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Year: 1865

Ash Wednesday,.


DEAR MIR. En- 'u!H he Fast season
M mas - begun ECU, IN, IN $ hest @ and hasien ,
opment OF pat ism. The frightftil
cost of nil material for fine dresses has
filled many ladies of the highest nobil-
ity with spirit of noble remuneration.
There is nothing they will not gladly
sacrifice, and they are therefore firmly
resolved to dispense with dress altogetl-
er! i have recently attended several
parties of the selectest fashion, and, with
every young man In town, have observ-
ed with the most kindling admiration
that what you will permit me to cafl the
heroic movement is already rapidly ad-
vancing. It begins at the top Of the
dress, and the most unfiinching of the
fair patriots have already reached n
point far below the neck. The delight
ful emulation continues, SO that by the
opening of the next season we may con-
fidently expect to see perfect herOism.


Of course as dress disappears n refined
and delicate substitute is provided. The
neck, for instance, is draped in the most
exquisite enamel; the cheeks are pro-
tected by the rosiest rouge, and lest the
exposure of the eyebrows and eyelids
should be injurious to health, they arc
clothed In the softcst henna. This sim
pie costume il surely enough for those
who are ready for the last sacrifice -
What sublime economy! What un-
speakable remuneration! The father It
goes the more indescribable Ii Is. wish
you would come and see for YOURSELF
We never think of not going to parties
now when there Is so much to be seen !;
and what do we not owe to the ladies
who thus surrender every thing! A
queer old prig to whom / was dilating
with enthusiasm upon this subject, re-
piled, Yes, have seen great deal In
my time, but this gives me an entirely
new view of woman" OF course II
docs. Is it not clear that every one who
is capable of taking part iu this great
movement is capable of any thing?


| know that You are Interested in
every thing which shows devotion to
the country, and although you were Il
little skeptical about the Women's
League to use only domestic manufac-
lures, because you thought there was
some evasion about it, l am sure you
will hear with astonishment and graft
tude of this truly brave economy which
conceals nothing. All for our country
or dress well lost, is the inspiring rally
ing cry of the lovely patriots.


Good-by. / must be off to dress for
the ball, which the ladies used to do be-
fore these patriotic days. Yet Dress is
just the difference between us now.--
How much trouble they save them
selves! But all virtue has its compen-
sation. Remember have told you no.
thing but the naked truth, and have
barely time to subscribe myself,


." Yours in breathless expectation,
Year: 1865

MASSACHUSETTS, AND THE NEGRO Sur
FRAoE QUESTION The Massachusetts radi.
Gals are clamoring for universal negro suf-
trage in the rebel States as essential 10 their
reorganization on loyal platform. Suppose
that President johnson comedies this point
and shall then propose, for the satisfaction of
Massachusetts, to apply her own law of suf
irage in the rebel States, how will that work
The right of suffrage in Massse husetts being
restricted to male citizens over twenty years
OF ege who can read or write. under this
system in the rebel States nearly all the
blacks would be excluded and about one
seventh Of the whites most of them loyal
men. How will this answer the radicals Of
Fanueil Hall We think that Brother Beecher
was right in suggesting that before they can
justly undertake TO instruct President John
son upon the subject of the elective franchise
in South Carolina, they must practice what
they preach.in Massachusetts Herald
Year: 1865

10 Bath, New York, dwelling house was
burned, on one Of the shade trees in front OF
which a robin bad built her nest While the
flames were in progress the mother few back
ard forth, calling her little brood in the
liveliest distress But when all proved un
RvailinR she calmly took ber place on the nesl
aud perished in the flames with her young
Year: 1865

SSEEzrNG.-


If you sneeze on Monday, it itindicates danger,
Sneeze on Tuesday, you will meet stranger.


Sneeze on Wednesday, you will receive a
letter.


Sneeze on Thursday, you will get some
thing better.


Sneezing on Friday, indicates sorrow.


Sneeze on Saturday, you will have a beau
tomorrow.


Sneeze before you eat, you will have COM
pany before you sleep.


If you sneeze before you are dressed you
will have company before you 90 to rest


FISH AND THE CAT.-If cat washes her
face, you will have company before night
If you dream you catch fish it is a sign you
will make good bargain, according to the
sign of the fish.


