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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

Z "GAD. We hear people frequently speak
of the gift of CAB, {" as they are pleased to de
nominate the habit INDUCED in by some men
who have more brass than brains and who
seem to think that no assembage can be pro-
perly enlightened without hearing from them.
We regard this thing in different light.
So far from considering it "gift" we believe
it to be curse. If not u curse to its possessor,
it is certainly a curse to that portion of man.
kind who are brought in contact with him.
He is a regular standing bore on all occasions
and if he gets into dcliberativc assembly, as
such creatures generally do, he becomes AN
absolute nuisance.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12


LIGHT ON THE WATER.-Herbert Spencer
says: When standing by lake side in the
moonlight, you see, stretching over the rip
ping surface toward the moon, bar of light
which, as shown by its nearer part, consists of
flashes from the sides of separate wayelets.
You walk, and the bar of light seems to go
with you. There are, even among cultivated
people, many who suppose that this bar of
light has an objective existence, and who be-
lieve that it really moves as the observer
moyes-occasionally, indeed, as can testify,
expressing surprise at the fact.
But, apart from the observer, there exists
no such bar of light, nor when the observer
moves is there any movement of this glitter
ing line of wavelets. All over the dark part
of the surface the undulations are just as
bright with moonlight as those he secs, but
the light reflected from them does not reach
his eyes.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

rB- There is nothing beautiful that dies and
is forgotten. An infant, a prattling child,
dying in it's CRADLE will live again in the bet
ter thoughts of those who loved it, and plays
its part, though its body be burned to ashes or
drowned in the deepest sea. There is not an
angel added to the host of heaven but does its
work on earth in those that loved it here.
Dead oh, if the good deeds of human crea-
lures could be traced to their sources, how
beautiful would every death appear for how
much charity, mercy, buried affection, would
be seen to have their growth in dusty graves.
Charles Dickens.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

Nor A GOOD WAY.-The story is told of Mr.
Jones, who one evening in fly time, having
been provolSingly dashed in the face, tied the
tail of the COW he was milking very securely
to his boot-strap. Everything went on smooth
ly for time, and Mr.. Jones congratulated him
self on the stratagcm. Presently, however,
the COW took notion to lash fly that was
biting her. Mr.. Jones chuckled some when
he felt the pull at his boot-strap; but his
chuckling was soon cut short, for =" Bessie, I"
finding that she could not touch her torment
or, suddenly started, and, as Mr.. j. was not
prepared for such demonstration. he was
upset and the contents Of the pail distributed
over his person. The COW stopped for a mo-
ment but in that time our hero had gained
his feet; an instant AFTER he was seen with
his hand on the hip Of the COW making the
tour of the farm-yard with prodigious hops
upon one foot AT every hop he would ejacu-
late, $50, Boss; SO, Boss but "Boss -
didn't $50 worth cent. At last the boot
attachment gave way, and Mr.. Jones returned
to the house wiser if not a sadder man.
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INDIAN FIGURES.L-THE MfsFoRTUNES
OF BIG LIAR.o iiisf
The St. Louis Republican says

