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Year: 1878

Evening is the liveliest time In the
Greenland hut. Then the FRIGHT lamps
are burning, the kettles and pots (made
of soapstone) all steaming and boiling
over each lamp, the women busily chat
ting at their work, and half-naked chill
dren running about on the warm REIN
deer SKINS on the ledge behind them.
This is the scene going on before US.
The seal-hunter has just arrived home
from after his days toll upon the sea,
and while he is hanging up his lines.
his water proof gloves and other para
phernalia, piece of skin is drawn forth
from beneath the ledge and spread be-
fore him. Its contents-the small, dried
fish called "angmagsat" or capeling-he
eats in silence, weary as he is. This is
only preliminary meal, an appetizing
pastime, while the more substantial
things over the lamp are getting ready
and it does not take long to boil seal
flesh. After the fish he takes draught
from the water-pail behind the door.


The skin curtain of the ledge, hiding
the mysteries of the lower regions, is
once more drawn aside, and the skin,
with the remnants, disappears behind it,
to join host of the most heterogeneous
articles. A good deal of talking in the
relating line, or in the chatting, pratt
tling, merry-making style, is generally
going on. What l remember most dis
tinctly from my many visits and stays
in the Greenland huts are the stories
and descriptions of the men relative to
their sea adventures, accompanied by
the most animated gestures, showing
how the seal had first appeared, and,
then again dived down on his approach
ing it; how he (the hunter in his turn
had fingered behind till the animal,
made incautious by the ensuing silence,
again rose to the surface; and now the
hunter. leaning back with graceful
movement, shows how he resolutely
swept across a long surge, and came
within reach of his mark, took aim, and
threw his harpoon and bladder afoat
how the wounded animal dived and
again came to the surface, and so forth.
In fact, he paints the scene with the
most lively colors, as we all listened in
wrapt attention. My brother, who had
a lively comprehension and great tai
ent for mimicry, had in after years, in
Denmark, often to act the part of the
seal-hunter, and it strikes me that had
myself part in play representing an
unsuccessful whale hunt. Certainly We
. had many an hour of amusement in the
Greenland cottages. No doubt we were
very unpretending, and easy to please
in the extreme but why criticise the
means when the result is happiness
And happy We undoubtedly were, alike
in the dark, frosty days, with the moor
shining down upon us at noontide, an(
in the calm, delightful summer time
with its light, sunllt nights.-Ih
Field.
Year: 1878

GossIp.-Can the evil wrought by
gossip be estimated ? We trow not. A


wise woman can scarcely say too little
in company if the conversation trenches
in the least upon scandal. Many a So
cial, noble-minded woman has been
obliged to withdraw herself from a
neighborhood intimacy, which would
have been pleasant otherwise. because
Year: 1878

BURNs.-Strong. fresh, clear lime
water, mixed with as much linseed oil
as it will cut; shake the bottle before
applying; wrap the burn in cotton wad-
ding saturated with the lotion; wet as
often as it appears dry without remov-
ing cotton from burn for nine days,
when new skin will probably have
formed.
Year: 1878

JUVENILE LITERATURE.-1f your chill
dren early display a taste for reading,
select their books carefully. The amount
of Juvenile literature is large and varied,
and there is enough of what is pure in
thought, simple in style, high in princi-
pie and sweet in spirit, to satisfy the
needs of the most eager little student.
If all that is impure and exciting, and
even simply trashy, be carefully exclud-
ed from our children's libraries; if we
form in them the habit of reading and
enjoying the best and most ennobling
books suited to their age; and if a love
for the pure, the true and the beautiful
be developed in their hearts, the surest
blow will have been struck against the
unwholesome influence of impure and
frivolous literature. Above all things
avoid the fashily illustrated papers
which are so tempting to boys.
Year: 1878

Give the boys chance. Let them
have an opportunity to make pittance
for themselves-an acre of corn or a
quarter of that for potatoes something.
anything that will encourage the boys
and give them hope for the future. Far
mers and fathers, try it for just one
year, and see if your boys do not seem
more cheerful see if they are not more
contented with their sphere in life and
also see if it will not tend to make them
real, active and enthusiastic farmers.
Year: 1878

Good night
Now the weary rest by right,
And the busy fingers bending
over work that seems unending.
Toll no more till morning Light
Good nightl


