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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-26
A COMPARISON.

In his careful report upon our trade and
business relations with the Dominion of
Canada, Mr. Larned presents the follow
ing interesting comparison of wages and
the cost Of living in this country and the
Dominion. In New York city wages are
Go per cent. greater than in Ontario, leav-
ing balance of z per cent. in favor of
New York. An average workman in
Maine commands 7S per cent. more wages
than in New Brunswick, while the cost of
living is only AZ per cent. greater-a rel-
alive advantage of 36 per cent. But the
difference between New York and Quebec
is astonishing, wages being l49 per cent
higher in the former, and cost of living
but 43 per cent. higher, leaving an
enormous margin of 90 per cent. as a
bonus of emigration to the United States.
The workman in New York, with the same
amount of labor and the same cost of liv-
ing, can save 81 81 more out of every 300
(gold) than in Ontario; S2S more in Maine
than IN New Brunswick, and $64 So more
in New York than in Quebec.
Considering that we are paying about a
hundred millions year of the principal of
our national debt, and that the Dominion
has comparatively no debt, the difference
between the two countries and in favor of
the laboring class of our country, is fact
that is worth considering attentively.
Under all the disadvantages which we
have of taxation and an inflated currency
we are steadily drawing away the popula-
ton from the Canadas, giving them better
wages, and enabling them to save more
than they can in their own country. There
would seem to be little reason to complain
of hard times here when the Canadians
leave their homes to share our lot Those
who groan in spirit because of our high
taxes would perhaps be cured by stepping
over the border and seeking their fortune
where taxation is less, but poverty more
and likely to increase, 1t would be very
difficult TO make sensible man believe
that yankees would care to exchange situ-
atoms with the Canadians under these cir
cumstances
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-26
WAKING UP EDUCATORS.

The circular of Superintendent Johnson
to teachers, school officers and others in
terested in educational matters is paper
with the true ring, and should be well OBJ
served by those to whom it is addressed.
We seem to think that we are doing a
great work for the common schools of our
State. but when reminded that the States
Of the West are surprising us in this d.
rection, erecting better houses, raising
more money for schools, grading them
where feasible, enticing away our best
teachers by more liberal salaries than we
pay, and even that the foremost countries
of Europe are leading us in the education
of the masses. we find that we have little
ground for satisfaction, and great need of
a more thorough awaking to the interests
OF the schools. The points toward which
Mr.. johnson now directs attention are the
following:
LIST. To exercise the greatest care in the
selection OF teachers. Get competent in
structors if they have to be paid more.
Those who work cheap generally do cheap
work, and are not SO profitable as those
who require, because they can obtain,
larger salaries. Agents should cooperate
with the experimenting School committee
in the employment of teachers, attending
the examinations and engaging none that
have not the proper certificate.
I'd. The improperly of hiring the
teacher first and having him examined
afterwards is pointed out Only five States
In the Union now permit such method,
ana in all the cities and larger towns of
our own State where the schools are pro-
gressiye, the opposite course is pursued.
Public opinion needs to be educated upon
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-26

The strikers in the Pennsylvania coal
mines having become weary of doing moth
ing and earning nothing are about ready
to resume work. When they have reck-
oned the profits of their suspension to
themselves they will not be able to find
them, while they have inflicted damage and
suffering over wide extent of country
If from this strike anything of advan-
tage has been learned in the way of regu-
lating the relations Of employer and en-
ployed, it should be carefully kept, for the
expense has been large sum.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-26
GENERAL NEWS.

