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Year: 1869

Never ask Il relative for money, tor
he will not cease to regard you as
beneficiary long after the debt has been
honorably discharged.


Never ask advice Of one above you
in station, or you will be "patronized"
and be made to feel your inferiority.


Never attempt to conquer the pref
udice of a woman by urging good
reasons against her feeling; it is to
incur her hate to show her that she is
in the wrong.


Never criticise a persons dress or
looks, even to a friend; for the criti-
cism, even if kindly, always wounds.


Never pause in a good deed, for
pause implies doubt of its being
good, or fear of your own abilities to
accomplish what you intended.
Never seek to placate an enemy by
explanations. A third person may
make the explanations, itneeds be, but
your own words would fall on bosom
hardened against them.


One thing acquired with pain is bet
ter than hundred with ease.
Never betray doubt of your sweet.
hearts love, or goodness, or truth,
even though you entertain such o
doubt. To show your state Of mind to
her is to give her the vantage.


But if you are woman, and have
doubt Of your suitor's good faith and
virtue, don't be in haste to express it;
yet, DO not suppress it entirely, for to
do so is to seem Indifferent to both
qualities. When your doubts amount
to convictions, speak them fearlessly,
and compel an explanation, upon which
your future happiness may depend.


Never be rude to any person. True
politeness is native to all true to all
true gentlemen or gentle women. Rude
ness of act or word is an unfailing
sign Of an ill-bred person.


Ever speak the truth, even to child.
To jest by falsehood is as wicked ast to
lie in earnest. if the jest leaves an i'm
preston on the mind of being truth.
A liar is contemplate to all right.
minded persons. If conscience can be
awakened to consciousness of the un.
happy results of untruth, it is q good
sign.


From the maxims Of Talmud, We
have these sentences Of gold:


Betweea the wolf and the shepherd
the lamb has come to grief.


Silence is beautiful in a wise man.
but how much more in q fool.


He who lends money to the poor is
often better than he who gives them
aims.


Be prudent and be silent.


He who has learnt, and does not
teach, is like myrtle in the desert.


There is thrce-fold death in the
slanderer's tongue; it kills him who
ISLANDERS, him who is slandered, and
him who receives the SANDER.


Some peoples judgment is that Of
a blind man at window.
Year: 1869

Catching the Sioux Indian Girls.


Polygamy is practiced in the tribe,
but not extensively. A man may have
as many wives as he can keep, but he
must buy them. The universal price
ofa wife is pony, or for white man
an American horse. A squaw once
bought becomes the immediate proper
ty of the purchaser, but he must catch
her. Men have bought wives and
never been able to catch them most of
them, however, are quite willing to be
caught. An Indian, several years ago,
took fancy to an officers horse and
tried in every way to purchase him,
but the officer would not part with the


animal. Finally, the Indian offered


his sister, beautiful girl, in exchange
for the horse. Fearing he would steal
or MAIN the animal, and not willing to


offend him, the officer gave the Indian
the horse, but he declined to receive
the girl in return. The young lady,
however, was informed she was sold,
and so the matter stood. After wait.
ing for long time for her husband to
come and claim her, she one day, as he
rode by camp, put herself in his way,
when, seeing he took no notice of her,
naively asked:. "Why don't you catch
me?" The officer, who had never
seen her before, inquired what she
meant, when she roundly told him she
was his wife, and not at all pleased that
he had not come for her. He never
claimed her, but she was regarded by
her tribe as the white mans squaw, and
at last accounts was still single and
waiting for her husband. Some of the
Sioux are quite rich in horses, cattle
and furs, and educate their children.
I am told Spotted Tail has two Of his
daughters now at school in the North,
and that the Misses Spotted Tail are
very good looking and intelligent girls.
Generally the women are homely,
being compelled to labor hard, while
the men do little but hunt. fish, and
make war. Now and then, however,
a handsome Sioux girl is seen, but
almost invariably she has lice in her
head. Cracking lice is one Of the 90


cupations of the Sioux women. II q
woman's husband leaves her she does
not lose caste, but can marry again. A
man who leaves one wife generally
finds it difficult to get another. Ifa
girl is unfortunate, her lover must pay
one, two, or three horses, or her friends
will kill him.. In all cases Of rape the
penalty is death. z-e. lr
Year: 1869

