VOL. 44.
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WILLIAM W. DOERIS, Attorney-at-Law, 402 Pen ii
street, Huntingdon, Pa. [inar.l6,*77y.
fl CALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. 111, 3rl street,
I . Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods &
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TA R. A.B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services
11 to the community. Office, No 523 Wiu3hington street,
one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. ljan4,'7l
DR. has permanently located in Alexandria
to practice his profession. [jan.4 '7B-Iy.
V C. STOCKTON, Surgeon Dentist. Office in Leister's
ljs building, in the room formerly occupied by Dr. E.
J Greene, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl2B, '76.
CEO. R. ORLADY, Attorney-at-law, 405 Penn Street,
Iluutiugdon, Pa. [n0v17,'75
L. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T. Brown's new building,
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July 18, 1879.
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May 3,1875
DR. J. J. DAHLEN,
GERMAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office at the Washington House, corner of Seventh
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HUNTINGDON, PA
April 4, 1872
DR. C. H. BOYER.
SURGEON DENTIST,
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Apr.4-y
HUNTINGDON, PA
R. M'DIVITT,
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FAT FAMILY, DEEP SEA Al\D MESS,
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above brands as being very white and fat, and we are cor:fileut of their pleasing in
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working plow in the world. Notwithstanding the great advance in material we offer
at the old price!:.
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FOR MEN, - BOYS AND CHILDREN, at prices that (I,!ry competition
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NOTIONS. BOOTS, SHOES,
GROCERIES, Etc., Etc., Etc.,
In fact everything you want for the FARM, SHOP, or FAMILY can be had at
HENRY & CO., 732 AND 734 PENN STREET.
-NEW GOODS !-
Respectfully infOrms the public that he has just opened a large stock of
in the room lately occupied by Geo. W. Johnston Co., corner of 9th
and Washington streets, in West !milting-don, consisting in part of
3C) CI Ck
NOTIONS, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS,
GROCERIES, QTJEENSWARE, GLASSWARE, WOOD
AND WILLOWWARE CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS,
STAMPING
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Country Produce taken in exchant;c for goods at highest market price.
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expect a share of public patronaTo. [apr23-tf.
THE FINEST GOODS TE LOWEST
In the room lately oemtpied by. G-rafaus the south-west corner of the Dia-
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, TRINEVIIINGS, LACES,
HUNTINGDON, PA
HATS AND CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, QUEENSWARE, Etc His stock
of GROCERIES embraces everything in that line, and every artivla said will be just
as represented. His terms are
STRICTLY CASH, OR ITS EQUIVALENT IN COUNTRY PRODUCE.
He will do his best to please von. Go and see him, examine his goods, bear his
prices, and you will be convinced that ROLLER'S is the place for bargains.
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BEAUTIFUL GLASSWARE,
By the piece or in setts, of the newest style., in great variety, has Leen added to the e!egant stock
of .`,itaple and Pitney Groceries at
F.
CASH &
Handsome setts of GLASS as low as i 3 ets. The place to buy QUEEYSW'ARE by the piece or in
setts, is at F. 11. LANE'S STORE. Handsome TEA SETTS consisting of 46 pieces of White Stone
China, can be bought for $4, at F. 11. LANE'S low price store.
A large stock of choice Mackerel, consisting of Deep Sea, Extra Shore, New Fat, slid all the best va
rieties anal numbers known in the market. Also Large Roe and Lake
lierring, Cod Fish and :Shad in season.
F. 11. Lane does not buy or sell short weight packages of Fish. You do not want to buy salt at Fish
prices. CANNED GOODS, including California Choke Fruits, Evaporated and other Dried Fruits.
Green Fruits, Foreign and Domestic. All kinds of ch.ii3e TEAS, from J 5 to 20 cents per quarter,
Good Sugar from 8 cents per pound to the best Maple Sugar in bricks or granulated at 13 outs per
pound. SALT MEAT, FLOUR, NOTIONS, CONFECTIONS, WOOD and WILLOW-WARE, and
in short, about everything to he found in a first-class Grocery and Provision Store, can be bought at
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HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1880.
Eljt (;_eiotutr.
Jim.
Being a I",teran U??;611 Soldier's reply to Rev. J.
