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Year: 1878

~ The bright silver dollar has inscribed upon
its face, in God trust What will Bob lngersoll
do He cannot receive the new dollar for its face
value.-Er.


Perhaps this was why the dollar was made of
the value of only % cents. The cents short
age was compliment to IngersolPs feelings.
Year: 1878

~ The Wathens Adrance wants to know
what we think of Hayes as leader. If the Ad-
seaee has been reading the Chief for the past
year, it ought to be able to form some sort Of q
eness as to what we think of him.
Year: 1878

The American public is familiar with the Advertising
Agency of Geo. p Rowe & Co. If any firm doing busi.
Ness On the continent afford to move on with


splendid reputation through these hard times this would
seem to be the one 1t is advertised by apprecative
newspaper fraternity very largely without charge; yet
in view OF ali these facts, the list
month"; for which they pay fair price in money by the
ineh Is devoted largely to their business The order
takes us somewhat by surprise and it would


we were disposed to doubt the wisdom of pushing busi
ness through the hardest times We add the benefit
OF the Thomases who may read, that Messrs. Geo. p
kowe Co. come nearer knowing all about the adverti
sing business than other firm having haniled mill
ions and millions Of dollars thus appropriated Another
feature worth noting is their iberality with Uncle
Sam They have doubtless expended mere money for
postage, during the last quarter of century, than any
other firm in the United States.-Chattanooqa Tim.s
Year: 1878

II The BailefiH will twit us about not hay-
ing been in the army. The fact is, that while
its editor was fighting bravely for his country,
we had to stay at home, to prevent the party Of
which he is now the organ from shooting him in
the rear-which, in his case, everybody will ac-
knowledge, would have been dreadful thing
for the country-where he happened to be at
the time.
Year: 1878

~ When the editor of the Highland Sentinel
first came to this County, there were disinter-
ested friends who hastened to tell him what an
awful fellow Sol Miller was, and how he would
pick quarrel with him, and abuse him. The
Sentinel says the editor of the Troy Bulletin was
one of these oficious chaps. 1t has been their
habit to take the first opportunity to prejudice
every newspaper man against rs who comes to
the County. Now the Bulletin is trying to re-
kindle an old fight between the Chief and the
editor of the wathena Adrance. The editor of
the BalIeta has boast ed of his ability to circu-
late enough gossip and scandal In week to set
a whole community by the ears for year; but
in the cases of the two newspapers recently
started in the County, he seems to have "got it
on his snoot"
Year: 1878

UNNECESSARY CRUELTY.-It excites our SYM
pathy to see even an enemy pelted beyond hu-
man endurance. The last Highland Sentinel is


excessively cruel in punching up the editor of
the Bsiletia, and his right and left bowers, at
Severance and Iowa Point. The Seantiacl is too
much for the m; /; but to add to the hardship,
the Wathens Adrance will persist in hurting
large brick at the concern, at least once a week.
We shall have to stand of, and give the poor
devils chance to defend themselves Consider
rs an armed neutral, shooting only when shot
Year: 1878

SEE BEFORE BUYING.-A large proportion of
the Eastern people who are settling in Doniphan
County, this Spring, will rent farms the first
season, SO that they can See, test, and judge for
themselves before buying. This is right, if they
are not acquainted with the country. Men
should always, if possible, see the property they
propose to buy, before investing. Doniphan
County will bear the closest scrutiny, and no
person can help liking it, if seen nnder ordinary
circumstances. But we have heard Of persons
at the East investing in Kansas property, on the
representation of interested parties, and paying
heavy prices for land or town lots Of small worth
Only the other day, stranger was inquirins
the value of property in certain defunct
town in this County. He said the person who
proposed selling to him, had assured him it
was worth over 1900. He was informed that
he would have been badly cheated at 500.
Doniphan County has q large amount of good
property; but do not buy it until You see it.
Year: 1878

The foundation stone of our Govern
melt has been shaken, and temporarily
set aside. For the first time we have n
President of the United States not elect
ed according to the CO institution.


