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Plain People.

like EN- The Creator never made a
man to part his hair in the middle and
say WEAKLY" for "really,' and the Gre
atOr didn't intend to have women spend
eighteen hours day over powder anC
paint and send their children into the
country to be cared for by some cross
eyed old woman at three dollars pei
week.
No, sir! and no, ma am! If Providence
had His way about it He would have
small boys play in the road, roll on the
grass and carry dusty noses, instead OF
being imprisoned in starchcd jackets and
threatened with thrashing if they didn,
quicker their mouths just like ma"
If people want to say "chawming' fol
charming, faint away at the sight of ;
rat, and lead little poodle-dogs around by
little chains, and have their monograms
painted ON their front doOrsteps, why
it's all right, only should think it would
be a great bore ON 'em for fear that some
mudsill would some day find out that
their grandfathers or fathers sold soap OF
navigated flat boat.
knew Jones years ago; was boy
and he man, but l remember that he
was glad enough to haul tanbark ut three
shillings a load, and that his sons and his
daughters picked blackberries and sold
'em to buy starch and saleratus. They
are ton" now. Arabella has fashion.
able limp and fashionable squint, says
"daw' for day, hawse" for horse, and
it costs her more to paint her checks
than it does me to paint my house. Her
brother, AlgernOn, sports Il tender little
cane, wears eyeglasses, and his livery
bill tor Il month amounts to more money
than his old father earned in six. Their
name used to be Jones-plain, blunt
Joncs-but now they have it changed to
"JO-cns," and they draw it out mile
long.
Well, suppose it's ali right, but if the
old man could rise from his grave and
drop in on 'em he'd wonder if he hadn't
struck the wrong house.
Aud it's none of My business if Will
Lakins wears diamond pin, alligator
boots, swell collars and mauvc pants and
has three cOach-dOgs at his heels, i,
French dancing master, goes to Saratoga,
owns racc-horse and stays indoors on
sunny days for fear of getting his fingers
tanned. He stares at ME when / go by
him, and if l nod he pretends that he
didn't see it. It's all right, and probably
he has forgotten how his father used to
hoe corn for my father at fifty cents Il
day, and how his mother drove milk
wagon and sold straw hats.
Folks needn't be stuck up because they
have few dollars in bank. Nature
currency is brains and honest hearts,
and money needn't make man forget
that his father run saw-mill and his
mother was her own servant. If any one
can improve on the English language l
have no objections, but let 'em do it with
out pickering their mouths until they
look like mashed watcr-melons, and with.
out twisting their tongues as if they had
a peanut-shuck in their windpipes. COT
fins are made to measure, and the earth
never asks whether the dead are bon-tOn
or paupers.-.N. Quad, in FIreside Friend
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A Kentucky Female StOck.l)rOyer.

The advent of drOvcrs at the East
Liberty Stock Yards is not generally
heraldcd with any extraordinary flourish
of trumpets, though there is considcra-
BILE believing at times when there is an
arrival of stock But when a female
drover-a genuine female drover, or we
might call her droveress-made her
appearance out there early last Monday
morning, riding on top of u car with the
other drovers, you may imagine it caused
something of sensation. The lady's
name is Mrs. Margaret Magee, and she
halls from Cynthiana, Ky. She brought
along two carloads of cattle, and was
accompanied by her son, seventeen years
of age. She is rather good-looking,
robust in figure, and probably thirty-five
or thirtyeight years Of age. She owns
400 acres of land in high state of cul-
tivation in the bluegrass region, and is
monarch Of all she surveys. She raises
stock, and has shipped stock several
times before, but this is the first trip
she has gone into the business, and into
the caboosc-car like the other drovers.
She is the widow of drover who died
some time ago and left her to shift for
herself, and she is doing it nobly. She
is treated with the greatest respect and
courtesy by the other drovers, and her
first trip among the jovial class of drov-
ers exerted decidedly beneficial influ-
ence. Nothing was said in her presence
to which she could take exceptions, and,
her first reception being so cordial and
gentlemanly on the part of the drovers
and all others with whom she had occa.
sion to mingle, she will doubtless con.
tinue to accompany her stock to the East
Liberty Yards in the future. There is
no use in singing "WhO will care fol
mother now?" about such women as Mrs
Magee. Pittsburgh Leader.
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Che &edwupd 6azettt,
EVERY THURSDAY
REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA.
HARVEST.

