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The Power Of Interest.
now MAN MAY BECOME RICH OS SNAIL BE-
GINSINGs.

HOW A MAN MAY BECOME RICH OS SMALL BE-
GINSINGs.
The gradually increasing rate Of in
terest should make people wary of bor-
rowing money for speculative purposes,
aud especially hiring 1t for the purpose
of unproductive property, or in the ex-
pectation Of obtaining permanently high
rents 1t is the high rate of interest
which every few years causes a general
breaking up of business, when property
and products fall in prices. This also is
what causes wealth gradually but stead
ily to concentrate into the hands of
comparatively few persons in the COM
munity. Take any series Of ten, twenty
or thirty years, or more, and the longer
the series the more positive aud con-
elusive becomes the evidence Of the
fact, and il will be seen that the most
profitable business i'm the world is the
lending of money. The high rate of
money, high rent and high taxes, must,
in the course Of 4 few years, tend to
such a concentration Of wealth as can
not fail to be injurious to society, and
will ultimately so straiten the debtor
classes as to necessitate to q very great
extent the process of wiping out old ac-
counts and beginning anew. \ few ex-
amples will illustrate the great power Of
interest.
a man buys house for which he pays
$4,000. He leases it and charges the
tenant seven per cent. upon its cost,
clear of insurance, taxes and repairs.
The rent is payable quarterly. y rate
OF interest Of seven per cent. per annum,
paid quarterly, will accumulate a sum
equal to the principal loaned or invested
in property in ten years. In the first
period of ten years, therefore, his rents
build him another as costly house as
the first. In twenty years his rents
build three such houses in thirty years,
seven houses; in forty years, fifteen
houses; in fifty years, thirty-one houses;
i'm sixty years, sixty-three houses, and
in seventy years, one hundred and
twenty-seven houses. In seventy years
all these are built from the accumulated
rents of one house. These houses are
worth SI,I70OOO, which sum has been
paid for seventy years of one house
worth $4,000. If, instead OF being in
vested i'm the house and lot, the $4,000
were loaned on interest at seven per
cent, and the interest collected and re-
loaned quarterly, the money would ac-
eumulate precisely the same amount as
the property.
Take another illustration of the power
of interest. Two mechanics just come oi
age are good wOrkmen and desirous oi
becoming rich. Each is able to earn !
dollar a day over and above his expen-
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-28

This is the way the doors OF Cornell
University swung open responsive to the
magical rap of the coming woman.
Years before the establishment of the
university there had been a land grant
from Congress to the State ofNew York,
Tor educational purposes, of 999, 900
acres. This was given to Cornell by the
state, and as return, that university
offered each year to receive one scholar
free from every judicial district. In
those good old days il was not thought
necessary to stipulate the scholar should
not be lady, so nothing was said about
the matter, and no trouble came from
the omission until about two years
ago, and then it came i'm the shape of a
very bright young lady, who had grad
uated from her home school and was
prepared to and proposed to graduate
from Cornell. She had been chosen by
her district in consequence of her fitness
Tor the place, and the university author
ities could do nothing but admit her to
examination. She came of Triumphant,
and so was received. But now a new
difficulty arose. There were no DOM
itOries for ladies, and she was told She
might stay, provided she would board
in Ithiea. This would require her TO
walk about a mile and climb a hill.
upon the top Of which the university is
perched, so long and steep that the path
must have been selected just to remind
the student of the trials and difficulties
which beset his path. But she accented
the conditions and climbed the hill for
two or three weeks, and then the roses
she had brought from her rural home
began to fade on her cheeks, and She
had 10 own herself unequal to the task.
and returned home. But she had opened
the way for others, and this year eight
ladies have obtained admission. The
dormitory difficulty has been removed
through the generosity of a Mr.. Sage.
who has given Sl50,0OO to be used in the
erection Of one exclusively for ladies.
1t will not be long Iefore it is COM
pleted and Cornell hereafter will be i'm
partial.-IRter-O Ocean.
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HOMES.
ESSAY READ BY MRS. c. a. CoBURS BEFORE THE
WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION.

