davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
CURATIVE PROPERTIES OF VA
TER

A Timely bath has proved a erea. and an
enduring blessing. There are not wanting
instanees on record where shoFer Of ram
has saved the lives Of persons. Such was
the case during the prevalence Of yellow
fever at Quarantine, on Staten Island. Pa
tients thar were given ny as lost have been
resuscitated and restored 10 health by being
obliged from the circumstances to enjoy
copious shower of rain during the night
while yet in their couchfs
The power Of water as panaesS Is really
wonderful It allsys al irritation and
physical excitement. let child burn itself,
and in moment the burnt part Is thrust
into the mouth and with the spittle the 6re
is put out If it were possible 70 wrap a
person caught in flames from burning clothes
IN vet blankets before the air could reach
the burn, WE believe any case durable could
be healed by nothing bu8 cold water.
Ifyour limbs are weary or worn wash
them in cold water, and the body is refresh
ed in a moment If your feet are CALLED BY
tight boots, BY teo mach walking or by heat,
put them into a tub of cold water, wash them
thoroughly, lie down to rest, don't rub
them with towels OF dry them too quickly.
Let the water dry away upon them and
then, if any soreness remain, put them into
the water again, using perhaps little castle
soap, and all sor1less wiz pass of
One of the surest remedies for the tooth
ache, is the holdiAg of cold water in the
mouth eR 4 gets warm, then replenishing it
with rev application Of the same, and 50
Or, until, if the tooth can be relieved at all
it viii get well from this treatment.
An nexternal application of cold water Is a
sure remedy to fever, if applied in the begin
ming or early in the progress Of the same.
We do not believe that any fever that
ever attacked human being might not
have been arrested by some application Of
water, either internally or externally, or
both.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
FANNY FERN ANU MRS. srowE.
THEIR scHooL-aLRl. pArs

THEIR SCHOOLGIRL BAYS
Grace Greenwood in the book called
Eminent Women, writes as follows about
Fanny Fern and Mrs Stowe as they were
before they became known to fame:
Sara Willis was educated at Hartford, in
the far-famed seminary Of Miss Catharine
Beecher. At that time Harriet Beecher
Mrs. StoEe) was 8 teacher in this school.
She was amiabie and endearing in her ways.
and was recognized as a decidedly clever
young lady, with vein Of quiet humor, a
sleepy sort Of wit, that wokeup and flashed
out when least expected; but of a careless,
impractical turn Of mind.
She was not thought by any means the
equal in mental power and weight Of her
elder sister. whose character was fun of
manly energy, who was clear thinker aad
an excellent theologian, good, great, high
hearted woman, with a stroag vii and
remarkable executive abilities OF all his
children, DR.. Beecher Is sad to have most
highly respected CatharTne. Sara Willis
Ii AoG AEAE ldfE AekIA %AGEAABlAt EHUlQdNl0n
for successful authorship, through probably
nothing was further from her thoughts at
the time than such a profession.
1t would have seemed too quiet and
thought-eempelling a career for her, with
her heart as full Of frolic as lark's breast
is of singing. There are yet traditions in
that staid old town Of Hartford, of her mer-
ry schoolgirl escapades, her tricks and her
manners, that draw forth as hearty laugh
ter as the witty sallies, humorous fancies,
and sharp strokes of satire that give to her
writings their peculiar sparkle and dash.
If she grsppled with the exact sciences 1t
is not probable that they suffered much in
the encounter. For geometry she is said
to have an especial and inyeterate dislike.
Indeed, her teacher, Mrs. Stowe still tells a
story Of her having torn out the leaves of
Euclid to curl her hair with So, she laid
herself down to mathematical dreams, her
fair head bristling with acute angles, in pa
ralleiogrammatic and paraIlelobibedonic pa
piIiotes-in short, with more geometry out
side than in.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
TIE REBEL SPIRIT.

