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Year: 1877




crease the comfort, and to render farm life
attractive, says the Farmers Vindicator, are
not of the most costly character, and are
within reach of every enterprising farmer.


In making the home attractive, costly Or
naments may be left to those who have the
means to lavish upon them; but every coun-
try mansion, or cottage, should be surround
ed by shade trees to protect it, or rather its
inmates, from the cold blasts of winter, as
we'll as the intense heat of summer. The
trees are within the reach of all, at trifling
expense. The roadways, too, could be lined
with trees, with little Or no disadvantage to
the adjoining lands. If the Patrons of Hus-
bandry would take hold of this important
subject in earnest, how easily they could
line the highways of the whole country with
beautiful, ornamental and fruit trees and tax
themselves but lightly in time or money.


Does any one doubt the desirability Of
such improvement? Let such a one drive
along public road where even one farmer
has, by forethought and little enterprise,
wears before such visit, planted. such trees,
and contrast his impressions, with look at
his own barren highway, and then judge.
The fact is, such investments cost but little,
and never fail to pay. No one can pass
such property without half wishing that he
owned it, and, if he is ready and able to
purchase, he is willing to pay well for such
improvements.


With the substantial comforts of country
life, 1t is the same. They are within the
reach of every farmer, great or small, and
cost comparatively little. All that is need
ed is Judgment and little well-timed labor.
to secure such comforts as fruits, which
many farmers never see in their dwellings.
Apple, pear, peach trees and grape vines,
are as easily cultivated as corn Strawberries,
raspberries and blackberries can be grown
with success.


Most of the drudgery and monotony OF
farm life results from mere stupidity. 1t is
commonly thought by those who live along
for wears on corn bread, bacon and sweet
potatoes. that such luxuries as delicious and
healthfu, fruits are too costly for poor farm
ers. This is nonsense. No class of people
in the world can secure them so easily ano
so certainly. City people know little O
these luxuries in their perfection, as they
rarely get them fresh from the orchards
and if the farmer would only use his oppor
tunities. his family would seldom complain
of their situation.


, Something good out of Nazareth after all
Year: 1877

AN associate editor of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat having resigned his position to ac-
cept college professorship, his paper feels
called upon to remark:


1t seems to be the mission of the Globe
Democrat to be training school for theologians
and philosophers of all grades and creeds. Not
long since graduate of our establishment was
called to the pastorate of Baptist Church in
Omaha, where he Is now very creditably pur-
suing his sacred calling. We have just filled
one of the most important chairs in the State
University, and we have several young men
still with us who are preparing for the pulpit
in various denominations.
Year: 1877

WAS the attempt to wreck the train upon
which Lthe President was supposed to be a
passenger the first fruits of the teachings of
the declaimers against ''fraud?" 1t was
thought that that method of disposing of
political opponents was abandoned after its
trial in 1865.
Year: 1877

THE rainy season will soon set in in Bulga-
ria. After that the Russians can only rest
upon their arms; for further operations in the
field will be impossible. They will find some
difficulty too, in keeping open their lines
ofsupplies, and the increasing ravages of dis
ease in their camps are working terrible hav.
oc. Unless an onward movement be made
at once the Russians will not get to the south
of the Balkans this year.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.
Year: 1877

The following are the results of Policies now
in force at this Agency and such are the actual and
uniform results of insurance with this Company
1t will be seen that all these Policies have than
doubled in amount.


Dividends declared yearly in Cash and may be
used in payment of premiums if wanted.
Year: 1877

PUBLIC OPINION is fractions jade.
To-day she berates a man and to'mor-
row her frowns are changed to smiles
Public opinion as often misiudges as
she decides honestly. He is a villain
who does not acknowledge and bow
down to her views, and yet he is a brave
man who can stand for his individual
opinion amid the jeers of the multitude
Garrison was stoned in Newburyport a
quarter of a century ago to day no
man is more highly honored. John G'
Whittier was mobbed in Philadelphia
CITY in 1880; year ago he was the
most houored guest in the city. Get
the majority on your side and you are
safe, let your cause be ever so bad. Give
$500 to public institution and let the
fact be spread abroad in the newspa-
pers, and you will have the name Of
public benefactor. If at the same time
YOU withhold $4,000 Justly due to a
family of orphans, the gift will set the
matter all right, and you will not be
Year: 1877

