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Year: 1866

LADIES SHOULD READ NEWSPAPERS. =
Its great mistake in female education to
keep young lady's time and attention de-
voted to the fashionable literature of the
day. IF you would qualify her for converse
ton, you must give her something to talk
about-give her education with this actual
world and its transpiring events. Urge her
to read the newspapers, and become familiar
with the present character and improve
ments of our trade. History is of some i'm
portance but the past world is dead, and
we have nothing to do with it. Our thoughts
and our concerns should be for the present
world, to know what it is, and improve the
condition of it. Let her have an intelligent
opinion and be able to sustain a conversation
concerning the mental, moral, political and
religious improvements of our times.
Year: 1866

Hail thou auspicious morn


Thou day when Christ was born
We hail thy light


Day of Saviors birth
Day of good will on earth


Day whose exceeding worth,
Has banished night.
Bring unto each mind


Good will to all mankind
Good will in Heaven,


Our Saviors natal day,
Chase thou our doubts away


And cast thy rising say,
Ger sins forgiven.
Let Bethlehems rising star


Light still world afar-
AS time shall roll


And by Christs agony
On the accursed tree


Let love and mercy be
'Graved in each soul.
This day around the heart


With loved ones of the earth
We praise Gods love;


And as with wife and child,
We journey through earths wild,
0, Savior meek and mild
Bend from above.
And let thy kingdom ceme


Within each heart and home,
Till time shall end


Still lead US in thy way
Still teach us how to pray,


Be thou our guide and stay,
Our God and friend.
Year: 1866

TILTING HooPs THAT there exists an
certainly no proof of want of manliness in
a community where it is observable. If a
woman's delicacy is shocked by the idea of
too free an exhibition, so far as her own case
is concerned, she hasit under entire control;
and there is no lack of horrid examples to
illustrate the enormity of the practice and
to suggest infallible methods for It's correc-
ton. On the other hand pretty foot, a
shapely ankle, are indubitably strong attrac-
tions in woman, and if she chooses to show
them she wilassuredly never lack admirers to
appreciate the privilege. There is nothing
instrinsically more iRmodest in showing the
lower limbs than ON showing the upper ones,
and as the latter are usually revealed with
out covering, and the former are not, the dis
tinction, if any is ON the safe side Deci-
dedly, there is less suggestion of indelicacy
even in revelation extending to the knee
than in the over liberal exposure of the bo-
som too often seen in society, and which fash
ion still appears to sanction. A nice foot
and ankle, well boot ed, and rounded con
tinuation well hosed, however attractive as
we have seen them to be do not convey, save
to very morbid and unmanly imaginings,
such significant associations as does the bra
zen revealment of those parts of the figure
which decent women even of barbarouss,
nations have ever yelled as sacred symbols
of maternity. Nol Such developments, to
a healthy mind, are entirely shocking and
demoralizing. There is only danger that,
like all pleasant piquantor slightly equiyocal
things, they may be carried too far-or, to
be more exact, that the skirts may be tilted
too high.-Round Table.
Year: 1866

PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN.
is nothing better, nothing safer, nothing SO
sure of bringing forth the right fruit in the
end, than truth. Tell your child the truth
Tell him that obedience requires unpaid sac
rifces. Tell him that he need not expect
that purse of gold will drop into his hand
the moment he denies himself of coveted
pleasure. Tell him that the path of duty is
often terribly hard, and seldom leads to an
oil well, or seat in Congress, or to brown
stone front house. Tell him that virtue
sometimes brings thorns, enmities, neglect
But tell him that it is virtue, nevertheless !;
the brightest, the noblest, and the best of
gifts, and whatever comes of goodness it is
the one thing desr able, itself above all price
Make him feel that obedience is pleasure,
that goodness is delight, that love is altegeth-
er lovely, and he will not expect to be paid
for the smallest service and be tempted to
withhold kindness when he is not sure of
a reward. Parents must cease appealing to
the appetites and the avarice of their chill
dren if they would have them anything but
selfish and sensual.
Year: 1866

THE Ax.-The other day was
holding a man by the hand-a hand
as firm in its outer texture as leather,
and his sunburnt face was as in
flexible as parchment; he was pour
ing forth TRADE of contempt on
those who complain that they can get
nothing to do, as an excuse for be-
coming idle loafers.


