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Year: 1872

There is hardly any ache to which
children are subject so bad to bear and
difficult to cure as the carache. But
there is a remedy never known to fail.
Take bit of cotton batting, put on it a
pinch Of black pepper, gather it up and
tie it, dip it in sweet oil and insert it in
the ear. Put flannel bandage over the
head to keep it warm. 1t will give inn
mediate relief.
Year: 1872

Warm some pine tar and apply with
a feather to the affected part heat it in
by the fire before going to bed. In very
bad cases it may need the second or
third application. 1t is a sure cure, and
the tar can easily be removed with lard
aud soap.
Year: 1872

petrifed baby has been exhumed
from Chicago cemetery. The Times
report says: All save the mother Of the
little infant stood muteIy looking upon
it, and she became nearly frantic with
excitement from the first moment that
the body was exposed to view. She en-
deavored to take it from the coffin, cry
ing bitterly, and wildly insisting upon
taking it with her to her home. Her
husband held her back and would not
allow her to remove it. The mother
seemed nearly distracted with grief at
the thought of its being reinterred. 1t
looked so natu-a! and beautiful, SO like
the babe she had placed in the grave
ten years ago, that it brought up her
sorrow afresh, as il she were now laying
the beloved darling in the earth. The
body was removed, with others which
the family had come there to exhume,
to Graceland, and reburied.
Year: 1872

At length it is proved that man has
more vanity than woman. This is the
way that it came to pass: A curious in
yestigator watched while thousand
men passed a looking.gass used as a
sign on the sidewalk in Broadway. The
result of his observation showed that
nine hundred and ninety-nine men
glanced complacently at their image as
they passed. The other man was blind.
Four hundred and fifty-two women
passed during the same hour and half,
and none of them looked in the mirror
all OF them being engaged intently
examining each others appearance and
dress.
Year: 1872

ried daughter, it having been some time since
she had written or received letter.


"Most certainly. I shall take pleasure in
forwarding any you wish"


"Must they be open letters?" asked Mrs.
Elliott.


>"Not at ALL Sealed as usual"


"Could he tell how much longer the army
would be there?"


"They were moving on then. Few beside
stragglers would be there after the middle Of
the day. Was there anything he could do !;
any supplies he could furnish, though much
on the place had been saved" .


mo, she thanked him-they needed moth.
ing" and the interview closed with far less
satisfaction than the one of the day before.
Then, zone touch Of nature" had made them
"kin :" now, the conduct of Col. Ford had
chilled all.


Not many soldiers were there after two or
three o'clock. A body Of cavalry was seen to
60 away, but it returned about sundown, and
camped in sight of the house. They watched
them closely, but not even Stuart could recog-
nize one of the horses as belonging to them
or Mr.. Wright, so they spoke hopefully of
their fathers safety.


Grace, who complained Of a dull headache,
was persuaded to 60 up stairs and try to sleep.
Instead of undressing and going into the room
next her mothers, where she and Conway had
sat the night before, she lay down on the
lounge in her room opposite her mothers.
She felt more at home there, and only thought
to stay till the others went up to bed; but at
eleven o'clock she was sleeping so sweetly,
Mrs. Elliott could not bear to wake her, but
covering her carefully and kissing her softly,
let her lie.


1t was many long night since Grace had
gone to sleep first, and while Mrs. Elliott bent
over her, and saw the pure, peaceful express
sion which rested on her beautiful face, her
heart blessed her, and she prayed, as only a
mother can, for beloved child. She thought
how many nights Grace had bent over her,
and how loving and tender had been her
care, and she breathed a thanksgiving that
none of her children had inherited her horri-
BILE headaches.


The doors between the rooms were left open,
the light partially shaded and set on the
hearth, and before midnight all had sunk to
rest. .......


TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.


