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Year: 1879

You can probably be rich, my son, it
you will be. Ii you make up your
mind now that you will be rich man.,
and stick to it, there is very little doubt
that you will be a very wealthy, tole-
rably mean, loved little, hated great
deal, have d big funeral, be blessed by
the relatives to whom you leave the
most, reviled by those to whom you
leave less, and villitied by those to
whom you leave nothing. But you
must pay for it, my son. Wealth is an
expensive thing. 1t costs all tbs worth,


If you want to be worth million
dollars it will cost you just a million
dollars to get it. Broken friendships,
intellectual starvation, loss OF social
enjoyment, deprivation Of generous
impulses, the slnothering of manly as
pirations, a limited wardrobe and a
scanty table, a lonely home because
you fear lovely wife and beautiful
home would be expensive, hatred of
the heather, q dread of the contribution
box, q haunting fear Of the Woman's aid
society, a fretfSl dislike OF poor people
opt OF your sight, a little sham benevo-
can be rich, young man, if you are will
ing to pay the PRICE. -~--s.


Any man can get rich who doesn't
think it is too expensive. True, you
many be rich and be a man among men,
noble and Christian and grand and true,
serving God and blessing humanity, but
that will be in spite OF your wealth and
not as q result Of it. It will be lecaHse
you always were that kind OF a man.
But if you want to be rich, merely to be
rich, il that is the breadth and height
of your ambition, you can be rich, if
you will pay the price. And when you
and pay for this advice. Well let the
interest compodnd from this date.
Year: 1879

Modern law and ancient custom have
come into conflict lately at Avenches


(the old Roman Aventicun), in the
canton of Naud, to the utter discomti-


ture Of the latter. 1t is a custom in


many Swiss villages, when a maiden


belonging to the parish accepts " a
fUregner,n an inhaUltant OF some other
parish, as her bridegroom, to compel


the successful suitOr to redeem his


bride from her own native community


by paying an indemnity in money to


the young men OF the place. This
lusegeld, or ransom money, is usually
demanded Immediately alter the mar
riage, when the bridal couple are !eav-
ing the brides village. A chain or5rope
is stretched across the road in front OF
the bridal wagon and is not removed
until the husband has paid to the young
male representatives of the tribe the
price of the daughter whom he is about
to carry away. The custom has been
much corrupted in the course OF time,
and the money is now not unfreguently
eXtorted from the father who is about
to lose his daughter, instead OF being
with plea of immemorial
unwritten right and show of force,
from the husband, who has robbed the
village OF IL marriaeeablc maiden. In
Nillarsle, Grand, not far from Avenches,
the village youth met in council and
resolved that the father Of Il departing e
bride should be made to pay the sum
of fifty francs, as Il fine for marrying
his daughter to a foreigner. A deputa-
tion was sent to him, which, after i'll
forming him of this resolution, threat
ened him with Il charivari y in the
event of his refusal. The father offered
thirty francs this sum, however, was
refused as insufficient, and for three
successive nights the young men and
lads of the village executed a fearful
" cats concert underneath his daugh-
ter's window. The father complained
to the police the case was brought
before the district court, and four OF
the ringleaders, in spite of their plea OF
custom, were condemned to five days
Il fine OF twenty five
francs each and payment OF the costs.
Year: 1879

Max Lyman, a prairie scout, y who lived
at the White River Agency a year and
a half and knew the Meekers intimately,
tells this story to q reporter OF the Dubu-
que Times:


Ouray was in love with the eldest
daughter Of Agent Meeker, and [ think
that had this not been the case every
one of the Meeker family would have
been butehered. He often told me that
Ire loved the white girl, and it made
him feel badly to think that he could
meyer marry her. | have seen Ouray
follow her around and watch over her
as it she was a child.


