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Year: 1874

We envy not the prineely man,
In city or ln'tOwn,
Who wonders whether pumpkin vines
Run up the hill or down
We care not for his marble halls,
Nor yet his heaps Of gold,
We would nQ own his sOrdid heart
For all his wealth thrice told.
We are the favored ones of earth,
We breathe pure air each morni
We sow-we reap the golden grain
We gather in the corn,
We toil--We live ON what We eprn,
And more than this We do
We hear of starving millions round,
And gladly feed them, too.
The lawyer lives on princely fees,
Yet drags weary life,
lie never knows peaceful hour
His atmosphere is strife.
The merchant thumbs his yardstick Ger,
Grows ragged at his toll
He's not the man God meant him for
Why don't you till the soil
The doctor plods through storm and cold
Plods at his patients will,
When dead and gOne he plods again
To get his lengthy bill.
The printer tbless his noble sOulO


He grasps tho mighty earth,
And stamps II on your daily sheet


To cheer the farmers hearth.
We sing the honor Of the plow,


And honor 10 the press
Two noble instruments Of toll,


With each power to bless;
The bone-the nerve Of this fast age
True wealth ofhumRn kind
One tills tho ever generous earth,


The other tills the mind.
Year: 1874

1t is well known fact that the farm pro-
ducts of this country are not, in any large
proportion, what may be called the tirst-class,
Pnd that they do not command high price
in market Vast quantities Ofiruit are sold an
uually at ruinous prices because the quality
is so poor. Far from being an exception to
this rule the hay crop is a striking example
of the immense and needless loss caused
simply aud only by the carelessness and
neglect OF its producers. Compared with
the amount of hay cut there is but little
which is really OF first quality There is a
great deal that is very good aud a great
deal more that is miserably poor. Probably
a third-rate article would stand first in point
Year: 1874

Of quantity produced, a fourth-rate next, then
a second grade, and last and least Of all,
what would rank as strictly 6rst-class in point
of quality. Now this ought not to be SO,
and il need not be 80. 1t is in the power of
every man who raises this crop to obtain at
least good quality Of bay.
Year: 1874

GLUTroNY.-A retired physician
writes: "How does it happen that
amid the everlasting cry against
drunkenness we never hear word
against its sister evil, gluttony? l
think can assert with truth that, in
long practice, three have died among
my patients from over-eating where
one has died from drink. Whence
comes apoplexy, paralysis, dyspepsia,


and host Of other diseases, but from
too much rich food, taken under the


most imprusent circumstances? And
yet we hear of no society formed to
prevent this growing vice. A man
eats until he drops down and expires
with apOplexy by the roadside, when
up comes the coroner with jury of
twelve good men and true, who pro-
nounce verdict Died from intemper.
ance.' So he did, but what kind of
intenperance was it? / have heard
more than one minister In the pulpit
expatiate with great vehemence against
the sin Of drunkenness, whose very
appearance was proof positive that he
was pre-eminentIy guilty of gluttony."
Year: 1874

'One OF my first lessons said Mr..
| Sturgis, the eminent merchant, was in
| 1878, when l was eleven years old. Nv
grandfather had fine flock of sheen
which were carefully tended during the
war of those times. was the shepherd
boy and my business was to watch the
sheep in the fields. A boy who was
mole fond of his book than the sheep
was sent with me, bat left the work to
me, while he lay under the tree and
read, | did not like that and finally
went to my grandfather and complained
OF IL. | shall never forget the kind
smile OF the old gentleman as he said:


Never mind, Jonathan, my boy; if
you watch the sheep you will have the
Sheep


What does grandfather mean bv
that? l said to myself. Il don't expect
to have sheep. Myldesires were mod
crate, and fine buck was worth hund-
red dollars. l could not exactly make
out in my mind what it was, but had
great confidence in him, for he was
judge, and had been to Congress in
Washington's time so went back cou-
tentedly to the sheep. After l got into
the field could not keep his words out
OF my head. Then thought of SUNDAYS
lesson; Thou hast been faithful over
a few things, l will make thee q ruler
over many things l began to see
throughit. Never you mind who neg
lects bis duty; be you faithful and you
will have your reward


| received u good lesson after l came
to New York as a clerk 10 the late Lv-
man Reed. A merchant from Ohio,
who knew me, came to buy goods, and
said: Make yourself so useful that
they cannot do without you.' | took
this meaning quicker than I did that of
my grandfather.


