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Year: 1879

CURE FOR DYsPEPsIA.-Milk and lime
water are now frequently prescribed BY ply.
sicians in cases of dyspepsia and weakness Of
the stomach, and in some cases are said to
prove beneficial. Many persons who think
good bread and milk great luxury, frequent
ly hesitate to eat it, for the reason that milk
will not digest readily; sourness Of the stom-
ach will often follow. But experience proves
that lime-water and milk are not only food
and medicine at an early period in life, but
also, at later, when, as in the case of infants,
the functions Of digestion and assimilation
have been seriously impaired. A stomach
taxed by gluttony, irritated by improper food,
inAamed by alcohol, enfeebled by disease, or
otherwise untitled for its duties-as is shown
by the various symptoms attendant upon iDdi-
gestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery and
fever-will resume its work, and do it ener-
getically, on an exclusive diet of bread and
milk and lime-water. stW 4Esas


A goblet of cows milk may have four ta-
blespoonfuls of lime-watsr added to it with
good effect. The way to make imewater is
simply to procure few Jumps Of unslaked
lime, put the lime in stone jar, add water
until the lime is slaked and of about the con-
sistency of thin cream; the lime settles leav-
ing the pure and clear hme-water at the top.
Great care should be taken not to get the lime
water too strong. Keep to the direction as to
the consistency, and when the water rises pour
it off without obtaining any of the lime.
The lime.water is also very good to apply to
burns and scalds. In stalking the lime, par.
ticular care should be taken that none of the
particles fly into the eyes.-Auburn Nssus.
Year: 1879

BOYS AND PIsToLs-"I never could un.
derstand," the Deacon said, "why a boy
should carry pistol. A pistol is very Pc
culiar fre-arm it is made for very pecu.
liar purpose. 1t is quite natural for some
boys to want rifles or shot-guns, with which
they may kill game but pistol is intended
to kill human beings, and this is about all
it is good for. There are veryffe few boys IN
this country who could shoot a bird orGa rab'
bit with pistol, and any one who should 60
out hunting with pistol, would be laughed
at. This being the case, why should boy
want pistoli" What human beings would
he like to kill ~


"It is useless to say that he may need his
pistol for purpose of defense. Not one boy
in a thousand is ever placed in such position
that he need defend himself with pistol.
BUTT often has happened that boys who car.
ried loaded pistols thought that it would be
manly thing, under certain circumstances,
to use them, and yet, when the time came
and they killed somebody, they only brought
down misery on themselves and their families.
And this, too, in many q case where, it no
one present had had pistol, the affair would
have passed off harmlessly, and been soon
forgotten. a.s -


"But the way in which boys generally
take human life with pistols, is some accident,
al way. They do not kill highwaymen and
robbers, but they kill their schoolmates, or
their brothers, or their sisters, or in many
cases, themselves. There is no school where
boys are taught to properly handle and carry
a loaded pistol; SO they usually have to learn
these things by long practice. And, while
they are learning, it is very likely that some
one will be shot saw in a newspaper, not
long ago, accounts of three fatal accidents, all
of which happened on the same day, from
careless use Of firearms. And one Of these
dreadful mishaps was occasioned by lad
who carried loaded pistol in his overcoat
pocket, and who carelessly threw down the
coat


"And then, again, boy ought to be
ashamed to carry pistol, especially a loaded
one. The possession of such thing is a
proof that he expects to 60 among vicious
people. If he goes into good society. and
has honest, manly fellows for his companions,
he will not need pistol. A loaded pistol
in boys pocket is not only useless and
dangerous, but also it almost always stamps
him as bad boy, or one who wishes to as.
sociate with bad boys and vicious men,"
Year: 1879

KEEP Your SECRETS. The whole world
is full of people craving for confidence
people to whom q secret is like gold in
child's pocket burning to be issued. Those
who are high in rank and blessed with every
advantage, are often tormented for want of "a
true friend = meaning thereby some one to
whom they can con6de secrets. And on
those who will simply take them and keep
them, they are willing to bestow friendship.
To those who would be such con6dants it is
enough that they follow the advice already
given Of never being directly or indirectly
the means Of disseminating gossip of any
kind Id -. m.


