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Year: 1871

PLAIN TALK TO GIRLS.-Your every day
toilet is a part of your character. A girl who
looks like fury or "slOven" in the
morning is not to be trusted, however finely
she may look in the evening. No matter how
humble your room may be, there are eight
things it should contain, namely: A mirror,
washstand soap, towel, comb, hair nail and
tooth brushes. These are just as essential as
your breakfast, before which you should make
good use of them. Parents who fail to pro-
vide their children with such appliances, not
only make great mistake but commit sin of
omission. Look tidy in the morning, and
after the dinner-work is over improve your
toilet. Make it a rule of your daily life to
"dress up for the afternoon. Your dress
may or need not be anything better than cali
co but with a ribbon or flower, or some bit OF
ornament, you can have an air Of sef-respect
aud satisfaction that invariably comes with be-
ing well dressed girl with fine sensibili-
ties cannot help feeling embarrassed and awk-
ward in a ragged and dirty dress, with her
hair unksmpt, should a neghbOr or stranger
come in Moreover, your self-respect should
demand the decent sppareling of your body.
You should make it point to look as well as
you can, even if you know nobody will see you
but yourself-Lady's AdrOcate.
Year: 1871

TAKE HoLD AND LIFT.-A teacher of the
Freedmen was sitting at the window Of her
room watching two negroes loading goods into
cart One Of them was disposed to shirk the
other stopped, and looking sharply at the lazy
one, said -,


"Sam, do you expect to get to HEAVIER p


eyes"


"7hen take hold and LIT"


There are a great many Christians in our
churches and Sabbath schools who expect to
90 to heaven that would do well to strengthen
their hope of going there by taking hold and
lifting some of the burdens which they let
their brethren bear alone.
Year: 1871

The latest story is told of youth of six
summers, who was taken to task by his aunt
for some supposed offense which he persist
emily denied. Now, Johnnie, she said,
" know you are not telling me the truth;
see it in your eye Pulling down the lower
lid of that organ which had well nigh betrayed
his veracity Johnnie exutingly replied: " You
can t tell anything about it, aunt, that eye al
WAYS was little streakcd. "
Year: 1871

Never Prove False to a Friend
Never prove false to friend.
In love, and in friendship be true;
Never prove false to a friend,
So long az he's faithful TO you.
He may he dishonest knave
In others opinions but then
To ySu he is generous ard kind,
And one Of the nobleSt OF men.
Never speak i'll OF a friend,


To goasipcrs keep a closed ear;
An excellent rule in the nl4n,


is to credit one-tenth that you hear.
Stand by friend in distress,


When you know he is really in need;
What matter il even ne fails,


There is honor for you IL the deed
That one may deceive YOU tis So
Then his, not yours the Disgrace
Because we find one ni III untrue,
Shall We wrong or dI~crust whole race ;
Censure a man for his faults,


Give him honor when honor is due;
But never prove false to y friend,


So long as he's faithful to you.
Year: 1871

A DELIGHTFUL PLACE OF RESORT FOR
FAMILIEs.-It is with peculiar satisfaction
that we direct the attention of our readers
to the advertisement of the Magnolia Gar
den, which will be found under the head
of amusements, for this garden is a m ost
delightful place for families to pass days
and afternoons-the children sporting on
the grass or amid the rose bushes, and the
elders quietly enjoying the splendid music
of that wonderful brass band which has re-
Gently arrived from Europe. In this retreat
are to be found none of those disagreeable
characters who drive respectable people
away from other public places in the city
and it's environs, for the proprietor is de-
termined that it shall be as sacred to innO-
nocent enjoyment as his own family circle.
Let all those who are fond of quiet pleas
ure 60 there.
Year: 1871

Teachers institutes" which are new in
this city or State, are of so long existence
to ridicule or oppose them. For more than
twenty years they have been an established
institution, held three or four times year
in cities and counties, and popular every
where. 1t is acknowledged that they are
serviceable to teachers, and it is never
alleged that suspension of schools for teach
ers to attend these institutions is loss to
the pupils.
Year: 1871

THE CONCERT AT THE MAGNOLIA GAR
DEN BAYOU ROAD, THIS AFTERNOON
This affair will be unusually brilliant, as
the best sort of music may be expected,
while the company will be in every parti-
cular select Heads of families need not
fear to take their wives and children there.
Year: 1871

