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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-28

IT was strange blending of the an
cient and modern that presented itself
recently to an American traveller in the
East, who on landing at the port of an
cient Antioch, where the disciples were
first called Christisns,"' saw an invoice
Of Ayers Cathartic,. Pills hoisted on TO
the backs of q troop Of camels, for trans.
portation TO the interior.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-28

Boss TWEED is only ffty,four. years
old. The popular impression Is that he
IL considerably older.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-28

AN italian kidnapper, whose business
was confined TO stealing girls for export
alton, mainly to England, died recently,
leaving q fortune Of 100000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
The French Statue for New York HarbOr.

Our Paris correspondent writes that
a meeting of the members of the COM
mittee of the Franco-American Union,
the organization which has taken in
charge the plan of presenting to the
people of the United States colossal
statute of Liberty, to be erected in New
York Harbor, was held on February 2,
at the rooms of the society, No. 172
Rue ST. Honore, Paris M. Laboulaye
presided, and there were present be-
sides M. Bartholdi, the sculptor, who
has designed the statue; the Marquis de
Rochambeau, M. de Lafayette, Comte
Serurier, M. Jean Mace, NJ A. Caubert
and others. Mr. Gratiot Washburn, in
the absence of his father, who is an
honorary member Of the committee,
was there, and Mr.. Nathan Appleton
was also asked to attend the sitting. M.
Bartholdi read a very interesting re-
port showing the progress of securing
subscriptions in France, which amount
ed now to about 100000 francs, while
many of tho towns in France have not
yet given an answer to the appeal
made to them, and many of the sub
scription books are still out, and the
amount obtained therefore not definite
ly known. This is certainly a very en-
couraging report, and with such a start
there shonld be no great difficulty
later in securing the amount required.
NJ Bartholdi is to come to America
some time this spring, taking with him
the arm Of the statue, to be exhibited
at Philadelphia, and he hopes that the
corner stone Of tbs pedestal will be laid
on the Fourth of July with appropriate
ceremonies. It is now for the people
Of the United States to be ready for
their share of the work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
What One can go Through.

The Worcester Spy tells this extra
ordinary story: "a Taunton man of
forty-six has had a checkered career.
He has been shipwrecked once, mar
rowly escaped baking in a railroad
accident, has been ran away with times
innumerable, was shot in the neck at
Gettysburg, had a taste of the horrors
of Libby Prison fell overheard from a
whaler, and before being picked up,
left two fingers in the mouth of a shark,
was drafted twice, had the right arm
broken in two places during the New
York riot, stood on barrel with hal
ter round his neck in an Alabama
town at the outbreak of the rebellion
from sunrise to sunset; IN 1868 was
crushed under a falling building dur
ing California earthquake, and was
without food or drink for nearly fifty
hours, and, when homeward bound
from the mines Of the White Pine
region, narrowly escaped lynching
through mistake in person. Amid
all this he refuses to believe that luck is
against him."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
Activity is Not Always Energy.


There are some men whose failure to
succeed, in life is a problem to others,
as we'll as to themselves. They are in
dustrious, prudent and economical; yet
after a long life of striving, old age finds
them still poor. They complain of i'll
luck. They say fate is always against
them. But the fact is that they mis-
carry because they have mistaken mere
activity for energy. Confounding two
things essentially different, they have
supposed that, if they were always busy,
they would be certain to be advancing
their fortunes. They have forgotten
that misdirected labor is but waste of
activity. The person who would sue
coed in life is like marksman firing at
a target: if his shots miss the mark
they are a waste Of powder So in the
great game Of life, what man does
must be made to count, or it might al
most as well have been left undone.
Everybody knows some one in his cir
Gle of friends who, though always
active, has this want of energy The
dlstemper, if we may call it such, ex-
hlbits itself in various ways In some
cases the man has merely an executive
faculty when he should have a directive
one; in other language, he should make
a capital clerk for himself when he
ought to do the thinking Of the bust
ness. In other cases, what is done is not
done either at the right time or in the
right way. Energy, correctly under
stood, is activity proportional to the
end
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08

