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The Van Buren press., 1875-03-09

A HARD BILL To FILL.-The junior
editor Of the Gallatin - Is noted for
his modesty. When schoolboys, he and
the writer were inseparable companions,
probably because we both stood in such
holy awe Of "the gals" A pair Of mis-.
chievous black eyes would stampede US
quicker than "big dog" One day
Bob" was sent to neighbor Shaw's to
inquire about some straw for filing beds.
and Of course tha writer west with him.
Mr.. Shaw was the father Of six hateful
girls that would rather laugh ats fellow
than not and when we arrived they were
all seated at dinner / lodged behind
the corner, while Bob edged carefully in
the door, and with \ scared look, STAN
mered:
"Mr, Straw, can YOU let me have On.
ough Shaw to fill my bed p
Well. R, said the old gentleman
glancing around the circle Of astonished
faces, ~ suppose SO. There are elk he.
sides the old woman, But Id rather
you'd leave her, IL the girls will DO en-.
ough Take them all and God blcss
you
Perfect shrieks Of laughter went up
from those mean things. and R. took
to his heels followed by tho writer and
cries from the old man to come back,
and he'd throw in the old woman, too"
--E'ot Waype SeRt0iei
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In addition to its full display Of carefully des
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NO. As

husband, 50 that in future you can an
swer without so much pain, when he Is in
CURED after"
/" You are too generous
II can aferd to be generous" he said,
earnestly when l had the precious gin
OF your love. Kate, forever blest be the
day that l trst engaged my housekee.
per"
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lures, and of reading in the descriptions thereof,
the very latest and newest of all the newer STYLES
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Frank Leslie's Budget Of Fun.

A perfect compendium Of the latest specimens
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lshed. Price, 10 cents Number, or Sl,50 a
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MASONIC.
Eastern Star Degree.
-oval Arch TsI :. = onS-

rI,uE regular Conyocations Of FAE BrEGN GHhnrER
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Van Buren, Encampment.

WAN BUREN ENCAMPMENT, No. Il, 10. OF
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each month at old Fellows Hall, Van Buren.
II. T., Al. WARD, 5. W, F. r. MckiBBgN, Treas
CHARLES RrBLISG, }. W. ,- .
march 9,lSi j. W. tAkl Hcrloe'
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Useful Hints.

If you get fish bone in your throat, and
sticking fast there, swallow an egg raw; j.
will be almost sure to carry the bone down
easily and certainly. When, as sometimes
by accident, corrosive sublimate is swal-
lowed, the white of one or two eggs will
neutralize the poison, and change the effect
to that of dose of calomel.
For chilblains cut up two white turnips,
without pairing, into thin slices; put the sill
ces into a lineup with three large spoonsful
of lard, let it simmer slowly for two hours,
then mash through a sieve; when cold
spread it on soft linen cloth and apply to
the chilblain at night.
Milk for breakfast, when used in the form
of bread and milk, should never be boiled,
but steamed; that is, the jug of milk should
be stood in saucepan of boiling water for
two or three minutes until hot.
To prevent hard soap, prepared with
soda, from crumbling, the bars may be
dipped in mixture of resin soap, beef tai
low and wax.
A little camphene dropped between the
neck and stopper of glass BEETLE
will render the latter easily removed il
jammed fast.
To make silk which has been wrinkled
appear like new, sponge sponge on the
surface with weak solution ofgum arabic
Or white glue, and iron on the wrong side.
A piece of paraffine candle about the size
of nut, dissolved in lard oil at $50 deg.
Fab, the mixture applied once a month,
will keep boots waterproof.
A strong solution of sulphate of magnesia
gives beautiful quality to whitewash.
Leather can be made hard by saturation
in solution of shellac in alcohol.
Paraffine is the best material for protect
ing polished steel or iron from rust.
Soap and water is the best material for
cleaning jewelry.
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Phil. Sher1dan's Afianced.

Washington Letter TO the Chicago Tribune.
1t hardly seems farther back on the annals
of time than short yesterday since Miss
Irene Rucker walked, q slender, dark-eYed
little girl, in our midst, arrayed in short
dresses, and her hair braided in two long
plaits hanging below her waist. How
rapidly these tender young thillgs spring
up into womanhood, and how early the
bridal veil throws its soft mist over them
1t makes us lookers-on search cautiously
among our tresses to see if any threads
frosted with years have crept in among onr
darker ones. Il seems so short time
since sen. Rucker was stationed here, and
occupied the g Michler House, on Twenty
first street, within almost stones throw
of the Potomac, its ample grounds filled
with trees, grapevines and flowers. Tony
Buckner was then great, honest, genef-
ous-hearted boy. brimming over with
pranks and mischief. the greatest favarite
with his companions. and constant source
of amusement to his elders And now.
little Irene Rucker--for can not think Of
her as young lady grown has won
the prize for which SO many inaidens have
smiled and striven in vain
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That's What's the Matter.

