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Year: 1876

If fiattery is to be grateful to sensi-
BILE and truth-lOving man or woman, it
must clearly conform to several cOndi-
tions. As we have remarked, it must
not be too broad, wholly setting at de-
fiance the bounds of truth, but must be
recognizable as an approximation to
the truth. Thus the compliment be-
slowed should clearly point to a merito-
istence. Further, it should never be
forced on person in an obtrusive way.
1t should be couched in modest Ian
guage, and not break violently on our
attention In bald eulogistic epithets.
And it should not be kept before our
minds so as to arouse a full and embar-
RAISING consciousness of the speakers
meaning, but rather appear as a tram
sient element in fugitive converse
ton. 1t is always better to let the
praise be inferred from the language
used than to declare it in direct terms.
In this way it will be appreciated by a
swift movement of feeling, while there
will be no time for its arOusing pain
full self-consciOusness.


Once more, flattery Is always more
acceptable when 1t seems to be the pro-
duct of the movement, and not the re-
suit of generalization, for in this case it
has greater appearance of reality. Or
if the speaker distinctly intends to in
dictate deliberate wish to crafty, and
so to show the exercise of fOrethOught,
the praise should be rendered with a
certain delicate skill, so as to assure the
recipient of the giver's anxiety to make
the offering as graceful as possible. The
indirect ways of flattery are also worth
attending to. One may fiatter person
by saying to his intimate friend-for
instance, his wife-something highly
eulogistic, which it would be difficult to
say to himself directly. Another and
still more useful method is to fiatter by
action instead of by words, that is, by
treating people as if they had a certain
kind of merit or excellence. Thus we
may studiOusly consult the taste of a
lady whose aesthetic judgment we wish
to extol, or may enlist the cooperation
of person i'm benevolent scheme, and
thus Indirectly attribute to him gener-
GUS disposition. The advantage of this
last mode of flattering is that it escapes
the necessity of even a slight verbal
untruthfulness. To appeal to a per-
sons opinion is not the same thing as
to declare him to be wise, even though
he may be readily disposed to conjecture
from the former that We mean the
latter too.
Year: 1876

1t is great pleasure to get thorough
ly tired. The only way to fully enjoy
rest and sleep is to get tired first. Many
persons have an idea that idleness Is
pleasure. There cannot be more er-
roneous notion. Idle persons enjoy
nothing. A sense of languor haunts
them through the night. Nor, on the
other hand, the highest enjoyment Of
repose. 1t is the happy combination Of
mental and bodily labor, requiring re-
creation for both body and mind, which
alone qualities one for the complete re-
alization of the luxury Of the change to
rest and sleep. And it is only from
such sleep that we awaken greatly
strengthened and refreshed.
Year: 1876

The police officials of neighbor-
ing counties have forwarded ad.
vices to Chief Cullen to put Berks
county farmers and Others on their
guard. A new dodge for swindling
has been put in operation. Sever
al strange men drive through an
agricultural district. They stop at
all the farm houses and make n
contract, take all the butter thefarm
can furnish at fifty cents per pound.
Further it will be gathered up by
fast special trans and the ca sh paid
for it at the door. The pretencc
is that during the Fall and Win.
ter the large cities will be over.
crowded and that butter will be
very scarce. In this way all the
farmers in district are contracted
with,and arrangements are made to
come for their butter on certain
days and at certain points;the con-
tract to go into effect in two weeks


A few days after the departure
of the men a drove of cows come
along Theyare fine looking milch
cows. The farmers having a gooc
thing in view think they might
use Il few more cows. They try
to buy them and the drover don't
seem to be anxious to sell. Finally


however, he is induced to sell two
or three to each farmer at price:
considerably higher than the rea


market value. He then departs


meets his partners who put up The
butter job, and they divide the
prof S, That is the last the farm


er hears Of threading Eoq}s.
Year: 1876

THE Constitution of the United States
gives to Congress no power to make
money plenty or scarce, thus to disturb
the equilibrium Of values, and thereby
enrich some and plunder more. Admit
that the power to initiate or contract the
currency inheres in Congress, and all
property and. values arei at the mercy Of
those who, for the time being, control
the law making power. Governments
are instituted among men to protect
equally persons and property-not to dis
turb all,values in the interest of those
who may be in power, and to the injury
of honest industry and regular business
Our Government lat least was not got up
with any such fraudulent design, and the
Constitution confers no such power, dan
gerous power, on Congress.
Year: 1876

