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Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-06
THE EsQUIMAUX.

The Esqnimanx are not an interesting
people. Spread over nearly the whole of
the northern coasts of America, they differ
in form, manner and customs from any
other race on the continent. They resemble
more some Of the natives of the north of
Europe than the American Indians. In
stature they are below Europeans generally.
Those to the northwest of Hudson Bay are
OF larger size than those Of Labrador, but
all are dwarfish. But although they are
dlminutive, they are well-formed and hardy.
Their compilations are clear and their skin
smooth. 1t has, been remarked that in this
respect " there are more shapes of dirt than
any other shade of difference" Their hair
is black and straight; the men wear theirs
loose, but the women, who take pride in it,
separate it in two portions, so that one part
hangs over each shoulder. Some of the
men wear the beard on the upper lip and
cut the hair on the crown like the tonsure
of a monk. Many of the women and child
ren have pleasing countenances, even after
the strictness of the European standard
The old, however, are often exceedingly
ugly.
Wars are unknown among the Esqul-
ma1x, though the Indians sometimes pur-
sue them with ferocious vindictiveness.
Fighting is not their trade; they are fisher
men, not warriors. And yet the fact that
they are not towards is well established
for they will sometimes attack a bear single
handed; indeed, they frequently cour
danger that ordinary discretion would warn
them against. Inquest Of fish or game they
will fearlessly trust themselves, on floating
pieces OF ice where an European would no
dare to set his foot.
Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-06

his father sent him to the public house for
whiskey or gin, the little lad took his share
OF it before he brought it home. What re-
mains OF the joys that ought to surround a
family upon their domestic hearth? Not
vestlge of tenderness remains; a demorali-
zing poverty comes in it's lowest and most
hldeous form. In its train it brings all the
vices, all the coarseness, all the bestiality
which is forced upon those who have the
misfortune of perceiving this lowest and
most degrading form Of poverty.-Father
Tom Burke.
Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-06
TIL { no NJ I CIRCLE
MY SCHOOL DAYS.
JOHN G. WHITTIER.

Still sits the school-house by the road,
A ragged beggar summing;
Around it still the sumach grows,
And blackberry vines are running.
Within the masters S desk is seen,
Deep SCARED by raps official;
The warping floor, the battered seats.
The jack knife's carved initial.
The charcoal frescoes on its walls;
Its DOORS worn sill betraying
The feet, that creeping slow to school,
Went storming out to playing.
Long years ago Il winters sun
Shone over all at setting,
Lit up its western window panes,
And low caves icy fretting.
1t touched the tangled golden curls,
And brown eyes full OF grieving,
OF one who still her steps delayed
When all the school were leaving.
For near her stood the little boy
Her childish favor singled,
His cap was pul el down on his face,
Where pride and shame were mingled.
Pushing with restless feet the snow
To right and left, he fingered.
And restlessly her tiny hands
The blue check apron fingered.
He saw her Lift her eyes; he felt
The soft hands light caressing,
And heard the trembling of her voice,
AS if q fault conte5sing,
"I'm sorry that spelt the word;
hate to go above you,
Because 1.-THE brown eyes lower fell
Because, you see, love you.''
Still memory to the gray haired man
That sweet child face is showing;
Dear girl! the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing!
He lives to learn in life's hard schools;
How few who pass above HIM
Lament their triumph and his loss
Like her-because they love him.
Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-06
WHAT A WOMAN DID.-She was an

WHAT A WOMAN DID.-7She was an
average woman. She was in a market on
Woodward avenue at half-past eleven
O'Clock; and there were five men in there,
also She wanted bit of beet, a pinch of
mutton, some dried beef sliced very thin,
in fact, she wanted about twenty-nine
cents worth of meat. Each man was 81
lent for ten minutes. Each one was lnl-
patient for ten minutes more. Each one
waited exactly twenty-one minutes tor
that woman to pick and select and find
fault, and then each one stalke6l out to find
another shop. Five business men lost lO5>
minutes, or an hour and three-quarters,
while one woman, whose time wasn't
worth a cent an hour, bought twenty-nine
cents worth of meat. AS the men went
out, the first said the country was going
to ruin The second said he'd rather eat
snow than lose any more time. The third
said he'd like to kill some one. The fourth
said the butcher was a. fool and a lunatic.
The fifth fell down as he went out, and he
said-but never mind.-Detro5t Free Press
A Halter of tobacco asked an old negro
woman, the fumes of whose pipe were an
noying to him, if she thought she was a
Christian.
eyes, brudder; 'spects | is.''
"Do you believe in the Bible? ?"
"Yes, brudder''
"Do you know that there is passage iIas
the Scriptures which says that nothing un-
clean shall inherit the kingdom of heayen?'
IS Yes I've heard of it,
"Well, Chloe! you smoke, and you can
not enter the kingdom of heaven, because
there is nothing so unclean as the breath of
of smoker. What do you say to that? +"
"Why, I'spects to leave my breff behind
when Igo dar!''
Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-06
THE BURDENS OF LEE.

