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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

THE elopement as a diversion for
Chicago young people is getting a
tsife too common. In the historical
department of the woman's display
at the Worlds Fair there should be
a wax model Of sweet young girl
asking her mothers consent to her
marriage. Unless something of this
sort is done to perpetuate the men,
DRY of this obsolete cuctom people
may forget that it was ever in vogue.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

mons, for which he
has been selected,
with the reyersion
of the post Of Pre-
mier W h en- h is
uncle, Lord Sails
bury, rcJireS.
Young, rich, ac-
complished, Mr.. Bal
four has reached a
post and point rare
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

THE drunken Justice Of the Peace
n Kansas City who sold his whiskers
at auction for s45.20 has been re-
moved from Office, fined $50, and sem
fenced to thirty days In Jail. He has
done much IN his way to advertise
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

"a PITTsBURG man," says the Buff
ralo Express, got so black in the
face from choking on a piece of apple
that he has staid black. He passes
now for full-blooded negro" When
we come across a fact like that we
always wonder at the hopeless inn
potence of fiction to produce its
equal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29
s4rnnded AM ohlnhoma.

A former well-to-do Kansas farmer,
who is over six feet high, and weighs
nearly 200 pounds, is stranded in Ok
lahoma, and Is selling bouquets OF wild
flowers for q living.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

An eommnnieations for ths papsr should Be- aossn
penisd b. The Of The author, nstnsos.ary "a.
pablcaton bat ~ Gn sdsnos Of good faith the par
q ~ vdisE Write only aide Of the paper. ne
ysso1ary eaasfa IN giving and dates. 70 h@ss
" lsiiau and ngurs. plain and distinct.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

IT is to be hoped that the increas-
ed influx Of foreign gold may dlmin-
lsh the home market for gold brick"
games.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

WHEN a hosiery dealer buys a lot
OF new goods he may be said TO be
stocking up.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

So FEW cigarettes are smoked In
Chicago that the odoriferous river has
ito work overtime.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29
METH0DISTIC MEETING.
A CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES
FROM ALL THE WORLD.

Over Finy Millions Of People Represented
at Washington-T Large Number of
Methodist sects I'm the Count y--statls-
tics Concerning Methodism.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29
ARE IN A BAD WAY.

Real Estate Owners Left without Proof
of Their Title.
James G. Layalle, Samuel Hardin,
Ra1i Ta6narxvOnd anH D,,rr Ioxyaa
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

THEY will persist in calling IL
dreadful accident, when it's delibcr-
ate kerosene.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

AcToRs and convicted murderers
both 60 of the stage at the fall of the
drop.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

The ecumenicaI conference Of Meth
odists recently held in the Metropoli-
tan M. X. Church at Washington was
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

The history behind the great Hop
kins-Searlcs will case is romance OF
itself. The wealthy Widow Hopkins
met Searles, a poor frescoer who had
been employed to do work in her
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29
ARTHUR JAMES RALFoUR.

The Man Recently Elected to the Leader
ship In the House of Commons.
Mr.. Arthur James Balfour has
passed in five short years from a posi-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

trap. The respect which the public
had for him enabled him to commit
felonies unsupported but one crime
seemed TO give him an appetite for
another, and the popular officer
worked deeper and deeper into the
mire. His extrayagnnt liberallty led
to crookedness in ofiice, and it was to
cover up this crooledness that he
and his confederatcs attempted to
destroy the Court House and the
records contained therein.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

ton Of comparative Obscurity to the
foremost place in English public life
the leadership Of the House Of Com
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29

dazzling other Massachusetts, towns
with the fabulous riches Of his doting
wife; but into the Methuen spite he
put an amount Of style that shows a
spark of genius.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09

