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CARL SCHURZ.

Scalping-knife of virtue; Tomahawk of truth;
Blunderbuss of cant; Howitzer to fraud;
Double-barreled shotgun OF the peoples rights:
Minions Of the throne before thee cover
When thou Iakest aimI In fear they squat
And run. as If the Imp of Darkness did pursue
them!
And in their trspidation they do tear
Their shirts. But not our SCHURz;
Oh mol He stands erect, with brass mounted
Battery in eacnhand aHd horn-ttpped
Arkansas tooth-pick in the other,
And bids the yassals on.
And when theycome. he reaches for theml
Gives them the fulI fonr fingers of huck-shot,
And then relo ds for the next blizzard
Keep on, oh Carl, keep oni Hit 'em again,
Lest they revive with strength t0uss~ Es -
Their crow-bars on thy head a
Let not the eagle be with bIrch.bats hurt,
Andspare the 'posspnlSzsree bird rom harm
That he may fioufish Is our emblern pear.
Bust 'ern, oh bust 'em Into smithereensl
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garm autl atuuseh old.
Sowing ,CIeverseed ON Wheat

/ ~ = ;
1t is considered preferable to sow
cloverseed early in February, and if
there's snow on the ground so much
the better As it can then be seen where
the sower misses and the remedy ap-
piled, thus. securingaas more uniform
distribution of the seedAabout twelve
pounds to the acre is the right quanti-
ty. If fnotsown as above, then it will
be better to delay theIwerk until the
ground is s.dry enought to carry a team
without poaehin; then SOW the cloY-
erseed, harrow itin with a light harrow
and roll. We urge, every farmer, to
have rollera large heavy log, with
irons at each end and which any smith
cry can furnish for atrife, should be on
every farm. We cannot dilate upon
the subject, but would say, thatif it is
but of the rudest kind, have a roller.
If two bushels of orchard grass seed
were sown with cloyerseed it would
produces a much better hay than clover
alone.-Mdayid11d Farmer, t-..,t.i,
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@lisfsllaneails.
THE BoYaDEs..IGNER.
BY MARY s. kvfLLAaD.

q. &
/ want you to imagine q dingy lit
tie shop in Lontlon-as shop where
plaster images wereseld little more
than one hundred years ago.
After your urlmagiaasien has compesF
ed this, fix the dark Old room with its.
busts and figures ff1ni yin your mind.
/ want you to take notice of aidwarted
and puny human figure, sitting prop
ped up with pillows behind the count
er. A large headed, small framed boy
crowding, as web as the pillows and
crutches would let him, close to the
one diamond paned window. Let the
Imagination go now, for Fam going to
tell you facts, netfaiides! = ~ 8.
The boys maine is John sFlaxrnan;
theshop is his fathers, and he is try
ing to catch the last CLEAN of light for
his Cornelius Nepos. Think of it, boysi
You who qEIArrel with ten lines Virgil;
think ofthis tiny fellow eagerly de-
vouring such stupid Latin as Cornelius
Nepos. 80
One day, when every, thing was just
as have told you, in came the good
Dominic Mathews, lind finding him
struggling with his book, looked to
see what-it was Off be went in hur-
ryas soon ashe found out, determined
that a boy Nho wanted knowledge as
bad as that should have in more pal
atable shape. Pvelnp doubt he thought
somewhat disgu5tedly of his own way
ward, registering little fellows, who
went to the best school in Convent Gar.
den, and yet had to'have their Latin
fairly hammered into them, and won
dered at the difference in boys.
By and by he came back with de
lightful translations of Don Quixott
and Homer's IIiad. That day little
John FIaxlnan began a new existence
Don't forget that twas more than ons
hundred years ago. The Iliad charmed
him most, and Ire soon had sketchec
in black chalk the Ajax Hector anC
Achilles of dis. poetic imagination
Then he tried wax and plaster, ant
took the impression in one of thes'
materials, of every lp edal or seal tha
that pleased hiia. 3
Not long after,sf suppose becadse hi
heart was growing happier in this neg
work, his body grew stronger; the pill
lows were taken away, and then tn
crutches, :shiti " al eAn iaia zine his hap
piness when he found that his limb
would carry him.
The good elergyman's wife took hin
home with her very often and explaine
to him, both Homer and Milton. Sh
watched him, 100, as he worked up hi
rough charcoal pictures Of the scenes /
which Introduced him. One 5fthese
a picture of q human eye, he one da
showed to great artist. / think h
couldn't have been sovery great eitheI
for he ill-natnredly asked, sis it a
oyster?s'e sssi6s
Little John, however, was gres
enough not to mind or be discourage
by it, and kept On all the while impro,
ing, until a1ittle while after his kin
friend, Mrs. Mathews, obtained for hin
his first or,ler-six original drawing
in black chalk from Homer. For thes
he got well paid and well praised.
When he was fifteen years old he b,
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Keen Accounts.

