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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23
DOdging the Issue.

THERE is no objection to a crowd of
men drummed together in the express in
terest of ''free trade and revenue reform, y
nominating Horace Greeley, the father of
Protection, as their candidate, if they
wish to do so, and think that is the short
est way to attain what they are after.
And there is no impropriety, from a
worldly point of view, in their betraying
the cause in whose name they first assem-
bled, especially when they find that their
standard-bearer repudiates it, and is ready
to fight them if they proclaim it. There
is no impelling force stronger than the
human necessity of daily bread. Napo-
leon s venal officer fifty described the
dominating Importance of hunger over
any moral principle when he said, apollo
getically, But l must live, you know"
But we would like to know what special
merit there is in Greeley's patent for
lodging adopted in the platform of the
Cincinnati Convention, 1--WE decline to
assert ourselves on the question of the
tariff, because it belongs to the various
Congressional Districts" Every public
question belongs to the Congressional
Districts quite as exclusively, and it
would have been more ingenious if the
Convention had adopted, in lieu of its
illnatured platform, the following simple
panacea:
WHEREAS, All public evils must be cured by leg
islation; and,
WHEREAS, Legislation is the business of the
people and not the work of the President: and
WHEREAS, We differ so radically concerning the
means of cure that unable to agree on any
prescription; therefore,
ResOlUed, That all questions be referred to the
Congressional Districts.
In this case, blank sheet of paper
would have been the platform, and the
watchword of the contest would have
been, as it now is, the simple and i'm
pressive legend, "We want office. "
| Chicdgo Post
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23
Now.

If were to give you motto, to go
through life with, one that would stand
you for warning or counsel in any strait
in which you might find yourselves, | be-
lieve l would give it in this one word,
Now.
Don't waste your time, and your
strength, and your opportunities, by al
ways meaning to do something-do u
Only weakness comes of indecislon.
Why, some people have so accustomed
themselves to this way of dawdling along
from one thing to another, that it really
seems impossible for them to squarely
make up their minds to anything. They
never quite know what they mean to do
next, and their only pleasure seems to
consist in putting things off as long as
possible, and then dragging slowly through
them, rather than begin anything else.
Don't live single hour of your life with.
out doing exactly what is to be done in it,
and going straight through it, from be
ginning to end. Work, play, study,
whatever it is, take hold at once and finish
it up squarely and cleanly, and then to the
next thing, without letting any moments
drop out between. 1t is wonderful to see
how many hours these prompt people con-
trive to make of day; it's as if they
picked up the moments that the dawdlers
lost. And if you ever find yourself where
you have so many things pressing upor
you that you hardly know how to begin
let me tell you a secret, take right hold
of the very first one that comes to hand
and you'll find the rest all fall into filt
and follow after like a company of well
drilled soldiers, and though work may bt
hard to meet when it charges in squad
it is easily vanquished if you can bring II
into line You may have often seen the
anecdote of the man who was asked how
he had accomplished so much in his life
"My father taught me-" was the reply
"when 1 had anything to do, to 90 ant
do it."
There is the secret-the magic wore
| nom Little CORPORAL.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23
A Broken Spirit.

FIFTY years ago, in little town in Della
ware, a lad aged nineteen, and bearing the
name of Charles Draper-only recently
left fatherless, and believing himself
wronged in the patrimonial estates by his
stepmother and her children-waged
fierce feud with the later occupants of
his early home, and was even betrayed by
passionate sense of injury into striking
the oldest of his stepbrothers. For this
offense of hot blood he paid heavy pen
atty, for it gave the incensed lady and her
family an opportunity to brand him with
ignominy. They had him "bound over
to keep the peace" toward them; and
when in his accumulated wrath at this he
uttered threats they caused him to be cast
into Jail. A high-spirited, imperious ma
ture, he took this disgrace, as he deemed
it, so bitterly to heart that from the mo-
ment of his Introduction into prison
quarters his whole character seemed to
change. He did not care, he said, ever
to leave the Jail, now that shameful
brand was upon him; and if he should go
forth again it would only be to return
soon again with greater desert of i'm
prisonment. In short, Charles Draper,
partly by his own action, remain
ed in jail al Georgetown for no
| less than thirteen years. He was
in his thirty-third year when Judge
Edward Wooten, one of the associates of
the Sussex County Court, became ac-
| quainted with and interested in his curl
Gus case, and caused him to be dis
charged. The same humane magistrate
gave him such aid in law, too, as to ena-
BILE him to recover about So, 600 from his
| fathers contested estate; but the now mo-
rose, broken-spirited man retained no
ambition for life, and, instead of under
taking any honorable career, became bar
keeper in hotel. That vitiation of ap-
| petite had nothing to do with this selec-
ton is proved by the fact that, although
bar-keeper for over twenty-five years,
| for the whole remainder of his broken
| life, Draper never drank drop of liquor,
used tobacco, or even uttered a coarse
phrase. The Wilmington Commercial,
after giving his history, reports his death
at Milford, recently, and adds that, having
increased his little inheritance from
200 to more than four times that
amount, the departing bearer of a broken
spirit has bequeathed every cent to the
kind judge who befriended him when he
was heart-sick and in prison.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23

