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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-17

BEpFOHp-Ihcro was a white frost at Bedford
yesterday morning.
WHITE PLAINs.-Thc residence of Leonard Miller.
president OF the Central Bank. on Broadway, was
entered hY robbers on Sunday GIT and robbed OF
silver and silver plated ware. articles of cloth
ING and box of cigars. The front door had been
left unlocked for the convenience of q son of Mr..
Miller who was visiting friends. The thieves thus
gained easy access Cd the house. On the return of
young Miller, tie robbers fled with the booty they
had secured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-17
ACHES AVID PAINS.

For headache whether >icA nervous: rheum1.n nm
lago pains aud weakness the back spine OF Si- pam
around the liver pcuIi. cnps u E' FONTS ain' ~ 10
bowels heartbu and pains u al kinds. RAILWAY th Use
irt " nj AFFORD mme ease. and continued of @ie'
DAYS effect a permanent cure. Price 80 cents.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18
A .Crick In the Neck.

Crick in the neck, stiff neck, or to
use the technical term, torticollis, is
usually the result Of cold or exposure of
the affected part to current of cold air.
The pain is sometimes in the back of the
neck, but more frequently it affects only
one side, the patient being, in the latter
case compelled to hold his head awry in
order to relax his muscles. A patient
suffering from a stiff neck not uncom-;
monty presents somewhat com1cal APP
pearance, and is often made the subject
Of much ridicule and Joking, but for all
that the complaint is very painful one,
and is sometimes very intractable' to
treatment. "a stiff neck in children is
not uncomm monty the cause of considera-
bic elevation OF. temperature, the fever
lasting three or four days Or more.
When the pain Of acute torticollis is very
great it may be! necessary to endeavor to
obtain relief by the administration of
hypodermic injection of morphia, Local
applications, however, not unfrequently
prove successful. Hot lamentations are
very valuable, as, .for example, piece
OF spongiopiline wrung out Of hot water
and applied either alone or sprinkled
with laudanum, or belladonna iniment,
or combination of thetwo. Turpentine
often proves useful in these cases. Over
aflannel wrung out of hot water a little
turpentine should be sprinkled and ap-
piled till it produces redness, tingling
and smarting. 1t is well to bear in
mind that as the smarting. arises from
the turpentine goes on augmenting for,
some time after its removal, the apphca-7
ton should be kept on Just sufficiently
long to excite a moderate degree of PAIN.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18
Died Among. the ~waterIImr l,,,,
From the Detroit Free Press.]

S|SSASAe
A communication from Wilmington,
Del, signed by a justice Of the peace
and three constables, gave the informa-
ton that Asphaltum Spriggins, an hon
orary member of the club, had been
found dead in q field. As soon as the
reading was finished, Col. Pendulum
Jones arose and began: Misser chair
man, de tear leaps unbidden to my eye
at the sad information dat anoder: good
man has passed from airth away. Brud-
der Spriggns was a. man without fault.
He was. up I" Brudder Jones will
please sit down while I furnish a leetle
more information on this subject in
terrupted Brudder Gardner. "Now,
den, I knew de deceased for many long
Vars. He was. simply; colored man,
same as de rest Of us. He wasn't any
more truly good than the rest Of us.
Fact is he was powerful mean about
good many 'fngs, and mono too good in
any. He wos foun' dead in a field.
Keep your eyes on dat. He was foun'
dead in q field, and just benin him was
a bag Of watermelons, and just in front
O. him was spring gun. OATS how he
was foun' dead in a field! OATS de
trooly good sort Of q man he was! I
agree dat no maxi should speak i'll Of de
dead, but dis club am no p1lffin'
machine to kever up dead mems rascali-
ties. Such kind O. work is looked for in
congress, and am taken fur, what it's
with. Let it be understood, now an
foreber, dat any member of dis club who
gifts in front of spring gun in a melon
patch, or drops down in front OBJ a
smoke house door, an not going to be
eulogized heah as hero who lost his
life tryin' to tow burnin' steamboat
ashore. AS men lib SO may men speak
OBJ dem.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18

