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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
A Colorado Pioneer.

This brief sketch of Western charac-
ter is from the Denver Ners: "From
Indian Agent Thompson, who recently
returned from the Snake River country,
we learn that the old frontiersman and
mountaineer, Capt. Jim Baker, is living
there quietly and comfortably. He has
a good ranch, seventy or eighty head of
cattle, fine band of horses and snug
quarters. The name of Capt. Jim Baker
is so closely identified with the first ex-
plorations and early history of the great
mountain region, that even the mention
of his name awakens general interest.
For more than forty years Capt. Jim has
roamed through our mountains, exposed
often to great peril and privation; some
times living on friendly terms with the
Indians, and ut other times engaged in
open warfare against them. Not tribe
exists between the Missouri River and
the Pacific, or old Mexico and the British
Possessions, that does not know of Capt.
Jim, and with whom he has not had "dis-
cussiOns' with Hawkins rifle. He has
been emphatically child of the woods
and the wilderness, stunning at all times
familiar contact with civilization, and
courting the solitude and silence of the
great mountains. Like all old noun
taineers he is credited with occasional
Munchausenisms, but despite this he can
recount many a strange and pcrilous adj
venture by flood and field against
which no rebutting evidence can be
hrought -
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
A Strange Case.

A remarkable scene occurred in the
Chester Assize Court the other day. A
woman having been found guilty of the
manslaughter of her husband, Mr.. JUS
tice Brcet, in an address to the prisoner,
dwelt upon the evidence of her husbands
long continued brutality received with
exemplary forbearance, of the special
provOcation she had received on the day
of his death, of the momentary passion
which had moved her to throw a sharp
ening steele at him, without (thc Judge
believed) any intention of striking him.
II did strike the man, and the wife i'm
mediately ran for assistance, and did all
she could to save him. "All the real
right in this case," continued the Judge,
was on your side, all the real wrong on
your husbands, and God forbid that
should punish you. Twill be no party
to it. will not even make this judg-
ment complete. will not allow il To be
said by anybody that you are convict
ed fclon, for conviction is not complete
until sentence is passed, and / mean to
pass no sentence at all. / shall merely
ask you to enter into your own recog-
nizances to come up for judgment If
called upon; and nobody in the world
will ever call upon you-God forbid they
ever should" The address was inter
rupted by loud cheering in the court,
which was renewed when the prisoner
left the dock.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
Singular Death OF a Clergyman.

A correspondent of tho Elmira Gazette,
who writes from Cuba Alcgany county,
N. Y, gives the following account
of the singular death of clergyman
in that place. "Rev. /. G. Seeley, the
pastor Of the Baptist Church, while
whiting kindling wood run small
silver into his hand. DIR. j. G. Young
extracted it, and applied a plaster, which
soon healedit. He paid no attention to
it, and went around abeut his work. But
after few days he began to feel stinging
pains in his hand, and at the same time it
commenced swelling. The best medical
aid was procured but to no purpose.
His hand and arm continued swelling
until the skin could no lsnger hold it,
when it burst open, and discharged pro-
fusely; then all hope for his recovery
was given up. Mr.. Seeley continued
sinking until between eleven and twelve
o'clock a. M, Monday, 2lst, when he
gradually sank into his last sleep, which
knows no waking. The funeral took
place on Thursday, the oath. Mr.. Scelcy
has been pastor in Cuba for the last
eight or nine years, and was beloved by
all who knew him. He leaves wife and
many kind friends TO mourn his untimely
end"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
Sample Waggeries.

