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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-24
ST. N CHOi AS for 1875
( EaAL For Ra1s Ind Lirls.

or this book CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
says:
In the bounn volume Of ST. Nicholas. with its
glory Of red and god we havea pc mtneut addition
t. the tit nature OF he yo ing Never before has
much literary and artistic talent CO. operated IN the
service Of children. II is continual educator uf
their asie sHd Of their no ror al courage. do not
see how ii can be made any better and " the chill
dren don't Tx it think is time to beg to char &c
In kind OF children in this country
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-24
Two 81 endid Seriel s cries,
aTuE YauNG : RNEY3R,"
+" EIGHT COUSINS"

by Trowbridge, author Of the Jack Haza
5. nrl.s
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

PUBLIC DEBT AND SPECIE PAY.
MENTs.-There is no royal road to
the extinguishment of the public
debt, and no royal read to the re-
sumption of specie payments.
The extinguishment of the public
debt must be through the channel
of taxation: and the way to the re-
sumption of specie payments is TO
provide by law for the prompt
convertibility Of the notes into
specie, or into some form of specie
equivalent. If Government finds
itself unable to give gold for
greenbacks in consequence of not
having now or at any time q suf-
icency of gold in the Treasury, it
should do the next best thing, it
should give specie interest bonds
(say 5 per cent. bonds) in ex-
change for greenbacks at par.
Government should also get as
early as possible and keep in the
Treasury gold reserve equal to
one-quarter or one-third of all the
greenbacks and national currency
Outstanding; when this is accom-.
plished it may safely redeem
greenbacks with GOLD and dc
cline the alternative of giving
therefore in exchange specie-bear-
ing bonds. It would be well that
the groenbacks thus received il
exchange for bonds should not be
again issued, except in re-ex
change at par for the specie-bear.
ing bonds; so that the principal o.
the public debt need not be there
by disturbed, either by being in
creased or decreased.-The Re
public.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

this Stair Without dollar in th,
wnrld. Last week lac went out q
the State, carry ing With him tn.
sum of one dollar and thirty eighi
rrhts. the savings of fifteen year:
.sf frugal isfr. Enme west, youns
man, come west"
The Burmese ambassadors, dur
ing their visit 20 England, ordered
The complete plant for extensive
iron works. They purpose hav-
ing in Burbah two blast furnaces,
six pudding furnaces, mills for
rolling merchant bars, rails, hoops,
sheets. plates, wire drawing mills,
and in fact every requisite for
turning ont furnished iron of all
descriptions.
An adjourned meeting of the
members of Congress 10 favor of
cheap transportation was held at
Washington on Saturday evening.
The attendance was small. A res
olution asking Congress to pass a
law protecting the Improvements
in rivers and harbors, and appro-
priating $I5O,0OO to continue the
improvements at the mouth of the
Mississippi.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

The CATHOLIC GERMAN TROUBLE.
Earl Russell in a letter to Sir
John Murry on the relations ex-
listing between Rome and Ger
many, says: "The very same prin-
ciples which bound me to ask for
equal freedom for Roman Catho-
lies, protestant dessenters and the
Jews bind me to protest against
the conspiracy which aims at con-
fining the German empire in
chains, never to be soaken of. l
hasten to declare with the friends
of freedom and I trust with the
majority of the English nation. !
could no longer call myself lover
of civil and religious liberty
should / fail to proclaim my sym
patty with the emperor of Ger
many in the noble struggle in
which he is engaged. We have
nothing TO do with the details OF
German laws. They may be just
they may be harsh; we can only
leave it to the German people &c
decide for themselves, as we have
decided for ourselves. At al
events we are able to see that the
cause OF the German emperor ii
the cause of liberty, and the cause
of the pope is the cause of sla
very"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