the fourth eighing4 plouehad 4up-aa
part of the patch, and the result was
that last weeks gain was 10 pounds I
think there is nothing better for hogs:
IL C. ,Gulp. ,..>,.,t ,.~s....,,.. -,
WEEDS, as well as all other plants, are
now making vigorous growth, and the
annual Job Of destroying them has been
commenced. Some farmers appear to do
this with but little trouble, while others
fail every time, and come to the conclu-
sion that they have the weediest farm in
the town. The only way to get rid of
them is not to allow one to go to seed on
the premises: Most Of them are annual
perennial plants depending on the seeds
for their continued; growth. ana when
this supply is cut off they will be very
materially reduced in a few years. One
of the worst nurseries for the pests is
among the rubbish that is allowed by
some farmers to accumulate around their
buildings, or where the wash from the
barnyard or other sources has killed the,
grasses. These must be destroyed as
well as those in the ground that is cult
waited. 10 do this, pull them up by the
roots before, their seeds ripen, and re-
move them to the hog-pen, or the COM
post heap.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18
y . l:5 = Y ~ = =. = - II! 2
The Enqlish Able Seamen

:! A writer upon the English merchant
marine in the Boston Commercial Ba1l-
1eti's says: An able seaman is all that
the name implies. i: He 8 understands his
duty.so-I dremember hearing J,couplet.
which expressed the qualifications of the,
able seaman::q -. 49, io,n 1897 .,.r..E ii
ga ga "Ican hand, reef, steer, '=.'%>
80 's. Eat beef and drink beer,' -.'' =, 49,.
To which Is is sometimes added "and'
dance sailors hornpipe.'", Of course
the great majority Of apprentices become
simply able seamen. Only the best ed.
ucated and most intelligent rise to mates
and masters. But it must not be sup
posed that the able seaman is not intel-i
sfgent or altogether uneducated.H On the
contrary, many Of them are more than
fairly educated; and possess as much If
not more intelligence than the average
mechanic. The able seaman is a travel
Ell, and. knows q great deal about the
names and customs Of foreign countries.
The observation Of strange. things ;.ex-,
pands his mind, enlarges his K knowledge,
keeps his. perceptiye faculties i'll play
and renders him quite an encyclopedias
Of crriosities: he iis what is termed
"good company. . The mechanic may.
be alberto sing q song in 9 public house
parlor or favor the comp any with ii rec eel I
tation; but the sailor can tell 8, story.
and when hesbegins with When / was,
up in the Greciia11 arehipe % !, = 81, Zone
day In the harborof Nagasaki, & 81 One
night when we were beating to the west
ard OF Cape Horn, 4 or g When we we're.
frozen up in Davis Straits.'' the snnp
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18
A SKETCH.


There IL land-a lonely place
No tree or flower - there 10 grace - yys
Its nat and hare and parched face:
And evermore
The dsrk'ning shadows briskly chase
Each other DER.
The gIist'ning streams that were, are not,
Their moistSntng tendency forgot,
And al Around is almost rot - i <
5 = Is For lack Of rain / 81 - =:
To make that dry and hardened spot
SO fresh again.
Tho burning sun lays bare the heath,
And though no trees shade bequeath,
A hidden stream runs clear beneath
That hard dry crust -
And some day bursting from its sheath,
Will lay the dust =: '"--'
That gentle s.reamlet running clear
Unseen, win run until IT'S near
Another, richer, deeper sphere.
And mingling there,
O'crdow the barren place and scar,
- And make it fair. .i3 = 4
A heart though young and ofttimes gay, -
For lack of love, may fade away;
Its own pure tide Is left to stray,
Then nearly gone,
May meet kindred heart one day,
And join in one.
q, Chambers Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18
DR.: HITTER:

:O11 0Co VU8E1cS 0CKVoG9 0G0 0VU119 MVs
regular graduate oftwo Medical has been longer
and Chronic Diseases than other Physician in g.
Louis z: city papers show, and az old residents
Hernia, or Rupture, an Urinary Diseases and
skin 81 Bones, IL Treated Unparalleled success,
latest scientific prncples Safely, Priiyyeattey .,s
tency Is the result Of SefAbusc in YOUTH sexual ex-f
cesses aturer years. other cases, and which produce
some the following effects: seminal ens
SONS DEBILITY, dhe.s defective Pimpe,
con4asiSf 81 ideas, loss ii sexual poer etc., rendering
marriage inproper Or unhaPpy eEe psrMGmsRtly
When is announcement TO visit the city for treatment,
medicines bcscnt by mail or Cur
able cases where doubt exists is frankly stated
Pamphlet tor Nsp, y s:anp;t fer Women, stamp ;:
aarwae lap h.th o Stamns "a pars
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18
r.... Ayers
Hair V1gor,
For restoring Gray Hair to
its natural Vitality and Color.

