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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
FARM NOTES.

Ii is claimed that if linseed oil and
sulphur mixed be poured IN the hot-water
pipes of green houses the odor will destroy
mildew.
Linseed meal should be used regularly
for all classes of stock. 1t is not only nu-
t%ritious, but serves to regulate the bowels
and aid digestion.
Have a small bin in the cellar in order
to store parsnips, carrots and beets for
family use. Store them in dry sand. The
main crop may be stored in mounds out
side.
Calves do not pay, say the dairymen, yet
somebody raises the cows that the dairy
men buy, and it is possible that some one
must make the calves pay, or there would
soon be no cows.
As soon as the fall work is over the tools
should be thoroughly cleaned and well
~anointed with kerosene oil, which will pro-
tect them from rust. Never keep tools in
a damp place.
Does it pay to keep oxen? Where the
roads are rough In winter, and travel very
difficult, an OK team can be made service
able, especially for hauling wood or heavy
loads. Where the roads are kept in good
condition the horses are better adapted for
service
The sheep will find quite an amount of
forage on the stubblefelds which other ami
mails will not touch at this season, but be-
cause the sheep is willing to eat what it
can find in that manner should not de-
prive it from receiving regular rations at
the barnyard.
When a flock of hens do not pay, the
best plan is to pick out the ones that are
laying and sell off the others. 1t is some
times the case that there are too many of
them together. A few hens, well kept,
will produce more eggs, proportionally
than a larger number.
A good dressing of manure around each
raspberry plant at this season will cause
the canes to grow rapidly in the spring.
Only a few raspberry bushes are required
in order to supply a small family, and the
richer the ground and more used
the larger and better the quality Of the
berries.
There is usually a difference of ) cents
per pound between live and dry-picked
poultry. Scalded poultry sells for about
2 cents per pound less than the dry-picked.
Young squads at this season are saleable,
and young ducks brings Z cents per pound
more than the adults. After January
prices usually begin to rise.
The advantages in keeping ducks are
that they are not subject to to vermin
(such as lice), are rarely affected by disease,
and can endure nearly all kinds of ex-
posure when fully matured. A fence Is
inches high will serve to confne them, if
the large breeds are used, and they can
be kept on grass principally, although a
heavy feed twice a day will greatly pro-
mote laying.
Numerous cures of rhuematism by the
use of celery have recently been announced
In English papers. New discoveries-or
what claim to be discoveries-of the heal
ing virtues of plants are continually being
made. One of the latest is that celery is a
cure for rheumatism; indeed, the disease is
impossible, it is asserted, if the vegetable
be cooked and freely eaten. The fact that
it is always put upon the tableraw prevents
Its therapeutic powers from being known.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
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The Milwaukee, Lake Shore b Westerzs
Railway has teen well named the Fishing
and Hunting Line of Wisconsin, passing
as it does, through thousands of acres eG
but partially ex plore|. woods and wisasg
easy reaching distance of lakes sa2
streams that have never been fshed by
white men, all well stocked with the game
fish for which Northern Wisconsin waee,G
are noted. The woods avound with games
deer, bear, wolf, mink, beaver, pheasant
and other game are quite plentiful.
THE ONLY LINE
From Milwaukee to the new Iron Mining
in Wisconsin and Michigan thai
reaches ALL of the developed Mining
towns; GOGEBIC, WAKEFIELD, BEa<
SEMER, IRONWOOD AND HURLEE.
Direct line to ASHLAND and DULUTE
Sleeping cars between LAHLAED au&
CHICAGO.
The GUIDE Book, and other descripxg,
containing full information, mags
and engravings of the country trasegse6
by the line, will be sent TO eny address IL
application to the General Psssenga
Agent.
lhAa. l. RYDER. Gen1 Agt. / ia Clark ST..
T. VLIET. Cry p. & T. Agt. CHICAGO
Milwaukee Office. 95 Wisconsin ST.
q. F. wHITCOMB. Gee. & MARSH.
Gen1 Manager. Gen1 Pass. & Tkt. Am
NIL WAUKEE, WIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
EVERYBODY PREPARE TO sNEEZE

