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Year: 1870

Under this caption the Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, Chronicle has the following SEN
sible article:


1t is often remarked by person. who dc
not possess any property, and who depend
upon their daily labor for support of them.
selves and families, that they are worth
nothing fancially speaking. This Ian.
guage is generally indulged in by men in
the community who style themselves bust.
ness men. Let as examine the question
financially, and see if their assertions are
correct.


Last year the price of common labor
averaged one dollar aud half per day.
Admitting that the laborer received one dol
lar and half per day, and it required the
whole ofthat sum to support his family,
nevertheless we contend that the laborer
was worth in cash to hi. family the sum OF
1899.


The amount he would receive for one
years labor at one dollar and half per day
would be s475 60. which amount would be
the interest at six percent. on 81, 9S9, which
latter sum would be the cash value of the
laboring man to his family.


The cash value of the laboring man to
the community is much more than the above
named sum, as labor is the only true wealth
to any country. Without labor our forge.,
furnaces, woolen mills, and indeed manufac-
tories of all kinds, would cease to be. The
Of he Loom, md Shrttla l..
fenced forever. Our national and other
banks would close their doors, and our most
enterprising merchants take in their signs.
Without labor civilization reccde, and the
bat and owl would soon occupy the crimson
chambers of our would be business men.


Let the laboring men of the United
States realize their position. Let them re-
feet that labor is honorable; that labor is
wealth. Let them remember that they are
power in the State that to them this great
government is indebted for all it possesses
of liberty, glory and grandeur.


LET them only reflect, that labor is hon
orable but let those who look down on the
humble laborer and mechanic reflect for one
moment before they speak in terms of dis
paragement of the 'hewers of wood and
drawers of water The custom is too pre-
valent in the community OF making remarks
in a sneering manner of the great industrial
class of our people, leading youths among
us to think that honest industry is not hon.
orable, be it what it may. That time has
passed.


Honest, industrious mechanics and Ia.
borers are the wealth of States, and, until
they are encouraged and fostered, our peo-
pie cannot be prosperous. 1t not the cash
value alone by which he enriches the place
of his residence, but he adds by his labor to
its material wealth no country or nation
that commands the respect of the world, but
what that respect was gained through the
skill of her mechanical population. Then
let all classes, more especially the rich, re-
spect and inculcate their children with the
true theory of life, and labor is honorable,
and if, in after life, misfortune should over
take them, willing hands will be put forth
to earn their support"
Year: 1870

An Oneida editor has taken his office. boy
into partnership, giving his reason that
'StepLen has been to work for US all the
winter, and wants his pay, and we thought
after be had been a proprietor short time
he would understand that paying help was
not so easy"
Year: 1870

Most people like to be handsome. No
body denies the great power any person
may have who has good face,
and who attracts you by good looks, even
before word has been spoken. And we
see all sorts of devices in men and women
to improve their good loOks-paints and
washes, and all kinds of cosmetics, includ-
ing plentiful amounting with dirty hair
oil.


Now, not every one can have good feat
ures. They are as God made them; but
almost any one can look we'll, especially
with good health 1t is hard to give rules
in very short space, but in brief these
will do.


Keep clean-wash freely and universally
with cold water. All the skin wants is
leave to act freely, and it will take care of
itself It's thousands of air holes must not
be plugged up.


Eat regularly and simply. The stomach
can no more work all the time, night and
day, than horse; it must have regular
work and regular rest.


Good teeth are help to good looks.
Brush them with a soft brush, especially
ut night. Go to bed with the teeth clean.
Of course, to have white teeth, it is need
full to let tobacco alone. Any powder or
wash for the teeth should be very simple.
Acids may whiten the teeth, but they take
off the enamel or injure it.


Sleep in cool room, in pure air. No
one can have clean skin who breathes
bad air. But more than all, in order to
look well-wake up the mind and soul.


When the mind is awake, the dull,
sleepy look passes away from the eyes. l
do not know that the brain expands. but
it seems to. Think, read-not trashy nov
els, but books that have something in
them. Talk with people who know some
thing; hear lectures and learn by them.


