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Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
A Mere Nose of Wax

The Radicals use the poor Southern negro
as a mere nose of wax; they declare him fit
to exercise the highesr prerogative Of citi
zenship, and at the same time favor every
scheme which is calculated to keep him un-
der guardianship. He is well qualified to
vote, they say, but when it comes to the
matter of managing his own little affairs, the
Radicals virtually hold that he really does
not know that two and two make four, can t
count ten on his fingers, and doesn' know
which month comes first, July or December !;
hence the strong support the Radicals give
all such contriyances asFreedmen' Bureaus,
and all military orders which assume to reg
ulate the wages of labor and the distribution
of its earnings wherever negroes are con-
cerned. General Sickles recently made an
order respecting the disposal of the Sea
Island crop in South Carolina. He ordered
that all the cotton there grown on shares
shall hereafter be placed in charge of parties
selected by him and divided-the planter s
share to be given to him, and the negroes
share to be sold by said agent, and the pro-
ceeds paid by them to the negroes. Possibly
this may be a judicious arrangement though
it may be doubted whether the negro viii
fare better at the hands Of Government
agent than if he were left to settle his bust
ness with his employer. His employer has
an interest in treating him with some hon
esty, for if he does not, thick as we may
assume the negro's skull to be, there may
get into it an idea that he has been cheated,
which Will certainly not quicken him to labor
or make him generally more useful as a Ia
borer, but quite the contrary. 1t is the en-
ployer's Interest to treat him fairly; but a
Government agent has no such interest He
may skin the negro numerically, without
fear of consequence; Of course, all this
goes upon the supposition that any regula-
ton is necessary.
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
How the Romans Cooked Pea
cock.

The most elegant dish of the Romans was
stuffed peacock. A young peacock is eat
able when properly roasted, but an old one
is really very poor eating but the Romans
used to prepare them in the following way
They selected those with the most beautiful
plumage, and stihed them to death, believ-
ing that that mode of killing gave more bril-
liancy to the plumSge. AS soon as dead
they carefully split the bird open, by an in
cision all along the back, from the bill to
the rump. They then took out all the bones,
meat, &C.. leaving only the bones of the legs
to the first joint, those of the wings to the
second joint, and the head whole, except
the brain, eyes and tongue. The inside Of
the skin vas now Immediately lined with a
coating of glue, and filed with bran to keep
it in shape The feathers that were spoiled
were vanished, and false but brilliant eyes
were placed instead of the natural ones.
When dry, the skin was filed with roasted
birds chopped and cooked, and carefully
sewed up. The bird was served on a large
silver dish made for the purpose. The dish
was of an oblong shape, and in the middle
and sOldered to it, was something resem-
bling the trunk of a tree with a kind of
limb on which the bird was fastened. 1t
was meant to look just as if it were alive,
and resting itself on a perch, with an ear of
millet in its bill. 1t was always served at
the beginning Of the dinner, and was one of
the last dishes eaten. 1t was always carved
on the table, and while the host was serving
it, it was etiquette for one of the guests to
harangue upon the beauties of the plumage
and the excellence of the meat
The Romans were not deceived about the
excellence of peacock's flesh. They knew
very well, and so did their authors that not
particle Of the bird s meat had been used.
They somehow got into the habit of speak
ing Of the goodness of the meat, and 50 they
kept on doing so.
This is very likely the reason why we read
in many books that the species Of peacock
eaten by the Romans has been lost, and that
it was entirely different from that which we
now have Some believe also that the
kinds of locusts and of dormouse eaten by
them were not the same that exists now.
The reason is probably no better
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
OLD MUSIC.

Back from the misty realms of time,
Back from the years agone,
Family we catch the singing rhyme,
And hear the melody and chime
Of olden songs and strains sublime,
Like carol of birds at dawn.
And ever we hear them, soft and low,
Harping their music sweet,
Songs that we loved in the long ago,
Ripping their liquid ebb and flow,
Drifting their cadence to and fro,
Like the fall Of fairy feet.
Some faces our hearts will ever hold,
Some smiles, we remember yet; lgold,
There were flowing locks like the sunsets
There were parted lips of Cupid mould,
And the songs they sung can ne er grow old,
For our hearts can ne er forget.
The tunes that the voice of girlhood sung,
The chords that we loved full well
When hopes were buoyant hearts were young
When fairy bells in the flower-cups sung,
And ever fell from a maiden tongue
The words Of witching spell.
All, well-a-day tbs a story past,
Which may not tell again,
Twas happiness too sweet to last
The heavy clouds on her grave are cast,
And her voice is stilled, and above her fast
Falls the soft summer rain.
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14

CURIOUS RELATIoNsHIP.-A European
friend of mine related the following story
[ married a widow who had a grown up
daughter My father visited our house very
often, fell in love with my step daughter and
married her. So my father became my SON
in-law. and my step-daughter my mother,
because she was my father wife. Sometime
after my wife had son-he was my father S
brother-in-law, and my uncle, for he was the
brother of my step-mother.
My father wife, that is, my step-daugh-
ter, had also a son, he was of course my
brother, and in the meantime my grand
child, for he was the son Of my father and
my step-daughter
My wife was my grandmother, because she
was my mothers mother. l was my wife S
husband and grand-child at the same time.
And as the husband of persons grand
mother is his grandfather, was my own
grandfather.
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
Beware of Geary.

