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South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
Pocket Money.

If such generosity as that of Mrs. Prim-
rose, who gave each of her girls guinea
to keep in her pocket, but with strict in
functions never to change it, would satisfy
the greedy youngsters of our generation,
their parents would not object to its exer-
else. The children, however, of these
days are provoked by too many tempta-
tions to expense, to be contented with
being made the mere depositaries of mon
ey. They know too well the capabilities
of dollar to be satisfied with the ring and
touch of it. 1t is not possible to keep the
young in ignorance of that which fulfills
SO universal and important a function in
the relations of the world as money. They
must necessarily, from the earliest age, be-
come more CT less familiar with its power,
and it is desirable that they should learn,
as soon as possible, how to use it with dis
cretion. G.T
1t is prudent practice, we think, to
give children regular allowance of mon
ey. This, apart from the opportunity it
supplies of gratifying their small and in
nocent desires, and thus adding to their
happiness, affords parents and guardians
periodical occasions for inculcating discre-
ton in expenditure, and observing the ef-
feet
When children are somewhat advanced
in years, it is well to make the allowances
of money sufficiently large not only to pay
for the innocent enjoyments which are per
mitted, but for various articles of need.
They thus learn early to discriminate be-
tween necessary and unnecessary expeldi-
tuTe, and with the not infrtqu good re-
suit of checking the latter.
Parents should be, within certain pTu-
dent limits, as generous in their allow
ances of money to children as their means
will permit Lord Bacon says: "The il
hberality of parents in allowance toward
their children is a harmful error, and
makes them base, scquaints them with
shifts, makes them sort with mean CON-
pany, and makes them surfeit more when
they come to plenty; and therefore the
proof is best when men keep their au-
thority towards their children, but not
their purse"
The tendency of youth TO excess must
always be regarded as a reasonable motive
for keeping the supply of pocket money
within reasonable limits. No child should
have the means of inordinate indulgence;
and as his capacity of stomach for tarts
and sweets is only to be checked by the
emptiness of his purse, it becomes neces-
saEy to compensate for the boundlessness
OF the one by the smallness of the other.
There is negative advantage in the
pocket-money system which has been
proved in the course of considerable ex-
perience in the discipline of children.
The Withholding of the regular allowance
has been found, like the stoppsge of the
sailors ration of grog, or the prisoners
supply of tobacco, an easily applicable and
most effective means of punishment. We
have known many ayoungster, unterrifed
by the threats of the rod and the dark
closet, however imminent, subdued at the
least hint Of the possibility of losing his
pocket money.-HdrUer's Bdsdr.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
do-was it this or thate Faster or slowers

do-was it this or that? Faster or slower 7
l was playing with the engine like child.
Suddenly there was horrible roar-a
crash. I was flung somewhere. l was in
the water By miracle was sobered,
not hurt 1 gained the EhoIe. l stood
upon the ground between the track and
the rivers edge and there gazed at my
work.
The engine was in fragments, the cars
in splinters; dead and dying and wounded
were strewn around-men and women
and childrsn-old age and tender youth.
There were groans and shrieks of despair.
The MANNED cried out in pain; the unin-
jured bewailed their dead and voice un-
heard by any other, was in my ear, whis-
pering Murderr'
The news had gone to A, and people
came thronging down to find their friends.
The dead were stretched on the grass.
went with some of the distracted to find
their lost ones. Searching for an old
mans daughter, came to place under
the trees, and found five bodies lying
there all in their rigid hoTor-an old wo-
man, young one, baby and two tiny
children. Was it fancy-was it pure ian
cy, born of my anguish-they looked like
oh, heavenl they were my old mother,
my wife, my children; all cold and dead.
How did they come on the trains What
chance had brought this about? No one
could answer. l grosned, l screamed, l
clasped my hands, tore my hair, gazed
in the good old facerof her who gave me
birth, on the lovely features of my wife, on
my innocent children. / called them by
name; there was no answer. There never
could-neVer would be, And as l com
pretended this, onward up the track
Numbered another train. Its red eye
glared on me; flung myself before it; l
felt it crush me to atoms.
Ellis head is extremely hot" said some
body.
l Iopened my eyes and saw my wife.
Chow do you feels" said she; "a little
betterf"
1 was 50 rejoiced and astonished by the
sight of her that l could not speak at frat.
She repeated the question.
II must be crushed to pieces" said I,
I" for the train went over me; but feel no
pain"
There he goes about that train again."
said my wife; why, NedT"
/ tried to move-there was nothing the
matter with me. Twas in my own room;
opposite to me a crib in which my two
children were asleep; beside me a tiny
bald head. My wife and children were
safel Was delirious, or what could it be?
"Joe," cried /, tell me what has hap
penedI" -.t
ats nine O'clock" said Joe. "You
came home in such state from the club
that couldn't wake you. You weren't
fit to manage steam and risk peoples lives.
The San Francisco is halfway to A, sup
pose, and you have been frightening me to
death with your dreadful talk"
And Joe began to cry.
1t was only dream; only an awful
dream. But l had lived through it as
though it were reality.
ais there Bible in the house, Joe?"
said L
Are we heathensy" asked Joe.
Give it to me this moment" JOE.
She brought it, and I put my hand on it
and took the oath (too solemn to be re-
peated here) that what had happened new
er should occur again. And if the San
Francisco ever comes to grief, the verdict
will not be, as it has SO often been. The
engineer lrGs drunk %
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
Relative Rank Of Cities.

