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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12
A PHOTOGRAPH.

This is her shadow, nothing more:
The eyes that wear no smile for mine,
The silent lips that laughed before,
The hair without Its wave and shine,
This mask that shows no spark divine
How calm and cold II looks at me,
Her eyes were full Of shade and sun.
A look that rippled like the sea
Across whose breast the light winds run
CLEAN, cloud, tale begun.
This Is the veil her soul put on
To run the weary ways Of earth,
And when her brief, bright race was Won
She laid 1t down beside her hearth,
A worn.out thing Of little worth.
1t Is not she that fronts me here
This specchless aspect, still and cold;
knew her fair and sweet aud dear;
A cinging girl with heart of e Id,
And hands that clasped with tender hold
Was It gentle prophecy,
This slight, Transparent mould Of clay,
To let the loving round her see
How soon that soul must fit away,
That iluttered, paused, but made no stay
mot here, but risen.n Oh, angel song,
still falling soft on hearts that weep.
This Is the dead, whose ashes long
Her Masters messenger shall keep
Safe In earth's last, undreamlng sleep.
But she who wore this mortal guise
Has He'd beyond our fearful sight;
JOYFUL aud strong, serene ard wise,
She lives upon the hills Of light,
And waits us on that heavenly height.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12
Unhenlthy WashlngtOn,


The president is sick, and the secre
tary of the treasury and Justice Mile
Of the supreme court, and all sorts o
people have been saying in all sorts o
ways: washington is SO unhealthy
The country generally is sick-of Wash
ington.
As long as congress was in session
not y man-iack of them could be in
duced to leave it. Now the president
contemplates trip, and the secretary
contemplates trip, and the justic,
contemplatcs n trip. And we are NOR
ally sure they all will take a trip-fol
it will be paid for by the people of the
United States.
When u farmer is sick, or q earpen'
ter or 4 shop keeper, he gets well al
home if he can; but if he goes away to
get well, his pay stops. Herein we see
one advantage in being an office holder
Mt Washington; the pay goes on when
he is seeking health in balmy regions
away from Washington.
In spite of this unhealthy, malarious
Washington, millionaires and retired
senators are gathering there aud raising
up palatial mansions on every hand,
and then they manage to get on in tol-
cradle health so long as congress keeps
together and the terrapin parties keep
going. The unhealthiness seems to
have begun on the fourth of March this
year, and it will be hard to keep our
official and wealthy friends there much
longer. 1t is pity. The merry-go-
round of justices, senators and women
has ceased for the present and malaria
has set in. The wheel of the shop keep
er 10 broken and the ciste"n of the
caterer holds no water; the harps of
the children of Israel, who loaned
money and bought salary certificates,
are hanged on the willows, and the
wandering tribes are looking backward
to the heshpots of the past session or
forward to those Of the coming one.
Washington is desolation, and mala-
ria is raging.
But there is ray of consolation left
Should Secretary Folger go, the treas
ury will remain; should the president
vacato, the work will be less and the
pay will be the same; should Justice
Brady go, some poor mans case will
not be decided against him. There is
another ray of consolation, this: Con-
grsss has left $4,000, 600 to be expended
there to make Washington healthy. 1t
will be spent-and Washington will be
glad--in filling up the Potomac Flats
as far as it will go. Now nothing
makes the air of Washington so whole
some to the average inhabitant as the
free infusion and circulation of United
States gold. That provided for, it is
found to be an admirable tonic; it
strengthens the constitution, purities the
air, kills the germs of disease, and inn
parts a golden glow to the whole Poto-
mac, including even the fats.
We do not yet despair of making
healthy.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12
The Impatience ofMothers.

New York Ledger.
There are two extraordinary thing
about mothers. One is their patience
and the other is their impatience.
He who sees q mother care for ,
child through a long and dangerou.
sickness, tending it by day and by
night, saving its life, not once merely
but many times, hoping on when al
others despair, and keeping up when
all others give out, and at last coaxing
and loving the little creature back tC
convalescence, sees one Of the sublim,
ost things in nature. The same mother,
when the child is well again, will some.
times exhibit an impatience with il
that borders on the ridiculous. 1t is
noisy, boisterous, inquisitivc, careless,
as all healthy children are apt to be,
and the mother wears out her soul in
scolding it.
This is often case OF cause and
effect. The child has recovered Its
nervous force, but the mother has not.
During the ten weeks illnessof a child
its mother may expend her entire re-
serve of vital energy, and contract a
large debt in that line besides, which
she may be years in liquidating. She
may never liquidate IL, but live on fret
full and irritable to the end, for a
mother seldom passes whole year
without incurring some new drain up
on her resources.
Ia 4 e.. IL AL.N -, al -
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

