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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
How to Commence Business.

There are many young men who are In
the habit of excusing their idleness and
inefficiency with the plea that they can
do nothing without capital. The lack of
means is the ready reply they make to
every appeal to action. They imagine
that they possess in themselves all the
prerequisites to success except capital
Ii they only had capital, in addition to
their other imagined virtues, they would
do great things in the world they would
astonish the natives with the boldness
and brilliancy of their enterprise, They
would become immensely rich, and lay
the world under perpetual Obligations to
them by the magnifcence of their bene-
factions. This is the way they think and
talk, and they roll the vain glorious idea
over in their minds until they come to
imagine that the world is an immense
loser by their poverty.
These persons forget one important
fact-that all capital is the product of Ia
bor That nearly all rich men in this
country were once poor. That nearly
every personal fortune they can enumer-
ate is either the product of its owners
toll and skill, or the representative of his
fathers toll and skill.
How did the makers of these fortunes
get along without capital ?'' Had they
spent the vigor of their youth in idle and
foolish lamentations over their poverty,
would have lived and died poor, and left
nothing but an inheritance of honesty be-
hind them. Capital allied to labor and
skill can work wonders in the war of ma
terial enterprises. But money is not the
only indispensable thing to young men.
There are other kinds of capital besides
accumulated money; brains, muscle, in
dustry, honesty, diligence, truth, fidelity,
skill, tact, education-aU these are cap
tal, and all of them have commercial
value, which the owner will be able, soon
er or later, to command in the market.
Provided with these, any young man IN
the country may make more than he needs
to spend every year, and thus have some
thing at the end of each year to invest as
money capital. If he needs money let
him 60 to work and make it, and thus
give proof of his ability to use it proftably
and judiciously. If we go into any great
city, or into any prosperous agriculture
district, we find the capitalists are those
who have made their fortunes without
any outside aid. They did not waste their
time in repining at their poverty, and in
silly dreams of what they could do if they
had the money to do it with. They went
boldly and resolutely to work they toll
ed and thought and planned, and KEEP
toiliug and thinking and planning
patiently, until at last they grasped the
fortunate moment, and succeed.-Er
change.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
How To Live Long.

They live longest as class, who lead
calm and even lives, mentally and physi-
cally, who are most exempt from the
turmoils and shocks and strains that are
incident to human existence. and who are
assured of tomorrow bread. There is
no one thing which has such direct in
fuence in promoting longevity as an as
surauce, felt to be well grounded, of a
comfortable provision for life, for all the
ordinary wants of our station. Not long
ago a man died in a poorhouse in Eng
land, where he had been taken care of
for ninety years he had no anxiety for
to-morrow's bread he had no quarter
day to provide against, in default of which
wife and children would be turned into
the street from the doors of the elegant
brown mansion. He had no notes to
meet in the bank, which if not paid by a
day or hour would involve protest and
financial ruin. All, this load of debt
how it grinds ones manhood to powder,
how it agonizes the sensitive heart, how
it shames a mans honor, how it has driv-
en- to desperation, to drunkenness, to sui
eide, to murder! How the anguish of it
takes the energy aud health out of man,
and makes him pine and languish for
weary days and weeks on beds of thorns,
that pierce through the body into the
soul
So one good way to avoid sickaess and
premature death is to avoid debt as you
would the evil one
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
A Slight Mistake.