THE BRooM.-If the broom is moved with
the remainder of the household furniture, you
will not be successful; but the broom must
be burned while standing in the corner be-
ing watched, to prevent the house taking
fire.


KNIFE AND FoRE-If you drop fork and
it sticks in the floor and remains in a stand
ing position, it is sign gentleman will call;
but If knife a lady will call.


DISAPPolNTMENT.-Wh putting on your
shoes and stockings. II you complete dressing
one foot before commencing the other, it is
sign that You will be disappointed.


DEATH IN THE FAMILY-The breaking Of
mirror by any member signifies death in the
family before the year closes.


An ITcHING FooT.-If the right foot itches
on the bottom, you are going where you are
wanted; if the left foot where you will not
be welcome.


MARRAGE.-If a young lady finds four
leaved clover and puts it in her hair, the first
young man she meets she will marry. II
lady dons a gentlemans hat, it is sign she
wants kiss, If you swallow chickens
heart whole, the first young man who kisses
you, will marry. If one sits on the table, it
is a sign they wish to be married.


FINGER NAus.-If you cut your finger
nails on Monday without either speaking or
thinking of red fox's tail, you will have a
present during the week.


ANoTHER.-H the nails be cut on Monday
morning before eating a present may be ex-
pected but if while cutting you think of

white calls tail, it will spoil the charm.


Or ONE MND.-If two persons accidently
make the same remark at the same time, you
must join little fingers and wish Such a
Year: 1865

a very comical story was told me the 9TH


er day, that is to say very comical to those


who hear it-not quite so much so to the


party concerned. I believe I have several


times referred to the custom Of sending chill


dren born in Paris out to the country to be
nursed. There are regular wetnurse intelli-
gence Offices established in Paris A man


whose business it is to look up healthy wo-
men in the country-in Picardy or Norman
dy-gets together snumber-fiteen or TWEEN
ty-from the same district, and conducts


them to Paris to the Office, to wait until the
younglings is need of their care are confded
to their charge. When they are all provided
with baby apiece, one leader accompanies
this detachment Of infantry to their future
home.


On one occasion, about twenty years ago,
party OF this sort stopped at a roadside tav-
ern for midday refreshment. The nurses
laid their charges down according to direc-
ton, upon the biliard-tables in room ad-
joining the dinning-room, the door of which
was left open. Of course each nurse recol-
lected the place assigned to her young one.
While regaling themselves, several country
men came in, moved the babies to a bed
which occupied a corner of the next room,
taking great care to do the little ones no
harm, but Of course with no regard to the or
der previously observed. When the meal
was finished, what was the dismay Of the
women and their chief to find themselves en-
tirely at fault as to the particular baby be-
longing to each nurse


All that was to be done was to be sure and |
appropriate boy or girl to the woman who !
laid claim to child of the given sex, and
trust to chance for the rest. French babies
are all done up in a curious bundle, with no
difference in clothes, and so have no iHdiUid-
uality, and it is no wonder that such bewil-
derment should have taken place. French
babies have not even been emancipated from
the trammels of centuries back. The poor
little things have been denied the luxury Of
a cold souse of water on the head which is
so refreshing to a weIlcared for American ba-
by. and, what is more, it is always tortured
with thick cotton cap, with an ugly border
No wonder the mothers got the wrong ba-
bies; no one can tell one from the other.
Year: 1865

countenance, the very opposite of health
Chronic diarh@a, that scourge of the
hospital, brought on by wet clothes and
sleeping on the ground, practices un-


avoidable in the soldier, but none the less


deadly, may be easily explained on this


theory. In no one place can the "Ounce


of prevention" be so prOftably applied


as to the case Of the outside in such ex-


posures.


Non-conductors shonld be worn in sum-
mer as we'll as in winter. The coolest
dress a person could wear in summer
would be woolen as tight as the skin; not
tighter than that, as one fellow complain
ed his pants were, for he said he could
sit down in his skin without splitting it,
but he couldn't in his pants. Laborers
atforges and furnaces wear woolen shirts,
which absorb the perspirahon readily and
allow it to evaporate, which process cools
thesurface, while cotton will not only alb
sorb moisture, but retain it more persis-
tently. Ifnon-cOnducting clothing is de-
sirable in working hours, much more so
is it proper when the body repOses pas
sively. People take cold much more
easily when asleep than awake, and hence
wooden shirts and blankets are worth ad-
opting as bedding to theexclusion of cot
ton; and it is quite possible that silk
or wooden cap might be of signal service
in preventing badness and grayness, as
such an article is recommended to those
who are sufferers from neuralgia in the
head.


