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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
Why Sell Land?

For several years past a great number
of farmers in the western states have been
offering their farms for sale, and at ridlcu-
lousy low prices. They have become
tired and discouraged and have had the
feeling that if they could sell out and pay
of their debts, there would be an opening
for them somewhere that would afford be-
ter opportunities for themselves and their
families.
Heretofore it has been far more difficult
to make good sale of farm property than
to make desirable purchase. There has
been within easy reach boundless west,
the land was fertile everywhere, and 90
where you would, the railroad was certain
in a short time to follow As population
moves on isothernal lines the new arrival
was certain to find himself surrounded. if
not with old frien and acquain ,ances, at
least with people of his own tastes and
habits, members of his own church, his
own political party, and of his own social
standing. 1t was therefore light mat
ter to sell out of house and home because
another house and another home was with
in easy reach.
It cannot, however, have escaped the
notice of the close observer that within the
has been reached, After the Oklahoma
excitement of a year ago there has been
no rush on the part of farmers to occupy
Indian reservations. The cry that some
wealthy cattle syndicate was holding on
wrongfully to some Garden of Eden and
rObbing the people of their rights deceives
them no longer It is time now for every
man who has his land in the market to
ask himself this question: Where can |
go to better myself? | may find cheaper
land, but is it fertile? Has it as good
markets? Is it in a grass country? Can
| afford to sell my stock, to break up
my home, to sever the ties that bind me
and my family to kind friends and neigh
bors for the sake of the chance to make a
little money? Would it not be better to
take fresh grip, so to speak. and see if
the present condition cannot be greatly in
proved2
If any farmer thinks there is better
living for him outside farming he would
do well to do nothing rashly. 1t is freely
admitted that farming has not paid well
for few years back, and it may be adj
mitted, for the sake of argument. that
other things have paid better. The
shrinkage in prices of their products has
however, been about the worst thing ia.
mers have to complain of, ana it has kept
them busy to make enougEt to overcome
this depreciation.
The man who is out of debt has no great
cause of complaint He has not been MAX
ing much. it Is true, but he has had his
sails reefed In good harbor and can afford
to wait for a favorable wind and good
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
A MONGOLIAN BRIDE.
The Dress Worn by Chinese Lady at Her
Wedding.

A writer in The North China Herald de-
scrlbes the dress worn by Chinese lady at
her wedding, of which he was witness, as
follows: AT length we were admitted to
inspect the bride. whose four-hour toilet
was just completed and a marvellous
spectacle trul y was the figure seated motion
less IN the center Of the room. Gorgeousy
elaborate was her array from head to foot,
the former crowned with a helmet-iike
erection of d material resembling turquoise
enamel, wrought into the finest fligree
work, from which projected glittering
artificial beetles and butterflies and other
quaint, rich ornaments. the whole sur
mounted by three, large, round tufts of
crimson silk arranged tiarawise
From the brlm of this headgear fell all
around strings of pearl and ruby beads,
about half yard in length. Just visible
through these at the back were broad loops
of jet black hair, stiff and solid as polished
ebony, decorated with pink artificial roses.
Her principal vestment was a long tunic,
whose foundation fabric of crimson satin
was scarcely discernible, and its embroid-
cry of gold. A corner turned back, lined
with emerald satin, revealed an under
skirt paneled in brilliant red satin and
blue silk, this also profusely trimmed with
gold embroidery. A belt of scarlet satin,
studded with tablets of white comedian,
crossed the waist behind From edge of
her headdress red silk veil almost to the
ground. adding much to her preterhuman
aspect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

