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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-09
For the N I. Times.
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.
n AN OLD CONTRIBUTOR,

~ AN OLD CONTRIBUTOR.
Kind friends, when you're reading story history,
Or some spicy romance full OF spirit and mystery,
And perceive the whole sense, or the part you like
BEST
(And you vow YOU would not rive fg for the restl
80 entirely ruined that GU cannot make oHt
what the mystery conid possibly have been about,
The anger with which your " hole heart Is ripe
Restrain. for tis hut q mistake in the typel
when poem of wit ant Of purity bright
Y"n enclose to the printer and think a.. nsn''
Hau"ts your vision; bright ianc'es you ~ "s''
traced;
But aiasi when the paper comes home can we blame
Or upbraid you TOR leveling Cnri>tiabity's name
In accents Of pain as II under the "sfripep
The poem 10 spoiled by mistakes in the typel
II Won send for insertion. advertisements- things
Very hard 70 yet wp-when the newsloy brings
The paper u you. still damp from the press,
When yo. sse that your notice Of boots and shoes"
l. neatly changed into ron,s .', ana ,., a"ss'
Things certainly good In their places; but wipe
Away every tear --'tis mistake in the typei
A great politician; you work eariy and late;
And psrchance fora week scarce an ounce have you
stivins hard to compoee some moot eloquent speech
That will votes gan and the hearts OF the multitude
With hsart full Of thanks that your tasks at last
You enclose for the columns Of Times, Ne,cs Mn:
Disappointment's your DOOM your soace. your PIPE
Speech nd prospects both ruined by mistakes ~ the
gtypsl
Ohi Editors, take care the error. to see!
Be careful, Tit will obi ge only me;
But fancy u legion OF suffering aspirants
For tamo have condemned you to the hard name OF
lfyo. change what y.u please, and make yes" out
ri nt'er ii love.letter 10 the Editor goi
Put II won't do to mourn. my tears will wipe,
For tbs all, after all, but mistakes in The type!
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-09

Last year Polish gentleman having
caught Il stork upon his estate. near Lin
hur.. put round his neck an iron collar
with this inscription, "tloec ex Polonia."
this stork comes from Poland.) and set
it at liberty. This year the bird returned
to the same spot, and was again caught
by the same person. 1t had acquired u
new collar Of gold, with this inscri ton,
India cum Gunis remitit ciconiam Polo
MIS- Iad,assends back the stork to the
Poles with giits.) This gentleman, after
having shown the inscription to his neigh
bors, again set the bird at liberty.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-09

There lives near Billville, Hendricks
County, Ind, a peculiar famiIy-three
boys and three girls. The oldest girl is
about twenty-four years, weighs about
two hundred pounds, is very intelligent
lady, but has heavy beard, (mnus the
IN ustache,) which is about two inches
long. and of auburn color. The next girl
is seventeen years old, born blind, and is
an idiot; the next is girl of fourteeu.
bern blind. The three boys are all inte-
ligent young men. The father of the fam
ily is one of the wealthiest men In Hen.
bricks County.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-09
VOLUME XI[I---No. 50.


Cne day there was great humping in
my cellar, and if you had gone down there
you would have seen that one Of the win-
dows had been opened, and that sticks of
wood, some square, some round. some
three-cornered, big and little, knotty and
clear, all sawed the right length for the
stove, were pouring in through that win
dow and every stick as it came down
seemed to say, 'stand clear, or you'll get
hurt" So stood clear and let the work
ers have il all their own way.
suppose the one who sent it thought
tina splitting it would be good exercise for
the minister, and he thought 81 too. So
went at it. But pretty soon a big stick
turned up, full Of hard knots on every
side. fancied that these knots looked
like an eye. and that it kept Watching me
as picked up one stick after another. and
left it untouched. In fact. it almost seem.
ed to say, "split little sticks if you have i.
mind Is, but | dare you to toach ne.''
1t was great annoyance to see it there
every day but the question was bow to
get rid Of it. 1t was too good to be
thrown away, and it was too big to 60 in
to the stove. My only course was to try
to split it. So one day when felt strong
! in my bones, laid it on the block with
,, the eye up. Then putting all my strength
imts my arms. sent the AK fair across
| the eye, and through it went.
To my surprise, the old stick split more
| easily than many others before it. And
then cou.d not help thinking how true
| this is all through life. How often do
men and boys fancy that some duty is
is very hard, and work all around it, and
fear to touch it, hanging back until they
can do SO no longer, and then make good
effort, and find that it is real easy, and
that they have had all their troublesome
fears for nothing.
Boys, remember that knotty stick.
When you have any work to do, don t
stop to think bow hard it is, hut take hold
at once bravely; hit i. fairly in the eye,
and, ten to one, you will be through be-
fore you know it.-Erch.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-09