Do not laugh, reader, but l wish to
urge upon all young people, whose
habits are yet to be formed-yl0t, the
duty of enterprise, nor of frugality, nor
Temperance, nor OF industry and theft;
bur the duty of keepi,ig carefia accounts.
This Is not performed by simply enter
ing every penny spent, out OF so balan-
cing Ieeei pts,and expenditures that one
May know every day precisely how he
STUDS with the world. Credit may be
neIpfll in an organized business. Bat
When young mem or women are just
beginning to earn little money, it IS
wise for them never to owe a penny,
not even for a day. 1t is better to go
without a hundred needed things than
10 be in debt; and the poorer you are,
the more tyrannflzfi will debt prove 20
be. A rich man may venture tn go in
debt; he has resources which have only
II be collected to meet it. Bnta poor
lllssasin debt has only his scant earnings,
which often barely suffice TO pay. his
1 daily necessities and leave the debt,
with accumulated interest, to worry
/ him, and to tempt him 10 dishonesty.
1t is wise for every young man TO re-
\ iilststesia iaelr debt, and to oblige hlm-
keep eleaI and minute account
a,df aiypenny ga ned and spent.usHhe
/ / d h i5it -oIite formed, itMihlbe as easy to
| be methodicaF In money matters as to
be careless. Sinaff as this hihay seein,
it will really exert a moral influence
upon ones Whole 4iffas. . 1t Is the foail-
da ion OF business. IF ore begins q
'iget on in life, he Wih have becomelso
accustomed tolhethod. and a clear uIl.
3derst2nding Of his affairs, that nothing
will be left tochance, ,rio.,,.. -,
y 1t may seem. superAaous to exhor'
4 business men to pursue the same course
IBut it is probable that not one-halt o.
5the business men keep.tiieiF aee9untS II
1 S ch man er that they theinseiVes, OF
any one for theLn, could tell, without
weeks and months of investigation
what their standing is, The settling Q
.sestateS is a melancholy business, Al
values seem teslafnk;;1 hundreds of i'm
i portant itemBto the estate, when KEEP
only in the mans head. and he dying
the record of then is lost, or is recover
ed only by Iong search. Two partner
may get on smguttfy white they ar
q alive ~ SeHeral hfst;afces have cOme IA
q odtlxR9Slspge of miserable results f9l
lowing the deatipof, business men, aris
ing from the. want of Thorough account
keeping. 1t i5a part ofFightg living +
leave ones offairs so that they can o.
; lsettled wltholEt misunderstanding G
+ quarrel. No'vone7 has aTightsto rOl
over on his 1eirsa 'loadihf difficulties
It is part ,ofa good preparation fo
death, TO have ones affairs sothat n
one viii be injured, and no one bur
. ldened. Henry Hdrd Beecter.
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A lieYiyaI EInefdenf.

At the Union meeting held yesterday.
morning at the. Gong ational Church
On Grand avenue, one of the speakers,
who has lately s.enlisted in the army
of the Lord. y told an incident which
we, give in nearly his own language.
- Iswas passing up Main iiStreet8 on
Tuesday morning, and was bby ansa-.
loon when Iwls hailed by a party uof
men, some of EhonI Ekne We and was
invited into the saioon TO take a. glass
OF beer.h Itseemed they (hadsme and
agreed to invite. to ''take a drink" !"
the tirst- man Of their aceq quafltiIice e
who they kRe@, rad lately taken d
Tstandifor Christ 10 nhappened to be
their victim, and was, therefore, press
ed tojoin. them in glass Of beer. u
told them could moi, drink with them.
fhey. asked ME Then to come into the
saloon, ask a blessing over the beer they
would drink, and make a. prayer. i
answered that I was willing to, pray
for them, and we Went, into, to, the sa
loon. They called for 1, the beer, and
each glass was, filed. They then. told
me 10 pray before, they. drank, and I
did try, to. pray. L Wept; some, and
prayed some, and again Wept and then
prayed again: - ". hen, I ceased praying
EliOoketldlp and there stood the gfasse;
| filed with beer. but there vas 40. Ont
present but the, bar5telder.sa;AIfe The
/ Einen had slipped out Of the saloon one
| by one, leaving the beer unfasted! w ell
| / toek- the glasses lahd1 1Perliaps it VASE
wrong impulse, perhaps noe I quietly
emptied the- beer on the ground, ianc
Latter Offering up a PRAYER for the bar
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aaftru.
R0M4NcE oftte TABLE URoTE.

