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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-02
From the st. Louis Democrat. Jan. ~.
Fred. Deuglass and the Planters'
"a House.

Hon. Fred. Douglass, in ability,
culture and gentlemanliness every
where recognized as among the
foremost of Americans, arrived in
our city yesterday morning to spend
. few hours in visiting some old
friends, before proceeding by rail
to Greenville, ILL.,, where he had an
engagement to lecture in the even
ing. He registered his name at the
Planters House, and left to call upon
his friends, and after o couple Of
hours returned to the Planters to
dine. When proceeding to the din
ing hall, he was interrupted and
asked if he was registered. He
replied that he was. The state
ment was questioned, the book re-
ferred to, and it then appeared that
his name had been scratched Oft!
He asked for the reason, and the
parsonage confronting him declined
to give any. After several inquiries
for the cause, and being at last told
he, Douglass, ought to know, the
latter in substance replied that the
very fact that the reason was re-
fused showed it to be an infamous
reason, and with remarks to the
effect that he rarely experienced
such treatment, and expected to live
to see the day when. those who now
administered it would themselves
be ashamed of it, he withdrew to
look for a dinner elsewhere.
During the conversation a large
crowd gathered about the speakers,
and several gentlemen exhibited
their sympathy with Mr.. Douglass.
one declaring as he retired that ii
was ga damned outrage" and others
that instant proceedings ought to
be instituted to compel the Planters
House to open its doors, as long as
it pretended to be public hostclry,
to all gentlemen, irrespective of the
color Of their skin.
Mr.. Douglass, whose princely
bearing and gentlemanly demeanol
are as well known to the public as
his erudition and scholarly tastes
is received in other hotels through
out the country without the least
show ofobjection, and is entertained
gladly in private by the most cul
turcd and refined people ofthe land
This is the first difficulty of the
kind he has received on his presen
lecture trip, and it is shameful
reflection on St. Louis hospitality
that it was permitted to occur here
At Dunkirk, where he was denied
admission to the leading hotel si'
years ago, he was received las
week with pleasure, and courteous
ly entertained. A few days ago h
was at the Michigan avenue hotel
Chicago, which had not been more
honored by the recent presence
there of Alexis of Russia. AT Spring
field he was offered the gratuitous
inequalities of the two principa
hotels, and at Jacksonville he re
ceived the same marked attention
Whatever may be said of his race
Fred. Douglass is gentleman, 81
far as brains and culture and refine
ment can make one, and is the pee
of any of his guests of the frs
hotels in the land. Yet it seem
his name is unfit for the Planters
house register, and that the Plan
ters' house hospitality cannot affor'
him the dinner he would pay fol
For shame! 81
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-02

SOME malicious person having
started . story that Sayder, Of the
Cedar Falls Gazette, was intoxics-
ted while lobbying for Harlan, at
Des Moines, he feels called upon,
in the. last issue Of his paper, to
give the SANDER an explicit and
double-leaded denial. The lobby
lists on that side of the Senatorial
question awere certainly not "intoxi-
ost4d with success" a.4 'ospa@
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-02

THE Apportionment bill finally
passed the u. s. Senate on Monday,
in substantially the same shape as
it came from tho House, the basis
being 2ss Representatives. Iowa
will have nine members and our
can now proceed To- FIX
the districts. :" ' +" t'f'a if' p
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-02
TEACHERS COLUMN
Q. O. PIERCE. Editor.
PrepAratien for Rsoitatien.

-'f
We are glad to witness the growth Of
q popular sentiment in favor Of discard
ing text books at the recitation. Supt.
Harris, Of St. Louis, in his last report,
recommends that teachers be required to
conduct Rotations without text books
whenever pupils arc expected to recite
without books, using for reference .
synopsis or syllabus Of the subject Of the
lesson. While there are many good ar
guments in favor Of such requirement,
we think ofno reasonable objection that
can be urged against It. OF course, the
general adoption Of such a rule would
revolutionize the work of teaching; in
competence and laziness would be driven
from tho business, but we can think Of
no good reason for retaining them. ..
Why should not teacher and pupil
meet at the recitation upon common
ground; the one as well prepared to con-
duct the exercises without book a. the
other to recite without 4 book! Is not
the use of book from which to read
questions and test answers voluntary
confession of ignorance on the part OF
the teacher! On the other hand, Is not
the teacher, who having made both the
general and special preparation for his
work, % he stands before his class with
free hand and eye, ready to question and
instruct without = book, is not such .
teacher . living proofs his pupils that
the lesson can be mastered!
But We did mot intend to argue the
question. We simply wished y call the
attention Of our readers 70 the following
extract from An able article On Gaining
the Attsalloe, which we ind In the We
~ ResieH Nor must yodr eye BE- oe'
svpisa MA ihs book. Asntins up
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-02

