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Year: 1878

We would rather be poor and merry,
than inherit the wealth of the Indies
with a discontented spirit. A merry heart,
acheerful spirit from which laughter wells
up naturally as bubbles in the springs of
Saratoga, are worth all the money bags,
stock and mortgages in the city. The
man who laughs is a doctor with q diplO-
ma, endorsed by the school of nature
his face does more good in a sick room
than pound of powders or gallon Of
bitter draughts. If things go right, he
laughs because he is pleased; if they go
wrong he laughs because it is cheaper,
and better than crying. People are
always glad to see him, their hands in
stinctively go half way ont to meet his
grasp, while they turn inyoluntariIy from
the clammy touch of the dyEpeptic who
speaks on the groanina key. He laughs
you out of your faults, while you never
seems as if sunshine came into the room
with him, and you never know what a
pleasant world you are living in until he
points out the sunny stFeaks on it's path
way. Who can help loving the whole
sOuled, genial laugher2 Not the bufoon,
nor the man who classes noise with
mirth-but the eheery, contented man Of
sense and mind A good-humored laugh
is the key to all breasts. The truth is
that people like to be laughed at in a
genial sort of way. If you are making
yourself ridiculous, you want to be told
of It in q pleasant manner, not sneered
at. And 1t is astonishing how frankly
the laughing population can talk without
treading on the sensitive toes of their.
neighbors Why viii people put on long
faces, when it is so much easier and more
comfortable to laugh? Tears come to us
unsought and unbidden. The wisest art
in life is to cultivate smiles; and to find
the smiles where others shrink away for
fear of thorns. -la ...is.' 81
Year: 1878




Never forsakea friend. When enemies
gather around, when sickness falls upon
the heart, when the world is dark and
cherries is the time to try true friend
ship; The heart that has been touched


with true gold will redouble its efforts
when the friend is sad and in trouble.


Adversely tries real friendship, They
who run from the scene Of distress betray
their hypocricy and prove that interest
only moves them. If you have friend
that loves you, who has studied your IN
terest and happiness, be sure to sustain
him In adversely. Let him feel that, his
former kindness is appreciated and that
his love was not thrown away. Real
fidelity may be rare, but It exists in the
human heart. Who has not seen and
felt its power? They only deny its
worth and power who never loved a
friend or labored to make friend happy.
The good and the kind, the afFectionate
and the virtuous see and feel the heavenly
principle. They would sacrifice wealth
and all but honor to promote the happi-
ness Of Others, and in return they would
Feceive the reward Of their love by SYM
pathiAing hearts and doubled favors
when they have been brought low BY
disease or adVerSitY
Year: 1878




It is folly for a man to think Of BE-
coming q successful breeder of live stock
unless he takes pride in the business
and likes the stock he Is raising. To be
successful he must become enamoured
with the business. He must feel nearly
the same interest in his stock that ne
does in the members of his family. lie
must always have kind word for them,
and feel lively interest in their COM
fort. and well being. He must provide
for their wants, pet them, culhvHte an
acousintance with them. He must be
ambitious to excel In raising the very
best specimens, and hence must procure
the choicest animals as breeders. He
must have his business "on the brain"
give 1t his chief attention, study how to
excel init, post himself In regard to It.
by ticking the best papers devoted to it.
II he will do this his future as o breeder
is bright and promising.
Year: 1878

The great struggle with civilized men
in this world is for wealth. This is cali
ed the prime good, the one thing need
ftll. the great desideratum Of lie. So
men toll for it-deceive, cheat defraud
for it. Give time, strength, and too often
good health for 1t. The truth Is the es-
innate put upon wealth is too high. It's
value, sgood is soverrated. 1t is not the
great good, not the pearl of great price.
It is not the best thing man can have.
1t does not confer peace of mind, nor
purity of heart, heartfelt happiness nor
contentment, nor home JOY, nor social
nor any kind Of solid anu
enduring enioyments. Wealthy homes
are often no happier than those OF the
poor and comfortable liyers. f9versy Is
necessaries and comforts of life is quite
as apt to confer real peace as great
wealth.
Year: 1878

