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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02
THE COUNTRY EDITOR.
A Chap of Influence UNNECESSARILY
Great.

Great.
Detroit (Mich.) Tribune-Country
editors TO the number of $4,000,
count them. The counting is an easy
matter, but the summing up of the
combined influence is a matter be
yOnd the scope of mathematics. One
hears it said occasionally by a city
newspaper man, who has not stopped
to think: The day of the country edi-
tor and newspaper is passing. A few
years more and electric rural railways,
improved and general free delivery of
mails and cheap dailies delivered early
and late at the door of the farm house
will have put the country weekly out
of business and laid the country editor
on the shelf"
Not on your life. The country edt-
tor ana his paper have functions all
their own; functions which cannot be
destroyed by any such invasion Of
their field. The country paper appeals
to the interest of country folks as the
city daily never can hope to do. The
city daily must limit its persona
its news column would be too numer-
Gus to be readable. Out in the country
acquaintance is pretty general. In the
city one does not know his next door
neighbor. When the city paper pub
fishes some personal item about our
neighbor, we regard it as unimportant.
When it publishes something about
string of personal items about country
residents finds a general interest. At
the same time the happenings closest
to us are the ones we all like the best
to read about. Thus, the explosion Of
a threshing engine, which kills Sam
Smith and Deacon Jones' hired man,
is Of more interest in the country than
the sinking of the CamperdOwn in the
| Mediterranean and the Penberthy
! boiler explosion was of more concern
to Detroit than the loss of 100000
lives by floods in China. 1t is impos-
sible for the city daily to deal with all
matters in detail and so the rural
reader must have his local paper,
which will go into all local affairs and
will deal with them sympathetically.
A city editor must have certain
sort of ability. He must know in
! stinctively how to handle news to the
! taste of his readers, but let him go I'M
J trained into the rural field and he
| finds himself in deep waters. 1t is the
country editor of level head and deep
insight who gets on in the world. He
| is the universal authority, the uni
versal friend, and he gets value re-
ceived for every good deed. His in
| fluence is far-reachlng in proportion
to his keenness of insight and his
adaptability to his work. If he mas
the sympathy and good will of all the
people in his district, it is because he
has earned and deserved them and
they are capital stock as long as he is
able to hold fast to them. The ill
fuence of the country editor and his
publication is UNNECESSARILY great and
always must be in this land of reading
people, for he is close to the people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02
Preserved for Mistah GILL;"

A merry laugh is going the rounds
at the expense of Joseph J. Gill, re-
publican representative from Steuben-
vile, o. The story is told by Rep
resentative-elect S. R. Dressler, who
came to the capital this week to learn
the ropes. "a short time after the
elections, SAD Mr.. DRESSER, my
wife and 1 were travelling through
Ohio. When we came to the town OF
Steubenvile the train stopped and
colored man entered the Pullman car.
He threw an overcoat and several
satchels on the seat in front of us
and announced, THAT seat, sab, am
reserbed for Mistah Gill; a member
OBJ congress-" Ever since then my
family has been insisting that l must
engage a colored porter to look after
my comfort as a congressman travel
ing abroad if | wish properly to main
tain my prestige. "-Washington Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

The farmer or gardener can save
nothing by attempting to use his own
seed, and it may be stated, also, that
seeds grown for use next spring should
be procured early, even in the winter,
if convenient. The reason is that
when spring arrives there is usually a
''rush," and the early customers are
attended 10 first, which often results
in the stock of seeds of certain kinds
being sold out long before the demand
can be supplied. Such was the case
with several varieties last season, the
prices being high because they could
not be procured. The careful garden
er, then, should, while he has the OPP
portunity, take advantage of p fun
market and lay in supply while
seds are cheap.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Everybody semes to dance, from
girls Of Is to danes Of so, and on
moonlight nights it is often as late as
2 Or before the casino is deserted.
As the voices finally die away, and the
music ceases, the dancers go home re
luctantly. Katia may find her hus-
band there before her, and may not.
The children had been sent home at
sunset, and get but a passing thought.
The day is over. and the few hours to
the morning are none too long for the
required beauty sleep.
So goes the woman's life day by
day, always the same every day. with
some slight exception on Saturday af-
ternoons when the Jewesses claim the
boulevard for a few hours. Sundays
the crowds are gayer than ever, and
then Katia wears her jewelry, and the
dances are not INDUCED in. Taken all
in all, the women Of Caracas greatly
enjoy life, and the enjoyment is the
common property of all grades of so
ciety. Indeed, the boasted Spanish
American democracy is at its best
there, and the chances for pride Of
station do not count. The wives of
the ministers of the cabinet shop, at
tend to household duties, and indulge
in the pleasures of the promenade as
rapturously as do the wives of me-
chanics and merchants. The same
daily routine is pursued by all, and no
women the world over get more joy
and pleasure out Of life To add spice
to the daily life there come the revolu-
tons, and on every occasion of the
kind the women are as demonstrative
as the men, and quite as eager to make
an argument or express an opinion
Giffard Knox in The Springfield Re
publican.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02
A WOMAN BOUGHT HILL OF TARA.
Seat of the Irish Kings and Meeting
Place of the Druids.

