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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-06

- jams a. FOSTER & Co., 151 Lake
street, Chicago, importers of bresch-loading
shot-guns and implements.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-06

ALL VARIETIES OF PAIN SEEM to be in
cluded in the agonies of dyspepsia
Yet by invigorating the stomach and
toning the liver, and bowels, with DR..
WALKER's VINEGAR BrrTERs, you can
arrest them all. The chemical and me-
chanical action of the stomach, liver
and intestines being restored by this
operation the pain and the oppression
cease, the appetite is restored, the dazed
brain regalns its clearness, the spirits
become buoyant end the happy results
is ga sound mind in sound body"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-06

THE Syracuse Standard, which comes
out in new and handsome dress, has
the following excellent corps of editors:
Mr.. Charles E. Fitch is editor-in-chief,
Mr.. Clarke is associate editor, and Mr..
M. Summers is commercial editor, as
heretofore; Mr.. A. p. Potter, lately of
the Courier, becomes its local editor,
in place of Mr.. F. A. Marsh, who is now
night editor, and Mr.. H. d. L. Sweet
is It's agricultural editor. This is a
strong team.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03
Qualities of a Good Collector.
on time to a minute when the debt

Is on time to minute when the debt
or says come tomorrow at 9 o'clock
Sits on the steps and waits for his re-
turn when he says, 81 am Just going to
dinner"
Insists on stepping out to make change
when the man has nothing less than a
twenty"
VIII 90 to an cold stager" every day
for month with cheerful countenance
"about that little account.
Doesn't mind edging into crowd to
ask fellow.
Will take dollar in part if he can't
get ten in whole, and credit it with
thankful alacrity,
Always suggests check when the
money is not in hand, as he can get 1t
''cashed" tomorrow.
Always has the account "on top so
the man can make no excuse for putting
him oft.
Don't mind asking for it Immediately
after being treated"-or pleasantly en-
tertained.
Is never in Il hurry, "can wait till You
get through
Cuts off the retreat of the dodger by
crossing over to meet him, or follows
him into a store where he goes to hide.
Can cough or salute when the " hard
case" wants to pass without seeing him.
In fine-is patient as post, cheerful
as duck, sociable as flea, bold as a
lion, weather.proof as rubber, cunning
as a fox. and watchful as a sparrow
hawk. - COi-nlbmS hder
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03
Advice TO Young Men.
In his " Farmers Almanax," for 1872
Josh Billings gives the following
ADVISE TEW YOUNG MEN

In his Z" Farmers Almanax," for 1872
Josh Billings gives the following
ADVISE TEw YOUNG MEN.
Don't be discouraged if yure mustash
don't gro it sumtimes happens whare a
mustash duz the best. nothing else duz
so well.
Don't be afrade ov ennything that Is
honorable, and don't forget that the best
friend that God haz given emmy one IL
hiZ conscience.
Larn tew wait ?-this il hard gait for
yung man tew travel but iz the surest
way tew git thare.
If you hav got sum wild oats land a
phew won't spile yu) git them in arly,
and SOW them deep, 50 they will not rot
IN the ground
ADVISE TEW HOSS JOCKEYS
Never swop hosses with deakon-not
if yu belong tew the same church he duz.
If yu have got hoss that you ask 200
dollars for, and are offered rs dollars for
him, alwus sell him don't spile good
hoss trade for 1875 dollars
If you should, hi acksldent, git hold
ov a sound hoss, git shut of him NJ soon
az yu kan, for yu wont be happy with
him.
If, in swopping hosses, yu git kor-
aered, and kant lie, postpone the trade
until next day,
Nobody ever expekts tew buy a hoss
without Citing cheated; tharefore, If n
hoss jockey don't lie, he loses one ov his
blessed privileges.
ADVISE TEw YOUNG DOKToRs
Hire an ofliss on the main street of
the village, and stay in the ofliss.
When yu do go out, alwus go on the
jump.
Don't never talk mutch on emmy sub
jek, but alwlis look k,lssed MYSTERIOUS.
Seldum go tew church, but when yu
do, always leave before the church duz.
Charge everybody like thunder and
litening.
If yu pholler these rules clussly, and
don't suckceed yu kan kun tew the
konklusion that the doktrine bizzness
amt so good as it was last year.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03
To Her who will Understand Il.

