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Year: 1869

Most people like to be handsome


Nobody denies the greater power any
person may have who has a good face,
and whe attracts you by good looks,
even before word has been spoken
And We see all sorts of devices in men
and women 10 improve their looks
paints aid washes, and all kinds of
cosmetics, including plentiful annoint-
ing with dirty hair oil.


Now net every one can have good
features. They are as God made them {;
but almost any one can look we'll, sspec-
tally with good health. 1t is hard to
give rules in very short space, but in
brief these will do.


Keep clean-wash freely and uDiver-
sally with cold water All the SKIN
wants is leave to act freely and it will
take care of itself. Its thousands of air
holes must not be plugged up.


Eat regularly and simply. The stom-
ach can no more work all the time,
night and day.. than horse; it must
have regular work and regular rest.


Good teeth are . help TO good looks -
Brush them with n soft brush, especially
at night. Go TO bed with teeth clean.-
OF course to have white teeth, it is need
full To let tobacco alene. Every woman
knows that. And powder or wash for
the teeth, should be very simple
Acids may whiten the teeth, but they
take off enamel or injure 1t.


Sleep in o cool room, in pure air. No
one can have clean skin who breathes
bad air. But more than all, in order to
look well-wake up the mind and soul.


When the>mind is awake, the dull,
sleepy look passes away from the eyes.
II "A - nf I'm hot ho
but it seems to- Think, read-not trashy
novels, but books that have something
in them. Talk with people that know
hear lectures and learn by
them.


This is one good of preaching. A man
thinks and works and tells US the re-
suit. And if we listen, and hear, and
the mind and soul are
worked.


If the spiritual nature is aroused so
much the better.


We have seen plain face really glo-
'ified by the love of God and man
which shown through it.
: Let US grow handsome.


Men say they can't afford books, and
sometimes the, don't even pay for their
In that case, it does them
little good, they must feel so mean while
hey are reading it.


But men can afford what they really
choose. If all the money spent in self
in hurtful Indulgence, was
pent in b .oks, self improvements; We
hould see change. Men would grow
and women too. The soul
would shine out through the eyes. We
we're not meant to be mere animals.


Let us have books and read them. ami
ectures and hear them, and sermons
md heed them.
Year: 1869

A SWEET TEMPER.-No trait of char
acter is more available in u woman that
the possession. of q sweet temper. Home
can never be made happy without it. 1t
is like flower that springs up in our
pathway; reviving and cheering us. Let
a man 90 home at night wearied by the
tolls OF the day; and how soothing is a
word dictated by a good disposition? II
is sunshine on his heart. Study then;
to acquire and retain sweet temper! it
is more valuable than gold; it captivates
more than beauty.
Year: 1869

GEN. GRANT AND THE EIGHT HOUR LAW
Gen. Grant is surely to be commended for cut
ting the Goulian knot, into which the lawyers
have twisted the eight hour law. That law,
nobody will dispute, was passed as a concession
to laboring men. AS construed by Messrs.
Evarts and Hoar, it is no concession whatever.
Workingmen would prefer to work ten hours
instead of eight rather than to suffer reduc-
tion of wages. The construction given at the
Attorney Generals Office therefore makes the
law one of the most disgracefal swindles that
was ever devised by legislative body. Gen.
Grants idea evidently is that Congress could
not have intended to perpetrate fraud, ana
that it passed the eight hour law in good faith
In answer to the opportunities OF millions OF
American citizens Whether or not Congress
was guilty of weakness in hardening to the
clamor of laborers, and whether the law vio-
lates the fundamental principles Of political
economy, it is not his business to inquire. He
promised in his inaugural address to execute
the laws, whether he approved them personal
ly or not, holding that such a course was not
only that which the requirements of his Office
compelled him to adopt, but that it was better
calculated than any other to bring ahput re-
peal of unwise statutes His proclamation in
regard to the eight hour law is entirely in ac-
cord with his declarations at the beginning of
his administration. The proclamation shows
that his common sense and natural good judg-
ment are in this case better than the technical
reason of his legal advisers. he so construes
the lew as to make Congress body OF honest,
even if misguided. men; his advisers so con-
strue it as to concede that Congress could
stoop to engage in a scheme which would
make gift enterprises relatively honest and
commendable.
Year: 1869

