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Year: 1875

The Atlantic papers have much To
say concerning the result Of the recent
election in California. "A Radical paper
OF repute, the Springfield Repubiican,
thinks the success of the Democratic
party in that State is another indication
OF the increasing drift Of political power
all over the country IN the direction Of
bDemoeracy .sai4 ssn ss58 ~ ass4esf
Nothing now seems to stand in the
way of the Democratic organization car
fying the Presidential election next wear.
The great factor in the current political
revolution is settled dissatisfaction
with the Radical Administration, and q
desire for change. There Is good
deal OF material force and something of
Intelligent instinct also, however. in the
feeling that any change will be an i'm
provement-that nothing shortaof dis
missal from power can teach Che Ratii-
Gals the virtue of new ideas, and that
there may be at least enough new men
among the restored old Democracy to
bring in new policies and new princi-
pies. vos,as sif .'g


The old appeals have lost their force.
The voters will not zoe frightened by
the ancient sins Of the Democracy, nor
held by the rast virtues and glories of
Republicanism. More and more GER
tain does it grow that, as between the
Democratic party and Republican party,
the voters, next year, will choose the
Democratic. No ordinarily good nom-
nations by the Republican party, no
ordinarily bad nominations by the DEM
ocrats, can be hopefully relied upon to
change this drift. AS against Tilden, it
would probably be impossible for the
Radicals to make a party nomination
that would carry the country. Neither
Blaine nor Washburne, the ablest of
the old Radical leaders, can be relied
upon to do it. Bristow would be
stronger, but, under the present aspect
OF affairs, not strong enough. Even
Bayard or Thurman would stand the
better chance in acontest with either of
the Radical leaders.


1t is morally impossible to set back
the tide that has turned in favor of the
Democracy toward the White House.
Loose legislation, however, between
now and next year may initiate
against the result which now seems SO
certain.
Year: 1875

No TIME FOR ANYTHING, The great
difficulty in this country is, that we
have no time for anything: The very
walk OF On American shows that he is
in hurry. An Englishman buttons
his coat and gloves and goes to busi-
ness as deliberately as he goes to
church. An American business man
flies after the car, struggling with his
coat-sleeves as he runs, plunges in
head foremost, and plunges out at the
end without regard to his neck. Chief
among our accidents stand those which
occur because people jump upon flying
traias or after departing koats. To
wait ten minutes is something not to be
thought OF. Dinner is not eaten, it is
swallowed whole; and when one comes
to the dessert be finds that the fruit
was picked before 1t was ripe. Every
thing is hurried through, from the
building of house to the curing of a
ham. The women who work on sew
ing machines stop before they come to
the end of the seam. The dressmaker
sends home your dress with basting
threads in it, and no loops to hang it up
by. There is none of the slow, sure
completeness of the old world about
anything, and even fortunes are gener-
ally made in a hurry, and lost in the
same way. If any man We know is
getting rich by the slow and patient
process of saving, be sure that he was
not born upon this continent. Yet peo-
pie live as long here as they do any
where else, and the days are the same
length. Why is it that we have no
time for anything ?-CoTespondent Ne,c
York Ledger.
Year: 1875

If we knew the woe and heartache


Waiting for us down the road,
IT our lips could taste the wormwood
If our backs could feel the load;
Would we waste the day in wishing


For time that ne'er can be2
Would we wait with such impatience


For our ships to como from sea?
If we knew the baby fingers,


Pressed against the window pane,
Would be cold and stiff tomorrow


Never trouble us again;
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frown upon our brow?
Would the print of rosy fingers


Vex us then as they do now?
All, these little ice-cold fingers!


How they point our memories back
To the hasty words and actions


Strewn along our backward track!
How these little hands remind us,


AS in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns, but roses,


For our reaping by and by.
Strange we never prize the music


Till the sweet-voiced bird has flown;
Strange that we should slight the violets
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one-half so fair
As when winters snowy pinions


Shake their white down In the air.
Lips from which the seal Of silence


None but God can roll away,
Never blossomed in such beauty


AS adorns the mouth to-day; -
And sweet words that freight our naemor,
With their beautiful perfume,
Come TO us in sweeter accents f-
Through the portals Of the tomb.
Let us gather up the sunbeams,


Lying all around our path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,


Canning ost t.so th,rsss ard th.sHt:-
Let MS find our sweetest comfort


In the blessings of to-day;
With the patient hand removing


All the briars from out way.
Year: 1875

JOHN HENRY had a guest to dinner the
other day and during pause in the con
versation the eiy'ont terrible spoke up;


~ wish l was you


"Do you, little boy and why do you
wish you were me ?"


