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Year: 1874

Nowhere is well-bred courtesy, the
lack of il, more observable than in travel
ing. On the steamboat and in the cars
the quiet observer readily detects those
who have been educated under refined in
fuences, or those who, without special
cultivation, are possessed of native polite
ness. 1t is not education alone, nor
wealth, nor high social position, nor COST
ly trappings that make one pleasant
travelling companion. There must exist
kindness of feeling toward strangers
general recognition of equal rights in the
comforts and conveniences provided for
the public, and quickeped discernment
for the needs of others. The gentleman
who spreads out his luggage on couple
of seats in the cars, and persistently reads
his newspaper, determinately unconsci-
GUS that others who have paid as much
as he has are looking in vain for seat,
is as truly ill-bred as the country girl
who noisely eats her pint of peanuts scat-
tering the shells on seat and floor, regard
less of the annoyance she gives her neigh
bors. In this democratic country we
travel in public conveyanees too much
as though they were our own private car


riages. How often the eleventh and
twelfth passenger in an omnibus, we
know they have full claim to a seat are
discomforted by the outspread garments
and inimovable attitudes and black faces
of those who may have entered the stage
before him. Common civility demands
that a movement be made to give room
until the complement is filled; afterward
courtesy and generosity will often prompt
to attentions which justice may not re-
quire. 1t is surprising how much the
comfort and pleasure of any journey,
whether long or short, is enhance by these
little nameless courtesies which are offer
ed instinctively and unofieiously to
strangers, by refined, well-bred travellers
and persons in whom native tact and de,
licacy almost make up for the lack of ed
ucatnig and refining influences for society
Year: 1874

A Belgian tenant has made the extra
ordinary discovery that earth, coal and
soda, mixed up together, would burn as
well and better than any other combust-
ible, and the fact has since then been
proved beyond a doubt. The way in
which he found this out is curious. He
had been scraping the floor of his cellar
with shovel, in order TO bring all the
bits of coal lying about into a heap,
which, mixed as it was with earth and
other impurities, he put into his stove.
To his astonishment he found that this
accidental compound burned BETTER in
stead of worse, than he expected and G.
mItted much greater heat. Being an in
telligent man, he endeavored to discover
the cause, and found that a great deal of
soda, probably the remnant of the wash
lay about on the floor of the cellar; and
that some of it must have got Into his
heap. He then made few experiments,
and at length improved his compound
sufficiently to render it practical. The
publicity given in Belgium to this dis
covery caused trials to be made elsewhere,
and it has now been ascertaincd that
three parts of earth and one of coal-dust
watered with a concentrated solution of
soda, will burn we'll and emitssgreat heat.
Many Partisan papers talked of it, but
only one, The Moaiteur, went so far as
to make the experiment at its printing
Office. A certain quantity af friable and
slightly sandy earth was mixed with the
quantum of coal dust prescribed; the two
ingredients were well incorporated with
each other, and then made into a paste
with the solution above mentioned. The
fireplace of one Of the boilers had pre-
viously been lighted with coal, and the
fire was kept up with shovelsful of the
mixture. The latter, in few seconds,
was transformed into dry, brown crust
which soon after became red-hot, and
then burned brightly, but without being
very rapidly consumed.
Year: 1874

Tom was a strapping, healthy boy, with


a great appetite. He lived up in the


mountains among the charcoal burners


until he was nineteen. Then he went
down into the valley and hired out to a


farmer. Tom was a sculliou and drudge,
and the first month the farmer hesitated


to trust even the hogs to his care. But
there was a glimmering Of something
in him that showed just little through


his uncouthness. After year or two he


became a full farm laborer-a broad
shouldered. deep-chested, powerful fell
low, who made himself clumsily useful.
Well about that time the farmers daugh-
ter came home from school. What re-
velation she was to Tom. He never knew
until then what It was to worship any,
thing, nor how awkward and coarse he
was. He would have given all he had,
which wasn't much, to learn how to get
into a room without hitting the door, or
what to do with his hands, or how to sit
down right. He began to change his
clothes Tor better ones when he came in
from the days work, and there was about
HIM the dawning Improvement. Final
ly the great day came. He stood tremb-
ling before the farmers daughter, the
hard word was spoken, and she didn't re-
pulse him. l think there is nothing in
the life of a man which so rouses and stirs
him as love. Tom went to the wrestling
matches, and what vim there was in


him. He read, he went to chrnch, he


wanted to see how people acted. And


when after good life he grew to be an
old man, and talked in a trembling voice
to his grandchildren, he used to, "Oh,
what wife she was to me. Whatever !
became she made me-" The world is full
of lust such instances of blessed influence
Year: 1874

