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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30
The Little Slate.

"THERE, | did mean to sew these but
tons on Fred.'s jacket before night. I
have thought of it just in time for he
must have it early in the morning. 1 do
forget so many things | have to do" said
Lucia Warren to good Aunt Patience,
who was visiting her for a day or two.
You can wait few minutes for me,
can't you, aunty? l will not be long,"
and Lucia went to get her work, taking
off her gloves, and throwing back her
veil. It was troublesome to stop Just as
she was going out, but the work must be
done. Indeed, it was nothing so very
unusual, as Lucia seemed always forget
ting things as she said.
q" [ will tell you an excellent plan I have
followed for years." said Aunt Patience.
at is that of keeping little slate with
pencil attached, hung up in some con-
venient place, and noting down on it all
the things 1 wish to do If you like,
we will buy such a slate while we are out,
and l viii get you started in the same
system"
Lucia entered into the scheme with
great enthusiasm, and that night saw one
side of her little slate well covered with
items she wished to remember She did
not attempt to classify them, but noted
them down in just the order she happened
to think of them. Aunt Patience
QlQ not WISH nCT TO undertake
too much at once The classifca-
ton would come afterwards. The other
side of the slate had been reserved for to-
morrow's duties. A regular plan was not
laid down for the whole day, with the
hours set to them for aunty knew that
no house mother could bring all the rest of
her household to time in such matters,
even if she could herself BY undertake
ing too much, young housekeepers are
often discouraged, and give up all efforts
at systematizing. 1t was the ground plan
only of her work which was laid down,
but it helped her wonderfully all through
the day. 1t was such satisfaction to
draw line through anything which had
been completed; and then, by glancing
her eye down the list, she was sure not to
forget just the thing she ought most to re-
member.
In time, the little slate came to be re-
garded as one of the most useful articles OF
furniture about the house 1t saved hours
of time and dollars of waste, besides add
ing fully third to the family comfort and
convenience. If you are sceptical, hang
up one in your own home, and consult it
as Lucia did, and | do not doubt but you
will arrive at a similar conclusion
If the youthful reader will begin early
the practice of making memorandum of
the duties to be performed each day, and
discharge those duties in their proper
season, habit will be formed which will
prove of incalculable benefit in after years.
Eec7sdnqe
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30
Never Raise a Child by the Hand or
Wrist.

1t is common practice of nurses and
parents to grasp children by single hand
or wrist, and lift them bodily, as in step
ping over cutters, streams, etc. Occasion
ally child is seized by the hands and
swung around with great force, the body
being held nearly al right angles. This
feat is not always followed by immediate
i'll effects, but it is liable to result in most
serious injury. At this period of life, the
ends of the long bones are united to the
shafts by cartilage, which renders them
weak and very liable to be distorted by
force. There are three of these bones in
the arm one between the shoulder and
elbow, and two between the elbow and
wrist. The arm OF the child is, therefore,
very weak. When extension is made at
he hand, the force is not expended upon
long, firm bones, but rather upon bones
broken at several points, and very loosely
united. A small force, far less than is re
quired to fracture a fully formed bone,
will separate the cartilaginous portions, or
permanently bend them. There is also
another form of Injury which may occur
at the instant Of this have seen several
examples. 1t consists in a slight dlsplace-
ment of the cartilages in one of the joints,
either the wrist or elbow, attended by pain,
swelling, and tenderness. The joint is
fixed in semiflexed position, and the
little sufferer will not allow it to be moved
or even handled. 1t can be easily rectified
by surgeon, by forcible fexion and ex-
tension. Finally, by lifting child in this
manner the hgaments about the joints may
be extended, and this will weaken the
joints, and this weakness may remain as
permanent disability.-An Eminent Ply
sc;an, in Hearth and Home.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30
Fishing with Beardless Hook.

