Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 November 1869 — Page 6
vnriER COMETH JtEAR.
Snmmer honrs have fled, Summer flowers are dead,
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Aut'ntttn leaves are shed, •.. From the forest trees By the fitful gust: And the clouas of:dust v: :i
Ride
the
pacing breeze.
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Nature's leafy pajre' Groweth sere and brown And the frost of age On our heritage
Cometh slowly down. Hark! the moaning blast, As it sweepeth past Clouds are gath'ring fast Dark on earth is cast
Winter's angry frown.
Lo! he eoineth near, And our hearts with fear, Give the briny tear
For true friends in need Some by sorrow rent, Some by sickness bent, •,
With sad faces plead.
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Oh! how many pine In poverty's low vale, Without oil or wine, Naught on which to dine,
Listen! to their wail: Almost nought to wear Cheeks once ruddy fair, Now blanched white with care Ruin's own plowshare A Deep hath furrowed there.
Ye, whose coffers hold Store of yellow gold, Not In vain be told
The sad lot ol' men:
Scatter wide your stare, Pressed -lowii—running o'er— 'Twill come back again.
Ye whose fields were tilled, And not one in vain Famine's gaunt wolf killed,And your barns all filled
With the golden grain Give the starving bread— A pillow for the head Of the sick—and shed Lisht where hope has fled.
It will prove your gain.
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Yours are ansrel hands, Not from distant lands Hark! your Lord commands: "Give ye to the poor Place your treasure high, Safe within the sky.
There your wealth is sure.
F. S. C.
HAKK TWAIS.
His Ciirootiiiif lo the California Pioneer* of ISO.
The California Pioneers of .18-49, who are now on a grand railway excursion to the East, were entertained at a Delmonico banquet in New York, Wednesday evening. Among the letters received and read upon the occasion was the following characteristic epistle sent by Mark Twain
EI-MIRA, October, 11,1869.
'To the California Pioneers. GENTLEMEN :—Circumstances
der it out of my power to take ad-1 vantage of the invitation extended to me through Mr. Simonton, and be] present at your dinner in New York. I regret this very much, for there are many among you whom I would have a sublime right to join hands with on the sc6re of old friendship, and I suppose I would have a sublime general right to shake hands with the rest of you on the score of kinship in Californian ups and downs in search of fortune. If I were to tell some of my experiences, you would recognize Californian blodcl in me, I fancy. The old, old story would sound familiar, no doubt. I have the usual stock of reminiscences. Fori instance: I went to Esmei'elda early. I purchased largely in the Wide West," the "Winnemucca," anclj other line claims and was very wealthy I fared sumptuously on bread when flour was two hundred dollars a barrel, and had beans every Sunday when none but bloated aristocrats could afford such grandeur. But I finished my feeding batteries in a quartz mill at fifteen dollars a week, and wishing I was a battery myself and had somebody to feed me. My claims in Esmerelda are there yet. I suppose I could be persuaded-to sell. I went to the Humboldt District when it was new. I became largely interested in the Alba Nueva," and other rich claims with gorgeous names, and was rich again—in prospect. I owned a vast minmg.property there. I would not have sold out for iess than four hundred thousand dollars at that time—but I will now. Fin ally, _I walked home (sojme two hundteSmHes) partly for exercise, and partly because stage fares were so expensive. Next I entered upon an affluent career in Virginia City and byithe judicious investment of labor sLrid the capital of friends, became the owner of about all the worthless wildcat mines in that part of the country. Assessments did the business Xor- me tliere. There were one hundred^ and: seventeen assessments to one dividend, and the proportion of income to outlay was slightly against me. My financial thermometer went down to thirty-two degrees
and throw in the improvements. Perhaps you remember the celebrated "North Orphir?" I bought that mine. It was verjr rich in poor silver. You could take it out in lumps as big as a filbert. But when it was discovered that those lumps were melted half dollars, and hardly melted at that, a painful case of "saltin" was apparent, and the undersigned adjourned to the poor-house again. I paid assessments on Hale and Norcross" until they sold me out, and I had to take in washing for a living, and the next month that infamous stock went up to seven thousand dollars a foot. I own millions and millions of feet of affluent silver leads in Nevada. In fact, 1 own the entire undercrust of that country, nearly, and if Congress would move that State off my property so that I could get at it, I would be a wealthy man yet. But no, there she squats— and here am I. Failing health persuades me to sell. It" you know of any one desiring a permanent investment, I can furnish him with one that will have the virtue of being eternal.
