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Year: 1874

An inexpensive but durable
method of painting a build
ing Is as follows: First give
them a coat Of crude petroIe-
um, which is the oil as it comes
from the wells, and which can
be procured for about $4 or So
a barrel. Then mix one pound
of metallic paint, which. is
brown or red hematile iron
and inely ground, TO one quart
of linseed oil, and apply this
over the petroleum coat. The
petroleum sinks into the wood
and makes a ground work for
the iron oil paint. The color
of the iron paint is a dark red
dish brown, and is not at all
dIsagreeable; 1t is a color not
easily soiled, very. Durable, and
is fire proof. ~ = "a.
Year: 1874

God of the mountain. God of the storm.
God OF the flower, God OF the worm
Hear us and bless US, t--+f- tt Z


Forgive US. redress us
Breathe on our spirits Thy love and Thy healing,
Teach content with Thy iatherly dealing


Teach us to love Thee. s- Z
To love one another, brother his brother,


And make Us all free
Free from the shackies of ancient tradition,
Free from the censure Of man for his neighbor /;
Help Us each one to fulfil his true mission.
And show us It's GOd-like TO labor.
God Of the darkness God of the sun,
God Of the beautiful, God of each one


Clothe uE and feed us,


Hume and lead ne r.
Show Us that avaFice holds US in ihrall--
That the land u al thine. and thOu givest TO ALL


Scatter our blindness;
Help us TO do right all the day and night


To love mercy and kindness;
Aid us to conquer mistakes of the past
Show us our future TO cheer us and arm us.
The upper, the better. the mansions Thou hast
And, God of the gravel that the grave cannot


harm US.
Year: 1874

Of all the emigrants that yearly
pass over the Union Pacific for
points along that railroad, through
out the Territories or the Pacific
Coast, fully one-third of the males
return East in less than two years.
Various causes have been assigned
for this; but the main one is, their
aspirations are almost always greater
than
Year: 1874

SOME CLASSES OF PEOPLE WHO GO THERE


AND WHY THEY DO NOT SUCCEED IN
BUsINEss-vERY LITTLE EMPLOYMENT


EXCEPT AT HARD, MANUAL LABOR-NO


GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES IN THE TERRI


TORIES FOR PERSONS WITHOUT CAPITAL.
Year: 1874

A Hamburg newspaper relates the tol'
lowing story A young married couple,
on their wedding journey, resided tor
some time on the shores of the Lake Of
Constance, and one day visited the cee-
brated Yole of Mainau, where at the
same time the Emperor William was re-
siding as guest Of the Grand Duke OF
Baden. After having strollled about on
the lovely island for time, the Young
couple determined to cross to the main
land, but the weather had unfortunately
changed for the worse; the wind blew
in violent gusts, and the waves dashed
with such vehemence against the sides
of the little boat in which they had en-
barked that the ferryman, after many
fruitless efforts, declared it impossible to
proceed. The boats head was therefore
turned toward the island, and in few
minutes its inmates we're landed
again, but completely at a loss
what to do and where to pass
the night. The Emperor William
and his son-in-law the Grand Duke
had been standing on the strand and
watching the efforts Of the boatmen to
make head against the storm. After
the young couple had landed the En-.
peror met them on the beach, inquired
il they had been the inmates of the
boat. asked after their names, about
their circumstances, where they were
from and various things. In the mean.
time he gave orders for steam to be got
up in his own little steamer and in
formed the young man and his wife that
it would convey them in safety to the op.
posite shore. The lady had, however,
been so frightened by the first encounter
with the wild waves that she seemed
rather to doubt whether the steamer was
more Trustworthy than the boat had
proved, and expressed her apprehen-
sions at last quite openly. "Do not be
in the least alarmed, " said the Emperor,
in the kindest and most afable manner
possible, you can embark in the
steamer without any fear; she will carry
you safely across. She bears my name,
THE Emperor William, and that is
enough to reassure you"
Year: 1874

dition. now went in search of spuf,
and was fortunate enough to meet a
peasant, who kindly came with me to
the fainting man, and gave him some
pinches of snuff. The man soon recov-
cred, and then he told me that he had
to travel a certain distance as messenger;
and on starting in the morning had for
gotten to take his snuff-box AS he went
along, so violent became his craving for
snuff that he was completely exhausted,
and had fallen down in a swoon at the
spot where | found him But for my
opportune arrival he said that he must
surely have died.
Year: 1874

