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Year: 1869

One great cause of the poverty of the
present day is, the failure of our common
people to appreciate small things, They
feel that if they cannot save large sums
they will not save any thing. They do not
realize how a daily addition, be it ever so
small. will soon make large pile. II the
young men and young women of to-day
will only begin, and begin pow, to save
little from their earning, and plant it in the
soil of some good savings bank, and week
ly or monthly add their mite, they will
wear happy smile of competence and ia
dependence when they reach middle life.
Not only the pile will itself increase, but
the desire and the ability to increase it will
also grow. Let clerk and tradesman, labo-
rer and artisan, make now at once begin
ming. Store up some Of your youthful force
and vigor for future contingency. Let pa.
rents teach their children to begin early to
save. Begin at the fountain head to control
the stream of extravagance, and the work
will be easy. To choose between spend
ing and saving is TO choose between power
ty and riches. Let our youth go. on in
habits of extravagauce, for fifty years to
come, as they have for fifty years past, and
we shall be nation of beggars withs a mo-
neyed aristooracy. Let generation ofsuch
as save 10 small sums be reared, and We
shall be free from all want. Do not be am
bilious for exravagant fortunes, but do
seek that which is the duty of every one to
obtain. independence and a comfortable
home. Wealth. and enough of it, is with
in the reach Of all. It is obtainable by one
process, and by only one-saving.
Year: 1869

If any poison has been swallowed, drink
instantly half glass of cool water with a
heaping teaspoonful each of common salt
and ground mustard stirred into it. This
vomits as soon as it reaches the stomach.
But for fear some of the poison may re-
main, swallow the white of one or two eggs,
OF drink a cup Of strong cofee-these two
being antidotes for a greater number OF
poisons than any other dozen of articles
known; with the advantage of their being
always at hand; if not, pint of sweet oil,
dripping melted butter or lard, ars good
substitutes, especially if they vOmit quick
ly.
Year: 1869

As this is the season for drinking
cider and eating nuts, it may not be
out of place to give hint which may
be useful. Medical men advise that
salt should be taken with nuts, espec-
tally when they are eaten at night.
One time, says a writer, while enjoy
ing visit from an Englishman, hiek-
oTlF nuts were served in the evening,
when my English friend called for
salt, stating that he knew of a case OF
a woman eating heartily of nuts in the
evening who was taken violently ill.
The celebrated DR.. Abernethy was
sent for, but it was after he become
too fond of his cup, and he was not in
a cOnditiOntOgo. He muttered salt!
saltr of which no notice was taken.
Next morning he went to the place,
and she was a corpse. He said had
they given her salt it would have re-
lieyed her; if they would allow him
to make an examination, he would
convince them. On opening the
stomach the nuts were found in a
mass. He sprinkled salt ON this, and
it Immediately dissolved. have
known of a sudden death myself
which appeared to have been the
same cause. 1 generally eat salt with


nuts, and 1 consider it improves them.
Year: 1869

An exchange IN discussing the cost
of Cashmere shawls in Little Thibet.
says: At the best the wool is dear a
large goat gives at the most about six


or eight ounces only the greyish down
which makes the shawl. This down


or underwood is bleached, spun into


thread, and dyed into many lovely


cOlOrs; and then the shawl-merchants


give out the yarn to their spin


ners, with minute instructions regard


ing the pattern and quality. The poor


''OOstandn, or weaver gets no more


than seven or eight pice per day for the


exquisite fabric which an empress will


perhaps wear. But, then, a really fine


Cashmere" will OCCUPY a shOp OF


three or four workers a whole twelve


month. The plain Cashmeres are


woven with thin long shuttle alone;


the richest are made with wooden nee


dies, distinct needle for every shade


of color and a quarter of an inch OF


sucha shawl will often take three 'OOs-


tands' a whole day to complete. Ladies


ought to know That sometimes to ex-


pedite the manufacture, the Cash


meres make the articles in seperate


peiees, which they sew together with


such wonderful dexterity that in


London or Paris, many a shawl is


bought for one hundred that is not


worth half its price. The weavers


work the wrong side uppermost, with


a cOlOred paper pattern before them


for guide; nevertheless they attain


the most beautiful accuracy. 1t is this
mode of working that puzzled all the
imitatOrs in Lyons, Nismes and Pals
ley. The true Cashmere is indeed a
delightful article-sO light, and vet so
warm, besides displaying a splendid


