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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The first republican convention of the
Choctaw nation was held at South McAlis-
ter. Ind. Ter.
Three men were drowned in the Missouri
river at Nebraska City by the capsizing OF
skiff. Their names are unknown.
At a mine near Aurora, Mo-, as J. H.
Daugherty, one of the owners, descended
the shaft, an unexploded shot went off,
blowing him to pieces
At Greenfield, Ind, D. B. Cooper was
appointed receiver of the Wells Stove
Manufacturing Co. Assets, $4,000; liza,
bilities, 5000,
E. E. Clark. grand chief of the order OF
railway conductors, is seriously i'll with
the grip at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
San Antonio, Texas, is in a critical
financial condition. She is unable to pay
single one of her employees for last
mouth work.
Captain Walter Crook, brother Of the
late General Crook, was stricken with
paralysis at Dayton, Ohio, and is in a
critical condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
The Time to Grow Grass Seed.

Experiments were made last year to de-
termlne the best. time to SOW grass seed.
The varieties sown were red and white
clover, timothy, orchard grass, tall
meadow Oat grass and awnless bronze, a
new variety. The soil is rolling prairie
with clay subSoll. The seeding was very
heavy, too heavy we think for expert.
mental or practical purposes, being at the
rate OF twenty pounds of red clover and
timothy, ten of white, thirty of orchard
grass and the rest In proportion.
The seed was sOWn on the surface with
out covering, beginning March oath when
the frost was out of the ground four
inches, and the ground too wet for any
cultivation, and continued at intervals Of
week up to April 27tn.
The result was that the sowings of red
clover fer March 23rd to April 18th made
good stands, and thinned out regularly
until the last made but one fourth of a
stand. The plats were all cut, and while
the early sowings stood the drouth well,
the third sowing showed unevenness in
the fall, and the last sowlngs were thin in
the stand, and weak in the plant. The
same results practically followed all the
other sowlng5, and the evidence from
this experiment is conclusive that the
earlier grass seed can be put in the
ground, after the spring opens, the
better. We suggest that the station
make similar experiments this season to
determine the depth at which grass
seeds do best, using however only the
amount of seed that is sown by the far
u.er.
One special reason for suggesting this
ex Experiment. is that the experiments made
in Scotland years ago are still quoted, and
ara as misleading as they can be. Exper-
lments OF this character made on clay soil
III the east, would be likewise misleading,
and the only way to give western farmers
any light on this subject is to choose the
lightest soils on the farm, and experiment
from two inches up to the surface sowing.
An experiment Of this kind carefully con.
Quoted would be of great value to farmers
over the entire west
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
FLUCTUATIONS OF SOCIETY.
The so1e-Leather of To day, The Plumed
Hat of Tomorrow

h1t VI
There is always a class of persons here
which is called distinctively society, but
1t is not class of noble families of hered-
itary ascendency. 1t is constantly chang
ing, and the sole-leather of to day is the
plumed hat OF tomorrow It is initiative
and puts On pretty airs of grandeur and
an amusing smlrk OF superiority, but it is
neither grand nor superior.
Yet, again, it is all harmless. An old
Directory tells the secret, and, as the fine
society itself would say, gives this pretty
grandeur away. The Directory is ruth
less herald's Office You start from nv
Lady Disdain in the opera box, flashing
with diamonds and shining with cloth of
gold, little too LOUD in her voice, little
too splendid in her drees, the amiable
dupe of novels and of ignorance, and you
soon arrive, in the memorable Directory of
other years, at thesource of this msgnifi-
cepce-the prosperous butcher and baker
and candlestick. maker, the tailor of his
day, the fashionable shoe maker.
1 hese are the idle rich for whom Mr..
Gladstone asks whether nature has provid-
ed place. Plainly she has. Here it is
In this opera-box, In yonder carriage, in
this little palace of the bonbon architect
ure. But day after tomorrow the good
people in the gallery will come down and
sit in the boxes. The gods will descend
and they will drive home to the bonbon
palace instead Of walking home to the
modest fat, as they do now. It is a
grandeur of wealth and, happily, of a
wealth which is not entailed, and is
therefore always flying away, always dis
trlbuted, and giving US fresh nobility
every year, tasting, as it were, of the soil
George William Curtis, in Harper's
Magazine for March.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
Early vegetables.

