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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-15

THE Cow FOR TIE FAMILY.-Dairymen
and farmers should be well informed as to
the best kind of COW for their special use,
yet what variety of opinion exists in re-
gard to which kind is the best For fam
lily use, where one cow is kept TO supply
milk, cream, and butter, it is great OBJ
ject to get an animal that is easily kept,
that is gentle, a good mixer. and yields
much cream and butter. Ofall the varie.
ties of COWS, the cross of the pure Ayrshire
and the Jersey is the one to be desired for
the use of the family or for the butter dairy.
A cow that can be fed on the moving of a
half:acre lawn, with a quart or two of meal
daily; that can be made pet Of, and that
will give a pound ofgolden butter every "a
hours, with cream for the table, and milk
for all purposes and to spare, is, without
any doubt, the best possible and the
cheapest COW for family, and for the butter
dairy as we'll Country Gentleman.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-15
Poe tic al.
Whittier's Corn Song.

'htttiCt CVih JVblSs
Heap high the farmers wintry hoard,
Heap high the golden corn;
No richer gift has autumn poured
From out her lavish horn.
Let other lands, eyulting, CLEAN
The apple from the pine,
The orange from its glossy green,
The cluster from the vine.
We better love the hardy gift
Our rugged wales bestow,
To cheer us when the storm shall drift
Our harvest fields with snow.
Through wales of grass and flowers
Our plows their burrows made,
While on the hills the sun and showers
OF changeful April played.
We dropped the seed DER hill and plain,
Beneath the sun of May,
And frightened from cur sprouting grain
The robber crow away.
All through the long bright days in June
It's leaves grew bright and fair,
And waved in hot midsummer noon,
Its soft and snowy hair.
And now with autumn's moonlit eyes,
Its harvest time is come,
We pluck away its frosty leaves,
And bear its treasures home.
Then, richer than the tabled gifts
Apollo showered of old.
Fair hands the broken grains shall sift,
And knead its meals of gold.
Let vapid idlers roll in silk
Around the costly board,
Give us the board Of samp and milk
By homespun beauty poured. =
Then shame on all the proud and vain,
Whose folly laughs to scorn
The blessings of our hardy grain,
Our wealth of golden corn.
Let earth withhold her goodly root,
Let mildew blight the rye
Give to the worm the orchard fruit,
And wheat fields to the fly.
But let the good old corn adorn
The hills our fathers trod,
Still let us for His golden corn
Send up our thanks to God.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-15

TAKE Your COUNTY PAPER.-No one
knows how much is lost by not taking and
carefully reading his local paper, or how
much may be saved by doing so. Certain
lightning-rod notes were discounted by one
of our citizens, last week, but learning that
the public Lad been duly warned 10y adj
vertisement not to purchase them, lie re-
sorted to the newspaper files, read the adj
vcrtisement, and forthwith made the note
vendor refund, to the amount of between
three and four hundred dollars. The news
paper is valuable, in many ways, far beyond
the price of its yearly subscription, and the
man who fails to take his local paper fails
to subserve his own best interests West
minister ADVOCATE.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-15

SALT ON WHEAT.-Sow the salt broad
cast after the ground is plowed, and just
before sowing the wheat; or just as the
wheat is coming up. From two to four
bushels per acre are sufficient. Judging
from the reports published in previous
volumes, it is most beneficial on dry soils,
and also should be sowed when the ground
is dry. The better way in all such cases is
to sow salt on few strips through the
wheat field, and observe the result. It's
value can thus be correctly estimated.-
Country Gentleman.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-15

THE Doors. Two backwoodsmen were
INDUCING in "reminiscences ofthc time when
everything was cheap. why" said one,
81 can remember when | could buy 100 acres
of good farming land in the State Of Texas
for an old pair of boots" Then why on
earth didn't you purchase ?" retorted the
other. The man with the long memory
leisurely picked up live coal, deposited
it in his clay pipe, gave two or three long
puffs, and then slowly and conclusively
answered, because l didn't have the
boots"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-15

The best preparation to preserve shin
giles from decay is to dip them in crude
petroleum before laying them, or il already
laid to paint them with the same by means
ola large brush +; the oil will penetrate the
wood and make spruce aboutas durable as
cedar or pine, and nearly double the dura.
bility Of any wood. We doubt the utility
of limewater and salt.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-15
THE EGIS & INTELLIGENCER
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Br
F. w. 3 A K E R.
Terms-S so Year, in Advance
Otherwise $500 Will be charged.

