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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-05-10
TIE rHnnRFEss LaNn

One Of the frst things that strikes
the attention Of an American IN Ger
many, when he begins to get q Httle
I insight into the life Of the people, Is
the equality and sympathy exislIng
between parents and children n no
country do parents. take more pains,
and likely not so mach 70 enter into
the very hearts and lives OF their
] children than here. They very early
make them acquainted With plans.
Z talk with them aa 30 Oidsr people,
/ never 20 on an excursion on Journey
without them, and search eyeryWhere
/ Tor what VIII minister to their arnusel
ment and instruction. IN no home
W5uida sooner sxpsst b flnd q father
turning himself intoa horse, an ele-
phant or barrel on his parlor floor,
Tor his children TO ride him, roll over,
and do with him what they please,
han in a German one-aud the 1cier-
I gyman's son as soon ss any other.
There are probably 1--WE Juvenile
household games IN Germany to one
anywhere else, and the parents exer-
eise wide discretion By having fire.
quent entertainments for their chill
dren, and providing everything for
the amusement Of all, to make their
homes the most attractive spot on
earth to the little folks. The child
that asksa question is not met with .
blunt answer. But with such an
ansWer-as pleasant and instructive
a3 the parent knOws how to give-as
naturally promotes other inquiries
and gives stimulus 70 the mind.
One OF the eausea Of the equality
between the old and the young here
lies In TIA fact that the child, at any
rate the eldest boy, is expected to fol-
early share his plans. The same
house, the same employment, and
should not wonder Il sometimes the
same gsnerationv Of. customers, are
identified with the same family and
name, to the defiance Of changes OF
governments, nom century TO eentu-
". II Luther and Melancthon
should rise from the stone floor OF
the old Castle Church in Wittenberg,
and be under The necessity OF going
shopping together. It would not Be
unlikely that they could buy books,
stationery, clothing, and groceries,
and got every want supplied, at about
the same shops that thsy patronized
three hundred years ago. -lil3il-
Bat there Is 4 far deeper cause.-The
Germans loYe children, and the more
they have the greater their joy. 50
soon as another IS added to. the nuTn-
Der, the father Is expected 10 conf
munieate by letter the fset to all his
near and remote relatives, and in due
time he has every reason to expect
eongratulatory letters ffom them IN
return. Fhe faet IS stated in the pa
psrs, andnthen mUFez letters come.
The little stranger is fsiEfy smotheFed
with presents When The baptism
comes, which Is expected to take
place within few weeks after birth,
q great -fsast Is giveny and friends
come from far aud near. Each is ex-
pected to bring a gift Of some kind,
usually money, which Is Immediately
put out ct compound interest for the
future benefit of the littls recipient
The pastor makes an address the
Bible Is read, prayer is offered, the
performed, prayer again,
and then eating and drinking and
,onversation.-Dr. Thltrst IN the Meth
Odist. z--z- H
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TpF gTT TIfFS

A writer in the College CouTant has
been endeaToTing to Ascertain At what
age men are capable Of doing their
best work HS method Is 10 take the
names Of the most illustriOUs men OF
all, times and countries, with their
ages when their greatest achieve
ments were accomplished, and from
these to. deriF5 the average time Of
life at which the important mental
work Of the world Il done, or the mean
year OF greatest produetiveuess. His
LIST. OF great men includes eight hum
dred names, and their most noteWor-
thy achievements number eighteen
hundred. The mean age Of greatest
prodnctiYeness for all classes Is found
and fifty-two hundredths. This may
be regarded IS the mental prime Of
life, which Il attained, il this process
gives Trustworthy results from five-to
ten yeaFs earlier than has been genert
ally supposed. Ia the arrangement
by classes Il is found That lawyers and
judges come latest 10 maturity, or at
least to recognition OF their powers,
the average age of greatest productive
ness with them being feft ave years
andia little over. Pr0fezso4 Hrd edn-
Gators come neIt, who have done fheif
best work at nearly f0rty9hTee yeafs.
Then follow IN this order, and very
near together, statesmen, diVines, a1-
thors, physicians, philosophers, artists !
and orators, whose age Of great test pro- |
ductiveness ranRes from thirty y-eight /
70 forty years. Next come e6mman-
ders, scientists, refofmers and philah-
thropists, whose chief work is accom-
pffshed at thirty-six to thirty-seven
years inventors, musicians and traY-
elers, who are at their best at from Z
Ehifty-one to thirty-fiYe years, and ae-
tors make their highest efsfts earlier 4
han any other class, at about the age
Df twentysniue yeaTss BY the use Of
he same materials, the writer elassi-
lies the decades Of life according to
heir value to the world, as shown in
he work accomplished by these eight /
lundred emipept men. He htfanges
he deeades 81 oiloYs Il, -. ~ = =
The golden decade 4 between 80 and
70, the silver SIS betReefi 40 and
%; the brazen decade rs between %
md 30; the iron decade is between so
md 90; the tin decade Is isIbetWeen 60
nd 20; the wooden decedeis between
o and so. II
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-05-10

