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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
Doing up Mems Linen.

Many husband easy to please in all
other respects, has had his weekly
grumble over the way this collar sets, y
or how this bosom bulges out" And
many housewife has tried again and
again, to remedy these faults A lady.
writing to the New York Evening Post.
explains the difficulty in the following
language:
Sometime ago my husband used to
complain that his linen collars did not
set nicely in front. There was always
fullness which in the case of standing
collars was particularly trying to a man
who felt a good deal of pride in the
dressing of his neck, as it spoiled the
effect of his cravat. and often left a gap
for the display of either the collar band
Of the shirt or a half-inch of bare skin.
While talking with practical shirt
maker one day, he mentioned his annoy
ance, and inquired if there was any means
of relieving it. Yes" answered the
man, the fault lies with your laundress.
While doing up your collars she stretch
es them the wrong way. Damp linen is
very pliable; and good pull will alter
a fourteen inch collar in the twinkling
of an eye She ought to stretch them
crosswise, and not lengthwise. Then, in
Strengthening out your shirt bosom she
makes another mistake of the same
sort. They also, ought to be polished
crosswise instead of lengthwise, partic-
ularly in the neighborhood of the neck.
A lengthwise pull draws the front of
the neckband up somewhere directly
under your chin, where it was never
meant to go, and of course that spoils
the set of your collar With the front
Of your neckband an inch too high, and
your collar an inch too long, you have
most undesirable combination
The speaker was right. AS soon as
my husband ordered the necessary
changes to be made in the methods of
our laundry, wonderful difference
manifested itself in the appearance of
that most important part of his clad an
atomy, the neck. Let me commend the
shirtmaker's hint to other distressed
women.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
Language Of the Hair.

All our features have their language
eyes, nose and mouth. And now some
one discovers that even the hair has its
own indications.
Straight, lank, stringy-looking hair in
dicates weakness and cowardice.
Curly hair denotes quick temper.
Frizzy hair, set on ones head as if
each individual hair was ready to fight
it's neighbor, denotes coarscness.
Black hair indicates persistent reso-
luton in accomplishing an object-also
strong prcdisposition to revenge wrong
and insults, real or fancied
Brown hair denotes fondness for life,
friendly disposition, ambition, earnest
ness OF purpose, capacity for business,
reliability in friendship, in proportion
as the hair is fine.
Very fine hair indicates an even dis
position, readiness to forgive, with de-
sire to add to the happiness of others.
Persons with fine light brown or au-
burn hair, inclined to curl or friz, are
quick tempered, and are given to resent
ment and revenge.
Light brown hair, inclined to redness,
with freckled skin, is certain indica-
ton of deceit, treachery, and disposition
to do something mean by friend who
can no longer be used to advantage
All of which may be news to fortune
tellers.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

the Lords, and being bound to remem-
ber that the Lord died-actually died.
for Thomas Riley, you see my bathing
his face with my clean handkerchief
takes very low grade; isn't worthy of
being counted or remembered"
" If they had been grateful, muttered
Robert, 1T wouldn't have seemed so
provoking; but that ridiculous woman
kept quoting Jimmy Somebody to you,
as though he must certainly know more
than you did"
/ know it; it didn't disturb me. how
ever, because the poor woman trusts her
friends rather than stranger. l think
rather it was a token that she has right
feeling But what shall be said of those
who quote all sorts of human authority,
as though they were worth infinely more
than the word of the All-wise God"
Your thoughts all come back to one
point, whatever subject may be touch
ed, Robert said, with mixture of vex-
alton and amusement in his tones. Il
don't know how to talk about such
themes"
Then you mustn't quarrel with the
Lords plans of work until you under
stand more about them. | dare say He
has plan for you to work out that you
have not so much as looked into.sxs
yet"
Saying which DR.. Everett drew rein
at the door of his clearinghouse and
unceremoniously ordered Robert into
the house, and to bed for rest, whittier
he went with many new thoughts stir
ring at his heart, prominent among them
being the one that the doctor certainly
governed his life by motives to which
he himself was stranger.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

DIsCIPLINE:-I do not underrate the
value of discipline in the school-room;
but | know that it is too often regarded
as an end rather than as means.
Many teacher is far more more anx-
ious how to govern than how to teach,
forgetting that the great secret of good
discipline is good teaching. Often the
pupil who is most troublesome, when
uninterested and careless, becomes a
most earnest student when rightly di-
rected and inspired by true teacher.
The teacher should lead instead of
drive; teach, instead of hear recitations;
encourage originality of thought and
method, instead of require the exact
language of the book. She should be
the earnest friend of every pupil rather
than the stern, unyielding monarch.
N. II. BEAL,
Supt. Schools, Waterloo
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
Our Girls.
Harper's s Bazaar.


