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Year: 1875

With the Southern States. the labor questionable question of reliable and cheap labor-is of the greatest importance. With our rich lands in such large quanti- ties, adapted to the production of everything that grows in the soil, and with a sparce population wholly inadequate to the task of putting anything near the whole of said lands in q state of produc- tive cultivation, it must be seen that a supply of labor is indis- pensable to our prosperity.

 Closely connected with the labor question is the race question. The proportion of the colored population in the South is SC great, that upon their course ol conduct, upon their industry and close pursuit of some profitable employment, and upon a concilia
Year: 1875



 ED. DEMOCRAT: l have seen nothing in your paper from Clark, but l hope to get time from now forward to give you an item occasionally. In the first place allow me to congratulate you upon the neat, high toned and interest ing paper yon are furnishing us. l find less objectionable reading matter in it than any home paper we have ever had, and l sincerely hope you will find all the good men, and especially farmers, ral- lying to your support so that you can make the DEMOCRAT a perma- nent institution. Our farmers, l fear, don't read their home paper enough to keep posted on many things which they should know. We have many good citizens in Clark and l think you will get a big list of subscribers from here this fall.

 We have all been very busy here this year. We have worked hard and have good prospects for crops. Our wheat and oats was better than average. If we can get good rains for few weeks longer we will make plenty of corn. Our farmers have bought less on credit this year than l have ever known them to buy before, and l think this is the highway to success.

 Clark grange 232, is in a pros porous condition, and will com mence their new hall next week. The building is two-story frame house 24x36, and will be located about 5 miles northwest of Rus sellville. Our grange has sixty odd patrons.

 Thanking you for the space l have appropriated, and also for your successful efforts to furnish us so good paper, l am, respect ! fully, AGRicoLA.
Year: 1875

With our next issue one-half of the first volume of the DEMOCRAT will have been placed before our readers; six months will have ex- pired and the time of many of our six months subscribers will be out. We trust that the course of our paper thus far has been such as to meet the appreciation of all fair minded persons who have read it. We have had many kindly assurances that such is the case, and we believe it from the fact that our subscription list has steadily increased.

 But while it is increasing and new names are added to our list, we still want to hold our old subscribers. We look upon them and look to- ward them as first friends, ard we wish still to retaln them as such. We therefore cordially press all whose time will be out a. the end of the first SIX months, to send us in their renewal, and still remain upon our list. One dollar and a half is Q very small sum, only l241 cents q month for the support of your home paper, which places you in direct possession of all matters of any interest or impOr- tance which may be going on in your county or State. Your local paper more than earns the patron age it gets; it benefits your coun- ty more than all that is paid to support it.

 To those who wish it we can furnish the DEMOCRAT and the St. Louis Midland Farmer, an eight page monthly agricultural jour nal at $l.75 per year.

 Send in your renewals, friends, and we will work hard to give you full value for all received.
Year: 1875

The Black Hills, after all it seems are but gigantic fraud. The New York Herald which keeps we'll posted by an interest ing correspondence from there, has this to say in speaking of the subject:

 It seems as if there is not as much gold in the Black Hills country as was anticipated by our impatient adventurers who are anxious to drive out the Indians from their reservations and grow rich in a month or so. Mir. Jen- ney, the geologist of the explor- ing expedition, reports that the gold is thinly scattered, and that no one has obtained more than a few cents worth of gold dust after few hours hard labor. Even the newsboys do better than that, and blacking boots on Broadway would seem to he more remun- erative occupation than washing out gold in the gulchcs of the Black Hills. Our correspondence from this country will be found full of interest and value, as show ing that the unexplored and GOV eted land is not such an Fl Dorado after all. Our people can do no better than to remain at home, If they want gold they have only to dig for it here, and the return will be as certain and much more pleasant in the finding than by a long, dangerous and uncertain trip to the Black Hills.
Year: 1875

Because Mir. Charles Nordhof, an intelligent, clear headed, fair minded German, has told the truth in his correspondence to the New York Herald in regard to the condition of affairs in the South, and because the truth reflects bad ly upon the policy of the admins tration toward the South, the Washington National Republican the organ of Grant and the mouth piece of the Republican party, de Nounccs him as Q Dutch Jew whose statements arc not worthy to be relied upon.
Year: 1875

From letter from an old friend who has been in Colorado several years. we make the following ex- tracts:

 DENVER, July 3d, 1875. returned yesterday from the Round Ups where 1 am gathering up my stock (cattle which scattered during the storms of early spring. send you a paper which explains about Round Ups.

