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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26

The swaggerer and braggart never
works. He talks loudly of what he can
do and has done. and tries to impose
upon his neighbors by boastful manner
But he amounts to nothing after all.
How much of his silly swagger and swash
is to be seen on all sides Nature, some
how, made special provision, however,
for keeping her favorites quiet and COD
cealed. The great thought is the or one
that comes to It's birth in silence. Inc
large man knows too well that the mo
ment he stopped to brag he would lose lose
his real advantage. "Never mind about
these trifes," says nature to him
will do far better by you If you will come
70 me.n And in thus going he sees how
lofty is humility, how modesty helps e
nut ali obstructions out of the way, anc
how tranquil that reserve which eoe'
with genuine power recruits his strength
continually. On the other hand, pre-
tension and humbug 90 but 30 far at tn
farthest. They are sure to be found out
Let q windbag alone long enough, an
it will collapse at last, no one cares whe
or how,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26
How the Indians Climb Trees.
IAppleton's J Journal.l

Tn South America even the weakest
women may be not uncommonly seen
plucking the fruit at the tree-tops. II
The bark is so smooth and slippery that
thew can not 90 up by climbing they use
other means; they make loop OF wild
vines. and, putting their feet inside, tney
use u,e'i i as as a support in climbing. The
negro @ of the west coast OF Africa makes
a srve hoop around the tree, and gets
;ns;de of it and jerks it up the tree with
his hands, little at time, drawing his
legs up after it. The Tahitian boys tie
their feet together, four or five inches
apart. with a piece of palm bark, and
with the aid of this fetter 20 up the
cocoa a-palms to gather nuts. The native
women of Australia climb the gum.treei
after opossums. Where the bark II
rough they chop holes with a hatchet
then one throws about the tree roP'
twice as long as will 60 round 1t, put,
her hatcbet on her copper head, ano
placing her feet against the tree am
grasping the rope with her hands, , sn
bitches 1t up by jerks and pulls nerse.
up the enormous trunk almost as Iast
man will climb ladder,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26
The Fighting Editors Tale.
Rush City (Minn.) Post.

We don't wish to say much about IL,
hut even q skirmish with an editor must
he written up. After reading our arti-
Gle last week DIR. Bentley came and
interviewed us. He brought lew
friends along to see him eat us up, with
his hands tied behind him. He did not
like the reading ofour last article, and we
don't blame him, for there were few
savings in it which were a little severe.
But he locked arms with us, and we
waltzed around the room with him to
the tune of high words, and to the In
finite delight Of the spectators. his
hands were not tied very tight, either
There were numerous chairs and other
furniture in the room which were speed
ily demolished and put out OF the way
The Doctor got frantic and kicked over
two gallon Jug of ink, which OF course
we didn't like, because it was new ink
and beside it spoiled the looks OF th'
floor. We took the Doctor for spong'
and sopped the ink up as quickly as poss,,
BILE. That's what made the Doctor mad
He then showed us over a chair and w
rolled around for awhile, and then W
began to feel like fight, and we don
doubt but what we would have had
ouarrel very soon, hut the Doctor cor
cIuded he didn't care whether we too
back what we had said or not, and 8
there was not any prospect of our takin
it back right of, he concluded to gu
lust as we had got ready to begin. Ate
the whole affair was over We felt sorr
that it had begun, but as it was none
our insti igating we could not helpit.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26
Utilizing Niagara Falls.

Atelegraphic dispatcn to the Iron Age
saws that DR.. Siemens, in an address be.
fore the Iron and Steel Institute, at
sheffield, suggested the utilization OF
Niagara Falls by dynamo-electrical
machines for supplying unlimited power
long distances. The utilization OF the
electric currents for the production OF
motive power is not the most economicai
method of using them, generally speak,
ing, but where power is to be conveyed
long distances from its source 70 pe
transmitted ESQ it is supposedly with leas'
The motive power at Niagara ,., Fall !.
would not be costly, so that the a.t ceraa.,
loss of large percentage of il in convert a,,.s !
ING il and transmitting it to dissan ua
places where it would do the most gov gs
would not be conclusive sd ;das
against the adoption OF this mover 'oe'
Il
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26
REPLEvIN.
BY MARaARRr.v .vANDKeRIyT.

