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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04

Thus was the awakening. They
were bending together over the piano,
Mr.. Caperne carelessly turning over
the piles of music, when something
seemed to startle him, and he stood
upright, with his hand pointing to a
name, written in a bold, struggled
hand, on one of the songs, "Julian
Dudley"
"This belongs to" he stammered,
-"tell me"
Lucy looked up at him, in sudden
wonder. She did not know why,
but the same instructive terror which
had smitten her at the artists story
smote her now as she looked at him.
Tell me-" repeated Noel -''not
your brother?"
eyes," she replied; "but-"
"But," interrupted Noel, with
whitening lips, Sin all these books, in
Tony's, and your brothers books"
"The name is j. Woodfeld," said
Lucy. eyes, my brothers wife was
an heiress, and he was required to
take her name-an unnatural an
rangement, think" she said, trying
to smile. eff I were q man-Mr
Caperne, do you know you frighten
me! What is it,"
Noel looked into her face once, as
a man looks at treasure which is to
be taken away from him; he just said
"God help us BOTH" and turned to-
wards the door. 1t opened as he
reached it. There were sounds of an
arrival in the hall, and he stood face
to face with the host whom he had
so longed to thank.
The eyes of this man fell as they
met Noels; there was a weak, i'm
ploring gesture of his hands, and 6
hurried, nervous "Not here! not here
for PHYS sake! Come with me"
Noel followed into the room oppo
site; he closed the door behind him
and set his back against it.
Julian Dudley, I have found you
at last, then" said Noel.
"Caperne," said Mr.. Dudley, put
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04
Courage.

1t is the clear duty of the press Of
the country to make vigorous and
united effort to restore public conf
dence. We have had our panic and
are reaping its effects, but there is
no reason why there should be this
long continued fear of undefnable
future calamity. Every one knows
that our crops are abundant-more
so, probably, than they have been for
years. Our coal mines, timber for
ests and cotton fields have not suffer
ed from the paric, and the wants Of
the people everywhere remain the
same that they were two months
ago. Europe must have our grain,
and our own people must have the
products of our own manufactures.
There is no reason that cotton mills
and locomotive works should close
their doors, as if clothing and loco
motives were never to be again in
use. If necessary, let prices and
wages be adjusted in accordance with
the new conditions brought about by
the panic, and let mills run ON half
time; but do not let us present the
spectacle of people too much fright
ened to do anything but stare one
smother idly in the face, and thus
bring about the distress that little
GOODNESS and courage can avoid.
There is abundance of work for every
one in this country; and if the press
viii do its part to revive courage and
confidence, SO that capitalists and
Observation-Disclosures labor, weneed
dread no further financial panic
IN Y Granhic.
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II would rather live than merely
exist" said Mr.. Caperne. eff the
pains are keener, SO are the joys"
He did not at once get an answer
from Lucy, for the ''green"- ducks
were about her feet, gobbling up her
bounty with noisy enjoyment, while
Tony threw stones into the pool for
drenched retriever to bring out.
Mr.. Caperne might have gone on
with his philosophy, but Lucy gave
him her empty basket, saying lightly
THAT'S a slur on my poor ducks, 1
suppose. It is getting late, Mr.. Ca
perne, and the little Cor hangs out
foggy signals. You had better goin. "
Mr.. Noel Caperne followed, not
quite satisfied. He wanted to say
something about going away; for of
course, now that he was compare
lively strong again, there was no ex-
cuse for remaining; but, somehow,
the words would not come. He look
ed back upon the days that had pass
ed since he first left his sick-room,
and wondered to find that he could
not count them. He had his puzzles
and perplexities. 1t occurred to him
one day, with a sudden sense OF
awkwardness, that he had never
known by what name to thank his
good Samaritans. When he spoke
of this, stammering Tony broke into
a wild fit of nonsense, which madame
checked with an uplifted finger, and
curious compression of her lips.
''You are not to thank us at all
sir. I thought I had made that
plain. As to names" she went on
after q little pause, "you will say
Aunt Lucy and Granny, as Tony
does; or you may call me madame
after my sons fashion, if you prefer
it. am French, you know-at least
Twas. You should feel at home
with us now, mon fIs."
The quick red came to Mr.. Ca
pernes face at the words. Though
she had used them before, yet they
seemed just then to take new sig
nifcance.
''Tell me-" said the old lady, softly
is it not so?"
MADAME" said Mr.. Caperne, "yor
have been everything to me-mort
than have words to express"
He was in an abnormal and un-
reasoning state of mind. With Lu-
cy he had arrived at that stage wher
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04
from the Pittsburg Commercial
Unkind to the G. & O. r..

The Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road Company, which is understood
to be unable to pay the interest due
on its bonds on November 1st, is
one of those enterprises which illus
trate the unsoundness of the basis on
which railroads have lately been built
1t was built with the proceeds of
bonds almost exclusively, and its
bonds have found a market on a faith
that believed in all things Its bonded
debt is SIS, 10000 and its floating
debt, $S,00O,OOO; while its capital is
s.. Its projectors expected
its earnings to pay the interest; but,
inasmuch as it traverses a country
which has all its resources yet to de-
velope, and is in itself mere link in
the grand chain of a through route
from the East to the West, it has
found itself unable to compete sue
cessfully with the Baltimore and
Ohio road and the other through
routes to the East. The route of
the road is a good one, and the coun-
try traversed by it must eventually
be productive one, but the road
has been built before its time, and
the present traffic on it is not sufi-
cient to opperate it and pay interest
on the cost of its construction. It
will, no doubt, in the course of time,
develope paying trade, but in the
z eantime, while this work of develop
ment goes on, the bondholders will
be clamoring for their interest, and
will clamor IN vain. Had the road
been built with actual capital, the
capitalists interested could have
waited for what the future will bring
forth; but the bondholders will not
wait, and the end will be bankruptcy
for the road and numberless quar-
rels over who shall own and control
it.
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Whole No. 1868.
THE YELLOW COTTAGE.

BY MARION DOUGLAS.
Mid fields with useless daisies white,
Between a river and wood,
With not another house in sight,
The lOw-roofed yellow cottage stood,
Where I,
Long years ago, q little maid,
Through all life's rosy morning played.
No other child the region knew;
My only playmate was myself,
And ali our books, treasured few,
Were gathered on a single shelf;
But obi
MOI wealth king might prize could be
What those old volumes were to mel
On winter nights beside the fire,
In summer, sitting in the door,
turned, with love that did not tire,
Their weI-worn pages DER and DER;
In me,
Though sadly fallen, it is true,
Their heroines all lived anew!
One day, about my neck ruff
OF elder flowers with fragrant breath,
Twas, with conscious pride enough
TO suit the part, Elizabeth;
The next,
Ensnared by many willy plots,
sighed, the hapless Queen of Scots!
Where dArting swallows used TO fit,
Close to me, on some jutting rocks,
Above the river, would sit
For hours, and wreath my yellow locks,
And trill
A child's shrill song, and, singing, play
1t was SIRENS witchiDg lay.
On Sundays, underneath the tree
That overhung the orchard wall,
While watching, one by one, to see
The ripe, sweet apples fall,
I tried
My very best to make believe
Twas in Eden and was Evei
Oh golden hours when l, to-day,
Would make truce with care,
No more of queens, in bright array,
1 dream, or sirens fair;
In thought,
am again the little maid
Who round the yellow cottage playedI
[St. Nicholas for December
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E.OOney.