The following anecdote, which first
appeared in the newspapers many years
ago, is said to have been founded on an
actual occurrence. Although it may
not illustrate the democratic simplicity
of the people of Vermont to-day, it is
nevertheless good story, and good also
for many years longer life in the news
papers;
"Hallo, you man with pail and frock,
can you inform me whether His Honor
the Governor of Vermont resides here u
said British officer, as he brought his
fiery horse to stand in front of Cover
nor Chittenden's dwelling.
"He does," was the response of the
man, still vending his was to pig sty.
''Is His Houor at home p continued
the man of spurs.
"Most certainly" replied frock.
Take my horse by the bit, then," said
the officer. ri have business to transact
with your master"
Without a second bidding, the man
did as requested, and the officer alighted
and made his way to the door, and gave
the panel several hearty raps with the
butt of his whip-for be it known that IL
those days of republican simplicity
knockers and bells, like servants, were il
but little USE The good dame answered
the summons in person and having seat
ed the officer and ascertained his desire
to see the Governor, departed to inform
her husband of the guests arrival bu
on ascertaining that the officer had made
hitching post of her husband, she i'm
mediately returned and informed hin
that the Governor was engaged in th'
yard, and could not very well wait upol
him and his horse at the same time Tht
predicament of the officer can bette
| imagined than described.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
Throat and Lung Diseases.

Most of the throat and lung diseases,
which indirectly lead to consumption, are
occasoned by sheer carelessness. A de-
licate woman often sits for two or three
honrs in a crowded theatre or church,
breathing an atmosphere tainted by the
exhalations from the lungs of hundreds
of other people, her system is exhausted,
her skin is excited by unwonted action,
and when she leaves the building and
goes out into the cold air her blood is
suddenly driven to the interior of the
body, and then ensues more or less per-
manent congestion or Inflammation of
some of the internal organs-usually the
air tubes in or leading to the lungs
This process being repeated many times,
a chronic bronchitis is finally established
in persons otherwise healthy, and life is
ever after rendered miserable by this
periodical overheating and sudden chill
ling of the body, even if the more danger
Gus malady, consumption, does not inter
fere, and put the abused body inio the
grave.-Bostoa journal of Chemistry.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
A Night Picture.

1t is night now, and here is home
Gathered under the roof, elders and child
rem lie like at reast. In the midst of
great peace and calm, the stars look out
from the heaynes. The silence is peopled
with the past sorrowful remorse for sins
and short comings, memories OF passionate
joys and griels rise out of their graves,
both now alike calm and sad. Eyes, as
| shut mine, look at me, that have long
ceased to shine. The town and fair land
scape sleep under the starlight, wreathed
in the autumn mist. Twinkling among
the houses, light keeps watch, here and
there, in what may be sick chamber or
two. The clock tolls sweetly in the sill
ent air. Here is light and rest. An
awful sense of thanks makes the heart
swell and the head bow, as | pass to my
room, through the sleeping house,
aud feel as though hushed blessing were
upon it, Thaeker0y.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
NO. 5.
Meat Pie.

Cut up some pieces of good, tender
raw beef or mutton, season with pepper,
salt, and if liked, one finely minced on
ion boil half dozen good sized
mealy potatoes, mash smooth, and wet
with enough milk to form dough or
make the crust, salt to please the taste,
roll full half an inch thick, and line a
buttered dish large enough to hold the
meat, add teacup of water, or less, if
the pie is to be for small family, then
roll out thick crust out of the potato,
covering the top of the pie at least an
inch thick, and bake about an hour and
a half.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

1t was the sensible remark of hale,
hearty man of threescore and ten that
while money is very proper and neces-
sary provision for old age, there is some
thing else needed in order to render the
man of sixty or seventy what he should
be. ''An old man." says this writer,
'needs just that particular kind of
strength which young men are apt to
throw to waste" He then proceeds to
point out the everlasting of the physical
energies, the everlasting of the eyes, and
the reckless expenditure of nervous
energy, which young men are so apt to
indulge in. Save up for old age is q
sound axiom, as applicable to physical and
mental strength, as to money
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
A Large Pine Tree.

A pine tree was cut down few days
ago in East Bridgewater, reminding one
of the Golden times" 1t was one hun
dred and fifty feet in height, six feet in
diameter at the top of the stump, about
four feet from the ground. After rising
about twenty feet, it divided into six
branches, two of which had been broken
off and were deeayed. From the remain
der twenty nine logs were cut, averaging
about twelve feet in length. Such trees
are not often found in this vicinity,
especially in these 'latter days."-MOnt-
rose Rep.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
Be Economical.

