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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-05-19
PATS CRITICISM.

There's story that's old
But good IL twice told, s
OF doctor of limited skill,
Who cured beast and man
On the " cold water plan,"
Without the small help Of pill. ~
On his portal of pine
Hung an elegant sign
. Depicting beautiful riil,
And lake, where q sprte
With apparent delight,
Was sporting In sweet dcshabille.
Pat McCarty one day,
As he sauntered that way,
Stood and gaxed at that portal Of pine,
When the doctor with pride
Stepped up to his side,
Saying: Pat, how Is that for signf"
"There's wan thing" says Pat,
"Ye've lift out o. that,
Which, be jabers, Is quite mistake;
It's trim and it's nate,
But to make 1t complate
We shud have a foine burd on the lake,
"Ah Indeed pray, then tell,
To make 1t look well,
What bird do you think It may lack? :"
Says Pat, " OF the same
I've forgotten the name,
But the song that he sings is 'quackl' quack'"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-05-19

Attn Of the public schools little boy
spelled the word "sob,' and when asked to
define it he blurted out I: " II means when a
ssller don't want to cry, and II bursts out IT.
self
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-05-19

"Why do you use paintG' asked violinist
Of his daughter. +" For the same reason tn t
you use rosin, papa" How is thats why,
to help me draw my beau"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-05-19

THE CHrLpRES's SPRrNe SlcKsEss.----
" About this tirnsY reads the prophetic
mother's almanac, except languor headache
complaints Of long lessons, and lack of appe-
tite.' After long, cold Winter, the sudden
coming of mild, Spring days, however much
desired, brings feeling Of iistless WEAKNESS,
feeling in which school children, especially
the school girl, shares more largely than il
generally supposed. She is not sick, but SO
tired (" she cannot be coaxed to give up her
school, but the lessons are SO hard Z" she
brings home pile Of books, but opens them
in the evening with weary sigh she tries TO
write her composition, but "cannot think !"
she sits down to practice her music, but what
was a pleasure to puzzle out two months ago
has become a burden. The unthinking
parent or teacher tells her that she does not
try, that the lessons are neither harder nor
longer than usual, and that If she would only
put her mind upon them. She tries to try,
and succeeds in getting first-class headache
with the lesson and weary look, painful to
see, settles on her face. The simple truth is
that the child is feeling the physical reaction
SO common to the season, only she is far moro
susceptible to such inhuences than her elders
are, and her rapid growth probably intensides
her languid weariness Ordinary duties seem
hard to her, and extraordinary ones often are
a dangerous strain upon body and mind. 1t
is a pity that it is an almost universal custom
to increase school tasks at this season of the
year. Examinations and commandments and
public exhibitions of progrcss are in prospect,
and pupils are expected to review every thing
they have studied during the school year, aud
finish the allotted course at all hazards. This
is matter for parents to guard. Instead Of
pressure, lessons should be lightened, more
recreation allowed, and fresh air enjoyed ad
libituns. Especially when oppressed by that
nameless But we'll understood languor and
listlessness the child should not be driven, but
helped over the difficult places, and by no
means scolded for failures which manifcstly
result from physical causes.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-05-19

A writer in the Nsw England journal Of
Education thinks that the popular contests
should never Be considered as full Of sure
tests OF photographic scholarship. LET the
same contestants, /" he says, .swrite thee hun.
dred words afsd thsfi pass papers. correct and
compare notes, and the fesalt would probably
DO very different It would certainly show
more exactly their fsai knowledge. Good
spelling 10 m inherited. gift. II Is the result
Of peculiar power of memory scholar
Of good sound mind, ilne reasoning powers
an excellent speaker with d wide-awake, in
telligent brain, may DO so weak In spelling
capacity rs to miss, after considerable sthdy.
IS words ont of 90. Such a case has recently
como to my knowledge. No amount of study
will ever make gonl'speller Of such per-
son. He must 60 through life yoked to a
dictionary. Let teachers who can spell every
word in the language be patient will, all suci,
cases.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-05-19