Place of the Druids.
The harp that once through Tara's
halls
The soul of music shed
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls
AS if that soul were fed.
So sleeps the pride Of former days,
So glory's thrill is DER,
And hearts that once beat high for
praise
Now feel that pulse no more.
No more to chiefs and ladies bright
The harp of Tara sWells;
The chord alone that breaks at night
It's tale of ruin tells.
Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes,
The only sound she gives
! Is when some heart, indignant, breaks
To show that still she lives.
Thomas Moore.
the 5th for $1S,500. The purchaser
was woman whose name was not an
nounced, according to dispatch to
the Chicago Post The hill of Tara is
the shrine of the loyalty of every true
| Irishman. 1t has figured in the annals
of Irish history and inspired the poets
and musicians Of the Emerald isle to
their tenderest strains. Until the COM
! ing of the "bloody sassenachs' in the
18th century Tara was the royal seat
of the kings of Ireland. Here there
! was a palace whose chapel saw daily
the rites of Christian usage where
once oak bound Druids had celebrated
their mystic services alone. Here
King Carmack held his splendid court.
In the midst of the lovely land Of
Meath it rises like a gentle offering
of prayer toward heaven. The fore
ests about it's base were once the lair
: of the wild boar, and furnished royal
sport to the kings of Ireland-for Ire
land once had her kings-in the old
days
After the wasting of the country
and slaughter of it's inhabitants by the
invading hosts from across the water,
| the hill of Tara remained a melan-
! choly monument to forgotten joys, a
reminder that the glory had departed
! forever. Its turf was just as green,
the air that blew across the fields of
! Meath was just as sweet, but it
brought no more the call Of happy
children, it was heavy with the signs
of outraged lives. Here at the twi-
light hour of Ireland, for centuries
have come the children Of the Irish
kings. They have come barefoot and
ragged, to look at the solitary pillar
which alone remains of the great pal
ace that was their fathers home. The
last important gathering at the hill of
Tara was held in 1S43. when Daniel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02
THOSE EXCLUSIVE CARS.

ga number of New York women
are demanding separate street cars
for women only"
81 suppose they want to be able tc
get off backward without any inyfdi
GUS comment"
Maybe so. And perhaps they want
to hold their nicKels between their
lips while they fasten their gloves,
without worrying the fussy doctors. >
81 guess that's right. But they are
going to miss it in one respect.
There'n be nobody to glare at whep
they have to stand up"
''Do you suppose the exclusive cars
will become popular?'
Il dunno. But I'm pretty sure OF
one thing. And that is that great
many women will take the wrong car
by mistake, of course"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02
MANY PLAY HOUSES.
Five Million Dollars Now Being Spent
for New Theaters in New York.

