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Year: 1874

Wheat, all along the line from
Athens to Knoxville. looks better than
we have ever seen it at this season.
On most of the farms the breadth
sown is larger than usual, and has been
put in well. Indeed, there is mark
ed Improvement in the appearance OF
many farms, more evidence OF system,
thrift aud substantial comfort than
ever before. The truth IS, theayerage
farmer of East Tennessee is a good
deal further removed from poverty and
hard times than he generally believes
he is. If he would only adopt the
plan Of selling his surplus on the first
market, and pursue it from year to
year, he would never be hard pressed
for money to psy his taxes or for other
purposes. The loss to the farmers oi
East Tennessee this year by holding
their " wheatfrom harvesttill Christmas
even in the event Of an appreciable
rise in price after the latter date. vii
not aggregate less than one hundred
and Fifty thousand dollars, The
breadth sown this Fall is at least one
fourth larger than in 70, and we are
confident that the plant at this time
looks fully 20 per cent. more promis-
irg.-Athsas Post.
Year: 1874

CLARKsvILLE, TENNESSEE December, 1874.


holidays approaching naturally begin about
and would be of mutual
would make them Of Boots
profit of selling would have made selections especially
adapted Christmas Gifts such Slippers for Ladies and Gents all
and co HandsOme Shoes in Side Lace Front Lace and Button
Chdren Calf Boots Gents Boys and Youths and
Stylish Men and Little Men of house
town. line Chren Leggins In making gifts OF this KIND
being article that
the place till it becomes dusty and soled but
holidays good often brings mind kind
membranes of the donor


shipment of Mems and Boys Kip
Boots d Shoes They the Goods town. and SOLD AT LESS
PRICES-so big trade this fall the have
had goods satisfaction In selling goods
much for good-but how little sell
for expenses lay by little day For believe
business by short profits
But Put the and then
goods My is
No Franklin Street Please call, and oblge


Yours Truly
Dee. 12-tfl " l.. WILLIAMS.
Year: 1874

The Mercantile Journal, has sen


sible editorial on this subject, which


We copy in part. as follows:


The true question for an employees


is not how much he can get forthwith,


but how he can keep employed


The men who get rich are not usually


the strikers who refuse TO work for


particular wages. Strikers are apt to


waste in idleuess, in the course of a


year or two, time wherein they could


have earned more than the amount for
which they strike. Those who in
crease their income are the men who
aecustom themselves to regular indus
try, who keep steadily at work for
such compensation as they can get,
live within their means, save money.
and invest it. Thus they keep up
good income and increase il from year
to year; quite as fast, In most cases, as
they become able to manage it with
The employee who takes
the most pains to find out exactly what
service his employer wants, to render
that service carefully and generously,
and who, having mastered the details
of his work, does not leave it to 90
into some other employment where
larger but uncertain compensation is
promised, is the man who is morally
certain TO rise. When hard times
come, or when his employer is unfor-
tunate and is compelled to retrench,
be is the man who will not be dismiss
ed, and who will not lose time in |
seeking work, when he would, of ne |
.essity, be eating up his savings till he |
inds it. When vacancies occur in /
he esta blishment, he is the one who
will be intrusted with the most valu-
Ible work which commands the high
st pay. When bis employer wants a
,artner, he is the man likely to be
ho-en. When others are discharged
er incompentency, he will be retained;
or his knowledge of the work and his
,nown reliability make for him a good
'OsitiOn in which he is sure to be able
o do so well. True, this way of life
) not always easy; it requires self
ontrol. conscience, and steadiastness;
ut it the way to self-respect, honor
ble standing, legitimate wealth and
Louis Republican.
Year: 1874

ENGINEERING learns that a rolling
mill at Columbus. Ohio. has recently
contracted to furnish large quantity
of rails to a railroad company at so
per ton. This is said to be So per ton
less than the price at which the same
quantity of rails could be delivered
from England to the same part Of the
United Ststes.
Year: 1874




