davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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HIS FACE DEADLY PALE.

eyeba;ls glaring, with the death-swesf stand.
ing In great cold beads upon his forehead,
while from a most unsiyhtly cash in the
neck, ext<ssiug almost from ear TO ear fiow-
ed the crimson lite tide in an uninterrupted
stream. Ciutchef In his nervous grasp WAS a
rszor. whose keen aud glittering edge the su :
lclde h..d h,it a morns NJ before
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two o'clock, the large apartment set aside for
that purpose, being on the east side of the
building, was completely tlied, the crowd
extending even back through the chapel,
which is connected with this room by folding
doors, and ia which temporary benches had
been placed for the accommodation Ofguests.
Extra chairs had also been brought in and
placed In the aiSles and wherever space
afforded. which
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TIE nEArrrrrL METROPOLIS

can be seen nesting within the Scmi-circle OF
hills which environ II. The attendance, yes
terdiy afternoon, was very large, comprising
visitors both from the city ana from all parts
ofthe STATE, many, in fact, being from abroad,
the pupils OF the school are from all parts
OF the country. At the time set Tor
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Singing in the Fam lily.

Cultivate singing in the family. Be-
gin when the child is not three years
old. The songs and hymns your mother
sang, bring them all back to your mem
ory, and teach them to your little ones !;
mix them all together, to meet the SIM
liar moods, as in after life they come
,overus so mysteriously sometimes
Mary time and in the very whirl of
business, in the sunshine and gayety- of
the streets and amid the splendor of the
drives in park, some little thing wakes
up the memories of early youth-the
old mill, the cool spring, the shady tree
by the little school house-and the next
instant we almost see again the ruddy
cheeks, the smiling faces and the merry
eyes Of schoolmstes, some gray-head-
ed now, most ''lie mouldering in the
grave And "the song your mother
sang" springs unbidden TO your lips,
and soothes and sweetens all these mem
cries s
At other times, amid the crushing
mishaps Of business, merry ditty OF
the olden time pops up its little head,
breaks in upon the ugly train of thought,
throws the mind into another channel
light breaks in from behind the cloud in
the sky, and new courage is given to US
The honest man goes singing to his
work, and when the days labor is done
his tools laid aside, and he is on his
way home where wife, and child and tidy
table and cheerful freside await him, ht
can not but whistle or sing.
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How to Manage the Boys.

Keep your boys and girls at home,
but don't expect to keep them there by
throwing to them the chaff and keeping
the grain yourselves. Don't ask or ex-
pect improbable things of them. Don't
expect them to love q home which has
nothing in it to make it lovely, but where
it is constant servitude from morning
till night Don't expect them to love
your old hillsides when you have never
given them anything there but hard,
duh work. Don't expect your daugh-
ters will love the old homestead when
they have got to leave it to learn the
first lesson in culture or innocent pleas-
ure. Make your home cheerful and you
will make it happy one. Instead of
making the boy hoe all day on the hill
side for you, let him hoe half day
there, occasionally for himself Plow
up an acre for the boy and let him have
what he raises, and you will soon find
that what little leisure time he has will
be spent there instead Of running to the
village. Don't make him put up all his
proceeds in the bank, for be will soon
tire of working for money which does
him no good. Let him take certain
portion of 1t and buy something to read
! or to make his room or home pleasant.
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How to Choose O Horse.

An English paper tells us that the pur-
chasers Of horses for the French army
always endeaver to obtain first look
at the animal when he is in the stable;
noting if the animal supports himself
equally well on all its legs, and il one
seems to yield, especially examining 1t.
Attention is then directed to the large
ness of the pupil Of the eye, which
ought to be more dilated when in the
stable than when exposed to light. AT
ter the animal has been led out of the
stable, the eye ought to be again exam
ined, to see if the pupil has been con-
tracted; if not, the sight is feeble.-
Others, to test the power of vision feign
to strike the forehead with the hand
If the hollow over the eye be profound
and the temple gray, old age is to be
concluded Wounds about the temple
suggest attacks Of staggers, and when
the end of the nose presents circular
scars, it may be concluded the horse has
been twitched with cord to insure his
quietness while being shod, or having
had to submit to some painful opera
tiOn
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A Prudent Person.
London Truth.)

