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Year: 1875

Everybody knows that a season OF
rest after dinner pays well, but it is no,
more important than the rest before
eating, i: one is very weary. This rule
is Of the utmost Importance to the "bu
siness man," or, the person engaged in
brain labor, and its violation is one oil
the chief causes of our national dyspep.
sia-this and the rapid eating that is
customary. People of strong and I'M.
impaired constitutions (if any such can
be found may not feel how impossible
it is for the body to carry on the bust
ness of digestion when greatly fatigued
or while it is being put to hard labor in
some direction; but such is the case, ,and
the health of our citizens is all the time
being destroyed for lack of knowledge
on this point The stomach must have
some vitality, or nerve force to do its
work with, and if the body has been
using this vigorously, with the muscles
or with the brain, little time should be
allowed for gathering up its energies fol
the task of digestion.
Year: 1875

Men often speak of breaking the will
ola child; hut the will needs regulating,
not destroying. should as soon think
of breaking the legs of horse in train.
ing him, as child's will. | would dis
ciplne and develop It into harmonious
proportions. l never yet heard of a
will in itself too strong, more than an
arm too mighty, or mind too compre
hensive in iss grasp, too powerful in its
hold. The instruction of children
should be such as to animate, inspire
restrain, but not to hew, cut and carve
for l would always treat child as 6
live tree, which has to be carved into
this or that shape, and to have certain
holdings grooved upon it. A live tree
and not dead timber,is every little child
Theodore Parker.
Year: 1875

Prayer is the path that God made, on
! which men travel back to him.


Do not be content with well doing for
| it is only by constant striving to exec
every previous effort that men arrive q,
great ends.
Year: 1875

MRS. HEATH has recently moved to
INl this place for the purpose of meeting
a want which tho ladies of the town and
county have for long time known, that
of having a dressmaker of experience
among them. l am prepared to make all
kinds of dresses in the latest styles, and
guarantee satisfaction. Stamping for braid
ing and embroidery done in the best man
nor, with the newest patterns. All I ask
is n iair trial Residence on Water Street,
in the house formerly occupied by Jacob
Shriver. l4ti
Year: 1875




Bob Noyes, do stop your racket. No
body can have a minutes peace II You are
within hearing"


Bob's face flushed scarlet, aud he laid
down his hammer, leaving the nail half
driven. He turned the toy wagon he had
been working on over and over, with wist-
ful look which told of pitiful heartache.
1t was pretty toy wagon, in his eyes, and
he made every bit Of it himself and if he
could only drive six more nails, il would be
finished. But there must be no more racket
go he laid it away carefully, aud, going into
one corner of the yard, stretched himself
under a tree, and kicking the turf with his
heels, poudered over his many troubles, His
mother had said that there was no peace for
anybody II he was in hearing but certainly
there was no peace for him anywhere about
home.


lie had slipped into the parlor after din
ner, and was having good chat with Miss
Somers, and she was telling him about three
wonderful black and white spotted puppies
at her house, when sister Jennie came in and
asked him what he was imposing on Miss
Somers for. lie wasn't imposing, Miss
Somers said so. Guess he could talk as well
as Jennie, II she was eighteen two months
ago. But Jennie made him leave the room
without learning how the littlest and pret-
tiest puppy got out OF the cistern when he
fell in. Maybe he didn't get out. Bob
kicked harder, and wished he knew. After
his rejection from the parlor, Bob started to
the gerret to console himself by rocking in
the old-fashioned red-crade grandmother
Noyes had rocked papa aud Uncle John in,
but Nell aud the boys would not let him in
they Were getting up surprise tableaux, and
didn't want any little pitchers around,
lie sought his fathers study, to look at an
illustrated edition Of natural history. But
papa objected. lie couldn't have Bob in
there making disturbance" Almost heart
broken, he turned TO his mothers room,
" Go right away you'll wake the baby" met
him at the threshold. lie looked into the
kitchen, and begged 10 help make pies, but
Bridget told him TO clear out, lie next
went to the wood-house, aud sought 10 as
suage his sorrows by working on his wagon
and now he was forbidden this.


