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Year: 1871

Never despise or oppose what you
do not understand.


The truths Of the gospel gre too in
portaht to be dallied with, too certain
to be discredited.
Without some aptitude for an art or
science, little progress will be made
under the best efforts:


1t is necessary that society should
always keep in action its two great
conservative principles, intelligence
and virtue.


Every element of man admits Of,
and requires cultivation, physical,
moral and intellectual.


People, said a modern philosopher,
90 according to their brains if it be
in their head they study, if in their
stomach they eat, if in their heels they
dance.


Heart strings of q woman, like the
tendrils Of q vine, are always reaching
out for something to cling to.


Many people drop tear at the
sight of distress, who would do better
to drop dime.


Certainly evils cheerfully met, are
half overcome,


The history Of mankind furnishes
abundant proof that the road of hu
man progress is paved with tolls and
trodacn down aspirations Of generation
after generation.


In what numberle:s 3 instances have
beauty, wit and eloquence proved to
those who possessed them, no other
than shining snarcs. Solutions to
vice, instigators to folly, and in the
end sources Of misery.


More hearts pine away in secret all
guish for the want Of kindness from
those who should be their comforters,
than for any other calamity in life.


10 sneer and denounce is very
easy way Of assuming a great deal Of
wisdom and concealing great deal Of
Ignorance.


1t is our duty not only to scatter
benefits, but even to strew flowers for
the sake of our tellow-travellers in the
pathway of this rugged world.


We may as we'll attempt to bring
pleasure out Of pain, as to unite indul-
gencc in sin with the enjoyment of
happiness.


Man wants to be made of something
that will stand storms as we'll as sun
shine, that he may live in joy and
sorrow.
Year: 1871

Farmers are again complaining Of
dry weather. Corn is beginning to
burn little The gardens in this vi
cinity are needing rain very badly
From the best information we can get
we think the cotton crop is doing we'll.
Year: 1871




Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma,


and Consumption.


Probably never before in the whole history OF
medicine, has any thing won so widely and so
deeply upon the confidence of mankind, as this
excellent remedy for pulmonary complaints.
Through long series of years, and among most
Of the races of men it has risen higher and higher
in their estimation as it has become better known.
Its uniform character and power to cure the va
rious affections of the lungs and throat, have
made it known as reliable protector against
them. While adapted to milder forms of disease
and to young children, it is at the same time the
most cfectual remedy that can be given for lnclp-
lent consumption, and the dangerous affections
of the throat and lungs. As provision against
sudden attacks of Group, 1t should pc kept on
hand in every family, and indeed as all are some
times subject to colds and coughs, all shoud pe
provided with this antidote for them
curable, Still great numbers of cases where the
disease seemed settled, have been completely
cured, and the patient restored to sound heaith
by the CHERRY Pect0rat. SO complete Is Its
mastery over the disorders of the Lungs and
Throat that the most obstinate of them yield to 1t.
When nothing else could reach them, under the
Cherry Pectoral they subside and disappear.


Singers and Public Speakers lind great
protection from it.


Asthma is always relieved and often wholly
cured by it.


Bronchitis is generally cured by taking the
Cherry Pect0rot in small and frequent doses.
So generally are its virtues known, that we
need not publish the certificates of them here, or
do more than assure the public that its qualities
are fully maintained.
Year: 1871

One day toward the close of last Sep
tember, an old man raped at my office
door, and on invitation came in, and,
advancing, called me by name. Per
ceiving that did not at first recognize
him, he introduced himself as Gregory
Summerfield. After inviting him to a
seatI scrUtinized his features more close
Iy, and quickly identified him as the
same person whom 1 had met twenty
two years before. He was greatly al
tered in appearance, but there was the
old charm of intellectual superiority in
his conversation, and welcomed him
to California as an important addition
to her mental wealth.


1t was not many minutes before he
requested private interview. He fol-
lowed me into my back office, carefully
closed the door after him and locked it.
We had scarcely seated ourselves be
fore he inquired of me 'if had noticed
any recent articles in the newspapers
respecting the discovery of the art of
decomposing water so as to fit it for use
as a fuel for ordinary purpOses%


Ireplied that had observed nothing
new upon that subject since the expert
ments of Agassiz and Professor Henry,
and added that in my opinion the ex-
peBsive mode Of reduction would always
prevent its use.


