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Year: 1872

Take great, illustrious revenge on
your calumniators by seeking to do bet
tor; constrain them to silence by your
excellence, this is the true road to tri-
umph. If YOU take the other--if you
plead your cause, justify yourself, Or
make reprisals-you open for yourself,
a store Of woes, and you lose the tran
guilty which you require for your work,
and the time i'll disputing which should
have been consacrated to labor
Year: 1872

At the last term of the Federal Court
that met in Raleigh, North Carolina,
there were over fourteen hundred in
dictments against the Ku-Klux. OF
these only Six were tried Fourteen hun
lred were continued until after the
election.
Year: 1872

Especially, who have become the Victims of
Solitary Vice and dreadful and destructive
habits which annually sweep to an untimely
grave thousands of young men of the most ex-
alted talents and brilliant intellect, who might
otherwise have entranced listening Senates with
the thunders of eloquence, or walked to extacy
the living Tyre, may call with full confidence
Year: 1872

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote coniiuhiaI
h.nniness Indeed, without these the Journey
through life becomes II weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkcns to the view, the mind
becomes shAdowed with despair, and hlled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness oi
,nolh. is blighted with our own.
Year: 1872

The magnitude to which the Sewing machine
business has grown is only surpassed by the
rivalry Of the various competitors, few Of whom
are unfamiliar with the numerous artifces re-
particular machine sought to be sold IL the
number Of sales be any criterion Of merit, the
Singer seems to bear the palm, as shown by
sworn returns OF the Companies made under
the licences granted them by the owners of the
Sewing machine patents, and which are as fol
Iowa
Year: 1872

A correspondent in the Commercial complains
that the contractor for furnishing gutter plates
for Madison street. has not completed his contract


and alleges that it is rumored that in consequence
OF the rise in the price Of iron. he will not do SO.
Who il this contractorp Let the Chairman OF
the Street Committee bring him up to the work,
and zee that the city does not lose by the delay
Year: 1872

LARGE SALE OF LINEN GooDs.-We call
attention to the large sale of linen goods adver.
tised ny ORIe d Miller for to morrow morning
and evening. The ladies should attend thi.
sale as they will surely be able to get bargains
Year: 1872

''If I had only laid my eggs on the
other side of the hedge" sighed the mo.
ther, '.among the corn. there would have
been plenty of time to rear my birds be.
fore harvest time"


my dear" answered her mate, 'don't
be unhappy" And SO saying. he hopped
up to the eggs. and laying one foot upon
the prettiest, he clasped it with his long
spurs. Strange to say, it exactly fitted
them


"Oh, my clever mate!' cried the poor
little mother. reviving; ''do you think
you can carry them away for me-"


ITO be sure can," replied the Lark,
beginning slowly and carefully to hop on
with the egg in his right foot; nothing
more easy. I have often thought it was
likely that our eggs would be disturbed in
this meadow; but it never occurred to me
till this moment that could provide a.
gainst the misfortune. have often won-
dered what my spurs could be for and now
I see."


So saying, he hopped gently on till he
came to the hedge, and then got through
it. still holding the egg. till he found a
nice little hollow place in among the corn
and there be laid it and came back for the
others.


"Hurrah !' cried the Grasshopper,
"Lark-spurs forever!''


The Fairy said nothing. but she felt
heartily ashamed Of herself She sat look
ing on till the happy Lark had carried the
last of his eggs to the safe place, and had
called his mate to come and sit on them.
Then, when he sprang up into the sky a.
gain. exulting and rejoicing. and singing
to bis mate, that now he was quite happy
because he knew what his long spurs were
for. she stole gently away. saying to her
self:


"Well, could not have believed such
thing I thought he must be quar-
relsome bird, as his spurs were SO long !;
but it appears that I was wrong. after all. !"
Year: 1872