A RETIRED Physician writes, How
does it happen that amid the everlasting
cry against drunkenness, we never hear
a word against its sister evil, gluttony?
think can assert with truth that in q
long practice, three have died among my
patients from over-eating where one has
died from drink. Whence come apoplexy,
paralysis, dyspepsia, and host Of other
diseases, but from too much and too rich
food taken under the most imprudent cir
cumstances. And yet we hear of no socie-
ty formed to prevent this growing vice.
A man eats until he drops down and ex-
pires with apoplexy by the road side
when up comes the Coroner with a jury
of twelve good men and true, who pro-
nounce a verdict, Died from intemper-
ance." So he did, but what kind Of in
Temperance was il? have heard more
than one minister in the pulpit expatiate
with great vehemence against tie sin Of
drunkenness, whose very appearance was
proof positive that he was pre-cminently
guilty Of gluttony."
Year: 1874

Numbers Of men who emigrated from
the West to the gold mines Of French
Guiana are returning home. They say
that the fields are one hunnred miles in
land, and to reach them one hundred and
fifty miles have to be travelled in row
boats padded by negroes, and after that
journey Of five or six days duration
through dense underground. Even the
gold, which is found in rotten quartz, IS
in from two to six feet Of black mud,
whence arises an efiuyia which no white
man can endure. The water Is 30 pois-
onous that the natives drink nothing but
wine. The expedition was a failure.
Year: 1874

The blood and thunder school of boy 8
literature has a recruit from the boys
themselves, Johnny Rice, Philadelphia
lad of fourteen, who, few days since,
left his fathers house behind him, and
likewise a letter to his father, in which
he announced that he had been writing
stories for a New York paper for some
six months, and now, as the author OF
"The Wharf Rats" he had transferred
his services to a rival sheet, which requir-
ed him to devote all his time to it, and
was going to New York to do so. He
explains: II would not leave home had
it not been for school, for | know you
would not let me leave school until was
through. l mean to go to college when
l am old enough and have enough mon-
ey. You now know the profession / pre-
fer without Mr. Jones feeling my bump
l prefer an authors profession"
Year: 1874

The poorest girls in the world are those
who have never been brought up to
work. Rich parents have petted them,
they have been taught TO despise labor,
and to depend upon others for living,
and are perfectly helpless. If misfortune
comes upon their friends, as il often
does, their case is hopeless. The most
forlorn, miserable women on earth be-
long to this class. 1t belongs to parents
to protect daughters from this deplorable
condition. They do them great wrong
if they neglect it. Every daughter
should be taught to earn her own living.
The rich as we'll as the poor require this
training. The wheel Of fortune rolls
swiftly round, the rich are very likely to
become poor, and the poor rich. Skilled
to labor is no disadvantage to rich, and
is indispensable to the poor. Well-to-dc
parents must educate their daughters tC
work; no reform is more imperative thar
| this.
Year: 1874

A BUFFALO street car conductor refssn
to permit female in "bloomer costume"
to ride ON his car, beliving her to be q
woman dressed in mans clothes. The
case was carried 20 Court, when the con-
ductor'e counsel stated that there was an
ordinance against female wearing a
mans dress, and thought that worn by
the woman came very near to 1t. The
Justice, however, held that the "bloom.
err" was female costume.
Year: 1874

~ The Wsth-na Reporter of last week, taking
the CkidTs item on railroad passes for a text,
wades through whole column to show that the
acceptance Tor "acception," a. It calls it) Of a
railroad pass by member of the Legislature is
eorrupting. That is good deal owing to the
member. But tifa railroad company sends a menu
brr pass, unsolicited by him, and without any
agreement or conditions, the member is under
no obligations for it, and may ride on the pass
with propriety, and vote on railroad questions
as impartially as if he had no pass, no matter
what the design or expectation of the company
in issuing the pass
Year: 1874

