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Year: 1868

Never make your appearance in the morn
ing without having FIRST bathed, (if only with
sponge aud quart Of water), brushed and
arranged your hair, aud dressed yourself
neatly and completely.


Keep your clothing, especially your under
clothing in perfect order. Never let pins do
duty as buttons, or strings take the place Of
proper bands


Examine every garment when it comes
from the wash, and, if necessary, mend it
with neatness and precision. Do not sew I'D
the holes in your stockings, as we have seen
some careless, untidy girls do, but take in a
broad margin afouDd the bole, be il small or
large, with fine darning- needle and daru>
Ing-cotton, and cover the fracture with an
interaced stitch, so close as to be as strong
as the body Of the stocking, and fine enough
to be ornamental Stockings mended in this
way need darning but few times iu the
course Of their existence.


Never carry coarse, embroidered or laced
handkerchiefs. Fine, plain ones are much
more lady-like.


Avoid open-worked stockings aud very
fancy slippers. Fine, plain, white hose, and
U'dCA Atu sHPperSJ WITH only strap or rOSette
IN front, are more becoming


Train yourself to useful occupation. y, Re-
member it is wicked to waste time, and moths
ing gives such an impression of vanity and
absolute stiffness as a habit OF idliug and
never having anything to do.


If you are in your fathers house, take
some department of household labor upon
yourself, aud part of the sewing and make
ityour business to attend to it, Do not let
call from this idle girl, or visit from that,
or an invitation from the other, interfere
with the performance of your duty.


Let your pleasure co ne in as recreation,
not as the business of your life.


If you want to marry, do not court or try
to attract the attention of gentlemen. A
little wholesome indifference, real or assumed
will'be much more likely to accomplish tSe
OBJECT Consider, moreover that it is better
to be woman than a wife, and do not de-
grade your sex by making your whole exis-
tence turn on the pivot of matrimony.


1t you can, cultivate to perfection some
art by which you could gain an independent
livelihood. Do it, whether there is necessity
for it or not. There is no telling when. or
under what circumstances you may need
it.-Demorest
Year: 1868

AN advertising people are always thrifty.
The enterprise and energy that prompt them
to. push forward in the race and keep them>
selves and their business before the eyes of
the world, insure them against failure. Ii
would be difficult topOint to a single instance
of great success in trade that has not been
won through the valuable medium of the ad,
vertising columns of the public press. Our
most famous houses in every branch of busi-
ness are those which have expended fortunes
as advertisers, and persevered until they have
forced patronage from the public. The
American people are beginning to understand
these truths, and advertising is now as much
a necessity of fbusiness life as are the railroads
and the telegraph.
Year: 1868

A FEW years ago, at the conclusion of a
sermon, the preacher requested some one to
pass around the hat and take up collection.
A young man, stranger in the place. jump
ed up and commenced circulating the hat
in such a manner us to finish up the job at
the door and pass out with tine proceeds.
The preacher, cycling him as his went out
observed: If that young man runs away
with that money, he'll be damned A


deacon sitting by the window, seeing him


make off down the street responded: And
if be hasn't run of with that money, I'll be
Year: 1868

To APPRENTIcEs.-The only way for a
young man to prepare for usefulness is to
devote himself to study during his leisure
hours. First, be industrious in your busi-
ness. Never complain that you are obliged
to work but go to it with aacrity and
cheerfuness, and it will become habit that
will make you respected by your employer
aud the community. Make it your business
to see to and promote your employers inter
est; by taking care of his, you will learn to
take care of. your own. Second, be industri


ous in your studies. Few persons can com>
plain Of harder master than Franklin's yet
he had laid the foundation of his greatness
while an apprentice. Success depends not
on the amount of leisure you may have. but
upon the manner in which it is-employed.
Year: 1868