The worth of physical exercise as a
means in keeping the skin in healthy
condition can hardly be overrated. It
gives a healthy hue to the cheeks and
vigor to the excreting functions generally.
1t is not necessary or advisable to exer-
else violently, and the severer movements
of the gymnasium and the boat race,
drawing powerfully, on both muscular
and nervous systems, are entirely unnec-
essary if not positively injurious so far as
mere exercise for health is concerned.-I
There is no necessity for eschswing utili-
tartan labor even such as gardening, saw
ing of wood, shoveling of snow, or even
walking, and the youth who engages in
such labors as will aid others as well as
himself is doubly benefactor. The ef-
feet of temperature and exercise or the
want of it combined, is we'll shown in the
monkey. In his native woods surround
ed by tropical heat, life is constant
motion with him. Brought north and
Gagged, with limited opportunities for
movement, he dies with consumption and
foul air gets the curse, while proper
understanding of the action of the exter-
nal surface under the two conditions
would suggest quite different epitaph.
Year: 1865

Heigh-ho for husband-heigh-hol


There's danger in longer delayI
Shall I never again have a beau?


viii nobody marry me pray?
I begin to feel strange I declared


With beauty my prospects will fade!
I'd give myselfup to despair


III thought I should die an old maidl
I once cut the beaus in huff!


thought it sin and a shame
Tho not one had spirit enough


To ask me to alter my name;
So turned up my nose at the short,


And rolled up my eyes at the tall;
But then just did it in sport,


And now I've no lover at ALL
These men are the plague Of my life;


IT'S hard from so many to choose,
Should one Of them wish for a wife,


Could I have the heart to refuse?
I don't know, for none have proposed.


o dear meg I'm frightened I vow!
Good gracious whoever supposed


That I should be single till now!
Year: 1865

wish will come to pass and be realized.


a SPOTTED HoRsE.-Wheu you see a spot
ted horse, you make wish which will also
be realized.


CROSSING. HANDs.-Iffou persons accident
ally cross hands when shaking, some one of
the company will soon be married.


AN ITCHING EAR.-If the left ear itch and
ourn it is an indication that some one is speak
ing i'll of you. Ifthe right ear that they are
speaking well ofyou.


TIE DIsH-CLoTH-If the dish-cloth be
dropped when in use, it is a sign you will
have company to dinner.
Year: 1865

You smooth the tangles from my hair
With gentle touch and tenderest care
And count the years ere you shall mark,
Bright silver threads among the dark
Smiling the while to hear me say,
"You'll think of this some day,


Some day!"
do not seorn the power of Time.
Nor count on years of fadeless prime,
But no white CLEANS will ever shine
Among those heavy locks Of mine,
All, laugh as gaily as you may,
you'll think of this again Some day,


Some day."
Some day. / shall not feel as ROW,
Your soft hands move about my brow
shall not slight your light commands
And draw the long braids thro' my hands;
! shall be silent and obey
And you-you will not laugh that day,
Some day!
know how long your loving hands
Will finger with those glossy bands,
When you shall weave my last, last crown
Ofthese thick braidings. long and brown
But you will see no touch of gray
Adown their shiny lengths that dry


Some day!
And while your tears ale falling hot
Upon the lids which answer not.
You'll take from those one Treasured tress,
And leave the rest in A H;entness--
Remembering that used to say,
~ QUILL think Of this again some day;


SoHe dayl'
Year: 1865

R The La Crosse Democrat has
the following appropriate remarks
on the local press. We commend
them to the citizens of Gallipolis, as
worthy of their attention. Lave
business men not only in town but
country, may learn what their true
interest is in this matter.