Sixty-five theaters will soon be en-
tertaining audiences in Manhattan.
The present number is fifty-four.
Nearly five million dollars is now be-
ing spent on new theater buildings.
All but 100000 of tbs sum is going
for theaters within a stones throw of
Long Acre Square.
A circle a mile in diameter and hav-
ing the corner of Forty-third street
and Broadway as its center would in
close twenty-four frst-class houses.
Long Acre Square is to be the
theatrical center of the United States
for many years, perhaps for genera
tons. It will also be the theatrical
center Of the world Within a year
at least eight thearers will directly
adjoin the square.
Not even in London or Paris is there
today such a remarkable collection of
places of amusement within a small
radius as there is on New York's
Rialto.
The largest playhouse in the world
is being erected in this city. It is
Oscar Hammerstein's Drury Lane,
which is to cost a million dollars, seat
nearly 5000 people and be finished
next fall. 1t will have the largest
stage, the largest water tank, the high
est proscenium arch and the most
modern equipment in the world.
More costly theaters are being built
o1c -
Of the s25,OOO0OO paid into the
theater box-offices of the United
States last season more than half was
spent for attendance in New York
City.
1t is estimated that S2OOOO,OO0 is in
vested in the play-houses of the city
+ alone
A further investment of S10000,OOO
within the next two or three years is
more than possible.
The seating capacity of the theaters
in Manhattan at present running, in
Guiding Madison Square Garden, is
over 10000. With the additional ca
pacity of the eleven theaters building
this will be over 100000 persons.
This is more than the entire popula
ton of many large cities. Syracuse
has only 100000; New Haven, Conn.
about the same; Paterson, N. J..
los, 900; Los Angeles Cal, 100000, and
Scranton, Pa, and Omaha Neb., the
same number.
Seventy-five years ago the theatrica.
| center of New York was rot far from
Bowling Green.
1t is just half a century since Jennie
Lind made her New World debut al
| Castle Garden, on the southern tip OF
the island, then almost in the heart OF
the fashionable section.
Today it is more than four miles
away.
How the theatrical center of New
York came to travel from the City
Hall Square to Longacre Square il
fifty years, not by long jumps but by
a constant progress, is an exceedingly
interesting story.
The first theater in New York dates
back to 1892. The next was the XII
street theater. on Nassau, near Nader
Lane, which opened in 1850. This is
the first of which there is any concise
record. Three more unimpOrtan'
houses followed in the next ten years
in 1856 the John Street Theater was
opened. This is the first house of any
fame.-N. Y. World,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Strawberries and raspberries from
seed are easily raised by anyone so
inclined, as novices may like the ex-
pertinent, Crush ripe berries, andimix
the seed with sand. Sow this mixture
about quarter of an inhh deep, cover
with light soil and tread on the drill
Keep moist constantly, and by fall
some plants will have appeared, which
being planted out properly will show
a little fruit the first season, and give
a crop the year after. 1t would be a
grand thing to raise a new seeding
that would excel any we have, and
some growers produce new varieties
every year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Those who have ensilage at this sea-
son will find it a great assistance to
the dry matter usually fed to animals
at this time of the year. 1t is not
claimed that ensilagei corn fodder
possesses greater nutritive value than
dry fodder properly prepared, but it is
excellent as a dietary food when green
succulent matter is scarce. The true
use of the silo is simply to keep the
food in a green condition, and the rea-
son why it is so beneficial is that it
enables the farmer to store away the
fodder at any time, withot waiting for
it to cure in the field. When given to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

the market, thus returning not only a
profit on the increased weight, but also
by reason of a higher price for the
whole. The estimated cost of keeping
a steer over winter, and bringing him
into market in good condition, is about
twenty dollars, but of course this esti-
of the winter and the quality of the
food allowed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

There are but few large f1ocks of
sheep compared with those that are
smaller, as farmers keep sheep more
for the purpose of utilizing material OF
no value than with the expectation OF
realizing large sums therefrom, conse-
quently, while the total number of
sheep in this country is large, yet each
farmer taking the average number in
the f1ocks) has but few, but farmers
will always keep sheep because they
cost but very little under certain cir
cumstances.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Next month when you endeavor to
buy your seed potatoes, you will dis
cover that they are not as cheap as
was expected. The lack of proper
storage facilities cause the bulk of the
crop to be placed on the market just
after harvest. Grow a large crop of
early potatoes, as they nearly always
sell at fair prices and when putting in
the late crop take into consideration
how best to store them over winter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

The demand for choice mutton has
largely increased during the past five
years. The introduction of mutton
breeds on farms has added to the quail
ity of the meat, which educated con-
sumers to the use of that which could
not be attained. 1t is doubtful if any
farmer who has made a speciality of
mutton sheep would go back to the
wool breeds, even if wool sold at
double the present prices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

A crusade against slang in college
yells is started by President
Bridgeman of Hamline university;
dickens "bet," and holy smoke"
are barred as profane
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Roses, young trees, and shrubbery
will not always thrive on the edges of
grass plot. The grass deprives them
of plant food, and prevents growth.
They should be set out on a clean loca-
ton, and we'll worked sith hoe sew
eral times, especially if the season is
dry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

OConnell presided over a gigantic
meeting of Irishmen, urging the re-
peal Of the union.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Pea and bean weevils, and similar
seed vermin, can be entirely killed by
the use of bisulphide of carbon. Place
the seed in an air tight bin, or recepta-
Gle and leave small vial of the poison
in the bins Or vessel for twenty-four
hours. The fumes will evaporate and
kill the weevils. Then uncover the
vessel and air the seed thoroughly If
any larvae hatch out later, fumigate
again,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Low prices Of wheat and large pro-
auctions are not encouraging to farm
ers, yet the corn crop is usually three
times as large as that of wheat, and
the farmers continue to make corn d
specially. They do not seek new mar
kets for corn, but sell it in the shape
of beef, butter. milk and wool, and yet
there is but little mentioned regarding
the corn crop as not paying.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

When wheat is valued at a low
price do not forget that the straw is
also an item that is entitled to add
something to the value of the wheat
crop.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Pinch off the tops of your raspber-
ries and blacakberries early, and serve
to sideshoots the same way, early and
often, to make compact bush. If you
wait to head back later, the strength
of the vine which has been thrown in
to the top will be wasted, and you will
have fewer fruit spurs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02
THE WOMEN
OF Venezuela
DOMESTIC CARES REST LIGHTLY
UPON THEM.
REVOLUTIONS ADD SPICE

