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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
FARM NOTES.

In shipping young poultry at this time
see that they are we'll watered and fed be-
fore coping and do not crowd too many
into the coOps.
Guard against constipation in swine.
The tat forming fooos tend to produce cos
tiveness The opposite kinds of food tend
to prevent it.
Farmers do not use the harrow enough.
Keep 1t in the corn-feld from the time the
corn is planted till you can use the cuItiva-
tor to advantage.
Sheep Will thrive on almost any grass
that grows on dry rolling land, but they
greatly prefer short, sweet heritage, like
blue grass and they do best on it,
A rich soil is not suitable for the
growth of the larger kinds of fruit, as it
promotes too rapid q growth of wood and
makes the same thereby tender and more
brittle.
The sleeping quarters of the hogs should
be arranged to allow plenty of room. If
they crowd during the warm nights they
will lose flesh from want of rest, as those
in the center become too warm and rest
less Large hogs should be separated from
smaller ones, and good, dry bedding pro-
vided to all. Crowding is detrimental in
summer as we'll as In winter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Poor Butter.

In the dairy business, especially where
cheese and butter are the staples, the far
mer is manufacturer and the saIableness
of his product depends largely upon his
skill. 1t does not all depend upon this
however, for the proportion of butter and
cheese that is wholly unfit for food is
often so large that it detracts from the
price the best would bring if it were not
weighed down by this inferior stuff, which
only completes because it goes under the
same name as that of good quality. 1t
is much gained to have the fraudulent com
pounds, oemargarine and the like, brand
ed for what they ale; but the work will
not be complete until the poorer quantities
of butter are ruled out of the market as
unfit for human use. Rancid butter is not
even fit for cooking, as however it may be
disguised, it havors whatever it is cooked
into, and thus lessons the demand which
using good butter for cooking would in
crease. In many places good butter is SC
generally used for making butter crackers
That they are discarded forImilk crackers by
all having any regard for their stomachs
This is ONLY one of the manv ways in
which the use of poor butter lessons the
demand
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
WHY GIRLS DON'T MARRY.
CLARA AUGUSTA

Well, mister, since you're asked me- it's possible
That things amt what they used to be some fifty
years ago.
The girls is after rich men thatlI make EN- dolls
An the young men seek for heiresses to pay their
gamblin' debts,
An III these times OF rush an drive, courtln
right on the square
Hain't carried on at no great rate, so far as I'm
aware.
When was young I married John; we didn't
have cent
Except COW, a dozen hens an boss that father
Us till we plowed some land for taters, beans an
corn:
But we was happy two CLAIMS, now shure as you
An if I was a goin' to stort and sorter just be-
Ny life all over would do exactly SO agin.
why don girls marry! Wall, some folks do pre-
tend to say
That this higher eddication has led woman all
astray.
They hain't no call for husbands, they can arm
their Twin now,
A-runnin pe-writing an things, but now DOM
see how
That sorter thing should take the place of love an
home an |
Had rather have my old gray John to cling to till
die.
Why don't girls marry? Lots of 'em is waitin for
man
That'll give 'em diamonds, carriages, an let EN-
drive span.
They want to have their finger soft, an as for
keepin' house,
Yon might as we'll expect that sort o business
from a mouse!
An as fur coOkin' gracious honey! they'd fly
into fit,
An have hysteric tantrums bad, if you should
speak of it,
An chidren2 bless your soul, dear mani the nurs-
cry girl that's hired
ls all the ma the children has! it rally makes me
tired
To hear the mothers of to-day; they're like the
That only had one chicken why, mister, 1 had
ten
Stout boys an girls in twenty years, an 1 haln't
no ways dead!
An never had no nursery girl 10 drive me ont o
my headl
Why don't girls marry Some of em must lead a
single life,
Because the Bible plainly says shan't have
but one wife?
An fur reason, l confess 1 do not under
stand,
iere's nigh about Il third more girls than fellers
in the land;
An so it seems, unless The world in some things
should advance,
There'll be some girls right straight along that'll
never have q Chancel
Massachusetts Ploughman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Women Will Grow More Beautiful

