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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-14

it, SO that they will learn steadiness by
degrees. Then to let them play. They
need not be rude if they do romp. And
dance with them. Inever saw child
that did not like to have its hands taken
by an older one, and swing and
hop round to a tune, the faster
the better Saving wood, by
crossing the wrists and taking hold
hands, and drawing them back and
forth, or wringing the dish-cloth, with
arms over head, as every child knows,
is fun, but bean-bags are, perhaps, best
for small people. They can catch a
bag better than ball, and it does not
give such hard knocks. Dressing up
in cooked hat, sash and epaulets cut
out of newspapers, has all the delights
of a masquerade to the small fry. l
know of nothing so absolutely exciting
as painting small faces with colored
crayons, with cast-off rooster s
feather in the hair, a shawl for a
blanket, and playing Indian in earnest.
Measuring heights against the door is
always entertaining, SO is playing post
man with a bag of letters. = Vide AWdke
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peared into his own room and locked
the door after him, aud the Camanches
are left alone. gasping among their
feathers, the Captain in their midst.
There is moment of bewilderment,
followed by wild stampede toward the
iron door, but the Captain has cut off
the retreat
sYoung gentlemen, you will remain
and clear up the hall Williams, go to
the coal-cellar and bring up the two
bushel basket"
Williams is tnobbiest' of third-story
boys. hgavest of Camanche warriors,
but Williams doesn't dare refuse to go
for that basket. During his absence
his fellow-savages express strong doubts
as to his ever reappearing upon the
battlefield, but he does return, like
Regulus to his barrel of spikes.
The Captain has borrowed number
of brooms and dust-pans from the Dig
gers, who, to man, had retired and
been snoring sweetly.
"Now, gentlemen, clear up these
feathersr' orders the Captain, as if he
was crying, Forward, march,
Clearing up those feathers was
tedious and trying process. Anyone
who has ever chased worn-out but
still lively feather up and down a long
hall can imagine the scene with hum
dreds of them flying about.
"They're the meanest lot of feathers
pretty much all fuzz," said one ex-
hausted brave.
When the last handful had been
crowded into the basket, Williams at
tempted opening the door.
"No; you're to make your exit the
same way you made your ingress," an
nounced the Captain.
Williams stared blankly at the trap
hole.
Dropping down through trap-door
and going up through the same, with
no visible means of support but the
floor, are naturally different exercises.
"You're fertile in expedients; can't
you devise some good way of getting
outp' coolly asked the Captain.
ssWe might stand on each others
shoulders, y suggested one small savage,
whom the blood-thirsty Williams after
ward confessed he longed to scalp at
this juncture.
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ca9gnt the eoges OF .ne opelihg aoose' as
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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-14
THE RAID OF THE CAMANCHEs.

Fixed 11AhI, WHO Was tIlc cluco1 sCu
of country clergyman, and preparing
for college at Whitford Boys Academy,
was known at that classical institution
rs u :. Dig" because he dug" into his
books and studied hard His room
mate, Neal Hewe, an orphan, depend
ent upon his own exertions, was styled
"digger;" as both lads were rather
dark, it was but step for those up
per-story boys to call them digger
Indiansr'
This term was gradually extended to
include all the boys in the second sto-
ry, for they were all hard students.
The "Diggers'' retaliated mildly by
styling their upper-story neighbors,
:. Camanches."
The Camanches perpetrated all sorts
of school-boy atrocities on the Diggers,
but, above all things else, they burned
for piliow-fght. In vain they chal-
lenged the Diggers to combat. Those
law-abiding savages declined, though
aware of thereby falling into contempt
on charge of cowardice.
Unmistakable indications were soon
apparent that the Camanches medi-
tated an attack.
The north wing was intended to be
fire-proof, and each story was separated
from the main building by iron doors
which usually were fastened back by
staples. The Camanches reasoned that
these doors might be as effectual in
shutting off teachers as fire; and the
staples in both the second and third sto-
ries were one day withdrawn, SO that
these doors could be easily closed.
Scouting parties reported that the
Camanches were getting ready the war
paint. e., the burnt cortland one
ferocious savage had intimated that
they should spare neither age nor sex.
A council was Immediately held in
Fred Hart's room, and Fred unanimous
ly chosen Chief.
." If they're determined on pillow
fight they shall have it, resolutely re-
marked that warrior.
The Diggers proposed using their own
pillows as reserve arms only, and the
next day any number of this tribe
might have been seen securing the vii
lage in efforts to buy up old pillows.
"All's fair on the defensive said
Chief Fred. and each Digger ripped
open one end of his pillow, poured in a
little mucilagc, and then basted it up,
in accordance with the liberal views
boys always entertain concerning
.sbasting."
At a little after nine O'Clock, when
the lights had been extinguished, and
teacher made the nightly rounds, a
r.-aoala coo,,f ou;oflv n1oSad and
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-14
Will Bad Daughter Make a Good
Wife!

