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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17
Pictures Of the Sioux in Washington.

The deputation represents about 6O,OOO
people, who have a reservation OF about
200 miles square, which includes the cOun-
try about the north fork of the Republi-
can River, through which is located the
best and most convenient route for travel
ers to the Northwest and the Black Hills,
which embrace about sixty miles square,
or about thirty-siX hundred square miles
of land. There are but two or three OF
these Sioux who are not over six feet tall,
and number of them reach from six feet
three to six feet six inches in height. None
of these are inclined to obesity, and every
one of them is wonderfully muscular and
strong. In comparison with the gaping
crowd of white men and negroes who al
most constantly surround the fremont
House, where the Indians are entertained
during their stay here, they look like very
giants.
Spotted Tail is regarded as the wisest
Indian on the continent, and on all occa-
sions here, in meeting the authorities, he
is made the speaker. He is tifty-two years
of ace. and weighs about 250 pounds of
solid bone and muscle. When at rest
there is nothing remarkable about his ap-
pearance, except that one sees in his
square, fat-looking, yellow face the cruel,
scalp taking Sioux Of the war path, who
is feared by the Pawnees as an avenging
Manitoba; but when his eyes open,
glistening like diamonds, lighting up his
features, and he speaks, you see a very
different man indeed. Immediately there
is manifested that magic power which be-
longs only to naturally great men that
power which will lead the mulutude,
without an inquiry being made as to what
road it will take, or for what purpose it
goes. Once hearing this great warrior
speak, and feeling the magnetic influence
which starts into life as you hear the
music of his words, and realize that the
rays from his brilliant eyes are upon you,
you no longer inquire the reason of mis-
supremacy among his people. 1t was
during my interview with this chief that L
learned the proper name of the squaw who
accompanies the deputation. 1 asked
Louis Bordeau, the interpreter, to write
her name for me, as it was difficult for me
to do so from their pronunciation. He
undertook it, but failed and asked Spotted
all as to the proper pronunciation OF tne
name by syllables. Spotted Tail answered
by repeating, Cha-inka-pa-lu-ta several
times. So sweetly musical was the name
as spoken by him, that was sorry Wnen
he stopped.-Cor. Louisville Coaf1sr-Jo1sT-
| nal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17
Navigated by a Woman.

A vessel which arrived at this port last
Friday brought the intelligence that the
bark Rebecca Crowell, which left New
York on March 6, for Buenos Ayres, be-
came disabled during severe gale, three
days after leaving here. Several of the
spars and sails were carried away, and the
captain and first mate were injured to such
an extent that they were confined to their
berths throughout the rest OF the voyage,
and rendered incapable of managing the
vessel. There was no other person on
board, except the captains wife, who un-
derstoOd navigation, and she undertook
the task of conducting the bark to its
point of destination. The second mate
was young man twenty years old, able
to take the helm, but ignorant of the pro-
cess of making observations. The woman
then assumed command of the vessel,
boxed the compass, took observations, as
certained the latitude and longitude,
and directed the course of the YES
sci. After exercising control for fifty
eight days, during which the vessel en-
countered violent gales and shipped heavy
seas. the captain's wife, worn out and ex-
hausted with her labors, conducted the
vessel, with its valuable cargo, safely into
the port OF Buenos Ayres. A purse was
made up for her on her arrival.-Ne10
York Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17
pUNeENT PARAGRAPHS.

