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Year: 1870

THE COLORED VOTERS IN THE SOUTHERN
STATES. The Trenton (Miss.) Gazette in an
editorial article on this subject AYERS that it
does not see how any party, contending for
the control of the government can ignore the
colored vote South, and adds


The Interests OF both races In the South ident.
cal and wisdom and sound policy alike demand
that we should make them our friends and thus sub
serve their interest," and consequently the interest of
the entire South.


This is sensible view to take of this ques-
ton, and the sooner our Southern friends,
ssnative and to the manner born" realize its
Importance the better for the South and all
who dwell upon its luxuriant soil-white and
black.
Year: 1870

4kud.


"The man that will take newspaper
for a length of time, and then send
it back "refused," and unpaid for, would
swallow blind dogs dinner, and then
stone the dog for being blind. ."-Er.


ale would do worse than that. He
would marry a girl on trial, and send her
back with the words don't suit chalked
on her back, after the honeymoon. p
Iron City.


"WOrse than that. He would steal the
chalk to write it with, and afterwards use
1t on his shirts, to save the expense of
washing, and then sue his wife's father for
a months boarding."-Standard.


"WOrse yet. He'd chase sick rat 10
miles over a corduroy road, and institute
post-mortem examination after he had
caught him, in order to recover stolen
grain OfcOrn."- MOrgantown Star.


awe endorse every word of the above.
lie would steal rotten acorns from blind
pig. He would steal all the winter meat
of an editor. r."-Somerset Herald.


''He would be as mean as the man who
cursed his poor old mother for stopping in



his door yard to beg for bread and who
gave his only child penny for going to
bed supperless, and the next morning
charged him penny for his breakfast
Torch light"


Stronger yet. He would sponge liv-
ing from the hard earnings of his poor old
father until the poor old gentleman became
unable to work, and then let him die in
the poor house, and afterwards sell his re
mains to the medical students for anatom.
ical purposes.-Blufton Banner.


"Worse STILL" He would dig up the
bones Of his mother and make dice of
them, and play "chuck-a-luck" on his
grandmOther's tombstone for copper cent
which horse theft had stolen from the
eye of dead "l5th Amendment. Quit.
man Banner.


Yes, the man who would subscribe for
and read gentlcman's paper and neither
send it back nor pay for it, would steal
the pap from his infant child, starve it to
death, and sell its bones to guano facto-
ry, in addition to doing any and all the
the mean things enumerated above.
Year: 1870

A correspondent of the Country Gen.
tleman says that the tomatoes want water
almost as much as ducks, but as the vine
is hardy and will stand almost any amount
OF heat and drought, few supply the water
it demands. In order to make tomatoes
ripen quickly, they should be watered at
least once day. The evening is the best
time to water them.
Year: 1870

To everything beneath the sun there
comes last day-and of all futurity this
is the duly portion of time that in all cas-.
es can be infallibly predicted. Let the
sanguine then take warning, and the dis
heartened take courage for to every joy
and to every sorrow, to every hope, and
to every fear, there will come a last day,
and the man ought to live by foresight,
that while he learns in every state to be
content, he shall in each be prepared for
another, whatever they may be. aa.
Year: 1870

Alta debating cltb the question was dis
cussed, "Whether there is more happiness
in the possession or pursuit of an objectl"


"Mr. President" said a young orator,
Suppose was courtin' gal and she was
to run away, and I was to run after her;
wouldnr ] be happier when cotch'd her
than when I was running after her Z" The
young man gained the victory.
Year: 1870

A young man met 4 rival who was
somewhat advanced in years, and wishing
to annoy him, inquired how old he was.
ii can't exactly tell" replied the other,
"but can inform you that an ass is older
at twenty, than man at sixty
Year: 1870

Asa proof ofthe fact that girls are use
full articles, and that the world could not
very well get along without them, late
writer states that it is a fact, chat if all
the girls were driven out of the world in
one generation the boys would all go out
after them.
Year: 1870

Is II unybOdies business


If gentleman should choose
To wait upon a lady,


If the lady don't refuse
Or to speak a little plain,
That the meaning, all may know, -
Is it anybOdy's business


