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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.
Ex-Seeretary Of State Bayard Weds
Washington Belle.
Miss May Clymer Takes to Herself a
Husband.

WASHINGTON. Nov. THE marriage
of Hon. Thomas F. Bayard. ex-secretary
of state, and Miss May Clymer took place
at 1 o'clock this afternoon. For an event
of such social and official interest. the
ceremony was conducted with privacy
that left no room for ostentation and dis
play.
The scene of the ceremony twas the ely
mer residence, a square old fashioned
brick mansion. The rooms were decorated
with the usual abundance of ferns, grow
ing plants and blooming flowers. the
decorators best efforts being be-
slowed on the rear part of where the
adjacent to the hallway the invited guests
had assembled. Ex-President Cleveland
and Mrs. Cleveland were present and at
tracted great deal of attention as they
NODDED to or shook hands with many of
the company.
Miss Clymer entered the parlor on the
arm of her only brother, W. S. Clymer,
who gave the bride away. She was
dressed IN superb gown of white crepe
trimmed with jasmineS worn high in the
neck. Pearls were the only ornaments
There were no bridesmaids or other
tlUS1lOtdLUS, 1G6N. btOI86 w III. DOuSIdSS,
the new rector of St. Johns church, and
the successor of Bishop Leonard, of Ohio,
was the officiating clergyman. A wedding
breakfast and a reception followed the
ceremony.
Among the persons present were ex-
Secretary and Mrs. Fairchild, Mr. and
Mrs. Don. M. Dickinson, George L.
Rives, ex-assistant secretary of state and
e
groom. The Bayard family were rep
resented by Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. of
New Haven; Miss Bayard, Miss Florence
Bayard, Miss Ellen Bayard. Philip
|. Bryard, James Williams, Mr. and Mrs.
j. R. Nicholson, of Delaware; Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Warren, of Boston; Mrs S. D..
Warren and Fiske Warren, of Boston.
Mrs. Clymer, the mother of the bride, and
Miss Mary Clymer, after whom she was
named, a venerable lady, were the prin-
clple representatives of the Clymer
family.
The wedding presents which were dis
played In separate room, were numerous
and all of them costly. Some family heir
looms are among them.
Ex-Secretary Bayard is 60years of age
and has occupied a distinguished place in
national politics for a generation, having
been senator from Delaware several
times.
The bride is one of the leaders of Wash
ington society and is barely three years
older than Mr.. Bayard's eldest daughter.
She was very intimate with the first Mrs.
Bayard and was greatly saddened by her
death, coming soon after that of he
daughter, four years ago.
At the conclusion of the reception Mr.
and Mrs. Bayard left on their bridal tour
which will include trip to New York and
other places in the north They will prob
ably return to Washington for a Short
stay and then go to Wilmington, where
they will reside
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
Evidence of Immortality.

The evidences of spiritual existence are
wholly ignored by many because only mat
tiers can be tested by the sight of the eyes
or the touch of the hand, and audible sounds
alone impinge on the ear. And yet when
the nerves are quivering with pain, which
can neither be seen, touched or heard, the
sufferer has no doubt of its reality. Con-
sciousness is the strongest assurance any
one can have of the existence of that which
is thus recognized by the mind In fact it
is the only real proof of such existence, for
the organs of sense are but so many minis
tiers conveying intelligence to the recognize
ing power The knowledge which is OBJ
tanned without the use of these instrument
talities is of the very highest order, as there
is less liability to error, The servant may
be imperfectly constituted, or may furnish
false report; and we are often thus de-
ceived by our senses, even when they do
their best. But that which the mind per-
ceives by its own intuition is much freer
from doubt and is primary truth of the
first Importance.
The agnostic, who answer, 81 do not
know that | have a soul, : gives himself
away in the very first word of his favorite
creed. Who is the 81 of whom this is
affirmed? The question itself cannot be
discussed without multiplying in every SEN
tence the proof of the souls existence. The
infidel who affirms his unbelief In spirit
ual presence overthrows his theory at the
outset of his denial The--child who asks,
the agnostic who doubts, the infdel who
denies, and the believer who affirms, are
alike In their testimony to the truth of this
great reality If there was no soul there
would be no asking, no doubt. no denial,
no faith. It is the soul itself that questions
and argues, that repudiates or accepts the
given statement. When the lips utter the
pronoun in the first person 1t settles the
truth of the proposition for all time. The
man who says 81 distinguishes the
thought and the thinker alike from the
body which is its servant. Every one who
says MY hand My heart, My
brain, testifes that he is a living soul in
body that belongs to him. His acts, his
affections, his understanding, are so many
witnesses to him that he has spiritual
existence which forms no part of his body.
and which Is known as his soul.
The activity of the soul does not depend
on the wakefulness Of the body or any Of
its senses 1t is capable of indefinite ex-
pansion and perfectibility while the body
grows weak, becomes diseased and decays.
This is one argument for its Immortality.
The consciousness of this possession, and
the irradicable desire within it. for such
never ending existence is further strong
testimony In its favor. Thought travels to
the utmost conceivable limits of the uni
verse. 1t knows no boundaries to its
flight; it cannot, like the body. be restrict
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
GREELEY'S REPORT.
The Chief Signal Officer Performs His
DUTY.

