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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01
OUR COMRADES.

WE walked along a splendid street
We always walk, my love and L
And many stately home we saw,
Till he look i down with half sigh,
And half a smile: "Grand folks live here"
laughed gay defiance then,
And said: "Were grander far than theyi
You're grander far than all the men,
:" And | am grand as any dame
Who walks in velvet down the street,
For strength and youth and love are mine!"-
Ali but his answering smile was sweet!
A brilliant carriage past US rolled,
gray-beard sat in it, alone.
Ny love said lightly: "There he rides,
A rich man." eyes, and makes his moan;
g For all his wealth that man would give
If life were fresh and love were young,
And he could walk, like us, and sing
The song that yesterday we sung!n
My love ceased signing. How we laughed
And tossed our darts of harmless fun,
And praised the blueness Of the sky,
And praised the glory of the sun!
We drank draught of fragrant wine,
We breathed pure, inspiring air,
And why, dear, did you marry me?"
Because you're good, and dear, and fair"
and why, and why% Oh, happy
hOuri
Oh, charming street and park and square,
Where we beheld that brightest flower
Which bloomed when Eve was young ard
fair!
All, many a sober face we met
That looked and questioned: "Who are
these
These plain young people, who forget
The winters cold, the naked trees?"
Our eyes were clear and theirs were blind,
They saw not our companions gay,
For Love was smiling close behind,
And Joy danced wildly all the wayi
atlantic Monthly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01

We sold the fox-skin in the village.
and received thirteen dollars for it.
whereas a common red-fox skin is worth
no more than three dollars.
How or by what wiles that fox got the
turkeys out of the high butternut is
secret-one that persisted with him. 1t
would seem that he must either have
climbed the tree or else have practiced
sorcery to make the turkeys come down.
c. a. Stephens, IN st. Nicholas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01
The Manly Boy.

WHAT is it makes manly boy? 1t is
not size or weight, for there are some
large, heavy boys that are anything but
manly. We saw one once, big, burly
fellow, about fourteen years old, with q
fist like small sledge-hammer, and
voice as loud, almost, as that of mule;
but we did not think he was very manly
when we saw him pick up small boy,
who was quietly playing with a little
wooden wagon, and lift him above his
head, while he screamed in his ear as
loud as he could, and then set him down.
The little fellow was pale with fright,
and cried; the big fellow laughed aloud,
and went his way ha-ha-ing as he went,
and no doubt thinking he had done a
very fine thing. But he was not manly
Nor does the power 10 smoke cigars
without getting sick make manly boy
Some boys think so, we know We have
even seen small boys, nine or ten years
old, pick up stumps of cigars which men
have thrown into the gutter, and puff
away at them, holding up their heads
and stalking along, as if to say: Ladies
and gentlemen, look at us. We are men,
we are. We smoke, and we don't get
sick" But they are not men.
A manly boy is one who shows some
good, manly qualities. We do not ex-
pect him to be sc large as man, strong
as man, or as wise as a man. But he
will be truthful, honest and well behaved
He will never speak of his father as
the Governor" or the cold man." nor
will he speak of his mother as the 'old
woman. He will not be ashamed to
have it known that he loves both his
father and his mother; nor will he be
afraid of all the ridicule which silly boys
may heap upon him because of this love-
They may call him baby" and say
what they please about beng "led by
his mothers apron strings" he does not
mind that, for he knows he is right.
He will never engage in low, mean
sports; he loves real sport, but will do
nothing for fun that he would be afraid
to talk about at the dinner-table. He
does not torment small boys. but is ready
to help them when he can. His sisters
are not careful to hide their work, their
books, or their toys from him, lest he
should disturb or destroy them; he
would never think of that. He is care
full not to be greedy at the table, Or rude
In company, but remembers that others
have rights as well as himself.
Does anybody say this is all very well
to talk about, but that no one ever yet
saw such boys as are here described?
We answer, "There are such boys, plen-
ty of them, and we have seen them"
They are as full of fun as other boys;
they equal anybody at the different
sports in which boys delight; they swim
and skate, and play ball; and roll hoop,
and run just like other boys; but their
behavior is gentle and kind.
These manly boys, when they grow up,
will make real men; they will be, in the
best sense of the word, gentlemen
C0ngTegatio7aal5st.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01
0uidnunkery.