Well | worked upon these two ideas,
until Mr.. Reed offered me a ~srtnership
in the business. The first morning al
ter the partnership was made known,
Mr.. James Geery, the old tca-merchant,
called to congratulate me, and he said:
BE careful who you Walk the streets
with That was number three


And what valuable lessons they are.
Fidelity in all things do your best
for your employers : 'carcfulncss about
your associates Let everybody take
these lessons home and study them well.
They are the foundation stones OF char
actcr and honorable success.
Year: 1874

When cremation is introduced Into
Utah. old Brigham will have the biggest
cOnnabiai ash heap in the whole country.
He earned living for his live wives, but
he cant urn his dead ones. Nothing
smaller than an old fashioned ash hopper
will answer.
Year: 1874

Ts-We are to have lively times dur
Ing The holidays. Our young people are
thoroughly alive to every species ofgcn


tecl amusement. That's right; enjoy


yourselves while you are young, for you


will soon learn that youth does not last
f,revpr
Year: 1874

On this subject the president dwells, and
urges its importance at great length, ana
also upon the relations of labor and capital.
showing that the latter cannot thrive without
the other and the generalization of the for
ner must damage the latter. In regard TO
the volume of currency necessary to conduct
the business interests of the country. he SAYS
it is unsafe to leave the settlement Of this
question to congress the secretary of the
treasury. or the executive. The people can
best decide this. Congress should make reg
ularionS under which banks may exist but
should not make banking monopoly. This
subject is treated fully. and its Importance Is
Indicated 10y introducing it at the beginning
of the message.
Year: 1874

w PARTICULAR NOTICE.
In order TO present Mr.. Dion Boucicaulrs


NEW PLAY


(THE sHAUGHRAUO
this evening with due effect and perfection OF DETAIL Il
10 announced that there will be


NO MATINEE
this the entire day will be devoted to the
rehearaal
Year: 1874

BUTTER IN FRANCE.-If our darymen


need spur, an eye-opener, lesson which


speaks volumes in three words, here is one


at the head of this article. Butter is actually


brought from France and sold by the New


York dealers. And this is thus because


there is an actual scarcity in the market of


good butter put up in attractive shape for


small consumers. When we know that one


dairyman gets s1.15 pound for his product,
another 81, and another IS cents the year


round. at his dairy door, it is easily seen that
it will pay to bring butter across the ocean
from France, if it is only good and shapely
enough to suit the fastidious purchasers who
will have nice butter whatever it may cost.
All this butter is made from choice cows,


choicely fed on clean sweet food, and the


milking is done In the cleapest manner.


The milk is handled as carefully as though it


was nectar; the cream is churned with the
utmost care by clock and thermometer. the
butter is worked with skill, and made up
into shapely cakes which do not require to
be cut when brought to the table. Compare
then, this cake-hard, OGDEN yellow, sweet,
fragrant and tempting to all the senses-with
| an unsightly chunk which is cut out Of a
| greasy keg, and smell of old and rancidity,
| and is made from ill-kept cream, from cows
! filthily lodged and carelessly MIXED, and Is
| churned anyhow, and the difference Is easily
| accounted for.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1874

The fire originated in a little low
building that stood next to and ad-
joining the oil factory that stood be-
tween Fourth Avenue and Clark street,
on Taylor street. The building was
inhabited by family of Polish Jews,
who, the neighbors say, but doubtless
Year: 1874

Delaware's gifted young Senator has been fire.
quently and favorably mentioned by Democratic
journals in various portions of the Union as a
most saitsbIe candidate for the Office Of Vice
President of the United States under the leader
ship Of Hon. Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, for
President; and the names of Thurman and
Bayard have been heralded abroad as the most
proper and acceptable candidates for the two
highest offices, within the gift of the people, at
the next Presidential election. But the Cecil
Democrat, of Saturday last, reiterating the senti-
ments proclaimed by the New York World on a
previous occasion, places at the head of its edi-
torial column the name Of Hon 7. f. Bayard as
its first choice for the Presidency in 1916.


