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Year: 1873

Every housewife of neat and tidy habits
takes especial delight in keeping all the tin,
copper and iron ware of her kitchen as
clean and bright as painstaking labor can
make them. a pride in this direction is
commendable, and always meets the smil-
ing approval Of the "tyrant man who
pays the household bills. Remember that
Sapolio is the only thing on earth that will
make an old tarnished tin pan or rusty
kettle shine as bright as new And by the
use of Sapolio It's the quickest and easiest
thing in the world to keep every utensil in
high state Of polish.
Year: 1873

The negro vote of the South was the bolt aud
bar of the Republican party to keep the white
Democratic majority of the nation from controll-
ing Its government How is the black ally of
the Northern Republican citizen prospering and
how is he fitting himself for his civic duties p
Not one nigger out of a thousand in all Alabama
has yet paida cent of tax The most easy form
of homestead was offered them in the Govern
ment public lands The niger squats here or
there and don't comply with the requirements OF
the law, and don't get his land or found his home
But the Southern niger is a competent judge of
Republican craftsmanship, Trust him to vote
the Protectionist ticket. His mind dilates natu-
rally and easily to the grasping of fthot benefcient
polity.-N Y. World.
Year: 1873

The Republican conventions are determined to
stigmatize the salary-grab. We trust their pure
minds will note the fact that General Grant might
have stopped it with wish, but he took S1OO, 900
and bade the salary grab God-speed
Year: 1873

A suit brought by the Church of the Re-
demption against Grace Church is in progress before
Judge Van Brunt IN the Special Term OF the Supreme
Court and attracting little attention Of
the character Of the ltlgatng parties. II that
some years ago, according the story Of the plaintiffs
a Protestant Episcopal Congregation, known as the
Astor- place Mission, OF which the Rev. Mr. Dixon
Pastor procured from Grace Church $4,000 for the pur
pose OF purchasing church site opposite the academy
OF Music The church was then organized under the
title OF the Church OF the Redemption" money being
raised complete the purchase aud TO build the church
The title was, however taken In the name Of Grace
Church, but the ground occupied by Mr..
Dixon and his congregation as the Church Of the Re-
deniption. Some time later trouble arose among the
congregation election took place. at which, II Ia
claimed, the church filled with police, and by
OF ths election the keys OF the church put in the
hands OF the Grace Church people, who took and still
retain possession OF the church This suit WAS then in
sued TO possession OF the church ana to have
Grace Church appointed trustee.


On behalf OF Grace Church sit was claimed yesterday
that the church built by them with the aid OF
outside subscriptions and that IL had organized
the Church OF the Redemption The trial will occnpy
several days.
Year: 1873

FANNY FERN ON SoNs-IN-LAw.-" How
any young fellow can have the face to
walk into your family, and deliberately
ask for one Of your daughters, surprises
me. That it is done every day does not
lessen my astonishment at the sublime
impudence of the thing. There you have
been, eighteen or twenty years of her lite.
comb;ng her hair and washing her face
for-himt 1t is lucky the thought never
strikes you while you're doing it, that this
is to be the eId of all. What if you were
married yourself? That is no reason why
she should be witched away in separate
establishment just as you begin to lean
upon her and feel proud of her; or, at
least, it stands to reason, that after you
have worried her through the measles, the
ehicken-pox, scarlet fever and whooping
cough. and had her properly vlcciuated.
this impudent young man might give You
aishort breathing time before she goes. He
seems to be of different opinion he NO,
only insists upon taking her, but upon TAX
ing her Immediately, if not sooner. He
talks we'll about livery well; you have
no objection to him, not the least in the
world. except that when the world is full
of girls, why couldn't he fix his eye on
the daughter of somebody else 7 There
are some parents who are glad to be rid OF
their daug ghters. Blue eyes are as plenty
as berries why need it be this particular
pair? Isn't she happy enough as she is
Don't she have meat, and bread, and
clothes enough, to say nothing of love
What is the use of leaving certainty for
an uncertainty, when that certainty is a
mother, and you can never have but one
You put all these questions to her, and she
has the sauciness to ask if that was the
way you reasoned when father came ioI
you. You disdain to answer, of course
1t is mean lodging of the question. Bu
she gets round you, for all that; and SC
does he, too, though you try your best MOI
to like him and with we'll, If l must
L must" you just order ter wedding
clothes. muttering to yourself the while
Dear, dear, what sort of fist will that
child make at the head of house? How
will she ever know what to do In this, that
or the other emergency ?-she who is call
ing on mother fifty times day, Il
settle every question-what folly for be-
to set up house Tor herself. How many
mothers have had these foreboding thought
over daughter. And yet that daughte


