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Year: 1871

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From the Sedalia (Mo.) Times.l


The case Of George Gardner, of this
city, who as our readers may remember,
had his foot crushed on the III. X. and
4. II. r., sometime since, has given rise
to an experiment and n result in sur
gerry of great interest to the profession
and destined to command the attention
of scientific readers everywhere. A
report of the case will doubtless find its
way to the medical journals, but we may,
without impropriety, give an outline of
the experiment.


1t has always been difficult to cause
the healing Of wounds where any large
surface of the skin was gone, as nothing
but skin will produce new skin, and this
only for short distance (less than an
inch) around the margin. Hence, in
making amputations, it has always been
considered necessary to preserve flap
of skin to fold over the exposed end of
the limb in order to form q covering of
skin and good stump" But in Gard
ner's case the patient was too weak
to admit of amputation, and it was
question of life or death to save
the ankle joint and to form a skin cover
ing for the crushed and mangled stump.
This was done by wonderful process,
viz: by transplanting or grating on the
wounded part from time to time a small
portion of skin from another part of the
body. Pieces of skin, not so large as a
grain of wheat, we're taken from the pa
tents arm and grated on the lacerated
stump, where they took root, as it were,
formed nucleus for growth, and gradu-
ally spread till the whole surface was
completely covered with a sound and
new integument of skin, and the young
man has a good ankle joint and beau
tiful stump. The surgeon in charge
Whose name we are not at liberty to use)
does not claim to be the discoverer Of
this treatment, the credit of which is due
to celebrated surgeon of Paris-M.
Reverdin, we believe. But the present
case is believed to be the most clearly
defined and eminently successful one
vet treated in the United States, and as
such will undoubtedly excite much in
terest in scientific circles.
Year: 1871

touch it. And knew that my uncle was
gone, that the slow tide of the eternal
ocean had risen while he lay motionless
within the wash of its waves, and had
foated him away from the shore OF our
world. / took the hand of my aunt, who
stood like statue behind me, and led
her from the room-FFom WiLfrid


Cunlbermede, IN Scribners.
Year: 1871

A farmer living in Oxford County,
Maine, went down to a town not 8
thousand miles from Portsmouth, for
the purpose Of purchasing a yoke Of ok
en-, as he had been informed that there
was a lot of very fine stock for sale by
one of the wealthy land owners of that
place. Arriving in the best farming dis
trict of the Cumberland county town,
our friend met man driving an OK
team, of whom he inquired:


Can you inform me where Mr.. Wall
lives|


There's number of Walls live
around here. Which one do you wish
to findY returned the stranger, who
was stout built, keen eyed man, habit
ed in home spun, but bearing in genar-
al appearance unmistakable tokens Of
ease and comfort, so far as finances were
concerned.


Il don't know what his Christian
name is pursued our friend but he is
the owner of some very fine oxen


Well, replied the stranger, they all
own pretty fair Oxen.'


but the one I wish to find has oxen
for sale.'


AS for that sir, I guess they'd any Of
'em sell if they could get their price,


But exclaimed the Oxford County,
man, the Mr.. Wall I wish to find Is
quite wealthy


Yes; well, I reckon there amt any Of
them very bad of, replied the other
with a nod.


My Mr.. Wall, continued our friend,
hesitating, has been represented to me
as being very close listed man, and
not sorupuIously honest in all his trans





With a curious twinkle Of the eye,
and a general pat upon the paunch Of
his near OK, he said: TO tell the truth
sir, guess they are a close listed set all
around, and I never heard that honesty
run in the family. Isn't there some
thing else?


yes, replied the searcher for oxen,
desperately, they say he has been
caught in the act of rObbing his own
brothers. chicken-eOOp.'


The stranger bowed and smiled.


I guess Pm the man; come with me
and will show you as fine stock of
cattle as you can find in the State; and
if you know what oxen are, there is no
danger of being cheated
Year: 1871

simply IN partisan point OF VleWI am
not so stupid as not to know that every
outbreak of that kind only injuries the
party to which belong, only furnishes
the material for our opponents to excite
the passions of the people and to excite
the passions of Congress. l know it
full well; and if my voice could reach
every man who violates the law in the
South, and cold have potential influ-
enee with him, it would be addressed to
him in three simple words, Obey the
laws Such are my natural instincts;
and such is my interest and the interest
of the party to which I belong. There
is nothing to be gained by us by out
RACES, which only furnish our advesa-
ries with pretexts for passing acts of
legislation that but a few years ago
would have shocked every sense of lib
erty, of freedom, and of constitutional
law thot had an abiding place in the
American heart. -