SOME months ago. business led me to an
out-ot-the-way place, where, near by fall
of water, there lived two boys, one eight
and the other ten. They were bright
eyed, inquisitive little chaps, but generally
without either hat or shoes, and often with
pants and jacket sadly rent
Busted as l was in the repairs of an old
mill, these boys were handy to send on
errands, bring tools, look after my horse
turned out to bait in the road, and do
numberless little things to save the steps
of those who were older
One day, on reaching the mill, saw the
Oldest boy standing upon a rock, partly
hidden by the foliage of the surrounding
trees, fishing, and as often as he felt a
nibble he would jerk his line as spitefully
out OF the water as though he bore the
little fish some terrible grudge, and wanted
to pay ii by twitching their heads off I
asked him why he did so, and explained
as well as | was able the best modes of
taking such fish as made the little brook
their home.
After hearing me patiently and respect
fully, he said: mister, you fish with a
| hook that has got beard on it, and when
you hook one he stays My hook ha'n't
| got any beard. It's an old broken one
that Liger Green gave me- ha'n't got
any money to buy new one. Mother
wants tne pennies you gave me. L like to
fish, like to catch 'eln for mother, and I
have to witch 'em when they bite, or they
will wiggle off, and [ shall lose 'em."
| liked the talk of that boy. He did not
| grumble about his old hook, but did the
best he could with what he had to do with;
and day after day, as saw him doing it,
and taking to his mother the reward of
his toll which had cost him so much care
and thought and skill, / knew that he was
| laying with that alder rod in his hands the
| foundations of a grand character
That is the way Horace Greeley began.
| He fished awhile with beardless hook.
His father was very poor, and he had
scarcely any books and what he had he
was obliged to read by the dim light of
pine-knots which his own forethought had
gathered; but he is now one of the ablest
writers, as well as one of the most infiu-
entail men in America.
And so with John Jacob Astor. He had
no money, or comparatively none, when
he came to this country, but he wanted to
trade, and so he carried his little bundle of
goods around under his arm or in his
hands He tished with a beardless hook.
Afterward he bought furs and carried
them on his back hundreds of miles TO
market, and when he died he had grown
from absolute poverty to be the richest
man in the country.
There is scarcely great man or good
man on this side of the Atlantic that did
not have tough time in his boyhood, did
not fish awhile with a beardless hook and
of all the boys now in the country, those
only will arrive at eminence who do the
best they can with what they have to do
with; never complain, but push cheerful
ly and resolutely on in the path that leads
upward to a noble and good and grand
manhood.-Hedrh and Home.
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A Generous Husband.

PERHAPS 10 or II years ago, in very
good state, saw a woman with pleas
ant Quaker face, under simple Quaker
bonnet rather liked it-and her Quaker
husband sitting by her with his broad
brimmed hat on. They had spent many
years together, you could see by their
faces. He was just bidding her good-by
as the train was starting, and l heard her
ask him for little money. l did not at
all wish to hear what they said, but /
heard that he had bought her ticket, and
saw that he had taken her satchel politely
on his arm. She hated to ask him for
the money; a good many other women
have hated to ask for it, too She began
to say, 81 wish I had little -, she
did not want to finish, thinking that he
would think of it and give it to her; but
he did not SO out it came all at once,
MAY be I'll want little money while L
am gone" The good, honest Quaker
turned his face toward her with surprise,
and said, What hast thou done with the
quarter gave thee last week." Laughter
and applause. ]l-FTon, Lucy StoAe's Chicago
,SDeech
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30

