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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Preserving Strawberries
New York Tribune.

There is no berry more delicious when
preserved than the strawberry, and none
more difficult to put up successfully. The
flavor Of the berry is so evanesent that it
entirely disappears in canning. 1t re-
qulres a rich sirup to hold this delicate
flavor, and therefore strawberries should
always be preserved. Select perfectly
ripe, fine favored fruit for this purpose
The most delicious preserves in the world
are made of wild strawberries. Hull the
strawberries, and as soon as you have
about pound ready weigh them and put
them with three-quarters of their weight
of sugar in a porcelain-lined kettle. Con-
tinue till the kettle is nearly full, then set
them at the back of the stove. When the
strawberries are well covered with juice
bring them forward where they will boil
up more rapidly Stir them only enough
to prevent their burning. After they have
boiled rapidly for ten minutes skim them
carefully and begin putting them into cans,
which should stand in boiling water to
prevent the hot preserves cracking them.
Seal them up instantly as tightly as you
can. Wipe off each bottle as it is filled
and sealed and stand it ON paper on the
table till cold. When cold screw up again
and set away These preserves will keep
more securely if the bottles are packed in
sawdusts Another method is to preserve
the berries exactly as directed, using a
pound of sugar in place of three-quarters
of pound to every pound of berries.
When the preserves are ready to put into
cans pour them into ttlmblers instead and
set the tumblers, covered with, glass. in a
"broiling" hot sun for two days. At tee
end of this time cover them with brandy
papers and seal them up under a layer of
cotton waading tied or sealed closely over
them, but not in such a manner as to rest
on the preserves. If you prefer, seal up
the preserves in paper instead of wadding,
though this is not the newest method.
The last preserve is very rich, but too candi-
ed and sweet to be agreeable to every
ones taste
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Rref H4rte in London.

Bret Harte is now living in quiet cot
tage, in Grove End Road, near st. John S
Wood, writes Eli Perkins. He is getting
old, and his hair is white; but the novelist
retains all his old fire. His books sell i'm
mensely in England than those of
any other American writer Mr.. Harte' S
family is not with him, and the general
impression in London is that he is a
widower Mr.. Joseph Hatton, warm
friend and neighbor of Mr.. Harte, in
forms me that he is now in the Consular
Service No American is invited into the
best English society more than Bret Harte.
His American stories warm the English
heart. They never tire about the novelist 8
story about the first Jury trial in Califor-
MIA, and this is the way he told it the
other night
at was over in the Mariposa Gulch in
so. They had never had a jury trial
there. If a man stole horse they lynch
ed him, and that settled it. But the peo-
pie, many of whom came from Massaohu-
sets, began to tire of lynch law, and sigh
for the good old jury trial of the East. So
one day, when Bill Stevens had jumped
poor mans claim, the Massachusetts fel-
lows resolved to give him good old
fashioned jury trial. They took him into
the back end of broad post office, select
ed jury, and the trial commenced. Doz-
ems of witnesses were called, and finally
the jury retired to agree on verdict.
When they had concluded that Jim was
innocent, the boys outside came banging
at the door
''What do you fellows want?' asked the
foreman through the key-hole.
I'VE want to know if you hain't about
room to lay out the corpse i'm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
ADVANCES IN SCIEN CE.

Electricians are looking toward the
adoption of new measure of light as a
standard in place of the candle. 1t is
thought that some of the measures already
used will be adopted for this purpose.
The danger of infection from impure
water is said to be only slightly reduced
by filtration through sand. Bacteria pass
through this medium at all times, but in
larger numbers just after the filter has
been cleaned and again after it has been
used fer some time.
The amount of heat given out by
moonbeams has again been the subject of
investigation, this time with thermopile
of almost incredible delicacy. The results
show that the warmth received from the
reflected light of the moon is equal to that
given out by candle at twenty-one feet
distance. Observations seem to show that,
although the moons face is under the blaze
of an unclouded sun for fourteen days, it
remains comparatively cool and that what
ever heating it does receive is rapidly
gained and as rapidly lost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
TIE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
UNCLE SETH ON BROWNING.
6. W. Foss.

