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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15
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GO FEEL waAr HAVE FELT.

A Young lady of New York was in the habit o
writing for the Philadelphia Ledger the subjec
of temperance. Her writing was full of pathos
ard evinced such deep emotion of soul, that
friend of hers accused her of being maniac OIL
the subject of intemperance, @hereupon she wrot'
the following touching lines:
go feel what have felt,
Go bear what have borne
Sink meath a blow father dealt
And the cold worlds proud scon;
Then suffer on from year TO year
Thy sole relief the scorching tear.
Go kneel as 1 have knelt.
Implore, beseech and pray
Strive the besotted heart to melt,
The downward course to stay,
Be dashed with bitter curse aside,
Your prayers burlesqued, your tears deaed.
Go weep as Ihave wept 3 --
Der aloved fathers faH-
See every promised blessing swept
Youths Sweetness turned to gall;
Lifcs finding flowers strewed all the way,
That brought me up TO womans day.
Go see what have seen,
With gnashing teeth-lips bathed in blood
And cold and livid brow; 60
Go catch his withering glance and see
There mirrored his souls misery.
Go to thy mothers side r..-...
And her crushed bosom cheer;
Thine own deep anguish hide;
Wipe from her cheek the bitter tear;
Mark her worn frame and withered brow
The gray that streaks her dark hair now,
With fading frame and trembling limb,
And trace the ruin back 10 him
Whose plightee faith in early youth,
Promised eternal love and truth,
But who, foresworn, hath yielded up
That promise to the cursed cup, rTarEr
And led her down through love and light,
And all that made her promise bright
And chained her there, mid want and strife,
That lowly thing-a -drunkard's wife , 81
And stamped on childh0od's brow, SO mild,
That witherlng blight-the drunkard's child.
Go hear. and feel, and see, and know,
An that my soul hath felt and known
Then look upon the wine cups glow,
See if its beauty can atone
Think if its flavor you will try,
When all proclaim, tits drink and di0i
Tell me HATE the BOWL
Hate is feeble word
losthe-abhor-my very soul
With strong disgust is stirred
Whene'er / see, or hear, or tell -.
Of that DARK BEVERAGE OF HELL
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15


A Hartford man thinks, if it wasn't
for newspapers, man might get
along in this world. A letter adver-
tised for him was taken out by his
wife, who happened to read the ad-
vertisement first, and asitw com
munication to him from a young wo-
man living in Springfield, and gave
him a blowing up for not meeting
her on the train at Worcester, last
week, q little family difficulty has
arisen But for the meddling news
paper the situation would have been
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

Yu say yu are about tew begin Life
and want tew begin right, and yu
ask me how tew do it.
First, as to yure religion, mi ad-
vice IL, that yu adopt a leetle to
time. -
Commence with this, "do unto
others as yu would have them do un-
to yu." @
After yu have got this well larnt i
will give you another dose.
The great truble with nu begin
ners IL, they undertake to raise more
religion than they can lift, and the
konsequentz IL, they git discouraged,
and lose their grip. re
Too muchreligion IL the wust thing
in the world tew lift.
Az for the Dizziness w intend tew
toller, emmy thing that IL honest, IL
aonorabel, for don't kare how Plus
man IL, swoppin bosses will make
aim karless.- Josh Billings. stT
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

While President Grant was attend
ing the Fair at Westminster, Mary
land, poor old negrowoman grasped
him by the hand and exclaimed, with
the tears running down her cheeks,
'Thank God, Masser, you added
years to my life by setting me free
you and Masser Lincoln, and I pray
for you, and bless you every night OF
my life for doing that. God bless
you, MasserI you and Lincoln-God
bless you both"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

Candidates, who electioneer to win
votes, have some hard experiences.
So good natured man found it, in
running for sheriff in Georgia: The
candidate, a physician, stopped to
telk with man who, with his two
daughters, was pulling fodder, and
the doctor, in order to keep along
side of him, commenced pulling the
fodder in the row he was walking in.
When he got fairly settled down to
it, the farmer says, Excuse me a
minute, while I step over to the
house" and he left At this time
the girls just made the fodder-fy,
going dnwn the rows in double quick
time. The doctor manfully did his
best. He painted, he sweat, and yet
he showed along under the broiling
SIN, while the farmer was on his pi-
azza, laughing in his sleeves. In
ABOUT an hour he went out to the
field and released the doctor. They
say the doctor never even limited
sheriff to him, but jerked up his
coat and left; and now he does not
go in fodder-felds for votes; he
lodges that kind of eleetioneering
ground.
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Youths Department.
To Contributors to the Youths
Denarfmant.