Eo5A4 READ BY MRS. G. a. CuuTRN BEFORE THE
WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION.
What an old subject! Yes, good
friends, but while l am compelled to
grant my argument old, I have the au-
thority Of good DR.. Young for declaring
''that truth no years impair :" and, al
though my subject may not possess the
charm Of novelty-nay, more than this,
may be exceedingly stale-it does, am
sure, possess more or less interest for all
present; and have only to mention the
single word homes to prove my asser-
ton true.
1t is frequently asserted, and almost
universally conceded, that around our
homes cluster our dearest delights; that
within them are implanted and nur-
tured our highest and purest aspira-
tions. Surely if this be the case, men
and women should be untiring in their
efforts to place high the standard of ex-
cellence in their homes, and having
thus placed, guard it with watchful Wig
ilanee. Sages have endeavored to teach
us by line and precept innumerable the
best and surest way Of rendering our
daily abodes models Of pleasantness and
peace. Poets have sung Of the pleasures,
and music dwelt with lingering sweet
ness upon the delights Of ''Home, Sweet
Home" yet in actual life happy, home
like, pleasant homes are by no means
universal. "TO know ourselves diseased
is half our cure" To find q reason fol-
this is step towards a remedy. / am
more than content to abandon to poets
and dreamers Of vain dreams the imag-
inatiye and romantic field, in which
they have so long and zealously labored,
and shall not attempt TO make my few
rambling thoughts and suggestions con-
form TO their iine-spun theories.
Upon women, we are told, devolves
almost the sole responsibility Of render
ing nome attractive, cheerful and pleas
ant, and they are frequently exhorted
with a persisteney and pertinacitv
which, if properly bestowed upon the
legitimate business affairs Of the would-
De advisers, might lead perhaps 10
happy financial results, to oIook well 70
the ways of their households. and ~
livious to the fact that women aro No.
frequently driven from home by stern
necessity than tempted therefrom Nv,
ambition. They are often met, at every
step in any calling in which tbev mo-,
engage, by the ever-ready quotation
popularity supposed to be applicable to
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The old German laws show the con-
tempt in which women were formerly
held. The following is an instance:
\ common punishment for scolding
women was the shameful stOne,u
which was hung round their necl.s
This stone was usually in the shape of q
bottle. At Hamburg, libellers and
slanderers were compelled to stand on a
block, and strike themselves three times
on the mouth as n sign of repent lnce.
This custom still existed thirty or forty
years ago. In some towns the 'shamefuI
stone" was in the shape Of a loaf
whence the German SAYING, ga heavy
bit of breadn (ein Sch1cerer bis7e7 BrOrlI
At Lubbock it was in the shane of an
oval dishi and in other places that OF a
woman putting out her tongue. Such
stones were usually very heavy; accord
ing to the law of DOrtmund and Halber-
stadt (l34S), they were to weigh hun
dred weight. Those who were wealthy
could purchase exemption from the
punishment with bag full of hops tied
with red ribbon. Another old custom
punished hen-pecked husband by re-
moving the roof of his house on the
ground that "a man who allows his wife
to rule at home does not deserve protec-
ton against wind and weather. Ii
two women fought i'm public, they were
each put in a closed sentry-bOX, which
left only their heads exposed, and then
posted opposite each other in the mar
Ret, where they remained an hour, face
to face, but unable to use their hands or
feet
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4 MOTHERS INFLUENCE on THE
CHuD.-The schoolmaster sees the
mothers face daguereotyped i'm the
conduct and character Of each little boy
and girl. Nay, a chance visitor, with a
quick eye, sees very plainly which child
is daily baptized in the tranquil waters
Of blessed home, and which is Graded
in violence, and sucked ut the bosom of
a storm. Did you ever look at a little
pond i'm a sour, dark day i'm March d?
How sullen the swampy water lOokedl
The shore pouted at the pond, and the
pond made mouths at the land; and how
the scraggy trees, cold and bare-armed,
scowled over the edge! But look at it on
a bright day in June, when great round
ing clouds, all golden with sunlight,
checker the heavens, and seem like a
great flock Of sheep which the good God
is tending in that upland pasture of the
sky, and then how different looks the
pond-the shores all green, the heavens
all gay, and the pond laughs right ont
and blesses God, AS the heavens over
the water, so a mother broods over the
family, March or June, Just as she will.
Theodore Parker
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A WORD To GIRLS.-The woman who
Is Indifferent to her looks is no true
woman. God meant woman to be at
tractive, to look well, to please, and il is
one of her duties to carry out this in
tention of her Maker. But that dress is
to do it all, and to suffice, is more than
we can be brought to believe. Just be-
cause we do love to see girls look well,
as well as to live to some purpose, we
would all urge upon them such a course
OF reading and study as will confer such
charms as no modiste can supply. \
well known author once wrote very
pretty essay on the power of education
to beauty. That it absolutely chlseiIeu
the features; that he had seen many nan. Il
clumsy hose and thick PAIR GI M M 9'
modified by thought awakened, alIt' i.aG W
tive sentiment as to be unreSo5 me-, No.,
often see people, hOmely ana unaetrg Iif9 ipto
tive in youth, bloom in middle ne mo mo
n softened o 10 Indian summer Of good looks
and mellow tones.
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Land Poor.
BY ROBERT ROLLINS.

