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Year: 1878

lican majority in but one county in the


entire State.


This is better than all the argument
| that could be adduced and more eloquent


than language, and it is simply idiotic to
| say that it is the result of a change in
J political convictions. No one believes it,
| and no intelligent man who cares fo: his
| reputation for sagacity and honesty will


care to affirm his belief in it One would


think that as matter Of policy, if moth
ing else, those people would at least at


tempt to disguise their purpose OF carry


ing elections by open violence and force
until they shall get control of the gov
ernment; but so eager are they and SO
boastful that they are enabled to overawe
the poor defenseless negroes that they
must needs advertise their unlawful
methods to the world


Well. one thing is certain. They are
as far from the control of this country as
they have ever been, and will never be
nearer SO long as their present conduct
continues, and the great union-loving
heart of the North continues to beat to
the music of the Constitution and the
rights which it guarantees to every man
within its Jurisdiction. If the Democracy
desires to become a national instead of a
sectional party, they of the North must
impress upon the southern wing OF the
organization that the old days OF bragga
docio and Southern superiority are
played out; that Northern man has
rights in the South equal to those of
Southern men in the North; that if
Ellis and Black burn and men of that ilk
from the South can come into Ohio to
advocate the claims of their party. that
Garfield or Sherman or any other North
ern statesman may go into any part of
the South and proclaim the doctrines of
the party whose cause they espouse Not
only must this be the case. but there
must be no "red shirt" monkeying and
demand for division of time" or any
such other infamous proceedings to dis
courage or break up Republican meet
ings. These are things which our desire
that the Democratic party shall live
make us hopeful they may speedily learn
and tenaciously remember. They should
send few missionaries to South Carolina
and endeavor to teach Wade Hampton
and the balance of the "concilated" that
they must at least conceal their fangs Of
sectional bate until after elections, or the
Democratic party will always be kicked
out the back door at the critical moment,
just as it was last Tuesday.
Year: 1878

LEON, Iowa, Nov. b. 1878.


To the Editor of the Standard:


November has came with its tokens OF
winter, and the weather 'probs" are hard
at work to decide what the winter will
be. One says it will be very cold, and
the next one you meet will say that all
the signs" indicate mild winter; but
there is one old gent that never fails to
give the true results, his name is Father
Time We have had one snow storm
already, but it was of short duration,
about four inches of snow fell !; as it
came from the east you may have seen
it pass over. The fall has been very
pleasant. in fact the weather is nearly
always nice here in the autumn.


This is busy time of the year with
the farmers, for they exert every nerve
to get their corn gathered before the big
snow storms come. The corn crop in
this county will average about 60 bushels
to the acre. 1t is now selling at Is cents
delivered, most of it is bought by feeders
in this country. When | look over these
vast prairies and see thousands of acres
yet untouched and then think of the lit
tie farms on the hill sides covered with
stumps and stones in some other States,
/ feel sad for the want of enterprise the
last named farmers have, and lifting up
my voice exclaim, young man go west


Thanksgiving will soon be here, and
we hope it will be with you also Now,
kind reader, | want you to do one thing
and be sure you don't forget it. A poor
worn out Editor likes a good dinner on
that day as we'll as any one under the
sun. You have a halt dozen turkeys,
real nice ones too. Now you just take
one round to the Standard office. dump
it on the floor. any where; We won't be
there, but we will bet you nickel you
will be a welcome visitor for a whole
year to come Do you remember the
letter | wrote to the Standard on last
Thanksgiving l believe some one came
to the office ard took me off to square
meal. | hope they won't forget me- if
times are hard; but don't forget what |
told you about that turkey


Well, Mr. Democrat, have you heard
the old man "Tamany, and Samuel j
getting along? Amt they to badly used
up chickens? Doubtless you have read
the story about the quarrelsome cocks
in your school days, but you feel bad
enough l suppose, so we will not torment
you, poor soul Our Legislature meets
once in two years, and this winter it does
not meet so we will not have any new
laws for year yet.