Concluded or secaad rnee,
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-09
FEARsALL & CHURCH

sINCE October 1853, have been saying in the TINES
\ "W ait for tn. Wagon They now announce to
th public that their ,to.k OF Horses and Carfiaees
either for business pleasure, Is not excclledin the
"
The most reasonable cescharacterizt THEN" flo'
NEEt LIVERY STABLE located about half-w q!
up Main Street near the Flanders House Call on
tn EN- if you would be suited with team or saddle
horses PEARSALL CHURCH
McGreCor Iowa.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18

ed to Noah in the ark, having found
no rest for the sole of her foot" Here
we may find rest and strength, and thus
the great burdens of life which threaten
at times to break us down, are made the
means of establishing us in all that is
noble and true, because they drive us to
God for help.
Many are the tears that flow and the
sighs which rise in secret. The mother
sits alone in her house, holding little
lock of golden hair. The one ewhose head
it once adorned is now with angels and
redeemed spirits. Who can tell the ag-
ony of her heart as she bows before God
in her closet, and prays for strength to
sustain her, while all around her reminds
her of her loss And what tide of
sorrow comes rushing to our hearts oft
times when, at some quiet hour, we take
from their hiding-place packet of old
letters, yellow and faded like autumn
leaves. AS we hold them in our hands,
they bring to our minds some of the most
hallowed recollectious of the past. 1t
seems somewhat akin to sacrilege to open
them or is it want of courage that
keeps the trembling hand from loosening
the string which binds them all together ?
We open, we read Oh f! how the tears
fall like rain-drops as we see once more
the old, familiar words The hand that
shaped them is dust in the graveyard
the soul that prompted them is with its
Saviour. We weep as we think of the
dear one gone before, and pledge our
selves anew to the service of the Master,
looking for a blessed reunion in a better
land. We put the old letters carefully
back with loving hands and feel almost
as though we had held communion with
the departed. We are strengthened for
life's battle by the "reminiscences of the
past, and through the outward workings
of the heart we are better prepared for
life's duties and responsibilities.
Our secret sorrows may thus be made
to us a means of the souls growth in ho-
illness and usefulness. They need MT
weigh us down to the ground and make
us hopeless and despairing, for the divine
voice bids us cast our burden on the
Lord. He can easily bear what would
crush us, and as He lifts the load that
presses the heart, He gently soothes the
troubled spirit with blessed promises OF
consolation and of help.-Methodist.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18

maniac. To-day, in the asylum at New
York, he is constantly inquiring in his
delirium why his daughter is not mar
ried. Sad, sad tale. Almost too tragic
to believe, yet hundreds attesti truth.
Alas how many such incidents there
have been since the war that will never
be recorded.
The Springfield Republican refers to
the story of the Massachusetts, soldier
and his betrothed as follows -
The soldiers real name, if he was one
of the heroes of Harper's Ferry, was
Charles Plummer Tidd, but he probably
enlisted under the name of Plummer,
which he assumed on re-visiting New
England in 1860. He was Worcester
country man, we believe, and was one of
the small party that escaped from Har-
per's Ferry with Owen Brown, into the
Pennsylvania mountains. In the follow
ing spring he visited the friends of his
Captain in Concord, and there related a
fact which, though resting only upon his
statement, is undoubtedly true. He said
that when Captain Brown first announce
ed to his little band that he should cap
ture the town of Harper's Ferry, instead
of striking blow in more remote re-
gion, they all declared it too desperate,
and refused to follow him. The old man
persisted, till at last his sons said,-
Well, father, if you are bent on throw
ing your life away we will die with you,"
and one after another of the rest Of
the band gave in their adhesion to the
plan which they still regarded as fatal
The result is well known, Tidd had been
farmer in Kansas, and there enlisted
under Brown. Early in the rebellion he
enlisted as above mentioned, and in the
service made the acquaintance of Miss
Cutter, the adopted daughter of the sur
geon, DR.. Calvin Cutter, and warm at
tachment sprang up between them.
While the regimentwas stationed at Ash
by's Harbor, Roanoke Island, he became
sick of fever, died and was buried at
his post. His death SO affected his af-
fianced that she became i'll, and surviv-
ing him but short time, at her request,
her remains were inferred at the side of
the one she loved. Subsequently Colonel
Wardrop, of the naval brigade, caused
the removal of the remains to Newbern,
where they now rest.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18
What it Costs to Print a News
paper.