"Cos you don't get your ear pinehed
when you cat vIttles with your knife"
Year: 1875

NoTHING like love or hunger to drive
a man mad or make bin happy. Next
TO a feast upon seventeen year-old pair
Of lips under grape vines by moonlight Is
foray on a PLATTER Of cold beans, after
fishing for suckers all day. The one fills
the poetic heart and the other the hungry
etutunch
Year: 1875

IT is said that ll-grown man car
ries Il pound and three-quarters of
phosphorus about in his body, enough
to make 1000 ordinary boxes of frlc-
ton matches he was supplied with
sulphur to match; but he has not
enough of this to strike fire, though
most men have magnesium enough to
make light which would be seen
twenty miles. And yet how compar-
atively few men shed any light around
them, even during the longest pill
grimage here.
Year: 1875




The4air scarce stirred


With the whispered word,
Yet the noisy city its import heard,


Can it be so,


That an hour ago
That name was as high as it now lies low?
And friends were dear,


And lovers near.
And the haven of hope was shining clear?
Did his eyes shine bright


With sweet delight,
And never a hint OF the whitening blight!
Is yesterday


So far away,
With its tender sigh; and its laughter gay,
With the poison flung


By the shameless tongue,
The deep death-knell of all hopes were rung
And the tidings grew.


AS they always do, 'ials
None caring to ask be they false or true.
AloneI Alonei


The friends have flown
How weary and old the heart has grown!,
9 The laughter's fled,


The heart is dead,
And crowned with sorrow the innocent head
Never again


Will the cruel stain
Be washed from the soul so crushed with pain
Till Death shall bring
Its kinder sting, ssf z
And the poor, tired heart stopped sorrowing,
Heaven send


Death be a friend,
And this cruel life soon have ar end,


Dard Best
Year: 1875

HOW FAR WILL BEES GO FOX HONES:


The above question, we believe. has
never been satisfactory answered. A
bee keeper once tried the old expert
ment of dusting his bees with flour as
they left the hive. then rode to heath
seven miles away, he discovered his
white bees busily engaged in collect
ing honey. This experiment. how
ever, cannot be relied on, for the SIM
pie reason that pollen, with which
bees are frequently completely cover
ed, bears close resemblance to flour,
and might readily be taken for it when
the bees are on the wing. 1t is our
belief that they seldom venture more
than three miles from home, for we
have known them to be in starving
condition when another apairy only
four miles away was flourishing and
gathering stores rapidly. 1t has in re-
cent years been proved by Italian by
birds that queens have met with
drones which were known to be at
least three miles away, but this. will
scarcely apply to worker bees fitting
about from flower to flower; they
must Become weary before they are
four or even three miles from home.
Year: 1875

tits useless to mention each
article in our various depart
ments. We keep everything
belonging to a STRICTLY
FIRST GLASS Furniture,
Crockery and Picture Franz
ing stock, and we modestly
state that our stock this spring
will have many new attrac-
tiOns and be far more COM
plete than any in this section,
and second only to those of
the largest cities.


Most of our goods were
bought during the great de-
preston of the winter, for
cash, and very low rates of
freight secured.


Our trade has nearly doub-
led, much of it coming from
Akron, Alliance, Garrettsville,
Warren and other adjoining
places. People will buy
where there is a large stock to
select from, if the prices are
right.


We buy direct of reliable
manufacturers, and will war
rant every article purchased
of us. As before, we pledge
ourselves to LOW FIGURES
AND SCARE DEALLING.
Come and look through a
Year: 1875

Crop reports from various parts Of
Wisconsin indicate that tho recent cold
weather did very little damage to
grain. The general tenor OF the dis
patches show that the less hardy fruits
have received . severe check, II they
have not been entirely cut of by the
unreasonable frost.
Year: 1875

A little four.year old urchin strayed
into q neighbor's house the other day.
When he got home he told his mother
that he saw shutters in tho floor, and
when he stood On them lots Of hot
came ont,
Year: 1875

tercourse, no matter how pure, is very


easily dark shaded in the thoughts OF


the listener, when told in words, that
! would disappear had the listener have


had the benefit Of his sense Of seeing
as we'll as hearing in making mp his
judgment.


We cannot but deeply sympathize


with the lady who thus stands between


her children and the cold, whitening
shame Of the world. We cannot SYM
pa,hize with the contrary act on the
part of the husband, especially since
he comes into court beyond all ques-
tion with very unclean hands, and not
only that, but with a record in his


writings of advocating very loose


marital relations, Very naturally, in
our minds eye, We can see how the
strong and towering intellect Of Tilton


with decent treatment towards her,
ought to have led the affections of his
wife where he listed, and so, there not


