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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-09-20

"A landlord of this city, who rents
houses to three employees of the Treas
ury Department, was notified by them
on Saturday that they could not pay
their last months rent, because 1928
had bcen stopped from the pay Of
each for campaign purposes. WASH
ington Star.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-09-20

In st. Adams, where Wheeler made
his bloedy-shirt speech, the Republi-
can vote fell off from 99l to TAI,
while the Democratic vote increased
from 253 to 487. Mr.. Wheeler should
be invited to take the Stump" The
election of Tilden and Hendricks will
then be assured.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-09-20

Necessary to elect. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1856
According to these figures Tilden
would have twelve votes to spare, and
Hayes would require lifty-six to elect
Conceding to him the four states
classified as doubtful, he would still be
short thirteen votes. Where are they
to come from is a question which the
Republican managers have not been
able to answer to their own satisfac-
ton.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-09-20

Vote for TILDEN and REFORM
in November.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-09-20
LITTLE WANDERERS.

August 9Th, 1875.
This is to certify that we have used DIR.
SETH ARNoLD's BALsAM .cveral years, and
it THE BEST REMEDY we have
ever tried for DIARRHE and DVSEN-
Terry. aud most cordially recommend it 10
the public. Signed,
Il. G. TOLLES, Supt.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-09-20
TIE CENTENNIAL.

Travel to Philadelphia from all parts of
the country is increasing, and a very large
proportion of the visitors to the exhibit
tion pass a few days III Washington. This
they are enabled to d. at no extra charge
of car fare, owing to the patriotism and
lberality of President j. w. Garrett, Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, who in
augurated the system by which travellers
from the Vest bound to Philadelphia can
take Washington on their way without
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-23

Trials will some, as matter and mind are
hinged, andif men vince under the rod
they have to remember that fire ~cleanses
from dross and tests the gold. Complain
ing won't help it any.
Grin and bear it, is a sturdy old motto
and as excellent as it is homely. The fact
is, trials and vexations of this life are a Won
derful spur to action. Obstacles that must
be surmounted are morally certain to be the
means of calling to the surface the very
best there is in men =: and with the heart and
soul in the work there is little time or dis
position to ''tret''-little time to brood over
a shadow.
Don't fret! Disease asks nothing better
to feed upon, while q quite mind and genial
temper are its worst enemies. Judicious
exercise and hearty occupation will do won
ders towards .sreconciling us to the DEGREES
OF Providence or the inequalities of fortune,
however harsh at first blush they may seem.
Let me prescribe for my friend, the %''consti-
%tutional grulnbler' over yonder in the
corner:
Go honestly and earnestly to work my
friend. quit the use Of tobacco, and slim
ulants, and immoderate meals Forget your
self part Of the time, and be sure to open
your heart to the sunbeams OF heaven that
are always shining,
Tear away that dreary curtain that SO
long has hung like q curse over your moral
vision, and let in a glimpse of the glow and
gladness that fills this great good earth OF
ours to overflowing!-and my word for it,
you will catch some Of the truth and beau
ty there is abroad in the glorious universe
that God looked upon and called good"
-E2nao Wildwood IN Dnigo Rmal.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-23
ROUGH JOKE ON A LOVER.

The Reading Eagle says that on Tuesday
a young man from Springfield, Chester
county, Pa, visited that city to buy a num-
Der Of Christmas presents for a young lady
to whom he is engaged. A number OF
Young men knew Of the trip to Reading,
and as It was dark when he neared the
house of his intended, the party waited for
him along the road, and when he was think
ing over the effects the presents would pro-
duce he was suddenly met in the road by
four masked men, who caught him dtied
him with a O and took the presents from
him. He begged for his life, butthey still
continued to tie him, hand and foot, and
they threw him down and made him state
when the wedding was to take place, and
what he had bought, and how he had paid
attention to the lady. To all these questions
he answered promptly and then would beg
them not to kill him. To close the sport,
they tied his hands securely behind his back,
turning his coat inside out first, then tying
| HE presents on his back, they started him
for the house ofhis intended. and threatened
that if he did not go in they would assault
him again. He went in, but what the result
Of the interview was, is not known.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-23