wag advertises baby jumpers as "sprlng
goods"
Horticulture is to be taught in the Cincin-
natl schools.
Advertising is the oil which wise merchants
put in their lamps.
The miners in the employ of the Lacka-
wanna Iron and Coal Company have resumed
work.
1t is said the Rev. DIR. Guthrie, the able
Scotch preacher and writer, will visit the Uni
ted States next fall.
James Brown of Ohio, one of the soldiers
of 1912, refuses to take pension because the
country is in debt
Thunder and lightning during a snowstorm
is the last Minnesota sensation.
A western editor in response to subscriber
who grumbles that his paper was intolerably
damp says that it is because there is so much
due on it.
A celebrate d general in one of his reports,
wrote "the best and last point in the battle, y
but the printer made it ''the best and last pint
in the bottle.
Maple sugar is so plentiful in Vermont that
it has become drug in the market, an excel.
lent article selling for from six to seven cents
pound.
The drying of grapes for making raisins is
becoming large industry in California, the
highly saccharated juice of the American
grape peculiarly fitting them for the purpose
The portrait of Mr.. Darwin represents him
as big browed man, with a full beard, a
healthy neck, an intelligent eye, and very
practical kind Of expression-as if he were a
railroad contractor.
"What sustained our Revolutionary sires
during their struggle for liberty?" was what
New Canaan pedagogue asked a boy, and
was astonished when the boy said: "Their
legs, SIR
The New York Mail, which has acquired
something of literary reputation, condemns
Mrs. Piatt's poems as being somewhat kerr
chunkety." Now Mrs. Piatt 10 undone.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-26
The Philadelpbia Press saws 1.-The defec-

The Philadelphia Press says. 1.-The defec-
ton of the Johnsonites did more to con-
solidate the republicans and to crystalize
their opposition to the democracy than any
other event in the history of the party.
Without going over nominally to the ene-
my, they hung on the verge of republican
ism while bidding for the favor of the OPP
position The sequel is still fresh in the
public mind. Their fate will be that of
the Liberal Republicans" and other dis
organizers"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-26

THORP'S PATENT
KEROSENE
Cooking Stove! :!
Kerosene Oil,
WITHOUT SMOKE OR SMELL!
And will do Every Variety of Cooking
In the Most Superior Manner!
BAKEs BREAD,
Biscuit, apples, potatoes, cake pies griddle cakes
watfiss.
ROAsTs MEAT,
with a flavor far superior to that of ordinary baked
meat, and fully equal to that of meat roasted be-
fore the open fire-as owing to the peculiar con
sruction of the oven there is constant and rapid
circulation through it. On this account, meat
bread, pies, potatoes, and apples may all be baked
at the same time without imparting their flavor to
each other.
and steams vegetables and buildings and all linds
of meat.
BROILS OR FRIES
beef mutton and pork steaks, oysters and toma-
toes, in II superior manner
ROASTs AND sTEAMS OYSTERS.
HEATS FLAT IRONS.
IT Is SIMPLE AND NEAT,l
occupies but small space upon kitchen or din
ing room table: il is always ready for use, requir-
ing only match for kindling, and may be instant
ly extinguished, when no longer required thus
saving the expense of a constant fire.
THE HEAT CAN BE REGULATED
with the greatest nicely and is not subject to those
variations to which other fires are liable. This
will be appreciated by the laundress or the.lady
who does her own preserving.
THE STOVE OPERATES
without the least smoke or unpleasant odor, and
makes neither dust nor dirt to soil the furniture
nor ashes to be carried out. BY its use threequar
tiers of the labor and expense of cooking are
saved the cost of the fuel being ONE CENT AN
HOUR.
FAMILIES OF ANY SIZE MAY DO
THEIR ENTIRE COOKING
with this stove, 1t being simply necessary to in
crease the number of lamps to correspond with the
increase in the quantity and variety to be cooked.
FOR STUDENTS OR OTHERS KEEPING
BACHELORS HALL,
for any who desire to effect economy in the
HOUSEHOLD, 1t is invaluable, as the great saving in
fuel which effects soon detrays its whole cost
sEAMsTREssEs AND DREssMAKERs WILL
FIND 1T A GREAT CONVENIENCE,
as it enables them to heat fiat irons at a small
pense, the perfect regularity and consancy Of its
heat making it particularly efficient for this pur-
pose.
AS A SUMNER COOKING STOVE IT is UN.
EQUALED,
as it does not heat the house, and may even be
placed out of doors if required. FOR THIS SEA-
son 1T Is INVALUABLE.
For Sale i'm Augusta, by
Williamson & Greenwood,
BY WIN. Z. BALLARD, HallOWell.
And by G. A. & J. D. WHITE,
apr24ttf GARDINE IS.
M EW
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-26
The STAR!
8 MONTHS FOR A DOLLAR.

This favOrite household Journal will be sent to
any address till Jan. 1872, for one dollar, If or.
dered at once. which is a gift Of two months SUBJ
scription. Address,
1.-THE STAR" Printers Exchange,
apr26tlw Portland, Maine.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
The Dusty Room.

