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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

OYsTERs.-An exchange says: ave
suppose that nine out of ten housekeepers
will contradict us point blank, in state
ment that nine out of ten of them do not
know how to stew dish of oysters. BY
the ordinary routine that nearly every one
follows, either the oysters are stewed and
shrivelled out Of all semblance of them>
selves in shape, size and flavor, or else the
soup and '!thickening" has raw taste that
spoils it. Here is the right method. Try
it once, and we'll warrant you won't need
telling the second time. Pick the oysters
out of the juice with fork, as dry as
possible; stew the juice, thckening, milk
or water, of which the soup is to be made,
until thoroughly cooked then drop the
oysters in. and just as the cooled soup
begins to show signs Of simmering, empty
out all together, and you will have rich
soup and plump oysters, luscious enough
to make you think you meyer tasted real
oysters before"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15
Another hurtful and ridiculous fashion

Another hurtful and ridiculous fashion
is in the high.hee boots, which have
ssa r. o1a .,fsat-
grandmothers. A slight heel an advan-
tage in walking, but those high heels,
with the excessively small surface and the
sharply beveled sides, make walking a
service of pain and difficulty. Besides,
they destroy the shape of the leg, which
is something to be considered. They
throw the weight forward and the strain
on the shin, and consequently they dimin-
ish the back muscle, the calf, and convert
the forepart into an ugly bow. The
shape Of our shoes and boots is in itself
an outrage against common sense but we
women are not alone in this absurdity,
nor are we to blame, SO that as the papers
deal with our own follies specially, we
may be let off without any personal and
peculiar reprof therefor.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

Sir, that is the truest American pol
icy which shall most usefully employ
American capital and American labor,
and best sustain the whole population.
With me it is fundamental axiom, it
is interwoven with all my opinions, that
.lo .-....4 :...a.oa4s.-..e- 4h1-o@.,-a4r.f ora
united and inseperable /; that agricul-
ture, commerce, and manufactures will
prosper together or anguish together ;
and that all Legislation is dangerous
which proposes to benefit one of these
without looking to consequences which
may fall on the cthers-Daniel Webster.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

If well-bred woman is surprised in
careless costume she does not try to
dodge behind the door to conceal def
ciencies, nor does she turn red or STAN
mer out confused excuses. She remains
calm and selfpossessed, and makes up
in dignity WHIT she may want in decora-
ton.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

The Waukon STANDARD, with its
characteristic fairness, says, that we are
the organ of the Democracy of this
county. We are the organ of no party;
we try to the utmost of our ability, to
treat all parties with exact and even
handed justice. 1t is true, we call no
nick-names avoid scurrilous epithets
and endeavor to point out the real in
terests of our county from amid the
Earring pretensions ofpolitical partizans.
We are opposed to the supremacy of
capital, and advocate the rights Of
honest labor. We are opposed to the
theories of those politicians who are an
nually giving away to heartless mono
plies the best portion of the public
domain which is and ought to be the
priceless inheritance of our children.
We are opposed to all stock-jobing in
human flesh, whether that flesh be the
property ola Negro Or a Coolie. We
would not oppose voluntary immigration
to our shores from Asia, but we do OPP
pose the desperate efforts Of Southern
Planters and Northern capitalists to
form company to bring Coolic laborers
among us, under a contract almost as
degrading as that under which Negro
slavery claimed an existence. If the
Coolies come, let them come like the
people of Europe, free agents, honest
competitors in the field of toll. If they
can not so come, let us not, like the
Peruvians, injure the interests of our
glorious country by forced importation
of system of vassalage differing only
in its term of duration, from the slavery
which we have just abolished. Besides,
we believe, that We have plenty of lab
orers in the country; wages produce
laborers in the same ratio that labor
produces capital. Our toiling millions
need higher wages, a great deal more
than few capitalists need an increase
of operatives in order to make the poor
mans already small remuneration,
sMALLER-Lansing Chronicle.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15


