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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09

The following letter has recently oeen
received at the Indian office from Agent
]. Hertford, dated Sac and Fox agency,
Indian territory.
"Henry Jones, our agency blacksmith,
has called this day to make the following
statement: He said that some years ago
he was poor, and that his present prosper
Gus condition in life is mainly due to his
persevering habits Of industry, aided by
the Indian department in giving him a
salary Of 500 year for his services.
Nine years ago he was a blanket Indian,
and spent most Of his time in the rural
sports OF his people, without a care for the
morrow. Being naturally gifted with in
telligence, he reasoned with himself, un-
Rided by advice from others that he lad
at least the intellectual advantages which
would enable him to emulate the white
mans ways in good habits, and he accord
ingly pushed forward to reach that goal
which would render himself and family
comfortable and happy. He has now 100
he:sii of cattle, besides mules and horses ;
s,.ree =, "ood land adjoining the agen-
ey: 40 Of which az in corn good house,
Barn and a well. In cor sequence Of these
agreeable surroundings, he ,es'S thIt ne
can live with less salary than he has oeeh
receiving, and that the remuneration 10,
his services as blacksmith for this fiscal
year may be 5000 instead of 500 as here
Sofore. He desires al the same time to
return thanks for the encouragement he
has hitherto received at the hands ot the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
The Loss of n Wife.

In comparison with the loss Of wife,
all other bereavements are trihing. The
wife! she who fills so large space in the
domestic heaven she who busted herself
so unweariedly for the precious ones
around her; bitter is the tear which falls
on her cold clay. You stand beside her
coffin, and think of the past. 1t seems an
amber colorcd pathway, where the sun
shone upon beautiful flowers, or the stars
hung glitteringly overhead. Fain would
the soul lnger there. No thorns are re-
mcmbered save those your hands have
unwillingly planted. Her noble, tender
heart lies open to your inmost sight. You
think of her now as all gentlencss, all
parity, all beauty. But she is dead. The
head is laid upon pillow OF clay. The
hands that have ministered SO untiringly
are folded beneath the gloomy portal.
The heart whose every beat measured an
eternity Of love lies under your feet, The
flowers she bent over with smiles, bend
now over her with tears, shaking the dew
from their petals, that the verdurc around
her may be kept green and beautiful.
There is no white arm over your shoul-
der no speaking face to look up into the
eye OF love, no trembling lips to murmur,
"Oh, it is too sad!' There is SO strange
hush in every room; no smile to meet
you at nightlall, And the old clock ticks
and strikes-t was such music when she
could hear it. Now it seems to knell on
the hours through which you watched
the shadow OF death gathering on her
sweet face. And every day the clock re-
peats that old story. Many another tale
it telleth, too, of beautiful words and
deeds that are registered above. You
feel-oh, how often!-that the grave can
not keep her-that she will live again.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
II, FIIDA I EV ENINO, AUUOD1 OS
Triumph Of Thought.
(Sight and lnsight.l

The man is to be pitied who has no in.
telectual insight into the truth of nature
but it is sadder thing to see man on
whom all bloom is wasted, who carries an
eve that shaves the twinkle from every
star, who disenchants the light, and when
ever he moves, brushes the halo from ma
ture, 1t was typical Yankee who once
said at Niagara "Well, swan, don't
understand how it wallo?s over in that
way. I'd like to see the whole consarn
unscrewed for about five minutes and put
together again" Thus with some our
universe is one of carpentry-lathed and
plastered together, with consultations
Clapboarded on the sky-and not swim
ming poem and mystery.
We hear lamentations of the decay of
poetic fascination from nature, by the
banishment of the myths Of classic theol
ogy. But we are richer in material to dav
by reason Of our spreading science What
place Of splendors our cold explorers
have been building with trowels Of math-
ematics and the cement of law! And
when their scaifoldings are knocked
away, is it not beauty rather than mason
ry they have been rearing by their toll?
1t is science that detects the enchant-
ment in light Each pulse OF it beats
nearly two hundred thousand miles a
second without jostling the air. Eleven
millions Of miles a minute from the sun
without any visible or conceivable chords
of communication, every inch Of the air
] 49,. I,I Is
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
(Forney's Progress)

