Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — Page 3

OLD MEN AND ODD JOBS.

Useful but Unattached Members of Sod. ety and Their Ways. If all the world hearkened to the teaching of proverbial philosophy, that most useful of assistants, the “odd” or “handy” man, would never exist. Versatility is a quality never commended by the gathered wisdom of the ages. “A rolling stone gathers no moss,” l" Jack of all trades and master of none,” are but a few of the expressions which denote the interest inspired by the universal genius who can “turn his hand to anything,” but has no regular calling of his own. In ancient Egypt, a son was compelled to follow his father’s trade, and even in the present day there is a feeling that a long persistence in one description of industry is extremely respectable and praiseworthy. Yet society would be ill off without the army of “odd” men and women who so conveniently supplement the services of more regular workers. There are manifold descriptions of the “odd man.” Sometimes he becomes a figure in a family, an actual servant in fact, his “oddness” consisting rather in the multiplicity of the duties he discharges than in the transitory nature of his services. The “handyyoung man,” so frequently'advertised for, who is expected to look after a garden, milk a cow, groom a horse, drive a pony chaise, clean knives and hoots, wait at table, and comprehensively “make himself generally useful,” is an “odd man” who loves change above all things, and finds refreshment in flitting from the stable to the parlor, from the garden bed to the coach box. Next in order comes the “odd man” who would never engage to remain in one place for a lengthened term. He is generally able to “turn his hand to anything.*’ He knows a little of almost every useful art; he can do a little carpentry, a little cooking, knows a little about horses, and can, in short, fill almost any domestic situation with credit. He is usually honest, hard-working and sober, very obliging, and in all respects a most desirable retainer. He is not actually indolent, for when he work he does good service; but he must be allowed to intersperse his labors with intervals of idleness. Regular, steady employment is abhorrent to him, and he prefers to make smaller profits by the exercise of all his talents in turn than to earn good w r ages by keeping to one branch of industry. Joneses like these are found in all ranks Of life. Such men can never be described as successful men, and yet they are happy in their fashion r n,nd have their use in the world. How badly we should all fare with no reserve force of “odd men” to fall back upon. , How would housekeepers do without the occasional aid rende.ed by these useful auxiliaries ? How would all employers of labor dispense with the “extra hands”whom their own restlessness keeps ever on the lookout for “odd jobs?”— London Globe.

Minding His Own Business.

Forty-one years ago Jolm Smith was the driver and chief proprietor of a line of coaches running to the White Mountains. Whether this was John Smith the first or one thousandth we cannot tell. It was said that he had but one eye, and that he was keen and on -the' main chance. On liis down trip on a time a Boston gentleman took a seat by sJohn’s side, and, being of an inquisitive turn of mind, he asked numerous questions concerning different mountains and views, till at length John’s patience was exhausted, and, in answer to one question, he tartly answered: “Stranger, if you will attend to your business, I will to mine,” As might be readily imagined, there was a very quiet time after that. After a drive of a few miles John drove up to a country store and postoffice, where the mail bag was thrown off. While the mail was being changed Mr. Smith swapped horses with a man who came for that purpose, and the new horse was “hitched in,” and the driver was so intent on the trade, and so desirous of trying the metal of his new horse, that he started off without taking the mail 'bag; After a drive of some ten miles ; he drew up at another office, and, on reaching for the bag and not finding it, he said: “By thunder, I left the bag at the other office.” “Yes,” 1 said the Boston man, “I observed that you did.” “Why in blazes didn’t you tell me?” “Because you said you would attend to your own business, and I thought I would let you.”— Salem (Mass.) Gazette. ••

Why They Fail.

A number of students were refreshing themselves in a restaurant after several hours’ exhausting mental labor in calculating the chances of one ablebodied man batting a ball and another agile fellow catching it and putting out another one less agile. They had spent tlie iafternoon at a game of base-ball, and of course were greatly in need of refreshments after their exhausting occupation. During the evening the conversation turned on their college life and the application to their studies demanded by the faculty of those who would graduate with honor. The poor fellows who spent the afternoon in their rooms pursuing their „ studies preparatory to next day’s recitations and lectures were commiserated by these more easy-going students,, while the general sentiment of tho party was voiced by one of their number, who said: “I did not come to college to study—l came to be taught. ” The ; measure this young man takes of col-1 lege life and the opportunities which it j offers to those who rightly improve ; them is the key which - unlocks the secret of many a young man’s failure in life.— Lancaster (Pa.) New Era.