But though l can not and should not
speak, fear that where the mind and the
heart are both so full, that will not be
able to restrain my words. can not think
one thing and say another. and unless the
honest emotions of my soul can be ex-
pressed l do not care to speak. / thank
you, gentlemen, for your kindness, and feel
deeply touched at its exhibition. May God
foster and preserve you. If ever the day
comes when l can speak freely, will be
among you, and say to you all that is in my
heart Till then, farewell, and may the
great God be with you always. Applause. ]
Year: 1871

of the negroes. She denies, they tell us, to
her black citizens the equal protection Of her
laws. What legislation, then, on the part of
Congress will be appropriate to meet this case
That which the republican majority in each
House may think proper. This is the scope
of this fourteenth amendment, and we dare
say that the purpose which lies behind this Ku
Klux investigation of Senator Morton is bill
for the enforcement of this fourteenth article
which will astonish all those Southern and
Northern antediluvian politicians who still en-
tertain the delusion that State sovereignty
underies the constitution. We are informed
that message to Congress from General
Grant may be shortly expected on this subject
suggesting the necessity of decisive measures.
We are told that the resolution of the House
for the adjournment Of the session few days
hence has been laid aside in the Senate because
General Grant, for various reasons, wishes the
session prolonged, but particularly in view of
some legislation against these Southern Ku
Klux Klans.


We await some definite revelations upon this
business. Meantime our whole political hori-
zon looks lowering and stormy, and especially
down South. The Southern States are
apparently lost to the administration beyond
any remedy from Congress. Whites and
blacks within the limits of the late Southern
confederacy are, 80 far as we can learn, in har-
mony-at least upon one thing-the repudia-
tion of the national debt, or those taxes re-
quired to meet the costs of their subjugaton.
This is a bad sign for General Grant and
bow of promise to the flexible Northern demo-
cracy. Nor do we think that the demoraliza-
ton among the Southern republicans will be
mended by further repressive measures
against States or communities, or classes
or Ku X lux Klans from Congress. The Joint
| High Commission, the St. Domingo annexa-
ton and the Darien ship canal scheme pro-


mise to be high trump cards for the next


Presidency; but this Ku Klux business, il


taken in hand by Congress, we fear, will only


make this Southern confusion worse con-
| founded than ever, and concentrate the Presi-
dental fight upon the never-ending blunders
of Southern reconstruction. These things are
certain, at all events, that the great body of
the Southern whites now, as in the war of the
rebellion, are opposed to General Grant, and
that they have their laboring blacks within
their reach as political allies; th at the North
ern democracy on these heavy national
taxations are gathering strength, and that an
appreciable lessening of these heavy taxa
tions, more than any Ku Klux legislation,
is needed to secure the reelection of General
Grant and to secure the holders of the


national bonds from the hazards of sweep
ing political and financial revolution. We say
a sweeping revolution, for with the overthrow
of the party in power will not all its works be
cast out, as by the will of the people? 1t is
| not the Ku Klux but the tax question that
calls most urgently for remedy from Con-
gress. 49,
Year: 1871

A BRICK BoATMEN's STRIKE is the newest
thing in strikes that we have at present. The
men who freight the bricks from Haverstraw
to New York demand higher wages, or extra
pay for piling the brick when they unload
them. As real estate is almost at standstill
just now we may put down the brick strike as
something less serious at least than the coal
strike
Year: 1871

ST. PATRICK's DAY AND ssTHE FRIENDLY
Sons. IF the bill to make st. Patrck's Day .
public holiday has failed in becoming law
the national pride which all Irishmen feel In
celebrating the day shall never fail The love
for old Ireland and her patron saint ''was
never less nor can be more" than in the pres
ent day. The pride and the love are sponta-
neous now, as they ever have been, and shall
ever continue to be, and the idea of making 1t
compulsory holiday was naturally secuted by
all true Irishmen. The Friendly Sons Of St.
Patrick will assemble as usual to honor the
day, to s'drown the shamrock" to say kind
word for the s'ould sod"-in fact, to sing its
praises and its old renown. No society or
class of Irishmen celebrates the 18th of March
more enthusiastically or more patriotically
than the Friendly Sons, even though all politi-
cal questions, either of the past, the present
or the future are religiously tabooed.