THE GOLD Hill CRACK WIDENING.-The
chasm in the ground, short distance. east
of town, keeps on widening. On the east
ern slope of Fort Homestead hill, where,
when first discovered last spring, it was
only an inch in width, it is now four inches
wide. On the west side of the next hill to
the eastward it is over two feet in width.
The crack, it will be remembered, commen-
ces at Fort Homestead and extends unir-
terruptedly in u southeasterly direction for
a distance Of about q quarter of a mile.
The ground is now cracked open even in
the bottom of the ravine. That the chasm
is no ordinary landslide may be inferred
from the fact that along Fort Homestead
hill the ground close to the crack on the
west side is the lowest. On the next hill
east the ground on the west side has drop
ped about three feet.-News.
Year: 1874

Better it were to sit still by the sea,
Loving somebody and satisfied
Better it were to grow babes on the knee
To anchor you down for all your days
Than wander and wander i'll all these ways,
Land forgotten and love denied.
Better sit still whore born, say ,-,rzE
We'd one sweet woman and love her well, .5-
Laugh with your neghbors, and live in their way,
Be it never SO simple. The hambler the home,
The nobler indeed, to bear your part,
Love and be loved with all your heart.
Drink sweet waters and dream in spell,
Share your delights and divide your tears;
Love and be loved in the old east way,
Ere men knew madness and came to roam
From the west to the east and the whole world wide
When they lived where their fathers had lived and


died


Lived so loved for thousand years.
Better it were for the world, say
Better, indeed for mans good
That he shoud sit down where he was born,
Be it land of sands or of oil and corn,
Valley of poppies or beak northand,
White sea border or great black wood,
Or bleak white winter or bland sweet May,
Or city of smoke or plain of the sun
Than wander the world as have done,
Breaking the heart into bits of clay.
And leaving it scattered on every hand.


VENICE, 1874


--Joaquin HITLER, in 0Uegland for October.
Year: 1874




Mark Twain's play "The Gilded Age +"
was produced at the Park Theater, New
York few evenings ago. Mark was called
ont and delivered characteristic address
of which the following was the conclusion z:


| hope you will overlook the faults in
this play, because | have never written a
play before; and if / am treated right
maybe won't offend again. | wanted to
have some fine situations and spectacular
effects in this piece, but | was interfered
with. | wanted to have a volcano in a
state of eruption, with fire and smoke and
earthquakes, and a great tossing river Of
blood-red lava flowing down the mountain
side, and have the hero of this piece come
booming down that red-hot river in cast
iron canoe; but the manager wouldn't hear
of it, and said there wasn't any volcano in
Missouri-as if am responsible for Mis-
souri's poverty. And then he said that by
the laws of nature the hero would burn up:
his cast-iron canoe would not protect him.
every WELL. | said, ''put him in a patent
fire-proof safe and let him slide-all the
more thrilling-and paint on it, sThis safe
is from Herring's establishment, same as
You would on piano, and you can pay the
whole expense of the volcano just on the
advertisement" But the manager object
ed; though he said heaps Of pretty things
among others that | was an ass-and so I
had to let the volcano go.
Year: 1874

The case of the Chinese women ordered
to return to their own country by the Su-
preme Court of California, on the suspicion
that they were prostitutes, is now before
the United States Circuit Court of San Fran
cisco, on writ of ha6eas corpus, and it is
understood if this court gives an adverse
decision to the women that the case will be
certified to the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States.
Year: 1874

The OAKNAND REPUBLICAN VICroRY.-
An exchange says some of the Republican
papers are rejoicing over this little triumph,
and making all the capital possible out of it
for their party. This is correct, this is as
it might be expected. But it reminds us Of
drowning men catching at straws, or boast
full army after sustaining defeat upon defeat,
making a grand flourish of trumpets at a
little victory over skrmishing party. De-
struction glares upon it from all sides, the
country is witnessing its dying throes, and
no little spasmodic effort such as that of the
Oakland victory can give assurance Of con-
tinued strength. The reverses recently in
the East, are too fresh in the public mind.
Year: 1874

It's but a dark and curling tress,


That I steal away to view;
A lock from the brow l often pressed,
Ere l bade the fond adieu.
And Oft when l am alone,


As the evening shadows fall,
l cream of one l left at home,


The dearest of them all.
dream Of the happy, love-crowned hours,
And forget each little pain,
While picture out the woodland bowers,
Where we ne'er may roam again.
think of how used to WATCH
For your return at night
And the sound of footsteps would catch,
Told of the long days fight.
And when at eve, we gathered round
The warm and cheerful fire,
I eer source Of pleasure found,
In knowing you were there.
In watching for each varying smile,
And listening to each word
1 was gathering treasures all the while.
As dear as the miser's hoard.
Only dark and curling tress
take from its hiding place,
And bestow on it fond caress,
For the brow it used to grace.
Only jetty lock of hair!
But, ah! It's dear to me.
I know that it once nestled there,
On the brow cannot see.