To President Jefferson belongs the hon
or of purchasing Louisiana in 1904 from
the first Napoleon for several millions of
dollars, thereby securing to us the unlim-
tied control of the Mississippi river, pro-
tecting all our territories on the Gulf of
Mexico, and battling The occupation Of our
southwestern empire by foreign power.
The fear that he might fail gave Jefferson
painful solicitude, and when it was accom-
plished filled him with unspeakable Joy.
At first he thought Of offering the govern
orship Of the new Territory to General
Lafayette, then at his home in France;
but that idea was soon relinquished for
obvious reasons.
Then Andrew Jackson was urged for
the place, and here we have another evil
dcnce OF old Hickory's unselfish charac-
ter. Jackson was Judge of the supreme
court of Tennessee, and very tired OF that
Office and would have preferred to be gov
ernor Of the new territory OF Louisiana.
He was in Washington while the matter
was being deliberated in Cabinet council,
and vet as he notes, in very badly spell
ed letter, in April 1904, if he called on the
president it ould be regarded as 1.-THE act
Of a courteor," and therefore he "traveled
on enjoying his feelings" And he con.
fessed also that the governor of Louisiana
ought to talk the French language, which
he did not. The discovery OF this here
tofore unknown fact is due to James Par
ton. + 4 i
That was the spirit of our public men
at the close OF our last century. To com
plete the romance, IL years after this let
ter Andrew Jackson won the battle OF
New Orleans, and so saved that great city
from the English, who, defeated by JEFF
ferson in their known desire 10 secure it
BY treaty in 1904 were finally thwarted
by Jackson when they attempted to take
it by arms on January s. 1875
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09

Some OF the wholesome effects Of ju-
dicious use Of newspapers in the school
room were forcibly illustrated last month
in the essays and orations at several school
anniversaries. 1t will be sufficient TO cite
but one of these instances:
For year and more it has been the
practice in the highest grades of the West
Side schools at Champaign, H., to devote
and discussion OF the news Of the day.
"As a consequence" says the County Su-
perintendent, a observed at the late lll9h
School Commencement that the speakers
and essavists drew nearly all OF their
illustrations from recent events instead OF
repeating the trite, hackneyed illusions TO
ancient times, which are so monotonously
common on such occasions. They showed
a good degree of familiarity with the lat
est discoveries in science and invention,
and with those important movements in
society in which they themselves must
soon take part"
These remarks Of the County Superin-
tendent were cordially indorsed by one OF
the most intelligent business men OF the
town, who added 81 could only contrast
this familiarity with current history with
the almost utter ignorance which is so
common in young men fresh from high
schools and colleges, and rejoice that at
last teachers are beginning to appreciate
the immense value of the newspaper as a
text. book in the work of preparing young
peouIe for active life"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
IN. Y. Post.)

Robert Lowe, one Of the finest classical
scholars in England, in an address deliv-
cred recently in the Croydon School Of
Art urged his hearers to devote their en-
ergies TO the requirement of modern
tongues. He said: II am told it is not to
the living languages you should look, but
to the dead that when Solomon said a
living dog was better than a dead lion,
Solomon knew nothing about it, and that
a dead lion is much better than living
dog. That is not my Judgment on the
matter. ! do not believe that by teaching
"a man to know the languages which have
long since ceased to be spoken, and
which are the repositories OF lore very
curious and beautiful, but no longer of
practical application-I do not believe
that by turning mans mind to these
subjects, and turning them away from
the subjects of the present day, you are
doing the wisest thing that can be done
for him"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
PROPOSALS.
WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE.
The Generals Last Visit to His Old
Camping Ground. as Related by One
Who Saw Him.

