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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27
Joke on the Lightning Rod Man.
Max Adeler tells this story in til

Max Adeler tells this story in the
Philadelphia Saturday Post:
Up in Blossburg the other day, a
lightning rod man drove up in front
of a handsome edifice standing in the
midst of trees and shrubs, and spoke
to Mr.. Summers, who was sitting on
the step in front. He accosted Sum-
mers as the owner Of the residence,
and said:
81 see you have no lightning rods
on this house"
"No," said Summers.
care you going to put any on?"
"Well, l hadn't thought of it," re-
piled Summers.
"You ought to. A tall building
like this is very much exposed. I'd
like to run you up one of my rods;
twisted steel, glass tenders, nickel
plated tips-evcrythlng complete.
May l put you one up to show you?
III do the job cheap
"Certainly you may, if you want
to. havn't the slightest objection, ]"
said Summers.
During the next half hour the
man had his ladders up and his as
sistants at work, and at the end of
that time the job was completed.
He called Summers out into the
ward to admire it. He said to Sum-
mers:
"Now that is all well enough, but
if it was my house, I'd have anoth-
cr rod put on the other side. There
is nothing like being protected thor
oughly."
That's true," said Summers, sit
would be better"
"I'll put you up another, shall l?'
asked the man.
"Why, OF course, if you think it's
best" said Summers.
Accordingly the man went to work
again, and soon had the rod in its
place.
"That's first rate job" he said
to Summers, as they both stood eye
ing it. 81 like such 4 man as you
are. Big-hearted, liberal, not afraid
| to put a dollar down for a good
thing. There's some pleasure deal
in with you. like you so much
that I'd put a couple more rods on
that house, one on the north end and
one on the south, for almost moth
in"
"It would make things safer, l
SUPPOSE" said Summers.
"Certainly it would. I'd better
do it, hadn't I-hey?"
"Just as you think proper" said
Summers.
So the man run up two more rods
and then come down and said to
Summers: "There, that's done. Now
let's settle up"
"Do what?"
"Why, the jobs finished, and iii
take my money"
"You don't expect me to pay you
l hope?"
"Of course l do. Didn't you tell
me to put those rods upon your
house?"
"Mv house!" shouted Summers
"Thund"r and lightning! l never
ordered you to put those rods np'
1t would have been ridiculous
Why, man, this is the court house,
and Pm here waiting for the court
to assemble; I'm on the jury. You
seemed to be anxious to rush out
your rods, and as it was none ofmy
business, l let you 60 on. Pay for
it! Come, now, that's pretty good
Ha! hap
The Blossburg people say that
the manner in which the Lightning
rod man tore around town and
swore was fearful. But when he
got his rods off the court house he
left permanently. He don't fancy
the place.
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27
THE PRAYER OF AGASSIZ.
ny JOHN G. WHITTIER.