WHAT kind of robbery Is not danger
Gus A safe robbery, OF coarse.
A NEVADA paper headed 3 lynehlng
item : ''The Latest Moose" ana Is IN great
demand.
A TAME and highly intelligent and mus
cular cockroach in the Nsl1s job room
runs the treadle OF card press.-MII'odi'-
kes Nssss.
GEORGE CARY EGGLEsrox advises men
in moderate circumstances not to marry
rich wives, as the cost of maintaining them
usually exceeds the amount they con-
tribute to the general fund.
AT teachers institute i'm Ohio recent
lv a lady teacher was given the word
''hazardous'' to spell and define, and did
it in this style: "H-a-z, has-a-r-d ard
e double S, eSs-haZardess, female haZ-
ard"
liz married men will attend the spelling
matches they had better leave their wives
at home. 1t isn't comfortable to walk
home with her, and hear the dear creature
muttering at every step, I'm ashamed OF
your ignorance" and, IF you can't spell
'agitate,' III teach you when get home"
No; it's disheartening.
A HUSBAND demonstrated with his other
half about wearing spring clothes when
the weather was so chilly. She sllenced
him thusly: "YOu just tend to your
own affairs. 1t is the season OF the year
when light goods are fashionable, ,and-do
you suppose I'm going to be dictated 10
what | shall wear?" That settled it.
AN obliging gentleman, who thinks that
personal fayors do not cost much, while
they make friends, was applied TO by
eOlOred man for a certificate of character,
by which he might get situation. The
testimonial proved to be more cOmpli-
mentary than ScipiO himselfhad expected;
and that worthy, on recovering from his
exclaimed "Say. MIR.
-, won't yougi5 me something to de
yerself on that recommendation
OLD Zachariah Jackson, of Rocky
GuIch, Nevada, Is |" forty miner" who
has been through the mill. The other
day he hobbled up to party of new
corners and observed, "'Tend TO yer biz
ness, boys, and yen be all right. I've
bin here nigh thirty years, ana have been
lynched, shot at, stabbed, knocked down,
thrown Off mountain and mOpped around
but I'm here to-day, bigger'n
2 box car"
EXTRACT FROM A Young LADY's DIARY.
-" What are these thoughts that surge
across my heart and wildly palpitate in
every crevice of my BRAIN? What is this
strange longing after the unattainableP
Am 1 what really seem, or is it, as it
were, not so much the infinitesimal as the
Let me be calm. | have
re-read Don Juan to-day. All, alas will
there ever be another Byron? May there
not be somewhere, coming toward me
from the mist of the mountain top, or the
flowers of the valley, some such crowned
youth. who Here papa called out 1t
you don't come down to dinner it will be
postponed till tomorrow Coarse idea!
| was obliged to go, for many reasons"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17
German Emigration.

Tie exodus of emigrants from Germany
which took place after the termination of
the late war, has, it seems from Consul
Wards Report on the Trade of Bremen
Bremerhaven for last year, just issued,
been greatly decreasing since the begin
ming of the year 1873, and, as regards
1874, was again of less extent than in the
preceding year. Accordingly, also, the
cIamor which was raised both in por-
ton of the German press, and particularly
by many persons belonging to the land
owning class, urging the Government it
self to adopt some extraordinary restrict
i've measures for stopping such wholesale
emigration, has nearly subsided. People
are beginning to see that Government
measures are not required where natural
events must from time to time cause reac-
ton to take place in the excessive outflow
of the labOring population from their ma
tive country. Bremen, which, until the
year 1872. was the chief continental port
for emigration, has during the last two
years been outstripped by the neighber-
ing port of Hamburg in this respect. The
numbers of persons embarking from eth
er place since 1870 were as follows:
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17
Dutch Farmers.