QUIDNUNKERY liz the sublime art ov
science, or wanting to kno what's going
on. f-.
1t liz az old az the gardin ov Eden, and
Eve il supposed to be the fust one who
invested her whole pile in il.
Eve had an aktive mind and, like all
her dauters, could not rest eazy If thare
waz a sekret within fifteen miles ov her,
in fust hands.
Out ov this sublime science has grew
numerous kollatterals, SIGH az gentle
gossip, mild SANDER, whispered reports,
delikate sekrets. cautious inuendos,
white and blak lies, elevated eyebrows,
struggling shoulders, and the very polite
pastime of plunging yure noze into every
body's bizzness.
If it wasn't for quidnunkery in sum,
or all, ov it's forms, thoroly civilized so
siety could not be made to pay, and
mankind would slide backwards into the
benighted and very vulgar condishun of
tending to their own affairs.
Two-thirds ov all the populashun ov
the civilized world are quidnunks, more
or less deep in it's misery's, and would
rather go without warm meal than miss
the buttered toast ov surmise, or the
more substantial beverage ov What's
going on?"
Pretty much all the petty trubbles ov
life and menny ov the big ones too kan
be traced direkly to quidnunkery, and
tho not az kriminal, perhaps, this trade
il az hard to suppress az smuggling.
never knu quidnunk yet who hunted
after good and happy things, but rather
waz on the lookout for some unfortunate
gangrene or melancholy blister.
Everybody seems to smell rat or liz
in hopes they shall, if they keep their
noze in order.
Quidnunkery liz sort ov petty lurceny
ennyhow, but seems not only az natral,
but just about az ketchful az the hea-
kups-Josh Billings, IN N. 7. Weeltly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01
Mrs. Johns0n'S Mistake.

MY 1Ilouu, JOuuSOu, HAS = I'll 6SbdDIlSu-
ment for the manufacture Of jewelry and
silver-ware in Boston. Some time ago he
sold a bill of goods to dealer in
Augusta, Me- About month after
ward his partner was on visit to Ban
gor, and while there Johnson wrote to
him to this effect:
81 have heard nothing of that jewelry
| sent to Augusta. If you are around
that way stop and Inquire if it was re-
ceiyed all right"
He put the letter in his pocket and for
got to mail it. Next day he left the coat
at home and Mrs. Johnson, as usual,
went through the pockets, and she found
the letter. When Johnson came home
that afternoon and opened the front
door he was amazed to see Mrs. johnson
with her bonnet on and an umbrella and
handbook in her hand, sitting in the hall
on trunk, looking as if she had about
twelve hundred pounds pressure of rage
to the square inch. He said:
"Why, Emeline, what on earth are you
doing?"
"I'm waiting for cab to take me to
my mothers, you bruter
"To your mothers? Why, what's the
matter?"
Matter-matter? You know well
enough what's the matter, you wretch.
I'll not live with you another hour Oh,
don't talk to me, if you please! Go and
talk to Augusta-go talk to her if you're
so fond of her. I've done with you. This
winds you up with me!'
"What do you mean, anyhow? You're
behaving ridiculously"
81 know | ami Abuse met Keep OF
abusing me! Knock me down and stamp
on me! Augusta IL like it, | daresay |
wish hadher here now, the wretch! I'd
give her taste of this umbrella! I'd
scratch her eyes out!'
"Really, Emeline, this is the most ex-
traordinary conduct. "Will you tell me,
my dear, what YOU"
ooh, don't dear me, If you please!
Save your publishing sweetness for her,
It's too late to soft-sawder me. I'm going
home to mothers. You can't give me
clothes to be decent, but Augusta gets
all she wants, of course. [ go slouching
around this house in an old calico dress,
but Augusta, dare say, has her silks
and satins. / can't get decent breast
pin, but you can give Augusta CARLOAD
of 'em It's infam ous!"
Emeline!"
"Well, what?"
"Did you read the letter I left in my
coat yesterday?
Eyes, I did, and that's the way I dis
covered your villainy."
"Emeline!"
"Wen, what d'you want?"
"That letter referred to some jewelry
/ sold to man in Augusta, Maine. EN-
cline"
"Well?"
"You've been making a fool of your
self"
Was it really Augusta, Maine? Oh,
William! Pm afraid I have. Pm afraid
boo hoo! -boo-hoo"
Here Mrs. Johnson broke down and
wept profusely over the lid of the band
box, while Johnson put her umbrella
gently ia the rack and carried her trunk
upstairs, while she gave play to her feel
ings. She didn't go home to her mother.
But that night she fixed dozen of John
sons shirts that he had been trying in
vain for month to induce her to repair
N. Y. Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01

