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Year: 1870

We regret to see the spirit OF
lawlessness and rowdyism ex-
hibited by some people who are
occasionally visitors to oul
town; and worst of all it is fire.
quently young men who exhibit
this spirit. Without any un-
kind feeling towards any one,
we say to our young men
that the most contemplate OF
all characters is a street bully
and the saddest sight upon
which the eye ever rested is a
young man, who might be of
benefit to his family and coun-
try, under the influence of Ii
quor. To this class we say in
all candor that there is in the
future nothing of promise to
them except a felon's cell or a
life Of misery. Drink and be
a brute and the world considers
you as one. Fight and swear
on the street and nobody be-
lieves you have any courage.
Nay, when the pestilence comes
and when the air is full Of dis
ease and death, or when the
bullets fly thickets in battle and
the time actually comes to try
mems souls, the street "bully'
is first to flee with craven heart
and trembling limbs. Shake
speare beautifully says: an
peace there's nothing SO be-
comes a man as modest still
ness and humility" The quiet
unassuming man is the one
who will always be found fore
most in every good word and
work and foremost in the opin-
ions of his fellow man; While
the braWler and the "bulIy,"
the loud swearer and lighting
man" will always be found be-
hind in character, in morals,
in honor and everything that
makes true manhood. Then, in
Gods name, let the young men
of some localities lay aside six
shooters and let alone whisky,
which only degrades them and
renders them fit only for the
interior of the cold walls of a
prison. Our men as a general
thing have high spirits and no
ble natures, which might be
turned to good account in life's
great battle; but unless they
utterly and entirely ignore
whisky drinking and rowdyisn
generally, all their prospects
will be like the apples OF Sod


ON, dust and ashes to them


selves, to their kindred anl
their country. In the mean.


time we ask our older citizens


fathers and those who have th'
foresight and experience t.


know the Importance of goo'


and true men in a community


to use their efforts and infu
ence to check this deplorabl
tendency to dissipation an
rowdyism in many young me
| Of the country.-[U Union Paris
, Record.


If we only knew how little som
! enjoy the riches they posses
q there would not be so much enV
| in the world. ~
Year: 1870

RESULT OF SITTING ON BEER BARREL. -
The Schenectady star tells this: "This
morning brewer wagon from Albany, load
ed with barrels of ale, was proceeding along
in the vicinity of Timeson's Hotel, in the
upper portion of State street. The gentle
man who had charge of it was sunny-hair-
ed youth, weighing about one hundred and
seventy-fve pounds. Looking around, he
discovered that one of the barrels had be-
come displaced somehow, and stopping his
mules, he prepared to place it in its proper
position. To do this he had to step over an
other barrel. (This is where the tears come
in.) Just at that critical moment the head
of the straddled barrel flew out and the
force of the lively beer sent the man about
six feet into the air. A party of workmen
employed near by rushed with pals to Sc
cure the precious flood, but they only sue,
ceeded in catching one pailful. The gentle
man who took the aerial ascension came down
after while exceedingly soaked. An old
hummer wanted to chew his clothes, but the
request was denied Gentlemen will take
warning and be careful after this how they
sit around on beer barrels"
Year: 1870

A SECOND WASHINGTON. A mischievous
urchim in the lower part of the county, who
had been reading that anecdote of Wash
ington and the cherry tree, took it into his
head the other day to try the same expert
ment, to see how he would come out. He
cut down the finest cherry tree in his faith
er's orchard, owned up to the vandalism in
true heroic style, and instead of hearing the
welcome plaudit of "Run to my arms, my
boy, for telling the truth, his father gave
him good sound thrashing to correct his
mischievous disposition. The boy is now
much incensed against the old man Wash
ington for not giving George the whipping he
deserved, and to this neglect of parental du-
ty our hero is indebted for his own misfor-
tune -Nerada Transcript.
Year: 1870

BUTTER WITHOUT CHURNING.--A cor
respondent of the Hearth and Home says:


AT the house in the country where board,
the landlady has a handsome and valuable
COW, and is in the habit of making a few
pounds of choice butter two or three times
week. The process is new to me- though
it may not be to others; it is this:


The cream is placed in large earthen bowl,
and stirred with a long-handled spoon for q
short generally not more than four or
five minutes, and the result is lump Of
delicious butter, weighing three or four
pounds. No dasher, no ehurn, but the lady
takes the bowl of cream on her knee, and
begins to stir gently the rich mass and as
you look on for a few minutes, behold the
butter has come"
Year: 1870

LAZY BoYs.-A lazy boy will make lazy
man as sure as crooked sappling will make
a crooked tree. Who ever saw boy grow
up in idleness that did not make shftless
vagabond when he became man, unless he
had fortune to keep up appearances? The
mass of thieves, criminals, and paupers have
come to what they are by being brought up
i'll idleness. Those who constitute the bust
ness part of the communicative make our
great and useful men-were taught in their
boyhood to be Industrious Boy take that
pipe out of your mouth, and think of this.
Year: 1870

The following rates, AS FIXED BY LAW, will be
charged.for all legal advertisements and notices.


For tAe first insertion, one dollar and fifty
cents per square of two hundred and fifty ems,
and one dollar per square for each additional in
sertion, up to four and thirty-fve cents per
square for each subsequent insertion.


~ All legal advertisements must be plainly
written and the number of insertions must al
ways be marked the margin of each adver-
tisement, or they will be continued and charged
accordingly. The publisher will not be respon-
sble for faulty or illegal manuscript.
Year: 1870

A TRAVELLING insurance agent had beer
explaining to Western pioneer the advan-
tages of an insurance policy. Pathfinder
mused moment in grave silence, and ther
said See here mister, have lived out il
this country now twenty-five years, and
have bucked agin most all the games they
started, but darn me if | want to play q
game where you have to die to beat the
bank"
Year: 1870

CoURTING HALF OF FAT GIRL.--I was
in love once with fat girl. She was very
ileshy She was enormous. But the course
of my true love came to grief. was sit
ting with her in the dim twilight, one even
ing. | was sentimental; said many soft
things; embraced part of her. She seemed
distant. She frequently turned her lovely
head from me. AT last | thought | heard
the murmur of voices ON the other side
arose and walked round and then | found
another fellow counting her on the left flank
| was indignant, and upbraided her for her
treachery in thus concealing from me anoth-
er love. She laughed at my conceit, as if
she was not big enough to have two lovers
at once.-DOll PidH.
Year: 1870

A coLoRED individual in Texas recently
went into blacksmith shop with both coat
tails stuffed with powder, which he had sto-
len from neighboring store. He came in
at the door, but when he went out he made
hole in the roof.
Year: 1870

A FABLE.-Horace Greely is said to be
the author of the following pretty conceit. OF
course it will be understood as a drive at
strong minded women


A vine was growing beside thrifty oak
and had reached that hight at which it re-
quired support


Coax, said the vine, "bend your trunk
so that you may support me-


"My support" said the oak, "is natural
ly yours, and you may depend on my
strength to bear you up; but am too large
and solid to bend. Put your arms around
me, my pretty vine, and | will manfully
support and cherish you, if you have an am
bition to climb as high as the clouds. While
| thus hold You up, you will ornament my
rough trunk with your pretty green leaves
and shining scarlet berries. They will be as
frontlets to my head; and | shall stand in
the forest like. glorious warrior with all his
plumes. We were made by the Master of
life to grow together, that by our union the
weak may be made strong, and the strong
render aid to the weak"


"But | wish to grow independently, said
the vine; "why cannot you twine around
me, and let me grow up straight, and not
be dependent upon your


"Nature," said the oak, "did not design
it. 1t is impossible that you grow to any
hight alone; and if you try it the wind and
rain, if not your own weight, will bring you
to the ground. Neither is it proper that you
run your arms hither and thithcr among the
trees. The tree will begin to say it is not
my vine--it is a stranger and will not cher
ish thee By this time thou will be so en-
tangled among the branches that thou canst
not get back to the oak, and then no one will
admire or pity thee"


"Ah mel' said the vine; "let me escape
from such destiny And with this she
twined herself around the oak; and they
both grew and hourished happily together
Year: 1870

An incorporated society hired man
to blast q rock, says Mark Twain, and
he was punching powder Into hole
with crowbar, when a premature ex-
plosion followed, sending the man and
crowbar out of sight. Both came down
all right and the man went to work
again directly. But though he was gone
only fifteen minutes they docked him
for lost time.
Year: 1870