Our call for contributions to this Department has
been pretty well responded to by young friends,
and we have now quite a supply of original Enig-
mas, which will appear in the order they were re-
ceivsd-'hrst come, first served" Don't be impa-
ient therefore, if you don't see your contributions
published Immediately, but wait 8 few weeks, and
they will probably appear, If accepted.
Be careful not to make mistakes in spelling, and
write as plainly as possible.
We would like to have some original problems
from our young mathematicians.
Remember always to send the answers with your
Enigmas, Charades or Problems
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

An interesting experiment has
been made to prove that tobacco is
absorbed in the tissues of the body.
The patient is enveloped in a wet
sheet, and then, over this, in blank
cts. By this means it is claimed
that through the operation of the
principles of endosmose and exos-
nose, the water of the sheet is made
to enter the body, while at the same
tine impurities are withdrawn there
from. Now, on habitual user of
tobacco being subjected for an hour
to this process, it is found on his
envelopements being taken off, that
the odor of tobacco coming from his
body, and from the sheet in which
he has lain, is perceptible to everyone
present.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

An amateur sermonizer at Rome,
Ga, made these remarks upon the
soul-saving question: ''My brethren,
: man cannot afford to lose his soul
He's got but one, and he can't get
another. If a man loses his horse
he can get another; if he loses his
wife he can get another; if he loses
his child he can getanother; but if he
loses his soul, goodbye, John"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

"Now, Johnny" said venerable
lady to her six-year old nephew, who
was persistently denying an offense
of which she accused him, Il know
you are not telling the truth; I see
it in your eye" Pulling down the
lower lid of the organ that had so
nearly betrayed his want of veracity,
Johnny exultingly replied: ,'You
can't tell anything about it aunt;
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

Mrs. Richards, of Scranton, in
duced her husband to sell out SO
they might go West. He did sell
out, and she pocketed the proceeds of
the sale and then went off with anoth-
er man, leaving husband and FIVE
children.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

Mr.. Smith is bound to have his
joke. His wife walked nearly in front
Of a railroad train the other day, and
he said that if she had gone a step
farther his children would have had
q step-mother.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

be slowing of the machinery of the
universe, until growing stagnation
culr1inates in total extinction Of
life forces.
UNIVERSAL DROUGHT AND STARVATION.
Prof Franklin B. Hough foretold
a perpetual drouth-the result of
clea ing off of the forests. 'The
contrast, )" he said, ''between an open
and sunburnt pasture and one inter
speised with clumps of trees, must
have been noticed by every careful
observer. The fact that furniture in
houses too much shaded will mould,
is an instance of the humid influence
of trees and the results of woodland
shade, and explains the fullness of
springs and streams in the forest,
which dry up and disappear when
the trees are removed"
TIE rapidity with which forests
are disappearing has already been q
matter of alarm; but when we con-
side' the effect upon streams-prac-
tical illustrations of large ones being
lesst ned and small ones extinguished,
thers is cause for fright. Land will
become unwatered, and consequently
sterile-crops will lessen in volume,
until the arid and treeless plains re-
fuse to respond to the incitement of
the farmer; universal famine will en-
sue, and the world, entirely depopu-
lated by starvation, will sink into an
inha bitiveness, until some new change
calls another form of life into exis-
tence.
INSECTS TO END THE HUMAN RACE
Dr.. LeConte, the new President of
the Association, read a paper on the
enormous increase and destructive
ness of injurious insects. The pres
ent actual annual damage done by
insects to crops in the United States
is over $4,000, 1000, yet these figures
give but an inkling of what the in
crease promises for the future.
''Just now," says DR.. LeConte, "a
portion only of the insect tribes are
sufficiently numerous by nature to
infict injury upon man and his pos
sessions; but civilization destroys the
balances of which naturally keep
down increase, and permits in the
case of insects-those previously in
in numbers-to become
prom ,inent factors in the work of de-
strut ton. The only methods sug-
yestod by this scientist to avert a
,alar1itous plague, were ''to abandon
he crops and starve out the noxious
or to establish "a system of
checks on their increase equivalent to
hose existing before civilization in
terfered" Either of these plans is,
IF course, impracticable. The i'm
oencing dilemma seems to be an in
,reage of insects SO vast that the
plagues of Egypt will be more than
repr oduced, and that all vegetation,
and finally starving and helpless man
will be eaten.
All Of which augurs an early drop
ping of the curtain upon the feeting
show of life. We quote:
Il wo I'D not live always: ask not to stay
Whert storm after storm rises dark DER the way;
The few lucid mornings that dawn on us here
Are CROUCH for fes woes full enough for its cheer"
So much for the views of scientific
men and what they know about the
end of the world.
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Alphabetical Arithmetic.

