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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28

Mr.. BLAME's War REcoRD.-"I / am
opposed to Mr.. Tilden," said Blaine.
at Rosion, "because at q great crisis in
his country's fate he proved unfaithful
and when it lay bleeding at every pore
from wounds by rebel hordes he passed
on the other side" Yet Sam Tilden was
better Union man than Jim Blaine. Il
is only since the fighting stopped that
the latter has been so greatly ex-
ercised about his bleeding country.
When that country clay bleeding at
every pore from wounds by the rebel
hordes" Blaine happened to be drafted.
OF course he rushed at once to hurl
back the rebel hordes, and staunch
every pore of his bleeding country2
Oh, no; he hired an able bodied substi-
tute and provided him with soft cush-
ioned chair in the Provost Marshall's
Office at Augusta, the able-bodied SUBJ
stitute was shortly removed to the
county Jail for stealing, but Blaine was
too busy making fortune out of Spen-
Ger rifle contracts to hunt up another.
This is the extent of Blaine's war re-
cord, and as we have said, Sam Tilden
is vastly honester, more patriotic, and
more creditable. The true reason why
Blaine opposes Tilden was not mem
toned at Boston. It is the same rea-
son that every rogue has for fearing
and hating the uncompromising enemy
of rascality and rascals.-New York
Sun.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28

The BIGGEST BEAR SroRY.-The Reno,
Nevada, Gazette repeats it thus: "I've
fought 'em runnin, and standin, but
the toughest citizen I ever lit on to was
o black 'up. He was sittin' in the chap
parel eatin' manzanita berries, when my
dog smelt him and went home. I then
sneaked up and began aggravatin' him
by. shootin his ears and feet. I then
took arouud him and with three shots
cut his tail off, Old Blacky heerd me
and turnin' around saw his tail layin
there. He picked it up and looked at
the trade mark, and see in a minute
that war was comm. I lit out for a tree
with only only two cartridges left and
him a comm Well, to make a long
story short, I shot twice, hittin him
both times, and he began to git hot, so
he took up the tree after me, and
knocked him down three times before
my gun broke. He started on the fourth
trip, and didn't know what to do Till
I thought of my derringer, which shot
four ounce ball. I drew her out, tied
string to the trigger. and as Blacky
came up with his mouth wide open, I
dropped her in. He hadn't time to
spit her out, and SO he swallowed andI
pulled the string. Off went the gun,
and so help me, never see anything of
bear or pistol.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28

They had quarral Sunday evening.
He got mad and swore he'd leave her.
Then she got vexed and told him he
could do as he pleased. He left. The
next night he came round again. He
asked to see her alone. She readily
complied. She was all of a tremor.
Her heart went out to him in q gush of
sympathetic love. She stood ready to
throw. both arms about his neck and
cry out her joy. There was not much
color in his face, and his voice was
husky. He said:
81 have been with you six months,
Matilda, and I tried all that time to do
what is right" He paused an instant
to recover the voice which was faltering
rapidly, while her trembling increased
(" + know that I have got considerable 9
temper, and that I do not control it as I
ought. But I have tried to be faithful
to you, tried to do everything that I
thought would tend to make you hap
py And feeling this I have called to-
night to see if you wouldn't he kind
enough to give me sort of testimonial
to this effect so that could show it to
any other young lady might want to
go with. It might help me-"
He looked at her anxiously. All the
color left her face in fash. She made
great effort to swallow something
which threatened to sufocate her. Then
she spoke.
"You get out of the house just as
quick as you can, you low, miserable
whelp, or my father shall kick you out. "
He did not toy with time. He left
without the testimonial. - Danbury
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28
Anecdotes about Spelling.

