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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09
SOME DAY OF DAYS.

Some day, some day of days. treading the
street
With idle, needless pace,
Unlocking for such grace
l shall behold your face.
Some day some day of days thus may We
meet
Perchance the sun may shine from skies OF
May.
Or winters icy chill
Touch lightly vale and hill;
What matter? / shall thrill
Through every vein with summer on that day.
Once more Hfe's perfect youth will all come
back,
And for a moment there
I shall stand fresh and fair
And drop the garment care;
Once more my perfect youth shall nothing
lack.
I shut my eyes now, thinking how twill be,
How; face to face each soul
Will slip Its long control,
Forget the dismal dole
OF dreary fates dark separating sea.
And glance to glance and hand to hand in
greeting,
The past with all its fears.
Its silence and its tears.
Its lonely yearning years,
Shall vanish in the moment of that meeting.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09

one and pretty one, e5tC.us up 70 rahe as
heart. There 5, you mark me, and it's Miss
Letters new millinery prentice"
Jane laughed.
"Phneas is his own master" she said
And no more. MOI one word more would
she say on the subject; not one word more
would she hear. Mrs Freeman, in her med
dleSome solicitude felt that she had
wasted visit. Jane always was queer soul
good enough ard kind enough, too, in her
way, but as proud as Lucifer, and nothing
70 be proud of.
Poor Jane Herring! Her pride did not
prevent her shedding a few tears by her
lonely ireside that night. This was not the
first. time that Mrs. Freeman had tried to
introduce this subject. but it was the first
time trat she hal had so much to say
Was it the piano? Jane rose from her low
chair before the fire and went to the corner
in which the instrument stood Truly her
mother had taught her to expect great
things by reason of this rare possession
Truly, a younger woman, she had
thought her station above that of her neigh
bors in this remote and tiny village. And
when Phineas had stood there, on that very
hearth. and had laid his simple love before
her this pride, this feeling of superiority,
had seemed to stand substantially between
them
Was it the piano? Looking back over the
years-the long and lonely twenty years
since that day, there seemed, indeed. to
have been no other obstacle. She could re-
member the thrill of pleasure the knowl-
edge Of his honest love had brought her;
she could remember, too. the pang 1t had
cost her to send him from her. Her mother
had assured her there would be plenty, in
a better station of life who would seek her
hand She had waited for these SWANS,
waited through twenty years OF loneliness,
and they had never come.
She had seen Phineas often enough since
then She had watched him through the
sick stages of his disappointment. had noted
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09
A BOYS VIEW OF 1T.

Mother, she's always a-sayin', she Is
Boys must be looked after-got to be strict!"
When l tear my breeches like Billy tears his,
II helps EN- considerable when I am licked
But 1t amt climbin' over the fence or the
Its jest thai same lickin' at tears 'em the
most!
There's Jimmy Johnson-got lost on the road 4:
Daddy wuZ drivin' to market one day
Fell out the wagon, an nobody knowed
Till they come to a halt. and his daddy said:
Hey!
Wonder where Jimmy Is gone to? But Jim
Warn't no two bosses could keep up with him
Jest kept a-gcin an got to a place
Put on red brooches an painted his face
An then went right uacH IL mis- oaddys Own
An what do you reckon His folks didn't
know
But paid TO see Jimmy that night at the show,
An there's Billy Jenkins! He jest run away.
Folks at his house wuzn't treatin' him right
Went to the place where the red Inju17 say
An once-when his daddy wuz travelin' a,
night
An the Iniuns got after hfrn-holIerin' loud
Bill run to his rescue an scalped the whole
crowd,
Amt no use falkin'-boys don't have show!
Wuzn't fer people a-keeping EN- down
Jest amt no tellin' how fast they would grow
Bet you they'd fool everybody in town,
But folks keep a-lickin' an lickn' 'em SO,
They're too busy hollerin 10 git up an grow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09

