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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-15
This Rooster

Gives instructions in Arithmetic. If Barrel of Old Flour cost $4.5O with an empty barrel, and a barrel of New cost S4 25 and use the empty barrel for kind ling wood, which is the cheapest? When the Old Flour will make 20 loaves of Bread more than the New, and the Bread is worth Sc a1oaf and you need not bake but once a week. Old Flour contains 25 per cent of gluten more than New and the fact that gluten absorbs larger amount of water accounts for the large yield of Bread obtained, which is of rich creamy color retaining its moisture and keeping per fectly sweet and fresh long after bread made from New Flour has become stale and dry.
 If you buy Kelly's Old Flour because there is no other in town I will guarantee YOU will have not only Good Bread. but absolutely the Best Bread that can be pro- duced.
 handle the finest grades of Butter that can be made in this country.
 Elgin Creamery, 25c per lb. In 5lb tubs. Ac Michigan Cremery, 22c '' or 5 lbs, for $1. This is the lowest price that Butter has been sold for in five years.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-15
Killed Himself This Time,

Edwin May, who, with his brother Irving, attempted suicide at North Wood stock last week, the one by hanging and the other by cutting his throat, made another attempt at self destruction yester- day, which was successful. He hanged himself in the barn again, where he was found hanging dead. The cause assigned is that he thought his brother was going to die and he wanted to die with him.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-15

Have you seen those
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
FOND OF CANE.

After stories of fighting an old sol
der likes to tell stories of foraging
and Of eating. A confederate chaplain,
Rev. J. II. M'Neilly, thus relates his
own exploits as the owner of a sweet
tooth:
When General Hood started on his
campaign into Tennessee, in the fall
of 1864, the sorghum was just ripen-
ing in Georgia, and we passed daily
great fields of the sweet cane. We
found it delicious to the taste, and
chewed great quantities of it, swallow
ing the juice and leaving thousands
of dry guilds spit out by the way.
Steve E. was our commissary SER
geant and had peculiar advantages for
gathering the sorghum. Every day he
furnished me with a good supply Of
stalks, and I marched and chewed,
and threw aside the guilds all along
the way. Steve declared that "the
parson had chewed a streak hun
dred yards wide through the state of
Georgy."
After the war was over Steve was
riding with an old comrade in Dickson
county, Tennessee, when they passed
a ten-acre field of sorghum in fine con-
dition.
wouldn't we have enjoyed that dur
ing the warp said the second man.
"Yes," said Steve, ''but if you'd turn
the parson in on it, he'd chaw it up In
a night"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
THE DAYS TRIPLES.

Grandstander-"Wh is the great
race problem?" TTackley-'GuesSing
which horse obet on."-Boston Tray
eller.
Mabel-'Do you not think Mr.. de
Little a man Of small calibreT" Grace
Perhaps, but I'm sure of one thing;
he's big bore. brooklyn Life.
Customer lin a restaurantl- See
here, waiter, I've found a button in
this salad" Waiter-"That's all right,
sir; it is a part of the dressing."-
Good Housekeeping.
DR.. Fourthly--"When I reproached
Gallon for drunkenness he cried like
a baby" DR.. Bolus-"EXactly and
could have been quoted just as easily
by the presentation of a bottle
Truth
What are you doing to relieve the
unemployed, Jack? II ordered four
suits of spring clothes this very day,
three more than I needed, on purpose
to provide them with work" "But,
Jack, you complain of poverty your
self How can you pay for so many
suits" 81 can't, not this year any
how; one thing at a time, you know
Relieve the tailors some other season"
Life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
A FEW THINGS TO AVOID.

Never call upon people just at bed
time, or during dinner, or before they
are down stairs in the morning
Never stop people who are hurrying
along the street and detain them for
ten or twenty minutes.
Never, when you see two people en-
gagged in earnest talk, step in and
enter upon a miscellaneous conversa-
ton
Never begin to talk about this, that
and everything to one who is trying
to read the morning paper, or a book
or anything else.
Never fail to keep an appointment.
Never inconvenience people by CON-
ing in late at church, theater. lecture
or concert.
Never delay in answering letters or
returning books.
Never tell long stories of which you
yourself are the hero
Never speak diSrespectfully of your
parents nor of your sisters People
may laugh at your wit, but they will
despise you for it.
Never talk when others are singing
or doing anything else for your amuse-
ment, and never. the instant they have
finished, begin to talk upon a different
topic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05

