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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-02-26

A New YoRK German recently Or
ganized a little excursion to Balti-
more. He took some OF his wife's
clothing. $i5 Of her money and her
pretty sister, but inconsiderately omit
ted to Invite her. She felt the slight
keenly and followed, Mt a distance.
When she found them they were liv-
Ing together, but the old love came
back so strongly that she forgave all
that and besought her husband to re-
turn to her arms. but he preferred her
sisters arms, and diSdainfully put her
away. and now he langulshes under a
mixed charge Of robbery, desertion
and adultery.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-02-26

THAcxERY used to say that the droll-
est and most thoroughly American
thing he heard in this country, was
from a New Yorker who. on introduc-
ton, thus addressed him: ''Glad to
see you. Mr.. Tbackeray. should like
England very well. If it wern't so con.
founded small. am always afraid to
20 out at night over there. tor fear |
should step off,"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-02-26
LOVE ME- LITTLE, LOVE ME LONG

, Love me little, love me long!
10 the burden Of my song:
Love that IL TOO hot and strong
-. Burneth soon TO wasre.
Still would not have thee cold
Not too Backward nor too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not In haste.
Love me little, love me long!
II the burden Of my song.
II thou lovest me too much,
Twill not prove as true touch;
Love me little more than such
For Gear the end.
I'm with little well con'ent,
And little from thee sent
10 enough. with true intent
To be steadfast, friend.
Saw thou lowest me. while thoa live
TO thee my love viii give,
Never dreaming To deceive
HIfE. While that life endnres; III
Nay, and after death, In scoth,
Ito thee viii keep my Truth,
As now when In my May Of youth:
eT This my love assures.
Constant love Ia moderate ever,
And Il will through life persever;
Give me that with true endeavor-
Iwin IL restore.
A suit OF dnrance let IL be,
For all weather.-that for me
For the land or for the sea:
Lasting evermore.
Winters cold or Summers heat
Autumn's tempests ON IL beat;
II can never know defeat.
Never can rebel:
Such the love thai would gain,
Such tho love. I tell thee plain,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-02-26

A CHICAGO man wants divorce be-
cause he was so drunk when he was
married that he don't realize what was
going OH. HIS friend got him awful
drunk, and when he was getting over
Ii his head was held BY u woman who
told him she was his wife. r
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-02-26

A DANBURY man AYERS that when he
came down stairs Thursday morning
he found his thermometer sitting back
ofthe stove. aud saying that "it would
be hanged II IL would stay out doors
all night Tor any man."
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09
That Coffee Pot.

We are glad to learn that the Emper
or of China has issued decree declar
ing if the chief officer of his household
handles dishes so carelessly as to break
them, he shall be killed. We say we
are glad of this, because we hope to
have the same regulation put into effect
in this country. If it is, about two
thousand hired girls will be executed
every week, and we may reasonably
hope that the destruction of crockery
will be checked We have stopped it
temporarily III our house by having a
tea set made of wrought iron and pain
ted white. When new girl comes she
drops the coffee pot upon the floor
Finding with amazement that it does
not break, she thumps it with flat iron,
and drops bricks on it, and goes out
and borrows q sledge-hammer and
whacks it; and then, perceiving that it
is as good as ever, she sits down in
front Of that coffee pot and bursts into
tears. Then she gives warning, loads
up with sugar and beef and butter fer
her sick aunt, embezzles three or four
hemstitched handkerchiefs and old pill
low cases that are lying around, and
starts for the nearest intelligence office
We wouldn't take million dollars for
that tea set.--Ndr Adeler
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09
An Opponents Opinion,

The following extract testifying to
the integrity, dignity and ability of Hon.
VIM. Allen is taken from the Cincinna-
ii Commercial, of August 18th:
"If the disposition is, as it seems to
be among the Republican newspapers
of the State, to wage personal war
fare upon the Democratic nominee for
Governor, impeaching his motives and
disparaging his commanding abilities,
they will discover before the election
that they have been engaged in an un-
profitable labor. The name of William
Allen has for more than third of a
century been synonym for integrity,
He is of the best fruitage of the Jack
son era of Democracy.
We may differ very widely from AIR.
Aliens political opinions, and so far as
he is personally concerned. think he has
made mistake in entering a canvass
which has for its chief object, on the
Democratic side, the return of Mr.
Thurman to the Senate; but no fair
minded man will be disposed I'd. deny
that he would, if elected, as creditably
fill the Office of Governor as any mar
who has been or could be named fol
that position"
The high compliments paid Mr.. AL
len in the above are more valuable, be
cause they come from leading opposi
| tiOn paper.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09
EHail, Welded Love!

