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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-29

SENATOR BLAINE put his foot into
a sharp trap on Monday when at the
close of Senator Jonas scathing re-
view of Kellogg's record, he undertook
to break its force by charging upon
the majority "a shameless assertion of
sectionalism and defiance of honora-
BILE agreement" that the case should
not I've resurrected. There was not a
Senator OH the floor, he said, who did
not know that Butler, of South Caro-
lima, could never have been seated had
not Kellogg been admitted. This call
ed forth disclaimers from the Senator'S
of any such agreement, and scathing
rebuke from Senator Bayard for max.
ing charges against Senators which
had no foundation in fact, and of
which Mr. Blaine had no evidence to
present other than an article in q
southern newspaper. The misfortune
Of the Maine Senator is, perhaps, that
he is not a lawyer and cannot proper
ly estimate the value of evidence, but
the reminder of Mr.. Carpenter, . few
days ago, ought to have suggested to
him a little discretion at least, in the
presence of the eminent men surround.
ing him. He was badly Aoored.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-29

We took the liberty at the time,
says the New York World, of doubt
ing whether the collapse of the opposi-
ton in Maine at the spring elections
was quite as complete and awful as
the Republicans represented it to be,
and the event proves that we were
right. The Tribune's correspondent
says that the elections were "more
closely contested than usual" and
that the Greenback party "has not
lost much strength apparently" sew
eral new Greenbaek papers have been
started, and on the whole this is to be
"a very exciting year" The original
comment of the World in 1878 was
that the opposition derived its strength
and earnestness from vehement hatred
of the methods of the Republican lead
ers, and that the so-called "Green-
back" movement would not cease TO be
formidable until the Republican ring
bad been finally smashed. Events are
showing that we were not far wrong.
Mr.. Blaine should take care of his
own State while fishing for the States
of other candidates.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-29

PRoP. SEELyE, Of Massachusetts,, is
one of the delegates elected to the
Chicago Convention He is credited
with the declaration that the electoral
vote of Louisiana did not belong to
Mr.. Hayes. The declaration is GER
tainly entitled to respect for its truth
fulness and candor. But it does not
SO impress the stalwarts, and they ex-
press great doubt as to the propriety
of permitting him to represent the
Republican party in n Republican
Convention. An honest man, with
honest impressions, would perhaps be
out of place in such body. But if
they rule out all who believe as the
Professor, where would they find men
of sufficient intelligence to compose a
convention of even Republicans ? All
believe that Hayes is the spawn of
fraud. Indeed no one doubts it.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-29

THE last reason given, according to
a Washington correspondent, in favor
of a third-term, comes from Judge
Mackey, of South Carolina. He IA
vors the nomination of Grant, because
if elected, he will create a war With
Mexico in order to extend the terri
tory Of the United States and add new
States to the South. The Judge furth-
er adds with great humor, says the
correspondent, that with what the
Southern whites have learned from
the carpet-baggers they will he able
to carpet-bag into these new States and
make New England grit its teeth by
showing what can really be done in
the way of clearing out a conquered
territory"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03
Joined the Silent Majority.

"Men die an ar known no moar,"
began the President of the Limekiln
Club, as stiffness reigned throughout
the hall. cit am my painful dOoty to
inform dis club dat de Hon. Cumback
Slathers, an honorary member residing
at South Bend, has passed ober de dark
ribber. He has often visited dis club
an worked on the twenty-ninth degree
wild us, an he was calkerlatin' to re-
move to dis city mex month an enter
upon a vigorous career of whitewashin'.
Cumback Slathers was not great man.
He wasn't a man who would cher save
the kentry or ruin it. He neber sot in
de Legislature an he was no orator.
He had no horn to toot an no ak to
grind. He was simply plain man
one of de millions of common pebbles
on de shore of Times great ocean wait
in to be gathered. Outside of little
circle of friends no one will miss him.
Some oder man will walk in de paths
followed out by his footsteps. Some
oder pebble will be washed upon de
shore to take de vacant place, an de
big world will roll on jist de same as If
SIGH a man had never moved among us.
AS a club we do not believe in eulogies.
Men am what dey am, an dyin' doan'
put angels wings on de shoulders of
sinners. Let me simply say of our dead
an gone brudder dat he used men jist
as men used him, which is principle
dat knocks de golden rule sky-high any
day in de week. 1 found him honest,
truthful, charitable; an he was man
who fully realized de fack, when form
in an opinyun of oder men, dat while a
ten fousan' dollah damon kin be car
ried in the west pocket, it takes big
vehicle to tote along score of empty
bar'ls worth twenty cents apiece"
The usual resolution of sympathy
was then passed, the brothers account
squared on the books, and the Glee
Club sang:
PLAY de fiddles slow and softly,
Let your voices all be low,
Death has reaped anoder harvest
Chant de requiem soft an low.
Through de dark an misty valley
| Der de ribber dark an wide;
Jinin' wild de great purceshun
Marchin to de oder side.
-LefyOi Froe Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03