Then, as Dick pulled over a chair for
himself, she spread the slip Of paper on her
knee, and slowly passed one finger down the
line Of words.
Paris. Nice, Naples, Rome and then
Cairo and the Nile Then, in the spring
time back to Venice, and with the summer
past Italy's blue lakes away to Switzerland
Afterward, when the autumn comes back
to Meynell Hurst your home-our home
where we shall be like the people in old
fashioned story books, and live happy ever
after
please God! my darling" muttered
Meynell under his mustache.
Dick" she asked, irreleventIy "do you
think it awfully wicked of me to want to
be happy? Not want in a casual fashion
you know, but crave, desire, yearn for
happiness with every throb of my heart
and nerve of my body. wonder if it's very
wrong"
And he, remembering the tragedy of her
past life, on which even at that moment
the curtain was only just falling, smiled
tenderly as he said:
Lydia, you cannot possibly wish for all
the happiness that is owed you"
She lid not answer directly, but lifting
the piece of paper from her lap, she scanned
it. with drawn brows and puckered mouth.
Presently she dropped it with a sigh.
"Dick, if l could be happy-absoIutely
entirely happy, just for so long as our
journeyings are to last, l think l should
die content. Oh! don't look so shocked, -
she cried, stretching pretty, pleading hands
out to him. 81 do not want to debut !
am afraid to wish to live. An dearest
you would understand me better il you
knew what the word life has meant TO me. "
She rose from her seat, and crossing the
fur rug sank down at Dick Meynell's feet
and pillowed her fair head on his knee.
81 want to tell you, Dick, for the first
time, for the last time, what my past life
has been 70 me. Do not stop me; feel
must speak of it before l bury 1t out Of
sight. out of remembrance forever"
She took his hand in hers, and as she
spoke on patted and smOOthed and kissed
1t as loving women will.
q was unwelcome when l was born.
My father and mother openly avowed
their dislike for children, and neither ever
forsave the other for the addition to their
family. In those days they were rich, but
l was left 10 servants and governesses,
who treated me as they pleased. l was
fourteen and my parents were almost
strangers to me when the financial crash
came which dragged my fathers name,
with scores of others, through the mire
Of all England Poverty and the narrow
ness of our new home brought me for
the first time into daily and hourly con-
tact with my parents. Oh! Dick, it was
shaneful-terribIe to live with two people
who never net without reproaches, scorn
and contempt; who never parted without
tears and oaths. One day. wonder
whether anything-even your love-will
wipe out that hideous recollection-my
father struck my mother. That night she
left him"
Like a frightened child, pale checked and
trembling, Lydia chung TO her lover.
Darling, I beseech you not TO distress
yourself by recalling the wretched past, >"
he cried.
But she persisted, saying it " for the
last time, forever.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09

next morning. Down the little street she
, passed. looking neither to the right nor to
,. the left. The pride Of which her NEG hbor:
had accused her certainly forbade her t.
ask their pity, sorely though she needed it
now.
Mr.. Meade, the auctioneer. who haf
known Jane Herring many years. was mos
| kindly sympathetic and promised to do his
| best to get her good price for the piano
even adding that ne would buy it himse-t
| rather than let her lose by the sale
| Then she went home again. It gave her q"
strange pang tn enter this little house in
which so many of her years had been spent
but there had been some comfort in tn
kindness and sympathy of Mr.. Meade. ana
Jane did her best to be quiet and brave.
All through the bright day she bore up
doing the LITTLE duties which were wont To
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09
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II allus SAID you was a bit purse-proud,
Jane Herring, and having known you from
the cradle, so TO speak. I make so bold as
to say 1t again"
at the tall, somewhat gaunt woman be-
fore her. Certainly the purse-pride OF
which she spoke was not noticeable in
Jane Herrings personal appearance. Moth
ing could be palmer or more homely than
her dress, nor, in fact, than her whole
surroundings. She stood before her guest,
locking down at the fire thoughtfully. Her
sallow face, despite It's habitual melan-
choly Of expression, was not unpleesing;
and there was a wonderful sweetness about
her grave gray eyes, and in her voice, as
she answered:
You have no call to say I'm purse
proud Mrs. Freeman / only like to keep
my station.
And what's your station, gal? What
your mother used to din in your ears years
ago tellin' you you was too good for this
an that. Just a matter O. having a pianer
over an above other folks, and lot better
you are for it!'
Jane Herring turned instinctively to the
old instrument in the corner by the Win
dow It's ancient rosewood case shone with
much polishing; it looked quantity out OF
place In that homely kitchen.
IT'S not only the piano" she said,
quietly. Its the education that goes with
1t. and being able to play 1t, and-and
that"
Eddication-boshr remarked her guest,
somewhat rudely. TITS just the pianer,
and all the village knows It,"
Well" she went on after pause, as
Jane made no reply, twas just this l
came round to speak to we about, Jane.
You might have been a happy wife be-noW
but for that-now mightn't you?"
dark flush spread very slowly over
Tapa GaIIow she nut her
hand nervously to her forehead.
DON'T" she said huskily.
But you might" persisted the elder
woman, disregarding her evident discom-
future. Here you are, woman OF six and
thirty, Twin alone and miserable. so to
speak when you might ha' been the wife
of good man"
"Oh, please-please, that's all past and
done with Mrs PERMANENTLY do you
speak of it?'
"Phneas Balm wasn't good enough for
you. The Balms hadn't a paner, eli?
Jane turned to her angrily. She was very
rarely reused bus her words came quickly
now, and the hot flush was still upon Ter
face
You have no right TO speak of such
things" che cried. ''No one is concerned in
that but me. l want no one to live with me,
I ask no one to help me. l might refuse
every man in the place if l liked"
But it i'll becomes you. Don't you know
how it angered all the folks about when you
said no to Phineas? She thinks herself too
good for him, they said Now, Jane"
why do you say this? Why bring up the
past at all? Hsve l offended you in any
way. Mrs. Freeman"
mo came in your interests so t.
speak Jane, becauGe I've got eyes and ears.
and | can see what's going forward. Phneas
Balm was hare nit for you twenty year ago,
and It's my bel eli ne would have you yet
but for your nride. But" she added. mys-
teriously there's another woman, a young
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09
THE GAME OF CRIBBAGE.

