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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
FARM AND HOME.
THE OLD GARDEN.
SELECTED.

shall never forget the spot, the dear old country
garden;
The arbor which the grape vine Gov red DER;
The morning glories climbed DER the old stone
wall before II,
The honeysucklo twined around the door.
The fragrance of the pink hoated through the
open doorway.
Like sparks around the tulips flew the bees;
The hollyhocks, like sentries, looking down, In
rows so stately.
On daffodills a-swaying in the breeze
The larkspur nodded gay in the warm, bright sum
mer sum hlne:
The marigolds we're radiant in their pride:
While Haunting peoples scorned, In their brl-
liant robes of scarlet,
The meek and humble lily by their side.
The rosebush strewed the ground with fragrant,
snow petals;
All, never were The roses half so fair,
When sister Ann stood in her bridal dress, all
bushes,
A bud half opened nestled in her hair
And when our mother lay, with her hands SO
meekly folded,
From early Iabors ever more at rest,
We smooIhed the soft gray hair, kissed the face
cold and silent,
And placed one, wet with dew upon her br east
Far sweeter than the fragrance of Araby's famed
perfumes,
And greater than the laurel or the palm,
Were the homey flowers loved in youths bright
happy morning,
Whose mem ry to the weary soul brings balm.
Oh, dear old chiIdhood's home, you are lost to me
forever,
And strangers see your summer roses blow.
[ would that my heart | could feel the sunshine
As it fell upon your glories long ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Dores Last Work.

One of the most interesting places il
London TO visit is the gallery of Dore'.
pictures, In New Bond street. His las
work is a wonderful picture, one that ap
peals to all mature persons, who have
learned through experience that they mast
walk through many Swallowed paths al
they journey toward the heavenly land
of light and sunshine perpetual. This
picture Of Dore's is called The Vale
of Tears There is a sermon in it. All
eartbs pilgrims are portrayed in sunshine
or In shadow, and all must pass through
the shadows.
Far up the mount which they are climb
ing stands the Savior, with radiant face,
and with one hand extended to the toiiing
pilgrims, while with the other he points
to the mountain-tvp, which is bathed III a
glorious light emanating from the Heav.
emily Throne.
Every one who looks at the Savior face,
as he YEARLY tolls along, seems to gather
new hope, and strength and Inspiration
and the face of the pilgrims light up with
the expression of Christian courage, and
of full appreciation that the Savior stand
ing there in that reckoning, encour.
aging attitude is their help and their
strength.
As each one gaz7s on that lovely face the
burden he carries seems to grow lighter
and easier TO bear.
Many visitors sit long before this speak
ing canvas, and one who quietly noted
their faces could read on them histories of
trials and sorrows, and yet lof Christian
triumphs. through the help of that blessed
Savior, whom they adored and who had
saved them from despair VIXEN wandering
in the Vale of Tears, and had brought
them up into the sunlight again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
August
Flower

For two years l suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was fof
all that time under treatment by Q
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said stomach was about
worn out, and that I would have to
cease eating solid food for time at
least. I was so weak that could
not work. Finally on the recon-
mendation Of a friend who had used
your preparations
A WORKOUT with beneficial re-
suits, / procured q
Stomach. bottle of August
Flower, and COM
nenced Using it. 1t seemed to do
ME good at once. / gained in
strength and flesh rapidly; my APP
petite became good, and suffered
no bad effects from what I ate. I
feel now like new man, and con-
slider that August Flower has en-
tirely cured me of Dyspepsia in its
worst form. JAMES E. DEDERIcK.
Saugerties, New York.
w. B. Utsey, St. Georges, S. c.,
writes: I have used your August
Flower for Dyspepsia and find it an
excellent remedy. .
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Women of Common Sense.

