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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
The Use ct 80 after in london.

One does not find any period in the
history of London when the citizens
desired plain cold water as beverage.
Beer was always the national drink
they drank small ale for breakfast,
dinner, and supper; when they could
get it they drank strong ale. OF wa
ter for washing there was not at this
period so great demand as at present.
At the same time il is net true to say,
as We said few years ago in the house
of commons. that for eight hundred
years our people did not wash them
selves All through the middle ages
the use of the hot bath was not only
common but frequent, and in the case
of the better classes was almost a
necessity of life.-Harper's Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
FARM AND HOME.
A TAP AT THE DOOR.

A hand tapped on my door, low down, low down
L opened it and saw two eyes OF brown,
Two lips of cherry red,
A little curly head,
A bonny, fairy sprite in dress OF white,
Who said with lifted face, Papa, good nightl'
She climbed upon my knee, and kneeling there
Lisped softly, solemnly her tiny prayer;
Her meetin 9 fnger-ups,
Her pure sweet baby lips,
Carried my soul with hers, half unaware,
Into some clear and divine air.
l tried to lift again. but all IN vain,
Of scientific thought the subtle chain;
So small, small,
Ny learning ALL
Though could call each star and tell its place,
My child's sour Father bridged the gulf Of
space.
I sat with folded hands, at rest, at rest,
Turning with solemn thought within my east;
How faith would Jade
If God had made
No children in this world-no baby age
Only the prudent man or thoughtful sage.
Only the woman wise; no little arms
To clasp around our neck; no baby charms,
No loving care,
No sinless prayer,
No thrill oflisping song no pattering feet,
No infant heart against our infant heart to beat.
Then, if a tiny hand, low down, low down,
Tap at my heart or door, ali! do not frown,
Bend low to meet
The little feet;
To clasp the Clinging hand; the child will be
Nearer to heaven than thee-nearer than thee.
-Churchman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Farmers Mistakes,

At a recent meeting of the Oxford
Ohio, Farmers club, Mr.. Schulz, one OF
the members, spoke as follows on mistakes
in management. He said:
AS rule we plow too much. More
grass and less blowing will increase in
come, reduce outlay and keepup soil.
Too poor stock is kept. High-grade
horses, cattle, sheep and swine are
the only kind that pays to feed. Start
with the best you can get and keep it up,
and improve il possible. Use only full
blood males. Any other is deiusion and
going back.
1t is a mistake to bay poor tools because
they are cheap. The best is the cheapest.
Good tools and good teams, both kept In
good order, are the only kind which
pays.
Next to the inferior stock Is poor seeds.
We can always have good seed by little
timely care in selecting and s. oriug. All
seed SHOULD be aIept in a,eool, dry place
and properly tested before you risk the
crop and years york on it. We cannot let
our stock winter in stalk fields and woods
as our fathers did 1t is a big mistake
now.
Mistakes caused by ignorance are
crimes, Many farmers belong to the
criminal class.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
LOOK AHEAD.
The Importance of Providing for a Rainy
Day.


