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Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
Advantages Of Crying.

\ French physician is out in long disscr-
tation on the advantages Of groaning and
crying in general, and especially during sur
glcal operations. He contends that groan-
ing and crying are two grand operations by
which nature allays anguish ; that those
patients who give way to their natural feel
ings more speedily recover from accidents
and operations than those who consider it
unworthy man to bctray such symptoms Of
cowardice as either TO groan or 10 cry He
tells Of man who reduced his pulse from
one hundred and twenty-eight to sixty, in
the course Of two hours, BY giving vent to
his emotions. IF people are at all unhappy
about anything, let them 90 to their rooms
and comfort themselves with a loud boohoo,
and they will feel hundred per cent. better
afterwards. In accordance with the above,
the crying Of children should not be too
greatly discouraged. If it is systematically
repressed the result may be St. Nitus'
Dance, Epileptic fits or some other disease
! Of the nervous system.
| What Is natural is nearly always useful
and nothing can be more natural than tn
crying Of children whaG anything occurs I
give them either physical or mental pain
Probably most persons have experienced tn
effects Of tears in relieving great SORROW
1t is even curious how the feelings are re
! lieved by their free indulgence to nois
bursts of grief, on the part of children g
well as Of older persons, and regard th
eyes and the mouth as the safety valve
through which nature discharges hersurplu
steam.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
5f(isteIlaneous.
Plain Questions for Home Con-
sumption.

Have you ever known Democrat TO JUS
tify a violation Of the Constitution
Have you ever known a Stamp Act en-
acted under a Democratic Administration?
Have you ever known a Democratic
President to suspend the writ Of hdbeds
corpU&
Have you ever known Conscription Law
TO be passed By Democratic Administra-
tion?
Have you ever known Democratic Ad-
ministratiOn to form new State in viola
ton OF the plain provisions Of the Consti-
tuition?
Have you ever known time except the
present, when citizen GOULD be incarcera-
ted in a dungeon without the authority Of
law?
Have you ever known Democratic Ad-
| minlstration to compel the people Of State
, or the District Of Columbia to scll their
| property whether Wiling OF notG
! Have you ever known any Administration
/ except Abraham 10 create a national debt
Of $1,000, 900, 600 in the short period Of
three years
/ Have you ever known a time under q
Democratic Administration when a day.
labor would only purchase two pounds o
coffee ?
Have you ever known citizens to be sent
into banishment and exile under Democratic
rule
Have you ever known a time under Dem.
!. ocratic rule when the greatest crimes and
outrages have been committed by our rulers
under plea Of military necessity " OF
reasons of state?'
Have you, before this, known a time
when the military was made superior to the
civil power?
Have you ever known Democratic Ad
ministraton to tax the people of the Who'll,
country to buy negroes of the Borde
States
Have you ever known an Administration
in opposition to the Democracy to leave tn,
affairs Of the country in as fourishing
6 condition a. they found them?
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28

