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Year: 1879

From the way in which ha turned
out when he grew to be young man
il Is easily enough to conclude what
kind OF boy the Prodigal Sen was.
He was terribly extravagant from a
child. There wasn't anything in the
house too good for him. Every cent
he could get his hands on he spent
for candy and things. II his mother
gave him a nickel to put IN the con-
tribution box. he bought peanuts
with it on his way to Sunday school.
eating them all up on the road, and
not caring a cent IL the poor heathen
didn't have a peanut TO their back.
The money that boy could spend
He would wear his best suit week
days, and couldn't bs induced to 60
barefoot in the summer as the rest
OF the boys had to. He smoked ten.
cent cigars before he was six years
old. while other boys were satisfied
VIII eidpS-Niuc'


At ten he wore high standing col
lars and plug hat. and the nobbiest
suit that the tailor coull make. He
carried natty little cane, parted his
hair in the middle and sported an
eye glass. He drank pony brandy.
ponyiag mp twenty five cents drink
for il, aud spoke OF his father as "the
Governor" and his mother as "the
old woman" He was a regular pat
ron Of the opera, which he pronoun-
ced @Aw, deuced fine, you knaw," and
never missed the theater matinee.


At an age when boys are usually at
school. this young Prodigal was
hanging around the bars and billiard
saloons, learning those lessons in
vice and vulgarity which fitted him
for the companionship he was to
seek when he came to his estate. II
they had Sunday night theaters 10
those days the lad was undoubtedly
regular attendant. And his father
probably had numerous livery bill.
to pay for his Sunday riding. Nc
horse. race came of without thai
young reprobate being seen on the
track, hat on one side Of his empty
head and a cigar In his mouth
making bets with the grown up and
otherwise gray headed infants around
him. And he probably never missed
a chicken dispute or prize fgh'
that was anywhere within reach. We
have all seen just such boys, and VIZ
know they never come to any good
There Is responsibility at home fol
their conduct. frequently. that Is ap
to be overlooked. A father too mucl
engrossed in business, or a mothe
too absorbed in society and fashion
to hesd what their boy is doing o.
what company he keeps. Or. II hi
peccadillos are brought to their at
tentl0n Dy some lrienu OF the family
who doesn't get any thanks for 1t
they are only smiled at and passed
by as the natural outbursts OF /;
somewhat toe exubeTant nature.


While we have admired the cordia
reception which his parents gave tn
Prodigal Son on his return as
tramp. and cannot speak too highl.
OF their liberality in Staying tn
pampered bovine to celebrate tn
event. yet we have always felt tha
there must have been something
lacking In the way they brought tn
young man up, or he wouldn't hav
turned out as he did. But II the
could forgive the p. s. We have n
business to complain.-Cincinnal


Saturday Night.
Year: 1879

irrom tne ~. Louis OiOOe DcmOcrnf.l


The great majority Of the colored
men who have already passed
through this city, on their way to
Kansas, have heretofore worked on
cotton plantations. Each head OF the
family rents from i've to thirty acrea
from the owner of tile plantation.
For the cotton land be pays $40 per
acre rent. and for the corn land from
S5 to 81 per acre. An acre OF cotton
will yield from three quarters OF a
bale TO bale and a half. For GIN
ming. the colored man pays the
planter who owns the gin 81 per
bale, doing all the work and finding
the bagging in which the ginned cot
ton is baled. II the owner OF the gin
does the work and finds the bagging.
the charge is 81 per bale. The corn
land yields from forty to fifty bushels
OF corn per acre, worth from 25 to 50
cents per bushel.


The credit system obtains very
generally throughout the cotton
region. and the storekeepers make
advances Of goods on the growing
crops. charging the most unrsason-
able prices for very inferior goods.
During the winter which has just
closed, pork. in the neighborhood OF
Greenville, Mass. was sold to the
colored people at from S1S to $40 per
barrel. Here, the same quality was
sold for less than half that price.
Last summer and autumn the coIored
people we're charged $22 per barrel
for meat that could be bought In st.
Louis. and delivered at river points.
in all the States south OF Missouri.
for 50 per barrel. All the other
necessaries OF life have been furnish
ed at the same outrageous advanced
on their legitimate prices. and invar-
iably the negroes have come out In
debt at the end OF the year.


