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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-11-10


A couple of enterprising men, doing
the clothing business at Atlanta, are
interviewed by customer in search of a
coat. The senior of the firm handles the
new -comer, and soon finds First class
IT." In answer as to the price the re-
Spouse is, eighteen dollars"
t'Well, sir, / like your coat very much,
but don't like the price"
"Well, mine trent, ze price is noting
so you like re coat. Violet you take 'em
at fifteen dollars" 3aHsa
The customer still complains of the
price, saying that SIS was too much.
This was too heavy for the dealer, so
taking his customer to the extreme end of
the store, and drawing him into a dark
corner, he whispers in his ear:
f"Mine trent, let you have Eat coat
for twelve dollars and half.
e'Well, sir" said the customer" I like
your coat very much, and am satisfied
with the price, yet l would like to know
why this mysterious performance. "
9"Vell, mine trent, you see dot little
man dere He was mine broder. He
got re heart disease, and so help me gra-
cious if he was to hear me tell you
take twelve dollars and half for Eat
coat he would drop ded NIT his track. "
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-11-10

1t is q mans own fault if he is unhap-
Ply with his wife, in nine cases out of ten.
Ii ID very exceptional woman who will
not be all she can be to an attentive hus-
band, and a still more exceptional one
who will be very disagreeable if she finds
herself neglected. 1t would be very easy
to hate a man, who, having bound a wo-
man to him, made no effort to make her
happy and tender: hard not to love one
who was constant and tender and when
a woman loves she strives to please.
The great men of this world have often
been wretched ia their domestic relations,
while mean and common men have been
exceedingly happy. Ths reason is very
plain. Absorbed in themselves, those
who desired the worlds applause were
careless of the little world at home, while
those who had none of this egotism strove
to keep the hearts that were their own,
and were happy in their tenderness.
No woman will love . man the better
for being renowned or prominent. Though
he be first among men, she will be proud
or, mot fonder and if she loses him
through his renown, as is often the case,
she will often be proud. But give her
love, appreciation, kindness, and there's
no sacrifice she would not make for his
comfort. The man who loves her we'll is q
hero and king. No less hero 10 her,
though he is not one to any other; no Less
a king, though his only kingdom is her
heart and home.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-11-10

That grim old veteran of many q we'll
fought field, President Mcmahon, 10 Civ
ing his attention to other matters than
the raising of armies for the reconquest
of Alsace and Lorraine. France is to
have her agricultural resources developed
in q manner so practical that her two
hundred thousand square miles will in the
future be made the basis of q true home
wealth. While under President Theirs
her people came forward with patriotic
alacrity and paid her immense war debt,
thusl giving sudden and unexpected evil
dence Of the industrial resources Of the
nation, the administration of Mcmahon
viii be remembered IS the genesis of .
new era In French agriculture. Farm
schools, in which young men are taught
the art of gardening and agriculture ut
large, have been successfully established.
About ten thousand youths have already
profited by these useful institutions, and
one-half have set vigorously to work as
farmers. There are now in regular at
tendance large number Of young people
who learn in these schools, practice farm
ing, and Il 10 thought, in q few years,
with the use of modern agricultural APP
pliances, French soil will be made far
greater source Of wealth than in former
times. In this movement the Marshal
shows bis good sense. The wealth Of
nations lies In their soil, and the sooner
foolish expectants Of place and power
under renewed Bourbcn-O Orleans or Ma
pOleOnic dynasties, understand this in
France, the better for their own and the
notnnfrvsa fntura
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-11-10

If your seat is too hard to sit upon,
stand up. If rock rises up before you,
rollit away, or climb over it. If you want
money, earn it. If you wish confidence,
prove yourself worthy oft. 1t takes long
er to skin an elephant than q mouse, but
the skin is worth something. Bon't be
content with what another has done !;
surpass it. Deserve success, and it will
come. The boy was not born q man. The
sun does not rise like q rocket, or goes
down like bullet fred from a gun; it
slowly but surely makes its round, and
never tires. It is as easy to be a
leader as a Wheel-horse. 1.-THE joy be long,
the pay viii be greater; if the task be
hard, the more competent you must be TO
do il.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-11-10
The Oldest Vessel.

