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Year: 1879

Do you know you have asked for the


costliest thing


Ever made by the Hand above
A wcman's heat and a woman's life,
And woman's wonderful love?
Do you know you have asked for this


priceless thing


AS a child might ask for toy?
Demanding what Others have died to win,
With The reckless dash of boy.
You have written my lesson OF duty out,
Man like you have questioned me-
Until l shall question thee.
You require your mutton shall always be


hot,


Your socks and your shirts shall be


whole;
require your heart 70 be true as Gods


stars,


And pure as heaven your soul.
You require cook for your mutton and


beef;


! require q far better thing:
Il seamstress you're wanting for stockings


and shirts


look for man and king.
A king for beautiful rea m called home,
And q man that the maker, God,
Sh.,l' looll upon as he cid the first,
And say, 1T is very good"
| am fair and young, but the lose will fade
From my soft young checks one day
viii you love me then, mid the failing


leaves,


As you did mid the llooming OF May?
Is your heart an ocesn so strong and deep
may launch my all on its tide
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made g bride.
require all things that arc grand and


true,


All things that a man should be;
If you give this all would stake my life
70 be all you demand of me-
If you cannot Go this--a laundress and


cook


You can hire, with little to pay;
But woman's heart and woman's life
Are not to be won that way.
Year: 1879

Before you begin your heavy spring
work after winter Of relaxation, your sys-
tenn needs cleansing and strengthening to
prevent an attack of Ague, Bilious or
spring sickness that will unfit you for a
seasons work. You will save time, much
sickness and great expense, if you will, use
one bottle of Hop B.tters in your family
this month. Don't wait. See other col
umn
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Respecting the
future action Of the Senate on the New
York Custom House nominations it is re-
ported to night, from Democratic sources,
that 50 tar as support from that party in the
Senate is concerned CoukliDg is losing
ground. 4 prominent Southern Senator is
said to have stated that number Of Dem
ocra,s who have heretofore been thought to
hold doubtful position as to their votes on
the pending nominations would now vote
for their confirmation
Year: 1879

GIBRALTER, Feb. at is feared that
before next year half of the inhabitants Of
the southern provinces of Morocco will
have persisted BY starvation and disease on
account of the scarcity caused by the last
drouGht
Year: 1879

Doctor VIVIAN has had another
seige Of the Milwaukee House of
correction investigation, occupying
full week. We understand that
the Board of which the Doctor is a
member will prepare a report to be
submitted to the Legislature, sug.
gesting remedies for some of the
evils found to exist. We hope the
result will be to wipe out all con-
uection between the State and the
disgraceful institution, or else to
place it directly under State control,
as the prison at Waupun is. AS at
present managed the State is sub.
ject to criticision for its manage.
ment, while having not the least
authority to dictate its regulations
or anything to say as TO who shall
have charge over it.
Year: 1879

hours. It is grand mistake to
neglect so important an event.
Happy should be the home, how
ever humble. which finds every little
pillow occupied with its curly head,
and no little stocking missing from
its handy place by the chimney cor
ner. No man is thoroughly bad
who loves to make children happy.
A home can be made bright and
joyous, and it brings the largest in
come from the smallest investment
of any enterprise ever discovered.
The poor man who has enough TO
feed and clothe and educate n flock
of bright, happy, loving children is
a king beside the millionaire who is
n stranger to the romp and laughter
of boys and girls Yes, Christmas
is coming Don't neglect the little
ones. AS the world was blessed by
"the babe in tho manger," SO every
home where lovingly nestles a little
one has a treasurer and q blessing.
Year: 1879

THE board OF supervisors of Green
county, at its recent session, adopt
Ell an important resolution which
will doubtless lead to the considera-
alton of grave questions Of law. The
resolution provides that the county
clerk shall make out and deliver TO
The assessor Of each Gown a complete
list of mortgages held by the citizens
of the town, aud that the lists shall
be compiled from the records in The
Year: 1879

Thousands Of lives will be saved
by tho nSe Of the new Kerosene
Lamp recently invented. 1t cannot
explode nor set fire to the oil should
the lamp upset or fall to the floor,
as it will Immediately extinguish
itself in case of such accident. All
who value their own safety and that
of their families and property should
examine it. 1t is called the Harris
q Smith Safety Lamp, and is for
sale at lamp stores everywhere.


