Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-15
A Fifty NOTE.
How it Brought Joy to a woman's Heart
and Tears To- Her Eyes.

Twenty-Five years ago a pretty curly
haired English girl, the daughter of well
to- do mechanic, made foolish marriage
with a scatter Drained, dissipated fellow,
and came from an inland city to try new
fortune In the east.
Children came and sickness and trouble.
When she had been married ten years the
| woman enc evening took a basket and
went quietly out of her poor roo1s. She
TUNED into a little street and tlmidly
approached the basement door of d house
Twice she turned back; she had never
begged, but the children were dying at
home. When at last she Tang the bell the
door was opened 10y ii kindiy-iooking
woman.
You don't look used to this life," was
her comment.
Then the tears came and the sad story
was told. The woman who heard it ex-
press d her symp lthy by giving A warm
supper and a cup of tea and food to take
home to the children.
Come again when you have need, =" she
told the mother.
This WAS the darkest hour. The En-.
glish woman had once been tidy dress
| maker, and she Was glad to sew, wash,
iron and scrub whenever work was to be
mad. But it was always struggle with
debts, sickness and anxiety. No word
came from her old home. She thought
the marriage that lowered the family
mad never been forgiven, and she would
not write and say that she was in tr0u-
ble. She never went home, because when
one is poor, hundred or two miles dis
tslnce might as well be around the world.
| 50 went Il quarter Of a century.
ftor CHI hlh la
work at the house of woman who had
befrienGed her, an unexpected visitor ar
rived at her home. ihls was her older
Urother, who once had hoped never TO lay
eyes on her again.
What he thought Of the surroundings
he kept to himself, but he sent the scatter
Drained husband to the house OF his sisters
employer with message that he had
come, and with $50.
Its not only the money, she told
her employer, though now | can pay
what we owe, 'but it's my brother, my
brothers come to me after these twenty
five years" And she dropped the needle
and cried, but they were happy tears.
Character.
"The poyp is the true builde of char
acter; for character is made up of little
Grafton of little things-sanctihed atoms
to the service of cur divine Master. That
is AL That God requires OF any one or US,
the surrender of our little things to Him
self, the fuflIment of little duties, the
CONQUEST of little SINS. We wait for some
great experience or some large opportu-
NIFTY. We look for some extraordinary
demand upon our time, OGr strength or
our feelings. Inevitably we are dIsap-
DO nted. 1t is not some great thing
that the Master bids US do, but a little
thing. None of US have any great thing
to give him. Ii, however, we give
him the little things he will accept
them, and with his blessing make them
great.
Can polyp build an island? No. Yet
without him no smallest coral island was
ever made. As each little animal indus
triousiy secretes his grain OF limestone,
the Creator controls al! until there arise
from the deep vast continent. So from
the little atoms Of our effort, weak
ond laundering as we are. God will raise
a new world, wherein the redeemed
shall dwell for eyermore.-Geo. d. Hub
bard.
He Was Diplomatic.
Mrs. Minks - Why didn't you come
home to dinner?
Small SOM had my dinner, ma. |
took my diuner with Willie Winks.
did Mrs. Winks invite you?'
Yes, ma. ] smelled apple dumplings
and | told her liked apple
awful
"Oh, you didI' 60.
'.Yes'm. Then she said maybe if l
went home I'd find you had apple dump
Lines for dinner, too.
''Humph!"
Eyes m. But | tod her yours was al
vars so heavy pa wouldn't let me eat any.
an then she invited Inc IN sat down.
Fahrenheit at first used alcohol In
making his thermometers. he was led to
1se mercury after experimenting with
polling water.