TIE NAME of Gen. Imboden of Virginia be-
came unfortunately familiar to the ears of
Northern men during the war, and it seems
o little strange now to find the same name
that used to be mentioned only in dispatches
from the front, appended to document invit-
ing Yankee Vandals" in the most courteous
and cordial terms to 60 to Virginia, buy land
and make themselves at home among the chiv-
airy. He gives every assurance that they will
be as safe from molestation in Virginia as they
would be in Massachusetts,, and as proof of
the unqualified acceptance of the situation by
his people, he mentions the fact that Gen.
Walker of Norfolk, a Northern man and a
Grant Republican, is about to receive the en-
tire native white vote of the State for Govern
or. Imboden is the agent of State Board of
Immigration, having associated with him an
other agent whose official duty It is to induce
European emigration. The ex-rsbel uses the
most enticing language in regard to the advan-
tages afforded by Virginia for the investment
of capital in real estate and only in ono re-
spect does he disclose the existence of the old
Southern prejudices that involved those who
held them in such misfortunes. For the lack
Of "that provident forecast which the white
man possesses" he says that the negroes will
never become landowners, and this supposed
fact he makes use of as an additional induce
ment to emigration, since labor under the cir
cumstances must always be cheap.
Year: 1869

A RARE BIT OF NATURAL HISTORY.
haps our readers will remember an account we
gave few days ago of supper on hen CLAIMS
at Saco. A writer in the York County Inds-
pendent writes this about the origin of the
name of this bivalve. 1t is too deep philoso-
ply for US and we turn it over to the great
public: "What their scientific name may be
we don't know, but if our appetite doesn't
overcome our desire for scientific knowledge,
we propose to send the first dozen of nice ones
we may get to Professor Agassiz for his in
spection. Their common name originated in
this wise. Their beds are SO far from
the shore that they are rarely un-
covered even at the lowest tides, but
under certain conditions of the wind and
waves they are torn from their habitatons
and washed in rows upon the beach. The
hens of the early settlers at Old Orchard used
to go upon the beach, and, attrastsd by the
dainty morsels, introduced their bills into the
opening of the bivalvular shells. OF course,
the shells closed, and the hens started for
home, each with bivalve depending from her
beak'
Year: 1869

THERE is kind of grim humor in Secretary
Boutwelrs disregard of the fretting and fuming
OF the New York gold-gam blers, and his
replying to their frantic protests by giving
snem two millions instead of one million of
goid week to take care Of Whatever may be
tnougnt OF his abilities as financier, he has
established his claim to be known as a man of
"backbone."
Year: 1869

OPERA.-We learned last evening that the
proposed opera performance to be given by
Miss Kellogg on Wednesday evening next is
postponed until the last of June. In connec-
tion with this subject we should like to say
few words. 1t has been customary, from time
to time, for .operatic managers to announce
one or two nights of opera in this city. When
the audience were assembled they discovered
that the so-called opera was simply an operatic
concert. In lieu of all the conccmitants that
go to make up an opera, such as good princi-
pal performers, chorus, orchestra. costumes,
&C., they were treated to the principal airs of
the opera sung by our first class artist and sey-
eral third or fourth class assistants, no chorus
or orchestra, the accompaniment TO the vocal
lists consisting of piano. The price of the
tickets had been placed at high figure re-
quiring quite drain upon the purses of many
who are very fond of musie-and can properly
be called musical people-if they wished to at
tend. Those of them that did go, finding they
were swindled, for we can call it by no milder
term, took pretty good care not to be caught
again, and consequently our citizens, general
ly speaking, have fought pretty shy of opera
performances. Now we do not mean to reflect
at all upon Miss Kellogg or her management,
for we know nothing about how perfect an
opera company sac intended to bring with
her, but we write this for the benefit of opera
managers who may propose to give an operatic
concert at one dollar and half ticket-and
call it bona fide opera-that they may not
complain # they find it losing speculation liz
Portland
Year: 1869

