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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-04-07
WHOLE NO. 1905
A Nice Girl.

extinct, still they are Mt SO numerous
as might be wished, There is moth
lng half so sweet in life, half 50 beauti-
full or so delightful Or 50 lovable as q
nice girl. Not pretty CT a dashing
girl, but nice girl. One Of those
lovely, lively, good-natured, sweet
faced, amiable, neat, naty, domestic
creatures met with in the sphere of
"home," diffuslng around the influence
of her goodness like the essence of
sweet flowers.
A nice girl is not the languishing
| beatty, dawdling on sofa and dis
casing the last novel Or opera, or the
girafe-like creature sweepingmajestlc-
ally through the drawing-room. The
nice girl may not even play or dance
well, and knows nothing about using
her eyes or coquetting with fam
She is not given to sensation, novels,
she is too busy. In public she is not
in font showing her shoulders she
sits quiet and unobtruSiye ut the back
of the crowd, most likely. In fact it
is not ofteh we discover her. Home
is her place.
Who rises betimes and superintends
the morning meal ? Who makes the
toast and tea, and buttons the boys
shirts, and feeds the chickens, and
brightens up the parlor and sitting
room ? Is it the languisher, or the
giraffe, or the "elegante ?" Not
bit Of it; it's the nice girl.
Her maiden toilet is made in the
shortest possible time, yet how charm
ingy it is done; and how elegant and
neat her dress and collar! Not pre-
senting her check or brow, like a
''iine girl" but an audible smack,
which says plainly, 81 love you ever
so much" Ifyou coyct anything it's
one of the nice girls kisses.
Breakfast over, down in the kitchen
to see about dinner, and all day she is
up and down, always cheerful and
light.hearted. She never ceases to be
active and useful until day is CONS.
when she will polka with the boys, Of
read, sing old songs and play old
tunes to her father or mother for (
hours together she is perfect
treasure, is the nice Girl. When sick
ness comes it is she who attends with
unwearying patience in the sick
chamber. There is no risk, no fatigue
that she will not undergo; no sacrifice
that she will not make. She is all
love, all devotion. / have often
thought it would be happiness to be
i'll, to be watched by such loving eyes
and tended by such a fair hand.
One Of the most strongly marked
characteristics of a mice girl" is tidi-
ness and simplicity Of dress. She is
invariably associated in my mind with
a high frock, plain collar, anu the
neatost Of nice ribbons, bound with
the most modest little brooch in the
world. | never knew mice girl
who displayed profusion Of rings
and bracelets or who wore low dresses
or a splendid bonnet.
] say again, there is nothing in the
world half so beautiful, half so intrin1
sically good, as a mice girl" She ID
the sweetest flower in the path OF life
There are others far more stately, fad
more gorgeous, but these we merely
admire as we go by. 1t Is where thd
daisy grows that we like to rest
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-04-07

a PLEASANT PRosrECr.-Trav
Ter Gn Ireland): "Hold, pull her
man Don't you'see the mare is II
ming away ?" Paddy "Hould tigl
yer Onor For yer life don't tou'
the reins sure they're as rotten
pears ! I'll turn her INTO the river
the bridge below here. Sure that \
stop her !"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-04-07

In addition to his hotel, Flor
letter says that Astor will erect tw
ty villacottages in Jacksonville Will
will cost about $4,000 apiece, and
is supposed they will rent for alb |
$500 each.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-04-07

In a box-the Beecher jury.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-04-07

j NJ Davis was recently convicted
of murder in the second degree for
killing policeman Bird, at Cincinnati,
in September last.
, 1875-07-25

the bodies OF infants and little children. Hardly
any fact ia mora completely demonstEabls than
that indlsoriminate alms-giving is curse to
eociety. Amy other than organized aud sys-
tcmatc charities are harmful instead of bsne-
hcent.
Notwithstanding the alleged deficiency in the
law, 1t cannot be doubted that the
authorities could nd the city OF
these vagrants il there was any
determined resolution to that effect. In no
properly administered Government would Auch
ioafhsone deformities as are exhibited on the
streets OF Chleago be permitted to aftront the
public eye. The consequences to lady IN dell
cate lr ralth Of having d reuulsive deform'ty sud
denlF ps eseuted to her by IN abrupt appeal Tor
charity might be serIous. Manr Of the e1hl,
billions made are contrary to public dscency and
decorum, and, apart from snch considerations, it
argues lax and inefficient Government when
the thorou8hfares Of city are abandoned TO the
pursuits OF cheats aud impostors- There IS no
reahon, for instance, Why warrant cannot be
sworn out for the arrest OF the deformed woman
above referred to, and she be gwen the option
Of going to the Poor:Rousc, it without meane,
or to the Bridewel, if sine objects to the County
Farm.
, 1875-07-25