He was youth all simplenesst
And she maiden full Of wiles;
How could the rustic ever guess
That mischief lurked beneath such smiles
She did not wish his heart to break
For pastime ere she went to town.
But Just TO keep herself awake,
And win, perhaps, some slight renown.
She firted with him at the well,
She hrted with him In the wagon,
And at her meals-though, truth to tell,
His mother watched her like q dragon.
He cut her pencils when she drew,
He cut her name on several beeches-
In fact he did the best ne knew,
And racked his brain Tor pretty speeches.
The thing went on some little while,
Until at last the maid grew weary;
She could not always raise smile,
The country, t0o was growing drearyi
She thought she'd try new effect,
And 40. without the slightest warning,
She said TO her firtee-elect,
"Pm going home tomorrow morning.
She scanned his face for signs Of grief,
But what she saw surprised her, slightly;
A look of most intense relief
Appeared there, and he answered brightly
90 Pm thankful no-I mean TO say,
hope you'll find some other fellows
To hirt with, If you come our way
Again, for Sues most awful jealous!
"pve tried to tell you, but somehow
always felt so dreadful sheepish,
And next thing, there'd "a been row,
For really, 1t was getting deepish
You see we're promised, Sue and me
She's bright, though she's not had much school
She said last night she'd set me free,
Unless I'd say I'd quit this foolingl
"Of course / said would. but then
wondered what you'd think about me,
thought I'd catch 1t, sure, again,
You seemed 80 lonesome-like without me,
never thought that you might hear
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26
The Thugs Of Utah.

The confession of John ID. Lee, the
Mormon leader of the massacre OF the
company of emigrants at Mountain
Meadows, who was executed at salt
Lake on March %, shows that the mas,
sacre was by the order OF the head
Saints of the Mormon Church, and that
the Indians were set on and kept TO the
work by them. Lee, according to his
own account, was a servile instrument
in their hands, obeying their orders 10
oroanize this massacre as II 1T were
duty of pious obedience to spiritual au-
thority.
Lee regards himself as a scapegoat Tor
the Mormon leaders, and the circum-
stances corroborate him. He also con-
firms the accounts before given of
hand of MormOns who had reached per-
feet sancti6catiOn, who called them-
selves Avenging Angels, ana whose
Office was to kill all whose presence In
the territory was undesirable to them,
and any Mormon also who showed any
symptoms of finsubordination or OF un, ,,
soundness in the faith. This they call
D the blood at0nement.
3 One of the apostles had but to CROOK
3 his finger to one of these Avenging
a Angels. with sign to indicate the per
8 son who was to be taken OF, and the
8 Angel would 90 and do it. This grea'
: Cbnrch of Latter Day Saints, in this
9 progressive country, and in this century
q Of enlightenment, is like the traditiona
Z Thugs of India, with whom to kill is
d religious duty. We say "is," for w
h have no evidence that any change ha
n taken place in their idea of religion
It duty, or their desire to extermiDate al
n comers who are not of them, or that an
g Mormon who gave signs Of falling ava
e, would be any safer now than then.
4, The massacre was ordered and carrie
1t out with much counsel from the Mo
y mon Lord, and with citations frol
a. Scripture. 1t was q most cruel an
ct bloody deed, SURPRISING in cruel featur
i'd or in the number of the slain some th
IL are proverbial for monstrosity Fir
the Indians were set on, and were ke
a. at it for some days, and then the Mo
el mons decoyed the remaining men OF u
he emigrant company, and disarmed the
b. by treachery, and the Indians fnlsh'
ht up by general massacre. 1t establish
as the character of the Church whose MI
he priests ordered it. 1t will be q gre
ty wrong if justice has to stop with
no execution of this subordinate disclpie'
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26
Robert E. Lees Sword.

