The Sauk Centre Herald (Sauk Centre, Minnesota), 1868-02-27

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VOLUME I.
SAUK CENTRE, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1868.
NUMBER 38.
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Office over the Post Office.
Permanently located in St; Cloud.
-Broker's Block..
Dr, Pelham will visit Sauk Centre Februaryl
17th, and remain 18 days. Having had fourteen years experience in the dental profession, he feels confident of givln^sat^sfaction]
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IN ST. CLOUD, MINN.
Special attention given  to proceedings* in
Bankruptcy in United States Courts. • .-
Office in Alden's brick building"; up stairs
Oct. 1,1867. octl0-6m
H. L. GOKDON.
CrOl-ClollL
R.
R. PALMER,
PHYSICIAN W SURGEON,
And Examining' Surgeon for Pension!
*S» Bcsidenee near the Mill, Sauk Centre.
ns! MINER,
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lusnramee A-g&n-'t,
Sauk Centre, - - Minnesota.
■Represents the soundest and most reliable-
Fire, Life and Accident Insurance Com-
>-> paiiies of the Eastern and W estern
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ii. w. coLLisrs.
&;  ColliiiS,
Attorneys   at   Law,
St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota
--iigf- Particular attention given to business
in adjoining counties.
ILLIAM J.- PARSONS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Germaine street, over Burbank Bros.,
St. Cloud, Minnesota.
SOUNDS.
pHAS H. ALSOP,
Civil Engineer, Architect Sf
Draftsman,
Office of the Northern Pacific Bail Boad,
Broker's Block,
From the People's Magazine,
There are countless sounds in this world of
ours,
Where hidden music dwells;
The song of birds when the day is-young,
■   The crime of distant bells ;
The echo of children's voices homer
bjErom the shady primrose dells,
|Tlie tiny tread of a childish foot
That strays about the room;
The tiny voice of a childish song
Heard through the gathering gloom,
When the evening shadows are long without,
And the light grows dim at home.
The murmuring, rustle of the leaves  ,
That breathe a quiet tune:
The gentle dropping upon the grass
Of a midnight shower In June;
The far-off voice of a hidden brook,
'   That sings low to the moon.
The voice you have waited for so long,
The greeting kind and free;
Tlie word that recalls back to your heart
' Some old, old memory,
That sealed the promise your soul has held
Silent and sacredly.
There are countless sounds in these hearts of
ours,
That speak to us alone;
Voices that reach not other ears*- '
Unheard save by our own ;.-
Footsteps "that echo back again
From the past with a muffled tone.'
Oh 1 is there naught in these sounds to you T
No tender meaning, there ?
Can you not hear their echoes now,
As the cry of some despair 1
Or is your life so crowded with bliss
You can forget they were?
ohurch-going man, whom no one could   madness,  deformity,  drunkness,    and
ptottatty.
ANOTHER    SOCIAL,    REVOLUTION.
ST. CLOUD
MINN.
jan30
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il'LLIARD SALOON,
' A. "KE GROAT, Proprietor.
Third street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Has first class Phelan A CoUender.Billiara
Uhoic
f Jlgai;s.
Wines,  Liquors
Ale,  Porter  and
"WHITEFIELD,
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House «Sto Si*
trainings win?
with weatnt
Work wan
■a £»aiiiter,
<lral»
ns;. Paper Hau_
;s and on reasonable terms.
ted  equal in quality to that
GENERAL   BANKING   AND   EXCHANGE   BUSINESS   TRANSACTED.
Gold and Silver,
Land Warrants, College Scrip and Foreign
Exchange bought and sold. Particular Attention given to COLLECTIONS, and Proceeds Promptly Remitted.
Office open from 9 to 12 A. M., and 1 to 5
p. 31.
St. Germaine Street, St. Cloud, siinn.
J. G. SMITH, Cashier.
! 'St. "Clond Jan. 30.1868.
Women to   do tlte Courting.
BY ELIZABETH OAKES   SMITH.
say a word against, nor would go out of
the way to praise! His nam© was William. Now this worthy man had hardly ever appeard in any society .till his
brother George, who was in the navy,
oame home on a long furlough,
George had the peculiar dash insep-
larate from the navy—was manly, generous, brave, and accomplished. He
might not have been a model man, as
ii oil people accounted his brother, but
%» was above censure or. reproach of
auy kind, and the lady of whom" I
speak at first admired and then loved
him. She had good reason for believing the-sentiment to be mutual -but, as
her family was rich, haughty, and exclusive, she was well convinced that
lie would hot dare make any advances,
and she resolved, being old enough to
have a right to think for herself, to
write him in a way not to be misunderstood.
