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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-22

motier was lost to me years ago. She
married worthless man against my will,
and1 never forgave her. When she was
dying she wrote to me, begging me to care
for her child when she was gone. did
not receive the letter for some time as I
was in Europe then, but when l did re-
celve 1t fastened home with all possible
speed. When | reached here she had been
dead for nearly two months. as far as
could learn, and | could find no trace Of
the child. I have been searching for her
ever since, and despaired OF ever finding
her. But as soon as my eye fell on her
lace this morning | recognized her, for she
is the very image of her mother when she
was child. She has her eyes, her hair,
her forehead, her expression. We called
her Tina, too" And the strong mans
voice was broken, as if he were weeping.
If he have been hard to his daughter,
ne reprints, and may the saints forgive
him. prayed Nora.
90 sir!' she said, there do be a good
fairy in our tay-kettle, and twas she that
babe me take Nora in I niver should a
knowed she was at the door!'
The doctor looked at her as if he
| thought she was insane. But when Tina
got we'll she found some sympathy in her
faith in the ''tay-kettle fairy Tina was
very, very i'll for time, but she got well
at last. All through her illness, though
She WOO 6a1irio11c ,ooarI- Oh flo +;,>o ,.1
Old not seem to recognize anyone, she
would have no one to wait on her but
Nora. Nora's hand was the only one that
could bring her relief; Morals very pres
ence seemed to quiet her
When she was able to be moved to the
luxurious home of her grandfather Nora
went with her, and Nora's mother also
" want my Nora always she said.
And the saints did pay the honest little
Irish girl tenfold for what she "spint in
charity"
There was no more climbing other
peoples stairs, no more pinching pow
erty, no more hard work for either herself
or her mother after that: for Tina's grand
father in his gratitude could not Go enough
for them. He gave them a dear little
homelike cottage for their very own, fur
nished n way that would have suited the
most fastidious; and. what was better
than anything else, it was so near to Tina
just at the end Of the garden And be-
sides that he gave them a sum of money
which seemed almost fabulous to Nora and
her mother. This was to be kept in bank
and the interest of it to support them in
their CHEEKY little home.
Nora is going to school, and is growing
into perfect little lady, though the burr
will cling to her Irish tongue; and she
still holds to her faith in fairies, and cher
| lshes that old tea-kettle as if it were a
golden treasure. And you may be sure
she still "spinds" in deeds of charity, for
such warm little heart as hers could
never be made forgetful by prosperity
Albany Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-22
Temperance of the Plague.

AN old and very unwelcome visitant
has made its appearance in the marshy
districts between the Tigris and Euphrates.
1t is the old-fashioned plague, which, I'M
der the name of black death, DESTROYED in
Europe between 1913 and 1851 about 25,-
100000 of people, Italy losing half its in
habitants; Germany about 1 ,240, 900 souls.
and London alone ,0O0 of its residents.
In China $1,000, 900, and in the other coun-
tries Of the East 1000, COO, persons are
said to have fallen victims to this cpl
demic, which seems to have extended to
Africa in the south and to Greenland in
the north. No such destructive scOurge
had been known, and as usual in the mid
die ages the Jews in Europe were held re-
sponsible. 1t was said that they had
poisoned the wells, and at Mayence $4,000
Of them were massacred
The plague has since spread into lIurope
at different periods, but its ravages have
been confined to narrower limits In 1916
Titan died from it in Venice. In 1865 it
| ragged in London, nearly 10000 having
fallen victims to it. In 1920 not far from
one-half the people of Marseilles were
swept away and about 1890 it was very
fatal in Russia and Poland. The later Wis
itations of the plague have mainly been
confined to the countries lying on the east
ern shores of the Mediterranean. The
disease is fatal in the majority Of cases,
death occurring in less than a week after
the first attack. Nowhere have its symp-
toms been more faithfully and wildly de.
scribed than in Defoes wonderful descrip-
ton of the plague-year in London, which
is true to reality, though the basis of the
narrative is imaginative.
About thirty years have elapsed since
the last violent inroad of the plague into
| Egypt and Asia Minor. It's ravages in
the former country are briefly yet elo-
quently portrayed in Kinglake's Eothen.''
People were beginning to hope that it had
died out, when in 1867 some cases ap-
| peared in the low and malarious districts
of lIesopotamia. The spread Of the dis
ease was quite slow, and it did not attract
| much notice until the close of 1878. From
and the area of infection has been
widened Some localities have suffered
frightfully The future alone can tell
whether the malady will be confined 10
sections to which it appears almost cpl
demic, or whether as at former periods it
will overleap Its limits and advance to-
ward the civilized centers. 1t may be
| aided, as are other diseases, by dirt and
poverty, but, on the other hand, the chan
nels through which infection may be
spread are largely increased. Medical
skill, as yet, has discovered no specific
against it, and like smallpox, which half
a century ago seemed likely to stamped
out, it may be entering upon a new cycle
of vigor. Cincinnati Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-22
The Moon and: the Earth.

