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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

THE CHRISTIAN TOSGUE.-The apOs-
tie James teaches that mans religion
is vain who does not bride his tongue.
In fact, he maintains at large through
his epistle that speech is the sign of char
aeter; that n man who is ofTenseless in
this respect is so in all respects, and, i'm
fine, perfect character. But it will be
asked, Why does the apostle single out
one virtue, and make all religious ser
vices vain which does not manifest itself
in well-governed speeeh2 The answer is
that speech is a mans most spiritual act.
An uncontrolled and n eoneienceless
speech is the sign of a soul CONSCIOUSNESS
and uncontrolled. On the contrary, an
o1fenseless tongue is evidence of perfect
ness in life. Think what selfcOntrol it
argues to give a soft answer in place of a
Tough one, when unjust words, barbed
and poisoned with insult, provoke on the
instant. Think what it costs, sometimes,
when the answer is hot in the heart, to
be still and not say n word. Think of
Jesus, standing before the mGddening
priests, and answering not a word, stand
ing before II ''whited wall" and not call
ling him so-a test which the impulsiye
and eloquent Peter could not stand, al
though lac recovered quickly his self
consciousness and was prompt to apollo
gize with Christiln humility. Self-eon-
troll in speech is mastery of spirit-a
better victory than his who taketh a city.
How many conqucrors there have Leen
who never conquered this little member ?
-Am. Messenger.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02
ABOLITION OF sLAVERYIE MAph-
CASCAR

The following is the translation Of q
proclamation issued by the Queen of
Madagascar, ordering the liberation of all
slaves imported into her kingdom since
the date Of the treaty of 1865. entered in
TO with Great Britain for the suppression
of that traffic. The following i trans
lation of this document
81, Ranovalomanjaka, by the grace of
God and the will of the people, Queen of
Madagascar and defender of the laws of
my country, have made an agreement
with my relations across the seas that
there shall not De allowed to be brought
into my country people from across the
seas to be made slaves. And on account
of this, | command that if there are any
Mozambiques lately come into my coun-
try since the 9TH of June, 1873. which
was the year of the completion of the
agreement with my relations across the
seas, they are to become ''isan ny am
baniandro" IA phrase applied to the free
ihiilpitiuNS VI -htludtsstotsliJ y uilu II llltH
wish to dwell in this land, then they
may do so, and be Of the number of free
people; and if they wish to return across
the sea from whence they came, tl:en
they are at liberty to go. And if there
are any who conceal MOzambiques late
ly come to be slaves, and do not set them
at liberty to become ''isan ny ambanian-
dro, according to my command, they
shall be pat in chains for ten years.
Says, RANovALMANJAKA,
Queen of Madagascar, &c.
''This is tine word of Ranoyalmanjaka,
Queen of Madagascar.
Says, RAINILAIARIVoNY,
Prime Minister and Command
erin Chief in Madagascar
'ANTANANARIvO, 2nd October. lS7i "
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

'HAIL, COLUMBIA Hail, Column
bia.7 is said to have been composed un-
der the following circumstances: Ia the
year 1923, when patriotic feeling perva-
ded tile country, and when there were
several parties in the field, Mr. Fox, a
young actor, called one morning upon
his friend, Mr.. HopkinsOn, and, after
stating that the following evening had
been appointed for his benefit, b gged
his friend to do something in his behalf
'If," said Fox, ''you will write me
some patriotic verses to the tune of tie
presidents March" | feel sure of full
house"
Mr.. Hopkinson in a short time wrote
the first verse and chorus, which were
submitted to Mrs Hopkinson, who sang
them to a piano accompaniment, and
proved the measure and music to be in
keeping. In this way the second and
other verses were written, and when
Fox returned in the evening lie receiv-
ed with delight the song as it DOW stands
The following morning the announce
ment was made that Mr. Fox would sing
a new patriotic song. The theater was
crowded; the song was sung and receiv-
ed with rapture; it was repeated eight
times and again encoTed, and when sung
the ninth time the whole audience stood
up and Joined in the chorus. Night af-
ter night ''Hail, Columbia, cheered the
visitors of the theater, and in a very few
days it was the universal song Of the
boys in the streets, from one end of the
city to another. Nor was the author for
gotten. The street in which he resided
was ON one occasion crowded, and Hail,
Columbia" broke on the stiffness Of mid
night from 500 patriotic voices
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

