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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
An Old Family.

THOSE who believe that mental and
bodily traits are transmitted among hu-
man beings in as marked a degree as
among animals-and this class of believ-
ers comprises most intelligent people
have strong illustration of the sound
ness of their theory in the history of a
Maine family. The family resides at
the town of Castine, and consists of one
male and four females. The united ages
of the five persons is 41O years and the
average age is eighty-two years. The
mother, Mrs. Mary Hasty, is nine
ty-nine; the Oldest daughter, a
Mrs. Goodwin, is seventy-two, and
the youngest daughter, Mrs. Mill
kin, is sixty-seven. The husband
Goodwin-is eighty-seven years of age
and a sister-inlaw living with the family
Is eighty five. All live in the same house,
all were born in the same town and all
have been in excellent health from birth.
Two or three long-lived families inter
married and formed this little communi-
ty, where, as the occupation pursued has
been OF no enervatlng tendency, the
charm of health has never been broken.
The family is engaged in the dairy busi-
ness. The secret of living seems to be
here clearly exhibited. Descended from
good stock, engaged in proper avoca-
tlon who may not live for a century?-
st. Louis ReDublicdn
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
Three-Card Monte.

A PASSENGER on Michigan Southern
train en- route for Chicago was recently
swindled out of large sum of money
by trio of three-card-mo operators,
Just before the cars reached that city.
The Tribune gives the following account
of the operation:
"The facts of the case are about as
follows: Mr.. Bedell, of Norwalk, Ohio,
was in the smokingcar, and one of the
confidence operators had for some time
been sitting on the same seat with him.
Presently another accomplice came in
the car, sat down near Bedell and began
talking. He said he was Mexican
drover, and told of tribulations with 800
head of Mexican cattle which he had
had on his hands. Then he mentioned
that he had lost $500 at the three-card-
monte game. The young fellow who oc-
cupied the same seat with Bedell asked
how it was, and the alleged Mexican
drover told all about it, and then added
that they had given him the cards and
taught him how to play, and when he got
home he could win all the money he
wanted The young fellow asked him
to show him the game. The other one
said he had no table to deal on. The
young fellow suggested that he might
use his coat, and he accordingly pulled
out his pasteboardsI and began opera
tions. An old man, the third member of
the gang, who was sitting across the
aisle, bet $40 he could turn up the queen.
He lost, and then bet $40 and won.
The young fellow picked up the
queen while the dealer was ap-
parently looking the other way, and
made pencil mark on it. Then he bet
$50 and won. Bedell showed signs of
nervousness, and began fumbling at his
pocket-book The young fellow said to
him, "Bet your pile; you've got sure
thing on it," Bedell bet 81 400 and lost.
Then the dealer pulled out fresh deck,
and while he was looking the other way
the young man again marked the queen
with cross The old man stepped over
to Bedell and said: Your only chance
of getting your money back is to size
your first bet So Bedell bet 81 SOCIAL
he had left except $10-and lost again.
"Then the young man observed to
Bedell that he was his friend, and when
they got to the city he would 60 with
him to the police-station, the location OF
which he knew. The old man also con-
doled with Bedell, and told him he
would ask the dealer back into the rear car
where his wife was, under pretense OF
giving him a cigar, and would keep a
close eye on him until they got to town.
he did ask him, and the two went back.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
Would You.

WOULD you keep your rosy complex
ion, wear thick soled shoes.
Would you enjoy quiet content, do
away with airs and preteuses.
Would you have others respect your
opinions, hold and never disown them
yourself.
Would you have good health, go out in
the sunshine. Sickness is worse than
freckles.
Would you respect yourself, keep your
heart and body clean.
Would you retain the love of friend,
do not be selfishly exacting.
Would you gain the confidence of busi-
ness men, do not try to support the style
of your employer.
Would you never be told lie, do not
ask personal questions.
Would you sleep well and have good
appetite, attend to your own business.
Would you have the respect of men,
never permit yourself to indulge in vul-
gar onversation-RualN Neao Yorker.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
Finger Nails.

