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Year: 1869

CHEAP PLEASURE YOU ever
study the cheapness of some pleasures?
Do you know how little it takes to make a
multitude happy? Such trifes as nod,
word or smile does the work A poor
widow lives in the neighberhood, who is
the mother of half dezen children
Send them peck of sweet apples and
they will be happy. 4 child has lost his
arrow-all the world to him-and he
mourns sadly, help him to find it, or make
him another, and how quickly will the
sunshine play over his sober face. A
boy has done as much as he can do to
pile up load of wood assist him, for
few moments, or speak pleasant word to
him, and he forgets his toll, and works
away without minding it. Your appren-
tice has broken mug or slightly injured
a piece of work. Say ''you scoundrel,"
and he feels miserable but remark, esI
am sorry" and he will try and do better.
You employ man pay him cheer
fully, and speak Il pleasant word to him,
and he leaves your house with a conten-
ted heart, to light up his own hearth
with smiles and gladness. Pleasure is
cheap.


Who will not bestow it literally !? If
there are smiles, sunshine and flowers. all
about us, let US not grasp them with
misser's fist, and lock them up in our
hearts. No; rather let us take them
and scatter them about us, in the cot OF
the widow, among the groups of children,
in the crowded marts where men of bus
mess congregate, in our families, and
everywhere We can make the wretch
ed happy, the discontentef cheerful, the
afflicted resigned, at an exceedingly
cheap rate. Who will refuse to do SO?
Year: 1869

PAY FOR BEING WHIPpED-A Dem
ocratic paper says the United States Is
the only Government in the world that
ran behind over two thousand millions
Of dollars in the short space OF four
years The Nevada GazcHe, in noticin 2
the above quotation, gets in the following
crusher:


This is all very true, and no wonder
Democrats grumblc about it, Every dol
lar of it was piled up in compelling
Democrats to keep peace and obey the
laws and now that they have got to help
pay the, expense of the whipping, it is
perfectly natural that they should grow
However, they have the proud satistac-
ton Of knowing that the job, although
costly, has been thoroughly done, and
with the exception of little switching
occasionally, will never have to be re-
peated. The Democrats have cost the
country a pile of money. but the people
the great Republican party-are COM
pelling them to work out q considerable
portion of it.
Year: 1869

What is the difference between a
hungry man and a glutton? One
longs to eat and the other eats too
long.


The Memphis AUalanehe, says
that "the chronic itch for holding
Office has broken out on Andy John
son in blotches as big as a frogs
head"
Year: 1869

There is very preceptible abatement in the
monetary stringency in New York, and
rates on demand loans range from seven per
cent, currency, TO the same with additional
commission OF Lilo Of one per cent per day;
the larger number OF loans at per cent. In
com. 4 he dIscontinuance of the special mar
ket at the Stock Exchange. for dealing in legal
tenders has had much to do wit the decline IN
rates, there now beng less opportunity OF ad-
vanclEg the same on fictitious transactions.
Year: 1869

RESTORING THE DROWNED The following
directions for restoring those partially drO wn.
81 should be preserved tor ready reference:


First Lay the drowned man at once flat on
bis stomach, with his face to the ground-a
folded coat or bundle under his chest.


Second. Place your hands fiat between his
shoulder blades, and make firm pressure so as
10 squeeze the AIR out Of his chest; then turn
the body slowly on to one side and little be-
yond. Replace him quickly on his face. Count
four, 70 mark tour seconds of time, and then
repeat the process, commencing by squeezing
the air out OF the chest again.


Third Wet clothes should be removed aud
dry ones substituted. each bystander contrib
uting. The body 10 be rubbed dry briskly, and
the Iace kept from contact with the ground by
an assistant.


