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Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14

those titles come to be applied t.
women, there is a necessity of put
ting on the remaining aflix. Thu
Count aud Countess, Duke ant
Duchess, Prince and Princess, Abbo
and Abbotess, Baron and Baroness
ETC. Third, there are some word
which, though not absolutely limited
to the rougher sex, have yet been sc
closely associated with that sex as tc
suggest it; and there is fitness il
modifying their words when apply
ing them to the gentler sex. Gov
ernor. ambassador, hunter, priest
prophet, are instances OF this class
And yet, even with reference tc
these words, just SO fast as botf
sexes become participants to the
functions represented by them, sc
fast will the propriety of using theil
feminine forms he diminished.
Margaret Fuller anticipated this
conclusion with reference to one oi
these words by bravely saying in an
other century she would have asked
to be made American Ambassador
to Rome.
But, fourth, having begun to in
troduce sexual discrimination among
our wor'ls, we were taken with a
freak of consistency; and we lavished
our feminine ending upon words, az
if the sex were to be expressed in
every substance which we employed.
This will, perhaps, in part account
for the droll excesses into which
some elder writers were drawn,
examples of which are given by
Grant White Wycllffe speaks OF
"spouses;;" and "as man who sins is
sinner" he concluded that woman
who sins must be "sineress;" while
according to HIM, a female cousin is
a "cousinesse." So, also, Bishop
Fisher speaks of "salntess s"-a term
one degree less absurd than that OF
"she- SAINT" which old Fuller applies
to Ruth. AS most of the saints arr
women, in our opinion, it is but-taf
that the word saint, If it must have
an exclusive meaning, should be re.
garded as feminine word. Instead
therefore, of calling a good woman 9
she saint, we ought to call good
man he-saint. The same old Ful.
ler speaks OF buildress and an in
trudress; while Sir Philip Sidney
talks o! a captainess, and Holland ol
flatteress, and Sylvester Of sover.
aintess, and Ben johnson of vict
ress.
These old fellows were all right
They exhibited most logically the
absurdity OF fastening feminine end.
ings to name. As Gould very just
ly argues, it the ess is to be endured
in our language in such words al
conductress, dlrectress, doctress, ant
SO on, "there is no reason in language
or logic for excluding 1t from any
noun that indicates a person." Sc
that we ought. if speaking of q wo
man, to say waiteress, ,officercss, man
agesess, superintendentess, secre
taryess, treasures, surgeress, an(
talkcress.
But thought reacts on language
The reform in our sexual relation
which is surely coming, will be re
fected in our grammars. Good sens
is opposed to those genealogical tails
! Let them be cut off
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14
What to Eat.

We regret to see poor women 60 to
market with big basket and slend-
er purse ON Saturday night to buy
food for her hungry, thin-clad child.
rem. And what do these women get
Turnips, cabbages, bceis, carrots, po-
tatoes, and fish. They carry home a
load, but their green vegetables are
from Is to 95 per cent. water, and
the nutrition which Is obtained IS
| very little; whereas, if they would
put half the money into corn meal,
wheat meal, white beans and
mutton, they could live grandly
on it, and have the rest tor the pur-
chase OF fuel and clothes. But the
rich delectate on fine -four, cake, but.
ter, pies, fat poultry, nice fat ham,
eating four times too much carbon,
and not half enough phosphorus or
nitrogen for brain and muscle. One
class starve, get poor, weak, sickly,
and die of marasmus; while the 9TH
ers, who are able to have everything,
become dyspeptical, feversh, and dis
eaScu from the extra TlcHucSS VI GncH
food. "Man should not live by bread
Alone" especially superfine bread
If one eats wheat meal bread and
uses milk, he will find in these
two article all the elements which
the system requires in just about the
right proportion. But who knows
how to eat? Tie old prayer in its
application to the most OF us should
be extended-"Give MS this day our
daily food, and tell US what kind of
food we should daily eat" This
prayer is really answered by chemis-
try and physiology; but the world
turns up its precious nose at the
studies of chemistry and physiology
as applied TO the kitchen and the
stomach. 1t does very well to com
pound medicines and hair-dyes, cos
metics, paints, dyestuffs, material for
manufacture and commerce; but
when chemistry in cooking Is the
subject, science is fiouted, and folly
and appetite are enthroned.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14
QRIGINAL NOTICE.

