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The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
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"This is dull ough work. said ia dear littlo
breeze,
With the fragrance ofJune in her breath;
"0fliving rose-leaves and taking my
I'm just about tired to DEATH
Dear me,
I'm just about tired to death.
Al can't raise the wind in this poky old place,
Said the breeze, with a doIorous sigh,
$50 my quarters III change, if it brings me
disgrace.
1 must have blowout or diel
Dear me!''
Said the breeze, with dolorous sigh.
So the zephyr quite out of her latitude falls,
And in search of adventures goes forth,
Receiving some hints as to tempests and squalls
From her friends at the east and the north,
Who sag:
You'd better keep northeast By north"
She found small spark with the tiniest glow,
And declared it would be a great shame
To let it die out just for want of blow,
So she famed it up into a flame.
All, met
Such a beautiful. terrible famel
1t Ieaped and it cracked. -and still the breeze
And thoughts is was capital fun
To see the black smoke, as it gathered sand
grew.
And:put out the light of the sun.
Just see
s he exclaimed. what fun!"
But she wearied at lastsof her froliesome 70 at,
And thejoy of her turbulent reign,
"How wish that this wTetehed old fire was
out,
And in my quarters againl
Oh, yes,
In my nice cozy quarters again"
But the fame she-had :kindled with vigorous
breath
To her bidding refused to give heed.
But went hurrying on in its dance of death,
And mockingly laughed at her deed!
"AhaY
How it mocke1 at her ignorant deed.
Dear me. #" said the zephyr. now where shall
go
To hide my disgrace and my shame2
Ali little thought that such ruin would grow
From the spark than I famed to a fame!
Dear mel
And nobody else To blame
''This caution give to al breeEes that blow,
And TO people who gossip about
Be careful of sparks, lest you kindIe a glow
That you'd find very hard to put out.
just sec
What came my little blowout"
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
Abroad.

Pope Plus TX. has finally abandoned
al idea of leaving home.
A Geneva special says: 1.-THE Arbi-
traitors are not all of the same opinion
on several points, and will deliver pa
pers expressive of their individual
views. Full details of the proceedings
will not be made public for some time
yet. +"
The widow of Balta, the lately assas-
sinated President of Peru, sailed from
Aspinwall for New York on the 5th
nst-
Prince Albrecht, commander in chief
of the Austrian army, is dead.
Late Madrid dispatches complain
that the Carlists are again becoming
troublesome. Fresh outbreaks Oh the
frontier have occurred. Troops have
been dispatched to the menaced poiats,
and precautions have been taken to
prevent the insurgents from crossing
over from France or concentrating in
any considerable numbers.
A Brussels dispatch says a coal pi
near Heristsl, on the Mense, was acci
dentally flooded while the men
were at work. The inundation was SO
sudden that twenty-five miners were
drowned in the pit.
The French Radicals are determined,
notwithstanding President Theirs pro
clamation to the contrary, to celebrate
the anniversary of the First Republic,
in Paris and the provinces.
A hurricane visited the Windward
Islands. Vessels are ashore at Saint
Kits, Gaudeloupe, and Martinique
and great damage has been done at
Dominica. Vessels were dashed to
pieces and wharves broden, and many
lives lost. On the 10th severe storm
passed over Valparaiso, doing much
damage to shipping
A Paris letter says it isgenerally con-
ceded on all sides that Theirs death
would result in civil war in France !;
that no little disquiet Is caused by the
chances of the occurrence of such con-
tinRency.
Dispatches from Rome states that
Cardinal Antoneli has a communities
ton from the Papal Nuncio at Vienna,
that the Emperors in conference agreed
to request the Pope to break from the
Jesuits, the Emperors promising to in
tercede with Italy in behalf of the for
eign religious corporations at Rome.
Edmund About, the popular French
writer, has been arrested at Strasbourg
by the Germans. 1t Is presumed that
Edmund's pen has wrought the niis-
hief,
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21

IT Is said that milk can be kept
wear or more as sweet aswhen taken
from the COW, by the following meth
Cd Procure bottles, which must be
perfectly clean. sweet, and dry ];
draw the milk from the COW into the
bottles, and as they are filed, imme-
diately cork them well, and las'en
the cork with pack-thread or wire
Then spread little straw IN the Dos- s,
tom of boiler, on whicn place tne
bottles, with straw between them,
mill the boiler contains 3 sufficient
ouantoty. Fill it up With cold
water. heat the water, and as soon al
it it be, begins to boil, draw the FIRE
and let the whole gradually cool
When quite cold, take out the bottles
and pack them in sawdust IN hamp
ers, and stow them away in the cool
est part of the house.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
Matches.

