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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-11

The book reviewers throughout the
country have been very busy the past
few weeks in examining the new edition
of the "Science of life" The criticisms
are all one sided, that is to say, they are
all in high praise Of this Justly cele-
brated medical work. The book is adj
vertised in this paper.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-11
For Over Fifty Years,

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething. It
soothes the child, softens the gums, al-
lays all pain, cures wind collie, and is the
best remedy for diarrhna. Twenty-Five
cents a bottle. Sold by all druggists
throughout the world.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-11

oAo SouuOy3 11uRluS uOWu, WILL OGuoT
game, a huge porcupine which he had
shot during the blizzard last Friday. The
porcupine is a curious specimen, with
spines or quilts six inches long and hair
about twelve inches in length. The doc
tor says it resemb'ed a moving bundle OF
hay as it amb1ed over the prairie.
The fact has been demonstrated, time
and again, that the Bismarck postofice
should have an additional clerk. The
mail clerks say Bismarck handles more
mail than Niles City, Dickinson and
Mandan combined; still Mandan has one
more clerk than Bismarck The one
clerk Bismarck is allowed devotes his en-
tire attention to clerical work, leaving all
other work to, Postmaster Bogue, and
sometimes it is two hours after the arri-
val Of the mail before it is distributed.
H. J. Cole of Ludden, Dickey county,
is the latest addition to Warden Hag-
CARTS boarders. Cole became too init
mate with a girl by the name of Annie
Sydel, who had always borne a good
character, but who under promise of
marriage from Cole departed from virtue
and became an outcast from society.
She is now the mother of q little limo
cent girl, while Cole serves q term Of
nine months is the penitentiary. Cole
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Look Out for the Stock.

The season is now at hand when it is
necessary to look carefully after the matter
of feed for the cows in milk, and for the
colts, steers and lambs that are expected to
keep up rapid growth. A rule that will
generally be found sound in practice is not
to allow cow 20 shrink in her milk, or
for want of sufficient food, and that OF
a proper kind to do it with. The calcu-
lating farmer provides for these contingent
cles In advance. But every farmer has the
hay mows and the grain markets to resort
to, and from either, or better still comoi-
nation of both, any efficiency of feed can
be mf.de up. In dairy management, we'll
conducted, it will be found profitable in the
end to put the cows, at this season, on
generous grain ration, the amount, of
course, to be graduated to the kind and
quantity of supplementary food material
now available for their use. All this stock
should have enough to eat, and that of the
right kind. The point for the farmer to
consider is where it shall come from to the
best advantage The time has gonesby
when farmer can put his work with his
stock subject to the variations of the sea-
sons. There is no need of it. Variations
must be evened up. Droughts may come.
August and September may cut down the
feed, out the stock should go regularly on
with its work. This is the only way under
modern surroundings, ''to make the stock
pay" See to it, then, that the stock be
looked after, and that whatever the pas
lures fail to supply at this time be furnish
ed from some other source.-Maine
Farmer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Patience.

If we will only have patience with God s
leading, he will always show us the way
as fast as we are roally ready to &C on.
The trouble with most OF us is that we
ant to see the path through TO the end
before we take the first step. We want to
know before we start how we are to
come out. But this is not Gods way. A
man who is travelling in a dark night on a
country road does not have the whole road
lighted at once by the lantern he carries.
1t shows him only one step; but as he takes
that the lantern is borne forward and
another step is lighted, and then another.
and another, until, in the end, the whole
way has been illuminated, and he is safe
at his destination. Gods word, as a guild
ing light, is lamp unto our feet not sun
flooding a hemisphere. In the darkest
night it will al ways show US the next step.
Then, when we have taken that, it will
show US another; the thus on, till it brings
US out into the full clear sunlie hit of the
coming day. We need to learn well the
lesson of patience, is we would have God
guide us.-Epworth Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
FARM NOTES.

Strawberry plants require plenty of
fertilizing.
Butter makers are warned to soak and
not steam their tubs. When steamed it
is difficult to get the butter out.
The good prospect of better prices
should encourage farmers to extra efforts
In crop productions.
Sameness of food is costly An animal
may thrive for time on a certain diet,
but sooner or later a change must be al
lowed, or the animal will fall off in flesh or
production. Variety of food supplies all
the requirements.
Don't be surprised that you do net get
as much cream as your neighbor though
your cows are the same breed as his, if
yours are on slough pasture and his are
on tame grass, fe1 hay and some grain.
Feed has much to do with the quality of
milk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
FOND OF "ROUGHING IT.,
The Members of Family Explain How
They Spend Their Summers

