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The Tools Great Men Work With

IL II not tools that make the workman,
but the trained skill and perseverance Of
the man himself Indeed it Is proverbial
that the bad workmen never had yet .
good tool Some one asked Opie by what
wonderful process he mixed his colors.
'I mix them with my brains sir, was he
reply. Ii Is the same with every workman
who would excel Ferguson made marvel
Gus things such a. his wooden clock, that
accurately measured the hour-by means
Of a common Penknrfe, a tool IN every
bodys hands, but then everybody Is
not Ferguson. "A pan VI water and
two thermometers were the tools by which
DR. Black discovered latent heat, and a
prism, 4 lens and sheet of pasteboard
enabled Newton To unfold the composition
Of light and the origin Of color An emi-
neut foreign surIAt once called upon DR.
WOllaston, and requested to be shown over
his laboratories, in which science he had
been enriched by 40 many important dis
coveries, when the doctor took him INTO
little study, and pointing to an old tea
tray on the table, containing a-few watch
glasses testpapers a small balance, and q
blow-pipe, said, There Is all the labora-
tory | have !" StoIhed learned the art Of
combining colors by closely studying but
terfiies' wings he would often say that no
one knew what Ne owed to these tiny In
sects A burnt stick and q barn door
served Nilkie in lieu If pencil and canvas
Berwick first practiced drawing on the cot
tage walls of his native village, which he
covered with his sketches in chalk and
Benjamin West made his first brushes out
Of the cats tail Ferguson laid himself
down in the fields at night in blanket,
and made map Of the hc1venly bodies,
by means II a thread with = all beads on
1t, stretched between his eye and the stars
Franklin FIRST robbed the thunder cloud Of
its lightning by means Of kite made with
two cross sticks and a silk handkerchief.
Watt made his first model Of the oondens-
ing steam engine out Of an old anatomist's
syringe, used to inject the arteries previous
to dissection. Clifford worked his first
problem in mathematics, when a Goblet
apprentice, upon small scraps Of leather,
which he beat smooth for the purpose
whilst Rittenhouse, the astronomer, tirst
% culated eclipses on his plow.
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NUMBER l6.

Of this great social conflict, than withdraw
our own minds and the minds Of others
from all that il merely transitory and Incl
dental, and do our utmost to tix attention
upon what is material essential, and abld-
ing, in the straight direction towards n hnal
settlement of the question
The right Of unions for trade purposes
is now numbered among the absolute
rights Of the inhabitants Of Great Britain.
ALI that remains Is, that We use II, ike
our other absolute rights, wisely and well.
There was a time when the Combination
Laws were in full force against our hon
est and industrious, but fettered and
trampled fathers. But those Abomlnable
statutes have gone to their own place
Let no man think that he can revive them.
1t is far too late, in however modified
form, or with whatever crafty connivances.
There exists an Act bearing TOO much Of
that black complexion, and we must not
cease until we have got md Of IT. 1t Is an
Ethiop and no washing can make II white.
The true test as to all such enactments and
their repeal lies in q comparison between
the state Of trade during the Combination
Laws, and since their abolition and era
sure What did the Combination Laws pro
ducef Ill-will, Misunderstanding, rick
burning, mutual distrust, masters houses
turned into besieged garrIsons, and gaois
into receptacles for outraged and eXaspe-
rated workmen. And what has happened
since those laws were ANONYMOUSLY sent
to keep company with the other broken
instruments Of tyranny and despOtlsm
Strikes and trades unions, some would an
swer. And there is no doubt or question
to the literal fact. But what has been the
increase of trade and the accumulation ot
wealth between the hour when the rights
Of labor were to this extent Acknowledged,
and the present time ! There have been
strikes, ] grant and there are unions IN
large number. But wilful destruction Of
machinery or produce has been to prevent
more strikes than they ever promoted,
while the import and export trade Of the
country has risen iii value from f26S, ,OOO,-
900 in 1854 to f6IO, 900 900 in 1872, and
the annual wealth of the country il nov
about Es2U, ,OOO. OOO. That rs my short
answer to all who would make a bug bear
Of trades unions.
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The Resources of Richmond, Va.

