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Year: 1872

out of him. became aware of another
fact, and that was that my best pants
were giving way.


About five miles we struck a water
melon \ patch and went straight
through. I could hear the melons
bursting under me like bombs; and
when we emerged from the further
side specimens of this fruit were
strung on the mules legs like beads.


A mile beyond this saw our excel
lent minister Of the gospel vending
his solemn way across the prairies
with wagon full Of infant Jacobs,
and saw also that unless he whipped
his horse Old Hundred to a most ex-
traordinary run, we would be into hinf
instanter. / pulled hard OH the near
rein with one hand, while / steadied
myself with the chain with the other,
but with no more effect than if had
taken u pull upon Pixies Peak. We
struck the parsons family about
amidships and went through. Inever
saw infant Christianity so scattered as
on that occasion.


I left the parson gathering up his
family, and continued until struck
the doctors fence, and went flying into
his front door with the blll-dog close
at my tattered rear. / knocked over
the cradle and upset the supper-tab1e.
The doctor came to my rescue with q
kick in the ribs Of his dog that sent
him with howl and a mouthfnl of
pantqloons into the yard. l then told
the doctor with one breath-all | had
left-that Araminta's little devil of a
brother was dying of too much water
melon.patch and wanted doctor with
squills.


We returned i'll about the same
style. The doctor having q younger
horse than my rival had been favored
with kept the lead, his pill-bags flap
ping in the air, while his coat t-tails
made Il straight line behind.


If his horse tagged any the mule
started him up again with a vigorous
bite on the rump that seemed to infuse
new vigcr into that medicated animal.
We passed my rival sitting on the
roadside nursing his off leg as if it hurt
him. He never came back, acknowl-
edging his defeat in the most gentle
manly manner.


The doctor soon put Araminta's lit
tie brother i'll % perpendicular posi-
ton, and that night at the bedside of
the little sufferer, keeping we'll to the
front. l proposed, was accepted, and
the happy day was fixed. / rode into
Araminta's affections on mule.
Year: 1872

umph of justice and magnanimity in
the end-the matter Of vital import
ance to-day is that the war shall end
by the recognition of the Southern
people as citizens and brethren. The
powerful organization Of the creatures
of the Administration is making des-
perate struggle to retain the control
of affairs, but the interests of the pub
lie are more important than the inter
ests OF the Office holders, and the
country cannot always remain the
private estate Of placemen. The en-
thnsiasm which greets and follows our
Candidates eloquent exposition of
these principles is the best evidence OF
the hold they have taken upon the
popular heart.
Year: 1872

An American writer ventures to saw that
Tor bold, open and systematic robbery of the
public, there has never been anything equal
to that seen at French summer resorts during
the present season.
Year: 1872

The walters who carry lunches to the
rooms at Congress Hall at Saratoga say it
would worry hired man to stow away the
corned beef and pork and beans that the
young ladies call for between their regular
meals Of water, ices and sponge cake.
Year: 1872

At recent performance in one of the
minor theatres, the imperfections of stage
management received a rebuke from the gal
lery as follows: ''We don't expect good gram
mar, but you might let your scenes meetr'


The following is the protest of the patient
editor of the Atlanta Weekly, against griefs
almost too much for that gentle spirit to con-
tend with: ''There's a lively specimen of
the genus Bore that haunts our sanctum,
and makes our life burden to us. We won't
mention names-but we ,uiH descend to per-
sonalities,' and if the individual alluded to
recognizes his own portrait, we don't care
He comes into the Office, we hear him in the
sub-editor's room, bidding bland good
morning to its amiable oocupant-we make a
rush to lock our door, and find the KEY is. of
course, on the outside. Before we have
time to make a. barricade with the coal-hod
and some chairs neatly inserted between the
door and our table, the Bore enters. A broad
smile OF exasperating cheerfulness is on his
cOuntenanes, and his Greeley hat is tipped
back at an angle that gives him a curious ex-
preston of unsophisticated benevolence.


