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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
Gut of Work.

There are always some persons
who are most of the time out of en-
ployment. One reason is that they
are not willing to begin at the foot
of the ladder. They want to start
with high wages, and disdain the
slow work of climbing up. A wo-.
man who seemed anxious to main
tain herself and two children called
the other day upon a sewing ma
chine operator. She watched the
busy fingers fold and arrange the
cloth, and steady it as it passed
through the clicking process for
some time, then said: GLOW much
do you earn day ?"
"About $3."
"That is good pay; if 1 could make
So day, | would go into the busi-
ness. But | don't see how you do it;
tried it once, but l found l made
but forty cents a day, so l gave it
up"
"Well you earned more than 1
did on the start, for / made but thir-
ty-fve cents. So l persevered, AMI
every day l earned little more, till
by the time l had paid for the i'm
provement, found was doing very
well. What are you doing now"
'Nothing. l have been looking
around, but haven't found anything
to suit me-"
"But how do you get along2 My
children would starve if 1 did not
keep at work"
"Well, manage some how. We
always have something to eat. l
can't say we live on the fat of tho
land, for we are frequently reduced
to mush and molasses, but hope to
do better by and by. have tired
ever so many things, but won't
work unless l get good pay"
Was fate against this woman, as
she sometimes averred, or was it
her own lack of perseverance, that
kept her walking the streets in
search of employment?
A few years ago we were acquaint-
ed with two persons who were out
of business. One was lad of six
teen, the other a man of thirty.
Both tried for some time to get
work of the kind they were accus-
toned to do, but both failed. The
boy after three weeks of idleness,
concluded that if he could not do
what he would he must do what he
could, and he went out one morning
determined to find work of some
kind. Before noon he had engaged
as day laborer on the road to shov-
el sand at fifteen dollars a month.
Beng unused to manual labor, his
hands and feet became blistered,
and he came home every night COM
pletely exhausted. But he perse-
vered for six weeks, until the job
was finished, and then taking his
e1rnings he went to another town
where he soon found more congeni-
al employment.
The man hung round the city for
weeks and months. He had but lit
tie means, and that little soon dwin-
died away. He was offered situa-
ton after situation, but he disdained
to work unless he could have "big
thing" as he expressed it. His clothes
grew shabby, and he ran in debt at
bis tailor's; his board bill becam e
| due. and he borrowrd money
as long as he could find any
person willing to lend, scme of it
coming from the pockets of hard
working men upon whom he looked
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

WENDELL PHILLIPS ON THE DAN
GERS OF THE REPUBLIC.-I appre-
hend two great dangers to the Re-
public in the coming century. The
first is the power Of incorporated
wealth. l see that it is indispenably
necessary for the management of
great enterprises, but how shall you
preserve the independence of the
legislatures against its influence {?
The whisky ring, the railroad
ring and all the gigantic rings sit
at Washington and enact laws. The
other great danger is the govern
ment Of cities. All the. 10th centa-
ry has been consolidated into the
great cities. All civilization, enter
prise aud journalism, is concentrated
in the great cities. Europe can gov
ern cities on the principle of despot-
ism; but we have never governed a
city. All our governments in every
large city from the Atlantic to the
Pacific are elected by the criminal
classes. The government has failed
in New York, in San Francisco, in
New Orleans, and Boston is failing.
No man can analyze the elements
that go to make up Boston and CT
pher cut any other result. Mayor
Cobb knows that if he should exc
cute any law, license or otherwise,
it would be political suicide. The
open liquor shops make my taxes
heavy, and they make murder twice
as likely to occur, and, having set
tied that, l want to hiring the great
police power of the government to
bear on them.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
Sforing Potaroes.

There seems to be various opinions
as TO which is the better system of
mapagement with potatoes-Eheth-
er to Keep them in the cellar when
dug early or to store them in some
ont-building until cold weather and
then take the crop to the cellar. As
some cellars are exceedingly damp
and even wet and muddy, while otA-
ers are dry and airy, one must know
the condition of the cellar before he
will be competent to judge as to the
probability of potatoes keeping sat
isfactorily when dug early. Circum-
stances and conditions viii alter cases
materially.
A writer in the New England Far
mer, Boston, says that by many cal-
tisators of this crop it is thought
that potatoes viii not keep we'll in
the cellar if dug early. This is
mistake, provided they are ripe. We
have raised early potatoes for sever
al yeals because they could be har-
vested early and the ground sown to
grass in season to get well establish
ed before winter, We have dug the
whole crop in August, and found no
trouble about keeping than well in
the cellar. One year, finding they
were being seriously injured by the
grub, we dug them while the vines
were green and the tubers little un,
der ripe, and they kept as sound
and bright as any potatoes we ever
harvested. Ifthere is any rot among
them they had better lie in the
gronud till the rotten ones can be
distinguished from those which are
sound. Rotten potatoes should new
er be carried into the cellar at any
time of wear. Better let them decay
in the field, WI ere they will be worth
asmuch for fertilizer as they are
for feeding TO cattle.
The writer once dug his potatoes
early, stored them In Ru airy and dry
basement of the workshop, covering
them with boards and canvas to ex-
clude the light But the air and
light injured them materially. Light
is ruinous to potatoes. As they grow
in the dark, they must be Kept in
the dark, and be shielded from cur
rents of air.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