A well.posted Senator, who has
had much experience in making
Presidents and forming parties, re-
Gently expressed the opinion that
every delegate to the next Republi-
can National Convention would ia
yor the denomination Of President
Granddaughter. Ees
Which shows that the well-posted
Senator who knows SO much about
making Presidents is also proficient
in another branch Of manufactures
making very foolish predictions.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-02

In the grand trial oiwn Machines daily
verdict
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-02

HAzrxroN TT. Jan. %. |

HAzLEToN IT,. Jan. %. 1879.
Nh. 8. G. PIERcE-Sir:-The follow
ing named pupils. have been prompt and
regular In their attendance at school, in
Sub. District No. 8. for the month ending
Ian. 18th. 1871: ss.sSsS aSa
Mary Lakewood, Arthur Nelson.
Phrens SufficOol, Charley Nelson.
Ida Sufficool, Willard Sholes,
Ida WeitMan, Frank Sholes.
Della Weitman, Willie Coy,
Sarah Roberts, j. ]. Coonrod,
Bell Gov. Bruce Roberts,
Thomas Lakewood.
S-There win he Township In
stitute held at the Richmond School
Hopse, IN Sub plssvict No. e on esttr-
day, Feb. Sd, 1873. 4
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-02

Senator Grimes ought to be pref
ty we'll satisfied with the evidence
of popularity recently given him.
A Short time since nearly all the
prominent daily and weekly Repub-
lican journals in the State took oc-
casion to speak in strong terms of
admiration of his personal character
and official services. Since then
we have seen one Democratic jour-
ual nominating him for the Presi-
dency, and nearly all the other
Democratic journals coming for
ward with expressions Of a willing
ness to endorse the suggestion. A
man thus vcnerated and endorsed
by both parties ip his own State,
has his opinions and his labors
pretty we'll justified, and has right
to feel proud of his public record
Dubuque Times. a.5sgi.e
Few Of our public men have been
vouchsafed so signal and complete
q vindication and recognition Of
their consummate craftsmanship as
Mr.. Grimes. For the performance
of an act of duty, in his capacity as
Senator, he was visited with what
seemed at the time the final and
universal condemnation, even exc
Grafton, of the party with which he
is affiliated. No man who witness
ed the manifestations Of feeling
growing out Of the failure to i'm
peach President Johnson, scarcely
expected to see Mr.. Grimes again
enjoying the confidence and respect
Of the Republican party. But calm
ly awaiting the passing away of the
passions of the hour, he has lived
to see the generation which con-
demne6 him acknowledge that he
was right, and pay generous tri-
butte Of respect to his superior
abilities as a, statesman and o: es-
teen for his virtues as citizen
In all the best elements of states
manship he stands head and shout
ders above every other man in Iowa;
q marked contrast to the class Of
politicians who need to perpetuate
their power and influence with the
people by schemes and trickery.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-02

asking Congress to grant 100 acres Of
land to soldiers and sailors in the late
war. Resolution adopted. .o- 49,. r.e
The special order, for the relief Of set
tiers on the Des Moiups River Lands was
taken up and passed without opposition.
Mr. Rholfs Of Scott, from the commit.
tee on compensation Of Public officers,
reported adversely to the bill to stop the
pay Of members during the recess. %.
The committee on Medical Institutions
reported against the passage Of the biil
to establish Homeopathic chair In the
State University for the reelon that 1t
would be class legislation. The COM
mittee ON Rules reported unfsworsbly on
the making Of q standing committee on
Normal Schools until they were estab.
lished..
Bills were introduced: by Mr.. Gear, to
tax railroads; by Mr.. Tufts, to provide
for railroad commissioners, 70 tax rail-
roads and regulate charges; by Mr.! Aims
worth, TO smend the Circuit Court law;
by Mr.. Campbell, TO sllow cumulative
voting in the election Of Township Trus-
tees. All referred. es4
The bill for the appointment Of deputy
County Auditor was passed to . second
reading, and the bill to reduce the post
age allowance Of members was referred
back to: the committee. After rejecting
. proposition to have afternoon sessions
the House adjourned. a tae
~ '"d SATURDAY, January 9th.
sExArEABiils were introduced: by
Mr.. Taylor, to punish makers Of mort
cages Ia certain cases; BY, Mr.. Bemls,
sppropria.ins .tsoo,ooo to the Insane
Hospital It Independence; BY Mr.. Nc
Cold. to smend law Tor psblication OF tax
lists. All referred. III & ~ ts
Mr.. Converse moved . Ec.considera-
ton Of the action ON Friday, postponing
consideration Of railroad tax law until
Feb. leth. After lively discussion the
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-05-24

