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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-07-13

AGAIN the fohn was busy at its work

Again the fohn was busy at its work
of destruction; again the windows of
heaven were opened, and the rains de-
scended, ,and the floods came, land accom-
plished more in single night than his
weak hands could have done in month.
With the morning light he crawed
through the how large tunnel; but when
he reached the other end he found to his
horror that he was on the top of the
mighty precipice. His blood boiled his
brain seemed on fire his heart beat as if
it would break through ribs and flesh
He was, if possible, more desperately
imprisoned than before. How was he to
get down? Through his bewildered
mind suddenly flashed the thought of
the skins of the ibex and chamos, and
he was not long in making a rope of
them He then cut deep hole in,the
ice, drove down his alpenstock, fastened
one end to it, and swinging himself off,
reached the bottom in safety.
With cry Of joy and prayer of thank
fulness, he fastened along the wel-known
path; and when the bell of the little
chapel, that reared it's gilded cross in
Matterhorn Valley, was tolling for the
evening prayers, he staggered like a
drunken man into the very midst of the
astonished worshippers-even as the
voice of the good priest was repeating,
"God is everywhere with me; and every
where. even in the most threatening dan
gers, his voice speaks to me in tones of
comfort and says, Call upon me in the
day of trouble and l will deliver thee,
and thou shalt glorify me e!'-staggered
toward the altar to kneel at it, but fell
fainting into the arms of his wife, who
again nursed him to health, strength and
manhood.
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The Way TO Judge of Wool on a
Live Sheep.

The finest and softest wool is always
found on the shoulders tofs q sheep
But not one person in 10000 is aware
of this fact. Let us watch an expert
wheE he is about to pass judgement on
a sheep concerning the value of the ami
NAL producing wool, and it will be seen
that he always looks at the wool on the
shoulders first. A writer of extensive
experience in rearing fine-wooled sheep
and in handling wool, communicates the
following suggestions for selecting a
good wooled sheep:
"Always assuming that the wool to be
inspected is really fine wool, we first
examine the shoulders at the part where.
the finest and best wool is usually found.
This we take as the standard, and COM
pare it with the wool from the ribs, the
thigh, the rump and the shoulder parts,
and the nearer the wool from the va.
rious portions of the animal approaches
the standard the batter. First we scru-
tinize the fineness, and if the result is
satisfactory We pronounce the fleece in
respect Of fineness very seven' Next.
we inquire into the length of the staple,
aud if we find that the wool on the ribs
thigh and back approximates reasonably
in length to that of our standard. We
again declare the sheep, as regards
length of staple, true and even. We
next desire to satisfy ourselves of the
density of the fleece, and if we do this
by closing the hand upon a portion of
the rump, and of the loin wool, the
fleece at these points being usually the
thinnest and faulty, and if this again
gives satisfaction, we signify the fact by
designating the wool seven' as respects
density. Now to summarize these sep.
arate examinations: If you find the
fleece of nearly equal fineness from the
shoulder to the thigh, of nearly equal
length shoulder, rib, thigh and back, and
density on shoulder and across the lcins,
you may conclude that you have per-
feet sheep for producing valuable WOOL
Selecting sheep for valuable feeders is
quite another tbing."-1rale Journal.
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Nautical Sermon.

When Wlitefeld preached before the
seamen at New York, he had the follow
ing bold apostrophe in his sermon -
"Well, my boys, we have clear sky,
and are making fine headway over a
smooth sea, before a light breeze, and
we shall soon lose sight of land. But
what means this sudden lowering Of the
heavens, and that dark cloud arising
from beneath the western horizon P
Hark! Don't you hear distant thunder ?
Don't you see those flashes of lightning ?
There is storm gathering! Every man
to his duty! How the waves rise, and
dash against the ship! The air is dark
The tempest RACES! Our masts are
gone! The ship is on her beam ends
What next?' 1t is said that the unsus-
pecting tars, reminded of former perils
on. the deep, as if struck by the power
of magic, arose with united voices and
minds, and exclaimed "Take to the
longboat"
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Learn About the Pulse.