There is but one class of clerks to whom
there is the least use of preaching econ
omy, and that is the class who have a
we'll defined aim before them, and who
are working steadily toward their object.
To say to the young man who does not
look beyond to-day, You ought to be
SAILING" is simply to waste words. The
one thing he does not do is to look further
than the present hour. But it is we'll to re-
mind the young clerk who is determined
that the future shall bring him more than
the present holds, that one of the sure
steps to success is to have become well
grounded in the habit of economy.
You may be one Of the best statesmen
that ever sold goods IN your employer
store, and you may force him into posi-
ton where he must decide whether he
| shall give you an interest or lose you;
bat if you have been reckless with your
salary, he will hesitate about
trusting you with his capital.
Among the very pleasantest ways Of hand
ling money, count spending it the most
pleasant. But to get this pleasure one
must feel that he can afford to spend it.
| The salary of clerk, If he is a good clerk,
is not intended to be the exact sum upon
| which he can live, but is usually more
than that. ff he is a young man with no
ties depending on him, there is generally
very snug sum between the amount of
the salary and the SUM necessary to sup
port him. If he is DESTROYS to see how
fast he can spend this, or If he is aping
some stylish companion who ia
turn is copying the fashion plates,
he can easily keep his account down
IL. LII L =.
two sides is a very easy matter. 1t is the
proper use of this salary about which
desire to write
That man has seen very little of life WHO
has not learned that few ready dollars
are great power; not the dollars that you
might OWE or may have, 'but the dollars
you can lag your hand on now. In every
branch of trade we all know there are bar
gains now and then for the man who can
avail himself of the chances. So in bust
ness there are constant changes, and oeea-
sionally little cash can do wonders
| do not think a clerk should shut HIM
self away from every form of entertain
ment or society pleasures on the con-
| trary think young man who works
steadily at the desk or counter will be all
| the better for an evening at concert or
at a pleasant home party ln>some friend s
house. But these things are not the end
and aim of life, and consequently should
only GIL out small part of it.
venturet sayno man ever kept an ae-
curate account of his expenses for year
or two, but he was led to turn his thoughts
toward saving, and for that reason adj
wise you to watch your salary for the next
twelve months, and see if the exhibit is
not the strongest sermon ever preached
you in favor of economy. On the Road to
Riches
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
LIS. ST. P. &U.P
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 Ear
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
accommodation are furnished in
Pullman Family Sleeping Cars.s
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.
NJ. & o. Ry., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through car service over
the LAKE Superior, ST. PAIL &
Union Pacific Line" and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
Gen'lPasengerAgent, St Paul
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06

speech he said: America must get paid
for her exports to England, and must take
payment either in British manufactures
or in foreign or colonial goods through
English markets.
On former occasion Mr.. Gladstone
said. what fatty contradicts the above
But look at the cases Of the countries
which are furnishing US at this moment
with two or three times the value in raw
materials Of the manufactures which we
sent to them. Why is it that they do not
take more Of our manufactures? If Russia
does not take our manufactures for tallow
and hemp, why should other countries be
obliged, or in all cases be inclined to take
our manufactures for corn. -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
A TALE THE SUBURBS.
A Romance That Came to an Abrup
End


The wind sighed ftfulIy through the
trees that lined the quiet street. The
cheerful hum of the suburban mosquito
pervaded the sultry air, the pale yellow
moon shone bilIousl down on 4 landscape
that looked tired, and the voice of the
Penobscot Bellamus, the young man from
down town, had a fuzzy and precarious
sound like an E string getting ready TO
break at the close of a warm evening de-
voted to solos from the old masters.
HYou do not pretend to misunderstood
me. Miss Naggus?" he said appealingly,
and moving forward in his chair till he
sat on the extreme edge.
why, Mr. Ballamus,' she replied,
IL am not exactly sure that-that
The young man moved forward still fur
ther, and dropped on his knees before her
with mournful thud.
"Why do you suppose have been CON-
ing to see you all these months?' he ex-
claimed. S|Kate Naggus' look at MEL
u suppose, Mr.. Bellamus, you have had
to go somewhere, you know, and-but, of
course, when | see a young man before me
on his knees, why, then, l-I''-
You know he means business, of
course he said coming PROMPTLY and
cheerfully to her assistance. THAT s
what he meansl"
The high keyed voice of Mr.. Penobscot
Bellamus suddenly broke, but without a
moments pause he went ahead on the A
string.
'fKate Naggus, the supreme moment of
my life has come! On your decision now
rests all my hope of earthly happiness-all
my dread Of earthly misery. The time
has come when | can bear the suspense no
longer. Bewildered by your glorious
beauty, intoxicated by the magic of your
smile and the music of your voice, have
let precious time go to waste! Enclant,
'ress of my heart. this moment must decide
my fate! My whole future, my destiny
for veal or woe. is wrapped up in it! If
the pure and honest love of a faithful
heart, the earnest aud self sacrificing de-
votion of lifetime can move you, dearest,
let me offer you
He paused. He seemed to listen a mo-
ment. With a look of wild alarm he
glanced at his watch, jumped to his feet
and grabbed his hat
Miss Naggus, he exclaimed in breath
less haste, Il have just time to catch the
last train IN! Good night!'- Exchaege.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Fsad forYcunk Chielye-

