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Year: 1872

very much, aud In need CT a mill for
grinding, he devised. while in his mission
a wind mil, for this purpose, with i'm
provements of his own. Unable to speak
or preach as he was when he came among
US, and incapacitated also for continuous
manual labor, he busted himself with
making drawings and a model of his pre-
vious invention. He obtained patent,
and by the aid of friends here began the
manufacture of wind mills thus has the
sick man proved one of our most useful
citizens, and established business which
we hope will long do credit to his inge-
nuity and energy, and be a source of sub
stantial advantage to his family and the
place.


Debiitated by the heat of last sum-
mer, he took a journey to the east in
September for his health, and to visit
his aged parents. His health was for
time improved, but soon after his re-
turn hemm orhages began to appear and
after G long and trying sickness, borne
with great cheerfulness and christian
resignation, he went to his rest Sabbath,
February 25th, 1872. During the de-
lerum of his disease, and in his clearer
hours, his thoughts were much occupied
with his former missionary cares and la
bors. Doing good to that people evil
IDENTIFY was his ruling passion. 1t was
great JOY in his last sickness to get news
from there, to know the boarding school
had been revived, and that some whom
he had long borne upon his heart, had
become converts to Christ.


Thus has passed away one whose death
will be severely lamented by The people
for whom he gave his life and whom he
longed once more to visit. 1t will add
not little to the pleasure and richness
OF our life's recolections that we have
known so true and thoroughly good a
man. While we cherish his memory and
follow his family with affectionate SYM
pathy for his sake and their own, let us
not overlook the simple faith, the utter
integrity and guilelessness of soul which
won for him such unbounded confidence
from us and from all who knew him, and
gave to his character so much gentleness,
blended with so much dignity and strength
He was an Israelite indeed, in whom was
no gnile, Nathaniel given of God a
prepared and chrystalline medium, through
which the light from heaven freely pass
ed to gladden. and to bess.-Belo Free
Press.
Year: 1872

HANDIcRAFr.-A Popular Journal of
Progress in the Industrial Arts. Pub
lished by the Handicraft Publication
Company, 81 Park Row, New York.


When We consider the large number of
industrial journals now before the public,
we cannot help wondering how they all
manage to live. And yet, after all, when
we take into account our forty millions
OF Inhabitants, with their unequalled ed.
ucational opportunities, it must be obvious
that the fifty or hundred thousand per-
sons that now take industrial journals,
form but small proportion of the num-
Der that might be induced to take such
periodicals, if the tastes and wants oi
every one could be suited Hence the
necessity for variety. The spicy little
journal of which the first number has lust
reached US, seems to strike out a path
for itself, for it certainly has features
which are not to be found in any Other
journal with which we are acquainted
and we therefore feel that it might be
well Tor those interested in such subjects
to accept the offer of the publishers and
send for free specimen copy. We earr
from the prospectus that Handicratt viii
be edited by the same gentleman tha
edited the first volume of the Manutact
urer and Builder, and the two volumes
OF the Technologist. This being SO, ther,
can be no doubt that the new journa
viii be what its motto iutimates-plain
practical aud reliable.
Year: 1872

A few days since las an eastward bound
train on the Rondeut and Oswego (N.
Y J railroad stopped at Shokan, the COL
lector of the town of Olive was on hand
with posse of men and chain to pre-.
vent the train from proceeding any fur.
ther. The chain was passed around the
back end Of the rear car, but before it
could be fastened to anything substantial
the engineer of the locomotive was made
aware of how matters stood, and he threw
the throttle wide open and started the
train with jump. The effect on the coll
lector's posse, who had hold Of the loose
end of the chain, was the same as that on
the Indians who attempted to capture a
train on the Pacific road with lariat.
Year: 1872

One who saw Pauline Markham, re-
Gently, in third-rate position at New
York, describes her as pale, wan and
weak, SO much so that it was evident she
went through her part in the greatest
pain. A harsh, deep cough told sadly
and emphatically enough OF consumption,
and of consumption not just commenced.
A year ago this woman lived the life of
princess wealth was poured into her
lap, Now she was not worthy to grace
even the evening program of place Of
amusement unrecognized as theater,
and literally tottered afternoon after ai-
ternoon about the stage that she might
earn enough to keep yet while longer
the little life still lett her. Several times
she sought the support of the scenery
when compelled to stand moment or two.
Year: 1872

