bells ringing for Toledo.
Phenomenal Smith has signed with
Pittsburgh's League Club.
Even "O'Neill's Own have no re.
spect for Duryea's pitching ability.
Harry O'Day, of the Minneapolis
Club, is laid up with scarlet fever.
Won der Abe says Higgins is not fast
enough for the Association.
The Syracuse Stars have the most
hideous uniforms in the Association.
Red Ehret says his eyes Ere bad, and
that accounts for his poor pitching.
Toledo has this season won large
majority of It's games in the East.
1t is quito true that Pitcher Mohler, Of
Lincoln, is but seventeen, but he looks
thirty-five.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-23
HERE AND THERE.

Can strawberry plants be success
spondent Yes But do not forget to
mulch at the beginning winter.
1t is all important that the pedigree
Of the bull should be good one and
that he should have individual merit.
Bear this in mind when buying bull.
When cattle have to go too far for
water they will often go without, to
their discom fort, and when they get
to the water they will drink to their
injury.
Scratches in horses are not recon-
mendation of the system under which
the animal is kept. Horses that stand
in wet. or filth are liable to have
scratches.
What did you think Of those thor
oughbred cattle that you saw at the
fair? They looked better than the
scrub and looked as if they had more
dollars in them, didn't they?
Stock is taught to jump by poor
fences, and by not laying down bars and
gaps sufficiently low to allow animals to
step over, and they are made to jump
over to save some lazy fellow little
work.
Whenever trees are to be set make
the holes large enough to receive the
roots without cramping. If one has
ground enough to set tree in he has
ground enough to make the hole large
enough.
Greasy, filthy Stops, will not take
the place OF water for pigs During the
warm season the pigs should have all
the clean water they can drink, and
they will keep in better condition and
be free from disease.
The experiment of shipping water.
melons from Missouri to the New York
market has lately been tried with sue.
cess. At one sale 10000 we're disposed
of at remunerative figures, the lowest
price obtained per 100 being S165O.
1t does not pay to spoil valuable
horse for the sake of making him wear
out an old collar. Many horses are in
jured by old. ill-ftting collars, which
cause the horse to become fretful and
uneasy and often produce peTmanea.
| injuries
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-23

soon as they reach pound and ahalf or
two pounds they should be hustled oil
TO market where they will readily
bring five OF six dollars per dozen, so
early in the season.
1t will be found profitable to raise
young chicks for broilers as late as the
last of April, after which it will not pay
to go to any extra expense to force their
growth.
The second plan, and one that we con-
slider the most profitable, is to utilize
the early-hatched puliets s layers for
market purposes.
1t is not desirable 10 collect pullets
for this purpose much before winter sets
in, and every new hand in tho business
should go slow, and be contented with
only few the first season.
Ali Leghorn, Minorca Or Hamburg
pullets, and first crosses from these
varieties, are usually laying some by
Thanksgiving. II put in laying quar-.
tiers, being properly housed and fed,
they will lo laying probably by Febru'
airy laying enough in the meantime
to pay for their keep. From February
to July l, they will lay at least seven
ty-fve eggs each, or fifteen eggs a
month. The cost of their keep for five
months will be about third of the
value of the eggs laid, SO that from each
pullet fifty cents net can be realized in
five months, at tho expiration of which
time they can either be disposed of at
cost prices or turned out to forage, which
would lessen tho cost of their keep.
But, taking all things into considera-
ton, it is best to sell them and raise or
buy more for the next season.
There is no great amount of profit for
the beginner during the first year or
two, but it is beginning, and as be-
ginnings are always small there is no
cause for disappointment
AS experience increases, so may tho
size of the flock and the profits. II. b.
Geer, in Southern Cultivator.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-23
There are some patent med.

There are some patent med
icines that are more marvel
lous than a dozen doctors
prescriptions, but they're not
those that profess to cure
e0eryfAing.
Everybody, now and then,
feels, "run down." played
out" They've the will, but
no power to generate vitality.
They're not sick enough to
call a doctor, but just too
sick to be well. That's
where the right kind of a
patent medicine comes in,
and does for a dollar what
the doctor wouldn't do for
less than five or ten.
We put in our claim for
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery.
We claim it to be an I'M
equaled remedy to purify
the blood and invigorate the
liver. We claim it to be
lasting in its effects, creating
an appetite, purifying the
blood, and preventing Bilious,
Typhoid and Malarial fevers
If taken IN time. The time
to take it is when you first
feel the signs of aOearaness and
a0eaAxess. The time to take
it, on general principles, is
NOW.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-23
A Sugar Mule

What is meant by sugar mule is a
fist-class unbroken two-year-old. 1t is
said that an unframed wo-year-old
mule sells more readily and to much
greater advantage than others, from the
fact that in the extreme South there is
a prejudice against mules that have
been worked growing out of the belief
that people in this country impose upon
them by selling them mules that had
been ruined in breaking. Hence they
prefer to break and train their own
mules. -Gallatin Tennesseean.
When ready for market they should
be 1515 to 16H hands high, sound, fat
and dark colors. Then they bring in
Louisiana 5000 to 1885 head.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-23
REARING FOWLS.
Uow Success Shall be Attained in tho Poul
Ifusines