1t follows that, if the character of the
higher race does not change, and the
physical conditions on earth do not change,
and it is improbable that they will change,
for at least some millions of years, the
beauty of women will go on increasing
for long time to come.
Summing up ali the agencies at work
among the higher races as fruitful of in
creaSing female beauty, we may we'll as
sumo its future great development. These
conditions must produce in turn romantic
love, vigoc or body and maintenance of
youthful appearance, amiabiIity of expires.
sion and the intellectual and spiritual
graces of the continuance; ali of which, in
the aggregate, will mean increased beauty
in the future.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
ODDITIES.

Girls should bear in mind that hauling
young men over tie Goals does not tend to
make them pop,
New York Waiter-"How do you like
your steak, sir? Rare?'
1t is surprising how many good things
that should teach a lesson to his neigh
bors.
Mrs. Noear-"Do you think my daugh-
ter will be mCsician?"
Professor-''I CANT zay. She may
She tell me she gone of long lived fam
lily"
Teacher-"What advantage had the
Romans over us?'
SchoIar-''They did not have to learn
what we must about them
Diddereau-"Did you attend the lecture
of Prot. Hardhead on Grip, a Mslady OF
the Imagination p
Biddereau-''He did not lecture
why not?'
Down with the grip"
Discipline Unsophisticated Parent
'Hellow there nurse, what's the baby
yelling that way for? | can't read al
all
Nurse-"He's cutting hi, teeth sir
U.P.-"Well, see that he doesn't do il
any more or you lose your place"
They say it costs $3.50 week to FEED
an elephant, Mrs. Irons, said the boardel
at the foot of the table. reaching for an
other biscuit. How would you like tx
board one at regular rates?
An elephant. Mr.. McGinnis," replied
the landlady codly, wouldn't always b
throwing out hints all the time that h,
was getting tired of the prunes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16

am climbing the rugged and briered
path of life, and the keen thorns of pain
are ever lurking near, that weary hours
may be cheered and life refreshed and
sauctihed; now. while tired and almost
ready TO sink by the wayside and no fur
Their 60. \ plain casket and no flowers,
if need be, will be all the body vii! need
after the soul has taken IT'S fight to other
worlds than this. but, Oh, Fl tho life with
sweetness, kindness and love. Plant i
rose on the hear hstone Of neiglib1r and
friend. that its modest, silent sweetness
may kiss the weary heart at morn. at eve
and at every hour. Flowers on the grave
cast no fragrance backward ever the weary
years. Plant We 4 rose that it may smil-
ingly bloom over the living. Keep it not
fer the dead. where it must ever bloom
bowed and silently eG.-Medical Free
Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
The skilled Fruit Grower.

For fifty years to come horticultural in
terests will probably increase. and among
horticulturists the skilled fruit-grower.
owning from ten TO fifty acres of land,
will bestrepresent his class. Such a man
Is likely to be more OF a business man
than the average farmer, and Is in closer
relations to town and city lite. He is
compelled to travel more watches the
markets and fields of invention closer, and
represents, all in all, finer type. a Cal
ifornia fruit grower is in some respects
akin to the middle class of suburban
dwelers near Boston and New York, with
this very important difference. that he
actually and continually makes his living
from the soil he owns. The one tendency
of his life is toward what may b termed
extreme Californianlsm, for he is grow
ing almonds or oranges or somethln or
other that can not be produced at profit
IN many other places on the continent,
and the GLORIOUS climate" is his best
friend. Bat, on the other hand he is in a
skilled business. full of technical details,
requiring plenty of brain work, and he is
selling In tie worlds markets. Many a
California grower OF raisins, oranges,
walnuts. olives, prunes or other hOrtlcul-
tural products goes to Chicago and New
York every autumn, Ito keep the run of
the field" The drift Of Pacific coast life
is toward a rapid increase cf the number
OF 0rchardists. They are organized, too,
In a manner unknown among the farmers,
and have several times shown unexpected
courage in independent politics. Some OF
these days professional politicians will
have to deal with a new factOr-the horti-
culturist a distinct evolution from the
conservative American farmer type, quick
AID more capable of understanding the
interests of the commonwealth. Popular
Science Monthly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Little troubles kill little men.

