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Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-04-17


"A band of Indians, supposed to be strsg
Cling Sioux and Gros Ventres from the
North, are raiding tho Yellowstone Valley,
captering stock and driving the settlers into
the military posts. Troops have been sent
out from Forts Custer and keough.
An Irishman, in describing America,
said: ~ am tcld that you might roll Eng
land thru it an 1t wouldn't make dint in
the ground, there's fresh water oceans inside
that ye moight dround oid Ireland In; an as
for Scotland, ye moight stick IT 10 corner
an ye'd niyer be able 10 fad 1t out, except it
might be for the smell OF whisky"
The clergyman who thus described an
every day horse transaction was on his high
horse Of rhetorical sublImity;
"You may kindly guide the pranesng steed
TO the crystal brook which babbea down the
hill side in the sun, but you can not eooree
him to stoop and slake his thirst In the sill
yory stream If he be not willing 10 accept
your prOffered kindness"
An attempt will be made 10 the present
Congress to pnss a bill throwing open lands
In the Indian Territory for settlement. Tha
all will provide for the establishment of
United StaIes Courts In the Territory aud for
the surrender OF conditional laud grants, held
by railroads having lines in the Territory, to
the Government. The railroads arc willing
to surrender the grants provided settlera are
permitted to come into the Territory.
1T is stated that Minnesota miller has
invented an entirely new process Of grinding
wheat, which does away with the millsiones
now in use AID substitutes therefor vert.
ealy running granite disc In direct combi-
nation with q crcle segment Of French burr.
This new process produces SO per cent Of
middling.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-04-17
correspondent iu tho County Gen.

"a correspondent In the Country Gem
3enaan sends this formula OF cement for in
Visible patches, which he says may be relied
ons Guta porchs, hall ounce; btsulphuset
carbon, two ounces. In wide mouth bottle
purthe two together, and shake occasionally
untn the guits purcha is dissolved and il Is
ready for use. When the patch Is to be ap.
piled scrape tho boot or shoe until the black
ING Il of and the leather is a littlerough. On
this dust with fine rosin, minuiest quantity;
serve the patch the same way. Then spread
d iittlc OF the cement on both the shoe and
tho patch, first having shaved the edges OF
tho petch. Apply like court plaster, and
smooth with warm spoon or iron and tbe
shoe will soon be ready to wear. A few
hours viii harden the cement. When prop
erly done the patch will be invisible and will
last as long as the shoe. This cementis
waterproof, The gutta porcha shaved 70
thin slices, is kept in India rubber stores for
the above purposes. Ten cent? worth viii
do the work Of family for a long time. TSe
bi-sulphuret of carbon is sold by druggists
and will coat flvo or ten conts an ounce. The
smell, which Is offensive, soon passes on.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-04-17
A Clever swlndle.

A bold swindle was recently perpetrated
on the farmers about Eeensh aud Menasha.
Two men with lumber wagon went through
the country from house 10 house, asking for
samples otwheat to the amount OF a peck or
half bushei, which they said they were going
to send to Chicago for inspection by Keene,
tho great wheat speculstor, who intended
getting up corner on wheat mex. month
and was going to send agents all through the
country buying up wheat from farmers at an
advance of ten cents per bushel in order to
effect the corner. The men claimed TO be
agents of keene. Almost every farmer COM
piled by giving at least half bushel, which
was duly numbered and the ame of the con-
tributor duly recorded, TO give tho trsnsac-
ton business-lise appearance. 1t is said
that several parties were out at the same
time on this kind OF an expedition, and that
when they each got g good biz load OF wheat
they took It to tho mills at Neenah, sold 1t
and skipped out The operators are SO cool
and deliberate in their transactions as to
throw farmers entirely of their guard. One
farmer told them his suspicious that all was
not right, and they laughed at him, and fin
ally made the thing look so straight that he
felt ashamed of himself and dealt them out
halt a bushel with al apology Milwaukee
Sentinel.
Treasurer Gates has fled his new bond,
the securities represent over SJ,0Oo0oO worth
of real estate and it is believed the State is
fully indemnafled from any loss whatever.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-04-17
T. B. Robinson.
ATTORNEY Az Law.