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SINCE going to press the death Of
Mrs. Edward Kline is reported.
Her death was not altogether unex-
pected, she having suffered beyond
telling for the past few months from
a cancer attack, which dragged her
rapidly from health supreme into
the grave. A faithful, devoted wife,
a loving and indulgent mother, a
good neighbor and friend, and in all
true woman has retired to rest
The whole community mourns, and
extends It's heartfelt sympathy to the
bereavel family.


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THE people of portions of Green,
La Fayette and Grant counties are,
for the fifteenth time, excited about
the extension Of the Monroe branch
of the c. NJ. & st. Paul railroad to
Dubuque. The impression prevails
there that if quarter of q million
Of dollars can he raised in the way
of aid the road will be built next
summer. OF this sum it is expected
that one half will be raised in Du-
buQue. Meetings are being held in
the towns through which the road is
expected to pass, and the people are
enthusiastically in favor of the
project.


THE board OF supervisors of Green
county, at its recent session, adopt
Ell an important resolution which
will doubtless lead TO the considera-
Year: 1879

PRtDEAUX vs. THE CITY. - We
publish to-day ,n crtenSo the charge
Of Judge Stewart in this case, late
y tried at Madison. From the first
we and many others have doubted
the wisdom of contesting this case
on the part of tae city, understand
ing that it could have been settled
for a very reasonable sum. That
the verdict of $4,000 and costs,
however, is too severe most of these
same people believe, and hence a
continuance of the trial now will
meet more general approval than at
any previous stage. The verdict
awards the patient more than the
pension of soldier for similar in
jury, estimating life of 40 years OF
more.


Fairness in discussing the subject
however, demands the consideration
of the fact that large part of thc
! judgment (some estimate one half,
will be required to pay attorney
fees and expenses. SO that the act.
ual benefit to the injured party is
perhaps no greater than is equitable
The tax payers of the city have q
right TO expect careful consideration
of the subject in all its bearings on
the part of the officials, before pro.
ceeding further in their course ol
expensive folly.
Year: 1879

DAtN in the right side, under the 1 edge of the ribs, increases on pres sure; sometimes the pain is in the left side; the patient is rarely able to lie on the left sidej sometimes the pain is felt under the shoulder blade, and it frequently extends to the top of the shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken for rheumatism in the arm. The stomach is affected with loss of appe- tite and sickness; the bowels in gen eral are costive, sometimes alternative with lax; the head is troubled with pain, accompanied with dull, heavy sensation in the back part. There IS generally a considerable loss of mem- ory, accompanied with a painful sen- sation of having left undone some thing which ought to have been done. A slight, dry cough is sometimes an attendant The patient complains of weariness and debility; he is easily startled, his feet are cold or burning, and he complains of a prickly sensa- ton of the skin; his spirits are low; and although he is satisfied that exer. else would be beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely summon up fortitude enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred where few of them ex- isted, yet examination of the body, after death, has shown the LIVER to have been extensively deranged.
Year: 1879

