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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
IF WE COULD KNOW
Whither do our footsteps lead?

Whittier do our footsteps lead?
More and more we yearn to know,
As life's shadows longer grow.
And the evening hours descend,
And before US lies the end.
When the door sha open wide,
And behind us softly close,
What 10 our eXpectant eyes
Will the future life disclose?
Shall we see a morning break,
Fair and fragrant and serene,
Seeming like the blessed dream
OF some unforgotten eve!
Shall we walk in gladness on,
Under smiling skies of blue,
Through an ever-deepening dawn,
Into wide fields fresh and new,
Meeting those who came before,
Knowing each familiar look
And each well remembered tone,
Though so many years have flown,
Since each others hands we took, 8.
Saying farewells DER and DER.
Shall we talk of earthly days,
Speaking low, with bated breath,
of the awful mystery
Of our human life, and death;
Shall we wonder to recall,
How our hearts were prone to fear,
How we scarcely dared to hope.
Is any heaven, so fair, so near!
All! ii we could only know,
AS the shadows deeper grow,
Whittier our swift footsteps tend,
AS they surely near the endl
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Dressing for Lawns.

Unleached ashes and raw bone -four
make the best dressing for lawns. If an
immediate effect be desired, little nj
trate of soda may be added. The potash
or unleached ashes, we may assume,
exists in form most acceptable to plants,
and the same is probably true of the phos
phoric acid they contain. The phosphate
of bone is more slowly soluble and its nj
trogen will feed the grass after the effects
of the nitrate of soda have ceased.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Butter Making.

In butter making, it is quite as neces-
sary to strain the water with which the
butter granules are washed from the
sides Of the churn, as it is to strain the
water used in washing the butter in the
churn. In the washing of butter in the
churn, it is essential to remember that it
is possible to overwash. Every washing
takes away from the flavor of the butter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tam efectually, dispels colds, head
Sches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pre-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
Its action ard truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, iss
many excellent qualities commend it
TO all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is Tor sale in 300
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
xists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re SYRUP CO
SAN FRANCISCO. oAi.
LOUISVILLE. ~. rev roAk nv
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Straw for Food.

Straw contains much valuable feed, anc
we are learning to put it to better use IL
this respect than we formerly did. Tht
trouble is that it does not make a com
pleted ration, as hay does, even if fed il
the vary largest quantities, but cottonseet
meal or linseed meal will supply this de
feet and make an evenly balanced ration
that may be proftably fed whenever stray
is plentiful.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Preceding Lie hit Horses

The breeding of light horses is a Won
derful industry in this country. and is
growing every day. All men admire a
good horse, and it is the ambition
of the greater number to own
and drive a good-looking. sound, speedy
and pleasant driving horse. For this
reason there will always be demand
from the city for good horses with some
degree of speed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Our Birth .

sour birth is but sleep and forgetting;
The sonl that rises with Us, our life's star,
Hath elsewhere had its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home"
Extract from Wordsworths Intimations
Immortality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Be COntented.

Be contented; martyrs" are detestable;
a cheerful, happy spirit is infectious; you
can carry it about with you like sunny
atmosphere.
Avoid whispering; it is as bad as gig
Cling, both are to be condemned; there is
no excuse for either of them; if you have
anything to say, say it; if you have not,
hold your tongue altogether; Silence is
golden.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Kind of Soil for eep,

Different kinds of sheep require differ
ent kinds of soil, or at least one kind may
be successfully kept upon one kind of soil
upon which another kind would not do
well. Yet it is not possible to lay down a
rule which will enable every farmer to de-
termine just what kind of sheep will do
best on mis- farm. The matter must often
be left to experiment and experience.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
/ 1858

Dresses, Gents's u. ening, Feathers, Gloves,
etc, Dyed or Cleaned. Plush Garments
Steamed at Otto Pietch's Dye Works, 246
W. Water ST., Milwaukee. Send for Circu-
lar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

The highest chimney in the world, that
at Halsbruckner Hutte, near Ereidenburg,
Saxony, has been finished, 460 feet high.
In diameter at base is 80 feet, and 16 feet
at the top, the inner diameter being 8
feet. It is built of clay stone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
HumOr and Laughter.

If all application of that which is hui
morous and grotesque has been left out Of
you are only fragment of a man. only a
piece of o woman God would not allow
so many laug liable things to happen if he
did not intend US to laugh.
am told there are disagreeable people
in the world but seldom see them. Per,
haps it is because | do not look for them.
Look for roses and you will find roses.
Look for uettles and you will find nettles
There are three classes of people. l especi-
ally admire women and children
Ialmage
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Indiana Mineral SpriDgs-A Great Health
Resort ON the Line of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad.