PRESENCE OF MIND IN A HOG. - 4
very curious incident occurred recently
in Terra Haute, by which hog took a
free ride across tine river bridge. 1t was
about half-past three o'clock that a
freight train was approaching the city,
when hog weighing about 1000 pounds
was seen on the track at the west end Of
the bridge. 1t did not get out of the way
soon enough, and the pilot Of the engine
struck it. Instead of knocking il of,
however, the slOping front of the pilot
eaught his porkship and rolled him right
upon the little platforms in front of the
boiler There he rose and sat looking
around, and was by this time out over
the ties, where if he had jumped off he
would have gone down to the water. He
evidently saw this, for he remained on
on the front of the engine and rode
all the way across the bridge. When
the engine arrived on this side the hog
sprang nimbly off upon the platform
near Mr. TwaddeIl's watch house, and
after grunting its satisfaction at its mar
row escape it moved of. IL was slightly
hurt in the side and one leg, but will re-
cover.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

A BREvITY OF LIFE.-It was a sad
cynic who said that youth passes its time
in wishing that it could, and age regret
ting that it didn't. But it is true that
all through the first half of our lives we
are thinking what we lcU do when once
we get fairly started, and we go on pleas
ing ourselves with these dreams until, all
Of a sudden, we wake mp to the fact that
we have begun to go down the hill, and
that now the time to hope and plan is
past, and the time TO remember and re-
gret has come DIR. Hedge Is fond of
liking of the irOnies Of life The saddest
irony is its brevity-Our days are but
span-our life but n ''sleep and forget
ting" If it were possible to realize in
the beginning that three score years and
ten are not three hundred, and to say to
ourselves calmly, ''S5ueh and such things
are, i'm 50 brief space, unattainable; let
us content ourselves with striving for
what we can reasonably hope to win, we
might live our short span more RATIONAL
". Then would the rich man begin in
season to dispense and to enjoy his rich
IS, remembering that he can carry moth
ing with him into the next country
then would tie philanthropist limit his
schemes to his possibilities-then, above
all, would those who love each other be-
ware that they gave no space to estrange-
ment or fault finding, since our life Of SO
few days is all too brief for bitterness.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02
Vol. 20.
4neifai
ACROSS THE BIVER

One b. one across the river,
Members Of the household band;
And We saw the frail bark waiting.
MOOred upon the golden stand:
First our Willie, blue-eyed baby,
All at once forgot to play,
And an angel came and bore him
Ger the river far away.
One by one the bark they entered,
Loved ones from our own firesidc:
And ] watch them DER the river
Ia The light boat swiftly glide;
Willie first, then Maggie, darling,
With her curls Of golden hair,
UnimprisOncd on her bUsom,
FlOliing DER hcr shoulders bare
One b. one the bark they entered,
Aud -tN Il borne away
Ger the wayls upon The river
Lost a:.,id III" dashing spray
Next my stately, dark-cyed brother,
A. his breath came soft and low,
Smiled, and said the boat is waiting
All HHmOorcd, and must &c.
OEe by one, and still the boalman
MuOred the shallOp to the shore,
Aud We held our breath expecting
Soon TO hear him al the door.
Sister Cora heard him knocking.
Pale her checks - driven snow,
And the death drws lIathed her forehead
She, too, whispered, | must 90
One by one they crossed the river,
-Four from ont our household band,
When one morn ! saw the sllaliOp
Moved 10y angels reach the sand.
Here were Willie, Maggie, darling,
And my dark-eyed brother too
And my sister Cora whispered,
We have come 10 visit you
nnc by one they crossed the river
In a shallop light and frail;
But they all returned together
In a bark with snowy sail
Cora spoke Of lovely flowers,
Brother of the farther shore,
Willie dear, and darling Maggie
Kissed my forehead DER and Der
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

