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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
Poultry in Winter

Poultry keeping in winter can be made
very profitable, but there are certain re.
quirements that are essential to success,
and unless you can provide these you had
better sell out or kill off your fowls and
not stock up again until spring. Their
shelter should be warm and dry, with good
ventilation. There should be variety of
food, for single item, no matter how
good in itself, will not serve all the pur-
poses Of the fowl. There should be wheat
and oats for eggs, corn to keep up the ami
NAL heat, chopped roots or green food to
help cut TIE variety and assist digestion.
There should be dry dust stored away I'M
der cever to be used as an absorbent on the
floors, and ground shells to furnish lime
from which they can manufacture egg
shells. These are not very expensive or
burdensome things to provide. but it is the
lack of them that makes winter poultry so
often Improbable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

JOHN CnATELLoN & Sons scale factory
on Cliff street, New York, was DESTROYED
by fire Wednesday morning. Loss, Sl15,
COO; fully insured.
MANY business houses In Chattanooga
Tenn, are burned out, the loss being $780,
000
ONE man was killed and Two injured
one fatally, by an accident on the Butte
(Mopt.) cable line.
On Friday night, south-bound train on
the Illinois Central ran over ana killed
James Nugent about half way between
Payton and Ludlow, Ill.
BRAKEMAN " H CALLIsoN of Newark
O., was burned to death and Fireman S.
S. Switzer fatally injured in a collision
on the Baltimore & Ohio road neal
Plymouth, o.
NJ. F. PR1TCHARD' three-story house al
Pittsburg was wrecked by a natural-gas
explosion Friday. Mr.. Prltchard, hi:
wife, and three children, and two ser
ants were buried in the debris but escaped
fatal injury.
WILLIAM S. PARSONS. an old and we Il
known market man, and August Boning
were both found dead at their respective
resid ences in Philadelphia Monday morn
ing, their deaths being caused by escaping
gas.
A FIRE Sunday destroyed nearly all thu
the buildings in the eastern half O
Truckee, Cal. A dozen men we're injured
but none seriously. The loss is over $50,
600; insurance light.
The Weeks Drug and Chemical com
pany's store and plant were destroyed D.
FIRE Monday at Jackson, Mich. The
Coronet Corset company occupied TIT
second floor Of the building and lost tbeil
stock. The loss is $4,000 and insurance
$4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

A TERRIBLE blizzard has been raging in
the northwest.
LA GRIPPE has a firm foothold in Mon
treal and now claims 1000 cases.
Our of population Of 10000 persons
at WiIkesbarre, Pa, fully $4,000 have Ia
grippe.
Walt WHITMAN is reported to be
growing weaker, and it is not believed he
will last much longer.
IT is reported that Robert I. Lincoln,
United States minister to England, will
resign.
The Davis will contest at Butte, Mont,
Involving S8,000,00 is 20 be settled out OF
court.
A SUCCESSFUL test Of the government
bureau of animal industry's method OF In.
oculating swine was made in Illinois.
JOHN P. RICHARDSON, a millionaire OF
Chattanooga, Tenn, died Sunday, the
victim eff the cigarette habit.
UNITED STATES soldiers IN Texas have
had two fgh with three times their mum.
Der Of Mexican revolutionists, worsting
| them both times.
The first full car load Of American tin
ever produced from an American TIN mine
has been received by W. w. Stewart, Of
San Deigo, CaI,, from the Temeccal mine
The shipment consisted of over 26,00l
pounds of tin.
The widow of Jefferson Davis has suec
Robert Belford and Edward LANCE for al
accounting Of sale of her husbands me-
mrois.
PAUL C. COFFIN, dealer in hardware
and railroad supplies at New York, as
| signed Saturday to VIM. ]. Livingstone
without preference.
MRS. CHARLES T. JOHNSON, the Kansa;
City high priest of the adyentists, with
| fifty followers, sat clothed in white al
day Friday, waiting for the world to
end.
The Keystone Watch company, of Ian
caster, Pa, is in the hands of an assignee
as the result of an execution for S42. 94s
placed against it by the Farmers Nationa
| bank.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
Small Sweet Courtesies.