A WHISKY MoNoMAyIAc "A sippu-


lar instance of the power of alcoholic
drink was brought publicly to notice
yesterday. A young gentleman, jour
nalist, capitalist and a Christian, is the


victim of suddenly acquired mania


which is quite remarkable He went to
visit his former home last summer in
Cincinnati. On his way home to Kan.
sas City he became sick, and in the ab.
sence of doctor, went TO the steamboat
bar, asked for and was given drink of
whisky. The drink, coming upon
system unaccustomed to it, created an
intoxication, which has been perpetual
ever since 1t gave the young man such
mania for strong drink that nothing
could restrain him in bis excuses. There
was nothing about bis intoxication ofTen-
siye to those who visited him. Ga the
contrary, bis brilliant mind and mex
haustable fund of conversation seemed
to be renewed He knew tina. he was
surrendering himself to drink and it's
fascinating effects, but paid no attention
to the remonstrauces of his friends.
There was nothing violent in his exces-
ses. He was calm, but desired to drink,
and he kept on drinking He had
wife to whom he was devoted he idol
lied her, aud made every provision for
her comfort. He was a member of the
church and in good standing good
lawyer, and the chosen leader of the
Young Mems Republican Club. He
owns large amount Of real estate, and
was on the high way to wealth and pros
perity. He had never taken drop of
intoxicating liquor in his life before this
drink taken on the Ohio steamboat.
Yesterday he was taken East by his
father and brother, where. restraint will
be placed upon his actions, in the hope
that the brilliant and cultivated mind
may be saved from this Strange ard fa-
tai infatuation.-Kansas City Times.
Year: 1877

The veteran Magazine, which long ago out
grew its original title Of the " New Monthly
Magazine, has not in the least abated the pop
ularity it won at the outset. but has added to il
in many ways, and has kept fairly abreast OF
the times. thanks to the enterprise OF the pub
hshers and the tact aud wisdom OF Its editors.
For whatever is best and most readable in the
literature OF travel, discovery and fiction. the
average reader CT to- day looks to Harper's
Magazine, just IS expectantly as did the reader
OF quarter OF century ago; there is the
same admirable variety Of contents and the
same freshness and suggestiveness in it's edi-
toral departments now as then Boston
Journal.
Year: 1877

IN nine cases out of ten, mans life
will not be success if he does not bear
burdens in his chlldho If the fond
ness or the vanity of father or mother
have kept him from hard work, if an
other always helped him out at the end
of his row; if. instead Of taking his
turn at pitching off. he stewed away all
the timc-in short, if what was light
always fell to him, and what was heavy
about the same work to some one else
il he has been permitted to shirk, until
shirking has become habit, unless a
miracle has been wrought, his life will
be failure. and the blame will not be
half SO much his as that of his weak
and foolish parents.


On the other hand. if boy has been
brought mp to do his part. never al
lowed to shirk any Legitimate responsi-
bility. or to dodge work, whether or
not it made his head ache, or soiled his
hands. until bearing burden has be-
come matter of pride, the heavy end
of the wood his choice. parents as they
bid him good-by may dismiss their
fear. The elements of success are his.
and at some time and in some way the
world will recognize his capacity.
Year: 1877

Side by side, for years we've Travelled


Through the Sunshine and the rain
shared together joy and gladness


Mixed with bitterness and pain.
Zone through many fiery trial


Under clouds OF darkest hue;
Bot we helped and c.eered each other
Came ont victors tried and true.
Yes. companion. we have smothered


Many brilliant spark Of pride
Quenched the fires Of proud smbition--


Worked together s,de by side.
Friends have proven false and tickle
Fortune peri,hed with the dew;
And Of all the joys around US.


We alone are tried and true.
All how sweet and doub.y precious


Is the thought that time and tide
Cannot change the love we cherished


In the darkness side by side.
1t is worth q life of sadness,


Pain well-known and pleasures few.
Just to feel the thrilling presence


OF dear friend tried and true.
God. above. in kind compassion,


Every trial and victory knew.
And reserved q bounteOus tribute,


For the faithful tried aud true.
Year: 1877

We heard pretty incident the other
day which we cannot help relating.
A young lady from the South, it seems,
was wooed and won by youthful ply
siciaa living in California. When the
engagement was made the doctor was
rich. having been very successful at San
Francisco. II had not existed six
months. however. when, by an unfor.
tunale investment. he lost his entire
heap" This event came upon him, it
may be added, just as he was about to
claim his bride. What does he do?
Why, like IN honorable and chivalrous
young fellow, as he is. he sits down and
writes the young lady every particular
OF the unhappy turn which has taken
place in his fortunes, assuring her that
il the fact produced any change in her
feelings toward him, she is released
from every promise made to him. And
what does the dear, good girl do |!
Why, she takes lump Of pure gold
which her lover had sent her in his
prosperity as keepsake. and. having
it manufactured into ring, forwarded
it t. him with the following Bible in.
scription engraved in distinct characters
on the outside: "Entreat me not to
leave thee, for whittier thou goest will
| go. and where thou lodgest will
lodge; thy people viii! be my people,
and thy God my God; where thou diest
will die. and there will I be buried;
the Lord do so to me, and more also, if
aught but death part thee and me-"
The lover idolized his sweetheart more
than ever when he received this precious
evidence Of her devotion to him, both
in storm ana sunshine. We may add
that fortune soon again smiled upon
the young physician, and he subse-
quently returned to the South to wed
the girl he loved, aud who loved him
with such undying affection Reader.
this is all true. Young ladies who read
the Bible as closely as the heroine Of
this incident seems to have done, are
pretty sure to make good sweethesrts
and better wives.-Pitts6urg Com.
Year: 1877

The boy stood BY the stable door


And watched the pensive mule;
A thougatfal attitude it wore.