the sale of all sorts of alcoholic stimulapt,
IS forbidden, but it is also true that num-
berless ways of evading the law exist, and
that drunkenness is annually proving moro
and more a curse to the land of tho
Lapp.
Lapland is interesting from scientific
point of view, for within its limits have
been established two Of the circumpoIar
stations, through which scientific investi-
CATION by means of magnetic. electrical
and other means.ha been carried on. One
OF these Is at Bossekop, the other at Boulo-
kaeino, and at each the results attained
were IN the highest degree satisfactory.
''ObServlng,' while pleasant enough In
the summer time, becomes a1duous labor
when undertaken during the six months
night characteristic of the Lapland winter
For the observer to rise and work all day
by candle hight Is depressing in the ex-
tre-ne, both on the physical and on the
mental system. At each of these stations
the instruments during the summer were
placed IN the open air, but during the WIN
ter were protected by earthen huts, so that
much inconvenience necessarily results to
the scientific observer.
It's said that the Lapps look with favor
on the Idea OF emigration. They are be-
ing driven to the wall in their native land.
An advancing civilization re 1uires that
they shall give up their nomadic habits
and become useful members of society.
Like the Indians of the northwest. they
have come In contact with the civilized
world, with which they have little in com
mon. and naturally would prafer emigra-
tio1, to an attempt to accommodate them
selves to change conditions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
The FARM And HOUSEHOLD,
THE wOODCHUCK HOLE.
STANLEY WATERLOO

How some one thought of boyhood's pulsing life
Amid the weary fight for place and pelf,
comes IN sharp contrast TO the selfish strife,
MID scenes lncongruous, asserts itself
W no Is there In tie city-Country bred
Though delving in his calling like mole.
Who ne er, at timer, sees summer brightness
shed
On everythinc-and sees the woodehuck hole!
1t matters not what life the toiler leads,
What record Il the hard world he has m ade.
1t where the scale of justice sway he pleads,
Or daily struggles in the marts OF trade:
1t matters not what pleasure and what pain
Have come TO him, what has been fortunes
dole,
The dream of youth is clear, and once again
He sees the meadow and the woodchuck hole
he notes where most the clover-blossoms bend.
Where narrow trails are here and there re-
vealed,
He notes how all the little highways trend
In one, TO reach the border of the field:
And on the hillside, where The bushes grow
He sees the ground-hog's home, the young ster 8
goal
The entrance dark, the out-thrown clay below,
yellow passage 10 the woodchuck hole.
He catches summer perfumes, as of yore
His pulse beats faster with youthful JOY,
He feels the instinct of the chase once more,
He sees the eager dog and eager boy;
de feels the thrill success no more may yield
Nor wealth nor honor to the jaded soul
Bring keen delights such as the clover-feld
Held for the boy who sought the woodchuck
hole!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
About Horse Breeding.

A man who breeds vicious, diseased,
worthless Or brokendown mare does a
wrong thing to both human and equine
race. In like degree, whoever refuses to
let a fAe mare perpetuate her kind also
cheates humankind and horse kind of
their due. Every fine mare should be al
lowed to raise several colts. She will be
just as useful, in the long rim, and live a.
long. Breed for purpose. The heavy
draught horse is we'll enough in front Of a
heavy dray, but the horse is the all-round
horse. Let him weigh $50 to 1900, have
sufficient style for d carriage horse, muscle
and bone enough for blowing and hauling,
and the spirit and action to trot a mile
inside of four or five minutes. For north
err climates select northern bred stock
The horses of Canada, Vermont and north
ern New York. with an infusion Of the
old Morgan and Hambe'oni blood can
not be excelled for aii-round horses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09

