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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26
Gov. ClnfIin ON National Politics.

Gov. Clafiin, of Massachusetts (who
is Chairman of the National Repub-
lican Committee, in his annual mes
sage to the Legislature of Massachus-
etts, spoke as follows on National
affairs:
We can not forget that we belong
TO this great Union, made indissolu-
bic by the events of the late war.
The struggle for national existence
has revealed to us our strength and
the chief cause of our weakness.
This cause has been removed, and no
interest at war with human freedom
now predominates in our land. The
thrOes of the mighty contest are still
felt, but each day lessons their force,
and soon they will pass away forever.
The election of the great Captain to
the Presidency at once gave assurance
of peace to the country. The hopes
of the firmest friends of the incom-
ing Administration have been more
than realized. The laws, so far as
the General Government is concern
ed, are enforced; integrity prevails in
all its departments, and the steady
decrease of the national debt gives
assurance of its ultimate redemption.
4C Alll1l dOlt llc II lilcGulH AIueDu-
ment to the Constitution, which will
place all the people of this nation on
an equality politically, is nearly con-
summated. Its completion will add
luster to our name by proclaiming to
the word that no prejudice of race
will prevent justice being done and
equal rights accorded to the most op-
pressed and obscure in the land. 1t
will give to the freedman the ballot,
the only power that will efIectually
save him from abuse and wrong, and
all laws affecting personal liberty and
political rights will be substantially
the same in every part of the Union.
Slowly but surely the great problem
of the destruction of slavery is being
demonstrated. From its ashes will
arise a nobler civilization than has
hitherto been known in human histo-
~. The people of the Old World, in
their attempts 10 wrest from the
hands of tyrants the liberties so long
withheld, and for which they have |
sacrificed so much, are receiving from |
our history fresh impulse and new
Let us. as people, |
do our part in bringing in the better
and brighter day.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26
WORK AND THINK.
Hammer, tongs and anvil ringing,
Waking echoes all day long.

Hammer, tongs and anvil ringing,
Waking echoes all day long.
In a deep-toned voice are singing
Thrifty Labor's iron song.
From a thousand fiy-wheels bounding,
From a thousand humming looms,
Night and day the notes are sounding
Through the misty faetTy rooms.
Listen! workmen TO their play
There's advice in every eltnk;
Still they're singing-stin they're saying
whilst you labor, learn TO thtnkF'
Think what power lies within you;
For what triumphs ye are formed,
If, in aid Of bone and sinew,
Hearts by emulation warmed
Mighty though ye WOO and cherish,
What shall hold your spirit DOWN.
WHAT shall make your high hopes perlShg
Why shall ye mind Fortunes frOwn?
Do you wish for profit, pleasure?
Thirst at Learning's fount to drink
Crave ye honor. fame or treasure?
Ye the germs have-wOrk and think,
Think! but not alone of living.
Like the horse, from day to day;
Think! but not alone of giving
Health for pelf, or soul for pay!
Think Oh, be machines no Longer
Think! twill make you fresher,- stronger;
Link you 10 the great and goodl
Thoughts exalts and lightens labor,
Thought forbids the soul TO sinkl
Self-respect and love for neighbor,
Mark the men who wOrk-and think!
Think and let the thought new nerve you
Think OF men who've gone before;
Leaving luStrous names to serve YOU
Yours the path they we plodded DER!
Freedom flights and wins her charter
With the sword OF thought-the pen!
Tyranny can ind no quarter
In the ranks OF thinking men,
Think for thoughts a wand of power
Power to make oppression shrink;
Grasp We, then, the precious DOVER
POise it--wield it-wOrk and think!
Hold your heads up, toiling brothers;
'Mongst us be Ii ne'er forgot,
Labor for ourselves and others,
Is for man n noble lot,
NObler far, and hOlier, higher,
Than vain luxury can claim,
If but zeal and worth inspire,
And true greatness be our aim,
Power to COM pass this is given
Power that forms the strongest link
'Twixt an upright man and Heaven,
His nOblest power-the power to think
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26
Our Social Condition.

