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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Yes, my boy" said the man.

Yes, my boy said the man.
Il wish she would tum soon. want
90 bofe here now" complained Phil
again
Lady Nab never knew how or why
she did it, but when her boy said that
she just went over to them and put
her arms round her husbands neck
and kissed him and then the baby. The
latter went to sleep almost at once,
having got what he most wanted
Dear" she said, 'how good Of you
to come UP here and look after Phil
didn't know you cared for babies :"
Il love this one very dearly" he
said. Tive often been up here while
you've been out enjoying yourself, but
he's always been asleep until tonight"
Cupid, still standing in the room,
sprang on to the mans shoulder, and,
leaning down, kissed both him and
Lady Nab, and then gave a very tender
one to the baby, Phil. Then he van
ished, for he had set the seal on hrs
victory.
do you know, Nab, always thought
you didn't really care for the boy? We
have been misunderstanding each other
for long time, it seems" said Phil's
father suddenly.
And he was right, for they had mis-
understood each other.
That night Lady Nab told her hus-
band everything, and they were very
hn
dearly indeed, and continued to do So
And Cupid? How glad he was, for
had he not made three people happy
again2
Many were the people who loved
Lady Nab, but none loved her so well
rs her husband and her son and one
other-Roy.
The latter declared that he would
never love another, but Cupid had 9th
er views with regard to the disposal Of
his heart.
Lady Nab has taught Phil to rever-
ence the little god of love, and the boy
never sees a stone image of Cupid
without shyly raising his hat. When
asked why, he says:
He made my mother very, very
happy, and saved her from doing some
thing wrong. He must be a very great
and good little god, don't you Think"
So he IS Phil, and It would be better
for the world If everyone thought him
good and understood him as web as
you do.
1t is hoped you will keep your good
opinion of him as you grow up.-Phila-
delphia Telegraph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Ground Corn for Hogs.

The Wisconsin experiment station
has for many years been testing feed
ing hogs on whole corn and meal with
middlings. The average of all these
tests with III head of hogs fed dry
shelled corn and wheat middlings,
made an average gain Of 96-S pounds
each, while an equal number fed corn
meal and wheat middlings gained 1903
pound of gain In the two cases being
pounr Of gain In the two cases being
5.19 pounds and ASS pounds The saw
ing from grinding, therefore, has
amounted to 81 per cent, according to
the price of corn per bushel showing
that when one owns his OVID corn feed
mill and power, he can afford to grind
his corn for feeding hogs, etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Tree-Grnwinr bounty.

There Is a law on the statute books
Of Pennsylvania which ought to have
wide circulation 1t Is AN Act for the
Encouragement of Forestry
The law takes the best means posi-
BILE to encourage owners Of land to pre-
serve and propagate timber-trees, for
1t allows a reduction of taxes to the
owner Of forest land which comes up
to certain requirements Of the act
The first man to take advantage or
the new law Is an Allegheny county
farmer, Mr.. Tenner, Of Leet township.
AS told by the Pittsburg Chronicle-Tel-
egraph, Mr.. Tenner has obtained from
the county commissioners reduction
Of $3.50 on his taxes for complying
with the provisions Of the law.
1t Is rather remarkable that the sec
ond county In that State in point Of
population should be the first to pay
a bounty for forest preservation under
the new law, but such is the case. The
land owner who preserves his woods
not only gets this immediate reward,
but the increasing value Of the trees
will make a further and larger profit
for him eventually.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05