If Dogberry instead of asserting that
"t to write and read comes by nature"
had said that spelling was a natural
gift, he would not have have blundcred
very far from the truth. For the art
of spelling is to many gift of nature.
She denied it, however, to those of
the Chicago Inter- Ocean tells these
anecdotes:
Local wit tells story of a senator who
once adorned the capital, and bore with
ease the highest honors of a great
statesman. He was a poor speller, but
realized as we'll as any the defect in his
education, and made vigorous efforts to
correct it. He purchased dictionary,
and used to study it faithfully. "But
it's no use," he remarked one day to o
friend: " I have spent half an hour try
ing to find out how to spell physician,
but the word isn't there"
Where did you look ?" inquired .
friend; and taking the dictionary from
the puzzled Senator's hands, he found
that he had been hunting for the word
among the "fs," as if it was spelled
"fz,"
Quite as funny thing occurred the
other day. A prominent member of
Congress representing one of the larg-
est States in the Union, and one of
the largest cities, who is the chairman
of one of the most important commit
tees in the House, and has had charge
of some of the most important bills,
wrote note Recommendation for the
appointment of young man to an
Office. And the note began with the
following clause spelled in this way:
Il corgially recommend Mr."
etc.
This is no freak of the Imagination,
but an actual fact.
The messenger of the House Judic-
iary Committee is a ons-armed Confed-
crate soldier, and is a very polite, gen
tlemanly fellow. The other day, Con-
gresham Frank Hurd, of Toledo, went
into the committee-room, aud found
the messenger poring over the diction-
ary in apparent anxiety.
"What word are you looking for p
asked Mr.. Hurd.
CT wanted to see how curiosity was
spelled" said the messenger.
Hurd looked over his shoulder at the
dictionary, and seeing the man had it
opened at the "k' place, said:
Why my dear man, you can't find
curiosity there; curiosity doesn't begin
with a k"
The man looked up little aston
ished, thought minute and then re.
marked. as if apologizing for fit of ab-
| sent mindedness:
"That's so. What was thinking
of? I might have known it began will
q "q. And he turned over to where
the "q's" were. Mr.. Hunt let hin
hunt for it there.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28
Some of the Beauties of Arizona.

An eastern gentleman engaged in
mining in Arizona has written to
friend, giving an account of the diff
fculties under which mining operations
are prosecuted in that Territory. He
says:
ssThe amount of progress I make
seems to be small, but you can have no
idea of the difficulties which have to be
constantly met and overcome. The
labor here is very unreliable, and it is
hard to get a days pay, and there is a
strong feeling of jealousy between the
whites and Mexicans which is hard to
overcome. The weather is hot beyond
belief. Never, I think less than 80 deg.
in the shade, and from that up to 12O
deg. There is no lumber in the coun-
try, and all the building has to be done
with cottonwood poles, and hauled five
miles on a jackass to the mine. In
addition I have had to pack water five
miles, as we have had no rain and the
tanks at the mines are exhausted. We
have now killed three rattlesnakes in
the house, besides any quantity of scor-
pions, etc. In opening my trunk, L
was stung in the finger by a scorpion.
I bound poultice of onions and tobac-
co on the wound, and drank three full
pints of whisky. It made ME very
drunk, and I think killed the other
poison, although my whole hand and
arm were numb for day or two. 1t is
pretty hard country, and three men
have already died of thirst near here.
Ny last letters were sent here from the
mine (only fourteen miles dis
tant) by an old Scotchman. The mail
did not arrive, and we searched for
him and found him dead only four
miles from camp, He was stripped,
and his nails were worn from his hands
by scratching in the sand for water,
We have sent out twice and brought
in men who were crazy, blind and
speechless from thirst. The sun is ter
ribly hot, and the rocks so hot that
they blister the flesh if touched.
You can hardly realize what a country
it is, nor how expensive it is, as we'll
as hard work, to accomplish much.
Transportation more than anything
else, is the great hardship.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28