H. Lozier, the Indiala Fighting Parson.
DY .1. G. HAMLIN
Well, parson, I've heard your whole lirgo,
And you talk like a man as knows how;
But as far as your giving the glory
To Grant, why, we can't have a row.
You've a right to vote and to talk, sir,
For whichever man suits your style;
But this fact you'll please to remember,
I shouldered my musket, a white.
Why, dog-on it, my friend, just lista',
And I'll g ive you my views, which are plain ;
I don't think it 'mounts quite to treason,
For a veteran to shout for Jim Blaine
He's "Union," you bet your sweet life, Juhn,
An' he's stalwart enough all around ;
He's grit—well, the Brigadiers found it
Sixteen ounces, full weight, to the pound.
When the dark cloud of war was upon us,
Grant rushed to the front, like a man;
He gave us his brain and his muscle,
To clean out the traiterous clan.
Right royal he fought for the Union;
But let's reason the thing for a while;
What could our Ulysses have done, sir,
If not backed by the rank and the file ?
Well, we showered the honors upon him,
Till we almost forgot all the rest—
We elected him twice as ou- President,
This siient, brave man, of the West;
All over the world he's been honored,
As the grandest, the noblest, the beet
Of all modern heroes ; so, parson,
Supposing we give him a rest!
We stood by our noble Ulysses
At the front, when it tried true men's souls;
And for eight long years thereafter.
We stood by him firm at the poll 3.
Yes. the vets honor Grant, and have done so,
From the Gulf to the rough coast of Maine—
They have stood by him twice with t heir votes, air,
but now they wi.l stand by Jim Blaine.
Jim stood in the halls of our Congress,
Like a "Plumed Knight" of days that are past,
And the Brigadiers witnered before him,
Like weeds in the whirlwind's fierce blast.
He has led our great party to triumph,
And he'll lead it again, I've a whim;
So, parson, you may shout for Ulysses,
But allow me to "whoop up" for Jim.
He's the "leader of leaders," and you know it;
And parson, what are you to gain
By calling us "sutlers" and "borne-guards,"
We Republican vets that talk Blaine ?
It ain't going back on Ulysses—
A man whom we've voted for twice—
To say that our choice is for Jimmie—
And we'll put him in slicker'n a mice.
So, call us "anti-third shriekers,"
And "boys never heard of before ;"
Or "feather-bed soldiers," and such like,
Who never "smelt powder" in war.
Who are you, and what is your record,
Who thus brand our brave boys in blue,
That ain't led by a Don or a Roscoa ?
Our records are open to you.
When in war, we followed our leader,
Wherever he led—won't forget;
We are now mustered cut of the "service,"
And we go as we please, John, you bet !
But we're going for Blaine, first and last, sir,
And all the way stations between ;
Arid we'll whoop up the grandest old victory
That, parson, yon' ever have seen.
4.174 c ‘c*torg—Etlier.
DIVORCED.
BY V. SAVELL
They had been man and wife for fifteen
years; for fifteen years had kncwn and
borne joy and sorrow together ; had expe
rienced the rich blessings of fatherhood
and motherhood ; had wept over a dead
child's face together ; through sun and
shadow had walked together—and now
they could no longer find peace under the
same roof; they were to be divorced.—
Neither knew how they had come to this.
In the beginning there had been affection
and delight; but after a time the husband
began to compare his wife with the other
women, and found that this one possessed
a brighter eye, and that one more perfect
curves of cheek and chin, and yet another
a neater foot and more taste in dress; one
sparkled in conversation, and het' neighbor
sang till the heart was enthralled at her
tones; why had not the woman he had
chosen all these beauties and charms ?
And she ? She did not at first compare
him with other men, but she wondered
that he seemed to care less for a kiss from
her, and that his manner lost the same
fine, impalpable air of courtesy and defer-
ence that love evokes. But the little rift
within the lute was there, and it slowly
widened through the years till all the mu
sic that began when they first loved had
become mute—until one night. they sat
full of memories of the past ecstasy that
once we felt, when life .vas an atmosphere
of confidence and love ; and these two,
brooding over the evening fire, made no
exceptions to this hard rule. The children
had felt constraint, and a vague sorrow
that was like a burden on their hearts; so
they crept to bed, and did not whisper as
was their habit, but lay close to each other
and wondered, in a childish way, at things
they could not understand. The wife was
mending the clothes, as she had done, week
after week, for fifteen years. The rocking
chair vibrated or stood still, as her thoughts
moved her soul only. She carefully re
frained from glancing at the still figure
across the room, and kept her face calm
and indifferent. The husband roused at
last from his thoughtful posture and
looked at his wife. Something in her at
titude recalled th 3 girl he had wooed,
when he had felt he must win or life would
not be worth living. He looked again,
and seemed to see the face that had bent
so anxiously over him when the fever
burned in his veins and his life lay in the
balance. The power of the past was upon
him, and when lie spoke it softened his
voice to a minor key :
"Do you want all the children. Martha ?"
