Sparta Democrat (Newspaper) - July 13, 1859, Sparta, Wisconsin Publisher We Go Where Democratic Principles Lead the they disappear We tease to VOL 1 MONROE co Terms in NO id every WEDNESDAY Morning at SPARTA WISCONSIN Terms 50 in advance HATES OF ADVERTISING One Column one year 00 tix months 30 00 Half OHO year 3000 she months 20 00 fourth Column your 15 OU Transient 1 square 1st insertion 100 Kach subsequent insertion SO Curds of six lines or loss per year G 00 Notices at Statute rates BUSINESS DIRECTORY Thos B Tyler is now prepared to make full Ab- stracts to nil lands in Monroe Co Also furnish Township and Village about Estate to ey on real estate securities cr to commence in Foreclosure cannot fail to appreciate the advantages here offered attention given to Conveyancing Loaning money paying Interest on State Lands anil Taxes n Vill receive prompt Montgomery Wis Sparta Craves Morrow Attorneys fc Counselors at Office corner Wa- ter fts Sparta Wis attention paid to tbc collection of claims L w GRAVES J M Sparta June 20th yl Montgomery Tyler Attorneys -5 Counselors at Law in opposite the Ida House Wis THOS B Sparta June 1859 yl Dr 31 R Gage i Office in the room formerly the residence a few north ol the House Sparta Wis Sparta Juno 1809 yl Dr C u Dr ij returned to to imminently C responded to ut of the Office with Dr June yl Andrew Jackson Vj Wholesale Retail dealer in Jewelry of every description All kinds of repairing on shore notice and in the neatest possible manner Store wirh Jackson Carpenter Water St Sparta yl Win S in Stoves Hardwire iiK Corner of Oak and Water eta June FRED A LEE iu Magazines Toys Notions Candy Fruit lite House Sparta Wis Sparta June yl WAHNER and Stone Masons All of Plastering in a neat and manner Sparta June 1809 yl II Tester Saddle Harness and Shop South Dido of Oak door wist of the Monroe County Sparta 1809 tf J M Co House and Ornamental Painters Glaziers aud Taper Hangers door to the Tost Office Sparta yl Ida House S P This Hotel lias recently liccn enlarged and improved There a good Livery in connection vith the A lino of carries passengers Ironi the cars to any part of the city June 20th 1809 yl IJ This House Is now completely Finished and Furnished throughout Omnibuses carry Fvr to ami from the Stages daily for all points Sparta yl Globe hotel aving the management of this House is throughout tho subscriber would re- inform tho public that he is now able to accommodate his vitli the best the market yl Win A A has removed to his new Store ou Water St two doors north of Smith's hardware he is ready t o do custom work in the latest and a fit warranted Wis tf Excelsior Drug Store X Abbott is receiving a largo supply of dow of all sizes Taints Oils and Drugs which will be sold at prices that defy competition building ivill find it to their interest to give him a call before purchasing elsewhere Sparta 1809 tf G W Milligan niKl to all in tho lino of his at tho residence oi C JI on Oak at June tf Goodwin Stave always ready for those who wish to u of saddle find which they keep at their stable on Main opposite the Square Their horses aru gentle anc as n babe aud the tii ov can drive them tlu least fear whatever carriages aru very neatly to in never were made yl To one oi the Author's Children ON HIS BIRTHDAY AUGUST 1825 Thou from happy sleep to With bounding heart my boy Before theo lies a long bright day Of ami of Thou hast no heavy thought or dream To cloud thy fearless be it early stream Should still reflect the sky Yet ere the cares of life lie dim On thy young spirit's wings Now in thy morn forget not Him From whom each pure thought So in the vale of tears thy path may be When strength hath to evil HE will remember A Sorrowful Ditty OBY THE A tears ivere streaming In torrents from he eyes And her bosom pure was heaving With heavy sobs and sighs Her form of grace was bending Like a in a gale And I asked the maiden gently Her cause of woe and wail Wept she not her love's betrayal Or for hopes too rudely It was not for faithless lover All those pearly tears were lost She said and sobbed the thus her 0 darn the old shoemaker gaiters pinch my toes The Belle of the Belfry OR THE LOVER A is else besides a mean girl or a gray the French dictionary to the contrary ing Bless me you should see the bcttes of And if you wished to take a lesson in political compacts you should understand the cy of i They were girls it is milliners they never expected to be any thing more aristocratic And in that content lay their power The grisettes of were a good fourth of the female population They had their jealousies and little scandals and heart burnings and and for they were women among themselves But they made com- mon cause against the They would bear no disparagement They know exactly what was duo to them and what was due