How TO WATER PLANTS From care.
full experiments, Mr.. Mechi discovered
that plants slightly watered every day
often perish, and always become dwarfed !;
whereas a good soaking given twice q
week almost invariably proved very bene-
fetal. He says:
The sum of our experience. in watering
amounts to this-that thorough soaking Of
the ground two or three times a week is
much better than the same amount OF wa
ter applied in driblets daily. only sufficient
to wet the upper surface, but not the un-
der strata of earth contiguous to the roots.
Cold spring water should, before applying
it to heated soil, be allowed to stand
exposed to the sun and air for few hours.
The colder the water is, and the warmer
the soil, so is the necessity of applying it
10 abundance; for it is evident, though
we can not explain it, that the result pro-
duced upon plants by applying cold water
to the soil, when at high temperature,
unless so copiously applied as to saturate
the soil completely. is fatal to tender or
weakly plants, and often less or more in
furious to strong or healthy ones.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-05-24

MEN OF Few WoRDs.-Some men use
words as rihemen use bullets. They say
but little. The few words used 60 right
to the mark. They let you talk. and
guide with their eyes and face, on and on,
till what you say can be answered in a
word or two, and then they lance out a
sentence, pierce the matter to the quick.
and are done. Your conversation falls
into their mind as river into q deep
chasm, and is lost from sight BY its depth
and darkness. They will sometimes sur
prise you with few words, thatgo to the
mark like a gunshot, and then they are
silent again, as if they were reloading.-
Such men are safe counsellors. and true
friends where they profess to be such. To
them truth is more valuable than gold,
while pretension is too gauzy to deceive
them. Words without point. to them. are
like titles without merit, only betraying
the weakness of tho blinded dupes who are
ever used as promoters of other mems
schemes.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-05-24
gelecteh Miscellany.
From Woods Household Magazine.
THINK FURTHER.
BY THOMAS K. BEECHER.

''We don't have to pump water at our
house, we've got dydrant;" $50 city
boy spoke out as he saw his country cous-
ins watering stock and grinding away at
chain pump in we'll.
"a hydrant! What's that?" "All
you have to do is just to 60 up to it and
pull handle. this way. and the water
keeps running, pail full, barrel full.
all day long. We never pump"
Well, that's jolly. But where does the
water come from 2"
Whereat the city boy was foored. He
had grown up to be twelve years old in the
city, and all that he knew was that water
comes from the hydrant, and hot water
from another faucet in the bath room: and
milk from the milk-man; and meat from
the shop on the corner; and bread and
rolls from the baker. In short, every
thing came from somebody's shop. But
he had never thought any further.
People in cities have set of habits which
are second nature. This boy when he
wanted money always went to his father,
and his father took it out of his pocket
How it got in there the boy did not know.
remember when I was little Boston
boy. with two other little chaps of my own
age. going by stone building. and they
said it was bank they told me to 90 in
and get some money. They said all we
had to do was to 60 up and ask for it.
That's the way Pa does-he goes there
every day and gets money" So I went
in, with my head nearly as high as the
teller's counter, and said, II want some
money" But the teller replied. "Get
out of here, you little fool" or words to
that effect; and we three went along won
dering. after our fashion, how it was that
men could get money and boys couldn't.
We did not think further.
These country cousins ground away at
their chain pump in well that never goes
dry. What keeps the water in the we'll
they have not stopped to ask. Out there
at Chicago MIR. Farwell has drilled an ar
tesian we'll some hundreds of feet deep,
within three-fourths of a mile Of lake
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-05-24
the aqueduct,
the reservoirs,
the street mains,
the service pipe, and
Al

tuo nyurduG.
He wrote these benefactors of his in a
column, the way I have done, and drew a
line between the river and the aqueduct,
the way | have done above, and said to
himself, Il owe every drink of water to
God in the beginning, and afterward to
the men that have brought it to me-"
Down on the western coast of South
America is harbor called Payta, the only
land-locked harbor between Panama and
Valparaiso. When I went ashore there
and asked for drink of water, they told
me that all the drinking water was brought
twenty-six miles, in six-gallon casks. on
the backs of mules. For an earthquake
scares them less in Payta, and does less
damage than an hours rain would. They
told me. but [ don't believe it, that, at
three o'clock in the afternoon, all the dogs
in Payta assemble and start off some ten
miles to get drink. The American con-
sui told me, however, that the dogs drink
salt water. tell the stories as they were
told to me, but don't myself believe either
of them. AS I drank nearly pint of
water, I had sense as if water had never
been brought so far as that before, just
because it was brought in small quantities
on very small mules. But as | began to
thtnk further | remembered that every
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-05-24
Celestial Space.

