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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
Not Bad.

Smart lawyers sometimes find
their match, and often when they
least expect shrewdness, A green
horn" from the mountains occasion
ally carries too many guns for them,
as the following anecdote illustrates
A very green looking specimen of
the genus Yankee, fresh from the ru-
raj districts, was on the stand, and
a pert young limb ofthe law propo-
sed to have little fun at the ex-
pense of Jonathan, who seemed un-
usually unsophisticated, but yet told
a straightforward story,like a honest
man. During the progress of the
examination the lawyer asked the
witness who made him, and was an
swered, very much to the amuse-
ment of the spectators, that Moses
made him. The pleasantly was con-
tinued for a short time, when the
verdant witness seemed inclined to
enjoy his right to ask questions.
"Wall stranger he drawled out,
with o nasal twang, "Iwant to know
who made you" The lawyer, enjoy
ing the fun, and to continue the
same idea, answered that Aaron
made him.
Jonathan worked his countenance
into rougish expression, and said,
"Wall, L know We read in the good
Book that Aaron made calf, but
l didn't know that the taraal critter
had got here"
The laugh was now turned on the
lawyer, who was ready to treat all
witnesses respectfully, no matter
how untidy their outside appearance
which he became convinced is not
always an index of what it covers.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17

Close to Jerusalem / saw two
Arabs and a woman building rough
wall along the road. There was an
air of intelligence about the wo-
mans face not in accordance with
her occupation, apparel, or soiled
hands. The impression was con-
firmed by conyersing with her, and
I was astonished to think she could
not gain living by some higher oc-
cupation than building wall.
"Would she be kind enough to
write her name for meF'
"Yes. Would I walk into her
house. 1t was close by" ei
81 did not like to take her from
her work"
"Oh, she had plenty of time"
We entered a neat cottage, plain
ly furnished and well supplied
with books. s ..-..tfar.
I was now more surprised than
ever. She produced a large book
and asked me to write my name.
1 glanced over the pages and saw
French Counts, German Barons,
Russian Princes, Irish and English
Lords and Dukes, and, Francis
Joseph, Emperor of Austria. She
wrote her name on a card, the
"Princess de la four d'Auvergne." !"
She obtained a grant from the Sui
tan of the piece of ground whereon
Christ taught the Lords Prayer,
and is erecting temple on it at her
own expense, which will contain
this prayer in every language. She
has already expended over two hun
dred thousand francs.-Cor. San
Francisco Paper.
l-r|r-HHr #.r.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
Railroad Signals.

The varieties of the "toot" of the
locomotive, and gyrations of the
conductors by day, or lanterns by
night, are about as Ineligible to
most people, as first class Choctaw.
The following will give the reader a
correct idea of their signification:
One whistle-"Down brakes"
Two whistles" brakes"
Three whistles-"Back up"
A rapid succession Of short
whistles is the cattle alarm, at which
the brakes will always be put down.
"A sweeping parting of the hands
on level of the eye, is signal to
"go-ahead." ..--.-....
A downward motion of the hand,
with extended arms, ''to STOP"
A beckoning motion of one hand
I" to back" mis-. ssf
A lantern raised and lowered YER
tically, is a signal for starting
swung at right angles, or cross-ways
the track, ''to stop" swung in a cir.
Gle, ''to back the train"
A red flag waved upon the track
must be regarded as a signal Of
danger. So of other signals given
with energy.
Hoisted at a station, is a signal
for train ''to STOP" i "-.7 90
Stuck up by the roadside, it is g
signal of danger on the train ahead
Carried unfurled upon an engine
is warning that another engine OIL
train is on its way. .
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
A Christian Wife.

How fitting to begin with those
who are at once the centre of the do
mestic circle, and the source of that
influence which binds all its mem
bers into one. Households there
may be, well-ordered, and abounding
in comfort; families there may be
whose various members live in har-
mony and love; but homes, in their
true sense, there cannot be where
there is not within. its inner circle
one whom manly choice has made a
wife, and infant lips have learned to
honor with the name of mother.
She may not be, in common accep-
tation, the "head'' of the household.
But if she is not the head of the fam
lily, she is the heart. In her more
hidden sphere originates the tide OF
love, whose beating pulse is felt in
every part, dispensing life and cheer
fulness to every member. Herself
subject to authority, even her obedi-
ence becomes tributary to her pow
er. And the same Gospel which
enjoins the submission, has exalted
her upon the throne of love, and in
its own true spirit taught her how
to overcome by gentleness, and to
rule by meekness and lowliness OF
heart. -''
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
A Matter of-fact Woman.

