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Year: 1879

"Without frugality none can BE- rich,
and with it few would 10 poor" BY
habit men are often bound as with
hoops Of steel. It grows TO be > sort Of
second nature. So much Is this the case
with even what they eat, one race OF
men might die, If fed on that with
which another race might live and
thrive. A habit early formed in life,
Of saving just little part Of what one


earns, will grow by repetition Of sue


cseding years, to be . part and parcel
Of ons's self, and so It is with spending
money. 1t soon will grow into habit
Of great force. The young man starting
in life should grow wise by direction Of


the elder friend, constant saver OF 3


certain part Of what he earns. No mat


ter how small the first beginning is.


Ten cents per month, in early youth,


saved faithfully and well, will form q


habit that will make the after man


familiar in the halls Of wealth. Things


have cause, and causes have effect.


This is a rule Of nature, just as fixed


and permanent as planets, stars and


sun. Saving is a cause, riches the ef-


feet.


Suppose a man shall make plan to
save. He opens his account in q Saw


ings' Bank, and then resolves within


himself that every week he owes the


bank debt that must be paid, like


any other honest debt. A debt Of man


ly resolution. Good according to this
means what shall 1t be How much q
week 1t matters not, SO long as be
sticks to his plan with honest perssver-
snce to the last. Let us name trifing
sum, one dollar. Now we'll suppose
your life to end at eighty years. You
intend to quit labor at sixty years Of
age and live in ease and comfort after
that for twenty years. This is your
plan. Now let US see how it would
work at different ages Of your life.
First then, you start at twenty years Of
age to save a dollar every week, at six
ty years what will you have! ss,4l5.-
II. That amount, properly invested,
would yield about $50 per month";
These figures comprise the savings of
one dollar a week, put in savings
bank, with interest compounded at 6
per cent. Five dollars week, steadily
saved, and put in savings bank for
five years, and you will then be worth
81, $500, which will ever after earn
you eight dollars a month. These are
facts, and every man must either run
the risk Of poverty or want when sick
ness or old age overtakes him, or else
he must lay money by for coming rainy
days. Our saving banks here are safe
ly managed, and regularly pay a good
iaterest on deposits.
Year: 1879

A reporter of the New York Graphic
gathered a number of Interesting pre-
dictions in a recent conversation with
prophet of that city. AS the Herald re-
marks, between blessings and Affections
the line is drawn with reasonable con-
sideration, but there is still enough of
warning in these prophesies to cause
any prudent man to keep his weather
eye open. The prophet is understood
to be Mr.. D. G. Croly, a prominent
journalist of New York, and he proph-
estes as follows:


1. The year 1879 will, on the whole,
be a prosperous one for the United
States. There will be a general revival
of industry, labor will be employed and
confidence in the future universally felt.
Before the close of the year there will
be a widespread interest IN precious
metal mining. A dangerous speculative
feeling in other industries will soon
show itself.


2. There will be partial failure of
crops this year Our hay crop on the
Atlantic slope will be short


3. AT least two important failures of
Wall sstreet magnates viii take place
this year. They will be of persons with
whose names every one is familiar.


A. An unsuspected weakness in our
national banking system may be deveE
oped during the coming year.


5. The disproportion between our ex-
ports and imports, such as we have wit
messed for the past two years, will come
to an end before 1881. Home prices
Will go higher and foreign goods be
sold cheaper. We shall export less
and import more. Unless the "unex-
pected' occurs there win be drain in
gold abroad, and then resumption, as at
present established, must be legislated
upon anew or 1t will fail.


8. Should the country be prosperous
and resumption stand until the national
conventions meet in 1880, John Sher.
man win be the candidate of the Re
publican party for the Presidency.


q Resumption has not settled all our
financial difficulties. Questions affect
ing the business interests of the country
win be the subject of many warm polit-
ical contests. But the final result will
be the establishment of national bank
similar to that of Great Britain or
France, but probably called by US by a
different name When that occurs the
Secretary of The Treasury win be strip
ped Of much of the power he row pos
sesses


s. A foreign war before many years
are over is not improbable, due to the
weakness of our navy and the unpro-
tected condition of our rich seaport
cities.


O. a new pestIlence or the revival of
an old one, which viii effect the people
inhabiting the temperate zone, is among
the probabilities of the near future.


