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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
Our Neighbour.

ONE of our church societies has long
been wrestling with the question, "WHo
is thy neighbour" Some of the members
incline to the belief that in the Script
ural injunction, Glove thy neighbor,"
all mankind is meant; others contend
that they only are our neighbors who are
friendly to us; while yet others, of H.
liberal and contracted views, maintain
that one is 80 have no neighbors outside
the pale of ones own church. Let them
settle it as they may the neighbor will be
the neighbor still. We have one of the
right royal sort in our minds eve. He
keeps his chickens up when we make
garden; he lends US good books and Dor
and never asks for those he loans; comes
over often and chats, without telling US
his grievances and troubles or seeking to
learn ours; gives no advice and asks for
none; cares not whether we have family
prayers or domestic broils; on general
matters he expresses his own views bold
ly, and does not think us a blasted fool
if we do not coincide with them; he calls
on us when we are sick, and doesn't talk
to US of dark, dismal holes in the ground,
or tell US of number of persons he has
known who has exhibited the same symp-
toms as ours and finally died after ter
riole and protracted illness; when we
die he will attend to the funeral arrange
ments, see that no second-han coffin is
palmed off on us, and tenderly support
our apparently griefstricken widow
when the falling clods send back to her
ears the rafting notes of freedom; final
ly, he will assist her to get another and
better husband. Heaven bless our
neighbor! There are few like him
More's the pity.-Brunswtcker.
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grain with a reaper, and binds it into
sheaves. In the hot and dry interior the
straw is too brittle to be bound by day.
SO you shall sometimes see John CHINA
man binding wheat all night long by
the light of the moon and the stars, and
sleeping by day in dirty tent or under
meath a spreading oak, perfectly secure
from rain. The ranchman's house is
generally too small for this sudden host
of laborers, quite small enough for him
self and his family, and the workmen
sleep outdoors, like Boaz, at the end OF
the heap of corn, wrapped in their gray
California blankets.
Usually the grain is sacked and left in
the open field for months together with
out fear of rain or thieves. By and by
it accumulates around the little country
depots, corded up in quarter acres and
half acres. For month after month i'm
mense trains of platform-cars are rolling
down to the bay with this gorge and
plethora of wheat, and frequently the
rainy season begins before it is all re-
moved.-.Stephea Powers, an atlantic
M0ntklU ... ..s.F -. --a .--
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
Babyhood Experience.

NATURE, or Providence = whichever
you may be pleased to designate the
great controlling power of the universe
among other wise arrangements has
ordained that infants under two wears of
age shall, when they grow to ripper I'M
derstanding, forget the incidents of baby
hood; if it were not so, dire might be the
consequences. -@ss 81
AS the matter now stands there are
few of US adults who do not remember,
with feelings by no means complaisant,
acts OF petty tyranny, injustice or ca
price, and especially of thoughtless cru
city, practiced upon us after we became
old enough to in some measure stand on
the defensive; but could we remember
the grievances of babyhood what an ac-,
count would remain between us and the
people who Qgnorantly or thoughtlessly,
OF course) put us to torture.
AS we thought over that old score,
looking in the faces of some of our dear.
est friends, we should cry out: "Why
In the name of common sense did YOU
sosSorely affiict US babies? Didn't YOU
know that for the first month of our mis-.
cradle lives we wanted nothing but to
be kept dry, warm and quiet, with about
half the food you gave us? We wanted
sleep, but you shook us up to show our
eyes-so like papa's. Or somebody
wanted to take the baby, and, after being
lifted and turned topsy-turyey in the
process of transfer, that some body, being
either woman or child, began to trot
tie baby (what is the reason that nine
hundred and ninety-nine women out of
thousand will trot the tiniest babvY):
next thing, being sbrimful of milk, this
heels-up, head-down, and then iolting
performance disturbed the equilibrium
of said milk, and up it came, nearly
us. Of course we squalled: |
then, 0 dear! how we were tossed and /
swung and trotted with redoubled yieor /
Til, if weak, we held up with sheer ex.
haustion; if strong, we sqhalled all the
harder; and the row was sure to produce
one result, VIZ: that the crying mouth
would be stopped with more milk.
AS we were mere imbibing machines il
wasn't our fault that We took in all that +
was offered, or at least to the extent of
'ur capacity; and, when half gorged, |
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
Harvesting Wheat in California.

