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Year: 1870

The human body Is chiefly composed of tissues and
Gbros sensitive 10 every change n the condition Of the
atmosphere as the most delicate oleetromcter, the
quicksilver in a barometer tube.


Tho stomach the skin the the lung, and the
oteretory organs specially liable 20 Do affected by
these variations and the best defence against their dis
astrous tendency Is to keep The digestive machinery
which feeds and nourishos the whole system. 10 good
working order.


II the stomach weak disordorol neither The blood
nor the bio be in healthy state aud upon the Gt-
Of these two important auds for tho Offices assigned
90 them by nature aud the regularity of their How,
health in great measure depends.


When the air is heavily laden with chilling yapor,
as t oren s at this season OF the year the digestion
should Do object " peculiar care. n tits weak and
lansuid the whole physical structure will be eneryatod
nt Is vigorous, the entire organization viii Dee strong
90 rosst the untoward and depressing influence OF "a
damp and vitated atmosphere


A pure and poserfll tonic s therefore especially
needed safeguard against the diseases most common
n the spring and H0stetters stomach Bters being the
most Wholesome and potent medicine OF the class at
present known, Of Is particularly advisable
at this period Of the year The stomach will thereby Dc
toned and strengthened the liver and bowels regulated,
the system braced up and nature put ia an ac
tive defence against the miasma which sapcrudueos
debility headache, hypoohondra and other complaints
which apt 10 asail the untonod and unDrtacd Or
gauirations The body strengthened without exciting
the BRAIN and consequently unpleasant reaction fol-
lows IL rcviying and renovating operations WIQ
Year: 1870

A peasant who treated his old father, who
most peuurious way, one day saw his little
son scooping a trough out Of block OF
wood


What are you making there inquired
he.


I'm whiting trough, replied the boy,
% for you to eat out Of when you get old"


The father was about to give him smart
box on the ear, but some invisible influence
restrained his hand. He saw how Just re-
trbuton that would be for his conduct to-
ward his own father aud he became gentle
and considerate, thereby securing blessing
upon his own heart, and that also Of his father
and Of his child


Yes, the manner inwhich the peasants live,
who have given up their property to their
children, and are too old to labor, is often of
the most revolving description. However ex-
actly everything may be set down in the doc
uments drawn up when the property is hand
ed over, no stamped paper can furnish any
compensation for the absence Of love and
kind attentions; and there is no hopeful rem
edy to be found by going to law. Where the
heart is wanting, all is wanting The great
poet Shakespeare has depicted, in the most pa
thetic manner the life aud mourniul end of
one who had thus turned himself out of house
and lands The man whom he brings before
US in his drama cannot make his complaint
to the legal authorities, for he is a king who
has divided his kingdom among bis daugh-
ters, who treat him harshly, aud want to
change his habits and mode of life. 1t is
King Lear And what is here represented
in regard to king, is no less true in more
humble positions, and presents an equally
pitiable spectacle. No law of the State can
be Of any help here it is the heart that is in
Year: 1870

The local weskly paper is an
absolute necessity TO the coun-
ty and community where pub.
lished. All the city papers
can not supply the place Of
a home paper. That should be
the first love Of every intelii=
gent man and woman, for the
paper is the representative of
the locality with which it is
identified. The paper gives
the county and town where
printed much of their imports
ance in the world, and it gives,
in detail, the local news which
can not be gained from any
other source. Every weeks is
sue of the paper is SO much
local history, and the rise,
growth and development ol
the town and country can be
measured and reeorded only
by the local newspaper that
constantly is gathering its
items. People do not proper.
ly appreciate their home pas
per, They. measure the value
of a paper too much blythe
number of columnsit contains
The home paper, at any price,
is the cheapest paper one can
take, for in it is found the in
formation to be obtained from
no other = source. Another
thing should be- taken into
consideration. Every county
has one or more newspapers.
Hence the circulation of each
paper must be limited. There
is therefore the greater need
of activity and interest on the
part Of the people to give
their home paper good, vigor-
ous, substantial support
Ueusland Herald. I
Year: 1870

ONE pound of gold may be
drawn into a wire that would
extend round the globs. So
one good deed may be felt
through all time, and cast its
influence into all eternity -
Though done in the first flush
OF youth, it may gild the last
hour of a long life, and form
the brightest spot in it. '17"@
Year: 1870

Ihe human body chiefly composed flores
sensitive to every change in the the atmosphere
as the most delicate clecrometer quicksilver
meter tube,


Inc stomach the skim the nerves. the lungs and the ex
ceory organs especially liable to be affected BY these
Varaons and the best defence against their disastrous
uehcy to Keep the digestive machinery which and
nOurshes the whole system, in goods zorkiug order.