The temperance people are wide awake
here Leon has about two thousand
souls, and not saloon, not a drug store
that sells liquor; and farther, there is
not licensed saloon in Decatur county.
Boys. come out west and reform No
temptations. j. A KEAToN
Year: 1878

Tne President of one of our largest
banks said to US day or two since, that
a rich mans son had just left his place,
and he was the last man of the kind he
would ever employ The man was faith
ful, honest, and fulfilled intelligently and
well all the duties required of him but
just as he had become accustomed to his
work, he found out it was too confning,
and raw clerk had to be put in his
place A bad look this for rich young
men; but it is the old story repeated Tor
the thousandth time If rich mems sons
will not endure the drudgery by which
nearly all their fathers secured money
and position, they must take secondary
place in the next generation; and oftener
they drop out Of sight amid the idle,
worthless herd, if, indeed, they escape
an association with loafers anu criminals.
What say the labor reformers to facts
like these, for facts they are beyond
question Nearly every man in any lead
ing position in the community began life
poor. Let the sons of our rich men take
warning and 90 to work honestly and
faithfully every day if they hope to fill
the positions honorably held by their
fathers = Tribune
Year: 1878

do not ask, o Lord, that life may be


A pleasant road
l do not ask that Thou wou1dst tax from me


Aught of its load
do not ask that flowers should always spring


Beneath my feet;
know too well the poison and the sting


OF things too sweet.
For one thing only, Lord, dear Lord, plead,


Lead me Alright --r .
Though strength should falter and though
heart should bleed


Through Peace to Light.
do not ask, o Lord, that thou shouldst shed


Full radiance here
Give but ray of peace that may tread


Without q fear.
1 do not ask my cross to understand,


My way to see
Better in dark ness, just to feel Thy hand


And follow Thee.
Joy is like restless day but yeace divine


Like quiet night;
Lead me, o Lord, till perfect day shall shine,


Through Peace to Light.
Year: 1878

return to his home on a visit few days
previous to the October election, by the
ex-Confederate Superintendent of the
asylum. 1t is also further asserted that
Mr.. Vance took part in the contest and
voted the Democratic ticket Inasmuch
as he had not been discharged from the
institution, he clearly violated the law in
casting his vote. After voting he return
ed to the asylum 1t is the general i'm
preston that as soon as the excitement
has died away and affairs are quieted
down or compromised by his wife, who
it is stated has some property, the ex
Congressman will again emerge from his
present seclusion, smiling and asking for
political honors
Year: 1878

Don't get in debt to a shoemaker if
you would call your sole your own.


N. Y. Graphic; The paragrapher that
was hanged said to the crowd around the
gallows, This life is but hemp-tie
show"
Year: 1878

"Cold tea," "Roman punch" and
.apple sauce" which are the Congress
ional equivalents for the familiar names
of whisky, rum. and apple jack are to
be banished from the restaurants of the
Capitol. Recent exhibitions of reeling
statesmen have made it apparent that
local prohibition comes not a moment too
soon around the halls of our national
legislature. 1t is not particularly COM
plimentary to the self-restraint Of q
considerable number of the peoples rep
resentatives that they are unable to
have free access to intoxicating liquors
without getting drank. 1t would be
difficult to find another national legis-
lature in which the strict enforcement
of rule against the sale of alcoholic
beverages in the neighboring restaurant
would be found necessary. and it is
curious contradiction that what is on the
whole the most temperate people in the
world should return an abnormal num-
Der of incorporate Legislators.
Year: 1878

And good wife rose from her bed one morn


And thought with nervous dread,
OF the piles OF clothes to be washed, and more
Than dozen mouths to be fed.
There are meals to be got for the in the field.
And the children to fix away
To school, and the milk to be skinned and churned
And all TO be done that day.
It had rained in the night. and all the wood


Was wet as it could be;
And there was pudding and pies to bake.


And loaf of cake for tea
The day was hot, and the aching head


Throbbed weariy she said
"If maidens knew what good wives know.


They would be in no hurry to we'd"
Jennie. what do you think told Ben Brown?"
Called the farmer from the we'll
And flush crept up from his bronzed brow.
And his eyes Enthusiastically fell;
1T was this,' he said, ard coming near.