II oft.n bannens that tbouoh a man
~ 1l"m ad n"ppins 70 r;ri e. innn
t;na y W 10 ras,iy f.;Is To Saaoh . trne nn7
Janst.na;n% S M ~ her cbaracter When
oi W ao'nos eo IS Merry ~ nv ber he finds that she
IL ~ uonr uoe' d;sarent If in d;snosit;on from
s,,,nasa5 ,vb;lo ba waS NAV.
w n"s AZ o sapt III of lever Tic opnse-
m sonot;,no 90 much marital nm.
iuen iues;nass aS TIC h,,shand tbinLs ba has
n"pPiihes: iasS:J ~ a. ti,nnnht w.;
t"ta. een M Ya+ tho the fanlt Is nsnallv his
49, .r. ~ ho doas not dosorvo svmnstbv
Imn, Nv was on" an ~ nnohserv;no n lover else bis
iao ~ " "s .sano,,,ont ~u - wonfd bave enabled
iGm o SoS wv n,,t wb at snrt Of r;r, be was
.m nan.;.m - nu Tnero Tns "ns aro - nasas however
,nna uIu ,rarnan artf,,1Iy corceals her
Will .'I S;.s;.;an w I'D d,,r;nr tbe nrel;m;narv
ioYe' lv, u,s t;nm @ n,lv 70 fear ~ awav the dis
loas ls,,;sa 1,hna tha & tnot hoe heen tied
Ha.e LIS t%a | h,shand should qet al, the
ao.,.oss;on ...s e.S ~ NO hastow m naonIa who
bava ee heen sw;ndie3
But Southern gentleman who asks
our advice in his love anairs, ara VINO
thus states his case, cannot II ne mar
ries his sweetheart, plead ignorance OF
her disposition;
"SIR: A Drllilan, Deautllul anu ac-
complished LADY mas unquestlonaoiy
gained possession OF tne ciIauei oi my
heart am fuiiy saIls1ed my love -
reclprocated, ana woulu hot neslIa.e
an instant 70 entnrone ner az lne queen
OF my soul, put Ior ner conuucs ;:a az
nome. Wnicn causes me no ts lI.s'1 LILY a.lA
iety: one VIII nol ass'sI - '1e louoo
hold duties. neitner IS sne kino ana gen
tie around me fanny circle nor - neI
Du. Ss e Inc ab1n
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Personal AND LITERARY.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, was
hit by bullets six times during the Civil


Senator Gordon, of Georgia, was
hit by bullets six times during the Civil
War.
The will of the late Chief-Justice
Pearson, of North Carolina, was writ
ten in pencil. Alegal gentleman own
legal business is never half attended to,
any more than the feet of shoemaker's
child.
The daughters of Sec'y Schurz are
great favorites of the foreign represen-
tatives who attend the receptions at the
White House, as the young ladies are
able to converse well in several Ian
guages.
A member of the London publish
ing house of Samson, Low & Co. rushed
across the English Channel in order to
see Stanley and get the first chance to
publish his new book about Africa.
Such enterprise was worthy of America.
1t has been announced that the
Rev. DIR. Seymour, Bishop-elect of
Springfield, Ill, will shortly marry
Miss Susan Tying Coke, cousin of the
Rev. Stephen II. Tyng, Jr., Rector of
the Church of the Holy Trinity, New
York.
The Territorial Enterprise, of Ne
vada, says of Mark Twain, that, unless
he has greatly changed since he left that
paper, he will not be betrayed into the
indiscretion of writing too much. 1t
says he always avoided work as he
would pestilence.
just as Prof Everett, of Harvard
College, was rounding off the last line
of an ode of Horace during his speech
open-mouthed waiter, turning to COM
panion, remarked: 81 say, Jim, what
man that Grace Greely was!''
The Springfield Republican did not
put in any black rules when Mr.. Bowles
died. 1t is good to see that this anti
quated style of expressing grief is pass
ing away. Nothing is more horrible or
its column rules upside down.-Louis-
ville Courier-Jour9aal
A former schoolmate of Wagner,
who lives in St. Louis, speaking of the
early life of the German composer,
says that " he tried to learn to play the
piano, which at that time was becom-
ing the popular instrument, but could
not He could not make the runs, and,
if one will notice, in all of his music
to-day there are no runs. He had such
detestation of them through his in
ability to master them that he would
not write any,
OF Gail Hamilton, lady cor
respondent of the Albany Journal
writes from Washington: 81 met her
at Mrs. Postmaster-General Keys re-
ception. Miss Dodge was dressed hand
somely in a brown matelasse visiting
suit, with rich satin train. She is said
to be an exceedingly pleasant person to
know in the same household, but her
manner toward transient feminine ac-
quaintances is Indifferent, not to say
squelching. She likes to talk with
men. She is plain-looking, but piquant
in every snap of her wilful eyes and
every toss of her retrousse nose."
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-14
The Reliable Man.

