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WORK OR STARVE.

This is the law and penalty from
which there is no escape Thousands
are trying to evade it; some by making
their fellow men work for them, others
by depending on money inherited or
accum ulated in former years, but with
out avail. If idle, they starve in the
midst of plenty They may eat to the
full, but eating without exercising is
against the law of Nature, and very soon
the stomach refuses to digest the food,
the body is not nourished, and the man
literally starves though he may feel no
hunger. The hands, the brain, and the
heart must work to live. If you dodge
the labor of learning lessons, you at
the same time miss the strength of in
tellect which mental work brings, and
the mind will pine for want of nourish-
ment. Thousands have starved their
wits in this way, until they wonder how
in life. Many starve their hearts by
never exercising them with noble emo
tions. Selfshnees eats into the nature
like a canker, leaves the man hungry
for affection, but love is the price for
love, and he that will not work in this
field must accept the penalty. It is an
error to think that work was a penalty
imposed on man for having violated
Gods command. Mans nature is such
that activity is the law Of his being
Every muscle and NJ rye calls for en-
ployment that it may remain in health,
and there can scarcely be more terri
BILE punishment than solitary confne-
ment, where the eye, the ear, and the
hands must reman idle. A STOW, pain
ful death will surely result. So then,
boys and girls, strive to love work and
not shun it. Though you may be as
rich as Astor or Stewart in money, yet
your own nature will suffer the pangs of
poverty without active exercise.
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THE COST OF A POUND OF TEA.

1t is instructive and sometimes profit
able, as well as curious, to examine the
way in which the cost of commodity
is piled up between producer and con-
sumner by freights, handling, duties, ex-
change, and the commissions and profits
of middlemen. Tea, for example, is
sold by the grower in China and Japan
at various prices, from about fifteen to
thirty cents pound With freights
added, it is said to cost when laid down
in any Of our principal seaports an av
erage Of about fifty cents in gold
pound for superior brands of s'chops'
Taking this as starting point, the ad-
ditional charges before it reaches the
table of the consumer are said to ac-
cumuiate as follows Original cost of
tea, imported, 60 cents; discount on the
currency to pay for it, 20 cents; duty in
gold 25 cents; discount on the currency
to make up for the gold, Is cents; con-
tingencies, 10 cents; profit of importer,
IL cents; profit of jobber, 13 cents;
profit of retailer, say % cents. Total,
S1,74. OF this forty five cents are com.
prised in three profits, thirty-ive cents
in duties, and ten cents in contingencies;
in all 81 "a, in addition to the costs on
board ships at our wharves. Before the
war the cost would have been about as
follows Original cost, imported, 60
cents; 10 per cent. for contingencies;
discount cents; profit of importers 5
cents; profit of jobber, 6 cents: profit to
the retailer, IA cents. Total, 80 cents.
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In the course of her remarks the writer
goes on to say :-ssBut it is not true that
ladies desire only to engage IN the
learned professions. We know there
are many of the so called common pur
suits which woman's strength will not
permit her to follow, but there are 9th
ers, not open to the same objection, IN
which ladies are now engaged. In the
village where this is written, the duties
of the post office, and of the telegraph
office are fulfilled, and worthily, too, by
ladies; and others of the same sex oc-
cupy positions as clerks and book keep
ers. They have the respect and esteem
of all, and no one thinks them any the
less womanly because they occupy the
positions usually filed by men,"
1t is in some such way, as indicated
by these two lady writer's, that women
may turn life of idleness or worthless
ness into one of usefulness. The pro-
visions made now a. days by the system
of commercial education, offer to the
female sex all the advantages without
any of the rudeness and harshness of
business experience, and enable them to
occupy remunerative and honorable po-
sitions in life without deserting their
families or homes.
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A New KIND OF PANCAKEs.-The de-
mand for cheap shoes has been so
pressing of late years, says the Lynn
Reporter, that it has induced tine most
rigid economy in the manufacture.
