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Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
A Sad Warming to Husbands.

In a village not a thousand miles
from West Union lives a family
The home of this family was visited
one day by a peripatetic vender of
cheap dry goods, who inveigled the
calico half to select finery to the val
ne of ten dollars, for which she guar
antaed her husband to pay. Meeting
him OH the street, payment was de-
manded and peremptorily refused
Mr.. Pedlar would have his pay or his
goods. Mr.. Family man told him to
gnaw file and fee unto the noun
tains of Hepsidam. The merchan-
disc found its way again to his pack
The pot boiled, and stewed, and
fumed, and by the time the
lord and master found his way home
there was the devil to pay, IL not the
pedlar. The way the brooms, mops,
tin pans aud dishes few about bis
head was startling to the nerves. -
She'd learn him not to pay her bills,
the miserable scoot! That was ali
she kept him for, and If he couldn't
do that he might git. He now par,
takes Of his hash at hotel, aud anx.
iously awaits the arrival of q flag of
truce with an announcement of the
terms of peace. All husbands should
see the warning:- West Union Ga
Tefte .sHa. .. H.a.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
Advantages OF POliteness.

"Thank you, my dear" said Lundy
Foote to little beggar.girl who
bought a penny's worth OF snuff
THANK you, my dear, please call
again." made Lundy Foot a million
aire.
Some years ago, a dry goods sales.
man I'm a London shop had acquired
such q reputation for courtesy and
exhaustless patience that 1t was said
to be impossible to provoke from him
any expression of irritabiIity, or the
smallest symptom Of vexation. A
lady of rank hearing Of his wonders
ous equanimity, determined to put IL
to test by all the annoyances with
which vetersn shop visitor knows
how to tease shopman. She failed
In the attempt, and thereupon set
him up in business. He rese to emi.
ence In the haberdashery trade, and
the handspring of his later, as his
early career, was politeness.
1t Is related Of the late Mr.. Butler,
of Providence, R. l., that he was SO
obliging as to reopen his store one
night, solely to supply little girl
with spool Of thread which she
wanted. The incident took wind,
brought him large run of custom,
and he died millionaire, after CIV
ing $4,000 towards founding hospi-
tai for the insane sum which he
was persuaded to give by Miss Dix,
whom he was too polite to shake off
though almost as penurious as
she was persevering. .r ..a.. .
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
A Dutchman's Answer.

Sguill--T say, fellow, can you tell
me where Mister Swackerhammer,
the preacher, lives -
Dutchman-Yaw. You lust walk
de road up to de creek, aud turn the
britch over the sthream. Den you
just go on till you come to rote wat
winds woots around the schoolhouse,
put you don't take dat rote. Well
den, you go on till you meet big
barn, shingled NIT straw, den you
durn der rote round de field and go
ON till you cum to big white house
all speckled over NIT white, ana de
garret up stairs. Well dat is my
broder Hans house round de barn,
and you see a rote dat goes up in de
voots. Den you don't take dat rote
too. Den you 60 right straight on,
and de first thing you meet Is a hay
stack, and the next Ia barrack.--
Wee, he don't lif dere. Den you see
q house on top de hill, and about a
mile, and you go on dere, and AK de
ole woman, and she will tell better as
/ can. .t t.H##aa'.s f"
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
7''7''l77---i--77---a-----1---
Thinning Eruif.

At this season of the year it IL
hardly necessary to suggest to good
fruit cultivators the importance of
thinning their fruit. All small, i'm
perfect, stemy fruit should be re-
moved; and, where clusters of the
fruit hang too thickly together, at
least one.half should be removed.
Negligent fruit-growers are among
the most incredulous In their doubts
of the efficacy of thinning. To them
1t seems as If to take off one-half of
the fruit was to lessen the crop one
half but they do not reflect that the
nutrition furnished by the tree would
now be distributed abundantly
among the remaining fruit, and they
will attain q size, weight, and perfee-
tion more than compensating for the
thinning Of the other specimens
This practice Of thinning has been 80
often tried, with such success, that 1t
Is now fully demonstrated that 1t is
more profitable to do 1t than not
There will be just as many pounds of
fruit after thinning as before, owing
to extra size and the price is IN
creased fully 25 per cent. when
arketing time comes. #
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