Life is so complex, it's machinery so in
tricate, that it is Impossible that the
wheels should always move smoothly
without friction There is continual
stTainipg of every nerve to gain and keep
place in this overcrow1ed, busy world
What wonder il in the hurry and pushing
the rights Of others are trampled or conf
pletely ignored, when every individual is
In such haste that time fails for the ''smal
sweet courtesies OF hfe!"
But if is the little offices of friendship
the encouraging smile, the appreciative
word, the thought for our preferences, the
avoidance of our DISQUALIFICATION make
life easier, and which lessen in a marvel
Gus degree all its worries and perpiexities.
For nothing prevents friction so perfectly
as the exercise of what we sometimes dis
dainfully call the minor virtues. As
though one should he endowed with truth,
and yet, lacking delicate insight and cir
cumspecticn, wound with sharp needle
pricks the sensitive bearer. Ne do not
care to be constantly reminded of our fall
ings. Faithful are the wounds of a
friend" but friends too often show fond
ness for the scalpeI, and lay bare our pet
weaknesses in truthful but exceedingly
uncomfortable fashion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31

to eat is alarming his physicians and
family.
Mrs. ELLEN PURCELL of ST. Louis,
married joan Anderson the other day H
took her TO Cleveland and then left her,
ascending with her 81, 200 in cash.
Two indictment were returned by the
gran0 jury IN New York Monday against
Edvald u. Field fer grand larceny. Field
Is still IN Jail and refuses TO partake OF
food.
WILL HANEY, aged %, son of Mrs
Paul Wickrlch, of Youngstown. was shot
by Rose Bolmer in a disreputable house six
miles east of Hubbard, O.. Monday morn.
ing. Both were drunk. It is claimed the
shooting was accidental.
he safe II the postofice at Petersboro.
Pike county, Ind, was blown open with
dynamite Sunday morning, stamps, and
special request envelopes amounting tC
nearly 81 900 we've stolen. The burglars
escaped.
GEORGE MEARs, of Aurora, H., fred {
revolver at his wife and dangerously
wounded her employer and the latter
| son.
NICHOLAS Fox Friday morning SHOT hi
| wife at South Omaha and then cut hi
throat with razor Mrs. Fox will re
cover, but her husband will die Jealousy
was the cause.
At Syracuse, n. Y, Supervisor Thomas
J. WEIGH has been fined $50 and sentenced
TO the penltentiary for thirty days for con
tempt OF court. Welch is the man WIZ
took the third ward returns to Albany
when ne should have given them to the in
| spectOrs for correction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
X Il AND HOME.
AT wANE OFDAY.
T. 5. QUINTERO

The mountains lift against the sky
Their Wild, majestic symmetry:
And | have gained peak that shines
win purple, as the sun declines.
Here daily am I come to muse,
" Where from the Torld no voice pursues;
To build the towers where fancy dWells
And rear unstable citidels.
Fair friend! beneath appears to me,
Not to the eye of fantasy.
Nor In dream, though dimly still,
Your form upon lower hill.
l see you through the twilight air,
Calm as an angel rapt in prayer.
With eyes that, lifted from below,
Drink III the mountains sunset glow.
Yet are YOUR dreams more sweet than mine;
Beyond the faint horizon-line,
In holler visions, you have trod
Amid the mysteries OF God!
What unto me is vague and dim,
Is clearer to you by Him
Whose beacon fires forever shine,
To guide You by their light divine
To yoU these solemn hills of stone
Their mystic miracles make known;
For You the moaning of the trees
Hath more than language of the breezel
You hear the beat of unseen wings,
Gou mark the spirit beckonings;
And through the sounds of toll and strife,
Steal echoes of purer life!
Sweet Dire amer! gazing up the slope,
Like ore VINO holds not vaiuly hope
That in the purple, ere effaced
A hint of heaven may be traced.
NY prayer for you, if I may pray,
Is that, where'er your footsteps stray,
Gods perfect glory shall dispense,
The shadows of the universe!
And so, in silence, looking down
Upon the low hills leafy crown,
| send you from my haunt above,
My benediction and my love!
The Home Make
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
Keep OnIytIe Best.