Conundrums.
Why is an old shoe like ancient Greece7 Be
cause it once had sole on (SOlon.) -
Why is it easy for burglars to enter an old mans
house? Because his gait is broken and his locks
are few.
What's the difference between a school-boy and
q merchant! One stores his mind, and the other
minds his store.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

A witness in court, about to be
sworn, being told by the clerk to
hold up his right hand, Immediately
held up his left. "Hold upyourright
hand" "Please your honor" said
the witness, still holding up his left
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

Buddhism is the mammoth relig-
ion of the world, and now numbers
as its votaries, more than 550,000,-
000 of human beings, or nearly half
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

They have Judge in Kansas who
fined a lawyer for saying ''sic transit"
TIE official thought it was swearing,
and remarked Indignantly that no
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15
Enlgnas.

My 4 Is is tree mentioned in the Bible,
My91 1879 II is plant mentioned in the Bible,
My6l II 10 IA is a shrub, .
My n I3 Il is vegetable mentioned in the Bible,
My g is kind of grass,
My whole is the name of little boy living In
Kansas. PAS GIRL.
My % s is toy, a.
My k, 4 is something that is seen on some peo-
pies faces,
Ny . is something that boys do,
My1T34 is mans name, - .
My 5 is something that apples do,
Ny whole forms the name of boy.
Turtle Creek, o. YOUNG AMERICA.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-15

Answer to Enigma in last weeks News: Charles
B. Edwards.
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Charade.

Charade.
Within my first they fed the pig,
Twas ordered by my second,
Ny thirds thing they often rig,
Ny whole an art is reckoned.
[schoolday Mag.
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HHAVING recently released this old established
Ii Hotel, whicn has been enlarged by the addi-
tion of about 20 new and commodioas rooms, and
having fitted up the same with new furniture and all
the modern convenences, am now prepared TO ac-
commOdate the public with the best of fare and
comfortable lodgings, and WILL spare no pains to
give satisfaction to ali who favor with their pat
ronage. ..
Extensive Stablng attached to the House.
gE-Su2erior accommodations for Wedding Par
ties A. 4. COOK.
HiIlsboro, April 1871 aplSn
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The following advertisement ap7
pears every now and then in the Cor
riere di Torino:
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be slowing of the machinery of the
universe, until growing stagnation
culr1inates in q total extinction of
life forces.
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-06-22

ENcouRAGTNd To YOUNG SPEAKERS. -
From Charles Francis Adams Memoirs of
ms Father. 10 many who remember him
by the grand title of his later years, the Old
Man Eloquent, it will doubtless be a sur
prise to read in this book how in-eloauent
as young man, and through what mortG.
cations and failures and tolls he passed in
order to acquire his wonderful powers as a
debater. Thus, under date Of 5th January.
1903, when he was a member of the Senate
he writes: On this occasion, as on almost
every other, | felt most sensibly my detici-
e.ncy as an extemporaneous speaker. :
1t Is slowness OF comprehenson-an incapas
city to grasp the whole compass of subject
to the mind at once with such an arrange>
ment as leaves proper impression of the
detall-an lncapaclty to form ideas properly,
precise and definite with the rapidly neces
sSdry to give them uninterrupted utterance
My manner, therefore, is slow, hesitating.
and often much confused. Sometimes from
inability to furnish the words to finish n
thought commenced [ begin a sentence
with propriety and finish it with nonsense.
Sometimes, after carrying through an idea
OF peculiar force to its last stage the want
oi proper word at the close drives mo to
use one which throws the whole into bur-
lesque. And sometimes the most impor-
'apt details OF an argument escape my mind
at the moment when want them, thoueh
ever ready TO present them before and after
And hence in making the transition from
ON; part of il to the other, am often COM
PEELED TO take a minute or two for recollec.
ton, which leaves chasm of silence alyavs
disagreeabe to the hearers. | must. there's
lore, never flater myself with the hone of
oraIorical distinction. At the same time. il
Is possible that by continual exertions, an.
plcation, and self censure, part of the in eff.
t.cts Of these infrmities may be remeded,
Surely in these words, and in the latter ca.
rter Of the Old Man Eloquent, there is ma
lerlal for instruction and for encouragement
for many youthful asprant after oratorical
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-06-22
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1874