I've had another offer, wlfe-a forty acres more
OF high and dry rich prairie land, as level as a
floor
Thought I'd wait and see you arst, as Lawyer
Whiting said,
To tell how things will turn cut best. a woman
is ahead.
And when this Tot is paid for, and We have GOT
the deed
I'll say tina, / am satisfed-it's all the land we
need:
Aud next well see about the yard. and fix the
house up some.
And manage IN the course Of time 20 have O
better home
WIFE.
There is no use OF talking, Charles-you buy
that forty more,
And we'll 90 scrlmplng all our lives. and al
ways be Land Poor.
For thirty years We've tugged and saved, deny
ing half our needs,
While all we've got 10 show for 1t is tax receipts
and deeds.
ia sell The land, II Il were mine. and have a
better home,
With broad, light rooms 10 front The street and
take lie as 1t come.
1--we could live as others live, and have what
Others do,
We'd live "a great deal pleasanter, and have n
plenty TOO.
While others have amusements. and luxury.
and books,
Just think how stiugy we have lived. ana how
this old place looksi
That other farm YOU bought OF Wells. thai took
so many years
or clearing up and fencing in, has cost me
many tears.
Yes, Charles, indeed, I've thought OF a hund-
red times or more,
And wondered IL IL really paid 10 always be
Land Poor
II we had built cosy house and made a happy
home
Our children once so dear to US had never
learned 10 roam.
grieve TO think OF wasted weeks, and wears.
and months, and days,
While for il all We never yet have had one word
Of praise.
Men call us rich, but We are poor-wouId we
not freely give
The land, with all It's fixtures, for better way
10 liye2
Don't think am blaming you, dear Charles
you're not a whit 10 blame;
I've pitled you these many years, 10 see you
tired and lamei
It's just the way We started out, our plans too
FAR ahead;
We've worn the cream 0fllfc away, 10 leave too
much when dead.
'Tis putting OF enjoyment long after we enjoy,
And after all too much OF wealth seems useless
as toy;
Although we've learned, alas, too latei what all
must learn at last,
Our brightest earthly happiness Is buried in
the past;
That life is short and full OF care, the end al
ways near,
We seldom half begin 10 live before we're
doomed 10 die.
Were to start my life again, I'd mark each
separate day,
And never let single one pass unenJoyed
away
Ifthere were things TO envy, Ia have them now
and then,
And have home that was a home, and not a
cage or pen.
ia sell some land II It were mine, and fit up
well the rest;
I've always thought, and think 50 yet-small
farms well worked are best.
Rural New Yorker.
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Speaking Of the climate of the Argen-
tine Republic, Professor Gould says: "A
bowl of water left uncovered in the
morning is dry at night; ink vanishes
from the ink-stand as if by magic; the
bodies of dead animals dry up instead OF
decomposing, and neither exercise or
exposure to the SUMS rays produces per
spiration.
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Josh Billings says: "Give the devil
his due reads well enough i'm proverb:
but what will become of me and YOU II
this arrangement is carried out ?u
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'SmalI-pox here" and ''Rooms to
rent" are the announcements on one
door of house Ia Detroit.
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Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names 10 the
Editor, or no attention viii be given 20 their
communications.
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NDG .IsS.3 1E1rt3s9fG+.

4 Journal for the People.
Devoted TO the Interests Of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.
Alive TO all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
of the Masses.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-28

About the commonest social vice, and
the one which is most abhorred, is
advice.
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MIR. PETER RYLANDs, NJ.