Tho following Is q Summer episode, Al
evolved by little Johnny: "Last Summer
our dog Towser was . lynn In the sun a trina
to sleep, but tho fies was that bad he cuddent,
cos he had to cetch en-. and bims by a los lit
on his he'd, and was working about like the
dog WAS hisn. Towser lie hel his he'd still,
and wheti the bee was close to his nose Tow
ser winkcd at me, like he said you 900 what
this iuffer Is dom, he thinks I'm lily Of
the valley which isn't open yet, but you just
wait till blossm and you win see some fun,
and sure enough Towscr opened his mouth
very slow, 80 as not to brighten the bee, and
the bee went inside towsers mouth. Then
Towser he slet his eyes dreamy, and his
mouth too, and begun to make peacefe
smile when tho hee stung him, and You never
SEGA lily of the valley ack so in all your life.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-05-19

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According 70 recent suthor, Chinese wns
men present psopii&r xpeci1nsn Of the laugis-
tes Of Eva They spess great part Of their
time In gossipInss smoking and gambling.
Thea accomplishments DO not come By nature,
but Require ysaxs e sssiduous training for tho
perfection With prevails IL pcllte circles il
chin4. They nevSr dtssn a piayine sxoept
for money, and whsn they hays 10 yisltou a
their Own rank 70 eamhb With, tkey esIl up
he dsusestius and ply Win thems pooter
women meet a aovne sambllnk den, and
squapder large snms q money, Or run their
husbands in debt, which they are unable to
pay at the end Of the year. and thus have an
excuse for suiafdes The married lady risss
carly, and first sees that tea Is provided for
her husband, as we'll as some hot water for his
morning wash. Each lady has one or two
maids, besides = small slave girl who waitson
tho maids, and lights her mistress' pipe. A
iady's hair dressing takes her attEndants one
or two hours. Then white paste il applied
to ifer face and neck, which IL smoothed over
and polished when dry. The cheeks and eye
lids arc next touched with blush Of rose
PowooE the surplus rogue remaining on the
lady's palm, d. a rose pink ON the hand Is con-
sidered . great beauty Then they dye the
nails red with the blossoms Of 8 certain flower,
and finally they dress for the day Many of
them have chignons and false hair but no
hair-dyes are used, for raven locks arr COM
mon, and golden tresses are not III fepnte.
Many ladies pass good deal Of time In sm-
broadening shoes, purses handkerchief, and
before marriage nearly all their days arc oc-
cnpied in preparing for the drcary event Of
wedding man whom they have never seen.
After all, are the lives led by some of our
American girls 80 infinitely superior to those
Of theFfair Chinsses Comparison are odious
but there's room for great deal Of think
ing here -
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-05-19

GossAMER SrIDERs.---In describing the
work Of these insects, DR.. G. Lncecum says
| once observed one Of these spiders work on
the upper corner Of an open outside door
shutter. She was spinning gossamer,of which
she was forming q balloon and clinging to
her thorax was a little cluster Of minute
young spiders She finished up the body Of
the balloon, threw out the long bow lines,
which were now Tapping and fluttering ON
the now gently increasing breeze, several
minutes before she got all ready for the as
censIon. She seemed to be fixing the bottom
and winding her hammock-shaped balloon,
and now, the breeze being suitable, she NOV
ed to the cable in the stern, severed 1t, and
her craft bounded upward, and scared away
northward, was soon beyond the scope Of my
observation.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-05-19

The Chinese public debt has attained CO
lestial magnitude.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

first entered the United States Senate, he
furnished very modest notice of him.
self for publication in the Congressional
Directory, in which he omitted all refer
ence to his services in the Confederate
army. After last years Democratic VIC
tories, however, he became holder, and
the last issue of the Directory, after stat
ing his birth, place of nativity, ETC., goes
on to say
cat the beginning of the war he
John B. Gordon) entered the Confeder-
ate army as Captain of infantry, and was
promoted to Major, Lieutenant Colonel,
Colonel, Brigadier- Geneal, Major-Gen-
eral, and to the command of the Second
Army Corps, commanded one wingo Gen.
Lees army at Appomatox Court House,
and was wounded IL battle eight times. !"
Gen. Gordon concluded, very logically,
that, If the country was going to become
Democratic, mo offense could be taken at
his record as Confederate soldier. On
the contrary, it was more likely to COM
mend him to Democratic support, and
hence there was no good reason for keep
ing it back any longer.-Des Moines
Pe0isfer.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
THE Law OF THE TIDES.

