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Year: 1872

DIDN'T WANT TO BE AN ANGEL.-A visitor
TO one of our Sunday school, short
time ago, perceived one little boy, cover
ed with perspiration Of buttons, singing
~ want to be an angel" with such vigor
and earnestness that he grew red in the
face. Watching for that boy to emerge
from the portals of the sanctuary, the
visitor called him aside. He told that
boy that he had observed with what ap-
parent heartfelt enthusiasm the scholar
had screamed out his anxiety to become
nm angel. The visitor told that boy
that he would give him half dollar
If he would say honestly II he wanted to
be an angel, aud ii not, what he would
like to be. The scholar looked solemn
Tor moment, clutched his half dollar,
so as to be certain OF that anyhow. and
said he believed he would like nothing
better than to be captain of canal boat.
1t seems to BE- wrong to compel these
ambitious children to tell fibs while they
are singing in Sunday School.
Year: 1872

PERPETUAL NOTION Petaluma


Argus. after full consideration, feels


justified in given the public further in


formation concerning the alleged discov-
cry Of new combination of motive
power; equivalent to perpetual motion. ;
The inventor is George F. Allen, of
Petaluma. He claims, ON admitted sci
entifc principles, that he can by a
mechanical application of hydrostatic
and pneumatic pressure produce ma
chine with greater capa city than steam
engine, aud one that will not only be
sef-acting, but that is capable of multi
plying its own capacity. In fact, the
only limit to its capacity is in the
strength Of material from which said
machines are constructed. The inventor
Is taking the necessary steps to secure
his invention, and oomplny is being
formed and will incorporate under the
style of Perpetual Motion Engine and
Machine Company" A small assessment
OF the capital stock will be levied to raise
sufficient amount to construct ma.
chine to test the application of this, the
greatest of known forces, and prove 1t to
be all the inventor claims--a great dis
covery or great humbug,"
Year: 1872

The noble manner in which some men
conduct themselves in the hour of danger,
was ILLUSTRATED recently in panic which
occurred on an East river steamer, caused
by an accident to the machinery, One
man snatched o life preserver from the
hands of a woman, and encased his own
manly chest with it, while another pro-
vided himself with six life-preservers,
and was in the act of putting them all on,
one over the other, when he was forced
70 deliver five OF them to women.
Year: 1872

How TO SLEEP.-We are often asked
for prescription for preternaturally
wakeful persons. The "high pressure"
principle on which many of our business
inen work their brains and abuse their
1iodies begets an irritable condition OF
ihe nerves, lid a morbid state of mind,
very antagonistic to quiet and refreshing
sleep. Such persons will often go to
bed weary and exhausted. but cannot
sleepi Of sleep dreamily and ftfully; or
lie awake for hours. unable TO sleep at
all. We have tried many expedients to
indnce sleep with more or less success.
and have read many recipes which proved
better in theory then in practice. The
very best method we have yet discovered
il that of counting. Breathe deeply and
slowly without straining effort, and, with
sespiraton. count, one, two, three. etc.
up to a hundred. Some persons will be
asleep before they can count fifty in this
manner. Others will count ten. twenty,
thirty, and then forget themselves and
cease counting. In such cases always
commence again ut once. Very few per-
sons can count one hundred and find
themselves awake, but should it happen
repeat the dose until curoa
Year: 1872

you are saying. It's hard shift to live
alone; l have found it so, rowing old
dog though 1 am. Do not say that you
will live alone, Lisbeth; rather than
that, I would even ask you to marry an
old fellow like me !"


What I said then I do not know,
what did do not remember. Like
one rescued from shipwreck, looked
into the face of my friend, and thanked
God.