The Members of a Family Explain How
They Spend Their Summers.
The entire family was ''roughing it, "
that is, the members Of the family called
it "roughing it." They were located On
the shore Of small lake, probably as far
as two miles from the nearest village and
a quarter of mile from the nearest farm
house.
They believed in ''roughing it, for a
few weeks during the summer, they were
proud of their ability to trough it, with
out complaining, and they occasionally in
vited their friends to come and see them
trough it,
Such a pretty place." said the father.
1.-The outdoor life does US so much
good" said the mother.
"Roughlug it is such jolly fun, y said the
son.
The hardships add zest to life, " said
the daughter.
Then the visitors looked over the place,
and one o. them said:
pretty little cottag you have"
Designed by one of the best architects
in the country" explained the father
proudly.
"The kitchen is a gen." said the
mother; "a little crowded for three SER
wants, perhaps, but it has every convent
ence."
''Nlcely furnished, too" commented an
other visitor
mo expense was spared" said the
son.
'Aren t the Turkish rugs pretty?" asked
the daughter,
The visitors nodded assent, but seemed
puzzled. Finally one of them said:
Excuse me, but-ah-where does the
the hardship come in ?"
The family was aghast.
why, there's no plastering on the walls
just plain wood" said the father
And no stationary washstands,' said
the mother
And no gas-only hanging lamps, y
said the son.
"And you can see the floor between the
rugs, and it's not hard wood, added the
daughter.
'But we don't mind; we find roughing
it, good for the health" they added all
together
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Harvesting the Corn Crop.

In country of widely varying lati-
tudes no set time can be given for har-
vestlng the corn crop. There are three
principal uses for which the crop is plant
ed-one for fodder alone, one for ensilage
Rnd third, and the most common, for
the grain. When sown or drilled for
dried fodder corn ought to be harvested
and cured before the leaves have
dried on the standing stalks, and for en-
silage about the time of the hardening
or glazing of the grain. When harvested
for tie grain it should be with the view of
utilizing all parts of the plant as we'll as
possible. This indicates that the corn
should be cut as soon as the ears have
reached full maturity and while the stalks
and leaves, when cured, will be nutritious
as fodder. All tie parts, even to
the husks, have some value when prop
erly cured and preserved. Leaving the
stalks standing and pulling the ears from
them, as is often done in some sections,
occasions an almost entire loss of the fod-
der. Curing the crop in shocks of from
sixty to one hundred hills in the field is
unquestionably the best and most econom-
zeal method of saving it all.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
L. S. SIP. & u. F.
These Letters are the Initials OF the
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
very low rates to holders
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.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

tree, they saw a man who had been lulled
to sleep by the soft breeze and the drowsy
atmosphere. It was plain that he was a
Spaniard, so the compatriot who made one
of the four spoke to him in his native
tongue The man avyoke with startled
expression in his eye and reached for his
knife. When he realized, however, that
he was listening to the dulcet tones OF mis-
native land, his dark eyes softened and he
grasped the stranger by the hand. The
visitors were welcomed with true hos
pitality.
eft was late in the afternoon. The last
rays Of the sun stealing through the
branches and vines, and stealing good
night kisses from the flowers, frightened
the scene into beauty. The long shadows
were lost i'll the dense growth of trees or
flowers, or stretched out over the lake,
making lines of deep purple upon the sill
yer sheen of the water. Peeping out Of
the window of the hut was the pretty face
Of dusky maiden. She, too, was startl-
ed by the strange faces of the visitors, and
stole sly chances through the interaced
vines which hung around the window.
1.-The visitors were invited into the hut
at dusk. and waited but short time for a
supper which had been hastily prepared
for them. After supper they returned to
the garden, and while putting their pipes
in the moonlight, heard the story Of this
islander. He had lived here for Is years.
He was driven from his country for some
imagined crime, and had fed to Florida
to find comfort in the wilds of the Ever
glades. He lived for a time with few re-
naming Indians that inhabited the coun-
try and married one of the dusky maidens.
He had at last been driven to this island
in the lake. and here had passed the years
away from the haunts Of men. He hao
but one child, a daughter, now just bios
soming into womanhood. She was beau
tiful in her uncultured, untutored nature.
Modest as the flowers which had been be-
companions, graceful as the vines which
clustered round her island home, she had
grown into beauty. Her father had taught
her to speak Spanish fuently. and pos
sessed of sweet voice she had caught
the songs Of the forest choristers and the
tune which her father mad sung before he
was banished from his pative land. The
Spanish guest soon forgot the senorita he
the soft smiles Of the lady of the lake
The visitors remained for week In
this enchanted spot, and when they left
took with them the family who had for so
many years lived alone on this lake be-
girted island. Fernandez, for that was
the islanders name, was given money
enough to pay his expenses home, and a
short time ago took steamer for his native
land accompanied by his family and
prospective son-in-law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Cross Drilling Wheat.