Much Of the pleasure as we'll as profit
OF a good garden is lost if it is not early.
To have vegetables only after they have
been long in the market and are no longer
a rarity is the easier way, but the extra
labor required to get them early is better
paid than most that the farmer does. To
secure many kinds of early vegetables a
beginning must be made before the soil is
fit to work out of doors. Hotbeds need to
be started by March, and at this time the
rapidly frightening days make it COM
paratively easy to give plants sufficient air,
and insure hardy. stocky growth after
TRANSFORMING to the open ground
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
DUEL BETWEEN TWO GIRLS.
They Fire Blank Cartridges and Then Re
sort to Pulling HAIR

They Fire Blank Cartridges and Then Re-
sort to Pulling Hair.
4 Hermeweell, Kansas, man from the
Cherokee strip tells a remarkable story of
duel between two girls, which he says
took place recently, at little settlement
IN the northwestern part of Texas, just
south of the line of No Mans Land.
The two girls had at one time been
warm friends, and lived together on
claim which lad BEEN taken up by one Of
them. Their house was built on the line
between two claims. and the girls were
thus complying with the law and impTov-
ing two homesteads at the same time.
All went well with them for some time,
but at last there came DetweeAthem a cool
ness which arose over the attentions of a
bright young cowboy, whose manner so
impressed both of the girls that they de-
sired to have him pay his attention indi
vldually and not collectively. alters
grew from bad co worse and it did not
take long for the young fellow to find out
how matters stood. As he did not par
ticularly care for either girl, but went to
see them purely for past time, he not only
lnstlgated further luminosity, but told his
friends, who helped matters along until
the girls became bi ter enemies.
Things got to such a pitch that at last
the girls had an open rupture, and, &C
cording to the code from the country, they
agreed to fight duel with revolvers.
Both girls were good shots aud the matter
looked serious. but the seconds took mat
tiers in hand and arranged that the pistols
should have blank cartridges.
The girls we're to walk ten PAGES from
rack to back and then turn and fire until
their pistols were empty, or until one fell.
Everything came off according to the pro-
gramme and the girls fired six shots, the
last being at a distance of only a few
feet.
They then realized what had been done
to the pistols, and dropping the weapons
rushed at each other and INDUCED in a
halr-pulling match which was so severe
that their friends were compelled to part
them
When they found that the young man
had instigated the duel, they both turned
upon him and gave him beating and
then became fast friends again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
FARM NOTES.

Feed well but waste 10 fodder.
Fruit is cheaper than medicine.
To get more eggs keep the hens warm.
If we do not expect our cattle to lose
flesh during the winter, we must give
them good shelter.
There never was time when so much
was being done in the interest of intelli
gent agriculture as now.
II any of the sheep are not doing well
separate them from the flock. They will
DO better. The same is true of any
animal
Now that the cows are in the barn M ost
Of the time see that they have free access
to salt when turned out or else give them
a regular ration in the feed box or
Manager.
During the winter evenings in good
time to study live stock. TIE experiences
of Others can be studied froom books and
papers, and the practical value of advice
and observation tested at once.
Chilling or freezing cream has been
found to be injurious to the grain or body
of the butter as well as the favor The
mechanical effect of freezing cream is
about the same as scalding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
EDsiIage in Stacks,

The Scotch or English practice of stack
ing hay and then subjecting it to pressure
by weights or by windIasses, drawing to-
gether by chains or ropes attached to cross
timbers under and over plank hoorings,
seems to be successful there, but is not
adapted to this country with its variable
climate and extremes of temperature Ex-
periments made in Massachusetts showed
much loss in spoiled ensilage-in one case
nearly two-thirds of the stack; and this
wastage, even if much less, will doubtless
offset the cost of good silo, says the
Country Gentleman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

count Surely the Lord doesn't spread
out May day for his little creatures to
| snub and turn their backs upon. A fresh
made world, new every morning and
never two after the same pattern that
| time of year Folks are made different,
there's no doubt of that; and the Lord
touches one by music, and one by pic.
| tute, and another by a sermon; but | be-
lieve be means sky and trees and flowers
| and sunshine and ocean and mountains to
speak to every one who'll take time to
listen. Despising the works of the Lord
will have to be explained some DAY, and
when that day comes and we 60 up with a
poor miserable little dried-up SOU, the
| excuse mo time, no time, won't sound as
well as it does here, for the Lord gave US
al the time there is, and all the privi-
ltges re can use to make something of
ourselves that Will be credit to the pat
tern"
But, Aunt Martha, y said, hoping to
MiIly as model wife and mother. She
20 be her very lite, for the children, and
she is the most unselfsh woman known,
most self-sacrifcing."
JeHHle; uIy Cullu, sdlu Aunt Martina,
putting her hand gently on my shoulder,
never be self-sacri6cing in the same way
The Lord gave Milly wonderful musical
talent, and he expects some return for it.
What right has she to neglect a blessing
such means of glorifying him? It's
your sacred duty TO cultivate your paint
ing, It's hers to cultivate her music, and
if, as is the case with most of US, we think
we have no special gift to cul-
tiyate, then do day by day some
thing which makes the soul Just a
little larger, just little higher, and by
and-by we discover there is d point to
cultivate. Perhaps It's very nice CHEEKY
smile, perhaps tbs fresh way OF telling
a story, or quickness at seeing the funny
side, all little things make all the differ
ence between happiness and misery in
this grand old world,
Take time, child. Take it. Don't feel
that you are stealing it, out take it as the
right of free-born citizen, ana use it to
make the best kind of citizen for the
heavenly country, for this is only the
training ground for that"
So ended Aunt Martha 3 sermon, and we
went to tea'-New York Observer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
Orchard Grass with Glover.
At one one Of the Ohio Farmers insti
tutes farmer pre-. emit said:

