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Year: 1873

Fight your own battles. Hoe your own
row. Ask no favors of any one, and You
will succeed better than one who is al
ways beseeching some ones patronage


No one will ever help you as you help
yourself, because no one will be so
heartily interested in your affairs. The
first step will not be such long one per-
haps; but, carving your own way up the
mountain, You make each one lead to
another, and stand firm in that while
you chop still another out Men who
have made fortunes are not those who
had FIVE thousand dollars given them to
start with, but started fair with well
earned dollar or two. Men who have by
their own exertions acquired fame, have
not been thrust into popularity by puffs
begged or paid for, or given in friendly
spirit. They have outstretched their
hands and touched the public heart
Men who win love by their own wooing,
and never knew man to fail so sig
nally, as one who had induced his affec-
tionate grandmama to speak good word
for him. Whether you work for fame,
for love, for money, or for anything else,
work with your hands, heart and brain
Say Il will and some day you viii cor
quer. Never let any man have it to say,
{ have dragged you up. Too many
friends hurt a man more than none at
Greenwood. fs
Year: 1873

By the amendments to the Constitution
the nation pledged itself by the En-
forcement laws it provided the means, to
secure to the white and colored popula-
ton of the Southern States equal rights
and a general tranquility. To aid in the
effort to preserve the peace of the coun-
try and give freedom to the colered race
the Democratic leaders at the South had
plighted their honor, and promised obe-
dience to the law Many Of them have
kept their word; others have violated it.
And the recent accounts of horrible out
RACES inflicted in all parts of the South
ern States show that with the periured
and unscrupulous portion of the Democ-
racy neither humanity nor good faith is
any longer regarded. From Kentucky
Year: 1873

Thou shalt have no other wife but me,
nor shalt thou in thy sleep dream of
other women.


Thou shalt not take unto thy house
any beautiful, sly, brazen image of SER
want girl to make love to when my back
is turned, for l am a jealous wife.


Honor thy wife's father and mother
wear a smile when they meet thee.


Thou shalt not be behind thy neigh
Dor, but outshine him in dressing thy
wife and babies.


Thou shalt let thy wife have the last
word in every row.


Thou shalt not get drunk, or go to bed
with thy boots on,


Thou shalt not say nice words to other
ladies in my presence, nor praise them in
our privacy-remember, l am a Jealous
wife.


Thou shalt not stay out after nine
clock at night, nor snore at my side,
ncr kick in thy sleep.


Remember, oh, thou Benedict, these
commandments and Keep them holy, for
they are the law and gospel
Year: 1873

The exerceis of the elective franchise
and obeying the sheriff by acting as dep
uties under him in Grant Parish, Louisi-
ana. constitutes negro usurpatlon, accord
ing to the Liberal papers of the country.
The brutal and cowardly massacre in
Grant Parish of colored men by white
men was in obedience to the teachings
of such negro-hating journals as the New
York Tribune and other Liberal leaders
in the country. Enraged beyond self
control at the negro for preferring to
support the Republican party rather
than a party the strongest and most in
fluential element of which was composed
of enemies to the advancement of his
race the Liberal organs and leaders
throughout thescountry have been print
ing and declaiming against what they
falsely alleged to be the attempt of the
Republican party to make the negro su-
preme at the South. The New York
Tribune has correspondent in South Car
olina who through its s-columns attempts
to fire the people up to relentless ha-
tired of the colored people and to inspire
a war of races. This is Liberalism. The
argument of the murderers Of the negro
is that the negroes are ignorant and
must be subiugated. Every attempt of
the black man to gain knowledge and to
struggle. out of his degradation enkindles
a fame of hatred eliminating in the
most barbarous outrages. Men OF the So
called superior race for mere party gain
emulate the example of barbarism, and
with all the savagery of brutal and
ignorant whites perpetrate deeds that
sicken and appal enlightened Christen-
dom.


