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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03
THANKSGIVING.
By B. +. TAYLOR.

l.
Lay out the earth in sheet of snow,
There is nothing at all to harm below.
Where men dream out the world together
And pansies sleep till pleasant weather.
The Slyts place in all the land
Is the narrow realm of the folded hand!
Then thanks to God that flower will die
Twas made in time Thanksgiving by,
Breathe as 1t falls-prophetic th,ng!-
''There'll be an April in the spring."
Then thanks to God for sister there
To stand on Glory's diamond stair,
And thanks again. though go late,
mother gone shall smiling wait,
Shall breathe three names with reverent tone,
The Child's, the Virgins and her Own,
And lift the latch Of Mercy's gate!
Rouse up the fire to costly glow.
Till the maple parts and the rubies show!
Swing back the curtains now if ever!
And rich and warm the slender river
Shall cleave Thanksgiving night in twain
As the mantle parted the old Red Main!
Ah never fear shine as it will,
Enough is left to cheer us still
Perhaps some wanderer going past
Who tried all sorrows but the last,
And wonders why he dares to live,
And thinks he has no thanks to give.
May see that glimmer on the ground
His old dead heart give glad rebound
1t looks so like the road of gold
He trOd himself in times Of old
Look MP and zee Thanksgiving found
III.
Bring out the chairs from the empty wall
Where titful shadows used to fall.
The shapes Of father. sister. mother,
OF slender sweetheart. friend and brother;
No painted window half so fair
As the old home room with its shadows there!
No pictured hall at kings desire
Could match that group before the fire
Who never cast shade beside,
But on that wall and when they died!
And some went up at break Of day,
Some waited longer by the way
Let them who will thank God for light,
Such shadows never made q night
Come one, come all. there yet is room
Thanks be to God. from heaven to home
Is nothing but flash of light!
w.
Wheel forth the table, q laden palm!
Well all give thanks and well sing psalm
Some songs. old fashioned, Of Forever
That foated safe across the river,
No note lost out. no cadence gone.
That they warbled, died. and sang right on!
Thv girls ehall come in their white and blue
AS if they broke Gods azure through,
Played trnant to the realms Of light
To be with us Thanksgiving night
The boys are thronging through the hall.
They've not grown old these years at all!
Some marched away to mufied drum,
But fling no shadows as they come
Without sorrow or sin;
Fen Death himself would let them in
Oh. Sweethearts! Comrades! Welcome home.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03
. Power of p eiudice.
Cincinnati Times.

Some years ago there resided in
Cincinnati member of one of the
learned professions remarkable for
his original views of men and thi gs.
According to his views, man was /.
bundle of preiudices-a manifestation
OF prejudiccs was the holding Of any
animal unclean-an were proper as
tood-the rat and the cat were Great
ed as much to be eaten as were the
rabbit and chicken.
1n pursuance OF his tbeory, Ne one
evening invited some gentlemen
friends to squirrel supper, served in
his Chambers.
The table was well laid, the squir,
rels nicely cooked, the wines excel
lent, and they enjoying the meal very
much.
The dishes removed-while Smok.
ing their cigars the guests expressed
their satisfaction, and the delighted
host heard that his squirrels were
tender, fat, juicy, sweet.
AHSH SotuHSHN3ttohS SoiiC1otSI,
he tilted his chair, rested his teet up
on the nlantel-piece, and, while he
pulled the end OF his cigar ere light
ing it, remarked, with Il smile OF ex-
nltation:
wv ~, gentlemen, do you know
what yon have been ea.ing?"
"Squirrels," one answered, with a
sudden qnalm.
"Rats!
They spang to their feet.
"Rats!' (he brought his chair TO
the floor aud stood up) STAT, tender,
sweet, juicy rats that myself caught
in trap and fattened. What do yo,.
think of prejudice now?'
One, with convulsion of face and
his hand OH his chest, sought the
door. Another collared the enter
tainer, but released his hold, turned
ale and was attacked with sudden
faintness. Confusion ensued; loud
words and energetic epithets follow
ed. and blows would have been given
had not one of the guests, less affect
ed and wiser than the others, stepped
between.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03
The Hotel o. tn Future.
Gan Hamilton in Scribuers for November

