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Year: 1879

A young man was very anxious to
secure piece of property which was
just then for sale, on very advantage
Gus terms. He went to confer with a
friend of his, who was banker, about
the matter, and to inquire whether it
would be prudent to borrow the requi-
site sum, and pay it in regular INSTALL
ments. He thought he should be able
to manage all but the first installment.


He was advised to borrow from the
bank a sum enough larger than he
he wished to raise to cover the first
payment, lay it strictly aside, and then
go ahead.


"But," said his friend ''you must
spend literally nothing. You must live
off of your place. You must make
box and drop in it all the money you
receive"


The young man and his wife went
bravely to work to follow this advice.
If it was necessary to dine off of head
of boiled cabbage and salt they did so,
and never grumbled. Every payment
was promptly met. The egg money
and the butter money, and the corn
and wheat money-all went into the
payment box, and at the specified time
the place was theirs. There was an
invisible wealth about such hard earn
ed possessions that common observers
knew nothing of.


On the day for the last payment the
young man presented himself before
his friend with smiling face, and with
the money in hand. There were no rags
to be seen, but his clothing was well
covered with darns from head to foot.


"You see 1 have followed your ad-
vice." he said, casting a glance over
himself; ''and my wife looks worse
than do. But have earned the farm.
and now | know how to earn another.


1t is to be hoped he did not set out
to earn another until he had bought
himself and his wife each a new suit
and laid in a good supply of provisions
for another such campaign. But his
example points in the right direction
A young couple who want to buy a
home must agree 10 be extremely saw
ing. The savings s-box must become a
regular institution in the house, and
must absorb all the dimes that COM
monty slip away on trifies. Where the
two are agreed on the matter it is not
nearly so hard as it looks. The little
droppings count up faster than you
would suppose, and the end in view is
a very worthy one. Try the expert
ment of those young people, in a modi-
fed form for one year, and see if the
result is not most encouraging and sat
isfactory.- Cincinnati Times.
Year: 1879

1t would, no doubt, be grossly unjust
to say that all presents from parishiOn-
ers to ministers were on the same level
as the Oriental backsheeSh. Many of us
have received gifts from our parishion-
erS which we knew to be pure tokens of
friendship, nothing more nor less. And
yet no intelligent observer can deny
that in very many of the presents made
to ministers the backsheesh element is
painfully manifest. The backsheeSh
element is often seen, for example, in
the publicity which frequently accom-
panies ministerial present making. A
present is chiefly valuable as an express
sion of good will from one individual or
set of individuals to another. When
this is the chief object in the mind of
the giver, it is usually sought in the
most direct and simple manner possi-
BILE. Anything approaching ostentation
in the manner of making the gift is al
most sure to throw suspicion upon the
motive of the giver. The left hand is
not to know what the right hand doeth.
This principle is well recognized in the
ordinary gift making of private life.
And yet how often when the minister
is made the recipient of gift, is his
home suddenly invaded by crowd of
frolicking parishioners calling them
selves "surprise party" whose good
will for the minister seems to be over
shadowed, to say the least, by their
determination to have jolly good time.
Then comes the presentation speech, in
which one of the party has an opportu-
nifty to display his eloquence, and, af-
ter the minister has responded, the
company set themselves to work to re-
cover in social enjoyment, so far as
they can, the value of what they have
subscribed to the minister's present.
Nor are they satisfied with this, but
take good care that the local or relig-
ious paper that represents them shall
publish their generosity to the world,
and give them due credit for the "ele-
CANT gold watch" or the ''fne oil paint
ing" or the provisions for the larder,n
or the generous roll of greenbacks,r y
the exact amount of which to dollar is
frequently stated. A brother minister
once told me, that on the morning af-
ter donation party at his house, one
OF the donors returned and requested
permission to take an inventory and
make an appraisement of the articles
donated, so that their value could be
correctly stated.
Year: 1879

Margaret J. Preston in Baldwin's Monthlyl
We mean to do it. Some day, some day,


We mean to slacken this fevered rush ...
That is wearing our very souls away,


And grant to cur goaded hearts hush
That is holy enough to let them hear
The footsteps of angels drawing near.
We mean to do it. Oh, never doubt,


When the burden of daytime droil is DER,
Wen sit and muse, while the stars come out,