The Bangor (Me.) Wing recently
.,oted that at the time of Lees sur
1snder the rebel chieftain came TO the
snot designated wearing a splendio
sast;monial sword that had been pre-
sented To him, and doubtless intenons
that the weapon should be the nis.oriG
emblem of the lost cause at tue Nat,ohal
Capitol. General Grant prevented thls
bv gracefully waving the surrender OF
tie sword of his vanquished zoe, ana
hastily penciling the terms he demanded,
nassed the memorandum to Lee, who
became yisibly affected with emotion on
nerceiying the generosity with which
aiI the officers of his command were 10
be treated by their conqueror." =
The accuracy of this statement mas
been denied by communication printed
in the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, ana
the WHO substantiates it by the follow
inc letter from General Grant:
WASHINGTON. d. o., March 20. iS'7'
G. A. Bouteile, Esq, Bangor:
The Bangor Wig and C0urier's accoun. is
.,r;n,iv correct. except in this: Nothing
was ss;d about swords, side arms, oaggage,
". ,v;vats horses until / wrote the Terms "
.nIrrander in which gave them, AZ wniel
General Lee was much anectsa aasct unou
those terms would have good enec' upo'
his army. ..,~ an ent;relv new
H., ne and a magnificent sword-such a
!. not usually worn in the feld-,and II Ger
,s;nly left the impression that the expec''
tion was to surrender II: t:.,.u,;,v oor
IN Nothing was said in the preliminary con Con
, versation to warrant the assumP.%,on % hs shs
ANYTHING more was to be granted 70 tne req. .
army than that they were 70 pe pe,m,seSb pns 81 !.
! return TO their homes on ,ayins ovwn e
I sans 40 long as they remained there an
8 obeyed the laws in force thereat.
o"'''e u. s.. GRANT.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26
CALLED nv TUE ANG

The farmers wife is sitting alone
In the dusk of a winters day,
While over the hills the shadows isii,
And over the meadows gray,
And the cares OF many busy hour
Steal fast from her heart away.
Her ewes have wandered through mist OF tears
To the church-yard under the hill,
Where the snow, iike the wings OF abrooding dovs
Lies soft and pure and still,
And where the treasures, 30 long ago,
She laid at the Masters will.
And ali how oft, as the days go by,
She starts, as her listening ear
Has almost caught on the passing breeze
Voices SO sweet and clear. .
"'Tis the angels calling ~ she SAID. " An mel
It is weary waiting here
The farmer comes from his work, at last,
In the dusk of q winters day,
And he sits him down by his faithful wife
And looks In his face with loving smile
That years steal never away
And back again, as her dim eyes turn
To the hills where the shadow fal,
She thinks, 4" My treasures are lying tnere,
But he has not taken all,
Since one is waiting beside me still
Till the angels voices call"
Rut the weeks are slow, and the aged two,
In the dusk of many day,
Will watch the shadows come ana 20
Ger the meadows cold and gray, :,
Ere they, at the Masters will, may ne
Where their treasures are laid away
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26
Pulpit Notices.

Some weeks since the Rev. DIR. E. 2.
Parker, of Hartford, objected to the
reading of public notices from the pull
pit. He now proposes, If they must De
Announced there, to have them arranged
in metrical forms and sung. he says,
1--WE COPY from the Christian Un'on)
HLet the minister on Saturday evening
collate and reduce to hymnic form all
his notices. Let him give copies OF these
yersions to his choir in the morning, and
then at the proper moment, after he has
read through as he reads the hymns let
the choir sing them to some familiar
tunes. Indeed they might be sometlmes
used in place of the hymns, as being no
more didactic, no lees poetic, ana quloe
as edifying as many selections from our
hymnals. Where weekly offerings are
in vogue they might be sung during the
offertory, thus displacing doubtful organ
fantasies, and falling softly. upon, the
struggles of contribution with soothins
power. ,
A variety of meters should be used,
although the longest meter extant would
naturally be chosen. I venture to illus
trate this plan:
"On Thursday evening Will be heid
The weekly gathering for prayer;
The pastor feels himself impeiled
To urge the brethern TO be there.
This. and all of such meter, might be
sung to Windham,"" Rockingham" or
Judgment Hymn"
G. M.
"The Ladies' Sewing Circle meets
All S garments Sa icr the mission box
May then be sent to them"
"Dundee. Martyrs" or "Ortonville,"
would do for this sort. Ortonville" is
a verv useful tune, because (like many
other favorites) it needs only to be in
creased in movement from very slow to
very fast and you have in what was
somnolent, or funeral, festive and even
saltatory strain.
"The busy bees will meet
On Friday evening next
Young gentlemen to tea al SIX,
They eagerly expect"
Tn any of the Sunday school tune books
NAV be found dittiesin abundance to sui
the light, arch, icy character OF such
announcements, which should always Dt
in short meter.
"The deacons of this Church,
And the committee too,
Will meet on Monday night,
Grave matters to review.
full attendance is desired
And is most urgently required"
Old "Lenox" or "Lischer," might b.
used for such structures with an effect no
, easily described"
Who shall say that this would not b
, an improvement on the current prae
, tice?
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26
A Use for the LOcusts.
iRural New Yorker.I


