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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-11
THE ROSARY OF NY YEARS.
The dials Of earth NAV show

The dials Of earth may show
The length, not the depth OF years,
Few or many they come-few or many they GO
But our time is best measured by te.rs
Al not by the silver gray
That crseps through the sunny hair.
And not By the scenes that VIC pass ON oar way
And not BY the burrows the fingers Of care
On the forehead and face have made
Not SO do we co1nt our years
Not by the sun OF the earth-but the shade
OF our souls--and the fall of our tears.
Fer the y0ung are oft mes old,
Thou their brow be bright and fair ;
While their blood beats warm their heart lies
cold
Ger them the springtime-but winter is there.
And the old are Outlines young
When their hair is thin and white 80
And they sing i'm age as in youth they sung
And they laugh, for their GROSS was light
But bead by bead tell
The rssary of my years
From cross 20 n crown they lead--tis well
And they are blessed with . bl essing Of t. ans.
Better day Of strife
Than q century Of sleep
Give me. instead OF long stream OF life
The tempest and tears OF the deep
thousand joys may foam
On the blllows OF all the years
But never the foam brings the brave bark home:
1t reaches the haven through tears
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-11
a Peck OF Trouble.

One of the letter carriers who has dis
trict in the northern part of Detroit, was
bustling along Woodward avenue at his
best gait, when he met a portly, motherl '
woman, who hailed him and asked:
"Be yoa acquainted all around town.
'Yes'm, was his hurried reply.
''lou know where the City Hall market
is, theni" ..-...---.-. -..--- .--
"Yes'm. I" ~e S--- - - ~ u
"Well, I'm in peck of trouble. This
morning ] sent down by my old man after
tomatoes, onions red pepper and caili-
flower, to make chow-chow. He sent MS
everything but the onions, and | can't go
ahead until l get ,'em. Now YOU look sort
o. honest, and if you would only take, ff-
teen cents and run down for the onions, I'd
think it Il great favor indeed" b..
''Why, ma'am, | couldn't think of it,
he replied.
Couldn't do just that much to oblige
a woman who has always been kind tr
boys?"
''Im letter carrier you see, and"
''Pll hold the sack while you are gone.
Come, now, that's good boy. Remember
to get the same white onions, and if there's
siblc i was, but as he hurried onsnitt tGarrrvr
after him: s..t.'- :. ..''-
Il never saw such disobliging young
man! / don't believe you'd even bring
in my ice if / should promise you fried
cakel" "tR
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-11

for eight days. with no food except bark
from the bushes which grew within her
reach. The water which she drank she
| dipped from the bog wIth'her hands. Mrs.
Avery's brother, whom she was on her way
| TO see, was not aware of his sisters intend
| ed visit, and no search was made for the
missing woman. A man named Basden,
residing IN Lackawaxen township, happen
ed to pass through Tinkwig Swamp few
days ago. He was returning from Row
lands, a few miles distant, to his home i'm
the western part of Lackawaxen township,
and carrying his gun in the hope of killing
some game. AS he was passing along the
edge of the swamp he heard a peculiar
moaning noise. He at first thought it was
the moaning of cattle that might be grazing
in the woods lie paid no further attention
and passed on. Soon the same noise was
heard again, this time more distinctly. He
followed in the direction of the noise, and
was soon in the very heart of the swamp
lie stopped again TO listen further, when,r
looking TO his right he saw an object moving
which he found to be Mrs. Avery, strug-
Cling between life and death. He attempt
ed TO eXtricate her. but failed, and was
obliged to walk some distance for help.
After giving notice TO the neafest neighbors
he returned, accompanied by number Of
men with wagon. They finally succeeded
in eXtricating the woman, and she. was
driven 10 a neighboring house. and medical
assistance summoned. Although Mrs
Avery is yet very weak from the terrible
ordeal through which she passed, she will |
recover. When questioned concerning her
feelings while imprisoned In the mire, she |
replied that they were beyond description. |
She had, on the seventh day, given up ali
hope of being reached alive, but on tllej
morning of the eighth day, she had pre-
sentiment that help would reach her. Mrs.
Avery's mind is somewhat impaired by the |
terrible struggle between life and death u
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-11
Terrible Experience OF a Woman

About two weeks ago widow named
Avery, about 40 years old, left her home
near Salem, Wayne county, Pa, to visit a
brother, living near the Lackawaxen river,
in Pike county, Pa. She was making the
trip OF, foot. While passing through dense
piece of woods in the western part OF Lack
AWAKEN township, it being after dark, she
lost her way and wandered into Tinkwig
Swamp, a short way to the right of the pub
lie highway, where she became fastened In IN
the mire When she found that she could
not extricate herself she called Justify Tor
help. but, as no one lived within some dis
tance. her cries were not heard. Her strug-
Cling to free herself caused her to sink deep
er and deeper into the mire IN wmcn sns
was caught. In this position she remained
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-11
Ar,rIcnl western Outlaw.