Is there rot often a distrust of boys
which may lead to their injury? Is it
not true that if children are called by a
bad name, they will in time deserve it :?
Boys do not naturally 60 to evil as ducks
to water. To be sure, we see every day
sad instances Of our precious youth going
far astray from the paths of honor and
virtue but there are some bright, cheer.
ing exceptions. Bertha AnnesS.
Year: 1872

SLANDER.-Yes, you pass it along,
whether you believe it or not; and that
one-sided whisper against the character
of a virtuous female or an honorable man,
you don't believe it, but you will use
your influence to bear upon false report
and pass it on the current. Strange crea-
turoo arc mon and women. How many
regulations have been lost by surmse.
How many hearts have been bled by
whispers. How many benevolent deeds
have been chilled by the shrug of should
er. How many individuals have been
stunned by gentle mysterious hint.
How many chaste bosoms have been wrung
with grief by single nod. How many
graves have been dug by false reports.
Yet you will keep it above water by the
wag ofyour tongue, when you might sink
it forever. Destroy the passion for tell
ing. Lisp not word that will injure
the character of another, and, as far as
you are concerned, the slader will die.
Year: 1872

DYsPEPTIC.-The leading man of the Leaven-


worth Call is confirmed dyspeptic. He is con-
stantly troubled with sour stomach, and has be-


come chronic grumbler. For some reason un-


known to us, he has particular spite against


SOL Miller" and never Omits an opportunity


to make a fling at him, or to copy those of other


papers. His latest spell of "brash" is over the


matter of State printing. He claims that there
are jobs and abuses in this NATTER and blames it
all upon the three printers who happen to be
members of the State Senate-particularly upon
"SOI- MILLER" He says: ave don't think Sol
MILLER or saltpeter will save the 'band of broth
ers' so nearly allied and SO intimately connected
in the printing jobbery." Now, if our memory be
not at fault, (and if We in error we ask to be
corrected,) Sol. MILLER was not elected State
Printer. We are positive that he has no share or
interest in the State printing, and is not con-
nected with it or any of its contractors in the re-
motest degree. He even suspects that they do
not regard him with the most frieIdly feelings in
the world. He has never attempted to smooth
over or cover mp any trickery on the part of the
State Printers, in the slightest degree; and if
they have been guilty of any sharp practices, he
will lend his aid in bringing them to time. And
he voted against the resolution for printing the
Governors Message in pamphlet form, which was
the very proposition that caused the Call mans
last eructation. If Mf. Call has any other object
in view than the qualification of his propensity to
growl at "SOI- MILLER" he had better under.
stand his subject before throwing up his vittles-
OH other folks.
Year: 1872

lection Of schools from the sniall-pox


A bill is pending in the Senate, authorizing the
City Council of White Cloud to convey the Pub
Lie Square selected for that purpose. This has
been done to satisfy the scruples of those persons
who think the Council does not already possess
the right.


Of course, there will be no lack of approximation
bills; and the people, whatever they may be dis
posed to grumble about, will have no occasion to
complain that the appropriations Daboll q sum
total too small for the dignity of the State.


The superintendent of the State into Congress
sional Districts, excites much interest, and may
prove difficult question. There are many inter
ests and many aspirants for Congress to be satis-
ned and reconciled, and this can hardly he done
without difficulty. There are two propositions
and it is hard to tell which will meet with the
most favor. One is to make District extending
from the Nebraska line to the Kansas River, run
ming west from the Missouri River. embracing
enough Counties to give the requisite population;
District running from the Kansas River soutb
to the Indian line, extending west in the sam.
manner; and the third District to embr.c. IN.
western and remaining portion of the State .x.
tending from the north to the south line. tn.
other proposition is to form the Districts With ;.
view to commercial interests, as represented by
lines of railroad east and west This would make
three Districts running from the east to the west
line of the State; the first embracing the Denver
and Central Branch Roads; the second, the Kan
sas Pacific; the third, the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Road. 1t is claimed, also that the great
est increase in population will be in the western
Counties, and thus each District win receive its
due proportion Of the increase; whereas, by ma
KING an exclusively Western District, the princi-
pal Increase would be there, and in the ten years
Year: 1872

