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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

Telling Comparison.


Our National expenditures are
summed up under the following &C.
ven heads:
1. Civil expenditures.
2. Foreign intercourse.
8. Miscellaneous.
4. Interior Department.
s. Military establishment.
6. Naval establishment.
z. Interest on the debt.
If we leave the last three items
ont, the expenditures for the former
tour were ss4, 9s5, Sol So for the ifs.
eai year ending June 80, 1870 /;
thus
Civil, $40, OBJ, 2S3 &c
Forlgn intercourse, 1,490,776 %
miscellaneous, 80, 175, 4o1 Is
Intlrror Department, 3l,74s,14o 80
Total, ss4, ss5, 6O1 So
Be it understood this sum is ex-
elusive of military and naval expsn-
ses-exclusive Of ~interes; on the
debt.
The similar expenses Of GreA.
Britain. exclusive of military, naval
and interest on debt expenditures
were for 1868:
Civil List, s405,7 2I
AnRuities and Pensions, 286,S39
Salaries and Allowances 143,419
Diplomatic salaries and
Pensions, ia 53
Courts of Justice, 672.5i9
Miscellaneous charges 2il, sos
SalarIes, supernumeraries,
collection of customs
and internal revenue, 24@, 125
Miscellaneous civil servI-
ocs. s,491, 341
Post-ofice, 2,402. 054
Packet service, sOs,617
Total, 1906, $50
OR about ss0,ss5, 600, which is
fully "a, $50, 900 less than u own
Commenting on these
figures the New York World says /:
1.-THE impaired health Or intellect
Of Mr.. Bright Day not look into
these fgnres. Ten years ago, whom.
IN the fuIlness of hss vigor, he held
up u expenditures of $685.
900 for all civil services, collec-
and pensions to the %extrava-
CANT expenses of England-which
were sso,OO0,000 for similar
purposes-be did not dream that
. party would get In power in our
country, and in times of profound
peace would outvie Englsne and
spend $500, 900 more, and this, too,
without having degenerated into q
monsrchy-withouthav-
ing incurred tho luxury of an ex-
and numerous royal fam.
lily, an aristocratlc oligarchy, page
ants, palaces, and baubles Of all
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Th e Gala X y
IA FOR 1871. 9a

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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
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Hollands German Ionic

= . combination Of all the Ingredients Of The nitfsrs:
vtth PuRn Santa Cruz Rum, Orange, etc. II 10 used
lor he same disease as the Bitters, In eases Whsre
pome pure alcoholic slinanlus Il required 1o1 win
bsar IN mind that these remedies ao entirely diler-
mi rom anv others advertised for the enre OF the dis
eases named. these being scientific preparations OF
medical extracts, while the Others ara mere dseoe-
dous Of rum In some form. The TONIC IL decidedly
ons Of HE most pleasant ard agr-eab.e rsmsdisa ever
offered 10 The pubIIe. Its taste is exquisite. u .
pleasure 10 take IL. while its Hhs-giving. exhilarating.
ma n,sdselnxI qualities have csnsed It 70 be known -
he Greziost Of all tOnics-
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
Hollands German Biitsrs

4 sadrely vegetable, and contains M iqnor- II IL
seompound of Fluid Extracts. Tbs Roots. Hsrba,
and Barks from which these Extracts are made, are
xnthsred nom Germany. AL the Medical virtues are
extracted fnDm them by n scientific chemist These
extracts are then forwarded TO this country 10 be used
expressly for the manufacture OF these Bittors. There
l. no alcoholic suhsfanee OF my kind used In con-
Bounding the Bitiers. hsucs Il 70 the only Bittors that
not advisable
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
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Dvsp.psis. Ihad The Dyspepsia so badly Il Was In
poesible 10 keep any bod on my stomach, and l Be-
zane 30 weak a. not TO be able 10 walk half q mile.
Two bottles Of Tonic effected a perfect cure
JAMES N WOOD.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09

