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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12
THE ENGINE,

Into the gloom of the deep, dark night,
With painting breath and q startled scream
Swift as bird in sudden flight
Darts this creature OF steel and steam,
Awful dangers are lurking nigh,
Rocks and cbasms are near the track,
But straight by the light of its great white cy,
1t speeds thro' the shadows, dense and black
Terrible thoughts and fierce desires
Trouble its mad heart many an hour,
Where burn and smOulder the hidden fires
Coupled ever with might and power.
1t hates as wild horse hates the rein,
The narrow track by vale and hill;
And shrieks with cry of startled pain,
And longs to follow its own wild will.
Oh, what am but an engine shod
With muscle and flesh by the hand of God
Speeding on tho the dense dark night,
Guided alone by the souls white light?
Often and often my mad heart tires,
And hates its way with bitter hate,
And longs to follow its own desires,
And leave the end in the hands of fate.
o, pondrous engine of steel and steam;
o, human engine of flesh and bone
Follow the white lights certain BEAM
There lies safety, and there alone.
The narrow track Of fearless truth,
Lit by the souls great eye of light
0, passionate heart of restless youth,
Alone will carry you thro' the night.
Ella IVheelcr, in Intcr-Occdn.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12
Too Big Comm issIon for the Clerk.

From the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye.
The boys were telling me pretty good
one down at Corning, N. Y, about a
young fellow in commercial life named
Blake. Blakiep Yes, Blake. He was
in the hardware line. One day, when the
boss was at dinner, countiyman came in
to buy some nuts. He found an article
that suited him, and wanted dozen.
Young Blake looked at the price.list and
found they were listed "25 cents a dozen;
30 off," He gave low, inverted whistle,
and then, with a sudden inspiration, he
handed the customer 5 cents and told him
he could buy the nuts at the other store.
"By George" he said, when he was tell.
ing the governor Of the transaction, 81
thought the best thing could do was tc
save the nuts, anyhow"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12
Stories of the Duke of Argyll.

FROM the London Truth.
If one were to meet the duke hurryinl
cityward on foot, and carrying a small
carpet-bog, one would set him down al
once as an intelligent bankers clerk
Meet him in evening dress at Lady KS,
and you would still be far from suspect.
ing that he was the descendant of a long
line of heroes and statesmen. In appear.
ance he is essentially commonplace. II
is only when he begins to talk, or rather
when he warns to his subject, that you
recognize Ulysses. Even then YOU are
Il long time in detecting the yr0nd SeigneWI
His conversation is that OF a ScClar who
has yet seen something of the world,
though in whom the enthusiastic is apt to
prevail over the oppotunist.
But for one circumstance, the Duke of
Argyll might have ended as mere
replica of the Lord Vincent whom Bulwer
sketchcd in "Pelham," a dilettmtc who
had always Il ditluse review on hand, a
project Of party organization not quite
ready, and some brilliant ideas which
just wanted to be put into shape. From
thls iatc ne Vas saved oy passion Tor
llaro WORK, ne Is Simply indetatigable,
anu on 9nSy men their Grotchets and their
asms are also under control
ne ne late otricT1ah4 eT, Co3kson Nthe friend
anu anu Executor Ii u w W NoTISwoth,) OF Is tolu me ne
was wa onee on a hoy@t commission with the
Duke OIL Argyll. l thlhk 'hey had 10 IN,
luire iht9 some r4shet aostruse legal
PolihtS, Pi IN IN a , week, salu s O1?kson, the
puhe nuu 80 nl.SterGH ~ tne subject thlt ne
hlcW nloIG duuuJ u Ihah any Vi us, law
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12

