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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-11

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-11

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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Giants.

Pliny relates that in the time Of
Claudius Caesar, there was man
named Gobburns, brought by the EN-
peror from Arabia to Rome, who was
nine feet four inches high, the tallest
man that has been seen in our times"
In the reign of Augustus Caesar, the
tall forms Of Rasis and Secundilla might
have been seen, whose bodies were pre-
served in a museum, in the Sallustian
Gardens, and each of whom measured
ten feet and three inches in height.
The Emperor Maximus was nine feet
high, and was in the habit of using his
wife's bracelet as thumb-ring. His
shoe was foot longer than that Of any
other man, and he could draw carriage
which two oxen could not move. He
ate usually forty pounds weight of
flesh, and drank six gallons of wine
daily.
Josephus tells of Elezer, a Jew, a
giant over ten feet high, who was one of
the hostages whom the king of Persia
sent to Rome after peace.
Plot, in his 'Oxfordshire," 1876, says
that skeleton seventeen feet high was
then to be seen in the town hall in Lu-
cern. It had been found under an oak,
in Willison, near the village of Rey-
den.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Would VOuch for Him.

A hilarious sort of a man who does
business on Griswold street entered the
Office of an acquaintance the other day,
and asked for the loan of $25. The
gentleman hated to refuse, but yet for
ced himself to say:
Il have the money, but if 1 let you
have it my family will want for food be-
fore Saturday night.
Shoe! l guess not! You let me have
the money, and if you get out of provis-
ions, will take you to grocery store
where they'll trust you for thirty days
on my vouching, though it is thing l
seldom do for anybody. owing to the
risk"
But-but--" stammered the other
man.
"And I've got barrel Of carrots in
my barn" continued the other, and if
the worst comes to the worst, I'll be
hanged if l don't give you the pile! I'll
not see man starve after he's done me
favor!''
1t was like pulling teeth; but he got
the money.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
COVER THEM OVER WITH BEAUTIFUL
FLOWERS.

Cover them over with beautiful flowers,
Deck them with garlands, these brothers of
Lying so silent by night and by day,
Sleeping the ears of their manhood away;
Give them the need they have won in the
Give them the honors their future forecast,
Give them the chaplets they won in the strife.
Give them the laurels they lost with their life.
CHORUS.
Cover them over. yes cover them over,
Parent and husband, brother and lover,
Crown in your hearts these dead heroes of
ours,
/ Cover them over with beautiful flowers
Cover the hearts that have beaten so high,
Beaten with hopes that were doomed but to
die,
Hearts that have burned in the heat of the
fray,
Hearts that have yearned for fame far away.
once they were glowing with friendship and
love,
Now their great souls have gone soaring above,
Bravely their blood to the nation they gave,
Then in her bosom, they found them a grave.
Cover the thousands who sleep far away,
Sleep where their friends cannot find them
They who on mountain. and hillside, and dell,
Rest where they wearied, and lie where they
fell
Softly the grass-blades creep round their re-
Swcetly above them the wild fioweret blows;
Zephyrs of freedom fly gently DER head,
Whispering prayers for the patriot dead.
When the long years have rolled sowly away,
Fen to the dawn of earth's funeral day,
When at the Angels loud trumpet and tread
Rise up the faces and forms of the dead;
When the great world its last judgment awaits,
When the blue sky shall fling open It's gates,
And our long columns march silently through,
Past the great Captain for final review,
Chorus to last stdnzd.
Blessings for garlands shall cover them over,
Parent and husband, brother and lover
God will reward those dead heroes of ours,
Cover them over with beautiful flowers
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
School Report.

The following is the report of the
school taught in district No. 2, Liberty
township, for the month ending May
IA, 1878:
No. days taught, 20; No. pupils en-
rolled, =; average No. belonging, 24.3;
average daily attendance, 22.8.
Names of pupils neither absent nor
tardy: Nora Anders, Aletta Anders,
Jacob Anders, Beatta Campbell, Hattie
Murphy, Mary Murphy, Maggie Wagner,
Gertie Copeland, George Leslie, John
Watson, Uina Watson.
Names of pupils Of A class, who were
100 per cent. in spelling, arithmetic and
grammar: Nora Anders, Beatta Camp.
bell. Adella Moore. Alice Cecil.
Names of pupils of A class who were
90 per cent. in spelling, arithmetic and
grammar: Hattie Murphy, Lila Cope
land and Elsie Copeland.
Names of pupils Of B class who were
100 per cent. in spelling: George Cecil
Dewitt Copeland, George Leslie, Jacob
Anders, Aletta Anders, Mary Murphy
Maggie Wagner.
MARY E. s. VINCENT, Teacher.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
A Story Of the Sea.