BE FAITHFUL.--A man cannot afford
to be unfaithluI under any circumstan-
ces; a man cannot afford to be mean at
any time; a man cannot afford to do less
than his best at ali times and under all
circumstances. No matter how wrong
fully you are placed, and no matter how
uniustly you are treated, you cannot for
your own sake, afford to use anything
but your better self, nor to render any
thing but your better services; you can
not afford to cheat eheater; you can
not lie to liar; you cannot afford 10 be
mean to 4 mean man; you cannot afford
to do. other than deal uprightly with
any man, no matter what exigeneies may
exist between him and you. No man
can afford to be anything but a true man,
living in his higher nature and acting
from the highest consideration.
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SnFdag &3eading.
a Word TO Motheys

Each mother is a historian. She write
not the history of empires or of nations
on paper, but she writes her own history
on the imperishable mind of her child.
That tablet and that history will remain
indelible whe3ime shall be no more.
That history each mother shall meet
again and read with eternal joy or un-
utterable grief in the coming ages of
eternity. The thought should weigh on
the mind of every mother, and render
her deeply eircumsPeet, prayerful and
faithful in her solemn work of training
up her children for heaven and immor-
tality-
The minds of children are very sUseeP-
tible and easily impressed. A word, a
look, a frOwn, may engrave an impress
sion upon the mind of n child which no
lapse of time can efface or wash out. You
walk along tue seashore when the tide is
out, and you form characters or write
words or names in smooth, white sand,
which is spread out so clear and beauti-
ful at your feet, according as your fancy
may dictate; but the returning tide shall
in a few hours wash out and effaee all
that you have written. Not so the lines
and characters of truth and error which
your conduct imprints on the mind of
your child. There you write impressions
for the everlasting good or i'll of your
children, which neither the Hoods nor
the storms of the earth can wash out,
nor deaths fingers erase, nor the slow
moving ages of eternity obliterate. How
careful, then, should each mother be
in the treatment of her childi How
prayerful, and how serious, and how ear
nest, to write the eternal truths which
shall be his guide and teacher when her
voice shall be silent in death and her
lips no longer move in prayer in his be,
half, commencing her child to her Gov
enant-keepins God.-Seleeted.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

a FIXED, inllexible will is . great as
sistance to holy life. Satan will sug
gest thousand reasons why we should
yield little to the temptation by which
we are surrounded; but let Us ever stand
fast in our purpose. \ good degree Of
decision and tenacity OF purpose is Of
great importance in the ordinary affairs
Of life. How much more 30 in the things
of religionl He who is easily shaken will
find the way of holiness diffieult-per-
haps impraetieabIe.-Uph UphGm.
DEATH to good man is but passing
through a dark entry, out Of one little
dusty room in his Fathers house into an
other which is fair and large, IightsOme
and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
o may the rays and splendors Of my
heavenly apartments shoot far down
ward, and gid the dark entry with such
a cheerful gIeam as to Danish every fear
when / shall be called to pass through,
DR.. Watts
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02
SoRRowFuL WASHINGTON BELLE

SoRRowFUL WASHINGTON BELLRs.-
"GrIselda," 4" in the Hartford Times says:
''The same scene is now witnessed in all
the hotels and boarding houses-pack
ing and leave-takihg. The young ladies
are in the pouts. They say it is $50
stupid at home" In truth, they will
miss the excitement upon which they
have lived for the last three months.
They took so much pleasure in wearing
their elegant silk dresses every day.
Then, too, they had just acquired the
like trussed fowls. The siding gait, the
bow of recognition, which resembles the
shy of a horse, the affected smirk Oh the
face, the insipid conversation, will all
have to be laid aside among the plain
home friends, who laugh at all such con-
ceits. There are some pretty spoiled
girls who need the change to bring them
back to their common sense. One throws
herself backward, kisses her hand, and
throws the kiss back in return for every
word spoken to her. She seems to think
this the most touching and irresistible CO.
quetry that could be practiced Anoth-
er's favOrite style is to languish. She is
too tall and large to affect the infantile
or playful, SO she promenades, leaning
heavily and dreaInily upon the arms of
perhaps two gentlemen. She would take
in a third if she only had more sides; for
instance, if she was octagon shaped
then she could display more trophies.
When lady accidentally becomes one of
her party, she makes the remark, as
though it was very creditable, that she
must confess she only enjoys the society
of gentlemen. Ladies' have no attraction
for her. She pointedly and rudely
omIts introducing gentlemen who visit
her to any other girl. Since she aspired
to be belle she has become vain. selfish
and conceited. The very best thing for
her is to be relegated back to her num-
BILE home, for she is now only ridiculous
and absurd"
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WIS .. ". DAVIS. n l.. %
aAYIs HRttS. a ESl.,