Barker, the Cherokee desperate, who
was hunted down and killed near Muskogee,
in the Indian territory, recently stood at
the head of the list of western outlaws.
He was of white skin, though his blood
was tainted and he claimed Cherokee "citi-
zenship. He was six feet tall, straight as
an arrow and of stout frame. Twenty
eight years of crime Qor his life was full
of it from the cradle) had stamped fiercely
upon his Indian features the marks of the
daredevil who expected to die with his
boots on and with the whistle of bullets in
his ear. His first crime was that of whole
sale cattle stealing SO imperfect are the
laws OF the Indian territory that Barker and
his men rode with free boots and boldly
for many years. Triplet, q half-breed
Cherokee; Scogden, the Mexican, and
Mason, the Texan, were his feutenants.
Men were waylaid, murdered and robbed
by them time and again. 1t is said that
every citizen of the Cherokee country car
ried special bullet In his pocket for Barker.
The eliminating atrocity of the band came
about on the morning of the I'd of August
last, when they galloped into the village OF
Caneyville, Kansas, and in broad daylight
sacked the place, driving the residents,
men, women and children, like q flock of
sheep, out into the woods. Two men who
resisted were shot through the heart. Not
long ago ten Cherokee and tive white men
caught the outlaws IN ambuscade. Scogden
and Mason escaped, the II rifles cracking
for Barker's benefit. Barker fell and
offered resistance with the only limb that
was uninjured, the left leg. His right leg
and both arms were broken and all three
limbs were amputated shortly before his
death. Triplet crawled of through corr
field, but limping into the house of hi'
mother at Vlnita on the following day lait
at her feet and died.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-11

Don't believe every senseless rumor you
may hear respecting reputable citizens;
don't retail calumny against any man an
less you have good foundation for believing
it true; don't bite off your own nose to spite
your face; don't let passion knock down
Judgment and choke its life out; don't go
back on principle to crafty personal feeling;
don't betray the confidence of your friends;
don't give your friend the "dirty shake, "
as the boys say, because he don't look
through your spectacles; don't harbor AMI
mostly against a neighbor because his opin-
ons conflict with yours. .... --.. r.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-11

THE bounding clam is beginning to
figure in politics,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-11
SFooD FOR rHQUGHT.

He who wants little has always
enough.
Would you be strong conquer your
self. -llt-sf0 ~ s- -s9sg. ~,
There is no good in preaching to the
hungry,
A man used to yiclssitude Ia not cas-
lily detected. -, 80.
Charity gives itself ricn, but covet-
OuS hoar1a ifSalR nonP
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-12
Who Should be Pitied,
Cincinnati Enquirer.


Grandfather Lickshingle threw down
the newspaper yesterday in disgust and
exclaimed:
"It makes me sick, by gracious; it
makes me sick
What makes you sick, grandfather ?"
asked James.
Why, here's another coachman runs
away with his employers daughter"
% 1t certainly is too bad" said James.
"And they get married the minute
they are out Of sight Of her fathers
house"
"The poor, silly thing"
" Well, I should say the poor, silly
thing I should say the sap-head, the
shallow. pate. the crazy, rack-bIained
imbecile," continued grandfather in 3
towering passion.
"The poor creatures are just from
boarding school," said James, q" with
their heads full Of romantic"
Who's just from boardingsschool ? -
yelled grandfather.
50 The poor, silly girls are"
Who's talking about girls?" yelled
tie old man, little more sayagelV than
before. Z" It's the coachman I'm g.
hittin' at If had a son, and he was a
good coachman, and if he would disgrace
himself by runuin' away with his en-
ployer's giddy daughter, I'd spend my
pension money in riOtous Twin an
wouldn't leave him one red cent to rub
against :another. New, you bear your
old grandfather quote Shakespeare.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-12
Peters Jokes.


