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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28
/ of ltheir stands to be aver ready to Welcome

of their stands to be ever ready to welcome
the way-faring man.
The last Sabbath spent in your midst l
strolled though the Episcopal churchyard and
visited the graves of my comrades buried
there The first spot that attractedam my at
tention, and to which my heart lead me, was
the graves of my brothers who fell in battle
Since 1 last visited hat'-sacred spot monu-
nsnt has been erected there, bearing on its
sides their names and dates of death, and on
the frontispiece this inscription:
1--WE yield them meath thy christening rod,
Up to their country and their God"
Farther on 1 passed by the graves of two
Others brothers in love, in arms and in death.
The eldest we buried there with martial hon
ors-the younger fell victim of Yankee
cruelty at Fortress Monroe, and was brought
there and silently inferred. But little re-
moved lies another, as brave as he was noble
and generous, favorite at the campfire,
soldier on the field. Further on lies still
another, who fell in his youth, in the front of
battle on the famous field of Brandy.
"Soldiers restl thy warfare o'er
Sleep the sleep that knows no waking"
Sleep on brother, comrade and friend
will ever cherish your memory, and when
life's fitful fever is past asks the rich boon to
sleep among you. JEB.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28
A Parable.

go, dear 1 am so tired of Sunday" So said
Willie playful little boy who was longing
for the Sabbath to be over, that he might re-
turn to his amusements.
"Who wants to hear a story 2" said kind
friend who was present. 81, 81" land ], "
"and l. said the children Us they gathered
around him. Then he told them a parable.
Our Savior, when he was on earth, often taught
the people by parallels.
The parable told the little boys was Of
kind man who had some very rich apples
hanging upon tree. A poor man was pass
ing by the house of the owner, and he stopped
ed these ripe golden pippens-there were
lust seven of them The rich owner could
afford to give them away and il gave him 50
much pleasure to make this poor man happy
that he called him, and said !:
"My friend, will give you part of my
fruit" So he held out his hand and received
six of the apples. The owner had kept one
for himself.
Do you think the poor man was grateful for
his kindness? No, indeed. He wanted the
seven pippins ali for himself; and, at last, he
made up his mind that he would watch his
opportunity, and go back and steal the other
apple.
nant. "He ought 70 have been ashamed OF
himself; and hope he got well punished for
stealing that apple"
Chow many days are there in a week, Will
lie" said his friend
''sevcn," said Willie, blusbing deeply; for
now he began to understand the parable, and
he felt an uneasy sensation at the heart
conscience began to whisper to him, "and
ought not boy to be ashamed Of himself who
is unwilling on the seventh day to lay aside
his amusements? Ought he not to be pun
ished, if he will not remember the Sabbath
day to keep 1t holy ?"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28
POLITICAL.
TIE JEWS.

How many colGly pass them byS
Or mayhap idly sneer;
But deep emotions throng my heart
when Israel's sons appear.
Far down the distant vale OF hme'
My busy fancy fies.
When Salem's warlike sons went forth
To deeds of high emprise.
Tho land of beauty and of song,
Unrivalled Palestinei
Where Sharon's rose burst into blooniJ
And honey blent with wine
What does not mankind owe to her.
Whom like an amulet.
She hung upon the Pagan world
diamond cased in jet.
The very laws that guide our feet
Through every blooming zone,
Were in her sacred courts preserved
On blocks of solid stone.
Nor ia the lion Judah dead
His march is stately yet,
And many n star of beauty beams
In lsrael's coronet.
Her dark eyed daughters still are fair,
Her sons are stalwart still,
Their arms stretch forth for every prize,
Nerved with an iron will.
Their names are written proud and high,
In Music and in Art,
And Fame no wide arena boasts
Where they bear mott part.
Thro' forums and through senate halls,
Their silvery accents roll,
And with Isaiah's burning fire,
Enohant the human soul.
And Judah seems to bear aloft
Aladdin's wondrous lamp,
And earth responsive, yields her gems
Where Judah's exiles tramp.
AIthou gh they roam without land
From Salem darkiy hurled
Her Princcs rule, with magic hand,
The Golfers of the world:
They are power. The Gentiles feel,
In every throbbing core,
The strange influence OF that tribe
Which roams creation DER.
Imperial race thy splendors gilt
The glimmering dawn of time,
When Earth lay blushing in the arms
OF Eden's golden prime.
And brighter yet the flames shall rise
Where Salem's affairs stand,
Times last great act shall charm the world
In our Redeemer's Land.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28
An Extraordinary Woman.

