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of his limbs were broken close to IT,
body Charley Hosley and Tommy WEI
in wagon to which was attached tram
tor carrying calves, when opposite Geor.
Fargo's the front wheel struck stun
hch threw Tom under the hind whe.
which passed over his limbs, breaking Their
AS above mentioned. The little sufferer wa
at once conveyed to his home and DR.. Mi
chefs services called into requisition. O.
Sunday the fractured limbs were set an,
if nothing unforeseen happens, Tom vii
come out all right, altho' be will have
ong siege of it.-Spike.
, 1879-12-08
The Mound Builders.

Mound builders relics of singular
interest and importance have been un-
earthed on the Cook farm, three miles
south of Davenport. 1owa-nothing
near so rich as Schliemann's Mycens
find. but as notable for this country.
They are two small slabs, said to be OF
" coal which probably should be
written " shale "-one about foot
square, the other abont six inches, and
both covered with inscriptions on the
larger, o religious ceremony, appar-
emily the worship of fire, though possi-
bly, the preparation for q sacrifice.
There are fourteen human figures sur
rounding q fire, with Joined hands,
while near the fire, on one side, is a
dead body lying in a circle. and on the
other side two such bodies. Two little
circles to the right and left, above the
figures, are supposed to represent the
sun and moon. Surrounding the wor-
shippers are small figures Of birds a. d
animals, Gro wding thickly in the space,
and among them one suggesting the
mastodon. On the smaller slab are
three circles, one within the other. Be
tween the iuner circle aud tho middle
one is a character at each of four equi-
distant points, and between the middle
and outer circles are twelve characters
arranged like the hour figures on a
dial. Outside these circles, as all over
the reverse sides of both slabs. are fig
ures and signs which the learned men
of the Davenport Academy of Science
hope to be able to to make some sense
Of The only account We yet have OF
this discovery is a meagre and not very
clearly-wr1t.en newspaper paragraph
but it is stated that full scientific
description is shortly to be published
by some of the aforesaid learned men.
At present we only say that there may
seem to be some intimation of kindred
with the worship of the Axtecs, with
whom theory generally tries to connect
the Mound Builders.
, 1879-12-08
Returning q Favor.

A tinker was travelling in country
town; and, having traversed many
miles without finding anything to do,
he stopped, weary and hungry, at q
tavern. Here he got into conversation
with glazier, to whom he related his
troubles. The latter sympathized with
him deeply, and, telling him he should
have job before long, advised him to
90 to his dinner and eat heartily. The
tinker took his advice, ate his ill, and
when he returned to the tap-roon he
was overjoyed to hear that the landlord
required his services to mend lot Of
pans and kettles which had suddenly
"sprung leak" The tinker at once
set to work, accomplished the task. le-
ceived liberal sum in payment. and
started on his way rejoicing. Upon
reaching the outside of the house he
found the glazier, who said:
"Well, you see I told you the truth.
I procured you q job of work. and how
do you think I accomplished it?'
II am sure 1 cannot tell," replied
the tinker.
81 will tell you," rejoined the glaE-
ier. "You told me you W. re weary,
hungry, and dinnerless. knew the
landlord was well-off and doing a good
business; and so watched the oppor-
tunity. and started a leak in every
utensil could get hold Of
The tinker, with many thanks and a
heart full of gratitude, resumed his
Journey. But he had not proceeded
many yards before he reached the vii
lage church, when brilliant idea
struck him-the glazier had befriended
him; he would befriend the glazier.
The church, he thought, could afford
to bear slight loss in good cause;
so, taking position where he could
not be seen, he riddled every window
in the edi6ce with stones, and then,
highly elated with his exploit, he re-
traced his steps to notify the glazier
that he would speedily have a very i'm
portant job.
"Sir," said he, "I am happy to in
form you that fortune has enabled me
to return the kindness I received from
yon an hour since"
"How so?" answered the glazier,
pleasantly.
81 have broken every pane of glass
in the church." answered the tinker;
land you, of coarse, will be employed
to put them in again"
The glazier's jaw fell. aid his face
assumed a blank expression as he said,
in tremulous tone:
"You don't mean that, do you?"
Certainly" replied the tinker;
there's not whole pane of glass in
the building. One good turn deserves
another you know"
"Yes," answered the glazier in de-
spair; but you scoundrel, you have
ruined me; for keep the church win
dows in repair ry the year."
, 1879-12-08
pulse is brought into quiet and happy