"Send me u word to comfort me for
the death of my baby" writes broken
hearted mother to me.
My dear friend, | might tell you that
there are thousands of childless mothers
all over the land, who, like you, are
looking for comfort here and there, and
find none :. but that would not help you
! might tell you, too, that If you knew
all the sorrowful histories that have been
told me by tongue and pen, for many
years, You would have been glad that
your baby is gone where there is "no
more pain :" but TINT would not cause
gou to shed one tear the less, or keep you
from feeling that your sorrow was hard
er to bear than theirs. could tell you
that God is good even in this affection,
but your vision is SO dimmed that time
only can enable You to see it. 1t is be-
cause l know that nature must have
way, or you could not live and bear it,
that | can only say to You no~, l am so
sorry for you. / know Just how you go
about, listening for the little appealing
cry that you may nevermore hear !;
touching listless.y the little useless
clothes that you fashioned, with your
heart so full of love and hope. | too
have done all this. have lain with my
cheek close to the grass upon my baby's
grave, lest she should be lonely without
me, though | knew size was not there.
And yet | have tried to thank Him who
took her so early, that the storms of lie
which afterw lrds overlook me, did not
burst over her little head. So, as l say,
| shall not reason with You now, for
that were worse than useless. | only
reach out my woman's hand, and clasp
yours in sympathy, although we never
may meet in this world.
Bat one thing | know, that in the
other world your baby and mine will
know us-their mothers, else God We're
not God. BY the strong love that came
with them, this must be we could not
be 80 cruelty mocked if this were to be
the end.
Now, do not sit down and brood over
your grief, if you can help it. Do not
close your blinds and shut out the sun
shine. Let it warm you, though your
baby is cold. You would rather have
felt its little warm clasp even for that
brief time, than not to have known the
bliss of motherhood, would you not
Well, then, warm your poor heart with
that bit of comfort Nop there is lad
der reaching to Heaven, only seen by
you, only used by you. Heaven is not
now, to you, the misty land it used to
be. You see it clearly BY and by you
will hear its music, and one little voice
your mothers ear Il detect and none
who see the peace which iIflmines your
face will know rhersfme, save " Him
who doeth all things we'll" And so,
with my love, leave you.
FANNY FERN.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03
Playing Cards.

In the reign of George Ill Horace Wal
pole tells MS that everybody followed
Hamlet's direction, and spoke by the card.
They were made the vehicles of mes
snges of all kinds, and even reverend
bishops would take up an ace of hearts
to convey instruction on serious matters
of business some of which are still in
existence. Caricatures, then new
species Of satire, were sometimes drawn
upon them, and ministers of State con-
descended to invent the devices, Charles
Townshend himself carricat,iring the
trial of Admiral Byng so cleverly that
the pack was afterwards engraved.
1t has often been asked why the nine
of diamonds is called the Course of
Scotland" and as answer has lately
been given by writer in Notes and
Queries, we may perhaps conclude this
article by giving three historical facts
which he assigns as having caused the
saying. In the distracted state of the
country during the reign of Mary
man, George Campbell by name, at
tempted to steal the crown ont of Edin
burgh Castle. In this he was unsuccess-
full, but managed to extract nine valua
BILE jewels, and escaped safely to for
eign shore 70 replace these heavy
tax was laid upon the country, which
the poor oppressed people thought so
great grievance that they termed it the
curse of Scotland; and, until very re-
Gently, the card bore the name of Geo
Campbell in the Highlands. The second
explanation relates to the wel-known
massacre of Glencoe. The mandate for
this cruel deed was signed by the eldest
son of the Earl of Stair, who was at the
time the Secretary of State for Scotland.
The coat of arms of this family bears
nine diamonds on its shield, and the
people. not daring to stigmatise the
Master of Stair as the curse of Scotland,
npplied'it to his armorial bearings. The
list explanation relates to the battle of
Culloden, which extinguished the hopes
of the Stuart party, and was at the time
considered national curse. The Duke
of Cumberland, who was known to have
been gambler, is said to have carried
a pack of cards in his pocket and when
he had won the famous field, he took
out the nine of diamonds and wrote his
account of the victory on it. -Chambers's
J0Wndk
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