encd faces into view. One face (rnine
had little shame in il, Iknow for 1 was
the eldest-a great big boy, who ought to
have known better than to take part in
such tricks on dear. good grandmother,
Who never did us any HARM
No, she didn't skill mice in fathers
barn." but she really looked for an in
slant as if she could kill us on the spot.
Only for an instant, though. The next
she said sorrowfully: 40 children
how could you how could you spoil the,
the" and then, seeing somehow that it
was a joke, she added, half laughing, half
scolding, "What does it all mean, you
little witches ?"
"Oh its only fun, grandma they're
nothing but imitation" we all cried in a
breath. "Seei you can blow them off
the table"
yes" added Charley, "and they're
only Just little stuck on the wall with
water. They won't leave any mark on
the paint at all; we know they won't"
"Sakes Made out of tin foil, are
they ?" exclaimed grandma, as she picked
up one of the screw-heads off the floor.
1t was flat and as thin as paper.
"Yes'um," put in Charlie; 1--WE got the
foil off the chocolate Uncle Will brought
last night, and we linked little strips of
paper and pasted 'em on TO make believe
it was the place where you screw 'en.
Jim Scott gave us pattern to make 'em
by. Hoi but it's jolly thought"
"Yes, and was the one that thought
of putting the tools on the floor" shout
ed little Dick 81 wanted it to look as if
we'd been doin' it for fair, and"
But grandma didn't wait to hear any
more; she was already at the door calling
mother to come and see what had hap
pened to the table
run quickly, children" she added,
hurriedly, "get behind the curtain again %
And-do you believe?-grandma actu-
ally 'caught" mother just as she had been
caught herself
Dear mel Mr.. Editor, you never saw
anything like it, and you ought to have
heard us all shout when mother in turn
went to the door, and called, in an alarm
ing tone:
''Childrenl Children r'-Hearth and
Home. -.-
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23
Compromising a Difficulty.

A VERY worthy minister of a populous
parish in File had often found that the
box for containing the collections in con-
nectlon with the congregation for mission
purposes did not count out as he knew
well it ought to have DONE He accord
ingly had it set fast with a counted sum
therein, and on examining it some time
thereafter not coin was visible. The
box stood in the vestry Kirk mice have
long been reputed "puir," but in this
case the mice were not suspected. The
beadle and the minister, it appeared, were
the only parties having access to the box
The former liked his glass, and obtained
it often by queer devices which he had
recourse to; and one day the minister,
with seriousness befitting the occasion,
on meeting the beadle, announced how
matters stood. 'Now, Thomas, you know
it must either have been you or l that had
to do with the matter. How are we 10
get over its" "Well, sir" put in Thomas,
''as esay, it maun either hae been you OF
me wha hae dun't, Pll tell We what well
dae. I'll pay the half OF and yell pay the
tither half, and we'll say nae mair aboot
it." With his usual kind-heartedness anC
flow of humor, the minister paid the one
half while the beadle refunded the other
and thus the missing sum was made up
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23

