Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-17
We forgive too little, forget too
much. h.-Maddme Spetchine.

Opinion is a medium between
knowledge and ignorance.--Paho.
An Arab was asked by traveller
how he knew there was God. Fixing
his dark eye on the man, who seemed
to doubt the being of God, he met the
question with another "How do |
know whether it was man or camel
that had passed my tent last night
And are not the footprints Of the Crea-
tor the footprints of God?"
In the Tyrolean Mountains it is
the custom Of the women and children
to come out when it is bedtime, and
sing their national songs until their
husbands and brothers answer them
from the hills, or on their return home.
On the shores of the Adratic such a
custom prevails. There the wives of
the fishermen come down about sunset
and sing melody. After singing the
first stanza they listen awhile for the
answering strain from off the water,
and listen TIL the well-known voices
come borne on the tide, telling that the
loved ones are almost home.
PURIFY THE CELLAR.-This i. the
proper time to cleanse the cellar. Re-
move all decayed vegetable and animal
matter. That old box or barrel slowed
away in the back corner may be empty
and not in the way, but there may be
poison enough sticking on the side and
bottom to affect the health of the
household. There is no doubt that
many mysterious case of typhoid and
scarlet fever, rheumatism or sgue may
be correctly traced to the malarious ef-
fuyia emanating from those neglected
corners. After all garbage is carried
out, let the ceiling and walls be we'll
brushed with an old broom, and if this
is done once month the atmosphere
will be all the sweeter. Use plenty of
lime, and in dry weather keep all the
doors and windows open part Of the
day.
What is true Of crime is also
true Of all moral delinquency in its
many gradations There are habits
easy to acquire, hard to break, which
may seem trifing in the child, but
which, if not checked, will sap the
principles of honor, integrity, indus
try, justice and truth. Little acts Of
deceit, petty pilfering, small untruths.
or prevarications, idle hours, cherished
feelings of enmity or intentions of re-
venge, willful disobedience, cruelty to
the weak and unprotected, and a hun
dred other faults of childhood, need the
watchful eye to detect and the gentle
but firm authority of the parent to
check in the germ. If they meet not
with this resisting power, they will ex-
pand and develop into the rank weeds
of hypocrisy, dishonesty, cruelty and
injustice, and will acquire such tena-
eious hold upon the charactar that no
subsequent efforts can wholly eradicate.
CHEAP CoLoR1NG--For slate color,
take sumac berries, and boil them in an
iron kettle in soft water. a gallon of
water to quart of berries. Throw a
few bits of rusty iron into the liquid, to
set the color: wash the goods IN warm
soapso9s. and then put In She dye;
bring to boil, and then let it stand
where it will keep hot for half an hour.
Rinse in salt and water, and then wash
in soap suds and dry. It will color
either cotton or woolen goods nice
color. For brown, take the shucks
from butternuts, and boil in the same
manner, If rusty iron is scarce piece
Of copperas the size Of a robins egg will!
answer nicely. You can color every
shade of brown, from the Eghtest to the
very darkest brown, by keeping in the
dye longer or shorter time The COL
or is good, durable one, and does not
rot the goods. To color narkeen, take
two quarts of hemlock bark to a gallon
of water, boil in brass; set with copper
as, wiring the goods from hot soap-suds,
and dip IN the boiling dye till you have
Vic Il9nt Snale dfy Tie gOOQS pe1OrG
rinsing in salt and water.-Cor. Cous-
try Gentleman.
After a great snoA-storm q Little
fellow began to shovel path through
a large snow-bank before his grand
mothers door. He had nothing put a
small shovel to work With.
'How do you expect to get through
that drift?'' asked man passing along.
by keeping at it, said the boy cheer
fully. That's how"
That Is the secret of mastering al
most every difficulty under the sun.
fla hard task IS before you. stick to it.
Do not keep thinking how large or how
hard it is +; but go at it, and little by
little it will grow smaller until it is
done.
If a hard lesson is to be learned, do
not spend a moment in fretting do
not lose breath in saying Il can't." or
II dou't know how; but go at it
study. That is the only way to con-
quer it.
Te, f,ult "a ouroJ ~ q III IL.