John Burroughs, March Century
The good observer of nature exists
in fragments, trait here and trait
there. Each person sees what it con-
Germs him to see. The fox-huater
knows pretty well the ways and habits
of the fox, but on any other subject he
is apt to mislcad you. He comes to
see only fox traits in whatever he looks
upon. The bea-hunter will follow the
bee, but lose the bird. The farmer
notes what affects his crops and his
earnings, and little else. Common
people, St. Pierre says, observe with
out reasoning, and the learned reason
without observing. II one could apply
to the observation of nature the sense
and skill of the South American
rdStICatOr, or trailer, how much he
would track home. This mans eve is
kecner than . hounds scent. A fugi-
tive can no more clude him than he can
clude fate. His perceptions are said to
be so keen that the displacement of a
leaf or pebble, or the bending down of
a spire of grass, or the removal of a
little dust from the fence are enough
to give him the clcw. He sees the half
oblitcrated footprints of a thief in the
sand, and carries the impression in his
eye till, a year after ward, when he
again detects it in the suburbs of a
CITY, and the culprit is tracked home
and caught. | knew n man blind from
his youth who not only went about his
own neighborhood without guide,
turning up to his neighbours gate or
door as uneringly rs il he had the best
OF eyes, but who would go many miles
on an errand to new part
of the country. He seemed to
carry map of the township in
the bottom of his feet, most
minute and accurate survey. He never
took the wrong road, and he knew the
right house when he had reached it.
He was miller and fuller, and ran
his mill at night while his sons ran it
by day. He never made mistake
with his customers bags or wool; know
ing each mans by the sense of touch.
He frightened colored man whom he
detected stealing, as if he had seen out
of the back of his head. Such facts
show one how delicate and sensitive
mans relation to outward nature
through his bodily senses may become.
Heighten it little more, and he could
forecast the weather and the seasons,
and detect hidden springs and miner
ais. A good observer has something
of this delicacy and quickness of per.
,eption. All the great poets and natur-
llists have it. Agassiz traces the gla-
,iors like n raStreador, and Darwin
misses no step that the slow but tireless
gods of physical change have taken, no
matter how they cross or retrace their
course. In the obscure fish-woim he
sees an agent that has kneaded and
eavened the soil like giant hands.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12
David Davis Toe.

I
Some two years ago David Davis
was suffering with n severe bunion on
his left foot. At least the senator sup
posed it was bunion, although as he
hadn't seen his foot for n generation, il
was pretty much Il matter of guess
work. However, il hurt him more than
the republican successes, so he called
in n chiropodist, and when that special.
ist inspected the damage and came to
The surface once more, he reported that
the excrescence was about as big as a
ten-cent loaf, and that nothing but the
most careful treatment would save the
foot. Mr.. Davis accordingly procured
n shoe OF the six-day-gO-as-yOu please
description, the toe of which he could
almost see himself when he kicked out
pretty hard. 1t was sad sight to
watch the presiding officer of our most
dignilied body hobbling up the capitol
steps supported by big cane and the
leather pedestal referred to for six
months after that. 1t was n new
edition of Bunion's Pilgrims Progress,
bound in cloth. Sometimes the bunion
would grow better, and sometimes
worse. Meanwhile the corn doctor
sent in his bills regularly "for digging
out the senator's foundation" as he
facetiously called il. At last the suf-
ferer became imbued with an absorb
ing desire to usually inspect the cause
of his torments, and, one day, yielding
to n sudden impulse, he limped into a
photograph saloon, pried off his shoe,
and requested the operator to take a
tin-type of his foot. When it was CON-
pleted he almost fell of his seat in an
apopletic fit of rage, for the picture dis
closed small iron clamp attached to
his little toe, the screw of which the
chlropodist evidently tightened or
loosened at pleasure. The senator de-
termined upon frightful revenge, and
the next morning, when the corn doc
tor knelt to remove the shoe as usual,
the man of weight deliberately turned
around and-sat on him.
But why dwell upon the sad particu-
larsp The corn doctor was removed
to the hospital, where three months af-
ter he died to slow music, after having
made full confession, and in the full
hope of glorious Immortality.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

The French government seems to be
working into the hands of the revolu-
tionists, by imprisoning their leaders
and thus awakening sympathy for their
cause. The excitement over the arrest
Of Prince Boaaparte has scarcely sub,
sided than Louise Michel offers to make
martyr of herself, and while she
walks to jail the anarchists raise howl
which echoes over France.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

The hull of the old ship Usage,
which was burned by the British in the
war of 1912, lies sunk near Essex, and
is an object of interest to those histor-
ically inclined. 1t can be seen at low
water, and many keepsakes have been
made from wood taken from the old
wreck.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

