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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
Whole No. 1924.
How to Keep a Situation and
Increase Your Value.

Increase Your Value.
A great many persons employed
by the day, week or year to learn
a trade or profession, or who render
service after acquiring a tolerably
proficient knowledge of his or her
trade or business, lose sight Of one
very important essential F.; to wit
That their usefulness is their capital
and consequently their value Is IN
proportion to their usefulness
A journal published in the inter
est of labor, and called the Work
ing Man, expresses our meaning
more explicitly and fully, which we
submit below as valuable piece of
advice to all interested, who will
follow it. The Working Man says ::
clay it down as a rule, that you
will be ''faithful in that which is
least" Pick up the lose nails, bits
of twine, clean wrapping paper, and
put them in the places. Be ready
Ito throw in an odd half hour or
hours time, when it will be an ac-
commodation, and don't seem to
make merit oft. If not a work
is said, be sure your employer makes
a note of it. Do it heartily. Make
yourself indispensable to him, and
he will lose many of the opposite
kind before he will lose you. Those
young men who watch the time TO
see the very second their working
hour is up-whO leave, no matter
what state the work may be in, at
precisely the instant-whO calculate
the extra amount they can slight
their work, and yet notget reproved
who are lavish OftheiI employers
goods, will always be first to receive
notice that times are dull, and their
services are no longer required"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
Improving Business Pros"
DeCIs.

The n. Y. Economist thinks there is
at the present time a remarkable COM
bination of circumstances pointing to-
results which are favorable 70 at least a
decided improvement, if not to down
right prosperity.
The Economist bases its opinions up
on the following, among other facts:
1st. That nearly every section Of the
country is in possession Of a surplus Of
some commodity or product for which
there is demand from other sections,
thus constituting q basis of exchange.
Thus the Eastern States and Europe
need the products of which the South
and West have large surplus; while
the latter need those commodities which
the former can furnish. The West is
full of breadstuffs, over SIC, 1000, 600 worth
being stored in Chicago alone, awaiting
the opening of water transportation
Eastward. The South still has in re-
serve enough surplus Cotton, Tobacco
and other crops, the proceeds of which
will enable her to purchase freely of
commodities for household and personal
use.
I'd. The tendency towards an easy
money market, produced by the success
of the new Government loan at per
cent, which will permanently reduce
the rate Of interest paid by the heaviest
borrower, the Government, and cause a
large amount of capital to be invested
in business enterprises, railroads, etc.
for the sake of the larger interest to be
derived from them. This will result in
an increase of employment for labor,
and a new impetus toward the develop
ment our vast resources.
The above facts, taken in connection
with the large foreign demand for Amer
lean producey the favorable prospects of
our growing grain crops, the resump-
tion of cotton manufactures in Europe
suspended during the war, all point to
revival of business prosperity.
In conclusion, the Economist says:
The only unfavorable sign is the at
tempt now being made to render money
artiticially dear. A powerful clique is
said to be formed to "oorner'' the money
market. We can only hope that the
movement will fail, and the indications
all point to that result. The Secretary
of the Treasury was the means of break
ing up a combination of this kind, and
as the success of the new plan depends
on an easy money market, there can be
no doubt that he will operate so as to
overthrow this movement against in
dustry
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
Oon0ition of the sonth.

Our Democratic friends are disposed
to hoot at the idea that there are any
disturbances in the South greater than
there are i'll the North. While we are
free to admit and believe, that in some
sections they have as much order as we
have here, there are others where life
and liberty are held at a cheap rate.
Don Piatt has been loud in his denun-
citation of the reports which he has
claimed were exaggerated, of troubles
in the South, but in letter to the Com
mercial last week he gives a report of a
conversation had with Hon. Mr.. Ham
ilton, of Florida. We quote
"He told me yesterday that was
mistaken as to the condition Of the
South. He says that within the lastsix
months forty-one assassinations, of the
most horrible character, have occurred
in his own district. These murders
were purely political. Men were shot
down in open day, after being warned
again and again to leave the country
because of their connection with the
Republican party"
Comments are unnecessary. WHO
will deny the necessity of some legisla
ton like the Ku Klux Bill?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

Only let n woman be sure she is
precious TO her husband, not useful,
not valuable, not convenient simply,
but lovely and beloved F.; let her be
the recipient of his polite and hearty
attentions, let her feel that her cares
and love are noted, appreciated and
returned; let her opinion be asked,
her approval sought, and her judg-
ment respected in matters Of which
she is cOgnizant in short, let her
only be loved, hOnOred and cherish
ed in fulfllment of the marriage
vow, and she will be to her husband,
her children and society, a WELL
spring of happiness. She will bear
pain, toll and anxiety, for her hus-
bands love to her is a tower and
fortress Shielded and sheltered
therein, adversity will have lost its
sting. She may suffer, but sympa.
thy will dull the edge of sorrow.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
Fifteen Great Mistakes.