There are many friends OF summer,


Who are kind while flowers bloom,
But when winter chlls the blossoms,
They depart with their perfume.
On the broad highway of action


Friends Of rth are far and few
So when one has proved his friendship,
Cling to him who clings to you.
Do not harshly Judge your neighbor,
Do not deem his life untrue,
If he makes no great pretentions,


Deeds are great though words are few
Those who stand amid the tempest,
Firm as when the skies are blue,
Will be friends while life endureth;
Cling to those who cling to you.
When you see q worthy brother


Buffeting the stormy main,
Lend q helping hand fraternal,


Till he reach the shore again.
Don't desert the old and tried friend
When misfortune comes in view,
For he then needs friendships comforts,
Cling to those who cling to you.
Year: 1870

In the Senate on the 9Th, Mr.. Morton
from the Foreign Committee, reported q
stringent bill against the fitting out of
ships of war at any port in this country
to aid foreign power to subjugate a
colony claiming its independence.
Year: 1870

and through the dead stiffness OF some dark nights
almost expect to her glide, radiant ghost. This
Hunter House. with Its great wanscoted from floor
TO ceiling, s wide mahogany staircase Its dainty wood
carvings, and its high front door is a superb specimen
the best taste Of the old colonial days. and leaving
and its guests and going few rods further you
to the Sanford mansion specimen than which scarcely
anything could be beautiful Of modern taste IL Ia
miracle OF architectural perfectness-eyery detail OF
danes device. With its nad floors, ts lofty frescoed
ceilings, Its great windows looking everywhere on the
bay its quaint and elegant furniture the expression OF
individuals and not upholsterers TASTE il seems
fitting shrine for the loveiest picture VIM. Hunt ever
painted-he portrait of the mistress of this mansion
picture simple in ito perfection and perfect In its sim
pictv 1t Ia full OF suggestion, with certain repose
which yet the repose OF power and with eyes into
whose mystery you forever longing to look. As 1t
hangs you catch reflection OF 1t in near mrrer, into
which 1t to gaze, and you think OF swnburne's
loveiest stanZa


Glad hat not flushed with glsineas


Since joys 60 byi


Sad, but not bent with sadness


Since die;


Deep in the cleaning glass


She all past things pass, go .


And all sweet life that was he down and he'
Was there anything perfect as this picture In
the old colonial house. where tho ghosts and i've
together and visions Of dead daysf L. NJ
Year: 1870

same Unsuitable a tenth Of his ineroasa
Among a people like the Mornons. much
OF tins yearly tax must be paid in kind !;
and, as the settlerslof New England con.
triluted TO the needy college at Cam.
bridge, one man peck of beans, another
btishel OF potatoes, so the Inhabitants
Of the poorer villages Of Utah bring
their wheat and fruit to the tithiug house.
They have other taxes, severe enough !;
but they are certainly prosperous, and
soon own the hnd they till SO carefully,
Every one is bound To go as missionary,
even to the utmost parts OF the earth, az
the command Of their president and it
is said that when a man becomes dis.
tasteful TO the supreme authority, he is
sent TO preach the gospel in some distant
land
Year: 1870

One day the Duke of Buccleuch, Scotch
nobleman, bought a cow in the Deighborhood
of Dalkeith, where he lived. The COW was tc
be sent home the next morning. Fairly in the
morning the duke was taking walk in very
common dress. AS he went along he saw Q
boy frying in vainIto drive the cow to his resi-
dence. The COW was very unruly, and the
poor boy could not get on with her at ALL
The boy, not knowing the duke, bawled out to
him in broad Scotch accent: E79d-
- "Hie, mum, come here, and gie's ban wi
this beast" lsHa
ta The duke walked slowly on, not seeming to
notice the boy, who still kept calling for his
help. At last, finding he could not get on
with the COW, he cried out in distress ''Come
here, nun. and as sure as anything Use gle ye
Aalf gel"


The duke went and lent helping hand.


"And now" said the duke, as they trudged
along after the COW, chow much do you think
you will get for the job ?"


81 dinna ken," said the boy = but I'm sure
O. something, for the folks at the big house
are guild to a. bodies"


AS they came to lane near the house tho
duke slipped away from the boy, and entered
by a..different way. Calling his butler, he;put
a sovereign in his hand, saying: "Give that
to the boy who has brought the COW"


He then returned to the end of the lane
where he had parted from the boy, SO as to
meet him on his way back.