"Now, if you please" he said, grave
ly, at last, 81 will take that letter which
saw you had addressed to me-"
"A letter addressed to your she said,
looking up then, spark Of the old
spirit half eclipsing that new light which
had dawned in her face.
Angel, how much longer
Longer! wish you would tell me-"
she said, "how long I have been here
already, and whether it is to-day or to-
morrow, and what"
Chow much longer" he cried again,
"do you want to torment me? 1 could
claim you as my property by all the
laws of salvage" he said, stepping to-
ward her: ''But it isn't necessary, for
l read the letter as you held it in your
hand before threw the rope over you.
You signed yourself my Angel, You
said you would be a good wife to me-"
"Well-I-will." said little Angeli-
ca. And her face grew so rosy red that
she had to hide it, whether she would
or no, in the first shelter at hand-and
it it was her lovers arms, how was that
to be helpedP
1T wasn't such a bad Maying, on
the WHOLE she said, presently, as they
went their way home together. "'After
all, the American flora isn't much be-
hind the wayside hedges in Kent. I
didn't get much of anything but q
fright and cold to be sure, and of
some love-in-idleness, but you got an
armful of Angelica"
"The sweetest flower for me-" he
said, "that blows under heaven. -
Harper's B0zdr.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03
flor nonng Beadtfs.
The CANARY's MUSIC LESSON

Now teach me your song, Canary" said
Maud with the roguish eyes,
And when father comes home with mother,
I'll give them such a surprise:
They'll think 1 am you, Canary, and wonder
what set you free,
And nearly die a-laughing, when they find it is
only me.
Teach me your song, Canary; I'll whistle It II
Now open your throat, dear Tiptoe, and sing
like a little man..
Tiptoe, the pretty fellow, cooked up his bright
As if to say, Little mistress. it will do you no
harm to try.
polishing OF his bill,
Broke into rapture of singing that ended on
with a trill;
And Maud, with her head bent forward. sat
And fast as he sang she whistled, till gathered
the twilight gray.
Then she crept down to the parlor as quietly
The maids were in the kitchen. and no one
And when the key in the doorway the dear
little mischief heard,
She whistled away 50 sweetly, they thought it
Hither and lhiiher she fitted, behind the sofa
Her mother cried, " Mercy, Edward! the birdi
Is the cat dow-staiisr
Wildly they stared around them, till, ats
me, it is me, papa"
then what a loud "Ha, hat
Rang through the room. Her father, con-
vulsed, on the sofa sat;
Gravely, appeared among them their sober
Maud merrily laughed and shouted, "a cum
ming old cat like you
10 think you should mistake me for a little
-Hdrpcr's Young People.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03
Sc ScOurs'' in Calves.