The st. Louis Republican says:
The Indian tribes have no system Of notation
by which to express large numbers, except by
comparisons, which convey d confused and
general idea As numerous sas the trees in
the forest, " Gas the blades Of grass, or i" as
the buffalo on the plains, are very obvious
comparisons when an idea Of uncounted num-
bers is intended to be conveyed.
The other day. when 1.-TWO Bears" was
here, he told Father De Smet that when he
left home his tribe told him to give them, on
his return, the number of the whites and their
wigwams which he saw while gone. 1.-TWO
Bears said that when they reached Sioux
City they notched all the people they saw on a
stick, and counted the houses which they saw.
But when they got to Chicago the people were
SO many that they could not count them, and
SO with the wigwams so they contented them
selves with counting the streets. At WASH
ington, Philadelphia, New York and Chou
teaus town (St. Louis they were confounded
with the number of whites and houses they
saw, and gave up all idea of counting them.
All they could do, 'sTwo Bears " said, was to
tell their people that the whites were as nu-
merous as the blades of grass.
Father De Smet said that the surprise of
1.-TWO Bears -" reminded him that many wears
ago he visited the Crows, and when the latter
heard the Black Gown y had come they called
a council.
The occasion of the council being called to-
gether was this One of their chiefs had been
sent to Washington to see the Great Father.
On his return he was asked by his people to
give some account of what he saw. His state
ment of the number of the whites which he
said he had seen appeared so improbable to
the minds of his countrymen that they refused
to believe him. and gave him the nickname of
.Big Liar" He remained thus under ban
until the arrival of Father De Smct, and.
knowing the regard had for the s'Black Gown"
he had the council called together, in order to
vindicate his character for truth and veracity.
The assembled chiefs asked Father De Snet
in regard to the matter. He told them il they
would start at sunrise and ride round in a cir
Gle all day till shutdown, and were then able to
count the blades of grass contained in,the cir
Gle they would form some idea of the numbers
of the whites. They were astonished and still
more surprised when Father De Smet told
them that he had seen cities across the sea
that would take them from sunrise to sunset
to ride round on their ponies, and that the
houses on the space thus ridden round were as
thick as the fingers ON their hands. After this
statement they no longer doubted "Big Liar's'
statement, but were ready to believe anything
said about the vastness of the white popula-
ton.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12
DUST

From whence does it all come? You may
sweep your room twice every day, and you
viii find that a cloud arises every time the
broom and the floor make acquaintance. You
may dust every article Of furniture, every
book, every picture; you may take care to
shake your buster out Of the window, and
your clothes out in the yard you may wipe
damp cloth and yet, after all your labor,
there will be the dust. Dust flying in the air
dust settling on the books and the tables dust
on the pictures, on the flowers-dust, dust
everywhere. 1t is discouraging.
You think perhaps, that it is because the
room, in which you sit, is SO large you think
that if you were in snugger quarters there
would not be so much of this annoyance you
therefore move into smaller apartment but
you are worse off now than you were before.
You cannot turn round quickly, nor even beave
sigh, without setting in motion ten thousand
tiny particles of dust.
You may sweep till your broom fails, and
dust till your arms fall off, and the story will
be always the same. Even out at sea, when
the good shi , rides the pillows thousands of
miles from land, the dust gathers. 1t matters
not how much the sailor rubs the masts and
hollystones the decks, the dust will gather
even amid the salt spray Of the sea. 1t is for
ever flying and settling wherever there is any
solid substance on which it can alight. Where
it comes from is no mystery, when we remem-
Der what sort of things are ever about us, and
what sort of things we are.
81 Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
return" is written on clothing, on wood, and
on iron, and on steel, just as truly as it is on
our frail, perishing flesh and the changing
and shifting back to it's despised original is
going on before our very eyes, in each thing
that we look upon.
Constantly-some rapidly, Others with a
slower waste, but certainly--all things are re-
turning whence they came. IT'S enough to
make one fear the tiust-to feel horror at
the atoms falling on ones garments, and ones
limbs; thus to read and understand their Ian
guage. That language is all Of decay and
death of earth and the grave of darkness,
oiSCuiuiicso anu ucopui. iHiot All oiis, II
one cannot look beyond the DUST and see, and
take hold upon the eternal life.
How carefully and purely should we step
through the world, did we but read as we walk
All this is written for, our admonition and
warning. But we go hastily, with careless
eye and dumb heart, taking little heed when
we should be more studious. Many there be,
who have deep skill to read the dark sayings
written on ancient rocks, who have yet never
understood the plain language of the gather
ing dust
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12
MISCELLANY.
ANCIENT AMERICA.

