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MISS MUSLIN WORKS HER FATHER
SOME SHIPPERS.

SOME SLIPPERS.
w iSlt said little Miss Muslin one day to her.
As she glanced at the calendar up on the shelf.
Just three weeks more of April and then twill
be May;
And the third of that month is my fathers birth
day.
l must make him present this year. Let me see:
| can think for the life of me what it will be-
Unless-yes, that will be Just the thing, de-
clare!
He needs some new slippers: I'll work him a
pair.
But first thought Miss Muslin of Quintillion
Square,
I" must find out what size he's accustomed to
wear
So that night, she sat at his feet" Why, papa,
She cunningly cried, " OH what big feet yours
are.
Why what can be the number of such large
Well he laughingly said, as he held up his
foot,
1t must be a ten at the least calculation.
1t is big enough. surely, for Og, King of Ba-
So, rejoicing exceedingly at the smart way
She had found out the number, the very next
Right away after breakfast, she hurried down
street
And purchased the canvas and worsteds COM
Then, returning, she shut herself up all alone
And marked out the pattern Ia ready-made one
Would, she Thought, be too smalD, and then
worked night and day
So they might be all finished and soled before
May.
When. at length they were worked-with heart
brimful of glee,
She went to the shoemaker's shop. and said she,
L would like these made up for my father.
And, please, he
Wears tens but want to be sure they'll be edSy
So III have these made tlCetUeS." At which, quite
Mortified,
why. ten is my largest-size last ," he replied,
I'm afraid L shall have to that, miss. y
We'll, then,
l suppose L must have them made up number
Said little Miss Muslin of Quintillion Square,
But be sure you leave lots Of room in EN- to
sparer'
And at at last they were done! They came home
On the second; and great was Miss Muslin's de-
light
When she opened them. Well" said she, 81
If these are not big enough, miss my guess"
And indeed she was right. They were simply
enormous.
| am sure the historians nowhere inform us
OF anything like them, unless twas the shoe
Where the Old Woman dwelt and her family too
The next morning (her fathers birthday, after
prayers,
Miss Muslin. as fast as she could, ran upstairs
And, presently coming down, laid on the stand
very large bundle she had in her hand.
Here's a present, papa, for your birthday
said she.
Why" he said as he opened it, " what can it be
1t is something of very great value no doubt.
Since It's so very large. But l will soon find
out"
Then, ,undoing the wrapping, Ohor' cried he
slippers!
Dear me! pom my word l must say these are
rippers.
Why, they re three sizes bigger than Fever wore
Do you think I've foot like old RLundsr6Ore"
But, said little Miss Muslin, with tears in heI
eyes.
" You told me you wore tens. so that was the size
That l ordered them soled." Well my dear,
laughed papa.
Then it seems / am sold even worse than thes
are"
John Broaonjohn, in Nay Wide AWake.
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MY BREAD on THE WATERS.
MISTER" the little fellow said,
PLeaSe gimme dime to buy some bread

MISTER" the little fellow said.
Please gimme dime to buy some bread"
l turned to look at the ragged form,
That, In the midst of the pitiless storm,
Punched, and haggard, and old with care,
In accents pleading, was standing there.
Twas little boy not twelve years old:
He shivered and shook in the bitter cold,
His eyes were red-with weeping, fear
And adown his cheek there rolled tear
L EN- then.
His misery struck me dumb;
Twas street in a crowded city slum
Where an errand of duty led my feet
That day, through the storm and binding sleet
" Poor little fellowr at last said
" Have you no father!"
mo, he's deadr'
The answer came. You've a mother them"
" Yes. sill" he said, with sob; she's been
Sick for year, and the doctor said
She never again get up from bed"
" You are hungry. tooi" l asked in pain,
As | looked at his poor, wan face again.
- Hungry he said, with bitter groan
That would melt to pity heart of stone;
:. La am starved; we all are starving" he said;
We haven't had a crust of bread
Me, nor mother, nor baby Kate
Since yesterday morning."
did not wait
10 ask him more. Come, come" | cried,
- You shall not hunger;" and at my side
his poor little pattering footsteps fell
On my ear with a sadness cannot tell.
But his eyes beamed bright when he saw me stop
Before the door of bakers shop,
And we entered.
Now eat away, my boy,
As much as you like" | said. With joy,
And soft expression of childish grace
He looked up into my friendly face,
And sobbed, as he strove to hide tear:
Oh! II mother and baby Kate were herer'
But eat, SAID l.; never mind them, now."
A th9ughtful look stole over his brow,
And To- from his face the JOY had fled
" What while they re starving at homer he said
: y no, sir! I'm hungry, indeed, It's true.
But cannot eat till they've had some too"
The tears came ,rushing-I can't tell why
10 my eyes as he spoke these words. Said I:
: God bless you! Here, You brave little man,
Here, carry home all the bread you can"
Then loaded him down with lOaves, until
He could carry no more. paid the bill;
And, before he could quite understand
just what was doing, into his hand
slipped bright, new dollar; then said:
Good-by," and away on my journey sped.
Twas four years ago. But one day last May.
As wandered by chance through East Broad
way,
A CHEEKY voice accosted me. Lo!
Twas the self-same lad of years ago,
Though larger grown-and his looks, in truth,
Bespoke sober, industrious youth.
Mister" he said, I'll never forget
The kindness you showed when last we met.
l work at a trade, and mother is we'll.
30 Is baby Kate, and want to tell
You thls-that we owe it all to you.
Twas you-don't blush sir-that helped us
through
Our luck has been better since that day
When you sent me home with bread to feed
Those starving ones in their hour of need
George L. Cdtiin, in ". Y. Ledger.
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No WEIGHT was used in hanging
by Texas mob, for the reason that a
man was suspended by moose at each
end of the rope
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HARD to beat-The spring carpet.
The pocket is poor savings bank.
The Osceola times., 1878-09-14
into den containing dozen OF the ug-
liost lions in the country"
And they went for him.