FULL FEED AND WATER.-For the great,
est benefit to grazing stock the pasturage
should always be abundant. When a bull.
lock or COW has to work, BY continuously
ranging over broad surface to CLEAN their
food, they cannot expect to get fat, or yield
much milk. A full bite to the beast, is
the only profitable way of feeding. Cattle
love rest. Any creature should be able to
fill itself in two or three hours time, and
then lie down and ruminate. Water, too
should always, be handy. When they can
get water at will, cattle usually drink three
or four times day when at pasture. Many
people suppose that if they are let out of a
dry pasture twice day, and conducted to
water this is sufficient. Not so cattle have
but little forethOught and cannot, as men
do, anticipate a want which may occur an
hour or two hence, and provide for it in
advance, We have seen herd driven out
in the early part of the day to water, and
many of them would hardly touch it, and in
two hours afterWard they would be lowing
about the fences, gates, or bars, in distress
for water, and not obtaining it, they suffered
throughout the day, eating little or nothing,
until the next watering hour arrived, and
then drinking so inordinately as to injure
and disarrange all their digestion. Men may
say that cattle will become habituated to
such stated watering, BY practice. They
may, to some extent; but any one who will
try the two methods, Of giving them water
at will, or only at certain hours, once OF
twice day, will soon perceive the differences
in their condition of flesh, or yield Of milk.
Avn Cdttke.
Year: 1868

The Catholics are said to be erecting a
So, 100000 Cathedral in Canton, China, and
another, quite as magnificent and costly, is to
be put up in Pekin, while in nearly every
important city of that empire they are builds
ing church. The Jesuits throughout the
empire have adopted the dress, the habits
and customs of the Chinese-eating as they
eat, sleeping as they sleep, shaving the fore
head and not the crown, just as the Chinese
shave theirs.
Year: 1868

A GOOD story is told Of rustic youth and
buxom country girl, who sat facing each
other at husking party. The youth. smit
ten with the charms OF the beautiful maiden
only ventured a sly look, and now and then
touching Patty's foot under the table. The
girl, determined to make the youth express
what he appeared so warmly to feel, bore
with these advances little while 10 silence
when she cried out, Look here, if you love
me say so, but don't dirty my stockings
Year: 1868

A Kentucky girl, who married a fellow of
mean reputation, was taken to task for it BY
her uncle. al know. uncle" she replied,
" that Joe is not good for mnchj but he said
I dared not have him, and l won't take a
stump from ANYBODY"
Year: 1868

"Ihe Spring gay promise melted into thee,


Fair Summer and thy gentle reign is here;
Thy emerald robes are on each leaty tree


In the blue sky thy voice is rich and clear:
And the free brooks have songs to bless thy
They leap in music midst thy bright domain.
sfThus gazing on the void and sapphire sky.


Summer! in my inmost soul arise


Uplitted thoughts, to which the woods reply


And the bland air with its soft melodies
Till baskingin some Visions glorious raw,


I long for eagles plumes to fee away !"


But soon the summer will have fled us.
leaving bu: the memory of its beauty and
sweetness for our hearts TO hold-leavine
for all we hope some dreams realized
.sone. castles ompleted-some ships safe
ly anchored, and some joys that have bud
ded in its radiant sun, all blooming and
bright for life journey.--Enioyable
as the cool nights and many other of the
charms Of the sunny South are, we can
but close our eyes as the autumn days
draw so near and feast our souls in imagi-
nation the natural beauties Of the West,
where autumn is more guady and more
chaste, more glorious and more exquisite


than any other part of the new world.
The New England hills and dells are most
beautiful in their frost time dews, but that
Cop loved Wisconsin best we are con-
vlnced-but who has not thought so of
Wilmington ": C.1 Post.
Year: 1868

One of Governor Seymour's friends"
approached Republican who worked on
the Portsmouth Navy Yard and was a
poor man with eight children, and init
mated that be might continue to work On
the yard if he would vote right" The
indignant patriot spurned the offer and
expressed his intention of voting as he
had fought He was discharged at once.
His fellow workmen the next. day sent
him barrel Of -four, in token of their
appreciation Of his manliness.
Year: 1868




The industrious honey bee has been re-
Gently charged with misdemeanors land libel
ed as a nuisance in some localities. We con-
fess to some fear of their stings and frankly
acknowledge our inability to "hiva a swami"
however much our services might be needed
on such an occasion. We generally give them
ample room and verge enough and do not Of
ten interfere in their arrangements. If we
happen to see one bury herself in flower
in search of honey or pollen, we admire her
skill and industry, but when she rises from
the flower laden with its richness, we usually
keep at respectful distance and give her
space in which to make her gyrations ere she
strikes bee-line for her home. We rather
think that the gentleman who has written
some good articles on bees for this journal
will smile at our timidity but we can assure
him that when these stinging insects are fly
ing about us we consider discretion the better
part of valor.