Bear continually in mind the fact that in
the art of conversation the secret of success
lies not so much in knowing what to say, as in
what to avoid saying-Noristoun Herald.
Year: 1879

Considering the Question of $l..5 Per Day.


A meeting of working men was held last
evening at Cooper's Hall. The first subject
introduced was that of the low wages given
for day laborers. Several speakers took the
stand and spoke pro and con. Mr.. Allen
offered resolution to the effect that $1.25
was all the day laborer was entitled to. He
did not wish to disparage the working man.
but he wished to enter his protest against
those men who go about the streets
bowling for more wages and calling
for strikes, but when the Working
mems Union called meeting to help
these men, not one of them resp onds to the
call. They will be satisfied TO lie still and
let others agitate for them. They will howl
on street corners, but will not try to help
themselves.


MIR. Gueswein, an employer, spoke about
labor trying to grind down capital till it was
80 thin that it could not be seen. He
thought labor could go and sell itself as
cheap as it liked.


speaker, whose name the reporter did
not catch, said it was no use mooting the
question of wages when men will 90 and
offer to work for dollar and even IS cents
day.


MI. Curtis made long and eloquent
speech in favor of the workingman. He
thought those men who took no interest in
themselves deserved the resolution offered,
but those men had responsibilities. They
had families dependent upon them, and they
had no right to be satisfied till they got
enough to support not only themselves but
their families. He should vote against the
resolution. 1t was sad to him to see people
dead to their own interests, and be
warned the union of the ominous
aspect of the horizon, and referred to the
dreadful struggle through which Pittsburgh
and France have passed. The only way to
prevent the dread climax was union now
among working men, and demand for fair
wages for work. This speech was received
With hearty applause.


Aldermen Glenn though. the laboring men
we're absent because they could not afford ia
Year: 1879

Oh, Congress. dear Congress, come home
to us now,


The voice of the people yells thunder,
LOU ought to come right home from the
House,


Ere the people excitedly wonder
Why in the name OF common sense and the
constitution of Our forefathers, you
don't shut your clap-traps and cut
down on the expenses OF the coun-
try. which is paying several hundred
thousand dollars a day to hear you
make stump speeches.


Oil City Derrick.
Year: 1879

Yankeedom is beginning to under
stand that our people are still unsub-
dued--that we are still in favor of Estates
Rights and the rule Of white men.-
That is why she threatens to fall back
on Grant, aud give him third term of
power. Well, we have this to say: if
Grant is elected and attempts to inau-
gurate the reign of damnation and de-
viltry that characterized his previous
administration, he will find himself
checkmatrd after the first move. The
South has recovered the right of home
rule, and she proposes to keep it hence
forth and forever-Grant or not Grant
and the sooner the hell beasts of Puri-
tania learn this little lesson by heart
the better it will be for their temporary
welfare. The South was helpless and
hopeless at the close of our magnificent
struggle for liberty, and the heaven
ordained system of human labor, but
the hour of our prostration is past, and
Grant, with all his mudsill millions,
has no terrors for us. Let him try his
old role of Dictator again, and see how
it will work. He will find his man
dates powerless as those of King Canute,
who tried to command the motions of
the multitudinous waves.--Okglona
Southern States (Dem.)
Year: 1879

smother boarding house busted up, I sec" sighed venerable De troit land-lady, as she laid down her paper, "well, it must have been ex- trayagancc in the table, that's what bankrupts seven out of ten, and even then the boarders are crying hash,