a. in France or Austria. You have on
croached upon our liberty without securing
victory and we must have both.
You have dishonorcd us abroad by shame
less misrepresentation as 10 our true con
dtion Places that We occupied in 1sG2 arc
now again in the hands Of the rebels and
God knows whether your preparations for
the approaching campaign are adequate. -
corruption has entered into every depart
ment of your administration, rendering it
very Augean stable, which needs a Hercules
as your SUCCESSOR. 1t is time for the light
to shine forth and for the truth to fully APP
pear, so that all sincere patriots, all men
who look for nothing further than the ad-
vanccment Of their country and Of liberty,
may rally in one compact body around the
great principle of liberalism, and form lib
eral party really worthy of the name. Such
a one only can save the country.
Away with all the inpostcrs who have in
yaded the temple Of liberty, and turned it
into vote-market. Let there be an end of
this ridiculous farce of unconditional 10y
atty, which is only fit "a secure the vote Of
those fools who instead Of delving to the
root of the matter, blindly believe all the in
terested falsehoods published by Journals
that are paid to applaud and submit, whcth-
or right or wrong.
Mr.. Lincoln's honesty is Of strange de
scription. 1t consists in nearly running the
country and in dislcgarding its interests in
order to make sure Of power for four years
longer. TO our eyes, the man VINO has de-
prived his country of the services of some
of its best citizens, who has been unable to
make any better use Of the incredible re-
sources confdcd to him, and who, after agi-
tating so many public questions without sol.
wing one of them, disregards his own utter
incapacity, is, of all the. citizens of the Uni
red States, the least honest and the most
dangerous.
But even if President Lincoln were the
honest man that his paid organs represent
! him to be, how dangerous woul his rc-elec-
ton prove TO the liberties of the people, un-
der existing circumstances, surrounded as
heis with the military influences that he ha:
at his back Let US remember the teach
ings of history and the instances Of feigneC
orreal imbecility, all Of which haye result?(
! in despotism. SiXtus v, the half stupiC
/ scottish dcbauch, belong to the same school
The men who have had to endure them
elected them as unimportant individuals
whose election would give time for rcilec
ton and consideration; it will soon be six
teen years that France has reflected an,
pondered over her lost liberty. Fearing tn
unknown and shrinking from the perturba
tons incidental to change, they have ha
despotism and ruin, which are lending then
inevitable to the most terrible Of all the rev
olutions that history has hither to recorded
Americans Of the old school will not believ
u: they say that our liberties are so iirml
planted in the blood of our Anglo SaXo
race that none dare disturb them. But W
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
A BafGed Niser,

4 miser having lost bag containing
hundred pounds, promised ten pounds re-
ward to any one who would bring it to him.
An honest. poor man, who found it bro't
it to the old gentleman, demanding the ten
pounds, but the miser, to battle him, alleg-
ed there were hundred and ten pounds in
the bag when lost. The poor man, howev-
er, was advised to sue for the money and
when the case came to be tried, it appear
ing that the seal had not been broken, nor
the bag ripped, the judge said to the de-
fendant' 5 counsel:
pdnns as aaE IN Ifu it, yoa Si' nag hu''f'' anu
Yes, my lord, replied the counsel.
. Then, said the Judge according to
the evidence given in court, this cannot be
your money for here are only hundred
pounds; therefore the plaintiff must keep it
till the owner appears.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
The AmbeCility of the Admins.
lratiOn,

Agate" the Washington corespon-
dence of the Cincinnati Gazette, Is telling
some very significant tales out of school
''How long ago has it been, he says, ','since
grave Republican Senators were declaring
here. in public conversation, that if the seat
of the government were in any large city,
the imbecility of the administration would
provoke revolution in thirty days? Or
who does not know, that, within less than
eighteen months prominent leaders OF pub
lie opinion were consulting as to the proprl-
ETY. of demanding Mr.. Lincoln's resignation,
as the only means of saving the govern
mcnt ?" agate" who is not an Anti
Lincoln man. adds. 'Eoubtless this was
unfair--I do not discuss that but it lcaS a
fact" Yes, and it was based upon facts,
too. The iinbecility of the administration
was and is unquestionable, Yet the conser-
yatives of tho country are stigmatlzed as
disovaly by the minions of Aboltionism for
refusing to aid in re-electing as President
man whose prominent supporters have been
consulting as to the propriety OF demanding
his resignation aS the only means OF saving
the government Surely those who be,
heve Mr.. Lincoln's general policy wrong and
destructive may be excused for opposing his
reelection. when even those who believe his
general policy right and efficacious have
been driven to look upon his resignation as
the only hope of the national salyation'--
LoiaSuiNe Journal,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28

\ sailor went to a matchmaker and pre-
senting a small French watch to him deman-
ded to know how much the repairs would
come to. The matchmaker after examining
it said:
1T will be more expense repairing than
the original cost" ,,,
. | don't mind that" said the tar, " l
will even give you double the original cost,
for / have a great veneration for the
watch. " -.
''What might you have given forit?' ask
ed the matchmaker au
Why, replied the tar, II gave fellow
a blow on the head for it, and if you repair
it, | will give you two.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
Masonry.

