Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28


than it has thus far exerted.
IT is safe to predict that more blood will
be shed in Africa within the next ten
years than anywhere else in the civilized
world AS the natives begin to appreciate
the scope Of the plans of England, Ger
many, Belgium and other powers, the hos
tility now shown Is certain to increase
and collisions to grow more frequent. Of
course the blacks have no chance to ulti-
mate success, but their great numbers
their inherited disregard of human life
and the remoteness of the invaders-for
,uch they must be called-from supplies or
reinforcements, will serve to make the con-
test mere nearly equal that at first blush
seems possible This later carrying of the
war into Africa will have terrible issue.
TWENTY and two-tenths knots AN hour
for a straight four hours run is the unsur-
passed record of the Baltimore on her sec
ond official trial trip. While the exact
horse power developed has not yet been
computed it is known that il exceeds the
contract requirements In point of fact,
the power that developed such remarkable
speed scarcely needs computing. 1t is GER
tainly sufficient for any work which the
Baltimore will ever be called upon to do.
The remarkable performance of the Balti-
more demonstrates that if the United
States have not a very large navy they are
going to have good one. The vessels yet
to be built by the Cramps will certainly
not fall below the Baltimore IN point of
speed, and a few swift cruisers of this type
would, in case of war, have the commerce
of the world at their mercy. The Cramps
are to be congratulated on the magnificent
performance of the Baltimore and the
country on the possession of such a yes
sci. 1t places the one in the very front
rank of the worlds ship-builders and
makes the other a frst-class naval power
once more.
THE investigation resulting from the
contest over naturalization In Utah reveals
nothing as to the nature of the oath taken
by Mormons in the mysterious endowment
house which was not known before, but it
may serve to refresh the public interest in
the matter. The Mormon hierarchy is not
only an immoral and m-American-it is a
reasonable institution. There can be no
legislation directed at this dark and sinster
power within the limits of the Constitu
uon, too severe to be approved by the best
sentiment of the United States, and the
efforts to crush it should be taken up by
Congress, not as matter of partisanship,
but of self-preservatior If the church
continues its defiant and rebellious attitude
the time may come when the first law of
national life may call for even so extreme
a remedy as an organic constitutional
change to meet the emergency.
THE Philadelphia Times speaking of the
late renewal of the idea that the world is
coming to an end says: This idea of set
tied time calculated to definite limits, with
in which the natural order of things should
pe changed and even annihilated. Is more
important than it would at first sight APP
pear. At present in Philadelphia there
are about two hundred Adventists all told.
and their pellet, lost on account of its few
followers in the multitude of busy citizens,
does not work any appreciable effect on the
community at large. At one time, how
ever. the conditions were vastly different.
Every student ofmedieval history viii re-
call how the year 1000 was regarded in
Continental Europe; how the people. i'm
bued with the idea that the end of the
world was near at hand, changed the whole
fashion of their previous existence. After
the dread period had passed civili
cation, having undergone, if one may SO
term it, the delirium of fever, when
through a slow convalescence, which. In its
returning strength, brought about the
glorious Renaissance to Europe. 1t puri-
fed life, enlarged it and renewed it. The
Adventist idea, or rather its after
effect has been in the past a great factor
in shaping the life of even the present day.
1t accomplished its mission and thorough
ly At present it is AN insane and pitifu
hallucination.