Prof Rilev has assured us that the
Grasshoppers or Locusts are passably
good food when properly cooked, but the
Druoo;sfs Circular adds that it is
difficult to make our people try these in
sects in culinary way, probably OWING
to the want of proper education in that
direction. A French physician, how
ever, has found new use for the Eastern
locust, which may yet create a demand
for those of our own country II SO, the
Hatefuls," as the lamented Walsh used
to call them, may prove source OF rev.
enue to the Border States. The inventor
of this new way of disposing Of Locusts
is Dr. Morvan, of Dournez, Finisterre,
and it consists in preparing them in
different ways as bait for fish. He also
saws that in America, where swarms OF
grasshoppers often do serious mischief,
, devastating large tracts of country, traps
have been devised for catching these in
sects; but, except in a few instances
, where they have been used for manure,
1 they have not been made to serve any
l useful purpose. ..o
3 DIR. Morvan dries the Locusts in the
ann. presses them into barrels, and SUBJ
3 seouently mashes them into a paste,
I which is made into small balls and
t thrown into the sea during fishing oper.
s ations. Another way is to boil the Lo-
t Gusts before making them into a paste
This bait is of an oily nature, and is said
h to be eagerly devoured by the sardine OF
. pilchard. Large quantities of Gods rot
e are used on the coasts of Brittany in thu
4 prosecution of this fishery but the in
= creasing high price of this bait has lately
"a been serious addition to the EXPENSE
r. of the fishermen, who have most eagerly
availed themselves of the novel substl
4 tute. Bait is not generally used in tn
English pilcbard or sardine fisheries
y different modes of fishing being adopted
by those employed in France; but Il
a those instances where Gods roe has beel
n tried. it has been found 10 attract larg
to number of fish. The increased deman
for pilchards which the operations OF tn
ell Cornish Sardine Company OF Falmout
are likely to create, for the purpose
ne preserving fish in oil in the manne
which has found 80 much favor, wi
Il. probably lead to the more extended us
al of bait, and Locusts or Grasshoppel
be will no doubt come into requisition ]
,d Cornwall, as well as in France.
,d The experiments of DR.. Morvan wei
M Nv considered 80 important by the Frene
al Goyernment, that one hundred barrels
oh Iocusts were supplied by the Governo
Oh General of Algeria and transported
~ Rr;ttanv to be tried Oh larger scale
70 the cost Of the State. The results we
30 satisfactory, that during the ensuii
no fishing season the Locust bait Is expect
es. to be largely used.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26
Animile Statistix.
[Compiled by Josh Billings.l


Kats are affectionate, they love young
chickens, sweet kream, and the best
place in front of the fireplace.
Dogs are faithful, they will stick 70
bone after everybody else haz deserted 1t.
PARROTS are eazily educated, but tney
will learn to swear well in han the time
they will learn emmy thing else.
The birds eat bugs and worms for
plain vittles, but their dessert konsists
ov the best cherrys and gooseberries in
the garden.
The owl il only picture ov wisdom
by dalite, when he kant see emmy thing.
When it Gums mite hiz wizdum wholly
konsists in ketching a field mouse, if he
can.
The donkey iz an emblem ov pachunce,
but if yu study them klosser yu will
find that lazyness IL what's the matter
ov them. :.
The eagle IL the monark ov the skies,
but the little king-bird will chase him
tn hiz hiding-place. :,
The OK knOweth hiz masters krib, and
that IL all he duz kno or care about hiz
master.
Munkeys are imitatiff, but if they
kant immitate sum deviltry they amt
happy.
The goose IL like all other phOols-
allwuss seems anxious tn prove it..
Ifmules are ever meek it IL simply be-
cauze they are ashamed Ov themselfs,
but mules are hibrid, amt accountable
for emmy thing.
The bees are bizzy people; rather
than be idle they will rob each other ov
their hunny. ..
The kockroach is loafer, and don't
seem to live so much on what they eat
as what they kan git into.
Ducks are only cunning about one
thing; they lay their eggs in stitch sly
places that sumtimes they kant find
them again themselfs.
The mushrat kan foresee hard winter
and provide for it, but he kant keep
from gettin' katched in the sylliest kind
ov trap.
Hens kno when it is a-going to rain.
and shelter themselfs, but they will try
to hatch out a glass egg just az homes,
az they will one ov their own.
Mudturkles are the slowest ov emmy
four-legged kritters, and yet they are
allwuss on the move, trieing to git sum
WHARF else.
Hornets hav more fight in them thar
emmy thing ov their size, but there IL n!
method in their madness; they will pitcf
into a Westinghouse when they ar,
furious, just az anxious az they will int
q a sleeping baby in its kradle.
: The crow IL the most nat'ral ov al
n thiefs; they will steal and hide what j
e ov no use to them nor loss to emmy bod.
else. ,..,
! Ants are the bizziest ov all the litti
r or big bugs, but large share ov thel
a time is spent in repairing their houses
Q which are bilt WHARF folks kant hel
but step on them.
= Flies toll not, neither do they spin, ye
= they hav the first taste ov all the Des
e gravys in the land.
d The cuckoo is the greatest ekoDemis
Is amung the birds, she lays her eggs !
7, other birds nests, and lets them hate
d them out at their leizure.
d Rats hav fewer friends and more EN-
= mys than anything of the four-legge
persvashun on the face of the earth, an
[e vet rats are as plenty now as in tt
W palmyest days ov the Roman empire.
20 Ov all things lazy the sloth wears Il
belt, and yet his lazyness IL all thare
ps interesting about him.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26