"What | admire" said the practical
man, us the honest woman OF common
sense" Then he told this story. He met
one evening young woman who taxes an
interest in prints. He has a collection OF
which he is little proud, and told her
about it. She begged him to come around
ANY afternoon. He is busy man, and
does not have many afternoons to himself
but when he got one he took some OF his
prints and went to make call, expecting
a pleasant half hours talk, and promising
himself that he would leave the prints for
her to look over. When he reached the
house where be was to Call, the your g
woman said to him frankly: sit was
very good of you to come and bring the
prints, but we are lust going to dinner
Now we never dine until three hours later
than this, but we ARE going away, and we
are going to eat hasty dinner and run
away" So the man did not have his
chat "But," said he, mine hundred
and ninety-nine women out of thousand
would never have had the honesty to tel
me that. They would have let me make
the call, going without their dinner, and
having headache on the train, which
would make them hate the caller" Ii
should be added for those who wonder
how the affair came out that the next time
the man called the dinner was served at
the regular hour. ana by this time the
yonng woman has seen and ''talked over
all the prints which the man owns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
When to Water Animals,

No animal should take water on full
stomach 1t tends to wash the undigested
food into the intestines, where it cannot
fail to do harm. If nothing worse happens
the food is wasted, but this is rarely all
that occurs. Collie is produced and habit
of indigestion is often fixed ON the animal
Water should always be given few min,
utes before feeding. 1t is very rapidly
absorbed into the system, replenishing the
blood and the digestive fluids. The saliva
which is one of the most important Of
these fluids, flows copiously when eating
after drinking, and moistens the food
abundantly. A horse uses at meal sew
eral quarts of saliva, which is an indis
pensable digestive agent, and is Ieplen
ished within few minutes after the water
has been swallowed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Car ada Thistles Destroyed.

Many years ago we had few Canada
thistles and thought they might be de-
sIroyed by cuttink. with scythe in August
and prevent them going to seed; We
worked at it faithfully for about ten years
They.inereased steadily, unh it took sew,
erat days to cut them IN pasture. Then |
concluded to salt stock on them, especially
steep. had one large patch of half an
acre thickIy grown. On this sowed salt
thiniv, on others dropped pinch, COM
mencing as soon ii May as thistles
could be found They were eaten readily,
the sheep gnawing into. the ground. In
one week new shoots sprang up. There
were So tied, and SO on through the sum
mer, and few appeared In the latter part
of summer. The spring following none
appeared in the patch except around the
outer edge, where found bakers dozen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
THE GRAY DAY 5.
BoBERT J. BURDETTE.

Evermore all the days are long, and the cherries
skies are gray,
Restless wanders the bafed winds that scatter the
binding spray .- ..
And the drifting currents come and go like ser
penis across my way.
YEARLY fades the evening dim, drearily wears the
night,
The ghosty mist and the hnrrying clouds and the
breakers crest of white
Have blotted the stars from the desolate skies
have curtained them from my sight.
Speeding along my wavetossed bark encounter
no passing sail,
Welcoming friend nor challenging foe answers my
eager hail.
Only the sobbing, unquiet waves and the winds
unceasiEg wall. : 8
Hopeful still my sails bent, my pilot is fault
lessly true.
He holds his course as though the seas and the
mirrored skies were blue,
And the port of peace where the winds are still,
were evermore in view.
For over the spray and the rain and the clouds
shines the eternal sun;
The unchanging stars in the curtained dome still
CLEAN when the day is done;
And the mist will be Kissed from the laughing
skies when the port of rest is won.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Do Clothes Make a Row

Do clothes make boy? No-clothes
make clothes. What are clothes? They
are an expression of character. A boy
who respects himself will dress as decent
~ as ne can-simply and cleanIy, says
Hezekiah Butterworth, in the Ladies'
Home Journal boy who respects the
worth of life will not dress conspicuous
ly even if he have the means. He is best
dressed whose appearance excites no spe-
cial attention and causes no critical re-
marks. Conspicuous dress goes with a
light head. and a very indefinite purpose
in life.
Dress does not make the boy, but ii
often exhibits him; theatrical dress in
society is in bad taste; but everyone owes
it to others to look as we'll as he can
neglected dress show; a want of self-res
pect, and a lack Of self-respect arises as
rule from sense of cheapness of char
acter. 1t is often impossible for poor
boy to dress as. well as he would wish
But he can always express his well-dressed
character by making his clothes neat aud
tasty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Womau,s Donts for Men

