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Year: 1874

The following extract we take from The
Ne'o York Independent. and commenced if
to the careful consideration of the BOYS and
young men who are among our readers


The first thousand dollars that a Young
man after going out into the world to act
Tor himself earns and saUes will generally
settle the question of the of business life
with HIM There may be exceptions to
this statement yet for rule, we think
that it will hold true.


The first condition in that the younq
man actually earns the thousand dollars in
question. He does not inherit this sum.
1t does not come to him by streak of
good luck, as the result of a fortunate ven
ture IN the purchase and sale of a hundred
shares of stock 1t is the fruit of personal
industry. He gives his time and his labor
for it. While he is thus earning and saw
ing 1t, he must earn two or three, or per-
haps four times as much to pay his current
expenses. He is consequently held sternly
to the task of industry for considerable
period. The direct consequence to him is
steady continuous and solid discipline in the
habits of industry-in patient, persistent,
forecasting and selfdenying effort, break
ing up all the tendencies to Incidence and
trivolity, and making him an earnest and
watchful economist Of time He not only
learns how to work but he also acquires
the love of work and, moreover he learns
the value of the sum which he has thus
saved out of his earnings He has toiled
for it ; he has observed its slow increase
from time to time and in his estimate it
represents so many months or years of prac-
tical labor. His ideas of life are shaped
by his own experience. These natural eff
tects of earning the first thousand dollars
we hold to be very large benefits They
are just the qualities of mind and body
which are most likely to secure business
success in after years. They constitute
the best practical education which man
can have as worker in this working world
They are gained in season for life's pur-
poses, at the opening period, just when
they are wanted, when foolish notions are
most likely to mislead an inexperienced
brain, and when, too, there is full oppor-
tuIity for expansion and development in
fact years. Men have but one life to live





hood but once. And the manner in which
they start, the purposes they have in view,
and the habits they form will ordinarily
determine the entire sequel of their career
on earth. To succeed, men must have the
elements Of success in themselves One
great reason why there are so many use
less, inefficient, and poverty-stricken men
on earth-or, rather, boys seeming to be
men-consists in the simple fact that they
did not start right. A prominent reason
why the children Of the rich SO frequently
amount to nothing may be found in the
luxury, ease and Incidence which marked
the commencement of their lives 1t is
the law of God that we should be workers
on earth and no one so well consults the
best development of his being as when he
confers his practice to this law. The work
ers in some suitable sphere are the only
really strong men in this world.
Year: 1874

A instance of extraordinary intelligence
in dog is given by correspondent of
Land and Water. The gentleman who
witnessed the event was a short time since
on a visit to Scotland, and during one of
his walks he came across some men who
were washing sheep. Close to the water
where the operations were being carried
on was a small pen, in which detachment
of ten sheep were placed handy to the man
for washing While watching the perfor-
nance his attention was called to a sheep
dog lying down close by. This animal,
on the pen becoming nearly empty, with
out "a word from any one, started off to the
main body Of the flock and brought back
ten of their number, and drove them into
the empty washing pens. The fact of the
dog bringing exactly the same number of
sheep as had vacated it, he looked upon at
first as a strange coincidence, mere chance
But he continued looking on, and, much to
his surprise, as soon as the men had re-
duced the number to three sheep, the dog
started off again and brought back ten
more and so on he continued throughout
the afternoon, never bringing one more
nor one less, and always going for fresh
lot when only three were left in the pen,
evidently being aware that during the time
the last three were washing he would be
able TO bring up fresh detachment.
Year: 1874

