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Year: 1874


"Breaki break break at the foot of the crags, oh,


sea!


And would that my tongue could utter the thoughts


that arise in me-"


The evening sun was just going down
in the west behind choice selection of
clouds and vapors, displaying a variety
of tints and coloring too numerous to
mention, but upon the whole conducting
himself like the very regular and we'll
behaved sun that he is. His farewell
rays struggled through the forest trees,
and sifted themselves upon a rustic log
cabin that stood conveniently near, with
its pig-pen in front and its potato patch
behind.


Maria, the only daughter, submissive
to the exigencies of the hour. was frying
onions for supper. She was a very nice
girl. Of course she was. IF it were not
so, / would have told you.
Year: 1874

There is something wonderful in fig
ures; and numbers, when carefully con-
sidered, startle us by their immensity.


We talk of millions and billions with
little thought Of the vastness Of the
sums We name. The lips may utter the
words ghbly, but the understanding
fails to grasp their real significance.
Take our own national debt as an illus
tration. Everybody knows it is large,
but few have ever stopped to consider
its appalling magnitude. A few calcu-
lations will not be uninteresting.


Let us suppose that the national debt
is in round numbers, $4,000, 900, 600.
If an experienced cashier were to COM
monce counting this at the rate of three
silver dollars per second, and work dill
gently eight hours per day, three hund-
red days in the year, it would take him
about one hundred years to complete the
count.


If the silver dollars were placed side
by side touching each other, they would
reach nearly three times around the
world; they would pave a highway the
width of our Chicago streets moro than
two hundred miles IN length.



Fused into one solid mass of pure sill
yer, they would make column ten feet
square and two thousand FIVE hundred
feet high; or a bar fifty miles long and
one foot square.


If each silver bar be estimated at !
ounce in weight. and the money loaded
into carts containing one ton each, and
driven one before the other, each horse
and cart occupying two rods, the process
sion would extend five hundred miles.


Or consider that only about 1,000,-
100000 minutes have elapsed since the
birth of Christ, and that if one dollar
had been put away each minute, day
and night, since that event. the accumu-
lation would amount to but little more
than one-third of the debt that this ma
ton now owes.-If this calculation were
applied to England or France, whose
national debt is nearly twice as large as
ours, the result would be still more start
ling.-C Chicago Inter Ocean.
Year: 1874

FLOWERS FOR THE SIcK.-1n an up
per room in a poor tenement house lay


a sick child, wasted with fever and the
prostration which followed. 1t had seem
ed impossible to rouse him, or excite the
slightest interest in anything. The
young lady who had carried her flower
basket to the room, selected bunch of
shining golden buttercups, and held
them up before the child The dull, Ian
guid eye frightened, the tiny, emaciated
hand opened TO receive them too feeble
for a spoken word, the smile that fitted
across the wee, white face was eloquence
enough. The fingers closed tightly over
the simple flowers that were like yellow
sunshine to the little sufferer. When q
second visit. with fresh flowers wa
Year: 1874

made, the boys mother said, '.Jimmy
would not lay the flowers out of his hand
while he was awake; only when he slept
could | put them in water to freshen a
bit, for he must have them in his hand
again as soon as he walked" Sure
enough, the little fellow still held his
withered treasure, which had been more
to him than doctors visits or prescrip-
tions. Fresh flowers from the basket
brought smile and look of grateful rec
ognition to his face the long. weary
hours of convalescence were lightened
and frightened for one little sufferer by
the Flower Mission.
Year: 1874




On little knoll behind the cottage
might be seen two little mounds of Garth
arranged side by side. The birds sang
sweetly in the trees the flowers bloom
ed gayly in the woods the hum of life
was heard on every side, but there all
was hushed and silent.