He would do anything to please her.
Ouray's sister knew that her brother
loved the Meeker family, and SO took
good care that no harm should come ito
them. [ was there when the women
We're brought back, and Onray was SO
happy that he rushed up to the Meeker
girl and shook her hand for an hour.
He tried hard to stop her from weeping,
but she said, "Ouray, you. knew this
tsoable was coming all the time, and
can never forgive you.n [ learn now
that he is doing all in his power to bring
the bad Indians in,
Year: 1879

DcnlnU.


This IS the report in substance as
made by tie deputy to Marshal Fitzsi-
mons. The Marshal is not in the city
at present, but we presume when he re-
turns he will take steps to have the al
rest of the defiant mOuntaineer made
over again, and made so that it will
stick
Year: 1879

From the Drt,nu Ficc Press


The gates at the passenger dep",s
which shut out all people not having
tickets for the trans were closed nj the
Union depot against an elderly woman
wearing spectacles and using an UNI
brella rs q cane.


Can't pass without ticket said
the man at the gate rs she came up.


81 want to see if there's anybody on
that train going to Port Huron she an
swered.


Cant pass without ticket, madam.


"I've got Il darter in Port Huron,
have.''


Cant help it,please. My orders arc
very strict"


Il tell you l want to send word to
my darter," she exclaimed, adjusting
her spectacles for Il better view OF the
official


Yes, but we can't help that. You see.
Please show your ticket


Il want this ere railroad to under
stand that I've got y dartcr in Port HUI
ron and she's got 4 baby four week s
old, and I'm going to send her up word
in spite of all the gates in this depot"


"P ease show your ticket, madam


Il tell you once more


please show your ticket. madam.


She gave the Old umbrella whirl,
and brought it down on his head with
all the vim of an old fashioned log-rais-
ing. and. as he staggered aside. she
passed him, and said:


There's my ticket, sir, and I've got
more behind it, Mebbe one man and a
gate can stop me from sending word to
my darter to grease the baby's nose
with mutton taller if the weather
changes cold, but don't believe it
And she walked down to the tram,
found some one gong to Port Huron.
and came back carelessly humming the
melody of The Three Blind Mice
Year: 1879

Above all things, boys should be care
full to speak the truth. know several
boys who, perhaps, mean well but who
are careless in this particular ;and when
ever | hear them talk | am afraid do
not put as much confidence in what they
say as | ought, because know their
love of appreciation and the marvellous,
and find myself making allowances
whenever my native sense sees the need
This is bad; for sometimes we might
make allowance just where we ought
not to, and make ourselves much trouble.
1t makes us doubtful. too, which is bad.
So, boys, take advice OF older minds
How quick you know ii any one tells
what is not exactly truthful, and you do
not forget it. Think. then. that others
regard you in the same way. Our opin-
ion OF others is, generally. fair exam
Pile of how others regard us. You do
not mean to be untruthlul-of course
you do not, but there are two ways OF
telling anything. and If you contract the
habit OF coloring 1t. it will give you a
great deal of trouble. Speak and act
the truth. and YOU will never 90 Tar
astray.
Year: 1879




Some statements have been made i'll
regard to the young man Geo. Clark,
who recently killed himself in this city
at the Kennard House. which may serve
as warning. lie had had difficulty
with his wife, and had been guilty OF
improper conduct as = husband. When
he saw the details spread out. in the
columns of the newspapers, the disgrace
and exposure of his affairs drove him to
desperation. He thought the eyes OF
everybody were upon him, that he was
branded forever rs 4 criminal before
mankind, and death was the surest and
only source of relief He had not the
courage to live, and so died by his own
hand. We do not learn that the young
man was a candidate for office; that any
divorce suit or charge was pending
against him in the courts; that he was
in any sense a public man, or that the
newspapers had any business with his
private affairs whatever. That he had
sinned and was guilty of great wrong
to his family and himself seems quite
true, but that his offences should have
been published, blazoned to the world.
with AL the glaring headlines thai sen
sation and ingenuity could invent, seems
needless and wanton outrage, a viola
,ion OF public dccency and the liberty of
the press. His private affairs were his
private affairs, and exposure could do
nobody any good. were in no sense news
to which the public was entitled; and
such publication were the vilest libels on
private character.


