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Year: 1877

BLUNT BUT TRUE-There is said to be
young man in the Missouri penitentiary
whose parents at their death, left him a
fortune of $4,000. There is where his
parents made a fatal mistake If they had
taken the prccaution to invest that sum in
small dog, and shot him, and then had
simply left the young man jack plane or a
wood saw, with printed instructions how to
use it, the chances are, that instead of be-
ing in the penitentiary, he would to-day
have been gradually but surely working his
way into handsome con. potency and an
hcn":ah!c o!i age. Dut ever since the DAYS
OF Adam, and Eve, parents havo made i.-e
point to toll and struggle all thoir lives in
order to realize sufficient sum of money
to purchase, when they are dead and gone,
their sons each a first class through ticket
to the devil, and it is not much to be won
dcrcd at that so many of their sons, reared
in vice and idleness, as too many of them
often are, have 10 higher ambition than to
invest their inheritance in just that sort of
transportation.
Year: 1877

To be pretty is the great object
Of almost every living woman, even
those who lecture upon the impro-
priety of doing so.


Beautiful women spend a great
deal Of thought upon their own
charms, and homely women grow
homely through fretting, because
they are not handsome.


Men, lat least while they are young,
are very much like women in this
respect, though their hide they feel
ings better.


There is one comfort to the home
ly ones, however.


After you come to know people
very intimately, you do not know
whether they are pretty or not.


Their "ways" make an impression
on you, but not their noses and
ears, their eyes and mouths.


In time the soul expresses itself
to you, and it is that which you see.


A man who has been married
twenty years scarcely knows what
his wife looks like.


He may declare that he does, and
tell you that she is a bewitching
little blonde, with soft blue eyes,
long after she is red and forty /;
because the image Of his early love
is in his heart, and he does not see
her as she is to-day, but as she was
when he courted her.


Or, being an Indifferent husband,
he may not know that she is the
fine woman that other people think
her.


You have known men who have
married the plainest women, and
think them beauties, and you know
beauties who are quite thrown away
on men who value a wife for her
success as a cook.


As Ear as ones effect on strangers
is to be taken into consideration,
beauty is valuable and very valu-
able.


So, if you have it, rejoice; but if
you have it not, be content.


Take care of your heart, your
mind, and your manners, and you
will make for yourself that beauty
which will render you lovely to
those who are nearest and dearest
to YOU.
Year: 1877

Dubuque Ielesrpn'l


"Brown, ! don't see how it is
chat your girls all marry off as soon
as they get old enough, while none
of mine can marry"


"Obl that's simple enough. |
marry my girls off on the buck
wheat straw principle"


" But what is that principle? |
never heard Of it before"


Well, / used to raise a good
deal of buckwheat, and it puzzled
me to know how to get rid Of the
straw. Nothing would eat it, and
it was a great bother to me. AT
last | thought Of a plan. ] stacked
nv buckwheat straw nicely and
built high rail fence around
it. My cattle, Of course, concluded
that it was something good, and at
once tore down the fence and begaa
to eat the straw. | dogged them
away and put up the fence a few
times, but the more | drove them
away the more anxious they became
Year: 1877

Cleanses the nasal passages in a single application


with the admirable Inhaler, which accompanies
ea I'll package free of charge. and is more service
q BILE than any other form OF Inhaler.
Year: 1877

II we are 10 risk losing all we have
gained by the most tremendous efforts
against organized official thieving in
this county, merely because ofiice-seek-
ers are so desperate that they are de-
termined TO have Office or ruin the
Democratic party, it is time for us to
ask ourselves whether or not the peo-
pie were made for the benefll Of Office
seekers. Arc the people or the Office
seekers to control the Democratic
party? That is the question.
Year: 1877

No! Will you take that for an an
swer? | have tried hard to be excused,
but you will accept from me no reason
for staying at home, so you must take
a plain refusal


1T will be the last thing you will
ever refuse me.


