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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
A Strange Truth.

The other day, says the Detroit Free
Press, when prominent dry goods house
in this city seemed to be alive with lady
customers, a journalist said to the pro-
prietOr:
=" You are having a big afternoons
trade"
bah % replied the merchant.
There's fifty ladies in here" said the
journalist, as he looked about.
"And that signifies nothing" replied
the merchant. "See those two over
there. They have been here over half
an hour, looked at twenty difiert Mt ar
ticles, and are now going away WITHOUT
making a purchase. Fifty ladies in a
dry goods store may mean SO, $25 or
$50, but hardly ever more. One buys a
spool of thread, another bit of ribbon,
third pair of gloves, and the cash
aggregate is nothing"
Who are your best customers p asked
the journalist.
Farmer people, old ladies and men.
Farmers hardly ever buy less than $25
worth at a time, and old ladies want
good solid goods and don't waste much
time in purchasing. Let a man come in
here for goods and we will sell him fifty
dollars worth and have him out of the
store in fifteen minutes. When he sees
what he wants he orders it cut of, pays
his cash and away he goes"
"Then the hundreds of ladies who go
shopping are not good customers?"
Sometimes. They buy summer and
winter clothing in season, but never until
they have gone the rounds and called
here from two to four times. It's what
you might call between seasons now.
On fine day ladies will walk or ride a
mile to reach the store, stay here an
hour, buy paper of pins and go home.
They come out to see and be seen, and to
meet, gossip, and have no.idea of trading.
If the man of the house had the buying,
six clerks would be enough for any store
in Detroit. l now keep thirty, and the
time Of twenty, at least, is wasted in
throwing down and putting up goods"
AS the journalist went out, clerk
handed lady tiny package-two or
three yards of ribbon. She laid it on
the counter, gave him sharp look and
said
USand that tn NV corriaoe cir -
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
Bowen on Beecher.

Bowen, of the New York Independent,
has written scathing letter on Henry
Ward Beecher; and the New York Timts
says of it: Mr.. Bowen defends himself
against the charge of slandering the pas
tor of Plymouth Church by asserting. in
the first place, that he has not slandercd
him, and, in the next, by the statement
that the alleged ISLANDERS are true. He
asks for a committee of the church to in
vestigate all his words and deeds, and
then goes on to refer to facts which have
come to his knowledge, showing that Mr..
Beecher has betrayed the sanctity of
home," and committed other most seri-
GUS offenses. 1t cannot be alone to the
Tilton case that he refers, for he express
ly says that his information came from
"dear friends, years before the present
scandal was published" He thus leads
us to infer that there are other cases of a
similar nature in the background. He
concludes by saying: 81 solemnly give
it as my unwavering opinion, in view OF
all the facts and evidence presented to
me, that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
without even the shadow of doubt in my
mind, is guilty of the awful crimes OF
adultery, perjury and hypocrisy" This
is a terrible accusation, and the more 80
since the man who makes it demands an
inquiry into the evidence on which it is
founded. With regard to that evidence,
it will be time enough to express an
opinion when it is produced; at present,
however, it is only too clear that Mr..
Beecher is placed in most unfortunate
position. Unless Mr.. Bowen can be
proved to be q most foul and wicked
calumniator, the day is approaching
when Mr.. Beecher will be compelled, in
his own brief but forcible language to
"step down and out "a result of this
dreadful scandal, which no one will be
able to look upon without sorrow and re.
orat
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
New Departure In Base Ball.

A New York dispatch contains infor-
nation of interest to very large ele-
ment of readers. 1t relates to the new
departure in base ball matters, being
the disruption of the National Associa
ton, and the formation of new organi
zation consisting of the eight leading
professional clubs, four from the east and
four from the west, to the exclusion OF
several weak clubs whose participation
In contests for the championship can be
dispensed with 10 the advantage of the
game in general. The step taken by the
eight leading clubs is purely in the in.
terest of financial protection, and will
be received with great favor among. the
admirers of base ball. The plan had its
inception in the sporting columns ol
the Chicago Tribune In October last.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
Law In Minnesota.