lie could not understand why he was
driven from everything he had not been q
bad boy and lost his temper ltwas beyond
his six-years-old philosophy. His poor little
brain was puzzled over what older children
called "certain inalienable rights" without
Year: 1875

UNDER WHICH BANNERi-How will those Re-
publicans feel who went off into the quagmire of
the Reform" under the plea that it was not a
Democratic dodge to divide the Republican par
ty, when they read the following from the Kan
sas Democrat which is cool kick at themi


"The editor of the Miami Republican is sore
vexed that the Democrats of Kansas have resolv-
ed to put themselves at the head of that political
revolution that has manifested itself in the last
two years. The Repa6licdR claims that there is
not bakers dozen of Democrats in the whole
State of Kansas. And that the Democrats have
no party organization in Kansas We know of
two County and two State organizations claim
ing to be Democratic. Both State organizations
we have reason to believe, will unite aud act
harmOniOusly in re-Organizing the constitutional
Democratic party of Kansas.


The march of events cannot be prevented or
turned aside by the pretenders to Democratic
principles, who are afraid to avOw their faith
and give their hearty cooperation for the tri-
umph of genuine Jeffersonian and Jacksonian
Democracy. The burden of the Republican is
the slauder of eminent Democrats and q fear
that if the Democracy are allowed to organize,
that Judge GoOdin cannot be reelected to Con-
gress. We desire that if Judge GOOdin does not
declare himself in full sympathy with the success
of the Democratic party, he ought not to be re-
elected. lie owe3 hts election to the straight
Democracy of Montgomery County. If that or
ganiZation had been in doubt about GOodin's DO
ltical sympathies, and had put Cobb on their
ticket, the result wonld have been different


The independent reformiparty, of Kansas, is a
defunct institution. 1t cannot be revived
There are just two political organizations in
America now, the Grant Radicals and the rising
Democracy. Those editors and politicians who
can't it, and have not the decision to be either
Republican or Democratic, will have to stand
aside"
Year: 1875

STAY WHERE You ARE.-Mr. ]. NJ. Eastwood,
an old resident of Bourbon County, Kansas, has
written letter from San Jose Cal, to the Fort
Scott Monitor, in which he says:


The country is overrun with Eastern people;
there are thousands here who can not get employ
ment, who are suffering now and will continue
to suffer as long as they remain here If any of
your citizens talk of coming to California, tell
them for Gods sake to stay where they are unless
they have plenty of money, for this is no country
for those who are strapped. A man here with
ont money is in a bad fix, and there are thous-
ands now just in that predicament. Any one
having the cash to buy farm go into any
other business, think can do better here than
in Kansas, but poor man is out of place in any
part of the State that have yet visited and
have been in the best portion of California-the
valley of the Sacramento, from Sacramento City
to San Francisco, distance of nearly one hun
dred miles, and from-the latter place to San JOSE
The prices of land in all of this region ranges
from $50 to S4OO per acre. Of course, there is
cheap land in the State, but have not seen it
vet.
Year: 1875

STUDY THEM.-Now that the grasshoppers
are in full force, and the chances are that they
may come again in the fnture, farmers should
study them thoroughly, so that hereafter they
may fully understand their nature and habits,
from personal experience, without being COM
pelled to rely upon the experience of others.
Their every movement should be noted and re-
corded, in every stage, from the time they hatch
out until they leave. By thus learning them,
our people will know, should they come again,
just what to expect from them, and may be able
to devise means to protect themselves against
them.
Year: 1875

SAFELY DELIvERED.-The Wathena Reporter,
of Last Saturday, came out promptly ON Tuesday,
after dreadful hard time. The leading editori-
al knocks Judge Hubbards injunction higher
than a kite, contains a glossary of Latin law
terms, and will hereafter be incorporated in Su-
preme Court Reports, as standard authority.
What space is not devoted to laying down the
law, is generously given to the CHIEF. 1t en-
emphatically asserts that the Chief lies, and as
clearly proves, in the summing up, that the Chief
tells the truth.


