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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
Am using Incident.

Frying people seem to have little or no
sense of mortification-certa none of
politeness. Here is an amusing illustra-
ton: A well-known citizen of Hartford,
Conn, few days ago had taken his seat
in the afternoon train for Providene, when
a small weazen-faced, elderly man having
the appearance of a well-to-do farmer,
came into the car looking for a seat. The
gentleman good-naturedly made room for
him by his side, and the old man looked
him over from head to foot.
Going to Providence?" be said at
length.
No, SIR Il estranger answered polite
ly; II stop at Andover.
II want to know [ belong out that
way myself Expect to stop long?"
Only over night, sir
did you cal klate to put up at tav-
ern?"
No, SIR expect to stop with Mr..
Skinner"
"What, Job Skinner? Deacon Job,
who lives in a little brown house on the
old pike? Or mebbe its his brother ?
Was it Tim Skinner, Squire Tins
where you are going?"
Yes y said the gentleman smiling, ''it
was Squire Tins,
Dew tell if you are going there to
stay over night. Any connection of
his p
'No sir
well, now, that's Gurus. The old man
ain t got into trouble nor nothin' has hs?''
lowering his voice ''Aint goin' to serve
writ on him, be you?'
''Oh, no; nothing of the kind. -
"Glad ont. No harm In sskin',
s'pose | reckon Miss SINNERS some con-
nection of your ?"
mo" said the gentleman. Then see
ing the amused expression on the faces of
two or three acquaintance in the neigh
boring seats, he added in a confidential
tone:
Il am going to see Squire Skinner 5
daughter"
Law sakes!" said the old man, his
face quivering with curiosity. That S
it, is it? | want to know! Well, Miranda s
nice gal-kind O homely, and long
favored, but smart to work, they say; and
guess your about the right age for her,
too. Keep company together long?'
II never saw her in my life, sir.
How you talk! Somebody's gin her a
recommend, | s'pose, and YOU'RE goin
clear out there to take squint at her!
Wa'aI, | must say there's as likely gals in
Andovers Miranda Skinner. I've got a
family of crowned up darters myself.
Never was married afore, was ye? Don t
see no weed on your hat.
Il have been married about fifteen
years, sir, have a wife and five children. y
And then as the long restrained mirth of
the listeners to this dialogue burst forth at
the open-mouthed establishment, he hasten
ed to explain: Il am a doctor, my good
friend, and Squire Skinner called at my
office this morning to request my pro
! fessional services for his sick daughter .
"Wa'al, now!" and the old bore wad-
died into The next car.-Michigan Chris
tan Advocate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

hogs should be allowed thereon for at least
four months Where few animals are left
that have been exposed, no fresh animals
should be added to them for six months.
If it is necessary to put fresh animals
where the disease has been, as in stock
yards, ETC., then all prior infected aniLIals
should be killed and the previously dlsin-
fected as stated
Z. Sick hogs should not be permitted to
stray into out-of-the-way places, under
buildings and into fence corners or under
straw stacks thus scattering the disease,
so as to make infection possible. They
should be penned or inclosed in yard
where proper attention Fan be given them,
and other hogs kept from them.
s. Where no disinfection is had, hogs
should not be admitted on premises where
the disease has prevailed for one year.
1t is believed that the cholera germs will
lose their vitalit, entirely in one year.
9. All domestic animals, especially
sheep, that have been in contact with dis
eased hogs should be enclosed away from
all other animals and closely watched.
10. No person from farm or premises
where hog cholera does exist. Or has exist
ed, should be PERMITTED to come on pre-
misses where the disease does not exist, I'M
less previous disinfection is had of his boots
and clothing.
II. All birds, wild or tame, should be ex
Guided from infected premises.
After all this trouble, there still remains
the danger of fresh introduction of the
disease 1t is difficult for one farmer to
protect himself when constantly menaced
by his neighbors. Still it is much easier
to keep it away than to eradicate it. 1t is
best, therefore, IN regions where the dis
ease is always more or less present, to keep
the hogs in more limited space, and in
closures of such form and size that disin-
lection may be had with less labor and
more definite results.
1t is confidently believed if these rules be
faithfully observed wherever the disease ex-
lists, hog cholera can be permanently eradi
Gated from the state.
Though winter freezing will not destroy
the germs, there is good reason to believe
they will not survive more than year in
any soil. But is carried and distributed,
throughout the year, from places where
cases have occurred, and thus the virus is
kept alive. Hence the necessity for
extensive concerted action among farmers.
Hog cholera germs have never been
found in soil or water independent of the
disease. Neither have they ever been
found except in the body Or discharges of
diseased hogs and from these the infection
spreads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
THE BLIND SOLDIER SAW 1T ALL
4 War Scene Pictured on His Memory
Never to Be Effaced

