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Year: 1870

Gen. Moltke is reported as having re-
marked to a French officer just prior to
the war; " Do not talk to me Of your
military education in Africa. If you
have never been there, so much the bet
ter; when you become General you will
be glad Of IT, The war you have been
carrying on for forty years against the
Arabs is a guerillerie of an inferior
order. Never any skillful marches, no
feints, no eounter-marches, rarely any
surprises With that school you will do
nothing more than form other schools
like it. The FIRST great war viii demon
strste your ineficiency, and were not
in the presence Of a man Of your merit.
sir, ! should not hesitate TO laugh at
your ignorance Of the trade TO which
you devote yourself u
Year: 1870

The British Medical Journal re.
grets to learn that the Queen still suffers
at times severely. The cares and lahors
incident to her exalted position are at
present increased by personal anxiety
for the safety of many nearly related to
her Majesty; the Prince Consort's only
brother and the husbands Of two Of the
Queens daughters are in the German
army, at the seat Of war These causes
combine to infiet suffering on a nervous
system at all times most sensitive to
worry and anxiety. Travelling under
arrangements so careful as her Majesty
does, the physical fatigue of journey
to Scotland is trihing, while the benefit
her Majesty experiences from the cool,
pure air and quiet Of her Highland home
Is always great and decided,
Year: 1870

We were standing in the garden with
stranger one cloudy, chilly, unsuInmer-like
afternoon in June. Near us was a large
olump Of lilac bushes. into which we saw a
bird Of dingy black color ay. Presently
she broke out into what, perhaps, she called a
song; but it was in reality like the fat
squailing Of an old cat.


Yaah yaah she continued to cry.


Pray said the stranger, " what bird is
that making such horrible noise2


That sir is a cat bird


81 should think so, and burnt cat too I!
thought it homely enough to the eye, but
the color is nothing to the screech.'


can't say much at present to defend the
poor bird, for looks and voice are against her.
But | am confident you will think better Of
her before long


The next morning l found my FREUD stand
ing on the piazza, listening to the notes Of a
bird in a thick sugar-maple near by The
song was that Of mockiug bird, not so Won
derlul as the notes Of a real mocking bird,
nor even so sweet as that Of the thrush, yet
they were round full, and often as exquisite
They seemed to repeat the note Of every bird
with which she was acquainted, robin, spar
row, oriole, aud the like, with surprising ac-
curacy. The morning was fair and the all
still, and the bird seemed TO be swallowed up
in song.


.. Pray, tell me, said my stranger friend
" what bird is that which sings so delight
fully


That is our cat-brd"


You must be making fun Of me. You
don't pretend to say that homely, squalling
bird aud this singer are the same ?"


" do, truly, and to convince you, | will
throw a stone into the tree and drive her out
and you shall see it is the same bird


With this threw the stone, and out came
Mrs. Cat-brd, making directly for the lilaes
where she began to scream " Yaah yaah =


The gentleman looked on in amazement.


" | know many people just like her. When
away from home they are full Of smiles and
gentle ways but see them at home and
the cat-bird notes are theirs"


Oh, yes" said the stranger ." know
scores Of such people, fathers and mothers, SC
smiling and pleasant away from home, but the
moment they enter their own doors they are
cold, silent and repulsive. And some young
ladies so lively and obliging when away FROM
home that we would think them uncommonly
lovely; but when at home, disrespeotful tC
parents coarse and unloyely. Like oul
cat.bird, with her two songs cheerful anc
well bred among strangers, but the moment
they 20 home rude, disobedient, rough and
ill-tempered"


What is the reason people will be so ?
Year: 1870




Home Is the one place of all this world
where hearts are sure in each other. 1t is
the place of confidence. 1t is the place where
we tear off that mask of guarded and suspi-
cious coldness which the world forces US to
wear in self-defence, and where we pour out
the unreseryed communications Of full and
confiding hearts. 1t is the spot where ex-
pressions of tenderness gush out without any
sensations Of awkwardness, and without any
dread of ridicule. Let a man travel where
he will home is the place to which his heart
untraveled fondly turns. He is to double all
pleasure there. He is to divide all pain. A
happy home is the single spot Of rest which a
man has upon this earth for the cultivation
of his noblest sensibilities And now, my
brethren, if that be the description Of home,
is Gods place of rest your home Walk
abroad and alone by night. That awful other
world in the stiffness and the solemn deep OF
the eternities above, is it your home 7 Those
graves that lie beneath you, holding in them
| the infinite secret and stamping upon all
earthly lovelness the mark of frailty, and
change, and feetingness-are those graves the
prospect to which, in bright days and dark
/ days, you can turn without dismay2 God III
| his iendors-dare we feel with him afiec'
tionate aud familiar, so that trial comes soft