Sweet. sweet. sweet
Is the winds song.
A>tir in the ripplcd wheat
All day long.
II hath the brooks wild gaycty,
The sorrowful cry of the sea.
oh. hush and hear.
sweet. sweet and clear.
Above the locustS whirr
And hum of bee
Rises that soft. pathetic harmony.
In the meadow grass
The innocent white daisies blow;
The daudcliun plume doth pass
Vaguely tu and fro
The unquirt spirit of a flower
That hath too brief an hour.
Now doth little cloud. all white
Or golden bright.
Drift down the warm blue Skv:
And now on the huri Zon-linc,
Where duSky woodlands lie,
\ sunny mist doth shine.
Like TO 4 veil before Il holy shrine.
C"nccaliu..
Nalf-revcalinC.
Things divine.
Sweet. sweet sweet
Is the winds song.
A>llr in the riprlrd wheat
All day long.
That exquisite music calls
The reaper everywhere
Life and death must share.
The golden harvest falls.
50 doth all end
llcnorcd Philosophy.
Science and Art.
The bloom of the heart:
Master. CONSIDER. Friend.
Make Thou the harvest of our DAYS
To fall within Thy ways.
y " H"fthi"son. IN Scribncrs for .iugvs
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HER ANSWER.

Il was bliss to sit silently near her.
Eut bliss has no limits. and
Would speak to her boldly and hear her
Breathe melody rare in reply.
strange feelings were mine
| might not define.
The throne of my queen drawing nigh.
l murmured. Fair maid. may the pleasure
To share Your next dance he my lot:
The hope paradi>aic treasure.
"ucXcuSt me-. she said.
I'm just about dead.
Ii really - 'orribc OF
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There are many curious facts about
vegetable life. We can, for example,
graft the apricot on the plum, and the
peach on the apricot, and the almond on
the peach, and thus we may produce q
tree with plum roots and almond leaves.
The wood, however, of the stem will
consist of four distinct varieties, though
formed from one continuous layer. Be-
low the almond wood and bark we shall
have perfect peach wood and bark, then
perfect apricot wood and bark, and at
the bottom perfect plum wood and bark
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EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
CHARLEsrowN. Mass. March "a. 1870

CHARLEsTowN, Mass, March 10, 1869.
Mr.. Fl. r. STEVENS:
This is to certify that have used your "Dood Prem
araton" " EGETlNE) in my family for several wears
ana think that for ScrOfuar Cankerous IIunOrs OF
rheumatic Affections It cannot be excecd and IA ,
blood purifier and sprng medicine it is the best thin;
have ever used. and have used almost everything
can checrfully recommend it to any in need Of sucl
anlcdcine. Yours respectfully,
Mrs. A. a. DINSMORE
III Russell sfracf
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Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson decla, es
that she is not to marry Chicago gen.
tleman, as the papers are saying.
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VEGETINE
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STORES TIE HEALTH.
Seventy-One Years of Age.
Mr.. II. r. STEVENS:

EAST MARsuF1ELD, Aug. y 1870,
Mr.. II. r. STEVENS:
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U. L. PETT1NGILI.
Firm Of S. NJ Pettingill Co., 10 State ST., Boston

V&ETINE extends its influence into every part of
the human organism, commencing with its fOl,llta-
powers. creating healthy formation and publication
Of the blood driving out disease, and leaving Nature
to perform its allotted task.
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WHEN WHITING TO ADvERTIkEKs,
w please any Yen saW the Advertisement
In this paper.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-13
THE RIDERLEss WAR HORSE.

