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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07
From Forest to Printed Page.

A cord of spruce wood is equal to
635 feet board measure, and this guam
tity of raw material will make half a
ton of sulphitel pulp, or one ton of
ground wood pulp. Newspaper stock
is made up with 20 per cent. of sui
phite pulp and 20 per cent. of ground
wood pulp. The best known spruce
land, virgin growth, possesses stand
of about 1000 feet to the acre, taking
the best as basis. Twenty-Five acres
OF the best spruce land will therefore
contain l54, 900 feet of timber An
average gang of loggers will cut this
in about eight days. This entire
quantity Of wood turned in at any of
the large mills will be converted in
single day into about $50 tons of such
stock. This will make about an equal
weight of paper, which will supply a
single large metropolitan newspaper
just two days.-BostOn Transcript.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

Editor B. j. Price of the Hudson
Star and Times puts the matter
clearly when he says that one of the
first duties of good wife is to help a
husband to be prudent. Mrs. George
Dewey appears to have failed signally
in this capacity on first trial When
George offered her that fine new house
on silver platter, she should have
intimated to him that it was not the
part of wisdom to give away presents
bestowed by an admirlng people. The
A dmiral never made a break on the
Olympia, SO this little infraction of
good taste while on the cOurtship
should not be taken too seriously.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07
Land Sale.

Notice is hereby given that until
Jan. 2, 1900, | will receive sealed cash
bids for the Sc of the Sc I of Sec
tion 81, Twp. y, North, Range 6, east,
known as the Elvin Barker forty.
GEO. T. ROWLAND.
Nov Is. 1899. If.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

DR.. r. HI. Sweetman, Grand Rapids,
Wis. Office in f. L. Steib & Co.'S drug
store building. Telephone, Office No.
IS. residence No. 147.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

DR.. D. A. Teller, dentist, office over
Wood County National bank, Grand
Rapids. Wisconsin. Will be out of
town every Monday and Tuesday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

DIR. J. J. Looze, Grand Rapids, office
and residence in de Grandpre building,
No. Ill Center street. Telephone No
246.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

Skates. Skates.. Skates... All styles,
all sizes, all prices. Plenty of them.
Centralia Hardware Co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

For SALE OR RENT-A good ten
room house and barn with cellar and
Green Bay depot. For particulars
enquire of Aug. Steiner, Mauston, Wis
or Frank Wuersch of Grand Rapids
Wis. 3w
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

DR.. Frank Pomainville. Grand
Rapids, Wis. Office over Cohen's
store. Telephone PIG, residence phone
80, in Centralia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

DR.. McElwee, the successful spec
laliSt, will visit Grand Rapids on
Saturday, Dec 9, at the Witter House.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

DR.. ChaS. Pomainville, dentist. office
over the J. \. Cohen store, Grand
Rapids.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

For SALE Smith Premier type
writer. -Oberbeck Bros. Mfg. Co.
1w
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-07

DR.. 0. t. Hougen, NJ D. Office
over Days drug store. Telephone IS
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
No Use For the Alligator.

The cOlOred prisoners in the peniten-
liary are acquainted with the habits
f crocodiles and fully realize that they
feliSh q pickaninny. Under these cir
fumstances they are not anxious to
make the acquaintance of a crocodile
hat inhabits the fountain of the pris-
bn. The other day one of them who
had committed some offeESe was taken
10 the cellar to be punished. After he
had been b1indfolded one of the men
Ralled out to the other, Keep that al
fgator back or he will bite this man."
That caused the colOred man to COM
hence to plead, and he said, "Fo' de
Lord, Mr.. Deputy, eff youse let me go,
I'll neber come back here ag'in."
But you told me that the other
time," replied the deputy.
But dis is de time I tells you de
ruff, and neber will come back ag'in."
On leaving the tub he declared that
be animal had bitten him a few times,
Notwithstanding the fact that the croc-
II ollie had been in the fountain all the
lime. The colOred man has kept his
'EOrd up to date, but he is liable to
Don forget the lesson of the crocodile
hat is the deadly enemy of the colored
ben in the sOuth.-Columbu Dispatch.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
A Bit of Superstition.

