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Year: 1870

n In nine cases out of ten, no mans life
will be success if he does not bear bur-
dens in his childhood. If the fondness or
the vanity of father or mother kept him
from contact with hard work; if another
always helped him out at the end of his
row iii, instead of taking his turn at
pitching off, he moved away all the time
in short, if what was light always fell
to him, and what was heavy about the
same work to some one else if he has
been permitted to shirk till shirking has
become a habit-unless a miracle is
wrought, his life will be failure, and the
blame will not be half as much his as that
of weak, foolish parents. 81 I
a On the other hand, if boy has been
brought up to do his part; never allowed
to shirk any legitimate responsibility, or
permitted to dodge work, whether or not
II made his back ache, or soiled his hands,
until bearing heavy burdens became a
matter of pride, the heavy end of the
wood his from choice-parents, as they
bid him goodby, may dismiss their fears.
His life will not be business failure. The
elements Of success are his, and at some
time and in some way the world will
recognize his capacity.


TAKE another point. Money is the OBJ
sject OF the worlds pursuit. 1t is legiti-
mate object. Itgives bread, and clothing,
and homes, and comfort. The world has
not judged wholly unwisely when it has
made the position man occupies to
hinge more or less on his ability to earn
money, and somewhat upon the amount of
his possessions. If he is miserably poor,
it either argues some defect in his busi,
ness ability, some recklessness in his ,ex.
penditures, or lack OF fitness to cope with
men in the great battle for gold.


When country bred boy leaves home
it is generally to enter upon some bushes
the end of which is to acquire property
and he will succeed just in proportion a
he has been made to earn and save in hi
childhood.


If all the money he has had has come o.
planting a little patch in the spring, anG
selling its'produce after weary months e
watching and toll in the fall, or from kill
ing woodchucks at six cents head, Of
from trapping musk,rats, and selling
Year: 1870

HIS feet are swelling rapidly, but his
intellect is unimpaired. In converse
ton with him yesterday he expressed a
regret that he had been dug up atall. The
novelty of travel has ceased, and his only
prayer is, "give us rest" Time, and in
fact everything else about him, hangs
heavy on his hands The show business
is wearing on him. He rolled over little
on one side to chow us where it had worn
on him.


1t was humiliating to him, he said, to
leave world of full-grown men, and then,
after the expiration of only thousand
years or 80, come back and find the hui
man race reduced to dwarfs-to be picked
at by pigmies.


He spoke of his travels said that he
felt deeply humiliated in Chicago because
there were so many more hardened men
there than what hewas. He laughed at
the pretense Of Chicago stone cutter
that he cut him out Of gypsum. He was
cut out once-but he was " cut out" of his
girl. We might not believe it, he said,
but, hard as he now is, he was once "soft"
on the girl question. v
"'The first man who came to see me in
. Chicago" continued Mr.. Cardiff, shifting
his position little to rest the tub he was
lying in, "was a Chicago lawyer. He
wanted to know if domestic infelicity
brought me there


7El" l told him no, was brought there by
Colonel Wood.


"Then he wanted to know if lived
unhappily with Mrs. Cardif-said if I
did, and wanted divorce, he would
leave no stone unturned until got one.
I thanked him, and told him Mrs. @. was
all right. She was at home carrying on
the petrification business during my ab-
sence." "


When he was in Cleveland he tried
some of the Cleveland whisky. He felt
as though his inside was eaten away
worse than his outside was. At Colum-
bus one-haf of the people who came to
see him fell to pecking him. He understood
it when informed that the Penitentiary
was located there. They were so used to
pecking stone they couldn't avoid it when
opportunity offered.


Mr.. Cardiff wasn't prepared to say how
he liked Cincinnati; hadn't been here
long enough to form an opinion. He re-
gretted that Hines sleeping beauty" was
here at the same time. If he had known
that estimable young lady was coming he
would have kept away. He believed in
people in the same line of business not in
terfering with each other He wouldn't
attempt any rivalry with her, not if he
nude it. 8sEh
TIE a casual remark that he would find
the weather very hot here, he remarked
that he expected it-he came dressed ex-
pressly for hot weather, and in fact had a
trunk full of just such clothes as we saw
him in. Ee said he could spruce up as
well as anybody when he wanted to.


