Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-01
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-''Gradual repentance is Ike a ffxfs
who wants to be taken out of burning
building, but who says to those about
him, Now don take me ont sudden
ly: take me down first to room where
1t IS not so hot. and to another where
there is still less heat, and take me out
gradually Why, the man would be
cinder before you got him out. \
mln who wants to reform should do 50
perpenlicularly."
W While We may admit that memory
IS function of every tissue. neverthe-
less its highest development is in the
greatest-nerve center or bran In
pressions received in times long past
may here remain dormant almost for
lifetime Consciousness and the ut
most effort Of the will may be power-
less to arouse them, but sooner or later
the poison of fever. the horror OF a
dream. or the agony of drowning may
in moment dissipate the cloud, and
IN an instantaneous flash the scenes of
a long forgotten act appear as. vividly
and as really as when they were first
enacted. 1t may even he, as De Ouin-
cey has suggested, that the opening of
the book at the day of judgment shall
be the unrolling of the scroll of memo
ry. Scribner.
Why is it that we can better bear
to part in spirit than in body, and while
we have the fortitude to act farewell,
have not the nerve to say it? On the
eve of long voyages or an absence of
many years, friends who are tenderIy
attached will separate with the usual
pressure of the hand planning one fin
al interview for the morrow, while each
well knows that it is but a poor feint
to save the pain of uttering that one
word, and that the meeting will never
be- Should possibilities be worse to
bear than certainties =? We do not
shun our dying friends; the not hav-
ing distinctly taken leave of one among
them, whom we left in all Kindness and
affection, will often embitter the whole
remainder Of a life.-Old Curiosity
Shop.
The ANGEL AND THE.sDEMoN.-
Seldom has there been a murderer con-
victed in this city who was the object
Of more universal adherence than
Sharkey. He was to have been exc
cuted last August, bnt his counsel had
obtained a stay Of proceeding in conse-
quence of some supposed mistakes by
the Judge on his trial. The justice of
his doom on the merits, however, few
questioned He was particularly stub
born, offensive, and repulsive toward
his keepers and all who came near him.
Yet, in front Of the cell of this poor
wretch stood. day after day, a slight,
frail. sorrowing woman, always watch
ing and waiting All, this mystery of
woman love is something unfathom-
able and past finding out! At length,
in broad nocnday, Sharkey walks out
of prison, disguised in woman's appar-
ell ! What will not woman dare. and
do for the man she loves? The devot-
ed mysterious lady who had so long
stood outside Of cell is now confined
within one, under arrest 70. 9aiding in
Sharkey' escape. But probably pun
ishment had no terrors and has few
pangs for one whose whole existence
was so bound up in the safety and well
fare Of another. Some say what a
pity that the object Of such love and
devotion should not be more deserving
OF course it Is but the love Of wo-
man does not seem to depend upon the
worthineSs Of the man on whom it is
bestowed and the veriest wretch iii
the world sometimes enjoys an intensi-
ty Of feminine devotion which a king
on his throne might sigh for in vain i
~ I, Letger.
There is bull-dog-that man in
the brown suit yonler, with btndy legs
and heavy shoulders did you ever see
kennelel muzzle more thoroughly the
bulldog than this? The small eyes
closed under the brows, the smooth, bull