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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
KNIGHTS OLE PYTHIAS.

Grand Rapids Lodge, No. 1O0 Meets every
Thursday evening in X. OF =. hall, Crane
Rapids. Visiting knights most welcome.
ID. d. CONWAY, L. c..
w. H REEVES, X of R. and S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
CHICAGO. Milwaukee G st. Paul

Passenger train No. 2 going south makes con-
nections at New Lisbon with regular trains 60
ing east and west.
All freights now carry passengers.
Tickets to all points in the United States and
Canada.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
REBEKAH.

Riverside Lodge, No. 10, l. O. 0. F. Meets sec
ond and fourth Wednesdays of each month
in |. O. @. f. hall. Visitors are invited to
attend our meetings
MRS. ELLA MINNEHAN, n. q.
SARAH p. CRAWFORD, Secretary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
ORDER EASTERN STAR,

Rainbow Chapter. Meets on the first and third
Tuesday evenings of each month in Masonic
hail, Grand Rapids.
MRS. LILLIAN FONTAINE, W. NJ.
Miss KATHERINE PARRISH Secretary
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
Wisconsin Central Line.
7. B. Scott Free P"bHc LibYQYV,

CITY HALL, GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN,
HOURS-MonGay, $50 to $50 p. m; Wednesday,
2 to and $50 to $50 p. m. Friday, to p.
m. Satu rday, 9 to y a m, to and $50 to
$3.50 p. N.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
SECOND MORAVIAN.
NORWEGIAN AND ENGLISH

Corner French and Wisconsin ST. Gets. Rev. A
Peterson, pastor Parsonage at 313 North French
street.
SERVICES
Preaching every Sunday at 1880 a. M. Sunda,
school, at 1880 a. m; Christian kndeavor eng
lish) meets at 7;30 p. m, address in connection
by one ofthe pastors. Prayer meeting Thursda!
evenings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
GRAND ARMY REPUBLIC

Wood County Post, No. %. Meets every second
and fourth Wednesday evening of each
month in Post hall on Oak street.
NJ. S. PRATT, Comman DIR.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
S-B-<-
FIRST MORAVlAN.
GERMAN

GERMAN
Rev. A. Peterson, pastor, residence, 319 Nortl
French street. Rev. G. Francke, assistant pastor
roums, 401 Maple street.
SERVICES
Until July l, 1899, in Unity church every Sun
day at 1890 a. M, Sunday school at $50 a m.
Christian Eudeavor on Tuesday evenings, praye'
meeting Wednesday evenings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06

MAENNERCHOR SINGING SOCIETY.
Meets the first Sunday afternoon in each month
at o'clock, at their hall on Front street
near city building.
B. METZGER, President.
b. TOErEL Secretary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL'S CATHOLIC.
SERVICES.

Corner Main and Mill streets, Grand Rapids
w. f. Van Roosmalen rector, residence, 1923
Main street.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06

Daily mass at a. m. Sunday, early mass at
s a. M; high mass at 10 a. NJ, instructions p.
m; Yespers p. m.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.

Oak Camp No. 10. Meets second and fourth
Mondays of each month at Natwick's hall
Centralia. JOS BoGoGER c.. c.
c. \. BOoRMAN, Clerk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06

We solicit any business connected with
banking, and promise prompt ana
careful attention to every interest
entrusted to us.
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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26
MATRIMONY IN WISCONSIN.

The Wisconsin Legislature is wrest-
ling with a matrimonial problem, hav-
ing been infected, it is presumed, by
Dakota, where it is proposed to so al
ter the divorce laws that one cannot
order a decree by telegraph with a
reasonable certainty of finding 1t in
waiting in less time than twenty-four
hours.
Out in Wisconsin the idea that the
be swathed in lot of red tape has
seized the Legislature, and, therefore,
it is proposed to make n license issued
by the State n prerequisite to the mar
riage ceremony in that enlightened
commonwealth. This proposition is no
doubt based on the theory that Wis
consin has an interest in matrimony,
and may, with propriety, require of
candidates for the marriage state that
they shall at least contribute to the
State archives a record Of their names,
ages, places where they first saw the
light, etc. This is indeed a radical de-
parture. Heretofore the only apparent
reason for the marriage ceremony in
Wisconsin was to provide fee for an
accommodating preacher or justice of
tac peace. The State held that if Il
maiden was DESTROYS of changing her
and local hstbitation- and found a
man willing to assist her it was strictly
their own private business. and to en-
barrass them by requiring that they tell
who they were. and when and where
they first appeared as part and par
eel of the inhabitants of this mundane
sphere was Il curtailment OF personal
liberty and in the nature of sumptuary
law. Dakota held to the position that
IL husband and wife desired to be di-
vorced it was their personal affair. and
courts were created to enter a decree
strictly in accordance with their wishes.
Wisconsin caught on.
There is in the estimation of too
many people too little sanctity attached
TO the marriage relation, which is not
TO be lightly assumed nor lightly dis
carded. Reformation along this line is
sadly needed in more States than Da-
kota and Wisconsin, and the quicker it
comes the quicker the best and truest
interests of society will be conserved.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26


