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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
Tomatoes.

There Is no garden vegetable that
will respond more markedly to rich
land and good cultivation than toma-
toes. A tomato plant will grow on a
manure pile and flourish all season
there, and in planting them it pays to
take some pains to have them stand
on very rich spot. Make the plot
where the tomatoes are to stand very
rich with manure, and then dig a hole
and dump two or three shovelfuls Of
fine manure in the bottom of it, and
set the plants above this.
Drive a stake by each plant as soon
AS 1t is transplanted, and keep the
plant tied to it with strips of cloth, and
the fruits will not rot when they be-
gin to ripen. The tomato Is one Of
the plants that does better for trans
planting, and, if they are transplanted
two or three times, they only grow
more stocky and produce better. There
is not bit of danger Of losing tomato
plants by transplanting, as they will
grow from a slip almost as we'll as
from rooted plant.
Keep them well cultivated, and, if
the weather comes off dry, give them
plenty of water, and the crop is GER
tain and large. In giving tomatoes
water, sprinkling pot is not of much
use. The water should be poured around
the plant in a liberal fashion, two or
three gallons at time, and about twice
a week. Water in the evening, and
early the next morning stir soil about
the plants with a steel rake to keep
it from getting too compact. Tomatoes
are about the most satisfactory garden
vegetable we have; it appreciates at
tention so thoroughly.-Fa Voice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
business Moving Too Fast.

Chairman Gary of the United States
Steel Corporation, before sailing for Eu-
rope, gave it as his opinion that there
would be a falling off in the volume of
business during the second half of this
year. One factor in this condition, he
said, was the approach of the next presf-
Dental campaign, which always had the
effect Of curtailing orders. Another point,
he said, was that people had been doing
too much business for the amount Of
money available, and that railroads had
found some difficulty in securing neces-
sary capital. The increase in the volume
of money in the world had not kept pace
with the increase in the volume of bust
ness. He had seen signs, also, of a de-
crease in the amount of building activity,
and he thought that the numerous inves-
legations and exposures and radical agi-
tation of the last year or two had had a
tendency to make investors timid. II
violent agitation should continue there
would be more and more money drawn
out of productive employment. Neverthe-
less, Judge Gary believed that the ex-
posture of financial corruption would prove
beneficial in the end. A contraction in
business would not be wholly undesirable,
he concluded, as the country has been
going at too high speed, factories running
overtime that they might fill their orders.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01

Great Scott, what do you call these,
Helena" asked Dan Foss. He was gaz-
ing curiously at an deliberately gar
nished platter, which held two tiny
fish.
You wanted smelts. I didn't know
how big they were; l never heard of
smells in the West. You know l got
two mackerel last week, and they made
a nice little meal. so l thought two
smelts would be enough. Our fish
mans been so sarcastic since that day
l 'phoned for a halibut and he ex-
planned halibut was too large for
two people-it occasionally weighed 100
pounds To-day he began to be funny
about the two smelts. l got freezingly
dignifed and hung up the receiver The
boy had gone before l looked at them.
/ knew right away, Dan. l had made
a miserable blunder; only 1 boiled eggs,
YOU see, to make out meal"
"Ak right, little woman" laughed
Dan. They're nice appetizer. Only.
next time order twenty anyway; if
teens about my limit on smelts."-
Success Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
A Slight Gap.

4 geuealogist, like a poet, must be
born, not made. The naive statements
offered by persons whose one desire is
to show a lineage which will secure
them admittance to some exclusive or
gamzation drive the real genealogist
TO rage or tears.
Il don't see why l can't join the
Daughters of the Early Founders. -
said an indignant young woman to a
friend. My line is perfectly clear ex-
cept in one place. It's so absurd !"
what is the troublesome placer"
asked the genealogist.
"Oh, it's in the eighteenth century"
said the young woman, with much irri-
tation. They just failed to keep the
records, of course. OF all foolish
things Why, l can remember back to
grandfather, you see, and mother re-
members two more generations, and
we're perfectly sure our ancestors came
over from England in the seventeenth
century. The name is spelled a little
different, but of course it's they, be-
cause they must have come. And just
because l haven't been able TO connect
them with great-great-gre -grandfath-
err in the eighteenth century. they won't
let me in. Its 500 paltry.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01