Col. E. F. Hassaureck, recognized as
one of the ablest German Republican
orators and writer's of this country, has
declared for Tilden aud Hendricks. In
his great speech at Cincinnati he gave
forth the following sound sentiments:
The Republican party drives its ring
breakers out of the Cabinet, and defeats
them in the Conventions, but you have
had the good sense and the pluck TO
nominate your ring breaker for the Pres
idency. If Mr.. Tilden will do for the
government of the United states what
he has done as governor of New York,
I solemnly undertake to say the people
will never enter into metaphysical in
vestigation whether his motive was SIM
ply, purely and exclusively the promo
ton of the public welfare, or whether
he had also in view the fame, reputa-
ton and glory of Samuel J. Tlden. If
what he has done was done for effect
merely, let as hsse the man who viii
do these things for effect. It is the
very kind of man we want in the Pres
Dental chair. Mr.. Tilden's services as
a public man and statesman were not
confined to his functions as Governor
of New York He has done more. He
has taken hold of his own party and
lifted it out of the slough of despond-
ency and indifference, and firmly, and
put it on the track of usefulness and
efficiency. His powerful grasp has
rescued it from impending dissolution
and restored it to vitality and the hope
and prospect of efficiency. He brought
it back to the ideas and principles
which had always been sealed by the
approval of the American people when
ever it's Judgment upon was properly
invoked. He has changed the political
situation as with an enchanter's wand.
reffersonian Democracy has slept like
Barbarosa in the Koffhauser mountain,
but Tilden's bugle blast has broken the
spell of it's enchonted sleep. Once
more the battle between the Jefferson
ian and the Hambletonian theory of
government will be ablaze. Once more
we shall discuss the true purposes and
limits of government and taxation.
Once more the question will be tested
whether governments are made for the
benefit of man or for the benefit of
those who govern Once more we shall
appeal to the people whether the many
shall be taxed for the benefit of the
few. Those who think on these ques-
tions as I do, have at last found home.
On the slavery question and on all
questions affecting the Union and equal
rights, I was Republican. But these
questions being permanently settled
and disposed of, I stand where I stood
long before there was any Republican
party-on the fundamental principles
laid down by the author Of the Declar-
alton of Independence. I carry no
mans vote in my pocket but my own.
But that vote shall be cast in undying
opposition to the paternal or interfer-
ence theory of government, and conss-
quently at the approaching election it
shall be cast for individual liberty, un-
fettered industry, unshackeled COM
merce, free trade, hard money and
Samuel j. Tilden.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28

E Captain johnson, who made the
voyage across the Atlantic in dory,
now has his little vessel on exhibition
at Liverpool, and the room Is thronged
day and evening. He states that he
would not again attempt the feat for .
million dollars.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28

Ma" said small boy, ap-
preaching his mother and exhibiting
unmistakable symptoms of severe pain
in the bowels, edo you think green
apples grow in heaven %
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28

* Miss Anna E. Dickinson has
finished new play called Love and
Duty" will be produced in New York
in the course of the coming winter.
Her season will begin at Cincinnati Oct.
18th.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28

* When the war of the revolution
began there was but one man in Massa-
chusetts who was worth over $50, 900.
There are now forty-fve worth over a
million.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28

@ The honeymoon is not pleasant
when you reach the last quarter-of
dollar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-17

gong Tor water; waiting patiently, he
spies his daisy coming, bounces out,
grabs her in his arms and covers her
with his blanket, makes his proposal
telling her his possession of ponies.
me lodge. what good hunter he is,
VIII always have lots of meat. count
many coups, and become a big chief.
She tells him to go to her brother and
BUY her, and marry her honorablv for
MS wife. If she would consent to run
OH with him, he would soon oct tired
OF her, steal new squaw and leave
her. He don't want to buy her; wants
TO marry for love, and continues his
SUIT Tor month or more. until she
agrees to run off with him. They 90
to another camp and remain for three
days. 1t his mOther-in-law finds her
daughter in that time, she takes her
home and lodge-pOleS her for change.
Ii not, she is like bear at the loss of
the sale Of her daughter. Many souaws
run of to escape being sold to parties
they do not like.
The young Indian steals several
maidens before he settles down. They
generally buy one Of the discarded
squaWs, which constitutes legal mar
rlage among the tribe, and if they wish
a divorce they must give a pony to
some poor woman for charity, and dis
card their wife publicly at one of the
dances. The mother-in-law is not al
lowed to look at her son-in-law if he
enters lodge she is in; she covers he1
head and goes out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-17
Somebody's Mother.