has met life, and its unexpected reverse
with heroism and courage as undaunte,
as if every glrlish tear had not been kisse,
away by lips that. alas! may be dus
when the baptism and womanhood come.
upon her,"
Year: 1873

erty the former receivers and managers With |
out impairing by one jot or little their re-
eponsibility to the owners of the trust estate
for all their acts 1t ordered the settling OF
their accounts in full, and leaves them open
to inspection and objection, holding these
officers in it's direct custody and under it's
orders until the last farthing is settled and
for. 1t places the new company
precisely in the same position which the old
receivers occupied as regards its accouuta-
biIity and responsibility and under bonds of
one million dollars as an additional security
for the faithful discharge of its duty.


This is the " corrupt Vermont COURT" the
elave and tool of the ring monopoly!


The writer does not pretend or wish to
enter upon the merits of this contest outside
of the courts. He does not enter in any
wise upon the question whether citizens OF
this State who have always hitherto possessed
the respect and confidence of the people,
have suddenly developed into villains and
thieves, or whether the wires which rule and
order the contest are pulled by stock,job-
bers and speculators, whose names are only
known in the circles of finance.


But he is persuaded that we are now for
the first time in a way to find out the truth,
and when in obedience to the order Of the
court the accounts of the outgoing receivers
and managers are presented for settlement,
the real matters at issue will be fairly and
squarely reached, and he believes, with
every true Vermonter, that in the courts of
this State, traduced by a venal and hireling
press in vain against the testimony of our
knowledge and of our experience, if any
tribunal under Heaven those who have in
any wise been wronged will find justice both
quick and sure.


Here at home these ISLANDERS upon our
Judiciary will be received with the contempt
they merit, but when within our own bor-
ders are found men sitting in editorial chairs
whose eyes should be undazzled by any vel,
low glitter, pen and publish unblushing as
sertions that our Judiciary department is cor
rupt and rotten, the tool of despotic rail
way monopoly; that Homer E. Royce hai
been bought with price, and that Timothy


P Re field as a matter OF courtesy assenteC
to and supported decision he knew to be
unsound and corrupt. it is time, for the hon.
or of our State abroad, it is time for you
true menbers of the Vermont press, and
every one of you, boldly, honestly and faith
fully to speak. VERMONT.
Year: 1873

Drifting apart are the ships that lay,
Only little year away,
Side by side through the golden day.
Holy and sweet were the moments all,
Soft and light was the shadows fall,
When the tide dropped down from the surf beat wall
Darker and deeper the shadow grew,
Fainter and fainter the light shone through,
Out of the heavens hidden blue.
Day went down in a leaden sky,
And silently glided one fair ship by,
Freigh ted and trimmed, with its lamps hung high ;
Seaward set, for the vewless shore,
Calmly sailing the dark waves DER
And love and faith the freight it bore.
Drifting apart and yet it may be
Nearer far than our dim eyes see
Lieth the land of all mystery
But when our souls in dim eclipse,
Feel the angel of the Apocalypse
Set his seal upon our dumb lips,
Dropping down the fathomless sea,
Freighted and trimmed may ships be,
Seaward set for eternity.


Maria r. Baker.
Year: 1873

The highest excellence is seldom attain
cd in more than one vocation. The roads
leading to distinction in separate pursuits
diverge, and the nearer We approach the
one, the farther We recede from the other.
Year: 1873

Never tell man he Is liar unless you are
certain that you can lick him, for as
general rule, when you say that, it means
fight.


have arrived at this conclusion through
sac experience. know that it is not safe to
give the lie to a muscular Christian.


| did it once. ! am sorry for it now, as !
never greved for anything else in the whole
eof my life.


We were standing on the sidewalk, in front
of the club, when made the statement. We
were talking politics, and men who talk
politics get hot over it, are, to put
it mildly, lunatics, or else want an Office,
or have sone friend who wants an Office.


