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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28

so as to not allow them to get hungry.
AS they grew older they were fed once
every two hours, and as they increased
in size the rations were gradually made
more substantial, but reduced in num-
ber.. It is important that the chickens
should be sent to rest with their crops
full.
A critical part of the chickens life is
the first five weeks, while it S getting
its feathers. At this period all the re-
sources Of the system are drawn upon to
supply the growing feathers, besides
flesh, bone, muscle, etc., and it is neces-
sary that the chickens should be gener-
ously fed on variety of the most nour-
ishing food. A chicken stinted of food
or allowed to hunt for its living, as is
too frequently the case at this period of
its growth, will never make a large
fowl. Indeed, if allowed to become
stunted from either of the causes named
no subsequent care will make amends
for past neglect. To have poultry of
large size for table use it is imperative
that they should be pushed from the
earliest date of their existence. This is
well understood in Great Britain and
France, where raising choice poultry for
market is made an important source of
revenue to the farmers
If easily procured, milk, sweet
skinned or sour, given as drink or
mixed in their food, or left in open
dishes to take as the chicks please, is one
OF the best incentives to vigorous growth
that can be given. If not milk, then
pure water should be regularly fur
nished and put into shallow pans. Do
not allow the water to become hot from
exposure to the sun. The first chickens
to be placed in the coops outside were
Plymouth Rocks, white Leghorns and,
Houdans. These were exposed for the
first two or three weeks to bitter cold
northeast winds that marked the last
week Of April and the first half of May
last season. Being well fed and cared
for, they not only stood this ordeal, but
made good growth. In the majority of
cases want Of care and proper food are
the cause of death.
In the case Of many farmers inbreed-
ing has resulted in weak chicks. and
weaklings as rule seldom last long.
Perhaps it is as well they do not, for
they would never, in the event of their
maturing, made stock fit to breed from
1t may be added to the general instruc-
tions given above that as the chickens
grow large they should be removed from
the smaller ones. If they are not they
will not allow the little chicks to have
the proper quantity of food they require
to make rapid progress. In chicken life
the weak have to go to the wall Where
chickens are raised in large numbers
and are placed in small coops, the latter
must be frequently cleaned or sickness
will surely result
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
Safe Sheep Stealing.

Among the guests at the Palace is
Joseph Cohen, of Red Bluff, who is
credited with owning nearly or quite
half of that portion of the state lying
north Of Yuba county. Sheep and cattle
form the greater portion of Mr.. Cohen's
wealth aside from his landed interests,
and it is said that in order to acquit a
man who has been arrested for sheep or
cattle stealing it is only necessary TO
prove that they were stolen from Joseph
Cohen.
''At one time" said United States At
torney Garter, II was employed by Mr..
Cohen to transact portion of his legal
business, and among other things had
to assist in the prosecution of men for
stealing sheep. l can truthfully say that
l do not know of single case where a
man was convicted by a jury when it
was proved by the defense that the prop
erty had originally belonged to Cohen"
San Francisco Call.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
Bruin Had Eun.

A pet bear belonging to Dewitt Nc
Dowell, of Arkansas City, which had
been Taught to open doors, shake hands
dance, etc, escaped from his cage one
night recently, and for time created
CONSERVATION among large number OF
people
A fashionable ball was in progress at
the time, and bruin was attracted by
the music. There was funny scene in
the ballroom when he entered, and, rails
ing himself on his hind legs, volunteered
to shake Hands and then began to dance.
There was grand rush for the doors,
and several ladies attempted to jump
out of the windows
After he had finished his waltz the bear
was coaxed from the room, and then be-
gan to paint the town and succeeded in
frightening half the inhabitants almost
out of their senses. Entering the st.
Charles Hotel he climbed the stairs and
wabbled into one room after another,
routing out the guests In their night
clothes and incidentally damaging the
furniture, Having had all the fun he
wanted with the guests, he returned to
the street and proceeded to amuse him
self by trying to enter the residences of
the solid citizens Being closed to unin-
vited guests, he was unable to effect an
entrance into any of them, but he con-
WINGED the inhabitants that burglars
were at work. and one alarm after an
other was sel4t IN to the police station
until every officer on the force was on
the trail of the marauder
Meeting one Henry Foster on the street
he struck him playful blow on the side
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
Baby's Long Voyage in the Driftwood.