THE day of the Maine election the N.
Y. Times favored the world with sundry
editorial chunks of wisdom, among them
the following:


We may as we'll say here that what
ever the result in Maine, we shall not at
tach the importance to it that the poll
ticians were formerly used to do.
Year: 1876

ty and kept here. The radical journals
would like to extricate their sweet can
didate for the Presidency from his folly,
by saddling it elsewhere. Would they
not like to relieve him also from those
false assessor returns?
Year: 1876

Oar subscription list is UNDER
going a revision. Therefore those
who are in arrears for subscription
must not be surprised if we fud it
necessary to erase their names
from our list.
Year: 1876

The chronicle FROM this town this week ia n
dull one, nothing of very particular interest
having occurred Or being likely to occur for
Some time to come. In the picnic line alone
does there seem to have been any departure


from the established custom Of summer inactiv-
TT. Thursday afternoon was enlvcrrd hv a
Year: 1876

We would all like to be wealthy


yet the man born TO fortune is not
so happy as the man who has the
ability to make one. Unless filled
by some absorbing pursuit, life is a
blank. Any profession which re-
wards man for exerting his facul-


ties to the utmost is, in the long run


a source Of the greatest pleasure in
life.--Wealth alone does not bring
happiness. ss.--Johnsou once obseved
otter looking Mt tho house Of a very
rich man, that all this wealth ouly
excluded one evil-poverty. Is The
remark may not be logically accurate
but ie points d substantial trust.
Downright want Of food and clothes,
actual physical suffering caused by
poverty, is an evil so great that no
other service which can be rendered
by wealth is equal TO that OF remov-
ing it. After q certain point of re-
lative comfort is, obtained, wealth
becomes o burden. Every dollar
added to ones income gives less


pleasure than the preceding dollar,
for tho simple reason that we nat
urally spend our income on satisfy
ing ur most pressing wants. AS
one by one we have stopped up eve.
ry avenue through which discomfort
approaches, we have to tax our inge-
nuity to discover new modes Of posi-.
tive qualification. As the human
faculties are limited this becomes
difficult or even impossible, except
at the price of making ourselves
slaves to our wealth. ...


OF course, il a man chooses to
muddle away fortune in aims giving
or gambling, there is no income Of
which he may not disbmden him
self. We are simply inquiring how
much he can judiciously speud upon
his own comfort. The list of physi.
col pleasures is very soon exhausted
A man has but ono palate and but
one pair of hands. Even if he wore
a new coat every day he would soon
find that an old coat is far more
comfortable aud the most sliillful
cooks will admit that dishes only
become very expensive by being out
Of season or by useless extravaganza.
A house of moderate size is as com
Portable as palace; aud u few
thousands year will provide the
best dwellings, in good situations


When q man has as good house as
he cares to inhabit, as good wines,
meats and cigars rs he cares to con-
sume, as many books as he can road
and as many pictures rs he can en-
joy, as much hunting or fishing or
travelling as he can fnd time for
and can see his friends rs often and
in as much comfort ms he chooses, he
has all the happiness that wealth
can give him even though he be the
owner of millions. -.'ib.f.'.i
Year: 1876

could be found to live there.


The bats and owls tcnanted It's
deserted chambers for a couple Of
years, and then bolt OF lightning
descended upon il and turned Us nm.
holy presence from tho face of the
earth, no one lifting a hand to save


And this is Tho story of the Black
Wolf Inn as IL was told to mo.
Year: 1876

ATcHIsoN, Ks, April 2S.-There has
been no definite development concerning
the burglary of the City Clerks office.
Discrepancy in the books, If any exist,
is also still unknown. Search warrants
were issued yesterday and the residence
of the late City Clerk thoroughly search
ed without finding any clue to the miss.
ing documents. The statement furnished
BY him to the Mayor to be used in
his annual message shows clear bal


ance in all accounts and he claims they
tally with the books. There can be no
doubt but that the same extraordinary
motive was at the bottom of the affair.
Year: 1876