If a lady has beaug
If a person on a sidewalk,
Whether great or whether smaIf
Is it anybody's business


When that person means to call ?
Or if you see person


AS he is calling anywhere
Is it any of your business
What his business may be there
The substance of your querry
Simply stated, would be this
Is it anybedy's business


What anOther's business isY
If it is, or if it isn't
We would really like to know,
For we're certain, if it isn't
There are some who make it SO.
If it is, well join the rabble,
And act the noble part
Of the tatlers and defamers
Who thrODg the public mart :
But if not, we'll act the teacher,
Until each meddler learns,
1t were better in the future
10 mind his own concerns. 70
Year: 1870

A CERTAIN amount of opposition is
R great help to a man.. Kites rise
against the wind, and not with the
wind; even a head wind is better than
none. No man ever worked his pas
sage anywhere in a dead calm, Let
no man wax pale, therefore, because
of opposition; opposition is what he
wants and must have, 10 be good for
anything. Hardship is the native soil
of manhood and self-reliance. He
who cannot abide the storm without
flinching, lies down by the wayside to
be overlooked and forgotten.
Year: 1870

that they can actually go to sen and
compete with the foreigneisil supply
ing the hardy fisherman and dersell
him in whose favor we remit the duty
ay, they have grown so strong that
they cross the lakes and attack the
foreign producer on his own soil and
undersell him, yet they must have a
premium from us"
Year: 1870

1t most not be supposed that only e. u
persons about he,e are dissatisfied aiti
tho m management OF the Atchison and Ne
braska Railroad. The dis.Atisfaciion is
widespread snd general throug ghout the
County. The people waited patiently.
giving the Company more than reason.
able time to fulfill their prom ;ses. until
the stock Of patience ran oot. Promise
after promise was made. and stiIl there
seemed to be nothing like an earnest ef-
fort made to build the road. Thefe have
been numerous rnmors to the effect that
parties able and willing to build tie road
would take hold Of it, II the present Com
pany wouid permit them. Those rumor'
lave been so frequent. that there mus'
hsvs been some Foundation to item. Yet
the Company do not seem disposed to dc
the work themselves. or to give others 9
chance to do it. They held out the hope
that the cars would be running to White
Cloud by the beginning of last Winter
That hope ives badly crushed, ard ther
assurance was given that the road would
be completed before the coming Winter
Now the Company have coolly spoiled
that calculation. and couaescendiguly in
form the people that the road will b.
completed to White Clond one yea
bence! They have. BY their tri6ing
aroused such feeling. that. uuless they
show an intention to keep faith with tbs
people. and show it in more substantial
way than cheap promises. and that speed
lily. they will discover thst the people
have adopted such measures as will give
them world Of trouble. If they should al
length conclude to 60 to work 10 earnest
Te show the feeling 10 other parts of the
County, and the measures iu contempla.
tion. We copy the following from the last
Troy Republican,


THE ArcHI ON RAILROAD. dis
satisfaction in relstion to the M management,
Of the above road is daily increasing
among the ciiizsns and tax payers Of this
County. A public meeting is suggested
for the first Monday in September to give
an expression of the people before issuing
any more of the bonds of the County
We are not authorizetfto call meeting
at that time. but feel that such action
could not fail in producing desirable re
suits. We want that road completed.
We believe it can be done, and at an ear
ly day. II the present officers can not
secure it. they should get out Of tbs way
Of those who con. Doniphsn County is
not satisfied with merely dirt road
We are not ready to pay tribnte to few
shystering epsculators in Atchison. We
want the road. We propose to psy for
it as q County. and when We get it. we
want it to give rs through connections to
St. Louis. If the citizens of the County
desire . meeting. we shall cheerful'y give
the use of these columns fer . notice.
Year: 1870

v We assure the Wsthens Reporter,
that We have no objection to the proposed
railroad from Ws,hena to Donipbsu
We hope it may speedily be built. All
that We objected to. was seeming design
to make the Atchison and Nsbrssks Road
feeder and tributary to that road for the
next year, instead of building it where
the people were promised and expected il
would be built. We want that Company
to keep faith with the people-we care
not how many other roads are built-the
more, the better.
Year: 1870

elegier previously. At length the police
got hold of him on account Of a pamph-
let he had published. Condemned to a
months imprisonment, he was SO rough
ly treated that he became violent; he
was then thrown down, put in straight
jacket, and tied by the neck and feet
like madman, or wild animal as he
was.
Year: 1870

