Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-06-01
OUR FREE LUNCH.
How much beautiful sentiment

which onr "heitcr Socitey" condemn
as unworthy our attention, voting
them derogatory to public morals, and
which if blind bigory could he dir.
PEELED, would appear 80 akin TO heaven
as 10 seem 10 have had being with the
angels.
Angnstln" Daily, in his play " Tn.
der the Gaslight," makes Laura
Cortland to utter these beautiful s,n-
timenis. Were we To read them in u
good hook we would think they were
81 bean,ifnl--bm then they arc tn q
"pliy.'
"Let tho woman vou look upon be
wise or vain, beautiful or homcIy,
rich or poor, she has but one thing
she can really give or rcfuse-lier heart
Her beauty, her wit, her accomplish.
mon,s, she may sell YOU, but her love
is the treasure without money and
without p,ice. She can only ask IN
return that when you look upon her,
your eyes shall speak a mute devotion;
thar when you adress her, yonr Vol G
shall be gentle. loving, and kind.
That you shall no, despise her. be-
canse she cannot understand, all n,
once, Your vigorous thoughts and am,
bitious plils,fw when misfortune aud
evil will have hytcated your greatest
p,rposes--~her love remain. tn console
yon, You hook upon the tree Of
strength and granduer, do not de.
spi.r the flowers because their frn,
GRANGE is all they have To give. Re.
member, love il ali a woman can give
hut it is the only thing which God
permits Ms 10 cnry beyond the grave.
1t is Idle to trll us The world viii
ever grow tired of poetry, ar that we
have had 80 mach ut it of late that
there j. no occasion for any more for
. long Time to e"rue. b. canSr the
hills aud the plains were covered nst
summer with II thousand bowers, shall
vc wt'c"Tne less Joy fully The return #
the SAMMY spring, With her kirtle of
lilies around her glancing?" shall We
hold in less estimation the unbought
treasures Of green and gold she seat.
terest over the glorlous earth The at
ections Of the heart, tho delights Of
the scnces, the perception Of the beau
tilu must cease hnmau nature be
/ n. i, a,,,I a., al. .t,,t
and The body left to walk on without
il, before that species OF composition
which apbeals tn the feelings and the
fancy, 10 The intellect and judgment,
will become nnintcrcsting an! Of litI'e
valne, True, prose j. the great staple
commodity of life. True, also, The
mind may be wearied out with poetry
ard. for time may turn away from
| it, like the bee from the blossom, sati
ated with sweets. BIT not on these
accounts will one of the purest pleas
nrcs lett 10 tnlIen humanity be resign
ed--the pleasure which the peri eNpe,
ricnce at thc gates o.. Paradise, catc|.
ing glimpses of n brighter state Of cx.
is,enre, and With the MD Of imag;na,
tor gradually ipdn ing corgctinicSs
Ut personal exclusion Never, while
you ike. breathe with har,hncsss =
poets name. If he has awakened
one deeper feeling, one finer emotion,
one noble aspiration, lie has not
written in vair. Far distant he my
shinr, On tile very verge Of the h"ri.
ION, but If in HE bosom there turks
one spark Of the diyiner essence,
cherish II as the FIRE Of an altar, which
may yet kindle into broad tni pi,
rilyilig fame.
- Persons Hh5 talk most do not al
ways think most. | qaes.idn <etIief
persons who think most ,hat II, have
most conscious, thought piss through
their miuds necessarily do most nitttJ|
work. "Be aye sticking in tree,
Jock it will be growing while you are
sleeping" So will every new idea
tha. is planted in thinkers mind.
1t viii be growing while he is sleeping.
An idea is not legend carv"d on a
marble slab, j. is an impression made
on a living tissue which il the seat Of
unlritive processes. Shall the initials
| carved IN bark grow from year 10
year with the tree and shall not my
recorded thought grow into new forms
and relation with my growing braln ?
Daniel Webster told one oi The great
est scholars tlat he had 10 change the
size Of his hat every four years. His
head grew large M bis intellect "x'
panded. Illustrations Of this game
fact were shown me by fainpns phre
nOIogist in L,mduu. But organic
mental changes may take place IN
shorter spaces Of time, A single
night Of steep has brought sober
second Thought which was Il surprise
to hasts conclusion Of the day be
fore. - O. W. Hotnes
No process is =, fatal. as that
WHICH woald east all men into dnr
mould. Every hnonln being - Inten.
dcd 10 have character Of his own,
Ia be what 20 other is, tp DO what no
other can do. Our common nature
j. to he unf,lded IN anbouuied diver
sites. i, is rich enough for Infinite
manifestations. II il to wear innnm
erable forins of beauty and glory. --
Every human being has a work to
carry on within, duties To perform