Saws the Charleston Mercury: Not one
honest man south of Mason's and Dixon 5
line is ashamed of the musket he bore or the
sword he drew in defence of the Confederate
flag. The man who says he is ashamed Of
It hes. Let every honest man at the North
be sure of the fact that the man who says 50
wants to swindle money out of somebody.
He is knave either in the first or last de
gree.
The Kentucky Times says:
eve venture the assertion that if Blair
were elected President instead Of Vice Pres
ident, and there should be left out some
States of the South by virtue of the recent
legislation of Congress, he soolild lripe Il all
out. take possession Of the White House, and
dot ont tte record Of istauly made By Con-
greSs sine 1865.
This is from the Memphis appeal:
go on, boys; swear to murder Northern
Huns! Arm yourselves and organize, and
be ready to respond promptly when called
on. and fight brayely, even ifyou get killed!
The same rebel sheet says: 1--WE do not
admit that the consolidation Of the States
and the destruction of their sovereignty are
lepitimated BY the result of the appeal to
arms. We do not love, and viii not pre-
tend to love, the Union, though we have
agreed to obey the laws of the eonqueror.
If the old Union cannot be restored, we VIII
hope to see the South independent before
we die; and if Jaoobinism is to become sn.
preme in the North, we wish there could bt
an impossible wall or gulf of fire between il
and our Southern States. The day WI
come when the South viii be independent
The Appeal further declares the countrl
Is JyJtrr too large 10 remain Ueg long Hnde
one g0reranlsat and the day iCiR coRAe '0hcl
fhs ,Soath lCiH be i'adepeRdeat
The Augusta Constitutioaalist says: Th'
hold declaration of Francis p Blair, JT., tn
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
THEY LEARN NOTHING.

-Four years ago people were greatly anus
ed by finding the Democratic platform
which declared the war failure, and de-
manded an immediate cessation of hostili-
ties-printed in many Of the country pa
pers on the same page with reports Of the
capt1re of Atlanta BY Sherman,
The year before that, Mr.. Seymour, of
this State, distinguished himself by a dol
orUus Fourth-of July Grafton in this city; in
which he warned his hearers that we could
not afford to carry on the war any longer,
that We could never beat the rebels. But
while he was speaking Vieksburg was sur
rendered to Grant, and Lee was beginning
to Ay from Meade at Gettysburg: and Sey-
mour's speech was accompanied in the next
day : papers With gloss most Enweleome to
him and those who thought with him.
A number Of experiences Of this kind
ought to have warned the Democratic lea
ders not to attempt prophecy. Their
strength does not lie in that direction;
events appear to have a spite against them.
It would be difficult TO imagine anything
more inappropriate than General Sherman's 5
capture Of Atlanta just after the Democrat
ic Convention had solemnly declared the
war q failure, and demanded immediate
cessation of hostihties; but the circumstan-
ces under which the Democratic platform
appears this morning are not more fortu-
nate.
The platform denouDees the Freedmau's $
Bureau and demands its abolition; but
Congress had already passed an act discon-
tinning the Bureau, which became law
yesterday; and General Howard gives notice
in the same papers in which the democratic
platform is printed, that the Bureau has
ceased 10 South Carolina, and that he is
rapidly winding up its affairs IN the other
States
We read in the platform a demand for
the immediate restoration Of all the States;
and turning from this passage to another
column of the papers, read that while all
are restored but four, South Carolina, Viz
ginia, Mississippi and Texas, South Carroll
na has just adopted the amendment, and
viii doubtless be represented in Congress
within the week. But we read also in the
platform that the acts Of reconstruction are
"vo;d, " which means that the Democrats, if
they succeed. viii at once destroy all that
has been done, and put US back again to
1865. This is a promise which viii hardly
delight a people who have grown tired Of
the long reconstruction squabble. To re-
open this question, now settled in all but
three States, would be a calmity to the
country-but that is what the platform
threatens.
There are but two points in the Democrat
ic platform which events have not forestal-
led; the clause fa7oring the taxation Of
bonds and their payment in greenbacks;
and the clause demanding protection to
American industry" But even IN these
two particulars, General Butler and Nh.
Thaddeus Stevens, the one with the bin
taxing bonds and the other with the
with the new tariff bill. are doing all they
can to meet the requirements Of their Dem
ocratic friends and allies s-EUeaiag Post
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04

