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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
An Editors Fairness.

That editors are heartless beings-ever
regardful OF themselves, always regard
less of the author-has become almost a
proverb in the minds of hundreds of lit
erary people, especially those whose ed
itorial experience is limited. Once in a
while an instance leaks out which shows
the fallacy of this belief, and the follow
ing is such a one:
Quite well known author not long
ago sent poem to a prominent maya
zine. The poem was duly read, accept
ed, and a generous check was sent the
author, who was thoroughly satisfied
with the amount paid. The poem was
laid by for while, when it was again
read by the editor, this time with a view
to illustration. The merit of the verses
not only again appealed to the editor,
but so strilzingly did it impress itself
upon him at a second reading that he
had another check made out and for
warded to the author, with note saying
that the editor felt the previous amount
insufficient with the striking merit of
the work.
The cynical mind will say, eyes, but
such a course is exceptional" Not at
all, my friend, only the instances do not
come to light. Who is the editor in this
case? Well, I will give the names: Mr..
Alden, of Harper's Magazine; the author
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, and the poem,
"The Quaker Lady. Edward w. Bok's
Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
The Youths knowledge.

Is it that the average youth of today
knows more geography in a minute than
his father, when he was a schoolboy,
knew in ten years, or is it that the father
forgot nearly all Of his knowledge i'm
mediately after closing the covers of his
big geography? However that is, one
thing is certain-that nine youngsters
out of ten who can't count SO many years
as they have fingers can "fioor" their
whole grown up families on mountains,
lakes, rivers and streams, cities, towns
and villages and boundaries. They not
only do this persistently and uncompro-
misingly, but they take particular de-
light in making their sisters callers
flush to the roots of their hair with their
terribly erudite questions.-New York
Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
The Late Capt. Wallace.

A Pittsburg friend Of the late Capt.
George Wallace, of the Seventh cavalry,
thus describes that officer: He was a
magnificent man in every sense of the
word. He was feet 8 inches tall, and
of athletic build. He will long be re-
membered in the Seventh as a most fear
less rider and crack shot, as well as a
charming companion. That Capt Wal
lace died hard and fighting to the last is
shown by the latest reports from the seat
of war.
"There were found lying around him
where he fell five dead Indians, for
whom five empty chambers in his re-
volver accounted. He was wonderfully
expert with gun or revolver. 1 remem-
Der that on one little hunting trip we
took together in Missouri he disdained
to use a shotgun on small game, and
brought down more with his rife than
the rest of US could with our scattering
guns"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
Letters as Metaphors,

Some curious examples of the use OF
letters as metaphors may be found in the
works of Lightfoot and Wetstein. We
often hear of person having a stigma
upon him." A stigma was formerly the
branding iron used by the Greeks for
marking their criminals It was in
shape not unlike small figure five (5),
and was usually applied upon the fore
head, cheek or back of the hand, where
it would not fail to be noticed. The
Hebrews are said to have used their final
letter, tau, for similar purpose (see
Eek. tx, ~. In the Talmud it is IA
bled that the Book of Deuteronomy came
and Frustrated itself before God and
said:
go Lord Of the universe, thou hast
written in me thy law, but if tesla
ment is defective in some parts it is de-
fective in all. Behold, Solomon endeav-
ors to root the letter job out of me.
Neither shall he multiply wives (see
Talmud, Sanhed., Xxx, @ Bible Deut.
xvii, ~. "Then," says the Tai
mud, ''the holy blessed God answered,
Solomon and a thousand such as he
shall perish, but the least letter shall not
perish out of thee. st. Louis Republic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
FARM, FIELD, GARDEN.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO COUNTRY
AND SUBURBAN READERS.