1t cannot fail to be a matter of intense gratif-
cation to every true Delawarsan to see the name
Of one of their favorite citizens thus so freely
and laudingly used by the people Of the larger
states in this high connection. Hitherto in the
choice of Presidential cand idates Delaware has
been overlooked. Not for the want Of capacity
and talent among her sons, for her McLane,
Clayton and Bayards have ever attained to the
foremost rank in their country's greatness, but
because, being small in population and territory,
she was regarded not having sufficient politi-
cal strength and influence to justify a party in
selecting candidate from among her citizens
Now, however, when policy is rapidly giving
away to principle, and men are beginning to feel
that honesty and capability are far preferable to
availability, the Democracy all over the land are
turning their eyes to Delaware's Senator as not
only one Of the most eminent, but, also, one of
the most incorrupt aud incorruptble Statesmen
of the country.


1t is the proud boast of Delaware that her
sons have ever been faithful to their country in
her hours of peril, and when she most needed
their aid. They look back, with pardonable
pride, upon her past record, and rejoice that she
was the first State to ratify the constitution
under which the nation has grown and prosper
ed in degree Unprecedented, and unparalleled
in the annals of the world. But their chief AMI
greatest cause for self-gratulaton is that, in al
the time that has elapsed since that constitution
became the organic law Of the land, never, by
word or deed has Delaware, as a State, broker
one single jot or title of that law. Not singh
act, or sentence, disgraces her statute boel
which EVEN her bitterest and most implacabl
enemies can construe into II violation OF tn
strict letter of the constitution. Occupying
therefore, such exalted and enviable position
among her sister States, il is but just and NEE
that the candidate for the chief magistracy in tn
centennial year of the nations history should b
native born citizen of the State which has thu
been ever faithful and true to her trust.
Year: 1874

The little child of Mr.. G. Ross, of Phladel-
phia, which was stolen from near his fathers
residence on the frs, of this month, has not yet
been recovered nor his abductors captured,
although the father has made use of every means
in his power to obtain some clue to the where
abouts of his boy. The distress and agony of
mind of those parents can we'll be imagined.


1t seems rather singular that crime Of this
nature should have been perpetrated in large
city in open daylight and that the perpetrators
should beable to throw such a mystery around
it as to battle the efforts of the detectives to un-
ravel it. Many hundreds of crimes, such as
murder or robbery, have been traced to their
source when the evidence was not half SO strong
as il is in this case: Two children were at first
taken. One of these was afterward allowed to
seiurn, and this one was old enough to give and
did give an account of the occurrence, a descrip-
tion of the men, of their horse and wagon and
the matter is still mystery, and the detectives
are unable to " obtain the slightest clue to the
ahductors" All this is to the utter disgrace oi
those detectives; either they are wholly incom-
petent for their positions, or they are unworthy
of them. We will not accuse them of collnsion
with the kidnappers, but it is more than likely
that they are waiting for the offer Of larger re
ward, and are thus endeavoring TO make money
out Of the distress of the bereaved father. In thu
meantime the authorities look idly on and mak'
no effort to discover and punish the perpetrator
OF this great crime. Assuredly all must see tina
the public is directly affected by and interested il
this affair Had the child been murdered tn
mayor of Philadelphia would long ere this hav
issued proclamation offering reward for tn
capture Of the murderers.


Yet bere is n crime far more distressing thai
murder, and by which society is, il possible
moro deeply affected, aad the authorities take \
part, and the agonized parents are left to fgh
the battle alone. The people ought to take thi
matter in hand and force the mayor, aye and,


need be, the Governor too, to offer reward sui
fcienny large to induce the capture of the offend
crs and bring them to justice. The New Yor


Korld and other leading journals have been max
ing some strong efforts to stir up the people to
sense Of the Importance and magnitude Of thi
offence, but these appeals should not be con6ne
to the few; every paper should lend its aid I
uneArth this crime, and to crush such acts /
their incipiency.
Year: 1874

which so universally blighted the business
OF the country that many, II not most, Of
our reliable business men had TO suspend,
some temporarily, others permanently


The iron and consequently coal trade
was perhaps the most affected. No road
could comparatively suffer more than
yours under such circumstances, and we
accordingly find It's gross earnings touch.
ing the low figure ot $4,000 per month;
q little more than sufficient to pay run.
ming expenses. 71.