Gail Hamilton in scribHer.s for NoFeInbcr.
IN the hotel Of the Iutm'e, ii we
cannot change aN or carpets at the
"spriDg cleaning" and change them
back again at the "fall cleaning" if
we cannot afford donble snits uf fur-
Miture Tor every room-which may
we'll be the case until the latter part
OF the mlllennium-we shall yet look
to it that each room is furnished
with some light, agreeable, easily
movable aud wholly rssttuI furniture,
which shall seem to DC cool even
when the heavens are brass above
our heads aud the earth is dust be-
meath oar feet. In the hotel of the
future, each room shalt have one
graceful, simple lounge which may
6e ightly lifted and which shall not
be too hae to give rest 20 tired feet
without fear Of pe,petrating wanda
lism. Why shon)d one dissemb)e?
That is what yon go to hotel for
TO pnt yom feet in . chair when yon
come ~ tired. Foreigners and our
OWN home-tolk also are never weary
of caricatuving the American habit Of
holdlng the feet higher than the
head. 1t is very bad manners, but
1t is very good physiology. The
highest medical authority declares
that a horizontal position Of the body
is the most conducive to a restora-
ton of disturbed equilibrium and to
Il healthful circulation. But there
are some eaterP'-isinS spirits among
us who do not need science to tell
them What rests them when they are
tired, and, carrying the principle OF
seltpreservation too TAR, they have
pos,nrea themselves too recklessly,
and thrust their upliited feet through
all the laws Of Difference AMd courtesy.
Let them be Anathema But shall I
NO, take mine ease in mine inn?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03

II the Ark had been manned by a
Mi sissippi steamboat captain, he
would have been very unhappy dur
ing the entire reltoyage, because there
was no opposition Ark on the river to
race, with.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03

N, isy little boys in Cincinnati are
told that right in the center of the
hind hoof Of every live mule there is
a little lump Of gold, which can casi-
ly be dug out with penknite.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03

Tailor measuring fat customer
"WouId you hold the end, sir, while
! go aronnd!'
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03

A 7'TORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Law
n Special attention given TO Collections. Once
over Fisher Bros. Grocery Store, lows
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03
W.G.&J.B q. DONNAN

4 TTORNEY-sAT- Law AND COLLECTION
n AGENT. OiBce in Burr's Block. lndepend-
eNce, Iowa 6t
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03
VIM. H. BAILY,

7 AW CONVEY ANGLING, WAR CLAIM. AND
l. Land Agency Office. Office in First National
Bank building. Independence. Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03

a TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. In
~ dependence, Iowa. Office over Planes Hard
ware store, opposite head of Chatham st.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03

A TTORNEYs AT LAW. Independence, Iowa
~ Once over Morse 4 Barnett's Store. Con.
situations in English and German. (1a-y
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03
Business Cards.
attorneys.
O.H.P. ROSZELL
e. Z. SNER.

/. ID. u. .HULDRIV0E,
A TTORNEY AT LAW. NOTARY PUBLIC AND
n Land Agent. Office over Taylors Hardware
Store Independence Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03
}. ". BRuCKART,

LAKE, HARMON & NEY. >
A TTORNEYS AT Law, Independence, Iowa.
n Ofice IN Mnnson's Block. Main ST.
, 1875-10-27
GERMANY.
(Tmes -COrvespOndeSk.)

