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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-13
WORK AND MORALITY.
Have no Necessary Connection, Ac-
cording to Historical Evidence.

The capacity for methodical work"
writes William FerTero in the Novem-
Der Forum, lis the very essence OF
morality" The assertion is nonsense.
Had Napoleon no capacity for meth
odical work, or do the annals Of man
kind know a more immoral man? Had
Frederick of Prussia no capacity for
meshodical work? Yet if the conquest
of Silesia was a moral" performance,
we must assign a new meaning to the
word. 1t is at least as true to say that
the capacity for methndical work is
the very essence of immortality. The
sentence would be an unmeaning one,
but no whit more devoid of meaning
than it's opposite. The greatest work
in every field of human effort, from war
and conquest to art and letters, has
been performed by men and women
capable of meth0dical work; but if we
are to pronounce the actual lives of
most of them moral lives we must first
formulate a scheme of morals whose
keystone shall be something else than
Do not unto others what you would
rot that they shuld do unto you.
From the beginning of time the men
and women who have shown them
selves capable Of great work have taken
uncommon liberties with the schemes
OF morals formulated for them by
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the clustered
o" the peripatetic varieties, whether
holding forth in pulpits or porches or
monthly magazines. The emperor who
pronounced himself super grammati-
c9m typiies the attitude of mankind's
trSrsacttDg personages towards it's
neral gram n arians. This is not to
say that the great ones of earth are
essentially immoral; it is only to point
out that they have ever assumed to be
a standard unto themSelves-an how
shall the little ones deny them? To
their own standard it will be observed
that they are usually more faithful
than many of their censors. AS a rule,
their lives are Lot disfgured by the
petty vices. They are seldom blacken-
ed with the browning iniquity of n.y.
pocrisy.
Is not methcdical work the distinc-
tive characteristic of a long pece? And
is rot long peace distinguished to a
proverb by it's cankers? Is the state
Of war a moral one according to the
fOotrule o. the grammarian3? Yet, has
maj kiId in the whole of it's history,
ever taken so much as one great step
Of moral progress that was not planted
up to the ankle with blood? DeplOr-
able. we may freely allow: sad, if we
col slider the individual as morals
does, and rot the race, as nature does.
But the question We are dealing with
is one Of deduction from facts-fron
the great historic record of fact; as
such, the deduction is not true. Evolu-
ton ron savagery 70 civilization does,
irGeed, go hand in hand with the
evolution of methOdical work So
does it go hand in hand with the wear
ing Of mere clothes, and with mechan-
ical iTver ton and with scientific dis
ctyery. So does it go hand in hand
with the substitution of one scheme
Of cloister morals for another scheme
born in the woods. Which Of the two
is the better live up to?-New York
Evening Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-13

dreamed that the girl would be so badly
frightened, and that they merely wanted
-leI of what they thought was
nonsense.
DR.. Mitz arrived in New Haven from
a second visit to Elias bedside He
declared that the girls face wore a look
OF terror so pitiful that he was deeply
moved.
The doctor says that Hubbell feared
Ella would become wild, and also that
her head would be turned by the at
tentions Of the sons of his neighbors.
He believed her to be entirely too
young to receive young mems atten-
tons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-13

Miss Helen (writes telegram)-
George Wilson, Long Branch. n. J.:
An interview would be Of no possible
use. Do not come" Send this, please.
Thirty cents, / believe?
Clerk (meekly)-There are II words
in this message.
Miss Helen-How can that be? I
counted them. Counts them again.)
Pshaw,
Clerk (more meekly)-You might
strike out san" or possible"
Miss Helen (sharpTy)-Nonsense. I
want to be very emphatic. Refects)
Well, strike out "not"-New York
Truth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-13
FAST TRAVELLING.

Horse Dealer-'I warrant this horse
sound and kind
Possible Buyer-"How about speed?"
Speed? Well, I'll tell you. Old
man Grimes died the other day-died
rich, you know-and it was understood
that his will was to be read at the
house after the funeral was over. Well,
sir, L was out on the road with this
horse that day, and hang me if didn't
beat the Grimes family back from the
cemetery. New York Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-13
HANSOM'S SAD FATE.

