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Year: 1875

If this were all-Ohl if this were all,


That 'Tnto each life some rain must fall )"


There were fainter sobs in the poets rhyme


There were fewer wrecks on the shore of Time


But tempests Of woe dash over the soul,


Since words Of anguish we cannot control:


And shock, after shock, we are called to bear,


Till the lips are white with the hearts despair.
The shores of Time with wrecks are strewn;
Unto the ear comes ever moan


Wrecks of hope that set sail with glee,
Wrecks of love sinking silently.
Many are hid from the human eye,
Only God knoweth how deep they lie;
Only God heard when arose the prayer
Help me to bear-Oh help me to bear.
"Into each life some rain must fall,
If this were all-Ohl if this were all;
Yet there's a refuge from storm and blast,
Gloria Patria-will reach at last. t-tl
Be strong, be strong, to my heart cry,
The pearl in the wounded shell doth lie;
Days of sunshine are given to all,
'ho' "Into each life some rain must fall"
Year: 1875

On Friday, as Uncle John Ben
nett was going to the fair, while
descending n hill near the residence
OF Frank Hambley, the fills of his
buggy came down, allowing the We
hicle to run upon the heels of the
horse. The animal took fright and
ran down the hill, turning over the
buggy and dashing its contents
upon the ground. Mr.. Bennett was
picked up senseless, but soon re-
covered, and is now none the worse
for the accident.
Year: 1875




that Philopnman was the last Of the
Greeks, so we, but not with Plut-
archs meaning, say the Dodgeville
exhibition was the last Of the fairs.
1t began on Wednesday and was
advertised to continue three DAYS.
but owing to the unfavorable wealth
er during the commencement it was
kept up till Saturday, Friday being
the most successful day in point Of
attendance. There was . good show
of everything that is usually exhib-
tied at county fairs, in fact the ten
dency towards exhibiting objects Of
practical utility, seemed to reflect
considerable credit on those who
took part. The stock Of the county
was well represented aud was infe-
rior to none in this part of the State.
Among the animals which bore away
first premiums we noticed that those
of John j. Ross, of this city, had a
considerable share. The tendency
in the show Of vegetables has this
year been on the decline, but in
this the fair was an exception,
Tor all kinds of farm and garden pro-
duce had sufficiently matured, and
OF 1t there was a good display. 1t
may be said to the credit of the
people in attendance, that the
racing did not too much absorb their
attention; in fact the fair on Friday
proves to some extent that such NAV
be made success without the run
ming of horses being made the lead
ing interest, for the number of
tickets sold on that day was greater
than on any occasion since the Or
ganization of the society, while the
races were very few. The ladies
department in ncedle-work was GOOD.
and, Judging from the culinary pro-
ductions also, the good danes of
Dodgeville do not believe that few
lessons on the piano form an attain
ment sufficient to start their daugh-
ters into life, but like the Spartan
mothers train them to do work "deft-
ly wrought with needles, to bake
bread, and to draw water from the
we'll"


One of the most attractive fea-
lures Of the fair was the militia
company, from this city, which APP
peared in full dress, and with the
advancement they had made in the
exercise of arms made fine display.
In the evening there was young
peoples entertainment at the Court
House, under the management of
the M. E. S. s., consisting of tab
leaux, dramas, charades and music.
All those who took part acquitted
themselves creditably, making the
exercise an agreeable and beneficial
one.
Year: 1875

IN settling up your accounts
please do not forget to pay your
subscription on the TRIBUNE. The
expense attending the publication
is large and has to be paid in
advance. Subscribers, therefore,
ought not to delay, but to save in
conveniences remit at once.
Year: 1875

SEVERAL of our young men have
gone off under the pretense of hunt
ing ducks. Wonder if their game
is feathered, or is it the other kind
of bipeds they are after. Hope
they will profit by the item in last
weeks TRIBUNE.
Year: 1875

YOUNGSTERS will persist in cough
ing and being hoarse on Monday
morning, and telling how cold it
was going home from church the
night before, but never say any
thing about the gate post. It's
never cold there.
Year: 1875

GEN. AgAsA COBB, formerly of
this city, vas a candidate in the re-
cent convention of the Republicans
of Nebraska for the nomination for
Judge of the Supreme Court. He
came within four votes of being
successful
Year: 1875