On the isle of Penikese,
Hinged about by sapphire seas,
Famed by breezes salt and cool,
Stood the Master with his school.
Over sails that not in vain
Wooed the west winds steady strain,
Line of coast that low and far
Stretched its undulating bar.
Wings aslant along the rim
OF the waves they stopped to skim,
Rock and isle and glistcning bay,
Fell the beautiful white day.
Said the Master to the youth:
1--WE have come in search of truth,
Trying with uncertain key
Door by door Of mystery;
We are reaching, through His laws,
To the garment hem of Cause,
Him, the endless, unbegun,
The Unnameable, the One,
Light of all our light the Source,
Life of life and Force of force.
AS with fingers of the blind
We are grupiug here to find
What the hierOglyphics mean
or the unseen in the seen,
What the Thought which underlies
Natures masking and disguise,
What it is that hides beneath
Bright and bloom and birth and death
Doubt and error, loss and failing.
OSour weakness made aware,
On the Threshold Of our task
. Let us light and guidance ask.
Let us pause in silent prayerr'
Then the Master in his place
Bowed his head Il little space,
And the leaves by soft airs stirred,
Lapse of wave and cry of bird
Left the solemn hush unbroken
OF that wOrdlcss prayer unspOken,
While its wish, on earth unsaid,
Rose to heaven interpreted,
As, in life's best hours, we hear
By the spirits finer ear
His low voice within us, thus
The All-Father heareth us;
And his holy ear we pain
With our noisy words vain.
Not for him our violence
Stcrming at the gates of sense,
His the primal language, His
The eternal silences.
Even the careless heart was moved,
And the doubling gave assent,
With gesture reverent,
To the Master well beloved,
By thin mists are gloriied,
By the light they cannot hide,
All who gazed upon him saw
Through its vale OF tender awe.
How his face was still uplit
By the old sweet look of it,
Hopeful, trustful, full of cheer,
And the love that casts out fear.
Who the secret may declare
or that brief, uuuttercd prayer?
Did the shade before him come
OF tn inevitable doom,
OF the end of earth SO near,
And Etcrnity's new year?
In the lap OF shcltering seas
Rests the isle OF Penikese;
But the lord of the domain
Comes not to his own again;
Where the eyes that follow fall,
On vaster sea his sail
Drifts beyond our beck and hail.
Other lips within its ound
Shall the law of life expound;
Other eyes from rock and shell
Read the worlds old riddles well;
But the breczes light and bland
Blow from Summers blossomed land,
When the air is glad with wings
And the blithe song sparrow sings,
Many an eye with his still face
Shall the living ones displace,
Many an car the world shall seek
He alone conld fitly speak,
And one name forevermore
Shall be uttered DER and DER
BY the waves that kiss the shore,
But the curlew's whistle sent
Down the cool, sea-scented air;
In all voices known to her
Nature owns her worshipcr,
Half in triumph, half lament,
Thither love shall fearful turn,
Friendship pause uncovered there,
And the wisest reverence learn
From the Masters silent prayer.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27

A correspondent of the Jackson,
(Miss.) Neacs tells how General
Jackson got his title of Old Hick-
ory. He says he got the story from
Capt. William Allen, near neigh
Dor of the General, and who messed
with him during the Creek war.
He says during the campaign the
soldiers wero marching rapidly to
surprise the Indians, and were
without tents. A cold March rain
came on mingled with sleet which
lasted several days. General Jack
son got 4 severe cold, but did not
complain as he tried to sleep in a
muddy bottom among his half-fro-
zen soldiers. Captain Allen and
his brother John cut down stout
hickory tree, peeled off the bark,
and made covering for the Gen
eral. who was with difficulty per-
suaded to crawl into it. The next
morning q drunken citizen entered
the camp, and seeing the tent kick
ed it over. AS Jackson crawled
from the ruins, the topper cried :
"Hello, Old Hickory! come out Of
Your bark and jine us in drink"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27
n n. HOIDRIDGE.
r. =. EACNEE

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public and Land
n Agent. Office in c. w. Taylors new build
ing, opposite the Post Office. Independence,
Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27
Business Cards
Attornevs.
n. q. TEE.
n II d ROSZEII.
w, H. BARTON,

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Attorney at Law,
O Collecting Agent and Conveyancer Will
perform Marriage Ceremonies anywhere within
ten miles of town. Office over Edwards store,
corner Main and Walnut Streets, Independence,
iowa 30y1.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27
Abstrati,
Look to Your Titles!
w. G. & j. B. DOMAIN,
OWNERS OLA

OWNERS OF
Complete Alb stract
ALL
Titles Of Lands and Village Lots in Bu.
chanau County, Iowa,
Arc prepared to give prompt and reliable infor-
nation relating to the title Of any real property in
the County.
Several thousand acres of wild lard ard several
VALUABLE IMPROVED FARMS FOR SALE!
In different parts of the County. Alse number
Pensions and all kind OF War Claims attended
o promptly.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27

4 TTORNEY AT LAW and Real Estate Agent
N Otfice ever King and kenyon's Hardware
Store. Main ST., Independence, Iowa. 33.tfl
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27
ID. w. BRUCKART

A TrORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW Inde-
N pendence, Iowa. Office in Wilcox New
Block over Tabor's Drug Store.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27
L. w. HART.

r AW CONVEYANCING, WAR CLAIM, AND
Land Agency Office. Office in First Nation
i Bank building, Independence, Iowa
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27
JAMES M. WEART,

4 TTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public and
n Claim Agent Office in WicoXs New Block
up stairs. Independence, Iowa. T-1yl
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-27