An extraordinary female character is now
an inmate of the Hotel des Invalides Lieu
tenant Madame Burlon entered the Hotel
more than fifty years ago, and was the only
female soldier ever admitted to receive its
support. Angeliane Marie Joseph Duche-
min was born in 17F2. Twenty years later
found her upon the most exciting stage the
world has ever known. Louis XVI was be-
headed, and France Republic Angeique
was a wife, mother, citizen, soldier
She served several years in the various caS
pacities of corporal, corporal-fourier and ser
geant-major. At the age of twenty seven,
in the year 1893, she was admitted to the
Hotel, not because she was woman, widow,
mother, but by her right and merit as q
wounded soldier. There she received her
support and the small pay allowed to nom
commissioned officers, and in addition to thisI
for some time salary of eighty dollars as
clerk in the magazine of clothing. AT the
age of thirty>five she became the chief OF
this department, with n salary of $3.50 per
annum. BY her economy she was able to es-
tablish her daughter, and more recently to
aid her grand. children and great grand-
children. At the age Of seventeen she was
wife, at eighteen a mother, at twenty widow.
Her husband fell at Ajaccio, in Corsica
Three days after she learned his fate she took
the uniform of his regiment, and demanded
permission TO avenge his death. Two BROTH
ers had fallen in active service, her father
had died on the field of battle-her heart,
head and hand burned to send destruction to
tho English and Corsicans. She told the
history of the siege of Calvi. Eleven months
they had been blockaded, seventy>five days
bombarded; but she brought relief to the
garrison of the fort of Gesco, and the cross of
the Legion of Honor on her breast is her
country's acknowledgment of her heroic ac-
ton Madame Burton said she did not mind
wounds in each arm, nor fear the dark, but
set out alone at midnight, evaded the guards,
reused sixty starving women and led them to
the fort which was reached at two o'clock IN
the morning. She gave the women each half
pound of rice, which all considered an ex-
cellent bargain. Still later, at the siege OF
Calvi. all the cannoniers having been killed,
the non. commissioned officers were called
upon to fill their places; it was thus, while
defending n bastion, in aiming sixteen
FOUNDER, that she was wounded in the leg by
the bursting of bomb shell. This last wound
disabled her for service and entitled her to o
place in the Hotel dos Invalides. October
%, 1928, upon the proposition of General dc
Latour Maubourg, Governor of the lnvalides,
she received the grade of second Lieutenant.
She never threw off the military uniform but
once, and that for moments amusement to
her grandchildren, when she assumed female
attire. But the children, instead of being
amused, burst into tears, and begged their
grandpa ma to go back again to her soldiers
clothes.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28
A Woman Preaching in a Trance.

Mrs. Nancy Birney was born March 90,
1907, near Cadiz, Ohio. Her father reared
thirteen children, of whom five boys and four
girls are still living. AT the age of eighteen,
while pitching load of hay from wagon
into a NOW, She was struck by lightning,
which paralyzed the right half of her body
from the crown of her head down. She was
entirely insensible two hours She recovered,
and at the age of twenty-three years married
MIR. Birney. They are considered wealthy,
having fine farm and good brick residence
about one mile east of Tippecanoe. They
have reared three children-two sous aged
respectively thirty nine and twenty eight, and
one daughter aged twenty six years--all mar
ried and in good circumstances. MIR. Birney
is an exemplary member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, but his wife belongs to the
Presby terian Church, but she.says she is not
a sectarian in any sense whatever.
About twenty three years ago she was sud-
denly taken ill., as was supposed, and while In
an unconscious state delivered religious dis
course. From that time until the present
these spells have come upon her regularly
every two weeks. AT first they occurred on
week DAYS, but for the past twenty years they
have invariably happened on Sunday at about
10 o'clock, A. NJ For long time the house
was crowded On her preaching day. but lat
torly the novelty of the case has ceased to
excite the wonder of the neighborhood, and
those who now attend her preaching are most
" persons from distance. But rain or shine,
summer or winter, whether there be crowd
or only her own family present, she regularly
pa .ses into an unconscious state, and delivers
a religious discourse always one hour to an
hour and thirty minutes in duration.
She afirms most solemnly that she is
not conscious before nor after her discusses
of single word that she utters Indeed 1T
was long time before her family and friends
could convince her that she spoke at all while
in this strange state of obliviousness as to
what is passing in the outer world around
her Cleveland Herald
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28
JEFFERSON AND Boorn.-A New York
Latter to the Huntsville Courier. Iomrnal SAYS ::