bring and they should resolve from the first that when
left thus they will spend the time proftably In
acquiring useful knowledge in enlarging their mental
horizon be able share their husbands pur-
suits and understand their aims to become their worthy
companions every enterprise For this tremendous
display Of learning is requisite that would often rather
weary than not instead of giving him the sensa
ton of rcpose seeks One of the friends of youth,
unmarried woman, whose skill with her needle was
unrvaed always had open before her while she
worked, and whilst executing lovely piece Of
broidery of such graceful design and in such delicate
coors that looked like color SKETCH she would
learn all the finest passages from her author by heart
Thanks this system she was able to relate stories
without end to young people without ever having to
refer to a book.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01

1t Injuries land to allow cattle and
other farm animals to run over it dur
ing wet, muddy weather. If domestic
animals must have out door exercise,
build small lot on some high and dry
spot near the barn and turn them into
it few hours each day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
WHY FOOD FADDIsTs THRIVE.
Enthusiastic Belief Adds Taste
that Insures Digestion.

Enthusiastic Belief Adds Taste
that Insures Digestion.
Much light has been thrown on the
process Of digestion in the last few
years by the investigations of Pavlov,
Il Russian Psychologist, and others.
These Investigations have changed
very materially our views of this proc.
ess and have served to explain many
things relating to food, especially why
it is that every food faddist thrives
upon his particular diet, although Ii
may differ in toto from that of his
neighbor who thrives equally on his
own regimen. Stories are told of dys.
peptics, living for years on carefully
selected food Of the blandest and
most easily digestible" sort, and suf.
fering misery, who suddenly conceived
a longing for corned beef and cabbage
and surreptitiously devoured a meal
of it. To their delight as much as to
their surprise. there was nothing to
pay for this yielding to the promptings
of nature; digestion was perfectly per
formed for the first time in years.
Such stories are not always apocry.
phal; they may be founded on fact
and their explanation Is the same as
that of the success of the food faddist
Pavlov found in experimenting on
dogs that an abundance of gastric
juice was secreted when they had food
that they liked. even though this food
was mechanically prevented from en-
tering the stomach; whereas, when
they were fed on things they did not
care for, but could eat only when half
starved, the secretions of gastric Juice
was very scanty. This he called the
appetite juice" the process in the
stomach being analogous TO the famil-
lar phenomenon of watering In the
mouth" or increased salivary secre-
ton caused by the sight or smell of
savory food or even by the thought of
it. He found also that the compost
ton of the digestive fluids varied with
the kind Of food, each article swallow
ed calling forth, through some mysteri-
Gus signals transmitted to the stomach
from the tongue and palate as soon as
they had tasted the morsel placed in
the mouth, just the sort of fluid best
adapted to its digestion. The enthusi-
astic appreciation by the dietetic
crank of the unsavory food which he
is persuaded will assure him strength
and long life gives him a taste for it.
and so the motherly stomach provides
an abundance of gastric juice of the
proper composition and thereby saves
him from the otherwise inevitable con.
sequences Of his folly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
Spraying for CoddltnX Moth