he dropped that disagreeaDle habit alto
gether and let his wife do the market
ing, and was astonished to think that he
had never found out before that she
possessed such capacity for business.
And it was his wife's fault that he was
not cured sooner, for he was a just man
as well as self -opinionated one, and all
he needed was to find out how it was
himself Cincinnati Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01

The winter of 1741 was famous
throughout New England as much colder
than any which preceded it. The snow,
which covered the whole country as
early as the 18th of November, was
still above the fences On the following
April.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01

The Chicago Public Library has 60
600 volumes. The National Library OF
Paris has 1000, 900 volumes. 1t is esti-
mated that the public libraries OF the
United States contain 20,OOO,O60 vol
umes, including the Patent Office re-
ports
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01

During January $3.50 GALLONS Of free
soup were furnished at Bosom to 10,9S9
families. comprising 80, 800 persons, at an
expense to the city of S1,S23
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01

never again beg for what is mine by
right and what | should be freely given
without murmur."
This was quite long and pointed
speech for quiet little Mrs. Hall to make,
and the Squire paused in his rapid walk
up and down the kitchen as much sur
prised as if a bomb-shell had exploded
at his feet. He turned white and red by
turns, and when his wife ceased speaking
he slowly resumed his walk across the
floor, glancing furtively at her impassive
| countenance, but that worthy woman
having had her say kept steadily on with
her work as if nothing had happened.
The Squire took his hat at last and
| went to the barn, and when he came
back to the house the subject was not re-
sumed, and all the next day, which was
| Sunday, he seemed subdued and said
but little; and Mrs. Hall began to think
! that she had seriously offended him.
Monday morning he harnessed the horses
to the spring wagon and told his wife
he was ready to dive her down to the
Corners to lay in any supply she might
be in need Of He laid crisp bank
note on the table, and bidding her hurry
and set ready he fastened out of the
room.
Mrs. Hall never had her feelings hurt
| again by her husbands grumbling, fol
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
The Z Tweaty.Fiye Thousand
Dollar Trcnly.

The commissioner Of Indian affairs
has received letter from Indian In.
spcctor Daniels, at the Red Cloud
agency, inclosing report Of the late
council held in, the Sioux Country, and
saying that the chiefs s we're + 4 made very
happy by the present Of horses they
received from the great Father; that
they Went home. we'll pleased, aud af-
ter his council signed the agreement
to give up their hunting grounds in
Nebraska for s25 900. Little Wound
in his speech, said: "Tell the Great
Father that 4Ittouch the pen, (refer-
ring to making his mark but i take
Bird Uresk = the II Shial4 lie; and
not the sNlohfar 1ixss HedEioud's
men were % tbes 6p1nioris tliata they
ought oahave the $4,000, and that
Spotted Tail, who had received many
favors from the government, should
wait until congress eappropriates the
additional t25 900 promised by SEQ.
retarY Dclano.
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
i TroRH1GH.

LoSnoS, July 8.-Thc director. of
the bank Of England, at their meeting
to-day, fixed the rate Of discount at
three per cent.
LONDON, July "a letter from
Buda Perth conf rms the reports. Of
the destructive character Of the re.
cent storms. T~snty:cighes bodies die
have y beeuiiound & on the mountain y
the storm was fearful;s no villas on
the upper ground entirely escaped.
Hundreds Of people are destitute and
homeless:s Subscriptions have been
opened, aud relief is being literally
given. g 49,. q.
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
given.
From Texas.