not | myself stood and watched the light.
ed lamp put in at RugbyP And-the car.
riage was empty too!
"Why was ths?" asked the detective,
turning sharply upon me. "Why was
not the lamp lighted?".
But the lamp was lighted and burning
now as senslbly as the othcrs-if we
could have seen it. As we soon discover
ed, the glass was covered by kind of
tarpaulin intensely black and strongly
adhesive, and the carriage was as com
pletely dark as if no lamp had been there
atall, The perplexitv in Davis face was
as great as my own, when | told him who
had travelled here. They couldn't have
lett the train here, at any rate" he said;
and knew that as well as he did.
But you have guessed the end. During
those few minutes that we stopped on the
line, the two thieves-darkening the lamp
even after | had left them, and using
their own kev-had left the carriage un.
der cover OF the darkness, managing their
escape in their black dresses out into the
blacknesS of the night as cleverly as they
had managed their theft and subsequent
concealmcnt, But how could they have
dep .nded on this unusual delay-this ex-
quisite opportunity given them in the ut
Ter darkness, close to the city vet at no
StationP When | officially made my dep,
OsitiOn, something OF the truth seemed to
break upon us ALL but it wasn't for a
good while that it settled into n certainty.
Then it got clear to everybody that the
older scOundrcl had duped us more inge-
niously than the younger ones. As the
incapable old lady deaf as a stone, and
so blind that she had to peer through her
glittering glasses, with eyes always half
closed, and so hungry that had to stop
the train for luncheon basket he had
played upon us the neatest trick of all.
Where'on earth were the thick iron-gray
hair and whiskers by which we were to
have identified him2 But by the time
the police saw the whole thing clearly 1t
was too late to follow up any clew to
him.
The cab which had taken the eccentric
old lady with her parcels and flowers from
Euston was lost in the city, and could not
be tracked. A high reward was offered
for information, but no time ever won 1t.
My firm belief is that it was no legitimate
ly licensed cab at all, but one belonging
to the gang, and part of the finished
fraud. verify believe, too, that some
times now-though perhaps on the other
side Of the channel-those three praCticed
knaves enjoy a hearty laugh over that
December journey by the Night Express.
Davis still assures me, with the most
cheerful confidence, that he shall yet have
the pleasure, some day, of trapping three
OF the most expert and skilled thieves in
Britain. wish felt as sure oft.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12
"One of Them Ere Kings"

From Chambers Journal,
When Naples was ruled by King Bonn
ba, his Majesty one day paid a visit to the
ship of an English commodore lying in the
bay. While the Commodore was receiv-
ing his roval visitor on the quarterback, q
member of the Neapolitan suite cruising
about amidsbips mistook wind-sail for .
pillar, and leaning against it suddenly went
below head foremost The only witness
of the accident, an old tar, thereupo
made for the quarter deck, and having sa
uted, said al beg pardon, Commodore
but one of them ere Kings has fell down the
hatchw2y."
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12

Regulate first the stomach, second the liver,
especially the first, so as TO perform their
functions perfectly and you will remove al
least nineteen twentieths Of all the ills that
mankind ia heir to, in this or any other oil
mate. Hop Bitters Is the only thing that will
give perfectly healthy natural action 10 thess
two urvans. Hutne Faymsr
Creamy whltn hoppetr nra mnfr Nnr
than sny othesh N full dress,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12

The Prince OF Wales finds it impossible
to live on an income of one million dol.
lars year. He has to call on his roya
mamma to pay his debts. Meanwhile
half million men and women and babe.
in the British islands are suffering 70,
bread
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12

People will not be SO very foolish that
they will allow themselves TO be deceived
with q new Cough Syrup whep they have
experienced the value o. Pr, bullS Cough
Syrup fcr many yehrt Price, 20 eeuhi
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12
What Tobacco Is Made or.

From The Boston Transcript.
We have heard the tobacco-user claim
that the weed was food and drink to him,
but never thoroughly believed him until a
British Parliamentary report on adultera-
tion, sci forth the following schedule.
Sugar, alum, lime flour or meal, rhubarb
leaves, saltpettr fullers earth, starch,
malt combings, chromate of lead, peat,
moss, molasses, burdock leaves, common
salt, endive leaves, lampblack, gum, red
dye, a black dye composed Of vegetable
red and llcorice, scraps of newspaper, Gin
namon stick, cabbage leaves and straw,
brown paper" This is convincing. Not
only is it food and drink, but it is also
house and lard, paint shop and literature,
with drugs condiments and chemicals
thrown in dd 10. Verify, tobacco is po-
tent, but little diffusive.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12

Of the reported rupture OF Miss Julia
Fletcher's engagement the London Globe
says: "American society in Rome is just
now much exercised by the abrupt termin-
alton to the matrimonial engagement be-
tween Miss Fletcher. authotess OF 'kis-
met, and Lord Wentworth, In this
TRANSACTION no blame 10 attached 10 the
lady, but the eentlsmsr 10 highly CEN
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12

Gov Davis, 81 Msina, IA m!oi.ts,,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-03
The DOgfish.

