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New-York tribune., 1878-07-24
CAMPING OFT.

There Is n good deal OF camping ont going on just
now The average American has seized the idea
that il IS sign of culture and artistic aspiration to
turn his face to Nature once year, for a week. or
ten DAYS or as long as lac get away from the
shop or office. Also that TO do this in tent viii
put an end TO mis- lumbago. dyspepsia, or whatever
other alment alicts him. So he hires the tent, b0T
rows Smiths brecch-Oadcr and JOnes'5 rod, and
nces and hies him To repOse the bosom of Mother
Earth. On the aforesaid bosom he fights with
spiders gnats and mosquitoes all night. aud arises
from dreams OF spring mattresses 20 find garter
snake IN the cohce-pot, the bread swarming with
ants and the matches forgotten. Ten 10 ono IL has
raned in torrents and his wife aud the girls have
lain in a puddle all night. Smiths breechoader is
ruined, the campfire mud. Before noon they strike
their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal
away To the nearest bOarding-house.
Yet in spite of all this camping out ~ by all odds
the most comfortable, cheapest aud healthfullest
way of spending the vacation but you can't camp
out without learning how, any more than you can
preach sermon or cook an oyster. In the frd
place. don't buy cheap outfit; you want tent that
will keep out the rain, the best quality of rubber
blankets. etc. etc. They will serve you for years.
Next hunt up the nearest ncighbor who served in
the Shenandoah or the Mud Campaign, and get from
him SONS practical hints rs to pitching your tent,
trenches, hemock beds, cookery etc, etc. Thirdly,
take things leisurely have patience with your legs
and arms. They are more used to trampngup Broad
way than to lce-cod trout streams and to pens than
axes: if they twnge and grumble ii is not the fault
of stream axe. Lastly, lay in good stock of dry
old clothes black coffee in lieu of whiskey patience
and good humor, and cur word for it, the camp will
be u success.
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gentleman in Boston having involved to a ruiu-
nous amount a concern of which he was treasurer,
the newspapers while accusing him Of embezzlement
unite in declaring that he bore very high charac-
ter, was respected the street, and moved in the
best circles. AS il is only respectable people who
are trusted with large amounts, perhaps ought
not 10 he surprised no the regularity with which
great defauters, forgers and swinders found to
be gentlemen Of decOrous outward lives and genteel
appearance. Before we conclude that hypocrisy is
getting to be vice characteristic of American so
ciety. before we begin TO suspect everybody who
wears clean linen and washes his hands, we may do
well to inquire whether the frequency of financial
Irregularities among gentlemen OF exemplary
character is not to be explained by the fact that
we up totally false standard of responsibility.
We do not mean To express any opinion about the
Tappan case the facts of which are not yet clear
but whether Sir. TapDan has been criminal or only
unfortunate, the current comments upon his failure
illustrate equally well what we wish TO say. All
the press dispatches from Boston yesterday de-
scribed Mr. Tappan as one Of our citizens whose
long business career has made him widely known
and generally respected" He inherited largo
property; he increased il by investments in
lands and houses. He speculated with profit.
The city looked up TO him, admired his
sarewdness and revered his success Far be il from
us to imply that he was not an estmable gentleman
in other things we know nothing about him per-
sonally; but il was his "long business career y
that seems to have won for him the public consid
Grafton that has just been so rudely shocked. Now
long and creditable business does not show
the existence of those qualities Of mind and soul
which arm man against temptation. One who has
been fair in his commercial dealings for many years
is presumably not petty thief but he may be at
heart Wholesale swindler. Fair dealing in trade
Is proof of high principle often il has no better
source than calculation that honesty is the best
policy, The exaggerated respect which We pay TO
commercial success, our notorious reverence for
money cannot but have q deplorable influence 10
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merchant found in his empty house yesterday
two unbidden guests, who We're sleeping
off in his bed the pleasant fumes OF
his champagne. These jolly good fellows,
before dropping off 60 sleep, had IN
duIged in practical witticism they had packed
up some of this gentleman's valuable effects