A correspondent Of the Sc,eHtthc Amrt-
cc,,, IL referring to the great recources Of
Richmond, writes as follows
A correspondent, A. =, says that Rich
mOnd, whose name but few years since
was On every tongue, being made famous
by the active part she took III the late
bloody struggle, Is now an example to be
followed by any sister city, and mO-e es-
peCIally by those who stood by her III days
Of yure Here swords had been turned into
pluWshares, and scarcely had the canon
ceased It's deadly firing when the hammer
and anvil struck their sweetner notes, and
have made Richmond what 1t Is, and have
placed her where she is, with but few vlsl
bic traces Of the war
This grand old city, capital NJ the State
which has produced intellect, unsurpassed
in the world, to represent her in Congress
and elsewhere, when brains honesty and
virtue were the noblest TRAITS Of man,
stands as Rome does on seven hills but
unlike Rome's ragged orags. her hills are
beautiful terrene waves whose slopes are
iust adequate to afford the most perfect
drainage as the least fall II water cleanses
her streets as a sw -pt floor. Her climate
Is always comparatively mild, and she i
noted for her salubrious situation, and
many spend much time here seeking the
greatest earthly boon, health.
The plcturesqe river James, whose cur
rent rushes madIy over the rapids above,
above along half the length Of Richmond,
here settles into deep water, atfording IN
limited and uneqalIed water power, with
a clear course 10 the sea Tor the largest
vessels Indeed Nature seems to have
spent some time in nesting here all the
requisites for a manufacturing and ship
ping town, and to-day Richmond presents
to the capitalist and mechanic inducements
scarcely to be found elsewhere. Already
have her manufacturers won for themselves
high praise as to the quality and quantity
~ their wares. And while much capa-
bility lies dormant, the day Is not far dis
tant v hen she will laugh at the rivalry Of
her sister cities. The blaze Ot the furnace
and the clash Of the miner pick are now
seen and heard in her great storehouse,
the valley II Virginia, where he mex
haustible supplies Of economic minerals :.
that Is 70 say, Of minerals III common use
in the mechanic arts. And on January
80, 1873. the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road trains made the first through passage
to the Ohio, and will in future transport
to Richmond the heretofore untouched
supplies Of gold from the belt Of Louisa,
he roofing states Of Albemarle, the kaolin
NJ Augusta, hydraulic cement and marble
from Rockbridge, besides iron, limestone,
coal Of all kinds, granite, mari, copper,
tire clay, salt and products " the soil
lying along three hundred miles of this
road.
Indeed, a new era has JUST opened upon
Richmond Labor il cheap and plentiful,
but capital she much needs, as her mer-
chants, reduced by the war, cannot enter
much into the new undertakings which
should and will soon adOrn her. But let
capitalists consider her offers and invest
here, where eventually the continent will
look for many Of its supplies.
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The Rapids of the Shannon.