When it suits the purpose of the New
York Tribune to declare the negro as
hopelessly ignorant and degraded, it does
so, and when it attempts to make him
responsible for the blot on civilization in
Grant Parish, it AYERS that he has full
knowledge of the questions affecting the
legitimacy of the claims of the rival gov
ernments in the State of Louisiana. The
Tribune speaks of the negro III Grant Far
ish as follows.


as it not natural that an ignorant and
degraded people, like the negroes of
many of the remote parishes of Louisiana,
should infer from the recent transactions
at New Orleans and Washington, that
the purpose of the Federal Government
was to deliver the State into their hands
They cannot have forgotten that during
the campaign the Administration leaders
were careful to array them against the
white populatiou, to frighten them with
the prospect of revival of slavery if the
old slave-owners ever got into office, to
assure them that the cause of Grant and
the cause of the black man were identi-
cal, and that the reelection of the Presi-
dent would elevate the colored race to
place and power, and put their old mas
ters forever under their feet. They
kno,o that in the Move mber election the
black mans party created by these rep
resentations, was defeated at the polls.
They know that it was nevertheless i'm
mediately installed in power by military
force. They knOW that it is sustained by
the President IN defiance Of ta'0 and of the
remonstrances of some of his own warm
est friends. What is more natural than
Year: 1873

for them to assume that they might do
on a small scale what their leader Kel-
logg had done on large one?


Can a people, who have just such
knowledge as the Tribune tells US the ne
groes, have, be justly denounced as so ig-
norant as to deserve massacre and exter-
mination on the ground OF their hopeless
ignorance and degradation


How base is the attempt of the Tribune
to lead the people of the country into a
belief that the Republican party in the
late Presidential campaign in Louisiana
were careful to array the negroes against
the white population There is not a
particle of truth in the assertion. and
that claim cannot be used to justify the
wholesale slaughter of colored men at
Colfax. The four million negroes of the
South acted and voted in sympathy with
the white people of the North and with a
goodly number of the white people of the
South, they were thus arrayed on the
side of the white people of the country
and with the white people secured the
success of the Republican party. The
argument of the Tribune is simply justi-
fcation of political assassination, and be-
longs to an age of barbarism. The col
ored men in the court house at Colfax
were there as the sheriff S posse, and
were officers of the law under govern
ment held bv the Supreme Court of the
State to be the legal government; they
were there to execute the laws notwith-
standing who might be offenders against
them. Under the constitution and laws
of Louisiana black men are eligible for
just such positions as they were holding
at Colfax, and the fact that they were
acting in accordance with law, is suffi-
cient answer to the falsehood of Liberal
papers that they were attempting to ex-
terminate the white race. The truth is,
that the whole affair was inaugurated by
the Liberal McEneryites for political cap
ital; and, as the people of the South pri-
or to the rebellion, were led to believe
that the Democratic party of the North
would give them substantial aid and COM
fort in the event of their striking at the
life of the nation, so the McEneryites are
led to the belief that the countenance
and support of Northern Liberals will be
extended to them in their murderous
warfare against the negroes; and in this
belief they are strengthened by the New
York Tribune, and journals of less inf1u-
ence.
Year: 1873

The following anecdote has outlived
its early youth, but it still reads well
John Phoenix tells the story that he was
one day leaving San Francisco by the
steamer. Everybody else was taking
leave of friends-but he did not know a
soul in the crowd. Ashamed of his lone
illness, as the boat sheered off he called
out in a loud voice Goodbye, ColonelP'
and to his great delight, every man on
the wharf took off his hat and shouted,
Colonel, good-byeP
Year: 1873

it is that "drowing men catch at straws.h
We don't know that they do. We have
seen number of gentlemen drown, but
those of them who had any preference at
all, seemed to be prejudiced in favor of q
plank. We don't remember ever being
asked for o straw by a gentleman who
was drowning. and it is just as well, per-
haps, because we never carry one with us.
Year: 1873

BY relying on our own resources we
acquire mental strength but when we
lean on others for support, we are like an
invalid who, having accustomed himself
to crutch finds it difficult to walk
without one.
Year: 1873

A Little Rock editor is pathetic about
the loss of exchanges, and says that any
body may steal his wardrobe, eat his
luncheon, or take his empty pocEletbook,
if only his exchanges can be spared.
Year: 1873

world, should be OF The wisest and
most nourishing sort. II should be remembered
that the education Of life begins long before the
that. in many things, the individual career Is de-
termined absolutely by influences that are without
1t. Every mother knows that when her children
are as yet unable to speak single word they can
discern either gloom or giadness love or hate. in
her slightest glance. The tone OF voice and the
glance OF the eye are moulding them continually:
II she smiles the baby VIII laugh; II she looks sad
or cry II weeps; and yet how constantly ana care.
lessy, if parents have great troubles or are tired
and perplexed by many things they fall into
habit of complaining and set the whole music OF
the households daily life in the pensve minor
key. lt Is cause or general and great gfatulaLlOn
that the children are being


