Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-07-12
Fire and Birthstone for Two.
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TFrezn I1e La Crosse SUM-
The following is a portion Of a let
ter written from Devils Lake last
week, which got left because it did
not get up early enough, and did not
appear in the Sun. It may help to
cheaassae lbaely heart, or prepare
a dying sinner for the hereafter, so
we publish If.
DEVILS LAKE, June goth.
We are all here.
It is 4 Devil Of place.
The La Crosse delegation took
the Northwestern special at six
O'Clock Wednesday morning, ia a.
rain storm, and every man, woman
and child was hungry enough to eat
a hot box, or herring box, or a
box toed boot, SIX o'clock is too
COMPOUNDED early to get up to go toI
the Devils Lake. But we went.
All the way down it rained like a
street sprinkler. Nobody had any
thing to eat except Hoioway's baby,
and the cookies that were borrowed
OF that baby's mother on promises,
with no security, would fiji a peck
measure. Hungry, There never
was such q hungry crowd Sam
Cargill eat the leather hinges off an
0paIaska blind colored woman,s
smoke house, and Putnam watched
for she woman and eat the door.
jinl Canterbury eat a lot Of wheat
telegrams, and George Lord and
Charley Listman eat the car
cushions. At Elroy the crowd went
int the eating house and found a
tramp eating some cold victuaIs, and
they threw the tramp out the win
dow and took his sustenance.
We arrived here abcaal4 o'clock
in the rain, and found that the races
were postponed till tomorrow, But.
the lake was here, and the bluffs and
rocks, and everybody went around
Gin bing up bills and preci pieces, and
looking around to find out how the
Creator happened to make such
mistake It is the cussedist looking
place on record No family should
he without it. Talk about the seem
cry o'a the Rhine, CIR the Styx, or the
Amazon, the scenery cannot hold
sperm candle TO this left handed
place After climbing up d few
hundred feet of the slipperyest rocks
that ever were slipped up ON; we
sboca en- g gul PIT carved out by the
hand Gf nature, and after wipiug the
perspiration, maud. etc. froN our be-
nign countenance, we gazed down
Oh d sosne- taaG woRld make a child
strike for higher wages, There was
a lake a mile fron1 Genesis to ReEez
Iations, sort OF bcttoyniess pit, sur
rounded by rocks piled one upon an
other fog hundreds OF feet, looking
as though they had been piled ley
the hands OF giants The whole law
out looks 10 q christian as though
mother earth had at soaaae time been
taken suddenly i'll, and while father
earth was after the docter, 6he old
lady got one OF her spells, sAd kicked
the furnitare .aR over tie plantations,
had the dellrG:um Tremendous, asad
and her aprosS string busted and she
sHatched everything around and
more than mashed the face ofnature.
She threw up al that was in sight,
and when father earth canse back
w1th the doctor she told them TO 20
to Forage, she didn't Gaze whether
! school kept or cot Ana 1t has been
so ever since This snay moi be a
lsacid deseri ption Of this COMPOUNDED
ragged edge Of ali Gods creation
but Il any person caB come mere and
look -dispassio natciv and saw that
aaether earth fixed this thing right saqs
lis this way In her calm, deliberate
moments, when aasot under the infU-
enee Of a little hell down below. then
we w1R glrs cur wealth TO some
poor house and go to 3 nunuery.
Ne person that wants 11o gel aal idea
of what hell ought so 8ooiz like, be
| fore they light the fires, and toss on
| the m2stopes SHOULD failae visit this
spot We can imagine nothing that
gFou4& be SO coma plete = picture Of
1 f3ades, as that lake and It's surround
IN gs, the water Eurned ant0 ssenzine,
sad ahe rocks into brim stcne- and a
few thausane million sinners isa there
with 0gint'er clothes on and $50 GIN Gag,
ready made e3athing establishment
,an the bank. and no Ice house al
hand
But with ali ats hell inspiring
socks, It Is tie Nscst horse like place
&c step at there is fhas side of
Ghe real one Theme is 3 hotel hene
capable Of aceomm odaGiag ali that
,co4& e. it &o@,t make Any Inference
h@aE naaay- B. &. Gowles IS the
pro pEtetar of the Cliff House, aud be
Can aeeenaaaodate ngne people to tsse
acre thsp amy Qaaa In the hotel bass
ness Isl America E&e theusaa3ds
that are here &Rd $40 .CEfhcuIav IN ..aI2-
lEgag .qI arters, and the feed IS first
class
:. - AE n:apreers. 81 tie &. & L. Sc