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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28

any bird" But some birds are very
short sighted 1t seems scarcely con
ceivable that democrats and republicans
who would not vote for Mr.. Cleveland
himself under any circumstance can
nevertheless conspire together to elect
him by supporting third ticket. But
there are some voters whose intelligence
rises just to that level and no further
Democratic managers who have a low
idea of the popular intelligence evident
ly that of such voters there are many
1t will probably be found that they are
mistaken, as usual But the possibility
is one against which republicans must
guard by making absolutely sure OF the
states in which they can command a
majority When there are three tickets
in the field, and much confusion, and
all sorts of reports about western posi-
bilities, men may be deluded who see
things clearly now. The obvious duty
is to make sure of Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey and Indiana by early
and we'll directed work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Then and Now

When Gov. Boies, of Iowa, stumped
for Garfield and Arthur in 1880, says the
Waterloo Reporter. he said in behalf of a
national election Law, ich he now de-
nounces as the force bill: The work
of the republican party is not yet ended
Four millions of people have been made
citizens by its action, but heir rights as
freemen are yet to &c secured The
governor was also patriotic enough in
the interests of the American workmen
to demand, THAT the duties levied for
the purpose of revenue should SO dis
criminate as to favor American labor. -
Such discrimination he now denounces.
IN common with the pstional democratic
platform as unconstitutional, fraud and
robbery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Too Eat.

What is the matter with my hens, they
fall dead from the roost?" "Why don t
my hens lay, they are fed regularly three
times a day?' Such questions and
many similar are being continually asked
What is the matter?
Too fat! A too fat hen lays very few
eggs. A too-fat hens eggs do not hatch
we'll. A too-fat hen is ready victim of
disease. There is science in feeding.
You can make a mistake by not giving
enough. So the best rule to 60 by is to
give all they will eat up clean. But you
must feed according to the object you
have. For instance, give hens all the corn
they will eat up clean, and you are max
ing fat. But give oats or wheat and you
will not be making fat, but eggs. Double
yolked eggs are the result of too much fat
An egg within an egg is caused by too
much fat. Regular feeding, proper food,
and comfortable scratching pens are anti
fat rules.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Harvesting the Corn Crop.

Too much leisure is often manifested in
the matter of harvesting the corn crop.
Some farmers seem to think that after it
is well ripened it cannot be damaged by
standing, and so permit it to remain in
the field until some wholly convenient
time for gathering; but corn, as well as
other crops, should be harvested and put
securely away as soon as it is ready. De-
probation will result from many causes
when left standing in the field after it is
ripe ana dry. Some stalks will droop
until the ears touch the ground, and then
rot at the tips if wet weater comes. 9th.
ers will be peeked by birds, and where the
husk opens the entire ear may be damaged
by rain. Beside this, when the corn is
harvested SO late very little good can be
had from the fodder. 1t gets over-ripe
and is blown to pieces by the wind, SO that
the stalk field is of slight value even for
pasturage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
A STRIKING WARNING.
The Soldier Vote of New York Dead Against
Cleveland.

CIeVe1dnu.
From Mr. Cockran's Speech in the democratic
national convention.
| believe it was the distinguished gen
tleman from Massachusetts, Gen Col
Inns, who declared there was no demo
crat in this union that would vote
against that ticket; but there are behind
him two heroes whose deeds have not
escaped the attention of history, two
heroes who have led the union armies to
victory and who have never made faces
at the vanquished foe, and they tell you
here that the soldier vote of the state of
New York, of whom there are $4,000 at
least democratic. will not support the
nomination of Mr. Cleveland and did
not support it III 1888
Gen. Sickles rose in his place among
the New York delegation and said: "No,
no. never" There we're three cheers
and Kisses heard about the hall and in
the galleries.
Mr.. Cochran, proceeding, said: Is it
wise to antagonize that vote, to antag-
onize it without reason, to antagonize it
blindly, defantly, recklessly? What is
the excuse? One, that we can get this
mugwump vote Now, warn this con-
vention, from the experience of every
democrat who has carried New York
and no democrat has failed to do it in
nine years except Grover Cleveland
that you cannot get the mugwump vote
without driving away 100000 democratic
votes. Applause. With the mugwump
there can be no treaty of peace. He has
10 weapon but SANDER and abuse. He
does not want to run t. democratic
party; he wants to own it; he wants you
to lend him this nomination to accom-
plish his own purposes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28