Reaching the North Pole.

Sooner or later then orth pole will be reached and the geographical and physical phenomena of the region marked npon our maps. No one can foretell what benefits may follow from a successful polar expedition, what new scientific laws it may unfold, or what new light it may shed on our present imperfect knowledge of life in high altitudes. When Galvani and "Volta were watching the twitching legs of a frog, as two pieces of metal were made to touch the nerve, the great scholars and philosophers oft the day saw in the discovery only an amusing

toy. The contemplation of a single discovery like theirs is sufficient to combat the idea that no important benefit can arise from the discovery of the north pole.— Ex-State Geologist Cox, of Indiana.

The Granger’s Delight.

There is one brief fragment of time when the granger forgets that he is the victim of middlemen and monopolists; one slight jewel-bestudded interval of unconsciousness that the weather is as it were the very breath of his nostrils. . His wheat may be frozen out, and the cutworm may be holding high carnival in his corn, but the glistening streak of joy to which we liefer is not dimmed by the remembrance of thesigreat calamities. Though his cattle maydae hidebound and lousy, his hogs coughing with incipient cholera, the fruit all killed, and a lightning rod note about' due at the bank, he is as gay as a woman at a bonnet show, and couldn’t feel any better contented if he had on,a plug hat two feet high. It doesn’t matter a nubbin if the chickens are dying off with any sort of epidemic that does its work with expeditious thoroughness, even though notice has already been served that three or four preachers will stop with him over Sunday during the session of quarterly meeting; yea, and even though his favorite daughter may have taken the vow of poverty by marrying a country editor the week before, none of these direful, things can trouble him while the clown is in the ring and the spotted horses keep going. Seed time and harvest may fail, the wrinkles of care may pre-empt every inch of his solemn visage and encroach on his neck; but so certain as the circus comes along, the granger will be there on the highest plank, with his pocket full of peanuts, ready to raise the canvas with his yells of delight whenever a moss-covered joke finds its way through the hair over his ears. ,No human soul was ever created that could get as much enjoyment out of a circus as the man who grows the bread that feeds the nation. To him it is the garden of Eden under canvas, with no restrictions on the fruit, and every whoop and. yell he sends out means delight unchained. He claps his hands till his horny palms tingle with joy, and stamps his feet until the man in front of him is paralyzed throughout every section of his spine, and longs for a bottle of liniment and soothing solitude. The man who drives the mules through,the corn and puts the big potatoes on the top of the basket, never finds out what a vast store of hilarity bp has boxed up imder his vest until the spring crop of circus bills begins to blossom. From the time his eye catchy the first glimpse of the bounding kangaroo on the flaming poster, clearing the tree toils to escape from an angry hippopotamus with a mouth bigger than a hired man’s appetite, he is a changed being until that circus has come and gone.

On the day the show comes to town the farmer drops everything and gets into the village early, with his whole family and a majority of tlie neighbors, in time to see tlie procession and take in the sights of the side-shows before the; “grand aggregation” opens out in the afternoon. And when finally the anxious moment has arrived, and he finds himself and little ones on the top seat, with plenty of gingerbread, bar-ber-pole candy, and other ambrosial provender, his heart grows bigger than a youth’s ambition, as it pushes up his vest collar to the top of his ears, and he begins to realize that life is sweet and the fleeting moments very precious. In that diamond-pointed instant paradise has been regained, so far as he is concerned, and an angel would have to give considerable “hoot” for a chance to trade places with him. The time-worn sayings of. the clown strike fertile soil when they drop into the granger’s ear. They were tlie friends of his boyhood, and he never goes back on them. It is a part of his religion to laugh at circus jokes With all the muscle in his body every time ho gets a chance, and he does it with~out any discount. He is the clown’s • best friend, and wouldn’t miss an utterance from his painted lips for a gallon of cider. If you want to see a farmer awake all over, go with him to the circus and watch the wag of his jaw when the clown undertakes to jump over a horse and falls sprawling in the sawdust. This affords about the only chance any one can ever hope to have of seeing him go about anything in downright earnest. The student of nature who has never seen a granger cut loose and break out in screaming hilarity in a cir-cus-tent, has not only missed a golden opportunity, but has no conception of how near glory flesh and blood can get for a half a dollar.— Chicago Ledger.

