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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03
to the English Lam
Suage.

THE English language was, a day OF
two back, enriched by new adjective
at the hands of a correspondent of the
Times. The wish was expressed that
a certain street in London might be-
come ''Walkable.' 1t might be dam
gerous to affirm that the word "walk-
able has never been used before; but
it certainly sounds strange even to ears
which are quite used to ''passable"
and '1aughable," and to which ere
liable" if it has a grievous sound, has
not a new one. To make a street
''Walkable'' seems to mean to put it
into such state that people may walk
along II wIvn safety and comfort. And
it certainly would not be easy to put
that idea into so short a space in any
other way.
But the question further suggests
itself whether, if the street is to be
made ''walkable," it also needs to be
made ''drifable'' and ''ridable.' And
then a number of questions would
spring up. First as to spelling; should
it be ''drivable" and ''ridable," or
''driyeable" and ''rideable"? Then
comes the further question about hav-
ing such words at all. In all these
words the Latin ending stuck on to
the English root is always offensive as
long as the word is new; and that
caprice which rules so many things in
matters of language sometimes accepts
one word and rejects another which is
formed in exactly the same way.
Then again some draw a division be-
tween words which can be used in the
passive voice as they stand and those
which cannot except with the help of
a proposition. There are those who
would admit readable" anG reject
reliable" because a book is read"
while nobody is "relied," but only
srelied on The word then should
not be reliable" but "relionable.
The friends of "reliable' answer that
nobody quarrels with laughable,"
which, by the same analogy. should be
"laughatable." To this it might again
be answered that, though we cannot
speak of < laughing a MAJ we can
speak of laughing him down"
Laughing him to scorn, ;" Laughing
him out of thing" A practically
better answer would be that no other
word exactly expresses the meaning of
laughable, while trustworthy
does perfectly we'll for reliable. :"
But the real difference doubtless is that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03

'reliable'' is still a word of yesterday,
while laughable," which is recog-
nized by Johnson on the authority of
Dryden, has long got over any difficult
ties which may have beset it when it
was new. Walkable' may assert
itself that people do "walk the
streets" while nobody "drives' or
rides them. But "drivable" and
"ridable'' if they ever spring up, will
take refuge under the shadow of ere
liable perhaps under that of ''laugh-
able. Pail Mall Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03
BONNETS.

OF ali the charms dear woman wears,
Of all her many traps and snares,
For real effect there's naught compares
With a truly pretty bonnet;
For when or wherever you chance to meet
One that is perfectly modest and neat,
You may depend It's proof complete
The head has more in than on 1t.
No matter whether she's pretty or not,
How much or how little money she's got,
Whether she lives in a mansion or cot,
'Tis fact, depend on it:
The woman to make man happy for life,
To make modest mother and wife,
Is one who, scorning he miliner's strife,
Wears plain and tasteful bonnet
Now bonnet of genuine beauty and grace,
Worn on the head in its proper place,
Shade wing family the wearer's face,
Is a thing for song or a sonnet;'
But one of those gay and gaudy things,
Made up of rainbows and butterfly wings.
A mixture OF flowers, ribbons and strings,
Is dreadful depend upon it.
vulgar mass of . fuss and feather
A little of everything thrown together
A wretched conglomeration-
A sort Of cup to catch the hair,
Leaving the head to : 90 it bare
A striking example of nothing to wear
Is this bonnet abomination.
It makes a woman look brazen and bold,
Assists her in catching nothing but cold,
Is bad on the young, absurd on the old,
and deiOrms when it ought to deck;
For look at her face, no bonnet is there,
See at the side it hangs by hair;
View it behi d, and you will declare
That the creature has broken her neck.
No matter where you may chance to be,
No matter how many women you see,
A promisCuous crowd or certain she,
You may fully depend upon it
That gem OF the very rarest kind,
A thing most difficult to find,
A pet for which we long have pinned,
Is perfect love of a bonnet
-Littett'S Lining 4ge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03
international Sunday-SchoOI Lessons.
THIRD QUARTER, 1876.
The Highest Good.