ez many times ez they thot necessary.
1 About ten o clock Pollock came up to vote,
at wieh wuz surprised When | say SUI
prised mean it. The very presence ~
the man at sich time and place wuE start
lin, and il he'd terrible efFeck on the pup
ulis. Watt" sed Tssaker Gavitt, indig-
naudy "shel Illinoy Ablishnist--a man
not born in Kentueky-a man who holds
/ views so totally different from ourn, persoom
to vote at these ere poles? Never
And Issaker, biin over with rage, went
for him, in Eich be Buz assisted by the en-
tire balance nv the Corners. The Wretehed
man paid a heavy penalty for his insolenee.
he wuz carried of by some sympathizin
niggers, a mere wreck Nv his former self.
A little later the ''Yoonun men, ez they
call themselves, upon Pike Run, come down
to vote. But Issaksr and MePelter Tess-
oned with em. Kernel McPeIter remarks
wuz pertickerley impressive. They asserted
that e. Amerikin citizens they he'd rite to
vote, and shoOd do 50 at all hazards. The
Kernel in reply stated to en- that the Cor
ners Good not permit herself to be eontami-
mated with Ablishin votes. Should you
attempt it, sed he impressively, the blood
Nv the Corners win be up, and | wont be
answerable for the eonsekences BewAreF
They pressed forerd, when from among
our people single shot WIZ heard, and the
head Nv one Nv EN-, a preacher fell ETithin
in the dust.
/ pitied the poor wretch, but wat kin we
do? Why will they come about Us, irrita-
tin our people with their inceniary votes ?
That man had a family. Wat reason viii
he give them, when he's carried home dead,
for his ontimely deceese? Its ever thus
The Ablishnists will never let US alone.
And yet l spose that hireliu and subsidiz-
ed press in the North, in the face Nv the
provOcashen we received, viii accuse Us nv
murderin this mani
Our ambiShen wuz to heV the vote clean
Dimekratic. But it wuz not so. At about
! p. m, Joe Bigler, who heerd Nv the do
ins, come to the polls Issaker and McPel-
ter wuz goin to prevent him from votin,
but the william drawd a revolver the mint
they lookt at him, and they partid, maxim
lane for him to the hat
docs any one challenge my vote p sed
be, cockin his weapon. ''Ef so, let EN-
speak
But no one interfered, and took it.
When we eountid out, there was barely one
Ablishn ballot in the hat 1t Wuz Bigler's.
But we were neer enuif yoonanimus, and
We perpose to keep so. The process is sim
pie. 1t consists merely in shootin all wAo
differ with Us Thus we hev peeee at home.
Our politikle prOspecks are mixed. The
reduckshen Nv the tax on whisky inclined
many nv our voters towards Repubhcanism,
but l headed this orf BY swearin that the
Democrisy wuz pledged to take it orf alto
gether The Northern papers assertin that
Bare's letter don't mean reToloosheD is
hurten US some, but that is more than bal
anced by the ease with wich we kin organ
ize Yesterday an entire regiment in the
Confedrit servis reorganized as a Seymoro
and Blare CIub-retainin their officers ez
doorin the war, and yoosin the identikle
rolls, flags and SIGH 1t aids US wonderfy.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey, p NJ,
(Wich is Postmaster.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
WORCESTER RofDIcrIoxARYrAME,

Doctor Worcester, in his latter days, The
died IN 1865, at the age of eighty seldom
walked abroad, hislimbs being affected with
slight paralysis. He was, however, a con-
slant attendant at Christ Church, the
Episeopalian, and walked slowly there and
back on Sunday mornings, accompanied by
Mrs. Worcester. He took daily exercise,
driving In curious old-fashioBed buggy,
with an equally queer old-fashioned tum-
bling, jolting horse, all in harmony with the
quaint occupant within. 1t was curious
sight to see the venerable photographer,
rumhling along slowly over the pleasant sub
urban highways, keenly enjoying the brief
relief from his plodding labors.
Few, however, knew him, so retired was
he in all his habits so intent upon his great
work, his association with the other were
not intimate A tall, gaunt man, thin and
apparently feeble, his lower limbs hardly
suffcing the carry him at the slowest pace;
his hair long and gray, curling toward the
shoulders; his face spare and short, with,
however, a broad forehead and dullisb, blus
eyes, hidden beneath spectacles. In man.
ner he was simple and cordial his welcome
was always gracious; his hospitality unoster-
tatious, but always pleasant. His voice
was high and feeble, and in the latter years
of his life his hearing was very much affec-
ted.
A stringent moralist and earnestly pious,
he was the model of quiet Christian gen
tleman. His charities, unseen, were dis
covered, after his death, to have been wide
spread and well directed. He died posses
sed of an extensive property, consisting
chiefly Of lands and houses in the vicinity of
his residence, where he had lived for many
years previous to his departure from earth.
Although graduate Of the rival University
of Yale, DR.. Worcester literary career had
always been identified with Harvard.
The latter university adopted his dictiOn-
ary as an authority in preference to that Of
DR.. Noah Webster, patronized by Yale,
where the latter also graduated. In the
United States, Woreester's Dictionary Is
generally preferI?d among scholars for ortho-
graphy, and that of Webster for accurate
definitions; the scale, on the whole, appears
to be turning in favor Of the latter, due in
part, perhaps, to the essays recently pub
lished thereon by the distinguished Ameri-
can phiIologist, the Hon George ?. Marsh,
now minister at the Court of Florence.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
WEARING OF THE BLUE.