Down in the San Joaquin there is a
ranch so vast that the men start in the
morning with their gang-plows, travel
on until noon, take dinner at midway
station, then drive on until the going
down of the sun, and return the day fol-
lowing. So immensely is one mans
profitable ownership broadened by ma
chimes. True, the blowing is only skin
deep, and the average yield per acre has
already fallen off over five bushels in
the State: but who takes thought for the
morrow? Then in harvest the field act
-ually swarms with machinery As the
cumbrous header moves on, with its long
guillotine reaching far out into the wheat
to be decapitated, a wagon is driven dex-
terously alongside to receive the heads.
Every header thus employs five men,
three wagons and twelve horses. Some
times three or four headers are going at
once, each with its little army, and
simultaneously in the middle of the
field a steam thresher, with its greater
army of men, dark as mulattoes with
tan and dust, working with an amazing
energy, even running at their sew.
eral tasks, while the header wagons
come and return on a trot. Perhaps a
spark from the thresher ignites the
standing grain; the farmer leaps on
reaper and whips his horses to a gallop
to cut a. swath around and arrest the
progress of the conhagration. The wind
sweeps the billowy flames upon him; he
dismounts, slashes off the traces, be-
strides horse and gallops for life, leav-
ing the reaper to its fate. 1t might as
vel. be burned as to lie outdoors ali
winter. 1t makes ones lead dizzy to
see how they do things in California in
harvest.
1.-The more careful farmer harvests his
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
Mr.. PeabOdY'S COrn.C0hs.

!
AN amrsing story is told, of which it
is averred that no less an important per-
sonage than the late George Peabody,
the celebrated American banker, was
the hero 1t appears that Mr.. Peabody
had invited three English gentlemen to
meet two American gentlemen at dinner,
and on this occasion, having received as
"a gift ten ears of green corn, determined
to renew the recollections of his youth,
astonish his English and please his
American guests, by having it served up
in the well-known American style.
Accordingly, at a proper time, plates
Of butter and salt were placed before
each guest, and the banker, with some
thing of an air Of mystery, announced
that he was now about to treat his guests
to well-known and delicious American
dish of food, cooked in the American
manner
1t would be no novelty to his Ameri-
can guests, but the Englishmen must
watch how 1t was disposed of by-them,
and follow their example and manner of
disposing of it. Then, at signal, enters
stately butler, bearing large, covered
dish, which he deposited solemnly before.
MIR. Peabody; in a moment more, in
obedience to the banker snod, he whisked
off the cover, and there, before the as
tonished guests, was displayed pile of
ten boiled c0rn-co6s!
The banker gazed for an instant in
mute horror and dismay, and then found
voice to demand an explanation, which
was finally reached when the cook was
fellow who had never be.
fore seen an,ear of Indian corn in his
replied that he had followed
his masters directions to "strip off all
the outside before boiling" which he
had done most faithfully-not only
husks, as was intended, but kernels also,
80 that the banker had only what is in
America the mute evidence of the feast
70 indicate his good intentions to his
yuests.-ComDaercsa5 Bulletin.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
A Deadly Spring.

A writer in California newspaper says
About half mile over mountain from
Bartlett Springs there is what is called
the Gas Springs. This is probably tho
greatest curiosity of the mountains. The
water is ice-cold, but bubbling and foam.
ing as if it boiled, and the greatest wonder
is the inevitable destruction of life pro-
duced by inhaling the gas. No living
thing is to be found within circle of 100
yards Of the spring. The very birds, il
they happen to fly over it, drop dead.
awe experimental with lizard on its
destructive properties by holding it few
feet above the water. 1t stretched dead in
two minutes. 1t will kill human being
in twenty minutes. We stood over it
about five minutes, when dull, heavy,
aching sensation crept over us and eur
eyes began to swim. The gas which es-
capes here is Of the rankest kind of car.
bonic, hence its sure destruction of life;
also of quenching of flames instant
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
Educating Horses.