On maternity hangs the usefulness of
the COW. A mich animal that proverbialIy
Is the mother of strong, healthy calves
and herself Is not seriously affected by the
parturlent period, Is a valuable cow in the
dairy. | like strong, vigorous healthy
COWS, as the character of their milk is a
counterpart OF themselves Then, again.
robust cow, provided, of course. she is
good milk yielder, is the proper animal
to breed from, using bull Sith straight
pedigree.
But at maternity all cows, whether
strong or frail, need solicitous, human care.
1t Is not expedient that nature should in
airy way be supplemented, but nature
should be assisted by kind and experience
ed hands. We have always urged the
value--nay, the necessity-of warm box
stalls for the confinement OF cows heavy
with calf. II there ever was a wretched
place In which an animal could give birth
to her young, 1t is in the ordinary cow
stable. Not oniy the discomfort given the
mother. but the permanent injury liable to
accrue, should warn dairymem to take the
particular cow out of the stanchion prior
to calf-birth. My ideal of a proper and
humane way to treat COW at this import
ant period, is this: Arrange one or more
box stalls to accommodate the size Of your
dairy, and be sure that these stalls are
warm, light and well bedded with dry
straw or hay. Into one of these comforta-
BILE booths turn the COW ose on the eve of
maternity, and in most cases nature will
not have to be further assisted. The
writer himself has always practiced this
mode with success, and be never had a cow
with seriously cacked udder, or one in
which the placenta was long retained.
Aim 10 keep the cows so strong and
healthy that they will gambol when turned
out, A diet as we'll proportloned to their
needs as yours is to you, will do this. The
dairy will then be we'll fortified to go
throu IN nhe ordeal of calvins.
GEORGIA Z. NEWELL.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
Pruning.

This is one of the most important
branches of the week In pruning an or.
chard several things must be kept in
view. The work must progress with the
growth Of the trees First, shape your
trees to.a nice pyramid for pruning, so as
to give your trees we'll balanced top. in
all cases prune off all branches that will
make forks. You Want side limbs starting
out from the center trunk. If any side Of
your trees lack branches sufficient to make
a well blanched top of side limbs and you
have fork, turn it into a side limb, which
can be done by pressing it out into the
vacant space and cutting a crotch from d
corn stalk sufficiently long enough to hold
the limb at the desired angle, putting one
end against the trunk of the tree and the
other on the limb.
When once you get the trees started it
is easy 20 keep them so. | planted two
year-old trees, and if l had the job to do
over would plant one year-old. | will tell
in another article now | planted and cul-
tivated on thin land already spoken of.
and how treated my pear orchard and the
results.
WMP TRUITT,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
Management of TURKEYS.

Young turkeys require careful manage
nient, and for tine must be kept out of
the wet. 1t will do thcm good to be on
ground that is warm and dry, but it will
be fatal if they are out in the wet storms;
and this must be guarded against until
they are quite large Care must also 0e
exercised in feeding. No corn meal
should be fed for quite a long time, as it
is too heavy for the purpose. At first feed
stale wheat bread and sweet milk and
later mixture of bran and middlings, will
do. They are fond of green stuff, and
hence are eager for grass when large
enough to run out. They also like the
curd from sour milk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09

The highesta and most profitable lesson is
the true knowledge of ourselves.
There is compensate in all things; a
great sorrow, sanctifed, will make one an
angel of comfort to others in their sorryw,
Stories first heard at a mothers knee
are never wholly forgotten-a little spring
that never dries up on your journey
through scorching years.
ITO err is human?" Not at all. 'To err
is inhuman," says Rev. DR.. Phillips
Brooks. land to be holy is to live in the
straight line of duty"
A sad truth. ha.f of our forebodinps
about our neighbors are but our own
wishes, which we are ashamed TO utter in
any other form.
The true chemistry Of life is to so COM
blne outward and inward response as to
produce happiness, ignoring the false and
dlscordant elements, and attra citing only
those that are harmonious.
You can draw boundary line around a
moral evil, and say to it, you may con.
tlnue, but you must keep within these par
ticuliar limits. The only way to keep it
from aggressive warfare is to keep it fight
ing for it very existence
The leading object in education should
be the development of true manhood
Then, as one says, if wealth come, it will
bring honor, and if it does not come, its
loss will bring no disgrace; aim at wealth,
and manhood is too apt to be lost in the
mad whirl of business, in the hurry and
rush OF the baser issues of life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
Physical Condition N the Spring.

