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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21

riously in the clutches of villain
who maltreated her. He watched her
gaze gloomfly into the street. he saw
her mop away the involuntary tears
( that trembled upon her fair cheek, he
trembled with an ecstasy CT antici-
patton as to what he would do if he
ever got a good chance at her ras-
cally employer. For days thereafter
she did not smile.
But one Saturday morning, coming
opportunity to his window, Ponder
saw her standing beside the mans
desk. Her face was turned from the
watcher, but he could see the villain
and knew by his gestures that he
was in a rage. He was waving his
arms, his face was purple, and he
seemed to be pouring upon the bowed
! head of his unprotected stenOgra-
pher the full walls of his invective-
At last he jumped up, slipped the
latch on the door and slapped-yes
there could be no doubt about it-he
was Shaping the face of the defence
less divinity. That was too much for
! LtuuCl NOL w dllluS W Dec IuC uC-
nOuement of this cowardly outrage,
! he grabbed his hat and almost fell
down the stairs two flights before he
thought of the elevator. In two min
utes he was standing at the door OF
the office of his goddess in the oppo-
site building. He knocked. The girl,
AID From The Windaw 80. :. :. q
her eyes red with weeping, admitted
him. He mad read the name on the
door-"Horatio Roebuck, Lawyer
"Is Mr.. Roebuck in?" asked Pom
der, beaming graciously upon the dis
tressed damsel.
mo, sir, he just went out" she
quavered. Did you wish to see him
professionally"
mo, miss" quoth Alexander Ham
| liton Ponder, with ominous gutturals.
81 wish to see him personally, per
sonally, do you understand, miss?"
ooh, Then perhaps 1 can tell you
what you want to know. I'm his
wife"
And Ponder doesn't wash his win
| dow any more.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21

the reason that the bees cannot spread
over much space when the weather is
cold without lowering the temperature
to point injurious; but by giving
plenty of time to build up, there is no
crowding the hives with brood all at
once, to be reared by old and worn
out bees. That is, the bees will be
all worn out before they have finished
the job of caring for the young bees.
By the gradual method a supply OF
young bees can be reared to take the
place of the old bees as they die out;
and when the honey flows come the
hives will be full of young, strong
bees, which can stand the cool and
damp weather of spring.
To accomplish this several methods
may be pursued. One good way is to
fill number of jars-fruit jars are
goodwill syrup honey or syrup
made from white sugar, then tie over
the mouth of each jar a piece of bur
lap or other loosely woven cloth, in
vert the jars and tie them on stakes
or fencepOstS near the hives. The
bees will suck out all the syrup. When
feeding for the first time only feed
for a few hours. then skip a day, after
which the feeding can be continued
much longer; and as the weather gets
warmer the bees should be fed quite
regularly. But when the hives get full
of brood, great care will be necessary
to keep the supplies up or you may
have the modification of seeing your
bees dragging brood from the hive
and soon become weaker than it was
before the feeding began.
If the weather should not permit of
stimulative feeding from jars outside
then it will be well to place the syrup
or bee candy at the bottom of the hive.
This can be done by placing a super
underneath the brood chamber and
putting the feed where bees can get
in the syrup. Bee candy is one of the
most convenient things to feed bees
1t can be made by stirring white sugar
in honey until a thick cake is made
This candy can be placed in the super
below the brood or can be put above
the brood frames; but if so placed
select very warm day, and after
placing the candy, thoroughly repacb
so that the bees may not be the worse
This method should not he resorted tc
unless the weather has become set
tied, with no very cold weather tC
follow.
1t is good time to repair and put
up fence around the apiary, to level
! and sand the ground, and to kill the
weeds. When warm weather is al
hand it is not altogether comfortable
! to be hammering and working neal
! the hives. The ground is soft now
and the weather cool, so there is nc
excuse for waiting until warm wealth
er. Other repairing should also be
DONE and hives ordered and put ur
while there is time during the rainy
days in early spring. If there is nc
brook near the apiary, water should be
supplied for the bees. To force the
! bees to travel miles for water is 9
waste of time and energy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
VEGETATION ON VOLCANOES.