The following paragraph from dis
course delivered by Rev. o. B. FrOth-
ingham respecting the social aspects
of American life is well worth con-
sidering:
"The theatre, the opera, the concert
room, the reception, the ball, music,
art, fascination, makes life less and
less earnest, prevents the mind from
gathering itself up, leases with con-
stant anticipation Of delight, unnerves
the will, weakens the fibres Of the
mind, and produces men and women
who are very charming and graceful,
and elegant and fascinating, but who
give way under stress of cireumStan-
ces too easily. All things dissipate
with us. Even literature is dissipat-
ing. The incessant newspaper, the
perpetual magazine, the cheap novel,
ever coming from the teeming press,
and found on every table, in every
street car, on every railway train
No one reads hard books now. the
mind is never braeed up against hard,
tough problems of thought, but plays
over the garden of literature. Even
business is dissipation. Work is per-
petual. 1t begins early in the day, it
continues all day, it does not end till
evening, often not then. Even relig-
ion in our time is dissipating. Men
and women come to church to forget
themselves-to have a new sensation
that shall be agreeable. There is flat
rebellion against long and hard ser
mons-against the necessity of think
ing. The Sunday discourse must be
pleasant and easy, and full of poetry
and music, and have a vein of the
comic running through it. So that
even here in the sanctuary itself we
dream and muse and pass the mo-
ments away, and return to our homes
no stronger than when we left them"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26
CHRISTIANITY In Madagascar.

That must have been a strange scene
in Madagascar when the Queen had
the royal idols brought and commit
ted to the flames. She had embraced
Christianity, and when the chapel for
divine service was ready, the dis
graeed deity-whieh consisted OF two
pieces of silk with a small splinter OF
wood in the middle-was taken from
his temple and thrust into fire. The
crowd declared that, being god, he
would not burn; yet, somehow, "he"
was very soon consumed; and then,
with no little pathOs, ''the people,
seeing that now they had no gods to
worship, sent to the Queen to ask
what they were to worship for the
future" The foundation of their faith
had indeed been greatly shaken. The
Queen is to send teachers of Christi
anity among them, and Madagascar,
one of the clark places of the earth, +"
is likely to have turned the last page
of the sanguinary records which have
hitherto formed so large a part of her
York Times.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26
Where the Wages O.--SOber Thoughts
for WOrkingmen.

From the New York Eyeping Post.l
Why is it that so many of the fami-
lies of the labOring men in our towns
and cities live in such poor, beggarly
way, and in so many damp, dark base
ments, and up in such close, confined,
rickety old attics? Many of the heads
of these families receive good wages,
and get their pay every week or
month regularly. But where, in too
many cases, do their wages gO2 Not
to the banker, the grocer, the butch
er, the merchant; they go for strong
drink, ale and beer, which do not
strengthen the physical man. Frank
lin taught the printers of London that
cold water was better than ale; and
cold water has lost none of its virtues
in 40 years.
The cost of tippling is in the aggre-
gate enormous The inquiry Is often
made how are so many drinking
houses sustained Letus see. Twen-
ty men, at 80 cents a day, will pay one
Of these "tippling shops" g, 100 a
year. a man who pays 80 cents day
for Hdrinks," pays S109 so a year
This is the interest on 81 ,564 at per
cent at simple interest. This sum, 30
cents a day, amounts in ten years to
81 Ill 95. All this is wasted, paid out
for "an enemy that steals away a
mans brains," and robs him and his
family of every comfort. intoxicating
liquors give neither strength to the
body, vigor to the mind, resolution to
the will, elevation to morals, nor dig
nifty to character. Strong drink drags
q man down from his high estate, de-
praves all his appetites, and leaves
him in want and misery, the mere
wreck and semblanee of man.
The constant use of intoxicating
liquors makes hard times for many a
man. Thus, a family of five persons
will consume four barrels of flour q
year, or 1,056 pounds of bread. This
is nearly three pounds day. Good
-four can be bought now at 81 a barrel;
four times seven makes S2S; and thir-
ty cents a day for drinks is Sl09 30
or 81 so more per year than the bread
for a family of five persons costs.
But" says A, ''I only take two
drinks day" Very well; you pay,
then, for your drinks S73 a year; only
S45 more than you pay for the bread
consumed by your whole family, if it
contains five persons. This sum would
provide tea and coffee for them
Here, then, we see that the man
who pays even twenty cents a day for
liquor spends a sum sufficient to sup
ply his family with bread, tea and
coffee for the year. Is it strange that
times are hard-that men complain of
the Government, and charge that it
oppresses them with onerous taxes
The above figures show how men tax
and how they tar prop
erty, too.
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The CHRONICLE.
THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER FOR 1T.

