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Year: 1879

YOUNG MEa.=Anyhody who wishes to
may become gentleman. He will not
form a habbit of telling smutty or vul-
gar stories. He will always he tidy in
dress. He will be careful not to offend
persons; will keep his face clean. He will
never be mouthed or overbearing to his
inferiors: This trait Of character always
marks the snob egotist. IIo will never
lift his voice in small room when talk
ing to men, as though he We're in a field
driving oxen. He will never speak so
as to wound or pain the heart of the per-
son who is under him. He will never
speak of his superior family connections
or give those he is with to understand he
is Of more consequence thai they lie
will never pry into the family affairs Of
any other person, nor meddle himself
with the affairs another person should
attend to. He will never try to bully
or beat his way, nor assume superiority
that is entirely lost the mQment it is
boasted Of. The gentleman il always
has friends, even under adverse circnm-
stances, because he deserves them. The
success of the true gentleman is always
lasting,
Year: 1879

THE SMALL Bor AND THE CAR Dry
ER.-The small boy who steals rides on
the street cars swung himsels on the
platform of q Jefferson Avenue car the
other day, to come down town. He was
mentally calculating the cost per rod of
street railways, when the driver looked
back and caught sight of the top Of his
head and leaped Off to give him cut. 1t
one OF these small boys was ever hit with
a drivers whip before, the date has been
forgotten but this lad caughta stinger
and left that platform as if meant to fly.
The driver chuckled, but the horse dian't
For some reason he stopped. left the
track, tried to draw the car off the rails
and in tile effort broke a tug, jerked the
money box off the rail into the mud, and
might have climbed into the car if the
driver had not apBeard. While the
money was being finished for in the
mud and repairs made. the small boy
pnt il, Ills speech. The Aache" had
left him. and standing where no could
secure o good view of eperaiie...s ne
called out: "hir. :. ye tel! a feller iist


zacuy how much ye made by that ere
lob a9
Year: 1879

An old man of much experience says


| have seen a yonng man sell q good
farm, turn merchant, and die in an in
sane asylum.


| have seen farmer travel about Sc
much that there WAS nothing at home
worth looking at.


| have seen young girl marry man
Of dissolnte habits, and repent of it as
long as she lived.


have seen man spend more money
in folly than would support his family
in comfort and independence.


have seen man depart from the
truth, when candor and veracity would
have served him to Il much better pur-
pose.


have seen the cxtrayaganc and folly
of children bring their parents to pov-
erty and want, and themselves to dis
grace.


| have seen prudent and industrious
wife retrieve the fortune OF the family,
when the husband pulled at the other
end of the rope.


have seen a young man who despiScd
the counsel OF the wise, and the advice
Of the good. and his career end i'm pov-
erty and wretchedness.
Year: 1879

fCincinnati Commercial Wilmington. Ohio


Dispatch.l


The lady mentioned in these DIS
patches of last Sundays Commercial 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 con- on,
secutive quarter hours failed i'll her
task. At 5 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon,
as she was completing her nine hundred
and seventeenth quarter hour and her
hackers were feeling sure that she
would win, neighbor lady, returning
from shopping expedition, passed
along the street in front OF the window,
wearing her new purchase, beautiful
shawl. Now, the lady who was holding
her tongue should have tightened her
grip at this supreme moment ana con
centrated her thoughts on something
else than this new Article of dress be-
longing to her neigllbor but it is said
that the ruling passion is strong even iii
death, and that ingrained habit is un-
conuuerable, and these axioms were
proven in this instance, for the tongue
holder, unfortunately for herself, leaned
over and whispered in the ear ct lady
bystander What a horried shawl y
She Immediately saw her mistake, but
it was too late. The judges at once
declared in favor of the husband, the
crowd filed slowly out of the building,
and the first match on record of tongue
holding against time was over. One
lady at least in Wilmington will attend
church this summer in IA last years
bonnet. The husband is investing the
$40 he saved in strong plug tobacco.
He says he never before enjoyed such
peace and uuietude as during tlse past
nine days. And now the other married
men of Wilmington are hoping that the
tongue-holding fever may become an
epidemic and strike the country with
emphasis.
Year: 1879

