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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

~ The SILLY, SHEPHERDEss.-"Let us
hayela game of the silly Shepherdess, /"
said little Fanny, one bright summer
morning, as the young family assembled
on the lawn.
"How do you play it?' asked her cous-
in Katie, who was staying with them.
"Oh, we will show you! Philip shall
be wolf, and l will be shepherdess.
All of you are to be my sheep. Now,
take hands, all six of you, and stand
closely, side by side, shoulder to shoulder,
with your arms down by your sides.
Philip will hide behind the laurels. Now
1 take stick, which / must call my
crook, and I measure how long a string
you make instead Of counting y0u; that is
why am called the silly shepherdess. l
must see how many sticks or crooks you
are long. Now! One, two, three, four,
five, SIX" she added, measuring them
across the chest with her stick. Il see,
six sticks long. Now, / must 20 away,
and Ada will show you what to do
next"
Fanny then ran of, sat down on the
bench under the oak tree, and pretended
to 60 to sleep, :,
"Sister lambs" said Ada, in whisper,
81 think should like to take run out
side the fold. If the shepherdess should
come while am gone, will you try to
prevent her from finding out that am
not hereT
All the lambs answered, eyes, we will
try"
Then Ada ran away, and danced and
jumped about like n little frolicking
lamb. But very soon Philip (who made
a capital wolf) sprang from behind his
tree, and carried her off with him to his
den.
And now Fanny woke up; and when
the lambs saw her coming, the two end
ones stretched out their arms as far as
they could "For," said they, 1.-TWO
arms lengths will be wider even than
our sister lamb was"
The silly shepherdess measured her
lambs again. When she had finished
doing so, she said, "This is wonderful !;
they have grown since / went to sleep!
they are little longer"
Then she went away again.
"Sister lambs" said Anna, al think /
should like to have little run outside
the fold. If the shepherdess should come
while / am gone, try to prevent her froA
finding out that / am not hereT'
/ All the lambs answered, eyes, we will
try"
Fanny woke up again, and came to
measure them. And now. the lambs stood
apart little way from each other, and
stretched out their arms 10 make the
length of the six sticks.
This sort of play went on till 30 many
lambs were gone, or had been taken by
the wolf, that only two were left. Then
they put only the tips of their fingers
together and stretched out their arms to
deceive the shephcrdess; but as they
could not even thus make six sticks in
length, the silly shepherdess guessed what
had happened, and went In search of the
wolf
"wolf, WOLF" she cried, "give me back
my lambsp
"Shepherdess, you shall have them If
you can catch them" said the wolf.
And he let all the lambs out of his den.
The shepherdess ran after them. While
she was gone, the cunning wolf stole the
two lambs left. When at last the shep-
hertless caught n lamb, u became "shep-
herdess" instead, and the game began
over again. !.
"Do you understand Il now, KatieT
gasped breathless Fanny, ~ she brought
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.



Boys Of spirit. boys Of will.
Boys OF muscle, brain and power
Fit TO cope with anything
These are wanted every hour.
Not the weak and whining drones,
That all trouble magnify
Not the watchword of "I can't"
But the nobler one "I'l try"
Do whate'er you have TO do
With true and earnest zeal;
Bend your sinews To the task
Put your shoulder 10 the wheel.
Though your duty may he hard,
Look not on IL as an Ill;
III II be an honest task,
Do IL with an honest will.
Al the anvil or the farm,
Wheresoever you may be-
From your future efforts, boys,
Comes nations destiny.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

WHISKY AND THE WEED.--Intelligent
psychologists and Psychologists admit that
all so-called medicines containing alco-
hol--whether they emanate from the
regular pharmacopeia and are called
Gnctures, or from the Empirical Rum
Mills, and are labelled "Tonics "---are
essentially dangerous and destructive.
The only way in which drunkenness can
be arrested is by restoring the integrity
OF the nerves Especially the nerves Of
taste and the great sympathetic nerve),
and purifying the animal fluids; and
these objects are more certainly and
swiftly accomplished by the use of DIR.
WALKER's VINEGAR BITTERs than by
any other means. Hence, probably, the
opinions now so generally expressed, that
this pure preparation Is sovereign
remedy for the evils referred TO. Should
it be clearly ascertained that VINEGAR
BITTERs Is not only specific for in
digestion, liver disease, nervousness,
scrofulous ulcers and eruptions, and n
host of other disorders, but also for in
ebrity, Thousands will rise up and call
the discovercr blessed. 10
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