In few words he then inf Ormed me
that ne had made the discovery that the
art was extremely simple, and the ex-
pense attending the decomposition so
slight as to be insignificant.


Presuming that the object of his visit
to me was TO procure the necessary
forms to get out patent for the right,
1 congratulated him upon his good for
tune, and was about to branch forth
with a description of some of the great
benefits that must ensue to the cOmmu-
nifty, when he suddenly and somewhat
unciviIIy requested me to 'be SILENT
and listen TO what he had to say.


He began with some general remarks
about the inequality of fortune amongst
mankind, and instanced himself as a
striking example of the fate of those
men who, according to all the rules of
right, ought to be near the top, instead
of at the foot of the ladder of fortune.
But said he, springing to his feet with
impulsive energy, 4 have now the
means at my command of rising supe-

Tior to fate, or of inhicting inealcuable
ills upon the whole human race


Looking at him more closely, l
thought 1 could detect in his eye the
gleam of madness; but I remained 81
lent aud awaited further developments.
But my scrutiny, stolen as it was, had
been detected, and he replied at once to
the expression Of my face:


No sir; 1 am neither drunk nor a
maniaci am in deep earnest in all that
] say; and am fully prepared, by act
Ual experiment, to demonstrate beyond
all doubt the truth of all 1 claim.'


For the first time / noticed that he
carried a sDall pOrtmanteau in his
hand; this he PLACED upon the table, un-
locked it, and took out two or three
small volumes, pamphlet or two, and
Year: 1871

A. time speeds on with RELENTLESS wing
Heis bringing change tn all;
The daises peep from the lap Of spring.
And oak leaves fade and fall.
The new grows old and the old departs,
And the years their cycles hII-
The friend that is new may be kind and true
But give me the old friend still


born,
The fiiend that loved when the spring was
That was true when a summer died. [how
That was still unchanged through the ebb and
OfHfe's unstable tide.
The flower that blooms in the suns warm ray
May fade when the night is chill;
The friend that is new may be kind and true,
But give me the old friend stilE
All. give me clasp OF the same warm hand
That felt in the days Of yore;
And give me the heart that time has proved,
It's truth to the utmost core.
For years speeds on and friends are few,
Who the void i'm the heart can hHi
The friend that is new may be kind and true,
But give me the old friend still.


Anonymous.
Year: 1871

Court has been affirmed by Chief Justice
Chase, all of the Justices concurring in the
decision. The amount involved in these
cases is between fifty and seventy-fve
thousand dollars, the payment of which
will reduce the State tax to correspond
ing amount for the ensuing wear.
Year: 1871

The Cleavland Leader thinks that
Republicans who are dissatisfied with
General Grants administration may
be justified in advocating the nomi-
nation Of some other man, but the
political leaders who intimate that
they will bolt tho ticket if Grant is
nominated are "Republioans who
merit the contempt OF the party
which they threaten 20 distract and
seek to destroy" The Leader is
right l-Muscatine Journal
Year: 1871

TUT INV lelcRtapN.
Mr.. Editor.


am well aware Of the fact that "greal
bodies move slowly" therefore, like Mcawber,
| have patiently waited for something TO
turn up" or rather for something to be turned
out from our Village Fathers grave council
Chamber in the shape of an Ordinance. / did
think the severe logic of recent events would
show them the necessity of prompt vigorous
action in this matter. l refer to the passing
of an ordinance that shall prohibit the sweep.
lug of papers into the street, as the habit of
some is. There is certainly not more pro-
life cause Of runaways and accidents, than
these loose flying bits Of paper. Few horses
will stand quietly when these are whirled to-
ward or about them and it is an almost daily
occurrence to see horses thus frightened
Some say they sweep all papers out of the
rear door. But that does not improve the
matter much, if any, for most of these arc
soon carried by the wind through lanes and
alleys into the main streets. And from this
same cause it is quite as unsafe to hitch a
team in a vacant lot in the rear of a store-in
one sense ii is more unsafe, for if n team gets
thClC Is HO one near 10 prevent a
runaway.


