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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-01-08
Dec. q, 1875.

HADN'T JINED EN- YET.-A rather
verdant young man, whose features ex-
hioited every symptom of having been
slightly tinged with the emerald, late
ly entered jewelry store in New York,
and gazing earnestly into the show
case, remarked:
You've got heap of mighty pretty
breast pins thar, mister; what might
you ak for 'em 2"
What sort of pin would you like
to look at" inquired the merchant.
well. | dunnop said the visitor.
pointing to plain Masonic pin (the
compass and the square) "how much is
that yere ?"
Five dollars, only, SIR" was the re-
ply. Its very fine pin, eighteen
carat gold, and
You havn't got any one with lit
tie gold hand-saw laid across it, hev
you p interrupted the would-be pur-
chaser. --s7- -sas--
II believe not, SIR" said the mer-
chant.
wish yer had, it would suit me ex-
actly. I'm just out of my time, and
gwine to set up as a carpenter and jim
er, and L thought I'd like some sort of
a sign to wear about me so folks would
have an idea who was. What do you
tax for that ar you've got yer hand
on?'
Seven dollars SIR" said the mer-
chant, producing compass and square
surrounding the letter G.
Seven dollars? said the youth. "I'll
take it-sorry We didn't hev the hand
saw, though, but reckon everybody'll
understand it. The compass measures
out the work, and the square to see it's
all right after it's done measured; and
every burned fool orter know that G
allus stands for gimlet''
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

OLD LOVERS AND YOUTHFUL BRIDES.
=" Snow flakes and apple blossoms" /"
as emblematical of the marriage of Sem
ator Christiancy and his pretty young
wife, is common phrase in Washing
ton now and many parallel cases are
quoted. Senator Oglesby of Illinois has
a beautiful wife, probably not half his
age; Senator Hamlin's wife is also young
and lovely. Hon. Horatio King is about
twice the age of his bride of year !;
and DIR. Culver has a beautiful young
wife, not half his age Mrs. Christiancy
is very lovely, with complexion like a
sea.shell, dark eyes and golden hair /;
she is petite in figure. and has a very
pleasant, winning smile. The worthy
senator can boast neither youth nor
fine looking old age, being anything but
handsome. So much for the romance of
beautiful girls.-Home Journal
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

A CATHOLIC VIEW OF CATHOLICISM
IN THIS CoUSTRy.-The editor Of the
Irish World, published in New York,
seems to quite agree with many Protes-
tants in regard to the prospects of his
religious faith in America. In his arti.
Gle upon St. Patrick's Day he says:
"The ecclesiastical orator tells you
that lreland's enslavement has been of
great service to the church, for the exiles
of Erin-who fled across the ocean to
find something to eat carried with them
the manner of their religion, and spread
the light of their faith all over this be-
darkened continent. The story is partly
true. But never yet did glittering de-
ception so dazzle the eyes of innocent au-
diences. The Irish indeed, have carried
the faith hither in their rags, and they
have hidden it away in their tenements;
but the seed of the faith they have not
planted in American soil. Catholicity
is practically foreign element as yet in
the United States. Catholics have gain
ed by accessions from abroad, but Cath
olicity has not developed. What the
United States have gained, Ireland has
lost. There is no substantial victory for
the church. But the church has not ac-
t,ialy held her o,cn. We have few
score pro-English converts and these few
we put up on our shoulders that the null
titude may see and cheer them These
con verts get the chief seats in the syna-
gogue. But the number lost to the
church in the country for the past two
centuries. the enormous multitude of
Irish descent who have fallen away and
are still falling away, quietly and nois-
lessly, and about whom there is no talk,
can be counted by millions. So that af-
ter all, Ireland has lost while America
has not gained.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

The Golden Rule has an article on
pretty school rooms, which is we'll wor-
thy of the attention Of all concerned.
In it the writer speaks of making home
attractive as the best means of keeping
children at home, and says also, that
a school room should be kind of
home. 1t should be made attractive. If
the gentlemen who build our academies.
grammar and district school houses.
would save from some elaborate outside
adornment sufficient money to hang the
windows with pretty curtains. the walls
with chromos and engravings, and fill
the windows with plants and hanging
baskets, they would work wonders in
refining and elevating the taste of the
pupils and adding to their happiness.
Children may be as easily moulded into
ladies and gentlemen as wax is run into
form, if the surroundings of refinement
and culture are given them.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