This is one Of the effects of good
preaching. A. man thinks and works,
and tells us the result. And if we
listen, and hear, and understand,
the mind and soul are worked. II
the spiritual nature is aroused, so much
the better. We have seen plain face real
ly glorified by the love of God and man
which shone through it, Let us grow
handsome. Men say they can't afford
books, and sometimes they don't even pay
for their newspaper. In that case, it does
them little good-they must feel SO mean
while reading it. But men can afford
what they really choose. If all the money
spent in selfindulgence, in hurtful indul-
gence, were spent in books, and self-im-
provement, we could see change Men
would grow handsome, and women, too.
The soul would shine out through the
eyes. We were not meant to be mere ami
mails Let us have books, and read them,
and sermons, and heed them.-UealM Re
farmer
Year: 1870

AM going to tell yon a true story of
some children | knew when i lived in
Texas. Alicb was ten years old, Mary
was eight, and little Etta was only four.


They had lost their father and mother,
but had big brother Frank, and the best
sister in the world, Sallie; and she took
Just as good care of them as their own
dear mother could have done.


They lived far off in Western Texas. on
the edge of wide prairie. Do you know
what prairie is? Just think how 1t
would look If you could see nothing on
either side of YOU but one great field ot
waving grass and beautiful flowers reach
ing away, away, far away 10 where the
blue sky seems to bend down and touch
it. That is prairie.


Well, brother Franks fields were on the
prairie; but the log g-hOuse in which they
lived was in the edge of the woods that
bordered it.


The trees were not such as you know
about. They were live-oaks, which stay
green all winter; pecans, which bear the
incest nuts; dogwood, with large white
flowers: holly, with glossy leaves and
bright-red berries; and, best of all, the
stately magnolia, which is almost too
grand to talk about in a small magazine
like this.


There was great magnolia growing hy
a spring not far from the house; and this
was the place where the children liked
best TO play.


One bright Saturday afternoon, they
had gone To the spring as usual, 10 have
nice time, and Sallie was busy making a
Jacket for Alick, when suddenly the little
boy came rushing into the house, aud
seized his brothers gun which stood In
the corner.


40 Alickr' cried Sallie, how often
must YOU be told not To touch that gun.


Cant help it this time, sister Sallie
there is big panther up in our tree, and
I'm bound to shoot him.


But where are Mary and Eta?


"Ohi they are down there looking hlm
right in the eye SO that he may not 60 oii
till get back"


He was running with all his might as he
I smoke. Poor Salie her heart seemed la
stand still; but IL was no time To iaint.
She caught up the horn with which she
used TO call Frank to dinner, and blew
blast which she knew he would under
stand to mean danger Then she Wrote
on the door in large letters, To Use Slri p,
quick :" and followed Alick with all the
speed that love and fear could lend her.


The boy reached the spot little before
her. When she came in sight, there was
the frightful beast stretched out on a
bough of the tree, growing low, and look
ing down with fiery eyes at the little girls
who stood hand in hand gazing steadily
up at him, and never thinking of the
danger.


Bang, went the gun, and the panther
fell to the ground.


Presently Frank arrived. Sallie had
sunk down at the foot of the tree, clasp
ing the little girls.


Alick stood looking at his prize; and
you may bc sure he got plenty of praise
only he was told that he should never
again leave his sisters alone in the woods
to keep guard over panthcr.-Ih' Ih'
NtrserU
Year: 1870

Joe, at the top. "You should have done
as do"


With these words he cut the rope close
under his feet. Down it fell, and left him
hanging by his two hands at the top.


"Oh, cricket" cried Joe, at the top
"whO could have thought of thatr'


"What stupid you are" groaned
Jack. "You will have to hang there till
morning"


And so he did, and made his arms so
stiff that he could not move them for a
week


1t was sad night for the two clever
sailors. They cried, and groaned, and
prayed, and said bad words till morning


Then Jack went off to the hospital, and
Joe was taken off to prison.
Year: 1870

A LupICRoUs scene took place at the
Tuilleries on Christmas eve. There was
to be children's party for the friends of
the Prince Imperial, and very fine
specimen of the Christmas tree All was
ready. and the Prince thought he should
like TO see the tree; so he entered the
room, and lol he found an unlimited
guest already there-a favorite monkey
belonging to some one in the palace had
got into the room, treated himself to al
the prizes, eaten all the goodies" and,
finally, having set ire TO the tree, was
sitting down enjoying the fun.
Year: 1870

MONDAY NIGHT SERVICE IN THE CATHEDRAL


OF ST. JONAS.


BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 1l.-For nearly twenty five
years had been journeying and sojOurning in En-
gland and had visited all its cathedras, and most of
its abbeys and castles. and other historical monu-
ments. beside attending service in churches and
chaDels in all parts Of the kingdom. But few
weeks ago heard for the first time of sanctuary
and of service the like of which L had never read
of nor conceived to exist in any country or age and
having seen both, shall never more look into an
English family fire and experience It's comfort with
out seeing them reproduced in its ruddy glow


A young clergyman has recently been set as
pastor over small bricky diocese in or about Rowy
Regis some ten miles from Birmingham. called
Blackheath, very appropriately. His flock consists
largely if not mostly Of miners but they are not
black sheep except in the wool alone Many of them
are men of white lives as well of Christian pro-
fesson and department; and. under the devotion of
their young pastor and friend 20 all their interests
these characteristics are becoming more common and
marked among them. Eloquent and learned men
have preached grand sermons before kings, queens
mobiles and gentry and all the higher classes OF So
cety upon the universal and sefadaptabiity OF the
Christian reli gon 10 every human condition ana Oc-
cupation how il would 80 up TO the palace oil the
prince and down 10 the cottage of the peasant; to
the counting house and workshop. But, unfortu-
natey rel gion has too often been left TO 90 alone
when visiting these low miry valleys of Illumination
Too ten has the minister set the sheep that go
out to grub on these lean and stony pastures sad to
them by action if not in speech what an American
chaplain in the Revolutionary War once said to his
regiment at the close of his prayer just before bat
tle March on children of Israel the Lord shall go
before you, and will go behind" The Rev. j.
Keateh neither speaks acts IN that style to tho
swart battalions Of snbteranean industry to whom
ne is chaplain, pastor. counselor. and tender ana
genial friend He goes down with them TO their dark
and sulphurous battlefield. and is first TO reach and
comfort them in thickcst casualties. He is to Ger
tain degree. their companion az well "a counselor


from the lowest depths of their toll and struggle to
the aisles aud altar of the beautiful church that
stands In the full heavens sunlight IN which he
breaches and teaches the Ia better ME beyond
the toing and moilina of the one 10 which they are
born.


This is not a figure Of speech. lie actually goes
down into their coal mine every "Wednesday ana
reads Gospel chapter fIvm The Bible TO tben ana
Year: 1870

Contains no acknowledged powerful and effect
i've medicines than those of the vegetable kingdom
At the time it is fact beyo dispute that such
medicines leave in the human system no bad effects
Therefore, it should be mans study to avoid all medi
enes that in any form contain the least part of any OF
the many mercurial and arsenical preparations.
Year: 1870

Looks LIKE Ir-The first real practical demonstra.
tion of an early railroad through country greeted
the happy sight of our citizens few days since On
Sunday number of employ es and wagons belonging
to the Memphis and El Paso Railroad Company passed
through our town oil their way to Little Rock Their
object as we understand is to build the gap 10 the
Memphis and Little Rock railroad. The engineers
that accompany the outfit said that as soon as the gap
was completed they would survey and commence work
on the road from Little Rock to Fulton We epresume
hope and expect that the above company have Dur.
chased the franchise of the Cairo and Fulton road.
from Little Rock to Fulton If so, we NAV look for
rapid work ON the road


Since Sunday number of employees and wagons
carts utensils &c have passed through bound for the
same destination Let the people take courage. We
will have sure enough railroad after while-and
pretty soon, too, We think. Washington Telegraph
Year: 1870

Are made and compounded in the most scientific man
ner and the most powerful known in the vegetable
kingdom and are warranted not only TO all the
diseases for which they recommended but to Grad
icate them from the system and leave it in the funess
of Its vigor and strength. They are alike prescribed
and used by the abest and most learned medical men
and by the ministry, and in instance have they
been known to fail in performing rapid and certain
cure. .....


