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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
The Pork Market.

The Chicago Tribune, of recent date,
has the following, in its market review, to
say OF the future pork market:
Commencing with the first of next
month the season for the manufacturing
of mess pork begins. aud there Is consid-
cradle talk regarding the probable run of
hogs for the coming six months. Prog
nostications poin. to a marked decrease IN
numbers and weight. While receipts for
the corresponding six months were the
largest on record, the shipments from Chi
cage for the same period were also the
largest on record, SO that the amount of
product manufactured by local packers was
smaller than In some former seasons.
Shipments of hogs for time past have
been ON the increase, while receipts are
decreasing compares with a year ago. The
last three months Of 1880 an average of
only 1853 0O0 hogs per month we're shipped
from here, while the average for the last
ight months was 272,0O0 The hog stu
alton for the next lew months is making
some OF the "wise heads" think. and from
present appearances it looks as if it would
Keep some of them thinking.
Present indications everywhere point to
light receipts from the fact that the hogs
do not seem to be in the country. While
dear corn makes hogs plenty at the first, it
makes them scarce in the long run. and
the dearcr the corn the scarcer they be-
come. This probably explains why it is
that the shipments of hogs to the east are
Increasing this year, corn having been re
latively much higher in the east than IL
the west. The government returns for
August report 3, 000,0 900 less hogs than last
year. There is every prospect that hog
growing will be coed business for at
least year to come, although every effort
that can be devised will be used to keep
the price down until after the first of the
year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
STRAY ThOuphfS.

Give greed an opportunity and it will
take advantage.
They lean to the side of virtue who are
rightly inclined.
Time is as the body, and eternity the
spirit, of existence.
Those who have the fewest failings see
the fewest in others.
Strive everywhere around you to diffuse
sunshine and JOY.
When man has nothing to say then is a
good time to keep still.
Ambition looks for opportunity; energy
helps to find it.
The weak may be joked out of anything
bat their weakness. Reputation Is what
men and women think of US.
For every man who knows more than he
tells, there are fifty who tell more than
they know.
Earth has no Joy like that of the woman
who has made eighteen calls and found
everybody out.-Selected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

haired pilgrim to the lisping infant, sink
to nightly slumher murmuring the simple
petition. 1t has trembled on the lips of
the dying. One instance was that of an
old saint of Sc years. whose mind had SC
failed that he could not recognize his own
daughter. Very touching" says the
relator, was the scene one night ate. re-
firing, as he called MS daughter, as if she
was his mother, saying ike little child.
Mother, ecme here by my bed and hear
NE say my prayers before | go 10 sleep
She came near. He. ciasped his white,
withered hands, and reverentlV said:
Now lay me down to sleep,
pray thee, Lord my soul to keep;
If L should ole before wake,
pray thee, Lord, my soul 10 take;'
then quietly fell asleep and woke in
heaven"
A distinguished judge, who many years
ago died in New York in extreme old age,
said that his mother had taught the stanza
to him IN infancy. and that he never
omitted it at light. John Quincy Adams
made similar assertion, and an old sea
captain declared that even before he be-
came decided christian he never forgot
1t on turning IN at night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Lasting Words.

A company of the friends of Robert
Browning observed the anniversary of his
death little while ago in London, by list
ening to his voice from a photograph into
which he had spoken some months before
he died. 1t is said that all pres ent were
deeply moved as they heard the tones that
so wildly recalled the dead poet. Are we
not, every one of us, speaking constantly
into Photographs that preserve true,
even though not literal, record of our
words and the spirit they breathed
Theughtlessly, recklessly, we are printing
upon the memories Of those we live with
and meet that which again and again they
will hear repeating itself in after years
whenever they think of US. The vitality
of words, their power to last, is an awful
or lovely thing, according to what kind
of words they are and the manner in which
they are used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
An Object Lesson

There are m..ny kinds of fashionable
foollshness, some of which are best cor
rected by a lesson in kind. A writer in
the Boston Post reports such a lesson,
which might we'll be tried in many fami.
lies. The younger members of the family
of one Of his friends had fallen into the
way of using many senseIess phrases.
With them everything was lawfully
sweet. lawfully Jolly or ''awfully''
something else.
One evening this gentleman came home
with budget of news. An acquaintance
bad failed in business. He spoke of the
incident as 'deliciously sad" He had
ridden up town in the car with a noted
wit, whom he described as ''borriply en-
tertaining," and, TO cap the climax, lie
spoke of the butter which had been set be-
fore him at country hotel as ''divinely
rancid"
The young people stared. and the
eldest daughter said, "Why, papa.
| should think you were out of your
head
mot in the least, my dear" he said
pleasantly, I'm merely trying to follow
the fashion. | worked out 'divinely ran.
cid with good deal of labor. 1t seems
to me rather more effective than lawfully
sweet. [ mean to keep up with the rest
Of you hereafter. And now he con-
tinued, let me help you to piece of this
exquisitely tough beef
Adver os, he says, are not so fashionable
as they were in his family.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