It is a great mistake to set up our
own standard of right and wrong,
and Judge people accordingly. 1t
is a great mistake to measure the
enioyments of others by our own ;
to expect uniformity of opinion in
this world ; to look for judgment
and experience in youth to endeav-
or to mould all dispositions alike ;
not to yield in immaterial trifes ;
to look for perfection in our actions ;
to worry ourselves and others with
what cannot be remedied ; not to
alleviate all that needs alienation
so far as lies in our power; not to
make allowances for infrmities OF
others to consider everything i'm
possible which we cannot perform
to believe only what our finatC
minds can grasp; to expect to bt
able to understand everything. The
greatest of all mistakes is to live
only for time when any momen
may launch us into eternity.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

The National Convention of dele
gates of the Young Mems Christion
Association of the United States,
will meet in Washington City the
24th of May. The meeting will be
full of interest, and the trip to the
Capital city at that time ofyear will
be one of the most delightful fmag-
Unable. Railroads will carry dele
gates at half fare, and persons can
thus see the finest scenery in the
world, the finest Capitol building
in the world, and give encourage
ment to one Of the noblest causes ex'
fant
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

The New York Sun says: ga great
push is making to nominate old Ben.
Wade for Governor of Ohio. He has
declined the honor, and advises the Sc
lection of some young man; but his
friends are not willing to relax their ef-
forts. We are in favor of nominating
and electing this old war-horse. 1t is
true he goes in for the annexation OF
San Domingo, and clasped the hand OF
Baez for two hours in order to express
his love for him but it is also true that
it was Wade who got Grant to drop tho
Dominican job for the present, and lei
the country have little peace and the
Republicans q chance to do something
in the fall elections.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
What a Democratic Triumph
would Do.

Senator Morton, in his serenade
speech at Washington, on Saturday
night, alluded to the fact that the De-
mocracy base their hope of success in
the campaign of 1872 upon carrying the
South. For this purpose, the Ku-Klux
are strengthening their organization
and waging their guerrilla and bandit
warfare upon the Republicans, hoping
to suppress free speech and free opinion
by intimidation and assassination. The
fact that the Democracy would disfran-
chise the colored people in sixty days
and reduce them to serfiom was also
alluded to. But the acknowledgements
of the colored people is not the chief
evil which will result from a Democrat
ic triumph. The Democratic party is
still the States Rights party, and its
triumph would be the triumph of the
'sIost cause" in another shape. The sub
dued rebels have not concealed this
They have constantly stated that al
though overpowered by the sword and
bullet, they have not abandoned the
"cause," but will yet carry it by the
ballot. Recently, they have grown
more communicative than ever. There
has been a spasm of States Rights ex-
preston, and lifting of "lost cause"
heads throughout the whole South, as
we have shown from time to time by
extracts from Southern papers. The
recent speech of Jefferson Davis, at Sell
ma, to which we alluded at the time,
contains a re-assertion of the doctrine
of States Rights, and of his willingness
to die for the "lost cause" What this
States Rights means in the South, let
the national debt of over two thousand
millions, the graves oftens of thousands
of dead soldiers, and the history of four
years. war, blackened by Andersonville
and Libby, make answer. It is not
States Rights in the mild sense in which
some of the journals put it, but it means
the right to seceede and to destroy the
Republic of the United States whenever
a State feels aggrieved or dissatisfied.
That the triumph of the Democracy
would put the country back where it
stood before the war, is not to be claimed,
but that it would undo the results ofthe
war so far as possible, is.beyond doubt.
The negro would be remanded to the
mercy of his late rebel master, the Ku-
Klux would suppress the Republican par
ty of the South with high and an un-
stayed hand, and the country would be
again placed in the hands of party of
States Rights principles and caste preju-
dices. Once the country is in its hands,
the party will find innumerable ways
to bring about the virtual triumph OF
the "Lost Cause."-[TOledo Blade.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

The Connecticut election has
made an impression on the Southern
mind. The Richmond Enquirer
sees something significant therein,
and cautions its friends that they
are running the Ku-Klux a little
too strong. It advises them to lie
low yet little while longer. JEFF
Davis late Selma speech it denounc,
es severely, as bad policy, and says
that unless more caution is observed
when the Presidential campaign
takes place "we are just as sure tc
be beaten as if we were to run Mr.
Davis himself as our candidate.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

Bishop D. W. Clark, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, was taken
i'll at Peekskill during the recent
session of Conference there, and re-
mains in very precarious condi'
ton. He is suffering from an al
most utter prostration of the nerv'
Gus system, and probably from en-.
largement of the heart. His mind
however, is clear, and he converseS
with his friends as intelligently ant
cheerfully as ever. His physicians
have recommended his removal tt
his home in Cincinnati.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

Winans, who sold out to the Dem
ocrats in Albany at high figure,
undertook to brave it out with the
indignant Republicans, assuring
them that he would be returned to
the Assembly by his constituency.
He has heard from home, however,
and the prospect ofa reelection is not
encouraging. They denOunco him
as a traitor, and demand his resig-
nation. 1t is tolerably certain that
the pitch is hot for him in Chatauque
county, aud the best thing he can
now do is TO take q trip abroad for
/ his health, OF move West as neal
the scalping line as the Indians
will allow him to CO. Cincinnati
Commercial.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
Riddle-s5O Reward.