MEN seldom think Of the great event
of death until the shadow falls across
their own path, hiding from their eyes
the tracss of the loved ones whose liv-
ing smiles were the sunlight of their
existence. Death is the great antago'
mist of life, and the cold thought Of
the grave is the skeleton Of all feasts
We do not want to 60 through the dark
valley although its passage may lead
to paradise; and, with Charles Lamb
We do not want to lie down in the mud
dy grave, even with kings and princes
for our lie ..lellows. But the fiat o1
nature is inexorable. There is no ap-
peal or relief from the great law which
dooms US to dust. We flourish and
fade like the leaves of the forest; and
the flower that blooms to-day has not
a Trailer hold upon life than the might
lest monarch that even shook the earth
with his footsteps. Generations o1
men appear and vanish as the grass
and the countless multitude that throng
the world to-day will tomorrow dis.
appear as the footsteps on the shore


In the beautiful drama Of Ion, the
instinct of immortality, SO eloquently
uttered by the death.devoted reck finds
deep response in every thoughtful
soul. When about to yield his young
existence as a sacrifice to fate, his be.
loved Blemanthe asks if they shall moi
meet again. to which he replies, 81
have asked that dreadful question ol
the hills that look eternal; Of the clear
streams that fow forever; ofthe stars
among whose fields of azure my raised
spirit hath walked in glory. All were
dumb. But while gaze upon thy liv.
ing face, l feel that there is something
IN the love mantles through it's beauty
that cannot wholly perish. We shall
meet again"
Year: 1869

The devil! Yes I have often seen him,
I Changeful ever in form and face;
Once In the shape Of lump Of money,


Once like q maid in her youthful grace.
Once like lifelong hope accomplished,


Once in the shape Of . thought instill'd,
Once in the guise Of my hearts ambition,


Once like q promise ofjoy fulfilled.
Year: 1869




We passed on the route great many
evidences of sepulchre, where the bones
of Indians at numerous places. At this
point they seem to have been more reg
ularly arranged and carefully deposited
The jaw bones and long bones, espec


tally. are very spongy. They have
been subjected to the dissolving pro-
cess of nitric acid, that destroyed the
earthly portion of their structure aud
left the fibr0us, making the bones as
elastic as If they were India rubber.
Looking on the sightless skulls there
in thick darkness that was as hack as
the gloom Of which Poe wrote In his
Year: 1869

The OLD WORLD EMBRACING THE
NEw.-Our correspondent on the
ground says that the scene of the
laying of "the last rail" on the
Pacific Railroad "was a grassy
valley on a mountain which di.
vides the north end Of tho Great
Salt Lake into two bays, far away
from all signs of civilization ex-
cept such as surround the two
railroad camps. A chosen party
oc skilled Chinese levelled the
ground and laid the last few ties,
and the last pair of rails were
placed and spiked to all but the
last tie," reserved for the final cer-
emony of the junction of two ends
of the mighty road. Here, then,
at the Great Salt Lake, the Dead
Sea of America, in the heart of
the Continent 0he City of the
Latter Day Saints being at the
other end of the Lake, here we
have, in the joint labors of Chi
nese and American workmen, Asia
and America hand in hand, or the
Old World embracing the New
a most interesting and suggestive
incident, ..
Year: 1869

Thirty years ago South Carroll
ma grew tea, and it was demon
strated beyond the possibility of
doubt that South Carolina could
grow tea as well assChina. 1t has
not been done, because it req uires
small and cheap labor but it will
sooner or later, be grown in the
South in large quantities. They
fired q broadside, in Chicago, q
few days ago, on the reception of
the first tea received by the Pacif
ic Railroad. 1t will not be more
than a generation before we will
fire a broadside in glorification
over the first car load of tea re-
ceived over the Cincinnati South


ern Railroad from South Carolina.
Year: 1869

ueSdilldnCc anu OcScTtlOu-A Sdu CdScs


Lizzie Rice, young lady of prepossessing
appearance, twenty-three years of age, lived
in the family of wealthy Englishman in
Bridgeport, Conn. Among the members OF
the family was susceptible youth some
years the junior of the fair Lizzie; but the
blind god, it seems, takes no account of dis
parity in years or station, and per conse-
quence the youth fell desperately in love
with the maiden, and an elopement ensued.
The lady AYERS they were married, but this
fact the parent of the young husband ignor-
ed, and refused to receive her into the paren
tai fold. They sent the husband to Bloom
field and sent her away from the house
without giving her any clue to his where
abouts. She soon discovered where he was
and went to him. They becoming aware of
this, again sent him away, this time to Eng
land, where he now is aa 81.