harmony of tints which it has taken
three or four thousand years to teach
the weavers; for its design is as old as
the Ayrans. Therefore it must needs
be initiated; and the French make
their warp and weft of the genuine
goats wool, and faithfully COPY the
figures and hues of the original. But
they can not, with all their machinery
and manifold shuttles match the
brown fingers of the Asiaties and
their Paris Cashm0res show on the re-
verse side cut ends of yarn which the
shawl never betrays. Lyons
labricates an extraordinary imitation
it is true of the Oriental article cut
with such pains and cost, that the
price is scarcely lower than that of
the genuine Srinuggur square. Could
we but have the Kushbegi's goat wool
brought into the Purjab at a cheap
rate of cost, the patient, humble spin |
ner of India, would beat Europe hOl- |
low, with all Europe's ingenuity
We have no machines that will go for |
two pence a day for that price the /
Umritsur spinner's toes and fingers I
will work all the year round, turning /
Dut, in place like q third rate cow |
shed, O gorgeous blaze of color, 'bright |
as sunlight to look at''-so the traders /
tell you-'and warm as sunshine to /
yearu
Year: 1869

From the Moral Influence of DarI


Things.


After some years, prejudices begin
to be tired of being slept over. Jeal-
ousies rankle as long as they stay, but
they get tired of staying when we dc
not stay with them, but go to sleep
over them. We cannot hate an en-
emy, save intermittently, but have to
begin again every mOrning-which
we have less and less appitite for, and
finally come to like that morning
that does not begin at all. Were il
not for this arrangement our maligni-
ties might burn US up. But the ia
king away our conciOusness is a kind
of compulsory Sabbath or truce flood.
No hatred or jealousy lowers on his
cOuntenance in that soft hour of Obliv-
ion. If he went to bed heated by an
angry conversation, if he was bitter
and severe in his judgment, ifall char
tiles are scOrched away by his fierce
denunciations he will rise in the morn
ing cool and sweet as the morning,
and the gentle cheer of his voice will
show that he is clear of this bad mood,
and, likes to have il known. \ man
must be next to devil who wakes an
CRY. After his unconcious Sabbath
he begins another day, and every day
is Monday, How beautifully thus are
we drawn by this kind economy of
sleep to the exercise of all good dfspo-
sitions. The acrid and soured ingredi-
ents OF evil, the grudges, the wounds
Of feeling, the hypochOndriac suspie-
ions, the black tOrments of misan-
thrOpy, the mOrose fault findings, are
so far tempered and sweetened by
Gods gentle discipline of sleep, that
we probably do no even conceive how
demOniacle bitter they would be if no
such kind Interruptions broke their
spell.
Year: 1869

think no one can read that splen-
did prose poem, GuyOt's Earth and


Man, wherein he characterizes the
position and products of the American
continents, without feeling that they
ought to be the food producers of the
world. They are the seat, he saws, of
excessive vegetable, rs the continents
of the Eastern hemisphere are of the
nOblest animal developement. Let
US, then, rather set ourselves to carry
out the grand designs of Nature than
to go against it. am tired about stO-
ries of the Western farmers burning
their corn. Let the dry-gOods clerks
be set to work on the railroads and Ca
mails to bring it to the sea-bOard, then,
With butter at sixty cents and beef
stake at forty cents pound, flour at
eighteen dollars barrel, as they are
in Boston at this present writing MAY
1865 it is absurd to say that we are
producing enough for home consump-
ton and for expectation too. Many
and many a poor family have given
up butter and sugar and meat within
the last eight years. The fact that a
paper dollar is but two-thirds of gold
dollar, l cannot account for provision
being two or three times their former
price. No, the real trouble is that the
the American hates farming and loves
trading, partly because he is physical
ly undevelOped, and therefore physi-
ally lazy; partly because farming il
lonely and stupid, and without any of
the stimulus of human companion
ship to which his childhood at the dis
trict school accustOms him partly be-
cause at that school he got no knOwl-
edge nor love of nature, but only the
trading ideas instilled by six years of
drill in the dOllar-and-cent examples
of the arithmetic; and last, though
not least, because farming kills his
wife, takes all the bloom, flesh and vi
tality away from her at forty. Very
often, even if she can afford one, she
cannot get a servant; so she is in truth
next to an Indian squaw the greatest
drudge on the American eOntinent.-I
AHdptic Monthly for January.
Year: 1869