I have said, sir, I believe, all that I
need to say; but I will say one word
more about these Ku-Klux. Mr.. Presi-
dent, the darkest page in English histo-
~ is that which records the bloody eX-
ecutiOns of the men whose heads fell
from the block orwho were swung upon
the gallowsby the oaths Of Titus Oates
and his colfederates fos completely in
an alleged Popish plot 1t was sufficient
at that day, in the infuriated condition
of the public mind, to assert that there
was plot to have it believed, to assert
that there were conspiratOrs to give
credit to the statement, and to point
the finger of the infOrmer at any man
to send him to the scaffold or the block.
That was the state of things there. It
may be. but I hope it is not, thes there
are some men in this country who think
that it is only necessary to assert that
there is a Ku-Klux Khan to have it nni-
versally believed; to assert that there
are conspirators and murderers in the
Klan to find credit for their assertion;
and to point the finger to man to have
lit believed that he is of the Klan. 1t
may be that there are persons who en-
tertain such sentiments, and who, be-
lieving so, and thinking all fair in poll
tics, are therefore at all times ready to
bring up this raw-head and bloody-bones
and shake it in the head of an alright
ed Congress and afrighted people. I
am not one of them.
Year: 1871

Across in my neighbours window,
With its drapings Of satin and lace,
see, meath a crown of ringlets,
A baby's innocent face,
His feet in their wee, red slippers,
Are tapping the polished glass,
And the crowd in the street look upward
And nod and smile as they pass.
Just here, in my cottage window,
In the rays Of the dazzling sun,
With patch on his faded apron,
Stand my own little one.
His face is as pure and handsome,
As the baby's over the way,
And he keeps my heart from breaking,
At my toilIlng, every day.
Sometimes, when the day is ended.
And sit in the dusk to rest,
With the face of my sleepy darling,
Rugged close to my lonely breast.
pray that my neighbor's baby,
Has not caught heavens roses, all;
But that some may crown the forehead,
Of my loved one as they fall.
And when draw the stocking
From his little tired feet,
And kiss the rosy dinlples


In his limbs so round and sweet,
Think Of the dainty garments
Some little children wear.
And frOWn that my God withhOlds them
From nstRe so pure and fair.
May God forgive my envy!


Iknew not what I said;
My heart is crushed, and humbled;
Ny neighbOr's boy Is dead!
/ saw the little coffin,


As they carried It out to-day;
A mothers heart is breaking


In the mansion over the way.
The light is fair in my window;
The flowers bloom at my door;
Ny boy is chasing the sunbeams
That dance on the cottage door;
Fhe rpses Of health are bIushing
On my darling's check To-day;
But baby is gone from the window
OF the house over the way!
Year: 1871

The question concerning the legality of col
lecting Foreign Miners Licenses from Chinese,
which is now under adyisement in the Federal
Court, is one of momentous import to the tax
payers and property holders in the mining coun-
ties of this State Could it be decided by the
opinion would be displayed than was ever before
exhibited upon any matter of public concern
Business men of all classes-except here and
there a catch-penny trader-and miners, espe
cially, are in favor of strict enforcement of the
State Law which exacts from the Chinese a small
bonus for the privilege of " taking away the
very substance of oar estate" Should the law
be abolished by legislative enactment or declared
void by judicial edict, then our rich placers viii
be despoiled of their treasures without any com
The Mongolan miner in no way profits or i'm
proves the country He has added nothing tC
its pecuniary, intellectual o. moral wealth. Hi
earnings, when living, precedes his bones, wher
dead, to the home of his fathers. He subssti
upon two bits per day and beyond that amount
every uOllaI WulCu REACHES HIS CIulCHeS CdL
plaintively sing


4" Farewell, vain world am going home'


Seyenty-fveper centum of the entire substance
which he extracts from the mines wends its way
to bourne within the great wall of China from
whence no solitary dime ever returns. Save the
Miners Tax, he pays nothing to support the
Government The census returns show that il
this county the number of Cinnamon is abou
equal to that of the white male population, ant
yet the income and property tax paid by the
former--who have twelve stores and many of the
best claims-is nfnitessimal when compared
to the latter. Neither threat nor entreaty, MOI
oath Of Assessors can reach their consciences
but through the medium of the License Law Of
the State their pockets and purses have been
touched and they have been made to disgorge a
portion Of their treasure pro bono puJlicO. The
money collected from them by this Instrumental


ty has done much to rescue from the verge o
bankruptcy the counties they have impoverished
and has relieved the property holder from tn,
burden of taxation that otherwise would be toe
onerous to bear. The decision is awaited will
much anxiety. AN INTERESTED OBSERVER.
Year: 1871