THE FACT that the last Democratic Presi-
dent pardoned t,oo hundred and thirty persons
convicted of offences which had direct rela-
ton to the revenue and the currency ought
to stop the mouths of the Democrats who
complain Of Radical mismanagement of the f.
nances. With virtual impunity offered to all
who were unprincipled enough to steal from
the Treasury, the only wonder is that the coun-
try did not become bankrupt before the 4th of
Year: 1869

Dz0oRArroS QAx.s~rt Is to be hoped that
Dur citizens will contribute literally in flowers
and money towards the decorating of the
graves of those who laid their all upon the al
tar of patriotism. When the nations life was
in danger 1t seemed as if there was not enough
that the people could do to encourage the
strength and manhood of the country to take
up arms in its defence. Women, both the gem
tly nurtured and those accustomed to labor,
side by side worked their fingers to the bone
to equip the brave volunteers; and those busi-
ness men who could not go-either from age,
disability or the calls OF business-gave freely
and frequently of their wealth to furnish sup
plies of all kinds. Many of those brave war
riors now sleep peacefully in the thousands of
cemeteries scattered all over the country.


But the soork that they have accomplished
survives them and to-day instead of divid-
ed country we see the stars and stripes waving
over every foot of land from the Canadian from
tiers to the Cult of Mexico, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. If then we could do so much
for those when living, who have done so much
more for us, is it not proper that on one day in
the year, if not oftener, we should drop at
least sprig Of rosemary or cluster of pam
sizes upon their graves to prove that their gall
liant services are not forgotten We are aware
that the season is not far enough advanced in
Maine for a great variety and profusion OF
flowers, but let each contribute whatshe or he
can and let them remember also that their as
sistance in making up wreaths and bouquets
at Grand Army Hall from Wednesday to
Saturday will be thankfully received.
Year: 1869

PARTIES wanting good trade in linen goods
must remember the auction sale at Bailey s
sales-room, Exchange street They are clos
ing out the balance of the fine linen stock at
Very low prices
Year: 1869

Local Editor Dispatch:


\ friend has called my attention to an
article in your last Wednesdays issue
headed Magistrates Court of Chester
field" etc., in which there are several in
accuracies. After the court was opened,
with some fifteen members on the bench,
| requested permission to make personal
explanations and to deny certain state
ments which had been freely circulated by
my encmies-statemcnts infamously false
and as black as the heart of the author. |
told the court that certain parties had sue
ceeded in getting the commanding General
to remove me from my office, but would
say to those parties, g Beware, the heads
man stalks behind you !" | did not
threaten to make them feel it before night,
nor did in any way, shape or form, con-
dcmn or impugn, the commanding Gene
raj for removing me. With the light
which had been given him regarding scenes
which had occurred in that court a few
weeks before, | have ever found him q
gentleman, kind and accommodating, and
making every effort to do justice to all.


did not faint while addressing the court,
but some time afterwards, while quietly sit
ting in chair conversing with member
of the bar, feeling an oppression in my
throat, to which I an subject. attempted
to break open my shirt collar: but fell from
the chair before could do 60. Ny collar
was torn open, and | revived in less than a
minute.


This happened long after the removal OF
Mr.. Walker, and could not possibly have
been caused by speech denouncing and
threatening him. The confusion WAS
caused by the removal of Mr.. Raul3,on,
when one of the justices, who was not in
court at the time, came in, and as am told,
said that he was going into court to elect a
good Conservative or break the id
Year: 1869

TIE SWEET SPRINGS BALL.-The White
Sulphur ball proved grand success, and
the pleasure-seekers are looking anxiously
forward to the grand ball to come OFT at the
Sweet Springs on Tuesday next. The Sweet
is full, and The ball will be splendid
gurpcsE
Year: 1869

6cated in the law at the feet of CANA
lieI, also acquired the important Oriental
handicraft of a tentmaker, by which he
was able to earn his living while prose
+. cutting his mission. 1t is good and wise
>Spg to do. You may be able to send
y6r children fortunes, but ''ricbes take


them selves wings You may give
hem finished education and they may


kgifted with extraordinary genius but
Ity may be placed in situations where
no education and no talent may be so
available as some humble honest trade,
By which they can get their living and
be useful to others.
Year: 1869

