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he utterly refuses to stultify himself
by denying the existence of their gross
abuses. lie says he knows it is true
that the charges they have made are
without law and Justice, and the dis
examinations they make between per-
sons and places are cruel in the ex-
treme. lie SAYS that this thing has
been carried to such frightful extent
that he is filled wit surprise that the
business of the country has been able
to sustain itself at all under such con-
ditions. That is to say, he is amazed.
as ANYBODY else might he who will re-
fleet upon it for a moment. that the
general industry of the whole country
has not been crushed into annihilation
by the intollerable burden imposed upon
it by the railroad corporations. He
makes n clean breast of it. He pleads
guilty to the whole Indictment. and
under the circumstances | take that TO
be decisive,
Let me cite one Other authority of n
somewhat different kind. II is that of
very high placed gentleman who has
long looked upon the officers from the
standpoint of statesman. Upward
of seven years ago, at Columbus, O..
Gen. Garfield made a speech in which
he described the immense power which
railroads WELD, the vast area of the
public domain which they had absorbed
and got possession Of. more than nine
times as large as Ohio; the large en-
dowments that had been bestowed ON
them out of the public moneys. and
their solid combinations, and he then
warned his audience that the time was
coming when a conflict might arise he
tween them and the public authorities
of the country, in which the govern
ment itself might be OyertlrOWn unless
railroad corporations were throttled be-
iore lne llShC DeSail. Now due re-
spect lor tle elected chlet magistrate
ought 10 make us very cautious how we
dlilered from MN IN opinion, especial
y those OF us VINO expect to hold
federal oillces during the next four
years IL lie acts upon the conviction
whlch he theh expressed and with
VlgOr III any degree corresponding to
the subject matter, you Will hear Il
blast upon the presidential trumpet
That VIII rally all hearts to the cause
OF justice. IL he does not act upon
his convictions, If he is silent and sub
mlsslVe, ana sees this government
which he is appointed to guard broken
down by the power against which he
was warning, then he will have made
common cause with the mOnopoliStS,
and be rs llnialthtlll to his trust as the
monopOlists have been to theirs.
The following resolution was then
introduced:
RESOLUTIONS.
THAT if is fine dutv nf citiyons ivory,
where to organige ,nti.mmnnnoiv
leagues and rndruycr to spc,,rn nmono
others the following spprilic rrsults.
/. Laws comncilinr trnnsnortotiou
and trlcprauh romponies tn hasr thei,
charges mon the risk and cost Of cor.
} vice
, Laws to prevent uooliur and
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-03-17
W0rkinpmen

Before you begin your heavy spring work
after winter of relaxation, your system
needs cleansing and strengthening to pre-
vent an attack of Ague, Bilious or Spring
Fever, or some other Spring sickness that
will unfit you for q seasons work. You
will save time, much sicknes and a great
expense If you will Use one bottle of lloT
Bitters in your family this month. Don't
Burlington Hdrkeye.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-03-17

The most asslduous parental atten-
ton will frequently fail to prevent
Coughs, Colds, Groups, etc. Dr.. Bulls
Cough Syrup Is u most valuable RENE
dy to have convenient when needed
Price 25 cents,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-03-17

Having been cured by st. Jacobs Oil
recommend the same to all sufferers
with Rheumatism, says Mr. L. Shift
man, 1904 Calumet Ave-, Chicago, Ill
La Crosse Republican Leader.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-03-17

"WhO was it that said 1T is not good loi
man to be alone y" asked Sunday-schoo
teacher of his class "Danie sir, when he
was in the lions den," replied small boy
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-03-17

Virtue is the universal charm. Even its
shadow is courted when the substance is
wanting.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-06-02
4 powerful battery had Just been pr rr