Tonice q pressnt,ln the Court Huuse.l
Probate business, COLLECTIONS, Psrntoning
Lands aud QuioilDe Titles a Speciality.
Have been Clerk OF the County aud Circuit
Courts for ~ years, am familiar with the
Records. hpye The only ABSTRACT OF
TITLEB Ii me county. Charges reasonable.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-04-17
OFFICIAL DIREUToRY.

STATE.
Governor JOHN S. PHELPS,
Lieut-Goyornor II. q. BR0CKMIER
Soc'y OF State . N. X. McGRATH
Treasurer ELIJAH GATES
Auditor TuOM AZ HOLLADAY.
Auy General JACKSON l. SMITH,
Register OF Lsnds JAS. +. McHENRY
Sup't Public Instruction i. ID. SHANNON.
JUDGES SUPREME COURT:
Ten Yeats JOHN W. HENRY.
Eight Years WAR WICK HOUGH.
Six Ysnrs TH0S. A SHERWOOD.
-Four Years VIZ, b. NAPTON.
Two Years Il. IL. NORTON
COUNTY;
Representative SAN LIT HARRISON.
Circuit County Clerk JOEL B. CLARK
Sheriff SCollector- PINChNEY 5. MILLER
Probate Judge rrras'r JAS. II. TODD,
Prosecuting Atty +. O. SWABEM.
Surveyor H. s. BURLINGAME
School OOmmissioner j. NJ. BAKER
Coroner S. Z. HICKMAN.
FOR EQUALITY TOWNSHIP:
Justice OF the Peace AMBROSE BEocRMAE
Constable j. n. sCorr
Pos,-ofice address, Tuseumbis.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-04-17
8sage Valley Banner.
Official Paper Of Miller County.
,A.FULIxEEks - SONS
Rdi,ors, Publishers and Proprletors.

Published Ecery Thursday.
SUBSCRIPTION.
Per PeGr, fiL AdCGnce, 81 90.
Ifnot paid until the expiration ofthe year Sl.25
Office: On FIRST floor Of Masonic and
Odd Fellows building.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-22
Machiavelli.

Westminster Review
Psychological dissection gives one little
real conception ofcharacter. So it comes
about that many of our best DISORDERS Of
character have told us more of the impress
sions that men they wish us to understand
have made upon Others than of the actual
qualities or sentiments Of which they
were supposed to be possessed, and from
these reflected lights of emotion we gather
more knowledge and attain a better in
sight into the disposition of the man than
we could arrive at by any analysis of his
mental faculties, or any enumeration OF
his deeds. We know more of a man after
we have heard him abused or praised by
one who his familiar with him than we
should if we had his whole chronological
development quantatively described. The
genuine sympathy that Thackeray has
with some men let us know more of their
characters than we could obtain from
hours of reading about their badness OF
goodness. There is not much of this in
direct light or contemporary criticism to
be thrown upon Machiavelli. We know
what he looked like. He was small and
slender. His eyes were always on the
alert in his small head. His hair was
dark, his lips thin and compressed, his
nose aquiliHe. A dapper man, with a
keen mind. That is our impression of
him. He does not seem to have many
friends. He was not the kind of man to
make friendships, and from mere ac-
quaintances we learn nothing.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
RlMEs AND CRIMINALS.


Al murderer was lynched at Sidney,
Neb, on the night Of May 10, Four hundred
citizens particted in The act E
The Grand Jury returned Indictment
ments, May Is, against the keepers of seven
houses of prostitution in St. Paul.
Isaac T. Neff, of Anilla, Indiana, went
to visit friends in Franklin county, Ohio,
with 5000 on his person, and was murdered.
Andrew Manning Of Donillsonvill, Con-,
May ~, in quarrel, killed his wife, splitting
openher head with an axe, and then drowned
himself.
Later adyices from Mokelumne Hill
California reveal the fact that the death O
Auditor Maynard occurred aths own hands by
stabbing himself.
William H. Brush a prominent hricl
manufacturer of Buffalo, N. Twas fatally sho
May 12, by his brother-in-law, Ellis Hampton
Cause, family difficulties.
Alexande Cohen, the Milwaukee forg
err, has been arrested in Richmond, Va. Wis
consin officers with requisition from tn
Governor have gone after him.
On May 16, six criminals at Varlou
! points in the country were executed for var
Gus crimes one was sentenced to be hung fo
murder and one, Henry j. Cross, city treasure
of Salem, Mass. hung himself *s&F
At Belvidere, N j., May II, ExStat
Senator, J. B. Cornish, convicted of conspirae
to defraud the county Of $4,000, and j.
8 Sweeney ,aex-chief of police OF Phillipsburgl
convicted of raising county b Il, were eac
sentenced to one year in the State prison.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-22
Mistaken Kindness.

