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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-03-16
J. HOMER,
STOVE DPEAR TMENT,

A large stock Of J, F Rathboncs, Albany
Stoves, and .cwett 4 Roots buffalo Stoves,
a full assortment, which will be sold ct the
lowest market prices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-03-16

Thousand, Of Families

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Hm.aW Success
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

ing in to attend his office hour The doc
tor, not knowing what was wrong with the
boy, thinking perhaps he was patient,
inquired of the clerk, who at once told him
of the joke; at the recital of which the
doctor, who is a kind, good-natured man,
grew quite indignant, and desired the
young man to 90 at once and bring the lad
back, 50 that the whole matter might be
explained
The young man went as desired, and
found the poor little fellow on the opposite
side of the street, gazing across at the
drug store, nearly frightened to death. He
was entreated to come back, but he would
not. Hearing this, the doctor,-who, by
the way, is a very thin man, and resem-
bles living skeleton-said he would 20
and bring the poor little fellow himself;
and with that intention he went out on the
pavement, waving his hand, saying:
Come over here. sonny; nobody viii
hurt you"
The lad, almost afraid to stir, haIlooed
back;
'' No, you don't; you can't fool me,
though you have got your clothes on. You
think I don't know you ?"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

crowd the hospitals In and around the city.
That Is 4 beautiful ministry, causing Il
thrill of delight in thousands Of hearts
No favors are welcomed with such smile
of gratitude as these little clusters of flow
ers. They are welcomed as ministers OF
love; they are assurances that the suffer-
lug are not forgotten; that tender emo
tions are felt for them by the active,
busting world without. Medicine, dain-
ties, the necessary care are all blessings,
great blessings, to the sick, but they belong
to the business side of charity they are
good, substantial, important, but somehow
there Is more heart, more real love and
sympathy, more that brings sweet comfort
in handful of flowers than in all ofthese.
They are like love in the household. Alum
dant food, raiment, all conceivable luxur-
les cannot fully satisfy the soul. Gentle
words, loving attentions, little costless
tokens are what give relish for life and
a gladness in costly possessions. - L send
her flowers every Sunday" writes a lady
correspondent. la behalf of the patient
Christian sufferer we thank you With
those flowers. Sunday blessings cheer that
tried soul rays Of light drop from the skies
into that heart to mingle with emotions
which those flowers inspire. The giver
aud receiver are blessed the Sunday Of
both is made more sunny by the cheerful
bouquet. Flowers are tokens of resurrec-
ton, and it Is well to send them on the
morning that Jesus rose. Hopes and flow
erz may we'll smile together, as they look
up7ard to the skies. We record this sis
tc.s pious act that others may cheer the
sick room with their handf1ls of flowers.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

DEtTu FBoN BEE SrING.-Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Straug, wife of John L. Strang, a
blacksmith doing business at the village of
Lynnville. tcnmilcs from Rochelle. met with
sudden death onThursday afternoon last. .uu-
der very painful circumstances. She went IN
to thegarden toPick up some apples that had
fallen from the trees, and while doing so was
stung by honey bee from hive near by.
She was stung in the temple, and the pain
wa at once 50 great she started for the
house. Getting rapidly worse, she laid down
en- the bed, and in not TO exceed FIVE min
utes she was dead Her face aud head
Immediately commenced swelling and turn
ing black and when buried the following day
she presented . frightful spectacle Very
heshy naturally, her head had sweIed to
twice its natural size, and seemed to be a
mass in the last stages Of decomposition.
She was strong and rugged woman, and
being stricken down in the flush of health
by an instrument so unthought of, filed
the neighborhood with a strange feeling of
gloom. .-Winois Register.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

and then, after a short silence, added, with
peculiar emphasis, that he knew it was. Ills
last declaration caused the old man to start
from his chair with. a new meaning on his
countenauce. The young man, while seem
ing to express every thought in his face, had
concealed a most important fact He had
listened calmly to the story Of the lite and
death Of his mothers only brother The two
with new feeling as attracting power walk
ed off together, and for the first time the
remainder Of the party understood Why the
sensitive and delicately organized young man
could put such intensity his description
Of tragic occurrences.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

