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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

An Indian shield is rare curiosity.
The red warrior prefers, like the modern
soldier, to fight with limbs unincum-
bered. 1t is probable that shields and
spears were at one time in common use
among the Western Indians, as among
uncivilized nations of other quarters of
the globe. The introduction of powder
and taIl has, however, made the shield
comparatively useless. They are still
occasionally to be met with, though not
as common as when Catlin sketched with
unequaled fidelity the manners and GUS
toms of Dakota tribes. Among the
Southwestern Indians, more particularly
the Comanches. shields are in general
use, being efficient to fend off the Mexi-
can spear. The editor of the Byan
(Texas) appeal describes one taken in
a fight in March last. The shield was
ar exact circle, eighteen inches in
diameter. The body was as stiff and
unyielding as board and five times as
tough. 1t was made of the thick hide
of the buffalo's neck, thoroughly dried,
and almost as impenetrable as iron. On
one side it was decorated with fancy
betting and strings for use and orna-
ment the other had covering of fancy
buckskin, stained with different colors,
ornariented with beautiful feathers, the
tail OF civet cat, and young woman's
scalp.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
A Centennial Cheese.

Among the many suggestions that
have Oeen made III regard to the Phila-
delphia celebration OF rs that from a
New Hampshire man who proposes to
make a centennial cheese is the most re-
markable. His letter to the commission
ers, with the exception of some details
which are eliminated, reads as follows
"Dear Sirs / speak of cheese
cheese in the grandest and most sub
lime sense of the term cheese such as
the world has never seen; cheese =
hundreds of thousands of pounds of it.
1t shall be an immense plain, the con-
solidated efforts of every cheese manu-
facturer in the United States, and will
be capable, when laid down upon its
side, of accommodating many hundreds
of people. Such a cheese as the one 1
speak of would certainly create aston
ishment, and would gain for our manu-
facturers the admiration of the world.
1 desire space for such cheese. Can
1 have it? Answer"
1t has been suggested that the cheese
would answer variety of purposes !;
that it would make an admirable race
course, for its circumference would
certainly exceed half-a-mile. Its sur
face would be even and free from dust,
and when 1t had worn through the
interior might be scraped out, leaving
only its shell, so that windows and en-
frances might be inserted, and the
whole thing might serve the require
ments or a restaurant more wonderful
than any of those farmed out by the
Commissioner at Vienna. Worcester
(nass.) Spy.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
A Vienna Bath.

have been testing a bath-house. 1
explored the establishment, asking eve
ry one met "fur elm warmes bad. 4"
Some pointed in one direction and some
In another. At last / found myself be-
fore the woman who sold the tickets. I
paid fifty kreutzers. She called "Ma-
RE Marie, bright, black-eyed
German maiden, came. She went to a
shelf and burdened herself with guam
tlty of linen. Then she signed for me
to follow. l went in an expectant, won
dering and rather anxious frame OF
mind. Marie went into neatly-fur-
nished bathroom. Marie spread a
linen sheet in the tub. Marie then
turns on the water. Marie waits for
the tub to fill, and / wait for Marie to
depart, that L may commence disrobing.
Marie seems in no hurry. / ponder
over the possibilities involved in
German warm bath. At last Marie
leaves. Then l modestly remove my
collar. Suddenly Marie returns. 1t is
only to bring another towel Great
Scott There is no lock on the door,
and supposing 1 had been. 1 got
into my bath in fear and trembling.
These people are so queer In their ways.
Marie may return with two or three of
those great, strspping German women
to scrub me. L know nothing of their
bathing customs. Marie no longer dis
turbs me. On emerging examine the
pile of linen she has left. There is a
small towel and two seemingly large
aprons, long enough to reach from the
shoulder to the heels. can't imagine
what they are for, unless to throw on
and dry oneself in. put them to such
use. l would so use forty were they
left for 1 am resolved to have my 80
kreutzers' worth in some way. When I
inquired the use of the two aprons, l
discovered that they were to be worn
while Marie came in, and, turning off
the hot water, let's on the cold Vienna
Letter.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Awards to Americans at the Vienna Elk.
position.

