Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-01-12

effete nobility of the Fauburg st. Ger
main responsibility depends upon be-
ing descendants from ancestors who
have married their cousins for SO many
centuries that neither muscles nor
brains are left any longer to degenerate
descendants. With the dandy officers
who constitute considerable DO ton
of the American navy responsibility
consists in having sponged on g Uncle
Sam" in wearing gilt buttons, and jill
ing tailors. Every conceited fool
thinks himself in like way the only
man really weighty, the only person
who is respectable.
But true responsibility depends on no
such adventurous circumstances. To
be respectable is to be worthy of re-
spect; and he deserves respect who has
most virtue. The humblest man who
bravely does his duty, IS more worthy
of respect. is more truly respectable.
than the covetous millionaire among
his money bags, or the arrogant mon
arch upon his throne.
The fine lady who backbites her
neighbor is less worthy Of respect than
an honest wash-woman. The profit
gate noble, though he may wear a
dozen orders, is often not really as re-
spectacle as the shoe-black who cleans
boots. That which exalts the world !"
exalts the one and despises the other,
but it does not make them respectable
according to the real meaning of that
word Their responsibility is but a
hollow sham, as they themselves fire.
quently feel, and those who worship
them bow down to a Fetish, a thing of
feathers and tinsel. The selfish, idle
drone, who wastes life, in his own graf
ification, and dissipatcs the fortune of
his progeny, is not and cannot be re-
spectacle, but the hard-working, self
denying father, who wears out his life
to bring up his children, is, even
though he but a day-laborer. Nothing
can make Dives fit to lie upon Abra-
hams bosom, while Lazarus is vel
coined there, even with the sores the
dogs have licked.
This false view of life, which would
measure responsibility by a conven-
tional standard. is totally at variance
with our republican institutions. 1t
creates an imperium in imperio, y
for, while the law declares all citizens
equal, it erects a social standard which
endeavor8 to ignore that great truth.
| The course, british, knavish profiigate,
criminal-in short, all who fall short of
their duty to themselves and their fell
| l0w-men-are those who are not re-
| spectacle; and this whether they are
rich or poor. While those who live
| honestly, and strive to do what they
can, constitute in reality the respect
able class, irrespective Of the fact
whether they eat with silver forks Or
steel ones.
4 Railroad Official interviewed.
Not every one so cheerfully commu-
nicates his knowledge and opinions, as
recently did E. L. Loweree, ESQ, cash
Ter of the Cincinnati Southern railway,
that splendid outlet to the South from
the Ohio. Our representative waited
upon Mr.. LoWeree, and in reply to GER
tain questions the latter gentleman OBJ
served: II was suffering from very
severe attack of rheumatism in my
right foot; it was in terrible condi-
ton; the pain was almost intolerable;
our family physician waited on me
without success; / sent for another
well-known NJ. D., but even the twain
could do nothing for me; ! could not
get down here to the Office to attend to
my duties; in fact I could not put my
foot under me at all, and after nine
weeks suffering / began to grow des-
perate. My friend Whom, of course,
you know, for he is known by every
body, Mr.. Stacey Hill, of the Mount
Auburn Inclined Plane Railroad Co.,
called to see me; he spoke very highly
Of st. Jacobs Oil, and recommended
the remedy to me in glowing terms. [
laughed at the idea of using a prop
prietary medicine, and yet the party
recommending it Mr.. Stacey Hill, re-
member), being man of sound judg-
ment, set me to thinking the matter
over: The next day, when the physi-
clans called. I dismissed them, and
said to myself that 1 would let nature
take its course. That resolution lasted
just day. On the following morning
[, in a fit of desperation, sent a servant
for bottle of st. Jacobs Oil. [ applied
that wonderful remedy, and it pene-
trated me so that [ thought my foot
was about to fall off, but it did not; in
fact it did just the opposite. The next
morning the pain had entirely left my
foot, the swelling was reduced, and
really the appearance was so different
| altogether from the day before, that it
actually surprised me. Iapplied more
of the st. Jacobs Oil, and that after
noon [ walked down here to the office,
Low II - Il,
and get around as we'll as any one. Let
me say for st. Jacobs Oil that 1t beats
railroad time, and is always.sure to win.
t-Cinci1anati Enquirer.
Postage Stamps.
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