ments about loans, on which certain rate
acknowledges to having received the money
1.-THE sum being expressed in words), and
promises to pay it at a certain date, with a
surplus of interest; secondly, they contain
the date, the names of the duumviri, the
town authorities, and the two consuls. The
names Of the witnesses are written under
this, and a seal is fastened to thetwo tablets.
on which the contract is written, with a
cord. Sometimes the creditor wrote a short
extract of the contract on the margin. The
bankers name is T.. Caius Tucundus. His
~life-size bronze bust, which is one of the
most interesting at Pompeii, has also been
recovered.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-23
DON'T FRET.

''There is no rest but calm.''-It would
be as impossible for an invalid to forecast
the perfect happiness Of heaven, as to try
to imagine the more than oriental luxury
of atmosphere that encompasses a perfectly
sound and healthy body. Atmosphere in
which it revels with a sort of ecstacy similar
to that which succeeds the Turkish Bath.
Healthy people never fret only phys
icalinfirnity is testy or given to chronic fault
finding. A fretfll disposition seldom gets
above %trifles, and it thrives and grows like a
noxious weed under cultivation.
Ihe most disagreeable people are the
unconstitutional grumbiers.a They are
everywhere like stumbling blocks, and fret
at anything, everything, and indeed moth
ing. We feel oppressed shut up in the
same room with them and aclleto get away,
and do get away as far as possible without
manifestiilg downright inciviiity.
There are few who care to hear about the
ailments and 1nisfortunes of others, those
topics are never entertaining. Fretting
brands the imbecile. In view of the fact
that we really make ourselves what we are
in great measure, if unhappy tem~peraments
must vent their spleen and misanthropy, in
the name Of reason, let their pestilent hui
mors be INDUCED in privacy, SO as to trans
nit as little unnecessary misery to others as
possible.
If fretting could by any possibility ac-
complish any good something might be said
in Justification but as the only thing it does
accomplish is mental degeneracy, the sooner
the habit is abandoned the better for the
moral and intellectual Well-being of its vie
Tins.
1t can be ~helped-must be. helped 1t We
expect to get on the highway that leads to
better thing hereafter. There are no ssggrum-
blers'' in heaven. Fretting is a habit that
multiplies upon itself in greater ratio than
any other vice in the moral calendar.
Remembering the short-sightedness andin.
sufficiency of human nature, it is something
of a wonder that SO many indulge in com
plants to-day that by tomorrow are though
fit subjects for rejoicing.
We grumble more at what b~ye-and-byt
seemsto us to have been for the best, ane
whether it seems so or not, most likely VII
EE% -,
be remembered a year hence, if at all, witt
a twinge of yexation that we should hay
been so deeply stirred by a matter so small
Fretful people are made SO by littl
things and it is a curious problem ia tn
human economy that those who PERM
themselves to be harassed almost to tn
verge of insanity by some temporary gl1eN
ance or petty perplexlty, when mercilessd els
aster does come down like an avalanche upo
their heads, stand up brayely, men tn;
they are, like old Atlas beaneat
the world, and view the wreck Of fortune
hope, and home, without a trenaor. MAJ
hood or womanhoodis too noble, too godlik
to vex itself over triyialities, like impatiei
children.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-23
M IN
recovered

