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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
Popular Prejudice.

There is no market in London at
which horses for killing mny he purchas'
ed as bullocks are. Indeed IL is sin
guar fact that the horse-saughterer is
vulgarly regarded as al individual very
inferior, as regards social status to the
ox-slaughterer. No one sees anything
in the least repulsive in the trade OF the
ordinary butcher. II is rs well known
as possible that sirlons and ribs and
beef i-ateaks could never he obtained with
out the use of the poleaxe and the CLEAN
ing knife. In poor neighborhoods it is
nothing uncommon to encounter Mr.
Bristet's man with hls thigh. boots hid
eouslv stained, and his blue smock
speckled with color that matches, bear
ing huge smoking "quarters" on his
broad back, or, more sanguinary still,
with his head and shoulders concealed
Ivy the newly y-dressed sheep 'e carries,
lpd which. still limp and worm, wags
its dead head in CHASTITY time'keeping
with the mans footsteps Yet nobody
tlrns away with shudder of horror or
wopder how any one can be so barbar-
Gus as to apprentice his son to the trade
of butcher Popular prejudice, how
ever, is decidedly against the horse
SLAYER He is stIgmatised "knacker,
and the meaningless term is applied to
him in spirit of disgust and aversion
Rv common consent he is banished 10
the bottommost round of the social lad
der and scavenpers and siiters at the
dust yard assert their right to look down
on him. Possibly, mans affection for
the horse may account for tins. be lives
with, and helps us, and shares our perils
as well as our prosperity. With the
poor he is one of the family almost
and the care taken of him is commensur-
ate with the cal nifty of his falling sick,
and being unable to perform his shale
of the money earning. But when 1t Is
attempted to explain the anomaly on
the score of sentiment, the fieecy lamb
rises in accusing against us. Is not the
lamb emblematic of all that is gentle,
and innocent, and guileless 3? Do not
painters paint it as a symbol Of purity
aud peace and have not poets emu
lated its plaintive baa-ing over qnires
and reams of gilt edged paper Yet we
all eat lamb We view its naked, deli
cate carcase without pang or sigh for
its departed fleece. We are haunted by
no feelings of remorse as we pour pun
gent mint sauce over that cut from its
leg-tnat playful one of four that frisked
and gamboled over the grassy mead.
We have its neck and its innocent scrag
scrag that felt the butch
ers fatal knife-and express our admi-
ration of it because it is nice and light
and easy to digest, and regret its end
only when there remain bones in the
lish.-London Society,"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
The SILK Interest.

The United States Committee of Way.
and Means heard delegation OF silh
manufacturers and operatives from New
York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and
Connecticut. They exhibited specimens
of raw and man afactured silks of all
kinds, excepting dress goods, showing
the progress of the manufacture in this
country, both rs to quality and quantity.
They want the tariff to remain as it is,
and say that under the protection afford.
ed by it, aided as it was by the operation
of the Anglo French free trade treaty,
this industry has grown rs follows The
capital invested has increased from
50, 900, 0OOto S25, ,O0O. 600. 1t now affords
employment for 16, 600 operatives, three
fourths of them women and young per-
sons, for whom such employment is
specially adapted, it being clean, light,
and healthy. The wages paid these
operators amount to ST, 900, 900 per an
mum, being a weekly average for women
of s., and for males S12 One-third of
these operatives are immigrants from
Europe, and have become teachers for
our natlve-born operatives. As compar
ed with the above, the wages paid in the
Austrian Tyrol for the same kind of work
is from 80 cents to ST for GO hours work
the operatives having poor shelter and
food, for which each pays 45 cents a
week. The delegation admit that silk
goods are higher than before 1861 but
this is mainly owing to the fact that all
raw silks in the countries of production
are now more than double the price they
were Immediately before 1861. One of
the delegatlon-an operative ive-informed
the Committee of Ways and Means that
he could save as much here, after living
better, as he could earn in the old coun-
try. The delegation will next be heard
before the Finance Committee.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
Advertising.

