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The union Democrat., 1870-09-10

MEDICAL MADNESS. Let us hope that
the insane practice of administering poison
ons evacuants in cases ofindigestion, bilious
ness, constipation, and female debility, is al
most out of date. When the Tonic Catbartic
produced by Nature herself in the most valu-
able Sanitary Spring in the world is repro
duced by science. in the form of TARRANT's
EFFERvEscEsT SELrzER APERlESr, tits indeed
midsummer madness to rack, relax and irrl-
tate the diseased or enfeebled system with
drastic purgstives. This refreshing and de-
licious counterpart of remedy prepared by
the creative hand OF the Omnipotent Pbysi-
clan Himself, is everywhere superseding the
nauseous and sickeniag compounds heretofore
used as laxatives.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-06
The Star Spangled Banner.

The first American flag, according
to the design and approval of Con-
gress, was made by Mrs. Elizabeth
Ross. Three of her daughters still
live in our vicinity to confirm this
fact-founding their belief, not upon
what they saw, for it was made many
years before they were born, but upon
what their mother had often told
them. \ neice OF this lady, Mrs.
Margaret Boggs, aged ninety-five
years, now lives in Germantown, and
is conversant with the fact. The fact
is generally known that to Philadel-
phia not only belongs the honor of
ilinging the first star spangled banner
to the breeze, but to q Philadelphia
lady belongs the honor Of having
made it.
The house in which il was made
still stands-SO. 2;ig Arch street the
old No. being S0J-the last of an old
row. II IS related that when Congress
had decided upon the design, Colonel
George Ross and General Washington
visited Mrs. Ross and asked her TO
make II. She said. Il don't know
whether I can, but I'll try" and di-
rectly suggested to the gentlemen that
the design was wrong in that the stars
were siN-cOrneTed and not tiye-cOrner-
ed as they should be. This was cor
rected: she made the flag, Congress
accepted il, and for hail dozen years
this lady furnished the GOSeTnment
with all It's national flags, having, of
course. large assistance. The lady
was also the wife of ClaypOle, one of
the lineal descendants Of Oliver Crom-
-PhIddeipHid Press.
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WHOLE NO. 1892.
LOOkAhead.

From the Philadelphia LEDGER
Put money in thy purse" is sound
wisdom. as well as poetry. For the
last eight years people have been
/ watching the fluctuations in the value
of the paper which represented mon
/ ey in all the actual business and wants
of life. But there is one feature of
/ the printed paper of which neither
bulls" nor "bearsp could depriye IL.
It was always necessity, and money,
or its representative, always will be;
and Whatever may be its market val
ue on the ''street, y it will ALWAYS buy
more or less of the necessaries of life
Nothing can take the place Of money
in this respect. 1t is always convert
ible into meat and drink and clothes,
and that Is what can be said of no
other article. For purposes of specu-
latiOn having an ''uneertainp value,
for practical use it is always certain.
The aim Of every prudent man then
should be always to have on hand
reserve of this universal solvent"
If money fiuetuates in its nominal
price or purchasing power, every
thlng else tiuctuetes too; and probably
the thing called money is more stable
IN It's value than anything else. EN-
ployment may be interrupted by ILL
ness or by changes. Goods bought
and paid for may become unmarketa-
BILE. But money is always in request,
and is never out of season. Therefore,
as we have said, it should be the effort
of every man, whatever be his in
come, to live within it, and thus to
guard against the contingency, which
may come to anybody, of being for
while without an income.
It is curious how almost universal
is indifference to this precautiOn.
Even successful business men are
prone to lock up their accumulations
in extended business projects and
various other ways, some of them
quite unproductive. leaving them
selves actually without immediate re-
sources, if by any means their income
is interrupted. Many a bad bargain
Is forced upon those who are eompell-
ed to realize, when if they had the
power they would wait. The corners
into which poor rich men" are thus
driven show that the course of trade
as well as the march of time brings
its revenges. Rich men as well as
poor are pushed for money.
Yet, while with the rich this is an
inconvenience, with the poor, or with
those who live from day to day. to be
straitened for money is a difficulty,
and may amount to misery. There
are some people who have the sagaei-
ty TO foresee, and fOFeseeing, to alIevi-
ate the trouble. And this they do in
the way we have indicated, by keep
ing always within the limits of their
receipts while they are receiving any
thing, and putting aside the surplus
where it can be reached in the time
of necessity. If to do this could be-
come common, the burden of poverty
upon the poor and the burden of the
support of those too. poor to help
themselves would be very much di-
minished.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-06
History of voting br Ballot.