Portland (Me.) Telegram: During the
National Encampment in Boston an old
comrade with silvery hair was led into the
Cyclorama of Gettysburg by bright-faced
little miss. The old man sat down. while
the child described to him the features of
the picture. Occasionally he asked her
question, and slowly shook his head as if in
doubt of the accuracy of her account. She
had described to him in her own way the
onrush of Pickett men and the hand-to-
hand conflict at the stone wall, where the
Name veterans met the charge of the
Southerners, when he asked: But where's
the artillery, May?"
20, you mean the big guns? They re
over there on the hill, in row."
''All in a row?'' he asked.
Yes she replied
He shook his head. Look around, said
he. There must be some more that are
not in line
Yes" she said, 'there are some more
down here, but they are all upset; guess
they're burst. ~
is that where the men are coming over
the wall?'
Yes, grandpa.
SIS there a grove of trees?'
Eyes. it seems to be full of men, but
f, the smoke is so thick you can't see them. >
so, see Them he cried
The little girl replied, so, no, grandpa,
you can see them"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
A UNIVERSAL. PANACEA,
A French savant Proposes to Cure A


Ills by Using the Mirror.
A French contemporary. according
to the London Globe gives an account
OF cure for all sorts and conditions
OF ailments, of which the cure, mot
the ailments) M. lie Docteur Luys,
member of the academy of medicine.
is the inventor. The patient epilep-
tic. paralytic, nervous, or what not 10
introduced to mirror which is sud-
denly set going so rapidly as to seem
to the astonished sufferer to be single
point of intense light. The rays, con-
verging horizontally upon the victims
eye, land him in state of uncon-
sclousness, In some cases so quickly that
he seems to have been struck by light
ming, and from this stage ne comes to
h1mself-cured. 1t seems also that
the treatment may be employed as an
anesthetic, in case OF operations; and;
IN short there appears to be no limit
to the extent of the last new medi-
co-surgical miracle.
lSto the details Of the process we
have not entered very carefully, see-
Ing that it seems connected in some
way with the mysteries of hypnotism.
Possibly. however, there may be .
profounder interest in the matter than
has been revealed even to NJ Luys
There has always been something
magical about mirrors, ever since
their first inventiOn-it is supposed by
Eve; and the wizards of the middle
ages. though vastly inferior fellows to
their nineteenth century successors,
turned out articles in the magic mir
ror line of unquestionabie quality.
Still, accepting the cases of cure
claimed by DIR. Luys, and without dis.
counting them on the score of their
being more or less connected with
what professional individuals call
1.-THE nerves." one is tempted to think
that a good deal may be done by
astonishing ones patient with less
scientific apparatus than rotating
mirror.
Suppose for example, physician
were to suddenly direct, not a pencil
of concentrated rays, but his own fist
into his patients eye. Would not the
patient consider that further visits to
his physician were no longer neededP
And might not the typical paralytlo
be endowed with sufficient strength
to return the treatment? If this seems
an unfair way of dealing with a seri-
Gus subject one can very fairly reply
that the world has had enough of
medical magic which has been from
time immemorial a symptom of peri
DDS of medical uncertainty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
/. S. ST. ?. & u. ?.
New Line through Wyoming and
Idaho to the Pacific Northwest