No sound ever came from these
mounds. A trench was dug on either
side to lead the water off but otherwise
they lay the same as the day they were
made and the yellow clay Of which
they were formed looked poverty -strick-
en- and forlorn as it lay baking in the
September sun. No monument, nor even
rude board, was there to mark the
spot. They needed none. For well did
Maria's mother know that in one she
had buried cabbage, and in the other
turnips.
Year: 1874

We will stand by each other, however it blow:
Oppression and sorrow, and sickness and pain


Shall be to our true love links in the chain y


Abraham continued his visits, and for
three summers could be seen s.setting,
setting, setting, setting" but wonld not
produce "hatch.'


So one night there was heard fddling
and dancing and things of that kind,
and it was made known that Abraham
and Maria were wed And merrily rang
the bells. They both dwell together in
that same log cabin, and the dear, meek
Brindle furnishes milk for both.


The mind of Watch like that of Ce-
sar's army before the Germans, has been
turned about in wonderful manner.
and he now obeys Abe as readily as he
formerly did Maria. And all four are
inexpressibly happy. And they talk of
building larger school house in that
district.
Year: 1874

EszzHE application of water in this Wheel is some


y thing in Hydraulics. The whole stream is


II presented to the Wheel in sluice or gate and


q operates perfectly each and every bucket
at once as though each bucket fed through q
gate suice of its thus avoiding large
OF friction, and leakage attendant small apertures
and Fly Trap gates The power by avoiding frie-
ton. results in giving force to the water. and
consequently more power to the Wheel. The last five
years hard trials successfully encountered has practi
eay set at rest the credit and ability of the Wheel to
perform all that has been claimed it, The and
slight expense with which it is set in place the rela-
BILE and permanent character of the power delivers
the slight loss experienced by back water together
with the entire with which clubs stones brush
or anchor ice can be removed and the readiness with
which the amount of water used can be ascertained
makes the Wheel agreeable to all who have in care
the running OF the power; while the actually
tanned fact that portion of the gives its full
effective force just i'll proportion to the used
nom the first to the last inch makes it desirable
economy of water variable amounts, while the
price of the Wheel is low for the of power
furnished that any one who wants power lust as
well have first as a second class Parties who
have been and are now using this Wheel drive all
kinds OF machinery under all amounts of head and
with varying quantities of water ready and
willing TO give practical reasons for the preference
they manifest i'll the of this Wheel over any and
launched entirely on its merits by the maker who
was well aware of all means credtable and dscredit
able which are used to puff machines and new
improvements 1t felt that if the Wheel was
better than those that had preceded it, the community
would be able to find out the TACT and candid enough
to appreciate it. Experience demonstrated the above
principle to be correct.
Year: 1874




LUKE BUzzELL, ST. JoHNsBURY, VT.


DEAR Sr-I now have in my mill one of your 20-inch
Giant Water Wheels. under working head of about
y feet with which run shingle machine, lathe mill
bOlting and slab l run all the above ma
chinery at and do good business, with wheel
drawing only 40 inches of water In regard to
strength speed and economy of water. consider it
ahead OF anything have met, and would recon-
mend it to all who have low head and small quantity
of water as being superior to any other wheel.
Yours &C.. VIM. BRICKETT.
Year: 1874

and who has had as much experience in water wheels
most men of his age.


South BARTON, w. Feb. s. 1873
LUKE BUzzELL, ST. JoHNsBURY, VI:


DEAR SIR-You wished me to say what thinks about
your Wheel how am suited and what it is doing, |
purchased my Wheel in July, 1867, that have had
pretty good opportunity III the last i've years
ming to test and find out all the good and bad points
its action. My water is very limited SO much so that
my nei9hbOrs deemed wild to think of using yOur
Wheel, at that time it was an experiment on all
sides, being your first Wheel, and my departure
a breast wheel Yet when the stream so low that
mills below me shut down was able to notice
your Wheels are creeping into those mills. believe
when the water was lowest sawed and delivered on
the rs 900 feet per month and do saw with
the 40inch wheel, easily, 10000 feet day, and by
driving do more. l have sawed in hour 1000
feet, but LOGO is fair average In the month of May
1872, sawed in the working days of hours each
22649 feet My head is sixteen feet and have never
seen the wheel, since put the Giant" in, that
would dare put i'll the place of it, have the
day or hour when was not satisfied with its work.
1t is easily handled and gives all the power there is
in the water from partial to full gate have been
in the lumber business for twenty-five and have
had great many water wheels under my observation
and for driving machinery where power wanted L
would unhesitatingly say give me of your Giant
Wheels. Yours &c, c. G. DROWN.
Year: 1874