And 80 it came about that we two
were wed. There is q little chapel down
by the we ter in that far island, a tiny
chapel without seats, and with a dim
flicker of tapers burning before the
shrine of the Virgin. There one morn
ing, before the sun was up, and before
the ship spread her homeward sails in
the harbor, wandering priest read the
marriage service over two strangers,
while the stout sonora and her dark
eyed little ones stood in a hushed group
looking on, and Liza looked in at the
doorway with her finger on her lips.
Year: 1872

your yard, and plant your seeds. Keep
the barrels filed with water up to the
holes, and you have all the requisites
for rapid, healthy growth,-air, heat,
and moisture. You can raise all the
vegetables you will need, in the greatest
perfection, and they will last until late
in the autumn, as they can easily be
covered on frosty nights. Cucumbers
and tomatoes may hang over the bar
rels, cutting them off when they reach
the bottom. Melons may be tied to the
wall fence. The stones have an impor-
tant service in holding up the earth,
and absorbing the heat during the day,
which they give out at night, keeping
the water with an even temperature.
You will be astoni5hed at the result if
you have never tried it.-PrGirie Far
meT.


To Tell Good PoaOder.-Place on asheet
of clean writing paper, about three or
four inches apart, two small heaps OF
powder, and upon firing one with a
heated wire, if it explodes with q good
report, and if no sparks fly off to ignite
heap number two, and if no specks are
left on the paper, it may be considered
as good powder. But if this fails, the
ingredients are impure, or they have
been mixed in the wrong proportions.
Hunter
Year: 1872

Recent cable dispatches convey
the intelligence that the price Of coal
is advancing in England, and that
",veIything connected with the coal
trade is higher" In consequence,
the ocean steamers have raised their
fares, and coal is beginning to be
imported from Belgium. The price
of this fuel, so indispensable to the
giant Industries of that busy island,
is said to have doubled during the
last year.


The cost of labor in the same
country has also considerably in.
creased within the same period, as a
result of the successful nine hour
movement. English manufactures
must, of course, be proportionately
advancing in price, and their power
to compete injuriously with the pro
ducts of our American mills and
workshops correspondingly less
ened.


Little doubt remains that the
foundation OF England Superiority
as a manufacturing country are
gradually slipping away. The best
coal beds have been worked down
almost to the limit of profit, and the
supply, if not already declined, is
incapable of further expansion
while the continual extension of
factories and furnaces is Increasing
the demand at a rapid rate
The English iron-makers have long
been importing ores from the Cont
nent, and now it becomes necessary
to exc out their supply Of fuel by
purchasing of Belgium. There Ia
Dor, too, is no longer so cheap as it
once was.


The time is not far distant when
the workshop of the world will be
transferred to the United States,
where not only fuel and iron ores
exist in exhaustless quantities, but
the greatest cotton fields are found,
and nearly every great staple raw
material abounds.
Year: 1872

After all, is the world so very alb


surd in its love of pretty women {:


Is woman so very ridiculous in her


chase after beauty? A pretty wo-


man is doing woman's work in


the world, but not making speeches,


nor making pudding, but making


life SUMMER and more beautiful.


Man has forsworn the pursuit of
beauty altogether. Does he seek it


for himself, ne is guessed to be friv-


olous, he is guessed to be poetic;
there are whispers that his morals
are no better than they should be.
In society resolute to be ugly there
is no post for an Adonis, hut that of
a model or guardsman. But womah
does for mankind what man has
ceased to do. Her aim from child
hood is to be beautiful. Even as q
schoolgirl she notes the progress of
her charms, the deepening color of
her hair, the growing symmetry OF
her arms the ripening. contour Of
her cheek. We watch, with silent
interest the Teveries of the maiden;
she is dreaming Of a coming beauty,
and painting for the glories of eight
cen. Insensibly she becomes an ar
tist, her room is a studio, her glass
an academy. The JOY of her toilet
is the joy of Raphael over his can


vass, of Michael Angelo over his
marble She is creating beauty in
the silence and loneliness. of her
chamber; she grows like any art
creation, the result Of patience, of
hopes, of a thousand delicate touch
ings and retouchings.