A Dire s 81 n g
which is at once
a gree a b | G,
healthy, and eff.
fectual for pre-.
s erwin the
hair. Faded on
gray hair is soon
restored to ats
.0r30I,2o7a co7o,.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18

q crop of tobacco on land that would not
otherwise produce a second crop of peas.
The result is very rapid growth Of the
plant until about ready to top, when the
compound is exhausted and the over
grown plant left to feed alone from the
atmosphere or starve, and when cut and
cured is poor, hungry, woody tobacco
that will not keep in supple order.
Until QUE fezners plant ,lsssr sp9,seleet
their beatlandl qSihg sharntrd ,phnl11e
instead of new-fangled compounds, we
do not expect to see fat, rich, GAINESVILLE
tobacco.-E. NJ. F2ack, Hopki,ssville,
Ky.
~" HAD piece of ground that was
terribly foul; do our best audit would be
a wilderness of Spanish needles and
burrs. I concluded to try millet on it.
The weeds came up: on time, but the
mi]let got the start of them and kept
them down, go they made but q, COM,
paratively short growth, In cutting the
grass they were cut off, and it was too
late for the second crop to start that sea-
son, and there was not q solitary weed
went to seed. Had I grown millet the
next season don't think there would
hive been burr or needle left to tell the
tale, but made mistake and planted it
id corn. Although the corn was we'll
cultivated, the weeds came up after the,
last ploughing, and ] fear some of them
will grow. ~ d. Whitnaore.
.sH PLANTED artichokes May Goth, 1879.
March 23d last I turned my hogs into
the patch, and having scale in an adj
Joining lot / weighed them one week
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18

IL
James Harbury was as usual save that
at times he seemed "a little absent and
thoughtful. One afternoon he went up
stairs TO change his every day ooat for =
"Where are you going ?" cried Mrs.
Harbury quickly; as he came down again.
.f'Only into ,Northam! I shall be
hme early"
Lie Into Northam! It's not:marrket day."
emo; but I've got a little business
there about those sheep, you know, Di-
nah Ann, II shall get zthenhsat my oasn
x"6f course you win. 1to,a y ,tal IL:
kal along But I do wonder, you could:
not wait until to, morrow. ....ss+..rt
"Oh-market-d day s always bustling
day; one forgets half ones business OF
has not time to do it. Anyway, I
thought I'd go this afternoon ~ ~,
"I should like Ito .go;s., with. you,
lancet" s.4. s7JaDfrr ~, ~, igtfl. ,.,,1'
MI. Harbur!y received the @,iim,,qpru,lsiyyee
wish with atblank look, and had no
ready answer at hand ~, q, "i y {. -. =.
II want to buy q new silk gown, and
to order best cap, and ever so many
other things. Yes; I will 60 with you,
James. Il won't be five minutes getting
ready"
- But-Dinah .Ann-not to.day. + ]
can't take you this afternoon. You
shall 60 tomorrow, instead. Il, ~ V; &
8. WY can't you take me p 50 re e - ~.
Business, = he shortly replied. And,
his gig being just then brought round,
White Bess in the shafts, he got into it
without more ado and drove away, call
ing ont goodbye to his wife.
TT be even with you, Nj. james, .
nodded she. .si,.i ,isss $3.50, ,.s, i.
The sun was setting when he drove in
again; and round to the stable yard.
Leaving his; horse and gig with Evan, he
was crossing 70 the house when his at
tention was caught by q, huge ypapnm of
block smoke putting out Of the chimney
oFa narrow building that was formerly
made to serve as brew house and wash
house, until the lnrger 0na' vas built.
As it was out 81 ne nov. 'Was not. IN
fact, used for any purpose whatever, or
entered by anybody from month s end to
month enc, MI. .Harbury naturally
thought. Of fire. He rushed toit like 81
madman. u d /. .ss
In the fr,e-place under the furnace !.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18

or 40 debts, the debt 81 nature man ION
wants to pay With a long mote, renewable
Of maturity 1,.'aeys 'sslssls Reporter
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18
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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-06-03

