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Year: 1873

Blessed is the man whose labor is of
such kind that the work itself gives
employment to every part OF his nature.
There are many kinds of manual labor,
in the foundry, in the machine-shops,
in the laboratory, in the builders trade,
in those occupations by which tho ne
cesslties of life are supplied, which
furnish field for the exercise Of man 5
whole mind. The man at the loom, the
man Mt the palette, the man that molds
the vase, the man who in Il thosand ways
is producing objects of art and beauty
and use, may find scope for his thought
and feeling. If Iwere cabinet maker,
do you suppose | should think of moth
ing but the thing ! was working on? DO
you believe | could construct cradle,
and my heart not sing lullaby all the
time for the little ones that should bless
it, and whose eyes, looking out of it,
should be as stars shining up instead of
stars shining down, and should speak of
immortality as the heavens which de-
clare the glory Of God do not know how
to do it? Is it necessary that should
saw, or plane, or rub, and do nothing
but saw and plane and rub? Is there
no living power in mans work ? Is
there nothing in it to stir up his imagi.
nation? If [ built II mans house,
would the one question be how much
could earn for SO much work ? If put
my heart in my work, am I not bene.
factor? When man builds Il house,
if he pleases he can build it for the
good of those who are to dwell in it,
and leaves II blessing in it but if a
man, in building house, says to him
self, every time he drives n nail, How
can put poor one III instead of one
that costs more, y acting all the time
under the influence of the devil of sell
flshness in his work, ! do not marvel
that it is drudgery to him. / do not
| marvel that he finds no incitement in it.
But if man goes to work as if he were
called of God to do it if it is taste
and conscience, aud benevolence, thai
work in him, then his labor is all the
time school of blessing to him. There
is scope in the poorest mechanical EN-
ployments for far more manhood THAI
we are accustomed to put into our work
and one thing that | blame men for i
that they put so little of the better par
of themselves into mechanical employ
ments. You think, because man i
sitting in his study, and pursuing hi


professional avOcations, that he can ex


pand and open up his mind but ther


may be as many sordid men anon


scholars as in any other class. Yet it


possible in any sphere for man to pu


into his work the best part of himself


IL ". BGccher.
Year: 1873

Dancing in the East (as seen in the
Alme of Egypt and the Nautch girls Of
India) probably gives us better idea
of what the ancients practised than any
thing which we have in our cold North ;
it is chiefly given up to professional
dancers, who are often highly gifted
and highly educated. But with us pro-
fessional dancing has become insepara-
bly, connected with the opera stage, and
with but one subject, the tender pas
sion, and this in its conception and il
lustration is so vulgar and so vague,
that it would almost be true to say that
all who do not consider the ballet inde-
cent, believe it to be unmeaning-as it
often is.-S. Pduys Magazine.
Year: 1873

One wintry afternoon in January,
away up in the bleak attic of a wretched
tenement house, pale sad eyed woman
sat sewing. The garment upon which
she was engaged was very rich dress.
The twilight closed in rapidly, with q
binding fall of snow, a bitter wailing
blast, that made the windows rattle in
their casemates. Still the pale faced
woman stitched on.


Mother" piped slender voice from
the cot beneath the window, "shall you
get the fine dress done? Oh my mother,
Tn so hungry, if I could only have
some tea and bit of sausage"


The mother worked on steadily for
few moments, paused only to brush
tear from her white cheek, then she
arose and shook out the glimmering
robe.


"Tis done at last" she said "now
mothers little girl can have her supper,
only be patient little longer Flora.
Ross, Ross, where are you my boy ~


A manly little fellow came out from
the little bed room beyond.


"The dress is done, Ross" said his
mother, "and you must run home with
it as fast as ever you can. Miss Gercia
will be out of patience, / know. Tell
her I couldn't finish it one moment
sooner, and ask her to give you the
money. We must have it to night.
And you can stop in at Mr.. Rays as you
come back and buy some coal, and we
must have some bread and tea, and n
mite of butter, and you must get saul
sage, Ross, for poor little Flora"


"Ill get 'em all mother" he said,
"and be back in no time. You shall
have big sausage, little sis, he added,
turning toward the cot.


The girl nodded her curly head, and
her great wistful eyes sparkled with
delight.


"And you shall have half of it, Ross, y
she piped, in her slender, bird voice.


