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, 1868-09-04

MAKING A BEGINNING Every day we
meet young men, just beginning life, anxious
to improve their position, and ignorant of
what course to take, yearDing for the excite>
ment that awaits them in the struggle of
life in the years before them, but unable to
discover means by which to attain the object
of their desire. To all such, we doubt not,
every one of us would gladly stretch forth
helping hand, and aid if but with words, and
all we could say would be, get knowledge.
Apply yourself assiduously and resolutely,
energetically and perseveringly to acquire
skill and information connected with your
profession, whatever that may be; be alive
to all that is passing around you; avoid dis
sipation and extravaganza Of all kinds, and
be ready to take advantage of the first op.
pOrtunity that may offer to apply your ac-
quired skill and information in the most pro-
ductlve and remunerative paths Bear In
mind, that if you never make beginning
you can never make an end. The first weed
pulled up in the garden, the first seed put
into the ground, the first dollar put into the
savings bank, are all very important things ;
they make beginning, and thereby hope,
promise, pledge, az assurance that you
are in earnest with that you have undertaken.
How many a poor, idle, erring, hesitating
outcast, who is now creeping and crawling
his way through the world, might have held
his head up and Prospered if he had only
made beginning, instead of putting off his
resolutions of amendment and industry. 1t
is by following out this principle that we see
so many instances of men who originally
commenced from very humble beginnings
outstrip their compeers in the race of life, by
acquiring information which the others had
ne elected, or put off acquiring till more
convenient season; by force of study and a
strong will and indomitable perseverance,
they become generals while the others re-
mained in the ranks. There is no spectacle
more encouraging and beautiful, and more
worthy of our admiration, than that of a
man of humble lot combating trials and adj
versities by patience, and overcoming them
BY integrity and a persevering villa man
who, when his legs fail him, "can walk upon
his courage"
, 1868-09-04
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To MAKE Cows GIVE MnK.-A writer
who says that his COW gives all the milk that
is wanted in family of eight persons, and
which has made two hundred and sixty
pounds of butter in the year, gives the fol-
lowing as his treatment "If you desire to
get large yield of milk, give your COW,
three times a day, water slightly warm,
slightly salted, in which bran has been stir,
red at the rate of one quart to two gallons of
water. You find, if you have not found this
by daily practice, that your COW will gain
twenty-five per cent. Immediately under the
effect of it, and she will become so attached
to the diet as to refuse to drink clear water
unless very thirsty, but this she will drink
almost any time, and ask for more. The
amount of this drink is an ordinary pailful
each time, morning, noon aud night. Your
animal will then do her best at discouuting
the lacleal. -Four hundred pounds of butter
are often obtained from good stock, and in
stances are mentioned where the yield was
even at a higher figure:
, 1868-09-04

AN iron mountain exists in the upper
portion of Upshur country, West Virginia,
Of greater extent and purity than any other
known body of iron ore in the world, not
excepting the famous iron mountain of
Missouri and under this vast body of iron
there is vein of bituminous coal, measuring
on the face, where the Buchanan river cuts
through, twenty-five feet in thickness This
ore is so pure that a blacksmith took piece
and forged horseshoe from it.
, 1868-09-04

AN individual at the races was staggering
about the track, with more liquor than he
could carry Halo, what's the matter now?'
said cha p whom the inebrated ran against.
why, (hic) why, the fact is (hic) lot of
my friends have been betting liquor on the
races to-day, and they have got me to hold
the stakes
, 1868-09-04

CURING OF GREEN HIDES. - A great
many butchers, wool dealers, etc., are pur>
chasers Of the hides of the beef in the coun-
try towns, and we often get from them in
quiries as to the most proper and profitable
method of curing the hides and preparing it
for market. A great many butchers do not
use proper care in this branch, and the COM
sequence is the hides will not pass city in
spectiOn. owing entirely to the ignorance and
carelessness of persons preparing them for
market. The proper way to salt hides is to
lay them out fat, flesh side up, and form a
nearly square bed, say twelve by fifteen feet,
folding in the edges so as to make them as
nearly solid as possible. Split the ear in
the cords that run up the ear in each one, so
as to make them lie out fat Sprinkle the
hide with two or three shovelfuls of coarse
salt, as the size may require-say for sixty
to eighty pound hide from ten 10 fifteen
pounds Of salt At any rate cover the hide
well, as it need not be wasted and let them
lie in this from twelve to twenty days, after
which take them up, shake salt we'll out, and
use it again.-iShOe and Leather Reporter.
, 1868-09-04

A GOOD story is told of DR.. o. W. HolS
mes who having been called upou and cons
siderably bored by gentleman who had
devoted himself 10 lecturiDg in England
without much ability for doing SO, inquired.
What are you at about this particular timer
The answer was, 'Lecturing as usual. 1
hold forth this eventing at Roxbury.' The
Professor, clapping his hands together, ex>
claimed, 4 am glad of it; never liked those
Roxbury people
, 1868-09-04