The fruit lies with the greedy land
owners and extortionate st.re-keep-
ers. The land for which the negro
laborers have been compelled to pay
SO per acre rent would not sell for
that amount in many cases. Some
Of the most productive cotton land
in the South would not bring S25
per acre IL put on the market 10 day.
OF course, the land is really worth
more, but it's value is deprecated be-
cause neither owners nor tenants,
who are obnoxious to the Southern
whites, will be allowed to till the soil
on any terms. Five dollars per acre
would be ample rent for cotton lands
of average produotiveness. end IL the
landowners would rent at that f1g-
ure there would be no exodus. All
that the negroes ask Is fair play and
a fair chance to improve their con-
dition by honest industry. So long
as the landowners and store keepers
take every cent OF money that the
only wLTkers In the South earn, sat-
isfaction will prevail. The laborer Ia
worthy OF his hire. and unless he gets
1t he will not work contentedly.
Let the dominant race In the cotton
States Offer fair terms TO the colored
man and live up to their promises.
and the negro will stop. This Is the
solution OF the present problem.
Year: 1879

seven different languages; will dis.
cuss all the political and economic
al question of the day, and official.
~ represent the opinions of the
Holy See. The compositors are to
be the deaf aud dumb boys educat-
ed in one of the asylums of the
Church in Rome. Alimonde will
be the genera superintendent. The
Pope is anxious that u cardinal
should be at the head of the ed.
itorial department; he offered that
position to Cardinal Nina, who de-
clined it. The novel paper will
start with $4,000 subscribers; very
few of this number are Italians.
Once fairly under way, the grand
Catholic organ is likely to COM
mend Itself to future Popes and
become a permanent power among
the newspapers OF the Old World.
The entire accuracy of the above
statement is hardly to be accepted,
but there is nevertheless sufficient
grounds for the belief that the pro.
ject may ultimately be carried out.
Circular.
Year: 1879




We take the following amusing incident
from an exchange:


Some years ago, when the writer was a
reporter, it devolvel on him to write for the
same edition an account Of the presentation Of
a gold headed cane to the Rev. DR.. Nudge,
the clergyman of the place, and description
of a pew hog-kil'ng machine that had just
been put In operation at the factory. Now,
what made the Rev Mr. Nudge mad was this :


The inconsiderate compositor who made up
the forms got the two accounts mixed 1p in
friehiiul manner, and when il went to press
something like this was the appalling result :
"Some of the Rev Mudge's friends called on
him Yesterday, and, after 2 brief CONSULTATION,
the nnsuspecting hog was seized by the hind
legs and slid along the beam until it reached
the hot-water tank His friends explained
the object Of the visit, and presented him with
a handsome gold headed butcher, who grabbed
him bv the tail and swung him around and
in less than a minute the carcass was in the
water Therefore he came forward and said
there were times when the feelings overpower-
ed one, and for that reason he could not do
more than attempt to thank those around him
for the manner in which such an animal was
cut into fragments was astonishing. The Or.
concluded his remarks, the machine seized
him, and in less time than it takes to write it,,
the hog was cut into fragments and worked
into delicious sausages. The occasion will be
remembered by the Doctors friends as one Of
the most pleasant of their lives. The best
piece can be obtained for seven cents pound,
anil We are sure those who sat under his min
istry will rejoice to hear that he has been SO
handsomely treated"


Mad Well, about nine o'clock that morn
ing the Office had been abandonded by every
man but the advertising clerk, and be ascended
to The roof, 50 that be could see the clergyman
tearing around down in the street with bis
congregation, all wearing the panoply Of war
and carrying stout cudgels and other things.
The next day We apologized, but the Doctor
stopped his paper.
Year: 1879

They tell a story Of the New Hampshire
campaign 10 the effect that a well-known
vouna lawyer had got so far along in bis
speech as to say that "if the greenbaek craze
prevailed the country would--would. There
upon some rude ielloT in the rear shouted
ont "Would-in Heavens name, what p
The speaker by that time bad recovered his
balance and quietly remarked III that gen
tleman will call around after the meeting is
over I will confieniially inform bin.
Year: 1879

I You have been thinking, have you 7
Then you are serious. No man, young
or old, can think steadily for one hour
on a grave subjsct without becoming
serious. The longer he continues in
that mood the better for him. A life
of usefulness, career of success, of
happiness and glory may be wrapped
up In that one hour of serious thought,
as the flower and the fruit ara wrapped
up, in the bud.