| NO" iOEh 1liues.J
In the latter part of the summer OF
1896, when his second term as President
of the United States had nearly expired,
and he was about to retire to private life,
Washington concluded to see Valley
Forge once more, the scene of so many
tolls and struggles. The particulars re-
specting this visit an old farmer living
near there at the time related to his son,
who made record of them. 1t was in
the afternoon, he said, as he was engaged
in plowing on his farm in the vicinity of
the encampment grounds, that he observed
an elderly man of dignifed appearance
on horseback, dressed in plain suit of
black, accompanied by a colored servant
ride to place in the road nearly opposite
when he alighted from his horse and
came into the field and cordially took his
hand. He told him he had called 10
make some inquiries concerning the
owners and occupants of the different
places about there, and also in regard to
the system OF farming practiced in that
part Of the country; the kinds of grain
and vegetables raised; the time of sowing
and planting; the best method of tilling
the ground, and numerous other questions
relating to agriculture. He also made in
quries after certain families in the neigh
borhood. AS answers were given he
noted them down in a book, the farmer
informed him that he could not give as
correct answers as he wished, for he had
been brought up to farming, and besides,
had only moved into the vicinity since the
war, though he had been in the army
when it was encamped there. This gave
new turn to the conversation. The
stranger informed him that he also had
been in the army and at the camp, and as
he expected to leave the city in few
months, with the prospect OF never re-
turning, he had taken this journey TO visit
the place which had been the scene of so
much suffering and distress and see how
lar the inhabitants had recovered from its
effects. On being informed that his name
was George Washington he told him that
his appearance was SO changed that he
did not recognize him, or else he would
have paid more respect to his late COM
mander and now the chief magistrate of
the nation. He replied that to see tho
people happy, and the desolate fields re-
covering from the disasters they had ex-
perienced, and to meet with any of his
old companions now peaceably engaged
in the most useful Of all employments
afforded him more satisfaction than all
the homage that could be paid 10 his per-
son or station. He then said that press
ing engagements rendered it necessary
for him to be in the city that night, and
taking him by the hand bade him an
atfectionate farewell, and this was Wash.
ington's last visit to Valley Forge.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
San Francisco the Center.
RockY Mountain Presbyterian }

Webster's eloquent description of the
British Empire is familiar to every reader
but we doubt whether it is generally real
lied that we, too, have dominion on
which the sun never sets. II will hardly
be believed perhaps, without an eXamina-
ton Of the maps that San Francisco, in
stead Of being at the Western limit of this
dominion, is only about midway between
our eastern and western limits; and vet it
is fact that the iarthest Aleution isle ac-
quired in our purchase of Russian Amer
ica is as far TO the west of that city as
Eastport, Me, is to the east of it. Be-
tween the northwestern limit of Wash.
ington Territory and the southeastern
limit Of Alaska there is break Of a few
degrees, but, with the slightest deduction,
our territory extends through 1877 degrees
OF longitude, or II degrees more than half
way round the globe. Hence, when the
sun is giving its goodnight kiss to our
westernmost isle on the confines of Beh-
rings sea it is already flooding the fields
ard forests of Maine with its morning
light, and in the eastern part of that State
is more than an hour high. Al he very
moment when the Aleutian fisherman,
warned by the approaching shades Of
night, is pulling his canoe toward the
shore, the wood chopper Of Maine is be-
ginning TO wake the forest echoes with
the stirring music Of the axe.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
Lying In Bed.