The DEAcoN's PRoPosAL.- the
town Of Hopkinton, Massachusetts,, lived
certain Deacon Small. In his ad-
vanced age he had the misfortune to
lose the rib Of his youth. After doing
penance by wearing weed on his hat
full year, he was recommended to a
certain widow Hooper, living in an ad-
joining town. The deacon was soon
astride of his old brown mare, and ar
irving at the widows door he discovered
her in the act of turning the suds from
her wash tubs. Said the deacon: "Is
this widow Hooper 2" Yes, SIR" was
the reply. "Well,' continued the deacon,
81 am that little bit of an old dried up Dea.
Small, and have only one question to
propose to you" Please propose, SIR"
Well, madam, said the deacon. shave
you any objection to going to heaven by
the way of Hopkinton 2" None at
all, deacon" was the reply. "Come in,
deacon Suffice it to say they were
married the next day.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

How BRAVE MEN SUFFER AND DIE.
In his report of the Chickamauga bat
ties, b. F. Taylor records the following
solemn, yet credible fact
" If anybody thinks that when our
men are stricken down they fill the air
with cries and groans, he greatly errs.
An arm is shattered, leg carried away,
bullet pierces the breast, and the sol
dier sinks down silently upon the ground
or creeps away, if he can, without a
murmur or complaint; falls as the spar
row, earnestly believe, falls not with
out the Father. The dying horse gives
out his fearful utterance of almost hui
man suffering, but the mangled rider is
dumb. The crash of musketry, the
crack Of rifles, the roar of guns, the
shrek of shells, the rebel whoop, the
Federal cheer, and that indescribable
undertone of grinding, grumbling, splin-
tering sound, make up the voices of the
battle field"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21
5fiscellamu.

LIVE WITHIN Your MEANs.-This is
a good rule for office-holders and bust
ness men generally. When the man of
moderate income endeavors to live as
expensively as man of wealth, his fu-
ture can be easily written little en-
joyment, periods of anxiety, burden
some debts, a desperate struggle to keep
up appearances, ultimate bankruptcy,
and red flag to notify the neighbors
that the sheriff is master of the situa-
ton. One-half the dishonesty of the
present age springs from this foolish
practice of initiating the style of others.
The man Of thousand year wants to
live equal to the one who receives FIVE
he in turn aspires to make as big a show
as the one who receives ten, and the re.
ceiver of ten, labors to keep pace with
the one who counts his income among
the fifty thousands. Is it any wonder
that so many fail in business, or forfeit
by their misconduct the confidence of
friends? We must come back to the
old-fashioned way of living, and this
can be done only by obeying that injunc-
tion-live within your means. Life is
altogether too short to destroy its enjoy.
ments by taxing soul and body to keep
up false appearances. Contentment
comes with moderation mental suffering
and keen anguish with extravaganza.
To the young man just starting in life,
we say, live within your means. To the
office-holder, who hopes through honor
able conduct to merit promotion and dis
tinction, we say, live within your means.
To all who labor for honor or profit we
commend this motto as a safe and sensi-
bic one, and one that will pay compound
interest in the end A faithful adher-
ance to it by old and young, rich and
poor, will restore confidence in business
and official circles, and fill the land with
happy homes, from which will emanate
a spirit of purity essential to the main
tenance of public virtue
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21