Everywhere there was the most exc
cradle character of the dogtish. His
looks have nothing to say in his favor.
This pest Of the whole coast is perhaps
two feet long, with weight of three
to tive pounds, a rough, leathery skin,
no scales, long, pointed snout, and
mouth underneath like sharks, SO
that he tarns upon his back to bite. 1t
is not simply that he chascs other
spcc;es-for all the tinny tribes have
their animosities and v:ctims-but he
is omnipresent, his skin excoriates the
hands if it be touched, he finds means
to drive deep in and draw blood with u
cruel thorn which is said to be poison.
Gus, and he is good for nothing him
self. Such. at least, is the contempt
raneous estimate of his value; but
those eccentric ancestors of ours" said
Middleton, must take it upon them
selves to think otherwise. 1t is not
strange they should have differed from
us in their ideas of religion, govern.
ment, and political economy when we
find them having such unaccountable
stomachs as this" and he quoted to in
credulous ears around him an early
voyager who set down in his journal
that with sassafras he had cured a sur
felt Of one of his men, which was
brought on 10y eating the bellies of
dogfsh, very delicious meat"
The clear bottom about the fish house
and wharf, wherever he went, was
paved with heads and small waste por-
tons of the others, to be sluiced out
by the tides; but the dogtish lay there
at full length, with au ugly foiled-
desperate air in death: and he felt his
foot, as it were, above an arrant bully
and rascal, as he looked down, and
pronounced mental sic Se6iper tyrdnnis
over him. The water on those coasts
was excessively cold, So that it was
rare that even the veteran fishermen
could swim. One day, in cruise in
specially chartered Tiger. we'll out to
sea toward Mount Desert Rock, though
lie knew the temperature OF the water
we'll, he would have jumped overheard
for the refreshnent OF hasty dip in
it, but he was deferred, not 80 much by
the usual bug bear of sharks as that of
these same dogish again. He was told
u startling episode of two men who
had gone down to Matnic Rock--a
satellite CT Matinicus-in the autumn
for the popular diversion among the
islanders OF shooting wild fowl. Shortly
after they landed, their dory went
adrift. and they Saw it a short distance
off
Stay" sal 1 one OF them. throwing
down mis- gun; will swim out and
bring it back" He had gone but
twenty feet from the shore when he was
seen to struggle violently, and throw
up his hands with wild despsiring
cry: My God!" he said, the dog
fish ! Shoot me, and don't let me suf-
fer"
But they devoured him piecemeal. as
the story went, and his companion
could only look on in helpless horror
at his fate Harper's Magazine.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-03
The Sunaay-sciiooI letter.
and Educating Inns -,

Lord Russell, in 1890, wrote ,e.r..
to Lord Lansdowne, then Lord Presi-
dent of the Council, proposing scheme
of national education. and he tells us
that for this letter he had the express
sanction Of the Queen, whose father,
the Duke Of Kent. had been a warm
supporter OF the British schools. The
House of Lords. On the motion of the
Archbishop of Canterbury of that day,
adopted an address against the scheme
and in the Commons the grant was only
carried by majority of two. The
system afterward established Was q
compromise between the friends and
the opponents of popular education +;
aud it was no. until 1870, within ten
years after the centenary Of the found
ing of Sunday.schools that School
Boards were set up. The Sunday
school system was therefore the pioneer
OF tho national system. By its means
two or three generations of the poor
received almost the only education
they could get. While many among
the ruling classes in England were
resisting the cd ncation of the people
the members OF religious congregations
all over the Country were stepping in
and themselves doing the work. 1t is
of course impelfectly done, us teaching
must be which crowds everything into
couple Of hours in the week. But it
was good as far rs it went, and it pre-.
pareo tue way tor better things. For
IA hundred years the Sunday chools
have been great civilizing and elu-
eating influence in this community !;
and, now that their educational work is
taken out OF their hands, they are only
left tho more FREQ to he the means of
that lay instruction of the people in
religion which ought to Illustrate every
effort to lead tue nation back to any
form OF ecclesiastical ascendancy.
LynfIDn Nt,pS
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-03
What IA Prisoner Made.