A curious story is being told on the
streets by one John Sellers, representing
himself as living in the Trinity bottoms
about fourteen miles east of Ennis. He
said that Wednesday a colored woman
living along the river bank lost her two
year-old child, boy just able to walk,
and search was made, but unsuccess-
fully, and the mother gave it up for lost
Further, that some fishermen while re-
turning from an excursion found the
baby, alive and well, perched on some
driftwood drifting placidly toward the
gulf, about twenty miles down the river;
that it took the fishermen two days to
discover the mother and restore the baby
to its home Cor. Dallas News
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
FOR SUGAR AND PROTECTION
The Sugar Tariff Has Always Been Con
fessed to be Tax


Now that the real Mckinley prices are
at hand, and cheap sugar Is causing con-
sternatlon In the reform" camp, the
enemies of protection are driven to very
absurd expedients in trying to neutralize
the impression which free sugar for the
people is creating in favor of the Mckinley
tariff. Attention is called to the follow
ing utterraces On this subject from repre-,
sentative free trade sources:
Is admitting sugar untaxed protection
or free trade? II it is protection, then /
am protectionist and am willing to work
for more of the same sort. If it is free
trade, why are you so happy over it, Mr..
Protectionist? Especially since you pro-
fess to believe that the foreigners pay the
duty, and its removal is therefore a boon
to him instead of to us.-Mr. William
Lloyd Garrison, speech at Danvers, Mass,
April 8.
-, The tariff organs continue to impress
upon their protectionist readers beauti-
full lesson in political economy in the re-
peal of the sugar duties. This remissi 81
of taxation, they declare, will be felt by
every family i'll the land, altogether for
getting, in their newborn zeal for free
ing that the tariff is paid by the foreign
manufacturer or producer and not by the
American consumer. -PhiladeIphia Re-
cora, April 2.
Yesterday housekeeper had to pay one
dollar for fourteen pounds of white granu-
lated sugar. To-day one dollar will buy
twenty pounds of the same quality
.. This is splendid free trade lesson,
given to the people by the enemies of
free trade. tariff is tax-New York
Standard, April l.
To make sugar free is protection just as
it was protection to make tea and coffee
free which was done by protectionist years
ago. 1t is free-trade, otherwise known
as tariff for revenue only, sometimes
called Cobdenism, which requires tariff
placed on three things. Free-trade is
England's policy, yet tea and coffee, both
bare of heavy tariff, which is paid by the
English people Protectionists every
where and always maintained that the
sugar tariff was a tax, and never, as these
free-trade authorities represent, that it
~as paid by the foreigner. There is no
room for controversy on this point.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28

MAKING some ugly wounds Finally he
entered the National bank building
through side hallway climbed the
stairs to the thlrd floor, and walked into
the room of Julius Behrend That gen
tleman jumped from bed, prepared to
shoot burglar but when he saw what
it was he rushed into the hall and shut
the bear in where he was soon after
ward captured Kansas Cor. Philadel-
mia Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
LIFE IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA.
A Delightful Picture Of 4 Tr3stful Rural
Community Free from Terror.

