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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22
Boarding Hired Help.

AN acquaintance writes to know if /
board my hired help; if not, how do
manage to obtain the requisite amount so
far away from city or country town {?
AS this subject is an important one to all
who have to hire laborers, will give my
private view and practice very briefly.
In the first place, | do not board any of
my laborers, for many good reasons, but
principally because men usually ask al
most as much wages with board as with
out it. They are always in the way about
the house, make the women folks unnec-
essary trouble, besides there is no profit
in keeping clearinghouse for your own
laborers in the country. Another and
still more important consideration is the
kind of labor. choose married men, for
they are, as II class, more industrious and
steady in their habits, family being a
good tow-line to keep mans head up
stream, if not much above high-watcr
mark No matter how low man may
be in the scale of intelligence-even down
to the Darwinian starting point-he will
work for his offspring with more persist
ency than for any other consideration that
could be offered him. To secure such Ia
borers, man must necessarily have tene-
ment houses, but these need not be very
elegant or expensive in fact, the extra
amount of money spent in many cOun-
try farm house to accommodate the farm
laborers boarded, would build them a sep
arate dwelling. Scores of farmers wives
are annually killed by overwork in caring
for the laborers on the farm-not only in
cooking, washing, and ironing for them,
but in Keeping the extra rooms required
in order, both when in use as well as
when unoccupied. This is all wrong, and
my advice is, build cheap but convenient
dwellings, and the best kind of laborers,
with their families, will as surely come to
occupy them as the birds to fill the coy
nest put up in your orchards and groves.
Prepare place for good, steady, indus
trious men, offer good wages, and never
insult your own ideas of domestic happi-
ness by advertising for help with the too
frequent afliX of ga single man pre-
ferred," or "a man and his wife, without
children" l do not board my help, and
employ none but married men.-Cgr. Ri
raj Nelo Yorker
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22
Cutting Out.

THERE is boy who thinks he was not
"cut out for u farmer" Well, there is
something in cutting out, but great deal
more in making Up. Ask the tailor if it
is not in the power of careless, clumsy
workman to spoil the most skillful cut
ting. Some men are specially fitted for
some special work, as were the great mas
tiers of art; and the Lord never wastes
material by giving to all the same gifts,
since there is an endless variety of work
to be done in the world. The marble
must be hewn from the quarry, and the
iron track laid over valley and mountain,
before the sculptor can give lasting shape
to his beautiful imagining, or the inven-
tor bring into play the work of his genius.
And one kind of work may be just as
honorable as the other. As a general
thing our werk comes to us without much
seeking; and because we do not quite
fancy it, or think we should like better to
do something else, it is by no means GER
tain that we arc in the wrong place. II
is all right to try to find work that does
please us, since that is what we shall be
likely to do best; but never fancy you
are so poorly cst out that you can not do
well and honorably any honest work that
is plainly laid upon you. 1t is not 80
LluCH 0Ndt you w, as Nott you uO IL. Assn
any score of honorable men you know,
and scarcely one will tell you he is doing
what he fancied, when he was boy, he
should do.
As for my farmer boy, am afraid he
does not quite understand how much may
go into the making of good farmer; for,
if you will notice, you will find people
always think they are cut out for ldrger
places, and not smaller. There is good
deal Of hard work in farming, and boys
sometimes get tired of the monotonous
parts that fall to their share but work is
work the world over, and nothing gives so
great variety as the farm. When the
boy grows older, and learns how much
science, and art, and philosophy have
done for the farmer; what room there is
for intelligent thought, for careful expert
ment, for skillful labor, he may change
his mind, and conclude that farmer
ought to be cut out, mentally as well as
physically, by broad, generous pattern
So we say to him, don't trouble yourself
great deal about the cutting out, but
be sure you do your best to make up the
material that God put into you, so as to
make an honest, upright, useful man; and,
above all, never believe that the Lord cuts
anybody out for hiik, or an nler, or an
unlucky teILOw. w.-LHtLe Corporal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22
Shocks to the System.