MAN is always in search of what he
thinks the highest good-the thing that
will make him happiest. His very
sins are attempts to be happy, foolish
and delusive indeed, but real efforts to
save himself from misery, to reach a
good that will shed over his life peren-
NAL gladness and beauty. But the
,oOd all seek some may fail to find, not
,ecause it does not exist for them, but
ecause their search is misdirected, an
attempt to extract the sweet from
what is essentially bitter.
If a man thinks self the highest be-
ing in the universe, the supreme law
or god, then he will think the best
thing self-indulgence, and the only
fruit such a highest and best can yield
is calamitous misery. Passion can
never create pleasure. A self-centered
becomes a self-tortured life, a curse to
the man that lives it, an offence to our
common humanity, grief to our COM
mon Father.
The highest good must be the holi-
est, for happiness and holiness coalesce,
are only different sides of the same
thing. And so a man to get the one
must seek the other. seek it alone
where it can be found, in the kingdom
of God
But the way to it many find made
impossible by the hard and merciless
necessities of life. The struggle to
satisfy the ceaseless hunger Of the
present seems to forbid thought and
action in the future.
The claims of the world are too i'm
periOuS and manifold to leave the soul
either opportunity or energy to regard
those of God. And so men who wish
to be good after a diviner sort than the
mere secular honesty that is only the
policy necessary to success in life,
often find that they cannot: business,
trade, Will not let them; hourly neces-
sites, demanding hourly thought and
effort, stand in the way. They would
like to love God, live in His Kingdom,
obey His laws, anticipate His heaven,
but time absorbs their energy: the
labor needed to obtain food and raj
ment forbids.
So after a hard struggle to serve
God and Mammon, the necessities of
the hour prevail: God is forsaken, as
far as possible forgotten, that the
world may be served through and
through. Seeking firstg what they
shall eat, what they shall drink, and
wherewithal they shall be clothed,
they seek no further, want no more,
live and die with their immortal being
sacrificed to the needs Of their mortali-
ty.-A. u. FaiTbdin1.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03

best, when you have battled with break
ers, and struggled bravely in the cur
rent, you are yet overpowered and
borne down, why then-dore to fail,
and upon the failure build q new and
surer foundation.
If circumstances are against you, do
the very best you can, retaining always
your own independence and self-re-
spect, and God will take care of the
rest.-AUe Nix, IN Pomeroy's Demo
crat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03
AN ADVENTURE WITH A
BEAR.

A YOUNG man, whose boyhood was
passed in Oregon, gives us the follow
ing amusing adventure?
Six or seven miles from where we
first settled on the east fork of the
Umpqua, there lived an Indian trader
named Huelder.
He dealt in old Government mus
kets, powder, lead, etc, and used to
keep axes shockingly poor ones. I
suppose they may have been defective
ones, cheaply purchased at the facto-
rieS.
'Often the temper would be so high,
that on striking into a hard, dry log,
the bit would break and fly like glass.
But in those days there was not anoth-
er place where an Ak could be bought
within sixty miles of us. So it was
Hobson's choice, those or nothing.
. We bought not less than a dozen
of these axes of Huelder during the
first four years. | remember that his
price for an ak, without the handle,
was three dollars and fifty cents.
" Father could generally pick out
those blades which were the best tenn
pered; but the traders Indian custom
ers could not tell good ak from poor
one. And so he went on swindling
them year after year-selling whisky
only fit to poison coyotes, axes as brit
10 CrlD oil i ~
the breech.
"But the Indians took deadly re-
Nenge ON him at last. Another illus
tratiOn of the fact that if a man sows
wickedness, bitter harvest follows.
"Toward the last days of October of
the third fall, my brother Samuel,
father and [, set off one morning to go
up to Huelder's to get couple of his
axes and lay in stock of powder for
the winter.
"The road or trail, ran along the
fork (east branch of Umpqua). We
went horseback, or rather muleback
for we kept three mules to work on the
farm. One of them, old Tige, was the
most vicious beast and the worst kicker
| ever saw. Everybody in Oregon
used to ride mule in those days.
about four miles above our place,
the river runs through rocky ravine,
such as the lower country folks call a
canyon, 4 fearfully craggy, rough hol-
low, the sides of which were fifty OF
sixty feet in height. Great rocks, as
large as a car, had rolled down, and
here and there trees, which had top
pied over from above, lay across the
lodges.
1.-The stream filled the most of the
bed of the ravine. The trail was on
the north side. 1t wound in and out
amongst the rocks, sometimes running
close to the water, and then back
among the powders and drift-logs.
which lay piled up on the rocks ten
and twenty feet high, where the fresh
cts had lodged them. 1t was terri
bic hole.
g AS we had started early, it was
scarcely sunrise Wnen we reached the
canyon, father riding the mule Tige
in advance of my brother and me some
forty or fifty yards. At a turn among
the rocks, he all at once came face tt
face with big grizzly bear.
. 1t was probably surprise on boil
sides. But tie old bear was the frs
to recover his wits. With a grow
and roar, he sprang at the mule.
''Ilge whirled about, fairly piro,tett
tng on his hind heels, deposited fathe,
fiat in the path, and took the bacl
track like fox.
''Sam and [ We're in sight, anC
caught a glimpse of this maneuver
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03
An Ancient Burial Mound in
Pennsylvania.