"You know her. She lives on your
street. Her features are either pinched
or full and frowsy. Her dress is wet,
illftting, and of no particular pattern
her slippers are broken down; her hair
is uncombed; her voice is either shrill
or coarse. You have seen her stand
out in the back yard, and put a bare
arm up to her eyes, and under it peer
out to the fence or baln, where man
in an i'll fitting coat is searching for
something, and have heard her shout,
John, can't George bring me some wa
ter2' And you have heard him cry
back, IF he don't get that water 1 will
take every inch of flesh from his bones.
And when you have looked at her again,
don't it seem possible that those angry
eyes have dropped in maidenly reserve,
or raised in coquettish light to the face
of the man in the ill fitting coat?
Can you, by any possible wrench Of
the imagination, conceive OF his ten
derly passing peppermints to her: OF
his taking that hand in his and bash
fully squeezing it? But it was So
Many God bless you has been utter
ed above that bare head, many kiss
pressed on that uncombed hair. The
tightly compressed lips have lovingly
framed tender invitations to him to
take another bite of cake and pickle
The hands that are now parboiled and
blistered and marked with scars from
the breadknife and scratches from tho
last setting hen were once twined low
insly about his neck, and the nose
which is now peaked and red, and look:
as if it would stand on its hind legs
and scream with rage, once followed
the figures of his new vest pattern, OF
bore heavily against his jugular vein.-
As little probable as this seems to you
it seems less to her. She has forgotten
it. She won't hear it talked of by 9th
ers. She can not bear to see it acted
by others. Two lovers are to her q
passel of FOOLS And-but George i
rubbing his head, and we turn asid
while our heroine re-adjusts her slip
per-" Danbury Ne,cs.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09
A West street family had little social

WeSt StTeet lauiiiJ udu iIttie SoSial
gathering, Monday evening. During the
evening the head of the house volun.
teered to crack some walnuts,bnt cracked
his thumb instead, and the walnut from
which the hammer glanced, flew against
ten dollar vase, and knocked in its alb
domen. Then the head of the house
threw the hammer through fire screen
kicked the pan of walnuts across the
floor and into the legs Of the minister
and went into the kitchen to deliver an
address. The party broke up.-Danbu
ry Ne,cs.
1t is one Of the curiosities Of natural
history that a horse eats best when be
has not bit in bis mouth.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09

In Paris all dresses, of whatever ma
terial, intended for walking suits, are
made of convenient walking length,
either just clearing the ground or, at
the most, touching it at the back. For
fetes and garden parties alone are walk.
ing skirts made to trail then of course
they come under the category of Car.
riaee and visiting toilets.
Within few days some very produc,
tive oil wells have been struck in Penn.
sylvania One yielding 1900 barrels
and another yielding 1900. barrels per
day are among the number. The result
has been great fall in the price of oil
From 81 Al barrel it has gone down
to 81 10, and some prophets say it will
60 to eighty cents.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09
SUNDAY THOUGHTS,