But why has war been waged ON the bees
A jury in the city of Harrisburgh, Pa. decid
ed that bees are nuisance because they Wis
tied candy shop aud made an attack upon
the sweetmeats. And in the town of Win
ham, Mass, two-thirds of the voters decreeo
that nc bees should be kept there. In ootn
instances the bee-keepers were compelled te
| get rid of their stock. But writer IN tht
| American Journal OF Horticulture has taker
Nm the cudpels in defence of the bees, and be
! reves the time is coming when the publ,
will cease to wage war over little honey-mak
ers. This crusade must end ere long, and 70
the best of reasons.


| He says that few years ago our orchard
Year: 1868

We the undersigned accept the above proposi-
ton and now test the superiority Of the Russell
Reaper and Mower against the Buckeye, and claim
for the "Russeil Reaper and Mower the following
important advantages;


ist The ground or drive wheels being nearly 4
Year: 1868

The female faces, according TO the best auLhor-
ties, should be very seldom washed, if beauty of
complexion is desired. When water is applied to
any part of the body il should never be very cold
for purposes Of human adornment. The best of all
artificial applications TO the complexion is little
Starch, or rice powder, or weak solution in water
of cologne. All extremes Of temperature must be
avoided, and especially the exposure of the face to
the hot sun or blazing fire. Finally, whatever is
favorable TO compOsure Of mind and health of body
is especially advantageous to the wholesomeness Of
the sin and consequently TO its neness or texture
and beauty of color.-HaTperS Bazaar.
Year: 1868

'' Yet not the less for them thpu,


The eternal step of Progress heats


70 that great anthem, calm and slor


Which Gcd repeats.


Take heart the Wsster builds sgaiu--
charmed life old goodness hath


The tsres may perish, but The grein


Is not for death.


God works in all things; all obey


His FIRST propulsion from the night,


Ho wake aud watch the world Is gray


With morning light
Let the words Of the great dead be ours With
malice towards mona with charity for all with firm
in the right as God gives US TO see the right
let US strive TO finish the work we are in to bind
up the nations wounds, 10 care for him who shall
have borne the battle, and for his widow and bis
orphans, TO dc all which may schieVe and cherish 3
just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all
nations
Year: 1868

Our fathers went 10 their graves ~ peace their
last gaze gladdened by the sight OF nation pros
porous, great and free. Long years Of peace and
abundant material prosperity we're given Us, and
we fondly hoped would continue. Il was not TO be.
War came among as in IFS most appalling lornl-a
civil war g. which history furnishes no parallel
The discipline was terrible, but it was needed.
There was danger that the sterner virtues Of cur
fathers would die out in Che midst of long
peace, aud the seducticns OF wealth and luxury
IL was necessary that some rude shock should wake
the nstion from its dreams 10 lis higher needs and
show 10 itself and TO the world that The spirit of the
/ fathers lived still in the sons.


How we became at war / heed not stop 10 tell
/ il is a tale you all know too we'll For four years
I we watched with agonizing anxiety the varying
strife II was a strife on whose issue depended no
mere question Of territory prerogstveor national
/ honor but the great question OF tho nations hte
hung in the balance. The nation met the issue with
the calm determination Of those who dare 70 do the
/ right well knowing the price and foreseeing the
risk. We have sent best aud bravest forth tc
battle. Aching hearts waited for them in ten thou


sand homes. There have been partinga and tear


and mourning in every neighborhood and hamle


and village, and to-day the widowed and th'
orphaned are in our midst, and the MANNED and tn
uourners 20 about our streets We saw our loas


of national debt rise higher and more vsst and fel


The pangs Of disappointment and disoouragemeni
Year: 1868

In whatever you engage pursue it with a


steadiness of purpose as though you were de.
termined to succeed. ~ A wagering mind never
accomplished anything worth naming. There
is nothing like fixed, steady aim. 1t dignifes
your nature and insures your success. '9slIqz95
Year: 1868

