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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18

She returned to the city q few days
after this little episode; and one morn
ing, when she had been at home nearly a
week, she received the following note:
HERcuLANEUM, Jan. 2 1873.
MI DEAR Miss HALLowELL-I hardly
know how to apologize for what must have
seemed to you the most outrageous rudeness.
But as the exact truth Of the matter is all
that can afford any excuse for me, will give
it at once. l called that morning at Mrs.
Mason's request, having promised her to give
you some advice about your manner TO gen.
tlemen; and feeling. after the promise was
made, that you could hardly fail to consider
such action very ofiicious and unwarrantable,
was awkward and embarrassed, and con-
Quoted myself in way which led to the very
natural mistake you made. l beg you to be-
Keve that am heartily sorry for having acted
SO foolishly throughout, and hope you will
not refuse to number among your friends your
sincere well-wisher. ALAN THORNTON.
Miss Hallowell's reply was an invita-
tion to her wedding-HearM and Home.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18

The following were the postal changes
in Iowa during the week ending
March 6:
Established - Farmersville, Jasper
County, Thomas Tenant, Postmaster
Slagle, Keokuk County, Joseph Merry
field, Postmaster; Taunton. Warren
County, Francis Trueblood, Postmaster.
Discontinued - Manhattan, Keokuk
County.
Postmasters Appointed-Caldwell, Ap-
panoose County, Joseph Kincade; Car
Isle, Warren County, William r. Ran
dleman; Fredric, Monroe County, j. H.
Moss; Hooks Point, Hamilton County,
B. c. Dixon; Indianapolis. Mahaska
County, David Clammer; Monitor, Ap-
panoose County, w. W. Edwards; War
saw, Wayne County, L. F. Thatcher
Wheeler's Grove, Pottawattamie County,
Thomas ShutZ.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18
Again and again he barked, as if he

Again and again he parked, as II he
were shouting:
"Hello-o! I've found him! Here he
isl"
Caspar had not barked very long before
two men came toiling through the storm.
One was St. Bernard monk and the
other was one of the men with whom
Paolo had started out in the morning.
These two took the boy by the arms
and raised him up. They shook him and
they made him drink a little brandy that
the monk had with him and then they
led him away between them.
Caspar went ahead, SO that it should be
all right
They walked back with great difficulty
by the way they had ccme and soon
reached place where the road could be
regained, at a point some distance be-
yond the snow-drift.
Then they pressed on to the convent.
The four men had been overwhelmed
by the snowdrift, but, as they were con-
| siderably in advance of Paolo, the great
er part of the mass of fresh snow seemed
to pass over them and hurl itself on the
boy.
After some struggling the men got out
of the deep snow. They missed the boy
but could not tell how to look for him or
save him. If they stopped they were
afraid they would perish themselves. So
they hurried on and before they had gone
very far they met Caspar and two of the
st. Bernard monks.
They told their story, and one OF the
monks with the dog started down the
mountain. He thought the boy might
be saved. The youngest OF the four men
thought he would GO too. 1t was shame
to desert the poor boy so.
As they hurried along the man said:
"lf the snow-drilt is still there we
shall never be able to get around it or
into it to find the boy"
"Caspar will attend to that" said the
monk
He believed in Caspar.
And when the dog reached the snow
drift he did not try to 60 through it. He
had more sense than that. He stopped;
he seemed to be considering the matter.
Then he turned around and ran back.
The monk and the other man waited to
see what he would do. When Caspar
reached place where the bank was low
he leaped down from the road, and kept
on down the mountain. His idea was to
90 around the snowdrift. Suddenly he
stopped and glared through the failing
snow flakes that were whrled this way
and that way by the wind.
He saw something. The men, who
were following at distance, could only
see little way through the storm.
Then, with sudden bark, Caspar
rushed over the frozen crusts and
plunged through the deep places, bound
ing and leaping, caring not for drift or
storm, until he found the boy!
For he was a snow -king.-H. Ntcholas.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18

BY NORA PERRY.

