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Year: 1871

SO carefully he took me in


But, oh those happy days have fed


And if he comes to see me now,


On him I'll surely put head.


So said, or rather intimsted u lady, who
called at this office yesterday with little
child in her arms, aud told story of how
her sweet William had married her for his
fifth wife and had cruelty deserted her, and
left her six children orphans as far as his
parental care Is con pcerned, and that he was
now living with a divorced woman in Rock
Island while she labored hard to keep the
family together in their little home uesr
Moline. We are not divorce court, nor an
arbltor of domestic wEongs We would
like to see sll woman-kiud happy and have
no objections to publishing this sweet VIM 8
obituary and rsoouutiDg his dark deeds OF
desertion Gnl faiIhlessness, provided all IS
true that is said of him. Ia fact We rsthe r
delight in exposing ell first class rascsls
wIo will deliberately steal away the affec-
tons Of widow with FIVE children and then
cruelty desert his little flock for the smiles
OF divorced woman William we have
your name, and the name of her by whose
eyes you are now swearing eternal fidelity,
We have hesrd one side of the story, come
aud see Us or we shall think il true. Mean
time don't go near the deserted wife and her
SIX little orphans, because she inumsted
that unrequited love does sometimes turn tc
hate, woman wrcnged, a woman scorned
will sometimes pull mans back hair. She
says if yod call upon her she'll put q head
on you sure.
Year: 1871

The VARIOUS CoLoRs OF DIAMONDS Few
people are aware of the many gradations OF
color through which this precious stone ranges


nor are they CogniZant of the effects these tnts
have on the commercial value Of the stone. Ol
course the first place is accoT ed to what is
called Il diamond of pure water This means a
perfectly coloreSS stone free from every posi-
bic shade. Perhaps the lowest place is given TO
Il yellow stOne though there is a peculiarly
ruddy brown, most delicate meance, which
amateurs especially plizc. The reasons for low
ering the standard of the yellow diamond are
simply the law Of supply and demand. If 1t
resembles slightly the tint Of the tobaz, it has,
however, an inherent fire and brilliancy which
make the humber topaz 70 become absolutely
dim by comparison. The diamond known as
the Austrian yellow of 1895 caras, is
OF this nature, but unfortunately so deep
in tone as to somewhat impair its fire.
The blue diamond, where the azure of the
sapphire is combined with the natural lustre of
the diamond; the roSe-colored, initiating the fire
OF the ruby; the green diamond, riyaing the
emerald, are rarer shades. When these cOlOrS
are intense, when the depth of tone is positive,
they become raritieS of untold price, and are
fan stones, on which no positive value can be
placed. Milky stones, with black diamonds


save for the industrial arts, have as ornaments


no especial worth. Some very remarkable eX-
perments have been instituted in order to
change the color OF diamonds. 1t would be a
secret worth untold fortunes could we succeed
in even depriying yellow diamond of its un-
popular tint. II was supposed at one time that
this could be effected through the agency Of
heat. Faint yellow stones by long subsection
10 the furnace heat, were convertible into pale


rose-colored diamonds; but unfortunately after
a certain lapse of time they slowly but surely
resumed their original tint For the United
States, where all the foreign stocks are especial


ly culled for gems OF only the purest water


colored diamonds are rarely il ever to be seen.
Year: 1871

1t must not be forgotten by those of
It's who shared in the Democratic battles
of the past, that since the last national
victory was won in 1856, many thou
sands of young, active and enthusiastic
men have passed the threshold of mi
nOrity, to fight with us the battles of
the future. Each successive year has
added vigorous reinfOrcementS to the
party, trained indeed to the same po-
litical faith, but not to the same polit-
zeal questions, that then agitated the
country. They have graduated from
the same timc-hOnored schools, but
under somewhat varying circumstances
from those which surrounded their pre-
dcccSSOrS, and those who are now in
clincd to hesitate upon full commit
nfent to the changed condition of pub
lie affairs, should bear in mind that
some Difference is due to the young men
of the country who are rallying to our
standard for the great contest Of the
coming year. Theirs has been Il differ
ent experience from that of the old
Democratic school. They have had nc
ancient associations broken up-they
wear the medals ofno by-gone victories
to them, the questions that were de-
termincd by their fathers in other days
possess indeed traditional inspiration,
but the issues that nerve them to action
are only those coming under their inn
mediate cognizancc. They live and
move in the present, and grasp the tl,l-
ties that press upon them on every
hand, without reVerting to the past for
methods or material of warfare.


