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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-04-28
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ST. AMOUR!

Re- Has just received he largest
best selected and cheapest stock ever
brought in this county. We invite all
before buying to visit us and see some
Of our bargains. We sell
Good calico for 6 cents.
Good sheeting for &c.
Good cotton flannel for Zoe.
Good brocaded dress goods for 10C.
Good brocaded dress goods double
width worth soc for s. cents.
Good cashmere, all shades for 40c.
Good table linnen for 35c.
Good white bed blankets for $3.25
Good felt skirts for 60c.
Good cloaks for 81 IS.
Good mems hats for 75c.
Good mems heavy suits for $500.
The best SOC underware in the U.
S. and some for less.
Our stock of clothing and over
coats is by far the best and the cheap
est. We keep no Shoddy. A fine
line Of
Cloths, E'Ianncls, Fancy
Goods, Gloves, Notions
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-04-28

A few hours was spent quite pleas
antly by party of young people, at
the residence of r. G. Worthington
Tuesday evening. The party was
given in commemoration of Harry S
Dist. birth day. He received a
beautiful gold watch from his par
ents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-04-28

The boiler Of the spoke factory was
discovered to be damaged last week
having spread open near a joint on
the under side about Is inches long.
No damage resulted therefrom and it
is being fixed up. John Schnable is
acting as foreman and he does the
business up in short order.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-04-28

The fact is, we have the court
house business, just where we want it,
and whatsoever feels sore can, with 25
cents in cash, procure for himself and
friends a bottle of Grandmother
"Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Enter
prise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-04-28

NJ. G. Warren has at present the
most complete stock of furniture
ever brought into this city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-04-28
Council Proceedings.
GRAND RAPIDS, Jan. Sd s

URAND hAPIDS, Jan. Sd 81.
Council met. Mayor Webb in the
chair. Aldermen present, KRONER,
Hasbrouck, Sampson and Purdy. Alb
sent Aid. Arpin and Morrill,. Minutes
of last regular meeting read and ap
proved. On motion the following bills
were allowed, all members present
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
Going for linton

The Washington Gazette has pub
lished an article upon Assistant Secre-
tary Upton of the treasury, asserting
that he is worth over $3.50, 900, all made
since he came into Office, upon an aver
age salary of $4,000 per year, but he
owns a $4,000 farm in Iowa, a block
of houses in Washington, worth $40,-
600, and about $20O.0000 in United
States securities. This publication
also says that Upton allowed "A $780,
600 claim of w. Z. Ewin, an Indian
agent, after it had been disallowed by
present Comptroller Lawrence, by re-
versing Lawrence's decision and that
of $4,000 already paid on that claim
Upton got $4,000.
The Gazette next reports an accusa-
tion said to have been brought out in
the treasury investigation that Upton
approved an allowance of money on
official accounts to pay for copies of
Lamphere's book. This article main
tains that it was Upton who stopped
the investigation. Upton has addressed
a letter to the paper asking who is the
responsible owner, and intimating that
he intends to bring a libel suit.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
The President Will Investigate.

1t is announced that there is a gen.
eral conviction in Washington that,
under President Arthur's adu.iuistra-
tion, the investigation of the treasury
department, started by Secretary Win
dom and so suddenly stopped, will be
reopened and carried through, and of
course this will not be done until the
new secretary of the treasury is ap-
pointed. Their is considerable ner-
vOusneSs in certain official quarters in
apprehension of the coming investiga-
tion. This much is known, that Presi-
dent Arthur in speaking of the alleged
star route frauds to the attOrney-gen-
eral and Postmaster-G General James and
to Bliss, declared in a general way that
all frauds upon the government shall
be exposed and where there is any
evidence of fraud it should be investi-
gated. The president indicated that
such would be his policy, as in his
opinion public officials who betrayed
their trusts and misused their power,
should not only be exposed but pun
ished, and where allegation of miscon-
duct were made, there was no way TO
clear the parties accused if they were
innocent than to thoroughly investi-
gate.
1t will be remembered that the COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
custodian officers in the treasury sub
mitted preliminary report duplicating
a number of persons. Custodian Pit
ney was dismissed, but the report was
locked up and the investigation stop
ped. Soon after the submission of
his report President Garfield was shot.
Had that not occurred, OF had he
recovered, the investigation would
have been prosecuted.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
Too Much Music in Poetry.