Hardly scrap Of leather is allowed to
90 to waste. The wagon loads of odds
and ends made in cutting, the refuse of
the splitting machines are all worked up
again into that kind of leather known
as "pancake. This is made by pasting
and pressing together the scraps of
which we have spoken. This being
rolled and dried, is made to do service
in the cheaper grades of shoes, as inner
sole leather, or as sslifts'' for heels. So
skilfully are these operations performed
that sometimes the substitute is, for
some purposes, almost as good as the
genuine article. Some firms do large
business in the manufacture Of "pan-
cake" which is accomplished by pow
erful machirery driven by steam. It is
shoddy leather .gzeKH9gs 1ss
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INcoMBUsrIELE WooD.-According to
NJ. Schattenman's experiments, there is
an easy and cheap way Of rendering
wood incombustible; it consists in coat
ing with cloride of lime. 1t is true this
will only protect the surface, but it will
prevent the flames from spreading.
Chloride of lime, or more properly chlo-
ride of calcium, is obtained on q large
scale by decomposing bones with hydro
chloric acid, which dissolves the calca-
reous parts without attacking the gela.
tine they contain. This neutral and liq-
uid chloride marks 14o Baume's are.
ometer and contains Is per cent of an
hydrous chloride. To this liquid an
equal weight of slaked lime should be
added, and it may then be applied to tho
woodwork to be preserved. The oper-
alton should be repeated twice with q
common white ewash brush. The cost
is at the rate of about francs per hun
dred square metres, the liquid costing
If, and the rest being the mans wages.
When chloride of lime cannot be had,
it may be made by treating chalk with
hydro -chloric acid. To test the incom-
bustibility Of wood prepared in this way,
take few bricks and enclose square
with them; fill up the space with kilo.
gramme of straw, place three wooden
laths across coated as above, then put
another row of bricks upon the first,
and place three uncoated !aths across.
Having well secured them, set fire to
the straw, when the upper or uncoated
laths will catch fire and be completely
consumed in five or six minutes, while
the lower ones, protected by their coat
ing, will only glimmer and be carbon
lied where the flames touch them; but
will everywhere else be safe from COM
bustion. Fir should be selected for the
experiment.-Galignani
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and would purge the Augean stables Of
the Government Of this leprous horde
of political hypocrites and official scoun-
drels.
The legislation of Congress in every
respect necessary to relieve the suffer
ing financial condition Of the country is
almost suspended, assailed by a vast
, army of office holders, whose leader
seeks only to employ them in resisting
the laws. Congress has had hardly
time to discuss other measure es than
those necessary to defend its own rights;
and if its discussion should result in tho
passage of laws, it is of no use, since
they cannot be executed. The country
needs comprehensive financial policies.
sound currency, safe system Of
banking, retrenchment, and reform in
many departments. Congress can give
even less attention to all this with
rebel in the White House than it could
while the rebels were merely in sight
of the Capitol, but had not effected an
entrance But with Mr.. Wade's acces-
sion, Congress could devote its whole
attention to the practical questions Of
finance, revenue, taxation, retrenchm ent
and reform.
With Reconstruction placed in course
ofspeedy mconsumation, and our reye-
nue. and finances vigorously, economi-
cally and honestly administered, there
is no remaining reas on why the country
should not enter at once on the highest
degree of commercial and business
prosperity. Labor and capital would
resume their wonted activity. Enter
prise would succeed stagnation. Mines
and factories now closed would be re-
opened. Everywhere the country
would feel the salutary effects of a gov
ernment at harmony with itself and with
the majority of the people-one which
could be trusted and must be obeyed.-
n. Y. Tribune
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The Chattanooga Union tells the fol-
lowing sad story: =.

The Chattanooga Union tells the fol-
lowing sad story: sas
Last Thursday, near Tilton, Ga, as q
freight train on the W q A Railroad
was coming this way, the engineer dis
covered, . little child playing alone on
the road, and manifestly too young to
be conscious of its danger. He immedi-
ately rversed his engine and whistled
on the brakes, but seeing that, in spite
of this, the train would run beyond
where the child was, he leaped from
his engine and made a desperate attempt
to save the little one, but failed, the
train rolling over it and cutting it in
two just as he reached it. The mother
of the child, Mrs. Blackburn, very
worthy woman, arrived at the spot just
in time to see her child perish, but too
late to save it from the awful destruc.
ton. She was SO overwhelmed by the
catastrophe that, she tainted three times
in succession. The name of the engi-
neer who endeavored, 50 nobly, but so
unavailingly, to save the child, is Hell
ems.