But all these things happen, and if any
one is OVERRIDING himself in these days,
ought he not to know it and settle wheth-
er his course is bests
1t strikes us that an hour on Sunday of
cool, healthy consideration of the actual
status and doings of our weekday lives,
would be an interesting employment,
whether satisfactory or not.
Take another hour on Sunday to do
somebody some good for which you
haven't the time on any other day. Write
letter to the mother, or brother, or SIS
ter, whom you have forgotten for long
time. Hunt out friend who has disap-
peared from your interest, and renew a
cordial acquaintance. Find out some
body who is suffering, and carry fresh
cheer to him " her. Go to see the folks
who would be glad to see you, but whom
you are not always glad to see. Visit the
families of those who are working hard to
make themselves rich. Help to put some
kind of home-feeling into everybody
who is homeless. There are plenty of
good acts, which are not common-and
on Sunday you want to do something
uncommon. That is what the day is
made for. Pm talking to people who
find Sunday dull and the church unmean-
ing, and do not care to pay religion much
attention. do not want to drive you
where you do not want to go. But we
ought all of US to make of Sunday finer
day than the rest of days, because we
have the chance. Our daily toll makes us
dull. Sunday ought to wake US up Our
daily temptations make us deceitful, hard
and selfish. Sunday ought to loosen out the
chords of affection and humanity and give
us hearts of flesh. The daily life of men
is burdened with sin and uglinesss-
streaked with deceit, fouled with lust and
appetite. 1t deserves to be improved
Sunday is improvement time. I believe
that when any one begins to improve
their time, they will soon find what good
a church Sunday will do, and the value
of religion. Friends, try my advice lit
tie while-Erchdnge
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23
Any Thing to Beat Grant.

Mr. BECK, one of the Democratic lead
ers in the House of Representatives,
lstely made one of the charges against
the honesty of the Administration which
are now the chief cry of the alliance
against the Republican party. Mr.. Beck's
charge is a good illustration of the kind
of warfare that is waged upon the Presi-
dent. 1t was as follows:
During the last fiscal year. in defiance OF that
law TACT OF July IL, 1871. the War Department, ss
Of the the Treasury. expended ssOO6,OSo in
excess of the appropriations and sold arms TO the
French to make good the deficiency; and the pro-
Treasury to the credit of that Department subject
to be drawn out by it."
The Secretary of War, in letter to
Mr.. Dawes, remarks that MIR. Beck is in
error at all points, and proceeds in the
tersest and most conclusive manner to
prove it. The War Department did not
expend any sums in excess of appropria-
tions; it did not sell arms to make good
the deficiency; even if there were a de-
ficiency, the money to the credit of ord
nance stores could not be used to make ii
good; the proceeds of the sales mentioned
are not in the Treasury to the credit OF
the War Department, nor subject to Its
order. The Secretary leaves little of Mr..
Beck.
Mr.. Fernando Wood made an attack OF
the usual kind upon General Dyer, Chiei
of the Ordnance Department, to which
the General replied in letter so conclu
sive that Mr.. Wood retracted his charges
1t is by the incessant reiteration of sucl
charges that the campaign is conducted
of any thing and any body to beat Grant
-LfaTper's Weekly.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23
"Who Put those Screws i'm that
Tabler

These are the very words Grandma
Hawkins said the other day, when she en-
tered the sitting-room but they look so
quiet on paper, that unless you can pic
ture to yourself full-faced. bustling
little lady of sixty, with hands lifted in
horror, and eyes staring wildly at the
ruined" furniture, and can fancy some
thing between a screech and groan
equally distributed over seven very distinct
words, you can have no idea at all OF
grandma's feelings.
What wonder the dear soul was shocked!
The neatest of housekeepers and most
loving of grandmothers, how could she
see such dreadful proof of mischief. with,
out suspecting "thOse children p Yes
there were the hammer and the screw
driver on the floor, and there was the pool
table, and oh worse and worse, If they
hadn't gone and put screws into the very
wall
1t was too much.
"Childrenl Children ~ she screamed,
"Come here right away !"
And we did come quick, for we were
hidden behind the window-curtain, ano
! had only to thrust our laughing, flight
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23
Poetry.
MY GRANDM.AMMA.
BY sALLIE A. BROCK.