TRANSIENT ADvERTsEMENTs.-One Square, two inser
lions, Sl00. Each subsequen insertion rs cents Lo
acknowledgements in the same proportion, spac
equal to six lines makes square.
81 Yearly advertisements at special rates.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
The Difference.


They were very pretty, and there was
apparently five or six years difference in
their ages. As the train pulled up at
Bussey, on the A. X. Il D., the younger
girl blushed, fattened her nose nervous
ly against the window, and drew back in
joyous smiles as young man came
dashing into the car, shook hands ten
derly and cordially, insisted ON carrying
her valise, magazine, little paper bundle,
and would probably have carried her
had she permitted him. The passengers
smiled as she left the car, and the mur-
muir went rippling through the coach,
"They re engaged" The other girl sat
looking nervously out of the window,
and once or twice gathered her parcels
together as though she would leave the
car, yet seemed to be expecting some
one. At last he came He bulged into
the door like house on fire, looking
along the seats until his manly gaze fell
on her up-turned, expectant face, roar
ed Come on! I've been waiting for
you for fifteen minutes!" grabbed her
basket and strobe out of the car, while
she followed with a little valise, band
box, paper bag full of lunch, bird
cage, a glass jar of jelly preserves and
an extra shawl And crusty looking
old bachelor at the farther end of the
car, croaked out, in unison with the in
dignant looks of the passengers, They're
| married.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
An italian Romance.

A sad affair has lately been brought
to light in Italy. In small cave near
Udino, a woman was found who had been
imprisoned there for 33 years. In 1874
she became attached to an Austrian Of
fcer, but her father, violent hater of
the Austrians, who at that time were in
possession Of that part of Italy where
he resided, refused his consent to mar
riage. The girl stated that she would
then marry without his permission. He
dissimulated his anger, and during a
walk in which he accompanied her, he
induced her to descend into the cave
with him by means of a rope ladder,
with view of examining it. He was
the first to ascend to the surface, and,
Withdrawing the ladder, left her. She
was kept regularly supplied with food
and clothing. Even when her cruel
father died she was not released, for her
sister, whose hatred for the Austrians
was equally great, continued the impris-
onment. The unfortunate woman, on
her liberation, had complexion Of
death-like pallor, caused by the dark.
ness in which she had so long lived, and
her voice had departed through constant
cries for help during the early part Of
her sequestration. She could speak on
" in 1 h0arse whisper.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
WHOLE NO. 648.

finding of human bones of ordinary size
would be within the range of possibility,
but it would be failure for the pur-
poses ordinarily sought in making such
discoveries. Itwould make no sensation.
It would inspire no newspaper notices.
1t would bring in no half-dollars. It
can never become fashionable so long as
petrifed giants make more noise and are
far more profitable. Even plain petri-
fed giants, you know, have proved a
good investment. A petrifed giant with
an extension of the backbone, was in
tended to be decided hit. 1t is hard
to see how the next one can be improv-
cd unless he should have the additional
advantage of hoofs and horns. We
hope, though, the suggestion will be act
ed upon when it becomes a real necessi-
ty, to have a petri6ed giant that will
eclipse the Colorado specimen Prof,
SAINT Calvin, IN University Reporter,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
DENCE, IOWA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 4. 1873.

want your help in dressing, and I have
SO much to tell you"
Poor Rose could not refuse her, and
she hoped to hear more of Sir Henry S
offer
"Phil. Founder, that handsome bar
rister, proposed to me tonight said
she, "but |, of course, refused him. /
like him best, but he cannot make me
my lady, nor give me pearls and emer-
aids. | hope Phil. won't shoot himself
for me. He was in despair. How long
you are in unlacing this bodice. Don't t
pull my hair. | am very cross. Phil.
says that [ have Tilted him, and so I
have"
For nearly an hour the belle torment
ed poor Rose with her boasts and her
remorse, and went off at last without
saying goodnight
Ann did not come again, but all the
children as they went to bed, led on by
Wellington and Nelson, thumpcd and
kicked at Rose Moss door, and Master
Wellington shouted through the key
hole:
Wont you catch it tomorrow, miss
I rather think you will. Mall pitch in
to you, and no mistake"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
Shall We Hire Cheap Teachers.