The fragrance such is of the ordinary toilet extracts
pass away in few moments aud lost forever but the de
cous perfume of the genuine MURRAY LAYMANs FLORIDA
WATER be removed from the handkerchief only by wash
ing.


E4 As there worthless countorfeits of this exquisite
perfume buy should always ask for the Florida Water
prepared by the proprietors, Lanman Kemp New York


300.
Year: 1871

history Of the Jews Il given that we mar the better


GODS pRssSscs IN ysH snI cegnNe
In contemporaneous history. And 80, looking at ouI
own history, 50 u Of proyldencea which Nigh! at
not necessary for to go back three thousand years
mat ne snail be rooted out at the last.
We can ma texts and illustrations enough
Of the power which has been SO dominant
In our midst Is q tnrice-tod tale. He would not,
therefore, treat oi tnat now hut would draw some
the first lesson which u illustrates Is inc Feasibility
oi wrongful success Men can rise by Ignoring con-
science, prnciple truth ana integrity. People now
ask now did sucn an


ORGANIZED SYSTEM OF INQUIRY


men, with so little intelligence come to control edu-
Gated and moral clizensa They disencumbered
they had not to step cautiously anu carefully as We
have, lest We joste others, VINO nave equal rights
~ q as sss way Is n two
name sus the sy1onyM q all that
3 ss srssssd the trends hand 1osi se ass
respectable name 70 Ss n1eS Sssen' IN by ns
readerh was LEFT up stairs. and that henceiort


and woOd 1 20 CS
three months ago. asked Mr.. Newton. that this mag
ni1cent structure q inlquity would pass away SO
far and wide but now 1t Is In ruins There Is moth
Ing more striking IN history than this utter failure
element or vitality In it. And ls Ia SO in all organ-
cations or wrong in Church and State You can't
point to single case where aa


has lasted into the second eeneration. Money rot
Ten BY iil-doing hath no permanency. II NAV build
beautiful structures, but there something in the
foundation which Is not permanent Tne mouse Is
not built upon rock, and the hand that builds
did not LOOK well 70 the foundations. Those men
among US nave done rs all other men
working inqulty have done-they put too
suit is crash. THIS Is The inevitable
result OF all systems OF tyranny. The French en-
pire for instance, founded fraud and usurpatiOn
had induced the world to believe Its stability; but
brilliant Fabric behold 1t falls, and that by the
hands oil Che builder The second lesson OF le great
uprising IS that wrongful success Is ruinously
bought at any cost, however brilliant for the time
being such wrongful success may seem. Would
y u, asked the preacher, exchange places with any
or those men to-day No. you would not You
can't part with selfrespect. Those men held up In
all


TIE LAMPOONS OF LITERATURE


not only Of this age, but Of the ages to come You
would not want TO be met by those who have given
the respect OF men ana Of God. IL is proper say
and TO believe tnat God respects honest ana true
man, ana this respect Is something which you
wound not give up for honor and fame such as those
instaiment The others will run on and
on into eternity. And we read In the ne S.
papers lessons worthy to be put the Book or God
concerning the nature OF wrongful success. IL Is
But 1t Is encouraging TO look the great popular
uprising ana see the Hand or God and to hear His
voice guiding those whose conscience is clear ald
smiling down those who do wrong. THIS Is the
law OF history. God does not square accounts day
by day, but He pays. The mills or God grind slowly
but they grind exceedingly small.
Year: 1871

There are lonely hearts TO eheris,


While the days are going by;
There ore weary souls that perish,


While the days are going BY.
But II smile we can renew,
As our jorncy We persue,
Oh. the good we all may do


While the days ore goiag by!
Theirs no time for idle scorning


While the days are going by;
Let your face he like the morning,
While the days are going by.
oh, the world is full Of sigbs--
Full Of sad and weeping eyes
Help your fallen brother rise.


