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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Journalism in the Rockies.

Journalism in the broad bosom Of the
Rockies in midwinter is arduous. At
this time, when the boulevards are
wrapped in the plastic embrace of the
snowslide, and the march Of communi-
cation with the outer world is imagi-
nary and progressive, the constituency
unite in wishing that winter was gone
gone with her laughter and love. The
country scribe seeks the snowy wreaths
of truth in silence and with uncertain
step, as a search warrant parades the
realms of somnambulistic slumbers in
quest of hundred typos to cope with
the rush Of business at the Office, which
is left in charge Of his satanic majesty.
Now, what seems death is change,
when we look deeper down in the worlds
beautiful, and the blazoned optic sees
not fruition but an altar in coercion of
the tribute of nature. However, no one
can deprive hibernated vitality of this
sphere of the felicity that across the
vista of winter, with its fathoms of
SHOWS and frosts, April smiles, and the
atmosphere ripens with fragrance and
crocus blooms, just as over the gulf of
death Faith sees the glow of the jeweled
walls of heaven. n. B.-Only lie in this
issue.-Rico News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
An Aged Woman Editor.

Mile. Julie Gouraud, editor of the
Journal des Jeunes Personnes, has just
died in France, aged eighty-two. Mile
Gouraud contributed twenty volumes of
stories and anonymous novels to the
Bibliotheque Rose, from which school
books and prizes for girls used to be al
most always selected before lyceums for
young ladies were set on foot. The
Journal des Jeunes Personnes was worth
large fortune to the persons who found
ed it, and is still very profitable. The
editor did not die wealthy, because she
gave away most of her earnings-Ex-
change.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
The Ideal Community.

An exchange says: A perfect town is
that in which you see the farmer patron
izing the home merchants, the laborers
spending the money they earn with their
own tradesmen, and all animated by a
spirit that will not purchase articles
abroad if they can be bought at home.
The spirit Of reciprocity between man
and the mechanic, tradesman and la
borer, farmer and manufacturer results
every time in making the town a perfect
one to do business in. "Perfection'
should always be desired, even where at
tainment is barely possible, we presume,
but a perfect town must be denominated
a great rarity until we reach a more adj
vanced stage toward the millennium
than has yet been gained.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
HOW London Grows.

Some idea of the immense size of Lon
don may be gathered from the fact that
there were registered during one week
also births and 2,212 deaths, The births
were 123 below and the deaths 169 above
the average for the last ten years. Here
we have people enough born into the
world in one week to constitute a
''city' in the ambitious phraseology of
western English, and enough deaths in d
time of profound peace to render memoir
able battlefield. But the most strik-
ing fact in this table is that not one of
all the 2,212 died of smallpox .-London
Globe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
An Oregon Breathing Well.

The well is one and a quarter miles
east of Stanwood, on the high land, near
ly $50 feet above sea level. It's owner,
O. w. Coltom, began digging it last June,
but abandoned it various times because
of gas or fredamp. He succeeded in
reaching an abundance Of good water at
depth Of ninety feet from the surface
last October, having passed through sue
cessive layers of clay, sand and some
kind of stratified rock. About eighty
feet below the surface he found a sprink-
ling of anthracite coal, and still farther
down large quantities of loose speci-
mems of volcanic stones of several kinds,
many of which have the appearance of
having been melted and run together.
About the close of October Mr.. Coltom
noticed that the well was blowing out
kind of gas with considerable force, and
at irregular periods of time, varying
from five days to sixteen hours duration.
1t would reverse the operations and be-
gin to draw in the air with equal force,
the inhaIations lasting about as long
time as the exhalations. Shortly after
the gas disappeared, but the respiration
of air continued with increasing force,
until at the present time it has sufficient
force to drive a large windmill. Not
long since Mr.. Coltom went down into
the well and discovered that the air was
being drawn in and blown out at point
sfteen feet from the bottom of the WELL
]. is supposed that there must be large
cavern at distance from the well, and
the air comes through a small passage
leading from the cavern to the well. No
cavern or passage has yet been found,
IS the well is walled up, and the air
comes through the rocks in the we'll
Utsalady fOre.) News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