Said Superintendent j. L. .Pickard in
his address before the State Teachers
Association at Cedar Rapids ''The
practice, all too prevalent, of employing
poorly qualified teachers to instruct
small children, because they know so
little, is the sure way to make that little
less. -
The fact that small children know so
little would sound better as reason
why the best of teachers should be pro-
cured for them If poorly-qualified
teachers are to be employed anywhere,
let it be in the more advanced grades,
where the pupils know enough to dis
cover the fraud. If thorough work is
needed anywhere, it is at the founda-
ton 1t was bad enough when so mag
nifcent structure as the new capitol
at Des Moines was to be erected, to
have the foundation built Of rotten
stones which must be taken out at an
expense OF many thousands OF dollars
But the rotten stones have been taken
out and their places filled with sound
ones, and when, in few years, we go to
Des Moines and look upon the compile
ted building, we shall find it none the
less stately and beautiful because the
rotten stones were once in its founda-
ton.
But it is not so with the child's edu
cation. If its foundation be unsound
or improperly constructed, it may, pos
sibly, be repaired to some extent, but
while, repairs are in progress, time, too
is moving on, and time is what our lives
are made of. A part of life is lost, and
the structure can never be what it might
have BEEN We want skillful workers
everywhere, but especially among the
tender plants.
An Institute will be held at Jesup on
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
HOW TO CATCH A BEAU.

Little lady, do you ask me
How to catch beau?
Surely you, a winsOme lassie-
Surely you should know,
Let me tell you, en- pdsSdnt,
That there are many ways,
But will only mention to you
Those that win mems praise.
When your friend drops in to see you
Greet with happy face,
Laugh and sing, and sparkle brightly
With your rarest grace;
But, with all your pleasant humor,
Though you wear fine lace.
Ne'er forget your mothers labOrs
And her carewOrn face.
Learn to labor-help your mother
In the household cares;
Learn to bake, to cook, to iron,
Don't learn idle airs.
True, man does not deserve you
If he'd make you slave;
But recOllect that men, tho rich,
Love women who can save.
Learn to be q good true woman;
Master every art
That to home and those you love best
Pleasure can impart;
School your mind and heart and fingers,
Learn what you should know,
And then you nc'er need ask the question
How to catch beau?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04

The State Teachers Association held
it's twenty-second annual meeting at Ce-
dar Rapids last week, President Miss P
w. Sudlow in the chair. The attend
ance was large, the papers were inter
esting and instructive, the discussions
were animated, and the business was
done satisfactorily and with dispatch.
We have attended FIVE such associations
in this State, and in our opinion there
has not been more interesting or prof
liable one than this.
City Superintendent Henry Sabin, of
Clinton, was elected president for next
year, and it is proposed to hold the next
meeting some time next July, either at
Clear Lake or at Iowa City, also to con-
tinue the Association two weeks, and
have in connection herewith school of
science This last idea, we presume, or
iginated with Prof Calvin, who is a
member Of the executive board.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
VIM. ELDEN, Editor
knowledge and Wisdom.

knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
Have Ofttimes no connection. knowledge
dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom in minds attentive of their own.
KnOwledge-a rude, improbable mass,
The mere materials with which wisdom builds,
Till smoOthed, and squared, and fitted to its
place
Does but cucumber whom it seems to enrich
knowledge is proud that he has learned SO
much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
n
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04

At the annual meeting Of the Blasted
Leaf Society, cabbage rose to cauh-
flower TO order
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04

An institute will be held at Jesup on
Saturday, Jan. r. Exercises will be
gin at 9 @ clock A. NJ.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
INSURANCE, &C.
FRANK l.. JACOBS

INSURANCE AGENT AND AUCTIONEER.
Il Represents old and reliable companies.
Terms moderate. Office at w. U. Telegraph
Office, Main ST., independence.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
Qte Bnlltti'l,

Legal and Official Advertisements. One Dollar
per Square for the first, and Fifty Cents per
snuare for each subsequent insertion, up to
four insertions. A square is equal to ten lines
of BREWER type, Or eight lines OF Nonpareii'
Husiness Cards Of six lines, or less, $500
year.
Marriage, Death and Religious Notices insert
ed without charge. Obituary Notices ten Genus
per line.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
BARBER SHOP.