If men cared less for wealth and fame,
And less for battlefields and glory:
II writ in human hearts a name
Seemed better than q song and story.
Ifmen. instead Of nursing pride,
Would learn 10 hate 1t and abhor il:
II more relied on Love to guide
The world would be the better for ii.
II men dealt less in stocks and lands,
And more In bonds and deeds fraternal;
II Loves work had more willing hands
To link this world TO the supernali
III man stored up Loves oil and wine,
And on bruised human hearts void pour 1t
II yours" and "mine" would once combine
The world would be the better for IL.
If more would act the play OF Life,
A fewer spoil il in rehersal
II Bigotry would sheathe its knife,
Till Good became more universal;
If custom, gray with ages grown,
Had fewer blind men TO adore 1t;
II Talent shone for Truth alone,
The world would be the better for it.
If men were wise in little things,
Affecting less in all their dealings:
If hearts had fewer rusted strings
To isolate their kindly feelings;
II men, when Wrong beats down the Right,
Would strike together and restore it:
II right made might in every fight,
The world would be the better for il.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26
Female Voting in England.

On the Women's rights question
they are very much ahead of us in
England. At the recent municipal
elections throughout the country a
great many women, who, under a re-
cent act of Parliament, were duly
qualified, by residence, property and
payment of rates, to vote as burgess
es," freely exercised that right. In
Manchester, where there are 81, $40
Parliamentary electors, out of a popu-
lation of $50, ,SS7, there are 900 female
burgesses, of whom 1,S00 walked up
to the polls and voted. At Stafford,
LILO out of 1000 voted, being more
than one woman out of every six men
who exercised the right. In New
castle-upOn-Tyne. out of So women
on the register, "a voted. In Liver
pool, the Liberal party in the Rod
ney street ward were defeated by the
women votes, who hold strong Tory
politics. One of the candidates there
began a speech with ELECTORS and
Electresses. At BOdmin, in Corn
wall, two women voted at the ages of
ninety-two and ninety-three. respect
lively. 1t was remarked that She
burgesses 'vOted early" under the
stringent regulations enforced at
English elections it was not possible
for anyOf them. ifso disposed, to "vote
Often" Now that women have the
power to vote at municipal, it is GER
tain that they will speedily be allow
ed to vote at parliamentary elections.
1t appears that women's rights have
become recognized in England, where
there is no organized "Sorosis," and
where women do not itinerate, MAX
ing speeches and holding conventions,
long before there has been any tan
gible result from the agitation on
that question tn the United States.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26
The Suez Canal--An Interesting Fact
The Level Of the Two Seas.

1t appears from the report of a care
| full survey by nautical man, pub
| lished in the London Shipping Ga
Zette, that the SueZ Canal in every re-
spect is a great success, and is work.
ing handsomely; but the most inter-
esting fact reported is that throughout
the canal q steady current mOUes from
the Red Sea into the Mediterranean
varying in its velocity from three
knots an hour, near SueZ, to knot
and a half at the Mediterranean out
let. This current proves that the lev
el of the Red Sea is higher than the
level of the Mediterranean, and the
question naturally recurs, if so, why ?
1t is simply because of the tremen-
dOus evaporation of the Mediterrane-
an. This great inland sea is fed from
the east by the powerful current of
the BOsphoTus and the Dardanelles
from the Black Sea, and from the At
lantic Ocean in the West through the
Straits of Gibraltar, and by numerous
rivers on both sides, and yet the hot
and thirsty winds which sweep across
it from the great desert of Africa keep
it down by evaporation below the
general ocean level.
The evaporation from the Red Sea
per square mile, with a roasting des-
ert on each side, and nearer the equa-
tor, is immensely greater than that
from the Mediterranean but as the
Red Sea is only narrow gulf running
up from the Indian Ocean, its aggre-
gate loss is comparatively small and
easily supplied. At its northern ex-
tremity, at Suez, therefore, it is kept
nearer the general level of the ocean
than is the Mediterranean along the
African coast.
But granting all this, what does it
signify in a practical view of the Suez
Canal? 1t signifies that the canal has
become a river or an arm of the Indi-
an Ocean, flowing into the Mediterra-
mean, and that unless this continual
current be checked, the flow of this
inlet will in time wash down the
sandy banks of the canal into its
channel and fill it up. This is what
it signifies in a business point of view.
If the report in question is current
land we have no reason TO doubt it,
pair of locks will be necessary at the
Suez inlet to regulate the flow from
the Red Sea. Otherwise, a heavy
wind up this sea of several days dura-
ton may create such a current in the
canal as to choke it up with the wash
ings from its banks in single night.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26
ABOUT ALASKA.
The ClImate--SOil---SeasOns---What
Shall be Done with 1t.
From the Pittsburg Commercial

