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Year: 1869

The following incident is stated by the
Hon. James Brooks, of New York, in a
speech which he made at the last session
of Congress, illustrating one of the beau
ties of the present tariff There is a
nickel mine in Pennsylvania, in the dis
trict which was represented by the Hon.
Thaddeus Stevens He was Chairman
of the Committee Of Ways and Means,
and always saw to it that this nickel mine
was well protected" Slr. Brooks sug
gested to him that the Government had
better buy the nickel mine out of which
it made its cents than to pay the enormous
bounty to its owners that had been
put in the tariff Mr. Stevens said it
could be bought propably fer $780,
900 or 100000, but it would not read
well to do it, and remarked that the
''nickel mine owners had better sell it
their own way" They have indeed "sold
it their own way''-sold it over ana over
again, and sold the country with it-Cin
Enquirer
Year: 1869

At Echo, on the Union Pacific Rail
road, the other evening, three freight
trains stood upon the main track, when
word came flashing over the telegraph
from the Superintendent: "a locomo-
tive and tender, with steam up and with
nobody on board, have broken from a
freight train and started down the
grade" All, then there was hurrying to
and fro! In few seconds came anoth-
er message: "She has just passed Castle
Rock station" Never were three trains
got off upon a siding with less delay
Then tho workmen piled sleepers high
upon the tracks; lest even that should
not stop her, and she should do murder
further down the road, they tore up the
rails below. just as this was accom-
plished she came in sight. She shot
through the sleepers like bullet through
a pine board, sending them flying in all
directions and darlsening the air with the
splinters, but at the broken track she
jumped up and down with vexation and
finally plunged angrily, head foremost.
into hillside. She had FUN twenty-six
miles in twenty-nine minutes-the best
time vet made upon the road.
Year: 1869

nipped in the bud the other night at Sar-
atoga. A lovely and charming blonde,
whose father was cruelty obdurate, had
nearly escaped through the window to
join her anxious inamorata who had ar
ranged everything for an immediate
wedding AS she put her delicate foot
through the window upon the first rmg
of the ladder, alas alas! her crinoline
caught upon the bell-handle by the fire
place, and the poor girl, unable to ad-
vance or retreat, was detained until q
champermail accidentally entered the
room and released her from her perilous
position.
Year: 1869

1t seems there are to be two democratic
tickets in Dorchester, after all. The second
ticket calls itself the Conservative" and
an effort is made by the democratic papers
to prove that it Is republican attempt to
Introduce discord into the camp of the faith
full but the truth seems to be that 1t is q
purely spontaneous movement inside tbs
democratic party, with which the repubn-
cans, who are running their own ticket,
! have nothing to do.
Year: 1869

Maryland voters should remember that
they must vote for school commissioners on
q separate ticket.
Rome, Michigan, is astounded at the
perfidy Of the editor who has carried away
| the funds raised by the business men of the


place three years ago to aid him in establish
| ing his Journal
Year: 1869

wants AS money; they make bargain
and exchange commodities to mutual
advantage. II b. does his work faith.
fully and well, he is under no more obli-
CATION to A. than A. is under TO him.
But If A. don't want BIS work, but is
importuned into hiring him in order TO
keep him out of the alnlshousc, then the
case is bravely altered. b. is now
cringing beggar, eating the bitter bread
of dependence and virtual charity. lie
has sunk from manhood's high estate
and has dragged Labor good way after
him. Every workingman is injured and
degraded by him.
There are hundred thousand men IN
this city to-day who ought TO have long
since found their way to the Public
Lands, each 1secured q quarter.section
thereof, and made of it home evermore.
Had they done this, they would have
aided to elevate Labor, instead of con-
spring to drag it down.


But "the slothful man says, there is a
lion in the way !" 1t costs money to
reach the Public Lands; it costs years
OF patient, earnest labor to make of a
wild quarter-section comfortable home.
The poor pioneer must put up very
rough log-cabin and be content with its
shelter for years he must live on coarse,
simple food, and wear coarse, patched
clothing; and he must work hard through
nearly every hour'of light, Sundays ex
cepted. He must "work out" for the
means which pay for breaking up hi>
virgin prairie: if he gets each acre bro
ken for week of his own faithful labor
he must be thankful. The lite of ;
thrifty pioneer is by no means an easy
one; and it will take him from ten t,
twenty years to improve and fence hi
tract so as to secure him the comforts o
life. And yet there are hundreds 0
thousands now living who have reason
bitterly to lament that they did not al
tempt this ten to thirty years ago.