 This ountry I consider q fraud in every respect with exception of health. Our agricultural DOT tion is confined to the mountains and vicinity, and on streams where water can be had for irri- gating the same-but the grass hoppers have taken everything for two years, and nothing has been raised. What the farmers are to do here this year is hard to tell. l predict great suffering. I intend to to get out of this coun- try as soon as I can, and think of going back so Arkansas. re- ceived a letter from H. today. He has been talking of paying me a visit, but writes he don't think he can come now. In case he does come can't you arrange it so that you can get off and come along with him? l will promise you some rare sports and sights. l want to make a tour through the mountains on a fishing and hunt ing expedition before long.

 Write to me and let me know what the prospects are down there for the future to make a living. 1 see a great many Ar kansas people out here, and the most of theih are cx-Brooksites men, and I suppose they came here to pillage this country. Re gards to Jake Shinn and all our friends. Truly your friend,

 x. x.

 The above, from an old friend carries us far back to the days of "Auld Lang Syne." Nothing would afford us more pleasure than to accept your kind invita- tion and to see our friend in his far western home.

 Come back old friend, to Ar kansas. We can assure you prospects were never better than at present. In fact now is the first time the sun has sEone bright ly on us, and clouds have scatter cd away since reconstruction.

 Now indeed Sis the winter of our discontent made glorious summer" and our horizon is clear and our prospects bright. We have had a fine wheat and oat crop and prospects are good for first rate corn and cotton crops. We expect considerable immigra- ton this fall, and look for "the good time which has been long, long time on the way" Welcome back to Arkansas.
Year: 1875

tion between them and the whites, depends to great extent the progress which we shall be able to make in our agricultural indus tries. The colored people of the South arc naturally good workers and they understand the cultiva- tion of our soil, and know how to make corn, cotton, rice, and sugar. Friendly relations between them and the whites, and fair dealings in all transact ions are necessary to the contentment of the black race; and upon their contentment depends their disposition to labor and exert themselves for an hon. est livelihood. It is gratifying to know that the willy tricks of adventurers and carpet baggers who have managed to keep the colored man estranged from hls true interests, and to keep an issue between him and his white neighbor in the South, in order that he might use him as polit ical power, are fast being discov- cred by the colorcd man, and that disgust and distrust toward these advcnturers are following the dis covery. The colored man is now ready for conciliation, and it is to be hoped that the good sense of the white population will prompt such a course of conduct toward the negro race as will lead to har mony and good feeling between them.

 Apropos to the subject, the New York Sun has this to say: From every part of the South the intelligence comes that the negroes are becoming disgusted with the greed and dishonesty of the carpct-baggcrs who have ob tained possession of the Republi- can organization in the recon struc- ed states, and are preparing to join with the native whites in op- position to the misrule of these adventures. It could hardly be otherwise. The colored voters in the South, though generally igno- rant, arc not so blind but that they can see that the misgovcrnment which is running their white neighbors, upon whom they most lv depend for employment and the means of livelihood, is as much opposed to their own interests as to those of the whites. A career of robbery which has resulted in the impovcrishment of several states rich in natural resources, cannot be continued without the population of every class suffering from it's effects. The more intel ligent of the negroes see this, and are dcserting the political impOs- tors who have been using them to advance their own selfish schemes while making great professions of devotion to the welfare of the African race. The Norfolk, Va, Day Book, a Republican news paper which has the sagacity to see that its party cannot carry the ignominy entailed upon it by the rascalities of the carpet t-baggers and live, says that it has been in formed by leading colored men that the colored voters desire to conciliate with their white home people, and that they are deter mined to do so. The same dispO- sition is manifesting itself in Louisiana, Mississippi, and other states which it has been thought would become completely African lzcd, and it only depends upon the good sense and good judg- ment of the native whites in all the Southern states to banish the race question from politics.
Year: 1875