Some people feel SO very anxious to
hear everything that will vex and annoy
them, they set about searching and finding
it out. If all the petty things said of one
by needless or ill-natured idlers were to be
brought home to him, he would become a
mere walking pincushion, stuck full of
sharp remarks. / should as soon thank a
man for emptying on my head busheltf f
nettles, or setting loose swarm of mos
quitoes in my chamber. or raising pun
gent in my house generally. as to bring
upon me all the tattle of spiteful people.
If you be happy when among good men,
open your ears; when among bad, shut
them. 1t is not worth while to hear what
your servants say when they have slammed
the door what beggar says whose pc
titions you have rejected what your
neighbors say about your children what
your rivals say about your business OF
dress. / have noticed that a well bred
woman never hears an impertinent re-
mark. A kind of discreet deafness saves
one from not a little apparent connivance
in dishonorablo conversation.-CassePs s.
Year: 1872

sa Not long since [ met gentleman who
is assessed for more than million Silver
was in his hair, care upon bis brow, ,and he
stopped beneath his burden of wealth.
We were speaking of that period of life
when we had analyzed the most perfect
enjoyment, or rather, when we had found
the happiness nearest to be unalloyed


'tIll tell you,' said the millionaire, ''when
was the happiest hour of my life. At the
age of one-and- twenty. l had saved up
$500. / was earning $500 year, and
my father did not take it from ME, only
requiring that I should pay for my board.
AT the age of twenty-five [ had secured
pretty cottage, just outside of the city.
L was able to pay two-thirds of the money
down, and also to furnish it respectfully.
L was married on Sunday Sunday in
June-at my fathers house. Ny wife
had come to me poor in purse, but rich in
womarhood. The Sabbath and the Sab
bath night we passed beneath my fathers
roof, and on Monday morning l went to
my work, leaving my mother and my sis
ter to help in preparing my home. On
Monday evening, when the labors of the
day were done, went not to my paternal
shelter, as in the past, but to my own
house-my own home. The holy atmos-
phere of that house seems to surround
me even now in the memory, opened
the door of my cottage and entered. I
laid my hat upon the little stand IN her
hall, and passed on to the kitchen-out
kitchen and dining room were all one.
[ pushed open the kitchen door and was
in heaven. The table was set against the
wall-the evening meal was ready-pre-
pared by the hands of her who had come
to be my helpmate in deed as well as in
name-and by the table, with tbrobbing,
expectant look upon her lovcing face,
stood my wife. L tried to speak, and
could not. could only clasp the waiting
angel to my bosom, thus showing to her
the ecstatic burden of my heart. The
years have passed-long, long years-and
worldly wealth has flowed in upon me,
and l am honored and envied but as true
as heaven-I would give it all-every
dollar-for the joy of the hour
of that juno evining in the long,
lons ago !'-N. Y. Ledger.
Year: 1872

From the age o. forty to that of sixty
man who properly regulates himself
may be considered in the prime of life


His matured strength of constitution
renders him almost impervious to the at
tacks of disease, and all the functions are
in the highest order. Having gone year
or two past sixty, however, he arrives at a
critical period of existence the river cf
death flows before him, and he remains at
stand still. But athwart this river is
viaduct called '.The Turn of Life" which
if crossed in safety leads to the "Valley
of Old Age" round which the river winds,
and then flows beyond without boat or
causeway to effect its passage. The bridge
is, however, constructed of fragile materi-
ais, and it depends on how it is trodden
whether it bends or breaks. Gout, Apo
plexy and other bad characters are also in
the vicinity to waylay the traveller and
thrust him from the pass but let him gi-d
up his loins and provide himself with per-
feet composure. To quote a metaphor,
1.-The Turn of Life has a turn either in
to prolonged walk or into the grave.
The system and power having reached
their utmost expansion, now begin either
to close, like flowers at sunset, or break
down at once. One injudicious stimulant,
a single fatal excitement, may force it be-
yond its strength: whilst careful supply
of props, and the withdrawal of all that
tends to force plant, will sustain it in
beauty and vigor until night has nearly
set in - rl.
Year: 1872

EDITORS HERALD AND TRIBUNE:


Having sowed my clover seed, and
plastercd my clover that intend to NOW,
and spent much time in clearing off my
moving ground l have time at last to
write again to you for | assure you that
a practical farmer don't have much time
to write. | manured my corn ground,
(sod ground of course; for [ plant no
other kind in corn.) and plowed lit deep,
early:in January ,and intend to! plant about
the last week in April, or the first in May
could plant now, but early planting does
not do so well. Many persons plant too
early just merely to have it said they get
done first without regard to their own in
terest, and others, lazily enjoy themselves
and never make up in the spring until
late, and then have their ground to plow
with probably poor horses and no corn in
the crib or hay in the barn plow shallow
plant late ''tead" badly and raise almost
nothing.


