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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30
The Boy Who Wanted to Blow the
Organ.

THERE is good little boy in Lawrence
who had long been fred with an ambition
to blow the church organ on Sunday. The
regular blower wasn't there last Sunday,
and the organist put in the good boy as .
substitute.
He instructed him infinitely how he
should pump air into the bellows. He
must be careful not to work the handle
by jerks, and on no account must he allow
the indicator, which showed the amount
of air in the bellows, to rise above a GER
tain point.
When it started up the boy must pump
until it came down to the mark again,
and there he must keep 1t. The organist
went through the voluntary all right; the
boy was faithful The choir sang the
first hymn; no trouble. Another hymn;
the boy was there and the blowing was
all straight. The minister read his text
and proceeded with his sermon.
After time the organist thought he
heard something behind the organ. He
listened, and was very sure that the pump
was going. The minister preached on,
and an occasional sound behind the organ
indicated that the boy was at his post.
The organist couldn't reach him and SO
the boy kept pumping.
He pumped through the sermon, the
last hymn, the final prayer and the bene-
diction. The organist played while the
congregation retired, and then climbed
around to look at his boy. He was there
all right-pumping.
He had been there keeping the bellows
handle going for an hour and half.
When the bellows leaked little and the
indicator rose, he pumped till it came
back He said his arms ached a little,
but he'd come next Sunday II the man
wanted him.--Ldorence american.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30
Removing Large BOwlders.

NEAR the corner Of one OF the writer's
fields was large bowlder that would
weigh probably two tons, the upper part
Of which was only few inches above
the surface Of the ground. This rock
had been plowed over, narrowed over,
moved over, sowed over and harvested
over ever since the land was first cleared
Of the forest. Several new plow.shares,
each costing at that time fifty cents each,
had been broken by coming in contact
with this gigantic hard head" After a
careless plowman had smashed up new
pillow on the rock 1t was resolved tina,
something should be done with IL. One
half hours labor with shovel removed
the earth above the rock so that twothirds
Of the upper part lay fully exposed. A
fire was then kindled on the top Of this
hard head, 7" and quarter of wagon.
load of old pieces OF rails, roots and
fragments OF stnmps were heaped on the
fire. Shortly after the heat began 70
enter the surface Of the stone the top was
covered with scales, which had 10 be re-
moved with along pole or crowbar. Be
fore the combustibles were consumed the
bowldcr cracked through and through into
several large fragments, which were
readily pried out and were used advan.
tageously in building cellar wall.
A neignbor directed digger to make
an excavation near the side Of large
bowlder for the purpose Of buryiDg the
found the huge bowlder in the excavation
and mis- digger beneath 1t, crushed TO q
lifeless mass.--N. y. Her1ld.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30

APPLES and potatoes are important pro-
ducts 10 our farmers, though uncertain Of
late years. The apple belt Of this conti-
nent Is 600 miles wide; and the fruit par
takes Of the nature oil the soil. 1t Is best
on the Pacific coast, but the fruit Is more
enduring In New England than any where
else.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30

In is now asserted, says the New York
Tribune, that side window in stable
makes a horses eye weak on that side;
a window In front hurts his eyes by the
glare; window behind him makes him
squinteyed; window on diagonal line
makes him shy when he travels; stable
without window makes him blind.
Truly farming is fearful and wonderful
pursuit
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30
BROWN HANDS.
nv MRS. HATTIE Y. REtL,

Nv
FULL many page has been written,
And the gifted have sung, In the praise
or lily.whte hands and hngers,
In score Of poeucai ways;
This IL all very well for lady
Who lives among diamonds and silk,
But some times In HE farmers wife
il obliged to- do homework and milk.
md wOman's best mission throon our dear land
fulfilled In the strength OF the little brown hand.
When the roses are blushng the sweetest,
Aud The vines climb up 10 the caves
When the robins are rocking their brides
TO sleep mOng the maple leaves:
Tho sunshine smiles down cross the threshold,
When the labor OF love seems but rest,
Whether rocking the household brides
Or keeping the dear home nest
OH pity you all who cant understand
The wealth and the worth Of n little brown hand.
IT I were man with fortune,
million laid by on the shelf-
II were youihif wasn't, IN truth,
II wasn't a woman myrelf-
/ know what ia do In n minute
tWhite fingers have often misled)
I'd seek after those whose rich tinting shows
Acquaintance with pnddings and bread:
I'd use all the el0quenee words could command,
And be proud might win a little brown hand.
Rural Ret0 YOfker.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30

A LEADING millincr says there are thirty
they are nearly 81 The same ahape.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30

A BACHELOR Ia politely described n,
man who has neglected his opportunity
Of making some poor woman miserable.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30

PARTISAN aeronauts propose balloon
exploring expedition to the North Pole.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30

A CRATE thing-a poker.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12
DER DRUMMER.


