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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
AntiuuitY of the Hoo.

The two most important and most
intimately associated products of In
diana are corn and hogs. A French
statistician with a newly-sharpened
pencil and sufficient leisure once fig
ured out that the product of a single
SOW with only six young at time will
amount in ten generations to about
100000. Of course, he left hog choI-
era and other diseases out Of the cal
culation. The Chinese claim to have
bred and domesticated the pig 1000
years before the Christian era. The
ancient Egyptians knew the hog and
this animal is depicted on their mon
uments. The use of the meat OF the
hog was prohibited by the Jews as it
was considered that in hot countries
it produced skin diseases. The Mos
lens under Mohammedan law are al
so prohibited from using pork. The
hog was unknown in America until in
troduced from Europe by the early
navigators. In the South American
forests are great droves Of wild hogs
the descendants of hogs brought over
by the Spaniards. When it is taken
into account that the ordinary female
swine will produce twice every year
and usually eight to twelve at a birth
one cannot help but wonder that the
market price Of pork should be as
great as it is.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
CLING TO BLEAK LAND
NATIVES OF SHETLAND ISLANC
LOVE THEIR HOME.
Have Hard Work to Coax a LIVING
From Almost Barren Rock, But
Leave 1t UnwiIIingiy-Spot
Has Figured in History.

Fair island, 25 miles south of all
the other Shetlands, has had a
strange enough pageantry passing
over its rocky surface. For not only
was it the home of the Picts, and then
| of the Morse; and for the Morse, the
signal beacon to give warning of the
coming Of the hostile sail; besides
that, it supplied a chapter in the ro-
nance of the Spanish Armada.
For here was wrecked the ship Of
Don Gomez de Medina, and that noble
and his men we're for a time most
| generously entertained by the island
ers, writes Maude Radford Warren in
Harper's Magazine. But time passed,
the Spaniards stayed, the meal and the
mutton diminished Then the island
ers, wrapped in by the wild storms,
unable to get to any other island,
fearful of famine hid their food. The
forced guests grew weak, many died
of starvation, and some, it is said,
were pushed over the tall cliffs into
the sea.
At last one Andrew Umphrey took
the Spaniards away in a ship, and
since that day the name of Umphrey
has been powerful in the Shetlands.
The Fair island people show plain
traces of Spanish blood, but they re
sent the suspicion of it, saying that
the Spaniards were isolated when on
the island.
1t is hard to conceive how isolation
could well be possible on an island
two miles square; besides, the Fair
island people do not deny that the
strange patterns and the lichen dye
ing of the stockings and caps and
shawls their women knit were taught
them by the Spani is, and indeed the
same sort of handicraft is found to this
day in country places of Spain.
The Fair islanders were great
smugglers in the old days. and they
are still good bargainers. They are
very intelligent, seeming to know in
stinctively how to read; and not so
very long ago they would follow the
mail steamers in their light canoe
shaped boats, which none but them
selves can manage, begging for news
papers and books.
One of their terrors is of infec-
tious disease; another is of the dog
tax man, against whose coming they
are said to hang and drown their
dogs; another is of emigration, for
they love Fair isle. Yet emigrate they
must; about forty-f1ve years ago a
hundred Of them went, unable longer
to coax living from their bare rock.
Their greatest joy is the occasional
visits of the minister, more frequent
ly now than in the old days, when
he arrived but once in about two years
to marry and christen. He breaches
every day of his stay, and they pro-
long his visit on every possible pre-
text, using, when all else fails, the
solemn prophecy of a storm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
Copyright. 1915. by W. c. Chapman.)