We all have them to bear, and there is no
escape. With some the burden is poverty,
with others ignoranance, or loneliness or
care, or neglect, or ill-health, or bereave-
ment, and no two burdens are alike Some
carry load of unsatisfied longing and of
quenchless aspiration from the cradle to
the grave. This is the grandest burden
one can bear, as that Of conscious guilt is
heaviest and most grievous
Sometimes we are able to shift the weight
from one shoulder to the other, but often
it as q yoke on our necks that with all our
efforts will stay in just the one place. Due
attention to business, careful investments
and shreWd foresight enable many to rise
from poverty to wealth, but in dong this
they by no means get rid of that trouble
to which all men are boI1l-panics frighten
and ruin them, railroads become insolyent,
banks break, flood and fire and WhirlWind
desolate, insurance companies fail.
ssAnd when he thinks, good, easy, man, full
surely
His greatness is a-ripening, ,-nips his root,
And then he falls-,'
The burden of ignorance, is another that
may be sensibly lightened so long as con-
tinued progress up the nights Of learning
gives one the consciousness of advancement,
but the higher we get the more do we see
of the unknown and the unknowable, the
further do we move ourselves from SYM
pathy with the mass of our fellows. Noun
tain tops are cold aud solitary, and, for the
most part, unfrequented. We change the
place and keep the pain, and so we are
forced at last to the conclusion that the
poet taught us long ago, though we would
not learnit, that:
Not enjoyment and not sorrow
Is our destined end of way:
But to act that each tomorrow,
Find us farther than to-day.
Wechildren, old and young, are al at
school; tasks are given us to perform,, and
there is dark closet or a hickory switch, or
keeping in after school for those who are
idle or insnbordinate or stupid. Divine
Providence takes us all in hand, and, reward
ing the diligent, visits condign punishment
sooner or later OH all offenders and delia~
quents. There is no choice at all in the
alatter; the issue is obedience or disobedi-
ence,s with reward or penalty. Not seldom
Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-06
PLAIN TALK FOR FATaERs.

Now, my friends, 1t is not only the evil of
the State as we have seen, but it is, second
ly, the domestic evil. All, my dear friends,
the highest honor that God gives to man,
perhaps, is the honor Of making him the f;l-
ther of a family. He is, under God, the Gre
ator of that family that grows around him.
He has brought his child into the world, and
God has conferred on him the honor, and at
the same time, the responsibility and obliga-
ton, to be the father of the child's soul as
the body. The little child, borne upon it's
mothers bosom, is the father of the man
that is to be in twenty years time; but the
soul can scarcely be said to be born into ac-
tive life, and that soul must be born, and
reared and brought up in that infant child
by education.
The fathers example must go before that
child, even as the Angel Of God went before
the children of Israel in the shape Of pillar
of ffre-a burning, shining light OF virtue !!
Oh! what blessing it is for the grown man,
in after life, to be able to look back to the
days of early boyhood, and say of the old
man now in his. grave: 81 never heard a
bad word from him; I never saw him in a
position unworthy of man; never heard
from his lips, or saw in his life, anything
that could teach me sin or vice; the exam
pie on which my character was formed was
tian." 1t is the highest blessing perhaps,
that God can give to man and this is sure
" blessing that the drunkard denies to the
child that God gave him in this world. How
do they grow up? They see their mother
pining away-:in unwomanly rags; they sc
her lack-lustre eyes; they see the evidences
of despair in her pale, emaciated face. They
perhaps, see her with fear and terror in
their young hearts, in the day when shs in
her despair takes to drinking and becomes
the most hideous thing in this world-a
drunken woman. In the meantime the IA
ther, loosing his employment and the conf
dence of those around him, becomes a be-
sotted dlVnkard, falls from step to step,
from one abyss of depravity to another; and
the young childtfs sent out to learn all that
Is bad in the world. Perhaps his uniform
life ofthe street, andT the nightly message
on which he is perpetrally running is to the
grog-shop or the saloon; now for beer, now
for ale, now for whiskey; the only idea OF
enjoyment as they grow up is what they
see their parents enjoying; and have my
self known a little boy, before he was four
teen years of age, become confirmed and
/ .irreclaimable drunkard> BECAUSE. every time
Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-06