RAILROADS KILLING STocK.-A bill has passed
the State Senate, and will pass the House, relat-
ing to killing or wounding stock by railroads.
1t provides that any railroad company or lessee
shall pay the full value of each and every animal
killed by an engine or car, or full damage for
wounding any animal irrespective of the fact as
to whether such killing OF wouuding was caused
by the negligence of the engineer OF other en-
ployees of the road OF not; and if they refuse or
neglect to pay such amount within thirty days
after the demand for the same, they shall also be


liable for tho attorneys fee and costs of prosecu-
tion. We suppose the owner of tho animal is to
be allowed to set the price upon it, aud the at
torney to charge what be chooses. Any railroad
that is enclosed with good and sufficient fence
to keep animals from the track, is exempted from
the provisions of this act


While some effective law is needed on this sub
ject, the bill under consideration is one-sided
and in some particulars unjust. There are in
stances in which it is beyond human power to
avoid killing stock-we have witnessed such
cases ourself Again: there are Counties in
which the herd law is in force, and all animals
running out are doing so in violation of law
Yet a railroad is liable for all damage to these
trespassers. 1t is not over two years since the
farmers of many Counties were to ready take up
arms and fight for the passage cS a herd law
they declared they could not live unless they had
a stringent law compelling owners of stock to
keep it up. Now, they are equally belligerent
on the subject of making railroads pay for kill
ing stock that is running out in violation of their
own law. Truly, some people are hard to satisfy.
Year: 1874

q The Legislature has passed resolution
asking the District Court of Shawnee County to
bring Pomeroy to trial. It should now instruct
the Supreme Court of the United States in it's
duty This is Reform Legislature, and there
is nothing Of consequence to do except past bun
combe resolutions
Year: 1874

q They first took twist at the Devil of the
Chief office, and now have made a move on the
editor If that don't pan ont satisfactorily; there
are two or three other hands in the ofice-give
them all turn. They can't close out the Chief
in this pecemeal way,
Year: 1874

The school house in this District would make quite
respectable calaboose but is all calculated tn
the wants of a school Children taken from their
pleasant home surroundings to such an outOfthe way
place this seeondate apology for school house is To-
Gated in is enough to forever dispe any desire
inclination to attend school There is child Of that
temperament that admits of his being taken from the
cal influences of the home circle and being Gagged up like


criminal with the expectation that he will profit by the
dull monotOny of study and recitation alternating with
whipping and scolding the latter of which sach assoca
tons usually engender. If there any place that shoul&
be made attractive it is the District school with all
of its surroundings; these have their Influence towards
inducing children to attend school, and to be diisent pu
pills while there.
Year: 1874

Mr. Haney has been in charge Of this school for the past
three years and has been instrumental in working it
To standard Of excellence that will compare favOrabl
with any mgraded school in the County For one So
young Mr. Haney has few equals discillnArian aad
by dlgen stud aud the reading of educational perind
Gals he is becoming quite well informed with regard to the
more advanced IDEAS of the best modes of imparting in
struction. Too many teachers disposed to teach
they taught losing sight Of the fact that they live in


progressive age Modern improvements in methods AMI
modes of teaching superior to the old fosy system
of training the mind the farming implements of to-
day superior those which CincnnItus used in cuva
isg his farm One other feature Of Mr. Haneys teaching
that he abor make his of instruction interest
ing his pupils Teachers should always -ndelvor u


hitc the spirit of play to the goesrt of knowledge
otherwise they will only impart the dry bones Of edu
cation-tlere will be no life vitality in it.
Year: 1874

EDITOR CHEF:-1 now resume my report Of public
schools commencing with the at Prairie Grove-Ed
win Haney teacher.


The SCHOOL BUILDING.


