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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19
TINT TNPORTINT HfED &"

THAT INPORTINT HtED "IF..'
How we swing and hang the balance
on the word "If." If we were rich i'll
stead of DoOr, into what manifold bless
ings should our gold resolve itself, How
those dear to us, deserving yet never
possessing aught Of this worlds luxurics,
should revel in the pleasures and COM
forts, small and great, that gold can buy.
If the demon anger had not burst his
bonds one day, the hasty words would
have remained unspoken, and we should
still possess that which cannot be re-
gained-a friendship lost. Ii we had
but waited one little day, ere penning
the letter whose every word was bitter
ness-the letter which reached its desti-
nation but too safely, bearing on its
white wings wounds sharper than steel
| can giye-what wild self-reproaches and
what bitter tears of regret would have
| been saved lis. We are tired of this old
home, beneath the shadow of whose
! roof-tree we have dwelt for so many
years. Ii we could only go out into the
great, busy, bustling world, see what
others have seen, and do what others
have done, If we might only hope to
win name and fame There are noun
tains, we know, sc lofty and magnificent
that these pury hills stretching around
us would sink into mere fo~otstools be
side them. IL we could but journey
toward them now, after patient toiling
| reach them, rest in shadow of their base
awhile, and afterward ascend until we
! gained the dazzling summit If there
were only more of sun, and less of cloud,
on OH pathway. 1t is too sultry. If it
would only rain 1t is too cold. If the
s,n wonldshine brighter. Ii we could only
becontent with what we have andare. If
flowers bloomed, and mother earth wore
her robe of green all the year round-if
we could always be i'll good temper-if
people never criticised or found fault
with other people-if no sharp words
were uttered-if friends never turned to
foes-if we were all as good and kind
and loving as it lies in u power to be
what a sunny paradise We might make OF
our world.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19
DOUBTFUL STORY BUT 4 FINE


An incident which took place during
the recent "cold snap" at Bangor,
Maine, has a moral which should sink
ike a plummet into the heart Of every
Young man and woman of matable age.
There Was a grand sleigh-ride in the vi
cinity of the town named, on II of the
coolest of the coldnights, a sleigh-ride of
the old-fashioned kind, where young
men and maidens tumble into a sleigh
together, and, protected by numerous
buffalo robes and intimate companion
ship, usually manage to keep warm
though the mercury may be ridiculously
down below zero. On the sleigh-ride III
question M young lady became cold,
and her sweetheart, to make her COM
Portable, wrapped her closely in a huge
blanket, covering even her head and face.
She did not protest, and the merry party
were carried on for miles, when remark
addressed to the mummitied young lady
~singularly brought no response. The
blanket was removed from her face, and
she was found to be no longer alive !.
Too drowsy and benumbed to stir, she
had suffocated in the prisoning blanket,
while her companions were unaware that
she was dying. The case was a remark
able one, certainly, if the account is true,
and the moral is obvious. Young men
and young ladies in a sleigh should be
enabled to keep warm without the use of
suffocating blankets. If a young man
cannot make a young lady comfortable
without smothering her, he has no bust
ness sleigh-riding. No young lady was
ever suffocated by a manly arm, and, as
for smothering one with kisses, that's a
poetic expression with no literal signiti-
canoe.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

match, besides belonging to the State
militia-and says he:
"'I'm the biggest, and I'll have her.
Let's see the man go ahead of me !"
$50 we took up our march back, and
Susan, even then, wouldn't rest easy in
Joe's coat, but would perk her head up,
to guide US an easier way home. And
then the way she pitied us, for being out
all night, Just as if she hadn't the worst
of it herself.
CHOW good You all are" says she,
to do so much for mel And then she
says, Poor Uncle Ben! What if you
had never seen Auntie THAT'S my
woman)- again 2 and to Joe, How
tired you look. am so sorry you have
to carry mel
81 rally believe she would have crawled
on her hands and knees, if we'd have let
her. Her feet she couldn't use-they
were frozen.
"'Weren't you afraid you would die
there?' we asked her. How could you
sing and and keep such q brave hearts"
"'I didn't think of myself at all, said
she. 4 was thinking how Dad mother
was feeling, and so 1 prayed hard, and
sang loud, and didn't stop once !; and
pretty soon l was sure you would come
for me, and surer and sURER, and then |
heard you call
at seemed as if she must be made Of
something different from other folks.
We looked at her, and at each other, and
we blubbered like babies. But when
she was put into her mothers arms, when
the excitement was over, she gave way,
and went into a dead faint-a syncope,
the doctor called it-that lasted for days,
and all the village went up to look at her,
living there so white and still, III her,
| night-lress, as if she were dead and III
her shroud.
"But finally she came out of it, and
got well, and though all the doctors con
sulted together. and wanted to cut of
her feet, we wouldn't hear to it and so
| they were both saved, and as good as
ever, except one is a little drawn up, and
smaller than the other.
"Wal-and that's the end =; and if
you don't think, by this time, that there
never was another like Susan Gordon,
and that there never will be, I've wasted
my breath, that's ALL"
so You see how the little mountain
| guide, with her bleached-out hair stray
ing into her eyes, and the limp i'll her
step, was gloritied in the eyes of all who
heard Uncle Ben's story.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