II the stomach weak dsorered neither the bOed nor
the oe eau be IN healthy pom fitness of these
TWO important fluids for the offices by nature
and the regularity OF their health in great measure de-
pends


When the air heavily laden with chilling vapors,
Is at TINS season OF the the digestion should
oil peculiar care II 1t is weak and angud whole physical
structure will be enervaed is vigorous the entire or
ganlLaon will be strong to resist the depressing
influence ot a damp and vitiatcd atmos sphere.


pure and powerful tonic therefore especially as
safeguard against the diseases the SPRING
h"SettcrS stomach Bcrs being the wholesome and
potent medicine of the class present known
particularly advisable at this period of the The
VIII thereby be toned and bowels
regulated the nervous system baced up and put
state OF active defence against the masma which superndu
ceS intermittent and remttent cyers nervous
debility headache hypocondra and other complaints which
are apt to asSa the unoned and unortGed organizations
The body is strengthened without exciting the BRAIN con
sequenty no unpant reaction follows its reyvng and
waiting operation,
Year: 1870

Legislation at the West is frequently marked
A resolution has been offered in the Wisconsin
Legislature which ought to pass 1t provides
that " all persons acting in the capacity OF
lobbyists shall, during the remainder of the
session, wear badge on their hats or caps, or
in a conspicuous place on the broadest part of
their person, with the name of the scheme
they represent plainly printed thereon" The
plan here proposed would lend new aud bril-


liant variety to the vestibules and the stair
cases Of the National Capitol and one great
advantage of it would be to facilitate commerce,
since every Honorable Member would know
bis purchaser at sight. 1t would save no end
of expensive Introductory supperS and inter
locutory cocktails
Year: 1870

CONFERENCE.-Wcde devote considerable space
this week to the proceedings of the Whining
ton Methodist Episcopal Conference, which
closed its sessions on Monday. AS so many of
our readers (mauy even who are not Metho-
dists) are interested in the doings of the Con
ference we feel that the space is we'll occupied.
The session was very harmonious and remark
ably short one
Year: 1870

The ladies Of Annapolis, Md, are really pub
do almost anything in the discharge Of public
duty. Thus, it being discovered that the
Annapolis Cemetery was not in the best order.
the aforesaid ladies' held meeting and voted
" to raise money to replensh our dilapidated
graveyard. y Public spirit is commendabe );


but we trust that the ladies don tintend to have
crop Of corpses specially manufactured for the
replenishment, without regard to expense
The local paper cries out with a gush : God
bless the ladies', foremost in everything that
tends to good - so that a tendency to good,
1t seems, may result in the replenishment of a
graveyard. This at any rate, Is philosophical
Year: 1870

Our Levy Court are so frienzied over the
efforts of sohe of the Republicans to have the
negroes assessed, that the members have lost
their dignity, and some of them have thrown
aside their good breeding Their session last
week was disgraceful. Instead of performing
their duty they seemed rather to seek means
to evade it; and took more pains to insult the
gentlemen who were looking after the assess
nent than to comply with their requests. In
stead of completing their work they engaged
in political and personal discussions, and even
INDUCED in profanity in open session, Without
reproof
Year: 1870

pEATHs.-Three deaths occurred in this
town on Saturday last, an estimable lady being
included in the number, who was called away
alter years Of the most intense suffering and
atilctiOn far more than usually falls to the
lot of suffering humanity. We also record the
death Of a Mr. Collins, who was married to a
lady our town but d few weeks ago.
Year: 1870

About the beginning of the seventeenth cen.
tury the warm drinks in fashion for table use
were wine and beer, prepared in a very capti-
waiting style Tea was introduced about that
time, and ITS use was earnestly resisted by the
wine and beer drinkers, lest it should exert an
injurious influence on morals
Year: 1870