One poem, and one poem only, do
know, the effect of which in its vague.
ness, in its appeal purely to the emotions
and the imagination, may be compared
with music, and that is ''Kubla Khan :"
but the exceptional circumstances un-
der which 1t was written, and the fact
that there is no other like it, at any
rate in the English language, would
seem to show that here, as ever, the ex-
ception proves the rule. Is there any
other poem of which it may be said
that the only tue criticism is that of
John Duncan: "1ts very fine, but 1
don't know what it means?" No; as a
rule, one looks for a meaning in poetry.
The poet who has given the most prac-
tical effect to the doctrine of music in
poetry is Edgar Poe. Struck with the
beautiful harmony to be obtained by
the use of repetition, and especially of
hat species of it called the refrain, he
deliberately made this the foundation
of his poetry. And is not this nearly
the whole of his pOetical capital?
There is, indeed, sort of weird pathos
III the Raven" but its chief beauty is
the refrain. The "Bells," too, give me
considerable pleasure, but it is mere
Intellectual pleaSure-the pleasure
which successful imitation always
gives. But"Ulalume," and "Annabel
Lee" are they anything but senseiess
jingle? No, poetry is not to be made,
like pudding, from RECEIPT. Take
refrain, says Edgar Poe, composed of
the finest sounding words to be had,
add plenty of ALTERATION and repeti-
tion, flavor with little sentiment, and
serve as hot as possible. But it is the
misfortune of poetry made in this way
that it invariably comes up cold, and
people like cold poetry about as we'll
as they like cold soup. Edgar Poe's
poetry is, in short, solemn warning
against making poetry by rule, against
starting with a musical effect. and then
looking about for thoughts or emotions
to match it. 1t is the level of "Ulalume"
that all poetry of this sort must at last
sink. Mr.. Swinburne's poetry has
happily not sunk to this level yet, but
1t Is in great danger of it. For all
poetry in which the splendor of the
'NAoAhNoeAOAA ID AAOO Ouo SSt1lIC1 DH lIlC
underlying emotion, in which the ryth-
mical effects are used so unsparingly,
with so little concealment that they be-
come mere trick, is in danger of this.
Some Of the most beautiful passages in
poetry owe much, no doubt, to allitera-
ton, but they do not altogether depend
upon it, and they never suggest the
feeling that the sense has been sacri-
feed to it. But is a line like this of
Mr.. Swinburne's-
The deep, divine, dark dayshine of the sea,
anything but mere string of adject-
ives beginning with "d?' Would not
The sad supreme still sunshine of the
land,
or,
The mild, mad, melting moonshine of my
verse,
be equally poetical? Collocations, too,
like "windy and wintry," "lagrant and
fragrant" swimming and skimming,"
may be pleasing if introduced occasion
ally; but the trick is not very subtitle
one, and it is easy to have too much of
it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
JintIemanIy Ladies'.

A contemporary appreciates the fol-
lowing specimen of Irish gallantry and
grammar. So do we: n
In a railroad car the seats were all
full except one, which was occupied
by a pleasant looking lrishman; and at
one Of the stations couple of evident
ly well-bred and intelligent young la
dies came in to procure seats. Seeing
none vacant, they were about to 90 in
to the next car, when Patrick arose
hastily and offered them his seat with
evident pleasure.
"But you will have no seat for your
SELF" responded one of the young aides,
with a smile, hesitating. with true po-
hteness, to accept 1t.
"Niver mind thatr' said the gallant
Hiberian; "rd ride upon a cow catcher
TO New York, any time for a smile from
such jintlemanly ladies'"
And he retired hastily into the next
car, amid the cheers Of his fellow pas.
J sengers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
How to Select a Husband .

