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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-03
OFFERS EXTRAORDINARY.

TO ANY PERSON sending me the ad a. e ~ n
10 more men who want to make from y sDssr1
per year sure {farmere' names p.eferredl, VIII ,sed
Census book Of 1870. and an en9rsNns en'
Address, J. C. TILfON, P1tssouftn'1
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-03

comprises 1858 MINERAL compounds ana
10000 figures, and the whole covers iour
or Ave square yards of paper II Is de
serving of remark, in this connection,
that boys have made less progress ana
shown less perseverance In working ~
this problem than the girls.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20
THE OLD WORLD.

The Empress Caroline Augusta, widow of
the Emperor Francis l., and grandmother of
the reigning emperor, died at Vienna, Feb
ruary z, aged 81.
1t is announced from Geneva that the
Grand Council Of the Canton of Geneva has
decided against the complete separation Of
Church and State.
A Paris dispatch of the Sth says the north
ern portion of France had just been visited by
a heavy snowstorm, and railway travel was
blockaded.
The Swiss Council Of State has stopped
the salaries, for three months, of all the
priests who read from their pulpits, unau-
thorized, the pspal brief establishing q sep
arate Bishopric for Geneva.
A dispatch was received at Washington
from Minister Sickles, dated Madrid, Febru-
ary IL, confirming the previous report of
the abdication of King Amadeus of
Spain, and stating that republican form Of
government had been adopted by a vote of
259 in the affirmative and 80 in the
negative. There was great excitement man.
ifested and some attempts at disturbance,
but the latest dispatches report everything
quiet.
Advices from Lisbon, February IL, state
that an insurrection of natives had broken
out against the Portuguese authorities in
Loanda, on the southwest coast OF Africa.
Corvettes with troops have been dispatched
to the colony.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20
TenacIty of Popular Beliefs.

THE tenacity of popular belief, in the
absence of any established facts on which
it can be based, and in opposition to all
the teachings of learning, science, and in
dlvidual experience, has long been the
wonder of philosophers. The explana-
tion perhaps is, that it is an inherited
habit or instinct, and perpetuates itself
through successive generations as other
habits do. Thus we see the dog on his
masters carpet before the fire. turn
around before lying down, in obedience
to an inherited habit acquired ages ago
by his progenitors when obliged to make
their own beds in their native wilds.
And SO of many habits in man and the
domestic animals, which are still con-
tinued, though the occasion for them
ceased to exist countless generations ago.
The beliefwhich seems to have the firm
est hold on the popular mind, and to be
the most widely disseminated, is in the
influence of the moon on vegetation and
the weather. This has long resisted the
accumulated contradictions of experience
as to the facts, and the teachings of
science as to the theory. But it shows
the marvellous power of the human mind
IN thrusting aside phenomena which in
terfere with cherished convictions and
established habits of thought. No indi-
v1dual of mature age who holds this be-
lief but has seen it fail in his own expert
ence a thousand times. But all observa-
tlon shows that the result of such failure
Is only to fix the delusion still more deep
ly; Such belief does not depend on the
efficacy of trial, but on the strength of
faith. A believer in these delusions will
believe anything rather than that his
faith is in the wrong.
As to the weather, the experience of
every adult will require him to admit that
there can be nothing more variable and
uncertain than the condition of the
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20
Improbable AcQuaintances.

THERE is not the least necessity of frit-
tering away much time on people who are
neither profitable, congenial, or in any
way companionable, although there is an
immense amount of time wasted in that
manner, and deal of scolding done in
consequence.
Those who have nothing to do but
chatter, lounge about in easy chairs, eat
bon bons, and conjure about their neigh
bors, will soon seek more welcome quar-
tiers if one continues the duties and la
bors of the day regardless of their pres
ence. The atmosphere of industry does
not harmonic with chronic idleness.
How often it occurs that entire plans
for the day are frustrated by an untimely
visit from the last person one would care
to see Important matters ere neglected
merely to be civil and hospitable, purely
from cannot-help-yourself feeling.
Entertaining people without being at
all entertained or edited in return, is the
most stupid, thankless task one can as
sumo. There is absolutely nothing to be
gained from it in the end.
The only true, successful and lasting
basis for sociability and companionship
is sympathy of thought or similarity of
pursuits.
1t is unwise to have or permit ac-
QualntanceShlpS which cannot prove
pleasurable or beneficial.
Now and then it may be pardonable in
man or woman to treat a consummate
"bore" with consideration because he has
money, and can be induced to lend few
dollars in an emergency, but the obeis-
ance and sacrifice made to money are
generally too low, frequent and fawning.
Money and clothes are not recommends
tions to the friendship of those who
amount to anything intellectually, still
they are too apt to win soft smiles, gentle
words and fattery from the masses, and
pass for much that exists only in dazzled
imaginations.
Such twaddle as people endure because
gilded with money is almost enough to
discourage the poor from seeking after
knowledge. Rich ignorance and vulgar
ity snub impecunious culture and refine
ment, and the people bow in submission.
"She is an heiress," or "he is rich" set
tie all questions of equality and merit,
and the poor are discounted at once
There are few eccentric individuals
who do not regard money above all else,
and they will not bend the knee 10 that
which is tasteless and uncongenial. Such
persons are not popular; but they enjoy
freedom from the trammel of unwelcome
guests, aud cringing to the unworthy is to
them unknown. Blessed be such eccen-
tricity,-Em Orl0u.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20
Cheer Him.