This disease, so fatal to young calves,
is most common where COWS and calves
are housed and among calves brought
up artifcially. Apart from hereditary
tendency and the new demands on the
digestive functions of the young thing,
it is mainly due, especially in calves
brought up at the pail, to long fasts
and subsequent rapid gorging, or being
compelled to drink sour, stale milk,
sometimes given too warm. Some
times, even when fed naturally, the
milk contains injurious matters, owing
or having access to foul water, or on
account of the milk having been re-
tanned too long in the udder. The
ness, disregard of food and abdominal
fullness, with fluid, bad-smelling yellow
or whitish faces discharged with vio-
tient should be removedto clean, airy
but warm box. If put on the milk of
farrow COW, it should have that of one
that has calved more recently; and if
the health of the nurse fails or the bag
cakes, the calf should be supplied from
a more healthy source. If the little
thing is given to rapid drinking, an ar
tificial teat in the pail for it to suck at
will partially remedy the habit. The
stomach should be cleared of irritating
food and acrid discharges by dose of
one or two ounces of castor oil and q
teaspoonful of laudanum. If the skin
or membranes of the mouth, nose or
eyes, are of yellowish tint. two grains
of calomel and twenty grains or chalk
may be added and repeated daily for
some time. A tablespoonful of tincture
of cinnamon, with twenty grains each of
chalk and gum arabic, will be an excel
lent addition. Finally, if the abdomen
is tense or tender to the touch, it should
be rubbed over with a thin pulp made
of the best ground mustard and tepid
water, and covered with bandage to
prevent drying until it has taken effect
on the skin.-RurdL NeD Yorker.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03

ing and listened. Very soon the sound
was repeated. nearer and louder than
before, and this time leaving Tom In no
doubt regarding it. He looked in the
direction from whence the noise came,
and there, showing plainly In the light
which flashed out upon him, was huge
black bear, his eyes glowing, and show
ing an evident intention OF coming In
without an invitation.
Tom did not long hesitate what to do.
His descent from the leg was remark
ably speedy movement, and forgetting
his brother Dick, who lay in blessed un-
consciousness, he darted for the open
ing the opposite of that by which the
bear was entering, expecting q vigorous
race. A few moments after. - ne ran.
he thought of Dick, and without con-
sidering his own weakness in the event
of an encounter with the enemy, he
turned back. The bear had either not
commenced the pursuit, or had given 1t
up, and Tom feared that he might have
found poor Dick and be even then max
ing q meal of him. Returning toward
the mill, and keeping behind the trees
as he went, he at last got to o place
where he could see the whole interior,
and there, to his establishment, was the
bear seated on the log making free with
his supper, while Dick lay still snoozing
undisturbed. lf
The bear rather prolonged his meal.
as if he relished it, while the log was
travelling toward the saw. The animals
face was turned from it, and, as he fin-
ished the last crumb. he swayed his
body from side to side with show OF
satisfaction, and arose upon his hind
legs as if he were about to dance. At
that moment the saw struck him from
behind, whereupon he turned with
howl of pain which brought Dick to his
feet, and, throwing his arms about the
traversing saw, in q moment he was
dead, his blood smearing the log on
which he lay.
Tom rushed in just as Dick rushed out.
They met furiously in the doorway,
each throwing the other down, and
each cried out Helpr' as loud rs he
could. Their father heard the sound at
the house, and in a moment they heard
his feet in the lane. He reached them
almost as soon as they had recovered
their feet. lnal
"Well, boys, what's the matterP"
said he. .-l,
"MatterT' cried Tom, "just look In
there! I've sawed q big brute Of q bear
all up into venison stdkesr'
Mr.. johnson and his boys hurried In
and there was the monster most hap
PLY cut up for use; and the old man
complimented his boy on the neatness
of his execution, which would bear adj
miring scrutiny as a work Of art; in
deed, better he never saw.
Such is the story that was told to me
while sojourning in the village Of John
President of the bank, and last year
representative of the General Court,
was pointed out to me as the identical
Tom who served up the bear. Dick
was running wooden mill up in New
Hampshire, q prosperous and worthy
citizen.--B. p. Shillabcr. IN Nay Vide
AUdke.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03
THE EDITORS SHOES.