Little troubles kill little men.
Self-conciet is harder to cure than Can
GER.
Tlere is nothing meaner anywhere
than lie.
1t takes fire to bring out the fragrance
of the incense
The surest way to get good name is to
get good heart
More men would be rich if they were
not afraid to trust their wives with the
care of their money.
Tae best way to git rid of the blues, is
to try to push the clouds away from the
windows of other people.
To live is not merely to breathe, it is to
act, it is to make use of our organs, SEN
ses, faculties-of all those parts of our
selves which give us feeling of existence.
- Rousseau.
The PsaImist was sure that he could run
in the way of Gods commandments when
God would enlarge his heart An en-
larged heart. filled and overfowing with
love, will know no WEAKNESS or discourage
ment.
1t is delightful to think that out of the
miseries of life, so many Of which affiict
US, there shall come the highest of our
enjoyments. The pains shall be fruitful
ores, working out an unspeakable
blessedness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
HOU SEKEEPING.
ONE Suggestions as to How the Work
in the Household May be SimpIified

OuiS SuSStsIiOEs DIS 10 low Ghe ~ OK
in the Household May be simpIified
Is your wife cross, the fire out, dipner
late and the room in disorder? All, we
know what is the matter-the girl has left
and again that dread servant-girl prob
lem has forced itself upon the consiaera-
ton of your family.
What is to be done with this ever-re-
curing problem? TIE housekeeper, who
is also wife and mother, must not starve
her intellectual nature, thereby uniting
herself to be companion to her husband
and a true mother to her children. She
must take time for reading and study she
must attend to her social duties, and
if she has gift for music, literature or
art or turn for business who would wish
to keep her from following her natural
bent? Yet her famely must eat and drink.
the house must be swept and garnished
and a thousand and one little things at
tended to. Thus the servant girl becomes
indispensable.
But the servant girl also has caught the
spirit Of the times. and she, too desires
time and opportunity to improve her mind
and attend to her social duties. She, too,
has hopes and ambitions out in the big,
stirring world. The long hours, the CON
slant attention to little things, the loneli-
ness of the kitchen while the folks" are
N the parlor or out On the front-door step
having their GOOD times has touched he1.
consciousness, and more and more the in
telligent servant is leaving service and be-
coming the clerk In the store, the cashier
In the meat-market and the Typewriter
girl of the office.
Besides lessening the rank of the ser
wants this increases the ranks of those that
are to be fed and waited upon. People
must eat. If all the servants are to be
educated and education is to produce a
corresponding distaste for Homework who
is going to prepare the food for the COM
ing generation?
Surely no one would think in this free
country of depriving any class of people
from the privileges of education which the
state guarantees to them, nor can we blame
any woman who has a special talent for
| music, art or business from desiring TO
| spend her time to improving her talent in
stead of remaining in a lonesome kitchen
to cook and wash dishes that others may
have time for the same occupations.
| One way of helping to solve this problem
| is found In an approximate return to sim
| picity in living. The dream of Edward
Bellamy of day to come when college
students and devotees of art shall each take
their turn at cooking and sewing seems
hardly practical, but the possibility that
families may learn to live so simply that
Zach member may largely wait on himself
Is having practical illustration in Chicago
every day.
One lady tells US that not long since she
was the guest at an elegant home where
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
How To Kill Sheen Ticks

As soon as sheep shearing is done The
ticks, which have found refuge in the long
wool of older sheep, wilt desert them and
take to the unshorn lambs, whose wool
then affords better hiding place. These
ticks are easily killed by dipping lambs
up to their ears in a strong solution of to-
bacco. Refuse stems can be used and can
usually be had for little or nothing in to-
bacco growing localities. The wash, after
the lambs have been dipped in it, is excel
lent TO apply to mellon or cucumber vines
to repel the bugs 1t has also excellent
manurial properties, but we prefer to use
it in small quantities merely to repel in
sects.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Trite But Vital.
Young Reaper.