A WRITER says: "If finger tips have
a language of their own, so have the
nails; and the manner of keeping them
is as eloquent as all the rest. Some keep
them long and pointed, like "reminiscences
of claws; others bite theirs close to the
quick; some pare and trim and scrape
and polish up to the highest point OF
artificial beauty; and others, carrying
the doctrine of nature to the outside
limit, let them grow wild, with Jagged
edges, broken tracts and tagnails or
black friend as the agonizing conse-
auences. Sometimes you see the most
beautiful nails, pink, transparent, filbert-
shaped, with the delicate, filmy little
'half-mcon' indicated at the base-all
the conditions of beauty carried to per-
fection, but all rendered of no avail by
dirt and slovenliness; while others, thick,
whiteribbed, square, with no half-moon,
spotted. like so many circus horses, with
gifts and friends and the like-that
is, without beauties and with positive
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
Important Decision on a Life Insurance
Case.

A decision just rendered in the United
States Supreme Court at Washington
relates to a matter of general interest in
respect to life insurance. We gather
from the brief telegraphic report that the
administrator of an estate, which includ-
ed life insurance policy. sued the COM
pany that issued it. For defense the
company alleged that it was obtained by
false representations that the allegations
of the person insured formed the basis of
the policy, and these were not in accord
ance with the facts. The statements to
which exception was thus taken at SO
late an hour were in the usual form Of
replies to questions. The plaintiff seems
to have met this argument by showing
that the particular replies whose truth
was disputed were immaterial to the risk
assumed by the company; and that in
any one no falsehood was intended by the
person insured. On q verdict adverse to
the estate the case was appealed, and
now the United States Supreme Court
has affirmed the decision OF the court be-
low.
A few months ago when the Chamber
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22

Of Life Insurance prepared forms of
examination and application for general
use by the companies, it was urged as a
grave objection to the new forms that
they included a declaration by the in
sured that the truthfulness of the
answers was material" The oppo-
nents of the forms regarded that feature
as likely to inflict great hardship on the
insured or the survivors. 1t was argued
that a person applying for policy
might very easily make a mistake
through inadvertence or ignorance, in
answering SO many questions, and that
it was not just for company to be
enabled to take such. advantage of a
mistake as to relieve itself from obliga-
ton. By putting his name to state
ment that warrants each answer and
declares it material, it was alleged that
the insurer signed away legal right
which properly belonged to him and his
survivors.
The decision of the United States Su-
preme Court points to a contrary con-
clusion. 1t regards the untruthful an
swers of an applicant as simply making
the policy void. The questions were
whether he had previously applied
for insurance. AS matter of fact
the applicant was married, and he
had another policy. The instrument of
insurance-th policy in suit-stated that
it was made on the express condition
that all the representations of the appli-
cant were true. Hence the court de-
cides that the answers being untrue it
made no difference whether they were
material to the risk or were unintention-
ally false; their untruth dissolved the
obligation of the company.
The hardship in this class of cases is,
therefore, not increased as the precise
declaration of the new form recommend.
ed by the chamber. That hardship,
whatever it may be, existed before the
form was devised. 1t is the hardship
inherent in the nature and law of written
contracts, which bind the parties to them
fast to the letter of their provisions
The phrases of the declaration in the
new form are, in fact, likely to attract
the attention of the applicant and make
him notice more closely than he other
wise would this peculiar feature of the
contract. So that, after all, the declara-
tion may prove less hardship than its
absence.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
kBob- fail HOrse-Car Incident.