by NORA PERRY.
LITTLE JENNY, pretty Jenny,
Jenny with the perfect eyes,
Jenny with the soft silk hair,
And the red mouth puckered wise.
Little Jenny, pretty Jenny,
Jenny with her charming ways,
Jenny with her wooing smiles,
And her broken RS and AS.
Little Jenny, pretty Jenny,
Jenny with that perfect form,
Jenny with that mingled temper,
Half Of sunshine, half of storm.
Little Jenny, pretty Jenny,
Laughing as you strive to catch her,
When you chase her round the room
All! what baby e'er can match her?
Little Jenny, Carries Jenny,
There was never such another
As this baby, save. it may be,
Listen, Carrie-Jenny's mother.
Little Jenny, matchless Jenny,
Sunshine kiss her, winds caress her;
Dark browed sorrow, do not touch her,
Or, if touching, touch to bless her.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18

RUSSIA ID amazed 1t the disastrous re.
suits Of the great emigration movement
there, and asks herself in alarm: Where
are al our Mennonites." And In America
the cry is taken up by every female lect-
urer' Yes, where are our men o
piehtsi"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18

THE reason people count their chick
ems before they are hatched is because it
is easier. Mr.. Benson, on Grafton street,
found dead hen back Of his barn, Sat-
urday morning. He suspected it was
one of his fowls, but he was not certain,
and the only way to ascertain, he thought,
was to count his flock, which numbered
sixteen. He gathered them together
with few fakes of cold pancakes, and
commenced counting
Zone. two, three-four, ive-six-
seven. One-two, three, four,
five, six. One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine
ten, eleven-pshaw! One, two,
three, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
gracious! One, two--three, four
-fiye, six,
seven-seven--thu and lightning!
One, two, three--one, two, three, four,
five, six--six. seven-eight-nine--
ten, en,eleven--elev-blast ye,
stand still! One, two-two-two-two,
three, ,four--four-four-fOur-
Oh, ye will, will ye. We will, ye will, ye
will" he suddenly screamed, choking
with passion, and jumping up and down
in a perfect ecstacy of rage. Then he
dove after clothes-pole and bore down
on the frightened and fleeing hens like q
whirlwind, scattering the yard with
feathers and filing the air with the
shrieks of the crazed bipeds, and never
ceased the attack until every hen was
out of sight. He don't know yet whether
that hen is his.-Danbury Neses.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18

ONE of the boys just before returning
to Cornell, the other day, sent young
lady friend OF his cake of Lubin's finest
variety Of toilet soap, with the request
that she would draw no inferences on re-
ceiving such gift. The next day the
young man was somewhat ast0nished
when he received letter from He young
lady containing the present Of fne-
tooth comb, with the request that he
would draw no infcrences therefrom-
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Lor could easily have obtained d.
vorce by trying his old wife for aalt,
and been ct liberty TO get fresh one.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18

Rev. DR.. PoKTEoUs is in Chicago and
they like him exceedingly. His habit Of
calling things by their right names just
suits them. The Chicagoan is nothing if
not child of nature. His soul comes
and goes as freely as the winds, and the
cry of the whangdoodle is music in his
ear. The East is still in bondage to the
tyrant custom, but out toward the setting
sun man exults in his freedom and speaks
st all times without the dust of conven-
tionality choking his Cinein-
mats Enquirer.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-10-13

AN INcEssANT WANT.-One of the inees-
SAINT wants of man is air. We want air main
ly to nolfish us End to keep us cool. The
quantity of air inhaled by an adult in twenty
four hours, amounts on an average to about
three hundred cubic feet, or two Thousand
gallons. What we take in and give out dur
ing twenty four hours in the shape of solid
and liquid food, occupies on an average the
space of five and half pints, which is equal
TO one thrce-hundredth of the volume of air
passing through pur lungs. Hswill astonish
you to hear, perhaps for the first time, that
it amounts to seven hundred and thirty thou
sand. gallons in one year, and to be reminded
of that CONTINUOUS work which goes ON day
and night--a never ceasing bellows blowing,
by which the organ of our life is kept in play.
OF course the quantity of air flowing around
the surface of the human body is greater than
chat. Do not object that air is sometimes SO
light that it need not be taken into account.
It has some weight water, certainly is seven
hundred and seventy times heavier, but our
daily two thousand gallons have for all that a
weight of twenty-five pounds avoirdupois.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-10-13

