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The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

JAY GoULp.-Jay Gould IS na tive of Roxburry, Delaware county New York, where his father and mother still live on small hill farm In 1855 Gould then about twenty one years old, was still a clerk in Burnham's store in Roxbury. In 1856 he rolled a wheel barrow Dele ware county as Surveyor, making a map, copied from Burr's old map with corrections as to the boundaries and the names oi the owners of property. During tha, time he teok subscriptions and sold a large number of his maps at $5 each; but when they were delivered they were so wretchedlv gotten uI that Gould was Utterly cursel out ol Delaware county. He then went te Pennsylvania, where he took charge of tannerry for Gen. Zadoch Pratt He remained in that situation. fol three years, until affairs got in such a condition that his associates paid him $50,000 to leave. With this in hand he came to New York, married the daughter of the President of one the minor New England railroads, and entered on his career in Wal street.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

Each man is created q sociable being, and we find him today, (with- out stopping to inquire into the why and wherefore of said creation an atom of a vast social system. As such he has his duties and responsi- bilities. They are multiplex and varied, and upon the manner in which he discharges them depends his own happiness, the happiness oi those closely related to him, and, to some extent, the peace and comfort ot society in general. In this won derful social compact, it would like wise seem that one pipe or reed or key of the grand organs which make melody in our churches from week to week might be spared, with out the loss being felt, and yet their disarrangement would have most serious effect upon the desired har- monies. l. is thus in the life of men. A single person can create social discord, whether he has an admitted influence to some degree, and while this is the case there is no use of attempting to escape responsi- biity; to, avoid our moral obli- gations; our duties to our fellow man.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

TIME.-Ninety years hence not a single man or woman now twenty years of age will be alive. Twenty years! alas. how many of the lively actors at present on the stage of life will make their exit long ere ninety years shall have rolled away! and could we be sure of ninety years, what arc they? "A tale that is told" a dream, an empty sound, that pas seth on the wings of the wind away, and is forgotten. Years shorten as man advances Tn age. Like tine de- grees of latitude, mans life declines as he travels toward the frozen pole, until It dwindles to point and van ishes forever. Is it possible that life is of so short duration? Will ninety years erase all the golden names over the doors ill town and country, and substitute others in their stead? Will all the now bloom ing beauties fade and disappear, all the pride and passion, the love, hopes and joys pass away in ninety years and be forgotten? "Ninety yearsY' says death; do you think l shall wait ninety years? Behold to- day and tomorrow and every day is mine." When ninety years are past this generation will have mingled with the dust and be remembered not.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13
SMALL MEANs.-We think tha

SMALL MEANs.-We think that the power of money is on the whole over estimated. The greatest things which were done for the world have not been accomplished by rich men, or by subscription lists, but by men generally of small pecuniary means, The greatest thinkers, discoverers, inventors and artists have been men of moderate means, many of them little raised above the condition ot manual laborers in point of worldly circumstances. And it will always be so. Riches are oftener an imped- iment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much misfortune as a blessing. The youth who inherits wealth is apt to have made life too easy for him, and so grows sated with it, be- cause he has nothing left to desire. Having no special object to struggle for, he finds time too heavily on his hands, remains mentally and moral ly asleep, and his position in society is often no higher than that of a polypsus over which the tide floats.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

Yell Co.,: D. G. Brcarly, living near town, brought us four stalks ol corn on Friday last, all grown in one hill; the tallest stalk is sixteen feet and the shortest fourteen feet long. On the four stalks are eight full ears, of good size and length. The corn is out of field of five acres planted the 10th of June, and now we'll matured; the land has been in cultivation over forty years on winch it was grown, and has never been manured, and grew only six bushels of wheat per acre last year. Can anybody show better specimen out of their regular crop?-Arkansian.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

STARTING IN THE WoRLD.-Many an unwise parent labors hard and lives sparingly all his life, for the purpose of leaving enough to give his children start in the world, as it is called. Setting a young man ahoat with money left him by his relatives is like tying bladders un- ner the arms of one who cannot swim; ten chances to one he will lose his bladders and go to the bot tom. Teach him to swim and he will never need the bladders. Give your child sound education, and you have done enough for him. See to it that his morals arc pure, his mlnd cultivated, and his whole na- turc made subservient to laws which govern man, and you have what will be more value than the wealth of the Indies.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13
That's Business.