| From the F1ttSDurg commercially
Mr.. Tonner, a resident of Sitka, fur
nishes the following facts concerning
I our new possessions, from which it
appears that potatoes, turnips, radish-
es and onions 'ean be reised there, but
they are small;" that they have there
over thirty varieties of indigenous
grasses; but hay cannot be cured-not
sun enough. Coal is found within
thirty miles of Sitka, but it is so bit
luminous that it has burned out the
smoke stacks of steamers using it.
Gold is found in several localities, but
not in paying quantities. Everything
like the potato is to found in "smallr
way, so inferior that their possession
is not an object. Wheat with grass
that can't be cured, eseulents without
Juice or flavor, fuel so Obstructive that
it cannot be employed as an agent.
and deposits of precious metals so
minute as to require the aid of mi
eroseOpe to find them, really Alaska
scarcely comes under the head of val
liable possessions. The mountain tops
behind Sitka are white all summer:
but along the coast there, near the sea
level, 10 seldom SHOWS, even in winter,
anu the lil6IhOlAclcI htIuly ever Oc-
low the freezing point. The coolest
day, from the records of whole year
at Sitka, did not reach lower than
twenty-five degrees above zero; and
the warmest point of the warmest day
marked sixty-nine degrees above zero.
From which it will be seen that we
cannot congratulate ourselves on the
investment as a suitable step for pro-
viding the nation withiee. Ournorth-
western States bordering on the lakes
can furnish more cold and ice per an
mum than Alaska. About the 23d |
of December at Sitka the night |
takes up the whole twenty-fOur hours, !
and about the 22d of June the evening !
blends into that of the morn |
ing. There were two hundred and I
cloudy and rainy days in 4
the year and fifty fair days, and only
five days of snow at that point Of the 4
seabOard in that high latitude. The 1
of the year there was ninty-
two inches, or about three times the 4
average rainfall of New York. They
had fourteen inches of rain in Sitka in
February last, which is equal to about
fourteen of our heaviest summer
storms
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26
A Cheerful Custom in China.

In passing through the Tartar Dor
tiOns of Canton, what strikes us as
singular is their whitewashed houses,
with n broad black border around the
whole. 1t gives a street the appear
ance of being in mourning, or half
mourning, at least. Crossing the
quarter came upon the manufacture
ing streets. These are Chinese. not
Tartar. The Tartars are almost en-
tirely employed in the military Ser
vice. These streets, narrow and tor
tuous, are everywhere crowded by a
swarming population, all busy, none
unemployed. The Chinese, metho-
dical in all matters, appropriate entire
streets to certain commodities, and
which will scarcely be found else
where. Thus, L pass certain streets
containing nothing but silk shops,
others tea houses, Others clothing; (;
another is for mating, the next per-
haps for shoes, for hats, straw braid,
ivory work, fans, jewels, gongs, furni-
ture, porcelain, umbrellas, black
smithing, &C., &C., each commodity
its appropriate street. Not the least
remarkable are the streets appropri-
ated to the business of making coffins.
/ saw large workshops piled with
lumber on one side. and piled with
cOffins on the other, while busy work
men were industriously engaged
making these heavy, cumbrous affairs.
To see whole streets producing moth
ing but cOffins. is not particularly
cheerful. But there they are, and
their peculiar wares are paraded at
the front to tempt purchasers i'll the
most inviting manner. And there,
too, are the buyers, baItering and hig-
Cling with the sellers about STYLES,
prices, qualities of the wood, &C., lust
as though coffins were good things to
have in the family, and were the
most common commodities for domes-
tic use and comfort. And, indeed,
among the Chinese to some extent
they are so. Nothing is more COM
mon than for a person, ambitious of
a stunning funeral, to provide his
coffin, according to his own fancy,
long in advance of decease. They
are frequently given by friends to
other friends as holiday presents, and
are esteemed most Worthily. In
Ohio, for a son to send his venerable
father a coffin as a birthday present,
would scarcely be received as an evil
dence of very tender filial regard, but
in China such a gift is held to be the
ne plus ultra of filial courtesy and
affection. The gratified parent re-
eetves the cheerful looking gift with
gladness, parades it ostentatiously in
his best chamber, and until it is want
ed for its special use, he makes gen.
eral use of it as chest for holding
clothing, or as a depository for the
cleaned rice that is to serve for the
family's daily bread.-[Letter from
Canton.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26