A good story Is told about an old
hunter who used to trap about Moose
head Lake, BY the name Of Ellis.
His reputation as great bear hunter
extended far and wide. Several
years ago, when bear skins were very
fashionable for,sleigh robes ,spOrtsmen
about the lake Ia the fall would en-
gage one Of Ellis, and, as the old man
was very poor, would pay for it IN
advnaee. He had bargained for one
in this way one year, and when the
hrst snow came, he started of with
his gun, and soon came on Bruins
track. He ran all day, not overtakiHg
him, but eamped upon his track that
night. and early the next morning
took up the scent and followed him
a1f that day, with no better success
than on the previous day. The third
day found his aged limbs quite sore;
he made another start
and ran till well nigh exhausted,
when he came in sight of Bruin, who
had stopped for q few moments re-
freshments, but upon seeing his pur-
surer, started OF again at full speed
The old man took aim and fired; but
Bruin didn't stop. Feeling too tired
10 run another step, he shouted with I
all the energy Of despair: @You may
run, andrun, but there amt a hair on
ye that belongs to ye, for I've sold I
yer hide and got nv pay fos II. y
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MUST AND NAY.

May is one OF the most beautiful
months in the year, because every
day in ii is the record Of growth and
the witness of transformations. The
earth robes herself in beauty under
our eye. Out Of the brown soil, and
bare boughs, come verdUfe and love-
illness and while we look the SOM
bre scenery Of the landscape shifts
like the drapery Of the stage, as though
earth was fairy land. The old or
der breaks up. Everything becomes
fluent. We 1--we in the midst OF mar
Vels, and mysteries, and are ourselves
part Of the mirsele Of things seen and
unseen.
And so Nay stands among the
months for growth. and expansfon,
for the boundiess possibilities Of ma
ture. Of society, ofman. It represents
opportunity. Winter represents the
stern necessities Of nature ana life.
Compuision Is its laws. tits 8 frigid,
piercing, tempestuOus Must. But,
by some strange coincidence or fine
insight, the season most abOunding
in opportunity and perysded with
prophecy, Is called May. The name
Is fulfo profound and beautiful sug-
gestiOns. Il bFeathes hope It opens
DOOR. It Is invitation and inspira-
ton both IN one. Heretofore the
world has had little else but winter.
Man has been met with Must, enfore-
ed with teTrible penalties. Every
step Of progress, has been resisted,
often by violence. We are emerging
into q new order OF things, "A period
Of growth, change, expansion, bios
soming. Opportunity takes the place
Of restriction. Compulsion gives
place to invitatian. Promises crowd
out threats. Prizes supplAnt penal
AQe. ' '--'-''
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William Cullen Bryant has written
an interesting letter, which has found
its way into print, d eseribinghis hab-
its Of life, and giving the lie 20 sever
al calumnies, among them that he
uses quinine as asstimulant, and has
become deaf from that cause. The
poet says: II rise early, at This time
Of the year about 80; in summer,
half an hour or even an hour earlier.
immediately, with very. little lEcum-
brance Of clothing, begin series Of
exercises, for the most part designed
70 expand the chest. and st the same
time call into action all the muscles
and articnlations Of the body.. These
are performed With dumb. bells, the
very lightest, covered with flannel;
with pole, a horizontal bar, and .
light chair swung around my head.
After full hour, and sometimes
more, passed in fhis MANNER, i. bath
nom head to foot.T- With this prep
sration, he breakfasts on homiuy,
oatmeal, brown bread OF wheaton
grits, milk and baked apples, some
times chocolate, but never tea or cof-
fee. When in town he walks 10 the
Office Of the EpeRing -P0st, some three
miles, and after his labors, there walks
home. In the country he rests from
literary toll by farm or garden exer-
else. He eats meat or flsh only at
dinner, and sparingiy, but partakes /
freely Of fruit. Heneyer uses t6bacco, I
and rarely wine, Is be says: Il: am !
q natural temperance man, finding
myself rather confused than exhlIa- 1
rated BY wine" BE avoid mental /
labor, even to writing letters, IN the I
evening, and retires early. ---0-- !
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Decay Of the Latin Races.