PIoUs DEAD BEATS. The persistency,
not to say "cheek," of some charitable
solicitors, is astonishing. A sanctimoni-
Gus looking person made his appearance
at the residence Of clergyman near
Hartford, Conn.,, and stated the object of
his visit, which was to procare funds in
aid of Western college. After some
conversation, the agent said: "What
want is this, that you will direct me to thc
people Of wealth who are in the last stag
es Of consumption, or are hereditarily dis
posed to appoplexy. find this class of
persons more easily reached than those
who possess means and are in the poses
sion Of perfect health. In one western
town found one old gentleman who had
received two apopleetic strokes, and he
put our college in his will for SIS 900, and
a lady consumptively inclined gave us
$4,000. Neither is dead yet, but you
sec the Importance of getting people on
the right SIDE" The clergyman, after
listening to this argument said that the
members of his church were, as far as he
knew, in the enjoyment of good health,
and it would be impossible to select any
one who gave promise Of early death.
The agent, upon looking about the town
further, ascertained that the general health
of the community was too good for specu
lation with the { cad, and decided to leave
at once for some other locality.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

ANDY REDIvIvUs.-The bare POSSIBLE
ity that Andrew johnson may be elected
United States Senator from Tennessee, is
a source of inexpressible grief to the i'm
peachers. They can imagine nothing
more humiliating to themselves or grea-
ter triumph for Andy, than such a result
of the late election. The idea of Andy
standing up in the Senate, an boarding
his late judges, and hurting upon them
showers of hot shot from his capacious
vocabulary, is too grievious and affection
to be entertained with semblance of
equanimity, and SO they have already
commenced fierce warfare upon him, in
advance of any movements on his part in
that direction. His return to the Senate
would be a sort of poetic justice to him,
and fitting rebuke to his unprincipled
prosecutors, and the country would enjoy
his triumph. But other considerations
will be likely to govern the conservatives
Of Tennessee in their choice of Senator !;
and therefore, the choice of Mr.. johnson
may not be deemed the wisest policy in
view of the peculiar characteristics of the
ma., and the circumstances Of the occa-
sion. There are in Tennessee other good
and true men, of ability and National
reputation, from whom a choice may be
made that will be quite as acceptable to
the conservatives of the country, as the
election of Andrew johnson.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

Joseph Snyder, the murderer of Carter
at Fairmount Park, near Philadelphia,
committed suicide in his cell yesterday
moaning by holding his head in bucket
of water.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

"PApA," said a little urchin to his
father, the other day, II saw a printer
go down the street just now"
'Did you sonnyt How did you know
the person was printer 2"
Because ! do, papa"
''But he might have been a carpenter,
blacksmith or shoemak er."
30, no, papa, he was printer-likely
an editor-for he was gnawing bone,
and had no stockings on. The crown
was out Of his hat and his coat was all
torn. l am certain he was printer"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15


NO. 2e.--.Nervous debility, with its
many attendants, low spirits, depression,
involuntary emissions, loss of semen, sper-
matorrhma, loss of power, dizzy head, loss
of memory and threatened impotence and
imbecility, find sovereign cure in Hum
phrey's Homeopathic Specific No. Twenty
eight. Composed of the most valuable
mild and potent Curatives, they strike at
once at the root of the matter, tone up the
system, arrest the discharges, and impart
vigor and energy, life and vitality to the
entire man. They have cured thousands
of eases. Price So per package of six boxes
and vial, which is very important in obstin-
ate or old cases, or 81 per single box. Sold
by All Druggiets, and sent by mail on re-
ceipt Of price. Address Humphreys
Specific Homeopathic Medicine Co., 562
Broadway. New York. 632y
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

DRAYING.-W. c. Austin proposes to
oblige everybody in his line, on terms
that will enable him to make living.
Persons who are likely to have any
draying, transferring, hauling or any work
which can be done by willing hands and
strong horses, will secure the earliest
attention by handing over Their orders to
him. Tell what you want done, and he
will guarantee promptness and reasonable
prices.
McGregor, April It'll, 1869. 65l-Gm
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

a decided Novelty in Dresses, an as
sortmcntF arccy Pettico is. Printed
Ca,nbricks and Nxslins.
The above Goods being personally Sc
lectei, during the past week, in New
York, r Philadelphia and Ecstcn. the La
dies wi find it a Great Advantage to
have an Entire new Stock to make
Choice from.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