This line is composed Of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha and Union Pacific Rail
ways, and reaches more Far
Western Cities than any other line
as follows:
Haley, Boise City, Lewiston.
Moscow and principal Idaho
points.
Walla Walla, Colfax, Farming
ton, Rockford, Spokane Falls and
numerous Washington points.
Baker City, Pendleton, Portland
and principal Oregon points.
Ogden and Salt Lake City, the
largest points in Utah.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
all California points from Mt.
Shasta to San Diego.
And this line also reaches Butte,
Anaconda and many other points
in Montana.
Also note that by this line
accommodations are furnished in
Pullman Family Sleeping Cars at
very low rates to holders of
second-class tickets going to
Washington, Oregon and Califor-
mia.
When you get ready to 60
West, before deciding upon your
route, call on agents of c., St. P.
M. & 0. Ry., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through car service over
the LAKE Superior, ST. Paul e.
Union Pacific Line" and connec
tons, or for pamphlets and map
T. w. TEASDALE.
PGaen'lsengerAgent, St. Pa III.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
Prevention of Hog Cholera.

Secretary Kennedy, of the State Board of
Health, in his last bullstin publishes the
following timely advice to farmers as to the
best known methods employed in prevent
ing the spread of the hog cholera.
So soon as the herd has become In
fected. the healthy animals should be i'm
mediately removed from the sick so far
away there will be no danger of infection
by contact, drainage of the soil, water or
gusts of wind They should be given ample
space, so that if there are diseased animals
among them it will not spread so rapidly
as when they are crowded. The bodies of
those removed may be disinfected by pour
ing over them two per cent solution of
carbolic acid, or two and one-half ounces
to one gallon Of water, and also driving
them through the solution to disinfect
their feet.
2. Destroy all diseased animals. Al
there i. no reliable means of treatment or
cure, destruction is the simplest and most
economical in the end.
3. Each dead body should be buried sc
deepno animal can get at it. 1t should
be covered with layer of Stacked lime
several inches thick. If burned, cale
should be taken that parts not burned are
buried as above. The sale and carrying
of such dead bodies to rendering establish
ments is prohibited by law and most
prolific way of spreading the disease
f. There should be frequent and through
disinfection of the premises, and cleanlin
ess maintained Stacked lime is a gooc
disinfectant for hog cholera, using one
pound of lime to a gallon of water Il
may be used as a whitewash on fences anC
pens, and spread over the soil in thin
layer and thrown into pools, hog-wash. o.
wherever water stagnates. A more efficient
dlslnfectant is crude carbolic acid, COS
about 81 per gallon, and an equal quantit,
of sulphuric acid. The two acids should b.
carefully mixed in a glass jar or bottle an,
poured slowly into wator in a woodel
pail in the proportion of two ounces Q
the acid mixture to one gallon of water
This should be used with broom Q
brush upon wood work, fences, pens, floors
tools, etc, and also dashed over the sol
For shoes and boots, brush them with
mixture of one-fourth ounce of carboli
acid and one-half gallon of water. Pail:
after use, should be rinsed with water
prevent the acid from destroying the iro
hoops.
5. All manure from sick hogs should |
dislnfected before removal.
g. After dlsinfection of premises, n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
DOGS AS SENTINELS.
Tho French Have Very Cruel Way Of
Training the Animals.

Dogs as auxilliaries of the sentinel
are coming into the fore. says Paris
correspondent of the London Tele-
graph. 1t appears that kind has
been discovered in Touquin which has
been converted into vigilant and
ferocious sentinel. 1t is tall and
powerfully built. The way it is train
ed may be expected to elicit the pro-
tests of that Animals Guardian of
which we announced the other DAY
the forthcoming issue. When those
dogs are wanted for military service
they are tied up and natives are en-
gagged to beat and otherwise ill-use
them. The French soldiers duty, on
the other hand, is to feed them. If
then at night they are fastened to
sentry box they naturally give the
alarm directly an Anamite or 1onqui-
nois approaches. They can distin-
guish the native from the European by
the scent though either she ID lie
concealed About this method of
training there seems to be a good deal
of unnecessary and cruel ingenuity.
Our English dog fanciers would prob
ably be willing to undertake the train
ing of sentinel dogs on terms much
easier for the dogs themselves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
How to Sweep a Store.