At one one of the Ohio Farmers insti
tutes farmer pre- ent said:
81 recommends that more attention be
given TO tue production of orchard grass
When SOW clover always SOW orchard
grass with it, 1t pays well and clover
will do for pasture for horses, cattle and
swine. The orchard grass is very valua
BILE adjunct in clover field. If you in
tend cutting the clover for hay, the
orchard grass is still strong, and will stand
great deal of clover. 1t helps the
clover and i can make a better quality Of
hay.
Il don't think, as rule, that farmers
generally sow !arge variety Of grasses.
We can have a great NUMBER and variety
of grasses growing, have more pasture,
keep the ground al! occupied and give d
variety of feed. | have timothy land and
blue grass land The proper time to SOW
orchard grass is when the weather gets
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
THE YOU THFUL PILOT.

On the bosom of river,
When the sun unbinds Its qulVer
Or the starlight streams forever,
Sailed vessel light and Tree;
Morning dewdrops hung, like mamma,
On the bright folds of her banner,
While zephyr rose 10 ian heI
Softly to the radiant sea-
At her prov pilot, beaming
In the flush of youth, stood dreaming,
And ne was ia glorious seeming
Like an angel from above.
Through his hair the breezes sported,
Ind. as on the wave he foated,
Oft that pilot, angel-throated,
Warbled lays of hope and love.
Through those locks, so brightly flowing,
BUGS of laurel bloom were blowing,
And his hands, anon, were throwing
Music from Tyre of gold.
Swiftly down the stream he glided
Soft the purple waves divided
And rainbow arch abided
On his canvas snowy fold
Anxious hearts with fond devotion
Watched him sailing TO the ocean,
Praying that no wild connection
Midst the elements might rise:
ana he seemed some young Apollo,
Charming summer winds to follow,
While the water-fags' cOrolla
Trembles to his music signs.
But those purple waves, enchanted,
Rolled beside river haunted
BY an awful spell that daunted
Every conner to her shore
Night shades rank the air encountered,
And pale, marble statues numbered
Lotus-eaters where they slumbered
And awoke 10 life no more.
Then there rushed with lightning quickness
Der his face mortal sickness,
And death dews in terrible thickness
Gathered Ger his temple fair;
And then swept a mournful murmur
Through the lovely southern summer,
And the beautious pilot conner
Persisted by that city there
Still rolls on that radiant river,
And the sun unbinds its culver,
Or the starlight streams forever
On its bosom as before.
But that vessels rainbow banner
Greets no more the gay Savannah,
And that pilots flute drops mamma
On the purple waves no more!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
Good Planting.

1t is not unusual to hear people say that
they cannot understand why trees die
under transplanting, considering that
they give the planting the very best of
care, says Meehan's Monthly. What is
considered the best of care is often very
bad care. 1t is amazing to see the careful
planter without experience, occasionally
on his knees pressing the earth in around
the roots with his fingers, for fear of
crushing the fbers. 1t is impossible to
get the earth properly packed around the
roots IN this way. In nurseries, where it
is presumable planting is thoroughly un-
derstood, q man stands with a rammer
while one is putting in the earth, and
hammers the earth In as tightly as though
he was nammering in post. This packs
the earth IN more tightly than can be
done by either feet or hands. Some are
afraid OF crushing the roots with this
hammering process; but with the pressure
all around, the force is directed toward
the roots and not away from them. 1t is
not necessary, however, to go into rea-
sons, as the universal experience of the
pnrsery is in favor of hammering in the
earth as represented. This is the essence
OF good planting, and any other planting
is decidedly bad. Trees properly planted
need no stalking. The fact that tree
needs stalking is a proof that it was not
properly planted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
ACCUSED OF HERESY.
But His Church Stands by Him j ust the
Same,

OSHKOSH, March 10.-At the meeting OF
the members of the First Congregational
church last night Rev. Edward 81. Smith
was fully endorsed, and he was advised to
withdraw from the Oshkosh Ministers as
ISOLATION, which accused him of heresy. The
following resolution was adopted: THAT
we, the members of the First Congrega-
tional church, of Oshkosh. do most en-
phatically express our continued and in
creasing confidence in the Christian char
acter and teachings of our pastor and that
his able efforts to carry the good tidings
of our Master to all needy men merit and
shall receive our most cordial support ?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
FertiliZing Trees.

