Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-20

so by sin and selfshness is as dear to
the great heart of God, as the brightest
gold to the miser ever boarded in his
filthy chest.
Il see in the blue flames that arise
from the newly kindled fire various
forms and beauties swiftly rising and
receding, the shady forms advance with
brazen faces. but as others come to face
them the dancing spectres fast retire.
The half burned sticks are now fall
ling nearer to the bed Of Goals, causing
shrieks, solemn groans and cries from
tortured ghosts, but a giants form ap-
pears, and as he strikes the golden Tyre
the tortured ghosts retire. AS mo-
ments come and 60, the gigantic fury
slowly sinks nearer to his woody bed.
Uncoiled snakes of beautiful hues, gol-
den palaces and shade trees rise. The
beautiful die and so do they. This is
the picture | give of fame, that is fed
by mild desires; vital sparks Of heav-
emily flames, sound sleep by night,
studying only when it's light. The
fire dies from lack Of fuel. Fame
when the angel whispers-sister spirit
take to fight.-.Niss o. &. Leutse.
AS the dove will clsp its wings to
its side, and cover and conceal the ar
row that is preyins OH its vitais. so it
is the nature of woman to hide from
the world the pangs of wounded affec-
ton. With her the desire of the heart
has failed. The great charm Of exist
ence is at the end. She neglects all
the cheerful exercises that gladden. the
spirits, quicken the pulse, and send the
tide of life in healthful currents through
the veins. Her rest is broken the
sweet refreshment of sleep is poisoned
by melancholy dreams, "dry sorrow
drinks her blood, until her feeble frame
sinks under the last external assailant
Look for her after little while, and
you find friendship weeping over her
untimly grave, and wondering that
one who but lately glowed with all the
radiance of helalth and beauty, should
now be brought down to "darkncss and
the worm" You will be told of some
wintry chill, some light indisposition
that laid her low, but no one knows the
mental malady that previously sapped
her strength, and made her so easy a
prey to the spoiler.-- Washington Irving.
On earth we can know but in
part Yet here, our feet may take
hold on the shining ways that lead
through eternity. On a winters night,
moonless and clear, we look towards
the heavens-the great calm planets,
the gittering stars, the calm nebula.
| We send out our imagination towards
them and its wings fail ere the journy
is we'll begun. We are lost in the
immensitv, vet we arc but on the mar
gin. What if we could rightly behold
all that lies before us if we could take
into our sight and thought all those
suns and systems if we could see the
various beauty film; each sphere as
full as our own earth is full of lovely
and majestic shapes :; if We could com
prehend the inner forces that control
all, and the harmony in which every
part combines to form the perfect
whole
SO in our highest moments we seem
to look into the Divine heart. We
gaze upon a glory of love that fills our
hearts with adoring awe. Yet then
we stand but on the outer margin. To
see the whole to fully understand the
Divine nature, transceading the physi-
cal universe which outwardly clothes it
AS the human heart transcends the
body--what eternity shall be long
enough for that - Christian Union.
There is terrible significance in the
questions we sometimes ask upon the
death Of wealthy man, if we only un-
derstood the real significance of the
questions. Glow much was he worth ?''
we ask And the angels might reply:
'Worth He wasn't worth anything
His money was worth something. His
body is worth something, az source Of
fertility to the soil. Bnt he WASH t
worth anything So we vary the
question "Yes, but how much did he
leave?' ooh, leave - it might be an
swercd: Yes; | will tell you. He
had houses, lots, bonds, stocks, gold,
notes, merchandise, farms. And he
eft-Great God he ieftth all. He
carried nothing with him. Nakel and
destitute came he into the world, and
as naked and destitute did he go the
way whence he came He carried
nothing; neither land, nor n oney, nor
yet did he carry with him the blessings
Of the poor, the grateful tears Of an or
phan, the bencdiction of the poor.
lie left all-hc carried nothing away
with hinl." But his neighbor has died /:
a man who was not known on change
| nor in the tax list, "And what has he
left? 2" we may perhaps, curiously ask
Left? lie has left nothing but he las
taken much with him. He has gone
to heaven laden with the blessings an
the gratitude of the poor, Of the helpless.
of the young, OF the aged, of tho Wild
ow. of the friendless; of those whom
he, BY his counsels, and his acts, and
his prayers, had blessed Of those
whose poverty he had relieved, whose