The fault OF many is that they do
not make the most of a serious mood.
1t is a time when the soul plumes it
self for a loftler flight You have been
thinking on your ways. What are
they? How far have you gone, young
man, in your particular wayf Do you
~. the end of iti great Father en-
treated his children TO seek after knowl-
ledge ana discretion. Has your medi
tation brought you to the point to re-
solve to make that knowledge and dis
oretion your chief pursuit i? If go, you
have thought we'll, aud something will
come of it. Ths shortest line between
two given points is a straight line.


There is such line for you, young
man, stretching from the cradle to
the grave. From it you cannot turn
to the right hand or the left. You
must measure every inch Of that line.
This iG the way yon must travel, and
because it is the journey Of your NOR
tai life, 1t may be called your way.
There is TO escape from it,your natural
life will measure just so much in years,
months. days, &c, unit! it ends. How
muc h of your earthly existencs have
you measured off


II you are now twenty and live to be
fifty years old, two-lfths of your way
lie behind you; but If you die at thirty
two thirds of your life are already gone.
The shortness of life makes it solemn
thing to live; the trials of life make 1t a
fearful thing to dis. fyou have medl'
tatsd seriously these thoughts have al
ready forced their way to your mind


If you have not considered them AT
tentively, they remain true, neverthe.
less. Strip life of its romance and
poetry, and think Of it as everything
real, not ideal; as something that has
sternness in its requirements, peril In
it's progress and tremendous conse-
quencss In it's performa9ces.


THR OLD MAN.
Year: 1879

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Year: 1879

The Manufacturer has the following
plea for the special feeding Of the brain;
"Man is being perpetually renewed; the
old and used-up PARTICLES are removed
from the system, and their place is
supplied with the same element newly
presented to the organism. Motion
destroys portion Of the integrity Of
muscle, sight something from the
retina Of the eye, and Thoughts which
breathe and words which burn literally
burn and change into another chemical
formula a certain portion Of the phos-
phorous Of the brain. Hence arises the
necessity Of supplying the system with
an element on which the mental functions
depend more than any other organic
ingredient. Experience shows that
highly phosphate and easily digested
food, such as soft-boiled eggs, the flesh
Of fowls, oysters and kale food, (phos-
phorized more than others and vege-
tables) is especially suitable to persons
whose minds are overtaxed by intellectual
duties, and in purely nervous affections
it is recommended by physicians who
understand their business. Very recon:
mendable for this purpose is the liquid
acid phosphate, because it contains the
phosphorous in condition in which it
is most easily assimilaied. The idea Of
partaking the particular kind Of food or
beverages to nourish the nervous sys-
TEN is rapidly gaining ground, or theo-
retically accepted as correct. Said
physician lately to us, with whom we
conversed on this subject, what fool
was in my ignorance to laugh at the
idea OF brainal food Why, sir, it is
the most valuable one l ever put into
practice THANK your chemists for it"
Year: 1879

The life Of all fishes is one Of perpetual
warfare. The carnage of the sea exceeds
that which is allowed to perplex our rea.-
son on dry land. The herring satisfies
many stomachs IA broiled fresh herring
is a luxury, and it is an unfortunate fish
withal. An old whaler has known OF
hogshead Of herring being in the belly Of
a whale; and l5 good sized herring have
been found in the stomach Of cod. Pro
ceeding into mathematics for moment,
il we allow a goldfish only two herring
per day Cor his existence, and suppose
him to feed on herring for one ycor, we
have 730 herring, as his allowance for
IL months, and so goldfish equal fisher.
man in destructive power. Compared
with the enormous consumption OF fish
by each other, draughts made upon she
population Of the sea made by man seems
to dwindle upon insignifcanoe. The
Soland goose can swallow and digest
fullsized herring per day. 1t has been
calculated that in the island Of st. Kilda,
assuming to be inhabited by 1000 Of these
birds, feeding for seven months in the
year, and with the allowance Of herring
each per day, the number Of fish for the
Summer subsistence Of a single species Of
bird cannot be less than 2l4,00O,000.
Year: 1879

The extreme rapidity with which a
boy can do an errand when your eye is
on him is only equaled by the tremendous
snail-like pace he takes when he is about
q mile away.