The Picayuae and Bulletin have been
considerably exercised over the letter pub
Hshed in the New York Times, from the
pen Of Mr.. E. w. Stoughton, giving very
clear and lucid statement of the events oc-
curing in this city on the fourth instant,
and their legal bearing. They have ex-
pressed themselves anxious to know who
Mr.. Stoughton is, and for their benefit we
publish the following extract from the New
York San, of the fifteenth instant, paper
which they will probably accept as good
Democratic authority:


Mr.. f. w. Stoughton, lawyer of fine
abilities and a gentleman of the old school,
comes to the defense of President Grant in
a long and elaborate article, appropriately
published in the New York Times. This
seems the more remarkable because Mr..
Stoughton is known as a Democrat. We
have read his communication with the
attention duo to its author, whom it is a
pleasure to welcome, with his clear and
classical style, in the field of politics.


Mr Stoughton's main point, the burden
of his whole argument, seems to be that the
Assembly broken up by the military au-
thOrities in New Orleans was not legally
constituted Legislature. The Speaker and
the clerk, he contends, had not been fairly
elected, but had forcibly seized upon the
offices which they pretended to hold.
Year: 1875

wasn't going to die, I'd try and lay in a
quart or two Of that brandyr


After five or ten minutes moro the
nurse asked if he dind't feel better.


Feel betterP echoed the old man,
how can dying man feel better? Do
you suppose I'd be fooling around here
if I wasn't going to expire?


The man sat down and Uncle Heb
continued, AS soon as I go up the spout
one of you 90 to the poormaster and say
"Mr. Willard, old Heb is dead send a
feller down and plant him." That will
be as good as speech two hours long.
Pm sorry 1 was took sick here, but it
wasn't nay fault. You may go now.


The man went cut thinking Uncle
Heb out of his mind, and sat down and
played dominoes for an hour Hearing
no mo7ementin the back room he open
ed the door


The old man was dead


He had died without a cry or strug-
gle, and there was a smile on his face, as
if his dying moment had been spent in
wondering how he would look as "a late
deceased.
Year: 1875

One day little blue-eyed, saucy-look-
ing creature Of sixteen summers, named
Minnie, expressed a desire to visit a
printing Office. Cad ! thought I, what a
chance Love in printing Office, oh ?
Well, Minnie came to the Office, and
explained to her the use of the various
implements of the black art-the press,
the roller, the ink, the stand and the
boxes Of 4. b. C's l took an opportu-
nifty to snatch her pretty little hand and
she drew it back, knocking stickfull of
matter into pi,


Il must have a kiss for that" said I,
and at it 1 went, 1 managed to twist
my arms around he. waist, and in q
struggle to free herself, she upset a gal
ley of editorial, but l obtained the kiss
| BY st. Paul it was a sweet one-and the
little witch bore it Ike a martyr--she
never screamed once but as l raised my
! lips from hers, she gave me box on the
ears that made me see more stars than
ever did HerscLel through the big teles-
cope. Somewhat nett!ed, and my cheeks
smarting with pain, l again seized her
waist, saying, "if you don't like it Just
take back the kiss" as she ierked her
self from my arms, her foot struck the
! lye pot, and over it went. Another
galley Of editorial was sprinkled on the
floor, and IN heg efforts to reach the door
| her foot slipped and she fell and her
hands stuck up to her elbow in the ink
keg. She slowly drew It forth from the
ink keg, dripping with ink, and asked
me what use | made Of the tar. To nv
surprise she seemed rather pleased than
angry-but there was a lurking devil in
her eye, that told ne there was mischief
aaoat. As stood sury eying the black
covering Of her hand, she raised it on
high and brought it down 'rkerslap" up
on nay cheek Before l could recover
from my surprise, the same little hand
descended, aud left its inky imprint on
my other cheek


"Vhy Minnie, what are you about?'