You should never judge by ap pearances. The other day wcazen- faced little man, wearing $3.50 suit of clothes, went to one of tho big hotels, and registered his name from Texas, asked for room, and if breakfast was on the table.
 The Olympian clerk gazed at him scornfully for moment, and Ian guidly remarked:
 "Any baggage"
 "No," replied the guest.
 In that case" replied the clerk, 'sthe rules of the house compel me to insist on payment in advance"
 "Vcry we'll" said the guest, with out hesitation or appearing offended, "take two days board out of this, ]" and from wad of greenbacks as big as his arm he produced $l00 note.
 "I beg your pardon" stammered the abashed clerk, "but we are so often taken in, and your face not being familiar to me l."
 No offense," cheerfully answered the guest; "business is business, and rules are rules.-It does look a little odd to be without baggage, but as cattle dealers aih't much on style, and"
 "That's all right" said the clerk.
 "That's all right" said the clerk. "Put up your money, we know a gentleman when we see him.-Jim, show the gentleman to 147. Call for the best in the house General"
 The old man slowed away an am pie breakfast, got the clerk to give him small bills for a fifty and asked where Billy Coolbaugh, the banker, had his office, inquired when they had dinner, desirEd the clerk to tell Mir. Farwell, if he called, that he would be back at two o'clock, then went and hasn't been seen since. The clerk subsequently, discovered that the $50 was bad. The sad event cast gloom over the hotel office.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

Milk and lime water are now ire quently prescribed by physicians in cases of dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach. Often when the func- tions of digestion and assimilation have been seriously impaired, a diet of bread, milk and llme. water has an excellent effect. The way to make lime water is simply to procure few Jumps of unslacked lime, put the lime in stone jar, and water until the lime is slacked and of about the consistency of thin cream; the lime settles, leaving the pure and clear limew water at the top. Three or four tablespoonfuls of it may be added to a goblet of milk.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13
Leaf Tobacco.

The Internal Revenue Department has made q decision on the subject of leaf tobacco in the hands of farm CTS that illustrates the inexcusable and unnecessary harshness of one part of the tobacco tax. It decides that it twill not mold farder liable to the special tax as a retail dealer leaf tobacco who should furnish such laborers as he employs and during the time he employs them with leaf tobacco for their own con- sumption, as q matter of convenience to them and not of profit to himseif.' This is graciously allowing farmer to give chew of the twist of his own raising to a friend without be- ing prosecuted for the crime. The privilege, however, must be accepted with restrictions. It is limited to the laborcrs in the farmers employ and to the time they are ill his em- ploy. It is not to extend to the farmers neighbors, nor to the labor CT in the employ of those neighbors, nor even to the laborers who have been, but are no longer, in his own service. If he furnishes single twist of his own crop to the farm hand who has been with him year, and helped to raise his tobacco crop, one day after the hand shall have left his employ, it IS a violation of the revenue act, for which the offend- ing farmer will be liable to be ar rested, carried a hundred miles to United States Commissioner, and required to give bail to appear be- fore United States Court for prose- cution. It is pretended that this vigorous provision IS for the protec- tion of the manufacturers of tobacco, who live in towns and cities, against competition from farmers who might do trihing business in the way of retailing their crop; but it is as un- just as it would be to prohibit farm CTS to retail a few bushels of wheat or potatoes on the plea that it would interfere with the business of pro- duce dealers in cities.-Missouri Republican.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13
St. Louis Fair-Exposition.