Said l.: "Jef, what do you work
at? You look hearty and happy
what are you att"


Why said he, al bought me an
Ak three years ago that cost me tw,
dollars. That was all the money !
had. | went to chopping wood by
the cord. | have done nothing else,
and have earned more than 5000
drank no grog, paid no doctor, and
have bought me little farm in the
Hoosier State, aud shall be married
next week to a girl who has earned
5000 since she was eighteen. Ms
old AK | shall keep in the drawer
and hug me a new one to cut m,
wood with"


After I left him I thought tC
myself, "that AK and no grog." They
are two things that make a man il
this world. How small a capital that
ax-how sure of success with th,
motto, "No grog!" And then I
farm and wife, the best of all.
Year: 1866

A CLUE TO THE MYsTERY-A south
ern newspaper of Union proclivities
shrewdly suggests that the northern
copperheads and the southern rebels
do not wish the great problem of re-
construction settled any further than
by the admission of the southern
members of Congress, their purpose
then being 10 fight off any action,
with view to throwing the whole
question into the next Presidential
election, on an issue in favor of
Estate Rights" BY the light Of
this explanation it is easy to under
stand many things which otherwise
appear unaccountable. The hope Of
carrying a Presidential election, and
thus recovering possession of ma
tional power, is the thing which spurs
on the southern oligarchy to its mad
course of obstruction to all the Ad-
ministratiOn measures OF permanent
peace. Were it not for that perni-
cious hope, these conquered rebels
would act in a far different spirit,
and we should see general recon-
ciliation. 1t is essential, then, that
the measures of the existing Con-
gress should be so shaped as to put
an extinguisher upon these calcula-
tons of mischief and restoration Of
old abuses. We have the right and
the power both to legislate for 8
thorough and wholesome reform Of
the condition of the south, and il we
do not avail ourselves Of them, our
whole country will be the sufferer for
years to come. In this belief, we
earnestly hope that Congress will
perfect its measures as speedily ss
possible, and in shape to meet with
the approval of the President, who,
with the power lodged in his hands
and they way open for him, will not
hesitate to act with vigor for the
rlght.-Philadelphia North american.
Year: 1866

% The New York Herald opens
the next Presidential campaign ss
follows: "We are within two years,
eight months and twelve days of the
next Presidential election. Time
flies rapidly in these days, and the
great struggle Of 1868 will soon be
upon us. The politicians, this clique,
that clique, and the other, are sap
ping and mining to secure the prize
and working to turn the administra-
ton to their purposes and to befoe
and betray the people. To head
them off, and to simplify the Rsdi
cal war upon the administration, w
proclaim General Grant as the in
dependent champion of the army
and the people fer the next Presi
dency."
Year: 1866

Mr. Editor AS the county levy will be laid
at the next term Of the June Court, I think it
an appropriate occasion to call the attention of
the Court to a subject which calls loudly for re-
form. The county is heavily taxed for county
purposes; yet the poor, being the more numer-
Gus class, bear the heavy proportion Of the tax.
Should not those who have large material in
terests in the county bear a tax proportionate to
that interest? In looking over the assessment
books Of this county, find Mr.. F-'s property
is valued fifty thousand dollars, and Mr.. D-'s
property is valued at fifty dollars. Yet strange
to say, while Mr.. F. paid three dollars county
tax for 1865, Mr. D paid niae dollars. Is
there any justice or reason in such discrimina-
ton against the poor and in favor of the rich
This unequal and unjust tax is now driving ma
ny OF the industrious, honest laboring men from
the country, while the idle and vicious, who
never pay their taxes, remain with us. Let the
County Court equaize the taxes by assessing a
property tax, as well as a Capitation tax


In these times of high taxes to hear the oft
repeated adage, Blessed is he that hath moth
ing But the County Court (by their assess
ments) would seem to say Cursed is he that
hath many children. REFORM
Year: 1866

Bad men are never completely happy, al
though possessed of everything that this world
can bestow and good men are never complete
" miserable, although deprived of everything
that the world can take away,
Year: 1866

Couitet and Nicholas descended in all haste in the
same direction, ana searched everywhere in th3
hope Of hearing cry or moan to indicate that some
had survived the catastrophe. They at last per-
ceived an arm. At great risk to themselves they
reached the spot and dragged out from beneath the
blocks dead body, the skull crushed and the breast
lard open. They laid 1t on the snow and resumed
their search, but found nothing more.