The st. Paul Dispatch says that Frank
Hathaway murdered Miss Slayton, in
Plainview, few days ago, and then tried
Intellectually to kill himself Hathaway
wound. in the throat, endangered his
life. and he was taken to the village
hotel. where physicians attended him. A
sherif's deputy was in nominal charge OF
him, but his precariOus condition rem
dered escape unlikely. His father and
mother had an adjoining room, and they
or others watched night and day at his
bedside. AT Miss SlaytOn's funeral the
assembly included nearly the whole
population of the neighborhood, in
which she had been very popular. The
fatal wound, a bullet hole in her fore
head, was visible when the coffin was
opened for the people to look, and the
sight heightened the already reused in
dignation. After the services meeting
of young men was held in the woods
near by, and lynching was resolved
upon.
Hathaway was very low, and was be-
lieved to be dying. At midnight the
lynchers arrived at the hotel. They
numbered about fifty, were masked, and
obeyed the orders of leader who carried
rope. They entered the building at
the front and rear and went at first to
the parents room, to which they were at
tracted by light. Mrs. Hathaway arose
and the lynchers seized her husband as
he lay in the bed, supposing he was the
murderer. This mistake caused only a
brief delay and young Hathaway was
speedily found |; he was too weak to resist
or utter word, yet seemed to realize
his plight fully. A woman who had been
with him joined with his parents in
pleading for his life, but the mob hus-
tied them out of the room. Hathaway
made appealing gestures and tried to
speak, but the wretches were merciless.
The rope was put around his neck, and
six men laying hold of the sheet on
which he lay, carried him out into the
yard. There the sheet was torn by his
weight, and he fell to the ground.
Thereupon the rope was seized and he
was dragged to a tree, being nearly
strangled to death before he was sus.
pended to limb. The brutal outrage is
not very generally condemned in the ex-
cited community, owing to the nature OF
Hathaway's crime. He offered attention
to Miss Slayton, and being repulsed
when he asked her to marry him, he
shot her and then attempted to commit
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
Incidents In the Lives OF Chicago
Women.

A young lady on Calumet avenue re-
ceived package with the following note
enclosed in it: Miss-The accompany
ing package contains ten $4,000 bonds,
registered United States skies, 1881.
Please accept them as tribute from an
ardent admirer who desires to remain un-
known. l have known many women,
and my heart has been cut to the quick
in observing their sinful practices. In
you alone have / found a woman who
don't carry her pocketbook in her hand
when out shopping. You have restored
to me faith in womankind. Bless you."
A woman on Erie street last week lost
her double set of false teeth and couldn't
speak word till she got new set. In
week the husband had gained ten
pounds of flesh, but the other night he
was seen at a lawyers Office, with wild
and haggard look, asking the lawyer
whether abandonment of ones husband,
for instance, was extraditable. The
lawyer said it wasn't; that if his wife
left him and ran away to Brazil, Holland
or Cuba, there was no earthly means of
securing her surrender, whereupon the
countenance ofthe unhappy man bright
ened up and he took his way to ticket
Office to inquire when the first steamer
for Brazil would sail.
A philosophical milkman on West
Washington street discovered that an
impecunious clearinghouse keeper, who
owed him for two months milk had
folded her tents like the Arabs and
silently stolen away, leaving neither her
address nor her effects. The loss was a
severe one to the poor but honest milk.
man, but, instead of tearing his hair OF
dilating upon the prevalence of dishon.
esty, the philosopher simply heaved a
sigh, took reef in his quart measure
and that night kept his cans under the
hydrant few minutes longer than usual.
His cry of Mey-ilk |" will be heard as
cheerfully as if everybody was as honest
as the day isn't long at this time O. year
Chicago Tribune.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
Arab Horse Maxims.

