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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
THE FARMEFS ERESLDE.

ARosND the fire, one wintry night,
The farmers rosy children sat;
The fagot lent its blazing light,
And mirth went round, and harmless cha
When bark! gentle hand they hear
Low tapping at the bolted door,
And thus to gain their willing ear
A feeble voice was heard implore:
"Cold blows the blast across the moor,
The sleet drives Kissing in the wind;
Yon toilsome mountain lies before,
A dreary, treeless waste behind.
My eyes are dim and weak with age;
No road, no path can descry;
And these poor rags i'll stand the rage
OF such keen, inclement sky.
$50 faint am, these tottering feet
No more my palsied frame can bear;
My freezing heart forgets to beat,
And drifting SHOWS my tomb prepare.
"Open your hospitable door,
And shield me from the biting blast;
Cold, cold it blows across the moor,
The weary moor that have passed"
With hasty steps the farmer ran,
And close beside the fire they place
The poor, half-frozen beggar-man,
With shaking limbs and pale blue face.
The little children focking came
And chafed his frozen hands in theirs;
And busily the good old dame
A substantial meal prepares.
Their kindness cheered his dropping soul,
And slowly down his wrinkled cheek
The big, round tear was seen to roll,
And told the thanks he could not speak.
The children then began to sigh,
And all their merry chat was DER;
And yet they felt, they know not why,
More glad than they had done before.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
ST. LOUIS.


LIVE SrocK.-Beeves-ralr TO choice, 45.5
05.75. Hogs-Live, 36.s506.75.
BREADsrUFFs.-Flour-XX Fall, &4.3504.5 so
Wheat-No. 2 Red Fall, S1.05h01. .0sk. Corn
No. New, 64067c. Oats-No. 2, 55K056hc
Rye-No. 1, 41.0O01.0s. Barley-No. 2, $1.4
01.47K.
PR0vIsIoNs.-Pork-M 317.900t8.0O Lar
-1a013hc.
BRBADsrUFFs.-Flour-S Xxx, 35.2505.5O 80
Wheat-Spring, No. 1, 94A0594Nc; No. 2, s91
090c. Corn-No. 2, 62H@63c. Oats-No. 2 s.
G51Hc. Rye-No. 1, 96O96Kc. Barley-No. 2
$1.3Oh01.3l.
BREADsTUFFs. Wheat Amber Michigan
$1.O7h01. 1.O7A; No. Red, 31.O5h01.06. Corn
High Mixed, New, 69069Ac. Oats-No. 2, 56h
057c.
CLEVELAND.
BREADsruFFs.-Wheat, No. / Red, 41.101<Q
LII; No. 2 Red, 31.O4h01.O5 Corn-New, q
ORC. Oats-No. l. 59060c.
DETROIT.
BREADsrurTs. .-Wheat-Extra, 41.13KDl .13x
Corn-69h@7Oc. Oats-56056hc. Dressed Hogs
-$7.5007.75.
LIVE SrocK.-Beeves-34.75 .750s.19K. Hogs
Live. $6.5O06.75. Sheep-Live, 35O006.25.
EAST LIBERTY.
LIVE STocK.-Beeves-Bes 46.2508.62ll; me
dunn, $52505.5O. Hogs-Yorkers, Sc. 4O16. .65
Philadelphia, S7.4O075o. sheep-Best, 45.750
6.25; medium, &4.7505.00.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