A Vienna dispatch to the New York
Herald says: Among those who have
been awarded medals of merit are Ault-
man, Miller & Co., of Akron, Ohio, for
moving machines; Bullock & Co., Gin
cinnati; Mccormick, Chicago, reapers;
Deere & Co., Moline, ILL.,, agricultural
implements Northern Pacific railway,
for map; States of Alabama, Indiana,
and Tennessee, for minerals; Burck-
hoult & Co., Cincinnati, oils; G. Fox,
Cincinnati, starch; Gest & Atkinson,
Cincinnati, oils; Proctor & Gamble,
Cincinnati, soaps; Emil Scheffer, Louis
vile, pepsine; Stein, Hirsch & Co., Chi
cago, starch; Wilson, Hinkle & Co.,
Cincinnati, books; William Resor &
Co., Cincinnati, stoves; Pope Bros.
Cincinnati, moulding; Leclercq Bros,
Gallipolis, o.; John Gallici, ST. Louis !;
the cities of Cincinnati and Chicago /;
the printing-house for the blind, Louis
vile; Conrad Fabeland Morey, Louis
vile; Wisconsin Leather Company, Mil
waukee; John Grassieno, Cincinnati,
stoves; L. n. McDermott, Cleveland /;
American Institute of Architecture, for
plans of building; Aston Library, New
York, for promotion of science; Cooper
Institute, New York, for improvement
of working classes; Sanford & Co.,
Cleveland, account books; Bureau of
Engraving and Printing of Treasury
Department, Washington; Jas. Sandy,
Cincinnati, photographs; Henry Mass
Ter, Cincinnati, paints and colors Henry
Reckman, Cincinnati, photographs |;
Wilson Sewing Machine Company,
Cleveland; Jones & Laughlin, Pitts
burgh, shafting; Rogers Wheel Com
pany, Cincinnati wheels.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

This sweet little gemo poem is the produc
ton Of the late Lady Lawrence, wife of Sir Henri
Lawrence who was killed in the beginning of tn
Sepoy rebellion, in India:l
That hand of thine, my precious child,
How oft its soft caress / won,
And ask, with many hope and fear,
What is that little hand TO do?
How ductile, soft, unworn by toll,
The ready instrument of play,
1t executes the fancies quaint
That make life thy one holiday.
1t rolls the ball, it guides the pen,
And ciphers strange can deity trace;
And oft, with warm affections gush,
1t fondly strokes my careworn face.
The mimic arms it wen can WELD,
And rein thy small and steady steed;
And when we con the lettered page,
Points to the tiny words we read.
And in thy parents hands tits clasped,
When night and morn our prayer is prayd;
And pillows oft thy rosy check
When slumber's spell is on thee laid.
Twill not be always thus, roy boy,
For real life has other tasks
What is that little hand to d0f
Once more thy yearning mother asks.
Is it to guide the seaman's helm,
Or point the gun mid flashing swords;
Or viii it WELD the students pen,
And clothe thy thoughts in living words?
VIII il be hard and worn with toll =?
Or pale with sickness ivid hue?
Oh, could thy mothers heart divine
What is that little hand to do.
But might her fervent prayer prevail,
Unsullied should that hand remain
Clean from corruption's filthy touch,
And pure from every sinful stain.
Still ready for thy masters work,
The servant of willing mind,
More prompt to give than to receive,
And grasped IL many greeting kind.
And may another hand be found
To hold ii in loves welded grasp;
And may the hands which God then joins
Be one till death shall loose their clasp.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

him, but he persevered. The spring
came. Step by step he was forcing me
back. In vain nightly lifted despair
ing eyes to the proud stars; they
smiled down coldly on me, but no voice
came.
"Again l read the moldering parch-
ment which recorded the dire curse.
and the mysterious words of prophecy
regarding its fulfllment. BY fasting
and watching / strove to read their
meaning.
"'The red hand shall do, while the
white hand shall fail.
"'The cypress-crowned cup shall
confer Immortality
"Both of these images foreshadowed
death.
"Then followed legend
GA flower bloomed in the cleft of a
rock. The fierce waves saw it !; they
coveted its beauty, but the rock laughed
down on them as they surged and foamed
at its feet. The tempest woke, the
waves arose; they dashed their spray
far up the face of the rock Then the
rock cried, oh, Azrael take thou the
flower, for can shelter it no longer.
Then Azrael heard, and stretching out
his strong right hand he plucked the
flower and bore it to sunny plains,
where long it bloomed in peace and
beauty.
"In the watches of the night the
meaning was made clear to me. /
knelt and cried oh, Azrael 1 give my
flower into thy keeping. See that thou
bear her tenderly to sunny plains,
where angel hands shall welcome her.
Then called my child. She came and
LAID her sunny head upon my shoulder
/ gave the cup of death into her hand !;
L watched her drink it. spoke playful
words to her; / told her it was the
elixir of life, and she smiled as she took
it from my hand. / drew her to the
easement; she lay in my arms, and
spoke to her of the things she loved-of
the flowers and stars, and of the heaven
ly plains where her mother wandered.
She listened dreamily. 1 forced my
lips to smile as she clasped her arms
about my neck. Her breath futtered a
little, and her startled eyes sought
mine. 1 turned away. Suddenly she
said, MY father, there is. some one
standing in the moonlight, holding out
to me fair, white lily Then 1
knew the guardian of our race had
come for this, his child. / bowed my
head.
In the morning came the Spanisrd.
l babe him follow me. We stood beside
her. He wrung his hands and wept. 1
had foiled the demon.
"Do you wonder that while others
smile my lips are grave? Do you mar
vel that 1 keep VIGIL by the couch of
pain and sorrow? 1 have no remorse.
1 did no wrong. Her pure, white soul
went up to God without one stain of
earth to mar its loneliness. But oh, my
child, my child Faint voices call to
me-a hand has beckoned from the stars
my time is short ! My angel ones, L
come p
I laid down the manuscript with
shudder. Could this be I? / looked
around me fearfully. There in her
dress of green, Gods beautiful earth
smiled up at the sky. The birds were
singing overhead in the kitchen Jean
and Lisette were laughing: the bees
hummed in and out of my window.
Life-busy, beautiful hfe-was all
around me. Turning the key on the
ghostly story, l went out into the sun
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