Of all the qualities that combine to
form good character, there is not one
more important than reliability. Most
emphatically is this true of the char
acter of a good business man. The
word itself embraces both truth and
honesty, and the reliable man must
necessarily be truthful and honest. We
see so much all around us that exhibits
the absence of this crowning quality
that we are tempted, in our bilious
moods, to deny its very existence. But
there are, nevertheless, reliable men,
men to be depended upon, to be trust
ed, in whom you may repose conf
dence, whose word is as good as their
bond and whose promise is perform
ance. If any one of you know such
man make him your friend. You can
only do SO, however, by assimilating
his character.
The reliable man is a man of good
Judgment. He does not jump at con-
clusions. He is not frivolous man.
He is thoughtful. He turns over sub
iect in his mind and looks at it all
around. He is not a partial or one
sided man. He sees through thing.
He is apt to be a very reticent man. He
does not have to talk great deal. He
is a moderate man, not only in habits
of body, but also of mind. He is not a
passionate man, if so by nature, he has
overcome it by grace. He is sincere
man, not plotter or schemer. He
does not promise rashly. What he says
may be relied on. He is trustworthy
man. You feel safe with your property
or the administration of affairs in his
hands. Heis watchful, vigilant man.
You feel secure with his protection.
He is brave man. for his conclusions
are logically deduced from the sure
basis Of truth, and he does not fear to
maintain them. Heis good man, for
no one can be thoroughly honest and
truthful without being good. Is such a
quality attainable? Most assuredly SO.
It is not born, it is made. Character
NAV be formed, of course then its COM
ponent parts may be nodded to that
| formation.-P Portland Price Current.
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INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

"A girl at Bridgeport, Conn, atetoo
many walnuts and died.
The rats in an Ohio barn rose in
their might and killed the dog that had
been sent in to exterminate them.
A Houston, Tex, woman tried to
commit suicide by knocking hole in a
window-glass, and saving her neck over
the ragged edges.
"A mischievous boy at Reading
Pa, closed up chimney with rags,
and at night the family in the house
narrowly escaped suffocation from
smoke.
George Hall, of Joplin. Mo-, a lad
thirteen years of age, fell into amining-
shaft ninety-seven feet deep. He was
taken out, and, strange to say, had sus-
tanned no fatal injuries.
A young man in Saline County,.
Mo-, attempted to kiss pretty young
widow who was boarding in the same
house with him. In the scuffle the
widow suddenly thrust finger into
one of the young mans eyes, destroy
ing the sight.
Geo. A. Hannum recently travelled
from Kansas with his wife and chill
dren, all the way through in two
horse covered wagon. to the house of
his father-in-law in Rowe, Mass, doing
his own cooking, and sleeping in the
wagon at night.
A dispatch to the London Free
Press says that a son of David Van
Every, Of Ayr, Ont, about five years of
age, while coming downstairs with an
open penknife in his hand, fell to the
bottom, the knife entering his heart
and killing him instantly.
An able-bodied man in New Ha-
ven, Conn, was arrested for stealing a
carpenters plane, which he sold for
eighteen cents. He convinced the
Court that he committed the crime as a
last resource to procure food for his
starving family. He was dismissed
and his Immediate wants supplied.
"A queer point is up before Phila-
delphia court. Miss Clara M. Whipple
was riding in crowded car, and her
corsets were laced SO tightly that,
though above the medium height, she
could not raise her hands to cling to
the straps. The car struck bumper"
violently, and she was thrown down
and broke her knee-cap. One jury has
given her 81, 800 damages, and now the
suit is up before the Supreme Court,
the company claiming that she neglect
ed to take due precautions for her
safety.
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Washington's Only Sister.