I have been through the Californian mill, with all its "dips, spurs and angles, variations aucl sinuosities. I have worked there at all the different trades and professions known to the catalogue. I have been everything from a newspaper editor down to a cow-catcher on a locomotive, and I am encouraged to believe if there had been a few more occupations for me to experiment upon, I might have made a dazzling success at last, and found out what mj'stei'ious design Providence had in view in creating me.
But you perceive that although I am not a pioneer, I have had a sufficiently variegated time of it to enable me to talk pioneer like a native, and feel like a Fortv-Niner. Therefore, I cordially welcome you to your old remembered homes and your long deserted lire sides, and close this screed with the sincere hope that your visit here will be a happy one and unembittered by the sorrowful surprises that absense and lapse of years are wont to prepare for wanderers surprises which come in the form of old friends missed from their silence where familiar voices should be the young grown old changes and decay everywhere home a delusion and a disappointment strangers at the hearthstone sorrow where gladness was tears lor laughter the melancholy pomp of death where the grace of life hacl been!
ren-1places
Fahrenheit, and, the subscriber was frozen out. I took up extension 011 the main lead—extensions that reached to? British America in one di-: rection and to the Isthmus of Panamain the other—aud I verily believe I would have*been a rich man if had ever found those infernal extensions. But I didn't. I ran tunnels till I tapped the Arctic Ocean, and I sunk sbairts^iU I suplc tbrought the joof but -tbose extensions turned up missing every time. I am willing to sell all that property
With all good wishes for the, Returned Prodigals, and regret that I can not partake of a small piece of the fatted calf (rare and no gravy), I am yours cordially. MARK TWAIN.
Stimulants.
George D. Prentice, who, according to all accounts, ought to be pretty3familiar with what men usually term stimulants, writes thus truly and beautifully.
There is a time when the pulse lies low in the bosom aud beats low in the veins, when the spirit sleeps which, apparently knows no waking, sleeps in its house of clay, and the windows are shut, the doors hung in the invisible crape of melancholy when we wish the golden sunshine pitchy darkness, and wish to fancy clouds where no clouds be. This is a state of sickness where physic may be thrown to the dogs, for we wish none of it. What shall raise the spirit? What shall make the heart beat music again, and the pulse through all the myriad thronged halls in the house of life? What shall make the sun kiss the eastern hills for us with all his old awakening gladness, and the night overflow with moonlight, love and flowers Love itself is the greatest stimulant, the most intoxicating of all, and performs all these miracles, and is a miracle itself and is not at the drug store, whatever they say. The counterfeit is in the market, but the winged god is not a money qhanger, we assure you. '•Men have tried many things, but still they ask for stimulants. Men try to bury the floating dead of their own souls in the wine cup, but the corpse rises.. We see their faces in the bubbles. The intoxication of drink sets the world whirling again, and the pulses to playing music and the thoughts galloping, but the clock only.runs down sooner, and an unnatural stimulant only leaves the house it filled with the wildest revelry, more silent, more sad, more deserted* ,.. '.'Thereis only one stimulant that never^intoxicates—duty. Duty puts a clear.sky over-evrery main intoiwnieh the skylark—happiness—always goes singing."
A. J.ohnson is -b^ftten for,.the.~.Seo-r ate, but he is nofc-By any meaHs^disJieprtened, He can make a lively canvkss for Alderman of Greenville.
HORSE NAILS AND SHOES.
Great Bargains in Horse Nails, Horse Jails,
Horse Nails, Horse Nails, Horseshoes, Horse Shoes, Horse Shoes, Horse Shoes,
At Campbell & Harter's.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
boow^boot^
CAMPBELL & HARTER
Have received their new stock of
CUSTOM MADE BOOTS,
In Ciilf, American and French Kip, for Men and Boys.
The workmanship of these is guaranteed All rips will be mended free of charge.
CLOSE CASH BUYERS
Looking up bargains in
BOOTS AND SHOES
Will please call.
ALSO,
Women's, Misses' ana Children's
Shoes,
In great variety,
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Calf, Kip, Goat and Lasting in
A O A S
Congress and Polish cut.
We call attention of Young Ladies to our exceedingly handsome styles of
FINE SEWED WORK,
In Morocco, Pebble Goat, Felt and Lasting.