c;r;oin,1v tnthe same time Mr. Mead received
"a colossal commission, his brother.1n la",
AZ. Augustus D. Shepard. stop my payment 20
Meesrs Ma1uay r.kennam: "ae y. usa.Anea Su.mot'
hn aav 10 me shat he had not made The tanal con-
tract. So ue went to the month or November;
on the 10th wrute an enefBe1c ssttes ~ n. H.
Mead. then he answer me lmmeuletely 10 flol-
euce, where he give me 90, Qoo,,st,Vop ssets
~ssr have declare that Mr. Mead be MAKE
ihe drawing himself, and the artistic propr7ety
wa h;s own. or course, really write ID such
manner because he write me In h1h letter OF 'oct.
b that vss accepted his cesign. 1na nos tne quo
brought myself in America Ihls arc the
salient point to have sea a,.c-9 NJ esp .ra Tere }ons
md verv important regard Lincoln Monument
+ rama1n dahr sir. your very respectfully,
l. aon1AA 1~"' ToMMAso GAoL1ARpI.
ar r ". simopton il heard from in defense
- +ha Amerean sculptor, md sets the originality
~ thu !. Mountain Boy, the design of which
Sir Gae1isrdi claims az his own. pretty efectu-
.1iv to rest In the course Of letter In response
to that Of the italian sculptor pubhshed above
Mr, Bimonton says:
Now. here are the facts in regard 20 mo hountaln
Boy. - personally and wel[known 70 ny !aat5. n
lS 1868 happened INTO ;s a,taIna statnets of
11s. 1.Esho for u. r. Corcoran, Of Warrington c.
xhtch work 20 charmed that was guilty Of the ex-
fraY2rauca p3 ordering copy. 17etA'[S . -
nra nf the same size rs pendant, eupmitted 70
Mead tho inquiry whether be could aenan an
.nnronr;ate ideal hguro which should also
Eve he portrait Of my eon, whose picture Aa ne
ars him In ess than ten minutes he auggested that
tba - Mountain Boyn in '' Mariana would be an
snnronriate subject for mats to "Echo He PRO
ckeasd It once to make hurried pencil sketch i,ns-
trstine hia proposed mathod Of treatin8 tnS 81 sup
iecr from which its fituess was 10 apparent lhat
sscrrnted +. On the spot This Was the origin OF
the :. Mountain Boy" subsequently III. heAd Tas.
itad nv residence ia Paris. modelled inc aea0 OF
nv snt. and set up in clay tho entire ngufe o.
the {. Mountain Boy" working In the presence o.
the tt different members Of my family, from day e
dsy, @ during fortnight clesry then H. Mad asa
md nobody else, designed tho "Aount*ln BOY.
Ono Of Sic. Gagliardis claims being thus dis
M ,ed OF. the public will. naturally, look wlth
anne m mnstlence for the refutaton OF his oths1
charres against Mr. Mead. It certainly ls @ t1!4e
ioped. tor the sake of American art and ara
that thew will be refuted beyond all c.Ti!. ep
The contention over the art frauds n Italy
ha. led at last te ltbei-suit brougnt by MT r
r. Counellv against Mr.. s. ". Heaiy and the
Tourts{c, sort Of organ Of the latter gentleman
Tbs newspaper begs the public ITO note that
No have stood in readiness from tlrst to hst' and
that noither ourselves nor Ar. HeAly have eTet
asked for an hours delay. This fact alone
demonstrates cur sincerity"
, 1875-07-25

E6 E6 fgSE;: fP4Y;: DIR. Kean,

$50 SOUTH CLARK-ST., CHICAGO,
Nay b. consulted. personally es b. maa re g. shsFxs
onIJ phyNcau il the city who warrants cufss or ~
, Omes hoHs, . T. n. 10 3p. NJ; SUNDAYS AumS S01
, 1875-07-25
RAILROAD TIME TABLE,
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS

EXPLANATION o. RxTKnrycE MAaKs.-t Saturday ~
eepted- SUNDAY excepted. tNondAf axcspfSd. Al.
rive sundAJ 1t 100 =. m. DAILY.
, 1875-07-25

CHICAGO NORTHWESTERN Rau e1s,.
r&et QQt< -n<rnsaa ifot%e1 al u EtSh1A
IT,. eorner Aaditon-st.. aad al IA depots-
, 1875-07-25
ADELPHI THEATRE.