A young girl was sweeping one
day, when she went to the window
shade and hastily drew it down. at
makes the room SO dusty" she said,
ito have the sunshine coming in!''
The atoms of dust which shone
golden in the sunbeams were un-
seen in the DINNER light. The un-
taught girl imagined it was the sun.
shine which made the dust.
Now, many persons imagine them.
selves very good people. One poor
old man, who had lived all his life
without thought of love to God
said he was all ready to die. "He
didn't owe any man a cent" If the
Spirit of God should shine brightly
into such heart, how do you sup
pose it would look? 1t would show
them sins enough to crush them!
This light of the Spirit is like the
sunshine in the dusty room. 1t re-
veals what was before hidden. When
we begin to feel unhappy about our
sins, let us never try to put away the
feeling. Don't let us put down the
curtain, and fancy there is no dust.
1t is the Holy Spirits voice in our
hearts. He is showing us ourselves;
and better still, he will show us the
true way of happiness.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
Breaking the Ice.

Sunny, and the roads good; ther-
mometer at zero and high wind.
Will the minister preach to bare
walls or not? for many family must
come over unsheltered spaces across
which the icy winds sweep without
let or hinderance. There are, to be
sure, not a few fur cloaks, capes, col
lars usually seen in the congrega-
ton; the women seemed armed
equipped for contact with the cold,
only that their heads are marvellous
ly exposed. They wear but shreds
of bonnets and hats-a feather, a
soIp-pla6e, a dapgle Of beads and
laces. What protection will they
afford ears, throats, necks, nerves
against the stinging colds
"But," said a lady, looking out OF
her parlor window, "why stay at
home? why not wear my hood to
church to-day?'
ga hood! who ever saw a hood
in church? What will people
say?'
That is it, What will people say:
Comfort is nothing, health is moth
ing. And who dares exercise lit
tie common sense in the face OF
''what people will say?"
The lady however, wore her hood.
What agitations of mind or body it
concealed as she walked up the
aisle, who can tell? The hood was
homely there, that is the fact. Ali
the ghosts and ghouls Of bonnets
round, ah, what did they say? Was
the good mans sermon on Judge
not?' "Thinketh no evil?' "Suffer-
eth long, and is kind?" All, 1 don't
know. l only do know that as the
lady stepped from her pew, one and
another whose ears Jack Frost had
ruthlessly gripped by the way, stole
timidly neal, r,and, "Oh. your hoodp,
in heartfelt CALCULATIONS met her
ear.
After that, hoods went to church; !;
yes, and hoods made calls.
Independence cannot do a better
service than break the ice of foolish
fashions,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
Father, I Forgot what You
Told Me"

ETA Jones' Uncle had come to
visit them. And to make room for
his horses, Efa's father had taken
his own out of the stable, and tied
them in the barn floor, at the same
time, telling Eta and her little sister
not to 60 in there to play.
Mr., Jones without thinking of
any harm to the children-as his
horses were gentle, and his children
obedient-had gone with his brother
in-law to distant part of the farm.
B mt they had not been gone long,
when word came that little Eta was
almost killed.
She had been playing with her
sister and cousins, and forgetting
what her father had told her, when
running too near the horses, she fell
and one of them stepped on her,
crushing her chest. The other chill
dren gave the alarm, and man at
work near by, ran and took Eta up
and carried her to the house.
ETA could still speak, when her
father came, and her first words
were 20 Father 1 forgot what you
told me-
Eta lived till the next day. Her
sufierings were very severe, but she
did not complain. Her disobedience
to her father seemesl to grieve her
more than all her bodily pains.
Little Eta was a child of the cove
nant, and had been carefully in
structed in regard to her need of the
savior, and we have no doubt that
her sins are all forgiven, and that
she is now with the redeemed above.
But then what pain and sorrow came
to little ETA from this single act of
lisobedience! But my young reader,
if forgetting one command of an
earthly father brought so much pain
to little Eta, and SO much sorrow
to her friends, what dreadful conse-
quences may result from forgetting
or neglecting one command of our
Heavenly Father?
A. S. MARSHALL
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
Evil Communications.