TELL THE TRUTH.-There is no moral
difference between "white" and "black'
lies. We think great lie great sin.
and great shame to man but, after
all, little lies are much more dangerous,
because there are so many of them, and
because each one of them is diamond
pointed. And these little, petty I'M
truths, which are so small that we do
Tot notice them, and so numerous that
we cannot estimate them, are the ones
that take off the very enamel of the
moral sense-cut away its entire sur
face.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
HUMORs OF THE GRANGE.

THE swiftly increasing numerical strength of the
farmers Oranges" or anti-monopoly associations
of the Patrons of Husbandry,- in the West has
made 1t incumbent upon the average politicians of
that section to assume agricultural pretensions as
rapidly possible. Hay-seed in the hair md III re
drilling oyeralls," says the Indianapolis Sentinel
d are now the fashionable affectation of him who
Graves the oalots of rural electors" The humor of
this style of tine-servng is obvious and an occi-
dental bard turns il to satirical account for the
Atchison Champion, i'll the following supposititious
Serenade of Modern Politician to his Love ~
The moon is shining on the grange,
The winds are hushed, the leaves are stiIl,
The patient stars look softly down
Upon my cot at Shannon Hill
Then come, my horny-hsnded love,
And wander through the dell with me,
And gaze at the Durham bull.
And listen to his pedigree.
Once was in the railroad ring
But now my hands are hard with toll;
I've scattered hay-seed in my hair,
And BACKED my boots with harness oil.
My city cows have all gone dry,
am no longer in my prime;
My day is drawing to its close,
And il Will soon be milking time.
think know new mich-cow
That's Just exactly what need;
She's thin from running out to grass,
But only wants a change of feed.
I'll mix mash of free-trade bran,
swindies, high taxes, and back pay,
And coax her to the ballot-box,
And feed her till election day.
With one to grasp her by the horns!
And one to hold her by the tail.
Oh let me safely sit between,
And calmly fill my milklng-pail:
And when November's breezes show
Tis time my Berkshire hogs to kill,
I'll move hack into town again.
And sigh no more for shannon Hill,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

The Scientific american is of the
opinion that We require variety in our
food. 1t says experience has proved
that, for some reason unknown to sci
ence, variety is essential to health after
reaching the age when we are free to
choose our food. The perpetual recur-
renee of the same edibles, even though
their number be considerable, becomes
in all periods of life, except infancy,
not only wearisome, but positively in
furious. Salt pork, salt fish and pota-
toes, with pies, poor bread and Japan
tea, are the staples of food of thousands
of families during our long winters. 1t
should be understood how needful
change of diet is from time to time.
Fresh vegetables, particularly in the
country, are readily obtained and pre-
served, and should be unsparingly used.
The edible roots, as turnips, carrots,
onions and beets, and cabbages, are as
well worth preserving as the omnipres-
emit potato. All these vegetables need
thorough boiling. and more than they
generally get.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Humorous,

