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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
Improbable Acquaintances.

THERE is not the least necessity of fritz
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 are 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 &C.
quaintanceships which cannot prove
pleasurable or beneficial
Now and then it may be pardonable in
man or woman to treat 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 tlattery 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 che is rich," set
tie all questions of equality and merit,
and the poor are discounted at once.
There are a few eccentric individuals
who do not regard money above all else,
and they will not bend the knee TO that
which is tasteless and uncongenial. Such
persons are not popular; but they enjoy
freedom from the trammel of unwelcome
guests, and cringing to the unworthy is to
them unknown. Blessed be such eccen-
tricity. Elm Orlou.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

KILLED BY FALsEHooD.-" He is
dead" said friend of ours the other
day, in answer to an inquiry after the
health of mutual acquaintance. 'sDead
you don't say so. OF what did he die?'
"Of Credulity" was the reply, she be.
lieved in patent medicine of which the
chief ingredient was forty-rod rum, and
it proved the death of him" This was
true; the unfortunate man has taken for
liver complaint, compound of fiery al
cohol and root juice, and it had killed
him. Now, did that misguided invalid
require tonic? He did; but not a
spirituous excitant The writer of this
brief statement is confident, from his own
| experience, that if the Martyr to Dragged
Alcohol, had resorted to DIR. WALKER S
VINEGAR BITTERs, instead of to the poison,
aoatb a medical name which proved fatal
to him, he would to-day be in the land of
the living. The justly popular vegetable
specific contains no destructive element 1t
is tonic that does not excite, cathartic
that does not weaken, an antiseptic that
neutraliZes the seeds of disease in the
blood and other fluids of the body, and a
general alternative which arrests diseased
action in the secretive organs, and re-
stores the functional regularity indispens-
able to health and vigor. We are no
friend of indiscriminate praise, and be-
lieve that many patent medicines are
merely poison, but the experience of
thousands has proved the VINEGAR BIT
TIERS to be all they claim.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
MANY persons say that they have tried al

MANY persons say that they have tried al
most every remedy that has been recon-
mended for humors. and thew are no better
now than when they commenced them,
anG they have no confidence in ANYTHING that
is advertised to cure Salt Rheum, Ervsipelas.
and all similar humors. We would saw to
these that there is now a remedy that as vet
mas never tailed OF curing those diseases.
from anything ever offered for them: il
throws humor out of the blood through the
skin, which is the only channel through
which the system can be entirely freed from
them. If you will try it, you viii not say of
this as you have by the other, for it will
cure you. We refer to DR.. Weaver's Salt
Rheum Syrup. a.g-tg5a
For sale by all Druggists.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
Soup for Horses.


Joseph Harris relates the following in
the AsrScultursst:
This summer my horses got badly run
down. We fed them literally but they
did not get well. They had no appetite,
no digestion, and no strength and spirit.
They came home at noon and night
tagged out, and their nights rest did not
refresh them. I sawed barrel in two,
and placed the ends on the platform of
the pump. These are for watering the
horses. Into one of them we put pail
full of cornmeal and mixed it with the wa
ter. The horses at first did not like it,
and would only drink little when very
thirsty. After they drank what they
would they were allowed pure water In
few days, however they drank this corn
meal soup with relish, and in less than
a week there was decided change for
the better in the appearance of the horses.
We do not let them eat the meal, but
merely let them drink the milky water.
| have no doubt that it is as good for
them as plate of good soup is for a
tired and hungry man before dinner. 1t
seems to stimulate the appetite and aid
digestion.
1t is capital thing for cows as well as
horses, but is not so easy matter to give
it to the cows, as they soon learn to stick
their heads into the water up to their
horns to get the meal that settles at tie
bottom. 1t is necessary to have large
trough with false bottom.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

A CARPENTER writes to the american
Builder as follows: II struck out for N.Y.
self last year, and cleared nearly 5000,
using the plans and details in your agazine,
which were better than an architect. Count
me subscriber for life." Our subscribers
can get the Builder on trial four months by
enclosing 81 to CHAs. D. LAKEY, Publisher,
% Murray street, New York.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

WE noticed in one of our exchanges this
week the statement of Dea. John Hodgkins,
of South Jefferson, Me-, whose son was
cured of incipient consumption by the use of
JohnSon's A7sodyme Imminent. We refer to
this at this time as tending to corroborate
the statement we made last week in relation
to this Liniment as applied to consump-
tion.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