The offices of the World and In dependent at Helena, have been destroyed by fire-supposed to have been the work of an incen- diary. The world was insured, and the proprietor announces his intention to again reiit and go ahead.
Year: 1875

Threshing is being pushed up in our county. We understand the average yield is about fifteen bushels per acre. Some being as low as ten and twelve, and others going up to eighteen and twenty bushels. State.
Year: 1875

In the first place it is an imposition on
any well-bred girl to keep her up later
than halfpast ten o'clock, when you
have the opportunity of seeing her often.
If YOU always leave her with the wish in
her heart that you had staid longer, ,you,
ca;n 40 much. Never run the risk OF
wearying her with your presence. BE
inst as earnest and straightforward as
in your honorable dealing with men.
Impress your friends with the WORTH.
ness and seriousness of your love, so that
vulgar and senselcss bantering Will ap-
near to them rs such. Love in religion
the suprcmest happiness; wear it man


fully and proudly, but holly. Woo
woman bravely. If there is anything
humiliating to a woman, it is to have .
lover whom she wishes to honor, weai
and vap:d, ever yielding and half atrait
of her. She longs to tell him to "ac


like A man. The man who conceals o


denies his love for fear of being laughed


at. Is a coward. A love that has no ele


ment of divinity in it is not love, bu


passion, which Of itself has nothing er
noblipC. That was beautiful inscriI
tion on an engagement ring, Each ft
the other, and both for God. Miss 400
r 7evry, in Scroll Work.
Year: 1875

Yesterday morning as 3 Grand
Trunk train was leaving the depot q
gsunt man with a big satchel rushed
into the building, uttered loud yell
and tore down the platform Ike a
steer running away. Possibly be
might have caught the train but for
slip which sent him sprawliDg on
the plank, and drove bis head against
q big immigrant chest with terrible
bump. Several people rushed up
and one called out:


"Are you going on the traing"


The gaunt man sat up, felt Of bis
head, rubbed his knees and indig-
nsntly replied:


"No, you internal idiot, I'm going
to sit right here all summer.p-Fres
Press.
Year: 1875

Every farmer should own 3 scrap
book in which to paste agricultural
items. Almost any man in reading
q paper viii see things which be viii
wish to remember. He will perhaps
see suggestions, the value Of which
be viii desire to test, or hints which
be viii want TO be governed by in fu-
ture operations And yet, after read
ing the paper, be will throw it down
ana probably never see it again. In
such case all the valuable articles
will be lost. To prevent such loss.
every reader should clip from the pa
pers such articles as be desires to
preserve, and paste them in book.
Such a book, at the end Of year
or two, will be interesting and valua-
t1o
Year: 1875

Bs- NOTICE TO CAPTAINS or VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT or NEW YORK AT EIGHT.-The NEw YORK
HERALD has adopted distinguishing Coson night signal for
board the HERALD yacht showing while burn
ing red green red changing the other
in succession and can be seen miles distant Cap
tans vessels upon seeing this signal win obge pre-
pairing any they may have for the Ship News
Department Of the HERALD


HPersons desrous Of communicating with vessels arv
ing York do by addressing such vessels
Of HERALD news yacht pier No East River New York.


Letters all parts Of the world and promptly de-
lvered Duplicates required
Year: 1875

Shortly after ten O'Clock last evening fire dis
covered in the building No l54 Mercer street door
to Tony PASTORS Metropolitan Theatre. Fortunately
but little damage was done although the audience in
the theatre considerably frightened, and for time
stampede was imminent
Year: 1875

SHoT.-Yesterday afternoon, two men
became engaged in quarrel at Seventh
and Church streets when one of them
fired pistol at the other. The ball
took effect in the shoulder of q man
named Springer, and injured him quite
severely.
Year: 1875

One OF the first settlers of New
Hampshire was man BY the name Of
Chamber;aip. He moved from the
thick settled towns near the seashore.
aud penetated into the wilderness of
that State, far from any settlement or
dwelling of the whites. Here he built
himself cabin. and though surround
ed by hostile Indians and ravenous
beasts of prey, he feared no danger
aud felt no harm The roof of his
hut was hung about with the flesh Of
the bear. and he lay at night on the
fur OF the catamount and panther.
He was tall-higher than the tallest
Indian-strong-fo of them with
their tomahawks. were no match for
him with his heavy hatchet. He was
swift OF foOt-he could outrun the
moose in full trot. Artful and cum
ming. he eDtrapped the Indian in his
ambush, aud surpassed him in ira
versing the pathless wilds. The In
dians passed cautiously aud harmless
ly by the dwelling of Chamberlain
and score of them would lie still
when they watched in ambush, and
suffer him to go on unmolested, less
their rifles might miss his body, and
bring him in vengeance upon them;
for he valued them as lightly as did
Samson the men OF AskeIon.