DIR. HOPKINS AND THE COLLEGE
oYs.-Masters and instructors who
understand how to appeal to their pu-
pills personal pride and self-respect are
nearly always successful in discipline.
DIR. Mark Hopkins, late President of
Williams College, was as wise in manag-
ing young men as he is in theologic and
metaphysical science. A writer in the
Ledger gives this anecdote of him:
On certain occasion the students in
one of the college buildings, bent on mis-
chievous sport, had been making great
deal of noise-noise most horrible by
the blowing of tin horns and it was
deemed necessary to the general good,
that this noise should be stopped. The
doctor knew the temper of those with
whom he had to deal, and he Judged
that direct edict would be of little
avail ; so he had resource to speech.
One morning, after prayers, headdressed
the assembled students as follows;
| have noticed, young gentlemen,
that in one of the college buildings there
has been Of late good deal of very dis
agreeble noise made by the footing of tin
horns. Now do not know that in the
abstract there is any wrong in blowing
a tin horn; but in this case it is very an
noying to those who wish to read or
study, or who may be afflicted with weak
nerves and, moreover, it cannot but
tend to prejudice passers-by against the
state of discipline in the college.
Now, as ] have said, there is no par.
ticular crime in the blowing of horn
but neither is there any particular mer-
it in it. 1t does not prove anything as to
a man ability. Anybody can toot, toot,
toot, after little practice. Indeed,
recollect number Of my fellow students
when | was in this same college, who
used to be continually footing; and one
thing / have noticed about them, and
that is these same men hare been toottn O
euer since"
The doctors kindly but sarcastic hu-
NOR had its effect and from that day
footing" went out of fashion in Will
liams College.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

FLArTERY.-A book agent who ha.
retired from active labor upon the hard.
earned accumulations of life of indus
trious cheek, says that the great secret
of his success was, when he went to a
house where the female head Of the fam
lily presented herself he always opened
by saying, sc | beg your pardon, miss,
but it was your mother wanted to see.
That always used to get 'em. They not
only subscribed for my books themselves,
but told me .where | conld find more
customers"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21
TRUTH is MIGHTY AND WILL PREVAIL
SWORN STATEMENT
OF
BOSTON POLICE OFFICER.
IL. R. STEVENS,

II. X. STEVENS:
DEAR SR;-From exposure took sick about nine
years ago with Rheumatic Fever, from which suf
fered about four months. When recovered from
the fever found myself suffering with pain in my
side and constipation. which brought the piles.
attending me. and all the while was gradually
growing worse, Then one physician after another
Boston had taken my case in hand
On consultation between several of the leading
physicians. they concluded my complaint was asth-
ma and general debility, had great difficulty in
breathing, and an inhaler required to afford me
breath, Through the treatment of one physician /
fully tried all the medicine that each phy pre-
scribed. From my long sickness. and the vast
amount Of medicine used to overcome the great
pain, my kidneys became badly affected. and suf
fered excrutiating pain in the small of my back.
with great difficulty in passing my urine,
One physician said L was diseased all through my
system, and he regretted that he could give me no
hope for alth. My suffering from indigestion was
food on my stomach, and the whole nature of my
food was broth from oatmeal.
/ also toek prescription from celebrated En-
glsh physcfnn. who said my trouble was Bronchitis
and Dyspepsia. | took Is bottles of medicine es-
pecially prepared for Dyspepsia and have used a
great deal OF medicine from apothecaries prescrip
tions ! have taken Ssrsparilla until you could
count the bottles by the dozen and indeed have
given nearly all the popular advertised medicine
fair trial. had dreadful cough, and did not
rage over hours sleep night for years.
brother policeman urged me to try Vegetine
but for long time refused, having got complete
ly discouraged from taking so much medicine with
out any benefit; however after urgent persuasion.
concluded to try it. and before had used one bot
tie could eat and hold on my stomach beefsteak.
a thing had not been able to do before for years
indeed, obtained more substantial benefit from the
first bottle Of Vegetine than from all other medi
cines which had taken. kept on improving. and
kept on using the yegetine, untl was perfectly
cured and able to do duty all day. eat and digest my
food, sleep well at night. and am now 40 pounds
heavier than l ever before in my life and am.
as think, living contradiction of the prophecies
of the most learned medical talent of New England
for with all of their combined wisdom they could
accomplish so much as that simple vegeta bic medi-
cine called Vegetine to which / am indebted for
health life and happiness.
EUGENE e. SULLIVAN,
367 Athens St., Police Station
SUFFOLK S., BosToN, Mass Nov. %, 1875.
Then personally appeared the above-named Eu-
gene E. Sullivan, and made oath that the foregoing
statement is true, before me,
HOSEA B. BOWEN.
Justice of the Peace
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