As the patriarch sat at the open door
Of his tent, with a heavenward gazing eye,
To watch for the angels passing by.
We see them afar at high noOntide,


When fercely the worlds hot fashings beati
Yet never have hidden them turn aside,


And tarry a while in converse sweet;
Nor prayed them to hallow the cheer we spread,
To drink of our wine and break our bread
We promised our hearts, that when the stress


Of the life-work reaches the longed-fOr close.
When the weight that we groan with hinders less


Well loosen our thoughts to such repose
Is banshes cares disturbing din,
And then-we'n call the angels in.
The day that we dreamed of comes at length,


When tired of every mocking quest,
And broken in spirit and shOrn of strength,


We drop, indeed at the door of rest,
And wait and watch the day wanes on -
But the angels meant to call are gone
Year: 1879

not appear by any means equal to the
quantity of water which the three up
per lakes receive, it has been conjectur-
ed that subterranean river may run
from Lake Superior, by Huron to Onta-
rio. This conjecture is not impossible,
and accounts for the singular fact that
salmon and herring are caught in all
the lakes communicating with st. Law
renee, but no others. AS the Falls of
Niagara must have always existed, it
would puzzle the naturalist to say bow
these fish got into the upper lakes with
out some subterranean river moreover
any periodical obstruction of the river
would furnish not improbable solution
of the mysterious flux and refiux of the
lakes.-The american Shin.
Year: 1879

st. Louis Republican.


One would suppose from the complaints


made by the New England fishermen
against the fishery treaty that all it's
disadvantages fall upon them and all it's


benefits go to the Canadians; but it appears


that the treaty is no more favorite on


that side the line than it is on this The


Canadians are as ready for its abregation


as our fishermen are. for they regard the


right which it gives to New England fish,


ermen of taking fish in Canadian waters as


OF much greater value than the right it


gives them of bringing their fish into the


United States free of duty. 1t is not


the duty on fish that we care about" the


Canadians say. but your participation in


our fisheries. The duties are always paid


by the consumer and if you impose duties


on fish. you must pay them Don't par


ticipate in our fisheries and we wont care


snap for your duties. We can catch
flsh cheaper than you can, and if you do


not have Canadian competition, the cost
will be so increased to consumers that fish
will vanish from your tables as an article
OF diet, for. you get up such an array of
appliances, expensive outfits and the like,
that 1t costs you a great deal to catch fish,
and all this increased cost the consumer
must pay" In other words, the Canadi-
ans argue that if we insist on repeling
their cheap 6sh and taxing ourselves
for the benefit OF New England fishermen,
our salt fish will cost us more than we
can afford to pay for them, and we shall
cease to use them as an article of diet-a
view of the case which has good deal of
truth in it, Our fishermen, they add, are
exnausting their fisheries; they do such a |
rushing business" For these reasons
they are ready to have the treaty abrogat-
ed and matters restored to the old posi-
tion-they to have the fisheries to them.
selves, and we to levy high duties on their |
fish, if we think we can afford to.
Year: 1879

The working men-the laboring classes-men
and women-have made quite an important strike
They have struck" for remedy that will make
positive and permanent cures of all forms of chils
without any other medicine. In al their search


throughout the country it has leaked out that they
have sstruck- only one article that suits them in
every particular, and that article Is know Days
Aguc Tonic, whch they recommend to the cir fellow
1aborers as entirely worthy of confidence. Work
ingmen can govern themselves accordingly.
Year: 1879

Trinity Cali Journal.


