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Year: 1869

Once upon time traveller stepped into stage coach. He was a young man starting in life. He found six passengers about h'm, all gray-headed and extremely aged men. The young est appeared to have seen at least eighty winters. Our young traveller, struck with the singularly mild and happy aspect which distinguished all his fellow passengers, determined to ascertain the secret of long life snd art of making old age comfortable.

 He addressed the one apparently the eldest, who told him he had always led regular and abstemious life, eat ing vegetables and drinking water. The young man was rather daunted at this, inasmuch as he liked the good things of this life. He addressed the second, who astonished him by saying he had always eaten roast beef and gone to bed regularly fuddled for the last seventy years, adding, all depend ed on regularity. The third had pro- longed his days by never seeking or accepting office; the fourth by reso- lutely abstaining from all political and religious controversies and the fifth by going to bed at sunset and rising at dawn. The sixth was apparently much younger than the other five--his hair was less gray and there was more of it "a placid smile, denoting a perfectly easy conscience, martled his face and his voice was jocund and strong. They were all surprised to learn that he was by ten years the oldest man in the coach.

 "How is it that you have preserved the freshness of life ?" exclaimed our young traveller.

 The old gentleman immediately an- swered the young man by saying

 q have drunk water and wine-I have eaten meat and vegetables-I have dabbled in politics and written reli- gious pamphlets--I have sometime gone to bed at midnight, and got mp at sunrise and at noon;' he then fixed his eyes intently upon the young man, concluding with this remark, ''but always pay promptly for my news papers."

 Then the other old men also chimed in with--"Of course, we always pay promptly, and in advance, for our newspapers. No man deserves long life who does not do this

 Then the young man resolved that he also would render himself deserv- ing of long life--and immediately sub scribed for five newspapers, paying for them in advance He is still liv- | ing yeti
Year: 1869

The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial says: We can keep our carpet-baggers in 1 Congress just so long as we disfran chise the governing element of the South. But tho moment we grant universal suffrage to both master and man, the carpet -baggers will disappear and the Hills, Thompsons < Co.,, will resume their places.

 And in all sober earnestness, to write in frank and manly way. the net ,purport and upshot of our recon- struction measures in the South, as i seen in Congress is not pleasant. No amount of certificates of election and formalitics of an oath can make these gentlemen of the baggage real M. i C's. When one makes his appearance on the floor, we cannot look each other in the couDtenance without audible smiles that are indecorous. If the gentlemen would only indulge in a ] little disguise to help on the delusion, something might be gained; but not only is the voice the voice of the enemy,

 but the look, manner, dress, and above all. the vote is the vote of the alien. ! The antagonism betcen New England civilization and that of the South, pre- vious to the war, was not more deadly l than is the antagonism of interest now

 between these localities, and yet these

 gentlemen of the paper collar and extra

 dckey follow New England, and vote

 all the time against the interests oi

 their constituents.

 I had long talk with one of these ] Representative ad interim, last night and tried to convince him that il would 1 be well, just for the appearance of the thing, to cast vote now and then fol the region he claimed to represent

 But no! I found my friend had an in tense contempt for one-half of his peo pie, and q deadly hatred for the other half. It was Connecticut Congress men elected in the South.
Year: 1869

Seek to acquire the power of contin- uous application, without which you cannot expect success. If you do this you will be able to perceive the dis tance which it creates between you and those who have not such habits. You will not count yourself, nor will they count you, as one of them. Thus you will find yourself emerging into. the higher regions of ofintellectual and earn est men--men who are capable of mak- ing place for themselves, instead of standing idly gaping, desiring a place without the power to command if. Keep on striving to accomplish more and more every day, and thus enlarge constantly the range of your intellect ual ability. If you learn to do as much work in one day as you used to do in two or three days, you are as good as two or three such men as you formely were, boiled down to one.--Dr. Way land
Year: 1869

It is said that a sister of the Reno's visited the dead bodies at the jail, where, after giving vent to her grief for a time, she dried her tears, and placed her handkerchief over the facc of her brother William, who, to the last, declared his innocence then she kneeled beside the dead man, and laid her left hand over his heart, and rais- ing her right hand toward heaven, she took this terrible oath: ooh, my poor, murdered brother! may God curse your sister if she avenge not your death terribly and fully. This will do, so help me God!' Such sister is worth having
Year: 1869

No young man should allow himself to be discouraged nor his ambition to be dampened by the common out-cry against wealth. The corupting tenden- cics alleged are totally unfounded, ex- cept in indignation or in the envy of discontented people. They are not any more incident to the, possession of wealth than they are to abject poverty perhaps not so much so. At all events the opportunities which riches afford the possessor for doing good, in this country, ,are so numerous and ample that wealth, properly used, may be the means of making up the most admir-. able characters, while those who are in- clined to depart from the path of rec titude would do so as quickly in one condition as in another.

