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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
THE BLOOM OF LONG AGO.
T. G. HARBAUGH.

How oft along the vanished past.
sin with the lines OF youth aglow,
Snrino-s M the fiow'rs thst faded fast
The Sc nted bloom of long ago.
Where is the heart that would forget
The smile the look, the warm embrace:
Amid the wears we treasure yet
The contour Of fitted face.
Deep 10 the labyrinth of time,
Mischievous shine black eyes and blue;
And fairy fingers beat rhyme
On Cupid's bow for me and you.
I find letter hidden long
From su nmer'S sun and winters snow,
And to it ciings cherished song
That keeps the tune of long ago.
We never quite forget the joys
Recorded ON life's primal page:
The laughter gay of girls and boys
Falls sweetly on the ears OF age.
Across path still bright and fair,
A child is swinging TO and fro;
Aud memory twines in golden hair,
The lovely bloom of long ago.
The music sought by US to-day
In othei years has grandly sung;
The face that fits across our way
We often kissed when we were young.
1t is the hand we cannot see
That leads US, when the sun is low,
Back 70 the memory haunted lea
Rich with the bloom of long ago.
Confess to me. for it is true,
/ care not what your station be,
That somewhere there's spell for you
A spell OF love or fant ssy.
Who has not felt a vanished hand
Touch lis at twilight's gentle glow,
Or seen emerge from 6hadowiand
A sweetheart of the long ago!
Black eyes and blue! o! what spell
They weave for all who own their sway?
And where is he whose song can tell
One half the cunning they display:
They are the milestones of the road
We tread 10 where the waters flow
Between us and The yelled abode
Beyond the loves of long ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
He Fell Rea ssured.

''Have you seen pape's new dog, Carlo.
she asked, as they sat in the parlor.
Eyes" he replied uneasily, II have had
the pleasure of meeting the dog"
"Isn't he splendid? He is SO affection
ate."
II noticed that he was very demonstra-
tive" returned he, as he moved uneasily
in his chair.
He is very playful too. ] never saw a
more playful animal 10 my life"
II am glad hear you say that"
'Why?"
because | was little bit afraid that
when he bit that piece out of me the
other evening he was in earnest. But if
he was only in play of course its all right.
I can take fun well as any body"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
What's that!" asked a country gentleman in a
CATARRH GUREn

A clergyman, after years of suffering from that
loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly trying
every known remedy, at last found q prescription
death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease
sending self-addressed stamped envelope to
Prof. }. a. Lawrence, 2l2 East 9th St. New York
will receive the recipe free of charge.
Mamma what's hereditary" asked Bobby
laboriousy tripping over the syliab!es of the
long word. Why. it is anything you get from
your father or me- replied the mother, little
lence for two minutes Then, ma he asked
t.iS Snankini hareditarvf
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
A celebrated Washington belle. who's

A celebrated Washington belle, whose
attractions invited such marked attention
from scores OF men that the prefix or
Mrs" seemed dead letter, was "re-
ceiving" with another fashionable wo-
man. While chatting she Inadvertently
drew out her handkerchief and observing
knot in the corner of 1T, hesitated,
and said: GIVE knot in the corner of
my handkerchief; l must have put it in
there to remind me of something. Said
the hostess: Probably to remind you
that you are married"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

A little fve-year-old who nad been TO
Sunday school for the first time come
home pnffed out with Importance over
what he had learned. MAMA" said he,
do you know about Lots wife?n "a
little," she said, "but tell me what you
know" So the little fellow told his story
very earnestly, becoming positively
dramatic when he reached the climax and
said, "And the angel of the Lord said
unto Lots wife, skate for your life and
don't you look back, but she did look
back and turned a somersault."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