The Company offer their second mort.
gage bonds to their stockholders at such a
discount as will pay them ten per cent in.
terest. The President Ssys that the earn
ingS.had so recovered from the panic In
May, that they reached the sum Of $S9, 900
in that month. esays that the road bed
and track is in good order and that they
have locomotives and rolling stock
sufficient to do largely increased business
whenever it shall open. f..
Year: 1874




TIE CHANGE IN THE WEATHRR.-The
change in the weather since Friday last is
the change between the temperature OF a
valley and high mountain. Last night
people were quite comfortable indoors
with the windows down, whereas few
evenings since they could scarcely find q
cool place out Of doors. Since Friday
night refreshing rains have fallen at short
intervals and at times in heavy showers;
80 much 80 that the ground is now more
thoroughly soaked than 1t hes been since
last April. These rains have been geuer.
al, commencing on Tuesday and Wednes.
day out West, and have raised the hopes
of the people Immensely in regard to the
growing crops. Early in the week serious
apprehensions were felt in Chicago in re-
gard 10 the corn crop, and also in regard
to oats, and the price began to rise, with
some excitement in the market, but on
Thursday there was q changed feeling
for the better. About ten o'clock last
night the rain set in again hereabouts
with considerable animation, and the
prospect is now fair for good stage OF
water in the river. As will be seen by
our local columns, there was very heavy
rain up the river on Saturday, in the
Beaver region, so much so that serious
wash occurred on the Cleveland & Pitts.
burgh railroad. It is to be hoped that we
are not now going from one extreme to
the other-from dearth to deluge. Ju.
pIter Pluvlus Is supposed to bo an eccen-
trio character, and hence the expression
that 'it never rains but it pours." For
the sake oi our friends who have wheat
in the shock we hope that he will hold up
after the. present instalment. What we
want Is to have the fluid a little more
regular like, and not SO much at one time
Yesterday the hills Of this beautiful valley
wore q deeper hue OF green in conse.
qnence of these rains, and it seemed as
IT the corn and potatoes, like Jonah's
gourd, were springing up all at once.
Year: 1874

Our property recovered, we left the
entire crowd at the door Of the vii
lage tavern convulsed with merriment
at the expense of the Parish Priest
caught in the act Of kidnapping two
valuable trunks.


Of the village, some Of its people
and the church in the next chapter.


CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1874

The Springfield (Mass.) Union
says: DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
is evidently a convert to the doctrine
of euthauasia, or the right of moribund
persons to the assistance of anesthet-
les in procuring a painless passage
out Of this life. In his recent address
before the Harvard Medical School,
the Doctor said it was the duty of the
physician to make dying for his pa
tient as nearly as possible like the
closing Of the eyes in sleep. "When,"
says he, "the end is evidently near,
it remains for the physician to claim
for his art the right of procuring a
painless passage out Of the world, so
| far as is practicable, for the patient
whom be can keep no longer in it.,
and without doing violence to the
proprieties of the closing scene; !; to con-
slider the physical process as one
which should be under his exclusive
direction" The spiritual adviser will
contest this claim, holding that where
the doctor has done all that he can
for the body the clergyman should
have chance to do something for the
soul, but in this controversy we pre-
sumo the patient would generally
side with the doctor. For the past
eighteen hundred years the priest
and the physician have, with tolera-
bic respect for each others claims,
shared sick humanity between them
and this proposal of Dr.. Holmes
virtually tv Danish the spiritual al.
wiser from the death-bed is another
sign Of the aggressive warfare Of sci
ence on religion in these days.
Year: 1874

ASNN0oN0


ten minutes each, and lunches eaten


openly and beverages taken but not
openly how the witnesses were con-
jured to bear in mind that they were
sworn and the jury to bear in mind
that they were men of families and


that the eyes of the entire world were
upon them; how His Honor the great
Judex Tacit per Sc summed the case
up and directed the jury to find for
the plaintiffs if they didn't find for the
efendapts, and not by any means to
find for the defendants if they had to


find for the plaintiffs how the
reporters were all there like Harpies ;
how expectation assumed her
traditional posture while the jury
were out, and stood on tip-toe; how
she had to stand in that uncomfort-
able position for fully three-quarters
of an hour owing to 3 very thick
headed, stupid juror-''ot q man Of
family-who absurdly said that he
didn't exactly understand His Hon
or's charge; how the jury finally re-
turned headed by. a very large gentle
man of the jury in brown, capable Of
almost furnishing the legal number o1
Year: 1874

fro" tie Lonelon Daily Telegraph.


