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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
Some Feats in Walking.

THERE is something very striking in the
reaction against steam locomotion which
has set in simultaneously with the rise in
the price of coal. Not only have the old
four-horse coaches reappeared on the
roads in the neighborhood of London, not
only has an attempt been made to swim
across the channel, but Scotch minister
has just set the example of walking from
Edinburgh to London. On Monday fore
noon, says the London correspondent of
the Dundee Adrertiser, the Rev. Mr.. Jamie
son, of st. Matthews, Glasgow, arrived
at Charing Cross in excellent condition,
after footing every inch of the space
that lies between the metropolis of Eng
land and the Register Office, Edinburgh" :"
The time spent on the road was eighteen
days and aforenoon; and Mr.. Jameson
never started until after breakfast nor
walked in the heat of the day. His route
was the old coach road between the two
capitals, passing through Carlisle, ,Greta
Bridge, Doncaster, Newark, Huntington,
etc., and his luggage was a knapsack
weighing twenty-six pounds, which he
carried on his shoulders, Mr.. Jameson de-
serves credit for starting this new idea
of a holiday expedition, and perhaps the
old road to Scotland will before long be
thronged with pedestrians walking, not
like Mr.. Jameson, with a stately step
and slow, but hurrying between the cap
itals as fast as their legs can carry them
Phillipides, who was sent from Athens
to Sparta, is stated to have run one hun
dred and fifty Roman miles in two days
In October, 1911, Mr.. Rivington, farme
near Dorchester, walked five hundred anC
sixty miles in seven days; and still
more. remarkable feat was performed b,
Mr. Glanville, anative of Shropshire, VIII
in 1906 walked one hundred and twenty
two miles on the Bath road in twenty
nine hours and three quarters.-PaU Ma
| Gazette
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
Sleep on Your Cares.

MEN of business, believe me, there is
now and then profitable venture in do
ing nothing at all. In the power to put
business aside, and abiding now and then
in perfect quiet, things sometimes solve
themselves, when we give them that ad-
vantage, which refuse to come clear for
all our trying. We all know how, by
simply taking some perplexity into the
deepest silence this side of death-a good
nights sleep-we can do better some
times than if we sat up and wrought at
our task all night. When Matthew Muir
ray, of Leeds, wanted to see his way
through some sore perplexity in his in
ventlons, and all other effort was of no
use, he rested day and night from all
noise, and all effort save the effort an ac-
tive man has to keep himself quiet; and
then the thing he wanted would steal in
and look at him, and light on him, and
stay, as birds used to light on the old
hermits, no more afraid of them than of
the trees under which they sat. And
mothers, you may care and toll incessant-
ly for your little ones, never resting a
moment in your devotion, and then, he
cause you never do quit, but enter into
your very closet with a little frock to
mend, you shall never be quite able TO
take the whole sunlight and sum of your
motherhood into your heart. You will
be so full of care about the bread that
perishes as to miss the bread that cometh
down from heaven. No person in the
world needs so much, now and then, to
| be still, and open her soul only to the
| silence as an earnest, energetic, whole
hearted mother. This eternal activity is
almost sure TO run at last in shadows
Robert Collyer, in Independent.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
THE JAR OF HONEY.

"Now, Emma, be a good little girl
while am gone" said Emma's mother.
81 shall be back in less than half an hour.
am only going to carry some things to
old Mrs. Winslow"
81 do not like old Mrs. Winslow," said
Emma.
''But why don't you like her? What
do you know of herr" asked mamma.
isn't she the old woman who makes
the soothing-syrup?" asked Emma.
"Oh, mol this is another Mrs. Winslow,
a very different person." said mamma
Zone who does not approve of the sooth-
iDg-syrup," said mamma
''Then shall love her deaEy; for
neither do / approve of the soothing.
SYRUP" said Emma. eff the Mrs. Wins
low who makes it had to swallow it her
self, she wouldn't be quite so hard on us
children, / think. Now, what / like is
honey, grapes, peaches, and pineapple
marmalade."
"Well, good-by now. for little while" I"
said mamma.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