The poor woman finding herself thus de-
serted came to New York and engaged as a
servant in West Washington place. But
as soon as the consequences of her martial
intercourse began to become apparent they
sent her away. She then went to board in
Cornelia street, but falling in arrears she
was again turned out in the streets She
had been applying for employment at Coop
ers (Carpenter'S @ employment agency for
some time, but without avail, and upon be-
ing forced to leave her boarding place the
excitement consequent upon Il realization of
ner destitute condition-without home,
friends or money, in the midst of great
cltY-orought on premature labor, and she
was seized with convulsions on Saturday
last Officer Leaycraft took her in charge
and conveyed her to Bellevue Hospital,
whence she will be conveyed to some char.
table institution. '-F
Year: 1869

{ In the State of Maine couple got tired
of welded life and decided to separate, but
being rather short of this worlds goods,
they hardly felt like paying out the money
necessary to obtain divorce. So they went
to the old gentleman who had joined them
in the bonds of matrimony some years ago
and desired him to unite the knot The
worthy old squire scratched his head and
thought for moment, and told them there
was no way but to 60 to court.


But hold" said he, 81 have it. You
promised to live together and be true to
each other until death should you part
Come into the yard" ,,


Then seizing cat that sat in the door
way, he directed John to take her by the
head and Jane by the tail, and to pull apart
Then lifting sharp axe, he said, i


Now death doth you part"


The axe fell, anil the couple were di'
yorced
Year: 1869

There is living in this city blind lady,
still good looking, and once of great beau
ty. Years ago gambler wooed and won
her, notwithstanding the opposition Of
friends and relatives. The strangely mated
couple seemed to be devotedly attached
to each other, and years did not change their
devotion. His precarious calling took him
frequently from the city, but in all his wan
derlngs he always returned to his blind wife.
One of the marks of affection given to him
by his wife was heavy gold ring, orna-
mented on the inside with the engraved fig
ure of dog. This he wore for long time,
and as often as he visited his wife she felt
his hand to see if the mark of affection still
had its place there. At last it was missed,
and Immediately her loving heart was
crushed. her jealousy excited, and her conf
dence in her husband destroyed.


On inquiry, it was found that the ring, or
similar one, decorated the hand of noto-
rious woman, who inhabited the notorious
house known as the third national. A reple-
vim was sued out, and the ring was brought
into court, but, upon examination, it was
not the right one, and the suit was dismiss
ed.-LeaUenuortb Conservative. .u
Year: 1869

Mr.. C. G. Fulton, of the Baltimore Ameri-
can, in letter from California to his paper,
gives the following interesting information
concerning the snow-sheds on the Central
Pacific Railroad. Fifty-fve miles of snow
sheds, connected with forty-fve bridges and
tunnels, make up total of one hundred
consecutive miles of covered railroad! He
says:


"About ten miles from the summit the
track is cut out of the solid rock high up
on the mountain sides, and winds around
and up the sides oft the various peaks, some
times looking like as if it were circling
road around vast chasm, the Humboldt
river flowing along thousand feet beneath
Here it becomes necessary to protect the
track from the snow drifts, and the immense
timber sheds commence. The reader can
form no idea of the immensity OF these struc.
lures Or the solidity and durability that has
been observed in their construction. They
are in one almost unbroken stretch of fifty
five miles, and are capable of sustaining any
amount of snow that may be drifted onto
them, even if it should be forty-fve feet, as
reported by some of the early pioneers. They
extend over the whole length of the deep
snow line on the dividing ridge. By this
means the track will be as clear of snow ir
the mountains as in the valleys. They are
so constructed that the deep avalanches Of
snow that sweep down the mountains in the
spring will glide over their roofs and plunge
into the deep chasms below. They have
been erected with a full knowledge of the
character of the drifts, and were tested las
winter with entire success.