ORIGINAL NOTICE.
CTATE OF IOWA, TAMA COUNTY, IS
10 J. 8. Foster, Ellen E.. Foster, Louisa ].
Stevens, Edwin NJ. Stevens. John J. Stew
ems, David A. Stevens, and William II.
Stivers:
You, and each Of you, are hereby notified
that on or before the 9th day Of October A.
D. 1871 there will be on file, in the Office Of
the Clerk Of the Circuit Court of Tama
! county, Iowa, petition Of Solomon Keistcr
claiming Of you, J. S, Foster, two thousand
dollars with ten per cent. interest as justly
due on three promissory notes, and one
hundred and twenty five dollars rs attor-
| neys fees for foreclosing the mortgage de-
| clared on, and claiming of all the defend
ants the foreclosure Of mortgage, given to
secure the payment Of said notes, all Of
which more fully appear by said petition; and
that unless you appear thereto, and defend,
before noon, of the second day Of the
next term Of said court, being the Octo>
ber term of said court for the year
A. d. 1871, commencing on the third
Monday Of October, A. D, 1871, at the
Court House, in Toledo, in said county
default will be entered against you, and
| Judgment and decree rendered thereon.
STIvERs 4 SArLEY,
| 35>3S] Attorney for Plaintiff,
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14

IT you're asked to take an egg, and
won't, is that an egg atiye reply!
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14
Sex among Nouns.
By MOSES COLT TYLER.

According to the convention OF
English society, q feminine person
proclaims her sex by wearing an ar.
t,cle of dress which Grant White
says should always be called gown.
According to the convention OF Eng
lish grammar, a feminine noun pro-
claims its sex by wearing peculiar
terminal fixture composed OF the let
ters ess. This latter contrivance.
which is nothing more than etymo-
logical tail,is by no means an original
invention with us. We inherit it
from our ancestors, and they derived
1t, or, literally, they stole it (tor our
ancestors were great thieyes) from
the Latins. who, as Heine reminds us,
were as happy as to know how to
speak Latin without having to learn
those horrid lessons IN the Latin
grammar.
Some people never get over Ger
tain awkwardness in using the goods
they have stolen. This is the case
with the English race and its tent
nine caudal appendage for words: it
has always made bungling work OF
irving TO fit it on. and to wag it.
Marsh expressed the difficulty mildly
by saying that they never used it
freely" :.
The Saxon blood runs with utili-
tarlanism; and it was great draw
back to our facility in the employ
ment of feminine ending for nouns,
that, for the lite of us, we could not
see what was the good of it. Take
for instance, the very respectable
word yoetess. What is gained by
putting the tail on? Poet is SIMPLY
a person who writes poetry. There
IS nothing in the word to indicate
sex; and there is nothing in the ac'
of writing poetry to require the indi
cation of sex. The function Of the
poet is common to both sexes. Tht
alluslon to the sex is irrelevant ant
impertinent. Unless the word poe
is to be limited to a male person wh<
writes poetry, it is as superfiuous q
it is silly to have a special form o
the word to denote a female persol
who writes poetry.
1 We have got into this grammat'
Gle mess, doubtless. on several &C
counts.
In the first place, we, in the perso
Of on. ancestors, laid our feloniol'
hands upon our nelghbors verbs
property; and this particular part
] it we used, not because we needle
it. but because we had it. In III
second place, there are certain title
at least, that have an exclusivel
masculine signlfcation; aud whe
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14

After many statements pro and
con, it may now be safely taken tor
granted that the Russian Grand
Duke Alexis is coming to visit us
some time in the early autumn. 10
say nothing Of the squadron prepaar
ing to guard the Royal Muscovite
across the ocean, and the Fremont
tory tiutter agitat.ng the fashionable
world i'll anticipation of the stirring
event, more commonplace, but more
reassuring, is the matter-ot.tact an
nounccment that Minister Catacazy
IS preparing his mansion for the re-
ception of the son of the Gar
Painters, paper hangers, gilders and
upholsters are busily engaged IN Mt
ting up plain Washington manslor
so as to make it pass muster as th'
substitute Of q Russian palace.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14