WASHINGTON. d. c. - Gen. Greeley
chief signal officer. in his annual report
says that in the performance of the strict
military duties which by law devolve upon
him as chief signal officer he is seriously
embarrassed by the utter lack of facilities
for using or caring for field telegraph
trains or other signal equipments under
his charge; for practical training and drill
of officers and enlisted men of the signal
corps, and lastly to minor extent bv the
need of liberal appropriations under such
conditions that officers and men of this
service are gradually but surely retrograd-
ing as regards their military duties, and
at the end of the fiscal year the condition
OF signal instruction in the army is at the
lowest ebb 1t has ever known. He recon-
mends therefore either that instructions in
the art of military signaling be aban-
doned or ample material and moral support
be given the chief so as he may raise it to
a high standard of efficiency. Speaking
of weather forecasts Gen. Greeley calls at
tentlon to the fact that under the present
conditions the forecast officer can devote
barely half minute to all predictions
for any particular state district.
The percentages of successful forecasts
made by Prof. Marvin are, for the weather
64.4; temperature, 1873, with an average of
81. During the year ,066 storm signals
of all kinds were ordered, of which $50
were wholly and "a partly justified as to
velocity and 50 as to direction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

NINETEEN sailors have been drowned
by the wreck of the American ship Ericsson
on the northern coast of Japan.
from St. Ignace, Mich, for Erie, with a
crew of nine men and cargo of iron ore,
are believed to have been lost.
LoGANsPoRT, Indiana. = The family
of John Cassel, consisting of five per-
sons, and three guests, were poisoned
Sunday by eating cabbage sprinkled with
paris green. 1t i. feared that two or
three of them may die.
ST. PAUL.-About 10 o'clock Friday
night fire broke out In the fiour-mill of
the st. Paul Roller-Mill company on Sd
street near st. Peter and spread rapidly
The establishment was comparatively old
one, having been erected IN 1882 and
burned fast. Close by was the big elevator
of the same company, and the fire depart
ment was compelled to pay a good deal of
attention to it, although it was considered
fre-proof. The loss will reach 800, 600
PITTsBURG, VA terrible fire start
eu at 3 o'clock Thursday morning in
George H. Davis & Co.'S dry goods house
on Sycamore street, and spread with in
credible rapidity, burning down in a short
time the entire iron front block and the
adjoining properties. The flames leaped
across the street and destroyed the Odd
Fellows hall and FIVE or six other build
ings. Lieut.. Crichton, of the police force,
was in one of the burning buildings when
a wall fell in on him. He was burned to
death Half block ON each side of Syca-
more street, from Tabb street westward, Is
gone Total losses estimated at $500, 900;
insurance $3.50 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14