NELLIE S. BANCRoFT-BIRcH.
Year: 1874

We have gravel roof on our house, and
the other day some workmen were up there
fixing it. They had block and tackle
rugged on the edge of the roof, with rope
reaching to the ground for the purpose Of
hosting the tar and gravel. Our girl went
out washing in the yard at the time, and
somehow the hook On the end of the rope
caught in her hoop-skirt as she walked past.
The man on the roof was discussing the
Darwinian theory, or the tax on rum, OIL
something at that moment, and seeing the
rope shake, he considered it was the sigma
to haul up, 50, without looking over the
edge, he began to wind the crank with We
locity. A moment later the next-door
neighbors heard fearful screams, and as they
rushed to the windows, they perceived an
athletic child of Erin swiftly ascending to-
ward the blue ethereal heavens.


The man at the crank fairly ached to look
over and see what the noise was about, but
he couldn't stop, he thought, until he got
the bucket at the top. But he put on more
vehemence, and in moment he was amazed
to see human head, adorned with red hair,
looming above the gutter spout. His first
impulse was 10 leC go Ine Crank ana run
But overcoming the earlier shock of fright,
he held on the crank with one hand, while
with the other he seized handful of warm
red hair, and hauled the owner upon the roof


We live in one Of the row of houses which
are joined together, and they do say that
the impetuosity with which that girl of ours
charged upon the man who mussed her hair .,
and chased him over the roof clear up to the
corner, where he saved himself by crawling
down the chimney fue, was at once i'm
pressive and exhilarating. She stood over
the chimney expressing her views concern
ing the youg mans present character and
future prospects until she was exhausted, i,
when she walked home to our roof, lifted
the trap-door, descended-and went to bed.
And when the man emerged and brushed
the SCOT off his face, he confined to his ccl-
league, while distributing the gravel, that
he would rather dive at once into the bowels
of burning volcano than to meet that hired
girl again in a place where there was no
chance to run.--Max Adeler.
Year: 1874

The story of the Bank of England is full
was founded by one of the most visionary
of projectors in the reign of William and
Mary, when the English Government hal
first assumed liberal form. An elective
King sat on the throne; new period of
progress was opening upon the nation. Yet
within a short time from its foundation the
bank was forced to suspend the payment of
specie, in the commercial crisis produced by
the reform of the coinage and the embar
rassments of Continental war 1t soon
resumed again, and passed successfully
through the disasters of the South Sea spec
ulation. When, in 1745, the Pretender and
the Highlandcrs advanced upon London,
the credit of the bank was again shaken,
and it was saved from suspension only by
paying its customers in shiings and six
perses, and winning an illegal delay. The


invaders were driven back; London was
saved; the panic passed away. From this
time the bank maintained its reputation
until England, at the close of the century,
had indiscreetly resolved to force back roy
atty upon unwilling France. The first vic
tories Of the French Republicans filled the
kingdom with disasters. A general ruin fell
upon the country banks in 1894 5. In 1876
the large advances which the Bank of Eng


land was forced to make to the Government
filled its directors with alarm. The gold
and silver of the country flowed away to
the Continent in
Year: 1874

great mistake. The most effectual
means to remove the brood is to beat
furs also during the winter season.
Especially apply the brush to the folds
and seams, for the wee moth seeks
places of safety for its offspring.


OYSTER SAUcE.-Prt half n pint of
milk into stewpan, set it over fire,
mix a tablespoonful of wheat flour with
a quarter of pound of butter; when
the milk boils put to it pint of small
oysters then pour into the butter and
flour half pint of boiling water, stirring
it all the time; when smooth, add it to
the milk and oysters add small tea
spoonful of salt and pepper, and serve
with boiled meat, turkey, or fowls.