If the Constitution can be set aside to
make President for four years, it can
be set aside to make President for
twenty years, or for lfe.-.S,tn.
Year: 1878

The Piedmont Ne,rS gives the fol-
lowing: A merchant of Culpepper
was protesting, a day or two since,
that advertising benefited no body
but newspaper publishers; money
paid for advertisements was thrown
away; no body read them. We offer
ed to insert in the most remote corner
of the paper he might select, an ad-
vertisement offering 81 80 a bushel
for wheat, provided he would make
the offer good to those who might read
the advertisement and call on him.
And do you think he would do itH
Not bit of it. And this is the way
with most men who denounce adver-
tising, when asked to test the matter
as to whether or not advertisements
are read. they always decline, thereby
showing what little faith they have in
their own works, and tacitly acknowl.
edging the great power Of the press as
an advertising medinm.
Year: 1878

The Southern General Assembly Of
the Presbyterian church meets next
May. The Assembly will be called
judicially to decide whether dancing
is sin, which subjects the offender to
the discipline of that church. An
offender, Rev. Mr.. Block, will be put
upon trial, and his ecclesiastical fate de-
cided. We are not personally ac'
vuainted with Mr.. Block, but, never.
theless, from our general regard fol-
human nature, express the hope that
he may have a safe deliverance, and
that he may never hereafter do any
thing worse than give dancing party
in his own house. We hope that the
General Assembly will see to il that
MIR. Block suffers no harm. There arr
many sins committed by church mem
bers and violations Of the church dis
cipline that are much worse than dan
cling, and that might properly be look
ed after There is too much Of tb'
straining at a gnat and swallowing o
camel in our churches.
Year: 1878

This little dissertation on necktie
matinees we clip from the Maysville
Eagle: The healthiest thing that could
take place in Kentucky would be the
spectacle of several old-fashioned
hangings. Human life is so cheap in
this State that no scoundrel ever hesi-
tates 10 shoot down any one who has
given him the most trivial offense, in
broad daylight, for fear of the law.
He may apprehend that his own life
may be taken in the conflict, or he
may shrink from the expense; but he
never stops for fear OF being judicially
executed. Could it be made certain
to these assassins that their crimes
would be punished by death, there
would not be one murder in Kentucky
where there are now one hundred.
The true remedy, the only remedy, for
all this blood-guiltiness Is the applica,
tion of hemp.
Year: 1878

A religion that never suihces to
govern a man, will never suffice TO
save him. That which does not dis
tinguish him from sinful world, will
never distinguish him frOm a perish
ing world. Il John Howe.
Year: 1878

How TO OBSERVE SUSDAY.-The question Of
the proper observance OF Sunday has been
much disputed one, and is one OF much inter
est. A certain amount Of religious services
should of course form part OF each Sundays
life; should indeed be its central idea, bnt 1t
should not infringe upon the demands OF over
worked nature for rest But what is rest
Clearly what would be rest to one would not
be to another. What would increase vitality
and strength to the day laborer would make
the weary student, book k-keeper or editor more
weary. The work OF the six week days, what
ever 1t is, should be put entirely out Of sight
from Saturday until Monday. Mental labor
reading. writing or other employment that re-
quires mental effort. Physical laborers must
cease physical labor, and can obtain the desIred
rest IN mental improvement. Those whose
week days are spent within the four walls OF a
store or an office, should be in the open air,
in the broad fields, where they can breath
natures purest aerial draughts, as much as
possible. Those who labor out OF doors Will
find their greatest rest and enjoyment on Sun
day in their homes. The business man and
the banker should cease all thought OF bis
business, take a complete respite from all
thoughts OF shop" and Sunday for all classes
should be made as widely different from other
days in the week as possible. II should be
made enjoyable, especially for the children,
that they may grow up with the love OF the
day, instead of an aversion for 1t, as is too
common even IN the best OF Christian families.
The observance of the day in each household
should he made study, that the most profit
able and rest-siung enjoyments TO suit each
case may be found, and then let the observ-
ance Of the day. once settled, be lived up to as
strictly as a business transaction. The day
should have ITS distinctive features; religious
culture; freedom from toll FOR servant as well
as master; rest IN its true sense, and enjoy
msnt Of the higher order, which reaxes be
nervous system, and is one OF natures grestest
restoratives. all have their place, and none OF
them should be nsglectsd.-PittsbuB Tele-
graph.
Year: 1878