He smiled and. STOPPING down.
Kissed her cheek twas this-that you were the bes
And dearest wife in townl"
The farmer went back to the field. and the wife.
In smiling and silent way,
Sang snalches OF tender little songs


She'd not sung for many day,
And the pain in her head gone. and the clothes
Were white as the ioam cf the sea;
Her bread was light and her butter was sweet,
And golden as IL could be.
''Just think" the children all called In breath,
TON Wood has run of to seal
He wouldn't know. II he only had


As happy home we."
The night came down, and the good wife smiled
To herself as she softly said
TITS sweet to labor for those we love;


Tin strange that maios VIII wed!''
Year: 1878

How TO Cook OYsrERs.-If milk is
used. it should be in the proportion of
one quart of milk and one quart of wa
ter to each quart of oysters. If only
water is used. three pints to quart of
oysters is as much as can be used with
out injuriEg the favor of the broth.
Put the milk and water in an enameld.
or thoroughly cleaned brass kettle. over
a good FIRE. When it begins to boil.
put into it one pulverized cracker and
one tablespoonful of -four for each quart
of oysters. Let it boil one minute, to
cook and -four, and then pour in the
oysters. Stir, to keep from burning,
and when it boils up once in the mid
die, remove it from the fire. Add but
ter. salt and pepper. after it Is put in
the tureen, as butter tastes oily if boil
ed in water, and salt shrivels the oysters
if put in when cooking. The secret of
success is to have quick fire. so there
will be no simmering. and to remove
the kettle the very moment its contents
reach the actual boiling point.
Year: 1878

The good Old Yearl the brave Old Yearl
He loved you long and he loved you well,
Scatter ye snow flakes on his bier.
And plant bis grave with the asphodel!
The good Old Year that brought you cheer
In the days now gone-the brave Old Year,
Dead In the midnight words OF fear
Winds OF the midnight wildly swell.
And your dirge DER the dead Old Yeari
For the good old year SO wan and pale.
The dead old year on his icy bier.
For the brave old year let the wild winds wall
FOR the dead Old Year. toll. toll the bell,
And let the winds Of the midnight tell
To the sobbing streams that moan and plain.
To the streams that moan like souls in pain,
That the good Old Year comes not again
Dead in the midnight words Of fearl
Dead in the midnight brave old year!
Dead in the midnight. on his bieri
Winds Of the midnight toll the bell


Old Year, fareweiis = -


Farewelll-


FAREWELL
And the solemn midnight hears his kuell
The rivers sob like souls in pain.
For the Year that never comes again;
And the wailing winds to the woods complain
That the good old Year ne'er comes again
That the soul Of the brave Old Year has fed;
And the woods respond to the wild winds wall


With many a moan,


With many groan,
For the brave Old Year so stark and pale
All, woe I-for the good old year is dead!
Year: 1878

Keep your eye on your neighbors
Take care of them. Do not let them
stir without watching. They may do
something wrong. if you do. To be
sure, you never knew them to do any,
thing very bad. but it may be on your
account that they have not. Perhaps
if it had not been for your kind care
they might have disgraced themselves
long ago. Therefore. do not relax any
effort to keep them where they ought to
be. Never mind your own business-that
will take care of itself. There is a
man going along-he is looking over the
fence-be suspicious of him !; perhaps
he contemplates stealing, some of these
dark nights; there is no knowing what
queer fancies may have got into his
head.


If you find any symptoms Of any one
passing out of the path of duty, tell
every one else what you see, and be
particular to see great many. 1t is a
good way to circulate such things,
though it may not benefit you or any
one else particularly. Do keep some
thing going-silence is dreadful thing /;
though it was said there was silence In
heaven for the space of half an hour, do
not let such thing occur on earth-it
would be too much for this mundane
sphere.


