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Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30
SeIett Roetrp.
Hiss Edith Helps Things Along.

'sMy sister'll be down in a minute, and say
you re to wait, if you please,
And saws might stay 'rill she came, if IL
promise her never to tease
Nor speak till you spoke 10 me first. Blu
that's nonsense, for how would you know
What she told me TO say if didn't? Don
YOU really and truly think so?
And then you'd feel strange here alone And
you wouldn't know just where to sit;
For that chair isn't strong on its legs, and
we never use its bit.
We keep it TO match with the sofa. But Jack
saws it would be like you
To flop yourselfright down upon i and knock
ont the very last screw.
IS pose you try won't tell. You're afraid
to Oh you afraid they would think
it was mean
Well, then. there's the albnm-that's pretty
if YOU re sure that your fins ers are clean
For sister saws sometimes daub it, but she
only says that when she's cross.
There's her pictures You know it? It's like
her, but she amt as good-looking OF
course!
This is me. It's the best of EN- all. Now,
tell me, you'd never have thought
That oRce was little as that! It's the only
one that could be bought
For that was the message to Pa from the pho
tograph man where ! sat
That he wouldn print off any more till ne
first got his money for that
"Whai? Maybe you're tired of waiting
Why, often she's longer than this
There's all her back hair TO do up and all OF
her front curls 10 friz.
But it's nice TO be sitting here talking like
grown people, just yoa and ME.
Do you think you'll he coming here often
Oh do But don come like Tom Lee.
"Tom Lee Her last beau Why, my good
ness He used to be here day and night,
Till the folks thought that he'd be her hus-
band, and Jack says that gave him a
fright.
You won't run away, then, as he did Z for
you're not a rich man. they say.
Pa says you are poor as church mouse
Now, are you? And how poor are they
"Ain't you glad that you met me? Well, I
am, for know now your hair isn't red,
But what there is left of it's mousy, and not
what that naughty Jack said.
But there | must 90. Sisters coming. But
wish could wait, just 10 see
If she ran up to you and kissed you in the
way that she used to kiss Lee
Bret Hdrte in the Independent.
Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30
Selrtt STORY.
MAUDE'S ORDEAL.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.

| 1t was rather an embarrassing thing
to do, but Charley May had done ii
well and bravely, like man. He
was nothing but clerk at eight hun
dred dollars year, nevertheless, be
had boldly craved audience of the
portly old millionaire, and asked him
for his daughter, as he might have
asked for the milliner girl round the
corner.
Mr.. Bryant cody wiped his pen and
laid it in the carved bronzed rack; he
moved back his chair pace or two,
looking Charles May full in the face
as he did so, with curious, mocking
light in his cold blue eyes.
$50 you want TO marry my daugh-
ter, eh?'
Il do, sir" said Charley.
Provokingly handsome he looked
ashe stood there, with the reddish brown
hair thrown back from his square,
white forehead, the hazel eyes, clear
and confident, and the perfect cut lips,
little apart. Somehow, in the midst
of his wrath and derision, old Richard
Bryant could not help thinking that
were he a girl of eighteen, he might
possibly have fallen in love with such
a young man as Charles May.
rs there any other little trife |
could let you have?" sneered the
caustic old man. "a block of houses,
or a Broadway lease or SO, or any
other small favor?'
"You are laughing at me, sir" said
Charley, coloring, yet speaking with a
certain quiet dignity. Il have asked
you simple question surely | have
TIT the right to a frank answer"
"Then listen to me, young man, :"
said Richard Bryant, with sudden
abrupt sternness. "You are aspiring
altogether too high-you can not have
my daughter Maude. Now you have
your answer-go!"
Charles May stood for moment
like one upon whom a thunderbolt had
fallen with sudden blighting power,
then he turned and walked quietly out
Of the handsome Gothic library, where
the blue and gold circles Of light from
the oriel windows quivered over the
deep crimson of the Wilton carpet,
and the pure marble faces of Pallus
and Venus de Milo watched him as he
went.
"Maude, my love, my darling, what
is the matter?"
The red glow Of the November sun
set could scarcely pierce the folds Of
ruby velvet that hung over the plate
glass, windows, yet in the odorous twi-
light Mr.. Bryant saw his daughter,
with her face hidden in the satin sofa
pillows, and the heavy, bluish-black
curls dropping low over the carved
rosewood.
Tell, me, little daughter, what trou-
bles your" whispered the merchant,
bending fondly over the girl. Maude
had never known mother, and there
was tenderness in the old mans tones
at that instant that was almost mater
nal.
She looked up, with the stain Of
fresh tears on her CRIMSON cheek.
"He has gone, papa-he has gone
and left mep
"He? Who?"
"Charley May"
/ And Maude Bryant, who had spok-
Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30
For the Aiddletown Transcript.
A LETTER,