Ma" said Bobby running into the
house, "you said that if did a real act
of kindness this afternoon I could have
q piece of pie, and I've just done it,
what was the act of kindness, Bobby p"
inquired his mother while he ate the pie.
And Bobby replied between bites: "a
cat came into our back yard and 1 didn't
stone it."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
A Prize of Sim ono

is a good thing to get, and the man who wins it
by superior skill, or by an unexpected turn of
fortunes wheel, is to be congratulated. But he
who escapes from the clutches of that dread
monster, Consumption, and wins back health
ana happiness, is far more fortunate The
consumptive may be absolutely sure of recoye v
If he takes Dr.. Pierces Golden Medical Di.coT
cry in time. For all scrofuIous diseases (consunp-
ton is one of theml, it is an unfailing remedy
All druggists.
What's that?" asked country gentleman in a
music store.
That? Oh, that is used on violins It is called
a chin rest
Chin rest, is it? Well give me one It's lust
the sort of thing want for present for my
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
Consumpr1on Surely cured.

To the Editor Please inform your readers
that I have a positive remedy for the above
named disease. By its timely use Thousands OF
hopeless cases have been permanently cured. ]
shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy
FREE to any of your readers who have consulnp-
ton if they will send their Express and
P. o. address. Respectfully,
It. a. SLQCTTM. NJ. c.. I81 Pearl ST., n. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
Delicate Children. Nursing

Mothers, Overworked Men. and for all diseases
where the tissues are wasting away from the in
ability to digest ordinary food, or from over
work of the brain or body, all such should take
SCOTS Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
HypOphosphites. Il used the Emulsion on a
Bl onchitis. 1t put her in such good health and
flesh, that must say it is the est Emulsion ]
ever used. L. p. WADDELL, NJ. D., Hugh's
Mills s. G..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
Story of the DahIia.

No flower of the garden blooms more
profusely and beautifully this fall than
the dahila. The plant was found in
Mexico, and vas similar to the single
petaled specimens now popular. A
plant was sent to Madrid in 1888 where it
was seen in blossom by the Able Cavani-
les, who named it after his friend Prof.
Dahl, of Stockholm. In 1904 Hum bolt
went to Mexico and sent to Europe seeds
of the wild dahlia, and from these seeds
the plants now grown universally des-
cended. By degrees it donbled and
sprouted till 1t became the perfect flower
we now enjoy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

The thermometer registered 81 below
at Minneapolis, Wednesday morning. 1t
was the coolest night of the season. At
Halfock the spirit thermometer register
ed 50. minus and at other western towns
% TO 400 below.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

WHO was the most patient MANI" asked
teacher of oae of the Pittsburg Sunday Schools
lately None of the small scholars cned
know until a little chap, who had been III own
study for a few mnues. hell up his han.i. ''NF..o
was t. Johnny!" 1t was the man WIiU Ia! "a.
an .XK- nj " nm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

STRAIGHTEN your old boots and shoes with
Lyons Heel StffeDers, and wear them again.
Il can not say yes, Walter. 1 shall always be a
Sis" SISTER to me? No, you won't" Yes,
Walter; your brother Charles proposed to me
last night and accepted tim
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

Five hundred New York cigar makers
have Joined the ranks of their brethren
who had already struck against reduc-
ton of wages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

For Coughs and throat troubles use Browns
Bronchial roches."-"They stop an attack of
my asthma cough very promptly.'-C. Falch, MI
dnliUiLle, Ohio
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

The KENTUCKY legislature is consider
ing bill to punish wife beaters with
forty lashes on the bare back.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

The investigation into the affairs of
the ticket department of the Erie rail
way results in the dismissal of two en-
ployes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

Mrs. Chargeitplease-"Goodm morning, Mr.. Tape
measure; should like to see something in the
way of small check" Mr.. Tapemeasure fer-
yentlY)-"So should -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
Make 70 Mistake

If you have made up your mind to buy Hoods Sar-
saparilla do not be induced take any other Hoods
Sarsaparlla is REGULAR medicine possess ing b. vir
tue OF its peculiar combination proportion and prep
aration curative power superior to any other article
of the kind before the people. Be to get Hoods
In one store the clerk tried to induce me to buy
their instead of Hoods Sarsaparla But he could
not prevail on me to change told i'm knew what
Hoods Sarsaparia was had taken II. perfectly
satisfied with it, and did want other. Mrs.
ELLA A Corr, 81 Terrace Street, Boston, Mass.
Hoods SarSapaYiila
Sold by all druggists ST. six for s.. Prepared only
by C. L HOOD K CO. Lowell. Mass.
100 r0coe Ono eoilov
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26

Sold By Druggists ana Dealers Euer5iClsere.
The CHARLES A. V0GELER CO., Baltimore. Md.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-30
Washington.