According by she did so ;but, unfortunately, she had been misinformed as
to the name of her lover and addressed
I her letter to William, instead of George.
Nothing could exceed the surprise and
aelight of the little man upon receiving
this letter. He prepared himself in the
most seductive manner to call upon the
tlady, letter in hand.
She • was aghast! Recovering herself as best she could, she faltered out:
" Your name is William, .then 1"
The poor innocent was not penetrating. He was full of unexpected rapture, and she—she, too proud to explain
—caught, as she believed, in the snare
of her own folly, forbore to do so. She
married him,
.George, indignant, and yet more in
sorrow than in anger, joined his ship,
and never saw her again. He perished
at sea.
The lady took up. her self-imposed
burden with, a strong, brave spirit. She
made poor William a .faithful, dutiful,
but certainly rather hiJfei
a Teed upon or no, charges-made.   V&   Pamt
Saop next door to-Thoinns A Go's.
Sauk Centre, Minn., June 5, lsbi.
^ANL) OFFICE & REAL  ESTATE
N.' II-  IvIiELei-,
Lands   sold on commission.   Farms composed of -Prairie, jyieailqjpancl Timber Lane.
Ciurjty, who brought with him a.load
of the brave and fair from Bake Ellen,
while Alexandria, Osakis, Melrose. St.
Cloud and Fort  Abercrombie  were all
HILL,
(Late of Whitney's Gallery)
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Photograph
St. Cloud, Minn.
OHN CHRISTGAU,
Boot &>  Blioe Maker,
Main Street, Sauk Centre, Minn.,
■A complete stock of Boots and Shoes kept
constantly on hand, and made to order on
short notice.   Good fits warranted.
Repairing  promptly  done, at reasonable
prices.   All-kinds of Shoemaker's Tools for
sale.   '       "* s .	
ANDERSON,
RUDOLPH   SHCENEMANN,
WATCHMAKER,
St. Germaine Street,
ST. CLOUD,       - MINN.
A   GOOD assortment  of Watches, Clocks,
Jewelry, Silver and Plated ware always
on had.   Galvanizing done. Repairing neatly done and warranted for one year. ly
Alarge lot of Spectacles for sale.
fthty wife,whom
he never ceased to admire and boast
about. She kept hersecret buried in
her own breast till he had gone the
way of all the earth, and then, finding
her own end approaching, she revealed it, in a fit of weak confidence, to her
eldest daughter.
Now, here was a woman living a
life-long lie, but incapable of dying
with it upon her conscience. How
much nobler, how much better worthy
of.a true woman it had been, to have
or/in ed to the truth bravely, and so
-abiae the issue?
In ohoosing a husband, it is easier to
say what a woman should not ohoose
than to say what she should, for the
best must and will depend on characteristics best known to herself. If she is
a strong woman, she may venture to
marry a weak man ; but if weak herself,
let her beware of this, for she will put
her own life out at last, and ten to one
do the same ungracious office for her
<ITY RESTAURANT.
From the Herald of Health.
The sexes are fully equal in intellect,
in moral sense, and even in physique,
(admitting that women were designed
to be more delicately organized,) taking the stand-point from the best models, which is the true criterion, all others being exceptional—therefore there
is a propriety in admitting, that a woman
has'aright to choose her husband, just as
much so as for a man to choose a wife>
and the only pretext for denying this
is based upon the inferior one of sex,
only.
In saying this, I shall have the whole
innumerable army of romance writers
and readers, as well as the imbeciles of both
sexes, crying out against me: nevertheless I stand to the point,and nail my colors to the mast in defenseofit—thatitis
rioht,proper.and delicate for a woman to cho)se
her husband; and the man thus distinguished by her ch oice will feel himself ennobled and sanctified, and will reward
such a woman with tenfold tenderness j husband; while's, woman with   nobler
proportions will be -more forbearing,
and make up, also, for some of his de
ficiencies.
Let not any woman   marry   a man
with insane blood in his veins.