The farmers of GrOningen have pre-
served the simple manners of their ances-
tors, and put their own hands to the plow,
and take the immediate direction of all
the work of their fields. They are much
richer than their brethren of iceland and
Friesland. Their sons are frequently edu-
Gated at universities, matter of no small
cost, for in this rich country habits are tas-
tidious, and it is estimated that each son
while at college costs 1900 gulden per
annum.
These farmers are the leading men of
their country there is no class elevated
above them. From their ranks are chosen
nearly all the members of the different
elective bodies, and even those who go to
represent the province in the States-Gen-
eral. The care of their farms does not
prevent them from taking an active part
in political life and in the duties of public
administration. They follow not only
the progress of the art of agricul-
ture, but also the movement of
modern thought. They maintain near
the city of Groningen an excellent
agricultural school with fifty pupils, and
perhaps nowhere else is education so uni
Versal in country districts. In fact GrOnin-
gen passes for the most advanced province
of the Netherlands. 1t is sort of repub-
lie. inhabited by rich and enlightened
peasants completely emancipated from the
spirit of routine. One sees nowhere here
the turrets of the feudal castle overlook
ing the trees of great parks, and one
would search in vain for the aristOcratic
condition of which Brittany is so proud.
The fine houses of the farmers are the
only castles, and they all resemble each
other. Property is quite evenly distrib-
II, fI..E h nm
duces remains in the lands of those who
cultivate it. Wealth and work are every
where associated, idleness and Opulence
nowhere.
The mode of life is simple and ineXpen-
sive, and, since of late years butter and
cheese have almost doubled in price, pros
perity is greatly increased. Many farm
ers, not content to have table service of
silver, use this metal even for heavy
kitchen utensils. There are those
even who are only satisfied with table
service of gold. Aside from this,
the aceumulatiOns of Dutch farm
ers are a very large source of the invest
ment fund with which Holland is so well
supplied for all manner of foreign stock
buying. One is surprised everywhere in
the smaller towns with tue number and
richness of the jewelers. shops, with
sumptuOus silver ware, and especially
coral necklaces, of the finest quality, and
tn hundreds of dollars.
Although Holland took its first impe-
tus from commerce, this has sadly fallen
away, but agriculture has on all sides
filed the gap. Many towns, formerly
thriving with commerce, have been de-
stroyed by the sitting up of the rivers and
bays: but the reclaiming of the over
flowed lands has given them another and
firmer hold upon prosperity. E.
Waring, IN June ScT1brsr's.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17
Suicides In the PruSsian Army.

A Berlin correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazette writes: The mania for sui
cides is becoming so general in the Prus'
sian army that a proposition has been
made to investigate the cause and devise
means to remedy this deplorable evil. In
the last health statistics of the army the
percentage of suicides over natural deaths
was alarmingly great. The following LET
ter, written by soldier to his parents be-
fore seekinga watery grave in the Rhine,
will throw some light on one cause of the
suicidal mania, and also give an idea Of
the severe drilling the poor fellows under
90 before they are turned out on eXhibi-
tion as specimens of the best military
system in the world:
MAYENCE, April %.
DEAR PARENTS: When this letter
reaches you will be no longer among the
living, for to-day have determined to
put an end to my lite. Until now have
borne every thing with patience, and al
ways hoped that after this dreadful time a
better would soon come. But what i
madness is too much. To-day we had
turning and bayonet exercise for the first
time, and must strike and parry like a
three year recruit. Because all did not
90 as it should Lieutenant g. gave me a
box on the ear. something to which | have
never been subjected before in all my re-
cruiting years. | cannot endure it any
longer, and must put an end to the mat
ter. Dear mother, beg a thousand times
your forgiveness for what | am about TO
do, but it is not to change. Console your
self and pray to God that He will gra-
ciOusly receive my poor soul. You have
carried me in your heart. Your have
raised me with great pain, md now re-
turn all your care with so sad an end. My
dear, good mother, do not cry too much
for your poor son, and try and think that
| have died a natural death, and there is
nothing in this world worth living for
cannot write any more, for my heart is
aching with such great pain. | would
like to write to uncle and many others,
but | cannot. With much love and a
thousand kisses.
From your faithful son, THEODORE.
This is only single instance of touch
ing letters that are occasionally m lde pub
lie, and with its sad result one must not
wonder that, with all the true love for the
fatherland there still exists a strong cur
rent of feeling against the three years of
soldier life enforced upon every young
man. But those who live for military
glory must have the means thereto, let the
sacrifice be what it may.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17
A Child Shut Up and Forgotten.