his daughters arm linked in with the
hated lovers. The indignant papa took
the young man by the collar, and was
giving him a good shaking, when he
found he had got hold of the wrong man,
and soon learned that the parties were:a
highly respectable married couple, who
were coming home from a prayer meet
ing"
WHEN postage was high" says a
writersin Temple Bar, "letters were iuxu-
ries which persons far above the con-
dition of those who are called poor could
not often indulge. We cannot give bet
ter illustration of this than one we find in
letter addressed by Mr.. Collins, the
artist, to his bfother in 1916, when the
landscape painter was % years of age.
Collins was then at Hastings, sketching,
and had invited his brother to come down
from Saturday until Monday: The whole
amount of the expense would be the
coach, provided you put two biscuits in
your pocket, which would answer as a
lunch; and / would have dinner for you,
which would not increase my expenditure
a5Ooe tenpence. ! shall be at the place
where the coach stops for you, should
you be able to come. Write me nothing
about it unless you have other business,
for letter costs u dinner!'"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
HOss Sense.
BY JOSH BILLINGS.

BY JOSH BILLINGS.
THERE is nothing that haz been dis
kovered yet that IL so skase as good Hoss
| sense, about 2S hoss power.
l don't mean race hoss, nor trotting
hoss sense, that kan run mile in .2S,
and then brake down; nor trot in 2:13, and
good for nothing afterwards only to brag
on ; but mean the all-day hoss sense,
that iz good for 8 miles an hour, from
rooster growing in the morning, until the
COWS cum home at night, klean tew the
end ov the road.
hav seen fast sense, that was like sum
hoses, who could git so far in one day
that it would take them two days to git
back, on litter. / don't mean this kind
nuther.
Good hard-pan sense IL the thing that
that will wash well, wear well, iron out
without wrinkling, and take starch with
out tracking.
Menny people are hunting after uncom-
mon sense, but they never find it a good
deal uncommon sense IL ov the natur of
genius, and all genius liz the gift of God,
and kant be had, like hens eggs, for the
| hunting.
Good, old-fashioned common sense liz
one ov the hardest things in the world to
out-wit, ,outargy or beat in emmy way, it il
az honest az a loaf of good domestik
bread, always in tune, either hot from the
oven or days old.
Common sense kan DE improved upon
by edukashun-genius kan be too, sum,
but not much.
Edukashun gauls genius like bad set
ting harness.
| Common sense IL like billed vittles, it is
| good right from the pot, and it iz good
mex day warmed up.
If every man waz a genius, mankind
would be az bad oph az the heavens
would be, with every star comet, things
would get hurt badly, and nobody tew
blame.
Common sense is instinkt, and instinkt
don't make emmy blunders mutch, no more
than rat duz, in coming out, or going
intew hole, he hits the hole the fust
time, and just fills it.
Genius IL always in advance ov the
times, and makes sum magnificent hits,
but the world owes most ov its tributes to
good hoss sense-N. Y. Weekly.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
"keep STILL"

A DECLAMATIoN FOR A SMALL BOY.
Keep still That's what they always
say to us boys. Just as if there never
had been any noise in the world until we
were born. Haven't old folks all been
boys and girls once? Didn't some of
them ever get boxed on the ears at school2
Didn't some of them drum on the milk
pans, or crack nuts with the flat iron, or
slam the doors, or come down stairs
sliding-down-hill fashion? Everything
that is smart goes off with a bang. This
would be dull world if it were not for
the racket the boys make. Noisy boys
are not always saucy. Some are; but we
don't train in that company. We belong
to the Boys Rattle-te-bang Society of
Good Manners" and we invite all our
young friends to come and Join u.s.
Young Folks Rural
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
mel" cried Emma, as she struggled to get

mel" cried Emma, as she struggled to get
the jar off her head.
At the first cry for help the bad
thoughts all scampered off like towards.
They had got the little girl into trouble,
but they would not see her out of it.
Emma was so much alarmed that she
fell hat on the floor, crying "Help, helpp
But the cry was low and smothered.
At last a good little thought drew near,
and whispered to her: "Pick up that
iron skillet that lies on the floor, and
hammer with it on the jar till you break
it on your head"
Then Emma CROPPED about on the floor,
found the skillet, and hammered with it
on the jar till the jar broke, and her head
was free, though somewhat bruised
When her mother came home, Emma
told her the whole story, and her mother
said: (.
"This will teach you, hope, to mind
your good thoughts rather than your
bad. Tile Nursery.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
The Deer-A Fable.
From the German.1