had gone out of the room and left them
to themselves.
"Millie is very clever little GIRL"
said the Grammar, land talks very well.
take great credit to myself for teach
ing her to speak SO correctly"
EYES," said the Arithmetic, "she is
bright, and can't be beat in addition, sub
traction, multiplication and division.
Really bright children always under
stand mv rules; make them SO clear and
plain"
"She should be very much obliged to
u.s." joined in the Geography, "foi
without us she could not be clever at all
For instance, see how much tell her,
l describe all countries, including hel
own; all bodies of water, all noun
tains, the different kinds of people
thousands of things. In fact, think the
information impart" (most books use
big words) "the most interesting and
valuable she obtains"
"Pshaw!" sneered the History.
"You're alone in that opinion. Where
does she learn all the particulars about
different countries, including her own, as
you say? Christopher Columbus, a ma
tive of Genoa, Italy, discovered America
in the year 1892. He set sail with three
small"
"Oh, do stop that" interrupted the
other books; "we've heard that until we
are sick Of it."
"Sometimes l wish he had never set
SAIL" added the Geography.
"Where does she learn about the great
battles-the lives of the Kings, Queens
and Emperors? continued the History,
waving it's cover triumphant.y; "about
the illustrious Father of his Country,
George Washington, who never"
Don't believe it" interrupted the
books.
"And if he never did, History does"
said the Arithmetic" many one. 1t
is only figures that neuer lie."
"From what does our Millie gain
knowledge"-here spoke the Natural
History of beasts and birds and fish!
All things that walk, or fly, or
CECCp, OE SWAm3 VI ctOP oeAAA 0AN OAAAy
breathet The wonderful habits of the
insects, the traits of the massive ele-
phant and the capers of the mischievous
monkey?"
"My friends"-here joined in tiny
voice for the first time, causing the books
to stand up on their edges and look over
at the corner of the room where lay the
little torn Primer, from which it pro-
ceeded-" my friends, I know you all
help to make Millic wise and learned;
but of what use would be all you can tell
il she could not read it? You would be
nothing without mep'
"Youw cried the others, in a scornful
voice.
"Yes, me-" answered the little torn
Primer. II taught her her letters. With
out knowing them, what good would any
book be to herr"
"How tiresome small books arc," said
the History.
81 guess I'll take nap" yawned the
Geography. And so the conversation
ended.-Margaret Eytinge, in st. Nicholas.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

JESSIE sat down by her mother to sew.
She was making pillow-case for her
own little pillow.
Gall this?" she asked in discomfort
ed tone, holding the seam out.
"That is not too much for little girl
who has work-basket of her own, said
her mother.
eyes," thought Jessie, mother has
given me work-basket, and ought to
be willing to sew" and with that she took
few stitches quite diligently.
II have dreadful pain in my side,"
said Jessie, in a few moments. MY
thumb is very sore," she said in few
minutes after. ooh! my hand is so
tired" that was next. And with that she
laid down her work. Next there was
something the matter with her foot, and
then her eye.
At length the sewing was done. Jessie
brought it to her mother.
"Should I not first send for doctor?"
said her mother.
"The doctor for me, mother?" cried the
little girl, as surprised as she could be.
Certainly" said her mother;" lit
tie girl so full of pains and aches must
| be sick, and the sooner we have the doc
tor the better"
"Oh, mother" said Jessie, laughing,
"they were sewing aches. l am well
enough now."
have heard of other little girls be-
sides Jessie who had sewing aches and
pains whenever their parents had work
for them to do. These aches and pains
do show sickness. They are symptoms
of bad disease, disease which eats
some people up. This disease is called
selishness" 1t makes children cross,
and fretful, and disobliging, and trouble
some and unhappy; and I am sure it
makes those selfish and unhappy who
have the charge Of Reconsideration at
1
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
Iowa Postal Changes.

The following are the postal changes
in the State for the week ending Jan. 16,
1876:
Observation-Disclosures, Worth Coun-
ty, Cleophas Cleophas, Postmaster; New
Boston, Lee County, W. H. Armstrong,
Postmaster.
observation-disclosures Springs, Ma
rion County; Dairy, Washington County
Urbana City, Monroe County.
Postmasters Appointed-Carl, Ad-
ans County, John A. Rush; Clipper,
Ringgold County, James,: Griffith; East
port, Fremont County, John B. Thomp-
son; Eveland Grove, Mahaska County,
John w. Beach; Frank Pierce, johnson
County, Abner Boone; Stuart. Guthrie
County, Henry G. Trout; Woodville,
Winneshiek County, Christian jacobson.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
gor Aott,,g &tadtfs.
LITTLE jacks TROUBLE.

BIT CHARLOTTE +. DALEY.
LITTLE Jack had deal Of trouble,
And this is the reason why:
His eyes would always see double
When they looked at pudding or pie.
And when there was chicken for dinner
His eyes saw enough for four,
And he cried when the meal was over
Because he could eat no more.
II you could have seen him at table,
You had thought without doubt
That his legs aud arms must be hollow,
And he ate to fill them out.
He had only one little stomach.
Not six, as he thought he had;
And one day when he dincd with grandpa
That one felt exceedingly bad.
For he filed it SO full Of goodies,
OF pie and pudding and cake,
That the Jack who went home to mamma
Was nothing but one big ache.
The doctor came with his physic,
His hubbard and oil di castor,
And they soaked his feet in hot water,
And they put on mustard plaster.
He lay in bed for fortnight,
With many groans and sighs,
And the next time he dimes with grandpa
hope he will be more wise.
Hearth and Home.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