Woman is nevere perfect never
complete. A restless night undoes
the beauty of the day; sunshine
blurs the eYnnescent coloring Of her
cheek; frost nips the tender outlines
of her face into sudden harshness.
Care plows its line. across her brow;
motherhood destroys the elastic
Iightness Of her form; the bloom of
her cheek, the quick flash Of her
eye, fade and vanish as the years 60
by. But woman is still true to her
idea. She won't know when she is
beatens. and she manages to steal
fresh victories even in her defeat !
She invents new conceptions Of Fo-
manly grace; she rallies at forty,
and fronts us with the beauty of wo-
she makes a stand at
sixty, with the beauty Of age. She
falls like Caesar, wrapping her man
tie around her buried in wooden
twould 4 saint pFovoker' Death
listens pitifully to the longings of a
lifetime, and the wrinkled face
smiles with something Of the pretti-
ness of eighteen.
Year: 1872

Formerly a very large, well-known
and somewhat noted billy-gOat
roamed at large in the streets of
Washington, and the newspaper
boys, boot-blacks and street imps
generally made common game of
him. Henry Clay never liked to see
dumb animals abused or worried.
and on one occasion, while passing
down the avenue, a large crowd of
these mischievous urchins were at
their usual sport. Mr. Clay with
his walking-stiek drove them away,
giving them a sound lecture in the
meanwhile. AS they scampered end
scattered in every direction, Billy,
seeing no one but Mr.. Clay within
reach, made a charge ON him. Clay
dropped his cane and caught his
goatship by the horns. The goat
would rear up, being nearly as high
as the tall Kentuekian himself, and
the latter would pull him down
again. This sort Of sport soon be
came tircsome, and he could con
ceive Of no way by which he could
free himself from the two horned
dilemma, so in his desperation he
sang out to the boys to know what
to do. One OF the smallest in the
crowd shouted back: Let 60 and
run, you id fool!" Clay always
maintained that though he Signed
the treaty Of peace at Client, yet
that ragged boy knew more than he
did.
Year: 1872


A face may be woeful white to cover a


heart that's aching;
And face may be fun of light over a


heart that's breaking.
'Tis not the heaviest gr eff for which we


wear the willow
The tears bring slow relief which only


wet the pillow.
Hard may be burdens borne though


friends would fain unbind them;
Harder are crosses worn where none


save Christ can finC them.
For the loved who leave our side our


SOULS are well nigh Tiyen
But ah for the graves we hide have


pity, tender Heaven!
Soft be the words and sweet that sOOthe


the spoken sorrow,
Alas for the weary feet that may not
rest tomorrow.
Year: 1872

The pencil marks You see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription IS outand unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay mp at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, bat
cash alone win pay. expenses, and we
arc forced TO adhere to a strict cash.
rule. We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor


tx We enter no new names on our
books without the money in-adYanee.
Year: 1872

The law in England requires that
marriages shall take place before
twelve o'clock. Antiquarians as
sure us that the law was meant to
prevent marriages that might be
made up. in she evening, in the days
when no Englishman was supposed
to know what he was about. The
Englishman of the last century was
supposed, after his 8 o'clock dinner,
to be under the table, with drained
bottle in his hand Il was on that
account that the custom arose, of the
ladies retiring from the dining room
soon after dessert was brought on.
But this postprandially prostrate
fellow might arise, stagger to the
diningroom, propose marriage to
tie first pretty dame he met, and
command the services of the ever
present clergyman to tie the knot
forthwith. 1t was therefore enac-
ted that he should have an opportu-
nifty of sleeping OF the fumes of
wine, of passing the eve
ming promises under the morning
revise, in order that marriages might
really be entered into, as the prayer
book says, "discreetly and soberly."
Year: 1872

would not kiss the sweetest lip,


Unless it kissed me too;
As well go from tile rosebud sip 9lsfl-
The mornings clear cold dew;
Nor clasp hand, though soft and warm
Unless it pressed my own;
I'd rather love. the perfect form


Carved out of l'arian stone.
viii not worship eyes, though bright
And beautiful they be,
Unless they bend their loving light


On me-and only mes
| would not love a form that heaven


Itself had stamped divine,
If / bat dreamed that love was given


To other hearts than mine.
Year: 1872

~ pau wa NEADA-


About twelve years ago General
Grant occupied small farm near
st. Louis, the property of his father
in-law, and earned a scanty support
for himself and family as a shiftless
and sloveuly farmer, and by hauling
wood TO St Louis for sale-himself
driving the half-starved team. Ha


Nor was his poverty his worst
misfortune, deplorablc as that Ger
tainly was. He was at that time a
debased and apparently irreclaima-
BILE drunkard, and too often, with
the money for which he sold his
wood, got so drunk that he could
neither stand nor sit up, and had to
be tumbled into his wagon by the
police or some. sympathizing citizen,
and thus taken home by his docile
oxen.