A man in Hartford has stopped his
newspaper because his name was print.
ed in list OF advertised letters, and his
wife, happening to see it first went and
got it for him, and found it was from a
young lady, who complained that he did
not meet her at Worcester, as he prom
ised.
An old miser, who was exceedingly
parsimonious, was obliged, reluctantly, to
consult physician. "What shall do
with my head :" asked the man. 1T is
so dizzy l seem to see double" The
doctor wrote prescription and retired
saying, "Whan you see double you will
find relief if you count your money"
Forrest played once in Providence, r.
l., and found his audience cold and
apathetic. Finally, after vain attempts
to rouse them into enthusiasm, he walked
down to the footlights, and casting on
the astonished Yankees the glare Of an
lnfuriated Jovc, remarked: IF you
don't pray more than you applaud you'll
all 70 to h sure"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

SoME one in New York, writing to
the London Atheneum, and giving a
patronizing American view Of Americ.
an art, has the following personal allu.
sion: "Mr. B. G. Porter is young Bos.
ton artist. whose work denotes the in
fluencc of William Hunt, the best por-
trait painter in America. Hunt is lit.
tie known out of Boston, for the reas.
on that he rarely exhibits; but his
portraits of Chief Justice Shaw of
Massachusetts and of beautiful women
in Boston society will cause him to be
gratefully remempered when more
widely circulated names are forgotten.
Hunt is an enthusiast and brilliant
talker, consequently, in small town
like Boston, he yields such power as
no one man could possibly have in a
metropolis" The unconscionable vii
lain. .4.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

.BuDDHA The following are the ten
commandments Of Buddha:
First Thou shalt not kill
Second Thou shalt not take for thy.
self what belongs to another.
Third-Thou shalt not break the
laws Of chastity. a H v sss.
Fourth-Thou shalt not lie.
Fifth-Thou shalt not slander.
Sixth-Thou shalt not speak injuries
Seventh Thou shalt not excite quar-.
rels. .s.sa s.,..1 .rt..6v Nh
Eighth-Thou shalt not hate. al is.
Ninth-Have faith in holy writing.
Tenth Believe in immortality. =
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

NEW NAxE.-The manager Of a Phil
adelphia theatre has invented q new
name for afternoon performances at his
establishment. He has evidently shared
with many less influential persons a
distrust of the designation commonly
employed when afternoon performances
are mentioned, and he has courageous.
~, If not promptly, determined to ban
ish the offensive solecism. Why should
matinee be used when no reference to
the morning is intended? The thought
full Philadelphia doubtless pondered
over this question until contempt for
the poverty of our language, and scorn
Of the intelligence which had sought to
remedy its Deficiencies by borrowing
matinee from the French, spurred him
to corrective action. The result was
Vespertine. The musical adjective,
around which clings dim religious ha-
10, suggestive of the melodious repose
of the tableaux vivant rather than the
strident action of the melodrama, is
prompted to the dignity of a noun, and
on all the playbills, bill boards and ad-
vertisements of the theater in question
it has replaced the Gallo misnomer so
long ignorantly employed. We com.
mend the dulcet vespertine to all poet
ically minded managers throughout the
country.-Boton advertiser.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

EXHAUSTION or The BRAIN.-Dr. Rad.
cliff, in his recent Croonian lectures, il
reported to have discussed, at much
length and very scutely, the subject Of
brain exhaustion, 80 common at the
present day. After describing the lead.
ing symptoms, such as loss of memory,
depression of spirits, increased or less.
ened sleepiness, unusual irritability, ep-
ileptiform conditioned the nerves, and
sometimes trsnsitory coma, he argues
against urging the patient to eat hear
tily, believing that such q practice
tends to develop the disease; he equal
y opposes the training diet system, as
generally starving the nerve tissues by
excluding hydrocarbons from food.
Nor should the patient be urged to
work more than Is natural under the
circumstances, nor 70 rest from head.
work, Ia many Cases cerebral exhaus.
tion being intensified By the brain ~
lne fallow; il there i undue sleepless-
neos, the heod should lie low on. the
pillow, and Il undne slespinass, / it
1lgaA = kspt hgh 20 - j / e
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