Didn't expect me so early, did you?' is his
salutation. We generally try to achieve
feeble contortion of the facial muscles by way
of SMILE Pretty busy, eh% is his next
inquiry. We categorically reply, that
we are-that, as is usual with editors,
we have everything to do simultaneously.
whats the news% our Bore asks. We
hand him some papers, in hopes to obtain
A few moments of quiet. We endeavor
to write, while he keeps up a brisk volley
of questions and remarks. Time goes on.
The Bore doesn't go off. There he sits, with
hideous equanimity of demeanor. He takes
our favorite pen, to write an order to his
tailor, and spoils the point of that pen beyond
all hope of recovery. Then he calls our er-
rand boy to take the note to its destination.
Next he tells us all the unpleasant things
said about us by the editors of the opposition
paper, adding that he's sorry to hear that
we're losing so many subscribers. AT this
stage of affairs we don't reply, We only keep
on writing with the calm apathy of despair.
Finally, after a visit of awful duration, the
Bore gets up meditatively from his chair,
stuffs three or four of our most important ex-
changes into his coat pocket, with an assump-
ton of observation-disclosures and departs with
the encouraging promise that he will drop in
soon again and see how we're getting along.
We escort him to the door, secure the kew
and turn it in the lock with what little
strength we have left and sink exhausted
upon the nearest visible means of support"
Year: 1872

MILLINERY HEAD QUARTERs.-Ths present
extensive stock of millinery goods will be sold
at cost for the next thirty days to make room
for fall goods. Trimmed hats as low ss dollar


MRS E. HARPER,


131 Main street.
Year: 1872

A good deal OF interest is beginning


to be felt as to the course which the
members of Congress, accused OF being
bribed by Oskes Ames for the Credit
Mobilier, will pursue at the next session
of Congress. From the way Henry


Wilson, Garfield and others have
lodged these charges, it is inferred that
thev would prefer 10 let the matter
slide; but other members will demand
an investigation. Some, probably, be-
cause they are innocent, and the rest
because they will expect a whitewash-
ing report, like the Investigations Of the
last session in respect to the New York
carriage swindle, the sale OF French arms,
and the Secor claim. That committee
of investigation will be appointed by the
House Of Representatives is almost
certain; and it is hoped that public
opinion will force the selection Of Dem.
ocrats who cannot be corruptly used, as
a part of the committee. McComb does
not seek an investigation by Congress,
preferring to push the matter before the
Courts; but if it is brought up be will


be heard, and rscy developments will
be made, duplicating eminent parties
whose names have not been referred to.


1t may be stated just here that several
distinguished gentlemen are by no
means easy upon this subject, and are
looking forward to their inevitable eI-
posure with fear and trembling. There
are also one or two not yet implicated
Liberals-who will have to face the
music along with the great chiefs Of
the Radical party, whose names have
already been made public in this con-
Year: 1872

A New YORK Mail letter tells how a
Chinaman learned to smoke cigar
As the pufs curled out from his lips his
face was wresthtd in smoke a j smiles
He took it out and in sllverv accents
said, Him good" Here a pane and
more puffs of smoke, Him heap good. "
Another pause, and the puffs more rap
id, Hin bully heap good" Yet an
other pause, and he put one hand up
to the cigar. Him berry bully heap
good" Here both hands went up and
the silence was broken BY, Him big
berry bully heap good" And then a
change came over the spirits of his
dream as his face changed from pie
crust to dust and ashes, and things as.
sumed q tinge no longer celestial but
cerulean. until, with gesture indescrib-
able in its expressivenese, he slowly
epuuciated, Him. muchee muchee big
berry bully heap good, but me no berry
we'll here" Here be took of bis
washing basin, assumed an attitude in
dicstive of digestive disarrangement,
aud-lst history draw . vail over what
followed.
Year: 1872

God we are out safely. We are glad
we saw it yet once is enough.