Several weeks ago, in the neighbor-
hood of Hettenshaw, in this county.
remarkable bear hunt occurred. II
appears that DR.. Stanley, while on a
visit to Hettenshaw, expressed an
earnest desire to go bear hunting, and
accordingly one morning he started. in
company with Greene French, George
Burgess and 10 Lightfoot. Arriving
at a thicket, the dogs gave notice Of
their near approach to a bear, and the
party decided to station themselves
at certain points and let the dogs 90
in and drive the bear out. This was
done but the doctor becoming impa-
tient, entered the thicket himself. The
heavy underground made his progress
slow, but he fought his way ahead un-
til he came to a fallen tree lying in a
little gulch. Helping himself along
by the limbs he arrived at the upper
end just in time to be confronted by
huge grizzly bear. Retreat was i'm.
possible, as it had been with the ut.
most difficulty that the doctor had ad.
vanced 50 far; there was no tree in
convenient distance, and as the griz-
ely showed fight, there was nothing
left for him to do but shoot. Taking
deliberate aim with his Henry rife
the doctor fired and the bear fell NOR
tally wounded. Another load was
sprung from the magazine into the
rife, and the doctor, looking
toward his prey, was surprised to
see a second bear in the same spot.
This he shot also, and quickly reload
ing, was yet more astonished to see a
third bear in the same place where he
had shot the other two. Again the
lever moved and fresh charge went
into position, aud again the doctor
looked up and discovered a fourth
grizzly coming toward him from the
same opening in the brush. Whang,
went the gun again, and down went
bear No. A. By this time the doctor
bad got warmed up and excited, and
he kept moving the lever and firing
into the bodies of tho bears
until tho sixteen shots in the
magazine we're exhausted. Mean
time his companions, hearing
the shooting, and presuming the
cause, made their way to whore the
doctor was, with the intention of as.
sisting him, but found him on top of
the largest bear, with the others
strewn about, swinging his hat and
shouting Justify. One was an immense
grizzly, 50 large that the hunters could
not handle him, and the other three
were good-Sized grizzlies, probably
about two years old. The shooting of
four bears by one man, without ever
changing his position, is something
hitherto unheard of, even in the most
highly-cOlored annals Of the Western
wilds.
Year: 1879

Of the barbarous world, but do not
object to a cocktail when we get up. a
snifter just before breakfast, a throat
clearer just after breakfast, luncher
at II o'clock, two or three sociables
between twelve and dinner. a bottle of
wine or good strong whisky straight at
dinner. After dinner, having been
thus abstemious during the business
hours, we open ourselves a little and
drop in at the saloons and clubs to see
how political affairs are moving. If
the country is in danger, or if we find
It popular to abuse a good neighbor
for the benefit of faction, the matter
can be better discussed over drink
or so. The.judgment is better balanced
and opinions more readily formed over
the fumes of hot whisky punch.
We become more eloquent and ex-
press our opinions with that emphasis
of statement which marks the free
American citizen,
Year: 1879

Baltimore Sun Washington Telegram.)


Notwithstanding that President
Hayes has solemnly declared that he
would not be candidate for re-elec-
tion, it is a fact that certain politicians
from the South and the North have
gone to the White House and assured
him that if certain things were done
delegations to the next Republican
convention could be worked up in
his interest. The same statements
have been made to Secretary Sherman
as to himself A short time ago a
paper was drawn up for presentation
to Secretary Sherman by a number of
politicians in a Southern State. in
which it was alleged that all the Fed
eral Office holders were hard at work
for Grant, and that if he (Sherman)
would have them turned out and put
in persons to be named, a unanimous
delegation from that State to the Re
publican National Convention could
be secured in his interest.
Year: 1879

cincinnati Times.


O'Leary goes back to Chicago
$4,000 richer than he was before he
began his walk. There are not many
men who made $4,000 last week. Ii
is equal to the entire Talmagian sal
ary for a year. 1t is as much as the
ablest of the able editors of New
York get and about quarter of a
year salary of the President Not
novelist Of the year has pocketod as
much. Not more than dozen books
have been written during the year
which will even bring into their au.
thors an equal sum. There is not a
governor in tho land that receives as
much. We again direct the attention
of young men who desire to get into a
good paying business to the advantage
offered by adopting the profession Of
pedestrianism. II pays better than
preaching, governing, editing, writing
or baseball.
Year: 1879

FIX Governor PALMER, of Hi
nOis, finds new argument against
General Logan S election to the United
States senate by Republican legisla-
ture. In 1858 the legislature of Hi
nois passed an act providing that if
any person or persons shall bring or
cause to be brought into this State
any negro or mulatto slave, whether
said slave shall be set free or not, he
shall be liable to an indictment, and,
upon conviction thereof, be fined for
every such negro or mulatto a sum not
less than 800 nor more than $500, and
imprisoned in the county Jail not more
than one year, and shall stand com
initted until said fine and costs are
paid" This act was introduced by
Logan, and Palmer was indicted under
it in 1862, when he was an officer Of
the Union army.
Year: 1879

