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The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30
rhe nlsclnIIne on Drndgery.

A "liberal education is capital
thing. and the thousands Of young men
Who are now honored with the title Of
A. B. are TO be congratulated upon the
good fortune that has permitted them 70
acquire the mental discipline resulting
from four years course Of academic
study. But these young men must not
make the mistake Of supposing that this
discipline is an all-sufiicient preparation
for the higher callings Of life. That is,
the Young men who purpose to enter
any Of the branches of professional life,
for instance, must not imagine that the
fact Of their having college education
will permit them TO leap TO the top rung
Of the ladder at once. The discipline
they have is valuable, but chiefly SO rs
the basis for the requirement Of practical
knowledge, without which success IS I'M
possible. Ry practical knowledge we
mean acquaintance with the minutlie OF
little details that go to make up an oc-
4 cilpations. Such knowledge a college
education cannot give and is not intended
to give. it is only to be acquired by
patient application The discipline q
The college curriculum must be supple
mented bv another kind Of discipline
namely. tie discipline of drudgery. N
ono. however largely endowed witt
mental power, can be exempted from tn
necessity Of acquiring this discipline
! ii is. far more essential to success thai
the discipline furnished by colleg
course. .-Ne,c Haven Palladium.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30
MnkInr Kld Glores.

The Troy (N. Y.) Timer gives n de-
scription Of glove manufacture IN
town near Troy as follows
III this factory nearly all the stock
used is imported from France. me
skins on arriving at the factory. are iirst
put through q process Of "shaylng,
which is done with q broad chisel, and
al the imperfect parts Of the leather are
cut or The skins are then taken to the
table cutting-room, where thirty cutters
are employed in cutting the skins INTO
oblong pieces, after which they are sent
TO the "slitting" room, where the fin
gers are cut and the gloves are ready for
the sewinU.maohines Thence we fol-
low them TO the making room, where
ninety steam sewing run Dy
women, are kept busy stitching the
seams, and twenty other women are en-
gagged working button-holes and putting
on buttons. The gloves are nov, ready
for the "laying off room, where a
number of long-hollow forms, hke out-
stretched hands, are stood upright from
1 table. II one were in need OF q goou
\ warm shake Of the hand, he could ne
accommodated here, for each OF these
hollow forms is filed with steam, ana
| gives the gloves that peculiar shape they
have before being worm Another room
n the .sortinp-room where the vari-
GUS colors and sizes are fitted for the
market. In the stretching process ls a
peculiar sewing-machne which does the
beautiful overwhelming of the seams. in
this factory over 200 hands are employed
ana about seventy-fve dozen pairs oi
gloves made daily, The glove cutters
average from SIS TO $50 per month II
aaQes, and the makers (women) from
$50 70 $40 per month. A beautiiIu
glove is now being made called th'
mosquetaire, from imported lnoch'
skins. but dressed in the village, which II
better than any imported glove, and tli'
day seems to be coming when Americal
gloves will be known as superior 70 al
other makes. The skins used VIII cut oi
average about two pairs OF gloves.
Nrw YoRx clsims $1,000 self.support
ing women.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30
Why American Goods Are Preferred.

The growing reputation Of American
manufactures in the markets OF the
world has alarmed competitors abroad.
Whatever Americans undertake, whether
it be machine tools, cutlery, silks, flour,
cotton cloth, or any other merchandise,
they make, their brands the leading
ones, selling for the most money, and
universally sought after. The reasons
for this are plain. 1t is not on account
of the better and more direct processes
employed it is not by discarding work
shop traditions and old time methods !;
il is not by such adventatious aids that
we have achieved so great an eminence
that our trade marks are counterfeited
and foreign goods are represented as OF
American make. 1t is because ouI
manufactures have found that mercan-
tile honesty is the only policy, and that
when they attempt to adulterate or lower
the standard the criticism of competitors
exposes them at once.
American machine tools Of first class
makers are not cut in weight or in work
manship. It is a race to see who shal
discover weak part that can be made
stronger, or a detail exposed to weal
that can be made more durable. The
same is true of cotton goods and silks
The senseless weighting of both witt
adulterants Of one kind or another j
not practiced here, for experience
teaches our people that the best Is the
J cheapest. Mechanical Engineer.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30
The Posting Rerorler.