would were waiter,
with a napkin in my hand,
For then behind my darling
So patiently I'D stand
And right behind her chigno1,
so lustrons and SO black,
I'd hand her cup of coffee,i
Nor spill it down her back.
I never would be weary
or fetching jaicy steak,
The tenderest prairie chicken,
The goldenest corncake;
o, Joy! 60 face her oreathing.
Tolist her whisper sweet
As timidly she asked lne
For some more soused pigs feet.
Till my passion would consume me
Like the lightning's deadly fiasn,
And at her small feet kneeIing,
FHnging down her corned beef hash,
I'd breathe my love in accents
Assweet as damson pie,
While she SAT with sausage in her mouth,
Affection in her eye.
Who cares for the head waiter,
Bearded, and stout and grim,
When two lovely eyes Of hazel
Are looking down on him?
Her head rests on my shoulder,
Her words like jelly pass.
as she murmnrs: Get papa's consent,
And some more apple sass"
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ADog which Does Not Forget an
Injury.
From the BRIDGEPORT (Conn.) Standard. Janu-
sFYRl n T 9J 1

ffSE-t4 ~ Z
There is. a large Newfoundland dog
in this,city, about ten years old, which
is doubtless one Of the most knowing
specimens of the canine family living.
When it was about six months of age,
couple of young men, in order to have
little fun, tied atins kettle to its tail
and sent it running through the streets.
4 1t was sport for the boys; but the act
was never forgotten by the dog. Till
this day itshoWs signs of displeasure at
the sight of either of those young men.
One OF themremoysa from the place,
and several years alter the. tin, Kettle
affair he was.visiting in the city, and
called at the residence of dogs owner.
The dog hearing the VOICE Of the young
man inside the. house, reS0rted> to a
numbefof devices to. gain admission.
Upon being admitted, it sprang for the
throat of the visitor, with jaws extend
ed. The family iEterfered, of course.
and the dog was removed from the
house. FromahatdlS when the kst-
/ tie was tied to its tall to THE, Nheither
1 of those young en- can enter the gate
i leading to the house if the dog is at
home. On one occasion beggar cali.
ed at the door for something to eatyrand
was splen tlfulfy SuPplledf Dy the geoG
j Iadyof the house. While passing out
1 through the yard the beggar threw
away some of the food, the dog saw it,
and, taking the unthankful solicitor OF
aims by the leg4esg the paqtsloons,
walked him hurridly out throug;n h the
gate. No beggar is permitted by that
Edog to enter the gate since.--A negro
once kicked this dog, and it has had
Isuch-a dislike, for all persons of color
since, that not one, with its permission,
is allowed on the premises. A few
years since the owner of the dog was
! taken sick and died. The dog was
lmost deeply affected by the event, and
refused to be comforted for many days
and weeks thereafter. When the bel
was tolled for the funeral the dog seem
ed to understand its mournful import
| ami from that day to this the tolling O
the bell causes the dog to break forth
in the most pftiful wailings.
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Want to Back Out--A Leap Year

~ffas- IOWA - s+tt-- - 9
!, A, st. Joseph Missouri) paper Of the
Sd, gives the following leap year story:
There was a nice little party on We'd
nesday night at the residence of one Of
the most respectable families in South
st. Joseph, and while the festivities
were progreSsing, two charming iyou g
ladies, sisters, took pair of young men
by the arm, remarking that it was leap
year, they proposed to insist on their
prerogatiVes, and desired to at once be
'inarried, A squire was called for, and
one was shortly found in the company
in the person of our worthy conserva-
tor of the peace, Gus. SALESMAN. When
this official presented himself ready for
the delicate business, one OF the couples
tfouEthWith ''backed out" but the other
stood their ground, and the Squire pro-
ceeded with the ceremony, asking the
high contracting parties several times
during IT'S progress if they were really
in earnest, to which question they gave
SadhJ aif affirmative reply. They were
thereupOn pronounced man and wife.
After the party commenced to break
up to go home, the impromptu groom
claimed his bride in all earneStnesS and
Iinsisted- on taking her home with him,
Fbut she demurred, and tried to treat the
whole matter as joke, but as the.young
lady is of full age, and the marriage ap-
peared to be bona .Jide to all the witness
esx they do say that this young lady is
t1e4dIIk And irrevocabIy the young mans
wife, and the best of it is that the par
ents on both, sides are. willing TO the
match. The young man belongs tonot
My good, but wealthy family, and
ths young lady's people, though not,
well off in a pecuniary point of view,
are conf rtably so, however, and are OF
the highest respectability. How the
affair will 'pan out'' remains to be seen.
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REASON TRIUMPHANT.