Among the most interesting entries at
the late Maryland State Fair was hand
some setter dog named "Jack," that is
owned and entered by gentleman of Balti-
more county. There is nothing peculiar
in "Jack's" general appearance, but his
sagacity is really wonderful. His owner
has large number of sheep, and Jack
was almost raised with them. He became
very much attached to the sheep, and was
used in driving and watching them. He
would follow them to pasture in the morn
ing and remain with them during the en-
tire day, with the exception Of short time
near noon, when he would return to the
farm house, and after getting his dinner
would return at once to his charge He
followed this routine alike in good and bad
weather, and even when the sheep were
brought home in the evening and penned,
he would sleep with them. On one occa-
sion the flock was left in charge of Jack"
in field on distant part of the farm, and
they were allowed to remain there during
the night, but he did not offer to leave,
and was found with them on the following
morning During the early part of last
spring he was left in charge of a flock of
about eighty sheep, and during the day
two strange dogs made their appearance in
the field and commenced killing the sheep.
"Jack" at once attempted to drive the in
truders from the field, but they turned up
on him and desperate fight ensued. Dur
ing the battle one of the strange dogs was
killed, and the other so badly hurt that he
could not climb the fence to escape. The
faithful protector of the sheep was so much
injured in the fight that he did not recover
for several weeks. The sheep seemed to
recognize the faithfulness of 'Jack, as
when hired man visited the field in the
evening he found the flock standing IN
circle around their protector, who was un-
able to move. Two of the sheep were
killed by the strange dogs and the remain
ing dog that had been unable to escape,
was killed by the man that visited the
field
Year: 1874

A girl in Georgia brought suit againt
a recent lover, claiming ten thousand dol
lars damages, but she compromised for four
bales OF cotton and a new parasol Her
lawyer took the cotton for his Zee, and she
kept the parasol to heal her wounded af-
fections
Year: 1874

Almost to Death.


Shortly after six O'Clock last night there occurred
in the tenement house No. $40 East Fifteenth
street dastardly OF wife beating, the effects
OF which will probably consign the unfortunate
victim to the grave. At little before six O'Clock
Thomas Murphy, aged forty returned home under
the influence of liquor. His wife, Margaret, was
at her sewing machine engaged on some work
he entered, and at her side sat her daughter
Susan, aged fourteen. Without cause or provocation
Murphy began applying indecent epithets to his
wife, to which she made no reply, but kept on
sewing. Iniuriased at her Silence the drunken
man snatched the work she had in her lap from
her. and throwing it into the stove, struck her
over the head with his clenched fist. She bounded
from the chair and attempted TO get away. but
before she could do SO he administered several
neavy KICKS win his boots on her person, telling
ner to the floor. Although severely injured, she
rallied sufficiently to assume the defensive, and
selZln9 stick OF wood lying on the noor, hurled
1t at his head, striking him the lace.
He again sprang at her and, pulling her across the
heated stove, kicked and pounded her without
mercs. The little girl had all this time been iran
her efforts useless, now quickly ran for O police
man. In lew moments Officer Baker. of the
Eighteenth precinct, arrived and succeeded IN
arrestlng Murphy. whom ne took to the Twenty
second street police station house, where he was
locked up.


Some OF the neighbors, coming in after the
arrest. attended, best they could. the suffering
woman until an ambulance was called, when she
was conveyed to Bellevue Hospital, where her in.
juries were pronounced probably fata and char
acteriZed as a severe internal hemorrhage.


From information elected from the inmates Of
the house it appears that Murphy has before on
many occasions. beaten his vile. He Is frequently
under the influence OF liquor, and when so is ex-
cessively cruel.


Besides the daughter mentioned above there
are two other children younger


The story of repeated cruelty on the part OF the
husband as told the reporter by susan, is one
abounding in barbarous and almost fendish acts
Year: 1874




lGENBRAL PRESS DIsPATcHl


WASHINGTON, May s.-Gov. Shepherd was
crossexanined by Judge Wilson. The witness was
questioned with reference to violation or an act OF
congress by the Board of Public Works in deviating
from q grade established by Congress around the
Capitol grounds He SAID the Board had endeavored
TO get the views Of Mr. Cark the architect OF the Capt.
o with reference to grade but that he refused to
mt the same in writing; whereupon they used their
own discretion and went ahead under tho directions OF
the Board OF the Engineer Department to complete the
system of the main sewerage inaugurated He thought
the cost woud aggregate sOOo OF which the cit zens
have already paid 900 00J leaving s2OcOOOO TO pay oi
work under contract aud accounts audited.