There has been large and eoInOdous schoc house built
In ths District during the past Summer-one which, In
point Of location, external appearance and general ar
arrangement not e1ceed In Che County with the eIcep
ton Of the ones at Donphan. Wathena Troy and White
Cloud The enterprise manifested by the inhabitants Of
this District extends beyond the sOrd interests Of
ly making money from the produce of their splendid FARMS
evident from the attention that they give the prop
edueaton of their children and which the excellent
Year: 1874

An exchange says: I'VE remember
once OF going 10 n real old-iashioned
Methodist dipping Among those
who got washed was fair damscl OF
some thirty summers, who had cork
leg. She was rather sensitive regarding
the possession OF that appendagc, and,
as getting religion did not rid her OF
that desire strong in every female, TO
look her best, she kept that said cork
leg on. You may imagine the result.
| feel sore now 10 think how laugh.
ed. Every timc they tried TO plunge
her rundcr, pop up In the air would 60
the cork appendagc. They had TO give
II up, and TO this day that leg is unrc-
generated"
Year: 1874

With the return of spring comes the
usual inquiry for good whiiewash.
Take half bushel Of nnslacked lime,
slake il with boiling water, covering 1t
during the process TO keep in the steam !;
strain the liquid through fine sieve or
strainer, and add toit peck of salt pro.
viously well dissolved in water; three
pounds ground rice boiled to thin
paste, and stirred in boiling hot; half a
pound Of Spanish whiting, and pound
Of clear glue which has been previously
dissolved by soaking II first, aud then
hanging over slow fire in small kct.
tie inside a large one filled with water !;
add five gallons of hot water 20 the
mixture, stir it well, aud let il stand a
few days covered from the dirt. 1t
should be put on quite hotj for this pur-
pose 1t can be kept in kettle on fur.
mace. A pint Of this mixture will GOV.
er yard square Of the outside Of n
house, ir applied with large paint
brush.
Year: 1874

How often have we seen The blooming
maiden upon whose faco smiles danced
like moonbeams upon the bosom of the
sea, and whose life gave promise Of hap
pncss unailoyed aud unrequited, cit
ting with huge wad OF gum In her
mouth, aud her beautiful chin rising
and falling like wave upon the ocean,
while the meek pastor endeayored 10
point her to the new Jerusalem.
Year: 1874

necessary 20 be built this year, in
order to finish the 10 miles from
Hudson, required by the law under
which they receive the grant.


Joy beams from the countenances
OF nearl y every man you meet in the
eastern part Of the county. The
long days Of dreary anxiety, watch
ing and waiting, and Of expectation
have passed. They have changed
to days of gladness, and prosperity
to the eXpectant settlers. What
ever may be in store for the North
Wisconsin railroad company in the
future in regard to the land grant,
1t IS certain that the road through
Polk County will have the ears run
ming on it before the snow flies
next winter The Polk County
Press congratulates the people, the
railroad company, and the future
settler, upon the achievements of
this grand resuit.-P,kh 20. Press.
Year: 1874

EDITOR HERALD: The gross, Wanton
and uncalled-for attack of the Express
on the District Attorney in the Nc
donald verdict, merits an answer SIM
ply from the fact that the citizens of
our county may misunderstood the
matter. Ignoring the position of the
Express as displayed in its past COM
munications on this case, we find
the merits on the trial to be:


The corpus delicti (the crme) was
not proved on account of the name OF
the party killed being Eliza instead Of
Louisa as set out in the indictment.
Now it is scarcely expected that the
District Attorney should seek the pur-
lieus of the city or county to find the
correct name of party; he makes out
the Indictment from the evidence at
the Coroner's inquest, and the wit
nesses who appear before the Grand
Jury. In no wise can he be to blame for
u miSnOmer.


The Court ordered n verdict of ac-
uuittal The jury under the direction
of his honor brought in such Vereict.