zenith of her glory under an Athenian
tyranny which had genius for excuse and
the citizens for accomplices. Civil dis
cords were extinguished, and with peace
the study of the fine arts and of letters was
awakened to surprising activity. But
!here We're other sides to the picture. The
intellectual advance was accompanied by
moral corruption The old love of civic
freedom was extinct. Unbelief. cynieism.
sensual1ty, and Indifference poisoned the
springs OF social life and infected the
sources of artistic genius. The cultured
crowd was devoid of principle. indifferent
to moral law. Selfish. dissolute, despisinq
Christianity as a sign of intellectual weak
ness. man aped the graces and initiated
the vices of the heather world. They were
at once profoundly superstitious and deenly
skeptlcal. Dreams, visions. and portenfs
ruled every detail of domestic life: learned
historians like Gucciardini declared them
selves to have had experience of aerial
spirits; philosophers like Ficino, lectured
from the professional chair on the occult
virtues of jewels and amulets. Lorenzo
de Medici was the leader and the repre-
sentative of this brilliant but hollow socie-
ty. His Cireean rule appealed to the taste
of the uncultured, while it graiifed the
senses of the vulgar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
THE CRYING BABY.
1t CouIdn' tie Soothed, for Its Mother
Was in the Baggage-Car.

1t was on Pennsylvania railroad train,
coming north from Washington, says the
New York Sun. All the passengers but
two in the sleeper had dosed off. The ex-
ceptions were young man and a baby.
The former was willing to follow the ex-
ample of the majority. but the latter object
ed in loud voice. It's cries awoke the
other passengers and some pretty strong
language was heard. The young man got
out of his berth and carried the baby up
and down the car trying to soothe it. But
the baby was ailing and fretful and its
voice would not be stilled. Finally a gray
headed man. who was evidently an old trav-
eler, stuck his head out from behind the
curtains and called to the young man in a
rather sharp voice:
See here, sir, why don t you take that
child to its mother. She will be able to
manage it much better than you. 1t evil
IDENTIFY wants its mother y
Yes, That's it, - echoed half dozen
other rritated passengers.
The young man continued to pace up and
down for moment, then said in quiet,
strained voice:
Its mother is In the baggage-car.
There was an instantaneous hush for a
moment. Presently the gray-headed man
stuck his head out into the aisle again.
Let me take it for awhile, he said,
softly; perhaps | can quiet it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
What Is Catarrh ?

Catarah is an inflammation of the mu-
cous membranes, and may affect the head,
throat, stomach, bowels or bladder. But
catarrh of the head is the most common,
often coming on so gradually that it has a
firm hold before the nature of the trouble
is suspected. Catarrh is caused by cold,
or succession of colds, combined with i'm
pure blood. It's local symptoms are
sense of fullness and heat in the forehead,
dryness in the nose and back part of the
throat, and disagreable discharge from
the nose. When the disease gains firm
hold on the system, it becomes chronic,
and is then exceedingly dangerous and
treacherous, liable to develop into con-
sumption.
Fortunate is it that we have In Hoods
Sarsaparilla the remedy for this ever In
creasing malady. 1t attacks at once the
source of the disease by purifying and en-
riching the blood, which In passing through
the delicate passages of the mucous men,
brane soothes and rebuilds the tissues,
giving them tendency to health instead of
disease, and ultimately curing the affec-
ton. At the same time Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla builds up the whole system and makes
one feel that he has taken new lease of
life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
CRIME.

WAsHINGTON.-Owe Anderson the 49,
year-old negro boy who outraged a IL
year-old white girl, was taken from the
jail at Leesburg, Va. and lynched. He
confessed his guilt.
TOLEDO, Ohio - Ex-Cashier E. H.
Van Hosen, of the Toledo National
Bank, has been arrested charged with
embezzling S58,0 900 of the banks funds
during his incumbency. John NJ. Mckee.
teller of the bank, was also arrested charg-
ed with embedding 81, 300.
BALTIMORE, Md. - The United States
grand jury has indicted eighteen
of the 124 Navassa rioters for murder and
being accessories before fact, the penalty
for which is death. Seven are charged as
being principals and eleven as having aid
ed and abetted murders. Thomas G..
Hayes, United States district attorney,
will ask for an Immediate trial.
PEORIA, Ill.-Thos. A. Vaughan. of
Lasayette, Ind, acting railway postal clerk
on the Lake Erie & Western road, has
been arrested, charged with robbing the
mails. Money taken from decoy letters
was found on his person, and he confessed
his guilt. The authorities are in posses
sion of evidence that Vaughan had been
carrying on systematic robbery of the
mails for months past. He is only 20 years
old, and has been in the service year and
a half
DETROIT, Mich.-A special from To-
ledo, Ohio, says: E. H. Vanhossen, a prom
inent church member and cashier of the
Toledo National Bank was arrested We'd
nesday evening charged with embezzling
about $50, 900 of the banks funds, J. NJ
Mckee, teller of the bank, is also under
arrest as an accomplice. 1t was charged
that the stealing was discovered a year ago.
but the affair was hushed up on the promise
to make good the loss. This they failed to
do and the prosecution was begun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
FOREIGN.

