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The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03

covered with half pint of boiling water.
Drink just before going to bed, and do
not expose yourself on the following day.
This remedy will ward off an attack Of
the chills and fever if used promptly.
All bulbs that bloom in the spring
snowdrops, crocus narcissus, hyacinth,
etc:,-must be planted in September.
Hanging broom in the cellar-way will
keep it from becoming stiff and hard
Replacing furniture as we sweep saves
much disorder and confusion.
Ii there is rust on your fat-iron. or
other roughness, put some fine salt on a
board, rub it rapidly while warm until it
moves smoothly.
The fumes of birthstone match will
remove berry stains from a book paper
or engraving.
If you wish to make nail drive easily
and last long without rusting, dip it into
melted grease first. This is excellent for
fencing and other exposed work
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Pure, soft water is the best of all blood
purifiers. 1t dissolves almost every i'm.
purity that finds its way into the blood
and passes it off through the skin, lungs
kidneys, thus washing out the blood with
out those chemical changes and deposits
which are often apt to arise from the &C
ton of drugs Why then use doubtful
dangerous, and often injurious drugs fol
purifying the blood when pure, simple
safe, pleasant, and far more effectua
water may be had without money anc
without price?
A hot lemonade is one of the best re
medies in the world for a cold. 1t acts
promptly and effectively, and leaves nc
unpleasant feelings. One lemon proper.
ly sqeezed, cut in slices, put in sugar, and
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03
A GRANGE DEEAUITER.

St. Louis, Nov. 20.-The Dispatch, of
this city, has information that is believed
to be reliable that at a recent meeting of
the State Grange, its Treasurer, G. S.
Quisenberry, being called on for the funds
in his possession, amounting to twenty
thousand dollars, confessed that they were
invested in various ways and could not be
realized. He raised four thousand dol
lars cash, and since gave the Executive
Board of the Grange deeds of trust on
two FARMS said to be worth eighteen
thousand dollars, and has agreed to pay
the whole amount BY next July. 1t is be-
lieved that the Grange will not lose any.
thing, and that Quisenberry did not in
tend to perpetrata fraud
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03

Wheat is improving, hogs are higher
there is plenty of money to buy, and with
in the next sixty days over one hundred
million dollars in good crisp ereenbacks
and national bank notes will be distributed
among western farmers OF this over
twenty million Of dollars has come or will
come in Iowa This ought to loosen up
things in Iowa, and it will When farm.
ers pay their bills, and set the money in
motion, it will not stop till the whole body
of trade is quickened.-Register.
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The rebel Gen. Marmaduke, who caus-
ed our army in Rackensack great deal
of trouble and whose forces we met at
least twice on the field of battle, is at Dr.
Paul Casters house in Ottumwa. The
Democrat in speaking of him says:
''The General accepts events as they
are, especidLiy since the recent elections.
He has the kindliest feelings to all soldiers
Of the North who fought honestly for
their respective States and is as firmly at
tached to the Union as any citizens within
its borders"
Sans italic above explains the whole
story. Especially since Marmaduke's s
rebel friends have carried the elections, is
he friendly to the Union. As in 1861,
they are friendly to the Union if they can
controlit. If not, then they will dismem-
Der it. rather than be in the minority.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03

dts all for political effect!" OF
course, but how is it that these negro
whippings and murders continue to be re
ported after elections are over? In an
other place we publish from the Louis
vile Courier.JournaI (Democratic) an ac-
count of whippings and shootings in Todd
county, Kentucky. Fourteen thousand
people, says the writer, organized in all
respects, permit kukluxing, midnight
whippings, and indiscriminate shootings
through the doors of negro cabins, to go
on for half year without public pro-
test" And yet, "there are no outrages
in the south !'-Inter- Ocean.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03