4 powerful battery had Just been pre-
pared, and the officer In charge readily
consented to operate upon the paralyzed
arm. To the two poles of the battery a
copper wire was attached, and at the ex-
tre1nity of each wire dampened sponge.
The Persian was Instructed to tightly
grasp one of the sponges in the paralyzed
arm. Timidly complying, he was aston
ished to feel no sensation.
"Wait a moment, +" said the English
man, clapping the other sponge on the
mans shoulder. With leap and yell,
he bounded out of the room, amid the
uproarous laughter of the officials.
All ShiraZ was excited, the next day, al
the shock the nobleman had received.
Though it effected partial cure, the
frightened man refused to submit to a
second application of the. invisible
fire. One shock was sufficient, for, he
declared, all the stars of the heavens
were visible to him at that awful moment.
He would visit the Office and look with
awe at the "fire" machines. Mournful-
ly shaking his head, he would depart
without uttering a word.
Another Persian, whose curiosity con-
quered his fear, while examining the tel
graph, touched one of the terminals OF
the machine. As he felt no sensation, he
laid his hand on the other terminal. A
sudden yell and a backward jump was the
result.
The man told his companions in an
awe-struck tone, that he had been bitten
by the geni of the machine The Eng
ishman attempted to explain the opera
ton, but his words did not disturb, in
the least, the Persian's cre1ulty.
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life In India.

The following is an extract from an ad
dress by prominent missionary from
India:
''The girls are married at the age of five
and six, never later than ten, on account
of the believed effect that such a misfor-
tune would have on her ancestors. She
is put into box, which is closed up like
coffin and covered with a decorated cloth,
and in this shape taken to the husbands
house, where she is deposited and left
for the rest of her life, never to go out
save on the occasion of exceptional and
rare visits to her mother. In the high
caste houses the outer court, around
which are the the mems apartments, lux
uriously furnished, is reached by an un-
derground passage. A passage leads
from this to the inner court about which
are the wives rooms or cells. The walls
and floor inside are of brick; there is no
bed, no chair and no furniture but sort
of desk and box In which the occupants
clothes are kept. They are never taught
to read or write, and l suppose that when
I went there first not one in eighty
thousand could read. All of the world
they ever see is this inner court. They
are marvelously beautiful, however, both
men and women, as a race, despite
the hard lot of the wives. Each lady
has her own brick-foored cell, and sleeps
on a strip of mating. The widows are
far worse off, however. They can never
marry again; can eat only one meal day,
of rice; are debarred by superstitious
custom from receiving any help or any
word of love or mercy; are compelled to
wear their hair hanging loose, uncleansed
and unbraided, and cannot speak in the
presence of their mother-in-law or sister
in-law without permission. Every three
weeks they have a twenty-four-hour fast.
1 saw enc little girl, child who was
burning up with fever, and whose tongue,
black and swollen, was protruding from
her parched lips. 1 asked her if she
wanted water, and she signified feebly
that she did I told the women to get
her some, but they refused, saying that
she was a widow and it was wrong. She
had had no water for three days, but they
would not let me give her any on the
plea that was a polluted foreigner, and
such an act would break her caste and
that of the whole house. She died IN
great agony the next day
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Six Thousand Years Old.

The Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford,
contains one of the oldest monuments of
civilization in the world, if, indeed, it is
not the very Oldest. This is the Intel stone
of tomb which formed the last resting
place of an officer who lived In the time
of King Sent, of the second dynasty,
whose date is placed by NJ. Mariette
more than six thousand years ago. The
stone is covered with that delicate and
finished sculpture which distinguished
the early periods of Egyptian history,
and was immeasurably superior to the
stiff and conventional art of the latter
ages of Egypt which we are accustomed
to see in our European museums. But
it is also covered with something more
precious still than sculpture, with hero
glyphics which shows that even at that
remote period Egyptian writing
was a complete and finished art,
with long ages of previous devel-
opment lying behind it. The hero
glyphic characters are already used,
not only pictorially and Geographically,
but also to express syllables and alpha
bette letters, the name Of the King, for
instance, being spelled alphabetically.
In the hands of the Egyptian scribes,
however, Egyptian writing never made
any further progress. With the fall OF
what is called the Old Empire (about b.
@. 35O0) the freshness and expansive
force of the people passed away, EgyP-
tian life and thought became fossilized,
and through the long series of centuries
that followed Egypt resembled one OF its
own mummies, faithfully preserving the
form and features of the past age, and OF
life which had ceased to beat in its
veins. Until the introduction of Chris
tianity the only change undergone by
Egyptian writers was the invention Of a
running hand, which in its earlier and
simpler form is called hieratic, and In its
later form domotic.
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Drinks for the Sick.