Mrs. Betty Lewis, Washington's only
sister, is described, in Scribs1er for Feb
ruary, as woman of many virtues,
and well beloved of her famous broth
er. In the future, however, she is more
likely to be celebrated for her spelling
than for anything else. We quote the
following letter from the Scrsbner arti-
Gle:
july s. 1885.
MY DxkR BRorHKR receiv'd your Letters Of
26th and 18th of June, the day after wrote %
you was attack with the ague and fever which
has lasted ever since had never been clear of
more th.t YOU would ascertain Mr.. Parkes for
tune thoe believe he would not tell anything
falls on the location, Ha1iot's Brother Wrote her
Parks coneniuiatine them on there Intended
Union which he says he makes no dout Will pc
very happy one, Lawrence was here at the tune
that Mr; Parks firs spoke to Harriet on the sub
he could but never hard from him until the let
ter haye metion'd here and concluded from
that be bad Inquired and was well pleas.d, when
Mr.. Parks ask'd my consent told him had
nothing TO say to it that you ware the Person to
be applied 70. have never concern'd myself
With 4 M think m Harriet E t j. 2 9!d En- hEnoush ncS to
py believe it viii be her one falt, he ban the
Best caracter of any young Person that know.
now my Dear Brother have 70 thank you for
YOUR Va - es.c =.
had any to spear, but had no write to Expect you
70 Dis&rnish your self.
/ am mutch Obliged to you for your invitssion
to Mount Vernon but it M utterly out OF my
Power to rot mp, / believe wrote TO- You hst
Fail TINT bad hut two old Horsee and in Tenn
lWoFd left Out] from that my stable was broken
opeu and the best of them carried and from that
day to this hayn mot har'd word of him that
wSs tie forth chariot Hors that lost in Fred
eficiu YOU may Believe had no great ParBiallity
for the Place. Harriet il Better and il gone to the
forth Of July in Town but ! think she looks
~ Love to you and my Sister Washington
Afectionats sister
r. 81 fear you win hardly mako out this e
have 4 violent Headnke and horrid caught
believe Harriet u distressed to know how she is
y b Provided with thinm for WcdirR Dress.
This was probably the aged sisters
last letter to her brother; for she en-
tered into rest early in March, 1897.
| Her portrait. taken In her youth, rep
resents her - . tail. handsome woman,
with brown hair and eyes her head
held proudly erect and her full lips
hrmly, almost haughtily compressed,
| = Il she had Just issued some positive
| command 10 her army Of tall sons.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-14

the davs Of Peter-that IN served a. Fope for
TWENTY-FIVE years. Al the time of his death
he lacked three months Of being eighty-six
years old: had been priest sixty, ! Bishop
iifty-one, Cardinal thirty-eight, and Pope
thifty-one wears and seyen moDfhs. OF tbe
long list Of 237 Popes. there have been but
nine who served over twenty wears. One Of
these. Plus VI. was POpe twenty-four years
term attributed to Peter and no other Pope
EXCEPT Plus TX. has served term OF that
length.
Plus TX, began his reign by a general am
nesty. and by vigorous reform Of the Civil
Government of the Papal States. making per
applying the remedy. In 1S47. he convened a
Popular Council Of Delegates from the yari-
GUS Provinces. and was looked upon all over
the world as the leading political reformer
The next wear, 1848, revolutionary proceeding,
took place in ali parts Of Europe. and the Pope
refused to approve or indorse the popular de-
mands. A revolution took place. Count Ros-
81, the Minister of State, was killed, and the
Romans forced the Pope to name more radi-
cal Ministry. Declaring himself no longer
free, he escaped to Gaeta. A Republic was
declared in Rome He continued to reside at
Gaeta until April, 1850, his authority having
in the meantime been re-established BY French
arms. Among the many notable events of his
Poptificate NAV be Enumerated the following:
1852, re-established Roman Catholic HER
archy in England; 1854, after convocation of
Bishops, formally defined the dogma Of the
Immaculate Conception; 1856, established
English and American colleges at Rome; 1862,
canonized the Japanese MARTYRS; 1884, the
famous Encyclical Letter: 1S69-'7O, the con-
vocation Of the Council Of the Vatican, and
the declaration of the dogma of Papal Infalli-
bility.
The political trials of Plus TX. have been
almost continuous He had been Pope but
two wears when he WAS forced to leave Rome
by the Revolutionists, and was restored two
years after by French Army. In 1859 began
the agitation for the unification of italy under
one Governments The CONQUEST of Lombardy,
the annexation of Parma, Modena and Tus-
cany. in 1S6O-'6l, were signs that could not be
mistaken. In 1851, the Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies was oyerthrown, and that monarchy
Incorporated in the pow-recognized Kingdom
of italy. Then followed the annexation of
Umbria and Ancona. These matters brought
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PERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.