On Wednesday morning last we
made visit to an interesting mound,
containing the remains Of a large num-
Der of human bodies. This mound is
one of two situated on the farm of
William Boon, in Peters township,
Washington County. The mound Wis
tied is situated on the highest ground
in a field near the Boon residence. 1t
has been almost entirely dug over, and
its proportions destroyed
A short time since Mr.. Boon, need
ing stone for some purpose on his
farm, removed the earth at this eleva-
ton and was surprised at the regulari-
ty presented by the stones, it evident
ly appearing that they were placed
there in some systematic order.
Another popularity also presented it.
self, and that was that there were
many kinds Of stone deposited there,
some of them originally from distant
localities. This led him to more close
ly Investigate the mound, when he
found evidences of an extensive burial
place. On careful observation it was
manifest that One-half of the elevation
had been at some remote time dis
turbed. In that part of the rest which
he inspected he found the remains OF
at least eleven or twelve human bod
les. These remains were very much
decayed, even the best preserved pre-
Senting but fragments of the bones.
The fiat and spOngy bones had almost
uniformly disappeared, and in most
cases the long bones broke at d touch,
showing that the bodies to which they
belonged had been placed there a great
many years ago. In some instances
the ribs, jaw bones and teeth, and the
phalanges of hands and feet, were pas
SADLY well preserved.
The bodies seem to have been ar
ranged according to very peculiar
system. Mr.. Boon informed US that
he found in each instance the bodies
radiating like the rays of a star from
| central bOwlder against which the head
Of each body was placed. Underneath
the shoulders of each he found a fiat
Shelyy kind of stone. The remaining
stones, used as a wall of separation or
covering (this was hard to deter
mine, from the advanced state of de-
cay, were Systematically placed or
built, so that they overlapped and made
it difficult to remove them unless the
keystone could be first found
With Mr.. BOOn'S assistance, we barred
the earth from the stones in one place
and saw something of their peculiar
disposition. In this case the body
had been entirely amalgamated with
the surrounding earth. The peculiar
nature of the soil and the shape of
the body which could be traced, indi-
Gated the certainty of this assimilation.
We secured some of the best specimens
of the bones.
There is every evidence that the per-
sons whose bones have thus been dis
covered died long since, possibly cen
turtles ago. The soil containing their
remains is elevated and dry, and the
surroundings, one would think, favor
able to their long preservation; and
yet, as intimated, in some instances
only the slightest trace of their exist
ence could be obtained. Who were
these people? Who placed their bod
les there? Were they of prehistoric
race -Ca1nonsbatrg Pa Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03