Let us analyze this lying in bed little
further. 1 maintain that in lying in bed
there is something healthy and recuper-
alive to the system. The wheels of life
are oiled and eased. The proper and
legitimate purpose Of stopping in bed is
TO go to sleep. The more sleep the brain
gets the better does the brain work. All
great brain workers have been great
sleepers. Sir Walter Scott could never
DO with less than ten hours. A fool NAV
want eight hours, as George III said, but
philosopher wants nine. The men who
have been the greatest generals are the
men who sleep at will. Thus it was with
both Wellington and Napoleon. The
greatest speakers in the House of Com
mons have been the men who can go to
sleep there as much as thev like.
This explained the Iuvenilitv of the aged
Palmerston. There is a man who has
been attorney-generalw whom | have seen
bury his lace in his hands over his desk
and sleep soundly until his own cause
should come on. "Sleep," SAYS the Greek
proverb sis the medicine of every dis
ease. If he sleeps he will do we'll" A
friend told me that he treated himself for
a fever He went to bed with a large
pitcher of iiem6""ade by his side; lie
drank and slept himself well again.
When you take to your bed get all the
sleep you can out of your bedstead, even,
although, to quote Dick Swiveller's saw
ing, you have TO paw for a double bedded
room, confessing that you have taken
most unreasonable amount of sleep out
OF single bed. You will be banking
whole store of recuperative energy. Even
If you cannot sleep, still keep TO your
bed There is no more pesticntial heresy
than that you should get up directly YOU
are awake. If it is the early riser who
catches the worm, the worm is a great
idiot in rising still earlier in order to be
caught If you do not sleep by lying in
bed, you get rest. You secure the fallow
ground which will hereafter produce
good harvest Sleep is, of course, the
proper employment for bed, but if YOU
Son't sleep you can lie still and read.
l don't believe that the man who gets
up really learns or does more than the
man who lies in bed. If, for moment,
the writer may be egotistical, some of the
hardest work he has ever done has been
from the early dawn till after breakfast
In bed. Of all the sleep in the world
there is none so good as what you get, in
the way OF treasure trove, after the usual
time of waking, when, in point of fact,
you have given up the expectation of get
ting any more sleep. AS for "being
called, as the saying goes, that is simply
relic of the barbarism of our ancestors.
should quarrel with any man who pre-
sumed to "calW me. One of the main
Geaaties nf an occasional day in bed is
that you get an extra stock of sleep,
which goes to the credit side of your
sanitary account.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09

The Cheapest and Best Of all Excursions.
indianapolis SentinelJ

A good way to make Sundays eniova
Bile, as well as profitable, is to devote &
few of their quiet hours to mind excur
sions-voyages of the fancy, which may
be made roseatc by prudent indulgences
of the imagination. These are not rail
road excursions-no tickets are required
Quicker than the speed of locomotive, OF
even the flight of the electric spark on its
wire highways, the mind revisits all the
hallowed retreats of memory. Child.
hoods home, with all its endearing sur
roundings-"lhe orchard, the meadow, the
deep tangled wildwood the PATHWAYS TO
the old school house upon the hill-the
trees where the robins built their nests
the streams that luied us to rest, when
weary we laid ourselves down upon the
moSsy pillows BY the murmuring cascades
and went to sleep. We are in the old
church, aud in the cemetery amidst its
moss-grown monuments, where sleep
those who guided our youthful footsteps
-caressed us-and whose burning kiss OF
affection at parting we still feel upon our
cheek. Ali but such excursions are
grand, and then it should be remembered
they are cheap. 1t does not cost ANYTHING
to 60. 1t is rapid transit on an elevated
quite. They pay. Why not get up to-day
grand excursion to the holy land, to The
sacred mountains, to Jerusalem and the
sea of Gallilee, to Gethsemanee? Whv
not have in fancy picnic on the banks Of
the Jordan2 1t would be refreshing. In
fancy the baptisms Of John the Baptist
might be witnessed, and starting out, a
blind Bartimeus might be heard beseech-
ing the Master to restore his sight. The
highway might be found on which the
Master rode triumphant into the capital OF
the Jews. Indeed, there may be an excur.
sion to-day to Sinai; TO lloreb and Calva-
ry; and at the close of the day, when
twilight dews are falling, the soul may be
treighted with holy memories If the
idea strikes our readers favorably they
may go, with the assurance that thou.
sands Of pilgrims will kneel with them at
every sacred shrine-clmb with them
every sacred mountain, and weep with
them over the desolations that time has
wrought. Nor are these all The soul
may mount still higher. Earth is not its
abiding place. John was not the only one
to have revelations. The immortal mind
may, from the submits Of the de!ectabe
mountains, bathed in the soft light of the
better world, view its eternal inheritance;
its mansion with dome and turret the
streets of gold the jasper walls and gates
OF pearl; the river and trees, and catch 4
glimpse of the Paradise in reservation
for the wayworn pilgrim. Let us take
the wings Of the morning TO return where
evening shadows are falling, and then,
thankful for the days delights, sink into
dreamless rest.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
Glass Thread.
builders Monthly.J

