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Year: 1868

MEN WHO WIN WoNEN-God has so
made the sexes that women. like children,
cling to men; lean upon them for protec.
ton, care, and love look mp to them as
though they were superior in mind and
body. They make them the suns of their
system, and they and their children re-
vove around them. Men are gods, if they
but knew it, and women burning incense
at their shrines, Women, therefore, who
have good minds and pure hearts want
men to lean upon. Think of their reyer
encing a drunk ard, liar, fool, Or lib
ertine. If man would have woman to
do him homage he must be manly in every
Rense a true gentleman, not after the
Chesterfield school, but polite, because his
heart Is fall of kindness to all !; one who
treats her with respect, even Difference,
because size is a woman who never con.
descends to say silly things to her who
brings her up to his level, if his mind is
above hers who is never over anxious to
please but always anxious to do right:
who has no time to be frivolous with her
always dignifed in speech and act; who
never spends too much upen her who
never yields to temptation, even if she
put it in his way; who is ambitious to
make his mark III the world, whether she
encourages him or not /; who is never
familiar with her to the extent of being
an adopted Brother or cousin; who is not
over careful about dress always pleasant
and consderate, but always keeping his
place of the man, the head, and never
losing it. Such department., with noble
principles, good mind, energy and III.
dustry, will win any woman in the world
who is worth winning fr
Year: 1868

We copy as follows from the last num- Der of the Turf, Field and Farm:

 The steam man is to walk for q wager EIe is to tramp from New York city to Albany, New York 4 gentleman has wagered sl ,o0o that he cannot go the dis tance without breaking down. The friends of the steam man are confident that he will win. He will only travel in the dey-.ime, not for inc reason that sleep is necessary to him, bu; ont of considcra- ten of the comforts of his attendants. The inventor of this wonderful machine is having others manufactured. 4 strong, healthy man can be built for $500, the price that many brave people in the North had to pay for substitute in the late war. when troops were in demand. If the steam man is made to walk, why cannot be he indneed to fight An army of such fellows would Dc invincible. Besides, fighting our battles with cast iron by steam would be q great stride toward enlightened warfare. With armies com rosed of such material to settle national disputes, success would depend upon the skill of inventors and the energy of mnu- lecturers; and then the civilized world would not be mortified with descriptions of

 

 ghaatly and bloody battle scenes"
Year: 1868

Cooking is not "the art of providing dainty bits to fatten out the ribs" as the old proverb has it 1t is the art of turning every morsel to the best use it is the exercise of skill, thought, ingenuity to make every morsel of food yield the utmost nourishment and pleasure of which it is capable. To do this, or to legislate for the doing of 1t, does not depend on the amount of money spent; the same quail ties of character are demandedNwhether the housekeeping lie on a large or a small scale.

 X woman who Is not essentially kind hearted cannot be comfortable house. keeper woman who has not judgement, frmness, forethought, and general good sense, cannot manage her house prudently or comfortably, no matter what amount of money she may have at her command a woman who has an eye for detecting aud remedying disorderliness and carelessness cannot keep her house fresh and pleasant, no matter how much money she may spend on furniture and upholstery. It is not money, but management, that is requisite in procuring comfort in house. hold arrangements.

 Of course, nobody asks impossibilities !; none but the Jews ever yet succeeded in making bricks without straw," and even they found it difficult, and lamented wearily; but the woman with limited means may make her things as perfect af- ter their kind as the woman with ample means, only she will be obliged to put more of herself into the management, and this element of personality has charm which no appointments made through the best staff of servants can possess-it is 8 luxury that money cannot buy, and generally flinders. The luxury of comple- teness must always depend on the indiyid- ual care aud skill of the mistress. That . thing should be perfect after its kind is all that can be required

 Bacon and venison lie at the opposite ends of the economical scale; but if the woman whose means allow her to procure bacon only is careful to have it 50 dressed and served that it is as good as bacon ought to be, she has attained the only perfection required at her hands and it is the higher qualities brought to bear on common action which give to the result beauty and value not its own. We are all so much creatures of imagination that we think more of the signiiod than of the actual fact When man secs his table nicely set out he believes in the goodness of his dinner in way that would be inn possible with the selfsame dinner on ! soiled tablecloth with sloyenly arrange. ment.- Southern Ruralist.
Year: 1868

