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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-29

lost 10 of wheat q of rye of oats
of vegetables and of have acres Of
of potatoes about 100 bushels of wheat 30
bushels Of rye and of oats No. in family Al male
and female between ) and 81 years of age.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-29

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Chicago. 237 State ST., =. Machines and Arms.
Boston, $50 Washington St., Sewing Machines.
Cincinnati, Isl West 9TH St., Sewing Machines.
Utica. 129 Genesee St., Sewing Machines.
Atlanta, Ga, DeGive's Opera House. Marietta
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Washington, ID. c., 52l Seventh St, 5. Machines
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18
-Four Planets in Sight,

Not often do the starry heavens
show us four strongly-shining, bright
planets in one night, but this has
been for some time past the position
Of Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Venus,
First comes into view that giant plan
ct-that vast orb, whose diameter is
eleven times and his yo|ame about
1900 timss that Of oar own globe
Jupiter, the planet Of the mighty
cloud envelopes, whose continued oy-
ershadowing OF the planet himself has
led astronomers to doubt if telescope
vision has ever yet really penetrated
these enormous layers Of vapor to the
surface OF the planet itself. Jupiter
is seen soon after dark almost directly
in the zenith, his position at eight o.
clock being a little west and south OF
it ; and as his slow and majestic
sweep around the sun, which requires
twelve Of our years, scarcely better
compOrts with his vast dimensions
than does his apparent journey every
CO.. 7r uat G,r fron, n,;dn;abt Prootor
believes Jupiter to be still mass Of
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,or, , 'vI >I;,,ht orns+ coolnJ ., vat and
tEa, & yn71;nct tn continual Garv on,.
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the last month, and will be for a little
time longer. That bright star of the
ruddy hue that comes up almost in
the southeast soon after dari; i, the
ncighbor world which, Of Ill the plan
etary system, has presented the most
interesting field for astronomical study
and best rewarded such studies. 1t
is pretty definitely decided that this
rudly hue is due to scme quality or
characteristic OF bis soil. Mars, q
smaller planet than Earth, presents II
number of features that seem to war
rant the corclusioa that his more gen.
eral laws and features are something
akin 10 those Of our own world. He
has an atmosphere ne has his season
Of winter and summer-ihe region Of
sn0c tnd ice around the southern
pole annually and yisibly decreasing
and increasing in what NAV be SUN.
mpr and winter. There are on that
distant world oceans and continents
this much q. least il certain. Not
such oceans as the Atlantic and Pa.
cite, but strange, bottle shaped seas,
of no Great extern compared with
Earths greatest Whether they are
ever Gozsn or not. nobody on earth
vet knows. hut it is Mr.. Proctor's be
Lief that Mas, and older planets than
ours. has gone far past his period OF
Ii ne be not a'reaoy e"'Sr'"S' 'ng coo
ana llleleSs cohalNoi! OF SUch oo"'.S
As Our moon, whose internal Ne"" ~
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18
WHOLE NO. 1923
The Utah VIA sacre.

At the trial of Lee, charged with
being Implicated in the Mountain
Meadow massacre, Ann Elizabeth
Uoag testified that she lived in Har
mony in 1859, and was at the meeting
called before Lee and tho Indians
started tor the massacre it was de-
clared at the meeting that the lmml-
grants should be destroyed. An ex-
press was sent to Brigham Young,
and Lee at the head Of the soldiers
started After the massacre meet
INC was called there for Lee to re-
port. Lee stood up and said he want
ed the Indians to rush on the immi
grants, but they would not. He then
put up q handkerchief, and man
came out from the immigrants. Lee
proposed peace if they would give up
their arms, which they agreed to do,
and marched out along with the sol
diers who shot them down at the sig
nal, and the Indians killed the wo
men, He said one man had a baby
in his arms. After the first fire Lee
said: Give up that child" The
man replied : 'IfI die this child dies
with me. [ know you, John d. Lee,
despite your paint" Lee said he had
to shoot the man and child. While
Lee was reporting President Young
arrived and saw The children in a
wagon in front Of q meeting house.
Ore boy eight years of age said,
pointing to the Indian Joe: That
man killed papa and has got my pa
pas pants on" Lee said not to talk
to the children as he wanted them to
forget about the massacre.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18
Shooting aa a MARK.