A eolored expounder of the Scriptures
recently created quite a furry among
some of the female portion of his con-
gregation by suddenly branching of in
this way Now, / want to say word
to de sisters. When you have washin'
to do somewhar, and you get done, just
you clean up and go right home, and
don't stan round lookin' whar you can
find little coffee. or a little sugar, or a
little something else to put into yo' pock-
cts. Go right home when you's done
wild dat washin."
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

RUNNING IN DEBT.-I dwell on this
point, for | would deter others from en-
tering that place of torment. Half the
young men in this country, with many
old enough to know better, would 90
into business-that is, into debt-to-
morrow, if they could. Most poor men
are so ignorant as to envy the merchant
or manufacturer, whose life is an iuces-
SAINT struggle with pecuniary difficulties,
who is driven to constant "shinning,"
and who, from month to month, barely
evades the insolvency which sooner or
later overtakes most men in business SO
that it has been computed that but one
man in twenty of them achieve a pecu-
mary success. Formy own part | would
rather be a convict in the state prison, a
slave in rice swamp, than to pass
through life under the harrow of debt.
Let no young man misjudge himself un-
fortunate, or truly poor, SO long as he
has the full use of his limbs and facul-
ties, and is substantially free from debt
Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, contempt,
suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagree
able, but debt is infinitely worse than
them all. And if it had pleased God to
spare either or all my sons to be the sup
port of my declining years, the lesson
which should most earnestly seek to
impress upon them, is "never run in
debt" Avoid pecuniary obligations as
you would pestilence or famine. If you
have but fifty cents and can get no more
for week, buy peck of corn, parch it,
and live on it rather than owe dollar !
OF course / know that some men must
do business that involves a risk, and
must give notes or other obligations, and
| do not consider him in debt who can
lay his hands directly on the means OF
paying, at some little sacrifice, all he
owes | speak of real debt-that which
involves risk or sacrifice ON one side, OBJ
legation and dependence on the other
and | say from all such, let every youth
humbly pray God to preserve him ever
more. Horace Greeley.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

The MOTHERS HoUK.-Of all hours
in the day, none is SO peculiarly and
sacredly the mothers hour as the one
which precedes the children going to
rest. Then let the mother take from
other duties little leisure to hear the
children's story of the day. Their troub-
les in school or their successes there,
their ambitions and their enterprises
all the little condolences of their hearts
will then be poured into the ear of
sympathizing mother. She can direct
their lives by judicious use of the power
she holds. Many child il led to the
Saviour, almost unconsciously. in these
twilight times, when he lisps his prayers
by his mothers knee.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21
Growing Old.

Do we notice how much more rapid.
ly each succeeding year seems to pass
away Can we remember how, in our
childhood, the term of year appeared
interminable, and we could compress in
to that great space almost any amount
of work and play2 But now we become
so engrossed that holy days and holidays
are alike invaded and after all is done
how much is left unfinished, and how
many schemes remain untried
" 1t is solemn thought connected
with middle life," says the late f. w.
Robertson, "that life's last business is
begun in earnest; and it is then, mid
way between the cradle and the grave,
that man begins to marvel that he let
the days of his youth go by so half en-
joyed. 1t is the pensive autumn feeling,
it is the sensation of half sadness that
we experienced when the longest day of
the year is past, and every day that fol-
lows is shorter, and the light fainter,
and the feebler shadows tell that nature
is Fastening with gigantic foot-step to
his wintry grave. So does man look
back upon his youth. When the first
gray hairs become visible, when the un-
welcome truth fastens itself upon the
mind that man is no longer going up
hill, but down, and that the sun is al
ways westering, 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 old age, and then home.
There is second youth for man, bet
ter and holier than the first, if he will
look up, and not look back"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

A Dutchman has put up in his store
a sign as nearly like his neighbor's as he
could remember, and it read i" If you
see what you want don't ask for il, and
the first customer who saw it waited till
the proprietors back was turned and
helped himself.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21
FURTHER PROOF.
FACTS WILL TELL.