A friend of mine went few days
back to have tooth stopped. The den
tist advised him that he had better have
the tooth taken out,and assured him that
he would feel no pain if he took laugh
ing-gas.
ssBut what is the effect of the gas ?"
asked my friend.
ssIt simply makes you totally insensi,
ble," remarked the dentist; syou don't
know anything that takes place"
My friend submitted; but just preyi-
GUS to the gas being administered he put
his handin his pocket and pulled out his
money. oet
"Oh, don't trouble about that now,"
said the dentist, thinking he was going
to be paid his fee. M
mot at all remarked the patient; q
was simply going to see how much mon.
ey had before the gas took effect"
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Won't Have 1t.

Mrs Beaver, on Maryland street, has
been showing great depression of spir
It's during several weeks back. Yester-
day, appearing to be especially sad, her
husband affectionately pleaded: 6,t
"Whatever is the matter with you, Sa-
rah Janef' 9asa sa'
"Oh, William!' was the sobbing re-
sponse,l II feel that am going to have
quickened conscience y % aei;si
t"Pooh! Is that all a'E ae .e3aiiaait
"No, William, you know a quickened
conscience will cause me to make con
fession." e EJei oilE
"No you don't!" roared Mr.. Beaver.
81 won't have it, tell you'll Go into
the quickened conscience business as
much as you like, but if you come the
confession touch. / will get divorce
from you before you can wink an eye
lash y s4a ee - I.
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County Correspondence.
Written for The Spirit of Democracy
From Washington Township.

GRANVILLE, ONO, May IL, 1878.
ED. SPIRIT: Having recently returned
to Graysville we find that many changes
have taken -place. Our most worthy
friend H. B. Faber, lately of the firm Of
Wilcox & Faber, has taken up his bed
and walked. Daring his short stay with
us he made many warm friends, who are
sorry that such a jolly fellow is in our
midst no longer. AIR. Groux of Mil
tonsburg certainly did we'll in securing
his services as clerk, for be is a young
man worthy OF confidence and whose
business qualifications are surpassed BY
zone.
We understand that Watson Brothers
intend starting store at Bloomfield
They are men of means and ability and
every way worthy the confidence of their
patrons, and will no doubt gladden. the
hearts of the Bloomieldites by sellin g
them goods cheap.
Willie F. Beardmore, Mrs. Simon
Fisher, David Allen, Jr., and bride, star
ted few days since for Colorado. Thos.
Slack and James Hall also started for
the West May success attend them.
The Rev. Thompson, of Antioch,
Monroe County, Ohio, has purchased
the Kendell property and will move in a
few days.
Dr.. Parry, a graduate of the Cincin-
natl Medical College, has located here.
He seems to understand his business and
is meeting with fair success. He's a
good marble player, for says he. sits
all done by simple twist of the wrist
and the way you hold your mouth.
More anon. ,4 JOHN.
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The Indians Revenge.

