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Painting Houses

An intelligent farmer. who Is building a
new house, wishes to know the best color
for painting il. IL Is a two story house
OF moderate pretentions, with but few
trees OF much size. In answer to his in
quiry, we would recommend any neutral
tint, not TO dark, which may suit him best
III cool irab color, il should not pass too
much towards GOODNESS. which i only
adapted 10 stately mansions; and il a
warm brown, too much clear yellow or
red should be carefully avoided. Nothing
can be worse than the impression ola sur
face coiorcd with paint merely for the
sake of the color. On the contrary. the
shade should resemble that of the materi-
ais of which houses are built. The natu-
raj color OF wood or OF light stone should
not be greatly disguised. Some writer has
said that the dust which lies In the road
way may be selected As an approximate
guide TO the shade given TO the neighbour
ing houses. A diversity OF opinion pre-
wales as 10 the color OF window blinds. but
We have always preferred some modifica-
ton OF green. When Downing aud 9TH
ers attacked the fashion of painting white.
they committed the error Of excluding
green from the windows.
There is no congruity in light brown and
warm green; some of the most agreeable
combinations in nature are made of these
two colors-as We see in landscape paint
ing, in the son blending OF the two in late
summer forests-and the rich brown bark
and cones, and the deep green branches o.,
evergreens. A large, rather dark house,
should have dark green blinds; a smaller
house OF lighter color may have n more
lively green. Small houses, under the
shadows OF large trees, may be clear
white. Scott, in his recently puhli>he1
treatise on Landscape Gardening. justly
remarks: The most beautiful, aud
necessarily most pleasing of all colors
for window blinds, which harmonize with
nearly every neutral tint. and with all ma
ural objects-ever beautiful green-the
tenderest and most welcome of all colors
To the delicate eye. was thrust aside even
by the cultivated taste OF Downing, and
in its place dull brown blinds were the
fashion and in taste. Common sense and
common eyesight have been too strong
for such fashion 10 endure long. and green
again greets our grateful eyes on cottage,
villa and mansion window"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-04-24

sympathy with nature is . part Of
he good mans relgion-E. II. Hedge.
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DULLNEss AT DIsCoUNT.-The New
York Observer being . religious paper may
be appropriately heard on the question treat
ed below; The time has gone by for dull
preachers. The activities Of the age. the
dlnuslon oi knowledge by schools, books
and periodicals, the spirit of inquiry. the
spread of infidelity, the prevalence of donbt
the subtlety of false science, demand live
gospel. 1t will not answer TO educ arc
dizziness or medliocrity. 1t was farh;Sdar
that son Of Aaron should be priest n no
had any biemish. Even . fiat nose exciu.
ded him. And the age wants no half
baked ministers. The West can hear
them. The East cannot bear them. The
heather know 10 mech to keep them.
They are not wanted on this earth. To
get money to educate dun BON because
they are pious is robbing God and fraud
upon the Church. Its crime or blum.
der, and sometimes both.
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NEVER BE CAST Down BY TROUBLES.
II spider breakes his web twenty times :.
twenty times will he mend it again. Make
up your mind TO do thing and you will
do Il. Fear not If trouble comes upon you
keep up your spirits.
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A HANGING GARDEN.-A hanging gar
den OF sponge is one of the latest novelties
In garden. Take white sponge of large
size, and SOW 1t full of rice, oats or wheat
Then place it for a week or ten DAYS in a
shallow dish, as the sponge will absorb the
moisture, the seeds will begin to sprout be-
fore many days. When this has fairly ia
ken place, the sponge may be suspended
by means of cords from hook in the top
Of the window where q little sun will enter.
Il will thus become living mass Ofgreen,
requiring little occasional moisture
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AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PATENTS
R. q. EDDY,
SOLICITOR OF PATENTS.
For Inventions Trade Marks Designs
No. TO State St.. Opposite Kilby St.
BOSTON.

No. TO State St.. Opposite Kilby ST..
BOSTON.
fTER An extensive practice OF UPWARDS of
~ Thirty years, continues to secure Px.ents IL
the United states also in Great Britain, France
and other foreign countries. Caveats, spscllca.
lions, Assignments, and all other papers for Pa.
tents, executed reasonable terms, with dis.
patch. Researches made To de te nine the validity
and other advice rendered In I'll matters
the same. Copies OF the claims OF any paten
furnished by remitting one dollar. Assignments
recorded in Washington.