A fireman was once striving to save q
person in danger of perishIng in burn
ing house, but the flames leaped out OF
the windows and beat him back. Hell
never do it." cried one. "He'll have to
come down. s'Cheer him." shouted an
other, and in q moment three stirring
hurrahs went up from the crowd. 1t
nerved the mans arm and strengthened
his spirit 1t quickened his movements,
and in another minute he bore the child
down in safety to its mothers arms.
What power in that cheeringi So it
often is with those who are ready to give
out by the way. They would have per-
ished but for some good stirring word of
cheer God put it in the heart of some one
to speak to them. Have you ever cheered
a desponding heart thus, Or have you
let the opportunity slip by with the feel
ing, "Am l nv brothers keeperp We
are all, in q sense, our brothers keeper.
Is there a poor, down-hearted man in
your community whom sickness and mis-
fortune have reduceds Don't give him
the cold shoulder, as is the worlds Gus
tom when person is unfortunate. Cheer
him, and see il it will not infuse new life
into his heart. Do more. Lend help
ing hand if you can -
What would you have done that day
your wheel got stuck in a rut II neigh
Dor hsd not happened along who could
lend you q helping hand for five min
utess Ii was very little for him TO do,
but it was worth great deal to you. A
little after, you were rolling along pros
perously, as if nothing had happened
just so little cheer and little help often
puts a poor neigbbor on the road again.
Surely it were worse than churlish To re-
fuse to give what costs you such little
effort. yet is worth SO much.-C0tfntry
Gentleman.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20
UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20

weather at any given time and place-or
more certain than that there will be con-
slant variation in the weather at such
place as compared with any other point
either on the same latitude, longitude, or
in the same hemisphere. And while the
weather is the most uncertain and vari-
able of all natural events or conditions,
the moon in its movements and relations
to the earth is the emblem of precision
and punctuality; yet large part of man.
kind persist in believing there is con-
nection between the most unvarying of
possible causes and the most variable of
(supposed) resultsl
AS to vegetation, there is the same in
congruity between cause and effect-the
extremes of certainty and uncertainty;
the same teachings of individual expert
ence and the same perennial faith, which
in its details tends more to the absurd.
There is another popular belief, very
much in conflict with the teachings of
science, which still retains-though SEEM
iHgly with failing strength hold on the
rural mind; it is that of the transmuta-
tion of plsnts-now, in this country, mar
rowed down to the change of wheat into
cheat or chess. Though unsustained by a
single established instance, and in con-
hict with all the known laws of vegetable
life, il is not logically so preposterous as
the delusions regarding the moon-it fails
for want of affirmative proof; but as it
lacks the absurdity, go it wants the vital
ity of other beliefs, and the moon will
hold her sway over the ignorant mind
long after transmutation has gone into
oblivion. A certain mystery surround.
ing the moon, with the uneducated, will
aid greatly in perpetuatipg the supersti-
tious beliefs in regard 10 its influence.
There is, or was, rather, one popular
belief prevalent at the opening of the
present century, which Is now dead it
was in the Information of swallows in the
mud of swamps like snakes. This was
too tangible matter, however, to long
stand the test of observation, and it had
no element of superstition or mystery to
give it vitality. Hence its early disap-
pearance into limbo
The study of the natural sciences is
the best antidote to superstition, and will
better aid in protecting the mind from an
inherited tendency to delusive beliefs
than any other branch of education. 1t
inculcates and requires habits of close OBJ
servation, careful comparison and eau
tious deduction. There is no better way
of Strengthening and developing the
reasoning and perceptive faculties than
by pursuing these studies, which are
closely connected with, and in fact form
part of, the wide scope of agricultural
science.-C0untrg Gentleman.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20
Men and Women.