No man is obliged 10 be a pioneer


but it is every ones duty TO find some
thing 20 do and then do IL. Aud it il


very dubious charity and worse econom,
to set men or women to doing work tha


is not wanted rather than feed them anC
start them along to some place wher


their services are really needed.


In summer, when almost every farme


wants more help and pays good wages
and when travelling is "a luxury, cNel


though You go atoot and sleep under
} tree, thousands cling to the city in idle
ness, vainly looking for something L
do" Now that winter is at hand, thi


class say, "Why should we go into tn
. country? The weather is inclemeut


and nobody wants to hire US" Perhap


not, if you arc a dead-beat, who can d
nothing; but you should look for labo
where it may be found, rather than wher
you know that it can not be. Ii yo
!, can render aught OF real service to mar
kind, in the way of productive labor


you will fnd a chance, if at all, wher


much is to done and there are but few t
, do it. Don't settle down into hopeles
beggary, but put off while you have sti
shoe-leath her, and keep on Till you fin
, something to do IN Y. 7ri6mte.
Year: 1869

The New Haven LeDsr sounds this note of
warning; "Beware, young man The pearl
powder now used by her is poison One
Touch of those eager lips TO that enameled
cheek may result in death most horrible =
Bewarnrre y
Year: 1869

THE New BABY-A BOY's SoLLoQUY.-
Yes there's another of EN- up stairs now.
know'd cause pa told me l must be quiet and
sit down in the corner with my book, and
mustn't play ball, nor ask Willie Smart to come
in and help me to put my new puzzle together
Then there a cross nurse that s always Scod-
ing me for getting in her way, no matter where
that's what she is.


l saw it, too. It's got little, round, red
head without any hair with great wrinkles IN
stead of eyes and when it cries it opens its
mouth as wide as = robin, as though 1t was go
ing to swallow itself. Pa told me to kiss my
dear pretty little sister, and when | wouldn't,
and called it hOrrid ugly little thing, he said
| was naughty boy, and the nurse shook me,
and said | ought to be ashamed. didn't get
to kiss my ma at all | knew better than to try
| it, for once when another baby came, | climbed
on the bed, and putting my arms around her
neck, | hugged and kissed her, but all the time
had my knee right ON the baby's head, so L
was whipped and put in my crib without my
supper because | did not know it was there.


Little Annie thinks it's nice to have new
sister but she was the baby before, and don t
know anything about it. | can remember
long ago, ma used to call me =" sweet little dar-
ling" and pa dandled me upon his foot, and
said | was fine fellow" and my Aunt julia
declared that was perfect little angie. But
then Tom came, and all Of my pretty toys were
given to him cause he was the baby, and


was cuffed and scoded by everybody 'cep.t


grandma, and she's good to me yet, though


there's been two new ones since.


| wonder where all the babies come from


Ma SAYS the Lord sends them. | wish ID
wouldn't send any more to our house, for we "
got more n enough now. 1t might be nice fo
them if they could stay little always, but the!
have to grow big after while, and then the.


amt no better off than the rest of folks.
rather think if was baby, I'd ask the Lor'
to send me where I'd not grow any bigger, an
then I'd have nothing to do but to lie on m
back and chew my toes, and have folks say
was the darlingest, cunningest little creatur


they ever laid eyes on.
Year: 1869

THE COMING CHINAMEN.-The London
newspapers contain correspondence from Can
for wholesale emigration to the United States
on the part of the masses, who are but too
eager to embrace the opportunity to get away
from their mandarins and the bastinado. One
of these writers says there is one caution to
which the authorities of the United States
would do well to give their attention--they
must keep the whisky bottle from their new
subjects. Hitherto this has been done With
most satisfactory results, and if it is not done
now, we are warned that we shall get rather
bad bargain, drunken Chinaman being abou
AZ hard q case as whisky-drinking Indian.
Year: 1869

SrsTERHooDs OF CHARITY.-Sisterhoods of
Charity seem to be an object of attention in
the Episcopal Church at this moment. There
has been recently instituted a society which has
adopted the name Evangelical Protestant
Deaconesses. The object of the ladies is tO
visit the poor and nurse the sick. They wear
white caps and aprons. with dark colored dres
ses and bonnets This is not unlike the Sis
ters of Charity of the Roman Catholic Church
They seek no personal remuneration. The con
ditions of sisterhood imply celibacy. Postu
lants must be between the ages of seventeen
and thirty FIVE. They are supported from
common fund, but arc permitted to have
private purse.
Year: 1869