1 try to avoid extremes, plow early and
deep when the days are short, and cool.
and 1 have plenty of hay and corn, and
my horses arc strong, and then wait pa
tlently Tor spring 10 come 10 Piant.


1t is good idea in some cases to replow
your ground just before planting. 1 am
not very particular about planting except
that I want it planted straight IN rows
both ways. and the burrows run deep to
make loose place to hold moisture when
YOU cannot pillow it afterwards. 7 hope to
write again, and will probably tell how to
raise corn after it is planted, and l also
hope your readers will pardon the egotism
of this, when 1 say that I do not advise
others to do what l 90 not practice myself
and good way to tell what think is to
watch and see what l do. / often think
of the old fable of the old crow first ad-
visine his son to walk forward while be
always walked backwards himself.


Respectfully.


EAST TENNESSEE, April 18th 1872.
Year: 1872

DEAR HERALD Would you like a
letter from old Carter or Gid ''Alpha"
give you all the news! Perhaps she only
showed you the poetry, but tell you my
friends, there is good deal of very hard
matter of fact prose, in living in the
mountains. as well as poetry.


They may be very sublime and all that,
but they are very hard to make living
out of, as most of us farmers about here
can testify. Its all very well, for the
mountains to appeal to us, to let it alone,
but we might appeal to the mountain,
forever, for bread and it wouldn't give it
to us, unless, we cut the wood down,
plow up the ground and make it yield to
us, and that's what we've got to do in
'.loyal Carter" if we don't want another
year like this. Why sir, you don't know
anything about it, unless you were here
among us what continual cry there is
for bread! heard one man only yester-
day, say that by night he would not have.
bite of bread in his house for his child
rem and didn't know how he was to get
any, and farther up in the mountains it is
worse. Up in the Cove, there are families,
plenty of them who do not know to-day,
how they are to live through tomorrow,
and their cattle falling dead from starva-
ton. Did you hear about the gentleman,
who had empted his straw-bels for his
cattle? Great deal of poetry there is in
all this! Yet almost every Sunday, there
are collections taken up in our churches
for the heather and for the suffering here,
and the destitute there, when there is
worse at our veny doors. think "Chari-
ty begins at home"


l don't know of any news, only that
we are expecting vigorous campaign here
or Representative. One of the candi-
dates. Mr.. A. A. Taylor, of your town.
we know to be very energetic young
man and that is what Carter and johnson
need in the Legislature, 1 don't know
much about his politics, but may be he
will tell us, in a stump-speech or two, this
summer. So no more at present.


From


-.tH et F "UNowHo."
Year: 1872

A PIoUs but uneducated judge closed
sentence with the following touching
reproach prisoner at the bar, nature :
has endowed you with good education
and respectable family connections, in-
stead of which you 60 prowling around
the country stealing ducks"
Year: 1872

BroGRAPHY OF MARX TwAIN.-The Rev
DR.. Mark Twain is Turk. He was born
in the interior of Ireland His father follow
ed the pursuits Of patriotic husbandry-he
raised string beans Notwithstanding the
tyranny of England his beans sold readily,
and Mark was apprenticed at an early age TO
a boiler maker to learn the art Of photography.
His father, known as Honest Farmer Twain,
says Mark made great noise in the world
while at the boiler business, and he was sent
for by Napoleon to accompany him in his
campaign up the Mississippi River. Sub
sequently, young Twain did efficient service
in the Crimea, under General Scott. During
the battle Of Inkermsnn he was lost, causing
great grief TO his regiment, but they after
ward found him behind an empty barrel.


lie weighs 536 pounds, and his fists are
very hard indeed. Henry Ward Beecher,
in his entertaining work entitled 1.-The Early
Days of Mark Twain. relates that when
Mark was four years old he became yexed at
grind stone and battered it to pieces with
his naked fists The story that young Twain
Year: 1872

CORRECT SFEAKING.-Wc would advise all
young people to acquire in early life, the
habit Of correct speaking and writing, and to
abandon as early as possible any use Of slang
words and phrases. The longer you live,
the more difficult the language will be and
if the golden age Of youth, the proper season
for the acquisition Of language, be passed in
It's abuse, the unfortunate, if neglected, Is
very properly doomed to talk slang for life.
Money is not necessary to procure this edu-
cation. Every man has it in his power. He
has merely to use the language he reads,
instead of the slang which he hears; to form
his taste from the best speakers and poets in
the country to treasure up choice phrases
in his memory and habituate himself to their
use, avoiding, at the same time, that pedantlc
precision and bOmbast which shew the week
rcss ofvain ambition rather than the polish
of an educated mind.
Year: 1872