Once Chicago editor sent wild and
untHt0red sou Of the West, who wore
his hair shut ana chowed plug tobacco,
to an Eastcrn city to report big horse
race Before the reporter went away
the editor told him 70 look sharp when
he got to the horse race, because there
would be lot " nwlully smartrcporters
there from Now York and Boston, and
it would be great sport for them 70
scoop iricndless and imexp rienced
young mon from tho West. So thc RI.
porter said lie would try to keep upwith
the procession, and went away When
he got to the horse race he met q great
many other reporters, ono of whom was
from Boston. This reporter was very
cultured, Int he didn't know a scalping
boot from an overhead check, and that
is really the kind of culture that man
needs when he is writing about horse
race. The Boston reporter was very
kind to the Chicago reporter and told
him what great city Boston was, md
how smart a Young man had 70 be
before he could become reporter there,
and the Chicago reporter took another
chew Of plug tobacco and wiulSed 10
himself. The Boston reporter asked the
Chicago reporter If lc had read Elmer.
sons works, aud the Chicago reporter
said he h0dn't-he had seen "P,nai0ro.
Then the Boston reporter said.
=" Really, you astonish me, aud went
away TO drink somo Decp Rock water
and smoke cigarette Then the Chi
cogo reporter laughed heartily, and said
in the reckless Wabash avenue way
:" wonder ii that duck thinks | am q
sucker that he can play on the ond of a
string. should twitter that he will get
left if he does So he hunted up three
other reporters and snid to them .
Lets paralyze the gawk from Chicago
The other reporters We're willing, and so
they all wrote very long accounts Of the
races, going right from the track to the
telegraph office, but the Boston reporter
he went to his hotel and had supper,
and then he went to his room, telling
the clerk 80 send mp a messenger boy
about midnight. When the boy came
the Boston reporter gave him n long
dispatch, but when it reached the tele.
graph office there was so much other
matter ahead Of il that the wires were
blockaded until four o'clock in the morn
ing, and by TINT time it was too late to
get II dispatch to Boston in time for the
paper. Chic0Q0 Tribt0le.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

THERE has been so much said about
the Boston girls that people hereabou's
are getting rather anxious to see one oi
them. They are all said to be "esthetlc
Of tile utterly too awfully too brand,
and while We do not fully realize the
meaning of the expression, we hold that
it must be something awful. We know
we should never be able to converse
with them, as they have for the most
part discarded English for the dead Ian
guages, excepting some Of the big words
in Webster that nobody knows anything
about. A Boston correspondent says :
"Ihey are self-poised, ready for any
emergency, and carry mental quivers
full of Emersonian tracts. They are
largely ceramical and music and philoso-
phv are general accomplishments. lie
then adds: "They wear red mits on
their hands and blue or red leggings "
Well, well.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30
Theorr Of LumInous Paint.

Light is supposed to be the vibration
Of an extremely elastic fluid called ether,
which is supposed to fill the whole Of
space, and which, set in motion by the
vibration of the luminous source itself,
produces upon our eyes the sensation OF
light. Now, it is thought that the waves
of light communicate their motion to
the particles of paint, which start into
energetic vibration, continuing long af-
ter the exciting cause is withdrawn.
When we ring bell the blow Of the
hammer communicates its motion to the
particles of the bell, which start into
action, imparting their motion to the
particles Of air, which transfer the vibra-
tions to the drum of the ear and produce
the sensation of sound, which grows
fainter and fainter, until at last it dies
away, when the particles Of the bell arc
once more at rest; so it is with the lum'
inous paint and all other phosphoresceui
bodies, the particles of which, when dis
turbed by the waves of ether, yield light
for tine, which decreases i'll brilliancl
as the-particles grow less and less they
too. like the particles OF a bell, reqlH.
periodical renewals of the force that af
fords them their motion.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

MRs. LrLITE NJ, CHRIsTIANcY wrote her
husband a letter the other day, but it
wasn't a love letter, by any means. She
told him that rivers Of blood would not
wash the stain from her which was
stamped into her soul when she gave
her innocent girl-life into his keeping
aud added: "Tho greatcst suffering /
have to endure is the knowledge Of the
degradation that you have been my
husband.
THERE seem to be contradictory re-
ports concerning the condition Of Sena-
tor Ben. Hill. It is known that be was
troubled with q cancerous growth on the
tongue, but the severity of the affection
has not been generally known. On the
9th of September a second surgical
operation was performed, and it is now
feared he will lose the power Of speech.
He is being treated at Jefferson College
Hospital Philadelphia.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30
TINS Bit q biography is Of renewed