The leading features and points of interest connected with this great enterprise may be summarized as follows:
 The Exposition opens September 10, and closes O. 0ber 6, and will dis play the art wonders-both useful and ornamental --of the world, in- cluding great variety of machinery for farms and factories, in actual operation, an immense collection of manufactured articles from America, Europe and Asia, furniture and household conveniences of all kinds; also collection of minerals from the Western States and Territories.
 During the last six days, from October 1st to 9th, inclusive, there will be an immense display of fine stock, including poultry, sheep, swine, cattle and horses; also of fruits, flowers, vegetables, grain, and other farm and garden products. The premium list, which offers $50,- 900 in prizes, gives full information, and can be obtained by addressing c. o. Kalb, secretary, St. Louis. Several hundred merchants and manufacturers have taken space for their exhibits, and the directory are providing additional accommoda tions for what promises to be the largest and most attractive display ever seen in the West
 The railroads centering in St. Louis deduct 40 to 50 per cent. from regular charges on passengers and freight bound to the Exposition. The Geological garden, containing q large collection of wild animals and birds, will be free to all visitors to the Exposition. The fine art de- partment will contain some of the choicest gems in America. The live stock department will excel in it's display any previous exhibition, The same may be said of every de- partment in the Fair-Exposition. A new feature will be military drill camp, with dress parades from day to day.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

The matrimonial market is so dull that parents with more marriageable daughters than they can conven- iently care for, are talking of offering a chromo with each, as an induce ment to old ba cheiors.
 Alexander H. Stephens when ask ed for an opinion on the European war answered, "I hate all wars and will be satisfied if dogs who will fight will keep away from my door"
 Young man, if you wake up sud denly in the night and see a seven foot man standing over your bed that's not the jimjams. It's a bur glar.
 If it wasn't for a Western man coming along now and then, hardly any of the New York hotels could make their rent during the summer
 Tice says there will be frost, Sep tember l3.
 Hens have begun to take thell summer vacation.
 A ''grcen' grocer-One who trusts Did you ever dance at 2 snow bali
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

CoUGH REMEDY.-A tablespoonful of slippery elm. and a tablespoonful of raisins. Cut into very small par ticles each ingredient. Add a pint of water, let them slowly simmer, or keep near the boiling point, until the strength of each is extracted. When ready for use, there should be half pint in quantity, as water, may have to be added while sleeping. Be very particular in selecting the material, that they be of the very best especially the licorice, winch should be so moist that the outside looks dark, and the wood bright and yellow. The raisons also should be moist and cut into small pieces, but the seeds must not be taken out. This has been known to entirely cure cough after months continu- ance, as the slippery elm removed the inflammation, the raisins strengthen, and the hcorice heals as fast as the inflammation is allayed. A thorough trial will convince the most skeptical. Dose "a teaspoon full every time one coughs or tickling sensation is experienced.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

The next legislature will beyond doubt break up that system, (the borrowing system root and branch, and either provide for sufficient greenback levy to pay the expenses of the government, or make all sala- ries payable in scrip. The people have become sufficiently acquainted with the modus operandi of borrow ing money, and sufficiently disgust ed with Wall street money lenders, to keep clear out of all such compli- cations in the future.-Daily Tele- graph.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

SUcooTAsH.--For succotash, lima beans are best. The agricultural stand second on the list, but any good variety of bush beans which come earlier than these makes an article that is by no means inferior. Shell the green beans and boil them slowly in plenty of water for or ? hours, being careful to keep them covered with water while boiling. Cut we'll grown corn from the cob and place in a pan to steam over the beans; add little water to the corn, and stir it occasionally. Steam from 20 to 30 minutes; then add the corn to the beans, and simmer for half an hour. Stir often and watch care fully that it does not burn. Season to suit the taste.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

A brother of "Old John Brown" died recently at Reedsburgh, Wis, aged 70. If John Browns soul is still marching on," that of his brother will have to move lively to overtake it.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

George Francis Train says no one need be surprised that nation be- sotted in ignorance, stupefied with superstition, soaked in alcohol, steeped in tobacco and gorged with meat, should come to a disgraceful end in delrium tremens ofPresi- dential fraud.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

The first step toward wealth used to be considered the choice of good wife, but nowadays wealth is the first step toward the choice of wife.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13
NO. 33.
Miscellany.