The secret of making little
children good, is hid in the know
ing how to make them happy.
Yet children are not always good.
The beautiful little creature who
sat in the infant class yesterday,
serene as a summer-day, her blue
eyes and fair hair and white furs
making you think of the angels,
from some vague suggestion that
the angel colors are white and
gold, is perfectly capable of chang
ing into small tempest to-day.
That pure forehead can darken
with a frown, those little hands
can be clenched with passion, and
the whole beautiful little being be-
come deformed by rage. The ia
cility with which very young chill
dren can dash into furious and I'M
reasonable states, is source of
constant amazement to some pla-
cider older people who have learn
ed self control.
Yet these placid older people
are often to blame for the naugh-
tiness which they deplore in their
children. Here, for instance,
are mamma and Edith, the one
twenty-five and the other five
years old. Mamma is braiding a
beautiful dress for her darling.
The pattern is intricate and fas-
lcinating, the afternoon is short,
and the dress must be done this
week, that Edith may wear it on
Sunday. Edith has labyrinth OF
toys on the floor, after the prodi
gal fashion of our modern nurser-
les. There are dolls with hair
and dolls without, dolls that open
their eyes and dolls that keep
them shut, headless COWS and tail
less horses, Noah's arks, puzzle
pictures and building blocks
Enough, surely, to afford variety
> and entertainment to any reason
/ able child. But Edith is blaze
She has had SO many toys and has
played with them SO often, thal
the have lost all the charm ofnov
|, city. and even possession fails Il
give oCSl0CSy
, alone is very dull business. Nam
/ ma being engaged to take the par
3 of entertainer, and Edith coming
: to see her in the character Of ;
4 lady from Philadelphia, they ge
? on very nicely, till the former get
a difficult place in her work, ant
, answers a polite question from tn
: little one, with . very curt, ''C
D don't bother me, dear-play b.
= yourself a while.' Then ensue {
c number of teasing interruption
9 inattention on one side, and i'm
j patience on the other. The littl
!, one asks to be told story, pull
= mammals dress, at last begins T.
a fret and cry, and is finally sen
' away in disgrace, if not rudil
e shaken or slapped. The leas
% tact, the sacrifice OF half hour
time on the mothers part, woul
d have kept the child happy.-Chril
IL tian at Work.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

Gen. Harvey. an old Indian fight.
err, gives his opinion on the Indian
question: "The trouble with In
dams was principally caused by
fraudulent agents and by whisky
dealers. He had never known an
Indian agent who had not grown
rich in Office except one. On be-
ing asked how to suppress whisky
sellers, he answered, without hest
tation that they should be hanged
or shot by the nearest military off,
GERS. He was decidedly of opinion
that the management of the Indians
would be much more effectively and
honestly conducted by army officers
than by civilians unless army off
GERS had changed very much since
he knew them.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

No use of any longer taking the
large, repulsive, gripping, drastic,
and nauseous pills, composed OF
crude. and bulky ingredients, and
put up in cheap wood or paste
board boxes, when we can, by a
careful application of chemical
science, extract all the cathariic
and other medicinal properties
from the most valuable roots and
herbs, and concentrate th m into a
minute Grapule, scarcely larger than
8 mustard seed, that can be readily
swallowed by those of the most
sensitive stOmachs and fsstidious
tastes. Each of Dr.. Pierce's Pleas.
ant Pur0ative Pellets represents In
q most concentrated form, as much
caihartic power as is embodied in
any of the large pills found foT
sale in the drug shops. From theiI
wonderful cathartic power, in pro-
portion to their size, people who
have not tried them are apt to sup.
pose that they are harsh or drastic
in effect, but such is not at all the
case, the different active medicinal
principals of which they are com
posed being so barmonised and
modified, one by the others, IS Il
produce Q most searching ant
thorough, yet gently and kindl,
operating cathartic. twenty-five
cents .. vial, by Druggists. Sc
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13
Best Points from Josh Billings.