You may think the word that of very
little consequence.
If you will read on, however, yeu will
soon see that that is of some considerable
importance.
You will see that that that which is used
in the second sentence is used as nonu.
And we will say still further that that
that that has been spoken Of last in the
third sentence is also noun.
We gave the fourth sentence out one time
to gentleman to parse, aud friend after
ward remarked "that that that that that
gentleman parsed was parsed incorrectly.
The first gentleman retorted "that shat
that that that that gentleman parsed was
rather clumsy sentence"
Another one said, "that sthat that that
that, that that was still more clumsy SEN
tence."
A lady present ventured the suggestion
sthat that that that, that that that that
gentleman made use OF wasa correct gram
NAUTICAL sentence.
That's enough.
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Bu1LD1Ne 4 HOUSE IN EIGHT HouRs.

BUILDING A HOUSE IN EIGHT HoURs.-
The rapidity with which American mechan-
les turn off work is a marvel to foreigners.
This fact is true even when we leave out of
the question the more general introduction
of machinery for hand labor in American
shops We have letter before us, Just
opened. as we write. from French-speak-
ing German who is having machine made
in Paris. from the same drawings. used in
the construction of similar machine in
San Francisco, where he complains bitterly
of the tardy progress made on account of
the slow mode of manipulation there.
The same is true in all European countries.
Time there forms, comparatively, but a
small factor, in turning ont a job of work,
while hereit is a most important essential
in ali jobs or contracts. We are led to this
remark ON persning the letter above re-
ferred to, Just previous to our eyes falling
upon the following irenn from the american
Maaa factaref : Last year DIR. Nfishler
erected III Lancaster city, Pa, two-story
brick house Ill nineteen hours. He now
proposes 20 build on the Centennial grounds
III Philadelphia. next summer, two-story
lrick house. RI by 40 feet. in eight hours !!
lie has arranged with Capt. Geisinger, Of
Reading, for the furnishing of the cornice
and door and window caps, which viii be
If gaivanizeel iron. The Captain will be
allowed half an hour in which to put up
the c.,rnice, though he thinks be can do il
in a quarter { al hour.
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a Discouraged Prisoner.

From the Detroit Free Press
Bijth and the boys were holding spell
ling school when the reporters got down.
1t was IL pleasing sight to see the old gray
haired man seated on the floor with a mis-
cefIaneous assortment of lads around him,
and it was affecting to see what confidence
they placed in his word. When he gravely
informed them that "corn" was spelled
with "k, and that "victim should be
spelled with a "w,'' they placed implicit
confidence in his knowledge of photography,
and Lame Jack admiringly remarked
"Where would this world be without BIZ
jah ?''
When His Honor arrived, Andrew Crane
was brought out. Andrew said he wanted
to be sent up, and he didn't care whether
it was for thirty days or thousand years.
"Kinder discouraged, eh? ?" asked His
Honor.
81 care not what becomes of me- sadly
exclaimed the prisoner Pm way down
the bank and don't think I'll live long"
bhc ntdit. my DoS Ciltu tiic Cotit,
as he bit into another apple. "Strawberries
and cream will be along before you know
it,;
8 don't care nothin for strawburies and
cream" answered the prisoner.
= But don't you want to hear the end of
the Beecher scandal ?''
g Not a Beech" was the sad answer.
"Think of harvest apples, Fourth Of July
and soda water"
Waters them to me-, was the mourn
full inquiry!
'Summer is almost here, my boy! Don't
you want to get along the grassy meadows
and listen to the babbling brooks ?''
" Nary bab"'
"Well, I'll have to send you up. Shall
I make it sixty days9''
"Sixty days"
And when the sad man entered the buggy
the boys sang:
'Oh why should a fellow feel sad
When it's easy enough to be gay?
Oh, why should he 70 for to die
When there's every inducement to stay?"
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