Around the shores of the largest
lake in New Hampshire, there dwelt,
at that time, a powerful tribe of In
dians. Their chief was Paueus. He
was a savage, of giant size and
strength, swift. cunning, deadly with
his rifle and tomahawk, and cruel,
vengetul beyond the native vengeance
OF the Indians. He was the terror of
man, woman and child. along the
frontiers. and even among the small
cities on the very edge of the sea.


Bands OF soldiers had often pene-
trated to the shores of this lake, to
find out the retreat of this terrible
savage. and. if possible. to slay or
take him prisoner. But he was too
cunning, and always eluded their
search: though at one time he came
SO near that he saw the blaze of his
wigwam, as they set it on FIRE, and
the smoke OF it curling among the
tree tops that were then above his
head


Often had Chamberlain sought. in
the Indian battles he was engaged in,
to find out the form of Paugus, to
make him the mark of his rifle, or to
encounter with his hatchet the toma-
hawk of this fearful warrior. But
they never had chaEced to meet, al
though Paueus had learned of his
tribe the character and prowess of
Cham oerlain.


A small body Of brave men, under
the command of Captain Lowell. were
on their way through the wilderness,
IN pursuit of the Indians, and by
chance passed near the dwelling Of
Chamberlain. He saw them. and
learned the object OF their march, he
Joined them, and was considered by
them all as a great addition to the
strength of their devoted little baud.
They traversed the woods, and en-.
countered an overwhelming body OF
Indians near Lovell's Pond. This
Year: 1875

As many spoke of Robin Hood who
never shot with his bow. so many hear
Of Lindley Murray who know moth
ing of him but that he composed a
book Of English grammar. He was
an American-native OF Pennsylvania
and realized a competency at New
Y York, partly as a barrister and partly
as merchant The necessities of
health obliged him to remove to En-
gland, where he spent the last forty
years Of his protracted life at Hold
gate, near York, feeble invalid. but
resigned and happy. Besides his we'll
known Grammar, he wrote book on
the The Power Of Religion on the
Mint. lie was man of mild and
temperate nature, entirely beloved by
all connected with him. In a series
Of photographed letters, he gives
statement as to the moderation of his
desires, we'll worthy OF being brought
under general notice:


My views and wishes with regard
TO property were, in every period OF
my lite, contained within a very mod
crate compass. | was early persuaded
that, though a competence is vital TO
content, l ought not to annex TO that
term the idea OF much property. L
determined that when | should ac-
quire enough tn enable me to main
tain and provide for my family IN
re respectable and moderate manner. aud
this according to real and rational,
not imaginary and fantastic wants,
and a little to share for the necessities
of others. | would decline the pursuit
of property. and devote a great part of
my time. In some way or other. to the
benefit of my fellow creatures, within
the sphere OF my abilities to serve
them. | perceived that the desire 'ot
great possessions generally expands
with the gradua acquisition and full
attainment of them; and | imagined
that charity and generous applica-
tion do not sufficiently correspond
with the increase of property. L
thought, too, that procuring great
wealth has a tendency to produce an
elated independence of mind, little
connected with that humility which is
the ground Of all our virtues; that a
busy aud anxious pursuit of it often
excludes views and reflections OF in
finite importance, and leaves but little
time to acquire that treasure which
would make US rich indeed
l was persuaded that truly sincere
mind could be at no loss to discern
the Just limits between a safe and
competent portion and dangerous
profusion of the good things of lie.
These views of the subject [ reduced
to practice; and terminated my mer
camille concerns when / had acquired
a moderate competency. Book of
DAYS.
Year: 1875