her own little brother. "I know just
where the doctor is" she called back.
She knew nothing Of the kind; she
only knew where he had been. "She's
gone to Lenders Lake with Mr.. NAL
lory," Aunt Huldah had said, oo'<ing
up and down the road, with a vague
idea that her looking would excuse the
culprit-" for bulrushes, I heard them
say"
The doctors ejaculation would have
Mortified Aunt Huldah if she had heard
it; but bidding her good-morning, he
had turned about determined to have
nothing more to do with Miss Alice
Truesdell. And then sort of rage had
flashed up and swept over him, and he
vowed to himself that he would reduce
the little rebel, and sprang into his
chaise and urged his horse to run.
And that was the way it CHANGED that,
less than ten minutes after Alice left
the hut, she saw something rolling up
the highway enveloped in as thick a
cloud as ever an ancient god travelled
in; and he saw a little object flying
down to meet him, curls and ribbons
streaming behind, disheveled to the last
degree, and with only breath enough
left to say as he leaped from the chaise,
Don't stop! He's dying back there
the hut p
DR.. Fowle did stop long enough to
take the little body and lift her into the
chaise, and spring up beside her.
"Who's dying?" said he, sternly--
Mallory?'
Mallory" gasped Alice in amaze
ment, "And if it was,'' she said, the
old spirit uppermost, as soon as she
could speak again for scalded lungs and
throat, "what would you do %
"Let him die p exclaim ed tn doctor.
"It would be nothing to me if you
did," she said, touching the horse with
the whip herself. But you would be
indictable at common law"
"Nothing to you! What do you
mean, then? Who is dying?"
"Not Mr.. Mallory-to my knowledge,
that is. I haven't seen him to-day. A
child here in the woods"
The doctor urged the horse himself,
bending forward, his gaze fixed before
him, and not uttering another syllable.
"Aren't you ever going to speak to
me again ?" said Alice at last. 81
meant to be back at H."
He turned and saw the tears just
ready to gush, and as he gazed perhaps
they extinguished the flame of his
wrath. Somehow-he never knew how
any more than Alice did-the next mo-
ment the reins were under his feet, his
arms were about her, and the tears were
being crowded back by kisses.
"Aren't you glad put the clock for
ward? Aren't you glad l came out
here for bulrushes?" whispered Alice
as they suddenly drew up at the little
hut.
cob, God bless you, doctor, and God
bless her p cried the old woman from
within. "He's alive yet, and you've
come in the very nick of time''
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
LINES On LEAP.YEAR.

Hark I hear sound of croaking;
Frogs, in one attempt at joking
Joining all their voices; say,
"This is leap-year. Jump away ~
Leap, We various deer and stays,
Chamois, on Helvetian crags,
Leap, we goats upon Welsh mountains,
Leap. We cataracts and fountains.
Leap, all monkeys and balloons,
SQUIRRELS, 'possums and racoons,
Antelopes, gazelles, and gnus,
Catamounts and kangaroos.
Leopards leap, all you like fun,
Lions, tigers, every one;
Panthers, pumas, and jaguars,
Leap-if but against your bars.
Horses carrying men to hounds,
Leap all intervening bounds,
Fences, hedges, brooks and dykes,
Gates, and palings crowned with spikes.
Steed, careering in the race
Der the fiat or steeple-chase,
Leap, without a baulk or check,
Lest thy rider risk his neck.
Leap, We salmon, and We trout,
From the purling streams leap out;
Leap, We grasshoppers and fieas;
Hop and skip, We mites in cheese.
Yah, We toads and tritons all,
Nevis and slow-worms, creep and crawl !!
Slug and snail and spider too
Leap-years not the year for you
-p1lnch
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
Concentrated Beer.

