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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-12-23


For toys aud fancy k-nscks to
please the children and even delight
some Of larger growth, there is no place
like Wollenweber's at No. ll4l Main
street. The store is a sort OF depot
where Saint Nicholas may I'll his
pack. Little children gazing in there
become fairly wild with delight
and when you are gathering
materials to fill the little
stockings or hang on the Christmas
Tree, just go to Wollenweber's aud
gather up an srmful Of the toys and
trinkets and wonderful things that
there abound. You can't choose amiss,
snd whatever you carry home will be
greeted with satisfaction by the little
folks. Don't iail to call,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20
KEROSENE AND ITS ABUSE.

In view of the many accidents resulting
either through carelessness or ignorance, in the
use of kerosene, we give the following rules
and suggestions as furnished by a correspon-
dent of the Savannah Advertiser:
1. Do not buy kerosene below the govern
ment standard, which is 40 degrees.
2. Do not use wick that is too narrow tor
the burner.
3. Never turn down the burning wick when
you want to extipguish the light, but blow it
out without disturbing the wick, blowing di'
agonally into the top of the chimney, or use
a palm leaf fan at the arms length.
A. Do not use your lamp as night-lamp
by turning down the wick to lessen the flame.
The reasons for the foregoing rules: ..-
1. The government has fixed the standard
at which kerosene may be sold at 10 degrees
because there is danger of its vaporizing in an
ordinary lamp if it is below that standard.
The inducements to sell it below that is, that
it can be produced for less money.
2. There are four sizes of fiat wick burners
in general use, their numbers are 0, A, B
and D, or Mammoth. The wicks measure
three-eights, fve-eights, one, and one and halt
inches, respectively. This measurement may
not be mathematically exact, but it is the
size given to them by the manufactures, and
is near enough for practical purposes. II
you use wick that is too small, space is
left between the edge of the wick and the
wick tube which serves as a passage way tor
the fame to communicate with the oil in the
lamp.
8 The nearer lamp is to being empty the
greater the necessity of observing rule, 3, be-
cause the nearer lamp is to being empty the
more room there is for vapor, and ifthe burn
ing wick is turned down, ever so slightly, the
danger is increased of communicating the
fame to any gas that might have been form
ed in the lamp, while if the flame is blown
out without disturbing the wick the crust
that has formed on the top of the wick e6ec-
tually closes any little opening between the
wick and tube, thus preventing the communi'
cation of the flame to the gas when you blow
down the chimney. .~ ".
4. All kerosene burners are made to pro-
duce perfect combustion as prerequisite tor
a good light If the wick is turned down to
lessen the fame materially, the combustion
is not perfect, and the burner becomes over
heated, which communicates heat to the lamp
causing the air to vaporize more rapidly than
it can be consumed by reason Of the imperfect
combustion, and (under certain circumstan'
ces) causing the lamp to explode.
If lamps that are intended for illuminating
purposes are used as night.lamps by turning
down tho -Aan,o to LAnor, tn .;.A &c owe
ky atmosphere is produced that is is positive
ly injurious.
If these rules are followed, accidents resul.
ting from exploding kerosene lamps will be
far less numerous, and the end will have been
attained for which this article was written.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20
THE BANKRUPT LAW.