into den containing dozen OF the ug-
lest lions in the country"
And they went for him.
No--not bite. He was in there
with 'em all night, and they never even
looked cross-eyed at him."
Wasn't hungry, s'pose," observed
the lad
Boy, il was goodness that saved him
nothing but his goodness. II he'd
been around hookin' melyons, stealing
apples, running off dogs and sassin' the
general public, them lions would have
gobbled him like a buzz-saw going
through cake of taller. Pve begun
operations on you, and I'm going to see
If can't plant few good seeds in your
benightcd soul. | expect I'll have to
spank one day and plant the next, but
I'll keep you here for week If il wears
out all the shingles in Detroit. I'm now
going down to the farm. While I'm
gone want you to put in time ON this
directory"
Bijah locked Jim and copy of the
city directory in cell and went away.
When he returned after an hours alb
sence he entered the corridor on tiptoe
and heard the lad reading "J-o-n, John;
Sinh, Smith John Smith-and don't
you forget itf'
"a leetle slangy," whispered Bijah rs
a glad smile broke over his face, "but
he's coming to it. can remember back
when couldn't spell John with big
" to save my life. Shingles and per-
severance will save that boy, and ! know
itin
The Osceola times., 1878-09-14
soMKwnAr TExxvsennAnHsn.

"Up In the morning when the skies sre red,
smell soap on the stairway;
There's big tub Of suds by the side Of the bed,
And 1t sounds down stairs like fair day.
There's somebody rubbing In the upstairs hall,
And see q mop through the winder.
II smells AID sounds like n did last fall:
There's nobody here that can hinder
What 10 him was love or hopef
What to him was ioy or care
He stepped on plug Of Irish soap
The girl had left on the topmost stair,
And his feet few out Ike Wild. fierce things,
And he struck each stair with sound like drum
And the girl below with the scrubbing-thiugs
Laughed like f-nd 10 8, him come.
For what Is life when the heart Il dead,
And man IL thump ng afovu the stair,
Now on his back aud nov on his head,
To land on the legs Of an upturred chsir7
To clutch with fierce, unhelping grasp
At the slipping banisters hyine bv7
To drop, at the end with strnngling splash,
In washtub full Of suds and lyef
Better, thousand times and more,
That msn should leep his whole life through,
And siartle the day with mighty snore,
And scorn the sparkle Of NOR ing dew
Why .hould he rise from his deep-breathed sleep,
With his outstretched hands 10 feel and grope;
To founder and 1op and crawl and creep
Through the treac herous swirls Of the simy soep7
--Bus HHgt0a Hdukeys.
The Osceola times., 1878-09-14
A Young husbands Troubles With
iimburger.
Irairbault Miss. } Telegraph. /