The cool way in which an Indian
takes good or i'll suggests that he is half
made up Of pride and half of sensibili..
ty. Even when he has white blood in
his veins, he is controlled by his Indian
nature; fact whichis illustrated by the
following story of Metis, or half breed,
in the service of the Hudson Bay Com
pany, who had detected q thieving In
dian and brought him to justice. g,.s@.
The Sioux warrior. was found guilty
Of stealing horse, and condemned to
pay the animal's value by installments
at one of the Company's forts. On pay.
ing the last installment, he received his
quittance from the man who had brought
him to justice, and left the Office, s.
A few moments later the Sioux re.
turned, advanced on his noiseless moe
casins within pace of the writing-table,
and leveled his musket full at the half
breeds head Just as the trigger was
pulled the Metis raised the hand with
which he was writing and touched light
ly the muzzle of the gun; the shot pass
ed over his head, but his hair was sing.
ed of in a broad mass. The smoke
clearing away, the Indian was amazed
to see that his enemy still lived.
The other looked him full in the eyes
for an instant, and quietly resumed his
writing. The Indian silently departed
unpursued, those who would have given
chase being stopped by the half
who said: eh, i.ss i 4nfsa (
"Go back to your dinner, and leave
the affair to me" @.'''-
When evening came, few whites, GU
rious to see how the matter would end,
accompanied the Metis to the Sioux en-
campment. AT certain distance be
bade them wait, and advanced alone to-
the Indian tents. Before one of these
sat crouched the baffied savage, singing
his own death-hymn to the tom tom.
He complained that he must say good,
bye to wife aud child, to the sunlight,
| to his gun and the case. He told his
friends in the spirit-land to expect him
that night, when he would bring them
anth news OF their tribe. He swung
his body backwards and forwards as he
chanted his strange song, but never
once looked up-not even when this foe
spurned him with his foot. II
! Then the half-breed bent his head and
spat down on the croaching Sioux, and
turned leisurely away1-a crueler revenge
than if flhe had shot him dead. .s39kl as!
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Eg Uncle Jabe Cordwinder was peg
ging away upon a pair of half soles the
other evening, and arguing with old
Tite Broadacres as to the necessity OF
dogs in the economy of nature.
"What account" says Tite, is that old
dog OF yourn, for instance, layiu' there
an watchin' you day in an day out?--
Can he tree boot?' a
Uncle Jabe raised his near eye over
the rim of his spectacles, took spoon
full or so of pegs out of his mouth and
mildly answered: od
"Yes, Titus, / knowed him to tree a
pair O. boots one night Twas in the
old willer tree by my hen house, and
your Sammy's feet wuz inside of 'em"a
And then Titus "allowed that if En-
gland and them Others fellers should gil
to fightin' it would make better times iol
! this country."-,Saturday Wight. .,a'
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swat Till the F1o0d-Gates Are
- :, = Lffted.' s--.--.&@

: Fz - S>%~-' -
Jeremiah Black, the great ;urist, made
the following prophetic remarks while
arguing the Democratic side before the
famous SKI Electoral Commission:
Never had you better right to re-
joice. Well may you say, "We have
made covenant with death, and with
hell we are at agreement; when the over.
flowing scourge shall pass through. it
shall not come unto us, for we have made
lies our refuge, and under falsehood we
have hid ourselves" But nevertheless
wait a little while The waters of truth
will,rise gradually, and slowly but sure
", and then look out for the overfowing
scourge. The refuge Of, lies shall be
uncovered" This mighty and puissant
nation will yet raise herself up like a
strong man after sleep, and shake her in
vincible locks in fashion you little
think of now. Wait; retribution will
come in due time. Justice travels with
leaden heel, but strikes with an iron
hand. Gods mill grinds slow but dread
| fully fine. Wait till the foodgates are
| lifted and full head of wster comes
rushing on. Wait and you will see fine
grinding then.
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Sensible Sentences,
Josh Billings.)

kJOnn IiiAAnSoI
Pills may sometimes fail to act on the
liver, but saving wood never will.
Make yourself necessary, young man,
and your success is certain.
Anger always hurts US more than the
one we get mad at.
About as low down as a man can gel
and not spoil is to live on his wife's rep
utation.
I don't bet On precocious children
the huckleberry that ripens the quickest
is the quickest to decay
Everybody seems to think himself a
moral half bushel to measure the worlds
frailties. f
When you strike oil, stop boring
many man has bored clean through
and let the oil out at the bottom
Next in point of meanness to doing ar
injury is to DO man favor and every
now and then remind him OF it.
The man who is honest from policy
needs as much watching as hive o
bees ready to swarm.
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Tobacco for Hen Lice,

IN Barker's circular of the Hoosier
Poultry Yards, gives the following RENE
dies against lice: A good way to keep
hens free from lice while setting, is to
put two or three tobacco leaves in their
nests, the fumes of which will speedily
drive out the vermin if they are infest.
ed with them. This is the best and only
use I have for the weed. Another good
plan is to sprinkle sulphur literally
through their feathers.
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A Philosophical Pasha.
iHarper's Magazine for June,)

iHarpers Magazine for June)
Some of the French jokes connected
with the Russo Turkish war are not
bad-these for example:
A Russian General rides forward to
the Grand Duke. 81 bavt the honor,
your Imperial Highness, to announce a
great victory"
every well. Go and congratulate
your troops"
"There are none left"
Another:
A Turkish Pasha is surveying the field
with his glass. An aid-de-camp rides
up: ~
Gall our artillery has been captured" :"
The Pasha strokes his beard philo,
sophically, and says, fortunately it was
not all paid for"
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Determined Not to Be OutdOne.
burlington Hawkeye)