Such garbage may make newspapers
sell. 1t is eagerly sought by the bad and
thoughtless. But such invaslons of the
private affairs OF a private citizen by Il
newspaper IS a degradation OF the press
and IL monstrous abuse of its rights. II
persisted IN by papers claiming to be re-
spectacle, journalism as profession
will sink below contempt and the time
will come when, if editors are beaten or
killed, the community will say that it
served them right Young Clark killed
himself rather than meet the shame he
felt awaiting him. But il his death calls
public attention to a growing evil in oul
country now recklessly indulged in by
a portion of the press. he may not have
| 6ia6 in vain
Year: 1879

Have the courage TO tell man why
you will not lend him your money.


Have the courage to obey your Maker
at the risk of being ridiculed by man.


Have the courage to discharge debt
when you have the money in your pocket


Have the courage to prefer comfort
and prosperity 10 fashion IN all things


Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can pay Tor your new
ones.


Have the courage to do without what
you do not need, however much YOU may
covet it.


Have the courage to acknowledge your
ignorance, rather than seek credit for
knowledge under false pretenses


Have the courage to speak your mind
when it is necessary that you should do
so. and to hold your tongue when it is
prudent you should do so.


Have the courage to show your re-
spect for honesty in whatever gulse it ap-
p~ars, and your contempt for dishonesty
and duplicIty, by whomsoevcr exhibited.
Year: 1879

at is noticeable that nearly all the
men of gore who are anxious to smash
up the union and plunge the sections
INTO another disastrous war. are working
on newspapers with patent outsides. A
newspaper with 4 patent outside is so
undigniiied that many OF the great
thoughts uttered by these people are
lost. Somehow small paper with Il
patent outside does not seem to mean
more than Onc-balt that il saws"
Year: 1879




Col. Donn Piatt is out in Ohio h"'ring
to manage his brothers canvass. His
brother is candidate for Governor on
the National ticket, and Dom intends to
keep his eye on the campaign from first
to last, so that if occasion arises he will
be able to make an affidavit th his
brother was actually a candidate.
Year: 1879

NatIOnaI Associated Press to the Star.


BosToN, July Fall River was in an
excited condition last night owing to the
fact that the Robstek spinners were
guarded to and from their work.
Spinners coming to the city leave the
train outside and enter in hacks More
weavers are leaving their work, as the fill
ing is used.
Year: 1879

Except his friend Mr.. Kennedy, nor
to touch it or handle it. The noise
Of the orchestra woke it up, and its
screams drove the leader nearly
wild and annoyed the audience,
but he persevered, and merely set
his teeth and sent for some paragon
ic. How he sat up all night with
IL and sent for DR.. Bishop to allay
its collie, and how devotedly he
nurses 1t day and night are matters
which will be told by and by. His
act was that Of a good, brave and
generous soul, and, as such, de-
serves to be given to the world.
Year: 1879

In Russia taxes are collected in this
way: A peasant, representative Of a
district, comprising several villages,
is charged with the duty of collecting
a certain amount of money, aud it is
the duty of the people to distribute the
taxes among themselves as they like
the best For the prompl collection,
in the first place, the representative is
res sponsible, and in case of tardiness
he is imprisoned for week with com
mon criminals, and furnished with
food az the cost of three cents u day.
A district is obliged TO pay for all its
members, whether they are actual res
idents, or have gone elsewhere, or are
in the army In case a tax collector
is unable to do his duty he reports to
the authorities, then the police appear,
armed with rods, and il the rods do
not secure tie desired result the prop
erty of delinquents is sold at. auction.
Year: 1879

detroit Free Press.l


Many singular scenes are enacted in this
city by silly young men who imagine that
they are in love with some pretty girl, to
whom they have never had an Introduction;
but the palm for impudence and poor judg-
ment must be awarded to a young man who
rode down town on a Baker street car yester-
day afternoon. For several months the
young man, who goes to and from his meals
about the same hours with young lady who
lives in the western part of the city and is
employed in leading jewelry store, has
stared at her, smiled at her, and in every way
possible endeavered to attract her attention
BY some means he learned her name, and yes
terday when she entered the car he bowed
to her as soon as she was seated, took seat
beside her, saying: "Miss Blank, think we
have seen enough of each other to be better
acquainted"