I've been readin Brownin'- Our schoolmarm said
he writ
The talest kin er pottery the WORLDS dlsklVered
Now like pottery bettern' pie, or any kin er
sass,
An banker fort like winter cows a-hankerin' for
grass.
l took the book down to the brook; SEE l, "1ll
hev it rich;
SIGH;
The brookll kinder keep in tune, the bobolink an
birds
Will sing their song an so keep time with this
great poets words.
An so started in to read; twas just like ridin'
roun'
In big, bumpn' dingle cart, right over new
pIowed groun;
An now an then the ex nd break, an down you q
60 kerflop,
Then two er three more wheels I'd bust an then
the horse nd stop.
An then he'd start off on rush, an go a-whirlin'
roun'
Sometimes the cart wuz sideways, an sometimes
upside down;
An then there,d come an awful jolt, a kinder
crazy crash,
An fust We d know the dingle cart I'D bust an GO
to smash.
! s'pose that's where the poem stopped-I didn't
read no more;
My bones mixed permiscu's-like, an all my
jints sore;
The bobolnk flew up tree, an never raised a
An went home, an thirteen weeks WIZ laid up
18th the grip.
Yankee Blade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03

ged Sits in his face. and at first he i'm
agined that one of his men hit HIM with
sharp stone. He quickly changed his
mind, for the axmen were quite distance
ahead, and he called them to him What
had really hit him was female hawk that
had nest of young ones in the top of
tall hemlock tree close by. The angry
bird had not uttered a sound before she
swooped down and darted at the engineers
face but moment or so after she had
made the strike, she sailed around the top
of the tree and squalled hard. Her mate
came and they both flew back and forth
and screamed spitefully, until one of the
axmen shot the mother hawk The male
then flew away, but returned in a short
tire to look after the youngsters in the
nest, and charge of shot fetched him
down, too After that an axman climbed
the tree and found four little hawks in the
nest. He tore the nest loose handicapped
it, and the surveyors put an end to the
parentless creatures by chopping their
heads off Scranton Special to the New
York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
To Young husbands.

One of the most despicable practices
that married man can be guilty of is a
kind of coarse justing at the bondage of
the married state, and laugh at the
shackles which the wife imposes On the
contrary, be it your pride to exhibit to the
world that sight on which the wise man
passes such an encomium: Beautiful be-
fore God and men are a man ana wife
that perfectly agree. Make it an estab-
lished rule to consult your wife on all oc-
casions--your interest is hers-and under
take no plan contrary to her advice and op-
position. Independent of better motives,
what responsibility does it free you from.
For if the affair turns out i'll, you are 5. r.
ed reproaches both from her and your ow Il
feelings.
But the fact is she who ought to have
the most influence on her husbands mind
is often the person who has the least, as a
man will frequently take the advice of a
stranger, who cares nothing for his inter-
est, in preference to the cordial and sensi-
BILE opinion of his wife. A due considera-
ton of the domestic evils such line of
conduct is calculated to produce might,
one would think of itself be sufficient to
prevent adoption; but, independent of
these, policy should influence you, for there
is In a woman of intutive quickness
sagacity, a penetration and foresight
into the probable consequences of an
event that make her peculiarly calulated
to give her opinion and her advice. IF I
were making up a plan of consequences,
said the great Lord Bolingbroke, Il
should like first to consult with a sensible
woman.
Have you any male acquaintance whom
on reasonable grounds, your wife wishes
you to resign? Why should you hesitate
Of what consequence can be the civilities
or even the friendship of one compared
with the wishes of her with whom you
have to spend your life, whose comforts in
your marriage VOWS you have promised to
attend to-, and who has right to demand
not onl Y such a compliance, but great sac
rifces, if necessary
Never witness a tear from your wife
with apathy or indifference. Be assured
| when you see tear on her cheek that her
heart is touched, and do not behold it with
GOODNESS and insensibility. 1t is unneces-
sary to say that contradiction should be
avoided at all times; but when in the
presence of others be particularly watchful
look or word, that perhaps in reality
convey no angry meaning, may at once
lead people to think that their presence
alone restraints the eruption Of a discord
which probably has no existence whatever
Some men who are married to women of
inferior fortune or connection
will frequently have the meanness to up,
braid them with the disparity My good
sir, allow me to ask you what was your
motive in marrying? Was it to obIige
your wife? No; truly, it was to oblige and
please yourself, your own dear self Had
she refused to marry you, you would have
been Tin levers phrase) very miserable
manufactured Star
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Negroes Personal Appeal for Deliver
ance from an Essrfhnnake