TVS bit Of biography is OF renewed
interest At college Chester A. Arthur
had determined to become lawyer. Ac-
cordingly, upon graduation, he went to
a law school at Ballston Springs, and
there remained diligently studying Tor
several months. He then returned to
Lansingburg, where his father then re-
sided. and there studied law. In 1851
he obtained a situation as principal OF an
academy at North Pownal, Bennington
County, Vermont. He prepared boys
for college, all the while studying law
Two years after he left North Pownal, or
in 1858. student from Williams Col
lege, named James A. Garfield, came 70
the place, and in the same academy
building taught penmanship Throughout
one winter. 1t was singular clrcum'
stance that, after nearly quarter OF
century, both these men should meet q
polieal convention, and unexpectedly e
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30
The Native Michigandcr.

The native Michigauder is good fcl-
low at heart, but he has his eccentrici-
ties
!" Yes, ! struck this State over fifty
years ago, he said 70 me the other even
ing, as he hunted IN his hind pocket
for his plug tobacco. "l'ye heard tho
wolves howl, the bars roar, and the pan
thcrs scream"
q You have, oh p
:" You bet haye2 Yes, sir, and Two
lived all winter on acorns, slept III sum
mer in tree top, and walked forty-two
miles through the woods to prayer-meet
ing
g Then You must be pious r.
"Pious? Durn my old hide to hally-
hack and gosh all lish-hooks to thunder,
but raythcr reckon lam. Pious ? Why,
how in thunder and hlazes and tea-ket-
ties could haze borne up if hadn't
been l,ious Say. did you ever live in
the woods forty miles from the nearest
human hyena, black or white n
Never
"Did you over have to 90 barefoot in
snow four feet deep?
"No.
Eyer shake with tho agcr right along
for 2Si days, Sundays incudedY
\ /" No.
q Dod rot your pnmpcrod counten-
I ancc, of course you never did What
I did you ever do towards making Michi-
| gan the great and glorious State shenow
I is"
Well, I've run a lawn-mower.
+" Run a thunder 20 blazes How many
acres Of forest do you sposc I've cut
\ down.?
"Two."
"Two Why, you oncry hyena, my
| old woman hns slashed down over forty
! herself, and she's left-handed, at that
/ / calkerlate, sirI solemnly calkcrlate
that I've cleared of Mt least 300 hundred
acres Of the toughest kind OF forest
How much tea do you suppose | had IN
my house the first ten years of our pio-
neer life 7"
Twenty-Five chests"
"Twenty-hpe Ii lis + he roared ~ he
hunted for more plug, eve had just two
drawings and no more
Couldn't you get trusted at the cor
ner grocery ?'
"Get trusted Corner grocery Why,
you internal young lunatic, wasn't ] To-
Gated forty miles from the highest gro
Gerry That's what Eve been telling you
all along. None Of you spilled children
of luxury kin have any idea OF how we
had to get talong in them old days"
presume not.
cone winter when tho old woman was
sick l had nothing TO feed her but salt
coon and corn-dodgcrs.
"Oyster soup would have been nice
"Oyster thunder Don't / keep tell
ing you that was fifty miles in the
wood n
Yes, but why didn't you get out ?"
"Ciit outP What fr?'
"Why, you might got out and lived
on your mothcr-inlaw md had n trot-
ting horse, plug hat, diamond pin
aud high living You were very foolish
70 stay III the woods, where they had no
ward caucuses, or military parades, or
circus professions, or ginger beer, or ba'
mana puddings.
We generally end here The old mn
tive chokes and gasps and jumps up and
down and kicks his hat into the street
and goes away saying
"Them burned pampered idiots Of
luxury wouldn't keer two cents il the
hull State was growed up TO iack-pinea
so thick that a rabbit couldn't squeeze
through n
But next night he comes again t.
wrestle me for the championship. M
OUdd.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

The London Times, perhaps the best
known paper in the world, and certainly
the greatest Of all European journals,
published eleven columns on the death
Of the late President, surrounded with
a border Of mourning. This is mark
Of respect in our mother country we
'ould hardly have expected In our sor.
row we have the full sympathy Of all
Europe.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