There has been great deal said, du-
ring the last twenty or thirty years, con-
cerning the health of American women.
and the general spineness and delicacy
of American girls. We have never
given much credit to the statements in
general on the subject, having found, in
our own observation, an average of
health comparing favorable with that of
most English and French women, and
with that Of the more intelligent and
cultivated German women, and holding
the matter to be more the stock in
trade OF certain paragraphists than any
thing else.
The frame of the American women,
we know, does not in her youth greatly
incline to adipose, although in her ma
turity she it likely to be round and
plump enough to hinder wrinkles for
some years after they are overdue, while
the natural American complexion is of
a peculiar soft and tender tint. that
Ignorant people might take for pallor,
But neither absence of adipose nor ten
derly-tinted skin really constitutes, or
is symptom of, i'll health. and the thin
and delicately-fashioned young woman
will undergo world of fatigue and
strain, and will rise from her sleep the
next day fresh as lark. while the roly-
poly ones will be overcome with exhaus-
ton, and good for nothing; and while
the latter may have died before ffty,the
former, wiry and indomitable, a bundle
of nerves, will be able to give younger
people odds at eighty.
But the random and long continued
statement of which we speak, whether
true or false, have really done good
work, and fathers and mothers Of late
have paid very different sort of atten-
tion to the health of their children from
that pad halfcentury since; so thai
children now not only inherit such good
health as there was in the past, but have
all that the added solicitude, the care
full diet, the warm clothing, the outdoor
pursuits OF the present can give them.
With all those having any ability to do
so, care has been taken of health of
girls, especially, that can hardly be
rivaled in any other land they have been
encouraged in most of the sports of their
brothers, that they might live the more
in the open air, fed on simple food than
once, although abundant, and allowed to
take such sleep as they need without
regard to the unwise old saws about early
rising, and all in such manner as to
counteract any unfortunate influence
that too-stimulating study might exert;
and the result is tribe of rosy, round
ed creatures, whose sparkling eyes,
shapely forms and elastic steps are full
of promise for the health and strength
of the future
1t is pleasure to see those children
stepping along; they are satisfactory to
mind and sight; objects of beauty in
their abundant health, they are objects
health they are having to give to the
generation that is to come, doing their
part in the physical, and therefore in
the closely-following mental and moral,
narfactiop Of tho roca
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
Pruning Orchards.

Taking time, and opportunity into
consideration, it is probable that March
is the best month to prune apple trees.
1t must be done, however, when they
are not frozen The trimming should be
done early enough this month so that
the wound will dry enough so as not to
bleed when the sap starts. Exercise
Judgment in trimming so as to avoid
raising forked tree, at the same time
keep the top we'll balanced. If there be
time we have always found that fine,
sharp saw and pruning knife are the in
struments to prune with. Limbs must
be cut off at the right place. Not so
long as to leave stub to rot, and de-
fective place in the tree, nor so close as
to affect the body. Pruning shears are
never inclined to cut exactly the right
place But where time is limited and
orchards are large, more can be done in
a day, If trees are attended to in time,
they can be kept in the proper shape,
without in after years to amputate
large limbs and thus make fatal wounds.
But to do this, great Judgment has to
be exercised The top Of the young
tree will look too thin if pruned to suit
the tree twenty years hence. Yet this
should be DONE When large limbs are
allowed to grow until they become
crowded, it is almost impossible to rem
edy the difficulty. State Register.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
In school work there should be no Sc.

In school work there should be no Sc
crecy. Parents have right to demand,
and right to know the qualifications of
those to whom they intrust their chill
dren. Competent teachers are al
ways pleased to have these inquiries
made. Only the incompetent fear these
inquiries.
We, as teachers. must be faithful to
the pupils. If we would be honest in
our work, we must understand the
branches we propose to teach The idea
that teachers need know but little to
teach children is erroneous. The child S
mind is full of questions. He is just
beginning to look out upon the world,
and to observe phenomena Can you
answer his questions why does the
apple fall?" You answer, Gravitation
But what makes smoke rise? why
does my marble sink when [ put it in
water?' You say, the marble is heavier
than water. But when we were playing
at the pond, we threw fence rail in; it
is heavier than my marble; why did the
rail not sink?"
As teachers of the young, we must be
well prepared in the textbook work
and well prepared to direct the young
person outside of his book. Indeed. we
must often 60 outside the book to illus.
trate and enforce much that is in the
textbook.
We are to teach the young to inquire
and question.-[W Il. p, in Education.
al Column of Conservative
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
The Last Of the Gases.
Popular Science Monthly,