In proportion co the judgment ana skin
and energy exercised in the business.
Mr.. Rudd looks to the sale of his cock
erels to largely assist in raising his
pullets, but he says: eff we had none to
sell it cannot cost over sixty-seven cents
to furnish the egg, hatch and raise a
pullet to the laying age-after which
time the expense of keeping her for ten
months cannot exceed one dollar. If
she is good for anything she will yield
not less than ten dozen eggs in ten
months from the day she commences to
lay If these figures seem large, remem-
Der that this period of ten months is the
most productive portion of her entire
lie, andif, when her ten best months of
productiveness are passed, it is consider
ed best to dispose of her and make room
for new pullets, she will return the
sixty-seven cents that she originally
cost and probably more"
There is in most New England villages
local demand for fresh eggs at better
prices than can usually be obtained by
shipping them to commission houses in
the large cities. This is especially true in
manufacturing towns. But in the alb
sence of home market the eggs can be
proftably sent to the city. Mr. Rudd
says: "If of good size, perfectly clean,
strictly fresh, nicely packed and regular
~ shipped to the Boston market eggs
bring from eighteen to forty-three cents
per dozen, depending upon the season of
the year and also upon whether they are
white, light colored or brown-the dark
brown ones bringing from two to seven
cents per dozen more than others. The
eggs will average twenty-four cents per
dozen throughout the year, and our ten
dozen can therefore be called $40. De-
duct from this one dollar for expense of
feeding the pullet and we have profit
of 40 per cent. above our starting figure.
I never figure the cost Of housing poultry,
because good buildings can be erected
and equipped for one dollar per hen, and
they are apparently almost as good as
new after having been used twenty years,
which would bring the annual cost to
five cents per hen, and this is much N ore
than repaid by the droppings alone,
which should be carefully saved and sold
if not wanted at home"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
They Appreciate the Country paner


The New York Sun says: 1t would dc
the hearts of country editors good to
ride up town on the elevated cars in the
afternoon of Friday and Saturday on
any week in the year. On these two
days a great many business men give
only hasty glance at the evening papers
and then immediately draw from pocket
a copy of a paper that is in marked con-
trast to the city paper, so far as type and
general appearance goes.
The type is invariably larger and the
displays of advertisements and headings
to news articles commonly coarser. The
ink is not always spread evenly over the
page. Nevertheless the business man
opens the paper to the page devoted to
village news and reads every line there.
After that he not infrequently reads the
village advertisements and gives brief
look at the editorials. The city man
used to live in the village where that
paper was printed, and he recognizes the
names of people there as old acquaint-
ances and commonly old friends. The
village paper comes like letter from
home to the city man who was once a
yillager.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
UNIQUE CotiIIon Tayors,

AT a cotillon given recently in Paris
the distribution of flowers was made
from sillzen net hammock, the ham
mock filed with the blossoms and
brought into the room attached by rib
bons to golden poles by two of the hos
tess footmen in powder and plush.
Among other accessories at the same CO.
tillon, very handsome granny bags of
antique stuffs and fans were presented
to the women, while the men each re-
ceived Il small amber and gold cigarette
mouthpiece. Paris Letter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
GranuIated Honey.

The editor of the American Bee Journ-
al says: To prevent comb honey from
granulating it should be kept in a warm
room with free circulation of air. In
such place granulation may be kept off
as long as possible. A cool, damp place
will ruin any honey in the comb in a
short time. When once granulated-we
know Of no way to liquefy it except to
melt the honey and comb-the wax will
then cake at the top, and can be removed.
Even then, the honey will granulate
again, if allowed to stand exposed to the
air.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

UempUng sums Tor the manuscript in her
lifetime by publishers, but would never
part with it.
Several lawyers have lately been to
me to get my permission for them to
ferret out the whereabouts of the manu-
script, but I have refused to let them
take the case. feel certain that it will
come to light before I die"
1t is generally believed that the manu-
script will some time be found. Some
think that the copy, which was known to
be the only one extant written by Payne
himself, was stolen from the house by a
servant.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
An Editors Experience,

A newspaper can say nice and pleas
ant things about man and his whole
family for two long years, and then incur
their lifetime enmity in one short week
by "a seeming slight. Yes, it's the fact;
and you can hurrah for a candidate, back
his friends, cuss his enemies and make a
darn fool of yourself all the way through,
without thank in the end, to find when
you are candidate that he is ''out O.
politics" But there is one man that
don't forget you, and that's the man you
opposed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
LOVERS WALKS.
All. oncA T liked not lovers walkA

All, once / liked not lovers walks,
Nor wanderingS by the hill
When star to star at midnight talks
And all the world is still.
I laughed at all romantic souls
That half in rapture stood;
/ hated strolls-thoSe moonlight stroIls-
And always thought should.
vowed by all the world e'er knew
OF beautiful and bright,
No love on earth should tempt me to
A rambling walk by night.
But, all ones mind can little guess
To what ones heart is born;
Who thought a monitor even less
Would find me so foresworn!
But when 1 loved not star, nor moon,
Nor wanderings through the glen,
My song of life was out of tune
knew not romance thenl
Now | would rather roam till light
Bloom d DER the morn's sweet breast,
Than ever breathe those words, Good
night!''
Or ever think of reStl
New York Ledger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
One Dollars Worth of Gratitude.