Nowadays, watches are easily op-
ed and as easily carried, being so
small that lady can wear one III her
narrow belt-ribbon-though we by
no means approve OF that careless
wav of wearing these useful orna-
ments, and no lady who values ner
watch for its time-keeping properties
will SO ill-use it. But fancy one OF
our modern bellies in possession OF
an old-fashioned watch 1t was
originally comparatively huge ana
" b1ngling thing, and was moved
Inv weiohts-in short, it was only
"ittle clock" a pocket edition there
of as it we're. It's cases were at hrst
made of iron, and on account OF the
weights it had to be borne about IN
a suspended position, as by a cord
about the neck, hanging down on
tbe breast. It was only little over
three centuries ago, about the year
1855, that the spring was deVlsed'
doing away with weights, and rem
dering the instrument more readlly
and safely portable. These springs
were then only straight pieces ol
steel. not coiled as now, and occupy
ing m ore space. The watch OF those
days had but one index or hand, and
required re- to be wound often. two or
three times a day. The faces on
dials were of metal, brass usually
and the cases were without crystals
but opened in front and at the back
not un like "hunting-watch cases O
today. The case was from live tC
six inches nj diameter "a fashion
which modern indisposition to "bear
about iargoweights'' would hardly
tolerate. As may be readily conJec
tured, the watch of those ii mes wa
a very costly affair. worth more thar
many New England farm now is
and recurring long time in its con
struction. 1t is computed that tn
average value of the watches OF old
en- days vas equivalent to fiiteel
hundred dollars of our currency.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
Words

Words derive thdr power not
from their number, Mt from the di.
rectness aud intensity. with which
thew are delivered. Max Muller
saws: "A well educs1ed person in
England, who has Asd1sat the public
school and at the University. who
reads his Bible, Shakespeare the
london Times, and all of Nudes
library, q. G., nine-tventieths of all.
the books published in England, }
seldom uses more than three thous
and or four thousandwords in actnal
conversation. Accurate thinkers
and close reasoners, sho avoid vague
and general express ms, and wait
tin they find the woM that exactly
fits their meaning, eupApy4a larger
stock. and eloqueEt rfeakegs, may
rise to a command o. en thodsapd.
Millions works are pntl up with
eight thousand, anse Testa
nent says AL II y . With i've
thousand SIX y 90 1t forty~
two" - ~
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
Power of Comprehension.

II was said of Thoreau, we be-
lieve. that he could take up any Civ
en- number Of lead-pencils without
counting. A celebrated trapper
once assured us that he could tell
how many balls he had in his bullet
pouch by placing his hand on it, and
without stopping to count them, and
added: 'I can tell the number Of
bullets instantly without counting,
as YOU pronounce a word without
spelling it" Southey was accus-
toned to take in the substance of a
book in turning the leaves over con-
tinuously, glancing down the pages.
Houdan, the magician, trained him"
self to quickness Of perception when
a boy, by running past a show-win-
dow at full speed, and then trying
to tell what was in it. We once
met n man on a canal boat, who was
amusing himself by going from pas
sengcr to passenger, and telling al
most every one where he had seen
him before, on such a train, IN such
n hotel, in such a street, giving date
and place TO peOplc Win LiOIn Ho
had never exchanged a word. This
training of the faculties in partlcu-
lar directions Is carried to marvel
GUS extreme by woodsmen, trap
pers, and men who guess the weight
of animals. Perhaps the most re-
markable instances are the markers
who leap from log to log at the
mouth Of a boon, standing OH the
floating log and translating instant
w an old mark into new one, re-
memberlng what equivalent to give
for each of a hundred marks, apd
chopping it upon the log in the time
that it floats its length. 1t is said
that Thoreau knew the relative or
der of the lowering Of all theplants
in the Concord woods, and knew
the note of every bird and a thous-
and other out-of-the-way things be-
sides.-HeqrH and Home.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
nrnarY Homes.