There is nothing gained by such late
ness. la fact, the second crop is great
iy aIndered u lis grow b} ctstlag The
clover Sd late. Early cutting viii give
the second crop chaHc7 o develop o.
fore fall. The clover should not he cut in
the morning when the dew is o. jU, and
where the growth is very rank. this often
means not until after ten O'Clock Only
so much should be cut as can be attended
to properly and hauled in at one time.
II cut IN the morning, 1t lies in very III ok
swaths. frequently rank growth of
clover lies SO thick In places thai the top
gets much curing, wnlie the bottom is
not wilttd at all
As soon as thoroughly wilted, which
will not be long. the clover needs TO be
raked into windows Immediately. where
it can remain for several hours, allowing
the air to circulate through it and carry
! off some of the moisture Before the early
dews of night have begun to fall, how
ever, the hay should be cooked up and al
lowed TO remain for "a hours.
| If tfese cocks remain over night they
can be thrown open with the pitchfork in
! the following morning, to give the moist
ure a chance to escape. The heat of the
interior of the cocks will also escape, and
! by noon the hay will he ready to haul It
must De watched at this period, for some
suns are more drying than others, and
some clover parts with its moisture more
rapidly. If there is any danger of its be-
coming so dry that the leaves will crumble
under the touch it should be carted to the
| Darn Immediately.
When put in the NOV great care should
be taken that there is no dew or moisture
~ the hay. One load of such nay will
start many tons to excessive sweating and
heating. Storing it In the burn properly
is very important part of the work. It
the hay is thoroughly dry put a load or
two in the NOV, and then put in a thin
lay er of dry straw over it before the Sec
ond layer of hay is put in. The straw
will have tendency to prevent heating in
the NOW.
Glover hay cut and cured and moved in
this manner is pretty sure to produce fine
hay. Scarcely any loss or injury from
heating will be experienced, and the
ucurishing quality of the clover will De re,
tained.-A. B. Barrett, in American Gull
uVatOr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Prepare for Death as for a journey

The proper way Of looking upon death
is to regard it as 2 part of life. 1t means
transition. IT'S transfpr--wA were here;
we are there "DAath." as Victor Hugo
said, lis not blind alley, but thor
oughfare opening on earth, ending in
heaven"
Montaigne records that to him who told
Socrates the thirty tyrants bave sentenc-
ed them to death, - the philosopher made
answer: "And nature hath sentenced
them To the queen in Hamlet, seek
ing to console the melancholy prince in
his grief for his father says: Thou
know'st it's common, all that live must
die, passing through nature to eternity. -
Accept death as inevitable. Prepare for
it as for a journey. And then await the
day and hour of departure with serene
composure. If we are ready, It's rather
to be longed for than feared. st. Paul
dipped his pen in the ink Of inspiration
and wrote: ''To die is gain" Heaven
is a larger and fairer earth.-St. Louis
Republic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
THE CHINAMAN's RAZOR.
1t Helps to Keep Him Clean as He Uses 1T