| IMAGINE how breathless the interest
revelation of the marvellous instruments
which science employs in the work of
| lunarian discovery if eur satellite had
| been inhabited and we could have discov-
cred something like our own human life!
| Unhappily, any such imagination is out
of the question. A place without air
and water, and in which the temperature
passes through range of nearly 700 de-
| grees within fOrtni ght, must present con-
| ditiOns, of which we cannot form any con-
| ception. Another peculiarly which-to
our notions, at least-w0uld be unpleasant
is supplied by the neteors. Here they are
| a pretty spectacle; in the moon they can
not be seen, but they must, at times, at
| least, keep up a very brisk cannonade.
CAS- there is no atmosphere" write our
| authors, 4" to consume the meteors by
| FRACTIONAL heat, or break, by its resistance,
the velocity Of their descent, they must
strike the moon with force to which that
of a cannon ball striking target is feeble
indeed.' If these difficulties could be
removed the moon would be a most eligi-
bic place for the observation of astronom-
ical phenomenal for finding out, for in
stance, all that we are so laboriously seek
ing to discover about the sun The earth,
toe, would present a spectacle of extraor-
binary beauty. a ~
. At this sunset time the earth, nearly in
the. zenith OF Us (the supposed inner spec
tatOrs) will be at its illuminated
phase, and even then it will shed more light
than we receive upon the brightest of
moonlight nights. As the night proceeds
the earth's phase will increase through
the gibbous stages until at midnight it
will be fall, and our orb will be seen in
its entire beauty. It will perform at least
one of its twenty four-hourly rotations dur
ing the time that 1t appears quite full Che
night IS more than three hundred hours
long, and the whole Of its surface features
viii n that time pass before the lunar
spectators eye. At times the northern
pole will be turned toward our view, at
times the southern; and rs polar ice-caps
will appear as bright, white spots mark
ing us axis Of rotation The seas w0ald
appear (as far as can be Inferred OF pale
blue-green tint, the continents part-col-
ored, and the tinted spots would vary with
the changing terrestrial seasons. -Leaado1l
Spectator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-22
THE GRAVES VOICES.
From the German.

From the Gernaats
SUNK as in dreams, and lost in anxious
thought,
Ny footsteps brought me to this lonely spot.
To whom belongs the field? this fiowery bed !?
The dead.'
Enter thou in, my soul; why shouldst thou
fear?
Nought but sweet buds and flowers are bloom
ing here.
Whence comes the essence from these sweet
perfumes?
From tombs"
See here, 0 man! where all thy paths must
end,
However varied he the way they wend,
Listen the dead leaves speak; ay, hear thou
must:
''To dust"
Where are the careless hearts that on the
earth
Trembled in pain, or beat so high in mirth :?
Those in whose breasts the flame of hatred
smoldered?
"Moldered"
Where are the mighty who take life by storm?
Who cen to heavens heights wild wishes
form2
What croak the ravens on yon moss-grown
wall?
C Buried ALL"
Where are the dear ones in Deaths cold sleep
lying,
To whom Love swore memory undyng?
What wall yon cypress-trees ?-oh, hearst
thou not?
Forgot"
To see where these ones passed, did no eye
crave?
May no wild longing pierce beyond the grave.
The fir-trees shake their weird heads one by
one:
None, none"
The evening wind amid the trees is signing,
Fettered in dreams, my saddened soul is ly-
ing,
The twilight falls, the red glow paleth fast
"'Tis past"
chambers Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-22