Now the best way in the world to
seem to be anything is really to be what
we would seem to be- Besides that, it is
many times as troublesome to make
good the pretense of good quality as
to have it, and if man have it not, it is
ten to one but he is discovered to want
it, and then all his pains and labor to
seem to have it at last - 7IllotSon.
Year: 1874

AFTER declaring oil over the United
states that their party did not intend


under the present laws, to place negroes
IN the public schools with the whites,
ie radical party have done so at New
orleans, and the result is the withdraw
al OF nifty OF the Graduates from the
High School Of the Crescent City. They
would nave done the same thing. in Del
,i'' aware II they had carried the election.
mere Is no confidence to be placed in
the declarations of the Radicals. All
Republicans, however, are not Radicals
Year: 1874

Looking at the use that was made OF
: negro suffrage in Washington by Boss
Sheppard and those who run the District
OF Columbia into such tremendous
debt, to say nothing of Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi South Carolina and other places,
where the Radicals have employed the
same power to rob the people and fill the
pockets of rascally leaders. no fair mind
can come to any other conclusion than
that negro suffrage is dangerous ele.
ment.


In Washington there are about sixty
thousand negroes, in a population Of
l3l,oO. The rascally Radical politicians
soon discovered how easily it was to
mislead such vast crowd of ignorant
voters. and they took advantage Of the
circumstance. Tho negroes had no real
interest in the city, and were very will
ling to give their votes to those who
would furnish them with work and high
wages. This was continued from one
year to another. and soon really took the
form of bribery ON large scale to keep

the extravagant othce-holders in power :.
the money paid the negroes being drawn
from the tax-paying people by excessive
levies upon their property. In effect
this was simply allowing the negroes to
vote themselves work at high wages, and
those whom they voted for were not only
pledged to the course which they pur.
sued' but bound to do SO to keep from
exposure. The reader has only to draw
slightly on his imagination to see that
the policy was really tending to that of
voting the money out of the white tax
payers pockets into the pockets of the
negro and those who control his vote.


Ihis thing was attempted in Whining
ton ny the Ring last fall and to certain
extent ACCOMPLISHED.
Year: 1874




At the workiugmen's mass meeting
held here last night resolutions were
adopted demanding the enforcement Of
the eight hour system and the removal
of Architect Mullet; depreciating the
introduction Of Coolies as threatening
the exclusion of enlightened workmen,
and tavorpg the opening OF the Peo-
pies Freight railroad and OF wafer
communication by the Government.


The House Committee on Poet
Offices and Poet Roads TO-DAY agreed
10 report that the contract with the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, CIV
ing a subsidy OF $5O0.O00 per annum
for additional mail service, is null and
void BY reason OF their nou-tuifillment
OF the contract, and that the sum ap-
propriated be covered into the Treasury
and that no additional appropriation be
made under that contract. This leaves
the old contract Of $500, 900 per annum,
having three years to run, undisturbed.


The SRnbOrn case.


The Committee on Ways and Means
had before it this morning Mr.. Dickin-
son, Boston lawyer, who furnished
the committee with an interesting his
tory of F. A. Prescott, Sauborn's laws
yer. He detailed the circumstances by
which Prescott took from a New Bed
ford boot and shoe dealer 5000 on a
pretence OF settling for him a case Of
insufficient income tax, He gave a
snccipct history of Prescott's career
from the time he was clerk in the Inter-
nal Revenue Bureau, when he divulged
correspondence from the Boston District
Attorneys Office until the time when this
same District Attorney Hillsrd made a
motion for Prescott's admission to the
bar in ignorance of his aptecedents. As
to Sanborn, be secuted the idea that he
vas a mysterious map. He would as
soon think OF mentioning Dom Pistt
in that character. He believed that
Sanborn was sim ply put forward as q
man through whom the knowledge and
information OF revenue frauds might be
Investigated by others.


Cabinet Meeting.