THE Nashua Post says "The
John Lewis farm i'm Richland town.
ship, is perhaps q fair sample of
what can he done by a thorough man
i'm that county. 5s .#s"as... SIS
His farm is only two years old and
consists of 400 acres. The following
is the list of stock now on the place |:
$50 hogs. so cows, yearlings, s
horses, 4 colts, the whole being val
ued ut six thousand dollars. or the
hogs $50 were grown on the farm. 100
being purchased this summer. John
Lewis 10 an active, drive-ahead man,
careful and close In calculation, and
he is confident he will demonstrate
that we'll managed stock farm In
Chickasaw county will pay better
than any exclusive grain farm posi-
bly, can.n ~ aaa
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
NUMBER 10.
An Affecting Appeal.

We find iE the Dubuque Herald
the following touching. appeal from
an agonized father to n daughter.
who has fallen into the wiles of n
villain, and gone out from the paren.
tai roof to enter upon a life of shame:
To The Editor Of the Dubuque Hdrald.
KIND AND INDULaENT EprTop
ian you tell me aught of my child,
Lavina Noble? She has left our
humhle home, and no one knows
augnt whlther she has gone. She
lett her In my absence on the 4th of
Julyin company with Charlie c.,
false, black-hearted deceiver. She
was taken to Plainiield, where rumor
says, she was ruined, and where she
was visited by Henry H., of our
place, and an old divorced iibertine
by the name of Ct. L have learned
from A. I'll. sutton, the proprietor of
the fremont House Of Plainfield.
that she left that place on the even.
ing OF July 9Th, I'm company with a
tall, slim man, name unknown--he
having bought through tickets to
Dubuque; since then L can learn
nothing of her whereabouts.
A kinder gentler more affectionate
child than she never made glad the
heart of a father, and never Had Law
ished on them kinder or more en-
dearing caresses. And yet she Ia
gone! gone! prey to the wicked,
lustful libertines, who, like Satan,
are wandering up and down the
earth, seeking whom they may de.
YOUR. l have written. aud written
but can get no response to my burn.
Ing, pleading words of affection.
am poor and cannot follow In search
of her; and, now, what more can /
do than to plead through the columns
OF the public press, for the return of
my darling child, though by SO doing
| publish to the world the fact and
disgrace of my own blood, -
Oh! pray God that these words of
Q devoted father, a heart broken faiths
er, may come to her notice, and that
she viii listen to the pleadings of the
only one who can forget the past and
who still loves and cherishes her.
Oh Lavina, come back. come
back, for the heart of your poor faith
er Is crushed and broken like David's.
m his affiictioa. Oh, my God, what
have done, what are my sins, that
/ should be so afflicted! -.
| Yours, with much respect,
JOHN A. NOBLE.
| Waverly, Iowa, July 81, 1871,
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
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u aEF " fEET~E E# r II
A newspaper reporter has been in.
terviewing Gen. Sherman upon the
presidency, with the following re-
suit: Do ~ > - - !EH&&*t@ a@
Reporter--Do you think 1t policy
to elect Grant again I?
Gen. Sherman-Of course / do. -
Why not +? He knows the ropes now
he has become acquainted with
thousands of public men, and ten
thousand good-for- nothing White
House bummers who would do moth
ing but harass a new President for
the first year. He has just got where
he can tell q good man at sight,
Humbug men always get the best
credentials 8; every CONGRESSMAN
signs their dation at sight.
and many of them deceive a new
President. The party frauds are now
played out, and Grant is enabled to
deal squarely with true men. Expe-
rience and acquaintance is the stock
in trade of good President.
\ Who will win in 10?
Thereisno question In my mind,
said the General enthusiastically
HI bet on Grant against the field
two to one. 10 ~ pms &9L1l
Who will run against him?I E.E
There won't any body run, but not
being q politician, I can't guess for a
moment who will be nominated.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