For our part, we have no other interest in the
Wathena fight than to give our readers the facts,
as nearly as we can ascertain them. The whole
commotion has been raised by the Reporter, SIM
ply because some men refused to bow down to
the mighty genius who is wearing out his brain
to show what fools Judges and Courts are. We
suppose it is his interest to wage war upon one
half of the community from which its support
should come; but in the end, it might prove as
profitable to devote a little of the space even to
communications that have no sense in them.
Year: 1875

n Mr.. Webb says his say, this week, about
the Atchison and Nebraska Railroad taxes, al
though his organ at Wathena anticipated him,
and said sufficient to satisfy the most exacting.
Our article, last week, was written upon state
ments made to us by officer of the Railroad
Company. We hope that he will now tell his
side of the question, so that We may be able to
decide between them.
Year: 1875

The Free Masons of Iowa are very much exer-
clsed on q recent decision of the Grand Master
mat dancing in the lodge room is inconsistent
With y, the good of the craft. Two subordinate
onSers nave been deprived of their positions for
violating the spirit of the decision
Year: 1875

In Messina recently hordes of fanatics went
about the streets on the occasion of Easter Sun
day, shouting, Death to Protestants, Death to
tTeemasons, and compelling everybody to take
on his hat to a gilded statue of saint they were
airing. The project was severely censured for
allowing such conduct in the public thorough
Year: 1875

n The Reporter intimates that we publish
smutty stories Our failing may be visible to
the naked eye; but even that is not as bad as
acting the prude in the columns of paper, to
conceal the rottenness of private life.
Year: 1875

A COUPLE OF cases Of smallpox are
reported to have occurred among a
party of British American Indians
stopping at Port Ludlow. As soon as
the tact was known the victims were is
olated from contact with Others. and all
needful precautions taken to prevent
the spread Of the disease, so that the
most tImorOus need entertain no fears
respecting it. The distemper is said to
he of a very mild type.
Year: 1875

Mr.. PUGH will commence the erec-
ton of bis hotel on the corner ofWater
and Washington streets in about two
weeks. when we shall have sOmething
more to say in reference to the under
taking. That It will be q building
worthy Of its enterprislng protector
there can be no doubt.
Year: 1875

! 't.orrespOndence Of the Kansas City Times


On Tuesday the entire population.


except q blind woman and Rouse,


and have u nice time. A young lady


from across the Jersey took her suitor


and her opera glass. The young lady
| romantic until she stopped to see the
elephant


She wore one of those pockets be-


hind, in which, besides her hand
| kerchief, she had deposited an apple, O


of gumdrops little bottle of am


and her swain, after admiring the com


plexion of the huge beast. turned


their backs upon him to watch the


monkeys and The live kangaroo, and


gaze into each others eyes; to do this


the better they leaned back against


the rope which inclosed the stately


monarch, who saw the apple protrud-
ing from the pocket of the unconscious
fair one. He hesitated q moment, and


was lost to all sense of honor or self-re-
pect, for with shutting movement he
emulated the example of our common
mother; plucked and ate the fruit, re-
turned to the pocket and scooped out
the gumdrops and peanuts, with sly
wink at his nephew, who has looking
on with anxiety at the proceeding.
But in the last mouthful, the majestic
beast took in the ammonia bottle by
mistake, the cork come out, and about
an ounce of hartshorn ran down the
throat of the greedy beast. This bev-
erage Is said to have a reviving and
stimulating influence, and in this case
1T proved its power, for more revived
elephant was never seen on earth.
With wild yell he grabbed the protu-
berance behind the lady which had
been the cause of his disaster: she was
pulled back" some before, but as
the exasperated trunk yanked at the |
hustle and accessories, all former at
tempts at that style of wearing gear
seemed pale and sickly; everything
was pulled back" until the young |
looked like the statue of Niobe |
in blue calico. The young man with
great presence of mind shouted ''shoo"
and the gentlemanly clerk of the eie-
ohant, with a long probe, persuaded
'he beast to let up. But the fun was
over for the day; cake had no charms,
md soda no balm for these two souls,
who walked home with but single
bought about wild animals
Year: 1875

his partner, "PGt her hard down |!
snatch her I snatch her |" The boat
rasped and ground her way through
the sand, hung upon the apex of dis
aster single, tremendous instant, and
then over she went And such a shout
as went up at MIR. B-'s back never
loosened the roof of q pilot house
before


There was no more trouble after that.
Mr.. B was the hero that night; and
it was some time, too, before his exploit
ceased to be talked about by river-men.