IF Congress had employed as much scien-
tific skill in the arrangement of its ''Recon-
struction Policy" at the close, as the War
Department did in the beginning of the war,
in arranging for the manufacture of what
was called Sheridae's CaValyy Condition R0aC-
de7s for the use of the cavalry horses, no
doubt the Union would have been restored
long ago.-E1chaaage. t.....
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

No Person can take these Bftters accord.
ing TO directions and remain long unxel, provided
their bones are destroyed by mineral poison or other
means and the vital organs wasted beyond the point
Of repair
Dyspepsia or Indigestion. Headache, Pain
in the6houders, Coughs Tightness of the Chest, Dir
ziness Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste
Heart Inflammation of the Lungs Pain IN the regions
of the Kidneys and hundred other painfn symptoms,
are the offsprngs of Dyspepsia In these complaints
it has equal and one bottle will prove letter guar
antee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement.
For Female Complaints, IN young or old,
married or single at the dawn OF womanhood, or the
turn of life these Tonic Bitters display decided an
influence that marked Improvement IS soon percep-
tible.
For Infiammatory and Chronic Rheu-
matism and Govt, Bilious, Remittept and Inter-
mtent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood Liver, Kidneys
and Bladder, these Bitters have equal Such Dis
caused by Initiated Blood, ach is generally
produced by arrangement of the Digestive Organs.
They are n Gesrtie Purgative as well ms
Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit Of acting
as powerful agent in reviewing Congestion lnham
nation of the Liver and Vscera Organs, and in Bilious
Diseases. ~ A. -
For Skin Diseases, Eruptons, letter ST.
Rheum, Blotches, Spots Pimples Pu5tues, Boils, c.,
sipe'as Itch, Scur, Dscoloatous of the Skin, Hunors
and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever or nature,
are literally dug up and carried out of the system IN
short time by the use of these Bitters. F
Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BIT
TIERS The most wonderful lnvgornt that ever sustained
the sinking system. ~ ~ A ~ ~ 2 81 IA
! WALKER, Prop'r. II. III. MCDONALD g. CO., =
Druggists and Gen. Agts San Francisco and New York
hSsF- SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS 81
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
THE WEEKLY SUN.

THE WEEKLY SUN.
Only 81 a Year. SPACES
THE BEST FAMILY PAPER.-The Weekly N. z
Sun. pages. 81 year. Send your Dollar.
THE BEST AGRICULTURAL PAPER.-The Weekly
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THE BEST POLITICAL PAPER-The Weekly n Y.
Sun. Independent and Faithful. Against Public
Plumber. SPACES. 81 year. Send your Dollar.
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HAS ALL THE NEws.-The Weekly New York Sun.
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THE BEST STORY PAPER.-The Weekly N. Y. Sun.
SPACES. 81 year. Send your Dollar.
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Sun. pages. 81 a year. Send your Dollar.
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Sua. pages. 81 year. Send your Dollar.
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Sun. pages. 81 year Send your Dollar.
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.GE Address THE SUN, New York City.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

CRIsTADoRos EXCELSIOR HAIR DYE stands
unriyalled and alone its merits have been so uni
Yersally acknowledged that it would be superero-
CATION to descant on them any further-aothing can
beat it.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

MIR. Frothingham's congregation
New York; has repudiated the name of
church. They wish TO be known as 'The
! Independent Society,""
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

Faces INSTANT RELIEF has stood twenty years.
test Is warranted to give immediate relief to all
Rheumatic, Neuralgia, Head, Ear, and Back Aches,
or money refunded.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

The fowery reporter of an Eastern
paper says: I'm the pale translucent
moonlight which now lightly bathes the
earth, the distant roar of the falls, the
weird note of the peacock, and the hoarse
snort of the bull calf make life up town a
perpetual romance"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

For CoUGHs AND THROAT DISORDERS, use
'sB'Oacn's Bronchial Iroches," having proved
their efficiency by a test of many years.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

THE blades for the new swords ordered
for the United States Army have just been
finished at the Springfield Armory. They
are perfectly straight, thirty-one inches
long, and handsomely decorated with de-
signs in asphaltum varnish. The swords
will be very light, and much more conve-
nient to carry than those in use at pres
emit.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

GoDEY's LADY's BooK.-The following
embellishments are contained in the March num-
Der: Farewell to Home,' steel plate; coloreu
fashion plate; an alphabet for marking; "Christ
Blessing little Children" wood-cut illustrations
an extension sheet of fashions, and other useful
articles for ladies and children; and q work-de
partment of fancy designs The literary depart
ment abounds in excellent reading, calculated to
instruct as well please. Remember that a
handsome chrome is given to each subscriber to
Godey for 1878, whether q single subscriber for
$500, or a club of six for $14.O0 Published by L.
A. Cooley, Philadelphia, Pa.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