A Norwich Conn. letter to the Hart
ford Times says: s. In the Greenville school
district some two weeks ago, one OF the
female teachers inflicted what has proved
to be terrible punishment on little boy
not yet five years old. 1t seems he was
detected in splitting on his slate snd the
teacher shut him up in a room, locking
him in. When the school was dismissed
for dinner he was forgotten. The child 6
mother, a poor widow compelled 10 work
in the min to support q large family,
missed the child, and on inquiry found
him locked up and in state of imbecility.
He is still under the physicians care with
some hope of his ultimate recovery. The
mother, Of course, is Obliged TO give up
work to watch over her child, and, be-
yond an apology from the teacher, there
does not seem to be any thing done by the
committee or any body else toward aiding
her in her difficulty ~-
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and hundreds of dollars worth of laces
revealed, folded in pamphlet shaped.sat k
of oiled silk.

and hundreds of dollars worth of laces
reyealed, folded in a pamphlet shaped.sas /
OF oiled silk.
Perhaps the most ingenious method OF
deceiving the Custom House officers that
has come TO light lately was the device OF
man with a wooden leg His name
was Ernst Bohrnmann, and he was a ma
tive OF SaXony. He was usually dressed
very shabbily, and travelled as a poor
emlgrant. He was a skillful story-teller,
and betrayed himself by telling a very hu-
morous story a second time within the
nearing OF the same detective who was on
board one of the White Star steamers with
him. The climax was brought out in
such an lnimitable manner in broken En-
llsh that the officer Immediately recalled
the voice and manner of another one
legged emigrant who had come over
IN ship of another line with him
only about two months before. The
fact OF a poorly dressed man making
two journeys to America within so short a
period excited his suspicion. He accord
ingly reported the circumstance when the
vessel arrived in port, and unusual dill
gence was used in searching his baggage
and person but nothing was foHnd until
lis WOOutH ley WIS TtfnONtG. IL WIS an
ordinary, cheap artificial leg, fastened to
the natural leg at the knee and armed with
a ferrule at the bottom. When it was
taken oft it seemed unusually light, and
on careful examination it was found to be
hollow and to contain about $1,000 worth
OF laces and precious stones. He had been
a diamond broker, but had become poor
and subsequently entered the PrHSsian
army in the French war as private or
non-commissioned officer. He lost his
leg in battle, and when he recovered he
thought of this method of retrieving his
fallen fortunes.
When the passengers are discharged the
cargo is next taken out. 1t is the lnspec-
tors duty to compare each lot of goods
with the permit obtained from the Gus
tOm-House by the importer to whom they
are consigned. Should there be any disa-
greement, either in the character of the
goods or the address marked upon them
with the address copied on the permit, the
articles are sent to the general stores.
where all explanations must be made
These duties, as will be seen, are not very
arduous, and the inspectors have a COM
paratively easy time after the first half
days hurry in unloading. When the
cargo is all taken out they must thor
Oughiy examine the vessel, in order to see
that no dutiable articles are left on board
They then have to make out full and care
full returns.-Nel1 York Graphic.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17

The following unique specimen of pull
pit advertising appears in late number
of the Galesburg (Ill.) Register. If the
enterprising pastor did not secures crowd
to witness the immersion of $50 pounds of
humanity, it certainly was not for lack Of
effort on his part There are some five
candidates to be baptized by immersion at
the Second Baptist Church, South Cherry
Street. Mrs. Harriet Welcome, aged 80,
weight $50, is one of that number to be
baptized next Sabbath evening, May 3d."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17
AMoNe TIE LILIES.

BIT SUSAN COOLIDGE.
sHE stood among the lilies
In sunsets brightest rays
Among the tall June lilieEs
AH stately fair as they;
And !, boyish lover then,
Looked once. and. lingering. looked again,
And life began that day.
she sat among the lilies,
MY ssveef, all lily-pale;
The summer lilies listened,
I whispered low my tale
OIL golden anihers. breathing balm.
OIL huEh of peace. OH twilight calm.
Did you or ] prevail?
she lies among the lily SHOWS,
Beneath the wintry sky;
Al round her and about her
The buried lilies lie.
They viii awake at touch Of surfnr.
And she. my fair and liower-like thing.
In spring time-by nBd by.
-IndpeHdenf.
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1t should be added that a considerable
percentage of the emigrants by way of
Hamburg are not forwarded direct TO
their transatlantic destination, but by way
of Liverpool and other British ports
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17

IN Spain, when baptized infant dies, a
feast is spread. and all the neighbors as
semble to congratulate the parents. "We
rejoice with you that you have a child in
glory. is the common expression on these
occasions, which are festivals rather than
funerals, where the music even is glad,
and only the mother weeps.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17

The University Of Pennsylvania is in
luck this time. Mr.. John ii. Towne, of
Philadelphia, having left it $500, 600 by his
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17

A BOAT-RAcE-Fishermen.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-27
Hard Times.