OF the Ohio imagination but in every case Of cOmpet


tive examination one of two things must be either
the knowledge test must be the sole test or it must
be coordinate with other tests If it is the sole test
then the public service has " rigidity" which no
man would permit in his private business No
bank President, mo leading manufacturer, no head Of
an academy would select a subordinate simply on
the ground that he knew enough arithmetic TO do
the required ciphering. He demands other proofs
or indications of tact, versatility, executive power


But If the Civil Service requires other tests than
those of the examination papers, then those other
tests are lOOp-hOles through which favOntism and
prejudice and selfshness will have just free en-
trance as they now have, and your 2G5 candidates.
with their three days of writing and fainting, and
then three weeks of anxiety and your examining
committee with their fortnight of dreadful plod-
ding through dreadful papers have only their labor
for their palms. Why is not the same end achieved
with infinitely less labor and at infinitely less cost
to the Government, by taking any one applicant,
the one who appears the whole most promising
or who comes with the most satisfactory recon-
mendations and subject him if desirable to a suf-
ficient examination and let the Others got The
great pressure for Offices is of the main
urged in favor of competitive examination, but
here are 465 applicants in one paragraph for few
inferior places and Collector Merritt was prOstrated
in the twinkling of eye by the onset of office
seekers. In fact education is so difused in this
country that any one may confidently hope to pass
these examinations. II now, instead of saying mo"
in one short, conclusive kindly moment to 375 and
yes perhaps to the other 25 you drag out your no"
through days of torture and weeks of suspense, to
the candidates. and fortnight of pene forte ct dre
to the examining officers, what have you gained
You have 375 disappointed candidates Just the same,
and bitter with added modification and expense.


You have only % new officers, and those you
have had to choose by other tests than those which
burden some unhappy mans life with reams of me-
chaDical manuscript to be inspected and marked.
You have just as much pressure for Office, only
the pressure is permitted to lnger on for days and
weeks instead of being dismissed with one short,
sharp, and decisive NOl GAIL HAMILTON
Year: 1878

A commOtion has been caused among hold
ere OF mortgages on EewJersey property by decision
of Judge Dixon of the Supreme Court on Tuesday that
obligations which mAtured prior to July last should
bear interest at per eeu the law changing the rate
Of interest from Dor cent went into effect on that
Year: 1878

The only self.dscharging Rake operated with
out gearing friction or springs. 1t is simple,
not liable to get ont of order, and so easily
operated that any one who can manage a
horse can rake the heaviest meadow. The
driver has free use Of both hands to manage
the horse The seat is adjustable to suit the
height of driver. The teeth can be lowered
and raised to suit different kinds of raking
without altering their gathering qualities. -
Year: 1878

National Associated Press TO the Star.


JERSEY CITY, Feb. S.-All depot ticket
agents Oh the New Jersey Central RAIL
road have been instructed to reject
trade dollars at a discount Of eight per
Year: 1878

VEaET1NE-When the blood becomes lifeless
and stsgnant, either from change of weather or
of climate. want of exercise, irregular diet
or from any other cause, the Vegetine will re-
new the blood, carry off the ,putrid humors,
cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels, and
impart tone of vigor to the whole body.
Year: 1878

RED RIDING HOOD To-NIGHT.-The comic
opera of Red Riding-Hood will be pre-
sented at the Theatre tonight under the
supervision of Miss Webster. Characters
will be assumed by some one hundred and
fifty children. The music is OF the most
lively description, the costumes are elegant,
and the opera will be produced in most
attractive style. Wherever Red Riding
Hood has been performed it has been re-
ceived with very general favor, and it is rN-
pected that large audience will greet Miss
Webster and her little coadiutors tonight.
The opera will be repeated also Saturday
afternoon ....s
Year: 1878




We learn from reliable authority
that there are three individuals in tn is
parish who are making not only a
comfortable support, but are on the
high road to fortune by killing ailiga-
tors, saving the oil and selling the hides.
During last year they actually siaugh-
tered nine thousand and sold their
hides for an average of seventy-five
cents EACH. In connection with this
business they gather moss and catch
fish, having a seine and largo num-
Der of lines with hooks attached.
We call this n stroke of genius, to
open a mine and profit by its working.
The hides of alligators are in great
demand for shoes and boots, and the
leather is said to be pleasant to the foot
and cornely to the eye. They have one
decided advantage in the pursuit OF
this game over other hunters, the law
affords the alligators no protection from
the 1st of January to the 3ist of Decem-
Der, and they can kill and skin dis
cretioR.-ASsttI1lptjon Pioneer.
Year: 1878