Get ready for the work as soon as
the first apple blossoms begin to open,
says a bulletin by the Colorado Ex-
ing for the coddling moth. Do not fail
to begin the first spray as soon as
the blossoms are nearly (say 80 per
cent? Off
Have outfits enough to complete the
first spraying within eight days from
the time it is begun; or if you have
varieties that bloom at different times,
arrange to work so that none of the
trees will have to wait more than
one week from the time the petals are
off until they are sprayed. A good
power outfit for spraying will do to
take care of twenty acres of apple
orchard that is twelve or more years
of age. 1t will be a mistake to expect
to do much more than this.
Large trees require from six to ten
gallons of liquid each for a thorough
first spray. If the average is eight
gallons, and there are eighty trees to
the acre, it will require sixty-four
tanks of 200 gallons each to make the
application. If the weather is warm
some varieties will close their calyces
within six days from the time the
petals are off, and the little apples that
close their calyces first are the ones
most likely to set and make fruit.
When making the first spray you
must determine upon one thing if you
are to get anything like perfect fruit
and that is to stay withseach tree until
every calyx has been filed with the
spray Stop occasionally and exam
inc the blossoms to find out whether
or not you are doing this. This is of
more Importance than all the rest of
the advice of this bulletin put together.
Thorough first-spraying cannot be
done, except with great waste Of ma
.eriaI, with a short pole, by men stand
ing on the ground. Do not spray all
sides OF a large tree at one stop spray
only the halves of the trees next to
the wagon upon either side.
With large trees, always have tow.
er or platform above the tank, where
two men may stand with long rodes to
spray downward, while one or two men
with short poles upon the ground spray
inward through the trees. A pressure
of 100 to 80 pounds is sufficient to do
good WORK, if proper nozzles are used
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01

ways for their living
The demand upon the railroads Of the country is
greater than they Conditions of ten
ago have changed and the farmers who revel-
ing in prosperity need railroads to transport the
fruits ef their labor.
The railroad plant is insufficient to meet the demands
of the country and the country is growing rapidly
than railway mileage equipment construction.
not of those who fear that socialism, advanced
radcalism untried theories put into unvise
tice carried into effect to such
produce financial or industrial paralysis believe that
great copor tons should be under the rigid super
of the States and of the general government.
Because of the present marvellous development the
American people want railways built and they believe
that those who take the risks should have fair return
upon their money. The millions of people who make
investments indirect through their depos-
its savings banks other Institutions vast
army of labor, comprising one-fth of our electorate,
who dependent railway prosperity for their l
Ing the substantial basis of the safety present
and the growth of the future
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01

II you will stop to notice the char
acter of the bits used on the horses
you Will get another view Of the cruel-
ty done to our faithful servants And
l. you could make an examination of
these bits and headgear, you would be
more astorfshed than ever.
1t would be impossib,e to estimate
the suffering that horses undergo from
high checking and from the weight o:
metal brought to bear on their frail
underjaNs.
The modern fashionable bit weighs
two and half pounds. The weight of
that bit rests on the lower jaw, where
the bone is the frailest in the whole
anatomy of the horse. There are no
teeth to prevent the big heavy bit from
bruising the tender jawbone. At that
point there is only a tuSk. | have seen
that lone tooth so sore and tender from
where the heavy bits hit it that the
horse could hardly be bridled at all.
Besides this two-and-a-half-p
bit, there is another bit in the horses
mouth. one To which the checkrcin is
fastened. The latest fashionable check
works on pulley. Then. with a mar
tingale fastened to the noseband and
hellyband, the horse can't even toss his
head higher, If it was a physical posi-
bility, t. set the temporary rest that
that wo,;id afford him.
But we seem to be getting worse in
stead of better. The latest invention
Is !. I with tremendous paw run
ming back and squeezing the horses
tongue down SO that be cannot move
it.
This last effort of fashion. of course,
is to keep the horses tongue from loll-
ing from his mouth when he is checked
50 high that in his agony he lets the
tongue out to try some change to re-
lieve the pain. Though the bulldog in
the seat of the carriage may have mis-
tongue hanging out without showing
bad form. still for the hot, prancing
horse to do it is simply intolerable.
If you want to imagine something OF
the agony of the modern fashionable
carriage horse, go to any swell harness
store and lift the head stall with the
bits in place. And any horse wiz GO
better with q plain snaffie bit. Its
weight is one-tenth that of the other
and the horse obeys the rein quicker
But the objection to the snatiie bit is
that 4 horse will act naturally: he Will
look around and enjoy his work, if he
can. The bit doesn't hurt him, and he
does not appear excited.
But the trouble with drivers of "sty
lish'' horses is that they do not under
stand how these things decreed by
fashion torture the horses l believe
/ know human beings as well as
know horses. though men and womeI
are the harder to understand. l hav,
no doubt if this matter could be seer
in its proper light we would not b.
content to ride behind horses will
manned tails and half broken jaws Il
attract attention without hiring MAJ
with a megaphone. Mankind is vain
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planted with seed from resistant plants
obtained from different sources, and
comparisons made with ordinary COM
mercial seed grown under similar con-
ditions. After seeding the plats they
were covered with infected hay in or
der TO insure the presence of the dis
ease among the selected plants. To-
ward the close of the season 90 per
cent of the seedlings from the resist
ant plants were alive, while not more
than per cent from the non-selected
plants had survived the disease.
The Investigations thus far carried
on indicate that there is a strong re-
sistance on the part of some plants to-
ward this disease. This fact has been
taken advantage of as rapidly as pos
sible, but as yet no seed is available
for distribution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
Canker Among Pigs,