 and complaining of poor meals. Now I run a boarding house for twenty two years, and l made money aHd heard no complaints. How did l do it? Why, it's all in planning, for instance, neck piece of mutton can be cut to look like rib roast, and a little extra fire makes 1t just as ten der. Lawd save you! I've been complimentcd thousand times on my selection of choice spring lamb, when the meat was mutton four years old, and the toughest part at that! The idea of spring-chickon on boarding house table is absurd aye is almost wicked. In my palmy days could take tough old hen, pound the body with potato smasher for ten minutes, and set be- fore my boarders feast to make every heart glad. Now I'll venture that there aren't ten land ladies in this city who can bake pigs head and slice oil the meat in such a man. ner as to make everybody believe that he has the choicest cut in the pigs body, and it's wonder to me that thore aren't more failures. Lots of ladies buy nice fresh butter, and thus tempt man to eat five or six biscuits or a half a loaf of bread. What economy! l always had my nice butter on the table at breakfast, when we had little but toast, and the boarders got along on old butter the other two meals, It is all in the plannlng-all Tn the planning. l used to have beefstead every morn ing. Three mornings in the week l bought slrloin, which is very nice, you know, and the other four morn lngs I bought neck pieces and rub bed the case-knives over the grind stone. Give boarder sharp knife and a tough steak and he'll never make complaint-never; nell put the blame on his teeth, and the more steak he leaves on his plate the more rabbit-pie you have for dinner. Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1879

Going in debt was very common habit few years ago. It was alto gether too common among farmers It is not so common now. Farmers have seen the evil of it. They have seen that it is much easier to get in. to debt than it IS to get out of It. Il Is like getting into quick sand Every effort to get out only sinks one deeper. The cash system is fal better. It makes one more econo' mical. It is better to deprive our selves of luxuries, than to pay toe dearly for them afterwards. Pay as you go is the true philosoher's stone It is better for buyer and better fol seller. The seller can take less prof it's, as he has no bad debts. The buyer can hold a high head for he owes no one that he can't pay.-- Rural World.
Year: 1879



 From the Ft, smith Eleyator.l

 in agriculture and mechanics there is always something new some new discovery being made, something to bring out and to de velop the mind, to occupy the thought of the ablest minds; they lead to science and knowledge. What is there in clerkship? What noble mind wants itself measured by the yard stick2 Such places are the proper places for the women, but what can a parent hope for who brings his son up to sell pins and calicoes2 From the Scientific Amer ican we learn that an advertisement in Boston paper "A clerk wanted" 347 applications for the situation came next day. But one for s25 shoe-fitters to work in a factory" only l application came next day. In Detroit paper an advertisement for clerk brought l30 applications the first day, and one for carpenter brought only 4. Is not this satis- factory to parents and to every one having care of children that all such places are crowded?

 ''It IS probable that in any and every city the average earnings cf clerks are nowhere near so large as the earnings of workmen of average skill in the various trades.

 Further, it is fairly certain that, with equal capacity, industry, and thrift, the young man who learns any trade will achieve reasonable competence sooner than the young man who sticks to clerking; while the chances for materially improving ones condition are more numerous in the trades than behind the coun- ter or at the desk.

 Why is it, then, that the boys all want to be clerks? Why is it that intelligent parents encourage them in looking for a chance to "get into business" and in looking down on mechanical employment--as though there could be any calling more wretchedly mechanical than average clerking? Why is it that teachers almost invariably train their pupils to ''look above" mechanical pursuits?

 What the country wants now is workmen-intelligent, industrious, thrifty workmen; men who can do skillfully the work that waits for the doing-who can invent new and bet ter processes for developing the crude resources of the land, and for converting brute matter into life sustaining and life-enriching wealth. Mere clerks and record keepers are at discount. There are too many of them. And the professions, so called, are almost equally crowded with men who hate nothing to do. There never was q time when ability to do something real and practical was worth so much as now. Yet our young men swarm after clerk ships" Why is it?

 We say dismiss every teacher and professor who dares to teach your children that the occupations of me chanics, artisans, manufacturers az riculturists are not honorable occu- pations, or that any one ought to obtain good footing in polite socie ", unless his moral conduct. cduca- tion and intelligence, and not his business or profession, gives it to him. In short, those who teach the boys to look so high they cannot sec their fathers occupation, and the girls so high they will stumble over broom, and faint at the sight of pots and kettles and be everlastlngly disgraced to be caught at any house "drudgery" as they term work.
Year: 1879

A lecture delivered at the Berlin University some three months ago, Iby Prof. Dubois Raymond, bears the omlnous title, "The End of Our World" and says that every move mont upon our planet, with the cX- ception of the ebb and flood, which are caused by tue attraction of the moon, is caused by the solar heat. As, however, the sun loses every year portion of his caloric, science has lately come to the conclueion that he ylll not exist as an emitter of warmth longer than for l7,000,000 years to come. During that space of time our earth will get colder and colder in proportion as tho solar heat shall diminish. The ice will advance from the poles to the equa tor; the carth's population will grad ually recede before tho advancing glaciers; the sun will become less luminous, until he will present the appearance of a dark red bail, and finally ice will annihilate all vitality on our planet.
Year: 1879