Copes of the ENQUIRER containing the previous chapters
this Story can be furnished to new subscribers.
Year: 1872

,sar If you have occasion to transplant in
the summer season, let it be in the evening
after the heat is past plant and water the
same Immediately, and there will be no dan
ger from the heat next day; but be careful,
in digging up the earth, you do not break any
fthe young shoots, as the sap will exude out
of the same to the great danger Of the plants.
Year: 1872

The,eause of failure in the use of concen-
trated Fertilizers is often due to the manner
in which they are applied. 1t is difficult
for those who have been accustomed to use
bulky nanures to realize that the full ferti-
lizing potency Of bushel of animal excre-
ment may be held in large tablespoon, and
that handful of the one adds to plant struc-
lures as decidedly as several shovels full of
the other. A full doce ofopium given to
patients furnishes quite dark, bully powder,
or pill fbut if we separate the alkaloidal
principle upon which its hypnotic powder
depends, We. have only little white powder
which 4 breath Of wind may blow away.
The one-eight grain powder will effect the
human organism as powerfully as ten times
the weight of opium. If we,are SO forget
tul of ,s7teneies" as to administer as much
Of the We concentrated powder as of the
bulky dsTE one, we destroy our patients
life, orSat least do great injury to his health
So, in the use of genuine Superphosphate, or
Guano, .or Ground Bones and Ashes, we for
get their power, and apply too much, or ap-
plying,them directly, we endanger the life Of
our plants


An experiment made upon corn furnishes
an illustrative case in point. At the time Of
planting upon field divided by q narrow
strip of sward land we directed that on one
side tablespoonful of the mixed Bone and
Ashes should be placed in each hill, and we'll
covered with the soil; upon the other, four
rows were to be treated similarly, and upon
the remainder, the hills should receive o
double-quantity. 1t was curious to observe
the effect. The first field and four rows were
remarkably thrifty. Thecorn' came up we'll
and manifested remarkable vigor from the
start


On the other hand the over .dosed corn ap-
peared.for long while as if paralyzed by
some wasting disease. 1t could not bear up
so much fagood thing. More fire ammonia
was formed at the start than could be appro-
priated by the tender plants, and many Of
them perished from over-stimulation and
heat produced by the Preventative changes
and the active bodies in contract. The corn
that survived grew finally and afforded large
yield. s


Nov, if this had happened in the course
of ouriegular Agricultural labors, and with
out any understanding of the fertilizing sub
it is probable it would have been
condemned as worthless article, This has
been tho case with hundreds ofexperiments,
and, indeed, it has a natural conclusion to
reach. But we must learn to reason, learn
to have patience, learn the character Of the
substance we employ upon our lands We
mustbe careful how We reach conclusion;
to 500 e It -hasad
on correct grounds There are well estab-
lished principles in Agriculture, let us cling
to thcms and when we get results that are
puzzling ,or paradoxical, we must study
causes, and not Judge hastily.-Erchange.
Year: 1872

WoMAN's FoRTITuDE-I have often had
occ, sion to notice the fortitude with which
women sustain the most overwhelming re-
verses of fortune Those disasters which
break down the spirit of a mn and PROSTATE
him in the dust, seem to call forth all the en-
ergies of the softer sex, and give such intro
pidity and elevation to their character, that
at at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing
can be more touching than to behold soft
and tender female, who had been all weak
ness and dependence, and alive to every triv-
ial roughness, while treading the prosperous
paths Of life suddenly rising in mental force
to be the comforter and supporter of her
husband under misfortune, and abiding with
unshrinking frmness, the bitterest blasts OF
adversely.
Year: 1872

Speak kindly. in the morning; it
lightens the cares of the day, and
max IS household and all other afials
move along more smoothly. Speak
kindly at night, for it may be that
before the dawn some loved one may
finish his or her span of life for this
world, and it will be too late to ask
forgiveness.
Year: 1872