Pride is cheap and common you
kan find it all the way down from
the monark on hiz throne tew the
rooster on hiz dunghil1.
There are excepshuHs TO all rules,
no doubt, but the excepshuns don't
win often enuff to make them pay.
The same time spent in learning
to phiddle n passable tune on one
string wud euable a5man to bekum
an elegant shumaker.
Man is the only thing kreated
with reaaon, and still he IL the
most unreasonable thing k Gated
Happiness konsists in having
what we want, and wanting what
we hav.
There il lots of e6dikated people
in the world, who If it want fol
their learning, wouldn't kno emmy
thing.
1 Eno what 1t IL to be granpa-
its fun alive.
Responsibility in these times de
ponds a good deal upon a man.
account.
Every boldly but the kusseG
phools are tew work for themselfs
There liz a kind of a kuriositI
which IL very common amuDgs
pholks, which prompts them tev
| see how near they can go tew
mules heels and not get hit.
Silence IL safe. The man wht
hasn't spoke alwus has the advan
tage ov him who haZ.
The parrot IL not game bird
altho they blight good, hang oil
well, and di hard.
a parrot will live 200 years an
grow cross tew the last.
They hav no song, but kan b
larnt tew sware korrectly.
A parrot in a private family /
about az useless az the seckond al
tack ov the meaZles, and max
more trubble than taking 4 sKoo
nam tew board.
Whatsoever kan happen ma
happen, and we hsv no excuse f
being surpri2ed at ennything
l this lie.
I MenDy people are Yirtewous fl
the reputsshun ov IL,
In a square fife the heart IL alwi
Q tew much foc the head, and q
glad oY il.
A regular, old-fashioned, thor
4 bred lie don't do much hurt-it
. the half breeds that do the mischit
cater for little children Il
= them-I believe they have been
?. great suckcess thus far, and amt
going tew run out az long az phol
last.
find plenty ov people who a
:, willing tew tell you all they kI
q IL you tell them ali you knO, b
d the misery ov the trade IL, th
r don't kno much.
1t is just az natral for an G
phellow tew-giye advice az IL IL Il
grunt.
Thare IL only one impulse ov I
lr human harte that IL alike in us
e. and that IL self-luv.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13
. LITERATURE, ART AND SCIENCE.

\ F. V. Hayden, United States &c
ologist. asks for an appropriation
of SIS, 900 to continue the geolog
zeal survey of the Territories.
The death of Charles Aston
Bristed, a grand son of John
Jacob Aston, is reported. He was
a finely educated man, an indepen.
dent thinker, and wrote generally
over the non de plume of s'Carl
Benson" He had lately been
writing series of articles for the
Galaxy.
UIke, a German artist, is at
work on two full length portraits
of Senator Sumner-one of the
Legislative Assembly Chamber OF
Hsyti, and the other for the Sum-
ner school building one of the
finest in WashingtoR. Morgan, .
young Philadelphia artist, is also
at work on a portrait of the Sena-
tor, from sketches made in the
Senate Chamber.
Among the newest of Boston's
many institutions is the Ladies'
Physiological Institute. The de-
sign of the institute is to extend
physiological information among
women, and to teach them the
laws OF health and life. 1t seeks
to make W,:.n..a Intelligent help
ers of the physician in the sick
room, and to fit them to become
wives and mothers, helpmeets for
their husbands, and capable of
caring for their children in sick
ness and in health.
The New York Typographical
Society celebrated the birthday of
Benjaman Franklin, by an enter
tainment, which was attended by
large number of the friends of the
society and admirers of the phil
osopher. Rev. DIR. S. Ireneus
Prime, presided. w. c. Bryant,
Revs. E. H. Chaplin, and DIR. Saml.
Oskood, made speeches. The lit
erary exercises were agreeably re-
lieved by the introduction of reci-
tations by Professor Walter C.
Lyman and VIM. GLAND Bourne,
the latter of whom recited poem
of his own.
The Journal of Applied Chem
istry says that the number of cans
of peaches packed last year ap-
proximated about 100000; to-
matoes, $4,000, 900, and corn from
100000 to 100000. The head
quarters of peach canning are
in Maryland and IN Delaware,
more than half the ch-packing
firms hailing from Baltimore alone.
Large quantities of oysters are
also put up along the Chesapeake.
Tomatoes come chiefly from New
Jersey, although many are packed
in Baltimore, New York and the
Eastern States. The best corn
comes from Maine, where are al
so situated the largest lobster es-
adjustments.
Syracuse, New York, is engaged
N a novel manufacturing enter
prise, one firm there now CO.
structing no less than seven man
moth windmills which are design
ed for crushing ore, and are to be
sent to the Island of Oruba, in the
Caribbean sea. The prevalence
of trade winds in that section and
the high price of fuel have Undue
ed the quartz company
to introduce windmills for ore
crushing purposes. An acurate
idea of the size of these powerful
agents may be conceived from the
following dimensions: The di-
ameter of the wheel, which is of
the ''rosette'' pattern, is thirty
six feet long, thus securing power
equal to a twenty horsepower en-
CINE. The weight of each mill is
about nine thousand pounds, the
cost of construction being about
81 800 each.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

