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Year: 1871

All the little boys in this coun.
try will, iD few years, be grown.
In years and size, they will be
men ; but tEey must not conclude
that because in the course of fifteen
or twenty years they will be men
in the size OF their bodies, that they
will be men in every respect. 1t
takes more than large bodies to
make man. There are great
many. persons that have large bod
les, and are grey headed with age,
that are not men in the highest
sense of the word. They act more
like brutes than men, and ought
rather TO be called brutes.


. Sometimes We see old grey head.
ed persons tottering from side to
side under the influence of whis-
ky and sometimes we see them
lying on the road in the mud, all
covered with filth and dirt. Does
this look like the acts of man, or
is not more like the actions of a
hog2


Now, boys, if you want to be
men and not hogs, you must have
nothing to do with that vile thing
they call whisky. If You com
nence using it at all, you will soon
be ruined. You cannot practice
law and be drunkard. No one
would be willing to trust you with
his case. Whisky will unfit you
for practicing medicine. Who
would take medicine from a drunk.
ards a drunken physician might
give a sick man morphine instead
Of quinine, ani kill him. There is
no trade or profession you can
choose but drinking whisky will
unfit you to follow it with success.
All those persons who make it a
habit to get drunk, soon lose the
respec. and confidence of their fel.
low men, and most of them die i'm
poverty. If you would see the eff.
tects of drinking whisky, look at
the face of some old drunkard.
His eyes are red and his cheeks
swollen. When he talk he says a
great many foolish things, and al.
ways, when under the influence of
drink, he does great many wick
ed deeds. He spends his money
for things that never does his fam.
lily any good.


There is another thing, boys,
You must do if you would he loved
and respected. You must, by ali
means, be pleasant in your man
ners to everybody. If you com.
mence speaking harsnly to those
whom yon meet, or acting proudly
towards them, you will gain their
dislike, and before you know it,
every one who has any business.
with You will hate you and speak
i'll Of you. 1t is just as easy to
smile as it is to trown. A smile
will make you friends. and frown
will make you enemies.


If the boys of the present gener-
alton would become great and good
m'n, they must treat religion and
good people with reverence. No
boy need think that he can despise
religion and secure the confidence
of good and sober people. 1t is
impossible. The man who sneers
at the religion of Jesus Christ is
doing that which will ruin all his
prospects for this world and the
next. The wise man advises us to
fear God and keep his command
ments. All those who follow his
advice do well. They live below
ed and respected by all who know
them, and when they die their
neighbors all weep.


IOrB3nIIe Eoo,y:.ao,
Year: 1871

lucy are now making a new
patent lock for the United States
mail bags. When fastened, a
numbered plate of glass covers
the keyhole, and this glass has to
be broken before the bag can be
unlocked or tampered with.
Year: 1871

banks in manner so uniform and
measured as to CONCEAL around the
edges OF the great lake, and build for
itself barrier around the fearful cal
dron of fire. The lava thus walled in,
gradually roso many feet above the
level where ! and others stood, at first
quite unconscious of the terrific process
that was going on so near us. The fiery
waves, tapping over the margin, con-
gealed where they fell, and thus builded
up, little by little, their inclosing wall.
The surface ofthe sea of fire was elevated
about thirty feet above the level Of tho
bottom of the crater IL was boiling
mass of fluid lavas, half q mile in diam
eter, that surged and Numbered and
sent down threatening roar. Splashes
Of liquid fire, hurled over tho margin
of its combining barrier, fell among our
company. Warned by this danger, we
withdrew to short distance, and
awaited the breaking forth of the i'm
prisoned fire. We had hardly gained
our new point Of observation before the
lava wall gave way in two places with
a laundering crash and roar, and from
each of the rents thus made q torrent of
liquid fire poured over a cliff fifty feet
high, into a rough channel of former
flow. Roaring, glowing, smoking, and
wreathed in blush flames, it ground
along the lava channel with a peculiar
dull thunder, that was caused by the
ponderous weight of the motion mass.
1t Tapped up huge rocks and bore them
away upon its surface; I could SEQ them
oscillate slugglshly upon the red river,
and finally melt and sink into it like so
much wax. The power and splendor
of this sudden display, the fierce sweep
of the mighty torrent, the strange pro-
cess that had heaped up the flood of
lava to disgorge it with such resistless
power, all made spectacle never to be
forgotten by any of the party who
witnessed it.-Dr. Z. NJ. Coan, IN Serb
3ler's for OcfOJer
Year: 1871