LUCK AND LABoR.--Many people
complain of their bad luck when they
ought to blame their own want oil
wisdom and action. Mr.. Csbden, q
distinguished writer In England,
thus wrote about luck and labor:
Luck is everything waiting for
something TO turn up.
Labor, with keen eyes and strong
will, will turn up something.
Luck lies In bed, and wishes the
postman would bring him news of Z
legacy. ag lH
Labor turns out at o o'clock, and
with pen and ringing hammer lays
the foundation of a competence.
Luck whines.
Labor whistles. st,'
Luck rises on chances.
Labor on character.
Luck slips down to Indulgence.
Labor strides upward:to Indepen-
dence.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
Mixed Husbandry.

A planter or farmer should not de.
pend on any one particular crop, but
cultivate such q rotation as his land
10 best adapted to, especially such as
is wanted to be consumed on the
place. He should cultivate largely
such as will pay best, but not conline
his operations entirely to these, for
Ii they should fail he has nothing To
fall back on, to subsist his family and
stock.
To be self~reliant, home subsistence
should be the first consideration; and
then such as will find the readiest
market at the highest cash prices.
Farming is considered the most in
dependent occupation I'm the world.
Why? Because he can grow his
own meat, bread, butter, fruits, veg
etables and materials TO make his
own clothing; but II he omits to do
this and grows only one crop for
market, he is Just as dependent as
other people, and as likely to be inn
posed on by high prices and damaged
material. U~ .
| Now, brother farmers, as all we
can get I'm this world Is our living, as
we pass through IL. let us supply our
necessities first, feed well ourselves,
families and all about us, then grow
for sale such crops as will put money
In our purse, - Corresponds Anaeri-
can Stock Journal.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

BY the arrival of the royal steamer
Della, from Bermuea, at Halifax, on
the 3lst ult., intelligence was received
of q fire at Point a Petri, Gau deloupe,
on the 18th ult. Nearly the whole
town was destroyed, and 1000 per-
sons left without shelter. The only
buildings that escaped were the
church, theatre, aud the hospital
Many wharves were burned, and the
sugar ready for shipping destoyed.--
The fire commenced In the middle OF
the town, and, the wind being very
high, the flames spread In all direc.
tions. s.s Ea.t ..r -
The town was rebuilt entirely OF
wood sfter Its destruction by an
earthquake in 1s43. The fire 10 sup.
posed to have been the work of an
incendiary.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
State News.

Congressman Orr has recom-
mended Capt. John Devine's son, OF
Hardin Co, for cadetship at West
Point. ~##@. El gEat 4@@ s@@
The lawyers and doctors of AT,
lantic played match game of base
ball, a few days ago, and the lawyers
whipped, .... ....... 49,.
John Wedgwood Superintendent
of Schools In Winneshiek county,
suggests Sl20 per month as the salary
of Miss Bottsford, acting principal of
the Decorah city schools. He says
Gas she Is acting principal why
should she not have the wages here
tofore given to the principal?"
"A farmer In Iowa purchased O
small farm near growing town and
bought Ia cows, that cost him $50 a
head. In one years time he made
butter enough TO clear him 500, aud
raised lS calves, which he sold for
$l4 each. Total, 81, $50 from an in
vestment of S70O for the cows.
The Sentinel says that at one ol
the Iowa Falls Sabbath Schools, re.
Gently, the Superintendent was re.
viewing the lesson, and was talking
of the verse reading: "Let your
loins be girded and your lights burn
ing" He asked the question "Why
are we commanded to 'gird our
loins p" One little sharp shaver
sung out: ITO keep your breeches
upWa9s esH ..... aa
The Wapello Republican tells oi
one man who ought to be rich and
will be some day: "Phineas Bird II
the champion farmer of this neigh,
borhood, SO far at least as the amount
of work Is concerned. He has thi,
year tended, himself, this season, Al
acres of fall grain, forty acres Of corr
and thirty acres of spring grain, =
110 acres in all. He had help thro
harvest and that was ALL"
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