WHY is captain haranguing his crew
an upholsterer Because he is deck
orator.
LOVE matches are often formed by
people who pay for a month of honey
with life of vinegar.
IT is suggested that young ladies are
so anxious to get husbands because
every woman is amiss until she is mar
ried.
WHO could have been the wretch
Hear him: "The average Massachu-
sets girls don't want any better facilities
for sliding down hill than Goldfish with
4 string through the gills.
A New YORK female who read that
the Hoosac Tunnel cost 50, 900 per yard
said she would have a dress pattern off
from that piece if the old man didn't
lay up cent for the next two years.
A MAN in New York went to bed
drunk the other night, rolled out and
broke his neck his wife found him dead
in the morning. Moral Shun the flow
ing bowl-or else take the back side of
the bed.
A PRINTER was Boosting the other day
about his wonderful ability to set type.
81 know what you can't set" said
comrade. "What is it? "Two hens
on one nest"
1T was an Irish coroner who, when
asked how he accounted for an extraor-
binary mortality in Limerick, replied,
sadly: CT cannot tell There are peo-
pie dying this year that never died
before"
WHAT is the difference between good
dog show and bad one? When it is
good one, the dogs go to the show but
if bad one. the show goes to the dogs.
JONES don't see the use of militia.
What" he bawled out, els better to
dispense a crowd than a good police
man?" GA yaller- wasp"
shrieked an urchin in the street.
A JUDGE at Montgomery, Ala, re-
Gently interrupted very flowery young
dear sir Don't go any higher. You
are already out of the jurisdiction of
this court"
UNDERGOING his examination, medi-
cal student was asked what was the
mode of action of disinfectants. He
replied: "They smell so badly that
the people open the windows and the
fresh air gets in
A WISCONSIN Justice of the Peace
divorced couple recently as follows:
He stood them in the middle of the
floor, backs together, and as they
walked away from each other he re-
peated the marriage ceremony back
ward.
ScRUPLEs = English tourist -" My
man, what's your charge to row me
across the Firth ?" Boatman-" Weel,
sir, 1 was jist thinkin Gamma break the
Sawbath-day for no less than fifteen
shull'n'sr'
WIFE," said the father of a very
diminutive child, but which made con-
siderable noise, "spank it, and make it
keep quiet !" would, my dear" re-
piled the conslderate lady, "but really
it is so small that cannot find room for
a spank.
THE New Orleans Picdyune says upon
its own personal authority that after
rolling all night in your berth at sea,
till you are miserably sick, it is irritat-
ing to have steward open the door In
the morning and ask if you will have
fresh roll for breakfast.
How Minister Washburn came to be
called Sir Elihu in the Paris papers
is explained. A reporter heard Mr.. w.
in conversation with Kentuckian who,
sir, was telling him, sir, that this coun-
try, sir, isn't fit, sir, to compare with
the Bluegrass region, sir, and you
haven't, sir, got glass of Bourbon, sir.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

But two establishments In Great
Britain make charcoal iron
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

A VERY adhesive cement, and one par
ticularly useful for fastening the brass
mountings on glass lamps, as it is un-
affected by petroleum, may be prepared
by boiling three parts Of rosin with one
part Of caustic soda and five parts of
water, thus making kind of soap,
which is mixed with one half its weight
of plaster of paris.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

HIS COIutS IIOHI OuIO
Under this sod
And under these trees
Lieth the bod
yof Solomon Peas
He's not in this hole,
But only his pod;
He shelled out his soul
And went ND to his God.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-04-02
THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

E. BRINGHURST 4 CO.
Have hne assortment Of useful and fancy articles
suitable Tor Holiday Presents, comprising
Elegant COlogRe Sets,
Fancy Thermometers.
Toilet Sets.
Fine Hair Brushes,
Dressing Cases,
Smelling Bottles,
Vases,
Puff Boxes apd .Pufs.
Toilet Mirrors.
Sachets:
Dressing Combs
scotch Plaid Goods Fine Perfumery, of French.
RnRlish and American manu- utaeture, with many
other desirable novelties at moderate and popular
DTiees M BRIN0HURST x CO.,
Apothecaries.
corner 9Th and Market Sts Wilmington, Del
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-04-02
Particulars OF the Death OF the Au@
thor of "Th0 Black crook"

Mr. Charles NJ. Barras, the author of The Blaek
Crook, q few years ago purchased about ten acres
of ground at Cos Cob, and erected substantial
and beautiful residence commanding fine view
of Long island Sound, but In consequence OF The
death OF several relatives lac sold the place TO
Mr.. Edwin Booth, with whom he made his home
until the opening OF the present winter when he
took up his abode In New York. Since that time
he has been in the habit OF visiting Cos CobeYery
Sunday evening.
ON Sunday night he lett the city by the { P. III.
Boston express train. After passing Port Chester
where the train stops, he was notified 10y tue con,
ductOr of his approach TO Cos Cob, but negiecVed
to get of whore the train stops, short distance
below the bridge, in order to save walk, ano
delayed too long; so that, after the tram na1 1
got on the bridge, Mr.. Barras jumped ana ieil
through upon some rocks beneath, distance oI
twenty Ave to thirty feet, ana was injured IN a
most shocking manner. The train was backed
Mr. BarTas taken up aud removed to the residence
Of Mr.. Saul Clark, and thence to the residence o.
Mr. Lane, where 10 died shortly alter midnight
n. Y. EUeNtRg Post. .+f4t tt otstt' t
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-04-02
The Cause Of t he Rise in Gold.