1 Iserenaded Sophia once when she
was but tenderlass; and the greeting
which | received for my musical dis
play has never been fully apprecia-
ted by me. 1t was the witching hour
of night, when churchyards yawn.-
Everybody was hushed, and stiffness
reigned profound. / commenced to
sing, 81 Bring a Little Flower to
Thee" Sophia was hanging out of
the window, and it was through her
solicitation that 1 endeavOred to
warble this precious piece-'I Bring
Little Flower to Thee" Sophia's
tyrannical papa stuck his head out of
the window, and in voice of thun-
der roared: ''Well, Just set it on the
the doorsteps. and don't make so much
fuss about such wretched little flow
err
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26

We wonder not at the ambition that
aims at the editorial chair. All other
modes of affecting the public mind are
weak and narrow compared with it.
The pen is the lever that moves the
world, and ink-rOller of the printing
press the battering ram that smites
into dust the walls Of ignorance and
sin. But the press is q strong team to
drive, and one must be sure Of the har-
ness and the wheels, or coming along
a steep place, there will be a capsiZe,
and q wreck from under which the
literary adventures will not have
strength to. draw themselves. Phe-
toms attempt to drive the chariot of
the sun ended in a grand smash up
Independent.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26

Grace Greenwood says: Mr.. Dick
ems, after his visit to Washington, in
the winter of 1868, spoke to me very
admiringly of Mr.. Stanton, with
whom he had spent some pleasant
hours. The Secretary impressed him
not only as a man of marked indi-
viduality and power, fully up to his
reputation, but as a gentleman Of un-
common literary culture. He said
ne had never known the equal of his
verbal memory-that it was some
thing quite marvellous. Mr.. Stanton
told him, he said, that he knew sever
al of his books by heart-eould re-
cite entire chapters. Mr.. Dickens,
being a little ineredulOus, perhaps,
tested him, and found his assertion
literally true-page after page from
David Copperfeld, from Pickwiek,
and, L believe, other of the novels
was recited with hardly the mistake
Of word. Yet his memory was
doubtless quite as much an accom-
plishment as a gift-a faculty severely
trained and constantly exercised.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26

A friend of ours was recently bless.
ed by an addition TO his household
Next morning the happy man took
his fOur-year old boy into the room
to see his little brother, who was qui-
etly enjoying his first morning nap
with his little mouth open. All were
watching the elder brother, desirous
to catch the first observation. With
eyes firmly fixed at the new conner,
and with a eountenance showing
trouble within, after a moments 81
lence, he defiantly exclaimed: al
should like to know who has pulled
out baby's teeth?"
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r NELSON. Physician and Sur.

T r. NELSON, Physician and Sur
81 geon. Office at the old stand of 10y &
Nelson. a few doors east of the First Nation
al Bank, Market Street, Warren, o. Having
had q years experience in the practice, in
company with Dr. 10y, during which time
thousands Of cases were treated by me, l
would state that will continue TO give par
ticular attention to all classes of diseases
For the accommodation Of persons from
distance, by cars or otherwise. have ar
ranged TO be at my office at the following
hours: From to 10 O'Clock, A. NJ; from to
s o'clock, P. NJ, J. r. NELSON.
ner % 1890 iv