Fourth DO not squeeze the air out of the pa
TENTS chest if he ls breathing, but wait and
watch, merely drying the body and changing
the clothing.
Year: 1869

The WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE OF the
House had meeting this morning and dis.
cussed the Morshead Tariff bill. Tom orrow
the Committee will have vote as to whether
they will have that bill, now pending in the
House, recommitted to tue Committed, or allow
1t to take its chances before the House in Com
miotee of the Whole.
Year: 1869

NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILES


OF the line West from Omaha are now completed,
and the work is going on threugL the Winter
As the distance between the finished portion o
the Enion and Central Pacific Railroads 10 now
less than 400 miles, and both companies are push
iag forward the work with great energy, employ
ing over 80 oo ner there can he no doubt that the
Year: 1869

John Ruskin in the Croaon of Wild Olires,
characterlzes In his trenchant style those who
like to make money as imitarors Of Judas:


I'VE do great injustice to IScariot in think
ing him wicked above all common wickedness
lie was only common money-loyer, and like
all money-iovers, did not understand Christ;
couldn't make out the worth Of him or meaning
of him. He didn't want him to be killed. He
was horror-struct when he found that Christ
would be killed threw his money away instant
ly and hanged himself. How many of cur pre-
sent money-seekers, think you, would have the
grace to hang themselves whoever they kill p
But udas was common, selfish, muddle-head-
ed, pilfering follow his hand always in the bag
OF the poor, not caring for them. He didn't
understand Christ, yet he believed in him much
more than most of US do; had seen him do
miracles, thought he was quite strong enough to
shift for himself and he, Judas, might as we'll
make his own little by perquisites of the affair.
Christ would come out of it well enough and he
have thirty pieces. Now, that is the money
seeker idea all over the world. He doesn't
hate Christ, but can't understand him ; he does
not care tor him sees no good in that benevo-
lent business but makes his own little Job of it,
at all events, come what will. And thus out of
every mass of men, you have certain number
OF bagmen-your' free first men, whose main
object is to make money and they do make it,
make 1t IN all sorts of unfair ways, chiefly by
the weight and source of money itself, or what
Is called the power OF capital that is to say the
power which money once obtained has over the
labor OF the poor SO that the capitalist can take
all its produce to himself except the laborers
rylng the bag and bearing what is put there
Year: 1869

One of our exchanges, hard up for money to
meet expenses ingeniously puts in rhyme this
apology for dunning, which we commend to the
attention of some Of our own readers:


Should you ask US why this dunning,
Why these sad and plaintive mumurs,
Murmurs loud about delinquents
Who have read the paper weekly,
Read what they have never paid for,
Read with pleasure and with profit
Read Of State affairs and prospects,
Read of news both home and foreign,
Read the essays and the poems,
Full of wisdom and instruction,
Read the tables of the markets,
Carefully corrected weekly?
Should you ask US why this dunning?
We should answer we should tell you;
From the printer, from the mailer,
From the kind old paper-maker,
From the landlord from the carrier,
From the man who taxes letters
With stamp from Uncle Samuel
Uncle SAM the rowdies call him:
From them all there comes message
Message kind AID firmly spoken,
'Please to pay us what you owe u.s."
Sad it is to hear such message
When our funds are all exhausted
When the last bank note has left us,
When the gold coin all has vanished,
Gone to pay the paper-maker,
Gone to pay the toling printer,
Gone to pay the landlord tribute,
Gone to pay the nimbe carrier
Gone to pay the faithful mailer,
Gone to pay our Uncle Samuel
Uncle Sam" the rowdies call him
Gone to pay for used up paper,
Ten and twenty hundred dollars !


Sad it is to turn the ledger
Turn the leaves Of this old ledger,
Turn to see what sums are due u.s.
Due for volumes long since ended,
Due for years of pleasant reading,
Due for years of toilsome labor,
Due despite our constant dunning,
Due in sums from three to twenty


''Would you lift the burden from us
Would you drive spectre from you?
Would you taste pleasant slutaber9
Would you have quiet conscience?
Would you read paper PAID FOR?
Send us money-send US money,
Send US money-send as money!
SEND THE MONEY THAT YOU OWE US!
Year: 1869

River and the point on the Chesapeake & Ohio
Rail Road, two and half miles South of
Staunton, the nearest point of approach to that
place, so far as the writer knows, there is not
quarry cf good stone suitable for constructing
the Road. Again, there is scarcity of tim
Der OF all kinds along the entire route. Neither
is there any place within convenient distance Of
it. whence this want can be supplied. The
Blue Ridge has not supply such as the North
Mountain has, even if near enough to furnish
it, which is not the case


propose In the next chapter to treat of the
resources of the North Side.