They resolved TO descend and announce to the
sister and to the other families that there was no
hope beyond the faint one of finding on the follow
ing day the three other bodies buried In the ice.
They reached the ds-Mulets, where Miss Ark
wright had been left, and informed her that it was
useless TO wait any longer and that she herself must
without a moments delay, descend with them. The
writer of letter from ChamoUn says:-


Imagine the scene that took plnce-the lamenta'
tons OF the mothers of the three widows and OF the
nine orphans. The pen is powerless to describe it,
Mrs. Arkwright, bewailing her son; her two daugh.
ters weeping for their brother; but calm and firm
and relying on the will of God, who tries them
cruelty They are still hoping, unfortunately
against hope for the recovery OF the bodies OF the
victims"


ON Sunday morning fifteen men, selected from
among the most intrepid OF the population, left on
the search They proposed to pass the night on the
Mulets, in order to begin early the following
morning clearing away the avalanche; and many
others have offered themselves to act the follow
ing day II necessary. Fortunately the weather
fine, and favorable to thetv perious work. An
American family, who did not wish to have their
names mentioned gave the Mayor 250f for the three
widows,
Year: 1866

Oh, mother let the candle burn,


And set it in my open window,
For father dear will soon return


To press his darling Annals pillow;
And if there is no light to guide


His slow and weary footsteps homeward,
He'll turn away, and stay beside [ward
Those few who seek to draw him down
Then, mother, light him home again,


And greet him with pleasant smile;
Oh, try to wash away the stain,


And bring him from among the vile.
But if the light be burned tonight
The night be cold, and dark, and gloomy,
Speak gentle words, though dearly bought,
For they can quell the fierce and stormy.
Then, if he scorn your gentle words,
And say he's still among the number,
Just think of little singing birds,


Thatscarcely cease their songs for slumber.
Then, mother, light him home sgain,


And greet him with a gentle word;
Oh, seek to drive away his pain,


And draw him from the drunken herd.
And, mother, when leave these cares,
For ere the dawning of the morning
I'll tread path among the stars,
And gaze upon this world of mourning,
If then, dear father cannot see,


Oh, greet him with heart that'a loving,
And gently point him up to me,


And tell him there his Annals rowing.


Then, mother, light him home again,


And greet him with loving heart;


Oh, tell him of his daughters gain,


Andlead him where no more we'llpart
Year: 1866

From the Chilicothe (Ohio) Advertiser.l


The fine afternoons of last week fur
nished an excellent opportunity for a
display of the new styles. Our ladies
were on the street. sailing along under a
full stretch of canvas, displaying the
color and insignia ofthe queen they serve
-inexorable and capricious Fashion"
We noticed in the way of head gear that
the " flap jack has met the fate of the
"bread basket" and scoop shovel,
and given place to an abbreviation in the
shape of hole with the width Of two
inches of material stretched around it,
resembling an inverted dinner bucket
cut down to proper dimensions. In the
dressing of the hair, the "rats" and
"mice" are retained, but the " frizzles
have given place to the hay stack,
and the rats and mice can play in and
out to their hearts content. Some call
it the "tail knot" on account Of its re
semblance 10 the narrative of horse
after having been dexterously put up
by skillfnl groom. But we insist that
the "hay stack is better term, and
more euphonious Grape is also dis
played in great profusion, fluttering in
the rear like the tail of comet, visible
after the thing of beauty" has disap,;
peared. We noticed an African "craft "
skudding" down street Saturday,
enough Grape canvas to make a fly net
or mosquito bar. In dresses, the more
material you got, the better display you
can make of the red binding on your
morocco boots, through the looping pro-
cess 1t don't make much difference
what the original material is, but you
must patch it all over with rare and
costly fabrics. The more patches you
get on, the more fashionable you will be.
If you have any unoccupied space after
putting on the patches, you can cover it
with big buttons. A lady in full "tog-
gerry" can find her counterpart in any of
the well.dressed monkeys that gather in
the "shinnies for itinerant organ
orinders
Year: 1866