VIRGINIA Coal FIELDS. The ascer-
tanned and tested Coal-fields of Virginia
proper are as follows
|. The Chesfield, near tidewater at
Richmond-l50 square miles
2. The Prince Edward, 80 miles south
westward of the foregoing-20 square
miles;
3. The Dan River partly i'll North
Cardinal near Danville-20 or 80 square
miles
4. The Cumberland (of Maryland),
wh 'eof there is in Virginia some 60 to 80
square miles;
D. The "Dora, (Anthracite) in Angus
ia County, at the head of the Shenandoah
scarcely opened-extent unknown;
g. The New River and Catawba Mont
gomery and Pulaski Counties-extending
also through Giles County-partially
Anthracite, and developed in several
places. This field extends into West
Virginia, which embraces 10000 of the
50, 600 square miles of the great Ale
eheny coal-basin-the largest and among
the richest known to exist IL the world.
Its center seems to be the valley OF the
Great Kanawha.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

REFLECTION AND LABoR.-A farmer
found upon his grounds vast morass.
1t bred innumerable insects. 1t exhaled
poisonous miasma. He spent much of his
time in rejecting upon the nature of
mlasma, and in pondering the reasons
why this terrible swamp should have
been suffered to exist. After time he
sickened and died of fever bred in this
dangerous morass. His son, inheriting
the farm, and not having his fathers
philosophical turn, said, "The swamp
is there, no matter how it came there.
IL | drain it, the mischief will cease. -
So he opened wide channels, and cut of
the springs which fed the morass, and
little by little the grounds dried, the
plow entered, and harvests soon waved
over the whole redeemed territory
Which WAS wisest, father or son?
- ReecLe5.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

PRAcrrcAL- Miss Ayers who late mar
ried Colonel Downing chief of the
Cherokee Nation, proved herself practi-
cal in her philanthropic views of the
Indian question. Colonel Downing is a
sturdy, hirsute half-breed, while Miss
Ayers was formerly rich and cultivated
maiden of Philadelphia. Some time ago
she became greatly interested in the
noble chieftain and his people, and re-
moved to the Indian territory with a
liberal portion of this worlds goods to
devote herself to the advancement of the
spiritual and physical well-being OF the
gentle savages. There was for time a
serious obstacle in the way of her bene-
ficent plans, for the colonel had full.
blooded Cherokee squaw to wife /; but
this obstacle was removed by the squaw
dying.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03
Boil II Down.

Whatever you have TO say, my friend,
Whether witty, or grave, or gay,
Condense ~ much as ever You can,
Aud say II In the rcadiest way;
And whether you write of rural affairs,
Or particular things in town,
just take a VOID of friendly advice
Boil il down.
For II you go spluttcring over n page
When couple Of Tines would do,
Your butter IL spread ~ thin, You see
That the bread looks plainly through
So when You have story 10 tell,
And would like a little renown,
To make quite sure of your wish, my friend,
Boil it down.
When writing an article for the press
Whether prose or verse, just try
To utter yonr thoughts in the fewest words,
And let them be crispy and dry
And when it in flushed, and you suppose
II IN done exactly brown,
just look 1t over again, and then
Boil IT down.
Fer editors do not like to print
An article lazily long,
And the busy reader does not care
For couple Of yards of song.
so gather your wits in the smallest space,
II you'd win the authors crown,
And every time you write, my friend,
Boil il down.
p. S.-And keep on boiling it down.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03
After All.