The most of the sprightly daily and
weekly papers of the United States have
a short column of brevities devoted to
original waggeries, and each one of these
papers has a witty fellow employed to
get off these special gems of wit. We
give few samples. "Minor Topics" is
the title of the witty brevities in the
New York Graphic. We copy:
Because his views are SO contracted is
probably the reason for calling him Pig
l. Kelley.
Moran was so long Secretary of Lega-
ton in London that he began to be con-
sldered a moire antique.
1t turns out that Boston has had for
several years Hawaiian Club "-the
one they killed Captain Cook with, may
| be.
Munich mourns the death of the Ba-
varian genre painter Karl Hess, who
never was carless with his pictures, how
ever.
The Rev. DIR. Manning said in SER
mon: "The more we read the news
papers the less accurate and comprehen-
sive is our knowledge Of the actual con-
dition of the world,b which is evidence
that the Rev. Doctors reading is con-
fined to the Boston papers.
Thatll do as sample of the Graphic.
Now the indianapolis Sunday Herald /:
The Sunday Courier has been estab-
lished to fill long-felt want i'm Fort
Wayne, and the first issue contains the
following:
The water in the Maumce river is said
to be Peau.
We regard that as Peau-down joke.
"a lunatic i'm the sanctum of the
people" is the heading of an article in
the last issue of our Delaware street
contemporary. That's nothing new.
There has been lunatic in the
sanctum of the people for the past five
years.
A Bowling Green, Kentucky, woman
has Just fallen i'm love with her husband
after regarding him with great dislike for
ten years.-Er.
He has just inherited fortune.
Prof. A. j. Smoke has smoke into the
Princeton graded school rs Principal
NeWs.
AS ToOts would say, Smoke conse-
quence.
Mr.. Rightbower of Cambria, Pennsyl-
vania, is welded, and the bride orders
him up to make fires. He proposes to
60 it alone if this thing continues. -
Ne,cs.
Rightbower, you cur, do you want to
play the knave in that way?
How will those items pass for an effort
The next paper before us is the Louis
vile Courier Journal, of which we give
samples:
GA California preacher is preaching
upon the best way to raise boys" The
preacher who recommends anything as
better than a threc-and-a-halffoot raw
hide for the business, doesn't know what
he is talking about.
1t is supposed that sidewalks, like
street-cars, were invented for the ex-
elusive benefit of women. When the
fair creatures ride they occupy all the
seats, and when they 60 on foot they
occupy all the bricks.
Those New York young women con-
tinue to marry dukes. An orang outang
with title wouldn't be safe among
them.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
New State Project Revived.

The project of separate State, TO in
clude the Upper Peninsula OF Michigan,
is strongly urged again by the Marquette
Mining journal which ridicules the idea
of being detached from Michigan and
becoming part of Wisconsin, or annex
ing part Of Wisconsin to form the new
State. It dislikes the existing position
of dependence upon the State that has
no interest in common with the Upper
Peninsula" and says "the 10000 people
ask separate government, with a local
Legislature, and delegate in Congress,
for the encouragement of manufacturing
industries and the development Of
mineral and other resources that are
without a parallel" The Portage Lake
Mining Gazette, on the other hand, is
opposed to any "one-horse territorial
scheme" and calls the attempt in this
direction ga waste of time" The Ian
sing Republican believes that, ifa decided
majority of the people in the Upper
Peninsula wish to set up on their own
hook, and can show good reasons for it,,
the Lower Peninsula will be forced 10 be
willing
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
NUMBER 80.
Spiritual Manifestations.

Some weeks ago a young man, we'll
known about town, whose name we sup
press for obvious reasons, spent the even
ing with several Of his companions, and
in the course of conversation reference
was made to strange silence of friend
who had gone to st. Louis, and whose
whereabouts could not be ascertained by
letter or inquiry. Going home that
night, our hero's thoughts naturally
turned to his absent friend, and while
dwelling on the question, "What had
become of himY hand tapped his
shoulder, and his absent friends voice
sounded in his ear.
Why, George, old boy, how are
your
Heavens! my old friend, where did
you come from 2" was the reply, and both
shook hands heartily.
"Well, I just dropped down, knowing
you were thinking of me, and asI couldn't
stay long, thought I'd walk home with
you."
"We were talking about you tonight,
and some of the boys thought you
had been killed, as nothing could be
learned of you" said George.
"Well, George, the truth is I was
drowned in the Mississippi four weeks
ago and my body was caught in an eddy
on the Illinois shore, and it's mighty un-
comfortable, cause can't get out and
come to the surface, you sec," and the
dead man smiled i'm his astOnished friends
face and took his arm.
George looked puzzled, and remarked
even while he shivered, DWELL, old boy
you are remarkably healthy-looking
dead body, and l hope you won't
vanish before can get you home and
give you a toddy."
The CHASTITY joke was kept up with dis
agreeable pcrtinacity, the friend insisting
on the unpleasant situation his corporeal
remains occupied, while George. with
considerable effort, tried to turn the sub
.ject until his residence was reached, and,
dropping his friends arm, he remarked,
"COme in and take something to warm
you up. A chap that's been lying at the
bottom OF the Mississippi four weeks ought
to feel chilled %
lie looked around and his friend had
he called and his voice sounded loud and
distinct on the still air. There was no
hiding-place, no nook where one could
COHCedl HlillSclI, anu He lOOkeu Ill NdlIl.
He ran up and down the square, but no
form, no football met his eye or sounded
on his ear. He entered the house, feel
ing very queer, but inclined to think his
friend had played joke upon him. He
turned up the gas and mixed two tOddies
in the belief that his friend would return
and accept his hospitality. After wait
ing half an hour he was compelled to take
his g night-cap" alone, and, puzzled and
half indignant, retired without awaking
his wife.
Next morning he arose and dressed
himself, and, to his dismay, found that
his watch was missing. A close search
proved unsuccessful. He recited his
evenings experience to his wife and
failed to convince her that he had seen
this friend, who has never been heard of
since. His friends look serious when he
confidentially relates his story, but his
wife, woman-like, absurdly remarks:
"George, you ought to quit drinking"
Louisville Commercial.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
King Alfonso.