The reports of the coast survey show
that the tides of the United States are
Invisible into three distinct classes.
Those on the Atlantic coast are of the
ordinary type, ebbing and flowing twice
In twenty-four hours, and having but
moderate differences in height between
two successive high or low waters, one
occurring before and the other after
noon. Those on the Pacific coast also
ebb and flow twice in twenty-four hours,
but the morning and the evening tides
vary considerably in height. The in
tervals, also, between successive high
and low waters, may be very unequal.
The Irregularities are due to the moons
defamation, as, when the moon travels
to the north of the equator, the vortex
OF the tide wave follows her, giving the
highest point of one tide in the north
ern, and the highest point of the oppo-
site tide in the southern hemisphere.
Hence, when the moon is In northern
defamation, the tide at any place IN
the northern hemisphere caused by her
upper transit will be higher than that
caused by her lower transit.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
THE DIFFICULTIES OF ENGLISH
SPELLING

The Methodist comments favorably
upon the spelling-school mania, and
adds
1t S a noteworthy fact, that the En-
glish language is the only civilized
tongue in which the problem of spelling
offers any difficulties. The French, with
its peculiar sounds and silent letters,
appears hard to stranger; but the cor
respondence of sounds to combinations
of letters is fixed, and the rules once
learned, the pronunciation of the word
ner of the writing from the sound, with
out variation. In the other languages Of
Europe, whether of Teutonic or Latin
derivation, each letter has its exact value,
and mistakes-provided the ear be cor
rectly trained-are impossible. AS the
countries speaking these languages must
be deprived of the "spelling school"
we may congratulate ourselves on having
one amusement that is unique. Our
language, as to its written forms, must
be classified with such primitive tongues
as the ancient Asyrian, whose writing has
been pronounced the most complicated
ever invented, and the Chinese, in which
every word is represented by its indie
pendent character.
1t is a serious disadvantage to our
complicated and irregular methods that
so much time has been consumed in
learning to spell. What other peoplecan
learn in few hours takes up the time
of our schools for years, and is never
completely acquired. No rules will
answer, but each word must be learned
by itself in detail. The time thus spent
must, of necessity, be lost from otter
branches of knowledge. We find it hard
to believe that anything can be gained
from the retention of the present forms
which viii compensate for this loss.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

the family have retired for the night,
and we will talk about this book"
That night father and son talked as
friend speaketh to friend. The character
of the book was exposed, the effect of
its reading upon the imagination was
pointed out, and the result in life pro
duced by an evil imagination was por-
trayed. The boy left the library with a
vow never to read a bad book. He never
did. He is an honored and useful man.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
THE CARRIER PIGEON.

This is not always a pretty one. In
deed, it is sometimes ungainly in form
and is never handsome in color. But it
is fond of its nest and that nests sur
roundings, and this fact renders it valu-
able to those who avail themselves of its
indisposition to absent itself from the
domestic locality. The carrier pigeon
when travelling never feeds. If the dis
lance be long, it flies on without stopping
to take nutriment, and at last arrives,
thin, exhausted, almost dying. If corn
be presented to it, it refuses, contenting
itself with drinking little water and
then sleeping. Two hours later it begins
to eat with great moderation, and sleeps
again Immediately afterward. If its
fight has been very prolonged, the
pigeon will proceed in this manner fol
forty-eight hours before recovering its
normal mode OF feeding. After restora
ton it is again ready for service. Thes.
birds constitute very interesting studl
for mind of leisure.
TIE st. Louis Globe gives new wor,
-ss Shot ovx,ppo5 -
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06