ened by this feeling 1t is my father, and
enjoyment can be taken with frank feeling


my father has given it me, without grudginG
to make me happy. All that is having q
home in God. Are we at home there 7
Year: 1870

oPAss1Nd AwAY"- Generation after gen.
Grafton have felt as we now feel, and their
lives were as aetiveas our own, and they passed
like vapor, while nature wore the same as
pect of beauty as when her Creator command
cd her to be- The heavens shall be as bright
over our graves as they now are around our
paths. The world will have the same attrac-
tions for our offspring, as it had once for our
ancestors Yet little while and it will
have happened The throbbing will be still
ed, and all will be at rest. Our funeral will
wind its way, and prayers will be said, and
then we shall be left alone In silence aud
darkness for the worm. And it may be- for
short time we shall be spoken of, but the
things of life will creep in aud our names
will soon be forgotten. Days will continue
to move on, and laughter will be heard in tho
room in which we died; and the eye that
mourned for us will be dried and glisten
again with joy; and even our children will
cease to think of US, andswill not remember
to lisp our namos.
Year: 1870

We have not only dressed the columns Of the Daily
Journal and the Watchman and State Journal, in an en-
tlroly new dress but furnishing job Department
with all the materials necessary for the execution In
Year: 1870

Can a mother forget Not morning, noon
or night bat she looks into corner Of the
kitchen where you read Robinson CrusOe, and
thinks Of you as yet a boy. Mothers rarely
become conscious that their children are grown
out Of their childhood. They think Of them,
advise them, write to them, as though not four
teen years of age. They cannot forget the
child. Three times day she thinks Of those
absent from the table, and hopes the next year
at farthest she may just have her own family
there" and If You are there, look out for the
fat limb of chicken and coffee which nobody's
but eyerybody's mother can make. Did Han
nah forget Samuel 2. 4 short sentence full Of
household history, and running over with genu-
inc mothers love, is telling and beautiful -
" Moreover his mother made him little coat,
and brought it to him from year to year, when
she came up with her husband to sacrifice. -
A mother mourning at her first born's grave or
closing the eyes Of a child in death, displays
grief whose very sacredness is sublime. But
bitter. heavier than the stroke, is the despera-
ton Of the son who rushes over a crushed heart
into vices which be would chide even from the
abandoned and vile. Napoleon was once asked
by lady what France needed for the educa-
ton of youth, and the short, profound reply
was, Mothers"
Year: 1870

FEEDING oS orgx STABLE FLooRs.-Ani-
mnls are the main resource for keeping up the
fertility Of the soil; aud the great problem is,
how to feed at a profit. Every economy, both
of labor and food, must be studied with care.
The time and labor required to clean stables
and bed animals Is equal to that of feeding
them; and the expense for bedding material
for a large stock is an important item to he
saved Straw, hitherto thought most valuable
10 work into manure, has Of late, with proper
management, been found worth two-thirds as
much as hay for food, and should not be vast
ed as bedding for animals. Besides, the ma
nure made from feeding straw is estimated by
many as more valuable than straw trampled
into manure under stock. II these positions
are true, then any system which will save this
labor Of cleaning stables, and also the straw
for feeding, is worth the serious attention Of
the stock-raiscr.