THE VorcE.-One Of the most unerr-
ing indicators of breeding and character
is the voice. 1t is almost the first thing
which strikes us in q now acquaintance.
There are frank voices. whose CHEEKY
ring we can never doubt-there are
harsh voices, Of whose owners let us be-
ware how we need or ask mercy-there
are tender voices, which charm your
heart awav-there are cold, unsvmpa-
thetic voices to whose possessors you
eould never tell your secrets. The own
ers Of some hard voices try earnestly to
make them caressing and gentle, but
somehow the natural quality ALWAYS
strikes il some jangle OF discord. No
amount Of culture can 70 thoroughly
Disguise the truth that the first impulse
or the first accident shan not reveal it;
and vet in no way is culture or the want
Of it so quickly indicated as by the
voice. How old coii0Quialisins betray
the humble origin Of many great man.
He is not the less noble for having been
born in the humblest Of homes; but the
fact he would perhaps be weak enough
to conceal is revealed in the turns of
pronunciation, the simple, old-fashioned
er up, through life with him. Certain
voices soothe us, no matter what is the
subject of conversation; and others
CRATE on our nerves and set our teeth on
edge, even while they call us pet names.
A good voice is one of the best gifts for
physician, and its CHEEKY, encourag-
ing tones nelp on the patient more than
dozen doses of medicine.
Year: 1870

purpose to go up to the cross was not
changed. But he could no longer
trust himself to the knobs on that an
gle Of the steeple. He tried to reach
but the knob was just beyond his ut
most stretch Of foot or hand.


1.-The observers below were looking
in breathlcss suspense. They saw him
go up higher, almost to the very spot
whence he had fallen. aid then at last
reach out and swing himself across.
He was now on another angle. cling
ing TO an untried place and looking up
the long line Of untested knobs. He
went up, more carefully, less rapidly
than before, trying every knob we'll
before trusting his weight to it. Soon
he was at the ball. Grasping it he
slid himself up over it and sat himself
down on it with his feet on each side
of the cross.


There he waited awhile, though he
seemed still to be busy. Then raising
himself to his feet, he stood beside the
cross. With his hand he broke il
piece-meal, and they fell into fragments
as they touched the stone walk. Then
he descended, and in a few minutes
was on the ground again, to be sur
rounded by some of the observers.


"A little frightened. ell, Frank"
quizzed one Of them when YOU slipped
here.


Not bit. just as cool as am
here. now at this minute"


Risky, though, wasn't it!"


well, yes it was risky But the
wor It Of it was | tore my pantaloons."


IL don't see it,"


but mcnded them"


while you were sitting on the ball
there"


Yes: | wasn't com NJ down with
sucii rent as that in them. The wind
was blowing hard and things tapped,
and happened to have a self thrcader
Billy Withers had given me this very
morning and Id stuck it in my vest
l threaded the needle wit hout looking
at it, and sewed up the tear in Il hur-
ry.


well, Frank. you're cool one


II have to be, he said. and he glanc-
ed around ut some ladies' who were
grouped n few yards off, looking at
him.
Year: 1870

COMPUTING INrEREsr.-Here is a
new rule for computing interest. 1t
is so simple and so true that every
banker, merchant or clerk, should
post it for reference. BY no other
arithmetical process can the desired
inflammation be obtained by so few
figures:


Six per cent.-Multiply anv given
number of dollars by the number of
davs of interest disired, separate the
right hand figure and divide by six
the result is the true interest on such
number of days at six per cent.


Eight per cent.--Multiply any Civ
en- amout by the number of days upon
which it is disired to ascertain the in
tcrest. and divide by 45. and the re-
suit will be the true interest Tor the
time required.