PONDS EXTRACT,
Cures Burns, Bruises, Lameness,
Soreness, Sore Throat, Sprains. Tooth.
ache, Isarache, Neuralgia, Khenma.
tislll, I.uDsbagO, piles, BOIls, StinsA
Sore Eyes, LEicediB. of the Lungs,
Nose, Stomach, or OF Plies; COrns, VI.
GERS Old Sores.
Quarts, $l.15.
re-. These Remedies, except PONDS Elk.
TRACT by the case or single box, are sent to
any part of the country, by mail or express, free
of Charge on receipt OF the price.
Address Humphreys Specific
Homeopathic Medicine Company.
Office and Depot, No. 562 BROADWAY, New York.
DR.. HUMPHREYS is consulted daily at his Office,
personally or by letter, as above, for all forms OF
disease.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
A full assortment of the above for sale in NJ,
iregor by L. W. WOOD. 632
Burnaam & VanSchaac.
Wholesale Agents, Chicago, Ill.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

FAMILY CASES
OF 3 to 60 large Walls. morocco
or rosewood case, containing
q specific for every Ordinary
disease a family is subject to,
and books of directions.
From $40 to @35
Smaller Family and Travelling cases,
with 90 to IS walls. ......... from S. to So
Specifics for all Private Diseases both
for Curing and for Preventive
treatment, in walls and pocket cases, $2toS5
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

The toSloacing are also Pit up in yiQAs and are
sent at the same prices giyen betOic
10, Fever a. Ague, Chill Fever Agres5O
u, :. Plies, blind or bleeding. ........ SO
IL, Cpthalsny, and sore or weak Eyes5O
10, CafafrEl. acute or chronic, Iniluenza5O
20, Nhcoping Cough, violentcough5O
81, Asthma, oppressed Breathing. ;. so
%, Ear discharges, impairedhearing50
%, ScrOfuia. enlarged glands, swellings59
81, GcncraiDebility Observation-Disclosures
20, DrCpSy, and scanty Secretions . so
&c, Sca-Sicknes -. sick " ess from riding50
81, I" Eidney.Ds.casc, Gravel so
70, Nervous Eebiiity Seminal
Emissions, involuntary Dis
%, Sore Mouth, Canker. so
80 Urinary Weakness. wetting bed5O
81, Painful Periods, with spasms so
So gatherings at change of life. . 4 %
33, Epilepsy, Spasms, st. Vitus' Dance1 90
"a, Diphtheria, liberated sore throat 50
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15
900 DOZ. TABLE napkins,

600 DOZEN HACK TOWELS,
1T sl.oo, $i25. $l.15. $225, $500, WORTH
$3.50, SITS, So, So. 81.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15

Silk and Fancy Summer shawls, Black
and Fancy Silks Of the Best Manufact-
urc, at Moderate Prices. Fancy Dress
cs in the most Fashionable Materials.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15
Attention Called!

10 Large Line of Swiss and Jaconet Muslins also
Jones Muslns Figured Brilliant percales pioues
Dotted Mnsiins Ransook Barred and Plain. ali of
which must he sold at Very Low Prices to effect a
clearance sale These goods We're bought for geld
at Sl.30, and must be sold CHEAP
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-08-11

favorable verdict in favor of indulgence
He absolutely interdicted its use, and thus
put an end to all hope of evading the hnal
conflict. 1t was necessary that L should
break the last withe of my former captivity.
Then followed tedious and painful strug-
gle of week or more. After this, began
to have some ease in my new found liberty,
but never from the beginning had any other
than mental satisfaction, and the approval
of conscience in the struggle. And now
that it is over, while occasionally look back
with a longing eye to the land of my bond
age, 1 feel only satisfaction, that have been
enabled to set myself free, that God helping
me have come off conqueror in this pro-
tracted and fierce conflict, and write these
confessions for the comfort and encourage
ment of those who may be urged by inward
considerations, or outward circumstances to
begin like conflict for their emancipation
from this, or some other evil habit
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
THREE THOUGHTS ABOUT CHRIST