"Then come the wild weather. come sleet or come


snow,


We will stand by each other, however it blow:
Oppression and sorrow, and sickness and pain
Shall be to our true love links in the chain y
Year: 1874

VTTOULD ANNOUNCE To THE PEOPLE OF


w Barton and vicinity that she is now prepared
u do all kinds of Plain Family Sewing such as Shirts


Pants, Vests Dress-Making, &c Please give her a
call House over WOOdman's boot and shoe store.320y
Year: 1874

The communication signed GA
CONSERVATIVE" TO be fonnd on
this page Of the News, is written
hv one of our clearcst thinkers and
ablrst men, and is worthy Of care
n. and Thoughtful Perusal. His
logic is good and his conclusion in
cyitable. If the intelligent voter
could satisfy his mind that no radi-
cal candidate would be run, the
conclusion is unavoidable, that each
independent candidate would bid
for the vote of that party, and the
one on whom il could be concen-
tra.ed, would be the successful one.
Thus the radical party would elect
the Congressman, and he would be
under such obligations to it, that his
services would be lost to ours. 1t
will be idle TO say that we can thus
set our prominent men of the dis
trict to blowing with the cnemy'S
hcifer, without involving the integ-
rity of the party. There is no rea-
son why we may not have a per-
fectly fair convention. And the
way to have it is plainly pointed
out in the plan ofthe central com-
inittee, and is alluded TO by our
correspondent.


This bidding for the radical vote,
is mean and demoralizing enough,
but even that base and dishonest
luxury may not be accorded us if
we fail to nominate for the Novem-
Der election, for we verify believe
that in scrub conservative race,
radicals will nominate and elect
their man.
Year: 1874

whatever ability | possessed. Sir, |
flatter myself, and invite the strictest
scrutiny of the records of Congress,
that no district in the South since the
war has received from the Govern
ment more aid than the first district of
Tennessee. l may have committed
errors and have not succeeded in all
that desire for my district, but / did
all | could. What lacked in ability
/ endeavored to supply by fidelity and
industry.


But, sir, my place is wanted, and in
order to obtain it L must be gotten out
of the way ana the way opened to some
who have no claims either upon the
party or the people, nor can have, al d
to others who now enjoy place through
my aid and influence, and the question
is often asked, can it be so; and, if so,
0. what base ingratitude! But Mr..
Speaker, / have confidence i'll my
district. / have never betrayed, and
never deserted them; some of them
have known me from bOyhood and in
every relation of life, and it is those
who always sustain me as unit. In
conclusion / will say, If | may not be
regarded as egotistical, that If l have
not accomplished much for my district.
i'm the name of all that is sacred and
dear, what could those who are now
clamorous for my place accomplish i'll
Congress for any people?


Mr. COX. l move that the House
do now adjourn.


The motion was agreed to +; a1d ac-
cordingly TAT nine O'Clock and forty
minutes p. M the House adjourned.
Year: 1874

Away he sped when the food came down,
Rattle-ty bang, past village and town
Now hugging his beast with all his might,
Now elutching its tail in a terrible fright;
Now bouncing upon the animal TALL,


Bumpity- bump. like a rubber ball
Away he sped till the race was Ger,


nd the brute refined in at his cottage door.
Hal breathess he shTieked, ct ne mill bus
and was the first TO get up and dust