He is truly man who is full of en-
terprise, who is constantly acquiring
new thought; who is every day furnish
ing the rooms of his mind with new
pictures who is necessarily spreading
for himself new table with noble aspi-
rations and endeavors, as the sign Of
soul life.
Let the church proclaim anew the car
d;nal truth that no good cause can be
lifted by wrong method. We may
think to build churches by trick, bribery
or selfish appeal, but we grossly deceive
ourselves. We may put up Gothic piles
thereby, but we shall not pull down the
living stones of the true temple.
In the ruins of Pompeii there was
found the remains of petrified woman,
who, instead Of trying to fly from the
destroyed city. had spent her time in
gathering up her jewels. There are
multiIudes making the same mistake. In
trying to get earth and heaven they lose
both "Ye cannot serve God and Nam
mon" Be one thing or the other.
Be satisfied if We sometimes arrive in
your meditations at that glow Of eleva-
ted enjoyment which you desire. Seek
rather in general for calm and COM
posed state of affections and equanimi-
ty of spirit; a serenity of temper, not
always excited to ecstasy by the thought
Of your Heavenly Fathers goodness, but
lying beneath it, in state of equal and
affectionate trust.
Truth is every mans concernment
every mans right,and every mans most
necessary possession. IT every man be
obliged, as he will answer to his Maker
to possess himself of truth, he must be
free-free not only to think, but to speak
free to move, free to so in quest OF
truth, free to bring it home, free to con
fer with his fellows concerning it, ant
free to impart what he has acquired.
Leave nothing for dying hour bu
to die, and calmly to resign thy spiri
into the hands of Jesus. Of all time!
that is the least suitable to have the yes
sci replenished-to attend the great bu
siness of life when life is ebbing-to triu
the lamp when the oil is done, and it il
Pickering in it's sockets-to begin t.
watch wher the summons is heard tt
leave the watch-tower to meet our God
There is probably no person about an
establishment so trying and disgusting a
the tale bearer, the scolder, the whisper
er, and fault finder. He makes enemie
to himself and his employer, and ac
complishes nothing but misery to him
SELF We are told in the Bible that th
stale. bearer is worse than the thief ant
among the six things God hates is ''h
that soweth discord among his breth
rem"
| o Lord, rich in grace when Thou ia
kest possession of the heart, how beau
tifully all the natural talents Thou has
left us expand! Beneath the sunny in
fuence of Thy love even our secula
employments thrive and prosper Oh
if they but knew, how would the men
who only strive for success in tempora
affairs, take to the heart what Thy Wor
AYERS, that ''godliness is profitable unit
all things,h having promise of the life ths
now is, and of that which is to come |!
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09
How General Banks Departed
from the shenandoah Valley,
TJohn Paul in the New York Tribune

John Paul IN the new ork Ir1oune.I
l met Gen. Banks at pleasant picnic
in Mr.. Frank Leslie's grounds on Satur-
day. 1t was on the banks of "Lonely
Lake." and there were waterfalls and
fountains, MOSES and ferns, cold chick
en- and cold champagne, to the hearts
content. 1t grieved me that the General
does not remember how we travelled in
company once; but the circumstances
were not favorable for photoglapy, per-
haps. We were travelling out of the She
nandoah Valley, and maneuvering very
successfully to draw Stonewall Jackson
along in our rear. Not man of us but
swore that the rebel General should not
get to Massachusetts before we did ;that
the foul invader should not set foot on
the frontier of our native State without
finding US sternly confronting him in the
interior And it was only necessary 10
gaze once in each soldiers face to see
that the. hated enemy could not capture
us without stepping over the boundary
lines and violating the territory OF
Maine. l wished several times during
the recent races that had the gray mare
I rode through that campaign here to en-
ter for some of the purses. The bursts
of speed which that faithful creature
showed on several occasions would pass
belief if you did not know just how near
the detested foe got to US at times. II
may not be that won any spurs in the
Shenandoah, but had pair to start in
with, and I used them we'll coming out.
No, am confident that no one won any
spurs down there, though we played
straight poker for most every thing else
and 1 lost my blankets once to cavalry
Captain, who subsequently had no neet
for them. But this is depressing. Yor
may not think me hero from all this
but who is a hero to his valley?
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Died win MY Face 10 the Foe.

! A single shot, followed by a loud
shrek, told us that one of our best men,
Bradley, was wounded He proclaimed
his agony with loud voice, turning
over on his. back. and commenced kick
ing SO vigorously that the surgeon had
difficulty ii getting in reach Of him.
wPoor3eilow,n said the doctor,a he saw
a whif5h liquid oozing out, "shot in the
bladder am afraid it's fatal" and he
com,aenced unbdttoning his coat.
Sany Cod" said Bradley, "I'm a
dead ~ IN never get over it."
\ aK up your spirits, my boy; never
saysdis said Capt. johnson, kneeling
kirf Elver him. 2
s'3 [or. asked the wounded soldier,
feebly, Wt yougrite to my mother and
tell her 4 dstd eyely doing my duty,
with my face 70 the foe, and thst I
thought of her when dying ?"
"Yes, yes," said the doctor, with dim
eyes and a HUSKY voice, 81 will write to
her and tell her, too," but suddenly
springing to his feet with an indignant
and angry voice, added
sWhy, confound it, man, you are not
hurt bit; it's only your canteen that's
shot, and that's the water from it; get
up, will youf'
Bradley raised up slowly, felt himself
all over, and, with an exceedingly fool
ish countenance, crawled back to his po-
sition, amid the uproarious laughter OF
the whole regiment.
For months after that, on the march
OF in camp, and sometimes in the still.
ness of the night, you would hear a
voice in one direction demanding, what
shall l tell your motbsr?' and perhaps
a half dozen responses would be heard
Tell her l died with my face to the foe.'
and then "Canteen" Bradley would come
out angrily aud hunt for the man that
said it. He seldom found him but when
he did there was certain to be fight
Rebellidna in the Courier Journal.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09