She ie!t, her heart almost stifling her,
fir she had thougl - 4 of the children con
stantly, and longei. to know what arrange
went would ba make.
-I would like to have them all, Ben, if
you are willing, but I have tried to learn
to part from some of them."
-You can keep ,hem all. I did think
I would take Bob and go to the mines, but
I expect he is better where he is."
Martha Grant said nothing, only looked
at her husband, and then hastily left the
room.
He dropped his head in his hands and
sat quite still. It as not so easy after all,
this severing of the intricate growth of so
many years '
• and he felt that the future
did not look so fair, nor freedom so de
sirable as be had persuaded himself to be
lieve. His children had often felt the
force of his auger, and he had sometimes
felt with envy of the nonchalant liberty of
his bachelor friends; but now he felt more
pangs than he liked to entertain when the
final parting from his children stood before
his vision like a perfect drawing. His
wife might not be he fairest or most ac
complished woman ne knew, but she had
loved him, which ~here women had not,
and she had borne many things for his
sake which they perhaps would not have
borne ; and lie was used to her and her
wals. Hr atways knew that if he tried he
could rouse her sympathetic interest in his
troubles and in his successes. Other women
m;i.. , ht be ugly, but could he, with his gray
locks and sober ways. ever hope to win
them ? And would a fair woman, tender
and delicate, be suited to take upon her
self and successfully carry the burden his
wife would have to bear ? Martha had
been a brave. strong woman, and iu al► her
trials—aid they had been not a few—she
had been patient as most women. Of
curse her temper had flamed up at times,
but had he always been mild ? She had
sometimes seemed weary and disheartened;
but had he not also questioned destiny and
longed for a different fate? Well, it was
likely that most people had times of dis
satisfaction and when their best friends
looked ugly and disagreeable
Poor Martha ! she was somewhere Tylw,
crying because she was to keep all the
children. how queer women were ; they
cried if they did not get their way, and
cried if they did. Martha left her hus
band's presence and went to the bed where
her two girls were sleeping. Their faces
lay on the same pillow, and the slight
fingers of one clasped the baud of the
other. Their expression was the relaxed,
solemn one of deep slumber; and the mother
stood hushed, looking at them and vaguely
wondering where her children were—if
these were they, or did they wander in
some unknown land that the dreamer alone
may enter ? Would they ever stand as sbe
stood and gaze at their children asleep,
while the husband and father sat in another
room ready so break away from them as
from some dark evil ? So she slept beside
her sister the night belbre her wedding.
day, and drea•ned of the coming hour that
was to crown her queen of one heart of
life. So she slept for many nights after,
close within strong arms that were to be
her tower of help, and against a breast that
had promised to be her shield against all
changes. how proud he was or Bob, the
first boy, as the little shapeless thing
opened its blinking eyes and gave him a
vacant stare. No glance from the eye of
beauty ever thrilled him as did the mean
ingless gaze. She would not think longer,
but, kissing her girls, and going to Bob's
bed for another look and kiss , she went to
her room.
In the morning the family met around
the breakfast table, but with the constraint
and lack of cheerfulness. To-day Mr.
Grant was to leave the home that had for
so long chafed him with its viewless chains.
lie was to leave his wife and children, to
see if the world could not yield him more
pleasure than lay in his power to bestow.
His wife had carefully prepared his clothes.
and various little packages for his comfort
were stowed away where he could not see
them till he was far away. She had grown
so used to caring fir him, you see When
the hour for parting came he shook his
wife by the hand, and we will not look at
their faces nor peer too curiously into their
hearts The children were too frightened
and awed to cry, and besides they did not
really comprehend that their father was
leaving them forever. It is so difficult for
chi;d`►ood to understand final farewells.—
They kissed him, and put their soft hands
up to his shoulders, forgetting past pain
inflicted by him, and remembering only
that father was going away for a long time.