Witness stated that 500 OF this city was In ave
nues which would not be here Washington was not
cspital city. II commercial city, they would be
taken up with property which would pay taxes.
Not q dollar Of sewer bonds was hypothecated
10 pay the January interest The money was borrowed
on Sinking Fund bonds account OF the Sinking Fund
Commission. Being questioned relative to the passage
Of the Sewer bill by the Legislature, witness testified
that he urged upon the members the passage or the DILL
but never promised members any fav0rs with view TO
induce them TO vote for It, Although several demanded
favors, none were promised. There has been
expended for improvements about &l5,0O0O00
up to last February, and up TO the present
time certificates on account OF improvements
have been issued for about ssOoo00o Witness stated
that the Board had made contracts in excess Of the a
prcpriatOns. but had not done any work under them
in excess OF appropriations With reference to rails
ing and undermining houses the Board had no law for
authority but after the work in progress the Legs
lature passed a bn making an Appropriation TO reim
burse them flor this class of work. The houses thus
raised for prOpertyhOlde was considered In lieu Of
any claim for damages they might present.


With reference 10 the payment OF one appropriation OF
Sl2lOOo0 to the First National Bank, witness said
considerable portion Of the paid TO those banks
who had made advances and alowed!the Board to
draw that the Freedmau's Bank advanced large
contractors but the other two banks dd!no because
all the money they could spare sent TO help the
Philadelphia branches OF Jay Cookies house The First
National Bank paid for all overdrafs made by the
| Board, but not for all the certificates they held.
The witness asked il Senators Edmunds and
Bayard and Judge Wyle had paid their assessments for
property owned by them Massachusettsave., where
very heavy made in front OF their respective
houses He said they had been assessed bat In view Of
the damage TO the property payment not pressed
but IT allowed TO remain unpaid Offset for
| damages sustained.


| The Committee then ad dourned TIL Monday, when the
| Governor Will be further crosseXanined.
Year: 1874

t0n with TRIBUNE reporter he said that In obtaining
the position OF Commissioner he had gwen no pledge
ability he possessed He believed that he should be able
the city, and that his influence on the Pore
Board would be felt and acknowledged soon. II
had not thought he would not have accepted tho
were before him. and hoped to able to improve them
As a young he naturally looked forward to long
career and should en1eayor not to blight II ~ Nils
take the
Year: 1874

OF not II would seem that the second condition named
would be more fully complied with by employing them
TO do the work There is but little doubt that they
will accomplish 1t promptly aud as WELL ana much
more economically


The arguments of both parties will be heard by
the Committee and it now looks as though the IN
vestIgation would result in defining more exactly
the work to be done by each Department.
Year: 1874

The House Committee Civil Service Reform have
obtained complete list of the officers and employees 10


the House Of and the number is amah
inC IL is the intention Of the Committee TO give the


ist careful consideration for the purpose OF cutting IL
down il expedient and OF revising the salaries III Is
not Improbable that bill to reorganlze the system VI
OF the undertaking.


fFor Roular Report Of Coroona Podng see Second race
Year: 1874

Our readers will certainly thank US for
advising them to keep in their houses, for
use. Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil 1t
is said to be the best remedy for painful
complaints ever discovered at works
ike a charm.
Year: 1874

Twas the night before Christmas. when al


through the house
Not creature was stirring, not oven mouse
The stockings were hung by tho chimney
| with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there
The children were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions Of sugar-plums danced in their
heads;
And mamma in her kerchief and in my cap
Had just settled our brains for long winters


nap
When ont on the lawn there arose such clat-


ter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the


matterj
Away to the window flew like flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon, on the breast of the new fallen snow
Gave lustre of midday to objects below {;
When, what to my wondering eyes should


appear,
Bet a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny rein


deer,
With "a little old driver, so lively and quick,
knew in II moment it must be st. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his courscrs they came,
Aud he whstled, and shout ed, and called them
snow, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer


and Vixen
On! Comet, on Cupid, on Dunder and


Blitzen-
To the top of the porch, to the top of the



Now, dash away, dash away. dash away all J"
AS dry leaves that before the wild hurricane
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to