We don't recommend advertising as
the best way to get a wife /; but we know
that it is the best way to get good
trade.
You can't eat enough in one week to
last a whole year, and you cant advertise
on that plan either.
Injudicous advertising is like fishing
wi ere there is no fish. You need to let
the lines fall in the right places.
A constant dropping will wear rock.
Keep dropping your advertisements on
the public and they will soon melt under
it like rock salt
Large type is not necessary in adver-
tising. Blind folks don't read news
papers.
If you can arouse curiosity by an adj
vertisement it is a great point gained.
The fair sex don't hold all the curiosity
in the world.
Don't be afraid to iNvest in printers
ink, lest your sands of life be nearly run
out.
When you advertise. see that you do
it on the same principle that you buy
goods. Get the most you can for the
money.
People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks cant
remember anything longer than about
seven days
When people see man advertise they
know he is business man, and his ad-
vertising proclaims that he is not above
business, but anxious to do 1T.
"Dull times" it is said, "are the best
for advertisers. Because when money
is tight and people are forced to econo-
mize, they always read the advertisements
to ascertain who sells the cheapest. and
where they can trade to the best advan-
tage.
Some say that it is no use to advertise ;
they have been in the place in business
all their lives, and every body knows
them. Such people forget to take INTO
that our country is increas-
ing in population nearly forty per cent.
every ten years, and no matter how old
the place may be there are constant
changes teking place ; some move to
other parts, and strangers fill their places.
In this age of the world, unless the name
of business firm is kept constantly
before the public, some new firm may
start up, and by literally advertising. in
a very short time take the place of the
older ones, aud the latter rust out, as it
we're, and be forgotten.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
A WARNING TO AMERICAN GIRLS. Ar

A WARNING TO AMERICAN b1RLS.-An
American girl married a Swiss gentleman,
in this city, about year ago, and return
ed with him to his native land a few
months aiterward 1t is now reported
that, within few weeks past, the Su-
preme Court of the Canton of Soleure set
aside the marriage on the ground that it
had been contracted IN America, without
the consent of the commune to which the
husband belonged having been previous
ly obtained. This, of course leaves the
wife without redress, so long as her hus-
band continues to reside in his native
place 1t has repeatedly happened that
American girls, who have married natives
of Continental Europe and gone home
with them, have found themselves dis
husbanded because some technical form
ality required by the local laws of the
husbands bi' th-place had not been COM
piled with. 1t Therefore behooves young
ladies' in this country to be careful TO
have every formality strictly attended to
when they marry admirers from any OF
the Continental countries Of Europe
NJ Y. Paper.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
How TO Commence Business.

There are many young men who are IN
the habit of excusing their idleness and
ineiiiciency with the plea that they can
do nothing without capital The lack OF
means is the ready reply they make t.
every appeal to action. They imagine
that they possess in themselves all the
prerequisites TO success but capital. II
they only had capital, in addition TO their
other imagined virtues, they would do
great things in the world, they would as
tonish the natives with the boldness and
brilliancy Of their enterprise They
would grow Immensely rich, and then lay
the world under perpetual Obligations TO
their gratitude by the magniticence of
their benefaciion This is the way they
think and talk, and they roll the vain glo-
rious idea over in their minds until they
become to imagine that the world is an
immense loser by their poverty.
These persons forget one important
foct- that all capital is the product of Ia
Dor That nearly all rich men in this
country were once poor That nearly
every personal fortune they can enumer'
ste is either the product Of ITS owner 5
toll and skill, or the representative OF bis
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,
they would have lived and died poor, and
left nothing but an inheritance of homes
~ behind them. Capital allied to labor
and skill can work wonders in the way of
material enterprises, and the man who
possesses money finds it easy to make
money.
But capital is not only indispensable to
Young men of the right stuff for all this.
There are other kinds of capital besides
accumulated money brains, muscle, in
dustry, honesty, diligence truth, fdeli
ty, skill tact, education--all these are
capital, and all of them have a CONNER
cial value, which the owner will be able,
sooner or later, to command in the mar
ket Provided with these, any young
man in this country may make moro than
he needs to spend every year, and thus
have something at the end of each year
to invest as money capital. If he needs
money let him go to work and make it,
and thus give proof of his ability to use
it profitably and judiclously. If we go
INTO any great cry, or INTO any prosper
Gus agricultural district, we find the cap
ita,;sts are those who have made their
fortunes without any outside aid They
did not waste their time in repining IN
their poverty, and in silly dreams of what
they could do if they had the money to
do it with. They went boldly and reso-
lutely to work ; they tolIed and thought
and planned, and kept toilinG and think
ing aud planning patiently, until at last
they grasped the fortunate moment, and
in nine cases ont of ten they succeeded
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15

