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Year: 1874

One of the most important and indis-
| pensIo!e auxiliaries to American civiIiza-


Iion and progress is the country press
metropolitan journals are often ant TO
ignore the influence of the country nrsss


whereas 1t is the greatest of all motiva


powers to move the people in given III.


reetion. The great city Journals NAV


advocate thing, and work m the Dao-


pie IN the centres of population. buttbe


millions IN the rural districts are ant 10


follow the lead of their home Journals


consequently in effecting any great ma


tlonal reform it is of the first Importance


to secure the cooperation of the country


press.


This may be easily done, by showing


them that the proposed reform is correct


IN principle and worthy of public appro-


baTion. 1t may be set down as a gener-


al proposition that the country press is


moved less by mercenary and material


interests than the city press. And when


the country press is united in the advo-


cacy OF any given proposition, it is gen.


orally more effective in its advocacy than


that OF city journals. The reason for
this is obvious. The editor of the week
ly journal may be said to speak to his
aequaintances, while the editor of the
city daily speaks largely to strangers.
The formers circle of readers is confined
mostly to his own neighborhood, and is
composed of those whom he meets in the
everyday walks of life.


He knows all their peculiarities, the
weak and strong points in their charac-
ter, and knows just how to appeal to
them to carry conviction This is nee
essarily not the case with the writer up-
on metropolitan journal, and he con
tlnuaily ruins the risk of offending his
auditors by his mode of reasoning, there
by destroying the force of an otherwise
logical argument


Holding the position that they do, the
conductors of the country press are
placed under responsibility that should
be properly appreciated and valued.
They are the educators of their readers
and the moulders of public opinion. |
They make the moral sentiment of their |
community either coarse or
refined as they choose. 1t is easy to |
judge of the character of given COM
while it is equally easy to deter
mine the character of the community by |
a careful study of the local press. If |
S-A~ - AChuCNi, ana
the other is sure to be the |
same and Uice rerSd.


Without a healthy and hearty support,
the local press can do nothing, and as
reforming agency becomes a failure.
No man goes to stranger to contribute |
to the building up of the interests of his
own household. He goes to work and |
and WHITES bis own domes-
tic agencies. The man who refuses to
support his home paper, but patronizes
only foreign institution, is simply rob
bing himself. 1t is his home paper alone
that ceaselessly looks after his home in
terests and labors to build up the COM
munity in which he lives The distant
city journal cannot be expected to do
this, for there are too many separate |
communities where it circuIates.
6tTyh Post.
Year: 1874

GEX. SHERMAS's CONSENT. - Since
the marriage, we have been let into the
secrets of the eourtship a little. The
young man was not over-sanguine when
the young lady referred him to her pa,
and he approached the awful presence
feeling uncertain whether he would sue
ceed or be tried by eourt-martial.
However, he managed to ask for what
he wanted, and stood waiting for the
verdict The General heard him, and
then turned upon him abruptly with the
question, What can you doE


''Dol Why, can build an engine,
put it up and run it.


Give me your hand. You are the
boy for me- Now go and ask Min what
she thinks about it. "


That Is the way the General got rid OF
that application. 1t Is almost too late
in the day to speculate as to what Min
thought about it.-WGshingtOD Cores
pOndeRce.
Year: 1874

ACCORDING to the late Prof Agassiz,
the Adirondack group of mountains is
the oldest in the world, the land which
first made its appearance above the wa
tiers of the great primsval ocean.
Year: 1874

THE Salt Lake City Tribune says that
"whenever a polygamous wife wants TO
locate a homestead she calls herself a
widow" Uncle Sam has been swindied
out of thousands of acres of land in
Utah by this widow dodge We have re-
quested the Register of the Land Office
to furnish the names of these widows FOR
publication in the Tribune.
Year: 1874

1t is an encouraging omen to see
such man as Senator Schurz, rising
above the "flthy pool of politics."
enter the field of educational discus
sion. The following extract from a
speech lately delivered in st. Louis, is
evidence of correct information and
enlarged views. He has grappled
with Il subject worthy of his great
abilities. Here he may win laurels
chat will not wIther by q change in
the political sentiments Of the coun-
try:


zone of the great obstacles in the
way of educational progress, he held,
was the miserable pay which teachers
received, not only in America, but in
every other country that he knew Of
Heroic self-sacrifice was not the food
with which to nourish q progressive
education. Teachers could not be
irst-class until their profession was so
remunerated as to make them satisfied
to remain in it during their active
life.n