The last Legislature passed an act
yhere q prisoner was acquitted of II
crime from technicality in the ver-
dict, the reason must be stated therein.
This was not done; the jury was dis
charged and the question is now one
for the Supreme Court. The District
Attorney discharged his duty; he is
not responsible for the mistake or to
blame for misnomers made by wit
nesses. LEN


Los Angeles Sept. 90, 1874.
Year: 1874

10 The tide ofimmigratlon is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New YORK Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 21ao
Year: 1874

BENJAMIN DIsnAE1 is not to marry the
Countess Dowager of Chesterfield. The re-
port of yesterday to that effect as will be seen
from this mornings news, is fatty contra
dicted We are not told whether the denial
comes from the widowed lady or from the
Prime Minister. Mr.. Disraei is perhaps, the
most popular man in England at the present
moment and il is not at all to be wondered
at that in his proud position as Prime Minister
he should be an object of interest to the
ladies Of England. A mistress of ceremonies
he needs, and Of course the match makers
and the gossips are busy. Mr.. Disrasli's 8
attachment to the late Countess of Beacons-
field was genuine and sincere; he spoke Of
her as the best wife in England, and it is
probable that his sorrow over her loss is as
yet too fresh TO allow him to think of another
matrimonial alliance.
Year: 1874

Now that the Indian question is prominently
before Congress and the public we would in
vite attention to the condition of the Indian
Territory. Armed desperadoes, intent upon
plunder, make incursions into the territory
of the Choctaws and Chickasaws, steal their
cattle, rob their reservations and carry terror
and decentralization to these comparatively
peaceful nations. There is no constabulary,
no police, apparently no protection for the
Indians who are civilized enough to have
schools, newspapers and regular forms of
government If these Indians, who have
been forced, as it were, to occupy
o region little to their taste, have no
protection from the government against the
lawless acts of reckless ruffans, can we hope
to anticipate complete obedience and quietude
among the wilder Indians to the north
ward? There are some fifty thou
sand inhabitants in the Indian Ter
ritory, spread over an area as large as
all the New England States combined. These
Indians are all becoming civilized. While the
Comanche tongue is the court language of
the Plains, the Choctaws and Chickasaws have
adopted all the forms Of civilization. They have
magistrates, governors, courts, legislatures
four high schools, forty-eight day schools, and


more than the sum Of fifty thousand dollars
is annually expended upon education. The
general sentiment among them is in favor of
q Territorial government and we do not see
how Congress can well deny their prayer. The
best argument that can be addressed to the
savage is that his civilized brother has been
accorded all the rights Of an American citizen
when hs has shown himself worthy Of the
distinction.
Year: 1874

knowledge Of the Presidents intentions, or
doing him the injustice of attributing to him
inordinate ambition, we have always held that
he had only to express wish for q third term
to receive nomination. Nothing is impos-
sible to the master of the power which now
dominates this Republic-nothing but revo-
luton. We are in the eddies of revolution.
This financial question controls all questions.
No power, not even the stern and disciplined
army behind the President can control
this revolution without taking q radical new
departure, and we can very well understand
his anxious search for Cabinet There was
never Cabinet that as whole expressed less
the feelings of the country than the one which
now surrounds the President majority of
its members were never heard of before they
entered the Cabinet, and will most certainly
never be heard of after leaving it They drag
the administration and overweight it. The
President can make no better answer to Con-
necticut than to give the country Cabinet
that will inspire the people with confidence,
and enable him to terminate his career with
out weakening and furnishing his fame. So
that we can we'll understand these Presidential
journeys in search Of new councillors-his
anxious desire to select advisers who will
strengthen, not weaken him. The one thing
the President would naturally dread is that
his party should SOlve in a mutiny This
would be an ignominious end to career that
has become interviewer with SO important a
part Of the national history. But what else
can result with Cabinet which no longer
manifests any power or commands the respect
Of Congress with o people who cry out in
pain and crave relief; with loyal States who
have never before abandoned the party seek
ing the democracy? However welded to his
administration, the President cannot ignore
Connecticut and if he continues his pilgrim
age until he finds Cabinet it will be well for
his fame and well for the prosperity of the
country.
Year: 1874

The LOUISIANA TROUBLE. Carpen-
ter has given notice that on Monday next he
will again call up his Louisiana bill for the
action of the Senate. There is little hope,
however, that anything practical will result, as
the dominant party in Congress seem to think
the best way to settle the trouble is to let it
settle itself. But the republican party will
have to bear the infamy if Judge Durell is
not impeached. The charges against him are
too specific to avert the necessity of trying
him.