Deficient in Orthography.

Jersey School Commissioner—This new teacher ain’t fit for the business. Citizen—What’s the matter with him ? Jersey School Commissioner—He can’t spell wuth a cent. Citizen—Can’t spell? Jersey School Commissioner—No, sir. He told my darter to-day that “skeeters” is spelled with an “m.”— New York Tivies.

Implements for cultivation and tillage, kept in the best running condition, are not .only easier for the team, and for the'"man who drives it, but they perform the intended v labor in a more perfect manner. Cultivators and horse hoes, with teeth kept sharp and bright, are guided with greater accuracy, cut nearer to the rows, kill all weeds in their track, and give handsomer and more thrifty crops. Plows for slicing and inverting the earth, with sharp edges, freely through the soil, do better work, and at less expense, than hard-running and clogging shares; and harrows for the thorough pulverization of the soil and the complete intermixture of fertilizers, so important to gT&in and other finer crops, should be chosen for their uerfect and' efficient performance of th©*work. Somebody claims that with all its buzzing a horsefly only travels about three miles a day. A hornqt can easily make a mile, a minute if wp get him m ‘ d “ ough - &

“How’s Your Liver?”

In the comic opera of "The Mikado” his Imperial Highness says: “To make, to some extent, - j Kach evil I Jver A running river ®* Of harmless merriment." A nobler task than livers rivers of harmless merriment no person, king, or layman, could take upon himself. The liver, among the ancients, was cons'dered the source of all a man’s evil impulses, and the chances are ten to one to-day that If one’s liver is in an ugly condition of d scontent some one’s head will be mashed before night I "How’s your liver?” is equivalent to the inquiry: Are you a bear or an angel today? Nine-tenths of the “pure-cusseduess,” the actions for divorce, the curtain lectures, the family rows, not to speak of murders, crimes and other calaniitles, are prompted by the irritating effect of the inactivity of the liver upon the brain. Fotli9rgill, the great specialist, says this, and be knows. He also knows that to prevent such catastrophes nothing equals Warner’s safe cure, renowned throughout the world as a maker of “Each evil Liver •"* A funning river Of harmleos merriment."

Bible Characters.

Written in the East, these characters live forever in the West; written in one province, they pervade the world; penned in rude times, tbey are prized more and more as civilization advances; product of antiquity, they come home to the business and bosoms of men, women and children in modern days. Then is it any exaggeration to say, “The characters of the Scripture are a marvel of the mind?” In our day character painting is’ much attempted by certain writers of fictitious narrative; but their method excludes them from a serious comparison with Homer, -Virgil, and the sacred historians. They do not evolve characters by genuine narration. They clog the story with a hundred little essays on the personality of each character. They keep putting their heads from behind the show and openly analyzing their pale creations and dissecting them and eking them out with comments and microscoping their poodles into lions. These are the easy expediments of feeble art.— Charles Eeade.

In the Forest City.

Mr. G. E. Bryan, No. 151 Putnam street, Cleveland, Ohio, has naturally much experience in sickness —with a family of seven children, and his doctois’ and druggists’ bills are heavy. He states publicly that he has given Bed Star Cough Cure a thorough trial in his home, and tinds it to be the best remedy that he has ever used for coughs or colds. It contains neither morphia nor opium, and therefore leaves do depressing effects.

His Own Experience.