Sympathetic pipes" are a recent
novelty. The bowl of a meersehaum
may be co.ored in FIVE minutes, by first
tinting it with a solution of nitrate Of
silver in ether and alcohol, to which
essence of roses and camphor are
added Figures of any pattern are
produced by the heat of the tobacco
and when prodcced are permanent.
Year: 1879

Mobile Register,


In Virginia there is a method and
order in drinking The climate being
colder the blood is not so thick. and
hence the necessity for drinks every
hour is not urgent. There is also
more economy in Virginia, where the
close methods of the regions of hog
aud hominy are observed Here in
Alabama we drink ip winter to keep
warm and in summer to keep cool. In
the cities we drink to be sociable aud
show that We are men about town, and
in the country We drink to keep of
chills and to cure snake bites. We
are opposed to the continual drinking
which exists in Russia and other parts
Year: 1879

The following law, passed by the
last Legislature, is given for the
benefit of those interested:


Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Kentucky, That it shall
not be lawful for any person having
a license to sell spirituous, vinous
or malt liquors by the drink, or
otherwise, TO sell, give OF loan any
of such liquors, or the mixtures OF
either, knowingly to any person
who is an inebriate, or in the habit
of becoming intoxicated or drunk
by the use of any such liquors, or
to suffer or permit any such persons
TO drink any such liquors, or tho
mixtures of either, in his bar-room.
saloon, or in or upon any tenement
or premises in his possession or un-
der his control. Any one SO offend
ing shall be subject to a fne of fifty
dollars for each offense, to be re-
covered by indictment of grand
Jury in any court of competent u
risdiction, or by warrant before the
county Judge or a justice of the
peace of the county in which the
uffensc was committed; and the
person 50 found guilty shall also be
deemed as having forfeited his Ii
cense, and the court before which
the trial is had shall SO adjudge.


That, in addition to the fine atore-
said, the person who shall violate
anv of the provisions OF the second
action of this act shalt, together
with his sureties on hi- bond, be
liable to a civil action for damages
by the wife, or the father or the
mother. or the child of such ipe-
briate, or person so in the habit OF
becoming intoxicated or drunk, in
which punitive damages may be as
sessed: Provided, however, that
the person so selling shall not be
liable in civil action to the wife,
father. or other relation, unless writ
ten notice forbidding such saie has
been given the person so selling
nrior to the ofense complained of:
Provided further, that such action
shall be brought within one year
from the time the cause of action
/ has accrued, and not after.


i This act shall take cHeot from its
passage.
Year: 1879

Hall says: II is wrong to eat With
out an appetite, for il shows there is no
gastric jaics in the stomach, aud that
nature does not need food; aud no,
needing it, there being uo juice TO
receive aud act upon il, il remains
there TO purify, the very thought of
which is sufficient to deter any man
from eating without an appetite ter
the remainder of his lie. Il tonic is
taken to whet the appetite, it is
mistaken oourss. for it's only result i
to cause one TO eat more, when already
an amount has been eaten beyond what
the gastric Is able to prepare. The
object to be attained is large supply
of food; and what ever tails 10 aceou


plish that desirable object fails 90
have any efficiency toward the cure
OF dyspeptic disease. The formation
of gastric juices is directly proportion ed
to the wear aud tear OF the system


which is to be the means OF suppiving.
aud this wear aud tear can only take
place rs the result OF exercise. The
efficient remedy for dyspepsia is work
out of door work-beBeioiai and
successful 10 direct proportion as it i,
/ agreeable, interesting aud profitable.
Year: 1879

Wash baby up clean and dress
him up real pretty. aud he will resist
all advances with a most superlative
crossness; bat let him eat molasses
ginger bread and fool around the coal
hod tor half an hour. and he will aeS: lie
his dear little pirty face close up TO your
clean shirt bosom aud be just the love
Iies., cuauioge=s littis rasoais 10 ell the


.rii
Year: 1879

the PRESS will be devoted as in the past to dis
criminaling SUPPORT OF the Republican Party and
will stand through thick and thin for honest and
stable currency and the equal rights of ali citizens


throughout the length and breadth Of the Republic.
1t will always speak out for education, good morals
and Just laws, believing that the safety OF the nation
depends upon these things.
Year: 1879

D1sHoNoRABLE DISCHARGE carries with it forfeiture of
bounty, as well pay and other allowances


Those who enlisted for ONE HUNDRED DAYS, or FIR
THREE SIX, MONTHS not entitled to bounty
for such enlstments those who enlisted for
YEAR PRIOR TO july 1S, 1864.