He holds himself subject to the "code,'
and if any one feels aggrieved at any
thing they have said about him they car
always find him in his Office by paying 8
quarter of dollar at the door.-CSncin
matt Times, al
Year: 1870

THE practice of beginning to cut the
grasses as soon as they are fairly in bios
som is rapidly gaining favor. This favored
time comes to many fields in this latitude,
from the middle to the last of JuGe.
With the improved implements of hay
making-the horse mower, rake and ted
der-it is not difficult now for the farmer
to gather all his hay crop at the time when
it makes the most nutritious fodder. The
early cured grass does not give so heavy
a Weld of hay to the acre at one cutting,
and the same bulk will not weigh so much
as the grass cured tive or three weeks
later. But very careful experiments show
that the hay thus treated is much more
nutritious it is rel1shed better by all kinds
of neat stock, and nothing is left in the
manger. This tender, sweet hay, is par
ticuiarly important for sheep and young
stock in the winter. If it do not bring
so much in market or at the stables, at
least the hay that is retained for home
use should be early cut. 1t does not ex-
haust the soil so much as where the seeds
are allowed to mature. If the ground is
very rich it allows of second cutting in
August. If not, it makes heavy after
math, and shelters the roots of grass In
the winter. The practice is increasing &
among our rejecting farmers, which is
pretty good evidence that it is safe 10 fol-
ow.-AmerSc0n Ag1acatltala'Sst. ..ss,,os
Year: 1870

rEsRlroRIAL PksoS.-The Territory of Arizona is greatly in need of some sort of a prison, in which to oonfne criminals, and, as certain portion of the Internal Revenue collected in the Territory is to be used in the erection of prison buildings, we have q slight desire to know how much, if any, cash is now on hand for that purpose. We have yet to learn that our so-called efficient Delegate in Congress has pressed this prison matter, and have commenced to think that he has quito forgotten it.
Year: 1870

IT seems that after the death of General Thomas, Gen. Hancock wished to he placed in command of the military division of the Pacific, and would have been but for an old grudge which President Grant harbored against him, The President says that Han cock did not treat him with sufficient cour- tesy at the time he visited Washington, after his course in Louisiana had been disapproved by Grant and Cabinet
Year: 1870

TIE Atlantic and Pacific Railroad compa- ny are hard at work, building their road to- wards the Pacific via the 55th Parallel route, and the chances are that ir will be the first southern road to strike the Pacific. The Company is composed of wealthy, energetic men.
Year: 1870

Mark Twain says of his horse: 81
have horse now by the name of Jer-
ichO. He is q mare. have seen re-
markable horses before but none 81
remarkable as this. / wanted horse
that would shy, and this one fills the
bill. had an idea that shying indi-
Gated spirit. If it is correct, l have
got the most spirited horse on earth.


He SHES at everything he comes
across with the utmost partiality. He
appears to have mortal dread of tel
egraph poles, especially; and it is for
tunate that these are on both sides OF
the road, because, as it is now, | new
er fall of twice in succession on the
same side. If fell on the same side al
ways it would get mOnotOnOus after u
while. The creature has SHE'D at ev-
ery-thing to-day except a hay-stack.
He walked up to that with an intrep-
idity ard recklessness that was aston
ishing. And it would fill any one with
admiration to see how he preserv-
ed his self-pOssessiOn in the presence
of a barley stack. This daredevil
bravery will be the death of this horse
some day. He, is not particularly fast
but / think he will get me through
the Holy Land. He has only one
fault. His tail has been chopped off,


or else he has set down on it too hard
some time or other, and has to fight
the flies with his heels. This is al
very well, but when he tries TO kick q
fly off the top of his head with his
hind foot, it is too much of a variety.
He is going to get himself into trou-
BILE that way some day. He reaches
around and bites my legs, too. | don't
care particularly about that, only J
don't like to see q horse too sociable. y
Year: 1870

Till we have reflected on il, we are
scarcely aware how much the sum of
human happiness in this world is in
debted to this one feeling-sympathy.
We get cheerfulness and vigOr, We
scarcely know how or when, from mere
association with our fellOw-men, and
from the looks reflected on us of glad


ness and enjoyment. We catch inspi-


ration and power to 90 on, from hu-
man presence and from cheerful looks.
The woman works with added energy
having others by. The full family cir