The Gear is furious for peace, and will
Western Europe. He is the most intense
pease man in the world, with the excep-
tion of Emperor William.-C Cincinnati Com
mercaal
A Cohoes, IN. W dentist killed man
the other day in trying to pull out one of
his teeth, and the citizens came very near
mobbing him for it. These citizens were a
pack of fools. If they wanted to mob
somebody, why the dickens didn't they
mob the man who was base enough to hang
on to his tooth in that rascally way ?-Louis-
yiAs Courier Journal.
"Have we two brains ?" inquired the
Chicago Inter Ocean in an editorial head
line. AS God is our witness we don't know,
but it may be remarked in this connection
that the Inter Ocean has not yet convinced
the public that it has even one.-St. Louis
Republican.
If there is anything in this world that
makes man feel like serving his country
on the bloody field Of battle, it is to see
one-legged soldier jerking "Mollie Darling
out of an old hand-organ for cold grub
Lyon County Times.
Rev. Herbert Mills of Lansing, went into
his pulpit the other Sunday and said he
was call ri-hic an wazzen given a cent
-whoop-ee Set 'mup agin!' And the
consequence is that MIR. Mills was request
ed to step down and out, and has crept into
a cave of gloom as large as a tunnels
Joe Herald.
They are telling the story, since DIR. Tai
mage's sermon, that Brooklyn resident,
name not given, appeared at the gates that
St Peter guards for admission to Paradise.
The saint turned to the register page :
"Where are you from ?'' "Brooklyn.'
81 don't think we can admit you rules
very strict. In fact can't do it. Think OF
that scandal 1t is said that the Brooklyn
man looked steadily at Peter and croaced
three times. His saintship colored, fumblef
his key minute. and then said: Well,
you can go in but don't you do that agar
to me-"
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Mrs. Coblelgh's Hot Potato.
panbury News.

uanOuTy News.
Mr.. Cobleigh had just got down to break
fast. He was standing by the stove with
his hands clasped behind him, as his GUS
tom, contemplating the attractively set
table. A large platter of broiled ham, with
fried eggs, was the central feature, and Mr..
Cobleigh is very fond Of ham and eggs.
The family cat was lying under the table,
pulring to herself. 1t was a strongly mark
ed domestic scene, and Mr.. Cobleigh felt
his eyes moisten as he surveyed it. Mrs.
Cobleigh was taking up the potatoes. She
had the last one pierced with the fork, and
was about to deposit it with the rest, when
she spied the upturned palm of her hus-
bands hand. What possessed her she can
not tell, but she dropped the steaming veg
etable straight into his unconscious hand.
He didn't ask her what she was doing he
didn't look around he simply emitted an
awful scream and sprung madly into the
air. On the descent he struck the table
pletely overturn it, and. and with the con-
tents he went to the floor with an awful
crash. Five dollars worth of crockery was
smashed, and carpet, coat, and pair Of
pants were ruined by ham gravy and but
ter. 1t is probable Mr.. Cobleigh would
have tainted dead away from the effect of
the shock, had not the cat, across whose
back he fell as she was darting away frem
= 4 r.
tened both claws and teeth into his thigh
with deadly feroelty. The house is now
shut up. Mrs. Cobleigh is visiting her
mother in Brookfield, and Mr.. Cobleigh
has taken a jaunt to Boston on business.
We understand she thinks Mr.. Cobleigh is
to blame in the matter, for, she properly
reasons, had he not jumped SO like an all
fired fool, there would have been no damage
done.
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SAVE YOUR EYES.
What Should be Done by Those Who
are Conscious of Loss of Vision.

A widow writes from Springfield, KY,
to the New York Sun, that about a year
ago. while she was preparing for nap at
ter dinner, she saw dark spot moving
over the newspaper that she was reading
and that some months later she saw several
dark spots whenever she looked toward a
light object or out of q window. She felt
that she had a premonition of approaching
blindness, but being unable to employ an
oculist, she awaited developments. Soon
she began to see figure, which she de-
scribes as kind Of a worm or snake NOV
ing before her eyes, changing its position
whenever she moved her eyes. She fancies
it to be living creature made mp of little
links, and she writes to that paper for in-
formation on the subject.
What the correspondent describes as a
kind of worm has been described as spi-
der web tracery by other persons who have
been afflicted with cataract. 1t is the dying
of the crystalline lenses, and the infinitesi-
NAL black rings that one person styles
worm and another more fancifully calls a
spider web tracery, are merely some OF the
dead and ossitied cells of the crystalline
lenses. One after another these cells die,
and at length the entire lens dies and shuts
out tile light. After that vision can be re-
stored onlysby the oculist's knife.
The correspondent writes that she is 45
years of age. She is still young enough to
preserve what eyesight she has and escape
the peril Of an operation for cataract. But
will size so change her mode of living as to
arrest the advance of death upon the lenses
in her eyes? She writes Of her nap after
dinner and OF her riding home from church,
thus indicating that she does not take
enough physical exercise. Probably, also,
she eats daintles, instead of plain nourish-
ing food. Let her, without delay, take ex-
erc;se in the open air-moderate exercise
at first, then gradually increasing it until
she begins to crave hearty. easily digested
food, such as mutton, beeisteaks and above
all, oatmeal and cream. Peas may be adj
ded to the list, and beans, if she can take as
much outdoor exercise as woodchopper
has.
We are not sure that these hints may not
be usefal to all classes of our readers,
whether they feel conscious of the death of
any part of the system or not.
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cAssIUs M. CLAY.
Some Recollections of the Career OF a
Remarkable Man.

