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FAT AND LEAN PEOPLE.

1t is a striking fact, that most peO-
pie want to weigh more than they do,
and measure their health by their
weight, as if a man were q pig, valua-
BILE in proportion to his heaviness.
The racer is not fat, the plow horse
has but q moderate amount of flesh.
Heavy men are not those which eXpe-
rieneed contractors employ to dig
railroads and bitches. Thin men, the
world over, are the men for work;
for endurance, they are wiry and
hardy. Thin people live longest; the
truth is, fat is disease, and as proof,
fat people are never well a day at a
time, and are not suited for hard
work. Still, there is a medium be-
tween being as fat as butter ball and
as thin and juieeless as a rail. For
mere looks, a moderate rOtundity is
most desirable-tO have enough flesh
to cover all angularities. To accom-
plish this, in the shortest time, man
should work but little, sleep a great
part of the time, allow nothing to
worry him, keep always in joyous,
laughing mOOd, and live chiefly on
albuminates, such rs boiled cracked
wheat, and rye, and oats, and corn,
and barley, with sweet milk, and
buttermilk, and meats. Sugar is the
best fattener knOwn.-HdLPS Health
and Good Living.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-05-25
RAISING COWS FOR THE DAIRY.

After bringing up a heifer in a
thrifty condition and in a way to Sc
cure right tendencies, TO the age of
fifteen months, she should be mated
with the bull. By beginning thus
early, before she is matured or the
habits of her system fixed, we can
exert a powerful influence over the
future direction of her energies. From
this age up to five or six years old, Is
offered our golden opportunity for the
most rapid development of high dairy
qualities. High condition is unde-
sirable for heifer in calf, especially
towards the close of her term, because
of the dangers of inflammatory action.
inflammation of the udder and its con-
nectiOns, always more or less mani
tested in the first stage of laetatiOn,
quite often destroys the usefulness Of
a portion of those organs, and intiama-
ton, to any degree, tends to check
the secretion of milk, and fix the
habit of the COW for scant production.
The milk should, at first, be drawn
away as often as three times per day,
and always as clean as possible. The
feed should be light, with plenty OF
water, until the feverishness has en-.
tirely subsided, when we should grad
ually adopt a liberal course of feed
ing.
The natural tendency of cows dur
ing the early stages of lactatiOn, is to
throw off, through the milk secreting
organs all surplus nutrition. This IS
illustrated in the fact that, if the an
imal is not well fed and is not very
poor milker, she will throw off any
surplus flesh or fat until quite thin.
Hence it requires liberal feeding at
this stage to meet the requirement OF
nature, and we wish not only to fully
meet natures demands, but to invite
her to do something more than she
urges. We wish to urge her little
in this direction so we should now
crowd our animal not only with moist
food, easily assimilated, but with rich
food fully equivalent to what we de-
sire in her product, with an allow
ance for the support of her powers
being careful, of course, never to I'M
pair digestion, or induce a secretion
/ of fat. If n cow will not well beal
this treatment she should be discard
ed as a dairy animal. If she viii
bear it largely, she is prize, and the
milk producing organs may be slim
uIated and distended to an extent
/ which will tell in future years and
carry the breeding onward in improve
ment.-CttitiUdtOr.
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THE RETIRED CONDUCTOR.

"Gris," of the Cincinnati Times
relates of an old conductor, promoted
to train dispatcher, as follows:
Habit was exceedingly strong with
the ex-conductor. As he sat in the
office, he would start every time he
heard a bell ring, and yell, "An
aboard!" Then he would go about
the office at intervals and try to col
Iect fare from his assistants. We
dropped in casually, one afternoon
and Billy wanted to know if we had
a pass" He couldn't get accus-
toned to his new position at all. He
pined to be again on the road. One
day he begged the boys to put him
Through a collision, which they did
to his entire qualification. They tore
his clothes nearly of, blackened both
his ewes, broke a kerosene lamp oveI
his head, and piled a red-hot stove on
ton of him. Billy was in ecstacy Of
delight. and declared that he hadn't
enioyed himself so much since he
had a bile.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-05-25
DRLUSIONS OF GIRLHOOD.

