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COUNTY, OHIO TUESDAY, OCTOBER 81 1871
How n Thief Operated.

When Jack Ganter, the bank robber,
was taken to Sing Sing prison he was
asked what his profession wits. "a
bank clerk" said he. ''And now that
you've got me I'll tell you all about it,
for it's good joke. ! was watching a
country bank for some time, and l no.
ticed that the paying teller wore striped
coat ard straw hat The clerks left the
bank at about one O'Clock for dinner.
got straw hat and striped coat, and
for several days took my seat on the
steps of the bank. One day 1 saw my
opportunity. The paying teller and
most Of the clerks went out. ! went in,
pulled off my hat and coat, hung them
up where J had seen the teller hang his,
and went around the desk The books
were open, and here and there were
piles of bills. l went to work at the
books, and made the most remarkable
entries ever recorded in the books of
any bank in this world or any other l
pocketed the bills, one after another, and
putting on my coat and hat l went on
my way. $4,000 better off than ever
was before"
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Old Men at Work.

Many of the rich men of New York are
examples of a hale and vigorous old age.
A. y. Stewart is 70, George Law, 73
Daniel Drew, "a; VIM. B. Astor aud
Cornelius Vanderbilt, rs; and Peter
Cooper, 70. These gentlemen are still
hale and vigorous, and. actively engaged
in conducting their business. And yet,
with such examples, our Congress passed
a law retiring naval officers from duty at
62 years of age! 1t would seem as if no
legislation could more completely over
look the facts of physiology. In the late
Franco-Prussian war nearly all of the
prominent generals on either side were
older than the age thus fixed as the limit
in our navy.
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Splinters.

r Switch tenders-hair pins.
A cure for dissipation-stay at home
opathy. l
Some musicians put on more airs than
they can play.
May turkey be said to be ghost
when it's goblin
Who ever saw anybody near fire who
didn't want to play poker?
Young people grow most when in love,
1t increases their sighs wonderfully.
Who pays the highest price for a
home? The woman who marries fol-
one.
An old "settler"- old lady who
sent farmer ten cents that had been
due twenty mine years.
What is the difference between spend.
thrift and feather bed? One is hard
up and the other soft down.
A merchant of our acquaintance won
ders why he is obliged to go so often af.
ter money that is coming to him.
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COnundruns.

Why is a wife like bad bill? Because
she is difficult to get changed. Z
When is a bow not a bow? When il
is bowknot .a.'
On which side Of a donkey would you
look for the most hair? The outside.
Why is shoeblack like clever
schoolmaster Because be polishes the
understandings.
s. Why is a brutal husband like dissat.
isfed cabman? Because he frequently
abuses his fair. g.
Spell effects in two lctters2 FIX, eff
fects.
A fiddler said, "My brother plays
beau u-tifully on the douhle-bass, bu,
the double bass one, on being asked, de-
MED having brother how was this p
1T was the double-bass ones sister said
so.
The best conundrum out! In my first
my second sat, my third and fourth
ate 2 In sat-i-ate. ...
Why does B proceed c in the alpha.
bet2 Because you must be before you
can see. Do you observe?
Take away my first letter, l remain
unchanged take away my second letter
there is no apparent alteration in me
take away all my letters, and / still con
tinue unaltered. The letter carrier.
What's the difference between hon.
eycomb and honeymoon Prone is made
up Of lot of little cells, the other is,
one enormous sell only!
However, you might be worse off; fol
what is the end of celibacy !? A sigh.
TOf course it is, it must be, as the be,
ginning in the conventional acccepta
ton Of the TERMS only a Gel.
If man cannot learn by experience
why is he like laurel? Because he is
an evergreen.
What's the difference between French
pastry cook and bill-sticker? One
puffs up paste, the other pastes up puffs
Why was the glass 1 drank my sherry
and settler out of yesterday like Nebu
chadnezzar in his debased condition P
Because it was might humber (my tum
bier.
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EwThere is a gambler on the We

EyThere is gambler on the West
ep- waters so expert at card playing that
it is immaterial with him whether he
plays with his eyes open or has them
blindfolded. 1t may sound as nonsen-
sical to say that this genius, by constant
ly sandpapering the tips of the fingers of
the left hand, has acquired sense of
touch so delicate that he cal actually
feel the spots and trace the outlines of
the figures on the cards. This has been
demonstrated several times by the player
naming the face of every card in the
pack, after he had not only been blind
folded hut the cards placed behind his
back. The name Of this genius is Col.
G. Starbuck, and lie halls from New Or
leans.
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Choose Ye.