proposed to the public were more
Inirth-provoking still. One cannot
look at an ENGRAVING Rof the
Minerva" without q smile. The
Minerva was machine for navigating
tho air, projected by one Robertson, 81
Vienna, in 1904, and dedicated to Volts,
probably that it might come to be consid-
cred a. y sort Of Voltaic pile" A pile it
certainly appears of balloon, Q Fulton
ferry boat toy-ship, ten-pin alley, q
travelling circus, and q lager-bee saloon,
as complex in its construction and Is di.
verse in its aims as the new grand patent
d0uble-action cylindrical marling spike,
withholy s.oning watering pot attachment,
and selfadjusting reversible Kamptulicon
deck awning carpet. The amiable Rob-
ertson proposed to convey sixty persons in
the Minerva" which was to have ca
pscity of carrying 10000 pounds, and
thought it might be possible to make with
it the tour of the world In the serious
description he gave Of it, which is funnier
than Mark Twain's explanation of his map
of Paris, he refers to q gymnasium, a
theater, an observatory, study, and other
apartments not absolutely essential to
aerOnautic voyages, besides kitchens, clos
cts and store rooms, any one Of which ad-
juncts it would be about as easy to trans
port through the air as the Chapel of Our
Lady of Loretto.--Scribner' Monthly.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09

am faint from morning till night and that
no one can imagine what the privation
from meat or cheese is without they try"
But the Telegraph admits that cheese
eaten in small quantities is beneficial as
corrector of other food,' and yet this
consumption, it says, would not help the
manufacturers much. Now, the cheese
manufacturers would ask for nothing bet
ter than such consumption of cheese. II
it were general among the people. Say
that each individual should take only one
ounce Of cheese per day, or third Of an
ounce at each meal, simply as q "correc-
tor of other food" This small quantity
distributed among our forty millions Of in
habitants would make an annual consump-
ton in the United States ofnine hundred
and ten million pounds, or nearly four
times the product annually made in the
whole country But suppose we deduct
ten millions Of inhabitants, as non-c con-
sumers of cheese, and allow only half an
ounce per day for thirty millions of peO-
pie, and we have an annual consumption
of cheese amounting to three hundred and
forty.two million pounds, which Is still
about one hundred million pounds more
than the whole country produces.
Now we should say that half an ounce
of cheese per day would be very small
ration, and yet if the demand for our home
consumption of cheese was one hundred
million pounds above our annual produc-
ton, it would help manufacturers Of cheese
acknowledgement ep Yorker.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09

To the question. Why IL 1t that the
consumption Of cheese Is so very small, IL
It's high value g food IL 10 we'll under
stoody The Germantown Telegraph an
swers as follows: ut Is because cheese
eaten in any quantity to make its'nutrition
felt is the most unwhOlesome food In
the world; whereas, in very small guam
titles, which will not help the manufsc-
turers much, it Is just the contrary, a. the
corrector' Of other food"
Paragraphs like the above are very likely
to mislead. Cheese Is not an unwhole-
some food, "when eaten in quantity sufii-
cient to make it, nutrition felt" The fact
is very clearly proven in the case Of the
English laborer, who, when abundantly
supplied with cheese. can got dong with
little or no other animal food. A recent
letter from . correspondent In Paris,
speaking Of the scarcity Of animal food,
aays that "living upon bread and rice, I
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09

In the Albany Lam Journal we find
these little chirpings:
The remark Of an exchange "that many
of our successful lawyers commenced life
as preachers" is gracefully corrected by
one of the legal gentleman referred to,
who begs leave to state that he began life
Is an infant.
A country Justice of the Peace, on hav-
ing his attention called to the fact, as he
was about to enter judgment in certain
case, that he had not jurisdiction on ac-
count of the amount involved being over
two hundred dollars, promptly responded
" The court has thought of that, and dis
covered remedy. The court will enter
Judgment for the full amount, and then
issue two executions, each for half"
In recent action against the corpora
ton af Canterbury, England, to recover
damages for injuries received by the plain
tiff, he having been thrown from his car
rage In the night time by coming in con-
tact with pile Of stones left in the high
way, the somewhat singular defense was
set up that "the accident would not have
occurred in the daytime, and that, as dark
ness was the act Of God, SO was the acct
dent" The Lord Chief Justice is said to
have ruled against this point with some
warmth.
Some years ago, while a Judge, who
now occupies very high judicial position
in the State. was holding circuit in one of
the western counties, a case Of trivial
character was called up. His Honor,
somewhat "riled," remarked that such
suits, instead of taking up the time Of the
court, would be more properly disposed Of
by submitting the same to q jury of old
women. The plaintiffs attorney quietly
that, without taking exception
to the opinion of the honorable court, he
thought his cause could not have been be-
fore more appropriate tribunal.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09
The Road to Wealth.