ROUGH, WINTRY, CHANGEABLE WEATHER pro
duces Catarrhs, Coughs, Lung Disorders etc.
which DR.. Jayne's Expectorant as promptly cures
when faithfully administered.
ASK your grocer for Prussing's Celebrated Cider
Vinegar. Warranted pure Preserves Pickles.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

TO Restore Scratched Furniture.
Scrape one pound of beeswax into shay
ings in pan; add half gallon of spirits
of turpentine and one pint of linseed oil.
Let it remain twelve hours, then stir it
well with stick into liquid; while stil-
ring add one quarter pound shellac var
nish and one ounce alkanet root. Put
this mixture into gallon jar and stand it
before the fire or in an oven, for week
Ito keep it just warm); shake it up three
or four times a day. Then strain it
through hair sieve and bottle it. Pour
about teaspoonful on wad or baize; go
lightly over the face and other parts of
mahogany furniture; then rub briskly
with similar dry wad, and in three
minutes it will produce a dark brilliant
polish unequaled. Another preparation
may be made as follows: Make mix
ture of three parts linseed oil and one part
spirits of turpentine. 1t not only covers
the disfgured surface, but restores wood
to its original color, and leaves lustre
upon the surface Put on with wooden
cloth, and when dry rub with wooden.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
What My Cook Said.

There's nobody, mum, that's so put
upon as cook, and cooking is a bizzi-
ness that nobody never makes lowances
for. Most O. biZzinesses can be done at
one times wells mother NY brother
now is carpenter, and he don't have to
| get door done by quarter past six, or
else the door be spilled And there's Bid
| dy, the chambermaid, if she don't finish
sweeping room when she ought to, the
carpet won go back to wool, or shrivel
up to crisp. And if she makes a bed
all wrong from top to toe she don't have
| to throw the sheets away-nothin's hurt,
and she just goes to work and makes it
over again. But if I makes bad mistake
like that in piece of meat, why in course
it's spilled intirely, and don't the best o.
folks make mistakes sometimes, mum2 IF
| begins a roast just trife too soon it's
spilled, and if begins it just trife too
late it's spilled all the same, or else folks
is in pet because makes 'em wait q bit
for it. | knows in gin'ral way by the
looks of piece of meat just how long
twill take to roast, but things don't allurs
work as body calc lates-sometimes the
meat weighs half pound more or less,
and sometimes the fire gifts contrary
Most O. my work, and roastin in partik-
ldl-Iuo mugs mOSt lOlKS SltS Cross
est about-can't be done and put
away till it's wanted, like dish-washing
and ironing and sewing. It's to be done
just to turn, and just to mint. Il
roast must go straight from the fire to the
table, as you know, mum, yourself, and
sometimes folks is little longer than
common over the soup and fish, and how
am to know, mum? And then, if the
meat is a little overdone, it's "Tha
miserable cook can't even roast riece of
beef right p' And if it's taken from the
fire and kept hot, why that's just as bad,
and it's That miserable cook! she has
contrived to get the flavor out of the
| meat!" And if they are ready too soon,
and the meat is too rare, it's That mis-
cradle cook!" again Seems to me that
ladies and gintlemen as is ladies and GIN
tlemen might think bit how hard it is
on the cook and have a bit o. patience,
and instead o. saying, "That miserable
cookp' might be talkin' pleasant among
themselves, and wait few minutes if the
meat isn't ready to the mint, for you
know, mum, it's an old sayin', alt is
better TO wait for the roast than to make
the roast wait for us."-H Hearth and Home.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS, PLEASE
w mention the name OF this paper.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-19

you! He could not help loving you, now ;
not if you had written thousand letters be-
fore you saw him. I know he will laugh at
you when he hears it. But what do you
think of Owens suggestion? Is it worth
while for US to look for another will ?"
81 should say we ought, certainly. Sup
pose you and I look over, and arrange Johns
papers for him tomorrow
II should be very glad to do So"
AS we went up the steps we thought we
heard some one moving on the landing above
US, but when we reached it no one was there.
John readily granted US permission to as
sort his papers. We found them in dire con-
fusion, but that was soon remedied. I exam
ined every nook and corner in the desk, and
could find nothing relating to the Elmwood
property, except small slip of paper, on
which was written, in my mothers hand wri-
ting, the following date: November 4th
H." This was a few weeks after Nellie's
birth, and 1 could not help hoping this date
referred to something of Importance; but l
could find nothing more relating to it.
fro BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-19
COLUMBIA, S. c., June 10, 1873.