Charles Thornton hastily Quilted
the breakfast room without another
word or look for the lady who presi-
ded at the liable, and who was wholly
disconnected by this unlocked for pro-
ceeding on his part.
With flashing eyes she looked out
of the window, saw her husband mount
his horse and dash madly away from
her sight.


I'll pay him for this in his own
coin on his return he will find me in
the same mood as he left me-


Turning away from the window,
her ewes caught those Of her old friend,
Miss Potter, fixed on her in sad sur
prise.


What words are those you mutter
50 angrily, Sarah . ask ed the elderly
lady.


I was saying would pay that hus,
band of mine for the exhibition Of
such temper; he never even SAID
good morning as he left.


Sarah. dear, we're you not lunch
more to blame than he for the manner
Of his leave takiug?'


4 to blame for Charlie s abominable
temper, Aunt Potter? How can you
attach blame to Inc for his rudencss 2


A shower Of tears were imminent ;
but Miss Potter, nothing daunted,
kept on.


My dear, does it not occur to you
how severely you have tried his tenn
per by SO persistently refusing to go
TO his father s-to this family re-
union .


We'll, | don't care; why will he
tease me to 90 to that old farm house
to meet all those dreadful people 2


'Iou do not care DO Won really
mean what your words imply?'


4 mean Just what | say, Sarah re-
piled, with slightly elevated eye
brows.


Nay, Sarah, if really believed
you knew the cruel meaning of those
words, | should also know you had
not one mite Of unselfsh love for the
man you so fondly at times call bus
band, and the advice | am about to
offer would be worse than thrown a.
way


Nonsense, auntie it is not a ques-
ton of love at all; but because have
a perfect horror Of meeting all those
country friends and relatives of his,
and be bored to death by an incessant
! talk Of stacks and crops, I must need
be accused Of not loving my hus
band.


Sarah, you must forgive me, but
for the sake of your future happiness
| must talk plainly to you. Shall |
60 on, darling?'


My dearest auntie, you know you
could say nothing to your wayward
Sarah that could possibly require for
giveness. So pray 60 on; let me see
the full extent of nv natural wicked
ness


Sarah, when you married Charles
Thornton, you knew his life was to be
lived among his country friends, yet
you seemed happy in your choice and
more than contented with the home lr
Year: 1877

Give fools their gold and kpavcs !hcil


power,


Let fortunes bubbles rise and fall
Who sows field or trains flower,
Or plants tree is more than all.
For he who bcsses most is bleSt,
And God and man shall own his worth
Who tolls to leave as his bcqucst
An added beauty to the earth.
And, soon or late, to all that sow
The time of harvest shall be gwen;
The flower shall bloom, the fruit shall grow
If not on earth, at last in heaven.
Year: 1877

doctor" said an old lady the other
day, to her family physicians, "kin ye
tell me how it is that some folks is
born dumb?'


"Why-hem !--certainly madame
replied the doctor; 1T is owing to the
fact that they come into this world
without the power Of speech"


"La me" remarked the old lady
now just see what it is to have a
physic education I've axed me old
man more nor hundred times that ar
same thing and all that l ever could
git out of him was Kase they is.
Year: 1877

Tho receiver Of the suspended Security Life
Insurance Company sand yesterday that the total number
ol creditors OF the company was about i2up nearly all
whom policy holders scattered throughout almost
every state Iisexamnaon aed To show that there had
been any dealcaunn-, but there had been erroneous
statements 10 by the officers Ia keep the condition
o the concern ecr, from the STATE Insurance officials
and the public lie WAS m Ouht who ther criminal action
could be made 70 hold against amy Oi the managers VI the
company, but there MAS ground Tor civ suits
Year: 1877

men freely and wisely chosen, without
exclusion of party, of class, or origin,
seeking them neither high nor low,
neither to the right nor to the
left, but in the full light of public es-
teem." This is the simple conception of
selt-governm ent and felicitous statement
OF the position Of the country as it now
stands menaced with an attempted forcible
return to the system that had failed. Thiers
has left to his country many legacies like
this statements of the real political ground
on which the Republic stands in the history
Of the State and as his words always had
great weight with the country they will have
still great weight now that he is no more.
They will have almost the authority of in
spired utterances ; and their effect on opin-
ion will in great part compensate for the
loss of the leader whom great part of the
nation was disposed to follow.
Year: 1877