r .aG
Year: 1870

To BORE A HOLE THROUGH GLASS.
"A drill supplied with emery and
water, is better Chan Il diamond for
making small holes through glass


As emery does not improve the edge
of the drill, piece Of wire may be
substituted. A diamond will cut
out circles, making large holes but
is quite unsuited for boring. Com
mon glass may be drilled with an
ordinary bow-drill, by keeping one
on two drops Of spirits Of turpentine
on the glass at the point Of the drill.
Year: 1870

PEACE Look at Georgia,
at North Carolina, at Louisiana,
Alabama and Mississippi
There is no peace. The Radi-
cal promise of that blessing is
u deception, falsehood and a
fraud. A portion Of the coun'
try is riven by internal commo'
ton, and neither life nor prop
erty are of value if they
contravene the Radical designs
for the promotion Of the inter
ests Of the negro in opposition
to that of the white men ol
the South. u. -
Year: 1870

The expenses Of the Radical
administration Of the affairs of
the Government are enormous.
Do the people know that with
all the blanks, and all the cur
rency there is now aAoat in the
country, the whole sum does
amount to the sum total Of the
annual taxation, that this Rad
ical administration is seeking
to wiring from a burdened peo,
pie. This is a startling fact;
yet it is no less startling than
true.
Year: 1870

Never make up your beds,
however Jealous you may be to
get through with your morn
ing's work, Immediately after
their occupants have ARISEN
The bed clothes and coverings
should be left well spread out
and exposed to the air from an
open window for several hours
after they have been used.-
This is a rule which health COM
mandS obedience.
Year: 1870

TO keep iron utensils OF i'm.
plements from rust, wash and
rub over them u mixture OF
lard and turpentine. The
paint pot and brush should be
kept and used by every farmer.
All woodwork ought to be
kept constantly well painted,
especially the woodwork Of
wagons, plows, etc,
Year: 1870

CURE FOR CANCER,-A terrible
cancer has been cured by the use
ofa recently discovered acid. The
recipe is to apply, three times II day,
with a soft sponge wash made of
n quarter ofan ounce of carbolic acid
mixed with pint of water. The
acid can be obtained Of all first class
druggists.
Year: 1870

From the New Orleans Tlmesof Friday.l


A letter in the New York Tribune
gives a deplorable account Of the NOR
tality among negroes in South Caro-
lima. In the city of Charleston il is
shown to be three times greater than
among whites, by the mortuary statis-
tics, and in the country it is estimated
at very nearly the same ratio. Birth
strangled negro babes are said to be
''strewn" by the wayside throughout
the country, thus gotten rid of on ae-
count of the nomadic habits into
which the negroes have degenerated.
The writer indorses the opinion that
nothing will serve TO keep up the
present standard of cotton production
but white labor, and looks forward
TO a gradual but complete emigration
ofall negroes at present in the ATTAIN
tic States, to Louisiana, Texas and
Mississippi.


This picture appears to us slightly
overeOlored, but it is nevertheless
partially correct as regards the ten
denotes of the times. How much
proscriptive legislation has done to-
ward producing such a state of affairs,
buo NOhbucIu peOpiei unIidppiiy lOI
all, either cannot or will not see; but
there is little doubt that the salvation
of the negro race can only be perfected
by the people among whom his lot is
cast and upon whom he must be ut
terry dependent for several genera
tions to come. We suppose it will
take years before the blindness of
Northern fanatieism will awaken to
this truth; meanwhile, the work of
degradation and death, pictured in its
inception by the Tribune 3 correspond
ent, will have made giant strides in
its path of desolation.
Year: 1870

The Butler county (Ohio) Democrat
says; ave have in our printing es-
tablishment small engine, manufac-
tured by Frank Black, young man
who has not yet reached his majority,
that is a real triumph of genius, and
an embodiment in a small compass of
strength and power. The object of
all machinery is simplicity, and the
collection of the greatest amount of
power in the smallest space-the real
economy of mechanics. Such q piece
of machinery is our little engine.
Every part of it is so completely
adapted to the whole that there Is no
waste Of power, but all concentrated
to produce and continue motion.
Mr.. Black styles this result of his ge-
MUS the concentrated power engine,
and this it truly is. With a very
small boiler enough steam can be gem
Grated to run a large cylinder press,
and two heavy job presses, all at the
same time, while the space occupied
by the engine, furnace and boiler is
not over four feet long and two feet
wide. Mr.. Black deserves 2 high ems
comium for this success, and if his
mechanical genius thus early devsl-
Oped is so fruitful in useful invention
what may we not expect of him if his
life is spared, anG he is properly en-
cOuraged and appreciated, in years to
oOmes
Year: 1870