The New Bedford Standard having re-
ported the bark Draco of that port the
oldest vessel in the United States, cor
respondent tells him how wide he is of
the mark. He says: The bark Ocean,
Messrs. |. II. Bartlett & Sons, agents, is
two years older than the bark. Draco.
The Ocean was built at Haddam, Con-
necticut river, by Mr.. Childs, IN 1922.
l saw her coming out of the river and
over Saybrook bar, July 6, 1922, bound
to Nantucket. I was in the ship Globe,
of Nantucket, bound up the river, to
have her new-topped. Nantucket had
three ships built at Haddam that year,
the ships Enterprise, Ocean and Maria
Mr.. Childs built two, Enterprise and
Ocean, and Mr.. Hubbard built the Maria
All sailed from Nantucket that year.
Mr.. Childs built the sloop Calm for
Nantucket that year also. Some years
after that l was in the ship Ontario, and
fell in with the ship Ocean off Cape
Horn, both ships bound to the Sandwich
Islands, and we did not lose sight of each
other for twenty-four hours in sailing
8, 900 miles, and anchored within fifteen
minutes of each other back of Oahu bar.
We were late for the season on Japan,
but we did the best we could, and the
result was fifteen minutes apart in sailing
5000 miles. The Ocean is as fine a sea-
boat as ever foated. The oldest ship in
New Bedford, if she was built for Nan
tucket, is the President, built in Roches.
ter. Mass, in 1914, of 293 52-95, tons
old measurement"
To the above the editor answers that,
at any rate, New Bedford has in some
vessel the oldest in the United States.
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Mad Effects or Lavish ExpemdT-
Gure.

there are many practical evils, patent
70 all, which result from lavish personal
expenditure. In almost every case il
has deteriorating effect on the charae.
Ter. panderlng to vanity and conceit. In
an ideal world no one would obtain addi-
uonal respect and Difference on account
OF riches. But under present conditions
large expenditure is a bride for obsequi-
Gus and undeserved homage, quite as
certainly "a. money given by candidates
at elections is bride for political power
while 1t tends to make many of the poor
raise and sycoPhantish, it as surely has
The effect of giving the rich a very ex-
aggerated idea Of their own worth and
II Importance. In most cases it is a bar
rIer to free intercourse between a man
and his friends, or those who NAV have
Dee1 his friends, but who have ceased to
De, on account of prosperity, selfshly
used, having enabled and encouraged
MIN to indulge in tastes and habits be-
yond their means. 1t is but seldom that
riches are employed for cultivating the
society OF the worthiest and best. It
would be nearer the truth to say that they
are mostly used to cultivate the society
Of the rich, who can give a return for
entertainments practice es-
peclally inconsistent with the principles
professed by the religious world, who are
not less than others the slaves of the pre-
VailiDg fashion. Again, from the Gus
tom of lavish expenditure set by the opu-
ent, extravagant expectations are formed
Is to what decency demands from pro-
esslonal persons or others of moderate |
means, which often make life very hard |
struggle, when, but for the example set
~ Piutocrats, existence might be COM
ortable and easy. There is large class, |
he vain and weak-minded, over whom |
he custom of the rich has such over
Vhelming force that, in order to comply
With it, they commence life on a scale |
Iuite beyond their means, the conse-
!uenee being perpetual struggle with |
ate, or, In many cases, utter degrade ton |
nd ruin.-Fraser's Magazine.
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Learn trade, or get into some bust
ness, and go at it with q determination
that defies failure, and you will succeed.
Don't leave it because hard blows are to
be struck or disagreeable work to be per-
formed. Those who have worked their
way up to wealth and usefulness do not
belong to the shiftIess and unstable class,
and if you do not work while q young
man, as an old man you viii be nothing.
Work with a will, and conquer your pref
udices against labor, and manfully bear
the heat and burden Of the day. 1t may
be hard the first week, but after that I
assure you it will become pleasure and
you will feel enough better satisfied with
yourself to pay for all the trials of q be-
ginning. Let perseverance and industry
be your motto, and with steady appli-
cation to business, you need have no fear
of the future. Don't be ashamed of your
plain clothes, provided you have earned
them. They are far more beautiful in
the estimation of all honest men and
women than the costly gew-gaws sported
by some people at. the expense Of the
confdTng tailor. The people who respect
you only when we'll clad, will be the frst
TO run from yoa in the hour Of adversely.
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Grants LIstIe speech.