The last of the gases, that had never
been condensed to liquid-oxygen, hy-
drogen and nitrogen-have at length
yielded to pertinacious experiment, and,
under the joint influence of greater de-
grees of cold and pressure than had ev-
er before been employed, have been re-
duced to the liquid form. This great
experimental exploit has been perform
ed by two chemists independently ,and al
most simultaneously-Raoul Pictet, of
Geneva, and NJ. L. Cailletet, of Paris,
by different processes. Pictet condens-
ed oxygen, which was first announced.
but Cai!letet had already done it, and
ne also liquifed nitrogen, hydrogen and
the air.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
The One Thing Needful,

Henry Sabin in Central School Journal.
Can you teach? | do not mean can
you keep school. That is not so diff
cult a thing to do. Make the children
walk on tiptoe; keep the room as still
as the grave: while you sit at your ta-
bic, book in hand, and hear the recita-
ton. Keep the pupils on an eternal
dress parade; inculcate the idea that
whispering and laughing are among the
sins not to be forgiven; report 81 per
cent attendance, and the thing is about
done.
do not wish to be understood as un-
der-rating order and discipline they are
very valuable as means, bat they are
useless when they are made the end.
The best disciplinarian is not always
the best teacher The most valuable
acquisition teacher can possess is the
power to teach to stand before her
class, and with or without a book, ex-
plain and illustrate, drawing upon her
own resources, until the subject matter
of the lesson is fully brought within the
comprehension of the child.
1t is not to simplify every step, until
there is no real work for the child nei-
ther is it to lecture to the class, dis
playing the immense knowledge of the
teacher. 1t is rather to arouse, excite,
stimulate all the activities of the child S
mind, so that the requirement of
knowledge, through study and investi-
CATION, becomes source of pleasure.
Such teaching is not the most pro-
ductive of immediate results. Under
such instruction school appears some
times at disadvantage, especially to a
superficial observer. The seed must
have timoto sprout and grow. The
tree pruned and trimmed by a skillful
hand, must have time to put forth new
branches and regain its symmetry. So
the faculties of the young mind must
have time given them in which to de-
velop.
To aid and direct, not to force and
supplant nature, forms the largest
share of the work of skillful teacher.
Some seem to think that the possessor
of a firstt-grade certificate must be a
good teacher.
The thing most needed in our public
schools to-day is better teaching. a
more extensive acquaintance with meth
DDS of instruction, some knowledge of
laws of mental philosophy, a clear idea
OF the ends to be sought for in the edu-
cation of the child, will yet be demand
ed of the teacher Teachers should be
judged, as far as possible, not by the
amount of knowledge which they seem
ingly impart, but by the efforts which
they induce the child to put forth for
himself in acquiring knowledge.
| have only presented in outline a
subject which, | hope, will awaken a
higher ambition in the minds of some
teachers, who, at present. are only
keeping school,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
Chambers.

An interesting and useful pamphlet
of twenty-five pages has been published
by the American Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, giving
the trial of man named Edwin Carson,
for exposing glandered horse in pub
lie place in the city of New York. Gar
son was convicted and sentenced by Re-
corder Hackett to the penitentiary for
six months. Many cases where the dis
ease has been transmitted from the
horse to men are given in the pamphlet,
all of which ended in death. One oc-
Cured in Baltimore a few days ago,
the victim being Mr.. J. Burns, gro
Ger. His fnfier had been cut, and
through that wound the virus was alb
sorbed. Such facts show the dangerous
character of the disease, .and the need
of stringent laws rigidly enforced
Om Dumb Animals.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT,
VIM. ELDEN, Editor.
ACROSTIC.
With willing heart and fertile brain
Education's cause maintain.