THE cities of New York, Philadelphia
and Brooklyn maintain the same relative
rank as to population that they did in 1860.
There has been COL siderable shifting of
places, however, among those that now
constitute the remainder of the twenty
foremost cities of the Union:
During the last decade st. Louis has
ascended the scale from the eighth to the
fourth.
Chicago, in similar proportion, changes
from the ninth to the fifth.
Baltimore, which in 1860 was the fourth,
retrogrades to the sixth.
Boston pursues the same direction, from
the fifth to the seventh.
Cincinnati retires a step, from the sew
enth to the eighth.
New Orleans falls back from the sixth
to the ninth.
San Francisco, taking a noble forward
leap, vaults from the fifteenth to the tenth.
Buffalo lags behind, from the tenth to
the eleventh.
Washington makes a stride from the
fourteenth to the twelfth.
Newark, New Jerseys thriving metrop-
oils, drops, nevertheless, from the eleventh
to tie thirteenth.
Louisville, twelfth in rank in 1860, is
now assigned to the fourteenth.
Cleveland, four steps forward, mounts
from the nineteenth to the fifteenth.
Pittsburgh alone retains the same Tela-
tive rank now as then, the sixteenth.
Jersey City rises from the twentieth TO
the importance of seventeenth.
Detroit recedes from the seventeenth TO
the eighteenth.
Milwaukee from the eighteenth to the
nineteenth.
Albany, which was, ten years ago, the
thirteenth, now takes the old place of Jer-
sey City as the twentieth.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
A Joke on Greeley.

A CORRESPONDENT tells the following
Joke in connection with the recent visit of
Mr.. Greeley TO the Agricultural Fair at
Lafayette, Ind:
While looking at the various agricultural
implements On exhibition at the fair, he
was introduced to Mr.. W. S. Lingle, editor
o. the Lafayette Courier. Bowing politely,
Mr.. Lingle said he was exhibiting on the
grounds new corn shelter, an invention
of his own, and he asked Mr. Greeley to
go with him to inspect it. Mr.. Greeley
willingly assented, and the two started off.
Mr. Lingle led the way to the pig sites
and showed Mr.. Greeley the meanest look
ing hog in all Indiana. Its nose was two
feet long, and its back as sharp as carv-
ing knife. Its legs were like those of q
crane, aud its tail couldn't have been
curled with the tongs of belle. Mr..
Lingle pointed to this wonderful quadIu-
ped with infinite pride and said: "Thers,
sir, is my patent corn shelter. What do you
think of it," Mr.. Greeley looked at Mr..
Lingie, and then at the wonderful hog.
Presently broad smile beamed on his
facs, and he turned away without uttering
q word, feeling, doubtless, completely
"sold."
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