Oh. the days that I played cribbage
Along with little Sue,
When I was fifteen years of age
And she was fifteen, too.
I bought my love a cribbage board
Enriched with gilt and pearl;
l sacrificed my scanty hoard
To win that little girl.
And 10! another took a hand
Before our game was done,
When | and Sue were twenty-five,
And he pesged thirty-one.
All. me! all. me! that it should be
I felt that it was hard
When he who pegged ahead of me
Laid down The final card.
MY love held only fushes now,
Ny rival quickly won;
And one dark day | learned that they
Had made a double run.
And one dark day a GOODNESS lay
Beneath my vital rib;
He sold my cribbage board away
To buy my love crib.
Oh. the days that she's played crib-age,
My love with silver hair;
While |. alas. in my old age,
Am playing still solitaire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09
DYSPEPTIC ORANGES.
Curious Disease Caused by Excessfv
Culfure and ..OXer-Ee edinE.V

Curious Disease Caused by Excessive
Culture and "Over-Feeding."
A mysterious disease which has attacked
many orange trees in Florida has been dis
covered to be indigestion. The Departmel:
of Agriculture in it's Year Book" pays spe-
cial attention to dyspeptic oranges. and
describes the disease and its cure. It's cause
is the same as that which so often brings
on disease in human beings-overfeeding.
Excessive cultivation end too much nitro
genous manure affect the orange tree just
as too much heavy table d'hote dinners af-
feet a man. ms. ead of looking pale and
taking pepsIn tablets, however, the orange
tree turns a very dark green, and a red
dish brown sap exudes from the twigs.
The tips turn up and shape themselves
into S-like curves. The fruit turns a
lemon yellow color before it is half ripe,
and has very thick rind. AS it ripens, the
fruit sDIits open and becomes worthless.
The reddish brown resin gets on the fruit
before it is ripe and renders it unstable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09
NUGGETS.

Poor is the friendless master of a world
Young.
one genius has made many clever artists
Martial.
History is biography on a large scale.-La-
MARITIME.
What's more miserable than discontent!-
Shakespeare.
Nothing IS so atrocious as fancy without
taste.-Goethe.
When all else is lost. the future still re-
mains.-Bovee.
Every one that fatters thee IS no friend In
misery.-De Foe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09

President Cleveland has directed the pre-
,entation of a pair Of binocular glasses to
CAPTAIN Norton Alexander of the steamship
Mexican in recognition of his humane ser.
vices in rescuing the captain and crew o.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09

W. H. Mozsman of Chicopee, Mass. is max
ing heroic life-slze statue OF genera Grant
for the Union League Club Of Providence. in
front of whose house it will be raised. The
statue. with the pedestal, will be thirty-two
fset high and will cost $50, COG.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09

The human b-~rt / heaven; Ae more
angels the mo- room-Fe :dr!ks Bremen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09

Conversation Is an art in which man has
all mankind for experimentation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09

one and a pretty one, setC.uS up 70 LAne LIS
heart. There 5, you mark me, and it's Miss
Letters new millinery prentice"
The broad ax., 1896-12-12
MARK HANNA.