Rachel Rebeeca, my darling wife,
Thank heaven. that spared youl husbands life -
Then he hung from his saddle rs still as a mouse
To hear the soft voice of his gentle spouse.
His eye grew bright and his heart beat fast,
For he knew she was going to speak at last;


nd so she was, but the words he heard
Were not sweet as the voice OF a bird,
As they broke the calm OF the morning cool:
"Why wasn't you drowned, you derHeG old fool =
Year: 1874

A writer in the Medical Journal,
London, states that in whooping
cough in the last stage--that is after
the third week-he has had one
ounce of the strongest ammonia put
into gallon of water in an open pan,
and the steam kept up by means of
half q brick made red hot through.
out, and put into the boiling water
containing the ammonia, the pan be-
ing placed in the middle of a room,
into which the patients were brought
as the ammonia steam was passing
off. The method, he says, was used
in the evening, before bedtime, and
it proved 80 efficacious in abating
the spasmodic attack, and after four
or FIVE days terminating the malady,
as to establish, beyond q doubt, the
value of this mode of inhaling am
monis as therapeutic agen. in tran
QUILTING the nervous system to the
whooping cough.
Year: 1874

WEDDINt;S-AS the semi-annual bridal
season is ut hand. it is time to plead for 4
reform in weddings. Every year this
~acrcdcSt of occasions is turned more and
more into Il mere opportunity for display


for replying 20 some iancied social obllga-
ton Instead of Il time when 4 few OF
the closest friends gather to witness the
~olemne>t compact human beings can
frame. it is chosen a the moment for bring
inc together the larger part of family :
social circle. to show the bride in her bridal
garments; to prove how many flowers and
refreshments the family can afford; and,
with shame be it said, exhibit to criticism
and light comment the precious tokens
that should have come with tender regard
to the maid on the eve of her new life. A
wedding should not be uncheerful; but it
must certainty be solemn to all that real
ize what it is. On the one side, 1t IS re-
nouncing old ties. promising to begin with
faith, and hope, and love, new and Who'll
lv untried existence. On the other, 1t IS
the acceptance of Il sacred trust. the COW
enant to order life anew in such ways
as shall make the happiness of two instead
of one. Can such an occasion be fitting
Year: 1874

Among the latest industries established
in Maine is that of collecting and driving
sen moss, which is followed in the town of
kittery. This moss is collected in dories
in the nei~hborhood of White Island and
Whales Back. Two men 90 in each boat
and with rakes made for the purpose tear
the moss from the rocks at half tide 1t is
taken then to the beaches. where large
beds are constructed by taking up all the
largc rocks and leaving only surface of
small pebble stones These beds contain
from ten To three hundred barrels. If
there is no rain, sea water has to be thrown
on the moss, and the sun bleaclles it from
the dark green color. first to a beautiful
pink and then to Il clean white 1t has to
he turned occasionally. and made the
same a> hay After it is thoroughly dried
it is packed in barrels and shipped to Bos-
ton. where ii finds ready sale at six cents
Il pound. Immense quantities are used
by brewers in settling ale.
Year: 1874

In digging at the rear of Il dwelling in
Lancaster. Pa, lately. a root. evidently
that of cherry tree. WAS taken up. About
seven inches from the trunk it w:ls cnc.lsrd
in series of six vertehral bones of some
animal, the wool completely filling the
narrow channel through which the spinal
cord once passed. The bones. which
measure from three-quarters of an inch to
a full inch in length, have the appearance
of caudal vertebre, and resemble most
closely those of an opossum
Year: 1874

The strike among the female operatives in the
rubber works At New Brunswick still continues.
They adhere to their resolution to hold out against
what they declare to be an unreasonable reduc-
tion OF their wages. This movement necessarily
involves many male operatives, who have large
families depending on them Tor support. The en-
ployers are as positive In the position they have
ties being settled.