10H CT INVON s q
Year: 1869

A man out West got his back up at his wife
and locked her in her room. Wishing to ag-
gravate her, he sent their son to the room with
a bone. The youth innocenty brought it and
there's bone to pick ~ The gentle mother
replied: ''Take it back, and tell him say he
is not your father, and there a bone for him
to pick" s93 n
Year: 1869

A farmer had two sons one of whom, named
Thomas, was an early riser and the other was
an incorrigible sluggard One morning the
father entered the bed room of his slothful son,
and holding up a money purse, said: ''See
what your brother has found by rising early"
The halfopened eyes of the sluggard surveyed
the purse, as he laziy drawled But the fel-
low that lost it must have risen earlier than
Tom
Year: 1869

Corn BREAD.-For family of four or five
persons, take one pint of sweet and one of sour
milk, half teaspoonful of soda, one table
spoonful of sugar, lump of lard the size of a
hens egg, tablespoonful Of salt, and two eggs.
Mix all the aboyeingredients together, and with
a spoon stir in enough sifted fresh corn meal as
will make stiff batter; have a stove pan well
creased, and pour in the batter; transfer to o
hot oven, and bake one-half or three-quarters
of an hour
Year: 1869

X The circulation of the "SPEcTAToR"
is about as great as the combined circula-
tion of both the other papers published in
this place, and has as many subscribers IN
this county alone as are contained In the
whole list of either of the other papers.
Year: 1869

his brow. In letter addressed on the sist of De-
cember, 1860 to General Cass, then Secretary OF
War; he displayed his stern and unyeldinp LOYALTY TO
the flag under which he had fought during a long
and eventful life, in an unmistakabe manner. Re-
ferrng to the contemplated surrender of Fort SUM-
ter to the Rebels he said "If 1t should be surren-
dered to South Carolina, which do not apprehend
the smothered Indignation Of the free States
would be raised beyond control. 1t would
not be in the power OF any one to
restrain it. In twenty days two hundred thousand
men would be in readiness to take vengeance on all
who would betray the Union into the hands OF its
enemies. would avoid the bloody and desc
lating example OF the Mexican States. am now,
and forever, in favor OF the Unloh its preservation,
and the rigid maintenance of the rights and inte-
rests of the States individually as well as collect
ivey.'


On the 10th OF May, 1862 the deceased was re-
warded for his long and faithful services to the
country by being promoted to a full major-general-
ship in the regular army For three or four weeks
previous to his DEATH his health was failing rapidly,
and on the 30th Of October he was seized with some
thing akin TO vertigo while exercising in the garden
attached to his residence, and falling heavily re-
ceved severe confusion over the eye. The injuries
thus received, in connection with his advanced years
and feebleness, resulted in his DEATH
Year: 1869

A correspondent who had a CONVEX
sation with the late Edward Everett,
Of Massachusetts, while on q journey
from Cleveland to Buffalo, says:


"He gave me an interesting page
from his history, connected with his
addresses. He said that from the
earliest start he had been accustomed
to commit to memory his speeches.
In writing an address he wrote page
and then committed 1t. III he was
about to visit place where there was
the least probability of his making
an address, or speaking, he would
search for some historic event or
matter Of local interest, write and
commit. III he was called to speak
unawares, he put his thoughts down
Immediately after his return home,
and wrote out such speech as he
would have delivered. When he
was settled In Brattle street Church,
Boston, he was mere STRIPPING. He
resolved to read nothing, but to pre-
pare his sermons with great care and
commit them. Some Of the elder
members Of his flock were nervous
by his temerity. Seeing mere lad
stand up In the pulpit without q
scrap Of paper before him, filled them
with alarm lest he should break down.
and thus destroy all their enjoyment.
Mr.. Everett was requested to take
notes with him In the pulpit Wish
Ing to accommodate his friends, and
resolute In his purpose not to read
his sermons, he compromised the mat
ter. He took into the pulpita SER
mon he was not preaching. and oc-
casionally turning over the leaves,
quieted the nerves of his anxious
friends. Under this constant and
severe discipline his memory became
as tenacious, as supple, and obedient
~ the fingers Of q well-trained organ.
list. The reading Of lecture or SER
mon twice enabled him to commit II
perfectly. He regarded the time
when he gave his celebrated Phi Bets
Grafton In the presence of afayette,
as that when he stood on the summit
of success a. an orator.