There is nothing more wonderful than
the effect OF vanity on the llnman mind.
We hear of q young lady who. was pre-
sented with half d dozen costly night
gowns, elaborately embroidered in col
orel silk not long ago aud she became
a somnambulist for the next six night
running.
Year: 1879

Anew York father sends the following
to paper in that city: "My baby has
no record but | will bet 81 to one cent
that he can cry louder and longer and
keep more people awake nights tllan
any other baby in New York"
Year: 1879

advised to have it out, SO that he might
save the other eye. He took chloroform,
and the doctor, famous specialist took
out tho good eye by mistake. The
patient is blind, and can not shoot the
specialist.
Year: 1879

"Mother wants you to let her take
your polonaise pattern, and be SO kind
rs to I'LL this cup with yeast, and is your
clock right, and what time it is, and IL
little meal in this pan, and won't You
write down your receipt for rye mullins,
and please not let your turkeys roost on
our fence any more, cause dad says he'll
shoot them.
Year: 1879

Faisehood has thousand divergen
ces In its course. Truth generally fires
straight to it's mark. And yet strange to
say, it is often more difficult to trace
tile latter to its ultimate result than it is
for the former.
Year: 1879

There is Il conviction. prevalent i'll hoti
parties that the country is cursed With TOO
much partisan politics. 1t needs nothing more
than rest.


The above paragraph is taken from 81
article i'm the New York Tribune. There
is no doubt that it expresses the sentl-
ment of the whole country. ltdoes not
seem to have occurred to the IrlbTne
however, that it has been, and IS still
one of the most potent agencies III ex-
citingand keeping alive partisan feeling
In the article in which the foregoing
paragraph appears, an attempt Is made
70 hold the Democratic party response


,le for all Of the partisan politics OF
the last regular and the present extra
session Of Congress. The Trlbnne de-
Dlores and condemns as an evil, that
which its course is calculated to increase
rather than abate. However, the course
pursued by the Tribune does not detfact
from the truth OF tAe statement that the
country is cursed with too much PARTISAN
politics. For weeks AMI months, the at
tention of Congress has been occupied,
almost entirely, wi ith political matters OF
a purely partisan character. The mate
rial interest OF the country have Deen
neglected, and measures for the revival
of commerce and other industries have
received but little notice. Ii cannot, De
said that one party is more resspohsible
than the other for this condition OF
affairs. They are both engaged in manu-
featuring political capital and preparing
for the campaign of 1880. When the
Republicans had full control OF the gov
ernment, they availed themselves OF
every opportunity to. strengthen, their
party, and now that the Democrats are
II, i IS
natural that they should legislate in har-
mony with the views and theories OF
their party. There is no doubt, however,
that the constant agitation OF partisan
measures has very depressing effect
aBon the prosperity of the country.
Business enterprises of almost every
kind are unfavorably affected by it. The
attention of che nation is diverted from
legitimate pursuits by the wTangle
among the politicians, and the people are
kept in state of suspense, waiting to
see what is going to be done. OF course,
there can be no solid prosperity in such
a state of affairs. There is nothing to
inspire confidence and hope, and every
thing to create distrust and uncertainty.
AS the Tribune says, what the country
wants is Test-rest from constant p0tltl-
cal turmoil and excitement, rest from
the plans and schemes of politicians for
political power. The country is hardly
done with one presidential election
before the work of laying the wires for
the next is commenced. Measures which
are inimical to the best interests OF the
country are favored, because they may
strengthen a political party. The in
terests of the country are made secon


dairy to those of party. There are. too
few statesmen and too many politicians.
Year: 1879

The medium zsigel boy enjoys his
mornings praetieing base ban and hum
lllates hlnssif ..s.ernoons by teasing his
mother for half dollar to pay for the
broken glass next door, with an earnest
plea mot to let on before dad.'
Year: 1879

One OF the most useless of all things is
to take q deal of trouble in providing
against dangers that never come. How
many toll to lay up riches which they
never enjoy; to provide for exigencies
that never come, sacrificing present
comfort and enjoyment in guarding
against the wants of period they never
live to see.
Year: 1879