nv sAIIIE A. BROCK.
SHE tells me she was handsome once,
Her eyes like jewels prlgnh
The snowy locks upon her brow
As jetty as the nignts
A shower OF raven curls;
Her lips were of the coral hue,
Her teeth twin rows of pearls.
The roses on her youthful cheeks,
Like those that blush in June,
When sky, and earth and sea. and air.
To beauty all attune;
Her form sculptor's model rare,
More glorious than her face,
While cen her slightest gesture was
The very soul of grace.
Her voice in tone as softly clear
AS song-bird's liquid note,
When waves of richest melody
On summer zephyrs float.
Know tits true: for have heard,
At time that she was wed,
The country round knew none as fair.
Or SO my grandpa said.
But now she's withered, bent, and old;
Her voice is cracked and shrill;
Her trembling hands almost refuse
The mandates Of her WILL
Her brow is scanned by furrows deep,
Her eyes are dImmed and blear,
And often on their silvery fringe
There hangs crystal tear.
For she basseen, like autumn-leaves,
Her dead around her fall,
And followed to the church-yard near
Full many somber pail;
And back again to earth she has
Her dearest treasures given
But, looking up, she smiles and saws.
I'll see them all in heavenly,
And as bend above her head
And stroke her wip try hair,
VI stoop 10 KISS her brow and cheeks,
SO scanned With lines of care.
feel that in nv, very soul
worship al her shrine.
And pay. TO child of mortal birth,
Homage almost divine.
-Applet0n's Journal
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23

THE New York Etening Nal says
Look out for pure Vermont maple
sugar. They have been boiling man IN
il at Fairfield. This man was boiling sap
in a forty gallon kettle, hanging on pole,
when he struck his head against the pole
and fell into the kettle. From what We
know of the character of those Vermont
farmers, we have not the least idea that
they will throw away that much sap, sim
ply because it has had man in it. 1t
will vet appear on our tables in the form
of syrup, and if anybody finds buttons in
theirs, they will please return them 10
Joseph Minor, Fairfield, VT"
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Men have only 142 different styles o
hats to select from this spring.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23
NASBY.
from the Toledo Blade.1

From the Toledo Blade
THE CINCINNATI CONvENTION-MR. MAS
BY's EXPERIENCE AS DELICATE.
CINCINNATI,
(WIcH Is IN THE STATE Nv Omo),
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-13

ners as they do, when good doseo of strychnine
can be bought for sixpence, is really surprising"
There is an old lady in Jersey City whose son
is a lamplighter, and as he is sick just now, she
shoulders the ladder and makes the rounds her
self as promptly as he could do it.
A citizen of Gosport Mass, the other night,
mistook his wife's yeast bottle for his favorite
'little brown Jug" and took 'long pull and a
strong pulp therefrom. He is now regarded as
rising man. ~ --.~s -.-F-.rEEE
There are four things which woman cannot
do-tie up parcel, throw stone, carry an
umbrella and sharpen lead pencil.
Cincinnati is said to be the most densely
populated city of the United States, having &c.
600 people to the square mile, while New York
has but %, 900.
A youth of 81 reverently led to the altar a
charming bride of 1O6 1t is reported that
they were married without the consent of their
parents. .vglasasas4a
North Carolina's oldest is 1O8. He remem-
beers the prehistoric events of the country, and
has eight children, the eldest of whom is 80
and the baby 81. E.f-H
In 1866 we imported 76,25O,OOO pounds of
rice and raised 2O,11S,6OO pounds. The best
quality then retailed for 13a cents per pound.
In 1871 our home productions had risen to 92,-
OOO, 900 pounds and the price of the best quality
had fallen to cents per pound.
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Washington Matters.
THE TARIFF pEBArE-pte IRON nv,