People have a mistaken idea Of
localnewspapers. When the business
men of place realize as they should,
that the local paper benefits a place
according to its circulation out Of it,
they will have learned a valuable les
son. The village paper should be
the mirror Of the place, should give
those abroad an idea what is done
and who is doing 1t IN the town where
/ published. If paper could show q
hundred men of firms engaged in
business, people would at once say
that village was prosperous one
If, on the contrary, it be compelled
to fill up with leve stories, in large
type, or with the prospectus of the.
New York papers, the reader, at a.
distance naturally thinks the town
sort of dead ole wherein abide seedy
gamblers and played out real estate
specuiatorsf business men in O
village woufftake of each issue of
their weekly paper, dozen copies
and send them to different friends in
the east, the investment would pay
if the paper had live business look
to it. If not, the fewer sent the bet
ter for all concerned. We love to
see spaper filled with live advertise
ments and local news.


The village paper is a weekly
messenger, going forth into the
world, proclaiming to thousands
never seen or thought OF By the edi-
tor, the resources and business of
the place where published, as well as
the energy of its inhabitants. Pat
ronage extended to local papers is
never thrown away. If the paper Is
a live one, readers at distance see
in the rehec tion of the place, and in
time the distant village becomes ia
milfar through the local press and at
last, tired OF bis locality in the far
off east, the reader starts for d new
home among those he knows by repu-
tation.


A neat looking paper, well filed
with home advertisements and local
items, indicates a live town and
thrifty people, as certainly as clean
dishes, clean house and clean faced
children indicate the neat wife and
mother, or as children with shirt tails
flying. little clothes half fastened,
dir,y faces and unkept hair, and
greasy knives, forks and plates, and
room flied with dirt is evidence of
the slattern Business men owe it
to the place, if not to themselves, to
patron,ze the local paper. Let the
editor know that his labors are ap--
preciated, and he willAlabor hard to
retain the opinion, TO the benefit of
all concerned.
Year: 1865

II Is said that before the army Is finally


dlsbandod q grand rvvicw Of all the troops
Imarching on Washington is to take place.
Some hundred and fifty or tive hundred thou.


sand mon win be gathered here within three


weeks, and as there Is no field in the inme.
Idiato neighborhood Of Washington capable
Of Displaying so large a body Of men, It is
lsuggOsted that the grand review should be
had on tho old Bull Run battlefield and


plains Of Manassas, wherO there Is "Rmpls
room and verge enough to show an immense
humber Of troops. .r,


II would certainly give seiat to the occa-
siOn to celebrate the collapse of the rebellion
ON the spot where the first hard fighting
began. The railroad track to Manassas
could be repaired in day, largo portion Of


the army could be halted there on their way
10 Washington and the troops around the
|city could be marched out when Lieutenant
General GRASr is ready to concentrate his
forces for the grand review. Shall we not
have an opportunity TO look at Bull Run
under such auspices as these
Year: 1865

The revolutionary plot OF The radicals 10
circumvent the President in his policy of
restoration, 10 deny the Southern States a
fair representation in Congress, and 10 keep
the country unorganized and in turmoil in
definitely, is one OF the strongest evidences
that seclionaiism and disunion al presen I
exist among the self-styIed friends of the
Government in the North, as violently as
ever those sentiments were entertained al
the South A firm, bold hand is needed al
once, to grapple with and shake out of them
the twin-devils of sectional hate and negro
phobia. They must be dealt with enrgeli-
cally and powerfuIly-no temporlzing, no
homeopathic doses of warning washed
down with plentiful doses of anodynes,
should be ATTEMPTED, but they should be
swept, with all their contention and strife
and abominabIe heresies and contempt OF
law, clean and forever from the field of pol
ilcs.
Year: 1865

T TIE gay young wife of an Albany pork


packer last week persuaded her husband TO
draw from bank large sum belonging to
the firm. Of which be was junior partner,
and start with her for Europe one obiec, be-
ing TO punish her husbands father. The
o:her member Of iae firm, who had oppos-
led her frv0Iities. She was over-hauled in.
New York, and the contemplated trip was
Year: 1865

! Ii is, easier TO be good business man
than a poor enc. Half Of the energy dis
played in keeping ahead as is required in
catching up when behind, will save credit,
give more times 10 attend 10 business, and
add 10 the profits and reputation of those
who work for gain. Be prompt-keep your
| word. Honor your. engagements. If you
promise to meet man or do'a certain thing
at certain moment be ready at the ap-
pointed time. If you have work TO do, do it
at once, cheerfuy and therefore speedily
and correctly. If you go out on business
attend to the matter in hand then as prompt
llyygo about your business. Do not stop to
tell stories IN business hours