back to my little Phil and perhaps my
husband will love me once again, as he
used TO do. All, my dear, forgive me
for the PAIN have caused you. But 1
know you understand me, even now
Even row. he answered. 81 hadn't
really thought abont the little one.
There is one thing 1 would ask-let me
see the kiddse sometimes, will your
And she promised that perhaps she
would, though she never did
She drove Roy back Do his fat and
then horha and Cupid put his arms
round her neck and this time kissed
her.
Another vicsoCys- cried he.
All the way back to her home Nab
thought bard, and Cupid sat wide-eyed
and watched the thoughts fitting
through her brain: oor the little God
can see all we think, and sometimes he
smiled. and once he froHped, and then
he laughed outright, for she had decfd-
ed she had never really bved Roy. The
only beings she DID love were her baby
and her husband.
The cab stopped and Nab started
for she bad not thought they could
have arrived yet She hooked for the
little Cupid, but he had disappeared
Lady Nab anghted from the cab and
few up the steps and through the hall,
past the astonished SERVANTS and up the
stairs, straight % the night nursery.
She pushed open the door, and then
paused, GREATNESS and stood watching
scene that was entirely new to her.
In front Of the fire sat her husband.
and IN hts arms was a curly headed
little boy, smiling into the mans face.
The man was humming lullaby to
the baby, who held one of his fathers
fingers In a tight clasp. Where was the
stern hard father?
Daddy, when will my lovely mum be
back?T asked Phil
"Soon, little marty 30 80 to sheep
The stern, cold voice, where was 1t
now? Gone Only soft, tender voice
had taken its place
Lady Nab clutched at the door post
for support, as she realized that all
her trouble had been of her own max
ing.
4 small boy with culver over one
shoulder was lowering about the pair
by the fire, but they did not seem to
see him.
docs 90 love my lovely mumT ask
ed the baby.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
IcIegraphic Brevities.

A receiver was appointed for the big
wholesale grocery firm Of E. G. Hazard
& Co. of New York with liabilities placed
at $4,000.
Officials of the War Department at
Washington are investigating their pow
ers TO grant permission to the Isthmian
canal commission to incur a deficiency Of
$S,OOO,OO0 to avoid partial suspension
of construction On the canal.
Corporal James A. McIAin, Jr, an
army recruiting officer, committed suicide
at hotel at Rutland, VT, by drinking
carbolic acid.
The Georgia Assembly adjourned after
a riotous session caused by the efforts to
put through Gov. Hoke Smiths legisIa-
ton, including the railway commission
bill
Henry W. Wagner, the assailant of
Miss Alma Whitehead near Turnersville,
Pa, was captured and quickly pleaded
guilty before a magistrate at Meadville,
Pa, in order to get into Jail TO escape
being lynched.
The Nebraska railway commission re-
scinded IT'S action advancing the minimum
charge on small shipments on the Bur-
Iington from % cents to 80 cents.
Miss Ellen Waite and Joseph Sullivan,
both prominent young people OF Van
couver, Wash, were drowned in the Co
lumbia river there. In the darkness Miss
Waite fell into the water Sullivan went
to her assistance.
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis of West
Virginia, who was Democratic candidate
for Vice President on the ticket with
Judge Parker, is about to erect in the
town that bears his name a church as a
memorial to his late wife.
After heated debate the lower
house Of the Georgia Legislature, by a
vote Of 139 to SO, passed the bill pro-
hibiting the manufacture and sale of al
coholic beverages after Jan. 1, 1908. The
Georgia Senate, by vote of 81 to 6,
adopted a negro disfranchisement bill, un-
der which a man must own or pay taxes
on $500 worth of property and be able to
read and write in order to vote. This
will, of course, disfranchise practically
the negro electorate of the State.
The British SHY Westhampton. with
COO tons of dynamite on board, bound for
Colin. caused a panic among vessels at
New York. A heavy fog hung over the
harbor and vessels were afraid to move
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Going to Make Matters Better?


The dispatches tell US that ninety-one
head of Iowa steers sold at seven cents
q pound, or 500 a head, in Chicago a
few days ago. Getting the matter near
er home, the Keosauqua Republican
says that John A. Ferguson Of Van
Buren, county recently marketed seven
teen head of steers in Chicago which
brought him S1O7.S0 per head at 81 a
hundred, while another bunch of sew
enteen brought $3.50 a hundred. Will
liam Fritz, another farmer of the same
county, recently sold a single wagon
load of wool for SI2S.0S. There was a
time about fifteen years ago when cat
tie and wool were doing pretty nearly
as good as that. Along came lot of
fellows who were going to give the
country something better if they could
only get "a change" Enough of the
people were fooled by their talk to
bring about the change. The cattle fell
to So and 81 a hundred, wool from %
cents a pound to 10, and sheep from So
and 81 a head to 81. And it took a
long time to get prices back to those Of
the good old time. Now there is an
other lot of fellows, in these days Of
good prices for the farmer and general
prosperity, telling how they are going
to make matters better If they can cut
down the tariff and give away home
markets to the foreigner. How many
of the people are going to be fooled
this time?-Fairfeld (Iowa) Ledger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05