BULLS NOT IRIsIr.--It was Scotch wo-
man who SAID thFt the batsher of her town
who only killed half q beast at time it was
a Dutchman who said that a pig had no marks
on his ears except short tail it was Brit,
ish magistrate who, bcftfg told by j vagabord
that he was not married, responded I" that is
good thing for your wife" 1t was an En-
glish reporter who stated, at meeting Of the
chronological Society there was exhibited
"casts of the skull Of an individual at differ
cnt periods of adult life, to show the changes
produced in ten years" though Dean Swift
certainly mentions two skulls preserved in Ire
land, one of person when he was boy, and
the other of the same person when he grew to
be man. 1t was Portuguese mayor who
enumerated among the marks by which the
body of a drowned man might be identified
when found, ga marked impedmcnt in his
Speech 1t was Frenchman, the famous
Carlino, who, contentedly lying his head up
on a large stone jar for a pillew, replied to
one who inquired If it was not rather hard,
"Not at ALL for / have stuffed it with hay.''
1t was an American lecturer who solemnly
said one evening, parents, you may have
children, or if not, your daughters may have"
And it was German orator who, warming
with his subject, exclaimed, ".,There Il no
man, woman or child in the house, who has
arrived at the age n, fifty years, but what has
felt THIS truth laundering through his mind
for centuries"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-10-13

TnE NEED OF REposE.-" Repose," says
a'writer, is the secret of power in persons,
pictures, statues, architecture, books and na-
ture, as il it were a means of retaining as well
as disclosing life, and health demands a ire
quent pausing to restore the balance of the
system and keep up perfect circulation. The
night, if spent in healthy sleep after proper
evening hours, reduces the worlds chaos and
we are new every morning. Who does not
know the magic Of brief pause in the midst
of the worst confusion? A calm of five MN
utes will invite back our vagrant ideas and
powers. So the home should be like a hush
and lullaby III ttifs headlong, whirling,
noisy, furious and distracted world of the
nineteenth century--a nook apart from the
thorouglfares---a grot OF bower under the sky,
where the beautiful spirits of the air willhov-
CT and dance. Its atmosphere should be a lit
tie oriental and cheering, as il exhaled from
peoples and balsams."
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NO. 100
A FAsHIoNABLE F9tE1.

There Is no doubt but that "small waist,
is admired by all men and women. No mattel
how the physicians may talk, women always
have compressed their waists, and they always
will, until public opinion proliounces for the
heavy figure:
II hasn never influenced. woman yet to hear
that Venus he Medioi had i large waist--she
has been told 50 ever since that faultless image
Of female beauty was disinterred. She merely
shrugs her shoulders and dfaTs heer iacas
lighter She knows that ii She went "a a ball
with that figure of the Venus, % man would
ask her to dance 50 Important 4 matter u
1t to have a small waist, that it has become \
matter Of pride to the Austrian people, and is
often mentioned in the court Journals that
the Empress of Austria is celebrated for pos
ssessing waist which only measures sixteen
inches. There are many persons who have as
small waist, but they have not the, height
and contour, and becoming fullness which the
Empress has.
Nor is the small waist furore alone con-
fined to the woman of civilized lands, so
called. The small foot of the Chinese woman
''' 'N~'' PNeo"iAey ono Stiidii WdfSC, OF buo
striving for 1t, Is universal
Even grave Humboldt describes the beauty
OF Java as eating q s9ft, Of a clay called ampo,
by which they become very much reduced I'M
size. 1t kills them finally, but " aat of that ?,
Who makes fashion? and why does it lastp
Why does it changsg Caricatgre and con.
tempt fall upon it lid sunbeafns on a stone
wall, when last We wake in the morning and
find that fashion is changed no one knows
how or wherefore. "a
Histories of fashion tell, us, at one time,
that dresses were short WASTED, corsetiess,
and clas,f, and for about ten years corsets
were unknown. The results were disastrous;
spinal disease became Tory frequent, and
STOPPING figures and uneven shoulders pre-
vailed. The utter sudden disuse of the corset
was thought to have a bad effect on health,
consequently the corset was resumed, and it
probably Will always be worn. Physicians a
gree, however, that the corset of the present
day is highly, luxurious to the health the ex-
treme tightening of the stay conducting
greatly to cops ,ambtsDh and hip disease. A
reform In this respect il improbable, till loose
garments are :. in fashion. ~ Boston Trans
cript.
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1t requires nice discrimination to justly
draw lines of tlemarlsation between firmness
and bigotry, prudence and meanness, bravery
and affogsnce, fearlessness, dignity aud in
difference. When low nature, or an igno-
rant nature has suddenly become rich, he on
ly widens the channel and stream Of his wick
edness and folly. When gambler wins he
does not buy library, nor build a college,
but he doubles his stakes and plays again, be-
cause the gain of money did not bring him an
increase of character. All he can do is to in
tensify the old life.
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ENvIOUs TONGUES.