The apples are ripe in tho orchard,
Tho work of the reaper is done,
And the golden woodlands reddon
In the blood OF the dying sun,
At the cottage door the grandsiro
Sits, pale, in his easy-chair,
While gentle wind Of twilight
Plays with his silver hair.
A woman IL kneeing beside him
fair young head IN prest
[ n the first Wild passion Of sorrow,
Against his aged breast.
And far from over the distance
The taltering echoes come,
OF the flying blast OF trumpet
And the rafting roll OF drum.
Then the grandsire speaks in whisper,
The end no man can see;
But we give him 10 his country,
And wo give our prayers to Thee"
The violets star the meadows,
The rose-buds fringe the door,
And over the grassy orchard
The plnk-whito blossoms pour.
Bat the grandsire's chair is empty,
The cottage is dark and still,
There's a nameess grave on the battlefield,
And n new one under the hill.
And palid, fearless woman
by the cold hearth sits, alone;
And the old clock in the corner
Ticks on with heavy drone
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

Bound TO DO A FULL Days WORK.
Mr. NJ, of Oxford, don't object to hav
ing hired man do a full days work-at
least, so we Judge from the following
story A short time ago man went to
his place for work. Mr.. M. set him
ploughing round a forty-acre field. AZ
ter he had ploughed faithfully all day
until the sun was about half an hour
high, he expressed his opinion that it
was about time to quit.
"Oh, mol" replied Mr.. NJ, "you can
plough eight times more ust as well as
not.
SO the hired man ploughed around six
or eight times, then went to the house,
took care of his team, MIXED nine COWS,
ate his supper, and found ten o'clock
staring him in the face from the old
timepiece.
Said the hired man to Mrs. NJ,
"Where is Mr. NJ ?"
The good woman answered, 'He has
retired do you wish to see him ?"
He replied that he did. After being
conducted to the bedroom, he said.
"Mr. NJ, where is your axe ?'
Why" said Mr., NJ, "what do you
want to do with the axe ?'
"Well," said the hired man, II
thought you might like me to split wood
till breakfast is ready"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03
Why They Do II.

Why the women of the Oneida Com
muuity wear the short dress, is thus ex-
planned by the Circuior:
The short dress belongs to us chiefly
because it is "A badge of freedom, of free
dom from the tyranny of fashion. 1t is
an assertion of the right to occupy the
heart and mind with higher things than
dress; of the right to listen to God. 1t
has cut us off from any part of the do
main of fashion, and made wide the
breach between us aud those who find
their life wholly in outward adornment
This is why the short dress is precious to
us. But though we are incorrigible so
far as the principle by which we hold the
short dress is concerned, and do not care
to argue about it, we can say one thing
in which its critics ought to find conso-
lation. The first deep motive of woman $
adornment, it is generally assumed, is to
attract the love aud admiration of man.
Every thoroughly candid woman, it is
said, will confess this, and it is surely
nothing to shame her who was "made
to be the glory of man. 1t is for the
love of man that woman, in following
the vagaries of fashion, sacrifices peace of
heart with mental improvement and
health and comfort and convenience.
But the women of the community do
not find it necessary to sacrifice these
things to gain the affections of the men.
They have the love of the men i'll the
short dress, an! much more Of it than
if they were disguised by fashion. There
is no dearth of magnetism between the
sexes in the community. II there were
we might give some attention to the
complaints of those who scold us for
not being more ornamental, e. more
fashionable. But how can we give heed
to so small thing, when our satisfaction
in our social life is already so ample
We have the prize toward which all or
namentation aims why, then, should we
cumber ourselves with the Inconvenience
of fashion WHAT'S the use
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

A SHARP YoUTH. On the eastern rail-
road the other day, news-boy entered
the ear with number Of dailies, and
accosting crusty old chap who sat
crouched in u seat near the stove:
Paper, sir ?-only five cents.
"Nol" growled the passenger. But
I'd give five dollars if there was fire in
that stove
Did you say you would give five
dollars if there was fire in that stove ?"
said the boy, turning back.
Yes, and darned quick, too.
The boy, in the twinkling of an eye,
opened the stove door. thrust in his bun
die of fresh newspapers, touched a light
ed match to them, and demanded his
pay. The passengers, who had been
watching the naneuver, shouted with
laughter, and the old fellow. after hesi-
tating moment, sheepishly drew five
dollars from his pocket, and paid the
bill
"Sold out again, quoth the sharp
news-boy, rs he went out after his basket
af confectionery.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