All the members Of the Cabinet were
present at the session to.dsy, bat there
was no public business before the meet.
ing and an adjournment was effected
early.
Year: 1874

ALTHOUGH going into the fight yes-
terday with thorough party organiza-
ticn, and with all the party machinery
brought into action; though the colored
troops fought nobly, and voted solidly
for GoFF and Civil Rights, yet white
men Of Ohio county did not forget past
efforts made to disfranchise them, and
the result is: a Democratic victory.
Year: 1874

gitimate business or profession would
be wrong. We, as farmers. cannot
get wealthy by our occupation; no
man can by his own individual labor.
Should he get the highest price going
for his produce, and live and labor to
three score and ten, vet he would not
be wealthy. Wealth is amassed by
aecumulating the labor of others. If
it is wrong for companies to work 80,
100 or 1000 men, and amass wealth
from their labor. it is equally wrong
for farmer to work one or more men,
and pocket the profits. Suppose the
farmers make a var with the mOnOp-
olies, what will it cost, and who will
win2 600 or 800 Oranges in Ohio,
say 800 to each for first years ex-
pense-$60,O00 to $S0,000-large as
that amount may appear, plenty com
panies can raise $l,00O,O 900 if neees-
sary, to fight you with.


Another view of the subject looks
very much as if the Grangers were
trying to destroy a great evil by ere
ating still greater one. What could
be a greater monopoly than to COM
bine the whole farming class, and
they dictate to the balance of man
kind the terms upon which the neces-
saries of life could be had by the con-
sumner, regardless of the law of sup
ply and demand, and one, if carried
to satisfy the avarice of some, would
entail more misery than anything
conceivable.


But am sorry to admit that COM
binations are the order of the day.
Everything is drifting in that direc-
ton. Even the rag and glass pick
ers of New York City are organized.
Different interests will next combine
on the plea of self-protection, and
that is the strongest plea to my mind
in favor of the Grangers. 1t very
likely has many good qualities as a
friendly, social meeting of neighbors.
Much of that may be neutralized by
sordid, selfish aspirants that are a
part of us, (the people. We are all
more or less selfish. Who among us
(Grangers included) that would not
doff the robes of the plowman if we
were sure we could make money fast
er and easier, and become milliOnaires
at some other occupation? Who
would blame us2 Many of our best
farmers are constantly doing so, and
we who can't make the point had bet
ter


Stick close to our farms, we'll suffer no


loss,


The stone that keeps rolling will gather
no moss.


Another advantage to be derived
from our organization, in which | feel
great interest-we can learn and
improve in transacting public bust
ness get some knowledge of
properly conducting the same; be-
come accustomed to speak in public
without choking down, (as Tom Cor
win termed it.. too well know its
influence, am a slave to embarrass-
ment Let MS all take part, and ac-
quire habit to make ourselves as
much at home to speak in public as
we are following our daily labor.
In conclusion, let me say to one and
all-let us strive to make our Club a
success.


ADDISON. O., April Is, 1874.
Year: 1874

~The wheat cropis promising
throughout all the grain-growing
States, and result of drain to In
dia ON account of the famine, and
prospect of short crop in England
on account of labor troubles, the
chances of brisk demand at good
prices is such as TO make glad the
heart of the Granger,
Year: 1874

| George d. Prentice never wrote any
thing more beautiful than the follow
ing extract from one of his fugitive
pieces:


at cannot be that the earth is .nan's
only abiding place. 1t cannot be that
our life is bubble cast up by the ocean
OF eternity, 10 float a moment upon lis
surface, and then sink into nothing
ness forever. Else, why is it that the
high and glorious aspirations which
leap like angels from the temple OF our
hearts are forever wandering abroad
unsatisfied? Why is it that the rain
bow and cloud come over us with a
beauty that is not of eOrth, and then
pass 0ffand leave Us to muse on their
iaded loveliness? Why is it that the
stars which hold their festival around
the midnight throne are set above the
grasp of our limited faculties, forever
:nocking us with their unapprOachable
glory? And finally, why is it that
forms of beauty are presented to view,
and then taken from us, leaving the
the thousand streams of the affections
to flow back into Alpine torrents? We
are born for higher destiny than that
of earth. There is a realm where the
rainbow never fades; where the stars
will be spread out before US like ISL
ands that slumber on the ocean, and
where the beautiful things that here
pass before us like visions will stay in
our presence forever.
Year: 1874

10 many hearts in the old country
that cherish its traditions, the curfew
recalls story of loves devotion.