WASHINGTON, Nov. Cone hundred
guns were fred by the Republicans this
evening, in honor of their victories of
last Tuesday. A procession formed and
proceeded to the Executive Mansion,
where they serenaded the President,
who, from the front portico, acknowledge
ed the compliment as follows: Gentle
men, / ann very glad to meet you on this
occasion, and congratulate you on so
good cause Of rejoicing to the entire
country as the elections Of last Tuesday.
While the Republican majorities are not
great, they were sufficient to accomplish
the purpose. The rag baby has been
entirely suppressed, and the people now
know what kind of money they are to
have in future. think that we have
an assurance that the Republicans will
control this government for at least four
wears longer"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-11-10

Blanchard's Butter Manual recon-
mends one ounce of salt to a pound of
butter as sufficient for keeping it; but
the better paying class of customers, who
are q little more fastidious about this
quality, prefer about one-half as much
and this Is found sufficient, it the casein
has been properly removed. Butter ma
kers in the vicinity of large towns should
seek out regular customers for their pro-
duce, in which case it may be put up in
balls or any other form adapted to the
demand. "PhiIadeIphia prints" which
have acquired q worldwide reputation,
are pound balls, with small figure upon
the top. They are usually enclosed in
white linen napkin, and packed in ce-
dar, zinc-Iined chest, with apartments at
each end for ice, to keep Il hard while
being transported to market. For the
great mass of butter makers, the wooden
tub, holding from IS to 100 pounds,
must ever be the most economical form
Of package. In the vicinity of New
York city heavy return pals Of the best
white oak with thick c0EeEBs having the
owners name branded on them, Are used
year AFTER year. In some parts IF the
west miserMbly poor oakeu tubs are en-
ployed which affect the butter very in-
juriously. In other lOcalihies ashsn tubs
are faVoritas, while in Northern Vermont
the NEST approved tubs are spruse--
Spruce 10 unquestionably the least liable
Of all timber toa aeCt the HavuR of butter
ininri0nsly; Wiileit Il generally believed
that 6ur long kssPing md much exposure
good white oak In prefes6hAe. Gton0 jars
4 l.
upon the purity of the salt-it must be
perfectly white and completely soluble
In water. The ofEEcs &C SALT d, fFst, %
rsnoEe the bustsrlmilk fEom the pores q
the hufssr, and ssso4slys % render harm.
| less what oannot Do removeds REX "
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-11-10

Its the solemn thought connected with
middle life-that life's last business is
begun in earnest, and it is then midway
between the cradle and the grave-that a
man begins to marvel that he let the days
of youth go by so half enjoyed. 1t is the
pensive autumn feeling it is the sensa-
ton of haif-sadness which we experience
when the longest day of the year is passed,
and every day that follows is shorter, and
the light fainter, and the feebler shadows
tell that nature is Fastening with gigantic
footsteps to her winter grave. So does
man look back upon his youth. When
the first gray hairs become visible, when
the unwelcome truth fastens itself upon
the mind that a man is no longer going
up hill, but down, and that the sun is
always westerning, he looks back on
things behind. When we were children
we thought as children. But now there
lies before US manhood, with its earnest
work, and then the grave, and then home.
There is a second youth for man, better
and holier than the first, if he viii look on,
and not lSOk back. csa -
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Cincinnati Commercial tRep.)