Masonary is older than letters. Brand 5
Encyclopedia of Science, Literature and
Art, says, that from Egypt were derived
the principal mysteries, and that it was in
the darkness of subterranean apartments
secrecy was the first law. According to
Plutarch, the Sphynxes with which the en-
frances of their temples were decorated sig
nifed that Egyptian mythology was mys-
terious and emblematic. In these temples
the line and square was never abandoned,
they had no circular monument, and their
temples were covered with symbolic char
acters. Thus has Missionary seen the intro
duction of letters, the discovery OF the he arts
and sciences, and the spread of the Chris
tan religion; it has witnessed the rise and
fall of all the old nations of the earth sur
viyed the darkness and turmoil Of the mid
die ages, and now stands wonder OF the
world
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
dpolitital,
THE TRUTH TOLD.
EinCOIn's Honesty and CapaCi-
ty--Terrible Philippe Against
Lincoln by ~ Fremont Organ
From the New York Nation

[From the New York Nation.l
We all recollect that worthy citizen of
Athens who banishcd AriStides solely be-
cause it annoyed him to hear the epithet,
''the just" constantly coupled with his
name We have all been struck with this
strange specimen of political liberty, and by
the lack of Judgment in the application. 1t
was not because this undue notoriety given
to the name Of citizen Of the republic
might after a time, prove dangerous, nor
because the epithet OF Just was question
bic, that the worthy citizen of Greece ban
ished Aristdes. He would not even dis
cuss the matter, the epithet announced
him, and that was enough to ostracise its
unfortunate bearer. In this we see an cX-
cess of liberty and lack of political educa-
ton.
Now, we are annoyed and irritated at
hearing the words of Abraham Lincoln and
honesty always coupled together; but being
more generous than the excellent Athenian
citizen aforesaid, we propose, before ostra-
Icisng honest Abe from the White House,
to consider his right to the surname of
"Honest" To call one man honest out OF
a population Of 0,00O, 900, is not so much
of compliment to him as Il sarcasm upon
all the rest Let us look into his honesty
and capability. After three years ofpatient
silence we have right, and it 81 moreover
our duty, Mr.. Lincoln, to examine youl
acts and show them to the nation. You
commenced by coniiding the fate of oul
cause, the honor of our arms, and the lives
of our sons to men having no higher claim
, to such trust than host of voters at thei
command, whose support you coveted. III
order to advance the welfare Of the nation
We have allowed you to further your po
litical and personal interests, and to trans
form into heroes men whose inefficiency ha
swallowed up thousands Of lives and mil
lions of treasure, so that you might be abb
to dazzle the eyes of the people with victo
ries far more apparent than real. We hay
permitted your sacrifice Of patriots who's
popularity alarmed you, and whose encrg
f.. disappointed your calculations.
We have allowed you to deceive the pee
pie; we have allowed you to transform di
graceful defeats into victories and eve
we made no outcry when you were reduce
to beg eXoneration for acts which have etc
naly disgraccd the honor of our arms
You have been unable either to toresee
C. forestall anything. What has become
the nations enthusiasm? What have yc
done with the immense resources unpr
cedented in history, that the nation h
layishly given you?
You are now appealing to conscriptio
and we will not enter into II discussion OF ii
principle itself, but we will tell you that "
should have foreseen that the day mu
~ come when you would need these men al
ul that you were to blame in not calling
as them when the peoples enthusiasm was fiji
of aroused, when they certainly would n
u have been refused you. You are to blam
sh inasmuch as through your incapacity al
DersOnal schemes, the necessity for slIch :
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
Simplicity I'm Language.

Big words are great favorites with peo-
pie of small ideas and weak conceptions. -
They are often employed by men of mind
when they wish to conceal their thoughts.
As a general thing, illiterate and halfedu-
Gated persons use more big words than per-
sons of a thorough education. 1t is very
common but very egregious mistake to sup
pose that long words are more genteel than
short ones; Just as the same class Of peo-
pie imagine that high colors and fashy fig
ures improve the style of dress, They are
the kind people who don't begin, but al
ways commence they don t live, but re
side" they don't go to bed but mysterious
ly retire they don't eat and drink, but
''partake of refreshments they are never
sick, but extremely indisposed' and in
stead Of dying at last, they ''decease." " The
chief strength of the English language is il
the short words-mostly monosylables o.
Saxon derivation-and people who are il
earnest seldom use any other. Love, hate
anger, grief, joy, express themselves in shor
words and direct sentences; while cunnin:
falsehoods and affectionate delight in wha
Horace calls rer6um SesQ'apedalia-words
| foot and half long.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
A Budget of Fun.