Solitude seems to he the mother OF
ingenuity and Invention-as the prov
erb says necessity is. Most peniteu-
tiaries employ their prisoners in steady
work, and wisely, too, for few confined
men would make so good use of lonely
cell life as the convict here mentioned
did of his scant play-time.
There is at present confined in the
Maine State Prison, at Thomastown, a
young French Canadian, who is in
generated for the murder of q woman.
During his leisure hours, with nothing
but pocket ana 81 e knife, a file and
milestone, this prisoner has manu-
featured clock which keeps accurate
time. and which is great mechanical
curiosity.
1t has rooster on top who flaps mis-
wings on the hour being reached.
There are also figures showing the day
of the week and month. Underneath is
glass case, three feet high, and two
feet wide, containing two hundred and
forty FIVE figures of men, birds, animals,
etc. These objects 60 through vari-
Gus performances, as small springs are
touched, and music-box plays tunes
at the same time. A mouse is made to
run out from its hiding place, and is
quickly caught by cat. A beggar
approaches man for money, is impu
dent. and after tussel is knocked
down.
A snake glides stealthily over the
floor, and at the door sentinel stands
with sEaall tin cup in his hand, who
takes off his hat and politely bows
when coin is dropped into his cup.
Among the objects are full companies
OF infantry and cavalry, which come out
and 60 through the manual of arms
very finely. The clock is exhibited by
the prisoner while in his cell, and many
are the edd dimes he receives from
visitors.
The Portland Transcript, after re-
lsting the above, says. at the present
time, another convict in the same in
stitutioR is making a very han lso me
dollhouse, with four rooms, the furni-
ture all being in mini ature style. One
set is trimmed with red satin, and an
other with blue. It is intended as a
present for the lady who has played the
prison chapel organ for several years.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-03

HONESTY. A Quaker shopkeepe,
once met a Quaker customer Of his
going home with her bundles. He had
been absent from his place. and had a
notion in his wise head that she had
been trading with rival whom he did
not very much love.
Glow much did thee give yard for
this Mary"
zone dollar"
why. ! am surprised at thee.
could let thee have it for seventy. five
cents. And how much for this 2"
1.-TWO dollars
Why, that was unreasonable. l
could let thee have it for one dollar
and half-why will thee go away
trading with strangers and the world :
people, Nary"
4" I don't know what thee is talking
about, friend John" she said; "but
did buy all these thugs at thy store,
and if thee says the truth thee must
owe me considerable money"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-03
Some Strange AvOcatiOns.

Said witness under cross.examina-
ton: ~ am an early-ealler. l calls
different tradesmen at early hours.
from l till $50 in the morning, and
that is how I get my living. gets up
between IL and /; goes to bed at
and sleeps till the afternoon. I calls
bakers between l and 2-the bakers are
the earliest of ALL" What sort of q
living he made is not recorded. A
pound week, we should say, would be
the outside figure, and to earn that he
would need q couple OF scores of custo-
mers. The early callers fee is we'll
earned, since but for his Intervention
his clients would often lose day 3 pay,
if not be thrown out OF work altogether,
by failing to keep time.
There are men in Paris. birds of a
feather with the chiffonier, who go from
hospital to hospital collecting the lin-
seed plasters that have served the turn of
doctor and patient; after ward pressing
the oil from the linseed and disposing of
the linen, after bleaching it, to the paper.
maker. Others make couple of francs
day by collecting old cork, Which be-
ing cleaned and pared, fetch, it is said,
half franc per hundred.
A lady resident OF the Faubourg ST.
Germania is credited with earl ing a
good income by Matching red, black
and brown ants for pheasant preservers.
One Partisan gets his living by breed
ing maggots out of the foul meats he
buys Of the chiffoniers, and fattening
them up in the boxes. Another breeds
maggots for the special behoof of night
ingales; and a third marchand d'asti-
cots boasts of selling between thirty
and forty millions of worms every sea-
son for piscatorial purposes. He owns
great pit at Montmartre. wherein he
keeps his store. Every day his scouts
bring him fresh stock, for which he
pays them from to ID pence per pound,
according to quality; reselling them
to anglers at just double those rates,
and clearing thereby something over
300 pounds sterling a year.-Cha'nbers'
Journal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-03
New England MOuntaineers.