Copyright, 1915. by ". G. Chapman.)
Saunders, the boss of Pathways,
stood beside the desk of the young
editor of the Pathfinder and scowled.
You misunderstood me, Mr.. Lee,
he said. SIN not asking you to sup
port me or my policy. All ask is that
you'll stop fighting me. Come, young
man. he continued, laying a heavy
hand upon the young fellows Shout
der, you know you're up against a
losing game. What's in it for your"
Good government" answered Philip
Lee, and the boss laughed.
That's just Ike you reformers," he
said. You come out of the East and
think you're going to overturn the
universe. You're like the frog in the
puddle; you make a big splash and
then it's all over"
He left with an injunction to Philip
to think it over, if he saw any future
for himself in Pathways.
Philip Lee knew well the power that
he was bucking against. Twelve
months before, threatened with tuber-
cuiosis, he had come West and invest
ed his little capital in the purchase of
the weekly paper. For a time things
lad smiled on him. Then he had taken
up the cause of good citizenship
against the corrupt boss, and imme-
diately the paper had begun going
dOwnhill
It was not that the circulation had
dropped of. On the contrary, it had
gone higher than ever before. The
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
Beef in Panama.

The beef consumed in the Panama
Canal Zone is to be from cattle slaugh-
tered there, instead of dressed beef
from the United States. It has been
ascertained that saving of from 10
to 90 per cent can thus be made.
The Canal supply department has
already begun killing local cattle, in
order to test the quality of meat OBJ
tainable, and it has further arranged
to purchase cattle in other parts Of
Central America, and even South
America, and bring them to the
isthmus for final fattening and
slaughter.
A cattle buyer, assigned to visit
the neighboring countries, will have
his purchases brought to the Canal
and inspected by a veterinary sur
geon to prevent the introduction Of
diseased cattle. The latter official is
already on his way to the isthmus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
Teapot Stand.

rounded and the wood is smoothly
covered with corded silk of any pref
ty color. Diagram A shows the shape
in which the material should be cut
out, the space incIosed in the dotted
line corresponding in size to the sur
face of the wood. The four flaps are
turned over the edges of the wood
and fastened on at the back with tiny
tacks.
Diagram B, which illustrates the
under side Of the stand, shows this &C
complished. The design which appears
upon the silk must, of course, be
worked upon the material prior to
covering the wood and consists Of a
wreath of tiny leaves embroidered n
various shades of green. The stand
is outlined with small brass-headed
nails of fancy pattern driven in close
together.
The legs" of the stand are made Of
large glass beads fastened on with
nails run through them in the manner
shown in diagram D, and diagram G
gives the appearance of the stand as
it should look when complete.
A stand for the hot water jug can
be made to match but in rather a
smaller size.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
Water for an Army.

One of the numberless tasks of tn
general staff of a great army is to pre-
vide water for the soldiers and tn
horses. The Scientific American Dc
scribeB some of the methods en-
ployed. Only running water is use,
In the German army the upstream
water is used for drinking, and th
downstream water for watering tn
horses and for bathing. Suitab.
signs notify the men which water the
may safely drink and which they ma
use only for bathing. In shallow
narrow streams basins are dug
small dams built, in order to for
reservoirs of sufficient size. Steppin
stones are put down so that no OF
need walk through the water, and Il
banks are shored up with boards
keep them from crumbling into Il
water. Basins are dug at which
water the horses; when troughs haN
to be used, they are supported
posts and filed by means of pumI
If water lies at a reasonable dep
from the surface-that is, not mo
than twenty feet-pdpes are driv,
that, according to their size, deliv
from four to twenty-five gallons
water a minute. If the water lies We
near the surface, a hole is dug, al
a cask, the bottom of which has be,
knocked out, is put into the hole
hold the sides in place and to pl
tect the water from dirt. If the v
ter lies at a greater depth, box s.
tons are driven in, one on top of
other, to the required depth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22