Mechi, the famous owner of Tptrce Hall,
near London, thinks he has practically solved
this important question with open boarded
floors, which consist in laying joists from one
to two inches apart, according to size of ami
NAL, so that the ofal passes freely through in
to the receptacle below. The stable perpetu-
ally cleans ITSELF and leaves the animal as sleek
and smooth as in pasture. One man can
care for as many animals, on open boards, as
two men by the old system.
Year: 1870

Winter will not last forever,


Spring will soon come forth again,
And with flowers of every color,


Deck the hillside and the plain.
Lambs will soon in fields be sporting,
Birds re-echo from each tree:
Winters gone its days are ended,
We are happy, we are free
Hedge and tree will soon be budding,
Soon with leaves be covered Ger;
Winter cannot last forever,


Brighter days are yet in store
Sorrows will not last forever,


Brighter days will come again,
Joy our every grief succeeding,


As the sunshine after rain.
As the snow and ice Of winter


Melt at the approach Of spring,
So will our cares and trials,
Joy, and peace, and comfort bring.
When the heart is sad and dropping,
Think, though you be yexed sore,
Sorrows cannot last forever,


Brighter days are yet in store
Year: 1870

REGULARITY IS FEEDING SHEEP.-Thc ut
most regularity should be observcdn the times
Of feeding either store or fattening sheep, aud
in giving them just the requisite amount to
last them until the next feeding. If fpcrmittcd
TO waste hay, they rapidly acquire the habit of
doing Sol E., picking out the best and then
waiting, ,vcn though quite hungry, for anoth-
or feed.
Year: 1870

CoLTs.-lt is generally better 10 give TO
colt the liberty Of the yard, or fields, and have
a warm and dry shed or stable, well protected
by a screen from the wind. II you want to
make very large horse, shut him up and
stuff him. Ifyou want tough and seryicoa-
bic horse Of fair size, let him be more exposed,
and give him coarser food, with enough Of finer
feed 10 keep him IN good heart.
Year: 1870

FAvoRITE RAT TRAP.-Fill barrel in the
cellar, or where rats congregate, about half
full of water Nuke the cover a half inch
smaller all around than the inside of the top Of
the barrel. Drive nail or wire on each side
of the cover, exactly opposite each other, aud
itin the barrel, .othat a light weight will readi-
lY tip the cover. Put the halt on top, ina firm
way, and place an empty barrel or box near
by. have known dozen rats in a night to
he thus keeled into a watcry grave"
Year: 1870

The theory which the author of HAYDN" sets
forth at some length is the old one OF Truth and
Beauty being synonymous, of the poet requiring a
different order of faculties from the prose writer
and working under different laws. While We find
nothing in his ideas, or in his manner of stating
them, we heartily agree with his desire for better
forms of literary art and for something more
than has yet been accomplished toward infusing
ideality and spirituality into the present. There
is, nevertheless, something portentous in prefacing
a volume OF poetry with disqusition of this sort.
The nature of the poets vocation is pretty well
understood by readers as well as by reviewers, and
the author who comes with criticism of the pre-
vaent fashions of literature must be suspected of
belief in his power to furnish something better
substitute. Ii would not be unfair to Judge his
performance by the standard which he sets up.


We fear that HAYDN" will do not a great deal
toward infusing ideality into the present. 1t is
mOnOlOgue of near hundred pages, wherein num-
the sister OF the girl whom Haydn married narrates
her love for the musician, and the very inadequate
and unsatisfactory reasons why that love was re-
nOunced and two lives thereby rendered miserable
We are growing weary Of these everlasting conflicts
between Love and Conscience so-called) or Love
and Duty wherein Love always gets the worst of it,
There are very few cases in which Love is not
also Conscience and DHty but authors Especially
wOmenl in the habit OF crushing hearts and sac-
rifcng lives slight pretexts to an extent which
is really demoralizing.


Johanna tells us her own story, and in doing so
contrives TO squander all the sympathy which we
had prepared for her, in advance The continual
iteration of her love for Haydn is contradicted by
the heartless and whimsical manner in which she
treats HIM. In place of "A touch of natural affection
we have bit of doctrine polemical discussions
substituted for the expression of passion The tone
OF the poem is didactic, where il should have been
dramatic. 1t has been written with care and con-
science: the lines are labOred, and have now and
then vigorous fiber in them and the earnest effort
OF the author commands our respect. This is not,
With all ITS deficiencies, the work of an indoent,
sensuous mind giving itself up to the charm of
moods and passing fashions il betrays hearty.
patient nature, chiefly lacking the element which
gives grace and fuency to thought Here ia q pas-
sage which certainly has substance:


"Nould God" he said, that could make Won douh,


Then might you learn true faith Is there Of will


One wise effect which does not follow donbtt ""i


IL there once choice save from alternatives


Doubt comes with wayering Of the balances


Before the Weightber motive settles down


Let those who are 10 sure IN church, In heart


Solve me my doubt - dare 10 doubt OF them


whether they walk by knowledge or by faith


Aud here an0tLep
Year: 1870

Chow much less worldness," asked he, deem you


Pound In the Church than IN what u terms WOfldi


The prince of this world IL not nice In choice


or eauipages; where he cannot check .


he mounts the OF truth and graSps the rem


Aud If the devil drive, he drives toward nome


The shorter poems in the volume show the author
lack of the lyrical faculty They are constructed Oh
purely mechanical principles, and have no proper
reason for being. The bent of his mind seems 10 DO
didactic, and that alone. Therein he SHOWS 'iio
ability that comes OF taste and culture: III otner re-
spects we can only accord to him the merit due 10
sincere effort and good intentions. we are always
thankful for these however; Tor the better nme Oh
literature and art, for which we are all longing can
never come without them.
Year: 1870

We publish the following extract from
card of Auditor wickliffe; published in the
Bulletin yesterday morning:


The custom (for until last session of the
Legislature there was no law upon the SUBJ
pons by punching holes through them. and
pasting them in book kept for that pur-


The tremendous amount of these coupons
received by me, through the operation of
the one per cent tax, as well as the usually
large amount from other sources, made 1t
impossible for me to cancel and paste them
as fast as received, Tor this Is q laborloua
and tedious business.


], therefore, required my clerks TO put all
commons Id envelopes and seal them tip, and
( indorse the envelops with the name Of the
party from whom they were received, the
number of coupons and their total amount.
|. These envelopes, containing the coupons,
were then placed by me in large cash box
made for the purpose, and deposited in


bank, where they now are,


The amount being 50 large, il was my Id
tention to call the attention of the Legia-
lature to it, and ask that Joint committee
OF both Houses be appointed to examine and
count said coupons, and, after seeing that
my accounts were correct, to destroy all
such coupons by fire. But the Legislature
passed law upon the subject at it's last
session requiring me to cancel and paste
such coupons. and l have kept them de-
posted in bank, as the safest place I could
find, until the opportunity was offered me
to complete the work of canceling aud past
ing them.


These coupons are now in bank and
ready TO be delivered up to any responsible
party.
Year: 1870

One man with any trade is
worth a thousand without one.
A return to the old plan of
apprenticing boys to trades is
being advocated. The hosts
of young men in every large
city who apply for employment
and fail to get it, for the reason
that they cannot trpthfully af.
firm that they are educated or
specially fitted for any particu-
lar business, constitute a potent
argument in favor of REFORM
Under the apprentice system
we should have fewer ignorant
mechanics and incompetent bu.
siness men. A trade is half a
mans fortune.
Year: 1870

Many men are said to be
self-taught. No man was ever
taught in any other way. Do
you suppose a man is a bucket
to be hung on the well of
knowledge and pumped full ?
Man is a creature that learns by
exertions of his own faculties.
There are aids to learning of
various kinds; but no matter
how many of these aids a man
may be surrounded by, after
all the learning is that which
he acquires himself. And
whether he is in college or out
of college, in school or out of
school, every man must educate
himself. And in our times and
our country every man has the
means of doing it.
Year: 1870

scription, thus. showing nefl .ap
prsciationbf. the advantages te
.EbeS derived from the railroad
notwithptandi6g they live Oh
tlc great thoroughfare (tht
1Ohio river) and 8 or 10 miles
distant from the route of oul
road. And here I would beg
leave, in the name of the Com
pany, to thank the ladies Of
Gallipolis for the very liberal
spirit they have shown. Many
of them subscribing more lib
orally than some men that are
engaged in active and profit.
liable business. I am told that
there are a few men (very few
in our town who say they will
make large subscriptions when.
ever they are sure the road
will be built. l would ask
such how they would expect to
be assured of the building of
the road if everybody would
pursue the same illiberal, close.
fisted and selfish course? |
would rather see such men
come out at once and frankly
say they would like to have
the road and its benefits, but
that they want others to build
it. If Railroad building and
other public improvem ents de
pended upon such selfish pieces
of humanity it would be a long
time before we would have
them.