The love Of the mountaiueer for bis
mountains, said to be common in Eu-
rope, is not the rule among New Eng
land mountaineers, writes an English
woman in the Atlantic Monthly. They
have hardly any pride in their scenery,
and often long for q smooth, fertile
plain. where agriculture would be-
easier and the conditions of lie softer.
Forests are "well enough in their way :"
an indefinite but forcible expression of
depreciation. The struggle for bare
existence, added to the naturally silent,
reserved nature of an almost purely
Anglo-Saxon land largely east coast of
Eagland) race, has developed type
similar in all but religion to the tradi-
tional Puritan. Here and there CLEANS
of more genial life cross the path of
ones observation, and by and by,
when one has lived years in the midst
Of this undemonstrative people, an
insight into their real selves, sympathy
with the necessities which have sad
repressed them, come to change ones
first estimate, and brings before one
another example Of the freemasonry of
human nature. Deep below this crust
of unattractiveHess there are sterling
qualities - honesty, justice. immense
perseverance, patience and endurance,
evenness of temper and faithfulness of
friendship, almost invariably high
standard OF domestic virtue, and q
serious acceptance of life's RESPONSE
bilities. If there is no elasticity of
spirits, there is wonderful steadfast-
ness of purpose, and tendency to
make the best of everything. Home
love does not include surroundings,
even of the loveliest scenery, but it is
intense within narrow circle of per.
sons; though even here, in death al.
most as much as in life, it is singularly
undemonstrative. Behind all the un-
loneliness OF outward life, there is the
almost unconscious respect for duty,
the instructive uprightness of purpose,
and the love for work as the test of
human worth and fitness, which con-
stitute the chief virtue of a manly
race. There are strength and stubborn
ness, plainness of speech and hatred of
roundabout ways, which, if they could
be infused into political life, would
make the government US sound as the
nation. Home Journal.
SANDwICHhS.-.l new way 10 make
them is to boil few pounds of nice
ham; chop very fine while yet warm,
fat and lean together, with an equal
quantity of lean veal boiled or roasted !;
rub dry mustard through the mass in
proportion to suit the taste, also pinch
of cayenne pepper; single Glove Of
garlic chopped with the meat vastly
improves it; add as much sweet butter
as you would to spread on bread sand
wiches; mix we'll; have some nice light
soda and sour milk biscuit, cold; cut
in two and spread the mixture between,
or use mufa MS if you have them. These
sre very nice for Il picnic or festival
table, and not half the work of those
made in the old way, as it saves you
buttering the bread, slicipg the ham
and spreading the mustard, and you
will find that the gentlemen will eat
twice the number than if made in the
old way.
If you ever remarked it, in a case of
public pathos it is only the strong"
men who burst into tears.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-03
A Famine Incident.

A touching incident of the Irish
famine is told by the Dublin Mail Us
follows: As the Executive Committee
of the Belief Fund were about to hold
their meeting last Thursday, two little
boys, half-naked, travel.stained and
barefooted, sought admission to the
castle, stating that they had walked all
the way from Skibbereen, county OF
Cork. to plead for help to pay their
fathers rent.
Not in the least abashed, they told
their story. They we're the sons OF
Pat McCarty, near Skibbereen. The
times were 30 bad he could not pay the
"rint," and he owed eight pounds. He
could only scrape together six pounds. =
The two children, who had seen re-
spectively twelve and fourteen sum-
mers, thought they would ask the good
Duchess OF Marlborough to give
daddy" the two pounds.
Away they started for Dublin. The
journey, upwards of two hundred
miles, occupied three weeks: Her
Grace gratified them by promising to
send their father the two pounds.
The poor little fellows seemed dumb
founded. At last, innate reverence
came to the rescue. and the elder OF the
two gave their native benediction,
God bless your ladyship.'
They were then taken y. the clothes
room, and their tatteTed garments
changed for new suits. Having been
RECALLED with substantial dinner, they
were brought before the ladies OF the
committee, who rewarded the brave
Adventures with a pocketful OF silver.
On the same day, adds the paper,
Mr.. Fitzgerald, Assistant Secretary to
Her Grace's Relief Fund. wrote to the
Rev. J. Wall, parish priest, enclosing
q postoffice order for two pounds, pay
able to Mccarthy, the father OF the
boys.
think that if you observe what JUS
tice and kindness both say to you IN the
journey of life. other people will be
glad to walk with you, and be sorry to
part with you; and that when you get
to the end, you will look back on your
course with satisfaction and Joy r.
W. p. GREENWOOD.