He is now President of the United
States, after having filed success
fully the position of Commander-in-
Chief of the army through a large
portion of the time of tile terrible
war between the States, and is sup
posed to possess a fortune Of mil
lion of dollars.


IL there is a more wonderful in
stance of advancement recorded in
history, we do not remember it
PQducaL Nel0s. .r...
Year: 1872

friend, perhaps above all men in the
United States. He has also turned
his back upon the soldiers. What has
he done for them since the warY Who
fill the best Federal offices in this
State under bis connection with the
Federal patronage? Not soldiers; or
If here and there ono has received an
appointment, as in the case of Gen.
Gresham, he has most likely not been
recommended by Morton.


When | introduced bill in Con.
gress, by which every crippled soldier
as well as the widows and orphans Of
those who were killed in the service,
should have one hundred and sixty
acres Of land without being required
to settle on and improve il, did Gov.
ernor Morton lend helping hand p
Able bodied American citizens are en-.
titled to so much land because they
can work upon it. The worst suffer
ers by the war, tho wounded soldier
element in our midst, anu those made
widows and orphans, are deprived Of
this benefit on account of those very
wounds and losses, which have dis
abled them from farming, and have
made their wants and their claims all
the greater. Does not q public man
turn bis back upon the soldier, when
he refuses to him in his crippled con-
dition the same aid which is given by
the Government to the stalwart and
robust men OF tho country, who were
not in the war at all? Again has Gov.
Morton not turned bis back upon the
soldier in refusing to assist in equaliz-
ing tho bounties OF the early veterans
with the amount received by those
who served later in the war? 1t is a
shameful fact that the soldiers who
served nearly three years of the war
have received but $500 bounty, while
those who served but little more than
one year near its close have received
bounty of s400 for their services.-
Various efforts have been made in
Congress TO place them all on an
equality by paying the additional 500
to the veterans, who are entitled to
it. A bill for this purpose has passed
the House, believe, three times, but
has always been defeated in the Sen.
ate. Henry Wilson, now candidate
for Vice President, has all the time
been Chairman of the Senate Commit
tee on Military Affairs, and could have
secured its passage. So could Morton
if he had not turned his back upon the
soldier, and his face toward other sub
jects mere pleasing and profitable to
his ambition.


/ submit, therefore, that he is not a
proper person 10 arraign me or any
one else for turning away from the
past. II am re elected to Congress,
shall pursue the same course have
heretofore, only promising you great.
or industry in your service, in my at
tcntion towards the interest of my
constituents. ] know no party. If a
Republican applies to me for assistance
in his business, he will receive it as
readily as Democrat, without the
slightest reference as to how he has
voted. l hold myself as the public
servant of all the citizens of my dis
trict, as long as it continues me in
Congress Let this fact always be
borne in mind and let no one hesitate
TO act upon it.
Year: 1872

We are afraid of clover. We arc
afraid to raise it largely; afraid to feed
it extensively especially as main feed;
and afraid to plow It In.


This is wrong, very wrong; we arc
constantly losing by not growing
more clover; losing in many respects.
Clover, if we could only Impress tho
fact on the general farmer, is plant
that draws from the atmosphere and
enriches the land. Other plants do
this, but clover more; it has to do with
that most vital and important element
in manure. nitrogen, the very thing
that is the rarest and most difficult to
obtain. 1t improves the soil by its
roots alone, if the crop is used for
other purposes; this even if a seed
crop is taken. How much more ben
eft, then, ifa whole crop is turned
down containing so much nitrogenY
And you have tho manure without
working for it. The plant works for
itself and foryou. We get its strength
from free source, the atmosphere, the
great storehouse that gathers from all
sources, but most from the energetic
farmer.