HoRsE-RACING AMONG THE INDIANS
"Redlander,' New Orleans correspondent OF the
Turf F5ttd and Fam tells the following story of
race in the Creek nation where the racing author
tiles believed that weight was no objection If it
were well placed, and that it was an advantage to
have two riders-on TO whip and one to pull:
After some trading, much talk, and numbers of
drinks, the Indians proposed to run a large horse
that they had against the pony quarter of a mile
and bet two to one on the big one and the double
jockeys. The white man was willing to run, but
objected to the riders, as he had but one, and he
very small, and could do but little in the way
of whipping and pulling After much pow-wowing
it was compromised by the white man agreeing
that the Indians might ride the biggest man in the
nation Tie race was closed and run, and won by
the little pony and little boy as we would have
pected. But the Indians attributed the defeat of
their fayorite to the fact that he carried but
rider. After much consultation and talk with their
jockey "a Ia Saratoga Judges the Indians proposed
to race over, provided their horse allowed two
riders and the white man put up dollar for dollar.
The white man agreed, provided the Indian jockeys
came to scale not erceeiing one hundred pounds
each. This was accepted, the race run, and won by
the little pony and boy.
Walker Thurston (and he was sharp one) used
to say, If you know nothing about race to be
ran, and you must bet on it or freeze always bet
the littlest boy. The Indians were terrib, NOR
titled. After giving them day or two to recover
another race, bet them to one, and the Indians
might put up many and as large riders as they
pleased and he-the white man-woud run. his
pony a0ittOb1 any rider at all to whip pull him.
This very liberal proposition the Indians respectful
ly declined, declaring they would more races
with the white man, because he great horse
medicine and could not be beaten
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30
10 " TO MAKE HONEY.

ne following characteristic whimsey of the late
Ky i; ulsneo poet, Fitz- Greene Halleck, Is now
iisheo ior the first tirael Hearth and Home
u tel you plan Tor gaining wealth,
etler than banking trading or leases:
&c Dahk-note and fold it up.
Niiu then you will find your wealth Increases.
: wonderful plan without danger or loss
Aeeps your cash in your hands and with nothing
to trouble it,
u every time that you fold it across.
IS PLAIN as the light of the day that you double
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30

Some excitement has been created at
Columbus, Miss, by the appearance there
of four immense insects, supposed to be
Egyptian locusts. They were three times
as large as the common locust, with large
black eyes, legs ofgreat strength, feathered
like shanghai chicken, tails similarly
adorned, and a hard shell covering. The
like of them was never seen before by the
oldest inhabitant.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
NOTHING IS LOST

NOTHING is lost. The drop of dew
That trembles on the leaf or flower
Is but exhaled to fall anew
In summers thunder shower;
Perchance to shine within the bow
That fronts the sun at fall of day;
Perchance to sparkle in the flow
OF fountains far away
SO with our deeds, for good or i'll.
they have their power scarce understood.
linen let us use our better will
To make them rife with goods
Like circles on a lake they go.
Ring within ring, and never STAY.
On that our deeds were fashioned so
That they might bless AWAY
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30

A GLOOMY octogenarian was complain
ing to Auber of the hard necessity of grow.
ing old. !" Hard as it is" replied the vet.
eran composer, it seems to me the only
means yet discovered of enjoying long
life"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30

AT recent wedding reception in Brook
Ign, there was present a gentleman who
wore a $4,000 solitaire diamond pin.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30

The Episcopal Church of Scotland is
about to admit lay representation, only the
laity are not to vote upon questions OF
doctrine.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30
POETRY.
7E DARKENED NURSER p.

room enough In the nursery now,
crowded little before
len the crib in the corner sat
rockers came close to the door:
light was sweet, and the air was soff.
the room was filed with cheer.
all We're chained to the little spot
ne voice Of the badly dear.
Is the sunshine-where is the noises
re are the playthings gone!
snali l DO with my empty arms
ing alone, alones
snail do with the empty cribs
ere snail set his chair
the darling little ones clothes come down .
let me leave them there,
! l3 q mem up softly and put them by,
: = n holier through this pain;
p t,,e , ccasrrlage..check the deep sigh, /
sc up ilfe,s duties again;
tnr ace InIiy toward Heaven and God
sweet peace shall keep thee still;
low before Him, kissing HIS rod
Y Haurmur, love-"Just as God WILL
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-21
WOODSFEID MONROE COUNTY, OHIO TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER o. 1869