10. A. new motor will soon be discov-
cred which. viii make air navigation
possible.
Year: 1879

Every mother has peculiar dread of this well-known disease, and there is scarcely any malady of those commonly known to the people that she would not prefer to see in the house. There is hardly family in which there is not some fatal story of it's ravages, and the chronicle of two or three or more chill dren dead on the same day is not an un- common one. Some doctors report that in this, as in other diseases, they "never lose case. Perhaps they are in the position of the doctor whom an over- sensitive father called for his first-born

 He wanted 8 doctor who saved his patients, and he obtained somewhere or l other a magical mirror, in which he l could see, as he stood on each doctor s doorstep, the list of that doctors vic l tims in their shrouds. Amazed at the processions he saw in his glass as he 1 stood at the doors of the most famous doctors, he went from house to house in the hope of better results. He stood at l last at the door of doctor at whose name there appeared only two tender little victims. He called this physician, lost his child, and found that by subse- quent investigation that when he called him that doctor had been in practice two days and had had just two patients.

 If these two had not the scarlet fever he had not, up to that time, lost case ot that disease. .-NeaD York Herald.
Year: 1879

It is now considered the height of fashionable f1ummery in this city to be among the late arrivals at social party given at private residence. Last even ing there was party of that description on North B. street which didn't come off. A lady who desired to give a little entertainment made the usual pre- parations and invited number of guests. She illuminated the parlors and left the blinds open that the glare of the gas might light the weary traveller on the street. This was her grand mis- take. About nine o'clock couple came up to the house, and the young lady looking in the window and seeing the parlors empty insisted on returning home, as she would not for all the world do such vulgar thing as to en- ter house where there was not big room full of people to look at her. The two accordingly returned home. In few minutes another couple reconnoitered the situation from across the street and retired. One after another the guests came up, viewed the empty parlors and melted back into the darkness. There was no party, and the lady who pres pared the ntertainment-d didn't know what to make of such shabby treatment. This idea of trying to be the last one at an evening party is growing to be so common on the Comstock that the time will come when an invitation to Fri day evenings entertainment will mean come as early as possible Sunday morn ing. Virgi'sia (Nev.) Chronicle.
Year: 1879

Sir Edwin LaDdseer used to tell a story of dog stealer of his acquaintance who once restored to friend of Sir Ed win valuable spaniel two weeks after the time agreed upon when the matter was negotiated. Sir Edwin upbraiding the man for his delay, the latter finally said We'll, the truth is, Sir Edwin

 you see, had to steal him back from an old lady to whom I sold him for twenty guineas. She never higgled about the price, and she was so fond of the dog didn't think it would be Chris tian not to let her have a few days pleasure of him." This beautiful tale is quite paralleled by one which London Truth now tells us of one MT. Page, a gentleman whose recent condemnation to imprisonment for dog stealing in London elicited much sympathy in dog stealing circles "When he was being led from the dock, a friend of his touch cd MT. Montague Williams, who had defended him, on the shoulder. We have prepared for you little surprise, !" he said lyon lost valuable dog g little while ago we have brought him back, and he is in house close by. !" MT. Williams could not go to the honse, but gave the address to which he wished the dog to be taken, and on going home in the evening he found it there.
Year: 1879

The New York Reraid says that this recipe is given by thorough English cook, born and bred in Devonshire :: ]. Make a crust of half pound of suet, chopped fine one pound of flour, half a saltspoon of salt, a teaspoonful of bak- ing powder mixed together, and suffici- ent cold water added to make it stiff paste. 2. Out one- third of the paste for the cover of the pudding basin in

 which the pudding is to be boiled. Roll the rest of the paste to the size required to line the pudding basin. Grease with butter the pudding basin, and lay the paste in neatly. 3. Take two pounds of beef cut in slices. Dip each slice in

 four as you lay it in the basin along with two kidneys, little chopped pars- ley, bit of good butter the size of an egg, few drops of Worcestershire sauce, 8 teaspoonful of water, half a tablespoonful of salt, ditto of pepper 4 Roll out the paste-cover to the size of the top of the basin, wet the edges of the paste which lines the basin, then lay the covers on and press the two edges to- gether. Dip your nice clean pudding cloth in boiling water, four it, tie 1t over the top of the basin. 5. Place the basin in saucepan of boiling water and keep it boiling four hours. For serving, take off the cloth, turn the basin over oh a nice warm plate, remove basin. This leaves your pudding the round pudding shape on top, though the basin is flat. When you stick your spoon in, the gravy will run out, luscious and healthy, and the meat within will be as tender as a young chicken. The pud- ding-basin referred to is a bowl of crockery holding quart, with thick
Year: 1879

Many people are just like the globe they inhabit-slightly flat at the polls.