Mother the tact nor the policy of prudence
necessary to a successful reformer PROVIDED
he was right. IL seemed to please him better
TO outrage public sentiment than to win u 10
his way of thinking. He was typical exam
ple of the pioneers who, in every American
reform, go foremost with the axe upon their
shoulders and bear the bmnt of abuse and
opposiiion. The men who come aiterward
to smooth the road and have the easier work
10 do. draw the crowd after them and win the
rewards


Doctor lie VI oyne's body will, of course, he
incinerated in decent accordance with his
wishes, but the opponents of cremation IN the
West declare that the Pagan custom VIII end
with his death 1t remains to be seen whether
they are right OF not. There are many cogent
arguments in special localities, in favor of this
cleanly. swift. reverent remission OF the dead
body TO it's original elements-chef among
which are sanitary reasons. In orr Southern
cities-especially in New -Oreans-cemcterles
are not now so much resting-places for the
dead as breeding places Of pestience to the
living. Certainly, burning is more decent
mode of disposal of the dead than the use of
beds of quick lime. now common in those
towns. Even in orr colder attitudes the pres
ence of an enormous mass OF de-
caying human flesh below or on level
with the water supplies in the midst
of crowded cities is n sure means of
spreading the most insidiOus Of all diseases.
Already among our more educated liberal
classes a large undeclared party are in favor
of cremation. DR.. lie MOyne erred in his
manner of presenting this reform to the
public. De Palms cremation dcgenerated (by
10 fault of hs) into charatan advertise
mcnt of a heathen society; the second, by an
unfortunate chance, was also preceded by
obseryances Cor lack of Observance) rcpul
siye to the great mass OF dccorous Christian
people. If the Doctor had been polite enough
to give to his funeral rites the beauty, the
reserve and the religious ceremonies which
the hearts of mourning men and women DC
mand when parting forever with their beloved
dead, he would have attracted rather than
shocked the multitude.


The reformer is dead but his reform has
more vitality in 1t than his opponents suppose.
Crematorics properly built and conducted near
our large cities would probably even now be
used Ivy few people and in this case where
prejudice and feeling are among the CHIEF
obstacles, familiarity might remove the violent
opposition of the general public.
Year: 1879

DR.. julius LIE Moyne, who died in Washing
ton, Penn. OH Tuesday last, deserved some
thing more at the hands Of his countrymcn
than the brief notice of his death as Imam
"of marked eccentricity." Eccentricity may
serve to describe few trivial peculiarities in
him of manner and habits but, for the rest,
few men who have led our National affairs
were east in as bold, heroic monld rs this cOun-
try physician, who was born and who died in
the same street of the same quiet inland town.
The Doctor laborcd under the disadvantage of
the man who is born half II century too soon.


lie was perpetually without the camp of public
opinion. He was fiery Aboitionisl, candidate
for Vice-President on that ticket when an Aboli-
ZIONIST was regarded by conservative people as a
lbertine and an atheist, and he died advocat-
ing another reform. at which the same class
still shudder as a relic OF heathenisn. There
was tough Spartan fibre in this man which
lifted him above opposition but he had
Year: 1879

giving it that control now. Each and every
Southern man. acting as an individual has
just the same rights as each and every North
ern man. But when Solid South makes war
upon the honor of the Nation or the sover-
eighty ofits laws, and demands control, as sec
ton. of the Government which it tried IN vain
TO destroy, there are millions of Northern voters
who did not fight and will not vote on that
side. There is the end of the business. There
is Solid North, because there Is soma
South. The Democratic party goes down pe-
cause it has shown q second time that IL Is
the party of disloyalty and of revolution.
Year: 1879

The disaIectcd Republicans are sincerely to be
piticd. They are emitting themselves off from the
privilege of taking part in a grand combination
kick which is about to be administered to the
Democracy in the place where it will do the most
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all indispensable, not necessarily for publca
ton but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return preserve COM
munIcatlons tnat are not used
Year: 1879

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley L. Pullen,
Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer a favor upon by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal
Year: 1879

Also sole agent of this city for the sale of the Treas
ury Stock of Mineral Hill Mining Co. Atlantic and
other Maine Mining Stocks bought and sold.


CENTENNIAL BLOCK 90 Exchange ST. se1tf
Year: 1879

~
solved as follows.