MAINE has forty-nine cheese factor
les, with an average of 1O7 cows to
each factory, sixty being the lowest
and five hundred the highest number.
The total product of all the factories
was 5S6,S3i pounds OF cheese, for which
the average price received was -!
cents per pound.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

TIE fashion for minute investigation
is not subsiding; apaper on the salivary
glands of insects was recently read be.
fore the Genealogical society of Great
Britain.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

When you visit or leave New York City
save Baggage, Expressage and Carriage Hire,
and stop at GRAND UNION HOTEL, oppo.
site Grand Central Depot. $50 elegant rooms,
fitted up at cost Of one million dollars, re-
plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with
he hest. Horse cars, stages and elevated
ailroads TO all depots. Families can live bet.
CT for less money st the Grand Union Hotel
han st any other Hrstclass hetel ip the city.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

GUsTAvE DoRE left one-third of his
fortune 10 his brother Ernest, an army
officer; one-third to his sister, who is
married, aud one-third to the Society
Of Artists. To his second brother he
left nothing, because, years ago, when
Gustave had established him in business,
he took to gambling in stocks and lost
100000, which Gustaye was obliged to
make good.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

THE St. Gothard Railroad is evident
ly doing great deal for Italy. Among
other benefits, it has developed an egg
trade which promises to be of vast mag
nitude.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

THE statistics, as given by the Detroit
Free Press, show that California
stage robber saved 81, ,5Sl in ten months,
but in nine months Niagara hack
man saved S5,265.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

AVIsIToR to Rio Janeiro writes that
the burial caskcts in that locality are
covered with black, red, or violet ma.
:erial, bordered with gilt tinsel, giving
them the sprightly air of bonbon boxes.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

AMBITIOUS citizens OF Minneapolis,
Mimi, are now estimating its popula-
ton at over 100000. In the spring of
1880, when the national census was
taken, it was 40, 900.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

TIE death is announced in Paris, at
the age of Y, of NJ. Gay Lussac, son
of the famous scientist and himself an
eminent chemist and assayer.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

A BARN in Butte county, Colorado,
is capacious enough TO hold 1000 tons
OF hay and shelter | 400 head of sheep
The floor is so wide that an eight-horse
team can turn around in 1t.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

EX-GOVERNOR HoYT, of Pennsylva-
mia, has quietly resumed the practice of
law in Philadelphia.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

IT is estimated that 1000 persons a
year, mostly prisoners, take their own
lives in Russia.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

GAIL HAMILTON says that a Mormon
is n husband who harnesses his wives
abreast, and man who has been n
widower three times is one who drives
them tandem.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

ABsINTHE has powerful rival in
Paris in the form of beverage made
from Algerian plants, and known as
Amer-Picon.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

The Crow Indians of Montana num-
Der thirty-four hundred and are chiefly
engaged in agriculture and stock
raising.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

AT the last levee in London there
were but twenty-five civilians among
some 400 hundred gentlemen who at
tended il.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

The nihilists announce that all their
preparations for the coronation are
complete.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

SENATOR AND Mrs. LOGAN will spend
most of the summer in New Mexico,
and in the autumn will visit the Pacific
coast.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

1t is expected that the present years.
acreage of tobacco in Kentucky will be the
largest Oh record.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

Such is my experience with one Of
the departments and the rational
congress. ! call the attention of the
country to this state of affairs not on
my own account, but for others. | do
it not in any spirit of iiDpatience, but
| speak the words of truth and sober.
ness for the protection of the crippled
soldier, for the ignorant and helpless
old mother who may come to this
capitol with government bond Of
some honest debt past due. In conclu-
sion let me once more suggest to every
ollice-holder here, high or low, big
martinez or li;tle martinez, to remem-
Der all the time that this is y govern
ment of and for the people, and that
with the first breath of its cxistense it
cried aloud, We, the people Of these
United States
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12
A tourist leaning out of a nook,
| Eall an h;s haol noora brpnL

UUUIISU IbHHIUR UUU UI HUUhi
Fell on his head near brook,
The hurt he received,
st. Jacobs Oil relieved,
And he says it cured "like book"
Great oaks from little acorns spring,
Great aches the little toe-corns bring
But for every corn
That ever was born,
st. Jacobs Oil is Just the thing.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

A YOUNG man married the daughter
of his boarding house mistress at Fort
Worth, Texas, without coming to any
understanding as to the pecuniary ma
ture of his future relations with the es-
tabliShment. At the end of week af-
ter the wedding the landlady present
ed bill for twice the amount which he
adpreviously paid, intending to charge
him for both himself and his wife. His
view of the matter was wholly different.
He expected to be boarded free. So he
refused to settle. On returning from
theater with his bride he found the
doors locked and their wardrobe and
other effects piled high on the sidewalk.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