The great French Emperor Napoleon,
while in a conversation with some of his
%courtiers on the subject of the nation, its
soldiers, their patriotism, ETC., was asked
what France most needed, and his emphatic
reply was "mothers." In all countries
where woman is held as the equal of man,
her influence is wonderful for good or for
evil as she may choose to use it. How i'm
portant, then, that she should be actuated
by the right motives and should be found in
the society of the young to help shape their
characters for usefulness. The society of
woman is not only refining, but it is agreea-
BILE, and any society composed largely Of
women needs no other, and could find no
greater element of cohesion. Many of our
readers remember the old W~ashingtonian
temperance society, which rose and spread
rapidly for awhile, but then dwindled down
to a handful. The Sons Of Temperance
then came on to the stage of action. They
adopted closed doors, or secrecy, but there
was an element Of strength and cohesion
yet lacking, and when the Good Templars
organized with woman as a ~co-laborer, the
Sons of Temperance had to admit her as a
visiting member to hold their membership.
Take woman out of the church to-day, and
who can safely say how long it would sur
yiye the blow ? Pious men would of course
not forsake their religion, but they would
enjoy it at home with their families rather
than at a public place of worship, without
them, and their influence would be lost to
the world. Only a few days siiioc we heard
a gentleman remark Woman holds the
keys sure, if she only knew it, The history
Of the past is full of instances of men being.
led to destruction, or sayel as brands from
the burning fire by the influence Of woman.
A certain man once said, j" Let me write the
songs of q nation, and [ care not who makes
its laws" He might have said, guarantee
the virtue of the women of the nation and
give them their proper position in society,
and | will warrant the nations safety.
What nation or society can ignore their in
fIuence? The success of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry was secured as soon as woman was
admitted within it's gates. What is most
needed now, is to give her work there and
encourage her to do the work. Make her
feel at home, then bring III the younger
members Of the community under her inflll-
ence, and the farmers future is bright and
J his destiny safe.-Jougmal Of Agricultuue and
Farmer.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-23
THE TO NJ I CIRCLE.
LOOKING FORWARD.
By NEWELL

Some time in the earthly hereafter.
An angel will whisper to me .
And say with Il face full of pity,
THY loved one is passing from thee. 4,
The new year-aye, and sooner
May find me in life alone;
In my bosom the blossom of sorrow.
On my lips IL griet-lalen moan.
lam nerving myself for the hour
When God message shall sound in nv ear.
| am praying for strength from my Maker
To pass through the trial severe.
But alas, when the Heavenly Sewer
Shall utter the words that bring woe, ,
Be it sooner or later, I shall be
Unready to hear them, / know.
All! twill prove to have been no fancy.
The throbbings that then stir my heart;
The sobbings-the terrible sobbings-
That ever Of grief are a part.
But as by her couch | sit holding
The hand growing icy the while;
Ny eyes resting on the dear feature.
Lit up will SO sanity Il smile;
/ shall know, after all, through the darkness
g. That leads to the beautiful day,
That never shall end, since immortal,
Ny mother is vending her way!
Ann Arbor, Mich, Nov. 1875.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-23
Jenny is a. wat, prim bodie ;
Jenny's seldom dry
She drags it ~ her petticoatie
Comin' thro' the rye.
G0LDEN s EAvEs.

I 49, iAA~p - ~ aNA NSAAN1 AON&A
A form lies cold and chill,
To whom the solemn voice of Death
Has whispered, "Peace, be STILL
They who survive will linger near,
And ask with anxious mind,
How much Of gold the dead man had,
What haze he left behind 80
The angel who with glistening wings
Is lowering round the bed,
And bending with inquiring look
above the silent dead,
Demands, !. What was the life he led2
And scans the record DER,
What treasure has he now in heaven,
What good deeds sent before?3
Make men intelligent, and they become
inventive,
The fixed purpose sWays and bends all
circumstances to its USE, as the wind bends
the reeds and rushes beneath ii.
-Ifw are sufficiently Watchfnl over our
own conduct, we shall have no time to find
fault with the conduct Of others.
AS nothing truly valuable can be attain
eel without industry, SO there can be no
perseyering industry without q deep sense
OF the value Of time
Say nothing respecting yourself, either
good, bad, or Notwithstanding good, for
that is vanity nothing bad, for that is az
fectation; nothing Indifferent, for that is
silly.
Glory, like a shadow, flieth him who
pursueth it; but it folloWeth at the heels OF
him who would fly from it. Ifthou contest
it without merit, thou shall never attain UNI
to it. If thou deservest it, though thou hide
thyself it will never forsake thee.
True Friendship. By friendship you
mean the greatest love, the greatest use
~fulness, and the most open communica-
ton, and the noblest sufierings, and the
seyerest truth, and the ..heartiest counsel,
and the greatest union of minds of which
brave men and women are capable.-Je1emy
Taylor.
1t is not great battles alone that build
the worlds history, nor great poems alone
that make the generations grow. There
is Il still, small rain from heaven that has
more to do with the blessetlness of nature,
and Of human nature, than the mightiest
earthquake or the l~oveliest rainbow.
Family religion is of unspeakable impor-
lance. Its effect will greatly depend on
the sincerity Of the head Of the family, and
OH his mode OF conducting the worship OF
his household. Ifhis children and servants do
not see his prayer exemplifed i'll his temper
and manners, they will be Disguised with
religion.
a man who acquires a habit of giving
way to depression is on the road to ruin.
When trouble comes upon him, instead OF
rousing his energies to combat it, he weak
ems, and his faculties grow duh, and his
judgment obscured, and he sinks in the
slough ofdespair. ~
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-23
TOO LATE.