W
E Intend to keep our reputation
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selling goods at low down prteea.
BRICK.
MACHINE BRICK
AT
REDUCED PRICES.
YARD ON KOUNTSVIHE ROAD,
WEST OF THE COLLEGE.
Agents: S. M. HOUSTON, JAMES GRAHAM.
MILLINERY.
MISSSTIE UARTER'S
New Millinery Rooms. MISSthis
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New and Beautiful Styles
Of Millinery goods, and quality of her work. BSTBleaching and Pressing done to order promptly, and satisfaction guaranteed. declO
PICTURE CALLERY.
E N O N S
CALIFORN1A
PICTURE GALLERY,
HUGHES' BLOCK,
Opposite Court House, Main Street.
From the smallest to Life Size Photograph, finished in Oil or Water Colors. Small Pictures copied and enlarged. apr23] W. KENYON, Prop.
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Latches, Butts, and Strap
Hinges, Screw Hook and Eye, Gate Hinges, Glass, Putty Sash, Doors, Blinds, and every variety of building material, cheap: At GREGG'S MAMMOTH.
MILL,
DRAG and Cross Cut Saws, Rip, Hand, Panel, Tennon, Back aud Keyhole Saws At GREGG'S MAMMOTH.
CHAINS, Coil Chains, Fifth Chains, Trace snd Tug Chains, Halter Chains, Brass and Iron Jack Chains
At GREGG'S HARDWARE STORE.'
CHOPPINGandBroadAxes,FootFirmerAdzes,SocketandMortisePlanes,
Chisels, and Drawing Knives of the best quality At GREGG'S MAMMOTH.
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RUB HOES, Planters and Garden Hoef of all sizes and qualities At GREGG'S Mammoth.
"'OR Good Bargains and Good Goods, go to GREGG'S.
[mmense
stock of New Goods just opened
at Gregg's Mammoth Hardware Store.
EAUTIFUL Patterns and New Styled Ivory Handled Knives and Forks At GREGG'S.
"*ARM Bells, School Bells, Hand Bells, Door Bells and Tea Bells at GREGG'S.
LADIES
wishing a superior quality of
Scissors and Shears will -find them at Gregg's Mammoth Hardware Store.
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NE hundred and twenty-eight different patterns of Pocket Knives at GREGG'S.
ALL lor Wilkinsod's Celebrated Sheep Shears at GREGG'S Mammoth Hard ware Store.
70R Curtain Bands, Curtain Knobs, Picture Nails and Fancy Goods, call at GREGG'S.
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LARGE variety ol Pocket Books and and Wallets cheap, At GREGG'S.
A.LL and see the endless variety Knives, Razors, &c., at GREGG'S.
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Mower and Reaper, the latefeu
improvement of the age, is the lightest running, has the least machinery, fewest bolts of any machine and only requires two men to cut and bind from 8 to 10 acres per day. Come and see the wonder, everybody, at GREGG'S .. Mammoth Hardware Store.
YERYBODY goes to Gregg's to good bargains,
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W orkl Reaper and Mower, the only cut gear machine ever built, every wheel is turned from solid iron, and the cogs cut with machinery and fitted on an iron civse as perfectly as a watch. It runs very light and will wear longer than any other machine. It is a dropper, self-raker or hand rake, and is the finest machine ever os it a 1 E S
Hardware Store.
rpHE Improved Quaker Reaper and Mower, a perfect curiosity and the wondei of the World, on exhibition at
GREGG'S Mammoth,
Self-Raking Reaper and Mow
er also, the New York Self-Rakint Reaper and Mower, at GREGG'S.
"^AE Celebrated Vibrator Threshing Machines At GREGG'S.
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GARR & Co.'s Richmond Threshing Machines At GREGG'S.
NE and Two Horse Grain Drills at GREGG'S Mammoth.
EVOLVING and Sulky Hay Rakes and Horse Hay Forks At GREGG'S.
ARVEST Tools of every kind always" on hand and sold cheap at GREGG'S.
OUBLE Shovel Plows for the million, At GREGG'S.
vTUST received, a very large supply of (J: iron, Steel Horse Shoes, Horse Shoe Nails and Blacksmith's Tools atGREGGS.
E.see
Do settled
orthwith. JOHN NIVMf, junlTtf ii Administrator
VERYBODY should go to Gregg's t© the immense stock of New Goods, jrist received and daily arriving. Como everybody. suiyat