-Be good to the children, Martha," was
all he could say as he turned to the door
and stumbled over the threshold.
"I will do the best I can, Ben ; and you
will take care of yourself ?"
"It doesn't matter about me. I'll get
along. Good-bye."
lie drove away, and they watched him
as he went. Well, the world never could
be the same again, and nothing—not even
eternity—could erase the memory of what
had been. No matter what the coming
years held for them, they would never for
get this day, and the husband and father
who left them for another start in life.
And can he ever forget the past and
those who will never wait for hi 4 return!
Ile may die in a strange land and they
know it not. They may be laid away to
sleep and no tidings of the change reach
him. Each now has freedom and liberty
to form new ties ; but what avails liberty
to the one who is in chains to memories
that nothing can lay to rest ? We see
these things every day, and let each one
judge for himself if they be good and
profitable things.
csclat
Beautiful Woman.
The perceptive faculty of woman is
usually keener than the same phrenologi
cal organ in man. Woman knows, or
strongly believes, that beauty rather than
genius is worshipped by the sterner sex.
A man may talk of the latter to his lady
love; but the keenness of the woman
knows he is thinking of the former in his
heart. Women have an .innate desire to
please their beaux. They are fond of ad
miration, hencd one of their lcngings is to
be beautiful, to be called pretty, handsome.
The grand secret of female beauty is
health ; the secret of health is the power,
the appetite to eat, digest, assimilate a
proper quantity of wholesome food ; yet,
in connection with this, there is something
more important—active exercise, which
will cleanse and tone the vital organs, gain
a perfect digestion, and produce a state of
mental and physical electricity which gives
symmetry of form, bright eyes, white skin
and glossy hair, in fact a genuine type of
female beauty and loveliness which no cos
metic can ever produce.
Deadening Noises of Workshops.
To those who carry on any operations
requiring much hammering or pounding,
the following, from the Workshop Corn
panion, will be a great relief : 1. Rub
ber cushions under the legs of the work
bench. Chambers' Journal describes a
factory where the hammering of fifty cop
per smiths were scarcely audible in the
room below, their benches having under
each leg a rubber cushion. 2. Kegs of
sand or sawdust applied in the same way.
A few inches of sand or sawdust - is firbt
poured into each keg; on this is laid a
board or block upon which the leg rests.
and around the leg and block is poured
fine dry sand or sawdust. Not only all
noise, but all vibration and shock are pre
vented ; and an ordinary anvil so munntei,
may be used in a dwelling house without
annoying the inhabitants. To amateurs,
whose workshops are usually located in
dwelling houses, this device affords a great
relief from annoyance.
FORWARD and loquacious youth—"By
Jove, you know, upon my word, now—if
I were to see a ghost, you know, I should
be a chattering idiot for the rest of my
life !" Ingenuous maiden (dreamily)—
"Rave you seen a ghost ?"
&WHIRS for the JOURNAL.
How to Keep Well.
THE PHILOSOPHY OP COMMON SENSE AS
APPLIED TO THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE,
At the recent meeting of the Luzerne
County Medical S.ciety, Dr. Harry Hakes
read a paper on '-The Future of Medicine,"
from which we make the following inter
esting extracts :
The prevention of disease is a matter of
higher consequence than the mere ability
to cure, and here, if failing in the latter,
and successful in the former, we will have
but little to regret. Improved habitations,
better clothing, mere liberal and better
cooked food, temperance societies, more
cheerful religious thought, labor saving
machinery, personal cleanliness, all minis
ter to and add their quotas to improve the
condition of mankind. At the instance
mainly of your profession, we behold with
pride the various hospitals here and there
throughout the length and breadth of the
land, fur the alleviation of the human suf
fering and misfortune, the blind made to
see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, the
sick and wounded tenderly caried for, and
the lunatics restored to reason. But in
this very civilized and fashionable age,
with all its boasted superiority, we must
not forget that we breed new troubles and
ailments. Defective sewerage, neglect of
sanitary laws, etc., especially were people
dwell in towns and large cities, develop
maladies that from time to time challenge
your skill. But here again observe, an
ounce of prevention is worth more than a
pound of cure The enormous increase of
insanity in our country deserves more than
a passing notice. The unprecedented devel
opment of the popular mind, the overstrain
ing of inventive genius, the red-hot polit
ical excitement, and often the crude ex
travagance of religious ideas, but above all
the rage for the supposed luxuries of sud
denly acquired wealth, and the heroic but
futile attempt to make poverty look like
wealth, all these are feeders of our lunatic
asylums, and breed material for suicide or
self destruction. At present, insanity is
the meter that gauges the velocity and ex
tent of our civilization.