CLEANING CoAT COLLARS. Take a
piece of ammonia stone Carbonate of
ammonia) the size of walnut and put
it in a cup of warm water. When dis
solved, take piece of clean flannel and
dip it into the solution, and rub the
collar two or three times with it. 1t will
also remove the glossy appearance along
the seams and upon the elbows.


PREVENTIVE WASH FOR SUNBURN.-
Take two drachms of borax, one drachm
of Roman alum, one drachm of cam
phor, half an ounce.of sugar candy, one
pound of OK gall. Mix these together,
and stir them well for ten minutes re-
peat the stirring four times a day for a
fortnight, at the end of which the lotion
willappear clear ard transparent. Strain
through blotting- paper and bottle for
use. Wash your face with this every
time you go into the sunshine.
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the New York
Times relates the following incident i'll
connection with the sinking of the Vile
French priest, who never for a moment
lost his self-control in the frenzy which
ragged around him, or missed, as far as
l could see, single opportunity
of comforting or ncrving those who were
about to die. Are you Il Catholic?' |
heard the father ask of passenger near
him. / am, was the reply. Make an
act of contrition, then, and l will alb
solve you, said the priest; and these
were his last words on earth. The ves-
sci sank Immediately, and the father
was drowned ; but the gentleman with
whom he converscd was among the
saved
Year: 1874

Those nations who eat fish with one
meal, each day, are undoubtedly the
most active in intellect, and the most
capable of brain labor without exhaus-
ton OF fatigue. Not only is such phos-
phatic food conducive to the activity of
the brain, but it promotes fecundity,
and increases the ability to endure cold,
fatigue, ETC.; and while the facilities for
obtaining it are constantly increasing, it
would be well for the rising generation
were they made to partake of and realize
it as second only in many respects to the
staff of life and the husband and father
who occasionally takes half a day from
his legitimate business to fill his basket
with delicious fish, should not be con-
sidered as mere sportsman, but a
"good provider" for his family of those
things which are of vital utility. -Heratd
of Hen/tI
Year: 1874

On the Fourth of July last an inter
esting young couple met at a moonlight
picnic in New York. As they were for
eigners, they did not appreciate the
spirit of the day, for, instead of assert
ing independence like the old colonists,
they fell into each others arms and de-
clared they would be mutual slaves.
Such thraldom meant matrimony, of
course. He gave her money to pur
chase rings and things, and she looked
forward to the lighting oft Hymens
kerosene lamp as an event SO near that
her heart jumped. But he, finding
that instead of dressmaker, as he sup
posed her, she was only Il box-factory
girl, tore himself from her side, repudi-
ated the results of the moonlight meet
ing, and declared himself fancy free.
She brought her broken heart to the
courts, where he claimed that when the
contract of marriage was made he was II
minor. As, of course, it was preposter-
ous that Il man under tweuty-one years
of age could agree to marry without his
mas consent, the jury let him off. AS
she returns to her work at the box
factory, she has one consolation, the
worth of which she may not appreciate
it is, that it was her good fortune not
to be dressmake~.
Year: 1874

WOMEN ON SCHOOL BOARDs.-Mr. Hea
X. CITY Solicitor of Boston, is not turning
out such a great authority on Massachu-
satts Constitutional Law after all. He is
the man on whose opinion the majority of
the Boston School Committee acted when
they refused to allow the ladies elected
last November TO take their places in that
Committee There does not appear to
have been any question made upon wheth
ct the Statute law forbade them to act, but
the adverse opinion rested upon an inter
pretation of the Constitution alone. The
House of Representatives asked the opinion
of the Supreme Court judges on the effect
of the constitution and the following opin-
ion was received Friday by the House, and
read amid great applause:


The justices of the supreme judicial
court respectfully submit the following
answer to the question upon which their
opinion was required by the order of the
honorable House of Representatives of the
10th day of the present month. The ques-
ton is stated in these words: 4" Under the
constitution of this commonwealth can IA
woman be member of a school commit
tee?"