THE BREAK IN THE CANAL.-The break
which occurred in the canal about ten days
since is being rapidly repaired. 1t will
probably be completed in about three weeks.
In the mean time, freight and passengers
suffer no detention other than the time ne
cessarily consumed in transferring them
across the opening, regular lines Of packet
and freight boats running from it to either
npd ne rho line
Year: 1869

AGAIN on THE LINE. The favorite
steamer Kennebec, Captain Freeman, Of
thc York River line, will tomorrow morn
ing resume her regular trips from West
Point to Baltimore, connecting With the
York River railroad at the former place.
The Kennebec is now in excellent repair,
makes good time, and will no doubt be as
popular SIS ever.
Year: 1869

The GRANT-PoLLARD TRIAL.-The off
GERS who went to Norfolk and Alexandria
to obtain jurors to try Grant are due in
court with their seventy-two men at II
o'clock this morning. The case will be
taken up at that hour.
Year: 1869

Or ALL PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SALES OF REAL
ESTATE MADE BETWEEN THE FIRST DAY OF
JANUARY AND THE FIRST DAY OF JULY THE
PURCHASER PAYS THE TAXES FOR THE PRE-
FIRST DAY OF JULY AND THE THIRTY-FIRST ST
DAY OF DECEMBER THE SELLER PAYS THEM
Year: 1869

l make to-day another reduction In the price of
COAL snd WOOD, and challenge comparison as
TO the quality and cheapness of the fuel which
deliver free


ANTHRACITE, CLOVER HILL LUMP,
HARD GLOVER HILL, and HAIL COAL, now
on hand Also OAK AND PINE WOOD, OAK
AND PINE WOOD. CHE RLES Fl. PAGE,


fuel dealer, Nineteenth and Cary
fe "a and SeYenth and Grace streets.
Year: 1869

Those who have lived much in the
jungle in Ceylon, and had constant
opportunities of watching the habits
of wild elephants, have witnessed in
stances of the submission of herds to
their leaders, that suggests an in-
quiry Of singular interest as to the
means adopted by the latter to COM
municate with distinctness orders
which are observed with the most i'm
plicit obedience by their followers.


The following narrative of an ad-
venture in the great central forest
toward the north of the island was
communicated by Major Skinner. who
was engaged for some time in survey
ing and opening roads through the
thickly wooded districts there, will
serve better than any abstract de-
scription to convey an idea of the
conduct of a herd on such occasions:


"The case you refer to struck me as
exhibiting something more than ordi
nary brute instinct, and approached
nearer to reasoning powers than any
other instance | can now remember
cannot do justice to the scene, al
though it appeared to me at the time
to be so remarkable that it left deer
impression in my mind


In the height of the dry season il
Neuera-K -Kalawa, you know the stream
Year: 1869

be artifcially maintained. His aston
ishment was great when be saw that


at the end of two hours not only did
respiration still continue under the in


fluence of the electric current, but that
circulation had even resumed GER


tain regularity. The pulse beat fee
bly,, but sensibly. The experiment
was continued without intermission.
At the end of sixty-two hours it was
evident to the astonishment of every
one that process of cicatrisation had
commenced on the lips of the section.
A little later signs of life manifested


themselves spontaneously in the head
and limbs till then deprived of motion.
At this moment the director of the
prison arriving for the first time in
the experiment room observed that
by singular mistake, due to the
haste of the operation, the head of


Carines had been taken for that of
Aveiro, and had been applied to the
body of the latter. The experiment
was continued Notwithstanding. Three
days later the respiratory movements
reproduced themselves and electricity
was suppressed. DR.. Lorenzo Carmo
aud his assistants were stupefed,
frightened at the result so unexpect-
ed, and at the power of an agent
which in their hands, had restored
life to body whose right to exist the
law had forfeited. The surgeon who
had only had in view simple physi-
illogical experiment, employed all his
skill to continue this work, which
science aided against all expectation
by nature had so singularly commenc-
ed. He assisted the process Of cica-
trisation, which progressed under the
most favorable conditions. By means
Of an nsophagian probe liquid nour-
ishment was introduced into the stom-
ach. At the end of about three months
the cicatrisation was complete, and
motion, though still difficult, became
more and more extended. At length


at the end of seven months and a half
Aveiro- Carines was able to rise and
walk, feeling only slight stiffness il
the neck and a feebleness in the limbs
Year: 1869

rhe snow had begun in the cleaning.
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.
Every pine and fir and hemock
Wore ermine too dear for an earl;
And the poorest twig on the elm tree
Was rigged inch deep with pearl.
From sheds new rooted with Carrara
Came Chanticleer's mufled crow;
The stiff rails were softened to swans down,
And still luttered down the snow.
I thought of mound in sweet Auburn.
Where little headstone stood
How the flakes were folding it gently,
As did robins the babes in the wood.
Up spoke our little Mabel,