as if for transportation, and the owner, seeing
the exquisite humor of this proceeding took
the police into the joke, who insisted that
these humOrists should amuse the magistrate
himself with the story. 1t is needless to add
that if this merchant should have any more
visitors Of the same voluntary ana conviviai
sort, he would be glad to have them help
themselves to the best that the house affords,
and would be sorry to find that they had
spared the champagne.
The National party of New-YOrk is having'
a hard time of it getting born. The neon
gruOus elements of which 1t is composed
seem to be no nearer fusion at the
end of days preliminary caucusing and
another days organized wranglinG than
they were when leaders of factions were
spelling each others noses here IN New
York. The one conspicuous fact thus lar
developed, if anything can be said to
have been developed by the parody OF
a convention that is now in progress at
Syracuse, is rather to the credit OF the
new organization. There is a universal disgust
among the rural delegates at the character
and proceedings of the various delegates from
New-York, and in excluding all the delega-
tons from this city, the Convention has
raised itself in public esteem by casting
out probably the most disreputable crowd
of small politicians that ever tried to break
into a new party. 1t cannot be said, however,
that there is much else about the Convention
that entities it to respect. When the Chair
man tells the "fellows in the gallery" to " shut
up" and delegates shake their fists at the
Chairman, and the leader of the party threat
ems to send good part of it home in an
"lee-boy," such well-meaning but not we'll
informed men as may have found their way
into it, must have wished they had stayed out
side The Convention has just begun, however,
and before passing sweeping condemnation upon
it, it may be we'll to wait and see what plan
our old friend Barney j. Donahue has for re-
forming the currency, or how Mr.. Tom
Creamer would secure honesty in public SER
wants.
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now before the courts, and Mr. Watts is moving
al,n,it with solemn conviction that tlso man Who
n lows himself TO meddle with politics needs
cta:dign.
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Mr. Kershaw ought to have been judge
when Andrew Jackson was President. He
wouldn't have had time to disregard the
Federal authority more than once.
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So the Aldermen are considering whether
they shall allow General Frank b. SpinOla to
lay pipes in the streets in order to supply the
city with steam for domestic and other uses.p
General SpinOla is very uncertain sort Of
person, in politics and out, and the Tammany
Aldermen have never been looked upon as
much better. If they don't get the whole city
into hot water, it won't be for lack of expert
enee in that line of business.
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A member of the Syracuse convention sug-
gests that the American people can't be fed
exclusively on fraud" Respectfully referred
TO Mr.. Potter and his assistant cooks.
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Though it is pleasant to see Senator Thur
man admit that he thinks about as poorly Of
some of the Democratic witnesses before the
Potter Committee as he does of the Republic
cans, what he has to say about politics Is of
less interest than his estimate Of Mr.. Sum-
ner There will be many to protest against
his judgment that the great Massachusetts
Senator was an overrated man, but the crit
icism is made in kindly spirit, nevertheless,
and is that of an unusually acute observer.
If there is any secret plot on foot for gen.
eral strike throughout the country, and lawless
uprislngs everywhere, with special designs upon
banks and safes, the warning that is given
elsewhere ought to go far to defeat it. Avery
careful correspondent finds a Pennsylvania
manufacturer who impresses him as Gre
"markably coOl-headed" person, and who fears
more serious distur Dances in the next two
months than occurred last Summer. He de-
clares that preparations are making every
where for strike, that its date was once fixed
for the middle of June, and that it is now
fixed for the middle of August If there is
good foundation for these apprehensions 1t
ought not to be difficult to ascertain the tact.
An exposure of the plan would be almost
enough, in itself, to defeat 1t, and exposure
ought to be possible, if there is anything to
expose.
If the pleasures OF hospitality are greater to
him who gives than to him who receives,
imagine the delight with which a Brooklyn
New-York tribune., 1878-07-24