At one of the grand dinners given by
the car, huge pie was placed in the
center of the gentlemen's table, out of
which, when the startled csrver broke
the crust, a beautiful dwarf LADY, IN
patTss nGtuTali5Gts, all except the head
dress, stepped, proposed in a set speech
and drank IN glass Of wine the health
of the company, and then retired into
her snug retreat and was carried from
the table. A man dwarf was substituted
at the ladies' table. Did not Peter say
he could reform his people, but not
himself? A dinner party st the cars
must indeed have been a sight not con-
ceiVable out of Bedlam, and could only
have been planned in the msddest brain
on earth, if 8 manuscript among
the Sloane papers in the British museum
is bellevable. Such practical Jokes! such
wild, grotesque gamboling the frolics of
Ieyiathanl the laughter of q Titan, IS
frightful in his fun as in his fury There
was accommodation at the cars table
for about q hundred but the grim
humorist always issued invitations to
twice or thrice that number, and left his
guests to elbow, .jostle and fight for
chairs and places, and retain them
against all new corners and claimants if
they could. Not unfrequentIy a free
fight was extemporized, and noses tapre
and even the sacred persons of embasss-
dOrs have been profanely touched and
trihed with. The car sat at the head
of the table, broad grin on his face,
rolling the spectacle like sweet morsel
under his tongue. The guests are so
closely packed that feeding-room is not
to be thought of, and ribs are often
blackened and almost driven in by
active and vigorous elbows, provoking
fierce denominations and quarrels.
The kitchen is so near to the dining-halI
that there floats through the latter
fragrance of onions, garlic and train oil,
melloWed and tempered by the more
delicious aroma of roast. The more
knowing and initiated guests wave away
knowing and initiated guests wave away
soups and such like edibles, and mani
fest special appetite for hams, tongues
and Viands that can not be tempered
with, or madei the vehicle of practical
Joking, for as often as not it happens
that a bunch of dead mice will be drawn
out of the soup or discovered snugly i'm
bedded in a dish of green peas and,
sometimes, when his guests have well
partaken of certain pastries, the czsr
will cOurteously inquire if the cat, wolf,
raven or other unclesn animal proved &
savory or delicious morsel, with what
result let the imaginative guess, The
approach to a regular Denny brook was
FASTENED on by liberal supplies of
brandies, strong ales and wines so
adroitly served out as to expedite the
grand climscteric of drunkenness.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-12

PICKLE Dressing. nound Eno
lish ground gustsrd niI with hest
mnl'e .he vinegar to the consistency OF
Team boil ten minutes. If too thick
add more vinegar two bottlesf French
mustard salt, pepper, and curry to
taste about a dessert spoonful of the
last is right; add two tablesPoonfuls of
b. own sugar /; boil fifteen minutes: add
three pints of vinegar and boil again FIVE
minutes. This viii keep for years, and
is an excellent dressing fer coined beef
or ham.
COTTAGE PUDDNG.-One egg, one
tablespoonful of butter, one-half cupful
with one-half pint of sweet milk; have
ready rather shallow baking dish but
tered; just before putting into the oven
add one-quaFter OF teaspoonful of soda
which has been at the moment dissolved
in a tablespoonful of boiling water !;
bake twenty minutes, and serve hot.
with wine or brandy sauce.
BAKED FIsH.-Take any nice fish,
boil it, remove the bones and chop con-
siderable parsley very fine, with one
small onion. Have about as much bread
crumbs as fish. Take a pudding dish
outer IL, then lay IN layer OF bread
crumbs, then layer of fish, ending with
the bread crumbs. Mix your parsley
and onion, with salt and pepper, through
your bread crumbs. Put Jumps of butts
ter over the top, very slight grating OF
nutmeg, and pour over it ali sweet
cream, or very sweet milk till it rises
nearly to the top. Bake in quick oven
till il has a nice, rich brown crust.
To STEW MUsHRo oMs.-PeeI and trim
mushrooms, using stems and tops, wash
quickly and carefully to get rid of sand;
it small, do not cut if large, divide into
four put into cold milk, barely cover
ing them, with tablespoonful OF butter,
a light teaspoonfnl of salt, and q half
teaspoOnful Of white pepper. Let them
boil steadily for fifteen minutes add at
the conclusion heaping teaspoonful of
-four. well mixed with cold water; a
final boil concludes the cooking; do not
overlook
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-12
Bodies Foremost Citizens.