In almost the last letter written by
Lieutenant Colonel Pemberton from
the seat of war before his untimely
death, there was passage describing
one of the most pathetic of all incidents
of the Franco-German war, though the
pathos of it relates, not to the human
belligerents, but to their own active
ally in the world, the horse. A Prus-
sian hussar who had got Oft his horse
to carry water to two wounded and
dying comrades, was killed with the
poor soldiers he was relieving, by a
shell, in the very act of pouring the
water down the throat of one of them
and just then his regiment moved OFT,
his empty horse following in the ranks !;
| whereupon Lieutenant Colonel Penn
berton remarked: "Only those who
have seen a battlefield can form a
notion of the extraordinary way in
| which the horses, as long as they have
a leg to crawl on will follow the resi-
ment to which they belong. I saw,
what evidently had been sergeants'
holacs, keeping their position in rear
of their squadron wheeling with it, and
halting exactly as if their riders were
on their backs, and all the time stream
ing with blood. Poor creatures! they
are indeed to be pi.ied for they have
neither Vaterland, promotion, nor the
coveted me lal to think of, whatever
may be the issue; and few indccl are
there, who have not some honorable
scars to show" Again, the German
| Post relates s!that after the slaughter
at Vionvi]le, on the eighteenth OF
August, strange and touching specta-
Gle was p.esented. On the evening
call being sound / for the First Regi-
ment of Dragons of the Guard, co.
riderless horses answere L to the sum.
mons, jaded and in many cases MAIN
ed. The noble animals still retained
their disciplined habits"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-13
FOREIGNERS IN CONGRESS-.

There are fifteen foreigners in Con-
gress. In the Senate, Carl Schurz, of
Missouri, is native of Cologne, Ger
many, and is the only one Of the fifteen
who has any trace of foreign accent.
1t is paradoXical to hear this man apOs-
trophizing America as his country, in
words where the III sound thickens to a
Il, and thes' is almost lost. But the
Senator's language is excellent. Wheth-
er his speech be prepared or extempore,
he speaks very huently, and with an
appreciation of the delicate idiomatic
distinctions of our tongue that refute
Hammerton's maxim Of its being i'm
possible for a person to know two Ian
guages perfectly. German is Mr..
Schurz's domestic tongue, and English
his public. So he must be excepted
from that discouragins rule. The other
foreigner in the Senate is Jones,
Welchman by birth, and as he is worth
100000 he very appropriately halls
from Gold Hill, Nevada. In the House
the United Kingdom is well represent
ed, there being five Irishmen, four
Scotchmen, two Englishmcn Zone of
whom is Elder Cannon, of Utah,) a
Canadian, and Mexican who, instead
of being a sonorous Don Something or
Another, signs himself "Buckncr,"
like Mark Twain's landlady, who
"was an italian by the name of Muir
phy.''
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-13
J. WILKES BOOTHS ROMANCE.

Tho Washington correspondent OF
the Cleveland Leader writes: sever
al wears ago when John r. Haze was
here as Senator, his daughters were
among the most admired Of all the
bellies. They lived in elegant style at
the National, and entertained with
great deal of vivacity all who visited
them. The youngest was really very
pretty, fresh, piquant girl OF eighteen
or so. OF course there were a great
many admirers, and among them the
actor John Wilkes Booth was the
most devoted to Miss Eighteen. You
a handsome, dark, melodra matte 1el-
low, and among a certain set here he
was great favorite socially. At night
he played his stCharles," in Schiller's
Robbers, and Miss Hale was always at
the play, with bouquet and smiles LOT
him. In those days who could guess
the sad sequel to romance OF love
that promised bright enough? l re-
member night when the hotel was a
blaze of light. The guests were giving
a tshop'' for their friends, and between
the waltzes every one was gooo ma
turedIy gossiping at the devotion OF
couple who walked up and down the
rooms, and were apparently obllvlous
of place and surroundings. They we're
a very attractive pair, he tall and
darlked-eyed, she fair and sweet as an
English rose. There were some who
cavil1ed at her choice; the father must
be wild to permit such an alliance, they
said-the daughter Of a United states
Senator to marry play-actor. But
the many to whom the young girps
sweet face seemed excuse for any in
fatuation, looked with indulgence al
the little drama of the cold story"
remember too well another night, just
the eve of two days later. We were
at Ford's old theatre. Again blaze
of light, and music and crowded
house, to look on at Laura keene II
the american Cousin How many
times have you heard the story OF tina
night, too dreadful to talk of even
The sudden pistol shot that followed
and in the figure that sprang from the
Presidents box I saw the lover OF two
nights ago, and he knew that even as
he whispered in that young girls cal
he was planning this dreadful scene
In Wilkes Booths pocket was found
the picture of his betrothed, and she
wrote of the assassin that she would
marry him at the foot of the galloWs
Such devotion hangs like divine
fragrance about our reco1lections of thi:
wretched, mistaken man, and though
it can not blot out, yet surel let i
dim little the horror we rightly fee
at this work.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-13