Surely you ought not to be expected to
cure all these cases with drugs or potions.
Nor will you. A people must be mad in
advance to rush on until closed upon by
the doors of the lunatic asylum, and thus
demand or expect cures certain at your
hands Here again prevention is the true
remedy, but you, gentlemen; must advocate
and prescribe the remedy. Not drugs but
a more moderate, reasonable, and prudent
use of brain power. Your advice must be
bold ani emphatic. Of cause, gentlemen,
you must have observed how much more
satisfactory it is to your patients, and with
what artfullness they endeavor to have
you patronize and honor them in their de
lusions, superstitions and whims. Never
theless, at the sacrifice of their good opin
ions, your bounden duty is to overleap all
error, falsehood, and deceit, and publish
those truths which they must obey, as
much as you. You may think I am laying
out much heavy and thankless work. Bet
ter abandon the profession than its neces
nary care and labors. You must be bold
enough to say to those who are overtaxing
the capacity of brain or muscle, hold; and
to those who labor less than nature re
quires for good running condition, get up
and go to work. These two items of ad
vice, if heeded, will cure a very large num
ber of your imaginary patients. Verily,
there are fashions in imaginary disease as
well as in weddings and funerals. To Adam
the Lord God said : "In the sweat of thy
face shalt thou eat bread till thou return
unto the ground." Gentlemen, your bus
iness must have shown you that this sen
tence or decree was most merciful and sal
atary. Though not expressed, it is im
plied to meet every individual son or
daughter of Adam. Not alone this, but it
is a condition precedent to the healthy ex
istence of every living thing. Not alone
this, but the air we breathe and the water
we drink must have constant, ceaseless
motion or either becomes our poison. The
legislative authority prescribes a very few
sanitary regulations, and makes a feeble
attempt at regulating the marriage rela
tion, and making provision for the support
of the poor, and those wanting or bereft of
the special senses or sound mind. Gov
ernments and the best interests of society
undoubtedly are interested in the general
and mental health of the people and the
healthy vigor of the coming generations.
The habits, occupation, and training of
the young men is a matter of lively con
cern. That they may grow in manhood
with sound bodies, and pure minds, with
Christian, manly deportment, schooled and
engaged in some honorable remunerative
and useful employment, gives hope and
promise of improved succeedin,t-genera
tions of great and good men. habits of '
industry, economy, and frugality are mat
ters of the very first consequence and con
sideration. But as men and boys alone are
of co consequence in the world, your at
tention as men and physicians is unavoid
ably directed to that heaven sent help
meet, the department of females, without
whose presence men might say in the des
peration of grief and despair, like Cain,
"Our punishment is greater than we can
bear." Sometimes, notwithstanding, we
hear of individual grievances But most
seriously, gentlemen, what kind of wives
are the girls being educated to become, to
work in harmony with our ideal young
men, for as often as she proves a failure in
her vocation or sphere of wife, your un
fortunate man might as well hang a mill
stone around his neck and jump into the
sea. I doubt if it be possible for the suo
cessful young woman to entirely escape the
pains and penalties their grand-mothers
endured and paid for health, happiness
and prosperity Those less favored in fea
ture sometimes say of those more fortu
nate that "beauty is only skin deep." Oth
ers may say that the finest tints are even
less, together with much other of modern
protuberances and appendages, intended
and well calculated to deceive. Advise
that no good young lady is deceived to
marry a brute of a husband, and that no
good and worthy young man is decoyed,
or befooled into a marriage with a walking
drug store. Strange as it may seem, the
follies and vices of modern life, which are
incompatible with health, contentment,
happiness and longevity, are the most pat
roamed by those who can best afferd and
ought to be the patterns and models of
true manhood and womanhood. Will you
tell me, gentleman, that it is none of your
business to attempt to rectify the errors,
fashions, and foibles above indicated ? Of
all others you are the conservators of' the
general health, the physical and mental
well-being of mankind For this your
profession is established, aed for the faith
ful discharge of your onerous but honora
able duties you ought to he paid. Why
, 11 rad a man ',or nay for health, rather
than for being cured of disease ?