Hepworth Dixon has explored the
history of the ballot box, and succeed
ed in showing that it is a very old and
respectable part Of the British Consti-
tuition. The ancient Greeks were the
inventors of the ballot. From them
it descended to the Romans, and from
Rome it came down to the modern
world, after being lost and forgotten
during the Dark Ages. The Dutch
were the first people in modern Eu-
rope 10 use the ballot generally in vot-
ing; they were in almost every re-
spect the pioneers in European hber-
al politics.
The ballot-bOx was introduced in
London in the bad days of Charles l,
in the year 1888. The Merchants
Company in London, in that year had
to elect an agent to conduct their af-
fairs at Rotterdam. Charles urged
and commanded them to appoint d
tool of his own one Laud. The mer-
chants took the vote by ballot and re-
fused. The King and his Council got
into rage against the ''unmanly in
ventiOn" of the ballot-box-for it pre-
vente them from being severe on the
men who thwarted their will. The
King in Council ordered the discon-
of the ballot, and declared
''his utter dislike there f." It has
been found that the ballot was used
in London in connection with eorpO-
ration elections as early as 1873.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-06
The CHRONICLE.
IN SCHOOL DAYS.
BY JOHN C. WHITTIER.


Still sits the schooI-honse by the road,
a ragged beggar summing;
Around it still the sumachs grow,
And blackberry-vi are running.
Within the masters desk is seen,
Deep SCARED by rapS Official;
The warping floor, the battered seats,
The jack-knife's carved initial.
The charcoal frescoes on its wall;
Its doors worn sill betraying,
The feet that, creeping slow To school,
Went stOrming out 10 piayingi
Long years ago winter sun
Shone over II at setting;
Lit up its western windOw-paneS.
And low caves icy fretting.
1t touched the tangled golden curls,
And Brown eyes full of grieving,
OF one who still her steps delayed
When all the school were leaving.
For near her stood the little boy
Her childish favor singled;
His cap pulled low upon a face
Where pride and shame were mingled
Pushing with restless feet the snow
To right and left. he lingered;-
AS restlessly her Tia Y hands
blue-checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes; he felt
The soft hands light caressing
And heard the trembling of her voice,
As ii a fault coniessing.
"I'm sorry that / Spelt the word;
Ihate TO go above you
Because-the brown eyes lower fell
Because, you see. i love you!
Still memory to a gray haired man
That sweet child-face is showing,
Dear girl! the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing!
He lives to learn, in life's hard school,
How few who passaboye him
Lament the triumph and his loss,
Like her-because they love him.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-06
The Ethics Of Everyday Life.