pulse is brought into quiet and happy
rhythm.
Love is the great bond of peace.
Where each seeks not his own but the
good of every other, where the burden
Of each is borne by all in common,
where the Joy of one is the Joy OF al!
and the grief of one is the grief of all
how can discord and strife and jarring
enter there? This is the ideal home.
This is the millennium. This is what
we hope and expect to find in heaven.
Where this idea of fusion in interest,
oneness in hope, unity of aim. takes
possession of the united head Of fam
lily and is engrafted upon all the mem
bers, there is bond of peace that can,
not be broken. There the whole body
rejoices together and reaches the maxi,
mum of prosperity. vigor and success
N. Y. Ilibuue.
, 1879-12-08
Neglect Of the Eye.

Whatever an ounce of preventive
may he to the other members of the
body, it certainly is worth many pounds
of cure to the eye Like a chronome-
ter watch, this delicate organ will stand
any amount of use, not to say abuse,
but when once thrown off its balance it
can very rarely be brought back to its
original perfection of action, or, if it
| is, it becomes ever after liable to re-
turn of disability of function, or the
seat of actual disease. One would have
supposed from this fact, and from the
fact that modern civilization has i'm
posed upon the eye au ever-increasing
amount of strain, both as to the actual
quantity of work done, and the con-
stantiy increasing brilliancy and dura-
tion OF the illumination under which
it is performed, that the greatest pains
would have been exercised in main
tanning the organ in & condition OF
health, and the greatest care and solici-
tude used in its treatment when dis
eased.
And yet it is safe to say that there is
no organ IN the body the welfare Of
which is SO persistently neglected as
the eye. l have known doting moth
ers take their children of four and five
years of age to have their first teeth
filled, instead of having them extract
ed. SO that their Jaw might not suffer
in its due development, and become in
later years contracted; while the eye,
the most intellectual, the most appre-
hensive, and the most discriminating
of all our organs, receives not even u
passing thought. much less an exami-
nation. 1t never seems to occur to the
parents that the principal agent in q
child's education is the eye; that
through it, it gains not only its sense of
the methods and ways of existence Of
others, but even the means for the
maintenance of its own nor does it oc-
cur to the parents for an instant that
many of the mental as we'll as bodily
attributes of growing child are fash
ioned, even if they are not created, by
the condition of the eye alone.
A child is put to school without the
slightest inquiry on the part of the pa
rent, and much less on the part of the
teacher, whether it has the normal
amount of sight; whether it sees OBJ
jects sharply and well-deined, or in
distinctly and dist rted i; whether it
be nesr sighted or far sighted wheth-
er it sees with one or two eyes or,
finally, if it does see clearly or dis
tinctly, whether it is lot using a guam
tity of nervous force sufficient, after a
time, not only to exhaust the energy OF
the visual organ, but of the nervous
sy stem at large.
, 1879-12-08
The Agitation In ireland.