~"Johnson, the officer says you were drunk,
and that you haven't drawn a sober breath
for a week. How is that, J%ohnson?"
eyer HONOR" said Johnson, as he
dropped one arm over the rail, and leaned
back heavily on the policeman who supported
dim by the shoulder, Eyer honor, it's true,
I've been drunk for a week. as you say,
an I haven't got a word to say to defend
myself. I've been in this 'ere court, 7 guess,
a hundred times before, an every time
Eve asheu yer homer to lot me OF light.
But this time don't have no fear. You
can send me up for ten days or ten years;
it's all one now"
AS he spoke he brushed away a tear with
his hat, and when he paused he coughed, a
dry racking cough, and drew his tattered
coat closer about his throat.
slYhcn [ went up before he continued,
II always counted the days an the hours
till I'd come off. This time I'll count the
blocks to the Potter's Field, I'm almost
gone, Judge"
He paused again, and looked down upon
his almost shoeless feet.
"Vhen | was a little country boy my moth
er used to say to me:
".Charley, if you want to be a ma new
er touch %liquor;;' an I'd answer, No, moth
er, l never WILL If Fd kept that promise
YOU an me wouldn't nave been SO well ac-
quainted, Judge. fl could only be a boy
again for half a day if / could go into the
old school-house just once more and see the
bows and girls, as I used to see them in the
old days, I could lie right down here and Gle
happy. But it's too late. Send me up,
Judge. Make it for ten days or make it for
life. It don't make. no difference. One
way would be as short as the other. All |
ask now is to die alone; I've been in crowded
tenements for years. IF I can be alone fol
a little while before / GO I'll die content,
ed"
The shoulder Of the muddy coat fell from
the policeman's hand, and the used up man
fell in a heap to the flour. He was carried tc
the little room behind the rail. His temples
we're bathed and his wrists were chafed. But
it was no use. Though his heart still bea1
he. was fast going to join his schoolmates
who have crossed the flood. The shutters
were bowed-the door was closed. Tx
MIGHT die contented, for he was left alone.
BANKING IN a BURIED CITY.-Ihe Italian
naper Perseverance, contains some remarks
about the three hundred writing-tablets of
Pompeiian banker at Pompeii. 1t says tina
in nearly all of the little books, containing
!. three tablets each, the four inner-sides ar
+ covered with wax on which a fine, small
writing is to be seen, They contain agree
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-23
COMING H r THE RYE