The sick, especially those afflicted
with fever, often suffer from intense
thirst. The quenching of this without
injuring the patient Is a matter which
requires knowledge and good Judgment.
Dr. II. H Kane says that plain water,
when taken beyond certain amount, is
very apt to disorder the stomach and
bowels, especially in fevers, where much
fluid and but little solid food is taken.
Enough water to quench the thirst
would certainly be enough, In most
cases, to disorder digestion, or rather
further disorder it, and so important is
the little that remains of this function
that we cannot afford to abuse it.
Small pieces of ice held in the mouth
and allowed to dissolve sometimes an
swer the purpose, but not III the major
ity of cases.
Up to certain point, the action of
water taken internally, In fevers, is ex-
cellent. Aside from allaying irritation
by quenching thirst. it fushes the kid
neys, carrying off much of the effete
material produced by the high tempera-
ture.
It has been found that the addition of
certain substances to- wafer greatly in
creases its powers to quench thirst.
This is especially the case with acids.
One drachm of hydrochloric acid added
to a quart of water viii give it sufficient
acidity to accomplish the desired pur
pose, while at the same time it adds to
its pleasantness, and sometimes relieves
nausea.
The use Of acids in fevers is highly
commended by some authors, and this
is, I think, the best way in which to ad
minister them. The same amount of
sulphurous acid may be added to quart
of water when the bowels are loose or
there is tendency that way.
In these cases acidulated barley water
is pleasant and nOurishing. The same
may be said Of tOast-water.
In constipation, oatmeal water may
be used in the same manner. A few
tamarinds added to glass of water will
often assuage thirst and open the bow
els gently.
Theory and experience both show
that drinks made slightly bitter and
somewhat acid slake thirst most effect
ually.
A weak infusion of cascarilla or orange
peel, acidulated slightly with hydro,
chloric acid, was with Graves. of Dublin,
a favorite thirst-allaying drink for fever
patients.
Raspberry vinegar is a useful drink.
Sucking ice is very grateful.
Sweet fruits, although at first agree
able and refreshing, must be taken with
care and moderation, for they often give
rise to 4 disagreeable taste, and are apt
to produce hatulence and diarrhea.
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How to AfIIict His Enemies,

He did not have he right kind of face
to inspire confidence, and his clothes
looked as if they had served third term.
at least.
90 Are you the fellow who makes fun
of people in the NeIOs?"
The newspaper man owned up he was
90 thar or tharabouts.
g Well, come to warn you, They
are layin' fbr you with clubs. They are
bad"
Not to hurt, reckon"
" Yes, they are +; but don't be afraid I;
I'm your friend. | can stave my fist
through a man and walk off with him ON
my arm, just like as he was an empty
market basket"
''Oh, get out"
50 I'm not joking. I'm your friend,
and am down on your enemies.
Look here. Can't you lend feller a
quarter-temporarily, only, of course p
CHOW, you look here. Didn't you
just now say you were my friend?"
" So am"
g You don't talk like it, but I'll take
you at your word. J"
Jest count ON me"
You say you want to help me, and
you want to hurt my enemies"
"That's about the size of it.
"TheR you go and borrow a quarter
of them and loan it to me"
Adjourned. .-GaLveStol NelOS.
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Edward Everett.