The craziest notion an editorial loon
ever got into his head is that an
nounced by some of the Democratic
papers to the effect that the Republi-
can party wants to take advantage of
the present Cuban excitement and
precipitate war, for the purpose of
diverting the public mind from pre-
valent public corruption and political
scandals. From what particular
scandals, prithee? Is it the Tweed
trial, now in progress, with its prec-
ious revelations of raseaity and Dem
ocratic completely, that the Admins
tration would shield from public at
tention? Do these writer's suppose
that after what he has gone through,
and the endorsement he has received
from the American people, that Pres
ident Grant cares a fig, anyhow, for
what the Democratic press says
against him? Go to, rattleheads, and
tell your yarns to the Marines Ro
chester Express.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04

General Goldman, ex-Auditor of
State, who assisted in developing the
Democratic steaings in Fairfield
county, is now engaged in unearthing
the hidden treasures of Butler coun-
ty. It is said that some rich leads
have been struck, and that the old
Norways of that Gibraltar of Democ
raey are beginning to snuff danger.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04

A great revolution in Mexico has
resulted in the complete separation
of Church and State. In one respect
the Mexicans go further than the
founders of our government ventured
to do. They forbid the establish
ment or religious orders of the own
ership of real estate for religious
purposes, with the exception, we pre-
sumo, of simple houses of worship.
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Democratic Consistency.

Democrats cut singular figure in
Massachusetts,. In their State Con-
ven5ion, they denounced the salary
grab in unmeasured terms, and even
went so far as to declare that those
who voted for or received the back
pay, had forfeited all claim to the
confidence or respect of the people.
Nevertheless, with this resolution
squarely before them, they nomin-
ate,l and elected General Banks to
the Senate, well knowing that he
advocated the salary bill, back pay
and all, in Congress, and pocketed
the swag on the passage of the bill.
That is q good sample of genuine
Democratic consistency.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04

The Secretary of War, who was in
New York on the 18th, is reported to
have said to an intimate friend who
called on him: "You are aware that
1 have been. considered somewhat
blood thirsty on this matter, but the
entire Cabinet are now of my mind.
At Cabinet meeting we were a unit,
and if the American people are not
satisfied with the measures resolved
OH at that meeting to vindicate the
National honor, they must be very
hard to please"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04

The Treasurer of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway has issued circu-
lar to bondholders, saying: ''The only
way to re-establish the credit of the
company is to fund its entire floating
deot in income bonds, to be paid out
of the net earnings of the road. The
company has authorized the issue of
seven per cent. twenty-year income
bonds, to the amount of S12,000,000,
to be used in retiring its floating
debt, and in funding interest that
may accrue on its six and seven per
cent. bonds"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04
Youths Department.
To Our Young Readers.

The long evenings have come again, and the boys
and girls have now time for reading and writ
ing We want them all to try TO contribute some
thing to the "Youth's Department" of the NEWS,
which is intended for their special benefit. Let US
have original Enigmas, Charades, Puzzles, Prob
lens, REFUSES, Anagrams, Conundrums, &c. &C.
Be careful to make no mistakes in spelling, and al
ways send the correct answers, together with your
real name, which viii not be published, unless you
desire it, but the editor wants to know rhO the con-
tributors are.
We know there is talent enough among the bright,
wide-awake young people who read the NEWS, to
make this Department interesting and keep it sup
Piled with original matter. Let all of them put on
their 'thinking caps" at once, and send us their
productions-[Ed. Y. D.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04

Brick Pomeroy, while making speech in
Texas, was asked by listener, What have
the Northern men done for Texas? z" to
which he replied: ''Taken the weeds out
of your fence corners, raised vegetables,
planted fruit trees, built your largest and
best houses, imported your finest breed of
hocses and cattle, erected nearly every ma
ch ne shop, foundry, and mill that you have
anong you. They have minded their own
BIZ siness, and have not disturbed large
au Hence by asking foolish questions. They
have striven by honest industry to keep off
tho Sheriff s hands, and thirty feet ahead of
the tax collector"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04

The inebriate asylum at Binghamp-
ton, N. Y, has proved failure. Only
three patients out of eighty-three,
have continued in a course of total
abstinence. This should be warning
to all men not to touch intoxicating
liquors of any kind, for when the hab-
it once becomes fixed, it isnext to i'm
nossible to change it.
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A BUNCH OF VIOLETS.
CONCLUDED.