Don't wear felt hat on humid sum-
mer's day.
Don't save all your polite attentions for
other mems wives.
Don't be jealous without sufficient cause;
it belittles you.
Don't begin every remark with "by
Jove." It is as bad is lovely"
Don't be such crank that every one
in the house is glad when you are out
of it.
Don't make life burden to the family
if your shirt does not fit, or your trousers
are too short.
Don't put cane or umbrella under
your arm while going up stairs. People
don't like to dodge the point.
Don't allow ID woman to stand, and
finally offer her seat as if you hate to-;
give it up with good grace or else keep
it.
Don't scold because the children disturb
your enjoyment OF the evening paper;
they have been bothering somebody all
day.
Don't cross your legs so that woman in
passing you must brush the dirt from
your shoes with her dainty dress.
Don't neglect to Judge your own short
comminQs as severely as those of others.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Delight Followed by Torment.

What man or woman will deny that good din
Ger is present delight Equally undeniable Is
it that when we'll cooked meal Ia succeeded by
fit of indigestion, rapture Is converted into torture
Don't charge your dyspepsia to your dinner. No,
my dear sir, your gastric department was ont Of
order 10 begin with. Had you regulated it with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the cargo that you
took on board would have been comfortab Y
slowed away without the slightest inconvenience.
This incompatible stomachic entirely reforms
faulty digestion, and regulates, besides the liver
and The bowels, which must act tremendously with
with the digestive organ, all three fall out Of
gear. Take The Bitters for kidney and rheumatic
complaints, and in all cases of malaria. AS a
tonic, appetizer and promoter of convalescence 1t
has no Deer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Akc1ns 0Den

AAcoys open
the offer made by the proprietors
OF DR.. Sagc's Catarrh Remedy. It's
o reward of $500 cash for an III
durable case of catarrh, no matter
how bad, or of how long standing.
They'll carry it out, too. It's one
thing to make the offer. It's a very
different thing to make it good. It
couldn't be done, except with an
extraordinary medicine. But that's
what they have. By it's mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, DR.. sage's Remedy cures
the worst cases. 1t doesn't simply
Pailiate for time, or drive the dis
ease to the lungs. 1t produces a
perfect and permanent cure. Try
it and see.
paid.
The only question is-are YOU
willing to make the test, if the
makers are willing to take the
risk ?
If so, the rest is easy. You pay
your druggist fifty cents and the
trial begins.
If you're wanting the $500 you'll
get something better-a cure
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
FARM NOTES.

To prevent horse rubbing his niane
apply an ointment compound of one part
kerosene to two of lard, wash In twenty
four hours, and repeat in three days il
necessary.
There is no doubt that many fine mead
ows are greatly injured by too close crop,
ping after moving. Some farmers assert
that mes dow devoted to the raising OF
hay should never De pastured.
The first thing to do with the potatoes
is to assert them, selecting the best and
most perfect specimens to use as seed next
season. The yield Of the potato crop
largely depends on the kind of seed used.
Go over the strawberry rows and pull
out the weeds, in order to prevent them
from seeding, and continue cultivation
between the rows until late in the season
Any advantage gained now in the
growth of vines will be Of a value next
spring.
Screenings.
No portion of the grain crop need be
lost. The broken grains and screenings
of all kinds are excellent for poultry. A
flock of hens will find a large portion Of
their subsistence around the barnyard
while all stuhble fields should be given &c
turkeys and geese until seeded down witt
another crop.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Leav S as a Fertilizer.