1t has been profoundly remarked
that the true way of telling toadstOol
from mushroom is to eat it. If you
die, it was toadstool; if you live, it
was a mushroom. A similar method
is employed in the selection of hus-
bands. Marry him; if he kills you, he
was a bad husband; if he makes you
happy, he is good one. There is re.
ally no other criterian. Some young
men that seem unexceptionable, in
deed very desirable when they are
single, are perfectly horrid as soon as
they are married. All the latent
brute there is in the heart comes out
as soon as sensitive and delicate be-
ing seeks her happiness in his compan-
ionship. The honeymoon lasts very
short time, the receptions and rounds
of parties are soon over, and then The
two sit down to make home happy.
If she has married society man, he
will soon begin to get bored; he will
yawn and go to sleep on the sofa.
Then he will take his hat and go down
to the club and see the boys, and per-
ldpS IOG COuic HOIuO ulltli IuOlIlilS
If she has married a man engrossed in
business, he will be tagged out when
he comes home. He may be sickly
man that she must nurse, "a morost
man that she must seek to cheer, {
drunken man that she must sit up for
violent man that she fears, a foo
whom she soon learns to despise, {
vulgar man for whom she must apollo
gize-in short, there are thousands oi
ways of being bad husbands, and very
few ways of being good ones. AND
the worst of it is that the poor, silly
women are apt to admire in single mel
the very traits that make bad hus
bands, and look with contempt or ridi
cule upon those quiet virtues whicl
make home happy. Men with yer.
little personal beauty or style oftel
make the wife happy, and often quit
the reverse. The number of ways o
being a bad husband is almost a
great as the number of ways Of beini
ugly. No one can tell from the de
meanor of single man what sort of
husband he will be. However, sh
must marry somebody.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
a Wonderful JERSEY,

Attorney General Hardie, Frankfort,
Kentucky, owns one of the most extra
ordinary of living cows; and she is as
beautiful as she is good. In a single
day her yield of butter has been as
much as two pounds two ounces, and
from the time of calving-22d of May
up to this date the yield has at no
time been less than two pounds four
ounces. Tested for four days in sue
cessiOn, at the last of June, the average
yield of butter per day was two pounds
eight ounces, or at the rate of seven
teen pounds and a half each week.
Shortly after calving she gave thirty
six pounds of milk per day; and the
yield now is from twenty-eight to thir-
ty-One pounds. She has not yet attain
ed the full measures Of her powers
being only heifer. She is prize, and
it will take sum Of money to buy
her.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
An American Hostelry.

The erection of the new American
hotel in London has commenced. 1t
viii occupy nearly an acre on the
north side of Holborn, abutting on
Warwick court and Holborn. 1t is to
contain four hundred rooms, and will
be called the First Avenue hotel, be-
cause it is intended to construct an
avenue through the block of the hotel
building. Among the houses which
viii have to be removed to clear the
way will be the Dukes theatre and a
tenement to which considerable inter
est attaches as the domicile of Haydn,
In which he wrote the greater part of
"The Creation" The Society of Arts
VIII provide a mural tablet to mark
the spot.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20

fork had long since ceased to be lux
ury to him, until he cleaned every plat
ter.
"Now, poor, unfortunate man, tell
me what wrought this wonderful
change in your condition. What was
the misfortune that caused you to be
thus thrown out upon the world?"
"Well, num-" proceeded the tramp
as he swallowed the last mouthful of
huckleberry pie, and walked towards
the door; Eyer see, IA been serving q
long term in the penitentiary, and my
time was up some three years ago, so
had to leave" And then he quietly
stole out, leaving the old lady in
state of bewllderment from which she
did not recover till she found he had
had taken half a dozen of her silver
knives as souvenir of her generosity
and kindness. 4
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
A Queer Newspaper Enterprise

A queer newspaper enterprise has
just been started in Berlin under the
name of the daily Rundschau. 1t is
called ga journal for non-politicians,
and, at the same time, supplementary
to the political organs of every par
ty." 1t is edited by the poet, Freder-
lex Bodenstedt, and the corps of con-
tributors announced includes many of
the most famous writers of Germany.
The idea upon which the Rundschau
is founded is that political matters,
even in uneventful times monopolize
too much space in the newspapers.
Therefore il is proposed, in the rule,
to limit the politics of the day to a
comparatively small part of the space,
to keep apart from political contro-
versy, and leave religious questions un-
touched.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
Never Go Into a Place Where You
Would Not Take Your Wife.