The clouds thicken in ireland. Dur
ing the last week Mr.. Parnell, NJ. P,
from Meath, and the Home Rule leader,
has continued his journey from Cork
to Galway, stirring up the people, if
not to actual rebellion. to something
very like it. Four monster county
meetings have been held, numbering
from Is, 600 to %, 900 people, to whom
Messrs. Parnell, Colhurst and a priest
named Magee made infammatory
speeches, advising the farmers to stand
together and refuse to pay the rent,
not to allow themselves to be exter-
minated by starvation-to adopt a
policy of passive resistance "though," :"
Mr.. Parnell suggested, Significantly,
"you have the physical strength to
back your right if necessary" The
usual response followed of vindictive
cries of "Shoot the landlords !" "Cold
leads the only cure" etc. England
has taken the alarm at these demon
strations, and several large bodies of
cavalry are stationed at Liverpool ready
to proceed to Ireland at notice. There
can be no doubt that there is suffering
in Ireland from the failure of crops,
but it ia just as certain that this distress
is greatly exaggerated by Mr.. Parnell
and his aids, in order to bring the
chronic antipathy of the Irish to Eng
land to white heat, that they may use
it for their own purposes. Mr.. Parnell
is a shrewd politician. His last pro-
posal is to call q monster National
Convention, instead of the Central
Home Rule League. In the League
Mr.. Parnell has not, it appears, had his
own way, but he expects to direct the
Convention as he chooses. Parlia-
ment but recently. in q spasmodic
burst of generosity to Ireland, re-
pealed the act which made Irish po-
litical conventions illegal, and Mr.. Par
nell at once uses the accorded privilege
by summoning this national convoca-
ton. Whether, as he preteuds, it is to
be used to explain clearly the condition
and wishes OF Ireland to the Govern
ilent, or is assembled for revolutionary
purposes, remains to be- seen. Probably
Mr.. Parnell himself will not be able to
decide the question. He plays with
fire whenever he unde rtakes to manipu
late Irish temper and prejudices. An
assem- blage such as he summons in this
convention of Federallsts, Old Repeal
ers. Young Irelanders and Fenians
would, we suspect, be an explosive
mixture beyond his or any mans con-
trol.-N. Y. Tribune.
, 1879-12-08

CHILDRENs GAMEs.-Where do chill
dren's games come from? Are they in
vented deliberately, or are they the re-
suit of evolution? One theory is that
they come where our language and our
fairy stories aud even our nursery
rhymes originally came from, where all
such things come from-from 1.-THE
cradle" of the human race-from Asia.
Battledore and kite-fying are compare
lively modern European games. and are
known to come from Asia, where adults
fly kites-monsters of the most fantas-
tic shapes the owners make
fight in the air, bearing down and de-
stroying one another, or cutting one an
others strings. The South Sea Island
ers are adopts at kite-fying, accom-
panying it with solemn ceremonial
chants. In Borneo, Mr.. Alfred Wal
lace once undertook to teach the chill
dren the game of cats cradle" They
knew more about it than he did; while
the New Zealanders can, with its va
rious patterns, represent canoes. houses,
people and incidents in Maori life. In
the South Sea Islands and New Zealand
the natives know how to play kind of
checkers, which is believed to have
been derived from Asia.-Detroit Free
Press.
, 1879-12-08
David's Lament.

The beauty of Israers fallen,
Her flowers are crushed in their bloom,
The strength of the mighty is broken,
Rejoicing is changed into gloom.
Oh! Let not the goddess e'er triumph
Ger the Lords own anointed laid low
Oh N'er let the daughters of Gazs
Exult in an Israelite's woe!
Ye mountains that frown o'er Gilboa!
Ne more shall the silvery rain
Be sprinkled with moistening profusion
On the ground where monarch was slain.
Like lions those warriors were standing,
Defying the foe to the end;
Like lions those warriors persisted,
No knee to the Gath would they bend.
HYDE PARKER.
, 1879-12-08
A Cheerful Wifo.

Better than gold to man is a cheer
fui wife. But he must do his part
toward making her cheerful. 1t is easy
enough for man to marry a happy
woman. But the bride expectant, when
she thought how happy she would be,
never contemplated the picture of a
husband coming home cross as bear,
and going to bed without speaking to
her; she had never thought of the long
evening when he would not come at all !;
or his bringing some one home to din
ner without warning or preparation; or
his awful profanity over SO trifiing q
matter as her little bill of expenses.
She had no idea, in fact, there could be
anything but happiness in married life,
and she had determined to be happy
and to distribute her happiness to those
about her. 1t is not often her fault if
she doesn't succeed. Men, as a rule,
do not exert themselves to secure their
wives happiness. They know that it
requires great and constant effort to
possess property and be secure in its
value in the midst of constant CONNER
cial changes. The cheerfulness, the
happy, hopeful character which every
woman displays at the beginning Of
marriage, is not SO easily lost as for
tune; it requires but small share. A
word 60 the girls in this connection is
in order: Beware of the man who
doesn't know enough about cheerful
ness to understand its value in daily
life. Such a man would improve the
first Opportunity to grind the cheerful
ness out of his home, to frighten sun-
beam into shadow, and then wonder
what is the matter. Such is no better
than NJ husband at all; and when you
want husband go find somebody else
somebody who will give you at least
some chance to be happy far into the
life beyond the honeymoon.
, 1879-12-08
Pueblo, Colorado.