If the pleasures Of hospitality are greater to
him who gives than to him who receives,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-06-19

pRIGGS Catarrh Eradicator will Catarrh., 1t
arises from disorganzed condition of the stomach
Initiated secretion of the glandular system, and mpuri
ty of the blood. 1t is constitutional well local
diseased The symptoms partial or complete OBJ
structon of the nasal cavity heavy loaded disagreea-
BILE feeling in the head cloggng up of the throat in the
night with thick obnoxious matter having when ex-
PEELED seabby appearance occasionally streaked With
blood Briggs Catarrh Eradicator is sent by mail
press receipt Of price quarts
for use Warranted cheapest and most eifeetua. Ad-
dress Dr. J. Briggs and Co., Newark N q Sold by g. M.
Shamalia, Moore's Drug Store. Lambertville. N. j.
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FOR sAI,EI

a T-RO0M HOUSE stone in Mechanics street. New
Al Hope, Bucks County, Pa Price, S400, with stable
Inquire OF Squire Johnson, New Hope, or CHARLES
OLDHAM, Cardington Delaware County Pa.
Nov. It'll 1877. IT.
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VICK'S
Illustrated Priced Catalogue.

Seventy-fve pages-30o Illustrations, with Descrip-
tons OF thousands of the best Flowers and Vegetables
in the world and The edg g1oto MeDs-all for Two
CENT postage stamp. Printed in German and English.
Vick's Flower and Vegetable Garden, so cents in
paper covers In elegant cloth covers, co.
Vick's illustrated Monthly Magazine-32 pages fine
Illustrations, and Colored Plate in every number.
Price 81 % year Five copies for $500.
Address, JAMES WICK, Rochester, N. Y.
Jan. 10th, 1878.
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EM "A business you engage in. S. to $40
Xxx IN - per day made by any worker Of eth
M WR/EJ der sex, right in their localities.
Particulars and samples worth IS free.
Improve your spare time at this business. Address
Stinson Co., Portland, Maine
Feb 27.-1y.
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MISCELLANY.
REDUCED TO EATING DIRT.

AN AMERICAN AIIssIoNARY's DESCRIPTION OF
THE FAMINE IN CHINA.
The Rev. s. Wells Williams, in letter dat
ed February 10, says
This day was the worst of all. / saw abun-
dant proofs of men eating clay or stones, and
bought three stone cakes. The stone is the
same as our soft stone pencils. 1t is reduced
to dust and mixed with millet husks, in differ
ent proportions, and then baked 1t does not
ook bad, but tastes like what it is-dust.-
The dead seem to number to-day more than
ON any previous day, for there were twenty
nine in eighteen miles along the road, and the
circumstances were more frightful. In one
valley the road branched into two, and my
servant took one while | took the other-one
each side of the stream. On his road, the
servant saw woman lying in a ditch after be-
ing robbed of all she had, and still moving,
though unconscious of any one passing by.
Further on we saw mans head cut clean
from the body--a cruel murderer's deed. We
saw among the dead some wounded heads, but
done by the wolves, dogs or birds. The dogs
barked and howled at us when we drove them
off from the dead. Many of the corpses seen
when we were going had disappeared, but
their places were more than supplied by 9th
ers.
To these details of what saw give you
briefer account of what have heard. Some
men coming from Sichum, on their way to Pc
king, said that along the whole way they saw
dead bodies here and there. Snow had fallen
in Honan province foot deep, and about
eighteen inches in Shansi to the west and
northwest, and none further north than in
that province. In all that region west of this
the cold haa been unusual. The soft stone is
sold at from 2 to mills pound, and bark
from to mills per pound for food. The
roots of sweet flags are dug, but they cause
the face TO swell. Grain is three or four times
the usual price, and turnips and cabbage five
or six times. Flour is 7, and 8 mills per
ounce In every city I passed through the
report was twenty, thirty or forty dying
daily. AT Ping yang ten great pits had been
filled, and two carts were daily employed in
.carting the dead. One innkeeper told us that
one of his customers reported having counted
go dead on the road in three days journey.
Whole families, old and young, die in their
houses and lie there unburied. In one dis
trict third of the population are dead, and
the people maintain that in many towns fully
one-half have persisted, and they know viii
lagos where formerly dwelt 300, 400 and even
bred now remain.
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Don't be discouraged if, in the outset of
life, things do not go on smoothly. 1t seldom
happens that the hopes we cherish for the fu-
ture are realized. The path of life appears
smooth and easy, but when we come to travel
it, we find it uphill, and trying enough.
Don't be discouraged under any circumstan-
ces. Go steadily forward. Rather consult
your own conscience than the opinion of men
though the latter is not to be disregarded.
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GAAEBERTvILLE, M T.
o
The proprietor is well by experience that the
credit system compels many establishments to charge
enormous prices for garments in order to make up
what they losing by bad pay customers. This is
fact that cannot be contradcted lie also rests assured
that he and is determined to sell cheaper than any
other establishment in this city He particularly solc-
It's his friends aud the public generally to call and