Two theological professors were crossing
lake together in the West Highlands, In
company with number of passengers, when
a storm came ou with terrible force. One
of the passengers was heard to utter, The u,
two ministers should begin to pray or we'll
a. be doomed Ma, ma, said the boatman,
{ the little one can pray if he like, but the
big one must take an oar.
, 1868-09-04

AN attendant at the South Boston HospiT
tai for the Insane, reports a conversation
between two patients. They had entered
into an argument relative to the difference
between riding a horse aud a hobby, one
eontending that there was none. The other
replied that there certainly was and upon
being called on to define it, said Those
VINO ride horse can stop and get off when
ever they feel like it, but those who ride a
hooby 6ud it impossible TO do so.'
, 1868-09-04

A CURE FOB SICK HEADAcHE-Take
half drachm Of aromatic spirits ammonia,
in little water; at the same time apply
cloths wet in solution Of muriate of ammonia
Zone ounce Of muriate of ammonia in nine
ounces of water, and one ounce of alcohol)
to the forehead
, 1868-09-04

CURE FOR FoUNDER.-The Rural York,
er proposes to cure founder in horses in this
way: Take the horse into brook or stream
Of water deep enough to nearly reach his
body and fasten him there with his head so
high that be cannot drink. If the weather
is warm keep him there several hours Then
remove him and rub his legs thoroughly to
promote circulation. If still lame, repeat
the process three or four times and cure
will be effected. In winter twenty minutes
will be long enough to keep the horse in the
water, when he should be taken out and
rubbed as in the other case-repeating the
operation if necessary. This is said to cure
cases of founder, when not of long standing.
, 1868-09-04

AN article in London magazine dilaies
on the palatable quality of steaks, from lions
and tigers. 1t is not certain about lions !;
but it is said that those who fight the tiger
rarely get their stakes
, 1868-09-04
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, 1868-09-04
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nHARP.--'GoOd morning, uncle. How do
you do! am well you see. I'll bet ten dol
iafs yon don't know what came to see you
!or' Money of course. You never come for
Suy thing but that You've lost ten dollars,
OS'f uncle, l came to ask yOu-hOw is aunt.
, 1868-09-04
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, 1868-09-04

SoFA.-A piece of furniture for which a
woman has decided inclination.
, 1868-09-04

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and impudence
, 1868-05-29
THROUGH TIE WORLD.

Some hearts 60 hunting through the world
Aud never End the love they seek
Some lips with pride or scorn are eurled
To hide the pain they may aot speak.
The eye may fash, the mouth may smile,
The voice 10 gladdest music thrill,
Add Jet beneath them all the while
The hungry heart be piniug still.
These know their doom, and walk their way
With level steps and steadfast eyes,
Nor strive with Fate, nor weep, nor pray
While others, not 90 sadly wise,
Are mocked By phantoms sEermore,
And lured By seemings Of delight,
Fair to the eye, but at the core
Holding but bitter dust aud blight.
see them gaze from wistful eyes,
mark their sigI on fading cheeks;
hear them breathe 10 smothered sighs,
And note the grief that never speaks
For them no might redresses wrong,
No eye with pity is impearled.
o miseonstrued and suffering long,
o hearts that hunger through the world
For you does lifes dull desert hold
No fountained shade, no date grove fair,
No gush of waters, clear aud cold,
But sandy reaches wide and bare.
The foot may fail, the soul may faint,
And weigh to earth the weary frame,
Yet still ye make no weak complaint,
And speak no word of grief or blame.
o eager eyes which gaze afar
o arms which clasp the empty air
Not all unmarked your sorroWs are,
Not all unpitied your despair.
Smile, patient lips, so proudly dumb
When life's frail tent at last is furled
Your glorious reeompense shall come,
o hearts that hunger through the world |
, 1868-05-29

A STRANGE HoRsE.-The Iowa Falls
Qowa) Sentinel publishes a very strange
story about horse in the northern part of
Franklin county changing its color. 1t
says :-"Mr Brown has four year old colt
which he has heretofore priced very highly.
In color he is naturally bright bay Mr..
Brown says that he went to his stable two
weeks ago Sunday morning, aud there stood
a pure whithe horse. He was much aston
ished when, on examination, be found that
the horse was undoubtedly bis own colt.
Mr.. B. proceeded to the house to inform his
wife and children, when they all returned
to the stable, aud there stood coal black
horse, to the sstonishment of the family,
Since that time the colt has changed from
black to bay, white and sOrrel. This is a
strange story, but the IN ost perfect proofs
are brought to sustain it,
, 1868-05-29

WHO Is ABLE TO STAND AGAINST Envy.
The rabbins have curious story on the
subject and it has been formed by the mod,
erns into fable There were two persons,
one covetous to whom a certain person prom'
ised to grant whatever they should ask; but
double to him who should ask last The
covetous man would not ask first because he
wished to get the double portion, aud the
envious man would not make the first res
quest because be could not bear the thought
Of thus beueRtting his neighbor However,
at last be requested that one of his eyes
should be taken ont, in order that his neigh
Dor might lose both.
, 1868-05-29
NUMBER 81.
DO-Nothing Young Ladies'.