An editor describes clergyman's
wife who never forgot herself in any
momentary fit of enthusiasm. She
would count the strokes of the clock
amid his kisses, and look to sec
whether the pot was boiling with
her eyes full of tears which he had
wrung from them by a moving story.
While he was listening in rapture to
her singing, she would break off in
the middle of a verse to ask him
what she should cook for supper;
and he would never forgive her hay
ing once interrupted him while she
was listening with deep emotion to
his very best sermon, to tell him not
to put on his left stocking the next
morning till she had mended it.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
The Oldest CITY in the World.

Damascus is the Oldest city in the
world. Tyre and Sidon have crum
bled on the shore; Baalbec is ruin;
Palmyra lies buried in the sands of
the desert; Nineveh and Babylon
have disappeared from the shore of
the Tigris and Euphrates. Damas-
Gus remains what it was before the
day of Abraham-a center of trade
and travel, an island of verdure in
desert, a "predestined capital" with
martial and sacred associations eX-
tending beyond tn rtJ centuries.
1t was near Damascus that Saul
of Tarsus saw the light from heaven,
above the brightness of the sun; the
street, which is called Straight, in
which it is said he "prayeth," still
runs through the city, the caravan
comes and goes as it did one thou
sand years ago; there is still the
sheik, the ass and the water-wheel,
the merchants of the Mediterranean
and the Euphrates still occupy these,
with the multitude of their wares.
The city which Mahomet surveyed
from a neighboring height, and was
afraid to enter, "because it is given
to men to have but one paradise,
and, for his part he was resolved
not to have it in this world" is this
day when Julian called it the "Eve
of the East" as it was, in the time
of Isaiah, ''the head of Syria"
It's still a city of flowers and
bright waters; the streams from Leb-
anon, the "rivers of Damascus" the
''river of gold," still murmurs and
sparkles in the wilderness of Siriah
Gardens.
From Damascus comes our dam
son, our blue plums, and the deli
cious apricot of Portugal called dam
asco: damask; or beautiful fabric of
cotton and silk, with vines and flow
ers raised upon its smooth, bright
ground; the damask rose introduced
into England in the time of Henry
VII; the damask blade, so famous
the world over for its keen edge and
remarkable elasticity, the secret of
the manufacture of which was lost
when Tamerlane carried off the ar
lists into Persia; and the beautiful
art of inlaying wood and steel with
silver, gold, a kind ofmosaic engra-
wing and sculpture united, called
damaskeering, with which books
and bureaus, swords and guns are
ornamented.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
A Contented Mind.

A breeder of merino sheep in Ver-
mont had a large native cosset
which he valued highly. His son
came in one morning and informed
him that the old cosset had twins.
Indeed" says he," am glad. She
will bring up two as well as one."
Soon after, the son reported one of
the twins dead. The father replied
that the zone left would be worth
more in the Fall than both" In the
afternoon came the intelligence that
the other lamb was dead. 81 am
glad" said he, "now can fatten the
old sheep" The next day the old
cosset was reported dead. THAT is
just what wanted. Now / have got
rid of the breed"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that petition will
IN be presented to the Board of Commission
ers of Holmes County, Ohio, at their December
session, A. ID. 1870 praying for the alteration
of a county road on the following line, to wit ::
Starting at the State road leading from Millers-
burg to Nashville, in said county of Holmes;
said county road starting at said state road, at
the bridge on Sapp's run, near the lands of ohm
McElroy, deceased, and terminating at Harri-
sons Saw Mill, in Monroe township, in said
county of Holmes; said alteration to COM
mence in said county road, on lot number two,
of the third quarter, township number nine,
and range number seven, being the lands of
George ". Uhl, just south of the spring run,
running across said county road, which comes
down from John C. Stewards land, and thence
through the lands of said Uhl, west of said
county road, until it reaches the north part of
lot number seven, third quarter of township
number nine and range number seven, being
the lands of Fletcher Boiling, in said county OF
Holmes; and thence through said Boling's
lands, east of said county road; thence through
lot number eight of the third quarter, of town.
ship number nine, and range number seven,
being the lands of James Steel, deceased, until
it intersects said county road. at or near the
barn on the lands of said Steel; and which al
teration of said county road is to be located on
the best and most practicable ground for a
road through said lots of land above mentioned.
Dated this 3lst day of October. 4. D. 1870.
1trf
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
VIII You Please Read This?

