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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

The average baby. like the average
American woman of the present day.
is bundle of nerves. This condition
is due largely to the fact that the moth
err is nervous. and as result the in
FAINT is not strong. BY being held in
arms or from frequent association with
a nervous person young child will
become affected in the same manner.
The natural but most unwise desire to
show off baby has much to do with his
being fidgety, and quiet is one of the
great essentials for him.
Children never should sleep with
their parents. A child should sleep
alone, if possible If it sleeps with an
other child. the two. in the restlessness
of childhood. kick each other and kick
the covers off. They lie face TO face
and inhale each others breath, and if
one child is sickening with a disease
or has cold the other one is sure to
catch it. Another injurious thing about
sleeping together is that the elder and
stronger saps the strength of the weak
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
Development of Marshes

Louisiana embraces within its boun-
daries an area which is, in its pres
ent condition, as useless to its people
as a corresponding area on tie high
seas.
Yet, according to the Southern Farm
Magazine, this now worthless area
something over 100000 acres, is the
greatest body of fertility in the world,
except probably in the Amazon flood
plain.
The cultivated portion of the allu-
vial district south of Red River is to-
population in the United States-a
population of $50 to the square mile
of cultivated land, emitting entirely
the urban population Of New Orleans,
Based upon what the alluvial lands
are now doing, the undralned lands OF
Louisiana-lands to-day wholly unoc-
cupied-are capable of supporting, not
counting the cities which would exist
there, over 100000, population ex-
ceeding any one of the forty States of
the American Union.
Holland, on an alluvial area (2,750,-
600 acres) considerably less than one
half of Louisiana's undrained a.ea,
and with a fertility not up to the
Louisiana standard, supports about s..
100000 people, and up to the highest
standard of Europe. Holland is almost
a synonym for wealth.
Beyond question, the drainage of the
remaining marshes and swamps in the
United States is the most important
natural development awaiting us, and
is sure to be done by the present gen
GRAFTON. Scores Of drainage projects
are now actively under way, and thou.
sands OF acres have already been
brought under cultivation with most
satisfactory results.
The production Of these new lands
far exceeds that of the older cultivat-
ed lands of this famously productive
delta, aud, except where reclaimed by
companies for the purpose Of sale, they
are rarely offered at any price Here
the drainage movement is getting mo-
mentum, and it will not stop until
south Louisiana has become the rich
est agricultural community of its size
in the world
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
Doing Chores.

To dig ones own potatoes, to shock
ones owE corn, to pick ones own ap-
pies. 10 pile ones own squashes at
ones own barn, 1t is like filling ones
system with an antitoxin before going
into a fever plagued country. One is
immune to winter after this, provided
he stays to bake his apples in his own
wood fire. One works himself into a
glow with all his digging and picking
and piling that lasts until warm wealth
er cones again, and along with this
harvest glow comes stealing over him
the after harvest peace. 1t is the Sc
renity of Indian summer, the mood of
the after harvest season, upon him
upon him and his fields and woods
Dallas Lore Sharp in Atlantic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
How to Mark Linen.

A married woman uses her married
initials for her family linen anu sill
yer. If her maiden name was Mabel
Il. Brown and her married name
Jones, she uses the initials NJ B. ].
This applies to linen purchased after
marriage. Her trousseau linen should
be marked with her maiden initials,
namely, NJ. B. B. The heralds say that
woman is really not entitled to use
her family crest at all. The crest be-
longs only to the men of the family,
though, of course, the unmarried wom-
en- always use it. After woman is
married she uses the crest of her hus-
bands family, and if the husbands
family has no crest or coat-of-arms, it
would be the worst possible taste 70
use that Of her own family.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
In Another Voice.

AS the pastor Of the lions Hill
Church looked down at his parishion-
ers, to whom he had been giving thirty
five minutes Of sound doctrine, his face
took on less benignant expression.
"Bredren an sisters" he said, az
want to warn you against one ting, an
dat is thinking cherry man dat don't hab
les de same views you got Is q no
count religionist.
81 don want to hear 80 much talk
about wolves In sleeps clothing as
7 been hearing. You dom want to set
tie it In yo' minds dat mans a wolf
in Sleeps clothing jes' because be
dom bTat exactly like you do"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

teen hours lie between supper and
breakfast. and by that time the fuel
of the body has become expended.
When prolonged wakefulness attacks
us, and our thoughts go hither and
yon, and we have no more control over
them than over the wind the Wisest
thing TO do is to eat a cracker or two,
or a cold biscuit, or some bread and
milk; give the stomach something to
do, and this will draw the surplus
blood from the brain and you will fall
asleep.-Country Gentleman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
Dairy Notes.