fifty francs each, and you shall hear
no more of them"
"Diable, that is tempting. And they
will be taken care OFF,
Once they have entered my service
they would not change their position
for that of the emperor of China. Ask
these gentlemen how we live"
Like lords said FerguZon.
Then you will send them:
Il should like to do so. Do you stop
here long?"
NO. we leave here tomorrow. but
we will proceed slowly, and they can
overtake US. Give me the five hundred
francs, and it is settled
II have but two hundred and fifty
Send the rest by them. 1t will be
a pretext to send them if you want
one"
But they would say that one was
enough for such a commission"
''Tell them that the roads are not
safe"
So the bourgeois, after having count.
ed out two hundred and fifty francs.
went home enchanted, at having found
a way to get rid Of a nephew and a
stepson who cost him more than one
hundred pistoles q year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
CHAPTER XVI.
Cauvagnac and NanOn.


The next day the nephew and step
son arrived, both mounted on the
same horse, and after them Tricontin
and Chalumcan. There were many diff
fcultieS raised at the first explanation
but they all subsidized before the men
aces and promises of Cauvagnac. The
horse was taken for the baggage, as
it was to be an infantry regiment.
They continued their route, Cauvagnac
was equally successful everywhere,
and before long he had assembled
five and twenty men. They reached
Jaulnay, which he recognized as the
place to which he had brought the
dispatches to Candles. AS he went
through the village, he saw approach
ing him a young lady, followed by a
squire.
"Oh!' cried he, there is some one
who will add to our troop"
What! that young lady. We have
already bakers, clerks, and chemists,
enough of bad soldiers, I should think,
without a woman"
Eyes, but our money does not in
crease, II is Ill ludt point VI view
that I hope to procure air.
ooh, if that is it, I approve entirely -
Cauvagnac approached the young
lady who had stopped before the inn,
and said, "Your servant, monsieur"
Whom do you mean?" asked the
young lady, laughing.
yourself, vicomte.''
The lady colored. 81 do not know
what you mean" said she.
THAT color shows that you do"
you are deceived, sir"
ooh, I know quite well what I am
saying"
Come, Sir; an end to this joking"
"It is no joke. I had the honor of
meeting you three weeks ago in your
own dress, on the banks o. the Dor
dogne, followed by your faithful Pom
| pey. All! there he is; perhaps you will
say that I do not know him eitherT'
The squire and the young lady
| looked at each other.
do you deny tips continued Cauv-
agnac.
III no Continued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05

but the scarcity of water deferred him
from doing so. During the nine
months he was on the coast he had
fever twelve times His friend Moses
was also i'll, and his other chimpanzee.
Aaron, treated Moses with the greatest
care and tenderness. The natives re-
Sarded the cage as 4 sort of fetish,
On one occasion he was favored with
a prolonged visit from a lady gorilla.
who was chasing a dog TO which he
was in the habit of giving an occa-
Sional bone. He was not, however.
able to hold much conversation with her
as she was too much astonished to
talk. 1t was his intention to return
to Africa, bring back a number of
chimpanzees, ard give practical il
lustration of the progress he had
made.-London Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05

and if monsieur would send instead
his two clerks"
Certainly cried the lawyer with
great pleasure. And they are fine
lads"
"One looked to me a child"
He is fifteen, and plays the drum
beautifully. Here, Tricontin.''
"Stay a moment interrupted Cauy-
agnac, what of the other?'
He is eighteen; five feet six inches
high, and already knows the exer-
cises''
'Still. sir, his Majesty cannot be
charged with the equipment Of these
lads
ooh. sir, if that is all, to show my
loyalty, l am ready to give some
thing"
We'll, for five hundred francs you
can dc it,
And then I shall be left in peace?''
Il believe So
But if they still pursue me?'
Appeal to me; I will certify you.
But will your clerks consent?''
They will be delighted"
Are you sure?"
"Oh. yes; but still it would be better
not to tell them of their destined
honor
Then how will you manager"
'Send them to your friend What is
the name?"
Captain Cauvagnac."
Il will send them upon some pre-
text. It would be better little out of
the town for fear of a disturbance"
Send them to the first inn on the
road from Orleans to Tours. There
they will find Captain Cauvagnac; he
will give them a glass of wine to
drink the health of the king, and they
are soldiers. Now call them in
They came. Tricontin was a little
lad about four foot high, brisk and
active; Chalumcan, great ninny Of
five feet, six inches, very bony, and
with carToty hair.
Gentlemen said the lawyer, you
are to go tomorrow on business for
these gentlemen, to the first inn on
the Blois road, to see Captain Cauv-
agnac."
The clerks bowed, and the Cauvag-
nae and his companion took leave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
TO be ContinUed.)
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S
ARMS.