This triumph Of Prussia over
: France has even q brDader siEnifi-
! eance than appears TO the eunthi1 King
observer. It revulutio6izes theiead-
ing influence Of Europe lids the
triumph Of the TeutOn over the Latin,
OF PrOtestantism ovea ROmania1n, OF
the new civilization over the old.
The Latin races, with their intrign-
ing priesthood, their ignorant, poor
superztitious people, monkeuies and
nnnneries. and relics and 1shamsg are
sinking TO deeay. Ialy, France aud
Spain are all in trouble, while PERTH
go is hardly counte1 among the na-
lions, 50 insignificant and dTpoRefless
has she become All are hankrIIpt,
and neither. seems 10 hold within
itself the power Of recovery. France
is a republic to-day, nOminally; bat
those who know France well will be
surprised If she remain q, republic for
one year. The whole head 0f France
lis sick, and the whole Heart is dfaifit.
This Latin blood, wherever It 7hoEs,
seems to O,be weak and Corrupt There
are men Of ideas and, pure life and
noble aspiration in all these eOun-
tries; but what are they, what can
they do. against church organization
hOary within experience and perfectly
united In It's Obj eetztha OBJ ject being
the perpetuatiUn Of its own power, at
whatever cost, against all the en-
croachments Of freedOm and free
thought 2 Spain knows Italy knows,
and poor France Will know within 3
tEelFennoRtfls Nothing bHt HRiVeTsal
education-instituted eontroIIed, and
directed by the -StatAand a free
Bible, with free men 10 preach its
truths, can save the whole Latin race l
fr0m fatal degsnefStiOh and decay. |
these regeneratiug fuhu- /
enees, France VIII 70 How SPAIN and 1
Italy Into q powerlessness that viii J
be alike her protection from national
lealously and her degrada atien from
the worlds respect. lBoundJa bthese
people are by so many chains, it is
impossible for them to hold respect
able footing in the race OF fFeer ma
lions for power and greatness. The
feutOn blood, with It's affiliations, Is
he blood Of the future. The Ten- (
.Onie languages are the languages Of /
.he future, and PrOtestznt ciViliZa-
ion, under various forms ana phases
moving through various modes OF
lrogress-is the civilization or the Z
uture. Does any one doubt it7 bet I
him point to a single Catholic nation
hat is maxim progress to-day, aud to
! single Protestant nation that Is uoti
-Dr. T. G.tHoAdnd, IN -Seri6Hsrisfor
Adg Il
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EiTrRR ITFR

The Scriptures speak of the world
and life to come as better than the
present. They take the best places
and experiences Of the present 70 ex-
plain the future, and then say It shall
transcend these There is much IN
our present knowledge and expert
enee 20 warrant this expectation, and
it is by following up these things that
we shall be able TO, in an any sense.
make the better future seem a fact
TO rs. ---7 -=- -'
The analOgies Of nature suggest Il.
There is q tendency 70 perform in ma
tures so that changes are constantly
going on in the earth. Order Is bro't
out Of chaos, and the moet valuable
materials are but combinations OF
worthless ingredients. This indicates
the direction in which the heavenly
world and life shall transcend this.
It VIII do go both in ourselves and
the circumstances surrounding Us.
Both Of these are necessary 70 perfect
The future world neeessa-
rily must be a perfect physical world,
and we must also be mentally and
bodily perfect and sound, outOf which
will come the perfect social life which
we denominate heaven.
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NeatnesI ArodHd C6ahtrT Home.