Home dairy butter making for pri-
vate city trade is the most profitable
way to dispose of the dairy product
1t imposes more work upon the dairy
man and bis family, but gives an indie
pedence unknown TO the market milk
producer.
Speakers at the Eastern dairy con-
ventiOns and farmers institutes are adj
vising farmers TO raise more grain.
They say that the days Of low-priced
feeding grains have gone by, never to
return. This is good advice for the
average dairy1nan and stock keeper.
There Will be much cleaner milk if
the udder is wiped off with damp
cloth and the long hair clipped off the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
Hasty Dressing Evil.

Never boast that you can dress in
five minutes.
No woman who has any respect for
her appearance will attempt to dress
in double that time.
1t is true in dressing, as in every
thing else, that where there is great
haste there is little speed.
1t is particularly trying FOR any
woman to dress in q hurry.
She gets flurried and in her attempt
to put in pins sticks her fingers and
probably stains her blouse with blood
Buttons come off, laces break, gloves
and wells cannot be found.
When at last she is ready she is con-
scious of appearing her worst, instead
of at her best.
The five-minute dressing habit is one
that the carefully dressed woman will
never indulge in.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
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consequence; the thing is to have the
will to improve and then TO have the
perseverance TO stick to the improving
The sallownesS and grayness that so
often accompanies age is not necessary
if one is careful of the digestion. sleeps
in plenty of fresh air, spends a good
part Of the day in the sunlight and
keeps the liver active
The woman who does her own sham
pooling will find nothing more satisfac-
tory than the egg shampoo. 1t leaves
the hair soft and smooth and is
strengthening to the hair follicles. as
the yolk contains iron and sulphur.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
If You Would Keep Young.

The youth-seeker worries not.
She learns neither to borrow nor
hunt trouble
She meets it with laugh when it
does come
The laugh may come hard but even
sickly smile is a better youth-keeper
than tears
She thinks, feels and lives youth
though not to the point of unseemli-
ness. Gray hairs and freshness but
accentuate years
She enjoys the present to the full.
and does not acquire that age habit of
landing the good old days.
She keeps Il well body, knowing that
i'll health is the surest destroyer of
youth.
She keeps well-groomed body. ney-
er permitting herself the comfortable
slipshodness that too often goes with
added years.
She never gives her mind vacation.
but keeps it abreast with the times.
however much effort is required.
She keeps her heart young. knowing
that therein lies the true secret of a
successful fight on age which can daunt
even wrinkles and Notwithstanding
cares and sorrows.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

er. If both children have graduated
from the crib, put them in single beds.
They both may sleep in the same room,
but too much can not be said about the
injurious results of sleeping together.
A baby's nurse should be required TO
wear a clean, white apron while tend
ing the baby. Many diseases may be
warded off if this is done and we all
know that IAN ounce of prevention is
worth pound of cure
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
The Plague of the ..white Num-.

From present indications it appears
that the dreaded white num- butter
fly, which in previous years caused
such injury TO pine forests in Bohemia.
is likely this year to reappear in even
greater numbers. The Ministry OF
Agriculture has, therefore, appointed a
commission of experts to consider how
best to stop the ravages of this de-
structive pest. Beginning in the for
ests of Saxony and Bohemia, the white
nun" has gradually spread over Nor
avia and Silesia, and even down to
Lower Austria as WELL AS the forest
lands in Austria cover some "a, 0OO,00D
acres, more than two-thirds of which
are pine woods, the necessity for stop
ping this work of destruction is very
urgent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
udder and flanks and tail before milk.

uGder and tanks and tail before milk
ing.
Cream of low test simply contains
more skim milk. Take quart OF
cream testing 30 per cent and add
quart of skim milk and you have two
quarts of cream testing 20 per cent
There is a cause for low tests.
In the Island of Guernsey three cows
are kept en- an acre of land. The land
Is very fertile and the cows are kept
tethered and fed on the soiling syS-
TEN.
The more food COW can be induced
to eat. the more milk she will produce.
Cows do not usually consume more food
than they can properly digest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
Whonning Couuh

Take the white Of an egg and beat it
until it is stiff froth. add a teaspoon
full of graduated sugar and eight drops
of oil of tar; give a teaspoonful of this
mixture to baby every two hours, and
a little more to those children who are
older. This remedy is harmless.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
A Candy Tip.