sit is a guinea" answered Sam.
(which the great statesman, Billy
Pitt, as he was familiarly called. gave
my father. one day, when he was hur-
ryine in hot haste to London on i'm
por.ant business. My fathers man-
ner and readiness pleased Mr.. Pitt.
and he gave him guinea, which my
father declared should be the last
piece Of money he would ever spend.
1t has come to me. and l am deter
mined will never run so near ground
as to need that guinea to hoat me.
That guinea, Mr.. Rapid, has made me
careful man, and [ grieye to think
you are throwing away, with both
hands, fortune on fellows who don t
really care q pinch of snuff for you.
Let me beg you, as an old TREND, to
leave Flyaway Hall and live in a
smaller and more lucky house, else
you will be limping up to the despised
Angel in a few years time, with
rags on your back. to beg crust and
a job of old Sam. ss.rs


Mr.. Rape d could hear no more such
doieful forebndings. but hurried away
to pay his bill and to chat with the
more congenial landlord.


The saucy Tiger soon appeared and
grumbled at evervth ne in the sta BILE
except Sam, who hooked too big and
resolute to insult By and by the
smart turnout bowled away; the
landlord bowed, and thanked Mr..
Rapid for his patronage; and Sam re-
manned more or less absent all the
day.


In less than the time he had fixed,
Flyaway Hall was gain the scene of
Mr. Hammers toll Again all that
valuable furniture, pictures, wines.
etc. went to the highest bidder, and
Mr.. RAPID disappeared from view.


Some time after gaunt, emaciated
man knocked at Sans door. OF
course we know WHO it was-no one
else than Rapid. broken, weary, dy
ing. He had no friends; those who
had helped to ruin him were scattered
every one to his own, and no one
cared for poor Jack Rapid soul. So
he bethought him of the kind hearted
old hostleT, who had beiriended hiin
in the adversities of his youth, and
had given him the best Of advice in
his mad career of prosperity. In the
Jack Rapid breathed his last, con-
scious of his folly, and taught by Sam
to go as a penitent to the Cross, in
which the broken hearted find rest
and hope.


And when he meets a young man
given to loose and lavish ways, he
contrives to conduct him some quiet
evening to the churchyard, where be-
sides r ,pil's grave he Joints the
moral which the prodigal's short lite
supplied; and often so sharply that
several young men can thankfully
date the abandonment of their follies
from the still aud solemn hour when
old Sans words seemed to go into
their very souls, and made them con
slider their ways.
Year: 1875

Nothing can be worse Cor a child
than TO be frightened The effect of
the scare it Is slow to recover from;
it remains sometimes until maturity.
as is shown by many instances of
morbid sensitiveuess and excessive
nervousness Not unfrequently. fear
is employed as a means of discipline.
CT ildren are controlled by being
made to believe that something terri
bic will happen to them and punished
by being shut up in dark rooms. or
by l,eipg put in places they stand in
dread of. No one, without vivid
memory of his own childhood, can
comprehend how entirely cruel such
things are. We have often heard
grown persons tell OF the suffering
they have endured. as children. under
like circumstances. aud recount the
irreparable injury which they arc
sure they then received No parent,
no nurse, capable of alarming the
young, is fitted for her position
Children, as near as possible, should
be trained not TO know the sense of
fear, which. above everything else. is
to be feared in their education, early
and late.-New York Freeman
journal.
Year: 1875




DIR. s. F. Francis is under the firm
conviction that the mosquito is an
absolute benefit to mankind: that the
industrious and happy little creature
was created for the purpose of driving
man out OF the malarial districts, end
that no locality where ague prevails
can be made free from the pest. He
goes on to reason further that it is
good for people who don't leave such
districts to get bit very frequently. as
the musical little bcncfactor admins
tiers remedy. The mosquito injects
hypodermically little liquid which
answers two purposes, first to render
the blood thin enough to be drawn up
through its tubes, and second to in
ject that which possesses the princi-
pies of auinine.


1t is unfortunate that these iacts
were not developed before Many an
afflicted man who has smudged linn
self half to death. and thrown pillows
all night, might have lain quietly and
let the little physicians take the bile
all out of his system, and not cent
to pay for services either.-In- Door
and Out.