A Delightful Picture Of 4 Tr3stful Rural
Community Free from Terror.
The most delightful thing in the life OF
northern Australia is its sans souci ap-
pearance. Existence is literally out doors,
and people live as if burglars were IN
known. have ridden past houses in the
early morning, and have seen the veran-
das Uttered with books, bric-a-brac, walk
ing sticks, hats, lamps and other articles,
and the doors wide open. Night after night
things are left so, and they are not stolen.
Stealing is punished in Queensland with
the greatest rigor. A man might be guilty
of manslaughter and stand in better odo1
with the authorities than the thief | have
ridden to plantation late at night, turned
my horse into the horse paddock, entered
the house, struck Il match, found a sofa,
lay down, and awoke in the morning to
find life bustlng about me, my breakfast
ready, and l An utter strangerl
Such is the freedom of the life. was a
traveller. 1 suppose did not look like q
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
A New Time to SHeen.

1t is odd that it was never made before
the suggestion that business men sweep
their sidewalks in the evening instead Of
in the morning and thus have the refuse
ready for removal by the street sweeper
when that comes around in the evening
instead of lying all day exposed to the
public gaze. The improvement associa-
ton calls for this reform in circular
signed by Secretary Sherwood. Spring
field Homestead
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
Protecting Bees.

A bill for an act to protect bees from
poison through the spraying of fruit
trees while in bloom is before both the
Illinois and Michigan legislatures. 1t
ought to become a law. Even fruit
growers, if well informed, will vote for
its passage, as the spraying of trees
while in bloom fails to accomplish the
desired results. After the blossoms
have fallen is the proper time.-Bee-
keepers Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
Only Doctor Could Have Written This.


No man can live very long in the world
without discovering the entire unreason.
ableness Of woman. We know her to be
very much less selfish than ourselves, and
yet every day on the public streets we suf-
fer acts at her hands that point inevitably
to the conclusion that she absolutely ig.
nores the common rights of humanity anG
erects herself into detestable ego.
Meet her in the middle of muddy cross.
ing and step aside into five inches of liquid
mud that she may pass along in comfort
and she rewards you by thrusting her wet
umbrella full in your face. Thank yout
Bless your soul, she hasn't even seen you.
Give her your seat in a car, and she takes
it with an acknowledgment of the curtest
and holds it, while for twenty weary min
utes you stand in suffering silence. Then
when she leaves the car does she see thai
you get the seat you vacated for her bene
fit? Well, hardly! She has never even
glanced at you during all that time, and
now she departs with never a thought OF
you.
Did you ever see q woman mounting the
stairs of the elevated roads in New York
during the rush hours, when time to mar
is more precious than gold? Well, there
you will see the ego characteristic displayed
in manner that will put your gallantry
to the severest test. The stairs are just
wide enough to admit of two good sized
persons passing each other; but if one OF
the good sized persons walk fairly in the
middle, will defy the person behind to
pass without using bodily violence. A train
is within twenty yards of the station, and
madame is at the foot of the stairs.
She hasn't the ghost of chance of catch.
ing the train, and hasn't any idea of trying.
She mounts the stairs with absolute leis-
ure, and of course marches squarely in the
middle, and with a tidewise pelvic swing
which fully accounts for all surplus space.
Behind her are fifteen men who could catch
the train with ease if the way were unob-
structed. But they miss it, of course, and
madame is as unconscious of their exist
ence as ever. What Carlyle calls a chick,
serene opacity seems to be characteristic
of the being for whose comfort and happi-
ness we never cease to toll, and whose
smile is our only guerdon. -Pharmaceu-
tical Era
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28

The most ancient description we have
of water pump is by Hero of Alexan-
Dire. There is no authentic account of
the general use of the pump in Germany
previous to the beginning of the Six
teenth century. At about that time the
endless chain and bucket works for rails
ing water from mines began to be re-
placed by pumps.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28