The celebrated Annie Stewart left in her will d
Jequost Of go to be given to the person who shout
solve this riddle. We believe the rewarShas neveT
been claimed:
The noblest object in the world Of art,
The brightest gem that nature can imPart,
The part essential in a lawyers case,
The well. known signal in the time Of peace,
The farmers prOmPter when he drives the plow'
The soldiers duty and the lovers vow,
The planet seen between the earth and sum-
The prize that merit never yet has won,
The miser's s treasure and the badge Of Jews,
The wiie's ambition, and the parson's dues,
Now il your noble spirit can divine,
A corresponding word Of every line,
By the first lsttars quickly will be shown,
An ancient city Of no small renown.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

The CHAMPION MEAN MAN
The Springfield Republican says
"Several places have claimed the
champion mean man, but New
Canaan can take the belt. A man
there who employs his father in his
work shop, lost a child, and natur-
ally the grandfather of the child
wished to attend the funeral. The
son permitted the old man to go tC
the grave, and when he got home
docked the poor fellow half a day
lost time"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

"SOBER SECOND THoUGHT." y
Thos. NJ. Cullen, of Philadelphia,
who said he would rather rot in
prison than pay fine imposed by
Judge Ludlow for refusal to serve
on a jury with a colored man, has
paid the fine and is released. His
counsel had attempted to obtain
his release by a ha6eas corpus, bat
Judge Sharswood would not grant
the writ, on the ground that he had
no jurisdiction.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

ICING FOR CAEEs.-Take of the
best white EDGAR one pound, and
pour Over it just enough cold water
to dissolve the Jumps then take
the whites of three eggs, and beat
them a little, but not to a still trOth;
add these to the sugar and water
put it in a deep bowl, place the bowl
in a vessel of boiling water, and
beat up the mixture. It will first
become thin and clear, and after
ward begin to thicken. When it
becomes quite thick, remove it from
the fire, and continue the heating
until it becomes cold, then spread
it on with a knife. It is perfectly
white, glistens beautifully, and is
so hard and smooth when dry, that
you may write very we'll upon it
with q pencil.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

An Irish census-taker has visited
a German settlement in Illinois. He
reports: "Ivery mothers son av
thin tOWld me his name was NIGHTS
vurstay, and that he was nein years
of age"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

The census reports show US that
in population Iowa has beat all her
sisters in the relative order of rank,
having jumped from the nineteenth
in 1860, to the thirteenth in 1870.
In the same time her population
has Increased over 800, 1000, being
now 1,I77,515. Many OF the north
ern counties have during this time
gained from five to fifteen times the
number of population they had ten
years ago. New farms are being
opened in every direction over her
broad and fertile prairies, while
new towns spring up as if by magic
along all the new lines of railroads
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
Conundrums.

What animal could have dispensed with the ark!
Why, the dog, to be sure, might have set up b,rE
What is that which, when brought to the table, is
cut but never eaten A pack Of cards.
What is thst wish no one wishes to have and no
one wishes to lose a bald head.
Wbyis a grain Of sand in the eye like a school
masters cane? Because it hurts the pupil.
What's the proper age for a ParsOn2 The par
sonags, Of course.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

Many persons sigh for death when
it seems far of, but the inclination
vanishes when the boat upsets, or
the locomotive runs of the track,
or the measles sets in, A wise ply
sfcian once said to me: "I observe
that every one wishes to gOtO heav-
en-, but I observe that most people
are willing to take a great deal OF
very disagreeable medicine iEst."-
RI. W. HiggiDson.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

The very latest thing in the adver-
tising line is a lady who, through
the newspapers, seeks for employ
ment as an ornamental guest. 1"
She will assist at evening or dinner
parties-by her grace, and wit, and
beauty, contributing to the enter
tainment of the guests, and she will
do everything in the highest style OF
the art-only she demands that a
handsome compensation be made.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

The best women in the world are
who stay at home; such is the
universal opinion of the best judges,
to-wit: their husbands. The worst
women those who have no home, or
who love all other places better )
such is the verdict of those who
meet them abroad. A wife in the
house is as indispensable as a steers
man at the wheel.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