while the days are going by.
All the loving links that bind us,


While The day are .-oing by;
One by one we icnve behind us,


While the days are going by;
BW the seeds of good we SOW,
Both in shade and shine shall grow.
And shall keep our heasis q glow,


While the days are going by.
Year: 1871

A PROSPEROUS Proposition of the
Richmond Wing, of making it democratic
measure OF reform to pay the South three
thousand millions of dollars for the loss of four
among the freedmen as a sop for their suffrages
We should remind our Richmond contempor-
ary that this thing does not tally with the new
democratic departure, the acceptance of the
new constitutional amendments; for the four
teenth amendment emphatically declares that
neither the United States nor any State shall
assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred
in aid Of insurrectiOn or rebellion against the
United States, or any cain for the loss or
emancipation of any slave; but all such debts,
obligations and claims shall be held illegal
and void w Y Herald
Year: 1871

At meeting of ex- Confederates at Hunts
vile, Mo-, Thursday, speeches we're made by
Governor Reynolds and General Shelby, and
at their instance resolution was passed that
it was the duty of all to turn their backs upon
the past and grasp manfuly the duties and
responsibilities of the future These are words
of wisdom which it will be well for the South
to act upon. Let Southerners act sensibly and
accept the situation in the same good faith as
haye the Missourians, and their section will
soon become the richest and most prosperous
portion of the Union.
Year: 1871

SYNDICATE.-Recent financial negotiations in
connection with the new government loan have
brought into use among us a term heretofore
unknown to our business circles. As it is said
that syndicate" has agreed to take the loan,
an explanation of the word is necessary. In
the French commercial law syndc is the
assignee of an insovent's s or bankrupt's estate,
and syndicate y is the body of assignees, or
syndics. But the real meaning to be attached
to the phrase is simply that of committee or
board Of directors, syndicate in the Euro
pean business world answering substantially to
board, cOmmitte or agency among us.
Year: 1871

TRAITS OF THE TNEs-The New York
ErpreSS has a sententious and pointed article
on the banefu love of luxury, dissipation idle
corrupt, merchants bankrupt, thousapds of
wives, and sons and daughters shams and
creatures Of fashionable folly. They sap the
life blood from old time integrity, and lead the
nation in the way of old Rome in the palmy
days of the Patricians. What is needed is
simplicity of living and simplicity Of life, in the
government in the State, in the city, in the
church, in the family, and in the hearts of the
whole people. Whoever beckons this way
points the road to not only better but hap
pier existence.
Year: 1871

ACCIDENTS IN WEST WARREN.-MrS, VIM.
B. Ramsdell of this village fell in a faintiug fit
Yesterday morning, as she was approaching a
window of her residence, causing her to fall
through the window and cut her neck badly
with the glass. Drs Carpenter and Hastings
were Immediately called, and after removing
several pieces of glass from the wounds, bound
them up, and as none of the great arteries were
severed it is thought she will recover, although
she bled profusely for some time. At last ac-
counts she was improving.


During the session of the cheese convention
in the new chapel OF the Congregational society,
one Of the chandeliers suspended from a sup
porter attached to the upper casing of onel of
the window frames, fell, hitting Mr.. Ross up
on the head near his eye, and shattering the
lamp into thousand fragments upon the floor.
DR.. Hastings dressed the wound, which is not
serious, but the matter would have been a very
serious one If the chandelier he'd fallen in the
evening" as it might as likely have done, while
lighted with kerosene. A social gathering was
to be held there last evening, of members Of the
church. 1t was found that the casing TO which
the supporter was attached had not been nailed
up, but only lightly tackled. The matter may
be considered proyid,ntial escape from sad
fatality which might have resulted at an eve
hing entertainment.
Year: 1871

GRAND CoNCERT.-The concert announced
for next Monday evening promises to be one of
the best given in Worcester for a long time
The well known ability of the director, DR.. Will
cox, is a sufficient guarantee that the perform
ancc will be one of real excellence. He brings
with him the full choir of the Immaculate Con-
ception of Boston, which he has trained with
great care and skill. The "Stabat Mater of
Rossin is one of their spccialties and those who
wish to hear that grand production of the old
maestro executed in an artistic manner will do
well to attend the concert. The "Stabat Mater
will form the first part of the programme
and a choice selection of classic music will be
given in the second part. Mrs. Smith, Miss
Adde Ryan, and Mr.. Farley (tcnor) are already
well known in our city, and Mr.. P. H. Powers is
such favolite in Boston, that we are sure his
fine style of singing will be much admired The
concert is to be given in behalf of literary So
ciety in Holy Cross college, and we hope to see
it well attended.
Year: 1871




tion.