No agency IN the Ustef Sfases possesses SUI ey,or
Ndcificsyor otfasStag Pdteats, ascertainfns the
pafeAtabil1y o iapes.fiOHs.
All necessity of Il journey to Washington to
are nese sHyed Inventors.
-O
TESTIMONIALS.
regard Mr.. Eddy as me of the aso.t capable and
sttcceS.fsI practitioners With whom | haye had
Official intercourse. CHAS. MASON.
Comm ssi0ner of Patents
81 have no Hesitation assuring in en- tors that
they cannot employ man more compefeRf and
"sstscorAt, ana more capable Of putting their
applications in o form to secure for them early
and favorable consideration At the Patent Office
EDMUND BURKE
- Late Comm sBioner OF Patents.
MI y Eddy has made for me over THIRTY ap
piications for Patents, having been successful in
almost every case Such unmistsksble proof of
great talent and ability on his part, leads me to
recommend all Inventors to apply to him 10 pro
cure their pa euts, Is they may be sure OF having
the most faithful attention bestowed on their
cases, aud ~ very lessona BILE charges,
JOHN TAGGART
Boston JAM. Is73-ly
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Rural papers severely condemn the con-
duct Of the hens that are standing around
barnyard doors doing nothing while eggs
are selling at fifty cents . dozen," and sug-
gest that, although purely lay question,
it is one in which the clergy might well test
the efficacy Of prayer.-( american Ne,cspa-
per Reporter.
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How many people put two-cent stamp
on newspaper Of ordinary weight, requir-
ing only oae cent to pay the postage. But
Is an right; carelessness osght to be
n1ea, - hxuSy.-(A MevscdS Newspaper
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Troubles never stop forever;
The darkest dag will pass away.

If the sun is going down look up at the
stars If the earth is dark, keep your eyes
on heaven With Gods presence and Gods
promises, man or q child may be cheer.
full.
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AGermantewn nan boFFOws his neigh
boris paper and sells It after looking over
the deaths to see where he can get his
next nee nde.-[A~ericss Msssspepev Re-
porter.
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New York Shop Girls.

1t is estimated that there are l25, 200
females earning a living in New York
city and its vicinity by their daily labor,
aside from those engaged in domestic
pursuits. The wages Of One-fifth of this
number range within the years of child
hood. In nearly every occupation
which the wants of humanity sustain,
women are engaged. More than 400
emplOyments are recorded, i'm which
they are largely represented. There are
between 100 and 500 establishments in
New York city employing upwards of
l,SOO milliners. There are between TO-
90 and II, 600 women employed in max
ing artificial flowers and curling and
dressing ornamental feathers. Two
thirds of this number are under fifteen
years of age, and in some factories none
but young girls are received to learn on
account of the length of time required to
obtain proficiency.
In the largest and most wealthy dry
goods houses, the sewing machinery in
the millinery department is run by
steam, which simplifies the labor. At
these establishments the girls wages
average from seven to twelve dollars per
week. For covering parasols and UNI
brellas the girls receive from eight to
twenty-four cents. Many old ladies' re-
duced in circumstances and in some in
stances from ailiuence-widOws of
bankers-work at making caps from
SUNRISE to midnight for twenty-five
cents a day.
There are 5000 tailoresses doing Gus
tom work, and of these 7,400 are vest
makers. The first-class workers in this
department of mems garments receive
better prices than those in other
branches of tailoring. Some "slop-
shops" pay twenty cents for making q
vest and fifteen cents for pantaloons.
Several thousand women and girls
work in the various book-binding estab-
| lishments of the city, and it is thought
that at least half of the girls working
thus are under fifteen years of age.
Many of the employees are persons of
refinement and education, and those in
| the larger establishments are sur
rounded by elevating influences.
Young girls employed at the American
| Bible Society earn from s. to 81 per
week for binding and folding Bibles.
Many thousand women are at work in
/ the tobacco factories, principally in
''stemming' the weed and packing il
| for market. They also make cigars and
color the bladders for holding snuff, fill,
pack, cap, label, varnish and wrap
/ them. The workers, while handling
/ the snuff and tobacco, are as fully under
| its influence rs the most inveterate
smoker or ehewer. Necessarily large
quantity of the fine dust is inhaled,
which causes great oppression at the
stomach, induces diseases of the lungs,
and otherwise seriously Injuries the
health.