SUCH wild eyes! Such matted hair!
such strange thoughts as came to her
half-crazed brain as she staggered
through the streets. A drunken man
is an object of pity-a drunken wom-
an is terrible sight. She loses every
good emotion, every WOmanly feeling,
and her eyes look so much like the ewes
Of mad wolf that passers give her
the walk and shudder as they meet
her. This woman muttered her wild
thoughts as she staggered along, and
she clutched the air as if size saw
enemies on every side. By and by
she fell down beside the fence, grOaned
and mumbled and muttered. and then
ceased further effort to regain her feet.
Children gathered around her-n0t to
torment her-nOt to make sport of her
condition, but to feel awed and mysti-
fed at the shocking sight. They We're
like shadows dancing before her
blurred vision, and she held out her
arms and muttered:
you wouldn't hurt an old woman,
would you?'
q wouldn't dare hurt you" replied
a lad of eight or nine. ''You are some
body's m0ther-you may have a boy
just as big as mer'
'.Mother-boy?" she muttered, try
ing to steady her gaze. $50 have
got bOy-so | haver'
land won't he be afraid when tie
dark comes ?" innOcentIy asked the lad
His words seemed to touch q chord
in her heart. She drew herself up,
reached out a trembling hand to the
children, and there were tears il her
eyes as she whispered:
'Td forgotten that l had boy He
will be waiting at the gate. I'm going
right home.'
Her step was still unsteady, but she
did not fall again; and as her form
was lost in the twilight the children
sat on the grass and whispered to each
/ other:
s'What will her boy say?''-Detrojt
Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-17
Do WI hat You Can.

The woods would be very silen if
no birds sang there but those that san.
best
l know not who said those beautiful
words, but | may be safe to say it was
no great man. Not what the world
calls great nor learned, not rich. but
whatsoever placed them upon paper to
be read by its struggling thousands
gave a sermon in the plainest, truest.
yet grandest way it could be told.
l know how anxious everyone feels
to do his best to be first. Well. Won
may do your best. But if your talent
Will not bring you q hundred fold, be
content by its doubling. Rather be
proud that you can look back and say:
THAT is as well again as 1 once did
II You are capable of no more, why be-
moan your own fate because others
nave outstripped you? Do YOU gain
py complaining, or by silence? Can
you lose by trying again? How many
churches would be vacant if every
preacher should say: Il will not
preach unless | can have my church
filled like Beecher or Spurgeon. If
none went abroad but the Moodys and
Sankey's, how many places would be
unfruitful. All. the churches would
be very silent if none preached but
those who preached bestl To be first
or nothing is poor saying by which
to hive. No one expects you to
give your first speech like
Wilberforce. Everybody knows YOU
have not the head of Daniel Web
ster-they only think it is very well
for you, John Smith. 1t does not cool
| your ardor to be thus spoken of. 1t
helps to make a comparison between
the poorer and the better. Very rarely
would the world look upon pictures or
| works OF art, if none sat at the easel
or held the chisel but the worlds great
masters. What would you be-what
would the world be-if none struggled
to be heard? Because you cannot pipe
! ~ ASAASo vi ~ Aolta tto SUlOllSGI VI DOlueI
brother, need you try on that instru-
ment? You may make a clearer and a
sweeter strain on some other one. The
world does not measure all beauties or
talents alike. If one thinks the whiD-
poor-will the best singer of the wood,
would he care to have that bird under
his window always? His neighbor
might like the robin best. then who is
to be the judge between the two?
Should one bird stop singing because
some other can be heard the farthest?
No; use what talents you possess.
See not smiles or frowns, hear not the
jeers or enyious remarks, heed not the
prophetic sayings Of your future, and
| never mind if you do not as well as the
best. Keep doing sculpture or paint,
study or play, sing. speak or write and
If you do not stand first, remember
that the woods would be very silent if
no birds sang there but those that sang
best.-Phre11Ol0gicaI JOW32a@l.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-17
What the MOrmOnS Believe.