1t has been truly sad that the regenera
ton of agriculture from its frequent de-
pressions / most easily and surely effected
by producing the same amount Of crops on
a le- $ area Of land. The same principle
should be applicable to the greater profit
from the live stock. If the same product
Of milk or butter can be made from ten
good cows that is now made from twenty
poor ones, the advantage is OBVIOUS. And
this principle applies to all farm stock.
There are good and bad of all kinds, but
the bad predoninates To feed al unprof-
liable animal through the winter is a Sc
rious loss and should be avoided This is
a good time for separating out the lean
aad hungry, that never pay for their food.
from the profitable animals, and getting
rid of them IN the best way possible And
the good that remain should be fed and
cared for in the best manner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31

The eldest daughter of the new secretary
of war is likely to attract a good deal of
attention in Washington society. OF
course her fathers position alone would
make her position secure even in the most
exclusive circles, but she has much to
recommend her in addition to this. In
the first place she is very pretty, and this
is an important factor in social success
everywhere. Then she is bright and she
is cultivated. There is very little of the
artificial about her, or if she has AIT it is
of that high quality which conceals itself,
for der manner is always Singularly
charming and natural.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
DIPLOM OF HONOR.

The society tf American wood engrav-
ers has been awarded the great diploma of
honor Of the international exhibition Of
FIRE arts at Berlin. This is the highest
distinction conferred there, and thus the
super ority Of American wood engraving
to all others is worthijy recognized. The
artists represented were the same as those
whose Paris exhibit was shown in Phila-
delpbia last winter, including Victor
Bernstrom, W. B. Closson, Timotheus
Cole, John P Davis, Frank French, Thos
Johnson, F, S. King, EIbridge Kingsley,
Gustav Kruel, R. A. Muller, Caroline A.
Powell, S. G. Putnam, John Tinkey, F.
FL. Wellington and Henry Wolfe; and by
invitation of the society, w. P. Cleaves,
Philadelphia, contributed some of his
original engravings to the exhibit. 1t is
an interesting fact that tits society has
decided to make at the Columbian world S
fair purely art exhibit, cutting loose from
the publishers and preser ting only origin
al engravings. This is noteworthy step
forward in the assertion of wood engrav-
ing to an independent place among the
arts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
CRIME.

MANY cases of murder are reported as
the result of Christmas carousing.
ISAAC SAwTELLE, who murdered ais
brother in New Hampshire in so atrocious
a manner, died in jail of apoplexy.
FRAUDS IN tobacco importations have
been discovered at New York which may
reach SO, 900, 000.
Ed FALLoN was convicted in the district
court at Fargo, n. D., Thursday, of
shooting Charles Thurman with intent to
kill.
Four young people of Ionia, Mich,
agreed to commit suicide, and three OF
the pumter executed their agreement.
TRUE bills were found Monday by the
grand jury against Mayor Wyman and ex-
Mayor Pearson, of Allegheny, Pa, for
emhezzlement.
EDWARD M. FIELD is still confined at
the Ludlow Street Jail, and his refusal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
RationS for Milk.

Experiments to determine the value of
various rations for milk production have
been In progress at the Iowa Experiment
Station, the results of which have been
recorded in Bulletin IA. The experiments
extended over period of Is months, the
COW being weighed and the milk tested at
intervals while the different ratIons were
being fed. This experiment indicates
that corn meal fed with corn fodder, or
corn ensilage, results in the more IA pid
decrease of milk, and its fat, and solids,
than the advance in the period of lsctatlon
Justlhes. That corn meal fed with sor-
ghum ensilage results in very rapid de-
crease IN milk fat and solids, and that the
combination is not profitable. That corn
meal fed with roots and clover hay is pail
atable and gives good results. That the
substitution of bran and oil meal for half
the amount of corn meal resulted in a
marked increase in both quantity and
quality of milk, increase of quality being
even more marked than increase in quail
tlty. That good pasture can be SUBSTITUTE
ed for part of grain ration. That farmers
who feed cora exclusively may have better
yields, better sustained, by also using
clover hay, oil meal and bran, or other
albuminous feeds.-Orange Judd Farm
er.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31