How MANY Of the young men who
loitcred about the streets last week to
read the kilograms from the Dolly.
mount shooting match caught the NOR
al Of this business Wa suspect that
il they had seen the point they would
not have spent the day, or had day
to spend, in idle curiosity, The great
evil of the world as it IS related to
young men is that q multitude otthom
grow up without being trained to &C,
curarc and careful worI.-to shooting
at some mark and hitting it.
They lean, if ever, when it is too
late that success piyots upon training,
upon precision, upon patient practice.
A young man needs to know how to
do something well, and this can be
learned only by drill, procuring appli-
cation to one thing, by a steady, pa
tent unchanging temper and ambition,
His hat may be full Of genius and his
shirt-bosom OF aspirations he may be
able to do almost anything that he
tries to DO, having boUndles3 energy
and capacity, but if he does not settle
down toya pursuit and patiently work
out its details, shooting every week at
his mark, he will come to no special
success. We have no great admlra
ton for shooting. Gunpowder is not
one Of our gods We believe that
the after-piece Of the war-suicidcs,
murders, thritt)ess living, owe Of excl
ting sensations, elc,--disc0uuts more
we have guessed from the glorie3 of
heroism and skill in the contest and
we wish the taste for guUpowdcr could
be sobered down q good deal. But Of all
uses to which eunpowdcris put sharp
shooting is Tie best we have heard OF
(after blasting cut Hell Gatel because
it requires close attention, infinite prac-
tice and steady nerves. Shooting at a
mark is innocent enough with gun
powder it is what we all need to
learn TO Go With our CUTS. energies
and means,
The men VINO cnn now save
fortunes or make them are those
whose mental aud moral mlscle and
nerve have been hardened in the
schooling Of experience. The coming
men will not slobbor sentiment ana
gush their business they will figure
out the per cents, and calculate closely
the chances of success. y world Of
close lines aud and small margins, Of $
per cents and ten hours ii days
work, has come upon us. The Blow
hlfds will drop out OF commerce. out
Of the pulpit. ont Of Congress The
young men may rs we'll understand it
Soon-they will miserably fail un.es*
they learn to hit the mark. Those
will best succeed who do the closest
shooting.-- JietbodjSi.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18

In the old, old days, more than a
thousand years ago, when the monas-
tic life was still fresh and filled mems
hearts, there stood religious house
not fr from where the Rhone pours
its turbid food in to the blue waters
Of the Gpncvan Lake. Aud there, it
is SAID, poor mother, whose only son
had fed from her to spend his days in
cloistcreI toll and prayer and NORTH
cation, was wont to go, when morning
and evening brought round the hour
of worship, to listen to his voice as he
praised God in the convent choir.
His face she could not discern. for he
was cloabed and cowled like the rest ::
but her quick ear knew the ring of the
voice she had heard from its first cry,
and she listened for it, and went home
content. But he died ; and she COM
planned bitterly to Mary or some kind.
ly saint that her last consolation was
gone. and that in return for her son
she had no longer left even the echo
Of a song And the legend runs that
her complaint was heard and that
tn ugh the monk was seen no more,
his voice was still heard mingling
with his brethen's chant and his
mother came and listened as Of oil,
and, Is Of old, went home and praised
God. SO, how many voices Of those
who have poured themselves in prayer
aud praise and penitence, seem to min
Gle with our worship Silent else
where, they find mystic utterance in
the placed they loved; there is a
heavenly hymn concordant with our
own nay, as the years pass, and the
generations come aud go, it seems as
if the full harmony Of praise were
theirs. and ours the lisping lips which
can do no more than aid the song
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18
ARH0W. HEADED cUPEKsTrlIONs