Uow Success Shall be Attained in tho Poul-
try Cuisines
In this great country of ours there are
thousands of persons who are ready and
willing to take hold of poultry-culture,
as whole or in part, for living; but
they do not know how to succeed, and
so they hesitate to make the venture at
all
Indeed, the great question associated
with practical poultry culture is: How
shall we succeed?"
We,o of this day and generation are en-
tirely too cnterprising not to lay hold of
that in which we can see our way to
success and prosperity. But poultry
raising as q business is vet in its in
fancy, and it is only here and there that
we hear of a person that has made a
success of it.
This is not the fault of the fowls, nor
of any serious difficulty in the way of
success, but because it is little out of
the ordinary, is new, and consequently
instances of success are few ard far be-
tween.
To be- successful poultry-keeper re-
quires experience, for an inexperienced
person can not make a success of it with
large number of fowls The beginner
must start in with few, and increase
his flock with his experience
No one can be successful mechanic,
successful farmer, successful lawyer
or doctor, or a successful any thing else
without preliminary study or work; and,
therefore, for new beginner to embark
largely, all of a sudden, in poultry-rais-
ing is the height Of folly.
Poultry keepirr is science and a
lifelong study. The oldest hand in
the busincs learns something newevery
year.
Much can be learned by observation
and study, but experience is the basis
of success after all.
The way to succeed is to begin with a
few, and by practical experience learn
their true worth and how best to take
care of them, so as to make them most
profitable.
Two dozen fowls well cared for will
prove more valuable than fifty that are
mismsnaged.
At this season of the year, the begin.
ner may try either one of two systems
Of management One is to raise chick.
ems for the early spring market and
the other is to produce eggs for market.
In pursuing the first plan it is neces
sary to have some Asiatic fowls, or first
crosses. and to feed them up we'll or
egg producing food, so that they will
lay we'll in November and December
and. in the natural course of things. be
come broody and want to hatch along
in January and February.
II possible, two hens should be set a.
one time and the chicks given to one
hen, the other being set over again.
such early batehed-chicks should be
kept in small Enclosures and forced 81
much IS possible in their growth. Al
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-23
LAZY LETTER CARRIERS.
A Little Green Card That Keeps Watch
Upon Thorn.


A Little Green Card That Keeps Watch
Upon Thorn.
There is a little green card in use by
the Post-office Department that is a
terror to some Of the more careless let
ter-carriers 1t is o terror only when
they have once been caught Very
seldom, indeed, are they caught the
second time. This card is dropped in q
letter-box, and on it is marked the
time it was put in, and also the time
it should be taken out by the carrier. A
record is kept by the chief of the car
riers, and if that little card does not
turn up with the other mail with which
it is due, it is clearly to be seen that
the carrier has not taken the mail from
that particular box.
The object, of course, is to test the
reliability of the carriers. Where there
is any complaint on the part of the citi-
Gems about the hardness of local mails,
then, little green card is dropped in
one or more boxes in the district from
which the complaint comes. Sometimes
~ SuONS OdACACoohOoo Oh biiO poi Va bhO
carrier and sometimes 1t does not II
is, however, not necessary that there
should be complaints, for frequently
the cards are put in the boxes of the
most efficient men. OF course, they are
happy when they discover them. But
where box is missed in which there is
a green card then the carrier is bound
to get into trouble, and very serious
trouble at that
This card has been in use by the
Post-ofice Department for good many
years in all parts of the country. They
were first used in this city under the
administration of Postmaster Huide-
koper. They are furnished by requisi'
ton upon the Department at Washing
ton. -Philadelphia Times
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-23
The PerIls of Youth.
How few have any material sympathy for
youth ut that period when

How few have any material sympathy for
youth at that period when
"Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet"
They are urged forward by Natures stern
decree to assume the powers and duties Of
manhood and womanhood. And yet this is
the most critical point in the voyage of hui
man life. Then It is that the danger of a
shattered nervous system reaches its crisis
and ignorance seizes its opportunity to plant
the seed of future i'll -health and misery.
Then it is the quack secures his victim and
his purse This is the occasion when the
hand of experience should take the hand OF
inexperience and guide its feet to the solid
rock upon the farther shore. At the APP
proach of puberty and during the first years
If this new order of being, there are weak
sning tendencies that should be guarded
against A medicine that has the power to
strengthen the various parts of the body
and to regulate and give control to its vari-
Gus functions is essential at frequent inter
vals Such medicine has the eminent DR..
John Bull, of Louisville, KY, given to the
world. 1t is known as DR.. Bulls Sarsapa-
rilla. Don't fall into the hands of quacks,
but demand this remedy Of your druggist.
Take no other. tits exactly what is needed
and will carry you safely through To
strength and robust health.