MARX TWAIN produces one of the most striking
cases OF meanness on record. BE says be knows Of
an incorporated society which hired mar 10 blast
rock, and he was punching powder in hole vita
crowbar when premature explosion followed,
sending the man and eTowhsr out Of sight 8otk
came down again all right; and the man went to
work again promptly. But though The men was
gone only fifteen minutes, the company docked him
for lost tfrnep
Year: 1870




WALKING EREcT.-Walking erectly not only
adds to the manlness Of appearance, but devel-
opes the chest and promotes the general health
in high degree, because the lungs, being reIiev-
ed of the pressure made by having the head
downward and bending the chest 10, admit the
air freely and fully down to their very bottom
If an effort Of the mind is made to throw the shou-
der back feeling of tiredness and awkwardnessis
soon experienced or il is forgotten. The use Of
braces to hold up the body is necessarily perni-
cious, for there can be no braces which do not
press upon some part Of the person more than is
quite natural, hence it cannot fail 10 impede IT,
juriously the circulation Of that part. But we're
there none of these objections, the brace would
adapt itself to the bodily position, like hat, or
new garment. and would cease to be brace.


To seek to maintain an erect position, or to
recover it when lost, in a manner which is at
once natural, easy and efficient it is only Deces-
sary to walk habiiually with the eyes Fixed on an
object ahead, little higher than your own, to
the eve Of house, the top Of a mans hat, or
simply keep your chin little above the horizon
tai line, or it will answer 70 walk with your hands
behind you if either Of these things is done the
necessary easy and legitimate effect is to relieve
the chest from pressure. the air gets in more
easily, develops il more fully. and permeates she
lungs more extensively. causing a more puri6ca-
ton of the blood imparting higher health, more
color 10 the cheek and compelling throwing out
Of the toes. To derive the highest benefit from
walking. hold up the head. keep the mouth shHt
and walk briskly.
Year: 1870

STURGEON AS A WINE DRINKER.-At a recent
meeting of Baptist ministers In England, to con-
slider the subject of total abstinence, Mr.. Spur
geon expressed himself as follows on the subject:
81 may be allowed for the moment to be slight
ly egotistical, and say what is my position here.
1t may be the position Of one or two Others l
may illustrate it from my brothers case. Some
two years ago he was an ayowed teetotelar some
niue months he was consistent t. his pledge. but
again and again, from time to time, he found him
self literally falling and one day, SO close was be
to the verge Of the grave that said Young


man, there was one man who went 10 heaven in
a chariot Of fire, but there is no reason that you
should go in one of water and went myself aud
fetched glass Of wine, which enabled him to fn-
ish his days work. He SAID what more is to
be done? | said, | will tell yen my own exper-
ience. tried conscientously to be a teetotelar
for nine months myself, but found was oblidg-
ed to give it up, at least. thought 50, and deter


mined to take what / did take in secret. l
/ bought some wine and some medicine glasses,
and think for year drank my wine out Of
medicine glass. and with locked door. But. Of
course it leaked out and / found l was doing
more harm than by my open drinking found
some had got iD the habit Of secret drinking, who
confirmed themselves in what | was doing so |
put the medicine glass on one side that no one
should say was ashame Of doing publicly what
did in private W
Year: 1870

An Act to license the carrying of firearms, was
read second time, and passed by for discussion.


An Act to amend An Act establishing an Insane
Asylum, was read second time, aud ordered to
Year: 1870

WHAT A CENT DID. singular &


nancial transaction occurred in one
of the dock offices in Buffalo, day
or two since. By some means or
other it happened that the Office boy
owed one of the clerks three cents,
the clerk owed the office boy two
cents. One day last week the office
boy having cent in his pocket con
cluded to diminish his debt, and
therefore handed the nickel over to
the clerk, who, in return, paid half
OF his debt by giving the coin to the
cashier. The latter remarking snow
] owe you one cent" the Office boy
again passed the cent to the clerk
who passed it to the office boy, and
the latter individual squared all &C
counts by paying it to the clerk,
thereby discharging his entire debt.
Thus it may be seen how great is the
benefit to be derived from a single
cent if only expended juciciously.
Year: 1870