Go TO restl


Close the eyes with slumber prest;
In the streets the silence growing
Wakes but to the watch-horn blowing.
Night makes only one request
Go to rest


Slumber sweeti
Blessed dreams each dreamer greet;
He who love has kept from sleeping,
In sweet dreams now DER him creeping
May he his beloved meet
Slumber sweetl
Good nighti


slumber till the morning light;
Slumber till the new tomorrow
Comes and brings its own new sorrow.
We are in the Fathers sight,
Good nightl
Year: 1878

her remarks were returned by some idle
tale-bearer, SO perverted as to make her
doubt the existence of genuine friend
ship, and accept loneliness for the safe
ty 1t brought. You say we must stalk
about something" Yes, and through
that very fact we see remedy for the
evil-to SO thoroughly interest ourselves
in other and better things that we find
no space to spare for our neighbors' af-
fairs. Let US teach our eyes to find beau
ty everywhere, while we blind them by
constant watchfulness to blemish. New
er, under any circumstances, cast the


first stone. Then, if an erring neighbor


goes down, you cannot blame yourself


for assisting in the downfall.
Year: 1878

There is one thing that cannot be i'm
pressed too strongly upon the minds Of
those of moderate means, who, IN the
crowds of millionaires in the great mon
ey centers of the older sections of the
country, are almost if not completely
barred from operations yielding large
profits. and that is the fact that the San
Juan country is as yet hardly in the
first stages of development. Almost
everything accomplished thus far has
been the work of preparation-the max
ing the country accessible-and secur-
ing such mechanical facilities as would
insure realizing from the ore after its
dislogment from the mountains. In 60
ing over the details of the jaunt through
the mining districts, it cannot but be
noted that the proportion of the mines
opened to depth of one hundred feet
and upward to those opened to less
depth is very small, hardly one in fifty,
while the proportion of mines but bari
ly prospected Is very much greater !;
hence the field actually explored COM
pared to that merely skinned over is
really nothing. while of the country not
even prospected, it may truly be said
there are oceans of it There is abso-
lutely no limit, at least for generations
to come, to the mineral wealth of the
San Juan and just now, with the diff
ferent districts opened up by roads
where year ago there was not even a
trail, with the increased transportation
both by rail and wagon, and, above all,
the certainty of the free coiange of sill
yer and its consequent standard value
in the country, opportunities without
number are offered whereby moderate
amount Of money will suffice for returns
that ordinarily would not result from
the investment of fortunes. The exist
ence Of the mineral is as certain as the
demonstration of any fact can make it
certain. The place of its deposit can be
ascertained readily and with certainty
and whether in paying quantities or not,
may be settled beyond peradventure.


Nothing can possibly be more erron-
eous than the impression in the minds
of some people that there are great risks
Year: 1878

in investing capital in mines. The
causes leading to such an impression
are always to be traced to some swindle
with an imaginary or planted mine as
the ostensible bait, but the only real
basis upon which the scheme is worked
up is the gullibility Of those who 60
into it pretty much as those who snap
at the counterfeiter's advertisement to
sell 81 900 for SIS. The result is the
same in both instances. The safe way
to invest in mines is as in anything
else: first see, and, if satisfied, buy.
That an immense amount of money has
been lost in mining schemes, in the per-
feet folly of giving some young fellow,
who never saw mine, a mint of money
to 60 and buy it with, in falling blindly
into the mining traps set by sinful
schemers, and in hundred other ways,
is as true as it is that many of the
greatest fortunes of the age have been
made by men of moderate means, and in
more than one instance by the humblest
miners working at day wages. Jerome
| B. Chaffee, U. S. Senator, and one of
the richest men in Colorado, is an ex-
emplifcation of the fact that fortunes
are as liable to fall to the miner as to
the mine-owner and round dozen
other almost as wealthy men as Mr..
Chafee might be named in this State
who, as military man would say, have
risen from the rank and file. In the
San Juan country, as everywhere else,
much, if not all, depends upon the
mettle of man. and those anticipating
the realization here of an entirely New
Jerusalem, wherein they have to but
gather gold, with which the streets are
paved, had better remain at home, for
certainly in their case, the bliss of ig-
norance would be far preferable to the
folly of becoming wise.-7He Rocky
Mountain Tourist.
Year: 1878

