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Year: 1872

BUSINESS GANs-DEc1s1oNs OF THE SU-
PREME CoURT.-The United States Supreme
Court has just decided an important
question, under the Internal Revenue law,
as to what are gains subject to taxation,
or, more directly, whether an advance in
value of government bonds was subject to
tax as gains It appears that the case
was one in which q collector Of internal
revenue was against Darlington. The col
lector claimed tax on the sum Of twenty
thousand dollars advance in the value Of gov
ernment bonds held by Darlington. The
case was decided against the collector in the
Circuit Court and then went up by appeal to
the Supreme Court The Supreme Court con-
frmed the decision of the lower Court. The
judgment Of the highest judicial tribunal
stands, then, that the accretion Of value in
government bonds is not, under the Internal
Revenue law, to be considered as gains subject
to tax.
Year: 1872

The Church and state Conflict in


Germany.


Prince Bismarck is, we think, unnecessarily
prosecuting the Catholic Church in Germany.
His latest is harsh movement towards the
Catholic Church in Prussian Poland We are
willing to admit that Bismarck is fighting
good fight in the interest of civil and religious
liberty. He fights hard, however-it may be
too hard Russia has not gained by her harsh
treatment of the Poles under her authority.
In Poland Russia has found another Ireland
The Poles are well disposed towards Austria,
but they dislike Russia. Austria, by her gen.
tie and kindly treatment of Galicia, has won
over the Poles For time it did seem as if
Prussia, or, rather, the new German Empire,
would make bold stroke to win over
the Poles and make Poland unit
on the side of Germany. This pleas
ing thought is no longer to be INDUCED.
Bismarck has adopted course which must
ultimately have the effect Of alternating all
Polish sympathy for the welfare and success
of the German Empire. Bismarck ought to
know that no government can win its way to
the heart of people if the policy of the govern
ment is in direct opposition to tle dominant
religious sentiment of that peop11 Because
few good, well-meaning, honest and religious
people in Poland are pleased to place their
church under the special protection Of the
Most Sweet Heart of Jesus, why should
Prince Bismarck object? Bismarck, how
ever, seems to be animated by the spirit of
Luther, and we must wait to see how this fight
will end. For the present it is q doubtful
question, and Bismarck's, although brave, is
o doubtful policy.
Year: 1872

No Female suffrage Yet, but SOmethfng
far better and more valuable-a WILSON SEWING MA
CHINE tor every wife aud mother In the Union and at
the low price Of $50 each for the fun finished machine
Peope ask why the Wilson leading machine in all
spects be sold for $50 The answer is easy and d
rect-because its prOprietors do not belong to
ring whose purpose Is t keep up the price OF sewing
machines They the true friends Of the people, and
show their sincerity in that cannot be msunder-
stood Saesroom at 7U Broadway, New York. and in an
other cities In the United states Inc company want
aren nfs n towns.
Year: 1872

The Concord correspondent of the New
York Times says under date of the 5th
inst


a cheering indication of the result on
Tuesday next, was had to-day in the town
election of New Castle, which resulted in
thirty-six Republican majority on Moder-
ator, and fifty-four majority on Selectmen,
last spring was only fifteen. Confidence
in auspicious results is steadily increasing
among Republicans, and it is now gener-
orally believed that their majority on the
popular vote will be at least one thousand.
A Republican majority in the Legisla-
tnre is q certainty.
Year: 1872

This journal is now thoroughly identified with the
greatest political necessity of the hour-uncompromis-
ing warfare against all kinds Of corruption. whether in
national or local government. For years past the
TIMES has been exposing the demoraEing schemes Of
sefinteresed politicians and its recent warfare upon
the Tammany Democrats has been received with uni
versal approval It has adhered to the pledge given
in its original prospectus than twenty years ago.
that the public should be truly represented and their
interests faithfully guarded through its columns It's
record has been pure and honorable and the highest
aim of its proprieors is to render it more and more
worthy of its past history and Of the confidence which
the public repOse in it. Two out of three Of the org
nal proprietors still direct its policy and guide all
public questions They purpose that the TIMES shall
continue to keep clear of all and unworthy in
huences and cques, and aim to represent the great
body of the public, distinguished from all personal
factions. 1t occupies perfectly independent position.
and is free to speak the truth all subjects and about
all men, It's greatly increased circulation throughout
the country adds to its power and inhuenceIt will
tinue to be faithful exponent of Republican priuc-
PIES and advocate with untiring energy every cause
which tends to further the welfare of the people,