1t is strange indeed that mems self
condemnation of their coarseness and
vices should be interpreted as delicacy
and chivalry toward women. "We are
SO vulgar and vile," they seem to say,
'that we must continue to be vulgar and
vile, to show how tenderly we cherish,
how fully we appreciate the dear crea-
lures who are our better angels" If we
are not fitted to be women's companions,
if we go where we should not, so much
the worse for us. If women are too good
for US, it is our duty TO be better We
require reformation, and the best reform
alton will come to US by admitting wo-
men to what we call, euphemistically
enough, our recreations and our plea
sures. That these are unworthy and
rude, if not gross, for the most part, few
of us will deny. By making women our
partial partners, our associates on occa-
sion, we admit our .inferiority and our
fear lest they should know of US what we
know of ourselves. We have not ad-
and Eastern indulgences as we would
fain believe, while we hold our wives
and daughters in the prisons of ignorance
and the seraglios of restraint.
1t is not consideration for women that
induces US to keep them in the border
land of acquaintance with our real lives
1t is consideration for ourselves; it is su-
preme selfishness; it is engrossing ego
tism. We shrink from the thought that
the gentler and purer beings who love US,
and whom we love-when we have naught
else to do-should have perfect un-
derstanding, clear revelation of
what we are. 1t is an article of
our social creed that they prefer pleasant
illusions to disagreeable facts. This is
not without its verify; but it evinces the
false education of women, and one of
their weaknesses that should be removed.
In this age we live, or ought to live, above
everything else, for truth. Whatever
leads thereto should be followed, though
the following dispel every deception
which, from the first, has been our most
grateful food.
The men are precious few that would
be willing their lives should be unrolled
panorama-like before their nearest and
dearest feminine friends. The thing that
they are vain of, even TO boasting, they
would hide from their wives or mothers at
imminent peril to themselves. The wor-
ship most of us receive is a species of
sentimental fetishism offered under the
delusiOn that the Idol is far more than it
seems; that it possesses powers and in
fuences linking it to the divine. Trans
parent as we may be to our own sex, we
are opaque to the opposite. Genuine to
the one, we are shams to the other, and
we exercise constant care that we shall
continue such. In respect, esteem, ad-
miration, and affection, we are actually
obtainers of goods by false pretences, and
are amenable to spiritual law which
we always evade. Is it fiattering to our
manhood, to our sense of integrity, to
know that to those we reverence most we
are miserable fctions and animated lies i?
:" Women as Companions," By Junius
Henri Broao7ae, IN February Gal1ry.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20
What an Engineer Did.

The following was told to a Sentinel
reporter night or two ago: Some years
ago, there was a well-known engineer,
whose name is not given, for good and
sufficient reasons, ran passenger train
on one of the most popular and most
travelled roads that runs out of Indianapo-
lis. At certain place on the road, every
night for about a week, as the passenger
train ran by this engineer came thunder
ing along. it was certain to be thrown
from the track by distractions placed
there. Several of these mishaps to the
train caused loss oflife, and the Company
was becoming considerably alarmed, and
the ability of the engineer was being
seriously questioned. One night as the
unfortunate train was nearing the fatal
spot, the engineer, who had been sitting
glum and silent at the throttle, turned to
his fireman and said: ''If this train
Jumps the track at that place tonight,
you follow me; don't stop for anything,
but keep close after me- Somebody has
been throwing the train on the track,
and I'm going to catch him."
When the train arrived at the usual
place it struck misplaced rail and was
banked. The engineer, closely followed
by the fireman, jumped from the engine
and ran into corn-field, and started up
man that lay concealed there. Upon
bringing the culprit back to the wreck,
the enraged passengers wanted 10 lynch
him, but the engineer, stern, cold, de-
termined man, prevented them, saying
that he would take charge of him, and
through the intercessi3n of the conductor
the trembling wretch was left in charge
of the engineer. The train was righted,
and was soon speeding on its way. The
prisoner, who had confessed his iendish-
ness, had been seated on the engine and
the fireman placed beside him as guard.
When the train was on a smooth piece of
track, bowling along at a speed of twen-
ty-five miles an hour, the engineer beck
oned the fireman to stand out of the way
The fireman stepped aside, and the en-
gineer picked up q round stick of wood
and struck the criminal such a blow upon
the head that il stunned him. He then
caught the quivering form of the poor
wretch, and, opening the furnace doors,
threw his body into the hot, seething hell
of flame. The doors were shut, the train
ratified along, and never, until upon his
death-bed the engineer confessed the act,
was it ascertained what had been the fate
of the iend who had been in the habit of
the train off the track--Indi-
annapolis Sentinel.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20