AT Lawrence, Kansas. on sun
day, while minister was holding
forth In the church, a crowd got up q
cock fight in the yard; the people who
had congregated In the church went
out to stop the fight, but waited
until the battle was over before OBJ
jeeting. The minister looked out OF
the window at the crowd and said -
"'We are all miserable sinners-whieh
whipred?n ..al... t.
Recently ex. Emperor Napoleon,
during o visit to London, dropped in
at his old club, the Army and Navy,
the smoking and billiard rooms of
which he knew so we'll in lS4s, and
had a chop in the coffee room like an
ordinary member. He then went to
the international exhibition, and
when the inventor of a newtype set
ting machine printed a card for him
1.-THE Emperor of the French'--he
thanked him with laugh, and ad-
ded, "You forgot the ex." ... ..
The Connecticut Senate has
passed bill to repeal the usury laws
of that State, allowing money to en-
ter the market like everything else,
and have its value determined by ac-
tual supply and demand. The effect
in Connecticut, If the bill should
pass the other branch of the Legis>
lature and becomes a law, would be
to reduce interest below present
rates, as there Is large amount Of
funds to loan, which would come in
to unrestricted competition. ID .#.
A Syracuse man chopped down q
giant hickory tree over seventy-five
feet high, and bearing the ring
marks of sixty years. His surprise
may be imagined on finding under
this tree an old brick cistern in per.
feet shape and in splendid state OF
preservation. Indeed, so strong
were the brick and mortar cemented
that picks and crow bars had to be
used TO dig them out. How long ago
and by whom was this cisterm built.
Who made the brick, and where
were they madep
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

PHOEBE CARY, the poetess, Is dead.
She died at Newport, r.. L.. on Mon
day. from an illness which was the
ETY. during the illness Of her sister
Alice, who died six months ago. -
There was beauty In the character
as we'll ~ q charm in the writings of
these noble maiden sisters which
drew - them the admiration and
friendship Of thousands Of good peo-
pie. Alice and PhDbe Cary were
true poets, and In their simple and
beautiful lives charmingiy exempli-
fed the loveliness Of pure, modest
and exalted wOmanhood. Alice died
at 81 years Of age; Phoebe was 49,
Neither Of them was ever married. -
Chicago Journal, Aug. A. D
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

A CHICAGO ENrERPRIsE. .--On
Saturday last, the deepening of the
Illinois and Michigan canal, to allow
the draining Of the Chicago river in.
to the Illinois, was completed, and
the waters Of Lake Michigan now
flow through 1t into the Mississippi,
and thence into the Gulf. Chicago
and st. Louis have always been rival
centers, and no doubt the inhabitants
Of the former city feel secret exul.
tation in knowing that the filth ol
the Chicago river win soon encom.
pass their neighbor Of the South.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

AN exchange says: "The curative
and relieving powers of ice are found
more valuable year after year. Small
Jumps Of Ice swallowed whole Will
often check acute stomach inflamma.
tions, and will prevent nausea IL hea,
Is applied outside at the same time.
Pounded ice applied to the spine. ID
said to cure sea-sickness. A bit ol
ice will help diptheria and all other
throat complaints. To become de-
lightfully cool in summer. apply ice
wrapped In paper, to the back Of the
head for one moment.u aJ ~.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

3 HERE is new wheat item for 1871.
The wheat was sowed on the Mckee
farm in this township, April 18th. -
IL was harvested July l8th, threshed
July 10th, ground by Dellinger
Brothers, July 10th, baked by Mrs.
Wilson, July 20th, and good bread 1t
was too. Bredd from the seed, In
three months and two days!-N Nashua
Post.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

A JOKE on railroad man is always
In order. The Dubuque Times tells
enc: ''"It is the custom, on the iowa
section of the 1. G. r. r., for the
baggage.master to search passenger
coaches ip pursuit OF unlawful bag-
gage--ofr rather for. more than the
law allows. On Friday last, an old
lady who is unfortunate enough to
have one of her limbs used for loco
motion made of wood, got on the
train at Cedar Rapids, aud sitting on
a front seat dlsengaged the artificial
limb, and set It up In the corner of
the car. The baggage-smaslier in his
rounds soon espied 1t, and enquiring
Of the lady II il was her property
was answered In the Affirmative. He
demanded the usual twenty.fiv We
cents, remarking: Eve cannot af-
ford to carry old boot and shoe sigus.
for nothing When the situation
was explained he shot out OF that car
on double quick, amid the widest
mirth Of the passengers, and s,was
not again visible until the train
reached Ackley.n bsg .s
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