 To save money and amass fortune if it is done with proper motive, is not only laudable ambition but duty It is duty to ones self, ones family, and the community in which one lives. | IL IS plONiulug TOT ciQ az lOt Ctluiiib. in business or sickness, for the means. of helping the poor and relieving the oppressed. There can be no better in struction given young man than that which impresses a true appr eciation of the worth of money.

 Such an early impression would have saved many a man and many family from serious misfortunes, discomforts unhappiness, and even crime. The making of money and saving of money as distinguished from that miscrly love of money, which is said to be the root of all evil--should be the aim of all young men who start out in life for themselves. They include habits of industry that lead to contentment and often ward off dissipation, want and 1 future misery.--Chicago Courier.
Year: 1869

The advice of Benjaman Franklin, to give every child a trade by which he can earn living, if necessary, comes of an experience older than his. In some countries this has been the law 1; in others acommon custom. St. Paul though educated in the law at the feet ofGamalicl, also acquired the important Oriental handicraft ofa tentmaker, by which he was able to earn his living while prosecuting his mission. It IS Q good and wise thing 10 do. You may be able to send your children fortunes, but riches take to themselves wings. You may give them finished educations and they may be gifted with extraordi- nary genius but they may be placed in situations where no education and no talent may be 50 available as some humble, honest trade. by which they can get their living and be useful to others.
Year: 1869

Keep the children's feet warm and dry during cold and wet days. By do- ing this, many severe attacks of disease may be averted. Do not let the chil- dren play out of doors without being sufficiently protected about the shoul- ders and neck.

 Avoid any change to lighter gar ments until the weather is fully warm, and settled. Be especially careful of laying aside your flannels. If you are uncomfortably warm for few hours, it is better to endure it than to run the risk of q severe cold, while these sud- den changes are taking place.

 If fthose who are subject to rheuma- tism or predisposed to pulmonary dis ease would wear flannels all the year round, it would be greatly to their ad- vantage.

 The garments that are worn next the skin should be changed about twice each week. Most people change only once, but it is best to renew the cloth ing before it becomes saturated with sccretions of the skin.

 Be careful to have all clean clothes well aired and thoroughly dried. It is extremely injurious to wear damp clothing, especially for an invalid.

 The cleansing and using disinfccting agents to purify the air of our houses, is of the utmost importance. Draper says:

 1t is very important that tho cellar of every house, whether private or tenement, should be properly dried and ventilated during the years when the epidemic diseases are raging" This may be done "by placing a small stove in it, in which fire should be kept continually. 1.-the cellar is long, it would be well to place the stove at one extremity and pass the pipe thro' the whole length of the apartment

 "Next in importance to the purifica- ton of our streets and houses" says Draper, ''is proper attention to the Oi tHt SNiH stntt titt tildIHCl6T of the food. Every one should wash the whole surface of the body every day, or at least twice week. In these general applications. soap should not be used more than once week, for it is not desired to remove the oily se- cretions too often, but merely wash off the salts that are exereted so freely in the form of precipitation during the warm weather.

 "The greatest care should be taken,' says the same authority, "in the pur- chase of fruits and egetabes--they are rarely fresh, and the best have been generally plucked or gathered two or three days before they reach the table-and it would perhaps be best to avoid their use altogether and adopt bread and meat diet, to which tea or coffee is added"
Year: 1869

If.a young man deserves praise, be sure you give it him, else you not on- ly run chance of driving him from the tight road by want of encourage ment, but deprive yourself ofthe hap piest privilege you will ever have of rewarding his labor For it is only the young who can receive much reward from mems praise; the old when they are great, get too far beyond and above what you may think of them. You may urge them with sympathy, and surround them with exclamation, but they will doubt your pleasure and despise your praise. You might have cheered them in their race through the asphodel meadows of their youth ; you might have brought the proud bright scarlet to their faces, if you had cried but once, sWell done," as they dashed up to the first goal of their early ambi- ton. But their pleasure is in memory and their ambition is in Heaven. They can be kind to you, you can never more be klnd to them. m

 RyMr. Jenckes, of Rhode Island, is pressing his "Civil Service Bill' on Congress and the prospect is he will carry it. MT. Seward is not entirely sure of it's applicability, but recently consented to have MT. Jenckes interro- gate one of his newly made ministers, according to the programme of the bill. We have only the questions and answers on Biblical history.

 Q. What animal in scripture is said to have spoken?

 A. The whale.

 Q. To whom did the whale speak?

 A. To Moses, in the bulrushes.

 Q. What did the whale sayf

 A. Thou art a man.

 c. What did Moses reply?

 A Almost thou persuadest me to be a christian.