IN wet seasons, and the abundance of smus
IN the wheathelds of locality nav be due
to the continuous cropping Of particular
10 Ids with wheat, oats, or some closely
allied grain. To prevent smut a system Of
rotation of crops should be adopted and
seed wheat be soaked for few hours in a
solution of sulpbate of copper. or in a weak
brine made with common salt, for the pur.
pose OF killing any smut spores that NAV
be on the grain.
A good way to prepare seed wheat for
sowing Is to dissolve one pound of sui
phate of copper in two gallons of water. or
IN this proportion for any quantity re-
quired. The wheat should be placed in
tubs or casks, filling up to within three or
four inches of the top, then pouring in the
solution until the grain is well covered.
The wheat is then to be stirred thorough
ly, and should any whole smut-grains
come to the surface they have to be skim
med off. After soaking for an hour or
two the liquor is to be drained eff, the
grain spread out on a floor and busted
with dry lime or wood ashes, after which
It is to be sown as usual.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
To Prevent Swarmin e

The great study of the bee keeper is how
to keep the bees from swarming. A col
ony sending out swarm in the season Of
honey flow means almost entire cessation
Of honey gathering in the hive for some
days; and possibly no more will be stored
in the sections that season. But by pro-
per management of the swarm that goes
out, one may get considerable comb honey.
One way is to hive the swarm in frames.
having only strip Of comb foundation
about one inch wide in each, which insures
straight combs if the hive is level. Then
place d case of sections above. and when
they are about half filed, raise them and
put another under, ard so keep them stor-
ing honey before they have much broods
to feed.-Ex.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
Love is al ways a burden bearer.

Love that is not kind is the wrong
kind.
It is little by little that pleasure leads
on to sin the heart that lets itself be lulled
by its charms.
Love does not boast of the battles it has
fought, nor scratch its seals to make them
look bigger.
Without the help Of human love divine
love could never have been made known on
earth.
There amt so many vicious sinners as
cheap editions of men with flexible
backs.
We have often regrets for hasty or rash
words, but never for words and acts
gentleness and love.
Do not expect commercial payment for
the real benefits you may render mankind.
Doing good is the great way of enrlching
character.
No harm to do this, and no harm to go
there, you say. Well, that depends. The
swill barrel is a good place for a rotten
apple, but very poor place for soured
one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
An Egg-Tester.

To make an egg-tester to use with a
common lamp, take pastboa box about
inches long and 6 inches wide and
inches deep. Cut hole in the bottom big
enough to fit the large part Of a lamp
chimney through. Next cut hole about
the shape Of an egg, but rather smaller, in
one end, SO that it will be opposite to the
lamp fame when the testep isslipped over
the chimney. Now cover the box outside
with any dull, black cloth. so that no
light can get through, and you are ready
for business. Light the lamp, place the
tester in position, and the egg over the
oval opening in the side. Turn gently as
you look, and its condition will be clearly
exposed to view.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
Two Kinds of Ownership.

A wealthy man displaying one day his
jewels to philosopher, the latter said ::
Thank you, sir, for being willing to share
such magnificent jewels with me. " "Share
them with, you, SIR" exclaimed the
owner. what do you meau?" "Why,
more can you do with them yourself?'
replied the philosopher. This recalls to
mind what Titbottom says in Mr.. Curtis
''Prue and l., as he is looking over the
large estate Of the wealthy and sordd
Bourne Bourne owns the dirt and
fences; own the landscape!" We haven't
seen the passage for many years and do.
not quote in exactly; but that isn't neces-
sary.-Selected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
Smut in Wheat.

Smut in wheat is parasitic fungus Of a
low degree. The spores, which answer the
place Of seeds in higher orders of plants,
are in the form of a minute black dGst,
and these are scattered over The fsid in the
grass, straw, chaff, also adhering to the
sound grain after il is gathered, and may
be sown with it the following year; and
when conditions are favorable these smut
spores terminate. their threads penetrat-
ing all parts of the gro wing plant and ulti
mately producing smutty wheat again.
Smutty grain may appear in dry as well as
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
THE HOUSEHOLD,
The Shepherd and the Lamb
DAVID BARKER.