A short rest from the active demands of
the average Americans busy life is always
beneficial. To rest, then, is certainly good
remedy in itself, but when you rest how
much better it is to go where you can have
the privilege of drinking water prepared
in Natures own laboratory, bubbling forth
pure and sparkling from the earth, the use
of which never fails to bring about immedi-
ate relief, and permanent cure for rheu-
matism, kidney diseases, liver complaint,
dyspepsia, cetarrh of the stomach and all
forms of skin diseases.
If you seek rest and recreation, why not
combine it with improved health and the
pleasure of spending a few days weeks,
as suits you at the Indiana Mineral Springs,
Warren Co., Ind? Here you will find every
accommodation that $780, 600 judiciously eX-
pended can procure; one-hundred room,
hard wood finished, modern appointed hotel,
lighted by electricity, complete water-works
system, a cold storage plant, the finest bath
house in the west, and hundred and one
points of interest to entertain you. Here
YOU can drink the waters of the Indiana
Mineral Springs that will quickly relieve
that tired, WORKOUT feeling, bring color to
your faded checks, inyigorate your system
with new life and energy, and make you
feel that life is worth living after all.
1t is too beautiful place to write about or
even picture in this limited space, so we
earnestly urge, if you desire additional in
formation, that you write at once to G. L
Stone, Gen. Passenger and Ticket Ag't tot the
Chicago s Eastern Illinois Railroad, Chi.
cago, for illustrated and descriptive matter
showing in detail the improvements at the
Springs, and setting forth testimonials from
prominent people, who have within the past
year been restored to health by the use of
the waters of the Indiana Mineral Springs
ANY officer or agent of the Chicago q East
ern Illinois Railroad will take pleasure in
advising as to the railroad route and rates,
or answering any questions pertaining to
this great health resort.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

one day strutting around in his first suit
of jacket and trousers, when lady re-
marked:
hello! 1 guess some one has some new
clothes"
With crushing force came the reply:
'Them amt clothes-them's pants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Salt sprinkled on any substance that Ii
burning on the stove viii stop the smoke
and smell
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
To BE Eaten With the FINGERS.

Olives, to which fork should never be
applied.
Asparagus, whether hot or cold, when
served whole, as it should be-
Lettuce, which should be dipped in the
dressing or in little salt.
Celery, which may be properly placed on
the table cloth beside the plate.
Strawberries, when served with the
stems on, as they are in the most elegant
houses.
Bread, toast and all tarts and small
cakes.
Cheese, which is more invariably eaten
with the finger by the most particular
people.
Even the leg or other small pieces of a
bird are taken in the fingers at fashionable
dinners.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

DR.. Frank Powell white Beaver,) Union
block, St. Paul, Mimi. Oate of La Crosse).
Speciality: Nervous diseases of young men.
Write for information.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

The dear girls.-Ethel: Glow do l look
in this drcss@'
Maud: Charming. Isn't it wonderful
how much dress can do for oneT'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

FETsi.-AIl Fits stopped free by DIR. KLINEs GREAT
NERVE RESToI! No ~ after first day Mar
veIcus Irttse and K. 90 trial bottle free
/ it cases Send Dr. Kline 93l Arch ST.. Phla, Pa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Mrs. Pinkham's letters from ladies in all
parts of the world average One Hundred per
day. She has never failed them, and her
fame is world wide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Use turpcnlinc and machine oil to polish
your sewing machine, and rub briskly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

For neuralgia, bruise horse-radish and ap-
ply as poultice to the wrist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
German
Syrup %

we are SIX IN 1aTll-
AFarmer at lily. We live in a
-d -o place where we are
->~'''' 0N7o' subject to violent
Says: Colds and Lung
Troubles. I have
used German Syrup for six years
successfully for Sore Throat, Cough,
Cold, Hoarseness, Pains in the
Chest and Lungs, aud splitting up
Of Blood. l have tried many Differ
ent kinds of cough Syrups III my
time, but let me say to anyone want
ing such medicine-GermanSyru
is the best. That has been my ex-
perience. If you use it once, you
will go back to it whenever you
need it. It gives total relief aud is
a quick cure. My advice to every
one suffering with Lung Troublesis
Try it. You will soon be con-
WINGED. In all the families where
your German Syrup
is used we have no John
trouble with the r-o,Lu,
Lungs at all. 1t is '''''
the medicine for this ,o,a
Country. =
G. G. GREEN. Sole Man fr. Woodbury,NL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Best easiest TO use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. SOC.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

If afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water Druggists sell it. 25c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Mothers should watch carefully those
signs Of i'll health in their daughters, and
at once use Lydia r. Pinkham'S Vegetable
Compound. 1t will prove a lasting bless
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Mistress: ''Wcl, Hannah, what is ito
Have you busted the parlor yet?'
Servant (recentIy imported): "Dust the
parlor, is it? Faith an everything's all Gov
cred with dust now"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

"BLEMIsHEs are unseen by night" but,
when daylight comes, every one will know
whether you use SAPOLIO. Buy cake and
clean your house.
Sheepskin: "Shail you send your son to
college?'
Hardup: ''No. l cannot afford it; but Z We
bought him cape overcOat."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

AFarmer at
Edcm,TsXaS
Says:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-19
IMPORTANT DECISION.
A Judge Passes Upon the Re-
sponsibility of Telegraph
Companies.