The DEATH KIss.-W Woman's love! Is
there anything like it? A Canadians wife
has just died in Raleigh, and he has taken
her to Canada to, bury her under the native
sod. She died in land of strangers, but
she left behind the name of devoted
wife. 1t was love in death. He saw her
sinking fast-he knew it, she knew tit
was consumption. He nursed her like q
child, the great strong man, and there they
were in the room together the night
she died. She wanted to see out, to gaze
once more at the world outside; but he en-
treated her against it, and told told her that
to take her up would make her worse but
she told him she was dying anyway, and
he lifted her tenderly in his armsand walked
with her about the room, holding her to
his breast and showing her this object and
that, pointing out every pleasant thing, and
she kissing him with every breath till the
last breath had gone, and the kiss died cold
on his cheek. When God made man, he
put all OF heavens in woman's love, and
told him to win it, and be worthy Of it.
Tcksbug Herald.
Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-06
COL. I'm SHEAvES.

A holy silence hath its influence upon
all.other graces; it causes the roses Of grace
to bud and blossom FORTH
Our safety and our usefulness must
depend upon our adhering strictly to the
Word of God, and having 1T is written
for-every statement made and every councils
given.
False happiness renders men stern and
proud, and that happieness is never COM.
mnnicated True happiness renders them
kind and sensibleA and that happiness is al
ways shared.
One cause of tie lowness of spiritual at
tainment among Christian people is the low
ness of the standard we have setu up. In our
creeds kept for solemn occasions, the stand--
ard,, indeed, has been light enough, but
there has been second and lower stand
arc" brought out for everyday use.
-He.who cannot find time to consult his
Bible, will one day find that he has time to
be sick he who has no time to pray, must
find. time to die /; he who can find no time to
reflect, is most likely to find time to sin; he
who cannot find time for repentance will
find All eternity. in which repentance will
he ofno avail.
The WORST enemies to the cause of re-
ligion are often those who simply try to-
take away the enthusiasm Of Christians,
Open opposition will inspirit rather than
weaken a church, and may grow all the
ADLER because it has had it's conflict. Cross
ing Jordons, .besieging Jerichos and fight
ing among. the mountains will beget
strength and heroism.. When the spirit, the
nerve of the Christian s.gone, he is no long
er an efficient helper inAthe good work.
TO do good to men,is the great work OF
life; to make them true Christians is the
greatest good we can do thema Every inves-
tigation brings us round to this point. Be-,
gin here, and you are like one who strikes
water from rock on the SUBMITS of tho
mountains, it flows down all the interven--
ing track to the very base. If we coulE
make each man love his neighbor we should
make happy world. The true method is
to begin with ourselves, and SO extend the
circle around us. 1t should be peretually IN.
our minds.
Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-06

SAFE INvEsTMENT.-A colored resident Of
Detroit, who occasionally lends a few dol
lars on good. security, was, the other day,
invited to lend neighboring cobbler $50 on
mote of hand running thirty days.
ssSuppose dat note comes due and you
havnt de cash ?" inquired the capitalist.
'.But will have.'
'sBut spose you haven't?"
The cobbler couldn't get over that, and
he was looking very serious, when the eapi'
talist got bright idea, and said:
aWe kin fix dat. You make de note,
you see. You may be- good or you may
not be. Tn good, and we bof knows it,
cause here's de cash right here. You4make
de note and I'll back it. knows myself
you see, and de capitalist who won't lend
money on his own 'dorsement hain't no busi-
ness head OH hirn"
And they fixed it that way.-Detroit Fire
Press.
Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-06

Mrs. MALAPRop says she knows who the
Alpine glacier is. He is a foreigner who
carries lump Of putty in his hand and q
pane of glass under his arm.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-04-06
LroSS, IA, March, 1876.