Look most to your spending. No mat
ter what comes in, if more goes out, you
will always be poor. The art is not in
making money, but in keeping it; little
expenses, like mice in barn, when they
are many, make great waste. Hair by
hair, heads gets bald straw by straw, the
thatch goes off the cottage; and drop by
drop. the rain comes in the chamber. A
barrel is soon empty, if the tap leaks but
a drop a minute. When you begin to
save, begin with your mouth Many
thieves pass down the red lane. The ale
;ue is a great waste. In all other things
keep in compass. Never stretch your
legs farther than the blankets will reach,
or YOU will soon be cold. In clothes,
choose suitable and lasting stuff, and not
tawdray fneries. To be warm is the main
tbing-neyer mind the looks. A fool
NAV make money but it needs wise man
to spend it. Reminder it Is easier to
build TWO chimneys than to keep one 60
ing. If you give all to back and board
there is nothing left for the savings bank
Fare hard and work hard while you are
young, and you will have chance to rest
when you are Old
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

Two little boys were quarreling. aud
their mother came to settle their difficult
ty. She could not Gnd out which was to
blame. At last she said
"Well, | shall find out the last day
who told the fb"
A few nights after there was dread
full storm, which blew off the roof of the
house. The little boys were frightened,
and began to pray. When the mother
opened the chamber door, the boy that
told the fb cried out.
"Mother, if it's the Judgment day, it
was me that told the story"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

A Detroit man, who lately "swore Off
on chewing tobacco, let himself down easy
by chewing something else His first
days supply of something else consisted
of, six oranges, fourteen apples, ten cents
worth of peanuts, two sticks of spruce
gum, three large sticks Of candy, a pint
of roasted chestnuts, one cake of maple
sugar, three cents worth of liquorce root,
and half an ounce of camomile blows.
The question arises, which is worse, the
tobacco or this miscellaneous substitute
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
DR.. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,

Announces that having Jus, returned from
Dental CoIlegs, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teeth in the most beautiful and lite
like manner, and 10 fiji decayed teeth ac-
csrdng to the most improved method.
Teeth extracted without pain. when de-
Tred, by the use Of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing Of
all kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Charges reasonable.
Office in J. G.. Kelier's new Brick build
ing. Main Street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
aug 3l-tf
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
A PantherS Funeral.

A West Virginia man thinking to have
some nice fun in frightening boy by
playing panther, clothed himself in a
panther's skin and suddenly appeared be-
fore him in the woods near his house
But the boy failed to see the joke, good
as it was. He just went back to the
house, got his fathers rife, rested it on
fence, and shot that panther, and there
was a funeral from that mans late re-
sidence two days after.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

Found out why people 90 to McCartys to
get their furniture, because he buys it at the
Ware Rooms of Lee & Co and sells it at
an advance of only ttoenty-t,oo and t,co-
nlath PER cent. Or in other words, Rocking
St,halrs that he buys of Lee & Co. Through
the runners he don have) for 81, 50 he sells
ior $3.50. Pays lin to 6itA some good Fur
n'ture LEE & co.
ntroudsburg, Aug. l8. IS70.--tf.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
KELLERsVLLE HOTEL

The undersigned having purchased the
above well known and popular Hotel Proper
ty, would respectfully inform the travelling
public that he has refurnished and fitted up
the Hotel in the best style. A handsome
Bar, with choice Liquors and Segars, polite
attendants and moderate charges.
CHARLES MANAL,
Oct 10 1871. If Proprietor.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

Iowa has abolished the death penalty,
the act of the Legislature providing that
crimes heretofore punishable by death
shall be punished by Imprisonment for
life, at hard labor, in the State peniten-
tiary, aud that in case of persons thus
sentenced, the Governor shall grant no
pardons except on accommodation of the
General Assembly.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

The order of the United States Gov
ernment directing fifteen iron clads to be
prepared immediately for sea duty, and
the proposition in the House of Represen-
tatives to build ten new iron ships, is re-
garded as significant in consideration of
our national relations with Spain.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