Il think you told me you rolled ink
over the face Of the form" said she, and
again her hand lit upon my face, taxing
q broad slap in the middle of my counte-
nance and most wofully bedabbed my
eyes, With light step and a merry
peal of laughter, she skipped through
the door She turned back when beyond
my reach, and with her roguish face
peeping in at the door way, said
Year: 1875

l used to breed cattle, but having g
natural fOndness for sheep, and an op-
portunity to purchase a couple of Scotch
colley shepherd dogs removing my fears
on the score of destruction by mongreI
ours, which deters SO many from keep
ing sheep, concluded to try the exper-
iment which has resulted so satisfaetol
rily.


In my stock of 100 ewes have half a
dozen bells, and in case of danger, the
sheep ali run to the dogs fer protec tions
This familiarity between the dogs and
sheep, with the watchful care exercised,
is one of the prettiest sights in the world.
These faithful guardians of the flock are
ever on the alert day and night The
rapid tinkling of the bells at once arous.
es the dogs, and about three weeks ago,
iE the middle of the night l heard an
unusual disturbance among the sheep,
but was so confident that the dogs would


be equal to the emergency, that l did
not come down stairs. In the morning l
had the satisfaction of seeing one of the


worthless ours, which go prowling about
at night, lying stone dead along tE6
fence, with marks on him of a desperate
fight. should say, however, thas 1
made one cross my putting my shepherd
dog to a Newfoundland slut. and kept
the choicest oftbe litter he has proved
fine large dog, about twice the weight
of either of the shepherds, and though
never interfering in what he seems to
cansider their especial duty, is always
on hand ready for service.


1t is curious to observe how, when.
strange dogs cross the place, the two
shepherd dogs will take a survey, and f
they see n1uch business (they are them
selves great fghtcrs), by a kind Of silent
understanding and arrangement the
three dogs 90 together; aud although we
in this country are overrun with all
kinds of dogs, there seems to be a gener-
al fear Of my three dogs, and we are sci.
dom disturbed. recommend the pur-
chase of one or two good shepherd dogs
as the very first step toward keeping
sheep Practical Farmer
Year: 1875

Some hands just work for the money,
and nothing else. Such men make ib
disagreeable for themselves and their
employers, because everything they do
is 'dOne against the grain, and it goes
hard with them when if they would do
it with a free will it would make it
pleasant all around. A hired mau shO uld
consider that his time belongs to his
employer, and he has no more right to
squander it than his money, for he GER
tainly is paid for his time.
Year: 1875

Several of the magicians who who
perform in public do what they call the
goldfish trick The juggIer stands up
on the stage, throws a hand kercbief over
his extended arm and produces in sue
eession three or four shallow glass dish
es, filed to the brim with water, in which
live goldfish are swimming. OF course
the dishes are concealed somewhere upon
the person Of the performer.


Peter Lamb, the young man who lives
near me, discovered how the trick was
done, and he offered to do It the other
night at Magruder's party for the enter
tainment Of tho company. So the folks
gathered in one end of the parlor, and
in a few moments Lamb entered the
room at the other end. He said, Ladies
and gentlemen, you will perceive that l
have nothing about me except my ordi-
nary clothing, and yet 1 shall produce
presently two dishes filed with water
and living fish. Please watch me mar
rowly.


Then Peter flung the handkerchief
over his hand and arm, and we could
zee that he was working his way vigo-
rouslY at something beneath it He con
tinued some moments, and still The 60 ID
fish did not appear. Then be began to
grow very red in the face, and we saw
that something was the matter. Then
the perspiration began to stand on Pc
ter's forehead, and Mrs N Magruder asked
him if he was well. Then the company
laughed, and the magician grew redder.
But he kept on fumbling beneath that
handkerchief, and apparently trying to
reach around under his ccat-tails. Then
we heard something snap, and the next
moment quart Of water ran down the
wizards leg, and spread out over the
carpet. By this time he looked as if the
grave would bea welcome refuge. But
still he continued to feel around under
the handkerchief At last another snap
was heard, and another quart of water
plunged down his right leg and formed a
pool about his shoe, Then the necro-
mancer hurriedly said that the expert
ment had failed somehow, and he dar-
ted into the dining-room I followed
him and found him sitting on the sofa,
trying to remove his pantaioons. He
exclaimed, 20 gracious Come here
quickly and pull these Off They're
soaking wet, and I've got fifteen live
GOLD dish inside my drawers fippin around
and raspin' the skin with their fms
enough to set man crazy. Ouch o
Moses Hurry that shoe OF and grab
that fish there at my left knee, or I'll
have to howl right outP