JOHN BURKE,
YJNHE FASHIONABLE BARBER AND HAIR
L Dresser. All the modern conveniences
known to the profession. Shop over Barnett &
Co.'S Store. Main street. Independence, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04

The cold, weak tea remained untasted
so did the dry toast. The frugal fire
went out, and still Rose Moss sat cold
and sick at heart, weeping silently. At
half past twelve the sound of carriage
wheels and a laundering knock at the
door announced the return of the play
gOers.
Rose caught up the letter which had
fallen at her feet, hurried into her bed
room, locked the door and threw herself
on her hard, curtainless bed. Presently
the nursery-maid tapped lightly at the
door
please miss, missus says will you
give the children their supper, and plat
and curl their hairs, as Sir Henry is
coming tomorrow, and they must be
done, though they are ever so cross and
sleepy"
Tell your mistress" said Ross Moss
that / have bad headache, and feel
too i'll to get up
Ann grumbled as she went away, say
in to herself: "Well, if ever! no, l new
er! Such airs, and she is only guv-
ness"
| She soon returned.
Please miss, missus says if you
will only plait and curl the young Ia
dies hair, you may 60 to bed again di-
rectly."
Il am too i'll and tired to do it, sale
Rose, nerved by despair to defy Mrs
Pomfrey's tyranny.
A few moments later the belle O1
Bloomsbury raped at poor Roses bed
room door.
Do let me in, Rose,' she cried. u
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
THE UNION PACIFIC su,O1cnT.
Fierce Wind and Heavy Snow for
Sixty Consecutive H0urs---Em-
aMeMsc Snow Drifts..Men and
Sheep Frozen tO Death

SIBERIAN, Wy, March Ion
Thursday about midnight storm
of snow and wind set in, covering
the entire country from Green River,
Wyoming, to North Platte, Neb.,
a distance Of $50 miles. It proved
to be far the severest storm known
since the construction of the Union
Pacific railroad. The storm con
tinued without abatement until Sun
day morning, making it impossible
for persons to go out without almost
certain death. Since the storm sub
sided the bodies of a number Of per
sons have been found who died of
exposure. Two soldiers persisted
between Fort Russell and Cheyenne,
a distance Of three miles. Four men
with an oxsteam were caught fifteen
miles northwest Of Cheyenne; three
ofthem reached the railroad Sunday,
terrible frozen, and will probably
lose their feet, and the fourth man
and cattle persisted. Three ranch
men were found dead a short distance
above Cooper Lake. 1t is probable
this is only a small part Of those that
have died from the effects of the
Storm. One ranchman lost ten
thousand sheep near Egbert Station.
Many other cases are reported Of
loss Of stock. Snow is drifted in
immense piles wherever there is
any place to form drift. Every
cut In the railway track was filed
with snow, and sandsheds were also
full. The railway company had
their forces out before the storm
subsidized OH Sunday, and have been
constantly at work with four snow
plows at different points with all the
men they could work. The differ
ent forces met at this point tonight
at 8 O'Clock, having cleared $50 miles
in less than three days. All trains
will be Immediately started, and no
further detention is anticipated. The
passengers were all located where
they could be well fed and taken care
Of, and those who have been located
where they could see the progress Of
the storm and the efforts made to |
open the road, accord the railroad
officers and men the greatest praise
for tlfe result accomplished.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
.-.HEi.--ENs-
BURNS STATION, March, 10th, 1873.

