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

the grains are fertilized, thus securing
perfectly well developed ear with grain
perfectly fortified.
Now, contrast this with the Old method
OF selecting sc d corn in the field. We
may 60 to the field and select fine. large
perfectly developed ear, but we have as
surance how the grains on the ear have
been breed. There are grown in the
field perhaps hundreds of the barren stalks
and stalks diseased with smut. and the
pollen from these imperfect stalks is flying
promlscuously all over the field. so that
the grams of the apparently fine ear NAV
be tertihzed with pollen from these diseas
ed stalks
Therefore, the surest way to improv
corn is by the special plot plan. As sool
as the corn Is ripe, husk and select the
best ears for planting the field and few
OF the very best ears to plant the small
plot again. By this system of improve
ment, which Is inexpensive. simp e, and
easy, Kept up for long series of years, |
belleve we can very largely breed out the
duoplnS. suckers, and smut, and have a
corn that is tar more prolific and beauh-
lul, and that will command a higher price
tnan the common scrub corn.
III eClSItIuS corn 10 uegln the improve
ment ! would recommend a corn that is
adapted to the locality, and variety snat
will De sure to mature in an ordinary wear
and Il at will produce the largest amount
OF shelled corn to the cob. A large cob
contains so much moi ture that it Will not
dry out in the fall and when bulked in the
crib the corn will mold and sour the germ.
and this will detrac5 from tie feeding
value of the corn.
The germ is the most nutritious portion
of the grain. If the cob is small it dries
out Gnickly, and TIE germ is sweet and
sound, and is relished by stock of all
kinds, especially-rats.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
FOREIGN.

GILLIAN rebels have captured all but
two of the governments war ships.
GERMANY and Australia have conc uded
ascomercial treaty.
BEKLRvILLE, Ont, has been damaged
$4,000 by high water.
The Allan steamship company of Glas-
Cow, mas purchased the state lines vessels
and the good will of the company.
RAMIAsATRA, the governor of Beladona,
by whose orders 278 persons were masa-
cred, has been executed.
QUEEN VICTORIA en- Monday left Eng
land for visit to the south of France.
Coal is selling at $55 ton in Chill. the
supply having been cut off by the revolu-
tionists.
AN English adventures has been ar
rested fer inveigIing forty-three men into
marriage.
MINISTER OF FINANCE BALCHIEFF was
was also marked for assassination.
THE government is having hard row
to hoe at Cork, where Dalton is being
tried for the Heal Y assault. the court house
having been set on fire.
Gov. LIDDERDALE of the bank of Eng
land told how he raised $05, 100000 in
four days and saved the Barring Bros.
thus aver5ing widespread financial disas-
ter
THE London News states that the Itali-
an authorities will take active steps to
force America to give satisfaction for the
mobhing of Mafs, prisoners.
DISPATCHES from Chill say there has
been severe fighting near Valparaiso re-
Gently, and that 200 of the insurgents
were taken prisoners, tied together and
shot with cannon and musketry by the
government troops.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Don't Plant Too Early,

Beans, cucumbers, squash, melons and
tomatoes are all tender, and must not be
planted until danger from frost is past.
OF the bean family the Golden Wax is
early, prolific. stringIess and of fair quail
ity. 1t is the only sort used by many of
the canning factories. The Dwarf Com
panion is an excellent tomato The vines
are short, and bear abundance Of large,
smooth tomatoes. Other welI-known sorts
are Optimus, Perfection, Milkado, Acme
ard Trophy In order to have them early,
the plants must be grown under glass.
For early cucumbers The White Spine is
one of the best, as it retains It's green color
after being picked. To grow it early the
plants can be started in bits of inverted
sod, or in small flower pots under glass,
and later, transplanted in the open ground
without disturbing the roots. For pickles
in the garden as late as June or July. For
early squash. try Yellow and White Bush
Scalloped, and for late. the Hubbard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
FARM, HOME And GARDEN.
a SONG OF ISRAEL.
J. q. CARPENTER.

o Israel wanderer through the weary years
Of wild unrest
world pilgramage of hopes and fea rs
something IN JOY, but oftener far in tears,
As God knows best.
Since Jacob laid him down that night to sleep
On Bethel's stone,
And saw the angel leglonS downward sweep
Their watch around the fugative to keep
Never alone.
Besides the mystic Me. on Egypt's sand.
He pitched his tent;
Ihen on the desert saw the uplifted hand,
IN cloud ana nre, still pointing 10 the land
Ut sweet-Coutent.
Beside EuphateS. where old Babylon's wall
SO proudly stood,
lie saw the giant empress rise aud fall,
A captive exile, yeJ unframed through all,
Beside that flood
And when in wrath the Roman eagles came
To lions hill,
And drove him out In thunder and in flame.
A stranger in The earth-Jehovahs name
Upheld him still.
See yonder on the snow-clad Russian plain
His children driven
Beset and hunted by the imperial train
Like sheep by wolves-but surely notin vain
They cry TO Heaven.
Far brighter than the Northern lights that CLEAN
Upon the air
The signals of the great Sheninah stream,
And like the memories of blessed dream
Bid him good cheer!
Good cheer--O jacob though wanderer still
In all the earth
The foes will but the promises fulfill,
And drive the exile home to lions hill
That gave him birth.
A ration scattered through the earth, yet one
In every land
As the blue waters of the gulf stream run
Through the high seas, yet mingling with
Behold Gods hand
God speed the day when Jew and Gentle, all
Shall meet as one
At the GLAD welcome of their Fathers call
In the deer home where shadows never fall
Their warfare done.
Washington Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
CRIME.