portaDt or what possible use In a
pulpit can any man be whose weeks arc
FILTERED away in mean cares and dirty
economies? Every month, or every
quarter.day, every pastor should be
sure that there will be placed in his
hands, as his just wages, money enough
to pay all his expenses. Then, without
a sense of special obligation to anybody
he can preach the truth with freedom,
and prepare for his public ministrations
without distraction. Nothing moro
cruel to a pastor, or more disastrous to
his work, can be done than to force
upon him feeling of dependence upon
the charities of his flock. Tho Office of
such Il man does not rise in dignity
above that of court.fool. He is the
creature of tho popular whim, and a
preacher without influence to those who
do not respect him or his Office suili-
GENTLY to pay him the wages due to a
man who devotos his life to them.
Manliness cannot live in such man,
except it be in torture-a torture en-
dured simply because there are others
who depend upon the charities doled
out to him.


Good, manly pastors and preachers
do not want gifts: they want wages.
1t is not kindness to exc out insufii-
cient salaries by donation parties and
by benefactions from the richer MEM
bers of flock. 1t is not merit, as
they seem to regard it, for parishes or
individuals to do this. 1t is an ac-
acknowledgement of indebtness which
they are too mean to pay in business
way. The pastor needs it and they
owe it, but they take to themselves the
credit of benefactors, and place him in
an awkward and false position. The
influence of this state of things upon
the world that lies outside of the sphere
of Christian belief and activity is bad
beyond calculation. We have had
enough of the patronage of Christianity
by halfscofiing, half.tolerating world.
If Christians do not sufficiently recog-
nize the legitimacy of the pastors call
ing to render him fully his just wages,
and to assist him to maintain his inde-
pendence before the world, they must
not blame the world for looking upon
him with a contempt that forbids ap-
proach and precludes influence. The
world will be quite ready to take the
pastor at the valuation of his friends,
and the religion he teaches at the price
its professors are willing to pay, in a
business way, for its ministry. Il.
G. Holland, IN Scri5ner's for October.
Year: 1871




A misunderstanding mistake is made
when pastors and people fail to estab-
lish and maintain between each other
a business relation just as Independent
Of the spiritual as it is possible to make
it. The physician may be, and in null
titudcs of instances is, the dearest family
friend; but he lives by his profession,
and his services have recognized
money value which he expects to re.
ceivc without a question. He would
prefer, perhaps, to render his services
without reward, especially to those
whom he loves /; but he has mouths to
feed and provision TO make for rainy
days, and for the days of helplessness
that come at last to all. So, though
love and sympathy, and selfdenial for
love and sympathy's sake may have
actuated him in all his daily round of
duty, he goes home at night, takes
down his blotter, and enters his charges
as formally as if he had been selling
farm produce or tin-ware.


There is a feeling in many parishes
that it is gift by whatsoever any
pastor may be profited by them, that
a pastor earns nothing, and that in all
things he is the beneficiary Of the parish.
To make his matter thousand times
worse, there are pastors not few who
take the position to which the parishes
assign them, and assist in perpetuating
the mistake. They are men whose
hands are always open to receive what
ever comes who delight in donation
parties, and who grasp right and left,
with unsuitable greed, at gifts. They
become so mean spirited that they do
not like to pay for anything, and do
not really think it right that they
should he called upon to pay for any
thing. They are sponges upon their
people aud the community. Wherever
they happen to be, they " lie down u
on the brethren. There is nothing OF
value that they are not glad to receive,
and there is nobody that they are moi
glad TO be indebted to for favors. Some
times they are extravagant, and have
graceless way of getting into debt
out of which they are helped yearly
and out of which they expect to bt
helped yearly. The ablect meannes'
into which n pastor can sink, and the
corresponding and consequent power
lcssness into which he can descend, find
too frequent illustration among tho
American ministry. 1t is shocking and
sickening that there are some men who
seem forced by their parishes to live IL
this way, and it is still more disgusting
to find men who seem tolerably com
Portable and contented while living II
this way. If a man is fit to preach, h,
is worth wages. If he is worth wages
they should be paid with all the bust
ness regularity that is demanded ant
enforced in business life. There is M
man in the community who work