At recent sOciab'e gathering, a young
lady informed me that she never seWed
What do you suppose was the nature Of nv
reflections on bearing the declarationl I
said 10 myself either the girl speaks falsely,
or she is very lazy. Never sews Who,
then, l qperied, made your dresses aud
clOaks, your skirts and bows Who repairs
the rips in your pretty gaiter boots, and
darns the holes in your stOckings? Is il
your aged mother or your more Industrious
sister Or do you hire all your sewing
done 7 Should this last supposition be the
case, may you never marry; and the chances
are you never will. Not one yonug man in
a hundred can afford to marry q woman who
hAbitually neglects household duties.
Young man, if it should ever be your for
tune to hear a woman declare that she never
sews, beware Shun her as you would the
chills and fever. Be insane enough to make
such a one your wife, and before the honey
moon is over, the horrors of buttonless shirts
and hose full of holes will be upon you;
your fair lady's sewing will be done by
others, while she mopes in idleness or riots
10 fashionable dissipation. Then you may
bid farewell to all your dreams of domestic
felicity, they would fade as summer flowers
at the touch Of frost l have heard ladies,
educated and intelligent ladies, declare with
actual pride their ignorance Of the ART of
cooking. They "could not make a cup of
coffee to save their lives )" and as to their
making loaf of good bread, or cooking a
simple dinner, that was out of their power.
Poor, miserable unfOrtunatesl
Doubtless mothers are much to blame for
thus neglecting the education of their
daughters; but surely there is no sensible
girl who could not, by the exercise of little
energy, perfect herself in the most useful
branch of domestic knowledge. False pride,
in every case, is the only barrier in the way.
1t is not considered "genteeP eP'-how do
abominate that word-to do anything useful,
and fashionable Miss would consider her
self disgraced should she be seen with her
hands in the dough, or caught in the act of
sweeping room: If young lady of the
present day can thumb the piano, make use
of few French phrases, dance, Airt, and do
nothing generally, her education il accom-
plished-she is considered "6Dished"
, 1868-05-29

How OUR EASTERN News Is MANUTAcTuRED.-
Yerterday was prolific in some Of the widest
rumors that have circulated here since the war
First, il was positively asserted that the renown-
ed Mosby was on the "war pEth" again, and
had collected q Thousand men at Leesburg on
Sunday, and was marching to Washington to
offer his services to the President. Next, it was
said that Gen. Grant had ordered a battery
from Fort McHenry, and that it arrived this
morning before daybreak, and had been ordered
across the Potomac to occupy one Of the abAu-
doned forts on the Virginia side, to intercept
Mosby in his march to the capital. The last
story gained some credence from the fact that
one of Gen. Grants messengers came hurriedly
into the War Department. and happening to
meet newspaper reporter-being the first man
in his way-the messenger inquired where the
master of transportation of the Baltimore and
Ohio road was, He was not there but had been
sent for by General Grant. The reporter at once
Jumped to the conclusion that Grant wanted to
see the transportation agent to make arrange
ments for bringing troops here. He FASTENED
forthwith, 10 the railroad depot, aud there found
the transportation agent who was as cain as
summers morning. The reporter inquired, "Did
any troops come over your road this morning 2"
"None, replied the agent, "why do you ask 2"
Why" said the reporter, 81 learned that General
Grant wanted te see you, and | supposed it was
in relation to bringing troops here, as there is
talk of Mosby coming in and taking possession"
The agent laughed, and said General Grant did
want to see me, and sent for me, but it was to
ascertain il l could send two horses for him out
to St. Louis, that's all. ~ Washington Cor. Dollar
Times.
, 1868-05-29

DANIEL WEBSTER ON CONSTITUTIONAL
AMERICAN LIBERTY-Nearly thirty years
ago Daniel Webster utt red these memoir
able words on the floor of the Uaited States
Senate: "If disaitrous war sweep our COM
merce from the ocean, another generation
may renew it; if it exhaust our treasury,
future industry may replenish it if it deso>
late and lay waste our fields, still, under a
new cultivation, they will grow green again,
and ripen to future harvests. 1t were but
triAe. even if the walls of yonder Capital
we're to crumbIe, if its lofty pillars should
fall, and its gorgeous decorations be all cow
cred with the dust of the valley. AL! these
might be rebuilt But who shall reconstruct
the fabric of demolished government? Who
shall rear again the proportiOned column
of Constitutional liberty? Who shall frame
together the skillful architecture which
unites National government with State rights
individual security and public prosperity?
No, gentlemen if these columns fall, they
will be raised not again. Like the Coils.
cum and the Parthenon. they will be destined
to a mournful, mechanically immortality.
Bitterer tears, however, will flow over them,
then we're ever shed over the monuments of
Roman or Grecian art for they will be the
remnants of q more glorious edi6ce than
Greece or Rome ever saw-the edifce of
Constitutional American Liberty.
, 1868-05-29

