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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18

Long ago, when a certain article
made of surgeons bladders came into
use England, it was known by it's
Dutch name ''huizenblas," that is,
'sturgeon-bladder." The term was
meaningless one to English ears, says
Chambers Journal, and by some means
or other was transformed into the
word which we all know, .isinGlass."
The change was precisely like that in
which some quarters has turned ''as-
paragus' into sparrow grass
In the same manner the cid word
BERRY," which meant simply a
watch tower, was transformed into
'belfry," 1t became thecustom to
hang bells in such towers, and by COM
mon consent a change of spelling fol-
lowed.
What is the derivation Of the word
''steelyard''? Most readers would re-
ply without hesitation that it must
have been invented as the name of
certain familiar instrument for weigh
ing, an instrument made of steel, and
about three feet in length.
In point of fact, however, the word
meant in the beginning nothing but
the yard, or court in London, where
the continental traders sold their steel
In this yard, of course, there was some
kind of balance for weighing the metal
"a steel yard balance.
Language is full Of such cases.
.'Blindfold" has nothing to do with
the of folding something over tho eyes,
but is 'blindfelled," or struck blind.
''Buttery" has no connection with but
ter, but is or was, ''bottIery," place
for bottles.
A ''blunderbus" was not an awkward
or inefficient weapon, but, on the con-
trary, was so terrible as to be called q
''donderbus," that is to say a thunder
box" or thunder barrel" The adj
vance in the art Of war is happily-or
nhappily-typified by the fact that
weapon once so terrible has become an
object Of ridicule. VIII the world ever
find our present ironclads and mortare
nothing but things to laugh at?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18

Face your work. The exhortation,
'Diligent in business" applies to every
enc. There can be success only by Civ
ing close attention to that which we IN
dertake to do. With diverted attention
or divided interest mistakes will certain
~ be made, opportunities will be lost
and energy will be wasted. Withal
there is danger. The engineer must
keep his eye on the track or disaster
may come. The worker in the mill or
factory may by inattenton be entangled
in the machinery. The Christian work
er-nox careful, watchful and diligent-
may also bring disaster snd loss upon
himself and others.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
FIRM NOTES.

Take time by the forelock and always
be in readiness for the next work of
the farm.
Sudden starting of loads and slipping
when the roads are icy, cause more
spavins than everything else combined
Sheep restore to the soil a larger
proportion of the elements they take
from it in grazing than do any other
stock.
If farmers would study the many
ways that clover can be made a paying
crop they will SOW a larger acreage
next year than they have been doing.
Field peas may be sown in August.
and mature sufficiently for feeding
Hogs can be fattened on them quickly
and cheaply, and the improvement of
the soil is no small item.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
GiO1lS Need attention.

From the present time through the
season much can be done if attention
is given at the right time to make
young cions and new growths of all
kinds hardy and well fortified to go into
the coming winter. Suckers detract
from the health of cions, and many
cions which incline to an overgroWth,
which is often the case where the
whole sap of a large limb is thrown
into a single scion as large rs ones
finger, are much stronger at the tip if
cut back once or twice before cold
weather.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
No Tillle.

No time! How often we hear this
given as a reason for some neglected
duty-how often, perhaps, do We give
it ourselves!
And yet in most cases no will would
be the truer statement. Canon Kings
ley in one of his sermons tells us of
man, now one of the most learned
scholars in England, who was once
village carpenter, and used when young
to keep a book open before him Oh his
bench, and thus contriyed to teach him
self, one after the other, Latin, Greek
and Hebrew. Where the will is, the
way vii generally be found.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18

