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The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
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A WoMAN's SERMoN.-Dear friends. there
are three things that very much wonder at.
The first Is, that children should be so fool
lsh as to throw up stones and brickbats. and
clubs, into fruit trees, to knock down the
fruit; II they would let it alone, it would fall
itself. The second Is, that men are so fool.
ish and so wicked as to go to war and kill
one another II they would only let one an
other alone they would die of themselves
And the third and last thing which I won.
der at Is, that young men should be so un,
wise as to go after the young women; il
they would only stay at home, the young wo,
men would come after them.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

CALIFORNIA NEwsPArERs.--The Times
furnishes the following statistics
There are issued in the city of San Francisco
seventy periodical publications OF these
fourteen are dailies thirty-three weeklies,
eight daily and weekly, four daily, weekly.
and on steamer days, ten monthly, three
semi-monthly, three tri-weekly, and two semi
weekly. \
Outside of San Francisco, in the State Mt
large, there are ninety-four newspapers pub
lshed. and of these eighteen are daily and
seveEty-six weeklies, making total Of one
hundred and sixty-four periodicals published
in California. For the remaining States and
Territories of the Pacific slope, Oregon has
twenty papers. Nevada ten, and Washington
Territory eight; giving a total for the whole
of the American possessions on the Pacific
Coast two hundred and two periodicals.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

BuLLEr-PRooF CLoTu-The United States
Service Gazette says We hear of perfect
ly flexible cloth which is said TO be absolutely
impenetrable to bullets. We have not yet
seen the article. but we are disposed to think
that. though the bullet may not be able to get
inside the cloth, broken bones and other con-
sequences of bullet wound will. In our
young days we remember that broadcioth was
quite mpervous TO the bodily substance of
the rattan, but we had proof positive that it
admitted a very large amount of its disagree
able properties.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

Coon FOR SoMETHING.-The common tar
weed. which grows so plentifully in the good
soil of California says the Oakland Meas. and
is usually regarded as such a terrible nus-
ance, is said to be very effcacious in the cure
Of rhumatism, govt. disease of the kidneys,
and antidote for poison from poison oak. A
tea is made by sleeping the leaves, and is
drank in some cases, and used as a bath in 9th,
ers. 1t is we'll to know that it is good 70,
something,
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
COwARDs ENC0RRIGIBLE,
FABLE OLA FoNTAINE.
BY JOHN C. SAKE.

A shepherd. TO his grief ard coast,
So many Of his sheep had lost
BY hungry wolves. that he was f2in
Their depredations to restrain.
by sonic continuance. new or old,
To save the remnant of his fold.
Rehscting deep aud long. the man
Resolved to try novel plan
Says he. My silly sheep to teach,
Ill try the virtue of a speech,
Explaining lew BY close array
To keep the hated wolfaway.
The man conceived (sagacious thought y
That ifthe fools were better taught
In seli-detense, beyond a doubt
They'd fairly pat the foe TO rou',
With this he called the flock together,
From playful lamb to wanton wether.
And straight harangued them FOR an hour
With wonGrous eloquence aud power,
The burdeu of his speech was this
My woolly friends (alas l miss
From THIS assembly many who
Were very dear 10 me and you y
Attend and hearken we'll, pray,
To all that am going to say.
To You, many subjects, would show
The ready art to 'scape the foe;
'Tis simply this Whene'er you see
The wolf approaching, do not Tee,
As is your wont, but byavely stand
In one united, solid band.
Your firm array the wolf will scare
And set him running like a hare!''
With one accord the Jealous sheep
The offered counsel vowed TO keep,
And thanked the friend whose sterling sense
Prepared them now for selfS Sefense
But mark the sequel ere the light
Ofday had faded into night,
There came again the fearful cry,
"A wolff whereat the towards fly,
Although twas but the shade of one
Projected by the setting sun!
MORAL.
Nature will ont 'TiS all in vain
To bend her course against the grain;
Teach, preach. eNhort--do what Won will,
To cowards-they II be towards still
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

Always suspect man who affects great
softness of manner, an unruffled evenness of
temper, and an enunciation studied, slow and
deliberate. These things are all unnatural.
ard bespeak degree of mental discipline into
which he that has no purposes of craft or de-
sign to answer, cannot submit to drill him.
self. The most successful knaves are usual
ly of this description, as smooth as razors Dip
ped in oil, and as sharp. They affect the in
nocence of dove, which they have not, to
hide the cunning of serpent, which they
haye.-Ldcon.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
The Palindrome is linz tho, rood, III.