The Limerick and Castle Connell Rail
way affords the readiest Eeans Of reaching
Galway from Limerick, Or rice Uersd, BE-
sides the opportunity uf viewing the rap
ids of the Sham IN and the ruins Of killa-
loe, To which place the railway Is to be ex
tended. The length Of the new line Is
fourteen miles, through country fertile
and pleasingly undulatmg, but without
any claim to picturesqueness Castle Con
nell is little village. deriving its name
from an old castle of the royal O'Bnens,
erected at a very early period. The ruins
stand ON a conical rock overhAnglng the
river and are approached by broad
gravel path leading up from the village.
They consist Of the lower part of a tower,
and some broken walls. overgrown with
ivy. These are the remains of the castle
in which the descendants Of the renowned
Brian Boru once lived, and in which his
grandson was murdered by the Prince Of
Thomond Nothing remains of the halls
in which the Earl "f Ulster once held his
court nothing uf the keep in which the
Irish partlsans of James i'll. held out
against the Prince Of Hesse, by whose or
ders it was destroyed BY gunpowder, large
massessof masonry scattered about attest
ing the force Of the explosion. The Shan
non is here for over a quarter Of a mile al
most a cataract, presenting a scene unpar-
alleled III the United kingdom. lnglIs,
than whom there can be no more comPe-
tent Judges Of scenery, thus states in what
its uniqueness consists 1t IL only in
the streams and rivulets of England that
rapids are found the larger rivers gently
glide smoothly on without impediment
from rocks-the Thames, Trent, Msrsey
and Severn, when they lose the character
Of streams and become rivers, hold noise
less course. but the Shannon, larger than
all the four, here pours that immense
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and fees we paid for detectives for pro
curing evidence | am homeless wan
derer, and the sooner leave the city the
better"
A silence ensued. Vida looked at him
curiously, then laid her cheek on his shoul-
der, and gazed into his eyes-oh so low
ingly.
1--WE are very poor too, she began.
''But, dear Richard, ii would make no
difference if | was the heiress am not.
All papa's fortune is gone he may save =
portion Of it, but il would not change me
a particle if he recovered the whole Of it.
Richard, if you" voice very tin id and fal-
tering) "will make me your little wife, L
will love you through life as do now as
dearly, as true and as tenderly As ever
can, and | am sure while you have two
strong arms and good little wife to love
you and care for you, and help you all she
possibly can, you need not fear the battles
Of life And if we are happy in the full
ness of our love, ever devoted and at
tached to each other, sharing mutually our
ioys and sorrows, what need we care for
wealth, or the doubtful pleasurs it
brings.
He took both her little hands in his
own, clasped her in his arms, imprinted
passionate kiss upon her lips, then knelt
before her, and in tremulous accents said {:
"Nida, you are more than mortal you
are the best, the lovliest, the purest Of
your sex and if the labor Of a whole life
can repay you for the sacrifice you pro
pose to make, it will be cheerfully gwen.
Love you, Vida Though poor, | am the
happiest man in this great city tonight.
Am | not rich beyond measure in unpur-
chasable leve, and inconceivable happi-
ness With your love, Vida, to cheer and
guide me, feel no object insumounta-
Bile, no vicissitude Of fortune implacable.
moving shadow was seen at this june
ture by Vida, and she blushed like rose,
as she thought Of Paul 1t was the first
time he entered her mind since Richard
came upon the scene.
When Paul joined them, they were
walking toward him arm in arm.
''Well. Vida, he said with a twinkle in
his eye, This is not such a ghostly place
after all "
" 1T is dear, delightful place, she said
failed, however, but succeeded in looking
beautifully confused.
Next morning, when Vida came down
to breakfast, her father was struck AT the
wonderful change in her manner and APP
pearance The wrinkle had nearly disap-
peared from her forehead, and the little
lines Of grief and marks of agony, could
be seen ON her face no more. And she
was all life-bloomlng life and animation.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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body of water, which above the rapids is
40 feet deep and 800 yards wide, through
and over huge stones and rocks, which
extend nearly half q mile, and offers not
only an unusual scene, but q spectacle
much nearer to the sublime than any mod
crate sized stream can offer In the highest
cascade. None Of the Welsh waterfalls,
nor even the Geisbach in Switzerland, can
compare in grandeur and effect with the
rapids Of the Shannon" Wallis compares
the scene to the rapids Of the St. Lawrence,
and the most recent literary tourist in
Ireland, DR.. Rodenburgh, was much i'm
pressed by it, wild grandeur.-.S CusqrL
Roy.ev'y Month ia Ireland
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VOLUME TX.
Remember, Boys Make Men.

When you see a ragged urchin
standing Wistful IN the stre-t,
With torn hat and kneeless TOSsers,
pirty face and bare rcd feet.
Pas not hy the child unheedmg
Sntle upon him. Mark me, when
Hs grown he D NOT forget II
For remember, boys make men.
when the buoyant youthful sprite
Overdow in boyi-h freak.
Chide yOuT chIiS Ia gentle accents
Do not in your anger speak
Iu ntlst SOW in youthful bosom
seeds Of tender mercies then
Plants will grow and bear good trultAge
When the erring boys arc men.
Have y0u never seen = grandsire,
With his eyes AgiOw with joy.
Bring to mind some at II Kindness
Something said 10 him, boy
OF relate some si sht Ot GOODNESS,
With a brow all oloude-i when
lie said they were too thoughtle-s
IL remember boys made men.
let US try u Add some pleasures
10 the life II every boy
Fur each child neeis tender Interest
lu its sorruws sud is JOYS
On YOUR boys home b. Is BRIGHTNESS
They avoid a gloomy den,
AMI seek for comfort elsewhere
Aud remember BOYS make men.
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and in reality, such was the case His
splendid residence, stores, warehouses,
bank, and other buildings, were all destroy
ed And then his connection with insu-
rance companies whose liabilities were un-
countable, would sweep away what real
estate he had left. 1t was this news that
50 expedioIsly hastened his departure from
England
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THE OTHER SIDE.
CHAPTER xXXlv Cosr,>ukD.

BY MA FORAN.
President oi the Cooper international Union
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New york Produce markeu.
NEW YORK. Sept. II

