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Year: 1868

s@-Therc was lately sold in Alabama
some of the very best land in the State,
at public auction, for one dollar and one
cent per acre. There was no incumb-
rancho anything-but the dismal
lookout ahead that had anything to dc
| IN producing this great sacrifice, This
| is the effect Of Radical Reconstruc.
ton.
Year: 1868

1t really is provoking, Charles, you never are


put out,
Do what | will, l never can quarrel bring


about
hate such pliability-'tis silly and absurd;
like man to have a win and let me have a


word.
If all our lives could be as calm as summer


sea asleep,
Do just imagine, if you can, what dullards we


should keep!
A breezy day-a darling stream-an onward


rolling sea,
Are ike the life you ought to lead-the sort


of life for mel
I should so like to see you in a passion now


aud then;
I'm sure I try enough-but no you're not


like other men!
Good temper's aggravating when it's carried


out so FAR,
And Charles, you put me in rage, to see


how calm you arel
You know I'm very hasty, Charles, you never


say word;
We might have famous squabbles, and we


might be so absurd
But, of course we'd keep them to ourselves,


nor let the neighbors know;
And make them up delightfully."- as we used to


long ago.
1 can't think what's come over you since we


we're girl aud boy;
We used to quarrel often then, and when had


life such JOY?
So letus now renew our youth, and fling our


years away,
And lead again the happy lives we led in


that old day.
I shouldn't much mind it, Charles, if you


would only speak,
And think I'd be contented it we quarrelled


once a week!
'Twould be great Improvement on our stu.


pid, quiet life;
And l think you ought to do it to give pleas


ure to your wife
Year: 1868

ABYssINIAN MoUNTANEERs.- Among
the mountaineers Of Abyssinia the state Of
things is very much what it was in the high
lands of Scotland not so many years ago.
The various chieftans or large landowners
who are appointed by the rest of the tribe to
manage its affairs, lead the warriors in their
raids against other tribes with whom they
are at fcud. Thus the warlike spirit is
maintained which would make Abyssinnia,
if united under such chief as King Theo-
dore, an exceedingly dangerous antagonist
for either Turkey or Egypt; for the people
have no fear of death, and the cavalry, the
Gallas especially, of whom there are about
twenty thousand, are as good as any horse
men in the world. Even if put to fight in
battle, they adopt the Parthian system Of
flight and retreat, and avail themselves of
every favorable opportunity that may offer
itself of wheeling round and attacking the
pursuer. They are however, in common
with the infantry, deficient in discipline,
and, consequently, very subject to panics.
Once a Week.
Year: 1868

NEwsPAPER LAWs.-We would call the special
attention Of Post Masters and subscribers to the
INQUIRER to the following synopsis Of the News
paper laws


A Postmaster is required to give notice By
letter. (returning paper does not answer the law
when a subscriber does not take his paper out Of
the Office and state the reasons for its not being
taken; and a neglect to do so makes the Postmas-
ter repsoasi5le to the publishers for the payment


., Any person who takes paper from the Post
Office. whether directed 10 his name another, or
whether ne has subscribed OF not is responsible
for The pay


s. Ifa person orders his paper discontinued, he
must pay all arrearagos, the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made, and
collect the whole amount oiether it Be taken from
de gbjce or not. There can be no legal discontin-
ucnee until the payment is made.


/. If the subscriber orders his paper to be
stopped at certain time, and the publisher con
tinues TO send the subscriber is bound to pay for
it, II he takes it out Of tle Post Office The law
proceeds upon the ground that a must pay
Tor what ne uses.


3. The courts have decided thatrefusing 10 take
newspapers and periodicals from the Post Office
or removing and having them uncalled for, is
prime JIeia evidence Of Intentional fraud.
Year: 1868




Fanny Fern thinks it a great pity that
editors, in reviewing the books written by
woman, so often fall into the error of review
ing the woman instead of the book After
having her say on this subject, she talks Of
editors in general terms, thus:


1t is pity that an editor should not be a
gentleman, for his own sake, and because
no position can be more honorable than his,
if he choose to make it so, nor more inhuen-
tial for good or evil Think of the multi
tude he addresses-the thinking men and
women who pass his columns under critical
review. Surely, this is a career not to be
lightly esteemed, not to be slurred over
bunglingly. Surely, thismessenger crossing
the sacred threshold of home, might well
step carefully, revereDtially, disereetly, and
discuss fairly, justly, all topics especially
connected with home duties and home Ie-
sponsibilities. Surely, his advertising list,
if he have one, should be clean one, such
as any frank -browed, hitherto innocent
young boy, might read. Surely, the maid
en-, whose horizon is not bounded by strip
of ribbon or silk, or even the marriage altar,
should have thu great questions OF the day,
relating to the future OF her sex, not
brushed asidewith a eontemptuous sniff, or
treated with fippant ridicule, because this
is the shortest and easiest way of disposing
of that which requires thought and fair de-
liberation 1t seems so strange to me, who
hold in such exalted estimation an editor 6
calling that one should ever be found will
ing to belittle it; it is also great comfort to
know that there are those who hold this
their position, for honor and interest second
to none, and In this light consclentiously
conduct their paper, so far as their strength
and means allow. This would be a very
stupid world, I grant, if individuality were
not allowed in the editorial chair as we'll as
elsewhere; but leaving a wide margin for
this, is there not still room in many newspa-
pers for more justice, manliness, courtesy,
and above all, respectful mention of woman
even though the exigeneies of her life may
compel her to address the public?
Year: 1868

Henry Ward Beecher thinks that the
punishment of children has not been studied
scientifically, and that it is questionable
whether children are not really whipped too
much rather than too little. He, like all
Others who have written on the subject,
finds it difficult to define exactly IN what
consists the science of corporeal punishment
and admits that after all parents will have
to Judge for themselves as to the degree and
mode of punishment. The following re-
marks are sensible, and worth remembering
by every parent:


We would net be understood as reprOba-
ting corporeal punishment. Grateful for
our own youthful enjoyment OF such
means of grace, we advocate due measure
oft, But not upon all; some children are
better without it. Whipping should not be-
como common and vulgar 1t should be
reserved as q luxury, and served up IN
striking manner, so as to tire the magma
ton. while it stirs up the flesh. Only for
grave offenses, for bestial sins, for brutal
conduct, for most dishonOrable and mean
offenses. should it be employed. 1t IS a sin
and shame to slap and pinch, rap and snap
for every peccadillo. Shall child be un-
covered for breaking a plate, for tearing his
clothes, for a moments temper, for sinking
some disagreeabe work, for running OF
skating, for playing truant on the dazzlingest
afternoon of the year, when the militia are
parading and the drums beating, aud the
whole air full of the very delirium of temp
tation? We shall not venture anyadyice on
this matter. which, after all, must be settled
in every house for itself But, if We should
ever venture to express ourselves, we think
it would be in about this wise: Govern by
rational and moral motives, and govern your
selffrst; use the rod rarely, but when you
take it, make jubilee of it. so that such an
elect hour will stand up like a monument IL
the child memory; and never use it except
as kind Of exorcism to expel some anima
demon.
Year: 1868

One of the most notable things about the
development of modern science is the man
ner in which discoveries or inventions in
one branch of inquiry are of immediate and
signal service in calculating other and ap-
parently uneonnected matters. Of such in
vcntons the Spectr0sc0pe is one likely to be
of inca4culable advantage, as by means Of
its refracting prisms it is enabled to separate
and exhibit the spectTa or rays of light
which different substances reflect, each in its
own characteristic system of bands and lines
of color. By this means several new metals
have been discovered, the atmospheres of
the sun and other heavenly bodies analysed,
and discoveries are opening up to its powers
on every hand It has been put to practi-
cal use in analyzing the fame of a furnace
during the process of making Bessemer steel,
so that the exact moment when the process
is complete is instantly shown by the change
in the spectrum most delicate point OF
metalurgy not otherwise determinable.
The latest use to which it has been put will
give it fame in the annals of medicine
and of law, as it furnishes a means Of an
alyzing and recognizing human blood,
whether in abnormal secretions of disease
or in dried stains upon other material. The
hamatine, or coloring matter of the blood,
shows a spectrum entirely different from
other substances with all its general appear
ance and color; so that where even the
microscope fails, the spectroscope will in
stantly detect so small matter as the one
thousandth of grain of dried human blood.
Thus all sciences gain from each ones pro-
eress.
Year: 1868