Mrs. Gadd-"Oh, Mr.. Shrill, stop a
moment; l want to speak to you. Have
you been home since morning."
Mr. Shrill-"No."
Heard anything?"
"Why no? What do you mean?"
ooh, I cant be the first to tell it.;
indeed l can't. The neighDors are
sayin' that your wife and Mr.. Hanson
have eloped."
well, well! It's his own fault. I
warned him to keep away from her."
New York Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-13
GAVE HIMSELF AWAY

Spratts-Miss Elder is much older
than I thought.
Hunker-Impossible
Spratts-Well, I asked her if she had
read Aesop's fables and she said she
read them when they first came out
London Tid-Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-13
A PARADOX.

First Medical What is
paradox"
Second Medical Student-"A couple
Of young NJ. DIS, who get all the prac-
tice they want the first year after
they have hung their shingles OUT
Somerville Journal.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
Use and Abuse of MONEY.

There are many fellows at college
who have III ney and use it well, but
the mere fact that a man has cash in
his pocket does not get him on to ath
letic teams. or into college clubs or so
cieties, or at the head of his class 1t
helps him ON if he's good chap. IL
holds him back il he isn't. Then by and
by, when you get through college, you
will find it just the same in businesses
of all kinds. Money seems to help
good man along and seems to be the
worst enemy Of bad man So that to
think only of money first, and then of
doing fine things with it after ii is
gained, is putting the cart before the
horse. And, if you want to be in the
senate, it's the wrong way to go at it to
go down TO South America and work i'll
a gold mine for 90 years simply and
solely to 'raise the cash" for the pur-
pose of buying the votes of state, even
if such a procedure were moral and
right, which is unquestionably not the
case
Rather make up your mind what you
want to do and then try to make
financial success of it as well as all 9th
er kinds of successes. II it is the hide
and leather business, try to make money
each year, but try also to make money
fairly, to learn the trade thoroughly
and to keep pace with the literature,
the politics, the life of yonr own day.
If it is the ministry or law or htera-
ture, try to make both ends meet each
year, and to make money just the same,
but don't forget that all these branches
of work require something besides cash
to make them successes. In certain
way it is just as wrong to try to believe
that money is an evil as it is to let your
self believe that money is the only
thing worth having. 1t is a great and
good thing when you have learned how
to use it and a mighty poor thing when
it is abused Decide, therefore, ON what
work you will set out, without regard
to money, and then try to make a finan-
cial as we'll as an intellectual success OF
it.-Harper's Round Table.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
Dupin and the Epigram.

Dupin's belief in the omnipotence OF
epigram as a moral veneer for political
as we'll as other immortality was to a
great extent justified by his thorough
knowledge of and his supreme contempt
for the majority of his countrymen, and
especially for those actively engaged in
politics He knew that in France one
well delivered epigram is sufficient to
start man on a prosperous career, suf-
ficient to hurl the man at whom it is
leveled from the pedestal he has climbed
with infinite trouble and perseverance.
And, seeing that he had not his equal
in the facility for coming them, not
even in Talleyrand, that his peer in that
respect, Rivarol, had been in his grave
since the beginning of the century, Du.
pin had never been very sparing OF
them. From that moment, however, he
began to SOW them broadcast, taking
care not to hide his light under a bushel
for modesty was not Dupin's besetting
sin Rather than plead and not be re.
ported he refused to plead at all, which,
in fact. he did when asked to defend
Beranger "a third time. OF course he did
not say so in as many words, but no one
was his dupe, because every one was
aware that, rs an exceptional measure,
the government intended to exclude re-
porters from the trial. Van Dam q
"Undercmrents of the Second Empire +"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

p. w. Ryrne is on the sick list.
Winter snow is fast disappearing.
Born, TO Mr.. and Mrs. Terry Corri-
gan, a girl.
Misses May and Kittie Weeks are on
the sick list.
p. .Houlihan and daughter, Ella, are
among the sick.
Orrin Ford's brother-in-law took din.
ner with him, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. HID. Weeks are on the
sick list, also Byron Frost.
Mrs. f. w. Burt and son OF Bedding,
are visiting at p. w. Byrne's.
j. Edwards made business trip to
Mecosta county one day last week.
Grandma Niche is visiting Mrs. Joe
Beck who is keeping house for her son
in-law, Antoine Killinger.
Barto school closed Friday with ex.
erciscs and singing. The same teacher
will teach the spring term.
Lewis Andr left Saturday for
Chicago TO find suitable work. A host
OF good wishes go with him.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
ROUND ABOUT US.
NeWSy Items Gathered In by the Banners Staff
of Special Correspondents.
FALLASBURG.