SINGULAR HIsroRIcAL FAcT.-Sir
Walter Raleigh was the first discoverer
of the value Of the potato for food for
man. lie cooked the ball, and found it
impalatable. One day he ordered a
lot of dry weeds to be collected and
burnt. Among them was lot of dried
potato tops, attached to which were
several potatoes. After the bonfire,
these potatoes were picked up thor
oughly roasted. Sir Walter tasted and
pronounced them delicious. By this
accident was discovered a species of
food which has saved millions of the
human race from starvation.
Year: 1870

~ An ingenious method of ac-
counting for the rotation of the earth,
is that Of the Jesuit of the seventeenth
century, who said it was caused by the
lost souls trying to escape from the fire
that is at the center of the globe,
climbing in consequence the inner
crust of the. earth, which was the wall
of hell, by which the whole was made
to revolve like the wheel of a squirrels
cage by the rapid climbing of the an
imal.
Year: 1870

T "What a man he must have
been who invented whist!" says Arthur
Helps. "He was a man of genius, for
he invented trumps, and saw that there
were occasions when a small two or
three in one suit would be superior to
king or queen in another. That is
the case in human life, and good illus
trations of it may be found every day"
Year: 1870

%A Yankee one day asked his
lawyer how an heiress might be carried
off. "You cannot do it with safety, -
said the counselor, "but I'll tell you
what you may do. Let her mount a
horse and hold a bride whip; do you
then mount behind her, and you are
safe, for she runs away with you"
The next day the lawyer found that it
was his own daughter who had run
away with his client.
Year: 1870

H The last cause of divorce is
shown in the application Of a young
married woman at Wheeling, W. Va.
She wants the knot united because her
husband won't get his mustache cut
off, as it bothers her. He can't have
any heart.
Year: 1870

~ 1t is very good thing for girl
to marry a doctor in good practice, for
then she will not see enough OF him to
get tired of him, and at the wedding the
bride will receive presents from all her
husbands patients.
Year: 1870

CURIOUS TRUTH.-The bones of q
bird are filed with air. If string be
tied tightly around the neck of spar
row, so that no air can enter its lungs,
and its legs be broken, it will live
Respiration will take place By means of
the broken bone.
Year: 1870

H A gentleman travelling on a
steamboat, one day at dinner, was
making away with large pudding
close by, when he was told by SER
want that it was dessert. ''It matters
not to me-" said he, 81 would eat it if
it was a wilderness"
Year: 1870

The following record will show the changes in the
temperature OF the weather for the past twentyrour
hours in comparison with the corresponding day OF
last year. as indicated by the thermometer at Hud-
nuts pharmacy, HERALD Building. corner Of Ann
ctr
Year: 1870

An exchange says: "And now we hear of
another man up in Elmira who has married
a girl while he already had three wives liv
ing" 1t does seem strange how absent
minded some men are! We should think a
fellow who had three women on his hands
would never have chance to forget about
it. But this singular forgetfulness seems to
seize them. no matter if they marry whole
woman IS rights convention. Every man who
is married ought to tie knot III his hand
kerchief so that he would remember about
it. 1t would save great deal of trouble
Year: 1870

An item in one of our exchanges says "a
snake twenty feet long is frightening the
people of Rhode Island" We don't be
lieve word of it. Such stories will do to
publish out in Kansas, but it is rather too
thin to be believed here; because We know
that snake of that length has no chance to
fool around in State of that size. The only
thing it could do is to lay itself in circle
around the edge, and even then it would
have to swallow part of its tail to prevent
overlapping. It. of no use to start such
stories in country where PEOPLE study ge-
ography.
Year: 1870

barking, and jumping about, and putting
his fore feet up the trunk of the tree. ssHe
wants to come up and see me, but he can't
climb. suppose he would like to have me
come down to him, but | can't think of such
a thing, especially as this is our 6srt meet.
ing"


So she ran out further on the limb to
show him how gracefully she could move.
This made Kim dance and bark the more
vigorously


'What do you see, Jack p said a man
with gun in hi. hand. Jack sat down and
looked steadily at Hetty. "Oh see. In
bring him down." He raised his gun and
fired, but at that instant, Hetty changed
her position. The man failed to bring her
down to Jack as he said he would, and only
brought down small piece of her tail
Jack watched it as it came down slowly
shifted at it when it reached the ground,
and turned away in disgust.