from the German.I
A deer once saw himself pictured in a
clear brook.
Truly" said he, 81 surpass all ami
mails in gracefulness and majestyl How
lordly do my horns tower upl But my
feet how long and uglyr'
Hardly had he uttered these words when
he saw lion springing toward him.
With the greatest haste his despised feet
carried him to the next forest; but sud-
denly his broad antlers were caught in
the overhanging thicket, and he could
not tear himself away
The lion overlook him and devoured
him.
Learn from this not to value things
from their outward appearance, but for
their inner worth; otherwise you will Of
ten have to repent bitterly your unjust
Judgment.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
NO. 4S.
Youths Department.
IDLE WORDS.

BY s. JENNIE JONES.
KNOW little blue-eyed boy
Or brown-eyed-Ifo forget;
Indeed, i am not sure his eyes
Are not as black as jet.
At all events, this little boy
Comes in sometimes from play,
And says, II want piece Of pie,
Please get it right away"
And If his mother doesn't run
And fetch 1t in a breath,
He adds, "Oh, hurry, hurry, please,
I'm nearly starved TO death"
Do yen believe an hour could bring
A boy SO near starvations
Or don't you think bis hasty words
gross exaggerations
know a clever little girl.
Her name perhaps, Is Kate;
1t may be Mary. jane or Sue
My mem'ry's bad of late;
But howsoever that may be,
One thing I'm sure know;
She has friend, "the darlingest
That ever lived below
And yet sometimes they disagree,
I'm very sad to say,
And Mary. Katie, Jane or Sue
Comes houncing in from play,
And says-Ixe heard her. i am sure,
Of times at least full five
I'll never speak to her again
As long as I'm alive
And yet she seeks her friend next day
Before tits fairly light,
Although tits useless to remark
She did not die that night.
know lot of boys and girls
Who answer, I'm a minute,''
Whenever told to do n thing,
And fail to cen begin 1t
Till full two hours or more have passed;
And when at last tits done
The minutes number quite throng,
Instead of only one.
know boy who, coming home
From school one summer day,
Declared he saw a hundred dogs
All fighting by the way
The same one said a thousand miles
You'd hear the lions roars,
And that he saw an elephant
As big as all out doors.
Now, would you think these boys and girl
Can be esteemed as truthful
As Washington, the great and good.
Was when he too was youthful
Or can it rot at least be said
Such words are very '.idle.r
And tongues that speak them all the while
Need wisdom's bit and bride.
-Chiidren's Hour.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

A writer of considerable rspute has
calculated that, upon an average, every
500 miles of railroad adds $120, ,000, 900
yearly to the national wealth, which is
enough to pay the interest of the national
debt. If we call the addition, however,
but half of this writer's estimate, or $50,
OO0, 900 per annum, it would give suffi:
cient idea of this constant source OF
national wealth for all practical purposes.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

The ninth census gives the following
information relative to the iron industry
of the United States, for the year ending
June, 1870: Pig iron, 3S6 establishments,
574 blast furnaces with daily capacity
of 1857 tons melted metaD employing
q, ,554 hands, producing 2,052, S21 tons of
pig, of the value of $50, GAO, 49S Blomary
forges, 50, employing 2,902 hands, pro-
duciRg 110,S0S tons of blooms, of the
value of So, 765,623. Foundries, 1858,
employing 51,297 hands, and producing
to the value of $99, ,S37, 21S. Forges, 103
employing 1861 hands, and producing to
Producing pro " bar, ' rod i0g, and railroad rom
nail, plate, etc :, 500, employing 44,6ft
hands, and producing to the value OF
| $3.50, 301, 1853.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
roo PREsUMING.