Reasons Given by American Cultivator
for the Continued Popularity of Wheat
as a Farm Crop-Wheat Growing as a
Part of Successful Rotation
Wherever wheat can be SUCCESSFULLY
grown it is certain to be an important
farm crop. The past year the average
both for spring and winter wheat re-
manned about the same, but bad seasons
diminished the crop. There is no sign
anywhere of the Abandonment of wheat
growing in any locality where it has
heretofore been successful, but rather of
more general attention to this crop. The
reason for this continued popularity of
wheat is that its cultivation admirably
supplements other crops in the relations
usually adopted. No other grain gives
as good seeding as winter wheat, and
with 1t can be sown not only the clovers
which succeed only in spring, but also
timothy and other grasses which do best
when sown in the fall. As a seeding
lasts two, three or four years, the i'm.
portance of having a good stand from
the first can hardly be overestimated.
Where the clover or grass seeding is
good weeds have no chance to grow.
This often makes a great difference in
cultivation of hoed crops when the field
thus well seeded comes to be plowed
again. The better the sod the more fer
tility has accumulated, and the fewer
weeds there will be to fight.
Growing winter wheat has a further
advantage for large farmers in the fact
that it enables them to get portion of
their acreage out of the way the previous
season so that nothing need he done to
it except to harvest the crop. By de-
voting the bulk Of manures to the spring
hoed crops, corn and potatoes, the farmer
can set off each year one-ffth or one
sixth of his land to wheat, doing the
work when he and his teams would
otherwise be idle. He can thus grow as
large spring crops as if he had devoted
the whole Of his farm to them. Wheat
can be as well fertilized with CONNER
cial and mineral manures as with those
from the stable. IL, whenever wheat ia
sown, the land is seeded with clover
the soil will continue to improve while
the stable manure is applied to crops
that pay better while they are less favor
able for maintaining soil fertility.
So far as possible wheat farmers should
sell only the -four of the wheat they
grow. AS rule they generally sell
wheat as grain, but they can easily
buy again as much wheat bran and fine
middlings as the grain would make and
feed it out to their stock. Doing thus
wheat will not be found exhaustive to
the soil, and when clover is always sown
with it the two combined may be fairly
considered beneficial to soil fertility.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
The Chinese to Rule.

Lord Wolseley believes that the Chi
nese are the coming race, and that they
will overrun the world the moment a
great general or lawgiver arises among
them. For 800 years the Chinese have
been ruled by 1.-THE simple method of
having all the more active, capable and
progressive heads shorn off by the Tar
tars." No one of more than average in
telligence is PERMITTED to exist, and the
government is on one side an organized
system of massacre. When Commission
er Leh was asked whether it was true
that he had beheaded 10000 men in three
years, his answer was, ''Oh, surely more
than that" Some day, however, a new
Chinese Moses will arise and resist.
The people, who are quite fearless,
will then, Lord Wolseley thinks, adopt
the procession Of arms, hurl themselves
on Russia and sweep over her, India and
the continent of Europe. The English,
the Americans and the Australians will
have to rally for desperate conflict,
probably in western Asia, which will be
a veritable battle of Armageddon Such
prophecies are, of course, of small prac-
teal use, but we agree that a very little
might set the Chinese moving, and that
her millions, once let loose, could no
more be stopped than stream of lava.
Lord Wolseley is all for keeping on good
terms with the Chinese and so are we,
but at the same time we do not forget
that the Roman emperors who tried to
conciliate the Cloths Jared no better than
those who defied them.-Omaha World
Herald
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12

huge devil nsn, lasnmg the wRUer into
foam with its merciless arms. which
were spread out for a distance of about
seven feet in every direction.
The boys attacked the creature with
poles and spades. One boy made strike
at the animal, cutting it slightly with a
spade. The Infatuated creature seized
the spade in its grasp and threw it far
out among the piles.
The fight continued for some time. the
animal selling everything that was
thrust at him. Several times one of the
boys narrowly missed being caught and
drawn beneath the surface bv the mon
ster Of the deep.
At length, by united pull at several
poles which the octopus has seized in his
blind rage, he was drawn from the
water, but even then he kept up the fight
with undated fury, striking viciously
at everything within reach.
One after another the tentacles were
severed from the frightfully misshapen
body. Even after the last arm had been
severed the animal did not give up the
tight, and when any one approached it,
glared at them and caused its body to
culver in manner that induced thrill
OF fear to run over the beholder, even
with knowledge that it was harmless
The devil fish was finally dispatched
with a spade. The arms were carried
away by the several boys who had sever
ed them as trophies of the fight, but the
body remained on the ground and was
viewed by many people during the re-
mahder of the afternoon Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
New Decorative Process.