One Of the most literally patroniZed
of the Pennsylvania many passenger
trains is the st. Louis express, which
leaves the Broad street station each
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The regular
gate for the train is No. IA, but at this
season of the year the rush of people
to get aboard is so great it becomes
necessary to open two gates. No: 10
being the nearest, it is the one selected.
The saunterer happened to be in the
station the other afternoon when the
gates were thrown open. Instantly
there was rush for No. IA and the
crowd became damned around it for a
distance of 80 feet in each direction.
Gate No. Is was practically neglected.
"This way for the st. Louis express"
called out the ticket puncher at the
gate. This way for the st. Louis ex-
press"
But, although his voice was good and
loud, none of the passengers who were
struggling around No. IA seemed to
hear it. Out Of probably 100 well
dressed, intelligent men and women
the saunterer saw but three leave the
pushing throng around No IA and pass
through No. 10. He asked the gate
man why it was.
Don't know was his answer, eek
cept it's superstition. Afraid to start
on a journey by passing through a gate
with IS as it's number, 1 suppose. It's
this way every time, and will be, I
guess, as long as the number on the
gate is left as it is. believe that the
most of the people would rather miss
their train, if it came to that, than take
chances with their superstitious fears.
Funny, isn't t?"-Philadelphia Inquir-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21

The inhabitants Of Cochin China and
Siam have known the fighting capacity
of a savage little fish for many years,
and have long been in the habit of
making matches between those owned
by different men, just as MeXicans
match gamecocks and some Americans
and Englishmen bull pups. When a
match is made the parties to it having
laid their bets bring their specimens
of the fierce little Beta pugnax in
globes Of water. Both are put into one
globe and without a moments hesita-
ton they fly at each other and do not
cease fighting until one of the COM
batants is killed by the other.
1t is only a year or two since speci-
mems of this fish were brought to
Paris, but now many are owned in
Paris, and it is said that the demand
for good specimens is constantly on the
increase. They are beautifully spotted
with red and blue and would attract
attention in any aquarium by their
colorS alone. The savage nature be-
hind the beauty would hardly be sus-
pected.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
The Conspiracy Failed.

Once upon Il time there lived in
ALeavenwOrth the late Len Il. Smith,
Whom all old timers remember, and
sGeneral Powell Clayton. Smith was
I'm New York one day when he was APP
@proached by a chap who said he had
lon the string n rich friend from Cuba,
who was anxious to start a big faro
MIN. He proposed to Smith that he
would take up the Offer-Smith should
Atackle the game and he would cooper
ate with Smith, so that together they
could rob the Cuban of $4,000.
Smith sent up stairs for Clayton and
told him what the gambler had pro-
spOsed All three started out to see the
SCuban, and they found him surround
ed by everything refreshing that mon
lev could buy. Smith and Clayton ate
md drank and drove and went to the
|theater and had all sorts of fun at the
.Cuban'S expense for three OF four
days, all the time having under con-
federation the proposed conspiracy.
Finally, when they were through
with their business in New York, they
thanked the gamblers for their hos
*pitality and suggested that they look
for suckers elsewhere than from
Ramong frontiersmen from Kansas. 1t
WAS estimated that the gamblers spent
'Ht least $1,000 entertaining their in
&ended victims.-Kansas City Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
The UntruthfuI Mummy.

