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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

HE other day when a stern and digni-
fed Judge ordered a prisoner to stand up
and offer objections, if he had any. to be-
ing sentenced to prison for long term
| Of years, the prisoner rose and said:
81 never had mother to shed tears
over me.n
His words entered every heart in the
great court room. He was rough, bad
man, in the middle age of life, and he
had been convicted Of burglary, but
every heart softened toward him as his
lips uttered the words. He felt what he
said, and tears rolled down his cheeks as
he continued:
If had had mothers love and a
mothers tears-some one to plead with
me and pray for mel should not be
what ann
All! that's it! There is a power in a
| mothers love, and in her tears. and
pleadings, and prayers, whose influence
is hardly to be realized. God pity the
lad who has no home to go to-no
mother to whom he can tell his troubles
and gricfs-no one to put her arms
around his neck and whisper to Heaven
TO keep him in right paths! There is no
heart like mothers heart Her child
may wound it again and again, and pierce
It with sword, and yet it has only love
and affection for him. 1t is the first to
| excuse his faults-the last to condemn
There is no love like mothers love-so
enduring, SO tender, so far-reaching. 1t
IS lavished upon the child in the cradle
and it follows the boy over the ocean. Il
calls up the wanderer the first thing in
the morning, and it stays with him until
sleep closes the eyes When q mothers
love for her offspring dies out he NAV be
called too wicked and too wretched to
live among men,
There are no tears like mothers
tears. Nothing can SO tighten the sor
row OF child-nothing SO restrain a
mind wandering into evil paths. The
man who looks back over his childhood
and youth regrets nothing 80 much as
that he brought tearsof sorrow and sad.
ness to fond mothers eyes. Every
tear mother sheds over q wayward
child is recorded in the great book, and
he shall answer for it
There are no prayers like mothers
prayers-none that reach SO far and are
SO earnest. The wanderer on foreign
shores feels this in his heart, and he is
thankful to heaven that he can feed Il.
Kneeling at her bedside and asking the
angels to guide the feet of her children
in right paths, who doubts that a moth.
er's prayers are heard in heaven?
:" / never had mother to shed tears
over mel" ~ .
The words Of the robber might be the
words of many evil-doers. "No mother"
means aching hearts. burdened minds.
daily woes, and paths which lead down
to ruin. Heaven be kind to the lad who
must battle the world without a mother.
tear, prayers. and boundless love 70 siye
him courageL" II. Quad" in Our Fire.
side Friend.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
DF.THHy CoSsr-NPrIoS-It;s estima

DEATH BY CoSsUNPTIoS-It is estimated
that 10000 die yearly in the United States
with ConsumE ton. When Consumption first
appears there is pain in the chest and oppres
sion, attended with difficulty in breathing.
Soon there will be cough, if this irritation
is not healed, and the effort to raise will still
add fuel 10 the fire. Aliens Lung Balsam
will at once allay the pain and irritated
parts. stop the cough, and prevent what
would be Consumption. 1t is making cures
of diseased Lungs which were considered in
durable.
For saIt. by all Medicine Dealers
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

IMPORTANT INyENTIoS.-'I In less than ten
years there will not be u metal truss in use,
was the prediction of one Of our most eminent
physicians on examining the Elastic Truss
Of the Elastic Truss Co, 6S5 Broadway. y. Y.
The extensive adoption Of these unegualed
instruments, which certainly cure rupture
without torture, will make them the only
trusses used in much less than ten years. We
advise all sufferers to send 10 the above COM
pany for descriptive circulars, rs these trusses
are sent to all parts of the country by mail.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

WiLHOFT's FEVER AND A0UE ToNrc.-Thia
medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit Of their. employees, when en-
gagged in malarial districts. The highest tes-
timonials have been given by contractors and
by the Presidents Of some of the leading rail-
roads in the South and West. When men are
coDgre&ated In large numbers il the neigh
borhood 0f swAmps and rivers, Wfhoft's
Tonic win prove = valuable addition to the
stock Of medicines, and will amply reward
the company In che saving Of time, labor and
money. We recommend it to all WnRhHocx.
FINLAY q Co, Prop9ietors, New Orleans. Z,
FOR SAl4D BY ALL OnUGGIsTs. 5A aap-s
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

GLEN FLORA MINERAL WATER.-1f you
would learn Of its wonderful cures address
Il. II. Parks, Waukega H., for circulars.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
The Simple Secret.