CoTroN.-Middling upland, 15lQ15ssc.
LIVE SroCK.-Bcef Cattle-$1O. .O0Qll2.00. Hogs
Dressed, S7.5O0s.s5; Live, S6.5OG6S71l.
Sheep-Live, s5.5O07.00.
TRANSFORMATIONS to choice, $4750
$50; white wheat extra, S53005.90. Wheat-No.
2Cbicago, $l0a11 .12H; No. Northwestern, 81 II
0113; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.1301.15.
Rye-Western and State, 95096c. Barley
$i.3o01.35. Corn-New Mixed Western, s51l0S6c.
Oats-Mixed Western, 66069c.
PROVISIONS Mess, 419.4O019.5O.
Lard-Prime Steam, 13E0l4c. Cheese - la0
16c.
WooL.-Common to extra, 430A5c.
CHICAGO.
LIVE Srocx.-Beeves-ChOlcc, $55O06.O0;
good, 44.750s.25; medium, 44.2a04.5O; butch
ers' stock, 32.75Q14.O0; stock cattle, 327503.75.
Hogs-Live, good to choice. s. 4O06.75; Dressed,
$710l7.J0. Sheep-Good to choice, &3.5O05.50.
Provisions. Oll37c. Ecgs
Fresh. o502sc. Pork - Mess, S17.650
1S.70. Lard-313.12H013.15 Checse---New York
Factory, i5H@16c; Western Factory, 15015hc.
BnEADsruYTs.-Flour-W Winter extra,
e4.25065O; Spring extra, ts750s.75. Wheat
Spring, No. 2 8Sk085Xc. Corn-No. 2, New, 65
065Kc. .Oats-No. 2 5a052hc. Rye-No. 2,
96H097c. Bsrley-No. = 31.240125.
WO0L--Tub-washed. HD57c; fleece, washed,
l00Ae:; fleece, unwsehed, 27536c.
LUxBER.-First Clear, 4520O056y00; Second
Clear. 446.00050OO; Common Boards, $1,000
400; FsEcing, 1i2.Oo018.0O; "a" shinglef,
e3.0G03.25: Lath, 3a.0002.a5.
CINCINNATI.
BK.ADsruyys. - Flour ~ 94.9o06O6. Wheat
Red, 1l.60fAo. Corn-Nsw. 7Ooz1c. Rye
o1.100l.l4 Oats- oo0e3e. Darisy~-11 ,S1ol -.
PnoSJssous-Poek11e eaoD1AS6. LArd-ioxD
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
The Way to Keep Cold Out Of the Cellar.

In many localities at the North it
seems almost impracticable at certain
times during the winter to keep vegeta-
bles, fruit and many other articles in the
house cellar from being ruined by the
frost. Even when the doorway and the
walls of tie cellar are protected as thor
oughly as the job can be done, the cold
will enter the cellar and do a vast
amount of mischief.
For several years past our practice has
been to put small stove in the cellar,
in which little fire is made whenever
the apartment appears to be so cold that
anything is in danger Of being frozen.
The chimney extends to the bottom Of
the cellar, SO that the smoke-pipe from
the stove can be conveniently connected
with the fue. A small secondhand stove
was purchased for this purpose, at $1.50;
and it is used for nothing else but to
keep the cold out of the cellar. The
labor and other expenses incident to
banking the foundation walls Of the
house and removing the materials in
the spring Of the year would amount to
several dollars. But the expense for
wood and coal during the entire winter
of last year did not exceed fifty cents,
as there were only few days that fire
was required. If the chimney does not
extend to the bottom of the cellar the
smoke-pipe could pass up into the
kitchen and be connected with the pipe
Of the c0ok-stOve.
It is always desirable to keep the tenn
perature of the cellar as low as may be
practicable without injuring potatoes by
means Of too great q degree OF cold.
Potatoes are frequently injured by being
chilled, even when they are not frozen
In mild weather our cellar windows are
opened. With that small stove in the
cellar the apartment is always kept
thoroughly ventilated without any ap
prehensions that potatoes or fruit will
be injured by the frost during some cold
snap Chrsstian at Work.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

"A Baltimore Toy took his boots Of
to send to the Iowa sufferers, and every
body patted him on the back, and the
philanthropists made him up purse OF
go. The boys father knew bow the
plan would work.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

THE Titusville Courier says that the
production Of petroleum in Western
Pennsylvania during the year 1874 would
Ill canal thirty feet wide at the top,
fifteen fest at the bottom, seven feet deep
md over seventy-hve miles long.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
Presidential Elections Proposed Consti-
tutional Amendment.

