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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-13

render. Tonight an earnest temperance
meeting was held there. and Van Pelt
madea brief address, giving his experience
in the traffic, and admitting that ne could
not reconcile himself to the business
longer. 11;1sho
ro' on Saturday, and number OF the ladles
from New Vienna will attend. At the
close of the meeting tonight purse OF
$3.50 was presented to Van Pelt as an eX-
nression of the feelings of the community
howard him. The success in this little
town of New Vienna will go far to
strengthen the apostles of the temperance
cause in other parts of the State. At other
points the work goes steadily on. AT ROM
erov an organization OF fifty laales began
business to-day. making round O. calls
ligious exercises. At Logan the league To-
NIGHT report between 200 and 500 members
added to their ranks, and also that ABOUT
FOG citizens are ready to support them IN
The work. Their first demonstration Will
.occur tomorrow, and the little town is in a
high state Of excitement tonight.
Washington, the county-seat OF Fayette
county, bids f2ir to be the first legal battle
ground in the cause. Judge Stafford yes
terday issued
AN INJUNCTION AGAINST FIFTY-sEvEN
engaged in the business, and to-day the
tabernacle adjoining Beck's beer-garden
was ordered to be removed, and 1t was
thereupon demolished. Judge Mclean,
upon whose ground the little temple stood,
promptly began suit against those. who
tore it down. There is an increase in the
excitement there, and popular feeling APP
pears fully enlisted in the cause of temper.
.ance. The excitement is finally spreading
to the northward, and Columbus will soon
be entirely surrounded by the Temperance
towns. Meetings have, been held at l1ela
ware, at which resolutions were aaopbe3n
calling upon the authorities to enforce all
laws for the suppression Of the liquor traf
dic, and pledging the support Of the people
i'm their efforts.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30

You that have coal to shed prepare
to she'd it now.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30
Advice to Young Men.

My dear boy, we must all be
"clerks' before we can attain the
next step higher; be pupils before we
are teachers; learn to earn money
before we can learn to use it judi
ciously. Accept your position for
what it is; 4 stepping-stone to some
thing better providing you fit your
self for the next step.
And how shall you do this? Not
by sauntering through the days
work as if your mind was connected
with the pendulum of the clock, and
you were determined to do just what
you must do and nothing more. In
the first place make your employers
business your business. If you see
where penny Of his is needlessly
spent and you can save it, do it at
once. If you can increase his busi-
ness dollar by an effort of your
own, do it. DO the lights burn
needlessly, turn them down. Can
you make the broom wear longer by
running piece of twine through it,
don't give the matter another
thought, do it at once. Does the
stove draw stronger than is needed
do not wait until you are ordered
before you turn the damper. All
honest work is honorable. Do not
waste time looking for something
better" "IIalf loaf is better than
no bread" Ifyou are fitted for a
better position have no fear but that
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30
Grey Eyes.

The grey eye is peculiar to the
eye of woman. And here we meet
with a variety enough to puzzle Sol
ONION himself. We will pass over in
silence the sharp the shrewish, the
spiteful, the cold and the wild grey
eye; every one has seen them-too
often, perhaps. But then, again,
there are some beautiful enough to
drive one wild, and it is only them
which we mean. There is the dark;
sleepy almond shaped grey eye, with
long black lashes-it goes with the
rarest face on earth that sultan-like
beauty of jet-black hair. and COM
plexion that is neither dark nor fair
almost a cream-color, if the truth must
be told-and soft and rich as the leaf
of the Gala Ethiopia itself.
Directly opposite tothis is the calm,
clean gray eye-the eye that reasons,
when this only feels. 1t looks you
quietly in the face; it views you kind
ly, but,salas, disappointedly; passion
rarely lights it and love takes the
steady blaze of friendship, when he
tries to hide within. The owner of
that eye is upright, conscientious and
plying his fellow men, even while at
a loss to understand their vagaries.
1t is the eye for kind and consider
ate physician, for conscientious law
yer, Gf such a man there be,) for
worthy village pastor, for friend as
faithful as any poor human being can
be.
Last of the grey eyes comes the
most mischievous; soft eye, with
large pupil, that contracts and dilates
with word, thought, or flash of
feeling, an eye that laughs, that sighs
almost, that has its sunlight, its moon
beams, and its storms; wonderful
eye, that wins You whether you will
or not, and holds you even after it
has cast you off. No matter whether
the face be fair or not; no matter if
the features are irregular and COM
plexion varying, the eye holds you
captive, and then laughs at your very
chains.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30
Never Back Down.
Nav Adelt