The Erie Road, New York,
was commenced in 1888 and
was pushed forward to its com.
pletion which was not reached
until 1851, thus requiring IS
wears to build it. M. M Green
Vice President of the Colum.
bus and Hooking Valley Road,
which | believe is IS miles
long, told me, in May last, that
they had been engaged in
building it six years and it
was not then quite finished
Now shall we be thus long or
longer in building the CALI
polls, Macarthur and Columbus
Road, Or will you show your
appreciation of its merits and
OF the necessity of the town
and country that exists for its
being promptly built, by sub
scribing for its stock or if you
have already subscribed, by
doubling your subscrip-
tions? 1t is entirely in the
power of the people to say how
soon the Road shall be built
Of the advantage and value OF
Railroads to the whole COM
munity there can be no dis.
pute or doubt. Their influence
can be clearly seen in the rapid
growth of those cities referred
to above. In the West, Rail
roads have deem projected and
built through unimproved dis,
tricts, the building of which
has been duly followed by EN-.
igration and the sides of the
Road soon lined with an enter
prising and thriving popula-
tion. Towns and cities have
been built in an almost incre.
dible short time, and such
roads are soon supplied with a
heavy and remunerative busi-
ness, both in freight and pass.
engers. Let all that can spare
the means to build the Road
subscribe, and let those that
have already subscribed add to
the amount to the extent OF
their ability, and they will not
long have to make the inquiry
whether the road will be built,
for they would soon see a strong
force at work on it. But until
the means to build it are pro-
vided for, it can not be done.


Respectfully Yours,


w. H. LANGLEY.
Year: 1870

cant lots, but adds largely to thi
amount of taxes to be paid
and instead Of attracting pQpu
latiop as the gas light%sBONYd
Bge heavy taxes are much morf
likely to drive it aVaN 81,
tiet Us build thsISaiIroad tc
Logan and adopt as low rates
for freight as can be afforded
and pay good dividends tc
stockholders, and by the time
the cars are ready to move
over the road, you will find
that there will be from its
start as much work as the road
can do, and at very low rates it
will pay heavy dividends from
the start, and you will find be,
fore the road is completed that
population and capital will
pour into the county, much of
the vacant land of the county
will be brought under cultiva-
tion, town lots will be sold for
dwellings and manufactures,
and business houses, and such
a tide of prosperity will be in
augurated as is scarcely dream
ed of by the citizens of the
county. 1t will not be like a
town through which a road
merely passes, this will be the
terminus of the road, and that
of one Of the great mineral and
coal roads of the country. In
less than three years from the
time it is finished it will be
passing over it more pig metal
and iron ore than any road of
its length in the State. Fur
naces will be erected here, and
the iron ore of Lake Superior,
Missouri, Tennessee, Pennsylva-
mia and our own State will CEN
ter here, and the splint coal
of the Kanawha Valley will be
used in smelling it unless Sic
mans plan of using the most
common bituminous coal should
be adopted. BY the time we
can get our road in operation
you will find the whole line of
the road from the crossing of
Raccoon to Logan filling up
with a mining population, for
the time is not far distant when
there will be almost a continu-
GUS mining and manufacturing
town reaching from the cross.
ing Of Raccoon by our road to
Logan. Increase of capital that
will be attracted to our county
will swell the tax duplicate and
thereby reduce the rate of tax
alton; business of all kinds will
be stimulated, the gas light
will be thrown on dwellings,
business houses, machine shops,
etc, instead Of Illuminating va.
can't lots; hundreds, if not
thousands of tons of freight
would arrive daily from the
interior, trade instead of com.
ing but 5 to 10 miles from the
interior would be brought 40,
so and Is miles. There is
nothing wanted to attract the
population to make'a large and
flourishing city of our town
but a Railroad, to be controlled
by the citizens between here
and Logan, to bring the wealth
of the interior at low rates to
this place, and to transport
supplies for the vast population
that will soon fill the mineral
belt through which the road
will pass.


There is an abundance of
means here and on the route to
Logan, if each will subscribe
what they are able to pay
without inconvenience. Rec
ollect from the time the road
is commenced it will take over
a year to build it, and in most
cases the increase in your busi-
ness will pay a large amount
if not all your subscription be-
fore it will be called for. lam
told that a farmer living s or
10 miles below Gallipolis, on