have been the commission Of an indis-
cretion even, on her part. The case is
probably near its close, and it is high.
ly probable that whatever be its result
40 tar as the verdict Of the jury is con.
cerncd, there will yet remain a two.
sided Judgment with the people. We
have only to say that we believe most
solcmnly that upon sucl delicate quea-
tions, involving such vital interests,
not only to the reputation of tho i'm
mediate parties, but also to those of the
innocent children and moro still. the
faith in, and respect for, the marital
relation by all people. demands that
there must be clear and practically
unmistakable proof Of guilt, or else We
should checrful!y acquiesce in and ac-
knowledge the parties charged as In
nocent. Having said SO much more
than we had set ont to, in noticing the
extract at tho head Of this article, we
will not refrain from adding that we
are most emphatically opposed to tho
parochial visiting of ladies very much
INDUCED by some ministers. 1t is q
mistake-it is FALSE, e,-that there is In the
clerical profession an insurance against
the commission of wrong above and
beyond the assurance that exists in
the conduct of other recognized good
men. The privileged domestic famili.
arity accorded to the one, with equal
propriety is due to the other no less
and no more, and we feel thoroughly
warranted in saying that very much
ofthe visiting and familiarity INDUCED
in by many. ministers is radically ont
of place in either.
Year: 1875

We want to preach short ecrmor
from long text The Good Book
| says, There is that scattereth abroad


and yet increase,h rand there is that
withholdeth more than 10 meet, and il
tendeth to povertyl"


We promise this sermon shall be
very brief-its application is pertinen!


to the people Of this city and county
just now. II our citizens will scatter


abroad in the sense of Improving the


home enterprise on foot, viz: Our


magnificent water project, the increase
will be ten fold in the first twelve


months after its completion, and 4


thousand fold In the next twenty


years.


If our people withhold moro than IL


meet, viz: Withhold so as to fail in


this enterprise, they will surely not


only tend to poverty but they will get


it to their sorrow. Men say that they


have all they can carry now-that they


can't promise money, because there is


no sale for. their lots or their land


because the amount of goods they sell


will not warrant their making greater


their obligations-because judging of


their business by the past, they dare
not incur any more expenditures


such men refuse to scatter abroad that


they may increase--t refuse to do


what we have done as people so
many times, viz: Insure for us public
improvements and 40 gather to US
more population, moro wealth, more
business, moro Of everything which
has given to us our prosperity and
prominence. Such men decline to
SOW that they may reap an hundred
fold, they are penny wise and pound
foolish, and any community Of such
people would live in towns where the
grass would grow in the streets and
the tinkle of the cow bell tho biggest
noise that would DO heard. Again
there are those who pray, or rather
(prey) in their hearts that their neigh.
bors will scatter, and they will then be
mighty lively In scraping in the in
crease-they are opposed to sowing,
but are always in at the harvest. They
are very glad to SEQ committee of
citizens working up subscription to q
public enterprise perambulating our
streets, SO long as they do not trouble
them-so long as they do not break in
upon their business-they never have
any time to talk upon the subject
though incidentally they will very
often infuiro how tho subscription is
getting along. Such parties are after
the increase secured by tho scattering
Of their neighbors. Would all the
people interested in this enterprise by
direct returns therefrom, scatter what
they could easily do, the seed would
spront at once and the increase be-
gin to roll in upon us. This COM
munity has q good many of these
reapers but tnot sewers, and tho way
they are not esteemed by their fellow
citizens is well known. We shall
probably take another text on come
other tack in day or two and it may
be text suitable to funeral sermon,
unless there be good many who get
of the reaping list alone and add their
names to the sowing list.
Year: 1875

A Man Greuud up ia n Windmill


From the Rochester tAlinn) Post.


A most horrible accident occurred


at Potsdam last Friday. Potsdam is a
,, little hamlet about eight miles north


east of this city, on tho road to Plain.
view. ON Greenwood Prairie, and In
tho centre of q settlement of thrifty


German farmer. Messrs Corauske


u Buetow have wind grist mill there


On Friday Of last week, . little after


l O'Clock in the afternoon, the wind


mill became unmansgeable by reason


OF high wind. A number OF men
gathered about, and four of them went


up into the tower supporting tho


windmill, to endeavor to turn the
machinery so as to throw the fan into
the wind. The party was headed by


VIM. A. McCarren, q very athletic
young man Of about 27 years, who
worked at blacksmith shop in Pots
dam. The others who went with him
were John Haft, August Trabnp and
Henry Peters.


On getting to tho top Of the tower
the men were crowded into very
small space on q platform about
three feet wide, and McCar-
rem, standing on q timber and in a
cramped position, thrust crowbar in
to the machinery, which was running
at q fearful rate, to stop it, but the
motion Of the machinery threw him
OIL his balance and his foot slipped un-
der cog wheel. As he felt himself
darwin into the machinery he cried out
"Boys, save me, l'm caughtw and q
couple of the men standing by caught
him BY the legs and body and tried to
draw him out.