Then we undressed him and picked
the fish out of his clothes; and l discov-
ed that he had had two full dishes of
water, and covered with India-rubber
toys, strapped inside his trowsers be-
hind. 10 his struggle to get at them he
had torn the covers to rags. We fixed
him up pair of Magruder's old trowsers
which were six inches too>ehort for him,
and then he climbed over the back fence
and went home. He says now that the
next time he gives exhibitions in public
he intends to confne himself to ventrilo-
quism.
Year: 1875

ST. LOWS. June 20. = The Democratic
Central Committee adopted resolution
Yesterday inviting, in behalf of the
Democracy of this city and State, the
National Democratic Convention of 1876
to assemble in this city, and pledged
themselves to make ample preparations
for the reception and accommodation of
all who come 20 il. The place prong cd
for holding the Convention will be the
hall of the new Chamber Of Commerce
building. which will be two hundred
and thirty five feet long by one hundred
feet wide and seventy feet high, with
galleries all around the hall, and a seat
ing capacity Tor seating seventeen thous-
and people.
Year: 1875

a writer from Kansas to the Rural
says; cone man showed me two pieces
OF wheat, one OF which was hardly
worth cutting, wlilc the other, right
along side Of it. was as good as could
be desired. lie said the only reason he
could give for il was that previous TO
sowing the latter piece he soaked the
seed in strong brine TO get oats out of il,
and as the bugs commenced working at
the roots they had been kept of by the
little saline matter that adhered TO the
grain.


Another man said he had five acres OF
Spring wheat that the bugs were work
ing on very badly, and thought he
would risk = barrel Of sall ON ii at less,
he sowed the salt broadcast over III.
ground, and in a few days time not
bug could be seen, and his wheat came
on and made great deal better crop by
the application of the salt than Ii would
have made even though the bugs had
kept away. Other ideas were put
into execution, but with no good result.


have said thst noticed the ravagcs
of the bugs everyH here l went, but
will except the salt district of the Smo-
ky Hill Valley, where their presence
was hardly. IL at all, pcrceptible. TAX
ing all these things into consideration,
lit seems TO me to be very rational con-
lclusion that salt will kill or drive the
chinch bug away from crops on which
ii is applied.
Year: 1875

The English journals are discussing the
sentence imposed upon Colonel Valentine
Baker of the English army for an assault
upon young lady travelling in a railway car
That prodigious demagogue, DIR. Kenealy,
brought the matter before Parliament and
censured the Judge for the leniency of his
sentence intimating that this arose from the
fact that Colonel Baker had aristocratic con-
nections and was beiriended by people in
know, was n years imprisonment without
hard labor and fine of e500 This
constant cry of "aristocracy' and
''aristocratic influence" is becoming
dangerous to English politics We think
that in the case of Colonel Baker there could
be nothing more unjust. So far rs the law is
concerned, its administration was prompt,
impartial and admirable, and the sentence,
severe rs it was. is the smallest part of the
Colonel's punishment. The Colonel has
been dismissed from the army. in which he
held high rank. He loses his commission,
worth several thousand dollars, as well rs his
pay and all chances for promotion; he is dis
missed rom all MS cluDS ana Is DanlSnet
from the society of which he was formerly an
ornament His life practically comes to an
end so far MS England is concerned. He is
thrown upon the rocks as broken, worthless
wreck, tortured by the remembrance of the
splendor that once surrounded him and by
sense ofthe honors he might yet have obtained
We do not know any sentence more terrible
than this. It is the purest quaclxery for the
demagogues of London to complain of it as
an evidence of misappled justice.
Year: 1875