Complaints lnnumerable are heard In al
most every household of the land about the
lncapacity of servant girls They are indif-
terent or worthless, dishonest or dirty.
Granting that these complaints be true, an
examination Of them will afford interesting
study. A candid observer will be surprised
at how much their tone or even their sub
stance depends upon the taste of their en-
ployer. One lady of refinement will find
IN some unfortunate Bridget the most yexa-
tious Incidence, whilst another viii be will
ing to give her a certificate for laudable at
tention to business. One lady viii find her
cook sloyenly and dirty, another will recon-
mend her as model of cleanliness One
lady Will cry careless nurse" another care
tul nurse. One worthless huzzy;" an
other indispensable help. Thus the un-
complaining servant becomes a woman or
brute, paragon or hoyden, clean or dirty,
neat or siovenly, honest or thievish, skillful
or awkward, capable or incapable as the
propensity of the mistress may happen to
run. This is no fancy picture. The ser
wants themselves are living witnesses to its
truth And what does it proye2 Simply
this, that there Is emptiness in the general
complaints of servant girls. That the de-
fects IN the households which they are ex-
pected TO remedy are more the faults OF the
superior than of the subordinate. The wo-
man, the lady if you please, who allows her
charge to devolve upon the shoulders of
domestics, deserve to find confusion creep
ing into the kitchen and dining room. The
province of servant girls is to man the ship,
but the pilot, the mistress herself, should
never let go the helm. Just so soon as she
does, every servant will become her superior,
and they viii feel 1t and act upon it, and viii
become untidy, careless or dishonest in pro
portion to their degree of responsibility


Bridget in her proper place in the hands
of Mrs. A, viii be dutiful and faithful,
and valuable servant; while Bridget out of
her proper place, and outside of the author
ity Of Mrs. B., viii be vinenous and spiteful,
domineering and insolent, extravagant and
careless, inefficient and worthless, The
fault is in the goyerness more than in the
subject.
Year: 1868

CURE FOR WHooPING CoUGH.-Physi-
clans In Hartford, Connecticut have adop-.
ted with marked success a new method of
treatment for curing children afflicted with
whooping cough. The juvenile patients are
taken on tour of inspection to the city gas
works, and while intently engaged in wit
Messing the various processes employed IN
manufacturing their evening artifcial-illu-
mination supply, they breathe the not very
pleasant air of the gas house: In some
way, not very clearly understood, the inha-
ling of this air is found to cure or greatly
alleviate the complaint. This ingenious;
method of beneftting the youthful mind
and body simultaneously has become i'm.
mensely popular in the place, the people al
the gas works asserting that during the last
twelve months no less than three hundred
cases have been experimental upon, the re-
suits, generally, being of most favorable
character. -- Scientific AmRrtsaa,
Year: 1868

A BEAUTIFUL THoUGHT, Dickens wrote:
'There is nothing--no, nothing beautiful
and good, that dies and is forgotten. An
infant, prattling child, dying in its cradle
viii live again in the better thoughts of
those who loved it, play its part though its
body be burned to ashes or drowned In the
keepest sea. There is not an angel added to
the hosts of heaven but does its blessed
work on earth in those that loved it here.


Deeds! oh, if the good deeds Of human
creatures could be traced to their source,
how beautiful would even death appear; for
how much charity, mercy, purified affection
would be seen to have their growth in dusky
graves"
Year: 1868

AGRICULTURAL INvENTIoNs.-The re,
port of the acting Commissioner of Agricul-
ture for the present year relates the interest
ing fact that the number Of agricultural IN
yentious now annually perfected is more
than forty-iold greater than it was twenty
years ago. These improvements are rapid
ly revolutionizing the agriculture Of the
West, reducing to the lowest minimum ever
attained the proportion Of manual labor
employed in its operations. As a single
illustration the reaper is mentioned, which,
while doing the work Of ten men, was first
supplemented with a selfraker aud now,
still further to facilitate and cononize the
harvest work, is furnished with an apparatus
for the instantaneous binding Of the sheayes.
Year: 1868

Don't keep a solitary parlor, into which
you go but once month. with your parson
or sewing society. Hang round your wall
pictures which shall tell stories Of mercy,
hope, courage, faith and charity Make
your living room the house. Let the place
be such that when your boy has gone to dis
tant lands, or even when, perhaps he clings
to single plank in the waters Of the wide
ocean, the thought Of the old homestead
shall come to him in his desolation, bring
ing always light, hope and love. Have no
dungeons about your house-no room you
never opcn-no blinds that are always shut.
Year: 1868

