Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07
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makes Its very victim the devils slave.
The former were from a race originally
degraded, and in tens of thousands of
eases had risen above their original
status; the latter have been recruited
from the very best blood of the nation,
and their course has ever been down.
ward, socially and morally, body and
soul, with nothing before them but
drunkard's grave here, and drunk
ards doom hereafter. Hatchman and
Reflector.
CHRIST AND THE CHILDREN
Christ wasn't stiff, stark censor,
from whom children ran away. He
would never have made YOU think of
grave-never.-Oace he was talking
to grown folks. and in the crowd were
women with babies in their arms.
W hen they heard the minister, what
was the impulse? What is the impulse
generally, when people here the minis.
ter? Anything bat a sense of person.
al influence and a running to him. =
But these wcmen. with their worlds in
their arms, said IF my little one
could only be touched by him. And
they came up, and the disciples, mod
els of proprietv. said look here,
now, go away; he is talking to grown
folks But the children didn't cry
and run away, but nestled near him.
Not one in ten-thousand children
would ordinarily, in strange and
boisterous crowd, allow a strange man
to take them up, but he took those up
in his arms and put his hands on them
and blessed them, and [ don't doubt
that he kissed every one of them.
He was divine, and that was divine
Beechcr.
1t is chiefly through books that
we enjoy intercourse with superior
minds, and these invaluable means of
communication are in reach of all In
the best books great men talk to US,
give us their most precious thoughts,
and pour their souls into ours God
be thanked for books They are the
voices of the distant and the dead,
and make as heirs of the spiritual life
of past ages. Books are the true lev
elers. They give to all who will faith
fully use them. the society, the pres
ence of the best and greatest of our
race. No matter how poor | am,--no
matter though the prosperous Of my
own town will not enter my obscure
dwelling, If the sacred writer's will
enter and take up their abode under
my roof, if Milton will cross my thres-
hold to sing to me of Paradise. and
Shakespeare to open to me the worlds
of Imagination and the workings Of the
human heart, and Franklin to enrich
me with his practical wisdom, | shall
not pine for want of intellectual COM
panionship, and I may become culti-
waited man though excluded from what
is called the best society in the place
where | live.
LIGHT.-Light is a force, and sci
ence holds that it is made up Of i'm
pulses. Mature has been shown to
comfort all kinds of dynamical effects
for rythmical pulsing, or wave-like ac-
ton, and the impulses of light are
held to be of the same kind. There
are, at any rate, measurable effects
which are unequal in the different col
ored light, and the scale has been de-
termined. In an inch of violet light
it is shown that there are not less than
| 81 900 waves, statement in which
there is nothing extraordinary or i'm
possible, as Nobert, the German opti-
clan, is in the habit of ruling his mi
croscopicial test-glasses at rates all the
way from 100, 900 to 200, 900 per inch.
But when we are told that the ray
enters the eye at the rate of 1S5, 900
second, and-as each inch contains
| 81. 900 waves that when we are look
ing at a violet object there are $780,
| 600, 600, 000,00 beats upon the retina
each second, the statement battles all
| Imagination we may accept but cam
not understand it.-In the attempt to
master the nature Of light we are lost
in the mysteries of the infinite. Yet
| Ul1e HOuco VI It's dCIlOii nave Dttil uG-
termined, and they furnish most
splendid example We know of the in
fexlbleness and exaetitude Of what are
called the laws of nature.
PLAIN TALK TO GIRLs.-Your
every day toilet is part of your char
acter. A girl who looks like fury
or a sloven in the morning is not to be
trusted, however finely she may look
in the evening.-No matter how hum
BILE your room may be, there are eight
things it should contain, viz: mirror,
wash-stand, soap, towel, comb, hair.
nail and tooth-brushes- These are
lust as essential as your breakfast, be-
fore which you should make good. aud
free use Of them. Parents who fail
to supply their children With such ap-
pliances, not only make great mis-
take. but commit sin of omissiOn.-
Look tidy in the morning, and after
the dinner work is over, improve your
toilet. Make it rule Of your daily
life to 'sdress up for the afternoon.
Vour dress may nr paad mot ha anv