England, says a prominent Amerl-
can, writing from Europe, is ina pre-
cipitatc state of political transition
The failing health of the Queen, and
the probability that the years of her
reign are doomed to be few, the ex-
citement and conferences among the
workingmen, and the political pro-
gramme their leaders are mapping out
tor the future, all portend = great
and complete revolution Indeed,
the statement is made that whenever
Victoria dies Republic will be sim
ultaneously proclaimed in all the
leading cities of the three kingdoms !;
and that, in anticipation OF that event
number of well known English 70.
litical agitate:s are at present in this
country, whittier they lately came
for the purpose of securing the prac.
tical cooperation of the Fen,an ele.
ment, in case it should be necessary
to cali it into requisition. All the
machinery requisite to the establish.
ment OF the Republic is said to have
been quietly but efficiently perfected,
and is further reported that many OF,
ticials OF the British government, oc
cupyiug important military and nava'
positions, are secretly pledged to co
operate with it. Making all due al
rlowances tor the exaggeration o
these reports, it must be evident *
every thoughtful observer that thu
decease Of the Sovereign would pre-
cipitate q crisis of the most serious
character. The Prince OF Wales i
himself said to have lately expressed
grave doubts relative TO his own sue
cesslon-a remark which he woul,
hardly make, unless good ground
existed for the apprehension.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14
The Worn ont Font of Type.

Tm sitting by my desk, George;
Before me ON the floor
There lies WORKOUT font Of type,
Full twenty thousand score.
And many months have pa ssed, George,
Since they we're bright and new,
And many are the tales they We told
The false, the strange, the true.
What tales Of horror they have told,
OF tempest and Of wreck;
OF murder in the midnight hour,
OF war full many "speck y
Of ships lost away at sea
Went down before the blast,
or stifed cries Of agony
As life last moments passed.
OF earthquakes and Of suicides,
OF failing crops Of cotton,
or bank defaulters, broken banks,
And banking systems rotten.
OF boilers bursting, steamboats, snagg ed,
Of riots, duels fought,
or robbers with their prey escaped,
OF thieves, their booty caught.
OF food. and fire, and accident,
These worn -out types have told,
And how the pestile nee has swept
The youthful and the old
Of marriages, Of births and deaths,
OF things to please or yex us,
Ofone mans jumping overheard,
Another gone to Texas.
They've told us how sweet Summer days
Have faded from cur view,
How Autumn g chilling winds have swept
The leaf forest through;
How Winters snow hath come and gone
Dark reign Of storm and strife
Ard how the smiling Spring hath warmed
The pale flowers back to life.
I can't pretend to mention half
Ny inky friends have told,
Since shining bright and beautiful
They issued from the mould
How unto some they joy have brought,
II others grief tears:
fet faithfully the record kept
Offast receding years.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14
DIVIDEND
800, 600!
declared by the
u ID s
FIRE
INSU'CE COMP ANY
Payable to the Stockholders and after July 9Th, 1871
Assets June 80, 1871,
SSl,5Ol,S22 81

28 agencies have been established and ready for service
large and very valuable business is already secured $780,
976 9 been promptly dsbursed for losses No suit
yet been brought against the company Business has been
larger expenses lighter and results more encouraging than
to subscribers upon organization The uavanh
cd has been polar STAR consequently all pledges have
been abundanty fulfilled
An ample Reinsurance fund and all outstanding claims
have been amply provided for, and liberal dividend de-
cared 1t is noteworthy fact per conra correctly ndcat
ing the fine volume Of business at command that fully Six
been refused Not less than II Insurance Companies closing
unproductive business applied to for reinsurance
which, at the terms offered respectfully declined The
cause Of this gavaton will in few years become better
erstood when the patient study complete SYSTEM high ORDER
capital and character which insurance needs to command le-
gtmae equivalents properly accepted without discount
Business conducted in liberal spirit. Full lines upon de-
sabe risks accepted Rates fixed with regard to the laws
Of fair compensation for the hazard assumed
Give the ANDES fair trial. and realize its superior busi
mss facilities CP N. BARKER Agent,
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14

