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Year: 1874

The Common Council, or at least
seven members of that body, decided
to donate the City Assessor 500 more
than he is allowed by law as his an
nual salary. This will strike the ma
jority of people as a very careless
handling of the taxpayers money.
The Assessor accepted the Office with
a fixed salary of $500 per annum, and
1t will be difficult to explain why the
Council votes him $500 in excess of
what his salary amounts to. He
agreed to do the work for $500, and the
plea that the job was greater and more
expensive than he expected, is not
entitled to consideration. The Asses
sor Is city contractor. The corpora
tion offered $500 to the person who
would do the city assessing for one
year, and the Assessor undertook the
job for the stipulated compensation,
and he has no right to ask and the
Council no right to give him one dol
lar more. If the Assessor may come
In for extra pay, the HERALD may
also ask and receive extra pay. The
HERALD Publishing Company are do
ing the city printing at a considerable
loss. We took the contract at rates
which would just cover the cost of the
work, provided the volume did not
exceed that of last year. But, like the
Assessor, we have been little mis-
taken. The Council is heaping the
work upon US, and at the rate it is now
coming in, the actual cost of compost
tion will exceed by one thousand dol
lars or more the sum for which we
agreed to do the work. Have not the
HERALD and Cronico the same right
as the Assessor to ask for indemnity
on losing job? One claim is as Just
as the other, and if one is granted the
other cannot be denied. If the Council
is SO liberal with the taxpayers money
that the Assessor is presented seven
hundred dollar slice, we see no reason
why we and the Cronico and other
contractors may not be favored in the
same way.
Year: 1874

REPORTS that the fruit is going to
waste are chronicled in a number of
our exchanges. When we have few
more Alden fruit dryers in operation
this story will no longer be heard.
The energy of Mr.. GEO. b. DAVIS, as
sisted by few of our moneyed men,
will soon have sufficient number of
these evaporators in operation to save
all the fruit grown, or that can be
grown, in this valley.
Year: 1874

probably an axe, though it cannot be
found. The murder was most cold
bloooded and brutal.


In the absence of clearer testimony
1t would be esunfair to express our opin-
ion as to the guilt of the prisoner. We
can only hope that the murder will be
brought home to the murderer, who
ever he is.
Year: 1874

GREELEY is somewhat mixed up in
the BEECHER-TILToN matter. 1t is
in evidence that in reply to TILToN's
request to visit his house during his
absence, HORACE said no, he would
not; that he did not think it good
habit to visit wife while her husband
was away. This is all he knows about
tho oosa
Year: 1874

A practical woman of Oswego says that she's
not doing so much praying as she was, but
she'll be something very unpleasant if she
don't put bullet in anybody who sells hel
husband LIQUOR,
Year: 1874

A STARTLING QUEsTloN.-A poor
child, straying into II Sunday school
one day, asked simply: els this the
way to heaven :" The superintcnd-
cnt was fora moment startled. Was
his school, indeed, the way to hcav-
en-? Was he trying to make it so?
Were his teachers intent upon the
same object! The artless question
struck homo. From desk to class
the question went around with
a thrill. What were they all doing?
Whittier were they all tending?
The question was like an angel sud
denly come into their midst to make
record Of what transpired in that
school. Oh! superintendent. teach
ers, make suro of this one thing ::
With all your efforts to impart
knowledge, make the salvation Of
the soul of paramount intorcst.-
Whc her your school be model, or
be struggling up to perfection, be
sure that every scholar shall feel
that it is the road to heaven.
Year: 1874

Coop EcoNoMIsTs.-French peo
pie have u knack of making q little
go a great way. In tho first place,
not an ounce of food is wasted in
harvesting or preparing for mar
lIct. In tho next place, not an
ounce more Of vegetable, flesh, fish
or fowl, groceries or liquids, than is
rcallynceded, ever goes in the pot
or kettle, or is placed on the table.
The wife Of every French family
knows to q uicety, what quantity
OF each kind Of food is the least that
will suffice to make n comfortable
meal, and not particle more than
that is cooked or served. There
arc no slop.buckets full Of broken
victuals left on q table, after break
fast or dinner, to be thrown on the
street or manure heap, or flung to
dogs or swine, rs in America. No
pieces Of bread and meat, or vegeta-
bles, are thrown away; such quanti-
ties arc not bought as to become
stale or spoiled in the cellar or pan
try. Servants are never permitted
to waste or steal food for poor rcia-
tions, as in America. The house
wife looks after the marketing, her
kitchen, and her pantry, with sharp
eyes and unflagging care. The
economy in the consumption of fuel
for cooking and house warming is
immense, as compared with that in
our wastcful country. One reason.
Of course, is, that wood and coal in
France arc scarce and dear. They
cost at least double the price paid
therefor in the United States; but
the domestic consumption is not one
quarter as much.
Year: 1874