Who puts CUP at der pest hotel,
Und dakes his oysders on der schell
Und NIT der frauleins cuts scwhell ?
Der Drummer.
Who vas i'd comes into mine sthore,
Drows down his pundles on der floor,
Und nefer scthops to shut Ger doreS
Der Drummer.
Who dakes me by der handt upd say :
"Hans Pfeiffer. how yOu vas to-day Y"
Und goes for pecsnis righdt away?
Der Drummer.
Who spreads his zamples in trice,
UnG dells me, look und see how nice
Und says l gets der bottom price ?"
Der Drummer.
Who says der dings vas eggstra vine
"Vrom Sharmony, upon der Rhine" "
Und sheats me den dimes out Ofninel
Der Drummer.
[bought ;
Who dells how sheap der goots vas
MOOeh less as vat gould imboft
But let's dem 90 as he vas ''shott'
. n'uHN Der Drummer.
Who warrants allder goots to suit
Der customers upon his route,
Und ven dey comes dey vas no goot ?
roll Der Drummer.
Who comes aroundt yen ] been oudt
Drinks up mine bier und eats mine
kraut. u 'ti'
Und kiss Katrina in der mouts
Der Drummer.
Who ven he comes again dis way,
Will hear vat Pieiffer has TO say,
Und NIT u plack eye goes away?
Der Drummer.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12
A Locomotive Wonder.

A singular specimen of a 10:
comotive has just been turned
out of a machine shop at Glou-
cester, N. j., which bids fair to
create quite a sensation among
railroad men. 1t is four tons
in weight, and designed to run
on one rail. 1t rests upon two
wheels, one following the other:
The rail or track upon which it
is to run, a sample OF which is
laid in the yard of the builders
is styled "a "prismoid, or one
track railway, and is composed
Of several thlcknesses OF plank
built upon the style Of an in
verted keel of a vessel with a
fiat rail on the apex. Upon a
test trial speed of about
twelve miles an hour was at
tanned, and the inventor and
patentee claims that the speed
can be almost doubled on a
heightened track. The capacity
for running curves is very much
greater than the two-rail sysi
tenn. The revolving flanges at:
tached TO the engine and which
run on The outside of each
wheel, absolutely lock the rolls
ing stock to the prism, and OBJ
viate the necessity of so much
heavy rolling stock in a light
traffic at a high rate of speed.
1t is also claimed that pris-
modal railway, built with a.
base of IA inches angles 45 de-
grees can be built at a cost Of
$1,000 per mile.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12
MISS POTTS IDEAL.

7...-a......-1--1..-z..-.
MISS POTTS IDEAL.
soGEdmund, cease to torture
me with useless reprOaches,
cried Miss Glorlana Potts. ris
ing with a tragic air from the
lounge in the sunny window
where she had been seated for
the last half hour, striving to
make a discarded suilor Tor her
sudden sentence of exile.
Edmund Hawthorne, or plain
ST, d Thorne" as he best loved
to be called by his friends)
though very much in love, was
no spaniel to be held in a silk
Ell leash by a capricious mis-.
tress, and unlike her was &C
customed to say very plain
things in very PLAIN language.
But then as Gl0riana Was wont
to say with lofty contempt "Ted
has not been TO Europe or had
my advantages" N B, These
were the decorations OF her
mother tongue with mlxture
vi foreign jargon and foolish
preference Tor anything foreign
or that had the "lorelgn air"
instead ofthe production 'of her
native land. 80
Tacitly refusing TO accept
this late Ted kept his seat, and
looking iull in her lace with
his honest brown eyes SAID.
"The kernel OF the nut is this,
Glory; you want TO throw me
over Tor some other fellow |
suppose you have found out an
other ideal as usual. What's
his nameW
This was too direct a probe
to newly awakened heart,
Miss Potts considered. Hest
tating she stood IA moment, wa
vering between y burst of tears
or retreat from the field. She
de ecided on the last and swept
rom the room: forgetting the
heroine in the woman at last
lur she slammed the door!
A lile OF ease, an inordina,e
appetite ior novel reading and
a tour to Europe had brought
GlOriana Potts to queen 1t IN
her fathers stone front mansion
in New York, with no one to
guide the giddy girls head, but
the honest young doctor to
whom she had engaged herself
before gong abroad and whom
she snubbed since her return
for not being a foreigner oil
note, a German duke or Polish
prince, and having better
handle TO his name. GlOriana
had quite decided to give Ted
up as soon as she found her
ideal; but he wouldn't be given
up. That was the trouble
though last week she thought
ohe had certainly at last found
him. He was handsome and
melancholy as Byron's CoEsalr
and foreign from the exquisite
fit of his coat to the charming
little French accent that rem
dered his musical voice dOnbly
pleasant 10 her ears.
!"Only last week." sighs the
susceptible Miss Potts in the
seclusion OF her dressing room,
gazing in a beatic abstraction
at a chimney pot opposite,
clasping her hands and falling
into an attitude like the play
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12
brio, with a compliment as
charming as his smile.