BURNS STATION. March, 10Th, 1873.
Editor Reriozc:
Burns is alive. It has daily stage from Red
wool Fails Quite competition among the stage
lines-Burns is surely to grow. Railway and stage
lines Will open up tor us communications with the
outside world. and set our town on tile pinnacle
OF human greatness. This is an advantage not 10
be Lightly esteemed. We hope to have !, trades
union organized i'll order to establish fixed rate
OF wages, to accommodate all classes-the cultured
the industrious. shftless and lazy. y great many
Of US wish to have such Jnion that in case Of
having an excess OF cash. We can let it flow out in
benevolent contributions.
Our Religion is in a diseased condition. Did not
thnk Burns would ever get to be so orthodox as to
be exclusive. we have two religious organizations
Methodist and Congregat ional, in full blast The
Congregatonists have built church at the station
1t is good thing to have church in running order
The growing intelligence of our community de-
mandS health orthodoxy. Last summer a cor
respondent in the HERALD stated thHt certain di-
vine intended to give sermon on kissing to the
Young people-NoW that the church is built 1
think that we should have the sermon 1t would
not hurt orthodoxy in the least. A sermon on kis-
sing in all its variations is Of the clements out
OF which social composition springs, and must in
yarably strengthen the social element of orthodoxy.
Kissing is a necessity. and i'll harmony with cult
ure.' growth, and progress. How nice it would
sound to hear that sermon in the new church. 1t
would oe inspiring. do wish our orthodoxy would
recognize the fact that no harm can attach to the
discussion OF such rich theme but good, real sub
stantial good.
The Methodists hold their meetings in the school
house. AS long as THERE'S church at the Station,
wonder that there is not Chris tian spirit enough
tolnylte them to occupy the building part OF the
time! 1t would certainly be a compliment to the
Intelligence the body who the church, to he
little more friendly towards denominations la
boring on the same field. Example is the best
preacher.--W We Go hope that the day will come
when the shepherds shall draw in their horns, and
give us practical demonstrations of what consti.
tutes CHRISTIAN love. tradesunion would wor;
admirably. Let us have it. We hope that the
thing will succeed, for nothing else but that will
bring about the millennium. LIBERTY
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
Twentieth Annual Exhibition
OF THE
Mimi Nj State Agricultural Society,",
TO BE HELD AT
st. Paul, Sept. 2, 8, 4,5,6, Ct rs.

Presidents Office, st. Paul, March, 1878.
Dear Sir:
It is deemed proper to make
official announcement of the fact that
the Executive Committee Of the State
Agricultural Society at their meeting
held in this city on February Dist, 1878,
resolved to hold the next Annual State
Fair on the spacious and beautiful
grounds Of the st. Paul Driving Park
Association, heretofore used for that
purpose.
Arrangements have already been,
and are being made, which will render
this by far the most complete and at
tractive Exposition Of the Agricultural
and other Industrial Interests and Arts
OF Minnesota and the Northwest, ever
held in this State; and such ample and
cordial assurances have already been
received of the Jealous and active CO.
operation of the leading representatives
OF every branch of agricultural and
manufacturing industry, as to -encour-
age us to believe that it will enlist a
wider popular interest than any Of it's
predecessors.
Arrangements are being made for
cheap excursion tickets over the num-
erous railroads centering at this point,
and far better and cheaper facilities
than ever before will be afforded for
reaching the Fair Grounds from the
cities OF St. Paul and Minneapolis.
AS the people Of the whole State are
Interested in the success Of the Expe-
sition to be given under the auspices of
the State Agricultural Society, and in
thus promoting and extending the use
fllness OF an organization which has
done SO much to stimulate all
the arts of industry and skill which are
based on Agric ulture, we venture to
ask for your cooperation and assistance
IN the efforts we are making to render
the next State Fair one that every citi-
zen Of the Safe may be proud Of.
I ours,
L. c, JUDSON, GEO. R. FINCH,
SECRETARY. PRESIDENT.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
A Justice of New Hartford. Vim.

A justice Of New Hartford, Vino
na county, had a case before him
the other day, the nature Of which
may be understood by the following
luminous decision; cit is the judg-
ment of this court that you marry
this girl forwith-and may God
have mercy Oh your soul-you will
remain in the custody Of the officer
who will permit you to 90 to Wi
mona to obtain the license" The
result was a speedy marriage and
the release Of the prisoner.