READING, PA, Jan, II, 1853.
Mr.. VIM. C. Krouse, No. 205 South Fifth ST.,
says the Macedonian Oil is the only thing
which has given strength to his broken arm
has used it in his family for Earache, Neural
gia, and frosted feet. performing in each case a
wonderfully quick and radical cure.
Z. Fox, proprietor of Keystone House, certi-
hes that three bottles of the Oil cured strain
in a horse, valuing the cure at 500.
John Kemp, Policeman. says the Oil cured
him of severe fracture of the collar bone.
Mrs. Kocher, 70 years of age, 2s6 Chestnut
st. Rheumatism in shoulders twenty years
cured in two days. %ia
August Rhinehart; Partial Deafness, sew
eral years-cured in one week.
Peter Smith, Contracted Cords, years
cured in three days.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
HOLMES County, THURSDAY NOVEMBER H. 1870

carriage, at five tomorrow after
noon, to meet him." ...
"Yes, ma'am,"' said Sanderson,
stolidly. The apparition of a great
unruly boy tramping with muddy
boots on the velvet carpets, and
haunting the house with ball and
marbles, and lung-spitting halloes,
did not possess the charm to San
derson's eyes that it seemed to his
mistress. And even patient Mrs.
Brown remarked with a species of
evaporation, that "she didn't see
what put this freak into Miss
Blanche's head"
Saturday was day of hail and
tempest and softly falling snow, and
by five o'clock the drawing rooms
were lighted, and the crimson silk
curtain closely drawn to exclude the
stormy darkness without. Six
times within the last fifteen minutes
had Blanche Penroy looked at her
watch as she stood by the fire wait
ing to hear the returning carriage
wheels. She was dressed in rich
China blue silk dress, with pearl pin
and ear drops, and little point lace
at her throat and wrists; and the
color in her cheeks, and the golden
glimmer in her bright. hair, made
her, unconsciously, very fair to
look upon"
40, 1 hope he will like me-"
thought Blanche, with the instinc-
tive yearning for love that comes to
every, woman's heart, as the door
opened.
"Here's the young gentleman,
Miss" said Sanderson, with half
suppressed sound, between q laugh
and a snort. .- .... 5.-
But instead of a child seven or
eight years old, a tall apparition
stalked in, something over six feet
high, with black moustache, and
merry hazel eyes brimming over
with mirth. For an instant Blanche
stared at him, as if she could hardly
credit the evidence Of her own
senses. ri
"Gilbertr' E t-.t ..
Exactly. You wanted to adopt
me, and here am ...
"No, but, Gilbert"
"Yes, but, Blancher'
"You are not Mrs. Marchmont's
SOn.
"I am-by her first marriage.
And although 1 am by no means the
penniless infant you seemed to sup
pose, as all my fathers wealth comes
to me, 1 am quite willing to be
adopted-particularly as you are not
married to Walter Birmingham"
Blanche struggled between her
tears and laughter, uncertain which
could best express her feelings, but
Gilbert drew her tenderly to him.
eff you adopt me, dearest, it
must be for life. Nay, do not hesi-
tate-our happiness has already
been too much at the mercy of
trifes. You will not retract your
offerF' # ..a.. -ra
Well, after ALL" said Blanche,
demurely, "all 1 wanted was some
one to love and care for and"
"And I shall do very well in that
capacity, eh?' -.
And Sanderson, who had been
listening diligently at the door,
crept down stairs to inform Mrs.
Brown that ''they were going to have
a new master" "N
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
READ IF YOU PLEASE
EATON, PA.