How to take life easy Be careless with coal oil.
 Mean souls like mean pictures, arc often found in good looking frames.
 Glass windows were first used for lights in llS0.
 Chimneys were first put into houses in l236.
 Tallow candles were first used for lights in 1260.
 Spectacles were invented by an Italian in 1241.
 Woolen cloth was made in England Tn 134l.
 Art of printing from moveable type in LAO.
 A home ruler-A mans wife. A man over board-an editor. A book for the table-one full of plates.
 The best society and conversation in thu world is that in which the heart has a greater share than the head.
 Women exceed the generality of men in love, but men have the ad- vantage in friendship.
 A man is more faithful and true to another mans secrets than to hls own: woman, on the contrary, keeps her own secrets better than another's. First rate female: "rd hate to be in your shoes.n Second ditto: "You couldn't get in them"
 Stanley Mathews IS the son of a Professor of Matthew-matics. He ought to make a good figure. A fashion item says: "Paris has suppressed all linen undergarments." They ought to be kept under.
 Fly him, who from mere curiosity, asks three questions about a thing which cannot interest him.
 Love is far from being gay pas sion. True love IS almost always chagrined, mechanically and ill hu- mored.
 Absence destroys small passions, and increases great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers and kin dies fires. It is no longer the fashion to send around a slice of the wedding cake They send a recipe how to make it.
 Instead of a wine list, Bangor Hotel prints on it's bill of fare: "We would if we could."
 The popular road to suffering peo- ple's hearts in red-hot weather leads through fifteen minutes sermon.
 It is as sinful to doubt Gods will lingness to save, as it is to doubt His existence.
 Don't judge him by his failure in life, because many of man fails because he is too honest to succeed.
 Saratoga has a lady who cuts corns, and it is astonishing how many young gentlemen require her services.
 Barber: "Thin your hair, siry" Customer: "Never mind, my wife at tends to that. But oil it wellv'
 Two brother named Corn were re- gently killed in Virginia by the Sheriff. The next day they were planted.
 Woman's fondness for finery is of no recent date, in fact, Eyes very existence was celtered in rib-bone.
 Little things should not be dis pised. The little toe is the smallest on the foot, but It always has the largest corn.
 A man uamed Tease has married Miss Cross. He leased her until she agreed she wouldn't be cross any more. A woman need never dspair of rendering herself attractive, until she has n't enough hair on her head to fasten a switch to.
 "Change carsw is what boot black said to Chicago man the other day, when he had finished one of his brogans.
 A Clergyman in Toledo, Ohio, has patented 8 car-coupler, which is new venture in the coupling line for one of his profession.
 Some men can sit on a candle box and lay out tho European campaigns | and toll al,poot ovary tbipn, that ic tn
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

Short straws and low counters are making the tall young men of our best society frightfully round-shoul- dered.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

The man who fell into raptures with pretty girl, was got out with difficulty.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13