Whom love and affection arc

When love and affection arc ban
ished from homo lifo loses it's great
est charm, Some homes are full Of
love aud sunlights and ail ugliness
aud gloom for tho ones for whom
they live. 10 constitute a truly
happy home, there shonld be pretty
little personal adornments on the
part Of tho wife,who thereby shows
a desire to her husband, and to add
to the general attractions Of her
home. A pleasant word on her part,
when the ovor-worked man comes
homo, often eats away tho raw edge
of some trouble on his mind, and
draws out corresponding desire to
DO both agreeable and respectful,
which characteristics are always
accompanied by affection. What is
true OF manners is true OF dress also.
Rudeness, roughness aud i'm
patience are soon followed by inso
lenee, and when sweet temper gives
away to anger aud discord, the
home circle is no longer attractive
A disrespectful manner on the side
Of the husband and wife leads TO
disastrous consequences.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-06-03
Procrastinatlon.

"Procrastination is tho thief Of
time This we all know, not only
by observation but by experience
The tendency to put Off till to~mor-
row what wo might do to-day is
ono which wo should fight against
and strive TO overcome, for IL is an
evil whose effects are 40 visibly seon
not only in tho present but in the
future also. To.morrow we say We
will do what, il wo would only act
rs wo ought, would DO dono to-day.
Tho poor drunkard sometimes
thinks "uitcr this week I will drink
no moro !" but how docs it end Z
Next wook is tho samn thing and
80 timo goes on. and the drunkard
goes to ill q drunltlrd's grave and
to his Gual account. tho victim Of
procrastination and his own appe'
tito.
Mon keep on putting of tho SAL
vation Of thor souls in tho sumo way.
"Noxt yonr. when havo made moro
money, and tho press Of business is
not 30 great, l will think ofmy soul {;
for tho present tho body and this
worlds goods arc my caro- Noxt
year passos, and tho noxt finds him
drifting with tho lido of worldlincss,
further of from his salvation than
ever. They havo deliberately and of
their own FREQ will refused tho best
gilt ever offered to man. Death
comes and tho gift is offered no
more. They cast tho jewel bohind
them, thinking to find il at como
other timo. Alas their mistake
They procrastinated, and what was
tho end !
Dutios should be met, not ovaded 1;
taken up and borno at tho present,
not put of till uomo other timo,
Cod alono knows whothor there over
will be another timo or not. Lost
opportunities never return.
You have q friond sad at heart
you mean to oflor your sympathy
somo timo, but in tho meantime your
friend goes on bis journey alonc,
bearing burden which Is we'll nigh
crushing out his lifo, unchockorod by
oven kind, loving word from you,
because you have put it on, Shall
il bo said Of us, "Ho hath dono what
ho could" or shall it be said, PRO
crastination ruined him ~
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-06-03
a Fad Girl 10 Harry.

A bad daughter says an exchange
seldom makes u good wifo. If n
girl il illtampcrod at homo, snarls
at her parents, snaps at hor brothors
aud sisters, aud "shirks her ordina.
ry lutios, tho chancas arc ten TO
ono that whon sho gots homo OF
her own sh9 will mako it wretchod.
There aro girls wnO fancy them
sclyos 50 iar superior 10 thor par
outs That tho nero privilege Of en-
ipyinE their society in tho hou7o
onghO to bo all tho oil people
Should hay1 tho ASSURANCE to Rsk.
Wh'lo there mothers aro busy
with domestic duties they sit in tho
easiest chair or lie on tho softost so
frs, ioading on choap and trashy nov
olS,anl cherish tho notion that they
arc very literary individuals. Tho
household drudSory is too conrso
for such ladies as they. Girls of
this sort are generally worry anxious
to DO married that thoy may escape
tho disagreeabloness ola homo,
where thoy aro held moro or less
under subjections. A caller, who
doesn't have a chance to SEQ how
they bohavo rs daughters, may bo
excused for fincyins thom lovely
lovable boings but ono who does
SEQ it is foolish if no commits hiil-
self by Offering marriage to q girl
of this sort. II sho will not assist
her mother in the domestic labors,
is she not likely to be equally sloth.
ful aud ill.temperei when sho mar
rios II sho now thinks herself too
iiuo to work, is it safo to oxpoct hor
views as to that matter would rad,
ically change if she became wife ?
Troy Press.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-06-03
The Choice OF a Vocation.