ARROW HEADED cUPEKsriTIONs. -
There are some cui0u; Slper5t!ons at
tached 10 flint arrow heads in various
parts Of Europe, as, for instance, in
Scotland and ireland, where the c0Uu-
trY people call them cltsho,s or cli
bolts. believing them 10 I've the missiles
Of those imaginary beings. They used
to wear them mounted in silver frames
as projections against evil influences.
Sir ". Il. Wilde states that in the
north OF Ireland, "whel cattle are SICK.
and the cattle doctor OF tliry doctor is
sent Tor, he SAYS the beast has been
:eitShot,' or stricken by fairy or elhn
darts ana forthwith lie proceeds to
feel the animal all over, and by some
legerdemain contliycs to find in its
skiu Que OF more poisonous weapons,
which, with some coins. are then
placed in the water which is given TO
drink, and cure is said to ha effected. -
According to Professor Nilsson, the
veteran archpologi,t of Sweden, there
is still lingering among the Scandavi-
an peasan,ry a belief that flint arrow
heads and stone implements in genera
are endowed with certain magic pow
crs. Similar supersttions survive in
Italy. In some parts OF that country
the peasants preserve flint arrow-heads
in their houses, in order to protect
,G al from the effects Of lightning, and
in the island of Elba they are mounted
in silver and worn as amuletS, as Ill
Scotland and ireland. An arrowhead
Of flint has been found appended TO an
Eiruscan necklace of gold, apparantly
asa sort of charm, (which seems to show
SAYS Mr.. Evans, "that a belief in the
supernatural origin of these weapons,
and their consequent miraculous pow
ers, is Of very ancient date. In this
country, where stone arrow points are
probably more numerous than any
where else, no strange notions in re!
erencc to them are entertained by the
rural population, their origin and use
being so well understood that even the
children in country districts. who pick
them up in the fields, are fully aware
of taeir being the missiles used, at no
remote period, by the aboriginal occu
pants of the soil.-From The Stone
Age in Europe, by CHARLES RAU, in
Haper's Maga=ine for September.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18

the other Sunday a Detroit min
lister preached a sermon on the sin OF
white lies and evasions and he tiatter.
ed himself that his congregation took
every word to heart. Next day he
made call on one of his parishioners,
and rs he mounted the front steps he
heard one ofthe boys call out MA
ma . the preachers coming here !!
Great lands !" he heard her shout,
land my hairs down and I've got this
old dres, on Run to the door, Bill,
and tell him went to Crosse Ise on
a church excursion = "Oh, nc, | hate
TO-" replied the boy. "Go-go quick
hurry up, or I'll tan you till you
can't raise 4 foot !" she urged, and
the lad went TO the door and discour'
aged the preacher from making the
caLl.-D8trot Free Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18

An honest German lost his wife.
His manifestations Of grief at the fun
eral were intense. Ha failed to be
com!orted A few days afterwards he
met friend.
"How you vas my mine friend :
said he.
"Very well how do you do p
',,Not very goot," with a sigh. 81
lost mein yrow."
Yes replied his friend, 81 was at
the funeral.
"Ish dot so ? Did you saw how bad
[ felt o.
"Yes,' answered his friend.
did you 90 to dot grave ?" and
another very long sigh escaped HIM.
"No.'
"Ish dot so? Veil, mein old friend,
you ought to gone nit cot grave. By
golly, | raised HI down dere,'
and his disappointment at not seeing
him at "dot grave completely broke
him down, and he wept great hot,
scaldiug tears. - Whitehall Times.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18

Speaker Blame met Sam Cox the
oth@r day and said:
Il tell you what, sam, they had a
close escape down there at the Branch.
didn't they?"
wv ho-what ?" asked Sam.
"Why Nellie Grant and Sartoris-
just escaped by the skin of their
teeth.
Escaped what, Blajne?"
why, they just escaped having
twins
"You don't say so, B'aine! How
near'd they come 10 it?" exclaimed
Mr.. Cox.
"Why, they got within one of it.
Sam, replied the Speaker in the mos,
impressive manner. "One more boy
would have done it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18

THEY FIXED lr.-Two boys, packed
away in sugar hogshead behind one
of the stores yesterday, were heard
talking as follows;
First boy-"So YOU have to work
in the garden, eh ?"
Second boy-''Yes, and its just q
KILN me by inches !"
First boy 81 see it is, but we can
fix it I'll come around there tonight
and hoe up all the cabbages, aud YOU
get up atore daylight and pull up all
the onions, and then we'll have good
times all the rest of the summer"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18

"A youthful clergyman who re
Gently went forth to enlighten the ig-
norant, while dealing with the parable
of the prodiga son, was anxious to
show how dearly the parent loved the
child. Drawing himself together and
putting on his most sober look, he di-
lated at length on the killing the fat
ted calf. The climax was as follows
81 shouldn't wonder if the father had
Kept the ca.f for gears waiting the re
turn of his son"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18