"The first bird | shot in Ameriky,"
said an Irish sportsman, was forkupine.
| treed him with barn shovel. The
first time I hit him I missed him, and
the second time | hit him, | hit him in
the same place where missed him the
first time"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
PT, A STER

Fresh ground Nova Scotia PLASTER, !,
al Stokes Mills HEM LOCK BOARDS.
FENCING, SHINGLES, LATH, PA
LING. and POSTS. cheap.
FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand
WI exchange Lumber and Plaster for
1Ialn or pay the highest market price.
BLACKSMITH SHOP just opened by
Z. Stone, an experienced workman.
Public trade solicited.
N. s. WYCKOFF.
stokes Mills, Pa, April 20, 1871.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30
TAMES III. WALTON,
" Attorney at Law,

Office in the building formerly occupied
BY L. NJ Burson, and opposite the Strouds
burg Bank, Main street, SToudsburg, Pa
jan l3-t
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

1t is stated that there are In the United
States two hundred and sixty one soldiers
who lost both eyes, one hundred and eIgh-
teen who lost both legs, eleven who lost
both feet, FIVE who lost both hands,
thirty who lost an arm and leg.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

II EV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Will
IL IL hamsburgh, N. y Recipe for CON.
SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com
pounded at
H0LLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
" Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Nov.2l. 1851 w. HOLLINSfiEAD.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

40 Anthony township, Lye Co, cow
produces ten pounds of butter per week.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

More than one hundred persons were
killed by falling down stairs last year.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-30

Court commences at this place next
Monday.
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D R. j. L A N T 2,
SURGEON and Mechanical Dentist

Still has his Office Main Street in the second
,,ory % Dr. : WaltonS brick building, nearly oppo-
,ue the SiroudshuTg House, and he hatters himself
that by eighteen years constant practre and the most
earnest careful attention to all matters pertaining
10 ms profession that he is fully able to perform all
in the dental line IN the most careful, taste
MI and skilllpl manner.
Special attention given to saving the Natural Teeth
also the Insertion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
Geld Silver Continuous Gums, and perfect hts In
all cases insured.
Nest persons know the great folly and danger ci en-
trusting their work to the inexperienced. or to those
living al a distance. Apul l3, ls1i.-ly
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-16
Agrifultural department.
CONDUCTED BY ALBERT CHAPMAN.

We learn that Frank Barton Esq. of
Waltham, has lately had an opportunity
to sell ten ewes, an average OF his best
hundred, for 81, 900 and been offered 5000
for one OF his best ewes, but wisely thinks
it more for his interest to keep his best,
than sell them at prices to Drag about,
and undertake to keep up his reputation
as breeder with nothing but his culls to
breed from although they must be bet.
ter than common sheep, as he has been
offered S25 each for SIX, his own selec-
ton.
We also learn that Messrs. Peet &
Son, OF Cornwall, have lately purchased
of Messrs. Cherbino O. Williamson, fine
Ram Lamb THAT they lately purchased
OF j. McCauley) for 5000.
These prices indicate a return to some.
thing OF old time prosperity, in the sheep
business, and that those who have steadi-
~ sustained their hocks through the late
extraordinary depression will receive
rich reward for their constancy to the
business. To those who retain their best
sheep at what may seem extravagant
prices, belong the credit of maintaining
the reputation of Vermont Sheep; and it
is idle to maintain that focks robbed Of
their advantage by selling their best, can
keep up their reputation with, or be as
valuable to breed from, as those that re-
tain it.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-16