The Paris correspondent of the New
York Herald cables his paper that l00,0 600
people are sick In that country with Rus
sian influenza. The military school of st.
Cyr, the corps de ballet at the opera and
the clerks In the great shops have fallen
victims to the curious malady. The Her
aid correspondent obtained the following
opinion from DIR. Albert Robin of the
Academic de Medicine: This is known
as Influenza or more commonly in
French as la grippe Five days ago l
had my first case, and since then l have
treated at least twenty patients. Unques-
tionably the epidemic will continue to
spread-how far it is impossible to say
but the Herald may assure its readers that
there is no occasion for serious alarm. An
ordinary case of Influenza is nothing
more to be dreaded than d severe cold of a
weeks duration. The symptoms are UNI
mistakable. Headache, pains in the eyes,
soreness all over the body, as if one had
been beaten, loss of appetite, and a gem
eral sense of laSsitude and discontinue.
These general symptoms are apt to be fol-
lowed by various local troubles, such as
a bronchial attack, a cold in the head, sore
throat, diarrhea and sometimes by pleur-
isy or pneumonia. The only real danger
is presented in the last two cases, which
can usually be guarded against by proper
care. From three to eight days is the
average duration of the disease proper
but its effects upon the system are compar-
atively severe, so that several weeks more
are often needed for a full convalescence.
The Grand Duke Alexis, who was only i'll
for a week, will probably require a month
before he feels himself again. As to the
cause, medical science to-day is practically
at a loss. We can, to be sure, tell the
public that it is due to the ravages of an
unknown microbe, but the public takes
only an indifferent interest in that fact.
Why the epidemic should sweep across
Europe and then remain unknown for a
decade, is beyond our power to explain
The theory has been advanced that inhu-
enza is the forerunner of cholera. but | re
gard that as pure nonsense. 1t is true that
several times in the present century an in
fuenza epidemic has been closely followed
by a visitation of cholera. 1t is also true
that several times in the same century
there has been an epidemic of influenza
with no cholera following, just as there
has been an epidemic of cholera with no
influenza preceding, The fact is that the
two diseases are so utterly dissimilar as to
make any such sequence all but impossi-
BILE, and any occasional instances of their
simultaneous appearance must be regard
ed as a mere coincidence with no deeper
significance" Another expert expressed
the opinion that the disease was nothing
more nor less than dengue, which has ragged
In various cities in this country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
LAND OF THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD.

By the hut of the peasant, were poverty weeps
And nigh to the towers of the king,
Close, close to the cradle where infancy sleeps
And JOY loves to linger and sing,
Lies a garden of light full of heavens perfume.
Where never a tear drop is shed
And the rose and the lily are ever IN bloom
'Tis the land of the beautiful dead.
Each moment of life a messenger comes
And beckons man over the way;
Through the heart sobs of women and rolling of
drums,
The army of mortals obey,
Few lips that have kissed not a motionless brow,
a face from each Preside has fled,
But we know that our loved ones are watching US
In the land of the beautiful dead.
Nota charm that we knew ere the bound'ry was
crossed,
And we stood in the valley alone;
Not a trait that we priced in our darlings is lost:
They have fairer and lovelier grown.
As the lilies burst forth when the shadows of
night.
Into bondage at day break are led,
So they bask in the glow by the pillar of light,
In the land of the beautiful dead.
OF the dead, our dead, our beautiful dead,
Are close to the heart of eternity wed,
When the last deed is done and the last word is
said
We will meet in the beautiful land of the dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

THERE seems a prospect that the United
States may conclude an extradition treaty
with England much broader than that
now in force, which will cut off the use of
Canada or our own country as an asylum
for embezzlers or others of that ilk who,
committing a crime in one country, seek
refuge in the other. The responsibility
for the fact that such an agreement was
not reached long since, rests principally
with the United States, the Canadians
having again and again shown their will
ingness to meet us more than half way
most recently in the Weldon act. The
substitution of legislative measures for
treaty agreements in such cases is always
u~nsatisf actory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