The late DR.. Chaplin was onos asked
what he lectured for. e'Fams," he re-
piled, $3.50 and my expenses" Those
were in the days when lectures were be-
coming popular. Since then Mr.. Beech
or and Mr.. Cough have been paid from
5000 to $500 for single lecture. A cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette.
gossipinR about the peouniary success
of Edward Everett's lectures, says:
Everett was hardly q lecturer in the
ordinary sense of the term, and yet his
address on the character of Washington,
delivered in behalf Of the Mount Vernon
Association, was of this nature. -
The amount cleared by the various de-
iveries of this address averaged e;zO0
for each occasion, and it was repaatsd
130 times. In fact, Everett's oratory
has done more for charity than that Of
any other speaker on record.
Including the Mount Vernon effort,
the aggregate is nearly 500, 600. Imay
add, as a special feature, that his address
on the early days of Franklin, which
was repeated Ave times, yielded a, 900
for charitable offsets. W riEs1 &.
Another address which was repeated
fifteen times brought $13, 800 for similar
POA POoCOs 4AO CNAAOSJ OA 4AOkuNn
Dowse, delivered twice in behalf of two
institutions, brought 81, 800.
Everett was the most accomplished
man of his age, being at home in states
manship, literature, oratory and the
highest walks of learning.
His versatility was such that it de-
served the expression which johnson
applied to Goldsmith, that there was
nothing In literature that he did moi
touch, and nothing that he touched that
he did not adorn. l
Everett's memory was really wonder
full. AS preacher he frequently mem
orized the hymns to be used of Sab
bath, because it aided in reading them
to the congregation.
He committed to memory almost
everything that came under his attention
for many years in other words, what
entered the eye was fxed upon the
brain.
To this is to be added rare personal
beauty, statuesque dignity, and charm
ing power Of orstory. How surprising
that this admirable concentration o1
gifts never inflated their possessor, who
was through life so marked by simplicity
of character
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EngIand,s Sunday.

I am deeply sensible of the many ma
tional sins of my own country. We
have abundant cause for humiliation.
The strifes and divisions of Christians
the quantity of semi Roranism and
skepticism tolerated IN our own ranks
the bitterness and unscrqlpulousness
of political factions-the commercial
frauds among the middle classes-the
gambling and the luxury of the upper ten
thousand drunkenness of the lower
half Iinillion-an these SINS, 1 am well
aware, cry against us to heaven. But
still, after all, in fallen world like
this, things must be measured by COM
parison- It would be ungrateful If we
did not thank God for what we have.
Where in the world viii you find 50
much preaching of real gospel-so
much circulation of the Bible and sound
religious literature-so much money
and labor bestowed ON efforts to do good
$50 much care for life and property
So much thought for the sick and the
poor and the affiieted-so much liberty,
and yet so much obedience to law
SO much outward morality-so much
family purity-where, ask any one
looking at the map of the globe, where
VIII You find 50 much as In our own
country? No doubt there are plenty
of abuses and defects among us. I
neither deny, extenuate nor palliate
them. But at any rate we have moth
ing to compare with the Nihilism Of
Russia, the Socialism of Germany, the
restless, revolutionary spirit and Com
munism of France, the brigandage and
assassination of Italy, or the lazy, ig-
norant superstition and Sunday bull
fights OF Spain.
And why is itP How is it that hu-
man nature in our little island is under
so much restraint, and develops less
amount of corruption than human ma
ture in other lands / answer boldly
that one great cause of the difference
is our English Sunday. Look at Sun
day in London, with its 1000, 900 of in
habitants. See how the immense ma
iority Of shops through miles and miles
and miles of streets are shut up and
business suspended. See how postoffice,
and banks, and exchanges, and law
courts, and theaters, and museums, and
picture galleries are all closed. See
what hundreds OF churches and chapels
and Sunday-schools are opened, and
what myriads of people attend them in
spite of the attractions Of river and rail.
and then turn to any great continental
metropolis--to Paris, Madrid, Naples,
Vienna, Berlin-and mark how Sunday
is observed in them. Mark the extent
to which Gods holy day is given up to
military reviews, to races, to bull-fights,
to theater-going, to dancing, to con-
certs, TO pleasure-seeking of every sort.
to everything, in short, excepting God,
Mark all these things, and learn one
grand reason why the standard of re-
hgion is 80 much higher in our own
country, with all its SINS. than it is elae-
where. There is an inseparable con-
nection between the observance Of the
Lords day and the prosperity of true
religion. Voltaire was quite right when
! he said that he could never succeed in
destroying Christianity unless he de-
stroyed Sunday. Il is the English Sun
day which makes England what it is
London letter.
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T. G.. IL.