WELL how much did you get p asked the
duke.


"a shilling" said the boy; "and there's
half o. it to ye. ("


"But surely you had more than shilling"
said the duke


"No," said the boy; "sure that's a. got
and 'ye no think it's plenty ?"


81 do not )" said the duke; "there must be
some mistake and as am acquainted with
the duke, if you return think I'll get you
more"


They went back. The duke rang the bell
and ordered all the servants to be assembled.


"Now," said the duke to the boy, point
me out the person who gave you the shilling"


SIT was that chap there with the apron"
said he, pointing to the butler.


The butler fell on his knees, confessed his
fault and begged to be forgiven; but the duke
ignorautly ordered him to give the boy the
sovereign and quit his service Immediately.


"You have lost" said the duke, "your
money, your situation, and your character by
your decitefulness. Learn, for the future, that
honesty is the best policy"


The boy now found out who it was that
helped him drive the COW and the duke was
SO pleased with the manliness and honesty of
the boy that he sent him to school, and pro-
vided for him at his own expense.


1.-THE Chldrem's Friend.
Year: 1870

Under this caption the Christian Enquirer
gives utterance to some very interesting
truths, remarking that sour homes-what is
their corrier stone but the virtue of woman
And on what does social Well-being rest but
on our homes? Must not trace all of our bles-
sings of civilized life to the door of our pri-
yate dwellings,? Are not our hearth.stones
guarded by the holy forms Of coDjugal, flial,
and parental love, the corner stones of church
and state-more necessary than both Let
our temples crumble and our academies de-
cav; let every public edifce, our halls of jus
tice and our homes. Man did not invent and
he cannot, abrogate them. A private shelter
or covert In two hearts dearer to each other
that all the world high walls to seclude the
profane eyes of every human being, seclusion
enough for children to feel that mother is a
peculiar name-this is home and here is the
birthplace of every virtuous impulse, OF ev-
ery sacred thought. Here the Church and
the State must come for their origin and sup
mort. Oh, spare our honest The love we
experience there, gives us faith in an Infinite
goodness the purity and disinterested ten
derness of home, is our foretaste and our ear
nest of better world In the relations there
established and fostered do we find through
life. the chief solace and joy of existence.-
What friends deserve the name, compared
with those who a bitrthright gave US One
mother is worth thousand friends-one sister
dearer and truer than twenty intimate COM
panions. We who have played on the hearth
under the light of smiles who date back to the
same season of innocence and hope; in whose
veins run the same blood-do We not find that
years, only make most sacred and important,
the tie that binds US? Goodness, different
spheres may divide; but those who can love
anything, who continue to love all, must find
that the friends whom God gave himself, are
wholly unlike any we can choose for ourselves
and the yearning for these is the strongest
spark in our expiring Affection
Year: 1870

Did you ever awake in the night in great
terror over some dream7 Some fearful dans
ger was just before you, and you cried out in
fear fer another, mother p Though there
was nothing near to hurt you, yet your terror
was just as real as though lion was in the
room.


Now, the imaginary terrors of man in that
delirium which drinking causes, may seem very
funny to lockers on, who know there is no
danger; but they are terrible, beyond all doubt
to those who experience death.


A man living in New Haven, Connecticut.
drank SO deeply that his reason was for time
overthrown. When his paroxysms came on,
he faucied that he saw before him men pre-
pairing to fay him alive. Slowly they began
their dreadful work, cutting his flesh with
keen little saws, then tearing off his skin in
strings and hanging it up on wires before his
eyes. He would shrek and cry out in as ter
rible agony as if they were really doing it
Then he would imagine that his heart was
cage of wild beasts. who are tearing, growing
and fighting with each other. He would beg
his companions to tear them out, and when to
crafty him they would pretend to do SO, q
feeling of deadly faintness would come over
him. Then he would think those about him
were throwing sharp hooks at him, trying to
fasten them in his flesh. He would wrestle
and fight for hours with unseen foes until the
sweat poured from him in streams.