London Morning POst.-In the de-
scriptions which DR.. Flett and DR.. An
derson gave of the destruction
they commented on the remarkable
way in which st. Vincent and Mar
Unique recovered their vegetation
after such volcanic outbreaks. Papers
written by DR.. Treub and Professor
PenZig on the fora of Krakatoa afford
an interesting corollary to these later
observations by affording an insight
into the stages of growth in this proc.
ess of vegetable recovery. The explo
sion at KrakatOa, which blew the
island in half and left it an isolated
mountain rising out of the sea and
covered with pumice and red hot
ashes to a depth of from to 1870 feet
occurred in 1888. Three years later
DR.. Treub visited it, and found it
nearly inaccessible. But on it's mar.
row beach he found the fruits or seeds
of seven species of phanerogams and
nine species of the usual littoral plants
Of tropical islands. In the interior
ferns predominated, and DR.. Treub' s
conclusion was that ferns in such a
flora preceded and prepared the sol
for a phanerOgamic vegetation. A
close examination of the ashes and
pumice stone revealed the presence
of alg8 coating the arid soil every.
where with a thin gelatinOus layer, in
which the fern spores would find a
suitable place for termination. Eleven
years later Professor Penzig's visit tC
the island discovered sixty-two species
of plants Cffty phanerogams and
twelve vascular cryptogams). The
ferns still predominated in the inter
iOr, and there were several tall
grasses. Seeds or fruits of thirty
species were found on the beach, and
here and there seeding plants OF
the fifty-three phanerogams Professor
Penzig estimated that seventeen were
introduced by the agency of the wind
thirty-two by water and four by birds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
ceeds to the church treasury

ceeds to the church treasury.
A French soldier has invented q
device which will prevent all sound
and smoke from escaping from a rife
according to his claim The device
cosists Of a steel tube 80 inches long
which is larger than the bore. and at.
tached to the muzZle of the rife
/ There are partitions in this tube which
have orifces slightly larger than the
bullet. and the gases are retarded by
each partition in turn, and finally
escape unnoticed.
The ways of fate are certainly
strange, as proved by the death OF
/ Thomas Lawrence of Pettis county,
$40. A year ago he was struck by an
express train and picked up 20 yards
away uninjured. Last August he
stopped a bolt of lightning and was
unframed, and month ago he fell 20
feet from a barn roof and was not
hurt Last week, while on his way to
his barn, he stumbled over a six
months-old puppy, fell and broke his
neck.
l. Detroit man with the jury craze
| has just had hard luck story. In
| 1873 he was rejected in a murder trial
jury because he knew too much about
! the case. This was a grave disappoint-
ment to him, and since that time he
] has only read the headlines of the
newspaper murder stories. Last month
| h o ~
jury, and his heart was filled with Joy
and he felt that at last that he had his
reward Then he was protested by a
lawyer, because of his age, and dis
missed. Since then he has developed
the yellow journal habit
The people of Kansas are under
going the anti-liquor-protest row over
the christening of the new battle shin
which is to be named for their state
Some want water used and some
wine, but A. c. Brown of Rogers
Ark, having heard of the trouble, has
offered George Bailey a bottle OF
white mule moonshine whisky for
the ceremony. He says that it is very
old and was made by him from corn
shelled by hand and each kernel was
selected. The whisky is the last OF
it's kind, but Kansas is hesitating. II
would be such an awful waste oil
''wnite mule"
| An attorney of the Wabash road is
putting up strange defense to a suit
which has been brought by farmer
i to recover 500 for a horse Which fell
through one of the roads trestIes and
was killed. He maintains that "the
Wabash railroad is no more liable tol
the death of the horse than if it had
wandered into the yards and butted its
head off against freight car. It (the
horse) had evidently made up it's mind
to jump off bridge somewhere, and
! just because it happened to succeed
On one Of ours is no reason why we
should have to put up the price of it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
UNION CALENDAR BULLY.