OUR REGISTER friends at Wheeling
are deserving of much credit for their
enterprise in getting their daily out each
morning on time for the mails east on
the early train. Now if the Intelligent
Ger folks could get up as early, and be
eQuslly enterprisIng, we at least would
be happy. The latter paper reaches here
M four clock p. M.-Grafton Sentinel.
Year: 1876

HARRISBURG, Pa, April 2S.-By q
vote of lis to SIS tho boom bill was sent
back to the Senate this morning. II hav-
ing been returned by that body TO the
House when charges of corruption we're
made
Year: 1876

1t is reported that Dom Pedro will
start east direct tomorrow. instead Of
visiting the Virginia City mines. as was
originally intended, but it is difficult to
prophesy his movements, as he keeps his
own counsel very closely, his own suit
being often in ignorance Of his intentions
Year: 1876

Don't stop to tell stories in busi-
ness hours.


If you have q place of business be
found there when wanted.


No man can get rich by sitting
around stores and saloons.


Never '' fool" in business matters.


Have order, system, regularity,
and also promptness.


Do not meddle with business you
know nothing of.


Do not kick every one in your
path.


More miles can be made in day
by going steadily than by stopping.


Pay as you go.


A man of honor respects his word
as he does his bond.


Help others when you can, but
never give what you cannot afford to,
symply because it is fashionable.


Learn to say No. No necessity of
swapping it out dog-fashion, but say
it firmly and respectfully.


Use your own brains rather than
those Of others.


Learn to think and act for your
self.


Keep ahead rather than behind
the times. 81


Young men, cut this out, and If
there be any fallacy in the argument
let us know.
Year: 1876




i do not know if other persons
who raise poultry and pet birds are
as much dependent as I am on red
pepper; but [ have found so much
benefit from its use in my poultry
yards and bird cages that it may not
be amiss to call the attention of 9TH
ers to its good properties. lido not
speak of the article that is sold in
the drug stores-and sometimes not
remarkably fresh-but of the capsi-
cum that grows in our gardens. /
have tried all the different varieties,
and the most pungent and efficacious
is the small kind mostly known by
the name of "bird's pepper" The
plant in itself is a beautiful object
grows about two feet high, and in
autumn its bright little scarlet ber-
ries look like coral beads peeping
from under the dark-green foliage.
Indeed, one plant in a pot is very
pretty ornament for a flower stand.
The seed possesses a stimulating and
reviving property, and | find that
two or three given to newly-hatched
chickens, especially if they are weak
ly, have a most happy effect. IF a
hen looks feeble after moulting, six
of these berries Or pods. given daily
in some corn meal and sweet milk,
improves her wonderfully. Every
day | give them each one seed of the
birds pepper" and in less than q
week they were quite we'll The
same remedy is invaluable for mock
ing birds.
Year: 1876

Judge Taft, the Attorney Gener-
al, denies that he has any intention
to resign. He says that the dis
placement of the prosecutors of the
whisky ring is with his concurrence.
Judge Taft has been going on from
bad to worse. When he accepted
the Seeretaryship of War, vice Bel
KNAPP, resigned, he made speech to
the Cincinnati Board of Trade in
which he stated that he did not
claim to be more honest than other
people. He has stood up to that
statement nobly. While Secretary
of War he never took one step to
bring Babcock to trial before court
martial, but suffered that noble pro-
moter to the safe burglary to bear
without reproach the United States
commission as an officer and and
gentlemen. After he became At
torney General he suffered Grant to
displace his efficient subordinates.
and thus identify the Departments
of Justice with the great policy of
encouraging crime, and Furnishing
honest and efficient officers. He
has made sure of Babcock's acquit-
tai by q packed jury. He is not one
of the stamp of Bristow and Jewell.
He is true Centennial. Grant-ador-
ing, Hayes supporting reformer.
Year: 1876

Great preparations were made at
q house on Madison avenue for the
marriage of a young lady who had
been wooed and won by the son of a
prominent insurance agent in this
city. The Rev. DIR. Reeves, who was
absent in Schenectady, was sent for,
and he, engaging another preacher
to fill his place. hurried back to AL
bany to pronounce the solemn words
which were to make the twain one
flesh. Tile bride was arrayed for the
ceremony; the guests assembled,
but the bridegroom came not. The
hour was postponed, and the irate
father of the bride, hat in hand,
started out to find the whereabouts
of his prospective son-in-law. His
stay was short one, but the tidinos
he brought were indeed startling to
the happy company. On going to
the home of the young man it was
found that he had suddenly departed
for California, leaving no word be-
hind. At the news OF this desertion
the bride sank fainting on the floor,
while her mother went into fits. The
company at once dispersed to gossip
over the untoward ending of the af-
fair, and to speculate as to the cause
of the bridegroom departure. It
is said that sometime ago, on pre-
tense of changing the ring which he
gave her, he took it away and never
returned it. The young lady is quite
i'll from the mental distress.
Year: 1876

Paris Correspondence of the Philadelphia Tele-


graph.