The following extract shows that the
Short Horn cattle are still of some value
in England; but this sale does not come
up, in pecuniary sense, to several re-
cent sales in this country:
At his recent Short Horn sale in Eng.
land, the Earl of Bective, realized a total
of nearly 100000 Forty cows and heif-
ers, and fifteen bulls were sold. The av-
erage price per head was over S., 800. The
highest price paid, was /, ,22O guineas, for
Cherry Duchess heifer
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During the late season an individual
walked up to seaside hotel, and with a
considerable flourish signed the book
and exclaimed "I'm Lieutenant Cover
nor Of" "That doesn't make any
difference" says the landlord, @you1l be
treated as well as the others"
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03

The Register says: "Under the Dem
ocratic victory gold is going up. But, at
the same time, the wages Of working men
are everywhere going down. Explain it
to the laboring men, Democrats. And
here your grief begins"
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03

The Dubuque Herald thinks the Re
publican party, on the currency question
is Sin split-in-two position" Exactly
Buff you want to see something still
splitter-in-two, just wait till the Demo
cratic House tries to swallow the same
bothersome mule.-Register
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course, to the neglect of the great indus
trial interests. The fact cannot and
should not be concealed that the agricul-
tural fairs are educating all our sons for
taste for the race course as Injurious to
morals and industry as the card table"
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03

Republican papers are saying that their
party is licked but so was Lazarus The
parallel doesn't end here That party is
just as rotten with corruption as was La
zarus with Bloomfield Democrat.
Carry the simile little further neigh
Dor; tell what licked Centerville
Citizen.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03

Among the Congressman elected from
South Carolina is Robert Smalls, the col
ored steamboat pilot, who became famous
during the war for running away with the
boat of which he was in charge, and tax
ing her to the Union fleet off Charleston
harbor
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-12-03

We are indebted to the chronological
Journal, " of New York, for the following
suggestions in the selection of good milk
COW:
"POINTs OF COOP Cow.--A writer in
the North-tcestern Farmer gives the fol-
lowing hints to those about purchasing
milking stock A crumply horn, full eye,
head small and short, dished face, that is
sunk between the eyes, skin soft and loose,
deep from the loin to the udder, and very
slim tall
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THE SEA.
IAN ExTRACT.1

IAN ExTRACT.l
[Army and Navy Journal
There is charm about the dang'rou sea,
Which draws man to its rugged arms,
AS draws the polar star the compass to
The North. Let him but taste the briny ocear
once,
Nor friends, nor home, nor gold can stay his
wild
Desire to breast again its waves, to breathe it:
air,
To brave its tempests. and to share its calm.
And ruin, is thing of love. Its storms
Are playthings to his daring heart; he sleeps
Amid its foaming rage, as sleeps child
Upon some mossy bank, nor dreams of harm
To happen, ere his day has come.
Tobe
Upon its billowy breast, sweetheart and wife,
Mother and child, are left to weep and wait
Through weary days, weeks, months and years
and when
At last, the longed for sailor comes, it's but
To snatch one hurried kiss of love, q wife's en-
brace,
A mothers tear-then yield himself again
To that strange spell which binds him to the sea
Again he tramps the vessels deck; climbs high
Among its shrouds and sails, and feels again
The white sea foam leap up to greet him with
Its rude embrace. His heart is strangely full,
And all he has he gives to his best love,
The sea-hiS youth. his manhood, and at last,
HIMSELF; then sweetly sleeps the long, strange
sleep
OF Death, in the old Oceans arms.
Zurich, Switzerland. 5. II. NJ BYERS
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The New York Tribune of Nov. 1lth
1867, has the following:
The great Gorilla of the Democracy is
filling the air with his demoniacal bowling,
and beating his breast like tremendous
drum, to express his savage JOY over the
first full meal he has had after years of
enforced abstinence. Eat your fill now,
gorilla, for you will never have another
chance.
How strange that sounds beside of its
present growing over Democratic victories
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LIVERY.

r IyERY. AND OMNIBUS LINE.-For the
1 A hest livery in town call at the Bashaw or
Cit,- Iixeries of Downing, McNullin 4 Co. Om-
nihusses to and from all trains on Central and
X. & d. railroads. ~
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nAVENPORT & ANDERSON,
~ ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
OskaloOSa, Iowa. Office over Frankel Il Cos
bank. Collections made a speciality. Business
attended to in all the courts of The State -
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-04-25
How Much Was He Worth 7