Hadn't you better put on your thick
jacket, my boy? ?" continued his mother ;
"the wind cuts like knife"


"Pshaw, little mother; don't mind
the wind" And away he went down
the breaking stairs, and out in the storm.
Miss Gracia Fontenay was in perfect
furore of impatience and anger. Her
dear five hundred friends were assembl-
ed in the halls below, and the handsome
dress had not come home. What did
that beggar woman mean by disappoint-
ing her? At that moment there was q
ring at the door, and voice in the hall.


"Please tell Miss Gracia, my mother
could not finish it sooner she wants
the money to night" The servant took
the handsome dress and message.
! "I'll never give her another stitch Of
Year: 1873

The following inexpensive
mode of preserving corn for
table use after its season has
passed, is suggested by an ex-
perimenter: Dip the ears into
boiling water and let them re-
main about two minutes take
them out, and when cool cut
the corn from the cob and dry
it, just as you would dry fruit,
and when dry put it away in
clean paper sacks. By this
means one may enjoy the lux
ury of green corn at any time.
Year: 1873

Every season more or less
hams are destroyed by insects,
or rendered too unpalatable to
be eaten by decent people. By
following this method the in
sects can be entirely kept at
distance, and it is very simple
and within the reach of almost
every farmer in the country.
After the meat has been well
cured by pickle and smoke,
take some clean ashes, free
from bits of coal, moisten them
with a little water, so that they
will form paste, or else just
wet the hams a little and rub
on the dry ashes. Rubbed in
thoroughly, they serve as a
capital insect protector, and the
hams can be hung up in the
smoke-house or wood-chamber
without any danger of molesta.
ton.
Year: 1873




The cultivation Of broom
corn has been checked in the
West by the cheapness of the
article, SO that farmers scarcely
obtain prices sufficient to pay
the expenses of raising it. The
late storms have also caused
serious injury to the compara-
lively limited crop raised this
year, resulting in an advance of
nearly one hundred per cent. on
the old stock on hand.
Year: 1873

Inc Radical friends of Senator Caldwell are
now anEiously urging him to resign and save
them the necessity of expeIling him from tbs Sen
aee' and their party the stigma of such an act
The case has become too glaring for even Radical
endurance
Year: 1873

PEOPLE WILL TALK. .sr5..
We may so through the world. but twill be very
slow, E4
five listen to all that is said as we 20;
We'll be worried and fretted, and kept in stew;
For meddesome tongues must have something to
do III --a.s


For people will talk.
If generous and noble they vent out their Spleen
You hear some loud hints that you're selfish and
mean;


If upright and honest, and fair as the day,
They'll call You rogue, in sly, sneaking way


For people will talk.
Then, if you show the least holiness Of heart,
Or slight inclination to take your own part,
They'll cali you an upstart conceited and VAN;
But keep straight ahead, don't stop to explain


For people will talk
If threadbare your coat or oldfashioned your
dress,
Some one, OF course, will take notice Of this,
And hint rather close that you can't pay your way
But don't get excited whatever they say


For people will talk.
If you dress in the fashion, don't think to escape;
For they crticse then in q different shape
You're ahead of your means, or your bills are
paid;


But mind your own business, and keep straight
ahead


For people will talk.
They talk fine before you, but then at your back
OF venom and spite there is never lack
How kind and polite ia all that you say,
But bitter gall when you are out the way


For people viii talk.
Good friend, take my advice, and do you please,
For your mind fyou have one) will then be at ease,
Through life you will meet with all sorts Of abuse;
But don't think to stop them, twill be Of no use


For people will talk.
Year: 1873

writing Of such freeholders, but it Rny such
cannot write he may sign by max, which
ing


4. The said applicant shall appear in open
court at the time his application is presented
ana make oath In due form that he has two
suitable rooms and four comfortable beds for
the exclusive use Of travellers and guests, and
stabltng and prOvender for at least four horses
and give rental value of the house intsnded to
be used as such inn or tavern; that he has
made publication according to law that his
certificate and recommendation was read to or
by the signers thereof that the signatures
are in the proper and genuine handwriting OF
each, and IL any have signed by mark he
shall so state, and also that he could not write
itoUIded, hotoeUer, That the provisions OF
THIS section in regard TO rooms, beds, stabling,
proVender and horses shall not apply to cities
OF towns containing more than two thousand
inhabitants.