The Palindrome is q line that reads alike
backward and forward. One of the best is
Adam first observation to Eve:
MADAM I'm Adam"
Another is the story that Napoleon when
at st. Helena. being asked by an English.
man, II he could have sacked London, replied:
ABLE was | ere | saw Elba.''
The latter is the best palindrome, prob
abs, in the language
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

DANIEL PRATT says: "God and myself
can reconstruct and redeem our American
Government There is no doubt of the
statement. though we expect but little from
the junior member of the firm.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
A Sorry Exhibit of National Progress

The Special Commissioner of the Revenue
Hon. ID. a. Wells, has just published a most
important exhibit OF the condition of the Ma
ton at the present time. and its progress du-
ring the year past For those who are fond of
indulging in the spread-eagle style of national
f-glorifcation, there is ample food Accor-
ding to the Commissioner, more cotton spin
dies have been put in operation within the last
five years, more iron furnaces erected, more
iroNSmelted, more rolled, more steel made,
. re coal and copper mined, more lumber
sawed and hewn, riore houses and shops con-
structed, more manufactures started and
more petroleum collected. refined and export
ed, than during any equal period in the his
tory of the country. Since the termination
of the war. one million immigrants have
come into the United States, bringing with
them not less than eighty million dollars
in gold, and adding to the productive power
of the country not less than FIVE hundred mill
ions. During the past year twenty-five hun
dred miles of railway and six thousand miles
of telegraph wire have been added to the pro-
ductive capital of the country. All of which
is very glorious. But there is n dark side to
the picture, which suggests painful! reflec-
tons. 4 comparison of the prices of labor
and commodities in 1S6l-'62 and lS67-6S
cost of living has been IS per cent, while the
average increase of wages of unskilled labor
has been only so per cent, and of skilled la
bor only 60 per cent. The fact is thus plain
ly demonstrated, that the condition of the
great masses--of the working-men and wo-
men of the United States-is much worse
now than it was before the war. While the
few are growing rich, the MANY are growing
poor. While certain individuals and corpo-
afiO ions, favored by foolish and vicious lecis-
are accommodating wealth. the ssnRo1na
at large is at a standstiil, or rather. retf3a
grading. for it cannot be denied that the con-
diton of the masses-the industrial and pro-
duc'ng classes-of the people of the Nation
is really that of the country they inbabit
And it is demonstrated that the great body
of the people have been growing poorer.
''lll fares the land-to Fastening ills prey
Where wealth accumulates and men decay"
The causes of this deplorabIe condition of
the country are. undoubtedly, unwise and
vicious legislation. Where legislation. has
not been used as an instrument of vengeance.
IT has been used to unduly tax the products
OF labor, and to relieve large moueyed inte-
rests from taxation. While the most extrav-
agant appropriations have been lavished upon
wealthy corporations, the industrial classes
have been douhly taxed-frst. upon the ar
tcles they produce; second, upon the arti-
cles they consume. The man who draws his
interest upon thousands invested in Gov
ernmeut bonds. pays no taxes while the
shoemaker, cabinet-maker, and other indus
trial classes are taxed heavily upon every
product of their skill and industry.-S. f.
Cal. 3
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

To give brilliancy to the eyes-Shut them
early at night, and open them early in the
morning.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