Mr.. D. L. Moody's afternoon meet
ing in Mount Vernon N. L. Church


Baltimore on Thursday, was crowded
almost to suffocation. Mr.. Moody said
there was an impression amongst many
that the work now being done here
would cease with these meetings, but
he thought it should branch out into
new channels. 1t was a pity that hun.
dreds joined the church without giving
it new power, and the fault sometimes
lay in the false ideas held by the Lad
ers of the churches as well as y the
young converts. Saloon keepers whose
business had been interfsred with were
trusting that with the close of this re-
vival their old customers would come
back again. there was great deal OF
prejudice against revivals, but they
were as old as the Bible. There is
nothing good which has not been fought
by the world. Revivals are cOnstitu-
tionally scriptural, and yet it struck
him that a great many churches would
have been closed against the evange-
lists whom Christ sent out. One OBJ
lection to revivals is that converts do
not hold out but this is strange ar
gunent, for many who. enter into bust
ness fail. Others object to sudden con-
versions, and say there is always sure
to be reaction. Since he came here he
had tried to prevent undue excitement.
and the stirring up of animal life.
There had not been as much excitement
over these meetings as over business
and trade, nor as much as there would
be over the horse race of next week, to
which ladies will go and bet their gloves,
their handkerchieis and everything
they have. There is a need for this
working going on. 1t is a delusion to
suppose that the nation or the world is
growing better. The war which we
had has completely demoralized the ma
tion. Sons and daughters are brought
up to be nothing and do nothing and
there is a skeleton in almost every
house around yonder monument. If
a church can pay its debts and give
the minister his salary it thinks it is
getting along remarkably well, even if
no one is ever converted. There is no
nation which needs a revival of integ-
rity SO much as America. It's sbams,
its shoddies and its lies are abominable,
and so is the rascality that is covered
up under the guise of religion. The
question has been asked if saloons
should be closed by the law. He be-
lieved they would soon be closed il
Christians wonld stop using wine in
their own homes, and then go out and
talk to the drunkards. Wealthy ladies
should open coffee houses on Baltimore
street, aud sell the best tea and coffee
and country milk as cheap as the devil
sells his stuff, and they would find they
had made good investment. Ministers
ought to have courage to speak against
iniquity, instead Of talking against the
sins Of the patriarchs. Politicians are
striving to stir up sectional feeling, but
Christians ought to try to prevent this.
He believed that if the revival of 1857
had been followed up the country would
have been spared the horrors of civil
war. Judgment will follow if the work
now begun is not continued.
Year: 1879

The Legislature of the State of New
York has agreed to reduce the legal in
terest to six per cent. 1t has been sew
en- per cent. since the adoption of the
constitution of 1854. This is very
significant, as sign of the times, and
as evidence that in the leading com
mercial State of the Union the impress
sion has become general that there will
b. no immediate return in this country
to the high rates of interest which have
previously prevailed. This action of
the New York Legislature is in accord
with that of several of the Western
States, the Legislatures o. which have
recently lowered the official rates of in
terest.
Year: 1879

left, backwards and forwards, and in
each case to come back to his first
position. He is then to turn round
twice and blow out the candle. In
nine cases out of ten he will blow
quite away from the place where the
candle stands.


Perhaps it will be said that these
games are not particularly new. The
wise man said, "There is nothing
new under the sum-" and games are
not to be the exception. The same
sports which were common one hun
lred and fifty years ago are enjoyed
to-day; the only difference is that
they are carried on in a more refined
fashion. And it is all the pleasanter
that it should be so. 1t is delight
ful to think that our children take
pleasure in the same games that our
grandfathers and grandnothers did.
Let us hope that the Christmas sea-
son may long retain its influence as
well as its games: that it may bind
heart to heart, and, as Washington
sadi, " We may draw our pleasure
from the deep wells of living kind
ness which lie in the quiet recesses
OF our bosoms, and which, when
resorted to, furnish forth the pure
element of domestic felicity"
Year: 1879

Camille Flammarion, the we'll
known French scientest thus beau
tifully exp esses himself in La Cor
respondencc Scientifque, regarding
the ultimate fate OF the globe:


The earth was born; she will die.
She will die, either of old age, when
her vital elements shall have been
used up, OF through the extinction
of the sun, to whose rays her life is
suspended. She might almost die
by accident, through collision with
some celestial body meeting he, on
her route; out this end of the world
is the most improbable Of all.


She may, we repeat, die natural
death through the slow absorption
of her vital elements. In fact, it is
probable that tho air and water aro
diminishing. The ocean, like the
atmosphere, appears to have been
! formerly much more considerable
than it is in our day. The terres-
trial crust is penetrated by waters
which combine chemically with the
rocks. 1t is almost certain that the
temperature of the interior of the
globe reaches that of boiling water
at depth of six miles, and prevents
the water from descending any low
er; but the absorption will continue
with the cooling of the globe. The
oxygen, nitrogen and carbonic acid
which compose our atmosphere also
appear to undergo absorption but
slower. The thinker may foresee,
through the mist of ages, the epoch
yet afar off, in which the earth, de-
prived of the atmospheric aqueous
vapor which protects her from the
glacial cold of space by preserving
the solar rays around her, will be-
come chilled by the sleep of death.
AS writer says: "From the sum-
NIT of the mountains winding sheet
of snow will descend upon the high
plateaus and valleys, driving before
it life and civilization, and masking
forever the cities and nations that
it meets on its passage. Life and
human activity will press insensibly
toward the intertropica! zone. st.
Petersburg, Berlin, London, Paris,
Vienna, Constantinople and Rome,
will fall asleep in succession under
their eternal shrouds. During very
many ages, equatorial humanity will
undertake Arctic expeditions to find
again, under the ice, the place of
Paris, Bordeau, Marseilles. The
sea coast will have changed, and
the geographical map of the earth
will be transformed. No one will
live and breathe any more, except
in the equatorial zone, up to the
days when the last family, nearly
dead with cold and hunger, will sit
on the shore of the last sea, in the
rays of the sun which will hereafter
shine below on an ambulent tomb
revolving aimlessly around useless
light and barren heat"
Year: 1879