harder for the money he receives THAI


the faithful minister There Is no mai
in whose work the community Is In


terested-to whom regular wages, tina


shall not cost him thought, are so In
Year: 1871

THE best way to get help In this
world is to help yourself. Show that
you need aid, and all turn cold she
der; but prove that you can do witt
folks, and they will beg to givo "
lift.
Year: 1871

ANOTHER New MovEMENT.-We print
under our political head a statement made
by the Richmond correspondent Of the
Petersburg Inder to the effect that paper
is in circulation in the capital calling on
the people to send delegates to a conven.
tion in that city. We give also the COM
ments Of the Dispatch, which, in opposing
the "new movement" seems to regard it
as one inaugurated by the "Bourbons /"
who opposed 'the withdrawal of Colonel
Withers." AS one of those who adhered TO
the Conservative party as originally formed
to the last moment, we protest against
having this premature movement fastened
upon those with whom we acted and we
trust that the gentlemen who are beginning
this business, assuming the movement to
be really on foot, will wait for the people to
express their wish for convention before
presuming to suggest such movement or
to arrange Its details.


We have right to be heard in this mat
ter, and insist, in the name of Tidewater
Virginia, that the harmony of our party
shall not be invaded in advance Of any ne
cessity for reorganization. There are
many reasons which might be urged in
support of this reasonable position, but we
content ourselves with Offering one. This
is found in the fact that our able and dan
gerous enemy, the State Journal, has per-
sistenlly called for the reorganization of the
opposition party in Virginia. Its reason
for this has recently been furnished in the
following significant paragraph which, in
an unguarded moment, it allowed to betray
its whole plan of action
!. "There are many citizens Of this state,' y
says the Journal, "who Will never, under
any circumstances, consent to act again
with what once was the Democratic party,
and what Is still called by that designation,
though the appeliation has lost its former
Significance" -,...5s


Let us whit. When the Presidential
canvass is fairly under weigh, then Virginia
will grayitate into her proper position. To
hurry her people will be unWise and 1nJu
irions.--NorJolk Nrgntan.
Year: 1871

The celebrated case of Edmund Z. Ely
against n. G. Wilcox to remove cloud
from title to the above tract, was tried upon
its merits in the Circuit Court here this
week, before Judge Clough. Hiram Hayes
appeared as attorney for the plaintiff, and
T. Clark for the defendant. The decision
of the Court was full and final against Will
cox, aud prohibits him from asserting any
right or title to the premises. AS Wilcox
has been beaten several times before in both
the Circuit and Supreme Courts, it is not
likely that he will appeal from this last de-
cision, and the long litigation in regard to
Ely's addition, is in all probability at an
end
Year: 1871

GIVE liberal support to your paper, cit
lzens and property owners of Superior. 1t
has stood up for your rights when you were
otherwise helpless as a community, and has
averted many crafty blow at your best
interests. 1t has proved itself your friend
before asking your support. Show that you
appreciate its services, and reward it's fidel-
ity. The paper is not published to make
money, but to give our rights and interests
a voice. Aid then is It's necessary support.
1t is the best investment for the money that
any property owner here can make. There
IS no surer proof Of the public spirit that
ensures success than liberal patronage of
the home paper
Year: 1871