T containing the gladioH and stretch it
| over the plants before they begin to
send up their flower stalks. I support
it on stout stakes that project about
I eighteen inches above the surface of
| the soil, using enough Of them to keep
the netting level all over the bed.
This is the season for making war
fare on the enemies of the rose. If
| one would have fine flowers he must
make up his mind that he's got to fight
for them. | use an emulsion of soap
and kerosene.
It is very necessary that the appli-
cation should get to the under side of
the leaves and the inside of the
bushes, where the insects are likely
to hide away; therefore it will be well
to have someone assist by bending the
bushes over and holding them in that
position while the application is being
made.
Worms, slugs, green lice and the
rose-chafer can be kept from injuring
the bushes if the emulsion is applied
thoroughly and frequently
As soon as my Iilacs are past the
Towering periods, I go over the bushes
and cut away all the seed clusters.
The result isl get a fairly good crop
Of flowers on what is generally cOnsid-
cred the "off year" of this excellent
old shrub, If it is allowed to develop
seed, it generally has few flowers ex-
cept on alternate years.
Speaking Of lilacs reminds me to
say, that l do not indorse what some
people say about this plant being a
nuisance because of its habit of send
ing up so many suckers from its
roots.
That it is prolific in this respect
admit, but there is no good reason for
allowing them to grow until you have
thicket of bushes. Give your hoe
blade the sharpness of a knife by filing
it to a keen edge, and go over the
ground about your lilacs at the sprout-
ing season, and shave off every sprout
that shows its head above the grass
You can do this just as easily and rap
idly as you can cut off so many weeds,
and by doing it you can keep your
lilaCs from spreading all over the
yard.
These bushes are nuisance3 only
when allowed to have their own way
Give them the attention they need
and they are easily kept under CON
troll. The secret of success consists
in not letting them get fhp start Of
you.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
Modernizinu the Roundup.

Each year seems to give the au
mobile a new hold on life, says t
Wall Street Journal. The war broug
it to the forefront in a new field. tt
soldier of the present day seldo
makes long forced marches like SHE
mans march to the sea. He trave
by motor car. AS a result, the auton
bile casualty list is tremendous; t.
average life Of a car in the battle liz
is estimated at 80 days. But it is
CnIy the war zone that has lost pa
of its picturesqueness through the
Of the automobile. The latter h.
begun to rob the annual cattle roun
up Of some of its thrills by replaciI
the horse. This year has seen t.
ubiquitous car with a cowboy at
wheel on our western prairies discoI
aging the cattle from attempts to
cape from the ever narrowing circle
the roundup. Many a steer which h
given a COW horse a run must feel d
concerted when it bucks up again
the four-wheeled steed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
WRAPS FOR SUMMER WEAR
Combinations of Gay CoIors Mark
These Beautiful, If SuperfIuous,
Hot Weather Garments.

The summer dress-up wraps are
as frothy and superfuous as a dream.
Fancy a coat of tulle, a bit of lace
and a few pearl beads. Yet it is
done" A beautiful imported wrap
has a cape of rose-colored silk from
which fall tiers upon tiers Of lace,
mounted over rose chiffon. By the
way, do you know that chiffon is a
good wearable fabric and is used now
for Innings of silk coats-aye, and for
cloth ones, too!
Time was when dressy wraps were
only for evening, but the afternoon
dances permit more elaborate COS
tunes. Hence the appearance of the
expensive cloak cS lace.
One of Caillot's Aoyeliest models is
a long coat of batiste. embroidered to
the guards and beautiful beyond
words and type and printers ink. 1t
was to be worn with a beige-colored
taffeta with sleeves of ecru lace.
Tres splendide, yes? We hazard the
opinion that it was and is.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
STYLES In PARAS0LS
ARE OF ALL SORTS OF PRETTY
MATERIALS AND SHAPES.
Japanese Designs Are as Well Liked
az Any Extraordinary Made to
Match the Flounced Gown
of 1860 Type.