OF all the dreary places, deliver us
from the dreary farm houses which
many people call home" Bars Tor
a front gate; chickens wallowing be-
fore the door, pig pens elbowing
the house in the rear scraggy trees
never cared for, or no trees at all;
no towering shrubs; no neatness;
no trimness. And yet lawn, ana
trees, and plain fence around all
do not cost a great deal. They can
be secured little by little, at odd
times, and the expense barely be
felt And if ever the time comes
when it is best to sell the farm, nifty
dollars SO invested viii often bring
back five hundred. For a man IS Q
brute who will not insensibly yield &c
| q higher price for such farm when
he thinks of the pleasant surround
ings it offers his wife and children.
! AN IDLE brain is the devils work
1 ah0n
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
EOmelYiIirIS.

How did that homely woman CON
trive to get married ? is not unfre-
quently remarked OF some good do
mestic creature whom her husband
regards as the apple of his eye, and
in whose plain taoe he sees some
thing better than beauty. Pretty
girls, who are vain of their charms,
are rather prone to make observa-
tions of this kind; and conscious
of the fact that flowers Of love
liness are often left to pine on the
stem, while weeds of LONELINESS 20
off readily, is no doubt in many
cases at the bottom Of the sneering
question. The truth is, that most
@en prefer LONELINESS and amiabili-
ty to beauty and caprice. Hand
Jme women are sometimes very
hard to please. They are apt to ov-
ervalue themselves, and III waiting
for an immense bid, occasionally
overstep the market. Their plain
sisters, on the contrary, aware of
their personal deficiencies, generally
lay themselves out to produce an
agreeable impression, and in most
instances succeed. They don't as
pire to capture paragons with
princely fortunes, but are willing to
take any thing respectable.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21

TIE Nine owners of Great Britain
for many years have been endeavor-
ing to procure machinery which
should take the place of hand labor
in getting out coal, but they have
net succeeded The difficulty which
the coal uroprietors have recent
ly experienced IN procuring sufli-
cient labor to enable them to supply
the demand for fuel, which has de-
cidedly outrun their facilities for
production, gives this subject pecu-
iar interest atthe present time. At
a meetin2 OF fhe Institution Of Me-
chanical Engineers recently held at
Liverpool, a description was given of
a coal-cutting machine, with rotary
cutter worked by com pressed air,
which h-ss l5aen n - use l0r the
past two years in seam OF coal
known as the Pemberton Little Coal.
This coal was about two feet and
four inches in thickness, and so hard
that it was difficult to obtain men to
work it. The cutter IS driven by
compressed air, which is conveyed
down the shaft and along the main
roads in iron pipes. The coal is cut
by a spur wheel, fitted with teeth,
which cuts its way into the coal with
out any pvevious "hoihng." The
machine IS drawn along the face OF
the coal as it cuts its way, throwing
out the small coal, or slack, be
tween the train rails upon which 1t
runs 1t is considered that under
ordinary circumstances this machine
does the work of forty men, and as
it never gets tired, it can be worked
day and night without stopping 1t
is also found that the proportion OF
slack to coal taken out by the ma
chine was only as one to eight, while
with hand labor the propotion was
as three OF cal to one of slack.
The actual cost of getting coal by
this machine, however, taking all
contingencies into accout, has prov
ed quite as great as by hand labor
the only advantages claimed being
more rapid production and less pro-
portion OF slack to coal.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
TIE .STATELLNESS OF TRU7H.

rHE .STlATELLNESS OF IR vi
Too stately.is the form Of truth
For walls of earth to hold!
Howe er the master plan and smooth,
HoWe'er the mason mold.
No temple of high honored creeds
Confines that creed most high;
Which issues. matching human needs.
From Gods free treasury.
But friends conjoined in Jesus name,
By high example led,
The worship of the heart may claim
For their illastrious head.
And, should they in q prison meet,
Their place shall noble be,
And if palace is their seat,2
They meet in mOdesty.
BIest be the faith that thus transcends
Our common measure small,
That grandeur to the meanest lends
Humility to all.
This highest glory may our hearts
And these fair-walls enshrins;
The crown of doctrines and of arts,
MaA's human-God's divine.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
The Art Of Spending.