Now it is but right and proper that our
country patrons should be assured of safety
for their teams when hitched in front OF our
stores, whilst they are transacting business
with us. With all due respect TO the wisdom
of the Council, think it is high time that
this nu stnce should be abated by compelling
all persons either to burn or else to put in a
safe plnce all bits of paper, etc. If they longer
fail to pass such an ordinance, then | sincerely
hope that hereafter every sufferer will, in
court, compel the authorities to pay for all
damages resulting from this cause


AN ounce of prevention is worth pound
OF cure" II is neither wise nor eXpedicnt to
wait until some terrible accident causing
death or manning for life, shall arouse and
compel them to do their duty to the public in
this particular. JUSTICE
Year: 1871

Can you afford TO work hard all day,
and tead, study, or court the vagares of
society nearly all night, thus wasting
your vitality, exhausting your nervous
system, and bringing on Premature dis
ease, decay, and old age


Can you afford to read fine print with
a poor light in rail car, where tho mo-
tion disturbs the proper focus of vision,
thus weakening your eyes so as to near
ly deprive you OF the power to use them
either i'll reading Or in the daily duties of
OF life and be obliged to wear glasses
ten or fifteen years sooner than YOU
otherwise would; can you afford thus
to spoil your eyes to save little time


Can yon afford to eat hastily, and thea
rush to business, Withdrawing the
nervous energy from the digestive svs-
tenn TO the brain and muscles, and thus
inducing dyspepsia to SOURCE and haunt,
aud make You miserable tor years, or for
your life


Can you afford to live on rich and
highly seasoned TODD, eat late suppers,
rendering gout, dyspepsia, or apoplexy,
in the middle OF life, almost a certainty.


Can you afford to commit suicide
through the indulgence of appetite and
passion, adopting the FOOLS motto "a
snort lite and Il merry one"


Can you afford to keep your brain hot
in reading sensational rovels, thus I'M
balancing and rendering morbid your
mental and physical constitution


Can you afford to indulge in fast liv-
ing, dressing beyond your means, pay.
lug livery bills when your income is il-
adequate to such expenses?


Can you afford to smoke and chew to.
bacco, thus spending from five to ten
dollars month, injuring your nervous
system, and perrerting your whole con-
sttption, and thereby transmitting to
children a weakened constitution, thus
making them, puny invalids for lite2


Can you afford to burn out your nerv-
GUS system and demoralize your whole
character by the use OF alcoholic liquors


Can you afford to indulge in habits OF
speculation. gambling and other tricky
aud mean modes of making money?


Can you afford to make money at the
expense of your manhood, your morals,
your just respectability and your integ-
rity? .-.. ..


Can You afford to gain even the whole
void and thereby wreck morality and
hope.


Can you afford, for the sake OF mo-
mentary amusement, to waste the years
preparatory for the formation of man
hood, when by study you should become
scholar, or by industry, tradesman
or useful artisan $3.50


Can you afford to rob your mind te
clothe your back with silks and satin,
and crafty mere love of display


Can you afford to be tricky and de
fraud your employer and thus making
yourself moral bankrupt


Can you afford to be otherwise thar
upright, truthful, faithful, temperate
courteous, and in all respects correctp


Can one afford to have motto ad
verse to The old adage-Honesty is thu
best policyP


Reader, stop and consider whether
what you are doing, or what you propose
to do, will pay whether you can atfort
to do it. Time is money-do not throw
it away, but make every dsy--every
hour, tell either for your growth, healtl
or profit. PAre. Journal
Year: 1871




Editor Telegraph: E.F
suppose you are acquainted with the fact
that by the running away of my team on the
and inst.-whieh was caused by piece of pa
per-my family narrowly escaped terrible
accident; and by the wreCking of my carriage
and the wheel of another wagon in the street,
and breaking Of harnesses, l shall be out of
pocket about $26. l ought TO compel the
village to pay for it. Merchants have been
cautioned again and again in the matter of
throwing paper in the street, but il does not
haye any effect. l am a sufferer from this
cause, yet youwi see have written itlas if
it came from one of your village merchants or
buiness men. for do not wish to draw upon
myself any notonety or censure for slapping
your sluggish village council