Do not simply shun it as you would the muddy
pool, but fight it as a venomous reptile. Let
your whole nature rise up in detestation of it.
This adherence should begin with sin conceived
in thought, and deepen with every stage as it
advances toward completion. % l hate vain
thoughts. "" hate the works of them that turn
aside" are developments of Ohristly state. Do
this, and you will not be likely to daily with tempt
alton, nor palliate or excuse your sins, nor will
you fail to characterize sin in appropriate terms
when you behold it. You will also be likely to
"clsave to that which is good, for our moral
nature knows no vacuum, and you will feel the
need of holiness as antidote to sin. Lastly, you
will be likely to hide yourself with Christi often
meditation and sweetest prayer. God scarcely
blamed all the Indignation Of Moses, excited as
it was by the idolatrous shout from the plain.
Christ, himself, scourged and drove from the
holy place that which was venal and profane.
Words there are that fairly burned as they fell
from prophetic lips in earnest remonstrances
against sin. The commission of God to his SER
wants of old was to say to the people, " Oh. do
not this abominable thing which hate" Sin is
spoken of as corruption, filth, leprosy, shame,
whoredom idolatry, death, and such like. Surely
only a fool can make a mock at sim" 1t is no
small thing that we are thus commanded to in
tensify our conceptions of the exceeding vileness
of sin, for the faintness of these conceptions in
creases our peril and weakens our zeal. It would
be we'll if our ears perpetually rang with this
divine injunction, " Abhor that which is evil"
Year: 1872

The Village Record says: sat a wedding
which occurred in Chester county last week the
youthful party who did duty as groomsman had
reached the precocious age of eighty years,
while the blushing bride had passed through
sixty-fve summers. The groom had made two
previous attempts to alleviate his lonely condi-
tlon, but it was the brides first attempt"
Year: 1872

No Settlement of tho Mark ct Question.


The ordinance to remove the ourb-stone mar
ket to King street, was not finally acted upon,
last evening. The Council is evidently divided
in Judgment, but its friends believe it will be
passed, when it comes to final vote.
Year: 1872

The power Of love consists mainly in
the privilege that proientatc pnsscsscs
of coming, circulating, and making cur
rent those ialschnod between man AMI
woman which would not pass for one
moment between woman and woman,
or man and man. ..,
Year: 1872

Some years ago MT. Sackett was 8 successful merchant in Chicago and being known as man of generous and specu- lative turn of mind he was requested by two friends of his to invest with them an equal share in the purchase of western land with view to it's rapid increase in price. More as an accommodation to them than regard for the profit, he consented, and furnishing his part they went West to make the purchase, while he remained at his business in Chicago. Now these enterprising friends of his found that they could buy up large tract of land near Berlin, Wis, very low by including in 1t a portion of worthless swamp. They closed the trade and in making the divi- sion among themselves they took each a third of the fine land and left the mud and water for MT. Sackett, who had never seen the land and accepted the division on faith in his friends and for some time he continued to pay the taxes until he failed in business and thinking to real ize on the sale of it, he went West for that purpose, when to his disnay, he found that far from being able to sell it, he could not even give it away. Signing just little at the duplicity of his friends, WHO naO so Q1V1QeQ the ValuaOle ana lofC him the worthless, he wandered over the swamp, he almost disdained to call his own and splashed through it's mud and water in desperate hopelessness. Poverty and want, stared him in the face, when, To, something else stared him in the face too he found something upon his land. What was it ? It was not California gold nor North Africa diamonds, neither was it oil, iron or coal. It was wild Gran berries. "Presto changer' Now mark the result that land is worth $500 per acre, and he is worth half million dol lars. He was shrewd man, with an eye to business and he saw at once fortune in those Cranberries and went to work to realize it by cultivation and systematic labor, and now he has regularly trained brigade of children and hands to pick and prepare the Cranberries for market, for which he realizes as high as $S24 pe1 barrel, while the men who intended to play joke on him now mourn over theil own invaluable land and sigh for the for. tune their joking lost them.