THERE be those who inherit, or by
some sudden stroke Of good fortune &C.
quire riches, but almost universally speak
ing, the difference between the wealthy
man and the poor man represents the diff
ference between the person who saves and
the person who spends as he goes along.
1t is not an increase Of salary or an ex-
tension of business relations that insures q
competence, but the adhered to determine
ton to economic, to incur no unnecessary
expenditures, and to lay by something of
each weeks gains. So long as people in
crease their outgOes in proportion to the
increase Of their incomes, they are no
nearer that condition of independence
which it is desirable for all to attain. The
present growing fondness for ostentation
and display operates as direct barrier to
frugality. Some one has said that life in
the United States has become struggle for
social position; that whereas in older
countries the lines of demarcation are SO
closely drawn by blood, caste, etc, as to
repress social ambition here every one
has an opportunity to climb the social
ladder, and may aspire with confidence to
any round. There is much truth in this
observation, and the very fact that it Is SO
presents constant temptation to persons
to scatter their ducats in keeping up
appearances and making what is vulgarly
termed a spread" Those who yield
to this temptation, without a fortune
to draw upon, generally acquire extrava-
CANT habits, which always keep them tinan-
cially under the weather There are 9th
ers who, arguing that the true theory of
life is to live while we live" invariably
spend close up to their incomes. An i'm
pecunious old age is generally in store for
such persons.
1t is in little things that the money takes
its flight The failure to stop up the little
leaks is what prevents the financial reser-
voirs from ever filing. A NewY orker-
now wealthy man-moved out to an adj
joining village some fifteen years since.
While his neighbors. during that time,
have generally sent their bundles to and
fro by express, he has carried his own. In
this manner, he computes that he has
saved twenty-five hundred dollars during
the fifteen years. And this is but ope OF
very many ways in which individuals Can
save their pennies. OF course, those who
propose to" take life easy" and not trOu-
bic themselves about the future do not
care for any suggestions of this character
But those who aim to secure competence
for their declining years cannot be too
mindful of the fact that there is no royal
road to wealth, and that, no matter what
their position or income, frugality and
economy are essential for the attainment
of that Hearth and Home
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09
A Warning to the Young.