In the time of Cromwell, young SOL
dier. for some offence, was compelled
to die, and the time of his death was
fixed "at the ringing of the curfew. :"
Naturally, such doom would be fear
ful and bitter to one in the years of his
hope and prime; but to this unhappy
youth death was doubly terrible, since
he was soon to be married to beauti-
ful lad! whom he had long loved.


The lady, who loved him ardently in
return, h "a used her efforts to avert his
fate, by pleading with the judge s, and
even with Cromwell himself, but all
in vain. In her despair she tried to
bribe the old sexton not to ring the
bell, but she found that impossible.
The hour drew near for the execution.
The preparations were completed. I he
officers OF the law brought forth the
prisoner and waited, while the sun was
setting, for the signal from the distant
bell-tower.


10 the wonder of everybody it did
not ring. Only one person at that mo-
ment knew why. The poor girl herself,
half wild with the thought of her low
er's peril, had rushed unseen up the
winding-stairs,a and climbed TIE ladders
into the belfTy-lOft and seized the
tongue of the bell.


The old sexton was in his place,
prompt to the fatal moment. He
threw his weight upon the rope, and
the bell, obedient to hispracticed hand,
reeled and swung to and fro in The
tower. But the brave girl kept her
hold, and no sound issued from the me-
tallic lips.


Again and again the sexton drew the
rope, but with desperate strength the
young heroine held on. Every mo-
ment made her position more fearful,
every sway of the bell s huge weight
threatened to fling her through the
high tower window, but she would not
let 60.


AT last the sexton went away. Old
and deaf, he had not noticed that the
curfew gave no peal. The brave girl
descended from the balfry, wounded
and trembling. She hurried from the
church 10 tie place Of execution.
Cromwell WAS there, and was just
sending todemand why the bell was
silent. She saw him


And her brow,
Lately white with sickening horror, glows


with hope and courage now;
AT his feet she told her story, showed her


hands all bruised and torn,
And her sweet young face, still haggard with


the anguish it had worn,
Touched his heart with sudden pity, lit his


eyes with misty light
$50; your over lives" cried Cromwell; "cur-


few shall not ring tonight"
Year: 1874

Time is money and many people pay
their debts with it.


Ignorance is the wet nurse of preju-
dice.


Half of the discomfort of life is the
result of getting tired of ourselves


Benevolence is the cream on the milk
| of human kindness.
People Of good sense are those whose
opinions agree with ours.


Style is everything for a sinner, and
little of it will not hurt saint.


Men are divided nowadays into slow
Christians and wide-awake sinners.


There are people who expect to es-
cape hell because of the crowd going
there.


Most people are like eggs-too full of
themselves to hold anything else.


A mule is a bad pun on horse.


Health is loan al call.


Beware of man with half fshut eyes.
He's not dreaming.


Man was built after all other things
had been made and pronounced good.
If not, he would have insisted on giv-
ing his orders as to the rest Of the job.


Mice fatten slowly in church. They
can't live on religion any mare than
ministers can.
Year: 1874

A pity that so few people under.
stand the full effect of well-timed 81.


lence! How eloquent it is in reality


Acquiescence, contradiction, difference


disdain, Embarrassment, and awe may


by necessary to illustrate this apparent


paradox by few examples. Do you


seek an assurance of your lady-Iove's


affection? The fair one confirms her


lovers fondest hopes by compliant and


an asserting silence. Should you hear


an assertion which you may deem


false, made by some one of whose ve-


racity pOliteness may withhold you


from openly declaring your doubt, you


denote difference of opinion by re-


naming silent. Are you receiving a


reprimand from superior. You mark


your respect byy an attentive silence.


Are you compelled to listen to the
frivolous conversation. of a fop? You
signify your opinion of him by treat
ing his loquacity with cOntemptuous
silence. Again, how much domestic
strife might have been prevented, how
often might might the quarrel which
by mutual aggravation has, perhaps,
terminated in bloodshed, had it been
checked in the commencement by
judicious silence! Those persons only
who have experienced them are aware
of the beneficial effects of that forbear-
ance, which to the exasperating threat,
the malicious sneer, or the unjustly
culpability, shall never an
SWer a word. a soft answer turns
away wrath; but sometimes erring hu-
manity cannot give this soft answer in
of irritation; in such cases,
there lands the fortress ofsllence, with |
doors wide open, as refuge for the tired |
spirit until calmer moments come
Think of this seriously, you who glory |
IN having "the last word" J
Year: 1874