THOUGHT OF AND CARED FOR


more, and more wisely, In these last days the
fact is noticed by every one, so that the Oldest
among us are won't to eXclaim, half regretlully,
half complainingly 'It was not 40 when we were
young.o Thank God for mat, my aged friends. The
world Is indeed growing younger and, therefore,
better Tor except all be converted ana become as


little children we cannot enter into the Kingdom OF
heaven.n What blessed thing 10 Is for u.s. as wen
as for our chG rem, that once year, at least the
entire business OF the world, its politics and plea
rights acknowledged and its wants supplied, that
the purest ana most nnselnsh love when can be
known this side OF the grave may have the lree-
est possible expression given un,o II;


Christ unto the household to which they belong.
The lessons oil truth ana beauty and good that
come into the world through them are better and
more numerous tnan all the otner teachings which
with the birth OF the Holy Child We should assocl-
ate this Joy and gadness; that whatever we have
OF greatest value should be cheerfuly laid ut His
table, and that the truth should be recognized and
made the most OF at the same tlme that all life Is
holy, all love is sacricia and all Joy Is the rult or
Its disinterested service
Year: 1873

nrc Droke out nerc on Sabbath night ana whfI6
hundreds were arising and asking for prayerg
there was look Of amazement on the faces OF the
people and some aged Christians wondered what
The preacher also found the analogy between
the oaptisma In the fact that they were rresisris
PIE; MISUNDERSTANDING all their boasted machinery
ana organization for putting out fires the EFFORTS
that were made did not repulse the flames last De-
cember So it has been with the Holy Spirit moving
through the hearts OF this people. Why, there
have been aged men who for 40 or SO years had


RESISTED THE TRUTH
who had surrendered. There have been men here
who swore that the religion OF Christ should never
come into their households, who now kneel with
their children at the same altar Journalists have
tried to put out the spiritual fre, but have only
had their trouble for their pains. Ii has gone on
and Is going on now conquering pride and world
Illness and SIM and may 1t keep on until IL has
swept everything before it and there shall be ia
every household an altar and in every heart q
throne for the blessed Jesus. =


The analogy is further found in the fact that
both baptisms were melting. II you examined the
nace after the nre, you know what melting bro.
cess there had been. The things that seemed to
@ mo 70 the eaea other the
baptism. 1t has melted down our asperities 1t
has has destroyed all our. our grudges !. Heart
anything that our City CHURCHES need it s melt.
ing. There are 1000 icicles hanging to the eaves
OF our city churches where there are two cicles
hanging to the caves OF the country churches. We
are 80 AFRAID we win get acquainted with somebody
that won't do us honer


THE GRBAT WANT OF THE CHURCH
to-day Is q thaw. 0 that the Lord God would rise
up and melt down the freezing conventionaties OF
His Church. think that that fire OF last December
and TINS spiritual fire Of this December have melted
us until we now together IN Christian sympathy
and harmony and love, and that we can now join
hands IN one great family circle as church and
sing as we never sang before,


Blest be the tie that binds


Our hearts in Christian love;


The fellowship OF kindred minds


Is like to that above


In conclusion, Mr. Talmage reminded his people
that they had not as a church yet entered upon
the mission for which God had baptized them, first
with fire and now with the Holy Ghost. They
needed to put forth on more earnest mission
than they had ever entered upon. God did not
evidently intend them FOR smooth work. He had
rocked them In


VERY ROUGH CRADLE.