independently Of the coarse food 1t 81
considered more laborious to mix all
the feeding materials together, for the
reason that if the ground grain Is to be
mixed with the hay and fodder the
latter must be passed through the cut
ter and reduced to q fine condition. Of
course, there are objections TO so doing,
yet the cutting of the food into short
lengths will effect a saving that would
more than offset the cost of labor, as
the stock would eat more and cost less
But there is a gain in feeding ground
grain with cut hay or fodder in an
other manner. When the grain Is
mixed with the coarse material it Is
more easily digested, as it is divided
and carried into the stomach in con-
dition which permits of the gradual &C
ton Of the digestive organs The long
proyender, also being in a fine state,
a great proportion of nutrition is there
by extracted, and the system Of treat
ing the whole together viii prove
economical
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05

Local Sunday School Teacher-And
now that we have finished discussing
about the lynx?
A painful pause. Finally a small
hand is hesitatingly elevated.
Teacher-Well, Tommy, can you de-
scibe the lynx?
Tommy-No'm.
Teacher-Then why did you raise
your hand?
TOMMY thought Willie Wuggles
could tell.
Teacher-And what made you think
Willie could describe the lynx?
Tommy-'Cause his brothers a cad
die.-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
XnIun of SunhOyYer.

The sunlower, though it originated
in this country in the region Of the
great plains, is not used SO extensively
here as in some other countries, not
ably Russia. 1t is a long time since
the plant first delighted the eyes Of
Europeans, being then cultivated in the
gardens Of Madrid. The early Spanish
explorers had found it in this country
and taken it home with them.
The plant was utilized by the Ameri-
can Indians long before the days OF
Columbus. When Champlain visited
the Georgian Bay in 1915 he found the
natives growing it and using the oil for
their hair. 1t was raised chiefly, how
ever, for the food afforded by the seeds
In Russia at the present day the
seeds are eaten In immense quantities.
raw or roasted, as peanuts are IN
America, and the oil obtained by press
ing the seeds is an important article
of diet. The frequent religious fast
days in that country restrict the use OF
meat and lead to large consumption
Of vegetable oil. The manufacture Of
sunffower oil has consequently grown
to considerable dimensions. The best
seeds Weld an oil that compares IA
vorably with olive oil for table pur-
poses
Even the upper classes in Russia eat
the seeds, the larger and finer ones be.
ing quite equal to most nuts in respect
Of palatability and wholesomeness,
The stalks and dried leaves are highly
priced for fuel, being in some parts of
the empire almost the only available
substitute for wood An acre Of sun
flowers will yield many cords of good
fuel.
The oil appears to have more of the
general properties Of olive oil than has
any other known vegetable oil. II
takes about a bushel Of seeds to make
a gallon of oil, and fifty bushels of
seeds can be grown on one acre Of land
AS the Oil sells at 81 q gallon, tie profit
is large.
OF late years purified sunhower oil
has been used extensively to adulterate
olive oil. 1t Is Of a pale yellowish
color and decidedly palstable. In a
crude state it Is used by painters to
some extent, but it is inferior to lin
seed oil for use in paint.
In addition to the oil from the seeds.
the stalks, when green, and the oil
cake make excellent fodder. The fiber
Of the stalks, which is fine, silky and
very strong, also has value. In
China it is woven into beautiful
fabrics, and it is believed that, by use
of proper machinery, it might be it'll
lied most proftably in this country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Food for YounR Stock.

For young and growing stock the
foods that contain the mineral elements
should be preferred, but where linseed
meal and clover are used there will be
90 necessity for feeding bran. A large
number of farmers purchase bran, and
it will be to their interest to endeavor
TO know something OF the various
kinds On the market, as q falling off
In the nutritious elements Of the bran
used may really cause 1t to be expen-
sive. There are also excellent proprie-
tary foods that are well balanced.
Many farmers feed the ground material
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
TESTING q Submarine T4rnx

To test the qualities Of a submarine
electric light diver at Aberdeen, Scot
land, descended twenty feet In muddy
water, taking a newspaper and the
light down with him While seated on
an anchor at the bottom Of the harbor
he read aloud ten minutes to the men
above, the words being conveyed
through the telephone in his helmet.
The paper was held eighteen inches
from the lamp.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Digestion of Foods In Feeding.