DRIVER, why don't yon stop when 1
ring the bell?" The lady's eyes flashed
fire as she glared through the opening in
the door upon the Jehu of the bob-tall.
did you ring the bell, ma'am?"
eyes, rang it twice, you stupid"
"If you bad rung it only once l would
have stopped, but, as two negatives make
an affirmative, so two pulls of car bell
mean go ahead"
"Well, now just see; while you are
talking, you have passed the crossing.
Why don't you stop?"
The driver instantly turned the brake,
and the bob tail came to halt.
"Do you suppose Pm going to get out
here in all this mud?"
Il will proceed, then, to the next cross
"Yes, and l must walk all the way
back, ! suppose"
"Just as you please, madam; you can
walk or ride"
"How can Iride, would like to know"
"Take the car going east"
"No, 1 intend TO get off at the crossing
in Mis car, if have to go to the end OF
the road and come back"
"All right, madam; shall be pleased
to have your company on the trip"
81 am not in a hurry, and I'll do it,
just because want you street-car drivers
to understand that when the bell is rung
by lady, whether with one pull or
thousand pulls, you have got to stop,
and you can't put me down in the mud,
neither. And you needn't be saucy when
l complain of you for neglecting your
duty. won't have it,"
"Look here, Susan, you shouldn't put
on such airs, if you have been promoted
to the post of chambermaid in second
class hash-house. remember the time
when you took to mud like young
pig-that was when / kept house and
you were my maid-of-all-work."
"Stop the car l want to get OUT
st. Louis Democrat.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22

Presently the young man said he would
look into the rear car and see if the
dealer was still there. So Oft he went.
Soon after the train slackened up, and it
is presumed the three men used the op-
portunity to get off.
"The case has been reported to the
police, but it is not likely that any ar
rests will be made"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
A Heroic Young Girl.

On Saturday, at Aylmer, Ontario, an
event occurred in which two children
were the actors-but in which the high
est attributes of human nature were dis
played-and heroine of seventeen
years closed her career, having done that
which hundreds of her sex pass through
long lives without achieving-she
showed that she bore "a likeness to the
mighty dead" and could claim "a kim
dred with the great of old" A girl
named Popps, seventeen years old, is
working in the house, musing-who can
say over what?-and keeping an eye all
the time on her little brother who was
playing upon the ice on the creek. The
little boy falls into the water. Instantly
his sister, careless of danger, runs to pull
him out and is drawn in herself. What
does she do then9 Think of herself?
No! She calmly tells her little brother
to climb on to her back and get out. tie
did so and was saved, but, in doing as
she bade him. he pushed her under the
ice, under which she arifted hve or SIX
wards, and, of course, when taken out,
was quite dead. What noble girl!
Could any hero whose name shall i've
forever in story do more than she did?
At her age she knew well the peril, but
boldly ventured life and love and youth
to save another. She died exemplifyinG
the principle Of the crowning act OF
mans salvatinn-and while we mourn
over the loss of so fine and noble spirit
there is a mournful satisfaction in know
ing that such heroic devotion still lives
| on earth.-1orontO Globe.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
NUMBER II.
e9or Nou,1q Readtrs.
LITTLE JACK FROST.

LITTLE Jack Frost went up the hill,
Watching the stars so cold and chill,
Watching the stars and moon so bright,
And laughing aloud like a crazy wight.
Little Jack Frost ran down the hill,
Late in the night when the winds were still,
Late in the fall, when the leaves fell down,
Red and yellow and faded brown.
Little Jack Frost walked through the trees,
"Ah,n sighed the flowers, Eve freeze, we
freeze !"
"Ah," sighed the grasses, 1--WE die, we dieH'
Said little Jack Frost, "Goodb good-by"
Little Jack Frost tripped round and round,
Spreading white snow on the frozen ground ;
Nipping the breezes, icing the streams,
And chilling the warmth of the suns bright
beams.
Nobody saw him, still he was there,
Nose biting, prank-1aying, everywhere;
All through the houses, out in the street,
Capering wildly through storm and sleet.
But when Dame Nature brought back the
spring,
Brought back the birds to chirp and sing,
Melted the snow and warmed the sky,
Little Jack Frost went pouting by.
The flowers opened their eyes of blue,
Green buds peeped out and grasses grew,
And it got so warm and scorched him so,
Little Jack Frost was glad to 60.
The Aldine.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22