ECONOMY THE FAsHIoN.-One of the
greatest changes in the times is that it is
no longer fashionable to live at undue
expense. Fashionable people now parade
their economy as much as a few years
ago they paraded their wealth. We think,
too, that a greater respect is constantly
being manifested for industry. Idleness
is heldin contempt, and idle people have
no place in society. These are encourag-
ing signs. Under such state of things
the depression in business can hardly
continue much longer. And when we do
enter upon new career of prosperity,
it will be founded ON a more solid and
enduring basis
Year: 1878

AMUsEMENT.--Human nature needs
amusement. The finest growth of the
world is fed on mirth, and without humor
the race could not live. The buffers
which protect US from the jolts and shocks
of life-which lubricate the wheels Of our
otherwise inflamed activities are the
jokes of the day; the sly raps We give
each other and the quiet nudges of fun
which tickle the ribs Of our jollity. How
can such large department Of human
wit and humor supply be left unoccupied
by Christianity; yea, be entirely sur
rendered to the enemy 1t could not be
under any fair Interpretation of its duties
and true application Of its principles. l
maintain that Christianity should under
take the supply and direction of the
peoples amusements, so that the mirth,-
loving element of our population should
be fed in way and under such circum.
stances as to administer to the innocence
of character and the elevation Of society
at large, and not to debauchery. 1t is q
shame that the members of our churches
have to seek their amusements and the
education of their minds and their emo.
tions in comedy and tragedy both, in
oratory and music alike, in fiat disobedi-
ence Of an unwritten and imperative law
in their churches which bans without
discrimination the defamation of the
noblest poetry, and the vocalization of
the most perfect music Of the WORLDLY.
II. II. Murray.
Year: 1878

AN elephant got in the way of rail
way train in India. "The brute turned
and fed on seeing the engine, but was
speedily caught. The buffer beams of
the engine being very low, the beasts
hind legs were taken from under him,
and he was forced to sit down, as it were,
with his hindquarters against the smoke
house door, which was red-hot. The poor
beast managed to keep his fore feet 60
ing, though hustled along faster than ever
he had gone in his life before, and in a
few minutes the train came to a stand
still and he got away, He moved off the
line at the double, uprooted a clump OF
bamboo, then wreaked dire vengeance on
a tree, and was last seen rushing through
the Jungle, tearing and smashing every.
thing in his path. He was sadly cut aud
burned in the hindquarters, and will
probably never be of use again."
Year: 1878

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN


pursuance of Order Of the District Court Of the
Second Judicial District in and for the County of Ornsf
and State Of Nevada, made the sth day of August 1871
in the matter of Guardianship of the persons and estate Of
and Ema Smith, the undersigned. the guardian Of the
said persons and estate will sell at private sale to the high
bidder for cash gold coin of the United States on the
18th DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 1875 subject to confirm
alton of the said District Court at the law office OF T. D.
Edwards No. King street, all the right title interest
of the said minor heirs in and to that said piece of land
situate living and being in the County of Douglas and
State of Nevada and described follows, to wit What
is known as the Warm Springs Smith Ranch; terms
and condition of sale cash. gold coin Of the United States
day of sale - -


deci4 w. II. SMITH, Guardian
Year: 1878

How TO GET RID OF FIIEs.-We be
lieve that the witty man of the Burlington


Ha~keVe was trying to be serious when he


wrote the following paragraph: A few


years ago Philadelphia clergyman dis


covered an antidote for flies, or at least be


said he did. He iad occasion to change


his abode. We do not know lust what


the occasion was. Probably he could not


pay the rent, or perhaps his relatives out


west, who were coming to see the centen-


nial exhibition, found out his address, and
wrote to him that they could not endure
life any longer without seeing him, and


would visit him all summer-at anv rate
he moved He had in his house an abund-
ance Of house e-plants, and sent them on to
the new honse the day before he moved.
Immediately he WAS besct with swarms of
flies, although he had previously enioyed
perfect immunity hOm these pests. And
when he got moved, and settled down
among his window plants again, the flies
ceased to trouble him. 1t is IL simple and
Il very pleasant experiment If it fails to
drive away The flies, you will at least sue.
ceed in filing your house with plants,
which is pleasant thing to do. MS it will
keep you employed all the time in caring