Because he Is healthy. There is no baby
comfort but in health. There is no baby
beauty but in health
All his comfort is from fat, and most Of
his beauty. Fat is almost everything to him.
That is why babies are fat. 1t is baby's
wealth, his surplus laid by. What he does
not need for Immediate use he tucks under
his velvet skin to cushion him out and keep
the hard world from touching him.
This makes curves and dimples. Nature is
fond of turning use into beauty.
All life inside; all fat outside. He has
nothing to do but to sleep and grow.
You know all ths-at least you feel it.
When baby is plump you are as happy as he
is. Keep him SO.
But what if the fat is not there? Poor
baby! We must get it there. To be thin for
baby, is to lose what belongs to him. Why
should the little mortal begin his life with
suffering!
Go to the doctor. Don't be dosing your
baby when all he needs is little manage
ment
A little book on CAREFUL LIVING, of in
finite value, will be sent free, if you write
for it to Scott Il Bovine, Chemists, 1872 South
Fifth Avenue, New York.
SCOTS Emulsion of cod-liver oil, at any
drug store, 81.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
as good as meag
some at ninety.

As good as sese
that's the condition of liver, stom-
ach and bowels, when DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets have done their
work. It's a work that isn't fin
ished when you've stopped taking
them, either. It's lasting. They
cure, as we'll as relieve. And it's
all done SO mildly and gently !!
There's none of the violence that
went with the old-time pill. One
tiny, sugar-coated Pellets a gentle
laxative three to four act as a
cathartic. Sick Headache, Bilious
Headache, Constipation, Indiges-
ton, Bilious Attacks, and all de-
rangements of the stomach and
bowels, are prevented, relieved and
cured. AS Liver Pill, they're I'M
equaled. They're purely vegetable,
perfectly harmless - the smallest,
cheapest, and easiest to take.
They're the cheapest pill you can
buy, because they're guaranteed to
give satisfaction, or your money is
returned.
You only pay for the good you
get. Can you ask more2
That's the peculiar plan all DR..
Pierce's medicines are sold on,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
WEEDS AND WEALTH.
Two Valuable Plants that Grow on the
Western alkaline Plains

Two valuable Hlants CnaC GROW on the
Western Alkaline Plains.
There is use for everything if men lad
but wit to find it out, says the Phlladel-
phia Record. It is evident that we stand
| only upon the threshold of ultimate
knowledge of the methods by which the
| vegetable kingdom may be made to cen
tribute further to human necessities. 1t is
doubtful if there be any waste products.
Waste and ignorance seem to be nearly
synonymous terms.
The alkaline plains of the west, for ex-
ample, produce two peculiar plants which
give promise Of great value for domestic
and manufacturing purposes. What is
called the Mexican "sOap weed grows
luxuriantly in western Kansas. 1t thri res
in the rainless regions where other vegeta-
ton falls, sending its long roots into the
soil in search of moisture. 1t is the root
OF the plant tnat is valuable for its sapon-
aceous quality. A factory has been built
in Kansas City for manufacturing toilet
soap Of the finest quality, in which this
root forms the chief ingredient. The new
industry promises to be permanent and
remunerat1ve.
A still more important discovery has
been made in the valuable properties of
root known IS the ''canalgre' root. The
plant is native of northeastern Chihua-
hua and northern Sonora, Mexico, and In
some parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and
Texas. 1t responds to cultivation in dry
sandy soils impreg mated with alkali, does
no require much water, and grows to the
size OF common beet roots. From the
canaigre root an extract is obtained so rich
in tanning that It is pronounced to be i'm
measurably superior to oak or hemlock
bark in the process Of tanning leather. A
writer in Hide and Leather says that
''canaigre liquors give less trouble to pre-
pare, and tan rapidly, leaving the skins
or hides clean, pliable, and we'll filed.
The starchy matter is just what tanners
want, and without the trouble of extra
mixing, as is the case with other tanning
extracts" A manufacturer in Texas is Of
fering to sell canaigre to the tanners. either
in dry form or the liquid extract. Its eff
fectiveness has been demonstrated after
years Of trial.
A substitute for the use of bark for tan
ming leather would be of immense value in
stopping the destruction of oak and hem
lock forests. So also the possible turning
of the waste alkaline plains into produc-
tive and profitable areas for the cultiva-
ton of valuable roots native in those Wild
regions must be esteemed an achievement
remarkable in the annals of agricultural
experiment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Potatoes as a Profitable Crop.