When the great General Geary, now Gov
ernor elect of Pennsylvania, was on the
stump for himself, he was very fond of relat-
ing, among his friends at least, the following
thrilling narrative-the like of which, is cal
culated to make ones hair stand on end, is
not to be found even in the pages of g The
Bold Buccaneer, or the Bloody Black Brig
of Bermuda"
9 Stoncwall jackson, while lying upon his
improvised COT suffering from wounds of
which he was conscious he must soon die,
sent for General Longstreet to come. to him
at once, as he had something to say to him.
The General shortly appeared The dying
hero, almost in the agonies of death, raised
himself upon his elbow, and with voice of
deathly earnestness thus addressed the South
Carolina General: General Longstreet, did
you observe that tall, importing form to-day
seated on black horse in the ttickest Of
the fight as we did battle? Quoth General
Longstreet, | did; indeed, my dear Gener-
al. That man so valiant was General
Geary! exclaimed Stonewall. Mark me,
beware of him avoid him beware OF his
troops Meet him not when you can shun
him. for he is irresistible = Longstreet
arose to depart but as he reached the door
Stonewall called to him again, Longstreet,
beware of Geary = and fell back upon his
couch dead With this dying injunction to
his comrade, the hero of the Shenandoah
expired. "
Oh, my
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14

BI- A boy whose honesty is to be more
commended than his ingenuity, once carried
some butter to a merchant in exchange for
goods. The butter having a beautiful ap-
pearance and the merchant desirous of pro-
curing such for his own use invited the boy
to bring him all the butter his mother could
spare. 1 don't think she can spare any
more said the boy, 'forshe said she would
not have spared this, only rat fell into the
cream and she did not like to use It herself. -
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14

sa- A young woman oils, who present
ed the most remarkable instance on record
of the disease called hydrocephalus, has re-
Gently died in New York. Her head was
thirty inches in circumference, and
twenty-seven over the vertex, from one ear
to the other; while her body was little more
than q skeleton. Her mother had stead
fastly refused the most tempting offers of
money Mr. Barnum offering S25,0OO, to
have her afflicted child exhibited to the pub
lie, and now refuses, on any terms, to have
the remains preserved in the interest Of
science.
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
LlFE-HEkLTH-STRENG
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when. IL they would give the Great French Remedy,
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Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
RELIEF IN TEN MINUTES.
BrYan'S Pulmonic Waters.

IFThe original Medicine established in 1877. and
frstarticle of The kind ever introduced under the
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The genuine can be known BY the name BRYAN be-
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These Waters have been before the public for nearly
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Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
Old Things.

Give me old songs, those exquisite bursts
of melody which thrilled the Tyres of the in
spired poets and minstrels of long ago.
Every note has borne on the air tale of joy
and rapture, OF sorrow ard sadness They
tell of days gouc by, and time has given
them voice that speaks to us of those who
breathed those melodies may they be mine
to bear till life shall end as Il launch my
boat upon the seas of eternity, may their
echoes be waited on my ear, to cheer me on
my passage from earth TO fatherland
Give me the old paths where we have wan
dered and culled the flowers of friendship in
the days Of ''Auld Lang Syne" Sweeter
far the dells whose echoes have answered to
our voices, whose turf is not stranger to
our footsteps, and whose rills have in child
hoods days reflected back our forms, and
those Of our merry playfellows from whom
we have parted and meet no more in the old
hooks we loved so well. May the old paths
be watered with Heavens own dew, and be
green forever in my memory
Give me the old house upon whose stairs
we seem to hear light footsteps, and under
whose porch merry laugh seems to mingle
with the winds that whistle through the old
elms beneath whose branches lie the graves
of those who once trod the halls and made
the chambers ring with glee.
And oh, above all, give me old friends,
hearts bound to mine in life's sunshiny
hours and link so strong thatall the storms
of earth might not break it assunder spirits
congenial, whose hearts through life have
beat in unison with my own Oh, VIXEN
death shall still this heart would not ask
for aught more sacred to hallow my dust
than che tear Of an CID friend.
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
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Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14

THAT'S IT.-We once heard of very
rich man who was badly injured by his being
run over. "It isn't the accident, said he,
" that l mind that isn't the thing; but
the idea of being run over by an old sMill
cart makes me mad.
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
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Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14

Explosive DENTISTRY An Irisman who
was troubled with toothache, determined to
have an old offender extracted but there be-
ing no dentist near, he resolved to do the
ieb himself whereupon he filled the exca-
walton with powder ); but being afraid to
touch it off, he put slow matehto it, light
ed it. and then ran around the corner to get
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14

Gg A bachelor editor, sensitive as to his
rights, objects to taking wife, through fear
that if she should have baby, his cotem-
poraries, who habitually copy without giving
credit, would refuse to give him credit for
the baby
Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14

R6- A man and woman have been dis
covered living In hut in the woods near
Harrisburg. who wear no clothing except
IL u
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RELIEF IN TEN MINUTES.