Every one has heard the pretty Scotch
ballad bearing the above title, which was
for many years a favorite with singers in the
parlor and the concert-room. And nearly
every one has the idea-yery naturally taken
fla laddie meet a lassie,
COMM thro, the rye
and
A the lads they smile on me
When comin' thro' the rye
that the lads and lasses of the song were ac-
customed to tavel through the fields o fstand-
ing rye, as over a common highway. This
popular misconception is corrected by DIR.
Bombaugh, in q foot-note printed in the
.'Literature of kissing.n He there states
that near Ayr, Scotland, there is a small,
shallow stream called the Rye, which, hav-
ing neither bridge nor ferry, was forded by
the rustics on their way to and from the mar
ket. 1t used to be the custom Of the coun-
try, when a lad met a lass midway in the
Rye, to steal a kiss from her; and it is that
custom which is commemorated in the bal
lad. This explanation is confirmed by the
stanza:
Jenny Is a. wat, prim bodie;
Jenny seldom dry
She drags 1t " her petticoatie
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-14
A Marquis Convicted of Forgery.

A criminal trial of peculiar interest
and extraordinary character has just ter
minated at Bologna, Italy, in the convic-
ton and sentence to eight years OF penal
servitude of Giuseppe Mantegazza, sixth
Marquis of Liscate. He was brought to
trial on the 18th of August, charged with
forgery, fraud, and Justification, and it
was proved that he forged the names of
King Victor Emanuel, Prince Humbert,
of Savoy, and the British Consul at
Florence, and others, to bills Of exchange
and papers drawn for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning money, besides counterfeiting
the official stamp of the British Consul
late at Florence. He was successful in
realizing upward of 500, 900 francs by
discounting this spurious paper, the
fact that he was known as one OF. the
Kings private financial agents assist
ing greatly in the success of the frauds.
Mantegazza is member Of one OF
the Oldest and most illustrious houses
liz Italy, tracing bis descent back to the
year 962, and his trial upon the charge
Of forgery has attracted attention
throughout Europe. In a statement
made in court he acknowledged that all
the bills and documents mentioned were
forgeries, but he actually denied their
authorship. He claimed to have been
employed by the King and the Prince in
bona .fde transactions, and in this way
was brought into connection with per
son whose name he refused to reveall
Under that persons authority, which he
believed to be sufficient, he professed to
have acted in good faith, declaring that
it was not until the thing had gone too
far to permit of his retreating that he
discovered the true state of the case. 1t
appears, however, that the evidence
failed to corroborate this version OF the
affair, and the noble Marquis was as
severely punished as though he were the
cOmmOnest felOn. G
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-14
The SerYian Retreat.

1T was horrible nightmare, that
march from Saitschar. Cannon roaring,
flames lighting up the valley, gusts of
thick smoke driven athwart the hill
faces, the heavens lightning flashing
against the lightning of man, a narrow,
steep road crammed with fugitives fee
ing from the cannon thunder, blazing
smoke, women clamoring wildly that the
Turk is close behind them, children
shrieking or sobbing, animals, oxen,
sheep, swine, poultry, in an inextricable
ENHANCEMENT on the Via Dolorosa. Ask
these miserable, panic stricken fugitives,
crushing forward as if the plague chased
them, how they like war. No. Ask
this man with knitted brow and culver
ing lips, who, with musket on one shout
der. child on the other, strides on
through the mud, thinking of the crops
on his acres that he leaves behind, al
ready golden with harvest hues. Ask these
two soldiers, each with bullet-hole
through the right hand, how they relish
war now, as they tramp homeward, GER
tainly not to glory. Is it not time to IN
terfere IN struggle which is no6 war
breast to breast, man to man, weapon to
weapon, but agony unspeakable to fugl-
tive women and children? 10 the night
mare of horror succeeded a day even
more heart-rending. For hours there
ragged on the lofty shoulder Of Urtani,
above thousands of exposed fugitive
families, thunderstorm of violence
7 have never seen equaled in the tropics.
Hail-stones. as big as walnuts dashed
down among the miserable creatures
already drenched, and standing or lying
in pools of water. The wall of the
children, the shrieks of the women, the
rushing of horses and cattle, amid the
lurid gloom of this terrible storm,
seemed like foretaste of the day Of
Judgment. = Belgrade Cor. London
DGiLn .Ne2ns.