The wild western portion Of our coun-
try is as well supplied with feathered
songsters as the more civilized eastern
section, and that in secluded dell or on
dreary desert, where seldom heard by
human ear, they nevertheless sing as
gayly and with as much enthusiasm as
solely for the entertainment of us vain
beings, who, in our conceit, are apt to
imagine that all that is beautiful IN ma
ture was created simply for our amuse-
MENU


The principal songsters of the West
are not in all cases those of any partic-
ular locality, for the mountain forests,
the desert valleys, and the rocky canons
have alike their own characteristic
species, and it is difficult to decide in
which those most entitled to the first
rank are found. The more fertile val
leys ring with the loud, clear song of
the Western lark and the passionate
trills of the lark-sparrow the dreary
sage-brush wastes are rendered less In
hospitable by the tender, soothing chants
of several sparrows among the cotton
woods in the river valleys are heard the
mellow warbling of the black headed
grossbeak, the meandering chant of the
house-fnch, and the merry gable of
the woodwren while on the mountains
the pine forests and the varied shrub
berry of the canons resound with the
lively ditty of the Louisiana tanager
and the silverY harmony of the thrushes.
Of the latter, most of the species, except
those of the southern border, are com.
mon also to the East but as they are
nevertheless conspicuous among Western
songsters by reason of the melody of
their notes. they deserve a prominent
place.-Harper's Magazine for May.
Year: 1878

punish those who forget SO easily, his
successor has never woke the world with
great deeds. Residents of the State, of
course, know best as to the fitness of
their three representatives for the places
they occupy. If they have ability and
integrity, | say give them show and
keep them there. not only till they learn
their duties and begin to succeed in
doing them well, but until they fail to
do them. If they are only common
place men, waste no more time but hunt
for better material and fill their places.
A regret of my life will be that Benja-
min Steele was not spared to represent
Vermont in Congress. He would have
been an honor to Vermont.


Judge Adds, of st. Albans, is still in
Washington, engaged with the business
Of the Southern Claims Commission, of
which he is Chairman. He has deli
cate work to do, but he is eminently well
fitted for his place, having had large
experience as lawyer both at the bar
and on the bench, and an extensive
knowledge of men. Mrs. Adds is in a
measure cut off from society, on account
of deafness, and the Judges attention to
her is very beautiful to see, and its
rarity adds to the charm.


Vermont has the honor to furnish the
White House with physician in the
person of DR.. Jed Baxter, Chief Pur-
veyor of the Army. He is son of
Hon. Portus Baxter. deceased. Mrs.
Baxter, the honored wife of Portus
Baxter, resides with her son. She is
in feeble health. and there are loving
hearts all over the country, which dread
to hear from her lest it be sad news.
Fifteen years ago, her influence sent a
soldier to Vermont to see his friends. II
was his first furlough, and lasted only
seven days, but they were seven happy
be-forgotten days. On the four
teenth of March he returned to duty OIL
the first of April seven rebel bullets seal
ed with blood furlough no mortal could
countermand. With hearts too heavy
for tears we laid him to rest. Wha
wonder if side by side with our burdens
of grief, we carry deep and earnest graf
itude to the woman, but for whom, We
might have plead in vain for the few
days of happiness, before the dark shad
ow fell upon our lives. TRUFAx.
Year: 1878

The tramp is man who can be ap-
preached by no motive but paln.-the
pain of thrashing or the pain of hunger.
He hates work; he has no self-respect
and no shame, and by counting himself
permanently out of the productive and
self-supporting forces of society, he counts
himself out of his rights. He has no
rights but those which society may see
fit, of his grace, to bestow upon him.
He has no more rights than the sow
which wallows in the gutter, or the lost
dogs that hover around the city squares.
He is no more to be consulted IN his
wishes or his will in the settlement of
the question as to what is to be done
with him than if he were a bullock or
in corral. Legislation concerning this
evil seems to have been initiated in va
rious States, but at this writing we can
not learn that anything effective has
been done. 1t would be well if the
states could work 10 concert in this
matter.-Dr. Holland
Year: 1878

BY DIR. G. d. GARDETTR.
Upon my desk, one winter day,
spotless sheet of paper lay.
On whose clear surface was fain
To trace some travail of my brain


In lines of subtitle flow.
labored with exceeding care
To make the margins broad and fair,
And trembled lest the ink should fly,
For underneath my lady's eye