Every industrious, wids-awake per-
son can find ways and means OF
earning money, but afte it is fairly
earned the great trouble with every
body is that it slips away so easily.
Every time you turn you will find
ways and means of Spending money.
Now the great art in spending well,
is to make every dollar show where
it is invested. There are so many
ways OF disposing Of it which never
seem to give any returns. Your
housekeepers need to learn the art
Of spending well A dollar invest
ed in nice covered dish for the
table, Il useful mat for the hall, a
beautiful tree for the front door yard,
will give n hundred-fold the pleas
ure that it would in q strip of trim
ming about the hem of a dress, or a
fat chicken for the table, which
leaves you no better satisfied than If
you had iined off an inexpensive
chop. Think well over every dime
you pay ont, and resolve to put it to
the best possible account. The art
Of spending is even more lmpor-
tant one than the art of earning
money. You can gain it 10y the
spadeful ana yet fritter IL all away
by the spoonful.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21

A CORRESPONDENT of the Springfield
Leader says that the tanneries OF ST.
Louis imports sumac largely when
it might be supplied from southwest
Missouri, and he adds "The Mis-
souri, sumac is only worth at present
81 per hundred in the leaf, while
that of Virginia and Maryland is
worth from So to $3.50, merely be-
cause it is ground. 1 have made ar
rangements IN st. Louis to have its
value demonstrated by fair an4la-
sys, the result of which viii deter
mine its value in the market it is
cured just as clover hay Z; should not
have the dew fall on it more than
one night, and must not get wet.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21

WOMEN make great mistake who
want their lovers to see in them
the end of all beauty and loneliness;
they should rather try TO make VIM
dows of themselves, TO let eternal
beauty that is above and beyond,
shine through them,
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21

"I HAVE nothing to do with deaths
coming My business is to ITe as
long as / can and as well as | can,
until the Lord shall think proper to
call me home. Rev. Wm. 1sHnent.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21

DR.. Livingstone started from En-
gland on the expedition in which he
is still engaged in April, 1865. He
left the Island of Zanzibar for the
main coast of Africa in March, 1866,
mad having organized his little party.
stsrted for the interior on the 7th Of
April, following.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21

A Valuable PRAcrIcE.-The late
excellent Rev. D. James w. Alex
ander was, in many respects, a
model Christian man and minister
One important secret Of it lay in
some OF his habits. One of these
was that of taking, every morning,
a verse of passage from the Bible for
his meditation during the day, and
with the view. he said, of having his
entire life filed with its spirit ana
its influence. David said to God,
"Thy word have 1 had in my heart,
that I might not sin against thee"
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21

OxE of the salts most sensitive to
heat is the double iodide of silver
and mercury. Its natural color is
yellow, but it turns red if warmed,
and returns yellow again on cooling.
The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21

GREAT powers and natural gifts do
not bring privileges to Their posses
sors so much as they bring duties.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-10-29

g4r The women vote in Kansas, atschool
MEETINGS, and IT isfepolfed' is that '4liep men
vote just as their wives do.''o'fisel y nlrp
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How the Sun Caught n Thief.

Five or six days ago, says a Paris paper,
M. x, photographer, allured by the
brightness of the sun and the softness of
the air, provided himself with the necessa-
ry baggage and hastened to Fontainbleau
to take views of the forest. He installed
himself in very picturesque quarter,
erected his apparatus, prepared his plates,
opened his obiect-glass, and enveloped at
once his case and his head in large, dark,
and fiuctuant veil, set himself to the task of
seizing the objects in view. He had just
taken out his proof from the dark chamber,
and was subjecting it to the chemical re-
action, when strong hand was laid upon
his shoulder. He turned around hastily
and found himself in the presence of q
species of giant, meanly attired, who, by
gestures and voice demanded his purse. NJ.
k is not a Hercules, and from the
first glance toward his adversary, he con-
cluded that all resistance was useless. He
therefore very politely offered his purse,
which was accepted with seeming thank
fulness. The robber bowed, and, leaving
him to resignation, went into the depth of
the forest Poor X-----, meditating on
his sad loss, remained for some time mo-
tionless. His looks were mechanically set
ON his Photographic proof, and he mused
upon it with a diverted and unconcerned
eye. "'What Is this9' exclaimed he sud
denly !" what is the human form IN this
oat,nica ,,ndar sha shada icf ti,;s ooi, o3, q
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Gbe Gintes, Nep BLOOMFIELD, 1)a.


