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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
How the World Mar Be DESTROYED.

/ Astronomy III conjunction WIN Op
tics, has been making some extrOard
mary discoveries in the last few
months. The spectroscOpe is a won
I derful aid to the telescope, and as the
/ latter brings to view distant worlds
4 the former indicates the materials Oi
which they are made The late eclipse
of the sun demonstrated that immense
I volumes of hydrogen gas stretch up
ward hundreds of miles above its sur
Z flee, making reality the oceans OF
/ flames which have often figured in
| hyperbOle.
a thought has occurred to us in this
/ connection, which we venture to COM
mend TO the attention of our astrOnO-
mical and geological friends. 1t is a
well known fact in geology that in
Dast periods vastly gre9ter heat has
pervaded the earth than at the pres
ent time. The flora and fauna of a
tropical climate flOurished at the poles.
Scientific men have been ingenious in
speculations about the cause of the
change. Some have ascribed it to the
internal heat of the earth, which has
been gradually evolved in successive
ages. Others have attributed it to
a different relation of the axis of the
earth to the plane of the eeliptic.
Possibly others may have suggested a
change in the internal constitution of
the sun, though we do not remember
to have seen it in our limited reading.
But the phenomenon finds an easy
solution on this hypothesis.
During the last year a small star in
the constellation of the Northern
Crown suddenly became bright as a
star of the first magnitude AstrOnO-
mers at once resOrted to the telescope
to explain the mystery, but could find
only a confirmation of fact, with no
hint of its cause. Opticians applied
the spectroscCpe, and at once the
mystery was revealed. a vast ocean
of hydrogen was in flame, and its
combustion melted the small star,
one of the most brilliant in the firma-
ment. The mathematicians took up
the data given them in the increase of
light, and proved that for any worlds
OF which tlis star may be the central
sun, there must have been an increase
of heat to seven hundred and eighty
times the normal standard. If these
worlds are made of similar materials
with our earth, they must have dis
solved under this intense heat, as in
the final catastrophe of our globe pre-
dicJed by Peter.
Our though, then, is simply this:
If by internal changes, or comOustiOns
in the central sun, the condition Ofall
the planets must be sensibly affected
and, if our sun is liable to such chang
es rs this star in the Northern Crown
1--WE know it has untold volumes of
hydrogen above its surface, why may
not the former extreme heat of the
earth have been due simply to atmO-
spheric changes in the sun ? And why
may they not occur on a larger scale
in the future, heralding the final judg
ment Providence Journal.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
Men of the COnfederaey-Where They

jefferson Davis is announced as
having gone into business at Mem
phis, Tenn. John c. Breckenridge is
practicing law at Lexinton, KY;
James NJ. Mason is on his farm at
Winchester, Va, John Slidell is with
his sOn-in-law, the great banker, Err
langer, near Paris; Judah p. Benja-
min is in full practice at the London
bar; Pierre SOule, at last accounts,
was a hopeless invalid; r. NJ. Il.
Hunter is at his farm in Virginia ;
Robert TOOmbs is practicing law with
success in Georgia; his colleague,
IversOn, is a prosperous wood meT-
chant at Bacon, Georgia; A. H.
Stephens is sinking gradually at his
home in Georgia; Gen. Lee is at the
head of the Military Institute at Lex
ington, Va. /; Beauregard is President
Of a railroad at New Orleans MOsby
is praeticing law in Virginia; Com
mOdore Buchanan was lately at the
head of an agricultural school in
Maryland; Raphael Semmes is at
Mobile: Bankhead Magruder is lectur-
ing on CarlOtta and Maximitian; ex-
Gov. Vance is practieing law in North
Carolina, and refuses to ask for his
pardon; A. G.. Brown, Edward Barks-
dale and Wiley p. Harris, were sup
porting Judge Dent for Governor Of
Mississippi; James l.. Orr is a State
Judge in South Carolina; Robert W.
johnson and Albert Pike have OPEN
ed an Office in Washington, ID. c.
ex-SenatOrs Yulee and Mallory are
alternately in Florida and New York;
ex-senator Wigfall, of Texas, is in
Paris; George y. Sanders is in Lon
don, and Beverly Tucker in Canada;
Henry y. Wise; Thomas BOcock, J.
A. Seldom, II. a. EdmundsOn and
Charles James Faulkner are still in
Virginia.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
Simple but Sure Remedy for COrns.