This man made an assertion touching the
fair fame of my candidate 1t is probable
that if it had been as true as it was false, |
should have taken the same course, because,
you understand, man who talks politics has
no sense, anyhow. think said this before,
but it is all the same. want to make it
strong, and get you to understand how got
my ornamental eye


mildly suggested that man who would
make such 4 statementas that, was lost to all
sense of shame, aud would be guilty of any
bad crime.


He disagreed with me upon that point. As
for himself be never made statement except
upon The most ample proof My candidate
was the meanest villain living.


told him he lied.


/ have been kicked by a mule; have fallen
out Of a second story window on hard pave
ment; eaten green persimmons; heard Miss
- read poetry foT two hours and half;
skated rode sharp-backed horse Of mustang
parentage, an adept in the art Of " bucking"
suffered grief of various kinds, and still clung
to life; but all these are feathers in the balance,
as compared with the result of that little word
liar


Immediately after saying it, I sat down
not ia the way people usually sit down.


sat down on the rim Of my ear, ten feet
from the spot where | was standing when /
made use of tho expression quoted above. |
am not used 10 sitting in that position, and do
not think it agrees with me-


! have heard Of people who "sot up on
their ear, and walked off, wish knew how
to do it, and would have propelled myself
away FROM the spot Immediately if had pos
,essed this happy faculty. Iproceeded TO get
myself perpsndcularly, intending to use the
locomotion which Nature had given me bat
when came right side up, something heavy
ran against my nose and felt very tired. /
sat down on my sther ear. ! like change il
is too monotonous doing the same thing over
and over again


Somebody took my large friend away. and
l was quite pleased when hO was gone. l
have concluded to look twice at man before
| give him the lie again. Ny eye isin mourn
ing, ny nose swelIed into the size Of c!tren,
with the color Of blush rose, and my clothes
look as If they had been run through patent
sausage machine. | would not have that
mans temper for anything in the world.
Year: 1873

0uly those women who have not iha money
to "dress" can fully appreciate tho crushing
weight which society rutblessly heaps upon
this disability. To be unable to p" dress is
to be treated with almost dsrespoct in the car,
the boat, at the public gathering, the street aud
the shop to be ignored to feel the shrug Of
contempt, the sneer Of levity and the snile Of
scorn to be thrust aside 10 be laulhed at;
to be uncercmoniously displaced to bO cruelty
driven out Of good society 10 have your heart,
your intelligence, your thought, your virtue,
your character held as nothing against silk to
be stuug 10 be outraged; to bo prescribed;
to be insulted all this and much more for the
lack Of money to dress"


1t matters not whether this rule Of society
is right or wrong, the fact remains to blight
and to ruin. The fashionable lady thinks moth
Ing Of paying S75 for making dress, madeGp
Of forty yards Of silk, at from s. so per
yard. These are the women who rule the
street. drawing-rooms, theatres-dare we say
churches. After such the lesser lights take
pattern. What defence have the girls who
work for from S4 to SlOper week against this
array2


The rich can be fashionable, tao poor cannot
be by honest means. The poor industrious
shop girl looks upon even 500 dresses and they
are beyond her reach There is a $40 gulf
between her and them-between her and the
respect and attention Of society Hor virtue
will span the chasm. She longs to lils the
load Of poverty, TO receive the caress Of society,
to be freed from bondage She sells herself to
hell for dress. After the FIRST step is taken, it
is not long before al useful labor is esehewd,
and the foul vice made to ba tie only service
Of income This is no picture. but what hap
pens every day, and is a plain statement Of
how the recruits 20 brothels are made


This mania lOr dress IS devastating our
society aad demoraliziog American women to
an alarming extent TIE wives and daughters
Of tie rich v'en who lead society in this fearful
race Of extravaganee are responsible for great
share Of the prostitution which curses the ma
I tion as well as foT thousands Of business fail
ures scattered families. aud the long train of
miseiies among Us under the cover Of "kecpios
up appearances" Let iho.e who have tie
courage take this lesson and act upon IL.
Year: 1873

The career of the teacher does not, it is
true. lead to distinction or to wealth. 1t
is not brilliant; but 1t leads to something
better than distinciion-tO the heartfelt
honor and affectionate respect of those
who feel that they have been made wiser
and better by its influence Few men in
their old age are looked Upon with such
reverential regard as faithful and intelli-
gent teachers.