q
The father who for great portion ofhis
life has struggled with poverty, is nnwill-
ing that his children should have a SIM
liar experience. So he denies himself in
diligence in even the necessary things that
he may save and make for his family.
The mother, remembering how, irksome
household tasks were to her in her girl
hood, permits her daughters to lead lives
of ease and Incidence, thinking that in so
doing she makes the best manifestation in
her power of maternal love-
As natural consequence of this view
ON the partof the parents, we see growing
up all around us young men and women
perfectly useless for all practical purposes
of life unable to cope with misfortune.
Intellectual and moral fibre is inherent; it
must be built upfrom within, and 10 the
resultof Independent thought and action.
The sooner q boy can be made to wait
upon himself, the sooner will the germs OF
true manhood begin to develop within.
him. tits no kindness to surround him
with such attention and care that he will
not be compelled TO learn the lesson Of self
reliance, ofpatient industry, of persistent
hope. The real CROWNS of this. world are
the crowns of labor. .s-13
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-22
Asparagus.

You ought to have an asparagus bed in
your garden, and it is high time you set
about making it. Of course YOU like
asparagus; everybody does 1t is delici-
Gus; it is healthy; rheumatic people are
said to derive great benefit from its free
use. | am not going to tell you how to
cook it, that is not my business, but
can tell you how to raise it. Haven't
we a bed, ten feet long and six feet wide,
that furnishes all the asparagus we use
in family of six, and some to give
away to the neighbors who think it too
much work to make asparagus beds in
their own gardens? 1t takes some work
to prepare the ground properly for
asparagus, but when the bed is once
made it will last twenty-five wears.
Mark off bed of the desired size in the
warmest, mellowest part of the garden,
throw out all the soil to the depth of two
feet; then take half the soil thrown out,
and mix it with the same amount of
good compost, and for bed ten feet
long and six feet wide, mix in a peck of
refuse salt, shovel the mixture back into
the bed, let it lay three or four DAYS. and
then plant the seed. Sow in drills. eight
inches apart. When the plants are well
started, thin out to eight inches apart in
the rows. keep free from weeds during
the entire season.. When the first frost
GENES in the fall, cut the young plant
down to the ground, and cover the bed
with six inches Of compost.
Next spring add half peck of salt to
the compost, and work it into the bed,
care being taken not to injure the roots
of the young plants. Repeat this dress
ing of compost and salt every year. An
occasional dressing of lime and ashes will
be beneficial Do not gather any the first
year, and not only moderate quantity
the second year; the third year and after
wards you may cut until it begins to
spindle. Donot cut the young stalks I'M
til they are six or seven inches out of the
ground, then cut with a slanting cut even
with, or just below the surface.
~ FANNY FIELD
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-22
Are Animals Sensible to Ridieulep

Mr.. Sidney Buxton, in one of his
amusing papers on animals, in the Ani-
NAL World for February, says that dogs
and horses are, as far as he knows, the
only animal sensitive to ridicule, while
cats and birds are wholly unaware that
they are being laughed at. He tells of a
pony of his own which gets very cross
when disparaging remarks are made
upon him, and 'sbecomes furious, and
stamps about his stall, putting back his
ears. and attempting to bite" if he is
openly laughed at, while praise greatly
pleases HIM. The truth is that it is only
those creatures which can feel sympathy
with men which can also appreciate ridi-
Guile. The horse syInpathizes evidently
with many of his riders feelings and
amusements, while the dog can enter,
into no small proportions of his feelings.
But birds and cats, though often exceed
ingly affectionate, and fun of attachment
to individuals, hardly ever attempt to en-
ter into human feelings-as Cowper's dog
Beau, for instance entered into the poets
desire to possess himself of the water lilv.
The hatred of ridicule always accompan-
les q capacity fer sympathy. Certainly
dogs, and probably horses, know the diff
ference between being laughed at in de-
rision, as we laugh at fools, and being
laughed at in admiration, as we laugh at a
good comic actor, and enjoy the latter as
much as@they resent the former. 1t is
questionable, however, whether some par
rots 40 not understand and enjoy the
practice OF making fun Of their human
acquaintances--do not appreciate the art
Spectator s-.-s $500
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