Colonel Hay, in a letter to the New
York Tribune, says that Alfonso is a
youth of seventeen years, not strong,
either in body or mind. He has no claim
whatever upon the throne except that he
is the son Of his mother, who was as bad
woman as queen. Her mother was
like herself, and her father, If possible,
worse. For four generations the line is
utterly corrupt and worthless. Since
Charles Ill. no one can point to good
reign, we may almost say to a good action,
of Spanish sovereign; of course we ex-
cept the unfortunate experiment of
Amadeus of Savoy, who was gentleman
at least. But Charles Nv. and his son
Ferdinand were not gentlemen in any
sense of the word. They were cowardly,
treacherous, untruthful and personally
dishonest. Queen Christine and Queen
Isabel were not ladies'; IL is not possible
TO call them so without casting derision
upon the name. They were unfaithful
rulers, unfaithful wives, not honest even
in money matters. The last OF the race,
Don Alfonso has this bad blood in his
veins. 1t is the only claim to the crown
he seeks.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
THAT AMATEUR FLUTE.

The company all were seated and the laugh and
Jest went roundlight-hearted jewellers unconscious
Of their doom. The executi0ner entered He bore
in his hand silver flute. malignant smile lighted
glee, will administer unto them an adsgo; not a
man shall escape"
Now, therefore, this, accompanied with many
apologies to the honored shade Of Edgar Allen Poe:
Hear the iuter with his flute
Silver flute,
what a world Of wailing IN awakened by Its toot!
How IL dem-semi guavers
On the naddened air Of night!
And defeth all endeavors
To escape the sound or sight
OF the flute. flute, flute,
With its tootle, tootle toot--
With reiterated tootings Of exasperating toots,
The long protracted tootelings Of agonizing toots
OF the flute, flute, flute, flute,
Flute, flute, hute
And the wheezngs and the spttings Of its toots.
Should he get that other hute,--
Golden flute
Oh, what deeper anguish will It's presence instoot
How his eyes to heaven he'll raise,
As he plays,
All the days,
How he'll stop us on our ways
With its praise!
And the people, oh the people,
That don't live up in the seeple,
But inhabit Christian parlors
Where he visiteth and plays
Where he plays, plays, plays
In the cruelcst of ways,
And thinks we ought TO listen,
And expects us 10 be mute,
Then the music Of his fiutc,--
OF his flute, flute, flute,
And the tootings Of its toot,-
OF the toos whercwh he tooteth its agonizing toot
OF the flute, hewt, fut, foot,
Phlute, phlewt, phlewght,
And the tootle, tootle, tooin OF its toot
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
The Petrified Forest.