 Q. What was the effect on the whale2

 A. He rushed violently down steep place into the sea and perished in the watnrS
Year: 1869

The New York Evening Post thus
comments on the constitutional OBJ
lection recently made to the removal
of the Capital:


"An attempt has been made to
show that the seat of government is
fixed by the Constitution and cannot
be changed without the consent Of
three.fOurths of the States. 1t is
even asserted that the retrOcessiOn in
1916 to Virginia Of that part of the
original District of Columbia south
of the Potomac was unconstitutional,
and that Congress ought to resume
possession Of It. There Is no fOunda-
ton whatever In law for this belief.
The constitutional provision for a
seat OF government, In which Con-
gress shall exercise exclusive legisla-
ton, is precisely the same as for
custom houses, forts and arsenals;
and the general Government, with
the consent of the State within whose
territory the tract dealt with may
lie, has the power to buy or sell, to
cede or to accept the cessiop of any
such tract at any time. An act Of
Congress to give up to Maryland the
present District OF Columbia, when
accepted by Maryland, would be as
valid in all respects as any other.
And nothing would be needed to
transfer the seat of government to
this city but an agreement to that
effect between Congress and the Leg
isIature OF the State of New York"
Year: 1869

to its authority all over
the South. ] would not revive the
recollectiOns of that struggle, now
happily ended, except to say that
hundreds Of thousands of those who
warred against us were led by pulpit
and by statesmen alike, as well as by
the public opinion which surrounded
them, to believe that they were
right. But the nation resolved that
wherever the territorial area of the
Union extended, and wherever the
flag of the Union had right to float,
there the laws of the Union should
be obeyed and the authority of the
Union should be respected. Unlike
those, however, who sought to se.
cede from the Union, the MOrmonf
claim the benefit Of every law that
they see fit to approve hQmesteed,
naturalization, protection OF proper.
ty by Courts and Governments, leg.
islative and judicial Offices in their
territory, etc.-and trample under
foot such other laws of the Govern.
ment, under whose flag istheir home,
as they see fit to reject. It is time
to understand whether the authority
of the nation or the authority OF
Brigham Young is the supreme
power in Utah; whether the laws OF
the United States or the laws of the
Mormon Church have precedence
within its limits"


Is not this even so? Is it not time
that the laws should be enforced?
Why should not troops in sufficient
numbers be sent there, without de-
lay, to enforce the laws? Volunteers
would spring up in thousands at the
first sign of a Call. There need be
no war, for the force sent might
overawe all meditated resistance.
And there are no aspects Of "inter'
ference with religious views" about
the matter. Let the MOrmons holC
what "religious views" they please
but let them, like all other subjects
of the Government, be compelled tc
obey the equal laws of the land and
pay their just part tof the taxes. Why
should this justice be longer de
layed?
Year: 1869

DENTISTRY.-Our young friend DIR. JUD. Is.
WOOD Is making for himself an envlabie reputa-
tion by his superior skin In inserting and fl!ng
teeth. The style and finish of tie work he does we
think can hardly lie excelled. He has IN i'm
proved apparatus for manufacturing pure nitrous
oxide gas, which he administers daily to his pa
tients with the most gratifying results. Under the
effects OF this gas 1t Is almost positive luxury 10
have tooth extracted, especially by an expert
operator, such IS we know DIR. WOOD to be. If
the Doctor Is not fully up to the times in all the
Improvements OF his art, we are much mistaken.
If any Of our readers need q dentist we would ad-
wise them TO give him call His Office is on the
south side OF Main street few doors above the
Spotswood Hotel.
Year: 1869

nander.


Correspondence Of the st. Paul DispatchI


j think that some wrong Information has been
given In regard to Louis Rlelle who now the COM
mandern-chief OF the revolutionary force in the Red
river. On Monday evening the Dispatch expresses
itself about him as IollOws:-


Louis Relle a year ago resident Of st. Paul
and clerk In Langsrins grocery store He Is tall, well


hs VIII be rather and bis
learn the position he holds in the


AS am acquainted with the gentleman I am not
at all surprised for my part learn the position he
holds in that movement; for consider him, and he
Is considered by all those who can appreciate him,
not only as tall, well formed man, but as q man OF
strong mental ability, thoroughly educated for his
age and possessing high aspirations though not
exceeding the limits Of his talents


Louis Riee Is young man about twenty-four
years OF age. was born at Red river from poor but
respectable parents. and is OF pure French origin.
Thirteen years ago his education was placed under
the care OF bishop, who sent him to the best
classical college in Montreal-that same college
where General DIX OF the United STATES, and several
other great scholars have been educated.


He remained there nine years as student and
displayed sucn talent and obtained such success in
literature that his professors and protectors wanted
him to enter their community. But LOUIS RielIe as
well formed man, did not want to take robe
forever the religious subject OF their spiritual order
decided against their will to study the law and enter
the French literary career.