Cincinnati Commercial IRep.)
If President Grant imagines that war
with Spain, or row with the MormOnS,
or prodigious clamor about the Pope,
will cause the people to look upon him -
the Savior of Society, he 10 very much
mistaken. In the first place, the United
States il not so degraded a. 10 require q
military protector In the-second place,
there ia . prevailing impressions that,
though Grant commanded larger armies
and had larger butcher bills TO show than
Washington, the latest of the Presidents
will not be . more commanding figure In
history than the first. In the third place,
the madness for more territory is not
affecting the American people very much
Just now. We have enough negroes who
are new 30 the duties Of citiBehships and
we have elements of evIl sufficient with
out the acquisition of the Inhabitants Of
Cnba.
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JEFPERsON DAVIS.
The COAReAerate Leader Gained $40
che FIacs or his Birth

On Monday Hon. Jefferson Davis, c5-
cOrtsd BY large number Of the ctizeas
of Hopkinsville, KY, visited Fairyiew,
where q grand reception was given him.
The whole population Of tue surrounding
country had gathered there, and as the
procession moved into the village IL was
met by band which greeted Mr.. Davis
with "My Old Kentucky Home"
He was escorted to tho residence of Mr.
Andrew s. Kenner, who now lives iu the
old Davis homestead, and was taken into
the room where be first saw the light
After a few moments he came out and
mounted q stand erected for the purpose,
and thanked the people for theirrecepti0u.
He said be had stood in the room whera
Shakespeare was born and felt the impress
that his matchless genius had left he
had visited the homes Of the greatest men
Of history and Of our times, but had
never felt as he then felt, after an absence
Of sixty-six years.
Mr.. James Wiles then mounted Che
stand and presented Mr.. Davis with
handsome Rold-headed cane, in the fol-
| loving language: fIn behalf Of the citI-
Heno Of FairvieW, allow me TO present you
with this cane, made from locust tree that
grew In this yard, planted by your father
Please accept IL a. q suitable momento
and reminder Of your birth"
Mr.. DavisrotuEned threefold ''thank
you,S and added that he had no other
language 10 express his feelings.
After partaking Of a bountiful feast
supplied By the. citizens, Mr.. Davis left in
q carriage for GAINESVILLE, whence he VIII
20 % Memphis.
During the day negro rushed up and
shook Mr.. Davis hand, and told him
he fought under him four years, and
said, ''I was with the Finch boys, you
k10W,"
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VARIETIES.
The extra sleep obtained by the use Of
! mosquito canopy is net gain.

The extra sleep obtained by the use Q
= mosquito canopy is net gain.
| A new definition of an old maid is
woman who has been made for q Ion
time.
Say what you will against marrow
skirts. Il is essier for lady and gen
tlemaE to walk under one umbrella than
it USED to be.
"Papa, are you growing taller p s'No
my child, why do you ask p .'Caua.
the top Of your head is pOking through
your hair"
Victor Hugo says that woman is the
conundrum of the nineteenth century.
We may net be able to guess her, but we
won't giveher up.
''Mr. D., if you'll get my coat done
by Saturday, l shall ever be indebted to
you. IF that's your game It won't Be
done, said the tailor. =
When freedom from her mountain
height, unfurled her standard to the air,
her skirts, pinned back so very tight,
made her appear exceeding spare.
The model husband never allows his
wife to do more than half the work.
She puts up all the canned fruit in the
summer, and he puts it down in the
winter.
When Vermont man found that the
medical students had stolen the body Of
his newly buried wife, he remarked that
it was sad case, but that he had saved
the cost of tombstone.
A Virginia woman lost her false hair
from the window of railroad car, and
she has sued the company for 81, 900.
damages for the loss of her hair,
and $3.50 for her embarrassment.
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal
our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite
so easy to conceal our poverty We
shall find that it is less difficult to hide a;
thousand guineas thanikone hole in our
coat.-Colton.
A poet who wrote flaming poem on
martyrdom, in which occurred the line
-"See the pale martyr in his sheet of
fire, " was cut to the heart when he saw
it come out in the village paper-"See
the tall martyr with his shirt ON fire." &
A Chinese boy who was learning En-
glish, came across the passage in his
Testament, ''We have piped and ye have
not danced" and rendered it thus: eve
have toot toot to you; what's the matter
you no jump
Always be courteous. The maxim
was uppermest In the mind of the lady
who wishing to say a lively thing, ex-
claimed, ''what lovely boy2 just the
image of his father I" kneeling in simu-
lated enthusiasm beside the cradle where
she supposed the babe was sleeping, when,
to her confusion, the cat sprang from the
cot and cut short her eulogium. &
She had been sewing, and laid it down
in chair with a long needle pointing
heavenward, as it had got too dark to-
continue work A caller was announced,
who unfortunately sat down in this chair
and when she asked an explanation of
his strange conduct, he explained that he
had "only tried to grab fire fly off the
ceiling"
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The river Reefon.