Aunt Lucy was standing beside
an open French window when Mr.
Caperne went into the drawing
room, and he knew at once that the
easy-chair drawn up near was for him,
for the man whose past had been q
hard battle single-armed, upon whose
life for many a weary year had fallen
no touch of gentle fingers, no whis-
per of womanly solicitude. There
was rose in the bosom of her light
/ Spring dress, and a tall arum thrust
forth its blossom from behind her.
Mr. Cnperne saw all this in one
hurried glance. He will see it again
many time in days to come. It
became for him one of those photo
graphs which the brain has trick of
taking, for our ceaseless torment or
happiness. She came forward to
meet him, holding out her hand, and
in his eagerness he quilted the arm
on which he leaned He was weak
er than he had thought. The car
pet grew unsteady beneath his feet,
the tall arum multiplied itself a dozen
times; and, but for that outstretched
hand, he must have fallen.
'You have been imprudent" said
Lucy, quietly. ''My mother should
have kept you prisoner little longer,
though I know how weary the days
must be-"
It was the voice he had heard in
the wood, nearer to him now, speak
ing to him, and about him.
"Wearyl" repeated Mr.. Caperne,
slowly. 81 think that they have
been the happiest days ever spent"
She turned from him half smiling,
as Tony gave vent to a whistle of
boyish contempt for such an idea of
happiness.
I'm that case it was lucky I
dropped into the Cor" said Tony.
"But it is an odd notion. 1 know I
shouldn't ike it; and TN sure Aunt
Lucy wouldn't either. Why, she's
out all day long, amongst the flow
ers, or pigeons, or the green ducks,
such swell ducksl Mr.. Caperne.
You wouldn't believe what a quack-
ing they set up at the sight of us !!
But you shall see them. Here comes
granny; and now, Aunt Lucy, go to
the piano, and we'll have a jolly
evening"
Mr.. Caperne leaned back in his
chair, and listened. Through the
open window he felt the soft Spring
air, all fower-scented, on his check,
as he watched the tiny white clouds
chasing each other, and fell into q
hazy sort of speculation upon the
strange chance that had brought him
here; and through all his thoughts
rang the music of Stephen Heller's
"Sleepless Nights, full of wonderful
pathos and wild abandon.
When the music ceased, and Mr.
Caperne looked up, the clicking of
madame's knitting needles ceased too,
abruptly. She gave him little per-
emptory nod from her seat in the
corner, rose up briskly, like the reso-
lutte nurse she was, and then he knew
that his evening was over, and he was
to be sent away.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04

The following tender missive was picked
Up in the ladies' sitting-room of the railway
depot at Dayton, one day last week:
Dear Charles, do you love me as much
as you did at quarter to II last night! Say
you do dearest, and it will give me spirit to
20 down and tackle those cold beans left
from yesterday" The answer sent was,
eyes. hoist them in. my angel"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04

A preacher in Scottish town took up a
collection one recent Sunday, and found,
WI en- his hat was returned, that there wasn't
a cent in it. II thank my God, " said he,
turning the hat upside down and tapping
the crown of it with his hand, ''that have
got my hat back from this congregation
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Select Miscellany.
EVERY DAY.