It is not natural for young chiefs ia
eat soft food. Their gizzards are adapteJ
to breaking up and sdigesting hard sub
stances, and anless giving something to dc
weet, old, whole wheat is assgood food
as can be gwen, and before that cracked
chicks at any time. Corn is not a very
good feed for chick, anyway, but if given.
# is better to be cracked than Sed whole
or grouxd into ine feed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Good Timothy.

To secure a thrifty stand Fof timothy,
which will remain good for two or three
years, there is nothing better than seed
ing it with the alsike clover on winter
grain crop The alsike does not smother
down the thimothy quite as badly as red
clover does, and if cut in June, just as the
blossoms begin to fade, the alsike will pro-
duce full seed crop and then entirely die
out. This leaves the soil entirely to the
grass, and so stimulates its growth that
often second crop of timothy of ton
and a half per acre can be cut the same
season. With common red clover the
timothy does not do much until the Sec
ond year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06

tening ration should be supplied, and the
ration should of necessity consist of a
large proportion of carbohydrates and
fats, and the more thoroughly this is done
the better Will be the results secured. One
important item with stock of I'LL kinds in
feeding is to supply such ration as will
keep the stock in good, thrifty condition
during growth and to maintain as rapid a
gain as possible after commencing to fat
ten. n. J. S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Goat on Two LawS

A two-Iegged goat has oeen agita-
ting Cordele Ga. James Barnhill Is
the possessor of this freak of nature,
and he is exhibiting him at 10 cents a
look, with a slight reduction when you
look several times. He is of the
billy gender, walks upright like a
chicken, sits down like a dog, is a very
intelligent little creature and is, in
deed, a curiosity. 1t is a great pet
and children and ladies go wild with
delight over billy"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
BIackbeFries.

The Snyder blackberry for hardness
and protectizeness can hardly be excelIed,
1t succeeds where other varieties have bees
winter killed, and these characteristics
make it popular. It's fault is turning red
after marketing, which Injuries its sale,
though not for canning, for which it caa
haraly be .ezcelled. The ancient Britoss
blackberry lis said so be equally hardy
with the Snyder, and to retain its black
color Another variety, the early Bernard,
is identical with the ancient Briton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06

Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawfna
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of lates1
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
St. Panl 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 VestihnIed DRAWING
Room and Tourist Sleepers via the Norther1
Pacific Railroad between Chicago and Port.
land, Ore, and Tacoma, Wash.
Convenient Trains to and from Eastern.
Western, Northern and Central Wisconsin points,
afording unequaled service to and from Waukes
sha, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh. Neenah, Me.
nasha, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Hurley,
Wis.,, and Ironwood and Bessemer, Mich.
For tickets, sleeping reservations, time
tables and other information, apply to agents %
the Line or to Ticket Agents anywhere in tho
United States or Canada.
8. r. AINSLIE, General Manager, Milwaukee
Wis.
J. M. HANNAFoRD, Gen1 Traffic Manager, St
Paul, MINI.
q: c. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, Chicago, z.
LOUIS ECKSTEIN, Genl Pass'r and Tk't A6t
Chicago, Ii,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
AGRICULTURAL.
Content With Home.
BY 4 FARMERS WIFE.