That boy knows how to take care of his
gold dust, " says Tom uncle often to him
self and sometimes aloud. Tom went tc
college, and every account they heard Of
him he was going head, laying a solid
foundation for the future. Certainly y
SAID his uncle, certainly; that boy, tel
you, knows how to take care of MS gold
dust" Gold dust! Where cid Tom gel
gold dust? He was poor boy. He had
not been to California. He never was a
miner. When did he get gold dust? All.
he has seconds and minutes and these are
the gold dust of time, specks and particles
of time which boys and girls and grown.
up people are apt to waste and throw
away His father had taught him that
every speck and particle of time was worth
its weight in gold, and his son took care
of them as if they were. Take care of yon
gold dust!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Royalty With Simple Childhood

The German empress, like the Princess
of Wales, is one of those ladies whose
destiny to wear a royal crown" comes
after childhood and early youth passed in
very simple, almost bourgeois home.
The three Danish princesses, of whom the
Princess of Wales was the eldest and the
most beautiful, were their own dresslnakers
in their youthful days; the father of the
German empress, Prince Frederick of
Schleswig Holsteln, who was too poor to
keep a private carriage. and, according tc
an Interesting article on The Girlhood OF
the German Empress" in the current
number of Good Words, when drive be
came a necessity it was taken in an ordl-
nary hired equipage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16

the lady Of the house treated her friends
to oranges and gave them a newspa ger in
stead of plate md napkin from which to
eat the fruit.
1--WE have no servant now, she said
with laugh, Ito wash our plates and
napkins for is, so we are living picnic
fashion for awhile
1t is needless to add that the oranges
were enjoyed just as thoroughly and tn
hostess was just as engaging as If the
fruit bad been served on china plates with
the dAintiest of napkins.
Another family in the city, who are en-
gagged in literary work and have about
them refined and cultured circle of
friends, have packed away their china and
table linen. closed up their kitchen and
cook their food on a little gas stove in the
dining-room. They eat on an oilcloth-
covered table and use paper napkins to
save washing. The husband and wife
cook their meals and wash their
dishes together and wait on each other.
Both testify that they are enjoying life
even better than when waited upon by two
servants.
Once a week d woman comes in and
''cleans up the house, the washing goes
to the laundry and a near neighbor bakes
their bread and cakes for them. So they
have home made food to eat and their own
little table, so much pleasanter than the
boarding house table, yet they dispense
altogether with a servant in the house.
The cost is greatly reduced by this style of
living, while the comforts are not materi-
ally lessened.
But this, after all, is only temporary
way of getting along with the difficulty.
The trouble to get good servants, the care
of looking after them and the waste which
they produce are causing housekeepers to
look more and more for some sort of CO.
operation as the only way to reach the sim
plicity in living which will give true
solution of the difficulty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Plant a Rose for the Living.

A rose for the living and not for the
dead alone. A rose now and do not keep
all caskets of love and tenderness sealed
up until our fl lends are dead and prepar-
ed for the quiet grave. Better-far bet
ter--to ELL their lives with flowers, love
and joys. kind words never die'-speak
kin lily, speak approvingly, cheerfully, be-
fore the ear is dumb to all earthly sounds
while yet their hearts can be thrilled and
echo the music of kindness. The kind and
approving things sealed up in the heart
to be said after they are dead, say before,
say while they are living and need the
sympathy and love human kindness alone
can give The roses, the flowers intend
ed for their graves, send to their homes,
to their hearts to beautify and cheer while
yet the sweet echo nay come back to you,
clothed in hallowed perfume, thank
you"
If our friends have caskets sealed up and
laid away, filed with the sweet perfume
of love and kindness which they intend to
unseal when this hand is stilled in death,
while its sweet to think that rose may
be planted over my grave, | would very
much prefer they would unseal them while
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Overfe eding Poultry,