To make fine glass thread, the glass ID
brought to state of fusion, a glass rod
dipped in it and thus thread pulled out,
which solidities first in its thinest parts,
and SO causes thread of uniform thick
ness to be obtained. If this thread is
placed over hot metallic cylinder, and
the latter revolved any length of thread
may be obtained; the thread may be OBJ
tanned finer by revolving the cylinder
more rapidly. The heating of the cylin-
der has the effect of annealing the glass
to some extent, while the rapid cooling,
If wound on cool cylinder, would make
it more brittle.
A bundle of such threads look like
bunch of silk, and it has therefore been
called glass silk. Its usefulness to chem
lists and druggists has lately been brought
to the notice of the French Socete de
Pharmacie by NJ. Limousin. 1t is now
largely used in Germany, and especially
in Austria, for filtering liquors in labora-
tories. In the microscope the threads are
as fine as those of silk or 6brille of cot
ton; they break more easily than the latter,
but are excessively supple.
From the unalterabilitv OF the substance
1t is very well suited for filtering acid or
alkaline solutions, even concentrated, and
various other substances, such as nitrate
Of silver, albumen, colodion, Pelding's
liquor, etc. 1t affords great rapiditv of
flow, with good filtration; it does not, like
filters of paper or tissue, communicate or
ganic matter to the liquids, altering and
perhaps giving them disagreeable taste
1t is much preferable to asbestos, which,
from the arrangement OF its parallel f.
bers, cannot be formed into flexible ball,
and which lets fragments pass that float
in the liquid.
For ANALYSIS it is very advantageous,
allowing Of a ready determination of in
soluble matters deposited; also by calci-
nation and fusion of the glass may be
found the volatile principles fixed in the
passage of the liquid, unmixed with en-
pneumatic products. Notwithstanding
the price Of glass silk is still high, it is no
great expense to use it, as its excessive
lightness admits Of a considerable mum.
Der of fitratons being made with small
weight of it; besides, il may serve an in
definite time, if after each operation it is
thoroughly washed with water and dried
in the air.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09

Set flowers on the table.-a whole nose.
gay if you can get it, or but two or three,
or single fower-a rose, pink, daisy,
and you have something that reminds you
of Gods creation, and gives you link
with the poets that have done it most
honor Flowers on the morning table are
especially suited to them. They look
like the wakenlng of the creation; they
bring the perfume OF the breath of nature
into your room; they seem the very rep
resentative and embodiment of the very
smile of your home, the graces Of good
morrow; proofs that some intellectual
beauties are in ourselves or those about
us, some Aurora Gf we are so lucky as to
have such companion) helping to strew
our life with sweetness, or in ourselves
some masculine wilderness not unworthy
to possess such companion or unlikely
to gain her.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
A Striking Story.
fCia Il a-rI

In the old cemetery at New Haven we
used to be shown tomb of enormously
heavy stones-the grave of man who
planned it for himself in defiance Of the
Angel of the Resurrection. Whether his
impious challenge has ever been met by
such silent rebuke as the one here re-
corded, we cannot say; A young Ger
man countess who lived about hundred
years ago was noted unbeliever, and es-
pecially opposed to the doctrine of the
resurrection. She died when about 30
years of age, and before her death gave
orders that her grave should be covered
with solid slab Of granite; that around
1t should be placed square blocks Of stone
and that the corners should be fastened to
each other and to the granite slab by
heavy iron clamps. Upon the covering
this inscription was placed, "The burial
place, purchased to all eternity, must
never be opened" All that human pow
er could do to prevent any change in that
grave was done, but little seed sprouted,
and the tiny shoot found its way between
the side stone and the upper slab and
grew there, slowly but steadily forcing its
way until the iron clamps were torn
asunder, and the granite lid was raised,
and is now resting upon the trunk of the
tree, which is large and fourishing The
people of Hanover regard it with almost
a kind of superstition, and speak in low
est tones Of the wicked countess: and it
is natural they should, for as stood be-
side that grave in the old churchyard, ii
ccrtaialy impressed me more deeply than
can express.