Whose raiseth and traineth horse for
the Lord. is counted in the number of
those who give aims day and night in
private as well as in public. He will find
his reward. All his sins will be forgiven
him, and never will any fear come over
him and dishonor his heart.
Let your colt be domesticated and live
with you from his tenderest age, and
when horse he will be simple, docile,
faithful, and Injured to hardship and
fatigue.
If you have your horse to serve you on
the day of trial, if you desire him to be a
horse of truth, make him sober, accus-
toned to hard work, and inaccessible to
fear.
Do not beat your horses or speak to
them.in loud tone of voice do not be
angry with them, but kindly reprove
their faults; they will do better thereaf-
ter, for they understand the language of
man and its meaning.
If you have a long days journey be-
fore you, spare your horse at the start !;
let him frequently walk to recover his
wind. Continue this until he has
sweated and dried three times, and you
may ask him whatever you please, he
will not leave you in difficulty.
Use your horse as you use your leathern
bottle; If you open il gently and gradual
ly you can easily control the water with
in, but If you open 1t suddenly the water
escapes at once, and nothing remains to
quench your thirst.
Observe your horse when he Is drink
ing at brook. If in bringing down his
head he remains square without lending
his limbs, he possesses sterling qualities,
and all parts of his body are built sym.
metrica1ly.
-Four things he must have broad
front, chest, loins, and limbs; four things
long-neck, breast, forearm, and Group !;
four things short-pasterns, back, ears,
and tail.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

The assurance of the lightning-rod
man has always been looked upon as
something appalling in its dimensions.
II was never better illustrated than the
other day when one of them applied TO
the President of the South Side Railroad
Company and wanted to put lightning
rods In all his bobtails.
"Lightning-rods on our cars r asked
the latter.
"Why, certainly"
"Wbat in thunderation do we want
'em forT'
"Because they make such good con-
ductors," replied the imperturbable
lightning-rod man.
It took him right where the backbone
leaves of.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
A Royal Old Khediye.

The Paris Figaro tells this story OF
oriental generosity: A. M. Bavray OBJ
tanned from the Khedive Of Egypt a
grant of land on which he built house.
When the building was completed he
invited the Khedive to visit it. The
monarch was pleased with it and asked
how much it cost. "Fifty thousand
pounds" was the answer. Here are
sixty thousand pounds" said the Khe-
dive. "Let me buy it," OF course M.
Bavray complied with the royal request,
and was commissioned to fit it up and
furnish it, which he did at a cost of
G120,000. When all was finished he
went TO see the Khedive, taking his
little son with him. The ronarch Of
fered to kiss the boy, but he ran away
crying, "No, no, mamma says you are a
naughty man." WhyT' asked the
Khedive. Because you have taken
away our beautiful house." The Khe-
dive wrote on piece Of paper and told
the boy to give IL TO his mother. "You
can kiss me now, little man." he said
" / am no longer naughty" The paper
was deed of gift of the whole property
IT is better to reconcile an enemy than
Tn conauer him
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

CARL ScHURz says, in speaking of the
Centennial: "The country will in the
coming year resound with eulogy of the
men who founded the Republic, but
these old patriots, IL they could, would
tell us TO spend fewer efforts in praising
them and make greater efforts to follow
their example,"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
The Handsome Joseph and Potiphar's
Wife.

This famous legend, says the Home Jour-
nal, is still found among the Egyptians
of to-day, but in a somewhat different
form from that of the Biblical narrative.
M. DeLesseps, the distinguished engineer
and savant, who has resided much in the
east, gives this as the Egyptian tradi-
ton: POtiphar was not tender-hcarted
man. He imprisoned his wife, as also
Joseph, although the lady and Joseph
asserted their innocence. The Judge Or
dered an inquiry, and the wife of Poti-
phar in her defense, urged that her pas
sion for Joseph had been awakened by
his personal beauty, which she declared
no woman could possibly resist. Others,
she said, would have done as she had, an
assertion she was invited to prove. On
being set at liberty she invited number
of her female friends to meet her at her
house, without informing them of the
purpose for which they were assembled.
To each guest an orange and golden
knife were given, and they were request
ed not to cut the oranges until the lady
of the house had given them the signal
so to do, by pronouncing the word
"Now." The ladies, with their oranges
| in one hand, and their knife in the other,
were gazing in surprise at their hostess,
when suddenly the door opened and
Joseph made his appearance standing on
the threshold. "Now," cried the wife
of Potiphar, but her guests, captivated
by the beauty of the Hebrew, paid no
attention to what they were doing, and,
consequently, cut their fingers. The
party was called before the judge on the
following morning; every one of the
ladies, save one, hid their wounded hand
in the folds of her garment, while the
one who was unhurt declared that she
had escaped the common fate by throw
ing her knife away the moment she saw
Joseph; and, on being further pressed
with questions, declared that had she
not thrown the knife away, she should
have stabbed herelf TO the heart, be-
cause she could not bear to lcok upon the
Hebrew and know that she could never
possess him as husband.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
SOMEHOW OR OTHER.