Mary A. Pinkney, Onondaga, n.
Y.-Hsving been the daughter Of q
farmer, and now the vile Of one, and
mingled aH my life With this class,
| my experience tells me your descrip-
tion Of March s, about Stingy Farm
ers, is the exception, not the rule.
For pogerty, penny, hunger and dirt
are DOT q netesffY. 6 When every
paper we pick up suggests some cheap
adornment OF house, yard, or person,
when flowers, seeds, and bulbs are
given away for the asking, somebody
is guilty If the wilderness does not
blOss1m EuE prisons zpalaees Prove
If nothing greets the eyes Of those
girls when looking into the back
yaEq bR e Eaeela sbsds, loose
.st99sac ic1shs,
t54t Shd What
In ne ~ 69tt- 5.tlhe trf h ven
tufe mo the e9gydi, See m s g.IT q
eq 3ohc lteS 4 a 9 4 6e sbfis
,tt1S,y yFjz, ~ - m
8 as, Die s0dlAf u ehce
81 1t4 ~ Bet
fiIe = ioii ll1l the Did
iron. IlaEt6 D sister VINO, when her
husband turned farmer and tore down
barns and built greater, might have
Imagined that she had swung back
into the period OF upheavals that
geology refuses just 70 figure, for there
was no end 10 the debris. Her hus-
band had an eye to economy, and pro- |
posed to wait until old boards, farm
ing mills, plows, carts, wheels, &C.,
decomposed and enriched the earth
but she thought she had no security |
Of hel three score and ten years, there
fore took q shorter road 70 secure the 1
same end. And I=know every day
when "Mordecai walked not before
the court Of The woman's house" for
q fre was built, and cart-Wheels,
plows, DC, were converted into ashes
and used as fertilizer. Lille says,
In the same paper, that farmers are
divided into the shiftless and penuri-
BUS. 1t is true, long habits of careful (,
ness, which seems almost a necessity
In the record of q farmel, when the
goal has beenreaehed and won, near
y amounts to penuriOusness, the hab-
t has become chronic. Cultivate
hat purely Womanly quality which
Grace Greenwood calls cOdIing, re-
no Gibraltar surrenders in
! dsy, no Jericho falls by going around
{ Ouce.|7I knew two sisters, the elder
lad sense Sufficient for-a Congress-
nan, self-control equal to Napoleon.
The other was as careless as q thistle
n the hreezS, but in her own house
lold, BY her coaxing qualities cby her
,OOing, By something irresitable, she
uled. Don't send q petition to head ,
quarters before dinner. Even II signed
" every member Of the cabinet 1t
will be vetoed. By q dinner in which
'ou provide much that the head cen
er loves, preface your petition by
and humorous conversation,
lench L BY coaxinE, and, II need be,
little hattery. Then you may write
fms, u" and Others viii say well
lone. - -
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The MIn.rnI KeaIth q nhIn.

The geological survey Of the State,
though but lstely entered upon, has
already developed facts which are as
tonishiBg 10 our own people. And
the publication Of thess faets and dis
coysries 10 eeonomic geoiosy has given
inpetnsito sntsrprises which In very
few years must Sd q denornnOusiYt % our
wealth and pop 6iat tion.9 q = Z be, dfscov-
cry and demonstration Of the tSet that
in southeaA tsIIt Qhios in the counties
Of Athens, Hooking aud Perry1and
especially In The latter cOunty-there
are vast beds Of bituminops c6al,
which can Be used in-a raw state, ID
the reduction Of from ores, settles the
question, beyond controversy, that
Ohio must speedily become the cen
ter OF the iron manufactures in the
United States. True, other STATES
have iron deposits which excel oufs
bnthin richness and quantity, butu0-
where else ARE they found in iInmedi-
ate connection with adequate supplies
Of fuel; and these PRACTICAL y, exhaust
less beds Of coal are 80 Situated that
the richer ores OF Lake Superior can
Be bfohghE 70 them at comp81atiyely
low rat 150Ato Stdts .Lollftdt
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The Rev. Thomas x. Beeeher is
arguing in favor Of capital punish
menk He says, To send man out
Of this world 70 give an account Of
himself before the JudEe OF all the
earth, has never seemed 70 us q very
great hardship or crnelty. "a Yes, hut
Tom, how does 1t seem to the man
himself? That portion Of the hang
ing which Is performed BY the clefgy-
man IL perhaps no great hardship.
But the neck that Is 5ehoked, the
body that Writhes, the eysballs that
start from their sockets, the heart
that sweIls and breaks With peht-up
rage--all this may seem b the victim
something Ike Hardship and crneE
ty." But our 'sdolbting Thomas Is
kind IN one respect to the criminal
He sends him to heaven instead Of
he'll BE says. q Ged receives the ex-
PEELED oulpTit. .l'-s This is q lgTeat ad-
vance OF the orthodoxy which teHch-
IS that IN such .eaaes, the poor man
goesto the devil --Golden Age. q ~.
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nOAD NOTICE

lCNotice is hereby given that a petition
VIII be presented to the Commissioners OF
Trumbuu County. Ohio, on the 5th day Of
June, A D. 1871, at their regular session.
ing az the west terL1iur1B 0f james St, IN the
village OF Niles, In said county; thence run
ming west 70 the center Of the Canfeld and
Warren road, at a point near the residence
Of Samuel ]. Campbell, and TO intersect
with the road running west OF the Canfeld
and Warren road, TO Newton Falls, passing
through landa Of the heirs OF John 4 Hun
heirs Of Elihu Draper, James n. Roberts
and John II. Park CHAS. P. MOORE
CHAS. VANWYE.
Apr. Is. i57l-it and fifty Others. I
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The weather and Crops Of Southern
OhIO. 70 7fI