In confirmation of the above it is
only necessary to add that in Califor-
MIA the average salary of male teach
ers last year was only $S4 per month,
and the average time employed was
six months. Is it any wonder that
there are not more first-class teachers?
A man is hardly eXcusable who at
tempts to rear q family with such
meagre and uncertain means of sup
port.
Year: 1874

Why do SO many pupils sever their
connection with the public schools be-
fore they finish the prescribed course
therein? This important question is
attracting the attention of teachers
and school officers in many of the
States, and particularly in our large
cities. The Chicago Teacher for Sep
tember has long article devoted to q
solution of the problem. The writer
attempts to prove that the result is
due to "the great and almost exclusive
predominance Of female instruction.
Will some of our lady teachers give us
their views upon this question?
Year: 1874

The Bishop of Manchester, England,
gives a good definition of an educated
man: "When man goes out into
the world knowing when he does
know a thing, knowing when he does
not know thing, and knowing how
knowledge is to be acquired, l call
him perfectly educated man.
Year: 1874

The Centinela Land Company of
Los Angeles give notice that the
books for subscription to the capital
stock of their company, are now open
and ready for subscribers at the
Banking House of Temple G. Work
man and at the Los Angeles County
Bank. 2t
Year: 1874

ne The tide ofimmigraton is steadily set
tlng in, and the first thing eastern people do
is TO throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND They say there is M
comparison between the two. 2Mo
Year: 1874

Henry J. Raymond, Member of Con-
gress Lieutenant Governor of the State
OF New York, but better known as the
founder and editor of the New York
Times, was the son of poor farmer At
the age of twenty he graduated at the
University of Vermont. His father
wanted him to 90 to work on the farm.
But young Raymond had no inclination
for farming. He felt if he could get a
start in New York City, that he had the
habits of industry and the brains which
would enable him to do we'll Moved by his
sons earnestness the father raised three
hundred dollars by mortgaging his farm,
and with that sum the future journalist
went to the city. There he studied law,
taught school, wrote for the newspapers,
and was the first person, it is said to
write regular latters from New York to
the country journals.


Horace Greeley, about that time, start
ed the New York Tribune, and being ac-
quainted with Raymond, invited him to
do his writing in the office. For some
months he wrote at his borrowed desk,
when, receiving liberal offer to teach
school in the South, he determined to
accept it. Thanking Mr.. Greeley for
his many courtesies, he informed him OF
his intended departure.


Il don t think, said the klnd-hearted
editor, who, like Raymond, was then
struggling for bread and a position,
there's any particular use of your GO
ing way down there Henry. You ought
to do as well here, and New York's
better place for you. How much are
you to get for teaching?"


Ten dollars a week, and l can't earn
as much here"


20, well, you'd better stay. Write for
the Tribune; I'll giveyou eight dollars
week f"
Year: 1874

non-effect upon the foolish people The
remark has been made before, that


the tools are not all dead. No, they
live to become the natural food of the
sharpers; as the porgie and moss bunker
of historic Brooklyn live to become the
natural food of the blue-fish as they swim
like gudgeon to the tempting food of the
shores of Long Island.


1t is curious fact in connection with
this matter of names wanted or
names for sale" that in spite of the ex-
posure and condemnation of respectable
newspapers, the advertisements appear
worded precisely the same as before; /;
the sharpers have not taken the trouble
of changing so much as a syllable. Here
is recent example:


FOR SALE.-A list of 5000 names
that have been obtained by advertising.
All are genuine, and the letters will be
sold with them Address -"


What are these names They are sim
ply such as have been obtained from
countrymen in all parts of the United
States by parties who have advertised
counterfeit money patent medicine of a
dubious character, advantage" playing
cards, and things of the sort These are
not only the names of greenhorns, but
of low and vicious greenhorns The
dealer in such names will get a good
price for them as soon as he can satisfy
his customer that they are what they
purport to be. 1t is only necessary to
show that the names are genuine and
are answered to by so many corrupt
fools; and it is to prove this, that the
letters" as runs the advertisement ''wil
be sold with them"


A gentleman once asked man en-
gagged in one of the many swindles, how
| he obtained the names of the parties to
whom he sent his circulars.