Afternoons Are Pleasantly Passed
Gossiping on the Plaza Mayor and
in the Evening Every One Dances
at the Casino-Cigarette Smoking
Common.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

The farmer should study how to pro-
duce at the lowest cost and how to sell
to the best advantage. His mistakes
should serve to guide him against re-
peating them, and where farmer has
had years Of experience his knowledge
thus gained should be as valuable as
the capital. A record of the opera
lions Of each year, for reference, would
be found in valuable later on.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Never waste wood ashes. Save
every pound and use them on the or
chard land. Corn cobs are very rich
in potash, and the ashes Of such
should he saved carefully.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Coarse weeds, such as docks, dande-
lions, thistles, etc., may easily be re-
moved from lawns, where they are a
decided nuisance and source of trou-
Bile, by means of oil of vitriol, or car
bolic acid. Provide yourself with an
old backing or pickle bottle, fix a
piece of wire around the neck to cat
~ it, using stick, about 16 inches
long, to dip in and lift the acid with
Do not point the stick, but notch the
lower end of it to the length of 2 or b
inches from the point, SO that it may
hold the acid more effectually than If
it were smooth. One drop of the acid,
if it is good, properly placed in the
center, or heart, of each plant, will Ell
fectually destroy it before your eyes,
and your ears will also have some evi-
dence of the work of destruction, for
no sooner does the vitriol touch the
plant than it begins to hiss with some
assures that the enemy is annihilated
One dip in the bottle of the mitchell
end Of the stick will be quite sufficient
for four or five single crowned plants;
those with double crowns should, in
order to make usre of their destruc-
ton, be treated to a drop on each
crown separately. Of course due care
should be taken Of the clothes and the
skin in doing the work, and the acid
should be kept out of the way of chill
dren and careless persons.
The feeding Of steers in winter is
done rather with a view of converting
the crops into more saleable pro
duct-beef-than with the expectation
Of realizing a profit from the steers.
There are several advantages in favor
Of the winter feeding of steers, among
them the following: The feeding ma
terial is not only consumed on the
farm, but there is large quantity Of
manure saved. The labor is usually
performed during the winter, when
help is cheap and other work not
pressing. 1t avoids the hauling of
roads, to say nothing of the labor at
tendant upon sending it to market,
which is saved by feeding it to stock.
II IIG lcl Ill 10 lOCdICu mean d city the
steers will transport themselves to
market. There is also profit in
feeding steers. They are usually
brought in the fall, when they average
about 500 or / 1000 pounds in weight,
at from five to six cents per pound
When sold in the spring they usually
average from 1000 to 1,4OO pounds,
IL
to eight cents per pound, according to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

1t costs at least one-third more to
produce pound Of pork after the first
year than before. If a pig does not
pay profit by the time it is ten
months old, it will hardly do so after
it passes that age. Young pork is not
only the best and cheapest, but brings
the highest prices in market.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02

Peach trees raised from the seed on
the spot where they are to grow, and
budded there, live longer, produce
more fruit, and are surer bearers than
those transplanted
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02
gricultural Lore

stock it affords a change, increases the
appetite, and promotes digestion.
Some who do not take this fact into
consideration ascribe it to a greater
value than it really possesses from a
nutritive point of view. 1t is not nee
essary to build extensive stone silos
for the preservation Of green food. In
fact, if bins are filled, the fodder COM
pressed in them, and the air kept out,
the same effect will be produced. Any
method that serves TO keep the green
matter in a moist, succulent condition
answers the same purpose as a silo.
AS only the crude materials are used
as fertilizers analyses vary. Peruvian
guano contains about 1i.75 per cent of
water, $40 per cent. Of nitrogen, 2.65
per cent. of potash, 500 per cent. of
soluble phosphoric acid, and 40 per
cent. Of reverted phosphoric acid, its
total Of soluble and insoluble phos-
phOric acid being about 1880 per cent
The supply is nearly exhausted, and it
is seldom found on the market The
fertilizing value today would be about
$50 per ton of 1000 pounds. Pure nj
trate of soda contains about 6315 per
cent. of nitric acid, corresponding to
1612 per cent. of nitrogen, and 361a
per cent. of soda. The commercial nj
trate contains only 95 per cent ofpure
nitrate, or Is % per cent. Of nitrogen.
Commercial muriate of potash con-
tains about 511a per cent. of actual
potash and 4SA per cent. of chlorine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-02
THE FARM.

Suggestions for Winter and Early
Spring.
Remedies for disease are sometimes
given before learning the cause or the
nature of the disease. Recently a
whole herd of swine belonging to a
stockman became sick with supposed
cholera, but examination after death
showed that the hogs had gorged them
selves with pumpkin seed, which did
not digest