On the 18th, the Spanish Cortes, after ac-
cepting the abdication of King Amadeus and
establishing q republic, elected the following
ministerial officers: Figueras, President Of
the Council; Cordoba, Minister OF War; P.
Y. Margall, Minister of the Interior; Nicolas
Salmeron, Minister of Justice; Francisco
Salmeron, Minister of the Colonies; Beran-
ger, Minister of Marine; CASTELAR,, Minister
OF Foreign Affairs; Becerra, Minister of Pub
lie Works; Echegaray. Minister Of Finance.
The newly-elected members of the govern
ment took seats upon the ministerial bench.
dispatch FROM Dublin, Ireland, 18th,
says that the trial Of Rev. Mr.. LOTUS, the
fret one of the Galway priests brought be-
fore the Court of Queens Bench of that
city, on the charge of having Illegally used
his spiritual in duence TO intimidate voters,
and secure the election of Captain Nolan to
Parliament, resulted in acquittal, the jury
having failed to agree.
On the 18th the two houses Of the Spanish
Cortes convened in joint session 81 the Ma
tional Assembly of Spain, and proceeded to
effect q permanent organization. Senor z.
Martos, late Minister of Foreign Affairs, was
elected President Of the Assembly in place
Of senor Figuero, the Chairman pro tenn, re-
ceiving 222 votes. Senor Martos, on
taking the chair, delivered a pat
riotic speech, which was loudly cheered
from all parts Of the house. All
the civil and and military authorities of the
provinces, as far as heard from, have given
in their adhesion to the new regime. The
city and country, with the exception Of the
districts where Carlist bands are present,
continue tranquil.
A dispatch from Paris says that the pay
ment of the second fifty million installment
of the fourth milliard Of the war indemnity
was completed on the sth instant
1t is stated in dispatch from Rome, that
''the Pope on the 12th gave audience to
several officers of the United States navy
who are now in Rome. In the course Of
conversation his holiness asked how he
would be received in America. The officers
replied that the country would regard his
taking up his residence among them a great
honor"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20

the votes for him counted, on the ground
that Mr.. Greeley was dead when the votes
were cast, and was not, therefore,
citizen within the meaning of the
Constitution. This point the House
settled sfirmatively, the Senate adversely.
This disagreement compelled the tellers, in
accordance with the rules, to throw out the
vote.
The Executive Board of the Wisconsin
State Agricultural Society have fixed upon
Milwaukee as the place fer holding the next
annual State Fair.
Governor Smith, OF Georgia, In q recent
special message to the State Legislature,
says that 81. 567 ,435 must be provided during
the current year to meet bonds falling due,
and to pay the interest on the public debt.
At Richmond, Va, on the 18th. q grand
celebration was neld in hol or of the arrival
of the first through freight Train from the
Ohio River over the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad.
The newly completed census OF Brazil
shows total population of 10. OO0. 900, in
Guiding 100000 slaves and 250.0o0 abor-
igines.
The next Ohio State Republican State Con-
vention will be held May 81.
The Jury in the case Of George Driver, on
trial in Chicago for the murder of his wife,
brought In verdict of guilty, with hanging
as the penalty.
Governor Osborn, of Kansas, has been
notified by General Pope that President
Grant has ordered the removal of the troops
from the Cherokee neutral lands in that
State.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20

WE HAVE from Troy, N. Y, the story
of a remarkably bold case of abduction,
the heroine of which is young married
lady named Mrs. Williams While stand
ing in the public street, in the daytime,
she was approached by gentleman hold
ing pocket handkerchief in his hand who
asked her if she had dropped it, at the
same time thrusting it quickly into her
face. She became partially unconscious
in moment, when another man Joined
the first, and the two lifted her into
close carriage standing near by, and drove
quietly to the depot, where they got on
the train for New York. When near
Poughkeepsie, a gentleman who sat near
the lady observed an occasional applica-
ton of handkerchief to her face, and to
his inquiries as to the cause the reply was
made that she was being taken to the asy-
lum. The suspicious stranger kept such
a sharp eye on the abductors that they left
the cars at Poughkeepsie station. The
lady soon recovered, and told her story,
saying that she was all the while sufficient.
ly conscious to know what was going on,
but unable to speak. Upon reaching New
York she at once telegraphed to her
friends in Troy, who came on and restored
her to her home.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20

NEW JERSEY JUsTIcE Several servant
girls in New Jersey had the power of the
Supreme Court of that State brought to
bear upon them to compel amiability and
obedience under any and all circum-
stances That Court has affirmed the
following doctrine: "Where a servant
whose wages are due and payable period
1cally, as quarterly. monthly or weekly,
refuses to serve in the manner contracted
for, or is rightfully discharged at any in
tervening period between the days when
his or her wages are due, he or she can
recover nothing for that portion of TIME
during which he or she has served since
the last periodical payment of wages"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20

THE Jacksonville (Oregon) Times says
thf Indians under Captain Jack in the
late fight used howitzer or small cannon
which, 1t is supposed, they captured from
General John G. Fremont. or rather fore
ed him to abandon, in 1916.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20

The newspaper reports of Captain
jacks fight with regular troops confirm
the statement that the Modocs fought
naked. The regulars were not to that
manner of fighting born,
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-20

A far Western town has six citizens
who always form the jury before every
Justice of the Peace They have never
been known to disagree on q single case.