LETTER.
30, Nellie m all in tremble,
When tell you, you'll say its delight,
must be so, to be tout ensemble,
| received proposal last night.
''He's splendid You know limits Harry
Such moustache And such an address
He kneeled when he asked me TO marry,
And how could help saying, yes?
''Pa and mamma gave as their blessing
In the newest and most approved style;
And, ofccurse, you know Harry was pressing
To have the day named so don't smile
When tell you next month I'll be Mrs
o, Nellie il seems like dream;
And SO Harry says when he kisses
Somebody You know who mean.
"We'll live in cottage with ivy
And eglautne tWining the door,
Some sweet little spot in the country,
When returned from our European tour.
And mamma and papa have promised
To order my trosseau from Paris;
o, Nellie, come see me. I'm happy
Come visit your own loving Clarice."
GooE.
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"well, I swan, Billy" said an old
farmer to an undersized nephew who
was visiting him, "when you take off
that ere plug hat and spit two or three
times there amt much left of you, is
ther' ?"
Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30

soft folds of the French calico, will
her sweet eye full Of liquid light, anC
her cheek glowing with soft scarlet.
Mr.. Bryant drew a long sigh of re
lief, and then ordered his carriage fol
home.
It was late when Maude returned
but nevertheless she took peep into
the library to see if her father was
still up.
Papa
Come in, Maude. Do you know,
pet, your year of probation is up to-
night?"
q don't call it probation, sir"
Perhaps not. Well, do you re-
member my promising you a present if
you adhered to your odd notions? ?"
eyes, papa but I told you l did
not want a present"
"Youll find it in the drawing-room,
child"
"I won't take it, papa"
won't you? Suppose you just take
a look at it first"
And Maude went slowly up stairs,
obedient to her fathers gesture.
Il will not take it, whatever it is"
she thought, as she opened the door,
'ffor-my goodness! Charley May"
"Maude-my own true love!'
And Charley's bright brown eyes
were looking into hers-Charley's
chestnut mustache was close against
her cheek.
"What do you think about taking
my present now, Miss MaBde?" de-
manded Mr. Bryant, rubbing his
hands gleefully. "I've sent all the
way to Chicago for it, and think you
seem rather pleased with 1t than other
wise. I tell you what, Charley May,
you may imagine that you have been
working hard for my daughter all these
but she has not been idle.
Maude has well earned the happiness
Of this hour"
And Mr.. Bryant went down stairs
to explain it all to Aunt Eloise, who
was highly mystifed as to the state of
affairs.
This was the solution Of the enigma
that so puzzled the fashionable world
a few days subsequently, when they
read in the papers that Maude Bryant
had married no more distinguished
person than Charley May.
Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30

care you a Christian ?" asked col
porteur of fower-girl on Broadway,
N. Y, the other day. mo, sir; I'm
a Buddhist" was the prompt reply.
Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30

A lazy boy has conquered the kind
ling wood question. He just backs
his fathers best mule against the
woodpile and throws the milking-stool
at it.
Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30
stock on the Farm.

The progress of improved stock on
the farm has been onward and up
ward Most farmers have adopted
some of the improved breeds of stock
and the entire farm stock is being i'm
proved, for it is here on the farm that
the improved breeds of thoroughbred
stock find their legitimate field, and
farmers who expect to succeed best
these times must get their farm stock
as near full blood as possible, to ma
ture quicker, grow larger, and sell for
most money. Good stock requires
good care, and we are glad to notice a
general improvement in our former
wasteful methods of feeding. Better
barns, stables and sheds are provided
for our farm stock. Our great staple,
corn, is largely ground up or cooked
before feeding to give the greatest
benefit. Pure fresh water is provided
by the wind mill in the absence of a
running stream. Western farmers,
by the aid of so much labor-saving ma
chinery, can, with a little hired help,
raise large crops of grass and grain,
and the best method of marketing these
crops is to feed to improved stock,
not fancy stock, but high graded stock,
bred from thoroughbred sires, if the
full blood stock cannot be maintained;
but for practical purposes the nearer
full blood the better; whether cattle,
hogs or sheep, for meat, for the dairy
COWS, or the wool from the sheep.
There are we'll known breeds of su-
perior excellence over our common
native stock, and while the price these
times is very low for all kinds of stock,
it will not do to give up stock
raising, but rather improve all the
farm stock, and the profits will i'm
prove just in that proportion .-Er.
Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30