That man, Hanna, is spoken of
as a suitable person to fill the sec
retaryship of the treasury.
God save our country from such
an affiiction! He has not one
single qualification for such an
Office; but, on the contrary, he is
every way Objectionable. He stands
at the head of the plutocracy. If
he were to recommend revenue
laws, would it not be with refer
ence to the claims of bounties for
the rich manufacturers, to whom
he has pledged himself and princi-
pal?
His chief qualification and only
one is to raise Doodle for the con-
Quoting Of a political campaign.
The broad ax., 1896-12-12
PRESIDENT cLEvELAND,s
MESSAGE.

TIE annual message of President
Cleveland. of the 7th inst, show,
that our country rs q whole IS In
pretty good condition considering
the business depression which ha,
hung over it for the last three
years.
He fully recognizes the ability Of
the people to govern themselves.
Speaking of the heated contest in
the late election, he says: "When
we consider these incidents and
contemplate the peaceful obedience
and manly submission which have
succeeded q heated clash of political
opinions, We discover abundant evil
dence of q determination on the
part of our countrymen to abide by
every verdict of the popular will,
and to be controlled at all times BY
an abiding faith in the agencies es-
tablished for the direction of the
affairs Of their government"
He could have said nothing else,
for q democracy means an abiding
faith in the popular viii.
His treatment of the Spain and
Cuba controversy is in every way
conservative yet firm and to the
point. While he does not favor any
rash or hasty interference by the
United States in the Cuban affairs,
yet he thinks that the United States
ought to do something in the way
of saving Cuba from q complete de-
struction unless the controversy is
brought to a speedy settlement.
The suggestions which he makes
IN the way OF curing some of the
evils of our financial system en-
tailed upon US by the civil war;
the recommendations in the way of
Legislation for q better controlling
of the trusts and monopolies, and
his earnest appeal for economy in
governmental affairs meets, no
doubt, the appreciation of every
good citizen.
The broad ax., 1896-12-12
M'KlNLEY LAW AND WILSON
LAW,

TIE Republicans pirate about the
Wilson law being free-trade meas
ure and that that is the cause of
the loss In revenue.
Let US see if the statement is true
by comparing the figures of the
revenue derived in 1894 under the
Mckinley law and the revenue de-
rived in 1895 and 1896, under the
Wilson law.
In 1894 Mckinley imports,
1886, 6l4,42O.25; duty paid, sl2s-
S8l, $3.50; equal to POPS per
cent.
In 1895 Wilson imports, $751;
l62,O90.SO; duty paid Sl47,9 :
2lS.29; equal to 2O.2S per cent.
In 1896 Wilson imports, $780,
694, 084.49; duty paid Sl56. lO4,-
59S.Sl; equal to 81 per cent.
From this We see that the duty
paid on imports under the McKin-
ley tariff was POI per cent, and that
it has increased under the Wilson
tariff to 81 per cent.
Our revenue under the Wilson
law increased from $l28,OOO, 900
to $lT, 100000 in 1895 and in
1896, to $l56,OOO,OO Thus
showing Al increase of over &c.
600, 900 the first year, and in the
second year 100000.
Crack these nuts you Republican
sore heads.
The broad ax., 1896-12-12
SALT LAKE THEATER.

A GRAND free entertainment viii
be rendered to all the old folks Of
this city and vicinity at the above
named theater, on next Tuesday af-
ternoon, Dec. Is, commencing at 2
| p. m. The Old Folks committee
takes great pleasure in announcing
thst through the kindness of Mr..
Warrington, manager of the Old
Homestead Company, they are en-
abled to offer all the old folks,
white or black, an opportunity to
witness q rendition of the cele-
brated play, entitled "The Old
Homestead" All old folks wear
ing their badges will be transported
free to and from the theater by
both street-car lines. The commit
tee on arrangements consists of the
following well known gentlemen:
VIM. B. Preston, George Goddard,
C. R. Savage, VIM. Eddington,
VIM. Naylor, W. L. Binder, John
Kirkman, Nelson A. Empey, An
drew Jensen, B. S. Young.
Tickets will be issued from Bish-
op Preston's Office on Monday, De-
cember 18th, from 9 to IL a. m.
and 2 to 5 p. m.
The broad ax., 1896-12-12