After his decision more protection was offered
MIN; and with the strength OF his character follow
ing the path prepared for him by Providence resist
ed the empire OF their desposm and preferred misery
to their despotism. From that time he had to strug.
gle Tor his living; he was left without any resources
wha,ever, WI, and, on account OF the interruption Of
to Minnesota about three years ago, and remained
alternately IN ST. Paul and ST. Anthony during two
years. He got situations as clerk in grocery stores
but, OF course, was disappointed. Commerce was
not his lavorte branch but yet he would have prac-
tlsed 1t II he could have got any hope to raise in
short time money enough to allow him to study as
lawyer HIS disappointment cause1 his return to Red
river, where ne thought he could sooner get the
means OF following the course OF his desires. Such
was the fatality OF the circumstances.


don't know II Mr. L. Rielle possesses any mill
tary or political genius. Should he fail or nor in
tins career would consider him too able for being
at the head OF body OF half breeds who are hardly
semi-clvillzed.


As writer ana speaker in the French language
he cannot easily be surpassed by any man Of his
age. To that point OF view his mind Is always rea.
sonlnR and reasonable, and l.. Riele would up-
doubtedly become first class lawyer That he could
not do without having strong mental ability.
Year: 1869

If we knew the woe and heart-ache
Waiting for us down the road,
If our lips could taste the worm-wood,
If our backs could feel the load,
Would we waste the day in wishing
For q time that ne'er can be?
Would we wait in such impatience
For our ships to come from Sea?
If we knew the baby fingers


Pressed against the window pane,
Would be cold and stiff tomorrow
Never trouble us again
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frown upon our brows?
Would the points of rosy fingers
Vex us then as they do now?
All, these little ice-cold fingers,
How they point our memories back
To the hasty words and actions


Shewn along our backward track!
How those little hands remind US,
As in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns-but roses
For our reaping by and by!
Strange we never prize the music


Till the sweet, voiced bird has flown;
Strange that we should slight the violets
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one-half so fair,
As when winters snowy pinions
Shake ,h1 white down in the air!
Lips from which the seal of silence
None but God can roll away,
Never blossoms in such beauty
As adorns the mouth to-day;
And sweet words that freight our memory
With their beautiful perfume,
Come to us in sweeter accents


Through the portals of The tomb.
Let us gather up the sunbeans


Lying all around our path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,


Casting out the thorns and chaff;
Let us find our sweetest comfort


In the blessings Of to-day,
With patient hand removing


All the briars from our way.
Year: 1869

that our teamsters still Cling td the old
track, with scarcely 10 inducement but
the natural surface of the ground? The
answer is self-evident; in the first in
stance the hill up Fish pot will more than
balance the difference in distance between
the two roads; besides this, several other
hills equally as steep, though not so long,
to be asccnded will still increase the pref
erence in favor of the creek road.


In the second plaoe tie Hutd Run
road still shows greater difference in
favor of the creek road; although the
latter is something over mile longer
than the former, the creek road as to
time is at least two miles the shortest
compared with .tlie Hurd Run hill alone,
without taking into Consideration other
accents equally as steep though not So
long.


These are not mere isolated cases, but
many others might be adduced with equal
force. These demonstrations are not
mere conjcctures, but are based upon
scientific principles and actual expert
ments.


These principles so patent should not
be overlooked by those who expend the
public money upon our roads; even the
horse, by instinct, seems to have a knowl-
edge of the difference between level
and q steep road


Some years ago, the writer going to
Cameron on horseback, by way of the
Conger hill road, rcturningzlate in the
afternoon Of a hot summer day, while
riding up the creek pondering over which
road to take, the creek road or tile Con
ger hill road, the latter being much
shorter, approaching the forks of the
road still undecided, giving the horse
the reins to make his own choice, as he
came to the diverging point he slacken-
ed his pace, pricked up his ears, looked
up the hill, and then turned his head,
dropped his ears, and rapidly paced of
up the creek, seemingly rejoiccd at the
choice he had made.


ENTERPRISE.
Year: 1869

Why is the sea q better housekeepel
than the earth? Because it is more
tidy.


When is a fowls neck like a bell
When it is rung for dinner,


What is the difference between sol
dier and bombshell? Why, one goes
to wars and the other goes to pieces.


What public singer draws best? The
mosquito.


Why is law like an eel trap? Because
it is very easy to get into but very diff
cult to get out of.
Year: 1869

The people, generally, are ac-
qualnted with the bombastic con.
gratulations sent out to the pu bile,
by certain officials and newspapers,


on the accomplishment of the Alas


ka purchase. The people did not
see The profit that would accrue
from such an Investment of the
public money, and so it was that
the stories of the untold resources of
this trigid country were manufac.
tured to allay the suspicious that
too much tad been given for 1t. l.
is now alledged that a portion OF
tho purchase money, something up
wards Of two million Of doilars