to their superiors and they paid and gave credit ia the coin of good manners as cannot be clone in countries of liberty and equality Still there were little shades of difference in the at- tention shown them by their employers and they worked twice as much in a day when sowing for Madame who took her dinner with them in the as for old who dined all alone in her grand saloon and left them to cat by themselves among their shreds and scissors But these were not slights which they seriously resented Wo only to the incautious dame who dared to scandalize one of their or dispute her dues or encroach upon her privileges They would make as uncomfortable for her lieu as a kettle to a slow But the prettiest of was not often permitted to join her com- panions in their sions on the holidays Old Dame was the sexton's widow and she had the care of the great clock of St Roch and of one only daughter and ex- care she took of both her charges They lived at three in the clock and it was a bright day for when she got out of ing of that tick tick and of the thumping of her mother's cane on the long staircase which always kept time with it Not that old Dame had any objection to have her daughter bly married She had been deceived in her youth or so it was whispered by a lover above her condition and she vowed by the cross on her cane that her ter should have no sweetheart above a journeyman mechanic Now the romance of the grisettes parlous bas was to have one charming little flirtation with a before they married the to show that had they by chance been born ladies they could have played their part to the taste of their lords But it was at this game that Panic had burnt her and she had this one subject for the exercise of her powers of mortal aversion When I have added that four miles from stood the chateau dc and that the old Court do was a proud aristocrat of the ime with one son the young Count Felix whom wo had educated at Paris I think I have prepared you tolerably for the little romance I have to tell you It was a fine Sunday morning that a mounted hussar appeared in the street of The grisettes were all abroad in their holiday par we and the gay dier soon made an with one of them at the door of the inn and in- formed her that he had been sent on to prepare the old barracks for his troop The hussars were to be quartered a month at Ah what a joyous bit of news And six officers beside the And the trumpeters were miracles at ing quadrilles and And not a plain man in the ways the speaker And none except the old colonel had ever been in love in his life But as this last fact required to be sworn to of course he was ready to kiss the in the of the book the nest most sacred object of his tion Finissez done monsieur exclaimed his pretty listener and away she ran to spread the welcome intelligence with its delightful particulars The next day the troop rode into and formed in the great square in front of St and by the time the trumpeters had played themselves red in the face the hussars were all appropriated to a the grisettes knew enough of a marching regiment to lose no time They all found leisure to pity poor nais however for there she stood in one of the high windows of the belfry ing down on the gay crowd below and they knew very well that old Dame had declared all soldiers to bo gay deceivers and forbidden her daughter to stir into the street while they were tered at Of course the grisettes managed to agree as to each other's selection of a sweetheart from the troop and of course each hussar thankfully accepted the pair of eyes that fell to him Per aside from the limited duration of their stay soldiers arc philosophers and know that life is and it is better to goods the provide But as every was as they say at a feast there ed another short jacket and foraging cap very much to the relief of red-headed the who had been left out in the previous allotment And made the amiable accordingly but to no purpose for the Kid seemed an idiot with but one forever at St Roch's clock to know the time of day The grisettes laughed and asked their sweethearts his name but they ly pointed to their foreheads and ed something about poor being a privileged follower of the regiment and a protege of the colonel Well the grisettes flirted and the old clock of St ticked on and and the plainest and the prettiest girl in the village seemed the only two who were left out in this extra tion of lovers And poor Robert in still persisted in occupying most of his leisure with watching the time of day It was on the Sunday morning after the arrival of the troop that old dame went up as usual to do her day's duty in winding up the clock She had previously locked the belfry door to be sure that no one entered below while she was above Virgin help on the top stair into the machinery of the