The utmost care will be devoted to gathering polti
cal news from special sources during the Presidential
canvass, This department Of the paper will be unusu
ally full and trustworthy. Renewed enterprise will be
exhibited every department of the paper and large
space Will DC usNoteu 10 TepOrS Vi Speeches aue uu
rng elections, or on other important political
sions.


very full summary of news, and many general arti
cles of great interest are published in the Semi
Weekly editions and in the Weekly edition there is
unabridged report of the proceedings ut the Farm
ers Club excellent summary Of political infOrma
tien and great variety Of matter suitable for family
reading.


The NEW YORK TINES is pre- -eminenily family
oh adj
excluded; and has cOnstantly increasing circulation
among the most respectable classes Of the community.
Year: 1872

Double capes are to be worn next sea
son, instead of rounded as formerly.


A celebrated writer says that one good
mother is worth hundred schoolmas-
ters.


The most popular Spring costumes are
Of foulard silks trimmed with velvet and
fringe.


A new style of ruffle for the neck is
very full and wide, and is called the
"Medici frill"


Large coral beads worn around the
neck are said to be preventive against
rheumatism, asthma, and the neuralgia.


Fichus of crepe chine, edged with wide
lace, are worn with dark silk dinner
dresses, and are very stylish and becom-
ing.


Imitation lace is more used for trim
ming this season than the rest, rs it is
much more durable and not half SO ex-
pensive.


A new style of material for mourning
dresses for Summer wear is called batiste,
and is a light tan color, striped with
white or colored satin stripes.


The newest style of wells are of plain
net, made square in front, and pointed at
the back, the point being thrown over
the bonnet, and edged with wide Span
ish lace.


A lady appeared at ball in New York
recently in dress OF black Grape over
silk, trimmed with folnces of old vene-
tian lace century old, and worth its
weight in gold The ornaments were
supurb diamonds set in silver.
Year: 1872

! Some aged inhabitants of the city ot
/ Munich. Germany. still remember wo


man who used to be called die Beterin
| to pass the whole of every day in silent.
motionless prayer before the Virgin S
image No rain, or stClm, or cold, or
entreaties could drag her away when
spoken to she only wept and said, My
child, my child !" King Ludwig [. took
an interest in this woman. AMI her story
was found to be that in early life she had
been peasant in the neighbOrhood,
who had a lover, but they were too poor
to marry One night the Virgin ap-
peared to her in dream, and neighbor
found in the circumstance some hint as
to number in lottery. The girl pur-
chased tins number and drew thousand
horins. But then her lover was drafted
for the war, and she had to pay four
hundred fiorins to get him off. The
other six hundred were taken by her ia
thers creditors. Some years after she
found at the foot of Virgin, when pray


ing, eighteen hundred gulden. The
young people then married, but two or
three days after the husband was taken
away for another war. In his absence
she bore son. Once again the hus-
band returned, but only to be immedi-
ately recalled to fight against Russia.
Going to see him off with her child.
poor Adelaide was knocked down by a
carriage, and her foot ushed. Worse
than all, her child was lost. She never
saw her husband or child again, though
she heard of her child as having got into
soldiers wagon, and being adopted by
an officer going to Russia. The poor
woman actually wandered to Russia
whence she came back broken hearted


10 pass her days before the image of the
Virgin, who had twice given her gold
but could not restore her child. Through
the sympathy of the king. her last days
were made as comfortable as possible.
She died in 1884 in hospital.
Year: 1872

In the Great West, there is no more
interesting and facinating locality than
that Of Salt Lake, in Utah.


At the first glance il seems so strange
to find n sen, whose waters are even
more salt than the waters Of the Atlantic
or Pacific, away up there, at an elevation
OF nearly five Thousand feet and eight
! hundred miles from the nearest sea coast
proper. But, when we know its history
which we now only suspect-it may
not seem unnatural, though still wonder
ful.