II. R. STEVENS, ESQ
DEAR SrR.-Allow me to say a word in favor of
Vegetine. During the past year L have suffered
from a complication of diseases. lay in bed from
the Sd of November until the middle of the follow
ing June, and average did not sit up two hours
week / had eight of the best physicians in the
State but got no help. and constantly grew worse,
They agreed that had heart disease. phthisis, py
aemia, and kidney complaint. and could never be
any better. | was reduced in weight so pounds,
which is much. for am naturally thin.
In June, finding l was failing, under the treat
ment of phytieians, ! commenced the of VEG
ETINE. through the earnest persuasion of friends,
and, / am happy to state, with good results. have
gained pounds in weight and sit up all day.
walk half mile and ride six.
l am greatly encouraged and shall continue using
the Negetine if | can get it. l am poor man, but
for the truth of this statement refer to any in
Goffstown vicinity. Yours, very thankfully.
A, j, BURBECK,
Aug. !, 1875. Goffstown. n. II.
yegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

A TENDER HEARTED SPORTSMAN
Sportsmen in foreign lands, like Gordon
Cumming, are generally merciless in
their butchery of birds and beasts. But
an English officer in India tells how his
love of sport was completely destroyed,
in part by the influence of native
guide, who held animal life to be sacred,
and in part by the extraordinary affec-
ton of the animals for each other.
One day, when walking with his
guide, he shot one of pair of cranes
that flew up from the river.
"Stop," said the guide, "and see what
the mate will do"
He stopped and looked. The mate
alighted by the dead body, flew up, re-
turned, flew up again, returned again,
exhibiting both grief and affection, such
as the sportsman had never before dream
ed them capable of
"It," he says, penetrated me beyond
expression, as stood, half stolid out
wardly, and wholly ashamed and grieved
inwardly."
That night, while the guide was sleep
ing, the sportsman took his double-bar-
relied gun, dear to him from the service
of many years in England, and dropped
it, with all his ammunition, into deep
pool of the stream, where he had shot
the crane. He felt that the act was
kind of atonement for his thoughtless
murder.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

A little boy whose conduct made his
mother say she feared he did not pray
replied "Yes, do | pray, every
night, that God will make you and pa
like my ways better
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21
poetrY.
We Come and Go.

If you or
To day should die.
The birds would sing as sweet tomorrow
The yernal spring
Her flowers would bring,
And few would think Of us with sorrow.
Yes, he is dead,
Would then be said;
The corn would floss, the grass yield hay.
The cattle low,
And summer go,
And few would heed us pass away.
How soon we pass?
How few, alas
Remember those who turn to mould
Whose faces fade
With autumn's shade,
Beneath the sodded churchyard cold.
Yes. it is so-
We come, we GO
They hail our birth. they mourn us dead;
day or more.
The winter Ger,
Another takes our place instead,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21

Schoolmistress Johnny, m ashamed
of you. When | was your age / could
read as well as | can now" " Aw, but
you'd different teacher to what we've
got"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-04-21
Brilliants,

SUCCESS.
1t is success that colors all in life;
Success makes fools admired makes villains honest.
All the proud virtue of this vat nting world
Fawns on success and power howe'er acquired.
Thompson
RFsT.
Rest is not quitting
The busy career;
Rest is the fitting
Uf self to its sphere.
'Tis the brooks motion.
Clear without strife
Fleeing te ocean
After its life.
'Tis loving and serving
The Highest and Best
'ris onward, unswervingl
And that is true rest.
Goethe.
COMPENSATION
Not in each shell the diver brines to air,
Is found the priceless pearl but only whare,
Mangled and torn and bruised. well nigh to death.
The wounded oyster draws its laboring breath,
"! tried and suffering soul gauge here your gain
The pearl of patience is the fruit of pain,
ISsTANTANEoUs IMPRESSIONS.
Obi there are looks and tones that dart
An instant sunshine through the heart;
As If the soul that instant caught
Some treasure II through life had sought
As if the very lips and eyes
Predestines to have all our sighs,
And never be forgot again
Sparkled and spoke before then.
Moore.