Jack found the boys at the lower end
of the house, with the steers and
wagon.
whats the news" he asked.
"The news with us is that we're out
of rainwater," Rufe replied.
So should think So" said Jack, look
ing into a dry hogshead which stood
under the eaves-spout.
&c It's too much of bother to bring all
our water by the pailful. So we are 60
ing to fill these things at the river, and
make the steers haul EN-"
There were three wash-tubs and a
barrel, which the boys were putting
upon the bottom boards of the wagon
box, from which the sides had been re-
moved
When he went out he found the BOYS
waiting, and accepted a seat with Wad
and Link on a board placed across two
of the tubs. Rufe walked by the cattle's
horns while in the third tub sat
Choke.
"You can't SIT In that tub going back,
you know, said Link.
eyes, can! WILL" And Choke
chung fast to the handles.
go, well, you can if you want to, ]
suppose, said Link but it Will be full
of water
They passed the potato-patch (Jack
smiled to see that the potatoes had been
dug, crossed strip of meadow land
below, and then rounded bend in the
direction of a deep place the boys knew.
Rufe backed the hind-wheels of the
wagon into the river. over the deep place
and asked Wad which he would do
dip the water and pass it up by the pail
full, or stay in the wagon and receive it
Whoever dips it up has got to stant
In the river above his knees" said Wad
"and 1 don't mem to get wet to-day"
every well, stay In the wagon, then
You'll get as wet as / shall for I'm go
ing to pull off my shoes and roll up m,
trousers Choke, you keep in that tub
just where You are, till the tub is want
ed. Link, you'd better go into the rive
with me, and dip the pals, while 1 pas
'em up to Wad."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
Bad Books.

1t is not very long since noted bandit
was hanged by mob in a far Western
territory. While under the gallows he
acknowledged that his crimes were in
pired by the early reading of the lives of
Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard, Muzzell,
the Laud Pirate, and other noted crimi-
mails.
This young man, whose reading made
him vile person, came from a refined
family, and had graduated from lead
ing New England college. The bad
books he read so fascinated him that; as
bird, charmed by a serpent, futters
into its open mouth, he was impelled to
initiate the lawless deeds of his favorite
heroes.
1t is a short, sad story. One day an
ingenious, sensitive youth secretly revelf
in the deeds Of the " Land Pirate" and
.hen-a brief life of crime intervened-
on another day his ifeless body swings
from the limb OF q tree.
Whatsoever man soweth, that sinai
he also reap"
A father suddenly entering the room
of his son saw him hastily conceal :
book.
"What is that book you are hiding 2
he asked.
The boy, with blushing face, handed
it to his father. 1t was q vile book.
my son, come into the library ate
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
4TTOMlTISH.

The subject of crime and automatism,
or the moral responsibility of great
criminals, receives careful and skill
full treatment at the hands of DIR.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in recent mag
azine article. The discussion turns upon
the question whether the quality of
crime can be recognized and provided
for in some measure in the laws. If the
principle of automatism can be scienti-
fically established, its practical appGca-
ton must eventually follow. 1t will
then become the duty of scientific men,
in specific cases, to ascertain in what de-
gree, if at all, a murderer has been con-
trolled by inherited instincts or auto
matte passions and impulses; and as the
argument proceeds on the basis that most
wanton criminals are automatons, medi-
cal officers will become necessary adj
juncts of every court. When this new
order of things is arranged, each Grim
inal, instead of pleading mitigating cir
cumstances, win expose the foulness
and blackness of his heart to the best
possible advantage, and seek to prove
himself an automaton beyond peradven-
fr1ro
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
JUSTICE Is BLIKD.