UNDER the new management of Mr..
Frank w. Wentworth, the Sherman
House, at Chicago, recognizing the
popular demand for retrenchment, has
reduced its tariff of rates, and in cor
responding degree increased its merits.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

LEMON CAKE.-Four tumblers OF
-four, two and one-half tumblers sugar,
three-fourths tumbler butter, one tum-
bier milk, two lemons, three eggs, one
heaping teaspoonfill soda.
FANCY CAKES. Beat the yolks OF
four eggs into halfa pound of white sugar;
add a little less than half pound OF
-four. Beat fifteen minutes, flavor with
lemon, add the whites Of the eggs well
beaten. Bake in small patties, and put
sugar plums on top.
To ROAST SMALL BIRDs.-Take larks,
blackbirds, snipe, or any other small birds,
cover them with sage leaves, fresh II pos
sible, then envelope them in slices of fat
bacon, put them down to a good fire, and
basic with Lucca oil and butter; sprin-
kle little salt, and serve in the gravy.
SCOTCH BRoTH.-Put n teacupful of
pearl barley into four quarts Of cold
water, let IL boil, add two pounds Of scrag
Of mutton or thin flank of beef, two
onions, two turnips, two carrots cut in
slice, and one carrot grated boil slowly
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

GOVERNOR BOOTH, of California, has
secured for the Mechanics Institute OF
San Francisco the gift of a complete set
of drawings and specifications of the
British Patent Office, estimated to be
worth $4,000.
The lady who wove the first yard OF
cloth ever made by water power in
Dover, New Hampshire, is still living at
Cape Neddick, York, Maine. Her name
is Elizabeth Tapley, and she is now
seventy-cight years old.
AT confirmation lately held by Bish.
op Walsh, in the township of Stephen,
Canada, he caused all the boys confirmed
to take pledge of total abstinence from
all Intoxicating drinks during twenty
one years, and the girls that they would
abstain from excess in dress.
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GENERAL INFORMATION.

TWENTY-FIVE theaters are in full swing
in Paris. r
In Tripoli the plague is 30 severe this
year that repetition of its famous pas
sage into Europe is apprehenned.
The British sell $l9, 600, 900 worth of
goods annually to the Japanese, and buy
from them commodities valued at $15,-
095,000. tt
The population of the Fiji Islands at
present number 160, 900 natives and 1000
whites. 1t is scattered over two hundred
islands. aa.la., 8fI
The chief cause of the recent mercan-
tile failures in New York is said to be
speculation in merchandise for higher
prices.
A SALT LAKE CITY dispatch says that
Brigham Young's health is reported to
be very poor, and it is believed he will
not live very long.
IT is said that a human being has
seven millions of pores through which
perspiration and exhausted particles OF
the system escape.
THE Grange publishing-house in New
York has just issued its first book, and is
making extensive preparations for the
sale of Grange literature.
THE compulsory school law in New
Hampshire seems to be working we'll
The percentage Of non-attendants upon
schools is gradually decreasing.
PENNSYLVANIA claims more Odd Eel.
lows than any other State in the Union
They number 95, 1877, and last year dis
bursed $36S,50O for relief purposes.
THE municipality of Vienna has or.
dered the cremation of the dead to be
Immediately carried into operation, nc.
cording to the plan pursued at Leipsic
THE TRANSMISSION of blood from lamb
into the veins of cOnsumptiye patient
was tried ut Fall River, Massachusetts,
recently, and seems likely to prove sue.
cessful.
The Western farmers are finding q
market for the products of their diaries
in England. One agent has just bought
thousand firkins Of butter in Chicago
for the dealers in London. I
The Texas Agricultural Society, with
capital of 500, 900 has been formed at
New Haven, Connecticut, to own planta.
tions in Texas and supply Northern mar
kets with produce. 4l'is ag.
IT is estimated that there are now 3d.
600, 900 of grape vines in the State OF
California, which will yield one gallon
of wine each, and California expects
soon to be wine-producing country.
A GEORGIA rice pond was drained last
year and the ground planted in corn. A
hybrid crop has made its appearance, the
stalk, blades and cob resembling corn,
while the kernels on the cob are grains
of RICE. "a. szl,arl'slgg.C75
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

Mn. BEEcHER has not yet paid of the
mortgage Of FIVE thousand dollars which
he took on his house in 1873 for the sup
port of the Colder Age. The Brooklyn
Savings Bank holds the bond.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
A Pedagogue,s Recollections.