The editor Of the Portsmouth IN. H.)
Weekly says that he once knew a lad Of
four years who could read very well in
the Bible, who did not know the alpha.
bet, but learned to read by words
Year: 1879

If the farmer has barn. and fence


around it, let him plant, outside of that


fences row of evergreens, closely together,


so that nothing can injure them, and in
few years he will have such a protection
from tho storms for his stock that no
money could induce him to remove the
trees. We know this to be fact, and VIC
further know that where such wind breaks
exist no shivering stock is to be found.
OF course we would not have these trees
all around the barn, but just at those parts
where the storms arc most prevalent.
And where farmers have barns, or protection
by buildings, and wish to have protection in
some way, let them select some suitable.
field, and hedge it in with thesame kind
Of trees, in the same way they would their
barn yards, they will meet with success, as
every person who has tried the experiment
knows. Let these wind breakers 30 planted
during the coming summer. and in few
years no farmers win complain of having
no protection for his stock.
Year: 1879

The shadow of the mountain falls athwart the lowly
plain,
And the shadow of the cioudlet hangs above the


meuntains head
And the highest hearts and lowest wear the shadow


of some pain,
And the smile is scarcely fitted ere the anguished


tear is shed.
For no eyes here have been ever without weary


tear,
And the lips cannot be human which have never
heaved sigh;
For without the dreary winter there has never been
year,
And the tempests hide their terrors in the calmest
summer sky.
So this dreary life is passing-and amid its
maze
And we gropc along together half in darkness, half
in light;
And hearts often saddened by the mysteries of
our ways,
Which are never all in shadow and never wholly
bright.
And our dim eyes ask beacon and our weary feet
agude,
And our hearts of all lifc's mysteries seek the
meaning and the key;


crucifed,
And He answers all our yearnings by the whisper
"FolloW Me-" Father Ryan.
Year: 1879

A writer to the English Agricultural Ga
sette gives the following ss an easy and
practical method of aceustoming young
colts to the res traints of harness.


Put on him an easy collar, having pair
of reins attached, or add two pieces to
lcngthen the traces, and let stong man
walk behind him, holding these. After o
few minutes the. leader may order the man
to pull the traces very gently,so as to press
the collar tut slightly at first. In little
time he may pull tighter, while the leader
keeps his eye on the colt, and if he shows
any signs of flincbing, let him order the
traces to be slackened agaia, and the same
course gone over repeatedly, but stopping
the colt occa sionally to gentle him, taking
care, however, to slack the traces just as he
stops and to turn little to one side when
starting each time, while the man pulls
the opposite trace.


After this exercise let him be taken to
the cart Or other vehicle for which he is in
tended, allow him to smell and examine it;
then push it away and draw it up to him
several times, Rising and lowering the
shafts, until he to kes no notice of it's noise.
or of the different appearances when raised
and lowered. Now turn HIM round and
put him between the shafts, rub them
against his sides, push back and draw up
the cart, striking him behind and on the
sides with it, until he allows himself to be
"kicked about by it, SO to speak. This
will do for one days lesson. Next day let
all his harness be put on, leaving chains or
straps to hang and strike against him, while
the whole of the previous days lesson is
gone through step by step. Same on third
and foulth days. H. may then be yoked
or hitched to the cart, and should have at
least an hours exercise at going up and
down hill, tuning, etc. First start on level
ground. Ii these directions be carried out
the colt learns that the vehicle he draws is
not meant to hurt him, and he will never
try to !. kick it away" or "run off" from
it.