Shakespeare, who was a great Judge
of men, and no mean master of the
power that stirs the human heart,
SAYS that conscience makes towards
of us all; but he borrowed the idea
from Solomon, who wrote that the
wicked flee when no man pursueth.
A thoroughly honest man never has
to inquire ON which side the right of
a question lies or which path he
should pursue. He only seeks to
know the path of truth, and walks
straight on in it, knowing r4ght well
that it will lead him in the way he
ought to go. We are all struck with
the simplicity of the Gospel, and it
IS one of the proofs of its divinity.
The ministers of this religion should
preach it in its simplicity, and should
themselves have experienced its re
newing power. Without religion in
the heart of the preacher the word
preached was dishonored. 1t is a
great matter for any community to
have the Gospel preached in its purity,
and it is also necessary tliat the min
lister of the present day should be ed
ueated, in order that he might rightly
divine the Word of God and preach
it in its theological meaning. 1t is a
wise providence of God that we walk
by faith and not by sight. We can
only imagine what a community
would be without an establighed min
istry and regular church organizations.
We can imagine, but we can never
know, how much crime is prevented,
how much sin and misery is checked
its tax- n r,ra..al,rz1 (NAa,,,I
and we can never fully estimate the
number of noble deeds that have been
prompted, the innumerable kind and
loving acts of charity that have been
prompted, by its holy and hallOwing
influences. 1t is God alone that
knows. But the Word of G. ID may
be preached with critical and theOlo-
gical meaning and still not be the
power of God unto salvation. The
logic taught in the Bible is very diff
ferent and superior To the logic taught
in the schools. 1t has a system of
reasoning of its own, and if received
and weighed with an unbiased mind
forces itself upon that mind with such
clearneSs and weight that its cOnelu-
sionS are irresistible. Some of those
periods in the history of the Church
which have given US the ripest sehol-
ars have furnished the least religion.
Those who have read the sermons
preached in Scotland fifty or sixty
years ago must be struck with admi-
ration at the care and talent bestowed
upon their preparation, but the spirit
of love and of the Holy Ghost is not
in them, and consequently never had
any Church sunk lower or was so
wrapped in cold Journalism as the
Church in Scotland at that period.
So it is in Germany; it is well known
that for depth of thought and intens-
ity of application German theologians
are unrivaled, and still how dimly
the fires of evangelism burn in that
land. The words of a preacher must
be baptized with the Holy Ghost his
lips should be touched with a live
coal from off the alter of God, and !
hen the Gospel be preached in power |
and assurance and in the Holy Ghost. !
Extract Of an ordination sermon 6y /
Bishop ABles, March q.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-06
Hints about Flowers,

House plants ought to be stimulated
gently once or twice a week. Rain
water, so refreshing to summer flow
ers, always contains ammonia, which
also abOunds in all liquid manures.
If you take one ounce of pulverized
carbonate of ammonia, dissolved in
one gallon of water, it will make
spring water even more stimulating to
your plants than rain water. If you
water your plants once in two weeks
with guano water tone tablespoonful
to a pail of water they win grow
more thrifty. Chicken manure, dis
solved in water is excellent.
Always keep the soil in your flower
pots loose. a common hair-pin used
daily, will stir the earth sufficiently.
We keep one always at hand in one Of
our tlOwer-pOts.
Now is the time to look over new
seed catalogues, and make your selee-
tiOns for spring use. Nerbenas, pan
sizes, Japan pinks, &c, that flower
early. should be planted either the
last OF this month or the very first of
next. Ifyou did not provide your
self with good soil before the earth
froze, you will have to obtain some
from gardener to plant your seeds.
From OlireT Optics Magazine.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-06
The Wonders Of Nature-The Death
Web Of Young Fish.
From the Rochester Union.

The pisciculturist, Seth Green, is
known throughout the land for his
energy and perseverance in inauiring
into and ascertaining the cause of
anything that may be new in his lit
tie world of interest or nature. For
many years Mr.. Green has been at q
loss to account for the enormous de-
strucTlOn of very small trout, but he
has now aseertained the cause, and
gives to the public, for the public
good, his discovery. He says in re-
gard to the matter: "There is a small
worm which is a favorite food of trout
and many other kinds of fish. This
worm is one of the greatest enemies
which the young fry have. 1t spins
a web in the water to catch young
fish, just as spider does on land to
catch flies. / have seen them make
the web and take the fish. The web
is as perfect as that of the spider, and
as much mechanical ingenuity is dis
played in its construction. Its made
as quickly and in the same way as a
spiders by fastening threads at differ
ent points and going back and fourth
until the web is finished. The threads
are not strong enough to hold the
young trout after the umbilieal sac is
absorbed, but the web will stick to
the fins and get around the head and
gills, and soon kills the fish. I have
often seen it on the young trout, and /
it has been great mystery and caus- /
ed me many hours, days and weeks of /
study 20 find out what was wound .
around the heads and fins of my young I
trout and killed them. I did not find I
out until lately while watching re-
Gently hatched whitefsh. These are
much smaller than the trout when
they begin to swim, and they were
caught and held by the web. l found I
ten small whitefish caught ip the web
in one night. This web was spun IN
4 little whitefish preserve, into which
[ had put one hundred young fish.
The threads spun by this worm seem
70 be much finer than the common
SPIDERS web, and they are not visible
N the water until the sediment col
ects upon them. They can then be
een very plainly. These webs an
lot be spun where there is much cur
'ent, and can be very easily seen in
till water by a close observer.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-06