Here is candy that the boy or girl
can try for his or her next party to
the delight of all the guests.
Toast figs until soft, cut a slit in
them and insert a marshmallow.
Dip each of the stuffed figs in
coating of hot chocolate slightly sweet
ened as for icing and let it cool on but-
tered plates.
Rich? OF course. But who ever
heard of any candy too rich for youth
full palates?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
The Truth.

Fear is not in the habit Of speaking
truth. When perfect sincerity is ex-
pected, perfect wisdom must be allow
ed. Nor has any one who Is apt to
be angry when he hears the truth any
cause to wonder that he does not hear
it-Tacitus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

The hat shown above was most at
tractive model to wear with the early
spring gowns. 1t was a dark blue mi
Ian braid the brim was very wide and
the crown high. 1t was slightly tilted
on the right side A mass of pink
roses were placed around the crown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
RuRes ON Hats.

Many of the spring hats have ruffles
of Lace sewn inside just where the
crown and the brim are fastened to-
gether. This ruffle is allowed to fall
over the hair and it makes a very at
tractiye and becoming addition
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
Trees and LiUhfninY

1t appears from the experiments of
a French scientist that oak trees are in
struck by lightning. Beeches, on the
contrary, are not good conductors of
electricity. The danger of trees from
lightning is great in proportion TO the
2 ectrical conductivity Of their wood
Dead trees and dead wood generally
form a much better conductor than liv-
ing growing woods, which offer greater
resistance
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

No doubt there are women who give
too much time to the kitchen, as there
are others who give too little. Who
will undertake to decide just how much
time is enough? That, IA woman should
grow like the place in which she
posses most of her time is not strange.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

other kind of dress outdoors. Women
would become healthier and happier if
they could spend part of every pleas
ant day as l do. with no unnatural in
cumbrances in the way of the clothes
that conventionality and fashion pre-
scribe"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
"kitchen Minded

Kitchen minded" is an epithet ap-
piled to women who are too much en-
crossed with domestic affairs. The
word is evidently meant as a reproach.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
Almost.

Horace-Did the college authorities
reinstate young Smith after he was ex-
PEELED?
HeIen-Almost-
Horace-Almost?
Helen-Yes; heard bis folks say
be was halfback.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Never drive sheep body deep into
the snow. If you do, make up your
mind that loss will follow. 1t simply
takes the tuck out of a sheep to wade
In deep snow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

The best method to cure sore backs
on horses is to dissolve one-half ounce
of blue vitriol in Il pint of water and
daub the injured parts with it four or
i've times a day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Cultivation is intended to destroy
weeds. prevent the ground from drying
out. and to admit the air to the soil,
so as to keep the plant food soluble.
Cultivation does not add any water to
tbs soil, but prevents that already
there from getting away.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

1t is the March Matched chicks that
make the November layers, which are
The most profitable members of the
whole flock
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Sheep and young stock should never
be yarded together. The young stock
will be pretty sure to chase the sheep,
and that means trouble every time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Once week is not enough to salt
the sheep. Have il where they can get
what they want every day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

1t is a question in some parts of the
country which would be the most profit
able thing to do, to keep dogs or sheep.
This dog nuisance is an old one and
1t is a wonder that more States do
not come to the rescue of the sheepmen
than already have.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

The community that has good
horse-shoer in it's midst should show
Its appreciation by not haggling over
the price asked for first class work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Land plaster is not a fertilizer, but
will liberate potash, and shows mark
ed benefit on clay and sandy land to
clover
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

The man who pretends that he re-
CARDS himself as a fool is almost as
big nuisance as the man who thinks
everybody else is fool.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

For the year 1907 the poultry prod
nets of the country exceeded in value
the whole of the hay crop
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Do not disturb the farmer who is in
the granary making a noise like a fan
ming mill. go thou and do likewise"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Alfalfa has shown this season that
it will stand all kinds of reverSes and
lucky enough to have few acres of it
are preparing to SOW more next spring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

1t Is not right to be more willing to
spend 500 in making the farm profit
able than to spend 100 cents in making
the home pleasant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

| Success on the farm depends upon
having everything done Systematically
and at the proper time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Anyone who buys an Incubator think
ing all that is necessary is to load it,
light the lamp and let it do the rest,
"all by its lonesome" should take a
few lessons in common sense from a
sitting hen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
SSSSSSSSSSS