TWENTY clerks in a store, twenty hands
in printing-office, twenty apprentices in
shipyard, twenty young men in vii
lage-all want to get on in the world and
expect to do SO. One of the clerks will
become partner and make fortune;
one OF the compositprs will own news
paper and become an influential citizen /;
one OF the apprentices will become a
master builder; one of the villagers will
get handsome farm and live like a pa
triarch-but which one is the lucky indi-
vidual: Lucky! there is no luck about
it. The thing is almost as certain as the
rule of three
The young fellow who will distance his
competitors is he who viii master his
business, who preserves his integrity.
who lives clearly and purely, who de-
votes his leisure to the acquisition OF
knowledge, who gains friends by deserv.
ing them and who saves his spare money.
There are some ways to fortune shorter
than this old, dusty highway: but the
staunch men of the community, the men
who achieve something really worth hav.
ing-good fortune, good name and serene
old age-all go on this road.-Rural Neo
Yorker.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

ASK for Prussing's White Wine Vinegar
warranted pure, wholesome and palatable.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

TIE NORTHWESTERN HoRsE-NAIL Co.'S
+" Finished" Nail is the best in the world.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
IUNF IhNED-d M 5UI = DFHEt-.--
" Grove Station. lows. july II. 1s-2

Dr. PIERCE. Buffalo. n. Y:
Dtar .sir-My wife first became lame nine
years ago. Sweliings would appear and dis
appear on her hip, and she was gradually be
coming reduced and her whole system rotten
with disease. In ISL a swelling broke on
her hip, discharging large quantities, and
since that time there are several openings
Have had five doctors, At an expense OF Sl25
who say nothing viii do any good but sur
gical operation.
July lG 1878. he writes thus; My wife has
certainly received great benefit from the USE
Of your Discovery. for she was not able 10 gel
oil the bed, and was not expected TO live q
week when she commenced using it year
ago. She has been doing most of her work
for over six months Has used twenty bot
ties and still using It. Her recovery is con.
sidered as almost miracle, aud We attribute
ii 10 the use Of your valuable medicine. j car
cheerfully recommend il as blood purifel
and strength restorer,. j. VI. ROBINSON.
Discovery is sold by druggists.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

A FORTUNE easily made. No capital re-
quired. For particulars address Lehman IL
Co., Laramie City, Wyoming
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

Back Shoes may be bronzed By 4
strong solution Of anilin red in alcohol.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

The agonies of bachelor life are
never more wildly presented than in the
struggle with fractions collar button
on a winter morning
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

The blood being the source from which our
systems are built up and from which We de-
rive our mental as well as our physical capa-
bilities, how important that it should be kept
pure. II it contains vile, fostering poisons
all organic functions are weakened thereby.
Settling upon important organs. as the lungs,
liver or kidneys. the effect Is most disastrous
Hence 1t behooves every one TO keep their
blood i'm a perfectly healthy condition, ana
more especially does this apply at this partac-
ular season of the year than at any other. NO
matter what the exciting cause may De, the
real cause of large proportion OF all dis-
cases is bad blood Now DIR. Pierce does not
wish to place his Golden Medical Discovery in
the catalogue OF quaek patent nostrums by
recommending il 10 cure every disease, nor
does he so recommend il; on the contrary
there are hundreds of diseases that he ae-
knowledges 1t viii not cure; but what he docs
claim is this: That there is but one form OF
JJ1Ut disease that it viii not cure, and that
disease is cancer. He does not recommend
his Discovery for that disease, yet he knows
il to be the most searching blood cleanser yet
discovered, and that it will free the blood and
system OF all other known blood poisons, be
they animal, vegetable or mineral. Inc
Golden Discovery is sraTrante5 by him TO cure
the worst forms of Skin Diseases, as all form,
OF blotches, Pimples and E.uptions, also all
Granular Swellincs ard the worst form oil
Scrofulous and liberated Sores of Neck, Legs
or other parts, and all Scrofulous disease OF
the Bones, as White Swellings, Fever Sores,
Hip Joint and Spinal Diseases, all OF which
belong 10 Scrofulous diseases.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