TINE was in geological history when
the earth seemed 10 exist mainly for
the vegetable creation. Both moisture
and heat ensured tropical luxuriance
even in the arctic regions. What are
now mere MOSES were trees fifty or
sixty feet high. Then came an era
when the earth seemed TO exist mainly
for the animal creation. Beasts roam
ed the forest beside which our elephant
is small affair. When the monarch
man came it was evident that his supe-
riori,y was in his mental and moral ma
turc and not at all in his material
still, ii pleased God 10 prepare the
way for lis coming by reducing even
the physical Importance of the former
Ii is pleasant, also. to see how every.
thing. from the first geological period,
was being made 10 work together for
mans good. The same divine foresight
which wrought in the disposition of the
metals and the granite, and the states
and the marbles, when the foundations
of the earth were being laid, was at
work through the unnumbered latter
age of tropical luxuriancc, laying up
for US, those stores of coal without
which civilization could never cum.
nate in human brotherhood.-1ne Chris.
tidn.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

BOILED HAxMERs.-Old DR.. Twitchell,
OF keene, unce wanted to blister some
one in a farmhouse, far from home.
lie had nothing with him to do it with.
He asked the wife to find him q ham
mer. The article was brought out, pm,
in teakettle over the FIRE, and after
the water steamed and bubbled well,
he lifted it out and gently touched it to
his patient in half dozen spots, over
the seat Of pain, with very positive ef-
feet. Boiled hammers were, for many
years, used in that neighborhood for
pleuriry; and every old lady knew
nothing was equal to q hammer. and
there was q long dispute whether il
should be q claw hammer or not. The
years finally conquered-- Sdnitarium.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

How To TREAT THg DEPRAvED.-lc care
not how impure o man is in his per-
sonal life, if he will give me supreme
control Of his food and drink, will
pledge myself to SO reform him as he
shall become pure Of his conduct.in life.
He may be debauchee, a gambler, q
profane man, loafer, man whose
passions are uppermost, SO that they
riot and revel like FIRE in brush
wood. Notwithstanding, will agree
to so regulate that mans life that pc
nal courts and officers Of retributive
Justice shall have no need to deal with
him. There is only one possibility of
failure in such q case, which is that
the mans vital force shall have become
so ruinously used up that he is not
able to stand the taxation which change
in existing habits must necessarily i'm
pose. If he is physically incurable of
any disease. will not take him as an
example. But if he have constitution
enough to undergo the necessary re-
covery, | will agree, under the condi-
tons named above, to cure him, not
only of his disease, but to make him
a decent man. | do not
care how debauched or guilty such a
man may be. pledge myself that,
given complete supervision of his ia
bile preparations. ! will bring him
where he will cheerfully walk in the
paths of morality and righteousness.
DR.. johnson.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29
IDAHO WORLD.


~ -. n m. q 0lemont q AlexondriA, =
~ ii Gfook) III most ancient hymn q the Prim.
NJ Church Il u there (l60 pears amer the Apos-
lei asserted 10 b q much earlier origin; y may
1acended % his reward The following verston VIII
Eivo somc imperfect tdes Of it, spirit:
Shepherd a. ten6er youth
Guiding IN love and truth. 88.
A8sA Through devious ways: 50 ~
Christ, our triumphant kingi
We como thy name to sing.
And here our children bring
To shout thy praise.
Thou art err holy Lordi
The al subduing Word
Healer Of strifel
Thou didst myself sbase. -
That from Sins deep Disgrace
Thou mightsst ave our Eacs.
And give M life.
Thou ast visdom's High PRIEST
Thou hast prepared tho feast
OF holy Lowell
And In our mortal pain
Nome call on Thee In vain;
Help Thou dost not disdain.
Help from above.
Ever be thou our Guide.
Our shepherd and our pride.
Our stan and sone
Jesusi Thou Christ Of 0odl
BY the perennial word.
Lead 40 where Thou hast trod.
Make our fAith strong.
30 now, and tin We die.
sound We Thy praise on high.
And joyful song.
Infants and the glad throng.
Who to Thy Church belong.
Unite and swell the cong
To Christ our King.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29
m xARuApuKE.s MUSINGS.