The Sergeant's Story.
Told in the Graveyard of a Frontier Military Poet.
"I tell you, pard, in this Western wild,
As a general thing, the dirt's jist piled
I❑ a rather promiscuous sort of way
On top of a soldier's mortal ciay ;
An' a person'd think by that marble shaft,
An' the flowers a-wavin above the 'graft,
That a Major-General holds that tomb—
But the corpse down there wore a private's plume.
"I remember the day they swore Mead in;
He was pale-complected an' rather thin ;
He'd bin what they call a trampin' beat,
An' enlisted for want of somethin' to eat ;
It's always the case that a new recruit
Is the butt o' the tricks from the older fruit ;
An' the way the boys tormented the cuss
Was real down wicked and scandalous.
"He took it all with a sickly smile,
An' said if they'd wait till arterwhile,
Till he got fed up in some sort o' trim,
It mightn't be healthy to fool with him !
An' I knowed by the look o' the feller's eye—
Fur all he was backward an' rather shy—
That behind his skeleton sort o' breast
A heart like a lien's found a nest !
`‘One night as the guard, at twelve o'clock,
Relieved the sentinel over the stock,
The Corp'ral seen a kind of glare
From toward the officers' quarters, there.
The alarm was raised an' the big gun fired,
An' the soldiers, not more'n half attired,
Corns a-rush in out on the barrack ground
With a wild an' excited sort of a bound.
"The Colonel's headquarters was all afire,
An' the flames a-mountin' higher an' higher!
An' what with the yells u' men an' shrieks
0' the officers' wives, with their whitish cheeks,
And the roar o' the flames, and devilish light,
Illuminatin' the pitch-dark night,
'T war sich a eight as I've often thought
You could see in hell, when it's bilin' hut.
"An' then, with a wild, despairin' yell,
The Colonel shouted, 'My God ! Where's Nell"
His wife responded, "She's in her bed !"
Then fell to the ground like a person dead!
Up through the roof the mad flames roared,
An' the blindin' smoke in a dense mass poured
Through every crevice and crack, till the cloud
Hung above like a death-black shroud!
("It mighn't be out o' place to state,
As kinder accountio' for this Mead's fate,
That Nell war an angel ten year old,
With a heart as pure as the virgin gold;
An' she had a kind of an angel trick
Of readin', an' sich like, to the sick ;
An' many's the dainty her hands'd bear
To Mead. one time, in the hospital there.)
"My God ! It was 'nough to raise the hair
On the head of a marble statute! There
Stood a crowd of at least two hundred men,
None darin' to enter that fiery pen—
Men that war brave on an Injun trail,
Whose courage was never known to fail—
But to enter that buildin' was certain death!
So they stood their starin', and held their breath.
"Then all at once, with an eager ory
An' a bull-dog look in his flashin' eye,
This Mead rushed up to the wailin' band
An' a paper thrust in the Colonel's hand.
'My mother's address,' he said; an' then
Ile sort o' smiled on the crowd o' men,
An' jilt like a flash o' lightnin' shot
Through the door right into the seethin' pot !
"With a yell of horror the crowd looked'on,
Fur they felt with him it was 'good-by John ;'
But half a minute after the dash
An up-stairs window burst with a crash!
An' there stood Mead, like a smi in' saint,
The gal in his arms in a death-like faint.
Ile yelled for a rope and let her down
To terra finny—which means the groun'.
"Then he tied the rope to the winder-sash
Fur to follow down—but there came a crash,
An' the blazin' roof, with a fearful din,
Throwed the boy to the ground as it tumbled in !
We carried him 'way from the fearful heat,
A-hopin' the noble heart still beat;
But the old pest surgeon shook his head,
And said, with a sigh, that Mead was dead !
*- -* is P
"It wasn't long afore little Nell
Got over the shock, an' as soon as well
She circulated among the men
With a sheet o' paper, an' ink an' pen,
An' axed each one fur to give his mite
In remembrance o' Mead's brave work that night
An' as the result this monument stands
Among the flowers planted by Nelite's hands!