The following is a bit of Fanny
Ferns experience:
used to believe in school friend
ship. That delusion ended when Ara
bella Triplet told mutual friends that
1 was years and years her senior,
knowing what terrible fib she told.
used to suffer paDgs of anger be-
cause of woes of beggars. Since that,
1 have seen one unstrap his leg in the
arena, and run off gaily on two legs
of his own. Another threw a loaf of
bread into the gutter; and saw
third, who had all day been yelling,
"Please assist the blind" carefully
examining his collection of ten-eent
stamps by the light of a friendly
apple woman's candle.
1 used to put the greatest faith in
lovers VOWS. Now, don't believe 4
man means anything he says to a
woman, unless it is something disa-
greeable.
1 used to believe in faithful SER
wants. Since then, / have hired girls
from intelligence offices, and lost all
my handkerchiefs but one.
used to believe in beauty. Since
then, 1 have seen a bewitching belle
take off half her hair, all her teeth,
the best of her complexion, two
pounds of cotton batting and corset.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-05-25
A REGRET.

I blame not that your courage failed,
That prudence over love prevailed;
Itseemed that we must walk together
RoughWays thro' wild and stormy weather,
And you must have smooth paths to tread
And skies all cloudless overhead
Wise was your choice the world will say,
That sees you fresh and fair to-day
As in the spring-time Of your years,
Those hazel eyes undimmed with tears
That forehead all unlined with care,
Nor streaked with gray that chestnut mar.
Yet If you could have dared to lay
Unfalterins hands in mine and say,
Il trust you still nor count the eOstp'
Something, DOUBT not you had lost,
Yet found when all was told, remain
To you and me some larger gain.
Not lOveless nor unsweet my days:
j toll, nor miss some need OF praise;
Had You been with me they had known
The grace they lack, and thou hadst grown,
o weak but pure and tender hearti
To something uobler than thou art.
Ali better had we both been laid
To rest forever, ere the shade
OF that cold worldliness had made
Division worse than death, and bade
Our souls be parted evermOre,
Still strangers on the heavenly shore.
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WHOLE NO. 2799.
THE ORIGIN OF COAL.

It has been somewhat too hastily
said that coal is formed directly of
wood, and that much of it is found to
retain its woody structure. There is
great doubt on this point. That wood
may be eUenttdlly converted into
coal is admitted-but in changing, it
entirely loses the form of wood-re-
tains no evidence of fiber. 1t may,
under the influences of heat and
moisture, be converted into a btu
minOus mass, which is eventually con-
sOlidated into coal; but we cannot
discover any evidence of wood being
transmitted directly to coal. The re-
mains of woody trees found fossil in
the coal measure strata may become
lime stone, may be iron ore-certain
it is they are never coal. The prob
ability is, that the coal mass itself was
produced from eatuslike plants, from
club moses, or peat MOSES, or more
aquatic plants, eithermarine or fresh
water.
The vegetable mass, whatever may
have been its origin, from which our
beds of fossil fuel is derived, may
have been formed from plants which
grew on the spot where we now find
it, and the ltIlder-cLdy, as it is called,
is supposed to be the soil in which the
plants grew or it may have been re-
moved by the waters in plastic state,
flOated out into the deltas or seas, and
! eventually, in obedience to the law of
gravity, have sunk to the bed of the
then existing waters.
Knowing that many of these coal
beds are now several thousand feet
below the surface, we have either too
suppose-if we adopt the first hypoth-
esis-a gradual subsidence of the earth
/ to the depth at which the coal is now
1 found: or, if we prefer the second, to
imagine the filling up of the seas
after the coal has been deposited, by
/ enormous beds of sandstone or of
shale. Sir Henry de Ia Beche de-
scribes a section near Swansea have
ing a total thickness of 3, ,256 feet, in
this there are ten principal masses of
sandstone, one of these 500 feet thick.
They are separated by masses of shale,
varying in thickness from ten to fifty
feet. The intercaltaed coal beds, six
teen in number, are generally from
one to five feet thick one Of them,
which has two or three layers of clay
interpOsed, attaining nine feet
Taking this instance only, we learn
that there have been sixteen different
formations of coal that these have
each one of them-been covered up
with hundreds of feet of sandstone
and shale. The subsidenee of the
earth's crust is surrounded with diff
ficulties of no common order-the
filling up an ancient sea to the depth
of more than 5000 feet requires con-
ditions which we can scarcely con-
. ceive to have eXisted-and in either
case we seem to require ages ofrepOse,
during which beautiful Flora drank
in the sunshine, followed by ages
during which sand was deposited,
bearing down with it but little evil
dence of their being any vegetable
life. Science has advanced far into
the secrets of the earth's changes
but let us not deceive ourselves by
suppOsing we have as yet heard tbs
voice of Nature proelaiming the truC
phenomena of our coal formations.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-05-25


