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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
Breadth of the Golden Rule.

Ii there Is anything In the world which
man should guard against. it is the spir-
1t of intolerance, which on the least provo
cation insinuates itself into the mental
system until it becomes an active factor in
every thought. and guiding impulse in
every act of life. From religious stand
point. this characteristic is particularly
pernlclous, lnasmuch as it incites to bru-
tallty, misrepresentation and unchar-
itableness, which ranking as cardinal sins,
cannot be associated with d truly Christian
life. The bigot, the cynic, and skeptic
alike owe their existence to this moral va
grancy. Of these three, bigotry is by far
the worst. Purporting to be of a high
moral standard it is In truth the hotbed
wherein the germs of malice, deceit and
hypocrisy take root, and grinding oppres-
sion is nursed in security and health.
| The man of one belief as well as he who
has no charity for his fellow man, is also
nurtured there. The skeptic and the cynic
are, however, but natural outgrowths of this
condition of things. Standing aloof, they
see the chickering's hatreds and petty jeal-
ousles of the elect, and wonder, such being
the case, if any real good can come out Of
Israel. Such a condition of affairs is alto
gether wrong, but that to be most deplored
is the cause. Providence has designed
that man should serve God, in his own
manner; that he should have freedom In
his belief, and be respected in his opinions.
1t Is sacred prerogative, handed down to
him from time immemorial, and he who
encroaches upon that right, is himself the
greatest offender. Because one man pre-
fers daisies above all other flowers, or beer
as beverage, or beef as food, is it any
reason why all of the flowers, drink and
food In the world should be turned into
daisies, beer and beef? Not by any means.
So In a moral sphere, the tone, the posture
or the creed are of little moment when
compared with the earnestness of purpose
and honesty of heart. Perhaps in the
misty past, the eye of deity, seeing the
trouble which multiplicity of sects would
bring upon the children of men, Wrought
out that golden rule, which without hui
initiating church or creed, could bring to-
gether, in union and accord, the people of
every belief and cline.
do unto others as you would have
others do unto you, if lived up to, would
make every man law unto himself,
guardian of his own honor and self
respect. That law can never be fully
realized. People are too selfish, too cold
and callous of their fellows wants. Still,
we can imagine the magnifcence of the
design, grandeur of purpose, and beauty
OF the intent for as rest follows labor, and
sunshine, rain, so too, was this beautiful
law sent forth, as the benson of deity, to
gladden. and purify and soften the heart of
man.-Milwaukee Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
FARM, HOME And GARDEN
INCOMPETENCE.
NEW YORK JOURNAL.

think the words that are sweetest
Are the words that are never said:
And the moments that pass the fieetest
Are the last ones with the dead.
The thoughts that are truest and bravest,
Are the ones that are never expressed /;
And the tender love thou cravest
For fear is never confessed.
know the friends that are truest
Are those we see in our dreams:
Though We feel the one that is newest
Is very near what he seems.
The rose that is sweetest and fairest
Is the bud that is killed by the frost,
And the love that is dearest and fairest
Is the true love we have just lost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

tention. Let US suppose that the stellar
astronomers looked at England. do you
think they would see network ofrailways
joining mighty and populous cities, fur
nished with immense manufactures and
with countless institutions such would be
the England of to-day? But from the dis
lance at which these astronomers are stu
ated light takes eighteen thousand years
for its journey, and. therefore what they
would see would be England as it was
eighteen thousand years ago. To them
England would even now appear as a
country mainly covered with forests in
habited by bears and wolves and totally
free from any trace of civilization. This
illustration will at all events serve to con-
yey some conception of the distance at
which the outskirts of our visible universe
are plunged in the depths of space
ROBERT BALL.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
CRIME.

Mrs. ELLA G. WHITE, alias Mrs. Ella
C. Worth, has been arrested in Chicago
for forgery and taken to Elmira, n. Y,
for trial. She is charged with having
raised S25, 900 there on fraudulent notes,
and spent the money in speculation.
ELLSWORTH, Wis. = Wednesday even
ing, while James Marden was coming out
of his fathers barn, in the town of Trim
belle, he was waylaid by some unknown
party and robbed of about S400. The rob-
Der shot Marden through the arm, shatter-
ing the member badly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
a MISSING FAMILY.
John Morris Wife and Little Ones Fail to
Reach the End of Journey.