"An' every evenin' she walks up here,
The boys all say, fur to drop a tear !
An' I've seen her, too, on her knees right there,
With her face turned upward as if in prayer !
You'll see that line above's to tell
As how the stone was 'Erected by Nell;'
And down at the bottom, there, you'll see
Some Bible quetin':
'HE DIED FOR HE.'"
A Buried Race in Kansas.
In a report on recent archaeological ex
plorations in Kansas, Judge E. P. West,
of that State, presents a large amount of
evidence to show that, at a remote period,
that region was peopled by a race, com
pared with which the mound builders must
be accounted modern.
The geology of the region is simple.
Prior to the drift epoch, the river chan
nels were deeper than now and the river
valleys were filled by a lacustrian deposit
of considerable depth. In or beneath the
the deposite, the remains of an extinct
race occur.
Such remains have been found at vari
ous depths, in seven different counties
along or near the Kansas Pacific Railroad,
namely : Douglass, Pottawatomie, Riley,
Dickinson, Marion, Ellsworth and LincJin
counties. With one exception, the re
mains have all been found upon the second
bottom or terraee of streams, and consist
of stone implements, pottery human bones
and bone implements. In most cases, they
were struck in digging wells, at a depth of
from twenty to thirty feet below the sur
face In view of the fact that there is not
more than one well to the square mile in
the counties named, and the area of a well
forms but a very small fraction of a square
mile, Judge West thinks the evidence al-
ready obtained not only sufficient to prove
the former existence of the buried race,
but to prove that they were very numer
ous. We can hardly assume that chance
has directed the digging of wells only
where human remains are buried.
Whether the race existed before the
glacial epoch, or immediately after, it is
too early to determine. Judge West is in
clined to fix the time of their occupancy
as far as the glacial epoch, and prior to
the deposition of the loess. In calling
upon the local newspapers of Kansas to
lay the facts before the people, and urging
the propriety of saving such remains when
found, and noting carefully the conditions
under which they occur, the Judge says:
"Here we have a buried race, enwrap
ped in a profound and startling mystery—
a race whose appearance and exist in the
world's drama produces stupendous geo
logical changes marking continent, and
which, perhaps required hundreds of thous
ands of years in their accomplishment.
The prize is no less than determining when
this mysterious people, how they lived,
when they passed out of existence and
why they became extinct
A MAMMA in the rural districts lately
gave her five year old hopeful an outfit of
fish tackle. Soon she heard a shout from
Willie, and running out found one of her
best hens fast winding up the line in her
crop, whither the hook had already pre
ceded it. Willie, observing the troubled
look of her mother, quietly remarked :
"Don't worry mother. I guess she will
atop when she gets to the pole."
WHEN we hear men boast of their own
talents, we incline to think that their tal
ents should be reckoned as the East Indi
ans reckon rupees—by the lack.
AN editor out West has been eleeted
town constable. and is now able to arrest
the attention of his readers.
The Water we Drink.
There is very little pure water used;
that which comes from the clouds has the
best claim to be so regarded, but that is
contaminated by impurities in the air as
it descends. Clear water is not necessarily
pure water. All water from springs and
wells contains minerals in solution ; the
latter, having but a meagre supply and
outgo, is usually more strongly impregna•
ted than natural fountains with flowing
inlets and outlets The purest water is
formed where solid rocks, as of granite,
form the bed over which it runs. But
waters of springs and transparent rivers,
except when filtered, are never pure. Wa
ters of average purity employed for domes
tic purposes are said, on authority of John
ston, to hold in solution from twenty to
thirty grains of solid matter. The water
of the river Jordan contains seventy three
grains, and that supplied by the various
companies of the city of London has from
nineteen to forty grains. The impurities
that make water injurious to health are
organic matters, such as are abundantly
supplied by barnyards, drains and cemete
ries, where the decay of animal and veg
etable substances is going on. Some fam
ilies who live on farms, and who fancy they
are drinking the best of water, are, in fact,
constantly imbibing poison that will ap
pear perhaps in the dreaded form of dipb
theria or typhoid fever. The character of
the impurities is very important. It is
claimed that a certain degree of hardness,
from the presence of lime, improves the
water for all domestic uses, except wash
ing, and water from the chalk districts in
Europe is preferred to soft water. It is
also stated that conscripts for the French
armies who were reared on hard water
were taller and stronger in bone than those
who were reared in places where there was
no lime in the water.