GALE of the Dunlap homestead and
OStore Building, by Special Master Com
missioner. By virtue of an order Of sale
issued from the Court of Common Pleas OF
Trumbull County, Ohio, and to me. as Spe-
cial Master Commissioner, directed, i will
Court House, in Warren, Ohio, on Saturday,
April l6. IS70, at one o'clock, D. m, the fol-
lowing pieces OF land. to-wit:
lst Pieee-Situate in Warren township,
Trumbull County. Ohiv. and known and des-
cribed as follows: Beginning at the north
west corner Of a lot Of land owned by the
heirs of William HeatOn, at q post ON the
east side of the State Road; thence north 40
and 50 links TO post on the west line of
land formerly owned by John b. Harmon (;
thence north 43<o west along said HRrmOnis
west line chain u links to q post; thence
south 40 west on the south side Of lands
formerly owned by Simon Perkins, chains
east side OF the State road; thence south 43o
east along the east side Of said road chain
Slz links TO the place of beginning.
ID Piece-Situate in said Tp., and known
as being part ofthe RawdOn corner property,
bounded and described as follows On the
north by Market ST., on the east by part of
said tract, owned by Albert Wheeler, and
extending south on line parallel to Main
ST., one hundred feet; thence west on line
parallel to Market 81, 231S feet, thence north
on line parallel to Main St., being 23lz feet
fronting on Market st. and over one hundred
feet deep, be the same more or less, but SUBJ
iect to the legal highways.
The frst Of the above described pieces Is
on hahoning Avenue, and the second the
store of said Dunlap. on Market st. Warren,
ohio. Appraised as follows: First piece,
sZl''OO' Second piece sl29oo Terms SI Cash. ash
March Is, 1s76-5t.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-06
FISK L HATCH,
Bankers.

P. s.-we have issued pamphlets contain
ing full particulars, statistical details. maps
ETC., which viii be furnished upon applica-
ton.
"a We buy and sell Government Bonds,
and receive the accounts Of Banks, Bsnkesa,
Corporations, and Others, subject to check at
sight, and allow interest on daily balances.
March 9. IS7O-smo.
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In striking eontrast with the inhu-

In striking contrast with the inhu-
man conduct of Captain Eyre, Of the
Bombay, was the first act in the life
of Midshipman Williams, Of the i'll
fated Oneida OF that act, VIM. Har-
court, now living in Baltimore, gives
the particulars thus: ''It was to save
the Captain and crew of the British
ship, Cleopatra, off st. Johns, n. B.,
in the year 1853, while Mr.. Williams
was attached to the United States
sloop of war De -atur, on the night of
the 18th of July, 1853. The CIeopa-
ira was in a sinking condition. Mid
shipnan Kimberly and Williams vol
unteered to go aboard of her with 4
crew of fresh men and try to save her
and get her into Quebec, but she filled
and capsized and had to be abandon
ed. 1t was a dark, stormy night, and
after much danger and exposure the
officers of the i'll fated ship were got
on board our ship with safety. Mid
shipman F. H. Williams was in
charge of the boat that brought them
to us, and upon gettig on board, Cap
tain VIM. c. Whittle asked ifall Were
safe? Williams replied: II have saved
every soul, sir! And he had. 1.-THE re-
vival Of this event ought to cause Eng
lishmen to blush for shame.
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$1,000, $500 and 800.