We saw only the outer gardens and
Ehe museum, the chief attraction of
Which is magnificent marble sarcOph-
hguS decorated with bas-reliefs of
Alexander the Great. The collection of
Statues, bronzes and sarccphagi is in
Eeresting and immensely valuable, and
would like to copy some of the de-
BcriptiOns from the .guidebook, but
Space forbids.
One Egyptian mummy case had a
fStranger, forbear' kind of inscrip-
lion on it. The guide furnished me
With liberal translation. The king on
Ehe inside of the case, ''swathed in
Fpicery and fine linen,' had caused this
Injunction to be placed on the lid Of his
Barcophagus:
do not disturb these mortal re-
6nains, for there is naught within this
Easement except my poor body. There
Is neither gold nor precious jewelry to
reward the cOvetOus."
The antiquarianS who unearthed the
sarcophagus did not respect this ap-
Deal. When they examined the mum
by wrapped inside of the box they
found several pieces of gold clasped in
he right hand, which proves that an
oriental will lie even after DEATH
Egyptian Cor. Chicago Record.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
TactfuI Messenger Boy.

Zone of the beautiful traits in the
make up Of Washington messenger
boys,'' said a railroad man who lives
in Washington, lis their tactfulness."
think otherwise. They are chock full
of and loaded down with tact-With
the copper on. To illustrate:
''AIy wife went over to New York a
few weeks ago to attend the bedside
of seriously i'll relative, who was not
expected to live. This morning I was
sitting in my office, wondering why [
hadn't got letter from her by the first
mail, when a tousle headed messenger
boy joggled open the door.
'Where'H / find de office O. Mr..
-?' he asked, mentioning my name.
fright here, son. said I. You're
talking to him.
"'Well,' said the kid, measuring me
up, with the probable expectation that
I'd do a stage back fall. I've got a
death message fer you, an they tOle
me at tn Office that it was important.
mice, mild, tactful way of putting
it, wasn't it? He just left it up to me
to wonder. while I was ripping the en-
velope open, whether the message an
nounced the death of our aged relative
or the deceaSe of my wife. 1t happen
ed to be the former, but am inclined
to believe that that boy would have
been just bit better pleased had it
been the latter. "-WashingtOn Post.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
FARM FAGOTS.

Don't forget to keep plenty of salt
in the pastures for the sheep.
Long milking is essentially a habit
of domestication which has resulted
from persistent breeding to that end.
To get more cream and butter from
the same feed and care, ascertain
which are the poorest COWS and get
rid of them, and feed the balance we'll.
Did it ever occur to you that three
of the most important farm products
are natives of American continent? 1t
is fact, and these are corn, potatoes
and tobacco.
Give the cabbage worms a dose of
equal parts of flour, salt and ashes
mixed and sprinkled on the cabbage
when the dew is on. This is a COM
bination they can't stand.
Bare spots, which are usually poor
ones, are a discredit to any farmer.
They can easily be gotten rid of by
scattering grass seed thickly over the
spot and applying a liberal coat of
manure.
A badly managed dairy generally is
pervaded by smells that may be
properly called "horrible. " The SIN ellis
are caused by decomposed milk and
cream, curd and whey. Keep such
smells down by keeping the dairy
clean.
Pig sites are not fragrant places.
They should not be placed close to
creameries. Milk and cream readily
absorb the foul substances that con-
stitute the foul odors of the pig-sty
and the absorption implies unpleasant
things III the finished butter or cheese.
Put no milk into a vessel, wooden
tin or iron that has not been scalded.
The seams of vessels harbor more or
less actual dirt, which forms breed
ing place for germs, and thus keep
the milk from contamination.
The cucumber patch must be visited
daily, and every specimen removed
that is large enough for use. One Gu
cumber going to seed will quickly de-
stroy vine, for in nature, seed pro-
duction, for the perpetuation of its
kind takes precedence of everything
else.
The successful sheep breeder must
have experience, either his own or
the experience of some other breed
ers. Home grown experience is the
most expensive, but many farmers
prefer to take lifetime to learn what
others, more successful, have learned
and told in the stock journals and
stock books.
The farmer who feeds his stock at
regular hours, and just what the ami
NAL will eat up clean, will get more
pounds to the bushel than the care
less feeder who uses no system. Work
animals are fed regularly per-
force of circumstances,b but other stock,
hogs especially, are apt to be fed by
many farmers somewhat irregularly-
when the farmer takes a notion to go
to the hog pen.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
No Cure For Seasickness.