Deception one cannot see thro'-- A glass eye.
, 1877-08-25

nhlly -mtn,lcd men who really concern thctnselvca
The least about external and .enshe manifesto.
tIons Of thing. sPtrjtuaI. Tho const tfousncts of
60 ont ot themselves, nor look beyond their
living fellow men, to be scnsiblo Of. and eycn
oppressed Tfth, thu vast slgnthcanrc, the ever
present reality, Of that fhncr world IN which otir
truest and deepest life lies hidden, md which
tho material univcrae and the machinery Of c1-
tcrhal lift cover, ns the flamn of Il lamp covers
tho changes Of the tlementa On which
It feeds anil by which # ftves. The man from
a IN the case Of all seIfdetnslon, who l,as never
felt profoundly that he himself Is llrtn9 spirit,
is the man TO put 9ucsfsons to the inytsiole, and
tLen mistake The echo of his own emotional
hopes nt,d deefscs for the voicc Of God In answer
to tuc1s aucstions.
Every scgencrato child Of God knows that
there y suth thing Is a spiritual influence
Upon the human heart: and, the more that st,-
take ttis clamors IT tho tiesh for moro women,
mere wealth, and more power over It's passive
felow.octnes, for the volce Of 0of. II Theses
"Lattcs.pay sa.nis" wesc spiritual in the
proper sense OF thc term, they could not posi-
Among the5e people there exista . confusion
OF moral faith with groundlcss belief that Is
pitlahle to behold.
cnnpuLirr ANb sKsrr,ctsx
are hero clusclv allied, aud ART necessary fugro-
dients III tho propagation Of sfofm1ntssn.
ThecrcdHlity that accepted Joseph Smith 5
revelations rs tho voice Of God. believes IN the
tntallIhllIty OF brigham Young, and LAYS tnat
hold of Or4on Pratt's theological fctions, Is
sftt upon tic skepttcistn that rejects the truth
ot Christianity "a borne 10 US by tile eonsentcnt
voice OF antiquity, and attcstcd Ly the lives and
deaths OF sati1ts and martyrs.
Mormonsn, and spsr.sua,ssm, snd every other
tam which PROCESSES to l,vlA communion with
the invisible wutft1, are but Repeating what wAa
dune Of old Ivy those Who distrustcd the suu OF
Man. They seek for miracles. and t!,cy get
Them ti1h Grr{f that tntthfexn
luus generation "wilo sought after sign"
ballard 6. DuSN.
, 1877-08-25

live and fight almost wholly upon tca-" Th"se
things serve very we'll tn make cretlHlous read
ers stare In oponnye1 admiration, but In our
aye Of f"fcnsiAe precision their publication is an
AbaurdIty. Either such assertions mean that
there arc ,tncn exempt from the natural law
that something cannot como OF nothing, or else
they are scnsr1etN ntoTrthcr.
We knov very well that the Turkish md Nnf-
alan soldiers arc men, that they breathe sixteen
expiration, cArbonlc acid 1aa; that they rweat,
casting od wattc material; that in marching
and fighting they cxpcnd strength and make
heat: In a word. We know that there IL cnn-
stant waste from their bO1tcs, AMI wu know
that thIs waste ulust be supplied by the cot,-
aumptlon bf fool. The answer here is the snrnc
~ tlat whtc1, the scientific men eavc IN the easc
uf Louise Laseau, who protested 10 live without
catiux. The theory OF miracle dill we'll enough,
for ignorant persons, hnt the scientific men
thought It unnecessary even to set a watch uHon
pIring carbonlc acid: ahc docs nut decrease 10
wofEht: therefore Louise Latcan cats"
In tho cAse Of the ltuseta soldier 4 very little
inquiry reveals the mystery. There Ia saving
word "alMost i" y hlch may cover good tlenf Of
black hreMl and mutton; and what the Russian
calls ten. of which t,p drinks vast quantity, is
really a sort Of soup-contatning, besides Lea,
bhcep's blood, milk. -four, suit, and butter. tt,
that II lie had no other food than thls It would
not b. ttt!c to say that Ac llvcs "al&nost wholly
upon tca-n lie consumes a. mltch food as Is
Ing, precisely a. every other living creature
does, and The fact that he mikes his food to-
Ecthct In in unusuA mess docs not IN any way
change the physiological aspect Of the fhatttr.
Il ls time for sensible men 10 have done WITH
wonders OF this sort.