The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-11-12

contemptuous have come to be invinoible
champions of his cause. Newspapers
which still delight iu reyiing nigger
worship are afraid to obstruct emaucipa,
ton. The ideas and arms march on side
by side. The thought Of right animates
the sword of victory. Mr.. Stewards cir,
cular fails to bring out the moral phases
Of the revolution whose military aspects
he so graphically paints. But the eye
of the worlds mind-the eye especially
of free and religious England--csnnot
but dwell on them with devout gratitude
and hope y
n..r. Borrowed Plumes.
How many persons there ara, in the
present age OF the world, wearing bor-
rowed plumes. Some Of the most prom
incnt notabilties who are paraded before
! the public as objects Of special admiro--
+ ton, are men VITO have either borrowed
or stolen their plumes from others-very
likely from those i4r more worthy .I
pubic honors than are those arrogant
| puff balls th""'s"'y4s Many a military
man has been promoted 10 high rank for
alledged act of bravery, when if the real
facts in the case were brought to
light, tho honor justly belongs to
some minor officer, without whose
presence and skill on the battle field the
result would have been quite diiIerer.
from what it was. Many public speak
cr is regarded as q man Of profund erru-
dition and commanding eloquencc. when
in truth his most pleasing Intellectual
productions are stolen bodily from his
library. Mauy a so-caled poet has sue
cecded III acquiring more than local
notoriety by the judicious use of other
persous' brains-the brains Of those who
are poets. And occasionally there is to
be found an editor whose much admired
and widely-read "editorials" are but re-
print OF those prepared from some other
paper which his readers never sec And
SO wags the world The old scriptural
injunction to "renGer unto Cesar the
things which are Cesar's' seep,s to be
strangely overlooked, in the distribution
Of this worlds honor, and borrowed
plumes are being sported by thousands
whose own originality alone would never
lift them up above the commoncst strata
Of society
Reader, when you see an individual
proudly struttiug around among his fel
lows in So, f-rnmnlacent. peacock style,
the admired of all admirers, manage II
possible to get "behind the SCENES" as
certain if his plumes arc indigenous to his
own back, or only borrowed from others
more deserving Of applause than he. IF
50. strip them off, without mercy, and it
viii 10 a salutary as well as a iudicrous
spectacle to sec the impostor stand out
before the wondering multitude, nude,
est.talen, collapsed humbug. The or,
pose, however d,stastcful it may be to the
victim, will serve to eDliehtcn the pub,
lie, wonderfully, in regard to the inter
estinS subject Of borrowed plumcs, and
afford an additional demonstration of the
fact that "some things can be done as
we'll as others. - chi Com. Adv.
ns- Look out for arsenic in your hair
or bonnet ornaments, ladies' The Lon
don Examiner, says that lately little
girl had bunch of artificial grapes given
her. After amusing herself with the
toy, she gave it to playmate of her own
age, who presently picked a grape Of the
bunch and sucked it. The next day she
was a corpse An eminent physician
WHO anaiyzed the p!aythipg deposed tha,
ten Of the grapes yielded three grains of
arsenic of copper-a deadly poison-and
that each vine leaf on the buach contain,
cd enough to XIII child. Another
child's cupboard, in which its toys were
kept, was lined with green paper The
poor little thing sickened and died, obvi.
ously from the effects of poison mystic
riously inbibed. Dr.. Letherdy analyzed
the paper hanging Of the cupboard, and
found that piece of it only six inches
square contained nearly thirteen grains
Of the deadly compound-enough to kill
two grown up persons.
A SOLDIER IN LUCK In the late
raid Of our troops into Mississippi, in
pursuit. OF Chalmers forces, ole o. the
prirates Of the Seventh Iowa Infantry,
while exca~a'iHr the ruins Of an old
house for the purpose Of fixing a bed for
the night, suddenly struck upon bottle,
which, upon examination, was found to
contain seventy dollars in silver. ANA
zed at his good luck he determined to
follow the "lead' which soon changed
from silver into gold-for upon further
digging, he turned up seven hundred
and eighty dollars in gold, which had
probably been deposited there for safe
keeping by some of the natives, now
fighting for their liberty in the Southern
army, while Northern soldiers are enjoy
ing the gold - CorinM Chanticleer.
A firm of biscuit manufacturers in
Carlisle, England, by way Of showing