Mrs. G.. Rodgers is on the sick list.
Mrs. Beckwith visited at j. Colvin's
last Wednesday.
Ruby Sayles is visiting frankie
Lewis this week.
Henry Lenord spent last "Wednesday
with Ira Pottruff.
Lew Barber and wife are spending q
few days In Lowell.
Ed Tower has been very busy draw.
ing potatoes to Lowell.
+. Davenport aud wife attended SER
vices at Alton last Sunday.
ID. Bowen Of Keene. has been haul.
ing logs to Vim. Rexford's saw mill.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Copeland took din
ner with Orrin Ford and wife last Sun
day.
VIM. Rexford and wife visited in
Grand Rapids the fore part OF last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Scott attended the
Ladies Aid Society held at K. Falling
tons, OF Vergennes.
Charlie Rodgers has rented Ira Gard
ner's house and expects to work for K.
Richmond this summer.
Leroy Sayles and wife and Mrs. M.
Denny attended the wood bee at Elmer
Richmond's for the benefit OF Mrs. A.
Reed.
At the prayer meeting Wednesday
evening arrangements were made for a
neck-tie social to be held at Fl. SCOTS,
Friday evening, March 10, for the ben
eft OF Rev. Rochelle. Invitations ex-
tended to all.
The long illness Of uncle Elias Sayles
ended in his death March ~. His age
was 90 years, III months, and ~ days.
Services were held at the Keene
church, Mr.. Draper of Grand Rapids
officiating. His remains were then
taken to the Pinkney cemetery follow
ed by multitude of relatives ana
friends.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
ORLEANS-OTISO0.

Jim Maginley has bought fine COW.
Mr.. j. Tabor is the papa OF lOt
pound boy.
Mrs. j. Tab; " is visiting relatives at
Greenvllle.
Mr. and Mrs. 9. Shcltz celebrated
their golden we'd ng last Thursday.
r. G. Seeley has an elm tree from
which he has cut % cords OF wood.
Next.
Mr. and Mrs Samuel s eley spent
Sunday with her parent, at Grand
Rapids
Miss Fisher, of Greenvilll'. has been
engaged AS teacher for tbs Seeley
district.
Frank Tillitson got hur. =. John
Fishers saw mill last Satul a., by a
log rolling on his ankle.
1t was reported last week tn there
were two cases of measles in tow, but
we are glad to note that it was alse
report.
G. +. Tower finished "A successful
term of school in the Seeley district
Thursday. He expects TO enter the NJ.
A G.. next month.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
SMYRNA.

+. b. Purdy is quite sick.
John Purdy is afflicted with rheuma-
tism.
Ernie Loase of Sunfield is visiting
friends here
Mrs. John Crawford of Grand Haven
is visiting friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs Verne Davis spent
Sunday at Henry Davis.
Grace Rogers has secured work in
the silk mill at BeldIRg.
Myrtle Ellis will teach school in
Keene the coming summer.
Robert Ellis thinks Smoky Row is
the place TO live and has rented Dorr
Osgood's farm.
The tie mill has finished its labors in
Dorr Osgood's woods and has moved
onto Marvin Filkins' farm where they
have large job.
The mill on Dorr Osgood farm
sawed forty thousand feet OF red oak
lumber for r. b. Cowles. Will Fran
els has the job of drawing it to Ionia.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
KEENE.

F. M. Loucks was in Beldiug, Satur-
day.
A. Laux is cutting wood for Peter
Blasen.
John Zahm bought horse of Joe
Albert, Monday.
b. F. Wilkinson bought a horse at
F. Converse's sale.
John Faber and A. Nj. Kohn were on
our street Thursday.
John Zahm attended the auction at
F. Converse's, Wednesday.
Miss Ivah Compton commenced work
for Mrs. NJ. Hoppough, Sunday.
Chas. BiIlinger's feed mill caught
fire Thursday with but little damage
done.
VIM. p. and Helen Laux spent Sat-
urday night with their uncle, Peter
Blasen.
Orlo Collar died In Lowell, Wednes-
day. His remains we're brought here
TO the Marble cemetery for interment,
Friday.
The Oldest pioneer OF Keene, Uncle
Elias Sayles, died Wednesday at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Geo. Ray
mond, in the 95th year Of his age.
Funeral services were held at the Nj.
E. church, Friday afternoon, and his
remains were taken To the Pinkney
hurying ground for interment.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
There Is Nothing 80 Good.