ADELPHI THEATRE.
WEEK CoMMEsCING MOSDAy, JULY 2e.
REPRESENTATION Of ]. Baldwin }tckstone't Immortal
Gpectacle, tho
ICE WITCH,
Which has been many weeks in preparation. and n
now produced 1t absolute incidental cost OF
with every attention to the death and euperAti9e
degree Of magninceuce.
Especial engagement for this pagesnt Of The very
celebrated Star Comedian, c. B. BISHOP.
incidental to the spectacle the performances OF thu
very fsmous GARRETTA FAMIY-N1le. Garretta,
stanor Monto and Little Apollo. Their first appear
ance in Chicago.
Also, the world-famed Acrotntic Beauties, THE
CLAIRE SISTERS. Minnie and lGaggie. These ladies'
have no equal In tho world in their special acs Their
first appearance in Chicago.
Especial engagement Of the celebrated German Tra-
Red!epue, Miss ELOA CARFANO.
Miss RACHEL. NOAH. biiss FRANKIE.
The Incidental Ballet presents this celebrated Pre-
mfere Assoluta, Nile. MARIE GAuGAIN, and tie dis
tnguishel Coryphees, Ella War2e Leontina Vaudray,
Maggie Wesn.r, Alberta Weintr, Georgia Bossin
SUSIE Starr, Marie Starr, Bertha st elm.
Tbs Scenery, entirely nsw is by the justly celebrated
artist, David Strong. The Costumes and Properties
ETC., ETC., ara from the famous Ann Of Palmer Co.
Tho Glorious Transformation Scene is from the Same
eminent amusement house. The Incidental S1uklc in
from The prolific reu Of George L,esch Remember.
all Ladies' Nights but Wcdut 6d.y" and Saturday.
, 1875-07-25

Il L<dtt.
Kan.as City and Denver Fast E1. i'l3:00 ne
ST. Louis and Springfield Ex....}s 9.0e 4.
81. Louis, Sprin g1eid / Texas. s 800 E.
Peoria, keokuK / hufltaztou.-..f'fc 20 nc
P-orix, he,knz + Burlington. i 500 p.
Chicago q PAdueah Railroad Ell. II 9 90 !.
S.rcaior, Laeou, Washington Ell. i'12 00 nc
Joliet htAeco,n1nodation.is - 5 "a o.
, 1875-07-25
ACADEMY.

A school for Young Men and Boys, $50 West Adnms-
st. Course Of instruction extensive thorough, pract
ca Fall term commences sept &. Send for circular.
H. b. GLEASON. Principal
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-03-11
A Romance of War.

An officer of the First French
Empire, aged seventy eight, who
has for forty one years been living
on the modest pension Of 800
francs a year, having been CON-
PEELED, the other day, to enter the
Hospital Necker, was discovered
to be a lady. Her name is De
Senkeisen, and, the secret being
out, she readily related her history.
Her grandfather, the Baron Won
Senkeisen, commanded corps
d'armee in the Bavarian army.
Bavaria being then in alliance
with France. She was then four
teen years old when her father,
Colonel Won Senkeisen, died, and
her grandfather, from some mex
plicable caprice, compelled her to
enter one of the regiments of his
division; she served in Germany
and in Spain, and at Waterloo re-
ceived two somewhat severe
wounds. She became afterward
an officer of the second class in
the administration of the hospit-
ais, but in 1880 re-entered upon
active service, and went to Algeria.
In 1888 she became a naturalized
Frenchman, and obtained retir-
ing pension. She had congratu-
latory letters from Marshals Ber-
thier, Augerier, and Suchct, and
from Generel Dupon, testifylng to
her bravery and good services.
Her voice and countenance are
quite of the manly type. She re-
ceived the medal of st. Helena
during the Second Empire.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-03-11
"It's Our Baby"