TRAMPs held up two men and boy at
Fort Wayne and abducted the latter.
MYRTLE Coats, a pretty lS-year- old girl
Of Lansing, Mich, committed suicide.
She was to have been married in a few
days.
A HEBREW peddIer who was assisting
the fainting wife Of Tennessee farmer,
was killed by the husband.
KATE DETwILER of Cantor, O., hanged
herself while insane from the grippe.
The nan WHO recently committed sui
eide at Niagara Falls is believed to be J. D.
Haliek, of Chicago.
DOC" MIDDLETON, noted outlaw
was fatally shot in a row at Covington,
Neb.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
LAWS OF WISCONSIN

NoTIoE-All publishers Of weekly newspapers
printed in whole in part, in printing Office ut
the place where snch newspaper purports to be
Iq3ilshed or If not SO printed tn have been es-
prior to the date of the approval of this act, hav
Ing bona de circulation to actual subscribers of
not less Than three hundred copies each week, and
which shall have been regularly published for six
months prior to the opening of each session of the
legislature, who shall publish in their respective
newspapers all of the acts of general interest
passed at any regular session of the legislature,
which shall be designated by the secretary OF
state, in the official state paper, as "copy laws"
shall be allowed one hundred dollars for such
publication, upon filing with the secretary of state
satisfactory proof, by affidav t, that such laws
have been published as provided In this section,
which amount shall be paid out of the general
fund of the state treasury.
T. j. CUNNINGHAM,
Secretary of State.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
THE HOUSEHOLD.
FATuERHOOD.
BY ZITELL COBKE.

Along the yine,embowered hills of France
Sounds Angelus, and merry lads and maid
Pause in their iOcund songs with DOWN. ar
glance.
And meekIy bow within the vintage shades
At self-same hour, from gilded minaret,
MueZzin calls the faithful soul to prayer;
And far across the world where glowS sunset
In forest aises, famed by the pure, swee
air
OF heaven, rich-roofed by stars, the red man
kneels
To the great spirit: thus mans yearnng
heart
Would fain reach thee, O God; thus conscience
feels
Her way, though dark, TO the-well where thou
art!
Who says thou wilt no hear thy Children
all,
When thou hast said, 81 am thy father
Cal!''
-NeW England Mdgdzine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Man the Life Boati

Ere your wave-battered, dismasted hulk Is dashed
TO pieces upon that cruel reef by the resistless
waves. Save, too, q shattered physique, fast
yielding to the attacks of disease with that i'm
perial renovator of health and strength, Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. The range of Its powers
Is wide, its action prompt and thorough. its use
always safe. Chronic indigestion, debility and
nervousness, malarial complaints, rheumatism,
neuralgia, inactivity of the kidneys and bladder,
and that physical decay without apparent cause,
which is often premature, are speedily checked
and ultimately cured by this medicine of many
uses and sure results. Sleep, appetite and vigor
ere improved by this helpful tonic and regulator,
the use of which likewise tends to remedy undue
leaunesa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Grating Wax.

The usual method of making and
grating wax is as follows: Two
pounds of common resin, one and one
half pounds of beeswax, and one pound Of
talIow are melted, the resin separately ;,
and then thoroughly mixed by stirring
over the fire. The mixture is then poured
into Iukewarm water and worked up with
the hands into rolls for use. 1t vii! be
found very convenient to steep some strips
of cotton cloth in the melted wax and wind
into ball or balls for use in binding over
the gratis. Liquid grating wax is made
by adding one ounce of turpentine to a
pound of resin melted with one ounce of
tallow, stirring the mixture then adding
seven ounces of warm alcohol. The water
should be warmed in a hot-water bath,
and not ove~ fire. This may be applied
with brush, and becomes very hard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE
MONDAY, March %.