PEoaLE oN SrllTs-The pictures of
Rosa Bouheur have made us all acguaint-
cd with the singular habits which the
shepherds OF the lands south of Bordeaux
have adopted, Of passing the greater part
of their lives on stills The first time
that a group Of these people Is seen, there
is a curious emotion in the mind as of
strange prodigy. Dressed in sheep-skins,
worn by time, knitting stockings or spin
ning thread, they gravely pass over the
reeds or turze-the spectator buried, Is i.
were. in the bushes they lifted nearer the
SKY on the verge Of the horizon. The long
stick, which they handle with 50 much ad-
dress. serving a a balancing pole or a
support for the arm, contributes still more
to the stranseuess of their appearance &:
they look ike gigantic crickets preparing
TO spring. La the lands of Nedoc. not on
ly the shepherds, but every one uses this
style Of locomotion the children have no
fear, and the women, who are invariably
dressed in black, resemble large ravens
perched on dead branches The origin Of
stills IS unknown; but it Is probable that
they were not In use before the Middle
Ages, rs ancient authors make no mention
of them. Perched on these borrowed legs
the shepherd watches over his charge con
cealed in the brushwood, crosses uniniured
the marshes and quicksands, fears not 10
be torn by thorns and dry tgigs, and can
at any time double the speed with which
he ordinarily walks.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

MAKING CusRACrER. Men are build
ing continually; and they know not the
day nor the hour when trials will test them
Take heed therefore, how you build
Have you that which when mems praise
cease wiI satisfy you Arc you 50 build
Ing that you can stand firm when wealth
is taken away Standing on the founda-
ton, are you building pigmy dwellings
with squald apartments, and as many Of
them as there are faculties Are all the
walls OF this structure being carried up
harmoniously2 And are you furnishing
these apartments amply and wisely Are
you filling your dwelling with the things
which are for eternity Are you gath
cring into the house OF the soul those
companions that beft it Are its guests
noble and royaI2 Are you building your
soul-house 50 that it Is sound from bottom
70 top, and from top to bottom? Are you
building it so that it shall endure in sick
ness, in adyorsity, yea, in death itself?
Are you building it so that 1t shall stand
when you pass through the food and
through the Grc n ~ Beccher.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

Yes, you will, papa, have just such u
fuss; and you won't 90 off without her, and
Ella knows it. That Is Just what you ought
to do, and lust what you will not do. Ella
is fourteen years old now. and if you had
been going to do anything you would have
done 1t seven years ago. And how easy a
thing it is to do
You announce at dinner that you will
drive at seven, and all the children who
are ready then may drive with you. Ella
Is OF an age to take care OF herself, and you
say nothing to her about being in season.
II She does not begin to dress soou enough,
keep still. Don't suggest to h-f that in
fifteen minutes the carriage will be here
Leave her 70 the logic Of events. And
don't be severe and stern and YirtuoUs, my
Fharisee, for you are probably ten times
worse than Ella, only there Is nobody to
stand over you and tell you so. BE sun
shiny and natural, and atIecti0nate and
when seven O'Clock strikes, and Ella Is
rushing round frantic after her boot but
toner, bid her goodbye checrily, and hope
you will have her company some evening
before she Is twenty-one, and don't say any
thing about it atterward Don't irritate
her with long, prosy harangues about the
evil consequences Of tardiness.
And don't run mad on the supPosition
that y2zl are TO do everything for the chill
dren. Let them alone, and give nature a
chance. Events will train them If parents
viii not insist on putting their hands inand
making tap-le. When Ella. lelt to her
own devices, has lost half dozen drives,
and received half dozen tariy marks at
school. and walked SIX times to church,
blowzy irowzy and alone, She viii yield to
the iuevitab.euess of law. and bc-tir herself
IN season. Al least l would try it,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06
Tne Nuipi Unur.