1t being very likely that soma
10000, 900 or 100000 marks will be
wanted this winter for military purposes
in excess of the ordinary amount, the
Federal Council are said to be- meditat.
ing the imposition of fresh taxes. Most
probably the beer and tobacco imposts
will be increased, and q tax proposed on
transactions on Change. There is any
thing but Joy in the land at the prospect
of these novel burdens. Nothing daunt-
ed, however, the Admiralty are said to
contemplate a canal right through Hol-
stein, deep enough to allow the heaviest
ironclads to pass from the Baltic to the
German Ocean, without touching Belt or
Sound. No doubt such a canal might
double the value of the German NAVY,
now greatly diminished by unavoidable
division into two isolated squadrons in
time Of war; but as the canal will be
enormously expensive, and, besides, will
require to be protected by Notifications
at each end, the long register Of military
expenses threatens to have q fresh and
rather heavy item added to it,. 1t is true
the Navy 8 made wonderful strides, and
E Ry nsxt ) slReriiuogg , will will 1 be iafsIaisegg sJt aall o tBhe
pamphlet just issued at Berlin, under
the title "After the War;" is supposed
to emanate from a sphere in communication
with the Foreign Office. It breathss
friendship and amity to France, deprecates
the renewal of war, and strenuously OPP
poses the. idea that the Germans and
French must be enemies in. the future
because they have been So once. TheA
pamphlet is written with uncommon talent
aud vigour, and its qualifications at this
pregnant juncture is sure to attract atten-
ton. However, as the French will not
be fraternal unless their frontier 10 advanc.
ed to the left bank OF the Rhine. it IL not
the Alsace-Lorraine question alone. but
good deal more. that threatens to keep
the two nations asunder for some time
to come.
, 1875-10-27

The success the idea. has met. with in Ohio
and pennsylvania is more apparent than
real 1t is due to the scheming of a few
demagoglc politicians in the Conventions
rather than to any popular demand. aud
1t would not be q very hazardous predic-
ton to assert that, when the enormous
danger and the essential dishonesty of the
policy came to be generally exposed, its
authors would be consigned to political
oblivion. The fact is, the political fathers
of this scheme have altogether moderated
the moral quality OF our voting masses.
They have thought to win them through
a temptation to repudiate honest but bur
densome debts; but no one familiar with
the instincts of our people will cherish
any apprehension that the bait will be
taken. Nine-tenths of the Press of the
country are opposed to this form of infa-
ton, and there is not much chance for re
moulding such a mass of opposition be-
tween now and the Presidential election.
Moreover, behind all these problems of
opinion there stands the great question
whether such Imitation would be Constitu-
tional, and, so long as the Constitution
remains as it now is, and while the Su-
preme Court retains its present personnel,
this question would beyond all doubt be
decided against the proposed currency.
Upon the whole, then, while this issue
may possibly continue to excite o great
deal OF discussion, and while Imitation
after the KelIey-Allen model may aver re-
ceive further endorsement at the hands Of
State Conventions, yet the chances can
hardly be regarded as one 10 q hundred that
it will ever receive permanent legal
sanction.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
A Remarkable Railroad Accident.

On the Detroit and Bay City railroad
an accident occurred which echpses any
thing on record in the annals of rail
roadlng. 1t appears that when the south
bound night express train was in the
vicinity of Oxford, Conductor Noys felt
a slight but sudden shock, and heard the
bell-rope snap. He sprang to the brake,
and after setting it swung his lamp for
the engine to stop. The train went a
distance of four or five car-lengths be-
fore being halted, but when it came to a
standstill everything was found to be all
right, excepting that one "blue line -
car Just ahead of the passenger coach
was missing. A search was Instituted,
and the missing car WIS found in the
ditch in the rear of the train. From the
position OF things it appeared that the
front end OF the cor had jumped the
track, severing the connection with the
car ahead as it did so. The combined
force of the cars in the rear as they came
down on to the "off" car served to end it
around, until finally the rear draw-bar
twisted off (the night was frosty), and
the car was free. The coaches kept
pushing it further and further, until
finally the "blue line" had been sent
entirely from the track, and at right
angles with it, clearing the rail by fully
three feet. The rear coaches rolled on
past the ditched car as if nothing had
happened, and stopped, without accident
or without the knowledge of the passen-
gers, several car-lengths behind. The
engine was stopped and backed up, con-
nections were made, the track-men were
sent for to gauge the rails, and the train,
one car short, proceeded on its way,
making its meeting point at the next
station. Such al accident has never be-
fore been placed on record. OF course
the happy results were in measure due
to good luck, but the presence of mind
of the conductor contributed largely.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
Getting Acquainted with the Bees.