VANQUIsHED BY A CAT.-Mr. Ste
phcn Peer, the fllnambulist or rope
walker, who has cablo stretched
across the Niagara river just below
the new Suspension Bridge, and
gives exhibitions of his skill in rope.
walking, came near meeting with an
accident the other day, but for his
agility, would undoubtedly have end
cd his career as rope walker. He
conceived the brilliant idea of taking
a cat on tho rope, and starting it on
ahead of him, in order to have
two sensations at the same timo.
When about thirty foot from the
shore he sat the cat On the
rope, expecting, of course, that the
feline would show tho thing was
done as we'll as he could do it him
self. But tho cat was not at all
anxious for funambulism, and in
stead of making q bee line across,
turned upon Peer, climbed upon
him, and fastened his teeth in his
shoulder. In his efforts to Olsen.
gage the cat he missed his footing,
and had to drop his balance pole,
which fell on tho rocks below and
was broken. Peer himself qaelf scram


bled along tho rope back to- the
shore tho best way he could. He
succeeded in reaching terra Jfrmu


but the exhibition of the day was
brought to close. ....
Year: 1874

Mu!tltuIcs of men and women
have made their eyes weak for life
by the TOO free use of cycsight,
reading fine print and doing fine
sowing. lin view Of these things it
Is we'll to observe the following
rules III the use Of the eyes:


Avoidall sudden changes between
light and darkness.


Never read by twilight or on II
very cloudy day.


Never sleep SO that on waking
the eyes shall open on the light Of
the window.


DO not use eycsight by light 50
scant that it requires IN effort to
discriminate.


Never read or Sow directly in
front of the light Of tho window.


1t is best to have the light from
above, or obliqucly, or ovcr the left
shoulder.


Too much light c,cates glare,
and pains and confuscs the sight.
The moment you are sensible Of un
effort to Iii itin1lish, that moment
stop and talk, walk or ride.


AS the sky is blue and the earth
green, it would seem that the ceiling
should be of IL hluish tingc, tho car.
pet green, and tho walls OF some
mellow tint.


The moment you are instinctivcly
inclined to rub the eyes, that mo-
mcnt cease to use Them


If the cyclids are glued together
on waking do not forcibly open
them, but apply saliva with the fin
ger, and then wash your eyes and
face with warm water.
Year: 1874

for Governor by q most glaring fraud
Of railway combinations. II the farm
ers will contrast this course of the Dem
'ocrsts with what the Republicans arr
doing in their behalf, they will not need
to look twice to see where their friends
are found. The United States Senate
Transportation Committee will throw
much light upon this subject when It.
report is made, and its measures and
Recommendation, will doubtless do great
good. The Republican Governor Of Hi
nOis led Oft IN recommending and urg'
ing the adoption of satisfactory methods
Of relief when the movement was first
started. Other Republican Governors
have taken similar action. The nomi.
nation Of Farmer McCutchins in New
Hampshire shows that the Republicans
are in full sympathy with all needed re-
forms of this character. 1t may have
been very indiscreet thing for the bem.
ocrats to show their clOven foot so soon,
but we trust it will be q le son our fara,-
ers especially will not soon forget or
fail to fully improve. The extent to
which they have already been sold out
is only an intimation OF what tie Dem
Ocrats would do were they restored to
complete power in the Government, and
ought to be sufficient to put farmers and
all others upon their guard.-Atbdny
(N. " EreRiny Journal.
Year: 1874

special correspondence of the Chroncle.l


GREENEvILLE-noon-March9 8, 1874.


We enter upon the


FIFTH WEEK or THE CRUSADE
to-day, and yet there seems to be no lack Of
determination upon the part of the ladies
to persevere in the work they have under
taken. The ladies are at their posts this
morning, though not in full force, as it
only requires few now to hold the fort
except at certain times. ..'


To one who has looked upon this work
when it was at its highest tide, and now
views it with its grand results, although
not fully victorious as yet, must be com.
PEELED to say, What hath God wrought!n


Our town is rs quiet now as at almost
any time through the week, as il formerly
was upon Sundays.