If, after all your watehful care. you
cannot see anything out of the way in
any one. you may be sure it is not be-
cause they have not done anything bad !;
perhaps, in an unguarded moment, you
lost sight of them-throw out hints
that they are no better than they should
be, that you should not wonder if the
people found out what they were after a
little while, then they may not hold
their heads SO high. Keep it going,
and some one else may take the hint,
and begin to help you along, after a
while; then there will be music, and
everything will work like charm.
Year: 1878

We flourish awhile Men take us by
the hand and are anxious about the
health of our bodies and laugh at our
Jokes. and we really think, like the fly
on the wheel, that we have something to
do with the turning of it. The sun does
not stop for our funeral, everything goes
on as usual, we are not missed in the
street, men laugh at the new jokes. and
in three days the great waves sweep
over our path, and wash out the last
vestige of earthly footprints. Such Is
life
Year: 1878

BRICK TEA.-A correspondent writ
ing from Hankon, in China, says:
There is very large trade in brick tea,
which prepared here from the Russian
market, and is shipped hence by the
way of Tientsin and Pekin. Nearly
half of the foreign merchants here are
Russians. and they have several facto-
ries for the preparation of the bricks.
This morning | visited one Of the estab-
lishments and witnessed the process.
The dry tea is weighed out into portions
for single bricks, and each portion is
wrapped in cloth and placed over a
steam boiler. When it is thoroughly
steamed it is poured into mold and
placed beneath a machine which presses
it into the required shape. Some of the
machines are worked by hand and others
by steam; both kinds are rapid and
efficient. and it did not appear that the
steam had much advantage. Five men
working hand machine and receiving
twenty cents each per day. were able to
press six bricks a minute. The steam
press worked only little faster, and
the cost Of fuel must be nearly equal te
that of muscle.
Year: 1878

In almost every mining town and
camp of the Golden States" says the
Virginia City New Enterprise, the
cid settlers tell of ztht s,isss.-- ~i.-rs.
streams, gulches and ravines were i'm
mensely rich in placer gold up to a Ger.
tain point, when they suddenly ceased
to pay. Somewhere in the neighbor-
hood. doubtless, lies the channel whence
came the gold found below. but no man
has ever been able to hit upon lit is
one of the mines that have never been
found. Sometimes on a fat or in a sag
on the side of hill or mountain. the
placer miner has Unexpectedly found
great quantities of bright quartz gold,
or fragments of quartz rich in gold In
vain he searches for the lode from which
came the gold and the quartz; it re-
mains one of the mines that have never
been found.


In places not only fragments but also
great blocks and powders of quartz ELL
ed with gold are found, and for time
diligent search is made for the place
whence it came; but one after another
the prospectors become discouraged, and
finally the source of the gold is, set down
among the mines that have never been
found.


We might furnish list of not few
such places as are spoken of above, but
shall leave particular account of them
to be given by the man who shall. one
of these days, write the history of the
mines that have never been found.


Such history would make quite a
thick pamphlet, would include many in
teresting and romantic stories and would
prove an incentive to prospecting and
mining in many now almost deserted
camps, provided some pains were taken
to get at the facts in all cases.
In California there is, doubtless. to-
day more gold in mines that have never
been found than remains in all those
that are known and worked.
Year: 1878

turn for mileage and witness fees. No takers


The Administration is said to be patting
Itself on the back with joy because it has
ceught up with the party. If it doesn't stop
smiling and brace up more yet, it will have a
chance to catch up again before long, for the
party is going at much the faster pace.


A New Democratic newspaper has been
started in Columbus, weighed down with the
Presidential ticket of Thurman and Abbot t
for $780, Mr.. Abbott is the man who ran for
Governor of Massachusetts in November as
the respectable" Democratic candidate, poll
ing 10000 votes. The size Of the party was
made known for the first time.


A Democratic member of the Potter Com.
mittee is credited with saying that his party
stands upon the cipher dispatch question like
a msn in the middle of the river-it must
either go through, turn back or sink. He be-
lieves in trying to go through. That is the
only hope, yet when the party gets p little
further on it will discover that it is in the mid
die of stream which is all middle and o
banks.


Proctor Knott starts his career in the new
session in the usually imbecile manner by re-
marking that the Presidents Message is a dis
credit to the Administration, and that he can
not believe the Cabinet had much TO do with
it, as it otherwise would have been more
marked. Whatever Mr.. Knott does is always
marked" is no doubt about that. 1t
generally leaves mark on the party also, in
the shape Of black eye or two.
Year: 1878

We are nobody, then; it is curious.
Only the slave of the pen:
The p ace where we designate ''sanctum"


Is the lair of beast or den
Our work any one could accomplish?