We don't use leaky old sprinkling
pot to sop the floor all oyer in puddles
when we sweep says correspondent
of the Commercial Enquirer. No,
sir! We have wet sawdust. and [ put
row of it across one end of the store
and sweep that right along to the
othel end, just like regiment march
ing across a ten acre lot. 1t catches
all the dirt and carries it along. If 1t
gets a little dry. add some more.
Some folks scatter sawdust all over
the floor, but Mr.. Fanders says that's
no goou; that the reason for using saw
dust is to avoid wetting the floor all
over and to have something that will
absorb the dust.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
lie Saw Millions in it.

A weak, sickly-looking individual
with a shawl and a pair of CATERS, en-
tered railroad restaurant and said to
the waiter:
Waiter, bring me sirloin steak
and omelet and some baked potatoes"
~ es, sir, that
And some baked ham, and-ano a
small mutton chop. waiter"
Yes, sis, tea"
"a couple of bottles of beer and
half dozen English mullins"
The waiter put Gown his tray with
knowing smile. CHANGING over the
counter to see if the proprietor was
looking, he leaned over and whis-
,ered:
Say, mister, you don't want q
manager, do you?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
DUTCH COURTSHIP.
How Young Men in Holland Express. Thei1
Preference for the Girls.

Preference 1Or the UlrIs
In certain parts Ct Holland, when a
young man thinks he has found his af-
fnity, it is customary for him to ask for a
match to light his CT gar at the door of his
beloved ones house. This little subter-
fuge is intended to arouse the parents
to the fact that something is in the wind
If a second call with similar object is
made soon after, no doubt is left of the
young mans intentions, and parents pro-
coed to investigate the young mans char
acter and antecedents with view of
ascertaining his eligibility as a member
of the family. When he calls the third
time always for a match to light his
cigar they are prepared to give him an
answer.
If his suit is rearded with favor he is
politely requested to step inside for the
first time and is served with tight If
he is not accepted he is refused a light
and the door is shut in lis face without
further ceremony.
But, having prepared for Ulis contingency
the downcast suffer will in all probability
light his weed with a match from his
own box and walk away musing on the
transitory nature of earthl y things. When
the accepted suffer is invited to enter the
house he, as matter Of course, informs
the parents which of their daughters has
captivated his fancy.
When this is settled the young man
steps forward and join hands. While the
engagement is by no means settled fact,
even at this important stage, yet it is stat
ed as truth that when, on the occasion
of the young mans visit, his inamorata
has offered him second cigar, which he
had smoked in their house, the engage
ment has never been Cancelled
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

Lilo oup.SpotS oo5 favorc ond ~,

Like sun-spots and fevers and most
other things in this best of all possible
worlds, the rage for polar explorations is
now more violent and now less, thus fall
ing under the rules of DR.. Samson'S IA
nous theory of the periodicity of disease.
Apparently We are now in one of the maxi
mum points. DR.. Nansen is getting
ready to be frozen into the ice pack full of
belief that the polar current will slowly
but surely carry him to or very near the
pole and deliver him three years later off
the southern end of Greenland. Professor
Nordenskiold is to be booked for an Ant
arctic expedition. and two Frenchmcn, NJ.
Besancon and nj. hesmite, have project
for going to the north pole by balloon.
Apparently this plan is put forth quite as
seriously as either Of the others.
Like Jules Nerne's romances, 1t has all
the air of reality that comes from fore
seeing and providing for quantity of de-
tails. The fault, if there is one, comes in
the first assumption that balloon can
be had which viii sail off from Spitzborgen.
PASS In the vicinity of the pole and land
somewhere within reach OF civilization la
America or Asia. We are told at length
of the articles necessary to be carried,
scientific instruments. a small unsuitable
canoe, sledge, eight dogs and provisions
for month. By the use of a drag anchor
the balloon is to be kept so near the sur
face that photographs of the region about
the pole may be taken.
The balloon must be capable of carving
four tons, and ten days are allowed for the
voyage. Grant such a, balloon, with
proper supply of gas and steady wind in
the required direction for ten DAYS, and
the project is feasible enough
DR.. Nansen' S attempt is one that is likely
to make or mar. He deduces from observ-
ed phnomena the flow of ocean currents
over certain course. This course is the
one he wants, and he proposes to let his
ship freeze into the ice that is to be carried
by the current to the point he wants to
reach, and then out again from the mystery
of the pole to the land known of men, If
the currents exist he will come back with
the knowledge so many have sought in vain
or he will not come back at ALL He plays
his life as he did in the journey across
Greenland.
The journey to the antarctic land is hard
y less interesting. Comparatively little is
known of it. For fifty years Sir James
Ross discovery of the southern.
with It's two immense VOLCANOES has stood
with practically nothing in the way of ad-
dltion. No one has passed perils of this
exploration none are perhaps greater than
at the north, but in one sense the search is
more alluring and offers greater possibili-
ties.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
Safe With Only One Pntatn.