A YOUNG MAN in New York recently
picked up an envelope containing $7O,-
600 worth of bonds, which he returned to
their owners, firm of bankers. The
latter had just had their circulars
printed, offering $1,000 reward for the
missing bonds. but promptly cut down
the reward to &1OO. ~ 49,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
BUENETT's FLORAL HANDBOOK. SEE -idg,.

lT is a rare thing that physicians give any
countenance 10 medicine the manufacture
Of which is a secret. About the only excep
ton We know of is Joins07s's 4inodyfas Lini
latg.t. This, We believe, all indorse, aud many
OF them Use ii in their practice with grea
success.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

The moon, which, as is supposed, has
caused many people to go crazy, is now
itself cracked. 1t is alleged by astro-
nomical observers that in some parts of
It the surface has recently become
cracked, and large assures radiate from
a common center as from a volcano
They are of vast extent, one of them be.
ing 600 miles long, from one to three
miles wide, and depth SO great that no
telescope has yet been able to penetrate
the abysses. They appear to have been
formed by vast eruptions and upheavals.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

ETAGERE CABINET ORGANs-The eta
gere, as the French call that elegant ar
ticle of furniture furnished with a mum.
Der OF small shelves, designed for various
small ornamental articles. has become a
necessity in every fashionable drawing
room. The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co
are now manufacturing a combination of
the etagere and cabinet organ, very rich
and beautiful, which they furnish for
the price of an organ without the
etagere
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
These Things Are So.

IT don't make emmy difrense what
trade or profeshun yu put yure son at
for If he ever succeeds at emmy, he haz
got to do it by adding dignity to the one
he adopts.
Emmy bizness that il lawful il bona.
rabel, and no bzness, simply, ever made
emmy one respektabel
The man who kan think kan never git
lonesum.
Superstishun il the child ov ignorance
and fear, and IL worthy ov its parents.
The fakulty to decide between right
and wrong, and the power ov memory,
make reazon, and the planning ov things,
and the doing ov them, is mans chief
A hungry man needs no bill ov fare.
The man who hasn't got emmy habits
hasn't got emmy thing that he kan call
hiz own.
The best way kno ov to tighten our
burdens IL to look around and find sum
one who haz bigger load than we hav,
and then pity them.
Poverty IL CRATE blessing to sum folks
-az long as they are poor they are en-
durable.
The meanest bi1ness that emmy one kan
follow IL to trade in sekrets.
The dead allwuss git more praizes than
the living. We don't envy them, and
amt afrade to do the square thing on the
ockashion.
Menny poor man haz been obliged
to feed on honesty until he starved to
deth.
All profuse people are selfish; they
either Civ to receive in return or to be
applauded- --....-.--..
A pedigree IL good thing enuff to hav
in the house, but IL poor thing to liy
on; it ought always to be treated
like o venerable piece ov old eracked
crockery, taken down once in a while
and busted, and then sot back karcfully.
l never knu man to fail in good
cauze who sot hiz mark hi enuff, and
then went for that chalk mark without
emmy regard to emmy thing else.
don't like to see yung man painful
~ diskreet; thare IL CRATE danger ov .hiz
firing out before he gifts thru life, and
when he duz tire out he haint got nothing
under Heaven to fall bak on.
Poverty haz been called safe, but even
poverty haz to lock up il bread and
cheeze or looze it.
Every boldly seems, TO banker for old
age, and after they hav got it then they
do nothing but grunt about it.
Profuse liberality IL generally the ef-
fekt ov vanity. ..--....----..-....-......-.-...
= think i u an evidence on weak
mind 70 allwuss b in . hurry 70 take the |
Truth. like the sun, only sets to rize
again with inneeAed pIendU.
Revenge i coward'sv 1ksory.
If I'll tie people only had ,ooulroon
'enss whss fun thars would u s. lying
q this world.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