Persons who object to the advertising
rates in a largely circulated newspaper,
never stop to calculate what it costs the
printer to put their business into his col
umns and spread it before the public
If they did they would be covered with
shame and confusion, and instead of de-
nouncing the publisher as exorbitant il
his charges, freely confess that in some
instances, they get far more than the
worth of their money. We submit the
following figures to show what our col
umn costs us in our paper basing our
calculation on the price of printing pa
per, tyDe-setting, press-work, and ink,
leaving the wear and tear of our type
and machinery entirely out of the ques-
ton.
We print in the first place 5000 copies
weekly, which requires 81 reams of pa
per. That paper weighs so pounds to
the ream, and is now worth IA cents a
pound.
Our weekly expense for paper is there
fore $48.75. Our yearly expense for the
same is s2274. There are Is columns
on one side of our paper-all that we
can under any circumstances appropri-
ate to advertising purposes, and if we di-
vide this into the total cost, it would
make the yearly expense to us for print
ing paper, for each column, S126.33.-
Allow us 20 per cent profit on the paper,
and we have $25.26. Add the usual
rates charged by printers for type-setting
and press-work, and we have 5000 ems
in column at 81 per thousand, renewed
quarterly, s24. Press-work, So per thou
sand, divided by Is columns weekly, 90
cents. Press-work at so cents per col
umn weekly for 80 weeks, $26. Print
ing ink 50, making the total value Of
one column in our paper one year, S203.
50.
We have been advertising by the col
umn, half column, and quarter column
at rates considerably less than these, and
the intelligent reader will at once see
that we have been but poorly paid fol
our labor. When we further consider
the expense we are put to in keeping VI
repairs of all kinds in the office, and pur
chasing new type when the old is worr
out, we have not the remunerative prof
we should have in consideration of tn,
advantage those derive who advertise il
our columns
The fact is that newspapers, as a gen
eral thing do not pay. The subscription
money and what is taken in for adver
tisements very often fall short of aetua
expenses of the printing office. In sucl
cases the parties are obliged to fall bach
upon the job work to meet their curren
expenses, and as that business can b
carried on just as profitably without the
paper, the latter must be looked upon, il
the majority of instances, as an accom-
mediation merely-a sort of an intellect
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18

ual appendage which is thrown out of
the office gratuitously, and for the spe-
cifc benefit of the community at large.
If grumblers and fault-fnders had their
own way, the more papers publisher
would circulate from his office, weekly,
the greater the danger he would be in of
improvishing himself and family, while
the reverse should be the fact in bus
iness point of view York (Pa) True
Democrat.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18
Secret Sorrows.

How many persons into whose face we
look as we walk the streets, have sorrows
the existence of which would never be
imagined from anything that we can see!
Strangers to us we pass ths,,s. by with
hurried glance which reveals naught of
the pent up emotions that struggle in their
souls f)rthe mastery. With countenance
placid as the unruffled bosom of a quiet
lake, they look smilingly on all around,
and pass on their way. Could we but
see their hearts as easily as we see their
faces, how much of sorrows history it
would be ours to know. These secret
sorrows are not monopolized by strangers.
Even our friends, intimate though we
may be with them, often have troubles
that we know not of. The origin of these
may date beyond the time of our acquain-
tance ; they care not now to speak of
them, even to us. Yet the hidden grief
is in their hearts, and in secret, tears fall
which our eyes are never permitted to
see. There are also some of their troubles
which are known to us, but we never men
tion them in their presence the subject
is altogether too painful for conversation,
and by tacit understanding, is careful
ly ignored. These heavy burdens they
must bear alone, as far as human aid is
concerned our sympathies may be felt,
but cannot be expressed.
And even in those cases where we may
speak freely concerning the griefs which
oppress the soul, we cannot always enter
into full sympathy with the sufferers
Our own situation for the time may be of
an opposite character, and we may not
feel in a sympathetic mood or the story
of grief may have been so often repeat
ed to us as to become unaffecting, though
to the sufferer the sorrow may still be as
heavy as when it was new. Then in sol
itude must these griefs be borne, and the
tears they force be shed in secret. The
soul is thrown back upon its own resourc-
es. Human sympathy has reached its
limit, and has failed to fully meet the
case. No blame is to be attached to it
for this, for, like all other human attri-
butes, it is finite. The soul thus left
alone, with the consciousness that it is
beyond the power of friends to help, finds
its strength severely tested. Philosophy
may brace its failing energies, but can.
not supply the aid required Where
philosophy fails. faith triumphs SO that
secret SORROWS become means of devel.
oping the heart by the strength they fur
nish to faith. The soul learns its utter
helplessness, and is cast upon its Cod
There it feels as safe as child nesting
in its mothers arms.
This, after all, is the ultimate resort Of
the troubled heart. God would have Us
feel our dependence on him, and he ha;
therefore so ordered it that nothing short
of himself can satisfy the wants of the
soul. One resource after another is tried
and fails, until the heart comes back tC
God as instinctively as the dove return
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18