8, At the same time he files his application
ne shall also pay 10 the Clerk of the Peace
the full fee or price for said license and also
one dollar and fifty cents fees to the Clerk.


The Law goes into effect on the first day of Sep
tember, 1873 Those whose license expire before
that time are permitted TO take out license until
the October Term of Court. Licenses are to be
Kept hung up in each hotel in some conspicuous
place where they may be seen. If not found so
exposed 10 view it will be held as presumptivs
evidence that hquor is being sold without license.
all Mayors of cities. Magistrates. Sheriffs, Cor
Oners. or their deputies, constables and other


ficers, are required to furnish evidence and give
information of the violation of the law under
penalty. The sale of liquor or giving it away on
Sunday, or TO minors and insane per,ons, or 10
habltual drunkards, Is prohibited under fno of
500 10 slOO, and forfeiture of the Incense for two
years thereafter and person licensed TO sell IL
quor, shall sell, give way or dispense any intoxi-
eating liquors ON the day of any general, special
or municipal election, within one mile of the place
where the same is held, and such day ehall be
recEoncd from the midnight before tilt the mid
night after such election, and any person viOlat
ing this provision shall he guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upOn conviction thereof shall forfeit
ard pay fine Of not loss than fifty nor more thar
one hundred dollars and If holding d license
under this act shall forfeit the in addition to
such tine, and be incapable Of receiving license
for the space Of two years thsreetter.
Year: 1873

EVERY EVENING, remarks that the statement
OF the county affairs appears rather late. Consd-
ering tEat the Levy Court did not adjourn until
some time in April, and the statement ~ made up
to the 18th of March we cannot see the truth of
This censure. Nor cannot 1t be said with truth
that "tSree or four months" had expired, since
the statement is made 10 the 18th of March This is
on the contrary about as carly as such a compete
statement could be expected to appear. In lis
remarks Eee,y Erening certainly does injustice to
the County Treasurer, whether it intended to 60
or nst 1t must be remembered too that such
statements have not been customary and there is
no specified time for their appearance. Certainly
tn re should be, aud we hope future that neitl-
er party will omit to publish the condition of the
county finances annually.
Year: 1873

Yesterday horse attached to
Il buggy belonging TO Mr.. W. j. Yarbrough
ran away from near the custom.house. The
buggy collded with carriage, which was
completely upset and injured. When near
the corner of Twelfth and Main streets the
horse was stopped f; not, however, until the
top of the buggy had been torn of and the
horse slightly injured.
Year: 1873

An ENcouRAGING REPORr.--From the NOR
tuary report OF the Board of Health it will
be seen that there were 10 fewer deaths in
the city last week than The week before,
showing very healthy condition OF the city.
The smallpox has disappeared, ana there
have been no cases of cholera.
Year: 1873

WIDE AwAKE.-Our friends AT the corner Of
Main and Thirteenth streets seem to be wide awake.
Tlcy have COLLECTED one of the finest stocks of
ready made clothing and gcntlemen's underwear
TO be- found in the city. They are selling them at
low prices. Their stock of goods for
cuStonl-orders unsurpassed anywhere, and their
cutters and workmen are constantly turning ont
the most stylish and artistic work. If you want a
stylish and fashionable suit made out Of the very
best material call at E. b. SPENCE & SONS. 1900
Main street,
Year: 1873

FAIL TO GET PIECE OF THE EMBRorDEK"T
P1ouE TRIMMING which LEVY BROTHERS are sell
ing at SO, co. and 75c piece, and you will miss ole
Of the best bargains Of the season. as they are Wort


lust three times the price.
Year: 1873

GOVERNOR STAFFORD and J. w.. Hopkins returned on Thursday from an inspection of the Pueblo Viejo set tlement located, as heretofore stated, some distance above old Camp Good win along the Gila river. The Mon tezuma Canal Company has secured large water claim and have some twenty men digging the canal which will be so far completed as to supply many thousands of acres with water in season to mature crops this year. Good land, water and timber are con- venient and abundant as also are fish and wild game both fowl and animal. The climate is healthy.