The debate Friday was rather tedious
being on both sides chiefly revival of the
speeches which have done duty so well irr
days gone by. Decidedly the best hit of the
debate was made by General Banks, who
interjected into the general dizziness ten
minute speech full of wit and pleasantly,
which gathered the whole House around his
desk and kept it in almost continuous laugh
yer. he SAID nothing specially applicable to
pls-lron nor the rate of duty which should be
ihPosea upon II, but delivered running fire
at tne Dill, tne Committee of Ways and Meals
and its several chairmen, in all of which the
House manifested the keenest Interest and
enjoyment. The humor was in one or two
places broader than the rules of the House
but that made no difference. Mr.. Dawes
replied pertinently, and then the debate
iapsed into its usual channel. The davis
discussion indicates the increasing strength
OF tne Dill with the House, and affords some
announcement that majority may gradually
DC orgailz I:.a winch will bring it through its
dangers without serious loss or ,rut;Iat;or
The first section is now finished uS;th ~.
exception of ten minutes more dahato
though Judge Kelley will make an effort
tomorrow to have the time extended and ~
offer some dozen or so amendments, The
second section, making the ten per cent.
reduction, is subjected under the rules to
indefinite amendment, but few votes on the
nrst clauses will test the sense of the House
,.n decide the fate of this vital part of the
Dfn. Among the amendments which will be
oaerea, VIII be one adding lumber to the list
o.. ~ a !; =. ON which the ten per cent reduc-
; LION - ~ oe applied. The combination form
de s to nostnans OF the pending bill have
week their attack in force unon tha IN N n.A,
In the meantime are ripening and m yn, dn9
their plans. Hu '''a'orins
THE COMING PHILADELPHIA aATHrp,yo
Dispatches in the Liberal interest h.
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FENToN AND TAMMANY.-The New York
Times correspondent at Albany says cit is
noteworthy fact that, since the nomination of
Greeley at Cincinnati, the Fenton Republicans
in the Legislature have shown a disposition to
harmonize with the Democratic membs rs, and
to aid in killing any bills that might be suppos-
ed to conflict with their party views or to inter-
tere with their possession of Office The DEM
ocrats encourage this action by pretending to
support Greeley, and the followers of the latter
swallow the blarney as gospel truth, and vote
as their new Democratic allies tell Them" The
writer concludes:
1.-THE result is that the Legislature il getting
rapidly demoralized, and the sooner it adionrns
the better. The nomination of Greeley has al.
ready done more to promote Corruption in the
Legislature than has been done by Barber in ali
his winters work. and the state of thngs eY-
listing here now demonstrates conclusiveiy that
the success of the Cincinnati nominee would in.
augurate reign of trading politicians, thieves,
strikers and dead-beats throughout the coun-
try." la
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hoo, sent from here. stating that Senator
Merton is endeavoring to bring himself for
,,,e,d at Philadelphia against Grant. The
Sa.ator has authorized an explicit denial of
ae,r S,ch movement being made with his
any any .,r,aJoe The story seems to have sprung
s sn0 letter written, it is charged, by or to
n IL ~ his wife's brothers, Governor Burbank
Of nakota, who was said to have shown such
a. q letter. He denies the soft impeachment,
and it is now said to have been written by
Col. Burbank, paymaster stationed at Oma-
ha. Gov. Morton expresses surprise at the
story. Considerable ingenuity is being ex-
pended in manufacturing some sort of passa-
Bile candidate at Philadelphia against Grant
Speaker Blaine's name is coupled with that
of Jas. f. Wilson of Iowa in this regard
The Speaker ridicules the whole story, and
declares himself heartily for the renomina-
ton of the President. J -rs5T
CONVENTION ASHAMED OF ITS MEMBER
SHIP. LF
Efforts made to procure correct lists of the
delegates admitted to the Cincinnati Conven-
ton have failed. 1t appears that no one has a
list, and correct account of names cannot
be obtained, to the chagrin of the admins
tration friends here, who had proposed to
show the number of ex-office holders among
them, as well as the offices they failed to get.
In several of the largest delegations, there
were not over three present who have not
been most persistent office-seekers. The Of
ficers of the convention do not wis. such
publication, hence the alleged loss OF the list
made by the credential committee. e'
SOLDIERS HOMESTEAD LAW.
Owing to the diversity of opinion respect
ing the soldiers homestead law, recently
passed. and the difficulty encountered in Civ
ing a construction to the law that will render
its provisions available to parties intended to
be benefited, the Commissioner-General OF
the Land Office has decided to refer it again
to Congress, with request for such con-
structive legislation as will remove all uncer-
tianty in its execution. In view of the impor-
lance of the law, and the magnitude of the
interests that must arise under it, this action
is deemed necessary.
THE DEMOCRACY" s
The coalition Democratic CongressmeI
hold frequent conferences, meeting nearly
every night at Fernando Woods residence
That gentleman desires the Greeley nomin
alton to succeed. Thursday night dispatch
was sent advising the Connecticut Democrats
to vote for Mr.. Ferry on the second ballot, al
an evidence of desire to form conservative
coalition. Bets are quite freely offere by the
Democrats that Greeley will be accepted al
Baltimore. s4l