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Why Editors Do Not suicide.

The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, in Z recent letter,
says: While speaking of suicides as a
feature IN human experience, am led
to the remarkable fact that editorial
life exhibits so general an exception.
While we have had instances of self
inflicted death among lawyers, bank
ers and mechanics, such a case has
not occurred among the journalists of
this city. One may reasonably In
quire what is the cause of this excep-
ton They labor intensely, and are
generally ill-paid. and they have a full
share of hfe's hardships, which they
endure until their change comes in
the course of nature. l can give no
other reason for. this except that the
profession is constantly busy, and
works with an approval of conscience,
since it labors for public veal. Edi-
tors, in fact, are SO occupied with q
range Of thought embracing public in
terest that they have little time to
think about themselves. Walter Scott
made the remark, after he had reach
ed bankruptcy, that nothing saved him
from insanity save his habit of writ
ing. His mind was thus led away
from the contemplation of his mise
ries. Journalists are SO engaged in
chronicling the woes of others that
they lose sight of their own.
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minutes he had cleaned out the place,
then shaking his fist in the air, he
reared out:
THAT boys mine, and no man can
abuse him TO my face and what's
more, he hain't got his equal on the
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Breaking Colts.


In tAe first place you cannot begin
too soon. When they are week old,
begin to handle them gently, to gain
their confidence. And as you handle
them, if there be a heart of man OF
boy in you, that heart will begin to
warm as the Tanimal yields his conf
dence, and INDUCES in his playful ma
ture. But never allow them to be
tricked or plagued, rs they can easily
be taught to be cross and spunky, as
well as kind and tractable. Next, put
cords on their necks and noses and
lead them gently about. Halters and
brides come next-exercising the ut
most kindness and patience. Colts are
not naturally balky or sullen, unless
they are taught it by bad management.
1t is much easier to handle and teach
a colt three months old than one three
years old. The lesson has to be taught
and always recollected. When by pa.
thence and kindness the colt has been
taught the use of the halter and bri-
die, then begin with the harness. 1t
is not important it should fit. The
collar first; press it against the Shout
DER. See that nothing is done in a
hurry or carelessly to brighten. Let
them smell of it, and satisfy them
selves that it viii not hurt them.
Sometimes these operations tickle
their tender skin. See that they are
not fretted thereby. When they are
used to the collar. put on gently more
of the harness. Press the collar against
the shoulder. When they get used to
this, take hold Of the tugs and pull
back gently while they are induced to
step forward. In all this operation
never get excited, and, above all,
never strike colt. All they need is
confidence, and to know what you de.
sire them to do. Naturally, they know
all they ought to. With their power,
did they know more, they would not
be such faithful and Obedient slaves.
A colt or horse, spoiled by bad man
agement or bad treatment, is ten times
as hard to make tractable and useful
rs to subdue and make useful a wild
horse from the pampas of the south
Whenever you see a tricky or balky
horse, there has been bad management.
There is a difference in the temper and
disposition of colts, but it is the duty
of the one TRAINING to study that tenn.
per and disposition, and proceed in
his operations accordingly. Acolt car
be so thoroughly trained by the time
he is three or six months old, that there
viii never after be any trouble in hav
ing him one of the kindest and most
tractable horses. But patience and
kindness are the means of teaching
directing and managing colts.
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Truth FOR wives.