Yours, Il. L. TRAyER
Year: 1871

Oh, Savior, whom this holy mora
Gave to our world below
To- mortal want and labor born,
And more than mortal woe
lncarnate Word by every grief
BY each temptation tried,
Who lived To yield our ills relief,
And to redeem US, died
If gaily clothed and proudly fed,
In dangerous wealth we dwell,
Remind us OF thy manger bed,


And lowly cottage cell!
Ifpress'd by poverty severe &.
In cnvious want we pine,
Oh may thy spirit whisper near,
How poor lot was thine
Through tickle fortunes various scene
From sin pitserv us free
Like us thou asst mOurner been,
May we rejoice with Thee
Year: 1871

Here is beautiful instance Of coniu-
gal affection. A married lady down in
the land of steady habits, recently fell
into river, and would have been drown.
ed, except that her cries attracted the
attention of her husband, who mistaking
her in the dark tor some other woman,
worked like beaver to get her out.
Year: 1871

An UNPLEASANT SHAvE-A work
man at Colts armory who has Tor had)
a very long beard, flowing down upon
his breast, was the other day ut work
upon small lathe revolving rapidly.
He said he "felt something tickling his
beard, ," and looking down, saw some of
the longest hairs touching the lathe.
Quick as a flash, before he had time 10
think of his danger, the longest hair of
bis beard caught in the lathe aud wound
him up; the next he knew the lathe was
nearly turning out the inside of his nose,
cutting ont The cartilage that separates
the nostrils; then, with mighty effort,
he strengthened up, saving himself from
further operations on the lathe by pull.
ing out handful of beard a foot long
and as large round as his wrist-which
will be handy for his wife to use as a
Switch" His injuries are painful, but
not dangerous.-Haryord Coaast
Year: 1871

The present running-into-the ground
of the publication of cards-oi,thanks to
people for doing their simple and
bounden duty is well illustrated in this:


The prisoners in the Carlo Jail held
mass meeting few nights since, 'Lame
Jal" In the cnair, to thank the city for
new stove. One of the prisoners said
Il nave seen many stoves in my life, and
have had the honor OF occupying cells
in jail in which stoves of more than or
dinary pretentions dispelled the cold
but the stove now in our presence, the
genial heat from which feels so very
grateful to US, is d-n sight the best
stove that has, so far, come within the
scope of my observation. I would,
therefore, move that in the sense of this
meeting the city authorities of Cairo are
bricks, and deserve our heartfelt thanks
Year: 1871


Old farmer Smith came home in milf
From his field the other day,
While his sweet little wife, the pride of his life,
At her wheel was spinning away.
And ever and anon, gay little song
with the buzz of her wheel kept time,
And the wrathful brow is clearing now,
Under the cheerful rhyme.
"come, come, little Turk put away your work,
And listen to what say;
What can do but quarrel brew
With tho man across the wayi
I've built my fence, but he won't commence
To lay single rail; -'
His cattle get in, and tho feed gets thin.
am tempted to make a sale p'
''why, John, dear John, how you do go on
I'm afraid il will be as they say"
"No, no, little wife, have found that strife
In a lawyers hands don't pay.
He's picked flaw, to drive me to law.
have heard that he said he would;
And you know, long ago, law wronged me 50,
vowed never should.
So what can do, that will not rue,
To the man across the wayl''
"If that's what you want,I can help you haunt
The man with a spectre gray
Thirty dollars will do to carry you through
And then you have gained neigbbor;
1t will cost you more to peep in the door
OF n court, and much more labor.
Just use your good sence-lcts build him fence
And shame such thoughts out Of the fellow,
They built up his part, anl sent to his heart
loves dart where the good lay mellow.
That very same night, by candle light,
- Thoy opened, with interest a letter;
Not word was there, but three greenbacks fail
Said the man was growing better.
Year: 1871

by a concussion so violent that l was
instantly deprived of all senses and
notion I


The traveller paused. His features
worked for a minute or two as they
did when we were on the mountain
he passed his hands across his forehead
as if in pain, and then resumed his
thrilling narrative. s


'On a low couch in an humble room
of small country house, next open
ed my eyes in this world of light and
shade, joy and sorrow, mirth and sad
ness. Gentle hands soothed my pill
low, gentle feet glided across my cham
Der, and 4 gentle voice for a time hush
cd all my questionings. ! was kindly
tended by fair young girl of about
sixteen, who refused for time to hold
any discourse with me. At length,
one morning, finding myself sufficient
ly recovered to sit up, l insisted on
knowing the result of the accident