Tor them, and you will have plenty of time


or vain regrets when the plants all freeze
,long about Christmas. But there may be
something in it. We have the word of :.
clergyman for it, and we do not see why
'ven cler& lyman should tell II fib about
inch little thing as IL fly.
Year: 1878

CORRECT SPEAKING.-We advise nil


young people to acquire in early life the


habit OF using good laugnage, both in


speaking and writing, and also to abandon


the use of slang words and phrases. The


longer they live, the more difficult the ac-


QUESTION of good language will be, and if


the golden a. of youth-the proper time


for the acquisition of language-be passed
in its abuse, the unfortunate victim of neg
lecled education is very probably doomed
to talk slang for life. Money is not neces-
stry to procure this education. Every
man has it in his power. He has merely
to use the language which he reads. in
stead of the slang which he hears. to form
his taste from the best speakers and poets
Of the country; to treasure up choice
phrases in his memory, and hahituate linn
self to their use, avoiding at the same time
mat pedantic precision and bombast which
show rather the weakness of vain ambi-
ion than the polish Of an educated mind.
Year: 1878

SELF DENIAL.-When Agassiz visited
Oxen, the great German naturalist. the
latter showed to the young student his
laboratory, his cabinet. his magnificent
library. and all his varied and costly ap-
paratus. At length the dinner hour an
preached. Oxen said to Ag,ssiz, Sir, to
gather and maintain what you have seen
uses up my income. To accomplish this |
have to economize in my style of living.
Three times in the week we have meat on
the table. On the other days we dine ON
potatoes and salt. regret that your visit
has fallen on potatoe day" And so the
naturalist. with the student Oxen, dlned
on potatoes and salt.
Year: 1878

Fifty years ago wealthy lady from the
west spent a number of weeks with a
physician s family in New York. being.
treated for some disease. The doctor had
a sweet little girl who had pleased lhe
lady by her pleasant ways. and when She
went away cured, she said she would some
day give the little friend her property.
Little was thought of the promise after a
short time had Lassed. but the other dav
the rich lady died, and, sure enough. her
will bequeaths 100000 to Mrs. II
for of course the child is no lonpera child
and her name Is changed. and vet. afier
all. she has been in reality that same little
girl Just waiting. -,
Year: 1878

A lazy girl, who liked to live in comfort
and do nothing. asked her fairy godmother
to give her good genius to do everything
for her. On the instant the fairy called ten
dwarfs, who washed and dressed the little
girl, and combed her hair. and fed her,
and so on. All was done so nicely that
she was happy. except for the thought
that they would go away. ITO prevent
that, 5aid the godmothcr, e will place
them permanently on your ten pretty little
hngerS. And they are there yet. -Laboul-
Hye.
Year: 1878

Straws swim upon the Surface, but
pearls lie at the bottom. Snowy parts
STRIFE every common eye. but solid ones
are only to be discovered BY the most ac-
curate observers of the human head and
human heart.
Year: 1878

am an old woman now, with silvery
hair My dear husband has long been
dead, and can see from my window the
white stone that marks his grave. Broth.
er John, too sleeps the sleep of the just.
But have no time to mourn, for troop
'of merry grandchildren claim most of nv
attention; and my dear matronly Claudia
and her devoted husband make my home
as pleasant as II home could be made this
side of paradise.
Year: 1878

1t is thought by very many Of the most active
friends of Temperance that the cause could be great
ly advanced in this State, by judicious con-
centration of purpose and effort on the part of the
various Temperance organizations, the Church and
the public generally, by association in some State or


ganizaton, similar in plan and scope to that of the
Massachusetts State Temperance Alliance" which
organization has existed in that State for upwards of
twenty-five years, and embraces in active member
ship, members of all the various Temperance organ
izations, as well as the Clergy and Church of almost
every denomination; receiving and disbursing from
fourteen to eighteen thousand dollars every year au


thenticating and sending out Lecturers into every
portion of the State arranging for public meetings
and supplying speakers, and closely watching the
Temperance pulse, and providing means and meas
ures to keep it in healthy and vigorous state;