With willing heart and fertile brain
Education's cause maintain.
Pressing onwarp, thou shalt see
As thy day thy strength shall be;
Rest not till thy task be done,
Kindly aid the work begun,
Ever strive with ardor great
Reason to eucidate
Courage, energy and zeal
Only can true worth reveal.
Uniting diligence with skill,
Ne'cr think thy mission done until
The blooming fields of mental soil
Yield golden harvest for thy toll
Stir up the virgin soil of youth,
Unwearied, scatter seeds of truth;
Perchance in fields where thou dost SOW,
Ere long will richest fruitage grow,
Repayng thee an hundred fold,
Investment better far than gold.
Nerve, then, thine arm with power and might.
To struggle bravely for the right.
Ever be thy purpose true,
Never fail to dare and do
Deeds will live when hearts are STILL
Encouraged, then, thy station fill;
Ne'er dismayed though oft cast down,
Thine be at last the victor's crown. :
E. B. B.. LITTLETON Iowa, March Is, IS.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

The youth of America early assume
the august duties of citizenship. Upon
their appreciation of the principles
which the struggles of ages have woven
into our beautiful national fabric, de-
pend its success or failure. A democ-
racy of ignorant people swayed by dem
agogues who appeal to their prejudlces
and passions, is the worst of human
governments. \ republic of calm,
thoughtful men, ever ready to speak. to
live, or, if need be, on the battlefield of
principle to die for that which makes a
government like ours to differ from an
abiect despotism; this is the idea OF a
perfect state-Bishop Hobart:
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

The teacher who spends his time look
ing for perfect book might better be
employed in making himself superior to
the books he has, and thus be able to
use them as they were intended, and
only ought to be used. We want big.
ger teachers and smaller books.-J j.
anderson. A. NJ
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

From the deck of an Austrian gun
boat we threw into the Lago Gardo a
succession of little pieces of bread, and
presently small fishes came in shoals,
till there seemed to be, as the old pro-
verb puts it, more fish than water.
They came to feed and needed no music,
Let the teacher give his scholars food.
and they will flock around him, even if
the sounding brass of rhetoric and the
tinkling cymbals of oratory, are silent.
REV. G.. II. SPURGEON
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

Professor: 8 Is the intensity of gray
lty greater at the poles, or at the equa-
tori"
Sopohmore: Yes, Sir"
Prof. Which,
Soph.: 1T is greater"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
ATTORNEYS.
!. f., COOK
FRANK ID. JACkSO
q. NJ. GILLETT,

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Law.
IA Special attention given to Collections. VI
flee over Chicago Clothing House.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
JAS. f. JEWEL,

A TTORNEY AT,L Jaw AND NOTARY PUB
"A lie. Office in OsgOOd's building, up stalis'
next to the river.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

All the above work at prices reduced to suit
the times. Come and see for yourselves.
Independence. Ia, May Is. II.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

The Cleveland Boy seems to be the
coming horse.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

The people of England are not allow
ed to raise tobacco; it is strictly prohib-
tied by law.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
Qhe Bnlleti't
RATES OF ADVERTISING:

Legal and Official Advertisements. One Dollar
per square for the first, and Fifty Cents per
Square for each subsequent insertion, up to
four insertions A square is equal to ten lines
of Brewer type, or eight lines of Nonpareil,
the type of this paper. .,oo
year. .
Marriage, Death and Religious Notices insert
ed without charge. Obituary Notices ten cents
per line.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
w. G. s. j. Il. DONNAN,

T AW. .CONVEYANCING, WAR CLAIM AND
IL Land Agency Office Office in First Nation
al Bank building, independence. Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

A TTORNEYS AT LAW, INDEPENDENCE,
"A Iowa. Office over Morses Store. Consul
tations in English and German.
u. W. BRUCKART. JOHN J. NEY.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
LAKE e. HARMON

A TTORNEY AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC
"A and Land Agent. Office over Taylor's
Hardware Store, Independence, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
RRCCKART & NEY,

A TTORNEYS AT LAW, INDEPENDENCE,
"A Iowa. Office in MunSOnS Block, Main st.
JED LAKE. NJ. W. HARMON.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

AwYER OFFICE IN MUNsON's BLOCK
IL with Lake & Harmon, Independence, Iowa.
Collections speciality. Will practice in all the
Courts of this State and Federal Courts Co!-
lectiOns and cOnveyanceS made. taxes pald,
houses and land rented or sold. All business
in city or country. and before Board of Super
yisors will receive prompt attention Also
agent for Equitable Life Insurance Company,
of Des MOines, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
MANUFACTURING.
Feed Mill.

PlOws Repaired, Horse ShOeing by an Expo
rienced Workman, General Job Work.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
Reduced Prices.

Feed Grinding done; Feed kept on hand foi
sale.
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