In tho choice Of vocation thcre
| is ono great mistake to DO avoided
that is of entering what are called
"tho professions, or mercantile life,
or somo other employment, whore
there is but littlo manual labor, on
tho supposition that this must
promise to tho young men n CONS
parativoly easy life. There aro nono
who work harder than Eomo who
are not supposed to work Mt nll.
An aching brain may bo moro try
ing than weary arm.-Tho man
who handles tools often sings Mt his
work but there is not much music OF
this sort in the counting house
where the capitalist weayes tho wei
and unravels tho tough knots Of u
great and complicated business.
Some seem to imagine that
thoughts come sponstaneously, and
that when n clergyman has preached
his two sermons on Sunday ho may
rest until another Sunday recurs-
that tho lawyer when no is not on
gagged in consulting or pleading in
court, is doing nothing and that
tho only work OF physician consists
in driving about aud writing cabalis'
tic prescriptions. The experiment
Of week in some such line Of life
would eilectually cure all such delu-
sions.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-06-03
The Value OF Sunlight.

Whether your homo bo largo OF
small, give it light. There is no
houso 30 likoly to be unhealthy Ms n
dark and gloomy house. In q dark
aud gloomy house, you never see
tho dirt that pollutos it. Dirt ac-
cumulates on dirt, and tho mind
soon learns to apologize for this
condition because gloom conceals it.
Flowers will not healthily bloom
in o dark house aud flowers are, as
a rule, good indices. -Wo put the
flowers I Then, again, light is nec-
essary in order that the animal spirits
may be kept refreshed and invig.
GRATED. No ono is truly happy who
in waking hours is in gloomy
house or room. The gloom OF the
prison has ever been considered as a
part OF the punishment OF tho prison.
1t is 30. Tho mind 10 saddenod
in o homo that is not flushed with
light, and when tho mind is sadden
ed the whole physical powers soou
suffer the heart beats languidly,the
breathing is imperfect, the oxidation
Of the blood ia reduced,and tho con-
ditions are laid for the development :
Of many wearisome and unnecessary
constitutional failures and suffer-
ings. Once again, light, sunlight
l mean, Ia OF itself useful to health
in q direct manner. Sun light IA
vors nutrition T, sunlight favors nerv-
ous function sunlight sustains, chem
ically or physically, the healthy
state Of the blood. Children and
other persons living in darkened
places become blanched or pale
they have none of the ruddy healthy
bloom Of those who live in light.
|.-Good Words.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-06-03

SrIinyIsn Pnn IAwYERa

STUDYING For LAWYERS "A con-
temporary says that tho sooner the
70 ith Of this country are compelled
by tho scope aud tendency Of our
public school system to recognize
that only ono boy in o hundred cau
be u lawyer, doctor or Clergyman
tho better it will be for American
people. To that end it Is essential
that our methods OF training shall
cease to foster tho silly and abortivc
preference for so-called gentlemanly
pursuits--shall sqnarely face the
fact that manual labor is tho sphere
10 which the great majority Of the
human race arc destined TO move. and
that II IL mechauical skill and gem
ius which has transformed the world
aud which should command the
highest prioos in the races Of Life.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-06-03
A Smart BOY.

A young man callod on his in
tended, aud wbilo waiting for her to
mako hor appearance ho struck up a
conversation with his intoudod
brothor.in-law. After q whilo the
boy asked:
"Doos galvanized niggcrs know
much 2
II really cant say, replied the
much-amusod young man
And thon sllonco roignod for a
fow moments when tho boy resume
cd his conversation.
kin you play checkers with your
nose -
"No havo never acquired that
accomplishment
"Wcll, you'd better learn, you
hear mo "
"Why p
"Canso Sis snys you don't know
as much ar II 6alvani2ol niggcr, but
yer dads got lots Of stamps and
she'll marry you anyhow aud she
said whom sho got hold Of tho old
mans sugar che was going to all the
Fourth of July porccssiona aud ice-
cream gum-sucks, and lot you stay
at homo and play checkers with that
holly,hocl; noso OF yours
And when Sis got her hair bang
cd aud cnno in, she found tho par
lor dcsrotod by all savo her brother
who was innocontly tying tho tails
OF two kittons together aud singing
"Oh, l love tho Sunday shool.'