A few days ago an English wo-
man named Tompkins, who kept a
shop at Pera, summoned from Eng
land to aid her in her business
young niece who proved to be ex
tremely pretty and no less intelli-
gent. Soon after her arrival she
took into her head to study Turkish,
representing to her aunt that such
knowledge would be of great advan-
tage to their trade, as the Turkish
language would naturally prefer to
make their purchases where they
could be understood without the aid
of an interpreter. As the young
girl was at once clever. ambitious
and industrious. she soon succeeded
in acquiring the language, and num-
bers of the female members of the
noblest Turkish families came to the
English shop. One day the pretty
niece went to the harem of Prince
Murad to take home some articles
ordered by his principal wife. She
never returned, and when her aunt
sent in search of her she received
a cool message of farewell from the
young lady Eerself, who had become
the fourth wife of the heir TO the
throne, who is the present Sultan
Year: 1876

Mr.. J. P. Campbell of Florence,
N. J.. has in his possession the grape
shot with which Lafayette was
wounded at the battle Of Brandy
wine. Tt has been in his possession
over o half q century. and was CIV
en- to him by his aunt, who picked it
up after it had struck the Marquis
and been stopped by a wall. The
heroine was on that day carrying
ammunition in her apron. and when
the gallant Frenchman was wounded
she tore off her clothing to stanch
the blood and bind up the wound.
On the visit of the Marquis to this
country several years later he
sought her out. The bali Is cast
iron globe. about i inches in diam
eter. and has been religiously pre-
served.
Year: 1876

The culinary art forms a part of
the education of the women in Ger
many. The well-to-do tradesman,
like the mechanic. takes pride in see
ing his daughters good housekeepers.
To effect this object. the girl on leav-
ing school, which she does when
about fourteen years of age. goes
tion, and then is placed by her par
ents with a country gentleman or in
large family, where she remains
one or two years filling may also be
termed the post of servant or doing
the work of one. This is looked up
on as an apprenticeship to domestic
economy. She differs from a SER
want girl, however, in that she re-
ceives no wages on the contrary,
her parents often pay for the care
taken of her, as well as her clothing.
This is the first step in her educa-
tion as housekeeper. She next pass
es, on the same conditions. into the
kitchen Of rich private family, or
into that Of hotel of good repute.
Here she has control of the expen-
ditures of the servants employed in
it, and assists personally in the cook
ing, but is always ADDRESSED as Miss,
and is treated by the family with
Difference and consideration. Many
daughters of rich families receive
similar training, with this difference.
however. that they receive it in q
princely or royal residence. There
is a reigning queen in Germany at
the present time who was trained
in this way. Consequently the Wo-
men in Germany are perfect models
of economy.
Year: 1876

When Bainbridge sat to Jarvis,
the old weatherbeaten seaman in
variably fell asleep. This annoyed
Jarvis, and for the first time in his
life he found his wit and humor
were Of no avail in rousing his sit
ter to proper wakefulness; where
upon, when Jarvis reached that
point in the execution of his paint
ing that the expression was to be
caught, he commenced a TRADE
against the navy, questioned the
heroism of its officers and men,
and kept up his banter until Balm
bridges eyes flashed as they were
won't on the quarter deck. Jarvis
talked on, and rapidly painted,
until the old commodore started
from his chair, and, approaching
Jarvis, shook his fist in his face,
and thundered out he would moi
"allowa face-maker to speak against
his profession.' Another instant
and personal assault might have
ensued, when Jarvis sprung aside,
burst into a hearty laugh, and told
the commodore he had to wake him
up somehow, else the picture would
have no more expression than q
gunner's swab. His head Of Bain'
bridge is one Of the best pictures
JARVIS ever painted.
Year: 1876