„Let her not marry one deformed at
birth ; the disasters and-aceidental destruction of any members by war or
otherwise, may excite her compassion
and be no impediment to deep affec-
but a congenital   defect becomes
disease go on accumulating, with all
their mental and moral atd physical
obliquities, till the earth is a lazar
house and pestilent with crime.
This is, much of it, due to that false
estimate of woman in the world which
regards her almost exclusively in the
nature of sex, instead of as God's best
and purest gift to man, to be his help,
his comfort, and his inspiration.
It is the woman who. builds the house,
and therefore she should take heed
how she builds. ~ When the world
grows wiser, it will accept her in her
higher"aspect of wisdom and forecast—
moving like a queen in the midst of
her household, her husband known in
the gates where he sitteth with the elders, known as, the husband, beloved,
and exalted by a wife whose price is
above rubies.
In the time to come it will be enough
to cause the . cheek to tingle with
shame to see a discordant marriage; for
then women will choose as well as be
chosen, ahd she will not lend herself to
any relation other than the true and
the holy, and man will find his manhood augmented by marriage and the
beautiful and holy relations which it
involves.
In conclusion, I think any woman
will not marry before she is twenty, for
by so doing-she loses that fresh, joyous, hopeful period of life, and a very
essential part of it for the sdke of
health, study and consolidation of
character—her girllioo'd ; and she will
in after life be sure to mourn the loss
of this lovely period. She will be twenty at the very least when she marries,
and, like a true woman, she will look
for a right manly, man, who will be
handsome in her oy63, and "represent as
nearly as possible.her ideas of masculine perfection—good sense, mental,
moral and physical health; and above
all, the certain fore-rest and protective-
ness, always attractive in the eyes of a
woman.
THE IIOKJS.GH.S OF OPIUM EATING.
"Vain Struggles oi a  Victim—Insanity
anil Suicide. **?*-!
diminishing'his dose, until it was reduced to about one grain a day. The
diarrhea he had bo much dreaded was
controlled without serious difficulty,'
and hie nervous system kept reesona-
bly steady. He was generally hopeful,
and appeared much comforted by *St
•urance that he was succeeding ia the
great work. One evening, however, I
found hi* condition a little different
from what I expected, and he immediately said frankly that he hed broken
over his rule and taken three grains of
morphine; his diarrhea had returned,
the medicine for checking it was gone
and he hated to send for me, and so
had done it. He was very much depressed, said it wag wrong, and if I
should now abandon him to his fete,
he would not blame me. I replied
that I was not disposed to give him up,
should stick to him as long as he would
let me, and that he must not surren-
der in the midst of the conflict. He
expressed himself very grateful, and
said he would not again do anything of
the sort.
At the end of about two week* he
had recovered his appetite, began to
sleep pretty well at night, came to visit
me at the office, and returned hit work.
He was in fine spirits, appearing to be
elated at the idea that he was delivered
from a habit which had enslaved him.
He expressed his thanks to me in the
most fervid and glowing terms. His
last visit to my office. was on Friday,
January 17th ; he asked for the remedy
against diarrhea, enough to' last until
the next Tuesday, when he would come
and report again. I went to hear him
preach on Sunday evening. It was
painfully evident from his manner that
he was returning to his habit. The appointed Tuesday came, but he did not
appear. Wednesday passed away, and
. still he did hot return. I had to leave
town at night, and did • not return till
late in the night of Saturday, when I
| learned that he was dead—had terminated his. own
that day.
The cause   o
Boot &:• Slioe Maker.
Third Street Sauk Centre, Min.
Boots A Shoes made to order on the shortest
notice, in any style desired.
All work warranted to fit.   Rcparmg done
on short notice. .    ,
Satisfaction guaranteed in every  instance.
Sauk Centre,   Jan. 80 1868.
Jan.30m6
SAUK CENTRE HOUSE,
(General Stage Office,)
SAUK CENTRE,       -      -      MINN-;
BJ. P. BARNUM, Proprietor,
Has been thoroughly refitted and furnished
throughout, under its new management.
The comfort of guests will at all times he
made the special care of the proprietor, and
no expense or pains will he spared to give
entire satisfaction to boarders and travelers,
Excellent Stalling attached to the premises. E. P. BARNtJM.
JOSEPH GOYETTE, Proprietor,
Washington Avenue,  St.  Cloud, Minnesota.