The first shock Of winter tells tremendously upon
enfeebled systems. Every one knows that in pass.
ing from warm region to cold one, or rice
rersd, the body requires as a protection against
epidomics an Rcclimating medicine. All travellers
and yoyagers admit this II is equally necessary to
acollmate the system in passing the confines OF one
season and entering upon another. Autumn IL
gone and winter Is here, Prepare the frame and
the constitution to meet the change by course of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. This inestimable
vegetable tonic increases the staminal strength of
those who take 1t, and renders them proof to a
great extent against the deHtalizing power of cold
and damp. These two agents are as prolific of die
ease as tropical heat, and animal vigor-suoh yigor
as this healthful and pure tonic difiuses through
the whole organization-is repeant which they
cannot master. large proportion of the colds,
catarrhs and pulmonary complaints which prevail
in winter, might be avoided, by strengthening and
regulating the system In advance with this inyigor
ant and alternative Not that i Is recommended rs
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22
How to Judge Poultry.

AS COLD weather is here, and the time
arrived for purchasing poultry for the
table ii may not be out of place to give a
few general rules by which the age of
fowls of all descriptions can be judged.
In following these rules no reason need be
assigned by any grocer, much less house
keeper, for purchasing other than good,
wholesome and tender fowls.
To Judge the Age Of Fops.-I hens
spur is hard, and the scales on the legs
rough, she is old, whether you sec her
head or not, but her head will corroborate
your observation. If the under bill is so
stiff that you cannot bend IL down, and
the comb thick and rough, leave her, no
matter how fat and plump, for some one
less particular A young hen has only
the rudiments of spurs the scales on the
legs are smooth, glossy and fresh colored,
whatever the color may be- the claws ten
der and short, the nails sharp, the under
bill soft, and the comb thin and smooth.
To Judge the Age Of 7tvkeys.-An old
hen turkey has rough scales on the legs,
callosities on the soles of the feet, and
long, strong claws a young one tho
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22
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the game. If the pending proposition
were to unite with certain voters of the
other party in support of specific ideas
and designated men known as their ad-
vocates, 1t might be worth the considera-
ton of those in the dominant organization
who dislike the President, and might also
give the Democrats some chance for re-
covering-not power, but standing
among the forces actively at work for the
shaping of the nobler republic. But the
notion of Mr.. Blair and those who talk
rs he does, is absurdly fallacious in so far
as it holds out hope that ii may transfer
the reins of government to any one SYM
pathizing with past Democratic policies. -
ErerU ,Sdfuyu0D
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22
"WHAr Know, l Kxow.n said the greo

"WHAT Know, l KNOW" said the great
surgeon, Magendie. "Give me stubborn facts
I care not for theories" This is sound
doctrine. Possibly medical martinez might
be able, in plausible way, to show why Dr.
WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs ought not to
cure Indigestion, Headache, Nervousness,
Liver Complaint, Muscular Diseases and Mi
asmatic Fevers; but as they do in every in.
stance effect that object, his fine theory will
be waste of words. As Magendie said, the
world demands facts, not speculative opin-
ions
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22

DISEASED LUNGS ARE GREATLY ON AN INCREASE
IN THIS CoUNTRY.--The sudden changing Of
weather has done much to give riso to Consump-
tion. But there are thousands OF cases who bring
damp clothing and going from the warm room into
the cold air, and checking the perspiraton, which
causes irritation Of the Lungs, and then matter or
by coughing 1t up, to prevent pustules from form
ing II nature does not raise the matter with case
and stop this Inflammation, tubercles will soon
form, aud Consumption will soon follow. Allen ?
Lung Balsam win cure and prevent thousands
Of cNses Of Consumption II 1t is only taken in
time.
For sale by all Drurpists
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s.RILIOuS.w

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perfect cures, leaving the liver strengthened
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MILWAUKEE.
FINANCIAL.
Investment Securities.