The receipt of several inquiries In
| regard to this trouble among pigs
| seems to indicate that the disease il
present to a considerable extent in
some localities. This is a parasitic
disease and is contagious, spreading
rapidly among pigs. The cause of the
disease is a small parasite similar in
some respects to that Of mango, but Is
much more difficult to treat success
fully, says an Oklahoma report.
The disease first shows by a contrac-
ton or wrinkling of the skin Of the
| nose or face. This is often accom-
panied by slight swelling. The pig
| rubs it's nose, sniffles, and shows in
various ways that the diseased spots
irrftate and burn. Gradually these
| diseased spots break out as small sores,
occasionally sloughing out to form ul-
GERS of considerable size. These sores
or ulcers may occur in any part Of the
head, and occasionally they will ex-
tend over the sides and under part
of the body.
Since the disease is contagious and
spreads easily, all pigs showing any
signs of the trouble should be separated
from the healthy ones. The following
preparations should be applied to the
diseased spots: A mixture of carbolic
acid and lard in the proportion Of one
of acid to eight of lard may be APP
piled to the diseased spots befor,
sloughing occurs. For upen sores or
| slOughs use iodine one part and vasel-
inc six parts. Apply this ointment
once every two or three days. A to-
bacco solution, tobacco one part and
water twenty parts, may be made by
sleeping the tobacco for ten to twenty
hours in warm water. This may be
applied to the ulcers instead of the
iodine and vaseline. The disease is
generally stubborn to treat, and sew
eral applications of any of the above
remedies may be required to effect a
cure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01

Labor Commissioner Gets Opinion
that He May Include PedagOgues.

Before the veto of the bill establishing
a teachers State employment bureau,
large number of applications had been
received by Labor Commissioner Beck
from teachers throughout the State. Mr.
Beck asked the Attorney General for an
opinion as to whether he could attend to
that business in connection with the State
employment bureau already in existence
and received a reply that there was no
reason why he should not do so. A bu-
reau therefore may be established to find
jobs for school teachers, thus saving from
$4,000 to $4,000 paid annually to the
teachers agencies in Chicago, Minneapo-
lis, St. Paul and Milwaukee, which charge
D per cent of the first years salary for
finding positions for them. Mr.. Beck,
however, has not definitely decided wheth-
er he will extend his department to take
in the pedagogues or not.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01