A correspondents of the Utica Herald
writes to that paper as follows: "We
do not remember to have heard of a
moTe interesting episode in the life of
any artist since the days of the great
Jenny Lind, than that of Miss Kel-
lOgg, at the State Lunatie Asylum, a
few days since. The circumstance
speaks volumes for the kindness of
heart and genuine humanity of this
great artist. Not content as some of
the genus irritable of lower order
of art would have been, to dole out a
few notes to the better class of pa
tients that could be assembled for the
purpose, she asked the doctor to be
allowed to penetrate to the interior
and sing to the most disturbed classes.
Accompanied by two of the faculty,
their ladies and the matrOn, and
armed only With her guitar, she
started like an ancient trOubadOur on
her novel journey. Arrived in the
department devoted to the more dis
turbed of this unfortunate class, she
was not long in making her power
felt. A few notes from her wonderful
voice were sufficient to call order out
of the widest confusion, and to still
the troubled waters of the soul. In a
moment all was hushed, and except
the voice of the cantatrice, the hall
was silent as the house of death.
After the first song, they gathered
about her like children, wondering
apparently what angel from heaven
had dropped down 80 suddenly
and Unexpectedly among them.
They examined her minutely and
literally, from the crown of her head
to the sole of her foot, for one desired
to be allowed to see the pretty little
boot with which she beat time to her
own music This was submitted to,
and not only this, but every article Of
dress and jewelry about her Serson
she suffered to be freely overhauled.
She was turned about by these crazy
ladies like merchants lay figure,
much to her amusement, and little,
apparently, to her annoyance. Even
when they proposed to kiss her, she
not only submitted gracefully, but
tremulous, not with fear, but genuine
emotion, she returned the greeting in
each instance. Such Is Clara Louise
Kellogg, and such, also, is the power
of music and kindness on the dis
turbed mind" iin9
Year: 1870

NEW YORK, May 29.-At the Boy
cry Theater last night Miss Minnie
Wells was performing with the Puma
lions on the stage, when one Of them
suddenly sprang upon her and tore
the flesh from her neck with his tai
Ons. There was great excitement in
the theater, but the animal was sub
dUed with an iron bar. Miss Wells is
much injured. ..
Year: 1870

DAYTON, May 29.-This morning
about half past one o'clock, the house
of Fred Meller was discovered to be
On Ere, and befbre the fire department
could get ON the ground the house was
one sheet of flames. Meller and his
son jumped orf ell from the front win
dow, iniEring themselves badly. 1t
was supposed all the family had es-
capped from the burning building, but
Ii was afterwards discovered that Mrs.
Moeller and five children had perished
in the burning building from suffOca-
ton. This sad affair has cast a gloom
over the entire CITY,
Year: 1870

Ice can be turned in lathe and lenses
easily formed through which the rays Of
the sun in passing will cause heat sufii
cient 10 ignite match. These ice lenses
are so easily made and renewed that they
have been recommended for use for as
tromical purposes in countries the tenn
persture OF which is below that Of ireez'
ing for two or three months oi the year
Year: 1870

THE annexed fish story is Maryland
production A man fishing in river in
iaat State found that his hook was at
tached TO something, and pulling it up with
some difficulty, discovered at the end of the
line a jug holding about halfa gallon. Not
wishing 10 lose his only hook, he demol-
ished the jag, aid 10 his great astOnish'
ment found that the hook had been
swallowed by monster cat fish exactly
che size and shape Of the Jug,
Year: 1870

WE give up most of our space to-day to local
news, which, We suppose is now the most in
teresting We can give them Our columns are
filed with full reports Of the Fair to which we
invite the readers attention