Joseph Dodd-Deafness, eighteen years;
cured with three applications.
Mrs. Henry Shanebarger-Frequentl af-
fiicted with Sick Headache-eXtreme case
cured in one day. : - a.
John Waters daughter-severe attack acute
Rheumatism-cured in one-half day.
Mrs. John Ruth, (ice- e-dealer,) torturing pains
in side and back-cured by taking remedy
three times internally and making four ex-
ternal applications.
Charles Wallace, rheumatism in arm and
shoulder, four years-cured in four days.
c. Sieman, contracted cords, caused by gun
shot wound at battle Of Stone River almost en-
tirely relieved in fifteen minutes.
DR.. Wright, Rheumatism, cured.
A. A. Hess says he knows the oil cured a
friend of his who had been suffering excrutia-
ting pains.
Mr.. Lawell, firm of Lawell & Martin, Drug
gists, Allentown, says, Use my name freely
in recommending the Oil. l have used it, and
it has done me more good than any other rem
edy l ever tried,
{. Knauss says, "there is no remedy like it.
Have used it for broken limb"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
What Makes a Man.

1t is curious to notice the opinions
of the world in regard to what con-
stitutes MAN. If one enjoys pleas
antly the pleasant things of life, and
is always ready to mingle with So
ciety, and make himself agreeable
by his polite manners and suav1ty
toward all, he is called a frst-rate
man, good man, noble man.
But does this make the real great
ness and goodness of a man? Polite
ness and suavity, and willingness
to make ones self agreeable under
every ordinary circumstance, is
commendable quality; but if man
possess nothing more than this, he
is only a happy ornament in the
world.
The quality of politeness every
man should cultivate; yet this is not
the thing which makes a man. It
certainly adds to his popularity, and
consequently to his success in an
enterprise that needs the influence
and assistance of the people; but it
does not discipline him for severe
trials, and build him up again with
hope in case of important failures.
The pleasant things of life-those
which are popularity called best-the
calm experience; these do never
make men, but the rugged expert
ences, the tempests, the trials. 4
If man has passed the age of
middle life with no marks of trial
and struggle written upon his fea-
tures-no wrinkles of care and sor-
row upon his brow-you may well
believe that he has not yet gradu-
ated in the severe school which con-
stitutes MAN. .,..l.. .-.l.. =
Real manhood is heroic; it ex-
periences in its passage through the
world from the cradle to the grave,
good and evil, here trouble and
there joy, here rudeness and there
smoothness, one working with the
other, and all, the good and the evil,
blended in the character and ac-
cepted with stoicism and patience.
This beautiful, accomplishing ac-
ceptance of the good and the evil of
life forms the greater part of that
education which makes a man in
deed a man, in distinction from an
auiimal, which can have no sucn ed
ucation-in distinction, too, from
the commonplace human being, who
grumbles at the smallest failures,
and cringes under adversely with
out dignity or manliness-Sine's
Literary Journal. er afl --
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17

A stranger observing an ordinary
roller rule on the table, took it up,
and ON inquiring its use was answer
ed at is rule for contingencies.
Too well bred, as he construed po-
liteness, to ask unnecessary ques-
tions, he turned it over and over, up
and down repeatedly, and in parox-
ism of bafiled curiosity inquired
"How in the name of wonder do you
count houses with this?"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17

1t cures 90 cases out of 100, on an average,
over the country, and will positively benefit
every one using It, no matter how severe the
disease.
Headache and Earache,
Sore Throat, Sprains and Bruises,
Cholera Morbus in 80 minutes,
Neuralgia in 30 minutes,
Pain in Side or Back,
Deafness, Positive Cure,
Ciamp Collie in minutes.
Dipsneria, Bronchial Affections, scrofula,
Catarrh in the Head. Piles, letter, Contracted
Cords, Derangement of the Liver, Kidney,
Painful Swellings, Paralysis, Stiff and En-
larged Joints, Falling Fits, Palsy, etc. etc.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17

To be thrown upon ones own re-
sources is to be cast into the very
lap of fortune, for our faculties then
undergo development, and display
an energy, of which they were pre-
viously unsusceptible.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
$4,000 REWARD.

The Macedonian Oil Company will forfeit
81 10000 for every one hundred remedies COM
bined that will give the people such assurances
of success, in curing any of the above diseases
rs the Macedonian on, and that will furnish
such reliable certificates in the town where
manufactured and sold.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
SPRAINS AND BRUISES.