II there were any who expected to have q
smooth time and an easy pathway they had better
wake up from that deluson and get out or this
church. Ii God baptized them with fire 1t was
because He meant to fit them ior hot and tremen-
dous work and In order to center upon that work
they needed still more vigorous baptism. They
wanted the Holy Spirit to come down in all their
families with His arousing, melting, Illuminating,
saving presence.
Year: 1873

conscience, WISDOM ana truth. From this he
switched on to the modern man, who, he says,
cannot look into the future without regarding It
as better stage OF existence than the present and
as time and place Tor more happiness. From
these premises he deduced the fact that there was


NO NECESSITY OF M SPECIAL SAVIOUR SAVIOUR c,r,..
saviour @ nor or redeemer. II Christ had glanced
at the theology OF some OF our modern Churches
i would have been utterly .eta 70
depravity, predestination, the trinity and sncn
Ike theological absurdities. Men believed In GOD
ages before Cnrist's foot touched our planet Tne
doctrine OF Cod TO us modern men, was an idea tnat
the Judean youth could never have entertained. we
o9 az not .hs q tne se BIRTH OF
reformers Christ was one who would bring
people back from the letter OF religion 10 tne
gate the laws OF Mosesf Did He preach truth as
broad as the world 1t is doubtful. Christ was
lief Was He such reiermer as our modern world
needs You can nnd in all His language word
saa, gofs Il slavery " Whereas christ never
spoke word for It's abolition As to


THE GREAT wodAN QUESTION,


Christ never thought OF women otherwise than
IN their condition Of inieriority. He never said
word TO elevate the condition OF woman. AS TO
that other great question becoming more and
more vital every dey-tfe labor question-it never
occurred to Christ. What sympathies Jesus might
have had with our modern workmen. they did not
know. They could not celebrate the birth OF a re-
former. Why, then. was the birth or Jesus cele
brated Say because he is the type OF new man.
He Is not the ideal man, nor the perfect man,
for the ideal man is in the future aud The perfect
man is more unreal than dream. We celebrate
the birth OF typical man. Here Is One who, stand
ing on the threshold OF hs manhood, conscious OF
great Intellectual power, and yet he refuses to
make himself rich or famous. If Jesus We're living
to-day how long would He escape going TO the
madhouse2 How long would He escape being taken
mp as yagrantY How can we fancy HIM doing
business in Wall street OF being lawyer Last OF
all, how can We conceive Of


CHRIST As A FoLITICIAN7


His life would be shorter than in Jerusalem. Yet
Is 1t not lovely image Think OF society without
fraud or violence or policeman II all men were
Ike Jesus the learned professions would soon be
neglected. In conclusion he dilated upon the
ethics OF our present life, quoted the views OF
Strauss upon Christianity, pronounced Mendes-
sohn, Mozart, Handel and Beethoven as having
contributed something to make lie more sweet
and beautiful declared the New Testament to he
spendid dream, and wound up by proclaiming as
a most delightful vision the thought OF heaven as
future Kingdom and home.
Year: 1873

Es- Here is curious story Of the old
slavery times. from n western Carolina
newspaper. In the gold mining regi,us
Of Burke County lived an Industrious.
well-to-do free colorcd woman. named
Nancy Bcyce. She was engaged to mar
~ Jack. slave. and. in order to have
everything pleasant, she put her hand in
her pocket and bought him Of his master.
But she was shrewd enough to take bill
of sale for him, fortunately, as il happen
ed, for Jack turned out to be utterly worth.
less. and apcrfect sot But little need
was there for Nancy to 60 to the courts for
relief by divorce. She knew better way
than that She owned her man. and sho
simply sold him to slave dealer, who
carried him of to the far southwest. so
iha. the sharp Nancy was never bothered
by him again. Husbands have been bad :
ly sold before. though no. in this particu-
lar way.
Year: 1873

Man loves the mysterious. A cloud
less sky, the full-blown rose, leaves
him unmoved but the violet which
hides its blushing beauties behind the
bush and the moon, when she emerges
from behind cloud, are to him sources
of inspiration and pleasure. Modesty
is to merit, what shade is to figure in
painting-it gives its boldness and
prominence. Nothing adds more to
female beauty than modesty; it sheds
around the countenance halo OF light
which is borrowed from virtue. Botan-
lists have given the rosy hue which
tinges the cup of the rose the name OF
"maiden blush" This pure and deli
cate hue is the only paint that Chris
tian virtue should use it is the richest
ornament. A woman without modesty
is like faded flower, which diffuses
an unwholesome odor, and which the
prudent gardener will throw away from
him. Her destiny is melancholy, for
it ends in shame and repentance.
Beauty passes like the flower of the
aloe, which blooms and dies in few
hours, but modesty gives the female
character charms which supplies the
place Of the transitory freshness OF
youth,
Year: 1873