There was an amusing scene in the Austin District Court a few days ago. A>young lawyer was defending a horsethief, against whom the evidence was rather strong. He said: “Gentlemen of the . jury, you must not be severe with my client. It is customary among stockmen to gather up stock promiscuously and drive them off, without thinking much about it.” The foreman of the jury arose in his place and said: “Your Honor, may I ask the attorney for the prisoner a question ?” “Certainly. ” “Then I would like to ask him if he was not engaged in stock-raising before he began the practice of law ? It seems to me he is giving Us some! of his own personal expedience.” The prisoner only got ten years, which was all the jury could give him. —Texas Siftings. So Bandy-Legged Individual on Sunday. Mrs. Judge Peterby, of Austin, employs a colored cook named Matilda Snowball, who is a great favorite with the sterner sex, but who is very hightoned, nevertheless. “Who was that horrid-looking negro I saw prowling about the back yard ?” asked Mrs. Peterby, indignantly. “Dat’s a feller I keep company wid on week days.” “On week days ?” “Yes, mum; yer don’t s’ppose I’d be seen wid sich a bandy-legged, goggleeyed moke like him on Sundays, does yer ? Yer order see the cullud gemmen I keeps company wid on Sundays. You’d be s’-priaed, yer would. ” —Teasm Siftings. We have always had a bulky belief that woman would some day be emancipated. P aper dishes have been invented. Some folks can swear without saying a word.

“I would not live alway.” No: not if disease is to make my life a dally burden, but it need not, good friend, and will not if you will be wise in time. How many of our loved ones are moldering in the dust who might have been spared for years. Theslight cough was unheeded, the many symptoms of disease that lurked within were slighted and death camd. Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” cannot recall the dead, though it has snatched numbers from the verge of the grave, and will cure consumption in its earlier stages. The fact that parents are wooed may account for there being so many block-heads among the children. Of sill win* knowledge, only a littli has come to us through our senses. Nearly all that wo know we accept on the testimony es others. If those who have n-ver triqd that unrivaled vegetable preparation, Dit. Walker's California Vinegar Hitters, and are suffering from dyspepsia, bilious, or other fevers, or any disorder of the skin, k dneys, or liver, or from impure blood, will receive the testimony of the thousands who'have tried the Hitters, and been cured, they will be actifig wiseiy. What’s in a name; About the hottest country on the globe Is Chili.— San Francium Post.

Important.

When you vi«R or leave New York City, save liaguraee Expreapage and Carriage Hire, and stop at the Grand Union HoteL opposite Grand Central Depot: 800 elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Cnion than at ony first-class hotel in the city. Could the pian who pred ’ets catastrophes in the money market, be called a finance seer.-

“Put up” at the Gault House.

The business man or fcurist will And firstclass accommodations at the low price of 82 and s2.sCper day at the Gault House, Chicago, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city.jonly one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all i.ppolattneftts first-class. HOVT O«. t ■=■« Proprietors. Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel BtifTenera keep new boots and shoes from running* over. Sold by shoe and hardware dea.ers. The Fra.’.er % kept by all dealers. One box lasts as long as two of any other.

I was laid up for a long, time with rheumatism in both my logs. I began taking Athlophoros, soon had relief, and in a very short time was entirely well. I have not been troubled since. Jacob Manus, 8528 South Halstcd st., Chicago, 111.

Mothers Stand by Their Sons.

“Mothers stand by the prisoners the best,” said the Warden of Sing Sing, in a desultory talk. “No matter what the son has been, the mother never forgets him, and every two months, when he is allowed to see her for a little while, she is sure to be here with some frnit or delicacy to remind him of her love. Wives aye usually devoted for a short time, but if they are young and pretty, and their husbands are in for long terms, they usually drift away after a few visits. Fathers seldom or never come here, for a father is the last one to forgive the disgrace which the spn has brought upon him. This is but another illustration of the undying nature of a love.”— Brooklyn Eagle. • 1

Don’t Hawk, Spit, Cough,

suffer dizziness, Indigestion, inflammation of the eyes, headache, lassitude, inability to perform mental work and indisposition for bodily labor, and annoy and disgust your friends and acquaintances with your nasal twnng and offensive breath and constant efforts to clean your nose and throat, when Dr. Sage’s "Catarrh Remedy” will proruptl/ relieve you of discomfort and suffering, and your friends of the disgusting and needless inflictions of your loathsome disease. The man in Germ ny who has made and sol<] 3,000,0J0 thermometers ought to believe 111 weather profits.—Texas Siftings. — : —=*=

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DARING DONALD .jp . 1; k A J' Jfr THE INDIAN SCOUT; o,. THE TREASURE TRAIN OF LOST RIVER. •■ - By WELDON J. COBB, AUTHOR OP “At Her Mercy,” “Love of Her Life,” “tto Telegraph Detective,” “Wild Han,” “The Manacled Hand,” Etc.