SMALL FRUITS IN GARDENs.-But
few people seem to know the value of
small fruits to family, when grown
in their own gardens. You commence
with Strawberries they continue about
a a saenth You pick, perhaps, from six
to twelve quarts a day. You have
them on your table as a dessert, if you
please, at noon, and your tea table is
loaded with them at evening, and you
want but little else than your bread
and butter. Your family consume, in
one way and another about eight quarts
day, and while they last, no medi-
cines for bodily ailment are required,
as a quart of Strawberries daily will
generally dispel all ordinary diseases
that are not settled permanently in
the system. After strawberries, rasp-
berries continue about three weeks;
then we have bIackberries when the
climate is not too cold for cultivated
varieties; then the currants ripen,
which remain until the early grapes
mature and taking the season through
any family with half acre of land in
garden can grow small fruits that make
country life delightful, and at the same
time many dollars can be saved in the
supply of the table.
Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30

pOASOA LAAeaAA ON~A 4N~
THAT SETTLED IT.-"The time has
come at last, said Mr.. Bidlack, i'm
pressively, looking his wife square in
the eye. 81 have known for several
days that it was inevitable, and might
happen at any time"
"Why, dear, what is it? What can
you mean? You look so depressed
It cannot be-and yet-O, relieve this
killing suppense Alexander have
you-have you failed ?" said his wife
with clasped hands.
mo, my dear; my credit is yet un-
impaired, and business is looking up"
"You don't mean to say, dear, that
your old pain in your old head has
come back?"
No"
"You haven't had to pay that note
for your brother Joseph?"
"No."
"Have yOu-now tell me Alexander
Bidlack, have you had another attack
Of vertigo?"
No"
HAS your cashier broken his Muir
ply pledge p
"No."
"Now I know expected it-I
knew it all the time-I felt sure it
would be so-Mr. Debonnaire has
asked for Seraphina :"
"No, nothing of the kind"
"Then tell me-without waiting an
other moment-what has happened
I can bear it-let me know the worst."
"Well, that breeches button 1 told
you about, has got tired of hanging
by one thread, and here it is"
AN EXPENSIVE kIss.-Ihe people
of Newton, Kansas, must be very am
orOus class of people. 1t has been but
few days since one prominent citizen
ran away with the wife of another,
and the result was a shooting affair at
St. Joe, in which the husband was Sc
riously wounded and the wife's para
mour narrowly escaped a fatal shot.
The news was received here yesterday
of another serious affair in Newton,
growing out of the attempt of DIR. Sea-
ton to kiss Mrs Smith. DR.. Seaton
is bachelor dentist, of good eharac-
ter, but somewhat inclined to be fond
of the women. A few days since Mrs.
Smith wanted troublesome tooth ex-
tracted and called on DIR. Seaton to
relieve her. The doctor poised Mrs.
Smith in his barber chair and was
brandishing his tweezers when it oc-
Cured to him to snatch kiss from
the aching mouth of Mrs. S. He made
the attempt, but the lady let fly on his
left pepper and the tooth pulling came
to a sudden halt. But Mrs. Smith
was not satisfied with the punishment
given the amorous dentist. She had
him arrested for the ofense. After
hOtly contested trial the dentist was
convicted and fined $25 and costs
amounting to $51. This was the dear
est kiss the dentist ever had.-Kansas
City Times, March 16.
"Will the coming woman lecture"
asks contemporary. If she marries
she will.
Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30

Some sweet little verses which we
have placed carefully away in the
waste basket ask, "Will the robins
come again?' Really, now We don't
know. We hope they will. But the
silver bill has passed. Anderson is in
Jail, congress is in session, civil-ser-
vice reform is too sick to hold its head
up. Chandler and Tilden say there
was bargain, the tax on whisky
hasn't been reduced, Ben Butler is
mad, Cox won't keep quiet, times are
hard, and perhaps they will think
themselves better off to stay where
they are.
Middletown transcript., 1878-03-30

"Will the coming woman lecturer"
asks contemporary. If she marries
she will.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-12
Daniel as a Prophet.