The Office Boys Union had ad
journed from labor to luncheon, and
the members were sweeping the pas.
try counter of the little German bake
shop, when the walking delegate, after
examining the union label on dough
nut, asked: Has youse kids seen de
new calendars?"
"Ah, wat er yer givin' us now?Wese
seen hundred Nv EN-"
DAFT all right; but has yer read
'em?"
A prolonged yell went up at the
idea of reading a calendar.
Il tell yer dis year nineteen-t'ree is
the bulliest year yet. Yez see dem
red figgers wot shows de Sundays and
der hollerdays-dis time dey comes in
pairs. Dere's Washington birthday
dat come on Sunday, and we got two
easy ones a-running. Den deys put
five Sundays in March dis year. Seet
Decarashun Day is a Saturday, anG
we gets two a-running; der Fourth Ell
July is put down for a Saturday, anG
we skins de ranch for two days. La
Dor Day is a Monday, maxim t-c
agin. Next Christmas comes on Fri
day, and sure dere's nuthin' dom fol
tree days, and de same wild New
Year"
''Who makes de calendar?" pipet
the delegate from Worth street.
"Why, de printer, yer mutt. Dom
yer see de union label? OATS what or
ganized labor is doing for us poo
worl1in' men From the Dry Good:
Guide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
THE DEAREST GIFT.

When all the dancing feet are still,
The roses bloom is shed AMI spend,
When she has waltzed her happy fill
With Will and Jack and Ted and
Fred,
Tired of the whirl and jollity.
Her lovely eyes weighed down with
sleep,
Then, at the last, she comes to me,
And she is all my own-to keep.
I find her gloves and tie her wrap,
We say our good nights left and
right;
Now I'm the to-bsenvied chap!
All, now, indeed, it is good night!
Of lovers joy let wooers pirate;
What could a man ask more in life,
Than this best, dearest gift of gate
To have a sweetheart for wife?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
BKH1gGBI
N>~V~1

A young woman has been arrested
| in Oakland, Cal, because she insisted
on playing the piano all night ana kept
her neighbors from sleeping.
Addison, Mich, is making the boast
that there is not a single lawyer with
in her limits. This is a dangerous adj
vertisement if she wishes to remain
in plenty.
| 1t is said that the Reliance, the new
cup defender, is to be fitted with a
pneumatic rudder This seems a
dangerous innovation, as it may get
| punctured by some of the tacks which
| the yacht will make.
Skye Temple, one of the most fam
Gus of the confederate scouts, is
dangerously i'll. He was with Gen
Robert E. Lee during most of the war,
| and was shot many times, and has
| never fully recovered from some OF
| his wounds.
The prize fish story of the season
comes from CadiZ, o. An Oil well
there has begun to spout two tons of
| fish day, and now the Ohio oil pro-
motors are trying to organize their
| oil company into a fertilizing organi-
cation.
Kansas is certainly close to the soil
| and Leavenworth literary critic has
| now come forward with a plea for q
less romantic style of novel. He
wants to read one in which the hero
has a pug nose, buck teeth and
| freckleS.
| A German newspaper has come out
with the solemn announcement that a
corned-beef mine has been discovered
in Yellowstone park. The editors
doubtless confused American states
men, for Roosevelt, not Alger, is now
in the park.
A new Italian secret society has
been found in some of the larger cities
in this country, and it's members are
said to be brigands who have been
| driven from Italy. The members are
making a good living by Matchmaking
| their fellOW-countrymen
A charming rivalry exists between
Portland, Or, and Spokane, Wash. as
is shown by the following in the Port
land OregOnian: Carnegie has offered
the city of Spokane a library. The
gift would be much more acceptable
gambling palace
Bird lovers are always interested in
computing the distance which certain
IDS can fly in an hour. The petrol
is supposed to be swift, but he is slow
as compared with the frigate bird
Sailors claim that these birds can
start from Africa with a good slant OF
trade winds and reach America in a
day. The flight of this bird is said
to exceed 200 miles an hour.
| A Milwaukee woman is nothing if
not patriotic and mas just ladened her
18th child with the musical name OF
| Theodore Roosevelt Henry Clay Payne
Bradenburg. The youth was born on
st. Valentines day, and it VIZ at first
decided to name him Rubley St Valen-
tine, but then the president and race
! suicide came up, so Mr.. Roosevelt
and Secretary Payne were honored
and sent photographs.
| Inc extra SOOu women OF the SeV
enth day Baptist church at Marlboro
n. j., are much disturbed because
their hens insisted on breaking the
Sabbath by laying eggs. The hens
have been Constantly demonstrated
with, but have paid no attention to
the New Jersey blue laws. Now the
women have taken matters into their
own hands and decided to sell al
irreligious eggs and devote the pro
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
THE INCH BEFORE THE SAW.