~ an unseen hand propelled one day,
yer an area gate came pair of old shoes,
And when they landed there they lay,
But little apart in the alley 8 refuse.
a rev minutes passed, them like the wind
That mournfuly whistles lorn and lone,
DOWN the chimney in winter two voices were
And this their story in cracked minor tone:
were the editors shoes, worn out and old;
we've served him long and steadily,
Through summers heat and winters cold,
We've borne him oft and readily.
when never a nickel for fare had he,
We carried him home without a word
:, He walked for his health, he said, and We
Never made a sign that we knew or heard.
AND many's the poet we've helped down
And manys the dun we've lodged with him.
And many's the dog we've bounced una
And the lunch-counter's way we knew to pin,
And often the table we've mounted for him,
And rested serenely in all our pride,
While copy he wrote and handed in,
Or proof he read and ssvore, aside.
We were with him always. thick and thin,
When friends grew distant, one by one,
When his paper Ianguished and the tin
To keep it running did not forthcome.
linen his round, red face grew long each day,
For under his waistcoat, kept apart
From all the world. picture lay
He never told her of his love,
But Westward came to work and wait,
His secret kept till he could prove
His worthiness for such take.
And SO he'd pinched and laughed along,
And joked and kept his honest way;
He never, knowing. did q wrong
Or pied his stick till one black day.
He put us on the table, then
He smoked his old stub pipe and sighed
As, tilted back, he stuck pen
Behind his ear and vainly tried
To make plan to pay his men
"A meager bill, but great to him
TO pay for paper, press-work when
The postman tossed letter in,
He picked it up. half readingit,
And. reading then he seemed to bend;
He laid it down. then groaned a bit
And said: "She's dead; this Is the end.
Dead. buried, an! my pretty lass,
My bonnie one, with sweetest name,
1loved her well, but let it pass.
She's gone, I'll never work again..
We knew it, too, and late that night
He dragged us stumbling to his home,
And in the gray of morning light
He shot himself; saw it done.
He and his paper both are dead,
Pied for this world forevernore,
His cOpys done, his last proof read,
Locked up the forms, his work is DER.
With scars and dirt our portion, we,
Devoid of polish, muddy and worn,
Are flung by vulgar hands to be
Kicked in the dirt, with ribald scOrn.
A gurgling wall the voices stopped,
But the editors shoes lay just the same,
A little apart, right where they dropped,
Unknown save here, to the annals OF fame
Detroit Free Prcss.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03
In 1875 Lady Burdette Coutts wrot

I'm 1875 Lady Burdette Coutts wrote
q letter from Brighton, England, re-
garding the misuse of goats for draught
and urging their Improvement for their
valuable milking purposes. The Brit
ish Goat Society has sprung up and
thrifty from the attention thus called to
the matter, and it is contemplated to
establish depots for the sale of goats as
well as their pure milk. which is found
to be invaluable especially for children
in case of sickness. Doctors and phi
lanthropists are lending their aid to the
society in this improvement.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03
Girls a. Housekeepers.

Begin with your own things and your
own place. That is what your mother
will tell you IL you rush to her, enthusi-
astic with great intentions, and offer to
relieve her of half her housekeeping.
Don't draw that little bucket Of cold
water to have it poured back upon your
early zeal. Reform your upper bureau
drawer; relieve your closet-pegs Of
their accumulation of garments out Of
use q month or two ago. Institute q
clear and cheerful order, In the midst
of which you can daily move; and learn
to keep it. Use yourself to the beauti-
full, which is the right, disposing of
things as you handle them, SO that it
will be part Of your toilet to dress
your room and its arrangements while
you dress yourself, leaving the drapc-
ries you take off as lightly and artisti-
cally hung, or as delicstely folded
and placed, as the skirts you loop
carefully to wear. or the ribbon
and lace you put with soft
neatness about your throat. Cherish
instincts of taste and fitness In every
little thing you have about you. Let it
grow impossible to you to put down SO
much as a pin-box where It will disturb
the orderly and pleasant grouping upon
your dressing-table, or to stick your
pins in your cushion even at all sorts Of
tipsy and uncomfortable inclinations.
This will not make you " fussy"-it II
the other thing that does that--the not
knowing, except by fidgety experiment.
what is harmony and the intangible
grace of relation. Once get your
knowledge beyond study, and turn it
into tact--which Is literally having It at
your fingers ends-and order will
breathe about you, and grace evolve
from commonest things, and uses, and
belongings, wherever you may be; and
putting things to rights" will not be
separate task-work and trouble.l any
more than it is in the working Of the
solar system. 1t will 90 on all the time,
and with continual pleasure.
Take upon yourself gradually--fof the
sake Of getting them In hand In like
manner, il for no other need-all tho
cares that belong to your own small
territory of home. Get together things
for use in these cares. Have your little
wash-cloths and your sponges' for bits
of cleaning; your furniture-brtish and
your feather-dusters, and your Light
little broom, and your whisk and pan;
your bottle of sweet-ol and spirits Of
turpentine. and piece Of flannel, to pre-
serve the polish, or restore the gloss
where dark wood grows dim or gets
spotted. Find out, by following your
surely growing sense Of thoroughness
and niceness, the best and readiest
ways Of keeping all fresh about you.
Invent your own processes; they will
come to you. When you have made
yourself wholly mistress of what you
can learn and do in your own apart
ment, SO that it IL easier and more
natural for you to do it than to let 10
alone-so that you don't count the
time 1t takes any more than that which
you have to give to your own bathing
and air-dressing-then you have learn
ed enough to keep Q whole house, 30
far as its clearly ordering Is concerned.
Ladies Floral Cabinet. Il, a,,a
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03