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Pamphlets, maps and full information will
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specific for those complaints, but as preventive Of
their causes. On the other hand, It is not only
Of but specific for the indigestion, in
testina Irregularities, malarious fevers bilious at
tacks, aud nervous affection, superinduced by a
chilly and damp atmosphere.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22
J N. HARRIS & CO., Proprietors,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
TO CONSUMPTI

The advertiser, having been permanently cured OF
that dread disease, Consumption, by simple remedy,
Is anxious to make known TO his fellow sufferers the
OF the prescription used Qree of charge with the d.
recons for preparing and using the same, which they
BRONCHITIS, &c.
Parties wishing the prescription VIII please address
Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON,
26l South Third street. Wililansburg n. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22

A MARRIED lady in Connecticut recently
fell into river and would have been
drowned except that her cries attracted
the attention of her husband, who, mis-
taking her in the dark for another woman,
worked like beaver to get her out.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22

For CoUGHs, COLDS AND THROAT DIsoR-
DERs, use "Bro,om's bronchial Troches, )" hay
ing proved their efficacy by test of many
wears.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22

THE proprietors of JoAaso,'S ARodyne Lin
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Cdgal,y Condition IOwderS, have published a
readable and instructive pamphlet, which
may be had free at the stores.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22

RUFUS CHAPMAN, of Liberty, Maine, had
stiff leg, bent at the knee, limbered and
strengthened by the use of JohnSon'S Anodyne
LiItiniznt.
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CAUTION.

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you with worthless preparations.
Can for >" Aliens Lung BalsAm!"
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Terms Of tho Weekly sun ,

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A journal containing eight large pages published
every Wednesday morning--To all mail subscribers,
whether single or in clubs one dollar year each,
always In advance.
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-31

chel, an eve; Lydia is from the name
of province in Asia, said by Josephus to
have been founded by the children of Lud,
fourth son of Shem Charlotte and Caro-
line are feminine forms of Charles or
Karl, signifying man or manly Emily,
Amy and Amelia may mean affable aud
Industrious, and Emma, sometimes con-
founded with them, seems, like Mamma,
TO have come from the first lispings of the
child, and is said to mean grandmother.
Ellen, Helen and Helena mean light, in
the sense of luminous. Catherine or
Katherine, pure /; Clara, Clarissa and
Claribel come from famous or fair. Jane
and Joanna mean the grace of the Lord.
Abigail, meaning the father of Joy, must
be read the cause of Joy. Debora is a
bee. Dorothea and Dora mean the gift
of God. Dorcas is gazeIIe. Augusta
is venerable-honorable or stately, if
young ladies like that better. Agnes is
pure. Alice means noble cheer, good for
housewife. Amanda means worthy to
be loved. Phoebe means shining. Bridget
means strength. Harriet is household
names meaning home rule. What the
very pleasant name Cecilia may mean is
disputed. The Roman Cacilian family
objected to the legend that their ancestor
was blind, as the name would import, and
invented other legends. The present pop
ularity of the name comes from ST. Ce-
ella the martyr who sang with her last
breath and is in the calendar as the pa
troness of music. Matilda should be able
to hold her own, her name mea ming battle
maid. Sophia is wisdom; Sophonia, of
strong mind. Rebecca or Rebeka comes
from root signifying to bind, and is ap-
propriately introduced in a prayer in the
Episcopal marriage service. Louisa means
famous holiness. Frances is free. Ger
trude means spear maid. Antoinette is
inestimable Arabella, an eagle heroine
Roxana is the dawn of day Rhoda, a
rose. Milicent means strength Malvi-
ma, handmade Florence, fourishing !;
Wilhelmina, like Wilhelm and William,
helmet of resolution. The list of names
with their Specifications might be indefi-
nitely extended but what are here given
will suffice TO show how much better the
honest old forms are than any schoolgirl
travestie If our young ladies were to
investigate their own names, and also
seek out the meaning and history of other
common things-for words are things,
and all things have history-they would
find in such a pursuit both recreation and
instruction.-Phata. Ledger.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-31
PEGIsTERs NOTICE.-Notice i