Experience has proven that while trees
OF which stable manure was used were
healthy and vigorous, yet they were short
lived, while such as were fertilized by
ashes were equally vigorous and far more
durable. The conclusions thus forced upon
US were that heavy application of potash
and bone made healthy trees, while any
large amount of nitrogen led to the yell
lows and other diseases.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
TURKEYS.

The best success in raising turkeys is
to put tue young turkeys with turkey
hen. She understands their nature and
requirements much better than the
chicken hen. A turkey hen and chicken
hen may be set on turkey eggs at the
same time and all the hat;hing given to
the turkey. She will be able to care for
sixten or twenty easily.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
Early Lambs

Every season there are periods when
early lambs bring from 10 tolls cents per
pound weighing about so pounds each.
This means from S. and more for a lamb,
a sum greater than can be obtained from
the wool of two ordinary sheep, and
greater than the price of a common adult
sheep. While every farmer may not sue.
coed in getting early lambs, yet lie can
gain months time in growth by judici-
Gus and careful feeding, in addition to the
milk supply from the ewes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
SUGAR TRUSTS MOVE.
Has 1t Secured Control of the Franklyn
Refinery?

NEW YORK, March 12.-Offcers Of the
sugar trust decline to make any
statement today regard ding the re.
port that the trust has secured control
of the FRANKLIN refinery. If the transaction
is really completed it will leave Spreckles
as the only important competitor of the
trust.
An Associated press Philadelphia dis
patch says members of the Franklin firm
this evening declined to talk upon their
alleged ABSORPTION by the trust.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
Applying Manure.

The mode of applying manure depends
upon the kind of soil. Heavy clay land
that has deep subsoil. Heavy clay land
that has deep subsoil of clay will hold
the manure for years, because it cannot
be easily carried down by the rains; but
on light sandy soils the soluble portions
of the anure are sometimes carried of
before it can be appropriated by the
Young plants. This may be partially
avoided by applying only portion of the
manure in the spring, and applying an
other portion latter IN the season, work.
ing it well into the soil until thoroughly
incorporated with it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
What insects Do,

We see the annual loss of agricultural
products in this country by the depreda
tions of insects estimated at 10 per cent.
But what does this mean? Taking the
estimate Of cur farm products at the figures
given, So 800, 600, it means that these little
pests destroy every year products worth
the snug little sum of S38, 100000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
JERSEY CITY FIRE.
1t Destroys Depots, Sheds, Barges am
Freight.

JERSEY CITY, March IA shed on
dock 2 of the Erie Railroad Co., burned
tonight together with 10000 bales OF hay,
small quantity of other freight
and two canal boats loaded W it'll grain
The barges, Burlington, Suffolk, Huntley
and Mary E zabeth were badly bnrneC
also An unknown deck hand Is
believed to be drowned. The milk depot
north of the shed was also burned. Losses
Hay, 100000; shed, $4,000; milk
depot, $4,000; freights, $1,000; barges
and other crafts, $4,000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
MRS. OSBORNE aYsTERICAL.

Friends Claims That Long imprisonment
Will Cause Her Death.
LONDON, March 11.-Mrs. Osborne, af
ter her sentence yesterday, developed
hysterical calepsy SO seriously that he,
condition last night was critical. Her
friends hope to obtain medical certificate
to the effect that prolonged imprisonment
will certainly cause her death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
Graftiug.

Graft cherry and plum trees during
this month, as they cannot be defeated for
late grating, as is done with apple trees
Peach trees are budded, not grated and
the bark should be fitted around the bud
carefully. Many buds fail to grow, owing
to too much hurry and caTelessness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

warm in the spring. can get better
stand along In April to tue middle of May.
If sown alone use two bushels of seed to
the acre. When | SOW clover | use about
half bushel.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

The man who broke into August
Plath's hardware store at New London
was caught in Oshkosh. He gave his
name as George Curtis. He had disposed
of over half the goods stolen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
What We Read

What we read is matter of Importance
as a means of character training How
we read, is a matter of hardly less import
ance in the same direction A man may
read so earelessly or SO specifically as to
get little harm from bad books, and little
gain from good ones. And, as a matter
of fact, it is only now and then that any
person so reads as to get the good he
ought to from the best reading. While
having care as to what you read, do not
forget to consider how you reads. S.
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