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Year: 1869

There Is good deal of sound phlloso.
phy In the following which we extract
from the column of "Wall-Nuts" In thu
Christian Regisfer:-


"what a pleasant thing IL Is to dea
with pleasant men! How much tonic
helps a trade, reconciles you to n price
and sends you Off with nearer feeling
OF an equivalent for your outlay. A
smile and thank you go q great way
and when they are so cheap, cost so little
and 90 so far. one wonders that they arr
so dear, and that so little Of minor cour
tesies enter into the intercourse and inter
ests Of men. Ii Is very pleasant
thing to 90 out Of n store with the sense
of n favor conferred. Indeed one stands
u little pretty evident cheating with
placid complacency, only the cheatel
adds the suavity of manuer and of tone
to his art. And what an art that Is which
makes you buy when you had determined
not to, aud rcconciles you to price you
know to be not only abominable, but
one you ought not to pay! Is there q
harder thing to face than that very insid'
icious store-phrase, rs there anything
else to-dayr Only let a man get the
right tone and manner, AMI you have
more moral courage than most people u
you don't begin to be rather ashamed OF
the smallness Of your order or your pur'
chase, look about and remember that
there Is something else and 81 run up
your bill or depletc your pocketbook
from want of courage to meet stereo'
typed business phrase-the moral history
of which your tormentor perfectly under
stands. How mean man feels when'
walking home, he realizes the little trick
of trade to which he has succumbcd."
Year: 1869

CABBAGE FLEAs.-A correspondent
writes to ask II we cannot suggest some
thing which will destroy 1.-THE flies" that
have eaten of nearly all the leaves Of his
cabbages just set out. The insects COM
planned of are without doubt cabbage-nees
and II the leaves are busted with ashes or
or Scotch snuff In the morning when the
dew Is ON them, these pests Will be des-
troyed.-HsartA and Home.
Year: 1869

A new made widow went lately to m
insurance Office to receive the amount Of
n policy on her husbands life, which had
rovidentially been made payable to her.
The president thought Il only proper to


condole with her on her bereavement. u
am truly sorry, madam, to hear OF your
loss.' That's always the way with you
men. You are always sorry when poor


woman gets a chance to make little
money" 1 'ri .'a
Year: 1869

Body and mind both require rest
and relaxation It intervals, In order to
maintain their full vigor. A change Of
employment will often afford rest, when
entire inactivity would not. This Is
especially true with nervous, restless
minds.
Year: 1869

Boy AcAIN.-A company of gentlemen
in Reno, were not long since, Willing an
evening away by singing songs and relating
anecdotes, when one asked for the song of
Would were a boy again ~ at which
"Old Pi Ute," John K. Lovejoyl who was
present, broke out as follows: "A boy
again Who would be boy again if he
could? to have the measles, mumps and
itch, to get licked by bigger boys and scold


ed by older brothers, to stub your toes, to
have the belly-ache from swallowing cherry
stones, to get lousy helping Irish Mike do
his sums, to have chappej hands and frozen
toes, to slip upon the ice, to do chores, to get
your ears boxed, to get spanked with a slip.
per, to get whaled by thick headed school.
master. to be made stand up as the Ounce
for the amusement of the school. to have
visitors to come to school and tell you how
miserably weak and stupid you were when
you were born, and to ask you what would
have become of you at that interesting time
in your life if your parents had not been so
patient with and kind to you (of course it
was all ones fault that he was born and his
parents were in no way con cerned or interes.
ted in the matter to eat at the second table
when company comes, to set out cabbage
plants because you are little and consequent
ly it won't make your back ache much, to be
made to 60 to school when you don't want
to, to get spelled down in school, to lose your
marbles, to have your sled broken, to get hit
in the eye with frozen apples and soggy
snow balls, to cut your finger, 20 lose your
knife, to have hole in the rear of your only
pale of pants when your pretty cousin from
the city comes to see you, to be called a cow
ard if you won't fight at school, to be whaled
at home if you do fight at school, to be stuck
after little girl and dare not tell her, to
have boy too big for you to lick tell you
your sweetheart squints. to have your sweet
heart cut you dead'and affiliate with that boy
John Smith whom you hate particularly
because he set your nose up the week before,
to be made 60 to bed when you know you
amt bit sleepy, to have no fire crackers
on the Fourth of July, no skates on Christ
mas, to want a piece of bread and butter
with honey and get your ears pulled, to be
kept from the circus when it comes to town
and when all the other boys go, to get pound
ed for stealing roasting ears, to get run by
bull dogs for trying TO nip water-melons, to
have the canker rash, catechism and stone
bruises, to be called up to kiss all the old