Surprised at his assurance, but with ready
wit, the young lady replied sharply: Scr
tainly have seen enough b of YOU


Not at all abashed by the retort or the pres
ence of half dozen other passengers, he
continued: "But, my dear Miss Blank, the
admiration of gentleman"


She interrupted him with: "Show that you
are gentleman by not troubling me any fur
ther," and changed her seat in the car. The
discomfitted ninny kept his position in silence
for time, but at last the broadly smiling
faces of the other passengers proved too much
for his nerves and he hastily made his exit
from the car.
Year: 1879

The records of marriage offer some curious
columns. Statistics are continually forcing
upon our notice fixed percentage of repent
ant old bachelors; also of young bachelors
that marry widows; also of young women
that marry old men, and of widows that re-
new their VOWS while the ratio of second,
third and fourth marriages is very constant.


Indeed, it has most profanely come to pass
that, just as the stars are nothing but points
of vast triangles and diagrams to cold-blood-
ed astronomer, so every unmarried woman
stands as an algebraic symbol to the eye of
the social mathematician; if she is twenty
years old, representing three-quarters of a
likelihood that she will change her name :;
if twenty-f standing for one quarter of the
same possibility if thirty, reduced to frac-
tion of one divided by ten; and then decreas-
ing in geometrical ratio which it would
hardly be polite to put into figures here.


On the contrary, a man of twenty-five rep
resents the fraction one-half as to the pro-
liabilities of marriage. which is so vulgar q
traction that most young men of that period
strive ardently to annihilate it by finding the
other and better half which restores their
integrity, substance and show.
Year: 1879

ILL.,


One of the flourishing Fifth street shoe
stores is managed entirely by two young
ladies. Miss Riley and Miss Linehart. Every
part of the business is attended to by them.
They keep the books, attend to the stock, and
open the store in the morning and close it at
night. When boxes of goods arrive they
open them with hand and hatchet quite as
we'll as a young man could do. They give
orders for new goods. About the only duty
the owner of the store has is the not unpleas-
ant one of coming in occasionally to relieve
the cash box Not shoe store in the city
is better kept than this one, which two girls
carry on. They are refined ana gentle in
their manners, and so prompt and polite in
business that they are said to be building up
an enviable trade. One is of Jewish, the
other of Irish, descent. They have been init
mate friends for five years, having been fel-
low-clerks for that length of time. Both are
the daughters of widowed mothers, and aid
largely in supporting their families. These
excellent girls are only another instance to
show that when woman works for her liv-
ing there is always very good reason for it.
1t is not too much to say that three -fourths
of the women who earn money have
others than themselves to support
Of tripple-plated meanness, therefore,
is the spirit which seeks to restrict women's
labor in any way whatever, or which grudges
her equal pay with man for equal work.
Year: 1879

[trOm Chambers JOurnalJ


The passion of love often reacts strangely
on undisciplined minds, and frequently pro-
duces on them most unlocked for results.
AT Keithley, at the beginning of the present
century, lived young man named William
Sharp. He fell desperately in love with a
girl, the daughter of a neigboring farmer.
Everything went smoothly till the wedding
morning, when the fathers could not agree
how much to give the young couple to start
them in life; and literally at the last
moment in the church the match was broken
off. This was too much for the weak mind
of VIM. Sharp. Hewent home, went to his
bed, and never arose from it again. He was
just thirty when he thus isolated himself
from active life, and he died in his bed at
the age of seventy-6ve. His room was about
nine feet square. The floor was stone, and
generally damp. The window permanently
fastened; some of the panes were filled in
with wood, and at the time of his death it
had not been opened for thirtY-eight years.
In this dreary cell this strange being immured
himself He obstinately refused to speak,
and gradually every trace of intelligence
faded away. His father left an ample pro-
vision for his eccentric son, and he was we'll
looked after. He ate as much as an ordinary
day laborer, and at his death weighed above
sixteen stone. In Harrogate, several years
ago, lived woman who for the same cause
behaved in exactly the same manner. Her
parents having prevented her marriage with
a worthless character, she took to her bed
and kept it for fifteen years; and if not dead,
is probably keeping it still.
Year: 1879