AN INTELLIGENT WITNESS A wit
ness in trial, in Winchester, England,
before Mr.. Baron Martin, persisted in
telling what other people said, and inter-
larded his testomy so often with "said l"
and said he," that the counsel was ut
terly bewildered. The court attempted
to set the man right "My good man,
tell us exactly what happened" Yes,
my lord, certainly. said / should not
have the pig" Well, what was his an
swer Z" /" He said that he had been keep
ing the pig for me, and that he" No,
me, he did not say that-he could not
have said it. He spoke in the first per-
SON."
a was the first person that spoke, my
lord"
" mean this-don't bring in the third
person repeat his exact words" "There
was no third person, my lord, only him
and me-" " Look here, my good fellow
he did not sayhe had been keeping the
pig, he said, 1 have been keeping it."
assure you, my lord, there was no
mention of your lordship at all. Weare
on different stories, my lord. There was
no third person and if anything had
been said about your lordship, must of
heard it,"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18

A clock which has just been completed
for the Cathedral of Beauvais contains
10000 wheels, and indicates, among
many other things, the daysof the week,
the month, the year, the signs of the 20
diac, the equation of time the course of
the planets, the phases of the moon, and
the time at every capital in the world,
the movable feasts for one hundred years,
the saints days, &c. Perhaps the most
curious part of the mechanism is that
which gives the additional day in leap
year, and which, consequently, called
into action only once in four years. The
clock is wound up every eight days. The
main dial is twelve feet in diameter, and
the total cost exceeds $4,000.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18

A Frenchman brought two mugs to the
milkman in place of one, as usual, and
on beingasked the meaning of it, replied:
" Dis vor mich, and dis vor te water
an | will mix them 20 TO soote myself"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18
POLICIES WRITTEN IN THE

Any amount and every class Of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies,
and at low rates at any agency in the country
Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18

ordered Drug Store and Book Store.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-06-18
Suppose.

BY ALICE CAREY.
How dreary would the meadows be
In the pleasant summer light,
Suppose there wasn't bird to sing,
And suppose the grass was white
And dreary would the garden be.
With all its fiowery trees,
Suppose there were no buttefies,
And suppose there were no bees
And what would all the beauty be
And whal the songs that cheers,
Suppose we hadn't any eyes,
And suppose we hadn't ears
For though the grass were gay and green,
And song birds filled the glen,
And the air were purple with butterflies.
What good would they do us then
All, think Of it, my little friends
And when some pleasure flies.
Why, let it go, and still be glad
That you have ears and eyes.
The New York herald., 1869-04-28

long as the ports or the Pacific Ocean
can send out privaeers under the flag OF China, for
whose Emperor the Alabama was said to have been
built for the purpose OF making reparation or the
ravages OF england In tn rebellion by the depreda-
tions OF the SHENANDOAH and Alabama. So repeat,
we can arord TO walt 1t Is for England to say what
Is to be done next
CoRREsPoNDE'T--Don't rOu think 1t is lowering
our national dignity to send represen atve here
BUTTERFLY no means. Mr.. Motev can go there
10 be ready TO receive any proposition England has
10 make and to transmit 1t to his government at
home. He Will have no other business since john
son has eaten all the dinners
CORREsPONDEvr-DO YOU think the cessiOn OI
Canada and the British Provinces in North America
would satisfy our claims General
BUrLER-Yes. sir think we ought to he satisfied
with that. Possession Of the British Provinces on
tins Continent would be highly advantageous to US.
CoRREsPONDENr--D DO You think we are likely TO
get peaceful possession OF thema
BUrLER-Yes. slr do. l think ENGLAND will be
apt to say to her colonies 'you 90 If want.
we have no desire to hold you If you wish TO cut
loose"
At this point the subject was changed TO Cuba,
but Butler would not let himself out for some reason
or other. He seemed not to want TO commit himself
yet on that subject.
The New York herald., 1869-04-28

the BARKHAHsTsD MURDER CAsE.--Iohn Evans
charged with the murder OF James ilckox. In Bark
hamsted few weeks since, was tired IN Litchheld
By agreement OF the counsel he pleaded guilty TO
the second count. murder In the second 0egree and
on this he Will be sent 10 the state Prison for lIfe
II appeared that Uickox had been sleeping with
Evans wife while he was of at WORK. ana finally
the wife pad more attention 10 Hickox than 10 her
husband. TO settle the matter Evans cut the throat
ol mis- wlies lover, and thus ended his intercourse
with her.-Lart0rd times. ADrl %