The Cincinnati Commercial pre- tends to have the following dispatch from Wilmington, Ohio:

 The lady mentioned in the dis patches of q recent Sundays Com mercial as having entered into an agreement with her husband to hold her tongue ten minutes in each quarter hour for one thousand one hundred and thirteen consecutive hours. failed in her task. As she was completing her nine hundred and seventeenth quarter hour, and her packers were feeling sure. that she would win, . neighbor lady, re- turning from a shopping expedition, passed along the street in front of her window, wearing her new pur- chase, beautiful shawl. Now the lady who was holding her tongue should have frightened her grip at this supreme moment, and concen- trated her thoughts on something else than this new article of dress belonging to her neighbor; but it is said that the ruling passion is stronger even in death, and that in. grained habit is unconquerable; and those anxioms were proven in this instance, for tho tongue-holdcr, un- fortunately for herself, leaned over and whispered in the ear of a lady bystander, "What . horrid shawlp She immediately saw her mistake, but it was too late, The judges at once declared in favor of the hus. band, the crowd filed slowly out of the building, and the first match on record of stonguc-holding against time was over. One lady at least, in Wilmington, win attend church this summer ln last years bonnet. The husband is investing the ten dollars he saved in strong plug tobacco. He says he never enjoyed such peace and quietudc as during the past nlne days. And now the other married men of Wilmington arc hoping that the tongue-Eolding fever may be- come an epidemic, and strike the country with emphasis.
Year: 1879

Of course every newspaper feels under obligations to it's advertisers. The man who takes quarter column is like q first cousin, and he of the half column is closer than q brother; while he who takes a whole column not only demonstrates to the world that he is an intelligent and enter prising business man, but wins the heart and affections of the printer, and he feels that the success of his paper and his patron arc identical, But while we freely acknowledge this obligation, we wish it distinctly understood that the advertiser does not give us anything. For every cent spent in advertising the return is as direct and valuable as the re- turn from the butcher on a dry goods merchant. Take q column adver. tisement for one year and put the circulation at ,500 copies. At least three persons read every paper pub, lished. This would make 4,500 peo- pie reached weekly, and B numbers would be 240,000 in year. That number is distributed as no mer- chant in this or any other town can distribute q circular, and costs only $l00. Now let a man try to reach the same number of persons by cir culars and the cost of money alone would be at least $500, besides tho trouble and labor, worth at least $50 more. Away with such idle talk. We unhesitatingly say that every advertiser gets better return for the money paid in advertising than in any other nvestment.-Ex.
Year: 1879

If you don't wish to fall in love keep away from calico. You can no more play with the girls without losing your heart than play roulette without losing your money. As Dobbs very justly remarks, the heart strings of q woman, like the tendrils of a vine, are always reaching out for something to cling to.

 The largest drawing class in this city IS the draymen.
Year: 1879

The following from an article on Falling
Fits, from the Christian Statesman, may be in
tercsting to the reader:


Having very dear friends 50 troubled with
this malady that death is looked for by them
almost as an angel of mercy, we set about in
vestigatOns Of a famous cure. From great
number Of specific cases examined we select
the following, which are only types Of many
One, a son Of Bishop in the Protestant Epis-
copal Church. who has suffered intellectually
from fits or epilepsy has been cured Anoth-
er a prominent Episcopal clergyman in Penn
sylyania had been treated by some of the
most noted medical men in this country, and
in France and Germany, without success
He at last gave up his pulpit in despair. Dr.
T. was called on and that rector has been
returned to his parish where he is now doing
full duty Still another, business man Of
wealth, had become so utterly wrecked in
mind as well as body as to have been for a
year or so an inmate Of an insane asylum
Dr. Turner has been the means Of returning
him to his family and his business.