THAT there is overwhelming and conclusive
evidence that, with free, unpurchased and
unintimidated vote, large majority of the
electors of Maine would have supported the
Greenback ticket last Monday, and we hereby
earnestly condemn and denounce the whole
sale purchase of voters by the Republican lead
ers, which is everywhere manifest, and we
charge upon those unscrupulous and designing
men, that, fearing honest discussion before the
people, they dare not even permit a free and
unrestraned exercise of the will of the people
at the ballot-box.''


The resolution is purely fiat, based on moth
ing.
Year: 1879

A lawyer once said to u cOuu-
tryman in IA smock frock, who
Was undergoing his examination
in the witness box: 'You in the
smock frOck, how much are YOU
paid for telling untruth g LESS
than you are,' was the reply, 'or
you would be in a smock frock.
tOO.s
Year: 1879

There Is way Of making our homes
. hundred fold more attractive than
they ara now. Those parents cannot
expect to keep their children away
FROM outside dissipations unless they
make the domestic circle brighter than
anything they can find outside of it.
DO not, then, sit in your home surly
and unsympathetic and with half
condemnatory look, because of the
sportfulness OF your children. You
were young once yourself; let your
children be young Because your eyes
are dim aud your ancles are stiff, do
not denounce sportfulness' in those in
whose eyes there is the first lustre, and
in whose foot there is the bounding
joy of robust health. We thank God
that in our drawing-rooms and in our
parlors there are >innnmerable games
and sports which have not upon them
the least taint Of iniquity Light up
all your homes with innocent hlarity.
Do not sit down with the rheumatism,
wondering how children could 60 ON
so. Rather thank God that their
hearts are so light, and their laughter
is so free, and that their cheeks are SO
ruddy, and that their expectations are
so radiant. The night will come soon
ell ough, and the heart break, and the
pang, and the desolation- 1T will come
soon enough for the dear children
But when the storm actually clouds
the sky, it will be time enough for you
to haul out your reef tackles. Garry
then, into your homes not only the in
nocent sports and games which are the
inventions of our own day, but the
games which come down with tht
sportfulness Of all the past ages
Chess and charades, and tableaux ane
hattlcdore, and calisthenics, and al
those amusements which the young
people of our homes know so well how
TO contrive. Then there will be the
parlor socialities- groups of young
people assembled in your homes, will
wit and mimicry and joviality, filling
the room with JOY from the door K
the mantel, and from the carpet to th'
ceiling Oh, is there any exhilaratioi
like score Of genial souls in on,
room, each one adding q contribution
If his own individual merriment t


II, aggregation Of general hilarity.--


-
Year: 1879

Last Friday ternoon while a lady
of our town was viewing the surround


ings from porch of a principal hotel
on Florence avenue, Il citizen passed
by with wheel harrow Another cit
Yea was coming across the avenue
the time, and he remarked to Tho lady


'I'll oct you you're afraid to ride up to
the school-house and back in that
wheelbarrow." (The distance is a
block and half, and the course
through a principal street.) Let's see
the color Of your coin" she replied.
The citizen produced five dollar piece
and in moment she covered it with
another, and placed them in the hands
of a stakeholder 'I'll show You
whether am afraid TO ride in a wheel
barrow" said she, getting into the one
wheeled vehicle. Now, go along;' and
away they went to the end of the
course named; and amid loud shouts
of laughter she triumphantly returned
to the starting point, when the staked
amount was passed over 10 her She
remarked that riding in one horse
vehicle pays better than keeping a
lodging house.-.Sutro Indepehdant
Year: 1879

POISONED. "A young man of fine
family recently died at Salt Lake from
the effects of smoking opium. This
led to an investigation, and it was
proved that large class of young
men and boys were frequenters of the
Chinese opium dens. This is strong
hint to some who have been visitors Of
such places in this city.
Year: 1879

Ed. TELLER Mr. Crocker, clerk for
agent G. d. Warner, LApwl agency,
past through Camas Prairie on the
way to Salmon river, accompanied by
ten OF the Nez Perce Indians, for the
purpose of gathering up all the hostile
indian cattle that was sold by order Of
the war department by Capt. Samuel
McKeever, commanding officer Camp
Howard. 1t is presumed that the In
dians have represented to the agent
that they own the cattle that have been
SOLD by the military, and he has list
ened to their side of the story without
knowing anything about the facts in
the premises. Everyone here remem-
bers that the fall succeeding the In
dian war, the agent j. b. Monteith,
gave the Nez Perces permission to go
and gather all their cattle that ranged
between Salmon and Snake river