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WOMAN,S WORK.

Mrs. L. Maria Child contributes an
worthy of consideration. Mrs. Child
is too well known III this country as a
writer and as an honest exponent of
good, sound sense, to require any com
ment in this connection. In the course
of the article referred to, she relates the
following anecdote illustrative Of what
woman may do, who is actuated by
good motives, and a desire rather to be
useful than conspicuous 81 have an
acquaintance in the middle class of So
ciety, the income of whose business was
a comfortable support for his wife and
three daughters. The eldest Of the
girls found much of her time unoccu-
pied, except with unproductive fancy
work. and she said to her mother -
why should We all be dependent upon
father for support? If he should die,
how helpless we should be. And even
if he lives and is able to work for q
long time to come, we might relieve him
from much care and anxiety by our ex-
ertions, and we might greatly increase
our own opportunities for improvem ent.'
She followed out these ideas by fitting
herself to be a book keeper. Not salts
fed with q small salary, she diligently
applied her spare hours to acquiring
thorough knowledge Of French and
Spanish; and having an object in view,
she learned rapidly. When she was
able to write commercial letters in those
languages, she soon commanded sala-
ry Of fifteen hundred dollars. Every
morning she walked into the city with
her father, where they parted to go to
their separate places of business, and
met to return home together in the af-
ternoon. Most fashionable women had
probably taken up as much time spending
money during the day, as she had in
earning it, fss-.
We desire also to quote from an arti-
Gle written by another lady, which ap.
peared in the Tribune, few days since
The testimony Of women Of sense on
this subject, is of more value than any,
thing we could write on the subject
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many to whom that plain face Is beauC-
full, that helpful hand very dear. Her
lovers are not of the romantic sort; but
old women, little children, erring men,
and forlorn girls give her an affection as
endearing and sincere as any husband
could have done. Few will know her
worth here, but, in the long hereafter,
am sure S. will be blessed with eternal
beauty, happiness and love.
A. is woman of strongly individ-
ual type, who in the course of an unusu
ally varied experience has seen 80
much of what wise man has called
''the tragedy of modern married life,"
that she is afraid to try it. Knowing
that for one of peculiar nature like
herself such an experiment would be
doubly hazardous, she has obeyed in
stinct and became chronic old maid
Filial and fraternal love must satisfy
her, and grateful that such ties are pos
sible, she lives for them and is contented
Literature is fond and faithful spouse,
and the little family that has sprung up
around her, though perhaps unioving
and uninteresting to others, is a profita-
BILE source Of satisfaction to her mater
nal heart After a som ewhat tempestu-
Gus voyage, she is glad to find herself
in quiet haven whence she can look
back upon her vanished youth, and feel
that though the blossom time of life is
past, little fruit remains TO ripen in
the early autumn coming on. Not lone
ly, for parents, brothers and sisters,
friends and babies keep her heart full
and warm; not idle, for necessity, stern,
yet kindly teacher, has taught her the
worth of work; not unhappy, for love
and labor, like good angels, walk at
either hand, and the divine Friend fills
the world with strength and beauty for
the soul and eyes that have learned to
feel and see it thankfully.
NY sisters, don't be afraid Of the
words, cold maid,'' for it is in your pow
er to make this term of honor, not re-
proach. 1t is not necessary to be sour,
spiteful, spinster, with nothing to do
but brew tea, talk scandal and tend
pocket handkerchief. No, the world is
full of work, needing all the heads,
hearts and hands we can bring to do it.
Never was there so splendid an opportu-
nifty for women to enjoy their liberty
and prove that they deserve it by using
it wisely. If love comes as it should
come, accept it in Gods name and be
worthy of it's best blessings. If it new
er comes, then in G DDS name reject the
shadow of it, for that can never satisfy
hungry heart. Do not be ashamed to
own the truth-do not be daunted by
the fear of ridicule and loneliness, nor
saddened by the loss of a womans ten
derest ties. Be true to yourselves; cher
ish whatever talent you possess, and in
using it faithfully for the good OF others
you will most assuredly find happiness
for yourself, and make Of life no ia lure,
but beautiful success.