Wilmington, Massachusetts,, sends the
following Jokes for the drawer. Our cor
respondents letters are always accepta-
ble
A person of an observing tnrn of mind, il
he has rode through a country town, has
probably noticed how the curious youngsters
along the route will fill the widows with their
anxious faces in order to catch a rlimps at
all passers-by. Our friend Jonathan, IA ped
der drove up in front Of a house, one day
and seeing ''all hands and the cook - staring
from the windows, got off from his cart and
the following dialogue took place with the
man of the house:
Johnathan-Has there been funeral
here lately?
Man of the house-Here? No Why?
hnathan-Why, | saw that there was
one pane of glass that didn hare head IN
It!
Man of the house-You leave, blasted
quick, or there arW be funeral.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
Abolition Humanity.

The Poughkeespie (N. W Telegraph
says there is "a brute in human form in
that city who recently said /:
Il would to God that could live to see
the white male population of the South ex-
terminated. and the females left to the mer
cy of the Niggers that better race might
people the Southern States"
These are the men who are going toro-
store the Union with the South.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28

4 lady, teaching her little daughter, four
years old, pointed to something in the book,
and asked
"What is that, my dear?"
'Why, don't you know ?" inquired the
child.
YES said the mother, "but l wish to
find out if you know"
"Wel, responded the little Miss, Il do
know" go,
Tell me, then, if you please said the
lady. , :,
Why no, ," insisted the little one with
an arch look, "you know what it is, and
there is no need of saying anything more
about it,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
The EsayOnet and the Ballot

BY PETER PEPPERCoRS.
Ii you mcet-no matter who,
Coming up TO vote,
Without Niger ON his ticket,
Take him by the throat.
If he Will not vote for Abe,
Pray what right has he
Where the Bay net rules the Ballot,
And the polls are free TO all that vote for
Abrahan.)
If he offers to resist,
From your pocket draw
The test oath, should he dare refuse IL,
Swear he's broke the law,
And quickly brand him as traitor.
For what right has ne
Where the Bayonet ruirSthe Ballot,
And the polls are free TO all that vote for
Abraham,l
Ifthis. from the polls should drive him
Mark him on your card,
But should he still persist in voting,
Call the provost Guard,
And let them take him or to prison,
For what right has he
Where the Bayonct rules the Ballot,
And the polls are free TO ali that vote for
Abraham.)
When election day is over.
You may let him slide,
And swear ii was II fair election
on the winning side.
Shoddy papers Will sustain you,
For the sake of fee,
Where the HnyonCt rules the Ballot,
And the polls are free ito all that vote for
Abraham.D
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
One Drop at a Time.

Have you ever watched an icicle, as 1t
formed? You noticed as it froze one dropat
a time until it was foot long or more, lfthe
warter was clean, the icicle remained clear
and sparkled brightly in the sun but If tho
water was but slightly muddy, the iclcl(
looked foul and its beauty was spoiled
Just so our characters are forming--on'
Ittle thought or feeling at time adds it
influence. If each thought be pure anC
right, the soul will be lovely, and sparkle
with happiness; but if impure and wrong
there will be final deformity and wrctched
ness.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28

One evening clergyman gave out the
hymn, which was in measure rather harder
than usual and the deacon led off. At its
close the clergyman said:
. Brother B-will please repeat the
hymn, as l cannot pray after such sing
ing.
another tune and the clergyman proceeded
with his prayer. Having finished, he took
ND the book to give out the second hymn,
when he was interrupted by the deacon
gravely getting up and saying in voice
audible to the whole congregation
"Wiu Mr.. c. make another prayer! 1t
would be impossible for me to sing after
such praying as that.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
Selctt poetrp.
THE sUPERFLUOUs MAN.
BY JOHN q. SAKE.


