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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
GREAT GUNS.
How They Are Made and What They Cost
Harper's Weekly.

The forging of the immense guns is a
most interesting process. The rife guns
of the present are made by reinforcing
the tube with rings and repeated layers of
steel called jackets, which are fitted one
over the other over the original tube or
barrel of the gun. The jackets or hoops
must fit as closely to the suns as if form
ing an inergal part of its composition.
The only way to get them on it, of course,
by heating, and thus charging them.
When they cool, they fit snugly. 1t is
evident that the exact size of the Jacket
and ring when heated so that it can be
put in its place must be a matter of the
incest mathematical calculation. The
coarse powder now used make such havoc
with the rifing Of the largest guns that
one hundred charges, are about all that
Can be expected from them. The jackets
and rings can then be removed, and fitted
iC another tube.
The various parts of gun are not put to-
gether at Bethlehem, but are sent to
Washington, to department of the ar
senal called the assembly-room where the
tube is rifed, and the gun is finally COM
pieted. A steel gun of the largest caliber
cost about 100000 The ordinance of our
modern navy is therefore one of the most
costly items for which congress is expect
ed to display patriotic generosity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
Cheerful Kitchens.

| often wonder why we didn't take
more pains to make our kitchens cheerful
and pleasant, when if not ourselves, some
one must spend the greater part of their
time there. bare, poorly-hghted and
ventilated kitchen, which is only sugges
tive of the hard work to be done there
is not a good place to tempt our
girls to learn the mysteries of cooking. 1t
is just as true that pleasant surroundings,
cheerful, pleasant places In which to work,
make the work seem less burdensome and
bel p to keep cheerful hearts and faces as
that dismal, dreary surroundings make
dreary lives. The fact cannot be denied
that every one is more or less Influenced by
his surroundings.
If the kitchen is made as pleasant
room as may be inside, look after the back
gard, that view from its window may be
pleasant. Plant vines to run over the
windows, and have flower beds near at
hand. They will afford you much more
pleasure there than if they were all in
the front yard. l shall never forget the
first summer | kept house. My
kitchen had a front door and a back
door. AS | did not care to use the
front door, had the steps taken away,
and planted morning glory vines there,
which soon covered the doorway, and all
the morning the delicate pink, white and
blue blossoms helped me with my work.
Near back window | had flower bed
where verbenias, phlox, balsams, ETC.,
fcurished and cheered me with their sweet
presence. By all means have flowers
around the kitchen.
Have an easy chair by the window, with
a rug in front of it, and foot-lest, so that
you can drop down there for few minutes
lest which you would not take if obliged
to go to another room.
If you are just commencing housekeep-
ing, try this plan Have a Ii tie less in
the parlor, and make the kitchen convent
ent and pleasant. If you have kept house,
and worked in dreary kitchens year after
J ear, try it, and see if it does not pay.
We should aim to get all the brightness
and pleasure out Of life possible. To do
the work of life well it must not lie allow
ed to degenerate into drudgery, and moth
ing will do more to prevent this than to
give the work cheerful and bright sur
neutrality-suspicious. and Fireside.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09

she nut S be restored at once to conscious
ness.
Dr. Anton seized the young woman s
right arm, rubbed it smartly, and sug-
gested:
You are all right now. You arm is
we'll again In the same Instant the girl
raised her arm with triumphant expires
sion of the face. DIR. Anton then aroused
her. To his and his auditors astonish-
ment the girls left arm still hung limp
and apparently nerveless at her side. He
had forgotten, in speaking collequially, to
tell her that her left arm, too, nad receiv-
ed its strength. He touched the helpless
arm and exhorted the young woman to
it, bat in vain, She couldn't stir it an
inch.
DR.. Anton then explained that the
students had before them a case of post
hypnotic Gripping, which could be re-
moved only after the girl had been again
hypnotized. He was unwilling to exhaust
the girl by bringing her immeaditly un
der his influence once more, so he defer
red the performance of the cure for several
days. He said the girl was so subject to
influences that the regular ticking of a
church clock or the monotonous ringing
of church bell would suffice to hypnotize
her
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
Milk at Regular Times.