A dairy of cows in the spring time ls a
great deal like a field of corn in June. If
the mich animals are poor and NANCY
ard weak now, next summers harvest OF
milk will be thin in quality and scant in
quantity. If corn field in June shows
sickly and struggling blades in;tead of
dark green robust ones, nubbins and
crooked maize ears will rule in the tall
harvest. The animal and vegetable
worlds are closely akin, and almost with
out an exception -uccessiu grain raising
farmer will make good dairyman. He
who makes the seed bed for wheat deep
and rich, and the surface free from clods
would, if his capital and energy were
focased on dairying, begin the business on
nothing but good blood groun d work
Those who have been so unwise as to neg
lect their cows in the matter of feed or
care during the last few months. will find
the present very late day in which to re-
trieve the injury. Nature is automatic
and alterable in her workings. and
physical forces weakened during one sea-
sol. of the year will require another season
in which to build up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
General Law in Farming.

Everything done on farm or in a gar
den, has principal for its foundation
Study the principal and proper way to do
it will suggest itself. These principals
are like wax nose, elastic. pliable, and
may be slightly changed. twisted to one
side or the other, but not enough to take
it off. So d man of good judgment can
vary the plans Of operations to suit the
circumstances, but he must observe the
general law. This faculty Of coming 80
circumstances makes the good culturist,
and is his character. So if he studies his
profession and acts with good Judgment,
he at once is master of the situation, no
matter how adverse it may be.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
Intelligent Farming Pays.

The time has gone, never to return,
when ignorance can be thought desirahle
to the far ner. 1t is only few years since
book farming" was the common scorn of
the average farmer and ignorance was
thought to be bliss and knowledge a folly
and delusion. Ali that is changed now
through the simple and plain force of
facts. The ernall crops, the cheap products,
unSaIeabIe often on account OF the poor
quality; the improbable live stock. the
rapid exhaustion of the soil and general
poverty If the ignorant farmer have led
to total change in this respect and the
acquisition of practical and scientific
knowledge. with the improved processes
growing out of it, is now seen to be indis-
pensable for the profitable cultivation of
the SOIL as it is for the satisfactory pursuit
of other industries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
ERRORS IN ENGLISH.
Some Very Common Slips in Both 8
ing and Writing

whether or no. in such phrases as
THE right honorable gentleman should
tell US whether or no he ablded by his de-
clarations, No" should, of course, be
not; 'Or not, however, is redundant.
Il should have liked to have ia
phrases such as 81 should have liked to
have witnessed the effect upon the gentle
mans auditors when, etc. This ought to
be Il should like to have witnessed" The
speaker liking is present; it is the wit
Messing that is past.
Il almost think" Surely this is nom
sense, for if a man does not think thing
he knows nothing about it.
Three alternatives" Should not this
be course and two alternatives?
Qualify" used instead of describe. A
common newspaper error and a literal
transations from the French.
Il don't think, " in phrases such as II
shall not 60 to London this season, don't
think. Ladies are very fond of this con-
struction, and are seldom pleased to be
told that they say the opposite of what
they mean, the second negative destroying
the first
THAT statement is the most unsatisfac-
tory of any ever heard from that BENCH"
a favorite house of commons phrase, and
the Daily News advertisement that it mas
''the largest circulation of any paper in
the world" errs in the use of the word
ANY, which is properly used of one
thing only.
The Daily News might have the largest
circulation of the newspapers, but could
not have it of one only
Those sort of things instead of that
sort.
Either side," in phrases such as 'On
either side of the road we're tall trees"
should be both sides
Quite impossible" The quite is used
for emphasis, but it is a false use. There
cannot be degrees of impossibility. 1t is
surprising to find this phrase in the works
Of the late Mark Pattison.
Il never remember A favorite with
statesmen, who are fond of declaring, Il
never remember a session of parliament
which began so auspiciousy" The
never is used to qualify the orator 1e-
membrance which is not his meaning.
Let the equivalent of 81 never remember"
viz: i always forget be substituted,
ard tllon note what the orator says.
There is no dou'Lt but that, ETC.
But is not wanted, though generally
used,
"Laboriou8' for industrious. and THAT
goes without saying" are V ry vile trans
Iations from the French, and much liked
by newspaper writers.
From whence" where whence" alone
is required.
mo single operation had failed to-"
etc. Single" in such phrases in no moro
to the purpose than ''double."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
Learning to Walk.
Popular Science Monthly.