In Doctor Mines volume of remi-
niscences, "a Tour Around New York, -
the author devoteS a paragraph to
the attractions of Battery Park, and
adds a pleasing little story of a time
before his own.
[ remember a dear old lady who
loved to talk about this park, and tell
Of the people she had met here and
the scenes she had witnessed; and of
these, one man and one mornings adj
venture stood out most prominent.
A little thing in white, her nurse had
brought to the park to witness a civic
ceremony, and the crowd prevented
her fron obtaining a good view of
pageant
AS, with a childs Impotence, she
tied to press through the throng, a
tall and handsome elderly gentleman
clad in a suit Of black velvet and with
a dress sword at his side, stopped
down to her, inquired pleasantly about
her trouble, and then lifted her upon
his shoulder and held bert here until
the procession had passed.
Delighted with what she saw, the
child thought little about the gentle
man who had brushed away her trou-
BILE, but thanked him when he re
leased her with a kiss and set her
down upon the ground. AS he moved
away, the nurse, in an awestruck
voice, asked the child if she knew
whose arms had held her, and then
told her that it was President Wash
ington The little eyes watched him
out Of sight, and never forgot his
stately appearance.
I think dear old Mrs. Atterbury was
prouder of having been the heroine
of this incident than Of all the social
honors that afterward fell to her lot
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
DOCKED THE HORSES TAILS.
Ladies Indignant at the Mutilation OF
Their Gift to Princess May.

The women of Canada subscribed
several thousand dollars for a pair of
horses, sleigh, and set Of furs and
robes for a wedding present to the
Princess May, duchess Of York. The
horses were shipped from Halifax a
few days ago after their tails had
been docked.
The lady treasurer Of the Halifax
subscriptions saw the horses the day
they were shipped, and was shocked
at the manner the magnificent animals
had been tortured and mutilated.
James G. Macintosh, the we'll
known banker and ex-mayor of the
city, has taken the matter up, and in
conjunction with the subscribers to
the fund in Montreal is inaugurating
steps to prosecute Mr.. Skead, pro-
minent citizen of Ottawa, said to be
responsible for the mutilation, while
the women of Canada who subscribed
the money will memorabilia the prin-
cess not to accept the horses, and
thus express her reprobation of the
barbarous practice of docking
Halifax ladies who subscribed say
they would never have given a dol
lar if they had h. any idea that their
sentiments were to be outraged by the
torture and mutilation of the animals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
AFTER BEARS.
A Tale You Can Tell to the BOYS.