The life of a teacher has the advantage
of perfect regularity. He or she has what
most persons IN other cupations often
sigh for, The entire disposal of his or her
leisure hours. In nearly all places, the
time spent in school is by custom limited
to six hours day for five days of the
week. 1t never should be more than this
The health of the teacher and the welfare
of the taught settle this limit.


How many hours does this arrangement
leave to Inc teacher to be employed as he
or she pleases; how many pleasures il
puts within his or her reach.


If the country is your field of labor, a
small spot of ground will give the recre
alton and exercize you need, and besides
will if situated near the school house, give
means for experiments, and lessons in hor-
ticuliure, and If botanist, may transplant
from the neighboring fields and woods the
plants in which you feel an interest, and
Year: 1873

Our Board of Public Works are en-
gagged in correcting defects in the work
commenced last Fall upon our streets
and which, partly by the use of bad ma
terials and sighted labor, and partly
from the sudden and unexpected severity
Of the weather while the work was yet in
an unfinished condition, has been rem
dered comparatively useless for the pur-
poses Of street Improvements. Contract
ors are to be compelled to put their work
in complete order in accordance with the
terms of their contract.
Year: 1873

CURTIS AND CIVIL SERVICE.


At length the letter of resignation sent
to the President by George William Cur
tis has got into print, showing that one
of the causes of his resignation was the
belief that the spirit and letters of the
civil service regulations had in some in
stances been abandoned by the executive
In certain important appointments. Nr.
Curtis is now in feeble health and the
terms Of his resignation show that while
he possibly may be raising a political
sail to the windward for his own future
benefit, he assures the President of his
most earnest efforts for the success Of his
administration.


The constitutional right and duty which
the President is sworn to sustain puts the
responsibility of the important appoint
ments not upon any civil service board
or scheme of election by subordinates,
bat upon the President himself, and
whenever the civil service regulations fail
to perform the duty Of appointments ac-
cording to the best Interests of the coun-
try, the President would be recreant to
his oath if he did not assume the respons-
ibility of making them himself. There
are, and always will be, defects and OBJ
jectjonable features in any set of arbitra-
ry rules for the appointment of Govern
ment officials that can be adopted, and
no one here pretends that the present reg
ulations are perfect in their operation.
On the contrary large number, perhaps
a majority Of the people of the country,
think them unreasonable and unfair. If
Mr.. Curtis chooses TO stand by them and
resign his post because they, in certain
excepted cases, are waived, let him see
what he can make by it. The country
will not sustain him, but will sustain the
President.
Year: 1873

TrTHTEEN patriots announce through
the columns of the Red Bluff Sentinel
that they are willing to devote two years
time for the benefit of Tehama county as
county officials. Judging from present
indications the crop of candidates will be
good in that county this year.
Year: 1873

A ridiculous controversy has lately
arisen here among our colored popula-
ton of an attempt on the part of the
Trustees of Colored Common Schools to
appropriate certain school funds for the
purchase of a portrait of Chas. Sumner.
Considerable feeling has been excited by
the failure Of some impulsiye advocates
of the measure to accomplish this clear
violation Of the law which prohibits the
use of money collected for school pur-
poses from the people for any other pur-
pose whatever.
Year: 1873

We are erecting fine District Jail to
take the place Of that upon Judiciary
Square which has proved inadequate for
many years past. A class of minor Grim
inals are now employed in breaking
stones and otherwise preparing the foun-
dation walls for The new edifce. The
punishment of the greater offences are
now carried out at the Albany, N. Y,
prison, and the risk, expense and expos
ure Of transporting conyicts by trains,
etc, have to be incurred by the authorities
in charge. This is disgraceful to the
capital of great nation and it is mat
ter Of congratuation that at last we will
have a new Jail suitable to the demands
of the age and of our civilization.
Year: 1873

CATARRH-Use Renne's Pain Killing
Magic Oil freely on the forehead and nose,
externally, and also inhale the strong odor
of the Oil from a cloth, time after time,
to act on the mucus membrane, cleansing,
healing and also mix the Magic Oil with
water, and gargle the throat often. Try
this for few days, it don cost much.
Year: 1873