Complete trlthfulness is one of the
rarest of virtues. Even those who re-
gard themselves as absolutely truthful
are daily guilty of Over-StatementS
and under-statements. EXaggeration
is almost universal. The perpetual
use of the word very where the oc-
casion does not call for it shows how
widely diffused and confirmed is the
habit of misrepresentation. And this
habit sometimes goes along with the
lOudest denunciatiOns of falsehood.
After much vehement talk about 1.-The
veracities" will come utterly unyer-
aciOus accounts of people and things
accounts made unveracious by the use
of emphatic words alone are warran-
ted; pictures of which the outlines are
correct, but the lights and shads and
colors ar doubly and trebly as strong
as they should be.
Here. among the countless deviations
of statement from fact, we are con-
cerned only with those in which form
is wrong as well as color-those in
which the statement is not merely a
peryersion of the fact but, practically,
an inversion of it. Chiefly, toowe have
to deal with cases in which personal
interests of an other kind are the
prompters to falsehood:-now the de-
sire to inf1ict injury, as by false wit
ness: now the desire to gain material
advantage: now the desire to escape a
punishment or other threatened evil;
/ now tho 6oSira TO Cat favOr bv saving
that which pleases. For in mankind at
large, the love of truth for truths
sake. irrespective of ends, is but little
exemplified.
Keep your watering troughs scrupu-
lousy clean.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
be taken care of before the contagion
spreads.---EXchange.
VAR ABOUT MOROCCO.

should 1t occur, England, Spain and
France May Take a Hand jla 1t.
1t was one of Bismarck's prophecies
that Europe would one day find a SEQ
ond eastern question in Morocco. Ths
failure of the mission of Sir Charles
Euan-Smith has brought the fulfilhnent
of that prediction within the field Of
practical politics.
The purpose of Sir Charles mission
to FeZ was to obtain from the sultan
treaty throwing open his dominions to
European trade. In putting forward
this request England was supported by
all the European powers maintaining
representatives at Tangier, with the
exception of France. For a time il
was believed that the mission would
prove successful, but ultimately the sui
tan refused to sign the treaty, and
some members of the ENJOYS suite
were subjected to gross indignities for
which PREPARATION will be demanded.
1t is reported, moreover that what the
Moorish potentate refused to grant at
the instance of England to Europe in
general he has determined to concede
to France in particular. Against such
a discrimination England as well as
Spain will undoubtedly protest and
thus it may happen that Mr.. Gladstone,
before he is able to deal with the home
rule question, will have an information
al quarrel on his hands. The trouble
brewing in this quarter from interna-
tiOnal riyalrieS is aggravated by the
Sultan'S inability to control the mt
tinOuS coast tribes that threaten to at
tack Tangier. Should his threat be car
ried out marines and sailors would at
once be landed from the English.
Spanish and French war ships in the
harbor, and collision would not i'm
probably take place between the sew
eral foreign cOntingt nts in the streets
of the town.
The respective claims Of Spain,
France and England upon Morocco
rest upon very different foundations.
When the Visigothic kings ruled at
Toledo q considerable secion of north
ern Morocco was included in their
dominicns. Even after the Visigoths
had cuccumbed to Arab and Berber
invaders a reflex wave Of influence
more than once swept across the strait
and the Caliphate of COrdova main
tanned for a time a foothOld ON the
African shore. Indeed, q large part Of
the city of Fez was known, and we be-
lieve is known to this day, as the An
daluSian quarter. To these traditions;
of historical connection must b. added
the conviction still rooted III the
breasts of Spaniards, that the age-long
war against the infdel can only be
concluded by the conquest of the
MOorS' native land. In Spain, too,
better than in any other European
country, are the extraordinary mineral
and agricultural capabilities Of Morocco
appreciated. The Spanards know, az
the Romans knew before them what
stores of the precious and useful met
ais lie buried in the depths of the
Atlas and the coast range, and they
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
Patience.

Patience is to accomplish it's perfect
work. 1t has a great part to perform
in what is to be done during this life.
There are times in which hard labor is
to be done while waiting for an end
which seems to be long delayed. And
this is to be constantly remembered.
that the true work of patience is q per
feet complete, well-rounded and
W Without complaint.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18

put them wholly upon dry food and
grain during the winter, and so fatten
them and fever them and constipate
them that if they don't die with the
disease they fail to breed as they
should and to bring forth a strong,
healthy offspring. Our native merino
sheep may stand this dry winter feed
in better, but the best results possible
are by no means reached by following
this custom.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
HOr71IeSS cattle.