A series of tests is reported by StOrrs
Station, Connecticut in which corn
meal and mixed hay in turn were fed
as a maintenance ration to two dry,
farrow COWS. The results of tests
with milch cows pigs and calves are
also quoted and discussed for pur-
poses of comparison.
On an average 6.25 pounds of corn
meal containing As pounds digesttble
nutrients was required for malnte-
nance by the farrow cows as compared
with 1915 pounds of hay containing
II pounds of digestible nutrients
that Is, on an average 81 per cent
more digestible nutrients was required
for maintenance when derived from
hay than from corn meal. LESS d.
gestible nutrients from corn meal,
therefore, were required for mainte-
nance than from hay, because less en-
ergy of the feed was used in the work
of digestion and assimilation" AN
increase in the proportion OF grain to
roughage in a ration for mich cows
Tin tests which were quoted) tends to
facilitate digestion, and is followed by
Increased production"
A similar explanation will account
for the more rapid gain in the case Of
pigs and calves fed the more easily d.
gestible rations in the tests summar-
lied. In general, according to the au-
thor, "the value of a feed depends
upon its composition, digestibility and
ease or facility of digestion. The first
first two factors are considered in the
formulation Of rations. The third fac
tor has only recently been recognized,
and little definite knowledge in regard
it is at hand. In a general way it
is recognized that milk Is more easily
digested than meal, concentrates than
roughage, early than late cut hay, ST.
lage than corn slower, oat than rye
straw. A pound of digestible matter,
therefore, should be more valuable
in the former than IN the latter"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
The Better Trade.

If time ever arrives in which Ger
man and American manufacturers shall
be on the same footing, and the neces-
sity of hunting a foreign market be
comes as imperative in this country as
it is in Germany, the American pro-
Queer may be depended on to give a
good account of himself. When that
contingency arises United States ex
porters will be as ready to extend long
credits as the Germans, and will proba
bly, take as much pains to please as the
later, but it is idle to expect them to
bother themselves about a comparative
ly Improbable foreign trade when their
chief energies are engrossed in the bust
ness of supplying the domestic demand,
and while our foreign trade in many
lines consists wholly of SURPRISES pro
duced to meet an American demand
San Francisco Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05

113S-Scots defeated at the battle of the
Standard.
1SS5-Portuguese defeated the Spaniards
at Aljubarrota.
14333-Death of John l. of Portugal.
1456-Hunyady Janos, one of the great
est war captains of his age died.
155S-John Dudley, Duke of Northum-
berland, beheaded in the Tower.
162S-George yilliers, Duke of Buck
insham- assassinated by John FELTON,.
1642-Charles l. set up his standard at
Nottingham
164S-Prince of Condo victorious over
Archduke Leopold at battle of Lens.
1672-Massacre of the Brothers De Witt
at The Hague.
1710-Battle of Saragossa.
1750-Oswego taken by Montcalm. -.
Letizia Bonaparte, mother of Ma
poleon, born at Ajaccio, Corsica.
1767-Earthquake ON the island of
Martinique killed $4,000 persons.
1776-Maryland adopted a State consti-
tuition.
17S4-First mail coach in England left
London for Bristol.
1793-Pondicherry taken by the Eng
liSh
1S0S-British and Spanish forces de-
feated the French at battle of Vi
miera.
1SO9-French defeated the Spanish at
battle of Almonacid.
1S14-Washington, D. c., attacked and
taken by the British.
1S1S-The Savannah, the first steamer to
cross the Atlantic, was launched.
1S93-Irish Church Temperatures act
passed.
1S35-The Earl of Gosford sworn in as
Governor of Canada.
1S41-British expedition commenced the
ascent of the Niger river.
1SA-Victory of the French over the
Moors at Isly.
-Mendelssohn's Elijah first per-
formed at Birmingham, England.
Capture of Santa Fee by Americans
and annexation of New Mexico to
United States
1S4S-The territory of Oregon organized.
1S49-Surrender of Venice to the Aus
TRANS.
1S51-America cup won by American
yacht at Cowes, England.
1S56-First petroleum well opened at
Titusville, Pa.
1S57-The new Louvre, Paris, inaugural
ed wiz great ceremony by Napo-
leon III.
1S5S-The Danubian principalties con-
stituted.
1SG2-Garibaldi occupied Catania.
1S64-Surrender of Fort Morgan, Ala
bama.
and Prussia signed at Prague.
1S73-Cholera appeared in Columbus, o.
1S75-Capt. Webb, on a second trial,
swan across the English channel.
1SS4-French force bombarded Foochow,
China.
1S91-Sixty-two persons killed by col
lapse of a building in Park place,
New York.
1S92-President Harrison issued a proc
lamatiOn retaliatory upon Canada, by
establishing tolls on Sault Ste. Marie
canal.
storm along the At
lantic coast of North America.
1S96-The rebellious Matabeles in South
Africa submitted to the British.
1S97-President Faure of France visited
the Gar at st. Petersburg.
1S9S-The Unrted States and Canadian
joint high commission met at Quebec.
1S99--Anti- government riots and blood
shed in Paris.
19O0-Relief of Pekin by the Allies. -.
Fatal race riots in Akron, Ohio.
1903-The Humbert family convicted of
swindling in Paris. Russian squad
ron withdrawn from Turkish waters.
19OJ-Lord Curzon resigned the viceroy-
ship of India.
1906-InSurrectionary movements in
Cuba began. &. q. President Roosevelt
ordered a simplified form of spelling
in the government printing office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
THE TURNED DOWN LEAF.