HUMAN OccUPATIoEs,-Whyi is it that we End
50 many iu all professions, occupations aud
trades, who are dissatisfied men 2 They seem to
be moving in a sphere Of life for which they are
neither fitted by education nor taste. The
answer to this question is the important view of
the theme. It is because the profession, trade
or occupation, is forced upon the child before
his mind has acquired the power of judging;
before his tastes are developed. and his genius,
or aptitude to any one pursuit, is evinoed,
Many men study law, who had better have been
farmers or mechanics, and many mechanics had
better have been lawyers. The parent, instead
of studying the disposition of his child, gives
him such chance as agrees with his own taste,
rather than his child's, and, perhaps by this
course, units him from all hope of usefulness.
There is, undoubtedly, such a thing as natural
taste; taste not innate, but resulting from or
ganization, or early, insensibe education. The
eye of the painter, the ear of the musician, the
love of mathematics belonging to sedentary
men, and the phlegmatc temperament, all prove
this If, then, this natural taste should be con-
suited, instead of pursuing the arbitrary course
now so common, we might hope for better work
In all the occupations Of life. Besides q mans
moral character often depends upon the interest
be feels in his occupation. When they dislike it,
they take every occasion to rid themselves of it,
for the time, and contract habits of idleness
which lead to poverty, and poverty, nine cases
out Of ten, leads to vice.
, 1868-05-29

"SrAMPs IN MY STocKEG."-The editor of the
Bucyrus Journal, quoting the paragraph about
stockings that is making the rounds, says "0ne
of the gentlemen connected with this paper had
rather feeling opportunity for experience in
regard TO some ladys stockings. He was trav-
cling in the South unattached and unineumber-
ed, and in order to gain admission to the supeS
ror comforts of the ladies' car, he used to assist
some encuubered lady travelling alone, and pay
her such respectful attentions as her helpless
situation seemed to require. Once going from
Jackson, Miss, to New Orleans, be had assisted
a very buxom woman with quantity of small
parcels, and had otherwise rendered her such
small services as any gentleman, having it in his
power, would render 70 lady travelling alone.
On arriving at New Orleans, the same attentions
caused him to fnd himself seated next to her in
the omnibus; preparatory to starting, the con-
duetor required our fare, and asked for our des.
tination.. When her turn came, after several
mysterious struggles and plunges, with her lap
full of traps, she raised her head aud said to the
writer "Mister, guess your preacher, bey,
ant YET l guess there aint any harm in you.
When travels l alters carries my stamps in my
stockin, cause you see nothin can get in there,
aud we are so jammed in here, that I'd thank
you old man just to reach in for me-" Fancy
our feelings
, 1868-05-29

SIGNS FOR HANDKERCHIEF FLIRrArIoSs.-Our
lady friends will here learn how useful the
may be made in 6irtations or the
more serious business of love making:
Drawing the handkerchief across the lips, sig
nifes the desire Of getting acquainted.
Drawing across the eyes let US be friends.
Taking by the centre are you willing2
Dropping we will be friends.
Twirling in both hands indifference.
Drawing across the checks | love you.
Drawing through the hands hate you.
Letting it rest on right cheek yes.
Letting it rest on left cheek no.
Twirling 10 left hand; l wish to get rid Of you.
Twisting in right hand; love another.
Folding it; wish to speak with you.
Over the shoulder follow me.
Opposite corners in both hands wait for me-
Drawing across the forehead we are watched.
Placing on right ear have message for you.
Letting it remain on the eyes you are cruel
Winding round fore.fuger ; | am engaged.
Winding round third finger | am married.
, 1868-05-29

An INDIAN JUsrIoB.-'Pale face, what be your
Justice of the peace, John you white man
justice, me Injun justice. Ne go home rother
day, and the tribe make me big man too 'Ah, ,
answers our friend L., who always likes joke,
'ah, John am glad to hear to it. Have you had
any cases yet2. yes, me had one bad case,
berry bad case.' Tell me all about it, John.
What kind of case was it p NE iud Injnu
with big jug of fwhisky. That was bad indeed.
What did you doF Me take him jug away and
drink him myself And be strutted out self,
satis6sd while those in the office agreed, as
well as they could for laughter, that bis idea of
justice was fully as legal as many of the decis-
ions of some who had whittier skins.