The statement that polygamy is be-
coming obnoxious TO Mormons and they
are entertaining thoughts Of exterminat-
ing It, is rather hard to credit. That, if
we understand it, is the foundation upon
which their faith is built.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

SINCE we have ascertained that Marvin,
who is in jail 1T Richmond. Ind, married
eighteen different women, we have con.
cluded That men become bachelors from
their own choice. We don't mean 10
say that girls will marry anybody at all
That's not the idea. We can't explain
it, however.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

KoKoMo, Indiana, has been disgraced.
Dir. Henry 9. Cole, the Mayor Of that
handsome little city, was shot to death
while stealing Aour from mill He had
carried the fourth sack away when he
was called upon by the shiriff and others,
who told him to halt, but he refused and
started to run. A yolly Of shot was sent
after him and he fell, dead The whole
circumstances is peculiar one.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

Mr.. WM HYDE, editor Of the st.
Louis Rcpub Hcan, has been connected
with that paper twenty-five years, he
having been its original sole editor ana
reporter. He was one Of the first jour.
nalists in the West He will celebrate
the twenty-fifth anniversary by taking
needed rest and trip around the world
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

Two diminutiye brothers. named
Sparling, have just entered Hillsdnlo
College, Michigan. Christopher, the
older, is eighteen years old, is 3ai inches
in height and weighs 37l pounds. The
other, Edwin, is fit en- years old, weighs
i9i pounds and Is 12} inches tall
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

The BALI The President body, which
was found just back Of tho heart, was
fully foot and half from the point
where the eminent surgeons had located
it, which goes to show that the surgeons
We're about as much at sea about the
matter as persons Of much less profes-
sional knowledge would havo been.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

IT IS something of remarkable
coincidence that the death Of President
Garfield occurred upon the anniversary
OF the battle of Chickamauga, where he
was most distinguished for gallantry
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

TIE Detroit Free Press wants the
Government to introduce opium amoEg
the Indians. Cinnamon die hy the
hundred thousands from tie habit Of
opium eating.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

KAhLocH's San Francisco congrega-
ton have voted not to grant him leave
to 60 on lecturing tour, although he
has signed. contract at $500 a night
He wIl. probably resign bis pastorate.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

THREy sisters we're married in one
wedding at st. Louis, and tho occasion
required eighteen bridesmaids. As
matter Of economy, the scheme was a
success.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

QUEEN VICTORIA is worth about S80,
100000. We have been Judging her
fortune by the way she gives when
called upon by suffering humanity, and
We didn't think it was near that much.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

In HIS inaugural address, President
Arthur i1itimates his purpose to pursue
the policy indicated by his predecessor
il Office, iorshadowed during his briei
administration.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

PRESIDENT ARTHUR, for the present,
will not occupy the White House. He
will reside with Senator Jones, Of Ne
vada in one Of the granite buildings
erected by Ben Butler, near the Capt.
tol,
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

gratified to be able to state that tile pub
lie everywhere have responded very lib
orally to the call for aid.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

The late Lorenzo Delmonico made
100000 keeping restaurant, but he
never set up meals for fifteen cents, not
by any means HIS memory is dear
only to the rich.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

TINS is a little too too. Says the De
troit Free Press: "David Davis has
Just had a reunion at Bloomington. lie
took a dose Of alum" We suppose il
brought him all together.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

MAssAcHrsErrs, Minnesota, Missis.
sippi, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin
elect Governors this fall
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

Z AN unsneezed sneeze, when it is there,
wants to come and can't, is decidedly
more interesting than the unkissed kiss
The aesthetic poet has gone crazy over.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

The late President was magnet TO-
wards whom all heart, were irresistibly
drawn. He was of the people.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

GENHRA1 SHERMAN is anxious that
short work be made Of the Apaches.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

, TaE New Haven Register puts it in
this shape Josie Mansfield is fitting
about the gambling halls Of Paris,
Stokes Is in the oil business, and Jim
FISK has one Of the finest monuments
IN The State Of Vermont.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

PFnsoSALny, President Arthur has
many warn friends. Up 10 the present
Tine he has been the head Of the law
hrm Arthur Philips, Kneyals e. Ran
som. He is widower, his wife having
uied some two years ago.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

WoN'T it sooli be time to commence
complaining about cold'weatherP
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

LINCOLN was shot on the anniversary
Il the fall Of Fort Ssup,ter.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

themselves be picked out as the candi-
dates of the Republican party for Presi-
dent and Vice President.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

MRS GARFIELD has passed so many
days Of suffering and anxiety at the
White House, that she Is heartily sick of
,s sufroundingsi and now expresses the
nope that she will never be required to
enter it again on any occasion.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

THE Cook Fund has reached 81 ,0o0
This required 100000 contributions.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30
TOPICS or THE DAY.