A new process by which artistic de-
signs can be photographed on paper. cot
ton cloth, velvet and other fabrics is be-
coming the "craze" in England, as any
lady can by its means take any white
fabric and print upon it designs to suit
her own taste, and in which pressed
leaves will serve instead of a transpar-
ency for the production of many effects
At a recent meeting of the Photographic
society England we'll known photog-
rapher printed different leaf patterns
upon different parts of piece of white
cotton cloth.
He then developed the different pat
terms with various developers by apply
ing each of the latter locally with a
brush. The result was pretty series of
designs in variegated colors upon one
piece of cloth. The colors at present OBJ
tainable by the use of developers in the
process are red, orange, purple and ma
room. BY mixing the purple and orange
developers an unsatisfactory kind of an
approach to green is said to have been
obtained. Developers to yield blues and
green's with this process have yet to be
discovered New York Commercial Ad-
vertiSer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
Carrying Oil.

A cargo may consist of several quail
ties of oil, and these are separated from
each other by narrow water spaces.
Some two years ago sailing vessel was
built by the Barrow Shipbuilding COM
pany to the order of an Antwerp firm.
She was designed to carry petroleum in
bulk in competition with the steamers.
The success attendant upon this new de-
parture may lead to the more extensive
construction of vessels of q similar nat
ure. Petroleum vessels cannot be used
for any other purpose on account of their
peculiar arrangement and smell. A pro-
posal to carry palm oil in a similar man.
ner has been found impracticable on &C
count of the corrosive ingredients which
attack the steel instead of preserving it,
as petroleum does.
Apropos to this departure in British
shipbuilding it is stated that the Per-
slams as far back as 1850 were known to
carry petroleum in bulk in their own
vessels on the Caspian. Petroleum car
riers are generally fitted with electric
light, SO as to insure minimum of risk
from fire. With every precaution that
modern science can suggest the carriage
of this oil is beset with much difficulty
and danger.-Chambers' Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
DIDN'T KEEP A DIRECTORY.
A Druggist, Whose Store Adjoins Large
Dry Goods House, Has No Picnic.

Druggist, Whose Store Adjoins Large
Dry Goods House, Has No Picnic.
Il would like to look at your direct
DRY. please" said I, the other day, on
entering a drug store on Sixth avenue,
near Nineteenth street.
The man behind the counter looked up
with weary expression and quietly
shook his head.
whats the matter" asked. Don't
you keep directory here:"
Again the head shake was repeated,
and then | sought for an explanation.
you see,'' said the druggist, 1--WE are
right in among all these large dry goods
stores, and as their customers are mostly
ladies of more or less leisure, our place
would be fairly overrun with women all
day long if we had directory there in
the window.
Eyes" he went on, 1--WE did keep a di-
rectory once. but it got to be such an in
tolerable nuisance that we either had to
stop it or close out our business. | be-
ieve," said the druggist, ''that some
women like to go into drug store and
look over the directory. Not, mind you,
because they really wish to find out any
addresses, but simply from pure cussed-
ness. Maybe they think it looks bust
nesshke. And then, you know, drug
store is a great place of rendezvous for
the ladies who do shopping, and study
ing over a directory helps them to kill
time if the other party is late.
"You have no idea," he went ON, "of
e L
every day and ask foolish questions.
Why, sometimes when / tell them we
don't keep a directory they ask me
whether | know where so-and-so lives,
and a thousand and one questions be-
sides that might be answered in the di-
rectory, but which they never stop to
consider. And then these women come
in here and want to leave their bundles
while they do their shopping elsewhere.
They hold regular conversation bees, and
interfere with customers passing in and
out, and fairly worry my life out with
their petty questions and annoyances.
Stamps, did you say, miss?' he add
ed, turning to address young lady who
had just entered. ''No, miss; we do not
keep stamps.
I'D have to keep branch postoffice
up here" said the druggist as the young
lady went out, and then he turned tc
some score or more of ladies who were
waiting to receive attention.-New York
Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
A Hard Case.