 Next week we'll give an outline ot ruins of old towns and cities recently discovered in that vicinity, and also ot relics found which go to establish the fact of the sudden massacre of the people who inha bited them and cultl- vated the surrounding country.
Year: 1873

LATEST advices from Washington and San Diego are cheerful enough on Texas Pacific railway matters. The opening of Spring will mark the opening of work in good earnest at San Diego. Five hundred miles will be built on the eastern end this year.
Year: 1873

PREPARING FOR THE BATrLE.-The
Central Pacific people, after long and
desperate struggle to get possession Of Goat
Island, which was only defeated at the
eleventh hour by the whirlwind of indgna-
ton about the Credit Mobilier business, are
busly preparing for another campaign.
Stanford and his lobbyists have returned
from Washington soured and disappointed,
but not conquered. They have work before
them of utmost importance. A Legislature
is to de chosen, which will have vital ques-
tions of the regulation of freights and fares
before it, and United States Senator is to
be elected by the same body. AT any and
every cost they must capture the Legislature
and orders have been issued accordingly,
1t will never do to permit freights and fares
to be touched, nor to allow an honest anti
railroad Senator to hold Sargent in check,
and neutralze his efforts for the great cor
poration. Therefore, instructions have been
issued to the political managers of the COM
pany to work cautiously but energetically in
every county and district in the State. Sem
ators and Assemblymen are the game in this
fight, with the control of the Supervi-
sors in certain counties. There is nothing
political III it. Democrats will answer just
as well as Republicans, if they can be relied
upon to do the bidding of Stanford & Co.
The agents of the corporation will pursue
the same policy in California that Jay Gould
and the Erie do in tie East. That is in
Republican districts, they will be Republi-
cans; in Democratic districts, Democrats,
and in doubtful districts double game will
be played with both parties. Under these
circumstances it becomes the paramount
duty of the people all over the State to
guard well their interests Tney should see
to il that no man is nominated for the Leg
islature who is not thoroughly reliable on
this issue. If he is at all shaky or doubtful
thrust him to one side, and select some one
whose record for honesty either in public or
private life is guarantee that he will not
sell out to the railroad Ring. The sentiment
of the masses cannot be mistaken. There
is an overwhelming majority opposed to the
Stanford clique, and by the exercise of vig-


lance and frmness signal triumph may be
won this Fall. If, however, trickery and
corruption prevail, the legislation next
Winter will prove burden and curse to the
States. +. Erening Post.
Year: 1873

WITHOUT A NEWSPAPER R.-Nothing pre-
sents sadder commentary upon the present
condition of society than the large number of
families, both in town, and in the country,
but more especially in the latter, that sub
scribe to no paper of any kind. How many
families are thus growing up utterly ignorant
of what is transpiring in the world around
them-ignorant Of the mighty events of the
day. But who can tell the vast amount of
injury that is being inflicted upon the rising
generation-those who are to take our place
in the busy world at no distant day-grow-
ing up without any knowledge of the present
Or any study Of the past; this ignorance, too,
being imbued into them by the sanction Of
those who should, and doubtless do know
better, did they only think of the injurious
effects of their insane course. Let the head
of the family think Of this, and place in the
hands of those for. whom he is responsible,
the means of acquiring some knowledge Of
the moving panorama in which we act our
different parts.
Year: 1873

TIE CANKER OF CORRUPTION An Eastern
lady, the daughter of great politician, and
herself one of the most gifted women Of the
country, in letter to personal friend,
writes: "Unless something is done TO save
us from these overwhelming waves of cor
ruption, we shall go under some day and
only be known in history as terrible ex-
ample. Good heavens ! when l think Of
such magnificent Argosy as these United
States, freigbted with the noblest hopes and
aspirations of the human race, going down
on the awful lee shore of political corruption,
it makes me frantic with rage and grief. /
fancy ! can hear you chuckle over poor
Colfax's fall; but really, my whole heart is
full Of pity for him. lie looks like dead
man; and cannot throw stone at him
without shying bigger one at some of the
rascals who sat on him, and were too shrewd
to get their fingers burned"
Year: 1873

PRESIDENT GRANT has offered gratuitous
and singing insult to the people of North
Carolina. A year or two ago Governor
Holden was impeached for high crimes and
misdemeanors by the Legislature Of the
State and broken of his Office. He left the
State to escape justice, but is now sent back
with bis commission in his pocket as POST
master at Raleigh. We may expect next to
hear that the fugitive scoundrel, Bullock.
who fled from Georgia, is to be sent back to
enjoy some lucrative Federal office, with the
endorsement of the great Civil Service Re-
former, President Grant. Vallejo hide
pendent
Year: 1873

cit is a sin to steal pin" and a man in
Philadelphia has been arrested for that very
offense. The pin had diamond attached
to it.