4 HENRI WELCOME, the boy murderer,
the day before his execution, which took
place recently at Windsor, VT, wrote the
following address to young men:
MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS With re-
spect Henry Welcome takes this as last
gift from God that ] should give you some
incidents Of my life, hoping they will in
struct you. Allow me to thank all for
the Kindness you have manifested towards
me, unhappy prisoner; and il is out Of re-
spect to you that think it nv duty to
write this sketch. have six sisters and
four brothers, and am the only bad sim
ner among them. I always attended Sab
bath School, and my father and mother are
members of Methodist church at Hines
burg. When was sixteen years of age
] left my happy home and went to visit q
sister at Stowe. When I returned was
bound to leave home, but my parents
wished me to stay at home and 60 70
school, would not mind them, but went
to Boston. I got good situation, but fell
in with bad company, going TO a billiard
hall, and learning also the use of liquor,
which used to excess. When in liquor
was persuaded to try my hand at "seven
up" At first refused, but being I'M
checked by home influences and exposed
to all the desires Of my corrupt heart, I
gambled and plunged into all sorts Of
wickedness. The story of my transgres-
sions and sins would fill large volume.
Finally, after one of my times,
went to Hinesburg the list of October,
1853; but, my friends, If had listened
to my mothers pleading voice, what
happy young man should have been to
day; and oh my friends, how many heart
rending, earnest prayers has my kind
mother offered to the Throne of Grace
and Mercy for me. She never upbraided
me, but strove to reclaim me by Kindness,
urging me to abstain from the sins was
committing daily. This was Thursday,
my mother gave this advice, and I went
from her arms with kiss on my lips,
plunging into all sorts Of crimes and sin,
and on Saturday of the same week COM
mitted the crime, so great that 1t will leave
a stain upon the land forever, and when
committed broke the heart of my mother
and hung millstones to the hearts of all
my friends, and robbed them Of all Joy
and comfort on earth. And only think, I,
Henry Welcome, at the age of 10 years,
placed in this horrible situation! To-mor-
row must suffer the sentence of death. I
think, my friends, this Is hard lot for q
young man to be sent into the presence of
his Maker on the gallows, but am to give
my life for the life have taken. Pardon
me, my friends, for saying so much to you.
My heart is full and my words are for you
| a warning that you may never come to my
sad end But tears will avail nothing for
me now. May the blood OF Christ wash
away my crime! This is my last and only
hope. HENRY WELCOME.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09
Remedy for Rattling Window Sashes

THE sashes in very many costly and
elegant dwellings are frequently so loose
from some cause, that when winds blow
even gently they will rattle and bang from
stop to stop, like the shrunken and de-
cayed portions of some forsaken and di
lapidated castle.
In some instances the sashes are fitted
with too much play, both in the direction
from one Undressing to the other, and
also from the outer to the inner stops. Be.
sides this, the shrinkage Of the stiles OF
the sashes and the contraction of half.
seasoned timber, Of which the stops were
made, have contributed to increase the de-
feet alluded to, SO that the annoying rattle
and clatter during the night will fire.
quently drive sleep from every eyelid.
The unwelcome music of rafting windows
will often arouse and electrify nervous and
timorous persons quite as effectually as II
band of BURGLARS were making an en-
trance into the dwelling 7aE
The remedy is by no means difficult or
expensive. Let the sashes be taken out of
the window frame, and every part Of the
window examined. If the jamb castings
have been sprung, or are warped and
twisted the first step will be to remove
the stops and straighten the face of the
castings, which may be done most con-
veniently with large rabbet-plane and a
smoothing plane In case the sashes
should be much too narrow for the frame
let one edge be dressed off true, and thin
strip fitted neatly, and glued and nailed to
the edge Of one stile. See that the outside
edge Of such stile is not tapering, even by
the thickness of heavy shaving Wher
the stiles are tapering only triile, the
sashes cannot be moved up and dowr
easily. Now put the upper sash in it,
place, and fasten the central stop with two
or three long, slender wood screws, after
which remove the outside stops and place
them so closely to the stiles Of the sash
that the window will not rattle.
Then let the stops be secured on the in
side SO closely to the stiles of the sash that
it will move up and down easily, without
having so much play that the wind will
rattle 1t. When the sashes have been fit
ted as directed, there will be no more need
of weather strips" of any kind to ex
Glide dust and cold air, and the expense Of
reftting a window as directed will bt
much less than the cost Of weather strips
-7echnologist.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09
Hints to Baseball Players.

THE Boston CommerciM Bulletin offers
some suggestions concerning the national
game
Don't let your pitcher get full too often.
A small man will last you longer than a
big one for pitcher. Little pitchers have
long W ears"
Men who want an advance In pay just
before match, are not "good strikers"
Never sell q game. Peddling matches
is small business.
1t is better to have one of your nine
tout on foul than out on lark
A." boy Of the period does not neces.
sarily make good short stop.
Amiable men makes the best players
they are not easily put out"
When the umpire decides which Is the
base for you TO take, you may consider 1t
like the first story Of your house, because
1t is!the base-meant.
No bottle should be allowed on the
ground-not even blue bottles for fly
catching"
Players should not indulge in vulgar
shouts, lest they be classed with foul
bswls.