"The tunnels and bridges along this por
tion of the road are very numerous, and form
an unbroken connection with the snow
Sheds The road-bed is blasted out of th'
mountain side for hundred miles or more
and all who pass over this combined road
uniting the Atlantic with the Pacific, mus
accord the need of praise to California ener
gy, The Union Pacific, crossing deserts ant
prairie lands, had a comparatively easy por
tion of the great work to accomplish, bu
here every foot of road had to be made by
either filling or blasting. There are no pla
teaus here to cross except the Nevada Des
ert, and even it is bristling with upheavee
| rocks, or mounds of alkali mixed with


lava formation"
Year: 1869

| In our opinion there is nothing per-
tanning to the future welfare of our great
nation so fraught with danger and diff
Guilty as the railroad question which is
now agltating Congress, and in fact the
thinking men all over the land. 1t is well
known that certain rich men have been
| able to purchase the stock of various
leading roads, and thus get control of
them, being thereby enabled to make
combinations that cffee:ually cut off all
competition and leave the shipper and
the traveller at their mercy By this
course they must soon become immense
ly wealthy. The merchant must haye
goods, even though he pays three times
| as much freight as he ought to, and the
traveller must get through, though his
fare may be ten dollars instead of five.


The people of this country rejoice that
they support no Kings, Princes and Lords,
but money is power, and that these rail-
road men are rapidly acquiring vast
wealth is established beyond doubt.
They already claim the right to charge
enormous fares and freight, and as they
grow fat on their ill-gotten gains it is not
to be expected that they will ease up in
their demands. No, as they feel the
Intoxicating pleasure which mighty
wealth bestows they will drink still deep
er Of the draught, and turn the screws
still tighter on the people until every
man who travels must pay heavy trib-
ute to the Railroad kings who will then
only have to turn their attention TO pol
itics to make themselves Kings indeed.
But this cannot long be the case. The
American people rule this country, and
they will pay tribute to no man or men.
If the rulers of this nation are not deep
enough to outwit TIE railroad men, then
the time Is near when the people will
take the law into their own hands. Wealth
is power, but when two or three railroad
kings set themselves against the whole
people and all their interests, they must





control will save them from swift distruc-
ton. They may be able to buy up whole
courts of justice, they may even be able
to buy the votes of our legislators, but
still. the people will be able to protect
themselves, and we fully believe the time
is coming when the fearful alternative of
submitting the neck to the yoke or par
ticipating in revolution will be present
ed to those who now boast of their free
Z, dom. There is bill before Congress
which grants subsidy Of land to the
Pacific r. r. In our opinion ample aid
has been rendered that concern. 1t bids
fair to be one of the most monstrous
monopolies that ever existed, and we are
glad to see that it is receiving a we'll mer-
tied opposition, and we are also glad to
state that General Grant is bitterly op-
posed to giving any more such aid, at
least until the nation is out of debt. The
r. r. Kings may even now get worsted,
and it is the earnest desire Of the people
| that they may.
Year: 1869

The Racine 14duocate, takes the lib
erty' of publishing the following private
letter from Senator Howe in regard to
the Sue Murphy claim:


WAsHINGToN, Jan. 25, 1880,
a. c. Saafora-Ky Dear SIR: I see
by the AdUocate that my friends are dis
turbed by my connection with the Sue
Murphy claim. Do you understand
what that claim is and what my
connection with it is? Let me tell
you briefly. When Clark, of New
mittee on Claims, he reported in favor
of the claim, explained it fully to the
Senate and it passed unanimously. But
it did not pass the House. Near the
close Of the last session it was referred
to our committee again. [ was urged by
Anthony of Rhode Island and Wade of
Ohio, to report it back to the Senate.
| told them that the session was so near
to close that [ could not get the Com
mittee to examine it, but if they desired
it would get their consent to report it
back without recommendation and they
might submit it to the Senate if they
wished. l did so but it was to late !;
IL WdS uOl Cdlicd u u uullI lulS- session.,
then the same. bill that passed unani.
mously before, led to debate of nearly
three weeks. The only question discuss
ed was, whether we would pay for prop
erty not destroyed in battle or on march
but tahen and used by the government
not from rebel but from a rebel but
from loyal citizen, not within district
occupied by the eaemy but permanently
occupied by Us.


That was the whole question Now at
the close Of the debate, question arose
about the loyalty Of the claimant, l be-
gan to doubt it, and at my instance it
was recommitted. Surely, you cannot
suppose. nor can my friends in Wiscon-
sin suppose that am in favor of paying
rebels for their property You will not
believe this until you have better evi-
dence than the Chicago Tribune. You
will see my speech soon and | am sure
you will be just to me which the Tribune
never Was. Yours truly.