At recent meeting Of the Society of
Arts, at Philadel phia, DIR. Bartlett de-
scribed, in lengthy paper, the process
of concentrating beer. The inventor of
the process is Mr. Lockwood, one of the
founders of the condensed milk idus-
try, and the plan adopted is very SINH
lar to the process employedin the prep
aration of that article, Why boiling
down the beer at a temperature of
about 112 degrees in vacuo until it is
reduced to thick semi-fuid state, with
but a small proportion of the original
water rem lining. The alcohol is previ-
ously extracted by gentle distillation,
and readded when the process of con-
densation is complete, the mixture
being then sealed up in cans.
A barrel of beer containing thirty-six
gallons may in this manner, it was
stated, be concentrated in a bulk of
little over two gallons, and all that is
wanted to restore the beverage to it's Or
iginal condition is the addition of water
to the extent desired. But when so
remixed the beer is necessarily without
briskness, the whole of the carbonic
acid having been driven off, and to
remedy this the inventor proposes to
stimulate the reproduction of the gas
by the addition of little yeast or I'M
condensed beer. DR.. Bartlett said he
had put the remade beers to the practi-
cal test of drinking them almost daily,
and had found them pleasant to the
palate and more suitab from diet
etc point of view than the general av-
erage of beer.
The substantial value of The inven-
ton lay, he thought, in it's applicability
to the preparation of beers for export
and for use on board ships. The saving
effected would be SO considerable that
he saw no reason why beers Of the
most wholesome type should not be so
supplied at the antipodes at moder-
ate advance upon home prices. If the
condensation of beer was carried on
with energy and commercial enterprise
it could not fail, he predicted, to be-
come of national Importance as lead
ing to great increase Of our exports,
now declining. A discussion followed
the reading of the paper, and opinions
were exchanged generally favorable to
the views of the author.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
Welsh-Speaking Population of America.

At present there are Welsh SETTLE
ments in as many as twenty states. In
regard to the number Of Welsh in
America there is among themselves a
diversity of opinion. Some put down
the figure as high as 100000. This may
be correct, if unmistakable descend
ants are included, but from what can
learn, the Welsh-speaking population
Of the country is far below that figure,
The Rev. R. d. Thomas, in his most ex-
cellent volume recently published,
Hanes Cymry America" History of
the Welsh in America, puts them down
at 115, 716, and distributes them as fol
lows: Pennsylvania, 1884; New York,
q, $40; Ohio, 24,310; Vermont, 1850;
New Jersey, 943; Maryland, 800; Dis
trict of Columbia, so; Virginia 100;
West Virginia, 800; Tennessee, 200;
Massachusetts, 500; Maine, 800; Iowa.
1926; Indiana, 200; Illinois, 2,035;
Michigan 400; Wisconsin; Is, 260; Min
nesota, 1,745; Missouri, 2,195; Kansas,
1,750; Nebraska, 200; California, 1000;
Oregon and Territories, 50O.-Erasmus
". Jones IN Atlantic Monthly for March,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
Influence of Different PotatiOns.

A police officer relates the following
as his experience:
Whenever an officer hears woman
on the street creating disturbance and
in a drunken condition, he knows at
once that she has been drinking whis-
ky. A drunked woman who has moth
ing to say has been drinking ale or
beer If she has imbibed two freely of
sour wine and eaten too much sweet
cake she will be sick, very sick. If she
is sparkling and not vicious or disorder
ly, but would rather sing and be merry
than tear the hair out of the head Of
that other girl, why, she has taken too
much sherry and egg; and if she COM
mences to cry while under the infu-
ence it may be safely inferred that she
has been taking too much of a throat
bath Of brandy and water From the
palace to the hovel, and from the lux
urious bed chamber to the hard bot
tom of the street gutter, women are to
be found under the influence of drugs
or rum every day in a large city. 1t is
only the more unfortunate, or those
who are ON the lowermost rounds of
humanity's ladder, that ever come to
the public notice, or that are ever
brought before tribunal of justice.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
Henry W. LOngfellOW.