America the land of which we boast so
much, and know so little is beginning to as
sumo an Importance in an antiquarian point
of view, which quite sets at naught our old
ideas of it's having lain from the time of crea-
ton to the coming of the Indians an unbroken
wilderness, where the monsters of the deep
and of the land had everything their own way.
1t is quite startling to be called upon by Mr..
Baldwin, in his recent book, to believe that
our Western States were supporting an intel
ligent, settled and civilized people two or three
thousand years ago, about as far back as when
Solomon was on the throne, or when Nebu-
chadnezzar and Daniel were governing the
Assyrian Empire, and when Scion was pro-
mitigating his wise code of laws to the refrac-
tory Greeks.
In Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ne
braska and other of our States, from the Gulf
of Mexico to the far north on the Missouri
river, artificial mounds are found, which have
puzzled the curious ever since their discovery.
Some have thought them to be Indian burying
places. No less than ten thousand of these
are in Ohio alone. They are made with great
labor, some of them having the combination
of squares and circles, which are executed with
geometrical precision.
Indian skeletons have been dug from near
the surface of these mounds from time to time,
their good preservation showing that not many
ages have gone by since they were inferred.
But far below these-nearer the base of the
mound, skeletons of another race have been
exhumed, which crumble to dust at the slight
est exposure. These remnants of humanity
speak of only one thing, and that is of an
tiauity. On all other subjects they are as ST.
lent as the dust around them. These mounds
are, or were, covered with old forests. One
tree showed an age of eight hundred years, yet
it is supposed that other generations of trees
on the mound had passed away before this
sprang up.
Many relics of art, far SURPRISING anything
taken from these mounds "They consist of
a considerable variety of ornaments and i'm
elements made of copper, silver, obsidian "a
kind of glass produced by volcanoes, porphyry,
and green stone, finely and deliberately wrought.
There are axes, double and single, AIDES,
ehisels, drills or gravers, lance heads, and the
like, made of copper. There are also articles
of pottery elegantly designed and finished Or
naments made of silver, bone, mica from the
Asleghanies, and shell from the Gulf of Mexi-
co." A telescope answering to one pictured
upon the rufas of Mexico, which man holds
i'm his hand, placed to his eye. has been found (;
also, remnants of cloth, which indicate that
the art of spinning and weaving was known.
The mounds vary in size; generally they
are from six to thirty feet high. but many are
very much higher. One in Illinois is ninety
feet high. seven hundred feet long, and five
hundred wide. All have fiat tops. ON which
were once standing. it is supposed, the princi-
pal buildings of the people, Traces of stairs
winding up on the outside are on some, while
in Mexico and Central America the stairs,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

LAND SAMPLEs.-Among the baggage at
the Lehigh Valley depot, on Thursday last,
doomed up one Of those stupendous fancies
known as a Saratoga trunk, but SO grandly
superior to the average specimen as to attract
attention and elicit remarks. The baggage
master-call him not smasher-expressed his
wonder at the carrying of boarding houses as
baggage, but friend Isaac soothed his acera-
ted feelings with the remark, ~ guess it's
nothing but land agents trunk in which lie
carries samples. y Easton Express.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

One of the most beautiful examples of high
mindedness in dueling was that of the Earl of
Balcarras, in his duel with Benedict Arnold
the traitor. 1t will be recollected that part of
the reward of that wretched mans treachery
was the rank of General irf the British army /;
yet few, if any, of the officers would associate
with him. One day King George Ill, with
Arnold beside him, addressed Lord Balcarras
and asked him if he was not acquainted with
General Arnold?
"What, Arnold, the traitor?" replied the
higli-spirited Tory. "No, may it please your
Majesty !, nor have any desire to know him. :"
So crushing an affront could not be passed
by in those days. Arnold sent Balcarras a
challenge, and as he held commission in the
army, the nobleman felt that he could not re-
fuse to meet him. They met, and, when the
word was given, Arnold fired, but the Earl
stood motionless, looking contemptuously at
his opponent, whose ball had grazed his cheek.
MY Lord" cried Arnold, at length, "are
you not going to fire ?"
Balcarras elevated his pistol discharged it
in the air, hurled lit toward his adversary
with the memorable reply, "No, sir; | leave
traitors to the public executioner!"
AS his Lordship had received Arnold's fire
without returning it, no further satisfaction
could be demanded, according to the rules of
dueling which then existed.
: Was Benedict Arnold, after all, worse
traitor to his country than Jefferson Davis /?
And there are millions of men living, who
praise him as az patriot, while with the same
breath they execrate the dead Arnold.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