Did he not pay dear for his cnps2 Was
the little pleasure he got Of them worth all
that agony?
Year: 1870

A SAD ROMANCE OF TIE ONEIDA Dis
AsTER-In conversation with very intel>
ligent and accomplished lady from Maine,
few days since, | learned the following facts,
which throw the shadow of sad romance
over the Oneida disaster Commander Wil>
liams, the hig hest officer on the vessel, and
one of the lost, was widower of something
less than forty, aud the father Of two bright
little children. In May last he contracted an
engagement for secoud marriage, which was
to have taken place very soon after the arrival
of the Oneida in this country. l believe it
was fixed for the middle of April. He left
the United States for Japan in June last, and
just before his departure he was one of din
ner party at which my informant and the
affianced bride were also present. Had he
returned safely, he would have known fate
which his brave heart would not have met
with the cool courage that faced DEATH at his
post on the quarter deck. Since the first of
January his two children and his intended.
wife have died. When he left Japan he bad
not heard this sad news, but supposed he was
coming home to meet them all in health and
happiness. So to one, at least, of the gallant
men who. went down on the ill>fated steamer,
death cannot be called disaster.


[ Wash. Con- Gin. Enquirer.
Year: 1870

Rich WITHOUT MoNEY.-Many man Is
rich without money. Thousands of men with
nothing in their pockets are rich. A man born
with good heart and good limbs, and pretty
good head piece, is rich. Good bones are bet
ter than gold, tough muscles than silver, and
nerves that fash FIRE and carry energy to every
function, are better than houses and land. 1t is
better than landed estate to have had the right
kind of father and mother Good breeds and
bad breeds exist among men as really as among
herds and horses. Education may do much
to check the evil tendencies, or to develop
good ones, but it is good thing to inherit
the right proportion of faculties to start With.
Year: 1870


. Near the top was carved Masonic emblem
This was the only solution to the mystery
The woman krelt upon the sod, aud blessed
the widows God for this token of His mercy.
Surely" she thought and murmured half
aloud, ''those who have been so mindful Of
the mouldering ashes of the dead will not be
entirely unmindful Of the welfare of the
living"


A strong confidence was born in her heart.
She arose and retraced her steps.


''Mamma," said one of the little ones tot-
tering toward her as she approached the door,
"aman came here just now and left basketful
of nice things which he says was sent to us,
but he would not say who sent them. There
are meat, aud bread, and tea, aud sugar and I
don't know what all ! Haven't we got kind
friends, mamma? Now you won't look sad
any more"


Sure enough, the woman found her press
ing necessities relieved, and supplies were
sent from time to time, and continued for
q long time to be sent.


Who were her self constituted guardians
It is unnecessary for US to name them, butwo
vouch for the truth of the story from personal
knowledge.-F q. TIsdaH.
Year: 1870

TIE ALPINE HonN.-The Alpine horn is
an instrument made of the bark of cherry
tree, and, like speaking trumpet, is used to
convey sounds to a great distanc. l have
heard, when the last rays of the sun gild the
summit of the Alps the shepherd who in
habits the highest peak of these mountains take
his horn and cry with lond voice, praised
be the Lord !'' As soon as the ueighboring
shepherds hear him they leave their huts and
repeat these words The echoes of the noun
tain and grottoes of the rocks repeat the namc
ofGod. Imagination cannotpicture any thing
more solemn or sublime than such scene.


During the silence that succeeds, the shep-
herds bend their knees and pray in the open
air, then repair to their huts to rest. The
sunlight gliding the tops of these stupendous
mountains, upon which the vault of heaven
seems to rest, the magnificent scenery around,
and the voice of the shepherd sounding from
rock to rock, the praise of the Almighty, fill
the mind of every traveller with enthusiasm
and awe.
Year: 1870

SoRRew.-Sorrow sobers us and makes
the mind genial. And in sorrow we love our
friends more tenderly. and the dead become
dearer to us. And just as the stars shine out
in the nights, SO these are blessed faces that
look at US in our grief, though their features
were fading from our recollection. Suffering
Let no man dread it too much, because it is
better II for him, and it will help to make him
sure of being immortal 1t is not in the
bright days but only in the solemn, that other
worlds are to be seen shining IN the long, long
distances. And it is in sorrow-the night OF
the souI-that we see the farthest and know
ourselves natives of infnity and sons and
daughters of the most High!