In one of the city's large dry goods
shops last week a little lash girl brought
to one of the heads Of departments in the
course Of the early afternoon hours Of
Tuesday a woman's purse. She had just
picked it up, she said, on the floor, near
the counter, and she remarked as she
passed it over that she guessed it was
STUFFED full" The fioorwalker opened
it and saw at a glance that her opinion
was justified. Carrying it to the super
intendent's Office, he, with that person
age, counted the money. The purse con-
tanned 5000. There were ten five hun
dred dollar bills, check for forty dol
lars and some small bills and change.
Within half an hour pale faced
woman appeared at the Office, asking
breathlessly if a purse had been recently
found in the shop. The well stocked
pocketbook was hers. She had not left
the shop before missing It, discovering
her loss at an up stairs department to
which she had gone from the one where
the purse escaped her. Her Identified
ton of the money, including drawer and
drawee of the check. was complete. and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Will Tunnel a Volcano.

1t is now proposed to drive tunnel
into the very crater of Popocatapetl, and
to build from the mouth of the tunnel
railway to connect with the interoceanic
road at Ameacameca. The parties who
are negotiating with the owner of the
volcano are said to represent rich
French syndicate, who expect to get at
least 100000 tons Of sulphur annually
from the very bowels of the old Mexican
landmark st Louis Republic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
PROFITS IN POULTRY.

Massachusetts, Poultryman Gives His
Views the Subject.
W. 81. Radd, in an address delivered
before Massachusetts, Farmers insti-
tute, made the following statements:
Taking for our standpoint any section
of the country within reach of the New
York or Boston market, an average hen,
with ordinary management, will return
an income over and above the cost of
housing and keeping Of not less than
one dollar in ten months from the day
she begins to lay. I place this at the
minimum figure, which can be increased
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Death of an Editor.

Frank Campbell, noted character of
Victoria, 3. c., died recently. For more
than twenty-one years he carried on
store, and was known to every person in
the city for his good humor and wide
spread charity. But he was better known
as editor of the Bulletin This was
not a paper, but was big blackboard,
on which was placed every bit of local
news as soon as it was known. The peo-
pie of Victoria consulted the Bulletin
with as much confidence as they did their
newspapers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Publishers Postal PriviIeDes

Publishers Of newspapers and periodi-
Gals may print or write upon their publ
cations sent to regular subscribers the
address of the subscriber and the date
when the subscription expires, and may
inclose therein bills and receipts for sub
scriptions thereto, without subjecting
such publications to extra postage
Section 3,S96 of Revised Statutes of
United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
The Index of Progress.

"By their newspaper shall ye know
them" was the apt comment of success
full merchant upon the claims of an as
piring community whose citizens were
soliciting his interest and endeavoring
to impress upon him the enterprise of its
people. Year by year the newspaper of
a community is becoming more definite
~ the index Of the enterprise and pro-
gressive tendencies of its people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
A Persevering Woman Rewarded.

Miss Edith j. Balm, a reporter for The
Woman's Penny Paper, tried to enter
the reporters gallery at the house Of
commons, but did not succeed. She,
however, met the redoubtable Michael
Davitt during her struggle at the door Of
parliament and accepted position on
his paper. Miss Balm is a good talker
and good politician, and her energies
viii be devoted to the interests of the
factory women and their organization
into trades unions Letter
After returning from the theater at
night Nine. Bernhardt eats light sup
per, at which only one hot dish is served.
Her big meal Of the day is her - o'clock
breakfast
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Farm Items.

We CLEAN these pertinent items from
The Farm Journal:
Have you Investigated the ensilage
question? IF not, jump on the cars and
visit some man who has had experience
in that line. It will pay you well.
Don't jump into ensilage until you are
well informed on the subject.
Let the boys acre be the best acre on
the farm and his tools first class, the
girls COW the best COW in the herd, and
the wife's ''help" the best that can be
procured.
Is your farm so well kept that you
would be willing to have the stranger
passing by see your name in full upon
the gate post?
Not one farmer in hundred knows as
much about grass as he should. Make a
study of grass this season.
Dairy, poultry and potatoes make a
first rate combination for small farm
anywhere from ten to thirty acres.
Try and induce the young people to
make close observation of the birds and
"bugs."
AS rule the peach bears too much
top. Thin it out.
Manuscript of 'tHome, Sweet Home"
The death of Mrs. Asa Jackson in Ath-
ems, Ga, has brought up once again the
much talked of mystery Of the where,
aboUts of the original of John Howard
Payne's ''Ho1ne, Sweet Home"
Mrs. Jackson was a near relative OF
Miss Mary Hardin, who was much adj
mired by John Howard Payne. For a
long time Miss Hardin had the only
known copy of the famous song in the
handwriting of its author. When she
was dying several years ago IN Athens ii
was rumored that in one of her eccentric
moods she had willed the copy to be
buried with her, but when asked on her
deathbed if this were true she told Mrs.
Jackson that she had not done SO, but
had left the manuscript, as well as al
her other earthly goods, as bequest tC
her
After Miss Hardin's death the manu-.
script was searched for by Mrs. Jackson
but was not found. Only few days age
reporter called on Mrs. jackson and
asked if nothing had ever come of the
search.
Nothing yet" was the reply, "but
hope to find it before l die. Mary kept
the copy concealed all the time while
she lived. John Howard Payne sent il
to her when he was consul to Algiers
and between the lines were written lit
tie love messages. They were sweet
hearts once. these two. Mary was offered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Rust in Wheat.