When Hetty felt the force of the shot
which struck her brush and heard the rattle
of other shot around her. she was frighten
ed as she was never frightened before. She
darted into the hole, and plunged into the
nest, and tried to cover helselt up in the
moss and leaves. OF course she walked
Harry up, who cried out Halo, what is
the matter?" but he got no answer


where have you been p still no answer.


What has happened to your brush ?''
No answer


You have been disobeying your mother,
and have got your pay for it. Anything
but bobtailed squirrel i


He saw Hetty's breast heave. He pulled
aside the moss and opened her eyelds.
They were full of tears He began to pity
her. He said no more by way of reproach.
He began to think what he could do to sof-
ten his mothers anger SO that she would
not be too hard on poor Hetty We will
leave him TO his thoughts, and Hetty to her
remtr5e.-BrigM Side
Year: 1870

They have queer way of amusing them
selves in Auburn. A party catch a toad,
then couple of dozen fre-fies or light
ming bugs" They make the toad swallow
the bugs and afterward put him under a
glass dish. The little flies keep up flash
ing inside for some minutes and illuminate
the toad all over. 1t makes him look just
like jack O. lantern. The effect is declared
to be cnmical
Year: 1870

A sailor passing through graveyard, saw
on one of the tombstones Il still live"
This was too much for Jack, who shifting
his quid, CALCULATED well I've heard say
there were cases in which a man may lie but
if was dead I'd own it ~
Year: 1870

A girl hearing the lady Of her house, at
dinner, ask her husband to bring ''Dombey
and Son" with him when he came to tea,
had two extra plates on the supper table for
the supposed visitors.
Year: 1870

Let's often talk of noble deeds,


And rarer of the bad ones,
And sing about our happy days,


And not about the sad ones.
We were not made to fret and sigh,


And when grief sleeps to wake it;
Bright happiness is standing by


This life is what we make it.
Let's find the sunny side of men,


Or be believers in 1t;
q light there is in sTery soul


That takes the pains to win it.
Oh there's slum bering good in all,
And We perchance may wake it;
Our hands contain the magic wand
This life is what we maksit.
Thsn here's to those whose loving hearts,
Shed joy and light about them,
Thanks be to them fer countless gems
Veneer had known without them.
oh this should he a happy world
To all who may psrtake it;
The faults our own if it is not
This life is what we make it.
Year: 1870

Paragraphs like the following,
clipped from the Alabama State Jour
aai, are not infrequcnt in the news
papers of the reconstructed States


We learn from a we'll authenti-
Gated private source that Mr. Rich
ard Burke, colorcd member Of the
General Assembly, was shot and kill
ed by disguised men, in Gainesville,
Sumter county, on last Thursday
night. His body was perforated by
five buckshot.


THE passtime of killing negroes
is indulged in apparently with the
same zest our sportsmen show IN
shooting prairie chickens; and so far
as the civil law is concerned there is
no more fuss made in one case than
another Cincinnati Commercial.


We clip the above extract with
the comments Of the Commercial to
show the lying pewerseness OF lead
ing radical journals North in their
articles upon the condition ofpublic
affairs South. The editor Of the
Commercial knew very we'll that his
statement was false from beginning
toend, and hoped to deceive his party
into further acts Of aggression in the
administration of the laws in the
Southern States; but the editor Of
this journal mistook his aim, andhas
placed on record unwittedly the very
best proof Of the incompetency and
gross violation of official duty on the
part of the Office holders of his party,
for the question would come up who
is responsible for this failure on the
part of the officers of the law to ar
rest and try "negro killers!" The
answer is, the Republican party
Because they are in power and hold
the reigns of government in Ala
bama as they do in this State, and
have done so for nearly two years,
yet this state of affairs exists, accor-
ding to stllereportof the Commercial.


This IS but one of the thousand
evidences Of contradictions on the
part of the leaders of the Radical
party that arc daily attracting the
notice OF the people and the scales
are fast being knocked from OF their
eyes by the blundcrs and corrupticns
of the party in power, and we may
confidently hope for change in the
feeling of the masses of the people OF
the North before another genera.
election and that they will not be led
by the ruthless demagogues that
have so long held them under CONTROL