NOT long ago a young man in Carson
got married and started for California
with his young wife. AS he boarded
the train his father bade him goodbye
and gave him the paternal blessing.
"My son." said the aged sire, shak-
ing with emotion, etc., Remember
these words if you never see me again:
Never go into place where you would
not take your WIFE"
The couple settled in Mariposa coun.
ty, and last week the old man went
down to visit them. He proposed a
bear hunt, and they were fortunate
enough to track grizzly to his lair
among some of the boulders in the
chapparel. As the two approached
the bear reused up and set forth a
growl which shook the trees:
"Go in there and kill 'im,r said the
old man excitedly.
The son held back, further acquaint-
ance with the bear seeming in some re
spect undesirable.
Count me out" be said.
"Have L crossed the seas and settled
in America to raise coward ?" shouted
the father, brandishing his gun.
81 but recollect your advice when ]
left Carson" was the reply. "Hov
can 1 forget your sage precepts ? Didn't
you tell me never to go where couldn't
take my wife? Now, how would Sa
look in there with that bear?"
The old man clasbed his dutiful sol
to his bosom, and as the bear issued
forth, exclaimed.
Speaking of Sally. let us haster
home. Our prolonged absence might
cause her needles alarm"
In about fifteen minutes they hat
rached the ranch, the old man a little
ahead. and the distance was abou
four miles.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
90 YOUR BEST.

When honest Davy Crockett said.
"lic sure you're right then 20 nhead.
llC crystallized a maxim true
q liC builded better than ne knew
ie sure you're right; or come as near
llH right rs mortal man may steer:
Who does his best, exhausts his store
Angels themselves can do no more
iin hugh your aim; then n you miss.
n1r consolation comes with this.
" dtd miss, 1 missed the sun,
ana so has many prOuder one.
" not di cOuraged: work away;
Worlds are not builded I'm n day;
u hlugh clouds cnwrap you far and wide.
There's suna hinc on the other side.
Tho needle whose magnetic soul
Forever searches for the POLE
Even this will vary: Judge ye, then,
IL constancy can dwell with men.
lerhaps The storm may by is force
Compel little change from course:
Nr' change with care and when YOU can.
tcsuwc your con, -'.aigi on" again.
-Ffdlk \. OttdrSOn.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
Bogus Certificates.

be made of wonder full foreign roots, barks,
&C., and puffed up by long bogus certifi-
Gates of pretended miraculous cures, but a
simple, pure, effective medicine, made of
well known valuable remedies, that fur
nishes its own certificates by its cures.
We refer to Hop Bitters, the purest and
best Of medicines, See another column.-
Republican.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
HYdrophobia Prevented by Vaccina-
tion.

Pall Mall Gazette.
About six months hence the Times
will probably contain in its teIepraphiC
columns an account of a very note
worry discovery which has Just been
made in France. NJ. Pasteur and other
French savants have lately been devot.
ing special attention TO hyGrophObia,
The great authority on germs has, in
fact, definitely announced that he does
not intend TO rest until he has made
known the exact nature and life-history
of this terrible disease, and discovering
a means Of preventing or curing it.
The most curious result yet attained
in this direction, however. has been
announced by Professor ". Galtier, OF
the Lyons Veterinary School. This
inquirer has found in the first place,
that IL the virus Of rabies be injected
into the veins Of a sheep, the animal
does not subsequently exhibit any
symptoms Of hydrophObia. This in
itself would be sufficiently curious
result to justify attention, though its
importance, except as confrmatory
testimony, becomes lest striking when
it is remembered that NJ. Pasteur
has lately shown that the special nifus
Of the disease appears to be the nerv-
Gus tissue, and particularly the gang
Ionic centres. But there is this fur
ther curious consequence: sheep who
have thus been treated through the
blood, and who are afterward inocu-
lated in the ordinary way through the
eellular tissue, as if by a bite, are
proofs against the disease. 1t is as
though the injection into the veins
acted as a vaccine. Twenty sheep
were experimental upon; ten only
were treated to the venous injection.
and then all were inoculated through
the cellular tissue. The ten which had
been first 'vaccinated" continue alive
and well; they have not even shown
any adverse symptoms. The other ten
have all died of rabies. 1t remains to
say why NJ. Galtier experimental upon
sheep, and not upon dogs and cats,
which usually communicate the dis
ease. The incubation of the disease
is mucE more rapid and less capri
cious in the sheep than in the dog
or in man, and hence M. Galtier was
able to get his results more certainly
within a short period. Having sue
ceeded so far, he is now justified in
undertaking the more protracted series
of observations which experiments
upon the canine species will involve;
and this he proposes to do. Expert.
ments of this nature are not without a
serious risk, and admiration is almost
equally due to the courage and intelli-
gence Of the experimentalist. Bat
what will the anti-vaccinatOr say?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20
The Power of Kindness.