make their purchases then, and a
popular belief prevailing that the
fair is the place to get things good
and cheap. l have, however, heard
quite a different statement made by
persons who have had opportuni-
ties of forming a correct opinion.
They say, "Neyer buy anything in
the fair; you will get what you want
just as cheap in the shops, and by
buying there run a far less chance
of being imposed on" AS far as
/ can Judge, the fair goods are gen.
orally inferior. In the winter fair,
with the cold such as l have de-
scribed it, it can be no pleasant way
of dealing to stand for many hours
in wretched booth with one side
open. And if it be miserable by
day, what must it be by night,
when, of course, some one has to
remain with the wares! Yet the
fair seems to be a time of general
hilarity. Every one is in good hui
NOR, and nobody looks at all dis
tressed by the weather. You see
groups of people, with the snow all
around them, boiling coffee in the
open air and taking their refresh
ment as leisurely as if they were in
a comfortable room. None OF u'
know what we may be broken tC
until the experiments is tried. Not


withstanding that railways now ex.
tend all over Germany, purchasers
frequent the great Leipzig fairs al
much as ever they did, as far as
can understand. But gatherings o


this kind are anachronisms, an(
these must become obsolete befor,
long, A great deal Of the Simpli
city and honesty Of the German


will probably become obsolete a


the same time, more's the pity; bu


l think we know pretty well by thi


time that the progress abou


which we are fond of talking is b.
no means an uncheckered benefit
Year: 1876

him he wanted to sober up, after a
two-days' spree. He knew of no
better way than to teach himself a
solemn lesson Of mortality. He
hired hearse, and a coffin that
would fit him, and a driver and a
carriage for some picked-up mourn
ers. He paid for these accommo-
dations, put the coffin in the hearse,
piled in the mourners and crawled
into the open coffin and gave the
driver directions for the line of
march. The procession started one
evening just at the time when peo-
pie most like to promenade. The
funeral train was obliged to stop
for large crowd of people who
were going to a festival. They re-
marked upon the strange occurrence
of a funeral so late in the evening.
The Englishman saw fine oppor-
tunity to make a sensation, rolled
over his coffin and thrust his boot
heel through one of the oval glass
sides of the hearse, at the same
time calling loudly to the driver to
explain why this funeral had been
thus rudely stopped on the high
way. The crash of the glass, the
appearance of a corpse breaking
out of its coffin, and the vocal
communication of Death with the
driver caused a wide stampede of
the festival patrons, many of whom
ran home, spreading alarm as they
went. Then Henry Arnold Green,
sitting bolt upright in the hearse,
enjoying the terror he had created,
and ordered the driver to return to
the place whence he came, and at a


rafting pace, too. The wild Eng


lishman paid his bill, regarded the


exploit as one of the best jokes Of


his life, and was completely sobered


up, ready to utilize the next gay


aud airy whim that might SEIZE
| him.
Year: 1876

Leavenworth City is pestered
with an eccentric Englishman. His
name is Henry Arnold Green, but
he is better known about town as
the "wild Englishman." Exactly
where he came from nobody knows;
why he struck Leavenworth and


stuck, nobody has inquired; and
what his eccentricities are practiced
upon the town for, nobody can i'm
agine. A few hangers-on found
out that the wild Englishman re-


ceiyed a large amount of money


quarterly from some unknown
source, and they thought he must
be rich and worth cultivating for
good.fellowship. The wild Eng
lishman does not seem TO be vicious,
but he has caused some unfortun-
ate accidents to happen to other
people. He is a practical joker,
full of English humor, but some Of
his jokes have turned out seriously.
He went down to Kansas City one
day on self-jollification, and in a
jocose way shot a man. He had to
pay the man a large sum to put
him in as good running condition
as he was before the accidental
shot, but he got off with a short
imprisonment and the above-men-
toned money consideration. He
next came into prominent public
notice by indisoriminate pistol prac-
tice in a house of no doubtful char
acter, where some of his friends
lived. Then the police department
took hold of him, and he paid some
heavy fines, like a man. He dis


plays an insane disposition to do al
sorts Of extraordinary and outland
ish things, and is perfectly willing
to pay whatever they cost. Green
last exploit was his queerest. H,
went to an undertaken and tol,