Thinkers have put their ideas into metal.
and crowded King Brute from the throne
to make room for King Brain. and he will
lessen the hours of labor and increase tho
hours OF leisure. The work of the head
and the work of the hands are raising the
people higher and higher in the scale of CIV
iIization. Our common schools are placing
our people in the from; rank of nations.
Year: 1868

politics Is faith, have, as conviction led
them, joined either side, and the two par
ties have been very nearly balanced.
Bot between these two, lie q great mass
OF voters whose political opinions yield
to the passion or impulse Of the moment,
to hard times or fash times; who have,
perhaps, neither the capacity nor the an
tecedepts which fix them in stubborn ad.
herepce TO the principles aud fortunes OF
q party; who aim at no Office, and SYM
psthize with the party out Of power, not so
much because they believe In Il very
strongly, but because they don't believe
in any thing deeply, and particularly dis
believe in the party Of "ins" because IL
has failed to satisfy their expectstions.
This is the character and power Of the
great third party 10 the nation, commonly
known as the "silent vote" and every
thing indicates that this silent vote has
resolved TO cast itself for Seymour and
Blair.


As the Democratic party was over
thrown by Tippecanoe and Tyler
too - as il was swept down by Zachary
Taylor, when this silent vote
declared for il, all shrewd men see that
it must succeed overwhelmingly, aud
that, with its success, the Republican
party with all its deeds vanisbes as a
party entity from the field Of American
politics, aud that those with whom its
principles are faith aud reality must
recombine under a new name, and at
tempt to regain popular favor by pre-
senting new issues or artfully repainting
the old ones.
Year: 1868

From CBINA.-Despstches from China with
news TO the latest dates have been wed
Mr.. Buriingame had left Pekin on his mission
for the Emperor Of China and had arrived ri
shanghai, from whence he WAS 90 proc.etI
direct to the United States. An earthuuak,
had been felt in Shanghai and in the surround
ing districts. No destruction Of property or loss
OF life has been reported, and the oscillations
were not violent but an unusual occurrence
There WAS great CONSERVATION, and wherever
the phenom. non WAS felt the the widest pane
prevailed The intelligence in regard 20 the
rebellion in North China is not definite The
lmperiaiists report that battles have taken
place, and they claim that the rebles have
been defeated in all of these later encounters
and that the Imperalists' armies are rapidly
gaining ground.
Year: 1868

PROPosKD SALE or GovRRNsEST GoLD.-
IL is understood that the Secretary OF the Treas
ury is about to sell a considerable amount Of
gold in order 20 meet the requisitions on the
Department. Last month he was compelled TO
sell Ten forty bonds for the same purpose
There now ten millions of gold in the
Treasury, which he afford 10 dispose of
without embarrassing his payment OF the March
interest on the Government securities. The
order to sell will probably be given to-day, but
exactly how much viii be sold j. not known
Year: 1868

Fthlnit the policy Of Mr.. Johuson was
generally accepted bv the thinking pno-
pie of the South MS the true grounds of
restoration Of harmony between tho
two sections. This was The unanimous
opinion of the people, and in the enforce
mcnt Of The opposite policy it a is fixed
conviction with them Chat their doom
is scaled a war Of races seems TO be
the inevitable consequence. That it
will come. and at no distant day, is evil
dent by the clannish tendency already
shown by the blacks.
Year: 1868

One Of two thing,-qnit the country
or remain and fall. For my part my
mind is made up. have not long to
live. will stay and 60 down with tho
ship h; bat to the young would counsel
them to find homes elsewhere.
Year: 1868

Poor men are not taxed" said de.
luded workingman, "they cant tax me-
because | am DOT worth aDything." Can
they not Before the war you paid less
than one-half for all you eat, drink and
wear than you do now, and before the
war you had not the support of five mil
lion negroes to provide for, who now eat,
drink and wear at your expense. Taking
the cost of supporting life to-day, and the
cost of supporting reckless, wicked,
Notwithstanding congress, and the poor
white voter in the United States is the
heaviest taxed mortal On Gods earth.
Sleeping or waking, well or i'll, week days
and Sundays, the taxes are being piled on
him who is not worth dime by those
above him in the scale of property, who
are worth their thousands and hundreds
Of thousands. Remember, you moneycss,
honest toiler, if you eat, drink, wear
clothes-if you are warmed aud sheltered,
you are thus made to pay your own taxes
aud the taxes of the capitalists of the
country also. They are indirectly thus
piled upon you. The public debt is a
great curse to you, if rot to the capitalist.
Remember this when you go to the polls
next November.
Year: 1868

"Ach, Sohn was halt dich zurcks"


- siehe, Mutter das sind die Thranen."