THAT is the great trouble" he replied
I'VE can get names enough out of the
directories, but they are not such as we
want We buy lists sometimes from the
publishers of a certain class of weekly
papers, but they are not very good, as
the people who read most any paper get
after a while too intelligent for us We
send to the Postmasters, but they are
stupid and give US the names of the
most prominent men instead of the OBJ
scure ones which we want. Sometimes
we hire men to go around through the
! country places and collect names under
various pretences, but this costs great
! deal of money, as man must stay some
| time in a village or country town before
/ he can get at the names The best lists
are those made up by copying every
name written on the walls of railway
stations and the buildings that surround
| them, and in the country stores. "A man
who writes his name in public place is
pretty sure to be an idiot, or so near one
that he is pretty sure to bite at glitter
ing bait.'


Is it not pleasing picture? There
are said to be in New York at present
/ two or three bundled men who live by
/ preying in these ways on the credulity
Of countrymen. They are seldom brought
to justice from the fact that men cannot
prosecute them without confessing to the
fact that they wanted to swindle some
| one.


Why will not the country newspapers
/ put stop to the profits of a business
which must in some degree fnjure hon
est advertising, by fully exposing the
matter IN their journals?-An,erican Ne,os-
paper Reporter.
Year: 1874

Judging from the advertisements which
peep out here and there in some of the
newspapers, there is to be repeated this
season the old oft-repeated dodge OF
getting" an artifice which has
been exposed in the Reporter and else
Year: 1874

In Chicago library book on "Self
Culture" never got reader, The libra
rian had it rebound, and rechristened it
"a Young Man on his Muscle and
anxious readers had to wait for weeks
before they could get it.
Year: 1874

For two weeks longer the benevolent ladies Of
st. Francis Xavier's church, in Sixteenth street,
between Fifth and Sixth avenues propose to con-
tinue their selfsacrifcing abors in the cause OF
sweet charity at their fair in the College Hall.
Tney devote onenaf Of the proceeds Of their sales
there to the purchase OF clothing materials, which
they give out to be made up by needy working
women into garments for the destitute, the poor
women being well paid Ior their labor. The other
hall IS given to the Society OF StVincent de Paul,
which. by its excellent and most complete system
OF local organizations. covers and undertakes
to relieve distress in oil portions OF the
city without any loss by way OF expenses or sala-
res. Decorated with exquisite taste and exhibit
ing on Its many sale tables great variety and
amount OF attractive and valuable articles to tempt
purchasers, the spacious hall IS place repete with
lascinations. Not the least among these are the
charming ladies who give their time TO this work
OF mlnlstering to tue needs OF the unfortunate.
All who pay them visit will testify TO their grace
and aability, treating all Pr0testants and Cath0-


hes alike with the cordiality and difference which
recognizes the universal fraternity oil benevolence
An hours visit at this fair will be filed with
pleasure.
Year: 1874

The managers OF st. Stephens LADIES' Fair have
resolved to bring their labors TO close on next
Tuesday evening. On that occasion the names OF
the winners OF the costly prizes disposed or by
lottery win be publicly announced. As q great
NUMBER OF articles OF beauty and value win be
sold BY auction without reserve, those in search
OF bargains will have an admirable opportunity to
make profitable purchases. For tomorrow even
ing q choice programme OF music has been ar
ranged and will be given by the bano, while the
ladies in charge are determined to surpass even
their former EFFORTS.
Year: 1874