And you can mako this plant work
for you on a poor soil. A little ma
nure applied on the surface will do
this; and if plenty of seed Is sown
there will be thick set. Then it
needs but chance with the atmos-
phore, and plaster will aid this great
ly. With warm showers there will
be growth almost surprising. 1t will
bc dense, fine stemmed and of fair
longht, depending somewhat on tho
season. Cut this when il begins to
lodge, which will be about the time
when blossoms appear, and then will
be avoided all rot or midew conse-
quent on long, coarse loading, and the
yieldwill surprise you-two and a-balf
or three tons, and such hay is not
made from any other plant. And
the second crop will be nearly or
perhaps quite as good as the first
Lire Stock Joldndl.
Year: 1872

Times.


There lever was time when money
and the means of living in sty lie to suit
our tastes, were quite as plenty as all
could desire. When money is plenty i;
takes a great deal of it to buy " hat we
want. When it is scarce, prices fall; but
gruInDlers will not be satisfied in any
event The merchant who properly un-
derstands his business will buy his goods
to suit the times and his customers.
These thoughts are suggested by looking
through NJ Becker s. Co S large stock of
seasonable goods, which they are selling
at such low prices that the scarcity of
money produces no effect upon their sales.
If more labor is required for one dollar
now than five or six years ago, more
goods can be bought for one dollar now
than could have been bought then. Mer-
chants must sell their goods at prices to
suit the times-and in order to do so
they must buy close and sell at small
profit Our merchants are beginning to
realize this fact, and many Of them are ta-
king advantage OF the columns at the Re-
PUBLICA,S to let The people of this county
know where they can get the best bar
gains.
Year: 1872

The person who wrote Look before
you leap" was in last night and said he
meant Look before you buy your goods, y
especially since Cofy has been Offering
goods so cheap at the Dry Goods ''Ba-
zaar." He shows his goods freely, and all
will find it to their advantage to cali on
him.
Year: 1872

THE aIsToRY OF A NATIONAL REMEDY Here is
in nutshell In 1850 it was announced that a GER
tain combination of vegetable ingredients, with a
pure diffusive stimulant working wonders In
the cure of chronic dyspepsia, nervous debility,
liver complaint periodical fevers, rheumatism and
constitutional weakness The unpreteRding name
given to the specific was PLANTATION BITTERs. Ihe
statement attracted the attention of invalids every
where The new remedy received 3 fair trial, and
the results more than confirmed all that had been
said in its praise. Thence forward 1t was gran1
success fhe business columns of the press spread
the glorious news far and wide, and the martyrs 10
indigestion, biliousness, physical prostitution and
premature decay, as If by common consent. sought
relief from the new vegetable restorative. They
found what they sought From that time TO the
present the increase IN the demand for Plantation
Bitters has been OF the most striking events In
this age.
Year: 1872

TAKE Simmons Liver Regulator regularly,
enjoy health yourself and give qualification
TO those about you.


You will have cause to bleSs the day you
heard Of Simmons Liver Regulator.
Year: 1872

AN observation-disclosures persons are
stealing as much of the name of DR.. Price
Cream Baking Powder as they dare, in
order to sell--on the strength of its srspusA-
sion. See that DR.. Prices name is on the
box
Year: 1872

mittee on Military Affairs and could have
secered its passage. So could Morton, If be
had not turned his back upon the soldier
and his face toward other subjects more
pleasing and profitable to his ambition. 1
submit therefore that he is not the proper
person to arraign me or any one else for
turning away from the past. If am re-
elected to Congress / sh:.ll pursue the same
course have heretofore, only promising
you greater industry in your SER
vice. In my attention to the wants
of my constituents, know no party. If
a Republican applies to me for assistance
in his business, he viii receive it as readily
as Democrat, without the slightest refer
ence as to how he voted. hold myself as
the public servant of all citizens Of my dis
trict as long as it continues mei Congress.
Let this fact always be borne In mind, and
let no one hesitate 10 act upon it..