Did you ever calculate the
value Of single potato on the basis
that that single tuber was the only
one left in the world?
That one would, Of course. contain
within itself the possibility of restock-
ing the world with valuable article
of food. If Que potato would produce
when planted, but ten potatoes, in ten
years the total product would be
10, 0O0 900, 900, which would stock the
whole world with seed.
Ii the world were reduced to one
single potato it would be better that
London or Chicago be blotted from the
lost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
THB

Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
ST. Paul and Minneapolis.
Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches OF latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman Vestibu1ed Drawing
Room and Colonist Sleepers via the North
ern Pacific Railroad between Chicago and
Portland, Ore.
Convenient Trains to and from Eastern
Western, Northern and Central Wisconsin points,
affording unequalled service to and from Wau
kesha, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Neenah,
Menasha, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire,
Hurley, Wis, and Ironwood and Bessemer.
Mich.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations, time
tables and other information, apply to agents of
The line. or to Ticket Agents anywhere in the
United States or Canada.
;. r. AINSLIE, General Manager, MILWAUKEE,,
WIS
;. NJ. HANNAFORD, Gen1 Traffic Manager,
ST. PAU. NT :.
H. C. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, CHICAGO,
ILL.
LOUIS ECKSTEIN, Gen1 Pass'r & Tk't Agt,
CHICAGO, Ill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
Making Him Useful.

There is said to be a young man at
West Newton, Pa, who, when he goes
to see his girl, is compelled to split
wood, carry in coal, run errands, and
work in the garden, by the girls
mother, before he is allowed to do
any counting. We should think that
when he had all these tasks accom-
plished it would be time to get home
to breakfast; but perhaps he is per-
mitted to remain until the morning
meal is prepared and is made to help
the girl wash the dishes. He says he
won't kick so long as the old woman
doesn't send the girl to bed and insist
upon being courted in her place.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

Forty years Mrs. Mary Carroll has
been the switchwoman at the Central
railroad junction mile from Macon,
Ga, where several different railroad
tracks meet. During this time she
has always been faithful and efficient
She has never been the cause of an
accident. She is perhaps the oldest
and only watchwoman in the United
States. After so excellent a record,
and so many years OF capital service
in sunshine and storm, in cold and
heat, the Central road has placed her
in a less irksome position. She has
been made gatekeeper at the shop OF
the road in that city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
EMPEROR AND CHANCELLOR,
The First william JeaIons of the Popu-
Iarity of His Adviser.

rarity or Ills ADVISER.
In the German press at present a
good deal of discussion is going on
about the personal relations between
the late Emperor William and Prince
Bismarck. The following anecdote is
said to have been related by Prince
Bismarck himself: King William and
his Chancellor were travelling together
in a railway carriage, when the train
stopped at station and voices were
heard outside. The Germans were
heard outside. The Germans were oc-
cupying a certain place in the neigh
borhoOd at the time, and one of the
speakers exclaimed: TBismarck's
people have arrived" The king
asked the prince what the speaker
meant. The latter, however, pre-
tended not to have understood. The
king, after pause then said: Il
should think the people ought to
know that the troops are mine, not
yours" Since that time" said the
prince, whenever there was the
least danger of wounding the sensi-
bilities of the emperor my wife would
warn me in the words: Think of
the Bismarcker "