Fair play is said by Englishmen to be
virtue peculiarly English" British
justice Is quoted by Britons as the per
lection of judicial science; and there are
British writer's who take especial pleasure
in contrasting it with the meager securi-
ties with which ill-fated Americans have
to content themselves. Yet, if we are to
believe the story Of certain Mr.. Thomas
Hyam, British justice does, now and
then, falter with something like human
fallibility. This gentleman, who Is from
the rural districts, was recently on a visit
to London. He had occasion to cross
the metropolis, with two friends, at a
late hour of the night London was
wrapt in slumber- that is, all of London,
so far as Mr.. Thomas Hyam could judge
excepting man and woman, whom he
and his friend observed talking ON the
corner of by-street. The woman pres
emily hurried away; the man, after few
futile attempts to maintain an upright
attitude, tumbled into the gutter. Com
passion was awakened in the breast of
the three companions They lifted the
man, and offered to take him to tavern.
But he refused, and they went on their
way. Before they had gone a square,
couple of detectives, to their infinite
surprise, arrested them, and marched
them off to the lookup. The next
morning they were brought up in the
police court, charged with robbing the
drunken man. The latter appeared as a
witness, but had forgotten all about the
events of the night before; whereupon
the magistrate, seemingly provoked at
this failure of valuable evidence, fined
him f5 and told him to go. The sole
evidence remaining was that of the
policemen, who could only swear that
they had seen the three friends lift the
man, and brush the mud from his cloth
ing. Mr.. Thomas Hyam, being from
the country, could not at once prove his
identity and responsibility; and the mag
istrate, apparently on the ground that
the prisoner was to be considered guilty
until he proved himself innocent, re-
handed him for week. Mr.. Hyam was
conducted to Jail, put in a solitary cell,
arrayed in a prison garb, carefully
searched, and fed on bread and water
when he remarked that he was not proved
a criminal, the warden laughed him to
scorn, and babe him go to work scrub
bling the prison floors. This he did, and
suffered for week, at the end of which
time he easily cleared himself, and was
discharged, with the comforting assur-
ance from the magistrate that he had
nothing but his own folly to blame. y
Mr.. Hyam thinks otherwise, and SO does
tie London press; and, at all events, the
dsnizen of the rural districts declares
that it is the last time that he will at
tempt, IN London at least, the role OF
" the good Samaritan"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
TO CORRESPONDENT.

All communications for this paper should be accom-.
panied by the of the author not necessarily for
publication but evidence of good faith on the part
of the writer Write only side of the paper Be
particularly careful in giving and dates to have
the letters and figures plain and distinct.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
OUR JUVENILES.
Poll Tadpose: Il S,ramp Ballad.


Pol Tadpo,e: Il S,ransp Ballad.
There was a little pollywog,
The SPRAYING baby of frog,
Matched in green and Shiny bog
One pleasant day.
He had puddle of his own,
To play and sleep in, all alone,
And duh as any other drone
He passed his life away.
Sometimes steel-blue dragon-fy
Would poise a moment in his sky,
And look at him with glittering eye
As If he said:
8 You little damp, unpleasant thing,
You never seem to know it's spring;
Why don't you jump, or fly, OF sing?
Not lie all day abed ~
Sometimes heron, lean and tai,
With tapping wings and horrid squall,
Would pollywoggys heart appall
With open bill.
The little thing, half dead with fear,
Would scuttle of, for brown or queer,
His fat round carcass made good cheer,
heron's crop to fill.
But as the year slipped slowly on,
And pony's days of shade or sun,
Just as they do for every one,
Too quickly went:
One day-oh, tits q dreadful tale,
Our pollywog almost turned pale,
He felt wiggle in his tail,
That he by no means meant
He turned about with startled eyes,
And saw. with terror and surprise,
A black thing on the water rise.
Unseen before
de shook himself, he swan about:
He could not steer-beyond doubt
His tail had Just slipped off, or out
Was gone forever more,
But ii you have philosophy
(Which means what can't be helped, must be,
In spite of you, in spite of me,
No use to fret:)
You VIII commend this pollywog-
Poor discontinued baby-frog =
For only hiding by log,
Not Splashing in pet.
There. after many day and night,
Silent or stormy, dark or bright,
He felt a tickling on his right,
And on his left;
And, like a small potato-sprout,
A little foot came growing out.
And then another. just about
AS little aud as deft.
And soon behind each forward ley
Another budded like peg,
As like the first egg to egg,
But big and strong;
And longer, longer still, they grew,
TIL be could jump well as you:
Then over log and all he few,
And croaked little song.
He was 50 very glad to find
Four legs exactly to his mind.
Instead of one poor tail behind,
He quite forgot
How scared he felt to see them grow,
How sad to see his rudder go,
For now be yaulted high ard low,
And sprung from spot to spot
Oh, Jaek how dreadful it would be
If legs should grow on you or me,
From side to side, till each should be
FIT for bog,
If suddenly " Development
Should turn and take downward bent,
And you, who for boy were meant,
Should Swindle to a frog,
But if yor should, beg Of you
To keep this little tale in view,
And take it coolly, for tits true
What can't lie cured,
(rhis is the moral of my rhyme
Just wait, Ike polly in the slime,
And, by and by, thereTl come time
When 1t can be endured -
Rose Terry Cooke, IN ST. Nicholas for M.