"The strength Of Mr.. Ctoats mem
ory was one Of the most remarkable
things about that remarkable man
He not only read everything, but b.
remembered everything he read
He knew whele the book was Ii
which the desired information could
be found, the very page, and the pre-
else location Of the book In the libra
ry wherever 1t happened TO be
While trying tue celebrated sewing
machine case before Judge Wood


bury, / heard him request friend Il
20 to the Athenaeum and get him
volume of set published by Cham
Year: 1869

bers. The article that he wanted
was on the manufacture of silk. He
described the set. the room In which
1t was kept, and the very spot In the
library where II could be found. He
wrote down nearly everything In a
case that he could. The act of writ-
ing. fastened everything In his menu
ory 30 that II was ready for instant
use. In the trial of case he kept
two seta Of notes--one the testimony,
the other q digest of the argument.
He was ready to argue case the mo-
ment the testimony closed. His
memory enabled him to talk on any
subject introduced. He was at home
on the black letter law, knew famil-
iarly the English law of entail, and
could discuss the laws of any nation
as intelligently as he could com
mon act Of assault and battery. 1
walked with him to the court house
on Saturday previous to the delivery
of his celebrated eulogy on Webster
before Dartmouth College. He had
been all the week before the United
States court conducting an intricate
trial, the heat like that of tropical
climate. We went, into the barber
shop under the Bromfeld house, for
he said / must be shampooed daily


or should die Th eulogy on Web
ster, l think was to be delivered on
Tuesday. This was Saturday, and
the Intervening Monday was to be
consumed In a journey to Hanover.
l said TO him: OF course your eulo.
gy on Webster Is completed, He
drew himself up to full hight, aud
laying his hand gently on my shoul-
der, he said: 'Mr. =, as 1 live, not
a word of that eulogy Is written
Yet 1t was delivered as announced
delivered without notes, fully writ
ten out and committed I'm writing.
l knew one instance I'm which he
completed his lecture at the Office a
short time before the train started
that was to carry him to his appoint
ment. He left the manuscript on
his desk, and gave the lecture, he
said, as near verbatim as he desired
to, and that without scrap before
him. He was very careful of the
wording of his motions before the
highef courts. His phraseology was
always peculiar. Having written
his motion on scrap of paper, he
usually crumbled IL I'm his hand and
threw 1t on the floor as he arose to
address the bench. ! have frequent.
ly picked up these lettings, aud some
Of them have to this day."
Year: 1869

IL Is the great trouble among boys
when they get old enough to go out
into company, that they don't know
how to behave when they get there.
So they sit sheepis.,ly around on any
handy corner they can find, and wish
they were In their shirt sleeves, out
''in the mowin' lot," or Tin the
shop" or anywhere else than In that
"pesky parlor."


There Is nothing to rub off this
rust but contact with society. The
only way to feel at home In the par
lor Is to be familiar with 1t. Here,
mothers are often greatly ut fault.
The ''best room" is kept shut and
darkened. and the intruder who
strayed into IL would be quickly
warned out. Children who are ac-
customed to little gatherings at home
or at a neighbor's, In holiday and
birthday times, seldom feel this pain
ful diffidence. 1t Ii natural for youth
to love such ssemblages, and they
are very essential part of their edu-
cation.


But If a young man finds himself
In this uncomfortable plight, he must
muster courage and plunge into the
best society he can gain access to. If
he Is uniformly polite and obliging,
without any troublesome officious-
ness, lie will very soon be a favorite.
After.that, all will be smooth sailing.
He should not think IL too much
trouble after days work to take q
thorough bath and change his work
ing clothes, and then walk over to a
neighbor's for an hours social chat.
This sociability would tend to pro-
duce good feeling In neighborhoods
and would elevate and improve all
parties. Add to this an hours read
Ing every day of some profitable
book, and you will at the years end
have attained much higher culture
than your neighbor who spends his
evening lounging on the counter ol
the village store, or sluggishly sitting
down to doze before the fire.-Er.
Year: 1869




or Daughter.