Punctuality in milking hours, says the
Indiana Farmer, is of the utmost impor-
lance and the best results is quite as es-
sential as the regularity in feeding. The
time for morning and evening milking
should be divided as equally as the sea-
son of the year will permit and the hours
selected be adhered to rigidly. A strict
observance of this rule will result-all
other things being in accord-in con-
slant, even flow during the entire milking
term, and increased profit will be the re-
ward. Too little attention is given to
this feature on the dairy farm. The cows
are MIXED, especially in busy seasons, at
any time most convenient after other
work is attended to; this is invariably at
tended with loss, and causes a shrinkagn
in milk that is not easily regainad
Method and system, both in milking and
in feeding must be carefully observed to
secure the highest measures of return
from the COWS, and upon the faithful per-
Torrance of these duties depends in a
high degree the success or failure of the
business.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09

divided between the coming horse" and
the health of a cousin (?) in another
family. Thus the tender colts meals be-
came irregular and its limbs weary from
long hitching away from home. Then the
temptation to work the colt at heavy
plouuhing. all day long, arises in the busy
planting season. A bad crop, at times,
causes the farmer to sell off too many of
the older, stronger workhorses, and thus
be forced to depend too much on the two
year-olds. The latter, if worked lightly
half the time (half day spells are best usual
ly) will in the right hands, be better work
horses ever after. But shoe should never
be worn at this age. The hoof should
have care; and heavy pulling be avoided.
Care to develop a rapid walking gait is
desirable. The faster pace come of its
own accord. In a word, the colts third
from two to three years old) if properly
utilized is worth any two years of its after
life. At this time its habits may be
more surely confirmed than ever after
wards
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
FARM NOTES.

Broken rice can often be bought cheap,
and makes good feed for young poultry.
1t should be soaked until soft.
Always plan to have tight roof to the
chicken coops. In many cases it will save
considerable loss in sudden showers.
Naturally, as wealth increases, the de-
mand for finer grade Of wool will increase
There is no profit in growing poor wool
anyhow.
Ali the heat in the animal comes from
the food it consumes. 1t will, therefore,
be clearly seen that the exposure to cold
means more food simply for the purpose Of
producing heat that is wasted.
The manure of the different kinds of
farm stock varies in quality and richness
because they receive different kinds of
rations and because they assimilate their
food differently. The manure from the
stalls of fattening animals is richer, that
is to say, is worth more per ton than that
from stock fed grain or mill feed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
TOO OBSERVANT
He Saw Too Much for a Man Working by
the Day.

He Saw Toe Much for Man Working by
the Day.
A gentleman from Virginia related to a
friend in Gay street car the other day
how he hired negro and put him In the
field to work, says the Baltimore Herald.
After while the planter came along and
accosted the new hand:
Did you see coach go down the road
while ago?"
Indeed l did, boss. One of the horses
was a gray horse and the other was roam
and lame In the off leg
Il thought heard some hunters there
on the edge of the woods
Yes, boss one OBJ em. was Col Jones'
He was the tall one. De second one was
Maj. Peters, and the third one was Tom
Mckee. Col. Jones had one Oh dem new
tangled breech-loading guns dat break in
two
Did you see those pigeon fly over just
now?"
See EN-! Guess did! Oar was
nineteen Oh EN-. Dey lit in da1 corn field
down yonder''
Wei, you see too much for a man
that is hired by the day. Here's your
wages. When | want a man to keep
watch of what is going on I'll send fol
you.
"Well, Mrs. Pettigrew, if yez don't raise
me wages l shall be obleeged to be afther
lawn yez when me month is up" "Why,
Jane? When you came here you knew
scarcely anything; it was who taught
you" An sure, mum, wouldn't | be
aftker bein' with more now, whln | know
so much, than whin I didn't know nothin
at alp"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
DRIVELLING IDIOCY.
Absurd Statement of a Great apostle of
Free Trade.