The news communicated in our despatch
from San Antonio, Texas, is important.
Colonel Schweitzer, in command at Browns
vile, has sent information to General Ord
at headquarters that fifteen hundred regular
Mexican troops were about to embark at
Vera Cruz, in the steamer City OF Merida,
for the mouth Of the Rio Grande. This is
altogether the best proof which President
Diaz has yet offered of his sincerity and
good faith. Whether it is prompted by
his great solicitude to be recognized
by the United States, by desire to dis
charge plain international obligation, or
by both motives combined, it is gratifying
exhibition of vigor which contrasts favor
ably with the negligence of his predecessors.
When he despatched General Benavides to
the border with instructions to respect our
rights it was regarded as good step, and
that intelligent, high toned officer has not
been personally remiss. General Benavides
has shown no disposition to shirk or evade
any part of his duty, but he has been so
thwarted by the local authorities and the
military officers on the Mexican frontier
that the promised cooperation on that side
of the river has latterly worn the appearance
of an exposed and exploded sham. Five
days ago it looked as if it would be stupid
credulity to expect anything from Mexico
and as if there was nothing further to do
but to take redress entirely into our own
hands. But it would seem that Gen.
eral Benavides had as little patience
with the treachery Of the frontier Mex
leans as General Ord himself, and that
he applied to President Diaz for body Of
troops who were not infected with the local
feeling. 1t is in response to his representa-
tons that the fifteen hundred Mexican
regulars are about to embark from Vera
Cruz. 1t is to be hoped that these troops
will not be seduced by contact with the
local population. OF course attempts will
be made to tamper with and corrupt them !;
and if such attempts fail it is apprehended
that the Mexican border States will rise in
rebellion against the government of Diaz.
The situation on the Rio Grande will be
watched with great interest when these
troops arrive.
Year: 1877

him q pleasant trip on the river and
glimpse Of the government buildings on the
islands. While in that pleasant neighbor-
hood it would probably be just as well to
drop him on one of them for ninety days and
give him an opportunity OF studying our in
stitutions under the most favorable circum-
ctoncee
Year: 1877

THE TRUE INwAIDNEss of the opposition to
the ew rule at the Cotton Exchange lies: in the
fact that five thousand bales per ann,nn lind
thsir way into the possession of PERSONS who
have no just right to'a pound OF them. If the
Cotton Exchange sanctions this by defeating the
proposed rule honest people will be apt 10 form
Y curious opinion about it,
Year: 1877

OUR CONTEMPORARIES in Switzerland bear
testimony to the accuracy of the HERALD's pre-
dction ofa great storm in that country last
month, the announcement OF which was made by
cable from New York
Year: 1877

The RACES AT NEWPORT yesterday were
crowned with the most abundant success, and
the scene on the course was probably the finest
in its way of anything that ever took place in
Rhode Island. The trotting at Fleetwood Park
and the athleti', games ut Mott Haven were the
other important sporting events of the day.
Year: 1877

Miss ANNA DICKINSON gives as her
reason for abruptly ending her engage
ment at the Eagle Theatre, New 7 ork,
that in violation of her contract the man
ager undertook, without her consent, to
change her support in "The Crown of
Thorns." When she discovered at the
rehearsal on Monday that change had
been made in the cast she seized her
manuscript and fled from the stage, in
sisting that she had been unfairly treated
and that she would Lo longer play in the
Eagle Theatre. But Mr.. Josh Hart, the
manager of the Eagle, thinks that want
of success had much to do in influencing
her action, and cities as proof of the
opinion the meagre receipts of the Eagle
during Miss Dickinson's engagement,
which ranged from $491 down TO SAG,
and in two cases only going over $3.50 for
a performance.
Year: 1877