An Intelligent and thrifty farmer
says: ;sBut for the e0-OperatiOn of my
boys should have failed. / worked
hard and so did they. The eldest is
near twenty-One and the other boys
in the neighborhOOd younger, have
left their parents; mine have stuck To
me when / most needed their services.
| attributed this result to the fact
that have tried to make home pleas
ant for them, l have furnished them
with attractive and useful reading;
and, when night comes, and the days
labor is ended, instead of running
with other boys to the railway station
and adjoining towns, they gather
around the great lamp, and become
absorbed in their books and papers,"
Such is substantially the testimony of
a farmer who has known how hard
the struggle for footing on free soil
without a capital is, and how valua-
BILE and comparatively cheap are the


aid which good reading brings to him.
Year: 1869

A blind horse wandered into the river
at indianapolis, the other day, and get
ting beyond his depth swan around in a
circle in his efforts to find his way ont.
His distress attracted the attention OF a
horse near by on the bank, who instantly
went to his assistance. lie first went to
the waters edge and attempted to direct
the blind horse by neighing, but finding
his proceeding Intellectual, he boldly (, ok
to the water and swan out to his relief
After swimming around with him for
nearly quarter of an hour, he finally
got the bind horse to understand his good
intentions, and in what direction the land
lay, and the two horses come 10 shore 81 le
by side, amid the cheers of upwards Of
cnc hundred persons, who were interest ID
spectators of the scene.
Year: 1869

Deacon B., OF Ohio, very pious man,
was noted for his long prayers, especially
in bis family, One Monday morning the
deacon and his wife were alone, and, las was
his custom, after breakfast, prayer WAS
offered, There being an unusual amount
of work that day. deacon's prayer was
short, and seizing his hat and milk pail
he started for the barn His wife being
deaf did not notice his absence, but sup
posed him to be still engaged in prayer.
On his return from milking, he was sur
prised to find her still kneeling. He step
ped up to her and shouted amen, when
she Immediately arose and went about her
work as If nothing had happenel''
Year: 1869

THAT RoosTER.-We understand that there
are several parties desirous of securing the
"proud bird" that has foretold storm and calm
to the citizens of Portland for over seventy
one years. One party is composed of the
members of the Natural History Society who
desire to place him in their rooms as relic.
The other party is composed Of the residents
of Green street, who desire that he shall be
placed upon some building in that vicinity,
and continue in Office for many years to come.
We are told that Mr.. Robert Green agrees, if
the rooster shall be given to HIM, to erect
tower npnn his barn, tho cum init of which
he will place the rooster, reglt in the best
manner. We think that the latter party are
best entitled to the bird, and we sincerely
trust that to them he may be given and contnne
to fulfil his good offices, for the bene fit of pres
ent and future generations.
Year: 1869

Now that Jenner's great labor has made
smallpox comparatively rare disease, and
comparatively trivial one when it occurs, it is
strange to hear men questioning whether the
world is after all any the better for vaccina-
ton. There are men who doubt everything as
a matter of course, even in medicine. There
are physicians who are fond of displaying
little left-handed logic by minute argument,
mainly aimed to show that they know rather
more on every subject than all other physicians
together, and these have originated the idea
that vaccination is worthless. No one, how
ever, who can reason plainly and straightfor-
wardly on a body Of facts will question that
vaccination is as complete protection from
smallpox as is smallpox itself. Persons some
times have the smallpox after vaccination !;
but some persons also have the smallpox for
a second time. Yet popular knowledge Is
right in setting down the disease in the num-
ber of those that occur but once in the life
time for that Is the rule and the other the ex-
ception. So they are right who are not moved
| from their faith in vaccination by some excep-
| tional cases. Undoubtedly the great benefits


of vaccination 60 in company with some
| dangers What boon so great is not purchased
at some such price Vaccine virus taken from
q system in which there is some blood disease
may communicate that disease as we'll as the
vaccine disease. But this must only lead to
the greater care on the part of physicians
Doubtless also there are constitutional
idiosyncracies that render the vaccine disease
as bad in some systems as smallpox ITSELF
There are persons to whom an egg is a
poison. Vaccination has banished to the
hovel and the tenement house disease that
within century had its victims in every
home, and that is great deal. Wisely used,
It might erase the disease altogether from the
number of human ills. Is there no value In
such q discovery
Year: 1869