Germany sold 100000 worth of silver
May IL, at sgd.
st. Louis and the country west, has
ust been visited with heavy rains, greatly ben
efitting the crops. u ~. W. ~.
The New York assembly has passed 9
bin making six per cent. the legal rate of in
terest in that State. sg8
The bank of Nevada has sold 100000
ounces of silver to the government for the
mint in San Francisco, at 81 1925.
The next general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal churchsf for Minnesota
viii be held at Winona, October 4, Bishop
Peek win preside.
The weather in Northern New Eng
land, May Is, was unprecdtedly hot. In many
places in New Hampshire, the Thermometer
indicated 100 in the shade. Sc 1000
A Berlin dispatch states that treaty
between Germany and Samoa has been pub
lished unoficially. It is quite as favorable
to Germany as it was reported to be-
Reports from various points in Mime
sofa, Iowa and Wisconsin are received show.
ing that refreshing showers have fallen lately,
and have removed all fears Of injury to crops
rom drouth.
Advices from Rome state that the Pope
May 1S, PRESENTED the beereta to the newly
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-22
Shakspeare's Early Married Life.

The Hathaways had lived in Shottery
for forty years prior to Shakspeare's mar
riage, The poet, then wholly undistin-
guished, had just turned eighteen, while
his bride was nearly twenty -six, and it
is often said now that she did very wrong
to wed this boy-lover. They were married
in November, 1889, and their first child,
Susanna, came the following May. Anne
Hathaway must have been very fascinat-
ing woman, or Shakespeare would not
have SO loved her; and she must have
loved him dearly-as what woman, in
deed, could help it!-or she would not
thus have yielded to his passion. There
is direct testimony to the beauty of his
person; and in the light afforded by his
writings it requires no extraordinary
penetration to conjecture that his brilliant
mind, sparkling humor, tender fancy, and
impetuous spirit must have made him in
his youth the very paragon of enchanters.
It is not known where they lived during
the first year after their marriage. Per
haps in this cottage at Shottery. Perhaps
with Hamnet and Judith Sadler, for
whom their twins, born in 1886, were
named Hamnet and Judith. Her fathers
house assuredly would have been chosen
for Anne's refuge, when presently, in 1886,
Shakespeare was obliged to leave his wife
and children, and 60 away to London to
seek his fortune. He did not buy New
Place till 1897, but it is known that in
the mean time he came to his native coun-
try once every year. 1t was in Stratford
that his son Hamnet died, in 1895. Anne
and her children probably had never left
the town. They show her bedstead and
other bits of her furniture, together with
certain homespun sheets of everlasting
linen, that are kept as heirlooms to this
day, in the garnet of the Shottery cottage.
Here is. the room that must often have
welcomed the poet when he came home
from work in the great city. 1t is very
homcly and humble place, but the sight
of it makes the'heart thrill with strange
and incommunicable awe You can not
wish to speak when you are standing
there. You are scarcely conscious of the
low rustling of the leaves outside, the far
off sleepy murmuring of the brook, or
the faint fragrance of woodbine and
maiden's blush that is waited in at the
open easement, and that swathes in ma
lures incense memory sweeter than it.
self.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-22
Useful Family Hints.