BOYS, A WORD WITH You.-Are thero
not obligations laid upon brothers? You are
stronger than your sister. Ought you moi
to spring to her aid if she is doing something
difficult or tatiguing. For instance, house.
cleaning times are approaching, and there
will be pictures to hang, carpets to tack,
shades to put up, furniture to move from
place to place, and all sorts of back. .breakinp
and back aching occupations for week or
two. VI course 1t isn't so pleasant for n
fellow to be around in those days, and by A
tellow-pardon the expression, but we've
heard young gentlemen use it oiten-unless
he is very manly and unselfsh, will be apt to
think OF engagements out of the house. Let
us whisper secret in your ear. He is a
Jewel among men, who is never in the way
When he is not wanted, and never out of the
way when he is not wanted, and never out
Of the way when he is. There are a great
many little things and big things which n
good son and brother can do in domestic
emergencies if he only cares to make him
self useful. lfyou live in the country, there
IS many a lift you can give to the women.
folks In the way Of carrying in wood, bring-
ing Paiis Of water. and generally lending a
hand. "s ="


Then, young man, il you are an elder
brother, bethink yourself sometimes. that
your sister may like to have you to take her
out, as well as some Of the other young la.
dies Of your acquaintance do. Jennie il
quite as pretty, quite as well-bred, and has
quite as many capacities for enjoyment as
any other girl Of her age. She would be q,
pleased, If now and then you would invite
her to go with you to lecture or concert.
and you would, if you only tried it, find out
that an evening with your sister would pass
as agreeably, and perhaps more restfulIy.
that an evening with any one else, not ex
cepting even the dearest and best girl in the
world, whose image is with you Ike guar.
dian, angel, and whose name you always
speak with reverence and regard.
Year: 1874

The call for peoples State convention
has created some stir among the Partissns
Of the dividend-paying parties. They see
the hand writing on the wall, and feel that
unless they can work their emmisarles into
the peoples convention and commit the
people to some serious blunder, their lease
of power will soon be at an end. 1t there.
fore becomes US to act with great care in the
selection of delegates, and see to it that no
self-seekinx demagogues foist themselves
upon us. In our declaration Of principles,
we must be bold and determined, demand
ing nothing but what is just, opposing
nothing but what is wrong, show no quar-
ters to salary grabbers, corruption in Office,
farming out the revenues Of the govern
ment on shares with thieves, paying men
out of the public treasury for services
Solomon said, there was nothing new under
the sun-had he lived in this day he would
nothing new, there are new ways Of doing
old tricks. Every day develops some new
raseality of men in high places, and unless
the people rise in their M ght and hurl the
corruptionists from power and place, ke-
publican institutions will become but
government where we may change tyrants,
but not tyranny. We may expect the party
lash to be used without stint, all kinds OF
hard names will be used to keep the timid,
sensitive partisans in the traces; none but
moral. towards will shrink from their duty
in this contest, and if all who admit that
corruption and class Legislation is running
our country have the moral courage to do
their duty, the contest will be easily deci
ded. What interest has any honest man in
the SUCCESS Of either Of the old parties.
If there is any would like some one that has
the ability, to make it plain, for am una
BILE to see it in any light that it has been
presented to my mind. Let us take coun-
sci together, act calmly, make no bad mis-
takes and the field in won.


FARMER.
Year: 1874

"A pair Of heavy blankets manufactured
in Minneapolis are on exhibition in Boston
at the Office Of the National Association Of
Wool Manufacturers, having been present.
ed to the Hon. John T.. Hayes, Secretary
of the Association. They are made from
American grown Merino wool Of the finest
staple, and are deemed equal to any pro-
duced elsewhere At home or abroad.


"A village priest in France established
the rule that whenever child was brought
to him to be baptized the parents should
plant fruit tree and by species OF CO.
operation he induced the people to plant
also large tract Of waste land, which In
time became Of great value. Suppose some
of our ministers should undertake to follow
his example, and even improve upon it.
They could do worse.
Year: 1874

MEssRs. SARGENT, RoATH & Ell.
WE'LL have formed q partnership in the
dry goods and grocery business in this
city, and have opened first class stock Of
goods in the old "People's store," second
door from the corner of Main and Bush
Streets on Bush Street. These gentlemen
are we'll and favorably known in this city
and County, and their many friends will
doubtless embrace the first opportunity to
call and see them.
Year: 1874