nomination. As to the the party in
Ohio, the need of such an effort to
plaster over the differences of factions,
does not promise well for success. In
the last eighteen years, one trial of De-
mocracy has been dose to the people
OF Ohio each time. The prospect is
that they have now had their sufficient
dose
Year: 1874

lainy aud fraud, if We fall down and worship
the Golden Image" we must of necessity
adopt their forms of government, and in
much shorter time than we dream of. On
the other hand, if We brayely institute the
American system of fair exchanges, our ex-
ample will be followed, aud while We shall
maintain our own liberties, we shall see the
liberties of the down>trodden people of other
lands established, and republicanism triumph
throughout the world. What we want is the
"money of the realm" advocated SO ably by
Henry Cary Baird, of Philadelphia; and in
such volume that the erich German friends"
of Carl Schurz will not be tempted to convert
our Instruments of commerce" into his sloan.
able capital" on mortgages at ten per cent,
aud when as he said in the Senate, Every
child knows that rise in the value of
land Is not rise in the value of mortgages"
"Loanable capital" indeed That very
phrase of the learned German should adj
monish cur people that the Cloths were al
ready in our Cspitol-aye, in the 'sSenate
chamber" Opdyke, with the impress of a
Republic in his heart, terms money an ''in-
strument of commerce." and this disciple of
Bismarck terms it ''loanable capital" The
American people will decide who is right of
the two. If they still love the Republic they
will use money only as the ''instrument of
commerce - but if they are hankering after
an Empire, money made tyrannous with this
German idea of "loanable capital" will GER
tainly bring the Empire.


While L then would have full supply of
money, and up to the demand of the ex>
changes on the cash principle, and guard it
ny the amount from the temptation to usury,
l would go further and regulate the value of
money SO that when treated as "loauable
capital" the interest should always be below
the net annual increase of labor And 1
would protect by penal enactment the proper
use OF the instrument of commerce." Just
as would protect it from counterteiting and
forgery.


will conclude this letter and this ques>
tion in regard to the amount of money, by
saying that endorse and adopt every word in
his most able letter to the Courier, of Mr.
Charles Sears, of Navesink, N. j., on the
question of the volume of the currency, and
[ might add the entire letter. His letter is
the most complete exposition of the whole SUBJ
ject of money that have ever read, and not
only this country but mankind owe him debt
of gratitude for it. But that the length of
this letter forbid it, I would quote all he says
on the t'volume of currency" and refer to
it now as authority on this point.


am, sir, very respectfully and truly yours,


JoHN A. THOMSON
Year: 1874


Yes. give metheland. where theruins arespread.
And the living tread light on the heart of the
Yes. give me the land that is blest by the dust.
And bright with the deeds of tho down-trOdden


Just.


Yes Giveme the land where the battle's red blast
Has flashed on the future the form of the past,
Yes, give me the land that hath legends and lays,
That tell of the memories of long vanished DAYS.
Yes, give me tho land that hath story and song.
To tell of the strife of the right with the wrong;
Yes, give me the land with grave in each spot,
And names in the graves that shall not be forgot.
Yes, give me the land of the wreck and the tomb:
There's grandeur in graves. there's glory in


gloom;
For out of the gloom future hi ightness is horn:
As. after the night. looms the sunrise of morn.
And. the graves of the dead. with the grass over


grown,


May yet form the fOOtstoOl of Libcrty's throne;
And each simple wreck in theway-path of night,
Shall yet be n rock IN the temple of right.
Year: 1874

In Virginia City, Nevada, gentleman
has placed on each side Of the gravel walk
leading from his front seat TO his door, .
handsome iron fence, the top rail of which is
made of gas pipes filed with small holes
Before he thus fenced his walk he was much
troubled by book agents, map peddlers, and
other persistent people, but now all is lovely
with him. When be sees q man enter bis
gate with books under his arm, he simply
turns a cock and instantly thousands streams
of water dart scross the whole length Of the
walk from side TO side. The book peddler re-
treats to the gate, gazes wistfully up the walk
for time, concludes the man of the house
dose not want to zee him, and then travels,
wondering what sort of internal machines
people will next invent for the discourage>
meDt of honest industry. This beautiful and
useful invention is not patented.