You were discovered sitting on a
ledge Of rocks, amidst the branches of
shattered tree, clinging to the roof
of your broken coach with one hand,
and the insensible form Of a lady with
the other


and the lady ? | gasped, scanning
the girls face with an earnestness that
made her draw back and blush
She was saved, sir, by the means
that saved you-a friendly tree


And her father and brother? I'M
patiently demanded


We found them both crushed tt
death at the bottom of the prccipice
and we buried them in one grave b,
the clover patch down in our meadow.


Poor Louisa poor orphan! Goo
pity you l muttered in broken tones
utterly unconscious that | had lis
tener.'


God pity her, indeed, sir said she
with gush of heartfelt sympathy
Would you like to see her.? she ad
ded.


Il found her in tears for her kindred
and she received me with sorrowfu
sweetness of manner. | need not de
tain you by describing the efforts
made to soothe her grief, but brief,
acquaint you that at last l succeeded
and twelve months after the dteadfu
occurrence which [ have related, W
stood at the alter as man and wife
She still lives to bless me with he
smiles, but on the anniversary of tha
terrible night she secludes herself i
her room, and devotes the hours G
darkness to solitary prayer.


AS for me, added the traveller
while a faint blush tinged his nobl
brow, 'as for me, that accident has re
duced me to the condition of phys
cal coward at the sight of mountai
precipice.' -
But the driver, asked the lad
passenger, who had listened to the ste
ry with much attention, what bccam
of the driver, and did you ever lear
the reason of his deserting his post?'


His body was found on the roat
within a few steps of the place wher
the coach went over. He had bee
struck dead by the same streak c
lightning that blinded the restiv
horses g..
Year: 1871




T'REASURERS NOrICE.-NOtce is hereby
given that the undersigned, Treasurer Of the
city of Alpena, leceivcd the tax roll for General,
City and lIiglsWay Taxes for the year 1SIx on-ihs
Saland- d-Auntay-st+-Jt.|s, and the same will be re-
tanned by him for forty days thereafter; that dur
ing the first twenty days of said forty days, said
Treasurer will receive all taxes assessed thereon
without the addition Of any commission or percent
age for collections; that during the rcmaiging twen-
" days of said forty days. persons paying taxes
will be charged one per cent. additional on their
assessments; and that after the expiration of said
forty days, said roll will be returned to the Comp
troler of said city, who will cause TO be made out
copy Of so much Of said Assessment Roll as shall
then remain due and unpaid, adding thereon such
percentage as shall have been fixed by the Common
Council for the collection of such taxes or assess
ments not exceeding four per cent. Aud that with
in ten days thereafter the said Treasurer will receive
said last mention ed roll and proceed to collect and
receive the taxes thereon assessed up to the last
Saturday of October next.


Notice is further given, that the said Treasurer
is not required by law to call upon the persons
sessed such roll, demand the payment of such
taxes.


0llioeat A. Hoppcr's-


A. T.. POWER.
Year: 1871

MCGLYNN DEFEATsD.-There is no
room to doubt that Johu a. McGlyun,
Republican candidate for Harbor Commis-


sioner ha, been defeated, notwithstanding
Booths majority in the State will range
between five and SIX thousand The Bee,
commenting on the fact, says that Rosen-
fields friends in San Francisco worked for
him alone, trading the whole Democratic
ticket for vote for Rosen6eld Doubtless
another reason can be found in the fact
that many of the German voters of San
Francisco who voted our ticket for the
hrst time this year, supported RosenGeld
in preference to the Republican nominee


The vote 10 San Francisco would indicate
such to be the case McGlynn is one who
is every way worthy of any honor the
Republicans Of this State might choose to
award him, and has beeD an earnest and
reliable Republican for many years. We
regret that any man On the ticket should
he defeated-more especially that his de.
feat should be owing to his natl uaiity. OF
that OF his eDacratic opponent II there
is any claim which our party should have
upon all classes Of our citizens, 1t lies IN
the fact that our fundamental principles
ach us to recognize merit wherever
found, irrespective of creed or birth place