In Switzerland there are two rivers
which mingle their waters and form
one river. The water of one river is
clear and sparkling, while that OF
the other is foul and turbid. When
they first meet, the waters refuse to
mingle. The pure and the foul
waters flow along forming one river.
but you can easily distinguish the
one from the other. AS they flow
on together the waters gradually
unite, until the purity of the one is
lost in the foulness Of the other, and
the brightness is gone forever.
We find an exact counterpart of
this in the moral world. Virtue
cannot long associate with vice with
out contamination. 1t is as true
now as in the days of the Apostle
Paul, that "Evil communications
corrupt good manners"
By being frequently in the COM
pany of the trihing and the
scornful, we grow less watchful;
we keep the portals of our hearts
less carefully guarded. The irrev-
brentwood, the pernicious sentiment,
the vile suggestion, which at first so
startled us, gradually become less
repulsive. We first endure, then
pity, then embrace.
A good man, whose anxiety for the
well being of his children led him
to be exceedingly cautious in the
choice of companions for them, was
one day importuned by his daughter
to give to her brother and herself
permission to join a party of young
companions with whom they were
not usually allowed to associate.
The father was obliged to withhold
his consent.
"Dear father" said the daughter,
,,you must think US very childish, if
you suppose we could not go into
this company without being injured
by it."
The father did not Immediately
reply, but taking dead coal from
the CRATE, held it out to his daughter.
saying, as he did so,
sit will not hurt you, my child,
take it,,
She obeyed him. and her hand was
soiled and blackend, and her white
dress also.
1--WE cannot be too careful in
handling GOALS" said the daugter,
with little vexation in her tones.
THAT is true" replied the father,
''for you see, my child, that Goals,
even when they do not burn, viii
surely blacken,and so it is with i'm
proper company."-N. H. II.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
How to Make Every Day
Happy.

Rev. Sidney Smith said: When
you rise in the morning form res
olution to make the day happy
one to a fellow creature. 1t is easi.
ly done; left off garment to the
man who needs it, a kind word to
the sorrowful, an encouraging ex-
preston to the striving-trifes in
themselves light as air-will do it,
at least for the twenty-four hours;
and if you are young, depend upon
it it will tell, when you are old, and
if you are old rest assured it will
send you gently and happily down
the stream of human time to eterni-
ty. By the most simple arithmetical
sum, look at the result; you send
one person happily through the day; /;
that is three hundred and sixty five
in the course of the year; and sup
posing you live forty years only af-
ter you commence that course Of
medicine, you have made 14,6O0 hu-
man beings happy, at all events for
a time. Now, is this not simple? 1t
is too short for a sermon, too homely
for ethics, and too easily accomplish
ed for you to say, 81 would if 1
could"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
The Religion of Labor.

Religion does not altogether con-
sist o: devotional exercises, but, as
well, of daily work. We get a wrong
idea of Christianity when we re-
duce it all to songs and sermons, to
prayers, solemn faces, and ecclesi-
astical paraphernalia. 1t is not es
pecially for Sabbaths and sanctua-
ries, but also for week days, for
shops, for homes, for mills, for
stores, for streets and fields. Re
ligion is largely an outdoor institu-
ton. Its Author was born. baptized,
transfgured, and crucified under no
roof but the sky. 1t means dill
gence in business, serving the Lord
in common vocation and every day
relations. as well as in consecrated
syllables on set occasions. Jesus
was more sublimely great standing
unknown at the carpenters bench
in Nazareth with apron on, than if
he had been surpliced as a priest in
the temple, or arrayed in robes of
ROYALTY on Pilates throne. He was
greater with an adj in his hand than
with q crown On his head. Chris
tianity allows no aversion toward
the mechanic. 1t gives him honor
able position. 1t invites him to its
home and visits him in his. Yet
how many rich young ladies who
would scorn to associate with the
sons and daughters of our working
men! The matrimonial problems
that busy their brains involve such
fractions as lawyers, physicians,
large salaried preachers, wholesale
merchants, millionaires, and gentle
men of leisure. 1t would be ridi-
culous, they think, to throw them
selves away on mechanicsi OF
course, society has its affinities, and
that is well. Education grants it.
Refinement and culture always seek
their level. But we dig down for
gold. Too often dissipated dandy
ism is petted and honored, while in
telligent industry is denied place.
The difference between building
houses and selling houses is not so
great that one should be considered
contemplate and the other illustri-
Gus. Really. as a business, it makes
but little difference whether man
mends clothes, bones, pens, houses,
laws, or morals. Work is work, and
nothing less; man is man and no.
thing more. - Clark's WOrkday
Christianity.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
FireSide Department.
OLD FOLKS.