There's a turned-down leaf, some writer
says,
In every human life;
a hidden story of happier days
Or of death amid the strife;
A folded leaf that the world knows not,
A love-dream rudely crushed
The sight of face that is not .orgot,
Although the voice be hushed
The far-distant sound of a harP's soft
strings,
An echo in the air
The hidden page may be full of such
things
Of things that once were fair.
There's hidden page IN every life, and
mine
A story might unfold;
But the end was not fair TO that dream
divine
1t had better rest untold.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05

Mrs. John-John, why are you eat
ing so fast? Don't you know it's inju-
rious?
John-Yes, but l want TO finish the
book I'm reading.
Mrs. Whats the name of it?
John-Why, er, How to Aid Diges-
ton by Properly Masticating the
Food '',-pick-Ma-TD
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Worse than a Fifth Wheel.

Mr. Bryan's Comnoner condemns the
plan of permanent tariff commission
as "only part of the effort to pre-
vent a revision of the tariff" In this
the Commoner is mistaken. The commits
sion plan is favored by the revisionists
and opposed by the "stand-patters."
The revisionists favor it because they
are able thereby to gain the assent of
some manufacturers who otherwise
would resist tariff disturbance or hurt
full to business. The "stand-patters"
oppose it because they know it to be
utterly impracticable to secure non
partisanship in a tariff commission. A
bipartisan commission would have no
weight with Congress or with the coun-
try. 1t would be less useful and more
of a nuisance than the fifth wheel of
a coach. But it Is a waste of time to
argue the matter. Congress will never
accept the tariff commission PLAN
American Economist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
A Winner.

"Siicker, the architect, Is making a
big hit with his new scheme for subur-
ban residences
What scheme Is that?"
with every contract for a suburban
residence he guarantees constant sup
ply of servant girls for ten years time"
Philadelphia Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
CorHa1dsa Wit

At one Of Proctor's lectures a lady
wished for a seat, when Gen. Garfield
brought one and seated her.
''Oh, you're a jewel said she.
"Oh, no." replied Garfield, I'm a
jeweler; I've just set the jewel. =
Judge
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Playing Safe.

Meeker-It seems to me that you are
always asking advice. Do you ever use
any of it?
Bleeker-Certainly not. ask adj
vice because people like TO give it away,
but I never ask it until 1 have fully
made up my mind what l am going
IN do
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Something in n Name.

''This," said the party with the IN
barbered hair as he pulled a manu-
script from his pocket, lis a fugitive
poem"
why do you call it fugitive
poem?" asked his friend.
Because" explained the verslfier,
every time I hand it to an editor
have to run for my life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Enough Said.

II wonder" remarked Nervey, casual
", ''if kissing really is injurious"
We'll" replied the athletic girl. mean
ingly, I've known men who have found
the mere attempt at kissing is injuri-
Gus. "-Philadelphia Press.