Notice should be taken of the efforts
which have from time to time been
made by the marine architect to miti-
gate the miseries of seasickness. He
has doubled his ship he has slung his
ship as in a cradle. To no purpose. The
life Of the channel steward remains an
arduous one. Seasickness is not to
be conquered by the shipwright. If
it was merely the rolling motion that
creates nausea, then a hammock or q
cot would be as sure a relief as twin
ship or a cradle hung saloon. Sea-
sickness is caused by the several mo-
lions of the sea combined, and the
worst of these movements the builder
cannot possibly deal With mean
the trough into which the ship falls,
and the liquid ACTIVITY to whose
frothing head she leaps.-Clark Rus
sell in Pail Mall Gazette.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
OUR FARMERS.
VALUABLE ADVICE.

Professor Roberts of Cornell univer-
sity writes this advice to dairymen ::
Sell the poor cows and egin breeding
and filling up the vac ancy with better
ones. Choose the best and breed
them to sire from a butter making
family. Breed a dairy COW according
to the law of dairy breeding. The man
who runs steamboat does it by the
law of steamboating, not of railroad
ing; if he did not he would get stuck
in the mud. When you have secured
a good COW, get her to eat ali she can.
The more you coax her to eat the bet
ter, as profit comes alone from foods.
Don't starve the calf; you cannot af-
ford to let it stop growing a minute
neither teach it to make fat; if you
do, when she is 4 years old and you
will ask her for milk, she will say
mo, sir; you taught me to give you
tallow, not milk; you made me fat
and large in front and fitted me out
fine type of that sort of animal. No,
sir; do not ask me for milk-I have
not got it to give you; but I can give
you tallow if that will do" Do not
discard the heifer when she is years
old and has her first calf, if she does
not come up to your expectation; try
her anotner year; then, if she refuses,
turn her over to the bologna sausage
mill. 1t is long journey from the
scrub to the paying herd, but it can
be accomplished if we will
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
The Reviver.

"Baby was taken very bad while
GU were out, num-" said the new
'ervant girl.
ooh, dear" said the young wife us
lie better now?''
"Oh, he's all right now; but he was
Iad at first. He seemed to come over
/ ite faint; but found his medicine in
he cupboard
Found his medicine! Good gracious!
What have you been giving the child
here's no medicine in the cupboard"
ooh, yes, there is, mum. It's written
ia it,
And that girl triumphantly produced
bottle labeled kid Reviver.' LON
on Tit-Bits.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
Milking the Most nf 1t.

In Hull recently a little girl was in
|ited to a party at a friends house.
fter tea different games were engag-
ID in until it was time to go home AS
be guests were leaving the hostess of
bred the little girl bun.
mo, thank you, ma'am,'' said the
! ri. 81 could not eat any more"
The hostess then told her to put it in
Ter pocket.
II can't" relied the mite; cts full
ready; but the next time I come I
ill bring q basket"-Hull Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
Where They Went.

The professor was demolishing (as
e believed Darwin and his theories
task which he frequently engaged in
when he triumphantly wound up
nth the question:
eff we are monkeys, where are our
hils?'
The lecturer, who had been speaking
is full hour, was startled to hear in
Eply from one of the audience:
1--WE have sat on them so long that
hey are worn off,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
MOTHER TELLS HOW SHE SAVED HER
LITTLE DAUGHTERS LIFE

am the mother of eight children and have had a
great deal of experience with medicines. Last
my little daughtes had the dysentery in its
worst form. We thought she would die. / tried
everything could think of, but nothing seemed to
do her any good. I saw by an advertisement in our
paper that Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy was highly recommended and
sent and got bottle at 1t proved to be one
of the very best medicines we ever had in the
house. It saved my little daughters life, 1 am
anxious for every mother to know what an excel
lent medicine it Is. Had known it at frstit would
have saved me great deal of anxiety and my
little daughter much suffering. Yours truly, Mrs.
Geo. F. Burdick, Liberty, r. I. For sale by Bar
ron Hamblet.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
What tn say About the Babv.