The garden of Eden, now called
Gournah, Is forty miles northeast
of Busreli, in Turkish Arabia, at the
confluence of the Tigris and Eu'
pirates. The country is destitute
of vegetation, with the exception of
date palms. The tree pointed out
by the inhabitants as the true and
original Tree of knowledge differs
from the Indian tamarind in that the
latter bears q bean and does not
grow to half the size of an ordinary
tamarind tree. The eagerness shown
by Europeans to possess branch OF
this tree has given rise to deal OF
imposition on the part of the natives,
and unless a large backaheesh is
forthcoming they prevent all at
tempts on the part Of the visitors to
possess a branch.
Year: 1879

The Boston Post says: Take a
dead wasp and impale him on the
point of needle set up in the bot
tom of q wood chair so that the in
N"rt conceals the needle, and then
;l you want is to find some man who
will be foolish enough to bet that he
can sit down ON that wasp quick and
hard enough to crush it before it can
get its work in.
Year: 1879

Flandreau Enterprise: The Chicago
and Northwestern are at work again with


their surveyors. They have just run
line from Volga TO Watertown and are
now about to run down the valley from
the former place to Sioux Falls, at least
such is the report. 1t looks very much
az if the Northwestern wants TO shut out
the Sio ux City and Dakota from an exten-
sion IN this direction, and if that be the
case it must he that the interests of John
l Blair and the Northwestern are not SO
identi cal as he has been generally suppos-
ed At all events it means something,
for the Northwestern has not been IN the
habit of blowing or blueing, but rather OF
gently pushing ahead just where 1t wanted
to 60 The Sioux valley is certain to be
one OF the M ct favored localities IN rail-
read matter Of any place in the whole of


the great porthwe1t
Year: 1879

THg HOUSE of Representatives at Do
yer has said emphatically that people
who are to b. sold out by the sheriff
need not be consulted by that officer in
regard to choosing one Of the papers in
which their advertisements shall be in
serted, but leaves it all in the hands of
tn. sheriff,
Year: 1879

THR Herald was tame this morning,
having evidently heard enough about
the banquet, but sticks to it that the
REPUBLICAN does not tell the truth when
it says it has a larger circulation than
all the other Dalies in the city inclu.
ded. We can do no more than stick TO
the offer We made yesterday, to prove
what We assert, and until the Herald
accepts that offer it has no right to say
that We are not telling the truth.
We admit that we made very full al
lowance for the circulation Of the
Herahi, by placing it at three or four
hundred, but :evsn il we place it at
five hundred which it knows 1t has not
got, We would still be safe in our claim
for the REpuBLICAS, and it the Herald
does not accept our offer to prove the
truth Of what We say, let 1t shut up.
Year: 1879

they form corps by themselves; when it is weak
one it is amslgamated with of the old existing
regiments: thus, although some corps are composed
entirely of men about the age others contain
mixture of old and young. At present there are IN
ALL fourteen corps regiments. They vary in
strength. from tho Udukuza which consists but
of one regiment numbering 900 men, to the Undi.
which contains hve regiments and numbers
$500 men. Tho total strength Of the hghting
force of under sixty years of age is put down at
l0.40O. OF these 22,5O0 arc between twenty ana
thirty years of agc 10000 between thirty and forty.
34O0 between forty and fifty and 4,50o between NIFTY
and sixty years old. How grievously this mill
tary service must bear upon the people and how
great must be tho check given to the increase OF
population may be judged by the fact that the King
does not allow his soldiers to marry until leave is
given to the whole regiment to do 80,
and this 10 not generally granted until tho ago
of the men averages forty years. According to this
there are 80. 500 unmarried men in Zululand. all
under the age of forty. and only 1890 married men.
all between the ages of forty and sixty. As leave is
given to regiments which have specially dis
tinguished themselves in to marry under the
usual age the system in force tends to make the
whole Of the active OF the nation for war.
and renders them extremely dangerous and quarrel
some neiShborx. 1t is this fact which has rendered
the war an absolute necessity.
Year: 1879