 No man can lounge into success intimates shrewd writer. Sofa as our observation has gone, he is entirely cor rect.

 When fish Is out of water he is very soon out of breath. -NeaO Haven Re. gister. Weighed in his own scales and found wanting.

 We relented last evening and raised a nickel for the tramp that solemnly as- severated there had been time when life was perennial oasis to him, but since the war he had lost everything except his appetite.

 Miss Beatrice Skiddy, SO young and so giddy, fell in love with middy, but whatever he did, he didn't reciprocate, because his Cousin Kate had long been his ss all in all. " The continuation oi this absorbing story of passion and pre- ference can be found in the left hand breast pocket of Algernon Fitz- Fangle's spouted surtout. .-NeaD York Nea0s.
Year: 1879

Persevere against discourage
ments; keep your temper; employ
leisure in study, and always have
some work in hand; be punctual
and methOdical in business, and
never procrastinate; never be in a
hurry preserve self-lpossession, and
be an economist of time maintain
dignity without the appearance of
pride-manner is something with
everybody, and everything with
some be guarded in discourse, at
tentive and slow to speak never
acquiesce in immoral OF pernicious
opinions /; be not forward to assign
reasons to those who have no right
to ask; think nothing in condhct
unimportant OF Indifferent rather
set than follow examples |, practice
strict temperance, and in your
transactions remember the final ac-
count.-Marims Of Bishop Middle
ton. +''' t'
Year: 1879

we shall have a delightful visit.
Let us go now; Sam is waiting"


This prompt courtesy, SO delicate
ly ignoring her own rude behavior
III the train, was u greater rebuke
to Mrs. Glennor than any show of
anger could have been.


But Henrietta's kindly spirit soon
put her at her at ease, except when
she remembered her mOrtifying
blunder.


1t was wholesome lesson, how.
ever. And the next time Mrs.
Glennor meets a lady in the train,
whether she is robed like o queen
or in plain linen, she will treat her
as such, and never by appearance.
Year: 1879

1t often happens that q man is
willing to pay a compliment, even
when he is unable to pay his other
depts. A compliment, however,
may look like the honey of the bee,
and yet conceal the sting of the
wasp. A certain lawyer was com
PEELED to apologize to the court.
With stately dignity, he rose in his
place and said: "Your Honor is
right and | am wrong, as your
Honor generally is" There was a
dazed look in the judges eye, and
he hardly knew whether to feel
happy or find the lawyer for con-
tempt of court.
Year: 1879

~ should like to have you raise
a club" said a 7x9 book canvasser
to a daughter of Erin, as he stood
on the front step trying to talk her
to death on the subject of the
Extinction of the Tribes of the
Seventh Century" ~ WILL" said
Biddy, as she reached around be-
hind the door, "but bad luck to
your picture if you're lingering
around here when get it raised"
He didn't lingcr.
Year: 1879

1t was Judge Longstreet who
said that no man could take up any
newspaper, however unpretentious,
and not find enough in it to pay
for years subscription. But let
it be borne in mind that this opinion
was given before the invention of
spltent OutsideS.n Comet.
Year: 1879

"Subscriber" wants to know
" How should turkeys be stuffed y
That depends. IT you have just
purloined it from u neighboring
roost, and think there is any dan
ger OF meeting any one on your
way home, the best way is to stuff
it under your coat.
Year: 1879

Come, my wife, put down the Bible.