TO Vocalists and Public Speakers, the Waters
peculiarly valuable they will IN day the
most severe occasional hoarseness and their regular
for few days will at all times increase the pow
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are regularly used BY many professional yocaiIsts
The very great celebrity of this valuable remedy
inc nced unprncipied persons to prepare base imta
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purchaser and injure the character of the genuine
medicine.
See that the word "BRYAN.' is stamped on each
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Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
Bryan's PuImonic WATERS

cure Coughs Colds. Sore Throat. Hoarseness sthma
Catarrh, Bronchitis. Difficult Breathing, Splitting Of
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the medical prope ties combined in form so
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Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
DR. MARShALL's
CATARRH SNUFF.

. This Snuff has thoroughly proved Itself to be the
best article known for caring the CATARRn. COLD IN
The HEAD and HEADACHE. 1t has been found an ex-
ceent remedy in many caces of Sore Eyes, DEAF
FREs has heen reinoved by tand HEARG has often
heen greatly improved by its
II Is fragrant and agreeabiy, and
- GIVES IMMEDIATE RELIEF
To the dull heavy pains caused by diseases of the
Head. The sensation after using it delightful and
{nvigorating IL opens and purges all obstructions
strenghens the glands and gives healthy action to
the parts affected.
More than Thirty Years
OfSale and use of DR.. MARsHALL's CATARRH and
HEADACHE SNUFT. has proved its gr .at value for all
the diseases Of he Head and at this
itstands higher than ever before.
IL is recommended by many of the best physicians
and used with great success and satisfaction
rvwhere.
Readthe Cert fcates of Wholesale Drug.
gists in 1854
The undersigned. having To- many years been ac-
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ACHE SNUFF. and sold 1t in whoesaletrade cheer
fully that elieve il to be equal in every
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MEN are generally deserted in adversely.
When the sun sets, our very shadows refuse
to follow us.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1866-04-19

- The WEAKER SEx.-Ihs weaker sex :
Emile Vilsnrs bids the world ponder on its
Ii verdict. lie has made his calculations.
When an average lady begins her i.lilst 10
the morn ng. she weighs 3. s.msthing bi4ueoa
-even,y-fve and eighty pounds. A fra;l,
eble ere ,t"re is this; . lesder A0Wor: .
mple of the weaker and perseouted eek!
Weak Let the reader reflect. she ~i.l
carry, bef"e she is e.mplsaely eqaipred
foc he Boss de Boulogue, ninsty-1vo
y rtle of textile fabrics 0f variou Qualit,ao
aad weig Is, from lava to velvet TIES
TO low the ,awl, the bonner. aadith VEL.
studied w,lh steel ornameats. Aad nov
tor jewe.ry aud DECORATIONS Of al kiads,
combs, d.adems. b.aielsstes. ehaia~,
buckles. neckiAce, sar-rings. false hair,
friset,es. powder, paint, higk-kesled beess I
NJ Emile Villals, in brief. hAs & sur1d iAe
weight that '.he weaker sex" easily ear-
ries. summer afternoons, to the Bluie, in
he shape Of toilette. This weight 10, be
tells us, u little more than eighteen pounds
-exac,ly the weight of carbineer's
breastplate! This breastplate the carbineer
bears only GU horseback; whereas the
weaker sex dances under her load. Simplo
f"lks visiting the tower have wondered
how the brave men Of old bore aud fought
in the massive armor on show there how
muci, greater should their wonder 30 TO eco
'.ille weaker SEX dancing under the
weightof = modern beauty's complies COS
tune. szssSs. .ssfsS5t & 50
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1866-04-19

How to DRESS WILL.--A friend infol ms
us that he hlred smart cOlOre0 boy, sOme
time .gO, a. house servant, and the boy
served hlm falth!ullytfOr Z very n,oue. ate
compenssli n. gUars friend was however,
uneasy in mind nvn one pUini --,he boy
dressed much better than his eu.l lloyer,
aud IL was impossible 70 understand wners
the cash came tium'o purcnare. the tis.s
clothes he wore. Visions VI missing taOle
spoons. Or Something If . similar MAI ure,
arose painful, D6his dist,.rbed mind, aid
he u:tsrminsa tO question: t.s my sierlOus
ool0red dane y NJ 10 how the 4thlng was
done. The question was satisfactorily
aa wered thuss: Il plty-, High Low -Jask
dsaparty dat don tlcndsrst .lid dc ysms
like / loss. "--C Chayiestons lNs.es :.lt8f