A young gentleman of Fairhault--a
boy among the boys-whe occasionally
visited saloons and sampled lambs
tongue, pigs feet, tripe, and actually
educated himself TO like Limburger
cheese, after a while married, as such
men will. His wife is a cultivated and
sensitive little creature, AS lovable a.
she is sensitive. Well, Robert-that
was his name, Bob for short-shook the
boys after marriage, as he ought, and
stopped around home, for two or three
weeks, every evening; but there were
times when he had an awful hankering
for his old relishes, such as hereinbefore,
especially the cheese, and one evening
being down on an errand, he thought
he would take Limburger home and
have an old-fashioned lunch before re-
tirng. He got the cheese and started
for home, bat as he neared the house it
struck him that il was the rankest
cheese, even for Limburger, in all his
experience. People held their noses as
they met him, and every dog in the
front yard went around behind the
house as he went by. Before he reached
home his courage gave out, and he
slipped his bundle into hole in the
gate-post, thinking he would go in and
interview his wife-sort of prepare her
for the meeting, as it were. But he was
scarcely in the house before his wife
gave warning sniff, and looking at him
sharp inquired il he was sure he hadn't
stepped in something. Bob mistrusted
what was the matter, but innocently
looked at one foot and then at the
other, and said, No, my feet are all
right" Mrs. Bob gave a sniff or two
more, got up, opened the door, closed
it suddenly and then went into the
rooms leading toward the rear of the
house. She was gone about five min
utes, and in the meantime Bob became
satisfied what the trouble was, but for
the life of him did not dare to II her.
What would she say to learn that he
had eaten such stuff? She never would
forgive him, and would probably apply
for divorce. She speedily returned,
and said, in business sort of way,
" Robert, we must have the sewer
cleaned and the scavenger here. can't
stand it any longer. IL is getting TO be
perfectly awful" Bob said he would
attend to it in the morning, and at the
first opportunity slipped out, got a
spade, took the cheese into the garden,
and buried it. But he had to have the
sewer, etc, cleaned all the same, and
the job cost him five dollars. A few
months later Bob told his wife about it,
but declared the cheese was given him
to try; he had never eaten any of it
himself.
The Osceola times., 1878-09-14
- In fa the ANTI

Sir John Lubbock described life and
manners among the ants in his usual
vein at the recent meeting of the British
Association. The Echo, in its recent
synopsis Of his speech, represents him as
the owner and proprietor of thirty
species, which are kept in confinement.
Some of these specimens he has been
watching for four years, and as they were
bred in the previous year they are now
five years old. They resemble human
beingSin many social aspects. They were,
for example, slave-making ants, which
in one case at least, were entirely de-
pendent on their slaves, and would
perish even in the midst of plenty il left
to Themselves He had kept some of
these ants, however, alive for months by
giving them slave for an hour a day
to clean and feed them. He found in
the different species various condi-
tions Of life curiously answering
to the earlier stages of human progress
Some species lived principally on the
produce of the chase, and they probably
retained the habits once common to all
ants. They resemble the lower race of
men, who subsist mainly by hunting
They hunted singly, and their battles
were single combats, like those OF man
in his early history. Another species
might be compared to the pastoral stage
of human progress, to the race that live
on the produce Of their Aocks and herds.
Their communities were more numer-
Gus, they acted more in concert, their
battles were no more single combats,
but they knew how TO act in combina-
ton. Sir Johns opinion was that they
would gradually exterminate the hunt
ing species just as savages disappeared
before more advanced races.
The Osceola times., 1878-09-14
WHITE JASMINE,

White jasmine stretches far and wide.
Along the gray walls southern side
Its graceful branches wreathe;
And winds Of summer sweet and low,
Among Its verdare and its snow,
Their tender music breathe.
he garden beds that once were cav
And fragrant all the summer day
Are empty and foilorR;
The hungry bees afar have flown,
Inc gravel walks are weed o'ergrown,
The treliis-rose is torn.
Within the house each empty room
rs SHUT In silent rayless gloom,
With cherries hearihstope cold:
No pictures smile upon the wall,
No single trace Is lett of all
We cherished 70 Of old
But in the southern sunshine bright,
ANA by the jasmine, clad In white,
youthful maiden stands,
With lips that speak Of sad unrest;
\ bunch oi daisies OF her breast
And jasmine In her hands.
With farewell looks Of aching love,
Her brown eyes wander round, above
II Is a sacred spot:
The home OF childish srief and mirth,
The homo whence dearest dead went forth
To share earh's common lot.
All, inaidcnl as the jasmine snow
Doth vanish 20 the years that 90
viii take this grief away;
VIII give thee older woes as sure,
As stro & and 4 cp If not a. pure
Az this Of thine to-day.
Yet let the daisies on thy breast
Teach thee that liie's securest rest
In humble paths doth lie;
And let the jasmine In thy hand
Whisper of isircr blossoms famed
BY sweetest alrs on high
f,ar not 10 muse, when tar away,
How summer su shine gilds each day
These lonely garden bowers
How sweetly yet the thrlshes call,
How climb atout the gray old wall
Thine own loy,d Jasmine flowers.
80 may the memory of this home,
Thy hrst am dearest, ever come
With healing strength to thee
To mind thee by its vanished grace,
OF one prepared abiding place
From sound Of farewell freel
An Hst Year found.
The Osceola times., 1878-09-14