The Boston Journal says :-'Our people
might as well be preparing themselves for
sort Of tidal wave Of enthusiasm in favor Of
the annexation Of St. Domingo when the Com
missioners return" Can the dumb talk or
the deaf hear? Howe is that for the High st.
Domingo Commission


TESTING New ARTICLE OF CABINET
Year: 1871

JAMAIoA.-By special telegram to the
HERALD we learn that the cable expedition is
still actively engaged in operations to recover
the lost Porto Rico cable, and they will not
return to St. Thomas until successful. By
way of Kingston we learn of the death of the
Governor of the Danish West India Islands,
from enhancement of the heart.
Year: 1871

SENATOR SUMNER, it seems, is actually to
be displaced from the Craftsmanship of the
Committee on Foreign Relations, and Senator
Morton or Cameron put in his place. In view
Of the pressure of foreign negotiations upon
Us at the present time no action could be more
unfortunate and ill-timed.
Year: 1871

The MANURE QUESTION, thanks to the
glimpse of the hereafter which the HERALD
gave several members of the Board Of Health
who were going astray, has been settled by
that body with righteous Difference to the
absolute needs of our citizens. The Sanitary
Committee yesterday reported very stringent
measures, providing that all ordinances rela-
tive to the removal of manure heaps from the
city limits be rigidly enforced, and that no
manure dumps other than boats or vessels
would be permitted; all others to be removed
by May l. These measures, after short
debate, were carried
Year: 1871

MOST OF THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED Southern
newspapers pay more attention to railroad
jobs than they do to the gathering and publ
cation of news This is not the way to con-
duct a newspaper-North or South. Give
news. We advise our Southern contempora-
ries that details Of reported outrages received
through other than our own special corre-
. spondents are not reliable.
Year: 1871

ANOTHER NEW HAMBURG RAILWAY TRAP IN
EMBRYO. The attention Of the officers Of the
dangerous condition of the bridge at lO4th
street. The slightest divergence or swaying OF
trains-which is so likely to occur at time
like this, when the frost is coming out Of the
ground-as they pass each other at this point,
is likely to produce catastrophe so frightful
as to throw the New Hamburg slaughter en-
tirely in the shade. A number Of correspond
ents have called our attention to this subject,
and we in turn invite the immediate attention
of the railroad managers to it, Commodore
Vanderbilt among the rest.


A PATENT HASH MACHINE is wanted in Mis-
sis2inni nnlu af Maridian for aiX daYA
Year: 1871

JUDGE BEDFoRD's SHYsTRR CRUsADE.-As
the tree is known by its fruit so the wisdom
Of and the necessity for the admirable charge
Of Judge Bedford in the General Sessions on
Monday hast is seen in the fact that it has
already borne good fruit. The ''shyster"
crusade then opened has resulted in verifying
one of the prognostics of the Judge-that
probably before the jury would be discharged
one or two ''shyster" cases would be presented
them. This fulflment was perhaps nearer
than was at the time supposed, for yesterday
the first gun in the ''shyster" warfare was
fred in open court. While this first victim Of
the inevitable is undergoing legal castigation
it might be as well for others of that ilk to look
upon their doom with the eyes OF Captain
SCOTS coon, and come down at once.
Year: 1871

SUSPENSION OF THE GOVERNMENT WEATHER
REPORTS. The whole community, especially
its mercantile, maritime and agricultural
classes, are naturally incensed at the
abrupt suspension of the government
weather reports, the Importance Of which
was just beginning to be duly appre-
ciated by them. The Western Union
Telegraph Company has done commendable
service by transmitting these reports for three
months without remuneration. No company
can be expected to do such service for the
public without reasonable compensation.
But if it should prove impossible to negotiate
for its being done on reasonable terms there
remains final remedy which must inevitably
be employed, and the adoption of which will
only be hastened by parsimonious action and
high-handed measures on the part of the tele-
graph companies. This remedy will be the
passage Of an act by Congress comforting upon
it the control of all the telegraph and rail.


rAH--<a Hs.fZ . Ms&S L 81 H. |Se
way c6mpahies In the country aud effectually
preventing them from becoming odious and
insufferable monopolies.
Year: 1871

Kent.-There has recently been new fancy store opened in the room adjoining Mir. Conn's Drug store, by Miss Reed, 8 former teacher in the Kent seminary. The room presents very attractive appearance, being nicely carpeted and the walls hung with pictures. Miss R. we believe is also to keep books to rent. This new store, taken in connection with the new drug store. make a very agreeable change in the building, which was formerly occupied as liquor saloon. We are glad to see our friend Conn come back again, at hls old business. His store is g pattern of neatness and order and bis excellent root beer receives deserved attention. WnHEM.
Year: 1871

n Dying Wife.