A gentle word is never lost,


On never then refuse one;
1t cheers the heart when sorrOw-tost,
And lulls the cares that bruise one;
1t scatters sunshine o 'er our way,
And turns our thorns to roses;
1t changes a weary night to day,
And hope and love discloses.
A gentle word is never lost


Thy fallen brother needs it
How easy and how small the cost,
With peace and comfort speed it.
Then drive the shadow from my cheek,
smile well replace it
Our voice music when we speak
With gentle words to grace 1t.
Year: 1869

A WEDDING PARTY DISPERSED. An event
occurred near one Of our city churches on Sun
day, which, although public, has since been
kept very quiet. Itappears that the daughter
of well known lady living on Broadway had
been keeping company with popular young
groceryman The old lady objected to and re-
peatedly forbade her daughter from assoclat-
ing with the young man. But the young lady
affections were centcred in the grocery keeper,
and all attempts to dislOdge that love or dis
suade her from her purpose were as naught.
The old lady soon became convinced OF this
fact, and determined to prevent any intercourse
between her daughter and her lover by force
and violence, if not otherwise. For while
she succeeded in her object. The parties were
plighted for marriage in November, but the
girl urged change OF the day, and named
Sunday last She thought " the quicker, the
BETTER" and believed by this means she could
deceive the old lady. The bridegroom had
some cards printed, announcing the proposed
marriage, and for the purpose of inviting few
friends to be present The daughter indscreet,
" allowed one of them to lay around loose, and
it fell into the mothers hands. The parent be-
came greatly excited. She prepared tor the
emergency The daughter left her home or
Sunday afternoon, met her lover and friends al
the house Of an acquaintance, and at once pro


ceeded toward the church to be made one. al


they neared the edifce they were met by the


inturiated mother, who stepped before the wed


ding party, forbade the nuptials to go on, as


sailed the bridegroom in the most RUTHLESS
J manner, and by her conduct dispersed the hap
by gathering as effectually as bombshel
! would a crowd in an enemy s camp. The par
ty and wedding were effectually broken up, ant
the mother carried the daughter home IN trl
umph.-Al6any Knickerbocker.
Year: 1869




She has still her white and shapely hanas
with their pink fiIbertlke paik sub
her pleasant smile and square, small
teeth her eyes are bright yet, and II the
upper muscles are little shrunk, the
consequent apparent enlargement of the
orbit only makes them more expressive !;
her ips are not vet withered, her skin ls
not wrinkied. Undoubtedly, when well
dressed and in a favorable light, the ma
ture siren Is as beautiful in her own way
as the girlish belle; and the world knows
it and acknowledges it.


That mature sirens can be passionately
loved, even when very mature, history
gives us more than one example; and the
first name that naturally occurs to one
mind as the type Of this is that of the too
famous Ninon de HEnclos. And NInon,
if trihe mythical, was yet fact and an
example. But not going quite to Nnon
age, we often see women of forty and up
wards who are quite charming, and whom
men love with as much warmth and ten
derness as if they were in the heyday OF
life--women who count their admirers by
dozens, and who end by making a superb
marriage and having quite an Indian
summer of romance and happiness. The
young laugh at this idea Of the Indian
summer for bride of forty-five; but il
is true for neither romance nor happI
ness, neither love nor mental youth, is 8
matter of years and after all we are only
as old as we feel /; and certainly no Older
than we look All women do not harden
by time, nor wither, nor yet corrupt.
Some merely ripen and mellow and gel
enriched by the passage Of the years, re
tanning the most delicate wOmanliness-wt
had almost said girlishness-into quite old
age, and blushing under their gray hairs
while they shrink from anything coarse,
or vulgar, or impure, as sensitively a;
when they were girls. La femme guar
ante ans is the French term for the open
ing of the great gulf beyond which love
cannot pass put human history disproves
this date, and shows that the heart can
remain fresh and the person lovely long
after the age fixed for the final adieu to
admiration, and that the mature siren can
be adored by her own contemporaries
when the rising generation regard her as
nothing better than a chimney-corner
fixture. Mr. Trolloppe has recognized
the claims of the mature siren in his
"Orley Farm" and "A1iss Mackenzie -
and no one can deny the intense natural
ness of the characters and the interest of
the stories.
Year: 1869

LIME AS A FERTILIzER.-The New
England Farmer says: 'It has been
recommended to sow lime, from five to
twenty bushels per acre, before turning
down. The efficiency of this mineral Is
now too generally well-known to admit of
any question, and in no way, perhaps, is
its application more Immediately benefc-
ial than as an accompaniment for green
crops, when turned in as help for lands
that are poor and light.