Occasionally we see it advised to cross.
drill wheat, dividing the wheat and SOW
ing half each way. But the result of such
seeding is that the ridges made by the
cross-drilling cover tEat sown too deeply.
It sends long spire upwards to the sur,
face, and when the soil freezes and thaws
in winter this is broken off and the liant
killed. If good wheat is grown thus, it
shows that half the seed sown is enough.
The idea that wheat plants crowd each
other more when all are put in single
row is a mistaken one. The roots fill all
the ground between the rows long before
fall, and of the drills that make different
widths those which put them eight inches
apart give better stands than those
which make rows one or two inches nearer
together.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
A READY LAWYER.
How Easily he Can Tack the Ship and
Change his Case.

Change his Case.
A countryman walked into the office of
lawyer one day, and began his applica-
ton; "Sir, have come to get your ad-
vice in case that is giving me some
trouble. well, what is the matter p
Suppose now, said the client, that a
man had a spring of water on his land, and
his neighbor living below should build a
dam across the creek through both farms,
and it was to back the water up into the
other mans spring, what ought to be
done ?"-''Sue him, sir, sue him, by all
means" said the lawyer, who always be-
came excited in proportion to the grievance
of his clients. You can recover heavy
damages, sir, and the law will make him
pay we'll for it. Just give me the case and
ia bring the money from him. But
stop!' cried the terrified applicant for le-
gal advice; it is | that have built the
dam, and it's neighbor Jones that owns
the spring; and he threatens to sue me. -
The keen lawyer hesitated moment be-
fore he tackled his ship, and kept on
"Ah! well, sir, you say you built a dam
across. What sort of dam was it, STRIP
1t was mill dam. And is it good
mill; is it a mill for grinding grain. sr?''
so it is, sir "-''And all your neigh
bors bring their grain to be ground. do
they?'-''Yes, all but Jones. Then it
is great public convenience, is it not?''
''To be sure it is. | would never have
built it only for that. And now," said
the old lawyer, you tell me that Jones is
complaining just because the water from
the dam happens to put back into his little
spring, and he is now threatening to sue
you. Well, all have to say is, let him
sue, and if l defend yeu, he viii rue the
day as sure as your name is Barnes"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
SLUMBER SONG.
EUGENE FIELD.

The mill goes toiling slowly round,
With steady and solemn creak,
And my little one hears in the kindly sound
The voice of the old mill speak
While round and round those big white wing:
.Grimly and ghost like creep,
My little hears that the old mill sings
asleep, little tulip, sleepi'
The sails are reefed and the nets are drawn,
And, over his pot of beer,
The fisher, against the morrows dawn,
Justify maketh cheer,
He mocks at the wind that caper along
From the rolf Camorous deep,
But we, we love their lullaby song
OF "Sleep, little tulip, sleep"
Shaggy old Fritz, in slumber sound,
Means of the stony mart
Tomorrow how proudly he'll trot you around
Hitched to our new milk cartl
And you shall help me blanket the kline,
And fold the gentle sheep,
And set the herring asoak in brine;
But now, little tulip, sleepl
A Dream-One comes to button the eyes
That YEARLY droop and blink
While the old mill Bullets the froWning skies
And scolds at the stars that wink;
Over your face the misty wings
Ofthe beautiful Dream One sweep,
And rocking your cradle, she softly sings
"Sleep, little tulip, sleep!'
In Chicago News
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

deep, and will often find water when it
does not come within ten or twelve feet of
the surface It is best to cut them down
when in full leaf, so as to prevent sprout-
ing if they stand anywhere near a house
well. The locust is often mistakenly
planted near houses for shelter, aud as the
trees grow older they are sure to give
trouble if well is anywhere near their
reach. Their roots give a very unpleas-
ant taste to the water In some cases this
taste is the first knowledge the owner of
the we'll has that anything is wrong with
n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Cost of Laziness,

Among the bees there is no kindness
shown to drones. Being without moral
responsibility, they are free to relieve
themselves from the burden of supporting
useless creatures. 1t Is fortunate for the
idlers Of earth that men have scruples
against the summary course taken by the
bees. Did any one ever compute what
lazy people eat. They are generally bless
ed with good digesjions. Lazy folks must
be clothed, and cared for, to a certain ex-
tent. They receive much, and give
nothing. They are kind of lottery in
the flesh, being nothing for something
invested. Who keeps tramps and idlers
alive? The efforts of those who work
amount to that just that much less The
greater the number of idlers, the greater
the loss to the worker, and the heavier the
load he has to carry. In the Hebrew ma
tion it was said, IF man will not work.
neither shall he eat" and there are no
beggars among them. Every man who
is consumer should be provider also.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
THEY BORROWED A BABY.
How an Indiana Couple Thought to Cor
ceal Their HONEYMOON.