LITTLE Rock, Ark. The mysterious
disappearance of an entire family is re-
ported from YellvilIe John Morris, liv-
ing near Summerville, Mo-, sent his wife
and three children, aged 10, and years.
respectively. under the care of John
Graves, to Jasper, Ark. The party trav-
eled overland In wagon, and Graves re-
turned to Summerville and reported that
he had left Mrs. Morris and the children
at Jasper. When Morris himself reached
the town he found that his family had
never reached there. Murder and robbery
are suspected
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
KILLED A PATIENT.
A Victim of the Faith Cure Dies While
Waiting for Health.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 2-Mrs. James
Lythe, wife of wealthy farmer of Living
ston county, died at her home, yesterday,
from lack of medical attention. Mrs.
Lythe was believer in Christian science
and relied for her recovery upon faith
cure Her sister, Mrs White, wealthy
widow is dying, and she, too, will allow
no physician to see her, trusting, like her
sister to the faith cure. Both of the ladies
belonged to the holiness settlement
here, the leaders of which attended them
in their illdess. The holiness doctors
will be prosecuted for malpractice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
ADeserted St. Paul Wife Found

CHICAGO. Dec o.-A corning paper
SAYS month ago Mrs Dot Reed, of ST..
Paul, mysteriously disappeared from her
parents home She had be n deserted by
her husband who left her to aIope with an
actress. Yesterday her age mother, Mrs.
Richardson, came here and the missing
daughter was identified as young woman
who had been engaged two weeks ago as a
pianist in disrep utable house on Fourth
avenue. The mother freely forgave her
daughter, holding the husband responsible.
Mother and daughter left the city an hour
after their re11nion for ST Paul
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
A Pu1xIo.

Why grown men and women with matured re-
Elective powers should neglect their small ailments
is really puzzle Hosts of otherwise sensible
people thus bewilder conjecture. 1t is one Of
the things which, as the late lamented Lord Dun
dreary exclaimed, "no fellah can find out" Dis
eases grow faster than weeds, and, moreover,
beget one another. Incipient Indigestion, touch
of bilousness slight irregularity in the habit Of
body-what complex and serious bodily disturb
ance, not local, but general do these not beget,
disregardedf Battle and drive off the foe at the
first onset with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters SOW
ereign among preventives. constitution invigor-
ated circulation enriched, brain and stomach
tranquiized by this national medicine, becomes
well nigh invulnerable. The Bitters counterfeit
malaria, rheumatism and kidney complaint.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
FOREIGN.

PROF. ZDEKANER, leader of Russian
medical authorities, predicts an epidemic
of cholera In Russia.
THE Sultan of Turkey ha added to hi
harem French operate singer who re-
Gently appeared in Constantinople.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
Entitled to the Best.

All are entitled to the best that their
money will buy. so every family should
have. at once, bottle Of the best family
remedy. Syrup Of Figs, to cleanse the sys-
tenn when eostive or bilious. For sale in
60c and 81 bottles by all lie aiding druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

There is more Catarrh in this section Of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For great many
years Doctors pronounced it local disease.
and prescribed local remedies, and by con
stantly falling to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be constitutional disease, anc
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stitutional cure on the market. 1t Is taken
spoonful 1t acts directly upon the blood
and mucus surface of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address, F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Ia Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Of late years the number of women enter
ing the professions OF painting a, and seudp
Germany and Russia
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

THE Chief Of Police at Parsons, Pa,
while drunk, was recently killed by train
His widow has secured an award of s., 500
from the saloon-keeper who sold her hus-
band his last drink, and the saloon man
will nav.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
A California Rabbit Drive.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The rabbit scourge, which has reduced
such large tracts of land in Australia to
barrenness, is now threatening parts OF
California with similar effects. In Fresno
county, these vermin have become so
numerous and destructive to the farmers
that the wholesale destruction of them is
imperative 1t is estimated that five
rabbits consume as much as one sheep.
They are particularly fond of the grape
vines, fruit trees, corn and other grain.
A drive has been made by stretching fine
wire MEETINGS about three feet high and
seven miles in length, V-shaped, terinl-
mating at the smaller ends In circular
corral. One of the drives resulted In the
death of 12,0 900 rabbits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

A museum of religion, the GuiInet Muse
um, was inaugurated in Paris two weeks ago.
It is intended to facilitate the study Of an
Gent religions by means of pictures, objects
of worship and books.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

A lighted cigar in the hands of Peter
Uhe, while asleep at Canton, Ohio, set
fire to some paper and before he awak-
ened his little ten-year-old son died from
suffocation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
A Beautiful Picture Free.