Publishers of The Chicago Ledger; Gentlemen—The story of “Donald Mo Kay, tho Celebrated Indian Scout,” the manu- ' script of which is handed you herewith, embraces the most thrilling and eventful period in tne life of that eminent chieftain and borderman. The facts employed in the same were given from McKay’s own Dps, and verified by such eminent authority as General Phil' Sheridan, George Crook, Brigadier General of the Department of the Missouri, and other reliable authority. The portraits are authentic ones, the topography of the romance practically correct, and the capture of the Modoc chieftain. Captain .Tuck, with the startling Incidents leading to that climax in a stormy episode in national history, are almost literally depicted as they occurred. I To-day the Government of the United States is debtor to Donald McKay In the sum of twenty thousand dollars in gold for the dislodgement of the Modoc warriors in the lava beds —a feat performed after the expenditure of thousands of dollars and the loss of many men, among them the heroio Gen. Canby. Single-handed, Donald McKay captured the terror of the West, Captain Jack; and this wonderful exploit and kindred adventures form a portion of the romance of this brave man, who is now Chief of the Umatilla Indians. The iron warp of reality find the golden, woof of romance Intermingle in the story of ’’The Treasure Train of Lost River.” The natural rapacity of savage hordes, the worthlessness of the renegade, the absorbing incident) of frontier capture, skirmish and rescue, all find a place in this story, and an earnest effort has been made throughout to show the natural bravery. Intelligence, and shrewdness,of this King of the Western War Trail, the oldost scout In the Government service, Donald McKay. > In this connection I hand you one of several letters received concerning McKay, although he needs no indorsement, the press l and history of the country perpetuating his deeds of valor and heroism. Weldon J. Cobb. LETTER OP BRIO. GEN. CROOK. Headquarters Dept, of the Platte, I Commanding General's Office, V Omaha, Neb., July 11, 1882. ) W. J. Cobb, Esq., Chicago: My Dear-Sib-I am in receipt of your letter of the Bth inst, with reference to the record at Donald McKay. McKay was a scout In my command during l86?-’g-’s), and served with me In Washington Territory, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada, and must be yerv well known in that portion of the country. He was a good man and an excellent scout, and his servlcea were valuable to me. X should think a narrative of his varied expert-, ences in the Northwest would prove very tnteresiing. Very respectfully yours, Geobge Crook, Brigadier General U. 8. A. The story above referred to will appear in The Chicago Ledger of September 28th, and be continued from week to week until completed.' This highly interesting history of Wild Life in the Far West has been secured by the proprietors or The Chicago Ledges at great expense, and will not be published in book form. The opening chapter will contain accurate portrait* of Donald McKay and his wife, and succeeding chapters will be handsomely illustrated. bend in your subscriptions early, and get the opening chapters of the most interesting narrative ever offered the reading public. Terms, one copy one year, $1.50; eight months, $1.00! six mouths, 80 cents; three months, 40 cents. For sale by ail newsdealers. Bend a two-cent stamp for sample copy. THE CHICAGO LEDSER. 271 Franklin BL. CHICAGO. ILL. mi.-1.111-» i—■ i I-.. .i i ——a / Established 18(4.’ JkfpENSiON ffll Wi Claims PROSECUTED Jwm WITHOUT FEE ” Rpifflil Cnless successful. \/tW Hilo B. Stereos & So. Wf&k offices: --ij” Washington, D. C* f Cleveland, O. 7aSKtf«j«raMgß- Detroit, Sich. Chicago. 111, «“' , A Q*Sr YonrNew»deal«r forTHE CHICAGO £\ W% LEDGES, the Best Story Farm JHKIn the country. Read it. C.N.U. No. 38—85 WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS. ,» v please nay yon saw the advertiseannni urtkfs paper. A Clear Skin is only a part of beauty; but it is a part. Every lady may have it; at least, what looks like it Magnolia Balm both freshens and beautifies. .. J