The moment man achieves brilliant sue
cess there's always somebody at hand to tell
how poor how obscure, how no g account .
fused to be, AID to express wonder and as
constituent that he should ever have amount
ed to anything The fact that he has Prov
ed himself a success, seems to make some Of
his acquaintances feel that they have been
robbed in manner, and that by 50 much as
he has rises above them in position or iniiu-
ence, by so much they are dwarfed Men
who hays CROPPED, f,iindly tu,f3nli 4 fitting place
for the exercise Of their talents find il, and
with it come natural appreciation, money, in.
flueuce, prosperity. Can their good fortune
cause anything but rejoicing in magnani-
nous. and pcDfe Hind There are very few
men Of note before the American public Who
have no fought their way through poverty
otscurity, disaster and countless opposition Of
adverse circumstances. Vanderbilt Began as
q boatman In New York harbor Stewart was
once small retail merchant in q Broadway
basement; Thomas Scott Was a first fireman,
Ezra Cornell would have gone without his
supper at one time but COR shilling he picked
up In the street Cyrus Field founderca In
debt and poverty TO the lips during one por-
tion of his life; Elias Howe tried semtstar-
walton many a long year while pcrfecting the
sewing machine; Anna Dickinson scrubbed
door steps to pay to get her start in life.
In fact almost everybody, "that is any
body" has had to fight for his CROWN and
when he gets it shouldn't everybody rejoice
with him Doubtless there's many and many
diamond that is never polished and set. but
lies buried in mountains gplehes covered with
mud many "mute ingloriouS Milton
sleeps in quiet country churchyards, but the
world is flashing with light from diamonds
that are set, ringing with melody from Mil
tons that are not mute. One thing is certain
the man or the woman who is occupied in
picking to pieces the crown lawfully won by
successful neighbor is, not likely ever to
wear one, for the time thus stent is worse
than wasted, and the disposition that can find
pleasure in employment SO ignominious and
degrading can never find those aspirations,
labors and tolls congenial which bring deserv-
cd reputation and honor and SUGGEST
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A LESSON FROM AuSTRrA.--In his excellent
work on tho "IIistory Of American Cur
rencyn Professor Sumner refers to the, troub-
les endured, through long series of years,
by Austria, in her efforts to make valuable
money out OF an irredcemable paper currency
After showing its great depreciation, and the
ruin which followed, he says
"Thc history of Austria shows that en- If;
redeemable paper currency is national Gu.
lamity of the first magnitude, of which ono
may indeed find greater or less examples, but
of which the least is peremptory warning to
statesmen and financiers. 1t is IKE disease
in the blood, undermining the constitution,
and spreading decay through all the arteries
of business young and vigs r,us nation.
with sound political system, may stand it fatt
better than an old one, with feudal traditions
but in it's measure, and according to circumr
stances, it is pernicious, if not fatal. It is
not like an acute disease it is like an invalid
state, with occasional fever.
1.-THE Emperor Of Austria was not intens
tionally liar When he said he would issue
80 much and no more, lie nieaft ~ He only
did not know that lie was releasing a power
which he could not curb again. He was prom
ising to perform financial miracle. His
broken promises however, cost him and his
government all credit with the people !; and Il
Is now frequent subject of remark, in Austria
that the more solemn the asseverations Of the
Government, the more ludicrous they appear
to the people.
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THE sonr OF REVIVAL THAT IS NEEphD. = =
The revival va need Is not only 4 revival Of
sounder scriptural prsaching, but rSviivsssfi Of
true Christian hiring. We have hid 4qtte d
surfcit Of the religion which luxuriates in the,
devout fervors of the prayer meeting and the
Camp ground, which sings sweet hymns and
applauds sweet sermons, and then goes
straight off to its money, grasping and its
pleasure seeking, and its parderings to self
and sin. God forbid that we speak lightly OF
true spiritual emotion. But the Christianity
which Christ demands is something deeper
than song OF q sermon or sacramept,, ;. IT