LAST SATURDAY.


was very quiet and orderly. There were a
great many people In town seemingly from
all parts OF the county. A great many names
were added to the long lists of those who
had signed the pledge of total abstinence.
And thus over the head of all opposition
this great moral reform moves steadily on
gaining strength every day.


a grand testimonial of the depth and
power of this work came to the knowledge
of many of the workers yesterday. 1t was
published in the Bristol Courier of last
Friday. A gentleman who stopped Off here
Ito see what was to be Scent and ventured
close to one of the tents was approached
by lady who put questions to him in
quiet, yet earnest and hasty manner that
fastened conviction in the heart of the
man as to his sinfulness. He resolved to
seek Christ in the pardon of his
sins. He says that one of her questions
was, "Do you love Jesus"" and
that he was so overwhelmed that he could
not answer her. But those questions, and
especially the one as to his loving Jesus,
kept ringing through his soul until he re-
solved to seek Christ, and now he says I
feel that / can say L do love Jesus.n
The item referred to was read at one
of the churches yesterday for the encour~
agement of the workers. After its read
ing the congregation joined in singing
" Praise God from whom all blessings
1low.n
Year: 1874

The prospect of work being commenced
along the road has greatly increased the
price of grain. Corn is readily selling at
80 cents per bushel. The farmers are very
busy at work. Owing to the prospect Of
good home market there will be more
corn raised in Scott and adjoining counties
this year than ever before. It will require
the intire tilable erea of land to produce
sufficient corn to supply the demand along
the road and keep the stills running.
Year: 1874

to have people say I'd lost my head for joy
when found myself an heiress.


I remember but little of what was said or
done during that evening. I only know that
it was one perfect dream of bliss and I do
not believe that old age, care and sorrow
could ever erase from the tablets of my men,
ory the exquisite and thrilling sense Of Joy I
then experienced.


Coming home Hugh asked me to be his
wife.


"I've loved you long time, Lottie deal" B."
were the sweet words which caressed my ear !;
"but had you been an heiress I should never
have told you. 1t may be wicked pride,
but could not bring myself to ask wealthy
girl to marry me, poor man. l have now
placed nv mother and sister in an indepen-
dent position, and can now offer my love a
little home not grand indeed, but one which
her loving heart and sunny temper will surely
render the dearest spot on earth"


"Oh Hugh" sobbed. "How fortunate
the lost will was not found four years ago, for
I loved you then and love you now. Dear
Hugh, 1 am an heiress, and if you give me up
now you'll break my, heart"


Hugh's astonishment knew no bounds; but
there was nothing for him to do but to take
me, fortune and all, with as good grace as
he could muster.


I've only to add that happier people than
our house are not to be found on all this
broad earth.
Year: 1874

KEEPING MEALS WA1TING.-Little things
often interfere with our comfort very much,
and one small annoyance is for men to delay
coming to dinner when called. Sometimes
they have an hour or more of work which
they will do before quitting and then they 60
to the house to find the dinner cold, and the
cook discouraged. Nothing is more disheart,
ening to a tired woman than table full OF
dirty dishes ornamenting the table an hour
and half later in the day than is usual.
Punctuality is a virtue men should learn if
they are in the habit of being uncertain about
coming to meals. Any woman worthy the
name Of housekeeper will be regular with her
meals if it lies within her power to have
them so.
Year: 1874

to receive any advantage from purchases or
sales made with views to profits expected from
the rise or fall of market prices.


"For these reasons I must decline to receive
the check. For, in order to be able to render
the most efficient service to our country, 1t is
essential for me to be right as we'll as to seem
right, and to seem right just as we'll as to be
right,
Year: 1874

QuARREL1NG.-If anything in the world
will make man feel badly, except pinching
his fingers in the crack of a door, it is un-
questionably quarrel. No man ever fails
to think less of himself after it than before.
1t degrades him in the eyes Of others, and,
what is worse, blunts his sensibilties on the
one hand, and increases the power of passion
ate irrtabilty on the other The truth is,
the more quietly and peaceably we get on, the
better for our neighbors. In nine cases out
of ten the better course is, if man cheats
you, cease to deal with him; if he is abusive,
quit his company; and if he ISLANDERS you,
take care to live so that no one will believe
him. No matter who he is or how he misuses
you, the wisest way is to let him alone, for
there is nothing better than this cool, calm,
and quiet way of dealing with the wrongs we
meet.
Year: 1874

GooD NArURE.-Be good-natured if you
can, for there is no attraction so great, no
charm so admirable A face that is full of
the expression of amiability is always beauti'
full. 1t needs no paint and no powder.