Fully to realize the marvellous pre-
cision required In laying the great
steamer IN her marks in that murky
waste of water, one must know that not
only must she pick her intricate way
through sDags and blind reefs, and then
shave the head of the island so closely
as TO brush the overhsnging foliage with
her stern, but at one place she must
pass almost within arms reach of a
sunken and invisible wreck that would
snatch the hull timber from under her
if she should strike it, and destroy
quarter of million dollars worth of
steamboat and cargo in FIVE minutes, and
maybe hundred and fifty human lives
into the bargain.


The last remark I heard that night
was a compliment to Mr.. B, u
tered in soliloquy and with unction by
one of our guests. He said:


'' By the shadow of death, but he's
lightning pilot 70
Year: 1875

The Spectator says: "There are
people who find the cold simply q nov
city, which gives a FLIP TO their ener.
0ies and adds q zest to life. Mr.. Alfred
GarrOd threw out not long ago in sci
entiho5iouFnal asuggestisn that perhaps,
it is the difference in temperature be-
tween the external skin and the heat Of
the blood which supplies the springs of
those magnetic currents OF which Derv-
ous action in a large degree possibly
consists, and that the greater that diff
ference of temperature, the more lively
is the action of the batteries of which
the nerves are the conducting wires. If
that were SO, that would certainly ac-
count for the sort of abounding self
graduation which seems to possess
some men in dwelling on the mere fact
that 'the thermometer showed 1S de-
grees of frost last night ; only it would
make it still more difficult to account
for the apparently frozen-up energies
which cold causes some people. But TO
the people who exult in cold, the human
race appears all the nobler for sustain
ing so many degrees of frost; and as
for them they treat the low temperature
as a gospel of great Joy. Indeed, their
bearing seems TO indicate something
more like the deep well spring of salts
faction arising from a good conscience
than anything else. You see the traces
of this state of feeling in Dickens
Christmas stories, where frost and
benevolence always flow together in
great spring tides. If feeling does not
gush when water is frozen, il is always
with Dickens. the sign of deliberate
malignity of heart. And unquestion-
ably there are a good number of per-
sons to whom severe weather brings a
self satisfaction and desire to overflow
benignity over other people which you
new see at other times. They go
about saving either literally or by
smiles and lavish rubbing of the hands,
Here is the Thermometer more than
halfway between free ezing- point and
zero, yet I exuit in it +; / walk, skate,
1 ride 1 beat my breast heartily; l re-
store circulation to my feet by joyial
stamping; I have for the first time in
life a purpose to fulfill to which I am
quite equal eat and drink all the
more heartily fer the severe weather; 1
make joyful noise in everything ] do,
to attract the attention Of the world to
nay great success in iefying the cold 1
smile jubiIantly, and return jubilant
smiles jubilantly, for feel a successful
man, and without any mean envy 1
recognize all comrades who are success
fui in the same way. Heroes should
support each other, and they are heroes
who find nothing but stimuleus in such
cold as this.
Year: 1875

SoFrEErNG hard water is usually done
with sal soda, but the effect is to hurt
the clothes that are washed IN the
water thus prepared, and the hard also.
Il is because there is an excess Of the
soda more than uDitea with the acid Of
the water, which makes it hard. ~
remedy is easy Use enough of q
salt 10 take mp the acid, and no mon


Ia this way both acid and soda disaps
pear, leaving a natural salt which is
harmless. The water will be soft.
Test q certain amount Of water, begin
ming with very little soda, and adding
more If you find you need IL. With
our spring water, which is hard, lump
Of soda the size OF pea to pint Of
water il about the right proportion.
/ OF course the amount Of the salt should
be according 70 the degree Of hardness
J Of the water,
Year: 1875

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph 0hus) mean that your sub
seriptiop is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend.
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
We are forced to adhere TO a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such q
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


81 We enter no new names on our
books without the money ~ a,lv1' ce
Year: 1875

-" You boys ought to be kind to
your little sisters. I once knew q bad
boy who struck his little sister q blow
over the eye. Although she didn't
fade and die IN the early summer time,
when the June roses were blowing, with
the sweet words of forgiveness on her
pallid lips, she rose mp and hit him
over the head with rolling.Pin, so that
he couldn't 60 to Sandsy-schOol for
more than a month, on account of not
bsiDg able to put his best bat o."
Year: 1875