Taking the years as they come, l be-
lleve potatoes one Of the most profitable of
our standard farm crops, and the consump-
ton Of them seems to be on the increase
There is no crop in which the production
can be more favorably influenced by good
cultivation and the use of manufactured
fertilizers. If planted early, unless the
season is remarkably bad. the crop is like.
ly to be fairly good one. When there is
no scarcity the price is seldom so low as
not to pay well for the raising, and once
in every two or three years crops are like
enough in many sections to make prices
generally high, when even small crop is
a profitable one.-J. T.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Didn't Want a Fat Sh esp.

Il do not want very fat sheep" says
a buyer at the fair to an exhibitor of some
show sheep. 81 want one for service. :"
In few hours thereafter we saw this ex-
hibitor Grating one of these show rams for
the gentleman who does not want fat
sheep. Why is it? Sheep breeders have
a pride in having something good, some
thing which looks we'll, and urge that a
sheep that Is fat shows an aptitude to tat
ten. If the buyer is the proper person, it
will be all right and all will end
we'll, otherwise it may not As rule the
sheep which have been pampered for the
fair, are not the best for the breeding pen.
Exchange.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
FARM NOTES.

Beets will not tand much free ing and
keep best in box or barrel of dry sand.
The first and second prize butter at
the Maine state fair was made from open
setting.
Ladders made peaked at the top are best
for picking fruit. Either put on grip,
or do not split the top Of the pole.
The southern dairyman, we learn, are
using tin lined churns because they like
hem better than wood.
Anot Ter new milking machine has been
invented and is in use as is we'll testified
Iowa, U. S. A, is the locality this time.
We hope there is not too much 70 it to pre-
vent its use in a | large herds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Anxious to Learn.
Selected.

"Ata very early age competitive examin-
atoms begin to torment our boys. They
are often quite as anxious about them as
their parents. A boy Of twelve who had
just gone to a large school told me the
other day that when he arrived the head
master asked him if be were willing to
learn. Willing to learn, said the boy to
me when relating the matter. of course
am. Why, | could not sleep for two
nights before l went to school, fearing
least should be Put into low class and
vex my father The hopes and fears of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
SHILOn'S
CONSU MPTlON
CURE.
Egaea tho Desired E;Gecs.

The success Of this Great Cough Cure is
without a parallel in the history of medicine.
All druggists are authorized to sell it on pes
Tive guarantee, test that no other cure can SIC
cesstullv stand. That it may become known,
the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are
placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home
in tie United States and Canada. If you have
q Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use Ii, iol
1t will cure you. If your child has the Group,
or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief
Is sure. If you dread that insidious disease
Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for
SflIIOH'S CURE, Price 10 cts, so cts. and
BOO. If your Lungs are sore or Back larcs,
sse Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price 2s cts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Voices of Earth.
ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN.

We have not heard the music of the spheres.
The song of star to star; but there sounds
More deep than human Joy or human tears,
That nature uses in her common rounds;
The fall of streams, the cry of winds that strain
The oak the roaring of the seas surge, might
Of thunder break ng afar off, or rain
That falls by minutes in the summer night.
These are the voices of earths secret soul,
Uttering the mystery from which she came;
To him who hears them grief beyond control,
Or JOY Unsuitable without name
Wakes in his heart thoughts buried there i'm
pearled
Before the birth and making of the world.
-Scrihuer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
TaHy.

Take three pounds of the best brown
sugar and boil with Il pints of water I'M
til the candy hardens In cold water. Then
add half pound of sweet favored fresh
butter, which will soften the candy. Boil
few minutes longer and pour into trays.
Flavor with lemon ii desired. Butter
scotch is made practically the same as tat
fly, though molasses or syrup may be
substituted for the water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Economic.

New England farmers are often quoted
as being great economizers; yet if New
England manufacturers did not economic
more and know what their wares cost bet
ter than the majority of farmers do they
would make business a failure. 1t is a
virtue to save and wicked to waste, no
matter what people say about it,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Skim milk and Flax Seed.

The Iowa station in bulletin No H.,
says: Skim milk and ground fax seed
compare favorably with new milk ration
for young calves. Also skim milk calves
are interrupted less in their growth by
weaving than new milk calves. That feed
changes the quality of milk in cows more
than the quantity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Minced Fowl.

Mince very fine ali the white meat from
a cold roast fowl ;put the bones intoa stew
pan with the trimmings, d lite sage, a
blade of mace, and pint of water; let
this stew for nearly an hour, and then
strain it off; chop two hard boiled eggs
very fine, season the meat with salt, pep
per and mace, mix it with the eggs, pour
in the gravy, after adding tablespoonful
Of butter and -four enough to thicken; add
a tablespoonful of cream, let it all become
very hot, but do not let it boil, and serve
with sippets of bread
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Fruit Rolls.