SAID she, pray tell me, II yen can,
Why men 20 baehful are r@a y
They fall IN lore, and dream, and sigh,
And mofehip as afar;
But when they strive to tell the tale,
They stutter, hesitate and fail!
I'VE ladies like man, you know,
One not afraid to speak
And here / thought blush appeared
Upon the maiden's cheek,
Then to myself said, !" see
This maiden's heart belongs to me-"
Then ont spake: ssOh, lady fair,
My heart my life Is thine
And since boldly speak my love,
Pray wilt hou not be mine -
s. Strange how presuming some men arel''
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

MAINE husbands come cruel dodge on
their faithful, iftoo talkative wives. One
tells his wife he is going to Ausanuqua-
tansogowmongotongo fishing, and in his
absence has his friends call at the house
and inquire his whereabouts. When he
returns the poor woman is exhausted,
and doesn't speak again for month.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

THERE was on exhibition in Paris, not
long since, magnificent piano, sent as a
wedding gift to the future Empress of
China 1t is completely covered with
gold and lacquer, and the keys are COM
posed of mother of pearl. 1t is as useless
as it is elegant, however, owing to the
ton has been entirely neglected, and it
will have to be played by machinery, an
attachment accompanying it which works
on the plan of a hand-organ, and beyond
half a dozen tunes will be silent.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

But, before she closed the deor, mann
ma added, '.Ncw,Sbe sure to- get into no
sort of mischief while am gone. You
are quite little girl to be left in charge
of the house. Let me see how well you
and your doll Ida can do"
my doll Ida and I will do very well, I"
said Emma 81 am five years old, you
know; and, as for Ida, thief might put
a pistol at her head, and she would not
be afraid"
81 can well believe it." said mother.
And off she went to Mrs. Winslow's.
Then Emma played with her doll Ida,
but soon tired of that; and putting Ida
down on the floor, looked about to see
what she could find TO amuse her.
At last she spied out two jars on a shelf
in the wash-room, and, on a wash-bench,
another jar. First she peeped into the
jar without a handle that stood ON the
shelf; and then she peeped into the other
jar on the shelf; and this one had a
handle.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

The two jars on the shelf were empty;
but when Emma took hold of the handle
of the jar on the wash-bench, tipped it up
and looked in, she saw that there was
some honey at the bottom.
Then the little girl thought to herself,
"This must be one of the jars that
mother told Eliza to wash. But it is a
pity so much good honey should be
wasted. There is some dry honeycomb
on top; but, if take that out, / think /
shall find some nice honey underneath"
Then she thought, "But is it right for
me to touch the honey without asking
leave Of my mothers"
She had some doubts on this point. Had
she listened wisely to her good Thoughts,
she would have heard them say, do not
touch it, Emma! You must wait till
your mother comes home. She will let
YOU have some of the honey if she thinks
it good for you. Do not meddle with it.
Itdoes not belong to you. Fly from evil
and evil will fly from you"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10


"Oh isn't it sweet ?" thought Emma,
pausing to take breath.
"Of course it is sweet" cried bad
thought in rude, reckless way. They
would have kept you from tasting a bit
of it-they would Now you know who
your friends are, Emma. We've helped
you to a rich feast, you see. Isn't 1t
oily
"There is honey here at the bottom
that sticks" said Emma.
"Put your head in, my dear, and lick
it up,' said the bad, bad, thought.
"Don't leave drop of it. Honey can't
hurt you. l wonder that those stupid
bees who keep working, working, all the
time, and never stop to have little fun,
can make anything so nice. That's right,
my dear put your head in: In with itF'
Emma worked her head into the jar,
and began to lick up the honey from the
bottom.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

Such was the good advice that the good
thoughts gave; but the bad thoughts came
to her, and said, Doesn't it look nices
Just take off that dry honeycomb, and
under it you will find the sweet, delicious
honey"
Don't do it, Emmam murmured the
good thoughts, growing fainter and
fainter.
Hold your tongue, will your" cried the
bad thoughts to thegood thoughts. You
would like to starve her, you wouldl You
hate to see her jolly, you dol"
"No: / would like 10 make her good,
conscientious child," sighed the good
thoughts, shrinking back from a quarrel.
''Take Ida up and go away, little girl
away from temptation"
"Stop that preaching !" cried the bad
thoughts, getting angry. You are al
ways in the wsyl You make her as
stupid as you are yourself~
Then the good thoughts fled; and
Emma took off the honeycomb, and
dipped her fingers into the nice, sweet
honey, and beganto eat of it. Ida looked
on, but too needless to see that her little
mamma was dong wrong.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

VI
"Oh dear Help, help It's sitting
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-12-13