The lines at morn must go.
The day was young when begun:
At twilight scarce my work was done,
And when the evening lamp was brought
looked upon what l had wrought;


But ahl with grievous rage
The joy-beats Of my heart were quelled,
For by the lamp-light beheld


A Blot upon the PageI
A hideous blot whose sable stain
Made all my days long labor vain.
Twas true, another could WRITE
But had l strength enough tonight,


For morn must see it part?
And there was doubt within my mind
If l a second sheet could find
As fair as this in all my store.
Whereon afresh my thoughts to pour


To her who held my heart.
Then as 1 searched, alas methought,
'Tis thus in vain, too oft, are wrought
Our records on the page Of hfel
To keep it spotless in the strife,


A struggle long we wage:
We labor oft till set of sun,
And think our labor surely done;
But, when the lamp of Truth is brought,
Lol mid the work so deity wrought


A Blot upon the Pagel
Year: 1878

When beeches brighten early May.
And young grass shines along her way;
When April willows meet the breeze
Like softest dawn among the trees;
When smell Of Spring fills the air,
And meadows bloom. and blue-birds pair;
When Love first bares her sunny head
Over the brook and lily-bed;
Nothing of sound or sight to grieve
From choiring morn to quiet eve,-
My heart will not, for all its ease,
Forget the days to follow these.
This loveliness shall be betrayed,
This happiest Of music played
From field to field. by stream and bough,
The silent launch of thistles sail
Adown the solitary vale:


That blue solicitude OF sky
Bent over beauty doomed to die,
With nightly mist shall witness here
The yielding glory OF the year.
Year: 1878




Patrick and Henry Reilly. who went
over Niagara falls some days ago, were
experienced boatmen of the neighbor-
hood. They owe their destruction to
drunkenness. 1t is customary to cross
the Niagara river above the falls, from
Niagara village to point higher up on
the Canada side, IN small boats. In do
ing so the oarsman first rows up stream
along the American shore, SO that. when
he turns into the powerful current that
sweeps toward the Canadian fall, the
boat can be impelled across the river be-
fore being carried periously far down.
The undertaking is dangerous at best,
and the Reillys were drunk when they
started from the village. They headed
their boat directly across the river. and
were almost Immediately in the power
of the current. They kept rowing un-
til the boat capsized on the brink of the
waterfall, some think because they were
too drunk to know where they were,
while others suppose that. finding them
selves powerless to stem the current,
they took the vague chance of reaching
shore in the smooth water below the
reefs.
Year: 1878

"a reliable man wanted to take
charge of a farm''-"A reliable man
wanted in counting house re-
liable man wanted to superintend a
mill'-"A reliable man as teller in
ban" the advertisements read.
What demand there is for reliable
men Young women want them for hus-
bands; fathers and mothers want them
for sons-in-law. People in trouble in
quire anxiously for reliable lawyer
whom they can consult; the sick want
reliable physician the churches want a
reliable man for minister, although
they do not advertise their want in a
newspaper.


There seems to be no end to the de-
mands for reliable men. Are reliable
men SO scarce that so much point is made
of getting them


We apprehend they are not near as
plenty as they should be. Reliable ar
chitects and contractors and engineers
are not to be found in every place, or
there would not be SO many railway and
bridge accidents; cashiers and other
bank officers are not always reliable. or
there would be no defalcations. The
same may be said of trustees or insur-
ance officers. In truth, reliable men do
not crowd one another in class or occu-
patton.


Young men, it is for you to determine
whether you will be reliable man or
not. 1t all depends upon yourself.
Nothing is easier, only resolve that you
will be reliable man, and stick to
it through every temptation.


There has been some criticism on the
word reliable as not being good English.
But the word will answer very well, if
we can only have the quality which it
describes.-N. 7. Ledger.
Year: 1878

The Pioneer Press is ready to dis.
band the Republican party and form
a new party on the sole issue of hard.
money and hard times. Hear it.