Let others seek the ocean brine
For pleasure and for play,
Or pass their idle. useless time
In other sportful way,
For me there's no uch CHEEKY spot
On all earth's wide domain
As my own coy, homely cot,
A home life sweet and plain.
Where lust enough of heaIthful toll,
My hands and brain employ,
To cultivate the mental soil,
And sow the seeds of joy
With just enough of comfort, too,
Perhaps bit TO spare,
To give life's sky a tinted hue,
Nor cloud it DER with care.
Have leisure hour to pass,
Here are my flowers or books,
Or yonder stretch of velvet grass,
Or woods whose dreamful hooks,
Sweetest allurements are TO me.
And as with nature l commune,
am not troubled with "ennui,"
The hour has fed too soon.
And SO let others, if they please,
In wealth and feshion dissipate;
For me, choose my homely ease,
Nor envy | the rich or great.
My cottage home, my three sweet boys,
My 'gudeman" true and kind,
I'd not exchange for all the joys
The ''people of the world can find.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
FOUGHT FOR THE PRISONERS,
Shooting ARRAY Between Customs
inspectors and SheriR's Officers

SEATTLE, Wash, july 28.-George
w. Poor, a deputy sheriff and former
customs inspector, was shot and killed
this morning at Wooley, Skagit county
by Customs Inspectors J. c. Baird and
James buchanan. j. E. Terry, an ex-
police officer Of Seattle, was also seri-
~ously wounded. 1t is said that the
shooting was caused by fight over a
band of Chinese who were being snug
gled into the United States from British
Columbia Both parties were on the
track of the Chinese and when Poor
and Terry captured the Mongolians it
is stated that Baird and buchanan
opened fire upon them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
SERlue of Turnips.

Iurnip seed may now go in thezground
theaaeavy yieid in prog ortion to cost. The
bestToots that can be grown for stock are
of ali the roets, is !urnips.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
BY Irrigation.

In eastern New Mexico nearly six
hundred thousand acres of fruit and
farm lands have been reclaimed by
the construction of storage reservoirs
and irrigating canals during the past
two years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
NEEDH AM-MAHAN
Anather Fight to a Finish in San Frar

SAN Francisco, July 29.-Danny
Needham. of St. Paul, and Billy Mahan,
of San Francirco, met in fight to a
finish for 81, 800 purse, at the Occidental
club tonight. Neeham won in the 29th
round.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06

Fast Nan Line with vestibuled 9ra,as -
tween Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Pau ~
Minneapolis.
Trans-ContinentalR Route between Chicago
Council Bluffs, Omaha and the Pacific CaAss
Great National Route between Chicago. Kan
sas City and st. Joseph No.
500 Miles of Road reaching al principe
points n II inois Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa
Missouri and Dakota
For maps, time tables, rates Of passage ans
freight etc, apply t. he Arrest station agent O.
the CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE, & ST PAUL RAnvA1
or TO any Railroad Agent any where in the WEI
BOSWELL MILLER, A.V. H. CARPENTER
General Manager. Genr Pass and TIKI. Ag1
Il For information in reference to Lands 80
Towns owned by the CHICAGO, MnwAuKEB 4 6T
PAUL RAILWAY ConPANY, write TO b. g. HAuaAH
Land Commissioner. MilwsuksA WiscoEin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
THE

Gen'lPasengerAgent, St Paul
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-07
GATHERED AB01T THE TOWN.

fhe Common Council yesterday adopted a resolu-
Hon making more stringent provisions for tie report
OF births 10 the Board Of Health.
United states Marshal Walker took the oath OF
Office yesterday and gave bonds In 10000 lie viii
retain the Subordnates I'm the Office who served under
Marshal Lake.
certificate Of incorporation OF the Franklin safe
Deposit Company was died with the state Banking
Department In Albany yesterday. The company has
a capital Of 300 900 and will carry safe deposit
and storage business The trustees Alexander T..
Orr Edwin Packard william IL. Wallace George NJ.
Olicott George g. Southland, John b. woodward,
Cromwell IIadden. Felix Campbell, George D. Colt.
T. A. DAILY Darwin r. James, Martin Joost and WHIT
man W. Kenyon.
There were 1870 persons who batned at the
public baths last week.
The proposition to appropriate another e15o.ooo
for waterworks extension has encountered the oppos
ton Of Alderman Coney, who asks what the Com
missioner OF City Works has done with the S750000
siready appropriated. Yesterday his opposition in
the Common Council secured the failure Of the PROPOSE
ton by vote OF 10 TO 3.
The Bridge authorities turned over 100000 OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-07