A ladles' and gentlemen's Ice Cream Saloon has been fitted up in first class style on
the second floor. Ice cold Lemonade, and
Soda Water flavored with all kinds of syrups.
Fresh and Canned Fruits, Confectionery,
and Nuts of all kinds. ' £ '"Y,
Hot Meals, Lunch, Coffee, Tea and Pastry
furnished to order. 	
Watchmaker
AMERICAN HOUSE,
Corner 2d and 6th Streets,
SAUK CENTRE,     -   -   -   -     MINN.
This is a new,large and commodious building fitted up iii the best style, with all the
necessary conveniences for the comfort of
Suests A large Barn, with warm and com.
fortabie stabling Is connected with the House
Travelers will find at the American House
the best of accommodations for both man
and beast.    . _  „       .  .
DAVID FRANKHAUSE, Proprietor.
AND
SAUK  CENTRE, MINN.
Watches,  Clocks and Jewelry carefully repaired and warranted.
J3S- All work from a distance promptly attended to and safely returned.
gAINT FAXJXu
Fire& la
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DWARD DREBLOW,
Cabinet Mealier,
ST. PAUL, MINN.
Main street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota,
Keeps constantly on hand a complete stock
of Furniture, Coffins, &c.
All orders will reoeive prompt attention.
s
AUK CENTRE
Livery, Sale and Feed^
STABLE. ®
Office on Third street, one door west of the
Printing Office.
Having our Stable completed  and well
stocked, we are now prepared to furnish
those who wish, ■vgjjh good
Horses and Carriages or Sleighs at all times
an reasonable terms, so that
AU can   Take a Ride.
H. duty a e. l. wright,
Proprietors.
Assets oyer       $530,000.
Insures Buildings, Merchandise and other
Property, against LOSS or Damage by FIRE,
at Rates as low as other first class Stock
Companies.
Particular attention given—to Insurance of
Farm Property,   Isolated Dwellings
an.d-their. Furniture,
FOR ONE, THREE OR FIVE YEAR .
Also Inland Navigation Risks on Cargoes or
Freight.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
j. C. Burbank,
John L. Merriam,
W. W. Eastman,
John S. Prince,
Horace Thompson,
Wm. Lee,
John Nichols,
Theo. Borup,
Peter Berkey,
W. F. Davidson,
W. P. Murray,
Geo. L. Farwell,
E. F. Drake.
J. C. BURBANK, Pres't.
JOHN NICOLS, Vice Pres't.
S, S. EATON, Sec'y.
W. A. WELLS, Gen'l Agent.
N. H. MINER, Local Ag't.
SAUK CENTRE, MINN.
and reverence.
I am by no means willing to have it
understood that I counsel women to go
about " popping the question" to men
here-and there like an army of grenadiers ; far from it. A man rarely "pops
the question" till he is pretty well assured in his own mind as to the kind of
response he will receive, and in all
cases a refined woman prevents a lover
from explaining himself where she is
bent upon a denial of his suit.
Literature is full of heroines who. are
practicing after the fashion of the re-
nowed Spartan boy, and we followed
them, through innumerable pages of
vapid sentiment, where they are living
and acting myriads of lies in order to uphold a theory false in fact and false to nature.
The two sexes are one in a scientific
point of view, aud there-is no merit in
a woman who lays her heart on the al-,
tar of pride merely for the sake of
pride. It is no worse for>a woman to
be rejected than for a man to be so ; if
men and'women were high and true,
they would each regard the other in so
pure, so holy a light that these goings
forth of the heart would be too sacred
ever to be revealed; they would be too
solemn for jest, too deeply real for
gossip. They would be hid away, I
shrouded like many a human hope,
dead but beautiful, in the lone chambers ofthe soul, to be looked upon rev-,
erently, just as so many -of us garner in
some secret receptacle a leaf, a bud, a
lock of hair, whose history is known
only to us and the angels.
Let our women be free not only to
reject, but to choose, also. Men and
women are likely to do this without
any great expenditure of language,, for
the vocabulary of love is more expressive than words.
I have known several women of refinement and intelleot who owned that
their husbands were rather sought after
by them than otherwise, and these
matches were certainly among the hap-1
piest I have ever known. Perhaps, if
a woman deludes a man in this way into marriage, she feels bound to make
his condition a happy one.