COLUMBIA, S. c., June 10, 1873.
To His Ercellency Franklin j. Moses, Jr,
Governor:
SIR: We have the honor to respectfully
submit the following supplemental report of
our awards as commissioners appointed by
your Excellency to investigate and pass upon
the claims of sundry persons, for the payment
to them Of rewards offered by proclamation
of your predecessor, Governor r. K. Scott,
for the apprehension and prosecution Of par
ties who participated in what was known as
the "ku.klux conspiracy"
We met on the 9th instant, and proceeded
to consider class No. of such claims, the
only class we had not disposed of at the time
of making our previous report. Upon exam.
ination we found that there were one hundred
and twenty-five claims presented. The bal
ance of the fund for distribution being much
too small to make awards for all the cases that
we found meritorious, we we're compelled to
adopt, as nearly as possible, an equitable pro
rata and, in making our awards, we acted
upon the principle Of giving each claimant
the full two hundred dollars for the number
of claims we had adjudged him, taking that
number from the head of the list, leaving the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-19
CHAPTER XVIII.

The next morning Nellie was decidedly
better, and I took advantage Of the first op-
portunity to introduce Miss Matte Worthing-
ton. I can never forget the expression Of
Nellie's face, as I placed her child in her
arms. The tears auould come; but the bright
smile was there, too, as she pressed her lips to
the little face and remarked
"My own darling"
III am glad you like her, Nellie; I was
afraid you would be disappointed in her ap.
pearance She is not much for beauty, as
you can see."
"Why, Matte! I think she is lovely! See
what dear little hands and feet, and such
beautiful brown hair don't see how you
can say she is not pretty"
"You forgot to mention her sweet express
ion; look at her now as she is trying to screw
that poor little face up to the crying point
What do you think of that' have always
been surprised at this performance in young
baby. They seem to make deliberate prepa-
rations for cry, and it is not until they have
turned as red as beet, both fists in the dir,
feet ditto, and the rest of the body in COL
lapsed state, that they utter sound, and
then"
"Mattie> you shall not talk so about the
baby! I know you think she is as great a
beauty as do"
"Maybe 1 shall one of these days; but at
present 1 can only give her credit for most
extraordinary vocal powers. Let me take
her away. When she is asleep I will bring
her to you again"
Nellie seemed reluctant to give her up;
but she was too weak to make much resist
ance, and | soon had the "beauty" removed
out of hearing.
1t was about a week later, when, one day,
Nellie said to me-
"Mattie, please tell me more about that
man. Is he really my father? 1 am strong
enough now to hear all you can tell me-"
| eyes, Nellie, he is your father" and then
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CHAPTER XVII.

Do any of my readers know what it is to
watch the sick-bed of one you love almost as
your own life? TO see the burning fever feed
ing on that loveliness, which even now, when
a prey to disease, seems almost heavenly in
your eyes? To know for the few short hours
left to her on this earth that delirium, with
all its wild dreams and fancies, will run riot
through her brain, and not one loving look or
one kind word be spoken for you to hold in
loving remembrance through the long and
dreary life which is before you. if bereft of
her presence? tits we'll that we are not often
tried in this way. The strongest faith might
almost sink beneath the load and so it is that
God, in his mercy, spares us, lest we should be
"weighed in the balance and found wanting"
Nellie's baby was born. 1t was daughter,
and as I took the little child, the first tears |
had shed since Nelle's illness, rushed to my
eyes, But controlled myself This was no
time to give way. 1t might yet be that one
moment of consciousness would be hers, and /
must be near then, for was the only one who
knew that her father had caused her death.
May God forgive ME for my hard thoughts
toward him
For three long weeks did the fever last,
without her having one lucid moment. Her
rawlings were all of "that man." and her in
cessant cry was-"Don't let him take me from
you, Matte" And then she would say, in an
excited manner, 81 did not know it, Harry
I did not know it! Will you believe me?''
Poor Harry he was almost heartbroken. |
never witnessed such devotion.
The sun was just setting. was looking on
the bright and beautiful world, lighted up by
its dying rays, when I thought l heard my
name called. Nellie had remained quiet for
nearly an hour, and hoped she was sleeping
But when I heard that voice, even in weak
ness, I knew it was hers. I fastened to her
and said
"What is it, darling? Are you better?"
"Mattie, is he here?"