"Ah," sighed the tramp, as he pre-
sented himself at the kitchen door of a
neat and cosy little cottage in the sub
urbs, where kind-looking, elderly lady
was setting things to rights. "How
strange are the ways of this lifel 'Tis
only three short years since 1 was COM
fortably situated-a good, comfortable
home, the best food the state affords,
no end to attendants; but now how
changed! l have not tasted bread for
three whole daysP' and his face as
sumed the air of injured innocence as
he saw the old lady brush tear from
her eye.
"Poor SOUL" she began: "how did
the dreadful change come about?-but
no, you shall have good meal before
1 hear your story. Come right in.'
And she busted herself in preparing a
meal for the unfortunate being, who
went into the viands as If a knife and
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20

The ledges in the vicinity of the flume
at Franconia, N. H., are found to be COM
posed largely of as fine quality of Scotch
granite as can be found anywhere in the
world, and there is prospect that the
building of the Pemigewasset Valley rail-
road will develop an immense quarrying
business in that locality.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20

The Swedish Lutherans in the United
States number 800 congregations, $50 pas.
tors, and 10000 members, 40OCo of whom
are COMMITMENTS; and they, with other
Scandinavians, have established four col
leges, fve theological seminaries, and nu-
merous academies and schools.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20

The Sunday Argus, Louisville (Ky
observes: A Woodbury. On. J.) pape
mentions the cure of the wife of Mr..
Jos. II. Mills, of that place, by st
Jacobs Oil. She had rheumatism.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20

who had been listening to the story
with quiet smile. "And now that
you've had your tale, go and say good
night, for it's high time for by-by.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20

The Menasha (Wis.) Press says: A.
Granger, Esq, of this city, uses st.
Jacobs Oil on his horses with decided
success and profit.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20

Gold sends us ten thousand joys but we
will not even stretch out our hand to grasp
them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20

Overcome injuries by forgiveness.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-15
THE MARKETS.
AsIOrra Markets.

FLoUR.--Superfne 81 90; Extra 81 70 /;
Corn Meal. a cwt. So 80; BucBwheat q cwt
S6 90.
BUrTER-Choice roll, 2jG3O cts. 4 10
CHEEsE.-Clatsop dairy 1S5B25c.
EGGs.-2O6-c cts q doz. Chickens, 81 on.
FRESH MEATs.-Choice cuts. Lamb. lOc;
Beef S9lO : Pork 10; Mutton sale. BY the
carcase SC.
MEATs.-Breakfast bacon 131S8lj per H.;
sides I31zGl4Iac: hams l319Gl7c; shoulders
lO9I2c; smoked beef l59lGsac; corned beef
SlO9l2 q bbl.; corned pork lOe q II.
BEANs.-3gI cts.
LARD-In tins and eaddies l56I7c = n
HoNEY.-In frames iOc in glass zoe.
DRIED FRUIrs.-Blackber 20c; Prunes
l2199l6c.
MILL FEED.-Bran SiGaslS 4 ton chop
feed $40: Shoius s2js2j Hay s209S22 b ton.
OATs.-According to quality, prices range
from 6O665 cts h bGshel.
observation-disclosures IA ct. "a n;
Onions 495c q n.