Mr.. GLADSTONE Is writing a paper on
1.-The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scrip
ture, to be published next year.
No WOMAN In Russia is to practice med
icine publicly In the future under forty
years of age.
The last session of parliament was COM
posed of 122 sittings. There were 8e545
speeches, the government using up 1926.
Gladstone made forty-two
OFFICIAL dispatches from Chakir.
Pasha, governor of Crete, assert that the
reports of outrages by the Turks in that
island are unfounded.
THE ST. Petersburg Svet says that China
Is arming her troops on the Russian from
tier with repeating rifles and that the sol
diers are being drilled by German officers.
THE Eiffel Tower Company has made a
final payment on the 100 francs per share
and reimbursed the shareholders. Hence
forth shareholders will take half the net
receipts during the twenty years the con-
cession runs.
3 THE ex-Empress-Eugenie is said to be
more than unusually firm this season, and
spends a great portion of her time In
silence and meditation, whether In her
home or visiting at the house of some
friends
MELBoURNE.-An Englishman and
three native boys were recently decoyed by
natives of the Solomon islands to one OF
their villages and murdered and eaten.
The captain of the British cruiser Royalist
on learning of this cannibalism went to
the scene and shelled the villages along the
cohst where the murders were committed
The natives escaped to the hills. 1t is re-
ported that other cases of cannibalism
have occurred on the islands.
LoNDoN.-The accounts of the horrors
of the electric wires in New York have ter
riied the Londoners and almost nullified
the efforts of the electric light companies
seeking to replace the gas lamps with
electric lights throughout the metropolis
Mr.. W. H. Preece, the electrician for the
postoffiee department. is foremost among
the opponents of an electric light system
and has publicly declared his conviction
that the maintenance of safe electric
light system In London is impossible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
WASHINGTON.
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR has been
given the name in Washington as The
Silent Man.

SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR has been
given the name in Washington as The
Silent Man.
WAsHINGToN.- president has
amended the civil service rules so as to
provide for filling vacancies in the railway
mail service, by certifying for each vacancy
the names of three persons having the
highest standing on examination, resident
In the counties on the line of railroad on
which the service is to be rendered.
IT is said at the state department that
eX-State Treasurer Burke, of Louisiana,
according to the information possessed
there, has not been indicted for an extra
ditable offense, therefore his extradition
has not been asked. One of the officers
said he had heard report that Burke was
on his way to Honduras, WHARF some
louisiana people. Burke among them, have
probably secured very valuable conces-
sions, mining and otherwise There is no
extradition treaty with Honduras.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Arthur c. Mel
lette, governor of Dakota territory, in his
annual report gives the number of filings
at United States land offices in Dakota
during the last year as follows: Pre-emp-
ton filings, 5,449; homestead, 3,787; tim
Der culture, 4,528; pre-emption proofs,
cash entries, 500; final homestead proofs,
$3.50; timber-culture proofs, 112. The
total area filed upon was 2,096, 900 acres,
against l 1893, l42 the preceding year. The
bulk of the present vacant land area,
about 19, 877, 237 acres, lies in the Bismarck
and Devils Lake district in North Dakota
and the Rapid City district in South Da-
kota, the amount still open for settlement
in the Bismarck district being nearly H.,
600 600 acres
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
The Decline of Judaism.