The SINKING OF THE BRIG CONFEDERATE
IN the Bay OF Funday bya collision with the
park Antwerp was reported several days
pelished. A romantic sequel has since oc.
CURED. The wreck was fallen in with on
Tuesday by the brig Minnehaha, of Salmon
river: They found a man named Willetts on
board. He states that he was washed over
board from the wreck when she went down.
On the cargo of coal running out she came to
the surface, and Willetts was able to get on
board again. The wreck continued drifting
until her anchor took the ground where She
was found. oAS
Year: 1878

The INTERNATIONAL LITERARY CONGRESS
has accepted as a basis for its decisions the
principle advocated by Victor Hugo i'm a
speech urging that book once published be-
comes in part the property of society and after
the authors death his family cannot prevent
its reissue, but the authors heirs should be en-
titled to from to 10 per cent. of the profits;
that in case there are no heirs the profits
should revert to the state to be apple 10 tn
encouragement of young writer's
Year: 1878

A drinking man can supply himself
easily with the remedies used at nearly
all the inebriate asylums, and be his
own physician at his own home without
the necessary expense and publicity of
visiting the Washingtonian Home or
any other reformatOry institution. His
laboratory need contain only small
quantity of Cayenne pepper, a pot of
concentrated extract of beef and a few
grains of bromide of potassium. When
the desire for drink recurs, make tea
from the pepper, as strong as can be
taken with any degree of comfort,
sweeten it with milk and sugar, and
drink. This tea will supply the same
place as glass of liquor would fill,
and will leave no injurious effect be-
hind. Repeated daily, or so often as
the appetite returns, it will be but a
few days before the sufferer will have
become disgusted with the taste of the
tea, and with the appearance Of this
disgust disappears the taste for liquor.
The fact is proven every day. The ex-
tract of beefis to be made into beef tea,
according to the directions on the pot,
in quantities as may be needed for the
time being, and furnishes a cheap,
easily digestible and healf .iy nutriment,
it being made to stay on the stom-
ach " when the heavier articles of food
would be rejected. The bromide of po-
tassium is to be used carefully, and
only in cases of extreme nervousness,
the dose being from fifteen to twenty
grains, dissolved in water. This is a
public exhibit Of the method of treat
ment adopted in the inebriate asylums.
In addition thereto, the drinking man
should surround himself with infiu-
ences which tend to make him forget
the degrading associations Of the bar
room, and lift him upward. He should
endeavor, so far as his business avOca-
tions will permit, to sleep, breathe and
eat regularly, and obey the laws of
health. BY the adoption Of this course
energetically and sincerely, no man
who has the will to reform can fail to
do so. Hundreds and thousands can
attest the truth of this statement.
Year: 1878

story of a half-breed of my acquain-
tance:


This hybrid individual was by occu-
patton a UOydgeur in summer I'D a
trapper and hunter in the winter sea-
son. His mental calibre was very or
dinary, being unable to read or write,
and his habit, apathetic, living much
alone. Some of his ponies having
strayed of upon the prairie during the
winter months, he went in quest of
them. The prairie was the native heath
to him, which he had trod from infancy
with the same assurance that ordinary
mortals walk the pavement. He had
no fear Of being lost. Every depression
in the snOw-clad earth; every stunted
shrub, was landmark to guide him
on his way. Yet, after an absence of
half day, a storm arose that obscured
the landmarks, and despite all his
prairie craft, he found himself lost.
He accepted the situation, and knowing
that any efforts to extricate himself
until after the subsidence of the storm
would only prove fruitless, set about
making preparations for his safety
from freezing. He attached himself to
a clump of cottonwood trees as land
mark, and walked In circle about it..
Night came on, and he still walked.
Day followed, and night again found
him still walking, and the storm un-
abated. At length his moccasins wore
off his feet. He took the long "mili-
taires from his hands and tied them
on in lieu of shoes. Then he walled
on through the third, fourth and fifth
days and nights, supporting life by
chewing his leather hunting shirt. The
sixth morning found his feet frozen,
and striking the beaten path like bits of
wood; his hands were in like condi-
ton, and his face little better. During
the day, however, some wandering In
dians discovered him in an apparently
dying condition. They took him to a
neighborlng fort, and after the surgeon
had bereft him of portions of both
hands and feet, and taken piece from
his face, he got well.