After resting q moment We 90 to
where the waters are rushing through
a wooden canal built to carry them to
a neighboring stream. Five thousand
gallons of icy water each minute are
rushing through it. Three feet wide
and six inches deep, rushing down an
angle of forty degrees, this forms no
despicable creek by itself. What it
would be if the engine were working up
to its full capacity of seventeen thou
sand gallons per minute we can only
imagine. We do not care TO see it. So
great has been the power Of this huge
pump that all the wells on the farms
near this farm have been drained Of
their contents. The farmers have to
collect water in cisterns for their wants
and the care OF their stock. This is one
of the best watered countries in the
United States. This trouble Of course
will increase as the shafts 60 deeper
and the deeper water veins are tapped.
Irrigation will have to be resorted to, as
in arid climes.
Year: 1872

ST. LOUIS, October l5.-Senator
Schurz made speech at the St. Charles
last night, in which be said the Liberals
intend to vigorously fight to the end OF
the campaign; that there was nothing
in the events which would in any way
dampen the spirits of the men engaged
in the Liberal movement. He said If
Grant was reelected the country would
witness the most corrupt adminlstra-
ton it had ever seen. He denied that
there was freedom of election in the
South, and prophesied time when
they would have to fight fire with
fre force with force, and the country
would witness the deplorable results
seen in Mexico and South America.
He said four years from now they might
be forced to elect Grant for the third
time, and they would not be able 70
help themselves, for in that time he
would be able to elect himself
Year: 1872

A writer for the Turf, Field aud Farm
gives the following account OF the zinc
mines near Lanark, in the vicinity OF
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Three miles
from Lanark is the celebrated Lehigh
Valley Zinc Mine. The carbonate,
silicate and oxide are all found here,
and the purest zinc ore known is OBJ
tained from the shafts and tunpels. The
deepest shaft is two hundred and sixty
feet In depth, but the drifts run in every
direction. This part of the valley is
fairly undermined. Huge openings are
found in the earth, looking as if some
grand convulsions of nature had taken
place, instead Of being the result Of the
steady labor OF men in search OF wealth.


The greatest obstacle found in getting
out the ore was the accumulation OF
water in the drifts. To 30 great an eI-
tent did this interfere that after period
of heavy rains work was suspended.
To obviate this difficulty the company
some two years since erected the largest
pumping engine in the United States,
il not in the world. The cylinder Of
this engine is one hundred and ten
inches in diameter, with ten feet stroke.
The enormous iron castings were princi-
pslly run in Philadelphia. The great
est trouble was experienced in getting
the huge walking beams over the noun
tain to their final destination in the
valley. These were doubled on each
end OF the cross head OF the piston, and
each one weighed twenty-six tons, max
ing the total weight OF the walking
beams alone one hundred and four
tons.


The sections were transported on
wagons made by using car wheels and
axles, and forty-fve mules furnished
tho strength required to cart each one
to the mines. This huge piece of ma
chipery, in It's entirety, gives one a
greater idea OF the power Of steam than
ANYTHING we have yet looked at. Stand
ing a. it does q hundred feet above the
surface OF the ground, this huge beam
travels slowly up and down, and looks
and probably would be, irresistible to
ANYTHING that sought to interfere with
it's action. The whole OF this gigantic
machine workes noislessly and slowly.
Tuenty.seven pounds Of steam was
sending the enormous piston, whose rod
vas at least eight inches in diameter,
no and down 10 the cylinder, which
was ca large as an ordinary bed room,
without noise or creak. To look at the
en,ine. we little thought of the enor-
mons work it was capable OF until We
leecs ndei to the outlet OF the waters,
Tar below the ground upon which the
engine ie erected.