:ully scrutiDizing all legislation, and ready at all
times to sound the alarm when encroachm ents from
the enemy are attempted. With view to organiz-
ing similar Alliance in Maine, and auxiliary to the
to the National Temperance Alliance, the UNDER
signed invite the friends of Temperance to meet at
Year: 1878

If there be any Republicans who yet cling
TO the idea that the South is once more loyal
and desirous of the restoration of cordiality
between itself and the North they will do
well to study the reports Of the doings in
Washington. II. they distrust printed things
let them 90 on to the capital. They will
believe that they have but just awakened
from nap of fifteen years or SO, and that
the city is in the possession of the Confeder-
ates. LIE, them visit the National House and
they will find its offices filled with Confeder-
ate soldiers. The hotels and boarding houses
are swarming with Confederate veterans who
are pressing their claims upon the attention
of Congress. For the most needy of these
useless offices have been created by sympa-
thizng Democrats in the only branch of the
government over which they have open con-
troll. Let the astonished Northern visitor 60
to the House on every Monday and hear the
presentation of Southern claims upon the
Treasury, claims aggregating hundreds of
millions of dollars. Let him sit through, if
he have the patience, a few conciliatory
speeches-on West Point, for example-from
Southern members. Let him listen to the
talk on the streets and in the hotel offices
from the staggering Southern bullies who
throng the city and openly announce that
they are but waiting for the day soon at hand
when the South shall take control of the gov
ernment and pension its soldiers and recon-
pense its citizens for the losses they met with
during the war;


Few words Of conciation except from
Northern tongues, or perhaps in public ad-
dresses meant for Northern ears, will the
Northern visitor hear. He will learn that
the only qualification required for an office
within Democratic gift is fidelity to the 'lost
cause"; he will learn that the only legislation
contemplated in the reranche at haud is legis-
lation looking to the reimbursement of
rebels for sacrifices made to sustain the
rebellion; he will learn that the friend
ship Of the South for the North is the
friendship of the plunderer for the plundered
and that the rich East is to be drawn upon
for the benefit of other sections. On every
Year: 1878

The Boston Advertiser suggests that there
should be public testimonial on the part of
all who are dependent upon the fidelity of
other custodians of large funds, for the ben
fit of the family of james Barron, the mur
dered cashier of the Dexter Bank. The sug-
gestion is an excellent one and should be
promptly acted upon.
Year: 1878

We are called upon to admire (perhaps we
should use the word liz its old sense of '.to
wonder at'') that system of civil service re-
form which removes Commissioner Smith
from the Indian Bureau for inefficiency and
then makes him Consul General to Canada.
Is ineficiency to be the qualification tor
office?
Year: 1878

The rage of the Englishman is natural.
He lent money to the Turk for protection
against the Russian. The Turk built a fleet
with the money, and now turns his ships of
war over to the Gear. and the Englishman
will never get his pay. It is rather irritating.
Year: 1878

THE South responds to the generosity of
the President with prescription and persecu-
ton. Every attempt toward Cancellation is
met by malignant attempts to stir up strife.
idea of reconciliation.
Year: 1878

TIE appointment of Bayard Taylor as
Minister to Berlin is in all respects satisfae-
tory and suitable thing. The Administra-
tion is entitled to cordial approval. 1t is a
pity that so good thing could not have been
done in more graceful manner and before
the place had been hawked about in the po-
litical market; but then we must not expect
too much. 1t is certainly sound policy for
nation to recognize and assist it's literary men
and this mission will be Of special use to Mr..
Taylor by giving him the opportunity to prose-
cute his great literary work, The Life of Goethe,
under the most favorable conditions as respects
access to means of information and congenial-
ity OF general surroundings. Mr.Taylor, too,
is man to whom honor is due from the ma
tion. He is in the foremost rank of its liter
ary men, and his utterances are all fresh,
wholesome and patriotic so far as they refer
to bis native land. In this respect, he differs
widely from Mr.. Lowell who was sent to
Spain. Taylor is the bard Of hope; Lowell
of despair. The ode of the former written on
occasion of our nations hundredth birthday is
warm and bright with anticipations of good
for the Republic, not mistaking transient and
accidental faults and vices for fixed tendency
to the bad. Lowell, on tho contrary, sings
in his Centennial Ode doleful strain of hope
lessness, points out and emphasizes every de-
feet, invents faults which never existed,
ignores or obscures every virtue and gives a
vivid impression that the country is far on
tie road to inevitable destruction by reason
of its vices and corruptions. He should nev-
er have been sent abroad to represent the
nation which he traduced.