THE Mormon people no more enter
tain the idea Of removing from Utah
than the BOstOnians reflect on the pos
sibility of eyacuating Boston. [ can
not express a conviction of their per-
manent residence in any strOnger terms.
They believe that when the Millennium.
of which there are no present indica-
tions, shall come, the Saints of the Lord
will be gathered together in Jackson
County, Mo, where they will reign,
1000 years, all the rest of the world.
even including Boston, being destroyed.
Whom they will reign over, by the by,
has never been told us. Until that
glorious day shall come they are direct
ing their main efforts to the upbuildina
of Utah. The only foundation fol
such reports as are frequently seen in
the newspapers Is the sending out OF
an occasional colony into the neighbor.
ing territories. chiefly as a missionary
station for the conversion of the In.
dians. The Book of Mormon .
teaches that the American Indians
therein termed Lamanites, are the de
cendants of the lost tribes of Israel
and that while it is the duty of TIE
Church to convert all nations to say.
ing knowledge of the truth, its first en-
deavors are to be for the salvation OF
these remnants of the fold.-A Nor
mon i11 n. Z. Eceni1ag Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-17
promise ana performance.

The proprietors of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters promise nothing in behalf OF this
famous tonic and regulating elixir which it
viii not perform. No pretensions irrecon-
cilable with common sense are made in ref
erence to it, bot evidence OF the most posi-
tive nature has been accumuIatlng for over
. Quarter of a century in its behalf which
nroves it to be a reliable preventive and
Curative of ma1arial diseases, an efficient
and Genial tonic and general corrective. and
sneciallv valuable in cases where the bowels,
liver. stomach or urinary organs are affected.
DebiIity the source from whence so many
bodily evils spring, is entirely remedied by
the invigorative action of the Bitters, which
arrests premature decay and repairs losses
of nervous and muscular power while i'm
proving the appetite and rendering diges-
ton easy,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-17

cost. They admit that the financial
success depends upon those figures.
The United States, $1,000, 900 will
never be paid, nor can it be, and the
prospects are the individual share
holders will have to take fifty per cent.
on their investment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-17

NUHIIItIIU Is unnecessary. I nave
reckoned income on 100 days, when
the time is only 159 days. The Board
of Finance say they expect to sell the
buildings at fifty per cent. of cost.
But any man OF any caliber knows
1hey cannot get over ten per cent of
, 1876-03-29

1t would be a great relief to him if a chart
table family would open its home for
them, where he hopes they would not be
found altogether useless, if their training
be continued IN honesty, obedience and
the love of work.
Kind families inclined to take the case
OF these poor children into consideration
are politely requested to apply at the Of
fee of this Paper for further particulars.
, 1876-03-29
IRRIGATION IN CANE CULTURE.
BY r H. BURTON.
From the Sugar Cane.)

Probably no occupation requires, from
those who dedicate themselves to it, a
more general knowledge of Science and
the Arts than that of a sugar-caue planter.
The field for observation is so gre tt
the subjects so varied, that 10 small mind
can ever grasp them rs whole. Among
the numerous branches OF his required
knowledge, is that of being thoroughly
conyersant with hydraulics, able to mp
preclate the advantages OF irtig ton. and
the mode to be adopted on the different
soils he has to work on. Perhaps no
portion OF his daily routine requires more
attention and practical observation. No
MAJ can consider himself a thoroughly
competent planter unless h. has mastered
this, which, simple as itmay at first ap.
pear, requires much practice. Irrigatio1
and damage IN the hands Of experienced
men make them masters of The situation.
They never fear loss of crops, or short
crops for want of rain But those who
labOur under the impression that irriga-
ton, and irrigation alone. that is, food
ing or soaking lands, without subsequent
drainage, will produce luxuriaut crops Of
canes, IaboUr under one of those decisions
which so frequently cause the failure of
new enterprises. A practical illustration
of this is simple let any person take
two flower pots, fill them with the same
description Of soil, let one pot have a hole in
the bottom ~(drainage)-the other with
the hole plugged up (no drianagel-put
equally healthy plants in each,-water
them daily, and observe the result.
This will prove that irrigation must be
accompanied by drainage, or the result
will be disastrous.
In irrigating, the water must be kept
moving,-never allowed to stagnate. 1t
may be damned up for a certain number
of hours, but never until it acquires a green
ish tinge, by moss accumuIating on the
surface, which it very readily does when
confined in small trenches. But if moved
on every twenty four or for'y-eight hours
it multiplies its own utility.
Irrigation and drainage were thoroughly
understood by the MOors, and the high
value they placed on irrigation is shown
by the costly a%cqueducts made by them,
and which yet exist in Spain. There are