YOUTHFUL CANDoR.-Me and Bill went to
the fair-also to the cattle-show. We went
with John, in the cart. A cattle-show and
fair is where they trot horses. They sell pools
outside the gate. 1t is wicked to play cards
for pools. Pools at cattle-show encourage
the honest farmer, and develop that noble ami
NAL, the horse" read the last part of that
in the paper. The honest farmer has red
face, and wears white hat. He smokes and
swears. The best way to develop horse is
to hire the driver on the other side to let yours
beat A driver that can scream and scare the
other horses is bully. If he can smash another
fellows wheel, and not tip over his own sulkey,
he gets the first prize. The place to dc that
is on home-stretch. The home-stretch is
next to the judges stand. The judges don't
stand all of the time-I saw one judge sit down
and squint at the horses through the bottom
of a tumbler When | grow up mean to
study law and be a judge.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12
CLEAR THE WAY.
BY CHARLES MAKAY.

BY CHARLES MAkAY.
Men of thought, be up and stirrirz
Night and day!
Sow the seed, withdraw the curtain,
Clear the way
Men of action, aid and cheer them
As we mayl
There's fount about to stream;
There's a light about to beam;
There's a warmth about to glow;
There's a flower about to flow;
There's a midnight blackness changing
Into gray.
Men of thought and men of action,
Clear the way
Once the welcome light has broken,
Who shall say
What the unimagined glories
OF the day?
What the evil that shall perish
In its rayi
Aid the drowning, tongue and pen;
Aid it, hopes of honest men;
Aid it, paper; aid IL, type;
Aid ii, for the hour Is ripe;
And our earnest must not slaeken
Into play.
Men of thought and men of action,
Clear the way
Lo! clouds about to vanish
From the day;
Lo, the rights about to conquer
Clear the way!
And brazen wrong shall erumble
Into clay.
With that right shall many more
Enter smiling at the door;
With the giant wrong shall fall
Many others, great and small,
That for ages long have held US
For their prey.
Men of thought and men of action,
Clear the way
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12
POETRY.
BACKBONE.

When you see a fellow-mortal
without fixed and fearless views,
Hanging on the skirts of others;
Walking in their cast-off shoes;
Bowling low to wealth and favor,
With abject, uncovered head,
Ready to retract or wayer;
Willing to be drove or lead;
Walk yourself with frmer bearing;
Throw your moral shoulders back;
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
just the thing which his must lack.
A stronger word
Was never heard
In sense and tone,
Than this, backbone.
When you see a theologian
Hugging close some ugly creed,
Fearing to reject OF question
Dogmas which his priest may read;
Holding back all noble feeling;
Choking down each manly view;
Caring more for forms and symbols
Than to know the Good and True;
Walk yourself with firmer bearing;
Throw your moral shoulders back;
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
Just the thing which his must lack.
A stronger word
Was never heard
In sense and tone,
Than this, backbone.
When you see politician
Crawling through contracted holes,
Begging for some fas position
In the ring or at the POLLS
With no sterling manhood in him;
Nothing stable, broad or sound;
Destitute of pluck or ballast;
Double-sided all around;
Walk yourself with firmer bearing;
Throw your moral shoulders back;
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
Just the thing which his must lack.
A stronger word
Was never heard
In sense and tone,
Than this, backbone.
A modest song and plainly told
The text is worth a mine of gold;
For many men most sadly lack
A noble stiffness in the back.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

NB- Philadelphia has a collector of bad
debts, :" who wears a very high hat, on which
is printed in flaming letters, Bad bills col
lected." Thus arrayed, with everybody look
ing at his hat, he goes and knocks at the debt
ors Understands around the door and makes
the promises look generally ridiculous till the
debt is paid. Then he takes fifty per cent. of
it and gives the rest to his client He is
said to be rapidly amassing q fortune.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

sE Brother, if you would do good, do not
fold your hands and wish for the ability and
opportunity to emancipate a race or give food
to a starving nation, or you will die with the
work undone; but relieve that poor widow
near you--clothe that ragged and destitute
child. ftas.f
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