one crop, and yet have fertility enough
for another. he hnd that gave Mr..
Lawes good hay would give him crop
of turnips, neither would his good wheat
land yet an application of superphos-
phate without ammonia gave big crops of
.urnips. From these experiments it be-.
came proverb mot applicable however
to all soils) that ammonia is the manure
for wheat and superphosphate for turnips.
Mr. Lawes found that he could not keep
clover growing long on his land even with
different fertilizers. He had desperate
fight, scratching in seed year after year,
aud trying one fertilizer after another, but
had to give it up at last. The clover
would not grow continuously, and he
found that he could only get a crop of
clover once in eight years from the same
piece. The result would not be the same
on other land Some soils might grow
clover well and refuse to give continuous
crops of grain.
Land under skillful cultivation steadi-
ly increases in value. Many farms in
Europe have done so for more than n
thousand years. There is no instance on
record where land has ever become hope.
lessly exhausted by cropping. Much land
improves even when not well treated, and
the most brainless farming cannot per-
manently destroy fertility. Wherever
lands have become thus barren, as in
Spain, it has not been due to bad agricul-
ture, but to natural causes, like the de-
struction of forests, which reduced the
rainfall and caused floods that washed
away the soil of the hills and covered the
plains with sand and gravel. We have
suffered from this already in New Eng
land, and there is still danger Of it, We
should encourage the growth of forest on
billy and rocky land. Professor johnson
remarked, in closing, that what he had
said on the exhaustion Of soils, though
not Immediately practical as regards the
production of crops, would yet he hoped,
be suggestive of important ideas and have
the effect to encourage these respondent
individuals who were in constant fear of
the total disappearance Of fertility from
the face of the earth.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-16
y. p. M e A d
Real Estate Agent.
DESIRABLE VILLAGE RESI-

N DENCE FOR SALE.
Built the past season, Of good material, in sub
stantial manner; 2 story house, 26x3G, with cell
lar under the whole house. Painted and blinded;
2 bay windows te feet OF piazza, &c. One barn,
80 = 40 and five acres of choice land. Any one
desiring n pleasant location in Nliddlebury viii
sgo with good accommodations for keeping COW
and horse viii do well to call and see me Terms
easy O. p. MEAD,
Real Estate Agent
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-16
ORSALE-LED SIDE

.NORSA Ell ED G E-SI d T..
l. This place contains a dwelling house, sur
rounded by fruit and ornamental trees. barns,
sheds, and 80 acres of frst-rate land which are
several good building lots. The whole property
will be sold for $1,000, or the house and house
lot Of or acres, including two of the best build
ing lots in town, can be bought separately for
IS 500, and the remaining land for SlOO per acre.
Enquire Of r. d. q. Robbins on tho premises,
weybridge ST., Middlebury, Vt. 29itf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-16

DOR SALE. The Cheshire Marble
L. Quarry. A large Marble Mill with eight
gangs of saws in good running order, and sew
eral tenement houses in good condition, some
Marble Stock, Blacksmith shop and tools, and
all the fixtures thereto belonging
Inquire Of L. Z. Knapp, Ira W. Clark, or VIM
Mulohahey, at the office of the Vermont Marbl
Co. "a.
Middlsbury, VT, Nov. IS 1871.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-16

Those in want Of this line of Goods cannot fail to
be suited, as he s determined to close out his
tire stock before the first of Jan, 1872. 3T;f
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-16
Fresh Oysters

Every day, sold at the ioirssf Prices and cooked
in good stylos at our stand.
We respectfully solicit share OF the public
patronage. JAS. II. Benson,
WM. ANDREWS.
Middlebury, Nov. 20, 1871. 52iyl
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-16
FOR SALE,

IL IN sHOREHAM VILLAGE, VT.
Two or three houses and lots in good locality,
at prices from $500 to $1,000 each. i iron axle
wagon, to use single or double, with pole and
thills, and hayraek, &c; and other things too
numerous to mention. For information and
terms, call on the subscriber in shoreham village.
L. S. ATWOOD,
ShoTeham, VI, Nov. 81, 1871. 36;tf
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-15
THE STATE ELECTION.

If the new Constitution be defeated,
all the turmoil and excitement and an
noyance OF State election will have to
De gone through with again. New
Conventions will be held and the entire
political struggle will begin anew and
continue until the 9th of October, thus
leaving less than three weeks between
the State election and the Presidential
election. Vote for ratification and thus
dispose at once Of all further annoy
ance for several years concerning State
affairs, and leave only Federal politics
to be considered during the remainder
OF the year.