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gives me rheumatic every time / get to
thinking of il. Don'ttell me that many
women own property and pay taxes on
it. / hain't talking of that branch of
the subjeck. Besides, what right has
women to own property? Did Doreas
and Priscilla own property? Did Abra-
hams wife speculate in land? Don't
tell me that Abraham didn't himself in
those days. / hain't talking of that
branch of the subjeck. But this voting!
Dreadful! What if my wife should
want to vote different from me? Don't
tell me that some men are Methodises
and their wives is Baptists, and yet they
don't quarrel. 1 hain't talking about
that branch Of the subjeck.
l believe in Woman's Sphere, the
Constitution of the United States, and
the Ten Commandments, and 1 don't
believe in a woman having any opin-
ions of her own that husband is bound
to respect.
"And Adam said, This is now the
bone Of my bones-A roaring lion and q
raging bear-It is better to dwell in the
Wilderness
Woman's place is home, not voting
Don't tell me that man needn't be alb
sent from his business but two hours in
the year TO vote. | hain't talking on
that branch of the subjeck. Task, could
she take care of baby while she was
voting? That's the pint, my hearers,
could she take care of baby while she
was voting? No, she couldn't. Doesn't
that prove it? Yes, that proves it. 1
believe in substantiatiOn by solid logic.
Besides, she'd have to read up on the
subject of the nations affairs, and that
would take her time from her duties.
Needn't tell me that much of her time,
now spent in ruflling and embroidery,
is wasted. At least, it is feminine,
while taking an interest in the nation is
masculine, and reading about the cOun-
try would unsex her.
"And Adam said, This is now bone of
my bones-A brawling woman in a
large hOuse-A roaring lion and raging
bear.n
My hearers, am done. The contem-
platiOn of these evils that threaten to
engulf the land, such as women having
equal liberties with men, brings OH my
rheumatic afresh. Specially since 1
heard that the HndCPcRdeglt, HHperS,
and sich, are taking advanced grounds
on this frightful subjeck. But Pm GO
ing TO fight 'em. Yes, my hearers, Pm
going to fight 'em, like Sampson, to the
dust. Then, if after all they too many
for me, / must leave the country. /
can't go to Europe, for I hear its getting
to be as bad there, must escape TO Pat
agonia.
"a roaring lion and n raging bear
All is vanity and veXation of spirit-It
were better to dwell in the wilderness" "
Amen.
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HoPEFUL.-No cloud is so dark that
there is not light beyond. a wretched
little ten-year-old boy, ragged and al
most bare-footed, drifting along Detroit
streets a few days ago, was asked where
his father was. Dead" responded the
Young gentleman, amiably. "Where's
your moth ar?" "Run away" he an
swered. His interlOcutor expressed
sympathy and observed that he must
feel lonesome. Did this interesting
child wipe the eye of selfish sensibility
at this speech? No, his nature ran in
broader, more humanitarian and artis-
tic channels. His youthful, noble coun-
tenance glowed and frightened, and an
exultant smile played upon his lips.
The purest, sweetest dreams of his early
wears and tender anticipations of the fu-
fure mingled in that smile.
Lonesome! mot a bit of it!' ex-
claimed the brave boy "there's goin'
Ia be the biggest circus here next week
Won ever set eyes onI" There is strik-
ing resemblance between this true
hearted youth and the British child
who. on being told that his father was
lost at sea, burst into tears, remarking,
! 'He had my best jaek-knife with him."
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own selfish interests, and took no pains
to love or cherish her, sick or well.n
''That's dangerous doctrine, DIR. GoG,u
interrupted Ziek. "Let such ideas get
started among women, and the world
would come TO 2 pretty pass. a wom-
ans like a niger; keep her down so she
don't know nothin', and you can man
age her fust rate. Let her git silly
notions in her head about rights, and
she's split eternalIy."
The wife of Peter Dowd came trudg-
ing past, carrying two pals full of
foaming milk.
''Why don't you help that woman,
Peter?"
'Because itwon't do TO humor women
too much.n
DIR. Goff accosted the poor creature
eheerfully, and taking the pals from
her hands, carried them to the kitchen.
81 shouldn't wonder if that old devil
puts mischief in her head" suggested
Ziek.
'If he can put more in than's already
there, he's welcome" was the grufr
reply.