All. don't be sorrowful, darling,
And don't be sorrowful, pray;
Taking the year together. my dear,
There isn't more night than day.
'Tis rainy weather, my darling,
Times waves they heavily run;
But taking the year together, my dear,
There isn't more cloud than sun.
We are old folks now, my darling,
Our heads are growing gray;
But taking the year all round. my dear,
You will always find May:
We have had our May, my darling,
And our roses long ago;
And the time of the year is coming, my dear
For the silent night of snow.
And God is God, my darling.
or night as well as day,
And we feel and know that we can 90
Wherever he leads the way.
A God of the night. my darline
Of the night Of death so grim;
The gate that leads out Of life. good wife,
Is the gate that leads to Him.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
Marriage.

To be mans help-meet is woman
for this in the happy garden she was
given to the first Adam; and to be
this, no longer mans drudge or his
plaything, the coming of the second
Adam; has restored her. When
man, from whose side woman was
first taken, has taken her back to
his bosom, receiv n : and impart-
ing strength and solace-when these
two,so often mutually deceiving and
deceived, are one-it is like the
healing of some original wound; it
is reconciliation, union, compile
ton.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
F. SEAL.

Has just received a new inven-
ton, in the way of an improve
ment in Ladies' Boots. The boot is
made high in the leg, with elastic
sides. The improvement consists
in arranging the elastic and lin
ing, that the elastic will clasp the
ankle; and the lining, while pro-
tecting the elastic from the sweat
of the foot, will also yield to its
contraction and expansion. Its
great beauty is this: that it is
easy to put on, fits snugly when
on, and protects the foot and limb
from cold. 1t will certainly be a
favorite with the ladies. Samples
can be seen at his shop.
Mr.. Seal has the sole right for
this town and township.
Shop over Birds Clothing Store.
lOtf
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
Cough No More.

Warmers Cough Balsan is healing,
softening and expectorating. The extraordi-
nary power it possesses in Immediately reliev-
ing, and eventually curing, the most obstinate
cases of Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Bronchitis
Influenza, Catarrh, Hoarseness. Asthma and
CONSUMPTION is almost incredible. So prompt
is the relief and certain its effects in all the
above cases, or any affection of the throat or
prescribing it, and one and all say that it is the
most healing and expectorating medicine
known. One dose always affords relief, and in
most cases one bottle effects relief Sold by
druggists, in large bottles. Price One Dollar.
It is your own fault if you still cough and suf-
fer. The Ralsam will cure.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
READY-MADE CLOTHING /!

For Men, Boys and Children, comprised in part
of Over Goats, Skating Coats, Frock Coats, Sack
Coats, Business Suits, Pants and Vests, every
grade and style, Hats and Caps, Undershirts
and Drawers, White and Fancy Shirts, best
makes, Cashmere Shirts, Knit Jackets, Gloves,
Fur and Sealskin Gloves, Fur Collars, Half
Hose. Handkerchiefs, Neck Ties and Bows, lat
est styles, Paper Collars. Bosoms and Cuffs,
Suspenders, Comforts, Lades'and Gents Trunks
new style, Ladies' and Gents Satchels and Trav-
cling Bags; Rubber Cloth Goats, new style,
with capes, Rubber Coats, Leggings, Caps and
Umbrellas. Also our large and extensive as
sortment of best makes OF Cloths, all shades,
Beaver Cloths, Fur Cloths, Chinchillas, adapted
for our coats and Ladies sacks. Scotch and d.
agonal Suitings and Coatings. Best mako black
Doeskins, Fancy Doeskins, Fancy Cassimeres,
Vestings, Tweeds, Jeans, ETC., embracing the
best and latest style, which we will sell by the
yard, cut and trim, or make to order in the
best manner. We mean business, no misrep-
resentation, fully determined, and will close
out our large stock at great bargains, to make
room for our spring purchases.
Please remember the place, 9 doors east of ].
Zimmermans Drug Store, Wooster Off