NEW 1oRk. sept. IL.
ooTrosz-The market is quoted in good
demand for spinning. New offered on
wharf and to arrive at y concessions.
Sales, 2,O43 bales at 2oKc for Up:ands.
FLoUR-Receipts 1854 bbls. The market
is 10@l5c better on shipping grades and
more doing. Sales 1920 bbls. at $3.50
G6.25 for superfine Western and State $3.50
0p6.95 for common to good extra Western
do; S7.75GS.50 for common to choice white
wheat Western extra; S6.S0(GS IS for COM
mon to good extra Ohio s7OoGll.0o for
market closing firm.
RYE FLoUR-The market is quoted
in fair request and steady at S4.6095. IS.
CORN MEAL The marBet is quoted Is
firm and fairly active. Sales 90 bbls. at
1925 q $50 for Western; S3.9o@400 for
Brandywine.
firmer at 99G99Hc. Before the change I0O
bbls sold at 81.
WHEAT-Receipts 1928 bush. Marke
is quoted more active, to &c better, with
good export inquiry and home use. Sales
I7S,OOO bush. at Sl.529l.53 for No. Chica-
go; Sl.569l.57 for No. Milwaukee; Sl.5S@
LEO for No. do: sl.55k for winter red Wes-
ern; S1.75 for new white western; Sl.6o
for Iowa spring.
RYE-The market is quoted quiet and
nominally unchanged.
BARLEY-Market quoted quiet and firm
Barley malt in fair request Sales 5000
bushels Western at sl.40, 1880 bushels OF
Canada at Sl.5o.
opened shade firmer and closed dull =
scarcely so firm. Sales 5000 bushels
at 67@6Sc for steamer Western mixed 6SX
| 0l69 y c for sail do; 65c for inferior in store
| 67@68c for white Western; 66c for kiln
dried.
OATs-Receipts 1895 bush. Market i:
| firmer. Sales Is 900 bush. at 5lQl52c fol
mixed Western; 4S for unsound do. in
| store 52G54c for white western 50@52C
| for black Western.
CoAL-The market Is active and firm al
s.. 5o96.50 for Anthracite per ton per cargo
| EGGS-Market firm and IN good demand
1 at 24Gn25c for for State. = @-t.* nj
| HAY.-The market Is quoted in fair re-
| quest and steady. -@.-..'.-.- -. 4,
| HoPs-The market is quoted dull and
unchanged. 1873 quoted at 4o095ec.
/ lLEATHEB-Market is nrm and fair de
| paahd. Hemlock soles, BuenoS Ayres
! and Rio Grande light, middle and heavy
! weights at S7k a30c: California dos, 26a
Is: Orin0co DO. Eg27.s,- +. Sc. Z, n -.
! WooL.-The market less active and firm
F1eeces quoted, 44ts5e; Xxx fleece, %
I do, 81; spring. clip California 2494t
slightly curry do, %; I'd California, 90
! CoFFEE.-The market is quoted firm
/ and in good demand. Rio at 2i@23c.
/ SgGAR.-The market Is quoted In fail
request. 1890 hhds. centrifugal and 1856
Il % $Os-
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yellow Fever i'm Shreveport.
a FEARFUL STATE OF THINGS.

q d D..
SHREVEPORT, La, Sept. II.
The Times this morning says the cpl
demie exhibits but little change, and
that a decrease In the number of new
eases is greatly owing to a want of ma
terial The number of deaths is fearful
.tocontemplate. The mortality is beyond
precedent, and it looks as though but
comparatively few will get well. Thus
far very few have got about, while some
linger along between life and death. In
some few instances whole families have
been swept out of existence In the short
space of one week. A sudden change
in the weather, last Sunday night, sent
scores to their beds, which accounts for
the large number of interlnents during
the last day or two In the language of
oneof the New Orleans physicians they
dropped off like sheep dying with the
rot. ......se
Medical treatment of the most skillful
kind does not appear to do any good in 6
great many eases, while III many others
temporary relief is afforded, quickly fol
lowed by death.
Our stores are all closed, and all our
dwelling houses turned into hospitals.
In fact, Shreveport Is one great hospital
.--one great charnel house. The Times
publishes the death record. The number
of interments since Sept. LIST is 226
number of sick estimated variously at
from 500 to 500.
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STATE OF VERMONT. DIsTRICT

~ of Fairhaven, IS.
Be il remembered, that at a session of
the Probate Court, holden at Castleton,
within and for said District, on the 18th
day of september, a. ID. 1873.
PRESENT: Hon. j. i. Bromley, Judge.
Whereas, a certain instrument in writ
ing under seal purporting to be the last will
and testament of Perre q. Ladd. late
of Benson, in said District, deceas-
ed, having been this day presented to
said Court for Probate, and duly filed in
dered that all persons interested in the
estate of said deceased, be notified to ap-
pear before said Court, at the Probate
office, in Rutland, in said District, on the
9th day of October, A. d. 1873, by
publication of this order three weeks sue
cessively previous thereto, in the Rutland
Herald q newspaper printed at Rut-
land, in the county of Rutland, to show
cause, if any they may have, why said in
strument in writing should not be proved
and allowed, as the last will and tesla
ment of the said deceased.
HENRY J.. CLARK,
3S:w3 Register.
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STATE OF VERMONT.