WOOSTER, o.. Jan. 1st, 1868,
Nessrs. Ingrdhd,n Dc Co.-GentleD,en..: While
hauling stone for the public buildings, got
my back strained so that was laid up for two
weeks l finally got some of your Macedonian
Oil, and in one week, was able to go to work
again. There is no medicine that will beat
yours, and any of my neighbors can tell how
bad it was.
am, gratefully yours.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
IT. RAY MOND, NJ. ID.
Cures Catarrh and Rheumatism.

CANTON, o., Dec. 3, '6S.
Lnorahara d Co.-Gents.: take pleasure in
stating that after suffering from Cafarrh in the
head for about five years, at some periods
tirely cured by the use of Ingraham's Macedo-
nian OIL Ny friends know that of late years
my case has been an extreme one. had great
sufferings by times, but am at present entirely
free from pain in the head-feel quite like
new man. 1 cheerfully recommend 1t to 9TH
ers for Catarrh. l have only used three One
Dollar Bottles, which / believe has effected a
rheumatism. and have been greatly benefited
Ds ~ VIM. oLDFIELD.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
RaiJaU0y Time Tables.
Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Delaware r. r.
Pittsburg, TT. Wayne & Chicago r. r.

n6rOn and after June 18th, 1870, trains will
leave stations daily, Sundays excepted, as fol-
leys: dTrain leaving Chicago at 5:s5 7. NJ.
leaves daily.) (Trafns leaving Pittsbnrg at
2:55 z. NJ, leaves daily.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
! / PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
DISCIPLE CHURCH,

ELDER WIN. SHARP, PASTOR. HOURS
for service II O'Clock, A. n. Sabbath school
Q O'Clock. Evening service 7k o'clock-
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at X
O'Clock. llff = LItEt5fTf - Ef-
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rheumatism.
A Lady of IS Years Cured Of Rheuma

A Lady OF 20 Years cured OF kneuma.
s. BEAVER AVENUE,
ALLEGHENY CITY, October IL, '6sI
Mssrs. Ino-aham d Co-Genss! Isunered 95
wears with rheumatism in my hip joints.
was tortured with pain until my hip was de-
formed. l used every thing that heard Of
without obtaining any relief, until about two
weeks ago commenced using your Maeedo-
nian Oil. am now cured, and can walk to
market, a thing l have not been able to do for
twenty years. | am gratefully yours,
ELIZABETH WILLIAMS.
Cured of Deafness of Eighteen Years
Standing. t
READING PA, Oct. Cd, 1868.
DR.. Ingrdhd,n d Co,-Gents.: reside at 215
Miffiin street. Reading, Pa; was totally Deaf
in one Ear, and partially Deaf in the other, for
eighteen years. Your Macedonian Oh has en-
tirely cured me, and L now hear as well as
ever heard from both ears, and know Of others
of nv neighbors who have used the Oil with
the same brnefciai results. Hoping that |
may be the means of doing you good, as well
as the sufferers of Deafness, (by recommending
the Oll,) am
-, - HENRY RHOADs.
The Pittsburgh Erening Mail, of Sept. 4th
SAYS; sOne of the attaches of this paper, while
and Neuralgia was cured within five minutes
by the use Of DR.. Ingraham's Macedonian OIL"
Read sohat DR.. Raymond says about DR..
Ingrahdm's Macedonian Oil.
ALLEGHENY CITY, Pa, July 29, 1870.
DR.. S. W. Ingraham, wooster, Ohio:
Dear Sir: 1t does seem to me that you do not
advertise your Macedonian Oil for all its mel
its deserve. have Travelled over one thousand
miles and treated with your oil more than five
thousand patients, successfully. Many cases
of Paralysis have cured in two weeks-many
of them had bafiied skillful physicians of their
localities. Nor can you speak too highly of its
curative properties in cases of Deafness or Ca
tarrh never believed in any infallible rem
edy, but do believe the Oil to be infallible for
Catarrh, and defy anybody to contradict it
after using it, Imay further add, that for Kid
ney Diseases, of any kind, that its approved
medical qualities render 1t the most efficient.
Don't be afraid to advertise it in strong Ian
guage. The Oil will prove it.
Yours, very respectfully.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
Il CERTAIN CURE -!

sCROFULA, PILES, TETTER AND PALSY.
Persons forwarding IS Dollars for Six Bot
ties, to our hddress, will get it by Express Of
flee. Address order TO