Every intellectual person should know
how to ascertain the state of the pulse
in health; then by comparing it with
what ii is when he is ailing, he may
have some idea Of the urgency of his
case Parents should know the healthy
pulse of each child-as now and then a
person is born with peculiarly slow or
fast pulse, and the very case in hand
may be of that peculiarity. A infants
pulse is l40; child of seven, about so /;
a I'd from twenty to sixty years it is 7G
beats a minute, declining to GO at four
score. A healthful grown persons
pulse beats 70 times in minute; there
may be good health down to 60; but ii
the pulse always exceeds 70 there is a
disease; the machine is working itself
olt, there is fever or Inflammation
somewhere, and the body is feeding on
itself; as in consumption, when the
pulse is quick, that is,over 70, gradually
increasing with the decreased chances
of cure, until it reaches 10 or 100,
when death comes before many days
When the pulse is over 20 for months
and there is a slight cough, the lungs
are affected.
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Misrenanu
A "COusiTf sally Billiard, Testi-
nl6Dy I'm Ireland.

"Well, my lord Judge, sure it was
last election day; and faith twas dark,
cloudy, wet sort of a drizzly day, and
saws / to the sld woman, 4 believe l
will go down town and post my vote
And, says my cid woman to me, "Well.
Buck, as it is a9sort of dark, cloudy,
wet sort OF asdlizzly day. says she,
hadn't yousbetter take the umbrill ?''-
Says to the old woman, 4 'spect had
better take the umbrill.' So l took the
umbrill, and 1 advanced on down to-
ward town, ser see, and be me faith,
when / gotosn thar Mr.. Cole coined,
and said & jssk, lave you seed any
thing of neighbor Harris ? Says to
Mr. Cole, Sure, and for why2' Says
he, "He has got my umbrill. F."
The witness was here interrupted by
the court, and told to confine himself to
the actual fray between the prisoner and
Cole, the prosecutor. In answer to this
the witness remarked, in tone of in.
dignant remonstrance, "Well, now, my
lord judge, and sure it is | am sworn to
tell the truth, and I'm gwine to tell il
my own way; so it amt worth while fol
you to say nothin' about it.
"Well. 1 was goin' to say it was OF
last election day for our glorious Par
Lament of Lords and Commons, an6
says to my old woman.I believe II
go down town and give my vote for th'
Home Ruling gintleman.' Says my ole
woman to me, says she, Buck, as it i;
a sort of dark, rainy, drizzly sort of
day, hadn't you better take your umbrill
says she. Says l to my old woman
sure and l had better take nv umbrill :
so l took the umbrill and advanced or
toward town until l arriv' thar. Well
the first thing 1 did when l got tha
was to take a drink of rale Dublir
whisky, which was monstrous good, ant
says to myself, Buck, my auld fellow
you feel better now, don't you9' Ant
while ] was advancing around, Mr.
Cole, he came to me, says he, Buck
have you seen anything Of old neigh
bor Harris2' Says l, And why is j
yopax mel? Says he, The old maj
has got my umbrill.' After awhile
gave my vote for the Home Ruling gin
tleman, rale old Irish gintleman, ant
then Mr.. Cole and me had drap NOR
of Dublin whisky, and advanced bacl
toward home, and Mr. Cole was tighte
than l ever seed him. And so we ad
vanced until we got whar the road ant
path forked, and we took the path, a
any other gintleman would, and arte
advancing backward awhile, we arri v
to old neighbor Harris, sitting on
milestone with the umbrill on his arm
and about that time the prisoner comes
up; we advanced on till we arriv' a
Johns house. John is my nephew, an,
likewise my son-in-law. He Marie
my darter Jane, which is next to Sally
Arter we had advanced to Johns house
we stood in the yard awhile talking, an
presently Mr.. Cole got to cussing ahou
politix, and l advanced into the hous
whar was Johns wife, which is my dal
ter Jane. Well, after talking awhil
with 'cm, my nephew, says he, Uncle
let's go home Says /, Good, yo
darling SO we trotted out together
And there's all l know about the assault
for warn't there"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-07-13
vOYAGERS.