Max Adeler
The Morning Argus down at our
place is scruplously careful Of the
honor of journalism. When it makes
an assertion it never takes it back
under any circumstances. The other
dav it announced that certain Mr..
Stebbins had been eaten over in the
woods by Squire Hoover's pigs. The
next day Stcbbins called at the office
to say that the whole story was false;
such thing had never occurred,
and he wanted a contradiction pub
lished. The reporter assumed sol
emn look, and assured Stebbens that
when the Argus said a thing, that
thing was so; and besides that he
had been over to see the pigs, and
they looked as if they had eaten a
man named Stebbins, and there was
no man named Stebbins around there,
so he must have been eaten, and all
the circumstantial evidence was so
strong that not another line upon the
subject would be published. Then
Stebbins threatened violence, and
subsequently the reporter agreed to
put in paragraph to the effect that
persons who had any objections to
eating any member of the Stebbins
family need not on that account de.
cline to buy sausages of Hoover, and
that was as far as he could conscien-
tiously 90. 1t is perfectly clear that
if men are to be permitted to stultlty
a free press with their toolery, our
liberties are in danger.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30
Common Superstitions.

Christianity has not eliminated the
old heather leaven, although we are
commanded, "Be not dismayed at
the signs of heaven, as the heathen
are"
The son of my German neighbor
had broken leg which was mending
under the care of Il skillful surgeon.
At this juncturc a hen crowed before
the door . Now the growing Of hen,
instead OF being misconstrued, as 1t
might have been, as the assertion of
female rights, was construed, under
the accepted German myth, as a sign
of death in the house The mental
reaction brought on the catastrophe,
and the boy died.
My next neighbor has in his gar
ret clock, dead these seven years.
His son a little time ago heard the
clock strike in the night, and told
his mother. Shortly afterward the
son fell i'll, and then superstition
awoke and tormented. The stricken
mother heard the clang of that clock,
untimeIy striking, as a dreadful sound
in her ears. AS | write, | see that
sick boy riding out. The sign has
failed. Well, all signs fail in dry
weather, so it is not discredited after
all.
have, or had, neighbor who
would enter upon no new under
taking on Friday. Friday is an un-
lucky day. That man, having ajour-
ney before him, drove out five miles
on Thursday, and returned to lodge
at home. Thus he avoided the glow
er of the unlucky day.
1t is a bad sign to see the new
moon first over the right shoulder,
a very bad sign to hear a death-watch.
The death-watch is bug known to
entomologists as saperda candida:
1t is not safe to sleep in haunted
room. Danger turks in the grave
yard after moondown.
What is all this but a touch of the
fears that haunt the mind of the
most ignorant heather? How sad
and humlliating that Christian peo-
pie should even be subject to such
foolish superstitions!
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30
It Don't Pay.

1t don't pay to have fifty working
men poor and ragged in order to
have one rumseller dressed in broad
cloth and flush of money.
1t don't pay to have those fifty
workingmen live on bone soup and
half rations, in order that one rum
seller may flourish on roast turkey
and champagne.
1t don't pay to have the mothers
and children of twenty families dress
ed in rags, starved into the semb-
lance of emaciated 'scarecrows, and
live in novels, in order that the rum
sellers wife may dress in satin and
his children grow fat and hearty, and
live in bow window parlor.
1t don't pay TO have one citizen in
the county jail because another citi-
zen sells him liquor.
1t don't pay to hang one citizen be-
cause another citizen sold him liquor.
1t don't pay to have ten smart, ac-
tive, intelligent boys transformed into
vagabonds and thieves, to enable one
man to lead an easy life by selling
them liquor.
1t don't pay to give one man, for
twenty-five dollars Il year, licenset to
sell liquor, and then spend twenty
thousand dollars on the trial of Tip
Mclaughlin for buying that liquor
and then committing murder under
It's influence.
1t don't pay to have one thousand
homes blasted, ruined, deiled and
turned into hells of discord and mis-
cry, in order that one wholesale liquor
dealer may amass large fortune.
1t don't pay to keep five thousand
men in penitentiaries and prisons and
hospitals, and thousand in the luna
tic asylum, at the expense of the hon
est, industrious taxpayers, in order
that few capitalists may grow richer
by the manufacture of whisky, and by
swindling the government out of
three-tourths of the revenue tax on
the liquor that they make.
1t don't pay to permit the existence
of traffic which only results in
crime, poverty, misery, and death,
and which never did, never does, and
never will do any good.
1t don't pay to do wrong; your sin
will find you out. Whether others
find itout Or not, the sin knows where
you are and will always keep you
posted of the fact. 1t don't pay.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30
Various Shadings of Wit,