! /. j. Wolfe is not an old man; I;
he is not a young man, but he is
a married man, and has been for
several years. He lives one mile
west of Westport, Mo-. 5ut no
children climb upon his knees
when the day declineth and
twist the cats tail and listen to
big stories. Yesterday morning
he went to the fodder shock to get
provender for his mich COW, and
as he stopped to pull the ears he
suddenly discovered midway in
the shock what he at first took to
be horse blanket. He picked it
up and unrolled it, and discovered
two bundles Of red flannel. He
unraveled these, and there lay
girl baby, about four or five hours
old. He took it in the house and
showed it to Mrs. w. She re-
marked that it had blue eyes; and
then she looked into her husbands
eyes to satisfy herself that she
was not mistaken. Wolfe held
up his hand and said he would
swear, but the good wife didn't
require it. So this new found
ling was encompassed about new
with linen, and Mrs. w. sat down
to make baby clothes, while Wolfe
got out IN the floor and danced and
sung and hit his wife on the back
of the head and 'hollered.".
'Bully for us. It's our young
one, isn't it, Mrs. Wolfe? and
didn't cost a cent did it? Hurrah!
And then he went out and hitch
ed up yoke of calves, and drove
all around the house yelling like
an Indian. The little stranger has
a good home, and may yet be the
queen Of its realm. Here's luck
to the baby.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-03-11

A recent number of Portland
(Oregon) paper tells pleasant,
little story to the following effect:
A young lady well known in that
city has just started to join her
parents whom she has no recol-
lection of ever having seen. Her
name is Emma Frankie, and her
parents live in Florence. Italy.
AT the age of between three and
four she was given to q family
named Stokes, who promised to
educate and otherwise provide for
her. 1t seems that she was train
ed for circus performances, and
travelled with circus troupes until
she was eighteen years o,d, when
she abandoned the business, made
her home in Portland, and having
learned to set type, supported her.
self by that work during the past
four years, taking good care of
herself, and winning many friends.
Meanwhile she had caused in
quiries for her parents to be made
IN Florence, these only recently
proving successful, the parents
having also been for some years
advertising for their lost daugh-
ter. Money was sent to the
daughter from Florence with
which to defray her expenses home
and by this time she has probably
been reunited to those who long
ago parted from her hoping it
would prove to her advantage.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-03-11

Value OF Time.-As nothing
truly valuable can be attained
without industry, so there can be
no persevering industry without a
deep sense Of the value of time.
Disputes.--It is an excellent
rule to be observed in all disputes,
that men should give soft words
ana hard arguments; that they
should not so much strive TO vex
as to convince an opponent.
Solitude and Society.--It is ca
sy, in the world, to live after the
worlds opinion; it is easy in sol
itude to live after your own; but
the great man is he who, in the
midst of the crowd, keeps with
perfect sweetness the independ-
encc Of solitude.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-03-11
A Lost Father.

Even along the Valley of the Will
lamette Oregon my be found
persons around whose lives cling
a dark cloud of romance stranger
far than half the fiction written in
the yellow covered novels of this
sensational generation. We have
just learned Of one most strange,
queer and unnatural, and which
runs as follows:
About twenty five years ago a
man named William Blair left
St. Stephens Parish, in the Prov.
ince of New Brunswick, leaving
two of his children behind him.
No one knew whittier he had wan
dered or seemed to care. The
little children, both girls, were
cared for by the friends until
they wearied, and next went as
parish charges, where they re-
manned until able to earn their
own living by labor, which they
did. For nearly twent-five years
not word was heard by them of
their father, whose remembrance
had almost faded by the lapse of
years. During this time Mr.. Blair
wandered throughout almost ev-
cry State in the Union, at last
coming to a halt on the banks of
the Willamette, near the setting
sun. He was an old man, his sun
was low, and a year ago it set to
rise again on the morn of that
great Day of Judgment. His
daughters had passed into wo-
manhood, the eldest marrying a
gentleman named Waters, taking
up a home in Hainesville, Mass.
During the past year Judge Hur-
ley, of Lafayette, and p. A. Wood,
of this city, succeeded in ascer-
tanning the whereabouts of these
children, to whom the old man
had willed all his property, if they
could be found, and informing
them of the fact. About ten days
ago Mr.. Waters and wife arrived
in this city on the way to their
new home up the valley. The
other sister is soon to follow, and
thus by strange affair in the
tide of time they will assemble
beneath the roof around which
clings strange memories of the
past--their girlhood lives and the
presence Of father whose spirit
has passed beyond the clouds.
Dolt,,cnra man wac SIaliyo,.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-03-11
SENSATION OF THE NIGHT.