! Bears rarely attack a man unless
they are first molested. A wounded
bear will fight for its life. and so will
many otherwise harmless creatures.
John S. Springer gives an account of
a sanguinary encounter between men
and bears. in which three of the bears
We're killed. \ man named Jacob Har-
rison found a young bear fast in a
trap and three others close at hand
in very angry mood. He was not
after bears, and was totally unarmed.
He hurried to the nearest farmhouse.
gave the alarm and, Selling an old
dragoOn-sabre, he ran to the scene of
action followed by James Burke, who
was armed with a gun.
They proceeded straight to tie trap,
supplied with a rope. intending. if
possible, to take the young bear alive
1t was dusk in the woods and the men
We're unable to see things very dis
tinctly.
Harrison was ahead, and was adj
yancing cautiously, when a growl was
| heard and the confined beast made a
furious leap toward him and caught
him by the leg. Jacob drew his sabre.
but not before the Infatuated animal
had inflicted a bad wound on his knee.
His idea was to despatch the savage
little animal but by the time it had
received several cuts from the sabre
1T began to cry in peculiar manner,
and the next moment there was a
crash of bushes and twigs and the old
she-bear rushed upon Harrison.
The man turned upon his new foe
and welded his trusty weapon with
such energy and success that in short
time he deprived her of one of her
forepaws by a lucky stroke, and at
last completely disabled her by a cut
across the neck, which divided the
tendonS and severed the spinal YER
tebrae. Then he despatched the cub.
While this had been going on, Mr..
Burke had been having a perilous en-
counter with the old male bear. He
discharged his gun, merely wounding
the brute, and the next instant bruin
sprang at him. The beast was met
with blow from the butt-end of the
fowling-piece. At the first stroke the
stock flew in pieces, and the next mo-
ment deXterous blow of the bears
paw sent the heavy barrel twenty feet
into the underbrush.
Mr.. Burke then retreated a few feet
and placed his back against a large
hemlock-tree, followed closely by the
bear; but, being acquainted with the
nature of the animal and his mode of
attack, he drew a large hunting-knife
from his belt, and coolly awaited the
onset.
The maddened brute approached,
growing and crashing his teeth, and
with a sort of spring encircled both
the body of the hunter and the trunk
of the tree in his grip. The next in
slant the flashing knife-blade entered
his heart, and the combat was soon
over.
Two old bears and a cub-all eX-
tremely fat-were the result of this
dangerous adventure. The largest of
them weighed two hundred and fifty
pounds. Mr.. Burke was not injured,
but Mr.. Harrison was torn severely
and had three ribs broken.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
FLOWERS AND SMELLING SALTS
Do They Cause Loss of Voice an
Deafness in Some Persons?

10 1uey cause LOSS OF ' GlcC ana
Deafness in Some Persons?
A physician commenting the other
day upon the prevalence of deafness
said that the affection, in a greater or
less degree, was almost universal
among his women patients He had
been seeking, in a desultory way, for
a cause and had about decided that the
use of strong salts in the smelling bot
tie of the fashionable woman had
something to do with it.
In enc case he was positive that such
was the fact, for it was after a nerv-
Gus attack of about six weeks dura-
ton, through which his patient seemed
to be kept up only by constantly bury
ing her nose in her vinaigrette, which
was kept freshly and strongly filled,
that she noticed that the hearing of
one ear became defective The illness
occurred last summer, but the deafness
remains without increase. Another
case we'll authenticated was of per-
manent and severe deafness dating
from an inhalation of ether.
In this connection a fact recently
commented upon in an English print
is Of interest.
This was that the smelling of freshly
cut flowers, and even in a lesser degree
of extracts and other artificial per
fumes, has a pronounced and imme.
date effect upon the voice. Patti is
quoted as saying that even a sachet
of iris powder has weakened her voice
for a time and Nilsson will be hoarse
for days if she smells of violets or
lilacs. Recently a great artistic en-
gagged to sing at an at home given by
one Of the Rothschilds lost her voice
completely after briefly shifting at a
presented to her.
The curious part is that the delicate
perfume Of the violet seems the most
serious of all. After that come the
tuberOse, mimosa, lilac and hyacinth.
The fact has become so well recognized
that all the continental directors of
operas forbid the presence of bouquets
in the dressing rooms.
The doctors are unable to explain
this condition beyond the fact that all
these perfumes affect the larynX and
thus injure the voice, which fact will
tend to confirm the physicians dag
noSis that the ear passages are at
fected by smelling salts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
CHAPTER. XIV.