Gle has strength and a life peculiarly
J its own. The substantial good and
the effectual relief which men extend
to one another is trifling. 1t is not by
these, but by something far less costly
that the work is done. God has insur-
/ ed it by much more simply machine
~, He has given to the weakest and
the poorest power to contribute large
I Iy to the common stock Of gladness
+ The ehild's smile and laugh are mighty


powers in this world. When bereave-


ment has left you desolate, what sub
stantial benefit is there which makes


coincidence acceptable? 1t can bestow


upon you nothing permanent But
: warm hand has touched yours, and lis
thrill told you that there was living


response there to you: emotion. One
look, one human sigh, has done moro
for you than the cOstliest present


could convey.
Year: 1870

A New York correspondent gives
the following incident to illustrate the
manner in which trials are conducted
in New York:


Two or three years ago an acquaint-
ance of mine had occasion to indulge
i'm one of those expensive luXGries, q
lawsuit. He retained lawyer and
told him what he could prove. The
latter told him it was of very little
difference what could be shown, but it
was of great Importance to get the
case in the right court. If it should
go before Judge A, said he, We shall
lose it, as he is a personal enemy of
mine, and once opposed him in an
election. Judge B. might be all right,
bu. he cannot be trusted, as the other
side might bid higher than we could,
and we shouldn't know what he was
intending until after the decision was
given. But Judge c., is just the man
we want. He is an old friend OF mine
and can rely on him. He doesn' I
want money so much as he does polit-
ical influence, and he knows that
have a great deal of it. Things We're
so manipulated that the case went in
| to the particular court that the lawyer
desired, and when the trial came,
everything was lovely and turned cat
exactly as predicted.
Year: 1870


Is there no secret place on the face Of the
earth
Where charity dwelleth, where virtue hath


birthG
Where bosoms in mercy and kindness viii


heaye,
And the poor and the wretched shall " ask


and receiver
Is there no place on earth where a knock


from the poor
VIII bring kind angel to open the door ?
All! search the wide world wherever you


can,
There is no open door for a mOneyless man!
Go look In yon hall where the chandeliers


light
Drives of with its splendor the darkness Of


night;
Where the rich, hanging velvet, in shadOwy


fold,
Sweeps gracefully down with its trimming


ofgOld,
And the mirrors Of silver take up and
g renew,
In long lighted yistas, the wildering view
Go there In your patches, and ind if you


can
y NtHCDllAuE SllAiG lOA "A lhbnNl Aeno man.
Go look in yon church Of the cloud-reachins


splre,
Which gives back TO the sun the same look


OF red fire;
Where the arches and columns are gorgeous


within,
And the walls seem as pure as a soul with


out sin;
Go down the long aisle--see the rich and the


great
In the pomp and the pride of their worldly


estate
Walk down In your patches, and find, II


you cen,
Who opens pew for a moneyless man.
Go look to yon judge in his darlr-fiOwIng


gown:
With the scales wherein law weigheth


equity down,
Where he frowns en- the weak and smiles


ON the strong,
and Furnishes right while he justifies wrong,
Where jurors their lips on the Bible have


laid,
To render a verdict they've already made
Go there, in the courtroom, and find If you


can,
Any law for the cause Of mOneyless man!
Go look in the banks, where mammon has


told
His hundreds and thousands of silver. and


gold;
Where safe from the hands of tho starving


and poor,
Lies pile upon pile ofthe glittering ore;
Walk up TO the counter--ah, there your may


stay
Till your limbs grew old, and your hairs


turn grey
And yonII find at the.banks not one of the


elan
With money TO lend to q moneyless man!
Then go to your hOvel: no raven has fed
The wife who has suffered too long for her


bread;
Kneel down by her pallet, and kiss the death


frost
From the lips OF the angel your poverty lost;
Then turn i'm your agony upward TO God,
And bless, while it smites you, the ehasten-


ing rod;
And you'll find at the end of your life's little


span,
There's a welcome above for a mOneyless
Year: 1870

In conversation with u very intelli-


gent and accomplished lady from


Maine, . few days since, / learned the
following facts, which throw shadows
of q sad romance over the Oneida dis
aster. Commander Williams, the
highest officer oil the vessel, and one
Of the lost, was q widOwer of some