During the financial revulsion which has
swep. over the country, people have become
convinced that the repeal of the present bank
rupt law would be of great benefit, for during
this crisis they have realized the embarrass-
ment it may occasion. Capitalists who have
ample property with which. to satisfy all de-
mands against them, have been compelled to
pay twenty or twenty-five per cent for money,
lest if they suspend they would be forced into
bankruptcy, and what property they have be
swallowed up by its costly machinery. Such
heavy rates Of interest are of no benefit to the
debtor or creditor, and in the end only re-
duces the amount of assets if continued for
long time. The present bankrupt law works
only in favor of the obdurate creditor deman-
ding his pound of flesh, by giving the oppor-
tunity of crushing out solvent houses, which,
by the stringency Of the money market, are
temporarily embarrassed.
When a house has assets more than suff-
cient to pay all its liabilities, it does not seem
just and equitable to put it into bankruptcy
because ofsome unforeseen financial emergen-
cy. The law which makes the suspension Of
payment of commercial paper, for fourteen
days, an act of bankruptcy, on account Of
which the debtor may be compelled to 60 into
insolvency regardless of the causes that ope-
rated to produce the embarrassment, ought
not longer to remain in effect. The experience
of the last thirty days proves the greatest ar
gument in favor of the repeal of a law so ut
terly antagonistic with commercial security.
By the old method of attachment the creditor
was secured, and the debtor had time to ar
range his affairs without selling his property
for song, and the utter ruin of solvent houses
was prevented. In the present rotten state
of our currency those houses doing legti-
mate business should be protected and not
crippled by our laws. The present bankrupt
law is one of the causes Of our financial woes,
and the best thing Congress can do, at its next
session, is to repeal it.-1poonsocket (R. ~
Patriot.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20
BI1RYING THE DEAD IN JAPAN.

There is nothing that better defines the
character of any race than their religious
ideas and customs. There are two religions,
so to term them, prevailing in Japan, and OF
very widely differing doctrines and customs.
The nationsl religion is called the Shintoo,
but Buddhism is even more the prevailing be-
lief. The Shintoos, for example, of whom the
Mikado was the spiritual head-a sort OF
pope-bury their dead in large jars, and in a
Sitting posture. The Buddhists burn their
dead. The first worship no images or idols
but the last have huge images, which they
devoutly reverence. In one respect, however,
there is curious resemblance, for the Shin
toos, if they omit idols, make up for this, III
part, by enormous foxes of stone placed at the
entrance to their temples, this animal having
some sacred character in their worship. "A
Buddhist funeral and burial is solemn, i'm
pressive and full of tenderness, in spite Of its
superstitious features. white here takes the
place of our black as mourning symbol.
In the centre of Buddhist cemetery there is
a column or pedestal, and, when burial is
to occur, this supports vessels OF burning IN
cense, and profusion Of flowers in elegantly
fashioned caskets. Incense is also burned
around the sides of the cemetery.
The funeral cortege is preceded by men
carrying white flags and others carrying bo,
quets of flowers, fruits, cakes and delicate con-
fections. The men are all dressed in white.
Next comes the priest and great chair
behind him, very heavily carved. Over him
an attendant holds large canopy like an
umbrella. Then follows a procession of men
in white, from ten to thirty in number,
each having hold of a white cloth reaching
to the bier. After this are the pail bearers,
the corpse and the mourners. When the pail
bearers have placed the bier near the pedes'
tai mentioned above, the priest seats HIM
self in the chair and performs the burial SER
vice, the sentences being divided by the tink-
ling of small bell, struck at proper intervals
by an attendant lad. Finally the priest puts
incense into burning censor, throws bun
die of straw on the heap, and his part Of the
service is at an end. Those who attend the
funeral go through with the similar ceremo-
nes, ending by sprinkling water on the bier,
and the priest retires. The men bear the
flowers, fruit, etc., and the mouruers now
follow the body to the burning lot, which is
square inclosure fenced with stone The bo'
dy is in sort of barrel, and, after filling it
with combustibles, each member applies a
lighted torch and the consuming process is thus
begun. The further burning is watched by
one woman only. The graves are constantly
supplied with fowers-evidently from the
belief that worldly appetites and tastes are
still felt by those who have died in the flesh
Save the difference in the religious ceremonies,
Buddhist funeral is certainly as solemn, at
fecting and impressive as Christian service in
other lands.-Japan Correspondence Of the
Boston Globe.
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tentimes with astonishing prccocity, and die
correspondingly early, as a general thing.
Blowing upon wind instruments proves by
figures to be as harmless practice as its ap-
pearance is agonizing; and the air of public
halls is generally so bad that all persons, who
appear there habitually, suffer from it.
Soldiers and sailors have hard lives; ten
soldiers die of disease where one dies in battle,
and the annual death-rate in our army is
about one in 80 soldiers, and one in AZ officers.
Soldiers in battle are in danger of being hit
just in proportion to the space they occupy,
large men being much more susceptible to
bullets than little ones. Sailors, it is said,
average only about 12 years of life after they
begin to 90 to sea. Their work is very dan
gerous and arduous. Trades-people do not
come up to the average in the length of life.
Clerks have many unhealthy things to fight
against, and are weakened thereby for life.
Merchants average about fifty years and a
half.
These are only some of the facts hastily
grouped together. They do not show us any
better than the census does how to avoid dy-
ing, but they may be of some general interest,
especially to those persons, by no means few
in number, whose aim is to do the most breath
ing with the least work Manifestly, the two
efforts are incompatible.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20