Rules for training:


First-Never try to / 'at colt into do
ing Lna1g, lot, III AtiNouss uc may euih oAe |
a vicious horse, and if stupid he may be-
come stubborn. Remember, that by pa
thence and gentleness he may be got to do
anything that will no hurt him.


Seoond-When horse shows signs of
shying at any object, do not beat him, but
lead him up to if. allcw him to stand and
look. as he comes closer and after he ex-
aIrliI1us is q fow timcs ne VIII not fear any,
thing of the sort again. In p' 'sing by
hodges with a colt, throw in stones and
stop him until he takes no notice Of the
noise.


Third-Before putting on any article of
harness, let your colt smell it, and then rub
it against him.


Fourth--Al ways start a hoese with the
voice, never with the cut of the whip. In
starting, turn a little to one side, and in
stopping. when going up hill, do the same
Year: 1879

GRAVEL MINING is being prosecuted
at a lively rate in this county and the
hydraulics are doing good work. Water
is plenty and indications now favor an
increased supply. Experienced m insrs
are of the opinion that more work " i'll be
done and with better results than two
years age. The prospect is SO much
brighter than at the commencement of
the present month that everyone seems
elated.
Year: 1879

CANDIDATES are beginning to squint
around the corners and endeavoring to
learn their chances for success without
compromising the same by direct an
nouncement. Gentlemen, if you really
want good fat Office all you have to do
is to say so and it will be given 20 you
IL you get votes enough.
Year: 1879

VERY DULL Although a resident of
Weaverville for twenty years we cannot
call to mind a time when it has been so
dull about town as at present. But it is
always darkest before day, so we regard
the present dull season as a hopeful in


dicaton of the good time coming. Eve
rybody is at work, few idlers about and
consequently no one to make town lively.
Year: 1879

THkRx is nothing so monotonous as a
miners strike. A few days ago some Of
the Illinois miners struck for three cents
q bushel, and tho strike had been sus-
tanned for three days before the strikers
learned that they had been getting four
cents bushel right alongl Then they
Immediately struck for fve.
Year: 1879

GENERAL DUDLEY was tried at Mes. fila last week upon charges made by Mrs. McSween to the effect that the General had uselessly burned her house and destroyed her property dur ing the troubles at Lincoln last winter. Much interest was manifested in the trial and the jury after being out half CD hour brought in Q verdict of not guilty"
Year: 1879

The Russians have one custom which


is common in the farming districts OF
Europe generally. Instead OF having


each house near the center Of the farm,
and the houses a long distance apart, as


with us, the farmer does not generally


live on his farm. The houses are built
in village, with possibly the barns and
granaries near thehouse, or on the home
lot, but the land that is cultivated may
be two or three or more miles away.
The people have to travel far and spend
much time in going to and coming from
work, but it makes farm life more socia-
BILE, as the people can see one another
and enjoy many things that are not pos
sible where all are scattered far and
wide. Ii might be well if We adopted
something of this plan in this country;
both methods haveItheir advantages, and
the people are slowto give up their old
ways. One writer says that he travelled
in Russia for miles and miles, and saw
nothing but wheat field after wheat field,
varied with wide tracks where horses
and cattle pastured, but no fences any
where. At last he saw some curious
green objects in the distance shaped
like enormous pears; at length he made
out that these were cupolas of the church,
and before he was aware OF it, he was
upon the village, with no other warning
than the barking of dogs. Russian
farmers, like poor people everywhere,
keep an abundance of worthless ours.
The small log houses are all alike, and
arranged in several rows, with wide
streets between them half a mile or
more long. at one end of the village is
the church, with its cupolas, at the
other the larger house of the land own
or who rents the farms TO the tenants.
Small granaries-square huts without
windows-stand in the middle Of the
street, and long rows Of tall poles show
that water is raised by the old fashioned
we'll sweep. In some places, where
logs can be had only by hauling for great
distances, the villages are OF mud
houses, built of bricks merely dried in
the sun, and these, while they cannot be
called handsome, are said to be very
comfortable in the long cold winters.
Pigs, poultry and ours run at large in
the streets, and when stranger enters
these make great fuss.