They have captured singing mouse
in Cincinnati that "twitters like wood
bird, mimics canary, and whines like a
dog" That is pretty good for Cincin-
natl mouse, hut out here on West Hill,
last Wednesday, young son of Mr.. j.
C. Volkers, the stone-mason, captured q
large gray Norway rat that sang the aria,
sin native WORTH from the "Creation," !"
with fne effect, and then rendered the
old bass solo, "AIy fathers half -bushel,'
and gave for an encore "The friar of or.
ders gray" The rat speaks French with
great fluency, and plays the either, piano
and mouth organ like one of the old
masters.
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Wood and M erfissey--An A Il-Nirht
Came aud the Worst lyhadlng
! JOHN Ever Got. - : -. - %

JOAN EyerG0t. s9 -
Z Says the, New York corresnondenf ~
the Buffalo Courier .syBep 4vooau a.
every' body has a = ayss ca1iod g bjn, las
never <b6en 0fber fhsn "a thoroco5.Is,
good fellox, and 81 course IL hsd SIs.s
gions Of friends / 1iIzfsct nrettv mnch
every one within The scono of ii. a.
qusiftance IS his friend. in one sense or
and he. has no onau;oa- vor.h.
speakirit Of .eIt ID well knoownn tb.t b.tNS
once kent up intimate relations Mir. ths
sstiger," and had a stronos nencbant for
sbuchingp thai, animal in his lair. and
since his failure set. old gossip going
again. some OF his .uuondam ehums
have been rehearsing the lannon's bout,
he once had with j ohm Morrissey, in the q
iatter's Clubhouse in Twenty.fourth
street. The story has been told several
times, but may bear mention again.
Ben was in the habit of dropping into
Morrissey's place occasionally for a lit
lie recreation, and one night about ten
years ago he sauntered in as usual. and
fel. afoul IF the bank. Morrissey was
there and manv men about town. all Of
whom knew Woods pluck and hang. en-
activeness. and the party settled down
for some lively work. Wood had about
1S3, 600 in his pocket, and as the betting
was heavy he managed to get to the
bottom in about an hour. In fact he
was cleaned out. But his blood was up
that night, and as his reputation for
[pluck among the hoys was at stake be
decided that once for.all it should make
or break. His ready cash was gone. but
he owned valuable property on Tryon,.
Row, where the Staats.Zeitung building
now stands, and he proposed 10 hypoth-
teca.e the, property to Morrissey against
whatsoever sum. up to its valne. he
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4 COMPLICATED CASE,

Gentlemen Ny case 4 briefly follows: Ihaye had
Catarrh for ten years. each year with increasing Sc
one 1ostril had droppngs IN the throat very bad
cough asthma bad as to be obliged to take remedy
and q constant dull pain in my head. Ny head was
at times full Of catarrhal matter as to injure my
in the night to clear 1t and my thIoat before could
Sleep Every Of these symptoms has dis
sANFoRDs RAproALCURK My hearing fully restored.
Ihave no asthnatic symptoms, cough. no droppings
thanI have been for years. could feel the effects of
the CURE my appetite my Kidneys, and, in fact,
every part Of my system what hos been done in my
case Is wholly the effect Of the RADICAL CuRx.
Very respectfully, c. B. LAWRENCE.
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Hogs in Orchards.

All who can do so should arrange so
as to keep hogs in their apple orchards
to eat up all the wormv fruit as it drops
during the season. In this way easier
than bv any other can the ravages Of the
worms be checked. Where hogs are moi
sufficient for the purpose small flock Of
sheep should be used. 50 q
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bau-both present--oneinh his statue, the
other in bis citadel. ...-,-,,s sf
The statue and the citadel assisted at
the horrible capitulation. The two vir-
ginssone ofbronze, the other of granite,
felt themselves prostituted. D, august
brow of our country! o, eternal blush of
shame
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Treat the Cows Gently.

Be gentle with the cows Every ex-
element that cases the blood to flow fas-
ter in the veins of the cow-every infiic-
ton of pain-and every cause of fear,
fans in that COW the fire which is fed with
butter, F& nsl.}
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l1u1ehy
WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.