or any of the anilline colors may be
employed.
Celluloid is hard and elastic, rang
ing in hardness from that of iron to
ivory. It is as tough as whalebone,
elasticity being one of its most prom
ihent characteristics. In this res
pect it greatly exceeds ivory. 1t
makes good insulators for knobs of
telegraphic instruments, for insulat-
ing posts for electrical machines,
and for telegraphic wires as al
though a good non conductor it is
not percehtibly electric. 1t is well
adapted to the manufacture of
combs, and is largely used in the
preparation of dental plates, as 1t
can be made of precisely the color
of the plate and gums. At temp
erature of 25O deg to 800 deg it
can be moulded into any desired
form. Several companies have been
started for the manufacture of diff
ferent objects from ceIlulold two
in Newark, and several others in
Philadelphia, New York, and else
where.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

FORNEY ON BLAINE.--I have Of
ten heard Henry Clay described,
when he marshaled his party in the
House of Representatives. both be-
fore and after he was speaker-his
brilliant dogmatism, bis powerful
rhetoric, and the fascination of his
man3er; and can well imagine
Blaine during the present Congress,
with all his own rare advantages,
mental and physical, as a fair like
ness of the great whig statesman
who lorded it in the National Legis-
lature between fifty and sixty years
sago. 1t is said of Blaine, with truth,
that he has all the requirements for
the first Office in the gift of the pee
pie. He is fine scholar, a superb
organizer, and [ do not know any
where a better writer or speaker
He is temperate and good tempered,
full of humor, natural statesman,
and genuine good fellow. Add to
this he is full of pluck, as everybody
recollects, when he dressed off Ros-
coe Conkling IN the celebrated con-
troversy, few years ago, with that
Sir LOTUS, now of the Senate; and a
still more memorable and recent in
stance, when he took issue with the
Administration on the Louisiana
question. 1t deserves to be said of
Blaine that he is not a coy candi-
date for President. 1t is an honor
able aspiration, and he INDUCES it
like a man; and if he gets the nOmi-
nationahe will arouse Young Ameri-
ca from Canada to California, and
put a rapture in the strife that viii
once more make the public heart
throb with JOY under a great intel
lectual leadership.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

A SUBSTITUTE FOR IvoRY.-A sub
stance under the name of celluloid,
the invention of Mr.. Hyatt of Albany,
originally intended as substitute
for ivory in the manufacture of bill
lard balls, possesses qualities which
render it applicable to great varie-
ty of manufactures. AS originally
prepared it consisted of combina
ton of soluble cotton and ether or
alcohol, but ii was subsequently as
certained that still more satisfac-
tory result could be obtained by the
addition oScamphor to the alcohol ;
and, finally, camphor alone was
mixcd with the ground cotton pulp,
which hardens in drying and becomes
"celluloid." This substance--which
is maintained by the inventor to be
truly chemical compound and not a
mechanical mixture--can be colored
IN any way desired. he varying
degrees of solidity and fiexibillty re-
quired are obtained by the different
proportions of the camphor. The
substance is naturally of pale am
ber color, but may be made of any
tint by the application of mineral
pigments or dyes soluble in alcohol,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

sayin to my old woman the other
day, if We Mississippi folks got our
cookin' aud washin' done up North
and sent by express we'd be as hap
py as ofice-holders.
Your horse in the lead there seems
to be lame.
Yes, needs shoein'. If he wasn't
the only horse I've got, and [ can't
spare him, I'd send him up where
they made the horse shoes and nails
and get him shod. Can't get such
thing dontin our parts. Perhaps
can at the depot.
How do you manage 10 live in
your parts, nv old friend?
Why, we raise cotton. My road
turns off here, stranger. Gee, Ball,
back Brandy. Pm glad ] seed you
strauUer.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
~Never Nan spake Like This Ham,,