THE Mormon press has very little to say
about the ground of Judge Anderson's de-
cislon, so far as it is based upon the charge
that the Mormon church is a reasonable
organization. The doctrine of blood
a%tonement, however, comes in for lengthy
review. Judge Anderson, by his brave
exclusion of Mormon aliens from
citizenship, has delivered the most telling
blow that the priesthood has yet received.
The c~onfiscation of church property gave
the leaders an opportunity to parade in
their old role of martyrs to the faith; but
to be pillored before the world as traitors
to government and as vulgar thugs is
another thing. The decision has given a
boom to real estate at Salt Lake CITY.
Should the February elections be carried
by the gentiles, it will be considered
nothing short of the dawn of a new era.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
How John Got an Idea.

Mamma! mammal" cried Johnnie, ''do
you know where my cap is? Ican't find it
anywhere, and papa wants me to 90 to the
post office for him right away.'-Mamma
was busy sewing. but she laid down her
work to look for the missing cap. As John
ME had said, it was nowhere to be seem
where did you put it when you came
home from school not half an hour ago ?"-
ION the hat-rack, | know, and now it ISM
anywhere. Oh dear, how provoking!",
After fifteen minutes diligent search. shared
by all the members of the family. the cap
was found tucked away In the owners coat
pocket. and Johnnie ran off to do his faith
er's errand while the others returned to
heir interrupted work and ~endeavored
to make up for time lost In the search.
Johnnie is growing more careless every
day, said his mother. Il don't know
what to do with him. 1t isn't always pos
slble to make him look for his W things,
and I'm afraid nothing else will cure
him.
Suppose we try setting afrightful ex-
ample, suggested his elder sister Per
haps that would do" replied her mother,
as the details of a plan presented them
selves. The next afternoon Johnnie rush
ed in from school crying, Mamma, Mr..
Harris says the ice is strong enough to
bear us. and we are ali going skating, but
We Just torn my coat. Can you please
mems it right away?"-Yes. [ if can find
my thimble. See if it is in the work
basket"
Why /. don't see where it can be-.
said Mrs. Blake, feeling in her pocket and
not finding it. Look all around. ;
Johnnie. in too much haste to think how
very strange it was for his orderly mother
to misplace anything, hunted diligently.
but no thimble came to light. 60 ask
Jennie for hers" Jennie's was also mis-
sing. L think you will have to stay at
home; you certainly cannot wear that coat
as it is"
Sore as the disappointment was, Johnnie
was obliged to submit. For a week the
! very spirit of disorder seemed to rule the
house. Every article was left where it was
last used, until the once tidy rooms looked
fairly cherries with the accumulated litter
There was n exception. While Johnnie
was constantly called upon to look fol
Jennle'S gloves, or mammals scissors, OF
papa's umbrella, his own cap was more fire.
quently upon the rack, his skates upon then
hook, his slate and books strapped to-
gather.
Finally, after IN unusually trying expe
%rience, he exclaimed one day: Il never
saw such a house as this Is getting to be
| seem to be the only one that ever put.
things where they belong" The shout O
Laughter that went up at this extraordinary
statement somewhat abashed the speaker
but he sturdily maintained his point
whereupon the others promised that if h,
would continue to set such a good example
they would certainly follow it. That weel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
m from the diary Of tourists
MI TN commercial travellers, bun
ness man and ofba~r -