SENSATION OF THE NIGHT.
1t has counted, too, powerfully
1t has put republicans to think
ing. 1t comes from a source
about which there is neither fool
ishness nor make believe.
Pinchback is still on the war.
path. He says that he has been
made cats paw of; that he has
been humbled, disgraced, and
made both fool and a dog before
the nation, and somebody has got
to "smell helr'-his exact words.
He denounces Grant, and says
that he has lied to him; Conkling
he calls a civet cat; Ferry, OF
Connecticut, "a Id old copper
head;" and Frelinghuysen, a fos
sill "with gout in his head and a
fork in his tongue" He is in cor.
respondence constantly with
Hahn, the speaker of the Kellogg
legislature and evidently there is
a flank movement Of some kind on
foot. It is believed that the Kel-
logg legislature, before the COM
promise now being negotiated be-
tween the conservatives and the
congressional committee is effect
ed, will remove all the conserva-
tive Legislators who are acting
WITH THE wILTz WING.
This is Pinchback's advice. He
wants to see, he says, whether Mr.
Grant will dare to use his bayo-
nets again. Trouble is ahead,
sure, and some of the richest and
rarest developments touching the
administration ring in Louisiana
that was ever made in a country
calling itself republican.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-03-11
Curious Customs.

In Wiendish, Prussia, there are
villages where certain old customs
are still observed on the death of
the head of a family. If the man
should happen to have been bee
keeper, one Of the family goes to
the hive, and striking the comb,
exclaims, "Bees, arise, your mas
ter is dead" A similar custom
prevailed, and possibly still pre-
walls, in parts of England, and fur
nishes the idea of an interesting
poem by Tennyson, entitled TELL
ing the Bees" The English Gus
tom was based on the supposition
that unless the bees were told of
any death occurring in the family
they would quit the premises, and
the manner In which the informa-
tion was conveyed was by placing
a black cloth over the hive. In
the Prussian villages already al
luded to, it is the custom
on the morning of the funeral of a
farmer, for the men to proceed to
the cattle-sheds, aud after causing
the cattle to get upon their feet,
place cheese before them, and sol
emnly announce to them that the
body is about to be taken away.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-03-11
A Novel Matrimonial Society.

We have heard Of matrimonial
agencies that profess to bring
about happy unions, attended by
the material comforts which are
the fruits of wealth; but we have
never foreseen that a society
would be founded to encourage
or rather enforce-uneven mar
rlages between rich men and poor
women. Yet we have it as a fact,
and on no less an authority than
that of the well known paper The
Tagblatt, of Vienna, that a socie-
ty has been created, entitled the
Mariahilf Matrimonial Club, for
this express purpose. The club
it twill be seen, is named after one
of the most fashionable su-
burbs of the Austrian capital. 1t
was started by three gentlemen,
and none can join it who are not
wealthy. Each member binds
himself to marry a poor girl who
has no prospect ofinheriting any
property whatsoever. Should he
however, fail to resist the charms
of one who is gifted with wealth,
he is then bound to pay forfeit
of four hundred pounds sterling
TO the society. On this condition
only is he released from his bond,
and his sins are for
given him in consequence of the
happiness which the money thus
obtained will confer on others; for
the society undertakes to discov-
er some poor but worthy couple,
and start them in life with the
fine paid by the faithless member.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-03-11
ARK. Il,


The rage, CONSERVATION, savage
criticism and brutal denunciation
that followed Hawley after he
made his speach were perfectly
characteristic of the desperate
revolutionists who had expected
an ally in this bold, out-spoken,
independent editor and federal
general.
Other speeches were made by
Willard, of Vermont, and Buck
ner of Missouri, but Hawley's was
the great
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-03-11
A Careful Judge.

Judge Green, of tile Second
District, Washington Territory,
may fairly claim to be considered
the most cautions occupant of the
bench extant. A case recently
cen,a before him in which an In
dian was charged with the murder
of another nomad who was med
icine man. The defendants wife
had been very i'll, and labored un-
der the firm conviction that the
medicine man had bewitched her.
The husband went to the mcdi-
cine man and requested the re-
lease of his wife from the spell
which was killing her. The de-
mand was refused by the reputed
wizard, who further said that the
woman was in his power and
would die next day. Upon this
the husband very naturally killed
him. The defense took the ground
that a belief in witchcraft was
sanctioned by the Bible, and was
common ali the world over. The
Judge, in charging the jury, OBJ
served that he did not feel at lib
erty to assume that there was no
such thing as witchcraft; that he
would not take upon himself to
deny the possibility of the en-
chantment of the sick woman;
ard that as the defendant believed
it to be his duty to save his wife
by killing the medicine man, it
was proper for the jury to find a
a verdict of not guilty. Which
they accordingly did, to the con-
fusion of all future medicine men.
1t is a funny case.