Virginia Chronicle.
Scene, Main street, Bodie. Dramatis
persona: An old resident and a new
arrival. Time, 4 Pm
o. R.: There goes Jack DAZZLING.
N. A: Who's he?
O. R: Ore OF our first citizens. Hav-
emit you heard tell OF him2
N A: No.
O. R: Why, he killed Tom Wilkins.
He's prominent saloon man. There's
Bill Thompson stepping up to speak to
him.
n. A: Who's Thompson
o. R.: One of our leading citizens.
Haven't you heard tell OF him2
n. A.: No.
o. R.; That's queer. Why, he killed
Sandy SOwens and Aleck Haggis, and
put Pete Scagg's eye out in one night.
He's a prominent saloon man, too.
HullO, they've stopped to speak to Abe
Dickey.
N. A: Who's Dickey2
0. B: Oh, he don't amount to moth
ing.
n. A: Never killed any one, I cup
pose.
o. r.: He kill any one Pshaw He
wouldn't kill nobody. Hullol By
thunder, them three's havin' a spaE.
Hunt yer hole, stranger, they're pullin'
their pops.
THEY hunt their holes. Rapid firing
ensues. and ceases. Old Resident and
New Arrival emerge from under a stove
and seek information.
Time, P. NJ.
o. R: tell you the camp ought to
be proud of that teller Abe Dickey. He's
got nerve. hope the boys will turn out
big st the double funeral. I used to
know Abe's brother in the states. He
come of a gritty family. Wonder what
his bail II be2
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-12
A Novel Suit.

A peculiar suit was put on trial yes
terday in the United States district
court, before Judge Choate, without
jury. Henry a. FIeischman, emigration
commissioner of the state of Missouri,
sues the Hamburg American steam
packet company for $4,000 damages for
injuries to his person and property, sus-
tanned by him while passenger on the
libelee's steamship HammOnia, en- route
from New York TO Hamburg, in April,
1873. 1t appears that Mr.. Fleischman,
with his wife and child, was on his way
to the Vienna exposition, and took 8
first. cabin passage Tor himself and fam
lily, and was provided for the first two
days of the voyage with such accommo-
dstions. On the third day out his child
fell sick, and the ships surgeon decided
that the child was afflicted with smalls
pOx. The captain and surgeon directed
that the entire F'leischman family be iso~
lated, and assigned to their use the cabin
which had bt en- up to that time occuN
pied by the chief steward, and here they
remained until the end of the voyage,
when they disembarked at Cherb0urg.
Mr.. Fleischman says that the cabin was
incOnvenient, unclean and uncOmfor.
table that it was too small to accOmo-
date three persons that he was excluded
from the deck Of the ship, as was his
wife; that the cabin was overrun with
rat, roaches and other vermin that he
was several times bitten and painfully
wounded by the rats; that his health
and that of his family suffered by the
bad accommodations of this cabin, and
the losthsomeness and terror inspired by
the vermin and his trunks were gnawed
away and their contents, including
costly clothing belonging to his wife and
himself, were eaten and otherwise in
jured by the rats, snd that altogether
he suffered loss and damage to the extent
OF $4,000. He also alleged, in his
testimony yesterday, that his child was
not afflicted with smallpox and that the
truth of this assertion is shown by the
fact that the case was not so reported,
nor was the ship quarantined on her
arrival at CherboUrg and Hamburg.
The company deny the allegations of
the Iibelant as to the discomfort OF the
quarters assigned to MIN and the iDiu-
ries sustained. Numerous DISPOSITIONS
of Capt VOss and other officers Snd men
employed on the steamer were read.
showi IN effect that the case was re-
ported as q case of smallpox; that a due
regard for the health of the passengers
required its isolation that the stewards
cabin was large and comfortable apart-
ment, and recently cleaned; that the
Fleisehman family were put in that
cabin because it WAS more pleasant and
comfortable that the ships hospital, and
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-12
BAILEY SPRINGS.
A Brief History Of One of the Most FE-
mons Springs In North Alabama.