NY stock consists Of Shelf and heavy
Hardware of every description. Cutlery,
Glass, Sash,
Fence Wire and Staples,
Mechanics Tools, Plain and Saturated
Building Paper, Well and Cistern Pumps,
Corn Shelters, Straw Cutters, Fnnning
Mills, Corn Planters, the Unien Churn,
Clothes Wringers.
JOHN DEERE'S
Iron and Wool Beam Stirring Plows. how
ell Plows. Deere's Walking Cultivator
Buckeye Combined riding and Walking
Cultivator and Buckeye Grain Drill and
Force Feed Seeder.
lam Agent for the
Michigan Sweepstakes Threshing
MACHINE.
Fairbanks Scales; the celebrated Com.
biued Corn Shelter and Farm Grist MILL
Tile Buckeye, Wood and Hirby
Combined se!f-Rake
REAPER AND MOVING
MACHINES,
TIE WOOD NOUER,
THE BUCKEYE MOWER,
&C., sc.
All Of which will be sold at bottom prices.
Call and examine my stock before pur-
chasing elsewhere.
Tol do. Iowa. February Is, 1871.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14

WANTED, for this paper, subscribers
w and advertisme Sts. Apply ITO Wuns
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14
Flogginy Women In Russia.

It does not appear that the ladies'
Of Russia are any better than their
sis,e OF this country. They are fog
ged enough to make them very supe.
rior beings, if there is any virtue IN
licking lasses. A book with the in
viting title of "The Rod in All Coun-
tries says that anecdotes Of the flag.
elation of ladies in Russia could be
multiplied to any extent. The au-
thor says:
'It was stated few years ago in a
German newspaper that three of the
most beautiful women Of st. Peters
burg were driven direct from one OF
the imperial balls in their own car
riages, in all their finery OF satin and
lace, to the poliecs station, and, after
being mounted on a mans shoulders,
with their dress tucked up, were
smartly whipped with birch rod
No explanation was given, but they
were dismissed with the significant
caution to hold their tongues in fu-
ture. At another imperial party
some young ladies, who had been
chatting too freely, were politely es-
corted by maitre d'hotel to dis
tant apartment, where, being made
to kneel over an ottoman, they were
severely smacked by female house.
keeper with their satin slippers, and
then sent home"
If this is true it explains the wo-
mans rights movement that has late
|ly attracted attention in Russia
This objection Of women to the rod
comes of permitting them to have
the alphabet. There is really nc
safety when that is conceded.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14


The London Mining Journal con-
tains some interesting statistics with
referance to the newly discovered
coal-mines Of Berar, in India. The
total area of the coal-fields is more
than 1000 square miles, and the coal
is easily accessible. Lately, vein Of
coal was struck " feet from the sur.
face, and thirty feet OF coal was
pierced without the bottom of the
seam being reached. The area OF one
field, called the Damuda, is estima
ted at 149 square miles, and the aver
age thickness of the vein at 40 feet
Valuable beds of iron ore have also
bccu found in the Woon district
containing from 5S to 6S per cent. o.
IRON
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-14
PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE !
Samuel DEF

TIUVHZE Ull,
TOLEDO. LOW
This House has been remodeled, refitted
and newly furnished, and it is now open for
the entertainment of the travelling public.
1t gives better fare and for less money than
any other House west of the Mississippi.
employ only accommodating servants for
waiting upon my guests. The Stabiing &C,
commodations are complete. v3n20tf
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-09-16