naT The New York Herald, commenting on
the proposition of Postmaster General Cress
we'll to establish postal banks, says:
"The idea of establishing post Office savings
banks has in it nothing novel. 1t has al
ready been practically carried out in Europe
To the poor laboring man or mechanic who
has managed, throug III industry and frugality,
to get together little capital it gives secu'
ritY that his hard-earned money shall not be
lost without any error or fault of his own. 1t
renders the savings of the people as secure as
a national currency, pledging for them the
credit and good faith of the nation. In ad'
dition to the great advantage of entire secu.
rity, it affords depositors the advantage of
taking their savings bank with them to any
part of the Union. If mechanic now has
money deposited in savings bank, and is
suddenly called away to work at q distant 10.
cality, he is compelled to be at the trouble Of
drawing his money and at the risk of carry
ing it with him. Under the postal savings
bank system he carries his bank with him
wherever he may 60, and can draw his BAL
ance wherever and whenever he may please
without disturbing the money. In Europe
the system has been found to work with ad-
vantage, both to the depositor and the Gov
ernment and in this country, with its great
distances and its migratory population, its
benefits would be proportiopately greater to
both."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20

"Now Tom," said mother, speaking very
fast, and making her needless fly in concert
eve may as we'll come to an understanding a
once on this subject. 1 am fully sensible o
your past kindness let me tinish-l say
I appreciate it, and have always tried to d'
my duty by you in return, as hope shoule
always be ready to do. l wish all good tt
you and your wife. and shall be glad to hell
her if ever 1 can, but to live in the same hous'
with her, is what would turn out pleasan ly TO
neither of us, and, once for all, l can't DO it.
"Aunt ANNIE" said Tom, pushing back hi
chair, and staring in mothers excited face
"either you or I must be out Of our wits
"It's not me, then, at any rate retortet
mother, getting nettled.
Amusement and certain embarrassment
had kept me silent listener, so far; but there
was no standing this; | tried to speak, bu
could not, for laughing.
Il think you are all out of your wits to
gether," said mother, turning sharply. "Wha
ails the child it's no laughing matter"
"You don't understand each other"
gasped "Oh dear tits not Letty-Oh-
Oh dear p and relapsed again.
"Not Lefty ?" repeated mother, turning tt
Tom. "Then why did you tell me so"
II never told you so, said Tom.
"Why, yes you did," persisted mother
"You came in and told me you were going tt
be married"
eyes, so I am," said Tom, still at cross
"Now, Tom Dean," said mother, rising ant
confronting him, "What do you mean? Wh'
is going to be your wife ?"
"Why, May, of course" answered Tom.
"May~ and then after pause of mex
pressible establishment, it was mothers turf
to laugh. "Do you mean to say, Tom, 1T wa
that child you were thinking of all the time ?
"Why, who else could it be?' said Tom
simply: %l =, . =. Il ,o,,.u "1 onnht ~ h. re
membered that you never did anything lik'
anybody else. But, still, why in the worlt
did you 90 to work in that round about way I!
"i wanted to see how you took to my idea,
said Tom.
"And how did you suppose we were to guess
your idea meant May ?" mother asked.
"Who else could it be?" repeated Tom
falling back on what he evidently found al
unanswerable argument. 1t was no use talk
ing to him. Mother gave it mp with shake
of the head.
"And you won't want another house then
Aunt Anne2" said Tom, suddenly. That SCI
mother off again Tom joined with her, ant
altogether I don't think that we ever passed 6
merrier evening than the one that made III
acquainted with Toms wife.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20

WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE PooR-Cream is
allowed to mould and spoil. Silver spoons
are used to scrape kettles. The scrubbing
brush is left in the water. White handled
knives are thrown into hot water. Brooms
are never hung up, and are soon spoiled.
Dish-cloths are hung where mice can destroy.
Tubs are left in the sun to dry and fall apart.
Clothes are left on the line to whip to pieces
in the wind. The pie-crust is allowed to sour,
instead of making few tarts for tea. Dried
fruit is not taken care of in season and be-
comes wormy. Vegetables are thrown away
that would do to warm for breakfast. The
cork is left out of the sugar jar, and the flies
take possession. Bits of meat are thrown out
that would make hashed meat or hash. Cof-
fee, tea, pepper and spices are left to stand
open and lose their strength Pork spoils for
the want of salt, and beef because the brine
wants scalding.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20

EDUCATION OF WoMEN.-Commenting up
on the fact that not one woman was saved on
the fatal Atlantic, although many had the
same chance Of life as the men, an exchange
says: "The strength of women at the crisis Of
their life depends on their physical culture
while children. Let parents be no more
ashamed of their girls brown faces and fists
than Of their boys Let them train and ciothe
them so that they can run and climb and care
for and protect themselves. Let them take
them with their brothers into the harvest
field. A boy is not ashamed of work; no
more should be girl. The refinement that
shuts a girl out of Gods sunshine, and allows
her no rougher work indoors than to em-
broider worsteds, or tap ivory keys, or dust
marble mantle, is refining her off the face of
the earth to give place to the daughters Of
the servants of the kitchen.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20
THE UNPROFITABLENESS OF FARMING.

Politicians do not always hit the nail on
the head when talking to farmers. AS
rule, a politician at the Fair is the politician
still, speaking for political effect. Now and
then, however, he gets astray from politics
and perhaps says something of practical i'm
port to his hearers Such was the case with
General Butler, at the State Fair Of New
Hampshire, when he touched upon the un
proftableness of farming in these words:
1t is complained that farming is unproita
BILE. Men are leaving the farm and seeking
employment in manufactures and the trade:
of the city. New Hampshire, the agricultu
raj port of Massachusetts,, Of Maine and Ver'
mont, has gone back in population and in
productive agricultural wealth in the last ten
years. Without seeking to touch all the rea
sons for it, may we not find it largely in this
that we ask too much of the farm? Having
capital of $4,000, or $4,000, or $4,000 in
vested in it, we ask that the farm shall sup
port our families, educate our children and
give US q comparative wealth for old age be-
sides.
And yet, do we treat it as other men dc
their business by which they succeed? II
we fail in getting all this from it, we say
that farming is Improbable? We are un
mindful Of the fact that in mercantile bust
ness only one in q hundred is fairly successful
ond only one in thousand eminently So
Does not farming do as we'll and better
Does only one in hundred farmers succeed
to a competence, and only one in thousand
succeed to af1uence? And yet do we not
deal with our farms in the same way that we
have seen that the nation does with its
producers? Do we not take everything of
and put comparatively nothing on the land
In every other business of life all the gains
, man gets he Immediately puts back into
his business. The merchant increases his
capital year by year, from gains of the
preceding year, if he is prudent man, until
it becomes as large as he can pro6tably man
age. But if the farmer makes any surplus
on his farm, as rule, does he return to his
land either in increased facilities for farming,
in enriching the soil, adding to his stock, or
draining his land? On the contrary, is he
not much more likely to invest in railroad
shares, or bonds, or some manufacturing en-
terprise or loan it to some neighbor? Hav-
ing taken away from the farm what the farm
has brought to him, and ought to be returned
to it again, to make it productive, he leaves it
impoverished, and then complains that gains
do not increase.
Is not the difficulty that he is continually
taking away the increase Of his capital and
leaving it only what it was at the beginning 1?
The merchant, as we have seen, increases his
capital year by year; but the farmer too fire.
ouently takes his and invests in other enter
prises, and then complains, that the farm
does not succeed. No farmer that l ever
heard of ever mortgaged his farm to buy ma
nure to put on it; yet men frequently do
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20