There is no better time for setting
trees than late in fall.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Uncle Sans unappropriated and I'M
reserved acres for the American home
steaders amount to approximately 792
million acres. Such is the report Not
all of this is tillable, nevertheless
there are still millions of acres that
can be very profitably put to the pillow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Hay scattered about on the ground
for sheep is largely hay thrown away.
They will tread it down and waste it.
Put it into good racks Give only what
they will eat up clean. Other stock
does not like to eat hay that sheep
have nosed over.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

Providing young stock gets plenty of
good nutritious food. they can stand
good deal of exposure and gain in
constitution. 1t must not be thought
however, that animals can gain in con-
stitution. where they are made to suf-
fer hardships.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

OF different food products for farm
animals chemical analysis shows dry
alfalfa hay to be just about equal
pound for pound to bran. In a ton of
the former there are go pounds of pro-
tein, 792 pounds Of carbohydrates and
"a pounds of fat. In the same weight
of bran there are IA pounds of pro-
tein. 10 pounds of carbohydrates and
so pounds of fat. These figures ex-
plain why alfalfa is such boon to
those sections of the country where it
can be successfully grown. Red clover
hay Is an excellent substitute for al
falfa. a ton containing 1876 pounds Of
protein. 716 pounds of carbohydrates
and 81 pounds of fat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

A writer in a dairy paper in plead
ing for better treatment for the hired
man puts it in this way, Therefore
dairymen. put the club away. scold
less, brace up, boost up the hired man.
He is just as sensitive as your cow"
1t is quite likely that there are some
Tired men that don't know whether the
above is compliment or not
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16

i've times a day.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-08

Of how long Ketchel could last. Papke
tore into Ketchel with such fury that
the undefeated champion was simply
lifted off his feet four times in the
first round After the first knock
down Ketchel never really recovered
himself He bled from rain of ter
rible blows in the face, but for three
rounds he managed to hold his own.
His right eye was useless to him after
the first round and before the finish
his left eye was all but closed The
last three round he staggered around
the ring dizzy, and practically blind.
All through the fight Ketchel bled so
that the blood literally dripped from
his open wounds onto Papke's clean
body, and to the hoor Of the ring and
the defeated man presented hor-
rible sight Papke finished almost as
strong as when he entered the ring
with hardly mark on him.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-08
GRABBED THE BALLOON.
Young Prune Rancher Goes Up In
The Air.

SAN JOSE, Cal, Sept. 7.-Accept-
ing a dare from young woman, Fred
Biaggi, the l8-year-old son of prune
rancher, yesterday made daring and
unheralded aeronautic Scent that
thrilled hundreds of spectators, Run
ming forward just as w, L, Warning,
the professional parachute artist, cut
loose from the ground Biaggi sprang
into the cordage at the mouth Of the
bag and was carried upward to a
height estimated at 5000 feet War
ring cut loose with his parachute at
an elevation of $500 feet, and with
Biaggi as its solitary passenger the
balloon drifted over the hills of the
coast range until it was almost lost
to view, His weight prevented the
sudden escape Of the gas, ana after
two hours Of suspense for his friends
he returned to town, having landed
without injury
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-08
PLANNED TO SUICIDE If
HELD FOR MURDER
Lee Johnson Purchased Poison
for Defense Against Crime

SEATTLE, Sept. 7.-cyanide OF
potassium was purchased by Lee
Johnston now on his way to Nome,
TO defend himself against the charge
Of numbering Belle Gillchrist, his un-
lawful wife, six days before the crime
Is alleged to have occurred. Follow
ing Is an entry in Johnston's hand
writing discovered pencileds on the
fy-leaf Of Bible by the first Mrs
Johnston. while she was searching
her husbands effects:
Bought cyanide OF potassium, Oc-
tober rs, 1908" The date of Miss
Gilchrist's death had been established
as October 81, 1905, and parts Of the
body Of the woman was unearthed on
Saturday afternoon by searchers sent
out from Nome to the Johnston
cabin. Special United States Deputy
Marshal Joe Warren, who is working
on the case, claims also to have evi-
dence to prove the woman came TO
her death October 81, 1905. While
searching among her husbands pa
pers today at her home at 1902
Fourth avenue, Mrs, Johnston dis
covered an old will, drawn up by
Belle Gillchrist in which property in
Maxwell, Ont, in Manitoba. and in
Butte, Mont, is bequeathed to the
testator's brother and two sisters.