The emporium of the cattle trade of
Southern Colorado is still young, aud
it's growth was retarded by the
panic;'' but it ls now getting its full
share of the prosperity which has come
to the Centennial State, and the twen-
ty-fve people who we're there in 1865
have grown to between six and seven
thousand. 1t has two daily papers, two
railroad depots. two national banks,
with goodly lists of stock raising de-
positors, and two school houses in jux-
Opposition, sketch of which will give
a good idea OF tne old and the new in
Pueblo. Like many other Western
settlements, it has had, too, its baptism
of blood. 1t was trading post of
stout old William Bent, and became
other than this only in 1858, when the
gold excitement began, and Pixies
Peak or Bust" was the motto painted
on the canvas cover of each prairie
schooner, or emigrant wagon. One
may still see, near the handsome stone
station Of the Atchison. Topeka, and
Santa Fe railroad, the remains of the
old fort into which, when, on Christ
mas day, 1854, the residents, thought
less of danger, were gathered around
the fire and enjoying the festive season,
the Ute Indians broke, with brandished
tomahawks and wild war cries, and
massacred nearly all.
Throughout the region of country
tributary to Pueblo-where are found,
besides the nutritious grasses and run
ming streams, which are indispensable,
a genial climate and mild winters-are
scattered cattle ranches, great and
small, including the immense Craig
property, often mentioned in Eastern
papers.-A. A. HAYES, JR., in Harpsr's
Magazine.
, 1879-12-08


PAPER FROM PoPLAR.-1t surprises
people to see the great logs of poplar
wood 60 through the powerful machiue
at the Connecticut River Pulp Mill, at
Holyoke. The wood, as it is brought
to the mill, is about the size of cord
wood used for fuel, and in this shape
the machine takes it and gnaws it up
very fine. So rapidly does this process
go on that the machine eats about seven
and a-half cords of wood q day, and
this makes between three and four tons
of pulp. Alter coming from the ma
chine the wood is put into watts aud
reduced by the &C ion of chemicals. It
is used for tie manufacture of book
and news paper. The wood is obtained
mostly from Caaada.-Boston Tran
script.
, 1879-12-08

NERVOUS FAILURE.-When men do
not die of some direct accident If dis
ease they die, in nine cases out of ten,
from nervous failure. And this is the
popularity of nervous failure it
may be fatal from one point of the
nervous organism, the rest being sound.
A man may, therefore, wear himself
out by one mental exercise too exclu-
sively followed, while he may live
through many exercises extended over
far greater intervals of time and in
volving more real labor if they be dis
tributed over many seats Of mental
faculty.
, 1879-12-08

SpICED BREAD CAKE.-Take one and
one-half teacups of dough after it is
raised for bread, add to 1t one cup of
butter, two cups of brown sugar, two
thirds of cup of raisins, stoned and
chopped. Que tablespoonful each Of
cloves, cinnamon and allspice. Mix
thoroughly and let it rise before baking.
, 1879-12-08

A Southern girl who has seen better
days as q member of one of the first
families of Virginia, is now earning her
living by plying an awl at the shoe
makers bench in Petersburg. She
served an apprenticeship of four years,
and, it is said, can now turn out as
good shoe as any man in the business
who has not had more experience. She
is now thinking of manufacturing shoes
on her own account, and if she can find
suitable one, she may be induced to
accept male partner, provided he will
agree not to make love to her and offer
to dissolve the mercantile partnership
and go into q domestic one.
, 1879-12-08

ANGEL CAKE.-The whites of eleven
eggs. One cup of -four after sitting;
one teaspoonful of cream tartar. Sift
the -four and cream tartar four times;
beat the eggs to stiff froth, and then
beat in one and one-half cups of sugar,
and teaspoonful of vanilla. Add the
-four and beat lightly but thoroughly.
Bake in an ungreased pan, slowly for
forty minutes. The pan should have a
tin strip projecting above each corner,
in order that when it is turned over to
cool the air may circulate freely under
it. Cut it out when cool.
, 1879-12-08