AR Wearing Of tke Green.
Hurrah for Appomattoz! Hurrah for General
With him We whipped the Rebels, and song for
him we chant,
Wen rally round bis battle flag, the flag of the
Union true,
And drive the Rebel Gray again, before the 10y
al Blue:
Oh, he knows the Boys in Blue Yes he knows
the Boys in Blue,
And with ballots as with bullets be viii find
them ever true
And the Graybacks as the Copperbsads viii learn
the truth anew.
That our Yankee lads win ne'er forget the wear
ing Of the Blue
They may weep for stonewall jackson, and Of
Lee they stin may vaunt,
While we shoEt for APPomattox, and vote for
General Grsns
They may sympathiae with Davis, and uphold
his beaten crew,
But no Rebel Gray shall ever stay the Loyal
Boys in Blue.
Oh, We trust the Boys in Blue On, We know the
Boys in Blue.
And they'll never finch, or give an inch, while
work they have TO do;
bat view,
And well show you that we don't forget the
wearing Of the Blue.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04

freedmen. While they we're slaves thei,
masters dressed them in liDscy-woOlsey, and
bright cotton handkerchief or a plug Of
tobacco was the greatest luxury the slave
knew. But now they are free they are ac-
qairlng new wants. which stimulate them to
more steady and remuDeratiye industry;
and 4 only we can have peace-if Grant
and has policy rule, these millions of blacks,
with their new wants, win soon create a
southern trade worth dozen times that
OF the few planters Of the old times.
BY al means let us foster the southern
trade; It viii be in few years so great, 50
secure, 80 various, that no one viii think
regretfully Of the old southern trade, for
which merchants were asked to sell their
souls and their honor. Bot to foster, to
increase this trade, We must have peace,
Law, order, equal rights, free speech, an in
telligent and independent laboring class;
then Se shall have industry, production,
and desire for greater comfort, for better
meaas of enjoyment; in short, southern
tEs3e of real and sound value.
The election ofSeymour and Blair on the
platform Of revolution, however, would at
once unsettle everything in the South. 1t
would alarm capital and drive it away from
the southern states; it would paralyze indus
try; it would cripple enterprise, lessen pro-
duetion; and in the precise measure that it
re- established the supremacy Of the old
planting aristocracy it would injure the
southern trade by discouraging and disa-
bling the laboring class, white as well as
black.-Eueaiag Post.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
VOL. Al: NO. 33

Of the male persuasion on the street,
we are reminded Of the exhortation of the
raw.boued, Informed preacher when
illustrating the wonders of creation. Raising
his long, skinny arms high above his head,
he exclaimed, God made this frame. A
voice in the congregation replied, then
his tools were mighty dull
Here comes a SIX foot gallant, with num-
Der ten boot, and figure like a pair Of
tongs. There is not enough of his legs to
make shadow, and he walks as If each
boot was double bass VOL By his side,
perhaps is another deyotee of the style half
his length, whose makeup remind one of a
plum-pudding perched on tie handle of a
pair Of pinehers There they GO, the ex.
tremes Of folly, and the very essence Of lu-
dicrousness. Nothing woman ever wore
viii compare in folly with tight breeebes on
a sandy-legged human biped.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
goetrg.
NORA o,NEAL.