II hereby given that the following Accounts
have been passed and filed in the Registers Of
fce at Ebensburg, and will be presented to the
Orphans Court of Cambria county, for confirm
alton and allowance, on Wednesday, the 9Th dap
of September neat, to wit:
First and partial account of r R. Edwards
John Thomas, late of Joi1nstown, in the county
First and partial account of John w. James,
Guardian of Ann Mary Bickerstaff, minor child
of James Bickerstan, deceased.
The first and final account of John Doyle and
Ann Doyle, Adm'rs of the estate of Jas. Doyle,
late of Allegheny township, deceased:
Admir- of the estate of Charles Grumling, late
OF Cambria county, deceased
Account of Jonathan Horner, Adm of the
goods and chattels, etc, of Mary N. Cover, late
of JohRstown, deceased.
The second and final account of John NJ Cor
mick and Francis p. Mccormick, Executors OF
the last will and testament of Patrick Moor
mick, late of the township of Summerhill, decd.
First and final account of w. c. Lewis, Admir-
of the estate of Mrs. Mary Hite, deceased.
First account of w. e. Lewis, Trustee for the
sale of the real estate of Jas. H. Mitchell, decd.
Guardian of minor children Of Jacob Shafrer,
deceased.
dian of Elmer A. Rodkey, minor child OF Jas.
Rodkey, deceased.
The first account OF A r. Longanecker, Guar
dian or Mary Catharine Rodkey, a minor child
or James Rodkey, deceased.
The first account Of A. X. Longanecker, Guar
dian of Annetta Rodkey, a minor child OF Jas.
The account of Michael MEG uire and Charles
McManamy- Adm'rs OF George Bruce, late of
Allegheny township, deceased, accounting for
funds arising from sale of decedents real estate.
The account of r. r. Davis and John Bennett,
Administrators of the estate of ID. j. Davis, late
of Cambria township, deceased.
Fifth and partial account of Geo. NJ Reade.
Esq, Administrator of Robert Davis, late OF
Ebensburg borough, deceased.
The first and final account Of VIM. Richter,
Admir- of Joseph M Richter, M late @ Of Carroll town
Repister's Ofice Ebensburp Aug 10 1871
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FLOATING ISLANDS.

Gippsland is Province of Victoria.
1t is bounded by the Australian Alps on
all sides except on the South, which the
sea washes far over one hundred miles,
Ii may be called the Piedmont of Austria
liza. rich fertile plains intersected By rivers
flowing into lake system extending all
along the coast, and separated from the
sea by sandy narrow ridge, with ore
nayiga5le opening. A local paper, the
GippSldnS Times, gives the following de-
scription of ''hoating islands on the lakes:
''As one of The GippsIand Steam Nav
igation Companys steamers was recently
crossing Lake Wellington. the man at the
wheel suddenly observed land rig ht in the
track of The steamer, and apparently only
a short distance from the straits separat-
ing Lakes Wellington and Victoria. He
called the captains attention to The strange
sight, and on coming up close, the land
was discovered to be a small island, about
thirty yards in length by twenty bread
Ii was covered with a rich coating of
luxuriant grass; and small trees, tea tree,
and bush shrubs, appeared to be growing
in profusion. The only OCCUPANTS of this
EenaIhdOlo dppdiH lOilS"oIS q ~" PicT,
feeding away contentedly and apparently
enjoying their novel journey by water A
second island of the same description, but
much smaller, was noticed a little farther
on, but this had evidently detached itself
from the larger piece of land, or most
probably had been separated by the root
ing depredations Of the porkers.
''From what portion of the main land
this floating island came, is of course mat
ter of conjecture, but it is known that
portion of the soil at Marley Point, on the
southern shore of Lake Wellington, be-
came detached recently, and fioated miles
across the lake with some twenty or thirty
head of pigs aboard. As long as the wind
drove it in that direction, the island drifts
ed toward M'Lenaan's Straits, but
change Of wind brought it back again, af-
ter three days trip, within a mile OF the
spot from which it had broken away We
believe it is the opinion of the district sur
yevor, Mr. Dawson, that the area ot II @
Rosenealh run, west of Lake Wclirgtvn,
has been increased some twenty or tbiIty
acres by the addition Of drift islands,