A glass of whisky is manufactured
from ABOUT seventy grains Of corn, the
value Of which is too small to he esti-
mated. A glass of this mixture sells
for dime, and if a good brand, is con-
sidered worth the money 1t is drank
in minute or two. 1t fires the brain,
deranges and weakens the physical sys-
TEN. On the same sidcboard on which
the deleterious beverage is served lies a
newspaper. 1t is covered with half a
million type-it brings intelligence from
the four quarters of the globe. The
newspaper costs less than the glass of
grog, but it is not less true that there
are large number of people who think
corn juice is cheap and newspapers dear.
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A Beautiful Thought.

When engineers would bridge q
stream they often carry over at first but
a single thread. With that they next
stretch wire across. Then strand is
added to strand, until foundation is
laid for planks, and now the bold en-
eineer finds safe footway and walks
from side to side. So God takes from
US some threaded pleasure, and
streches it hence into heaven. Then lie
takes q child and then a friend. Thus
he bridges death, and teaches the
thoughts of the most timid to find their
way hither and thither between the two
spheres. st@a
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SAM RADGEs, Topeka, Kas:
One column advertisement one year,
S27,3 ,375, or $75 per day.
j. T. FLYNN, Cashier,
(Nh;o,ro Cant %
Chicago, Sept. 2S.

PREVENTIVE OF HOG CHoLERA-A
correspondent of the Department of Ag-
riculture in Dooly CO., Ca, where hog
cholera has prevailed, and remedy
been found, writes ''We believe that it
is contagious; and the best preventive /
have found is the free use of turpentine,
mixed with tar and small quantity OF
camphor. 1t can be used externally or
internally prefer the latter, by soak
ing corn in it for ten or twelve hours. ]
have never failed in arresting the dis
case" M n Il GH! rH ft
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Report of the Commissioners
Monroe Co., O., for the Year Ending
and Reports Of He sererat County Off,
GERS, s,f0r The same lime.
SEPTEMBER 1, 1871,

TO the Hoaora6te the Jadge Of the Conrt of
Common Pieas for the Etig'th Judicial Dis
t,7ct Of Ohio:
In pursuance of law, the Commissioners of
Monroe County present their Annual Report,
together with reports of County Intirmary Di.
rectors and other county officers. 1t will be
seen that the expenditures of the county Gene
raj Revenue or Expense Fund is again in excess
of the receipts; portion of the expenditures of
this fund are beyond the control of the Com.
missioners--the Court of Common Pleas issue
their orders for the payment of counsellors.
jurors. witnesses, sheriff, DC, well as orders
from the Probate Judge. Your Commissioners
think it would be advisable to have separate
fund. which might be named the Judiciary
Fund, for expenses of the Court of Common
Pleas and Probate Court, also expenses before
Magistrates in State cases, and thus keep the
expenses of the county separate from the Judi
ciary. Previous to a late act of the Legisla-
ture the Commis ioners were authorized to al
low counsel such sums for defending prisoners
as they considered just and reasonable, the
amount rarely exceeding twenty to fifty dollars;
the power is now taken from them.a and the sum
awarded by the Judge of the Court of Common
not to exceed 500. Your Commissioners lev
led on the tax duplicate of the present year one
mill on the dollar for the building of court
house, purchase of lots, iron fence, outbuild-
ings, &C., which they expect is ample to pay all
that is due. From petitions numerously signed
that two bridges were very much needed ,one at
he mouth of Oposs,im creek. Ohio township,
and the other at NarTows run, Lee township.
your Commissioners contracted for building the
abutments at the two places; the one at Mar
rows run is satisfactorily completed, and the
other Is In progress toward completion. Your
Commissioners are happy to state that the taxes
for the present year will be less than for some
years previous. a.
ABSTRACT OF THE COMMISSIONERS JOURNAL
YEAR ENDING AUGUST 81, 1871.
SEPTEMBER SESSION, 1SS0.-Wm Read pre-.
sented his bond and security for the faithful
discharge Of his duties as County Treasurer,
which being satisfactory he enters on his office
B. Mann was allowed 5000 for work perform
ed on the road between Malaga and the Bush
meeting house
The COSTS in the case of Ohio VS.. Thomas
Fouty and VIM. Wright, amounting to SIT 05,
were allowed. The costs in the case of Ohio vs.
Job Stackhouse ct al.,amounting to Sl4 15,were
allowed from money raid into the Treasury
The costs in the case of Ohio VS.. VIM. Fulmer
not allowed. The costs in the case Of Ohio VS.
Vim. Daley not allowed. The costs in the
The costs in the case of Ohio VS.. Homer W.
Gibbons and Mary Jane Holiday, not allowed.
The Commissioners with Auditor concluded
annual settlement with d. Neuhart, county
Treasurer, which resulted as follows:
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ONLY TO KNOW.