In the Scottish hills as a shepherd strolled,
On an eve with his ancient's crook,
He found lamb that was chilled and young,
By the side of purling brook.
And thro' fear the lamb might be stricken and
die,
From its mothers side might roam,
He carried it up with tender care
To fold in his highland home
id the dreary nights, DER the craggy peaks,
Through the Winds and the storms, and tn
cold,
The mother followed her captured lamb,
To the door of the shepherds fold
Once had lamb by its mothers side,
1t was artless pure and mild;
Twas tn pearest lamb in my own dear flock
Oh, the pale little blue-eyed child
But Shepherd came when the sun gre
low,
BY path that has long been trod,
And he carried my lamb thro' the mist
night,
To His fold in the mount of God.
With fearful eye and bleeding heart
We must bear 1t and struggle on,
And climb that mount by the Shepherds
track,
To the fold where our lamb has gone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
Onions.

If you wish to have a patch of large
onions next year lay off plot of ground,
cover it with three inches of manure, and
On the on the first warm day that such
work can be done spade the plot mixing
the manure we'll into the soil. and broad
cast small quantity of lime over the sur
face. In the spring spade the plot again,
rake it down fine and plant 1t 10 onion
sets. The result should be large onions
and plenty Of them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
How to Read.

What we read, is a matter of import
ance as means of character training.
How we read is matter of hardly less
Importance in the same direction. A man
may read SO carelessy or so specifically
as to get little harm from bad books, and
little gain from good ones. And, as a
matter of fact, it is only now and then that
any person 50 reads as to get the good he
ought to get from the best reading. While
having a care as to what you read, do not
forget to consider how you read.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
ODDITIES.

Paradoxical-A man always feels put
out when he is taken in.
A good caterer climbs the ladder of
fame by rounds of tender steak.
Many people who never saw fire es-
cape have seen one break out.
A mans declining years begin at fifty;
a woman's begins from fifteen to eight
cen.
They call them cobble stones, Freddy,
because they are so hard on your sh oe-
leather.
Johnny, YOU go out and shoe that
horse out of the garden
"WeIl, amt no horse shoer.
Don't fool with a wasp because you
think he looks weak and tired; you II find
hes all right in the end.
Mr.. Gazzam-''YO home is of the
Ionic order, isn't it?'
Mrs. Fangle-"No indeed; we don t owe
cent on it.
Philosophers have noticed that vixen a
man makes up his mind that he has to
practice economy, he generally tries to
begin with his wife's expenses.
Stranger-'M Madam, l am a literary
man"
She (whose husband is an author)-
Sorry, but | haven 't5any change about
me-"
A debating society is discussing the
question as to which is the angrier-the
husband VINO goes home and finds that
dinner is not ready, or the wife who has
dinner ready, and whose husband does not
come home.
1t is lot the coming man nut the going
man who gets there.
A great deal of what we call Ameri.
can Tin" is squandered in Europe by
tourists.
'Yes, SIR" said the tanner to the hide
dealer, Il believe in free hides, and l
want 'em free from grubs, too
Every man who does not labor and lay
up fortune m ~ cause absolute suffering
to his daug hter's future husband.
A Modest Gtnius-ldler-'I suppose,
like tie majority OF your class, you drop
into poverty occas1onalIy?'
Newsla per Man-"No, sir, do not. |
may rise into poetry occasionally.
She-"You were in his class were
sou? | hear he passed his examination
with great honor. Was it oral or writ
ten %
He-"Well, to be exact, it was cop
led.
Dude-"Theah is great deal of wude-
ness in the wohld. Yestahday a felIah
said dude in my pwesence, and | told him
if he wusn't careful I'd give him piece
of my mind. He simply asked me if /
thought I could spare it,
Can you do anything with my account
to-day, sir 2" asked coIlecto'. I'D like
to pay it, replied Gazzam, hut the fact
is | haven't any gold coin, and the doctors
declare that notes cary microbes about.
One can't be TO careful you know, and
under TIE circumstances | wouldn't pay
You with notes for all the world"
PAPA, | wish you would buy me a
little pony" said Johnny.
Il haven't got any money to guy you a
pony, my son. You should 60 to school
regularly, my son, study hard, and become
a smart man, and some of these days,
when you grow up, you will haze money
of your own to buy ponies with
Then | suppose, pa, you didn't study
much when you we're little boy like me,
or else you would have had money no to
buy ponies with. wouldn't you, pap