clock with absorbed attention sat one of those devils of hussars and house were the most moderate epithets which Dame accompanied the en- raged beating of her stick on the ing platform She was almost beside herself with rage And had been up to dust the wheels of the clock And how did she know that that of a trooper was not there all the time But the intruder whose face had been concealed ill now turned suddenly round I and bugan to gibber and grin like a sensed monkey pointed the imitated the tkk laughed till the big bell gave cut an echo like a groan and then suddenly jumped over the old dame's stick and ran down stairs Eh exclaimed the old dame it's r poor idiot after And he has stolen up to see what made the clock tick Ha ha ha Well I can not come up these weary stairs twice a day and I must wind up the clock I go down to let him out Tick tick tick lad poor They must have dressed him up to make fun of vicious troopers 1 And with pity in her heart Dame hobbled down stair after stair to her chamber in the square turret of the belfry and there she found the poor idiot on his knees before and was just preparing to put a skein of thread over his thumbs for she thought she might make him useful and amuse him with the winding of it till her mother came down But as the thread got entangled and the poor lad sat as patiently as a wooden reel and it was time to go below to mass the dame thought she might as well leavo him there till she came bock and down she stumped ing the door very safely behind her Poor was very lonely in the belfry and Dame who had a tender heart where her duty was not in- rather rejoiced when she returned to find an unusual glow of delight on her daughter's check and if could find so much pleasure in tho society of a poor idiot lad it was a sign too that her heart was not gone after those abominable It was time to send the innocent youth about his business however so she him a holiday cake and led him down stairs and dismissed him with a pat on his back and a strict injunction never to venture again up to the tick tick tick But as she had had a lesson as to the accessibility of her bird's nest she determined thenceforth to lock the door invariably and carry the key in her pocket While poor was occupied with his researches into tho tick tick never absent a day from the neighborhood of the tower the more fortunate hussars were planning to give the a fete One of the saint's days was coming round and the weather ting all the vehicles of the village were to bo levied and with the troop horses in harness they were to drive to a small wooded valley in the neighborhood of the chateau de whore seclusion and a mossy carpet of grass were combined in a little paradise for such enjoyment The morning of this merry day dawned at least and the their ad- mirer were stirring betimes for they were to breakfast sur and they were not the people to turn into ner The sky was clear the dew was not very heavy on the and rily the vehicles rattled about the town picking up their fair freights from its ob- corners But poor looked out a sad prisoner from her high window in the belfry It was half an hour after sunrise and Dame was creeping up stairs after her matins thanking Heaven that she had been firm in her least twenty of tbc grisettes having gathered about her and pleaded for a day's freedom for her imprisoned daughter She rested on the last landing but one to take a little hark man's voice talking in the belfry She listened again and quietly slipped her foot out of her shoes The voice was how could it be She knew that no one could have up the stair for the key had been kept in her pocket more carefully than usual and save by tho wings of one of her own pigeons tho fry window was inaccessible was sure tho voice went on in of in murmur and the dame stole softly up in her stockings and opened the door There stood at the window but she was alone in the room At the same instant the voice was heard and sure now that one of those desperate hussars had climbed the tower and unable to control her rage at the of the attempt Dame clutched her cane and rushed forward to aim a blow at the military cap new ble si the sill of the window But at the the cf thrown back and the gibbering and otic smile of poor checked her blow in its descent and turned all her anger into pity Poor silly he had contrived to draw up the garden ladder and place it upon the roof of the stone porch below to climb and offer a flower to Not unwilling to have her daughter's mind occupied with some other thought than the forbidden excursion tho dame offered her hand to and him gently in at the window And as it was now market time she bid nais be kind to tho poor boy and locking the door behind her trudged contentedly off with her stick and basket I am sorry to be obliged to record an