women that visit your mother, to be scoidej


because you like Maggie Love better than
your own dear sister, TO be told of what a
scorching time little boys will have who tell
lies and are not like George Washington, to
catch your big brother kissing the pretty
school-ma am on the sly and to wish you
was big SO you could kiss her too, and-and
why d-n being boy again. p Crescent.
Year: 1869

A CoURrLY REsPoNsE.-A high military
official on this coast, says the Examiner,
telegraphed rather verbosely to Sherman to
know if be could, in response to the public
demand, FIRE national salute from the forts
in celebration of the completion of the Pacific
Railroad. The response was: by all
means. Your dispatch cost d-n'd sight
more than the powder you'll burn" This
was pointed If not elegant.
Year: 1869

declined, saying he would sit by the
fire all night. The man urged, bu.
the more he urged the more the inf
del was alarmed. He felt assured
that this was hislast night upon earth
but he determined to sell his life as
dearly as he could. His infidel prin-
ciples gave him no comfort. His fear
grew into perfect agony. What was
to be done?


At length the backswoodsman
arose, and reaching to the wooden
shelf took down an old book and said:


"Well, stranger, if you won't go to
bed, Will, but 1t Is my custom always
to read q chapter of the Holy Scrip
lures before go to bed.u


What a change did these words pro-
duce! Alarm was at once removed
from the skeptic's mind. Though
avOwing himself an infidel, he had
now confidence In the Bible. He felt
safe. He felt that man who kept an
old Bible in his house, and read it,
and bent his knees in prayer, was no
robber or murderer. He listened to
the simple prayer of the good man,
at once dismissed all his fears, and
laid down In that rude cabin and
slept as calmly as he did under his
fathers roof. From that night he
ceased to revile the good old Bible
He became n sincere christian, and
often related the story of his eventful
journey, to prove the folly of inf
deity.
Year: 1869

NOBLE SENTIMENTs.-We COM
mend the following noble and manly
sentiments of Gen. d. III. Hill, to the
young men of our beloved South:


Now is the auspicious time to begin
In our desolate but still beautiful
South, to correct false notions about
the servile nature of work. Those
with us who have no need to work
with their own hands generally be-
long to that class who shrank from
the hardships of the march, and the
dangers of the battlefield. Their
purple and fine linen tell of specula-
tion and eXtortion, the widows tears,
the orphan s wall and the dead sol
dier's blood Away with them ! Pow
erty is now the true badge of nobility.
IL speaks eloquently of heroism, pa
triotism, oblivious of self and selfish
interest, generous sacrifice of every
thing upon the altar of the country.
No blazoned coat of arms ever so
plainly proclaimed honorable blood
as does that old faded uniform. Take
heed, o, ye heroes of many a hard
fought field, lest you should bring a
stain upon your bright escutcheon.-
There is n cowardice which shrinks
from duty as well as cowardice
which shrinks from danger. 'Tis Just
as unmanly to fear "the worlds dread
laugh, "as it is to fear the shot and
shell of an enemy's battery. 1t is
just as ignoble TO neglect the obliga-
tions at home rs to eSade the service
owing to the country. You have been
true to the land of your birth, be true
to those who are bone of your bone
and flesh of your flesh. Your moth
ers, wives and sweethearts have not
blushed for your want of manhood in
the field; let them not blush for your
etfeminacy and slothfulness at the
fireside. But we believe In the en-
during manhood OF the Southern SOL
dier. We believe that he will meet
toll and poverty in the same noble
spirit with which he has met priva-
tions and peril. His is no settling to
be crushed by hardships and to be cast
down by trouble. The lion I'm the
path Of the timid and irresolute is but
a contemplate cur TO him.
Year: 1869