Cosmetics are superfuous for it. Rouge
cannot improve the cheeks, nor lily white
mend its complexion. Its loveliness lies be-
yond all this. It not the beauty that is but
skin deep. For when you gaze into the face
of noble-hearted man or woman, it is not
the shape of the feature you really see, nor
yet the tint of the cheek, the hue Of the lip,
or the brilliance of the eye.


You see the nameless something which ami
mates all these, and leaves for your instinct
a sense of grateful fascition you sec an indie.
scribable embodiment of the heartfelt good
ness within, which wins your regard in spite
ofexternal appearance, and defes all the crit
ical rules of the aesthetic. Cultivate good ma
ture, therefore. 1t is better than "apples of
gold set in pictures of silver" for gold will
take to itself wings and fly away, silver will
tarnish in time, and both, when abundant,
lose their comparative value but good nature
never, never loses its worth-never abandons
Its posSesSor TO the nental poverty Oh tne ina-
licious- never loses its hold on the esteem of
the world. 1t is always in fashion, and al
ways in season. Everybody admires it. 1t
never grows stale. 1t costs little to acquire,
and nothing to keep. Yet is beyond dia-
monds in its worth to its owners, and can
neither be stolen nor lost, however neglected.
Surely this is jewel that merits search ;
and, when found, merits protection. Possess
yourselves of it, young women no talisman
will find you so bewitching in the judgment
of the sensible among the other sex.
Year: 1874

IMPORTANT TO THOSE WHO DRAW NOTES.
A man drew a note promisngto pay one hun:
dred dollars. He used printed form, and
did not close up the blank devoted to dollars,
and after passing as negotiable paper some
body inserted "and fifty after the one hun
dred and before the printed dollars. The
note, thus altered, got into the hands Of an
innocent party, who presented it to the draw
err and the supreme court decided that the
maker ofthe note was liable for its face be-
cause through negligence he did not draw a
line between the written wore" hundred" and
the printed word dollars" Any testimony
that the drawer might offer to establish the
fact that he gave note for one hundred dol
lars must 60 for nothing, as there was nothing
on the face of the note showing that it had
been altered. Evidence of an alteration on
the face of the note would have changed the
case. Let this be lesson to all drawers of
promisory notes. No one can be too careful
in such matters.
Year: 1874

"Some wear dancing shoes, but carry
soul of lead"


Such was my vehement quotation as paced
my little room cne day, looking as much like
tragedy queen as my slight form and rather
merry cast of countenance would permit.


The sole cause Of my exclamation was not
that l did in reality carry soul of lead, but
that l carried two "solcs" which if not Of lead
were certainly of the heaviest possible leather
and surmouuted by substantial calf-skin to
boot.


In short, my unfortunate feet were encased
in pair of shoes utterly untitled for the Terp-
sichorean performance Of stripping the light
fantastic toe" and toward that delightful ex-
ercise all my aspirations now tended.


For the Stanleys, par excellence, the great
people of our little village, were about to give
party in honor of some city guests, and ev-
erybody who was anybody at all might conf
IDENTIFY count on an invitation.


Our rustic bellies were in a fiutter of excite
ment; our enterprising oe-dealer, Mr.. Brown,
had brought from the city a large supply Of
fancy shoes and slippers to supply the proba-
BILE demand.


Why should l not walk down to his little
establishment and patronize the same by slip
ping my feet into pair of the daintiest "dan-
cling shoes?'