 ARondout boatman named Curry showed devotion to his wife last week in large degree. While on his journey up the canal, he was overtaken by a dispatch that his wife was dying. He hastened to New burgh, the nearest point, but was too late for all trains except the through express, which don't stop at Rhinecliff. He tried to induce the conductor to stop, telling him of the circumstances of the case, and of- fering him $5 to do so but the conductor wouldn't stop unless he could show him the telegram, and this unfortunately, he had lost. So he left the train at Pough- keepsie But he couldn't rest there, SO he started at midnight to walk to Rhinecliff up the railroad track, a distance of 16 miles. It may well be imagined that it was a gloomy walk. It was very dark, and as he steadily plodded on he was in constant dan- ger, hearing the roar of trains in front or behind, sometimes leaving the track barely in time to escape from locomotive dashing suddenly around a curve, sometimes feel ing the hot breath of the monster as it rushed past him on the other track, with a roar, and rattle, and fierce mocking velocity. Every little while he would come to bridge, and by the feeble light of a beclouded sky would step from timber to timber, fearful of falling between into the dark waters below. In this way he trudged his weary way, risking hundred deaths, his mind oppressed by the solitude and weighed down with anxiety lest he nigh, arrive to late. At last he reached home, footsore and utterly Jagged out; but hap oily his faithfulness and devotion were rewarded by his finding his wife yet alive. -Rond0ut Freenean.
Year: 1871

They do tell tough stories out in Nebras- ka. Not long since, we had from there . report of tornado which blew a freight train thirty feet from the railroad track. And now we are told to believe that in a severe storm west of Omaha, the other day, quarter of mile of track was car ried bodily OoersG fence four feet high, landing some distance in the prairie. Per haps this is all right, but it must have been an uncommonly strong fence.
Year: 1871

p Il II.al


ALL accounts concur in this, that the
colored soldiers orphans in the school at
Bridgewater sustained themselves in the
recent official examinations most creditably.
Professor Wickersham gave them the testi-
mony that, taking their past disadvantages
into account, they were not far behind any
of the nine hundred thousand white chill
'dren under his charge-if, indeed, they
were behind them at all. And So sitter
all, il turns out that black people edss be
educated, as well as white; that all they
need to become as intelligent and learned
as any other class are equal means and OPP
portunities, and last, but not least, that the
theory of the slave power, so long and so
persistently urged, as TO the natural inca-
pacity of the colored race for Intellectual
advancement, was monstrous fraud and
lsehood.-Philadelphia Press.
Year: 1871

More Light I'VE are glad to hear that
Capt. r. ID. Minor, the able engineer of the
James river improvement, who is superin-
tending the work done under the appropri-
alton Of $3.50, 900 made by the city, is MAX
ing arrangements to secure the erection of
a lighthouse on the point Of land just be-
low the dock-keeper's Office. We are sure
the James River and Kanawha company
will be more than willing to give the small
piece of ground required for the purpose,
for the erection of the lighthouse will in
ure to their benefit. 1t will . of great valre
nights, through the intricacies Of the cham
mel, We are glad to have it to say in this
connection that the improvement of the
river Is progressing rapidly, and ere long,
we shall have water more than sufficient to
satisfy the thirst Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad company.ufa4. .aEif 70
Year: 1871

An Important Inquiry Concerning the
Fire Of Sdt,0udy NigM.--Less than an
hour before the fire which occurred Satur-
day night, some one possessing a key to the
building, was seen to enter it, Would it
not be well to inquire how many persons
there are who have keys !; and when that
is done, learn who it was that used one of
them Just before the fire. Let all who
have keys come forward and prove where
they were about ten o'clock Saturday
night, Who will be the first to acknowl-
edge the possession Of o key, and to prove
his whereabouts at the hour designated ?
Year: 1871