GALvEsToN, July S.-Iks News'''
Brownsville special says 4. 4 force
Of fifty cavalry and twenty custom
house guards, under command 81 Col.
Parrot. escorted Cortinas and other
prisoners 70 Bagdad. They shot and
hung Maurice Portigne, Who had
threatened to shoot officers Of the
ninth cavalry near Matamoras. "
The gunboat Juarez, with the ,pris-
oner s.iled yesterday with arms and
ammunition.
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
'Mov,nss''In.
OmahIaseee.

Our Wyoming exchanges intimate
that the opening ofths Black Hills is
virtually an accomplished fact. There
are now no serious obstacles in the
way Of parties who desire to explore
the New Ehorado, and are willing to
isktheir-soalps possible eacoun-
ter with the Sioux. All the miners
who have @secenfly flya6Hades s Cheyenne
and Laramie their rendezvous, have
quietly; moved toward Harvey q Peak
and Custer's Guloh, without the in.
terventlon Of the military.
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
A.rEvsn, or the Fourth.

a Boston man VAS the victim. of a
coincidence the other night.
While passing along the street, boy
exploded q gommen acraoker behind
him, while at the ssmo instant q rot
ton banana, thrown from = neighbor.
ing fruit store, struck bim.on the back
of the head. He put his hand TO his
head, felt the saft, moist ffuiT aud
screamed: "My God, I'm shot: my
brains are blown out - then bringing
his hand round to-his Rose, he added,
tsand I'll be d-d-ifti1ey don't smell
like bananas, to0.'s y
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
DAKOTA TERRITORY THURSDAY EVENING, JULY s. 1876
country required to gather and clean

country required to gather and clean
that number of stamps,
The department is constantly in re-
ceipt Of letters from extremely rural
correspondents who ask The depart
mcnt what they will give for cleaned
stamps. Many Of thcseinnocents arc
under the impression thatthc- depart
ment buys back Cancelled stamps after
they are cleaned. There is "a legend
among them that the department says
40 cents hundred for washed
stamps.
...s.....w wASrEp-AN lSDELL1BLE.
Here is chance for some Ingenious
man to make fortune. The man
who can make perfectly indellible
ink, that will successfully cancel
stamps, can make as certain a fortune
as the man who has the first prc.cmp.
tion upon gold mine. The great
trouble with indellible inks that have
been brought before the department
is that they contain certain corrosive
elements, that rot the paper and do
not work we'll. An ink to work well
must be an oily ink. The postotlice
people claim that to make an ink Of
this kind indelliblc is-an iimpossibility.
The study for years has been TO find
some way Of perfectly .cancelling q
stamp ina speedy, economical way,
so that it can never be used again.
Thus far the attempt is u failure.
The law is so deficient that were
the postofiicc department to detect a
man in the act OF collecting, cleaning
or selling cancelled stamps, no prose-
cution could be made against him.
The law only covers the using of can.
celled stamps. The penalty is $50
fine for EACH stamp used; ffhc iawTis
much more stringent in reference to
internal revenue stamps. In that case
there is a pcnalty attached to the act
Of even washing the stamps.
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
How Digger Indians Live.