"A Virginia banker, who was the
chairman Of q noted infldel club, was
once travelling through Kentucky,
having with him bank bills to tile
amount of $4,000. When he came
to n lonely forest, where robberies and
murders We're said TO be frequent, he
was soon lost, through taking the
wrong road. The darkness of night
came quickly over him and how TO
escape from the threatened danger he
knew not. In his alarm, he suddenly
espied, i'm the distance, dim light,
and urging his horse onward, he at
length came 10 n wretched looking
cabin. He knocked, and the door
was opened by woman who said
that her husband was out hunting,
but would return, and she was sure he
would cheerfully give him shelter for
the night The gentleman put up his
horse and entered the cabin, but with
feelings that can be better imagined
than described. Here he was, with a
large sum of money, and perhaps in
the house of one of the robbers whose
name was terror tO the country.


In "a short time the man of the
house returned. He had on deer
skin shirt, n bear skin cap, seemed
much fGtigued and in no talkative
mood. All this bodied the infidel no
good. He felt for his pistols in his
pocket, and placed them so as TO be
ready for instant use. Theman asked
: I. &c.. 4.
Year: 1869

Don't ever go hunting for pleasures
They cannot be found thus, know,
Nor yet fall a-digging for treasures,
Unless with the spade and the hoel
The bee has to work for the honey,


The drone has no right to the food,
And he who has not earned his money!
VIII get Of his money no good.
The ant builds her house with her labor,
The squirrel looks out for his mast,
And he who depends on his neighbor,
VIII never have friends, first or last.
In short, It's 10 better than thieYing.
Though thief is harsh name to call
Good things to be always receiving,
And never to give back at all,
And do not put off till tomorrow,
The thing that you ought to do now,
But first set the share in the furrow.
And then set your hand to the plow.
The time is too short TO be waiting,
The day maketh haste to the night,
And it's just as hard work to be hating
Your work as to do it outright,
Know this, too, before you are older,
And all the fresh morning is gone
Who puts to the worlds wheel a shoulder
Is he that Will move the world onl
Don't weary out will with delaying,
And when you are Gro wded don't stop;
Believe me there's truth in the saying
There always is room at the topl
To conscience be true, and to man true
Keep faith, hope and love in your breast,
And when you have done all you can do.
Why, then you may trust for the rest.


ALICE CAREY.
Year: 1869

Cough. Bronchitis, Asthma,


and Consumption.


Probably never before in the whole history Of
medicine has ANYTHING won so widely and so deeply
upon the confidence Of mankind, as this excellent
remedy for pulmonary complaints. Through long
series of wears, and among most Of the races Of
uen it has risen higher and higher in their estima
fion as it has become better known. Its uniform
character and power to cure the various affections
of the lungs and throat, have made It known as re-
liable protector against them. While adapted TO
nder forms of disease and to young children, it is
~ the same time the most eectual remedy that can
ts given for incipient consumption, and the dan
Qgrous affections Of the throat and lungs As pro-
vision against sudden attacks of Group, It should
be kept on hand in every family, and indeed as all
are sometimes subject 10 colds and coughs, all
should be provided with this antdOte for them.


Although settled Consumption is thought IN
cIIrable, still great numbers OF cases where the dis
case seemed settled, have been completely cured
and the patient restored to sound health by the
CheT.rB PectOrGI. So complete IS its mastery
over the disorders Of the Lungs and Throat that
a most obstinate OF them yield to II. When moth
IN. Else could reach them, under the Cherry Pee
foTGI hey subside and disappear.


GfTager.E and Public Speakers find great pro
ASthTlG is always relieved and often wholly
cured by it.


Bronchitis Is generally cured by taking the
CheTTy PectOrGI in small and frequent doses.


So generally are its virtues known that we need
not publish the certificates Of them here, or do more
hs1 assure the public that its qualities are fully
maintained.
Year: 1869

Atthe same old place, one door south of


g Bush's Livery Office, on west side Of the
TIfA River. he has on hand large Lot of Pumps
IL and is making all the time, The pumps are
calculated to suit deep or shallow wells, dug OF
drilled wells, with safety. The best of piping Is on
hand. Wood, Iron or Lead Piping can be attached
TO these pumps, and warranted to work well and
give good satisfaction. Those standing in need of
a pump cannot do better than to call and examine
for themselves have been in the business for
number Of years, and these pumps have always
given the best satisfaction of any other pump that
have ever come across yet. do aumy own work
so that can warrant every pump.