When young man, L used to be
very much annoyed by those painful
excresenees called ''eOTns" on the toes
and feet until I was told of very
simple but effectual remedy for them
by some person. 1t was to bathe the
feet well in tepid water to soften them;
then pare them very closely with a
sharp penknife, then rub on well
green peach leaves; when, after con-
tinuing the rubbing on once or twice
a day, the eorns will entirely disap-
pear, and not return; without the
cause which first OeeasiOned them. /
have often tried the remedy, and new
er found it to fail yet. 1t seems to be
the prussic acid in the peach tree
leaves that takes them away. A good
corn salve could no doubt be made for
winter use by bruising the peach tree
leaves when green, then boil them in
water until the strength is extracted,
then take out the leaves strain the
water of the sediment, and add q suffi-
cient quantity of common resin, bees
wax, tallOw and lard oil to make il
soft enough to simmer down, without
burning, until the water is all eYapOF-
ated. Soften and pare the corn, as be-
fore directed, spread it on asmall piece
of camblie or linen, and apply, put
ting on the sock or the stocking care
fully, so as not to rub it Off Keep
applying until they disappear.-EF-
zbOOnp
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
Radiealism and Its Fruits.

Iowa is a Radical State, the Ver-
mont of the West, the State where
negro suffrage was adopted by the
popular vote by a large majority.
There is no State in the Union, not
even Massachusetts or Vermont,
where the control is more absolute
than in Iowa. If, then, as its OppO-
nents assert, Radiealism means rascal
ity, Incompetence, extravaganee and
corruption, Iowa will be precisely the
State in which to find all these cOnse-
quences illustrated. No better test
can be desired, and has S629, 900
cash on hand.
Iowa grows more rapidly than any
other state in population and wealth.
Iowa is building more railroads and
more churches and school houses,
reads more newspapers, establishes
more libraries, and enjoys a more
through and faithful enforcement of
tine laws, than almost any other State
in the Union.
If extreme Radicalism results in
that way, what State should not be
Radical? Vermont and Iowa, the
extreme States East and West, get the
best governments at the least expense
per capita. Look at the taxation in
these States, and compare it with
Kentucky, New York, and Maryland.
"Out of debt, and $629, 600 cash on
hand" So much for extreme Radi-
sensible Legislators, able State
and a strong delegation in
Congress.-NisSOuri Democrat.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
General McPhersOn,s Last Moments.

In letter commencing T. d. jones'
model for the Mcpherson monument,
General William +. Strong, who was
inspector general Of McPhersOn's
corps, says:
How many times have l seen him
on the field of battle-at the front
check his horse sharply, and sudden
ly throw his right hand (grasping his
field glass firmly in it, on his right
hip and gaze off at his own troops or
the enemy, with his eyes half-closed
and piercing. The last time I ever
saw him alive-less than ten minutes
before he went dOwn-he looked lust
like this. While memory lasts can
never forget it. was riding on his
left, and we We're going at a rapid
pace. He checked his horse so quick
ly that shot by him, and wheeled
my horse about and rode back and re-
ceived his last order. l was partially
in front of him, and | watched him
keenly and closely as his eyes swept
the ridge and gap between the lines.
The expression of McPhersOn's face
at this moment Mr.. Jones has caught
with wonderful accuracy. In a mo-
ment this sharp, searching, piercing
expression was gone, and the old
smile crept back again over his face as
he knocked the ashes from his cigar,
and told me to bring up Morgan l..
Smiths division to throw in the gap,
and to join him at once at Giles Smiths
In twenty seconds more he was on
top of the enemy'sline of battle, horse
and rider riddled with bullets.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
Tea and Coffee.