As Broad Stred.+Saturday afternoon Broad
street presented the appearance of the chief
thoroughfare of market town on 'sfair
day.9 The trade was wonderfully brisk,
and everybody looked busy.
Year: 1871

A certain newspaper man Of this city was


presented with a Henry rife This rifle be-.
came his idol 1t was seldom out Of his
sight, and he could not sleep unless it rested
against the head Of his bed. On Sundays he


was always out on the hills with his Henry,
and in a short time became so expert that he
could decapitate a sage hen nine times out of
ten. He once saw duck disporting itself in
a lake somewhere in the eastern part of the
state, and, on a bet, shot out both its ewes.


This crack shot-this terror to everything in
the shape Of game-being invited to spend a
few days with friend residing near Carson
City, packed up his Henry and responded in
person. Next morning he was up bright and
early, and, like a second Steve Nernard,
stalked forth in search of game. A short
walk brought him in sight of pond in which
were fine flock of ducks Creeping to coy-
er near the shore, he opened his battery.
Duck after duck was stretched upon the wa
ter, and still those remaining made no attempt
to fly away. Our Nimrod was somewhat as
tonished at the tameness Of the game but no
mercifu thought arose on the contrary, he
became, if possible, still more blood-thirsty.
lie had just stretched out lieless the last of
a flock Of about seventeen ducks, when the
friend, whose hospitality he was sharing came
running toward him, calling upon him for
Heavens sake to desist, as he was killing the
whole Of his iavorlte breed of tame ducks.
What did Nimrod do but turn about and Wig.
orously protest that he thought the ducks
were wild ones. After this exploit he even
had the cheek to remain at the house of his
friend whole week, fcasting on ducks every
day.
Year: 1871

BOYS, DO you HEAR That "A New Or


leans paper tells of printer who, when his
fellow workmen went out to drink beer, dur
ing the working hours, put in the bank the
exact amount which he would have spent if
he had gone out to drink. He kept to this
resolution for FIVE years. lie then examined
his bank account and found that he had on
deposit s52l.sG. In the five years he had
not lost day from i'll health, Three out Of
five of his fellow workmen had in the mean.
time, become drunkards, were worthless as
workmen, and were discharged. The water
drinker then bought out the printing Office


went on eDarging his business, and in twenty
years from the time he began TO put by his
money, was worth 100000. The story,
whether new or old teaches a lesson which
every boy and young man should lay to heart
Year: 1871

An instance of great though humble
generosity was recently witnessed in a fish
boat coming into Michigan Finally it dis
appeared, and tug going out to look for it
found It bottom upward, with three men cling
ing to 1t. There had been four on board
but after capsiSing the boat would sustain
only three, and the fouth, John Ovany, say
Ing that as the other men were CT family, be
would give them the chance of rescue, and
himself try to swim ashore on a board, had
started, but the empty board floating back
soon had indicated that he was drowned.


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Year: 1871

VEGETABLE LEATHER. -" Vegetable Leather"
is a material which SO closely resembles the natu-
raj product that it is only by actual examination
that the difference can be ascertained. Caout-
chouc and naptha are used in its manufacture !;
but by process which we have never seen
described, all odor is removed from the naptha,
and the smell of vegetable leather is rendered
thereby less in strength, if anything, than that
Of leather This material is used for book
binding covering library tables, and like purposes.
Among other advantages which it possesses over
leather proper may be mentioned that, however
thin the imitation is, it will not tear without
siderable force is exercised that it resists all
damp, and the moisture may be left on it for any
period without injury; consequently it does not
sodden or cookie. is always dry, and its polish is
rather increased than diminished by friction, and
any attempt to raze or scratch its surface with
the nail, or contact with any ordinary substance
will not abrade it. The largest entire pieces Of
real leather that can be cut from buock's hide


includes the belly aud other inferior parts. Yege-
table leather, on the contrary is capable OF being
produced fifty yards in length. and one and half
yards wide, every portion of it being of equal,
and of any required thickness, which may be
carried to any extent by additional backing Of
linen, etc, cemented with the caoutchouc, and its
strength is something marvellous, while, in theall-
important commercial view, it is but one-ihird
the price Of leather Tschnologiss.