The New Haven PaU0diun has been
searching history for a colder winter than
the present, and selects 1741 as Il speci-
men. In that year the snow, which COW
cred the whole country as early us the
18th of November, was still found the
the next April covering the fences. In
january, Il tent was maintained on
Charles river, Boston, for the entertain
ment of travellers. From Feb. %,
George W-ashington's ninth birthday,
until March 6, the people crossed the
sound on the ice every day from STRAIT
ford, Conn.,, to Long Island, n distance
Of three leagues. Even as far east as
New London the ice extended into the
sound as far as could be seen from the
town, and Fishers Island was united
to the main land by a SOLID bed. On
March 2S, the Boston NClrs Letter re-
ports that the people living on Ihomp-
sons Island had crossed oyer to Dor
chester 10 church on the ice for the fiji
teen preceding Sundays. AS late as the
9th of July, Il letter from New London,
Conn, reports on the east side OF the
Connecticut river Il body of ice, as large
as two carts can draw, clear and solid,
and adds very artlessly that sit might
lie there a month longer, were it not that
50 many resort out of curiosity to drink
punch made ont of it." On the 18th OF
July snow was still lying in a mass in the
town of Ipswich, Mass, nearly four feet
thick. But the most marvellous record
of that season is the statement made by
Alonzo Lewis, author of the annals OF
Lynn, Mass, that Francis Lewis, the
signer OF the Declaration OF Independ-
ence drove his horse from New York to
Barnstable, the whole length of Long
Island sound, on the ice"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19
THAT CID BROWN.

I'm troubled with a caddish friend,
Rejoicing in the name of Brown;
His conduct l cannot defend,
He's such a rude, il-mannered clown.
His "suit " il what he calls Immense
And made of plaid;
Hes thoroughly devoid of sense
This vulgar cad.
His conversations redolent
Of ballet-pets and star-comiques:
He styles a gentleman a "gent,"
And murders evry >" he speaks.
He says-'Give me a life that's gay,
Ny noble lad"
Which proves the truth of what I say,
That Browns 4 cad.
He lounges over driEkinS-bars,
Insulting bar-EIaids with his chat :"
lie smokes the yilest Of cigars,
And loudly orders "'alf-and- ;slf
The newest "choruses" he'll chant,
With voice that's bad;
And treat him with respect I can't
The snobbish cad!
Gigantic signet-rinGs he wears,
And chain of aluminium gold;
A pair of massive soltaire.;
A scarf-pin, shocking to behold.
In short, he's ignorant and vain,
And-all that's bad.
l will not see that Brown again
He's such a cad!
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

All, little maiden, frank and fair,
With rosy lips apart,
With sunbeams glinting in your hair,
And sunbeams at your heart!
Glad sounds about your senses rise,
That have no voice for me;
Blithe visions dance before your eyes,
That mine may never see.
And are the flowers so rare, love:
And Is tho day so bright?
Tor me the boughs are bare, love,
And chill Gescends the night.
All, ne, / mind me of a time,
Deep in the buried past,
When I, too. dweit in the sweet cline,
Wherein your lot Is cast;
When fragrance hoated on the breeze,
Wren heaven pen blue above,
And every wild bird in tae trees
anE still of hope and love.
Dead are those flowers so rare, love,
And dimmed that day 30 bright;
For me the boughs are bare, love,
And chill Gesccnds the night.
Grim clouds came up, AMI Overspread
The heavens with sulIen gray;
The roses dropped, the fragrance fed.
The breezes died away.
And now, of all the happy thronS,
One bird is left alone.
To sing a broken-hearted song
Of joys forever flown.
Dead are those flowers so rare, love,
And diinrIed that say so bright;
For me the boughs ara bare, love,
And chill desccnGs the night.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19
THE LITTLE MOCNT1IN
GUIDE.