The sunlight is past, ami the dusty arr
That IilIeJ the day in its prime,
or an the hours there IS none So fair
a, the dim white even time.
The wind that blow ike a breath of heat
Is cooler and neshcr now;
or an the winds there is none 80 sweet,
soft evening wind, as thou.
I'm hour like this is soon forgot,
And never recalled again.
The peace ami rest we remember not,
only the JOY and the pain.
Were we content with such pleasure %, this
We might bs happy in rest;
Eur bon ihe pursuit cf more difficult bliss.
We e-eom to Doe easily ble~t.-L9agi-Ia
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

JUsr HIS TRADE-The Rev. George
More was riding to the village Of How
gate, il the vicinity Of the city The day
was stormy, snow falling heavily. Mr..
More was enveloped in a Spanish cloak,
with woman's shawl tied around his neck
and shoulders. These loose garments,
covered with snow and waving in the blast,
startled the horse of a commercial travel
er who ochanced to ride past. The alarmed
steed plunged, and menaeed to throw its
rider, who exclaimed " You would fright
en- the devil, sir! May be" said Mr..
More, 6. for it's Just my trade
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

INvALIDs AND FLowERs.-lnvalids need
comforting more than medicine. Sympathy
tokens of love and remembrance often DO
them more good than the visits Of the
physician. The strong and hearty are
pleased and blessed by such expressions
much more the poor afflicted ones who are
burdencd with sense of weakness, worth
lessness, and desolation. \ ray Of sun
shine from q sympathizing friend is a
grateful visitor to such. There IS socie-
ty in New York which collects and sends
flowers TO the sick and suffering which
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06
Lrtfino Children Lenrn.


Lttting thildren learn
Like eating and drinking. learning is
.trie-I, psr-a-,al work. and cannot be done
bv one lar aporber II = also a work for
which natural nrovjsion Is made IN the CON
s+;+r,iop If tbs mind inst rs eatipg or
lr-nl.;n., i q -oatYraI f,nction of tho bod.
,nJ f9- frlIra.s NJ bea'tb the mental nro-
es.. Il ~ rs.s..,~,. ~. rbe ,,b,.ic,I Tn
ta.,.b;a., tal.s. tb,,Se t;lcts int6 ,ccopnt II
never seek- 70 become a substitute for the
rro,.oss ~ Isarnin,, but only an auxiliary
r. rreparrs and administers the lesson I'M
the most suitable form. ana then leaves Fl
70 II, natural course. Without doubt. much
Of what is ,apposad to be teaching. esae-
e;.ll.,. iu families. .ltferIvlelcatsIt-eIfe Ifeltber
by -nail.u- the lesson. or hv attcmptiur III
II. t'.... .r-,-s q. -h.. learner G.I II,niI-
TN "a H.,..,.s Bf-rr. treats the ease 81
,rirh:e ,ty.e a~ follows.
II l-a GREAT mistake 10 keen children
-. Iona, ~ t,.4 entirely Is = state NJ MI
F.,fq.. t,..r -h.r... -i .l,rart, .b,l,i,. mind
.,, .r-.t..-. ~ t.,.,,.r as tl. ,.onef,,pr and
..,-,.a.,,. ..t.r..,... q. .,,,.bor--,.
..b-Il .Ra,-.5 f.. Thrown, r,, So. own rIs,a,-
Ii..-..iu--.. ..r.- ro-.ib.e. Tben.st.e--
ir-eryest.au 81 al..i. even THOUGH made
IN and with the t.aGere-, kin8nss-. +. fr-
.nr.a.,- ~ n..h .nt. .Ie.t5aI and moral -
..-.r Better i enid should hav. +
r,..fI.. .-4 wax af.ns tban +, ,.n5.
III his mother, hand children ,eo.,r7
earn Is reason t..- NOR. tbau they Us Fl
,s... elders T.r.. ga- 81, ea,sr o. reason t.1-
+.... tr3 .t...,r... ,,.-.. ,,,a-. ,4.r--
..a...i s. .-.......r reason rbcr. ,,.nr5 81
:. ..ms.a false ss-ainn.,.u ..-i ip.a.r-
c.gar induction anon. .r5@a people. let
Things follow each a.a,r uar.ra. and ,ae
;r-... e.I.. ..5.. very soon 81. .a-.eal w.ts-
ar- KNOWING
k+.f..- -...- + =. .o v..r.g- b.r ueW
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III .1.. ..l -..-,..- ana III. L
r. ~ l:..........1 .-,-. ....-.,.,--..rj Ks-.r
..~-.- and --..+s.r3 s,.ss and * very mn
b,,-., .-- .f..I, l.......3 vrLe7 .t, -,~aV.
M aI5 ..ar ,g.sr her hes clothes n her
E,ir- Ho~ would II 10. now. for Ki,ty'~
mamma Is IS ber wear the six dress p SIT
-.r. ks-., .a.. - /. ~, IN nod ...-s
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