the funds Of the Bridge to the two cities. Slooooo 70
Broollyn and $4,000 TO New-fork yesterday
Counsel for the trustees says that they can issuo
certificates of Indebtedness and go on with the WORK
of constructing the new terminal facilities until the
bonds 10 be issued by Brooklyn are sold
william stout of No 10 Conselyea-st. was ar
rested Yesterday on complaint of Officer Movers OF
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty TO Chdren
and arraigned before Justice Goetting on charge OF
crney beating his fourteen-y earod son John. ohcer
Never told the court that the boys body was mass
OF bruises and ridges made by the beatinSs' Inc
trial set down for Friday
Francis Lancer, member OF the BushwicR Demo
cratic Clnb who expelled on MAY H. obtained
Yesterday from Justice Cullen writ of mandamus to
compel the club to restore him to membership. In
his opinion Justice Cullen says: "The charge on
which the rclator was expelled was entirely TOO IN
definite and insufficient to justify the action against
him"
Father George Ganpcrt. of the assistant pastors
of Holy Trinity Church. has been chosen the sue
cessor of the late Father John Hauptmann as pastor
of the Church Of the Annunciaton, at North Flith
and Havcmeyer SITS Father Hauptmann died three
weeks ago. Father Ganpcrt was horn in the parish
His first efforts in his field Of duty will be directed
toward renovating the church building. and he VIII
next begin the erection of new parochial school
huildnp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-07

Among the passengers who arrived yesterday morning
on the steamship Arizona the wcllnOwn rOugh-coat'd
ST. Bernard Prince Regent This Is not Prince Regent
FIRST visit America He here Grt the property
Of Mr.. Anderson, Of Chattanooga Tenn but was taken
back England by Sidney W. Smith last summer. and
WAS lately bought from him by the Of the NcwY
ST Bernard Kennels for SO 0OO-not LARGO price St.
BeTnaTds 10
The Prince Is gr1nds!rc and the father Of most o;
the prize OF late yars, his children having
deprived him Of the championship. He is nearly thirty
Ave inches In hccgt and OF massive bone and head
with perfect white markings.
At present looks anything but champion dog, a.
his coat poor and his general appearance against HIM
The effect heightened by the awkward way he carries
his tail which he injured on the passage over.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-07
JUSTICE WHITE AGAINST A THIRD TBAcK.

The Manhattan Elevated Railroad will not be permitted
10 continue putting third track IN Harlem. Justice
White at the Harlem. Police Court yesterday afternoon
after hearing evidence Of captain kiliiea AMI Oncer
Gargen, Of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. squad
Charles Spkng,. the orman Of the swchayers OF
the road, served with summons Friday for
violating the charter by putting up middle track at
Onchundrd and twenty Ouths and Eightn-aye, decided
that road could not put up third track below one
und and twcnticth-st north Of One-hundIcdand-
tw,niy Captain Kilca said tina: after making
personal investigation he detailed Officer Gargen TO keep
close watch on Of the elevated road work
men. GIIgen testified that he saw workmen engaged
IN putting up lever at Observation-Disclosures fourth
IT, Friday, for the p rpose Of locking and unlocking
ahe switches the sdctack b the middle track
Lawyer Tlavcr, who appeared for the road said that
hc charter gave them the right TO put up third track and
ehes, middle track 70 b. used only In of &C.
cLcnt prevent blockade and 10 store cars Justice
White ordered Captain Klilea TO to IL that no third
track was laid below Onc-Hd dand swentieth.St or above
Onc.hundr twenty cgntst Sp kings was discharged