Only to see your face again,
Only to touch your hand
Only to hear your voice again,
Ere go to the silent land!
Only to know you will one day see,
When the sun is sinking low,
A shady nook, near sunlit brook,
Where the soft winds come and go.
Only to know you will think one day,
Though never the thought you tell,
"Ah! for a love that I threw away;
For this one loved me well!'
Only to know that an old sad song, s-
A sound of breeze-borne chime,
Your heart takes back with faint regret
To a far-off, happy time; " I.-'.'1
To time that seems like sweet life gone,
Never to come again;
And the after years, and my own sad tears,
Are all that now remain!
sit and think-ah, many day
Though never the thought I tell,
"Ah! for love that threw away;
For, oh! loved you wellw
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complimentary.

A good story is told of DR. o. w.
Holmes, who, having been called upon
and considerably bored by man who
had devoted himself to public lecturing
in New England, without much ability for
doing so, inquired of him, ''What are you
about at this particular time r
The answer was, ''Lecturiny as usual,
Ihold forth this evening at Roxbury."
Tic professor, clapping his hands, ex-
claimed, "Tm glad oft? l never liked
those Roxbury people"
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ns-Intellect is a good thing to have

ES IIteIIeCt 10 SOUU 0HIIiS tV INV,
but sometimes it doesn't 60 far enough
An Indiana cooper, finding considerable
difficulty in keeping one of tie heads of
cask he was finishing in its placc,p his
son inside to hold the head up After
completing the work much to his salts
faction, he was astonishcd 10 find his
boy inside the cask, and with no posi-
bility of getting out, except through the
bung- hole.
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Total to be accounted for ........ S3l00
Unpaid notes remaining in Treasury. ll6

tptdi W Uc dCCOuulcu poiVV %
Unpaid notes remaining in Treasury. ll6 O5
The Commissioners with the Auditor counted
money and found it correct.
A petition was presented, signed by G. w.
Cline and others, asking for the view, survey
and location of county road, commencing at
low water mark opposite the month of Main
street, in Cochransville, on the county line, in
terseeting the Antioch road. The necessary le-
gal proceedings having been complied with. the
commissioners appointed David Smittle, Joseph
X. Algeo and WIN. Viii e, viewers with U. 5.
Sloan, county Surveyor, to meet at Cline II
Sons store, Cochransrille on Tuesday, March
81, 1871, and proceed to view and lay out said
road rs petitioned for
The hearing in the case of I. s. Cleveland's
county road, adjourned for hearing to this ses-
sion is again, AT the request'of petitioners, ad-
jvurned to Wednesday OF June session, 1871
In the matter of the improvement Of county
road petitioned for by 7. 5. Cleveland and 9TH
ers, under act of March %, 1867 VIM. Okey at
torney for Jacob Vernon ard others who signed
remonstrance against said road, came before the
commissioners and asked that said petition be
dismissed, and the commissioners being satisfied
that the proceedings herein had before the
commissioners had been reversed by the Dis
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-10-31

BosToN, October 20.-A meeting o.
capitalists takes place this afternoon to
consider the calamitics in the west. The
contributions for Chicago up to last
night were nearly four hundred thou
sand dollars.
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U N 10 n II O Q S E g,
(Southeast Of Public Square,)
SINlnN nARR Rrnnri of mr.