Way up i'll New Hampshire, among
the great big mountains, there stands a
little rough ~unpainted cottage, that is
built right out Oh the edge of a. high
ledge Of rocks. When the wind blows,
it seems as if the little house would rock
over, and go tumbling down, down into
the gully below.
But if you were TO tell that to Susan
Gordon, who lives there with her mother,
she would laugh at you. For Susan was
place, and she loves the rough rocks,
covered with lichens, and the scraggy
pines, that grow almost horizontally from
the cracks and creviccs, and hang down
over the gully.
Yes, Susan Gordon loved her birth
place, and al its surroundings. There
was not a precipice but what she had
climbed, not q cascade, nor a chasm, nor
a mountain cave, but she could guide
you to.
Susan was q dclicatelooking child,
and dat Is all that could be said about
her, except that she had long locks Of
light hair, that, not being kept very well
brushed, were almost always in her eyes,
and that she linped slightly when she
walked.
In de summer when the mountains
swarmad with s~ight-seers, Susan was in
the greatest demand. She could hire
herself out az almost any price for a
guide. The way she skipped along, from
rock to rock, and swung herself down,
and helped herself up, by means of her
little mountain staff, made out of ash,
with q spike III the bottom, always as
tOnished those who saw her for the first
time.
"Who is she? How does she dare?
And see, she is lame, too :" strangers
would say, Watching her in wonder.
Then, almost always, there would be
se:aa one who would answer
$50 to Uncle Ben, If you want to
know about hey. lisa story worth hear
ing, too, 1 can tell You"
And Uncle Ben, who was never known
10 he guilty Of wearing a coat, nor Of
heiug found without s pipe III his mouth,
was always ready to go over this story of
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

After the rainy season i'll Morocco, a
gummy Juice exudes spontaneously from
the trunk and branches of the acacia. 1t
gradually thickens in the furrow down
which it runs, and assumes the form of
oval and round drops, about the size OF a
pigeons egg,o of different %colors, as it
comes from the red or white gum-tree.
About the middle OF December the
Moors encamp or the border of the for
est, and the harvest lasts a full month.
The gum ispacked il large leather sacks,
and transported on the backs of camels
and bullocks to seapOrts for shipment.
The harvest occasion is Il of great re-
ioicing, and the people for the time be-
ing almost live on the gum, which IS
nutritious and fatteniEg.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

WHAT changes a few years bring
about, don't they? Yesterday the citi-
zens of Arbor Hill We're aware OF a
woman madly tearing along, potato
masher in hand, giving chase to her hus-
band, who was flying from her presence
like a deer. Eight years ago the same
female took a medal at an Eastern semi
nary for a graduating essay on "Repose
OF Character"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19
pLEISINTRIES.
Hornet.

PLEISINTRIES.
The sting of a reproach is the truth
of it.
A CHILD asks why the dolls are all
girls.
AS TWICE eleven is twenty-five, how
can twice ten be twenty, too?
THE attempt to weave zephyr worsteds
on heir looms has proved q failure.
The more prices go up, the more we
have to "cOme down " for everything.
IT is strange that so much coal should
be found when it is continually sought
Sin REIN"
PARTIES going over the ocean should
be warmly clothed. The steamers are
always coaled.
AN elderly lady ~endeavoring to post a
letter in a hydrant is a spectacle to make
Al oyster weep.
A MAN III Duluth is so mean that he
q%uarrels withhis wife about the politics OF
the paper she expands her hustle with.
WE should manage our fortune like
II constitution ; enjoy it when good,
have patience when bad, and never
apply violent remedies but i'll cases of
necessity.
4 SOPHOMORE says he cannot under
stand how any Il possessing what IS
generally known as a conscience can
counterfeit a tive-cent piece, and put on
the back of it, "Jn God we trust"
HERE is a capital subject for some of
our debating societies to wrestle with
during the remainder of the winter, VIZ:
"RcsOIrcd, That the man with no coat
to his stomach is poorer than he who
has TO coat to his back"
81 THOUGHT o were born on the 1st
of April?" said a husband to his lovely
wife, who had mentioned the Dist as
her birthday. "Most people would
think so, from the choice 1 made of Il
husband" was the reply.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND says of
William Cullen Bryant: "He has a
frightfully good memory, and if You tell
him a lie he will catch You in about a
second" The supposition is that he
caught George Alfred i'll about a second.
How doth the little busy pig improve
each shining hour, and gather sausages all
day from every opening flower. And
when the shades of twilight fall he
slumbers in his stye, or sings his pretty
evening hymn, "Root, little pig, or
die, :"
ENGAGING and nearly engaged cook:
"And now, ma'am, may I ask how many
servants you keep besides myself, if
Icomel" Lady: "Only two" Cook:
".Ah, then I'm afraid L mist decline.
The fact is, [ can't get on without my
rubber of an evening""
If ~twenty-scven inches of snow give
three inches of water, how much milk
will a COW give when fed upon turnips!
Multiply the fakes by the hairs Oh the
cows tail, then divide the product by a
turnip, add a pound of chalk, multiply
the whole by the pump, and the product
will be the answer.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