"Yes." said Farmer Brown,
Bringing his hard fistdown
On tne old OAK liable,
ssThey say that men can talk
From Paris to New York
Through the sunken cable.
"'Tis perfectly absured, - -. -.
For to hear single word:
No man is able; - ~ ~ -
And it's clear enough 10 me
That tails widespread mystery
Is a foolish fable,
"The news we get from Rome
Is all made at home,-
Tie my conviction;
And that, you see. win account
For the terrible amount
Of contradiction.
'Tes," said Farmer Brown,
Bringing his hard fist down
On that old oak table;
"My wife and have tried
The experime t; We tied
good stout-bit OF cable.
ssTo the fence just over there
And the rocker OF this chair,
And we couldn't do it,
Though We screamed ourselves as hoarse
AS tree-toads; but OF course
Not one word went through 1t.
"Don't talk to mo, 1 pray, - = >.
or fresh news every day
Through sunken cables.
Sea yarns are long and tough,
And have heard enough
OF such old 1ables."
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The membership of the Medodist
Episcopal Church South during the past
year, IS reported 'toz have increased
about fifty Thousand. q If this is added
to the increase in the Methodist Epis-.
copaI Church North, for the same period,
the aggregate2e of both branches will be
about one hundred and seyeni thousand
members. .g45i4e,iI{f..r
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A MeIanchoIy spectacle.