turn over new leaf. Our boys and girls
must be taught to labor by qualifying them
selves to do it efficiently. We must turn out
fewer professionals and more artizans, as well
as food-growers We must grow and fabri'
cate two millions worth per annum, that we
now import, and reduce the foreign debt, that
we have so long and successfully augmented
year by year. We must qualify our clever
bows to erect and run factories, rolling mills,
tanneries, machine shops, etc. ; to open and
work mines, improve and fashion implements
and double the present product oftheir fathers
farm. So shall we stem that tide of debt that
seta steadily against our shores, and cease
to be visited and annoyed by hard times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20
WHOM DO GREAT MEN MARRY

Distinguished individuals show the same
diversity of taste that is seen in the lower
ranks, and on the whole make worse mistakes
They, however, show the same in choosing
wives that they show in managing other peo'
Piles affairs, whether they be good or bad.
Roberts married farm girl with whom
he fell in love while they worked together in
the plough.feld. He was irregular in his
life, and committed the most serious mistakes
in conducting domestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter Of country
squire, but lived with her but short time
He was an austere, exacting, literary recluse
while she was rosy, romping country lass
that could not bear the restraint imposed upon
her. so they separated. Subsequently, howev
er, she returned, and they lived tolerably
happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were
cousins, and about the only example in the
long line of English monarchs wherein the
nuptial VOWS were sacredly observed, and
sincere affection existed.
Shakespeare loved and welded farmers
daughter. She was faithful to her vows, but
could hardly say the same of the great bard
himself. Like most great poets, he showed
too little discrimination in bestowing his at:
fections on the other sex.
Byron married Miss Milbank to get money
to pay his debts. 1t turned out bad shift.
Benjamin Franklin married the girl who
stood in her fathers door laughing at him as
he wandered through the streets Of Philadel'
phia, with rolls under his arms, and his pock-
cts filled with dirty clothes. She had occasion
to be happy when she found herself the wife of
one who proved to be a great and good man.
Washington married woman with two chill.
dren 1t is enough to say she was worthy of
him. and lived as married folks should-in
perfect harmony.
John Adams married the daughter Of a
Presbyterian clergyman. Her father objec-
ted on account of Johns being lawyer he
had bad opinion of the morals of the
profession.
John Howard, the great philanthropist,
married his nurse. She was altogether be.
meath him in social life and intellectual ca
pacity and, besides this 6fty-two years old,
while he was but twenty-five. He would not
take "No" for an answer, and they lived hap
PLY together until her death, which occurred
years afterwards.
Peter the Great, of Russia, married a
peasant girl. She made an excellent wife
and sagacious empress
Humboldt married poor girl because he
loved her. Ofcourse they were happy.
1t is not generally known that Andrew
jackson married lady whose husband was
still living. She was an uneducated but ami
able woman, and most devotedly attached to
the old warrior and statesman.
Edward Lytton Bulwer, the English states.
man novelist, married girl much his inferi-
or, in position, and got shrew for wife
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mortgage their farms for the purpose OF bull
ding a fine house and may take all the earn
ings of the farm for ten years for that pur-
pose. The mortgage, or Indictment, once on
a farm,a rule in the st,except in the change
of fortune made by the change of prices ari-
sing from the war, remains for years, if not
forever
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20

New YORK LAwYERs-A correspondent
writes: Among those who reap handsome
harvest out of the recent panic, the legal fra
ternity stands precminent. An immense
amount of legal practice has been demanded.
Each merchant, broker, or banker, who is in
trouble is obliged to retain lawyer, and
some of the complicated cases require more