Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-10-01
More Statuary by Powers. His
Last "BuSt."

An. IGOWaEt. 1idItiitS- A1S' - - OS-
comes thee."--hING HENEY VI,
County Superintendent Powers in
the last Trjbuue. assumes another atti-
tude. When we met him in Mr..
Stansbury's. at the time he thought to
wrest from us an apology for the utte--
ance of truth, he was veritable Ju-
piter in travail, aud for time we ex-
pected to behold Minerva springinr
from his classical skull, who, per
chance, would fay US With the lash of
wisdom, for presuming to criticise the
educational Jupiter of Wood County.
Now, he is indeed the GREEK SLAVE Of
his own conception, as naked of truth
as the marble, which, if animate, would
blush to behold the cringing humanity.
He crawls in his own slime before the
people of Wood County and Kisses
= Behold how [ am abused" The
fact is, we told on ~ modicum of the
truth relative to the Lecture matter,
but Ill re did sag was truth, and Mr.
Powers knows it SO to be; and when
he attempts to sugar-cOat his neoli-
gence, tho natural consequence of pos
tive, listiess laziness, and force the
people of Wood County to gulp it
down as an educational bolus, he mis-
takes his patient. Why, Mr.. Powers
did not euen make arrangements rih
tie trustees Of the Churches for tie hold
ing Of tie lectures therein. We were
obliged to tell him plainly that courte-
sy demanded that he should extend in
vitations to the lecturers by note or in
person before he could expect them to
consider themselves the recipients of
valid invitations, and yet he claims to
have discharged his duty faithfully
Acting like baby at the first he grew
to be only lubberly boy at the close of
the last lecture. The mis-statements
contained in Mr. Powers article. 70 call
them by no more degrading name, are
what we expected. We expected fur
ther to hear him cry persecution :"
We are not disappointed. Hitherto
we have had none other than the most
friendly feeling for Mr.. Powers. His
allegation that we have secretly work
ing against him for the year past, Mr.
j. knows to be utterly false, and we
defy linn to substan~i1te his charge in
the least particular Mr. Powers
false statement of our department in
Mr.. Sransbury 5 store is al! gratuitous.
We neither ''vowed vengeance nor
humbled ourself We were astonished,
disguised, aud left the store smiliug at
the presumption of the man Of at
tainments, and telling him that we
would apologize in our next issue. :"
We are more than pleased that Mr..
Powers turns US over to those " who
know US for what we are" We dom
claim to be God j; we do deny that
we are a fool, though the public may
have taken US as such in observing
that we have placed ony confidence in
Mr.; c. i. Powers.
We had thoght to pass unnoticed Mr.
/. S " detailed statement. When we
attend Mcnagerie, we invariably pass
by the cage of monkeys and admire
the gigantic in Natural History, and
SO we had thought to do under the Ed
vocational tent, but alas there is no
Elephant Rather than that the pub
lie should be obliged to longer sit upon
the :. ragged edge " of corroding anx-
iety, wondering if really the seeming
giant be only pi@my,-- the energetic
"man of attainments > only bundle
of egotism, void of truth and naked of
principle, we look upon the ape, and if
our just criticism, though severe it be,
shall tend to teach what properly be-
longs to decency and courtesy, and
shall dispel in the mind of WOOD
Counties 4. B. Abs on stills that he
can spell the words NEGLIGENCE and
INSULT without pronouncing then, we
shall have accomplished some good, and
be satisfied