DESTRUCTION OF SHEEP BY Docs -
Ihe Spiri. IF Jefers0n, Charlestown,
W, Va, gives the following cases of the
destruction of sheep by dogs: Mr.. H.
W. Crittendon, living in the neighbor-
hood of Ripon, informs us of raid
made on his sheep by dogs 1t seems
that Mr.. Crittendop, hearing disturb
ance among his sheep, seized double
barreled shotgun and hastened to the
pen. On arriving there he found three
voracious CANNES engaged in the work
of slaughter, and although one barrel of
the gun missed fire, killed one of the
dogs with the other, and despatched
a second with fence rail- the third max
ing his csc lpe. On the examination of
his flock six sheep were found killed out
right, and the remainder so injured that
his loss is estimated at at least S1C0-but
one sheep remained uninjured Surely
such losses as these deserve some CON
sidcration at the hands of our Legisla-
ture, and as we have heretofore ex-
pressed, we trust the remedy will be APP
piled, and that speedily, in the way of
an onerous tax upon dogs. Mr.. c. in
forms rs that he has made summary
calculation, and finds that on eight farms
within a small radius, in his immediate
neighborhood, there are forty dogs. At
this rate dogs will he more plentiful than
sheep. Let the remedy be applied.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
See Both Sides.

A boy was trying to catch blue-bot
tie to add to his collection, ana was in
disposed to give up the chase but he
presently saw that the school master bad
taken out a small coin ard laid it on the
table, and felt himself drawn in that di-
rection.
Read that. said the master.
"' U U-n-i-ni-United States of America
) cents.
"The master turned the coin over.
Now read that
go In God is our t-r-u st trust. lSs9.
"' Is that the same piece of money
as the other one?'
"' There ain any other one, said the
boy, there amt but one, but its got
two sides to it with difereAt reading.
"' That's it, that's it, said the master,
two sides to everybody, as there are to
woman that wouldn't fetch five cents II
you should put her up for sale at public
auction and vet come to read the other
side of her. she had trust in God Al
mighty. that was like the how anchor of
a three decker It's alth in something
and enthusiasm for something that makes
life worth looking at don't think
your anteating specialist, with his sharp
nose and pin-bead eyes, is the best every
day companion but any man who knows
one thing well is worth listening to for
once and if you are the large Drained
variety of the race, and want to fill out
your programme of the order Of things
in systematic and exhaustive way, and
get all the half-notes and flats and sharps
of humanity into your scale, you'd a
great deal better shut your front door
and open your two side ones when you
come across a fellow that has made a real
business of doing anything
THAT boy stood all this time looking
hard at the tive-cent piece.
"'Take it, said the master, with a
good -natured smile.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
Tanning BuHaIOes.