WHAT Is THINE AGE - Father, " said
Persian monarch to an old man, who &C
cording to Oriental usage, bowed before
the soyereign's throne, pray be seated /
cannot receive homage from one bent with
years, whose head Is white with the frosts
Of age"
And now. father said the monarch.
when the old man had taken the profered
seat, " tell me thy age how many of the
suns revolutions hast thou counted p"
Sire answered the old man. :. l am
but four years.
What - interrupted the King, fear
est thou not to answer me falsely, or dos
thou Jest on the very brink of tae tomb p
d" speak not falsely. sire, replied The
aged man, neither would 1 offer a foolish
lest on a subject 50 solemn Eighty long
years have l wasted in folly and sinfu
pleasures and in amassing wealth, none OF
which | can take with me when ] leave
this world. Four years only have l spcn-
in doing good TO my fellow men and shall
count those years that have been utterly
wasted Are they not worse than a blank
and IS not that portion only worthy to be
reckoned as part OF my life, which ha-
answered life's best end p"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

IWSR i Dos Know YoU3-A few
days ago "a rather amusing scene took
place IN one Of our well known drug stores.
\ small boy entered, to purchase bottle
of blood searcher, when he was asked By
one Of the clerks in attendance to walk
back into the doctors office, and he would
show him something.
The boy went back. and was directed to
look At particular closet. So soon as his
eyes were fixed on the same. the clerk
pulled aside the screen. and behold a
skeleton Of huge proportions presented it
self to the astonishcd vision Of the boy !;
who not waiting to ask any questions,
turned and ran for the door for dear life.
In this way he happened to run against
the dOctorOn the pavement, who was com
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and peculiar train Of thought As | said
/, before, his soul lived in his face, and there
was 4 meaning there now that caused the
wOman's face to reflect to the close observ-
ing physician, This man is innocent As
she stood by the bedside she seemed like a
beautiful statue wakening to ife-as
though each feature Of the marble face and
arms and fingers felt strange lfc-thril
warning them into the full meaning OF the
Poet-artIst's conception. So walked this
woman to the full realization Of the new
sentiment expressed IL the mans face, and
she accepted what she saw as truth Her
whole manner changed, and by some means
she led the sick man TO tell his story. |
heard it aiterward from her lips made beau
tilul as poetic temperament, a sympathet-
&c nature and eloquent words could make
it. Yet | doubt not that the man himself
told it quite as well So l DO not exagger-
ate when | give you the story as it I'M
pressed me
The man told hurricdly Of his carly life,
Of his love for the girl VINO became the wife
OF the murdered man, Of mislortunes mad
denIng him, and Of the incidents Of his
reckless career. lie iei. no bitterness to
the girl after her marriage \ GOODNESS
arose, however, between himself and her
husband. The motives Of each were mis-
understood, afl the man who had been his
schoolmatc and mate friend became his
enemy BIahcs love for his old friend
became hate. and hi, mind being Of the
restless. suspicious and sensitive nature. he
construed every little act into an olfense.
and brooded over IL until it became an un-
pardouable insult He still retained his
warm feeling fer the mans wife and per
-uaded himself that She must BE per-ecutel
BY her husband Some gossiping, evil
minded persons uuhappiIy married them
selves and therefore Wishing ID create the
impression that all other, were. encouraged
him IN this idea until his mind accepted it
a. Il l4e-- HI "lt otioH % 'Nt "He 10 ger
husband inaodeAei hlm anu na, by q
strange process constituting TINS Devotion -
her husband S aIscrclIt. alWay- bad au IN
cIiultiou % strike tile man down. The last
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oa the higEl ei Ai@ arrest I'D q state oi iren-
zy- lie dlt not care 20 ue quiet ur careful.
IL aeumld a., he effected au entrance. that
|u9th.ue could .tor him from l.tiut h7-
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bad moi thought .t taill- the wife Ui-h
her husband. ila bad Thought 0uIr of kill
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06