H helps 10 heep MIN Clean as he uses III
Almost Daily
1.-The Chinaman perhaps shaves oftener
than any other man on earth" said Thos.
A. Dunwiddy, of San Francisco, at the
Lindell, "and with the possible exception
of the American indian, he really has less
need of it. But it seems to be fad among
the Mongolians IF San Francisco, and es-
pecially those who are at all well to do, to
nave their faces manipulated by a tonsori-
al artist nearly every day. A queer little
razor it is they use, too. 1t is in no re-
spect like our razor, except In the matter
of the keenness Of the edge. 1t Is wee
bit Of blade, nicely curved into a semi
circle. With this tool the Chinese barber
scrapes the almost hairless face Of his GUS
toner and then shaves him around the
ears and down the neck to the first bone of
the spinal column. It, of course, serves the
excellent and highly comnendable purpose
of cleansing the Monaghan face, neck and
ears Of dirt very effectualIy, though the
hairs it clips are few and far between.
The rounded point of the razor is also in
serted into the Celestial ear, and every am
bilious hair that dares to show itself in
the auricular lobe is clipped before its
growth proceeds very far. The China
man, you know, is scrupulously clearly
about his ears A growth of hair in
them is considered mark of low birth or
of careless and ungenteel habits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Poultry Pointers

A hen at Hawthorne, Fla, Matched
nineteen chickens from eighteen eggs.
With proper feeding a chick should
double its weight every ten days until
fcrrv days Old,
Keep the ducks our of the chicken yards
the water they befouI will soon bring on
contagion.
The good layers are active and general
y on the move and scratching about-are
the first birds out in the morning and the
last 10 roost at night.
Give YOUR young brood clean water,
plenty Of grit, variety of cracked and
whole grain, mostly in a dry state; keep
them out of the grass when wet with dew
and rain. and they will thrive.
For chicken cholera ther is nothing bet
Ter than carbolc acid, one drachm with
two gallons of water. Let the fowls have
free access to it as drink, and mix it
with other food once day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
To owe is human, to pay divine.

10 owe Is human, to pay divine.
A mans conduct is an index to his
worth.
Next to living with honor, is to die with
honor.
One unguarded slip Of The tongue may
do irreparabIn injury.
a jadicious silence is always better than
truth spoken without charity
God had to deal with man by law be-
fore he could deal with him in love.
| will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,
from whence cometh my help. - Ps.
CxxI l.
Be not overwise in doing thv business,
and boast not thyself In the times OF Lny
distress.
Affection is a kind of moral gymnasium,
in which the disciples of Christ are train
ed to robust exercise, hardly exertions, and
severe confict.-Ex.
SIN Christ shall all be made alive. "
Not simply by his power, but uni,e ed to
uim SO that his life becomes ours. n lot
only gives life, but is himself the life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
FARM And HOME.
\ q kNILEM AN.
MARGARET Z. SANG sTER.

| knew him for a gentleman
BY signs that ne er fail:
His coat was rough and rather worn,
His cheeks were thin and rather pale
A lad who had his way to make
With little time for play
| knew him tor gentleman
By certain signs to-day
He met his mother on the street;
Of came his little cap.
Ny door was shut; he waited there
Until heard his rap.
He took the bundle from nv hand,
and when L dropped my pen,
He sprang to pick it up for me,
This gentleman OF ten.
He does not push and crowd along;
His voice is gently pitched;
He does not fling his books about
As If he were bewitched.
He stands asid TO let you pass;
He always shuts the door;
He runs on errands willingly
To forge and mill and store
He thinks of you before himself;
He serves you If he can;
For in whatever company
The manner axe the man
At ten or forty It's the same,
The manner tells the tale;
And L discern the gentleman
By signs that never fail
Harper's Young People
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Experience With CloversHay =.