act of filial disobedience in the heroine of my story an hour after was welcomed with acclamations as she denly appeared with in the midst of the merry party of grisettes With as he had hitherto been scon his cap on the back of his head and his under lip hanging loose like an idiot's but with Roberton gallant spirited and gay the handsomest of hussars and the most joyous of companions And nais spite of her hasty toilet and the cloud of conscious disobedience which now and then shaded her sweet smile was by ny degrees the belle of the hour and tho palm of beauty for once in the world at least was yielded without envy The dearly love a bit of romance too and the circumventing of old Dame by his ruse of idiocy and the safe extrication of the prettiest girl of the lage from that gloomy old tower was quite enough to make a hero and his sweetheart more inter- esting than a persecuted princess And seated on the ground while their glittering cavaliers served them with breakfast the light-hearted grisettes of were happy enough to be en- vied by their betters But suddenly the sky darkened and a slight gust ing among the trees announcing the com- ing up of a summer storm Sauve The soldiers were used to and they had packed up and re- loaded their ears and were way for shelter almost as soon as the grisettes and away they all fled toward the est of tho dependencies of the chateau of tho de But now had suddenly be- come the director and ruling spirit of the festivities The soldiers him with instinctive deference the old farmer of the grange hurried out with his keys and unlocked the great and dis- posed of the horses under shelter and by the time the big drops began to fall the party were dancing gayly and ly on the dry and smooth and the merry harmony of the martial trumpets and horns rang out far and wide j through the gathering tempest The rain began to come down very heavily and the clatter of a horse's feet in a rapid gallop was hoard in one of the pauses of tho waltz Some one ing shelter no doubt On went the be- witching music again and at this moment two or throe couples ceased waltzing and the floor was left to and nais whose graceful motions drew all eyes upon them in admiration Smiling in each other's faces and wholly of any other presence than their own they whirled blissfully but there was now another spectator The horseman who had heard to approach had silently joined the party and making a courteous gesture to signify that tho dancing was not to be interrupted ho smiled back the of the pretty aristocratic as he was he was a polite man to the the Count dc Felix lie suddenly cried out in a tone of surprise and anger The music stopped at that imperative call and turned his eyes ished in the direction from which it came The name was repeated from lip to lip among the Count Felix de But without deigning another word the old man pointed with his to the The disguised count re- bowed his head but held by the hand aud drew her gently Leavo her disobedient ex- the But as count Felix tightened his hold upon the small hand he held and is tried to shrink back from the advancing old man old streaming with rain broke in unexpectedly upon the scene Disgrace not your said the Count de at that moment The offending couple stood alone in the centre of and the dame hended that her daughter was disparaged And who is disgraced by dancing with my she screamed with rious gesticulation The old noble made no answer but the grisettes in an under tone the name of Count Felix It is changeling the son of a poor gardener that is by the touch of my daughter T A dead silence followed this ing declamation The old dame had for- gotten herself iii her rage she looked about with a terrified the mischief was done man stood aghast Count Felix clung still closer to but his face expressed the most eager The ettes gathered around Dame and the old count left standing and alone suddenly drew his cloak about him and stepped forth into the rain and in an- other moment his horse's feet were heard clattering away in the direction of the chateau dc We have but to tell the sequel The cautious revelation of the old dame turned out to be true The dying infant daughter of the marchioness de had been changed for the healthy son ol the count's gardener to secure an heir to the name of the nearly extinct family of dc Dame ney had assisted in this secret aud but for her heart full of rage at tho moment to which the old count's taunt was but the last drop the secret would probably have never been revealed Count Felix who had proved truant from his college at ris to come and hunt up some of his fellows in disguise had remembered and disclosed himself to tho little who was not sorry to recognize him while he played the idiot in the belfrey But of course there was now no obstacle to their union