had waited for with eagerness, was plainly
satisfactory.
Finding the aunt's resolution infexible,
but expressing the hope she might yet be
induced to alter it, Mr.. Trett did not pro
long his visit.
Next day Mr. Dothunter rushed wildly
into Arabella's presence. On her checks
were traces of recent tears.
81 know the worst ~ he cried. "Fly
with me dearest, beyond the reach of the
cruelty that would defer our hopes ?'' ? ~
Sobbing she leaned her head upon his
shoulder.
In few hurried words he consoled her:
and in less time than such affair was ever
planned before a rendezvous was fixed, and
before an hour had elapsed, the twain were
one flesh.
What was to be done next?
"Go and ask your aunt's forgiveness, -
suggested the bridegroom.
"She left this morning"
"Well, we can go where she is
Alas she will never forgive me,
whimpered Arabella.
"Nonsense know she UiH."
+" How do you know ?"
"Why, she told me so herself, yester-
day."
He could have bit his tongue off for MAX
ing such slip
Told you so herself Why, you were
not here yesterday, and you never saw my
aunt. Wretch ~ she exclaimed, CLEAN
of intelligence flashing over her counte-
nance as she closely scaned her husband S
factures. 81 see it all. Your uncle is a
myth. 1t was yourself, in disguise, whom
l saw yesterday she added betraying
herself in turn.
"Traitress ~ he cried, catching at her
last unguarded words. 1t was you who
were your aunt yesterday. l was fool
not to see it."
For an instant the eyes of the pair met
in hate and scorn; then turning their backs
upon each other they went their several
ways-each, mayhap, to take counsel of
one of those eminent legal gentleman skilled
in the procurement of "divorces without
publicity"
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Nick,s story.

"My old man." said Nick, "as gem
eral thing was pretty steady old gent (;
but once in while he would get oblivious,
and scdter was not the cause of it. / recol-
lect certain holiday was approaching, and
l had been shining around to get little
money to have a time with ON that day
but the fates and purse were against me.
Two days prior to the anticipated holiday
dawn l hadn't nary a cent. Remember
this, boys, when add that upon this same
afternoon came into the house, when 10
there upon the floor, totally overcome by
his indications, lay my respected daddy, and
besides him six shining half-dollars, which
had rolled from his pocket. Boys, I've
been an honest man all my life, but once,
when boy, l committed theft. Thinks
to myself, the old mans been on jam
boree won't know how much he's spent,
and will never miss it. But mark you, the
next morning and my two brothers were
summoned into our father presence. The
old mans face lowered. 1 thought of that
half-dollar and knew that a storm was
brewing. "Boys," said he, "last night |
came home with six halfdollars. One of
ems gone. Your mother didn't take it..
There's been no one else in the house.
! Which of you took it?' We all protested
our innocence. "Boys," said the old man,
that half-dollar never walked away, and
I'm going to find out which one Of you
three boys took it." Turning round, lie
took from the wall an old flint-locl Queen
Anne blunderbuss. This he deliberately
loaded with powder and buck-shot in our
presence then, fastening it upon the table,
lie cooked it, tied a string to the trigger,
took seat behind it, holding the string in
his hand, and in solemn tones addressed us
thusly:
Boys, Pm going to discover the thief,
and punish him at the same time. You
must each blow in the muzzle of that gun.
When the guilty one blows, off goes his
head. Now, then, you have a chance will
you own UP, or blow? Not word did
either of us speak. "Ben' said the old
man to my oldest brother, "have you got
that half-dollar?"
"No, sir" "Blow in that muzzle."
Ben did so, and the gun didn't 60 off,
"Jack," to my next brother, "have you
got that half-dollar?" "No SIR" "Take
blow" Jack did so in safety. "Nick, +"
(eh, boys, | tell you the chills began to
crawl down my back, "got that half-dol-
lar 2" said the old man. " No sirn said
with a defiant swagger. elbow in that
gum" l walked up bravely, gave blow,
and-dOdged. "Nick," said the old man,
in voice of thunder, "where is that half
dollar2n He had me. The truth dodgcd
out of me. Said /, scout in the barn, pop"