A wretch broke off an engag cement
for the following cogcnt Teason. You
know a case is fearful nuisance, and l
always carry my cigars loose in my
vest pocket. The necessary amount of
affection toward Molly was awful rough
on 'em. Never came away from that
house but every one of 'em was smash
ed. Couldn't expect fellow to waste
good tobacco that way, could your
Year: 1872

we are not the class that expects to "catcl
iarks when the sky falls,' for we have no faitE
In the anticipation. but we are always stand
ing around ready to pick up the lark that falls
TO our lot, let it come it may. In the
meantime we keep turning the wheels of indus
try, satisfied that mankind ought always to
make sure of a meal, even while it is expect.
ing banquet We are ready to be helped by
PRESIDENT Grant in any way he can afford as,
slstance, but as we are small believers in his
ability to benefit the South. we insist that our
first duty is to assist ourselves. Nothing that
the President can do will prosper Louisiana,
unless she takes hold upon her own fortunes
and builds them up. All this fuss and feathers
about the design of the federal government to
DO something for us is a snare that reasona-
Die men should put away at once, because they
may be induced to relax their own efforts if
they listen to it. The South must help her.
self. She must teach her men to be better
farmers, and her women to be better house
wives. 1t is impossible to start cotton mills
IN thlekly populated neighborhoods, because
the labor can not be had. Women have to be
imported from the North and from Europe
and when they come they are so superior to
the poor natives that they are mistaken for n
different class from what they are. This evil
must be remedied. Girls in the South. IA
they are in the North must be taught to work
Ter wages. Their poverty DEGREES this to
them, and thes only make the community poor
when they contend against the necessity.
Boys must be tanght to labor as mechanics.
Shotguns and rabbit dogs are the luxuries of
those who are able to MAINTAIN them-they do
not belong to the family that only has -four
bread once week. Grant can not helm the
State whose people do not know the way to
the schoolhOuse and the church. And the
south Will always be the butt end of the coun-
try while the percentage of men that do not
read the newspapers is as ten to one of those
that do Nobody but fools look beyond their
own labor for support.


~ o. ReDubLieau
Year: 1872

There are plenty Of public lands in this State
which may be obtained at small cost bv in
dustrious families who may wish to posses
them. There are thousands of families in the
State who need such lands. Colonies might
be organized in our cities for the purpose of
occupying these waste places. Capitalist
ought to aid such organizations


This is the great question for this and all
other Southern States to settle, how cau we
best utilize the labor andi idle land of the
south, increase the production of breadstuffs,
and become independent?


e Land holders will be obliged to meet the
question fairy. 1t will not settle itself
Land, labor, and capital, all are needed to
make the South prosperous. Or, perhaps we
would better represent the situation by saw
ing that there is enough land labor and cap
ital IN the country to make the South pros
porous, If they would but shake hands to-
sether and help each other.-N. o. Picagune
Year: 1872

ESLARGEMENT.-We have heretofore omit
ted to mention that in September quite an ad-
dltlon was made to the Commercial and Indus
trial College building, in this place. The new
structure is about 81 feet long by 70 wide, two
ry or sleeping room, while in the attic there
are two small rooms, one for one of the Broth
ers and the other u clothes ROOM The new
building fills up the space between the main
building and the old billiard room, now occu-
pied us a chapel, and cost $1,000. similer
wing will eventually be built on the other side
OF the main building, which at some day will be
replaced by larger and better structure
We are glad of these evidences of prosperity.


The college now has about sixty pupils
eight or ten being from New Orleans. No bet
present there are four teachers, but as the col
isge can now accommodate $50 pupils, no
doubt there will soon be a necessity for en-
ploying other teaehers.-Sugar-B Boact
Year: 1872

''But the point we wish TO make is this
when the Courier publishes it as a political
crime for Senator Anderson to receive eoloretl
votes, it should remember that some of its can.
dldates are deeper in the mire than he was.
CpetousdS Journal.