N. BAH old pumps repaired on short notice.
Bring them along and If they cannot be repaired
take q new one home with you.


iT-sm G, BAKER,
Year: 1869

THOSE ardent juveniles who attend the
circus, admire the gaily- dressed youngsters
who ride the horses and leap the hurdles,
and wish they could go and do likewise,
would be apt to lose their desire if they
knew of the unfortunate condition of the
youthful scrobats, The New York C2tp-
per, under the head of Brutality to Hu.
manity," publishes a long article revealing
some Of the secrets of shows and amuse-


ments, which demands thorough and
searching investigation. According to


the writer there are hut very few out Of
the large number of professional gymnasts


who have young boys apprenticed to them
who do not numerically, habitually and
Illegally Chastise them immoderately, and
submit them TO countless dagradations and
indignities which none, save q hardened
brute, would bestow on a dumb animal.
The helpless sufferers are generally child
rem taken from the public charitable insti-
tutions, or who have been enticed away
from home, and are consequently without
any natural protector to whom they can
appeal for safety. They are, therefore, at
the mercy of heartless rufiians who amuse
themselves by kicking, striking and other
wise ill.treating their "proteges." The
moral of which is that all that glitters is
not gold" and that small boys will do well
not to run away from home and join cir
Gus troupe.
Year: 1869




MosT pigs never have had any chance
TO be respectable. They are fed on the
coarsest food, and shut up in a dirty pen,
where they have no freedom and nc socie-
", and not even pure air and clean bed.
If little boy should be shut up in pig
pen and fed upon slops, and should have
nobody to teach or talk TO him or play
with him, he would grow up coarse and
brutal, If he lived to grow up at all
once knew zig that had good time the
first half year of his life, and as it Is
true story, will tell you all about It.


When he was about month old he was
very plump and pretty, with white bristles
over pink skin, and the farmer who
owned him took fancy 70 him and re-
solved to give him a chance to improve.
So he took him from his dirty little broth
ers and sisters, and gave him nice little
shed all TO himself; in the shed was soft
bed Of clean straw, and the door was lcft
open. 1t was only the pigs bed room,
where ne slept at night and on wet wealth
en- In pleasant days he ran about the
yard and over the green in front OF the
house, and he would have gone into the
house if friend Of his had not taught
him better. This friend was Matte, the
farmers little daughter. She had entire
charge Of the pig, and fed him three times
day with sweet brown bread and milk,
and often ran and played with him as II
he had been dog.
Year: 1869

A GOOD sort Of man in Maine was re-
Gently asked to subscribe for chandelier
for the church. "Now," said he, whats
the use of a Chandeliers After YOU get
it you can't get any one to play on it,"
Year: 1869

OF interest without any trouble or vexation simply
by lending 1t at a wide margin on coliaterals.
dunureds nave done this thing and the conse-
quence Is the spectators Of Wall street have at
Iner disposal every day millions OF idle capital.
The lenders still hang on, waiting for some
thing to turn up. 1t is too late now TO draw out
Lnelr money, and go back to their old work. Wuter
is az nand ana with 1t q check TO operations Hence
~ rs tnat the movements in Wall street towards ac-
hxey .hnoyyo are only spasmodc. One day in week the
money rises In the interest rate there is shower of IL
Ieaoy 10 pc lent. The banks now hold over twenty
Lnree millions In excess OF the legal reserve
oe,o Sne uenaho from the West, even the crop
character cannot but require q limited amount. as
the valuation of the crops is generally Reduced NV
the decline IN gold the purchase by the Government
OF over seventy millions OF its bonds has set free
some eighty millions of capital invested in them the
South viii be less urgent this winter for the reason
that the Southern merchants are beginning to ship
direct from Southern ports while the reduced price
OF the staple will not require as much money for its
movement, not to speak OF the fact that the South
has already grown quite rich and can handle large
proportion Of the crop without assistance. The
indications are, therefore, that the ShylOcks will
miss their usual pecuniary festival this winter It
is certain that artificial influences only can render
the money market stringent II some of our
neighbOrng money marss 1t would, in the long run,
rebound to the benet and profit of city, for then
there would be more activity in legitimate business.
AS 1t Is, the money is all concentrated in Wall street.
where it is lent on stock and bond colaterals. The
merchants feel the disproportionate distribution
very keeny Their paper is subjected to all sorts of
high rates, to pay which takes away the profits OF
legitimate business The mania to lend money on
call Will eventually cure itself, when in midwnter
the interest rate gravltaies TO two and three per
which now passes with difficulty at twelve should
then be sought for six per cent"
Year: 1869