In view of the recent election in
Maine. the honest men of the country
should at once make up their minds
Tor square fight with the rogues and
1ools. 1t is immatelial under what
name the honest men rally, 50 long as
they gather around the standard of
"SOund constitutional currency and
unstained national credit" Let hon.
est men stand firm; they can thous.
and times better afford to endure de-
feat for few years than to yield an
inch to the shameless infection of
cowardice and dishonor that is now
marking for its own all the truculent
and faithless elements in the land.
Year: 1878

Organize for victory. Democrats
Greenbackers and everyone opposed
to the longer continuance of Repub
lican misrule should organize with
out delay and be prepared to do effec
tive work at the polls. Do not delay
organization until the time is toe
short. Every town and ward should
have a club organized within the
next ten days.->i. Puul Globe.


Sound advice. Whenever there are
dozen Greenbackers they should or
ganiZe a club and hold meetings once
a week until election.


That is the way they polled such a
splendid vote in Maine.
Year: 1878

in substance as follows:


First. 1t provided for general in
spector of grades, weights and
measures at St Paul, said inspector
to be elected by the legislature and
hold Office for two years. This in
spector was to prescribe grades of
wheat, defining what they should con-
sist of.


Second.--A deputy Inspector was to
be placed at such elevator or mill.
such Inspector to be elected by the
county commissioners, and to be
paid one-quarter of cent per bushel
for grading, such payment to be made
by the farmer. An appeal was to be
made from the local inspector to the
general Inspector at st. Paul.


Third.-The deputies were forbidden
the use of the brass testers. but were
required to use the approved half
bushel measure and regular scales.


This is the measure, or something
akin to it, which Mr.. Donnelly S
election to Congress would secure,
while Mr.. Washburn's would mean
the perpetuation of the present system
Of robbery.


And still we are informed that it
will not do to mix this matter with
politics. We might add that this
Injunction comes entirely from
WaShburn men.


In the meantime it is evident that
the farmers of the whole State pro.
pose to take up this question and
ascertain who is responsible for the
wrong they suffer and what is the
remedy.
Year: 1878

and children's children, and we want
no more of the foreign element among
u.s."


Of course the charge is true. LIE
Due is an ass of the most assinive
kind: He can stand in the Depart
ment of Agricultural at Washington
and wave his ears over the Red River
Valley.


He will next propose to burn our
shipping and shoot every foreigner
that attempts to land on our shores:
and as the financial policy of his
master has already stopped immigra-
tlon and is driving thousands back to
Europe, he wouldn't have many to
shoot.


Oh wise Hayes! Oh noble LIE DUO
Year: 1878

After the first news of the result in
Maine the Republican party were
ready to throw the gold-bugs and
banks overheard. But these worthless
do not propose to be made Jonahs of
III that way; they are determined
that If they must go to the bottom
the Republican party must go with
them. We quote:


W WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Eugene
Hale, chairman of the Republican
congressional campaign committee,
IN an interview, in answer to a
question whether any change was
contemplated in the conduct of the
campaign based on the election in
Maine, says: | know there has been a
good deal of talk recently about the
change OF base by the Republican
party ON financial issues, but there is
nothing in it. We will keep our old
programme. He denies that the
Republicans would go out of their
way to make any overtures whatever
TO the Greenback party. He declares
That the committee would not counsel
the support of Greenback candidate
In district where they could beat a
Democratic nominee by so doing and
SAID an honest financial policy is one
upon which we must make the fight.
The standard which we upheld in
Maine must not be lowered an inch.


There you have it, Greenbackers ,


The Republicans will not form any
alliances with you under any circum.
stances. They prefer to be wiped out
rather than help the Nationals.


well, we propose to wipe them out
Year: 1878

Washburn and his friends will turn
loose the dogs Of war in tile third dis.
trict. and fight Donnelly until the end
Of the campaign; but neither the
Washburn family nor the pine land
ring have money enough to buy w.
d. a seat in the forty.sixth congress.
With his sarcastic tongue. ready wit
and complete knowledge Of the work.
ings Of the corrupt political ma
chinery which made Washburn's
nomination possible, DonnelIy will
goad his adversary to desperation and
bury him out OF sight in November.
Year: 1878

Post office box Ff. Office No. Is East Third
Street, where he will be glad to make the ac-
qualntance of any Greenbackers who may be
IN the city at any time, and have little spare
time. f''-
Year: 1878

IWilkin County Gazette-Rep.


We expect that he will speak in ev.
cry school house in the district this
fall, and he will be sure to point out
to his hearers the exact spot where
he has marked his old time enemies,
will the celebrated brand I'M. c."