We are floating on the river of time
Voyagers together we noiselessly glide.
Drifting away to that beautiful cline
Eye hath not seen, on the other side,
Yesterday saw us step down from the shore
Into our barks at the dawn of the day
Others tomorrow will follow us DER
For none the glad light of the morning will
stay.
We are midway out on the river of time,
And drift with the tide we cannot resist;
II is sweeping us on to an ultimate cline
That is hid from our vision in far folded mist;
Manhood has stamped its stern seal on our
brow,
Life like swift panorama moves by,
Sunshine and shadows are Ger us now;
Is it life, or pale death, in that westering sky?
We have almost crossed DER the river of time,
The wind and the pillows have left us a
wreck;
What steals from yon mist, like some angel
wrought chime?
May we still look with courage and hope from
the deck?
Aged and silent and gray have we grown,
Battered our barks, our sails they are riven,
Yet we feel we are coming to friends we have
known
When we entered the gateway Of death and OF
. heaven.
Hartford Times
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How Vanderbilt Became Rich.

Commodore Vanderbilt seemed in an
unusually communicative mood, and he
made the following suggestions to the re-
porter:
'When You have lived, sir, to carry as
many gray hairs as l do, you will have
learned that there is little sympathy with
or appreciation of your efforts, 1T matters
little what may be the circumstances. II
you are successful in accumuating for
tune you will be called speculator and
monopolist, while if you fail to amass
riches, i. will all be about the same,as you
will be talked of in that case as one who
does not amount to much anyhow. l
have never speculated on tie market. and
regard it as nothing less than a gambling
operation When was 80 years old 1
had been working for several years for
my employer at 81 900 a yea., and when
l left him l had not more than $40, 900 all
told.
"After long and very successful life,
Commodore, what in your opinion is tho
true secret of success in making mon
ey?"
"Save what you have and live within
your income. Avoid all speculation. No
matter what | was making, always made
it a rule to save something, and this
course, if persisted in, is sure to succeed.
The money will pile upin time. While I
was working for the gentleman referred
to ainoment ago, persuaded him to let
me use the profits should realize in the
business in further extending it. This 1
did until it had grown so large that in his
eyes the amount was too large to risk,a
he refused to let me 60 aheat any longer,
although he hail such confidence in me az
to offer me a partnership, which declin-
ed. Since then nave been operating for
myself. did not accept the partnership
because knew his other partners and
could not agree, and l never could quar-
rel where was one of the interested per.
sons. did not object to insisting upon
the rights of my employers as long as I
was not directly interested, hut to enter in
a partnership where knew ! should have
to maintain my own rights by repeated
quarreling, was more than would agree
TO do"
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The South American Earthquake.

Mail advices from Barranquilla, Uni
ted States of Columbia, bring additional
accounts of the destructive earthquake
at Circuta. The story of the catastro-
phe is confirmed in all its horrible de
tails. A private letter dated 'Salazar,
May 25, says the number of dead is
calculated at three-quarters Of the en-
tire population. The few families which
are saved, are now on the outskirts of
what was the city, living on what they
can procure, but they will soon be OBJ
liged to retire as the putrifica'ion of the
dead will not allow them to remain. 1t
is heart rendering to see the wounded,
who can have no care, and who cannot
remain in their present condition. -Four
hundred mules were killed in the streets
and as there is no one to remove them,
the stencil is becoming frightful.
VILLAGES DESTROYED.
The villages of San Cristobal, Gaus
uro, Chpaho, San Antonio, Labatora,
San Juan, De Urefia and San Cayetano,
are completely destroyed. The store
house of Puerto De Los Cacbos, was
sacked and burned by bandits.
Another letter says that the shock
was so violent that not a single house
remained standing, and that monuments
in the cemetery were thrown down and
many of them moved a considerable
distance from their original position. :.
In thirty seconds the city Of Cucuta
was converted into mass OF ruins
The horrible blow resulted in the death
of more than 10000 persons, in addi-
lion to the other thousands who were
seriously wounded and bruised. Great
numbers of hiciendas have been de.
stroyed and hundreds of houses in tie
country were overlhrown, leaving the
people homeless and consigned to pow
erty. Many of the trees were torn up
from the roots, and small hills were
opened like melon.
The cause of the great catastrophe,
is, of course, unknown, and precise
place of its first manifestations Some
suppose that the volcano of Sobstera,
which was in action in lS4S. is again
breaking out, while others say that a
new volcano has appeared in the hills
Of Giracha. l. is thought that the gov
ernment will appoint scientific com.
mission to investigate the nature of the
catastrophe. A private letter from Bu-
caramanga Of May "a, says that in Pie
decusta the town hall is destroyed, and
in Pampelona the cathedral is in ruins.
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An Atem Every Man should Read.