An air serenely cool.
That boy approached its hinder end
Let fall the plying tears;
Hes gone to meet his brother. ana


His age was seven years.
Year: 1877

sion OF what divine instinct peculiar in greater
or less degree to all,women), and this in spite
OF the fact that New England women do lose
tneir clear complexiens and rosy cheeks, and
in spite OF the fact that the Polish ladies have
withal Slightly Hibernan cast of counte-
nance, including noses, the impertinent tins of
which do turn up just little. But thew are
evidently self-respecting, keen creatures. who
know what they are about, careful to observe
all the proprieties, never flirting in public il
they do in private, and walking the streets in
quiet, dignified manner as if they were dis
daiuful If not unconscious of their charms.
They are not possessed either of dollish or mas
cuhne faces, as the English and American
ladies' often are; they are not voluptuous or
black-browed like their sisters of France and
Spain, but queenly sort of woman, tall and
graceful and possessed of a colder tyne of
beauty than blooms on the Mediterranean
type of beauty that makes me think of marble
statues, Damascus blades and aurora borealis.
By the way Bayard Taylor says be saw more
handsome faces in one hour at the Warsaw
races than he saw elsewhere during two years
in Europe and L do not doubt it. Moreover
nave never been in any country where the re-
latlons OF the men and women Of the upper
classes seemed so high-toned; and am sure that
stranger entering the best society of Warsaw
would have to acknowledge the most chival-
rous devotion on the part of the men and the
most gracious, yet dignifed appreciation of it
on the part of the women he had ever wit
messed. 70 acquire good manners and to see
human Intercourse at its best, should rather
go to warsaw than to London, Washington or
Parls.-COr. Boston Journal
Year: 1877

There was Wade Republican and HAYES
Republican candidate for the Legislature in
old Ben's county; the former got $500 votes.
and the latter 1900.


The silver dollar advocates claim that thew
have canvassed the United States Senate
and found there a clear majority in favor of
reconciliation. They declare that the dol
lar of the fathers is destined to roll without
obstacle, if the President does not block its
course with veto. Perhaps this was fore
seen by Mr.. Wallace, when he jumped in
ahead with his goloid patent 1t is one of
the most inexplicable things in modern
controversy, that the infationists and silver
advocates utterly refuse to endorse Mr.. Wal
lace's discovery, They have never before re-
fused to accept anything for money, provided
it was cheap. The fact that this has some
of the bondholders' gold in it has probably
frightened them.


1t seems to me that the Democratic party
will always exist in our period, with the
Catholic church and other ingredients for its
basis. The more we defeat it the more if
starts up; and the history of this country
will be a perpetual attack upon Democracy.
which will always rise above its ruins when
the vigor OF the attack ceases.-Gea Garfield.


Sam Cox laughed immoderately over the
result in Ohio the other day. "And how do
you feel yourself?" said Martin I. Townsend
Year: 1877

1t is very unusual to find such unanimity
among men of any party, respecting anv IA
ical subject las there is atp


publicans concerning the next presidency. uu-
doubtedy it is a little early in the season to
talk .of the succession; perhaps it would be
well to be little more nearly ''off with the
old love before We are ''on' with the new.
But then, the cold love" in this case is bad
case of incompatibility. The point upon which
all Republicans seem to be agreed at present is
that Gen. Grant is the man of all others
through whom to Illustrate the rising homes of
the Democracy in 1880. [ have dwelt some
what upon the absurdity of the cry, "princi-
ples, not men, because the present executive
illustrates its worst application, in leaving MS
with only small amount of man and no prin-
pies, while Grant is a splendid illustration
of its utter negaton, being a man who is a
tower of strength in himself, stronger than
any platform and greater than any party. The
tendency OF events in this country is, and for
some time has been, to exalt this man above
the platform-or rather, to demand for presi-
dent man who is stronger than his party.
This was illustrated in the railroad riots. Mr.
Hayes wrote proclamation telling the rioters
to disperse; the rioters paid no attention to it.
and It had to be enforced with bayonets.
Gen. Grant in the same place would have
written a proclamation, and the rioters
wouldshave dispersed without waiting for the
Army-and why? Because the name of U. S.
Grant signed to a public documant has what
George Eliot calls "a certain dynamic force
which is more easily understood than explained
but which, at any rate conveys the vague idea
which is resolved in American parlance into the
word business" The dullest and most obsti-
nate of the rioters would have reasoned from
the signature to the guns in the case of Grant.
but in the case of Hayes they waited for the
actual demonstrations to bel present to their
physical senses.