A Fort street car which was travelling
the northerly end of its route was hailed
by bareheaded and excited housewife,
who said to the conductor as the car
came to stop.
ooh, sir, you and the driver and all
the passengers come into my house as
quick as you CAM
whats the natter"
Its perfectly awful, sir. [ opened
the stair door and Il mouse ran into the
sitting room, and he's there yet. That's
my daughter crying in the hack yard
and that's the poor baby yelling in the
kitchen, and bring your revolver and a
club and"-
The conductor rang two bells and the
car rolled on.-Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
Ellen Terry's Childhood.

When Ellen Terry was a little girl
about II years of age she belonged to
Mrs. Charles Kean's company at the
Princess. Sac was one evening acting
Puck in the midsummer Nights
Dream" and had to come up through
the stage floor on trap door, standing
on mushroom. The trap door was
shut too soon, and one of her feet was
caught. She screamed with pain, and
her sister Kate, then acting Titania, ran
to her and threw her arms round her.
Still the child continued to scream, and
Mrs. Charles Kean seeing what was
wrong, came ON the stage and struck
with her heel for the trap door to be
opened. The man naturally mistook
the signal, and shut it tighter, and the
child's screams redoubled. Mrs. Kean
whispered to her:
''Be brave girl, Nellie, and finish
your part, and you shall play in King
JOHN"
The trap door was by this time opened
but the little girls toe was broken. She
finished her speech, however, though she
tainted when she got off the stage. Later
on she played the part of Prince Arthur.
Another time. in the same comnanv
she nad 60 play one of the, angels In
Catherine of Arragon's Vision" To
give the appearance of distance the larg-
est angel came first, and they graduated
in size until the end, and Ellen Terry,
being the smallest actress, was placed at
the top of the row. Whether the height
she was from the ground made her sick
is not known, but she evinced her feel
ings in the most tangible manner, prov
ing most unpleasantly to the other
"angels'' beneath her (who demonstrated
with her afterward) that, however spirit
ual her appearance might be, she was
subject as any mortal to the ills that
flesh is heir to.-London Tit-Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
How Animals Die.

That beasts and birds go aside from
their comrades to suffer the extreme
trials Of death is a pathetic fact not gen
orally known. Whales come ashore
when they feel i'll, so that the waves may
dash out the life that is fast ebbing
away-deliberate cases of suicide, you
will say. Sometimes, no doubt, their
friends desert them. The healthy ones
feel that the companionship of an
enfeebled individual is a possible
source of danger. Or it may be that
the sight of death is intolerable to them,
just as it has been to many human
races. Whatever the explanation, the
fact remains that in the animal world,
as a rule, creatures so away and die by
themselves; the denizens of the water
commit what might be called suicide by
leaving their own elements for one in
which they cannot exist.-St. Louis Re.
public
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
The ALASKAN Turkish Bath.

The Alaskans, as rule, are not par
ticularly found of bathing, but some OF
them like occasionally to indulge in a
sort of Turkish bath of a primitive char
acter. For this purpose a number of
long sticks are driven into the ground in
a circle four feet in diameter, being
thereupon drawn together and tied at q
point six feet from the bottom. 4 small
fire of wood, with stones, is lighted in
the middle, and the heat is kept in with
blankets spread over the framework.
When only the cinders are left, and the
stones are well heated, the bather takes
a seat inside and proceeds to perspire.-
Washington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
Paner EorSPSiI0eS.