There is nothing just as good at DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds, so demand IL
and do not permit the dealer TO sell
you some substitute. He will not
claim there Is anything better, but In
order TO make more profit he may
claim something else TO be just as good.
You want DR.. Kings New Discovery
because you know it to be safe and re-
liable, and guaranteed TO do good or
money refunded. For Coughs, Colds
Consumption and for all affections OF
Throat, Chest and Lungs, there is no
thing so good as is DR.. Kings New
Discovery. Regular size so cents and
$l.OO. Trial bottles free at Fisk Bangs
Drug Store. 3
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
OTISOO.

Our school closed last wee Or the
measles.
Joe McNitt will work 81 4, Abbey
this summer.
l.. Carpenter visited .o,atives near
Woods Corners few Grys last week.
w. Foss and fam y u Greenville re-
manned over Sum-! with his father
in-law.
r. Luscom,,. left here last week for
Illinois where he expects to work dur
ing the summer.
The auction sale last week at Frank
Converse's was success, everything
selling ut IA high figure.
TIE Peoples Literary Club OF Otisco
pla led whats Next" at the Easton
tosn hall, March g, with notable sue
Cas-, receiving as suitable reward for
tArlr uniiring efforts the modest sum
# :J.S3. This club has received alto
gether the sum of $56 IS since its
organization last fall, S43.6l OF which
has already been disposed OF in repairs,
hired help, and other necessary ex-
jcnses. We contemplate several other
improvements on the old hall this
spriug. This last stateme mt will doubt
l,,,. assure the impartial ones OF their
mistake in entertaining the erroneous
ids that the overplus money would
be divided among the members OF the
Glib. No, this club was not organized
for that purpose. Every cent placed
in our treasury shall be used in repair
ing the above mentioned structure.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18

De Qaincey tells the story somewhere
Of party Of Englishmen who, finding
themselves in Paris ON Christmas day
and being bound to Lave plum pudding
for dinner, were unable to find a cook
able to prepare the dish In orthodox
fashion. Conferences with several dis
tinguished chefs disclosed nothing but
the most astounding Gallo ignorance
of the British national dish.
This was, of course, before the days
Of the petite vitesse," which brought
across the channel so OPPORTUNITY for
Taffy and Little Billee and the Laird
their Christmas dinner; so somethin &
had to be done
One of the Englishmen happened TO
be doctor and also an amateur cook
He had in his possession recipe for
plum pudding, warranted orthodox.
This, with some labor, and doubling
much Of his ultimate success, he reduced
to the terms of prescription and sent
to an apothecary. Les trois Angliches
then sat down to dinner and awaited re-
suits.
Sun enough, at the proper stage of
the feast, when the plum pudding was
due, entered the apothecary, in black
silk stockings and small clothes, accord
ing to the custom of the day, and wear
ing sword. Behind him came his as
sistant, bearing aloft the "prescrip-
tion." 1t was perfect in every detail,
even to the blazing halo of brandy.
1t is related that when the man Of
drugs realized the joke that had been
played upon him, he was for putting
his sword to other than ornamental uses
But one taste of his own medicine served
to placate him and he sat at the feast
with his English friends.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
ORLEANS.

Chas. Brooks was in Belding, Mon
day
DR.. r. r. Mcdonald was in Belding,
Wednesday.
A. j. Hale lost valuable COW,
Wednesday.
Miss Lillian Leach spent Wednes-
day In Ion ia.
Miss Rosa Morley visited at Charles
Whites over Sunday.
Mrs. A. w. Palmer and Miss Mae
Towel are on the sick list.
Miss Elsie Face OF Ionia Su ldayed
among relatives OF this place.
Tom Kidd, ST., and niece, Miss Fos-
ter, we're in Bedding Thursday.
james Fuller and family are moving
back to their home in Bedding Ills
week.
Mrs. Chas. Clemens aud Mrs. Mo-. /,
Clements we're in Ionia shopl IL,
Wednesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Shaw OF near s0ng
Lake visited friends OF Morley a part
OF last week.
Miss Anna Define entertained her
friend, Mrs. Andrews OF Muskegon,
last Thursday.
Howard Hannah was in Belding
having some dental work done by DIR.
G. f. Smith, Monday.
MIR. and Mrs Z. b. Hale of Ionia and
Miss Cora Holmes OF Bedding visited
at a. j. Hale's, Thursday.
Bay and Anna Define attended a
party at their uncle's, r. Lavery OF
Kiddville, Saturday evening.
The Ladies' Aid Society were very
pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Ben
Hall OF Long Lake last Wednesday.
II. Eckert has sold his farm to his
mother and he has purchased the old
Frank Hannah farm; and Fred Fellars
has sold his house and lot TO MIR. and
Mrs. Spanogle OF California. Hurrah
for the good Mckinley times that are
coming
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
PALO.