the bounds Of health, and we have been
mOrbidly excited about it, does the main
topic of the day recur TO US in dreaming at
night; and that it should do so, ought al
ways, 1 imagine, to serve as warning
that we have strained our mental powers
little too far. Lastly, there are dreams
whose origin is not in any past thought,
but in some sentiment vivid and pervad-
ing enough to make itself dumblY felt,
even in sleep. OF the nature of the
dreams so caused, we shall speak presently.
The subject of dream being, as we
must now suppose, suggested to the brain
on some such principle as the above, the
next thing to be noted is, How does the
brain treat its theme when it has got it?
Does it drily reflect upon it, as we are
wont to do awake? Or does it pursue
course wholly foreign to the laws of wax
ing thoughts? 1t does, conceive, neither
one nor the other, but treats its theme,
whenever i: is possible to do so, according
to certain very important, though OBJ
scure, law of thought, whose action we
are too apt to ignore. We have been ac-
customed to consider the myth-creating
power of the human mind as one specially
belonging to the earlier stages of growth
of society and of the individual. It will
throw, l think, rather curious light on
the subject if we discover that this in
stinct exists in every one of US, and exerts
itself with more or less energy through
the whole of our lives. In hours of wax
ing consciousness, indeed, it is suppressed,
or has only the narrowest range of exer-
else, as the tendency, noticeable to all per-
sons not of in the very strictest veracity,
to supplement an incomplete anecdote
with explanatory incidents, or throw
slightly known story into the dramatic
form, with dialogues constructed out of
our own consciousness. But such small
play CT the myth-making faculty is moth
ing compared to its achievements during
sleep. The instant that daylight and COM
mon sense are excluded, the fairy-work be-
gins. At the very least, half our dreams
(unless l greatly err are nothing else
than myths formed by unconscious cere-
bration of the same approved principles,
whereby Greece and India and Scandi-
naYis gave to US the stories which we
were once pleased to set apart as my
thology" proper. Have we not here, then,
evidence that there is real law of the
human mind causing US constantly to COM
pose ingenious fables explanatory of the
phenomena around us-a law which only
sinks into allegiance in the waking hours
of persons in whom the reason has been
highly cultivated, and which resumes its
sway again over their welltutored brains
when they sleep?-Frdneis P0Icer COBB, in
Mac AillaD's Magazine.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
A Word TO the Girls.

Girls, take good care Of your health:
Don't think because you are perfectly well
now you can expose yourselves IN every
way, and because it never did hurt you,
that it never will. 1t is no light matter to
trife with ones health, for it is too often
blessing too little appreciated until lost.
know how you feel about such things,
for was once thoughtless girl too; and
although / had kind mother to give me
advice, which l have often wished had
taken, thought then knew best, and
only found out my mistake when IS was
too late. How often do you do as didE
Change thick and heavy clothing for light
er, and heavy shoes for thin CATERS, to go
sleighing, or to some party or Singing
school. Then have you not come chilled
through, and risen next morning with the
headache, swollen eyes, and generally
uncomfortable feeling? Don't do SO, girls.
Don't follow fashions that will make you
sacrifice your health. If you do, you viii
be old women at thirty, in spite Of all the
embellishments you can give your faces !;
for if your health is ruined, you viii have
little pleasure in anything else.
once knew young girl who was as
healthy and hearty as one usually sees,
who walked home from a party In tnln
shoes, through the dewey grass She
caught cold which settled on her lungs
and in short time carried her to her grave,
She is not the only one who has shortened
her life by her own carelessness How
MANY we see who are killing themselves
bv lscinp. think it is pitiful sight TO
see an unnaturally slender waist, and eyes
nroiecting from the head from the COM
preston, while the victims OF tneit own
rOurS UucS a. thew need, for fear their misery
WsiS 1TST he - more than they can bear. No SEN
sible itJI giri win do this, and no one ever
would if she could only know tne saner-
Tsxa advice. then; dress so that you feel
Comfortable, no matter how others do; and
nsver expose yourself more than you can
help, and you will stand chance OF srIoy-
ing healthy and hsppy old age-Wsst-
srn R,roL
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