JEFFERSON AND BooTH.-A New York
letter to the Louisville CourierJournalsays :
Jefferson's income this year will reach sew
enty,fv OF eithty thousand dollars. Booths
will hardly be less than that. Take this pres
eut engagement as specimen. Jefferson
gets five hundred dollars night and half the
receipts of the matinces The house has been
packed at every performance. The clear
profits cannot be less than nine thousand, per
haps ten thousand dollars week, of which
Jefferson gets at least four thousand and up
ward. He has chambers in Seventeeth street ;
but as there are no rehearsals, he goes out to
his place, twenty-four miles on the Erie road !;
every day. Saturday night he goes out and
stays till Monday noon or afternoon. BE has
thirty or forty workmen engaged upon the
grounds, and, when he has done with them, it
will be altogether the most charming country
residence in America.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28

COLD IN Sp1TzBEReIN.-No description
can give an adequate idea of the intense rigor
of the six months winter of this part of the
world. Stones crack with the noise ofthunder;
in crowded hut the breath of the occupants
will fall in flakes of snow and spirits, turn
to ice; the snow burns like caustic; if iron
touches the skin it brings the flesh away with
it; the solos of your stockings may be burnt
off your feet before you feel the slightest
warmth from the fire linen taken out of boil
ing water instantly stifFens to the consistency
of wooden board, aud heated stones will not
prevent the sheets of the bed from freezing.
If these are the effects of tho climate within
air-tight fire. warmed, crowded huts, what must
they be among the dark, storm-lashed noun
tain peaks outside.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28

LITTLE KISDNEssEs-Small acts Of kind
ness how pleasant and desirable do they
make life ! Every dark object is made light
by them When the heart is sad and de-
spondency sits at the entrance Of the soul, tn
fling kindness drives away despair, and makes
the path cheerful and pleasant. Who will
refuse kind act 1t costs the giver nothing.
but is invaluable to the sad and sorrowiDg.--
1t raises from misery and degradation, and
throws around the soul those halloWed joys
that were lost In Paradise.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28

TuE LoRp's PRAYER.-How many mil
lions and millions of times has that prayer
been offered by Christians of all denomina.
tions So wide, indeed, is the sound thereof
gone forth, that daily. and almost without in,
Permission, from the ends of the earth, and
afar off upon the sea, it is ascending to heaven
like incense and pure Offering Nor needs
it the gift of prophecy to foretel, that though
"heaven and earth shall pass away, these
away." till every petition in it has been an
swered-till the kingdom of God shall come,
and His will be done on earth as it is in
heaven. dfontqonery.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28

Young man, never speak lightly of
lady with whom you are intimate. The world
looks upon you az her friend, as one who will
defend her good name at all times, and never
allow it to be spoken disrespectfully of; and
If Won connect her name with idle Jest, il is
the "unkindest cut of all, and Injuries her
more than the same remark would from an
other
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28

"A gentleman who advertised for clerk
says that he paid attention to only four out
of sixty replies, because the remainder ex-
hibited bad spelling, bad writing, too much
independence, disposition to write too long
a letter, OF taste for writing il on fancy pa
per, and using fancy envelope and mono
gram.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28

"A lawyer when he first domieiled in
Detroit was so poor that he described his PoV-
erty as follows :: "When / first went to De-
troit was in perfect rags; the smallest hole
in INV shirt was the one 1 stuck my head
through. and had to have my only shirt
washed by the dozen, for it vas twelve pieces"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28

NNTE again call the attention of the farmers of
w Maryland and Virginia to our EXCELSIOR,
composed Of 100 pounds of No. Peruvian Euano,
aud 400 pounds of Soluble Phosphate of Lime
Clones dissolved in Sulphuro acd) potash and Soda
forming the most concentrated, universal and dur
able fertilizer ever offered to the farmcr-combin-
ing all the stimulating properties of Peruvian Gu
enoI and tho ever durable fertilizng properties Of
Ground Bones.
EXCELSIOR is in fine dry powder, prepared express
ly for drilling, and be applied in any quantity
per acre, however small and it is the opinion OF
many close calculating Farmers after ELEVEN
years expcrcnc in tcstng it side by side with other
popular fertilizers that an application OF 100 pounds
Of Excelsior is equal 10 200 10 800 pounds OF any
other fertilizer guano offered for sale, therefore Is
folly 100 TO 200 per cent. cheaper.
Co. The very best evidence we can ottct OF the
value of our Excelsior crop grower and fertil-
izer is the fact of its being initiated and counters
feited in this and other cities.
no Farmers should sec that the ANALYSIS and
name of J.TURNER & CO.. are branded on evesy
bag IN RED LETTERS. All others are counter
PRICE $40 PER TON.
j. J. TURNER g. co.
42 Pratt Street, Baltimore. Md:
For sale by JAS. LAW. HOOFF,
CHARLEsTowS, WEST Va.
A,,o-st II 1850 om
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28