A CORRESPONDENT sends us the report Of a.
school house speech of some rural Cicero, hoping
We will find it convenient "to fill up with
We are afraid too many persons who are kind
enough to furnish us with extracts from other
papers or manuscripts of their own, imagine we
are always in distress for something to fill up
with" Now it is true, that the want of some
thing to fill up with" is generally crying one
among country editors, but it is not mater to
I'LL up the columns of their papers that distress
% them. We can assure our friends that it
causes us . great deal more trouble to decide
what to exclude from, than what to put into our
columns. But what we want ''to fill up with"
is -four, potatoes, pork, greenbacks, &c. ard it is
hungry stomachs and an empty pocket boob rath-
Or than our columns that are suffering for some
thing to fill mp with"


We court and invite correspondence-rArtie
ularly 'local" correspondence from all parts of
this county, to which the circulation of our pa.
per is mainly confined. But in making use of
such correspondence, we must bog Of our friends
TO allow us to use our own discretion. What
We mainly want is facts simply; and as our
space is always limited, our friends who do US
the favor to send us facts, must pardon us if we
are even compelled greatly to cut these down
II We could give report square or two in
length from every town in the country each
week, it would form very interesting and
often valuable memorandum, and could be made
to include oil except in rare and sxceptional
cases, that need be reported
Year: 1868

The grand Firemen's Tournament at Ottawa
takes place on Friday OF next week, and We are
advised that at least half dozen Of splendid COM
panies from abroad will positively be present. SO
that it promises to be one of the most splendid
affairs Of The sort ever held in northern Illinois
The festivities will be rounded off with mag.
nifcent ball at Turner Hall in tho evening, at
which not only many strangers, but it is hoped
many of the leading citizens of Ottawa will be
present.
Year: 1868

SCOTT, HoUTzE SEQ. have opened during the
past week some Of the finest delaines, poplins
and other fall and winter dress goods over seen
in this market These goods were all bought
before the rise in gold, are very superior, and
are seld cheaper than you will probably be again
able to buy such goods in year Or more.
Year: 1868

No BOGUS THERE.-Do you know that out Of
20 pairs OF French calf boots sold in Ottawa, the
leather Of hardly one pair ever saw France? To
get the genuine article you are always safe in
calling on HALBERT & NRGAFrlN. They are
honorable men, and never represent goods to be
what they are not.
Year: 1868

A family ice house need not be an ex-
pensive structure. 1t may be built
cheaply, subserve it's object eXcellently,
and add to the attractions of home
stead by being a slightly object. A
building of twelve feet square, and
eight or nine feet high is sufficient for
the wants of the most exacting family.
1t may be frame building, entirely
above the surface of the ground, and
better if supported on posts, elevated a
few inches, to be certain cf good drain
age. Bailt of joists, two by three
inches, with an outer boarding, having
inside another series of uprights, also
boarded, from six to ten inches removed
from the outer shell, with solid floor
of plank, the space between the two
walls filled with tan, sawduSt, straw, or
chaff, and roof of good pitch, the ice
house is complete. A drain for water
should be made from the floor, and the
space above the uprights, between a
loose flooring and the pitch of the roof,
filled with straw, hay or some similar
dry, porous material. On the roof
should be ventilor, the top defended
frem the rain or snow.


The ice should be packed in one solid
mass, the sides not reaching the inner
walls of the building, but allowing a
space of from six to twelve inches all
round. The. top of the ice should be
covered with straw, and the door should
be like the sides of the building, OF
double doors should be made, one in
the outer and the other in the inner
wall. Plant morning glories or any
climbing plant around the building and
induce them to creep up the walls and
over the roof as an additional defence
against the fervid sun of summer.
Year: 1868

1t is recorded of our old friend Blue
beard, not as he is rehashed by NJ. Oten-
bach, but as we remember him in the
original chronicle, that he paid an an
nual visit to the unhappy closet in
which the bodies of his murdered wives
were concealed from public and vulgar
scrutiny. 1t must have afforded genu-
inc consolation to his heart thus sadly,
yet sternly, to contemplate the forms OF
contumacious womanhood no longer
able to rebel, and to reflect that justice
is unyielding as she is blind; for, in the
time of Bluebeard, hardly less than in
our own time, treason was made odious
and rebels punished. So long as Blue
beard lived, and so long as the closet in
his castle remained to him, he could
not be entirely wIetched; and in nothing
was the mercy of providence and tho
good baron's excellent behavior mere
clearly demonstrated than by the stimuli
taneous destruction of the one and the
other, of Bluebeard, castle, closet and
all, at one fell sweep of destiny.