is the holy aud the humble imitation of HIM
self. The revival, then, which we need is q
revival of the rel zion which kcepG Goa
commandments which tells the troth and
sticks to its promise which pays twenty.
shillings to the pound which cares more for
q good character titan fine coat which votes
at the ballot box in the same direction that II
prays which denies uhgodly lusts, and which
can be trusted iii every stress of temptation.
A revival which will sweeten our homes and
cbasten our press and purify our politics and
cleanse our, business and commerce from
foguery and rottenness would be boon from
heaven. A revival which will bring not only
q Bible knowledge but a bible conscience to all,
is what the land is dying for. The worlds
sorest want to-day is more Christ-like men
and womcr. The preaching it ne6is is-more
sermons IN sAoes.--Fom DR.. Cugler's article
in tic Independent.
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n -
Yesterday noon a man about sixty-fivt
years of age came up stairs into the local room
| of this patef, and inquired -.
Is this where the legislature is Z =
No, sir, replied the reporter, 6 the legis-
lature is in session at Lansing"
4" Way off there, Ell |! = continued the man
as be sat down, laid his cane across the table
and took of liis mittens.
so Yes; trains ran twice day. Pretty good
crowd ont there BY this time.''
81 don't care about the crowd" said the
old man. :" want lava new law =
aEh?"
Yes sir, want new sunthin' to protect
old men like me-"
to be protected {?
"My names Horner," replied the man as
be slowly fumbled inside his coat 6 my
names Horner and I'm an old fool What do
You think did three months ago? Went and
married girl nineteen years old, and .ted-
headed at that! Yes, went and decided her a
farm and give her six hundred dollars cash,
and married her !"
And do you live happy.?"
"Happy !" Young man, let me show you
sumthin--here look at that ~
And he unroled a piece of brown paper and
displayed handful of gray hairs, some of
which were blood stained.
Pulled right out of my scalp only three
days ago :" he wenton. "And see this ERE
leg {" 1870
He pulled up his pants and exhibited black
and blue mark just above the shin.
.Struck there with tlat-iron . he ex-
planned meant to hit me in the chest and kill
me at once but I lodged. And see hero y
lie opened his coat and vest and revealed
the fact that he had no shirt on, and conse-
quently nothing on which to button a collar
Tore Off me two weeks agoi" he whis-
pered, and she buried my other one. I've
been around this way for fortnight--almost
dying by inches
"Well, she must be regular wildcat"
said the reporter.
Young man il war to sit here and tell
you how that woman conducts herself, ye'd
have to hold yer ha'r down." exclaimed the
old man striking his leg. "No one knows
how she's heaved flat irons at me, hit me
with clubs, throwed water over me in bed,
pulled my hair, jawed Ground, aud brought
my crap hairs in sorrow to the gravea Why,
what do you think she called me this very
morning."
''A cunderango, perhaps"
4'wuss'n that, boy FAR %uss snfe Called
me an Appollo''
"Possible ?"
Yes, she did Think of that, ye-think
of man, my age, who has always paid his
debts and been honest, being set down with
pirates ~
"It's bad :" sighed the fctorter as long
pause ensued.
"It's awful 1.-The awfulest kind Of awful p
replied Horner. I've got to stand It.; but
want a law to protect other old men. | want
law to forbid any man over sixty from
marryin'a girl who isn't over twenty"
That might be wise law"
az can't go to Lansin' I he went on, "but
you kin help me. Put it in your paper-get
up AN excitement about it. Will you do
this 20
"Look at me boy ; look me all over see
how I've suffered see how hot my head is !"
"I'll help you all cam"
"Do! Write to 'em five times day .
I'm going hum to meet her, and be pounded
around and sassed and jawed but if know
your gettin' law through, III go to the
grave fcelin' good |"
And he put on his mittcns, took up his cane,
and was gone.---Detroa Free Press Oh
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Thcre rs no better way, no safer way, no
easir way, no sdrer way of saving children
from the debasing influences Of the world,
from corrupting associations, and from the
acquisitions of vicious and hurtful practices
than to make home attractive. Home,
home--sweet, sweet home ~ Let there be
emo place like home"