There is an association in mems minds
between dizziness and wisdom, amusement and
folly, which has a very powerful influence In
decision upon character. The reason Is that
the outward signs of dull man and wise
one are the same. and so are the outward signs
of a frivolous and witty man and we are not
tn exneet that the majority will be disposed
to look to much more than the outward sign.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28

GAS to being cOpaicted with the gout,"
said Mrs. Partington, high living don't bring
it on 1t is incoherent in some families, and
is handed down from father to son. MIR:
Hammer, poor soul, who has been SO long Ill
with it. disinherits it from his wife's grand
mother.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28

Lavater says: "He who sedulously at
tends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly
answers, and ceases when he has no more to
say, Is in possession Of some Of the best re-
arisites of man"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-28
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Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-12-16

ZEL1's POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA AND USI>
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Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-12-16

The sketch Of Tama County, written by
A. r. Fulton, special correspondent Of the
State Register, is Of interest to all citizens Of
the county; as we'll as 10 all intending to be-
come citizens. 1t gives general dcscrip1
ton Of the County, particular description Of
each township, in which 10 included its re-
sources and advantages; description Of al.
the industries of the county, with the loca-
lion, names of owners, and capacities of all
mill and manufactures; location, &C., Of quar-
ries; names and business of business men all
over the county. This sketch was lately
printed in the State Register, the proprictors
of which journa! have courteously extended
to us permission to reprint the same in the
REPUBLICAN. We shall, therefore, lay before
our readers, nelt ,cees, this historical and de-
scrptive sketch of Tama county. We have
no doubt that very many Of our readers will
desire extra copies to send to eastern friends.
1t will make frst-rate missionary document
and We hope it win be freely scattered casts
ward. We shall strike of few extra copies
and send them round to the various pos.offices
Of the county, where they con be obtained by
all desiring them.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-12-16

dollar packages, and six packages were taken.
There was about six hundred dollars Of loose
money in the safe, q part Of which, in their
hurry, they overlooked, or over-resched rath-
or, and the balance, about three hundred3 dol
lars, was found on the floor in the Office.
On Saturday several Members Of the Board
Of Supervisors were in town, and some con-
sultation was held in relation to the prspriety
Of increasing the offer of reward and Of en-
pioying detective to work the matter up
We are advised that no conclusion was mr.
rived At. We are free to say that tine county
ought to employ competent detective and to
double the offer Of reward. The county can
afford to give five thousand dollars for the de-
lection Of the robbers and thus do something
toward rendering property safer elsewhere, il
not here. But the capture Of these thieves
will render property safer here by assuring
their ilk that they cannot depredate in this
county with impunity.
We are happy to add that Camery is alread ,
out, and at this writing, Monday, made his
FIRST visit to .he scene Of his late bloody en-
counter.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-12-16
A WOODEN Mill.

We have said that Tama County stands in
earnest need OF good wooden mill. We are
prepared to repeat he statement. if there is
any necessity for the repetition. The last cen.
sus reported the county to have 1924 sheep
Every pound Of wool grown by these sheep
should DO manufactured inside this county.
There canbc no absolute, Interchangeable ncces-
sity for sending this wool out of the county to
be manufactured, paying the freight on it to
Marshalltown, but more likely to New York or
New England, and bringing back the same
wool, in the shape of cloth, again paying
freight on it, to say nothing Of the numberless
commissions which tho numberlcss merchants
exact for every pound of wool or yard Of cloth
that passes through their hands. A wooden
mill can be made to pay just as large and fire.
quent dividends. in Tama, as any other coun-
ty. We do not know that any man. or any
set Of men, proposes to establish wooden mill
in this county. We do know, however, that
here is good opening for such an enterprise
an enterprise in which fifteen thousand
people OF the county are interested. We shall
refer to this subject again, when We have room
for it.