Saying, 'Father what makes the snow -
And told her the good All Father.
Who cares for US al below
Again looked at the snow fall,
And thought of the leaden sky
That arched Ger our first sorrow,
When that mound was heaped so high.
l remember the gradual patience
That fell from that cloud like snow;
Flake by flake healing and hiding
The scar of our deep plunged woe.
And again to the child whispered,
"The snow that visiteth all,
Darling, the merciful Father


Alone can make it falln'
Then, with eyes that saw not, kissed her,
And she kissing back, could not know
That my kiss was given to her sister.
Folded close under the deep'ning snow.


james Russell LotoeR.
Year: 1869

For several weeks past | have been
looking at the future greatness and
grandeur of our country, but it is
worth while now and then to look
backward, that we may see how fast
and how far we have travelled. 1t is
especially fitting that we should recall
the past in these waning hours of the
year.


l purpose, therefore, in this and
other communications that will follow,
to bring to remembrance some of the
scenes and incidents of by-gone days,
for with the close of the year | shall
bid goodbye to the readers Of The
Journal, with whom | have had famil.
lar intercourse since 1861.


1t will be a melancholy pleasure tC
recall the past-to walk over historic
ground, to behold the Army Of the
Republic facing the foe, to hear the
roar of battle and the shout Of victo
ry-to summon from their graves the
heroic dead, held in sweet remcm
branCe now and evermore.


1t seems a dream, and | cannot
make it real-only when | turn over
the torn and tattered note books ly-
ing in my drawer, carried on many a
battlefield, scrawled and scribbled
with marks made when moments were
ages. when all the Past with its i'm
perishablo glories and the Future with
its transcendant possibilities hung OIL
the issue of the moment.


To any eye but mine these scrawl;
would be spiders tracks; but what a
food Of memories sweep over me as
look upon them Marches by day aad
night, rides through deep forests
along lonely paths, where every STUMP
is a sentinel, every bush a rebel
Camp fires blaze around me. Regi
ments pass by with swinging step
hurrying into battle. | hear again
the booming of cannon, the roll of
musketry, the thunder of battle-but
louder than all, the wild hurrah of
victory
Year: 1869

The following comments upon a sub.
iect recently treated in the Journal
should be carefully pondered by young
men who propose to make living by
seeking little offices. Says the Detroit
Free Press:


"Washington is a great big ,pauper
house for young clerks, anxious to
grow gray in the positions they hold,
because they have become untitled for
anything else. They have lost their
individuality at home, where they
might have had ambition, and they are
simple meniaIs here. At first they
meet the member of Congress from
their district with ''good morning."
feeling that they are of some lmpor-
tance, as they had helped to elect him
TO Congress, but this soon wears of,
as the member soon learns that they
have no longer influence at home
that they are IN banishment-andt they
gradually learn that they are only ex-
pected to touch their hat to the MEM
ber, for he is all-pOwerful to
keep them in the places they hold.
Their ambition and pride soon lower
them, for once a clerk never above a
clerk here. In little while new
member appears from the district, and
the clerk is not even recognized. If he
retains his place, for which there are
always new score of applicants, sym
pathY keeps him, or he Is accidentally
overlooked. II he loses it, and has
saved enough, and gets back to his old
home, he finds he is played'-he has
not progressed with the age-his old as,
sociates are in prosperous business and
he is pauper with no show of employ
ment. There are scores here who nave
lost their places and are ready to do
any kind OF work for living, having
toiled, some of them, for months and
years TO get out of debt and save mon.
ey enough to get home-for they will
continue to cali the place they original
ly came from home; yet they would be
strangers if they could get there.