Dio Lewis wants women to es-
tablish reading rooms and amuse-
ment halls for those who have been
in the habit of giving their spare
hours to dram shops. The sugges-
ton is a good one. Many young
men might be saved from ruin if
some other place than rum houses
were opened for them.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

TIE WRETcH!-A bachelor of
our acquaintance, on the warm
side of forty, automatically dis
close the contentents of one of his
pockets the other day. A partial
enumeration of the articles sounds
about as wise. A pocket knife, 8
tooth brush, two hair pins, eigh-
teen common or regular pins, q fad.
ed ribbon, tooth-pick, a garter
a spool of thread, a cookie, q to
bacco box, three cents worth o.
calamus, q corset lace and an eaI
ring. This is eccentEicity in thu
extreme. He'd better get the res
of the woman and start to house
keeping on the contents of hi
pockets.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

Letters from Rome state that
fine progress is being made with
the statue of Mr.. Seward, under
construction in the hands OF Mr..
Randolph Rogers. The statue,
which is in q sitting posture, will
reach q full height of sixteen and
. half feet, and win cost $25, 600,
which has been almost all SUBJ
scribed, In the Spring of 1876
the statue is expected to arrive
from Rome. when it will be placed
in Central Park New York.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

The French Bishops are plucky.
They say they will resist any at
tempt to muzzle them, and the Pope
urges them to fight the good fight
Of faith. But old Wilhelm is a
sturdy foe.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13
ed: Furniss, Bellows, Sparks,
Blazeup, Burnop. 1t ought to be e
red hot church by this time.

A boy who had heard of the PHar-
isees strainiDg at gnats and swallow
Ing camels, said 10 his Sunday
school teacher. that the "chief sin
of tho Pharisees consisted in eating
camels."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

Mr.. Sniggins wished to start on
an early train a few days ago, and
he purchased an alarm clock in
order to insure his waking at the
proper hour. He took it home,
wound it up, and set it for FIVE
o'clock. He went to bed at ten.
About midnight something in the
alarm clock gave way, and it start
ed off in a terrible clattel. The
baby was scared and began 20 cry,
and Mrs. Sniggins hastily awaken
ed, thought burglars were murder
ing the infant, and went of into
Mysteries and screams. Shiggins
mistook the alarm for a watch
mans rattle, and being but hail
awake emptied six barrels of his
revolver out the front window
wounding a passer-by in the leg
The entire neighborhood was
aroused, and as the racket inside
Sniggin's house continued, the DO
lice burst open the front door, anG
with sixty or seventy people anC
q couple of bull dogs, rushed fol
Sniggin's room. They found Mrs
Sniggins holding the baby anC
crying, while Sniggins had TIT
alarm clock, which was making .
terrible chatter, in the wash-basin
where he was pouring water upol
it to stop it. When the compan,
: came he threw it out in the yard
where it hoped about all might
and butted up against the fenc
and howled until the people in tn
back alley hurled missiles an
/ curses at it, under the impressio
that it was cats. The next tim
!. Mr.. Sniggins wants 70 catch q
: early train he will sit up all nigh
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

The Commonwealth deyotes two
columns to the dresses of the fine
ladies who attended the Command
cry ball; aud then asks pardon if
any should be overlooked. And
yet times are very hard, and people
are awful moor!
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

Mr.. Scruggs, the Resident Minis
ter of the United States at Bogota,
don't doff his hat in the presence of
the religious professions OF that
little country, and some of the peo-
pie are mad about Il.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

The National Grange appropriat.
ed 5000 to the State Grange OF
Iowa, to relieve the wants of Grang-
ers In distress in northern Iowa +;
and 81 900 to Minnesota. and $3.50
to Dakota for like purpose.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