: The Santa Rosa (Cal!l Times says
Of the Digger Indians':s Their Wig
vans are built throughout Of red
wood bark,and are round in shape,
which can better beTe1piAined by say
ing that they are III re shape of q
bowl'upside down, with !. smsllersone
placed also upside down on top.
There are no windows, and, aside from
the aperture for entrance, which is
about two feet square, and small
opening at the topic allow, the smoke
to escape, there is no opening to this
oonical:shaped enclosure. TO enter
one Of these huts it becomes necessary
ittosgtt down aud crawl 0nee i'm
side, . strange sight greets the eye.
The majority Of both sexes go. perfect.
" naked, and being scrupulously par.
ticular, each one does his or her own
cooking. They sleep in a circle
in hollow places in the ground,
with feet TO the center.
Their cooking apparatus, which
consists of good sized rocks followed
out.sisSin convenient reach, and the
Digger need not rise to prepare his
breakfast. The food consists Of bread
made frem aeeFns, ,-which-arc- first
buried, then roasted, then pulverized
and lastly mixed up with water and
baked. This bread is said to be very
nonrishing. Their mode OF preparing
squirrel, hare ctc., is to take them
just as when killed, pound them to a
Jelly and then roast them. Another
article Of foed very common with
them is known us the 6 fish:worm.' ?
The Digger is an inveterate gambler,
and his principal game is very simple.
consisting Of holding both hands be.
hind him, in one.of which is "a stick
while the other bets he can tell il
which hand he holdsAit. 1t is stated
that they scorn cheating, and after all
The bets are made, never change the
stick from one hand to the other
Thsir money consists pf little sound
shells with a.h6te ID 4 4 : renter nlicl
one sof theit nhns 81 eleced te
manufacture. No co1nteTfeifing is
ever attempted. Each shell repre-
sents about half ! cent of American
money, and is taken by their tribe a.
grcedily as gold. aAsstring aof thi.
money can be seen at this office, ane
it is wonderful how uniform these
buttons can be, made by simply cub
lbing them on assohe q, y wa!h 1! !AsS n. band
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
Serious Damage lllla'a BY Storms
in Iowa. .
AlittIe More; > ] About ! 4 the Load
er-Price Afair.
Iowa Politicians Buokling on
their Armor.
POLITICAL

DEs MONIES, July -8-The candi.
dates and states committee of the
democratic party, held ageneral coun-
Gil yesterday, and-decidcd on an active
canvas, Sheppcrd Letter the nominee
for governor has challenged Governor
Kirkwood fora joint discussion.
The State journal Newspaper ihss Is
suspended publication: No issue has
appeared since Sunday. Efforts are
being made to resuscitatei It.
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
Washed Postage . sta,n p..

WAsu1NGroN, June 3O.--A little
study will enable the most Indifferent
to get an idea Of the number of small
.sneaks in the world. The grateful
man, who believes all the world TO be
in general good deal better than
supposed, is a creature tosbe cnvied.
1t is much better to believe the peo.
pie you meet to be honest, until the
contrary is proved, simply because it
is more comfortable. You need not
carry your confidence in -humanity.to
such an extent as to lend money right
and left, or you will gain no gratitude,
but merelysthe hesreputation of being .
simple.m inded ass, who ought not 10
be trusted out without u guardian.
Stop short Of lending money and you
can but take the world easily.
The Timescorrespondent had a talk
with the third assistant postmaster
general the other day, and from him
he gathered some very interesting
statistics IN relation to The petty mis-.
demeanorS Of Thousands Of people in
this country who have not The co urage
to steai chickens, bot but Who sneak
through Atroublcd existence BY wash.
ing stamps -assa means-of livelihood,
.The average reader receives several
letters week. Does it ever occur. to
him afterbe has gallopcd through his
sweetheart's, last message, the last
BILL, and the urgent dun, to commence
york upo1 the envelopes Of the pre-
cious; epissles. and prys of the already
used STAN Ii ith a gieu to -specula-
ton ss ah y y6as yii.s s.that's too
small sb,,aine y Perhaps you may
allow that -cltilAre.,,- anxious -te-tsf,s 4
devils penny, would do such a thing
but the business is too small for any
rascal who is visiblcto the naked eye
III you should arrive at that conclu
sion you would be wrong. There il
a.host Of microscopic minded rascal
in the country who make regula
living out Of the profits arising from
the sale OF washed stamps:
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
ThelWeather.

WAsulaeros, July 7..-Probabili-
ties for upper Mississippi i!s and lower
Missouri valleys Stationary to fall.
ing barometer; southeast .tq- south
west winds, and slightly warmer;
cloudy orspsrtly cloudy weather.
Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-08
ammunition
Long Branch Races. \ :

LoNs B4ANcn, July 8.-Monmout
park rsces Continued today: The
first faee July stakes, for tvo's year
olds, 81 mile dish, four stirted; Ba-
rotte won; Frecboote1r second. Time
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