First; In any light in which He can be
viewed, Jesus Christ is beyond all compari-
son the supreme parsonage of history. His
character, his life, his death stand alone
What study it has been for ages, and will
be for ages to come More "lives of
Christ" have been written than of any other
person known. We have three that are in.
spired, and the number of those which men
have since constructed out of these mate
rials, is very great. Within few years
perhaps as many as dozen have been writ
ten in German, French and English, giving
the different views the authors held of Him
whose name is called Wondeyal."
Second; The iny3aence Of Has character
has been unspeakably great. Suppose we
could strike from this worlds history what
has been done in it for Christ's sake, the
deeds of self-denial undergone, the lives that
Christians have lived, the books they have
written, the missions they have prosecuted,
the martrydOms they have sufered-what a
waste would the past eighteen centuries pre-
sent.
Third; He as an object that can alVGys
I'LL the soul. No heart ever yet was COM
PEELED to love some higher, nObler being, in
order to keep on grOwing-in order to be-
come wiser and better. No soul ever yet
reached the limits of its growth in Christ.
No one ever yet felt he must have some
other being to know and love in order to
reach higher toward heaven. No; after
studying Him longest, loving Him most, the
minds of richest endowment are the fore
most to exclaim: "Oh, the depth"
Do not see in this Jesus being suited,
by all that He is, and all that he has done,
to win my heart? Why should 1 not love
Him as love none besides? May 1 find
forgiveness in the depth of His mercy that
l have loved and served Him so little, and
may l find grace there also to do better in
what yet remains of this mortal life.
EvENTIDE.
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The Kindest Master.

1 was talking one day to very cheerful
old man, who was fond of speaking Of the
masters whom he had served. 1t was a
pleasant thing to hear him tell of how many
kind, good masters he had worked for.
"Had you never once hard masterP" l
said.
"Well, may be had, but forgot that
sort: there's no pleasure in thinking of them"
/ thought as l left him how much better
it is to try and remember about the good,
rather than the evil that has troubled our
past lives; and thinking of masters put me
in mind of the best of all masters. "One
is your Master, even Christ" Our earthly
masters provide us work, give us leave to
toll, pay us wages for our industry, and We
thank them, and serve them diligently. But
our heavenly Master not only gives us freely
the health and strength that enables us to
toll, He provides that we shall rest from our
labor. He gives us one day in seven, as
time of rest and reftshment. He calls to
Him and SAYS, &" I 2An give you rest" Do
we think of that kid Master as we should ?
Are we grateful that He has SO tenderly
thought of us as to provide for our repose
and rest? We know that ," He giveth His
beloved sleep, that great restorer of mans
physical energies; but not merely does He
give us rest in sleep, He provides for us
day of waking rest. On this holy Sabbath
we can "rest in the Lord, enjoy the sweet
calm of day when all labor shall cease;
when the tired world, weary with its six
days of anxious care and toll, can peacefully
compose itself to rest. O, dear brother
workmen, let no vain desire for earthly
pleasure or profit make you unmindful of
the claims of the best of Masters! for "His
yoke is easy and His burden is light"
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qualified to cultivate the barren wastes OF a
sinful world, or to build up Gods spiritual
temple, who make but very poor figure
when they come to fight with the enemies Of
the faith. Their feeble advocacy does tar
more harm than good to the cause they wish
to defend. What man cannot do well, ne
had better let alone.
There are some amongst us who consider
it an end of all strife to appeal to the au-
thority and example of our Puritan fore
fathers. 1t may be said that their preach
ing and writing were, to great extent, con-
troversial, that they used their rare endow-
ments and their vast learning to oppose the
religious errors of their times. Very true,
and no one would wish to undervalue their
important services in this direction. But,
on the other hand, it may be doubted whether
this was the most permanently valuable part
of their labors. Will not Baxter's "Call to
the Unconyerted, and his "Saint's Ever
lasting Rest" be read with unabated plea
sure and profit, when his ponderous tones of
polemic theology stand neglected and un.
opened on dusty bookshelves! ,a
1t not, of course, meant that ministers
should have no sympathy with the doubts
which will often distress the minds of their
most intelligent hearers, or do nothing to
remove them. But ministry which is only
or chiefly anti .skeptical, is not likely to be
very fruitful one. 1t is generally positive
didactic preaching which brings sinners to
and does the most to promote
experimental and practical religion.-Lor'.
dom Fireman.
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The Sweet Singers of Israel.

