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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Successful Apple Culture.


Benz Hathaway, Lift Prairie Ronde,
Mich, in reply to an inquirer writes as
follows: He probably already understands
what he must do in order to get a good
crop of corn. He knows that he must
have good seed; that it must be planted at
the proper season, on good land, ON good
tilt and have thorough cultivation. So
with apple trees. He must see to it that
his trees are healthy, of suitable age and
size; and that they have good roots no less
than good tops. He must plano them at
the same depth that they grew on the
nursery, on a little deeper, on we'll pre-
pared, well drained land, and at the
proper season, that is, before the growth
begins. SO much as foundation for sue
cess. But this is only the foundation. The
rest lies In the variety chosen, the care and
culture, not for one season alone, but for
all the years of growth and future pro-
ductlveness of the orchard 1t is espeei-
ally important the first season that the
trees have very close attention. In June,
or earlier, they SHOULD be washed with I've.
or soap and I've, which is better. This
would greatly tend to prevent the borers
from gettingin trees and will add to their
health and vigor The cultivation should
continue yearly. until the orchard is well
established. There can be, to advantage,
an alienation of crops, as corn, beans,
potatoes, etc. But no small grains should
be grown, nor seeding down until the
the trees have come to bearing. If the
land is naturally strong, the trees will
need no manure except what is needed by
crop, TO insure good yield II. at suit
able age, the orchard is finally seeded
down, it is an advantage to give the trees
a mulch. This may consist OF long stable
manure, or old straw or muck. This will
prevent too sudden check of the growth,
as we'll as add to the food elements requir-
ed for the continued growth of the trees
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02

Darkness, solitude, and remorse are
grim and hateful company.
Do that which is assigned to you, and
you cannot hope too much or dare too
much.
Opportunities are very sensitive things
if you slight them ON their first visit you
seldom see them again.
Sincerity is like travelling In a PLAIN
beaten road, which commonly brings a
mau sooner to his journeys end than by
ways, in which the men often lose them
selves.
The law of the harvest is to reap more
than you SOW. Sow an act and you reap
habit; SOW habit and you reap char
acter; sow a character and you reap a
destiny
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02

DI M

Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Fast Trains with Pullman Vestbued drawing
Room Sieepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of lates!
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman Vestibu1ed Drawing
Room and Tourist Sleepers 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,
afording unequaled service to and from Waukes
hhs, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh. Neenah, Me-
nasha, Chippewa Falls. Eau Claire, Hurley,
Wis, and IrOnwOod and B.s.ener, Mich.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations, time
tables and other information. apply to agents Of
the Line to Ticket Agents anywhere In tie
United States or Canada.
S. r. AINSLIE, General Manager, Milwaukee
Wis.
J. NJ. HASNAFORD. Gen1 Traffic Manager, ST.
Paul, Mimi.
II. c. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, Chicago, Ill.
LOUIS ECKSTEIN, GenI Pxss'r and Tkt Ag't
Chicago. ll'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
THAT BENIGHTED EDITOR.
His Best Argument Blasted in Single
Breath

Well, well, WE'LL; What will the tariff
is-a-t tax editor do now? He has made
the increased duty on tin-plate his great
est card, and now it is blown away in one
breath. We have been told that the poor
man would have to pay the quarter of a
cent extra duty on his dinner pail. and
we are almost led to believe that new
coin would have to be made that this tax
might be paid, at least till we made our
own tin plate in sufficient quantity to re-
duce the price. But now we are told by
Congressman Niedringhaus that the
foreign tin-plate makers have agreed to
sell the American market all the tin
plate we want without any added cost en-
account of the increased duty So the
workingman won't have to scrape together
that quarter of a cent after all. But what
will the free-trade editor do? This tin
plate tax was his greatest and almost
only standby. And now that prop is gone!
Well, he must send to the Golden club
and get some new ones from head
quarters. But he must hurry up, for they
are getting very weak over there, and
won't hold out much longer. So make
hay while the sun shines, free-traders!
It will soon enough be all moonshine
with you.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
TRADE WITH BRAZIL.
Reciprocity Prompts the Organization of a
Company to Garry 1t on

Already the Brazilian reciprocity treaty
is showing practical results. A Baltimore
company has been formed. the Brazil
trading company, to develop trade with
Brazil. 1t proposes to procure and pre-
pare for the market seeds, fruits and other
products of the two countries. including
coffee, wheat and corn. 1t proposes to
establish an agency in Brazil for the sale
and exchange of these commodities. 1t
will ship to or from any port most conven-
lent. If the business at Baltimore can be
expanded sufficiently, a line Of steamers
may soon be established between that port
and Rio. The present trade of Baltimore
with Brazil is conducted almost wholly in
sailing vessels. New York ana Chicago
capitalists are interested In the new COM
pany. The capital stock will be increased
from $50, 900 to $500, 600, as the require
ments of the case demand.
In tine cargo of British steamer bound
for Rio and Santos-what a pity it was
British !-which sailed a few days ago
from Baltimore, were twenty-five street
cars, three locomotives, 5000 barrels OF
-four. and quantities of lard, oil and
bacon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
HARD WORDS FOR Mr.. BLAINE.
Bitter Comment of New Orleans Papers
Gov. Nichols Censured.