self by. She also beat Uncle Sam in diplo.
macy, beat him shametully, by shaping the
negotiations so as to admit of her carryino
on the canal work before she should com
plete dixie; as if, to compel her first to
make the dixie, which under any circum.
stances would be an unnecessary and dam
aging obstruction TO the navigation Of the
Bay, was not sufficiently oppressive on
Wisconsin interests, nor sufficiently derog-
atory to the providence of the Government
Engineers, whose wise and liberal plans
were thus summarily set aside And here
in too, incontestably, she beat the man who
was found in his neighbor's cellar stealing
the man for his crime, in spirit Of chris
tian charity told him that there was no oc-
casion for his resorting to such irregular
prac tees to relieve his wants. "I know
he says, that you are poor man, but
rather than have you go on in this wicked
course, promise you that if you will not
steal any more, and will come to me in hog
killing time, [ will give You hog; will you
do it?" |'Yes,' said the other with the
dellberation becoming a bargaincr, "I'll do
it, but | shall lose pork by the operation. :"
Had this fellow been gifted with the trpe
Duluthian 6 Cheek he would have at least
stipulated for the right to steal between
hog killing times


Did our space permit, we might go on to
show how Duluth bad beaten the State of
Wisconsin also, IN its relations to all these
matters-relatlons involving deeply the
honor, dignity and material interests of the
State. Had our State been an independent
nation, and been thus assaled by another
power, undoubtedly war would have been
the result, had not reparation and apology
promptly followed demand for the same;
and since under the system which binds
the states together, that remedy is denied
to an aggrieved member of the Union,
some compensatory provision under which
the same ends can be obtained must of
necessity exist, else the system is failure.


We might point out further how Duluth
has beaten Wisconsin by opposing success
fully the revival of land grant for the ben
eft OF a railroad projected to Superior, and
then using the fact that there is no railroad
a. Superior, as the grand reason why Con-
gress and the Departments should con-
stantly discriminate against that place in
all measures affecting interests common to
it and Duluth. But without dwelling at
greater length at this time on this subject,
we admit that DuIuth's G victories" hither-
to have been considerable. AS the Empire
was Napoleon, we don't know but the
United States is Duluth. Proctor Knotts
speech did her no injustice; and had he
known her better, and employed the ver
nacular of his region instead of the suited
rhetoric which distinguished his effort, he
would have said of her-its rlght smart"
of settlement, and has cheap" Of impu-
dence, and some mighty ''peart" operators.
Year: 1871

WHEN you are looking around for good
place to invest in, always go where there is
an enterprising city council that is not
afraid to vote hundred thousand dollars
every few days, for great international i'm
provements 1t may make you sweat as a
tax payer, but it will develope your man.
hood and make you publc-spirited. After
you have paid 500 per cent. on the cost of
your fancy lots for fancy digyings on the
hill, under the hill, and under the water,
you will not want to sell out, and by a
strange coincidence no one will want to
buy you out. If you live long enough, the
council viii vote their bonds for a cemetery,
and the last diggings in which you are in
terested will be at ''the expense of the
city"
Year: 1871

The Duluth papers are not agreed at
present as to whether it is best to lie or tell
the truth. One Of them has been acknow-
edging lately that our harbor is filling up.
The other sheet mods and winks for that
talk to be stopped. cit is not polite y
OF course not 1t is the Duluth canal that
is destroying cur harbor and it is not poll
tic to say anything about it till after all u-
functions are safely passed. Go on, Nit
chell. More about shoal water. Louder
on the bar. Never mind Doc.
Year: 1871

INVENTION is active. Express trains
scoop up water supply at full speed; and
use an air brake by which they can stop in
one-third of the usual distance. A new
propeling wheel on steamers dispenses with
rudders, and with the usual swell and wash
of water, making canal steaming practica-
bic. A revenue cutter on this pan is build
ing at Buffalo, N. Y.
Year: 1871

Perrys Insurance office is removed to the west Cor
of Nettleton Avenue and Second Street and open
ed for business every day


Now is the time to insure. The late disastrous fire
should impel those who have property that will burn
to seek indemnity. Delay has proved dangerous. The
Etna and Andes are live Companies, and policy in
either would prove great blessing after being burned
out "Get the best" WILLIAM r. PERRY Agent.