We give a recipe for keeping the
times hard. Let everybody talk de-
pressingly. When one fails in busi-
ness put it in all the papers. Let
business men keep up perpetual COM
plant. Let us have occasional edi-
torials melting bread riots, and politi-
cal speeches on the wrongs of the la
boring classes. Let everybody proph-
esy hard winter; an awful hard
winter. Let us all talk down instead
of up. Let US take no account of the
fact that -four is cheap, and that the
haryests are large, and God is good.
We shall in this way be able to take
another faggot from the poor mans
hearth and knock another pane of
glass out of his window, and hinder
the manufacturers from annoying him.
All together now, ministers, editors,
capitalists and borrowers-let us give
a long, deep groan, and keep it going
till next spring, and the times will be
as hard as we can reasonably expect
Idlmdqe.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-27
Early Influences.

There can be no greater blessing
than to be born in the light and air
of a cheerful, loving home. 1t not
only insures a happy childhood-if
there is health and a good constitu-
tion-but it almost makes sure a vir-
tuous and happy manhood and fresh
young heart in old age. We think it
every parents duty to try to make their
children's childhood full of love and
of childhood's proper joyousness and
we never see children destitute of
them through the poverty, faulty
tempers, or wrong notions of their
parents, without a heartache. Not
that all the appliances which wealth
can buy are necessary to the free and
happy unfolding OF childhood in body,
mind or heart-quite otherwise, God
be thanked but children must at least
love inside the house, and fresh air
and good play. and some good COM
partnership, Observation-Disclosures young
life runs the greatest danger of with
ering or growing stunted, or sour and
wrong, or at least prematurely old and
turned inward.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-27
How TO Grow Tobacco.

. In order to raise tobacco successfully,
the first thing that is to be done is to
prepare well for plants. Letyourseed
be sown in new ground which has been
burnt with brush and wood so as to
kill all grass and other seeds which
may intrude upon the young tobacco
plants. Be particular not to burn your
beds when ii is too wet, as this has a
tendency to kill the ground and pre-
vent the growth of the plants. When
your beds cool off dig them up lightly
and pulverize the soil well, mixing in
whatashes may be on the ground. Then
SOW your seed, about one tablespoonful
to ten yards square, and cover the seed
with a rake, and then cover the bed
with brush so as to prevent its dry
ing by winds or too much sun. Beds
do best in woodland.
In March re-sow your bed with one
half the quantity of seed used at first
sowing. Your plants should be ready
TO commence setting the first of May.
Next, let your ground be rich and
thoroughly broken up and pulverized.
Then make small hills, from 2 to b
feet apart each way. One plant is
''stuck" in each hill wheneveryou have
a season" or sufficient rain to moisten
the ground.
After your tobacco is set then it must
be well cultivated until it gets large
enough to top at eight or ten leaves,
when you cease to cultivate and spend
the balance of your time in topping,
worming and suckering," which con-
tinue until the tobacco is ripe. There
are never more than two sets of suck
ers on the same plant, but the crop Of
worms" last all the year, unless they
are picked off very closely as fast as
the eggs are deposited.
Tobacco ripenS from 80 to 100 days
after planting. If cut before 80 days
it will become green and bitter When
ripe, it becomes crisp and will crack
when rumpled between the thumb and
finger.
After it is ripe it must be cut and
housed, or, if you can do so, scaffold it
for a few days till it yellows, then house
and FIRE or smoke it until the stems
are cured.
Your tobacco being cured, it only
remains to strip and prize in the hogs
heads for market This requires skill
and practice, lest you have it "out of
order" that is, either too high or too
low in order, either of which Injuries
its sale.
The stem of the leaf should crack
two-thirds of its length when the to-
bacco is just right fer prizing. Neat
handling pays better in this than in
any other crop.