THE following is the full text of SEN
ator Morton's proposed amendment to
the Constitution providing for change
in the manner of electing the President
and Vice President of the United States !:
Resolved By the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatiees, in Congress Assembled, Isco thirds Of
Each House Concurring Therein, That the fol-
lowing article is hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States, and when ratified by the Legis-
latures Of thrce-fourths of the States shall be
valid to all intcnts and purposes as part of
the Constitution, to-wit:
ARTICLE L. The President and Vice. -Prcsi-
dent shall be elected by direct vote of the
people in the manner following: Each State
shall be divided into districts equal in num-
Der to the number of Representatives to
which the State may be entitled in Congress,
to be composed Of contiguous territory, and
to be as nearly equal in population as may
be; and the person having the highest num-
shall receive the vote of that district, which
shall be counted one Presidential vote.
2. The person having the highest number
of votes for President in the State shall re-
ceiye two Presidential votes from the State at
large.
3. The person having the highest number
of Presidential votes in the United States
shall be President.
4. If two persons have the same number OF
votes in any State, it being the highest num-
her, they shall receive each one Presidential
vote from the State at large, and il more than
two persons shall have each the same num-
Der Of votes in any State, it being the highest
number, no Presidential vote shall be counted
from the State at large. II more persone
than one shall have the same number Of votes,
it being the highest number In any district,
no Presidential vote shall be counted from
that district.
s. The foregoing provisions shall apply to
the election Of Vice. President.
6. The Congress shall have the power to
provide for holding and conducting the elec-
tions Of President and Vice President, and to
establish a tribunal for the decision Of such
elections as may be contested.
Z. The States shall be divided into districts
by the Legislatures thereof, but Congress may
at any time by law make or alter the same.
A GOoD-LOoKING house-girl employed
in family on Congress street received
present Of muff the other day, and
in day or two after the lady Of the
house discovered receipted bill in hel
husbands desk. reading: "For one mufl
800" She hadn't had new muff, and
when the man came home to supper that
night the old girl was gone and . new
one was wrestling the dishes about
Detroit Free Press.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

THE religious ideas of the aborigines
were in the main of two kinds: those
which clothed natural phenomena with
mystical meaning, and those which in
dicate q theory of the soul. The Jndi-
ans expectation Of future life in the
happy hunting grounds, under the gov
ernment of the Great Father, is well
known. But it is not 80 commonly
known that he recognized in the phe-
nomena of human development mystic
rious significance, which was celebrated
by peculiar customs. A girls arrival at
maturity was in many tribes observed by
religious ceremonies, q fnct which re-
ceives additional significance from the
degraded condition of women among
them. Though the man was absolute
lord of the woman, who worked for him
as a slave works for master, and could
be beaten at his pleasure or discarded at
his will, yet his maturity passed unre-
garded, while hers was made the occa-
sion of proceedings which not only ap-
near to have sometimes embodied nearly
al that the tribe had Of religion, but in .
few cases are supposed to have had
powerful effect IN the development Of
particular tribes G0lazy.
TIE editor of the Madison Courier
siding with the chewers Of tobacco, de-
clares that the weed is /" . powerful tnan-
quillizer and allayer Of irritability," and
that, therefore, 1t might be " usefuliy
employed in the household" II no
would step INTO Texas bar-room about
the time the shooting commences, and
see how lively some Of his tobacco-chew-
| inx friends can make = duh evening, he
would place less confidence in the great
tranquilliSex. C03rjer.J Journal.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-14
Revival Of Business.


