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Year: 1871

A TOUCHING SToRY-He came into
the breakfast room one morning, and In
a moment, it was seen that a cloud was
on his brow There sat lady like wife
waiting for him, the table fairly groan-
ed, not with plated silver, but the solid
material. The cloth was white as the
snow the family were seated around in
pheasant expectancy; everything was
smoking hot, and not an article there
but even pampered appetite could rev.
el on. But the mans tavorite dish was
not there. Closer he came to the table
and with the inquiry, "Did you not know
| wanted shad for breakfast" he rails
ed his foot and overturned the whole ia
BILE on the floor


"ltwas at the fire being kept warm for
you replied his noble wife in quiet,
ladylike, conquering way. In an instant
the naughty husband comprehended the
situation the next he was ON his knees
exclaiming, Dear wife, you are nothing
less than an angel born"


Not a great while after that he died
His will was opened; his wife was ex-
eeutor, he left her all he had-S2, 900, 900
Tie above touching story is from Halls
Journal of Health The man who can
read It without dying and leaving his
wife S2,000,000. is brute, and the wo-
man who can read it without forthwith
buying a sha6, is a dove not up to the
wisdom of serpents. 1t is said that on
the day this story appeared in New York.
some fifty thousand more shad were sold
than on any preceding day since the
trade in that fish was first inaugurated.
Broadway, Fifth Avenue. and other Of
the prominent highways were one mass
of women and shad.
Year: 1871

EDITORS CHRONICLE: The suggestion
made by your correspondent, that our
merchants should receive the bills of the
Bank of Tennessee, at their market value,
is worthy of approval and adoption 1t
would at least afford some relief for our
people. The merchants can't possibly be
injured by it,


And permit me to add that it is the
plain, unmistakable, honest duty of the
members of the Legislature to meet the
financial question of the State like men
who are jealous Of the honor of the State.
Our credit as a State is under a cloud.
Suspicion, distrust as to our honesty, pre-
walls everywhere. Our bonds are down
again to siXty-three cents. The result is,
uncertainty, stringency, distress. The rich
and the poor alike feel the evil


What is the remedy? Honest LCgiSld-
ton. Let the Legislature make provision,
by taxation, for the payment of the inter-
est on our bonds. Let the State once more
resume the payment of her obligations.
The burden will be heavy, but not more
so than we bear now. The people will
promptly respond. II is the politicians
who halt and hesitate. The people are in
jured much more by the policy of nom
payment and consequent distrust, strin-
gency and boarding of money, than they
'wOnld be by plain, open, honest pay
ment of our debts, even when done at the
expense of heavy taxation.


We want confidence and credit. Idr-
ation equal to the emergency, will give
these. Money in abundance will flow
swiftly. There is no other remedy.


Let not politicians and demagogues de-
ceive themselves. The people of this great
State can not be trified with always. They
demand relief-not by reputation, either
direct or indirect, but by a manly effort to
meet their obligations at this time, when
it can be done, instead of waiting until our
debt second time becomes appalling by
its magnitude. Now is the most favorable
time we shall ever have. Two years hence
ii will have swollen to size that will be
unmanageable. If we cannot pay all now,
let us at least begin and pay part. What
citizen of the State who does not hide his
face with very shame as he sees, day by
day, the officers of the State, and even the
public Institutions of the State, in rain, of
Year: 1871

HIS ExCUsE.-A Western journal
ist, whose wife had just presented
him with twins. and who, for this
reason was compelled to neglect his
paper for one day, wrote, the day
after, the following excuse: I'VE
were unable to issue our paper yes
terday in consequence of the arrival
of two extra males.
Year: 1871

A Few MORE CURTosrrIEs Dre UP.-A
pickle from the jar on which the door stood.
The knife which the man cut sticks with
when the constable was sfter him. Bio
grsphy Of the man who was killed by the
isll Of shadow. The crust Of magpie.
rafisr from the roof OF the mouth.
Year: 1871