Perhaps in another generation or two
there may be eliminated from the mind of
the Southern ''darkey" the deep rooted
feeling that he isn't property transferable
and valuable At present it shows itself
often in times when profounder emotion
dominates self-importance or pride. This
finds ready illustration in an incident of
the earthquake that shook the Atlantic
coast a few years ago.
On one of the Georgian plantations lives
Bob, big, brawny, black, a famous leader
Of prayer-meetings and revivals among his
people When old earth gave her first
palpitant throbs that night all of Bob's
friends and co-laborers, in ante elum
style, hurried from their cabins to the
"house," they found Bob already there,
kneeling in the yard. The planter, stand
ing on the steps endeavored to calm the
excitement of the dusky, wailing group,
and to allay their fears by assuring them
that it was only an earthquake, and not
the doom's day they seem always to wait
fearfully for. Following Mr.. Ms
clear tones rang out Bob's deep resonant
ones:
so, Lord listen to me. 0, Lord, an
don pay all yer 'tention ter the earth
quake. Listen, O, Lord! this IS Bob er
praying ter you. An eff you IL jes save me
this time, 0, Lord, Bob's your nigger!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Feed the Milk.

To the question, which is the better feed
for nilch cows, the OBJECT being a heavy
yield-wheat, bran or oornmeal? the fol-
lowing answer by Henry Stewart, in the
Rural New Yorker, will be found of in
terest. He says:
"For the production of milk for sale the
food needs to be rich In albumnoids and
starch rather than in fat, although, as the
New York Ledger standard calls for at
least per cent. of fat in the milk, the
food should contain a sufficient quantity of
fats to supply the required proportion. A
copious yield of milk requires moist foods,
even when the cows are IN pasture, and
milk producers have found that brewers
grains or cornstarch iced (gluten meal)
from glucose factories,' with cornmeal,
are the best foods for the purpose. The
best feed dairymen give their COWS, which,
mostly large animals, and grades of Short
horns, half bushel of the brewers grains
and eight quarts of corn meal daily, with
as much dry hay as they will eat in the
winter, and the same ration with pasture
and green fodder corn when the pasture is
not in the best condition, in the summer.
This feeding produces a rich milk, with a
good creamy color and considerable den
slty. and it will be in every way above the
legal standard and quite satisfactory to
consumers. Where the grains or gluten
meal can be procured these are cheap and
good foods when used fresh before they be-
come sour. When they cannot be had,
very good substitutes can be provided In
malt sprouts-which are dry-bran and
middlings In my own practice when
producing milk for sale, have used these
three foods in the following proportion,
viz For twenty cows one bushel of m alt
sprouts, one bushel of bran, and two
bushels of course middlings or shorts were
put into a barrel and mixed with water
and stirred to the consistence of
a semi-huid paste, twelve hours before the
feeding; that Is, the mixture was made for
the morning feeding as soon as the cows
were fed IN the evening, and so on. After
twelve hours the food was about as moist
as brewers grains and in good condition
for feeding, and the above quantity made
up about five quarts of the wet mixture.
This was given night and morning, with
three quarts of mixed corn and oats ground
together. This feeding gave me an aver
age of fourteen quarts of milk daily. from
ordinary native cows of not more than 800
pounds live weight, and kept the cows in
HIGH condition and always fat and sleek.
In the summer, feeding for the highest
milk yield and good quality of product, a
liberal quantity of green fodder is indis-
pensible for profit. so that this grain food,
corn fodder. or other green food, should be
supplied freely. The average quantity OF
cream on the milk produced in my dairy
was Is per cent. and when the milk became
improbable through close competition nc
change in the feeding was required to
change to butter making. Malt sprouts
are rich and cheap food, as they contain
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
CarDepie'S First Riches,