are visiting and on your good behaviorg
how willing you are 10 overlook any
thing that interferes with your comfort?-
how anxious TO please, and how ready to
take an interest in all that is going on?
At these times your face lights up, your
voice grows sweet and cheerful, your
very movements become graceful. "What
pleasant persons these friends arep' you
say TO yourself; and they very naturally
consider you quite winning and delight
tul. So far, so good. 1t is just as it
should be.
OF course, when you go home you take
all your pleasant ways with you. If these
friends, who have known you but little
while, and who care for you merely as
friends, have power to brighten and
sweeten you, certainly when you return to
your own relatives, who love you so much
more, you'll be brighter and sweeter than
ever
Is it so? Perhaps it is But if by any
chance it should not be-if, for instance,
you chose to let yourself be sour or in
different at home, thinking any tone of
voice, any glum look and any careless
word good enough for 1.-THE folks"-Im
sorry for you, that's all. You lose a great
deal of comfort and you miss great OPP
portunity of making others happy. But
it is never too late to improve. Suppose
you try the company plan. Be polite,
sunny and charming at home. Commence
to-morrow-no, to-day. The home life IS
only visit, after all, for no family can re-
main together always Jaek-an-tbe-P uE-
nat :" ST ~NIcb,7l1s -.-..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-22
The Company Plan.

HERE'S something, my dears, that the
editor of st. Nicholas said long ago to a
crowd of youngsters. As [ never heard Of
it doing them any special harm, it occurs
to me that i will not hurt my little folks
to hear it:
Did you ever notice what an amiable,
pleasant feeling steals over you when you
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-22

THE Chief-Engineer of New York re-
ports that the portion of the city below
Canal street is lily supplied with hydrants
in case of fires, and that the most valua-
bic districts are those which are in the
most danger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-22

A FUR firm in Buffalo keeps right on
advertising muffs and collars and gloves,
and they can't understand why women
don'trush into their store instead of going
into iceeream parlors.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-09
Statistics In Regard to European
Armies.

At the present moment any intOrma'
ton as TO The armies Of Europe Il paTtic'
ularly interesting. II. Amedee le FauTe
publishes in Io-dsy's Frunoe a complete
analysis OF the military strength OF the
various nations in 1875. Germany, it
appears, has an army comprising 469 bat
talions Of infantry, 465 squadrons Of cay.
airy, go campaign batteries, % battalions
Of lort.arlillery, IS battaliOns Of pioneers,
and Is battalions Of service-corps. When
Sre added the Reserves, the Landsturmi
the LandWehr, and the navy, total Of !, :
100000 men is arrived at, With annual es-
Inmates Of 600, 900, 900. The English army
and navy, including militia and volunteers
comprise $4,000 men, and cost 81, $780,
900; Austria $4,000 men, costing El0,'
100000; Belgium 1900, with an eGPen'
diture Of 81 ,6j9, 200; Denmark $4,000 men,
costing 1896, 900, Spain, according to the
regulations OF 1870, possesses go, 0OO men,
with yearly budget Of 60, 100000. The
Law passed By the CoEtes in 1872 has as
yet been imperlectly applied. France has
| lJ2 regiments Of infantry, 80 battali0ns Of
Chasseurs, II cavplry regiments, 40 regi'
ments OF artillery, 4 Of engineers, and 20
squadrons Of service corps With the re-
serve and navy the total effective strength
Of the country Ia 100000, costing E26,'
100000; Greece, 81 900 men, and estimate
E36O, COO; Italy, 100, 900, expenditure, &C.,
$4,000; Holland, 100000 men, estimate
81, 10000 Portugal, 1850 men, costing
ESQ 90; Russia has an army in time Of
peace Of lSs regiments ofiniantry, So bat.
ialions Of riaemen, 4s battaliUns for iron.
tier service, Sc regiments Of cavalry, $40
batteries Of artillery, Il battalions Of en-.
gineers, besides irtegUlars and reserves
With the feet, the effective strength Of
the country il l,55O,OOO men, with a
budget Of E27, 100000; Sweden 10000
men, coating El,l200OO. The effective
strength Of Switzerland il approximately
10000 men, costing only ESQ, 900; Turk.
ey 900, 900 men, with estimates Of $780,.
900. On a war footing, therefore, the
armies Of Europe are 9, 333, 900 men, cost.
ing annually El36,sO4,OOO.-Pdirs, SIP
kmber 7h.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-09
The Religious Press Attacking
BeeeheF Onn New Point.