ruin WAfE-s
1t is not every woman, or man
either, who will fully agree with the
sentiments expressed in the following
which we find in the Domestic Monthly;
still there is a great deal of truth in it,
and it may suggest other truths
equally as important; hence we recon-
mend it. especially to those contem-
plating matrimony
In domestic happiness, the wife's in
huence is much greater than her hus-
bands, for the one first cause-mutual
love and confdence-being granted,
the whole comfort of the household
depends upon trifles more Immediately
under her jurisdiction. BY her man.
agement of small sums, her husband s
responsibility and credit are erected
or destroyed. No fortune can stand
the constant leakage of extravaganza
ard Encouragement; and more is
spent in trihes than women would
easily believe. The one great expense,
whatever it may be, is turned over
and carefully reflected on, ere incurred;
the income is prepared to meet it; it
is pennies imperceptibly sliding away
which do mischief ; and this the wife
alone can stop, for it does not come
within a mans province. There is
often an unexpected triAe tc ne saved
in every household. 1t is not in econ
omy alone that wife's attention is so
necessary, but in those matters which
make a well regulated house. An I'M
finished cruet-stand, missing key, a
but,onless shirt, soiled table-cloth, a
mustard pot with its old contents
sticking hard and brown about it, are
really nothing but each can raise an
angry word or cause discomfort.
Depend upon it, there is great deal
of domestic happiness in a wen.dress-
ed mutton.chop, or a tidy breakfast
table. Men grow full of beauty, tired
of music, are often too wearied for
conversation, however intellectual, but
they can appreciate a well.swept
hearth and smiling comfort. A woman
may love her husband devotcdly-may
sacrifice fortune, friends, family,
country for him-she may have the
genius of a Sappho, the enchanted
beauties Of an Armida; but-melan-
choiy fact-if with these she fail to
make her home comfortable,
his heart will inevitable
escape her. And women live so
entirely in the affections that without
love their existence is void. Better
submit. then, to household tasks, how
ever repugnant they may be TO your
tastes, than doom yourself to a love-
less home. Women of IA higher order
of mind will not run this risk; they
know that their feminine, their do
nestle, are their first duties.
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One Way Of COLLECTING Subscriptions.

A barrister recently received aletter
from school board election agent TO
this effect: Sir arr deeply inter-
ested in procuring the return of Mr..
- for the board, and, knowing your
views upon educational matters, have
taken the liberty of putting your name
upon his committee. 1 have further
ventured to put Down your name as
subscriber of FIVE guineas toward his
expenses, and unless you notify me on
or before the -th that you do not con-
cur in these arrangements, | shall take
the further liberty of assuming that
you acquiesce IN them, and that may
look to you for the subscription record
ed to your name.
Tie barrister promptly replied.
f'SiT-I regret that cannot accept
the offer made by you to me in your
letter of yesterday. / may, however,
mention that | am deeply interested
in raising a fund to provide for the
necessities of adestitu te and deserving
widow lady. Knowing your charitable
disposition, have taken the liberty
CT putting down your name as sub
scTiber tor ten. guineas and since, bis
dat qui elto, | shall, unless hear from
you TO the contrary by midday to-mor-
row, venture TO assume that you accept
my Offices on your behalf, and that
may look to you for that amount of sub
scription."
Early the next morning there came
a messenger, in haste IN a cab, bear
/ inga letter from the agent, $50 sorry !;
but pressing calls D, on his purse for
I babe him TO accept Mr.. IS kind Of
/ fees
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HOW cLARK's go y. T." SPOOL COTTON oRIei
MATED

Until within few years, the great diff
Guilty to he overcome in the introduction OF
sewing machines, was the objections made
by manufacturers aud operators to the then
popular threads. These complaints were so
loud and well founded that the sale OF sewing
machines was greatly impeded on account
OF the impcssibility of obtaining thread
adapted to their use. Mr.. George a. Clark,
approaching the difficulty, introduced into
the American market the now famous Clark's
go. N To Spool Cotton all numbers being SIX
cord, from stO 100, which met the demand, did
away with all complaints, and long since es-
tabiished its reputation as the best thread IN
use tor sewing machines or hend sewing. TO
Mr. George A. Clark belongs the credit OF be-
ing the first to supply these fine quaint Is OF
Six Cord Spool Cotton with which his name
is associated. The thread is used and recon-
mended by agents OF the Singer, Wheeler x
Wilson, Grover & Baker, Domestic, Howe,
Florence, Weed, Wilson, Blees, Remington,
Secor, Home, Lathrop, and other sewing ma
chime companies. The superior quality Of
Clark's so. n. T." Spool Cotton soon secured
for it an immense sale, but with the great
popularity Of the goods came also counterieits
which made it necessary Tor the manufacture
ers to adopt a trade mark for their own and
the publIc's protection, and now upon every
genuine spool OF their thread is the follow
ing:
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DESTROYED BY FIRE.