Going under the ground, in tunnel =,
for q hundred feet the earth showed up
ty whole trunks OF trees in mining fash
ion, We approach nearer and more
near the outlet Of the forced up waters
from their imprisonmeptin the buckets
Of the pump. The roar and rush Of
the waters increase as we draw more
closely, till We can hear nothing save
the gurgliug, groauiug splash Of the
saters as they come, dsshing into drops,
from the bowels OF the earth. Each
separate drop seems to shrek as it is
torn from it's fellow, and the darkened
air resoupds with its groaning. Conver-
saiion is impossible, and we hasten TO
DAYLIGHT once again, glad to leave this
abode OF murdered water sprites to it.
self We draw frser bresths as We
emerge into the sunlight, and thank
Year: 1872

THE HARPER HoUsE-Whe in Rock
Island we always feel thankful that the
Lord made Col Ben Harper, and that
Harper built the Harper House, Then as
if to complete the job, and fix it all up for
the convenience of travellers on this mum
dane sphere, Providence and Harper COM
bined, and Motion is installed as clerk.
We have spoken before of the hospitalities
Of the Harper House We never go to
Rock Island, but we we feel like singing
its praise, and do so with pleasure There
is no more pleasant hotel in the West
than the Harper House, and we are glad
to hear that it has been paying invest
ment ever since it was opened. Rock Is
land has reason to be proud of the public
spirited citizen, who invested his money in
the enterprise, and the travelling public


we believe, do fully appreciate the com
forts of the house. If any of our readers
go to Rock Island be sure to stop at the
Harper. p Carrot County Mirror
Year: 1872

UNLESS you wish a premature death
you will let all the poisonous hair prepara-
tons alone. NATURES HAIR RESToRA-
TIVE is perfectly harmless as any druggist
will tell you. See advertisement.
Year: 1872

PROGRESS OF THE REvOLUUoN. A
new light dawned upon the world with the
introduction Of Plantation Bitters twelve
years ago Drastic purgation went out
restoration and renovation came in The
eyes of the people were opened to the
great fact that the way to cure disease is
70 strengthen its victims, not to place them
at its mercy by depriving them of the little
strength they have 1t soon became evi-
dent that as means of infusing vitality
into the feeble system regulating the Sc
cretions, curing indigestion, and reforming
a bilious habit of body, no medical prepar-
alton then known was at all comparable
TO the new restorative Since then hun
dreds of attempts have been made TO rival
the Bitters They have all failed. and the
Grand Revolution in Medical Treatment,
which was commenced in 1860, is still in
progress Nothing can stop it, for it is
founded on the principle, now universally
acknowledged, that physical vigor is the
most formidable antagonist of all human
ailments, and experience has shown that
Plantation Bitters is a peerless invigorant,
as well as the best possible safeguard
against epidemic diseases
Year: 1872

From lands end TO lands end that all may read,
and reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who Or the road to an untimely grave
with bilious complaints there is but truly great
and reliable remedy, and that is
Year: 1872

Many women suppose that they love
when, unfortunately, they have not the
beginning of an idea of what love is
Loving TO be admired bya man-loving to
be petted by him, loving to be csrressed
by him, loving to be praised by him, is
not loving a man. All these may he
when woman has no power of loving
at ali they may all be, simply because
she loves herself, and loves to be flatter-
ed, praised, coaxed, as a cat likes to be
coaxed and stroked, and fed with cream,
and have war m corner. But all this
is not love. 1t may exist to be sure
where there is love-it generally does.
Love, dear ladies, is self-sacrifice; it is
life out of selfand in another. Its very
essence is the preferring of the comfort,
the ease, the wishes of another to ones
own, for the love we bear them. Low
ing is giving, and not receiving. Love
is not a sheet of blotting paper, or a
sponge, sucking in everything to itself
it is an outspringing fountain, giving
from itself. Loves motto has been
dropped in this world as chance gem
of great price by Him who said: SIT i:
more blessed to give than to receive
Now, in love there are ten persons in
this world who like to be loved, aDG
love, where there is one who knows how
to love. That dear ladies, is noble!
attainment than all your French, ant
music, and dancing. You may lose The
very power of it by smothering it under
a load of self-indulgence.
Year: 1872