THAT woman In the brown veil p said Ber
nard,. looking about among the crowd; Il dom
See any.
Tom brpathed freer.
l don't see her now. | didn't know who she
was, but there was something kind of tlmilal
IN her appearance, tinced. Goodness gra
ciOus
Toh's last remark was caused by the ap
pearance at his elbow of the ileAtlcal lidy in
the brown veil.
I'D like TO walk home with YOU, if you have
no oblection, she said with u qt.eer little irein.
bic In her voice, as if laugh was not far bacl;
Of it,
with me " cried Tom aghasl l-tha,
'Ols 1t doesn't make any difference laughed
the lady, and Toms eyes we've something
worth seeing when lie heard that laugh.-
dear, dear It's too good TO keep Oh. Tom!
Don'tyou know me p
| Up vent the brown veil and there stood Kitty,
J her lice perfectly convulSed with merIiment
| III he shot if 1t isn't my wifi. " cried Tom,
looking as II he wanted to faint, or do some
! thing equally diverting.
Didn't know Your own wife, cried Bernard
| declare ii that amt the richest Joke OF the
seasol, say, Tom, must tell the boys about
that, Oh, must really.
Just one,' whispered Kittle to rom. with
her eyes full Of mischief. 'Sence gives con
sent wouldn't you like another one -
Toms face WAS as red as the rose m kil,ie's
hat.
III you'll keep still abont thai
You'll get me that lavender snl; Gnisl..l
Kitty.
1es, III do it, cried Tom. 'IuSi say il's
bargain
And you'll never do So asail?' added Kilie.
Never, as sure as my names Tom Riarhrr,'
said Tom silently.
We'll on those terms, | agree /, SAY nothing
about It, butt was rich y
Tom declares now that he knew wh,ih. l,t,,
IN ihe brown veil was all tbs time, but he can I
make bis wife believe it. She got the lavender
siik' and the transaction bids fair TO be a luck7
one Tor her, because ii She wants ANYTHING she
has only TO say:
-, Just one " aud Silence gives consent and
ionl' looking decidedly sheepish, is sure Ia come
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-06-22

LIE MOTHERS LAST LEssoy.-A mothar
ldy dyihs' Tier little son, not knowing of The
sorrow coming u him, Went, as was his custom.
10 hef chamber door, saying "Please to teach
lhe my verse, mama, and then kiss me and hid
, ne goodnight am very sleepy, but no one
has neaiu me say my prayers
"Hlsh ~ said lady who was watching he
sue her your dear mother is too i'll TO hear
you tonight; and, coming forward, she sought
gently TO lead him from the roon Roger ba.
gan 70 SOD as II his heart would break.
II can not go to bed withont saving NV
prayeis-lndeed can not''
The ear OF the dying mother cauabt The
so'thu' Although She had teen iDse4sible m
every thihg around her, the sob of her DARLING
aroused hcf stupor, and tuning To her friend
S,'e 81 desired her 10 bring her little son to her. -
hsr request was granted aud the child's golden
Hd'r and Iosey cheeks nestled beside he cold
face OF his dying mother. W."
MY SUP, She whispered "repeat this verse
a'ttI me, anu never forget it,
when my father and mother fcrslk, ma. ,be
Lord will take Inc uD' ''''
ne chlld repeated it two or three times. and
saiu us lltte prayer. Then kissed the cold
Lace and went quietly to bed.
IN the morning he came, as usu1l. to bis
'n2Chet' 9rh ont found her still and cold.
Ihis was her last lesson. lie has meyer ,o..
gotten It ,and probably never will as |, NO as h.
llHes.-PIeS. Weekly. Nv
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-06-22
IN EXILE