Ladies in Germany are surprised at
woman's position in America, and
quite shocked at the modern idea of
woman's rights. That a gentleman
should give up to a lady his seat in a
crowded house or a public convey
ance, is an establishment to them.
They never heard of such a thing
in Germany. Wives carry packages
and garments for their husbands, and
not husbands for their wives. Msr.
ried women expect their husbands to
spend their evenings at clubs, muse
ums, the coffee house or beer house,
instead of being society for them and
making home attractive. 1t is per-
fectly proper for a young lady to go
home alone through the streets in the
evening; it would be highly improper
for a young gentleman to accompany
her.
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THE CHRONICLE.
TO FARMER BOYS.

am sick of hoeing in the corn,
And following the piow;
OF working hard from dewy morn
TIL eve, with heated brow,
No longer will 1 stay to NOV,
Or pitch the scented hay;
To the great city will / 90,
Where wealth is gained by play
Tut, tut, my man, hush up that song;
Let wisdom be your guide;
That dream of wealth may lead You wrong
And wreck you on the tide.
Sit down with me upon TINS stone
Your team will make no harm;
If we're notkings upon athrone,
We're kings upon larm-
Gods healthy breezes round you blow,
His birds your music make;
And sweetest rest is yours, you know,
When night doth overtake.
The harvest will your toll repay;
Those fields of waving grain
Are growing through the sunny day
And in the summer rain.
Men work as hard as you, in shade,
Ger books and papers bent;
The work of life is easy made
Only by sweet content.
1t may be news, my friend, to you.
But tits the truth tell;
All work is very hard to do,
To those who do IL we'll
In speculation you must stand
The rough commercial shocks;
You may in safety reach the land,
You may land on the rocks.
Your pay is certain on the farm,
Though grain may not be sold;
In panics you feel no alarm
Wheat is as good as gold.
Pick up your whip, and bid your team
Drag on the noble plow,
And do not let an idle dream
Becloud your youthful brow.
In years to come, when children roami
You'll take them by the arm,
And say, YOU'D better stay at home,
Upon the good old farm"
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LATE HOURS.

Henry Ward Beecher preached, re-
Gently, on "Late Hours and the
Unfruitful Works of Darkness :"
off you want to make the ruin
OF a child sure, give him -lihaEty
after dark. You cannot do anything
nearer to insure his damnation than
to let him have liberty to go where he
will, without restraint. After dark
he will be sure to get into commu-
nication with people that will un-
dermine all his good qualities. do
not like to speak to parents about
their children. Their child cannot,
will not lie, when his tongue is like
bended bow; he will not drink, when
there is not n saloon within a mile
of his fathers house, where he is not
as well known as one of its own
decanters; he never does iniquitOus
things, when he is reeking in filth.
Nineteen out of every twenty al
lowed perfect freedom at night, will
be wounded by it. There is moth
ing more important than for a child
to be at home at night, or, if he is
abroad, you should be with him. If
he is to see any sights, or take any
pleasure, there is nothing that he
should see that you should not see
with him. 1t is not merely that the
child should be broken down, but
there are thoughts that never ought
to find a passage into a mans brain.
AS an eel, if he wriggle across your
carpet, will leave his slime, which no
brushing can ever effaee, so there are
thoughts that never can be got rid of,
once permitted to enter; and there
are individuals going round with OBJ
scene books and pictures under the
lappels of their coat, that will leave
ideas on the mind of your child that
will never be effaeed. There are men
here who have heard a salaciOus song,
and they never will forget it. They
will regret having heard it to the end
of their lives. | do not believe in a
child's seeing life, as it is called, with
its damnable lust and wickedness, to
have all his Imagination set on fire
with the flames of hell. Nobody
goes through this fire but they are
burned, burned, burned; and they
can't get rid of the scars.
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Atlantic & Great Western Railway