Only from day to day
The life of a wise man runs;
What matter if seasons far away
Have gloom or have double suns?
To climb the unreal path,
We stray from the roadway mere;
We swim the rivers of wrath,
And tunnel the hIIls oil lear.
Our feet on the torrents brink,
Our eyes on the clouds afar.
We fear the things We think,
Instead Of the things that are.
Like tide our work should rise
Each later wave the best;
Today is a king in disguise,
Today is the special test.
Like a sawyer's work is life:
The present makes the flaw,
And the only field for strife
Is the inch before the saw.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
SOME CHATTING DISH RECIPES.

Cheese Souff1e.
2 tablespoonfuls butter.
~ tablespoonful flour.
u cup mix.
u teaspOonful salt.
Few grains cayenne.
1 cup chopped or grated cheese.
Melt butter, add -four, and when
well mixed gradually add scalded
milk, then salt, cayenne and cheese;
when cheese is melted add yolks of
eggs well beaten; cool mixture and
cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten
until stiff; steam over hcc water for
fifteen minutes, tightly covered.
Shrimps a la Crole.
1 pint shrimps.
~ tablespoonful butter.
IL tablespoonfuls -four.
y teaspOonful salt.
Few grains cayenne.
~ cups strained tomato.
1 tablespoonful chopped onion.
l bay leaf.
Fry onion in butter until yellaw, add
-four anr stir until smooth; pour on
gradually the tomato and add bay
leaf; then add shrimps cleaned and
broken in pieces; when the sauce has
thickened and the shrimps heated re-
move bay leaf and serve.
Fig Cups.
u pound washed figs.
"a cup chopped sailed almonds or
peanuts.
tablespoonful sugar.
l tablespoonful lemon juice.
u cup wine, sherry or aaaret.
Stuff the fige wit hthe nuts; heat
sugar lemon juice, and wine in the
chafing dish, add figs; cover and cook
until figs are tender; haste often;
serve with ladyfngers.
In the recipes given the seasoning
should be measured level. The butter,
-four and sugar, where it calls for
spoonful, is measured rounded. The
cups used for measuring should hold
one-half pint.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
The Oldest Twins.

Mrs. Hannah Southwick, SO years
old, an original Daughter of the Revo-
luton, died at Pawtucket, R. l., last
week. She and her brother, jeremiah,
who died recently in Franklin, Mass,
held the distinction of being the oldest
twin brother and sister in the United
State,. They were born in Cumber-
land in 1915. Their father, John
Haselton, crossed the Delaware with
Washington and was the first man in
the party to land
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
Pressed for Time.

Everybody knows how hard David
Belasco works, and how necessarily he
keeps at it. The other day friend
was talking to him about it.
You work too hard said the good
Samaritan. why do you do it? By
Jove, you'll die the first thing you
know"
Yes, yes sighed the toiler Il
know I may die. But what's the use
of dying? l wouldn't have time to 90
to the funeral. New York Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
Breeding UP Dairy Herd.

There is no branch of agriculture
that has been more neglected than the
average dairy herd. Look where you
please, and the general evidence is
negligence in trying to improve the
dairy COW. 1 say dairy COW, for great
is the difference between the two
animals, the enc producing milk and
the other beef Quite a number of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
That Was All,

Maria" demanded Mr.. Billus, in
loud voice, what have you been doing
to my razor?''
Nothing said Mrs. Billus, eek
cept sharpening it again, after shaving
Fido's tail with it. It's all right, isn't
it?'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
Didn't Know About Golf.
re YOU Jealous ?" he asked.

"Are you JEALOUSY" he asked.
well, if l am have good reason to
be- she retorted. You were talking
about Caddie in your sleep all last
night, and I'd just like to know who
she is"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
Ouch!