The old red cent is rapidly passing
away out of the United States curren-
cy, and it will not be long before it will
be known in memory and numismatic
collections. Its history is a matter OF
sufficient interest for preservation
The cent was first proposed by Robert
Morris, the great fnancier of the Revo-
luton, and was named by Jefferson two
years after. 1t began to make its ap-
pearance from the mint in 1892 1t
bore the head of Washington on one
side and thirteen links on the other
The French ideas, which put on the
cent, instead of the head OF Washing
ton, the goddess of liberty-a French
liberty, with flowing locks, The chain
on the reverse was replaced by the
olive wreath of peace. But the French
liberty was short lived, and so was her
portrait on the cent. The next head or
figure succeeding this-the staid, class
ic dame with fillet around her hair
came into fashion thirty or forty years
ago, and her finely chiseled Grecian
features have but slightly altered in
the lapse of time.
Year: 1872

Can ycu afford tosmoke and chew
tobacco, thus spending from five to
fifty dollars a month, and injuring
your nervous system, and prevert-
ing your whole constitution, and
thereby transmitting to your chill
dren awakened constitution, thus
making them puny invalids for life?


Can you afford to burn out your
nervous system and demoralize
your whole character by the use of
alcoholic liquors?


Can you afford to indulge in hab~
its Of speculation, gambling, and
other tricky and mean modes of
making money?


Can you afford TO make money at
the expense of your manhood, your
morals, your health, your just re-
spectability, and your integrity?


Can you afford to gain even the
whole world and thereby make of
yourselfa a moral wreck?


Can you afford for the sake of
momentary amusement, 10 waste
your youthful preparatory years,
when by study you should become
q scholar, or by industry either a
tradesman or P. useful artisan?


Can you afford to rob your mind
to clothe your back with silks and
satins, and crafty a mere love for
display?


Can you afford to be tricky and
thereby defraud your employer of
the just services you owe him, even
though you do get your pay, thus
making yourself moral bankrupt?


Can you afford to be otherwise
than upright, truthful, faithful,
temperate, courteous, and in all re-
ispects correct?
Year: 1872

The New York Times inaugurated the
crusade of the people against Tammany,
conducted the campaign and won the
victory. Having thus got its hand in,
it proposes to rub up the gas company
which supplies the greater portion of
the Inhabitants of New York with light,
for its shortcomings. 1t is giving the
matter most thorough attention, and re-
ceiving the thanks of the oppressed
community, who have no other redress
for the swindles daily perpetrated upon
them. The Times has made its name a
terror to all evil doors.
Year: 1872

The Norwich Bulletin has the
following: "The other evening a
gentleman gave boot.black five
dollar piece, mistaking it in the dust
for cent. The boy discovered the
error at once and what did the noble
little fellow do? Quietly put it in
his pocket and say nothing? No!
spurred by a better impulse, he call
ed all his comrades and generously
spent every penny of it in peanuts
and lemon beer"
Year: 1872

Many people like newspapers, but
few preserve them yet the most inter.
esting reading imaginable is file o.
old newspapers; it brings up the very
age of its issue, with all its hustle and
every day affairs, marking its genius
and its spirit, more than the most Ia
bored description of the historian.
Year: 1872

In recent bull fight at Bilboa, Spain,
n velocipede was substituted for borse
by one of the picadors, with the most
triumphant results. Not once, we are
gleefully told, was this enterprising per-
former forced to dismount, and both
steed and rider came out of the combat
quite unscathed
Year: 1872

At the charter election in Jersey City
colored man named Aldridge poIlet
next to the highest vote cast, as one o
the four Justices of the Peace. This is
the first colored justice ever elected il
New Jersey.
Year: 1872

Ny first is in eat, but not in drink.
My second is in talk, but not in think
My third is in mouse, but not in rat.
MY fourth is in dress, but not in hat.
My fifth is in sister, and also in mother.
My whole is the name of my baby brother.
Walton, Mich. Iva SToDDARI
Year: 1872

In Tic Douloureux, rub Renne's Pain
Killing Magic Oil all around the ear, and
especially on the prominent face bone above
the ear. You thus reach the "fifth pair Of
nerves, which 90 to the face" and you use
it faithfully il soon cures.
Year: 1872

tton lands end to lands end, that all may
read and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions who are on the road to
an uusinsly grave With bilious comclaints,
there ia bat one truly great and reliable
remedy, and that is