Semate,-Senate bills were passed as fol-
lows: Requiring communication be-
tween each room and 5he engine room in
factories and prohibit the locking of all
doors above the first floor in factories :;
assembly bills were concurred in as fol-
lows; fixing the minimum rate of interest
on loan and trust funds at AZ per cent;
relating to the county court in Pepin
county; exempting thetown of Caledonia,
Columbia county, from taxation for the
construction of a levee
assembly. The following assembly
bills were passed: Relieving members of
the life saving ano lighthouse service
from the payment of poll tax; requiring
the construction of fshways in dams of
Waupaca and Crysta rivers in Waupaca
and Portage counties; repeating chapter
500, of the laws of 1887, relating
to fish in Chequamegon bay:
requiring, instead permitting, boards or
councils TO grant licenses to sell liquor to
pharmacists; permitting the building of a
wagon bridge across Black rivers in the
counties of La Crosseand Irempealeau; re-
pealng The law creating municipal court
for Dunn county; requiring employers to
keep a correct list of employes-thei
name. age, residence. etc.-so that in case
of their death important facts shall be
known; and requiring all holidays to be
observed in prisons Senate bills were
concurred in: Legalizing the revised
| ordinances of the city of Black River Falls;
correcting an error in the 1889 state tax
levy In Jefferson county.
TUESDAY, March %.
SenGte.-The governor vetoed the bill
appropriating $50, 500 to the Waupaca
veterans home and action on the veto was
deferred. The bill giving the United
States jurisdiction over certain lands in
Sheboygan was passed Notwithstanding
the governors veto, all senators voting for
it with the understanding that the gov
ernor requested the action. Senate bills
were postponed as follows: Offsetting the
amount of the state mill school ak paya-
bic by the county to the state
with the amount which it is to receive
on the appointment made by the state
superintendent and providing for an
additional Judge of the cir
cult court for Milwaukee county.
Assembly bills were eoncurred IN author
izing the city of Watertown to issue bonds
to construct a bridge; authorizing Nil
waukee to issue bonds to build a bridge;
authorizing Mineral Point to borrow
money to make improvements; authoriz-
ing Nanitowoc to issue bonds to build a
bridge; fixing the fees of circuit court
reporters for transcrlbing testimony at
10 cents per folio: requiring exceptions to
surities On appeal to the supreme court
to be made within twenty days instead Of
ten. The assembly bill amending the
charter of the village of Water
loo was nonconcurred in because uncon
stitutional.
Assembly.-The following bills were
killed: To mark prison-made goods; for
local boards of: health; the Maxon medi-
cal measure; changing the boundaries of
the towns of Forest county; providing for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02

SOME weeks ago all the papers were
aHame with stories of the devotion of some
gentleman who each gave an inch of skin
to close up a wound upon comrade. From
tar.away Oregon comes an instance of de-
yotion manifold greater than that shown
by the Sir Knights, performed by slight
girl of eighteen, Ida Harness, and so
quietly done tnat it has not been heard OF
in newspapers. Her sisters hand had
been crushed in mangle To make it
whole again, into the wound was grated
nine pieces of skin, each about an inch
in diameter, cut from our herolne's arm.
The doctor feared the use Of any anesthet-
ic, and so, in full consciousness, she sat
with Der arm hanging over the bedside,
the blood flowing into a pan beneath, while
one 10y one, the successive pieces were
being cut, all this without a whimper .
We have never seen this record paralleled.
A TRIAL. was made recently at the prem
Uses in Park-row, Leeds, lately occupied by
the Prudential insurance company, of coal
saving composition which has been in
vented by MIR. w. c. Owston. The COM
position, says the Iron and Coal Trader s
review, is chemical compound resembl-
ing fine sand, and one of the principal
properties claimed for it is that when
sprinkled on an ordinary fire, after it has
been made up, it ensures thorough COM
bustion, all the gas and tar, which in the
ordinary way is allowed to pass off IN
smoke up the chimney, being consumed.
The modus operandi is very simple, all
that is required to be done being to
sprinkle about half an ounce of the COM
position over the fire. A chemical reac-
ton takes place in the coal, and the top OF
the fire becoming cemented together, grad
ually consumes all of the tar and black
smoke given off; while the heat, instead
of escaping through the top of the fire, is
thrown out into room. Although the
fire is about half burnt out, nothing but
coke remains, and it gives off great heat.
The composition is not however, suitable
for use with a coke fire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
IN CHILLI.