A writer in the British Bee Journal
opens up the interesting question as to
whether immunity from the pain and
other injurious effects of the sting of the
bee can be obtained by inoculation.
Visiting the Hanwell Apiary, he was
struck with the mode in which the
owner managed his bees, and asked him
the length of time required to render a
person sting-proof. The reply was, that
his son had only been short time work
ing with bees, and that he was free from
any of the usual effects of bee stings. Mr..
Walker made the experiment upon him
self, his naodus Operas,di being to catch
n bee, place it upon his wrist, and allow
it to sting him, taking care that he re-
ceived the largest amount Of poison, by
preventing it from going away Mt once !;
then he let the poison bag work, which
1T does for some time after being sepa-
rated from the bee. The first day lie
stung himself twice. The effect was
rather severe cutancous erysipclas, dis
order of the motor nerve, with the usual
signs OF inflammation. A few days hay
ing elapsed, and the symptoms having
subsided, he caused himself to be stung
again three times in quick succession.
The attack of erysipelas was on this oc-
casion not nearly 80 severe, still sting
ing sensation ran up to the shoulder, and
n Emphatic gland behind his ear in
creased considerably in size, the poison
being taken up by the helymphatic system.
A few days subsequently he was stung
thrice, and the pain wns considerably
less, though the swelling was still extern
sive. At the end of the next week he
had eighteen stings, md by the close of
the third week thirty-two stings. After
the twentieth sting there was very little
swelling or pain, only slight itching
sensation with q small amount of inham-
nation in the immediate neighborhood
of the part stung, which did not spread
| further.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
The Antiquity Of Iron.

According to the Iron Age, wedge
or plate of iron has been found imbedded
in the masonry of the great pyramid, the
indication being that it must have been
wrought in the age of Cheops placed b"v
some authorities as far back as 5,400
years ago. This makes the use of iron
about 2, 500 years more ancient than it is
supposed to be, and affords opportunity
for explaining the cutting of the sharp
and we'll defined hieroglyphics on por-
phyry, granite, and other hard stones
employed in the construction of Egyptian
pyramils, temples. and tombs. How
these could have been cut before the age
of iron, has been puzzling question to
many. Further investigation may show
iron to have been i'll use 5000 years
ago.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
Training Our Children.

Rev. DIR. Bellows, of New York, in a
recent lecture on Household Training" "
presented this picture of American life
The truth is that we are naturally be-
coming very impatient of details of every
kind. We want to do up business, re-
hglon and education in lump. Such
Is the growing tendency of the times, the
Perllous times, that are bringing in the
dangers of despotism. Generous senti-
ments are substituted for careful habits
! OF discipline, which are abandoned in
favor of certain fine and general resolu-
tlons. 1t is the peril of our business
that men substitute show, and pay enor-
nous rents, and expect to make rapid
fortunes, and intrust its management to
, strangers, instead of having o personal
supervision over it, and moderate expec-
tations and patient industry and lifelong
labor. 1t is the peril of our domestic
life, and the cause of domestic happiness
being sacrificed, that people are so am
bltlous for splendid suites of rooms and
SNOWY carpets, splendid mirrors and
costly furniture. And it is tho peril of
our education that it is intrusted to costly
teachers to perform the duties which
hone but devoted parents can SO prop
| erly perform. 1t is obvious that in this
, state of things, while parental and do
nestle teaching is imperatively neces-
sary 1t Is also peculiarly difficult. So
deeply are many parents impressed with
the difficulty of teaching their children
satisfactorily under the moral and politi-
cal influences by which they are sur
rounded, that ut all sacrifices they flee,
like Joseph, into the interior of the
country, where there is some hope of
seclusion, or they go away to Europe.
1t IS wise to run away from dangers of
the kind referred to. But young people
should be brought up where they are to
hve.. We cannot avoid our national cir
cumstances or our social and domestic
atmosphere. Wemust recognizei it. Do
parents expect to set bad examples, to
hurry and worry through their business
and exhibit want of temper to their
children, to bring anxious and gloomy
feelings home, and hope to have their
sons and daughters love their society
Do they think to indulge in wholesale
denunciations of their neighbors, to talk
at home of political excitements and of
murders, otjgreat instructions, of the
atrlcal performances, and have their
young children sitting round their table,
and expect that they will cultivate ataste
for history, for painting or sculpture, or
other elevating influences? It cannot
be 80. If our natural circumstances have
brought our men and women up impu-
tient of details, superficial in their
knowledge, fond of excitement, and in
temperate of speech, if husbands and
wives are not what they ought to be ut
home, let them not wonder at what they
see in their children. To train them ND
properly first requires that we should
train ourselves. When we do this we
may hope to possess wisdom and power
to train our children to good and in
the ways Of virtue, peace, and piety."
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
A Healthy Association.