A large selection of the Christian Church,
mindful of the prophecy that the coming
of the Messiah is to be delayed until after
the conversion of the Jews, and aware that
the Hebrew. who en- accommodate himself
to all climates and conditions, makes
very good missionary, has taken it in literal
earnest, and is faithfully carrying out the
injunction to preach the Gospel first to the
Jew, and afterward to the Gentle. :"
The men who so act, and others who con-
tent themselves with approving of their
action, have gathered together to a three
days convention, which is now being held
at the Conference Hail, Mildmay. Some
hard words were used withregard to ''those
who did not see that the Jews were the
chosen missionaries of Cod" and it was
stated that "such Christians were treating
the Bible as if God did not mean what he
said" Consequent upon the labors of the
London Society for Promoting Christian
ity Among the Jews, and the mission In
connection with the work at Mildmay, and
Rev. j. Knenig of Hull, spirit of in
quiry had been awakened. and many of the
100, 900 Jews in London saw with dismay
the inroads which Christianity was making
among them.
In imitation Of the Christian, societies
for the promotion of Judaism had been
started, and it had been decided to elimin-
ate from the public prayers of the Jewish
community all references to sacrifice, >
while the teachers in the synagogue were
afraid to mention the name of Messiah.
Jewish converts were numerous, and their
number would be very speedily increased
were it not that so many Jews would lose
their daily bread if they changed their
religion. Rev. John Wilkinson said that
he was almost afraid to speak of Russia,
because the missionaries to the Jews had
met with so very much less opposition in
that country than had been expected. Fifty
New Testaments had been dis
tributed within the last few months
among the Russian Jews.-Pall Mall Ga
Zette
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
GRAVES OF THE APOSTLES.
All but That of st. John the Evangelist Are
Definitely Located.

All that now remains of the apostles of
Christ are in the following places: Seven
are in Rome namely: Peter, Philip,
James the Lesser, Jude, Bartholomew,
Matthias, and Simon Three are in the
kingdom of Naples: Matthew at Salerno,
Andrew at Amalf. and Thomas at Ortona.
One is in Spain, James the Greater, whose.
remains are at ST. Jago de Compostella.
OF the body of st. John the evangelist,
the remaining one of the twelve, there is
no knowledge. The evangelists Mark and
Luke are also buried in Italy-the former
at Venice and the latter at Padua.
st. Paul's remains are also believed to
be in Italy Peter is, of course, buried in
the church at Rome which bears his name,
as are also Simon and Jude.
James the Lesser's remains are in the
Church of the Holy Apostles; Barthol
omew's in the church ON the Island in the
Tiber which bears his name.
Matthias remains is said to be under
the great altar of the removed Basilica.
Little faith, however, is placed in the.
legend
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
Germany,s Educated Men.

The number of highly educated men in
Germany is increasing quite rapidly, de-
spite the growing public opinion that there
are already too many learned Germans.
In 1869, II ,631 students attended the uni
versities, technical high schools, and schools
of mines, agriculture and forestry. In
1872 the number had increased to 20,418;
in 1875, to q, PSI; in 1880, to 26,032, in
1885, to 81, 755; in 1888, 10 34,118.. In
nineteen years the total number Of students
has been almost doubled. In 1859 there
was but one student to every 2 297 inhabit
tants; in 1875, one to every ,028, in 1888,
one to every l, 400. in these figures, says a
German newspaper, lis a wholesome warn
ing for all who study at the higher institu-
lions of learning, and are still young
enough to forgo student life The same
paper speaks of the great overproduction
of learned men in Germany.-New York
SUM-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
KILLED IN THE JUNGLE.
DIR. Peters, the German Explorerin, Search
of Emin Bey.

ZANZIBAR ~ A report has reached
here that the Masais or Somalis
have murdered DIR. Peters, the German
explorer in charge of the Emin Bey relief
expedition and his entire party, except
one Somali and one European, who was
with the party, both Of whom are wounded
and are at Nyao. The latest that is known
about Dr. Peters, who started inland
from Vitu ON July 26, is that he reached
Korcorro, long way up the Taun river.
1t is not known whether the second
column, which left Vitu in September,
under Borchent and Rust, ever joined DR.
Peters advance party.
Dispatches to the Emin relief committee
confirm the report of the massacre of DIR.
Peters and his party. The European who
escaped is Lieut.. Tiedemann a companion
of DIR. Peters, who was wounded.