Miss Ida Wilder Is on the sick list.
Miss Cora Gaylord is helping Mrs.
Hull.
Mrs. III. r. Hull is reported to be
improving.
Thos. Wilder and wife went to Ionia
on business last Wednesday.
A few OF the neighbors spent pleas
ant evening at Mr.. and Mrs. John
Knapp's, Monday night.
Loren Brooks and family moved last
week to his fathers place In Bushnell.
He will work the place on shares.
There will be surprise party at
Geo. Collins on Friday night OF this
week. Every one invited. Pedro and
other games will be the order Of the
evening.
Stella and Jessie Healey with Miss
Ethel Coffin and her brother, Fred,
spent a very pleasant evening with
Miss May Myers. There was games
and music.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
Hotels.

American hotels are so taken up with
the desire TO dazzle us that they some
times make us uncomfortable. 1t is very
fine and impressive to have ones card
handled by two men and big boy and
then a little boy when calling upon
friends ut great hotel, but it is ia
tiguing nevertheless to wait 80 minutes
and then have the little boy come down
and tell you they are not ut home.
Though most of US cannot abide some OF
the nuisances of the foreign system, such
as being charged extra for soap and
service, yet many travelling Americans,
who are sufficiently unpatriotic, say
that our big, glittering hotels are not
quite up to the standard of the best
ones ON the other side in the small de-
tails Of making one peacefully and rest
fully happy The innkeeper's instinct
for Knowing exactly what is wanted
without being told is more highly de-
veloped over there. They have been at
il for SO many more generations Jesse
Lynch Williams in Scribner's
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18

Mrs. Scelia Nugent a former resi-
dent Of this place died at her home 10
Grand Rapids. The funeral took place
at the Grattsn Catholic church.
The mission at the Grattan Catholic
church last week was we'll attended
and made many converts. The Jesuit
missioners left for two weeks mission
at st. Louis, one leaving Friday and
the other the following Monday.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
GRATTAN.
Wheeling is now the mode.

Wheeling is now the mode.
Mrs. Elmer Brooks is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. Northway, Of
Smyrna.
Grattan Grange is having great
boom in new membership. Meetings
are held weekly.
The friends and neighbors dedicated
Mr.. F. Keeler..s new house by giving
them an old-iashioned surprise last
Friday.
A conumdrum social was held at
Grattan Hotel, Friday evening. l.e-
ceipts, $500, for the benefit OF he
school library.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18

l desire TO attest to the merits Of
Chamberlin's Cough Remedy as one OF
the most valuable and efficient prepar-
alton on the market 1t broke an ex-
ceedingly dangerous cough for me in
"a hours. and in gratitude therefor,
desire to inform you that | will never
be without it, and you should feel
proud OF the high esteem in which
your Remedies are held by people in
general. 1t is the one remedy among
ten thousand Success TO ito. II.
DoWNEY, Editor Democrat, Albion,
Ind. For sale by Fisk Bangs, Drug
gist.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
Bucklen's Arnica SaIye.

The best salve In the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and pos
itivelv cures piles, or no pay required.
1t Is guaranteed to give perfect salts
faction or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by Holmes &
Cornell.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18

Bayonets are now altogether machine
made, very simple, as we'll as clever,
contrivance stamping the steel into
proper shape.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18

Torturing itching, scaly skin erupt-
ions, burns and scalds are soothed at
once and promptly healed by DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve, the best known
cure for piles. w. /. Benedict q Co.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18

Don't expect that life will be all sun
shine TO you because some one else has
had so much of the shade.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18

It is 4, $50 miles from Washington to
Constantinople.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18

Without courage there cannot be
truth, and without truth there can be
no other virtue"