To prevent rust in wheat Field and
Farm advises the destruction of the
spores Of the rust fungus in both the soil
and the seed. This may be done by work
ing the land in hot weather, burning off
the stubble Immediately after harvest
and blowing deep, and by stepping the
seed in solution of vitriol and arsenic,
drying it with wood ashes before sowing,
and sowing but half bushel of seed per
acre-an amount that has been proved
wholly adequate under proper conditions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Pain and Imagination.

A Wiscasset man discovered a big cash
in his boot where he had cut his foot
while in the woods. and just managed to
get home, feeling himself growing fainter
from loss of blood all the way, and tainted
on arriving, when somebody discovered
that the cash only went through his boot
and the red color was not blood, but only
a wooden stocking.-Bath Me.) indie
pendent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Trials of Editors

An editor is in high favor with his
readers when each one finds something
TO please him, but let one of those read
ers find an item that is contrary to
his preconceived notion and that editor
doesn't know what he is talking about.
But then this is human nature
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
London's Easter Customs.

Good Friday and Easter customs in
this old country are numerous and curl
Gus. For instance, in London, Friday,
sixty of the youngest boys of Christ's
hospital school attended divine service
at 81 church in Lombard street, in the
midst of great banks, and afterward re-
ceived each bag of raisins, one new
penny and one bun at the old priory
church in West Smithfeld Twenty
one widows each picked up new six
pence from a tomb in the churchyard,
just as the same number of widows have
done for 500 years.-London Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Bogus Cream.

A lady who resides in the west end re-
later today the strange confession Of a
milkman. For some time past she had sus-
pected that the cream left at her house
was diluted, Although it had plenty of
foam on ton it did not seem to be equal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Permanent Pastures.

In a paper read by John Boyd at a
meeting Of the Illinois Dairymen's asso-
citation he named as mistakes almost uni
versal in making permanent pastures the
following:1. Improper preparation of the
ground. 2. Poor fertilization. 3. Sowing
grass seeds with grain. 4. Seeding too
thinly. 8. Sowing too few varieties. The
last named is the most common and seri-
Gus mistake of all. The custom of SOW
ing two or three varieties, all of which
mature about the same time, is the real
secret Of the failure of our pastures al
most every season. They all start to
grow at the same time, and so long as
their season lasts they afford good bite
and the animals do we'll, but when eaten
off, the pasture is about done for; there
are no other varieties to take their places,
and the consequence is, the animals
suffer.
In making a permanent pasture Mr..
Boyd advised mixture of the greatest
possible number Of soluble grasses that
will terminate and thrive in one soil
and climate. He gave the following as
a good mixture for northern Illinois:
Twenty pounds orchard grass, five pounds
blue grass, four pounds meadow foxtail,
three pounds meadow fescue, two pounds
rough stall1ed meadow, three pounds tim
othy, two pounds fall oat grass, two
pounds red clover, two pounds alsike
clover, four pounds crested dogtail, max
ing in all forty-seven pounds per acre.
Moo DOVE CnO11ld no oo7,c+r1,c+o1 ~, nv
actly opposite principles from a perma-
nent pasture-not that a meadow should
not contain a suitable mixture of grass
seeds, but that they should all mature at
the same time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
In the Lodge Room.

Jim-How did you get in? You haven't
the password, and are not member
anyhow.
Jack-Avaunt there! Haven't | got
the Grip?-Pittsburg Bulletin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

Inc legislature of Washington pro-
poses to change the name of Mount Rain
ier, one of the tallest peaks in the state,
to Mount Sherman, in honor of the dead
general.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

Mrs. William Astor employs male
almoner because she does not trust the
Judgment of woman in the matter Of
iudicious distribution
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
OF Course She Won,

A Mrs. Williams of Valley City, Oak,
wagered that she could put the slips on
five pillows while any man present at a
church fair could incaSe one, and seven
different men took her up and suffered
defeat. No man can ever acquire the
knack of holding pillow III his teeth to
work with both hands.-Detroit Free
praCs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
He Is Dead.

Mrs. Scriblets-I see that the Aristotle
manuscript mas Lten published.
Mr.. Scriblets-I GEAR that the payment
for it will be TOO late to do Mr.. Aristotle
any good.--Puck.