Oh, triaing tasks so often done,
Yea, ever 10 be done anew!
Oh, cares which come with every sun,
Morn after morn, the long years through!
We shrink beneath their paltry sway
The irksome calls of every day.
The restless sense Of wasted power,
The tiresome round of little things,
Are hard to bear, as hour by hour
Its tedious iteration brings;
Who shall evade or who delay
The small demands of every day?
The boulder in the torrents course,
By tide and tempest lashed in vain,
Obeys the wave-whirled pebbles force,
And yields its substance grain by grain;
So crumble strongest lives away
Beneath the wear of every day.
Who finds the lion in his lair,
Who tracks the tiger for his life,
May wound them ere they are aware,
Or conquer them in desperate strife;
Yet powerless him to scathe or slay
The vexing gnats Of every day.
The steady strain that never stops
Is mightier than the fercest shock;
The constant fan of water drops
VIII groove the adamantine rock.
We feel our noblest powers decay,
In feeblest wars with every day.
We rise to meet heavy blow
Our souls a sudden bravery fills
But we endure not always so
The drop-by-drop of little ills:
We still deplore and still obey
The hard behests of every day.
The heart which boldly faces death
Upon the battlefield, and dares
Cannon and bayonet, faints beneath
The needle points of frets and cares:
The stoutest spirits they dismay-
The tiny stings of every day.
And even saints of holy fame,
Whose souls by faith have overcome,
Who wore amid the cruel fame
The molten crown of martyrdom,
Bore not without complaint Away
The petty pains Of every day.
All, more than martyrs sureole
And more than hero's heart of fire,
We need the humble strength of soul
Which daily tolls and ills require =
Sweet Patience! grant us, if you may,
An added grace for every DAY!
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The Ohio Legislature will stand as
follows: Senate, % Democrats and
IA Republicans; the House, 81 Dem
ocrats and 48 Republicans. Demo
cratic majority in the Senate, 8; in
the House, 9; on joint ballot, II.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-04

Young lady to beau, of whose company
she IS getting tired; II hope you are not
nervous, because that clock has queer
effect on people. All my gentleman ac-
quaintances start when it strikes ten, and
it's just going to strike; SO if you are nerv-
GUS perhaps you had better go home before
it begins He went
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Enigma.

am composed of 20 letters
Ny456is very troublesome animal,
My1 IA % is fed to horses,
My2s94619 1s 70 is number,
Nv II Is 16 is used in hunting,
My7s9 91o1s 20 is what we live in,
Ny II Is l3 is the Deity.
NV whole is a song that was sung by the little
bov that gofinto the hogshead of sugar.
Hillsboro, o. fAFS sun
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Vegetable pills :" exclaimed an old
lady; don't talk to me of such stuff
The best vegetable pill ever made is apple
du.upling. For destroying the gnawing
in The stomach, there is nothing ike it. 1t
alvays can be relied on"
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The New York Sun asserts that it has
discharged reporter for telling lie. That
Is a lie. The fellow has been really pro-
m ted to the Suns Washington bureau,
having shown special qualifications.
Washington Star.
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Whenever we hear a man making dis
paraging insinuation in regard to his moth
er-in-law, we always feel like saying to him,
''Sir, you never would have been anywhere
if your father had never had mother-in-
law "
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''There." said Jones, as he wrathfully
pushed away the pie which his landlady
had Just served him, "that stuff isn't fit for
pig to eat, and amt going to eat it :"
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An old edition of Morse's Geography
says: Albany has 400 dwelling houses, and
400 inhabitants, all standing with their
gable-ends to the streets"
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Mrs Harriet Beecher Stoves face seems
to d Chicago writer like "a glimpse of the
last century" The reporters ''cheek'
seems to Mrs. Stowe essentially of the
present epoch.
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'John," said a stingy old hunk to his
hired man, as he was taking dinner, ''do
you know how many pancakes you have
eaten?" mo" ''Well, you've eaten four
teen" "Wen," said John, ''yOu count and
I'll eat"
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When are ladies like loaf sugar? When they are
re6ded.
What IS the difference between a sailor and a
becr-drinker? One puts his sail up and the other
puts his ale down.
When is baby not baby? When it's tea
thing. (Teething)
What creatures took the smallest amount Of bag
case along when they entered the ark? The cock
and the fox; they had only one comb and one brush
between them.
What is the difference between temptation and
eternity? One is vile of the dell, and the other
is . dell of while.
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Dear Laura, when we were courtlng you
were very dear to me; but now you're my
wife, and I am paying your bills, you seem
to get dearer and dearer !"
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A bar-room and faro bank being run
in connection with the post office at Iron
Rod. Mon, the mail service at that station
has been discontinued.