Upon this subject the Cincinnati
Gazette Of the Sd Instant, remarks Rs
Ifollows: --r ----.- =
Nature Is now laying the founds-
tions for trade next season. The
country has not yet recovered from
recent crop failures. Tbs, harvest Of
1870 was fair average, but = vas not
full, and the deficiencies iesulting
from previous failqres we're only
partially made up. To put the equn5
try squarely upon its teet We pesd, at
least, full yield this yeag- For this
farmers are now working hard, and
the promise Tor handsome results Is
faySrable. For fall wheat the Ve6th-
er has been about an that eohld be
desired, and this crop, never looked
better than ct this, lime, With pro
Pitious weather 10 May and June
mere VIII Pc an oysfhoFing wheat
The spring has been unusually
favorable for held work The weath-
er in March and April was such that
farmers were able to prepare the
ground and get In potatoes and small
grain and now, corn plahtlng, which
. often delayed Unit late ia May, Il
nearly done Com was planted early
last year, and fila saved the crop,
which was we'll forward before the
Drought set IN. lFhed progress this
season Is stin better. sUb % Mo1dsy
the weather was very dry srd tfiefs
was much complaint; but Fuesday 4
steady, warm, soaking Fain feli, which
n1ade al things hight, and this mas
followed yesterday By q warm sun,
with occasional showers, This also
stopped the ef6akfnR about the hay
crop. And nov Il may Sc said that
the foundations have Been wen laid
for large crops, and every thing "a
the farming hhe looks favorable. The
prospects, Indeed, could lot be better.
These remarks, however, 40 not In
clnde fruit. The forward weather.
which has been so favorable TO fela
crops, forced the fruit ahead or time
about three weeks. If was conse-
quently damaged seriously by the
heavy frost Of Saturday night, The
destruction, however, was not 50 great
as at first supposed, and the fndiea-
tiOns now are that we shall have q
moderate crop. But for the frost, the
yield would have been enormous. /
OF course, we can not yet calculate
safely upon large yield Of any crop, /
because everything that grows,
whether upon the tres or IN the
ground, Is subject 10 mishaps-to rust,
smut, frOst, rot, drought and other
ills 80 familiar 20 faFmers-but the
prospects never were better, and, with
favorable growing time and harvest
time, the year 1871 will prove one of
great plenty. And good harvests, as I
matters now stand, mean a revival OF
business upon a basis at once safe and
healthy. IN NJ 80
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SSIGNEEls SALE

~
N Notice is hereby given, that the under
- ed as Assignee OF Darius Baldwin viii
offer at public sale, on the Slth day OF May,
ISL. between the hOurs OF ~ 0'eiock a. m.
the following described real estate, situated
in the township Of Fowler Trum bull Co. o.,
to-wit: Part OF Lot NO. - and bounded as
follows: commencing at the northeast cor
ner OF land belonging 70 Drayton Andrews.
on the east and west center road Lnence
east 20 the public square thence aouth on
me west line Of the public square 70 land Of
said D. Baldwin: thence west on the north
line Of said BaldWin's land 70 land belong
ing 20 Drayton Andrews; thence north 70
the place Of beginning, containing about one
srre OF land, excepting therefnom what is
oecupied oy the meeting house, and what iE
In mont of said meeting house. and subject
TO the lease for house sheds, IS decided TO
said Baldwin, sept. =, leoo.
Also. part Of Lot No. 3. and bounded as
follows: Beginning at stake At the north
east corner Of lands owned by Joel Horton:
feet 70 a stone and corner Of D. Baldwin,
land; thence south and west on land Of said
Baldwin; thence north on land % IoeI fIorl
ton, 10 ne place Of beElnrinE, $lCliof ~
acreof land, as deeded q 71'l Bald VA. Oct
Aiso, part q Lot No. 8 ana bounded as
follows: On the east by the public square.
on the south by the east and west center
road on the west by lands owned BY An
drew W. Ross; on the north By lands owned
by John Kingsley, ana containing two
acres Of land, as decided to said Baldwin,
Feb. a, 1885.
Also, part Of lot No. 3, bounded as fol-
lows: Beginning st the northwest corner
Of what "a known q the stofe- house lot Of
said Baldwin thence west on the south side
Of the east and west center road 70 the north
east corner Of lands owned by Joel Trues-
dell; thence south on said Truesdellis east
line q lanos owned hy Enann 8 llimhn I;
tneuce est on said Naomi 8 hmm s north
line 70 the southwest corner Of said store
house lot; thence north to the place Of be-
ginning. and said to contain two acres Of
land, as decided % said Baldwin. Jan. Is ls7O
Terms of sale made known on day OF sale.
GEO. P. HUNTER,
Assignee Of d. Baldwin.
M-nrrnr. n NJ Il-l-l