The following extracts show the state OF the New
York money market yesterday


From the Herald


'T0-day being the festival OF THANKSGIVING was a
close holiday i'll financial quarters. The Custom
House, the banks, and the public offices were closed
and business completely suspended The Stock Ey,
change and the Gold Board adjourned from Wednes-
day afternoon to Friday morning. 80


at is noteworthy feature of the times that the
history OF Wall street has seldom shown so curious
condition OF the money market is there pre-
sented Just now. We are now, In the middle of No
vember in the height OF what heretofore has been
the most active and most stringent season. Taking
the nearest illustration, the same season in 1865
money on call was worth all sorts OF eXtrayapant
rates, while the banks were so impoverished that
they exhibited but ten millions above the legal re-
serve when their liabilities In the vicinity of
two hundred millions OF dollars We have had of
course, a recurrence OF these high rates since In
the week or two succeeding the September manic
there was even greater aggravation to borrowers:
but the reason this time was not the scarcity of funds
so much as the fears Of lenders, MANY or whom
rather than risk their money at such time kent IL
unemployed. The panic however, has gone by and
much OF its worst features have been buried in that
oblivion to which Wall street soon consgns every
thing. The time has come around again for active
money. The lenders who have been waiting all SUM
mer and fall for an eighth and quarter per cent. per
the active season have gone by It is impossible TO
obtain more than the legal rate OF interest The
fact s, active money has been discounted. Wall
street always discounts events long beforehand
The capitalists who formerly were content to employ
their money In various enterprises building CON
tracts, bonds and mortgages and the llke-have
been tempted by the prospect OF earning Dig rates
Year: 1869

From the atlanta (Ga.) Intelligencer, Nov. IL.


Before the war it required banking capital OF
5000 oOO 600 to remove the crops OF the South Ac-
present banking capital Of the South sis not much
over $40, 100000" How immense the disparity! No
wonder that cotton and RICE sugar and tobacco,
staple productions of the South this year footing up
aggregate of S4O0 0OO 900, subject to such In
nuences as "Rings" in Wall street exercise over
housekeeping prices down by Withholding the means
to transport them to market. The South must have
more banking capital. If the national bank system
will not furnish 1t, she must seek 1t abroad and at
home from capitalists who only want to know that
such investments will be safe and profitable to fur
Dish it, But until the reconstruction of the Southern
States becomes fixed fact, We need not expect aid
from capitalists In any quarter.


The japanese in California.


From the san Francisco AHd


The agent of the Japanese colony says we may be
assured that the colony has planted itself here and
means to stay. The balance of the colony he eX-
there arrived thirteen men, women, and children.
This same steamer brings one OF the most expert
enced agriculturists OF JAPAN sent over by Eugene
Van Reed, to study what plants can be sent here
with profit. He is hunting up rice to make immedi-
ate experiments in its cultivation. He brings 1900
chestnut trees and a bushel OF seeds OF the same
tree. This invoice is for sale and distribution. We
are not at liberty to say muCn IN advance but this
is sure, that great many Japanese people, stimu-
lated by letters from the Aidzu colony here and
by other means, have resolved to leave their country
and make their permanent home in California. They
are intent upon introducing new agricultural indus
tiles and upon becoming citizens OF the country Ar
rangements are perfected to keep them out OF the
hands of the land specuator, so that class OF people
may Just well save themselves the trouble OF run
ming after them. The Japanese are as Intelligent as
are they are brave industrious, and economical
They have a sort Of cooperative principle which
maintains the dignity OF labor and takes away much
OF its subservence. They will win universal respect
by sort of heathenish habit they have OF minding
their own business
Year: 1869

And feeling the hand of time weighing
heavily upon them, with all its attendant
Ills will find in the use OF this BlTTERS, or
the TONIC, an elixir that will instill new
energy and RrdOr OF more youthful days,
build up their shrunken forms, and give
health aud happiness TO their remaining