People sometimes ask, At what age can
we set child in d chair; when put him on
his legs; how old must he be before we
teach him to walk? The answers are easy.
He must not be made to sit till he has
spontaneously sat up in his bed and has
been able to hold his seat. This some
times happens in the sixth or seventh
month, sometimes later. The sitting po-
sition is not without danger, even when
he takes it himself; imposed prematurely
upon MIN. it tires the backbone and may
interfere with the growth, 20 the child
should never be taught to stand or to
walk That is his alta r, not ours. Place
him Oh a carpet in healthy room or in
the open air, and let him play ia freedom,
roll, try to go ahead on his hands and feet
or go backward, which he will do success
fully at first, it all gradually strengthens
and hardens him; Some day he will man.
age to get upon his knees. another day to
go forward upon them, and then to raise
himself up against the chairs, He thus
learns to do all be can, as fast as be can,
and no more.
But, they say, he will be longer in learn
ing to walk if be is left to go on his knees
or his hands and feet indefinitely. What
difference does it make if exploring the
world in this way, he becomes acquainted
with things. learns to estimate distances,
strengthens his legs and back, prepares
himself, in short. to walk better when he
gets to walking? The important thing is,
not whether he walks now or Their; but
that he learns to guide himself, and to
have confidence in himself. / hold, with
out exaggeration, that education, of the
character is going on at the same time
with training in locomotion, and that
the way one learns to walk is not without
moral importance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
Her ROYAL Sweetr esa

To be called Her Royal Highness is the
destiny of every woman born to wear a
rown writes Lady Elizabeth Hilary in
the Ladies' Home Journal, for March,
but it remains for one woman among all the
royal familie, to have the endearing title
OF Her Royal Sweetness given to hel, and
that honor belongs to Alexandra, Princess
Of Wales. She has that marvellous ar of
making goodness seem attractive; of max.
ing the right act the pleasant one and of
impressing upon all who know her the
knowledge tLat to do good is to have
pleasant time, and not to do it is to miss
some of the pleasure of life. Many prin-
cesses have been written about as being
beautiful, as having caused great wars, as
having done great deeds of salor, of hav-
ing made men die for them and kingdoms
quarrel over them, but of none of them
can it, be said, as it is Of this gracious lady,
that the whole world bows down before
sweetness and goodness, that peace has
been the watchword of her life-and not
only does she value peace, bnt those lov-
ing sisters, Faith. Hope and Charity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
Power of Imagination.

A Wiscasset man, accor ding to the Bath
(Me.) Independent, discovered big cash
in his boot where he had cat his foot
while in the woods and just managed to
get home, feeling himself growing. fainter
from loss of blood all the way. and faint
ed on arriving; when sombody discovered
that the cash only went through his boot
and the red color was not blood but only
a WOODEN stocking. This man would be a
good subject for fat cure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09
RIGHT HANDEDNESS
An UnsoIved Problem-A Fut for the
Curious

To call right-handedness an instinct may
seem an evasion of the question, an ex-
PLANTATION which does not explain, but this
criticism is not just. We call certain
phenomena electrical, though we do not
know what electricity is; and the same
way we may call others instructive,
though we must not content ourselves
with defining instinct as an Unborn i'm
pulse for certain actions for the benft Of
the individual or his decendents, depend
ing neither On person nor experience.
When we understand instinct, then and
no sooner, we may hope to understand
light-handedness, and &c know why it is
sometime reversed.-S:ribner's Maya
zine.