INDIAN DIPLoMACY.-It now seems
that Spotted Tail resorted to some tall
fibbing to induce the hostile Indians to
come into the agency. Crazy Horse, who
was Sitting Bulls right bower, in his
fight on the Little Big Horn, got wind of
the fact that his men were to be deprived
of their arms and ponies. and again dom
ned his war paint. He could induce but
one hundred braves tn follow him, how
ever, so that he will be able TO do but
comparatively little mischief.
Year: 1877

After trying to close out at cost my
entire stock of Jewelry, &c, l find l
could successfully accomplish it without
continually replenishing certain lines of
goods, which would prolong the sale for
two years. and as my facilities for purchas
ing goods at inside prices are not excelled
in the the three cities, haye concluded to
keep stocked up in all departments and will


in future sell goods at prices which
Year: 1877

The New York "Times" has an ed
itorial on the political situation,
whereof the following are salient
points: No observant person can
pretend that the party as a whole
disapprove of what the President
has done. 1t is divided upon the
subject of his Southern policy, but
the division has none of the charac-
teristics of a quarrel, and all traces
of it will disappear in one direction
or another when the results of the
new policy become apparent. The
business elements of the South will
naturally gravitate toward the Re-
publican organization, and will ulti-
mately make a power in those states
whose ruling politicians now speak
of as banished from their boundaries.
Year: 1877

"No man will ever prosper who
has the curse of a ruined woman up
on him. The murderer of the body
can be tried and executed by the
worlds laws, but the murderer of the
soul is tried by heavens laws and
the execution is as sure asdivinejus-
tice." Aunt Betsey said this as she
folded the hands of a beautiful girl,
and put white flowers and green
leaves about the marble.cSld forehead.
There was tiny babe beside the girl
mother. The house was hushed and
there was mourning such as few
know. Half glad that the mother
and child were dead, the rest of the
family must perform the last sad of
fee of burial and bear the family
shame. A haunted housed A ruin
ed homel God the architect,and man
the spoiler. The curse is there, and
the DESTROYER cannot escape.
Year: 1877

"Why don't you take q scat with
in the bar2" asked one gentleman Of
another in the courtroom. "For the
best reason In the world" replied the
other, "my mother always told me to
keep out Of bad company"
Year: 1877

us long enough 70 permit us towllste
our hours in the persais Of fashion
ndgayety. What we SOW we shall
reap hereafter. How many who SOW
in tears will reap in joy, God gave
to all mothers grace and strength to
fulfll their duties Alright, and their
influence for good may be felt from
generation to generation.
Year: 1877

amended, by adding thereto these words and figures:
SECT 81. Every railroad company in making
contracts for the building Of its road shall require
sufficient security from the contractors for the pay
men of all labor thereafter performed in construct
ing the road by persons in their employ; and such
company shall be liable to the laborers employed,
for labor actually performed on the road, if they
within twenty days after the completion of such
labor shall in writing notify its treasurer that they
have not been paid by the contractors


[Approved February 7, 1871
Year: 1877

Too MANY ATrAcnMENTs.- Co
lG'a san tells Of fine team and wagon
%hich constable sold under an attach
mont. a creditor Of The purchaser took
notion that he liked the rig pretty well,
50 in less than u hall-hodr the constable
attached it agnin. This was settled by
the debtor only to make room for the
constable to levy another attachment
which was al.o settled. Before sundoWn
two more creditors took fancy 90 the
team, two more attachments were plaster
el on it, and the luckless debtor gave up
in despair. That constable must have
thought he had struck bonanza.
Year: 1877

MARE IsLAED.-And now comcs one
Colonel Bouldn and claims Marc Island
ms his property, and proposes to show his
ttlo clear from grant hJ the Mexican
Government which, passing from hand
to hnnd came TO his father. The case is
up now and the valiant Colonel is bring
ing in evidence in support of his claim.
Wonder il somebody wort next claim
the ground on which the Washington
Monument stands.
Year: 1877