1t seems not unlikely that a change is
imminent in the method Of shoeing
horses for military work. The German
papers are devoting great deal of at
tention to the discussion which is now
going on in the military world as to the
advisability of substituting compressed
paper for iron in horseshces for the
German cavalry and artillery. After
many experiments under all manner OF
conditions it has been found that the
shoe which appears to be most worthy of
adoption is made up of sheets of parch-
ment paper ce1nented together with a
special cement composed Of turpentine,
Spanish white, lac and boiled inseed
oil. The separate pieces are stamped
out, cemented and pressed together IN a
hydraulic press. When dry the shoe
thus formed is rasped into the exact
form and size required.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
a Wool and Snow DIETARY.

A seasonable yarn comes from Beaver
Falls, Pa. Farmer George Wilson, who
lives in Franklin township, is the mar
rator. Three of his sheep were missed
during the snow storm the night before
Christmas and were not found again for
twelve days, when farm hand discov-
cred them in d hollow, where the snow
had drifted to depth of twenty feet.
A hole was shoveled into the drift, and
the sheep were found there safe and
sound, after their twelve days fast. One
of the strangest things of the whole af
fair was that they had not a particle of
wool on their backs. Their hunger had
driven them to eat every roll Of wool on
each others backs. They had also eaten
such quantity of snow, which, together
with the heat from their bodies, made a
veritable chamber or cave. The cave
was twenty feet in circumference by five
feet high. At last reports the animals
were all doing well, though they seem to
be things of great interest to the other
sheep, which recognize their fellows, but
are unable, apparently, to account for
their entire absence of wool.-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
Cabbage Palm Trunks for Subm

uAAoS lux Os0s
One hundred thousand running feet of
palmetto logs will be shipped right away
from Brunswick to Santiago, Cuba. This
is new article Of export from this state,
and bids fair to become an important
factor in increasing BrunswicEs already
enormous timber and lumber trade.
Mr.. w. T. Carnegie, the millionaire
iron man, is largely interested in an iron
mine near Santiago, and the order was
made by his company. A great part of
the timber is to be used in the construc-
ton Of cribs to inclose a harbor near the
mines in which ships can load The rest
viii be converted into piles for building
a railroad across quite large body Of
water.
A gentleman well informed in such
matters said that this material would
last an indefinite length of time under
water, but could not very well stand ex-
posture to the air. It is almost proof
against the attack Of worms, and is en-
tirely free from barnacles And while
it VII no doubt finally succumb to these
two destroying agencies, yet there can
be no doubt of its lasting at least twice
as long under water as any other kind Of
wood.-Brunswick Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
ueceIved by appearances.

On Philadelphia train that came
through here the other day the pass
engers derived considerable amusement
from the actions of a handsome young
man and worried looking but still
pretty woman. They were SO entirely
absorbed in each other that they were
not separated for minute the whole
trip. When she wanted to walk on the
platform in Baltimore he promenaded
up and down at her side, yet they never
spoke only when necessary, and the
people concluded that a honeymoon quar-
rel was in progress.
Nobody doubted for an instant that
they were bride and groom. When they
got out here to change cans for Rich
mond, their destination, the conductor.
who knew the man well, said: "Wen, so
long. Hope you get her there all
right. ''Oh, guess so. But she's
mighty slippery customer, and have to
watch her like a cat" The good looking
man was deputy sheriff, and was tax
ing back to Richmond an unusually
clever shoplifter that he had tracked to
Philadelphia and arrested. Washington
Post
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
Are the Ewes Ever Safes

Beware of the electric light. This is
a warning sounded by a correspondent,
and a warning that should be needed.
The use of the incandescept lamp is apt
to be highly injurious to the eyes if pre-
cautions are not taken with regard to
shades or globe. Plain or cut glass is
particularly noxious. In all cases the
little illumination should be shaded with
q green or thick white shade, and the
glass should be frosted. 1t is said that a
number Of men in the clubs are suffer
ing with sore eyes, entirely due to the
improper shading of the club lights
London Letter.