There is a terrible significance in the
questions we sometimes ask upon the death
of wealthy man, if We only understood
the real significance Of the questions.
allow much was he worth ?" we ask. And
the angels might reply. "Worth? He
wasn't worth anything, His money was
worth something His body is worth some
thing, us source Of fertility to the soil.
But he wasn't worth anything" So We
vary the question "Yes, but how much
did he leave ?" H0b, leave" it might be
answered: Eyes, Iwilltell you. He had
houses, lots, bonds, stocks, gold, notes,
merchandise, farms. And he left--Great
God | he len them aR He carried moth
ing with him. Naked and destitute came
he into the world, and as naked and des-
titute did he 60 the way whence he came
He carried nothing; neither land, nor
money, nor yet did he carry with him the
blessing of the poor, the grateful tears of
an orphan, the benediction of the poor. He
left all--he carried nothing away with him. >
But his neighbor has died: man who
was not known on Change nor in the tax
list. ''And what has he left 2" We may,
perhaps, curiously ask 'Lcft?" he has
left nothing; but he has taken much with
him. He has gone to heaven laden with
the blessings and the gratitude Of the poor,
Of the helpless, Of the young, Of the aged,
of the widow, of the friendless; Of those
whom he, by his counsels, and his acts,
aud his prayers, had blessed; OF those
whose poverty he had relieved, whose ig-
norance he had enlightened, whose dark
ness he had dispellcd, whose bodies and
whose souls he had fed. When Wilber-
force died, Daniel O'Conncll said: "He
has gone up to Heaven bearing million
broken letters in his hands, Happy he,
whatever he may leave, or not leave, on
earth. who goes thus freighted into tho
other world Good Words.
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For Only Fifty Dollars.

We like dislnterested benevolence. 1t
is so rarely found in this selfish world that
when We find il we feel inclined to stick a
pin in it, and examine il with more than
ordinary care. When We look over the
business chances" in the New York
dailies and see how many brilliant oppor-
tunities are offered for men Of small
capital, and no capital, to make fortune
in few days, We wonder how any man or
woman can remain poor an hour. We
have offers where man, by inclosing fifty
cents to the extensive firm of "Greenhorn
4 Co.'S can realize, BY ''actiye canvassing,"
from twenty-five to fifty dollars day.
Some Of these benevolent fortune makers
offer still better chances. They don't
want money-they want agents, to whom
they will give all the way from two to FIVE
thousand year. How many young men
have grown rich through these brilliant
offers the late census fails to tell us. But
the latest, and the most princely offer.
comes in the shape Of lottery scheme.
It heads Its circulars, s250,O0 for only
800 When We first read this offer our
brain reeled at the suddenness of the for
tune that was thrust upon us, for "oply
$50" We felt inclined to take couple,
and give one to the poor, just to link our
name with the Astors and Peabodys of
the age. But we lost the desire to
purchase so much for so little money
by reading and thinking too much of the
scheme. undiscovered we were addressed
as mere fraction of a unit, and that unit
a large one. The unit purchased the
fortune for the benefit Of its smallest
fraction. In plain English, about sixty
thousand persons put in $50 each to make
one person rich, The odds were against
US. We tried to figure out the ghost Of a
chance, but we abandoned il in DESPAIR.
We reduced il to a sum ia proportion. If
we always lost in matching pennies, where
the chances were equal how much of a
chance would we have 10 gain the fortune
promised for "only $780," with ifty-niue
thousand lucky fellows against us {? Sowe
have turned our back on the $3.50. 600
which has been offered-to any one who
can get it--for the modest sum of .sonly
500. Other young men may be tempted
to part with their hardearned wages at
the instance Of this great temptation. We
advise them to figure up their chances.
Ii they fail Of clear conception by pencil
and paper, let them take 10000 beans.
color one black, throw il among the So
IVY IN the barrel, shake them thoroughly,
a IL
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Good-Natured People.