rThs following lines. written BY Theodore Tuton
sbeut TIE time Of the commencement Of his Amily
troubles beautiful in their cynicism. and pathet
IN their dsspair-vi b read with interest now ths
their prophecies are Ill fulnlled:l
Iwon noble fame.
But with . sudden fown.
The pe0ple snssched my crown,
And in the miro trod down
Ny lofty name.
Iboro Q bounteous purse.
And beggars by tho way
Then blassed mo day by day.
But I. grown poor - they,
Have now their curse.
Ieainsd what men caIl friends.
But new their love 10 hate
And have learned too late
How mated minds inmate.
And friendship ends
Ielasped . woman's breast,
A. Il her heart knew,
Or fAncied. would be true.
Who proved-Alas, abe, tool
False, Ike the rest.
Inov am al bereft-
A when some tower doth nh
With battlements and wall.
And gate, and bridge. ALL
And nothing left
But account II worth
An pangs Of fair hopes crossed
All loves and honors lost
To gain the heavens at cost
OF losing earth.
30. lest b inclined
To render III for Ill
Henceforth in mo instill.
O, God. . sweet goodwill
TO Ill mankind.
olxxPY Hollow. Nov. !. 1871.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

aPRoruNDrsslnUs has discovered that
the reason why the Jews will not eat
pork'is because their Scriptures con.
tain the malediction. Cursed BE- Ham
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

WIsEmcn learn more from fools than
tools leam from wise men, flg~ 4
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

higher tensions an organism already
overstrung?
Yet, with such a nature as | inherit.
ed, 1t looks to me now that | might
have grown to usefulness and honor,
had it not been for one single tempta-
tion-the wine cup. ! did not seek it,
nor did any one willingly tempt me.
Yet | found it ever upon my mothers
sideboard as in after life | found it ev-
erywhere. How little did dream that
there, Imprisoned in that quaint old cut.
glass, was the bewitching demon that,
with remorseless power, was to follow
my footsteps foreverY Yet it was there,
smiling in my childish face, and mark.
ing me out for ruin. Iearly learned
that there was joy in it, and saw that
all the world looked upon it not as evil.
but good. Oh, if | could have but
seen this mocker in it's true character:
could but have known it's terrific DOW.
er over the sons of menl-could have
imagined that it was ever there, coil.
ing itself in my young blood, to clutch
# and tear my heart through . life of
anguishl - e sss
But none saw the, danger. All
would have laughed At the thought oil
peril in my little occasional and per-
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
COME OUT AND VOTE.

The laws rest, not upon the will Of
the whole people, but upon the will of
those who come to the polls and vote.
If there are seven hundred who want re-
form, and three hundred who do not;
and the three hundred vote and thes seven
hundred do not, the three hundred will
rule and there will be no reform.
You may talk, and canvass, and
s'resolute till the COWS. come home;
but if you do not put your resolutions
into your ballot and the ballot into the
box, you will have no more influence
than if you lived in Kamschatka.
Remember what is at stake: Shall
the unsold wheat crop of 1874 and all
the crops hereafter raised in Mime
sofa, be taxed to enrich the cold-blood-
ed nabobs of Wall street: or will you
pass and enforce such Law as Wis
consin has adopted, by which your pro-
auctions shall be carried, as our own
constitution declares they shall be, Eat
equal and reasonable rates =
If you refuse to vote, or if you vote
for Republican legislators, you must
take the consequences. There will be-
continued misrule and robbery at the
Capitol; continued insolence and extor-
ton on the railroads On your own
heads be the calamities that will follow.
Remember that men elected by Re-
publican votes will owe allegiance to
the Republican party; and from such
men you can expect nothing.
See then that you vote, and that
your workmen and your neighbors vote
and vote right.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22

Patrick Nickname, of invel
Insa last week sent to the Insane Asy-
tIrove, ster, on complaint of his broth.
Iun =. go about 30 years OF age, and has
er. Pa9iekn fits from his youth, and We
seen ;n snsss It the neighbors in that vi.
cinity take eu. n hey think it is = put "
me me yer he 1oatssr iould be looked into BY
Times.
$50. ;. the Insane Asylum,
which was made BY tn. republican leg
isfature. and under VII. On socn cases
as the above are now pot si"'c' l''of
to last winter the INDECENT INSANE were
supported At the expense OF the 0'sse'
but those who wsrs able t. support
themselves, or who had near .reiative
able to support them, had to pay 'ne'r
board. Now . man may have An IN
come of $4,000 year, and yee send
his insane son to the Asylum It St.
Peter to be supported by the dsa'e.