ITAvING recently taken charge Of this
II House, the Proprietor has reftted and
refurDished It throughout in manner calcu-
lated to make it one of the most desirable
stopping places in this part Of the State.
Guests will find the best accommodations
at this House, and no pains will be spared to
make them comfortable 4 ( 4 Il h
The Stables are commodious, and the trav-
elsrs' horses receive the best attention.
seplY.
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nF"Give me q chew of tobacc,

EFssGive me chew of tobacco y
said man to another
evil you have that which have just
bought, or that which l know to be
good ?'f zt.sr
'sThat which you know to be good, Of
course"
The man took the quid from his
mouth and handed it to his friend, say,
ing:
There, know that's good. for I've
been trying it for the last hour"
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If you wish to brighten straw mating
wash it in brine made by dissolving a
pint of salt in pail of water. 1t is said
that the salt will keep the straw from
turning yellow.
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Cheap Advertising.

Parties who think it expensive to ad-
vertise in Ohio newspapers will be inter
estcd to know what it costs to advertise
in the Chicago Tribune. The following
correspondence will explain itself:
Topeka, Sept. 25.
TRIBUNE Co., Characterization: To
decide slight dispute among parties
here, you will greatly ob!ige ty inform
ing me what the expense is per one COL
umn in the Daily Tribune for one year.
Yours, DC, SAM RADGEs.
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!. TERMS OF ADVERTISING:

Twelve IiAes, or less, VIII be ohafged as
enc square.
EAll legal advertisements will be charged
by the line, and must be paid in advance Of
publication.
e Notices of the appointment OF Ad- q
% ministrator's n and Executors; also 80
q Attachment Notices aud Road noti-- 81
GE ces, two dollars and fifty cents, in 81
q advance. -
0Advertisirg done at published rates
and payment required in advance, IN all
eases.
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A PILL FOR THE DRUGGISTS.

A dispatch was received from San
Francisco yesterday, from William S
Early and James G. Stub, authorizing a
draft upon them for $500 for the relief
of Chicago druggists.
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s. IA N M H 0 U S E.
HENRY sTAslM, 3: Proprietor
Water Street, 6eteeeni Monroe and Quincy,
W H E ELING, W EST VA,