The Healdsburg (Cal. Flag says: "The
famous petrified forest of Napa county
is eighteen miles from Healdsburg, by
way Of Windsor, and lies just across the
county line. The trees are all PROSTATE
and lie scattered quite thickly over an
extent of fifty acres. The proprietor OF
the forest has lately been engaged in
digging away the soil and lava from the
partially buried trees Lewis Face, of
Covington, Ohio, and L. r. Childs, of
Healdsburg, visited the place this week,
and report that the trees that have been
unearthed far surpass in size any that
have heretofore been discovered. One
fragment, that appears to have been red
wood, measured eleven feet In diameter,
and is sixty-seven feet long. The tree
must. originally have been 200 feet in
length. Numerous other specimens
ranged from eight to eleven feet in
diameter"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
Smell for Smell.

Kisaburo, man of careful and saw
ing disposition, abandoned his lodgings
and took small dwelling next door to a
famous eel house. Now, as every one
knows that the titillating odor Of cells
fried in soy may be perceived far and
near, Kisaburo found this change of
quarters vastly to his advantage, and eat
his simple meal of rice to the accompa-
niment of the delicious smell, dispensing
with the usual adjuncts of fish or vege-
tables.
The eel man was not slow to discover
this, and determining at length to ask
his frugal minded neighbor for payment,
took him an account for the smell" of
his cells. Kisaburo eyed him astutely,
and, drawing from his .pocket-book the
amount claimed from him, laid the
money on the bill and began TO converse
with his visitor. The latter at length
rose TO depart, when Kisaburo quietly
replaced the money in his pocket-book.
I" HeyW quoth the eel man, / thought
that money was for me; why don't you
give it 10 mcT "Not So" was the reply,
"you have charged me with the smell Of
your eels. / pay you back with the
smell of my money."-Jdpan Mail.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
A Brief Temperance Lecture.

There is one man in South Leavcn-
worth who will forever have occasion to
remember the terrible consequences of
getting dead drunk in zero weather.
His name is Joseph Barnes, he lives just
west of Broadway, and the particulars Of
his sad case arc briefly as follows:
Three nights ago he attended party
given at a neighbor's house. accompan-
led by his wife. On their way home the
woman discovered that she had dropped
her apron, and requested her husband to
stay where he was till she went back and
recovered the lost article. 1t was very
cold, indeed, and when she returned she
did not find her husband where she had
left him. Supposing he had gone to a
neighboring saloon to get a drink, she
went home without him, and never gave
his sudden disappearance second
thought till the next morning. AS he
had not then put in an appearance she
thought possibly something might be
wrong, and started out in search of him.
His whereabouts could not, however, be
ascertained. For two days and nights
the search was continued, and no trace
of the missing one was found till he
crawled into his own home, Wednesday
noon, in most wretched plight, and
with hands and feet 10 badly frozen that
they will have to be amputated.
Barnes says that after leaving his wife
he went to asalo0n and took two or three
big drinks to keep out the cold. After
going out in the air again he did not
know anything till he awoke from his
stupor, nearly forty-eight hours after
ward, and found himself in gully in a
vacant lot west of Broadway, completely
stifIened up, and it was with the greatest
agony that he was enabled to crawl on
his hands and knees to the shanty where
he lived. The loss of hands and feet will
be terrible affiiction to the suffering
man = Te1,en,oo,fb Ib,n,ocrc;0y
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
Changed Her Mind.

Without making any graceful remarks
about the historic cup and lip, it may be
permitted to relate, for the benefit Of
bachelors, the experience of a betrothed
pair in England. They recently accu-
mulated, in the way of beginning to-
ward housekeeping, two pitchers, a sofa,
glass globe, and an ACCORDION. All
these beautiful and comfortable articles
were deposited by the young man, in a
frantic fit of confidence, in the house of
his mothcr-in-law-to-b 10 remain in that
sacred domicile until the marriage should
take place. Unfortunately the young
lady changed her mind and wrote let
ter to the youth to say so, ending melo-
diously thus:
$50 farewell, and a long farewell to
you forever. So farewell for us both"
But not word did she say concerning
the furniture. Reminders were IN vain ;
so the young man tried a magistrate,
whereupon he got the articles with the
exception of the accordeon, the judge
ruling that the defendant must have IL,
rs she alone could play it, which was so
curious decision that it we'll deserves
the respectful mention hereby given.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28

A SORT OF GOLD MINE.-There recent
ly died in the north of France, at the
age of cighty-threc, miser who lived
alone, and whose hut, when examined
by the authorities after his death, proved
a sort of gold mine. His pillow alone
contained 10000 francs in gold pieces Of
the time of Louis XIV. and Louis XVI.
He had taste for old pieces. He had
been robbed many times, and the thieves
were generally detected through the an
tiquity of the money they stole. The
total of the sums robbed from him in
his life, for which men have been con-
victed and sentenced, reach 100000
francs.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
CHILD LOVE.
BY @. r. G.