thought | might as well remain quietly
where [ was, and not draw the bears
attention to myself, though the Great
ure could hardly at that place have
climbed up the side of the canyon.
"The way they had got into this pre-
dicament, as father explained to us,
was purely accidental When the
mule threw him off his back, the bear
had bounded directly over him as he
lay on the ground, and had gone sew
eral rods after the mule; but he soon
turned about, with another loud
growl.
meantime father had scrambled
upon his feet, and seeing the bear COM
ing, jumped on rock beside the path,
and from this to another, going up the
side of the canyon, till he came to
where this drift log lay across from
ledge to ledge.
He instantly ran across it. But
the grizzly hesitated; his great weight
would probably have broken the old
| trunk.
"Itmust have been the best part of
an hour before Sam returned from
home. / heard him call out to me as
he came along toward where I lay.
Father heard him, too, and glancing
up, caught sight of me for the first
time.
Build fire, boysr he shouted to
us. Build a rousing fire. Then pitch
down the brands, and see if you can t
drive the old rascal away
"Sam kindled a fire back few rods
from the brink Of the ravine. In the
course of half an hour we had score
or more of half-burned brands.
''Seizing one in each hand, we ran
forward to where we could look over
into the canyon, then threw them
down at the bear.
GAS the blazing billets went whirl-
ing downward, the old fellow growled
out sharply, then burst into wild
roar.
Zone of the brands struck on the
rock close beside him, and lay there
smoking and blazing up. The bear
shifted at it, but the next moment sent
it spinning off with his paw.
eve threw down others. Grizzly
reared on his launches, roaring like a
bull, and fought at them with both
paws. For few moments he stood
his ground.
''But we showered them so fast, and
| made such a smoke around his ears,
that he at length began to back off, and
nearly fell over the rock. Then he
turned tail and bounded into the path,
and thence leaped down the gravel
bank and took to the stream.
''Father was down in the path be-
fore the bear was halfway across the
river. Catching up the rifle, he sent q
bullet after the grizzly with right good
will. But the beast swan on without
seeming to notice the shot, and, reach
ing the other side, climbed sturdily up,
without once looking back. Soon he
disappeared in the woods.
''Ever after that we used to look out
sharp for grizzlies at that canyon; but
we never happened to meet another
there. "-Youth's Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03

GOOD prayers never come weeping
home. / am sure | shall receive either
what l ask or what [ should ask
bishop Hall.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-08-04
Az Important Enterpri.e.

A few weeks ago w. T. Garrett,
president of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road, visited San Francisco ostensibly
on pleasure, but it has since transpired
that important business was at the
bottom of it, and he is nov credited with
having made arrangements with the
Central and Union Pacific railroads by
which he expects to make those
roads, in connection with his own,
an important route for the trans
portation Of the teas, silks, etc., of
China AMI Japan to Liverpool, ship
ping the goods by steamer from Balti-
more to that port. 1t is presumed that
to accomplish this he has been able to
induce the Pacific railroads to make a
very large concession from their past
and present charges or his steamships
must carry the goods at very low rates.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-08-04
Compiled Laws Of Wyoming.

A few copies-of the compiled laws Of
Wyoming, full bound, can be had ON
application at the LEADER Office. Price:
$500; sent by mail, post paid, for $3.50.
Remit by P. 0. money order or regis
tered letter.
This volume contains all the laws
etc., enacted by the legislative as
semblies of Wyoming Territory since
its organization; also the Declaration of
Independence, Organic Acts of Dakota
and Wyoming, Union Pacific grant,
Sioux Treaty, Shoshone Treaty, U. s.
Public Land and Bounty Land Laws,
Town Site Law, Timber Law, U. S.
Mining Laws and the Coal Land Laws.
jy21-d&wtf
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-08-04
h Big Nugget.

Mrs. L. D. Beary, of this city, yester-
day received from her husband that
mammoth nugget which was mentioned
in The LEADER some days ago.. As
stated, it weighs 146 ~pennyweights, 8
grains, is of peculiar shape, and was
taken out of Potato gulcn, nea Dead
wood. Slack got hold of the nugget by
some mysterious means, last night, and
was carrying it about the streets. We
tried to take it away from Slack, as we
do not deem it safe for him to carry a
$3.50 nugget around-he is 10 small and
weak that some bootblack or beerjerker
might rob him, you know-but he hung
to it like grim death to a dead Niger,
and hardware Johnny threatened to
give us fits if we didn't let up ON Slack,
so we are still nuggetless.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-08-04
The Canadian Indians.