The specially social quality is good na-
ture, amiability, the desire to please, the
kindness of heart that avoids giving Of
fence, and cannot bear to hurt any ones
feelings. A good-natured person may
frankly disagree with you, but he never
offends. He quarrels good. naturally. He
boxes with gloves on--when he fences ever
so deity, there is great soft bottom on
the end of his foil. He may satarise, rid.
icule, open up all your weaknesses and alb
sardities, but so kindly that you cannot
help loving him. He cannot say harsh,
hard, bitter, or contemptuous thing, be-
cause he has no hardness and no contempt.
This is simple, natural goodness, like the
goodness of fond and friendly animals 1t
may not be a high moral virtue; there Is
no particular merit in it any more than
in beauty or any natural gift; but it is a
very delightful quality, and those who do
not possess it should initiate those who do.
Just as we avoid in person, dress, or
manners, anything that may give disgust
or pain, SO must we do In our converse
ton. We must no more use vulgar
expressions than We would wear vulgar
garments. Our talk should be as clean
as our fingers, We should no more bite
one with our words than with our teeth
An angry word is as bad as blow, and a
satirical word is like sting. If We are
never to say anything to a person which
will give him disgust or pain, we must be
even more cereful not to say anything Of
any one which will injure him in the esti
nation of others. Playful, good -uatured
criticism upon the little foibles aud Pc
culiarities of Others may be no harm, and
even useful, but il ceases to be good.
natured when it gives pain. SANDER is
sin much worse than theft. Charity for.
bids that we should even tell the truth.
when that truth can wound and iniure,
The best rule is to say all the good we can
of every one, and to refrain from ever
saying evil, unless it becomes clear
matter Of duty to warn some one against
him.
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COOPERATION OF THE WIFE.-No
man ever prospered in the world without
the cooperation Of his wife. If she
unites in mutual endeayors, or rewards his
labos with an endearing smile, with what
confidence win he resort to his occupation,
meet difficulty, and encounter danger, if
he knows that he is not spending his
strength in vain, but that his labor win be
rewarded by the sweets Of home Solici-
tude and disappointment enter the history
Of every mans life, and he Is but half
provided for his voyage who finds but an
associate for happy hours, while for his
months Of darkness ana distress no synpa.
ihiaing partner is prepared,
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Life in St. Petersburg.

~'ft11tAt MAtt@a 10 AtAl0Mn AIUln
the Russiau'Capital There are over sixty
"proswicks" or fete days in the year on
which no one viii work. Sunday is less
cared for, though generally no work is
done on that day. Drunkenness is more
common than in any other country in the
world. Common people drink all the
"booka' they can get. Their food Is a
black, sour rye bread, and cabbage soup
mostly.
But they are good-natured, laughable
race of beings. There is but little social
life here, though, in fact, not much visit
ing, as we do it evenings omuch social
intercourse comes from our schools and
religious affinities, which are entirely lack
ing in this country, that it makes the diff.
ference very marked to an American. The
French language is almost as much used
as the Russian more so, in fact, in the
higher circles. Most of the Government
officers speak English also, and more than
half the Russians meet
All the young ladies speak il, as they all
have English governesses. English and
American books are in all first-class libra
ries, Russia having but comparatively little
literature of her own. Law and order here
are as much respected as with US
While the Emperor appoints everything
and everybody, and can do exactly as he
likes, still he governs by and through law.
The knout is long since abolished, and a
trial by jury is regular and safe. 1t is no
heather country by long ways, but the
Greek or Orthodox Church is strict in its
discipline and thorough in its organization.
Divorce is almost impossible. Prisons
are few. Capital punishment is unknown
except for attempts on the Emperor's life.
All conyicts are sent to Siberia, the worst
to work in the mines and the others on
the land. Their families can go with them
If they like, SO that country is now full
of pretty good people of this kind. This
nation is growing rapidly in all the direc-
tons of national greatness. Education is
being pushed slowly but steadily. Most
of the people see can already read and
write. But the rich being so rich and
the poor so very poor, makesprogress very
slow. The police regulations are perfect,
though people drive through the streets
as fast as ever they can go. Those on
foot have no rights which the earriagea
are bound to respect.
Handsome black Tartar horses 90 past
one like the wind, with little light harness,
no binders, and low, light sleighs, or
sledges, as they call them. Nobody goes
out minute here without being fully
wrapped up in fur, and no one sits min
ute in the house with them on. In the
halls are servants to take off and care for
these wrappers. In this way they never
appear to take cold. In no other way
could they live in this very changeable
climate. Not one Of us had a cold this
winter. So all the stories about being 50
bad climate appear to us to be a humbug.
But great care is necessary, and that ev-
erybody takes of himself. So in this way
we get along, and on the whole, find the
climate not bad
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The story Is told of woman who freely
used her tongue to the scandal Of others,
and made confession TO the priest Of
what she had done. He gave her ripe
thistle top, and told her to so out in vari-
Gus directions and scatter the seeds one
BY one. Wondering at the penauce, she
obeyed, and then returned and told her
confessor. To her amazement, he babe
her go back and gather the scattered seeds
and when she objected, that it would be
impossible, he replied that it would be still
more difficult to gather up aud destroy all
the evil reports which she had circulated
about Others. Any thoughtless careless
eaild ean scatter handful Of thistle seed
before the wind in moment, but the
Strongest and wiscst man cannot gather
them again.
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Select poetrg.
THE DAWN.