~
In the twilight shades rm sitting,
Thinking Of the old and new;
While the light of day is fitting,
Fitting swiftly from my view.
/ think, alas! what might have been,
What sorrows we might fee;
Could future DAYS with us be seen.
As through the past We see.
How many hearts tonight are cold,
And dead, to all that live;
That once were warm, and brave, and bold,
But now, no more that life receive.
Their years are passing like this day,
With not joy and not tear;
The suns gone down upon the way,
And shadows o'er this world appear,
How false this world, and yet how fair;
No wonder lives are wrecked.
That thousands live in fell despair;
When wolves in wool are decked.
But evenings calm repose will come
To all who trust in Ged;
No wolves can enter that lone home,
Way down beneath the sod.
The slanderer's tongue cannot molest.
He too will 60 that way;
Where all that live at last will rest
Until the judgment day.
Then all will be at last made right,
And each reward be given;
The darkness of eternal night.
Or else the joys of heaven.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09
THE FLIRTING OLD MAID.

Born a coquette and still flirting
Once beautiful and brilliant, but now her
face is red and her voice is changing
Now she takes morning rides down to
the lakes with rich old widowers, drinks
her champagne, and does not care who
questions the propriety of it She is a
lnanager-shrewd and sharp. She has
broken hundred hearts looking for the
one great conquest which never came
"He must have money, brains, and he
must be handsome" Alas! he never
came along but once She won him, toy.
ed with him, teased him, loving him al
the time, till one day, impatient, piqued
and passionate, he went away. Now she
walks into the ballroom like queen =
Magnificent dresses, stylish and dread
fully decolette, but underneath all is the
look blaze.
"What do you think of all this tall
about handled goods and low-nccl
dresses, Miss Marshall ?" asked.
"Low-neck dresses! Pshaw! Wha
do the Yankee girls know about low necl
dresses2 Why Bessie Brown wore I
dress at the Queens Drawing Room will
hardly any body on at it all Why,if shl
would wear that dress here at Congress
Hall one night, the old women woul(
faint and the fellows would 60 Wild"
"And the handled goods" Miss Mar
shall?'
"Pshaw! what prudery How wretch
edly slow our atrocious, high-necked, AN
tedeluyian women are getting. Talk tt
Mollie Brown ard L Why should jus
| IKE to see the girl who loved fello'
honestly who never got mad because h
put his arm around her and kissed her
little. If he loved her he'd be COOS
if he didn't Why, it's the affectionate
handled girls who always get married
while the squeamish, cold, icebergy girl
always turn out old maids"
And so the flirting old maid rattle'
= on.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09
Fable for the Juveniles,

In the depth of forest there lived
two foxes who never had a cross word
with each other, One of them said in
the politest language, "Lets have a
quarrel"
"very well; but how shall we set
about it ?" said the other.
"Oh, it cannot be difficult" said fox
No. l; two legged people fall out--why
not 'weW
So they tried all sorts of ways, but it
could not be done, because each would
give way. At last No. l fetched two
stones.
There" said he, "you say they're
yours, and I'll say they're mine. Now
ri begin. Those stones are mine"
"Very well," answered the other; You
are welcome to them"
"But we shall never quarrel at this
rate" cried the other, jumping up and
licking his face. "You old simpleton,
don't you know that 1t takes two to
make quarrel any day"
So they gave it up as bad job, and
never tried to play at this silly game
again.-Children' Hour.
Although men are accused of not
knowing their own weakness, yet per
haps as few know their own strength. II
is in men as in soils, where sometines
there is a vein of gold which the owner
1ro, ,,ot ,<E
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09

A man in New York went 70 bed drunk
the other night, rolled out and broke his
neck; his wife found him dead in the
morning. Moral: Shun the flowing bowl
Or else take the back side Of the bed.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09
M EAT MA RK EFT
WOoDSFIELD, OHIO.
Veterinary Surgeon.