The reporter who asked a man about
to be hung to wiggle his little finger Just
rs long as he was conscious will derive
comfort from the following description
given by a young Partisan who was cut
down after an attempt TO hang himself :
Gas 1 kicked away the chair and fell L
had the sensation of receiving q blow
from a hammer on the top of my head.
[ did not feel the rope, and the only de-
fined sensation succeeding that OF the
blow was a sensation Of weight Ill my
head. My head seemed heavier and
bigger than the great bell of Notre
Dame. It was night all about me, and
then there came a terrible cold in the
lower part of my body, and then a sharp
pain where the rope was tearing my
neck, and then-nothing."
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

DoN'r SHOOT CRows.-We have heard
several persons from the country remark
that they had noticed crows in
their neighborhood in such great num-
bers as Of late, and express a wonder rs
to the cause. We are informed that's few
days ago a man living south of town
thought it would be sport to see how
many of them he could kill with a shot
gun at a shoot. He made three trials,
and in three shots killed thirty-ive. He
had a curiosity to see whatthey had been
eating, and opening the craws OF some
found them filed with chiHch bugs. He
shot no more crows after this discovery
RObinson (U.) Aryus.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

ANNA DICKINSON is announced TO lect-
IRE at Savannah, Ga, next month.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-19

A water line from the lakes to the Missis-
sippi river, properly built, to meet the
demands of the age (cheap transportation.
would lessen the cost of transportation Of
grain from the state of Iowa to Chicago
at least one-half, and the enhanced value
of grain would pay for the cost OF the ca
nal in q very short time. The difference
in the cost Of moving grain over the. New
New York canal compared with the cost
of moving grain By rail in the west will
show at once the advantage to be gained.
Grain is carried from Buffalo to New OK
city. 495 miles, by canal, for from nine to
eleven cents per bushel Compare this
with the cost of transportation in the west
for the same distance, and you will readily
soc The advantage of water lines. One
water line across the state Of Illinois would
reduce and regulate the price OF freight
more effectually than any other movement
that can be made"
And vet a house Of representatives witt
a two-thirds majority of Republicans won
mass our little bill,-no, not even after tn
Gnzette and the Union said they had tn
mower to pass it without Democratic help
and would do so in order to Save the Re
publican party" Well. according to tn
tactics of the Gazette and the Union, an
Hawley & Co., if it would save the part
to pass the bill, what:will it do to the part
to defeat it when they have two third
majority? We very much regret to sc
the bill defeated and the Chicago Tribu'
says: THE most formidable opposite
came from the Republican side." .l114
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-19
HOW CANALS REDUCE TRANS
FORMATION RATES.
Who Defeated Our Canal Bill.

The freight charges on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad are only
8 cents per 100 pounds from Henry to
Chicago Zoo miles) between which points
there is water competition. illinois and
Michigan Canal) while the rate from lis
kilwa, only II miles farther west from
Henry, and beyond the effect of canal
competition, is Is per cents 100 pounds or
nearly as much for IL miles as for 100
miles. The canal takes twice the amount
Of freight into Chicago that does any rail
road running in competition with it. The
railroads running parallel with the canal,
when the latter is open, charge about five
cents less on grain per every one hundred
miles than any railroad in the west that is
away from the canal or water route.
The United States senate transportation
committee in their report show that the
New York and Erie canal saves just one
half which shippers would have to pay
railroads without its competition. Grain
buyers all along that canal, distance OF
seventy miles or over, from Chicago, pay
from FIVE to eight cents more for grain
than can be paid on any railroad the same
distance from market or from the lakes
where water transportation comes in use.
The Illinois and Michigan canal carries
more freight at from one third to one-half
less rates than any other railroad in the
west. From Rock Island to Chicago By
railroad, grain per bushel Is cents. The
The same by canal SO. Saving by canal
OF over niue cents per bushel, From Full
ton to Chicago, on the North Western, per
bushel l7,5. Canal rates for same 90.
Saving to the farmer with caual |
cents. From Savanna to Chicago by
railroad, per bushel, Is cents. By canal
same distance, 6.8. Saving to producer
by canal, eleven cents and two mills on
every bushel shipped-Diron Telegraph
Mr., A. j, Whitney, resident engineer
Of the Pennsylvania Canal Company,
closes letter to Governor Carpenter, Of
Iowa, in the following words concerning
the Hennepin canal. How clearly this let
ter shows that the canal is regarded as a
national work.
Il notice project on foot at Washing
ton for canal from the Illinois river t.
the Mississippi, near Rock Island,in which
you and your people are most interested
No doubt you have given the subject prop
er consideration, and it is not necessar.
for me to enlarge upon the advantages
such an Improvement to your state, an
the grain-growing interests OF the west
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-19
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