The habit of Democracy is to eXalt
the quality of its own craftsmanship as
exhibited in the forecast and prescience
of its favorite authors and leaders.
They are the men to govern, because
their far-reaching minds enable them
to see dangers and troubles which the
common mind in its blindness has not
even the faintest apprehension of, and
seeing the danger of course enables
them to provide the proper means to
prevent its occurrence. The party is not,
however, rich in statesmen of this class
The gift, like all exceeding richness,
is like gold and all precious stones and
pre-eminent beauty, extremely rare,
and not to be found among the attri-
butes of all who play in the little game
of politics. 1t would be great stretch
of fancy to imagine that the late Mr..
TarboX, of Massachusetts, or Mr.. Wood,
of New York, or even Atkins, of Tennes-
see, are possessed of it; but that the tall
Sycamore of the Wabash, the Hon. Dan
Voorhees,, of Indiana, has the gem in
his brilliant brain no sincere Democrat
ever doubts.
Mr.. Voorhees, was in Congress in
AOO-B oi-NbSSh 1Onlo tb1Og anu nG
was great patriot, and defied any man
to show otherwise, he still had violent
objections to everything that was done
to put down the rebellion. 1t wouldn't
do to issue Treasury notes, because that
would be a violation of the Constitu-
ton; and it wouldn't do to borrow
money, for that would get the nation
in debt; and it wouldn't do to raise the
money by taxation, for the people were
too poor to pay and wouldn't stand it.
AS the only way remaining to carry on
the war was to pass round the hat,
the honorable Dan was supposed to be
unanimously in favor of that plan,
which jeff Davis also regarded as
judiciOus for Uncle Sam and eminently
constitutional withal.
In the debate on the financial meas
ures of the Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr.. Voorhees, laid himself out in an
eloquent and laboriously-prepared
speech, which was delivered in that
ringing style which so distinguishes the
tall Sycamore of the Wabash and de-
lights the enchanted Democratic mind
of the backwoods of Terre Haute. In
this speech, which made sensation,
voorhees, gave vent to his spirit of
prophesy in these words;
"We have thus an inevitable annual
expenditure, without making any pro-
vision whatever for the payment of the
public debt, of the sum of four hum
dred millions. This amount will make
its demands on the resources of the
people in each succeeding year as reg
ularly as the seasons come and go, and
in voice as imperative and inexorable
as the cry of fate. Death itself is not
more certain to all than is this mon
strous annual burden on the shoulders
of the American people"
Well, looking back for ten years, and
from the time when the regular war
bills were mostly out of the way, and
we find Mr.. Voorhees, as a prophet IA
pretty dead failure. He was out of
the WaV rs follows:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-12
An Honest Admission.

A PORTION of the conservative South
ern papers are not disposed to follow
quietly the lead of the hot-heads of the
South and the counsels of Northern
partisans. They are frank to admit
that the Potter resolutions were the re-
suits of the party caucus whip, and that
they mean all that the language implies,
as charged by the Republicans. The
Memphis AUdldnche admits this, and
says:
1t was only after the incessant demands
made by the New York Sun that the Potter
resolutions were offered in the House. They
were based on the Maryland Legislature me-
mortal, which declared that certain acts in
Louisiana and Florida deprived Maryland of
the fruits Of her vote for President in 1876,
and demanded proceedings looking to secur-
ing those fruits. All this meant ousting
the basis of the Potter resolutions, cannot be
otherwise construed. 1t is plain and to the
point.
1t was only after the storm of public
indignation began TO burst over their
heads that the Democratic instigators
OF this movement were coerced into
voting for the resolution introduced by
Mr.. Burchard, a Republican, which dis
avowed any intention of disturbing the
Presidents title. The fact that the DEM
ocrats permitted Burchards $ resolution
to pass by a majority vote does not re-
lieve them from the guilty burden of their
tirstintention. The New York Sun has
not pretended to mince matters in this
business but speaks out openly and
above board the real designs of the
Tilden managers. The AUaianche free
ly charges this on the house majority
and adds: "Mr. Key and Mr.. Steph-
ems also charged it, The conservative
masses saw it that way. The house
majority have since confessed the truth
OF the charge by twice in one day, vot-
ing "aye' on the proposition that the
Presidents title cannot be legally as
sailed-the very proposition they had
twice before (once in the open house
and once in the caucus) refused to even
consider. The first action of the house
majority was a cowardly surrender to
the caucus. The last action was an
equally cowardly surrender to an
aroused public sentiment they did not
have the courage to resist. The house
majority were willing for the revolu-
tionists to go ahead unchecked until
they heard the thunder roll. Then
they could not too quickly stamp the
life out of the MeXicanizers. We do
not think they deserve especial praise
for this. They should not have waited
for the people to force them to perform
their public duty. y."-BurlingtoR Hack
Eye.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-12
The Bav CITY Trtbune shows tba,