vagapond; Jney appreciated the oesIre on
my part to not disturb their rest, and they
apologiZed for the hardness of the sofal
Every planter has not merely one room
in his house which is called the strangers
room, but several, and they are seldom
empty. In the days that | visited Pride
the planter, there were six guests besides
myself there. Imagine a house through
which the warm air will blow from side to
side and from end to end. with a group OF
buildings as dornitories at the left, and
another group as kitchens and stores at
the right; and graced with all the comforts
and with little of the conventional stiffness
of metropolitan life; which has dignity
without show, and elegance without heavi
ness-and you have the planters home
Put roses and bamboos, oleanders and
camellias, lines and oranges, laurestinu.
and jasmine, pineapple and bongainvillia,
the glorious pawpaw and granadilla, ten
mis- court, and perhaps an observatory, and
you have planters garden. Then put in
side the house and garden be althy gen,
erosity, great self reliance, a mind given
to insisting bluntly on the wisdom of its
connections, hand ready to pour you out
glass of sherry, or indite a philippe
against a government or Sir Samuel Grit.
fifth, who has opposed Polynesian labor,
and that is Pride, the planter
What you find Of ightness and comfort
in the house of Pride, the planter, you find
in degree in all the north. Order and
cleanliness reign. You may miss at times
verdure and foliage, but never that Vii
lagos and towns are swept and garnished.
and the people love flowers And &c
straight across the continent to Perth, AL
bany York or Geraldton and the same
thing may be found.
You will find coupled with this energy
self confidence, freshness, aggressive asser-
ton and generous warmth. Because these
have always been difficult questions to
face, because unexpected circumstances
have called for immediate action, because
development has come by leaps and
bounds, and because there have been strug
giles between class and class, there has
been produced an outstanding race of men
lrasclble, yet hospitable; strenuous and
stalwart, yet not robustious; explosive, yet
not troublesome; uncompromising, yet
generous. That is the true Australian.
The persistency and selfishness of the
trades unions are not Australian. 1t is
English, with a sense of freedom borrowed
from easier conditions of life, and knowl
edge of power gained from the forms OF
American and English existence 1t is in.
grated Observation-Disclosures in the cities
that is ultra democratic. Australia itself
moves in ample assertion but it has also
sound sentiment or patriotism. It's natural
tendency is toward hero worship, but the
faculty has not scope, for want of heroes.
No great crisis has drawn the colonies to
gether, and of late years but few of the
best men have gone into public life.-Gil
bert Parker in Harper's Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
Novel Passenger Car.

A passenger car without end platforms
has been patented. At each end of the car
are side doors at the bottom of the ordinary
steps, the doors being flush with the side
of the car and opening inward. The steps
may be covered with trap door while the
train is running. In the end of the car is
door and vestibule arrangement, afford
ing communication between the cars
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
Most birds are sto1cs compared to Owls,

Most birds are stolcs compared to Owls,
and those who cultivate their acquaint-
ance know that they have no time
wherein to make their poetical COM
plants to the moon. Poets should not
NEEDLE with owls Shakespeare and
Wordsworth alone have understood
them-by most others they have been
scandalously ibeled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
THE

Fast Trains with Pullman vestibuled DRAWING
Room sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of Latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
St. Pan1 and Minneapolis.
Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Lrawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwa kee and
Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman Vestibuled 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,
affording nequaled service 10 and from Waulse-
slla, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh. Neenah, Me-
nasha, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Hurley,
WIS and Ironwood and Bessemer, Mich.
For tickets sleeping car re-erv4lions, time
tables and other information, apply 70 agents Of
the Line or 10 Ticket Agents anywhere in the
United States or Canada
8. R. AINSLIE, General Manager, Milwaukee
J. N. HANNAFoRD, Gen1 Traffic Manager, st.
Paul, MINI.
b. c. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, Chicago, Ill.
LOUIS ECKSTEIN, Genl Pass'r and Tk't Axt
Chicago, IL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
HOW TO FEED THE CHICKS.
A Report of the Dominion Experiment
Farms at Ottawa.