Longfellow is probably the most pop
ular poet Of the country. The breadth
of his sympathy, the variety Of his
acquisitions, the elasticity Of his mag
nation, the sonorousness and weight of
his verse, the vividness of his imagery,
the equality, the beauty, the bene-
ficence Of his disposition, make him
universally attractive and universally
Ineligible Each of his minor poems
is pervaded by one thought, and has
that artistic unity which comes from
the economic use Of rich material.
The Hymn to the Night" GA Psalm
of Life " Footsteps of Angels" "The
Skeleton in Armor," "The Wreck Of
the Hesperns, "The Village Black
smith" Excelsior" "The Arsenal at
Springfield" "sea- weed" "Resigna-
tion," and other Of his minor poems
have found a Judgment in the memory
of every body; and it will be found that
their charm consists in their unity as
well as in their beauty, that they are as
much poems, complete in themselves,
as g Evangeline or "Hiawatha" In
" Maidenhood and "Endymion," es-
pecially in the latter, the poet is reveal
ed in all the exquisiteness, the deli
cacy, the refinement, Of his magma
tive faculty; but they are less popular
than the poems previously mentioned
because they embody more subtle
moods of the poetic mind. Longfel-
lows power of picturing to the eye and
the soul a scene, a place, an event,
person, is almost unrivaled. His COM
mand of many metres, each adapted to
his special subject, shows also how ar
tissically he used sound to REINFORCE
vision, and satisfy the ear while pleas
ing the eye.
When descends on the Atlantic
The gigantic
Stormwind of the equinox,
LandWard in his wrath he scoTges
The toiling surges
Laden with Sea-Weed from the rocks
The ear least skilled to detect the har-
monies of verse feels the obvious effect
of lines like these. In his long poems,
such as Evangeline," "The Golden
Legend" Hiawatha, !" "The Court
ship of Miles Standish, "The New Eng
land Tragedies Longfellow never re-
peats himself. He occupies new do
main of poetry with each successive
poem, and always gives the public the
delightful shock Of new surprise. In
his prose works, Oatre-Mec, Hyperion,
and Kauanaatgh, he is the same man as
in his verse-ever sweet, tender, thought
full, weighty, vigorous, imaginative and
humane. His great translation OF
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08

Dante, is not the least of his claims to
the gratitude of his countrymen, for it
is new illustration of his lifelong de-
votion-rare in an American-to the
service of literature, considered one of
the highest exercises. of patriotism.
E7wt,, P. Whipple, IN Harper's Magazine
for March, s..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
Heartsease.
BY MRS. BRADLE,

BY MRS. BRADLEY.
Of all the bonny buds that blow
In bright and cloudy weather,
OF. all the flowers that come and 20
The whole twelve moons together,
This little purple pansy brings
thoughts Of the sweetest saddest things.
| had little lover once,
Who used to give me posies;
His eyes were blue as hyacinths
His lips were red as roses
And everybody loved to praise
His pretty looks and winsome ways
The girls that went to school with me
Made little jealous speeches,
Because he brought me royalty 10
His biggest plums and peaches:
And always at the door would wait
To carry home my books and slate.
"They couldn't see with pout and fling
"The mighty fascination
About that little snub-nosed thing
To win such admiration;
AS if there weren't dozen girls
With nicer eyes and longer curls."
And this / knew as well as they,
And never could see clearly
Why, more than Marion or May,
/ should be loved so dearly
80 once | asked him, why was this?
He only answered with kiss,
Until leased him" Tell me why
| want to know the reason;"
When from the garden-bed close by
(The pansies were in season.
He plucked and gave a flower to me,
With sweet and simple gravity.
I" The garden is in bloom" he said,
&c With lilies pale and slender,
With roses and verbenas red,
And fuchias purple splendor;
But over and above the rest,
This little heartsease suits me BEST"
Am your little heartsease, then ?"
I asked, with blushing pleasure;
He answered yes and yes again
Heartsease and dearest treasurer
That the round world and all the sea,
Held nothing half so sweet as me-
/ listened with a proud delight
Too rare for words to capture
Nor ever dreamed what sudden blight
Would come to chill my rapture;
Could [ foresee the tender bloom
Of pansies round little tomb?
Life holds some stern experience,
AS most Of us discover
And I've had other losses since
l lost my little lover;
But still this purple pansy brings
Thoughts of the saddest, sweetest things.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
s'Old Girl"
London Letter