Imperiqz Blue % Dye Water, one gal
Ion, sulphuric acid, nelglassful, i'm
perial blue, one tablespoonful or more,
according to shade. required; put in the
silk and boil ten minutes, wash in-a.Weak
solution of soap lather,
Snu6Ies.-As drop of luke-warm water
poured in each nostril will always, relieve
an infant of snuffiing.--F. D.. E. ~
To Whsten Toory.-Slack some lime in
water; put your ivory in the water, after
being decanted from the grounds, and
boil it till it looks quite white. Fopolish
it aftermard, set it in the turner's wheel,
and, after having worked, take rushes and
pumice-stones, subtle powder, with water,
rub it till it looks perfectly smooth.
Next to that, heat it by turning it against
piece of linen or sheep skin leather, and
when hot, rub it over with a little dry
whiting diluted in oil of cloves; then,
| with little dry whiting alone; finally
with piece of soft white rag. When all
this is performed as directed, the ivory
will look very white.-UsefM COnpanion.
Chocolate Eclaiys.-Put one ounce of
butter over the fire, to melt, in one pint of
water; when the water boils, beat into it
four ounces Of -four and let it cook five
minutes, stirring it constantly, to prevent
burning; remove it from the fire, and beat
siz eggs into it, two at time; when
thoroughly mixed and beaten, put the
batter, by the tablespoonful, on baking
sheet, first buttered and then Toured :;
brush the tops of the puffs with beaten
egg, and bake them in moderate oven
about half an hour. Cool them, cut them
open at one side, and fill them with pastry
cooks cream, made as follows: Mix to-
gether in a saucepan two ounces of corn
starce, two ounces of powdered sugar, and
the yolks of two eggs ;then gradually stir
in pint of milk; put the cream over the
fire, and stir it constantly until it has
boiled five minutes; remove it from the
fire, flavor it with a teaspoonful of vanilla
essence, pour it into bowl to cool, and
then fill the puffs with it. Brush the tops
with chocolate icing made as directed in
the following receipt: Put four ounces
of sugar and gill of water over the fire
} and boil and skim until it reaches
the 'crack," which may be decided by
dipping small stick first into the boiling
sugar, and then into cold water; if the
sugar forms clear, brittle candy it il
; ready for the chocolate; check the boiling
at once by dipping the saucepan contain
ing the sugar into another partly filled
with cold water; now stir in an ounce O
tinely-grated and sifted chocolate. anc
brush the eclairs with it; dry them in the
mouth of rather, cool oven; cool anc
! serve them.-C0oking School Tert Book
l Mss Juliet Carson. ["Down East" vii
certainly find this receipt explicit. Sew
!, eral trials will prove its excellence.1
Roti de C1at.-Put parts OF your cat IL
3 casserole with either butter, lard, O
! grease; cook with it an onion OF som,
garlic, pepper, salt, bouquet of herbs
/ and a glass of white wine or the same o
f bouillon; cook slowly. After your cat i
: cooked you may put potatoes in the grav.
or carrots. Cat is really very delicat
food, and differs but little from hare.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-22
CASUALTIES.

A 100000 fire occurred at Lexington,
KY, May IA .-tF III a-l- s
In Toronto, May IA, three children were
burned to death while playing in shed.
Nav, Is Memphis was visited by a
heavy rain storm which did much damage.
John Reddlas of Columbus, o., black
smith, was kicked to death by a horse, May 10
Alf. Burnett, the humorist, had a lee
and arm broken at Cincinnati, May IA, by tt
fall of platform.
A fire at Flint, Mich, May ~, de
| stroyed brick block, and German, aged a
| was burned to death. n~ 5 zess
George McBarney, formerly proprietor
of the United States Hotel at Buffalo, N. Y
fatally shot himself May II. 80
George F. Maynard, auditor OF sal
Francisco died suddenly at Groin Hill, nea
Mokelumne Hill on Fridy, May IL.
| Two children of Frank Carroll, a tarme
living at Vandalia, Ill, were burned to dealt
My II, while playing in crib filled with corr
stalks ~ EaEa Is 81
W.T.. Wood was accidentally shot ant
killed. Sunday afternoon May Is, by Edwar
Kampschulte, proprietor of a shooting CALLER
in Chicago,
AT Easton, Pa, May II, John and Rob
ert Bass, miners, were buried one hundred fee
beneath the surface by the cay
ing of ore at Washing Pond. Robert was take
out dead, but Johns body was not recovered
May ~, there we're fires in Buffalo, n
Y; in East Saginaw, Mich; at Flint, Mich
at Arcadia Mineral Springs, Wis; and at blns
hampton, NY. A life was lost at Flint, al
other at Buffalo These fires involved an as
gregate loss of over $125OOO.
During the progress of thunder stor1
Thursday evening May Is, at Frederickbur'
Ind.,- Samuel Darrell and Josiah Mourning, tW
Dung men who had been working in fiel
and had taken refnge under large sycamol
tree, were struck by lightning and Instant
killed mourning was knocked into the rive
Darrell was found sitting up against the tire