1t Is not too much to say of this
strong, resolntc arm, that it is to bear,
in no small proportion, the brunt of the
campaign before us ; nor is it in any
wise derogotory to the age and wisdom
of the party to credit the young De
mocracy with a bold, clear-hcahcd con-
ccptiOn of the crisis. They have been
reared to manhood during moro than u
decade of Radical rule. They have
been brought in direct contact with its
every form of miSgoHernment. Their
opinions have been moulded and
strengthened in successive defeats
they have no retrospect of victory with
which to create regretful diversion of
their energies. Their Judgments are
wholly untrammelcd by the political
complications of earlier days. They
had no share in the memorable strug-
giles that came to an end in 1886. Born
of Democratic lineage, but in II new era,
educated to Democratic principles, but
tiit1l liz" IlltStS VI lllclE stnpllCsttloH,
they enter the arena knowing but one
party, and that the party in power
recognizing but one issue, and that the
necessity of rescuing the country from
the ruinous grasp of Radicalism. Let
it not be said of this class of men that
they are too fast, or that there is RASH
ness in their resolution. None know
better than they the work that needs to
be done, and none will do their share
of the work with 4 nobler or more dis
interested patriotism ~. IouiS Times.
Year: 1871

The friends of New Orleans will be
happy to know that the floods are re-
ceding, and that the city will soon be
herself again. The suffering thousands
have been promptly relieved by the
noble spirits of the city and friends out
side. Provisions have been gathered
and distributed by the thousands to all
those who demanded immediate atten-
ton. In the hour of suffering, danger
and peril the people of New Orleans
have no equals in the world. They
scatter money and material profuscly,
and endanger life freely to rescue the
humblest from danger and pain. This
is a noble spirit, and should be cNer-
cised not only in emergencies like the
one now in the city, but should arouse
that people to such action as will pro-
tect themselves from future floods.
Year: 1871

The New Orleans papers for few
! days have furnished their readers almost
daily with one or more articles each
about the usurpations, absurdities and
rascally doings of the individual known
as ParsOn Conway, our State Superin-
tendent of Education. We know of no
man upon the face of Gods green earth
so unworthy of even one such notice as
is Superintendent Conway, the object
of the aforesaid rebukes and denuncia-
tiOns of the New Orleans press. He is
not only insensibIe to every sort and
degree of insult and utterly Indifferent
to the severest invective, but he even
takes pleasure in being the object OF
such manifestations of Southern anger
and "rebel' detestation. He longs to
wear the crown of Il martyr to Southern
displeasure. Like the heathen Chinee
who was willing to sell his life for one
hundred dollars, Conway would "die
and go to help if he believed he could
secure Il perpetual claim to monthly
denunciation by Southern newspapers.





iaginous cur feeds upon, and why,
therefore, crafty his appetite: What
he purposes doing with the public
schools, he will unquestionably do, un-
less restrained by Il fear Of force, or the
dire calamity of losing the field where
in he is now displaying his assinine
parts and where is the use, to the dis
gust of decent people, of sounding in
their ears day by day the offensive cog
nomen of this disgusting marplot, par
ticularly when that is just what the
filthy creature Graves" We beg of oul
contemporaries Il truce of Conway litera-
ture. Ifa man is to be impaied on their
pen nibs, let him have some decency,
or some little claims to be written down
rs good as an ass.
Year: 1871

onstrated. We beg that you cease your
foolish thoughts, and return quietly to
the plough, the shovel and the hoe.