OLD FAMILIES. "A very searching
investigation was carried on few
years ago in the North Of England by
two families who were searching up
their respective ancestry. The strife
was great between hem, each deter
mining to look into antiquity further
than the other. One OF the families
whose name was Spencer, employed
an artist to paint an historic scene
representing the building OF the ark
and the loading up of the ship by Noal
and his sons with its mutifarious and
various cargo. On the gang-plank
leading to the deck Of the ark two
men were seen rolling up large box
on one side of which was printed il
large letters, ''Relics, insignia, and pa
pcrs belonging to the Spencer family
This was considered a coup detdt hard
TO beat; but the other family, deter
mined not to be outdone in the antedi
luvian pretences of their name, pre-
pared at great cost and research a re.
cord of their antiquity In describing
the exploits Of one of their ancestors
at very early day, who was repre-
sented as man of some authority
this remarkable passage occurred =
During this year Adam and Eve were
driven out OF Paradise "-RTal Nell


YORKER.
Year: 1877

GOSPEL HARNESS. DR.. Murray re.
marks: ave have no faith In the
monastic conception Of holiness, its
cause and security. The mind makes
its own sins, and the offspring are OF
the color and character OF the parent.
The "warfarc" of which Paul speaks
is not u defensive, but an offensive,
warfare. As o Christian, therefore,
your security lies in the suddennoss
and fierceness with which you attack
your foe. You can never pitch your
tent, and unharness, while an enemy
remains alive on the field which field
is your own sin possessed nature. Then
shall you have rest from your labofs,
and not until then. Then shall peril
to you be cpasscd the necessity of con.
fiict gone forever with your sin 4; and,
conqueror at last over yourself, at
peace with your conscience and your
God, you Join tho company Of those
"who have fought the good light, who
have 6nishsd the course, who have
kept the faith"
Year: 1877

Poverty, except where there is an
actual want of food and raiment. is a
thing more imaginary than real. The
shame of poverty, the shame of being
thought poor, it is agreat and fatal weak
ness, though arising in this country from
the fashion G the times themselves.---
Cobbet{
Year: 1877

friends, we went into the war believing
we were right, but when the war end.
ed all surrendered, and l want to
impress on you that we surrendered in
good faith and challenge any man
living to say that from that day to this
that l have violated in any degree the
tenor Of my parole, or done anything
inconsistent with my honor AS q
soldier and citizen. Cheers. When
| shesthed my sword l renewed my
allegiance to the United States. When
/ took my official oath the other day, as
Governor of South Carolina, swore to
uphold it as it now stands and SO help
me God l intend to keep it. Cheers.
Year: 1877




WE regret to be compelled to say that
the most roseste hopes are not enter
tanned in behalf OF Senator MoRToN's re-
covery by those intimate with his condi-
tion. bis death, just at this time, would
operate as a national calamity. His
place, for the time being, would be filled
by Democrat-and this for more than
year. IT, however, PATTERSON or
CoNovER are to play false, the political
situation will not be changed, in any
event.


That just depends from whs. stand
point one looks at it. There are some
people in the Hoosier State who think
his demise would be national blessing.
Neither view, however, is likely to be
general, but we venture to say that il he
had "pegged out" ten months ago there
would have been greater cause tor sorrow
on the one side and JOY on the other, than
is now possible.
Year: 1877

Young folks should be mannerly. How
to be so is the questions Many good
girl and boy feel that they can't behave
themselves in the presence of company.
They feel tinid, bashful and self dislrust-
ful the moment they are addressed by a
stranger or appear in company. There
is but one way to get over this feeling.
and acquire easy and graceful manners;
that is, to do the best they can all the
time at home, as well as abroad. Good
manners are not learned by arbitrary
teaching SO much as acquired by habit.
They grow upon us by use. We must
be courteous, agreeable, civil, kind, gen.
tlemsnly and womsnly at home. and then
il will become a kind OF second nature TO
be so everywhere. A coarse rough man
ner at home, begets habit Of rough
ness, which we cannot lay of if we try
when we 60 among strangers. The most
agreeable people we have ever known IN
company are those who are perfectly
agreeable at home. Home Il The school
for all good things, especially for good
manners.-EIchange.