Ten per cent.-Multiply the same
as above and divide by SO, and the
result will show the interest at 10 per
cent.
Year: 1870

Money does not make the man. The
world sometimes has notion that it
does, but their notion is erroneous
Money is good in itself, almost every
body has hearty respect tor and ap-
prehension OF it; but it will go only so
lar and bring only so much. After that
1t is powerless, and goes for nothing.
1t will beget neither brains for man. nor
beauty tor woman. 1t will impart no
gilt over which good sense can take com
lori or decency rejoice. 1t NAV carry
Hhr rpaifptarr I'M wlrn all that the varied
climes can offer, but it can add not one
Jot 10 his moral measurement as a man
or one title to his manliness as citi-
zen. II ottener than otherwise develops
the weaknesses, folies and vices of men
and women. Early gotten, it make.
quick work. A tool and his money are
soon parted, is saying about which
there is solid truth.
Year: 1870

Young man, when lady's reply to
your good sense and good understand
ing, displayed perhaps for a whole
season, is merely-''Fiddle, sir, fiddle, >
make up your mind that YOU have
brought your good commod tiles to a
bad market. The very best thing you
can do is to drive of, for it swon't
pay. Thank your stars you have es-
capped getting swamped, not on . rock,
but IN very soft though not deep
spot. The worst place for q fiddle is
between a pair Of curling, contempt
inspired lady lips. a.
Year: 1870

We commend this paragraph from
the London Economist to all who have
" vocaiion:''


1t is good ign when q man is proud
of his work or calling. Yet nothing
is more common than to hear men find
ing fault continnaIly with their particu-
lar business, and dcening themselves
unfortunate because fastened to it by
the necessity of gaining livelihood.
In this spirit men fret and lahoriously
destroy all their camforts in the work !;
Or they change their business, and go
miserable, shifting from one thing to
another, until the grave or poor house
gives them a fast grip. But while oc-
casionally man fails in life because
he is rot in the place fitted for his par
ticuar talent, it happens ten times Of
tener that failure results from neglect
and even contempt of an honest business.
4 man should put his heart into every
thing he does. There is not a profess
sion that has not it's peculiar cares
and yexations. No one will escape
annoyance by changing busi-
ness. No mechanical business is alto
gether agreeable. le.-Commerce, in its
endless varieties, is affected like all 9th
er human pursuits, with trials, unwel
come duties, and spirit string necessi-
ties. It is very wantonness OF folly for
a man to search out the frcts and bur
deus of his calling, and give his mind
every day to the consideration OF them
They belong to human life. They are
inevitable. Brooding over them only
gives them strength. On the other
hand, a man has power given to shed
beauty and pleasure upon the homeliest
toll, if he is wise. Let man adopt his
business and identify it with pleasant
association for God has given us i'm
aginations not alone to make some
poets, but enable all men to beautify
homely things. Heart varnish will COW
er up innumerable evils and defects.
Look at the good thing. Accept your lot
as a man does a piece of rugged ground,
and begin to get out the rocks and roots.
to deepen and mellow the SOIL to enrich
and plant it. There is something in the
most forbidding avocation around which
man may twine pleasant fancies, out
of which he may develop an honest pride.
Year: 1870

Now is the time to advertise. Let
the people become familiar with your
name and know what you have to sell,
and when they want anything they will
come to you to buy 1t. Because trade
is dull it is no reason for refusing to use
printers ink, which has made SO many
princely fortunes; on the contrary, dull
times are the best to advertise in, at
least this is the testimony of those who
have grown rich by it. Advertise Ad-
vertise a3Esa @
Year: 1870

\ negro tried to saw his own head of
with jack knife in church on Sun
day morning, at Madison, Georgia. Be,
ing interrupted by some Of the congre-
cation, he said he was "driven to the
act by the inordiuate length of the ser
mon.h
Year: 1870

n When you see the sun rising before
you get out of bed, it is sign that you
wouldn't do for farmer. -.,'.=z


When you see man yasn and close
his eyes during the sermon. it is sign
that he is getting sleepy. o~1o re..


When you see man trying to con-
vince lamp post that it is impolite to
try to get in the way Of a gentleman, it
is sign that he has been drinking
lemonade perhaps. ea


When you see boy throwing stones
on the streets and speaking impudently
to old people, it is sign that his par
ents don't care much for him.