Life has burden for every ones shoulder
None may escape from its trouble and care;
Miss itin youth, and twill come when we re older
And fit us as close as the garments we wear.
Sorrow comes into our lives unlimited,
Robbing our heart of its treasure OF song;
Lovers grow cold and friendships are sighted,
Yet somehow or other we worry along.
Every day toll Is ar every day blessing,
Though poverty's cottage and crust we may share
Weak IL the back on which burdens are pressing,
But stout is the heart that Is strengthened by
prayer.
Somehow or other the pathway grows brighter
Just when we mourn there was none to befriend
Hope In the heart makes the burden seem lighter,
And somehow or other we get to the end
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
A SPECIAL, from Springfield. Illinois

A SPECIAL from Springfield, Illinois,
says that the treasury of the city is
empty In consequence Of the taxpayers
having resolved tofght the alleged un-
lawful tax levy, and the municipality is
in sad plight. All the employees OF
the roiice and fire departments, to whom
the city is largely in arrears, have been
discharged, and it is thought the school.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

A grocer named Picker, who kept fowls
at Lincoln, England, was feeding them
recently when an ungrateluI bantam cock
spurred him in the left thumb. Morti-
fcation set in and all efforts TO save his
life were unavailing.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

DIR. RUSSELL will leave India in March
for Philadelphia, TO write up for the
London Times the opening ceremonies OF
the Centennial Exposition.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

Two hundred and fifty thousand gal
ons of beer are sold in London daily.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

The negroes of Sumter county, Ala
bama, at a colonization meeting, held
few evenings ago, offered resolutions
memoriaiizing Congress to set apart some
portion of the public domain, ON which
to colonize the colored people, that they
may have an opportunity to become
nation, to be eventually admitted into
the Union as one of the United States.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

A DAUGHTER Of Lucius w. Pond, the
Worcester forger, has been for several
months employed in restaurant in that
city, where the table walters arc women,
voluntarily working out debt of 800
owed by her father to the proprietor of
the restaurant. Although brought up
to the use of the elegancies and luxuries of
life, this young lady shows a nice sense
of honor, modicum of which would
have saved her father from criminals s
fate, and his family from disgrace.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

IT is better to reconcile an enemy than
TO conquer him.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

The fortune left by the late Sir An
thony Rothschild amounts to nearly
10000, 900 sterling. The fortune of the
late Mr.. Brassey, who has hitherto been
regarded as the largest of millionaires,
was about 96, 600, 900. Mr.. Morrison, the
head and founder of the we'll known
house of Morrison, Dillon & Co., left be-
tween fS,0OO,OO0 and f4,OOOOOO. Sir
Anthony has, therefore, surpassed all
previous collectors of wealth, and has
left a sum which would buy the fee-simple
OF many German principality.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

AN historic dungeon or tomb has been
unearthed at Dedham, Massachusetts,,
which puzzles the natives. A number
of common Indian mounds are near the
town, and opposite them, some two hun
dred feet from the Charles river, some
workmen ran across piece of rock, a kind
of tufa, about three feet in diameter. Roll
ing this away regular archway was dis
covered leading into the hillside. The
mouth of the arch was of Roman shape,
some two feet high by three broad the
walls and floor were evenly and carefully
built Of hewn stone, cemented with a
species of mud plaster, no lime cement
being found in the whole structure. The
passage way widened until, after some
ten feet of length, it expanded into a
wide cell some ten feet in diameter one
wall of this was artificial, the back of
natural rock, and the other side also arti-
fetal, but Of irregular shape. The cell
was some five feet high, and carefully
hoored throughout. The Norsemen,
Puritans and Indians are severally cred
tied with having built the tomb, and
some Harvard professors have been called
upon to give an opinion.
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