"A thousand-dollar bill was placed upon
the contribution-plate In St. Paurs church,
Pawtucket, R. l., Easter morning.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

"A man with a genuine foot-long Swiss
goitre has been discovered at Pompey, onon-
daga county, N. Y.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

KING HUMBERr of Italy-who by the
way, has just been celebrating the
completion of the thirty-ninth year of
his life and the fifth of his reign-leadS
in private plain, simple life, and is
fond of occupation and of home. He
rises early, spends little time in study,
and then takes exercise in the garden.
From eight to nine he receives the
minister of the royal household, and
from nine to eleven he and the queen
take breakfast together with the prince
of Naples seated between them. From
one to three they receive visitors, and
then drive out. Their dinner hour is
seven o'clock, and they usually retire
soon after ten. Sometimes the queen
attends operas or the tteater, but the
king is almost never seen at such
places.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

The wooded lands Of Mississippi com.
prise 20, 900 acres.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-12

war, desired me to ask very simple
and very civil question. | wrote i
down, SO as to not be much trouble
and timidly entered and approached
a handsome young man who recllned
far back in his chair, with one knee
cooked up over the corner of desk,
and great deal higher than his head.
"Well, sir, what Is it?' shouted this
gallant wing of our army, as he chewed
and pulled at his cigar and still kept his
leg twisted up over his desk.
| shufil5d up little closer, so as to
flank that boot. | no doubt looked
awkward and weary, for have big
piece of lead in one leg and was suffer-
ing and wanted to sit down. But |
stood there ON one leg, hat in hand.
"Well, sir, what is it?"
| began to tumble as fast as | could
for the slip of paper on which | had
written the old widows question, but
a bullet through my right arm long
ago has made it nearly helpless, and |
was slow in tindingi it. At last passed
it over, and still stood waiting on one
leg. He glanced at it, passed it
back, mentioned some Incompetent
sible name and number where was to
apply, motioned rue off and puffed
away, filling the place with smoke the
only kind OF smoke, should say, that
he ever smeLed.
| did not bow as | turned away. |
got an arrow through my neck at the
battle of Castle Rocks, California, and
on some days my neck is stiff. ! do
not complain about the man not rising
up as | stood there; | do not even ask
that the young man should sit up in
his chair. But, you see portion Of
his body was great deal higher than
his head, and would il be too much to
ask that he should be kept at least hor-
izontal?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-05


Two WHITE MEN. AIDED BY THREE MARINES. oAUsE
CONSERVATION IN CoLORED PICNIC FANNY
The WRONG NAN STIRRED UP-COLORKD WOMEN
SEEK SAFETY BY JUMPING OUT OF TIE WINDOWS
out 12:45 O'Clock last night, as car No. n, OF
the Washington and Georgetown line, neared the
naval monument at the foot OF the Capitol, q des-
perate Tight took place between the white and the
cO,ored passengers Samuel Fry, the conductor
stated to a STAR reporter tn morning that his
car was the tst running to the navy yard last
nj sht and he took In large crowd o! coforei peo
pie at 18th street, who were on their way home
from picnic at Van So garden. There were
only six VIII te paSzja HgerS out OF LOAD OF sixty
eight. When he near.d Is, street and the av-
eEue two white men were standing in the front
part OK the car, ana ju5r opposite them was
one coored girl sitting in the lap OF another.
The Car joltcd and threw one OF the white In n
against the eolored girl. and she callad to her
escort for protection. The gallant escort went for
the white man in good Pugili5tic style, but sud-
denly discovered that he had tackled a John L.
sullivan IN disguise. lie Was promptly knocked
out-5f the car--.n one round. The fight then b.
came general between the two white men. aided
by three marines, who fought yalOrOusly, and the
colorrd people. There Was great excitement for
q while. the whites, apparently, getting the best
OF IL, rs they stoO1 their ground, and made their
opponents fly out of the windows and doors 10
wei cleare 1.-the members OF truck OF the fire ds-
nartm"nt and boiy Of police returning from
IRE, boarded the car 10 render any assistance that
was nec ssiry. but their services not needed.
The police could not tell Who raised or took part
In the fight, and SO no arrests were made. The
bottom OF the car was strewn with buttons torn
on the women's clothes as they stepped out Of the
windows The conductor and driver are still per-
picked to know who their two puginstic passen-
gers were.
l. Roach, president OF the WomanS Christian
temperance Union, by the members OF that Or
gaDfzation, this evening, from to II, at Temple
hotel headquarters delightful time Is anttci-
pa!ed