If anybody suppOses that we are want
ing in respect for Mr.. Horace Greeley,
he knows little of the more than COM
mon affection andreverence which we
have always entertained for this honest
and noble man.


When, therefore, we say, as we frank
ly do, that the course Of the Tribune on
the woman question seems to US daily
grslvitatiOn farther and faster toward
the darkness of the middle ages, we are
not making n willing but an unwilling
criticism on n Journal which, instead of
being the chief hindrance, ought to be
the best help, to the cause of wOman's
enfranchisement.


Outside of the Roman Catholic church,
we do not know n man so backward in
his views, on all that pertains to the
status of woman, rs Mr.. Greeley. He
holds for instance, that there ought to
be no divorce at all-nOt for any crime,
even the worst. If his ideas on this sub
ject were moulded into the legislation
of the land, they would require the re-
construction of the statue-bOOk of every
State OF the Union, save South Carolina.
He holds, too, that if man marries and
his wife dies, there should be no second
marriage-on the ground that such a
union would eomplicate the marital re-
Iations of the original parties in the
other world-althOugh wiser authority
than Mr.. Greeley has taught Us that
ain heaven there IS neither marrying
nor giving in marriage"


I Mr. Greeley's unreasonable tenets on
these points, if they We're enforced by
civil statute or by public opinion, would
/ bear like CALLING despOtism on millions
of human hearts.


/ 1t is these views which underlie all
I the criticisms that the Tribune 50 ruth
/ lessly and rudely makes on Woman
/ Suffrage, and on all the social questions
connected Herewith. \ bitter fountain
cannot give forth sweet waters. Peo-
pie who imagine that Mr.. Greeley will
one day veer round to Woman Suffrage
do not understand that he must first


change his fundamental convictions OF


the proper moral relations which should
| suhsiSt between husband AMI wife
7 not only in this world but also in the
e next.


e Mr.. Greeleys notion of no divorce 70
d any cause, not even for adultery or an!
a other crime, and his twin notion OF II
g second marriage after the first Is dis
:, solved by death, are n brace of theOrie
e which, on account of their absurdit
e and folly, deserve to have no place l


the liberal thought of an enlightene
:, age, but which nevertheless have lei
e to the latter years of the Tribune bale
: ful conservatism which makes L
: sometimes think that its editor ma
e yet be tempted to end his life in a MOI
r, astery.


$ Mr.. Greeley is a man of 50 muc
T catholicity that we are impatient {
u seeing in him any taint of narrOwnes.


His proper place is at the head of tn
d progressive thought of the present ag,
e But on the woman question, he is nor
e hOpelessly wrong than any other of il
q opponents whom we have ever me-
s Our esteem for him is so warm and dee


that we would rather these words weI
e spoken of almost any other man. Bu
e he is a dangerous enemy to a eaus
ie which needs faithful friends, and W


have no excuse for not striking him


blow which he deserves.-T Iilton


Golden Age.
Year: 1871

What is Deathe I've asked my waiting spirit
This vital question o'er and o'er;
What is Death that mortals quake and fear il.
Aud cling SO closely to the earthly shore
Is it not a folding of the weary hands
In peaceful rest across the aching heart
4 silent breaking Of the earthly bands?
4 gently whispered summons 10 departs
What is Deaihs Isit a monster fierce.
With hidcons form and mien?
OH five could but for "A moment pierce
The clouds which gather o'er the great un-


seen,


When the dread messenger appears in sight
We would welcome him with outstretched


arms,


Seeing beyond this life beauteous light,
Where we shall rest, secure from all that


harms.


There is a solemn grandeur in the thought
That Immortality VIII some day fold
Her spotless robe round us, and we shall float
Ou; with the ebhing tide TO the untold,
Mysterious, grand and bOundless land
From whence no one returns; and we
Alone shall float, until the outstretched hand
Ofnever falling Love Divine We see.
There shall wc rest, and eye hath never seen,
Nor ear hath heard, nor yet the mind
OF man hath e'cr conceived, the wondrous


sheen


Ofjoys eternal which the Father of mankind
Hath laid up in that blessed spirit land
For those who love Him here and well we


know


That hight, nor depth, nor any earthly band
shall keep us from the Mighty one who loves


Us so!