 This is true, and if it is not as romantic as fiction, it has better moral.
Year: 1872

What do the birds do in winter? Many you know go South. As a general thing winters cold does noC seem to affect those that stay with us. The truth is, birds arc remarkably we'll guarded against cold by their thick covering of down and feathers, and the quick circulation of their blood. The chickadee is never so lively as in the cold weather. When the thermometer is three or four degrees below zero, it shows by its behavior that it is pretty cold. On such morning have seen small flock of them on the sunny side of thick hem lock, rather quiet, with ruff1ed feathers, like balls of gray fur, waiting, with an oc- casional chirp, for the suns rays to warm them up little sober, perhaps, but ready. if cold continued, to get used to it. What do they eat2 Our merciful Father does not leave the earth bare. There is food enough and to spare. The seeds of the grasses and taller summer flowers, and the elders, birches and naples furnish sup plies that the cold and snow does not de- stroy also the buds of various trees and shrubs, for the buds do not firstcome in the spring, as some people think; there are buds all winter there are insects, too.

 A sunny nook any time during the win ter will show you variety of two-wlnged flies, and several kinds of spiders, often in numbers, and as brisk as ever. Then in the crevices of the tree bark and dead wood there must be something nice to be had, judging from the activity of the chickadees, gold -crests, and their associates. In the winter no mischief can be done; there is no fruit to steal. Nothing can be destroyed now except the farmers enemies; yet the birds keep at work all the time. Winter, too, is favorable to sociability among birds as among people. The chickadee the gold-crested wren, the white-breasted nut hatch, and the downy wood-pecker form little winter clique. You do not often see one of the members without one or more of the others. No sound in nature is more cheery than the calls of little troop of this kind, echoing through the woods on a still, sunny day in winter the lively chatter of the chickadee, the slender contented pipe of the golden crests and the emphatic, business-like hank oi the nut hatch, as they drift leisurely along from tree to tree.
Year: 1872

BE ECoNoM1oAL.-Look most to your spending. No matter what comes in, if more goes out, you will always be poor. The art is not in making money, but in keeping it little expenses, like mice in barn, when they are many, make great waste Hair by hair, heads got bald ]; straw by straw, the thatch goes off the cottage; and drop by drop, the rain comes in the chamber. A barrel is sosn empty, if the tap leaks but drop min ute. When you begin to save begin with your mouth, many thieves pass down the red lane The ale jug is a great waste, in all other things keep within compass. Never stretch your legs farther than the blankets will reach, or you will soon be cold. In clothes. choose suitable and lasting stuff, and not tawdry fineries. To be warm is the main thing; never mind the looks. A fool may make money, but it needs wise man to spend it. Remember it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one going. Ii you give all to back and board, there is nothing left for the savings bank. Fare hard and work hard while you are young, and you will have chance to rest when you are old. ."-
Year: 1872

A correspondent informs US that a
large swarm of bees attacked team OF
four horees on the farm of Mr.. Joseph
Brubaker, near Winchester, in this
State, on the 2fst inst. The bees had
been In stand in the second story Of
the house, and about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon they came out OF the house.
IA few Of the bees took after Mr.. Pot
ter, a hired hand, and Mr.. Reuben
Brubakor started to drive away the
team, which was standing near the
house; but the whole swarm, which
was half bushel of bees, lit on the
horses. The horses ran about fifty yards,
and then began to paw, and the bees
stuug them so badly that they Just stood
and paved and squealed. The young
man left the team ran to the house and
got bee hat, which he put on; he then
unhitched the horses from the wagon, a
daring feat which few persons would
care to perform, and succeeded in get
ting three Of the horses into the stable.
The other one was so badly stung he
could not get to the stable, and will
probably die. Three of the horses will
probably recover. The young man and
the hired hand were also severely
stung."
Year: 1872

Invitations have been accepted by a
gentleman and wife from Darke county,
whose aggregate weight is 1908 pounds,
the husband weighing $40 and his wife
4S3 pounds. Agentlemen from Marys-
Vile, Union county, whose weight Is
go pounds, will enter a claim for the
honor ofbeing President of the Conven-
ton, though it is confidently asserted
that Toledo will produce man who
will outweigh him.