Z. o. Howe.
Year: 1869

There is a trial in progress in Con-
necticut the point Of which is the inquiry
whether or not a man is a pauper. He
says he is not a pauper. somebody else
says he is and meantime he is kept in
prison in the aims house.


1t is the opinion around here that
there is similarity between the
Connecticut individual and some in this
county who have received and from the
Poor Fund during the past year.
Year: 1869

Algiers is the best country for live
ly wars. A dispatch from there, yester.
day afternoon, announced the breaking
out of revolution, and another three
hours later, announced his suppression
But there was doubtless time enough for
somebody to make money in stock and
breadstuffs. M
Year: 1869

If you know of a friend suffering from
irratation Of Throat Lungs, or Chest, or
il any way troubled with Kidney Com
plants advise, them Or try White Pine
Compound. They will never regret the
trial, but will thank you for the advice.
Year: 1869

GENERAL CANBY.-Several days ago in
formation was received at Washington from
Texas stating that General Reynolds had
arrived to relieve General Candy, and the
latter would leave for Virginia right away.


A telegram from General Candy received
here several days ago also contained infor-
nation that when relieved he would come
without delay to Virginia. We may, there
fore, confidently expect him here early
next week-certainly by the middle Of the
week
Year: 1869

The valedictory Of the late editor Of The
Vermont Record and Farmer is model Of
terseness and propriety: g As announced
in another column, / am done with this
paper. 1 am not sorry, and suppose the
majority of the people are not. All being
pleased, there is no need of further re-
mark @


A recent writer has descanted on the
danger Of keeping the mouth opsn while
asleep. The great trouble with most per-
sons arises from the practice while awake
Year: 1869

JUDsoN B. WOOD tenders his services to the
public in all the various branches Of dentistry. Ii
you want teeth drawn without pain, or plugged In
the geLtiest manner, or q new set Of teeth In
serted we c,n recommend him as one who is thu
roughly skilled IN his art. His cfiice Is on Main
between Seventh and Eighth streets.
Year: 1869

JUDGE BUaNHAM.-In consequence Of the
continued indisposition of this officer, Judge
BramhaIl will take his place on Monday
next, when the regular term of the court
will commence. s5.-
Year: 1869

Enermous Increase Of Renl Estate Taxes.


Ten years ago we bought piece OF pro-
perty ut Fort Washington for which we paid
ninety thousand dollars. We are now told
that it is worth from eight hundred thousand
to million dollars. We do not believe 1t is.
Although we hear of great many other
pieces Of property that are said to have in
creased in nearly the same degree we do not
believe that the real value of property on the
island is greater than 1t was ten years ago In
anything like this proportion. These excessive
prices are simply bubbles blown by the specu-
lators, who are as active just now in real
estate as they have been at other times in the
mining line and in oil companies. Real estate
transactions are managed somewhat as gold
transactions are in Wall street, where men
Operate millions of dollars without touching
a cent. Some spcculator ''buys" piece OF
property with small sum down, leaving the
bulk of the price in mortgages. He then puts
it in the market, publishes his maps, an
nounces improvements and so on, and if the
thing takes and he can run the property up he
bcllS Oub duu pOChctS tuo hOAS"oO' ~ s'Ao
property goes through two or three hands,
every new owner pocketing his ten, fifteen or
fifty thousand dollars, and at last the land
really falls back to the hands of the original
owner-the holder of the mortgages
by legitimate increase, rather more than it was
in the first place, but nothing like the figures
it has been sold at. People may suppose that
the owner of the land is none the worse for
all this, and that it is no harm to any one that
his property should be declared worth mil
lion, though it be worth in fact less than
half that. This is a mistake. These
fictitious values are real injury; for while
they exist only in the brains of the spectators
they affect the assessment of property for
taxation, and thus impose upon it burdens
greater than it ought to bear. Commonly it
is supposed that the assessment is about half
the value Of the property, but property is run
up in these fancy prices to three and four
times its real value, and assessments made at
half these prices are necessarily very burden
some. Taxes are sufficiently large by legiti-
mate increase without such addition, and this
evil should induce some common action in re-
gard to it on the part Of real estate owners.