CNy P0nt1cs-Ihe WOrk Of the fast week.


The political element has been greatly
stirred during the past week. Republicans
and democrats have entered into the contest
with renewed and with something like the old
vigor and earnestness. There are, however,
still many differences to be settled among the
republicans before they can act unitedly
against their hereditary opponents. In the
democratic ranks there are the usual splits,
but the seeeders from Tammany were never
more insignificant than they are at present.
Within the Tammany camp there is some
danger more threatening than any that lies
outside. An old feud has broken out
between a few influential supporters Of
the Tammany ring, and unless this is
healed in time and in a manner satisfactory
to the contestants there may occur very
serious disruption of the party.


We give in another column, under the head
of City Politics, the usual resume of the
progress of the campaign. From this it will
be seen that there are several candidates for
the coming vacancy on the bench of the
Supreme Court. In the Senatorial contest
a very warm fight is anticipated-not between
republicans and democrats, but between th'
| Tammany candidates themselves. 1t is a pity
| that when such as these fall out the usua


result in such cases does not follow--that tn


honest citizens might receive benefit thereby


The number of candidates for AssemblymeI
| and for Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen Il
| almost unprecedented but an enumeration o
them and their claims must be held over fo1
another article
Year: 1869




Whatever doubt may have been enter
tanned of Attorney General Hoar's opinion
upon the question raised as to the status OF
the Virginia Legislature as legislative body
is at last set at rest. The opinion IN ertenS0
printed in another column does not legally
recognize the Legislature as endowed with its
proper functions until after certain conditions
are complied with, the principal of which is
the actual taking Of the 'test" or iron-ciad
oath, the whole bone of contention in the
issue. The Attorney General says in sub
stance that the Legislature may come to-
gether, organize and act upon the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution, but that until
Congress shall have approved the con-
stituton and the action under it, and shall
have restored the State to its proper place in
the Union, &C., "the Legislature is not enti
tied to and could not without violation Of law
be allowed to transact any business, pass any
act or resolve or undertake to assume any
other function of "a Legislature if the test oath
has not been required of its members; and
that no officer elected under the new consti-
tuition can enter upon the duties of his Office
without taking the oath while the military
government continues" What is the conclu-
sion from this? That the Legislature Of
Virginia, as at present formed, must, as con-
dition precedent to its becoming Legislature,
do the things and conform to the requirements
set forth. The only thing seemingly within
its power to do without taking the test oath is
TO convene and pass upon the amendment,
submit the constitution, and, after all this,
should even Congress approve of their
measures, then take the OATH This is most
roundabout way of coming to most lame and
impotent conclusion. Why not insist on the
test oath at once, draw up the constitution
according to order, and permit the Old
Dominion to file into line and take its old
time-honored place among the States of the
Union
Year: 1869

make will amount to anything like an absolute
surrender of authority or prevent his reas-
sumng the reins of strong government should
the interests of the nation, the exigencies OF
State or his personal safety require it.


1t is all well enough to make the experiment
of more liberal institutions. If a success 1t
will give quietus to the spirit of opposition
springing up in France and tend to accommo-
date the nation to the peaceful succession OF
his son, Napoleon w. ; if a failure, what better
system could be resorted to in order to pre-
vent anarchy and confusion arising from the
aspirations of rival factions than that which,
inaugurated in 1852 and continued TO this time,
has given to the country tranquility, devel-
opment of education and increased wealth,
aud under which France, to use the words Of
the Senatorial Committee, 'has passed from
the dictatorship to complete liberty?" While
public opinion in France has more than
once called for q diminution Of executive
power when considered necessary for the
interests of the nation, II has quite as often
demanded its augmentation when it became
evident that this power was tutelary and
remedial, aud so again an unfortunate abuse
of privileges and liberties obtained from the
Executive may necessitate return to strong
government as the safest means of guaranteeing
those Essential conditions Of a power which
protects order and society,"