I'VE once knew man who set out to
write book entitled Pedagogues Who
Have Flogged Me-" That book con.
tanned some of the liveliest recollections
ofhis life. Time, with all-effacing sponge,
had rubbed out every remembrance OF
the "sums" he used to labor through
his history lessons had retreated him into
the dim past, until they mingled them.
selves with fable and tradition in unre.
solvable nebule; his spelling-book had
been thrown to the bats and the owls,
and he could no longer stand up against
"sibyl" and "surcingle;" but the i'm
pressions of his numerous foggings re.
manned. He had classified his subject
into Deliberate Floggers," Passionate
Floggers," "Floggers for Fun" "Mali.
cious Floggers," "Floggers with Pro.
logue," and "Pantomimic Floggers.'
He wrote rapidly, for he had good com.
mand of language, and was never in want
of facts. But, after while, he began to
grow nervous, and, before he had finished
100 pages, he was an acute sufferer, He
could feel the old wells, rising again on
his back in one vast smarting, tingling
throbbing network of rawness. Broad
blisters actually came out on the palms
of his hands. Several times he upset the
table and spilled the ink over his manu-.
script by suddenly jerking up his knees
as If somebody with a lash had cut at his
bare ankles from behind. lie could
never hear step beside him without
involuntarily lodging his head and pro.
tecting it with his elbow. The strain
upon his nervous system became toe
great, and he was obliged to desist. That
manuscript is like the window Of Alad.
din's tOwer-nO mortal man can ever
finish it.
But, if IL were to he finished, it would
not be complete without some account
of n schOolmaster in Suabia, who has just
retired after teaching, or at least fOggine
and torturing, for fifty-one years. lie
would, have to be put into q class by
himself, entitled the Statistical Fl0g.
ger" for he kept an accurate account OF
the punishments he had inflicted through.
out the half century. Here are the
grand totals which he has footed up with
equal pride and particularly: 81, 500
canings, 12l 900 custodies, 10000 ear
boxes, 22,700 tasks, 1876 tips with the
rule, 700 boys caused to stand on peas
5000 to stand on sharp-edged wood, 5000
to wear the fools cap, LOO to hold the
rod; total, 1,2S2,936 cases of punish
ment. This is an average of about 100 a
day, or more than one every five mimi es.
He must have thrashed the boys, on
many occasions, by platoons. One can
imagine him getting so absorbed in his
growing census of martyrs that he would
often mutter to himself on Saturday
morning, running his eye down the col
umn, and adding, / must fog sixty-four
to-day, in order to make up an even 500
this weekp--AplefoHs Journal.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

Sent free, on receipt of neck and
breast measure, height weight and price, our
(sample) "Model So Shirt" Fitted by patent
ed model: Stylish and substantial. Address
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

ALARaE emigration Of Jews Is taking
place to Palestine. Many of them are
wealthy, and they are building a new
suburb TO Jerusalem, outside the gate,
on the Jaffa road.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
MASON & HAMLIN
CABINET ORGANS.

Winners Of THREE HIGHEST MEDALS Az ASp
DIPLOMA OF HONOR at VIENNA, 1873; PARIS,
i:e1, and ~ AMERICA ALWAYsi peslar9 I BY
INCOMPATIBLE. Sold ut fixed uniform prccstc
ALL which are printed and iuvariable.
PURCHASERS OF ORGANS ARE RE
MINDED that the temptation TO Dealers and Ped
dlers is very strong to deal in and recommend rs
best the organs Of those makers who will pay
them the largest commissions or discounts
for selling. s...r.
The MASON a uAMLIN ORGAN CO., print
ing as they do their lowest prices, can afford to
dealers only the sma1lest commissions. This
plan every purchaser the lowest price, be-
the dealer not ask more than the Catalogue
price but IL many dealers to do their best to
sell ether organs simply because they get enormous
discounts on them. Some organs are currently sold
to dealers at scyenty-fye per cent; discount or at
one-quarter the prices printed for them. As rule,
the poorer the the higher its printed price and
the greater the discount on IL.
The MASON a HAMLIN ORGAN 90. are
now offering new styles, with important improve
ments; and selling not only for cash exclusively,
but also on new plans of easy payments, running
through one year or longer. They also rent new
organs with privilege OF purchase. Rent paid
three years, purchases the Organ.
Send for the Illustrated Catalogues and Circulars,
which give very full information and are sent free
Address, THE MASON d ltAMLIN ORGAN
CO.. at either New York, BOSTON. or Chicago.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
IMPR WE'D ~
Empire Shuttle Machine.