Mr.. Secretary Stanton is less fsrtu-
nate, and therefore we must suppose
him more undeserving of providence.
Fort Lafayette is gone, but he remains.
Never more may he visit the sanctuary
of justice and freedom, except to gaze
upon it's ruins. Never more may he
look through those iron easements and
consider how sweet is little brief
authority. Out of his majesty did he
build it up and consecrate it in the name
of liberty; and out of heavens resent
hnr ID Nv
Unhappy man! He lives, but the shrine
is gone.


"ro walk about spectre DER the land,


Nor know one spot congenial TO his soul"


Could his bitterest enemy wish him a
worse fatei Is this not punishment
enoughf Think how he must have felt
when he read the news; what poignant
regret must have seized his heart; what
a thrill of sorrow taken possession of
him; and as one who hears that his
monument has been destroyed, or his
effigy suspended from some swinging
limb or lamp-post, how he must have
burned and turned cold with alternate
floods of anger and bereavement, of
mortified vanity and impotent rage. 1t
is over now, and all that is of Fort La
fayette is the memory of Stanton's
happy days and a few hundred graves
that memorialize the stars in his behalf.


He may 60 there now by night and
peruse the spot under the mooishine
and ponder on the vanity of power and
the ingratitude of republics. But he
must not look to build it up agaiu, for
its fallis ominous. He will not be Sec
retsry of War again. They may send
him out of the country-perhaps they
will send him-and this must suffice.
Since Lafayette is no more, what mat
ter to him f-Courier- Journal.
Year: 1868

The Rothschild who died lately in
France is found to have left an estate
of about four hundred millions of dol
lars. His family is, consequently, in
easy circumstances. In this country be
would have passed for rich man. All
classes of people seem to have mourned
his death, and his body was followed to
the grave by about five thousand peo-
ple-chiefy the poor of the neighbor-
hood in which he lived. He is said to
have been very charitable, and was uni
versally beloved, which speaks much
more in praise of his character than
does the enormous wealth which he had
accumulated.
Year: 1868

A writer says: eve are troubled often
with severe coughs, the result of colds
of long standing, which may turn to
consumption or premature death. Hard
coughs cause sleepless nights by constant
irritation of the throat, and strong Ell
fort to throw off offensive matter from
the lungs. The remedy proposed has Of
ten been tried, and is simply to take into
the stomach before retiring for the
night piece of raw onion after chew.
ing. This esculent in an uncooked
state is very heating, and collects the
water from the lungs and throat, cans
ing immediate relief to the patient
WashinGtOn Chronicle.
Year: 1868

And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills. will find
in the use of this BITrERS, or the TONIC, an


elixir that will instl new life into their veins,


restore in measure the energy and ardor of


more youthful days, build up their shrunken


forms, and give health and happiness in their
remaining Nrars.
Year: 1868

AN OFFICER HELD FOR AssAULrINd CIT rKN.-
The case Of James Tohey, an oficer OF the Twenty
seventh precinct, charged by Matthew Hannah, OF
Is Washington street, with having struck him four
or I've times on the head with his club, was under
examination before Justice Hogan at the Tombs
yesterday afternoon. Ellen Jennings swore to the
commission Of the assault on Harmon by the onicer,
and In her opinion there was no JUSTIFICATION on MS
part for so doing. Hugh McArde testified that Han
mans wife called the ofcer into the house to arrest
and abusive saying he would not be taken out. The
witness did not sec the Oficer strike the complain
YIN the s d mot think the
duty called him into the house to make
an arrest the offence III any being trivial In Its char
Hogan declared his intention to hold the of1cer TO
answer the assault and gave him till to-day to elect
whether he would be tried in the Court Of General or
Special Sessions. Tohey was not required to give
ball. as he can be found at any time.


OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Unolt young man, yes
terday entered the store of Messrs Topping b Co.,
132 Church street. and while there 1t is alleged, he
felonousy appropriated to his own use package of
pocket handkerchiefs and piece of silk velvet with
which he attempted to escape but was intercepted
and taken In charge by officer Higgins Of the Inde
pendent Detective Police, with the goods in his pos
session. UnOlt taken before Justice Hogan, and
committed to the TOmbs for trial.


ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO PRosELITE YOUNG GIRL
Justice Connolly, at the Yorkville Police Court has
just had singular case brought before him. Mrs.
Tuomy. poor woman living at the corner Of Third
avenue and 117th street, charges Mr.. Cladn with
the attempt to prosee her daughter thirteen years
Of age. About three years ago Mrs. Tuomy, who is
Catholic, through poverty was compelled to send
her little daughter to the family Of Mr.. Clan who
Is Methodist to earn her living. Recently she dis
covered that her child was taken regularly to the
ferred the complaint Acting under the direction Of
priests in charge Of the Catholic Protectory the
mother procured O warrant for the arrest OF her





Justice Connolly. The mother testified that
she had lost all control Of her child because
Of the religious teachings she had received,
and wished her 10 be given IN charge OF the
Catholic Protectory The child expressed her un-
hearing all the testimony. the Magistrate directed
that the child be given I'm charge Of the Catholic Pro-
tectOry. Mr.. Claim intends to apply for writ OF
habeas corpus for the little GIRL and thus reopen the
the Investigation In the case.
Year: 1868

VERDICT AGAINST A RAILROAD CoMrANY.--At In
dianapolis verdict Of s2,500 damages has been
found against the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana
Central Railroad In favor OF the family Of engineer
who was xii led by the explosion OF an engine. The
case is important and has been taken on appeal TO
the Indiana Supreme Court. The railway company
claimed that II was not bound TO pay FOR any acct
dent Occurring TO employfs
Year: 1868

A LAND OF DEsPoTIsM.-Senator Doo-
little, in letter TO a democratic meeting
thus concludes: From where stood this
morning upon the steps of the capitol, with
the flag Of the union over me, l can look
upon land of absolute, unqualified despo-
tism. If | visit Mount Vernon, and sil
down by the tomb of Washington, sit under
the shadow of military dictatorship, more
unlimited than can be found 10 any civilized
country upon the globe. Constitutional lib.
erty is already bound, scOurged, and crowned
With thorns here, in her own sacred temple
Shall the general of the army, urged on BY
the jaeobn chief priest cruelty her on this
sacred capitol hill, in her own house, under
her own banner, amid the SCOTS and jeers Of
oil the despots Of all the Old World Let the
people answer
Year: 1868

THEPowER OF THE HEART.-Let any one,
while sitting down, place the left leg over the
knee of the right one, and permit it to hang
freely, abandoning all muscular control over
it. Speedily it may be observed to sway
forward and backward through a limited
space at regular intervals. Counting the
number Of these motions for any given time
they will be found to agree with the beating
Of the pulse. Every one knows, that at
fires, when the water from the engine is
forced through bent hose, if the bend is a
sharp one, considerable force is necessary to
overcome the tendency. Just 80 it is 10 the
case OF the human body. The arteries are
but system of hose through which the
blood Is forced by the heart. When the leg
Is bent, all the arteries within it are bent,
too, aud every time the heart contracts, the
blood rushing through the arteries tends to
stralghten them; and it is this effort which
produces the motion of the leg alluded to.
Without such peculiar demonstrations, it is
difficult to conceive the power exertsd by
that exquisite mechanism, the normal pulsa.
tions of which are never perceived by him
whose very life they are
Year: 1868




There is nothing better understood than
that an overtasked brain will speedily lose
its power, if, indeed, it be not driven to q
fatal congestion We no longer err through
ignorance. A clergyman, for instance, knows
perfectly well if be devotes bis nights to
writing sermons, instead of sleeping, that
yery soon he will be forced to ask his con
Rregation for permission to 60 TO Europe.
Still be keeps up bis unreasonable work, and
axes it q matter of conscience to commit .
long and deliberate suicide. 1t is asserted,
upon the strength of a post mOrtem examinal
ten, that the late much. .lamented Governor
Andrew, public man, whose life was of the
greatest smportance to the whole country,
was really killed by hard work.