BOWLING GREEN, Mo-, March II.
In the case of Luke Emerson, the
Catalonian jack importer, agalns.
the Western Union Telegraph
Company for, damages under sec
ton 2,725, Revised Statutes of 1889,
Judge Hughes, of the Pike County
Circuit Court, rendered a decision
which, If sustained by the higher
court, knocks out the statute.
Emerson sued for the penalty of
$500 for the failure of the company
to deliver a telegram sent from this
city to Nashville, Ill, The defend
ant, through Attorney John Far
rell, demurred on the ground that
said section, so far as it applies to
telegraphic business beyond the
borders of Missouri, is unconstitu-
tional in that it undertakes to regu-
late interstate commerce and is,
therefore, in violation of the Con-
st1tution of the United States, con-
ferring on Congress the regulation
of interstate commerce. Judge
Hughes sustained the demurrer.
As the principle involved in the
case is of great Importance, Clark
& Dempsey, the plaintiffs attor-
neys, will take the case to the
higher courts, and ultimately to the
Supreme Court of the United
| States. if necessary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Three hundred pirates have been
beheaded in China.
Turkey will make fine exhibit
at the Worlds Fair.
Cuban planters are making sugar
from molasses by new process.
Three men were instantly killed
by a boiler explosion in Effingham
county, Ill.
Mrs. John Dunn, OF near Corpus
Christi, Tex, tracked a burglar
half mile and killed him.
Congressman Breckinridge, Ken
lucky, who was taken severely ill
at Pensacola, Pa, is out of danger.
Nine thousand seven hundred
dollars were found sewn in an
old coat of The late Judge Cooley Of
St. Paul.
"Sockless Jerry" Simpson de.
nounced the press at an Annapolis
(Md.) farmers meeting, saying il
was subsidized.
A contractor of Chicago has been
notified that it is against the law
to hire aliens to do work paid fol
with money raised by taxation.
David FL. Poston, who was shot
in Memphis, Tuesday, by Col. a,
Clay King, died last evening. King
has issued q remarkable statement
giving his reason for the crime.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-19
l., Nj. Pease Dead.

From the Epglewood, New jersey, Press.
1t is with deep regret that we
notice the death of Mr.. Luther M.
Pease, formerly of Mexico, Mo-,
which occurred at this place last
Saturday. Mr.. Pease was compar-
atively a newcomer IN Englewood
but IN his residence of two or three
years, he had made many friends
and won for himself the esteem of
the community, both as business
man and in his private capacity.
Mr.. Pease came here from St'Louis
and entered into business with Mr..
Samuel M. Riker under the firm
of Riker & Pease. In a very short
time the new partner, though quiet
and unassuming In manner, show
ed he possessed unfailing force and
energy which speedily had their
effect on the business of the firm.
Conspicuous among his other good
qualities, Mr.. Pease always inn
pressed those with whom he came
into contact with his fairness and
integrity; his word was always as
good as his bond. When, in con-
sequence of his failing health, Mr..
Pease was obliged to withdraw
from the firm of Riker & Pease, he
did not sink into the position of a
chronic invalid. Bravely resisting
the inroads of a painful disease, he
found occupation in buying and
selling real estate. AS long as he
was able, he attended to this bus.
mess, never complaining and in
activity striving to forget suffering
Mr.. Pease leaves a wife and two
children who have the sympathy
of the community in their bereave'
roapt
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-19
VOL. XXXII.

IT Is THE opinion of Hon. Roger
z. Mills that President Harrison
will again be the national standard.
bearer OF his party and that the
Democrats will easily elect their
candidate for President in 1892
Mr.. Mills does not say who will be
the Democratic nominee, but makes
the assertion that the Democratic
party will be successful in the mat.
ter of the Presidency, 1t makes no
difference who is nominated.
Reeds Congress, he says, has made
1t impossible to elect the Republi-
can ticket in 1892.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-19
performancI

JUDGE B. R. BURROUGHS was
nominated on the first ballot for
Circuit Judge of the Third Illinois
Circuit at Centralia yesterday.
The nomination was unsought by
Judge Burroughs, who declared he
was not candidate, but his friends
nominated him anyway. Judge
Burroughs is a brother to Mr.. D.
s. Burroughs, of this county, and
is known to several of our citizens.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-19
Men Becoming Insane Every
Day Over Perpetual
Motion.
JONES, OF THIS CITY, LIKELY TO AS.
sUME aENERALsHIP OF THE
VAST Army OF THOSE GONE
AND ALL YET TO COME.
Faith in the machine" Lost by All Ex'
espt the Misunderstanding Over His
Troublss-His Financial Baeker
Deserts Him-A Crude and
Worthless Model.