HORSES can be educated to the extent
of their understandings as well as chill
dren, and can be as easily damaged or
ruined by bad management. We believe
that the great difference found In horses
as to vicious habits or reliability comes
much more from the different manage
ment of men than from variance of nat
ural dispositions in the animals. Horses
with high mettle are more easily ed
ucated than those of less or dull spirits,
and are more susceptible to ill training
and consequently may be made good or
bad according to the education they re-
ceive.
Horses with dull spirits are not by any
means proof against bad management,
for in them may often be found the most
provoking obstinacy; vicious habits of
different characters that render them al
most entirely worthless. Could the COM
ing generations of horses in this country
be kept from their days of colthood to
the age of five years in the hands of
good, careful managers, there would be
seen vast difference in the general
characters of the noble animals.
Ii colt is never allowed to get an ad-
vantage 1T will never know that 1T pos
sesses a power that man cannot control,
and if made familiar with strange objects
it will not be sfittish and nervous. If
horse is made accustomed from his
early days to have objects hit him on
the heels, back and hips he will pay no
attention to the giving out of a harness
or of wagon running against him at an
unexpected moment.
We once saw an aged lady drive high
spirited horse, attached to a carriage,
down steep hill and with no hold-back
straps upon the harness, and she assured
US that there was no danger, for her son
accustomed his horses to all kinds of
usages and sights that commonly drive
the animal into frenzy of fear and ex-
element. --t
A gun can be fired from the back of a
horse, an umbrella held over his head, a
buffalo robe thrown upon his neck, a
railroad engine pass close by, his heels
bumped with sticks and the animal take
it all as of a natural condition of things,
II only taught by careful management
that he will not be injured thereby.
There is great need of improvement in
the management of this noble animal;
less beating wanted and more of educa-
tion.-In,Door and Out.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17

Hon. ALEXANDER H. SrEpHEss-
derived some benefit from the use of SIM.
Mons LIVER REGULATOR, and wish to
give It a further trial. Hon. Alcr. II
nave never seen or tried such a simple.
e; e. satisfactory and pleasant remedy
Id my Life. Hainer, 81. Louis, No.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17

"A, Colorado man sold his wife for
$500 the other day, and when explaining
the matter to his children he said he
hated to let the old woman go, but $500
wasn't laying around loose like it used
to was"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17

WILHoFT's Toxic is not a panacca-is not
cure for everything, but is catholicon for
malarious diseases, and day by day adds
Iresh laurels to its crown of glorious success.
Engorged Livers and Spleens, along the
shady banks of our lakes and rivers. are
restored to their healthy and normal secre-
tons. Health and vigor follow its use and
Chllls have taken their departure from every
household where Wilhoft's Anti-Periodic is
kept and taken.. Don't fail to try it. WHEE-
LOCI, FINLAY d Co., Proprietors, New
FOR SALE by ALI. DRuGGIs rs ---------.-
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
FoR SALE BY ALL DRueGIsrs.

Gso. T. RowzLL & Co., Al Park Row, New
a aolx, are..without doubt, the leading Adver.
therefore, OF the world. They have. by the
lree, liberal and yet well-directed use Of
money, built themselves up in the esteem of
I'M leading publishers and adyertisers Of
sne continent, and by an unusual energy
nave succeeded in perfecting in every detail
: business y! that more than anything else tells
.. .ne growth and importance Of the news
upper Duslness.-Memphis (Tenn) Appeal.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17

Boston wants the centennial cele-
bration removed from Philadelphia to
that city, but the Penn is mightier than
the sword of Bunker Hill.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17

A WORM which twenty-five years ago
did great damage among the pine forests
of North Carolina is again destructively
at work. ~. ~
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17

FACTS WORTH KNow1NG:-The Wilson
shuttle sewing machine is to-day the SIM SIM
plest, most perfect, most easy operated, pes.
made, most durable, and in every way most
valuable sewing machine in existence, ana ~
is sold fifteen dollars less than all other hrst,
class machines. Machines will be delivered
at any railroad station in this county, ire rec
of transportation charges, if ordered through
the company's branch house at 1S7 state
street, Chicago They send an elegant cata-
ioque and chrome circular free on applica,,
ton. This company want few more good
agents.
JoHNsoN's Anodyne Linimeat may be useo
to advantage where any Liniment is desira.
bic. In cases Of severe cramps and pains ID
the stomach it is undoubtedly the best arti-
Gle that can be used internally.
HAB1rUAL constipation leads to the follow
ing results: Inflammation of the kidneys,
sick and nervous headache, biliousness, dys-
pepsia, indigestion, piles, loss of appetite
and strength; all of which may be avoided by
being regular in your habits, and taking, say,
one Of Parsons Purgative Pills nightly for
four or six weeks.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17