The relative profit is much greater
from q small flock than . large one.
The grain farmer, no matter how few
his acres, can make money by keeping
q few sheep. There Is always room fol-
them somewhere, aud they consume
and turn into money food that would
otherwise waste. But he must be care
full not to overstock. To illustrate,
suppose the farmer cultivate only eighty
acres, raising grain chiefly. He keeps
q few COW and necessary teams. One
fifth of his farm is in pasture, one fifth
meadow; one planted, one spring grain
and one wheat. He thinks he has a.
much stock as he can profitably keep,
but il he put on one sheep to every five
acres, he will find their products clear
gain. In the spring, carly, they can
run ON the sod which II to be planted,
and one sheep to each aero will not
hurt the land, yet they will live well


After that they can 60 into the pasture
and will CLEAN after cows to an advan-
tase. A run on the stubbles after har-
vest will not be felt where each sheep
has two acres, and in the fall there is
plenty of feed. Through the winter
they can be we'll kept on what the
other stock would not consume, with
the addition Of . little grain. Probably
the most profitable are some OF the
coarser woOlled, mutton breeds. Their
lambs sell to the butchers for highest
prices, and when fat the sheep fetch "a
much IS . yearling steer. Sixteen
mutton sheep, well managed, would
produce yearly income OF one hum
bred dollars, where, II none were kept,
nothing is realized. The sreatest draw
back is liability to loss by dOg.; and ii
is disgrace to any State to protect its
ours 80 we'll that they expel, to . Ger
tain extent, the only animal which cab
cheaper the meat and clothing Of the
peopIe.-Anaericdn Rural Home.
Year: 1872

There is a place for every man, and
the way for every man to find that out
is To he himself and nobody else as he
used - hc himself when he was sin
ncr, so let him be himself now he has
become a saint, and follow out, under
Gods guidance, the movements of his
own individualities, the singularities
of his own nature. Tush about plan
ing of your angles and getting rid of
the POINTS God has made in you dis
tinct from other men. Wisdom will
be justified of all her children. y
If we loved Christ better, every man
would invent something; he would
have mode of action growing out of his
own peculiar capacities; he would feel
that God meant to meet case by him
that would never be met by anybody
else. Follow out, as God the
Holy Spirit shall help you, the prompt
ings of the divine life that God has put
within you, and as you served Satan
with all your individuality, even so
serve Him upon whom the Lord of old
did lay yolIniniquity.-C III ,Spurgoon
Year: 1872

1t has been generally supposed by
scientific men that the fossil elephant
of Siberia had no representative in the
same latitude on this continent. Re-
cent examinations on the Yukon river
in Alaska, however, have established
the fact that the remains are even more
plentiful on the west than on the east
side of the North Pacific. Enormous
quantities of bones are found, and a
supply of ivory sufficient to last the
world for centuries. The valleys of all
the streams and all the low grounds
are filled with bones and tusks, so that
every vessel now arriving from these
remote possessions has part Of its cargo
made up in part of these new-found
remains. The elephant, whose range
was formally almost universal, is now
confined to small portion Of Africa
and Asia, and it would seem as if the
species was in process of slow extinc-
ton. Neither Europe nor America,
which once swarmed with them, has
now either a climate or q vegetable
fitted to their existence. Their re-
mains, however, are likely to give
Alaska q value not previously sus-
DectAd
Year: 1872

What assertions will make one be-
lieye that in one second of time, one
beat of the pendulum of a clock, a ray
of light travels over 152, 900 miles, and
would therefore perform the tour of
the world in about the same time that
it requires to wink with our eyelids,
and in much less than a swift runner
occupies i'll taking single stride!