"A novel proposition for the suppress
sion of CRIME has just been make by the
Surveyor General of British Prisons.
This gentleman believes in the exist
ence of q criminal age, which he,
guided by census statistics, finds to ex-
tend over the period OF life between
twenty-five and thirty-five, and accord
ingly he suggests that persons whose
careers display marked criminal tenden-
cies shall be either locked up or kept
under supervision until they reach the
age of thirty-nine.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22

Since the Day of Prayer for Colleges
there has been deep religious interest
at Dartmouth College. The daily prayer
meetings have been largely attended,
many of the students are greatly inn
pressed and a number have been con
verted. A powerful revival Is also in
progress among the students Of Hsmil.
ton College,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22

Some of the Presbyterian papers are
advocating the introduction of the re-
sponsive use of the Psalms in their
church worship; and they repudiate the
idea that there is anything in such re.
sponsive services that belongs exclusive
ly to Episcopscy or any other form Of
church government,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, April 19.-Flour-No
hnge in prices. Wheat-No. 2 Chicago Spring,
us; No. Milwaukee, $1.21@1.22; No. Mime
=, $i.2761.2s.. Barley-s1 .4O@1.45. Oats
etern Mixed, 75llG76c. Corn-western Mixed,
bslc. Pork-New Mess, $2225. Dressed Hogs
b10Ac. Lard-l5l016c Cattle-Firm and ac-
ut 11H@14c for Common to Extra Sheep
pped, 54@64c; Unshorn, 6a@sAc. Gold
BED at 115h.
asst LIBERTY, Pa.-Cattle-One~ lot
$40 Tbs brought $40 Hogs-Yorkers, $500
Us; Philadelphias, $sso0ss5. sheep-$5. .oO@
5HICAGO.-Wheat-No. 2 closed at
n seller May; cash ruled at 81 on .o4 early in
day. Corn-Cl0sed at 70c for New No. and
for Rejected, cash. Oats-6l0S4c, cash;
he options active at Sic Rye-xl .08M
Barley-No. 2, $1.9O012s. Mess Pork
00022.25 cash. Lard-$l5.250155O. Cattle
bdce to Extra Graded Steers, $S.4O072s; Prime
Choice Natives. IS. .4Oas.25; Texans, 25O05 54s;
alawags, $2.7503.75. Hogs-Still. .fattened,
6007.30; Corn -iattened, $7.6Oa8.50.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22

The immense estate of the late John
Hopkins, of Baltimore, amounting to
more than 100000, has been settled at
a cost of less than three.quarters OF l
per centum on the whole value, and
this although the property lay in three
States and its interests were very widely
extended.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
PERSONAL.

Mr.: Beccher'S direct examination was
zeDncuded on the 18th by broad and emphatic
6enial of the charges preferred against him. The
LOS examination was begun by Mr.. Fullerton.
The National Industrial Congress, in
eesson at indianapolis, adopted the 18th a
decaration of principles, and passed resolutions
condemning the lockout of miners in Pennsyl-
&nia and calling for financial assistance for their
1llief.
In consequence of the illness of Mr..
Y1llerton the cross examination of Mr.. Beecher
Nos postponed on the morning of the 18th until
81 10Th.
Capt. Mix's cavalry company reached
VT Laramie on the 18th with the Black Hills
z1ners. They report much snow and water and say
~ had hard trip.
On the evening of the 18th dam at the
lad of Mill River a little stream emptying into
- Charles River at Midway Mass gave way and
1eetroyed property valued at nearly 100000 No
IVES were lost
1t was reported in Washington on the
leth that Secretary Delano was about to retire. at
e request Of the President.
Gen. Ross, who recently attacked his
1rtner in Washington and nearly killed him, has
zen declared insane.
aSThe Secretary of the Treasury has de-
led that the regular Bank Examiners must make
- examination Of banks for unstamped checks,
Samuel r. Wells, of Fowler & Wells,
yQbishers Of the Phrenological Journal died re-
1ntly. He was fifty-fve years old.
The cross examination of Mr.. Beecher
~ resumed on the 18th and extended during the
1ire day. The object Of Mr.. Fullerton was to
tain a satisfactory explanation of the letters
At passed between witness, Mrs Morse and Mrs.
BON. His explanation was substantially as that
4 yen on the direct examination.
81 The father of Charlie Ross has become
nanped
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22