They gave her back again;
They never asked to see her face;f
But gazod upon her vacant place,


Moaning like those in pain.


There was brief, hot Thirst;
A thirsting of the heart for streams
Which never more save in sweet dreams


From that lost fount should burst


There was a frigltful cry,
As if the whole great world were dead;
Yet was one arrow only sped,


One, only, called to die.
Then ali grew calm as sleep
And they in household ways once more
Did go: the anguish half was DER,


For they had learned to weep.
They stood about her bed,
And whispered low beneath their cloud;
For she might hear them speaking loud
She was so near, they said


Softly her pillow pressing,
With reverend brows they mutely lay;
They scarcely missed the risen clay


In her pure soul's carcssing.
Last from their eyes were driven
Those heart-drops, lest--so spoke their fear
Her robes, all heavy with their tears,
Might clog her flight to heaven.
Year: 1868

whom they please, and permit whom they
please to veto. They are backed by OBJ
sequious and irso,cut officers OF the army.
lfa white man has courage enough TO COM
plain because his ballot has been wrong
fully rejected, prick with bayonet and
a summons before military court would
speedily bring him to silence. Whether
the doctrine Of Douglas, that this is a
white mans government, shall prevail or
not, the people will not permit it to be
made negro government. The recon
struction nfamy has established in some
of the southern states, and intended to es-
tablish in all Of them, negro governments.
framed by negroes for the benefit Of ne
groes.


We're the blacks equal to the whites in
numbers, culture, morals, natural ability,
and in the possession of property, to give
one race exclusive political control would
be infamous. What shall be said, then,
OF the pohcy which employs military des
potism to bring such men as Lee, and Jo.
Johnson, and Wade Hampton, and Alex.
Ii. Stevens into subjugaton to their late
negro slaves? What has the negro done
for the country that he, and all his filth,
and vice and ignorance should De given
sole power to make and execute the laws
in seven states Of the union? He was the
efficient ally Of the rebel. He worked on
the plantation while the rebel was Fight
ing. All he cared about the war was to
gain his freedom; and for this he would
not enter TIE army when the union lines
were all about him. More than half OF
the few negro soldiers we had were OBJ
tanned by fraud and force Trt5.
Year: 1868

"A curious case Is reported in Michi
gan. A man was charged with maltreat-
ing, starving, aud finally numbering i
child of his first wife's. But there wa,
nobody to testify against him but his
second wife, aud the law holding that q
wi1o cannot testify against her husband
the villain was likely to escape punish
rnent, when it was discovered that the
woman had a husband living when she
married this man, and consequently that
he was not his lawful wife. and could give
testimony against him. This she did, and
he was sent to pcnitentiary for life.
Year: 1868

"A radical paper boasts that there are
sixteen hundred national banks in the
country, and that each one will contribute
one thousand dollars to defeat Seymour
for the presidency. The bankers used to
ak that way in .Jackson's time, but the
people sustained the old hero in his figh,
AGAINST the bank monopoly.
Year: 1868

Frank Blair's college course having
been much discussed, the Yale College
COardRt publishes an account Of that
portion Of his career, prepared by a
class-mate at Yale, assisted By one Of


his class at Princeton, from which we
quote the following:


"He entered the class Of 1841 at
Yale, and commenced his course by
threatening to horseWhip q olass-mato
who differed from him ia a class meet
ing. He was suspended near the end
Of the first term on account of ibis
participation in some nocturnal revels.
He entered the University of North
Caroline, but was expelled for shoot
ing a pig. He was Fortunate enough
to get TO the end Of the senior year at
Princeton, where he next went, but
failed Of obtaining bis degree, on ao-
count Of his disfguring the face Of a
fellow student.
Year: 1868

Grand, rousing rally of,he Peoples Party
at the German Theatre tonight. Sitting
and standing room for two thousand people.
Eloquent speeches upon the leading topics
At issue, by distinguished citizens. Come
out and hear the truth come out and speak
your minds come out and:prepars for vie
tory. Once more let the people meet, and
then swarm to the polls for victory.