GENERAL PHILIP Fl. SHERIDAN at last nc
counts wasrapidly recovering from his severe
illness.
Miss FLORA WEST, daughter of the British,
Minister to Washington, has been married at
Paris to Gabriel Saanson, Secretary Of the.
American French Legation.
COMMISSIONER WRIGHT bas submitted
estimates aggregatng Sl33,540 for the e2-
penses Of the new Department OF Labor t0r
the next fiscal year, OF which SSl, ITO is for
salaries.
THE President has approved the act to pro-
mote agriculture; the act for n public build
ing at Monroe, In: the act making lnauSu--
ration Day legal holiday in the District OF
Columbia.
THE President has approved tine act for the
erection of public building at Hoooken,
N. j.
TIE President has sent the following
nominations to the Senate: John L. Phillips
of Missouri, to be United States District.
Judge for the Western District of Missouri;
James G.. Jenkins of Wisconsin, to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern Dis
trict of Wisconsin: Edward Ma!let' OF New
York, to be an Indian Inspector.
The Senate has confirmed William u.
Franklin of Connecticut to be Commissioner
General and Somerville J.. Tuck of Ne%
York to be assistcnt CommisSioner-Genera
to the Paris Exposition
THE President has vetoed five minor PEN
sion bills
THE Controller of the Currency has outhor-
lied the organization of the American IA,
tional Bank of Waco, Texas; capital, $751;
600
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-30
Ghastln Nork Of Art

In the Pitt palace, at Florence, is a
table which for originality in the matter
of construction and ghastlincss in con-
ception is probably without rival. 1t
was made by Giuseppe Sagatti, who
passed several years of his life i'll its
manufacture. TO the casual observer it
gives the impression of a curious mosaic
of marbles Of different shades and COL
ors, for it looks like polished stone. IN
reality it is composed of human muscles
and yisccra. No less than hundred
bodies were rcquisitioncd for the mate
rial. The table is round and about a
yard in diameter, with pedestal and
four claw feet, the whole being formed
OF pctrifcd human remains. The orna-
mcnts of the pedestal arc made from the
intestines, the claws, with hearts, liv-
ers, and lungs, the natural color of
which is preserved. The tabletop is
constructed Of muscles artistically AZ
ranged, and it is bordcrcd with upward
of hundred eyes, the effect of which
is said to be highly artistic, since they
retain all their lustrc, and seem to follow
the observer. Sagatti died about fifty
years ago. He obtained his bodies from
the hospitals and induratcd them by i'm
prcgnation with mineral SALTS Medical
Press.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-30
rhfrtu Millions Of Cuoun.De,s

At Fredericksburg, Va, a place made
famous by great battle during the
civil war, a pickle factory has been
started. One of the spccialtics pro-
duccd by it is picked cucumbcrs. The
cucumbcrs are grown on the poor and
WORKOUT lands OF that section and the
ground must be heavily manurcd. The
cultivation of these vegetables appears
to be trivial affair, but it has grown to
be an important industry. The Rich
mond Wing gives the following i'm
portant particular of it: This season
the supply has reached so, 900, 900 GU
cumbcrs, those engaged in their pro-
duction furnishing from 200, 900 to
1000, 900 each. An acre will produce
100, 900, and they sell III Fredericksburg
at so cents per 1000. The object is to
ret them an inch or an inch and half
long, and this requires active picking
before they increase this size. A boy
will pick 5000 in day Picking them
thus carly increases the productivcness
of the vine, and, while the season lasts
others are appearing in place of those
taken from the vincs.-[Picayunc.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-30