Those who drafted for one year. and their subst
tutes, are not entitled to bounty


No bounty has been provided for those who enlisted
into the Navy Marine Corps prior TO July lS 1884
Enlistment after that date brings them in Glass g.


Any can, by careful perusal of the foregoing
remarks (uness there is popularity connected with
his case) determine whether he is entitled any further
bounty.


The Equalization Bounty Bill before Congress pro-
poses to grant eight and dollars bounty for each
month of service deucng all United States bounty here
toore paid Eight and third dollars bounty is equal
to 500 bounty year Any of readers who desire to
learn the amount of bounty to which they will be entitled
should the Equalization Bill become law should multi
ply the number of months of actual service by eight and
The remainder will show the they will be entitled
to receive if the bill becomes law
Year: 1879

The Opinion of an Eminent Jurist.


Hon. George F. Edmunds stands as the peer Of
any man in the Senate for ability and integrity and
the following are some of his views on the Bentley
Bill:


Mr.. President, wish to deny for the
pensioners who reside in the State of Vermont and
States the mputaton that 20 per 10 per cent
10 cent anything like the slightest degree
faudulent and should like to the proof of it.
should like to know what the nature of the proof is The
statute that has existed all the time under pension
laws authorizes the Commissioner of Pensions either with
or without the approval of the Secretary of the INTERIOR


do not remember which for this purposewhen-
ever he has to believe any pension Is e
gay payable stop the payment of it, He therefore has
held all the time in his hands the power of stopping


the payment of any pension that he believed to be
just frauduent one. Why does he not7 If he has
the evidence which satisfies him that 10 per cent. which
believe is his statement of the pensions that paid


fraudulent why does he not stop that per cent? why
does not somebody because the evidence Of fraud cannot
be found by general impression it must be found by
au aggregation of individual instances.


The fact that he has discovered $500 900 does not
that he could discover Million any than the fact
that You find that Senator In this body in years
gone by has been guilty of misconduct fraud implies
that probably there ten fifteen Just guilty
and you therefore to institute purge the
Senate. No such inference follows by any and
hence saw that if the Commissioner o Pensions usti


fed in saying to that there 10 per cent per
cent cent of these payments of that
fraudulent UNJUST he must if he is wise and If he is
honest IN his report have based that upon the nIorma
ton that he has to individual and fast he
has that information it is within his authority and 1t is
duty to stop the payment of pensions he does as Tar
as he We jumping, therefore, at conclusions,
and think very unusy to the body of the patriotic sol
dery of this country when give it forth to everybody
and everywhers by teraed and reiterated statements that


very large percentage of the pensioners of this Govern
ment during the late fraudulent punderers
of ts Government do not believe any such thing, and


do not believe there any proof of such thing but
because the Commissioner of Pensions has found here and
there of fraud he asks to presume, he pre-
sumes himself that there must be much larger number
more, just as said little while ago if we find once in
twenty years that there is Senator in this high body
who has been guilty of receiving brbes therefore it is
be presumed il you only had stringent methods you
would find all the certain proportion 10 is per
cent guilty Ideny the logic and deny the justine of
any such inference.
Year: 1879

LADY contributor tells this story I had been out in
Weschester County visit, and while there founda-
kitten, which brought paythng for my two chill
dren To prevent any dispute about the ownership OF
puss proposed and it agreed that the head should
be mne the body should be the babys, and Eddy, tho
eldest but three years should be the sole proprietor
the long and beautiful tail Eddy rather objected first
to this divisions, putting him off with an extremely
small share of the ANIMAL but became reconced to
graceful terminus of the kitten. One day after
heard poor puss making dreadful mewing, and called
out to Eddy There my son. you hurting my part of
the kitten heard her cry. No, didn't, mother;
trod on my part and your part hollered.'