IL runs over seams all right.
II will take fifty stitches to the inch.--6ner
than any other machine.
Will sew heavier and thicker goods than
any other machine.
It uses any and every kind of thread.
II sews starched goods as well as un-
starched. t
1t sews the most delicate, thin, soft fabric,
without drawing.
1t sews bias seam rs well as any other.
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WANTED.FOR

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w announcing that
we have just received
news ofthe feet that the
great statesman and his
torian had Just COM
pleted this imIortant
work before his death,
tn. Ms. of the last vol.
being now in the hands
OF the Paris pub fishers.
We are now issuing the
work in semi-monthly
parts, at 50cts. per part.
1t IL one of the most
superb specimens OF
book making ever pub
lished In America. First
class canvassing agents
wanted in every part OF
the country. IL Is the
GREAT BOOK Of the
year. Apply at once to
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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

DR.. TUFTS HAIR DYE acts instsntaneously,
contains no Sugar Lead or sulphur Warrante
harmless. Has o bad odor. Easily Applied.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

KEEP Your PROMIsE.-A boy bor-
rowed tool from carpenter, promising
to return at night. Before evening he
was sent away on an errand, and did not
return until late. Before he went he W as
told that his brother should see the ar
ticle returned. Iry,D
After he had come home and gone to
bed, he inquired, and found that the tool
had not been sent to its owner. He was
much distressed to think his promise had
not been kept, but was persuaded to 60
to sleep, and rise early and carry it home
the next morning.
BY daylight he was up, and nowhere
was the tool to be found. After long
and fruitless search, he set off for his
neighbours in great distress, to acknowl-
edge his fault. But how great was his
surprise to find the tool on his neighbours
door-stone! And then it appeared from
the print of his little bare feet i'm the
mud, that the lad had got up in his sleep
and carried the tool home, and gone to
bed again, without knowing it.
Of course a boy who was prompt in his
sleep was prompt when awake. He lived
respected, had the confidence of his
neighbors, and was placed in many offices
of trust and profit.
If all grown folks felt as this boy did,
there would be good many tracks of
bare feet found some of these bright
mornings; and what piles of tools and
books would be found at their owners
doors!-Phrenological Journal
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

The OLD BRooM.-It was worn away
to nothing but short, stiff, uneven, use
less stump, fastened By loose, furnished
wires to dirty, broken handle. It evil
IDENTIFY has had its day, if ever anything
had. No one would be crazy enough to
say of it now, at will sweep clean" 1t
couldn't sweep at all.
But there was a time. / remember
well when it was brought home trim,
tidy, respectable broom. l felt it a
power in my hands. All things went
before it. 1t had a special hatred of
spiders andall dust fostering things. It's
bump Of cleanliness was extraordinarily
developed. Twas a pleasure to sweep
with that broom, it seemed to have a
pride in its work.
But age crept on apace. Like a few
human beings, its ambition and physical
endurance were unevenly balanced. But
it felt that it was better to be useful and
die, than to be useless and live, 80 it did
its best until it was voted superannuated
and replaced by younger relative.
Then Tommy took it for the garden
walks, and then for his horse. Since
then it has played the part of promiscu.
yuSA nViPCh UnNACNCi hCSCboity, uS Vic
mother of invention, has called it into
use. f'.
Little folks, you may learn lesson
from this old broom. 1t was always
ready to work and never shirked. 1t did
just as we'll as it knew how, and was not
to blame for what it did not know. So
if long travelling or few chips, spi-
der's web or a handful of loose dust was
left behind, we never thought of blaming
the broom; instead of that we never
doubted that it was mortified at the state
of things, though unable to remedy it of
its own accord. When it "gave out" in
the higher duties of broom-life it readily
took its place lower down, and never
murmured at its untimely fate, but did
its best, wherever it was, cheerfully and
unfalteringly.
Little boys and girls, you are each one
OF you q broom in your own way. Sweep
clean as far as you 60.
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WANTED :, To nagLoY Mrs EyEnIwHERr
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-02