The common mistake of beginners with
poultry is overlooking, and with many
careless and irregular feeding Plenty of
water and plenty Of exercise are at least
as important as abundance of food. 1t
is significant fact that all the best
breeds of laying hens are most active, and
the only way to keep the Asiatic breeds
to laying in warm weather is to reduce
their rations, and make the hens scratch
for their living. Even then they will be
apt to become too fat if given too mnch
grain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
The RishG Way to Look at 1t.

A little boy was tempted TO pluck some
cherries from a tree which his father had
forbidden him to touch. You need not
be afraid, y said an evil companion, for
if your ia her should find out that you
have taken them, he is too kind to urt
you" "Ah," said the brave little fellow,
that is the very reason why would not
touch them; for, though, my father would
disobedience. "-Selected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Vines Need Protection.

Cucumber and melon vines need some
thing for their tendrils to cling to, so as
not to be blown about by the wind. Small
pieces of brush stuck into the ground be-
used and keep the land free from weeds,
deal better than the practice of allowing
weeds to grow for this purpose, as some
old-fashioned farmers used to do.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Sowing W heat.

About the time wheat begins to head
out is a good time to judge as to its pro.
bable yield, though all dangers are not
past. IfDluch of the crop is late the yield
will be poor. The same causes that re,
tarded it will also lessen the crop. Time
of sowing winter wheat has little to do
with its lateness or earliness next season
There may not be three days differ.
ence in ripening in pieces sown month
or more apart, and the latest sown, if or
very rich ground, may be the earlier in
ripening.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Matched Horses

Farmers do not seem to realize what an
advantageous Fl Id they have before them
in the direction of rearing .orses that will
match, or if not situated for this Thorough
not having brood mares that look exactly
alike and bred alike than by exchanging
what the taiIors call a "misft" for an
animal or animals from other farms, and
getting together a double than which all
buyers will be likely to want on sight
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16

Now" said the bridegroom to the
bride, when they returned from the honey
moon trip, 'let US have clear understand
ing before we settle down to married life.
Are you president or vice-president of this
society" I" Iwant neither president or vice
PRESIDENT she answered. Il will be con-
tent with subordinate position ''What
is that?n Treasurer. ''-Selected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
Insult to Injury.

Edgar!
There were italics in her voice that sent
a thrill of apprehension through him.
What is it?" he cried.
"A hair on your coat lapel !"
at can't be any ones but yours"
DO you think to deceive me? Ny hair
is brown; that is blonde; very blonde
Edgar was silent for several heart beats.
and then. with sigh of relief. said:
''Yes, my dearest. But this is. an old
coat. When | last wore it to see you
blonde hair was in fashion,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-16
HE HOUSEHOLD
Let Ne Belle q.
FLORENCE NJ COATS.

Letme believe you, love, or let me diel
If on our faith may rest secure,
Beyond all change of peradventure sure,
Trusting your ha avowals sweet and shy,
AS trusts the lark the pallid, dawn-lit.sky.
Then would rather in some grave obscure
Repose forlorn, than living on, endure
A question each dear transport to belle,
II is pain to thirst and do without,
pain to suffer what we deem unjust,
To win JOY and lay it in the dust;
But there's fiercer pain-the pain of doubt;
From other griefs death sets the spirit free;
Doubt steals the light from Immortality!
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Mrs. Blotter (of literary turn)--' And
John, send up a gallon of midnight oil.
All cur best writer's, I'm told, burn it,
"a DIRTY mouse and a scoIding wife are
poor companions SAPOLIO will cure the
first, and perhaps moderate the rancor of
The latter. Try q cake
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Write for information.