Our Washington correspondent tells
us there is 4 chance for Louisiana if the
Democrats in the Senate will vote for
Mr.. Carpenters bill giving the people
new and, it is hoped q fair election.
The Democrats oppose this on the
grounds of State Rights. 4 State gov
ernment, their notion is, must not be
disturbed. 1t strikes us that this sort
of an abstraction comes in late-very
late-and in bad grace. Honest idiots
are to be respected at all times. But
there is such Il thing as carrying hon
csty, coupled with idiocy, too far. This
is one of the eases where 4 little abate-
ment of theory in The cause Of common
sense and popular liberty commends
itself to the most dycd-in-the-wool
Democrats hereabouts. The Congress
men who disregard it will find them
selves in the vocative. The people
want no foolishness about this thing
Cu,trie7'Jo,o2aai.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-13
ROTATION OF CROPS.

An Intelligent correspondent of the
Southern Cuftivator, says the practice
of the best farmers is to plant different
crops in rotation. Experience has
taught them that land planted in the
same crop for n series of years fails
rapidly in productiveness, but that a
succession of crops may be grown upon
the same land with profit for !, much
longer time. This difference is ac-
counted for by admitting that every
crop requires a preponderanco of par
ticular elements for its growth, and
that continuous planting of the same
crop exhausts these elements.
1t has also been ascertafned by ex-
perience and observation, that those
crops having fibrous roots, which grow
mainly in the surface soil, such as corn
and the cereals, grow best following
those crops that have long tap-roots,
such as cotton, peas and clover, and
vice versa.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-13

There was great exultation in Lynch
burg, Va, the other day. On the same
day and near the same hour two
United States Senators, both former
residents of Lynchburg and natives of
the county in which the little town is
located were elected; Judge Thurman in
Ohio and Col. Wfthers in Virginia. AT
about the same time another son of
Lynchburg, the Hon. VIM. Allen, was
inaugurated Governor of Ohio. The
pride with which the local papers refer
20 the remarkable coincidence is alto
geteher justifiable under the circum-
stances.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-13

"Punch' says: "One who had the
reputation of being great philosopher,
an experienced man of the world, a
profound thinker and au acute OBJ
server, with deep insight into human
nature, has left on record the express
sion of his firm conviction that no man.
however gifted, however fortunate in
his domestic relations, however sue
cessful in his public undertakings, can
be pronounced happy-whose trousers
bag at the knees.'
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-13

n servant girl once said she should
not have known that her master and
mistress were religious had she not
heard that they took the sacrament.
1t was a pity they took it. If man
rolled on bed of spices you would
soon know where he had been; and il
a man went with Jesus he must be
perfuned with the spirit of Jesus
Sturgeon.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-13

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BUTCHER.S NOTICE.

Mr.. N. Klein begs leave to inform his
friends and former customers that no will
reopen his Market House on the Sth of
September, and every morning following
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FOR SALE!

A PARTON OF the tract of land known as
"Forest Home'' or Layton Place, on the
Ouachita river opposite Pine Bluff, contain
ing 500 or GOO, acres about 100 III cultivation
and about 200 deanened. which could be
easily put in cultivation, and it is known
as the most desirable place on the river.
Apply to ROBERT LAYTON,
4l:tf Monroe, La.