veterinary SurScOHs
Having had considerable experience as
Veterinary Surgeon, l offer my services to the
people of this place and the county. Ring
bone and SPAWN speciality. If not re-
moved in six days, no charge will be made.
Place of business, one door west of Scheu.
fele's Barber Shop. May II. 1S73-y.
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OLD Mains.
ELI Perkins. satoga Letter 10 the Graphic

''i rms ' Wv - 0"9''ie,' A
l see good many "old maids every,
day here in Saratoga, but they ALI seem
to be different There's the young "old
maid" the "old maid,o the disappointed
"o!d maid ana a good many others.
YOUNG OLD MA1ps -
dor vo,n,,..o,a n.;d,, told mn
obe Voc mat twentv.three know sshe
js I thirty M five. hut sbe anneared all artis. s
Go;al. and mari owdar and ma o;rlisb
,as 49, : sovan,esas @ @ sxaar o,,,er
Would Won like To- 90 and see the
In,;ans Miss Mo]lie p, asked 81
sOhi wonldn't II I'm wild to go,
sue Eeplleu. passlonaeely cE,p'ns lFt
: es ,sss4 r
nen, ny nis a,a,;no oI bar Saau,ifrI v ,ao'h Us
roo,,ou ,e.1 I fos not.al sbo frisLad nn tn @ Ser
80, ,nt on l;+,1o l;lv,wh;to opd como
do do' uu u,;ahir J ert;na % ~ bar chin hat in her
i hond
.uro hoo,, d;strootod n oo- narfactlv
ru;,d A. pa,l;ns how do Won ike tbis
hatS Too sweet for ANYTHING isn't it :?
and ,,ot tb;nl, ! ma don;t like # and that
=, l,os mo rovo ohonf # all the moro :.
and oh :, aIorions, I've oot such a Joke
an caorGs and Jn,ia to Tell Won Mir
Ana th;s 10 tho onshing wav the vouno
sold ma;dn rattfed an
"n;.anno;nted in love ~, Oh no She
wos norar disannointed She never
ao~,a we" ~ ~. ,"orr;pS hnt voor oftor vear
ssa . ..,.o W. ,,n n;,h n,a;nor ond oldor
bao,a. M Iii iii now T sho 10 wilIino to oo with
oo"~'., ..tl Nv m;n ~ on,,, not hor 90 occo-
e;oa, Even ,ue nortnar ", fnr t' tha waItzeS s M
''on"' ''''"e- '' '' ~
THE OLD MAID.
met her CalhliS d. 'iie spiiuS WIN
ne, .,I 80 ,,a iaIns a"d ,bo so;d afor
-.ona "n o, o,d ' w | don,t mont 70 volk
w lea,s ,,on olu, nvu oau " ta,," tn tho vonno
WIN WI eT mie %nen yoT rLan I I Sha toot how 70
aiu itivolous; ;, heu heu III s bloo,r dross
1ne' n al II 'nei" 'P NJ p an., ~ ;n,arost ;n
anu ashen r lne II sotS soUA any g ahoa, % ond -
~ .ne o.. a1lnao eao' ssu nood wora for
@ sueh eesse. :. ne $3.50. W Say tho &c .Sha,tor;na
aer nma ,a'of''e 'n'''S' 'A' n'
AN. nHc ooa ,o,,,, ~ co r. ,ho tbo
10 U you ve.hr reau roSet1'os y" oatsI 81 W 'l' '
''es; s.oi m'ss panh;n. [ mou tho.,or d.vs
on no'm., - e'N,n," ah,.1h n,nsi"ols ous . and
are o'ei. ~ " onurgi VI III , ,,n
70 S' sI,en'lno @ leosusee, aen 49, ~ oud I the w
WI. s.ion you my va "aA nu"I ~" h,, INV INV sun
oeauC'lu' Dio,e pre'eh'." ne Wy -, ~"
Gay ochool CLASS thu 'iea oaoSla
plying glance al a parry vi youns "a -.
dles win novels IN .he,r nahus, sue '1os .a
ION her one-outtoneu elo'es, opsheu ' ne'
httle IAN ana comlnenceu ica'''n n"i
Veys Meo'talions.
| THE DISAPPOINTED OLD MAID.
She was once beautiful and sprightly
hit now hor nole s.d face seems eve,
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nuetry.
Written for The Spirit of Democra cyl
SANDER.
BY DR.. 8. J. DEyAUL.

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passions, is deadly poison, a mountain Of in
iquity, scorM Of fire, carsirg men oho are made
in the sinsilitude Of God"
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