We have probably all of us met with
instances in which a word heedlessly
spoken against the reputation of fe-
male has been magnilied by malicious
minds until the cloud has become dark
enough to overshadow her whole eXis-
tence. To those who are accustomed
not necessarily from bad motives, but
from thoughtlessness-to speak lightly
of females, we recommend three "hints"
as worthy of consideration:
Never use lady's name in an in
proper place, at an improper time, or in
mixed company.
Never make any assertions about her
that you think are untrue, or illusions
that you feel she herself would blush to
hear.
When you meet men who do rot scru-
pie to make use of woman's name in
a reckless and unprincipled manner,
shun them, for they are the very worst
members of the community,-men lost
to every sense of honor, every feeling
of humanity.
Many good woman's character has
been ruined and her heart broken by a
lie, manufactured by some villain and
repeated when it should not have been,
and in the presence uf those whose lit
tie judgment could not deter them from
circulating the foul and Dragging report.
A slander is soon propagated, and the
smallest thing derogatory to woman's
character will fly on the wings of the
wind and magnify as it circulates, until
its monstrous weight crushes the poor
unfortunate victim
Respect the name of woman, for
your mother and sisters are women, and
as you would have their fair name un.
tarnished and their lives unimbittered
by the SANDERS biting tongue, heed the
i'll that your own words may bring upon
the mother, the sister, or the wife OF
some fellow creature.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-07-13

The Republican party of Ohio dcclsr-
ed, at their State Convention in 1868,
for the payment of the five twenty
bonds in greenbacks; for the taxation
of the bonds as other property is taxed,
and they pronounced against the con-
traction of the currency. Since then
the leaders and manipulators of the
party have been seen by Wall street and
its monetary agents, but the mass of the
organization believe as they did then.
The Rochester Chronicle says
"There is a way in which the Republi-
can party can carry the election of 1876.
That way is to nominate statesman,
who is also an honest man." That way
is just no way at all, for where is the
statesman and honest man who, basely
forgetful of his honor and his allegiance
to the Democratic party, would accept
the Republican nomination ?-Courier-
Journal.
Hereafter Postmasters will have to
be very careful about money packages
received by them, A package valued
at 5000 was recently sent to the Boston
Office and was lost. Mr. Burt, the POST
master, wrote to the Department to
know what to do about it. He received
a reply that it had been decided that
Postmasters were responsible in such
cases, and he must charge it against
himself in his next account.
A gentleman Of White Plains, N. Y,
has placed notice to burglars, printed
in gold letters on cardboard, 10
conspicuous position on his safe, to the
effect, that it contains papers only, OF
no value to any one but the owner; but
if burglars wish to take a peep inside
for themselves, not to burst the safe, but
use the combination according to the
instructions which he gives.
BLACK FREEDOM "A Northern female
philanthropist speaking TO Vicksburg
negro the other day, inquired:
'"Isn't it pleasant to be your own mas.
lterY" /.
81 reckon it is," he replied.
Sand how do the eolored people gen.
orally feel about it ?" she continued.
"Well, ! don't 'zactly know, but I
guess mos oh 'em ieels putty hungry"
was the answer Ttcksburg Herald.
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Auehy
LITTLE MAID OF FARCADEE.
BY W. S. GILBERT.