Nor SPRIGuTLY ENoUGu. "A Reporter
for paper has to have the hide of an elephant;
he must be prepared to withstand all sorts of
rebuffs, indignities, criticisms. etc. He is re-
garded by many as sort of nondescript spe-
cmen of the genus homo-a worthless fellow,
unfit for the society CT men. Yet he is ex-
pected to he always on the move, day and
night, gathering news, and must so "get up"
his items as to please every body. These re-
marks are suggested by having learned that
some persons are disposed to think that our
locals y are "not sprightly enough" In
this paper in October last we thought we had
exhausted our own views as TO what const-
Nutes good local department We have been
ht this calling now for several years. and are
VAIN enough to believe we are master of our
professionalism a profession it certainly is.
Our notion is this: A local department should
comprise epitome of all the more impor-
tant news that transpires from the time the
paper has gone to press up to same hour the
next day. These items should be written out
in straightforward, concise, condensed man.
ner, using the fewest words possible to ex-
press the idea, without any comment added
as to what the Reporter thinks or supposes.
Here the business Of the Reporter ends, and
that of the Editor begins. This. to our mind
constitutes the beauty, the vitality of itemiz-
ing. Some persons want something "nore
sprightly," eh? Probably they want US to
come out and give the details of an abortion
ease in court. That's very sprightly. Maybe,
they want TO read of the details of an attempt
at rape. This is certainly very ''sprightly." !"
But we are no Bohemian, and cannot afford
to crafty prurient taste. OF all the papers
published in San Francisco, the Bulletins lo-
cal department is our beau ideal. The idea
of frst-class, dignifed. substantial daily pa
per filling its columns with the " fash" vul-
gar and sensational" We are not " on ("
Those who are fond of that sort pabulum will
! find the Police Gazette or -- we'll sup
piled with that Examiner
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

A warm heart requires cool head. Cour-
age without discretion is like fancy without
judgment-"a sail aud no ballast"
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

When Breton mariner puts to sea. his
prayer is: keep me, my God my boat is
so snail, and Thy ocean is so wide !"
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
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The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
III fares the iand-to fastening ills prey
Whore wealth accumnlatcs and men decay, :,

WoMAN's TRUE SrHERE-A humorous no!
etaster puts into the mouth of Theodore Til.
ton, the Radical Sub" of Windell Phil.
lips, the following stirring appeal to 1.-THE
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
CcNSrARlES.

Township M L T. NJ Ianccy.
John Edwards.
Township No. y, I. smith.
II. nornan.
Township No. ,. w H. Smith.
!. c. Mann.
Township No. 4. Rtttoa Dorance.
VIM u. Crawford.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

With hroomstick for javelin. dust pan for shield
un clothes-horses mounted, away to the fieli
And paneplied thus let us war To the lade
bnt ladies' shall vote yes. and men rock the cradle.
ArIse and chaunt wildly your Amazon sonnets;
Ihen on 10 the combat girls I'll hold your bonnets
our whole social system, without stay remodel
Saarge, Mrs. Partington On. Mrs Caudle
Fiutter your streamers-unfurl your top-qsllants
Ana san IN my girls, We've Ben Wade in the balance
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
The IlIustrious Dead.

The tEhquiyer gives the following as worth
perusal and preservation
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
PROBATE CoURT
noAnn or SrrrnvIsonI
Couxry OFFICERS.

Meets first Monday of February, May, Augu't and
November. Supervisor LIST District, Ahner Reed; I'd
District Edmond Parsons; Sd District, NJ. Byrne.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
JusTIcEs OF THE PEACE.

Township No. l, james Letford
Chas. Tupper
Township No. >, f. r. White
A. Rulerdick.
Township No, O. A. Il. Preston
Chas. Il. Cutting
Township No. I, NJ McGehee
Vim. L osbrey.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
ASSESSORS.

-JShn hoNlc
L. Ni"ihe.
4..... 1890. ...-.- E. 7. Harper.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
COUNTY OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Court

Meets first Monday in March, July and November
COUNTY CoURr
Meets hrst Monday Of January, May and September l..
c. IL. RANDALL Judge.
PROBATE CoURT
Meets the fourth Monday of each month
&. H. RANDALL, Judge.
Court Commissioner. J. d. REDMOND
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
COLLECTORS.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I. &. Birney.
+" 3..--..-..-.-.-.- - NJ Ml.ier
49,. q. /. Culbertson.
The union Democrat., 1869-01-30
MORAL.