NA 'NNA''S . "o iiAo olItlC.
81 gif what l long for 10 rob-"
he said in his pretty broken
English, "for it speak still, it
breath of the beauty that own
it."
"He must be a poet" thinks
Glory in a flutter at so elegant
a tribute both 10 her charms
and the excellence OF her per-
fumerv.
Smiling her sweetest she
hints as much, accepting the
handkerchief with her left hand
purposely from a coquettish
impulse to display her magnifi-
cent diamond ring, jewel of
great value that she beguIled
from her Papa's liberality this
New Year.
The stranger made no reply
for a momert, his eyes-such
melancholy eyes! she thinks.
are fastened like one facinated
on the ring, or the white hand.
which is il9 He covered up
his eyes at last, and groaned in
a way that frightened the lady.
She begged to know what
troubled him. He replied
brokenly only.
"Dat ring, dat ring. oh, ma
mere ma mere!' and vanishsd
before the rest of the party,
who now approached, discover
ed him. These delightful and
mysterious circumstances had
only happened the day before
Miss Potts decided to quarrel
Tor the last time and forever
with Ted or Edmund, as she
always insisted on calling him
and when presently he sent a
message to say he was about
to go and wanted to make it up
with her first, she felt chagrin
ed. "Ted wouldn't see she had
found a higher ideal" Down
she went unwilllngly, but be
fore Ted could say a word, a
servant brought her a note
which she said gentleman
had left himself. With great
curiosity, Miss Potts read the
following. "Angel of beauty
and goodness, the unfortunate
Count Henri D'Artois begs the
inestimable favor of a few
words in the park to morrow
morning at nine o'clock. An
exile, whose lie hangs upon
a question he must ask, which
he had not the courage to do
when he returned the handker-
chief yesterday, implores your
consent 10 this. l shall be
there waiting, waiting merci.
iul lady till you come"
o this was certainly a more
delightful complication than
ever! Here GIorlana had been
hoping vainly for another meet
ing with her 'ideal'' and some
explanation of his strange ag
itation yesterday, and to.mor
row would reveal all! In hei
excitement she dropped the
note on the floor without know.
ing it and ran up to her room
without paying any more at
tention to Ted.
Now remember, Fed Haw
thorne was no ideal, only &
common loving, jealous youns
man; so in his anger and cuti
osity to see what other fellow
dared to write to Gloriana he
picked up and deliberately
mastered the contents. Either
the chirography or the mean
ing of that little billet doua
contained some great shock tol
with an angry laugh mingled
with something that sounded
like an oath. he went out Of the
house, carving the note with
him, and hurried to the resi-
dence of Reuben Slippy the
| rapnunod Rnf mo mnet mi
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12

The first postal card received
at Dubuque was from alady,
and marked "private.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12

"HAvE you had your morn
ing's morning this morningp
is the latest way Of putting it.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12

ALL things are systematizeG q
nowadays. Even every miIk
train has its COW catcher.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12

ONE of our dentists takes
a daily pull on the river.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12