One Of the most excellent of the recent
innovations is the introduction of metal
ceilings In the place Of wood and plaster.
These ceilings do not shrink or burn like
wood; they will not stain, crack, or fall off
like plaster, but, being permanent, dur
able, fre-proof, and ornamental, will
eventually supersede both wood and
plaster, besides being in the end far more
economical than either.
A suggestive use of photography has
been recently made. Landscape features
are photographed here and there, figures
being used to fit the theme; the different
parts are then collected into an effective
group and the assembled groups are pho
graphed to form one complete picture.
Something of this kind has been done by
artists in cycloramic painting, the different
views being grouped together in sections
and painted on the canvas in connected
groups to form complete representation
of vast stretch of landscape.
DR.. Stanley NJ. Ward states that he has
found fresh buttermilk very serviceable in
reviewing vomiting of various forms, even
at times the vomiting of pregnacy The
remedy is administed ice cold, in doses of
about a half a teaspoonful, repeated every
fifteen or twenty minutes In the case of
children with cholera infantum he has
often succeeded in quoting the stomach
by interdicting everything else and using
few drops of ice-cold buttermilk at in
tervals varying in length according to the
severity of the case.
A traveller on the London & Northwest
ern railway, while going southwark from
Edinburg by the West Coast route, states
that noticing the great speed of the train
he took the trouble to reckon what it was.
In the space of six miles he found that it
averaged eighty miles an hour He was
sitting IN a compartment of an eight
wheeled coach weighing about nineteen
tons, and Notwithstanding the ordinary
speed there was an entire absence of oscil-
lation, and both the carriage and the per-
manent way are described as being in a
state of perfection. So far as any motion
of the carriage was concerned it was i'm
possible for the passenger to tell whether
he was going at the rate of eight miles an
hour or eighteen.
A recent article in Bradstreet's gives
some surprising statistics Of the commerce
Of the great lakes. During 234 days of
Navigation ldS1 year tonnage passed
through the Detroit river to the amount of
100000 tons more than the entries and
clearances of all the seaports in the United
States, and 3,000,0 900 tons more than the
combined foreign and coastwise shipping
OF Liverpool and London. This does not
include traffic between Lake Superior and
Michigan or Lakes Erie and Ontario, or
local traffic between ports on these lakes.
The growth of ship-buiiding on the lakes
has been very marked in the last few years.
In 1867 there were thirty-one boats built,
valued at S4,074,OO0, and in 1889 80 there
were Sc built, valued at 1885,, 900, the
tendency being, as elsewhere, toward iron
and steel for large ships.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
WOMAN'S INTUITION.
Nearly Always Right in Her Judgemn
in Regard to Common Things.

Nearly Always Right in Her Judgemnt
in Regard to Common Things.
An old gentleman over seventy, came
into the city from his farm, without
his overcoat. The day turned chilly ano
he was obliged to forego his visit to the
fair.
To friend who demonstrated with him
for going away from home thus unpre-
pared, he said: 81 thought it was going
to be warm; my wife told me to take my
oyercoat. but | wouldn't. Women have
more sense than men anyway"
A frank admission.
Women's good sense is said to come
from intuition; may it not be that they
are more close observers of little things.
One thing is certain, they are apt to strike
the nail on the head, in all the ordinary
problems of life, more frequently than the
lords of creation.
According to DR.. Alice Bennett, who
recently read paper on Bright's disease
before the Pennsylvania State Medical So.
ciety, persons subject to bilious attacks
and sick headaches, who have crawling
sensations, like the flowing of water in the
head, who are tired all the time and
nave uHe4 pldlHcu dLtdCAS Oh Suuuen weak
ness, may well be suspected of dangerous
tendencies in the direction of Bright's dis
ease
The veteran newspaper correspondent,
Joe Howard, of the New York Press, in
noting this statement, suggests: POSSIBLY
Alice is correct in her diagnosis, but why
doesn't she give some idea of treatment?
| know man who has been tired all the
time for ten years. Night before last he
took two doses of calomel and yesterday he
wished he hadn't
A proper answer is found in the fol-
lowing letter Of Mrs. Davis. wife of Rev.
VIM. J. Davis, of BASIL Ohio, June 21st,
1890:
81 do not hesitate to say that l owe my
life to Warner Safe Cure. | had a con-
slant hemorrhage from my kidneys for
more than FIVE months. The physicians
could do nothing for me- My husband
spent hundreds of dollars and | was not
relieved. | was under the care of the
most eminent medical men in the State.
The hemorrhage ceased before bad taken
one bottle Of the Safe Cure can safely
and do cheerfully recommend it to all who
are sufferers of kidney troubles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
FARM, HOME And GARDEN.
WALT WIFI MAN
GEORGE HORTON.

An old man once saw /,
Bowed low was he with time,
Heart-frosted, white with time,
Ready and ripe 10 die.
Upon cliff he stood
Above the seas unrest:
His beard broke on his breast
In venerable flood.
And suddenly there came
From far, with airy tread,
4 maiden round whose head
There burned a wreath of lame.
All God. but she was fair!
To look We're to disdain
All other JOY and pain
And love her to dISpalr.
81 come" she cried, in tone
Like sweetest siren song,
Though | have tarried long,
come, my own, my Own!''
''See, love. It's love compels.
these kisses priceless rare;
Come, let me crown thy hair
With wreathed immortelles. -
The old man answered her;
His voice was like the sea
"COmeSt 10 mock at Inc
Mine eyes a1e ali ablue.
''Thou art too late; in sooth
Naught earthly makes me glad;
Where vert thou in my mad,
My eager, fiery youth"
'sNay, grieve not thine, she said,
For have loved full oft,
And at my lovers scoffed,
Alive to WOO them dead
''Oh, fiend!'' 1 cried, ssfor shame,''
Yielding TO wrath's surprise.
She turned. knew the eyes
And siren face of Fame.
Chicago Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
How's This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY g. CO., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last IS years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tons and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
West q Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Tole-
do, Ohio.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
HalPs Catarh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucus
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

The Delegates of the Indiana Miners
Society Meet.