Never was truth made so vital a,
when it fell from the lips of Jesus
1t was no novelty in Jesus to cal
God His Father. The word had
been used before often enough. Bul
the world, by all its wisdom, had
not learned to know God as its Faith.
er. Now, little children, by the
side of their small cribs, say in in.
fantile trust: "Our Father, who
art in heaven" and the martyr at
the stake cries out in assured faith;
"Father, into Thy hands | commend
my spirit" Jesus, because He was
yitally conscious of the Fathers love,
has made mankind also conscious of
it. $40 them who believe in Him,
to them gave He power to become
the SONS of God" 1t was no novelty
when Jesus taught men to overcome
evil with good, to bless those who
cursed them, love those who hated
them. The thing had been said be-
fore but now it was done. Now it
was said and done so livingIy that
it was not a mere faroff ideal but a
commonplace fact, an actual event
in human life, safe rule to 90 by.
To tell of future life was no novel
ty. The Egyptians taught future
life in all its minutest details. Near
ly every ancient nation believed in
immortality. And yet it is true
that ''life and immortality were
brought to light by the Gospel" Be-
fore they were vague possibilities,
dim cojectures. But he who believes
in Jesus has eternal life abiding in
him. Faith in Immortality becomes
a. part of the texture of his soul, as
it was a part of the texture of the
soul of Jesus Himself. He was the
Immortality, the resurrection, the
eternal life. He did not prove it by
elaborate but unconyincing argu-
ments, as Socrates in the Ph@do
nobly argued for it, expectant of
death, amid the laurels an myrtles
+ of an Athenian summer day. But
Jesus was full of that immortal life
which dispels all images of decay,
and puts death at an impossible dis
lance. These vital truths are the
deepest, and also the highest. They
have characterof the infinite about
them. Who. has not noticed
this IN reading the words of Jesus?
No commentary ever exhaustS their
meaning. The words grow more
luminous, their meaning deepens
while / am thinking about them.
That is why Paul spekas of the
breadth and length and depth and
height of the love OF Christ, the
knowledge of which "passeth knowl-
edge" That which is vital is in
exhausible. We eat and drink and
come again, and the banquet is
still spread, new, every morning,
with daily bread for the soul.
James Freeman Clarke.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. knowles.


Thirty years ag. young wag who
I had made 'going, gone" " his profess
sion-a great favorite among the
knights of the buskin and all good
fellows, besides being chosen favor
ite among the ladies, was once mount
ed, hammer in hand, sellinga piece
of furniture. He was conversant
with all the bestdramatic productions
of the day, and among the rest
'Hunchback," then the rage of Bos-
ton, where the joke occurred. Fan
ny Kemble was at that time delight
ing the town with her Julia, and
every body was well acquainted with
the celebrated lines
''Il ford, why don't you speak to me?
o, Clifford. is il you, etc!''
which are ranked among the favor
ite points of the play. "Going, going
last call-fifty-two-any more p
fifty-tlree, thank you, sir-fifty-three
dollars-lasC call-once, twice, any
more?-g gone! Who is it?" There
was pause and nobody answered.
"Who is it? who bid fifty-three?"
"Clifford," cried a voice near the
do3r. 80, Clifford, is it yoa's" ex-
CLAIMED the anctioneer, dropping his
hammer. and elasping his hands la
Fanny Kemble. The joke was ir-
resistible ;severybody recognize / it /;
and catching the spirit of the thing,
the audience followed up the ecstacy
of laughter with three rounds of APP
plause, while the auctioneer drew
out a handkerchief III burlesque i'm
itation OF Miss Fanny. "Clifford,
did you say, sir? Clifford" said
the auctioneer, when the merriment
had subsided. 'is it cash, sir ?" Cliff
ford, the purchaser, it seems, was
bashful person, unacquainted with
theatrical things, and had become
somewhat alarmed at the uncontroll-
able good humor of the crowd, so
he was afraid TO open his lips again
lest he should excite another burst
of fun. ''Is it cash, sir?" again in
quired the auctioneer. All eyes were
turned upon Clifford, who looked
very much as if he felt his mother
might be anxious about him. The
merry auctioneer would rather lose
his customer than his joke and ex-
claimed, still initiating the fiery
eyed Fanny
Clifford why don't you speak to mef''
The assembly now fairly screamed
with laughter; and amid au uproar-
ious burst of applause, Clifford made
precipitate rush for the door and
escaped.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
LAKE. SHORE &mIcHTGAN SOUTH.
ERN u. 70.