They will be issued as Coupon Bonds, pGyd-
6Ee to Bearer, and may be held in that form
or
The Bond may be registered in the name OF
the owner, with coupons emaining payable
TO bearer attached. the principal being then
transferable only on the books of the Com
pany, unless re-assigned to bearer; or
The coupons may be detached and can
celled, the Bond made a permanent Re0istered
Bond, transferable only on the books Of the
Company, and the interest made payable
only TO the registered owner or his attorney
The three classes viii be known respect
lively as:
1st. ''COupOn Bonds payable to Bearer"
cd. Registered Bonds with Coupons attached
Sd. Registered Bonds with Coupons detach-
ed and should be so designated by Cores
pondents in specifying the class of Bonds
desired.
They have thirty years to run from January
10. $50, with interest at six per cent per an
mum from November, l, 1869. Principal and
IIterest payable in Gold in he Clty Of Nelv
York.
The interest is payable in May. and Noyem-
Der. that it may take the place OF that Of the
earlier issues of FiYe-Twenties, and suit the
convenience Of our friends who already hold
Central and Western Pacific Bonds, with in
teresi payable in January and July, and who
may desire. in making additional invest
menIs, to have their interest receivable at
different seasons OF the year.
The Loan is secured by a mortgage upon
the entire Loan of Road from Richmond to
the Ohio River, with the equipment and all
other property and dappurtenances connected
Herewith.
Il Sinking Fund Of $4,000 per Gnaun is
provided for The redemption Of Lse Bonds, 10
take effect one year after ube completion Of tse
Road.
The mortgage is for ,OOO Of which
81 900 will be reserved and held in trust
for the redemption Of outstanding Bonds of
the Virginia Central Railroad Company, now
merged in the Chesapeake and Ohio.
OF the remaining slS,OOOOOO. a sufficient
amount will be sold to complete the road TO
the Ohio river. perfect and improve the por-
tion now in operation. and thoroughly equip
the whole for large and active traffic.
The present price is 90 ard accrued inter-
est
A Loan so amply secured, so carefully |
guarded, and so certain hereafter TO COM
mand prominent place among the favor !
ite securities in the markets, both of this |
Country and Europe, will be at once appre-
ciated and quickly absorbed.
Very respectfully.
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A Home.

There is one thing above all others
that should inspire young man lust
starting out in the world, with earnest
enthusiasm-that is to procure a home
for himself. 1t is customary now
days for a young man to get himself r
wife first, and then trust 10 the
chances that may turn to his favor for
little palace to put her in. Whether
this is good policy or not, it is hard
ly worth while to discuss it, for it
would be as easy to attempt to change
a custom that has so largely the sano-
ton of both the young and old.
But it is fearful thing for young
man to plunge headlong into matri-
mony, thoughtless of the future, and
the consequence of being driven from
place to place. With no home he can
call his own, he becomes slave to the
habit of rowing about, and this, with
accumulating responsibilities, soon
renders life an almost uncomfortable,
burden to him. Thus fettered with a
condition that is constantly annoying
him, he becomes deadened to the
activity and vigilance necessary to
better his circumstances, and be Yields.
and thus subOrdinates the nOblest as
pirations of life to the mere drudgery
of living "frOm hand to mouth" The
philosophy that holds ''a wife first
and all other things afterwards" is not
well founded as the experience OF
thousands prove; but the reverse is
the true secret OF success as well as OF
domestic happiness. A little indus
try and economy on the part of young
men. with the avoidance Of all unnee-
essary expenditures, would soon place
them in a condition, if not of absolute
at least in such cir
as would enable them to
upon life's rugged path with
Out the fear of landlords and quarterly
rents.
70 own a home free from debt is r.
real comfort 1t also relieves one
from the sad thought which has
many sensitive persons, that
N case of sickness or old age, thew
will be thrown out of house and
nome. As one has aptly said, "Ho
AN save the money paid for rent and
appropriate it to his comforts in the.
winter days of life"