Andrew Carnegie, the iron king, made
his first money in the oil country. He and
some friends bought the William Story
farm, on Oil Greek, in 1870, for s35, 900
and organized the Columbia Oil Company.
The farm consisted of 400 acres, and was
not far iron where Goal Oil Johnny
fonnd his pot of gold. Every acre of the
farm proved to be productive, and it soon
developed into one of the richest bonanza
farms of the region. It's first years out
put was 20, 800 barrels, and the following
The company was organized with capital
stock of $3.50, 900, and in two and one
half years dividends had been declared
amounting to $50 per cent. of the capital.
In three years the production of the farm
had increased to al 900 barrels, and dur
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Reunion of Six AGED Sisters.

On May 81 six modest old ladies. daueh-
tiers of one father, each of whom had long
passed the Biblical limit of three scere
years and ten, taught lesson of content
ment and illustrated the fruits of a life
well spent to their children and their chill
dren children and their children chill
dren's children. In one of the lovliest
spots of Montgomery County, Pennsyl-
vania, on, the vine embowered porch of
spacious farm house over one hundred years
old, on chairs in which for over century
seven sturdy generations had rocked in
time to the signing breezes of the wooded
hills, sat the six daughters of old Joseph
and Pamela Fitzwater, whose grand
parents had sailed to Pennsylvania S
hospitable shores with William Penn in
the good ship Welcome. Five of them
are widows and one still enjoys the happy
society of her first lover and husband.
Widow Annie Irdell, of Norristown brave
ly carried her eighty-six years; next came
Widow Martha Soblnson, of HOrsbam, a
little deaf, but that was all to show that
four score years and five had touched her.
Then Widow Mary White, of White
Marsh, with eighty-one years well spent to
her credit, sat next to Widow Catherine
Livingston, of Norristown, over whose
seventy-nine years had passed. Younger
looking by ten years was Esther Shaw, of
Penn Park, whose shoulders her seventy
seven years had failed to droop, and the
seventy-four years of Widow Pamela Fer
ringer, of Norristown, were as but sixty in
looks and forty in spirit. They chatted,
laughed, and old Mrs Robinson would have
her joke about beginning to think she
would after while begin to get old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
MEN WHO ARE ALWAYS YOUNG.
"The Spirit Increases in Perfection as the
Body Grows Older.


DR.. John Gardiner, in his Manual on
Longevity, says it is fair to call man
old when he gets to be sixty-three. Then
commences the decline of life as a rule.
Beaconsfeld always called thirty-seven
1.-The fatal age" and at that age Burns
and Byron both died. But both were in
temperate.
Among the Romans the age of enlist
ment ranged from seventeen to forty-six;
in Britain it is from fourteen to thirty.
The English mutual benefit societies draw
the line at forty years.
what call an old man," remarks DR..
Holmes, lis a person with a smooth, shin
ing crown and fringe of scattered white
hairs, seen In the streets on sunshiny days,
STOPPING as he walks, bearing a cane, NOV
ing cautiously and slowly, telling cid
stories, smiling at present follles, living
in narrow world of dry habits; one that
remains walking when others have drop
ped asleep, and keeps little night lamp
flame Of life burning year after year, If
the lamp is not upset, and there is only
careful hands held round it to prevent
the puffs of wind from blowing the fame
out. ~
All writer's on longevity agree that it is
in our power not only to prolong our days,
but also to increase our enjoyment of them.
According to Sir Philip Sidney:
TIL Ingredients of health and long life
Great temperance open air,
Easy labor, little care.
Individual cases may be cited TO prove
the soundness of any belief or theory; but
who can doubt that temperance is fav-
orable to long life?
Rogers, the banker poet, said he never
knew what health was until he attained
his fftieth year. Cornaro, the famous
venetian. at the age of eighty-fve, wrote
THE spirit increases in perfection as the
body grows Older Fontenelle declared
that the happiest years of his life were be-
tween the ffty-fifth and the sixty-ffth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03