We were making voyage from the
West Indies to New York, says great
traveller, when the ship-fever broke out
among the crew. One of the sailors
among the first victims-was accom-,
panied by his son, lad of fourteen
years, who was strongly attached to his
father, and remained with him all day
and night, and never could be persuaded
to leave his sick father for single mo-
ment.
A large shark was seen every day fol-
lowing the vessel, evidently for the pur-
pose of devouring any one who should
die and be committed to the deep
After lingering few days the sailor
died. As was the custom at sea, he
was sewed up in blanket, and for the
purpose Of sinking him an old grindstone
and carpenters ak were put in with
him. The very impressive service of
the Episcopal Church was then read,
and the body committed to the deep.
The poor boy, who watched the pro-
ceedings closely, plunged in after his
father, when an enormous shark swal-
lowed them both. The second day af-
ter this dreadful scene, as the shark
continued to follow the vessel-for there
were two others sick in the ship one OF
the sailors proposed, as they had shark
hook on board, to make an effort to take
him.
They fastened the hook to large
rope, and, batting it with a peice Of
pork, threw it into the sea, and the
shark instantly swallowed it. Having
fbuc hoota al hin, h,, ,ooono of q ,r;pd
lass they hoisted him on board. After
he was dead they prepared to open him,
when one of the sailors, stopping down
for that purpose, suddenly paused, and,
after listening a few moments, declared
most solemnly he heard low, cultural
sound, which appeared to proceed from
the shark The sailors, after enjoying
a hearty laugh at his expense, proceed
ed to listen for themselves, when they
were compelled to admit they heard
similar sound. They then proceeded to
open the shark, when the mystery was
explained.
1t appears the sailor was not dead,
but in trance; and his son, on making
this discovery when inside the shark,
had, by means of his knife, ripped open
the blanket. Having thus liberated his
father, they both went to work and
righted up the old grindstone. The boy
was turning, the father was holding on
the old ship carpenters ak, sharpening
it for the purpose of cutting their way
out of their Jonah-like prison, which
occasioned the noise heard by the sailor.
AS it was the hottest season of the year,
and very little air stirring where they
were at word, they were both sweating
tremendously.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Hats Off-Ladies, Take Notice.

Cincinnati has shown considerable
good sense in requiring that ladies shall
remove their hats and bonnets during
the performance of triennial Musical
Festival. Should the practical fashion
thus set by compulsion survive the oc-
casion which initiates it, mankind, as
we'll as woman kind, will thank Cincin-
att and remember her triennial music
with gratitude For of all the devices
which the French demi-monde has con-
trived to make the feminine form odi-
ously conspicuous robbing a woman's
head of its shapeliness while arti6cially
elevating her stature to fantastic
height by the aid of pyramids of rib
bons and mountains of feathers and
hills of flowers, with birds and buckles
and bVouterie to produce a Pelion of
effect upon an Ossa of material-the
bonnet Of the period is the most de-
testable, ungraceful, unbecoming, and
altogether intolerable There is no good
reason why women should carry such
bizarre compositions at any time, or un-
der any circumstances; and there is eve
ry reason why they should not wear
them at lectures or concerts when they
obtrude the view and distract the atten-
ton of the more civilized and refined
portion of an audience. The rule ought
to become general throughout enlighten-
ed communities that no person shall
have the privilege of attiring himself or
herself in a manner calculated to inter-
fere with the enjoyment and comfort of
others.
There is hygienic consideration in
volved. By an arbitrary convention,
women are compelled to wear in audi
ence-rooms the same exterior cloaks or
wraps in which they ride or walk from
their homes to places of public enter
tainment. All winter long, during lec-
lures and concerts, ladies sit in heated
halls, imprisoned within fur and velvet
and heavy cloth; the atmosphere be-
comes so oppressive that they grow sick
before the programme is exhausted, and
then at its close, rush en- masse into the
chilling open air. The doctors are the
only persons who acquire any benefit
from the experiment Common sense
dictates that women, as we'll as men,
shall remove in places Of assembly those
portions Of their apparel which they
are not accustomed to wear inside their
homes, when dressed for COMPANY
Fashion, however, never was character
lied by sound sense, and revolution of
the kind must be inaugurated by some
emphatic and imposing event like the
Cincinnati festival, or must be the re-
suit of very slow sociological evolution.
Chicago Times.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