ANY one wishing to see all the stir
and hurry of a lively city eclipsea IN
the country should visit the farm OF
Mr.. George Wilkinson, in Goodhue
township. This we wefe pleased with
an opportunity to do on Monday. Mr..
Wilkinson's farm consists Of something
ofer 1,100 acres, 1000 Of which have
been in small grain this season, includ-
ing 800 acres of wheat. The lumber
of men employed was between sixty and
seventy, and at the time we were there
seven Wood reapers were following
each other around one of the two {" lit
tie pieces " of one hundred acres each
which remained to be cut. Forty men
were binding and shocking after these
seven machines. In another part OF
the field Champion reaper was finish
ing the cutting in that direction. On
Tuesday morning the stacking crews
were organized with twenty teams, and
not an hour needlessly lost between
reaping and stacking. They will stack
about 15O acres day, and nearly finish
this week. The planning Of the work
and the disposition of 80 many men re-
uuire no small amount of management
on the part of the owner of the farm.


The amount of wheat in shocks was q
sight to see stretching far away for
two miles was the heavy-headed wheat
piled in thickly standing shocks. Con-
siderable of this Mr.. Wilkinson thought
would yield 35 bushels to the acre. The
varieties grown are the Lowland Scotch,
Rio Grande, and Odessa, and the seed
raised on the new ground turned
over each year. Sowing this on old
land gives all the advantages OF q
change of seed. .


There is probably $4,000 worth Of
grain on the place. This will be brough ht
direct from the machine at the rate OF
car load a day, and shipped to Mil
waukee. It is remarkable to notice
how few weeds are to be seen on the
farm and mixed with the wheat.


The farm is not one Of the largest,
but one OF the best in the State. 1t is
gently rolling, and contains net more
than an acre that cannot be con-
veniently ploughed. The soil is excel
lent and the wheat heavy, even on the
higheet points. We noticed a number
of thrifty groves which had been left to
add beauty TO the place. Water is
plenty and good in various places. and
the farm is very fine one for either
grain or stock. Mr.. Wilkinson will
soon offer the farm for sale, and some
of our readers may be interested in
knowing the fact.-Goodhue RepubR-
Year: 1873

There are but few duties performed
by town or municipal authorities which
are more important than making and
keeping in repair the common high
ways. It is duty, we are sorry to say,
sadly neglected in many sections OF the
country; and in some localities tho mat
ter OF road making is regarded as OF no
importance whatever, and the working
out OF highway taxes, by the residents
CT the towns or districts. is simply a
farce and fraud. Every good citizen
should feel an interest in good roads,
as they contribute immensely to the
comfort of travelling, and save much in
the wear and tear Of carriages. 1t IS
true, we must not expect in the rural
districts the well-cared, for, solid roads
of suburban towns around cities but
there is no excuse for the rocky,
neglected paths which are often found,
and over which it is positively danger.
ous to travel. II towns would attend
to one point connected with their high.
ways, that is, carefully remove, once in
two weeks, during the summer, every
stone which is brought to the surface
by rains or drought, it would render
even bad roads very comfortable. These
loose stones are not only q cause OF
great discomfort to travellers, but also
Of intense anxiety. They put in peril
life and limb, as horses are very liable
to stumble in passing over them, and
carriages are often broken. Try an ex-
pertinent. Ride over a neglected road in
the country. of mile in extent, if you
have the courage; then stop at q farm
house and give the farmer a couple Of
dollars to pick out the stones ride
back over the pathway again, and no.
tice how great is the change. Upon
your return You Can trot briskly along,
with sense of comfort and security |;
whereas, in passing over it previous to
the removal of the loose stones, you
proceeded slowly and in misery.
This illustrates how chesply and eIpe-
ditiously bad roads can be improved.
If every town in those sections where
lands are full of small boulders would
provide simply for the removal OF them
from the pathway as often as once in
two weeks during warm weather, the
roads would be more comfortable than
if ten times the cost was expended in
dumping on loads of sand, or plowing
up roadside soil and piling it on the
driveway. We hope these hints will
not be lost upon those who have our
common highways in charge.-Journal
of Chemistry.