A very curious case is given publicity
in the columns of the New Haven Reg
lister of the Goth ult., which says:


"Curious things happen over in the
Oyster City, and the one that has just
taken place is no exception to the rule.
A young married lady, on the east side,
who formerly lived in Wilmantie, com
piaiGed of not feeling well, and that she
could find no relief until she had seen
her old physician at Wilmantie. One
day recently she started off to see the
said doctor, but when she got to Hart
ford she was too i'll to go any farther,
and went to a hotel and went to bed,
where she sent for her aunt, a resident
of that city. The aunt put in kOr ap-
pearance soon after, and was surprised
to find her niece 80 well, who had but
shortly felt so i'll, and so expressed her
self. when her niece walked along to
the bed and uncovered newly born
babe. Of course there was much sur
prise expressed, and many questions
asked as to how it happened, and salts.
factory answers given, and after day
or two, the lady much recovered re-
turned to her home in Fair Haven,
where she employed an experienced
nurse to take care of herself and child.
After day or two the nurse became
convinced that the woman was not the
mother of the child, and told her so, to
to which she owned up, and said that
she had accepted the child when it was
two days old, and that the mother of
the child was young girl in Hartford,
whose shame she had promised to con-
ceal. Of course Fair Haven is IL a
nutter as to who the young woman is
Year: 1869

John Palmer, the actor, had a very
long part in new play one evening,
and was set down in the bills to speak
the prologue. Trusting to a quick
study, he kept postponing his attention
to both until the last moment, and when
the curtain bell rang went on for the
prologue without knowing word of it.
The house was packed, and of course in
terrific uproar, as always at the COM
mencement of a performance. The in
domitable Palmer, amid the confusion,
began to move his lips and gesticulate
as if delivering his lines. As nobody
heard syllable, the cries Of "Silence,"
"Hear the prologue" Down in front" i"
"Order," redoubled from every quarter.
He ceased his motions, and with the
most graceful dexterity pretended to be
greatly disturbed by the disorder, and
made token to the gallery as if to in
dicate that he could not proceed unless
that part of the audience became quiet.
This stratagem set the pit bowling
at the supposed offenders in the upper
regions, and amid the riotous clamor
which ensued Palmer came forward,
moved his lips and gesticulated as be-
fore, and just as the Babel was almost
ceasing, made his bow and went off.
He performed his part in the play with
equal success, though he.knew no mere
of the language in it than of the pro-
logue.-Lippincotf Magazine.
Year: 1869

It is n we'll established fact that fully one.
half of the female portion Of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, TO
use their own expression, never feel we'll"
They are languid devoid of all energy, eKtremS-
ly nervous and have no appetite.


To this class of persons the BITTERS, OF the
TONIC, is especially recommended.


WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use of either of these
remedies. They will cure every case of MA.
RASMUS without fail
Year: 1869

Thousands of certificates have accumulated
in the hands Of the proprietor but space will
allow of the publication of but n few. Those,
IL will be observed are men of note and Of such
standing that they must be believed
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand Of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BGTTElS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instl new life into their veins,
restore In measure the energy and ardor of
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness In their
nj
Year: 1869

GENTLEMEN:-The labors of the ses-
sion have terminated and We are about
to separate aud return to our homes.
Many exciting and perplexing questions
have been discussed and determined, in
which the people of the State are vital
ly interested. IYou have at all times
shown a commendable zeal, devotion
aud faithfulness for the interests of
those whom you represent. 1t is graft
flying to me to be able to say that feel
sure that no i'll feeling in the bosom of
any member towards fellow member
has ever passed beyond the threshold of
this House.


Upon occasions of this kind it is a
time-Eonored custom for the presiding
otncer of this body to say some parting
words upon taking leave of those with
whom he has been officially associated.
In most instances these ceremonies
partake more of fern than otherwise.
WITH me, however. upon this occasion
lt is different. With many of YOU
have been long associated and those of
you WIN whom my acquaintance has
been more recent have equally won my
esteem. L part from you this evening
to meet you no more in the capacity of
a legislator, and very MANY of YOU no
more upon the shores of time. If in our
intercourse here l have ever inadvert.
entity said or done anything to wound
the feelings of any gentleman, or any
thing that might be construed as par
tiality for one above another, be assured
that no such thing was intended.