When astronomers assure US that the
diametcrs, of the circles which the planets
describe in their perpetual revolutions
round the sun, are millions upon millions
of miles-how is it possible for the mind
to take in an idea of the space or room in
which such globes as those of eighty and
ninety thousand miles in diameter are run
ming, thirty times more rapidly than a
cannon ball. without the slightest inter-
ference with others?
Space-without limit There is no
boundary, no barrier, no precipitous ter
mination, but space forever and ever, and
there the intellect leaves the pursuit-the
brain of man cannot grasp it.
But there is something more perplex-
ing in the belief that interminable space
is filled with billions, aye, with countless
organized worlds. beyond all human COM
putation, far excelling our own in gran
deur of proportions, physical resources
and beauty, so immensely distant that no
telescope can ever survey those on the
nearest border of that celestial space which
they occupy; and yet still beyond and be-
yond, so far that the light they send a.
broad. at the speed of one hundred and
ninety-two millions Of miles in one second ,
may not reach this earth for hundred of
millions of years to come, and there again
and again there are globes infinitely null
tiplied. Space, then. is field in which
the Almighty displays the majesty of His
supreme power.
EEA man at camp meeting out West
boasting that he had been married twenty
five years during which time he had not
given his wife cross word or look. He
forgot to tell his hearers that he dared not
do one or the other.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-05-24

~A touching incident is reported
from Chattanooga. An utter stranger
called on a respectable farmer last week
and asked him if his house had not been
robbed during the war. The farmer re-
piled that it had. II" said the stranger,
''was one Of a maraudiug party that did
it. I took little silver locket." That
locket," said the farmer, bursting into
tears, chad been worn by my dear, dead
child" ''Here it is" replied the stran-
ger, visibly effected; II am rich let me
make restitution; here are 800 for your
little son." He gave the farmer fifty
dollar bill and received thirty dollars in
change. He then wrung the farmers
hands warmly and left. The farmer has
since dried his tears. and loaded his shot
gun. The fifty dollar bill was bad.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-05-24

pint of water in New York city is brought
forty miles, and that it cost more than
thirteen millions of dollars to bring it, and
that the people in New York, if they only
had habit of thinking further, would be
just as grateful to God and men for giving
them drink as I was in Payta.
So it is about everything in great city.
There is long, long procession of men
between US and the fountain of supply of
whatever we have and enjoy. We 60 to
shop to buy. and don't think any furth-
er-as if things grew in shops!
Our city boy, having got a-going in his
good habit, started one morning to the
bakers for dozen rolls. And, talking
with the baker as he had done with the
plumber, he learned that the rolls were
made of flour. the -four came from the
docks, brought there in barges from AL
bany, and to Albany by rail to Oswego,
where it had been manufactured from
wheat. The mills were kept going by
water from the Oswego river. Remem-
bering what he had learned about the
Croton river, he made short cut and
said: Eyes, the sun keeps the mills GO
ing" The wheat came from the upper
lakes, from Wisconsin. He heard of ele-
vators in Milwaukee and Duluth. And
the wheat came to the elevators on cars,
and the cars came, some of them, three
hundred miles. The wheat was raised by
farmers. And the Sun made the wheat
grow.
Another time he went to the meat shop
and learned that the meat came from the
butchers, bought. in the quarter at Wash
ington market Ard the butcher bought
his steer at Bullshead yards. And the
steer came down the Hudson river rail-
way from Albany, Buffalo and Chicago.
He tracked the steer to an Iowa farm and
found that he was born in Texas, and had
been fed on grass ever since he was wean-
ed. And the Sun made the grass grow.
Another day he went to the tailor shop
and tracked pair of trousers of his up
through the piece of goods to the manu-
factory of wool in Connecticut. He track
ed the wool back to New York, and from
New York to Liverpool, and from Liver
pool to London, and from London to New
Zealand. where there are millions of sheep
that nibble the grass and the Sun makes
the grass grow.
Every day that he went on one of these
| long excursions, he found hundreds of men
at work bringing what he needed to him.
But at the head of the line of benefactors
he always found the Sun.
One morning at family prayer our boy
heard his father read: That ye may be
the children of your Father which is in
heaven, for he maketh his sun to rise on
the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain
on the just and on the unjust" And he
thought to himself, "God stands at the
head and makes the sunshine and the rain;
and good men take it up where God leaves
it. Every one proves himself to be child
of God when he takes good gift and makes
it better, and passes it on to satisfy want
somewhere" And so when he kneeled
DOWN to pray, and came at last, in the
Lords prayer. to the words-"Give US
this day our daily bread. he prayed them
better than he ever did before, because he
had learned to THINK FURTHER.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-05-24

wThe way they boil rice in India is
as follows: Into saucepan Of 2 quarts Of
water, when boiling, throw tablespoon
full Of salt; then throw in one pint of rice,
after it has been we'll washed in cold wa
ter; let it boil 20 minutes. Throw it out
on a cullender, and drain off the water.
When this has been done, put the rice
back into the can or saucepan, dried by
the fire, and let it stand near the fire for
some minutes. or until required to be
dished up; thus the grains appear sepa-
rate and not mashed together.