Mr. Monteith told us that they had
then driven from that point to the
Lapwai, and Komiah, about siz hun
dred head. The agents statement was
right, for there arc men here who will
be willing to corroborate it at any
time. Now that J. B. Monteith is
dead, the Indians have an idea that
they can 60 and tell these stories to G.
ID. Warner with good grace, and that
he actually believes them, will be seen
| by sending his clerk on the mission with
the Indians. They will find out that
those cattle really belongs to the gov
erlment if they belong to anyone, and
before they get through with theil
thieving scheme they will learn that
we have an officer here at Camp How


AID that will wake them up lively


We will admit that some of the cattle
may have straycd back after being
irivcn away, but Us the Indians have
tncu ovortbere very 'cftcn since, it is
supposed they would have all that they
ever owned.


The Grange harvest feast that We
spoke of in last weeks letter, was 8
very enjoyable affair. The supper was
one that would do credit to any com
,nunity. All the delicacies that yov
cauld enumerate was arranged in the
most pleasing manner. The ladici
and especially the pretty young ladies
lasar1aa un'iouns'ed praise for havin.
everything so pleasant and home like
Altogether the evening was spent very
proiitahly and enjoyed by all; and they
repaired to their respective home after
the entertainment was closed knowing
that the inner man was well supplied


During the evening there was o story
going the rounds ahou collar buttoI
but we did not get il all, q gentleman
collar button two. All Of last week
we had fine November weather, this
morning snow, hut hot cold, indication
of rain and snow. Farmers on tho
prairie are holding on to their wheat
with the expectation Of getting better
prices. Mill men are paying seventy
cents a bushel for wheat. This is con
sidered a remunerative price in a coun
try where grain yields as this does
There was fire in town early las
week, j. L. Crooks house caine yer,
; nearly being consumed, only for tn


FIRE being discovered in time the hous


would have burned to the ground, a
: the wind was blowing hard at the time


Defective fue the cause. Still tn
election news becomes more glorious a


we get the official count. TEMUs
Year: 1879

In the current number Of the Nedicai
Record Or. Hammond says, when you
poke the end Of your finger IN your ear
the roaring noise you hear is the sound
Of the circulation in your finger. which
IL n fact which any one can demonstrate
for himself by first putting his fingers
In his ears, and then stopping them up
with some other substance. Try It., and
think what wonder Of n mlchiue your
body IL, that even the points Of your
fingers are such busy workshops that
they roar like n small Niagara. The
roaring Is probably more than the voice
Of the circulation Of the blood. u is the
voice of all the vital processes that are
always going forward Ia every living
body, from conception TO death.
Year: 1879

The professor of geology and miner
alogv came along after the hard fisted
miners had found rich gold mine and
said he: "There is no doubt but that
gold is here in large quantities. If you
find it rich it will pay" This was in
California.


A little before this some hardy pro-
spectors loaded little mule with flour,
bacon and tools. They travelled many
miles north and finally:found rich
mine in Cariboo. The professor of
geology and mineralogy came along and
said: Everything hereabouts, judging
from the formation of the country and
the gangue rock indicates the existence
of gold" Then the miners forgot that
they had discovered the gold themselves
and they gave all the credit and bowed
down before the professor. Then some
miners went south to Arizona, and after
starving for want of food and choking
with thirst. and few of their number
being toasted head downward by the
ApaChes, they found rich silver mine.
Shortly afterward down came the pro-
fcssor, and said he: 1.-The metamorphic
and plutonic rocks hereahout certainly
point to the existence of argentifcrous
ores" And rs usual the miners and all
around about forget they had discovered
the mine, and gave all the credit to the
professor. Well, he followed those
simple miners aroundcto Utals New
Mexico, Pixies Peak, Nevada and Fraser
river, and everywhere they dug first he
came afterward, looked down the hole,
with book under his arm, said some
hard words, and everybody straightway
said he had found the mine and that no
mine could be true vein until it had
been scientifically dedicated by q pro-
fessor.-Ncv York Graphic.