There is no better bedding material than
the forest leaves, and they are also valua-
able as fertilizer, but the best value is
not obtained if they are left to rot in the
woods until midsummer, much Of their
fertilizing elements then being lost. As
soon as they have fallen in any great guam
tity it is best to gather them up and place
under cover, where they will be kept safe
y and be handy for use. Then after be-
ing us ID for bedding and as an absorbent,
haul them then out at once upon the land.
There is no better way to increase it's fer
tility.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Treatment OF Laying Stock.

Director A. G. Gilbert, of the Ottawa
Canada, experiment farm. writes:
Keep hens warm enough so that their
combs will not freeze.
Take chill eff water and warm the grain
In cold weather.
Keep hens active by throwing grain
among straw on floor.
!. Give meat in regular supply warm
mess in morning and regular supply OF
grit, gravel, etc.
Supply what the hens can pick up for
themselves when outside.
Send layers to roost with their crops full
to carry them over night.
Do not give layers soft food enough to
gorge them or make them lazy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

Both the method and results When
Syrup of Figs ID taken; it is pleasan
and refreshing to the taste, and act,
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tam effectuslly, dispela colds, head
sohoa and fcvera and cures habitua
conntipation. Syrup of Fig is th.
only remedy Of its kind ever pr
duced, pleasing to the t-ste and &C
oeptsbie to the stomach, prompt In
it, action ard truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the mos.
hes)thy and agreeable substances, hs
many excellent qualities commend /,
to ali and have made it the mos.
popular remedy known
Syrup of Figs II for sale In 5oe
and 81 bottles BY all leading drug
gistA Amy reliable druggist wSe
may not have 1t en- hand win pro
eurc 1t promptly for any one who
wishes to try It. Do mot accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA F70 syrup ca
San fsAsoasco. GAL
EgGueynkg ~ sew raAx RE
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
SOLDERING on Glover.

w. F. R., Osceola, Neb., writes: | have
successfully tried the following for horses
which slobbered when running on white
clover: Tie the horse in the stable 3 or 4
days, feeding nice, clean hay and oats, and
giving 6 or quarts of dry wheat bran
twice day for 2 or 8 days. When the
slobberiug is stopped, turn back in pasture
put up trough in convenient place In
the pasture aud feed dry wheat bran 2 or
3 times a week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

The c., 81. & D. will sell harvest ex-
cursion tickets from all stations Oct. ID,
to points in Florida, Virginia, Louisiana,
Tennessee. Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi at one fare for the round
trip The tickets will be good going Oct.
IA, and returning any time within thirty
days from date of sale. Ask your local
agent for tickets via c., H. & D., or adj
dress E. O. Mccormick, G. P. & T. Agt.,
Cincinnati, O.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Buckwheat for Fowls.

Buckwheat is an exec lent grain to al.
ternate with in feeding poultry. 1t is an
egg making food, good for melting fowls
Wild pigeons prefer it to wheat, and will
fly hundreds Of miles to partake of it. At
first fowls that have never been fed on it
do not touch it. its dark color probably
causing them to conclude it is not grain.
After they have once partaken of it,
though, they eat it very readily.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

Small children did the most of the sailing
and finding of thistles on one hundred
acres and In one year we could not find
enough to salt the sheep on. In meadows
they must be cut often to prevent leaf
growth, ON the same principle. as the roots
cannot live if top growth Is prevented =
National Stockman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

Never a department opened
more auspiciously than our
new Millinery department. The:
sales exceeded our most san
guine expectations. Just thinl,'
Of it, a room 40 feet wide and
$50 feet long, and devoted to
nothing but millinery. Where
else is there such a department.
Fresh arrivals of new STYLES
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
EOrehanded with Work.

When farm labor may be had cheap it
can usually be employed proftably. After
harvest and before corn husking is time
when good men may often be hired much
below the usual price Drains may then
he laid and fences built or repaired, and so
much of next springs work be done sea-
son ahead; and it is never a disadvantage,
on the farm, to be forehanded with the
work
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Don't DELAY.