The report that the Trenton pottery operatives
the potter1es work has become dull, and, as me-
cessity the men were offered inducements to con-
tinue work at reduction OF ten per cent In their
wages; but the proposition was declined. There
ia no indication that q general strike Will take
facrurers says there is no strike nor is there any
probability OF one taking place.
Year: 1874

married man telcgraphed to q friend
of the invalid father of the yotay
widow to know if there was anything
serious in the matter. The reply was
that ALI danger had been passed. The
Young widow failed to arrive ON Mon
day merning, and the father bcca'no
uneasy. Tuesday he telcgraphed her
again, but received no reply. Mean
time the wife of the rccreant husband
and father received note from the
ator, iid mill man, that business had
suddenly called him to the East. Par
ties who left san Francisco by last
Tues lays train saw the young mill
man and young widow on board as
far rs Reno, and Yesterday so informed
the father of the latter. y telegram
was then sen. to the parties i'll san
Francisco where III, widow and her
child had been stopping. The reply
came that the child was still there.
and that the mo. her had left for Nir-
cinia city on Tuesda mornings train.
II is now pretty certain that the guilty
pair have clored-the man abandon
ing his iie and two children, and the
widow abandoning her sick father and
little child.
Year: 1874

HAND.sHAK1NG.-How did people get in
the habit of shaking hands? The answer is
not far to seek. In early and barbarous
times, when every savage or semisavage was
his own law,giver, judge, soldier and police
man, and had to watch over his own safety,
in default of all other protection, two friends
and acquaintances, or two strangers desiring
to be friends and acquaintance, when they
chanced to meet, offered each to the other the
right hand the hand alike of defense and
ofFense the hand that wields the sword, the
dagger, the club, the tomahawk, or other
weapon of war. Each did this to show that
the hand was empty, and that neither war
nor treachery was intended. A man cannot
we'll stab another while he is in the act of
shaking hands with him, unless he lisa double
dyed traitor and villain, and strives to aim a
cowardly blow with the left, while giving the
Year: 1874

Among the few splendid mansions spared
by the army of Sherman, still stands the old
Hampton house, built by the head of the fam.
lily, soldier of the Revolutionary war and Of
the war of 1912. He was the first Wade
Hampton, of South Carolina. Springing
originally from the cavaliers of England, who
filled the world with their fame, and whose
descendants still walk the earth as the hig hest
types of genius, his immediate ancestors set
tied in Virginia, and from thence he came to
South Carolina and to Columbia.


The mansion and its grounds occupy one
square, or four acres of the city. The house
is of the old style of architecture. I have
seen hundreds of others in the South present
ing much finer external appearance; but
the chief attraction Of the place is its shrub
berry, its rare trees and exotics. 1t looks like
an earthly paradise.


He was twice married. BY his first wife a
son was born to him, whom he called Wade.
Two or three daug ghters were the result Of the
second marriage. John S. Preston married
his daughter Caroline, and Ex-Governor Man
ming his daughter Susan. He accumulated
a vast estate around him, and is said to have
owned one thousand slaves. l have often,
when boy, heard old people say that he
owned so many that he did know them when
he met them, and that they were constantly
introducing themselves to him. But be this
as it may, when he died he left all or nearly
all of his property to his son.


When the successor to the house and to the
estate read the will he did what few men ever
did before or since. He tore it in hundred
pieces and then made an exact and equal di.
vision of all his fathers property between
himself and halfsisters.


AS soon as the war of 1872 broke out this
Wade Hampton offered his sword to General
Jackson, and was assigned position on his
staff. He was one of his aids at the battle of
New Orleans. Like his father, he was thrifty,
and added greatly to the estate, making pur.
chases of large tracts of land in the valley of
the Mississippi, which even yet remain in the
family, believe. His step.mother lived to
a great old age, and did not die until some
time Just before or during the late war be-
tween the States.


The third Wade Hampton is the one living
today, who so distinguished himself during
the Confederate war. He has been twice
married, and is now a widower. His first
wife was Miss Preston. By this marriage
three sons were born-Wade, Christopher,
and Frank. His son Wade served on the
staff of General Joseph E. Johnston. Pres
ton was on the staff of his father, and was
killed by his side. His second wife was a
daughter of Senator McDuffie- Columbia Is
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