When I was a ohild, one of my mother's friends was a tall, very reverend,
but most elegant woman, who rarely
went from home, and was far from entertaining company there, as was the
custom in that part of hospitable New
England. She belonged to the highest
rank in point of wealth and birth, was
handsome and highly intellectual, and
yet, with all these advantages, she
wrecked more than one life for lack of
nerve to go through with what she began in fine spirit.
There were two brothers in the same
town in which she lived, very different
in charaoter and inferior to herself in
rank, but both very estimable men.
The elder was plain, plodding, dull,
and pains-taking, but   an   honest and
life in  the afternoon pf
very sad end
tion,
hereditary, and by the laws of our being will be repugnant to a wholesome-
minded woman.
She cannot and  will not marry a
drunkard.
, .She should not marry a diseased,
sickly man.
*   Neither will a wise woman marry an|
old man ; for the true idea of marriage
is the union of youth, and health,   and
beauty; a. thorough    completeness of
spiritual,- mental,   and  physical    life ;
and everything short of this is " all but
nauseous to   a  sympathic, penetrative
mind, as a. violation of immutable laws.
She will not marry  a  man   younger
than herself, not simply for the reason"
so often .advanced, that a woman grows
old sooner than a man,  which  is  true
only because of the abuses of .society ;
for a woman of sound health and cheer-
j ful mind, unswayed by the vulgar   and
wicked passions of envy, jealousy, and
malice, earries   in her own breast a
fountain of perpetual youth and   beauty.   Let her be temperate'in all things;
preserve her person as fresh as a rose ;i
her mind   undwarfed by  prejudice  or
idleness ; her soul, with all its affections
and impulses, pure and loving, and she
may go onward to  her eighty, ninety,
or a hundred years, generally beautiful
to the last,  fit for reyerence and  admiration, and worthy to sit for   one  of
Miohael Angelo's Siblys.
.   Moral obliquities of many  kinds are
so  intangible  that, unless  carried to
that excess  which shows the best part
of manhood   utterly  corrupt and   depraved, a woman is not likely to  know
them, and she should be  unwilling  to
listen to common  scandal;  and must
not trust to any spy  or informer,  but
rely upon his truth and  her own intuitions.
If she expect to find Chevalies Bayards, and Admirable Crichtons, and
Immaculate Josephs ready for the asking, she will most likely remain without a husband. She can only hope for
an approximation to the ideal; but,if she
is true-hearted, sincere to the core, unselfish and lovely in her own life, she
will be sure to make the dear one whom
We have already published a dispatch
announcing the suicide of the Rev. G.
W. Brush, of- Delaware, Ohio, ahigbly
respected minister of that  place.    In
the last number of the Delaware Gazette,
we find a long comtnuoicatiojifrom his
physician,  .Dr. if. Barnes, of Deluwaie,
giviug a full and detailed statement of
Mr.. NBrush's insanity.    The • deceased
went to Dr. Barnes, in November, 1866,
stating   that -he   was   in the habit efl
taking  morphine,   desired  to leave it
off, and wished professional  assistance
against the effects which would follow.
He had   undertaken  this   before, and
became so prostrated   by   an   Uncontrollable diarrhea, that it was thought
best to desist.   He considered the habit so degrading, however, that he could
not, and must not, continue to indulge
jit. . It had   been fixed upon him, he
said, by  the  administration  of  physicians, who had prescribed the drug for
his tendency  to  diarrhea,  and for the
latent cancer of  the  tongue until he
found himself within the terrible grip
of its habitual use. He was determined,
now, to diminish  the quantity rapidly,
and soon dispense  with  it altogether.
He proceeded   thus a few  days, when
some   unexpected   business   required
his attention,. which  he  thought himself unable to transact in the shattered
state to which his attempt had already
reduced him.   He therefore gave it up
for that time.
He referred to the same matter frequently during the year 1S67, and finally, on the 1st of January, 1868, he
went to Dr- Barnes, who gives the following detailed account of the interview, and of what followed :
He finally came to my office, on the
first'day ofthe present month (January,
1868), saying that his people had kindly released him from labor for two
or three weeks, and asking if I still
felt as friendly toward him, as when I
once before consented to take care of
[him at my house, while he should
bre^k up that dreadful habit I told
him I would do so, if he wished to
come, but it.would be necessary for the
people to know why he was there, otherwise the faij'tpf his being at my house
sick, while hist I own family were living
in the same t^wn, would give occasion
to injurioustjreports, which could not
well be met. He then said the arrangement would not answer without
the disclosure   referred   to,   which he
was clear from the point where I had
seen him last. Having taken a little—
just a very little—to relieve the distress *f which he was not yet clear, the
appetite returned with the voracity of
a hundred demons.