thing less than forty, and the father


of two bright little children. In May


last he contracted an engagement for
Il second marriage, which was to have


taken place very soon after the arri-
val of the Oneida in this country. /
believe ii 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 a dinner party
ut which my informant and the afli-
anced bride were also present. Had


he returned safely be would have
known a fate which his brave heart
would not have met with the cool


courage that faced death, at his post


on the quarterback. Since the first
of January his two children and his
intended wife have died. When he


left Japan he had rot heard this sad


news, but supposed he was coming
home to meet them in health and


happiness. So to one, ut least, of the
gallant men who went down on the
III fated steamer, death cannot be call
ed Disaster Wash. Cor Gin. Enquire.
Year: 1870

Similar sentiments animate our
heart when we recall that ancient


distich, ''Early to bed and early to


rise"-but it is not necessary to quote
what we all know and have suffered
from - 11lllIefOn's .IOgrQnl
Year: 1870

ly be missed, for the good housewife fitted for
her sphere, is the true gcntlcwoman. We
would not have the reader infer that we place
low estimate upon woman's literary attain
mcnts from what we have now said. Far 9th
erwis9 for we would have every marriage
able woman, especially, liberally educated in
the largest sense of that phrase that is to
say, that she should be instructed in the mys-
tcres of housewifery as well as in the arts,
sciences, literature and all aesthetic accomplish.
ments. But blue who knows nothing of
housekeeping, is not help-mect for any man,
who has stomach rs well as soul TO be
cared for during his sojourn on earth. The
stomach has about as much 20 do with the
formation Of the character and the reputation
of man as his creed. Hence, the cook is
about as essential to tho success ofintellcctual,
moral and religious culture as the curate.
Year: 1870

Thomas Dick puts the boarding of
wealth in this striking way;


Suppose a man could lay up stock of
clothes and provisions sufficient TO last
him for three hundred years, what
would it avail him, since he can live at
most but from seventy to one hundred
years? Suppose he had laid up in
storehouse seventy thousand pairs of
shoes, 10 what end would it serve, if he
could make use, during his whole life, of
only the one-hundredth part of them
He would be in the same condition as
the man who had hundred dishes plac-
ed before him at dinner, but who could
only partake of one; or of person who
his residence, but who could occupy but
one. How ridiculous it would appear if
all that could be said of man while he
lived was simply this-that his whole
life was occupied in collecting and lay
ing up in store house sixty thousand
mahogany chairs which were never i'll.
tended 10 be used for the furniture Of
apartments, or eighty thousand airs of
trowsers, which were never TO be worn =?
And where is the difference In point of
nationality and utility, between such alb
surd practices, and boarding thousands
of guineas and bank notes, which are
never brought forth for the benefit Of
mankind. There is no conduct connect
ed with the pursuits of human beings,
that appears more absurd aud wicked
than such practices (however common),
if examined by the dictates of reason
and the word of God.
Year: 1870

On Monday evening the water waa
drawn from the public cistern near the
corner of Spring and Water streets, by
the engines throwing wafer on the fire
at Neiderlander's tannery. This cistern
is supplied from the spring in the cellar
of the manutaotory of Potts q Son.
Before turning the water on, the Chief
Engineer of the Fire Department made
a careful inspection of the cistern. There
was but little water in it, aud he was
surprised TO see on the bottom wall or
cement, plainly marked out in the sedi.
ment the form of man, lie at once
called the persons in the vicinity, and all
pronounced the figure the remains Of q
man In the midst of the excitement Q
long pole was procured and with this 10
was demonstrated that the mysterious
form was only sediment on the bottom
thrown into this shape, The pole waa
passed across the figure in every way
and long marks made but as soon as the
water was still enough for the sediment
to settle there was the hideous figure
again terrible in its ghastliness. InyeRti.
galion showed that there were no bones,
no substance we may say, about this
shape, This did not account Tor its
shape, however, and during the forenoon
there were all surts of stories told aheut
the wonder and all sorts of theories nd.
yanced.-Ohio STATE Journal l-a
Year: 1870