ERN u. R.
eoIEG wEsF
Special Michigan Express leaves Buffalo, al 06
p. n. Erie II as, Girsrd IL % A. N, Conneaut
f2 90, AsHTABULA q. Painesville 1d. and reach
es Cleveland at 26 A. N,
Special Chicago Express leaves Buffalo at 12 45
A. NJ. Erie IS Girard a. 4 az, AsHTABULA 50,
Painesyflie sa. and reaches Cleveland 80 A. NJ.
ConneeHt Accommodation leaves conneaut at
8 O5 A. N. Amboy -, KiugsYiue II, AaHTABU-
LA "a. Saybrook q 45. Geneva IS, PainesYille
Is, and reaches Cleveland st ASP. N.
Toledo Express leaves Buffalo at 555 A. NJ,
krle 8 50. GiFeFd 10 25. Couneaut 10 So, Amboy
luz kiHesvile, II 10, AsHTABULkl II %, Saybrook
II u, Geneva II 45. Painesville l2 20 p NJ. and
reaches Cleveland at 40 P. n,
Pacific Express leaves Buffalo at y 10 ?, M,s
Erie Erie az 80, Girard %. AsHTABULA 8 20, Fatnes-
GOING EAST.
Atlantic Express leaves Cleveland at TsO AM.
f6aalnesEiie e, AsaTARUIA a10, Conneaui 33,
Pm, - ~
Toledo and Buffalo Accommodation leaves clev,e
land at II 10 A. NJ. Painesvllle u SI P N. Geneva
I 0S, SHybrook II, AsHTABULA ! al RipesvilIe
! a, Amboy 80. Conneaut 2 90. GiraTd 81 Erie
8 10 and reaches Buffalo az 7Q0PM,
Chicago and ST Louis Express leaves Cleveland
at so P ii, PalpesVtlle 4 I'd. AsHFAAULA 3d. CT
rard 5 4h, EFie a1a reaching Buffalo At Is NJ .
CoBneaat Accommodation leaves Cleveland at
50 P NJ, Painesviile 05. Geneva a., Saybrook
8 IS. AsHTARuLG 05 Kingsville p, Amboy 81,
and reaches ConneaUt At "a NJ.
Special New York Express leaves Cleveland at
8 as N, PainesYille 10 4S. AsHTABULA II Al, Erie
10, A n, aud reaches Buffalo at Us M.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

LARGE FAMILIES.-The editor of
Brupswiek (Me.) Telegraph has been
investigating the matter of the size
of some of the French Canadian fam
lies empIoyedin the mills in that
place and gives few Of the facts he
has ascertained. He sayss @There
is a family at work in the cotton
mild which consists of father and
mother apd twenty-four children, all
the children being large enough to
work. The woman is the fourth
wife. A brother of the husband
living with his fifth wife in Montre-
al, has twenty-five children. Three
families arrived here last week to
work in the mill, and they number,
all told, thirty-seyen person. A Ia
dy friend of ours a few days since
met a French woman, who, looking
at the babe in the carriage, said to
our friend, 4 have got fifteen of
those, The only possible reply of
the lady with the one babe was
'Gracious!' Ten, and twelve, and fif-
teen children are by no means un-
common in the French Canadian
families, but twenty-fouF is little
above the average"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
QUICK LINE!

THE Kiln of Vim. Humphrey, near
the L. 6. Station, having been taken by the
subscriber and the fires started for the season, the
public viii be accommodated in quantities TO suit
their wants, on application at the Kiln. or al The
NIGHT AND DAY STORE
nearly opposite. Prices will range sa low ~ at
any other establishment IN tewH or elsewhere;
AshiabuIa, ARFil aeth 1877 19Gstf
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
A Romantic wedding Ending In DE-.
SerltOu.