Much interest is now felt in the West
on the subject of demonstrating buffaloes,
and the opinion is generally entertained
in stock raising districts that a perma-
nent and important increase of the meat
supply of the country may be effected
10y this means, with great profit to those
undertaking the experiment. 1t has
been found by those who have made
the trial that the buffalo or bison will
fatten under conditions fata. to the or
dinary domestic took ; that it is worth
more in hide and flesh than the OK,
and can be trained to the Performance
of any kind Of labor for which oxen are
adopted. 1t is necessary, however, that
calves should be obtained for the pur-
pose. The old buffaloes cannot be do
mesticated, and their flesh is so tough
as to be unfit COR meat but the old ones
are very much in the way when the
calves are to be captured.
They are kept in the center of the
droves, and in case of danger the bulls
flank the herd. To capture them, there
fore, it is necessary to break through
the ranks of the fankers and lasso the
young heifers, which is a difficult and
uahBefous opeTdtiol, coHsluefiHG tHe
fact that the herd sometimes covers a
very wide extent of territory. No way
has yet been devised of capturing the
calves that would not be more likely to
kill them than to take them alive. There
is reason to believe that this difficulty
will be surmounted at some time, how
ever, and it is thought by many that the
domesticating of buffalo calves will re-
ceive such an impetus within the next
few years as to make an important branch
of the stook-raising business OF the
West
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
At the Bottom of a Lake,

Mr.. Samuel Jones, near New Amster.
dam, Hlrrison county, Ind, gives an
account of having drained lake on his
place covering over seventy acres, which
has probably existed there for hundreds
of years. The work was one of great
labor and considerable expense, but re-
stores to use fine body of land. He
says that after the draining had been
completed he found evidences that the
bed of the lake had at one time been oc-
cupied as al Indian camping ground,
As evidence of this, he states that in
digging cellar large quantities of bear
and deer bones were thrown up. At
other points on the place, when digging
holes to set potatoes. bones of Indians
were found. Several Indian graves
have been discovered on the place, which
appear to have been covered with muscle
shells, taken from the bed of some of
the neighboring creeks, OF the Ohio Riv-
er. Indian implements of various kinds
have also been found on the place, and
in the immediate neighborhood. From
the statement of Mr.. Jones there can be
no doubt that the locality, at one time,
has been the home of a large tribe of
North American Indians, every trace of
which has disappeared, except the relics
thus accidentally discovered This is an
interesting field for the Investigations of
archeologists. and may enable them TO
gather some valuable information in re-
gard to the aboriginies of the country.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15

The UNITED STATES PAINTING OF
FICE.-In the House of Representatives
Mr. Garfield said the Committee oil
Appropriations had Just been looking
over the accounts for the public print
ing. This Government had at present
much the largest printing house on the
globe, where there were over n thou
sand men and women employed and paid
by the year to carry on the business,
where enough printing ink was bought
every year to float the biggest man-of-
war in the navy. A train of army
wagons reaching thrce-fourths of the
way from Washington to Baltimore.
and loaded with one ton piece packed
as closely on the road as six mule teams
can be packed, would not be able to
haul the mass of public documents print
ed every year in that printing house.
Congress was now asked to appropriate
more than two millions to run that
establishment for the next fiscal year.
With all that before the House, and re-
membering the fact that there had just
been erected an addition to that building
four hundred feet long and seventy feet
wide. he wished to call the attention of
the House to the fact that unless it put
the brakes on that enormous out lay,
it would became scandal in the eye of
the nation.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
A SENSATION Berlin, whIsh is

A SENSATION. whIsh is not
much addicted to sensations, has lately
been enjoying one. Two young ladies,
sisters, disappeared, but shortly after
ward tempered the blow to their shorn
by letting them know that they still in
habited this wicked world, and were in
London. Having fallen desl erately in
love with the same young man, who is
described as an Adonis, they felt that
they could only find happiness and re-
spectability in becoming his wives They
bad, therefore, taken passage for this
country, en- route for Salt Lake City,
where, perhaps. they will arrive TOO late
for the fair, news of Mormonism being
at a disadvantage having probably not
reached them when they left. However,
as il is intimated that these interesting
young persons took care before starting
to help themselves as far as they could
to the dover which they thought becom-
ing, they Will no doubt manage to get
along.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
About Locomotive Engines.