LITTLE WoMEY.-The woman is irrepressi-
bic. Too fragile to come into the fighting
section of humanity, puny creature whom
one blow from a mans huge first could ami
hilate, absolutely fearless, and insolent with
the insolence which only those dare show
who know that retributiou cannot follow
what can be done with her? She is afraid OF
nothing, and to be controlled by no one
Sheltered behind her weakness as behind a
triple shield of brass, the angrIest man dare
not tcuch her, while she proYokes him to a
combat in which his hands are tied. She
Gets her own way in everything and every
where. At home and abroad she is equally
dominant and irrepressible, equally free
from obedience and from fear.
Year: 1868

''No1sY CHILDREN. We'll, how doyou
like your stupid, quiet blockheads, that
never make a noise only when some one
pushes them out of the way? Il cannot
bear the noise of children" Then go and
shut yourself up in some quiet nook. where
the music of childhood Is never heard.
Shut yourself away from the world, and
thus stihe the little music stirring in your
heart Ifyou wish to crush the life aud
spirit from the souls of children, stop their
noise, instruct them to play carefully, avoid
ing all outbursts of JOY. We like the noise
Of children. Not that rude, wicked, wild
noise that is heard in the eretreats of the pro
fame and uncultivated, but natural out
bursts of childhood S innocence and mirth.
AS well may you command the spring
brooklet, swelled by recent showers, to
run over its rocky bed without making
any noise, as to expect children, full of the
springs of human life, to play and make no
noise. Do not Danish your children out OF
hearing that you may not be troubled with
their noise Let them feel that you love to
see them happy and cheerful, and then they
viii not seek to avoid your presence to find
enjoyment
Year: 1868

AN UNDERGROUND RIVER IN 0HIO.-It
is generally known that there exists about a
mile west of Fremont remarkable under
ground stream, with a swift current, aud no
outlet above the surface ofthe ground this
side of Lake Erie 1t was discovered sever
al years ago on a farmof the Mile House,
now owned by widow Shelter. by man who
was returning from a days choDping In the
woods In walking over a slight sunken
place, he noticed hollow sound and turn
ing struck the ground with his axe. The
axe broke through and disappeared and bas
never been heard from since Further in
vestigations showed a rock about six feet be-
low surface, with erevice foot or more
wide, in which could be seen several feet
below. By tracing Its course further down
and breaking through the crust, the pheno-
nomen appeared again, and by dropping a
piece of wood or other floating substance in
the upper aperture, it was soon seen to pass
the lower one, showing strong current. A
lead and line let down to the depth of seven
ty feet found no bottom. The supply of
water is only slightly effected by drouth. 4
pump sctup in one of the places above men
toned has furnished the water to the whole
neighborhood during the late dry season.
1t is certainly a remarkable stream.
Year: 1868

Nature re-afirms the Divine law that Que
day in seven should be set apart for rest and
worship. Both the brute aud human world
need it for their well-being DR. Fare, a
distinguished physician, says.


Although the night equalizes the circula-
ton well, yet it docs not sufficiently restore
its balance for the attainment Of loHg life.
Hence one day in seven, by the bounty OF
Providence, is thrown in as day Of coln-
pensation, to perfect by its reposc the am
NAL system You may easily determine
this question by trying it on the beasts of
burden. Take that fine animal the horse.
and work him to the full extent Of his pow
ers every day but one in seven, and you win
soon perceive by the superior yigor with
which he performs his functions on the
other six days, that this rest is necessary TO
his well-being. Man, possessing 4 superior
nature, Is borne along by the very vigor Of
his mind, so that the injury Of continued di-
urnal exertion and excitement in his animal
system is not so Immediately apparent as il
is in the brute but In the long run it breaks
down more suddenly; it abridges the length
of his life and that yigor Of his old age
which tas to mere animal power ought to be
the object Of his preservation. This is sim
ply as physician, and without reference at
all to the theological question.
Year: 1868

The "e1itor and proprietor of a
daily newspaper in the North of
England is prepared to receive a
young gentleman for the purpose Of
educating him in all the branches of
newspaper work. lie will be instruct
ed in short hand paragraphing, etc.
He will Eave frequent opportunities
of writing leading articles, when he
shows sufficient ability. A premium
required" "