TERRE HAUTE, Oct. 81 The delegates
of the convention of Indiana miners today
decided to live up to the contract signed
last May for the year, but passed reso-
lutlons to the effect that since the scale
was signed trade has recuperated, apd
asking the operators in justice 70
grant them share of the present
prosperity. They also declare that unless
permitted IN the future to make a semi
annual contract In September they will
refuse to sign any agreement which will
not allow them to participate In the pr oft
accruing during the fall and winter
months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
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lished last week in our columns, did you
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

In China all the land belongs to the state,
and a trifiing sum per acre, never altered
to about 90 cents per head.
Nearly every article sold is cheapened, in
cost of production, at expense of quality
Dobbins' Electric Soap is eractly to-day what
it was in 1865, absolutely pure, harmless and
uniform. Ask your grocer for it. Look out
for limitations
lIn the United Kingdom 20 900, 900 hens lay
on the average ninety eggs each per annum,
of which ten are reserved for Matching. 1t
follows that the home product is ], 600, 900, /
900, which, added to the number imported,
gives 2, 70O, DOC, 900, or seventy-three per in
habitant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

He was in splendid health, only 40 years old,
and was writing rapidly, when all at once he
stopped, and from that moment could not
tell his own name. Memory went out from
him like flash of li9htninC.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
''THIS, TOO, WILL PASS AWAY"
LAURA WILSON SMITH.

When some great SORROW, like mighty river.
Flows through your life with peace destroying
power.
And dearest things are swept from sight forever,
Say to your aching heart each trying hour
''This, too, will pass away
When ceaseless toll has hushed your song of adj
ness,
, And you have grown almost too tired to pray,
Let this truth Danish from your heart its sad
ness.
And ease the burdens of each trying day
This, too, will pass away
When Fortune smiles, and full of mirth and
pleasure
The days are fitting by without care.
Lest you should rest with only earthly treasure,
Let these few words their fullest import BEAR
''This, too, will pass away.
When earnest labor brings You fame and glory,
And all earth's noblest ones upon you smile,
Remember that lifes longest, grandest story
Fills but moment in earth's ''little while
''This, too, Will pass away
Thank God that earthly things are not forgotten
Thank God, our eternal home is free from care!
Nor pain, nor death, the fOndest hearts to sever,
But joy, and peace, and gladness reigning there
Shall never DaSS away.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

The Methodist Indies of Salina, Kan,
pledged themselves to raise 81 each for
church purposes. Among them was a woman
Is years old, who earned her dollar by max
ing eight baby dresses by hand
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

There is some prospect that New York will
have a state park in the Adirondacks 1t is
proposed that Il reservation Of about twenty
five miles square be taken, comprising
L. eco O0O acres the same to include Racquet
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
BEEoHAM's PILLS cure Sick Headache

Jasper and Newton counties, in Missouri,
produce half the lead and zinc ore used in
the United States. The ridge runs from
Joppa down through Washington county,
Arkansas, and Land which in 1850 sold for
$40 an acre this year has Brought 81, 600.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

THE Chinese say, "When the wind blows
your fire, it's useless to tire yourself."'
About half of your toll can be avoided by.
ithe use of SAPOlIO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
AN EMINENTLY JUST CLAIM.
Kansas Newspaper is Declared From
Printing Legitimate News.

LEAvENwoRTH, Oct. 31.-The post
master again threw out the mail edition of
the Laavenworth Times, because it re-
printed list of the Catholic fair raffies.
His action has been sustained by the
postmaster general and the Times has filed
suit against Postmaster Richie for S10,-
900 damages, making the claim that no
law can forbid IN American newspaper
from printing news.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

No optrna in Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail. 25c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

A reporter in Denver went to sixty-three
different men, all intelligent citizens, before
he found one to tell him the meaning of the
word ''ergo." He has now started out with
'fbid," and has already accosted ffty-four
men without getting a satisfactory answer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

You make no mistake if you occasionally
give your children DIR. Bulls Worm De
stroyers. 1t is a nice candy and while it
never does harm it sometimes does a world
of good.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