They are fully insured. The Clark Thread
Company receive their insurance in cash from
their underwriters. They say to themselves:
Cuisines is dull, sales are uncertain, profits
are small, the future is unknown, and our
taxes are heavy. The vast business requires
close attention and persistent energy. We
will not take this meney and rebuild the
works, but adopt the plan pursued by most
moneyed men, viz: go to Washington, buy
government bonds, bring them home, put
them in tin box, pay no taxes, and sit down
to take our ease, eat, drink, and be merry,
with no thought OF care, supported in luxury
without risk by the interest on our bonds,paid
by taxation OF the producing classes" Can
any man calculate the widespread ruin which
would follow such calamity and course Ct
action by the Clark Thread Company? 1t
would be incalculable. All those people who
earned money to purchase what they wanted
to buy, would be added to the list of paupers
who to-day clamsr for work or bread. Misery,
want
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STARVATION AND CRIME

would be the fruit OF such course. But this
is exactly what has been done throughout the
country, Snd explains why one in twelve in
Newark are to-day supported by the city. The
productive capital of the country, which en-
ployed our now idle millions, has been pu'
INTO government bonds, and appalling desti.
tuition and want are ON every hand, and in
creasing at q fearful rate. Labor is the source
OF all wealth and prosperity, and there is no
loss equal to thar which follows enforced idle
ness of the producing classes. There is no
music so null OF JOY and peace and good will to
men as he song OF labor and the music DINA
ehinery Better far that all other songs be
hushed and every note be stilled, rather than
those. and to them we now introduce the
reader.
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REAL SOURCES OF WEALTH.

usually exhibited by the average politician.
Had it been some trust company or curb
stone broker that asked exemption, it would
probably have been granted. Some idea OF
the value OF these works to the community
may be had by an illustration of thing
which might really happen at any time.
The Clark Thread Company employ, as stated,
about fifteen hundred persons, paying ont to
them sixteen to twenty thousand dollars every
two weeks. These hundreds of hands pay
out that money to the butcher, the baker, the
grocer, the clothier, the dry goods merchant,
and all who have anything to sell get part
of it in some way, either directly or indirect
ly. From their hands it goes to pay debts,
meet obligations and Gil the channels Of trade
with the circulating medium called money,
and which is to business what blood is to
the human system, giving it life, animation
and power. Suppose tonight those works
were
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-03-22

A bullet fred by hunter in Texas
struck the surface of the lake at con-
siderable distance. glanced upward
and wounded girl who was walking
on a hill beyond. This is a Texas
story and like that state is a little
wild.
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BIGGEST PAIR OF TWINS

in New Jersey. They are supplied with steam
from nine immense tubular boilers and four
large upright boilers, Corliss' plan. They
consume twenty-five tons OF coal per day,
which will give some idea of the amount of
steam necessary to drive the immense estab-
lishment. Besides these there are three or
binary sized engines, made by Watts, Camp
bell & Co., OF Newark in different parts ofthe
works, making seven in all, grand total OF
nearly fourteen hundred horse power. The
young mountain OF coal, which looks enough
to last the whole city year, is rebuilt by
two hundred and fifty ton boat loads, at brief
intervals.
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Competition is the life of trade.
Since Prof. Tice started in the BUSH
ness out West, weather is becoming
more plentiful and much cheaper.
ST, p. S.U. ~. y.
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of the Clark Thread Company, which is five
hundred feet long, is a mountain oil two or
three thousand tons of coal, drawn out OF
boats at the wharf by donkey engine, and
the bales OF cotton find their way from the
same wharf to the brick house, tor the storage
OF that precious material, one pound OF which
will make one hundred miles of thread, con-
tanning about forty two million doublings.
The mind cannot grasp the numerical TACT.
But tour grades OF cotton are ordinarily used
in the manufacture of Clark's so. N. T."
Spool Cotton, and known as ''Sea Island Cot
ton" This comes principally from South
Carolina and IS grown on the small islands
along the coast Considerable is raised on the
peninsulas and around the bays and inlets,
but it is not equal to that of the sea islands,
which is the finest in the world. The first
bag of this sea island cotton Of the crop OF
1876 Was purchased by the Clark Thread Com
pany at fifty cents per pound. The inland
cotton is not used in the manufacture OF
thread, being too short in the fibre. On these
sea islands were the richest planters OF the
South in
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The Process Of Manufacturer
Particulars