The Springfield Republican serves
up the details of the recent elope-
ment from West Stockbridge, which
occasioned such a sensation in
Western Massachusetts. The name
of the rascal in the affair was Fred
erick Adolphus Won Rupprecht, son
.of the late Baron Won Rupprecht,
of Munich. He. was remarkably
brilliant as young man, graduating
with honor at the German Military
Academy in 1859, but deserted from
his corps the next year and sailed
for New Y.rk. Here, when his
funds were gone, he changed his
name to Carl Sehurz, and enlisted in
our Army, being stationed at San
Antonio, Texas, and subsequently
promoted to sergeant; but in April,
1875 be was mustered out through
the infrence of the German Minis
ter. In the July following Schurz
advertised in the WaUerLy Maga-
zine, for young lady correspondents,
and SO became acquainted with Miss
Ida Gone, Of West Stockbridge, an
adopted daughter of Franklin Cone.
In September he visited her making
a most agreeable impression by his
culture and gentlemanly qualities
upon the West Stockbridge people;
then he went to Albany and finally
enlisted again, and was detailed for
Office duty; the while he correspond
ed with Miss Cone, writing in Greek
when he thought other parties were
reading his letters, and made him
self conspicuous as a Christian
young man. About the first of No
vember he borrowed a suit of clothes
from a secondhand dealer; with all
the money he could get, and went
to Berkshire for a bride. He return
ed to Albany with Miss Cone, and
the pair were married. The happy
couple then returned to West Stock
bridge, and thence to New York, in
tending to sail for Vienna After
spending a fortnight at Hoboken
hotel, and just before the bill was to
be presented, Won Rupprecht, or
Schurz, took his wife's trunks to
have them inspected and stored on
board the steamer; also her watch
and chain to be repaired, her dia-
mond ring to be cleaned, &c, and
sailed for Bremen, December i, and
the deserted wife was left to find
her way home as best she might. In
vestigation by the proper authorities
showed that the trunks were marked
Baroness Won Rupprecht, care of
Baron Augustus Won Rupprecht,
Augsburg"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

COUSIN ARKIE.



Have you ever seen her,
With her merry smile,
And her eifeyes looking
Innocent the whileg
Spriehtly is her figure,
Arkie is her name,
And it seems no other
Would slit hef just the same.
Oval Is, the outline
OF her happy lace;
Auburn is the coior
That her hair doth grace;
Restive is her nature
As the sporiive fawn,
That gambols DER The highlands
From daylight's earliest dawn.
Tripping is her football,
Olive her complexion;
Second cousin to us here,
Is her near connection;
Rippling is her laughter,
Turn up, slight, her nose
And it doth become her.
As the blush he rose.
Pleasant is her mouth, tho,
A dimple in each check
Like music of the waters,
Itseems to hear her speak;
Glorious independence
She is an emblem Of
Graceful, untamed childhood.
Given us 10 love.
Just as Cute was given her
Her kittY's name, you know
And when it died. she told US
Because she loved 1t So
She dug for it little grave,
And buried it with care,
Where birds will sing and flowers wave
When comes the springtime fair.
1fyou've never seen her,
May be sometime you W i'll,
For here and ihere-mosi anywhere-
She's scarce moment still
But learn her name is Arkie,
And then with what I've said.
You'll surely know her sunny poll
From every other head
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

Strains stop only on Signal xTrains do not
Stop. zTelegraph Stations. Cleveland Time.
Passenger fare at the rate Of cents per mile
to way stations counted in even half dimes.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

Al trains daily. except Sunday.
FIR. MYERS. Gen. Pass. Ticket Agent.
LIS. &M. M.S.-FRANKLIN DIVISION
From and after Nov. 81, 1875, Passenger Trains
will run as Eollows:
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
Peter PutOE.

l know a little boy whose rea
name we will say is Peter Parsons;
but the boys call him Peter Putoff,
because he has such a way of put
ting off both business and pleasure.
lie can learn his lessons well, but
he is almost always at the bottom of
his class, because he has put,of
learning his lessons from one hour
to another until it is too late. He
can walk or run as fast as any boy
in town; but if he is sent on an err
rand the errand never gets done in
season, because he puts off starting
from one minute to another; and for
the same reason he is almost always
late at school, because he can never
be made to see that it is drawing
near to 9 o'clock.
If letters are given him to post,
they never get in 1sin time for the
mail; and if he is to go away by the
boat or train, the whole family has
to exert itself to hurry Peter out of
the house, lest he should defer start
ing until the hour be past.
He procrastinates in his play as in
his work. He puts off reading his
library book till it is time to send
it back; he waits to join the game
until it is too late, and generally
comes up little behindhand for ev-
erything from Monday morning till
Saturday night, and then begins the
new week by being too late for
church and Sunday-school. Peter
is quite conscious of his own fault,
and means to reform some time; but
he puts off the date of reformation
so constantly that l fear manhood
aud old age, which do not know how
to put off their seasons, will over
take this boy and find him still only
too worthy of the name of Peter
Putoff. = Child's World.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

The Committee, of which Mr..
Horace White is Chairman, having
In charge the erection of q monu-
ment to Elijah P. LoveiOy at Alton,
m net in Chicago a few days ago
and appointed committeeto devise
a plan and cost Of a moumcnt.