The archbishop's throne, designed and
executed by Grinding Gibbons, which was
presented to Canterbury Cathedral by Arch
bishop Tension, has, it is said, for many
years been slowed away as lumber in damp
cellar adjacent to the cathedral clCisterS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
Never Neglect a Cold,


DR.. Austin Flint says in the Forum: 'It
is probable that person with an inherited
tendency to consumption would never de-
velop the disease if he could be protected
against infection with the tubercle bacillus.
In the light of modern discoveries consump-
ton can no longer be regarded as an incur
able disease" 1t is no exaggeration to say
that Kemp's Balsam, when taken in time,
has saved many from consumption. At all
druggists; SOC. and 81. Sample bottle free.
Four tame ducks have cost the county of
Cascade, Mont, about $500, owing to cross
suits among neighbors for trespass, per-
jury and threats of bodily harm. One of
the men has been sent to the penitentiary.
Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses
of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
People who sit at home in this country
and are panic stricken by the occasional ap-
pearance of a mad dog can hardly realize
that in India last year upward of 90, 900 per-
sons died from snake bites alone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

Leu every entcebIed woman
know it! There's a medicine
that'll cure her, and the proofs
positive
Here's the proof - if it
doesn't do you good within
reasonable time, report the
fact to its makers and get
your money back without
a word-but you won't do it
The remedy is DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription-and it
has proved itself the right
remedy in nearly every case
of female weakness.
1t is not a miracle. It won't
cure everything it has
done more to build-up tired,
enfeebled and broken down
women than any other medi-
cine known.
Where's the woman who's
not ready for it? All that
we've to do is to get the
news to her. The medicine
will do the rest,
Wanted Women. First
to know it. Second to use
it. Third to be cured by it.
The one comes Of the other.
The seat Of sick headache
is not in the brain. Regulate
the stomach and you cure it.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
CAtARR nh

Is complaint which affects nearly everybody, roore
less Il originates in a cold, succession of
colds, combined with impure blood. Disagreeable
flow from the nose, tickling in the throat, offensive
breath, pain and between the eyes, ringing and
bursting noises in the ears, the common
symptoms. Cstarrh is cured by Hoods Sarsspsrills
which strikes directly at its by removing all
Impurities from the blood building up the diseased
tissues and giving healthy tone TO the whole
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

The seat Of sick headache
is not in the brain. Regulate
the stomach and you cure it.
DR.. Pierce's Pellets are the
little regulators.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

sailing. If he was out of debt and in
another business he might perhaps have
a little more money because living mas been
very cheap and the cheapness at the far
mer' S expense How will it be from this
on? Is there such a difference as to
justify the farmer in abandoning a bust
ness that he understands reasonably we'll
and entering upon one he has vet to learn.
where his expenses will be trebled and
where be will surely meet with the closest
and sharpest competition?
Every man mas his trade" The tools
| to him that can use them. The place for
the farmer is on his farm. as thousands
have found out who have left it to their own
great sorrow.
Why, then, offer to sell the farm?
Where can you get better one? In what
other business can you make better liv-
ing? 1t is net possible to make it yield
twice as much as it ever has done? Will
it not, then, be twice as valuable? It is
astonishing what big crops a farm will
produce whenever the owner gives up the
notion of selling. The soil itself seems to
take heart and do its best. As soon as the
present discomfort passes away, as 1t will
shortly, and farmers begin to freeze to the
soil, the western farm will wear better
dress 1t will drop that discouraged look
that it has IN some sections and smile
even laugh and grow fat
There has been a great deal of political
farming done lately. We are right glad
OF it, especially where it has been done by
real farmers and not by that class who
farm only with their mouths. With all
the rant and fustian, all the misrepresen-
tation and downright falsehood that is
abroad, the farmers are getting the true
range of public questions and will be all
the better for it. Our only fault with
them is that they did not do this long ago.
However, after all. the farmer must look
to the farm for financial salvation and will
secure it all the quicker if he not only
works his farm, but talks for it and votes
for it. Why, then, sell the farm? Where
will you get better one? Where will you
find better place to raise your boys?
Where, IN all the cities of America, do
you find men that are giving better ac-
count of themselves than those raised on
the farms? Why, then, sell the farm?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

Dangerous tendencies characterize that yer! ecze-
affection, catarrh in the head. The foul MATES
dropping into the broI cial tubes lungs IL vsrg
liable TO lead to bronchitis or consumption Az
caarrh originates in impurities of the blood Local
application do but little good The cornlnsz
sense method of treatment is to purify the blse&-
and for this purpose there is preparation supsrk
or to Hoods Sarsaparilla. The powerful sesion e2
this medicine upon the blood expels every imPnrts
and cures catarrh.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06

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