1t is painful to speak with anything like
censure Of q career so selfdevoted, especially
when we consider that Governor Andrew
knew perfectly well the terrible risk which
be was running. When be gave himself to
the cause of the Republic, he just as literally
took his life in his hand as if he had volun$
teered to lead forlorn hope upon the field
Of battle. Was this sacrifice necessary
Was it wise OF prudent Here was . man
Of extraordinary capacity for public affairs
here was life of uncommon value to the
community here was that rarity in history,
! an able man with an educated conscience,
here was one who might make mistakes, and
who did make them, but who was utterly
incapable of any act Of deliberate sel6shness;
and just 10 the maturity of his powers, jusi
when he had trained himself to fll higher
posts in the public service, he is suddenly
called away. "At this exigent moment" "a
borrow the language of Burke, the Gloss oi
finished man is not easily supplied"


Whoever undertakes to do the work oi
FIVE days in one, will be sure either to kill
himselfOr to do his work badly. In eithei
case, nothing is gained by excessive and
unseasonably prolonged application yet thi,
is truth universally acknowledged and JUS
as universally disregarded by students and
public men. The President of a College
makes fine speech to the Freshmen he
tells them that they must properly regard
the laws of health that night study is worse
than no study at all that dyspepsia is the
bane Of our colleges and it turns out upon
inquiry that this excellent President is in
the habit of reading Hebrew for half the
night, and is himself wretched victim o.
chronic indigestion, has something the mat
ter with his head, is growing deaf, or grow.
ing blind, smokes more tobacco than is good
for him, and will certainly be obliged to gc
to Italy by advice of the family doctor, un.
less Divine Providence works special mira
Gle, which it is not at all likely to do.
Year: 1868

shame to say it," " a genuine picture OF a
smiling baby, a good dog, fine horse, a
bunch of flowers, are worth the whole Nati-
can"


There is world of sound art criticism
as we'll as common sense and genial feeling
in this passage, with which we shall close
our extracts:


Can there be but one sort of things in
this world? and is not a tuft OF moss, IN Its
wav, us good as an oak tree? Is it any sin
to have not been to Rome and lived or any
merit to have done SO g? If your neighbor is
stepped to the lips in high art, and so clas-
steal that bis very chairs have ages of good
authority for his patterns let US not despise
him therefore, and let him not snub and pre-
dominate over his weaker brother, who has
got only So far as sincere admiration for the
pretty things the Lord makes, when genuinely
represented Hast thou faith? Have it to
thyself.' Applaud and giorify thy own col
lection with a full heart, and be gentle to thy
next door neighbor who eateth only herbs.


There are certain humble walks of art In
which excellence consists simply III faithful
and truthful representation of nature, IN
which the excellence is of a kind of which
common people can become good judges. 1t
takes very little artistic skull OF sense to
Judge whether slaiR OF Dlue SenIlan Is
faithfully painted or the copy of bunch of
apple blossoms is true to the model of its
great original A host of such simple, in
expensive ornaments are given by Prang in
his ehromo-lithography A bunch of apple
blossoms, blue gentian, so represented as
to excel average painting, forms charming
domestic ornament, unpretending, unambl-
tious, and always beautiful. Never do our
hearts cease to thrill when the time of year
comes round for their fair originals to smile
on US, and never can we lose the sense of
beauty in their limitations.


1t is one Of the signs of the millennium
that real good art, correct and pure as far as
it goes, is being made the Inheritance of the
million, as it is now being done by the chro
mo-lithograph and we have little sympathy
with the scornful style in which some self
important art critics have condemned or
ridculed efforts that are bringing beauty and
pleasure to So many thousand homes that
otherwise poverty would keep bare


Bravo, Mrs Harriet Beeeher Stowe :!
but what will Don Positive of the New
York Tri51tne say to you? We wait in
fear and trembling for his next savage on
slaught.