A eENTEEL-LooKING woman, whose
name was Smith, and who took rooms in
a tenement adjoining the bonded ware
house on Laignt street, in New York, a
few weeks ago, is found to have bored
through the wall into the warehouse,
where there were $780, 900 Of silks and
satins, with the assistance of some men,
and to have removed several thousand
dollars worth of goods. Neither the
genteellooking woman nor her assists
ants have been seen by the police
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22

Horace Greeley, during the last fif-
teen years of his life, lent $4,000 TO
parties of whom sixteen cents cannot be
collected.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22

Success is said by Western sage to
greatly depend upon the possession OF
three qualities grit, grip and gump
tiOn.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
POLITICAL.

On the 18th the Louisiana House
IA Representatives, by a vote of 80 to
accepted the Wheeler compromise, and
members unseated by the award grace
lly retired A resolution was adopted de-
ring that, while the Legislature did not approve,
you'd not seek to disturb the Kellogg Govern
mt nor impeach the Governor for any past Off
4 acts, but would support him in the enforce
mt Of the laws and the maintenance of the pub
peace.
The Illinois Legislature adjourned sine
on the 18th
The second attempt to elect a Senator
- nine Representatives to the General Assembly
t. Providence, X. l., on the 10Th, resulted in the
t4oice Of the regular Republican ticket, thus
lgDbably securing the election of Lippitt for Gov
nor, and the repeal Of the Prohibitory law.
IS On the 18th the Louisiana House of
representatives reorganized by the election of
telle (Compromise Conservative as Speaker
vote stood si1tysix for Estelle and thirty five
WiltZ
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22

IA son of former Governor of Ice
md, named Bjornson, is teacher in .
ublic school ip Michigan,
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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-08-14

Six long months have dragged weariiy,
YEARLY away. Mildred Loriug has all this
time borne up well under her grea: sorrow, for
she loved Ross Thornton dearly, and this had
been their first parting. My lady was quiet
in her disposition, aud had never breathed to
any one but him, the depth Of her lniaiuat.on.
But ali! How deep It was. Waking aud
sleeping. thinking aud dreaming her thoughts
all tended in one direction, and before those
ewes ever arose but one face, one figure, one
character. her Ideal, over and around whom
she had cast the wealth Of pure love, ana
that Ideal she embodied n-Rsss Thornton.
And be?
Sometimes, in tie quiet night, after bis re-
turn from some pleasure party, he would think
for a M ment. seated at bis room window, Of a
betrothed, far away over the Ocean. Before
him would rise the well remembered figure
with its sunny hair, aud again, those pleading
eyes would be raised and fxed-sllghtly re-
proachfully, he would think-upou him. Bat
these sad fancies were quickly brushed aside,
and in sound sleep-earDed by his daily reyels
he would drown the uouruful recollection,
and revive his energies for yet another pleasant
dav. Twice had he written 10 Mildred, but
after dispatching these letters, there seemed to
fall over him sudden WEAKNESS for epistoiary
duties. which in a short time, rendered them
repulsive. He had finished the mission upon
which he had been sent, finished it long since,
and vet Ross Thornton fingered away. He
had left Paris for Lisbon, intent only on short
stay. and then the homeward voyage. But
alas Tangled in the meshes Of Spanish So
ciety. be whiled away longer time than was
at first agreed upon,-and yet,-he taFried
still. Would you guess the cause, gentle, pa
tient. trusting Mildred? Better, perhaps, you
did not, your lover has met Creole beauty,
has tarried within the spell, alas too long,
has gazed into the soft, passionate eyes, has
touched, perhaps, those sweet vcluptuou' lips