When found by the Indians, it is
worthy of remark that, with the excep-
tion of exhaustion, the man was mem
tally more acute than when he was
first lost. During all those fearful days
and nights the combination of terror,
despair, and, above all, longing for hu-
man cOmpaniOnship, had striven
against that dull intellectually and
apathetic temperament in vain. There
was an indifference to, an ignorance of,
the finer parts of the torture which eff
fectually shielded him from danger. He
simply did not know enough to exper-
ience any of the feelings which would
have wrecked higher order of inteill-
gence.
Year: 1878

Professor Brewer says no one can tell
what makes a tornado. There are ma
ny theories concerning the cause.
know of five hundred persons, each of
whom has different theory. Light
ming always plays leading part in the
disturbance. In some tornadOes the
exhibition of electricity is grand.
There is no particular hour at which
they are formed. but they usually take
place in the afternoon, for 1t is then
that hot day becomes most sultry. In
the northern latitudes the rotary mo-
ton is always from the right to the
left. The column is funnel shaped the
small part being on the earth. Itsways
from side to side frequently, and some
times bounds like a ball. The move
ment is either to the east, southeast or
northeast. 1t is agreed that this lorna
do had all the characteristics Of other
tornadoes.


| measured the bluff at the lake lin
Wallingford) where the tornado was
formed, and found it to be about thirty
five feet in height. The cone rose up
on this, and the damage it inflicted
shows it to have been from four hun
dred to four hundred and fifty feet
wide. 1t was not powerful enough to
uproot trees outside Of this. 1t crossed
the railroad track nearly at right an
giles and about six hundred feet wide.
At Colony street it was seven hundred
or seven hundred and fifty feet in
wldth-that is it was enough to tear
down houses within this limit. From
the lake to this point was the space in
which it displayed its greatest energy.
The cone was solid there or nearly so
at Its bottom, so that its centre was as
destructive as its outside lines. AS it
approached the hill it broadened to
,aAQnt luiaifR u6set, and over this space un-
Year: 1878

sitiOn, being actually sitting under and
astride OF the large upper footsteps OF
the engine, our utmost exertions proved
unavailing. / looked up helplessly into
the face OF the stoker, which showed
all the symptoms of despsiring agony,
as he walled, "Oh, my God his head
will be dashed to pieces on the Stag al
Royton cutting" ] shall never forget
the tone in which these words were
uttered, as the poor fellow stood in the
twilight holding on by the foot of his
comrade. "Shut off the steam and
whistle to the guards" he shouted, as
If the omission TO do so had just oc-
CURED to him. l hastened to do as di-
rected, and managed the first part of
the order successfully; but, after re-
peated wrenching and twisting at sew
eral cocks and handles, managed TO
emit sound very unlike brake whis-
tie. "Put on the brake" he again
shouted. did so, and felt greatly re-
lieved as / noticed our speed rapidly
lessening. We were now approaching
the dreadful Stag with which part Of
the line was ballasted, and could no.
tice the dismay of the stoker as he alter
nately gazed to the front and then to
the head of his cOmrade, which was, If
possible, still nearer the ground, and
ever and anon striking violently against
the hard sleepers. His hands were
gradually relaxing their meagre hold
of the foOtstep. felt that the moment
had arrived when something must be
done to save the poor fellows life; but
ere could decide what would be best,
[ was Mortified to hear the stoker cry
out, "Let go;" and at the same Instant
the driver rolled over the embankment.
To give two short, sharp whistles, re-
verse the engine, and put the brake
hard down was the work of but a few
seconds to the practiced hand of my
companion, and it brought the Grain to
a stand within a short distance. We
were soon by the side Of the driver,
whom we found, TO our delight and sur
prise, instead of a mangled corpse, only
a little stunned from the fall and few
slight bruises on the head, where 1t
had come in contact with the sleepers.
We lifted him on the engine, and
drove in safely to the end of our
iOurneV.