He was temporarily overpowered, and
[yielded. Then he considered that he
had made his last trial, and failed. His
day of usefulness was over. He thought
u'filseil unworthy to llTe^amongTUeB.
The ghastly life of an opium-eater
stared him in the face. It was insupportable. He kept his misery to himself, while very kind to his family—as,
indeed, he always was. He took more
of the drug to appease his agony. It
crazed him—drove him out to the barn,
and through his own hands suspended
him upon a rope.
It should be noted that downright
insanity ia not un frequently the temporary effect of a few doses of opium.
A man who lately attempted suicide in
a neighboring town, it is now understood, deelares that he h«« no knowledge of the affair. He is addicted to
I the same habit. This transient, but-
fearful insanity, would be likely to
overtake one returning too rapidly to
the use of the drug, after it had been
suspended. It probably did come upon Rev. G. W. Brush. His noble wife,
who was almost idolized by him, found
him within a few minutes, and took
him down herself; but alas! she had
nothing except his earthly body. He
had gone to the other world forever.
As Deacon Adams, on an extremely
cold morning, in the olden time, was
riding by the house of a neighbor Potter, the latter was chopping wood. The
usual salutations were exchanged, the
severity of the weather briefly discussed,
and the Deacon made demonstrations
of passing on, when his neighbor detained him witto,
" Don't be ia a hur*y, Deacon.
Wouldn't you like a glass of old Jamaica this morning t"
" Thank yon, kindly said the Deacon,
at the same time beginafag to dismount with his usual deliberation. " I
don't care if I do."
" Ah, don't trouble   yourself  to get
off, Deacon,"  said   the   neighbor,
merely  asked  for    information,
haven'* a drop in the house."
The   Deacon   sighed, mounted
horse, and rode away.	
I
We
his
At a recent   meeting of  a parish, a
solemn, straight   bodied,   and   a most
exemplary deacon submitted a report,
in -yriting, of the destitute widows and
felt so delicate  about making, that he  0ther» standing in need of assistance in
would make an effort at his own house.) the  par;sn.    "Are .you   sure, deacon,
Thereupon, he gave me some papers of
morphine, whicn he had caused to be
weighed in gradually diminishing
doses, beginning with less than half his
usual quantity.
He reserved a couple, one for each
day of a visit he was about to make to
some friends in Columbus, requesting
me to call at his house on the following
Saturday evening, when I should find
him returned and sick on account of
his dimunition of the morphine ; and
that he would then take no more except as I should think best to give it.
I went on the appointed Saturday
evening; found him weak, trembling,
sweating, and aching, especially in the
knees. But he rallied somewhat, and
conversed well for an  hour or so on a
that you have embraced all the widows T" He said "he believed he had
done so; but if any had been omitted,
the omission could easily be corrected."
He did not take at all.	
A man 'visiting a neighbor, found
him disabled from having a horse step
on his foot. Hobbling out of the stable, the .sufferer explained how it happened—' I was standing here,' said he,
'and tho horse brought his right foot
down on mine.' His friend looked at
the injured member, whioh was of the
No. 14 pattern, and said very quietly,
'Well the horse must step somewhere.'
A witness
dence in   a
being
court
called to give evi-
in Connecticut, re-
she allows to be head of the republic none and eaten  nothiug, as he  ea
at home not only a happy man,  but a
progressively good man,  growing into
spiritual insight, advancing in dignity
and manly worth, for  she will be his
helpmate in building this house.
This is plain talk, but the subject
demands it, and the world is altogether too squeamish in regard to it, and so
variety of subjects.   But he had slept specting the  loss of  a  shirt, gave the
id.
since entering upon his trial. The
next day, instead of taking tbe design
nated dose, which would have been
about five grains, he voluntarily proposed to take not more than three, and
the day after still less.
I continued to spend the evenings
with him for about ten days, gradually
following:
■&i Mother said, that Ruth said, ttoat
Nell said, that Poll told her, that she
see a man that see a boy run through
the street with a streaked flannel shirt
all checker, checker, checker;
our gals won't lie, for mother
whipped them a thousfti
lying."
and
has
times for