1t is very remarkable fact that many of
the finest singers and loftiest composers of
Europe are Israelites; and, indeed, not
few of the profoundest musical critics and
acutest writer's on the aesthetics of music are
of this same persuasion. We need merely
mention few names, known to every per-
son of the least artistic culture, in illustra-
ton of our assertion, and these are Meyer
beer, Mendelssohn, and Halevy. And it is
seldom that frst.class musical performance
is gotten up, either in this country or in
Europe, without the assistance of Jewish
musical skill.
1t was not in vain, therefore, that the
sweet Israelitish singer of old bade his sub
iects and descendants to touch the harp and
sound the timbrel; they have done it from
the days of David down to the present epoch,
and many of the sublimest creations of mus
cal genius that have ever entranced the heart
of man find their origin in the inspirations
of Jewish bards.
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The Great Wheel.

Nicodemus was converted Indian. His
language was highly fgurative. Once, when
looking at the mill. he said to missionary:
"Brother, discover something that rejoices
my heart. l have seen the great wheel, and
many little ones; every one was in motion,
and seemed all alive, but suddenly all stopped,
and the mill was as dead. Just so it is with
my heart-it is dead as the wheel; but as
soon as Jesus blood flows upon it, it gets
life, and sets everything in motion, and the
whole man being governed by it, it becomes
evident that there is life throughout. But
when the heart is removed from the crucifed
Jesus, it dies gradually, and at length all
life ceases
When the doctrines of the Holy Spirit
became more clear to his mind, he compared
his body to a canoe, and his heart to the
rudder; adding, "that the Holy Spirit was
the master, sitting at the rudder and direct
ing the vessel" Eclectic Treasury.
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
PERILS OF THE VOYAGE.

The voyage which the Apostle Paul had
on his way to Rome is one of the most
thrilling passages in the Bible. The des-
criptiOn of the peril in which all on board
were placed is drawn by Luke with graphic
power, of which we here quote only single
verse describing their extremity: "And
when neither sun nor stars in many days ap-
peared, and no small tempest lay upon us,
all hope that we should be saved was then
taken away"
They had tried every expedient, but all
had failed; the lamp of hope for time
went out. Their souls were in despair, a
despair as dark as those heavens in which
were not seen either, "sun or stars for many
days"
Danger of life is universally felt to be
one of the severest trials to which we can be
exposed. "All that man hath will he give
For his life. But to this very trial are We
all exposed in many ways, and perhaps every
day of our existence. The clouds of death
darken every sky. Some are in more i'm
mediate peril-in more visible, conscious
contact with the destroyer than others, and
their struggle is more severe. But all of
us are every hour in danger, and all must
one day, like Paul and his companions, feel
that as respects that inevitable event, "all
hope of our being saved is taken away"
For a time, in youth, or in health, life may
move on, like this ship bound for Italy at
the first of its voyage, "when the South
wind blew softly" Gentle gales awhile may
fill your sails; the fatering sea of life may
smile But of one thing let every human
being lay his reckoning sure. You cannot
go very far until tempests shall come. The
wind will blow, your sea will rise to noun
tains, the sun and moon, and every star of
earthly hope will disappear, and you shall
feel yourself here only as bubble on the
breakers.
Sure a time will come
Thy painted sails, and spread thy gold like chaff
D 'er the wild waves. And what wreck,
If judgment find thee unsuStained by God. "
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which he has paid for our ransom, has OBJ
tained for us an inheritance in the heavens,
and will ultimately redeem his purchased
possession; for 'it doth not yet appear what
we shall be, but when He shall appear We
shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as
He is And until we shall see Him, as
He is, the incarnation of the Son of God
will remain mystery to be received and
loved, being fully assured that what is now
dark and inscrutable will ultimately be as
clear as the light.
l have said more than l designed, for l
meant merely in brief article to express my
objection to the use of the term "Deus-
Homo" G.