Mr.. Mills seems to have larger ca pacity
for dwelling idiocy on the subject of for
eign trade than any other man in the pub
lie eye. In speech some time ago he
said: IF reciprocity is wanted, why not
negotiate with England, France and Ger
many?" Why, you precious old ninny.
what is the good of reciprocity with ma
tions which wish to sell US suchthmgs as we
can manufacture or produce ourselves? Is
there any sense in our buying iron products
from En- gland when we have inexhaust-
IDLE supplies of iron ore and coal to con-
vert the same into pig iron in our own
country, and plenty of men to work the
pig up into all sorts of shapes? What
profit would result from letting our own
cotton and wooden mills stand idle in order
that we might buy cotton and wooden
goods from England? Would it be sen.i-
BILE for US to close our silk factories In
order to make the products of French
looms, or our hosiery mills, to oblige Ger
man manufacturers? No man with a
shade of business sense would advocate
anything of the kind. 1t is only that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
Why Go Abroads

The folly OF going abroad in search of a
mild climate will be pleasantly discussed
by Charles Dudley Warner in the editors
drawer in Harper's Magazine for April
I'VE have climates of all sorts, he says,
within easy reach, and in quantity. both
good and bad, enough to export-more, in
fact, than we need Of all sorts. If heat is
all we want, there are only three or four
days between the zero Of Maine and the
So of Florida. If New England is in
hospitabIc and New York freezing, it is
only ter of four days to the sun and
the celebrating air of New Mexico and
Arizona, and only five to the oranges and
roses of that mi-tropical kingdom by the
sea, southern California. And if this Goes
not content US, a day or two more lands
US, without seasickness, in the land Of the
Aztees, where we can live N the temper
ate or the topic zone, eat strange fruits,
and be reminded of Egypt and Spain and
Italy, and see all the coIors that the ingenu-
ity has been able to give mis- skin. All
men are free, and entitled to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of an agreeable climate
We have yet to learn, it seems, that we
can indulge In that pursuit best on our
own continent.
Madame comes home and finds Minna
(the servantl sitting in the kitchen reading
book by the light OF two candles. She is
very naturally annoyed at the girls ex-
travagance. why, Nina, actually read
ing novels with two candles burning?"
Not at ALL ma am" was the cool reply,
that only one candle! | just cut it in
two half an hour apO!''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
CLEVELAND NOT1N L
He Does Not Desire to Eat From American
Made Plates

The performer" will wake up some
morning from his dreams of convertir g
the west to free trade and find that while
he slept the south has been converted to
protection. 1t is not in the nature of
things that southern voters should continue
to send men to congress who devote all
their energies to trying to pass measures
which would bury still deeper the south s
marvellous resources OF coal, iron and other
mine erals. Most significant as showing the
trend of thought in the manufacturing
states of the south was the banquet held in
Chattanooga, Tenn, March IL. The &C.
casion was the celebration of the MAX
ing of basic steel from ow-grade southern
pig iron. The feature of the entertain
ment was the tin cups, plates, flower
stands, champagne glasses and other
fancy articles made from CHATTANOOGA
steel which was rolled and th1nned by TIE
St. Louis Stamping company. The menu
card had a front cover made of steel.
Page leaves between these had printed on
them the menu toasts. Mr.. Mckinley was
present and made speech. He also made
second speech on protection at the re-
ception given to him and others by the
Young Men S Republican club. The press
dispatches UIOu2uU CnO olSHlHIdHG stdte-
ments, coming as they do from the solid
south, that ''he was greeted throughout
with most cordial applause, and that 1.-THE
hall was packed to sutfocation.'
Nor were we surprised to learn that Mr..
Grover Cleveland had declined to grace the
festival with his presence. He probably
felt that he would not enjoy eating from
an American tin plate bearing upon it the
declaration that its manufacture was made
possible by the Mckinley bill. A banquet
at which the manufacture of American
timed plates is denounced as robbery is
more to the ex-president's liking. At any
rate, this great ''reformer" chose rather
to sulk in his tent than tt come out and
assist in celebrating a triumph Of Amerl-
can industry. Every banquet like that
in Chattanooga is a nail in the tariff ire
formers" coffin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
The Family Fruit Garden.