This house has been recently rebuilt and
L furnished throughout, and the proprietor
will spare no pains to make his guests COM
Portable, His table will be supplied with the
best the market affords. sepl2Y.
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Questions for Women TO Answer.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelphs writes in
the independent;
That ColporteuF would perform a
truly Christian work who would clr-
Oulate among women a tract bearing
these questions:
How much more power of eudu-
rance does it require to NOW a field in
the sun on a July day than to cook
three N eals for six men and a family
of children over blazing Goals?
If field-work is more exhaustive to
the system than house and dairy-work,
why is it said that twO-thirds Of The
women in our insane asylums are
farmers wives6
How does it happen that woman
has not the physical strength" to
follow the carpenters trade who is
able to take in washing "lor Q liv-
ing2''
How much more muscle is needed
for liftidg ladders and adjusting joints,
and strickiug nails, than foF wringing
blankets and scrubhing overalls?''
by what laws of comparison do we
infer that woman who can stand at
the ironing table ten hours q day,
with the thermometer at 9S deg. in
the shade, her stove on full Gra,.ght,
and the wirdGns oIOsed, lest the irons
cool, cannot practice the stone ma.
sons trade for lack of physical
strength?
Did it ever occur to you that the
woman VhQ can sweep a room can
drive an omnibus! That the dust she
takes into her lungs ON Saturdays may
possibly be as injurious to them as the
oversight and lifting of trunks which
would fail to her in the character of
baggage maStags
lHnat Is 10 prevent the woman who
can faultlessly superintend the "house
cleaning" of large establishment
from qualifying hersalf to pc an cable
and lsdyiiKe" railroad conductor?
Is a woman who can take large
family through the scarlet fever with
out assistance likely 70 find herself TOO
weak in body to bear the physical
BURDENS inGttmbent upon the profes-
sion OF a lawyers
Ought not any woman who is able
to be her own nursery-maid to be able
to harness a horse?
is it any more unpleasant business
to harness a horse than TO beG nlg3e-
ry-maid@ Il
| Roes nOt every housekeeping and
honie-working woman perform tasks
as uncleanly, as distasteful, much cal
culated TO render her coarse, uncomely
unrefined, unladylike, as the large
majority of those from which cas Is
debarred bv fear +. tsieAe results
.s ~ any more unbeeoming for a
respectable woman TO be brick or,
in a safe and modest gymnasiurn Cos
tune, than to waltz IN a low-naeked
dress at an evening party2
Are moat honest OCCUPATIONS from
which public continent excludes wo-
men more foreign. to the self-respect Of
woman than most to which Sic Is
secluded
now 90 you know for what women
are physically qualified till you have
undertaken to learn, rather than tC
aSsI1ne2
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been away so long, doing so much
that those memories will be all buried
now?
ayes. They are all buried,n | ans
wered, feeling the scarlet mount into
my face to contradict the GOODNESS OF
my words.
She smiled little wistful smile,
which had a strange, brave tender
ness in it.
81, too, have lived seven years since
them she said "but the old memo
ries are dear to me, Max, and would
not bury them for all the world"
Because it is so different with you
and me-" l faltered. IL think |
have no courage left. How long
Frank stays"
~ see them in the lower garden
now,n she answered gently, looking
away from me as | struggled with my
pain.
"How quickly Amy would have
run in to greet me in the old times"
| said, speaking once more rs j had
| schOOled myself to do; only that a
little bitterness would creep into the
| tone.
"Yes," laughed Lettice, softly, "but
she will mot come this evening with
out Frank. She has been quite timid
| about your return. She asked me to-
day il you would think Frank had
chosen unwisely because she is so
much younger than he is; SO ignorant
| and untried, she said"
In the bewildered silence which
followed Lettice's words, she looked
up at me, deep shadows gathering in
her eyes, as if she, too, felt the agony
of the doubt and hope which stirred
me.
'Do you think Frank has chosen
wisely, Max, in taking my little sis
ter?" she asked, speaking plainly the
| truth, which she knew now that |
had never heard.
Lettice-Lettice, is it So" stam-
mered, my fingers tight upon the
chair below me, and my heart beat
ing wildly.
ayes, Max" she answered, "it is
so.n And | knew she could read the
whole story of my deep and lasting
love written on my quiverinS face.
"And you Lettice?"
81 - she answered, in "A bright, low
tone, 81 have waited"
Then / covered my face hurriedly |;
for bOyish tears had overtlOwed my
eyes in the untold joy of this surprise.
Max she whispered, her gentle
touch upon my arm, Il thought you
knew this, and had come for their
sakes."
mo, not for their sakes, Lettice !;
for Franks and yours
"Why for my sake" she asked,
tears shining in her own eyes as she
looked brightly into mine.
Then low and brokenIy I told her
of my love; the long hopeless love
which would not die. And at last
she answered, with her little gentle
hands on mine, and deep, true glad
ness shining behind the tears.
"Max,' dear Max, am very glad
l waited"
Max said Frank, that night after
we got home, may have the old
plate put back upon the door"
We both laughed at the idea, for
Frank was DR.. Hamilton now, and !
had a half dozen letters after my
name but we took candle and went
Oll sii OiiOt " ilih ~. II itsilh oiNAlI-
down and taking it upon his knee
brushed the thick dust from it quite
tenderly; while |, leaning over his
shoulder, read the letters as he
cleaned
Hamilton Brothers. 1t does not
do, Frank; and yet thank God for
the truth it tells. We are brothers
still, we will be brothers to the end.p