New York TrIhude March
Wall street already feels the effect of the
the Adjournment of Congress. The pos
Sibiity of legislation any day which may
affect tavorab!y or injuriously almost any
financial interest in always ii disturbing
element, and capitalists and speculators
alike breathe easier when Congress ia ont
of the way. In addition there ia genernl
belief that the Spring trade is likely to be
better than last year, and to lnfuse good
deal of activity into business. The result
is more cheerful feeling than has pervad-
I'd business c,rclcs for many months. Some
disbursements-prohab from thirty to
fifty millons-he expected within few
weeks in the shape of interest and divi-
dends. These flow Immediately into Wall
Street for reimbursement, and are presently
telt in the revived demand for trst-ciass
securities.
The Spring trade i'll general has ope ne d
with bright prospects, and those Wholesale
and retail dealers WHO have been seen give
hopeful reports. Confidence has nrch in =
spired both IN huycrs aud Wholesale houses
and the discreet manner in which the cuun
try dealers have made their purchases has
given wholesale houses the belief that reck
less trading, Ia = great extent, has been
done away With. The prospects Ut GooG
export trade in produce have also helped Il
improve other classes of business, and the
depressing Influences which acted agains
business during the early part of last FaI
have been less strong. The preparation
for lively Spring trade have been ample
without excessive speculation, and man,
Of the dealers are looking forward to
good, solid, aud healthy business. A larg
number of buyers are in town, and appea
TO be making considerable purchases wit
reasonable freedom.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-14
Gladstones Reply to Archbishop Manning and
Dr. Newman.
IN. Y. Tribune, March 9Th. ]


1t ia not our part, at any rate in the
present stage of the controversy, to make
critical examination of Mr.. Gladstone's an
swer to DR.. Newman and Archbishop Man
ming, from which We publish liberal e1-
tracts this morning. The dispute mas
called a great number of pens into activity,
but the attention of the world seems to be
concentrated upon these three protagonlsts.
Equally earnest, equally devoted to their
respective standards, ard equally eminent,
though in somewhat different lines, for
natural ability and scholarship, they have
betrayed in the course of the conflict Ger
tain curious differences of temperament
which have served to set off the contro-
versy with the attractions of picturesque
contrast. DIR. Newman came forth from
his closet as tender hearted and high
minded student, noting faults or mistakes
on both sides, and hurt too deeply by the
real or supposed imprudences of his own
party to conceal his feelings even from the
enemy. There are few polemical essays 10
existence which display so much gentle,
ness, dignity, and Christian feeling, and at
the same time 80 much ingenuity and force.
as the "Letter to the Duke of Norfolk
Arch bishop Manning spoken very differ,
ent strain. He stepped into the arena robed
in episcopal purple, true type of the Roman
bishop, assured of his own authority and
delivering his message to the world with a
voice in which there was no suggestion OF
either uncertainty, or apology, or even de-
precation. DR.. Manning put his pamphlet
on the "Vatican DEGREES" into the form OF
syliogism, stating the premises with the
air of one laying down the law and draw
ing the conclusions with memorable strict
ness and rapidity. DR.. Newman's little
book was winning; DR.. Manning's was
strong
There is more heat in Mr.. Gladstone
two essays than in either of the others.
He attacks with all the energy and persis-
tence of a champion dehater and if we
say that he attacks with passion we mean
to throw no discredit upon his temper and
none, of course, upon his motives. When
he published his first "Expostulation," the
mass of men, who had known him for so
many years as one of the foremost politl-
| clans of the world, could hardly persuade
themselv yes that this sudden assault upon
the Roman Catholic Church was not in
spired by some political motive. If any
such suspicion still fingers, it ought now to
be removed. No one can read this new
pamphlet on "Vaticanism," or the recent
paper on the speeches of the Pope, with
out perceiving what strong impression
the religious aspects of this question have
made upon Mr.. Gladstone's mind. For
him to day there is no issue 80 important
as that between the claims of the Papacy
| and the claims of modern free thought,
! and no pursuit that deserves a closer study
| than the continuation of the great theolo
| gcal controversy which has split the west
| ern world in:twain forjthree hundred years,
| and is pretty certain not to closed Until the
| Day of Judgment.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-14

TREATMENT OF SNALLPox.-We recommend
the following to the notice of our physicians.
If upon trial it should be found effective it will
go far toward robbiug very dissgreeable dis
ease of many terrors:
great discovery is said to have been re-.
Gently made by surgeon of the British srmy
IN China II the way OF an efectual remedy for
When the preceding fever is at its height. and
just before the eruption appears the Cheat ia
rubbed with crotton oil and tartsric ointment
ms causes the whole of the eruption to appear
on that part of the body to the relief of the rec,
1t also secures full aud complete eruption
and thus prevents the disease from attacking
the internal organs. This is now the estab,
in China, and is regarded as a perfect cnre