A young man writing to young
lady V hom he had never seen "Are
YOU eyes dark or azure p And she
replied, "Azure fancy is, | azure you.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18
Hartland Business Cards.
f G | i B T. r T
Manufacturer CT and Dealer in

Manufacturer CT and Dealer in
PlOws, CultiyatOrs, Cottage and
Box Stoves, Cauidr0n Kettles,
SINKS, HOLLOW WARE,RoLl. BAKERS,
Doc. Rollers, Door Roller Tack, Corn
Shelters, Sugar Arch Mouths, Crates and
Rimmers, Slide Yoke Irons, Boot Jacks.
Registers, Door Scrapers, Empire Stove Black,
Guards and Doors, Bedsteod Castings, Gas
Castings, Birdsnest Tuver Irons, Sleigh and
Sled Shoes, chilled and common, Cart and
Wagon Boxes, Gr.mes's improved Smut Mills,
Howe's Standard Scales, GIBBS Cylinder Plow
Shares, Harrows, &c.
~ Orders solicited.
Hartland, VT, May |, 1871. l4Sl
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18

"A new style of shirt collar is run
with lead at the back, so if the but,
ton comes off the shirt band the collar
will not Climb up the back of the
wearer's head every time he stoops
forward. This is equiva tent to equip
ping several hundred missionaries.-
[ EDanbuy News. ..
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-06-24

Very touching was little incident which
recently occurred at Vicksburg, when the life
OF q man was in danger and his wife q wit
ness of the extremity. An old couple were
on one Of the steamboats, coming up the river
and the man was continually strolling about,
despite his wife's predictions that something
would happen to him. Finally the old gentle
man made misstcp when close by the rail-
ing, and tumbled overheard. His wife caught
glimpse Of bis disappearing heels and heard
his dispairing yells just preceding the splash
in the water, and ran to the railing just as the
man came to the surface The old lady
shouted: 'The2e, Samuel, didn't tell you so.
Now, then, work your legs, flap your arms,
hold your breath and repeat the Lord S Prayer;
for its mighty onsartin, Samuel, whether you'll
land in Vicksburgh Or eternity With such
directions and encouragement the old man
naturally did well and was rescued. It's a
great comfort and assistance to have wife
along in an emergency.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-06-24

4 philosopher writes: "The girl is gener.
ally educated on novels, and her first disap.
pointment comes in on the quiet Indifference
of the husband after the honeymoon. 'You
love me no longer, said bride of a few
months to her better-half in his gown and
slippers. why do you say that, Puss ? he
asked quietly, removing cigar from his lips.
You do not caress me nor call me pet names;
you no longer seem so anxious for my COM
pany,' was the fearful answer. My dear,
continued the aggrayating wretch, did you
ever notice man running after car? How
he does run-ovcr stones, through mud, re-
gardless OF everything until he reaches the
car and he scizes hold and swings on? Then
he quietly seats himself and reads his paper.
And what does that mean?' An illustration,
my dear. The car is as important to the man
after he gets in as when he is chasing it, but
the manifestation is not called for. would
have shot anyone who put himself in my
way when in pursuit of you, as would now
shoot any one who would come between US,
but as proof of my love you insist upon my
running after the car. Learn to smoke, my
dear, and be q philosopher. The two COM
b:ned clear the brain, quiet the nerves, open
the pores, and improve digestion.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-06-24

REFERRING to the rumor that the Emperor
Alexander had lately proposed general dis
armament to the great powers of Europe, the
Illinois Stats Zaitung expresses fear that
this idea is only charming dream, and adds:
"And yet how different would matters
stand in Europe to-day if four years ago at
Frankfort Prince Bismarck, instead of de-
manding those fatal five milliards, had asked
France 70 reduce her army to the dimensions
OF mere police fore; say to SO, 600 or 100, 900
men? France was then in no position to re-
fuse such demand, and way could easily
have been found to keep her from raising a
yearly contingent as was done by Prussia
after the battle of Jena. Thus-at least on
the French side, the only one from which
new danger is to be apprehended-
would have been insured for decades, and
France would have been compelled to abjure
her longing for revenge. On the other hand.
the German Empire would have been spared
the trying ordeal of being plunged by sud-
den glut of gold from the quiet pursuit of its
industrial development into the widest specu-
lations: The consequence is that Germany
now finds herself practically distanced by
france in the peaceful rivalry of useful labor.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-06-24