PRUssING's well known White Wine Vine
gar received the Worlds Fair premium
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
Black waves, bare crags,
And banks of stone

except an occasional melancholy conf
fer.
An island looms up in the center of
the lake to an altitude of about 300 feet
This has base of about / 200 feet in cir
conference and crater at the summit
having depth of nearly 100 feet. The
general form of the islet is cone like
and its rigid aspect seems to harmonic
well with the stern character of its sur
roundings.
Wemeasured the island in nearly every
position, and the dimensions given are as
correct as / can remember without my
notes. We sounded the lake in its
vicinity and found it to have depth of
55Ofeet.-Jactsonpille (Oregon) Cor. Hearth
and Home.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17

DR.. }. Walkers California Vim.
egar BitterS are q purely Vegetay.
preparation, made chiefly from the na-
tive herbs found on the lower ranges Of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Caifor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
If Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of tho
unparalleled success of VINEGAR Blr.
TERs?" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re.
covers his health. They are the grea
blood purifier and a e-giving principle
a perfect Renovator and Inyigorator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VISEGA" DlrTERS in healing tho
sick of every disease manl5 heir to. They
are a gentle Purgative as well as o Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation q
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DR.. NALEERs
VINEGAR BITTERs are Apcrient, Dl2phoretc,
Car,ninative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diurct.c,
Sedative, Counter lrrtant, SudonLc, AlteTa.
tive. and Anti Bilious.
X. Fl. MCDONALD Il CO.,
Druggists and Gen Agts San Francisco, California,
and cor. of Washington and Charlton SITS. n. Y
Sold by Nil Druggists u nd Dealers,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-28

Augustus, dear" said she, tenderly
pushing him from her, as the moonlight
flooded the bay-wind low where they were
standing, II think you had better try
some other hair dye; your moustache
tastes like turpentine.'
At teachers' institute, in Ohio, re-
Gently, lady teacher was given the word
hazardous to spell and define, and did
it in this style: "H-a-z, has-n-r-d, ard
9 double s, ess-hazardess; female haz-
The son Of a clergyman was delivering
college va1edfctory, when, in pulling
out his handkerchief, he pulled out a
pack Of oayds. "Hulloal" he exclaimed,
GIVE got on my fathers. eoat!"
q man .is said to be nbsent-minded
when he thinks he has left his watch at
home, and takes it out of his pocket to
see II he has time to return homo md
get it. -.
No man has reached so high o position
On the New York Tribune staff as Thomas
Weeks, who scaled it (257 feet) TO adinst
the vane. Vain men always aspire to
places they cannot keep.
:, Mrs: snidkins says her husband is a
thFee-handea aa1i21;;ss ;s sshsiSSitssa hand, !se. hand
and little behind hand.
The young woman's lament in sultry
weather Oh, my crimps" Vanitas,
vanitetum!
Love without money is something like
patent-leather boots without soles.
AS charity covers, so modesty pre-
vents, multitude Of sins.
LAT recent spelling match one man
spelt it ''pasnip, and got beet
BE slow to choose o friend, and slower
to change him.
To enjoy music it is not necessary to
understand it.
A natural revolutionist-the earth.
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the proposal with the bond given by the
party receiving the award, shall consti-
tute the contract between the State and
the bidder and no further contract will
be executed. &. - -
The payment Of the accounts for sta
taonery required in this advertisement is
relative to supplies for the Executive
Department Of the State Government
and for the General Assembly," approved
March "a, 1875.
All articles designated must be de-
livered in good condition, free Of charge,
at this office, on or before November i. n
Proposals should be endorsed .Pro-
posals for Stationery for the House of
Representatives" and directed to the
CLERK OF the House Of Representatives
Columbia, s. C. A. O.. JONES.
Clerk of House Of Representatives.
May 8
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Boil it Down..