Lay your glasses ON the book,


Both of us are bent and aged
Backward, mother, let us look.
This is still the same old homestead
Where brought you long ago,
When the halr was bright with sunshine


That is now like winters snow.
Let us talk about the babies
As we sit here all alone,


Such merry troop of youngsters;
How we lost them one by one.
Jack the first of all the party,
Came to us one winters night;
Jack yoa said, should be sparson,


Long before be saw the light.
Do You see that great cathedral,


Filled the transept and the nave,
Hear the organ grandly pealing,


Watch the silken hangings wave;
Sec the priest in robes of Office,


With the alter at his back ..
Would you thilk that gifted preacher


Could be your own little Jack'
Then girl with curly tresscs


Used to climb upon my knee,
Like a little fairy princess


Ruling ut the age of three.
With the years there came a wedding


How your fond heart swelled with pride
When the lord of all the country


Chose your baby for his bride!
Watch that stately carriage coming,


And the form reclining there
Would you think that brilliant lady


Could be your own little Glare! t+
Then the last, a blue-eyed youngster-


can hear him prattling now H ta
Such strong and sturdy fellow,


With his broad and honest brow.
How he used to love his mother!
q Ah!I see your trembling lip! 80
He is far of Oh the water, -


Captain Of aroyal ship. l Dlil |
See the bronze upon his forehead, .Y |
Hear the voice of stern command
That the boy who clung so f0undly
To his mothers gentle hands
All my wife, we've lost the babies
Ours so long and onrs aloncj
What arc we to these great people,
Stately men and women grown?
Seldom do We ever see them; ,.
Yes, Il bitter tear-drop starts, ...
As we sit here in the fire light,
Lonely hearth and lonely hearts.
All there lives are full without us
They'll stop long enough one day
lust to lay as in tho church-yard,
Then they'll each go on their way.
Year: 1879

Raymond Gazette: We hear of
the return to the old plantations
in different parts OF the county Of
a. number of labOrers who were
carried off by the Kansas excite
ment They return wiser if not
better men.
Year: 1879

Two rival hotel keepers at Me
ridian have got into u lawsuit over
the name of their houses. They are
both running under the name Eu-
and one has sued out an
injunc ion against the other.
Year: 1879

The travelling public intending to visit
Cucamonga and vicinity, will find first
class hotel accom- modations at the
house OF the undersigned, at


VERY MODERATE CHARGES.
Nothing will be left .undone to make
the stay OF the Visitor pleasant. Be par
ticuiar to enquire for the house OF
Year: 1879

A queer cat story comes from Preston,
Connecticut. A farmer had been troub-
led with rats for some time, and finally
purchased a cat that was recommended
as good mouser. The cat sustained its
reputation, and rats were soon unknown
in the house, and the farmer congratu-
lated himself greatly. His dreams of
freedom were dispelled one day, hOwev-
er, by the cries of the servant girl, who
said that on going down cellar where
the eat was indulging in its noon
lay repast she saw large rat eating at
the tame dish with the cat, and solemn
ly averred that when she went toward
them the rat chased her and made her
run up stairs. The cat, she said, seemed
to enjoy his company, and seemed as if
charmed by the rat just as a snake
charms bird. The farmer would not
credit the story until he saw the same
thing a day or two afterward. He al
lowed the strange friendship to exist for
several days, the rat coming regularly
to partake of meals with the cat. FL
nally the farmer decided to put an end
to the singular friendship, and taking a
gun went to the cellar. No sooner, how
ever, had he fired at and missed it than
the cat jumped upon the rat and killed
it. Now the farmer wants to know why
the cat did not kill the rat before.
Year: 1879

THE Missionaries in Japan are greatly
annoyed by the way in which they are
compelled to procure passports for trav-
ell. They are issued for each journey,
and must be renewed when another trip
is to be taken. A missionary travelling
without one is in danger of having his
head chopped off. The missionaries and
other foreign residents have now petit
toned the Government for the issue of
yearly passports, which shall be good in
all parts of the Empire. But the Japs,
with all their love for modern improve
ment, have still some relics of barbaric
fogyism, and there is much opposition
to the granting of what seems to US a
reasonable request.
Year: 1879

A strong shield is the safety of COM
manderS.


Whole homespun is better than rag
ged velvet.


Nothing is difficult to the brave and
faithful.


Peoples intentions can only be de-
cided from their conduct.
It's human nature to love to make eX-
periments at the expense of others.


1t is more honorable to acknowledge
our faults than to boast Of our merits.


You should consider your adversary
as absent when his senses are departed.


Those gifts are ever the most accepta-
BILE which the giver has made precious.