Winter and Spring seem to have got in
 wro@g cad first. and people are inclined
 Go tAlk about IL As I write it is snow
 iAe fsaEfaIly. with the promise of more s@ow than ge have had this season. We had but one day of poor sleighing. last
 wSzkes s1a two this spring. Colds are PrsvaAszts scarlet fever is raging in towns arUznd zss and eroakers predict a sickIy sPr1ngs hat judging from recent report ofoas Of cur drug stores. it need scarcely bs aa exception. Ose drug store reports &00 pSsscriptiOns pnt up in five years, a.2 us tAi. z bat one of nans in this AosaEty a fnaisates xhata powerful lot efZs1sezne. and their way down the tAEO&Es of our citizens. Evidently our PsoPae daat propose to sthrow physic to tAe aags-"
 he wo@na Safnge amendment failed ia the SenAte on a reconsideration, by enc vakA. AfssrIt had passed the House. Sc seA<ly dld 1t come to fest of strength bsEsrS the people. It is, perhaps, as veil the masses are hardly educated up eo the Idea of women voting, and it would 30@htAess Lave been defeated by popular v~ssss but itis as saFe to come as that s-SrstA era<hsi to earth will rise again TAe P0wers of earth and he'll conspired wStA palpSt and platform, to make the wO<s1 beIseye that slavery was right, but ls w&S es eO: and taxatlOn without repre- se1s&tloa. @saiast which oar. forefathers "-ss and bsea.- Is as uninst now as theD., WAs tiszs has xatchei the striSle of wO@Sa Sa tAe last decade, as they have pressed khelE wuy up into colleges and es@rsS. palp7ts and platforms, and the 2@lrSDssestF of other avocatiOns. will 2Szht sA2s tsse ballot can much longer be wSthAeAd from them. Even the Iowa b=gsza4tzre. eo learning that the Iowa osurt hsa iaatdecsaed that there was no ProvSSsOa in car constltatiOn for women &saaing oEoe. rushed measure through b0sA houses on the last day of the session sO snsst ta.s eAses of number already ! ASA&nR umce So the world moves. TAssa whO think women too soft and del SczAe tS go tO the polls. should have wit 1szsea tAem oa two recent occasions, when they had got up Centennial Enter t4Sa1eassS" The fist was held on about ths E@laycss night we have had this sea- s@a regzlar Old-tashioned "nor' easter," ed the OkAeR. the night following, when A haa t@E2ad sO snow. and vas simply &rsaaEzl Yet the xosaen were all out in soree. and both were a grand success. |
 EOzr Of our Iowa representatives have positively declined a re-nonaination. wAsSher they are fishing for the vice. Pr~ssasney. CT find the Washington at- @s4zAere too corrupt for them. depOnent sH&A 1O4 McCrsry. among sahsR is. rAzag @Aa-ss under fOrtf years of age. ! ss serving hss fOarth term ins0oagrsss- A Fao@irs1t on the iadlciary cammitteS, and sa P@sAing . bJl through to relieve tAs dsek<8 Os the United States Supreme Co@Ek. whScA is three or four yeaus be- kEs3 ia Stz work If no i'll comes to him A~ wsM yea make his mark in the world. R
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-04-06
Naugatuck Railroad.