There is every indication that Salt
Lake is n mere remnant of what was
once mighty seal


1t appears-to he gradually drying up.
We will not see the process completed
in our day, however, as it is n consider
able body of water, having length of
one hundred and twenty miles, and an
average breadth of about forty miles.
At some points its depth is very great.


/ have ST ted that Salt Lake contains
gre iter proportion of salt than the two
great oceans, which is an evidence that
evaporation has been one agent in re-
ducing "A great ocean to the more modest
dimensions Of lake. Evaporation,
eruptions and drainage have accomplish
ed the vast work This amounts to
little more than speculation. at present,
but, in time, science will prove it as
clearly as the boundaries Of seas and
continents are marked as they exist
to-day.


Salt Lake bears all the marks of body
of water that is shrinking and drying up.
IL has great, smooth margin, mt some
points many miles in width, that is one
vast plain of alkili, white as snow, and
baked and cracked like the muddy bot
tom o, a pond that has been licked dry
by the burning sun during a summer
drought


Around Salt Lake, where the land
rises a little higher, is one of the most
fertile regions on the continent. 1t is a
perfect oasis, indeed; for on the west
stretch out barren plains hundreds of
miles, and on the east loom up rugged
mountains, capped with snow, and so
rocky as to offer but poor encourage
ment to tree or bush. But the level
lands, between the mountains and the |
lakes margin, are the paradise of the


.sbandman, and Salt Lake City is the
nucleus of a perfect garden spot. The
soil is wealth itself, and its vegetation
fairly rivals that of the tropics in its
richness and luxurance.


Whatever may be its political destiny.
the Salt Lake region has bright future
before it as farming country; and
with its beauty, its wild surroundings,
its facinating history, it is one of
Heavens richest gifts to man.
Year: 1872

There is no market in London at


which horses for killing mny he purchas'


ed as bullocks are. Indeed IL is sin


guar fact that the horse-saughterer is


vulgarly regarded as al individual very


inferior, as regards social status to the
ox-slaughterer. No one sees anything


in the least repulsive in the trade OF the
ordinary butcher. II is rs well known
as possible that sirlons and ribs and
beef i-ateaks could never he obtained with


out the use of the poleaxe and the CLEAN


ing knife. In poor neighborhoods it is
nothing uncommon to encounter Mr.


Bristet's man with hls thigh. boots hid
eouslv stained, and his blue smock
speckled with color that matches, bear


ing huge smoking "quarters" on his


broad back, or, more sanguinary still,


with his head and shoulders concealed


Ivy the newly y-dressed sheep 'e carries,


lpd which. still limp and worm, wags


its dead head in CHASTITY time'keeping


with the mans footsteps Yet nobody
tlrns away with shudder of horror or
wopder how any one can be so barbar-
Gus as to apprentice his son to the trade
of butcher Popular prejudice, how
ever, is decidedly against the horse
SLAYER He is stIgmatised "knacker,
and the meaningless term is applied to
him in spirit of disgust and aversion


Rv common consent he is banished 10
the bottommost round of the social lad
der and scavenpers and siiters at the
dust yard assert their right to look down
on him. Possibly, mans affection for
the horse may account for tins. be lives
with, and helps us, and shares our perils
as well as our prosperity. With the
poor he is one of the family almost
and the care taken of him is commensur-
ate with the cal nifty of his falling sick,
and being unable to perform his shale
of the money earning. But when 1t Is
attempted to explain the anomaly on
the score of sentiment, the fieecy lamb
rises in accusing against us. Is not the
lamb emblematic of all that is gentle,
and innocent, and guileless 3? Do not
painters paint it as a symbol Of purity
aud peace and have not poets emu
lated its plaintive baa-ing over qnires
and reams of gilt edged paper Yet we
all eat lamb We view its naked, deli
cate carcase without pang or sigh for
its departed fleece. We are haunted by
no feelings of remorse as we pour pun
gent mint sauce over that cut from its
leg-tnat playful one of four that frisked
and gamboled over the grassy mead.
We have its neck and its innocent scrag
scrag that felt the butch
ers fatal knife-and express our admi-
ration of it because it is nice and light
and easy to digest, and regret its end
only when there remain bones in the
lish.-London Society,"
Year: 1872

We don't recommend advertising as
the best way to get a wife /; but we know
that it is the best way to get good
trade.