and united they were The old count pardoned him and gave the new couple a portion of and they named their first child and was natural enough A Talc Atout a Jake was a little buck negro who be- longed to Dr Taliaferro and was said to have in his little frame a heart as big as G say nothing ol Napoleon Bonaparte and Taylor He didn't fear even Old Nick aud as for was as cool as the tip-top of the North Pole One day Dr Taliafarro upon the casion of the of a Medical College of which he held the chair of Anatomy gave a dinner Among his guests was a well known ventriloquist Late in the evening after the bottle had done its work the conversation turned upon courage aud the Doctor boasted considerable of the of his ite man Jake He to bet that nothing could scare him and this bet the ventriloquist took up naming at the same time the test ho wanted imposed Jake was sent for and came said the Doctor I have a largo sum of money on your head and you must win it Do you think you Berry well replied Jake jess tell dis nigga what he's to do an he'll doit shure want you to go to tho dissecting room you will find two dead bodies there cut off the head of one with a large knife which will find there aud bring it to us You must not take a light however and don't get frightened all is inquired Jake Oh berry well I'll do dat sure for sartin and as for being the herself ain't a to frightened inc Jake accordingly set off and reaching he dissecting room groped about until the found the knife and the bodies He had just applied to the neck of one of the latter when from the body lie was about to decapitate u hollow and sepulchral voice Let head alone Yea replied Jake ain't lar and do jcs as well He accordingly put the knife to tin neck of the next corpse when another voice equally as unearthly in its tone shrieked Let my alone Jake was at first but an- swered presently Look a yah I Master said L must bring one of de heads and you isn't a guine to fool me no how I and Jake hacked away until he separated the head from the body Thereupon half a voices screamed briny lack Jake had reached the door but heaving this turned round and see yah Jos you quiet you duce ob a foul ah don't up de women folk only to look at the bumps Bring back my head at once cried the voice you right away sah re- plied Jake as he off with head and in the next minute deposited it before the Doctor So you've got it I see said his mas ter Yes replied the unmoved Jake but please to be done lookin at him soon hasc the told me to fouch him riyht away Johnson used to say that nothing was easier than to draw t crowded house Let a man announce he will preach standing on his head and thousands will assemble to see him do it The above reminds us of how little merit is often required in the acquisition of notoriety We knew an who once advertised in London that ho would at a given time sail in a tub upon the under London bridge drawn by a parcel of geese When the day came the man geese and tub were there and so were an immense multitude of spectators curious to see the novel and ludicrous feat SPIRITED said a hard-looking brandy-faced customer tho other day to a physician doctor I am troubled with an oppression an uneasiness about the breast What do you suppose the matter is V All very easily accounted said the physician you have water on the chest Water Come that'll do well enough for a joke but how could I get water on my chest when I haven't touched a drop in fifteen years If you had said brandy you might have hit it MEDICAL FACTS Merchants ly die of the billious printers of the and brokers of the fever Masons usually go off with stone el or dropsy Brewers nre constantly ailing Glaziers arc never without pains Most tailors leave the world in fits though their customers rarely do The children of coopers arc never from hooping cough Lovers have palpitation of the heart Our orators are never troubled with shortness of breath though with them flatulence la not un- common Dyers are subjected to the blues scarlet fever and cloak makers to the The king's evil is not known in this country and is becoming rare even in Eu- rope or The Japanese women gild their teeth the Indians paint them red whilst in the pearl of the teeth to be beautiful must be dyed black The ladies of Arabia fingers and toes red their eyebrows black and their lips blue In Persia they paint a black streak round the eyes and ment their faces with various figures In Greenland the women color their faces with blue and yellow Hottentot women paint in compartments of red and black Hindoo when desirous of appearing particularly lovely smear selves with a mixture of saffron and grease In ancient Persia an linc nose was often thought worthy of the crown but the mother fully flattens the of her daughter An African must have thick and n large flal