Polly had well said to Ellen the last
time they met, that her bargain was a
hard one. "rhe way Of the transgressor"
had proved TO be no exception in her
case.
Great was the gossip in the neighbor-
hood. Mrs. Grundy was informed by
all the Mr.. Grundy's that Ellen Dowd
had kept bagnio, faro bank and what
not that was awful; and that she had
prospered in an Infamous calling, aided
by the minister, her accomplice in the
well-rememtered jury trial, and partner
in her guilt and shame. They would
have said yet harder things, only there
was nothing worse to say. Peter Dowd,
striving to believe every intimation OF
her wickedness, would only shake his
head and say: ats woman's rights
that's done it."
TO be confinucdl
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Written for the New Norulwestl
The Travellers of the Sierra.
BY IonN a. woarAcK

nY JOIN a. wosIAcK.
Far o'er the snow-clad, Oecident mountains
Rode two travellers, high and low,
Neck and neck by the side OF the fountains.
Fetlock deep through the virgin snow.
The rabbits peeped al them out OF tho snow
drift,
Tho squirrels winked at them soon in the
morn;
While mp IN the decp-blue sunlif cloud-rift
Painted the colors rs rainbows new born.
step 10y step they siill rode on slowly,
Looking down al the landscape view,
TIL they saw and felt the sun-aush, holy,
That tinted the plains with marigold hue
o, then the sunlight shone and trembledt
o, then the streams danced all afiamei
While round the red deer mates assembled
And far and near ran mountain game.
Winds i'm the mountains misty covering
Now sigh in the trees and tlyirl the leaves
See, the big grouse over all is hoyeringi
See, fast 10 the oak the grapevine cleavesl
Still on and on through the changeful weather
Fear al the mIntest and hope at the best.
Went our two young men riding together,
Over the mountains and into the West
Thunder with lightning on high now rolling;
Black clouds all in their anger rush
Back and forward, the wind controlling
Look up and see the big rain gushi
But, still the young men smile at the thunder,
For grief SITS light on the youthful brow,
'Iill DER their heads few ghostly wonder
The youthful pair are in terror now.
Angry spirits with eyes all ghastly
Now shrek with fury DER the land;
Ono d f1fpru fn1 fr-r
Above his head ne shook his hand
Conner ne said; "it is now time 10 be going;
/ speak 10 you your death-day doom;
Together we'll ride on the storm-cIoud, sowing
The rain, and pluck the lightnlng's plume
There were five spirits, with eyes like amber:
one wreathed the star-beams; one Saturn,
rings;
one made the ioam-braids, one pearl cham.
ber,
And one green fan Of peacocEs' wings.
Now onward until they alight on mountain
Where new moons and stars TO their eyes
were born,
Where the song of the dew-fall and sparkling
fountain
Began in the evening and lasted Tin morn.
Undcr them now the bells are ringing.
While higher and higher they soar afar;
They hear the flow ofthe rivers singing
IN a lute-lilSe voice al the evening star.
Waving plains with plume and tassel,
Sky with its hues and moonlight rooms
What are these where the star-beams nestle,
What are these 10 a spirits plumes?
Yet Memory, holding fond and tender
The pleasures faded and joys Of yore,
Oft bore the travellers from all this splendor,
Back 10 their homes on a far-away shore.
StiH on and on through the spring-time
weather,
Fear at the fstintest and hope AZ the best,
Went the travellers and spirits together,
Sailing away in the crimson West.
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Mrs. ChenOweth, the widow of Colo
mel B. 2. Chenoweth, late United States
Consul at Canton, entered last winter
upon clerkship of the first-class at the
Custom House, receiving the salary
which belongs to the office. This is the
first regular Custom House appoint
ment given TO woman; and it is given
to her partly in consideration of the SER
vices of her husband, who won high dis
tinetion in the war, and afterward rem
dered the government faithful service in
China, where two years ago he died at
his post. Mrs. Chenoweth, during the
illness of her husband, and for some
time afterward, performed the duties of
the Consulate in manner which Sc
cured for her the formal eommendation
of the State department. Her appoint
ment to the Consulate, for which she
was entirely competent, and with the
duties of which she was perfectly
familiar, would have been an act of JUS
tice and courtesy which our Government
might well have performed under the
circumstances. 1t was q step, however,
for which Mr.. Fish was not quite pre-
pared.