The wise bachelor who is called upon
to compliment the new heir Of his
welded friend can make himself popu-
lar by declaring with emphasis, "Well,
that is baby" There is no gainsaying
that. 1t isn't bit complimentary and
sounds like strong praise.-Philadel
phia Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21

A little girl in Chicago church has
made valuable contribution to the
new woman literature. She told her
mamma the story Of Adam and Eve.
"Dod, he made Adam and he put
him in a big garden, am Adam he was
so lonesome; m then he putted him
to sleep, he did; m then he took out
his brains and made woman Of the
brains, m then Adam he wasn't lone
some no more.'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21

A young Irishman once went to a
kind hearted old squire for recon-
mendation. An elaborate one was
written and read to him. He took it
with thanks, but did not move. "What
is the matter with it?'' roared the
squire. "Oh, nothin' sorr," said the
lad quickly. "Well, then, why don't
you go?'' "Sure, sorr, thought on
the stringth of recommind like that
you'd be wantin' to hire me.''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
Missed the Opportunity.

Mrs. Bargane-Haven't you got q
toothache, John?
Mr.. Bargane-No, my dear. Why?
Mrs. Bargane-Oh, am so sorry that
you have not. I bought q new tooth
ache cure today at a bargain, and I
wanted you to try it.-Baltimore jew
iSh Comment
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21

DeWitt's Little Early Risers expel from the sys-
tenn all poisonous accumulations, regulate the
stomach, bowels and liver, and purify the blood
They drive away disease. dissipate melancholy,
and give health and vigor for the daily routine Do
not grippe sicken.
III Pierce, Barton; French, Glover; 81 S
Webster, ton Landing; 6 w Russell. Iras-
burg
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
Rare Devotion.

''Do you think Dolly's fiance loves
her?'
Indeed he does. Why, he went and
made love to that pretty Albright girl,
just to give Dolly a chance to cut her
out. "-Collier's Weekly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21

An inch of rain on SCARE mile of
land equals more than 14,47s, 433 gal
Ions, or or over 81, 635 tons, 100 tons
per acre being rough and ready reck-
oning.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21

This is the greatest dairy country in
be world, yet in some of the older Eu-
Ppean countries two or three times as
UGH milk and cheese are consumed
pr capita as in the United States.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21

j V Hobbs, M D. Fort Valley, Ga, says: 81 have
been practicing medicine twenty-five years and
know piles to be Of the most difficult of dis
eases to cure, but have known DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Save to numbers of cases and do not
hesitate to recommend it." Be sure and get ODE
Witts;' there are injurious counterfeits on sale.
II Pierce Barton; r E French, Glover; FL S
Webster, Barton Landing; w Russell, Iras-
hnrn
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
CASTORIA

Bears the signature of CHAs. H. FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind You Haze Azz0a1s Bought
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21

Some royal crowns are merely silk
added caps Ornamented with jewels
Ahd pendants.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21

A little boy who spent the Christ
mas holidays in the country found the
temperature of his room exceedingly
cold one night when he was sent off
to bed. Undressing rapidly and say
ing his prayers at high rate of speed
he closed with; "Please excuse me,
God, for saying my prayers SO fast,
but it's dreffiy cold and Pm in an
awful hurry to get into bed"
"Now, Mabel, when you say your
prayers be sure to ask God to help
you not to be a naughty little grip
Mabel promised that she would add
this petition to her prayers, SO when
she had finished her usual form she
spoke as follows: "And now, o God,
please keep Mabel from being q
naughty little girl There was 2 pause,
and then she concluded: "Neverthe-
less, Thy will, not mine, be done!"