Supreme Court Of the State Of NelO York. Sam
uel Gtuney, ct. al. against The Atlantic ana
Great Western RGiII1oy C0np'Ry and Others.
n pursuance of an order of the Su-
l preme Court of the State of New York.
the undersigned hereby gives notice TO all
persons having claims against him, as Re
ceiver Of the Atlantic & Great Western Rail-
way, (appointed in this cause and in causes
between the same parties in the Supreme
Court of the State of Pennsylv'a, and in the
Court of Common Pleas, for Trumbull Co.,
Ohio to present the same with particular
statement OF the nature, grounds and
amounts thereof, TO the Hon. WILLIAM H
LEONARD, Referee, appointed by the said
Court, at his office, No. % Wall Street. in the
city OF New York by or before the first day
of August eighteen hundred and seventy,
or be forever barred from the same.
ROBERT b. POTTER,
Receiver a. & G. W. Railway,
May is, IS7O-lOw.
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FENIALEs.-'There is one thing
sure, " said Mrs. Partington, ''the fe-
males of the present generation are
a heap more independent than they
need be. Why, saw gal go by the
other day that know belongs to the
historical class of society, with her
dress all tucked up, her hair bazzled
up likes as if she hadn't had time
to comb it for week, and one of her
grandmOther's caps in an awful
crumpled condition, on her head
Why, law, honey, when 1 was gal,
II the fellows come along when 1 had
my dress tucked up that way. and nv
head kivered with an old white RAG. +
would run for dear life and hideout of
sight. Well, well, the gals then were
innocent, uneonfiscated Creatures
now they are what the French cali
'blazes."
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-05-25

OEFICE OF THE
OVER & BAKER SEWING MACHINE Co.
'UR. SQUARE. Cleyel'd. O.. Apr. l6. IS7O.

GROVER & BAKER SEWING MACHINE Co.
"A PUB- SQUARE, Clevel'd, O., Apr. l6, lS7O.J
"E would respectfully inform the
w citizens OF Trumbull County that Mrs.
Z. B. Brown is the only dlIthOrizef agent for
the sale Of our Sewing Machines in Warren
and vicinity. We also wish TO inform the
public that no other person living or doing
business in Warren, has any right to repre-
sent himself as being an Agent OF this CT IN
pany, in Warren, or Trumbull Co., as the
entire territory is canvassed by Agents ap-
pointed directly from this office, and who
alone have Alright to sell our Machines there
in. Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Co.
W. II. HAWKINS, Agent.
April 20, IS70-3m.s
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We have heard of a merchant who
recently hired new clerk, and of
course initiated him at once into the
mystery of the trade mark" The
same afternoon the newly inducted
knight of the yard stick was showing
some goods to a customer, when she
demurred to the price of the articles.
The feelings of the merchant may be
imagined when the young man called
at the top of his voice "What shall I
sell this for? IL is marked one dollar
and fifty cents and cost fifty cents. -
Lexington Observer.
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THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO
RAILROAD

Is Iscompletedand running gfromRICHN0ND,
Ia. to the celebrated WHITE SULPHUR
SPRINGS, in West Va, 227 miles. 1t is being
rapidly extended to the Ohio River. 200 miles
further, making in all AZ miles.
Inits progress Westward, it penetrates and
opens up to market the WORdeutH Goal De-
posts ofGbe RanG,oha Region in Fest Virginia.
And thus brings the superior and abundant
Goals of that section into communication
with the Iron Ores Of Virginia and Ohio, and
the Western, South Western aud Eastern mar
kets.
When completed it will connect the Slqpe-
rIor hdr6or facilities Of The Chesapeake Bay
with reliable navigation on the Ohio River.
and thus with the entire system Of Railroad
and Water transportation orhe West and South
West.
1t will make short, easy, cheap and favorable
route from the West to the sea, and will COM
mand a large share Of lle enormous Jreights
seeking transportation to the coast.
1t will thus become one of the most I'M
Dortant, and profitable EaS, and Vest Trunk
Lines Of Railroad in the country, and COM
mand q trade OF immense value.
The completed portion of the Road is do
ing a profitable ana Increasing Business, and
is fully equal in value to the whole amount
of the mortgage upon the entire Line-(sl5,-
OOO.OOO)
The loan of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company, being First Mortgage
upon the entire line, property and equipments,
trorth lrhez completed at least SSO.OOO,OO0, is
therefore one Of the most substantial, con-
servative, and reliable Railroad Loans ever
offered in the market, and is peculiarly
adapted to the wants Of
INVESTORS and CAPITALISTS,
Who desire to make their investments with
the most satisfactory assurance OF positire
and undouJted Security.
The Bonds are in denominations Of
$1,000, $500 and 500,
and may be had COUPON or REGISTERED.
Interest Six per cent. per annumn, payable
MAY Ist and NOVEMBER Ist.
Principal and Interest payable in GOLD in the
City Of New York.
Price 90 and accrued Interest in Currency,
at which pricethey paynearly SeueT peresHt.
in gold on their cost.
All Government Bonds and other Securi-
ties dealt in at livestock Exchange, received
in exchange, at their full market value, and
Bonds sent to all parts of the country, free OF
Express charges.
They can be obtained by ordering direct
from us or through any responsible Bank or
Banker in any part Of the country.
FISK & HATCH,
Bankers.
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LOndOners are astounded by the dis
covery that much of their butter is
made from the mud of the Thames.
A small proprietor on the bank OF
that noble river was recently thun-
derstruek by the apparent extraya-
gance of an offer for his wharf, and
on investigation learned that it was
wanted as a site for a butter factory.
The Thames mud yields, after some
chemical treatment, pure white fat,
lacking both taste and smell, and
after some manipulation, it is made
into a very popular article Of food.
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TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS

MILL be held as follows: john
w ston. March 18th; Bristol, March 10th;
Warren, March 22d; Payne's Corners, March
23d; Warren, April 5th. and 18th, May Sd and
18th, and June 7th, 1870. Applicants viii pro-
vide themselves with slate and pencil. also
with the exact change, (hfty-three cents) for
the payment of the regular fee and postage.
By order of the Board.
GEO. p. HUNTER, Clerk.
WafGeD, O., March 9, 1S70-3m.
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Lycoming Fire Insurance Co.,
MILO NORTON, GREENYILIE, Pa,
Agent for TTHmbull County.
AUDITOR OF STATES OFFICE !
DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE,
Cnrr-nrpr-s OTTn Mar o. lSIO.


1t is hereby certified, that the LHCOM-
ING FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, locat-
ed at Muncy, in the State Of Pennsylvania,
has complied, in all respects, with the laws OF
this State relating to Fire Insurance Com
panies, for the current year. and has nled
in this Office sworn Statement, by the prop
er officers thereof, showing its condition and
business, at the date of such statement, Dec.
81 IS69.) to be as follows:
Aggregate amount Of available
Assets. So, n, ,59S Il
Aggregate amount OfLiabilities,
Except capital,) including re-
Insurance ....-..........-- S5,6GS 81
Amt of Income for the preced-
ing year in oSOsISo 65
eetiing wear in s42722 o.
III. 81 In Witness Whereof, have hereunto
subscribed my name, and caused the
seal of my Office to be affixed, the
day and year above written.
JAS. H. GOODMAN,
Auditor Of State.
By JAS. WILLIAMS. Chief Clerk.
April Is, IS7O.-3ma
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THE art of conversation is the fin
est of the fine arts it is not the art OF
saying much, but of saying well.
There are preaching men who talk
but listen not, or who speechify in
private; or gossiping men, who think
little and are never still, and yet they
are not cOnversible men. The real
art of conversation consists, not only
in expressing your own thoughts free
ly, but in drawing out by encourage
ment the thoughts Of others. You
will never be liked for long talking
by anybody; but you are sure to be
liked if, by your talking, you eneour-
age and stimulate Others to think and
think in response to your thoughts.
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II EGAL MOTTO E.-Florantine
4 Mckay, residing out OF the State OF
ONO, is hereby notified that on the 9th
day Of Marcf.fIs70, Sarah A. Mckay filed
her petition in the Court of Common Pleas
of Trumbull County, Ohio, against said
Florantine Mckay, and praying a dissolu-
ton of the marriage contract existing be-
tween them. and for other relief; for cause,
alIedges habitual drunkenness for more
three years last past. Said cause Will be for
trial at the next term OF said Court, COM
mencing June 9th, $50. By
HUTCHINS, GLIDDEN 6 STULL,
Sfav list her Attorneys.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is hereby

DOADNOTICE.-Notice is hereby
hJgiven, that there will be a petition pre-
senTed to the Commissioners of Trumbull
County. Ohio, at their regular session, COM
mencing on the first Monday in June. 1870,
for a county road in the township of Vienna
in said county, beginning at the northwest
corner of land occupied by JudSon Chamber
lain, running south one hundred and forty
Q4U) rods, thence nearly east one hundred
and twenty-seven (l27) rods, TO intersect road
-unring south from Woodford's corners
Vienna, May IL. lS50-4t.