Our ncighbor OF lae New, thinks De-
mocrary q grave subject. That's what
Obery thought. and he went To- work and
deliberately buried 1t. We think ne WIN
discover ere long. that he has buried i've
eorpse.-tPaducsh Tobacco Plant.
II We ever thought the Democracy .
grave subject, we did not bury that sub.
ject either in haste or with deliberation
and We do not expect to And the subject,
buried or unmarried, either q olive" or dead
corpse. The Democratic party, dearest
Fsxon-xnd with tears - numerous rs
drops in thunder shower we make this
sad and almost solemn declnration--the
Democratic party is corpse. The party
10 therefore dead, unless it is like the BUSH
ness men Of PAducah, who are, In the
language Of Len, live corpses. Live
corpsss are peculiar ~ Paducah, and ~
the Democratic party OF tho past few
years has been marked by the Paducah
characteristic Of old fogyism, 1t is jus,
barely possible that it may be olive
corpse" Ifit 10, ito proper place is un
der the ground. So, let the bell toll, nnc
let W oil DO attentive while FAxon de-
livsrs the funeral GRAFTON. As for US
mark you, Len, We come to bury Cu'Ar
not 70 praise him.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-12-13
WATER, No WHERE.

A water famine covering q wide SPACE
Of country, appears slmos. imminent Tho
meagrene,s Of tho rainfall during the sum.
mer and autumn, and the slight fall Of
snow thus far into the winter, has not sup.
piled water enough for the ordi.
nary uses Of life and the
wants Of domestic animals. In this
and other cities contiguous 10 water
courses, 'ts scarcity in cistsrus, wslls, etc,
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-12-13
A BOUT WITH BUUTON.


M. T. r. Bouton, editor Of paper
published in Union county very
good country paper, BY the way--fearful
that nis reputation Is . Democrat might
b injured in this community, has availed
himself Of the columns Of the Cairo
1G.xstts' to correct an assertion made by
THe BULLETIN few days ago.
We admire Tom Bou,on, and do not
wish 10 forfeit his valuable favor. lie 10
genius 10 his way. In many things he
10 remarkable. He looks upon the world,
very properly, as his plum pudding and
whenever he gets an opportunity, puts in
his thumb and pulls out a plum, saying ::
"What . great man am II" Unfortu-
natsly fJr the other parts Of the world
Union county possesses Tom; and al.
though many Of the best citizens Of that
county bold him in detesta,ion, and be-
lisvs him " be . small potato Of bad
species, ws hold him as . "friend Of our
soul" and gass upon his features, when.
ever We have an opportunity, with ad-
mira,ion, unmodiasd by the abuse Of bis
snvious enemies.
While, however. We thus admire Tom. VIC
are compelled to say We do not admire his
abilities. In fact, we are forced to the
conclusion that DO has none. He has sue.
csedsd ~ . country publisher, because he
has the rare merit Of being q close bus.-
mess ,nsn-a very close business man. lie
10, "in truth and in fact" the Qlilp Of the
press Of Egypt almost rs beautiful AS
Dickens character, and almost as warm
hearted. We doutt IL he would, rs has
been intimated, skin Aea for its tallow |;
his time 10 too valuable and life is too
short; but his 'closensss" has given him
success. II brains had been a requisite in
the position he occupies. be would. wa re.
grst to say, have been . failure. If the
uu,h mus, be told, he bank, ION fewer
brains" than any other editor in Illinois.
Mr.. Bou,on's com munica' ion to the
Gazette open, in this Iuminou, manner !;
Since Mr.. oberly made his speech in your
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-12-13

HoIxL keepers in New York. offer burnt
sacriAces TO their furniture. The prop'ie.
tor, Of the Fifth Avenue hotel recently
offered up twenty-five servant girls, and
then the indignant gods did
not allow their furniture to escape I'M
injured. The stubborn.ess Of the gods is
amssinC.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-12-13

Az interesting Indian war is 10 progress
Ia Oregon, and tho natives and savages
are enjoying themselves at tho honest la.
Dor Of cutting each others thrcsts.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-12-13

LsN FAxoS says the Democratic party
10 stiil alive and kicking lift 10 kick.
Ing At all, Il 10 industriously "kicking the
'buckes"