- = r, Boil It Down.
Whatever you have to say, my friend,
Whether witty, grave or gay,
Condense 1t as much rs ever you can,
And say it in tho readiest way.
And whether you write of household nj
fairs, .
Or particular things in town,
just take word of friendly advice
Boil it down.
When writing an article for the press,
>, Whether prose or verse, just try
10 utter your thoughts in the fewest
.,words. -: j"rf
And let them be crisp and dry;
And when it is finished, and you suppose
It is done exactly brown,
just look it over again. and them
Boil it down.
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SMENCE AND RELIGION. N.-Has any prose
author ever stated the true case between
science and theology better than the
English poet Clough, who thus wrote:
'When ali Is thought and said,
The heart still over-rules the head;
Still what we hope we must believe,
And what Is given us. receive.
Must still believe, for still we hope,
That in world of larger scope,
What here is faithfully begun
Will be completed, not undone"
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Change of Schedule.
WILL, COL. & AUGUSTA r. r.,

SoLSMBA, .. u, APRIL 1, 1870.
So - sd Gh insa., and ba1 "ftef pase tno
senger Trnin from and to Columbia will
be discontinued! Passengers for points
on Cheraw and Darlington Railroad can
make connections ut Florence on Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, leaving
Columbia on Local Freight Mt 8. 10 A. M,
arriving Mt Florence ut 1880 P. M. Re-
turning, leave Florence ut 1850 P. NJ.
arrive at Columbia $50 P NJ.
GOING NORTH.
Leave Columbia. ...... 8.15 y. al.
Florence. e..............1 so H. III.
Arrive Wilmington. 7.1On al.
GOING SOUTH.
Leave Wilmington. ..... 6.1Op. m.
f1orence. .i.......... III. 40 p. m.
Arrive Columbia. bia........ 400 n. III.
Makes through connections, all rail,
North and South, and water line connec-
tions rid Portsmouth. Through tickets
sold and baggage checked to all principal
points. Pullman sleepers.
JAS. ANDERSON, Gen. Supt.
a. PORE, Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent
Charlotte. Columbia 6 Augusta r. R.
COLUMBIA, 8. c., April 1, 1876.
N\HE following Passenger Schedule is
Il now operated:
GOING NORTH. Train Eo 2. Train No. 4.
Leave Augusta. .9.3Oa m. 4. is y. IN.
Granitoville. 1920 a. m. Sill p. M.
CoIbin Junct'n.. q 13p. m. sos y. IN.
Columbia. ..... .2.45p. m. 9.17 p. m.
Chester. ... .6.34p. m.
Arrive Charlotte. .9.OOp. m.
Ma. Train makes close connection,
ria Charlotte and Richmond, to all points
North, arriving ut New York Cos A. NJ.
No. Train makes close connection, ria
Wilmington and Richmond, to NIL points
North, arriving at New York SIS 2. M.
GOING SOUTH. Train No. /. Trnin No. 3.
Leave Charlotte 8. so a. m.
Chester 11.02 q. m.
Winnsboro. :. 1888 p. IN.
Arrive Columbia. 2.42 p. M.
Leave Columbia. 1852 p. IN. $40 n. m.
Colbia Junctn. 3. lip. m. 4.15 IL. IN.
Grnniteville. .7l5 p. m. 7.48 n. nj.
Arrive Augusta. g.. 05 p. m. 8.45 n. NJ
South bound Trims connect ut Au-
gu1sta for oil points South and West
Through tickets sold and baggage
checked to principal points.
JAS. AEDERRSSON, General Sup.
A. PopE, Gen. Pass'r and Ticket Aet.
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III + /. ,:l91I , T. ENfXk,
Published DAILY and .Weefly, - :,
PffffB| Gf5BA AMER !, ).
y Every Wednesday Morning.:
BY JULIAN A. SELBY,
= Editor and Proprietor, .
Office No. 160 North Richardson St.

@-The PHOENIX is the oldest Daily
Paper in South Carolina, has the largest
circulation in the upper portion Of the
State, and has been regularly issued
since its inception-Mnrch 81, 1855.
rf9 SUBSCRIPTION.
Daily, six months, 81; Tri-woekly,
$50; Weekly, 1.50.
ADVERTISEMENTS
Inserted in Daily at 81 n square of ten
lines for FIRST, and so cents each subse-
lines in length, rs cents. Long adver-
tisenhents by the week, month or year, at
less rates. Marriages, Funeral Invita-
lions &C., 81.
&g-Book and Job Printing of every
description faithfully attended to.
AGENTS.
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81. w. Lawson, AbbeviIlc.
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