You can't eat enough in one week to
last a whole year, and you cant advertise
on that plan either.


Injudicous advertising is like fishing
wi ere there is no fish. You need to let
the lines fall in the right places.


A constant dropping will wear rock.
Keep dropping your advertisements on
the public and they will soon melt under
it like rock salt


Large type is not necessary in adver-
tising. Blind folks don't read news
papers.


If you can arouse curiosity by an adj
vertisement it is a great point gained.
The fair sex don't hold all the curiosity
in the world.


Don't be afraid to iNvest in printers
ink, lest your sands of life be nearly run
out.


When you advertise. see that you do
it on the same principle that you buy
goods. Get the most you can for the
money.


People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks cant
remember anything longer than about
seven days


When people see man advertise they
know he is business man, and his ad-
vertising proclaims that he is not above
business, but anxious to do 1T.


"Dull times" it is said, "are the best
for advertisers. Because when money
is tight and people are forced to econo-
mize, they always read the advertisements
to ascertain who sells the cheapest. and
where they can trade to the best advan-
tage.


Some say that it is no use to advertise ;
they have been in the place in business
all their lives, and every body knows
them. Such people forget to take INTO
that our country is increas-
ing in population nearly forty per cent.
every ten years, and no matter how old
the place may be there are constant
changes teking place ; some move to
other parts, and strangers fill their places.
In this age of the world, unless the name
of business firm is kept constantly
before the public, some new firm may
start up, and by literally advertising. in
a very short time take the place of the
older ones, aud the latter rust out, as it
we're, and be forgotten.
Year: 1872

There are many young men who are IN
the habit of excusing their idleness and
ineiiiciency with the plea that they can
do nothing without capital The lack OF
means is the ready reply they make t.
every appeal to action. They imagine
that they possess in themselves all the
prerequisites TO success but capital. II
they only had capital, in addition TO their
other imagined virtues, they would do
great things in the world, they would as
tonish the natives with the boldness and
brilliancy Of their enterprise They
would grow Immensely rich, and then lay
the world under perpetual Obligations TO
their gratitude by the magniticence of
their benefaciion This is the way they
think and talk, and they roll the vain glo-
rious idea over in their minds until they
become to imagine that the world is an
immense loser by their poverty.


These persons forget one important
foct- that all capital is the product of Ia
Dor That nearly all rich men in this
country were once poor That nearly
every personal fortune they can enumer'
ste is either the product Of ITS owner 5
toll and skill, or the representative OF bis
fathers toll and skill.


How did the makers of these fortunes
get along without capital Had they
spent the vigor of their youth IN idle and
foolish lamentations over their poverty,
they would have lived and died poor, and
left nothing but an inheritance of homes
~ behind them. Capital allied to labor
and skill can work wonders in the way of
material enterprises, and the man who
possesses money finds it easy to make
money.


But capital is not only indispensable to
Young men of the right stuff for all this.
There are other kinds of capital besides
accumulated money brains, muscle, in
dustry, honesty, diligence truth, fdeli
ty, skill tact, education--all these are
capital, and all of them have a CONNER
cial value, which the owner will be able,
sooner or later, to command in the mar
ket Provided with these, any young
man in this country may make moro than
he needs to spend every year, and thus
have something at the end of each year
to invest as money capital. If he needs
money let him go to work and make it,
and thus give proof of his ability to use
it profitably and judiclously. If we go
INTO any great cry, or INTO any prosper
Gus agricultural district, we find the cap
ita,;sts are those who have made their
fortunes without any outside aid They
did not waste their time in repining IN
their poverty, and in silly dreams of what
they could do if they had the money to
do it with. They went boldly and reso-
lutely to work ; they tolIed and thought
and planned, and kept toilinG and think
ing aud planning patiently, until at last
they grasped the fortunate moment, and
in nine cases ont of ten they succeeded
Year: 1872

A boy was trying to catch blue-bot
tie to add to his collection, ana was in
disposed to give up the chase but he
presently saw that the school master bad
taken out a small coin ard laid it on the
table, and felt himself drawn in that di-
rection.


Read that. said the master.


"' U U-n-i-ni-United States of America
) cents.