Tears are to be looked at not as proof
of very deep sorrow, but as gracious
relief to the killing intensity of such
grief.


Some men are with their character
much as they are with their money; the
less they have the more careful they
have TO be.


The sun, that mantles the mountains
kissed by the clouds and the mornings
sun. and speckless as the lily's inmOst
leaf, is not more pure than a pure wO-
man.


How few people have the good sense
to sit silent as they drive through the
groves, and let God speak. Nature holds
no sermon for them, nor could they I'M
derstand her.


No man can stilt himself up, or seek
applause on friends in high places, or
loud praise. If he belongs to the front
he will get there in time, and will re-
main there when he does arrive.


The gentle mind is like calm and
peaceful stream that reflects every OBJ
ject in its Just proportion. The violent
spirit, like troubled waters, renders back
images of things distorted and broken.


One had better sail boldly in almost
any direction than drift without any Ill
rection at all. One had better sail in
the maddest storm that ever troubled
the sea of life than lie on the sea and
drift with any chance wind that chooses
to blow.


Happiness is frail plant which sell
dom lives long on earth. 1t springs up
when it will; often in quiet, shady hooks
and corners, but seldom in cultivated
gardens 1t often blooms where one
would least expect it, and then suddenly
and Unexpectedly dies.


Let face be backed by blood and
mettle, let the soul be narrowed by eX-
perience and made mellow as a plOwed
field by burrows that had torn it up; let
it be made charitable by the sins of 9TH
ers, by a sense of it's own sins, and you
have face that will wear as many
changes of expression as the wind and
weather.
Year: 1879

ion.


CLEVELAND, O., August 19-In an in
terview to-day with prominent Demo-
crat of this city the following interest
ing and important facts were ELECTED.
For various obvious reasons the gentle
man would not consent that his name
be made public: at is generally cOnce-
ded by the better thinkers of our party"
he said, ''that Ewing is 'goner.' 1t was
sad chance and a Sadder mistake that
nominated him. He was the weakest
candidate before the convention, and no
one thought it possible for him to pull
in. He had shown two years before
that 220 delegates was his entire
strength, and but for Uncle Dicks virile
rage and determination that Rice should
not succeed him, the great opportunity
of the party would not have been thrown
away. Rice would have been elected
without trouble. He is the choice of
the party to-day, and there are those
who are not such blind eaters of crow
but that they show their disrelish. You
see that none of the leaders of the party
are at work. Ewing is doing his own
stumping, and thus far he has not re-
ceived single bit of assistance, except
from his bungling amateur Chairman.
He has snubbed everybody, and every
body now feels like taking back seats
and viewing the battle from afar.
wonder the Republican papers say so
little about the matter from this stand
point. Rice is not in the field. They
claim he is sick. So are we all. Thur
mans friends are doing nothing, and l
can see no inducement for them to do
anything. If Ewing wins he will want
everything for himself, and, therefore,
the party feels like letting him gain it
for himself. An effort will be made to
carry the Legislature, but when the
head is wrong it is pretty hard to make
the tail right. l presume we will fail
in that. There is the greatest effort
made to whistle and keep up courage
that l ever saw. Take the Plain Deal
er, for instance, of this city. 1t is appa-
rently making a heroic effort to support
the ticket. But everybody knows that
Armstrong, the editor, despiSes Ewing
and Bishop forces which put him in
nomination. For several days after the
convention the editorial page was filled
with complaints. 1t says nothing hard
ly in support of Ewing now, and its
loudest argument is to call Mr.. Foster
"Yardstick Charlie" This is way it
has of diverting itself. So far as 1 can
see or hear Mr.. Ewing is going to be
left pretty much alone by the party. He
was forced upon us, and now he may do
the best he can. suppose my remarks
will be voted the utterances of sore
head. am not particularly sore. am
Democrat, and shall vote the Demo-
cratic ticket. 1 only tell the drift of
sentiment as see it and hear it, and
the public may as well know it first as
last. have just one more observation
to make about our party, and that is
that it has the most remarkable facility
for throwing away its opportunities of
any organization that ever had an exist
ence. Whenever the time comes to take
fortune at its flood, the party is never
ready but lets the opportunity ebb away


The above remarks seem to convey
the whole situation in nutshell, and
knowing their high source as 1 do they
are given double Importance.