Farms at Ottawa.
AS in previous years the bread and
milk system of feeding was adopted in
the poultry department and proved
highly satisfactory. The bread was
soaked in milk, squeezed dry and SO fed.
Dry bread crumbs were also given. AS
the chickens progressed their bread and
milA diet was gradually changed to the
less expensive one of shorts, corn meal,
bran, table scraps, ground meat, with all
the wheat or crushed corn they could
eat for their last ration. When very
young the chicks were fed about once
every hour. a little at time. bnt often
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28
A Vanderbilt Broth er-iD-Iaw

l saw the Baron de Fontenilliat in the
uptown riding academy where he teaches.
This brother-inlaw of the Vanderbilts is
tall, slim, blonde young man of quiet
manners and sharp, gray, inquiring eyes
He had one outward sign of true aristoc-
racy-he wore three smart rings on the
little finger of his smooth left hand. Three
rings, by the way, seem quite the proper
thing.-New York Cor. Chicago Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28

The Ionian isles produce loose lace,
unique rather than handsome. 1t was
used at first mainly in the churches and
tombs AS antiquity more than doubles
the price the shrewd natives blacken
and mildew their work before offering
it to the tourists, who take dirt as
voucher for age
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28

Sometimes there is spasm OF the mus
cles of accommodation. In this case the
person may seem to be near sighted
while really far sighted. or greatly near
sighted while only slightly 50. TIE ocu
list a2oUe GA trc24 S33c,. yes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-28

Fast Han Linz with vestibuled Yfa11s -
tween Chicago, Milwaukee, 81 Pau SIC
Minneapolis.
Council Bluffs, Omaha and the Pacific O>as<
Great National Route between Chicago Ksh
sas City and st. Joseph, No.
55O0 Miles Of Road reaching al principe
points II inois. Wisconsin, Minnesota, lows
Missouri and Dakota
For maps, time tables, rates Of passage sr /.
fr2ighE. etc apply u the arrest station a4eot o
the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAnvAs
OF to any Railroad Agent anywhere hi the WsE'<
BOSWELL MILLER, A.V II. CARPENTER
General Manager. Gent Pass. and TIKI. As1
ESS For Information in reference to Lands aD<
TO16s owned by the CHICAGO, MMwAUKEK 4 sT
PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY write 70 II. q. HAuaAF
Land Commissioners. Mlwauks~ WiscoK>in-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-11-09
PRICE SIS a Year
A Disarmament Congress.

ROME, Nov. 9.-While the great
powers of Europe are showing their
armies on sham battlefelds and ru-
mors of war fill the front pages of
continental dailies, the advocates of
general disarmament, international
arbitration and universal peace have
bestirred themselves to create public
opinion favorable TO their great uni
versal congress. which is being
held here today. Official repre-
sentatives OF most European par
liaments are attending the con-
gress, and every nation in the
civilized world except Russia will
nave somebody there 10 speak tor it.
The Norwegian Startling appropri-
ated $1,000 for the expenses of its
three delegates to the congress. The
French chamber is represented by
some % deputies. The italian par
lament, which issued the call for the
congress, contains 800 members of the
"Comitate Permaneute Della Pace"
and all OF them will help swell it. In
Austria, where hitherto advocates of
universal peaces have remained I'M
organized, a peace Union was found
preparatory To the congress. The
active promoted of the movement is
the Baroness Hermansdorf in Lower
Australia.
The committee in charge of the
congress is divided into three sub
committees withthese chairman: Mar
quis A'feri, Vice President of the
senate; Senator CaGOrni President of
the state council, and Prince Ruspolic
member If the Chamber. After lay
ing out an offensive campaign against
The martial spirit of the age, and
taking steps to organize peace unions
in all the great cities in the world
the thousand or more attendants up
on the congress will make excursions
by special trains to Pompeii and
Naples, and will witness special illu-
limitations of the Forum and ColOs-
scum. 1t is planned that the sue
ceedIng congress shall be held in
Chicago In 1898 and that the invita-
ton to attend it shall be sent out by
President Harrison directly to the
heads of European Governments.