The New York Herald of Tuesday, accounts
70. the recent rise in gold as follows;
The rise Of the gold premium may be account
ed for in part from the unusual amount Of the
precious metal our impor .ers have needed to pay
duties on these large impoTtations, and partly al
50 from the recent action OF the Bank OF England
in raising the rate of distouut. But there lie, ev-
IDENTIFY, another END more general cause operating,
for gold has been rising steadily from ll2 toward
the close OF last year 10 llSj5 which 1t touched
yesterday The export OF gold to u greater
amount than the production Of our mines lessons,
of course the stock in the country. Since 10 iii It
Of January we have exported $l3,347,3lS This
il at the rate of $53, ,3S9,272 year We do not
know what the present gold production Of the
mines il, but, probably, not over twenty-five mil
lions year. The product of both gold and silver
will hardly amount to hity milhon6. To say moth
ing OF the use Of the precious metals in the arts
and tor jeWelry, OF tht loss by and IN 9TH
ways ls clear that at the present rate Of ex-
portaton the country being steadily depicted Of
gold and silver, and particularly OF gold. This
TACT Of itself Is sufficient TO gold dealers to
force an advance Of the gold premium. Then the
stock of gold In the TTeAsury much less than it
was last year, or than 1t had been from year TO
year since shortly after the close OF the war The
demand tor gold tC take up the fiye-twenties and
TO fund the debt, together with the amount re-
quired to pay interest the debt, will keep down
the suTpluA. though the excessive ImportatIons of
merchandise will furnish the Secretary with
considerable sum for duties Nor do we see how
ths export Of specie Il to be checked while imports
are 80 excessive and the balance Of trade Is so
largely against Us. HerftotoIe government bonds
and other securities have gone abroad to balance
account, but there is a limit to this resource We
cannot always pay IN bonds. We must either pay
in gold or by the export OF produce, unless, in
deed, our foreign creditors choose 10 let what We
owe them remain on this side for reinvestment-
But drawing from us gold at the rate OF fifty
three millions year looks as II they preferred 70
have the hard cash at h0me Nor must We ne
gleet to notice the vast amount OF specie taken
over or drawn from thus SIDE by the thousands OF
Americans crossing TO Europe OF living there.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-04-02
Rower's Hood Liniment.


AFTER 50 EeRTs practical expenence with horses
p staging. tsaping. &e-a have learned that EAeyS
horses have been CRIPPLED bg ihRttsntion 90 the
feet than all other diseases combined. Alter many
expeFimenls hare found the true remedy 10 PRF-
yENT the disease Of the beef og restore 1t esr neg
lisenee. 70 what nature cd il should be-fke
great support Of the noble 0Rimal If the hOOf ID in
famed aud diseased, tbs animal e eOmpaFaAiVely
worthless. Ibis L nimSnt will surely prepsai this
wort Of all diseases, fCOntraction, Corns, Quarter
Cracks. Contraction Of the Back Binew. Generally
called Knse-HpTupg. &e.1 and restore th0so that
have been crippled By the want Of such . remedy.
Try It. end u win meyer lAil Il properly aP-
Battle the horses foot onee q week, or Oftsnsr II
necessary at the heel and frog and around the hoOf
close to the hair. a4 sails U. BOYER,
~ NoFFistoWn. Pa.
MR. N. G. BOYRR--Deap Sir: This is 70 eegllfy
that have used your Liniment In my stable for
three months past. on more than one hundred her.
ses. and dna Il the best preparation have ever
used on horses. IL Is far better than you recon-
O. o. ID. HARRY HAMILTON,
~ No. 1872 West 3lst street. New y YoFk City.
e. RRIR0HUR6T y CO.. nRuaeiste. eogner 6si
and M aFket streets sW WiiminRtona having hao8 az
pointed agents for this valuable and pohulaY Heel
LAimeats are fully prepared TO supply It Whoiesala
and retail 81 the manuiaotuEor's prices.
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