Some Of our friends have since been cured
by this physician, and we will send his address
to any desiring it. For the same write to
A. b. A.. Box 1901, Philadelphia, Pa.
Year: 1879

For damp closet or cupboard,
which is liable to cause mildew, place in
it a saucer full of quick-lime, and it will
not only absorb all apparent dampness,
but sweeten and disinfect the space Re-
new the lime once fortnight; if the
place be very damp, renew it as often as
it becomes Slaked.
Year: 1879

The Commercial of yesterday
morning contains the cool an
nouncement that the Democratic
leaders bad broken an agreement
made with pro minent Republicans
not to nominate more than one
candidate for Superior Judge, pur-
suant to which agreement the Re-
publicans had only nominated one
candidate. We are afraid it would
sadly puzzle our contemporary to
establish the making of such an
agreement. We are obliged to say
that we don't believe that any such
an understanding was reached, and
we are certain that no one was au-
thorized to commit the Democratic
County Convention to any such
policy. The fact is that the scheme
Of nominating only one Republican
candidate for Superior Judge orig
mated in the fertile brain of Henry
T. Hazard, Esq., and that gentle
man expected to be the nominee
himself. The result was that the


igenious Harry was hoist by his


npetard. Democrats have not


slightest objection to seeing


)mitabls Hazard trotted out as


'cond Republican candidate,


hat gentleman will save tim e


money by letting well enough |
Year: 1879

REPUBLICANS are at last begin
ming to realize the mistake made
BY them in putting forward Per-
ktns, = monopolist, as the repre-
sentative of their party. The at
tempt to carry Perkins into the
Gubernatorial chair with an hurrah
has proven lamentable failure
and the more judicious members of
the party are at last realizing the
fact. Glenn is gaining strength
s'eadily; and, at the rate at which
Perkins is dropping to leeward, his
4" PInafore will soon be on the
rocks. This fate is overtaking the
Republican candidate in spite of
the universally conceded fact that


personally he is very clever gen.


tleman who would probably be the


last person in the world to do


harsh or tyrannical action. But


Gov. Stanford himself is very


clever gentleman, and it is noto-


rious that in his personal relations


he is the pink of good nature, hav-


ing most of the milk of human


Kindness which was allotted to the


Railway megatherlums of Caiifor.
mia. Few men would like to take
the position, however, that, good
nature and all, Stanford would run
very well just now as the Republi-
can candidate for Governor. The
people have largely and stubbornly
settled down to the belief that Per-
kins Is sort of miniature edition
of the Ex-Governor, and that he is
the pet and darling of the mono-
Gratis and monopolists of the State.
That impression will be fatal to the
Sailor Boy. Glenn, on the other
hand, stands forth as the champion
of the farmers and the triumphant
New Constitution sentiment of the |
and, in consequence, he
wakes stronger every day and will
keep on doing so to the end.
Year: 1879

WE learn that the fine slip Two Broth
ers has been recently purchased by the Sc
attic Coal and Transportation Company.
Terms of sale are private. She will be
used in the coal trade and will probably
sail for Seattle In few DAYS.
Year: 1879

Persons claiming any of the above mem
toned articles are required to file their
claim therefor with the Collector of Gus
toms OF this District within twenty days
from the date of the first publication of
this notice.


II. A. WEBSTER.


Collector of Customs
Year: 1879

THE INDIANS FRIENDLY AND PURSUING THEIR


PEACEFUL voCArIoNs


SITKA. Alaska, June II. 1879.
The United States ship jamestown. after passage
of twenty-three days. anchored of this place last
evening. We found the United States ship Alaska
here. She sails to-day for San Francisco. During
the short interval since our arrival have not been
able discover in my interviews with the powerful.
rather influential. Indians and white people any
particular occasion for alarm to the safety Of the
residents. The Indians certainly not premedi-
tsting an immediate massacre, as most Of them are
ut present engaged in their legitimate pursuit of
hunting The leading ones appear to comprehend
the fact that is for their interests to- have white
people among them and certainly sincere,
far as am now able to judge. in their professions
of kindly feelings toward ALL have not seen the
Collector yet owing to very recent death in his
family. As the Alaska sails to-day l am unable to
write any further particulars but will do SO by the
next mail steamer.