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THE ANNALS OF a QUIET WOMAN
"If any man says a woman can't keepa
secret, strangle him on the spot" pro-
claims the Prairie City Herald, and to
back up its remarks it says that Mary
Hittle of that place went on little
pleasure excursion to Quincy with
Arthur Lockhart, three years ago, and
there the two were married. They told
no one, the groom went off to Kansas on
the following day, and having got
everything to suit him he now wants
his wife. Mary told her folks all about
it the other day, picked up her band
box and went out to commence house
! keeping.
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CHAPTER IN.

CHAPTER X.
The wedding was quiet one. a few
friends-thOse only who were acquaint-
ed with the early life-history of Ellen
DOwd-were hidden guests. Her half
score Of children, some of them by this
time blooming into early maidenhood,
Others great, romping boys, whom no
amount of education nor culture could
polish into gentlemen, and others yet
too young to have concern for anything
beyond their childish pursuits, were
none of them recalled from school to
witness the nuptials. Edgar Worth had
at first insisted that they should be pres
ent, but Ellen was firmly opposed to the
idea.
''They know little about you, and
care less" she said earnestly. "When
!, poor seli-deluded simpleton that /
was, endured their unwelcOme exist
ence, as year by year new suffering,
overwork and responsibility were forced
into my earthly way, already over
grown with thorns and brambles, and
leading up steep hillsides of ever-in-
ereasing difficulty, although 1 felt it to
be my duty to endure them, / little
knew the great physiological facts that
have since become a part of my very
self, or I should have defied their father
and abolished the unholy union years
and years before desperation drove me
to it."
81 am sure, my dear, that your chill
dren are quite equal to the average. ]
am disappointed in you, that you are
not proud of them"
aNo mother could love her children
more devotedly. Indeed, sometimes
feel such n sense Of humiliation wheI
brooding over the fact that they, lik'
multiplied thousands of others, ar
doomed, through life, TO the unhappy
consequences that surrounded their pre-
natal existence and brought them int
the world unwelcomed, unhonored, ant
during my hardest trials, almost un
loved, that feel that no sacrifice whicl
/ could make, no devotion of which M.
soul is capable, could be sufficient Il
atone to them for the great misfortunr
OF their unwelcome existence
ado not your children sympathiz,
with you and love you devotedly ?'i Ed
gar asked with some concern.
Sometimes I fondly imagine tina
they do, but find them so often thor
oughly selfish, so little accustomed t
other appreciation Of my devotion T.
them than that which is produce,
through their own necessities or seIfisl
desires, that I am more deeply disap
pointed in them than care to confess.
"Do you think there is no remedy 70
this ?'
az know of none.n
The conversation was dropped, bu
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The contrast between the selfshness
of some men and the self-sacIifiee of
some women was evidenced in the re-
cent flight of the inhabitants of Miehi-
Gan from the burning forest. The
correspondent of the Chicago Post says:
We overlook many who, panic-struck,
had fled, like Lot from SOdom, and yet
found no path of escape except the rail-
road track. A dozen times our train
stopped to pick up the fOOtsOre and ex-
hausted wanderers. One woman had
carried her infant between the flames
for five miles. Another, stout Young
fellow, boasted that he had saved gall
Ion of whisky. His looks and language
showed that he had saved too much of
it as the whale saved Jonah-by swal-
lowing it.
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The weekly wages of female teachers
in Maine is So so. Now, if a female
teacher instruct both summer and win
ter the twenty weeks of the school year,
she will receive the magnificent sum of
S72. That is, if a young woman was to
go into Maine to teach for a living, each
year she will get SO and her board for
twenty weeks, and for the remaining
thirty-two weeks she must pay SIf "a,
the average teachers board being s. 81
per week. She will, then, at the end of
the year, be in debt - %, without pay
ing one cent for culture, clothing or
comfort
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The late DIR. Marshall Hall, of Eng
land, said: ''If were seriously i'll of
consumption would live out doors day
and night, except in rainy weather or
midwinter; then l would sleep in an
upholstered log house. Physic has no
nutriment, gasping for air cannot cure
you, monkey capers in gymnasium
cannot cure you, and stimulants cannot
cure. What cOnsumptives want is air,
not physic-pure air, not medicated air
plenty of meat and bread"
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A few minutes devotion at night will
not clear the conscience of foul trick
done during the day, nor will going to
church on Sunday atone for the wilfuI
sins Of q week.