week and what a revolution has
conVulsed existence"
Meantime Ted sulks below
in the conservatory, smoking
and rumlnating, not for the
fret time, how he shall dispose
Of this new ideal" "Glory has
gone crazy over" "Who is 1t
this time' be reflects. "Last
month it was the Polish poet
who took too much champagne
at her New Years reception
that she found he was better
able to drain the rosy bowl
than write about 1t. But she
has hardly had time 10 find an
other hero to take his place.
All, | have it. It's that long
legged fellow with the dyed
whiskers whom we met at Del.
monico's."
He was right in his supposi-
tion. The ideal" had been sit
ting sad and solitary at an ad.
joining table when Miss Potts
and her party seated them
selves and gave their orders.
Miss Potts had been much
struck by the interesting pallor
of his complexion, the classic
regularity of his features, and
above all his wonderful black
eyes, rolling restlessly in all
directions before the accident
happened that brought him di.
rectly under her notice. GIo-
riana wore that day a delicate
silk OF pale fawn color, on
which she set much store be
cause 1t was toilette made by
the famous Worth when she
was "doing" Paris and by an
unIucky twitch of her lace
shawl she managed to upset
her dish of ice cream. In an.
other instant an av alanche Of
cream would have ruined hel
dress but for the adroitness o.
the stranger who caught the
saucer at the critical moment
The act of courtesy was no
so much, but the air, the smile
the magnificent bow that &C
companied made it overpower
ing. No one bat the born'Par
lsian could have performed the
service with such great though
Glory. And it was a French
tailor cut that coat in which
the graceful creature moved.
30, what a lace-all soul!'
Gloriana murmured, looking
shyly over The shoulder of the
irate Ted, as i'll pleased to see
the impression so quickly made
upon his betrothed, he hurried
awayi
Soul indeed /" responded
Ted, with grim derision. "The
fellow looks half starved; as /
he needed a gUod dinner that,
ALL"
Miss Potts shuddered at the
gross maierialism of this re
mark. Probably her delicate
susceptibillIies might have
been more shocked still, haC
she known that her "ldeal" haC
that morning partaken Of
simple repast OF bread and gar
lie, for want of the meanj
whereby to procure q more
sumptuous breakfast. We'll
Count Henri D'Artois though
it was better policy to be al
elegant begaar in fine coat
than one in rags, as long as b,
could, and it was proved to b'
so, certainly, in this case, for b,
awak ened the tenderest sym
pathies In the heart of the ro
mantle heitess, when he in
formed her subsequently, tina
he was an "exlle deprived o
home, love, and country, TO
the sake OF the liberties of u
belle France" Was it by acci
dent, or design that Miss Pott
dropped her handkerchief b,
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Who puts CUP at der pest hotel,
Und dakes his oysders on der schell
Und nit der frauleins cuts a scwhell ?
Der Drummer.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12

IT is sad to see a newspaper
die without issue.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12

The monument to Greeley
ought to be ar imposing stone
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-02-12
ADVERTISING TERMS.

hard" AT last, with his eyes
glanciDg nervously in the trees
behind them as tho he feels
there are unseen listeners, he
offers a paper. $50
"This will tell you all, bless.
ed angel OF sweetness and
sympathyl" he cried, and with a
most iervent squeeze of the
fair hand, almost painful in its
grateful tenacity; he vanished
with a rapldity she is uhpre-
pared for. At that instant a
confused sound of voices in
half-laughing, alfangry dis:
cussion, stattle Miss Potts; the
more so as one Of the speakers
rushes forward proving to be
Ted. The other darts in pur.
suit of the vanishing Count;
"Good Heavensl what has
happened9" demanded Glori.
ana, standing petrified at Ted's
appearance. aai
"Matter!' he repeated breath
lessly, "there goes the clever;
est rogue in New York, and
the smartest detective after
HIM. o Glory, are sure you
havn't lost any thing9" lr
About TO Indignantly de;
mand explanation, Miss. Potts
eyes fell upon her left hands
The diamond ring was gone! If
the paper left in Its place was
10 explain the reason why it
had been borrowed, It's .signifi-
canoe was yelled as the Sphinx:
The promised explanation sim.
ply proved the elegant Count
wore a great deaf of fine linen
and paid Tor none of it.. IL
was an unpaid laundry bill.
Il
The moral of this may speak
Tor itself. Fair maids of Ameri.
ca, make happy The hearts of
the youths at home, and do not
seek titled adventures from
abroad. Ted leases his Glory
only now and then about "for!
eign grace and stYle," and Mrs:
Hawthorne makes a more sem
sible woman than Miss Potts.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-10
PRICE THREE CENTS.

Imp of the Perversc backing him to his
last cent. Give him free access to the mys-
ferrous pastcboards, only on condition that
their use shall be innocent, and the Imp
retres in dismay. In short, condemn u
man for what his heart and his reason tell
him is, in him, an innocent act and you
perhaps condemn that man to stand at bay
and fight or defy your injustice and its fruits
all his life. Rcprove or punish him fora
real wrong and his own conscience both
weighs and sanctifies the rod
The highest European civilization, growth
of centuries Of experience and long costly
tests of different systems of social policy.
has universally taught the wisdom of thus,
in plain and simple manner, discriminating
between the use and the abuse of such bev-
eragcs as it has been called upon to CON
slider, and the result is an almost perfect
emancipation from the greater ard more
painful evils Of intemperance. That they
stand in this matter upon much higher
plane than ours is fact too patent to adj
nit of discussion. Whether we can rea-
sonably expect at once to leap further in
advance of them than they are in advance
ofus now, is a question whichshoud receive
our careful consideration before we attempt
to carry coup de main what may turn out
to be only pregnahlc after years of patient
seigc. MAX
L. .onf,t,,a,J
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MECHANICAL DISEASES.

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Dry Goods.
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The officers elect We're installed on Thurs
day evening, April 9th, 10y Grand Master
Park Dayis, who ais, delivered an address
to the brethren after the ceremonies of in
stallation.