AT Bowling Green, KY, Jesse Thorn
as lost nine good hogs. just sixteen
days thereafter he found them. The
ground where the beds were had sud
denly sunk, and they were entombed
fifteen feet below the surface.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03

AT its rising and its setting the sun
makes the deepest shadows, SO at the
beginning and toward the close, the ca.
reers of great men are most darkened
by the neglect or aspersion of the world.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03


ly suggested itself. She had been fully
prepared for this fainting, painless
passing away, high up in air, almost in
the blue sky itself; but falling on the
Jagged rocks and boiling waterfall
that was horrible. and she felt her heart
shaking.
All, yes, certainly the vine ropes were
shaking too. Were they loosening?-
were they fallingp o, what was this?
And some great Tapping object was fly
ing over her with a scream--an eagle
started from its perch-and a rope was
following it. a great moose, and then a
hand and arm had suddenly closed
round her from behind, and voice was
CURLY telling her to sc obey and spring
backward. And Mr.. Wilston was
drawing her out of the nest of the
grading vines. and she was standing.
trembling in his grasp, on the shelf of
rock where he leaned, with a rope round
his waist made fast to a tree above-a
shelf of rock, she thought, with swift
pulse of chagrin, that had been there all
the time. in a crevice round the corner
of the cliff, and leading a narrow way
up to the sod and the sapling above, if
she had only had the sense to turn her
head and look for it.
Mr.. Wilston did not speak word.
He was white as ashes, and she thought
she could hear his heart beat. Still
holding her and his rope he crept slow
~ up the narrow shelf; then he set her
down before him, united his rope and
slowly coiled it away, locking at her all
the time, with her downcast eye and
reddening face half hidden under all the
bright brown blowing hair.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-25
CHEMICAL DIAMONDS.
The Dread Of tho Diamond Merchants that
the Way to Make Artificial Diamonds
Will Be- Discovered.
tIondon Wofld.l

Diamond merchants must now feel very
uneasy indeed about chemical discoveries
when man who goes to bed with half u
million worth of precious stones In his safe
may awake to find that he treasures no less
than the value of n sack OF Goals The incl
dent between Mr.. Mactear and Prof Maske-
lyme recalls to mind the curious circumstances
OF the demise ofthe French Professor Depreta,
who actually obtained, soma twenty years
ago, unduubted artificial dlanonds-although
microscopic ones-by dint Of n current acting
for several months on cylinder Of the purest
carbon, prepared from crystalized sugar, and
placed inside M electric eRg." When the
Professor died, about ten years after his fl-
nous experiment, It was found that his for
tune, which had always been considered Il
very modest one, amounted to several hun
drod thousand francs, and two versions were
at once chaiittbly produced to explain the
fact-the first being that he had found tho
process of making big diamonds and had
kept 1t To himself. either from fear OF causing
commercial panic or from less worthy mo-
tiyes; the other, that he had been bribed by
diamond meIchants to stop hia researches.
Either hypothesis, 1t need hardly be added
was unfounded, and tho heirs to the distin-
Ruished eavant had little difficulty Ia showing
that to uilnchtn9 industry and strict econ
omy alone was his wealth due.