Of death by military commission Of citi-
en- of Texas, not in the military service,
while the civil courts are in the nnobstructed
exercse Of their functions IN that State. and
in time of profound peace, and the approval
of that sentence by President Grant, are III
violation of the most sacred rights of Amer
lean citizens guaranteed by their Constitution,
both State and Federal, and deserve and
should receive the severest condemnation of
every lover of liberty aud constitutional gov
GrnpIent.
10. RESOLVED, That the attacks of Cover
nors Hayes and Lee upon the doings of the
late General Assembly are false in statement,
malicious in spirit, and unworthy of their
high position.
IL. RESOLVED, That the Fifty eighth General
Assembly was called upon to make large and
extraordinary appropriations to rebuild the
burned Lrnatio Asylum, to provids Reform
School for girls, to construct new Blind
Asylum, to make an appropriation to meet a
judgment of more than eighty thousand dol
lars, recovered in the Supreme Court of the
State.in :aror OF the Life and Trust Company,
and to supply deficiency of more than FIVE
hundred thousand dollars of the preceding
Republican Legisle ture-all of which together
with the extra compensation paid to men,
bers under law passed by Republican
Legislature, without an increase of the State
levy; Notwithstanding all these things, the
appropriations are much less than those of
the preceding Republican Legislature-and
that, too. without abstracting eight hundred
thousand dollars from the relief fund for the
manned and disabled soldiers and their fam
iliss.s
II. RESOLVED, That we hereby return our
thanks tn the late General Assembly for their
economical expenditures in the adminstra-
ton of the State Government, and for the
exposure of the Wholesale frauds in the erec-
zion of State buildings, whereby the people
were defrauded out OF half million of dollars
by the negligence and corruption of Republican
State officials, and the dishonesty of their ap-
pointees and subordinates.
13. RESOLVED, That we extend the right
hand of fellowship, and recognize as brethren
in common cause, all conservative men not
heretofore Democrats, who will unite with us in
rescuing the Government from the unworthy
hands into which it has fallen; and we pledge
the united aud cordial support of the two hum
dred and fifty thousand Democrats in Ohio
WHOM we represent, to the ticket nominated by
this Convention, and presented by us to the suf-
frages of the people of Ohio.
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implication, that the United States will
not provide, in due time, in the way
deemed most expedient, legal-tender
notes to make the payment.
What is said Of opinions expressed or
promises made by the Secretary of Treas
ury, that the bonds would be pait.. in gold
is entitled to no weight
The act of Congress, which was the
Secretary's power of attorney, was IT. :he
hands of the whole reading public, es-
peclally of the capitalist and his counsel,
who could not failto know that the Secrt-
tary had no power TO pledge the Govern
ment by parade ot III any manner not
written dowIi in thelaw. He doubtless en-
tertained and expressed a strong opinion
that specie payments would he resumed
before the bonds became payable, but the
nation is certainly under no Obligation
now to Bankrupt itself, and add its whole
wealth for ages to the already enormous
profits Of the capitalists, in order to
make good the prediction.
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NUMBER SO