All the wild waves rocked in shadow,
And the world was dim and gray,
Dark and silent, hushed and breathless,
Waiting calmly for the day.
And the golden light came stealing
Ger the mountain-tops at last
Flooding vale and wood and upland
1t was morning-night was past,
There they lay--thc silvery waters,
Fruitful forests, glade and lawn;
All in beauty, new.created
BY the angel Of the dawn.
SO my spirit slept in twilight
All was quiet, gray and still,
Till the dawn Of love came stealing
Over Hopes snow-crested hill.
Then the dim world woke in glory,
And the Iris-dyes grew bright
On the waves and woods aud valleys,
In a morning food Of light.
All the vineyards and the gardens |
All! the treasures, rich and rare,
Full Of endless life and beauty,
Which that dawn created there
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Plutarch says, "Thc eyes Of the hog are
50 formed and disposed of in the head.
that it is always looking upon the lowest
objects and can in no manner contemplate
things elevated and lofty. II cannot look
upward unless thrown back with its feet
upward. Although thisanimal is addicted
to the most discordant squealng and grunt-
ing; yet as soon as 1t is laid on its back Il
Is Immediately silent, so great is lis aston,
ishment at the heavens to the sight Of
which il is unaccustomcd and which causes
such fear that il is unable to cry" One
Of Plutarchs lies.
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When Turk is caugh. in any lie which
y slanderous, or detrimental to the public
interests, of goes one Of his ears il he
tells second, of goes the other. Now II
that rule was introduced in our own below
"a land, how popular is would soon become
TO wear the hair long
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Then wise let us be In the selection
ofour different paths tho life
CALMING with heavens direction,
Areputation without strife.
We may shine as the stars OF the morning.
Or live unloved, unknown,
We may be as life flowers adjoining,
OF be cold as the senseless stone
For reputation like chain VIM bind US 10 the past
No good, no honor viii we gain
hdishonor o'cr US cast,
Its mountain shadow vast.
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Our @lio.
Migrations of Birds.

A recent article in tho Hartford Times
says:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1873-1875, 1874-09-16

IF the stringent orders issued by Gen.
Sheridan are enforced, Clusters cavalry
are likely to find sufficient employment.
To prevent by watchfulness the move
ment Of any considerable body across
the Mains to the Black Hills, may per-
haps be easily accomplished; but when
the Lieutenant General lnstructs MS
subordinates to send force to this FL
dorado to pick up any venturesome gold
seeker who may have succeeded in elud-
ing the vigilance Of the military Gordon
surrounding it, it sounds too much like
an attempt to intimidate, and will be
yery ant to over-reach. st. Paul Press.