ktfQal toe Eallla Gqls y s72tlQlAIiatAl
The Vermont Chronicle has an excel
lent and faithful article on Sabbath des-
ecGsIion,T in connection with the "eXeuE-
sion trains Of "thirly-Seven cars lately
run to twin Mountain Honsen-even
from so far a. Portland, Me.-ostensibly
TO allow persons to hear Mr.. Beecher
preach. It condemns the whole move
uent a. 3 violation OF the sanctity Of the
Sabbath, and holds three parties respou-
sible: ~ the hotel keepers Who are
very willing to sell two or three thousand
extra Sunday dinners; (2) the railroads,
which are esger even Tor hali.iaFe on the
large scale. AsIo the other responsible
agency it speaks IS follows: sIhe third
party to this dissertation Of the Sabbath
Is Mr.. Beeeher. lit we're rot in accord
aBee with his wishes TO increase the bust.
ness Of the hotels on the Sabbath; TO have
the railroads run excursion trains on
lha. day to his boarding-place; to open
scores Of depots, usually shut On Gods
sacred day, and TO break the solemn still
ness OF the Sabbath, along hundreds Of
miles Of railroads, BY the screeching Of
engines and laundering OF trains, none Of
these things would be done. \ single
word irou him would put a stop to it
We regard him, therefore, as morally re-
spou,ible for the whole movement II be
should decline to hold religious services,
except With the understanding that they
we're for the guests OF the hotel, and ioI
those living in the immediate neighbor'
hood, and Who could not we'll be accom-
modsIed elsewhere, it would pu, an end
at once to ell these Sabbath trains, this
extra work, and this Sabbath jourueying.'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-09
LcSal.tenders and National IIanl.
NniaR

WASHINGTON, September THE total
amount Of legal.tenders and National
Bank notes Cancelled and retired from
circulation since July /, 1871, IL In round
numbers, S25,OOO 900, nearly SIS, 900, OOJ
being the voluntary surrender Of National
Banks under the provisions Of the act Of
June 90, 1874. The indications are that
the banks will henceiorth rapidly deposit
legal-tenders for the redemption Of their
circulating notes in order to avail them.
selves Of the premium on the bonds held
as security fof such circulation. The
amount Of per cent bonds in the hands
Of the Treasurer il but little over S40,-
100000, while the l0.iOs and new 81 make
up nearly the entire amount held a. 81
Cnrity. Neither Of these loans are likely
to be disturbed for years, and bankers are
NOW anxious to replace them with the 4
per cent bonds, the sale Of which il 10 fol.
low the funding Of the per cents. The
National Gold Bank and Trust Company
Of San Francisco to-day surrendered
$2OO,OOO Of its circulation, depositibg that
amount in coin with the AssisIah,.Treas-
urer in NeR York, and receiving $780,
600 in bonds and a telegfaphic order for
500, 900 in gold in San Ftaneilco. The
Western National Bank, Of Baltimore, on
the lst inst, surrendered 10000 Of its
circulation, and, on Saturday, the Nation
al Bank Of San Antonio Texas surrender.
Ell all Of its circulation, the President Of
the bank depositing the necessary amount
Of legal tenders in perSon, He said 1t
vac no longer profitable 10 hold the cir
enlating notes, while the premium on
United States bonds was 70 high, and pre-
ierred to profit BY the sale q The bonds
now than wait Tor sPseie payment.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-09

AOESTLEXAS from the Washington .Slr
oaice, Who has been prospecting at Sara
toga, finds widely prevalent and grow
log impression ia political circles that
the Republican ticket, next year, will be
headed by the name Of Ulysses S. Grant.
This imp,es,ioui. not confined to Rspub'
lieans, he says; i, is based on the belief
that the Democratic nomination will he
dictated By the intiaiioDisis, and that the
financial conservatism in New York will
then insist upon candidate vhO has
made hi, record that is to say, upon
Grant Everybody is waiting for news
from Ohio. In some quarters no secret
L. made Of conviction that the result in
that State Is very likely to mean the
formation Of new parties or the recon
struetion OF the old ones. Henry Wilson,
however, gave the Washington gentleman
to understand that he did not share this
conviction, but looked for a series Of
Democratic blunder eliminating in q
slOriOu, Republican victory. Its stated
by the way, that Mr., Wilson is more un.
popular in inner administration circles
than ever, and that Boss Shepherd use'
even scverer language Of him than OF the
Postmaster.Ge General. OF course, it will
never do to selec, man who i. in di,
stacs to preside over a Massachuset Il
Republican State Convention.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-09
AMIsterious AIIusion.