Gov. Nichols Censured.
NEw ORLEANS, La, March 27.-The
grand jury has begun the investigation of
the lynching of the Italian prisoners in
the parish jail.
The local newspapers are not comph-
mentary to Gov. Nj holls for his reply
to Mr.. Blaine The Times-Democrat
says:
There probably was never anything
more insolent than Mr.. Blaines charac-
terization of the incident in the parish
prison as a 'deplorable massacre before
he had any authentic information as to
its Gil cumStances. nor would it be possible,
we think TO point to the infection on any
community through its chief executive
of a worse exh. bition of lordIy, supercili-
Gus impertinence than is conveyed in the
words of the Secretary. And yet not one
word had our governor TO say for him
self or the people of New Orleans in self
defense, justification or rebuttal. His
Excellency allowed Mr.. Blaine and Mr.
Harrison with his deep regrets to tweak
this community, metaphorically speaking,
by the nose, and he did not muster up
spirit to resent the affront.' -
The States is even more bitter in its
comments. That journal says:
I'm that reply he did not think proper
to give the slightest rebuff to the Secre-
tary OF State for his indecent haste IN
condemning the people of New Oorleans
He says not a word to set his people right ::
not word in vindication of their DISPOSE
ton to law and order against the charges
of their enemies. He simply says the
trouble is at an end and that he assumes
that the facts are now under investigation
by the grand jury. His letter is not even O
manly apology. Ills neither more nor less
than feeble evasion of direct reply to
Blaine by person who apparently feels
not the least interest or concern in the
business that has been thrust upon him;
who does not care whether the uprising
was right or wrong; or whether the laws
were violated or not; or whether the vic
Tins were guilty or innocent; or whether
they were foreigners or Americans; or
whether the State of Louisiana is insulted
or not-who, in short, is simply concerned
in Kidding himself of any annoyance about
it.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
ShOrt-StOp Suggestions

March onward in March" is a timely
motto for farmers. Push preparations for
field work 'Get the best" seeds, fertil-
izers and implements. Guard your stock
against March storms Don stop feeding
too early. Care well for the early lambs
and calves. Give agents and peddlers
wide berth. Purchase of reliable dealers
principals. Fix up the fences and gates.
''Slick up" about the house and make
home attractive. Plant both fruit and
ornamental trees. Put all tools, nipple
ments and harnesses in order for use
Paint, whitewash and oil, well applied,
are profitable. Read the advertisements of
seeds, trees and tarm machinery. The
vernal season opens about March 81
after that no nonsense. While buying
farm tools don't forget the household con-
veniences. Girls, plan for nice flower
garden. Give the boys plots of ground
to cultivate ION their own hook How
about homemade manures AMI fertilizers?
Harvest the maple sugar crop carefully.
Have no dilapidated fences and sagging
gates. Make this bad year for sheep
killing dogs; also for providing tramps. 1t
pays to keep buildings, wagons and ma
chinery well painted. Provide for plenty
of asparagus and pieplant. and
Patriot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
GINGHAMS.
Glasgow Manufacturers to Come TO This
Country.

4 news item from Massachusetts, affords
another illustration of the working of
the Mckinley law The Mitchell manu-
featuring company an offshoot of the
well-known firm of A. M. Mitchell, Jr., &
Sons, of observation-disclosures of some
of the best Scotch ginghams in the world,
have organized at Fitchburg. They have
come to this country to engage in the man
ufacture here, and they are making this
seasons goods on hired looms in Philadel
phia. S. Roger Mitchell, who is president
of the company just organized at Fitch
burg, spent most of last summer travelling
through the southern and middle states in
search of the most desirable place to locate
a new mill, and decided upon Fitchburg.
Alexander A. Mitchell, his brother, will be
associated with him in the active manage
ment of the Fitchburg enterprise. The
building to be erected will be one story in
height, $40 feet long and l25 wide.
Ground will be broken for it as soon as
spring opens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Use of Charcoal.

Fresh charcoal absorbs geas very readi-
ly, and may be used advantageously for
absorbing odors. 1t is claimed for it that
when added to manure it absorbs amonia,
forming a store-house of that substance,
which it releases when the roots apply for
it, The dark color of the charcoal is also
said to make the ground warmer by alb
sorbing heat. There is also a small pro-
portion of potash in charcoal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Girls and Girls.