1t may not be generally known
that the principle upon which all our
guns are now made is that discovered
by Col. Fraser. Briefly it consists Of
series Of coils, welded together il
such way that the grain of the iron
Is best: opposed to the explosive force
Of the powder, and encircling steel
tube, the interior Of which is riaed.
A long bar Of iron-say 8 inche,
square-previously prepared, is slow
ly drawn from a furnace, to a lencth
Of about 300 feet and wound into a.
double coil in the form of cylinder.
This is again heated, and placed be-
meath steam hammer, where it is
welded together by tremendous blows
which SO ehectuallydo their work that
a cylinder, capable of bearing the
greatest possible strain is formed at a .
comparatively trifing expense. Sew
eral of these coils being made, they
are placed in order upon long steel
tube which has been made in Sheffield,
and the weapon is finally turned out
at an average cost of about ESQ ton,
as against the sum of ESQ at Krupp's
factory in Essen. Upon this princi-
pie, then, it is resolved to construct
an eighty ton gun, which should be
able to pierce 20 inches Of iron at
distance Of a thousand yards, with a
shot Of 800 pounds in weight, and
by the aid Of 300 pounds of powder.
The length Of this magnificent piece
Of artillery was fixed at p feet, its
diameter at the trunnion 6 feet, and
at the muzzle 16 inches, inside meas
urement. It was calculated that
such gun would be able to deliver
its mischief-working missile at a
distance Of nearly ten miles, and that


it would, at the same time, be easily
placed in the turret of war ship or
The embrasure Of a battery, and
worked quickly and without difficulty.
OF course there were many difficulties
in the way Of the construction of such
weapon. No steam hammer such
as that which Krupp possesses at
Essen was to be found in England
no forges were built large enough for
such a tremendous cheat - no cranes
were in position to hoist such
weight. But all these difficulties
were speedily overcome by the skillful
officials at Woolwich. The forges
were built, huge steam hammer Of
10 tons weight, with double action
arrangement, and striking power Of
nearly 1000 tons, made, and very
soon all was in readiness to begin the
construction Of the great gun. Curl
ously enough, His Majesty the En-
peror Of Russia was the first one to
see one Of its coils welded, and since
that time the work has been gradual


ly going On, till now the steel tube,


the breech-piece, one coil, and the
trunnion are finished so that it is


certain that by June next the gun


will be ready for trial. 1t will then


consist Of the following parts: A


tough steel tube inside, weighing


nearly 16 tons, and measuring about


"a feet in length a breech-piece coil


- feet in length; one central, anoth-


er coil nearer the muzzle, and the


trunnion coil. The cascabel through


which the fire from the friction-tube


is communicated to the cartridge in


side the gun is Of steel, and immensely


strong.
Year: 1874

TIE Congressional caldron in the
Third District is bubbling and boiling
quite demonstratively in the uewspspers
and it is quite impossible to tell what
the name OF the Democratic candidate
will be at the end OF the boiling down
PROCESS. Our exchanges from that Sec
ton OF the State are filed with ar
ticles, contributed or editorial, writing
up" this or that candidate for public
favor, and each in vaunting the vir-
tues OF his chief condemns by implica-
ton the strong points Of his numerous
rivals. In three papers now before 10
we find Hon. FRANK HEREFORD, JOHN
E. KRNNA and w. II. ToMLlNsoN
respectively eulogized, and it Is
by no means unlikely that to-morrow's
mail may bring equally emphatic en-
dorsement of three or more entirely
different candidates. There is one
com Portable feature in the contest and
that is that the Radicals have nothing
to say there is no contention in their
ranks as to who shall receive
the barren honor OF q nomination, and
they come down like Captain ScorTs e
coon, without waiting to be shot.


In the First District there has been
very little personal discussion as yet. A
noteworthy movement on the Rsdica
side was the feeler thrown out by
the Clsrksburg Telegraph last week
in favor OF Hon. J. J. DAVE. Some oi
Mr.. DAVIS Clsrksburg friends have
him in training as q Radical candidate
for reelection and are anxious to know
what is the feeling Of their party in re-
gard to the matter. As yet there have
been no responses and whether Mr.
DAVIS is considered as an available
Radical candidate is still undetermined
There are several sspirants for th'
honor Of defeat on the Radical ticket il
this district, who are yet to be publicly
heard from.