26 per cent of albuminoids, 49, per cent.
of carbohydrates-sugar, starch and mucil-
age, the first especially -and q per cent.
of fat, and having only liz per cent. of
water they imbibe large quantity of
moisture, Of the foods mentioned in the
inquiry should prefer mixture of all of
them; for instance, one part middlings,
one part bran and one part each of corn
and oats ground together, but the malt
sprouts are the most productive of milk of
all grain foods, when mashed as above
mentioned They should never be fed dry
on account of their greedy absorption Of
water
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
LIVING BY ONES WITS.
Put Energy into Your Work Whether
Richly Gifted Not,

Richly Gifted or Not,
Do not get the fatal idea that you are
genius. and that therefore there is no
need of close application. 1t is here where
multitudes fail The great curse of this
age is the geniuses, men with enamer-
Gus self-conceit and egotism, and moth
ing else. | had rather be an OK than an
eagle; plain and plodding, and useful
rather than high-Rying and good for moth
ing bat to pick out the eyes of csJrcasses.
traordinary failure. There is no hope
live by his wits, for the probability is he
has not any.
It was not safe for Adam even in his
unfallen state, to have nothing to do, and
therefore God commanded him to be far
aer and horticultUrist. He was to dress
the garden and keep it, and had he and
his wife obeyed the Divine injunction and
been at work, they would not have been
sauntering under the trees and bankering
after the fruit which destroyed them and
their posterity, froof positive for all ages
to come and those who dc not attend to
their business are sure to get into mischief
[ do not know that the prodigal in Scrip
ture would ever have been reclaimed had
he rot given up his idle habits and gone
feeding swine for living. Go to the
ant, thou sluggard, consider her always
and be wise, which, having no guide,
overseev Or ruler, provideth her meat In the
summer and .gathereth her food in the
harvest" The devil does not often attack
the man who is busy with the pen, and
the book, and trowel, and the saw. and
the hammer. -Talmage, in New York
Observer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
ARNOLD SELLS HIS POEM.
Harry Beakin Paid $4,000 for it's Excl,

MILWAUKEE, June 23.-Sir Edwin
Arnold telegraphs from Yokohama today,
to the associated press, as follows: l have
sold all American rights in my new poem,
The Light of the World to Harry
Deakin.' Mr.. Deakin was formerly
lessee of the old Academy of Music in this
city and became heavily involved fnan-
cially. After giving up the academy he
managed the japanese village for his
brothers, wealthy residents of Japan, and
later On went to that empire where he has
amassed a fortune. 1t is understood he
paid Mr. Arnold $4,000 for the exclu-
sive righs for the sale of the poem in
America
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03

ing this year the average price of oil was
S9.S715 a barrel During the irstt six
months of this year four dividends were
declared, amounting to $50 per cent. of
the capital stock, which was soon increas-
ed to 81, 500. 900. In ten years the farm
produced LIS. 972 barrels of oil. and is
still producing small amount. The total
vaule of the output has been upward of
SO, 1000, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03

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Attacked nv n Mother Ho-I

While sighting his transit on Moosic
mountain a few days ago, the chief en-
gineer of crops of land surveyors was
staggard by something that struck him on
the right cheek without any noise or warn
ing. Blood began to squirt from two rag