like grim sentinels outside the parlor
door in the dazzle of the light that filled
the hall. He knew they were officers
of the law He grew deadly pale, and a
convulsive tremor shook him from head
to foot. He gasped, reeled, and as if
struck by heavy blow, dropped down
among the sheltering lilies
All the sleepless anxiety, the cease
less agony, the ruthless remorse and
dread that had racked him for weeks,
had eliminated in the mortal shock he
had just presaged.
Instantly his repudiated wife was on
her knees beside him holding the poor
head to her breast.
20, Stephen, speak to mel" she i'm
plored.
g It is all over, Helen" he said faint
ly. THE time that you predicted has
come, and I acknowledge you my first
and last and best beloved. True heart!
dear saint! in your arms | die content. J"
Stephen Darrell never spoke again;
for him the tragedy of life was done.
The guests were gone, and Clelia sat
alone among the withered flowers in the
splendid parlor, disdaining all sympa-
thy:
'Your husband is dead, she was
told.
Sullen and naughty still, she made no
sign that she heard. They thought that
sudden grief had stunned her.
Mr.. Darrell was kind husband2'
said the maid who attended her that
night:
He disgraced me" was the heartless
answer.
She was susceptible of keen sense
of disgrace, she could bewail the loss of
wealth, she could wiring her hands and
weep the derelection of the fashionable
friends who forgot to send condolences,
but not one tear did she give to the
memory of the man whom she. had lured
to his doom.
1t was Helen who saw the last sod
laid upon the dead mans grave, and
who laid thereon floral tablet of anna
ranth and asphodel, lettercd with snow
white huds "Mv hest beloved :"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

A BAD PoLICY.-To retain pupil
after school hours as practice, hoping
to create a new interest in the pupil by
asking him to confne his attention fol
a longer time to the incomplete study
is an unwise measure. And if he is
kept as punishment, the teacher is
more punished than the pupil; for the
two are looking at each other with no
kind feeling. Each is tired, nervous,
and exhausted Besides there is physi-
cal incapacity in the case, ofttimes-
So long time the mind can be confined
and no longer, to one subject, or to sim
liar subjects. IF the teacher could
meet his to-be- punished pupils after
the lapse of an hour, and that hour to
be spent by each in the open air, some
some good might result.-N Y. School
JOu1mal.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
NO. $50.

Coop PAY FOR Coop TEAcHERs.-It
is self-evident that no school can be
successful without good teacher; and
the only way to obtain a good teacher
is to offer a reasonable compensation for
his services. We will see the reason
ableness of this assertion when we con-
slider that person who is qualified for
teaching school is also qualified for al
most any kind of business; and the same
qualities of mind and character which
make him successful teacher, will Sc.
cure him success in almost any occupa-
tion in life.-Bradford Reporter
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
AiFable.

AS Circulating Medium was in the
act OF Levitation at a dark Seance,
while he was describing the Black Spir-
its and White by whom he was sustain
ed in the air, an Inquiring Skeptic shed
light on his Movements by turning on a
Lantern he had consealed about his per-
son. The Circulating Medium came
down from his ladder, and said that he
would be Party to no such Trance-Ac-
ton. And the believers arose and cast
forth the Inquiring Skeptic, who there
after sought with his lantern for an
Honest Man in other Circles.
Moral-Light, more Light. iSsys5xey.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Death at the Card Table.
Omaha Bee,


One day last week, four citizens of
Grand Island were playing game of
poker-5 cent "ante'-in we'll known
saloon of that place. A dispute arose
as to the game, when one of the parties
made use of an expression about as fol-
lows: hope Christ will kill me if it
isn't So He had dealt the cards and
the betting on the hands was over, when
he passed the pack to the next man on
his left to deal. The dealer shuffled the
cards and handed them back to the man
to cut them, at the same time giving
him slight slap to attract his atten-
tion. The man did not move. He was
found to be stone dead.
Is it easier to prevent or destroy
q
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

Man S rough usage in the world needs
the value of a holy life at home. If we
would have our sons as plants grown
up in their you'll" we must have ''our
daughters as corner stones polished af-
ter the similitude of a palace. j. l..
PIcEuyT.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

Phidias worked on marble, and the
light of his creation still beams from
afar. Raphael worked on canvas, and
gave to the world beauty which has
thrilled hearts through all these ages
What shall we fashion who work upon
the breath of God?"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

Miss CARRIE Ross, assistant teacher
in our high school, expects to attend
the American Institute of Instruction
this summer Her home in Vermont is
not far from the place of meeting.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

That only is real, is sterling knowl-
edge, which goes to make us better and
happier men, and which fits us to assist
the virtue and happiness of others. All
learning is useful, all the sciences are
curious. all the arts are beautiful; but
more useful, more curious and more
beautiful, is the perfect knowledge and
perfect government of ourselves"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