By commencing the work of dehOrn-
ing now and henceforth with all the
calves, one would soon have herd
OF ho1nless animals, and there would
be much smaller record of deaths of
valuable men by reason of the horns
Of treacherOus bulls. Moisten the
raised spot on the heads of young
calves where the horn is to appear,
and rub with the end Of stick Of
caustic potash. This makes a scab
and removes the horn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
FARM AND HOME.
WHITTIER HIS CUPID FLED?
BY LEPHIA MAY BRYANT.

The birds are singing just as sweetly
As they sang year ago;
The sun is shining just as brightly,
But the flowers are whispering low
To the grasses all around them,
Asking what has changed me so;
For | tread the self-same pathway,
With dim eyes and footsteps slow,
That | had trod so happY-hearted,
One short year ago.
"Shall tell thee, little flowers,
What has wrought this change in me?
When passed those pleasant hours
In these hooks perfumed by thee.
Cunning Cupid clothed in rapture,
Stole my heart and fled away,
And has since defied recapture;
Pm in search of him to-day.
Have you seen him little daisy,
With his bow and gilded dart?
Oh, it almost drives me crazy
When | think of my lost heart.
Whittier, whittier has he wandered?
Blushing rose, can not you tell?
Gazing shyly from your easement,
By thOrn-curtains guarded well?
Won't you tell me, little violet,
With your pure and modest face,
Have you seen my heart and Cupid
Pass your lowly dwelling place?
eyes" Then | must follow, follow:
Cupid's Nemesis FL be;
Over hill and over hollow,
Till he returns my heart to me.
sunday Inter Ocean.
Eau Claire, Wis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
Sealing md Telling.

The more I think of it the more find
this conclusion impressed upon me, that
the greatest thing a human sonl ever
does III this world is to see something
and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Hundreds of people can talk for one
who can think, but thousands can
think for one who can see.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
CeTPrI Culture.

Celery culture is a much easier mat
ter than people used to think. There
is no need Of setting the plants in a
trench. Have the soil rich, start them
on the level, and bank up as needed,
only do not put much soil about them
while the weather remains warm. 1t
will cause rust. Now is the time to
plant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
UTjIIpf.

NIillet is one of the best hay rations
for the dairy. but it needs to be cut
early, and cured in heaps, rather than
cooked in the sun. 1t then does not
have the effect on the kidneys that is
often observed, WheE the millet gets
very mature before cutting.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
HOW SHE Is SPELT.
Il Fine Specimen of English Spelling IN
Ye OIde1t Time.

A rite suite little buoy, the sun of a
crate kernal, with a rough around his
neck, fue up the road as quick as a
dar. After a thyme he stopped at a
gnu house and wrung the belle. His
tow hurt hymn,and he kneaded wrest.
He was two tired to raze his fare,
pail face. A feint mown of pane rows
from his lips.
The made who herd the belle was
about to pair a pare, but she through
it down End ran with all her mite, for
fear her guessed wood not weight.
But when she saw the little won, tires
stood in her ayes at the site.
Eve poor dear? Why dew you I've
here? Are you dyeing?"
Know he said, Il am feint."
She boar hymn in her arms, as she
aught, to a room where he might be
quiet. gave him bred and meet, held q
cent-bottle under his knows, untide his
choler, raped him up warmly, gave
him a suite drachm from vol, till at
last he went fourth as hail as yOunge
hoarSe Album.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18
Il GREAT P4R4CHUTE DESCENT.