No wonder that debt makes men
criminals. ,hardens the hear.
, 1879-12-08

In the fourth place." said the
preacher to his drowsy audience, 'those
of you " ho are awake will notice etc.
There was pause, sudden straighten-
ing up of almost every body in the con-
gregation and general appearance on
nearly every face as if to say, "why
don't you fellows keep awake better ?"
, 1879-12-08

When a mans temper gets the best
of him it reveals the worst of him.
, 1879-12-08

JEWS IN JERUSALEM Christian
Herald, of London, reports that Sir
Moses Montefore. who has often been
in Palestine with a view to the improve
ment of the Jews. and for whom he has
expended large sums OF money, is now
seeking to secure the re-establishment
Of his race at Jerusalem, and has taken
steps to restore the city. He recently
gave orders for the cultivation of all
the land in front of the Judah Torah
houses. The rocks will be removed,
terraces will be built as they probably
existed in the time of King Solomon,
and divided into twenty-five portions,
SO that every inmate of the Torah
houses may cultivate the necessary veg
etables for himself and family. Sir
Moses has also caused very large cis-
tern to be constructed in the centre of
the field, which will secure full sup
ply of water.
, 1879-12-08

Boston has the largest Swedenbor.
gian church in the world.
, 1879-12-08

The World il making q toom."
, 1879-12-08
JOSH Billings Philosophy.

If yu want to git at the aktusl valt,e
ov q pekok, buy a bob-tailed one and
wonder if his tale will ever gro out.
The man who il never ashamed to
borrow, will, after while, git so that
he amt ashamed to beg.
Sho me the kind ov fun, or humor,
that man likes best, and will photo
graf his karakter for you.
The more a man knows the more he
haz got to kno to be very wize.
It amt 80 mulch what man kan Lift
az what he kan hang onto, that shows
hiz strength.
Ideas are what win, but ideas even
NAV be smothered in words.
1t IL the sting ov the hornet that
makes him respectable, and the want
ov it that makes the butterfly failure.
A ded man haz this advantage over q
lazy one, he takes up less room.
A married man with hiz hare parted
in the middle, and hiz wife hanging on
hiz arm with her hare banged, IL
sight that makes me weak to behold.
Either yure children must be made
to mind yu. or yu will be made to mind
them-which shall it be?
The world asks ov man, What
kan yu do?" ?"-good men ask ov him,
What hav yu dun?"
The man who wears out hiz life IL
like smoothe shilling, he keeps bri'e
all the time, and IL worth hiz face
tto last.
Thare il nothing which so mutch
abhor as sekret, never accept ov one
willingly, and no man who iz really
yure friend will ever ask you to. keep
sekret for him.
FULL MoURN1NG.-A Philadelphia
clergyman, Rev. Mr.. Macleod contends
that there isAneither health, sense nor
religion in full mourning. He tells
his congregation that a bit of black
ribbon, worn in some way, will tell the
story of bereavement just as well as
complete mourning suit. A bit of Grape
on the bell-puil gives the hint to those
who pass by, and it is not considered
necessary to cover the whole front with
black drapery. Why, then, will not a
bit Of ribbon on cloak or coat answer
the purpose, and weight Of usual ex-
pense and q costume that is always
gloomy and, in warm weather, very un-
comfortable, be taken from the shout
ders of bereaved mourners? Chris
tians, he is convinced, ought not to take
a gloomy view of death. There are
glorious hopes linked with the so-rows,
and the hopes of those who are gone
before should be symbolized rather
than the SORROWS of those who are left
behind. He would have cheerful gar
ments worn by mourners in token of
the triumph OF the glorified ones, and a
bit of ribbon or Grape as simple
memorial of their own sense of be-
reavement. The rest of the full mourn
ing he would send to the heather, who
in their sorrow at the grave have no
hope.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-02-13

Above brand on left hip. Young
stock, on left hip and side, waddle on
the nose. Also own Or on lett side.
Horse.brand, J on left shoulder, Two
inch letter.