The wife of a roofer being asked if she
was not afraid to have her husband exposed
to such danger, trustfully replied: "Ohl he's
insured"


A young man who was crossed in love
attempted suicide recently by taking dose
Of yeast powder. He Immediately arose
above his earthly troubles.
AN Ohio man sleeps with pistol under
his pillow. He awoke the other night from
dream Of burglars and found the pistol in
his hand and bullet in his leg.


The DrFERENoE.-In the earlier days of
Louisiana, the New Orleans Picaytne says,
when man had lawsuit, he used to hire
alawyer; now he has to hire judge.


The blossom cannot tell what becomes of
its odor, and 10 man can tell what becomes
of his influence and example, that roll away
from him and 60 beyond his ken on their
mission.


The Denver Ne,0s remarks that the Penn
sylvania penitentiary has an inmate who has
inhabited solitary cell for thirty-four years
without once seeing the sunlight. And yet
Pennsylvania calls the whipping post relic
of barbarism.


A promising young Kentuckian who was
thoughtless enough to throw boot-jack at
his mother-in-law, is deeply impressed with
the idea that there is nothing SO sharp and
sudden for removing the hair from mans
head as potato-grater.


EVERY male citizen of Boston, old enough
to sit still and allow professor of physiology
to feel of his bumps, has in his possession a
chart in which his cranial developments are
| depicted with vividness that would put to
shame the knots on maple log.
| The bridesmaids at recent wedding in
Georgia are thus described by local paper
cit is no idle compliment to say that they
are like three Graces, their faces mirroring
back the purity and softness of the skies,
their eye; floating in light of dewy tender
ness, or throwing radent flashes from the
inner shrnes of thought like jewel-tinted
sparkles caught from broken ranbows."
A PArcH-A near-sghted indianapolis
woman patched the seat Of her husband 8
pantaloons with cold buckwheat cake, that
the children had left in her work basket re-
Gently The color of the patchwork matched
the original trowsers, and as the cake was
tough, the mistake might never have been
discovered, but the old man got caught out


in shower day Or two afterward; the
patch began to SWELL he felt cold patches on
his back, and thinking it was spinal mcnn-
gifts that had clutched him, sent for doctor
who soon soothed his fears; but he wants a
divorce.


A well-known Connecticut clergyman had
deacon who insisted upon leading the sing
ing at the prayer-meetings. lie was a great
| blunderer, and he sang all the sad and mel
ancholy tunes he could think of. The hymn
was given out,


81 love to steal awhile away"
The deacon began,'1 love to steal" to here
where he broke down. He started with
Dundee-"I love to steal" The third
time he commenced and broke down, when
the pastor arose and gravely said:"I am sor-
ry for our brothers propensity. Will some
brother pray?"
Year: 1873

No BErTER.-A Yale student, who is
evidently in the Journalistic" department,
wrote twelve-verse poem for the Weekly
Maqazine, which is entitled: "We Kissed
Each Other by the Sea-" Well, what of
it? The seaside is no better for such things
than any other locality. In fact, we have
put in some very sweet work of that kind
on the tow path of canal in our time, but
we did not say anything about it in print.
Year: 1873

SILK MANUFACTURE The silk business
is of older standing in the United States than
some may suppose. 1t is recorded in a news
paper of 1892, that at a wedding Of three
couple in Bradford, Pennsylvania, all the
ladies wore silk gowns of their own raising
ard reefng, and which had been woven in
the neighborhood
Year: 1873

QUIcKsILvEE-A number of quicksilver
mines have lately been discovered in Lake
county. Two of the most promising ones
are situatsd on the northwestern slope Of
Mount St. Peleny, not far from Middletown
One of these is known as the Gem mine.
Both are being worked, about fifty men
being engaged on them.-Lake County Bee
Year: 1873

The first change to be made BY the
President by carrying out his determine
ton to recall most OF the foreign rep
resenatives Of the United States and
sending new ones, will be that OF Tho
mas A. Nelson present Minister to
Mexico, whose place will be filled by
Colonel Foster, the Chairman Of the
Indian Republican Com mittee who did
such splendid service for Senator Nor
ton during the late canvass in that
State This will be q hard blow TO
Bingham, who wanted the Mexican
mission. The change will be at once
made.