About sixty days are occupied in build
ing an engine from the time the iron
plates go into the boiler-shop till it is
completed and ready for active service.
An engine varies in weight from so, 900
to rs, 900 pounds, and, if it be a large
one, with its tender, not less than l25, :
600 pounds. The weight of single
driving wheel is l,S00 pounds. They
cost from SO, 600 to Sl3, 900 The pro-
gress in engine building may, to a GER
tain extent, be judged of from their pro-
gressivc cost. OF the cost of the earlier
locomotives it would be idle to make a
comparison but thirty years ago the
bnilding of locomotives had come to
years of discretion, though far from
maturity. In 1912 the average cost of a
locomotive was SO, 500; in 1852, 81, 800 ;
in 1862, SS, 500 and in 1872 it is about
S11. 800. An engine with fair wear and
tear will last ten to eleven years. This
makes every engine cost company ST.
600 year. Strange to say the parts of
the engine which last longest are the
very parts which would be ordinarily
supposed to wear out before any other
the tires of the wheels. They are
mostly made from Prussian steel, and
often, when the engine is thrown into
the scrap heap, show little sign of the
tremendous work they have done.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15

SAp.-A compassionate lady, passing
a child crying in the street, stopped and
asked him what was the matter. The
child replied: "Cos I've lost penny
mother gave me-" "Ah ! well, never
mind, said the lady, "here is another
for you" and proceeded upon her way
but had not gone far when she heard the
little fellow believing more Justify than
before. She turned back and again
asked the cause, upon which the little
urchin answered: Why, if l 'adn'tlost
the first one should ave 'ad twopence." 4"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
RATES OF ADvERTIsINo.
II.

o love, II we should come to feel
The hcnrt no more in gladness beat,
When at the door we hear an now,
The tread Of dear familiar feet
II we, who now though fire and blood
Would rush to touch but finger tips,
Should come to coldly meet and rect
With careless clasp and loveless lips
II we, who in each others life,
Live doubly every JOY and pain,
Should come to coldly drift apart
And walk in self-wrapt ways again
II more should lose her rose and gold,
And night the glory Of her skies,
And all things pale and fade, because
We look no more with loves deep eyes
II down the dreary, beaten way,
Where other hearts, that loved, do tread
With sad indiffercnce-w too,
Should come to find our passion dead
o God I'd wish that we to-day
Had said farewell, and in a breath,
While yet our hearts we're fond and true
Had fercely crushed our love to death
Emily H. Moore.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15

The Indianapolis Journal has this NOR
sci of wisdom: "A city that can give
the poor washerwoman and laborer q
cheap, com Portable fire, and fill the fur
naces of the capitalists with the best
fuel, at the lowest rates, need have no
fear for the future"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
A storekeeper Mt Quincy. Mich. ba

A storekeeper at Quincy, Mich, hav-
ing pup that habitually upset the paint
cars in the rear end of the store, rubbed
the dogs nose in the spilled paint, and,
observing that his master was engaged
in waiting on a customer, the docile pup
rubbed his own nose in the mixture and
ran howling out the back way.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
RATES or SUBSCRIPTION.

Ono copy, ono year in advance. ..u,....N DO
II not paid within three months, ..,.,". 90
Novaratlon whatever from these rates.
No .apor discontinued until all arrearng.
are hd, except at the option Of the publish
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15

A Tennessee womans paper has term.
thus singularly graduated: Three dol
lars a year to men; S1.5O to unmarried
working women; seventy-6ve cents TO
women with lazy husbands to support"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-15
JOB PRINTING

Of all kinds neatly executed at the lowest livirR
prices. Our office Ia well furnished with nate
rial and stock for this department, and we now
have experienced and competent workmen to
use them. II you want any printing done you
need not 20 10 the city, or out Of the county,
for you can get an good work and as low prices
at this Office as at any other.