a
mons Springs In North Alabama.
Everybody knows what and where are
the Bailey Springs, of North Alabama,
but there are some items in the history
of that celebrated watering place that
are not generally known. The medicinal
character of the water was discovered in
1843 by Mr.. Jonathan Bailey, who was
very sick with dyspepsia. His physi-
clans desired him to visit thu Virginia
Springs, but he was unable to be carried
to them even in 8 carriage. There was
an insignificant little spring in a ravine
on his farm which was always covered
with q rainbow-hued scum, and the
neighbOring country people had for sew
eTal years been in the habit of using
this scum as 8 salve for sore eyes. he
concluded to drink the water. and to his
astonishment his cure was soon effected.
The news soon spread abroad, and suffer
eTs with other diseases were brought in.
It was found that scrOfula was invaria-
bly, cured by the water that drOpsy was
always relieved when relief was posi-
that diseases of the skin and OF the kid
neys were speedily affected by it; and
finally that many of the diseases OF
women were permanently eradicated by
it's use. In 1853 Mr.. A. Ct. Ellis, OF
L
Springs for the relief of gravel and
strsngury. He had been treated by the
leading physicians of the south with I'M
satisfactory results, but in two weeks
from commencing the use of the water,
he was a well man. He was 90 de-
lighted with this unexpected result that
he Immediately took steps to purchase
the property, and since that purchase it
has remained in the possession OF bis
descendants until the present day. A
most remarkable instance OF the potency
of the water wss It's prophylactic effect
during the awful epidemic of last year.
People from Memphis, Chattanooga,
Florence, and other infected points,
foeked to Bailey for refuge because
there they could find comfortable accom-
modations, pleasant scciety, abundant
amusements, and no quarantine re2uls-
tiOns in the way. Some of them came
fresh from the bedside of friends, some
from the side of the grave; but, although
some who mad been exposed exhibited
premenitory symptoms, as soon as the
water established its powerful drain
upon the skin and kidneys, they st once
recovered, and not one case Of yellow
fever was developed at Bailey. After
ward. when the wonderful virtue OF the
water, as 8 preventive, began TO be un-
deTstood, II was cent TO nurses and ply
sicians and others exposed. and not one
person using the water took the disease.
Another curious circums anee first no.
ticed in the laundry of the establishment
was that the undergarments ofkpeOPie
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-12
HOME HINTS.

HAM Balls Chop fine cold cooked
ham, add an egg for each person, q little
-four, beat together, make into balls and
fry in hot butter.
LINCOLN CAKE.-One and one.half
pounds sugar, one pound butter, one and
three-fourth pounds -four, two pounds
fruit, one pint sweet milk, one table,
spoonful soda, six eggs, one nutmeg, one
teaspOonful cloves, two teaspoonfuls Gin
namon, one gill OF brandy.
EGGS IN CASE OF TRoUBLE.-The
white of an egg is said to be specific for
fish bones sticking in the throat. 1t is
to be swallowed raw and will carry down
a bone easily and certainly There is
another fact touching eggs which 1t will
be well to remember. When, as some-
times by accident, corrosive sublimate is
swallowed, the white of one or two eggs
taken will neutralize the poison, and
change the effect to that o. 8 dose Of
calomel.
EPIGRANf OF LAMB. --Braise a piece of
breast of lamb in q stewNpSn with little
water and some onions, carrots, celery,
whole pepper, salt, cloves, parsley, and
sweet herbs to taste. When sufficiently
cooked to allow it, pull out all the bones
ana put the breast between two dishes
and heavy weight on it. The piece Of
breast being quite cold and fat, cut il
out into small outlets, egg and bread
crumb them, then fry them to 8 nice
color in lard, and serve with boiled green
peas.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-12
Kearney's Cue.
Talk With a Virginian.

If Kearney WAS an ordinary Office.
seeking, vulgar upstsTt he would soon
come to grief, but he refuses to hold
Office, and will take neither power nor
peIf as a reward for his exeTtions. This
gives him a moral force which tells in
every contest. In this, Kearney but
follows in the course of some of the
wisest politicians in this cOuntry-Dean
Richmond and ThurloW Weed for in
stance, who were the power behind the
throne, greater than the throne itself.
Kearney is in every way a remarkable
man, but so intense is the feeling against
him that I would not be surprised if
some day he came to a violent end.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-12


They should never be ruined by any
effort to save either care or food while
quite young, Plenty of food, though
of the kinds that are cheaper than milk,
will cause healthy calf to grow and
hold his smooth coat and round form.
What pitiful sight is pen OF calves
that have been Z" knocked on the head
with a churr-dssher?" Cruel made of
-four, buckwhest -four, oil meal, corn
meal and hay tea, and fed with care,
will raise a calf in fine style. There
must be care not to over-feed This is
very important, A hungry calf is a
glutton, whether fed on milk or any
thing else. At three weeks old, or less,
a calf will take shelled corn and oats, and
soon thereafter Will eat hay. Do not
ruin the calves by starvation. The
rounded form once lost is seldom re-
stored.