For 2-cent stamp Ito pay postage and
wrapping) we will mail panel photograv
ure of our popular picture, kissing al
Seven, Seventeen and Seventy" Address
the makers of the great anti-bile remedy,
''Bile Beans" J. F. Smith & Co., st. Louis,
Missouri
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

These facts give us some notion of the
extraordinary extent to which great tele-
scopes increase the range of our vision
We are permitted by their aid to sound a
depth in space of one thousand times as
great as that to which the unaided eye
would enable us to penetrate. Above and
on each side and around us in every direc-
ton the range of our vision is increased a
thousand fold At first it might appear
that the extent of space accessible to our
telescopes would also be increased to one
thousand times the extent of naked eye
vision. This would, however, give very
inadequate conception of the truth. With
our unaided eyes we are able to see all the
objects around us which lie within GER
tain mighty globe of which our earth is a
centre. When we employ great telescopes
we can explore globe Of which the radius
has been enlarged one thousand fold
therefore the quantity of space that we
can examine in the two cases must be rep
resented by two globes, one which has a
diameter thousand times as great as the
other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

An earthquake awoke the inhabitants of
Alton Bay, n. H., at an early hour yester-
day morning Crockery was smashed and
windows broken by the shock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12
THE DEPTHS OF SPACE
How Our Conceptions Are Enlarged by
the Great Telescopes.
The Sphere We Search.
Our Vision Augmented a Thousand
Million Times by Our --latest
Lenses.

In discussing the extent of the visible
universe, 1t must always be borne in mind
that the farther a source of light Is from us
the fainter is the illumination which we re-
celve from 1t. Suppose that a star which
lies within the limit of naked-eye visibility
were somehow to be transposed to a
distance twice as great then the lustre of
the star would be reduced TO one-fourth of
It's original amount 1t would, therefore.
be of course invisible to the unaided eye.
but 1t could be easily perceived by teles-
cope. Indeed, the very word telescope
means an instrument for looking at objects
long way off, and the effect of the teles-
cope IS to reduce the apparent distance of
the object. Thus the binocular glass that
the mariner uses at sea has the seeming
effect of reducing distances to about one
third of their amount, so that If star were
carried off to three times its actual distance
from US it would still be shown as clearly
in binocular glass as it would
be seenby the unaided eye
when placed at its original
distance. A star just on the verge of max
ed-eye visibility would still remain within
the grasp of such an instrument even were
it three times as far away. The instru-
ment the astronomer uses must, however,
be much more powerful than that which
suffices for the mariner A telescope small
enough to be held In theshands would only
be competent to retain star within its ken
though the star was removed to distance
of ten miles as great as when it was just
visible with the unaided eye The large
instruments would be sufficiently powerful
to follow star even though it was remov-
ed to a distance of one hundred times as
great as that at which it could be just
glimpsed by an unaided eye, while the
greatest instruments of which our obser-
victories can boast would still hold every
lucid star in the heavens within view even
were those stars waited off one thousand
times as far as they are at present.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

There is nothing unless it be the sew
ing machine) that has ightened woman's
labor as much as Dobbins' Electric Soap,
constantly sold since 1854 Al grocers
have it. Have you made its acquaintance
Try it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

THERE is no possible objection to Cana
dams having flag if they want it, but the
wise man secures a horse before he buys a
saddle. Better first get a government of
their own
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

An ice palace, according to the Ameri-
can and Canadian style, is to be erected In
January at st. Petersburg.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

THE Sultan is $4,000 out by the visit
of Emperor William. But the Sultan
doesn't mind little thing like this; his
subjects have to pay in the end.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

We have been led to the belief that
among the more distant stars in the uni
verse there must be many which are fully
a thousand times as far from US as is Vega,
hence we arrive at the startling conception
that the light they emit has been on its
journey for $4,000 years before it reached
US When we look at these lights to-
night we are actually viewing them as they
were $4,000 years ago. In fact. those stars
might have totally vanished 1900 years
ago, though we and our descendants may
still see them glittering for another thou
sand years. At the moment of extinction
there was column of light on its way,
and until the whole of that column has
reached our system we receive no intima-
ton of the fact that the star from which it
came has ceased to twinkle.
We shall realize little more fully what
this reasoning involves if we suppose that
astronomers dwelt on such star and that
they had eyes and telescopes sufficiently
keen not only to discern our little earth,
but even to scrutinize its surface with at
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