There are two kindred questions about
which there has been and still is much
controversy. and | think. many serious
mistakes made-frst in Understanding
the intelligence of the girls, particularly
In practical matters, In which it is apt to
be greater than our own; and secondly, in
betlttllng our advantages in order to con-
ciliate their prejudices. In many cases
these prejudices do not exist, and even
when they do the difference in our position
and education are sure to come to the
front sooner or later, and by frankly re-
cognizlng them in the beginning as an
advantage we prevent their being re-
garded later on as barrier. The girls
are sure to end by knowing that we keep
servants, wear evening dresses, and go
to the opera; and by plainly speaking of
these things when necessary (the necessity
will be rare), as comforts won for us by
our husbands, our fathers intelligence and
labor, we make this distinction In our
ways of living more one Of degree than
one OF kind. When once recognized the
truth will make our relations with the
girls OF more value than when it existed
on an ignorant or mistaken foundation.
The very leisure and knowledge we are
able to put at their disposal comes from
this difference of conditions, and it is
Sinking our responsibility as women of
leisure class when we attempt to pretend
that our conditions of life are the same as
theirs. The newspapers in this country
are successful In giving the working class
false idea of occupation and pleasure of
the upper classes. -" They represent
them in all their most sensational and re-
grettable moments and but little record is
made of the majority of well-to-do and
educated people with whom plain living
and high thinking has come to be dead
letter In our most natural and laudable
efforts not to potronize the girls we are
apt to forget that we are foregoing the
natural advantages of odr. birthrights in
in attempting to appear to them anomal-
Gus women from nowhere, instead of
ladies whose life and education in perhaps
wealthier homes has inspired US with the
desire to share our real advantage with
our less fortunate sisters
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Good Cheese Paws.

Dairymen are beginning to awaken to
the fact that, in the long run, it is best to
make first class, full cream cheese, and by
so doing stimulate the consumption
through the public taste. The manufac-
ture of poor cheese may pay for while
but the public taste soon revolts against
such an article, and the consumption is
curtailed, and the evident fraud reacts
upon the heads of the manufacturers. 1t is
always best to be honest and put up an
honest article OF any kind on the market,
and especially Of cheese and butter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
RUSSIAN PEASANTS.
Typical Instance of the Life Peasants In


/ 1tp1Cd1 AhSAAhCc Va tAc Ahc cdSdhtS
Russia.
Here are two typical instances" as
Movoye Vremya designates them, of the
peasants life In the government of Smo-
lensk. Last spring at :: the assembly {nir)
of one of the villages a res olution was
adoped that their lands should not be
alienable for the next nine years; none
of the possessors should be allowed to
sell or to give away his lands, nor should
the assembly be empowered to dispose to
the commons.
This resolution was approved by the
government saUthorities and became a
law. But the villages found out that the
law deprived them of the chance of having
a carousal at the public expense. It is
customary among .them that every tran
saction of land should be washed down"
by few pals of brandy; but since no
such transaction could be made no such
treats could be had The peasants could
not endure such a state of affairs long
They went to work and informed one of
their unsuspicious friends that their as
sembly would vote to let him have desya-
tins of land from the commons. in favor of
his new born child; but he must give them
the customary treat before the meeting
takes place. He did not object to the lat
ter. and put up treat for his fellow-vil-
layers which cost him II rubles. At the
assembly, however, he was informed that
he could not get any of the commons
lands as his private property, since these
lands were not alienable.
He therefore brought suit against
the assembly TO recover the twelve rubles
he was made to spend ON a treat But the
fbor thai
member of his village assembly he should
have known that he could not get any of
the commons lands and should not allow
the village, however, was imprisoned for
seven days because he had acqulesced to
and partaken of the treat which the
fooled peasant had been induced to give.
The second story is still more character
istic.
Three peasant women gave a sound
whipping to young woman of their vii
lage. She had them indicted for assault
and battery. They did not deny their act,
but pleaded that she had deserved it be-
cause she had tried to mislead their hus-
bands. Ten witnesses from the same vii
lage Games forward and testified that the
plaintiff was a woman of good character,
md that nothing wrong was seen or heard
about her conduct. But the husband of
the bellicose women testified that he had
been on intimate terms with the assaulted
woman before his marriage, and that he
had continued his relations to her even
since he was married. The Solamonic JUS
tice of the district rendered the following
decision: The fighting ladies shall be
put in prison for fourteen days. The
husband who testified that he had had
Illicit connections with the plaintiff shall
be knotted for telling lie,
Or indicted before the gov
ernment court for immoral conduct if he
tells the truth" The unfortunate witness
pulled off his coat and received the number
of knots with resignation rather than in
sist upon the veracity of his statement and
go before criminal court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Secret Base Ball Meeting.