FATAL AccIDEST.-On Saturday
evening last, about S o'clock, as The
freight train passed Arena and while
it was stopping there it was discovered
that the train had run over one Morris
Perry and instantly killed him.
The body of the unfortunate man
was cut all to pieces, and mangled in
such manner that it was difficult for
his friends to identify him.
FROM an eye witness we learn that
the body had been thrown off the
track distance of about four feet,
that the bowels were torn out and
thrown about ter feet from the body,
the left limb was stv3rel close to the
body and the foot cut off from the
same limb.
1t appears from the evidence we
have been able to gather, that the un-
Tribunals man vas and had cen addict
ed to drinking for many years, I'd
that he was drunk at the time Of the
accident.
We also understand that his wife
has made complaint against Andrew
McCutchen, of Arena, and sued him
for five thousand dollars damages !; for
Sc lins her husband liquor while in a
state of intoxication.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-02

~ serious shooting affray occurred
at Blanchardvi"e, Lafayette county, on
FRIDAY last 1t appears that one Fulp
md his son in law, Sarlison by name,
ad some difficulty, when'Sard son drew
istol which was discharged, either by &C
idcnt or otherwise, ard, instead Of bit
ing Fulp the hall entered the body Of
James Mason another son>in- law of
Fulp, between whom and Sardison the
pest OF feeling prevailed. AT last accounts
s.r Mason vas v,re low.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-02

~ The social party given by Miss
Emma Reese, last week, was very much
enjoyed by those participating; it could
hardly be otherwise, for there was asund-
ant means for enjoyment. After supper
those disposed listened to the sweet strain
of singing and music; others resorted to
the variety of games that are generally
indispensable on such occasions, and 9TH
ers were enjoying themselves in animated
conversation. All seemed happy and
light hearted
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-02

DOES IT PAY ?-Onc of the agents of
The Christian at Work, I. D. Witt
Talmage's paper, recently obtained $50
subscriptions in about eighty hours abso>
lutte work This was great success to be
sure, but the agent had fine paper and
superb chromos to back him. There is
room for more agents Of the same sort
Samples and terms free. Office l02
Chambers street New York, See ADJ
vertiSement.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-02
n@%The installatio Of officers

n@The installation of officers of
Dodgeville Lodge, No. 119 of the
free and accepted masons, took place
on St. Johns day, the 9th of Dec.
There were many invited guests pres
ent and after a brief period of shaking
hands and visiting, the gavel sounded
and the ,xersiscs Of in Sailing the new
officers commenced
The exercises were very impressive and
were conducted by Orville Strong
After the ex ers Uses, supper was an
nounced which for its variety and ex-
cellency we have seldom seen equalled,
every delicacy that the refined taste of
an epicure could dssire was there.
OYSTERS cooked oysters fresh and ovs-
ters cove, and such oysters we never
saw in this part of the world. They
were probably made and canned ex-
uressly for the Free and Accepted
Masons.
After supper there was liberal sup
ply of 6rst-class singing and music, by
some of the best musical performers IN
the county; everybody appeared to enjoy
themselves until late hour IN the
evening, this was certainly the party of
the season. Somehow this order have
more perfect way OF getting up these
suppers than any other institution
amcng US.
The following are the newely install
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-02

nsa. The NJ. E. Church of Linden,
held their annual tea party on We'd
nesday.
The P. Nj. Church Of this place,
INDUCED in like beverage on yester-
day. These occasional tea parties
are institutions we'll adapted to vary the
monotony Of lite and modify the native
taciturnity of Americans and English
men. If we had more Of them, we
have no doubt we should become more
courteous in our dealings with each
other and perhaps in time we might
emulate the sociablity Of those ma
tons of the continent where people as
semble frequently together.