-
For pleasure.or pain, for veal or for woe
lis the, law of our being--we reap what we
We, may try to avoid them-may do what we
will; 1
But our acts, like our shadows, will follow us
'Nos still. f7f
The world is wonderful chemist, be sure,
And detects in moment the base or the pure.
We may boast of our claims to genius or birth,
But the world takes a man for just what he's
worth. I'D.
We start in the race for fortune or fame, 4
And then, when we fall. the world bears the
blame
But nine times in ten, it's plain to be seen,
There's ''screw somewhere loose" in the hui
man machine.
Are you wearied and worn in this hard earthly
strife?
Do you yearn for affection to sweeten your
life?
Remember-this great truth has often been
proved:
We must make ourselves lovable, wonld we be
loved. = -s ts-
Though life may appear as desolate track,
Yet the bread that we cast on the water comes
back.
This law was enacted by Heaven above:
That like attracts like, and love begets love-
We make ourselves heroes and martyrs for
gold,
Till health becomes broken and youth becomes
old.
All! did we the same for beautiful love,
Our life might be music for angels abovel
We reap what we SOW. Oh! wonderful truth
A truth hard to learn in the days of cur youth;
But It shines out at last as "the hand on the
WALL"
For the world has It's "debit" and "credit" for
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re- Photographers are somewhat in.

Photographers are somewhat in
clined to "play it on' those fussy peo-
pie who never can be suited, and insist
on sitting FIVE or six times for picture,
by going through all the motions with
out any plate in the camera, and show
ing the victim one of the first proofs,
which very often works satisfactorily
A well known photographer of Newbu.
ryport tried it one day, with no very
great success. II think that's one of
my first pictures," said the lady. 81
guess not" replied the picture man; "I
could hardly have misplaced them."-
"Oh, but know 1t is," replied the pos
tive original; 'I've changed my necktie
since that one was taken" The artist
subsidized. - '.---.-------
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Ingeuous. but Faulty.

A we'll known, Sacramentan who had
been out with "the boys" until 3 O clock
in the morning, felt trife uneasy as to
what his wife would say on the subject,
and determined to adopt little piece
Of strategy. He entered the house eau
tiously, noiselessly removed his boots
and then made his way to their bed
room. He was not 30 obfuscated but
that he knew it would be dangerous to
attempt to get into bed, so, after disro.
bing, be took up position by the side
of the baby's cradle and began rocking
it like 49-er. His wife aroused by the
noise, discovered him, as it was part OF
his deep laid scheme that she should,
and called out: "Why, what on earth
are you doing there?" "DoingG" he
replied, keeping the kinks ont of bis
tongue by an almost su2erhuman effort
"Doing? Tn trying to get this-baby
asleep! She's been crying half an hour
and you've slept through it ALL" His
air OF righteous Indignation was well
put on, but it wouldn't do-luck was
against him. "What do you mean p
his better half sternly responded. 81
have got that baby in bed here with me
and she hasn't cried tonight! When
did you come home ?"
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G a, At, + Ar ! 4. r 4
is II eVRAblE2

FnH0sE who have suffered from the various and com.
pcated, forms Of disease assumed by Catarrh, and
cure await the answer to this question with consider
able anxiety. And well they mays for no disease that
destructive TO health Catarrh. Bronchitis Asthma
Coughs nd serious and frequently fat affections OF
but neglected Catarrh Other syIpathetic afectons,
OF SMELL may be referred to minor but nevertheless
serious results of neglected Catarrh, bad enough in
themselves, but nothing compared with the danger.
ous affections OF the throat and lungH likely to follow
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"Yes," said man as he bent his elbow
to raise the twentieth glass of beer, sit is
over work tha. kills +"
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IT CAN Be CURED,

TT can be cured. There is no doubt about IT, The I'M.
i mediate relief afforded by. sANfoRD's RADICAL
may follow persistent use Of this remedy The hard
ncrsted matter that has in the nasal passages
is removed with few appications tho liberation and
Inflammation subdued and healed the entire menbra-
nous Innings of the head are cleansed and purified Con-
stitutionaly its action Is that OF powerful purifying
agent, destroying in its course through the system
the acid poison, the destructive agent In catarrhal
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Indorsed By . Prominent Druggist.

hereby certify that Mr.. Lawrence purchased the
RADICAL CURK OF me, and from time to time made me
familiar with his case Ibeeye his to be true
in every particular. JAS. ?. DERBY.
FITcHBURe, Oct. H.