I Halls Journal Of Health says =
] Taking into account the habits OF the
people, tea and coffee for supper and
! breakfast add to human health and
life, if single cup be taken at either
meal, and is never increased in
! strength, frequency or quantity. If
] they were mere stimulaDts, and were
/ taken thus in moderation and with
uniformity, they would, in time, be-
come either inert, or the system would
become so habituated to their employ
/ ment as to remain in the same relative
I position to them as if they had never
/ been used; and consequently, as to
themselves, they had better never
have been used, as they are so liable
I to abuse. But science and fact unite
| in declaring them to be nutritious as
we'll as stimulant; hence they will do
a new good to the system every day,
to the end of life, just as bread and
fruits do; hence we never get tired of
either. But the use of bread and
fruits is daily abused by multitudes,
and dyspepsia and cholera mOrbus re-
suit; yet, we ought not to fOrego their
employment on that account, nor
should we forego the use of tea and
coffee because their inOrdinate use
gives neuralgies and other ailments.
But the habitual use of tea and cof-
fee, at the last and first meals of the
day, has another high advantages
productive of incalculable good in The
way of averting evils.
We will drink Mt our meals, and if
we do not drink these, we will drink
what is wOrse-cOld water, milk or
alcoholic mixtures. The regular use
of these last will lead the young to
drunkenness the considerable en-
ployment of simple milk, at meals, by
sedentary peOple-by all, except the
robust-will either constipate, or rem
der bilious: while cold water largely
used, that is to the extent of glass or
two at a meal, especially IN cold
weather, attracts to itself so much OF
the heat of the system, in raising said
water to the temperature of the body
about one hundred degrees-that
the process of digestion is arrested; in
the meanwhile, giving rise to death
ly sickness of stomach, to twisting
pains, to vOmitings, purgings. and
even to cramps, to fearful cOntOrtions,
and sudden death; which things
would have been averted, had even
the same amount of liquid, in the
shape of simple hot water, been used.
But any one knowing these things,
and being prejudieed against the use
of tea and coffee, would subject him
self to be most unpleasantly stared at,
and questioned if not ridiculed, were
he to ask for cup or glass OF hot
water. But as tea and coffee are now
universal beverages, are on every !
table. and everybody is expected TO
take one or the other as matter OF
course, they are unwittingly the
means of safety and of life to multi
tudes. They save life, where glass I
of cold water would have destroyed 1t. .
So that the use of these beverages IS .
not merely allowable, it is polite, it Is .
a necessity.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
Ihe Tnther Of rrederick the Great.

The king was scrupulously clean,
washing five times day. He would
allow no drapery, no stuffed furniture,
no carpets in his apartments. They
caught dust. He sat upon a plain
wooden chair. He ate roughly, like a
farmer, of roast meat, despising all
deIicacies. His almost invariable
dress was a close military blue coat,
with red cuffs and collar, buff waist
coat and breeches, and white linen
CATERS to the knee. a sword was
belted around his loins, and a stout
rattan or bamboo cane ever in his
hand. a well-worn, battered trian-
gular hat covered his head. He walk
ed rapidly through the streets which
surrounded his palaces at POtsdam
and Berlin. If he met any one who
attracted his attention, male or fe-
male, he would abruptly, menacingly
inquire: "WhO are you ~ \ street.
lOunger he has been known to hit
over the head with his cane, exelaim-
ing: "HOme, you rascal, and go to
work. If any one prevaricated or
hesitated, he would sternly demand {:
Look me in the face" If there were
still hesitancy, or the king were dis
satisfied with the answers, the one
interrogated was lucky if he escaped
without a Gaming.
The bOOrish king hated the refine
ment and polish of the French. If
he met a lady in rich attire, she was
pretty sure to be rudely assailed and
a young man fashiOnably dressed
could hardly escape the cudgel, if he
came within reach of the kings arm.
The king stalking through the streets,
was as marked an object as an ele-
phaut would have been. Every one
instantly recognized him, and many
fled at his approach. One day he met
a pale, threadbare young man, who
was quietly passing him, when the
king stopped in his jerking gait, and
demanded, in his coarse, rapid utter
ance: "WhO are yOu?" ''I am n the
illogical STUDENT" the young man
quietly replied. "Where from ?n add
ed the king. "From Berlin" was
the response. "From Berlin ?n the
king relOined "the Berliners are all
a good-for-nothing SET" "Yes, your
Majesty, that is true of fmanyOf them, "
the young man added; "but / know
OF two exceptions" iOf two 2" re-
sponded the king; (which are they ?"
'Your Majesty and myself" the
young man replied. The king burst
into a good-humOred laugh, and, after
having the young man carefully ex-
amined, assigned him to a chaplain
cy.-HaIPe7's Magazine. -s
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
Talks with Women.
BY JENNIE JUNE.