D. A. P, of TIaer, Iowa, writes: Have
been housekeeping tor II years, and have
never bought dollars worth of dried
fruit do not believe in the II years that
we have paid out to exceed S25 for dec
tors bills for sickness in the family, but
we have never been without fruit. | have
some years kept account of the labor in
the fruit garden, and find no investment
paying better interest on time and money
thus invested. | ad7ise every family to
set out the following, more or less of each,
as they have ground: Crescent and War
field strawberries; Gregg, Shaffer and
Turner raspberries; White Grape and H.
B. H. currants; Concord, Moore's Early,
Worden and a few Niagara grapes; De
Soto and Forest Garden plums; Duchess
and Wealthy apples; Whitneys No 20
crabapple; Early Richmond and Mont,
morency cherries. OF course there are
other varieties which can be used if there
is room for them | DO not want to ruin
the doctors trade, but better give them q
pension for life and have our health, if we
can do so. Using fruit Will greatly help
in doing away with doctors bills. Fruit
will need some care. like every thing else.
but 1t pays and pays big. Do not forget to
buy few flower seeds for the children to
plant and watch over. 1t will create in
them love for the beautiful and make
them better men and women. Let every
one try 1t this spring, and in few years
report the result.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
JOHN PLANTATION DEAD.
The Milwaukee Millionaire Expires Ouie
ly of Pneumonia.

ly of Pneumonia.
MILWAUKEE, March 30.--John Plank
ton passed quietly away last night, and
the whole state mourns his loss today
The end of his long illness came, pain
lessly and peacefully at $40 O'clock 1t
was pneumonia that caused his death,
and paralysis which so long threatened
his life. Last Tuesday be took a long
he contracted severe cold, which
rapidly developed into pneumonia,
DR.. Thompson, who has attended
linn through his sickness. said
from the first that his condition was criti-
cal, but his family and friends were hope
full that his wonderful vitality and great
him, would pull him through the attack.
Saturday morning he was sad to be slight
y better, but on Saturday night it became
evident that the end was not far off.
Yesterday morning he suffered cons1d-
erably, and In the afternoon became in
sensible. At about o. clock ne seemed
that he gave no sign of consciousness.
DR.. Thompson had prepared the watchers
at his bedside by telling them that death
NOulu DJ utIdlNIc ny SuCiD CESSdULOIS VI
the heavy breathing, which would finally
stop entirely. About $50 o'clock the
dreaded symptoms of approaching death
were noticed, and the family were hastily
summoned. Ten minutes later Mr.. Plank
linton died SO quietly and peacefully that
the watchers hardly knew when the end
came. Mrs. Plankinton, Miss Lizzie Plank
intou, Mr.. and Mrs. William Plankinton,
jeremiah Quin and DR.. Thompson were at
his bedside when he died.
Mr. Pankinton was born in Delaware,
March II, 1920. When II years old his
father removed to Pittsburg, where he re-
manned until the boy John became "a years
old. The latter then started with his wife
and son to seek his fortune in the west,
and in Milwaukee he found the opening he
desired. He was twice married. His first
wife was Miss Elizabeth Brackein, native
of Delaware, to whom he was married In
1910. Two children, William and Eliza
beth, were the fruit of this union, and are
still living. The former inherits much of
the enterprise and sagacity of his father,
and is identified with several large bust
ness enterprises. The daughter, a few
years ago, gave to the city of Milwaukee a
superb statue of Washington. the onl Y one
i'll TIE country west of the Allegheny
Mountains. Mr.. Pankinton second wife
was Miss Anna Bradford, whom he mar
ried in 1875 He was a faithful attend
ant at the services in Calvary Presbyterian
church. While not making an open pro-
fession of christianity, he contributed lib
orally to this church, and, in fact, was its
main support. do right was his re-
liz ion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
What Makes a Woman Graceful?