ONE of the oldest questions ever
submitted to lawyers 10 now puzzling
those or Hartford. Conn. It seems
that man who recently died there
left a widow, childisss, but expecting
shortly to become q mother. BY his
.wilihe provided that IL the expected
child should prove to be q boy, two>
thirds Of the property should 60 to
him, and one-third to the widowed
mother. If, however. the child
proved to be girl. only one-third Of
the estate was to go to her, and two-
thirds to the mother. The result, of
course, was awaited with an interest
even greater than that usually be-
slowed upon such events. The res
suit is--the widow has become the
mother Of twins-a boy and girl.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

-Four hundred and twenty five
yards! Conceive OF Hon. Charles
Sumner or Professor Longfellow in
four hundred and twenty-five yards
of trimming! Imagine the speech
on San Domingo, or the Psalm Of
Life, written I'm black silk sash tied
In snarl to the authors coat tails,
he pausing at every classic metaphor
or at the close of each martial stanza,
to see If had tumbled himself be.
hind.
Fancy Brown.Sequard at con
sultation in two hundred and forty
seven curls. Picture him timeing
the pulse of a dying man with one
hand and tightening of his hair pins
with another.r TEW
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

Connection.

Connection.
MASON CrTr, with Milwaukee and Saint Pan
Railway, direct to Duluth, Minneapolis, st Pau
and saltwater, Milwaukee, Madison, lacrosse
NcGregor and North Western Iowa.
AcKLEY, with Illinois Central r. r.. for Du
buqne, Freeport, Ft Dodge and Sioux City.
MARsHALLrowN, with Chicago and North-West
ernsR r. for Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Dixon, Chi
cago, boone ana Omaha ~ EkFW
GRIssELL, with Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cine H. II. for Chicago, LaSalle. Rock Island
Council Bluff. 37 - = = -
EDDrvrILE, with Des Moines Valley r. r. fol
heoknk, WARSAW, Jacksonville and Southern
ALsIA. With Burlington and Missouri Riye
Railway f@ ~ Leuf. Spaha, So Jeseph KanssI
CITY, Leavenwoftn burlington Quincy, Gales
burg, Peoria and Chicago.
IL af4t C. G. GILNkN.
General Superintendent,
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

"A New York journal, In speak
ing of the magic strains of hand
organ says: When he played Old
Dog Tray we noticed eleven pups
sitting I'm front OF the machine on
their launches, brushing the tears
from their eyes with their fore pawsn
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

CRAINER, HOUSE, CARRIAGE AMI
N Sign Painter, has taken II. Wild's place al
Cedar Falls and win give entire satisfaction to al
who entrust him with work I'm his line Of business
shop over Fosdick's wagon shop. Paper hanging
neatly done on short notice.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

The fever for tree planting Is on
the increase. One gentleman in
Grant county, Nebraska, reports one
million planted there this spring.
mostly cottonwoods and naples
One half of that number were plant
ed In the same section last year. The
settlers are determined to have all
the timber they want.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

"A correspondent of the Rural
Nes0 Yorker had q lot Of wheat get
rusty In q pile. He says: II put 1t
on hop-kiln, dampened 1t slightly
with water, put fire under 1t, with
birthstone on the stove. When it
cooled off, found theImustiness had
entirely left. We tried IL for bread,
and Ii made NJ good as any wheat.u
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
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HOUSE, SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL PAIN
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cedar Falls. Iowa. - 7 n
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11

RYA NEW METHOD, any horse can be made
One farmer SAYS: "Imade $500 on two colts Mi
through your circular" Only u. Address
n. A. BARRows, Rochester, NY.