The Iowa Changers are in trouble.
One, the Marion Grange, has with
drawn from the State and National
Oranges. We append resolutions {:
Resolred, That the Iowa State
Grange. though pretending to be q
more popular body. is characterized
by the same autocretic organization
and assumption of power whose
features are always obnoxious aud
intolerably offensive to freedom aud
justice.
Resolved, That the experience of
Marion Grange, No. 39l, in the Or
der OF the Patrons OF Husbandry,
is a history of repeated wrongs,
frauds, and insults, Inflicted uron IL
by those claiming and exercising
the highest authority, aud OF inso-
lent assumptions and high-handed
usurpations, dating from its first
organization, when it was swindie6
by State deputy, up to the recent
attempted imposture by the State
Master himself.
ReSOlred, Tat the members of
the Marion Grange conclude, after
experience and reflection, that farm
ers can combine and effect an organ
ization for their benefit, like the
Farmers Association of Illinois, for
Instance, more effective than that of
the Order of Patrons of Husbandry,
which shall possess fundamental
laws more in harmony with the
genius of our public institutions,
and which can be maintained at a
greatly reduced cost; in short, that
farmers can get along much better
without than with the present pre-
tentious, extravagant and vicious
government of the order.
ReSoiced, That the Marion Grange
No. 39I, is, and ought to be, free and
| independent of the Iowa State
Grange, and that its connection with
said Grange is, and ought to be dis
| solved.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

A cockney conducted two ladies
to an observatory to see an eclipse
of the moon. They were too late,
the eclipse was over, and the ladies
were disappointed. "OhI ex-
claimed our hero, E'dOn't fretl l
know the astronomer well. He's
. very polite man, and, I'm surs
wiz begin again.,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

James B. Groom has been elected
bv the legislature of Maryland to
fill a vacancy occurring in the Coy
ernorship by the election OF Gov.
Whyte to the L. S. Senate.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

The Archbishop of Santiago de-
.clares that female voices in the choir
are dangerous to true piety and de-
votion. Such a thought could only
proceed from an incorrigible old
bachelor.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13
NEW MEAT MARKET
ANDERSON Do CO.,

BUTCHERS, and dealer in all kinds OF
ID fresh meat. Keeps on hand for sale
the choicest OF beef-steak, mutton chop,
game meats in their season, pork, poultry,
sausage, &c. NHeaI cheap fOE. cash
cordially invite all my friends, and the
public generally, to call and see me.
Meat will be sold as low as it can posi-
bly, be afforded for.
80 ANDERSON & co.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13
Teachers EXaminat: IN.

EXAMINATIONS for teacher certi-
IL ncates for Lyon county, will be held
IN the stone school house on the last Satur-
day OF each month, commencing precisely
at O'Clock. Certificates granted by the
present board will be renewed upon ap-
plication, provided the applicant has
been teaching and given satisfaction.
CHAS. CAVANESS,
p. j. CARMICHAEL,
3Stf MARY J. WATSON
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13
HEDGE PLANTS,

WE have about one hundred and
w seventy-fiYe thousand hedge plants
for sale. We warrant them to be No, l
plants. They were grown on oar farm
on Allen creek. JOSEPH ERNST.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

The Spanisrds are fighting with
desperation. The Republicans and
Csrlists had a severe engagement
Thursday, 9th inst. The Carlists
were defeated.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

A telegram from Washington an
nounces that Gov. Harvey is the
first granger ever elected to the
Senate. Who said he is not a gran
0er2
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

A young lady said a pretty good
thing the other evening. She has
many admirers among the limbs OF
the law, and on being asked how
she escaped heart hole, supposed il
was OWING TO the fact that sin 6
multitude OF connseioIs there Il
safety"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13
FOR. SALE

T WILL sell 2 pairs OF my excellent 4
L II. French burr mill stones and their
equipments, very cheap for cash. Apply
to t. GIBSON, Seosho Rapids, Lyon
county, Kansas
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

On the morning of the 9th inst,
Chris Mehr, of Evansville, Ind, had
his grocery burned. His wife and
four children, bAr-keeper and father
iu-law persisted in the flames.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

There is nothing quite so exhau ST.
ing to village newspaper man as
to write up complimentary notice
of local exhibition, in which there
are thirteen performers who design
sending copies of the paper to thier
friends.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

Hammond has accomplished one
good work. The pray ing people of
ST. Louis are praying for the print
ars
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

Mr.. Bancroft, our Minister at Ber-
lin, says: "Wc can never have per-
manent prosperity until specie
basis is reached
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

A New York paper advertises
"a nice three cornered lot in Gem
etery, short, and just right for o fat
man with only one leg"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

We see it stated that our old
twenty-ninth cousin, Dan Rice, is
smashed up, and has been sold out
In Louisville, Kentucky.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

Sojourner Truth, the old colored
oratoress,hssa plan for the improve
ment of the colored race, which
she proposes to submit to the Presi-
dent.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

Miss Nellie Grant is not going to
marry a foreign gentleman of great
wealth.