An English convict at Chatham Yard
who once hated to work for remunera-
ton, and therefore had been compelled
to work without it, recently determined
to get ahead of the demon of labor once
and for all. So, while working near
tramway. he deliberately placed his hand
under a passing wagon laden with bricks,
and in an instant that hated hand was
severed from t,,e arm.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

WOULD Nor Do IT.-In 1S4S friend
of the Misses Cary, in letter, alluded
TO being bitten by a big "yaller dog -
while returning from a party and re-
ouested Miss Phoebe, in case he should
die of hydrophobia, to do him the favor
of writing his epitaph. She regretted
ie misfortune but begged TO be excus-
a from performing so melancholy a
rvice. as she was not in the habit of
writing " doggerel.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

Il am glad" said the Rev. DIR. Young
10 the chief of the Little Ottawas, that
YOU do not drink whisky, but it grieves
me to find that your people use much OF
IT," "Ah, yes," replied the chief-and
he fixed his eye impressively on the doc.
tor. which communicated the reproof
before he uttered il I've Indians use a
great deal of whisky, but We do not
make it, -
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

I'm afraid you don't like babies
when they cry ?" said a matron to
gentleman, as she tried to soothe the
d ling in her arms. "Oh, yes" said
Il like them best when they cry,
I ecsuse have always observed that they
are invariable carried from the room.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03
jon PRINTING

Of all kinds neatly executed at the lowest hying
prices. Our Office il well furnished with mater
ial and stock for this department, and we now
inexperienced and competent workmon to use
them. II you want any printing done You need
not go to the city, or out of the county, for you
can get NJ good work and AZ low prices atthis
Office az at any other.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

THE PEsHTIGo FIRE. We had hoped
that the reports of loss of life at Peshtigo
were greatly exaggerated, but later re-
ports say the story was not half told.
The loss of life in the neIghborhood will
reach over /, 200. Fifteen per cent. of
those injured cannot recover. A mem
Der of the Relief Committee sent from
Milwaukee with supplies, says the only
survivors were those who were fortunate
enough to reach the water, many throw
ing themselves into mill ponds, clinging
to floating logs. A number of these
were drowned by being thrown from the
logs by maddened horses and cattle that
rushed into the water The fire swept
over tract of country eight or ten miles
wide. Every building, fence. and all
the timber were completely destroyed.
The population of Peshtigo Numbered g.
600, one-thiri Of whom persisted that
fearful night. Reports from The east
shore of Green Bay place the loss of life
as high as at Peshtigo. The same ac-
count states that the immediate wants
of the people are supplied, but large
amounts of provisions and clothing will
be required for the coming Winter.
Appeals for aid are made.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03
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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-03

: The Ohio State Senate is a tie, eigh-
teen to eighteen. The house will stand
50 Republicans to Al Democrats.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-10

Correspondence of the Rural New Yorker
At what time shall we cut corn, and in
what manner? Shall we cut at the ground,
ton. or not cut at all? These are questions
which are seldom discussed in our agricul-
tural papers still, they should be thorough
ly understood by all growers. | am aware
that many eastern growers practice topping;
and if this is the best method, we-should all
practice it. Contending that it is not, |
will present few thoughts in favor OF cut
ting at the ground. Leaves are the lungs
of plants. and none can be removed while
the crop is maturing, more particularly
while ripening, without decreasing the
amount Of such crop. AT the time that the
topping is usually done, the leaves removed
are the ones most essential to growth, and
YOU prevent the corn from receiving the
nutriment that it would have derived from
them had they not been severed from the
stalk.
In cutting corn you have the preservation
of the fodder in view for feeding purposes.
TO be of much value. it must be cut preyl-
Gus to the frost--cut at the proper time and
well saved, they make excellent food; but
cut after they become dry and hard, OF
frost-bitten, they are nearly worthless. l
believe it is an accepted fact that wheat cut
as soon as the kernel becomes hard, and
while the straw is still green, properly
shocked, improves in the shock, will make
a better quality Of flour and more OF i
than if allowed to stand until the straw is
dead ripe; and have no doubt that corr