We look forward with much interest to the
assembling of the Legislative body in October,
and while expressing sympathy for liberal
ideas and institutions in progressive France
we are constrained to hope that Napoleon's
efforts towards reform, If sincere, as we are
now led to believe, will be generously appre-
ciated by the people, the zeal Of the opppoition
be moderated, and the bitterness Of contending
factions appeased in an earnest cooperation
to advance good government.
Year: 1869

The latest piece of bigotry is the fulmina-
ton of Cardinal Cullen in regard to Irish
schools. No doubt there are, from religious
point of view, some exceptions to be taken to
the government schools in Ireland. Education
should be free from sectarianism as well as
free in other respects, and the tendency just
now of what is called '.justice to Ireland" is
toward that result. Disestablishment of the
government Church in Ireland must eventually
free all schools supported by taxation from
church influence and leave the priest and the
schoolmaster to their several separate spheres.
In the meanwhile, however, it is revival Of q
medieval atrocity-an abuse OF his position
and a piece of outrageous ecclesiastical terror
ism-for a Cardinal to use the holy sacraments
Of his Church as weapon against political
institution. If this dignitary believes that the
sacraments are necessary to happiness here
after by what power can he give or withhold
them for any other reasons than such as relate
to sin and repentance? Must a people be
made to believe that it is a sin as bad as any
in the Decalogue to send their children to a
school not managed as Cardinal wishes
Ireland will not be free till she witnesses some
other disestablshment beside that of the Irish
Church.
Year: 1869

The British press continues to be very much
exercised about the supply Of cotton. Every
day or two there are leading articles and any
amount of correspondence on the subject, and
there is hardly any conceivable plan for in
creasing the production of the raw material
that is not discussed. The insufficient supply
is termed calamity, and is said to be owing
to an increase of the consuming power at
time when the raw material is decreasing. A
writer in the London Times takes a very SEN
sible view of the matter when he argues that
the true way to increase the production OF
cotton is for the manufacturerers and capital


lists of England to cooperate with the grower.


That is, we suppose, to employ their capital in


connection with the labor of the planters in


order to stimulate a larger growth. This
writer remarks, too, that it would be folly for
the American planters to grow five millions Of
bales at double the expense of land and labor
when the same profit can be realized from
half that amount But where are the English
manufacturers and capitalists to use their


money in cooperation with the growers
| India and other countries have been tried, and
| a vast amount Of capital has been sunk in the
| experiment. There is, however, one place in
! the world where raising cotton is not an I'M
certain experiment, and where planting never.
fails to be successful and profitable. In our
| Southern States there is vast area of cotton


lands yet uncultivated If there were capital


and labor enough ten millions Of bales or more
could be raised. This is the country, then,


for the British to invest in if they would get


an ample supply Of cotton and handsome
| return for their capital.
Year: 1869

NOT So GREAT A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY
AFTER ALL.-Later reports from the election
in California show that the democrats have not
gained so glorious a victory after all. They
have been defeated in San Francisco by the
independents, who have not only succeeded inf
electing their Mayor, but also number o
supervisors, effectually breaking up the rotten
old democratic ring Eastward the star Of
such movement might take its way with
great benefit to the community at large and
taxpayers in particular.
Year: 1869

THE OLD STORY. For the last dozen years
or so we have been told, from one source or
another, that steamship line between this
country and Italy was about to be established.
Just now we have the old story repeated by
cable telegram that line Of steamers is about
to be started between Naples and New York.
How is it going to pay? There is no passen-
ger traffic between the two countries, and we
hardly think that the freight prices on marble
and fruit would pay steamship line.
Year: 1869

Yesterday afternoon the remains Of the
deceased were brought down on the Central
train. They were met at the depot by a
large number of friends, and conveyed to
Hollywood Cemetery and inferred. The
funeral services were conducted at the
grave by Bishop Doggett.