Clover hay is too often cut late in the
season. 1t is too ripe then for the best
curing, and its feeding value is lessened.
1t is one of the hardest crops to handle
for it cures only when the proper weather
is at hand. If harvested when the bios
SONS begin to turn brown it will have to
be gathered in between rainy spells, for
wet weather is generally at hand by that
time. If one wishes the clover to scatter
little seed around, it is all right to har-
vest the clover at this lats perion of its
life, but if the best hay for feding is to be
obtained, It needs to be harvested earlier.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
The Linden for Bees

The linden, or common Eastwood, is not
only handsome tree, but It's blossoms
make excellent bee pasturage. 1t is
planted in some parts of Europe for this
purpose chiefly, though the wood is also
aluaole for some purposes. Honey from
Eastwood blossoms is to many tastes bet
ter than that from white clover, and if
more of 1t were marketed there would
soon be a great demand for it. Sometimes
2 burer secures a box of honey of extra
good flavor, but be does not know now TO
duplicate it. Nine times out Of ten this
extra good honey is from Eastwood
blossoms, which are now IN their fullest
blossoms.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Early Harvesting.

1t will soon be time for harvesting the
SIN Ii grains. Be sure to cut early or be-
fore the grain has become hard or dry
enough 10 rattle out 1t will continue to
draw nourlshment from the jnices in the
nnfiI the latter is fully dry, and the grain
will be more full and plump if cut when
just passing tof the milk than it would
be if ripened standing n the fields. 1t cut
while IN the milk it will shrink, as it does
not find enough in the straw then to
mature.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
No Tariff ON silNar

There were two more workmen killed
in the labor troubles at the Cnur
d Alene silver mines than at the Home
stead iron and steel works T ere is a
tariff on iron and steel, but none on
silver Query: Will the sympathetic
democratic politicians of this city send
resolutions of sympathy to Ceur
d Alene, as they did to Homestead, or
are their sympathies for the labor sim ply
matter of tariff for campaign thunder
OnlY2
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
o hject Ofthe Gardn

In growing truit, flowers or vegetables
for market, it is we'll to have but few
kinds, and make speciality of them, so
that there may be load at one time, but
in growing them for home use, try to keep
up the variety and have something fit for
use all the season. There ERE or should be
always two objects in the garded. The
first and most important being to supply
the family with whatever can be grown
there. and the next to have something to
sell which may help to supply what does
not grow there
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
An Economic Administration

During the fiscal year ending June 80,
the government receipts show a de-
crease of S45, 100000 as compared with
previous year. The principal falliny off
was in tariff revenue 541,60OOOO. The
expenditu, es decreased s8, 100000 The
principal items of decrease were, inter
est S14 100000, ard civil and miscellane-
Gus expenditures l0,0OO,OO Amarked
decrease in tariff taxes, interest and
civil expenses is not the mark of an ex-
travagan6 admin. tration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
How to Prevent Collie.

The cole season is here Many remedies
are given 70 cure 1t. Sometimes they
work and sometimes they don't at any
rate the best way to t-ea collie is TO pre-
vent it. Be careful about over-feed.ug
and changing 70 d ,ud lenly and giving
'cO much water when overheated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Labor, Life's Keynote.
FRANCES s. osGooD.

Labor is life tits the still water faileth;
Ideness ever depaireth bewaileth;
Keep the watch wound, or the dark rust assal.
eth;
Flowers drop and die in the stiffness of noon.
Labor is goryl-the flying cloud lightens,
Only the waving wind changes and hrightens.
Idle hearts only the dark future frghtens,
Play the sweet keys wouldst thou keep them in
time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
FARM NOTES.
Cherries and Bees,

Mr.: Samuel M,ner, of Blufflon No,
says, Ia late issue of Am rican Garden
ing, that he seldom had ii crop of cher.
rlas till his sons located an apiary near
| his plantation Their work in fertiiiza-
ZION has insured him regular crops.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Have a Purpose

Resolve when you awake, that it will be
TO some faithful purpose, and that your re-
newed powers shall be obedient to him to
who has renewed them. And throw a
glance backward, before your eyes are
weighed down, to see how well YOU have
KEEP the morning resolution Frothing-
ham,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Live Well.
SELECTED.

"Desire not to live long, but to live well:
How long we live, not years but actions tell.
Who does the best his circumstance allows
Does we'll, acts noby, angels could do no more"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Will You Do 1t?