III Is ascertained by the inspection Of the rci
listers of many countries, that the uniform prt
portion of male to female births is as q TO 20 a.
in respect to marriage every 2st ma
is naturally superlluous. Smiths Treatise
Iopu,dtion.l
have long been puzzled to guess,
And so have frequently said,
What the reason could really be
That never had happened to wed
But now IL is perfectly clear.
am under n natural ban;
The girls are already assigned
And am n supcrtluous mani
These clever statistical chaps
Declare the numerical run
OF women and men in the world
Is twenty to twcnty.und onci
And hence in the pairing, YOU sec,
Since wooing and wedding began,
For every cOnnubial score,
They've gotta superiuous man
BY twentics and twcnties theygo,
And giddly rush TO their fate,
For none of their number of course,
Can fail of aconjugal mate;
But while they are yielding in scores
To natures inflcXible plan,
There's never woman for me
For I'm superiluOus man!
1t isn't that l am a churl,
For solitude over inclined;
II isn't that l am at fault
In manners, or morals, or mind;
Then what is the reason, you ask,
am still with the bachelor clan
1mCrely was numbered amisS-
And I'm usupCrlluUuS man!
1t isn't that am In want
OF personal beauty on grace,
For many Il man with II wife
Is uglier far in the face;
Indeed among elegant men,
l fancy myself i'll the van,
But what is the value of that,
When I'm Il superiiuous man!
Although am fond Of the girls,
For aught could ever discrCn
The tender emotion | feel
Is one that they never return;
''Tis idle to quarrel with fate,
For struggle as hard as | can,
They're mated already you know
And I'm supcriluous man!
No wonder grumble at times,
With women SO pretty and plenty,
TO know that never was born
To figure us one of the Twenty;
But yet, when the average lot
with critical vision | scan,
l think it may be for the best
That I'm Il supertluous man!
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
The Missing Snuners.

I wonder what has become of the snuff
ers,' said Mrs. johnson. L have been look
ing for them all the evening, and / can not
find them high or low Nobody can give
any information. After while her tired
Dutchman of husband, getting sleepy,
commenced pulling off his boots preparatory
to going to bed. All day. said he, L tink
was got some little grabble stones in my
poot. | kess ket' EN- out now. He turned
up his boot and poured out the snuffers.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28

INTENTIONALLY Literary Steam
boat has the following Marriage Notice ;
MARRIED-Ont the 18th inst, by the hey,
Gabriel Broadhead, Mr.. Jeremiah SNORT :"
Miss. Mary Ellen Long Story
A very pleasant way of making long
story short
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
Andrew J. Bell,

COUNTY RECORDER AND NoTARHH Pu iindln, iiad'c,
Niilcrsburg O. Win fill up ana aekiioM M nc, WI ~ i
III Finds of Deeds &C., and record inc SANE
take Dispositions TO be used IN any '44niiee in in
iris state: also, Protest Notes, &c ONCE III
County Recorders Office
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-07
Summons.

TlERRIToRY OF NEyADA.-IN THE JUS
J. tees Court of the Gold Hill Township, In and
for the County of storey, ss.--The people Of the
Territory of Nevada, to JAMES TRANoR, send
greeting: You are hereby summoned to appear
before me in my Office in the Township of Gold
Hill in the County of storey on the 25th day OF
May AID. 1864 at o'clock, Pm, TO answer unto
the complaint of Federal Gold and Silver Mining
Company, In which they claim that you are in
dcbted TO them in the sum Of S94 60 per assess
ments due on forty feet of ground in said company
and levied by the Board of Trustees of said com
pany for the purpose OF developing and working
the company's mining claim US will more fully
appear by complaint on file and to which particu.
lar reference is here made, when judgment will be
taken against You for tho said amount, together
with costs and damages, you fail 20 appear and
answer. ...- .. ...r. .sE-...
To the Sheriff or any Constable of said County,
greeting: Make legal service and due return here.
Of. Given under my hand this 25th day Of April
AID. 1864. S. II. ROBINSON,
apro5 I'd Justice of the Peace Of said Township.