There she goes again" We should like our
ingenious neighbor to show us the article pub
iished in the COURIER wherein we charge Sem
ator Anderson with political crime in re-
ceiving eolored votes


We have never stated that it was "politi-
cal crime to receiUe colored votes: or that IT
was reprehensible in the slightest degree to
do So 1t is not in the receiving of such votes
that can be in the least found fault with, or
condemned. The simple receiving of them
may be all proper and right, nay, is proper
and right; but the manner in which they
have been procured may not he so proper and
right That's the point, neighbor; don't
dodge the question; don't go off on false
scent; you can't mislead any one in this COM
m"'aity not willing to be mislead. "Setting
up man Of straw to knock him down" is a
famous ruse of yours, neighbor, in your edito-
rial warfare; but it wont always answer your
purposes. Now, for instance, when did we
ever say that any of your candidates got into
the n'irc when they received colored votes 7
1t was left for you to say this thing. We
never having said anything of the kind, your
admission that some of our candidates were
deeper in the mire" than Senator Anderson
was, shows that the idea that candidate gets
into the mire when ne receives colored votes,
originated with you.


Come neighbor, you must father your own
editorial offspring-it matters not how much
ashamed of them you may be, you can't force
other people to adopt them and it is not
manly to attempt to do SO.
Year: 1872

D A special to the New York Erening
Post from Washington says:


There is COED reason for believing that the
PRESIDENT III his forthcoming message recon-
mend Congress to complete the work of am
nesty by making it universal, and by restor-
ing those to citizenship who are now excluded
py the third section OF the fourteenth amend
ment to the constitution Such a eourse has
been urged upon the President by several
members of the Cabinet, and one of them il
the authority for saying that he has decided
Year: 1872

~ However much we may have differed
with the N. O. Republicans in our political views
and however much we may hereafter differ
with that paper, We cannot refrain from ex-
pressing our approval of the constant, untiring
and persevering efforts that it has made for
some time past, and continues to make, to
awaken the people Of this State, and partieu-
larly Of New Orleans, to the great Importance
of the subject of our internal improvements


In this respect, the Republicans has mani
tested degree of public spirit and of sensi-
biiity TO the prosperity of Louisiana and New
Orleans that is highly creditable to that paper.
Year: 1872

ter in the economy Of nature, and exhib


its one Of those wisc and bountifdl adap.
tons by which the holesystem of things,
animate and inanimate, is fitted and
bound together. All bodies on the sur
face If the earth radiate or throw out
rays Of heat in straight line-every
warmer body TO every colder. and the
entire surface is itself continual y sending
rays upwards through the clear air into
free space. Thus, on the earth's surface
all bodies strive after an equal tempera-
ture (an equilibrium Of heat while the
surface as whole tends generally to
ward a cooler state. But while the sun
shines this cooling will not take place,
Cor the earth then receives in general
more heat than it gives off; and II the
clear sky be shut out by the canopy Of
clouds, these will arrest and again throw
lack portion of the heat and prevent it
from being so speedily dissipatcd. AT
night, then, when the sun ia absent, the
earth will cool the moist; On clear nights,
also, more than when it is cloudy, and
when clouds only partially obscure the
sky, these parts will bethe coolest which
look towards the clearest portions of the
heavens. Now, when the surface cools,
the air in contact with il must cool also,
and like the warmer currents on the
mountain side, must forsake portion Of
the watery vapor it has hitherto retained.
This water, like the floating mist on the
hills, descends in particles almost inf
nitely minute. These particles collect
on every leaAet and suspend themselves
from every blade of grass in drops of
"pearly dew And mark here a beauti-
ful adoption: Different substances are
endowed with the property of radiating
thar heat, and thus becoming cool with
different degrees of rapidity, and those
substances, which, in the air, become
cool first. also attract first and most abun-
dainty the particles Of falling dew. Thus
in the cool of a summers evening the
grass plot is wet while the gravel walk
is dry, and the thirsty pasture and every
green leaf are drinking in the descending
moisture, while the naked land and the
barren highway are still unconscious of
its fall.
Year: 1872