The old year is passing away and
we want to begin 1880 with clean
sheet. We trust all of our subscri-
bers will come to the front at once.
The LEDGER is $1.50 if paid in adj
vance; $500 at the end of the year
No man is more disposed to be leni-
ent to those who wish and try to pay
their debts, but there are a very few
subscribers on our books who never
intend to pay their subscription.
Gentlemen, you had just as well pay
at once, for if you don't we will ad-
vertise every last one of You. Busi-
ness is business, and We mean what
We saw,
Year: 1879

The story about Jesse James tax
ing dinner at the Ringo House on
Thanksgiving day is all mistake.


1t is mistake about there being a
steam printing office in Mexico. One
of the offices has gas-bag attach
ment and another sports fog-horn.
Only this and nothing more.


1t is all mistake about Duncan's
running for coroner on the G.-B.
ticket next fall. He says ''there is
no Office in the gift of the people Of
Audrain which he would have" This
is also mistake.


The firm in New York who wanted
us to advertise their vermifuge and
take IL bottles in payment for same,
made a mistake in tie paper.


Giles Green has moved to Mexico !;
but it is a mistake about he and L..
N. Bass making arrangements to
start a daily paper.


1t is a mistake to think your ac-
tons or desires have any effect on
the dispenser of weather. Tice is
not man to be influenced. You
can't get solid with him.


1t is a mistake to think when you
walk INTO church late that every one
is thinking about you. You do so
much Of that kind of work yourself
you exhaust the subject.


1t is a mistake if you think the
dismally pious man has had such a
change of heart. 1t is all in his liver.


1t is a mistake to wish the butcher
would remove the bones before weigh
ing your meat. How would you
like to be weighed that way yourself!
1t is mistake-the editor of the
LEDGER did not write the series OF
sermons on sanctifcation which he
has recently published.
| 1t is a mlstake-Coi. RediIngton
is not going to run drug store in
connection with his daily.


The rumor circulated about Hut
ton and McIlhany dissolving partner
ship and McIlhany taking part of the
Inteuigencer Office into Texas and
. starting daily on the Ruggles Grant
is a gross mistake-he never thought
of such thing.


1t is mistake to think if you eat
dates you will grow up to be an al
manac.
Year: 1879

AS all car readers know, there is,
at this time, great deal of talk
about the school book question: ::
Whose books shall we use for the
next years. We have never said
any thing on this matter, for we think
our school boards arc all composed
OF good and true men, who have the
interest of our people at heart. There
are two sides to this question and we
think our duty to examine into the
matter and by next week will be
ready to say something pointed and
to the point. We watch, with a good
deel of interest, the committee of
teachers who meet in Mexico next
Saturday to recommend school books.
Year: 1879

Last week some of our exchanges
did not get any LEDGER, and this
week we will have to send them half
sheets. The demand fol extra copies
and the weekly increase in our sub
scription list, keeps us short of papers
each week.
Year: 1879

We learn that some of our Jour
nalists have gone to buying work
that Is, they say: "You give me
that Job for so and so and L will pay
you SO much" Merit will win,
though, in spite of such work.
Year: 1879

Don't fail to read Harper & Tur-
ner's mammoth advertisement in this
issue of the LEDGER. This firm is now
doing an immense business. Their
stock is complete in every depart
ment. They are daily receiving goods
from the east. They pay cash, and
can sell cheap for the same. Call in
and see for yourself-no trouble to
show goods. Accommodating clerks
ever ready to wait on you.
Year: 1879

When newspaper man prates
against personal journalism and begs
you to let up on him and then goes
off and rails at you with the lowest
kind of personalities, he might be


called fiddle string, only he is not


dried nor is he of the right species.