Home Life a Hundred Years Ago.
One hundred years ago not a pound of
coal nor a cubic foot of illuminating gas
bad been burned in the country. No iron
stoves were used and no contrivanc , is for
economizing heat were employed until 1)r.
Franklin inv:nted the iron framed tire
place, which still bears his name. All the
cooking and warming in town, as well as
in the country, was done by the aid of a
fire kindled on the brick hearth or in the
brick ovens. Pine knot or tallow candles
furnished the light for the long winter
nights, and sanded floors supplied the
place of rugs and carpets. The water used
for household purposes was drawn from
deep wells with creaking sweeps. No form
of pump was used in this country, so far
as we can learn, until after the commence•
tnent of the present century. There were
no friction matches in those days, by the
aid of which a fire could be easily kindled,
and if the fire went out upon the hearth
over night and the tinder was damp, so
that the spark would not catch, the alter
native remained of wading through the
snow a mile or Fso to borrow a brand of a
neighbor. Only one room in any. house
was warm, unless some member of the
family was ill ; in all the rest the tempera.
ture was at zero during many nights in
the winter. The men and women of 100
years ago undressed and went•to their beds
in a temperature colder than that of our
barns and woodsheds and they never com
plained.
A Bad Girl to Marry.
A bad daughter, says an exchange, sel
dom makes a good wife. If a girl is ill
tempered at home, snarls at her parents,
snaps at her brothers and sisters, and
"shirks" her ordinary duties, the chances
are ten to one that when she i7sts a home
of her own she will make it wretched.
There are girls who fancy themselves so
far superior to their parents that the mere
privilege of enjoying their society in the
house ought to be all the old people should
have the assurance to ask. While their
mothers are busy with domestic duties
they sit in the easiest chair or lie on the
softest sofa, feeding on cheap and trashy
novels, and cherish the notion that th.y
are very literary individuals. The house
hold is too coarse for such ladies as they.
Girls of this sort are generally very anx
ious to be married that they may escape
the disagreeableness of a home, where they
are held more or less under subjection. A
caller, who doesn't have a chance to see
how they behave as daughters, may be ex
cused for fancying them lovely lovable
beings; but one who does see it is foolish
if he commits himself by offering marriage
to a girl of this sort. If she will not as
sist her mother in the domestic labors, is
she not likely to be equally slothful and
ill-tempered when she marries? If she
now thinks herself too fine to work, is it
safe to expect her views as to that matter
would radically change if she became a
wife?
Theory of Life.
The late Professor Faraday adopted the
theory that the natural age of man is 100
years. The duration of life he believed
to be measured by the time of growth. In
the camel growth is attained at eight, in
the horse at five, in the lion at four, in
the dog at two, in the rabbit at one. The
natural termination is five removes from
these several points. Nan being twenty
years in growing lives five times twenty
years—that is 100 ; the camel is eight
years in growing, and lives forty years;
and so with other animals The man who
does not die of sickness lives everywhere
from SO to 100 years. The professor di
vides life into equal halves—growth and
decline—and these into infancy, youth,
virility and age. Infancy extends to the
twentieth year; youth to the fiftieth, be
cause it is in this period the tissues be
come firm; virility from fifty to seventy
five, during which the organism remains
complete, and at seventy five old age com
mences, to last a longer or shorter tame, as
the diminuation or reserved forces is has
tened or retarded.
A CHAP from the Western part of the
State went to bed at one of the hotels the
other night, and blew out his t:as instead
of turning it off The gas rushed out, the
room was close, and in about half an hour
the smell became so strong that the stran
ger got out of bed, opened the door and
shouted for the clerk. The clerk came up
and demanded to know what was up.
never stopped in Detroit over night be
fore," replied the stranger, "and I don't
know but this smell is ail right, but it
'Fears to me as if something had busted
somewhere."
A BROCKPORT man dreill,,ed rPoently
that his aunt was dead, and the dr..ani
proved true. He tried the same game with
his tti , ther in-law, but it didn't work worth
a cent.
NO. 20.