Laws have been passed which pressed
unjustly upon women, and some Of
these laws are in existence now. Wom-
en- have n right to have their voice
heard in the settlement of questions
which affect their social position and
their individual rights.-.SPcech at Mdn-
chester
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
Prospectus for 1S74-Seventh Year.


An illustrated Monthly Journal, univer.
sally admitte1 to be the Handsomest
Periodical in the world. a Representa-.
tive and Champion Of American Taste.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1879.

Tue following sensible article we
copy from the WiIiamsport Gu=e,tc and
Bulletin aud it should receive the care
iul consideration Of every thinking mat:
Why Is MONEY so scAReLy-
There is much complaint about the cx-
treme scarcity of money III the country
at the present time, aud many persons
are at loss to account for it. The
cause of the scarcity is easily explained.
When the excitement was raised about
certain banks few weeks ago. small de-
positors became seized with a panic and
drew out, in tho aggregate, hundreds
Of thousands of dollars from the best
ana soundest banks in the country,
which they placed in their pockets,
where it remains to this day A great
proportion OF thismoney so suddenly with
drawn from circulation belonged to the
hboring classes, mecanics ana others.
who had it on interest. The moment it
was pocksted, interest ceased, and the
banks were deprived to great extent
from being able to accommodate bust
ness men, because they had no funds.
The result Of this short-sighteo policy
in pocketing money to make it secure, as
many supposed, is now showing itself in
the suspension of hundreds of manuiac.
turing establishments and the discharge
of thousands of workmen, because no
money can be obtained to pay them.
The very persons, therefore, who became
panicky and withdrew their small de-
posits, have been largely instrumental in
bringing about state Of affairs that will
cause not only themselves, but many
others, to suffer. In other words, the
small depositors have killed the goose
that laid the golden egg. The oues-
ton is plain and bears the answer on its
face.
In order to revive business as speedily
as possible, and avert much suffering
among the poor this winter, those very
perseus who are now carrying their
money in their pockets should deposit it
at once in the banks SO that business
men, manufacturers, &C., may be able to
obtain accommodations. If money is
kept IN circulation, business will move
briskly-if it is withdrawn and boarded,
stagnation is sure to follow, because
there will be no circulation medium
This must be apparent to all who will
give the question few moments OF
thoughtful consideration. This is the
reason, then. why money is SO scarce.
If you have dollar to spare, deposit it
in some bank al once, that it may be put
in circulation to aid in restoring good
times.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
GENERAL NOTES.

The Pope is now in excellent health,
and holds daily receptions.
Liverpool has received its first invoice
OF Pullman palace cars.
\ Minnesota man has become insane
from the excessive use Of tobacco.
BY the burning of a shanty in Toledo,
Ohio, three persons lost their lives.
The Chinese Government has resolved
to make energetic efforts to suppress the
Coolie trade.
1t is now asserted that within eleven
weeks 500 persons died of the yellow
fever in Mimphis.
Mrs. Virginia L. Minor, of st. Loui
indignantly refuses to pay taxes unless
she Is allowed to vote.
A lady reporter sent to an agriculture
fair mrots OF lot Of pigs: "Ihey look
too sweet to live minute"
No Saratoga MOTEL except Congress
Hall paid expenses this last season
Stewards grand hotel lost $4,000.
The grangers of the States of the
Mississippi valley, lately in session lat
Keokuk, decided to establish a system. .oi
agricultural statistics in every State in
the Union.
Mrs. Patterson, daughter OF Andy
johnson, aud who was mistress Of the
White House, while that gentleman was
President, has been awarded the pre-
minm fes the best butter at Tennessee
fair.
An arti-secret society journal has ap-
peared at Yale College, edited by some
of the students.
The United States Signal service has
established branch printing office at
Bangor, Maine.
1t Is suggested that belle-pulls would
be appropriate aprendages to the door
plates now worn on ladies' belts
A Western woman complains that
since her husband joined the Patrons Of
Husbsndry. he has sown nothing but
wild oats.
Tvcnty.iour lawyers are engaged;
tvelys on a side, in a Kentucky libel
suit, aud it is proposed to assign couple
20 every jurymsu separately
There is business firm in St. Paul,
MINI, wbice has not paid its taxes Tor
Ase years, and now owes on account
something over $40 900.
Switzerland has 7C0 primary schools,
$500 tearchers aud 100000 scholars.
The education of children is compulsory
IN all the eantons except Geneva and
Uri
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