CINCINNATI, March 27.-The national
league of baseball clubs held secret meet
ing at the Grand hotel today. Nothing is
definitely known, but it is believed that
the question discussed and perhaps de-
cided was whether or no to turn over the
Cincinnati club over TO the company or
ganized by John T, Brush, of Indianapo-
lis,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
MISS COATS COMMITS SUICIDE.
A Young and Beautiful Woman
GROWS Tired of Life

LANSING, Mich, March 27.-Miss Myrtle
Coats, IS years old, pretty and prominent
in society circles of this city, committed
suicide last night by poison. The cause of
her sudd II illness was not known until
she was dying, when lengthy letter ad-
dressed to her parents was found in her
corsage. In this she admitted that she
had purchased strychnine for the purpose
of suicide She was engaged to be mar
ried to young man named Frank Conk-
lin, and the date of the wedding was fixed
for ne It week Her tancei is nearly
craZed over her death
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Lynch Law in Kentucky.

MIDDLEsBoRoUGH, KY, March 81
Thomas Hunter, who shot j. A. Burks at
Cumberland Gap, was forcibly taken from
the authorities and hanged to tree. His
body was then riddled with balls. This is
the first instance of lynch law in this
section of the country
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
THE REAL HOME.
The Lack of American Country Homes.
Scribner.


What American families have not yet
achieved to any great extent. and the con-
ditions Of American life seem not to en-
courage, are real country homes, from
which the dwellers shall go to town for the
winter, and where their principal ties and
their more serious expenditures shall re-
main Until very lately the city house
has been the rich American s real home
When men who have retired from bust
ress make their homes in the country;
when people who now live in town for
pleasure learn to spend three months ir
town and nine in the country, instead Of
vice-versa; when state roads and electri
railroads make the country more aces
sible, and the expenditure in the country
of money made in town makes the rural
districts more interesting; when life
time spent in money getting in Wall
street or 1.-The Swamp ceases to be con-
sidered successful there will pe less diff
fculty than there is just now In providing
that the city mans grandson may have
such share of real country life that his
grandson when it comes his turn to come
to town may have something worth fetch
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02

One of the best safeguards against a
dry season is to use land plaster in the
hills of corn. A very small amount of
plaster will answer. Put it on the hills
after covering the seed. 1t attracts moist
ure and is Of itself a fertilizer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Afraid of the TsaNlnHm-Hsta Bill.

OMAHA, Neb., March 21.-Hurdreds of
petitions are being circulated throughout
the State requesting the Governor to veto
the maximum rate bill recently pass ed by
the Legislature Thousands are signing
the petitions. 1t is now feared that seri-
Gus complications will result in the event
of the measure becoming law and boards
of trade all over Nebraska are urging the
veto
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
ENGLISH ROLLS,

To two pounds of -four mix a teaspoon
full of salt, two ounces of butter, three tea
spoonfuls of yeast, and one pint of milk,
warmed. Mix well and knead fifteen
minutes. Let them rise. Then roll out
half an inch thick and cut out round.
Moisten the edge OF one-half with butter,
and fold Ii down over the other. Again
set to rise, and bake twnntv minutes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
House Happiness.

Probably nineteen-twentieths of the
happiness you will ever have you will get
at home. The independence that comes
to a man when his work is over and he
feels that he has run out of the storm into
the quiet harbor of home, where he can
rest in peace and with his family, is some
thing real. 1t does not make much differ
ence whether you own your house or
have one little room in that house, you
can make this one little room true home
to you You can people it with such
moods, you can turn to it with such sweet
fancies that it will be fairly luminous with
their presence, and it will be to you the
very perfection of home. Against this
home none of you shall ever transgress.
You should al ays treat each other with
courtesy. 1t Is often not so difficult to
love person as it is to be courteous to
him. Courtesy is of more value ard more
royal grace than some people seem to
think. If you will be but courteous to
each other you will soon learn to love more
wisely, profoundly, not to say lastingly,
than you ever did before.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
THE HOUSEHOLD.
A Mothers Love.

One lamp-thy mothers love
And the stars
Shall lift its pure flame changeless,
And before the throne of God
Burn through eternity,
- Holy-as 1t was lit aud lent thee here.
~. p. Willis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
VERY GOOD BREAD.

Into two quarts of -four mix one table
spoon of salt, one large tablespoonful of
sugar, one tablespoonful of lard, one
quart of warm water, and one teaspoonful
of yeast. Knead for half an hour.
make up in loaves, and set them for a
second rising. When light, bake in a
moderate oven.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
THE KITCHEN.
BUCKWHEAT MIIEEINS-

To 2 teaspoonfuls buttermiIk take one
teasoonful soda, | teaspoonful -four, Ia
teacupfuls buckwheat, l tablespoonful of
molasses and teaspoonful salt. Mix well
together and bake In creased muffin rings
or pans