SENATOR HARRY GENET,
5 Of the New York Tammany Ring fugi-
|es, surrendered to the authorities, on the
:, and gave bail In the sum Of S25,0o0.
The Judiciary Committee OF the
tional House Of Representatives, on the
!, took vote on the proposition for the
tteenth Amendment to the Constitution as
bsented and advocated by the late National
male Suffrage Convention. The vote on
: proposition was: Yeas-Messrs. Lynde,
5e, CoDger. Butler and Lapham-5. Nays
>ssrs. Knott, Hartridge, Stenger, Mcmahon
q Culberson-5. Mr.. Harris, of Virginia,
. is opposed to female suffrage, was alb
81. There was DO probability whatever that
: committee would at any time therea fte
ke favorable action on the subject
TIE jury, in the case Of Anderson,
the Louisiana Returning Board, on trial for
kspiracy and forgery in making up the elec-
5 returns In the fall Of 1876, rendered 4
6dict Of guilty, on the evening Of the 7th,
pr being out about one hour. The jury
then discharged and the prisoner remanded
hwait sentence. Mr.. Wells was still In con.
ment, but the bonds required Of him had
p reduced to $4,000.
rHE Michigan t;reenback State Con
tion assembled at jackson, on the zth,
ply every county in the State being repre-
ted. The platform adopted calls for the
eal Of the Resumption act: the remoned
ION Of silver: the National debt to Be paid
yreenbacks, unless coin Is specially called
In the law; soldiers who enlisted before
}. Is, 1862, should receive coin for al tht
yernment owes them; the abolition Of ths
tonal Banks; the restoration Of toe ~
pe tai; the establishmentof Postal Saving
pks, etc. Delegates were chosen TO sttend
National Convention at Toleuo.
he President. on the 9th, appointed
Honorary Commissioners 70 the Paris FL
tton, Lloyd Fl Bsksr and Engens T. Meyer
Lansas, and Thomas h. Bpchlsr snd Rob
Mclean. Of Maryland
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IOWA STATE NEWS.

A FEW mornings ago, A. G. Smith, q farmer,
living near Council Bluffs, went to Omaha to
transact some business. He left Charles
Fisher, an Indian, who had been employed by
him, to do some work. Az noon, Mrs. Smith,
his three children and the Indian sat down to
dinner. The two Oldest children getting
through first, went out to play. When they
returned, a few minutes afterward, they
missed their mother, and commenced looking
for her. They were assisted in their search
by hearing the cry of their baby brother.
Going in the cellar, the children found their
mother lying on some straw, her throat cut
from ear to ear. The little babe was sitting
on its mothers breast, crying piteously. The
body Of the Indian was subsequently found in
he well.
On the morning of the I'd, Tom Alsop and
his son, who were buried in shaft sixty-fve
feet deep, near Dubuque, two days before,
were reached, and, strange to say, the old man
was rescued alive, while the boy died two
hours after being buried. It seems almost
impossible to believe that this man lived two
days in place where the air was so foul that
q candle would not burn, and with a beam
weighing over thirty pounds lying across his
chest. His boy was lying dead few feet
from him, being killed by the beam which lay
across his chest. The last words Of the boy
were, Father, we will die together, good-by."
This is one of the most wonderful mining ac-
cidents which has ever happened in that min
ing district, and will always be one of the
startling stories of the lead mines.
AT Dubuque, on the I'd, little daughter of
Mr.. H. Buesman, six years old, subject to
epilepsy, fell against the stove while in fit,
and threw over kettle of boiling water on
herself, and was almost literally boiled to
death. She suffered great agony for two hours
before death relieved her.
AFTER John Sharp, of State Center, had his
legs cut off by the train, he tied the mangled
limbs together with his suspenders, and
crawled nearly mile through cornfield to
school-house. He died few days after.
ApPANoosE and Davis Counties have vigi-
lance committee in active existence.
THE Davenport Glucose Works use 500 bush
els of corn day.
THE Iowa towns and cities along the Mis-
souri, are gladdening over a proposed barge
line in the Missouri.
THE farmhouse of George Miller, near
Clayton Center, was burned, on the 5th, in
volving c loss of 81, 800.
THERE were 4SS patents issued to Iowa dur
ing 1877 from the Office at Washington.
THE Red Ribbon City of Keokuk supplies
the Temperance Town of Carthage, on the op-
posite side of the river, with $1,000 worth of
liquor per annum, by the jug-full,
LARS HELGERsoN LANGLAND, living about
five miles east of Benson Grove, was thrown