THE effect Of a hallcon-descen. was
tried on camp-meeting near Cincinnati
lately. The balloon came sailing down
in the middle Of prayer, like an answer
from above, but il efectualIy broke up
the meeting. As the aeronaut had
ballast left, some of the people wanted
him to give an ascension exhibition
but the expo ltulations Of the preacher
to please not turn the camp-meeting into
q circus prevailed,-Ne~ Yovt Lios.
The Osceola times., 1878-09-14

As curiuos fact. it has been noted by
Sir Samuel Baker that negro has
never been known TO tame wild ele-
phant or any wild animal. The ele-
plants employed by the ancient C.rtha-
ginians and Romans we're trained by
Arabs and Others, never by negroes. 1t
had often struck Sir Samuel rs very dis
tressing that the little children in Africa
never had pet animal; and though he
Altered rewards for young elephants. he
never succeeded in getting one slive.
The Osceola times., 1878-09-14

"THE discovery of thought" writes
Tupper Holland, is one of the mysteries
of life A good deal like hash, amt
The Osceola times., 1878-09-14

In Spanish liberty is Z" "libertad. -
Think, says Spikes, Of planting libertad-
poles.-Nsw York Graphic.
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the Chisolm massacre; and no state has
the prerogative to interfere or even to
find fault with the Presidents right to
issue proclamation whose moral signifi-
cance would penetrate the world, brand
ing with eternal infamy such fendish
outlawry.
But no; the whole thing passed. The
strong, the fair, the tender dead of the
murdered household were gathered into
their unhonored graves. The bereft
mother and widow gathered up the bloody
garments of her slain and sat down DESC
late. One year has passed and the MUIR
derers of this family have never yet been
arraigned in the court of justice, nor has
the Executive of the people ever been
great enough or good enough to set the
seal of even his utter personal condemna-
ton on this enormity of horror. Do not
think l am an advocate of Gilbert Ha-
ven's "uplifted sword" prefer that the
sword even of the seal of Massachusetts,
should remain inert and swathed. l
have lived through one war; looked on
more than one field where it was fought
out. l wish never to see another. But
what do believe in is LAWN stern, in
flexible, inexorable law, unfinchingly
executed; in government strong
enough to enforce its laws, under every
condition, and tender enough to avenge
the wrongs of its lowliest child. 1 believe
in hemp rope, and in plenty of it to
stretch the neck of every ruffian in KEN
per County; with plenty left to take off
every head of every outrager Of woman
who to-day destroys the fairest flowers of
the people upon the highways of the
land.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 2lst, 1873.
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From the Kingston Freeman.
The Patent Outside Humbug.

An editor down the river sends copy
OF his paper asking the Freeman to ex-
change. Parenthetically. on the margin
of the sheet, he says: 1--WE will print our
own outside after this week." The re-
mark of the downthe-river brother re-
calls several ludicrous happening which
illustrates how this patent-outside busi-
ness sometimes plays hob with those who
patronize the co-operators' plan. A few
days ago a hybrid sheet came to the
Freeman with patent-outside; the head
of the paper and the date line signified
that the paper was issued at Carmel, Put
nam County, while the inside pages were
those of paper at Liberty. Sullivan Co.
Another incident of few years ago can
be mentioned. 1t happened in our SIS
ter county of Orange, and in substance is
as follows: Near Montgomery horse
unrestrained had a race on a railroad
track with locomotive, and by accident
as much as anything else came out ahead
because he started ahead and had as an
incentive the monster in his rear to the
finish. The local newspaper man, fully
lmbued with the magnitude of the
horses exploit, wrote rather gushing
description of it. The editor, too, at that
time patronized the patentoutside. I'M
agine his disgust when a few weeks later
his own article came back to him and his
readers on his outside pages word for
word as in the original, but credited to a
Missouri sheet. Several years ago, in a
neighboring county and during hotly-
contested political campaign, gentleman
published fat-footed Republican sheet;
his paper was the official organ of the
county, and he was anxious for further
favors from his party friends. Just a
few days previous to the final effort at
the polls for supremacy, imagine his dis
gust and chagrin when his outside pages
came his entire eighth page was filled
with one-line advertisements-"Su
for the Demncrat,' and interspersed
elsewhere through the remaining pages
of his outside was advice to his political
opponents as to their duty and some Sc
we're criticism on his party's policy. His
own salvation was to explain matters ed
itorially, which he did, much to his dis
gust
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VOL. 34---NO. 25.
DIRECTORY.
L - = S .