Financier Gin the chair)-Do you
think you'll ever get rich at this bust
ness?
Dentist-Maybe not. But l expect
to keep plugging away at it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21

heifer calves are raised in southeast
ern Pennsylvania, and if you ask the
owners why they rai-e them the reply
will generally be that they are to re-
plenish the herd. The question of i'm
proving it is never consideration;
the most practical part has been over
locked, when both could have been
accomplished with little more addi-
tional outlay, with the same feed, time
and labor that were required to pro-
duce the inferior offspring frequently
found in dairy herds. One of the most
essential things to learn in breeding is
the Importance of selecting a sire, it
being generally conceded that the sire
is the most important half of the herd
If you have strictly a dairy animal
you can feed much more carbo-
hydrates, which are cheapest obtained
in corn, than would be profitable to
iced TO COWS of beef tendency.
Many of our large dairy men are not
feeding as much protein as a strictly
balanced ration would require Do
not forget that feed plays a large part
in the productiveness of your cows.
The three essentials are breed, feed
and kindness. By far larger portion
of the COWS are underfed than overfed,
and yet the query, why don't the cows
yield better? Do not inbred too fire.
Quently for fear of deterioration.
Leave inbreeding for the more scien-
tic breeder to develop. When your
sire is potent no longer purchase
another of the same strain as the first,
and continue as before; do not make n
radical outcross, which after the first
generation is generally not successful
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
Notes..

Notes.
Beans thrive much better when
planted at depth of three inches
Poles should be eight feet long, two by
three inches, set four in each row.
Irvine is strung across and around
them, forming a trellis. The bean
weaves its way up through the strings
which form a good support, and makes
fine appearance when growing. I'm
der the old way of setting poles at
each hill when the vines climb the
pole they bind each other so closely
that their bearing qualities are greatly
hampered.
One of the most important things liz
raising chickens in summer is shade
Fruit trees are the best because they
serve a double purpose. They furnish
shade and at the same time the yield
of fruit from trees so situated is often
immense. The poultry devour all the
insect enemies of the trees that are
within their reach, and fertilize the
soil, thus being of mutual benefit one
to the other
This is an appropriate time for feed
ing meat to laying hens, as the hens
will lay in summer when they will lay
at no other time. They cannot always
supply themselves with enough insect
food, and nothing will stimulate them
to renewed effort sooner than a mess
of lean meat about three times a week.
The increased number of eggs will
more than pay for the cost of the
meat.
Green food is good for ducks at this
season of the year and they should not
be given too much grain. Weeds taken
from the garden make good duck feed,
especially pig weed.
Turkeys fed on powdered charcoal
in addition to their other food grow
fatter than those fed after the ordi-
nary manner. 1t is said that their
flesh is more tender and firmer.
Melon, cucumber and squash seeds
six or seven years old will bear more
and earlier fruit than seed a year old.
The same is true of many other gar
den seeds.
Rye will not injure grown fowls but
is bad Tor chicks. Fowls do not like it
as we'll as wheat, but will eat it when
they can get no Otner grain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS.

To be sealed for time and eternity
by sealing ceremony in accordance
with the law of the Mormon church is
held, in Hilton VS.. Roylance (Utah)
SO L. r. A. 1913, to be good common
law marriage.
The placing of telephone poles and
wires in a city street is held, in Don
ovan VS.. ALERT IN. d. So L. R. A. IT'S,
to be new burden or servitude there
on requiring compensation to be paid
to abutting owners.
A statute which establishes a new
method of forming governing boards
of counties, but provides that it shall
not apply to certain counties in the
state, is held, in Carolina Grocery
company VS.. Burnet g. C. So L. R, A
687, not to be invalid as special legisla-
ton, where the legislature has con-
stitutional authority to enact special
provisions in general laws
A statute forbidding, under penalty,
an employer to discharge an employee
because he is a member of a labor or
ganization, is held, in State ex rel.
Zillmer VS.. Kreutzberg (Wis.) SO L. R.
A. 74S, to violate the constitutional
guaranty Of liberty.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-01-07

Diminishes the Effort. Increases the
Vo.ume of Work.
Itstands without an equal in desir-
able features. 1t win pay you to ex-
mine the NEW CENTURY before
placing your order. Catalogue gladly
mailed on request.
A. NJ. II. CUNNINGHAM,
Agent. Rooms and2 Rookery Bldg,
Clarksburg, W. Va. 3-tf.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-01-07
Broaddus Resumes.

The winter term at Broaddus 1nstf-
tune was resumed today after the holI-
day vacation. Most all of the students
have returned from their various
homes, ready for renewed efforts in
acquiring AN education and the others
will return. The work starts off au.
spiciously. There is a number of new
students.