THE Peoria (Ill.) Transcript Gays: "a
young gentleman, dressed very isshiona
bly, and who sports nice cane, had the
starch taken out of him on last Sunday
in this wise: The caue he carries is muir.
derous sword cane, though it don't appear
to be. The fastening had become loosened,
and as the gentlemen entered the church
the two parts of the cane became separat-
ed. The gentleman started down the aisle
with a formidable looking dagger in his
hand, and he was wholly unconscious OF
the figure he was cutting, unlil the litter
ing of some of the beholders informed
him of his warlike appearance in the
house of God In much confusion he
fought the balance of the cane, which had
tude, left the church disgusted."
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

THE number of species of animals
known to be now living is thus given by
Mr.. Bentham: The number of mammalis
is estimated at between 1000 and 5000
species; birds, at about 10000; reptiles
and amphibious, under 2,00O; fishes, at
about 10000; insects, at above 10000
crustaces and arachnids, rather above
10000; mollusca, about 10000; worms,
radiates, and sponges and infusoria, under
5000, while there are about 100, 900 species
of plants. He thinks General Planta-
rum" is still within the capabilities of a
single botanist, while such work on ami
mails would have to be accomplished by a
division of labor among biologists.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

In 1860 the citizens of st. Anthony ap-
pointed committee to meet Mr.. Seward
and others who were proposing to visit
the town By some chance the commit
tee did not meet the party until they had
reached their hotel, when the spokesman,
by way of apology, said: "Mr. Seward,
we are sorry indeed that we did not have
the opportunity Of escorting you into
town; but we beg to assure you we snail
taks great pleasure IN sseortin5 yoy oal
of IT.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

ONE of the most interesting questions
now discussed by astronomers, IS that
which concerns the possibility of the ex-
istence of q central sun. The vast extent
of the range of influence exercised by the
law of gravitation has suggested the great
probability that in the assemblage of stars
with whichour system is connec ted, there
is a centre of gravity around which they
revolve. As in the solar system such
priniple is found to exist, the inquiry
naturally propounds itself, why it should
not also exist over the broadest limit OF the
universe, and why, too, there should not be
some point or centre around which every
cluster and nebula may revolve.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

The highest farm in the world is said,
to be situated four miles from Sherman
Station on the Union Pacific Railroad. 1t
has an elevation eight Thousand feet above
the sea-Ievel. Vegetables and grain thrive
well on the farm, and two hundred young
apple Irees have been set out as an expert
ment
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

A SUMNER boarder "a very close calcula-
tori recently astonished the landlord by
asking him how much he was going to
deduct from his board bill because he had
two teeth extracted. "
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
Poetry.
THE WIDOWS ANSWER.

"AH, me, with so many little mouths
What care must widow feelin
30 said the deacon, with grief profound,
Such only Christian can feel.
Now the widow was knitting stocking,
And just rounding OF at the heel.
"Carel deacon" she murmured, with saintl
And gently she shook her head.
And turned soft eyes TO her merry boys
At play near the garden bed;
Mouths, bless 'em, as red as cardinal flower,
Seven pairs Of sweet lips" she said.
"Not one too many, the curly pates,
Even Johnny the baby, therel
1 have given them all TO the dear Lord Christ,
Trusting in faith and prayer;
And God BE leads them as He leads me
don't know the meaning Of care.n
81 Not know the meaning, widow, widowi
And working, ss work you must!
Not know the terrible meaning of care
That cuts the brain like rusti''
The gray-haired deacon doubiingly smiled,
But take the lord on u-st," -+
Says the smiling widow; Pm Just az sure.
II my little stock be spent,
And the cruise run low. and the flour be gone.
And the money be needed for rent,
That He who knows when q sparrow falls,
And whittier thought is sent;
''And where the down OF the thistle blows,
And the course Of the fickie wind,
And how the underworld paints the rose,
Without leaving drop behind;
And why there are never two leaves alike,
Though million lesves you find;
And why ocean, Sound by 3 mighty VII
Is yet IN it's vsstness free -rt
Can, without stint from his bourfiful store
Give TO my babies and me,
As that day must follow the risen dawn.
Or that rivers find the sea-"
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

TIE system of trial byjury will seon be
introduced into Spain.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

The ssronsut Wise has made AS sue
cessful ascension5.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28
BUCKEYE.