TWEEN THE SOUTH AND THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF ANY GOV
ERNMENT THAT MAY BE THE
PLEASURE OF IT'S PEOPLE,
Again, March 2S, 1851, tie C3ma.er-
cial said:
"When it became apparent that coer-
cics policy meant not cauterizing local
irritation, but the conquest by fire and
sword, Of the country from the Ohio
River to the Gulf of Mexico, and from
fine Potomac to the Rio Grands-,oc ad-
Gocate peaceaLle separation, and gave
many of what we considered good and
substantial reasons for so doing. =
1--WE are not in favor of blockading
the Southern coast We are not in favor
of retalsing by force the property of tho
United States now iii possession of the
scceders We would recognize the exis,
tence of a government formed Of all tic
slavc-holding States, and attempt to cul-
tivate amicable relations with il"
From the New York Tribune, Nov. 0, 1850.
"If the cotton States shall become sat
isied that they can do better cut of the
Union than in it, pe insist on letting them
go inpcacc The right to seccde may be i
revolutionary one, but i eris,s neuerth.-
less. + i We must ever resist the
right of any State to remain in the I'm
ion aud nullify or defy the laws thereof.
To rdhdraw from The Union Is quite an
other araiter; and ,oheneper a considerable
section Of our Union shall deliberately re.
SotUs to go Oaf, WE SHALL RESIST ALL CO.
ERcIvE MEASURES DESIGNED TO KEEP 1T IN
I've hope nercr 10 ltue IN a repubiic ultereof
one sectioa is pinaed to The other by bayo.
nets"
The Tribaae now advocates bayoiict
and Negro rule in the South, ,and it IS the
mouth piece Of Radicalism. The Souh
''is pinned to Radicalism by bayonets."
This the Tribune indorses.
[From the New York Tribune, Dec. i3 ts6O.l
"If il (the Declaration Of Indcpend,
enGe) justified the secession from the
British Empire of three millions Of col
onists in 17I6, ,ue do not sec ,ohy il should
not Justify the secession Of fee millions Of
Soufhcrmcrs from the Union IL 1851 IL
we are mistaken on this point, why does
not some one attempt to show wherein
and why? For our own part, while we
deny the right of slave holders to hold
slaves against the will of the latter, ,oc
can not see ho,o t,centy millions Of people
can riyhttuly hold ten or, eUea flee, IN 4
DETEsTED UNION Wi'TH THEM, BY MILITARY
FORCE
HORACE GREELEr, the e1itor Of the
Tribune, published the above as the pol
icy of the Radical party.in 1860. Won
der who advocated '.letiin3 them go Ia
pcacc?" The ''little creatures who con
troll the columns of the rural press, for
the benefit of Radicalism, are just now
bowling that the Democracy favored a
peaceaJle separation, and that Radical
ism was war party from the beginning
of our late troubles
viii they publish the above and, by so
doing, set themselves right Oh tho re-
cord !?
Who were the advocates Of the disso.
luton of the Union? The Republican
politicians told the Southern people to
&C in peace. They went Tile RESULTS
before us? Who is responsible: for it ?
Echo answers-the Radical Party.
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AWet Blank ei for n BrIdaI Party,

Mowatt, who is writing foreign letters
fer the San Francisco Chronicle. tells a
story of bridal pair, making the tour
of Switzerland, who recently come to a
crowded hotel, and were informed by the
lord that there was one uuoccupied room
in the house, the bath room, and that a
couple of beds might be made in the two
baths which it contained. The youthful
couple were well pleased to secure even
this shelter, after fatiguing journey, and
retired to rest, An hour or two later the
stiffness ofthc night was suddenly broken
bv shrieks Of distress issuing from the
bathroom The lady, wishing to sum-
mon servant, had pulled what she pre-
sunied was bell-ropo suspended over
her bed in the bath, when suddenly she
was inundated by shower of cold wa
ter. The gentleman, reused by her cries
niilled supposed bell-rone Which he felt
dangling over his bath bed, to bring him
a domestic, but.brought, instead, show
er of hot, water over himself. 1t was
quite dark, and neither bride nor bride
groom could grope their way to the
door. By the time succor came they
we're up to their kuees in water.
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WOODSFIELD,
TUES Az, WEDNESDAY and
THURSDAY, October I9, 20 s. d.
1869.
OFFICERS:

OFFICERS:
S. p. JONES, President.
THOMAS FORD, Vice President
DANIEL WALTON, Secretary.
w. T. MORRIS, Treasurer.
Directors-J. C. YoHo, HUGH CRAw
FORD, JOSEPH MYERS, BARRETT MANN, A
B. COVERT, GEORGE G. NORRIS and VAL
ENTINE GATES.