Judge Court of Common Pleas-Porter DIT
Halfway.
Representative-Arthur B. Monahan.
Probate Jndge-John j. G. Evans.
Auditor-Thomas w. Patterson.
r TreasuIer-James K. Hunter
Clerk-William II. Horton.
Sheriff. Ohm NJ. Ewing.
Prosecuting Attorney-C. a. Atkinson.
Surveyor-John d. Brown.
Recorder-Enoch III. Lewis VIZ
Commissioners,John :: MeGhee' GEO. W.
Inffrmary Directors-A. F. McCarley, Ietef
Bum and L. G. Dyson
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Lick Township-James A. Aleshire, David
Davis, Ambrose Scott.
Scioto Township = James Davis, Robert
Beatty, JOS l.. Wiseman. o,,,,.,
Hamilton-Harrison Canter George Gilliland.
Jefferson-J. Edward Jones, Ed. D. Davis.
Madison Davis, Edward Hunt
Bloomfield scurloclk. Grimsley
Poor. ,.,,, co,,, ra,,,,-
Washington. H Wilson, John g. Ray:
Jackson-Joseph Rowland, l. ii: McCormick.
Franklin Armpstead Scurlock, Joseph j.
spriigggs; .,,rad lewis Jobn Mccartney.
posroFF1cEs AND PosrMAsrERs.
Jackson-S p. Baldridge.
Berlin X Roads-MrS. Eiecta Eryln.
Wellston,,W; w; sylye;stter; ;stdau
Leo-C. C. McKinniss.
Meadow Branch-John Motz.
WeberS-J. Calm.
Mabees-Samuel Jackson.
Grahamsville-Jacob Pierce.
Monroe Furnace-W. HI. Sloan
Oak Hill-W. w. Morgan.
Samsonvile- Geo. Reniger.
Jimes-C. H. Shiers.
Byers-W w. Kennedy.
Clay-T. G..Richards.
Rays-I. II. Mccormick.
Keystone-B. n. Moore.
Rocky Hiil-E. w Marvin.
Standardization WinfouSh
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ESTABLISHED IN
MARCH, 1S47.

produced, the party will receive them
gladly. But neither in their cases nor in
the case of any other of its members who
may suffer from the inquiry in progress,
is the party under the slightest obligation
to assume their burden, to make itself
amenable for their conduct, or to do vio
lence to its moral sense in order that they
may be shielded from the consequences
The very opposite is the course which
alone the party ought to pursue. The
proposition it has maintained is, that the
Republicans of Louisiana are the victims
of fraud, not its perpetrators. If it be
proved that visiting statesmen" were
privy to fraud of any sort, it must leave
them to their fate. The prestige of the
party may temporarily suffer from the
acts of individual members. in no way
authorized to speak in its behalf, but
identified with it in the popular mind
This injury will be immaterial if the
party vindicafe its integrity by standing
aloof from persons implicated, and leav-
ing the truth to do its work. The in
stincts as we'll the interests of the party
are on the side of right.
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Church Directory for Jackson, O.-1878

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.-Eld ]. P. Ewing,
Pastor Preaching every Lords Day at l01a A.
NJ and at night. Sabbath School every LORDS
Day att A. M.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-Rev: J. K:
Gibson, Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath at
Sabbath at A. NJ. Teachers meeting Tuesday
evening. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
sionary meeting lst Monday in every month
Communion service lst Sabbath i'll March
June, September and December.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Rev. C. F. Creighton, Pastor. Preaching every
Sabbath at 101a A. M, and at night. Teachers
meeting Tuesday evening. Prayer meeting
Thursday evening Sabbath School every Sab
bath at A. NJ.
RAPTIST CHURCH.-Rev. E. w. Lloyd, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sabbath at l01a a. NJ.
and at Lamplighting. Sabbath school every
sabbath at A. M PEayHr Meetng e1gsnins hna
Choir Meeting every Thursday evening.
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Martha, does thee love me ?" asked a
Quaker youth of one at whose shrine his
hearts holiest feelings had been offered
up. why, Seth" answered she, I'VE
are compelled to love one another; are
we not2' "Ahl Martha, but does thee
regard me with the feeling the world
calls love-" hardly know what to tell
thee, Seth. l have greatly feared that
my heart is an erring one. l have tried
TO bestow my love on all; but l may
have sometimes thought, perhaps, that
thee was getting rather more than thy
share