Nothing could be Airer, mere philanthropic
or carry more JOY in its wake than the offer Of
i. A. Slocum, NJ. c.. Of 90 Pine street. New
York City.
Confident that he has discovered an absolute
cure for consumption and all pulmonary COM
plants, and TO make its great merits known, he
viii send, free, three bottles 1.-THE Slocum new
system Of medicine) to any reader Of the BROAD
Ak, who IS suffering from chest, throat and lung
troubles or consumption.
He invites those DESTROYS of obtaining the
remedies to simply send him their express and
postofice address. and receive in return the
three free bottles.
Already this new scientific course of medi-
cine has permanently cured thousands Of ap-
Parently hopeless cases.
he considers it his religious duty-a duty
which he owes to humanity-to donate his infal-
ible cure.
Offered freely. apart from its inherent strength,
IS enough to commend il, and more 50 IS the
perfect confidence Of the great chemist making
the offer.
He has proved consumption to be a durable
disease beyond any doubt
There viii be no mistake in sending-the mis-
Jake VIII be in overlooking the Doctors gener-
Gus invitation He has on fle in his American
and European laboratories thousands Of testimo-
mails ofexperience from those cured. in all parts
Of the world.
Delays are dangerous: mail your address 10
l.. A. Slocum, NJ. C, % Pine street, New
YORK. and when writing the Doctor. please men,
uon reading this article in the BROAD Ak.
The broad ax., 1896-12-12
A BRIGHT BOY WANTED

An active. reliable boy in your
town can make big money each
week as agent for Penasyiveaia
Crit, the great family Newspaper.
Complete novel in separate PAM
phlet form with every issue. No
capital required. No risk. Papers
are sent for sale upon commission.
Unsold copies, il any, are return
able. An done on Saturday. Four
agents hustling now.
Write quick before somebody gets
ahead Of you. Carr PuBLisHrNs
WILLIAxsrokT, Pa.
The broad ax., 1896-12-12
CONSPIRACY sHUTn DOWN

TEE plant operated by the Ohio
Iron Works, at GAINESVILLE, was shut
down q week ago last Monday. II
Is one of the largest in the coun-
Try, and the only reason given fol
the shutdown was 'ta lack of or
ders."
Such Is not the reas1 n at ali; for
orr exports of manufactured goods
are increasing as they never have
before.
The real and only reason is that
the steel and iron pools which are
operating in fun force throughout
Ohio, have shut Il. and other mills
down. for the purpose of decreasing
the supply, lowering the market
and forcing up prices.
Let rs protect ourselves from
snch conspiracies.
The broad ax., 1896-12-12
CHIPS.

Ar Elizabeth Town, KY. the
silver Democratic committee, of the
10th Judicial district, recently
adopted q resolution barring "souud
money Democrats from taking part
in next springs primaries.
A resolution of such character
is unnecessary in this state, at least;
for we are not sorely afflicted with
that type Of abnormal Democracy.
The broad ax., 1896-12-12
BUSINESS OBITUARIES.

w. C. Duprey, hardware dealer,
of Waco, Texas, failed December
4th. The cause of the sudden COL
lapse was a severe attack of Re-
publican confidence"
Henry County Bank of Missou-
ri, assigned December 9Th. 1t lost
its breath because they couldn't
pump Republican confidence" in
to its lungs fast enough.
The dying declaration of the
Baxter Springs Bank, of Missouri,
on December 9Th, was: "Pm a
victim of Republican confidence"
Boston, November 28.-"The ex-
tensixe plant of the Roxbury Car
pet company has been shut down
for an indefinite period. The plant
is the largest of its kind in New
England, employing 1900 per-
sons"
"Con6d ence," of course, must
have been restored, or they would
not be doing so well up in that
prote cted region.
s. B. NEWMAN.
''76"
Oppoarrr Tu,-,.
The broad ax., 1896-12-12

SHOULD Mckinley select Hanna
as q member of the kitchen cabi-
net, Mark will have received his
first and highest degree, viz, K.
M.-Kitchen Mechanic.
The broad ax., 1896-12-12

Enron T2rLoR, of the Broad Az,
vas IN the camp this week stirring
up business for his paper. Brother
Hylor Is 8 rastler from away back.
-Esreka Denocraf.