How an Indiana Couple Thought to Con-
ceal Their Honeymoon.
''Hain't this the tavern what Palmer
runs" asked a tall, long-necked young
man of Clerk Cunningham yesterday. The
stranger face was filed with snuf-color.
ed whiskers and his faded linen
buster and badly used cowhide
boots looked as if they had been worn
by the Wandering Jew. He held a fat old
carpet bag and three bundles in one hand
and tlmld looking young woman In the
other She wore a light blue gown of
shimmering satin, with yellow trimmings,
and held a two-year-old bouncing baby
that was eating the red paint from a toy
cornet.
Drummers, politicians and Ioungers stop
ped their conversation to enjoy a few min
utes of character study.
This is the Palmer house, SIR" spoke
the clerk in reply to the mans query.
Il reckoned So but you can't see 10
sign outside, and that kinder put me out.
Down in Indiana all the taverns have
signs"
sI'll tell Mr.. Palmer about that.
Now, before we talk business, | want
to know if you will kinder look out for us
in this hotel. When some of our folks
goes to Indianapolis they calls them jays,
but | hahn t no jay. I've travelled. | don t
blow out no gas, but | be mixed Up little
in a place so big as this But will put
up here if you will look out for US and come
up and tell me when the DINNER gong
rings"
Happy to serve you, sir" answered
the clerk with his floor parlor smile. Il
will make your comfort here a personal
matter. I'll send q cab up to your room
if you want to ride, or anything else.
Register please"
Then the fellow wrote: Joshua Put
nam, his wife and their child, Rising Sun,
Ind" AS he laid down his pen he pulled
Mr.. Cunningham ear over the counter
and whispered: ken trust you with a
secret?' So
Tell me all, - said the clerk in the key
that he used to talk in when with the
Pagan and O'Reagan Burtesque Galaxy.
oval, this is on our wedding trip.
We war spliced Monday an am now
honeymooning; so want good care. Don't
give a durn for the expense, we'll stay a
day"
Just as he said thatsthey were married
| Monday the little baby waved its chubby
/ hand and caused the clerk to exclaim
Your wedding tour?'
Yep" whispered the man. "That's
the secret. Every body pokes so much fun
at people what s just married that | VOW
ed I'd fool 'em. So when Marthy and
me decided on goin' to Chicago | jes'
| borrowed Mrs. Bascom's baby. Now no.
body guesses we be bridal party. I told
you that was no jay if do come from a
town what don't get the worlds fair
THAT'S a new one," muttered the
clerk, as the new arrivals started On their
| trip to 93I, the fu1thermost room from
the office-Chicago Herald
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
THE

Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches OF Latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
St. PanI 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 yestibu1ed Drawing
Room and Tourist S1eepers 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,
aIording unequaled service to and from Yankee
sha, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh, Neenah, Me-
nasha, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Hurley,
Wis, and Ironwood and Bessemer, Mich.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations, tirae
tables and other information, apply to agents OF
the Line to Ticket Agents anywhere in the
United States or Canada.
8. R AINSLIE, General Manager, Milwaukee,
Wis.
J. M. HANNAFoRD, Gen1 Traffic Manager, ST
Paul, MINI.
n. c. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, Chicago, q.
LOUIS ECKSTEIN, Genl .Pass'r and Tk't kgt
Chicago, IL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
FARM AND HOME.
EVERY YEAR.
WILLIAM COwAN.

feel It's growing colder
Every year;
And my heart, alas! gets older
Every year.
| can win no new affection:
have only recollection,
Deeper sorrow and detection,
Every year.
OF the loves and sorrows blended
Every year;
OF the joys and friendships ended
Every year:
Of the ties that still might bind me
Until time to death resigned me,
My fnfirmities remind me
Every year.
Ali how sad to look before Us
Every year;
When the cloud grows darker Ger US
Every year;
When we see the blossoms faded
That to bloom we might have aided,
And immortal garlands braided
Every year.
To the past 60 more dead faces
Every year,
AS the loved leave vacant places
Every year.
Everywhere the sad eyes meet us;
In the evenings dusk they greet us,
And to come to them entreat us,
Every year.
Yes, the shores of life are shifting
Every year;
And we are seward drifting
Every year;
Old pleasures changing, fret us;
The living more forget us;
There are fewer to regret us,
Every year.
But the truer life draws higher
Every year;
And its morning star climbs higher
Every year.
Earth's hold on us grows slighter,
And the heavy burden lighter,
And the dawn immortal brighter,
Every year.
Chambers Jour-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Ripe Cucumber Pickles.

Pare and cut in slices, removing seeds
and pulp, using only the solid portion.
Scald in weak salt water Is minutes, or
until they are somewhat transparent; then
drain well and place in bottles To 7 lbs.
of the ripe cucumbers, weighed before
cooking, use So lbs. sugar, quart of vim
egar, p teaspoonful white mustard seed,
and a tablespoonful each of whole cloves
and allspice. When scalding, pour it over
the cucumbers and seal them while hot.