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REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH AT YoNKERs-
The Republicans have just carried the
town of Yonkers, New York, by major
ity of 218. Last year the democratic
majority was 2o8. Republican gain
SIC. This is town election worth
quoting as evidence of "reaction'' of the
right sort. 1t oversizes all the little
affairs about which the democrats make
30 much clamor. ..sss.
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l-Whv all this toll for triumphs of an hour -
2-Life's short summer, man fower
Ar t.rns we catch the vital breath and die
4-The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh.
5-To be is better far than not to be,
sse-Though all mans life may seem tragedy;
But light cares speak when mighty griefs are
s-rhe bottom is but shallow whence they come.
p-Your fate is but the common fate of all;
10-Unmingled Joys, here, to no man befali.
11-Nasure to each allots his proper sphere;
I-Fortune makes folly her peculiar care;
l3-Custom does not often reason overule,
14-And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool.
I5-Live well, how long short permit, to heaven;
l6-They who forgive most shall be most forgiven
l7-Sins may be clasped close we can not see its
face
l8-Vile intercourse where virtue has not place;
19-Then keep each passion, however dear,
20-Thou pendulum, betwixt a smile and tear.
21-Her sensual snares let faithless pleasure lay,
22-With craft and skill, to ruin and besray.
1s-Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise
24--we masters grow of all that we despse.
25-Oh, then renounce that impious self-esteem;
36-Riches have wings and grandeur is a dream
27-Think not ambition wise because tits brave,
5S-The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
29-What is ambition? 'ts glorious cheat,
3O-Oply destructive to the brave and great.
21-Whats all the gaudy glitter of crown2
3z-The ways to bliss lies not on beds of down.
33-How long we live not years, but actions tell;
34-That lives twice who lives the first life well
s5-Make, then, while yet you may, your God your
36-Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend.
s7-The trust that's given guard and to yourself be
fra t1e.' nee ss. lust;
3s-For, live We how we can. yet die We must.
/, Young; 2, DIR. johnson; 3, Pope; A, Prior; 5,
Sewell; g. Spenser 7, Daniel; 8, Sir Walter Rasigh;
o. Longfelow 10, southey: IL, Congreve; IL, Church
hill 13, Rochester IA, Armstrong Is, Milton 10
Baily; II, Trench; IS, Somervle; 19, Thomson; 20,
Byron; 81 Smollet; z2, Crabbe; %, Massinger; "a.
Cowles; 25, Beate; 26, Cowper; 27, Sir Walter
Davenant; 2s, Carey 20, Willis; 80, Addison; 81,
Dryden; 80, Francis Quares 80, Watkins "a, Her
rick; 35, William Mason; s6, Hill; 81, Dana; 3s,
Shakespeare.
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"CHIcAGo Posr"'N ANDY JOHNSON:
MIR. johnson is well preserved man.
Whiskey has got him into sspretty
pickle at last. Doolittle supports the
President with all his might, but his
might is very small indeed. One of
Johnson's first jobs after his impeach-
ment will be to sew up the Rent the s'en-
vious Senate made a
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THE BAREFOOT BOY.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.

BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.
Blessings on thee little man,
Barefoot boy with cheeks ftan!
With thy upturned pantaloons,
And thy merry whistled tunes
With thy red lips. redder still
Kissed by strawberries on the hill
With the sunshine on thy face,
Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace;
From my heart l give thee joy
Twas once barefoot boy.
Oh, for boyhood's painless play
Sleep that wakes in laughing day
Health that mocks the doctors rules
knowledge, never learned at schools,
Of the wild bees morning chase,
OF the wild flowers time and place,
Flight of fowls and habitude
OF the tenants of the wood!
How the tortoise bears his shell;
How the woodchuck digs his cell,
Andtthe ground-mole sinks his well;
How the robin feeds her young;
How the orioles nest is hung;
Where the whitish lilies blow;
Where the freshest berries grow;
Where the woodruff trails its vine;
Where the wood grape clusters shine;
OF the black wasp's cunning way,
Mason of his wall of clay,
And the architectural plans
Of gray hornet artisans!