anime his stock of Cloths Cassmeres and Yestngs and
you will be satisfied at that goods sold up
TO order are at least twenty-five per cent cheaper than
at any other establishment in this city From the many
years experience In garment cutting and the great
isacion he has rendered to his customers he ready
TO that he please all who favor him with their
patronage. III, L. SMITH,
Lambertyille, Sept. u, 1877, sm
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Americans eat twice as much salt as the
r.o1;eb
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A Large amount of FLAX row and MOVED FLAX.
IN WHEAT and RYE STRAW.
Apply at the office of J. C. WEEDEN CO., over the
Lambertve National Bank, or at their PAPER MILL.
Lambertyille, May 18th, 1878.
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~ ~, week in your town. SIS Outfit free. No
- IN risk. Reader, if YOU want business at which
VE)NEIpersons of either can make great pay all
" the time they work, write for particulars to
H. HALLErT Co., Portland, Maine.
Feb. 27.-1y.
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WHAT HAVE SEEN.-An old man of ex-
perience says:
have seen young man sell good farm,
turn merchant and die in an insane asylum.
have seen farmer travel about so much
that there was nothing at home worth look
ing after.
have seen man spend more money in fol-
ly than would support his family in comfort
and independence.
i have seen girl marry young man of
dissolute habits and repent it as long as she
lived.
l have seen prudent and industrious
wife retrieve the fortunes of a family when
her husband pulled at the other end of the
rope.
have seen young man who despises the
counsel of the wise aud advice of the good
and his career ended in poverty and wretch
edness.
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CATCHING CooNs.--A piece of hunting
strategy that must have amused ancient MIN
rod, had he heard of the like in his day, is
thus reported in the Huron (0.4 Times.
One day as Mr.. Alfred Walbrdge was COM
ing to town, and when in the ravine near the
village, he heard a noise up in the top of a
large wildwood tree. He surmised that The
noise was made by coons, and that the tree
was bed-tree for them.
He applied for permission to cut the tree,
which could be done without much damage
to the other timber in the vicin-
ity. 1t was suggested by some one that Fred
Rice could climb the tree and get them out.
Fred was sent for and he came, armed with
n pair of creepers such as are used by tele-
graph men, and short club tied around his
wrist. The opening in the nest was in the
side of the tree about sixty feet from the
ground. When Fred was asked how he was
going to get the coons out, he smiled bandly,
but made no reply. With great apparent
ease he assembled the tree to the hole, then
drew from his pocket bunch of fire crackers
and after lighting match he set them on
fire, and dropped them into the hollow of the
tree In a short time they began to explode,
and out came the coons one at a time, cough
ing and sneezing, while Fred knocked them
off, aud they were dispatched by the men and
boys on the ground. Thirteen coons, little
and big, were thus captured in few minutes
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One of the crying evils of the times is the
tendency and disposition of girls to get
through gillhood hurriedly and get into wo-
manhood, or rather into young ladyhood with
out waiting to enjoy the beautiful season of
girlbood. Speaking on this point, Bishop
Morris says: f" Wait patiently, my children.
through the whole period of your grlhood.
Go not after womanhood let it come to you.
Keep out of public view. Cultivate retire.
men. and modesty. The cares and RESPONSE
bilities OF life win come soon enough. When
they come you will meet them, l trust, as
true women should But oh ! be not SO un-
wise as to throw away your girlhood. Rob
not yourselves of this season, which wisely
spent, will brighten all your future life.'
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n sbTHCE.

A III persons are forbid entering the house of the
"A Fleet Wing Hook and Ladder Company and ring
ing the bell, running out the apparatus, unless au-
thorzed to do by actual member OF the company
Persons offending will be held responsible, and be
dealt with according to law The time Of all contribute
their membership make application any regular
meeting.
C. H. W. VAN SEWER,
President Board of Directors.
STEPHEN HULL, Foreman.
May 18th. 1878.
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Tie hangman's yegetable-The art o.
choke.
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Acorn in the woods is worth ten on the
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$4,000 FOR ST.. o5.
ONE EIGIN SILVER WATCH, WORTH $500

These Watches are made by the Elgin Ma
tional Watch Co., and each Watch is guaran-
teed by the Company's own Medal certificate,
which accompanies the same. The very SUI
perior value and workmanship of the Elgin
Watches are too we'll known, and their
reputation too firmly established, to need
expressly for this great offer, contain seven
Jewels, are regulated before delivery, put up
In warranted silver hunting cases, and are
good reliable timekeepers,-no pains being
spared by the Company to make them trust
worthy and durable. (See Elgin Co.'s letter
in another cOlumn.)
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the following unrivaled offer of
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