God has given us to make our hearts
glad
How beautiful is the country: so unlike
the city. We can fully appreciate natures
work here while there we see only the
ior, for when our labor is ended calm. un-
broken sleep will kiss down our eyelids and
lure us INTO enchanted lands
Now let US stop by this flower bedecked
mound, with which the season has also
been trlf1Ing. We will think again of the
one Tor whom earth 5 sorrows have forever
ceased; whose sweet face lies hidden be-
neath the cruel sod. How placidly the
t lgi ones sleep on, dreaming. perhaps.
that loved ones ever guard the little he'd
and bring fresh flowers to bloom mon his
grave, till winter throws a white COVERING
o er the earth and hides the tiny mound
from US. Stop that stray tear. sad-aI-ad
mother. He is not dead, but gone before
Yet men must work and women must
weep, and little would our lives amonnt
to, If some severe pain would not awaken
us to our duty here below.
Notice that stately pine nodding It's
branches carelessly to the hurryinp wind
How stauneh and green its feathery crown.
Fill your apron with brown cones. deck
your hat with crimson rose ii ps, and make
a great, fragrant boquet of ferns and wild
flowers, and see how rested and refreshed
you will feel after your littlerarnble in the
beautiful woods. Do not let all this love-
Illness he all about You unappreciated
Great Water Power scheme.
transaction has just been consummated
which involves gigantic scheme to utilize
the water power of the great Kakabika
Falls. situated few miles from Port
Arthur, Ont. Deeds have been recorded by
which Thomas Marks, of Port Arthur. con-
veys TO DR.. A. NJ. Eastern, of st. Paul.
and h. J. Anderson, of Minneapolis. rep
resentatlves of a wealthy st. Paul. Min
neapolis and Philadelphia syndicate. the
property known as Kakabika Falls. con-
tanning 40 acres and the water rights to
the keministibuia River. The river there
Is $50 wide with a perpendicular fall of
100 feet and can be developed to furnish
100000 horse power. The new prospect
ors propose to build up at that point
Canadian Minneapolis. With this end in
view large tract of adjoining property
has been secured, which will give ample
space for large city. A large amount of
capital Is behind the scheme and it is pro-
posed to build Touring mills equal to those
of Minneapolis for grinding Manitoba
wheat, pulp and paper mills for utilizing
the poplar forest adjoining, reduction
works for turning the silver ore at the
nelghboring mines into bullion, blast
furnaces, saw mills and factories of all
descriptions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

THE society for the Prevention of Cruelty
Danish cats from the republic ON the
ground that they are killing off all the
birdC
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

las we finally learn that the amplitude
c. orr vision is augmented to one thousand
mi IN times its original extent by the use
Ct ~ur greatest telescopes. It need, there
fore be no matter for surprise that the
number of stars visible through our great
telescopes or recorded on the sensitive
films of Photographic plates should num-
Der scores of millions. In fact, it would
sometimes seem surprising that the num-
Der Of telescope stars is not even greater
than it actually appears to be. # we
are able to explore one thousand million
times as much space we might expect
that the number of objects disclosed would
be also increased about thousand million
fold, but this is certainly not the case.
The truth seems to be that our sun is but
one star of mighty cluster of stars; we
happen to lie near the middle Of the clus-
ter, and the rest of the stars belonging to it
form what we know as the milky Way. :"
There are, of course, other clusters scat
tered through the heavens, some Of them
perhaps as great as that body of stars
which form the milky Way" Owing to
our residence in this cluster we see the
neighboring suns in multitudes, and thus
we receive the impression that the solar
system lies in an exceptionally rich part of
the universe in as far as the distribution
Of stars is concerned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

On the outskirts of the universe lie those
faintest and dimmest objects which we can
Just perceive through our greatest teles-
copes. We know that many of the stars
around us would still remain visable In
great instruments even though they were
removed a thousand times as far off.
Among the myriads of faint stars which
we see from our own observator' es there
may be many, indeed there must be many
which are a thousand times as distant as
the bright stars which twinkle In our COM
parative neighborhord. We thus obtain
some conception of the stupendous dis
lance at which the outskirts of the uni
verse are situated There are different
ways of illustrating this point but / think
the simplest as well as the most striking
is that which is founded on the velocity of
light 1t is a remarkable fact that the
beautiful star known as Vega has dis
lance from us so tremendous that It's light
must have taken somewhere about eight
cen years to travel hither from thither.
Notwithstanding that the light dashes
along with such inconceivable speed that 1t
will cover 100 900 miles in every second,
Notwithstanding that a journey at this
pace will complete the entire circuit of the
globe seven or eight times between two
successive ticks of clock, the light will
nevertheless take eighteen years to reach
our eye from the time it leaves Vega. We
do not, therefore, see the star as it is at
present: we see it as it was eighteen years
ago. For the light which this evening
enters our eyes has been all that time on
its journey; indeed, is Vega were actually
to be blotted out from existence it would
still continue to shine out as wildly as ever
for eighteen years before all the light on
its way had reached us.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

THE Italian military engineers are build
ing Notifications on the top of Mount
Gents and the Alps near Nice in order to
prepare against French invasion of Italy
at those points; the works are being
pressed forward, as the military authori-
ties consider them urgent in view of sud
den changes liable to occur in France at