Always say kind word if you can, if
only that 1T may come In perhaps with
singular opportuneness, entering some
ones darkened room like beautiful fle-
fly, whose happy Recommendations he can
not but watch, forgetting his many
troubles Selected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28

1t is called commencement, not be-
cause the graduate then begins to learn
his first real knowledge of life, but be-
cause in the old days the graduating e1-
ercises were held at the beginning of the
college year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Democracy's Dilemma.

Better vote for The Chicago Her
the liberty and the aid declares that
white government 1T he spol iatior
of southern states, tariff is the only is
even if the candid sue.' In our hum
ate were the devil BILE judgment this
himself, rat b g T is not only deeply
than consent to the mistaken view, but
election of respect If 1t were generally
able Benjamin Har- adm tied and acted
rison with force upon by the democ
bill in his pocket racy it would prove
New York Sun, fatal to all then
June "a. hopes.-New York
Sun June %.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Men and Ants as Builders.

The largest pyramid in Egypt is one
hundred and forty-six yards hieh-that
is about ninty times the average hight of
man. whereas the nests of the iermites
are one thousand times the hight of the
insects which construct them. Their
habitations are thus twelve times higher
than the largest specimen of architecture
raised by human hands-Selected.
1t was an Englishman wEo said: Il
belong to a country where the sun never
sets, and Yankee replied: "And | be-
long to country of which there Is no
correct map-it grows so fast that survey
ors can't keep up with it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28

An ingenious barber in London has set
the fashion of placing an incandescent
lamp upon BARRIERS pole to indicate that
a shave can Re had las quick as light
ming"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Our Present Divorce Laws,
end-How is your wife?

Friend-How is your wife?
Citizen-Wife? I have no wife.
Friend-You certainly told me you were
a married man.
Citizen-That was across the river il
this state.-New York Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
4 Significant Contrast.
TWO OF THE SAME MIND.

We denounce the
republican protec
ton as a fraud; a
robbery of the great
majority of the
American people
for the benefit Of
of the few. We
declare it to be a
fundamental prin-
ciple of the demo-
cratic party that
the federal govern
ment has no con
stitutional pc wer to
impose and collect
tariff duh les, except
for the purpose OF
revenue only, and
We demand that the
collection Of such
taxes shall be limit
ed to the neces
stiles of the gov
Q IN NJ g n t W b e n
honestly and eco
nomically admin
/ st g r e d.-From
tariff plank of the
democratic plat
form, adopted at
Chicago, June %,
1882.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28

The congress
shall have power
10 lay and collect
taxes, duties and
excuses for revenue
only necessary to
Ply the debts, pro-
vide for the com
mon defense and
carry on the govern
ment of the con-
f. derate states; but
no bounties shall
lie granted from
Luo treasury, nor
shall any duties or
xes on importa-
tiOns from foreign
nations be laid to
promote or foster
any branch Of IN
dustry. Article l
of confederate con
stitution, adopted
March II 1861.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28

A postage stamp of the original value
of alb ,ut 16 cents was sold at auction in
London recently for $40. It was Mol
davian 81 paras postage stamp.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
THREE OF THE SAME MIND.

We believe that
all articles which
cannot be produced
in t b g United
S t a t 9 S, except
luXuries, should be
admitted free of
duty, and that on
all imports coming
in t o competition
with the products
of American labor
there should be
levied duties equal
to the difference
b e t W g @ n wages
abroad and at
home. = From re-
publican platform.
adopted at Min
neapolis, Jnne 10,
1892
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Its Effect on Coinage

During the past IL morths under the
Mckinley bill there were exported s167,'
939,S13 more of breadstuffs than dur
ing the corresponding period last year.
During these same IL months free i'm
ports, such as sugar, coffee and Irvine
material, increased SS9, al 900. 1t was
this same Mckinley bill that, according
to emocratic prophecy, was going to
stop our exports of farm products and
erect a Chinese wall against commerce