Never, not even in their early orr
entail days Of stately. pageantry, have
paTasols been so alIuring. An oriental
race, the japanese, has given US one
Of the most charming shapes for sun
shades, and this year it is reproduced
for US IN the prettiest materials In
a striped year, many striped parasols,
of course. are seen, often in black and
white, which the French call pekine.
While everything under the sun is
made Of cretonne, it is natural that
this material should not be selected
for sunshades. Some of the prettiest
are in the japanese, sO-called Chin
chin shape, Of printed linen or pom
gee, with long camphor-wood handles.
One Of yellow tussore had a small
eastern design Of ovaIs of tan and
clear green. Each rib was tipped
with a Chinese Jade head, and jade
ball was poised on the top Of the
slender handle. Another Of the same
fiat, many-ribbed shape was of pale
cream silk and all around the center
point was cluster of yellow cherries
on green silk stems of various
lengths, while another bunch dec
Grated the~handIe.
Beside the oriental shape the deep
tulip-shaped bell is shown as a COZ
trast in dark, rich colors or in the
seasons latest fancy-white net. A
dome-shaped specimen was made Of
finely shirred white net, and all
around the edge ran a patriotic com
bination Of a blue MORE ribbon with
a line of red beads on each side of it,
With your founced 1860 gowns you
may carry an 1860 parasoI, small in
size, of conventional shape, with green
silk fringe dripping from its edge.
Or you may choose a pink taffeta af-
fair with its points connected by a
garland of pink rosebuds, or another
of white shirred silk with loops Of
black jet beads. If you like ruf1es,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
HAIR BANDS ARE IN DEMAND
Worn With the Popular Buster Brown
Couture, and Also With the
High Psyche Knot.

Now that the mammas are wearing
the Buster Brown couture, which is
not bowl cut at all. but an imitation,
marcel waved, with long ends con-
cealed, the hair bands are having a
splendid sale. These bands are also
worn with the high Psyche knot,
which does not stand upright, but
rather stands backward from the
crown Of the head, giving long line
from the tip of ones nos' to the tip
of ones couture.
While these bands, coming directly
across the forehead, were designed for
the Castle clip, they have been adopt
ed by women who yearn for something
new. A one-inch band of black vel
vet ribbon is used, either plain or jew
eled, the latter studded with tiny flow
er designs in brilliants. Others, con-
siderably wider, are of silver fiIigree
and give an oriental effect that is very
good with the high Turkish girdle and
the skirt that is so turned in at the
hem and attached to an undermining
that it gives the effect of baggy trou-
sers.
Grosgrain ribbon is used of any
color one fancies and is set with col
ored stones.
If you have an old Spanish necklace
with pendant it will come in nicely for
hair band. Because Of its weight it
is best to attach it to a ribbon.
There is a threat of puffs return
ing, worn across the bach of the head.
from ear d ear and very low. The
front of the hair is worn plain after
the bare face" style which prevails.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
Vicious Wolves in France

To talk of wolves in France seems
absurd-a country that has been set
tied for 1000 years, and has a popu-
lation of $50 to the square mile. Yet
in several Of the departments Tor
counties, as we would call them)-
notably in the Department of Yonne,
in the heart Of France-thC wolves
are extremely bold and enterprising
Two troopers, one day last spring,
who were riding in company, came
suddenly upon a huge wolf that, with
out the slightest hesitation, sprang
upon the nearest horse. The SOL
diers dismounted and drew their sa-
bers, expecting the wolf to turn tail,
but he showed fight and but for the
arrival of farmer with a gun, who
shot the animal, the republic might
have lost two of her army. The com
bat would be thought nothing of in
Russia, or even in this country but in
France-well, it shows how hard 1t is
for man to exterminate the wild ami
mails that infest the earth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
SONG SPARROW AN 0PTIMIs
CHEEKY Bird, Permanent Reside
Asks Little for Services, Which
Are Valuable.