A Kansas editor says; Ere long We
may taste again the positive and exqui-
site pleasure of good light, good fire.
and good book, and few are the mortal
enjoyments equal to this when the family
circle are shut in from the cold blasts
without. We can cply comprehend true
comfort a. within the sacred marriage
tie, and thrics blessed is he who Is thus
happily placed at his freside.
Year: 1872

Their love had crossed the meridian Of
happiness, and the young couple began
to look upon each other as matter Of
course. A quiet indifference spang up
ON his part, which boded no good to the
coniding child Of nature who had placed
her trust in him-her fate in his keeping.
He no longer sat at her feet or pillowed
his head in her lap at eventide, but sat
apart at eventide gazing into vacancy,
his thoughts far, far away, among the
ranches of siskiyou, or the pleasures of
the City Of the Sea. He longed for a
change and began 10 look upon the pos
sibility of separation from his bride
with feeling akin to satisfaction. The
wife saw all this, but in her innocence
saw nothing to give her alarm. Besides
she already felt something which, when
told her lord, she knew would fill his
very soul with joy, and draw him closer
10 her.
Year: 1872




Now that nobody is using the auditorium in
the new Masonic Hall building, let us make a
suggestion. First as to its proper name 1t
ought not to be called the 'Grand Opera House" ="
This is affectation it is not "grand, at all. 1t
is simple, handsome, theatre, very creditable
indeed for Wilmington, and fit to be compared
for beauty and comfort with almost any other in
the country But to ascribe the quality OF gran
dettr. to it, is to be in error. Let MS therefore
give it it's proper name - the Masonic Opera
House."


Again, the various portions Of the house are
now differently called by different authorities.
They should be the parquet, parquet circle,
and the dress circle. This is, to be sure, very
much matter of choice but we believe the as
signment of this nomenclature would be most fl
and most advantageous.
Year: 1872

How TO COMMENCE BUSINESS. There
are many young men who are IN the
habit of excusing their idleness and in
efficiency with the plea that they can
do nothing without capital. The la,k
of means is the re ady reply they make
to every appeal to action. They imagine
that they possess in themselves all the
prerequisites to success except capital.
IF they only had capital, in addition
to their other imagined ui,tues, they
would do great things in the world; they
would grow, astonish the natives with
the boldness and brilliancy of their en-
terprise. They would become immense
ly rich, and lay the world under per-
petual obligations to them by the mag
nificenee of their benefactions. This is
the waythey think and talk, and they
roll the vain-glorious idea over in their
minds until they come to imagine that
the world is an immense loser by their
poverty.


These persons forget one important
fact that all capital is the product Of
labor. That nearly all the rich men in
this country were once poor. That
,u.,.rly every personal fortune they can
ssiunerate is either the product of its
~ ,sr'- toll aud skill. or the representa-
aye vf his fathers toll and skill.
Year: 1872

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 pow
erty, they would have lived and died
poor, and left nothing but an inherit
ance of honesty behind them. Capital


allied to labor and skill can work won


lers in the war of material enterprises.
/ 5ut money is not the only indi pensaole
thing to young men. There are other
kinds of capital besides accumulated
money; brains, muscle, industry, hon
esty, diligence, truth, fidelity, skill, tact,
education all these things are capital. and
all of them have commercial value,
which the owner will be able, sooner or
later to command in the market. Pro-
vided with these, any young man in this
country may make more than he needs
to spend every year. and thus have
something at the end of each year to in
vest as money capital. If he needs
money let him go to work and make 1t,
and thus give proof Of his ability to use
it proftably and judiciously; If we go
into any great city, or into any prosper
Gus agricultural district, we find the cap
italists are those who have made their
fortunes without any outside aid. They
did not waste their time in repining at
their poverty, and in silly dreams OF
what they could do if they had money
to do it with. They went boldly and
resolutely to work they toiled and
thought and planned. and kept toilins
and thinking and planning, patiently,
until at last they grasped the fortunate
moment, and succeeded. Exchange.