N0TTO from the diary Of tourists
MI HiN commercial travellers bun
hes men and others kee
revealed:
That the Wisconsin Centri has the
unqualified endorsement Of all;
That the Wisconsin Central has to-dxx
the most popular line between Chiesxf
and Milwaukee, and St Paul Minus
apolis and the Northwest;
That the Wisconsin Central is daily
adding to its admirers as the reccSs
nized Pullman line between Chicau
and Milwaukee and Ashland, Duluth
and Lake Superior;
That the Wisconsin Central touches
d most prominent points in Wiscsar
SIN, and that it his more impors&nt
business centers on its through Ens
than any other railway to and fyox
tie Northwest;
That the Wisconsin Central has MADE
an enviable reputation with its PEGS
less Dining Car Service;
That the Wisconsin Central runs fsx
trains on which all classes of passen-
gers are carried with commodious ana
distinct accommodation for all;
That the Wisconsin Central has reprs~
sentatives distributed throughout tbs
country, who will cheerfully give any
information that may be desired ana
that its terminal agents are specially
instructed to look after the comfort az
passengers who may be routed viz ih
line.
For detailed information apply to yoz6
nearest Ticket Agent; or to represents
tives OF the Wisconsin Central.
WIN. & MULLEN. JAMES BARKER.
Seueral Manager. GENT PaSsr. q TIKI 40
LOUIS ECKSTEIN,
Asst Gen1 PasSr. d Tkt. Art
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
WHAT A REAL BATTLE IS.
Little Opportunity for Display of Heroics
or Poetic GIory-The Madness of Unor-
SaniZed Retreat.
United Service Review.

United Service Review.
A battle does not consist, as many
imagine, in a grand advance of victorious
lines of attack, sweeping everything be-
fore them, or on the hel~ter-skelter flight of
the unfortunate defeated. The historian
must so present it in his descriptions, the
artist in his paintings. Even the writer
of an official account must limit himself to
the presentation of such moments as de-
mand special treatment, or to such cpl
sodes as involve important and instructive
tactical movements.
All those events which are less striking,
which pass more quietly, but which, new
ertheless, contribute to II e final result, can
not be reproduced without too much ex-
pansion. These incidents, which no ac-
count of the battle, official or unofficial,
takes any note of-the thousand and one
events observed only by the participants,
the innumerable cases In which the direc-
ton and control of affairs glide out of the
hands of the oficers-these are the little
drops of water that make the mighty
ocean of battle and determine the victory
or defeat.
The opening of the day of a great battle is
generally very prosaic. After an uncom-
Portable night passed in a wet or cold biv-
ouac, where the men wrapped In their
overcoats, have been gathered shivering
about the campfire, trying in vain to get
warm; after the simplest of breakfasts, Of
which the drought of poor, cold water was
the only palatable constituent, the soldier
goes forth to battle. There he may never
see the enemy; indeed, unusually long
halts, uncomfortable standing still under
shrapnel fire, or apparently useless camp
ing In mud and under small-arm fire await
him. The feeling of being exposed to the
invisible missiles of the enemy. mingled
with the uncertainty as to what is going
or to the right and left, often produces in
the best of troops great depression and a
falling off in offensive strength, even when
the battle In general is making splendid
progress. In such moments tactics are ex-
hausted, and it is only a question of grit
and n of duty,
Sheridan tells US: Indeed, the battle
of Chicamauga was something like that of
Stone River, victory resting with the side
that had the grit to defer the longest its
REIMBURSEMENT from the field" Still
more pressing is the appeal to the morale
of the troops when an unfortunate termi-
nation of the battle forces an army which
has done its duty to retire. Exhausted to
its last gasp, its resistance, pushed to the
highest pitch, gives way, and with fright
full reaction the resistless mass plunges to
the rear. This is to-day no longer an or
gained retreat from position to position,
as our predecessors taught and practiced,
but an uncomfortable current, like the
mountain torrent, which, fraught with
havoc and disaster, overaows its banks.
Woe to the land that can oppose no other
dams to this stream than strategy, tactics
and the instruction of the troops. These
will be washed away like sand heaps by the
roaring waters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
CONFLICTING O
Meagre Information of a Fearful Mine
Disaster in California.