me song sparrow, cheery-voic
forerunner of spring, is the subject
an article by Miss Harriet E. Bancrt
which appears in the Ohio Arbor
Bird Day Manual, issued by the ST.
department of public instruction
use in the schools. In telling abC
the song sparrow Miss Bancroft say
There are so many different kir
OF small, sober-hued birds, which Il
alike, and yet are not alike. that Y
wonder how you are to distinguish Il
one from the others. Each bird h
his recognition mark and song SD.
rows is the spot in the middle of !
speckled breast; and while in col
he Is OF the earth, earthly. and bea
upon his breast a spot, you must n
think that these are the outward sigl
OF an inward blemish because /
hasn't any.
There is great variation in the ha
Its of different sparrows with respe
to migration. The tree sparrow
with US only in winter, the field spa
row is a summer bird, the whit
crowned migrant; that is, he pays 4
a short visit in the spring and again
the fall, while on HIS way to more r
mote regions; but song sparrow is
permanent resident In nearly all part
Of the state. He shares with us IL
storms as well as the sunshine of tb
rounded year.
His cone-shaped bill tells you tha
he is a seed-eating bird and the weel
yield him plentiful supply of then
He also eats slugs and worms an
COMMUNICATING insects when the
are to be had, and his choice of die
makes him a valuable assistant to tn
farmer. He helps him in his warfar
on troublesome weeds and harmful in
sects.
1t IS not too much to say that who
ever or whatever helps the farmer t.
grow better crops, helps the Who'll
world along; but song sparrow's sery
ices do not stop here; his finest is tina
which he renders to our weary spirit
when he cheers them with his song
For all. the help he gives he ask
nothing in return but the privilege O
living out his little life unmolested.
ut is said that he and his mate vii
raise three and even four broods in
season, if the weasels, the red squi1
rels, the cats, the crows, the hawks
the blacksnakes and other ill-dispose
creatures do not harry their lowl
nest, which distressing occurrence I
all too frequent"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
IN THE HOME GROUNDS
BY EREN e REXFORD-


This month viii be a busy one fol
the gardener, There will be plants tc
put out, weeds to pull, insects to kill
quite enough to keep one at work
most of the time.
do my transplanting on cloudy
days, if possible, but if the weather
persists il being sunshiny, / do the
work after shutdown Before lifting a
seeding. apply enough water to
thoroughly satUrate the soil in which
it is growing. If this is done, the
young plant can be moved without ex
posure to the roots, and it will receive
no check whatever, but will keep on
growing as if nothing had happened
to it. But allow its tender, delicate
roots to be exposed to air for ever SO
little a time and you run a serious
risk Of losing your plant.
If this does not happen, it will re.
ceive a check from which it will take
a long time to recover.
One cannot be too careful with any,
thing as delicate as a seeding plant.
In bright weather newly transplanted
seedlings will require shading for a
day or two. I cut out a circle of
coarse brown paper, about foot
across, make a slit to the center on
one side of it, and fold the paper over
two or three inches, running a wire
out and in through the folded part.
This wire serves to hold the paper to
gether and acts as a support for the
little brown paper umbrella.
It should be at least twelve inches
long-long enough to insert in the
ground close to the Seeding, and hold
the paper cone well above the plant it
is designed to protect. This kind of
a covering keeps the sun away from
the plant but does not interfere with
free circulation of air about it.
What kind of a support are you go
ing to give your gladioH? Tying their
stalks to sticks gives them such a stiff
and prim appearance that I always
feel sorry for the poor plants. A stick
in the center of a clump does not
furnish a really satisfactory support
to the stalks on the outside of it, and
a hoop supported on sticks is open to
the objection of being only a little
better than nothing.
Here is my plan-and one that
works we'll, and can be easily carried
out. I take a strip of coarse mesh
wire netting of the size of the bed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22
$1,000 FOR AN ORCHID

One thousand dollars has been bid
In the auction for the famous Queen
of the Belgians" orchid; the proceeds
of the sale went TO the Belgian relief
committee of the American Red Cross.
This beautiful orchid, cultivated by
Clement Moore, was one Of the fea-
ture of the recent international flower
show.
The orchid, which is the only one of
its kind in existence, and which con
noisseurs have pronounced the most
beautiful variety of Cattleya Schroe-
dierae, is being cared for like young
baby. Following the English custom,