We have great many complaints this sum
mer from citizens at the large watering
places as to the management of the hotels.
There seems to be desire on the part of the
hotel keeper to build huge caravansaries,
each hotel city in itself. vast, struggling,
incommodious. The hotel keepers ambition
is to have one or two thousand guests around
his table. over which he presides like
colonel over a regiment We have no doubt
that in a thriving midsummer time, when
people go TO watering places, a large hotel is
sure to make great deal of money. The
system is not calculated to promote the COM
fort of tho people. Hotels with five hundred
or thousand guests are sure to have within
the number all kinds of characters good,
bad and indifferent. Nor can any discipline,
no matter how perfect, manage a hotel of
this magnitude with due regard to the rights
of all the guests. The walters will become
careless, the cooks will be indifferent, the
meals will be tumbled on the table in every
condition, the proprietors will become care
less of the complaints of their guests if ten
go away hundreds will remain. They cal
culate upon the Indifference of the American
character its general carelessnesx about the
comforts of life. The result is tha'twhen the
summer is over the citizen who has gone of
for n few weeks to find health in the noun
tains or at the seaside returns at the first
flush of cold breeze, glad to get home
again, and thinking only of the discomforts
Of his summer life with horror.


What we want at our watering places-at
Saratoga and Long Branch and elsewhere
are small hotels, well kept, moderate in their
appointments, conducted more upon the
French than the American plan. Instead Of
bills of fare burdened with badly cooked
dishes which few care to eat how much
better to furnish simple table dh6te. plain,
good dinner. well cooked as we find it in the
hotels of Europe. Ninety-nine out of hun
dred would much prefer to sit down to a taJle
dh6te and take their chance of enjoying it than
to wade through an American bill of fare and
select their meals from a hundred dishes. AT
small hotels better guard can be kept over
the character of the guests Parents who
have growing children hesitate before turning
them loose in vast hotel parlors where they
may form associations that will remain with
them through life Hotel life lacks that re-
serve which belongs to our best modern So
ciety. This whole question of how to spend
the summer is new one. Every year we
learn more and more In few years we
shall see an end of these tremendous, vast,
uncomfortable barracks which we find at
Saratoga and Long Branch. We shall have
series of small, well kept hotels, reminding
us of the inns in Germany and France, and
where every necessary comfort may be OBJ
tained at reasonable cost.
Year: 1875

from a communion which admitted the
Greeks and the Episcopalians. Therefore
these alliances, these conferences, these pro-
posed unions, are only TO be regarded in
their political aspect. The tremendous power
of the Church of Rome is strengthened be-
yond measure by the decree of the last Coun-
Gil, which makes the Pope absolute over his
Church and over the political allegiance Of
the members of his Church to State and
Crown. This is the power these other
churches propose to unite against and fight.
If they should succeed in forming an alliance
which would allow within it the representa-
tives of the denominations who have assem-
bled at Bonn it would be an event of tran
scendent importance not only in its effects
upon the activity and power of the Christian
denominations but upon the political rela-
tions of the Continent and the world.
Year: 1875

Prayer and Bible reading do or should 60
together and in the worship of every well regn-
lated Christian home 1t will he Mr. IIaskells
pleasing duty to-day to present the first
named subject to his congregation, and of
Mr. Taylor to point out how we should use
our Bibles and wherein we fail to do so now.
The true and the false in religion and
science will receive consideration by Mr..
Loutrel, who will give his hearers signs and
tests by which they can readily distinguish
the true from the false, and SO discarding the
one and seeking after and holding fast to the
other they may attain to the beauty of holi-
ness as it shall be presented by Mr.. Light
bourn, or as it is portrayed by St Paul. Mr..
Clarke will tell us in an unsentimental
way what he knows about sentiment
and sentimentalism, and Mr. Hale will
give synopsis of the legal aspects
of the work done by the Tempe
rance Brotherhood of Brooklyn. The specu-
lators in morals and science will be at work
also giving us their views on secret and in
visible things. Mr.. Wiggin will speculate
on the weight of the human SOUL as if that
were a matter of much Importance; Mr..
Fowler will speculate also on the primitive
actualities of existence and its law of gene
rative wellbeing, angelic and carnal, while
DR.. White will bring to the front the good of
Spiritualism, if there be any such element as
goodness in it, which, judged by its results
up to this time, may well be doubted. But
the spectators as well as the evangelicals



stand side by side in this great city, bidding
for the masses who refuse to enter the halls
or churches of either, but go on in their own
way gratifying their own spiritual, intellec-
tual or carnal desires without reference to
either The moral teachers must bid higher
before they can gain the ears and the hearts
of the mnsseS.