IAao-I had rather have this tongue
cut from my mouth than it should do
offence to Michael Cassie; yet, I per-
suade myself to speak the truth
Shakspeare's Othello.
The LEDGER was the first to pro.
claim to the world the startling in
telligence that perpetual motion
had at last been mastered. An
overzealous inventor and an en-
thusiastic reporter were the COM
bination that produced the spark
that kindled the fame. R. ].
jones' reputed perpetual motion
machine is said to be fiat failure
and so the world is still as it always
has been and as the laws of nature
prove that it always must be
without perpetual motion. The
ignis fatuus that began haunting
mems visions centuries ago has
not yet paled in the light ofreason.
No other fallacy has been SO popu-
lar or has so long withstood the
light of reason as has perpetual
motion. Alchemy and the trans
mutation of metals, which for a sea.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-19
ABE LINCOLN's QUESTION.
Calling q Tail q Leg Did Not
Make 1t One.
From the Milwaukee wisconsin.

rFoitl tle mliNalkee W lSconsln.
One of the bits of wisdom which
Lincoln crystalized in a humorous
form is worthy of attention at this
time.
In the early days of the war, be.
fore the country was ripe for eman-
clpation as war measure, q dele
cation of Chicago clergymen wait.
ed upon President Lincoln at
Washington and urged him to ls-
sue a proclamation abolishing
slavery. The President listened
to them attentively and then asked
the apparently irrelevant question:
"Call sleeps tail a leg, and
how many legs will the sheep
have?"
"Five," answered several of the
clergymen, in unreflecting chorus.
"No," replied Lincoln, 'not
five, but four; for calling a tail q
leg won't make it leg"
The point which his story illus.
trated was that proclaiming slavery
abolished would not abolish it;
that the institution could be ended
only by the exercise of an execu.
tive power backed up by arma.
ments greater than the federal gov
eminent DOssessed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-19

The Kansas City Star, speaking
OF J. M. Marmaduke standing on
his head when he heard Palmer
was elected, says:
at will do very well for a male
man. to indulge in demonstra.
tlons OF that kind, but the habit
ought not to spread even If the
country should adopt universal suf-
frage."
The Star is correct, but a Demo-
cratic lady OF this city showed her
approval by sending "Duke" a
tine cake when she heard of his
performance.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-19
MEXICO, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1891.

by draulic ram, etc., to have dis
covered perpetual motion, yet not
a solitary discovery is on record,
not one absolutely ingenious
scheme projected or one simple
model accomplished.
JONES STILL CHEERFUL.
Every body, it seems, has lost
faith in jones' machine except
Jones. He cllngs to the belief that
1t will yet do all he claims for it.
Work on the model is at a stand
still for the want of means to have
the proper castings made at some
foundry where it can be properly
done. A well known mechanic
pronounces the patterns so crude
that 1t will be an impossibility to
make their counterparts in metal.
Again, this same gentleman AYERS
that the wheels that are to give the
the motion to keep it" run
ming forever are wrongly construct.
ed and it is his opinion that they
will move neither backward nor
forward. The financial backer of
the concern, who at first signified a
willingness to furnish the money
to complete the model, after advanc-
ing $40 lost faith in the scheme
and refused to further aid Jones.
The model of the machine is still
at Carberry's iron foundry and
Jones stays constantly with it.
We are told that the inventor sits
for hours at a time In deep, far
away study, with his head bowed
between his hands, needless of
everything around him. Jones is
at that stage where the climax is
reached; he knows not whittier to
turn. He is looking for some good
Samaritan to help him out OF the
difficulty. He needs financial aid.
He is certain he has the machine,
and is willing to share tame with
anybody who will come to his res
cue.
With due consideration for Jones
as an inventor, the LEDGER is fear
full that he has tackled the wrong
machine, and timidly offers the
suggestion that he forsake his jack
o'-lantern idea and turn his atten-
ton to sorghum mills and self
binders.
Jones
Made no bones
OF pronouncing inventors drones
Who produced things as
insignificant as
Telephones!
Motion
Is Jones' notion;
To create widespread commotion
He is monkeying with
something that
His Devotion!
VIII finally end in
BEG -! Ill!