Whether Gen. Grant would accept the NOM
ination is different question. There are
those who pretend to discover the aspiring
third-termer in the European traveller. On
the other hand, those who are most intimate
with him and have the best right to speak for
him, say that under no circumstances would he
again enter the field of politics, Mr. Conk-
ling puts it in the light of an appeal to his
sense of duty which he could not resist The
New York Senator has always been partial to
Grant, aud he feels now that he has rather the
best OF those who sneered at him when he used
to mint that there might be something worse
than third term. Most assaredly there
might, and l greatly mistake and misunder-
stand the good sense of the American people
II their verdict be not that there are at least
two things worse than third term: The first
IS weak man rising not only above his party
but against it, and the second is the election Of
Democratic president. We cannot avoid the
first, but We can prevent the second and we
can do it best BY shaking hands with the hero
of Vicksburg and Appomatox over the faults
and folies which he himself is willing to con
fess and calling him once more to the front.
Year: 1877

The rebel raid on the Treasury has begun.
In the interests of "conciation" the rich
and tax-paying North is asked to give few
| hundred millions of dollars to the beggared
South-beggared by its own follies and
crimes. In the House, which has become a
Confederate stronghold, there were over
eight hundred bills introduced Monday, a
large portion of them providing money for
needy Southern interests. Davis of North
Carolina led the way with proposition to
repeal the laws torbiddng payments of claims
to persons who were not loyal, measure
which is in effect throwing open OF the
Treasury doors to the whole hungry horde of
Confederate claimants. Mr.. Scales of the
same state, following Ransom's lead in the


Senate, proposed to do away with the law


which forbids payment of pensions to men
who have been in arms against the govern
ment, and thus endeaYored to put on an
equality with the boys in blue the ragged
rebel soldiery who fought for the destruction
of the Union. Not satisfied with pension
ing the Confederate veterans, Banning of
Ohio. who is more Southern than the South,
asked for the repeal of the law forbidding the
appointment in the army and navy of the
persons who served in the army or navy Of
the Confederate States. Soft places must be
provided for these SCARED heroes. and one
wonders if the bill introduced by Ittner of
Missouri for the reorganization of the army
contemplates the cashiering of those officers
who had the misfortune to serve under the
national flag, and the substi tuition for them
of Early and the other rebel paladins. But
as Early refuses to be concilated-that is
bribed-he will probably have no share in
the plunder.


Other bills introduced call for a million of
dollars for the deepening of the Missouri,
three millions for the Mississippi levees, for
the pay of Southern mail contractors, for the
relief of the Texas railroad from an obliga-
CATION to render service in return for a land
grant, for the improvement of the navigation
of the Mississippi, for subsidized steamship
line from New Orleans to Brazil. for the re-
funding of all direct taxes collected in the in
surrectionary states. Indeed so many were


the bills that the morning hour was not suf-
ficient for their introduction, and the call
was extended to five o'clock. 1t soon became
evident that there was not plunder enough to
90 round, and we are not surp rised to learn
that proposition was made tor the printing,
of five hundred million more greenbacks
But that sum will be sadly insufficient. If
once our reconstructed brethren get their
hands into the TreasuFy-and they will get
them in clear up to their armpits if they gain
control of the government-all the paper
mills in the country running night and day
will not be able to supply their demands.
With their grip on the throat of the North
they will call upon it to stand and deliver
and then make 1t give its notes payable out o
all the property it ever hopes to possess.
Year: 1877

WOOD pavements succeed so well in Paris
that they are likely to be used in that city.
The wood pavement laid down some years
since in the Boulevard st. Michel has lasted
long while. The main streets of Paris,
such as the Rue de Rvoli, the Boulevards,
and the avenue leading to the Bois de Bou-
logne, are laid in concrete. They are solid
and as smooth as floor. There is little
noise from passing vehicles other than low
rumble, and carriages glide over them with
out jolt. Being kept in constant state OF
repair, they do not break on the surface,
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and communi
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return OF preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1877

AFTER a careful survey of the situation
the New York Times says that all the signs
point to the. lowest Democratic majority in
New York city ever given. This is good
news for country Republicans, and it should
nerve them for successful battle with the
oparnu
Year: 1877

IT was not a success when they took
little five-year-old to church for the
first time and told her that every body
had to be "as still as mouse" All
was well until the minister began to
open the services; but then the little
maiden, shocked at his want of propri-
ETY. in thus breaking silence, energeti-
cally shook her finger at him, saying:
g See here, man, what you make I'll that
noise for?''