This is step in the right direction.
But instead Of putting a boy who
cyinces a talent for journalism in an
editorial room, We would make him
copy holder to proof. reader, filling
up his spare time by working at case.
School and collegiate education
furnish but small portion of the
requirements necessary to journalist.
A boy will learn more Of what q
newspaper should choose, say, and
avoid by the comments Of compost.
tors on the copy they receive, than he
could learn in any other way. For
the scholastic standard is not an
adequate test of the fitness of an
article or paragraph for publication.
And in cases requiring impartiality Oi
judgment, control of temper and tact
the scholastic mind would eyince
great shortcomings. journalism
should he trade ) mere book
education contains but a small portion
Of the requisites essential to those
who practise it. Special knowledge
can be acquired rapidly, readily and
thoroughly from various sources when
an emergency arises. But as there is
no school for soldier so good as the
army no practice so perfect as serv-
ing through a campaign; so there is
no school for journalist so thorough
as a printing office no practice SO
good as working in its details.-Nelo


York Commercial AducrtiScr.
Year: 1868

| never want another one. The
cooking apparatus was in the little
room near the bazaar, and it was all
open to the street. The cook was
dirty, so was the table, and it had no
cloth on it. The fellow took a mass
Of sausage meat and coated it around
wire and laid it on a charcoal fire
to cock. When it was done he laid it
aside and a dog walked in and nipped
it. He smelt it first, and probably re,
cognized the remains of friend
The cook took it away from him and
laid it before us. Brown said: ~
pass; !" he plays euchre sometimes
and we all passed in turn. Then the
cook baked a broad, fat wheaton
cake, creased itwell with the sausage,
and started to bring it to us. 1t
dropped in the dirt, aud he picked it
up and polished it on the seat of his
trowsers, and laid it before us. Brown
said, Il pass" We all passed and
called a new deal. lie put some
eggs in frying pan, and stood PEN
sively prying slabs of meet from be-
tween his teeth with fork. Then
he used a fork to turn the eggs with
and brought them along. Brown
said, Il pass" We all followed suit
We did not know what to do, and 81
we ordered new ration of sausage
The cook got out his wire, apportion
ed proper amount of sausage, meat
spit on his hands and fell to work


This time, with one accord we al
passed out. We paid and left. Thi
is all | learned about Turkish lunches


a Turkish lunch is good, no doubt


but it has its weak points.
Year: 1868

A woman who was enjoined TO try
the effect Of kindness on her husband,
and was told that II would heap Goals
Of fire on his head, replied that she
had tried billin water and it didn't
DO a bit Of good.
Year: 1868

WADE AGAINST GRANT.-The editor of


the Cincinnati Commercial, who is now in


Washington, writes to his paper as follows:
There was this day an advance made to a
prominent Republican politician, who ha.
national reputation. and lives nearer the
sea coast than the lakes, on the subject Of
the initiation of general movement TO
drop Grant, and take up Wade. The line
of argument was something like this 3
Grant has been virtually nominated for
some months. 1t is plain that his appa-
rent candidacy has not been productive Of
the slightest popular enthusiasm. He has
not added particle of strength to the Re-
publican party in any quarter. On the
contrary, the surface indications have moi
been good for some weeks. The Connecti-
cut and Chicago elections are not encour.
aging. The thing to do is to make time
ly change in our leadership. The pre-
sentation of Grant to the country and his
failure before the convention is fortunate
circumstance if we are wise enough to i'm
prove it to the utmost. There is but one
way to improve it, and that is to take an.
other candidate. Benjamin +. Wade il
the only man who can be that candidate
Let us seize the opportunity and save the
party.
Year: 1868

The total killed in action during the
whole war out of this monster negro army
of 100, ,G54 was only1 ,514, or less than
nine-tenths of one per cent. The missing
those who got near enough to the front
to be taken prisoners-number two hun
dred less While the deserters are more
than ten times the number killed And
those who died without tasting powder,
and were discharged because physically
unfit for duty, foot up So, ,102-nearly one
third Of the whole negro army.
Year: 1868

With eyes bright as diamonds


And lips like the rose,


And cheeks fair and peachy,


The pride of their beaux.


If you were not already benedict it
would make your very teeth water to look
at them. Send over the Democrat man,
we hear that he is on the look out.