The country will rejoice that the Sem
ate has passed the Nicaragua Canal
Bill, and 1t Is to be hoped there VIII
be no obstruction to it in the House.
This long longed-for connection of our
Eastern with our Western coast and
waters. as Il national American work.
Is now in fair prospect of construction,
and 1T will contribute immensely to our
wealth, strength and just patriotic
pride. 1t will also. under our liberal
management, be hardly Il less blessing
TO the world and a benefit to internal
tional travel and commerce than the
Suez Canal.
The bill as passed, too, seems to be
properly guarded against jobs and
swindles. extravaganza and wasteful
squandering, and promises a success
full construction within a reasonable
time. without such scandals as attend
ed the Panama failure, or the Suez
triumph Alas! that one cannot con-
slider the great achievement of NJ. de
Lesseps engineering. without recalling
the cloud that hung over his connec-
ton with it.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26

had no experience of what they so care
fully sought to prevent; that they were
newcomers into a strange world
grcenhorns, just arrived, and unac-
quainted with life and business; where
as the fact is that they had the ex-
perience Of generations. for they first
endured evils before they set laws to
guard against them, and thus saved us
from the experience they had suffered
and in which their laws were founded.
We are beginning to learn this since
we have cast down the defenccs they
erected: and out of painful school
dools they say will learn in no other)
we are to be taught the wisdom which
our forefathers sought in vain to be-
queath us.
Natural laws, and every divine COM
mand, are in vain in human control,
unless enforced by human means, DOW
ers and penalties. The laws of God and
nature are for our guidance in framing
our codes, and the decalogue is inopera-
tive among wicked men until enforced
by temporal sanctions. Honesty is. in
deed, the best policy, as well as a high
virtue; but human law has to pass a
thousand provisions and innict as many
penalties even to secure a pretence of
honesty!
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26
OPINIONS ca TEE PRESS.
LET US HAVE 4 CHANGE.
N-NeW UrIcans States.)

The scandalous Senatorial conflicts in
pennsylvania, Delaware West Virgin
IA, Nebraska. Montana. California and
Nevada certainly constitute very.
strong arguments in favor of the cleo
ton of United States Senators by dl-
rect vote of the people.
1t was assumed by the trainers of
the Constitution in the experimental
stage OF the government that the popu-
lar choice of members of the Federal
senate would be capricious and weak.
ana That 1t would be better 10 confer
the power to elect these high otnciols
upon select bodies of representative in
the State Legislature. Thus il was
thought judicious care and deliberat ton
would be exercised in choosing United
States Senators. For the first half OF
the country's history this view was
generally justified by the action of tho
State Legislature; but in the past flfty
this respect. In many States when an
election for United States Senator IS
pending corrupt men seek seats in the
Legislature in order to sell their votes
To the highest bidder. This is an evil
which Will spread in proportion as the
position of United States Senator shall
become nrized by men of wealth for
the dignity that it confers. or by un
scrupulous politicians for the opportu-
mites it presents.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26

and which the Loud bill seeks to get
out of them and the reading people. not
to speak Of advertising business men.
by depriving them of the small and
reasonable privileges heretofore grant
ed them in the mails.
If government has money to subsi-
die rich railroads. it should not neg
iect its poorly paid postal railway
clerks. who do SO much meritorious,
difficult and laborious service. at as
constant risk of life and limb as the
soldier in battle. Stop the subsidies,
and recognize the just claims Of these
brave and diligent clerks.-perhaps the
most deserving and self-sacrfficing en-
ployes in our whole civil service.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26
TRIBUTE TO ENSIGN BAGLEY.
(Philadelphia Recnrdl