For, eschewing books and tasks,
Nature answers all he asks;
Hand in hand with her he walks,
Face to face with her he talks,
Part and parcel of her joy
Blessings on thee barefoot boy.
Cheerily, then, my little man!
Live and laugh as boyhood can;
Though the flinty stones be hard,
Stubble-spread the new-mo sward,
Every morn shall lead thee through
Fresh baptism of the dew;
Every evening from thy feet
Shall the cool wind kiss the heat
And too soon those feet shall hide
In the prison cells ofpride;
Lose the freedom of the sod
Like colt for work be shod;
Made to tread the mills of toll,
Up and down the ceaseless moil,
Happy if the track be found
Never on forbidden ground
Happy if they sink not in
Quick and treacherous sands and sin.
Ali that thou ShouIdst know thy ioy
Ere it passes, barefoot boy!
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GOODSPEED'S GOLDEN PENS, celebrate
TOR their fexbility, durability, smoothness of execu-
tion. Superior steel pens. Invariably give salts
lotion: One boy samples by mail post paid, rs cts.
J. H. sCDBURS, 1876 v,ne-st., Cincinnati, o.
Sole Agent for the West and South.
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From the New York Ledger.
HAPPY WOMEN.

By MISS L. n. ALCoTT.
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VOL. XXXVIII.s
.IITERARY CURIOSITY.

~. A. Ds,nnNe, of San Francisco, is said TO
have occupied year in hunting up and fitting to-
r,thcr the following thirty-eght lines from tn1fsy-
eight English poets. The names of the authors afe
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-01

To destroy lice on cattle. camphor
dissolved in spirits is an ettectual
agent, and may be used at all times,
even in very cold weather, without
the least Injury o eattle.
To prevent smut in grain. a corre-
spondent of the Prairie Fd7Taer d.
reefs to spread the grain thinly on q
| floor, sprinkled with brine strong
enough to bear up an egg. Then add
two quartz Of Stacked lime, and shovel
over until the kernels are uniformly
coated. This should be done the day
before it is sown. 1t will kill the
spores of smut and quicken the growth
of the seed. 40
A correspondent of the Nsp Eng
land Homestead has for the last TWEEN
ty-fve years, planted potatoes, not
larger, on an average, than an ordl-
nary hens egg, aud they yet produce
as sound and as large a product as at
first. Potatoes inadvertently left I'M
dug, if they do not freeze during
Winter, invariably produce SOUND
ones, larger and nor abundant a
those kept In the cellar through the
Winter. This has lately suggested to
him the plan of keeping potatoes
cluded from the air from the time OF
| digging and planting, which has in
variably prevented rot
Mr. Hendryks, of Southern Miehi-
gan, raised last year 1000 bushels of
rutabagas on seven acres of land. He
prefers old sod ground, well MANFRED
in spring, plowed al once, narrowed
and rolled; sows the last of June or
the first of July, in rows three feet
apart ;thins to fifteen or eighteen
inches in a row c~ultivates with "Sul-
ky ~cultivator," cuts off tops, piles
them up; pulls out turnips with a po-
tatoe hoe; piles them up and covers
thickly with straw, then with dirt,
leaving a small hole through, the top.
In feeding, he cuts the turnips with q
machine, and feeds freely.
If a horse is al all inclined to kick
in harness, listen to no excuses for
his having done so. He may go quietly
for a week, month, or year, but, unless
he is a mere inexperienced colt, kick
again he will SO sure as he is a horse.
If, after knowing what harness means,
a horse kicks, he is not to be radically
cured of the propensity; believe no
breaker who promises to take it out
of him."
The Cottage. Gardener, Of Lon
don, says earthing up potatoes
hdiminishes the product and retards
the ripening Of the tubers. Long ex-
periments in England have proved
this .fact-that killing up the potato
will reduce the crop one-fourth.
The agricultural of Illi-
nois constitute, as is-well known, the
chief source of the wealth and mate
rial prosperity of the State. From
statistics furnished by the last month
ly report of the Departments Of Agri-
culture, we find that this State ranks
second only to New York in the ag-
gregate value of heragricultural pro-
duets, which reached 10 1866 the value
of over $3.50. ZOO, 900, and in 1867, $184,-
$1,000. isns afe 7