The death of the ioness ''Old Cir"
so well known to Dublin folks, was at
tended by touching incident. When
dying, old lions are much tormented by
rats gnawing their tails. During health
they rather welcome the vermin, and
lie blinking at them as they frisk about
their cage, nibbling at the bones left
from their (the lions) dinner To pre-
vent this annoyance, terrier was put
into "Old Girls" cage. At first she
growled, but when she saw the dog
fetch the first rat, toss it up and
catch it in professional manner across
the back, with one quick, fatal snap,
she drew the brave animal to her, licked
it and fondled it; and in her shaggy
breast it slept every night, her great,
protecting paw over it. During the six
weeks of the ioness' illness the rats had
rather hard time Of it, "Old Grip
had borne ffty-four cubs, and had
reared fifty, bringing in by the sale of
her progeny FL, 800 to the Gardens. She
was the handsomest lioness ever reared
in the country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08

How pleasant it is for father to sit
at child's board It is like the aged
man reclining under the shadow of the
oak which he has planted Water Scott.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
The New French Senate.

From the London Times Paris Correspondence
the Senate will have a republican
majority, but it must be remembered
that the Republican majority includes
radicals. The imperative duty, the
salvation of the country, requires,
therefore, that the government as soon
as the Chambers meet, adopt a policy
enabling the Moderate Left to separate
main their prisoners. The ffty-five
moderates of the Right Centre, by pur-
suing under the direction of a future
Cabinet frankly liberal and moderate
policy, will do much to for a conserva-
tive republican ma ority, excluding the
radicals, the obstinate monarchists, and
the Bonapartists-th is, with one hum
dred or one hundred and twenty votes
in the opposition. This is the only step
to take if it is desired to avoid crisises,
conflicts, and cataclysms.
1t is necessary that the men surround
ing the Marshal preserve their COM
posure, and do not allow the elections
to be represented as hostile to him.
What the country has condemned is
equivoqa1e, or the policy of falsehood,
but it has voted in favor of the Mar
shall personally, for all the candidates
Of the Moderate Left have taken for
their motto "The Republic with the
the Marshal" Any who advised him
to struggle would drive him toward the
unknown, toward inevitable and futile
violence. The country has spoken,
quite knowing what it was about. At
Paris, at Versailles, at Epinal, every
where, what it has condemned is NJ.
Bullets policy.
There need be no surprise if the
Bourse receives the news with fall,
but the Bourse has no patriotism on in
stinct Of liberty. One day it profits by
a fall and the next by a rise, all it sees
being a double movement and double
agitation which favors speculation.
Where Ribbon is Made.
ST. Etienne, France, is stated to be
the paradise of hat ribbon manufac-
turers, and from this place the article
is sent-chiefy through Paris dealers
to almost all parts of the globe The
ribbons coming from St. Etienne and
elsewhere are, however, often simply
designated as French or Partisan. Of
ordinary ribbons, Sunis" or "facon-
nes," those Of St. Etienne and Lyons
exhibit remarkable amount of taste
in design and execution. Prominent
among the St. Etienne hat ribbons are
those of velvet, having borders of lace,
guipure, ETC.; and the "r,sbo,as sole
grege' are remarkable for their exqui-
site tints. The silk bands manufac-
tufed for hats are closely allied to rib
bons in texture and mode Of workman
ship; those used for felt and straw hats
are either to match the tint of the ar
ticle or to present pleasing contrast in
greater depth or lghtness Of shade.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08

TIGHT boots show a narrow under
standing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08

IT is said that the father and sister Of
the murdered Sarah Alexander have
expressed a desire to be present at the
execution of Reubenstein. This may
accord with the spirit of Pentateuch,
though it makes us shiver to think of
blood for blood;" but one would think
that the death penalty might cover up
revenge. Just a taste of the New Tesla
ment would take the bitterness out Of
that great sorrow.