The teachers of the negro school on
Friday locked their young charges up
and went to dinner. The chaps turned
the gas on by way of amusement, and
soon the room was filled to suffocation,
to escape which, the little darkies went
stumbling out of second story window
in admirable disorder. Our informant
says that coming down head-foremost,
and striking nothing harder than the
rock with their skulls, they remained un-
injured-the contact, however, making
the sparks fly. Only last Saturday we
recorded the shivering of brick which
fell from great hight against negro's s
skull. Now, white men and children
couldn't possibly stand tests from which
these darkies came off uninjured. Won
der if the abolitionists don't see in this
additional evidence of physical superb
ority.-Le1ington Gazette.
Year: 1866

That there exists an immense attrac.
ton about ladies' ankles is certainly nc
proof of want of manliness in com
munity where it is observable. If wo-
mans delicacy is shocked by the idea OF
too free an exhibition, so far as her own
case is concerned she has it under entire
control, and there is no lack of hOrrid ex-
ample to illustrate the enormity of the
practice and to suggest infallible methods
for its correction. On the other hand, q
pretty foot and a shapely ankle are indu-
bitably strong attractions in woman,
and II she chooses to show them she will
assuredly never lack admirers to appre-
ciate the privilege. There is nothing in
trinsically more immodest in showing
the lower limbs than in showing the up
per ones, and as the latter are usually re-
yealed without covering, and the former
are not, the distinction, if any, is on the
safe side. Decidedly, there is less sug-
uestion of indelicacy even IN a revelation
extending to the knee than in the over
liberal exposure of the bosom too often
seen in society. aud which fashion still
appears TO sanction. A nice foot and
ankle, we'll booted, and rounded contiR-
uation well hosed, however attractive as
we have seen them to be, do no not con-
vey, save to very morbid and unmanly
imaginings, such significant associations
as does the brazen revealment Of those
parts of the figure which decent women,
even of barbarous nations, have ever
jealousy yelled as sacred symbols of
maternity. Nol Such Developments, to
a healthy mind, are not entirely shocking
aud demoraliziug. There is only danger
that, like all pleasantly piquant or
slightly equivocal things, they may be
carried too far-or, to be more exact,
that the skirts may be tilted too bfgh.
Year: 1866

and well educated. She leaves two chill
dren, boy of fourteen and girl of eight
years. Brown was young man OF but
twenty summers, very popular and in
talligent. He had just graduated at the
Ann Arbor law school, but had not been
admitted to the bar.
Year: 1866

INCREDIBLE MEANNEss.- incident of the
Portland fire is told by the Press Of that city,
which says:


We hear Of a creature in this city, which
walks on two legs and wears coat, and rcsem-
bles man. In fact the creaturea owns shop
and house and trafics in a small-vcry smaA
way. On the night of the fire his ncighbors
helped him to save his property, while the
whole opposite side of the street burned down.
His clerk who lived directly opposite, labOred
indefatigably for his employer while his faith
err house and his own effects were going to
ashes. Until four o'clock in the morning they
kept the shop wet and by unremitting efforts
saved it and the house in the rear of it. After
working all night in an atmosphere of flame
and cindcrs, men are sometimes thirsty These
men were thirsty, and inquired of the creature
whose house and shop they had saved, if he
had any water? "No." Any small beer?
"No." The clerk, who knew better, went
down to the ice chest, pulled out several bot
ties of IIndles mild beverage, found in the
pan little water, tOleraby clean, which had
drained from the ice, mingled with it sugar and
sliced lemons, and dispensed these cooling
drinks to the deserving crowd. Next day this
eXtravagant youth on returning to his duties,
found charged to him on the books Of the con
! Germ, four bottles of beer, one pound of sugar,
and four lemons His place is now vacant.
| Entcrprising young men who want a situation
may apply at this office for further information
Year: 1866

a PARENTAL LETTER. The following letter
was written by father to his son iu college:
new socks which your mother has just knit by
cutting down some Of mine. Your mother
sends you ten dollars without my knowledge,
and for fear You would not spend it wisely, |
kept back half, aud only send you Eve. Your
own mother aud | are well, except that your
sister has got the measles, which We think
would spread among the other girls ifTom had
not had them before, and he is the only owe
left hope you will do hopor to my teach
lngs; Ifyou do not, you are a donkey, and
your mother and myself are your afectionate
parents"
Year: 1866