Foot had uis co,nicd or his own,
which being, even as he was himself,
utterly brutal, came upon friend and
foe like the kick OF a dray-horse.
Such, for example, was his truculent
reply to the inotfensive littlem man who
mildly remarked that he had just
come up from Essex-''The devil you
have! Who drove you?" Sheridan's
wit combined with the flash OF the
gem its solidity too, and was invari-
ably free from gratuitous rancor.
1t was ''more nearly allied to good
nature" than wit always is. Dean
Swift's wit was usually like torked
lightning, scathing and blasting what
it touched; but it was at times as
moonbeams. 1t happened one day
that his cook, whom he invariably
called "Sweethcart," had greatly
overroasted the only joint he had for
dinner. "Sweetheart,' said the Dean
in the blandest possible tones, "the
leo of mutton is overdone. Take 1t
back into the kitchen and do it less.
The cook replied that the thing was
impossible. "But," said the Dean,
ssif| it had been mderdone you could
have done it more" The cook as
sented. swell, then, Sweetheart,
reioined the master, "let this be Il
lesson to you. If you needs must
commit a fault, at least take care that
it is one that will admit ofa remedy
The mingled wit and wisdom of this
admonition are delightful. The Wis
comica of Sydney Smith was mag
nificent. 1t must have been glorious
in his conversation, for apart from
the enchantment Of delivery it is
glorious in his writings. 1t toams
and flashes through his graphic pages
like an exulting river through a pic
turesque landscape. 1t now an1
then occurred that he fell in with
dullard who failed to perceive at
glance the aim and purport of thu
Canon's humor. This is a ''damper'
to most men, but sidney smith AWAY
turned in to good account. How yer.
funny this is; "A joke goes Il grea
way in the country. l have know
one to last pretty well for sever
years. | remember making a jok'
after meeting Of the clergy inYork
shire, where there was a Rev:: MI
Buckle, who never spoke when pro
posed his health. | said he was
buckle without 4 tongue, Most PEI
sons, on hearing, laughed, but m
next neighbor sat unmoyed and sun
in thought. At last, a quarter OF a
hour after we had done, he suddenl
nudged me, exclaiming. I see noN
what you meant, Mr.. Smith; 70
meant a joke 'Yes,' | said. Sir,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30
WHOLE NO. 1856

believe / did Upon which he began
laughing so heartily that thought
he would choke, and was obliged to
pat him on the back. This s1 post
facto apprehension of fun, stealing
sluggish!y over a Beotian intellect,
but at last flaming out with uproarous
mirth, has in it, to my thinking,
something ridiculous. Equally comic
is the canon's method of dealing
with such witlings as take pleasure
in charades. 81 shall say nothing Of
charades and such sort Of unpardona-
bic trumpery. If charades are made
at all they should be made without
benefit of clergy; the offender should
instantly be hurried on to execution,
and cut off in the middle Of his dull
ness, despite his attempts to explain
to his executioner why his first is
like his second, or what is the resem-
blance between his fourth and his
ninth" Who can forbear smile at
the notion Of thus summarily eject
ing the ''funny man. Of a party, who,
even while he is being executed de-
sires to explain why his first is like
his second, and what relation his
fourth bears to his ninth?-Belgra-
cia.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30