The creation of "strong-minded"
women, so-called, is due to the indi-
vidualism of men, to the modern sell
fish and speculative spirit which alb
serbs everything within itself and
leaves women nothing but self-asser-
ton for their protection and support.
do not believe that any woman was
ever naturally 'strOng minded" in
the vulgar, offensive sense Of that
term. When they show themselves
so, it is when they have been the vic
tins of men or of society, and resort
to war measures in self-defenee or,
having felt the wrong, see only that
method of righting it.
Political elamOr, party strife, the
clashing of interests, the struggles, the
anXieties of public and business life.
are, think, unnatural and distaste-
full to most women; but they do not
always know how much so, because
even the glimpse they obtain of these
seems better than the deadness- of q
life in which they count for nOught
an existence from which they might
be struck out and still leave the sum-
total of the figures complete.
Women have human sympathies,
human feelings, human hopes, hu-
man fears, and human ambitions
These must be properly gratified, or
they will be obliged to find an outlet
in other directions.
The difficulties between men and
women grow out of the demands of
selfishness- Men follow the cravings
Of their nature by taking unto them
selves wife and children-they graft
fy their love of power by seeking to
establish mastership over them, they
unhesitatingly sacrifice them to the
demons Of speculation or ambition
From first to last they are aetuated by
passion, and not by principle.
The kingdom of heaven is within
Us; it must grow from within, and not
from without-frOm the heart ana
brain of the individual man or wOm-
an it must penetrate the family, the
and the wOrld.-DcH1-
Orest's Monthly.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
The CHRONICLE.
THE JOLLY OLD PEpAGOGUE.

Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallOw and dry;
His form was bent and his gait was slow
His long. thin hair was white as snow.
But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eve;
And he sang every night as he went TO bed
Let us be happy down here below;
The living should live tho the dead be dead, ~
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
He taught his scholars the rule Of three,
Writing and reading and history, too;
he TOOK the little ones up on his knee,
FOR kind old heart in his breast had he,
AND the wants ofthe littlest child he knew.
Learn when you're young he often said;
There's much to enjoy down here below;
Life for the living and rest for the dead"
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
With the stupidest boy he was kind and cosl.
Speaking only in gentle tones;
The rod was hardly known in his school
Whipping. TO him, was barbarous rule,
And too hard work for his poor old bones
Beside, it was painful, he sometimes said,
"We'must make life pleasant here below,
The living need charity more than the dead -
said eJolly old pedagogue, long ago.
He lived in the house by the hawthorn lane,
win the roses and woOdblne over the door;
His room was quiet. and neat and plain,
But spirit of comfort there held reign,
And made him fors ct he was old and poor;
81 need so little" he often said
"And my friends and relatives here below
Won't ntigate over me when I'm dead,'
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
Then the jolly old pedagogue's wrinkled face
Melted all over in sunshiny smiles;
He stirred his glass with an old school grace;
Chuckled and slipped, and prattled apace,
Till the house grew merry from cellar to
tiles,
"Pm pretty old man" he gently said;
81 have fingered a long time here below:
But my heart is fresh If my youth is dead, !"
Said the Jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
He smoked his pipe in the balmy air
Every night when the sun went down,
While thesOrt wind played in his silvery hair,
Leaving its tenderest kisses there
On thejolly old pedagogue' s jolly old crown;
And feeling the kisses he smiled and said
Twas glorious world down here below;
Why wait for happiness till we are deadr'
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
He sat at his door one midsummer night,
After the sun had sunk in the west,
And the lingering beams of golden light
Made his kindly old face look warm and
bright;
While the odorous night wind whispered
reSti
Gently, gently, he bowed his head;
There were angels waiting for him, know;
He was sure of his happiness, living or dead,
This Jolly old pedagOgue, long ago.
George Arnold.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
WHOLE NO. 9784.
California Wonders,