Such soils frequently abound in acids.
These are sometimes native to the soil,
and sometimes produced or added to it
by the substances applied as manure. But
whatever may be their origin, they are
speedily neutralized by the use of lime.
The fact is now well understood that all
plants grown for food require lime for the
perfection of their seeds"
Year: 1869

OR MEDICINE, for Dyspepsia, Head
ache, Jaundice, Costiveness, Camp Dysentery,
Sick Headache, Chronic Diarrhea, Affections
of the Bladder and Kidneys, Fever, Nervous
ness, Chills, Diseases of the Skin, Impurity of
the Blood, Melancholy or Depression of Spirits.


Most of the ailments here enumerated have
their origin in diseased liver, which is the
most prevalent affection in this country, and
in many cases the patient is not within the
reach of a physician, it requires that some
remedy should be provided that would not in
the least impair the constitution, and yet be
active and safe. That such is the character of
the SIMMONS REGULATOR there can be no
doubt which the testimony Of hundreds will
establish.
Year: 1869

RECONSTRUCTION. The New York
Tribune rejoices in the conviction that
1869 will see Virginia reconstructed and
re-established on the substantial and ben
efcent foundations of Universal Amnesty
and Impartial Suffrage"
Year: 1869

AGE OF SHEEP.-The age of sheep
may be known by examining the front
teeth. They are eight in number, and
appear during the first year, all of a small
size. In the Second year, the two middle
ones fall out, and their place is supplied
by two new teeth, which are easily dis
tinguished, being of larger size. In the
third year, two other small teeth, one
from each side, drop out, and are replaced
by two larger ones, SO that there are now
four large teeth in the middle, and two
pointed ones on each side. In the fourth
year, the large teeth are six in number,
and only two small ones remain, one at
each end of the range. In the fifth year,
the remaining small teeth are lost, and
the whole front teeth are large. In the
sixth year, the whole begin to be worn,
and in the seventh, and sometimes sooner,
some fall out and are broken.
Year: 1869

h)A4CAAAtlA11 1A " PGAA
ticipate at the Convention of the Ameri-
can Equal Rights Association, we find i'll
the Revolution


WAsHINGToN, April %.


'DEAR MADAME shall not be able
to attend your convention, as l wish, as
soon as possible, to get out of this atmOs
pheae of politics into the pure air Of the
country. From Congress into conven-
ton is from the frying pan into the fire.
l have always favored the most liberal
laws for "Women's Rights" so far as
property, business, employments, liberty
and social position are concerned. In
these respects they ought to stand on the
same footing as men but l have seen
no reason to convince me that they would
be better off or that society would be inn
proved by their having the right to vote.
At all events, until a majority of the
women concur in demanding it, the
men may properly stand aloof ON this
question. Your missionary work is among
your own sex and | am willing to en-
courage and support the political discus
sion of the question with full faith that,
it the women of the United States de-
mand the suffrage as necessary for their
protection, they will get it.


They now make the fashions and GUS
toms which ostracise so many of their
own sex from healthy and useful employ
ments, they promote extravaganza in
dress, and make marriage dangerous
experiment for young men without means.
All these and many other abuses you are
trying to correct, and l sympathize with
you, and, if suffrage would aid you in
this, would grant it. My fear is that
the right to vote will tend to disturb the
harmony of society, make discord in the
family, and thus cause much greater evil
than good.


Very truly yours,
Year: 1869

= - Pain in the side Sometimes tbe e
Mt lUH0 pain is felt under the shoulder
n N nm Eblade; is sometimes mistaken for


Rheumalism in the arm The
stomach is affected with loss of
appetite and sickness, bowels in general are
costive, sometimes alternating with lax: the
head is troubled with pain, accompanied with
dull, heavy sensation. There is generally
considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with painful sensation of having left nndone
something which ought TO have been done. A
slight, dry cough is sometimes an attendant.
The patient complains of weariness and debil-
ity; he is easily startled, his feet are cold or
burning, and he complains of a prickly sensa-
tion of the skim his spirits are low; and al
though satisfied that exercise would be bene-
fetal to him, yet he can scarcely summon up
fortitude enough to try il. In fact he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above symp-
toms attend the disease, but cases have occur
red when few of them existed, yet examination
of the body after death has shown the Liver to
have been extensively deranged.