In Cincinnati, there is great deal of
enthusiasm among the fat men over
the project, and full delegation will
be present from Porkopolis. The Fat
Contributor, in the last issue Of his
paper, gives the following advice to
those who propose to attend the great
blowout:


Distribute yourselves about the island
as much as possible. If you should
congregate near the edge, you might
capsize the island. Men who wear your
size cap shouldn't capsiZe.


Have your clothes made full as DOS
sible for the occasion. On second
thought that precaution is hardly neces-
sary; they'll be full enough before you
have been there long.


Board would be cheaper If you
bought your provision in the gross.
There will be tremendous amount Of
l0Gist, anyhow.


Guard each others steps in going
about the island. or course none Of
you can see where your own feet are
going.


Fat men who indulge in target shoot
ing should be sure of their aim before
firing; for the fats in the fire.


Ii any fat womani claims a greater
avoirdupols than yours, don't dispute
her. Det her 'ave'-er-dupois.


Don't roll in the ten pin alley. You
will find 1t easier rolling In the grass.
Year: 1872

The Fort Scott (Kansas) Monitor re-
lates the following sad story Of an nc
cident on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railIo Dad, last week: "a train
bound for Texas had on board a large
number OF travellers and emigrants,
among them lady with little boy
aged seven years, who had the ague.-
When about sixty miles below the State
line the boy, who had been walking
about the car during the evening, fell
OF. This was not known by the moth
or until the train had gone two miles,
and the lady sought the conductor and
asked him to back the train, which he
refused to do, and, in spite OF her tears
and entreaties, carried her down to the
next station, where she was compelled
to stay over night and wait for an up
train the next morning. On return the
boy was found. He had crawled up the
embankment among the grass, and
resting his curly head among the wild
flowers of the prairie, and drenched
with the terrific thunder storm Of Fri
day, heswas dead"
Year: 1872

has been TO his race, heard those words
of Doolittle, and cried with trumpet
tongue to his fellows "To the negro
the Republican party is the deck; all
else is the sea. Stand loyal.to Grant"
Amen, amen, cried North Carolina, in
the first furious onset Of the campaign,
standing steadfastly Republican.


After referring to the financial record,
made that Gen. Grant did not pay the
debt, said that in the same sense he did
not put down the rebellion. It was the


Union army that put down the rebel
lion, but Gen. Grant was at its head
The prosperity of the country is owing
to the confidence and trust of. the peo-


pie in the solidity of the Government.


Treat the Indian as man is the pol


icy of the United States. Nearly three


hundred thousand Indians are cared for


by the Government. The Indian ex-
penses have increased to seven millions.
General Walker tells why. 1t is be-
cause the Indians have been driven
more and more from their hunting
grounds, Therefore they raise their
hand against the white race. But stead
lily the policy of the Government is
having its effect.


Another cry is directed at what they
call the abuses in the civil service Of the
country. But is it the Democratic par
ty to which we are to look for improve
ment in this particular? am free to
confess, after great deal Of study and
Investigation, of all persons in this
country who are kno Rn as bitterly OPP
posed to reform in the civil service, none
are more helplessly so than leading
gentlemen who nominated Horace
Greeley at Cincinnati.


] have come to the conclusion that no
thorough reform is possible without the
cooperation Of Congress, or until public
opinion asks of every man nominated
for Congress, .'Are you in favor of a
thorough reform?" and gets from him
a categorical answer. The President Is
guided strictly according to the rules ne
he has adopted, but no man knows the |
difficulties in the way. This principle
is, however, adhered to, that all posi-
tions shall be filed by ascertained fitness |
and not merely in consequence Of poll
tical influence; and it is to my knoWl- |
edge that the President has not remOv-
ed any person from Office solely on ac-
count of political considerations.