shakespeare Wrote:
"What a piece of work is man! How
noble in reason; how infinite in faetul-
ties; in form and moving, how express
and admirable; in action, ihow liiSsl an
angel, in apprehension, how like d
god!"
While this is true tothe sphiIosophie
mind, even of the average man, how
sad is the spectacle when we see the no.
bic ereasomDverthrown, the infinite fac
ulties the sport of insane fancies, the
form and moving the butt OF the spopu-
lace, the angelic action So dstertedby a
distempered mind as to awaken only
jeers ond laughterwhere it should COM
mand and respect, the godlike appre-
hension so dimmed and blurred as not
to be able to distinguish between genu-
inc approval and ffs1i3EfaFl cqatenee
tuous applausel 1llae | ispot more
pitiful thing in fhe tnfverse tffan.'sh
intellect dethroned, anithe more bril-
liant the mind the more sad the specta-
Gle ofits ruin.
These reflections have been suggest
ed by the reappearance in our city 81
George Fancis Train, who has been =:
reverently, but not untruthf.ll
the sChampion Lunatienf tlie ofla z.
Mr.. Train possessed, dsiginAAy, a
most brilliant mind; indH7sa ~ 5iiaIEss
were closely allied to se n ksszssl q
] his earlier speeches were AEdelSof %s-
tory. The brilliancy of his ssdietihn, fhe
fervidness of his imaginafina sad ~
magnetism OF his peEss6sf preseles
! 1copbinedsto render his oratory mos
effective. But. his mind ives not wei
4aasnced, and soon gave way under tht
tremendous pressure to which he sub
ftjected it, and he is now roaming
through the world, the mere Wfze&A 10
his former self. The people listen to
t him and applaud him precisely as the!
applaud the tricks and grimaces Of th'
/ clown at the. circus, aud he mistake
their applause for 9-gTYf feqpshnf p
popular feeling IA IA his -seA11Aiff.J asis
: them whether they indorse him 70
D president of America" f)r 1872, an'
l tremendous chorus ofyeas rends tn
air. This he hears, and struts up ant
2 down tie stage like turkey cock, fail
e ing to perceive the significance of th'
2 jeering laughter which accompanies tn
e vote. +a.,n
And so he goes on from day to day
e and from place to place, while day b,
J, day, and in place after place his mSaiad p 9; |
e become more and more aggraVated, nh
: til it is a mere question of time whe
e he shall exchange his blue broadclot
coat with its brass buttons for a strait
n jacket. 70 zIsSA ,2Hzzz s-a ssA,
g But there are those whom his insan
d rawlings afford aARsementsr -EA9y Se
in them sonly' The evidehces -otf I'll
Il wreck ofa brilliantly noble Ilnliind o an
e their hearts grow sad as they thin
; howraylife, whichsmight- hnTe oAefA
: useful tothe country, is in maniac;
" pursuit of a crown of straw.-Ciaci1
II matt Gazette
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The many admirers of Mark Twain
among our readers will be delighted to
hear that he got intoa very bad 'scrape
at Syracuse the other day. One Jacob
Gilgel, a gentleman of tonsorial pro-
clivi les, having read Marks vicious
articie. .on the peculiar habits of BARRIERS,
lswore Vengeance against the. great hu-
morist. if he should ever get him with
ia sweep of, his razor blade. Mark
ciine to syracuse to lecture, and, as ia
cob kept the best shop in the city, drop
ped into get shaved. The barber knew
his CUSTOMER and went at him vigor-
ously, given him such dressing as
rNeptIne gives green hands on crossing
lthe line. lit was shave such as the
tUid song describes the Irishman getting
! lrom the monkey wh0 had assumed
leontrol of. the barber shop while his
lniaster was away To dinner. Mark es-
Iuaped. after half ain hour of torture, and
Twill rather have his hair burnt off with
d coal of fire, like Dionysius, the Sicil-
| ian tyrant than let any one approach
him with asrozor again. He is begins
ming 10 regard with favor the higher
where theladies take two fish scales
UcbN S6n rR1tISCL. QiiN luulnO dllu .P1uSh
out their lard and masters beard hair
by hair, Whilst he takes his siesta in the
- hfnz - -, s-.1-
IeiAreporter of the Cincinnati Enquirer
has discovered a negro with a hirsute
tongue, at Cpvington, whom he thus
ldeserioesag On opening his mouth he
tprotruded q hong tongue, on which'hair
over half an ihch long was growing
tthicIdy, She color wasCa sandy red,
and, as the hair, sicped backward, ! il
gave him pain while speaking. AT the
IrootEof each hair the ,tiesh was. blue.A
lie has no hair on his face, though he
says haE. fully, forty years old. His
lwOoliis- like that of.any other darkey-
fblack and kinky. He perfect in every
LIMB and feature, except his tongues;
and what is also remarkable, he has
gray eyes. On questioning him he gave
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"Who killed Tecumseh 2" That is
one of those eXasperating questions
which will probably never be satisfac-
torily answered.; and perhaps itTis not
of much consequence Whe ether. it is an
sWered or not. Gen. SandeFson, an
ancient warrior, who, died recently at
Lancaster, Ohio, and who participated
in those. old. wars, has left certain
"reminiscences He was III the battle in
which the celebrated Indian was de-
molished, and he says he don't. know
whether Col. johnson killed Tecunseh
or not, sogrea5 .yas the smoke, noise
and confusion. One thing. however,
he states .decidedly ly-the Kentueky
troops skinned Teeumseh If they didn'E
kill him. He saw them insthe very act
of flaying the defuIlct. chief His ellti-
Gle came OFF t.in strips OF about IL hall
foot in length and an llcil a half In
Width"-tne said skin stretching ike
India-rubber, after it had been dried,
which is additional evidence that
Tecumseh was a tough customer. ~ hile
the haying was going on; the Indian
prisoners stood by and howled with af-
fectionate anguish. The body, in the
opinion of Gen. SRi6hardsOfi, 1As eaten
by wolves. What was done with. the
dried strips ofskin the General sdid'not
state perhaps they " ere con iyerted into
belts or powder-pouehesd the hunters
of Kentnck4. Possibly the ,Kenttleki-
ans will not be particularly grateful llJr
this Contribution 'idi tie. military his
tory of the country, skinning dead
enemy having rather gone out of
fashion, = gfasI ~ .3I.f fEAaaE lcsfs r.
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branch of the subject to those who un-
derstand the connection between the
spots on the sun and the Franco-Prus-
sian war
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ANEW " sIoS.--As boy in 81 school
WAS reading Il /. sson from the Bible in
that deliberate fashion so usual with
chaps ofsix,land whens be eamer rtoahe
passage, keep thyatgnguesfrome vii
and thy lips fron gaiie,ee draSs1ed out,
with decided emphasis, +" "Izeep-thxt-
tongue from evil; and thy lips from
--from-girts.o
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,HENRYsIfM EYE \

IET0ULD respectfully Inform his old eistofn-
IVY ers and the public gepsrally, that he has
East 10 the corner, in the room formerly occur
pied by c. F. Trbll. and more recently by
Conrad Troll, as a Dry Goods Store, where j In;
ReaEiy-Afade ciothihg, Hats and Caps and
Gents Furnishing Goods. suitable to the season
rShort Prodtsa and Quick Sales. y also keep on
hand good assortment of iCloths,. Oassimers
yestings, Trimmings, de-, all of which wi1
EseH BY tneyard or make up 70 order, IN thi
neatest and most fashfonatfe lstyfej. Call and
examine my stock before buying elsewhere, .,
| am determinedI 10 sell as low as possible. :,
apI6 LIZ IalI al h - I. -innilf.i