What mortal can be made to believe,
without demonstration, that the sun is
almost million miles larger than the
Earth ?-and that, although so remote
from us, a cannon ball shot directly to-
ward it, and maintaining its full speed,
would be twenty years in reaching it,
yet it effects the Earth by its attrac-
ton in an appreciable instant of time
Who would not ask for demonstration,
ordinary flight, beats many hundred
animated and regularly organized be-
ings, many thousands of whose bodies
laid together would not extend an inch?
But what are these to the astonishing
truths which modern optical inquiries
have disclosed, which teach that every
point of a medium through which a
ray of light passes is affected with a
succession of periodical movements;
regularly recurring at equal intervals,
no less than five hundred million of
millions of times in a single Second!
That it is by such movements commu-
nicated to the nerves of the eye that.
we see: nay, more, that it is the differ
ence in the frequency of their recur-
renee which affect us with the sense
of the diversity of color? That, for in
stance, in acquiring the sensation of
redness, our eyes are affected four hum
dred and eighty-two million of mil
lions of times-Of yellowness, five hum
dred and forty-One million Of millions
times-and of violet, seven hundred
and seven millions of times per second?
Do not such things sound more like
the rawlings of madmen than the sober
conclusions of people in their waking
senses? They are, nevertheless, con-
clusions to which any one may most
certainly arrive, who will only be at
the trouble of examining the chain of
reasoning by which they have been
obtained.
Year: 1872

God docs hot mean us always to be
sombre, least of all upon Sunday, the
glad feast of the Resurrection, a day
whose atmosphere throughout should
be one ofqlHet, unworldly joy. Let no
boistcreus merriinent disturb the calm:
let hearty worship, and kindly inter-
course and refreshing rest-rest of
tired mind from iss dragging brood Of
weekday anxiefies, rest of tired body
from the round of weekday toilet
this he the employment, this the tone
of the hallowed day. Religion, not in
every word, act, look, obtruded with
painful effort, but present i'm the heart,
should prevade the day, its rest, its
reading, its conversation. o! never
represent Sunday-at any rate to the
young-as dull and gloomy day; nor
dream that heart devoted to the kind
God need abjure all that is genial and
joyous, or that a subdued, spirit-broken
step is necessary to the child who has
chosen to walk beside that tender
Father, holding by his hand.-Rdndona
Thoughts.
Year: 1872

Very much has been written OH
this subject, and written unwisely the
facts are that whoever sleeps un-
comfortably cool will get sick. To hoist
a window sky-high when the mercury
is at zero is an absurdity. The cooler
a sleeping apartment is, the more I'M
healthy it becomes, because cold con-
denses carbOnic acid formed by the
breathing of the sleeper. 1t settles
near the floor and is rebreathed.
Hence, we must be governed by cir
cumstances; the first thing is, you
must be comfortably warm during
sleep, otherwise you are not refreshed,
and inflammation of the lungs may be
produced, and life destroyed within
few days. An open door and an open
fireplace are sufficient for ordinary
purposes in cold weather. A-t


When outer windows are opened, 1t
is we'll to have them down at the top
two or three inches and up at the bot
tom for the same space. In miasmatic
lOcatiOns-and those are along water
courses, beside mill-ponds, marshes,
bayous, river bottoms, fiat lands and
the like-it is important, from the first
of August until several severe frOsts
have been noticed, to sleep with all ex.
ternal doors and windows closed, be
cause the cool air of sunset causes the
condensation of the emanatiOns which
were caused by the heat of the noon
day sun to rise far above the earth
this condensation makes the air
heavy" at sundown, yet heavier by
the greater solidification of the emana-
nations by cold; and these, resting on
the surface of the earth in their more
concentrated and malignant form, are
breathed into the lungs, and swallowed
irtO the stomach, cOrruptlng and
poisoning the blood with great rapid
ity.


BY daylight these condensatiOns are
made so compact by the prOtracted
GOODNESS of the night, that they are too
near the surface of the earth to be
breathed into the system but as the
sun begins to ascend, these heavy con-
densations, miasms, begin to rise again
to the height of several feet above the
ground, and are freely taken into the
system by every breath and swallow;
hence the hours of sunrise and sunset
are the most unhealthful of the twenty
four in the localities named and noon
tide, when the sun is hottest, is the
most healthy portion of the day, be-
cause the miasma is so much rarefied
that it ascends rapidly to the upper re-
giOns.


The general lessons are,-lst. Avoid
exposures to the outdoor air in MAS
matte localities for the hours including
sunrise and sunset. I'd. Have q blazing
fire ON the hearth of the family room
at those hours, to rarity and send the
miasma upward. Sd. Take breakfast
before going out Of doors in the morn
ing, and take tea before sundown; then,
being out after night is not injurious.