ing across the sky tine other night, wonder
if it was not the same one that pointed down
to where Jesus lay i'll the Munger, and IL,
having pointed out his birthplace it has ever
since been wandering through the heavens,
watching to see how the world would treat
him. When Adam awoke III the garden in
the cool OF the day he saw coming out
through the dusk Of the evening the same
worlds that greeted us on Our way to church
tonight
In Independence Hall is an old cracked bell
that sounded the signature Of tile Declare
ton of Independence. You cannot ring it
now; but this great chime OF silver bells that
strike i'll tho dome Of night ring out with as
sweet tone as when God swung them at the
creation. Look up Mt night, and know that
the white lilies that bloom in all the hanging
gardens Of our King are century plants-not
blooming once in q hundred years, but
through all the centuries
The star at which the mariner looks to-
night was the light by which the ships of
Tarshish were guided across the Mediterra-
mean and the Venetian fiotilla found its why
into Lepanto. Their arntor is rs bright to-
night rs when, in ancient battle, the stars in
their courses fought against Sisera. TO the
ancients the stars were symbols Of eternity.
But here the figure of my text breaks
down-not in defeat, but in the maiesties OF
the Judgment. The stars shall not shine for
ever. lno DlplC oitJo rblIcy SHdtl luil linz
autumnal leaves 1t is almost impossible for
q man to take in a courser going q mile in
three minutes; but God hall-take in the.
worlds, flying hundred thousand miles an
hour, by one pull OF his little finger. AS,
when the factory band slips ut nightfall
from tho main wheel, all tho smaller wheels
slacken their speed, and with slower and
slower motion they turn Until they
come to full STOP SO this great
machinery OF the universe, wheel within
wheel. making revolution OF appalling speed.
SHALL by tho touch of Coils handslip tho band
of present law and s!acken and stop. That
IS what will be the matter with the mount.
tains. The chariot in which they ride shall
halt so suddenly that tho Kings shall be
thrown ont. Star after star Shall be carried
out to burial amid funeral torches and burn
ing worlds Consultations shall throw ashes
on their heads, and all up and down the
highways of space there shall be mourning,
mourning, mourning, because the worlds are
dead. But the Christian workers shall
never quit their thrones-they shall reign
forever and ever II, by some invasion
from hell, the attempt were made to carry
them off into captivity from heaven, the
souls they have saved would rally for
their defense, and all the angels of God
would strike with their scepters, and tie re.
deemel, on white horses OF victory, would
ride down the foe, and all the steep OF the
sky would resound with the crash OF the
overwhelmed cohorts tumbled headlong out
If hpnyen
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-30
1'upc of american Beauty.

When the people OF the United States
shall be deprived Of the constant influx
of foreign blood from Europe, til y will
finally dcvclopc into Il fixed and regular
American type. This popularity will
have as its distinguishing characteristics
slcndcrncss OF, form, disposition to great
muscular activity, extreme nervous SEN
sitivcncss, remarkable quicHi5HHvvssss- Of in
tcllcctual apprehension and general
alcrtncss.
These arc to great extent the
characteristics of the American Indians,
and when the white race shall become
thoroughly localized in North America
it will conform to the type of the Indians
in their chiuf physical qualities That
the whites who have been in America
for a few generations have alrcsdy be-
gun to assume the Indian type of bodily
conliguation has repeatedly been rccos-
nizcd and declared by competent physi-
ologists and anatomists. The artists,
who arc ever alive to the pcculiaritics of
form, have not failed to notice that Il
certain slcndcrncss of figure has become
so far characteristic OF the Americans
that it has never been omitted in any
pictorial representations, and the typical
Yankee of the caricaturi;t as well as the
typical Southcrncr, is always shown as a
tall, slender, muscular, nervous person.
age. 1t may not be out of place to add
to the testimony Of the Psychologist and
the artist on these points that OF the
commercial man, which is fully cor
roboratiyc OF their observation. An i'm
porter OF French and German gloves
said to the writer that such articles in
tended for the American trade had TO be
manufactured expressly because the
hands of the Americans are longer in
proportion to breadth than those Of the
typical French and German people, and
the fingers as a rule arc longer and more
slender.
Enough has been said to show that
there will one day be characteristic
type OF form for the American people,
and that there will in consequence be a
type Of American beauty. Already the
American women arc being recognized
as the most beautiful in the world. The
uncrowncd queens and untitled priuccsscs
from the United States arc by the force
of their charms rapidly winning titles
and social supremacy among the old
world aristocracy. But the American
women arc only in the infancy OF their
reign in the realms of beauty. They arc
to have their charms recognized through
out the civilized world as the queen Of
loneliness, and what tho Egyptian
women were to the world for many
centuries ., 900 to 5000 years ago the
American women will be in the future.
-rPicayunc
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.