into consideration. The longer you
stay with firm the more necessary
you become to them. If there are
any chances, your strongest claim
will be the length Of your service,
and it cannot be easily overlooked.
And in all the calculations made by
a young man, the public is factor
not to be overlooked. If you are
found year after year at the same
place the fact is placed to your
credit. You establish an acquain-
tance with your customers that is
worth a great deal. An odd custo-
mer comes in and is met at the door
by one of your fellow clerks-a new
conner. "Where is Brown" he
asks; 81 know him." And imme-
diately sBrown' is called out
through the store and your employ
ers notice that you are in demand.
An incident like this, though it hap
pens bnt once week, is eventually
the cause of your becoming one Of
the firm. Aim to be more than Il
clerk, more than Il merchants's son !;
aim to be an educatedman. A mans
life goes out beyond the shop or
counting-room, and an educated man
is welcome everywhere. Do not i'm
agine you are only required to talk
"business." The best merchant is
the man who has the best education.
The clerk who stores his mind with
general reading is a better clerk than
he who confines his mental recreation
to "Dime Novels" In every depart
ment Of life education tells, and the
man who can bring brains into the
market, lessons the number of com
petitors.
Be truthful. every falsehood
comes back with a companion" Your
customers will soon find you out, no
matter how smoothly you may talk.
Have your word as good as any 9th
er mans word. Never misrepresent
your goods simply as a question
of policy it "will not pay" Your
employer may smile over asuccesstul
trick, but you will be visited with a
heavy hand when customers begin to
complain Of having been deceived.
No man yet ever built a solid busi-
ness upon foundation of falsehood.
Have it distinctly understood, then,
that your word is a warranty. 1t
there is a blemish in the piece point
it out, and sell it at corresponding
low figure youhave lost a few pence,
but you have made 4 friend.
Let billiards alone there is better
society to be found in a book. Do
not think you must smoket to be 'man-
ly." Beware Of intoxicating liquors;
men do not 60 to saloons for clerks
or partners. Select your companions
with great care. There is no maxim
so wholly true as the one which says,
" A man is known by the company
he keeps" Above all, never despair.
The sun will still shine over you
though you may not see it because OF
the clouds, and over young man
who has acquired habits Of sobriety,
economy and punctuality; whose
manners are polite and conciliating
whose word is truthful, and whose
brain is full of useful knowledge, the
clouds will not tarry long. The de
mand is far beyond the supply, and
he is one upon whom there is ''no
discount" -" 1n Old Nerchant," IN
Toledo Blade.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30
At It Again.

On Saturday, while the salute was
being fired from on board the flag
ship, negro driver Of two mules
and cotton float, at the time driv-
ing rapidly out Canal street toward
the river, was seen to suddenly check
his mules, and causing them to per-
form a most precipitate "right-about
face" he urged them Oh at lightning
speed in the direction of the woods,
crying aloud with stentorian voice
as he encouraged his animals on with
caresses from his whip, 'Dar dey is
at it again, and just where dey was
before! Good Lor! Git up Susan"
Ne,c Orleans Picdyune.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30

ton in London of the spoils of his
hunts, which included skins and
stuffed specimens of lions, elephants,
hippopotaml, rhinoseses, ostriches,
springboks and other animals that he
had killed. In one of his books re-
counting his adventures he says Of
his shooting: 81 have always been
reckoned, by those who know my
shooting, to be very fair rifle shot,
whether standing or running; but |
do not profess to make sure work be-
yond one hundred and ten PAGES or
thereahOntn
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30
REGRET.

He offered a kiss in the morning
coldly turned away;
For an idle word, that overheard.
Had ranked q night and u day.
knew, in truth, it was nothing
That he would have blushed to own.
That point and sting Of the trining thing
Grow out of my heart alone.
But a vexed, unquiet spirit
Weighs no matter Alright,
And the sore smart OF jealous heart
Puts reason out Of sight
let him so in the morning
Without the kiss he sought;
And the day was long, but l nursed my wrong
With many bitter thought.
One bitter thought God help me!
Did not enter my brain,
That kiss of mine, by word or sign,
lie would never seek again.
But as the evening shadows gathered,
My heart began to burn
With a quickening sense Of his influence,
And lOnged for his return.
Leaning against the window,
That overlooked the street,
i strained my ear his step to hear
In the crowd Of hurrying feet.
Far OF, in the dimmest distance,
l should have known it well;
But there came instead muffled tread,
And the sharp alarm of the bel.
Some griefs. though deep and bitter,
Find ut last their cures,
But some retain the old, old pain
As long as life endures. i-,-t
did not know in the morning,
When cOldly turned away,
That should miss and mourn that kiss
Down to my dying day!
Mary Il. Bradley, IN Appleton's Journal.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30