Potatoes are much liiorc nutritious
and palatablo if they arc prorHrly
steamed than they are boiled. Wash
them clean and place them in a steam.
or over boiling water. If the pota-
toes are Of good duality, the secret Of
having them m'cAIy and F.latabIc is
In steamipg them rabidly; nS Wit thout
rapid condensation Of stouln and DO
tention Of steam IN The steamer by n
close lid, the potatoes will be hard
and appear not to be done, however
long they have been cooking. They
should steam until the skin cracks,
and fork will easily penetrate the
centre. IF not to bc brought to the
table soon, they should Continue to
steam until wanted, as steamed po-
tatoes become solid much soor2er than
boiled ones do.
Year: 1871

The first grand fancy and dress ball for
the benefit of the Hibernian Benevolent
and Mutual Aid Association Branch No.
u will be given at Odd Fellows Hall on
Tuesday evening, the twenty-6rst instant


The committee of arrangements are
thoroughly competent to make ample
preparations for one of the best reunions of
the season. Among the names of the floor
managers and reception committee many
are as familiar to US as household words,
and they all understand their duties. We
anticipate one of the finest and most pleas
ant balls that the Crescent City has ever
been favored with. Get your tickets and
Year: 1871

! cannot pick up n newspaper without
Advice to Boys" stares me in the face.
Old men write il | 'sposc. Nobody else
is capable of giving advice to boys, Of
course not They know all about us,
they do. cause they have been there.
Advice is II good thing 10 have, no
doubt, aud no family should be with
out il, but a fellow don't want to he
crammcd with it all the time 10 exclusion
of all other diet.


Now, old men need advice OCCASION
ally, but in looking through the news
papers don't see what they get it, So
l Just thought ! would write little
4" Advice to Old Men" myself, il | am
not prcsuming too much, (as Aunt Chole
says and presume am.


In the first place You old chaps ought
to get over telling how much smarter
boys were when you were boys than boys
are now. You believe it yourself, of
course, cause you've told it SO many
times, but we boys cant see it. We
have notion that boys are boys, pretty
much, Except some are girls the world
over, and one generation of them don t
lay over another generation to any
alarming extent


Only let you tell it, and you could out
run, out jump, our wrestle, and out any
thing else of the rising generation of to-
day, when you was n boy. Grandfather,
who has got Il CONT and half II dozen
different kinds of rheumatism, is always
saying that. heard him singing, the
other day, 81 would | were boy
again. I would he were too. If |
couldn't beat him running and flop him
on his back, side holt, l don't want II
cent.


wouldn't go so far as to say, Par
ents obey your children" but | would
suggest to fathers that they give us IA
hearing occasionally, on matters in
which we are the most Interested party.
Don't make us go and slide down hill
when we want to skate, and don't try to
make preachers of us when we much
prefer to run sawmill


After giving us boys sage advice
about our conduct and how to behave,
you old men ought to be careful how
you get to relating your boyish scrapes
to each other and laughing over them
before we get out of ear shot.
Year: 1871

IMPORTANT TO TANNERs.-A chemist
SAYS that tannic acid is the anhydrou
alcohol of gallic acid, and that the least
purified tannic acid is in fact the best.
1t may not appear to be of much value
to tanners to know that they get "A
peculiar variety of alcohol out of oak
and hemlock bark, but all such know


ledge is likely to be turned to good ac-
count in the long run, Tanners kn W
that the exposure of the extract of bark
to the action of air destroys it for tan
ming purposes. Chemists say OF this
charge that gallic acid is produced,
which no longer has the property Of
coagulating albumen and of rendering
gelatine insoluble III water. If we know
the true chemical nature of tannic acid
we may devise some method of prevent
ing this change into gallic acid, and thus
be enabled to make extracts of barks in
the forests that will bear transportation
and preservation any length of time.
Year: 1871

ROBBERS. s.-The daring of Broadway
robbers far surpasses the boldness with
which the highwaymen of Hounslow
Health used to stop the mail coaches
with their cry of Stand and deliver !!
The very crowd of Broadway is partial
cover for these bold freebooters, for IN
that crowd it is everybodys business to
interfere in nobod else's business.
One afternoon, at the crowded corner of
Broadway and Warren street, two men
tripped apparently and fell. One re-
covered himself first and walked away
without stopping to apologize or to look
out for his companion. Not one in the
crowd paid any attention to the matter
further than to laugh quietly at the mis-
hap. And yet i'll the few seconds OF that
fall one of the men was robbed 10y the
other of thirty-tive thousand dollars.
The tripping and the fall were parts OF
bold plan of robbery thus successfully
carried out.-N T. Paper.
Year: 1871