FIoa the MIItinshgrg Statesman, bsuseEaLl
A good story comes to Us from Wheel
ing. Il seems that certain paper, pub,
lished in tina, town Of icgs and smoke, is
not in very good odor with its party-sH
pussa4t, We do not Sllude 10 the lXTRLLl.
GEScER nor the Standard nor the German
pSper-sEd upon several occasions prop.
ositions have been made to buy it out. Il
vas subsequently ascertained that the
amount OF each proiier had been repre-
sented to party in Washington, the pub.
fishers or prOprietors making the most oil
the contemplated change-nOt to put too
fine point upon it, thousand or so
was demanded to prevent a change Of
proprietorshlp. The last time an offer
vas made to buy out, after the terms
we're reduced to "blacE and white" one Of
the publishers took the frsttrain as usual
for Washington, but the parties Of the
second part, in legal phrase, becoming
aware Of the fact, Ielegraphed to Wash.
ington that "the offer was all joke" and
so the thousand or so was moi pocketed
upon that occasion. Such ia the story as
told US,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-09
The French Budget.

PARIS, September THE Budget Of
1876, as agreed to by the Assembly in its
last hurried sit,ings, has been published
10 the Journal Ufeiei, and contains much
curious information. Among the receipts,
registration and other legal impOsts form
the largest item-nameIy, 4i9b53,0OOf.
The duties on wine and spirits produce
3GI. 1870, OO0i; custom AHties, l9l 1858, 0O0i;
the land tax, lSl,7OOO0Of; stamp duties,
$4,000, OOOi; and trade licenses, ll4,20l, :.
0OOi. Tobacco brings in 229,570, 0OOi; the
Post Office, llO,l76,0OOf; the match tax,
5000, OOOi: homegrown sugar, ll0,972,.
00Oi; the one.year volunteers, each paying
SCOT, 100000; soap, 70lj,000i; paper,
1851 ,0OOf; gunpowder, 1920, 1851 /:
horses and carriages, 9,j24,O0Of; billiards,
97O,OOOi; and clubs and societies, 80
0OOf. The expenditure includes the fol.
lowing items: The President Of the Re.
public, 6OO,OOOi; his household, 300, 0O0i;
bis apartments al Versailles, g0,0O0f; the
Assembly, including the stipends Of Dep
ulies, 1851 ,OOOi; pensioners Of the Civil
List Of Louis XVIII and Charles Y, 75,.
VyVl, ulllo 81 luuls EuIuppSt OVVsVvNli
Abdel KAder, lj0,0OOt secret service
money, OO,OOOf; diplomatic presents, 49,.
00Oi: foreign refugees, 40O,000f; theatres
and Consefvatolte de MuSique, / ole, 00Of;
Bishops and ptiestA, II sos, 295i; votes for
churches, selniuaries, and other Catholic
purposes, 1926, 1907; Protestant minis
tiers, l,4l6,0OOf; Jewish rabbi., lss,9OOi;
Protestant and Jewish churches, s0,0OOi;
the Philadelphia Exhibition, GO0, 00Of; the
Siioa, 1sOOO0f; deiences against inunda-
tions. 550OOOf subvention to railway
companies, 2,9gi ,3s0i; ditto for railways
Of local interest 4,4lO,244 guaranteed in.
terest to railway companies, 10000 0Oi;
ditto annuity for 1872 and 1873, 1000.
OOOf; and the new opera, l,00000Of.
Against the receipts for tobacco and gun.
powder must be set 81, 259 ,65Of for cost Of
material and manufacture, the former
amounting to lS,l20,00Oi. This, however,
leaves a very handsome profit.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-09
A Philosophical Dead Beat.

llIunhappiN uGId.l
AYES, Sir" said gentlemanly looking
man on Washington street, Sunday, "the
panic will have TO come-no preventing
Il. You see that man just going away
Well, he has a bill against me, and he
says II / pay him that be can pay some
one else, or in other words, that II each
man will pay what he owes, the other can
pay, and that thus, under the rules Of pc.
litical economy, the thing will travel
around in a circle. But he didn't calcu.
late that the thing must baye bottom or
the circle would break. You see owe
him, but the trouble ia tina. nobody
owes me, and that breaks the circle, and
the broken circle makes the panic. am
the starter And he took a peanut and
started.