1242-French defeated Henry III. at
Taillebourg.
1546-Anne Askew burnt in London.
1oSS-First of series of enga gements
between the English fleet and Span
iSh armada
1629-Champlain, after the capture Of
Quebec, taken prisoner to England.
-. Capitulation of Quebec to the
British.
16S5-Duke of Monmouth beheaded.
1762-Peter Ill put to death.
1176-Pennsylvania adopted State con-
stitution.
1795-Treaty of Basel between France
and Spain.
1S01-Concordat concluded between Plus
VII. and Napoleon.
1SOS-Murat made King of Naples. -.
Spanish defeated the French at Bay
len.
1S12-Battle of Salamanca. .Mackinaw
surrendered to the British.
1S21-Censtruction of the Lachine canal
begun. >. Coronation of King George
". of England.
1S24-Iturbide, who made himself en-
peror of Mexico, shot at Padillo.
1S32-Napoleon H., King of Rome, only
child of Bonaparte, died of consump-
ton, aged q years.
1S37-Queen Victoria's first visit to Par
lament. The Carlists defeated at
Valencia.
1S44-Bank of England charter act
passed.
Constitutional assembly met at
Vienna.
Restoration of the temporal power
of the Pope proclaimed.
1S50-Daniel Webster of Massachusetts,
became Secretary of State.
1S52-John P. Kennedy of Maryland be-
came Secretary of War. -. United
States recognized the independence
of Paraguay.
1S57-Gen. Havelock entered Cawnpore
-. Massacre at Cawnpore by Mana
Sahib.
1S62-James Glaisher reached height Of
five miles in balloon ascension in
England.
1S63-Abolition of the Scheldt dues.
1S64-Battle of Peach Tree Creek -.
Taking of Marking ended the Tai
ping rebellion in China.
1S66-Prussans occupied Frankfort.
1S70-France made formal declaration of
war against Prussia. . Franco-Prus-
sian war commenced. Michael Da-
witt tried for treason-felony.
1S73-Don Carlos re-entered Spain.
1S74-Spain declared in a state of siege.
1S7S-British flag hoisted at Cyprus.
1SS3-"Gen. Tom Thumb &C. II. STRAIT
tom, famous dwarf, died.
1SS6-Gladstone's cabinet resigned.
1S9O-The National line steamer Egypt
was burned at sea.
1S91-Riotous miners at Briceville,
Tenn, refused to allow convicts to
work in the mines. :. Destructive
hailstorm in South Dakota.
1S93-Great fire in London; loss, ST.
100000
1S94-Many negro miners in Alabama
archist who shot at Premier Crispi
of Italy, sentenced to twenty years
Imprisonment
1S95-Henry Irving knighted by Queen
Victoria.
1S96-Trial of DR.. Jameson and his fell
low raiders in the Transvaal began
in London. d. Princess Maud of
Wales married to Prince Charles of
Denmark, now King Haakon VII. of
Norway.
1S97-Statue of Gen. John A. Logan un-
yelled in Lake Front park, Chicago.
1S99-Strike began on the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit lines. Gen. Russell
A. Alger, Secretary of War, re-
signed.
19O1-Earl Russell sentenced by the Brit
ish House of Lords to three months
Imprisonment for bigamy.
19O2-Sir Henry Irving's last appear
ance at the Lyceum theater, London.
1903-Russia refused to receive the Kish-
inef petition from America.
19O5-Peary sailed from New York for
the north pole.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
Wasn't Asking Much.

4 florist of Philadelphia was one day
making the rounds of his properties
near that city when he was approached
by a young man, who applied to him
for work.
Il am sorry" said the florist, "but I
have all the help l need. 1 have moth
ing for you to do
Sir" said the young man, with a.
polite bow, IF you only knew how very
little work it would take to occupy
me Success Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
Courage,

Three tired citizens-a lawyer, a
doctor and a newspaper man-Sat in q
back room recently in the gray light
of the early dawn. On the table were
many empty bottles and a couple Of
packs of cards. AS they sat in silence
a rat scurried across the hearth into
the darkness beyond. The three men
shifted their feet and looked at each
other uneasily. After a long pause the
lawyer spoke:
Il know what you fellows are think
ing" he said; you think l thought
saw rat, but l didn't"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
q. s. Defeat. w. Rockefeller

The Postmaster General has issued an
order re-establishing the postoffice at
Brandon, n. Y, which was recently abol-
ished, or removed to Bay Pond, at the
instance of William Rockefeller, whose
estate largely surrounds the latter place.
Owing TO complaints, the Postoffice De
partment caused an investigation to be
made, and on report of its inspectors has
ordered the restoration of the Brandon
Office, although the new Office at Bay
Pond will not be abolished, since it sup
plies a large number of people with mail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01

1t is not too much say that in all times and places
and under all circumstances soever truly womanly
woman will hardly obtain proper Difference from
men In the hour trouble in sickness and fatigue
husbands to us just such dear spoit
children whom we best to help and comfort
however lnordnae the claims may be which they make
on our sympathy and indulgence.
Young girls cannot too soon begin to prepare them
selves for the hours of loneliness life must inevitably