Some women are too active and nervous
to be graceful. They never wholly yield
the muscles to repose. Even in sleep they
look strained and restricted Some
women would faint stiff. There is a great
difference in the ways of being graceful
One is so after the manner of the mustang
or Arabian filly, another has the motion of
the willow or of grain waving in the wind
Most artists consider grace to emanate
from the disposition. The comfortable,
graceful woman 4 soft, negative dispo-
sition can not look hard and stiff A
fower-ike poetic disposition with GER
tain amount of alertness and force is The
best aterial for the artists model One
who with this combined a feeling for art
fanciful imagination and intelligence,
would be worth her weight in gold. Such
unfortunately, are hard to find.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
THE

Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
St. Pau1 and Minneapolis.
Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago ana Milwaukee and
Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room and Tourist Sleepers via the Northern
Pacific Railroad between Chicago and Port
land, Ore, and Tacoma, Wash.
Convenient Trains TO and from Eastern,
Western, Northern and Central Wisconsin points,
afording uneqnaled service to and from Wauke.
sha, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh. Neenah, Me-
nasha, 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.
S. R. AINSLIE, General Manager, Milwaukee
Wis.
]. NJ. HANNAFoRD, Gen1 Traffic Manager, St
Paul, Mimi.
a. C. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, Chicago, Ill.
LOUIS ECKSTEIN, Gen1 Pass'r and Tkt Ag't
Chicago, IL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
THEN AND NOW.
When Our High Schools Academies Were
Opened for Girls.

One hundred years ago girls were not
allowed to attend any of our public schools
of the country. When the first High
schools for girls were opened in Boston in
1925, there was such an outcry against the
innovation, and so many girls applied for
admission, that after Il year or SO the
scheme was abandoned and was not again
attempted until 1858. 10 TIA the first
academy for women was openrd by Mora
vines in Pennsylvania, in 1889; the first
seminary for women In NV England was
inaugurated in New Bedford, Mass aud
Mary Lyon in 1886 founded u college for
women in that state on the broadcast basis
ever before attempted. Oberin college
was opened on The co educational plan in
in 1888, and Antioch college in 1862. But
these were innovations which met with
much discussion and opposition, even
among women themselves Today, how
ever, this prejudice against the scientific
education of women has nearly disappear
ed. Even the older and more conservatide
institutions, like Harvard and Columbia,
are, if not opening their front doors to
women, at least making side entrances,
called annexes, whereby they may enter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
l.. S. ST. P. gu. P.
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
econd-class tickets going to
Washington, Oregon and Califor-
mia.
When you get ready to go
West, before deciding upon your
route, call on agents of c., St. p.
M. & O. Ry., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through car service over
the "Lake Superior, St. Pail G.
Union Pacific Line" and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
Gen'l PasengerAgent, St Paul.
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beneath the surface by the monster of the

beneath the surface by the monster of the
deep.
One after another the tentacies were
severed from the frightfully misshapen
body. Even after the last arm had been
severed the animal did not give up the
fight, however, and when any one ap-
preached it, glared at them. and caused
its body to CULVER in manner that in
duced a thrill of fear to run over the be-
holder, even with a knowledge that it was
harmless.
The devil fish was finally dispatched
with spade. The arms were carried
away by the several boys who had severed
them as trophies of the fight, but the body
remained On the ground and was viewed
by many people during the remainder of
the afternoon.