iII IIttuI.fe5ALE AND RETAIL. GROCERs
w aud dealers In Flour, Prov isions Wooden
" law and Stone Ware, Confectionery, Fruits
Notions and general variety. Goods AT Whole
ale at Cleveland and Toledo prices. Nos q
nd % Main street
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

WHAT they think of US in Paris may
be inferred from some advertisements
in the local papers. A stationer heads
his advertisements: 'To americans and
Russians" Another advertisement in re-
gard to hotel, announces that it is
''patronized by the principal Royal Fam
lilies of Europe and leading American
Families" Mr.. Hogg-ominous name I!
Rue Castiglione says he is an English
and American Chemist" The ''Hotel
des Princes" commends itself as "highly
recommended for Americans Evident
ly over there, Americans, Russians royal
families, are princes, all belonging to
the same category.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

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 marriages 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 Tag
Glatt of Vienna, that society has been
created, entitled the Mariahilf Matrimo-
NAL Club, for this express purpose. The
club, it will be seen, Is named after one
of the most fashionable suburbs of the
Austrian capital. 1t was started by three
gentlemen, and none can join it who are
not wealthy. Each member binds him
self to marry poor girl who las no pros
pect of inheriting any property whatso-
ever. Should he, however, fail to resist
the charms of one who is gifted with
wealth, he is then bound to pay a forfeit
of four hundred pounds sterling to the
society. On this condition only he is
released from his bond, and his sins are
forgiven him in consequence of the hap
piness which the money thus obtained
will confer on others; for the society
undertakes to discover some poor but
worthy couple, and start them in life
with the fine paid by the faithless mem.
Der.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02
The "HOusekeepsr" of Our Health.

The liver is the great depurating or
blood cleansing organ of the system.
Set the great housekeeper of our health
at work, and the foul cOrruptions which
gender in the blood and rot out, as it
were, the machinery of life, are gradu-
ally expelled from the system. For this
purpose DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, with small daily doses of DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant i-urgative Pellets are
pre-eminently the articles needed. They
cure every kind of humor from the worst
scrofula to the common pimple, blotch
or eruption. Great eating ulcers kindly
heal under their mighty curative infiu-
ence. Virulent blood pOisons that lurk
in the system are by them robbed of
their terrors, and by their persevering
and somewhat protracted use the most
tainted system may be completely reno
waited and built up anew. Enlarged
glands, tumors and swellings dwindle
away and disappear under the influence
of their great dissolvents. Sold by all
dealers in medicines.
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wm. ~. nEFWILEK. VI. ID,
/. nIsNF SONS

HOMEOPATHIC Physician and surgeon
III Main 1T } Two Doors North OF HubeT's
Drug store. Finuiay, Ohio.
once Iours-IrOm to7k A. NJ, al A. N. TO
PMstoBP M May 10 1911
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

AsT HoLEsALE AND RETAIL DEALER
w In Grocereis, Flour, Fish and a Genera
variety In the Grocery and Provision line
food prices paid for Better, Eggs, and Coun-
try Produce generally. East side Of Main 81,
drst door north of Colt House Block, Findlav
Ohio, April Is, '7O-i'.a
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