@The following amendment to sec.
ton 164 of the Criminal Code of Ohio
was passed last session, but not signed
1t was signed recently and is now a
law:
"When case is finally submitted to
the jury, they must keep together in
some convenient place, under the charge
of an officer, until they agree upon a
verdict, or are discharged by the court.
The officer having them in charge shall
not suffer any communication to be
made to them. or make any himself, ex-
cept to ask them if they agree upon the
verdict, unless by order of the court,
nor shall be communicate to any one
before the verdict is delivered any mat.
ter In relation to the state of their de-
liberations. If the. jary are permitted
to separate during the trial, they shall
be admonished by the court that it is
their duty not to converse with, or per-
nit themselves to be addressed by any
other person on the subject of the trial,
or listen to any conversation upon the
subject; and that it is their duty not to
form or express an opinion thereon un-
til the case is finally submitted to them" !"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28
Road Notice.


\ PETITION will be presented to the csn-
| II missioners Of Monroe county. 0hio. a.
their March session, 1877 praying for county
road, commencing for the same in the csnfs{
OF the road known as the old Marietta
road. on little 0possnm creek, on The
lands Of Elizabeth Gosser. sbout twsisj
feet from sycamore tree marked A: thsse5
through the lands Of Gosser to the lanas a
Alexander Thomas; thencs throash The lSnis
Of A. Thomas west Of field now IN re to
sycarn ore stump thence through Gosasr's land
TO white oak stump near the line betujsu
A. Thomas and Klilsteth 1ssser: thense
through the lands Of Aiexaudsr ThoIss.
south Of bis barn. hog pen and hosss! thenos
along or nsar the old road to the lands u 1fti&
Pylas;thence through the lands Of David ryhs
along or near the ROAD summing east Of said
fyles' barn, hog pen and house, thsncs along
or near the road 20 stone marked B. eppe-
site the mouth Of run known - the lane
Haley run, about rods west; thencs up the
Jane Haley run through lands Of David Pylss
the nearest and best routs; thence through
the lands Of Casper Bitnsr along or ussrthe
old road to stump ON the right hand fssk
abcve little bridge which bsars I've ax
marks at or near the lane that lads from the
run to Casper Bitner's house; thence along er
near Bitnsr's road until it intsrsscts thu
0poss sum creek rssd soms rods more Or lsss
north Of NichSlass Hidy's house 70 chestnut
Uak stump naafked D, Terminating in the een--
tor Of tho rosd leading ffon Opossum srejk
t. the graded road leading from Suahsh ss'
Woodsfsld, opposite Joshua Davis hosss.
janSlw5. MANY PETITIONERS.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28
Master Commissioners Sale.
Henry Ford
.,, vs.
James Payne.

DY virtue Of mandate to me directed from
ID the court Of common pleas Of Monroe
county, Ohio, viii offer for sale, at the front
door Of the court house in the town OF
Woodsfsld. between the hours Of 1c O'Clock
g. m. and o'clock p. m, on
Saturday, The 18Th day 0, March, 1871
the fullowiAg described real estate situate In
Monroe counts, Ohio, to- wit: Beginning at the
quarter post between sections fourteen and
twenty, township Eve, range i've; thence east
with the quarter section line fifty tive and a
half perches to q corner; thence moth with
the line eighty-sevsn perches to stone;
thence west with Ethe ,lins one hundred and
thirty-three ,perches TO stone; thence south
six perehes TO the northwest corner Of the
southeast quarter of section twenty; thence
west with the line thirty-six psrchss to ths
middle Of run and line Of Stephen Brown;
thence down said run with the meander:
ninety-seven perehes to Dsth Fork Of SUM-
6sh crest; theme up said fork four and ons-
half perohss to the Quarter section line
thence south With said line eleven snd one
half perches to the center Of the section
thence east with the quarter section line on,
hundred aud sixty-two perchss to the; plac,
of beginning. containing ninety-fve acre
more or less. being the tract Of land known q
the McCo,nas farm.
Appraised at $4,000.
J. P. spRIGGs,
feb14m5. Mas. Com. u. C. o.