Cdpozso, OF Paris, Falls 5000 Feet i1a a
Derice OF HIS Otcn.
A very bold and successful parachute
descent has just been made at Vii
lette, a suburb of Paris, by NJ. Capazza.
Occurring Immediately after a number
of fatal adventures of the same kind.
it has naturally gained a good deal of
credit for the author.
This aeronaut arranged his balloon
and the parachute SO that he could
ascend with the latter wide open. He
accomplished this by making the par
achute itself cover the balloon. He
was thus able to do without netting
car or any of the usual apparatus. The
balloon after the parachute had been
attached was inflated at the Villette
gas works. The cords of the parachute
were of the unusual length of thirty
two metres. This enabled the aero
naut to retain all possible freedom of
movement on his little seat. The top
of the parachute was provided with "A
cOnical chimney, through which the gas
of the balloon was to be discharged.
accident, except a little embarraSs-
ment caused by a small storm. Then
the aerOnaut rose in view of a great
many people in the state of high ex-
element. When he had reached a
height of $4,000 feet he burst open the
top of the balloon. The latter at once
fell, while the parachute remained ap-
parenty motionless. The aeronaut
descended in his parachute at the very
moderate pace of 1 metre 80 inches a
second and alighted safely in a corn
field at Drancy.
The experiment was carried out SO
easily and successful that it is expect
ed the Capazza method vii be gen
eraly adopted by parachutists. 1t will
be particularly valuable in war time,
as the aeronaut will perhaps be able
to descend after the bullets of the en-
envy have disabled his balloon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18

Hoac 1t Vas Receiced by the citizens of
Nec York IN 1S76.

HO,c 1t Has ReCeiCed By the Citizens of
Nec York in 1Sf6.
Before the receipt of the resolutions
from the county committee, the more
patriotic or the more etferyeSCent of
the citizens of the city of New York
celebrated the event in a spontaneous
and spirited way quite in keeping with
the character they have always eX-
hibited in moments of excitement. The
following graphic account OF Their do
ings is reproduced from The Scots
Magazine for August, JIG:
New York, July IL, 1776.-The
fourth instant was rendered remark
able by the most important event that
has ever happened in the American col
onies, an event which doubtless will be
celebrated through a long succession Of
future ages by anniversary commemOr-
atiOns, and be considered as a grand era
in the history of the American states.
On this suspicious day the representa-
tive of the Thirteen United Colonies,
by the providence of God, unanimously
agreed to and voted proclamation de-
claring the said colonies free and in
claimed at the state house in Philadel-
phia on Monday last, and received
with joyful acclamatiOns. Copies We're
also distributed to all the colonies. On
Tuesday last July 9th) it was read at
the head of each brigade of the CONT
mental army posted at and near New
York, and everywhere received with
I,17zu ~ JIttnJTnOSf Demon
STATIONS of joy. The same evening the
equestrian statue of George Third,
which tory pride and folly reared in
the year 1910, was by the sons OF free
dom laid PROSTATE in the dirt, the just
desert of an ungrateful tyrant. The
lead wherewith this monument was
made is to be run into bullets, to as
simulate with the brain of our infatu-
ated enemies, who, to gain pepper
corn, have lost an empire. Quos Deus
vult perdere, prius dementat."
On the day after this amiable little
ebullition of the people of New York,
there was rejoicing in the debtors
prison liz New York city. The prison
was in an upper floor of the city hall,
then standing on what is now the cor
ner of Wall and Nassau streets, or the
site of the present treasury building.
The rejoicing was due to the fact that
on that day, in pursuance Of the dec
laration of independence, a general Jail
delivery, with respect to debtors, took
place here."-OIolt's Journal for July
IL, 1716).
On Thursday, July 18th, a more for
NAL celebration took place in the city
of New York, which is described as fol-
lows in a contemporaneous report of it:
New York, Thursday, July %, 1716.
| On Thursday last July 18TH, pursuant
| to a resolve of the representatives OF
the colony of New York, sitting in con-
| gress, the proclamation issued at Phil
adelphia the 4th inst, by the continen-
| tai congress, declaring the Thirteen
United colonies to be free and independ-
ent states, was read and published at
the city hall, when a number of the
true friends of the rights and liberties
of America attended and signified their
anprobation by loud acclamations.
After which, the British arms, from
i over the seat Of justice in the court
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18

Milk ard cream are very susceptible
to odors and should not be kept III cell
lars where there there is anything that
will contaminate
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-23
BELMONT FOR HILL
He Was for C1evelar but Now Halls the
CONN., Man.