1t was in December of 1914 that Margaret
went to New York to take charge of the litera-
ry department of the Tribune. 1t was at first
more the desire of Mrs. Greeley, between
whom and Miss Fuller an intimate friendship
existed, that induced MIR. Greeley to make
her this proposition, which included home
in his family.


''For some MONTHS says Mr.. Greeley,
II did not fully appreciate her noble
qualities. Though we were members of the
same household. We rarely met save at break
fast, and my time and thoughts were absorbed
in duties and cares which left me little leis-
ure or inclination for the amenities of social
intercourse. Fortune seemed to delight in
placing US two in relations of friendly antagon-
ism, or rather to develop all possible contrasts
in our ideas and social habits. She was
maturity inclined to luxury and good appear
ance before the world. My pride, if 1 had
any, delighted in bare walls and rugged fare.
She was addicted to strong tea and coffee,
both of which l rejected and condemned,
even in the most homeopathic dilutions
while my general health being sound and
hers sadly impaired, l could not fail to find
in her habits the cause of her almost habitual
illness, and once while we were still barely
when she came to the breakfast
table with very severe head ache, was
tempted to attribute it to her strong potations
of the Chinese leaf the night before. She
told me quite frankly that she declined be-
ing lectured on the food or beverage she saw
fit to take, which was but reasonable in one
who had arrived at her maturity of intellect
and fixedness of habits"
Year: 1879

Tact and pOliteness Obviate many difficult
ties. A returned miner from the Black Hills
arrived in town yesterday, and went to sa-
loon and asked tor some OF the best whisky
in the house, and when it was served to him
spit it out with unutterable loathing and Said :
Il called for whisky, young man: mebbe
you don't hear me?' The bar keeper said
that he had heard him, and that he had given
him whisky. The gentleman from Dead
wood proceeded with more deadly calmness,
though his hand instinctively sought his hip
pocket. Il called for the best whisky in the
house, young man; mebbe you did not catch
the full significance of my language ?" Now,
many another barkeeper, under similar cir
cumstances, would have resented the insiD-
uation as to his liquor by pouring it into the
sink, and saying: 'You don't know good
whisky when you see it," or words to that
effect, or have offered the man $500 if he
could find as good whisky as that anywhere
on the footstool, or in some other manner
not herein specified. have led the man from
the Black Hills to draw his revolver or hurl
chair through the mirror. But this bar
keeper was man of quite another sort, so he
said, kindly 81 beg your pardon, Captain :;
so many people come round that don't know
what whisky is, but might have seen with
half an eye that you knew the difference" )"
So he urbanely but hurriedly mixed in bot
tie some alchohol kept for cleaning the mir
ror, and spirits OF turpentine and Jamaica
ginger, and Perry Davis pain-killer, and
when the stranger said ''Yes" in reply to his
question whether he liked some bitters in it,
shook half Il gill of peppersauce into tumb-
ler and pushed the bottle toward him. The
stranger filled heaping tumberful and passed
it off, and when he had recovered his breath
said to the bar-keeper: young man, that's
the whisky. haven't tasted nothing like
that since left Custer City, two weeks ago
to-day. That's real, genuine liquor; kinder
cross between circular saw and wildcat
That takes hold quick and holds on long
Just you 60 to Deadwood and open saloon
with that whisky, and you might charge an
ounce glass for it and people wouldn't kick.
So long; take this in remembrance of me"
and pressing an $500 nugget upon the bar
keeper, he was gone.