y DISTRICT OF RUTLAND, $.
Be it remembered, that at session OF
the Probate Court holden at Rutland,
within and for said District, on the 9th
day of Septemb Der, A. ID. 1873.
PRESENT: Hon. WalterC q. Dunton, Judge.
Whereas, certain instrument in writ
ing, under seal, purporting to be the last
will and testament of Catherine Bresee,
late of Shrewsbury, in said district, deceas
ed, having been this day presented to said
Registers Office: Therefore, it is ordered,
that all persons interested in the estate OF
said deceased, be notified to appear be-
fore said Court, at the Probate Office in
Rutland, in said District, on the first Tues
day in October, A. ID. 1873, by publication
of this order, three weeks SUCCESSFULLY pre-
vious thereto, in the Rutland Herald, "A
newspaper printed at Rutland aforesaid,
to show cause, ifany they may have, why
said instrument in writing should not be
proved and allowed, as the last VIII and
testament of the said deceased.
3SW3 TIIOS. &. ROBBINS, Register.
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TUE RUTLAND HERALD.
rurrRspAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1873,
Minor Items.

Heavy frosts are visiting the Coun-
.-r nretty generally. In Albany Coun-
IN Y, they have had very severe frost
The Albany argus says: "Any one
.,bo was obliged to be out late on Sun
Ssv night was readily convinced that a
.oyere frost was growing and would tell
hoavilv upon the crops before daylight
- mis- conclusion there was no mistake.
From all that we can learn, the damage
~ the frost will reach about 81, 100000
:. tbis county. We learn from a men,
nor If the Shaker family at Niskayuna
.hot the loss in their settlement alone
will reach $4,000. Ice an eighth of an
inch thick formed in several places"
-Twenty-one young ladies from New
vorl, on route for Montreal, took dinner
AZ the Bates House yesterday. They
,rera in ,harge of a priest and teacher.
The Young ladies are going to Montreal
to attend school.
A visit to the grounds of the pro-
,osed new Freight Depot in Rutland
Yesterday, showed that work had COM
mancqd in earnest upon it. Mr.. S. c..
sVett of; st. Adams, Supt. of Buildings
=, Central Vermont Railroad lines and
Mr. I. f. Roys Civil Engineer of the
Rptland road of this place, were out
Yesterday fixing grades and lines for the
grounds and building. John Cain is to
srnnriutcnd the work Mr.. Mead is to
he the boss carpenter and Mr.. Cum
mings the loss mason, assisted by Mr..
RoweH. all of this town.
Our friend w. F. Gookin, Esq, of
Port Henry, sends us two very ancient
newspapers. One is the Boston Gazette
and Counhy Gentleman" Of March IL,
r77O The other is the New York
MORNING. Post of November It'll, 1918.
Ills ouite interesting to look over these
old newspapers.
Some dogs from Shrewsbury came
to Clarendon, recently, and killed TWEEN
ty-two sheep for J. Q. Stewart, then
passed into an adjoining lot and killed
twelve more. All in one night.
L. Howard Kellogg, of Benson,
purchased au Ayrshire bull, at the
STATE Fair, of Isaac r. Paris of Fair
fax. Franklin county, Vermont.
w call attention to advertisement
in another column of Auction Sale OF
property Mt Bowlville by N. A. Holton.
Dr. :. Mason, n longtime resident,
and a faithful and popular physician of
Dorset, died on the 14th inst. He was the
father of Charles L. Mason, of the firm
of Mason & Jerkowski of this town.
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MoLAssEs.-The market is quoted quiet

MoLAssEs.-The market is quoted quiet
and firm.
RICE.-The market is quiet and steady.
sales 90 ties Carolina at SX@94c.
PETROLEUM. - Market IS quoted firm
at 6@6Rc for Crude 1sc for Refined.
PoRK-Market is quoted quiet and firmer
for new mess at $500.
BEEF.-The market is quoted quiet and
steady at S8.009l0.50 for plain mess; sll. 25
@12.50 for extra do.
BEEF HAMs.-Marl<et quoted is dull at
Sl8.00@26.50 for common to prime lots.
TIERCE BEEF The market is quoted
quiet and unchanged at Sl5.006l7.50 for
prime mess; sIs.00920.50 for India do.
CUT MEATs---Market is quoted as quiet
and steady. Middles firm long clear at
S4@SEc.
LARD--The market is excited and high
err; old Western steam at Sx@I3l-l6.
BUTTRR-Market in good request and
and steady at l6G25c for fair to prime
Western 25G3lc for fair to prime State,
CHEEsE--Market is quoted as frrner at
l249l3e for fair to prime State factory.