COmiL,, Wan.
NEW YORK, February 19.-ISpecial i
Perry Belmont ex-President Clevcland's min
lister to Spain, and when representing the
first congressional district of this state, chair
man of house committee on foreign relations
today broke political silence of years in no
uncertain manner He declared himself for
HILL claiming that his candidacy was forced
by republican and mugwump attacks.
"IIll is as good democrat, tariff reformer
and honest money man as Cleveland says
Mr.. Belmont. He claims that the opponents
OF the senator urge no sufficient reason for
Hills non-candidacy. The midwinter conven-
tion is, according to Mr. Belmont, not an
anomaly in democratic procedure III this state.
In regard to Tie platform, Mr.. Belmont says:
"The last Saratoga platform seems to me OK
cellent and sufficient, with an addition spe-
cialy condemning the force bill but for the
majority of voters there need not be multi
plicity OF issues" Continuing, Mr.. Belmont
says that HIPS connection with the Tammany
machine was no discredit, machines being
necessary to success.
fBut it was The republicans and mugwumrs
who actually made Hill presidential candi-
date IN this state They made what they cali
Hillsm the issue in the last campaign, and
'uillism won by $4,000. Then in eXaspera-
ton at crushing defeat. they went
so far as to say that Hill was trying
to steal the legislature by violating tho law
and demanded that he should submit to the
judicial power. Failing in that they said that
when Hill arrived in Washington lie would
disappear forever. But. on the contrary his
power and Importance are greater now than
ever before. And then, too, his Elmira and
Albany speeches have presented to the demo-
cratic masses the dcings of the 'billion-dollar
congress as a clear, wel-understood aud well,
appreciated issue. Those speeches captured
the democratic voters in the state. But as a
controlling reason, Senator Hill appeals pow
erfully to the average democrat as leader
who leads to success"
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-23
RaIfour Introduces the Irish Local Govern
,,aeut Ell In the II cnse of COnEOng.

BaIfour Introduces the Irish Local Govern
1nent Eill In the III cuse of Commons.
LONDON, February 1S.-The long tall2ed-of
Irish local government bill was introduced in
the house of commons today by Mr.. Bafour,
amid the cheers Of government supporters In
introducing the bill Mr.. Balfour said that ever
since the formation of tho present govern
ment and even before, the extension Of the
local government to every part Of the United
Kingdom had been the cardinal point of con-
sentative policy. That intention, he declared.
had been constantly adhered to and reiterated
since by tho government. They had intro
duced local government bills for England
and Scotland. If they had not
done lie same for Ireland, it must have been
because great specific and obvious dangers at
tended sucn q course. Tho present bill was
not merely Il county councils BILL but it was
what in England would be described as dis
trict and county bill. BY its provisions adj
plinistrative duties will be given to baronial
councils, leaving wholly untouched the judi
cial duties now entrusted to the grand jury.
Members of county and baronial councils, will
be elected every three years. The government
proposed following Scotch rather than English
measures.
Balfour spoke for ono hour and
forty minutes He said in con-
clusion. that he did not pretend that the
bill would rcgenerate Ireland, but he sincerely
thought that the Irish ratepayer has the right
to claim the same measure as was granted to
tie ratepAyer in England aud Scotland. He,
therefore, recommended tho bill 10 the favor
able attention of the house.
John Merely strongly objected to the bill
and asked the government to go to the country
on the measure.
john Redmond and Justin Mccarthy OPP
posed the bill.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-23
A NEugwump Admission.
From TIE New York Times, NIugwump, Feb


.
ruary 4th.
In view of the very cheerful reports received
from Washington as to the increasing weak
ness of the silver men in congress, we urge
all business men in the democratic party In this
state to use every effort to promote the move
ment against Hill and Hillism. Hl's control
of the democratic organization in New York is
the last hope of the silver men. We think that
they stand no chance of presenting formd-
able front in the democratic politics of this
presidential year. 1t is, therefore, within the
truth to say that there Is not q democratic
banker, broker, merchant or business man of
any description in the state of New York who
has not direct and large pecunary interest
in the defeat of HIPS machinations.