RHODE ISLAND cow tore a woman's
mouth clear around to her ear, and he r
husband at once ran away. He said it
was useless to think of contending with
a woman who was all mouth.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

THE test of time and experience is the
only sure guide in selecting an instru-
ment. 1t is of little consequence that a
man makes one or two fine pianos or
organs for fair and intrigues success
fully for a prize. 1t is the quality Of
eneTydny manufacture that concerns the
buyer-not what exceptional and costly
instruments have been specially made
for exhibition. The SMITH AMERICAN
ORGANS are of high and uniform excel
lence, and are the best for actual use,
having been tried and proved for twenty.
five wears.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

-Toerr il human. No lives are passed
without errors. The best and meanest
q Gods creatures can, without great
stretch OF memory, recall the time when
they got hold of the wrong end of the
poker. AF. Tgf 1i
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

The latest "sweet thing" from Paris
in the way Of headwear is "the babv
hat" made IN quite the infantilc style
with soft crown and plenty of lace and
colored bows. Il is pretty on young
faces, but may not become Susan B.
Anthony.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

BrRSETT's FLORAL HAND Book. Sec .4aSt.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
/" No Mother. :"

The other day when stern and digni-
fed Judge ordered prisoner to stand up
and offer objections, if he had any. to be-
ing sentenced to prison for long term
OF years, the prisoner rose and said;
I" never had mother to shed tears
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

ever you find its impurities bursting through
the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores;
cleanse it when You find it DISTRACTED and
sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it IS
foul; your feelings will tell you when. Keep
the blood pure, and the health Of the system
will follow.
II. HI. MCDONALD & CO..
Druggists and Gen A CTS, San Francisco California
and cor. of Washington and Charlton SITS. y. I.
Sold by ALI Drugg lists and Dealers.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
what They Eat at New York Hotels.

The amount of food consumed at
the hotels in the course OF year Is
enormous, and must certainly surprise
every one who has not given the sub
iect any previous thought. OF the
81. 600 pounds of fresh meat required
to supply these fifteen hotels weekly,
about Sc, 900 pounds are of beef alone.
A bullock averages 1000 pounds in
weight, when slaughtered and dressed
but as the hotels only take the best cuts
from the bullock, it requires at least
the slaughter of $50 bullocks every
week, making it necessary to kill ~, GOO
head of cattle every year to feed the
guests of only small portion of the
hotels in this city. The aggregate con-
sumption of mutton, veal, pork, etc,
is also very large. 1t will be seen that
the yearly consumption of fish is near
ly 600. 600 pounds, while $1,000, 900
oysters are required during the same
period. Five million eggs are also
used in these fifteen hotels during the
year while over !, 800, 900 pounds of
poultry and game are consumed In the
same space of time. About 10, 600
barrels of -four and nearly 20, 900 bar
rels of potatoes are also required, in
addition to very large supply OF green
and root vegetable, taxing the capaci-
ties Of many of the neighboring mar
ket gardens. Nearly 100, 600 pounds
of coffee. So, 600 pounds OF tea, and
nearly 700, coo pounds OF sugar are
wanted every year. Over 35,OOO cans
of milk (or about 1900. 900 quarts3
and nearly ITO. 900 quarts of cream are
,,ecassary for the use of these hotels,
and the product of several diaries in
the country is thus consumed. Over
$50. 900 pounds of butter are also used
every year, and although our own
State furnishes large quantity for
this demand, it has been found neces-
so-.y.sa. II other States. Tribune,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
A story Of BEN Franklin.