AND \ w GOODS!


r ii. PRIMROSE has Just received direct from
o the Philadelphia and New York markets an al
most entirely new stock of goods of every variety.
His old stock was greatly reduced in order that he
might replenish it with new styles at the reduced
prices, which reduction is very great. He has
beautiful line Of goods both Domestic and Foreign
Year: 1866

CLOSING CHURCHEs.-Th New York cor
respondent of the Public Lc,lqer thus speaks
ofclo>ing churches during the summer Grace
Church is closed for the season, and so are half
a dozen or more of the fashionable places of
public worship up town With such a prac-
tice in vogue one would think the churches
were built only for the accommodation of the
wealthy, and that when the wealthy ran off to
the watering places there was no further occa-
casion of preaching the gospel. There is a
strong feeling Of repugnance among earnest
Christian men Of all denominations against the
continuance of this scandal (fOr scandal it is)
and the chances are that this is the last sum
mer that it will be tolerated.
Year: 1866

The next campaign will be one OF
the most important which the people
of Indiana have ever fought against
prescription, and error, and wrong.
Now. if ever, must the fruits OF the
terrible war which we have suffered,
be secured beyond a peradventure.
The grave responsibilities growing ogt
ated by all the people. In order that
they may be prepared to act under
standingly, there is a necessity for
chean and rapid means of informing
themselves of the rapid events trans,
piring from day to day in the political
world. It is with the design of dong
all in our power to meet this want that
we now propose to issue
Year: 1866

There is a millinery establishment at
sprakers Basin. kept by an old maid. in
the window Of which establishment appears
the following laughable notice, but laugh
able only to those who put wrong inter
probation upon it, viz F." No reasonable Of
fer refused here"
Year: 1866

The POINT OF THE MATTER. The
leading proposition on which this conspiracy
against the country is to be conducted, is
the monstrous ahsurdity that the rebel
States have an inherent, continuous, un-
conditioned, constitutional right to form
part Of the Federal Government, when they
have once acknowledged the fact of the de-
feat of their inhabitants, in an armed at
tempt to overthrow and subject il, Ia pro-
position which implies that victory paralyzes
the power of the Yictors, that ruin begins
when success is assured, that the only effect
Of beating Southern rebel in the field is to
exalt him into maker of laws for his antago


mist. "-Atlantic Monthly for September
Year: 1866

paper says that about a month ago a ragged
little urchin called upon a merchant of that
city, and asked the loan Of fifty cents, for
which he promised to give his note, bearing
Interest at ten per cent. The merchant. struck
with the novelty Of the proposition, and with
the straishtforwardness oI the boy, gave him
the money and took his note, as the boy insisted


occurrence, when he was surprised to see the
little fellow walk into his store one day and
ask to redeem his note. Upon inquiry, the
merchant learned from the boy that he had In :
vested the money in papers and oranges, and
already made about forty dollars, which he
was about placing in a savings bank. He had
no father nor mother, and did chores at g.
friends house for board. rss#.. ... :
Year: 1866

SMr. c. II. Brand a Chicago saloon keep-
er, tired OF life, ordered his bar keeper TO draw
him mug Of beer, one day last week, which
he took In one hand and q Colts revolver in
the other, and. going TO the rear Of his saloon
drank OF the beer, deliberately set down the
mug, wiped his mouth, and then inserting the
muzzle of the pistol In his mouth, fired IL.
blowing his brains all around the shed.
Year: 1866

lie Is GONE TO PoT.--A tailor of Samar-
cand, living near the gate leading to the
burying place, had by his shop board an
earthen pot hanging on nail, into which he
threw little stone when any corpse was
carried by, and at the end of every morning
he counted the contents of the pot, in order
to ascertain the number of the deceased.
AT length the tailor died himself, and some
time after, one that was unacqusinted with
his death, observing his shop to be deserted,
inquired what had become of him, when one
of the deceased's neighbors replied, "Thc
fellow Is gone to the pot, as well as the rest. "
Here is anOther:-The ancient Greeks buried
their dead in iars-hence the original of the
expression, "Gone to pot"