Alas l lacked the wherewithal. My
mother had calmly suggested that satin slip
Year: 1874

WHY HER PLAN DIDN'T WORK.-Ihe
Pottsville Pennsylvania Miners Journal is
responsible for the following story: A Phe-
nixville maid, quite ole, becoming anxious
about her matrimonial chances, recently con-
cocted plan to deceive young fellow as to
her age. This was the way she tried it. The
old family Bible contained faithful record
of all births, marriages and deaths. This
volume the maiden took to her chamber, and
selecting the birth page, she managed by dint
of scratching and writing to change the date
of her birth to a period eleven years later
than what it had legitimately been recorded.
Then the Bible was placed on the sitting.room
table in conspicuous manner. That evening
came along the lover. He soon began to
finger the Bible pages, and finally reached the
birth record, where and when he discovered,
to his surprise, that his Angelina was just one
year younger than he. He thought it strange,
as she appeared older. He kept his mouth
shut and continued to tumble over the pages.
Nexthe began reading over the death list,
and made the astonishing discovery that the
radiant maiden, according to the Bible, had
actually been born ten years after the decease
of her father. The young man quietly arose
and bid Angelina goodbye, and now swears
that eternal vigilance is indeed the price of
liberty"


The DOMESTIC FIREsIDE.-The tireslde
circle, of all others, should be made the place
of mutual attraction. Here should we repose
our hearts best affections, and here should we
delight to dwell. There is nothing more
pleasant and delightful than happy aud
cheerful group of the inmates of ones own
household. How would the joys and the
happiness of earth be heightened, if each and
every member of the family circle would
strive to make others happy. This earth
would indeed be Paradise below did fami.
lies live and dwell together in unity and
brotherly love- The tolls of life would be
sweeteped, household bands kept together, and
the journey of life, instead ofbeing wearisome
and painful, would be one of pleasure and
happiness. Though jarring and contention
are going on without, nothing but peace and
good will should reign in our midst. The
family circle should be made the home of our
affections. Brothers and sisters should here
mingle their voices in unison, unbosom their
thoughts to each other with cheerfulness, and
live in obedience to the wishes of their pa
Year: 1874

BE MAN.-W nat uOple IninS ~ 40 w
be man The world is full Of counterielts.
It is grand thing to stand upright in defense
of truth and principle. When persecution
comes. some hide their faces until the storm
passes by, others can be bought for mess OF
pottage. From such turn away. Stand by
friend. Show thyself man. Do not turn
away when danger threatens to overwhelm
him or you. :,


ThinI for yourself. Read books and read
mems faces. Remember the eye is the window
of the soul. Use your eyes and hold your
tongue when men court favors.


Select some calling to make it honorable.
When you have espoused cause maintain 1t
at all hazards. Make up your mind to sue
ceed by all means and good will; brush the
difficulties away one at time.


IF opposition comes, meet it mantully. Ii
success crowus your efforts, bear it quietly.
Hasten not in quarrel, but when you are
compelled to accept an alternative, stand up
and show yourself full.grown man. DO
YOUR own thinking, keep your own secrets
Worship no man for his wealth, or illustrious
lineage. Fine feathers do not always make
fine birds.


Do not live for yourself alone. The world
needs reformers as much to-day as ever. IT
you have new idea endeavor to develop it
into words and deeds. Be sober; be honest;
be true. Policy men are dangerous. They
will sell you for money, or popularity-don't
trust them. Wear but one face, and let that
be an honest one.


LIVE WITHIN Your MEANs.-We don't
like stinginess, we don't like economy, when
it comes down to rags and starvation. We
have no sympathy with the notion that the
poor man should hitch himself to a post and
stand still, while the rest of the world moves
forward. 1t no mans duty to deny himself
every amusement, every recreation, every
comfort that he may get rich. 1t is no mans
duty to make an iceberg Of himself, to shut
his eyes and ears to the suAerings of his tel-
lows, and to deny himself the enjoyment that
results from generous actions, merely that ne
may hoard wealth for his heirs to quarrel
about. But there is an economy which IS
every mans duty, and which is especially com
mendable in the man who struggles with
poverty-an economy which is consistent with
happiness, and which must be practiced if the
poor man would secure independence.


1t lis almost every mans privilege, and it
becomes his duty, to live within his means !;
not to, but within them. Wealth does not
make the man, we admit, and should never
be taken into the account in our judgment OF
men but competence should always be Sc
cured, when it can be, by the practice Of econ'
omy and selfdenial only to tolerable extent.
1t should be secured, not so much for others
to look upon, or to raise us in the estimation
of others, as to secure the consciousness OF IN
dependence and the constant satisfaction
which is derived from its requirement and
pOssession,
Year: 1874

MORE ExTRAvAGANCE.-W jamie
son is bent on running the people of
this town who have tastes for the beau
tiful, by the splendor of his displays of
exquisitely wrought jewelry and silver
ware. BE has just opened the largest and
most attractive stock in that line ever
before on exhibition in Seattle. We
dare not advise any lady to look at it.