"What were the fortunes of the vari-
GUS Presidents, from the first ?" Wash
ington left an estate valued at over $500, :
600; John Adams died moderately well
off, leaving about $50, 900; Jefferson
died so poor that, if Congress had not
purchased his library at $4,000, he
would have been buried a pauper !;
Madison was frugal and left about $780,
600; Monroe died so poor that he was
buried at the expense of his relatives !;
John Quincy Adams left about $55, 900 |;
Jacksorfdied worth about $4,000; Van
Buren left some 100000. 1t is said he
did not draw his salary while In 0 zee,
but at the expiration of his term of SER
vice drew the whole, 800, 1000; Polk
left an estate valued $3.50, 900; Taylor
had saved something from his pay while
in the army, and died worth $50, 900 ;
Tyler married lady of wealth Fill
more was always frugal, and added to
his savings by marrying a lady of
wealth, and was worth about 5000, ,0OO;
-Pierce's estate was valued at $50, 900 |;
Buchanan left 100000; Lincoln about
5000, and johnson $4,000
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A Cheerful Introduction.

At farewell banquet given to some
devoted explorers, who were setting out
for the wilds of Equatorial Africa, a
small. weazened, bilious, cadaverous-
looking man is presented to the assem-
bled guests by the Chairman of the meet
ing, with the following appreciative re-
marks:
"Fellow-scicufis's let me introduce to
your favorable ice DR.. X, the only
white man who J. i, been thoroughly ac-
climated in the pestiferous iungles into
which our daring explorers are about to
peuetrate. he viii now accompany them
IN their arduous labors, minister to them
IN their hours of pain and delirium, and
when he has paid them the last sad Of
fees and reared a humble monument
over their remains, return TO France to
bring us their journals and collections,
and give rs authentic information as 10
the dreadful diseases to which they viii
have gloriously saccnmbedI"
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Pencil marx. .roaad this tssuurapA n,sA
An Lrrnpahoe BusAlO aunt.

As the distance between the hunters
and the herd grows less, the bucks divest
themselves of all their clothing save the
breechclout, and the superhnous gar
ments are handed to their squaws for
safe keeping, together with the ponies
they have been riding, as they now mount
the fresh animals their better-halves
bring up to them The old buffalo bull
acting as outmost guard, has heard
sound he can not explain he turns to
warn the unsuspectng herd of his not
altogether groundless fears, when the In
dians, like one man, give the ponies their
head, and sweep down upon the grazing
herd. But not grazing now for, as II by
magic, the whole herd becomes aware If
the danger, and, with heads low and tai.
erect, they are bounding over the leve
plain before them at much faster rat
than their numbering bodies would lead
one to suppose possible. The Indians,
dashing up on the fanks OF the moving
column, pour In their deadly fire. Not
waiting to see the result, they urge their
ponies on, still firing (somelmes 30 near
that the barrel Of the rifle rests ON IT,
buffalo) as fast as they can load, till thei-
ponies pause from exhaustion and thu
skeleton herd is beyond there of their
NC&POAAo- W A1A4C NnC p0AoACAn Mn0 pul-
sued have been thus actively engaged
the squaws have not been idle, for, as tn,
hunt ceases, you find them with their
pack animals already cn the field where
the dead buffaloes he The bucks, re
turning, ride down along the dead and
dying, and point out to their squaws those
they have slain, and when the squaw
has put their own individual mark upon
them, then she begins her part Of the
hunt, which is skinning, cutting 40, and
packing have seen five hundred bul
faloes killed in the above manner add
naver yet heard dispute arise owilg GOA
buck having mistaken an animal b had
killed. It would seem as if tho dl
carcases had 81 tongue in every wHiau
that cried, "Pass me not by; sou
me" The squaws are natural bul
There is not miss-cut made iD a
ing the robe, nor is one particle "a
animal left for the kiotes that car hl ll.
any way utilized by these people. From
the sinews lying along the backbone
Hrom which thebow-strings are made) to
TO the horny hoof (frcp pwhioh is dissolved
akindof gluten for the preparation Of tho
robes), nothing is wasted. No wonder IL
exasperatesth these providentpeople tocoms
upon the caroases OF hundreds OF thou
sands of buffaloes killed yearly by tho
white hunters for the hides alone. : Rest-
er-n Letter.