commencing December 18th, 1875, ti aims will O lesVe LIlCHFIELD STATION as follows 7IO A. M.--Freight Train for Bridreport. 7.S4 A. M.-Passsnger train for Bridgepo,, and F ... New Haven (through car), connect-
 ing at Bridgeport w.th focal Express train to New York ~ lz'Ao r. M.-Passenger train for Bridgeport. connecting with Lightning Express
 train fol New York, arriving at 5.ln
 p. m connecting at Derby for New
 Haven (through car). 4.4o E M.-Mllk train Nit h passebgt ca a . connecting at Bridgeport With ex-
 press train to New York, also with
 steamboat leaving Bridgeport at II
 D. III. tSatuadRNE txctpttG). On
 Sundays, milk train leaves Bridge
 port for Win,ted st 100 a. m. re-
 turning leave Winsted at 400, Lltcl.-
 field 4.35 D. m.
 Tickets sold and baggage checked to Canaan and Albany via Winsted. lO.5S A. M.-Nilk train forwinsted with passcn-
 ger car attached, connecting at Wa
 terbury with train from Hartford at
 Winsted, for Caraan, Mi.l rtOn ai.d
 Albany
 12.45 P. M-For Wins.ed 4.46 P. M.-Freight train for Winstea. TAI P. M.-For WinsteA.
 wATERTOwN & WATERBURY E. .R. Trains leave Watertown at 7.S0 A. M., and 1 C5 P. M., connecting with passenger trains to New York and Hartford. Leave Watelbur at II 70 q. m end 6S5 D. mI |, on arrival of trains from New York. Tennis stage to aud from lifcLfed com e, Is with all passenger trains at LitFhfeld >laii.n H. Thomas stage for Bethlehem and Morris leaves Watertown daily.
 Stages for Woodbury, Harwinton, O>ia. Cole brook, aud Goshen connect wnh 1910 n. u tram from Bridgeport.
 A Discount of cents made to Passengers ma, {. chasing Tickets at the Office
 GEO. w. BEACH, Superintendent. Bridgeport. Dec. "th. 1875
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-04-06
CastOria.

Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Mass. experiment. ed in his private practice for twenty years to produce combination that would have the properties of Cas- tor Oil without its unpleasant taste and griping effect.
 His preparation sent for, near and far, till f. naly he gave it the name of Castoria and put it up for sale. is very wonderful in its effects, partcu- larly with the disordered stomachs and bowels of children. It nssimilates the food. cures sour stomach and wind collie, regulates the bowels, expels worms, and may be relied upon in croup.
 AS pleasant, effective and perfectly safe cathar- tic remedy is superior to Castor Oil, Cordias and syrups. It does not contain alcohol and is adapted to any age.
 By regulating the stomach and bowels of cross and sickly children they become good-patured and healthy. They can enjoy sleep and mothers have rest. The castora is put up st the Laboratory of J. E. Rose x Co. A hay Straet New York. .-.-
 31. 44-l3
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-04-06
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Litchfield enquirer., 1876-04-06
NHEPAITG DAET DRAn Cnm,nencinr neccmher an,h. 1872

LEAVE HAwLEYvILLE at II.3O a. m, con meeting from New York at S.O5, South Norwalk 935 ; Danbpry, sOOO ard Bethel at 10 46. a. m. via D. r. R. R.; also from New York at S.t5: New Haven 9.45. and Bridgeport at 50 a.. In., via. H. R. R. arriving at Litchfeld nt Is pm.
 LEAVE LITCHFELD at 3.I5 D. m., connecting for above named points.
 SATURDA YS-Specinl train from Hawleyyille at 7.45 p. m, arrival of evening traIns D. \ con netting from New York at 4 40 p. m.), aud H. Rail roads, both orth and south.
 MONDA Y&-Special train from Iichheld at 195 .. m., connecting for New York and intermediate stations.
 Sunday MIX Train leaves Leaves Litchheld at LOO p. m.; returning, leave Hawleyville at 7.3O p.m. c. H. PLATT, Supt.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-04-06
world. 1 Inn Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
 Safe 10 per cent. Investments.

Money loaned for nsn-residents, secured by bond and mortgage iaproped farms in the fine aericul. tura State oi Iowa. securing the lender semiaanual interest. We loan no more than one-third the cash value, exclusive of buildings and under conserya- tive Hagement these loans are as safe as Goyern- ment bonds. References:
 CHAs. ". CHANDLER. Germantown, Pa., Execut6r of
 the estate of George Peabody. CHAs. LINCOLN, Esq, Attorney at Law, Boston. Rev. CHAs. A. SKINNER, Hartford, Conn. GEO. W. MOORE, Esq, of Moore, Weeks Co.,, Hart
 ford, Conn.
 Dr. !. P. WESTON. Franklin. Mass. JSo. W. FRosT, Esq, Chairman Investment Board,
 Vermont Savings Bank, Bratteboro, Vt. ELIAS B. REED Esq. sharon. Conn.
 Further references given if desired, and full ex- planation of our loans be had of R. B. Reed or by applying to 40-4m
 The Bank of Creston, Creston, Ia. B.LoMRARD, Jr. Pres't. JAS. l.. LOMBARD, Cashier,