They held on to him until he was
drawn in nearly up TO his shoulders,
when, finding they could not help him
but were in great danger of being
themselves drawn in, they let 90, and
one of them, Henry Peters, jumped
distance of twenty feet to a landing
below In the tower. He was bruised,
but not seriously hurt.


Poor McCarren's last words were
those given above; he is thought to
have died almost ct once after utter.
ing them. His body was rapidly
drawn In and passed through q space
OF not more than two inches In width
between the wheel and q timber,
crushing 1t into pulp OF quivering,
bleeding flesh, held together by the
torn clothing, and hanging from the
timbers in horrid, ehapelcss mass. |
The arms and part of the legs were
not 80 thoroughly crushed, but were
badly torn and mangled by the cogs.
The whole body was passed through
In this way clear TO the head, which
was stopped by q crowbar that had
been left In the wheel by one of the
men. The head was afterwards sev-
cred from the body with q knife, in
order to extricate IL. All this, we are
told, took place within two or three
minutes. The tower was dripping
with blood. The Mortified men At
tempted to stop the mill by crowdIDg
grain into the stones, but had to aban- |
don the effort, aud after few hours
1t in some way stopped itself.
Z 1t is strange fact that Mr.. McCar-
ren's watch was found in his vest
pocket uninjured, and was running
regularly after the accident. His
pocket. book was also uninjured.
Year: 1875

We once asked an old Winneba-
go squaw how it was she cured her
sick family by simply covering them
every day with fresh earth, leaving
only a breathing spot for their noses,
and she said "Earth our mother
Earth makes she, and earth takes
good care to make pappoose strong;
squaw mother makes the pappoose
sick. Earth mother makes the pap
poose well again. She can't tell
white squaw any more" Now this
poor Indian woman was wise sac
cording to her light" Without
knowing why, she saw that the
earth was 4 friend to her children,
and therefore gave them to this heal
ing embrace. If the mother be fortu-
nate enough to live in the country,
she has the cure for many of her chill
dren's ills quite at hand. Encourage
baby to play in fresh earth, preparing
1t properly for its enjoyment and
cure, with rs careful an eye to the
comfort OF the little thing rs you
would if it were to take any other
sort of a bath. If it has no old dress
es, make it 4 SUIT of cheap print, tie
upon its head light hat, that will
protect its eyes from discomfort and
give it freedom to delve in the warm
soft earth, where the sunshine can
comfort and invigorate it. If it is 4
city-child and circumstances forbid u
trip to the country for the sake Of
the convalcscent, have sand heap
made Gil the warm side of your yard.
Instinct will teach it to die, and dig
ging hardens the muscles and brings
strength to the bones, while from the
heart of the earth rises subtle and
strong power Of healing that We can
neither explain nor understand for
ourselves, though we have both seen
and ielt its potency.
Year: 1875

from the wheeling standard.


We have heard several times, late
ly, of a negro, recently in this city,
who could do anything with his body
but turn it wrong side out.


Dr.. Baguley told lis last night that
he had examined the curiosity a few
days ago.


The negro was born in Sheffield,
England, and raised in Manchester,
in the same country When three or
four years old he showed a wonderful
control over some Of what are to or
dinafy persons automatic muscles,
and has been "getting BETTER" as he
calls it, ever since. BY getting bet
ter, which we would decide getting
decidedly worse, he means that he
has become more expert in his powers
of selt-contortion. lie has been trav-
cling about the country for some
years, showing himself tor a living


He is a full-blooded African, not
very intelligent, medium sized, with
an ordinary looking head. He came
here from Pittsburg, where he exhib-
tied himself before DR.. Walter, who
was skeptical about him. He told
the doctor he was going to throw his
heart down to the pit of his stomach.
DR.. w. got out his stethoscope and
placed it over the heart. The organ
was beating naturally and regularly
in its proper place. Presently the
negro gave his body a peculiar jerk,
and the Doctor could hear nothing at
all. Looking down about a foot he
saw large lump, and placing the
stethoscope over it, he heard the
heart beating away as regularly as
before. When it had remained there
couple of minutes, the darkey drew
it up, saying he was afraid to keep it
there long. He gave himself another
twist and his heart went as far below
as before, and to the right side, still
humping regularly. Drawing it
back again, he told the Doctor he
was going to stop its motion. He
did so by the mere act volition, and
there was no pulse to be discovered
in any part Of his body. He kept it
still for over two minutes, then start
ed again, saying that it would kill
him to keep it still too long.


Before DR.. Baguley he dropped his
RIBS down about foot, and the Doc
tor could feel second set under
them. He went through some of the
performances we have described, and
then told the Doctor that he was 90
ing to roll up his bowels. lie started
the turning, and the Doctor could
see them coiling around and bulging
out. He then went through the re-
verse process Of unwinding them
Some gentlemen, who were i'll the
Office, tainted at the sight, and no
wonder.