\
philadelphia Record)
Chaplain Clark. of the Naval Acade-
my, in his address in memory of the
iatc Ensign Bagley, on Sunday last.
spoke some words of eloQuence which
were not only n tribute TO the FIRST
AMERICAN officer who fell i'm the late
war, but which had a wider applica ton.
When n man has lived and died for n
profession" he said. 1.-THE best of him
is there. His profession insloses. as imam
ornate and perfectly adapted frame. the
thingS that men should live by. They
lie within the inclosure of that profess
sion like harp strings and q mans alto
Is the touch uDon them that more or
less brings out their truth and beauty
ana power Again. there was truth
ana beauty in the thought that each
oit or diamond dust carries in it the
likeness and lustre of the whole mass
each leaf outlines in its structure the
tIee IL grows upon; each obscurest atom
OF Il crushed snowflake always shows n
wonderful six-rayed glory OF ne q, lire
pattern. So the acts of men, minute
parts and fragments of their natrrcs
are copies. ac-similes of the original"
These metaphors We're not only perti-
nent to the character Of tho gallant
young officer whose fate inspired them.
out thoy have a lasting beauty of their
own ana they deserve 70 be treasured
IN our memorial literature as an in
centiVc to men in every field of hon
est effort 10 be true TO their best ideals
and TO rise To their highest possibilities
Glory is an accident" saws Roosevelt
hut duty done is in itself glory which
BY no mischancc of fate can ever he
Gespoiled OF it's laurels
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26
THE RAILWAY POSTAL SERVICE.

The railroads run their trains and fix
their schedules for freight and travel,
and il is pure deiusion that these are
at all shaped or affected to furnish any
special. extra. or fast service to the
Post Office Department. Yet under
this delusion. or preteXt. very large
subsidies have heretofore been given
annually by the government TO certain
favored railroads and railroad syndi-
Gates. Very properly. there is strong
opposition developing in Congress 10
these gifts or subsidies TO rich corpo-
rations, for nothing. under cover of ap-
preparations TO pay for extra fast mail
trains that do not exist, and never did,
particularly as there is a large annual
deficit in the Postal Department,
charged to newspapers and publishers,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26
KEEP THE PEACE.

To judge from the tone Of the admin
another war is necessary TO assure
their continued ascendancy through
the election of next year. by hook or
crook. and to carry out their schemes
OF money and military rule. They are
now seeking to bring on hostlities with
Germany about Samoa and Samoan af
fairs, and much is said to egg our au-
thorlties into taking aggressive atti-
tudes toward Germany and to provoke
the Emperor of that country.
Any causes of offence we may have
against Germany are directly traceabie
TO him or his Inspiration. For that
very reason, we should make all due
allowances for Germany.
We have great respect for the Ger
man people, whose merits of character
capacity and achievement are varied
and vast, and who not only furnish a
large proportion of our best living cit
izenship, but have supplied n great part
OF our best ancestry, not only in Vir-
GINA and North Carolina, but in all our
original States. Gen. Roller, in a re-
cent address, justly and ably reminded
us of how greatly Virginia and the
whole country are indebted to early
German immigration, while one has
but to look around him to see and hear
how much our present population is en-.
riched by native German elements.
These are sentimental considerations,
no doubt; but who would willingly vio-
late them TO pcrpetuate the Hannaism
that has brought upon us so much do
nestle evil. wrong and disgrace, and
which forebodcs so much more domestic
and foreign disaster? Who would light
ly place our immense infusion of the
German race in hostile relations to the
Fatherland? Not we; and we seriously
deprecate this wicked attempt to To-
ment difficulties with any nation. and
especially with Germany, to help the
fortunes of the most injurious and dam
gerous and degenerate party that
ever afflicted our country
But with knavish government, on
our part. and a mad Emperor, on the
part of Germany, there is no telling
what may be the issue of these Samoan
differences. that should easily. be set
tied amicably to the honor of all con-
cerned.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26

a Kansas man has added another
great discovery to the large number
that have contributed to make their
authors famous. a bill is to be intro
duced in the Legislature and enacted
into law prohibiting the mortgaging of
hcmesteads. and this will probably be
followed by laws abolshing debt. pow
erty, sickness, sorrow, pain and death.
Kansas never does anything by halves
and now that her legislators are get
ting their hands we'll in we may expect
the millennium to be wooed and won in
the Sunflower Land