SAN Francisco, Cal, Dec. ga re-
port has reached here that an accident in a
mine at San Andreas, Calaveras county,
resulted in the death of sixteen men and
the injury Of thirty others.
LATER.-A cave-in occurred at the Lane
mine, Angeles camp, yesterday afternoon.
Sixteen men were buried, with no pros
pect of getting them out alive. Nearly all
the men had families.
At a late hour this evening but little in
formation has been received regarding the
mime disaster near Angels Camp, beyond
what is already known. A special despatch
from Milton says word has reached there
that twenty men were imprisoned in the
cave-in in the Utica mine. Two miners
escaped without injury and one with seri-
Gus injuries. Those remaining with the
possible exception of two are supposed to
have been killed outright.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

Franc Rea Richardson tells this storyof
Mrs. Blaine: A stranger IN Washington,
a lady. happened to be stopping at the
same hotel, but was unacquainted even by
sight, with the Secretary's wife. Intend
ing to go from the parlor to the dining
room, the lady stepped inside the elevator,
saying to the boy, Down" "Upi" and
the first lady was confronted by a second
one. who had Immediately followed her.
The stranger flushed, but stood her ground,
saying, rather tartly, ''DowG!'' "Up!" in
terposed the severe-looking elderly lady,
staring blandly over the others head.
Down. ''Up!' The bewildered eleva-
tor boy just here caught sight of the clerk
and called him. "What is ftp" demand
ed that gentleman, glancing from the pale
face of one lady to the burning cheek of
the other. Il stepped into the elevator
and ordered the boy to go down. This
woman followed and ordered him to go
up" The clerk turned to the boy and
said, with severity: Take Mrs. Blaine
up at once, and, hereafter never hesitate in
obeying her order" A very angry and
very much chagrined woman is said to
have made an unwilling trip to the upper
floor, while another coldly triumphant,
went up" as she had desired.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

A Western inventor is ~endeavoring to
interest capital in his electrical magic
lantern for casting or rejecting advertise
ments on the dark clouds that often hang
low over a city. The inventor claims to
have secured contracts from several we'll
known firms for displaying their cards in
this manner If the idea is fully develop
ed we may expect to see some very start
ling and grotesque effects.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

exhaustive and laborious inquiry into the
proportions existing in each state between
taxed property and actual wealth, which
ranges between % per cent. in Illinois and
IS in Wyoming. The Worlds report
shows an increase IN taxable property of
Sc. 1863, 900, 900, and an increase In actual
wealth of s1S, $4,000. 900 since 1880. The
total wealth is S61 ,459, 000. 900. exclusive
of public property and S3.093, 000, 900 in
vested and owned abroad. The assessed val
lie of taxed property and our actual wealth
at different decades has been:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

The question as to the arrangement Of
the forty-two stars on the flag, is exciting
some attention. There is no prescribed
form. But the best suggestion seems to
be to place the thirteen in a circle, and the
added twenty-nine in a five pointed star
shape about the circle. There is room for
several artistic ARRANGEMENTS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

ILLINOIS has an industrial training
school where city boys are taken out into
the country and taught farming. 1t
would take about three such institutions
to the square mile to counterfeit the at
fractions of the city to the country-bred
how
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

THERE is likely to be IN exodus from
Canada pretty soon. The extradltlon
treaty recently negotiated makes embezzle-
ment an indictable crime. There will be
a host of defaulters emigrating soon.
Where can they 60 to?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

THE London Chronicles Berlin cores
pondent says that advices from Brazil by
mail report that the proclamation of the
Republic was received with enthusiasm IN
all places where the German population
predominates.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

BOB INGERsoLL says that NEARLY all
the JOY of this earth is by the Preside
Some people say that in the next world
Bob will get all sorts of JOY that he wants
and a little more.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

exceeds the total wealth of the whole world
at any time previous to the middle of the
eighteenth century, and the amount in
vested abroad is alone equal to the national
total wealth of only five nations is equal
to the mere increase of the United States
in the last nine years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

Herminee Phebault, the mistress Of Sill
colt, the defaulting cashier, is said to be
In Montreal, Canada. and detectives are
securing the city for him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
JOB DEPARTMENT.

We have in this department a complete isRs
of job Material and Type for doing frst-claas
job work on short notice and at the lOwest
living prices. We do all kinds of Pamphlss
and Law Brief work known to the trade.
Call in and get prices. Z
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
Lincoln and Stanton.

Charles A. Dana In the New York Sun:
In the last number ofthe Century Magazine