Thro' the dreary length of vears-
Thro' The haxy mist ~ tears'
Comes INV sweet child-lova.
Beaming mild "a mil ~ ~
Or he oentle dove
Whan In ch,ldbooa,. h.nnv ho,r.
Ianshing loud We cnii;d dfbs aow,r.
Roamine side by side:
Ere our yonno hearts sally heat
OR with grief were tried.
And hear her sweetly say
"Let us 10 the fields away.
While the sun Is bright:
Making this dull earth 10 ring
With their glad delight.
"For the winter soon will come.
When we NAV no longer roam.
Meath the greenwood trees:
From the weaving branches tall.
With the wintry breeze.
Soon will wave the branches bare,
Soon will snow flakes FIJI the air.
And the song-birds die;
And the sleeping echoes wake.
Meath the summer sky.n
But, alas the winter came,
And she softly heard her name.
WHISPERED on the blast:
You shall be in heay'n today
And her life was passed.
with little trembling sigh.
Closed for ave the soft blue eve.
Ceased the fiutt'ring breath:
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28

A MINISTER going TO visit one of his
sick parishioners, asked him how he
rested during the night. "Oh, wonder
ously III, SIR" he replied, "for mine eyes
have not come together these three
nights" "What is the reason Of that p
said the other. "Alasl sir" said he, "be-
cause my nose was betwixt them."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

IT has been decided by Virginia
court that boys have no right to roll one
another in the mud. How would this do
for congressman?
THERE are many who talk on from
ignorance rather than from knowledge,
and who find the former an inexhaustible
fund of conversation.
WHAT is the use i'm these days trying
to be honest? exclaimed a grumbler
Oh, you ought to try it once and see, re-
tortcd one of his companions.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer says of Fech-
ter that he is "a powerful actor, and 1T is
pity he didn't turn his attention to the
prize ring instead of the stage"
ARISTOTLE, on being censured for be-
slowing aims on a bad man, made the
following noble reply: 81 did not give 1T
to the man; gave it to humanity"
WE can always make home cheerful,
II the right course we begin;
We can make its inmates happy,
And their truest blessings win;
II will make the small room brighter,
IL we let the sunlight in.
"Your feet are not very stylish" said
man to his friend, whose feet were
covered with bunions. "No, not stylish,
but exceedingly nobby," was the good
natured reply.
OF course woman doesn't want ner
plants to freeze, but still one can't blame
a man for raising q row when he hops
- &c Ill Ia tho ,norninc and finds a
ouV vi peu III .i!o nv us .S.s,s To-,
geranium plant In each trousers ieS'
THE hood is bcabig brightly, love-
wine Lne stars rs, aae res;n sn,ds dgssaSily ,HS
Add thigkig, love, oh you;
You caddot, ,,t, on, & you h;ss eaaEO. xouA Know
(o%,' 'whadt dis cold cold I've gct)--
oh-tish-u! Ch-eh-tish-u'
In Manchester, Eng, lately, twenty
four dogs were sold at an aggregate Oh
1924 pounds, an average OF 6o pounds
and shillings each. No conceivabis
sausage scandal is possible at that price.
LET us gather up the sunbeams
Lying all around Nt our pa path nisos
1S CASTING ST. nsep out TT the er Sorns S and chaG
Let us find our sweetest comfort
with patient hand removing
All the pr'ers from 'ae way , ,I
AN anxious parent, whose soli n"e .
ready mastered frencn, ueln,:,n a,,u ,I'
Italian, has determined on sehulnS IHo %;o
youth to FINLAND, In ordeI W ~, Sto ~. 20
boys education just tne h''ic ri''i'' IL
required.
GoMrLExIoS clear lr as :, polished cnsnet ,%cbs %sx
Her Her eyes eyesSVd dark bewtchins blue;