At first sight it may seem paradoxical
to assert that earthquakes, fearfully de
structive as they have so often proved,
are yet essentially preservatiye and
restorative phen ,mena yet this Is strict
" the case. Had no earthquakes taken
place in old times, man would not now
be living on the face Of the earth if no
earthquakes were to take place in the
future, the term of mans existence
would be limited within "A range of time
far less than that to which it seems like
ly, in all probability, to be extended.
If the solid substance of the earth form
ed a perfect sphere in ante-Seologlc
times-that is, i'll ages preceding those
to which our present geologic studies eX-
tend-there can be no doubt that there
was then no visible land above the sur
face of the water; the ocean must have
formed a uniformly deep covering to the
submerged surface of the solid globe.
Year: 1871

THE TRUE GREEN OLD AGE.-I know
not more beautiful spectacle in the
world than an old man who has gone
with honor through all its storms and
conauests, and who retains to the last
the freshness of feeling that adorned his
youth. This is the true green old age ;
this makes a southern winter of declining
years, in which the sunlight warns,
though the hearts have gone. Such are
ever welcome to the young-and sym
pathy unites, while wisdom guides.
There is this distinction between respect
and veneration the latter has always in
it something of love.-Bu'rer LyttOn.
Year: 1871

THE WAsHINGroS TREATY. The Hall
fax Chronicle says, in reference to the
Treaty of Washington : 1t is we'll
known fact that the Treaty must be rati-
fed by the Canadian Parliament, or else
some such remedy must be taken for this
disguised Stamp Act Immediately by the
Canadians, us that taken by our Ameri-
can cousins when they made gigantic
teapot of Boston Harbor. The British
Parliament has ratified it. President
Grant has in a proclamation announced
the Treaty as fixed fact Who, in the
Dominion, is fool enough to think that
the combined exertions of all the loyal
subjects of Her Majesty, resident IN
Canada, could change one provision OF
the Washington Capitulation
Year: 1871

PAYMENT OF SMAL, BILLs.-The
payment Of small bills, such ss
newspaper subscriptions. is . mat
ter of more importance than is
usually attached to it. There are
not few who. in times when bust.
ness is little depressed. and the
prospects for the future seem more
than usually unsettled, will hold
on to their cash in hand, tell all
the collectors who wait on them
with overdue bills to "call again,"
while the payment would not give
them any serious inconvenience,
and would accommodate q large
and deserving class of creditors.


Indeed, we know nothing that in
q quiet way would 90 so far to
give animation in the markets
throughout the country az the uni !.
versal fulillment Of the OBJ igation
at the first opportunity. If all the
little debts, tor the discharge Of
which the debtors now have the
cash actually in hand, were paid at
once, the wheels of business would
be fabricated, and a general jollity
soon prevail throughout the land. /.
The first serious effect on trade of
any public excitement comes from
the sudden check of those little
streams. 1t is true, the large
transactions are arrested, but if
everybody went on paying those
little deb.s the check would be
momentary, as business would be
forced along by the current thus
continually renewed. Let every
one whose eyes tall on these lines
pay, out his ready money for bills
he knows TO be due, and stop not
until his pockets be emptied.-
Probably before this is realized the
return current will reach his peck
cts too, and he will be able to fill
all his obligations. There is as
much money as ever. Why stop
its flow? Let it move on bv a
prompt payutent OF bills now due,
and new business will catch the
inspiration and start off on q fresh
sallop.- New Rochelle Pioneer.
Year: 1871

This beautiful evening We have
been visiting the home Of poor
man.


He lives in an old, brown un-
painted, one story house, near the
edge OF the city-the city Of La
Crosse. II was not for the pur-
pose of finding something to write
about that we visited him in his
home. but to collect debt; for
i've years ago, soon after he was
married, he borrowed of US one
hundred dollars with which to be.
gin housekeeping. He then tho't
1t were cheaper and better to keep
house than to board that he could
save more and do better if he only
had little start.