BUNKER Hill. DAY was observed ut Bos-
ton with two civic parallels. The exchanges
were closed and mercantile business was sus-
pended.
FIRE destroyed the town OF Dubois, Ponn.,
rendering 5000 people homeless and causing
q loss of about Sl,0O0,000 Over three hun
dred houses were burned and an area a milo
long by half-mile wide was laid in ruins.
ONE of the most destructive fires ever eN-
perienced i'll Connecticut visited Danbury
and laid waste twenty acres in tile heart OF
the city, causing loss of over Sl'5 0)o.
THE New Hampshire State Prohibition
Convention met ut Concord. DIR. Edgar l..
Carr of Pittstield was nominated for Gov
eInor.
TIE twenty-flrst annual convention of tho
Railway Master Mechanics Association, OF
the United States llnS been held at Alexandria
Bay II. Y. Over 200 members were present.
MINNIE GOODWIN. fifteen years old, at
tempted to start q fire with kerosene 1T
Sharon, Penn. The can exploded, scatter
ing the contents oYer her Clothes and tue
girl was burned to death.
CAPTAIN W. a. ANDREWS has sailed from
Boston on perilous voyage which no pro
poses to make across the Atlantic in twelve.
foot dory named the Dark Secret"
THREE workmen were killed in New York
city by the caving in of a trench dug for gas
mains.
CAPTAIN LINDEN, of Pinkerton's detective
force, las arrested Express Agent Huber, OF
Sunbrrg, Penn, for STEALING so .GJO from
the Adams Express Company, August 20,
1856. The money was shipped from Phila.
delphin to Sliamokin t, pay the employees OF
tie Mineral Mining Company. The money
was found in Hubers house, behind the par.or
mantle. Eleven thousand dollars was miss
ing, and what WINS left had not been taken
from the original packages.
PAUL WIrrr. of New York city, aged
ten. because lie feared that he would get
whipping from his father, took rat poison
and died in great agony.
The Centennial anniversary of the ratifl-
cation OF the Constitution of the United
States by the State of New Hampshire has
Icen imrosingy celebrated at Concord.
THREE men were killed By railway coli3
sion Mt Schuykill Haven Penn.
FOUR boys were drowned while bathing Ill
the canal at Roxborough, Fem.
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South and West.

FOUR men were copsized in a salboat on
Lake Linden, Mich. and two OF them
drowned, after hours Of suffering.
BENJAMIN r. O. HUBBARD has died at
Joliet tlll.) prison. lie was the cashier Of
the First National Bank of Monmouth, Ill,
which his shortage OF Sll5,00J wrecked in
1885.
Two mon were killed and si:, injured at
Brentwood, w. Va, by an explosion OF dyna-
mite. e
TIE steamer Bertha sprung lelk OF tleS
California coast, and gale coming up az tho,
same time fourteen out OF tho crew OF niile-
teen persisted.
WM H. GRAIN was renonlinatod fer Con
rress by the Democratic Convention OF the
Seventh Texas district.
THE engineer fireman ami conductor Of q
freight train were killed at Cumberland, Nd,
by the explosion of the locomotive.
WILLIAM PATTERSON. co!ored., has been
hanged at Louisville Ky, for the murder
Of Jennie Bowman, a servant girl, who re-
sisted his attempt at robbery.