II you have a place OF business be found
there when wanted. No man can get rich
by sitting around saloons, playing old
sledge, euchre, peanuckle, or other games
for whiskey. Never fool" on business mat
ters. If you have 10 labor for living, re-
member that one hour in the morning is
better than two at night II you employ
Others be on hand TO see that they attend 10
their duties, and 10 direct work TO advan-
tage. Have order-system-regula
promp ptuess-liberalily. Do not meddle
with business you know nothing o.. What
ever you do, do well. Never buy an article
simply because the man who sells il will
take it out in lrade.-Trade IS money. Time
is money. A good business habit and repu-
taton are always money Make your place
of business pleasant aud attractive, then
stay there 10 wait upon customers. Never
use quick words, or allow yourself TO make
in your employ, for 10 do 80 lessons their
respect for you, ard your influence over


them. Help yourself and others will help
you. Be faithful over the interests confded
in your keeping, and all in good lime your
responsibility will be increased.


Do not be in TOO great haste 10 gel rich.
! Do not build till you have arranged and laid
good foundation. Do not, as you hope or
| work for success, spend time in loaiing il
! your lime is your own, business will surely
suffer if you do. If it's given 10 another
for pay, il belongs 10 him, and you have
no more right TO steal it than you have 10
steal money. Be obliging. Strive TO avoid
harsh words and personalities Do not kick
every stone in the path More miles can
be made in day by going steadily on Than
BY stopping TO kick. Pay as you go. A
man OF honor respects his word as he does
his bond. Ask but never beg. Help others
when you can without Inconvenience to
yourself. But never give when you cannot
afford TO, simply because it is fashionable


Learn to say no. No necessity of swapping
it dog fashion, but firmly and respectfully
Have but few confdan.s. The fewer the
better. Use tyour own brains rather than
others. Learn 10 think and scI for yourself


Be honest Be vigilant Be active and lib-
eral. Keep ahead, rather than behind the
times. Young mau-cut this out, and il
there is. folly in The argument lei Us know.


The above rules have done US good ser
vice, and are given as hints 10 the yonn


men of the country who must be either loaf
ers or gentlemen, business men or bankrupt


respected sr uncared ior, as they themselves
may determine.-Br Brick Pomroy
Year: 1865

The more Peter Odiin's report, as Special
Examiner Of the State Treasury, and q,
Volney Dorseys explanation thereto, are
rand, The more apparent does it become that
there should be a change of officers in the
State House The officials of the party in
power seem to have acted on the idea, that
the offices were created for their special bene-
6t and not to subserve the interests of the
State. Doubtless, the thought has ever been
present with them, How much can | make
out of the Office, aud not expose myself
particularly to public condemnation p Mr..
Dorsey asserts that previous Special EX-
aminers aud the Legislature did not have any
objection 10 make to the manner in which he
conducted the affairs OF his Office, and there
fore, he ieels THAT injustice has been done
him by ha party friends at this late day for
now exposing his transactions to public rep
rehension Had Mr.. Dorsey coniormed strict
ly to the requirements of the law, he would
not be in his present unpleasant predcament.
We have no doubt that there are other gentle
men who are now engaged in abusing the
"Copperheads' from the stump who would
figure no more enyiably before the public than
does Mr. Dorsey could their transactions
during the past four years be laid before the
public Common people, who have not been
very particularly educated in figures, are at
a loss to know how men have grown rich in
four years on small salaries, while living has
been high. The inference is, that there has
been gougiug somewhere --Statesman.
Year: 1865

On Sunday morning last, in this town, a SILVER
PENCIL and GOLD PEN. The pen holder was split
aud had brass round II. The Pencil was priced
as a keepsake. Fifty cents reward will be given for
It's recovery. Can be left at the Times Office.
Year: 1865

Having taken possession Of the large and well fitted up
Machine Shop IN Smyrna, on Commerce Street. known
az The Bowman machine shop, date IN the occupancy
of Evans) fully prepared 10 attend to the
repairing OF all kinds of