One evening, almost five years
ago, with his young bashful wife,
he called at our little sanctum,
farther down town, and told his
story. He told it like a man, with
no whining or hesitancy. Told his
bopes-his plans, his wants and
determination By trade a car
penter, he intended to work his
way to position and in time to earn
home where he could live, raise
bis family. and enjoy life in a ra-
tlOral manner


He was TO pay US in year.
Twelve months went by, and he
wanted US to wait another wear.
To this request earnestly made we
could not say nay When came
the end of the second year, he
could not pay, and he asked for
more time, which was granted.
When came the third year, he
could not pay, and we wrote him
sharp note which we now wish had
never been written.


To this he plead inability, and
asked US to wait another year,
promising TO repay the loan at the
end of the year with interest. But
the fourth year saw him no better
off. so the account ran into the
fifth year, now nearly ended.


This evening we called at his
house. He was there, weary with
the labor of the week. On q bed
in one corner of the dining-room
and bedroom in one, lay his sick
wife, while two little children, in
need "f mothers care, tried to
hide behind each other as if afraid.
On cheap pine table sat q market
basket with soup bone, q loaf of
bread and five little parcels in
brown paper. He had been hold.
ing his wife partly upright with
one arm, and turning the thin pill
low on her bed as we entered the
room. A tired, Eeartsick, dis
couraged look was on his face as
he stepped toward Us shook hands
and asked US to occupy one of the
six hard bottomed chairs in the
room.


We went there to ask him to
Year: 1871

better, or getting along in the
world, to think more and speak
less till they have learned whether
all who are unfortunate or in trou-
BILE have not some good reason for
their lack Of success. Many a
man. struggling under heavy
loads, cramped, ovcrburdened, un.
fortunate, and disheartened IS
blamed, when he is deserving more
Of pity than censure-more Of as :
sistance than condemnation. Let
US all be just if we cannot be lib
eral, and 10 unto others as we
would that others would do by US,
not only here, but beyond that
hour when all secrets shall be
known, all hearts and all eriefs be
laid bare, and we understand each
other better in the beautiful Gar
dens of the Leal beyond the work
Of present life and the other side
of our final Saturday Night. -
"BRIcK" PoMERcY.
Year: 1871

Was compounded for those not inclined to
extreme bitters, and is intended for use in
cases when some alcoholic stimulant is re-
quired in connection with the Tonic proper
ties of the Bitters. Each bottle of the Tor ic
contains one bottle OF the Bitters. combined
with pure SANTA Cruz RUN. and favored in
such manner that the extreme bitterness Of
the Bitters is overcome, forming a prepara.
ton highly agreeable and pleasant to the pal.
ate, and containing the medicinal virtues of
the Bitters. The price of the Tonic is 81 so
per bottle, which manv persons think too
high. They must take into consideration that
the stimulant used is guaranteed to be of a
prre quality. A poor article could be fur
nished at cheaper price, but is it not better
to pay little more and have a good article /?
A medicinal preparation should contain none
but the best ingredients, and they who ex-
pect to obtain a cheap compound will most
certainly be cheated.


They are the Greatest known Rem


edies
For LIVER COMPLAINT, DYSPEPSIA.
NERVOUS DEBILITY, JAUNDICE.
DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS.


ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN,


and all diseases arising from


Disordered Liver,


Stomach, or M


PURITY


of the


BLOOD.
Year: 1871

The ingenuity OF Chinese swindlers is as
peculiar as their childlike simplicity IL the
matter of euohre. They split half dollars,
take out q third of the silver, fill the space
with lead, and close up the cut SO adroisly
that Bill Nye himself couldn't see it.
Year: 1871

\ little boy fell into the water, and would
have been drowned if a man who was near
by had not run quickly to the spot and pulled
him out


" What can do for you, my poor child p
asked the man, looking with pity on the wet
and shiyeriug lad


"Speak a kind word to me sometimes. "
answered the boy, as tears sprung to his eyes.
" / haven't any mother, like some of them. -


Dear children who have pleasant homes and
mothers to care for and love you, are there
any little boys and girls among your play.
mates who have no mother? ? Ifso, be very
kind to them. Their hearts are often hungry
for the love you have in such abundance.
Think Of this lad, who might have asked
money, or clothes or paythngs, but who
crayed love so much more than these that he
said only, Speak kind word to me some.
times
Year: 1871