A little incident worth relating hap
pened to Ben after he had become e
married man and was living in q small
village down in Connecticut j. w.
Dusenberry's great circus and menag-
erie just arrived from Blossenburg, and
was going to give performance In
the evening, and Ben's Oldest boy was
seized with an irresistible desire to at
tend. So at the dinner table he asked
circus in the evening. "No, no My
son, you must not go to the show. It
is an unfit place for me, as / consider
it; how much more dangerous must it
be for you; will not allow son of
mine to attend q circus performance
where myself would blush to be seen.
Go to bed, my boy, and your mother
and will go to prayer meeting. To-
morrow will buy you testament for
your obedience"
He went to bed, but not to sleep.
An hour afterward Ben and his wife
might have been seen seated on top
board under the brilliantly lighted
circus tent Ben's face glowed with
enjoyment, and his jaws worked indus
triously upon big end of twisted dog
tail tobacco. Once he bowed his head
and allowed half pint of juice to issue
from his mouth and descend between
the seats.
A smothered cry of pain came up from
below.
Said old Ben: "Gracious, do be-
heve have spitten in some ones face. :"
Said his wife: "Too bad but, oh |
just see that man bend the crab r. and
they both became engrossed in the antics
of the cl0wn.
Next morning, at breakfast, this boy
a WI a
Said his father: sc My son, what ailest
thine optic ?"
"Some blamed fool spit in-that is
it is darned sore. I don't know what
ails it," said the confused lad.
Ben and his wife exchanged significant
glances end wisely held their peace, and
the promised testament wasn't alluded
to afterward by either father or SON
Cincinnati Saturday Night.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
The Business Outlook for 1875.

McKillop & Sprague's Commercial
Agency in reviewing the past year and
forecasting the future feels warranted
in anticipating q general improvement
in business for 1875. No doubt sorqe
of our readers may suggest that such a
prophecy requires small inspiration,
since things mercantile have been SO
dropping for year that improvement
cannot well be deferred much longer.
But if we compare the December of
1874 with the same month of 1873. we
shall have little difficulty in believing
that the tide has turned, and the march
of upward progress once more set in.
In point of fact, there have been no
more mercantile failures this year than
were gazetted the year before, and if
1873 were credited (or charged) with
the bankruptcies and financial dis
tresses really belonging to it, the pres
ent year would have the better record
of the two as regards failures among
business men.
Moreover, reasonable ground for
hopeful prediction is furnished by the
fact that, during the past twelvemonth,
our people, including the mercantile
and trading class, have been schooled
in economy. Indebtedness has been
largely diminished, values have been
reduced, and probably $400, 900, 900 will
fairly represent the sum that has been
economical during 1874. Then the
crops have been good, the rural dis
tricts are in sound condition, and both
in town and country much of the de-
moralization foisted upon us by the
war has been sloughed off. Business
men are less speculative in their habits
and ventures, and, like children who
have been burned, they have now a
wholesome dread of the fire. Hence,
we may calculate upon somewhat
general return to the good old methods
of doing business and consequent re-
establishment of old-fashioned conf
dence between all classes of the com
munity.-NesO York Evening Mail.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12

most come to an end by the farmers
rising as one man and boldly asserting
their rights. Will not the coming farmer
be on an equality with those who sit In
high places? Will not his children attend
colleges, and be as princes and prin-
cesses of the realm2 While am aware
that linen of noble souls abound in
all the walks of life, believe it is gem
orally admitted that farmers as class
have always been possessed of that
strength of character and integrity OF
purpose, when called upon to hold
places of trust and honor, that charac-
terizes them as being the perfect man.
Cor. Prairie Farmer.