TIME FOR REL1G1oN.-1f we d.
vide the human being into three
component parts, the bodily, the in
telleetual, and the spiritual, is itnot
reasonable. that a portion Of time
and care be assigned to each in some
degree adequate to its Importance
Should I venture to say q due por:
tionn,, a; portion adapted to the real
value Of each, would not that con-
.dernn in one word the whole system
of modern educationa The ration
al and intellectual part being avow-
edly more valuable than the bodily,
While the spiritual and immortal
part exceeds even. the intellectual
still more than that surpasses the
corporeal, is it acting with that
good sense, and right judgment with
which the ordinary business of this
world is usually transacted, to give


the larger portion of time and care
to that. which ia worth tho least p
Hannah Moore.
Year: 1874

p; Overexertfon, either Of body or
mind, produce debility and disease.
The usual remedy is to take some
stimulant, the effect of which is the
same as, giving a tired horse the
whip instead Of oats The true way
is to fortify the system with a per
manent tonic like the Peruvian
Syrup, IA protoxide Of iron,) which
gives strength and vigor to the
whole system.
Year: 1874

question OF LABOR, and the only remedy for this
matter is by government employ. The people Of
this country should govern themselves and have
fair days wages for q lair days labor. The
legislators Of this country win never listen TO
your demands until you become polltcal power
yourselves. And now l Will conclude. my fellow
citizens, by saying that the whoie matter rests
letter was then read nom John swinton. in
which the latter. regrettng his not being able 10
be present. sympathized with the 'l0ngshoremen
in their strike for their rights.


Mr.. MA0UIRE. alter short sketch OF the earlier
days OF the workingman, from the time he worked
w up 70 me Ana ad
with wages BY CO cooperation. IL Is by cooperation
that the capitalists nave succeeded and 1t s BY CO.
operation that the workiDgman shall succeed. I
take occasion here TO call the atten r1on OF the
Board OF Health TO the filthy condition OF some Of
our Streets especially ersey street, running be-
tween Mulberry aud Crosby, which is now rotten
WIN corruption and breeding disease among It's
CROWDED community. There ls something wrong
ln the present state Of affairs, when honest men
are stalking through the land seeking for work
aho nungerlng Tor bread, when thousands Of the
shoddy aristocracy are living in the lap OF luxury.
Let us organize and purify legislation and By
our own power make our own government; then
IL VIII De Ine people employing themselves, be-
cause It VIII be peoples government.


the following resolutions were then read ana
ad0pted:-


Whereas the ongshoremen Of this port are engaged In
struggle against an unlust uchon OF wages,


Resolved. That we, workingmen, assembled in Con.
with the siEe ana pronouscs Inn so
bnation OF vedores attempt the working
Resolved That advise the 'longshoremen TO sever
all connecron with The present political parties being
in the interest OF capital and To the detrnent Of the pro
Resolved THAT we invite them to Join hands with tho
themselves well as the working classes from their de-
On the capitalist and 70 sd IN % the
guarantees In place OF the present system OF wage
Year: 1874




| consider people who make sport Of
mans shabby clothes destitute Of
feeling and worse than the heather
Who could be guilty of calling the
blush of resentment to wrinkled
cheek the quiver of grief to a wither.
ed lip, the tear of sorrow to faded
eye washed of its brilliancy by floods
of tears2


Never, never laugh at the scanty
garments Of the poor. Poverty has a
strong tide of sorrow TO stem, and a
frail bark to guide at the best. 1t has
dashed so often against the rocks, that
il hardly holds together. Sink il not
with your unkindncss.


Sheer not at the old clothes. They
are often made holy by long sacrifices
by careful holdings away, that they
may last till the dear ones are provid.
cd for. II many an old coat could
speak, what tales they would tell Of
the noble hearts beating underneath


Yon rusty garments would repeat
the struggle Of devoted father, whose
son is earning laurels at the college
hard by, How he counted the farth'
ings, and choked down pride, that his
boy, his noble, beloved boy might YET
do him honor. afs


The faded shawl, folded tightly over
spare shouldersl Year after year has
the mother cleansed and mended and
laid it carefully away, as (she called it,
good as new" that her blue-eyed
daughter might have "book-larning.'
And now her darling, only eighteen
teaches the district school-God bless
herl-and the mother smiles over thu
dim, dusky-patterned ribbon and prin
old mcrino that were cleaned up Z
enable her to buy Bessie q pretty bon
net, and a dress such as she deserved