THE Modoc Indians, now numbering
fifty.four males and sixty-three females,
are located on a very fertile tract con-
tanning four thousand acres in the
northeast corner of the Shawnee ne
serve. Indian Territory. They have en-
gagged energetically in labor during the
past year, and as q result have large
and valuable crop on their farm: Iht
government has expended 81 ,SS2 fcl
their schooling for ten months, which II
under the supervision of the Society o
| Friends.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26

The Rev. DIR. John Cumming, Of Lon
don. saws that the world, and Europe es-
neciaily. is at this moment upon the eve
pf the greatest catastrophe which has
ever happened in the history OF man man.
kind. Coming from any other source
this might be alarming, but Dr. Gum
ming's prophecies seem never TO be ful'
filed.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26

An eminent French Psychologist holds
that the numerical proportion of giants
in each generation Is the same, and that
taking a hundred Of the tallest men OF
snv Generation they will present just
the same varieties of stature as the
hundred tallest men of the preceding
one.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26

The Berlin editors have a hard time
of it generally, and are compelled to be
very choice in their language. Emperor
William recently prosecuted the editor
of one of the papers there for defamation
of character for calling the triple alliance
ga superannuated phenomenon" The
Emperor was of the triple aforesaid, and
the luckless wight was sent to prison for
tbr ree months.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-26

WHITE straw bonnets will be trimmed
with light colors this season.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-16
THE KANSAS PACIFIC
HO NJ z ST E A .

Is published by the Land Department of the
Kansas Pacific Railway Company, to supply
the large and increasing demand for infor-
nation respecting KANSAS, and especially
the magnificent body of lands granted by
Congress in aid of the construction of its
road. This grant comprises over
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Acres

OF LAND, consisting of every odd section
in each township, for distance of tw nty
miles on each side of the road, or one-half of
the land in a belt forty miles WIDE extend
ing to Denver City in Colorado thus forming
a continuation of the belt of country which,
from the Atlantic coast westward, is found to
be, in climate, soil, and every production of
nature, the most favored.
To aid in the Sc clement of this superb do
main with an intslligedt and industrious
people, is the object Of the HOMESTEAD.
1t is intended to contain a fair and candid
representation of facts nor viii it ever
give, Intentionally, any statement that will
not, upon investigation, be fu ly sustained
The Company obtains its title to these
lands from the Government of the United
States.
They are being offered at prices lower
than any other lands in the West, that will
compare with them in soil, climate and gem
eral advantages The terms of payment, as
will be found on careful examination, are
more liberal in all essential features than
have heretofore been offered by any railway
company.
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We ese o of the goods
FINE SOC D SILVER WATCH Rec
recept d of
good
ucl 5 cred il a
We and the public general understand that this Ah Gold
andno
1ehnied Send none by p money order o ee
hilton Gold Jewelry endorsed by all the leading Of
with the ORDER otherwise
E2AE4SsTEON BE w ELT4E2 u co.
Importers T Watches and
maro7 en-. LaGalle and Randolph Streets, Choa Ill
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or anywhere else. The wearing
away is attributed to the action OF
the water currents which of late
wears It has been observed have
sought the South Shores more than
formerly. The wind, too, has as
sisted. During storms the waves
wash out and undermine the land,
and then the currents carry away
the soil.