The general and hearty approval which Mr..
Taylor's appointment has evoked in his own
land must be most gratifying to him.
Scarcely less so must be his cordial reception
by the German press. In the nation to
which he goes he is favorite beforehand,
and his official presence there cannot fail to
create and confirm friendly feeling between
Germans and Americans. 1t will be good and
useful to himself, to America and to Ger
many.
Year: 1878

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter has some
encouraging words for the New England shoe
trade. 1t says: While it were vain to try to
conceal or disguise the fact that times are
hard; that certain sections are suffering as
they never did before; that in many large
manufacturing districts the laborers are out
of work, and stand moodily face to face with
want; yet the fact remains that at large the
country is rich in products as it seldom has
been. There seems to be lull ON all sides !;
once start the wheels and there is every rea-
son to believe that business of all kinds will
revive not revive in the sense of wild specu-
lation, but in the steady steps of healthy
commerce. 1t must not be forgotten that the
process of manufacturing has undergone
changes which conduce to these periods of
comparative quietness. What, a few years
ago, would have been the Indication of dan
gerous stagnatior, is now really the normal
condition of the manufacturing interest.


There is no longer the piling up OF goods


waiting customer, with all the uncertainties
that formerly perplexed the manufacturer


Now the samples are sent out, and the factory,


not the goods, awaits the orders. When they
come. the machinery, which has so greatly fa-


cilitated the making of goods, will accomplish


| in few days what it used to take weeks or
months to do. 1t would be natural to look


| for a little less volume of business than usual,


| since economy is laying heavy hand upon
1 consumption, but there is no occasion for de-


l spondency. The boot and shoe trade are an


preaching firm ground in common with other


commercial interests, and have every prom Sc


L of ol,; ~ nIr
Year: 1878

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS IS furnished
with Card certificate couptersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
Year: 1878

THE desire Of the Gear seems to be to


preserve the Turkish empire in form and to
use it as tool. He doesn't fancy the plan of
making Constantinople free city-prefers in
fact to govern it through his viceroy the Sui
Year: 1878

side he will hear the exclamation: 'The
North has had her turn; it is our turn now."
Hearing these things he will come home sad
der and wiser and perhaps heartily believing
in the "remonetAation of the bloody shirt"
Year: 1878

BY Over TWO.Thlrds In Senate and HOuSe-The
Veto Message ga Charge Of Fraud by Fraud"
SO the Silver Bill Is q Law; the Veto to
the Contrary Notwithstanding


Vote in House 1876 to 73-


In Senate 40 to 10!
Year: 1878

"The Dollar of the Daddies," in this
number of the STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT,
speaks for itself. Any of our brethren
who wish to buy the cut, can forward
their order and two dollars, and it will
be promptly sent post paid.
Year: 1878

The New York Herald says of the
OF the Presidents veto:


SIN the whole history of our Govern
ment there was never before veto of
any bill by any President which was
oVerruled with such swift promptitude,
or pverruled by majorities in both bran
Chss 80 superhuously large"
Year: 1878

The Chicago Tribune, one of the
great silver organs, says the real sill
yer men do not demand the uncondi-
tional repeal of the resumption act;
they do not want the national bank
ing system abolished, because they
are satisfied, for the most part, that
it furnishes the safest and best paper
currency this country has ever had or
is ever likely to have; they do not
want the country flooded with ire
dcemable greenbacks. Voorhees, and
others like him, it says, ''are doing
the movement for the remonetization
of silver all the injury they can by
Juggling in their exploded fallacies.
They furnish the gold-bugs the ex-
cuse for denouncing the silver move
ment as fraud and swindle, and
their own vagaries, if carried out,
would defeat all the advantages which
Legitimate reconciliation of the
silver dollar will provide"