When you see girl throwing kiss
ess aud winking at the boys as they
pass her window; it is a sign that she
is too young to be out Of sight of her
maternal relative


When you see young gentlemen and
ladies. whispering and giggling and writ
ing notes in church. il is a sign that
the man who teaches good manners
omitted to give them a call when he
came along the last time. ss~
Year: 1870

We copy the following good advice
from an exchange paper :" Be con-
tent as long as your mouth is full and
your body warm--remember the poor
kiss the pretty girls--don't rob your
neighbor's hen roost--never pick an ed
itor's pocket--kick dull care to the deuce
black your own boots, and pay for
your newspaper"
Year: 1870

IF THE EARTH WERE TO STAND


SrILL.-If the revolution Of the earth on


its axis were to be suddenly stopped,


the temperature Of everything would be


raised to such degree as to be incapa-


BILE of existing in any other form than


vapor. When bullet strikes the tar


get in becomes so hot that it cannot be


held in the hand. Its velocity is at the
rate 1900 feet second but what must


be the heat produced when body like
The earth, moving at the rate Of ninety
million feet second, is suddenly ar


rested It would soon be converted
into sea Of fire and all life would be-


come extinct. It is not probable that


this catastrophe will take place in our
generation, but az the light Of the sun is
said to be due to the combustion Of
| worlds in its atmosphere, our time may
| come time come to add fuel to the flames
Year: 1870

Maine, to sell TO such purchaser as suits me.
Terms made easy-a good title given to the ship
of State of Maine, as was ever given of ship and
cargo, for o breach of the Revenue laws.
should prefer the State of Maine be the pur-
chaser II she choose to, and will refer her to the
Gospel plan for a solution of the method"
Year: 1870

The following letter was written by q
father to his son in college:


My Dear Son:


l write you to send you your
new socks, which your mother has just
knit by cutting down some of mine. -
Your mother sends you ten dollars with
out my knowledge, and for fear you will
not spend it wisely, keep back half,and
only send you five. Your own mother
and l are well, except that your sister
has got the measles, which we think
would spread among the other girls if
Tim had not had them before, and he is
the only one left. l hope you will do
honor to our teaching; if you do not you
are donkey and your mother and myself
are your affectionate parents.
Year: 1870

VOICE AND SOuND.-It is curious fact
that musical sounds fly farther, and are
heard at greater distance, than those
which are more loud and noisy. five
90 on the outside Of town luring fair,
at the distance of q mile. We hear the
musical instruments; but the din of the
multitude. which is so overpowering in
the place, can scarcely be heard, the noise
dying on the spot. To those oonversant
with the power Of Instrumental follow
ing observation will be understood The
violins made at Cremona, about the year
of 1900, are superior in tone to any Of a
later date, age seeming to dispossess them
of their noisy qualities, and leaving moth
ing but the pure tone. Ifa modern vio-
lin is played by the side of one Of those
instruments it will appear much the loud.
est of the two; but on receding 100
PAGES, when compared with the Amati, it
will scarcely be heard. The voice Of
man is endowed with purity of tone in q
higher degree than any of the vocal ami
mails by which, in state Of nature. it
enables him to communicate with his fel.
low men at distance very remote. Pro-
violence has bestowed upon children
power of voice, in proportion to their size
ten times greater than that Of the adult


In state of nature this serves them as .
defense and protection, for it is well


known that children have, by their cries


alarmed and kept off the attacks of thu
most furious animals.
Year: 1870

; LADIES have no Idea how beautiful they are
until They have their, photographs taken at the
''LEE y, Gallery. The; beautiful IVORY PIC
TUREs are taken at the same price you have to
pay for. common photographs. Then, ladies, go
to the LEE
Year: 1870

It's said that life in the Fifth avenue is
constantly changing, and that when fresh
paruenu comes in somebody must be going
out. The question may naturally arise what
becomes Of these decaying gentry, and the
reply is that they generally 60 to ruin un-
less their course be delayed by the patronage
of friends. The children of our once richest
families have been found dwelling in tene-
mcnt houses, and sometimes at still lower
depth. / know that son of one of our
first-class families died some time ago in the
almshouse of this city. Luxury proven rbially
exhausts that capacity and efficiency which
are necessary in the battle of life.