Ii Is 10 eXaggeralion to say that
health is large ingredient in what
the world calls talent. A man with
out it may be giant in intellect, but
his deeds will be the deeds Of dwarf.
On the contrary, let him have quick
circulation, u good digestion, the bulk
thews and sinews of a map, and tho
alacrity, the uutbinking confidence
inspired by these, and, though having
but n tbimbeiul OF brains, he will
either bluuder upon success or set
failure at defiance. 1t is true, especi-
ally in this country. that the num-
ber OF ceDtaurs N every community
OF men in whom heroic intelIects
are allied with bodily constitutions as
tough US those Of borses--is small
that, in general, man has reasons
to think himself will or in the lottery
Of lie, if ho draws the prize of u
healthy stomach without u mind, or
the prize Of fine intellect with
crazy stomach. But Of the two,
weak mind in Hercultan frame ia
better than n giant mind in q crazy
constitution. A pound of energy,
with an ounce of talent, will achieve
greater results than a pound of tai
ent, with an ounce Of energy. Tho
first requisite to success in life is to
be good animal, In any of the
learned professions, vigorous con
stitution is equal to at least fifty per
cent. more brain, Wit, Judgment,
imagination, eloquence, all the quail
ties of the mind, attain thereby
force and splendor 10 which thoy
could never approach without it.
But intellect in weak body is '1ike
gold in spent swimmers pocket"
A mechanic may have tools of the
sharpest edge and highest polish |;
but what are these without q vigor-
GUS arm and hand 7 OF what use il
it that your mind has become vast
granary of knowledge if you have
not strength to turn the keyi
Year: 1873

Never tell man that he is lar
unless you are certain that you can
lick him. for as general rule, when
you say that it means fight.


have arrived ut this conclusion
through sad experience. know it
is not safe to give the lie TO a muscu.
lar Christian.


did it once. am sorry for it
now, as 1 never grieved for any
thing else in the whole course Of my
life.


We were standing on tho side
walk In front of the club, when I
made the statement We were
talking politics, and men who talk
politics and get hot over il, are-to
put it mildly-lunatic, or else want
an Office or else have some friends
who want an Office.


This man made an assertion,
touching tho fair fame of my candi-
Date. 1t is probable that if it had
been as true as it was false, should
have taken the same course. because
you understand, n man who talks pol
tics has no sense anyhow. / think
1 said this before, but it is all tho
same. 4 want to make it strong,
and get you TO understand how
camo to get my ornamental eyes.


mildly suggested that man
who would make such statament
rs that, was lost to all sense of
shame, and would be guilty of tho
basost crimes in the calender.


llo disagreed with me on that
point. AS for himself he never made
a statement except upon the most
ample proof. My candidate was
the meanest villain living


told him he lied.


! have been kicked by mule,
have fallen out of o second story
window on hard pavement; eaten
green persimmons heard Miss Blow
read poetry for two hours and half;
SLATED and seen stars by the million;
rode sharp backed horse of mus
tang prentage, an adept in the art
of 'bucliing, suffered grief of various
kinds, and still olung to life-but all
these are feathers in the balance az
compared with the result Of that
one little word, 'liar."


Immediately after saying it I sat
down. not in the way people usu-
ally sit down. / sat down to the
rim of my ear, about ten feet from
the spot where l had been standing
when J made use Of that expression
quoted above. 1 am not used to
sitting in that position, and do not
think it agrees with my constitution.


l have heard of people who got
up ON their ear and walked off.
l wish knew how to do it, would
have propelled myself away from that
spot Immediately if l had possessed
this happy faculty, proceed to
get myself perpendicular, intending
to use the locomotion which nature
had given me, but when L came
right side up, something heavy ran
against my nose. AS felt very tir-
ed, sat dov n on my other ear. I
like n change :; it is entirely too mo-
notonous doing the same thing over
and over again.


Somebody took my large friend
away, and was quite pleased when
hs was gone. l have concluded to
look twice at a man before ! give
him the lie again. Ny eye is mourn
ing, my nose is swelled into the size
of citron with the color of blush
rose, and my store clothes look as if
they had been run through patent
sausage machine.
Year: 1873

This q new house, newly furnished and
is now open to the travelling public. II is
located near the depot. No effort win be
spared by the proprietor to make the stay
Of his guests pleasant and agreeable.