Take bread dough ready for the oven
and roll 1t thin, spread over it thin lay
er of butter, and sprinkle with currants,
seeded or halt raisins, and little Gin
namon. Cut into three inches wide strips
and roll up like jelly cake. Lay them fat
in warm place and bake when light.
To be eaten within three or four days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Fried Tom atoes.

Cut the large tomatoes into rather
thick slices, drain them well on hair
sieve, then season with pepper and salt
and dip in cracker dust and fry carefully
In hot fat-butter and bacon fat mixeG
is best. Arrange the tomatoes when done
On squares of buitered toast. This is nice
for breakfast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Mules.

In the north Atlantic states al per
cent. of the horses are mules, while in
the south almost one-half are mules.
Are we not making mistake IN raising
too many trotters and too few mules
As workers they have got a blacker eye
than they deserve and they are easily kept
and quite hardy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
THE KITCHEN.
Ginger Cookies.

One cup molasses, one cup sugar. Put
four tablespooniuls boiling water into.
cup and Eli the cup with melted butter
one teaspoonful ginger, one of salt, ana
one Of soda. Mix as soft as can be rolled
roll thin as knife blade
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Tho LadIea HHlighted

The pleasant effect and the perfect safety
with which ladies may use the liquid fruit
laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all con-
ditions make it their favorite remedy. 1t Is
pleasing to the eye and to the taste, gentle,
yet effectual in acting on the kidneys, liver
and bowels.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
The Little PRAYER

By virtue of its age and value and pre-
vlous associations, this little prayer has
become a classic. It must be very ancient.
Tor Who can tell when or by whom it was
written? Thousands, from the silver
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

conscientious boy going to- school for the
first time do not always meet with as
much sympathy as they deserve from those
who have for gotten what their own trials
on that oceassian were "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

The Pan-Amcrican medical congress has
refused to admit DIR. Howard E. Ames, who
was appointed by Secretary Tracy to repre-
sent the United States navy department in-
stead of Dr. A. L. Gibbon, who was too
busy to attend
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

Dresses, Gents Clothing, Feathers, Gloves,
etc, Dyed or Cleaned, Plush Garments
Steamed at Otto Pietch's Dye Works, 246 W.
Water ST., Milwaukee. Send for circular.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

Miss Laura Presby, one of the bellies Of
Smith college, at Northampton, Mass, was
caught stealing from classmate. She has
disappeared and it is feared she drowned
herself
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

A crisis in the New South Wales cabinet
has been brought about by the ministerial
defeat on the eight-hour question.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29


A Throat used Boschee's Ger
d,,,n man Syrup for some
~ e severe and chronic
Speciality. trouble of the Throat
and Lungs can hard
ly appreciate what a truly wonder
full medicine it is. The delicious
sensations of healing, easing, clear
ing, strength-gathering and recover
ing are unknown joys. For Ger
man Syrup we do not ask easy cases.
Sugar and water may smooth .
throat or stop "a tickling-for while.
This is as far as the ordinary cough
medicine goes. Boschee's German
Syrup is discovery, great Throat
and Lung Specially. Where for
years there have been sensitiveness,
pain, coughing, splitting, hemorr-
hage, voice failure, weakness, slip
ping down hill, where doctors and
medicine and advice have been swal-
lowed and followed to the gulf OF
despair, where there is the sickening
conviction that all is over and the
end is inevitable, there we place
German Syrup. 1t cures. You arc
a live man yet if you take it. .
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

Lady Macdonald, widow of the late Cana
dian premier, has been made baroness,
with the title of Baroness Macdonald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

1t is the design of the Grand Army of the
Republic to erect in Washington, D. c., q
monument to General Grant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

The Russian czarowitz, it is reported, is
to marry the Duchess Elsea, of Wurtem-
berg.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

FETS.-An Fits stopped free by DIR. KLINE's GREAT
NERVE REsIoRER. No Fits after first days uss Mar
velous Treatise and 81 90 trial bottle free
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

j. C. SIMPSON, Marques, w. Va, says:
Halls Catarrh Cure cured me of very bad
case of catarrh." Druggists sell it, 75c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
The Usual Speech.

Bllkins--" 80, after counting that girl
for ten years, yoa at last got up spunk
enough to proposes"
Wilkins 7 :. proposed last night.
guess il II be AL right.
.Eh? Did, she accept?'
'.Not exactly Int think she will
"W hat did she say?"
cts so sudden New York Weekly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Made toLook Like New

Italy proposes to abolish the export duty
on raw silk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29

Commodore Nathaniel Duncan Ingraham,
formerly of the United States army, died at
Charleston, s. G,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
Ready for Winfe,

A great deal of the winter comfort and
annual profit on the farm depends on The