Nature will ont 'Tis all in vain
To bend her course against the grain;
Teach, preach. eXhort--do what you will,
To cowards-they ii be towards still
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-06-18
Sensible Girl who Meant
business.

Twenty years ago a young man who
had paid attention to a bright, sweet
girl, for long time, without making
anything that was even second cous-
in to proposal, was startled by the
question Robert, do you want to
marry me?' He tried to evade the
point by asking why she put such a
question to him. Because if you
don't want to marry me you must
quit coming to see me. No mocking
bird around the red-breast's nest, you
know Robert took the hint, and
with cool good night walked home.
What should he care for girl so rude
as that? Good company as her else
where. He would join the club the
next day. He tried to sleep, but
couldn't. He didn't like the turn
things he had taken. The figure
plagued him. If he was the mock
ing-bird, who was the red breast that
he was keeping from such partner ?
AT anyrate one thing is certain, Ed
ma il as smart as she is pretty he
said to himself, 'and she means bust
ness The next morning Robert
went to the counting-roOm, when
presently Joe Mason come in and
said, Il tell you what it is, Bob, you
were lucky in keeping out of the
club. I have just paid another asses
ment of fifty dollars, and what is
worse, I meet such expensive friends
there that il costs more tllan I can
earn to keep it up Il was just
thinking Of joining the club, said
Robert. 1T will be a cool five hun
dred out of pocket, and precious lit
tie satisfaction, and home feeIin at
that, said his friend,
Robert hummed tune when left
to himself. 1t was long day. Bust.
ness dragged. Things went wrong.
He was glad to go home, only it
wasn't home. He took book, but
found himself trying to read the
Goals in the CRATE and find figures on
the wall instead Of the page. He
threw himself on the lounge, but it
was dreadful dull. He stood it for
some time and then put on his hat
and walked down to the widow
Craige's. He stepped up to the door
as usual, but Edna was engaged. It
seemed a month before she came
down. At last she appeared. He
rose from his seat and met her in the
middle Of the room, and said, Edna,
/ have come here tonight OH bust
ness. / am tired of being your
mocking-bird, and come to he your
red-breast will you be my wife p
when you say said Edna, her face
suffused with bushes.
Soon as j can make q nest, dear
est Robert replied. Il believe both
the red-breast join in building the
nest, said Edna, 'and want to do
my part This was twenty years
ago. To-day one of the handsomest
mansions in one of our cities Is the
nest of a welded pair, whose life has
been as sweet as birds song, and
whose hearts in their young affections
are as young as ever. There is a
great deal more in putting little
business at the be-
ginning of life than is generally sup
posed.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-06-18
CHROMO9.
coNJUcAL LOVE,

AND TUE HAPPINESS OF TRUE MARRIAGE.
Essay for Young Men. on the Errors.
Ai,1,srs snl Diaeases ,-b;cb a.,s..., az 49,
Powers and create impedrneuts to MARRTAGE
with sure means OF relief Sent in. scaled letter
envelopes. free OF charge. Address, DIR. ]. Skill
LIN HoUGHT0S, Howard Association, I'hfIadek
paia, Ia. a-ilyI
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-06-18