From the Detroit Free Press.
Yesterday, as a policeman was s:rollirg
past house on Fort street East, {. woman, a
year or two over forty, having her sleeves
rolled up and her hands covered with flour,
ran to the gate and called to him:
Its a little delicate" she said, as she lean
ed over the gate and tried to blush, ''but
am person that knows my rights, and be-
sides, I'm all alone in the world and no one
to advise me-
"Speak your mind freely, madam" replied
the officer, as he tapped on the picEcts with
his baton.
"You know ali abou, the Law, don't you p
she inquired.
Everything, madam. car tell you how
to 60 to work in al admiralty case, and bring
you from that down through divorce, bank
ruptcy, arson, burglary, false preterses,
hitching a horse to a shade-tree, and getting
intoxicated
''Its little delicate" she softly said, as
she rubbed the -four off her hands, but IA
said before, am all alone.
Trust n1e, madam-repose contide:ce in
me, he replied, swelling out his chest:
"Well, s'posen you were w'do" {
''Yes. madam
''And s'posen cnc of the boa.aers gave you
i breastpin 2
Il see, madam.
;.lAnd s'posen he smiled At you, and sent
you poetry and asked you to ride out on
sunday, and the ueishbors whispered around
that you were engaged
proceed, madam congratulate you.
No you mustn't, for s'posen after all this
he suddenly began to claw oil and didn't
smile on you any more, and didn't praise
your cooking, and took another woman to
the minstrel show?"
''Ah! the traitor: Perhaps he has trans
ferred his affections to some one else.
s'Thats what I think. know it's a little
delicate, but am all alone in the world, you
see, and want to know if there isn't law
to bear on him. 1t isn't right to go and en-
courage lone woman like me and then claw
off,
'He ought to be roasted alive, he had!"
Il don't know as I'd want him arrested,
but I'd like to have you call or him and make
threats. Tell him he's liable to State Prison
for clawing off this way. I tell you it is q
pretty serious thing to go and encourage q
woman OF my age and then 60 and sku'k
around the hencOOp all of Il sudden. Isn't
there law:''
"Iess see? I hardly think there is.
"Well, you can cali ON him. Take him
alonc-look here-have your handouts in
sight Just tell him that you know all about
it, and that I'm good-hearted, pleasant, rich,
and that he better be carefulhow he prances
around or he'll think . tornado struck him. y
The officer promised, and she rubbed a
cloud Of -four off her hands and ran up the
path with light heart.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-06-24

Hot alum water is recent suggestion of an
insecticide. 1t will destroy red and black
ants, cockroaches, spiders, chintz bugs, and
all the crawling pests which infest our houses.
Take two pounds of alum and dissolve it in
three or four quartz of boiling water; let it
stand on the fire till the alum disappears. then
apply it with q brush, while nearly boiling
hot, to every joint and crevice in your closets,
bedstead, pantry shelves and the like. Brush
the crevices in the floor of the sklrting or
mop board, if you suspect that they harbor
vern1;n. If in whitewashing ceiling, plenty
of alum is added to lime it will also serve to
keep insects at distance. C0ckroaches will
flee the paint which has been washed in cool
alum water. Sugar barrels and boxes can
be freed from ants by drawing wide chalk
mark Just around the edge of the top of them.
The mark must be unbroken or they will
creep over it; but continuous chalk mark
half an inch in width will set their depreda-
tions at naught. Powdered alum or borax
will keep the chintz bugs at respectful dis
tance, and travellers should always carry
package in their hand bags, to scatter over
and under their pillows in places where they
have reason 70 suspect the presence of such
bedfellOWs
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-06-24

ONE day lady caUc in carriage to ask
Corot the famous French painter, who has
just died, for 1000 francs with which to pay
maid, who had seen her. Il can't under
stand how any one with such clothes can
borrow money. If II were you / would re-
fuse" s0Take this to her, my child" said
the artist, offering bank note for the requir-
ed sum, land remember that poverty in silk
is the worst kind of poverty