thu sky.
So. up to the house-top the courses they flew
With sleigh full oftoys and st. Nicholas too,
And then in atwinkling heard on the roof,
The prancing and paving of each little hoof.
As drew in my head, and was turning around.
Down the chimney st. Nicholas came with


bound.
He was dressed all in fur from his head to his


foot,
His clothes were all tarnished with ashes and


SCOT;
bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like peddler just opening his


pack,
His eyes how they twiukled !! his dimples how
III. cheeks we're like roses, his nose like
His dr.. III little mouth was drawn up like
And the hen I'd on his chin was as white as the
Tho st"mn If uipc he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke H. ehcircieu lin nc'o hAe
He had broad face and a little round belly.
That shook when he la ughed like bowl full
He was chubby and plump right jolly old


elf
And laug ghcd when l saw him in spite OF my


self.
A wink OF his eye and twist of lis head,
Soon gave me to know l had nothing to


dread.
He smoke not a word but went straigt to his


work,
And filled all the stockings then turned with


jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving nod, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gavo


whistle,
And away they all flew like the down Of


thistle;
But heard him exclaiul, ere he drove on of


sight,
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL


GOOD NIGHT"
Year: 1874

How TO FIX THEM. Very often
screw hole gets so worn that the
screw will not stay in. Where glue
is handy, the regular carpenter
makes the hole larger and Clues in
a large plug, making a nest for an
entirely new hole, But this is not
always the case, and people without
tools and in an emergency, often
have to fix the thing at once. Gen.
orally leather is used, but this is so
hard that it does not hold we'll.
The best of all things is to cut mar.
row strips of cork, and fill the hole
completely. Then force the screw
in. This will make as tight job
as driven into an entirely new hole.
Year: 1874

According 10 the written rule the first class OF honor
shouh have embraced the 1rst the second
class the five next following and the third the remain
ing two The lines o. division drawn by the Fac
ulty between the fourth and ffth, and between the
seventh and eighth because the derepces OF oOnsecu
tive values we're greater there than between other


bers OF the SERIES But this explanation IA due those
whose actual standing not correctly represented by
the public encouragement, aud Therefore respectfully
Year: 1874

CLASSIFICATION OF GRADUATES BY PERCENTAGE OF


MARKs--THR RULE DIsREGARDED BY THE FAC


ULTY-sTATEMENT OF THE STANDING ATTAINED.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.


SIR: In the announcement of honors at the
recent Columbia College Commencement there was an
inadvertently committed which does injustice to
several Of the graduates aud which desire to correct
The students graduating in honors are, under the stat
utes Of the college, to be divided into three classes the
distinction to be made by the Faculty. AS guide in
making these distinctions the Faculty laid down TO
themselves by resolution passed In 1872 the rule
all competitors for honors who should obtain 90 cent
OF the maximum Of marks or upward should be placed
in the first class Of honor all who should obtain 80 per
cent but less than co. should be placed in the second
class and all who should obtain 10, but less than go
should be ranked third


In announcing the results at the last Commencement
the President first stated this rule as IL stands on the
minutes, which correct; but he did state and
he was at the tmo that the Faculty In max
ing the distinction between the classes had dsregarded
their own rule although the minimum limit Of 70 per
cent had been observed. The actual standing OF the
fourteen gentlemen the honor list was as foloWet
Year: 1874




PHILADELPHIA, Dec. "a, 1873.
I SELDOM, if ever, pick up a newspaper without
i seeing, among the first items that arrest my at
tention, the record of terrible boiler explosion.
Very many causes assigned for this loss of life
and property great deal is said as TO what should
be done and what should not be done. But scarce
ly ever hear it said that these explosions due to
an accumulation of Scale in the Boiler and yet eight
out of ten instances that occur in midst un
doubtedly due to this cause.


Now, permit me to say that manufacture Com
position that will readily and thoroughly remove this
incrustation; and while am constantly sending it
the United States exact pay for its un-
less it gives perfect satisfaction and fulfls all he
claims make for it.