Sally Salter was n young teacher who
Taught.
And her friend, Charley Church, was
preacher who prluShi,
Though his enemies called him Scrcccher
who scraught.
His heart. when he saw her, kept sinking
and sunk,
And his eye. meeting hers, began winking,
and wunk:
While She, in her turn, kept thinking, and
Ihunk.
He hastened to WOO her, and swectiy he
wooed,
For his iose grew until to mountain it
.sIpWei,
And what he was longing to do then he
doed-
In secret he wanted to speak, and he spoke,
To seek with his lips what his heart long
had soke;
50 he managed TO let the truth leak and IT
lokc-
He asked her to ride to the church, and
They 50 sweetIy did glide that they both
IhauGht they SIode,
And they came 10 The place to be tied, and
were tocI.
Then ho'newagd. he said, let us drive, and
they drove,
And u soon ;,s they wished TO arrive, they
For Whatever he couldn't contrive she con-
Tho kiss he was dying TO stead, then he
sto.e;
At The feet where he wanted to kncel thcf
lie kno4c:
And he s;sia, Il feel better than eveGI foe. y
so :hey TO each other kept elinsing. and
chung.
White time his swift circuit was win sing
AMI wun.s
And his was ,he thing he was bringing
and brung:
The man sally wanted TO catch. and had
eau III.
That she wanted from others to snatch,
;tn / had @n:su.shi,
Was the one she now liked to scratch. and
she SciStu-hT.
and Char,ey's warm love began freezing,
an. roe,
" Whi.c hc took TO feaziny. and cruelly toZe
The kin ia. had wished 10 be squeezing =,
and s;iuuZC.
s.wrctcll - he cried. when she threatened
10 Io;ivc him, anI icIi,
How Iou4i NOu deceive me, as You have
tlt.>-cf: -
And She nnswerci, II promised to cicave,
ANA l'Se Elctt->
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-09-16
NO. Q.

tain, adjoining Portland and be-
yond, has spread over a large dis
trict of country, and continues 70
rage.
From the Statesman of the 5th !
A little child four years of age WAS
introduced at the Medical Society's
meeting yesterday, and its head.
which has become enlarged from
some cause, measured The follow
| ing are the exact figures Cireuzn-
f.rence, 274 inches from ear to ears
III inches, and from the back part
| Of the head to the eyebrows, IL
inches. 1t would be really > beau~
tifnl child were it not for this de-
for1nity..
While out hunting deer in Yam-
hill county, a few days ago, James
Imbrie mistook his comrade for .
deer, and shot him in the neck with
his rifle, The wound is dangerous.
| The Dallas Republican Of the
9th, has the following paragraphs |:
| The fire in the mountains near
town is still raging, and is doing
much damage. The steam saw
mill of Cox e Clark is in imminent
danger of being destroyed The
machinery has been taken out, and
everything is being removed that
can be, to a place of safety.
| As a party of our townspeople
were on their way home from the
coast this week, William Kennedy
killed a large black bear weighing
about three hundred pounds.
A person calling himself Billy
Woldron, after investing ahout
SG4, ,000 in real estate, elothin&
groceries &C., in Salem, left with.
out paying his bills.
A milk-man of Salem has made
ten hundred and seventy-five con.
secutive trips.
Mrs. J. Il. Frost comes out open.
iy III opposition to woman suffrage
as we CLEAN from the Statesman.
A man named Lake, q teAmster,
was killed between Roscburg and
Crescent City, by being rum over by
his loaded wagon-so says the
Sentinel.
Mr.. William McCune, Of Polk
county: has thrash .wca<e--Aas
dred and forty bushels ofgood cleal
wheat from twenty-five acres O
land, says the Oregon Repxd
lican.
Governor Bullock of Georgia and
: a party of excuEsionists are making
7 a tour of California.
A fire occurred at Baker Ctr
5 September Sd, entirely consuming
J the new Academy Building whiel
) was in course oferection. The loss
| $4,000, falls wholly on the con
tractor, Mr.. F. r. Twiggs.
There is small pox at Wall,
Walla.
They have had two cases of scaF
let fever at Eugene City.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-09-16

does the money come from Who
pays the bills z" he asks, and more
over he seems to have studied men,
until well persuaded that it is prob
able nearly a thousand more will be
in attendance because Of the races.
For the honor of Linn one might
hope otherwise-he undoubtedly
knows.
Now, Mr.. Editor, l have not
time to discuss the evils of horse
racing the progress of ideas in this
nineteenth century,. has settled,
beyond question, the place to be ac-
corded to the noble art, and those
who practice it. / said slam be-
fore, and now I call attention to
the following: arrangements will
be made and a premium offered fol
the best trap-shooting," and l say
not sham only, that does not begir
to express it, but / say shame.
And now, to conclude: of course
it would not he wise in the "Asso.
ciation'' to kill 'the goose that lays
the golden egg" and even if the
goose should prove to be vampire
sucking the life blood from all that
is pure and holy, endangering the
present and future existence of al
on whom falls the shadow of its
wings, why, never mind, if it only
lays large eggs and plenty Of them
w. r. b.