How different in all respects from
our New England Here the winds
hurry and scuTry, and change, often
many times day; there they un-
changingIy blow in one direction for
six months. Here the earth rests in
winter; there they have no winteT, and
her rest is in the summer. Here we
have storm and heat, and cold, there
they have no storms or rain in sum-
mer, and only rain in winter. Here
our trees shed their leaves; there they
wear their vanished covering the year
round, while some of them, like the
brOnZed madrOna, shed their bark an
nually, and keep on their bright green
leaves.
Here the wOodpecker goes to the old
tree and knocks and wakes up the
worm, and then pecks in and gets
him; and there the woOdpeeker bOres
thousand holes in the great pine
tree, into each of which he thrusts an
acorn into which the miller deposits
an egg, and which the woOdpecker
calls and takes, after it has become n
good sized worm. The blue jay is ar
rayed in strange dress, and ehatters
its notes equally strange. The lark
sings in sweeter notes, but they are all
new. Here the owl lives in a hollow
tree; there he burrows in the ground
with the strange gray, ground squirrel
or in the hole of the rattlesnake, or i'm
that of the prarie dog.
Here the elder is a bush there i
have seen it a tree whose trunk is a
foot in diameter. Here the lemon
verbeha is fiowerpot plant; there it
is a bush nine feet high. Here the.
mustard seed yields a small plant
there is a tree often seventeen feet
high. Here we have a few grapevines
in a grepery; there we will find 5000
acres in a single vineyard. Here you
will see a single -Oleander beautifying
a single parlor; there you will find q
hundred clumps in full blossom in a
single yard, amid what looks like
showers of roses.
Here we have the thick green turf
on our soil; there they have no turf,
and not a dandelion daughter of the
turf, grows in all California. Here
the sun paints the grass green; there
it turns it brown. Here you see the
farmer carefully housing his hay, and
q little patch of wheat; there he cuts
no hay except to supply the cities, and
reaps and threshes his wheat in the
fields, and throws the bags down to
lie all summer, sure that neither rain
nor dew will hurt it, Here you have
scores of trees out of which to make
your tools; there you have no trees
out of which you can make a wagon
hub or spoke, a plow, a harrow, an
axe-helve, or a Sunset
land ~ bU Todd
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09

! unites all the nations of the world, of
the railroad which spans continents
and covers the territory of all civilized
nations like network, and of that
wonderful printing press which diff
fuses intelligence all over the earth,
| like the light of the sun and almost
as rapidly. The continents which
now hold instantaneous converse with
each other through submerged threads
of wire were not known even to the
ancients. Countries and people re-
mote from each other are brought in
communication more easily than
neighboring towns were q few years
ago. Look also at the thousands of
inventions in machinery, which per-
form more work than all the combin-
ed labor of mankind could, and at the
manufactures. which have. given
new phase to life and which have en-
larged commerce to a degree that no
one formerly could have believed pos
sible. We might refer TO the almost
godlike power of man in modern
times in exploring the bowels of the
earth and realms of space, in count
ing the years of age of the globe, in
analyZing the rays of the sun and
telling the composition OF that body,
and in all the astonishing discoveries
in chemistry and other branches of
science, as evidence of the incompar-
able superiority of the present over
every preceding age; but it is only
necessary to call attention to facts so
well known. The most important
feature of our modern civilization,
however, is the social and political
revolution which has been effected
and which is still going on. In all
former times and under every phase
of their civilization the masses of the
people have been little improved or
their condition ameliorated. Most of
the ancient republics even were oil
garchies, where privileged few gov
erned and the majority had no voice
in the government. Now the rights
and power of the people are generally
acknowledged; yes, even under mon
archical forms of government, where
concessions of political rights have to
be wrung from the rulers, Under the
potent influence of the telegraph,
press, steam communication and the
other agencies of this age the masses
of mankind are becoming enlighten-
ed, the principles of political equality
are being universally diffused, and
rulers in all civilized countries have
to yield to the voice of the people.
Still, we see only the dawn of the fu-
ture. The mighty revolution has
only commenced. All the nations and
races of mankind will be brought in
close communication with one anoth-
er, intelligence will be universally diff
fused, modern civilization will spread
over the whole face of the globe, po-
litical power will be used through
and for the benefit of the masses, the
financial theories and systems of the
past will be revolutionized and science
will unveil more and more the secrets
of nature. This is no fancy picture.
These must be the inevitable results
of modern progress. We have enter
ed upon this new and wonderful age,
and both in the development and ad-
vantages of it our own country is des-
tined to be foremost. We might well
rejoice, like Simeon of old, that we
have lived to see this salvation and
the glories of this nineteenth century.