I1ARLINs q CO., BANKERS. Banking
I House 10 RawSon'S Block No. 66, Main
f. FlnaIsy ohio Rdakfn0 Bosfrs from
Z I" I'olOeE ~. and from % f0ctock, p. NJ
a raj banking business done. InteTestOn
q I-tfisrts
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN CRETE
The Pail Mall Gazette says: The latest
interesting archaeological discovery"
has been made in Crete The monks Of
II convent which occupies the site Of the
ancient and once celebrated town Of
Aptera have dug up two life-size female
statues draped after the fashion Of ladies
who moved in society 3, 600 years ago.
The question as to the identity of these
statues has, it is stated, raised a lively
controversy among local archeologits
By some it Is maintained, on the strength
of a barely legible inscription on the
pedestal of one of the statues, that they
represent a daughter of the Emperor
Claudius. The inscription is, however,
50 clumsily cut, and represents 50 rude
a contrast with the exquisite chiselling
OF the figures themselves, that it is sup
posed by others to have been made By
an inexperienced hanG at a compare
lively recent epoch. The statues, which
attract great interest, are to be sent at
an early date to ConstantinOpIe, to be
deposited in the Stamboul Museum. 1t
is to be hoped that centuries hence no
one will dig up any female statues exis-
ting in-this country draped after the
fashion of the present age.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

CiIiLEN,S nAER.

,ENERAL PRoDUC CEMERCHANTss, e deal
I err IN Butter, Eggs, Lard, Feathers, Seesisi
Dried Fruits. Reee wax. PeiJs, Hides and f"nr
ITyPrnI -ce OF all lescTi ptloEE
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-02

d. TroRNEY ANDCoUNsELLOR AT LAW
"A and Notary Public. VIII attend prompt
yfo All business entrusted 10 mis- care. Par
tfcular attention given to Collections, Part-
tioninR Of lands, and business In Probate
Court.
nearly opposite the COuu House, May Z.
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aEsKS y GREEN
40 DAVIS. REEKi
nAVIS A esREEN.

xsrH HoLEsALE AND RETAIL GROCERs
w and Commission Merchants and Dealers
Flour, salt Fish, Wooden and willow Ware
Nc. NC. Garner of Main and Sandusks Streeih.
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=. A. KELTNER. %. D. =.

A TrORNEf al Law O1lceUp Stair. FiTs'
"A Door south OF Court House, fiDdlay, -
Nov. q, 1874 II
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THE PIUTEs IN NKvADA-Although
the Piutes i'll some places in the States are
in starving condition, those living in
the hills surrounding this city are about
as well fed as any people on the face of
the globe. They are all fat, ragged and
sauey. Not so ragged, however, as
indians generally are, for the majority
of the men are dressed in clothing in
which not n hole or rent is to be seen.
Some of the old squaws are exceedingly
filthy and ragged, and the majority Of the
females, old and young, are exceedingly
siatternly. 1t Is n curious fact that,
among the flutes, the men alone appear
to feel any pride in dress They are
generally somewhat jaunty, but the
woman do not care what they wear,
nor in what shape their clothing is worn.
A Piute squaw-even though she be the
belle of her tribe-thinks nothing of
marching through a crowded street with
tin kettle on her head and huge soup
bone in her dexter 'hipper." Why the
Indians here do not send word to their
starving brethren that " Iashins of
broken victuals are to be had along the
ComstOck range, is more than we know
Were the starving Indians to come in
and properly distribute themselves about
the towns OF the State they would be
'wintered over in good shape on the
cold ''gruh" that is now thrown away
FiTyiEia (YeU.) Enterprise
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Va sHsI,i ''rap ~, far ,alrt

'tsdERE ia iesirabl- property for sale Ct:
N~~ ifariin 1Lieo:. TiI,. hSu o is a story
s1it.i = ha!ff a-ne with large rooms, cnnveni-
entity arranged. The prop. Ity X in a good TO-
cation and viii be sold at a reasonable price
and on easy payments. Enquire of c. NJ. Hess
Ter: a. Feilers Co.'s 1rocery Store.
March r. ls75w6.
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4. n. RUHL.

hPKR ATIh y aud MeeiianicHl D-ntisi -
Office 81 u .sin 5tieot, above h. - ia
ker a COS shoe store
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OPERATIVE AND MECHASICAL DEN
tIst over Green, ID yIs, to-. All opera
tions pertaining TO the profession. carefully y
aud skiIlfully performed. Residence, No Y
West Hardin Street
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&iFdLag gasiFfss Qnffforg
!. NJ. PALM AK.
NJ n REARneIEI

TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LA v,
"A Ffudlay Ohio. Office over PaieTrBn',
store EntraBc- second door. upst ,irs.
feb - - 90