A rich farmer refused to subscribe for
an iron fence for a cemetery in Vermont,
on the plea that it needed no fence, as
those inside cannot get out, and those
who are out do not want to get in.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

Both Sumner and Schurz, in the
debate on the Ku-Klux bill, deelar-
ed their continued sympathy with
and adherence to the good old Re-
publican party. They might differ
with the Administration on consti-
tutional points and matters of poll
cy, but. they proposed to fight theiF
battles inside the Republican ranks
Their speeches dispclled the airy
hopes of the Democrats, and left
them naught but grief and pain.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
This is a Personal taken from

This is a personal" taken from a
country journal ga young lady
takes this method of informing a
certain young man that the next
time he desires to gaze upon her
forty-five mortal minutes, without
winking his eyes, she will consider
herself highly favored if he will
close his mouth, and not sit there
like a young robin awaiting the par
eut bird"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

Three of the most brilliant planets Of
our solar system now adorn the evening
sky-Venus, Jupiter and Mars. With
Sirius and the constellation Of Orion,
these make a splendid appearance.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

The Cincinnati Gazette argues that the
letter "c'' is superfuous and should be
dropped from our alphabet. The editor
says its place can be readily supplied by
the letters rs" and "k" in every in
stance. Sin-sin-nati is the proper place
to inaugurate the change.-[MaysVille
Bulletin.
Well, how about ChillicOthe p? Where
would your "s'' be there ?-PortsmOuth
| Tribune.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

The following letter was received
bv the " Hestlicht Post" and is cop
led Uer5atin et Literatltnl :
Racine, 10 Martz II.
Mein Freund :-OXkOOse me dat
1 Schreib you in Englisch. Ich
habe so long stadt in Wisconsin
gowont, das ich already twise have
gevoted. Das Englischer steet mir
so vor dat 1 can hardly schwetz any
dtutsch no more.
Mein addresse est zwei mile from
Racine in busch. So you send 1t
mach der postmaster, 1 get EN-.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
Select Miscellany.
MY FIRST CIGAR.

Twas out behind the WOOd-pile,
One glorious summer day,
sat upon the saw-buok
And made my first esssy
At smoking 'penny grabs" which
Had bought with rags at par;
And 1 felt mighty tiekled
Over my FIRST cigarl
The gentle brsezes blew the smoke
Into my nose and eyes,
And made me cough and sneezes alas
Like puppy eating fiesi
And a sort Of streak Of qualmishness
Commenced my bliss to mar,
And, with a feeling Of disgust,
dropped my first cigar.
I've felt the pangs of too much beer;
I know what tits to be
Riled up as to ones stomach
Upon a rolling sea:
But never knew a sickness
Which could with that compare,
When out behind the WOOd-pile
smoked my first cigar.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

When a man dies the people ask
"What property has he left behind him?"
But the angels, as they bend over his
grave, inquire, "What good deeds hast
thou sent before thee ?"-[Mahomet.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
HON VIM. F. ROGERS,

Mayor Of the city Of Bufalo, n. Y
1IYoR's OFFICE, BUFFALO, June q 1859.
haveused 'HOOhand's German Bitters and rome
g., nv, family during the past year, and can recon-
,.8 them as an excellent tonic, imparhng tone sho
IGOR TO The system Their use has been PToqIe{SS
~ fdecidedlV beneficial effects. VIM +. hOGAF0o'
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Youths Department.

pIOrisinal Enigma, Charades, Problems, ETC.,
are respectfully soIicited. The answers must al
ways accompany them, together with the real name
Of the wTirsr
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

At a school at Newcastle the master
asked a class Of boys the meaning Of the
word "appetite." After short pause,
one little boy said, 81 know, sir, when
I'm eatin' Pm 'aPpy, and when I'm
done I'm tight.''
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11
m

v,nsnsis had the Dyspepsia 60 badly It I was n 5e
1Ss9iISe TO keep any food on my stomach, anu niIs
50 weak s. e oo 9Si 'e eected es i perfect pc cure
Two ooVles Vi A0---' JAMES N. WOOD.
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uo,T ovOpcn sHARsWOOD

Justice OF the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, June !, 1865
have fouBd by experience that "Hoohands Ger
man Btters'' is very good tonic, relieving dysPepue
Symptoms aill''' GEORGE sHARsWOoD.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-05-11

SPICE CAKE.-TWO and a half
pounds of fur, two pounds Of cur
rants, two pounds Of butter, half a
pound of moist sugar, half an ounce
of pounded spice, four yelks and
two whites of eggs, two glasses Of
brandy, a tablespoonful Of yeast
and little warm water. Rub the
butter into the -four, mix all togeth'
sr, an put it before the fire to rise
about half an hour. Then make b
into cakes about halt an inch Thick
OF a little more, and the size OF (
pudding plate. Bake not 70
quickly. .....