Oh! Pm lonely tonight love, without you,
And sigh for one glance Of your eye;
For sure there's a charm, lore about you,
Whenever ! know you are nigh.
Like the beam o. the star when 'tis smiling,
Is the glance which your eye can't conceal
And your voice is so sweet and beguiling,
That lore yop, sweet Nora 0'Neal
CHoRUs:
Oh don't think that ever III doubt you,
Ny love will never eoneeaI5
Oh! I'm lonely tonight, love, without you,
NJ darling, sweet Nora O'Nesl-
oh the nightingale sings in the wildwood,
As if every note that he knew,
Was learned from .sour sweet voice il childhood
To remind ne, sweet Nora, Of yeu.
But think, love 50 often about you.
And yoa don't know how happy feel
But I'm lonely tonight, love, without you,
Ny darling sweet Nora o'Neal-
Oh why should I weep tears of soTre~
Or Why to let hope lose your place?
Won't meet you my darling O-morrow,
And smile on your beautiful faces
Win You meet me, Oh say you viii meet me,
With kiss at the foot Of the lane?
And I'll promise whenever you greet me,
That III never be lonely again.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
.sTIGHT BREECHES''--ANA ATTACK
FROM THE OTHER SIDE.

Some female, in an apparently revenge
ful spirit, thus holds forth on a prevailing
eentleman's fashion: The press has never
been remiss in deprecating the follies Of
the female sex upon the occasion Of each
change in style of female apparel, but it
is a noticeable fact that the popinjay style
of breeches now in vogue, more ridiculous
than anything the women ever wore, IS un-
noticed. Female loneliness is such that it
can make charming any extreme fashion;
but what length Of familiarity, pray heaven,
can ever make toierable- less comelS
the dexter appendages Of human crane
wound about with cloth 50 tightly as to stoE
the circulation?
The present style Of pantaloons is nelthel
comfortable, comely nor economical. Int
''swen" that adopts ID can neither stoop MOI
sit down without positive danger of an eE
posure Of his person from rupSure causet
BY tension. When we see these fashionable
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
CATECHIsM FOR THINKERS I

What is the cause Of the high taxes?
The war.
Who made the war?
The Democratic party.
Why did they make the war;
Because they we're expelled from political
power
Why were they expelled from power?
Because they were owned, body and soul,
BY an aristocratic, ambitious, sectional class
interest, which sought, in the defiance of the
Constitution, the will of the people, aud nat
ural right, to perpetuate its power by OBJ
tanning control of the territories and the
States to be formed out of them.
What chiefly encouraged this aristocrat-
ic class interest to make war upon the
Uuion?
The oft-repeated, stereotyped, public dec
larations of Democrats of all sections, never
rebuked or disavowed by that party, that
the Union should be dissolved if the de-
mands of the Shareholders we're resisted by
the people.
Who we're In power when this aristocrat-
ic interest undertook TO dissolve the UniOA2
The Democratic party.
What did they do to prevent it?
Nothing.
What did they do to assist the traitors
They gave them the forts, arsenals, can
non, ammunition and public money in the
South, and sent them all they could from
the North.
What did Gen. Scott beg of them to do to
prevent the war?
To do as Gen. Jackson did, garrison all
the Southern forts.
What reply did they maker
That the shareholders would not like it
How long was the Democratic party in
power after secession commenced
Three months.
What we're the traitors doing all that time?
Surrounding Fort Sumter with batteries
of British guns.
What did the Democratic Administration
order Major Anderson to do ?
To let them alone.
What did the Republican Administration
do when Sumter grew short of provisions ?
Sent them more provisions.
What did the Democratic party at
Charleston do with those British guns?
They rained shot and shell upon the old
flag on the walls Of Sumter until Anderson
was compelled to lower the flag and evacuate
the fort.
What was the consequence?
-Four years Of civil war; the death Of half
million of men national debt of three
thousand million of dollars; the high tax and
high prices.
II the Democratic Administration did
nothing to prevent the dissolution of the
Union, what did the Republican Administra-
ton do
They prevented ii.
Who said the war was failure?
The Democratic party.
Was it a failure
Yes; on their side.
What do they ask the people to do; now
that they have failed in the war they rnade2
Restore them to power.
VIII the people do it?
We guess not.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04

A SISTERS INFLUENCE THAT man
has grown among kind and loving sisters, "
| once heard lady remark. "And why do
YOU think SOP said T. Because Of the rich
development of all the tender feelings Of the
heart, which are so apparent in every word. "
A sister influence is felt even in manhood s
later years, and the heart Of him who has
grown cold with its contact with the world,
win warm and thrill with pure enjoyment as
some incident 2wakes with the soft tones
and glad melodies of his sister voice. And
be will turn from purposes whicha warped
and false philosophy has reasoned into ex-
pediency and weep for the gentler influence
which loved him in his earlier years.