The Recruiting of Captain Cauvagnac.
1t is now time to return to another
important parsonage in this history,
who, mounted on Il good horse, jour
neys along the road from Paris to
Bordeaux with five companions, among
whom is Ferguzon, bearing a bag
full of gold.
TT is fine sum-" said one of the
men to him. "ten thousand francs"
eyes, only out of this is to come
a troop for the princess"
TT costs so dear to appear honest"
said Cauvagnac "All my receipts from
the tay-gatherer have gone for horses,
dress, and embroideries. Certainly,
we look like lords, and we have purses
but nothing in them"
You speak for us, captain, and not
for yourself: for you have purse and
ten thousand francs in it,
Friend, did you not understand
what Ferguzon said? NJ. Lenet gave
me that sum to raise a company, and
I will do it. When I have done so.
he owes me four thousand more. Then
If he do not pay, we shall see'
'Raise me q company with ten
thousand francs?''
But we will add something to it
"Who will? not I, for one.'
And not T." cried each of the others.
"Oh, the first conner will do that.
Look, there is man on the road"
II understand"
II am not going to rob him.
He must be a bourgeois he wears
black cloak"
Are you srlre?"
yes, look; it is blowing in the
wind"
IF he be a rich burgeois. that will
do. | am recruiting for the service
Of M. lie Prince, and it is important
that my company should do him
honor
The worthy man approached. and
bowed politely to Cauvagnac as he
came up. Cauvagnac returned It. and
then going up to him, said, Monsieur,
do you love the king?"
Certainly"
"'That is right And the queen"
Il have the greatest veneration for
her.
and NJ Mazarin?''
m. Mazarin is a great man, and
admire him.
Then you are a good servant OF
his Majesty's, and ready to show your
zeal?''
Certainly"
"That is lucky
"What do you mean?" asked the
stranger with disquietude.
IT mean that you must follow us.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
GARNER'S MONKEY BUSINESS.
He Tells Some of the Results of His
Odd African Expedition.

Prof. r. L. Garner gave to a large
an interesting account Of his work
and methods in studying the speech of
monkeys and the habits of the gorilla
and chimpanZee in their native forests.
He was not himself startled, he said,
to find that monkeys spoke, though
to some it was an incredible idea. Mr..
Darwin lad only touched the subject
he minated rather vaguely his belief
that animals could not talk. Aristotle
held the same opinion, and the church,
whether or not on scriptrral authority,
maintained the same view. In the
pursuit Of his object he had been ter
ribly in earnest, and had faced every
kind Of hardship. No day had been
too long, no sun too hot for him, in his
endeayors to solve the question, DO
monkeys talkT
1t was his unconditional opinion that
monkeys talked These animals had
a limited power of thought. Many
mems power of thought was limited,
but thought was thought, however
great the difference in the extent of
the faculty between man and man.
Every anatomical condition present in
man was present in the monkey. For
months he had lived alone with a
chimpanzee, with which he got to be
on the most friendly terms. He
doubted sometimes how far he was
on hn ON =
He could not say much for the morals
of the chimpanzee; but he could say
the same of many human beings. He
had a native boy with him when he
lived with the chimpanzee. He was
ignorant both of the boys speech and
that of the ape. The boy, however,
mastered the chimpauZee language
sooner than he did. To his chimpan-
zee, as to the boy, he conveyed by
speech the common requirements of
life-bread, water, fire-by learning the
tongue of the animal as he had
learned that of the boy. God could
never have given these brutes so much
Of feeling, emotion, and intelligence
without giving them a corresponding
power Of speech.
He generally spoke, especially to the
smaller monkeys, by the phonograph,
in which their speech had been pre-
viously registered. Unquestionably,
these animals addressed certain sounds
to the individual and waited for re-
Spouse Intonation, infection, para
dig1ns, were, no doubt, absent, but
these were the products of centuries of
evolution. There was, however, IN
doubted variety in the tones of the
ape To his mind the evidence was
clear that monkeys could count, and
his friend "Moses," the chimpanZee.
would, in obedience to the word of
command, do his appointed task of lay
ing a certain number of blocks in a
certain number of holes, and after do
| ing so would run up in eager expecta-
| ton of his reward. The first night
| he spent in the cage with which he
was equipped was one Of the proudest
| of his life. Sometimes, indeed, he was
lonely. The gorilla was an animal of
shy habits, but his own monkey travel
| ing companion attracted them, and a
gorilla now and then would pay him
a visit. He believed he had seen more
gorillas than any other white man
The natives told him he would have
seen more if he had BACKED his face
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
ONE RESORT.

Very many good stories are told of
Doctor Jowett, the master of Balliol
college. At one time a student was
'sent down. for failure to pass an ex-
animation in Greek.
The boys mother called to see Doc
tor Jowett, and talked about her son
until the listener was somewhat weary.
She gave the lad the best of charac-
tiers, and closed with the religious
irrelevance:
''He will have the consultations of re-
ligion, and there is one book to which
he can always turn"
Doctor Jowett eyed her benignly.
eyes, madam" he said. "The Greek
grammar! Good evening""