We exhort our people to forget and
forgive, and all labor for the prosperity
and peace of the country, ever bearing
in mind that this is white mans gov
ernment, and the whites will finally
rule over the damnablc corruption O.
carpet-baggers and scalaWags.
Year: 1871

We notice that thegreat Chattanooga
road, or the one more familiarly known
as the Stanton road, is under seizure by
several different parties, and for Il time
VIII likely be suspended. In fact it
has been forced into bankruptcy. We
suppose it will matter but little with
the people of Alabama, and the travel
ing public, how much litigation they
may have if they will only let the iron
horse run
Year: 1871

EGGS BY WEIGHT. T.--Whcn eggs are
worth from six to twelve cents q
dozen, it is a matter of no great i'm
portance whether they are large or
small; but now as they range from
forty to fifty cents per dozen, there
is an item worth looking after in
selection. There is nearly differ
ence of half in the amount of meat
to be found in different lots of eggs
on the market, and justice can never
be done the purchaser until they
are sold by weight. Eggs weigh
usually one and half pounds per
dozen, and at forty-tive cents per
dozen are expensive meat. When
sold for breeding purposes. the pre-
sent custom OF counting may be the
best. There would be an advantage
to the producer resulting from Q
change rs above suggested, rs well
as to the buyer, for then every
breeder of poultry would seek such
breeds as would produce the great.
est number OF pounds in eggs, while
now a hen which is prolific is profit.
able-the object being to get mum
Der, not size or quality Ohio
Farmer.
Year: 1871

A beautiful black color may be i'm
parted to copper by first cleaning it
with sand and sulphuric acid, and
then applying a liquid prepared by
dissolving two parts of ordinary
white arsenic in a mixture of four
parts OF hydrochloric acid, one of
sulphuric acid, and twenty four OF
water.
Year: 1871

At last some attention is about to
be paid to the grave of General Har-
rison at North Bend. Petitions TO
the Legislature Of Ohio are now be-
ing circulated TO enact law to ac-
cept a plot of ground and suitably
improve it.
Year: 1871

The LAST CArAsTRoPHg oS TIE MIssIssIPPI-
Woodruff, the second clerk Of the steamer MeGin,
which Was burned under such dreadful circuu-
stances on the Mississippi the other day, in his
account Of the disaster. says that the scene was
one Of indescribable horror. The thirteen Mex
lean passengers were burned alive in their
rooms. Men. women and children we're scream
ing, and rushing TO the forward part Of the boat
crowded il 10 such an extent that many were
pushed overheard, while others frantic with
fright, Jumped overheard and were drowned.
Some. while in the water, clung to the sides 4
the boat and were chilled so badly that wlen
yawls Of the boat we're sent 10 their relief they
could not make sn effort 10 save themselves.
Some ttn OF fifteen were lost in this way. Others
threw overheard cotton bales and planks, and
plunging in after them tried TO reach the shore,
but the wind being very strong and the water
intensely cold, they persisted. One negro saved
himself by clinging to the tail of a mule which
carried him safely TO the shore One white man
clung to 4 cotton bse. when two negroes seizing
il the bale turned ard all three were drowned
Another man Was on q bale Of cotton, and was
carried by the eddy Immediately under the
guards Of the burning steamer, where he was
compelled to keep his body under water and
saved his heal fIOm burning BY throwing water
over H.
Year: 1871

would be to imbue her with a sense of the
saeredness Of an engagement First, last
and always is the obligation to keep her
word. lie who shall abide in the tabernacle
OF the Lord is he that sweareth even to his
own hurt and changeth not. Do what YOU
say you will do. Come when YOU saw YOU
will come. 90 when you promise to 90.
Be as slow as you choose about making an
engagement; refuse altogether to bind your
self, if you will; but, when you have bound
yourself, let nothing whatever induce you to
break the bond. If you have engaged to
teach school at FIVE dollars a week, and find
afterwards that you can get another school
at ten; if You have engaged to do house.
work at two dollars week, and another
place Is offered you at three; if you have
contracted to do a certain quantity of ma
chine-sewing at two cents yard, and learn
presently that your next neighbor is doing
the same sort at three-you may represent
the case to your employers and get a release
from your engagement il you can; though
even so much one should be slow to do. But
without such a release you should no more
withdraw from your bargain than you should
drown yourself The wisdom of the bargain
is not thing to be taken into account. The
fact Of the bargain is all you have to consider.
DO your work promptly and thoroughly-as
promptly and thoroughly as ifthe times were
brilliantly satisiactory-and make a wiser
bargain next time but this debt paw to the
uttermos. farthing, as scrupulously as if you
were sent into the world for nothing else.
Year: 1871