''The Mississippi" says Mr.. Emer-
son, "swallows the Missouri, the Hi
nois, the Ohio, and other rivers, and
does not widen it's channel; so the
-Anglo-American race absorbs the
thousands of Germans, French, Irish,
and English, and remains unchanged
in its characteristics.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-30
2husitians.
i. A. WHITE.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office over
i c. W. Taylor's Hardware Store DR.. will be
found at his office at night. All calls from town
and country promptly answered. day or night
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-03-19
Dead Heading.

The Constitutional Convention has
agreed to the following as a section
of tie new Constitution:
':No person elected to the General
Assembly, or to any Convention or
Commission for revising, altering or
amending the Constitution of the
State, or being elected or appointed
to and accepting any judicial orlucra-
tive State and county Office under the
Constitution and laws of this State,
shall, from the time of his election or
appointment, until the end of his
term of Office, knowingly accept any
free pass, gift, or gratuitous or com
muted service of an exceptional or
unusual character, from any railroad
or transportation company, not offer
ed to the public at large"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-03-19
DIR. Fullerton and Mr.. Dunn
A Correction.


The Chillicothe Gazette of last
week, in reporting some remarks Of
our townsman, DIR. Fullerton, made
at Temperance meeting in that city
attributes to him the following Ian
guage:
'1n fact it was well known in Hills
boro that Dunn had kept common
grog shop, and had not been made to
experience half the trouble he de-
served"
The DIR. requests US to say that he
did not use the expression that Dunn
''kept q common grog shop" What
he did say was, that if any citizen
of Chilicothe would take the trouble
to come to Hillsboro, he would find
that there Were numerous afidavits
on file, which proved that Dunn has
been guilty of selling liquor to minors,
selling liquor by the drink, and vio-
lating the law in numberless ways.
This is true, but it does not author
ize the broad charge that Dunn ''kept
a common grog shop" and DR.. Full
erton does not wish to be quoted as
making such a charge While he
strongly disapproves of Mr.. Dunn's
course he doesnot wish to do him in
justice, and therefore desires us to
make this correction of the Gazette's
report.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-03-19

The Lebanon Star has the follow
ing to say of the effects of the liquor
traffic, which we think is to the
point in regard to pauperism in this
and every other county in the State:
'The large number of transient
paupers to whom temporary aid was
afforded at the infrmary during the
month of December, may be looked
upon as one of the fruits of the
hard times Yet there is behind
that a more efficient cause. Mr.
Strickler informs us that In most of
these cases, as well as In the case of
permanent inmates, the pauperism is
traceable to intemperance. Could
taxpayers be induced to figure up
what the liquor traffic costs them In
money in the way of supporting
those it has brought to demoraliza-
ton and destitution, and in the way
of maintaining courts to punish
crimes which result from drunken
ness, they would devise some means
by which this enormous drain upon
the products of their toll would be
prevented Xenia Torchight.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-03-19

An exchange, referring to Trinity
Church, New York, says" Trinity
church is going out of the grog-shop
business. Forty hquor-saloons are
in its buildings; but many Of the
leases expire on the first of May, and
none of them will be renewed. 1t
aconld have been sad to see the pray
ing women surrounding the Office of
the Trinity vestrymen; though, for
that matter, we agree with the
Springfield Republican in saying that,
if anybody needs praying for, it is
the respectable landlord who rents
rooms to rumsellers.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-03-19

The cable brings the news that the
Emperor of Germany, OF rather
Prince Bismarck, has not hesitated
to pursue his new Church policy
to the utmost extreme of arresting
the contumacious Bishop of Treves,
and closing the seminary attached to
his See. A riot of small proportions
seems to have followed, which the
military very easily quieted.