BY W. S. GILBERT.
Little maid of Arcadee
Sat on cousin Roberts knee;
Thought in face, and form, and limb,
Nobody could equal him.
He was rich, and she was fair;
Truth, they made pretty pair.
Happy little maiden she!
Happy maid of Arcadee!
Moments sped, as moments will,
Rapidly enough; until
After, say, month or two,
Robin dd,as Robins do
Fickle as the month of May,
Tilted her, and ran away.
Wretched little maiden she!
Doleful maid of Arcadee.
To her little home she crept;
There she sat her down and wept;
Maiden wept, as maidens will,
Grew so thin. and pale, and i'll,
Till another came to WOO
Then again the roses grew.
Happy little maiden she!
Happy maid of Arcade!
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A scotch Cir,,s Answer.

A country lass was driving donkey
to fair in Renfrewshire one fine sum-
mer morning. The donkey was lag
gard, ard was more intent on cropping
the roadside herbage than on going to
the fair; but the girl did not put herself
about. Pleasant thoughts OF her sweet
heart were passing through her mind,
and she sang gayly TO herself. An Irish
laborer overlook her, and, as he passed,
he said, my darling, you're as lively
this morning as if you had been newly
kissed" The happy gill at once ans
wered, .'If We think, Pat, that kiss
makes ane lively, | wish ye wad kiss my
cuddy for he's unco stiff this morning!
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-07-13

An old lady in New York particularly
desired that certain cushion on which
she sat in church should he buried with
her. and as there was difficulty about
getting it into her coffin it was luckily
proposed to cut it, when several thou.
sand dollars in greenbacks came to
light. The old lady was clearly resol
we'd that, if she did bring nothing into
the world, she would at all events, as
far as possible, take something ont o
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NOTARY PUBLIC.

THE undersigned, having been appointed
i Notary Public, would inform his
friends, and the public generally, that he Is
prepared to fill Pensioners Blanks, administer
Oaths, take Dispositions, acknowledge Deeds,
Mortgages. and other instruments of writing.
aug4, ,74tf. WM. WORKMAN.
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Reports OF the condition of crops
and labor in the South are highly ia
vorable. A good harvest is assured,
and laborers are doing better than ever
before.
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L. r. FARQUMAR. M. ID.
U,-o-r;ifa Ohio \

(Formerly of GAINESVILLE, Ohio0
Physician and Surgeon,
Office and residence in the Kirkbride property,
WOOD DSF[ e L D, 0 ID U.
Having located at the above place, offers his
Professional services, where he hopes by
close attention to business to merit public
confidence and patronage.
Chronic Diseases will receive special
attention. may4,'!5Y.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-03-25

OFFICE-In Savings Bank Building, IA Water
St. Bank open daily, from A. NJ. to p. NJ, and
from to 4.3o ~, NJ. Saturday Evenings, from : TO
\ O'CLOCK
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AUGUSTA POST OFFICE.
OFFICE HOURS

OFFICE HOURS.
For delivery Of fletters, from 80 \. NJ to $50
Z. NJ.
ON Sundays, from o.l5 A. NJ. to lol5 A. NJ.
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FIRST-CLASS FRENCH DYER.
Also
Specially and New Process of
lIpENSinr.

Mr.. T.. Barber without regard to expense, having
secured the first class French pressman from Paris
for Gents Garments and Ladies Dresses, without
ripping or taking of Trimming. sacks Velvet,
Ribbon, Feathers, slippers, Kid Gloves cleansed
and dyed Lace Curtains cleansed. ANY kind of
goods, garments of all description Cleansed or
Dyed and Pressed as heretofore. Gents garments
repaired at short notice. Goods received and re.
turned promptly by Express Miss NJ, ). Marsha
agent Tor Gardiner and vicinity, T.. ;. Decker agent
for Hallow ell; IL. Woodward, winthrop, and J. e.
Chapman in Richmond. aprl5tcodSw