Gag- October 31st was the three hundred
and thirty-fifth anniversary of the Reforms-
ton. 1t was on Oct. 31st, 1917, that Martin
Luther took his first public step in the Refor-
nation, by mailing up his ninety-fve theses on
the door of the church at Wittenburg.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

az An Illinois editor looked at the Aurora
Borealis, and Immediately broke out in the
following strain: "Here we can lean over
the verge of the infinite, longing to grasp its
mysteries, lost in the profundity of immen-
sity."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

eB There is a doctor in Brooklyn who can
tell the truth and in plain English. Hereport-
ed the death of a patient as from 6 dyspepsia,
caused by taking quack medicines for two
years.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

The Paterson Guardian says /" In no place
there so much female drunkenness as in Pater-
son and it is time something was done to put an
end to it. m s3s
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

eB The man who, with knowing intent,
tempts another to break good resolution, is
10 be regarded as an enemy. He deserves no
btstek nasmts sAnsl Sh6affi be shum,Hd.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

GB- Law is like sieve; you may see
through it, but you must be considerably re-
'ducsd l6fife you can get tinthsh ie
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

tB- contemporary declares that gravity is
no more evidence of wisdom than paper
collar is of linen shirt.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-12

One hundred and ten students were admitted
to the Freshmen class in Princeton this fall. !
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-21

Jnc-EHn!i the people cannot take cas-.
ter ell from its terrible ususcsting taste, and
rccoil in the throat The Csstoria prepared
10y DR., Pitcher, is purely vegetable, perfect.
~ harmless, pleasant to take, and more eff
tctive than Castor OIL It does not distress
ar grippe, but regulates the system, and op.
rttes when all other remedies have failed.
10 acts like magic for Stomach Ache, Com
stlpation, FlaWlency, Group aud Worms
u contains neither Mineral, Morphine nor
Alcohol lis soothing, quoting effect pro.
duces natural sleep, and particularly sdsptS
1t to crying and teethiug children. Noar.
tic.e has ever met such unquali6e endorse.
ment by the Physicians, Take no more
Hitter Pills, Narcotic Syrups, Gripping Pur-
gatiScS or sickcning Oils, The Oastoria
costs bus 81 cents, and whom once tried
YOU will never be- without IT, a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-21

WANTED lNMEDnrELY--An active man to
canvass Iowa Co., with wagon, for the
Grsver Baker Sewing Machine. Also one
for La Fayette Co
Apply with references to Grover 1. Baker
S. NJ. Co., IS Wisconsin ST., Milwaukee,
Wis.
OR To THos j. CAMPBELL, Mineral Point.
This machine is equal to any in the mar.
kct, and being sold at - per cent. less
than Others, iiEds ready sale
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-21

A LOOK is sufficient to satisfy any one
that Daum 4 Schilling have the most at
tractive and complete stock of boots and
shoes in this market. They also make to
order land guarantee satisfaction, boots
and shoes for all corners. 60 there at least
before you buy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-21

Music LESSONS S. 7. Osborne offers
his services TO the public as teacher OF Vo-
eal and instrumental music, and Instructor
in thorough bass. Use of Instruments iur
pished and instructions given when de
sired in the Music Hall of Cartwright q
DAVIS. Terms made known on application
at H. T. Osborne's Store. ii
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-21
state of WtseOrs,p.
Farm for Sale.

ANY one desiring to pnrchass goo9 Jarm clear
can do 50 by applying u" the undersigned the
premises described below to-vh The sunshy.st
quarter Of Section 8, towu !. Range east and the
east-half Of be T.. /, Section :, town 4, Range /
east in the town Of Miilip, Iowa Co Wis About Il
acres Of the farm Is under pQw, well supplied with
rtgptctbae buildings and good running water has
plenty If timber, and ~ Of meadow Thu,
farm will be sold III a low price per sere, ard on
terms easy a. rHn he asked The guage mil.
road aow being built viii pass within 20 rods tho
land.
Apply at the Tribune Office or Of the owners fe-
further particulars PISS ssion given this AL or In
time to pow, or any time IN the spring.
JOHN Il ALBEAI WHITE
Sept. 23d, 1872. ii.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-21

WAstED-lIoGs-- CATTLE - Hoes - For
which will pay the highest market price.
Farmers, see one before YOU sell, rs shall
employ no travelling buyers, and thus save
the expense, which will enable me to pay
better prices.
J SrrAcuAN