From the Essex County Press, Newark n. J.
at the loot OF Clark street, in the Eighth
ward of the city of Newark, on the banks OF
tina Passaic, occupying several acres of ground
upon which are buildings the flooring OF
which measures nearly eight acres, are situ-
ated the largest thread works in the New
World, employing about fifteen hundred
hands and paying out every two weeks from
sixteen to twenty thousand dollars in wages,
to be distributed by the employees among
different classes and occupations in the city,
and from fifteen to twenty thousand per month
to other parties here, who in various ways,
are connected with this vast establishment.
Although having the largest pay roll of any
employers in New Jersey, and contributing
more TO the welfare and prosperity OF the city
than all its financial institutions combined,
we hear less in the newspapers of this world
of wealth makers than OF some seeond-elass
Imoney-lending shop on Broad street. 1t would
be useless for any one to attempt to trace to
their source all the varied industries which
have entered into the production Of Clark's
go N. T." Spool Cotton, which is sold by
every merchant dealing in dry goods, fancy
goods, hosiery, notions, etc. in the United
OldbcE, allO CuutulIS bWO JStiuo VI
that indispensable article, strong, smooth and
beautiful. 1t is made up OF
NEARLY FoRTY-Two MILLION DoUBLISGs,
and yet is so fine as to be hardly visible a
few inches from the naked eye. The i'm
mense capital invested in The Clark Thread
lCompany's Works and the vast volume OF
business, amounting to several millions per
Iannum, extending to every part of the United
States, is one of the principal sources of
Newark's prosperity. What it is and the
blessings which flow from it, are not realized
by one in thousand ofthe peopl, who dwell
within the sound of their tower bell. Not
withstanding the large amount OF money
which the establishment was to pour into the
hands OF every merchant and trader in the
city, as events have shown, the first thing the
City Fathers did when these works were be-
ing erected was to tax the bricks and material
not yet shaped into buildings. 1t was not on
par with the intelligence and appreciation OF
the
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TIE OLD SLAVE DAYS,

many of them having as high as six hundred
slaves, and compared with whom the teuda
lords Of England were children in luxury,
hospitality, and elegance. But to-day all IS
changed. Those vast estates are cut mp into
suEall plantaticzs, many OF them owned %
the negroes, who now cali no man master.
They bring in their seasons product, some
times on mule and again in large quantities.
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The number of feet OF draft when one
Mound al cotton undergoes is one trillion,
seven hundred and seventy-two billion,
three hundred and twenty million, six hun
dred and thirty five thousand, six hundred
feet. or statsd in figures, l,T72, So, 655, 60O,
distance OF as, 477, 582K mics. The follow
ing demonstrates the apparently incrediple
statement: The web OF cotton from wnicn
this immense length of thread Is drawn is
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from which cans they are passed through
rollers. then twisted to about the size OF
lead pencil, and wound bobbins, all by the
same machine From this they go to the
second slubbing frame, where one hundred
and two spindles on each machine are wind
ing warn from two hundred and tour bobbins,
which came from the first slut bier, two threads
being wound upon one spool. The next or
intermediate sluhbing machine winds upon
one hundred AM seyenty-six spools, from
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{ love 70 TecIize By the dashing I'll,
Where the foam and the bubbles glide
Deer its face, as i springs from the hill,
Or leaps IRON the mOuntain-sids.
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The Life Beyond.