My preparation will remove Scale from any Boiler,
no matter how deco may be the ircrusat on, and at
the time it will prevent injury to the Boiler
from anything which may be held in solution by the
water contained IN it. This article will absolutely
prevent the formation of Scale if timely introduced
The powder which manufacture has been care
fully tested by some of the ablest chemists in the
countr,, and its fitness to keep iron clean aud to
preserve it has been demonstrated by them in the
most satisfactory manner.


If you will send for my circular with my terms and
full particulars give me call, think l will be
able convince the most sceptical that this compo
sition will justify all claim for it.


Very respectfully yours,


GEO, w. LORD.
dc2atf
Year: 1874

II the people Of Louisiana did not
complain under the accumulation of
outrages which for the last two years
they have suffered, they would be un-
worthy. of the rights which they now
demand: The moderation they have
shown all along has not been done JUS
tice to. It is as wonderful as it is praise
tion, and is notorious enough but un-
der this tyranny they have developed
self-control and determination to re-
sort only to unimpeachably lawful means
to overthrow what had even the faint
color of being a lawful Government
which nobody could have expected of
them. The Roman story of the Sena-
tors who sat protesting in mute dignity
against the DarDarfun INVASION winch
they were powerless to repel has really
a parallel in the proceedings OF the de-
cent people of Louisiana in the face of
the Government of indecent people set


and sustained over them by Federal
power. 1t must be, to every man who


knows what their provocation has been


to violent insurrection, very affecting
spectacle.


OF course we cannot expect that such
a spectacle should affect General Grant.
Upon his narrow mind, trained, SO far
as it Is trained at all, in military habits;
MS unIeenng neart, anu MS doggeu Will,
the most reasonable and most respectful
remonstrances act merely as irritants.
He has committed himself to the sup
port Of the Kellogg Government, and we
| have no reason to suppose that he will
stop at any extreme of wrong or any
| extent of force which will sustain that


cabal. The fimsy pretexts on which
Andrew johnson was impeached look
| still fiimsier by the side of the usnrpa-
tions and perversions of power which
Mr.. Grant has employed in this Louis


lana business, and for which he contin-


ues unimpeached. III General Sheridan
goes to New Orleans he will go with the


expectation of the President that he will


crush out the expression of Indignation


which every peaceable and industrious


citizen of Louisiana feels at the series
Of outrages to which the action Of the
| Returning Board has added the climax.


There is no shadow of excuse for this


menace of military interference. The
pretence that any political significance


attaches to the atfray between Warmoth


and Byerly is worse than ridiculous; it
| is atrocious.-World.
Year: 1874

RUSSIAN NEwsPAPERs.-ASt St. Petersburg correspondent of the New York Times says:-In conclusion I may mention that I had occasion to call at the office of Rus sian newspaper last week, but as it was after four o'clock I was informed that the editors office hours were between twelve and three. This is little easier work than newspaper men are accustomed to ill our country, but then the field for work ing here IS very circumscribed one. Every advertisement has to be approval by government officer before 1t is insert ed, and how the papers pay is, as Dund- reary says, ''one of those things which no fellow can understand" There are no less than eleven daily papers published here; one is in German, one Tn French, and the rest in the Russian language. I will not attempt to give you the names of the lat CT, for to me they present the appearance of having been set up as Q ''trial turn" the day after Prasnick by an exprienced ap- prentice; half of the letters appear to be upside down, and the other half are in a very mutilated condition. If any one among your readers is curious to know what Russian newspaper looks like, let him try to read a newspaper printed in the ordinary Roman type when he has a severe bilious attack, accompanied by Q sick headache, and he will have an excel lent idea of what it resembles. Besides the eleven daily papers here, there is an official paper which contains notices of theatrical performances and publid amuse- ments, all of which the law does not allow to be printed in the ordinary newspapers. With regard to reading matter, an editor has to be very careful what he writes or publishes, pub for after being . cautioned ! on a articles which the government disapproves of, the third time he offends the publica- tion of his paper is stopped entirely, and he runs the risk of having, asoless yolens. to study every day life in Siberia for a period of time, the duration of which it is not in his power to determine.