CAMrnGS enthusiasm seems to be at
low ebb
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

THERE is little doubt now about the sue,
CESS Of the Mrs. Garfield Fund, started
BY Mr.. Cyrus w. Field. Subscriptions
are pouring in literally.
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

GEyERAn BuRSsIDE's S war horse, Major,
that bore him through the war, was
KILLED heother day At Providence It
= aaa become helpless, and the General
mad arranged for its death whenever il
could be killed without his knowledge
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

ouR National calamity has been Of a
character SO overwhelming that we had
.-.s9 slnost lost sight Of the suffering pre-
Sa'l'nsin Michigan. However, We are
The Magnolia gazette., 1881-09-30

Nrw York clsims $1,000 self-support-
ing women.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-09-21
A Leadyille Revival.

He was on his way home from Lead
vile, says an exchange. He had on Il
ragged old summer suit, bad hat, and
had been taking his meals about thirty
hours apart, to make his money carry
him through.
eyes, like the country out that way,
he replied to the query. "The climate
is good, the scenery is fine, and some
Of the people are honest as needs be.
The trouble is knowing how to take
the bad ones"
81 should think that would be easy
enough
"Ges, it looks that way; but | have
had some experience. | am the origin
al diskiverer of the richest mine in
Leadvillc. Yes, | am the man, though
you would not think SO to see these old
clothes"
"Then you don't own it now ?"
Not bit of it. I'll explain.
was poking around on the hills, and
found signs. | collected some speci-
mems for assay, staked off claim, and
went to the assayer's. 1t was two days
before he let me know had struck the
richest ore that he had ever assayed,
and then | hurried back to my claim.
Hang my buttons, if it hadn't been
jumped"
"How?"
"Why gang Of sharpers had found
the spec, and built up Il pole shanty
and hung a sign of First Baptist
church over the door. True as shoot
ing they had, and the law out there is
that no man can sink a shaft within
two hundred feet of II church building.
They saw me coming, and when | got
there they were holding a revival
There were six of them, and they got
up one after another and told how
wicked they had been, and how sorry
they were, and-would you believe it?
they had the cheek to ask me to lead
off in the singing. went to law, but
they beat me. Three days after the
verdict the First Baptist church burn
ed down, and before the ashes were
cold the congregation were developing
mine worth over a million dollars.
You see, | didn't know how to take
them"
"Was there any particular way to
take them p
"You bet there was, ought to
have opened on that revival with
Winchester rifle, and given the coron-
er fifty dollars for verdict that they
came to their death from too much re-
ligion."
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-09-21

"Where are you going?" said a
young gentleman to an elderly one in
n white cravat whom he overlook few
miles from Little Rock. 81 am going
to heaven, my son. have been on
my way for eighteen years" "Well,
good bye, old fellow If you have
been travelling toward heaven for
eighteen years, and got no nearer than
Arkansas, | will take another route"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-09-21
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Rev. DR.. Torsey, ID. d., LII. d., Kent's
Hill, Me, ]. L. Field, Alpena, Mich,
and thousands of others. "The most
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market is Adamson's Botanic Balsam."
Springfield Republican. "The
workings of Adamson's Balsam are
daily astonishing the most eminent
physicians" Boston Journal Sold
by oil respectable druggists and deal
ers. Price, 30 and rs cts. "New
trialsize" 10 cts. Il. w. KINsMAN a.
Co., Proprietors, Augusta, Me. 51s
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-09-21

1t was at party, and another fel-
low had marched triumphantly off with
his girl. That's the way" said he
sadly, 'it isn't merit that wins in this
world-it's brass watch chains, and
dyed mustaches." And he swallowed
down his Adams apple fully three
times before il would stay, such was
his gricf.-Ex.