"The master turned the coin over.
Now read that


go In God is our t-r-u st trust. lSs9.


"' Is that the same piece of money
as the other one?'


"' There ain any other one, said the
boy, there amt but one, but its got
two sides to it with difereAt reading.


"' That's it, that's it, said the master,
two sides to everybody, as there are to
woman that wouldn't fetch five cents II
you should put her up for sale at public
auction and vet come to read the other
side of her. she had trust in God Al
mighty. that was like the how anchor of
a three decker It's alth in something
and enthusiasm for something that makes
life worth looking at don't think
your anteating specialist, with his sharp
nose and pin-bead eyes, is the best every
day companion but any man who knows
one thing well is worth listening to for
once and if you are the large Drained
variety of the race, and want to fill out
your programme of the order Of things
in systematic and exhaustive way, and
get all the half-notes and flats and sharps
of humanity into your scale, you'd a
great deal better shut your front door
and open your two side ones when you
come across a fellow that has made a real
business of doing anything


THAT boy stood all this time looking
hard at the tive-cent piece.


"'Take it, said the master, with a
good -natured smile.
Year: 1872

Much interest is now felt in the West
on the subject of demonstrating buffaloes,
and the opinion is generally entertained
in stock raising districts that a perma-
nent and important increase of the meat
supply of the country may be effected
10y this means, with great profit to those
undertaking the experiment. 1t has
been found by those who have made
the trial that the buffalo or bison will
fatten under conditions fata. to the or
dinary domestic took ; that it is worth
more in hide and flesh than the OK,
and can be trained to the Performance
of any kind Of labor for which oxen are
adopted. 1t is necessary, however, that
calves should be obtained for the pur-
pose. The old buffaloes cannot be do
mesticated, and their flesh is so tough
as to be unfit COR meat but the old ones
are very much in the way when the
calves are to be captured.


They are kept in the center of the
droves, and in case of danger the bulls
flank the herd. To capture them, there
fore, it is necessary to break through
the ranks of the fankers and lasso the
young heifers, which is a difficult and
uahBefous opeTdtiol, coHsluefiHG tHe
fact that the herd sometimes covers a
very wide extent of territory. No way
has yet been devised of capturing the
calves that would not be more likely to
kill them than to take them alive. There
is reason to believe that this difficulty
will be surmounted at some time, how
ever, and it is thought by many that the
domesticating of buffalo calves will re-
ceive such an impetus within the next
few years as to make an important branch
of the stook-raising business OF the
West
Year: 1872

The UNITED STATES PAINTING OF
FICE.-In the House of Representatives
Mr. Garfield said the Committee oil
Appropriations had Just been looking
over the accounts for the public print
ing. This Government had at present
much the largest printing house on the
globe, where there were over n thou
sand men and women employed and paid
by the year to carry on the business,
where enough printing ink was bought
every year to float the biggest man-of-
war in the navy. A train of army
wagons reaching thrce-fourths of the
way from Washington to Baltimore.
and loaded with one ton piece packed
as closely on the road as six mule teams
can be packed, would not be able to
haul the mass of public documents print
ed every year in that printing house.
Congress was now asked to appropriate
more than two millions to run that
establishment for the next fiscal year.
With all that before the House, and re-
membering the fact that there had just
been erected an addition to that building
four hundred feet long and seventy feet
wide. he wished to call the attention of
the House to the fact that unless it put
the brakes on that enormous out lay,
it would became scandal in the eye of
the nation.
Year: 1872

A SENSATION. whIsh is not
much addicted to sensations, has lately
been enjoying one. Two young ladies,
sisters, disappeared, but shortly after
ward tempered the blow to their shorn
by letting them know that they still in
habited this wicked world, and were in
London. Having fallen desl erately in
love with the same young man, who is
described as an Adonis, they felt that
they could only find happiness and re-
spectability in becoming his wives They
bad, therefore, taken passage for this
country, en- route for Salt Lake City,
where, perhaps. they will arrive TOO late
for the fair, news of Mormonism being
at a disadvantage having probably not
reached them when they left. However,
as il is intimated that these interesting
young persons took care before starting
to help themselves as far as they could
to the dover which they thought becom-
ing, they Will no doubt manage to get
along.