The old cent is rapidly passing away out
of the United States currency, and it will not


be long before it will only be known in memo
ry and numismatic collections Its history


is matter Of sufficient interest for preserya-
tion. The cent was FIRST proposed by Robert
Morris, the great fnancier Of the revolution,
and was named by Jefferson two years after.
1t began to make its appearance from the
mint in 1892. Ii bore the head of Washing
ton on one eide and thirteen links on the
other. The French revolution soon created a
rage for French ideas, which put on the cent.
instead of the head of Washington, the head
of the Goddess of Liberty--a French Liberty,
with flowing locks. The chain on the reverse
was replaced by the olive wreath of peace
But the French Liberty was short.lived, and
so was her portrait on the cent. The next
head or figure succeeding this----the staid
classic dame with tillet around her hair
same into fashion about thirty or forty years
,go, and her finely chseled Grecian features
rave been but slightly altered in the lapse of
ime
Year: 1871

The ground ofa certain rich man brought


forth plentlully.' His riches we're the eif


OF God, not more truly than are the riches oil


the artlzan or the merchant, but more directly


and Enthusiastically What comes from the


ground comes straight from Gods storehouse
And yet this "rich fool' had never recop.


nized the hand that blessed him This wa.
the first step in his folly.


lie was perpexed to know what to do with
his abundance lIe was troubled with the
common perpexity Of capitaists-how to in.
vest. God gave him the abundance for his
own happiness and for that of others. lie
made it useless to others and a torment TO
himself This was the second step in his fol-
ly. | am told Of families in New York city
who are burdened with silver plate which
they dare not keep at home lest it be stolen.
SO they keep it in the custody Of the Safe
Deposit Company, and eat of plated ware at
home. Do you know no woman whose dresses
are worry TO them, no man Of business
whose invested capital is wearing out their
life, no selfish children whose greed renders
their possessions, their toys, books, cakes.
candies, everything they have, perpetual tor.
ment Are they not, each in his own way
rich fools ?


There was a simple way out Of this FOOLS
perplexlty. II was to distribute Of his
wealth to feed the poor Wealth stored
Is useless. He boarded and stored his wealth
" will pull down my barns and build great
er. His stores were already so great that
he did not know what to do with them. And
he proposed to relieve himself by making
them still greater. The third step in his fol-.
ly. Is not every man fool, however rich.
who knows only how to get, but not how to
give how to acquire. but not how to im.
part2


Instead Of studying how to use his wealth
for others. he considered only how to use it
for himself. But he did not even know how
to do that. Take thine ease eat. drink.
and be merry" In other words he "retired /"
not to devote himself to ease and personal
luxury. Eat drink aye but what of food
for the mind, the affections, the soul? For
that there was no thought Selfshaess is
blind, love far-sighted. He that gives him
sell to eating and drinking is seldom truly or
long merry y and he who deyctes himself to
getting his ease is never easy.


But, biggest folly Of all, he never thought
Of the end. He prided himself on his fore
sight and yet never truly looked forward. As
one who should spend his all in a place on the
side of Mount Nesuvius, or in the pathway
OF the irresistible avalanche, is one who puts
his life energies into that of which death de.
spoils him. Nay worse is his folly. For
esuvius may never again cast out its death
dealing fire, and smoke and lava, and the
avalanche may forget to fall, and the sea
may retire from the shore but death, surer
than sea, avalanche, or volcano, will oyerturn
the best built edifce of earthly materials and
swallow up the best guarded wealth Of gold
and silver
Year: 1871

Never complain of your birth, your
training your employment, your hardships.
Never fancy that you could be something if
you only had different lot assigned you
God understands his own plan, and he under
stands what you want great deal better than
you do. The very things that you deprecate
as fatal limitations or distractions are proba.
bly, what you most want. What YOU call
hindrances, Obstacles discouragementg, are
probably Gods opportunities aud it is moth
ing new that the patient should dislike his
medicines, or any certain proof that they are
poisons. No; truce to all such impatiencc


Check that deviish envy which gnaws your
heart because you are not in the same lot
with others bring down your SOUL or rather
bring il up, to receive Gods will, and do his
work in your lot, in your sphere, under your
obscurlty, against your temptations, and you
will find that your condition is never opposed
TO your good, but really consistent with It.