Just try it, dear sir, if you can;
You'll find that in one thing you're lacking =
'Tis the snap of newspaper man!
I've stood in the parvenu's parlors,


Where wealth to the eye is unrolled-
Where mankind is put on the balance,


And weighed by the standard of gold:
And creaturls of beauty and fashion,


Whose life is frivolous span,
Drew aside, as if there were contagion


In the touch of a newspaper man!
And tho't Are my hands red with murder
Do | merit the signet of Cain
Nay surley must be a leper-


All marked with the hideous stain ?
But, no, there are more potent reason


For putting me under the ban
The sneer and the look say I'm only


Only newspaper man!
Is itwrong to use paper and scissors


Is it crime to get bread by the pen?
Would intellect shine like diamond


If newspapers never had been?
The man who absconds with million


Is soon welcomed back from Japan;
While he whose page sparkles with beauty


Is only a newspaper man.
I'm proud of my rank and my station,


As monarch is proud of his throne;
Eve kindred in every nation,


And brethren in every zone.
The high, the rich, and the naughty


Deny it to-day if you can
Will fawn for the sake of notice


At the feet of newspaper man.
wonder, sometimes, in my sanctum,


When alone with the work of the day,
If we have a right to that heaven,


Beautiful bright, far away.
Will the angels who stand at the portals,


To welcome whoever they can,
Turn aside when they see us, and whisper,
''He's only newspaper mani"
Year: 1878

1t is proud day when the average
boy gets on his first pair of boots and
trudges to school by the side of an old
er sister. He does not care any longer
to take her hand. The leading strings
are cut. But this early ambition to be
Il man is entirely eclipsed, when he has
taken charge of his first pair of steers.
and started for the fair. Has he not
raised them, broken them to the yoke,
taught them to pull and to back, to
haw aud to gee? They are evidence of
his skill in subduing brute muscle. He
is going up to the exhibition to display


the fruits of his triumph, and, as he
hopes, to wear the laurels of victory.
He is no longer merely spectator, but
an exhibitor, an entertainer of specta


tors.-There is difference of native
tastes in boys. Some have natural
aptitude to one calling and some to an.
other but most men have their callings
determined by early circumstances,
sometimes by incidents so trivial that
they have hardly trace in memory.
1t is not difficult generally for a father,
who loves the farm, to determine the
calling of his children. If he makes it
u business of thrift, and provides COM
fortably for his family, they will re-
spect the calling. If bel is discouraged
and continually shifting his work, or
his home, they will not be very likely
to make tiIlers of the soil. One can
hardly begin too early with his boys to
incline them to the calling that is to
give them bread, and the means of
their usefulness. If the boy is to be a
farmer, he must begin to have per-
sOnal interest and venture in farming
while he is yet boy. Filial affection,
in happy home, is a very strong mo-
tive to industry and fidelity, but it
does not shape boys plans for life
like an investment of his own brains
and muscles in his daily work. He
should have crops and animals, not on
ly that he can cali his own, but that
are his own, to keep, to enjoy, aad to
sell for his own pleasure and profit.
The trusts may be small at first, but
they should be absolute, and let him
have his own experience of success and
failure in managing them. Let him
manage poultry, lamb, q calf, or a
c0lt, and exhibit his own stock at the
fairs. We notice with great satisfac-
tion the increasing attention paid to
the boys at the fall fairs. Boys did
some of the best work at recent plow-
ing match at one of our fairs. One, a
boy of fourteen, held the plow and
drove his own team, and made as good
seed he'd as his old competitors.
These premiums for boys work, are in
the right direction; let them be noted
i'll making up the lists for next year.
American Agriculturist for December.
Year: 1878

Symptoms OF aDiseasedLiver.
DAIN in the right side, under the
i 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 side; 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 considerable loss of mem
ory, accompanied with 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
WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains Of 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-
listed, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.