Brigham Young is better, much
better. He il able to sit up and be
married occasionally, and the latest
brides have been heard to remark that
there's q good deal of the material Of
which heroes and brideerooms are made
in the old man, yet
Year: 1875

Mayor Kiey, of Richmond says Of the shock on
Wednesday night "ln all the sound and the movement
seemed to to distinctly from the east and
move toward the wesL and in all the motion
irregular shaking, not q swayng to and fro crcum-
which, at the time, struck me singular,
in view OF the definite east and west direction which
the earthquake appeared to follow. do not think
l can better describe the roaring that accompanied
the vibration OF the earth than BY saying that It
rcsembled the sound Of chimney FIRE; but
the whole unlike anything had witnessed
felt that thought Of ascrbng II TO any oLhcr
source than earthquake Such turmoil in the
mosphere, such trefnor the earth, trembling OF
the house violent and protracted could have
other origin and shared the alarm which may well be
entertained when the foundations of the earth felt
to trembe.h


Surveyor Redd, OF Henrico says-"After the second
shock went view the appearance OF the heav-
The sky clear, not vestige OF a cloud 10 be
seen, but here dingy murkness about the
atmosphere that caused the stars to shine with
what reddish light and those near the horizon TO have
q faint ncbuous appearance. My children all hard
seepers, yet they were all instantly aroused by the
first shock, and described their sensations by kening
them TO the effect produced by powerful electric
rent About hour previous to the shocks had
walked out and while out noticed several faint flashes
OF light, which appeared and disappeared so rapidly
that / was unable 10 locate them / had often seen
flashes Of this sort on former occasions, and thought
nothing about j. at the time. These aashos, though
entirely unlike any form Of lightning, evidently OF
electric origin, but whether they had any connection
with the earthquake that followed do not presume



Some old soldiers described the sound as very SINH
lar the noise made by the passage OF heavy train OF
army wagons. Mr.. Stephen Putney remarked yester-
day that he remembered very distinctly the impression
made upon his mind the morning that General Lee
tackled the enemy before Richmond the terrible rafting
the windows and the shaking Of the houses but
was not to be compared 70 the effect on him Of the
earthquake


very interesting incident Is related by young gen.
tleman land he vouehes for its truth) who OF
party Of five who engaged In playing bluf some-
where In the neighborhood or Fourth street, Rich
III
very heavily; the thing had become rather monoto-
and suddenly he exclaimed, sOh, wish earth
quake would snake the cards welLn A moment more
shock did come, enough. His wish grati-
1ed but the party broke up in dismay.
Year: 1875

Coroner Nolan notified yesterday morning 70
hold an inquest the BODY OF Mrs Mary Murray,
who died al her Iato residence Of Greene and
Franklin avenues Brooklyn, from the eject OF injuries
sustained a couple OF days ago. Deceased who was
about nfyeight years OF age In the act OF stepping
from the bow OF ferrvboat which going into tho
slip at the foot OF Twenty street, New York when
she attempted to step the bridge and missing her


footing tell and caught between the latter and tho
haat
Year: 1875

There will be pigeon shooting at the Long Island
Club Grounds, as above, on Tuesday and Wednesday
next Open sweepstakes will be decided the first day,
and many OF the best shots in the vicinity expected
TO be present The second day the "cupn of the club
will be offered for competition, in which the members
alone take part but then there will be classified sweep
stake at 80 yards RISE to take part in which the officers
have extended invitations to all recognized gun clubs
this vicinity Favorable responses have already been
ceived from the Harlem and Nassau Shooting clubs and
the prospects that the occasion VIII be Of much
interest and pleasure
Year: 1875

No news received at the Sheri7s ONCE yesterday
relative the report that William NJ Tweed was in
Havana Sheriff Conner in attendance all day. in
expectation that he might obtain answer 70 his
despatch making inquiries TO the foundation Of the
rumor but response up the time for closing
the department. Mr.. Conner is still under the impress
sion That the story Is hoax.