MEMPHIS, TENN, Nov. 5.-Coahoma
county, the scene of the late riots, one
hundred miles below here in Mississippi,
has elected full Republican ticket, but
of a peaceable turn, and strife il at an
end there. M. s. Alcorn, an Ames
Republican, and son of the National
Senator, is the new Sheriff, in place Of
the fugitive colored Brown. M. G.
Priddy, white, is the new Chancery
Clerk; George Chatters, colOred, Is
Circuit Clerk; JEFF. Whitfield, colOred,
is treasurer, in place of George Alccrn,
white. Two white and three colored men
are the new Board of Supervisors.
In Bolivar county, John Oushy, coli
ored Republican, is Sheriff by nine ma-
jority; Green Clay and DIR. j. /. q.
Shelby, (cOnservatives), are elected Is
county Representatives, both white men.
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There Is something exceedingly melan-
choly in the accounts which are given Of
the custom of cOurtship in Greeland.
Generally women enter upon the blessed
estate with moro willingness and leSs sOlici-
tude than men. The women of Greenland
arsan exception to this rule. A Greenland
er, having fixed his affections upon some
female, acqaaintS his parents with the state
Of bis heart. They apply to the parents Of
the girl, and If the parents are thus far
agreed, the next proceeding Ia to appoint
two female negotiators, whose duty it 10
TO breach the subject 10 the young lady.
This Is matter ofgreat tact and delicacy.
The lady ambassadors do not shock the
young lady to whom they are sent by any
sudden or abrupt ayoWAl of the awful
subject Of their mission. Instead Of doing
this, they launch out in praises of the
gentleman who seeks her hand. They
gpeakOf the spleBdor Of his home, the
sumptuousness of his furniture, Of his
courage and skill in catching scala, and
ether accomplishments. The lady, pre-
tending 30 be ahronted even at these
remote hints, runs away, tearing the
ringlets Of her hair rs she retires, while
the Ambassadresaes, having got the consent
Of her parents pursue her, and take her
by force to the house Of her destined
husband, and there leave her. Compelled
to remain there, silent and dejected,
refusing every kind of sustenance, till n
last, if kind entreaties do not prevail, she
e. compelled by force, even by blows, to
submit to the detested union. In some
eases, Greeland woman faint at the pro
posal of marriage, in others they Ay "a
the mountains. and only return when
compelled to do 80 by the hunger and cold.
Tf one cuts of her hair it iss sign she ID
determined 70 resist to the death. The
| Greenland wife is the slave to the hus
hand, doomed to q life Of tod, drudgeFyr
I and pFivafi0n. ~ s3aif8esg
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Washington Telegram, j

Washington telegram
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-The Wiseon-
sin granger cases viii occupy the atten-
ton of the supreme court tomorrow.
Argument viii be made on tomorrow by
Judge Dixon upon the part of the State.
Judge Lawrence, who made an Argument
on Friday, has not yet concluded. He
gives way for Judge Dixon on tomorrow
morning in order to enable the latter to
leave the city to attend to some pressing
business elsewhere. The only other argu-
ments upon the part Of the State will be
made By A. Scott Sloan, John w. Cary.
VIM. NJ. Eyarts, and E w. Stoughton
are yet to make arguments on behalf of
railroads. The argumentcovem four cases,
two brought by the Chicago and North
western railroad, and two by the ChicagO,
Milwaukee and St. Paul company. These
cases are original ones, and counsel in
vain has tried to show that precedents
have been already established. Cases have
been shown where legislatures have regu-
lated the fares of ferries and turnpikes,
but no case is recorded in the books where
the legislatures have attempted toregulate
the freight and passenger tariffs of rail-
roads.