If we wait till we shall be able to do
great things before using our faculties and
our opportunities, the Likelihood is that we
shall do nothing. The great things are
only done now and then by few, and
then as result of the smaller ones done
beforehand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

Street car conductors of Boston are not
allowed to return lost pocket books to their
owners, They must notify the company of
the find and the owner must thank the cor
poration for his property if he gets it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

conversation it turned out that twenty
three years previously this man had ar
rived In one of the western states with a
wife and something less than sl0) and
gone t. work on a farm. At the time We
met INN be was the owner of farm of $50
acres. worth. with Improvements, not less
than s65 an acre. In addition he owned
some stock, including a pure bred bull,
Eve good horses, ana fair plant in the
way of implements. wagons, farm tools,
etc In word, he could not be worth less
than SIS, 900.
This man had sort of impression that
he save little or nothing; to use his own
expression, be just managed to keep
things going Yet he had not only made
a living for himsaIf and his family, but
had accumulated SIS, 1000. And beyond a
certain shrewdness and Judgment. this
man had no special ability, and. &C ,ording
TO his own admission, ne had no educa-
tional advantages. Could he have done
better or as we'll In any other line of life
On the other hand, we have constantly
present cases where men have started IN
with some capital farming and lost it all,
or are worse off to-day than they were
fifteen years ago; while the cases are legion
where. after painful struggle with for
tune, lasting ten, fifteen or twenty years,
the fal mar has succumbed to the tempta-
ton of selling his farm for twice what he
paid for it, and taking what was left after
paying mortgages anu debts, has made
another move westward to begin anew
under, let US hope, more favorable auspices.
But is it not a fact that in most of these
cases the victim of what they call llluck
are men who would not have succeeded
better in any other calling.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

Dresses, Gents's Clothing, Feathers, Gloves,
etc, Dyed or Cleaned. Plush Garments
Steamed Mt Otto Pictch's Dye Works, Big
w. Water St., Milwaukee. Send for Circu-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

Big Head is one of the Sioux chiefs He
would probably be surprised to know how
many people there are in the United States
who have the disease named after him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
ENGLlSiIMEN WIN.
This Time They are Successful in the
Cricket March 4

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1.-The cricket
match between Lord Hawkes. team of
Engishmen and the ll-Pbiladeiphia
team ended this afternoon. the English
men winning by one run and four
Wickets,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

There is church building in New York
every inch of which is concealed by luXur-
ious growth of ivy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
Farming as a. Business.
Exchange.

The writer met farmer who declared
that farming was the poorest-paying bust
ness II tue world, and yet in the course of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

FITS.-All Fits stopped free by DIR. KLINE's GREAr
NERVE MISSIONER No Fits after first days Mar
yeiicus Treatise and 81 90 trial bottle free
Ed cases: Send 20 DR.. Kline. 93l Arch St. Pha. Pa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
CRUSHED INTO A HANDCAR.
Fatal Accident on the Big Four Rail

DAYTON, Ohio, Oct "A Big Four
working train backed into a handcar at
Carrollton station six miles south Of here
this evening. Conductor Samuel Morris
was instantly killed and seven men who
were with him in the caboose
were injured, several of them seriously.
The section men were trying to get the car
out of the way when the caboose struck it.
The caboose was appended and the gravel
cars OF the train crashed into it with dis
astrous results. The section men es-
capped. 81
DR.. L. J.. GORsUCH. Toledo, O.. says: 81
have practiccd medicine for forty years,
have never seen a preparation that ] could
prescribe with so much confidence OF sue
cess as l can Halls Catarrh Cure" Sold
by Druggists, 75c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
While l dreamed my time away

so summer so sweet o summer so ieeti
Blinded with tears stand,
Like the golden flower you have spent your hour
And have with red in my hand. Z"
Springfield Sunday Republican.