A Western young lady insisted, the other


day, on new right" She went into her


brothers room and Sound pOcket-pistOl lying


on table. She examined ii and her limited


experience told her it was not loaded. She went


into an adjoining room, and pointed the weapon


at a newly married couple They sbiured her
to lover the weapon but she refused to do it, and
then they got out of the room and went head
first down long pair Ofstsirs. The young lady
then went into her mothers room and pointed
the pistol at every person present, frightening
them nearly to death, and once absolutely
snapped the trigger of the weapon She was
finally secured and the thing taken away from
her after which her cheeks we're souudlv
cufed, as they should have been, though she
persisted that the affair was merely Joke.
When her brother came home, however, it was
discovered that the pistol ,cds loaded all the
time ; when the young lady took to weeping and
Mysteries and was put to bed There is Lesson here;
but it is useless to give it. People will plsy with
dangerous weapons, and when they kill other
people nothing will be done toward their punish
ment 1t is probable, however, that the Young
lady in question will never, hereafter, touch
pistol without frat stuthng the muzzle Of it full
'f handkerchief, in order to keep the load iu
Year: 1871

by q fresh growth Of mushrooms,
to be burned as inevitably as were
there predecessors. Not only are
they putting up the rude structures
necessary for shelter and business,
but elaborate, extensive, and expen-
sive blocks, with tar roofs, wooden
walls, and every characteristic OF q
box of tinder, minus the box. In
one place they are finishing what
is called marble block" which is
q coarse brick structure, with thin
vaneering, on one side, of some kind
of whitish stone; and nearly one
third of this veneering is being COW
cred with wooden warts, called bay
windows, so elaborately fllagreed
as to remind one of the poultry
houses which enthusiastic gentle
men farmers used to build, in the
crisis of the hen fever. That love
of cheap decoration which can in
duce men, in the awful shadow Of
death and desolation which hangs
on this city, thus to add to the fu-
ture risk of life and property, is q
mania which should subject the pa
ntient to the restraints of legal guar
dianship.


A large and respectable party in
Chicago are struggling against the
tide of public sentiment, and seek
ing to procure the passage of such
laws as will bring future security;
but, thus far, they have been de-
feated and overpowered, and that
human sympathy which flew on
lightning pinions to comfort the
houseless should extend the further
aid of q moral sentiment which shall
defend Chicago from future and
fast impending destruction. A very
little common sense on the part OF
insurance companies would have
spared us the last great fire and
saved them from bankruptcy; and,
if local causes operate to prevent
the people here learning the lesson
of the great fire, there is no reason
why those who look on from dis
tance should be blinded by the
smoke. Let the civilized world come
to the rescue, and help this infatu-
ated people to learn the lesson the
All Father is teaching to the world
by their suffering and sorrow and
tears.-Independent.
Year: 1871

press car. Not seldom robbery
was accompanied by murder.


"No national being had any
doubt as to the authors of these
acts. The universal instinct, strong
er oftentimes and more unerring
than legal evidence, pointed to the
members of single family and
their confederates. But every effort
to secure the execution of justice
was fruitless. If the suspected were
arrested, there was always a way of
escape. Sometimes alibi would be
Overwhelmingly proven BY witnesses
prepared to swear through a stone
wall. If there were inconvenient
adverse witnesses they were spirited
away or bribed to absent them
selves, or, if sensible to reason or
persuasion, they were put out of
the way by violence. Persons were
found murdered, against whom
there was no grudge or ground of
offense save the fear that they
might prove impracticable wit
neSseS.


"At last the Hoosier spirit arose
"a spirit patient, sluggish even,
but when aroused acting in tremen-
dous earnestness and irresistible, as
was eminently proved in the war.
Another robbery of al, express car
had taken place, and three men
charged with the offense were on
their way by the cars to the coun-
try Jail, to be tried and again
released; and again, it may be, to
retaliate on all who had been active
in their arrest. A body of citizens
stopped the train, took the men
from the cars, and hanged them
from the beech tree. Later, three
more, under precisely the same cir
cumstances, were hanged to the
same tree. 1t was a ghastly incident
of the affair that the tree stood
within q stones throw of q little
house in which one of the prisoners
had been born. His last gaze before
he swung off into eternity was fixed
upon the door about which he had
played in his innocent childhood.
Year: 1871