A letter from Fort Mcleod, British
America, dated July LIST, gives the key
to the hitherto almost inexplicable ac-
cessions to Sitting Bulls ranks. We
give the annexed extract:
ssThere is at present a large gathering
Of Indians at Cypress Hills-North and
South Piegans, Blackfeet, Bloods, As
siniboines, besides Gros Ventres, Crows
and Sioux from the American side-in
all about 5000 lodges. What this great
meeting Of Indians, all heretofore enc
mics, may portend / am unable to say;
but it is reported, and generally be-
lieved here, that the Sioux, who planned
and carried out this meeting Of the diff
ferent tribes, will attempt to SOW the
seeds of dissension and distrust
among the other Indians, with a
view to q general rising hereafter
against the whites Major Irvine, with
one officer and o detachment of ten
men, left here on the 18th for Cypress
Hills, to be present at this Indian gath
ering, and to learn, IL possible, what
takes place in their councils."
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-08-04

The facetious friends Of a young
book-keeper of this city, who recently
took unto himself a rib, or in other
words, became a citizen of the state of
matrimony, have ''played it" upon him
in a way he thoroughly despises. After
boarding a short time the newly made
Benedict rented a house and prepared
it for the reception of the bride. The
happy pair moved in and were ready to
begin enjoying life in their new home,
but their anticipated pleasure was sadly
married by the discovery of the fact
that the chimney of their kitchen did
not draw well. Fires were made and
meals cooked, but the house was filed
with smoke by every fire and great dis
comfort thus caused.
The book-keeper cursorily remarked
that the carpenters and masons who
built the house were blank fools, ETC.,
and it was only after several days endu-
rance of the discomfort that he as
cended to the roof and examined the
chimney. Discovering that it was full
of something, he procured hooks and to
his surprise drew out several bags of
rags and rubbish which his humorous
friends had placed therein. The chimney
now draws splendidly and the book
keepers only fear is that some news
paper man will learn the story of his
troubles and tell it to an appreciative
public.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-08-04

The dedication of the African Meth
odist Episcopal Church viii take place
In said church on next Sabbath at 3
o'clock p m. Bishop Shorter will con.
duct the services The brethren Of the
different churches in the city have
kindly consented to be present with us.
The kindness of the citizens of Chey.
enne toward this enterprise leads us to
hope many Of them win favor us with
their presence. We have a debt of only
one hundred and twenty-six dollars,
which it is desired to liquidate on that
occasion, 80 that our people can have a
house of their own in which to worship.
Bishop Shorter will preach in the Con-
gregational Church in the morning, and
in the Methodist Episcopal Church in
the evening. Come out, brethren, and
help US in our earnest efforts to have
preaching among ourselves.
THOMAS WHITLocK, Pastor.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-08-04
The Black Hills Silver Discoveries.

~
That rich silver ores have been found
nthe Black Hills, and in well defined
veins, too, is now settled beyond doubt.
Promising veins have been found
about the head of the Spearfish, be-
tween Deadwood and Rapid creeks,
and in the vicinity of Bear Butte. The
discoveries in the last mentioned To-
cality promise to be of great Importance,
the veins being wide, with well-defned
walls, and traceable a long distance by
the groupings. The best lead there was
discovered by two brothers named Mer-
rift, who at first supposed it was a lead
mine-not having had experience in
prospecting for and testing silver ores.
The acid test. proved, however, that il
was a rich vein of a%uriferous galena,
and the first assay gave a return of over
t42 ounces to the ton. Besides the
galena, the vein carries, SO far as it ha:
been exposed, a heavy body of milling
ore which is rich in silver sulphurets.
No one of silver mining experience who
has examined ore from the Merritt
lode, and the dip and trend Of the vein,
and the general formation, doubts that
it is a true assure silver vein. We have
these facts from parties just in from
the mines, and feel safe in predicting
that the excitement caused by the rich
gold discoveries in the Black Hills will
be fairly equalled by that which will
soon follow the discovery of equally
rich silver mines.