From the New Orleans Times
Our telegraphic columns will revive MEM
ories of thirty years ago in the minds of
many Of our citizens. Mr.. Clay " IS then
assisted by Frank P. Blair and Gratz
Brown, OF Missouri the champion of
abolitionism south of Mason and Dixon's
line, at time when the advocacy of that
doctrine was not conducive to longevity in
the locality named. Mr. Clay with Mr..
Burnham, of Madison County, KY, voted
for Lincoln in 1860. In 1861 he was made
a major general of volunteers, but by rea-
son of some difficulty with Mr.. Cameron.
at that time the Secretary of War, could
never get command in the field.
Petersburg as Minister, and while there he
was noted for his disregard of the etiquette
of the most punctilious court. At the first
interview With the Czar he walked into the
presence chamber, and after carefully plant
ing hat of the peculiar Kentucky pattern
not as new as it once was, on the Emperors
private table, sat down to wait fur
ther proceedings Such thing as any
anybody sitting down in the presence of
the Emperor of all the Russias was unheard
Of the Imperial Chamberlain vas stupefied,
and old Gurtschakotf was carried aim 'st
fainting from the room. With all his &C.
centricities and disregard of ceremony, Mr.
Clay possessed good, sound, common sense,
and having as Secretary of Legation his
nephew, MI. Green Clay, Of Kentucky,
most accomplished diplomat, the interests
of the country were all taken care of.
Mr.. Clay has been very much displeased
at the course of things, and called upon
General Grant lately, Ito give him plain
talking to-" as he said. He did not meet
with the success he had hoped for in his
interview with the President, however,
and Las therefore gone over to the opp Isl
tiun. Although cranky and whimsical in
some things, he is man Of the stei nest
integrity, and nnquestioned personal cour-
age, which he has proven Oh many occit-
sions. But the attack on the rights of the
States is a thing no Kentuc ian can stand.
SO Mr.. Clay, with all his hatred of the
''vllainous slave power" as he used to
call it, had to go out of the administration
ranks. They have lost good man.
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RELIGION AND DOCTRINE.
BY JOHN HAY.

He stood before the Sanhedrim;
The scowling rahbis gazed at him.
He rocked not of their praise or blame:
There was no fear. there was no shame,
For one upon whose dazzled eyes.
The whole world poured its vast surprise.
The open heaven was far too near.
His first days light TOO sweet and clear,
To let him waste his new-gained ken,
On the hate clouded face of men.
Put still they questioned, who art thou!
What hast thou been? What art thou now ?
Thou art not he who yesterday
Sat here and begged beside the way
For he was blind.
And lam ne;
For apas bkind, but noaO I see.
He told the story DER and DER;
II was his full hearts on'y lose;
A pro phet on the Sabhath-dav
Had tonchcd his sishtless eyes with clay,
And made him see who had heen blind
Theil words passed by him like the wind
Which raves and howls but cannot shock
The hundred-fathomro r, elk.
Their threats and fury all went wide:
They conld not tnuch his Hebrew pride,
Their sncers at Jesus and his band,
Namclcss and homeless in the land
Their boasts Of Moses, and his Lord,
All could not change him by one word.
know not what this man may be,
Sinner or saint: but as for me.
One thing know, that am he,
Who once was bl nd, and now see.
They all were doctors of renown,
The great men OF Il famous town.
With deep brows, wrinklcd, broad and wise.
Beneath their wide phylacteries /;
The wisdom of the Fast was theirs,
And honor crowned their silver hairs.
The man they iecred and laughed to scorn
Was unlearned, poor and hnmbly born:
But he knew better far than they
That came to him that Sabbath-day;
And what the Christ had done for hIm
He knew, and not the Sanhedrim.
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