The Bay City Tribune shows that
invention runs in families. There re-
sides in Bay City r. w. Tavener, a
cousin of Edison, who is about as good
an inventor as the celebrated Thomas
A. Mr.. Tavener's first invention, for
which he is taking out a patent, is a
self-measuring and self-clOsing faucet
for measuring liquids, such as molasses,
oil, vinegar, etc. This measures the
liquid accurately as it flows from the
cask, and prevents waste. The other
is self-closing faucet for beer kegs,
which will return cold air to the keg
as the contents are drawn off, and pre-
serve the life and quality of the beer,
as fresh and good as the first one.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-12
A Snake in a Horses Eye.

The horse with snake in his eye
was in town recently OH exhibition at
the stables of the Knapp House. The
reptile is comfortably located in the
watery humor of the left eye, is per-
fectly formed, of a white color and
about the size of an ordinary darning-
needle. 1t is plainly visible, and is
constantly on the move, wriggling and
twisting in every direction. Its pres
ence does not seem to annoy the horse
in the least, and has evidently created
no Inflammation in or about the eye.
1t has, however, changed the color of
the eye-ball, which is of lighter shade
than that of the right eye, and has af.
feoted the sight somewhat. The snake
was first discovered about two months
ago, when it was much smaller than it
is now. How it came in the horse's
eye is a question which puzzles scien-
tists.-Penn Yam Express.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-12
Gen. Garfield on the Danger of the Re
public"

The following are the main features
of the speech delivered by Gen. j. A..
Garfield, at Painesville, on the 4th inst.
The address was q masterpiece of i'm
passioned OratOry and will readily find
an echo in every true Republican heart;
We, as a nation, have passed through
many dangers, some of them of great
magnitude, all of them serious, but
they are to large degree what has
strengthened us as a people. The first
danger was that of savage nature. The
first settlers of this continent came into
a wild and unsubdued wilderness, which
had lain in that state since the day of
creation, where every aspect of nature
was the most stubborn kind. We know
nothing at the present day of the hor-
rible aspect of the unknown explora-
tions that were made. At first many
of the attempts at settlement were fail
ures, but we conquered and the settle
ment was made. Then came the dan
ger from savage men. Lewis and
Clark say that there were more than
eighty nations of natives, as wild as
their surroundings and traditional
teaching could make them. But these
have been conquered, and are now a
fading remnant in the setting sun.
Third came that long and bloody
danger which lay in the struggle for
European domination. There were
Spain, France and England all strug-
Cling among themselves for foothold
and for the supremacy. What a bless
ing that neither of the former succeed
ed, but that the Anglo-Saxon was tri-
umphant, and drove the French to the
north and the Spaniard to the South.
Had our nation been composed of diff
ferent material it might not have sur
vived until the present time.
Fourth came the great danger that
lay in the struggle for independence.
An emancipation from portion of this
danger we celebrate to-day. But it was
broader and greater danger, and,
during even more than the eight bloody
years of war it seemed possible that II
might destroy us. In fact this fourth
danger was TO large degree composed
of all which had gone before. There
were savage nature, savage men and
European domination all combined
against us, but we conquered all.
Then came the war of 1912, which
was udnReT threatening us from the
sea, but we were successful in dispel-
ling it and gained our rights upon the
ocean. For many years of peace and
tranquility only minor dangers threat
ened. but at length in 1861, came the
danger which lay in the struggle for
our unity as nation. But in this we
were again triumphant, and the Union
was saved.
The speaker then called attention 10
some things that have been of recent
growth and that may be in store for
the future. He thought there were
some ideas of government which at
present exist in the land that are radi-
cally wrong. He said that the opinion
is absurd that our Government is made
by man, and that what man makes ne
may kick TO pieces. For instance,
II man makes wagon or watch il
is his TO destroy if he pleases. But this
is not always so. This idea will not
always work. There are some things
which, although made by human hands,