There is such thing as civilized war
fare, but the Chilians seem not to be aware
of that fact. They are engaged in whole
some butchery, though they call it con-
test for principle. The insurgents caught
Colonel Robes mapping lately, and they
make him pay heavily for his blunder. He
moderated the enemy-an error which
Grant could never forgive in his generals
and it cost him his life. The insucrec-
tionists put eleven bullets into him, and
then their blood fairly boiled. His
wounded officers, instead of being kept as
captives or held for exchange, were cut to
Vices where they lay. 1t was an expen-
sip9 fray for the rebels, bCwever, for it is
estimated that five hundred of them
were killed and four hundred were wound
ed. The little Republic is being shaken
to its centre. A good sized reign of terror
prevails everywhere. Both parties are
desperate and no quarter is given. The
insurgents have the navy, but President
Balmaceda controls the land forces; and
though he pretends to entertain no doubt
of ultimate victory, it is clear that the
situation is very serious. A large number
among the best and richest CHILEAN c1ti-
zens are in sympathy with the insurgents.
That fact has reused the anger of Balma-
ceda, who, it is reported, has imprisoned
many and confscated the estates of others.
Alto gether the people are in sad straits,
and we'll develoned sheol exists there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
FARM NOTES.

If we expect the beet to do its best, we
must give it warm. well-manured SOIL
The decline of Agricultural boys re-
fusal to remain on his fathers farm.
While agriculture is the first and mobiles t
of the sciences, stockraising is the right
arm of agriculture.
Remember when preparing the ground
for onions in the spring, that the soil and
manure should be thoroughly pulverized.
Three qaarteas of an ounce of salt to the
pound will be the right quantity for most
markets for Immediate consumption. and
one ounce to the pound for packed butter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
No. 1874, Al
Published March 10, 1891.

No. 1854, Al Published March 10, 1891.
CHAPTER 43.
AN ACT to fix the compensation of the stationery
clerk of the assembly as provided for in section
], of chapter 80, of the laws of 1889, relating to
legislative employees.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in senate and assembly, do enact as fol-
lows:
Section l. The compensation of the stationery
clerk of the assembly provided for in section one,
of chapter five hundred and twenty two of the
laws of 1889, relating 10 legislative employees Is
hereby fixed at four dollars per day, and this act
shall apply to the session of 1891, from the COM
mencement thereof.
Section q This act shall take effect and be In
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 18th, 1921
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
THE NUDE IN ART.
An Artist Utters Protest Against tn,
Professors.


Professors.
Protests against the nude in art are alb
surd, and come almost exclusively from
the Purltanical class, says William M
Chase in the New York informing Jour
nal. The recent protest made by a num-
Der Of Philadelphia women against the
exhibition of certain works in the Acad-
envy Of Fine Arts In that city has re-
awakened discussion en- this important sub.
ject. The works objected to include a
number of studies by Kenyon Cox of this
city, and have naturally created more or
less discussion among artists here. While
1t IS not my intention to criticise the ar
tistic sense of the women of Phiia-
deiphia, | think their position is false
one.
Among the ancients drawings of the
nude figure were never consided from any
save the artistic standpoint. | will admit
that many Of the works of modern French
artists are improper for general exhibit
ton, but in the Philadelphia case there is,
| think, little to criticise.
1t has been often shown that no school
of art can be highly successful without the
pursuit of certain studies. While these
may be Objectionable to minority of the
artistic world, they are Endorsed by all low
ers of true art.
This question has for years been agitat-
ed not only in this CRY, but in other
cities throughout the country. The adj
vocates of nude art have been earnest and
have argued each point with vehemence.
It's opposers always bring false arguments
to bear on the question of delicacy. The
prude heads this perennial crusade,
| think the artist who fails to study
nature IN any form or shape does himself
and the world an iniust &c. There is no
occasion to caution my fellow artists on
this score. They have we'll defined and
thoroughly reliable examples to follow,
and even if philadelphia women, or the
women of any other city, see fit to criticise
them they Kill not be deferred from carry
ing out their ideas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
Poultry Profits.

Mrs. R. E. B., writes from Prophets
town, H.: On Jan. l, 1890, had 63 hens
and 4 roosters, Jan. /, 1891, so hens and 8
BOOSTERS. During the year l sold $50 80
worth of poultry and S27 40 worth of eggs;
total, So7,39. The feed gave them and
care are offset by eggs and chickens used
at home aud by the manure made.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02

A study of the sea bottoms, currents,
temperature and life of the Adriatic sea
shows that there is 1t vast growth of Ma
rine ag@ at tie great depths of 1000
meters
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02
GIRL ND RArIDs, WISCONSIN

OREGON has enacted alaw making pro-
family misdemeaner. Its enforcement
will no doubt Justify its existence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02

THE Northwestern university has estab-
lshed ffty-seve new scholarships. After
they are all filed few students will remain
to be honored.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02

ALAefG) }. 5p els u
ailments of the respiratory organs are at
tributable to the want OF proper measures
being taken by the builders in laying
foundations and in constructing the base
ment of houses, says the London News.
Hundreds of the houses in suburban dis
tricts are built upon clay and marshy
ground often of made earth" and rub
bish; the foundations being laid ON the
damp soil without concrete or proper
courses to prevent the raising of damp in
them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-02

FORTY thousand dollars has been raised
or Sherman monument in New York,
but Grants remains still rest in that bake
oven at Riverside.