Superior Dec. 9th 1870
Year: 1871

If we are ovERsrocKED in anything it is in Grocer
les and Provisions, Of which we keep a Good STOCK,
consisting of CHOICE and FANCY GROCERIES,
as well as STAPLES. In this line we would call
special attention to our TEAS, which we think are
not exceled by anything in the market


Is When visiting our store, if you do not see what
you want, ASK FOR TT
Year: 1871

WE are getting somewhat tired of seeing
that notorious LIE distributed over the
country that the Minnesota hamlet at the
northwest corner of Lake Superior is the
terminus of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Now that the n. p. bonds are pretty we'll
the conditions Of the n. 2. land grant will
carry it inevitably to Montreal river. II
the n. L even passes through Duluth it
will lose over a hundred miles of that grant.
And as to branches, we know of an air line
branch and noble harbor, that will save a
certain North Shore burg all trouble about
providing for the permanent lake transfer
business Of the n. L.


Let all the country know that the wide
ly distributed maps, and speeches., that
represent Duluth as the terminus of the
Northern Pacific are fagrant misrepre-
sentation Of the facts. Ground was broken
for the n. 2. in February 1870 at a
point in the unbroken wilderness 26 miles
west of Duluth and % west of Supe-
rior. The terminus has since been remov-
ed a mile further from Duluth, but not an
inch further from Superior. The n. 2. is
using the Duluth track at present as it is
the only one to the lake. But they have
done nothing whatever toward making Du-
luth their terminus. This is well known
fact in this region. People have a right to
buy in Duluth if they wish to run the risk,
but it is we'll for them to remember that all
the long -winded talk which assumes that
place as the eastern terminus of the North
ern Pacific r. R. is a fasehood out and out.
We know what we are talking about. We
nope the Duluth editors will not oyerwhelm
us with proof on the other side of the ques-
ton. We should feel badly if they did.
Year: 1871

For some time past it has been rumored
about Fl Crook that the Indians were
threatening general outbreak against the
whites, but little attention has been paid
to the matter This week, residents of
the upper Sacramento and lower Pit river
inform us that there. is great commotion
among the Indians, and that representa-
tives from the Medoes, Goose Lakes, Piutes,
and Snakes, have lately been among the
McCloud and Sacramento River bands try
ing to induce them to agree to join in a
war against the whites. Should an out
break occur, it would probably result in the
murder of number of settlers in isolated
neighborhooda, and the plunder of their
houses, but the idea of regular war on the
part of the Indians, to drive out the whites,
Is preposterous at this late day. 1t is ad-
yisable to watch the treacherous fascals in
this county, however, as they may hatch up
an alliance with the wild Indians by which
they will be admitted into the settle
ments and allowed an opportunity tol IN
dulge in their propensity to murder and
rob the defenseless. As long as there is a
buck Indian alive in the county, there
will be mischief committed or centempla-
kod
Year: 1871

The head of Vermont railroad shop
was applied to for permission to work on
Fast Day, by couple of men noted for
their laziness Permission was given,
"for," says the chief, "you can't either of
you work hard enough to break the day"
Year: 1871

Editor Democratic Statesman


Say to your readers to be of good
cheer. The goal is nearly reached.
In few more months the oppressed,
harrassed, bur'iened and over-taxed
people of Texas will regain their lost
power, and prosperity will once more
gladden. their hearts. Wish you
could have been here and witnessed
the enthusiastic reception given to
John Hancock, the standard bearer
of the Democracy of the Fourth
Congressional District. How un-
dauntedly and courageously he un-
furls and waves it as the only banner
under whose folds our lost liberties
can be regained.


He addressed about one thousand
of his fellow, citizens from the steps
of the court house last night, and
Notwithstanding the fact that nc
seats had been provided, for two
hours and ten minutes he held his
audience spell bound as he pictured
to them the unwarranted and oppres.
sive acts of our so.called Governor.
He talked slowly and earnestly, and
every word he said was fully under.
stood, and made its impression on
the minds of his hearers. He was
several times interrupted with loud
cheering, and when his speech was
ended, three cheers were given which
no doubt were heard far beyond the
limits of the city.


The Germans are disgusted with
Davis and his administration and
their votes will tell powerfully in the
coming election in his downfall. The
old Banner county of Democracy is
coming to the rescue, and intends tc
plant herself fairly on its platform
and battle for its success as in dayl
of yore. Hurrah for the Democra
cy of COmal. They are all right.
TRAVIS.