In itself, and merely tor itself, death
need not be terrible, and often is not.
But it is the light Of the higher life in
Christ which alone glorities it. And
unless this light has sunk into oar
hearts, l know not whence hope can
reach us. We may be resigned OIL
peaceful. We may accept the newt.
able with u calm front. We may be
even glad to be done with the strug
gle of existence, and leave our name
to be forgotten and our work to be
done by others. We may be able to
say to ourselves, if not in the sense OF
St. Paul. have fought good
fight, l have finished my course'-l
am ready TO lie down and die and
cease to be, if this is my fate. But IN
such a mood of mind there is no
cheertulness, no spring Of hope. With
such thought st. Paul would neisher
comfort himself or content the Thessa-
lonians. Nay, Tor himself he felt that
he would be intensely miserable if he
had only such thought. eff in this
life only we have hope in Christ, we
are OF all men most miserable. ."-1M-
locHs "Religion and Life"
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Why They Often Fail.

Yourg men often tail to get on in
this world because they neglect small
opportunities. Not being faithful in
little things, they are not promoted to
the charge Of greater things.
A young man who gets q subordi-
nate situation sometimes thinks it is
not necessary for him to give it much
attention. He will wait till be gets
place of responsibility, and then he
will show people what he can do.
Thisls very great mistake, Whatever
his situation may be, he should master
it in all its details, and perform all its
duties faithfully.
The habit Of doing his work thor
oushly and conscientiously is what is
most likely to enable a young man to
make his way. With the habit, per-
son OF only ordinary abilities would
outstrip one Of greater talents who is
in the habit Of sighting subordinate
matters.
But, after all, the mere adoption by
a young man of this great essential
rule of success shows him % be pos
sessed Of superior abilities. True Cit.
izen.
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WHOLE NO. 1929
BE NEIGHBORLY.

"A few genial, nelghborly, kindheart-
ed citizens will trans' form gloomy
village into an earthly paradise. Self
ishness is apt to color even our
thoughts, and he who begrudges kind
words and pleasant smiles is mlser.
The happiness and comfort of each in
dividual member Of society is so thor
oughly dependent on the bearing and
disposition Of his neighbors that it be-
comes at once the duty, as it is tae
pleasure, of each person, 10 strive to
contribute his quota of generous feel
Jugs and considerate actions TO the
common fund of human happiness. TO
be pleasant, neighbory, good natured,
is not necessarily connected with an
outlay of money; sympathetic look,
an encouraging word will often accom-
plish far higher mission than dollar
bill could hope to reach. A hearty
shaking Of the hand and frank "good
morning, sir" awaken kindly feeling
that the clink of silver dollars would
quickly dissipate. One who is suffer
ing from pain or writbing under mis-
fortune receives vastly more comfort
from a nelghbor's kindly offices and
generous sympathies, than any pecuni-
ary gift could bestow. Society itself is
held together by the mutual forbear-
ance and consideration for the rights
Of others, cities, villages and neigbbor-
hoods would be impossibllities, since
peace could only beprocured by widely
separating the contending factions.
Aside from the satisfying and elevat-
ing influence of neighborly acts of
kindness and social enjoyment, aside
from the quiet, peaceful atmosphere of
an unselfish se!fsacriticing community
such qualities have mercenary value.
Value of real estate, desirability OF
certain localities for residence. depend
largely upon the reputation of the com
munity for generous and commeudable
neighborly qualities; and even public
spirit, as asserted in good schools,
churches, parks, roads and public
works, has its origin in an enlarged
ncighborly feeling, desire to see all
about us the comforts and inestimable
blessings of happy, pleasant homes.
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