Hardly anything is more contemplate
than the conceit that rests merely on So
oial position-the conceit Of those who
imagine that tLey arc thus divorced
from the clay of common men, of those
who shrink with horror from the idea of
work, as something which degrades by
its very contact, and yet who very like
ly owe their present position to some not
very remote ancestor, who recognizing
his call to work, lived more honestly in
the world than they do, and was not a.
shamed of soiled thumbs. 1t is one OF
the meanest things for people to be a.
shamed of work from which they draw
their income, and which glorIfed their
ancestors more with soiled aprons and
black gowns, than themselves with their
fine ribbons and flashing jewelry. 1t
might be a fine thing to be like the lilies.
Advantageous position is only more
emphatic call for work; and while those
who hold the advantage may not be com
PEELED to manuel drudgery, they should
recognize the fact that manual drudgery
NAV be performed in the same spirit as
that which characterizes their own work
and therefore, that it is equally honest.


Peoples Journal.


A noble sentiment to be sure, but arraut
nonsense in any other view than that of mere
sentiment. When you come to talk about
work as any thing more or less than drudge
ry--people very naturally laugh-perhaps in
the sleeye-that there is any one green enough
to suppose there Is any virtue in that sort OF
thing
Year: 1870

The progress of our national unity is shown
in many ways. A significant one just now, is
the dropping Of the title, Southern" by the
Commercial Convention at Cincinnati, last week,
and the substitution Of sNatonal.' This is
right we are one nation.
Year: 1870

Some wag at Cincinnati ann ounced that a
certain excursion by rail was free to the
public. and that lunch would be served.
Long before train time the lunch friends
crowded q, the depot, and the managers
were in despair. plan was devised, and
an announcement made which iured all the
dead beats on to train just starting tor
another point, to be put off a. way stations
unless they paid their fare. Then the ez
c1rslonists wen. off and had good time.
Year: 1870

Miss Phelps, whose success began with
Gsses Ajar, is said te be making more
money than any American female writer .
and vet during her school days she was con.
sldered the most stupid in her class
Year: 1870

second, and the DenOuement.


In the Commercial of June Is was published
an account of the rather novel manner in which
young man of this vicinity settled forty
dollar boarding account in Perryopolis, Fayette
county, by marrying his landlady, widow of
three-sc and ten years. In that account it
was related how the young husband, aged but
90 was seen early in the morning following the
tying of the nuptial knot, with carpet-bag in
one hand and step-son's boots in the other, pc
discriminating in the direction of
Laytons Station on pn the the connes
of time he reached his home in Birmingham
and privately informed his friends how sick he
had become of married life. Since the publica-
tion of the first and, as it was then believed, the
only chapter in that singular transaction, addi-
tional facts have come to light which place the
affair in quite different aspect. The first
chapter did nothing more than to present the
amusing feature of youth of twenty welded to
a very aged widow, and all because he owed
not flor lodge" but for lodging and for hash.
Now for chapter second and the denouenlent: =
Finding herself suddenly deserted so soon
after the nuptias, the wife of few hours set
on foot such investigation as enabled her, within
a week from the time of the gay Lotharios
disappearance, to trace out his whereabouts.
With this valuable C) piece of information the
old lady at once proceeded to Birmingham,
where she found her 'long lost" and induced
end is not yet. The startling discovery has been
made that there resides woman on the South
Side" young and fair, who is the lawful wife OF
the young and expeditions settler of board
bills. And more, the young wife has learned
the worst, and is now puzzling her brain with
sundry hard conundrums, such as "Why has
he neglected herr" and "Why has he aban-
noned the dominion of youth and beauty for
that of age and decrepitude 2" Evidently that
young wife has never experienced the difficult
cash. If she knew all it is not probable that
she would now be indulging in foolish exhorta-
tions to the young scamp TO return to her, and
in her pure embrace to soothe his bruised heart,
and to accept the bitter past as wholesome me-
dicine. On the contrary, she would feel strongly
inclined to give him bruised head and to pray
that no medicine would cure it.


This chapter leaves the youth in the custody
of the old woman at Perryopolis, and the reader
may patiently await further developments.
Pitsbur0 Commercial,
Year: 1870

"A young mechanic from London, Canada, q
few days since made several Intellectual attempts
to plunge into the spirit land by throwing him
self, head foremost upon heap of sharp
pointed stones, because he failed to procure en-
ployment and had made an appointment to
meet his young vile on the following Saturday.