The American Institute of Instruc-
tion," will hold it's forty-ninth annual
session at Fabyan's, White Mountains,
commencing Monday evening, July 8,
and closing with a social reunion Friday
evening, July II.
Among the subjects for discussion,
we note the following: Reform in the
Teaching of the Ancient and Modern
Languages" by L. Lauveur, L. L. D.,
of New York; School Supervision, "
by Hon. J. W. Dickinson, Secretary of
State Board of Education, of Mass.
Examination of Teachers and Schools"
Visible Speech" Gllustrated); 'Politi.
cal Education in the Schools" "Pro-
fessional Schools for Teachers;;' ''The
Telephone and Phonograph" Gllus-
trated.
A large number of the most distin-
guished educators of the country will
be in attendance, and the managers ex-
tend an invitation to all teachers and
friends of education, and ''especially
to those who care for none of these
things"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

SUPT. PARKER is doing an excellent
work in the county; during the day he
visits the schools and counsels the
teachers, and in the evening he calls to-
gether the patrons and discusses with
them the Importance of educational
work and their relation to that work.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

Prof. Henry X. Edison, appointed
commissioner to the Paris Exposition,
has been principal of Denmark Acade-
my, Lee county, for 26 years He is
the oldest teacher in the State
The East Des Moines Grammar
School building, finished last winter, is
one of the best in the State.
The expenses of the Clinton schools
last year were 81 ,2S6.75.
Boone is going to build $4,000
school-house.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

WHAT Is WANTED.-Rote methods
should be avoided, and pains taken to
give clear and correct instruction, with
careful explanations of words and prin-
ciples, so that pupils may knom and
understand what they study. In the
use of textbooks it is facts and princi-
pies which are wanted not the exact
phraseology in which they are stated
A clear and correct statement that is
understood by the pupil, though it may
verbally vary from the language of the
book, is sufficient; and oftentimes it is
better for the pupil to express the
thought in his own language; al
,cays better than to repeat parrot-like
language whose meaning is not compre-
hended. d.-S School Committee, Bristol. r..
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

knowledge is an instrument. and the
teacher must learn how to use that in
strument, and how to transfer the use
of it to the possession of others. The
acquisition of the matter of knowledge
sinks out of sight, and the manner of
imparting it rises into prominent view.
We emphasize the Importance of this
department, this didactic philosophy and
didactic art. 1t is this which gives form,
strength and perfection to Normal
Schools. Without it they would be de-
lusions-W The Students Offering.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
DECORATION DAV.
VIM. ELDEN, Editor.
BY AMELIA DALEY ALDEN

BY AMELIA DALEY ALDEN.
On this fair morn, when over all the land
Come softly gracious ones with eyelids wet,
And on the soldiers grave, with reverent hand
Lay lily and violet,
Who brings to thee where DER thy fallen head
The Implying seasons needless come and go.
A wreath to deck thy lone and nameless bed,
Where Southern forests grow?
When ode and psalm and tuneful eloquence
Rehearse the deeds that kept the natiOn free,
And tears rain fast in love and reverence,
Who drops tear for thee?
Perchance, where thou dost rest, the orioles
psalm
FLOATS light above thee, and the sweet-brier lays
Her perfumed cheek on thine. When nights
are calm,
And all the stars ablaze,
Perchance the dew distils her patient tears
Upon thy breast; or, from the O'erhanging
tree,
A dreaming bird. disturbed by midnight fears,
Shakes down soft drops on thee.
may not know. Afar thou liest, and lone,
Nor love nor grief thy burial place may see;
But the wide earth, my lost, yet still my own,
Holds but thy grave foc me!
Atlantic MOflthlU.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Qllt Bnlltti'l,

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
Business Cards Of six lines or less, $500
year.
Marriage, Death and Religious Notices insert
ed without charge. Obituary Notices ten cents
nor line
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

Is it easier to prevent or destroy
weeds upon the farm2
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ATTORNEYS.
FRANK JENNINGS.
A TTORNEY AT LAW. OFFICE Owe
n OBriens Store, Independence, Iowa.
j. f. COOE
H. w. HOLMAN,

A TTORNEY AT LAW, INDEPENDENCE,
IA Iowa. ice over A. H. Franks Restau-
rant, Main St. \
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SUCCESSOR TO j. S. WOODWARD),
A TTORNEY AT LAW AND COLLECTION
n Agent Office over Tabor Sons Drug
Store, Independence, Iowa.
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O, Nj. GILLETI

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
n Special attention given to Collections. Of
flee over Chicago Clothing House.