The question is limited to the effect of
the constitution upon the capacity of a
woman to hold this office, and involves no
Interpretation of statutes. If the consti-
tuition prevents a woman from being a
member of school committee. it must, by
force OF some express provision thereof
or else by necessary implication arising
either from the nature of the office itself
or from the law of Massachusetts as exist
ing when the constitution was adopted
and in the light of which it must be read
But the constitution contains nothing re
lating to school committees; the office il
created and regulated by statute; and tn,
constitution confers upon the Genera
Court full power and authority to mann
and settle annually, or provide by fixe,
laws for naming and settling all civil off
GERS within the commonwealth, the elec
ton and constitution of whom are not il
the constitution otherwise provided for.


The common law of England whicl
was our law upon the subject, permitted
woman to fill any local Office of an admin
trative character the duties attached t
which We're such that Il woman was com
petent to perform them. The duties of
school committee relate exclusively to tn
education of children and youth in tn
town or city for which it is elected; the
consist of the general charge and superir
tendence of the schools, including the en-
ployment of teachers, the selection
Year: 1874

The Milwaukee Sentinel says that, even
with an octagonal watch, unless man
has mouse-colored horse and IL yellow
sleigh, he can only skirmish on the out
skirts of good society. In Boston man
cannot drive in good society with a mouse
colored horse, and u yellow sleigh would
be as much use to him there as a low
dog, while his octagonal watch would not
enable him to skirmish with a respectable
pawnbroker Boston Cube.
Year: 1874


oh it is hard to work for God,
To rise and take his part
Upon this battlefield of earth,
And not sometimes lose hearth
He hides himself so wondrously,
AS though there were no God;
He leas' seen when all the powers
Of i'll are most abroad.
Or he deserts us at the hour
The fight is all but lost;
And seems to leave us to ourselves
just when we need him most.
Yes there is less to try our faith,
In our mysterious creed.
Than in the goddess look of earth
In these our hours of need.
Ill masters good, good seems to change
To Ill with greatest ease;
And worst of all, the good with good
Is at cross purposes.
The Church, the sacramen's, the Faith,
Their uphill journey take
Lose here what there they gain, and, if
We lean upon tnem, break
1t is not so, but so it looks;
And we lose courage then;
And doubts will come if God hath kept
His promises to me-.
Ali God is other than we think:
His ways are far above,
Far beyond reasons height, and reached
Only by child like love.
The look, the fashion, of Coils ways
Loves lifelong study are;
She can be bold AMI guess, and act
When reason would not dare.
She has a prudence of her own;
Her step is firm and free;
Yet there is cautious science too
In her simplicity.
Workman of God oh lose not heart,
But learn what God Is like,
And in the darkest battle field
Thou shalt know where to strike.
Thrice blest is he to whom is given
The instinct that can tell
That God is on the field, when lie
L most invisible.
Blest too is he who can divine
Where real right doth lie,
And dares to take the side that seems
Wrong to mans blIndtold eye.
Then scorn the praise ofme
And learn to love with Cod
For Jesus won the world through shame
And beckons thee His road.
Gods glory is wonderous thing.
Most strange in all it's ways,
And, of all things on earth, least like
What men agree to praise.
AS lie can endless glory weave


From what men reckon shame,
In His own world lie is content
To play a losing game.
Muse on His justice, downcast soul;
Muse, and take better heart;
Back with thine angel to the field,


And bravely do thy part.
Gods justice is a bed where we


Our anxious hearts may lay,
And, weary with ourselves, may sleep
Our discomfort away.
For right is right since God is God;


And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,


To ialter would be sin.


". FADER, d.
Year: 1874

The Wisconsin Legislature refuse to pay
money for chaplain, and the preachers
of Madison take turns in the service Some
of the newspapers advise the members to
do their own praying.
Year: 1874

The body of young woman found at the foot
of precpice at Clifton Ontario, has been rec
ognized as that of a young German girl, who
had been betrayed under promise of marriage
She had doubtless committed suicide to cover
bar ahama
Year: 1874

THE STATE HoUsB.-The scaffolding has been
taken down from the State House, at Dover, and
the painters are at work on the outside walls.
They are TO give it four coats of paint. The color
is light brown with dark trimmings