Brother Jonathan has the reputa-
ton of being inordinately fond OF
fruit-ripe, healthy fruit. which
falls when it is ready to be eaten.
He likes his cider and his apples
his pears and his melons-and has
quaint style of his own of waiting
for the former until they fall on his
own premises, when he disposes OF
them at his leisure. He had one
bloody struggle to secure slice OF
foreign territory, to reach over a
neighbor's lines and pluck that
which, had he been patient, would
have fallen on his own ground and
become legally and peaceably his
own. This experience has made
the Yankee nation prudent and
wary. Hereafter it will wait un-
til the fruit it desires is ripe, and
falls where it will become ours by
the right, not of warlike wrestling
from its original stem, but OF peace
able possession by the logical events
in the progress of nations. There
are two pears even now ripening
and almost ready thus to fall 1t
is only q question of time as to
when we shall have Mexico and
Cuba. The inexorable laws Of COM
merce and stern geographical re-
lations are certain to give US Cuba
lit will fall as naturally into on,
possession as the ripe fruit ON the


limb which extends over q neigh


boris territory. Spain is constantly


rudely shaking the tree. Storms


are brewing which will wrench i


from its roots, and the Cuban peal


will fall into Brother Jonathan''


lap before he is aware Of it. Thus


with Mexico. That pear is ripen


ing very fast Our railroad ex
tensions are having wonderful in


fluence on the fruit, in bringing q
nearer and nearer annually t.
where it grows. To acquire Cub
! and Mexico, by the logical cours
of events, biding our time as Go
directs the progress of human affair,
is getting the fruit when it is rip
, and ready for consumption. Blu
when it is plucked and devoure'
3 before it is ready, sickness csnvul
t sion, diarrhea and death are srr


to follow. Let us wait for the psal
\ until they are ripe, holding ou'
+ selves in readiness to pick them q
4 as soon as they fall-Daily Sta
{ journal.
Year: 1871

Come, list to a song for the Harvest;
Thanksgiving and honor and praise;
For all that the bountiful Giver


Hath given to gladden. our days.
For the grain and the corn in their plenty,
For the grapes that were gathered with


song,
For pumpkins so brave with their yellow,
They had lived upon sunbeams SO long
For cranberries down in the meadow,
And the buckwheat that famed on the


hill,


And blueberries tempting the children
To wander and pick them at will.
For the peaches that blush through their


pallor,


Or glow like pretty quadroon,
As they dream of the sun in the morning,
Or welcome his kisses at noon.
For the sweet-smelling hay and the clover,
That sweeten the breadth of the kline;
And the apples that fingered, as dreading
The dir and the light to resign.
And not for tie fruit-harvest only
We offer our thanks and our praise;
Not less have the leaves and the blossoms
| Made brighter and better the days.
The leaves that delight with their green
ness,


That soften the heat with their shade,
And nestle so crisply in autumn,


To startle the lover and maid.
For the blossoms that whiten in May-timt
The ground, as with snow, as they fall
For the fowerets that whisper theil
meanings


In cottage and Lovel and hall.
Ave, thanks for the harvest Of Beauty!


For that which the hand cannot hold
The harvest eyes only can gather


Which only our hearts can enfold!
We have reaped it on mountain and moor
land;


We have Cleaned it from meadow an


lea;


We have have garnered it in from tn


cloud-land;


We have bound it in sheaves from tn


Sea.


And thanks that the whole of the harves
Is not for the children of men;
That the birds and the beasts are remem


bered,


The dwellers in river and fen;
I That He giveth them meat in due season


And heareth their cry when they call
The tiniest, weakest among them,
i The hugest and strongest of all.
But the song it goes deeper and higher;
n There are harvests which eye cannot Sc
: They ripen on mountains of Duty,
! They are reaped By the brave and Il


free.
:, And these have been gathered and ga
nered;
l Some golden with honor and gain,
1 And some as with hearts blood mac
4 ruddy.


The harvests of sorrow and pain.
e Alas for our pitiful singing,


For all it has lasted SD long,
The half of our rupture and wonder
Has not been expressed in our song.
But he who is Lord of the Harvest
The Giver who gladdens our days
e Will know if our hearts are repeating,


Thanksgiving and honor and praise