1t should be used by all persons, old and
young, whenever any of the foregoing symp-
toms appear. 1t is purely vegetable COM
pound, is not injurious to the most delicate
constitutions, and will keep the liver in a
healthy action if used properly.


Persons living in unhealthy localities may
avoid all bilious attacks by taking a dose oc-
casionally to keep the liver in healthy action.
Year: 1869

NERvR.-No man can be sure Of his nerves
at all times We have, within our personal
experience, known Of more cases than one


where meu, with ample professional training
have been in the jaws OF death for no other
reason than this. One Of these men was an
architect, thoroughly used to walking about
all parts Of houses In the course Of c0nstruc-
ton, who told US that once, when walking
along plank which Joined two walls Of a
great height from the ground, felt sudden
sense OF danger, upon which bis senses left
him, and only returned after some seconds,
when he awoke, so to speak, in the arms OF
one OF his masons, who bad most fortunately
seen his state In time to carry him across the
plank at the risk Of his own life. second
and more curious case, requires a little pre-
vious explanation. Some years ago, the paint
ings on the inside Of the dome Of 81. Paurs
wanted repairs, and II was contrived in or
der TO save trouble and expense Of seaffold-
ing built mp from the fo0r that a sort Of sus-
pended scafold should be made, supported
BY the ledge, about half a yard in width. OF
the upper surface Of the cornice just below
the dome, and hanging BY ropes which hung
through holes In the upper part Of the dome.
A ship carpenter, an old hand at such mat
ters, undertook the job, and began IL by step
ping out Of small door at the foot Of the
dome upon the ledge In question, from which
there was clear fall of two hundred feet to
the pavement beneath. He walked few
steps along the ledge, and then, being broad
shouldered man, found that the inward curve
Of the dome made him unable to stand up
right, and caused him 10 lean over danger
ously, with an altered and unsteady centre Of
gravity. Seized all at once with an oyerpow-
ering sense of fear, he managed, nevertheless,
TO turn his face to the dome and to rest, be-
ing once more able to stand upright, till he
could recover his senses. Then, to bis nor
ror. he found that be had forgotten on which
side Of him the door was, or how FAR of It
was, and By trying to get to it by short side
long steps, took the wrong direction, and
literally walked In search Of It round the
whole base of the dome, falling into the door
at last, utterly prostrated, and feeling, as he
said, ten years older. He made the scaffold
afterwards, and used to tell the story Of his
fright while walking about on the ledge in
the most unconcerned way.-Exchanqs.
Year: 1869




Sooner or later the storms shall beat
Over my SIumbers from head to feet
Sooner or later the winds shall rave
10 the long grass above my grave.
| shall not heed them where l lie,
Nothing their sounds shall signify,
Nothing their headstone's fret Of rain,
Nothing to me the dark day's pain.
Sooner or later the sun shall shine
With tender warmth on that mound OF minsi
Sooner or later, in summer air,
Clover and violet will blossom there.
shall not feel in that deep laid rest,
The sheeted light fall over my breast,
Nor ever note in those hidden hours
The wind blown breath of tossing flowers.
Sooner or later the stainless SHOWS
Shall add their hush to my mute repoSe;
Sooner or later shall slant and shift,
And heap my bed with dazzling drift.
Chill though that frozen pail shall seem,
Its touch no colder can make the dream
That recks not the sweet and sacred dread
Shrouding the city of the dead.
Sooner or later the bee shall come
And fill the noon with its golden hum;
Sooner or later, on half,poised wing,
The blue birds warble about me ring
Ring and chirrup and whistle with glssi
Nothing his music shall seem to me
None of these beautiful things shall know
How souudly their lover sleeps below.
Sooner or later, far out in the night,
The stars above me shall wing their flight;
Sooner or later by dsrkling dews
Catch the white spark in the silver oo1s.
Never ray shall part the gloom
That wraps me around in the kindly tomb;
Peace shall be perfect for lip and brow
Sooner or later-O why not now.