pose to deny it any more. 1t would
be the ruin of innocent souls, as this
narrative which / now shall give viii
prove.
And the narration Of the incident
brings ME back to the question
whether one can remember what
never happened. twill be seen that
he can.
Sitting at friends table one even
ing, was telling an incident that
befell me--in this wise:
"a young man called to see me.
He said that he had heard lady
in large company relating the sto-
~ of my beginning sermon with
the phrase 1T is id hot He at
once contradicted it. She affirmed it
positively. He replied, Il have late
ly read published denia! of the sto-
ry from Mr.. B. himself She an
swered: why, I was present myself
and heard it with my own ears OF
course he could not say what he
thought, but replied; Il am going to
New York, and will myself call and
see and ask Mr.. b. d"
The case seemed so fragrant that I
said to him:
when you 60 back, / wish you
would take occasion before witness,
es to say to this lady for me, that
she lies, and that she kno,cs she lies,
and that she knows that know she
lies.'"
This was very improper language,
but 1 was angry, and besides that l
had been reading the Tribune.
When I had got thus far, sweet
young girl who sat opposite me,
brought up under my eye almost
from the cradle, and as incapable of
knowingly telling a lie as rosebud
would be Of committing burglary,
this innocent and charming child of
fifteen looked over at me and said
"But you did say so. didn't you,
Mr.. Beecher; heard your"
For moment there was silence,
then a crash of laughter from the
whole company. Confused and
blushing scarlet, she said:
why I always thought that I
heard you say So"
For the first time I then believed
that person might distinctly re-
member what never took place.
take back the message to the
Buffalo lady and humbly apologize
for supposing that one could not re-
call thing which never had hap
pened.
No, Mr.. Bonner, I never swear!
Profane swearing is not right, even
In the pulpit. I never in my life
said ut is id hot" not even of an
August day, many of which have
seen of temperature that might
suggest the expression quoted. If
any body has said 1t lately, I think
1T must be your "red hot" neighbor
over the way, Mr.. Pomeroy. II he
denies it, / can only say, that unless
he amends his course, he may
yet be left to say it under circum-
stances in which there will be no ex-
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-06-18
Oatmeal as Food.

Ifmother would have their children
grow up clear-eyed and comely. with
frames of bone and not of cartilage,
with transparent compIexions instead
Of muddy ones, with full and we'll
rounded limbs instead of scrawny
ones, then do moi always set before
then bread of fine -four and highly
seasoned meats but give them four Oh
five times week, breakfast of oat-
meal mush. Do you say that they
don't like it? Perhaps you don't
know how to prepare it properlp.
The Scotch method of preparing oat-
meal Tor rather, one of the methods)
IL to make thin mush, little thick
Ell then Cruel, and the boiling should
continue three or five minutes (not
more) after the thickening is finished
This eaten with sugar or milk alone,
or with syrup, is highlo palatable,
and IL generally liked by children.
whose tastes are not Initiated.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-06-18
Special Attention
Is INVITED TO THE saf g..
Saturday Afternoon Train

Sized, COMFORT AND SAFETY.-The Pepnsylya-
MA Central exces its competitors IN g,ck fine to
New York, without the discomforts and dangers
oil excessive speed, because IL il 80 Miles Sb0Ter
than the New York Central, IS Miles Shorter than
the Atlantic q Great Western and Erie routes, and
e the best built and most carefully managed road
lit be country. 0.I0FS
.#.-...... - sae#sE.h .
TICKETS BY this Route are for sale at the Com.
Pany ohico: n: W. Cor. Randolph & Ia Sails
streets, Ticket Office under Briggs
House, Chicago,
And ut principal Offices in the West. .
- T. L. KIMBAII. ess
Gen1 Western Passenger Agent, Chicago
HODSON, #.4.. .. ZIP. q. tS -
assenger Agent, Chicago
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-06

ingly rapid multiplication. When the tenn
perature is warm, as in the summer, there
are two ways to correct the evil: First, by
entire separation of all organic matter
from the water; second, by its complete
destruction while in the water. The first
object can scarcely be accomplished, as no
simple filter would separate all germs, and
even if separated, the We: r could not be
kept for use exposed to the air. The pro-
per method of publication is, therefore, by
chemical destruction. This may be effect
ually, economically, and safely done by the
permanganste of potassa, used in the pro-
portion of about an ounce to fifty gallons
of water. A destructive chemical change
takes place, the organic matter is reduced,
and the whole mass is precipitated as an
inert and harmless sediment The chemi-
cal reaction is marked by purple color
ing of the solution. and this color indicates
the presence of organic matter. The per-
manganate should be added until this color
disappears, when you may know that the
organic matter is entirely destroyed, for
an infinitesimal quantity Of the latter will
be detected by the former. This prepara-
ton of potash may be obtained at any
druggist's.-A Physician, in Hearth and
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