Tie sea at the crag's base brighiens,
Aud slivers in waves ofgold
And overhead, in its yastness.
The fathomiess blue is rolled.
There comes no wind from the water.
There shines no sail Oh the main,
And not IA cloudlct tn shadow
| L earth with its fleecy grain.
On give in return for this glory,
So passionate, warm and still,
The mist of Il Highland valley
| The breeze from Il Scottish hill.
Day after day glide slowly,
| Ever and ever the same
Seas OF intensest splendor,
/ Airs which smite hot as fame,
Birds OF imperis plumage,
Palns straight as columns of fire,
fIutler ana glitter around Inc;
But not so NY SOULS desire.
long fol the song of the laverock,
The cataract's leap and flash,
| The sweep of the red teer's autlers,
The gleam of the mountain ash.
Only when nights quiescent,
And peopled with alien stars,
Old faces come to the easement,
And peer through the vine leayod bars.
No words But guess ,her fanch s.
Their dreamings are also mine
VI the landJ of the cloud aud heather
The egiou Of Auld Lang Syne.
Again we are treading the mpun,ains,
below lis broadens the firth,
A I'd b'llows Of light keep rolling
down leagues of einpurpled lieaIh.
speed SWIM through tho glowing tropics
Stout ship, which shall bear me home:
. pass, as God sent arrow,
through tempest, darkness anil foam,
bear up through the silent girdle
That circles the flying earih,
liil there shall blaze on thy compass
The iode-slar of the north,
l ,at lhe winds of the hills may greet III,
That our footsteps again may be
IN me land OF our heart 8 traditions,
And close to The storrd sea.
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-06-22

WHf CUT OFF AT recent Sunday school
service the clergyman was illustrating the neces
sily OF Christian profession in order properly
10 eIJoy 'he blessings Of Providence in this
world, and, to max. it apparen, to the yontbtni
mind, he said: For Instance. | want To miro
dnce water into my house. Itnrn it on. The
pipes and faucets and every convenience are IN
good ORDER but get no water. Can any ofyou
ten me why do hot get wateI?' lie expected
liie children 10 say thai il was because h,, had
hoi made connection with the main in the
stleels ihe boys looked perpeX'd. IL. could
not see why the water should refuse IA run in,n
his premises after such fiultless plumbing. Can
no one tell what | have neglected?" reiterated
the good man, looking over the flock of won
dering faces bowed down by the weight of the
problem. Il know, sqleaked ont Il little five
year old
You don't pay
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-06-22


| rAhkEk EMBARRAssMENT.-S an ex-
change' Our young friend Parker went round
| the other evening 10 visit the two Smiths.
| AIter cohversing with them for awhile, Miss
susan excused herself Tor 4 few moments. aud
went up stairs. Presently Parker thought lie
iieard her coming, and slipping behind the dcor.
| he suggested the other Miss Smith sbonld te,,
Miss Susan that he lad gone. But il WASN'T
! Miss susan; it was Old Mr.. Smith in his sim
pers. AS he entered he looked around and said
| 10 his daughter;
ma, ha 80 Parker's gone, has he? Good rid
dance. l don't want any such lanierp.iawed
feu-haired idiot foolin' round here He hasn't
got The sense of a rlta baga turnip, or money
enough TO buy clean shirt. He gets none OF
my daughters III shake the everlasting life
out OF him If l catch lin here again. miud
me" s'' 'A~
Just as he concluded Susan Came down. and
not perceiving Parker, said:
hank goodness, he's gone, That mao 4.
enough To provoke Saint. was agf,llly
siraiu lie was going to spend the evening.
Mary Jane, hope yon didn't ask him To CONS
again"
Then Parker didn't know whether tn stay
There OF bolt, while Mary .lue, looked as ii
sue would like TO drop into the cellar. But
falker finally walked out, rushed to the en-
trance, seized his hat, shot down the steps. and
Went home, meditatng on the emptiness of
human happiness and The uncertaintyI of the
Smiths. ~