There is quite successful cooperative
association at work among the Fall River
mill hands. The purchase and sale of
family supplies began in 1867, its mem
bers numbering sixty-fve, its capital
being $4,000; investments, S., 75o. 60:
sales, $2l ,281.45; total of members
dividend, $S04.03, and non-members'
dividend, $2S0.79, for the year. The
membership now numbers 265; their
capital is about $4,000; the sinking
fund, 81, 100; sales for the year, nearly
$8, 1000; and for tho nine months ending
September "a the aggregate of mem
bers' dividend was $6,31S.02, non-mem-
bers receiving in the same time divi-
dands amounting to S57424. A CO.
operative mill association has been or
ganized, and one gentleman has rendered
to it gift of twenty six acres of land for
building purposes.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
Lark Edge, the Driver.

There is much Of romantic adventure
| still connected with stage-coach travel,
says the Sanford (Ky.) Journal, in
regions as yet untrod by the ".iron
horse, and many narrow escapes from
death, many tolls and hardships, ex-
posures to summer sun and wintry blast,
are crowded into the life of the hardy
Jehu, who, four-in hand, conducts the
numbering coach through narrow gorges.
over the high passes, and steep defles
Of Southeastern Kentucky. To travel
over the route from Sandford to Somer-
set, the name Of Lark Edge is familiar.
Lark Is n character that Bret Hafte
would be proud to immortalize. His
last adventure showed him possessed of
an heroic courage that many who have
gained glory ut the cannon's mouth can
not boast. A few days since rs the
Som ,rset coach was descending the pass
known MS Hills Gap, in charge of the
noted driver, Lark, one Of the leading
horses got his tail over the lines, and
became vicious and unruly. Lark
thought of the three passengers-one a
lady--and took prompt measures to stop
that nonsense. In the effort to stop
the team, the lines broke, and left the
driver apparently lost mariner. The
leaders headed for the bluff, and after
them numbered tho coach with its pre-
cious freight. Those who have travelled
the road know the danger of plunge
over the bluff Mt this point The gen
tlemen passengers jumped out, and one
of them seized n wheel and succeeded
in checking the coach q moment, while
the other assisted the lady to alight.
In another second, the frightened team
were on the verge of the precipice, and
before them perpendicular plumge-of
thirty feet. The passengers called to
the driver to jump and save himself.
This he refused to do, saying: "Good
bye, friends, l guess I'll go with 'em,
and see how they looks down thar -.
And down he went. The passengers
went to the scene of the wreck as soon
as the descent could be effected, expect
ing to find the mangled remains of poor
Lark, interrningled with horse ears, legs
and tails; but Lark wasn't that kind of
fellow. He had hastily selected the
softest place ON q big flat rock, and there
he sat, crying Us if with q broken heart.
He actually shed tears Of commiseration
for his poor horses, proving that his
heart was far softer than other parts of
his organization. Upon investigation it
was found that the horses, though con-
siderabiy bruised, were not mortally
wounded. The coach had suffered in
juries, but, with the aid of the passen-
gers, was placed upon it's wheels, and
repaired sufficiently to finish the trip,
and the whole party took up its sad
march toward town. Among the articles
of freight were ZOO dozen eggs, which
Lark fears are injured from their rapid
transit through the air.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24

ANOTHER LITTLE ONR.-The Boston
Journal knows of bright, intelligent
little miss, now residing in that city, who
IL eleven years old and who weighs about
sixty pounds, who, when she opened her
eyes upon tins world, weighed less than
one pound and half. She was the
tinIest piece OF humanity which we ever
heard of: The nurse, in washing and
dressing her, used to lay her in the palm
OF her hand, and the first few days of her
life were mostly spent wrapped up in
COTTONWOOD and placed in basket beside
the stove to keep her warm. Her head
would 60 into q small sized teacup.