SARATOGA IL Da.ANE--.-Ou Friday
uirht the gl- ,alIenlv went out. Id was
E,vrtIan darkness. .Fac face of black
waiter made a light ~po. in the room. All
oaraty-4 was ia darkness. Tnc sun"
office had only on. candle. The Saratoyian
l-hteI an two old Wide Awake lamps
Tie Cuesrerle.Iau IIathorn.wirh one can
die ia bottle, went aronnd. like biogenes
WIKI his lantern, looking Tor an honest
man Dir Hamilton chief bass singer
rave out. aaI pr. Strauy adjourned his
PRAYER meeirur. IL was iu-. In this dark
hes that Hrht came Ii nse alI ut once at
the Clarendon Ia was ten o'clock. The
-t4r. drove ua from .aa depot. Almost
every lady expected her husband on the
trash Many young ladies expected their
-e. hearts. Neither the stage. the Jri-
vfe. u.r the horses were visible From
It-. - - ~. -
-#..I.l atlt Nl4EtA 81 q
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-09-06

( The Governor treated her much as he would
have treated an excited, earnest child, heard
I her story TO the end, and then, assuring her
/ that the case should receive his earnest con-
sideration, told her 10 call again in a week.
She had expected that the Governor, ng
the case as she saw 1t, would seize a pen.
and, as she would have done, IN n fC of Gu
thusastic devotion t. Justice, with one SYM
pathetic DASH write the mans pardon
Therefore the answer was unsatisfactory,
and before two days bad passed she was back
again, accompanied by her husband and the
prison chaplain, and armed with an appeal
IN behalf OF the prisoner from the warden or
superintendent Ul tie prison. The man was
dying, and she On, 50 much wanted him 70
die pard0ncd mar
Her plea was powerful one, but the Gov
ernor would take no action in the matter
lie could not believe the story, and he
would not pardon the man. Men had been
pardoned to die, but when once out OF prison
they had recovered with wonderful rapidity,
and when well had engaged in new crimes.
She lett tic Office sODbIng like a heart br0k-
en- child, staggering blindly against tables,
and requiring. assistance 10 reach the outer
doors Of the building.
The next morning she received a message
directing her To come at once To the EXccu-
tive Office. The messenger found her quite
in and returned +, renart thc fact but while
he was statln, Tie condition 81 tbin0s The
sick woman entered the 0fire Another
storv .Ir-. ,..il +-,l5 l.. nor own mar
rateI IL, tt.e f.,fr Silt - =, 3,.ra,,+ l,,,t1
convinced the Governor of rhe rris,ner.s $
innocence. and -f.,. rar.lon WAS ready for her
+, carrv r3 Fiji r-ist- FIJI, ',y,c.s b,..,rc /,
c.oy;cr f.4 l',. r.l...r f-.,o ,I,. ,.o,..terti,.
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-rntanra' In. tnr-..,ry Inn 5eyc'.,,rnrnt-
.,frcr hi. trr.I -ar.iC-cj Il rr,t,bIc ibat be
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--i - -;....
in c'II rI,al T., In M men re-.,1lrcI 'i-
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The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-13

A Fool FOR A CoRREsPoSDEST.-Th
Paducah Kentuckian has q Cairo cores
pondent who is q great fool. In late
communication to that paper he attempts
TO be witty, and is stupid. He charges
that Dr.. Dunning has been experiment.
irg with Cairo Ga.inippers, and thinks
that he can use them, after training them,
for the purpose to which teaches are now
put. or our churches he says: "All the
churches are overlooking with people; We
have intellectual ministers, but very feeble
music. There is 4 new feature in ono
church 1t is a choir Of children who sing
la cat; being odd, the people sit and lis
ten. Another church MARBLES its melody,
but the words are not heard by angles or
mortals. Not long since lady gave her
false teethto a restless child to play
with-the lady who sat next her in the
church laughed outright. The mother of
the child turned to see her child with the
false teeth in its mouth, staring the choir
full in the face; one young girl laughed
n real American laugh, which was the
FIRST sound ever expressed by that choir
that was understood by the people Of that
church."