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Year: 1876

WOMEN's WORK.-If women ask
men for work, remarks Miss Emily
Faithful, they will get what they always
gOt-that kind men do not want to do
themselves. They will get hard work,
rough work, coarse work, pOOTly-paid
work, hopeless work, all the cant about
sex Notwithstanding. But if they really
want to be Independent, if they want to
make home for themselves, if they
want to help others, let them be neither
afraid nor ashamed, but begin with any
honest labor for which they are paid,
and work up. The difficulty with
women is not that they are idle, but
their habits are so desultoTy and their
work so cbiectless. If the wretched lit.
tie child's play which women call
"fancy work" could at once be blotted
out of their existence, it would be an in
calculable blessing. What would be
thought of a man or grown boy who
could deliberately sit down day after
day and be content to kill time by work
ing ridiculous little pen wipers, bead
napkin rings, and the like, which no
one dreams of ever using? He would
be considered, and rightly, as either
fool or crazy. If women claim intel
lectnal equality with man, they must
be content to be judged by the same
standard. AS for work, the majority
have not begun to know what it means.
They have thought of it as a necessity
from which they hoped some time to
escape, or they have thought of it as a
degradation which the poor, for wise
purposes, have to endure, but which is
not proper for the delicate or refined to
come in contact with.-NetO Century.
Year: 1876

Lady Charlotte Linsday, who died at
a good old age in 1919, used to give an
amusing account of her marriage. 1t
took place in the drawingroom of her
fathers house. The clergyman brought
no prayer book with him, thinking
there would be no difficulty in finding
one in the mansion Of an English noble
man, a member of the Established
Church. But not prayer book could
be found, and the clergyman was forced
to perform the marriage by memory.
The novelty of the situation so confused
him that he forgot the words of the SER
vice, and came frequently to a dead
stop. Then some one in the company
would prompt him, and thus the cere-
mony was pieced out by fragmentary
"reminiscences. "Somehow or other"
said Lady Charlotte, "I do not think
that was ever rightly married at all"
Year: 1876

1t is a bad plan to place unre-
served confidence in man or wo-
man. Never tell any one everything
about yourself-let there be a lit
tie mystery and reserve; if your
friends, they will like you all the
better for it. A book that you
''know by heart" mustainevitably be
cast aside for a fresh volume; so
will you be served il you allow your
self 70 be thoroughly read. But
be prepared, in any emergency, to
look your own life and acts square
ly in the face without ever finch-
ing. or mark yourself q coward.


1t is not necessary, to publish TO
the world all that is strictly per
sonal, unless ridicule and fritteriRg
of power are desired, but il gossip
makes itself busy with your name,
do not be aggrieved if s grain of
truth is spread over a dozen lies.
Pass them by in silence. and do not
even then forget your habitual reti-
cence. Justice will be done you in
time, never fear, and the less clamor
for it the better. Don't talk too
much.
Year: 1876

In our experience we have found
by closely watching results that
those who pay 800 in judicious ad-
vertising get three times the benefit
that those do that pay only fifty
dollars. Merchants and others who
arc doing a business of $4,000 a
year are apt to think it a great out
lay if they pay $50 ayear for adver-
tising. When viewed in a practical
light, any one can see that the sum
of fifty dollars a year is a small
outlay to give tone and vitality to a
business of ten thousand. Go where
we will, it will always be seen that
these business men of a town, who
having a good newspaper in their
midst, patronizing the same steadily
and literally, will improve their
trade steadily and place it on a
sound footing. If times are hard,
trade will drop off some of course,
but then, the same ratio over.neigh-
boring towns will be maintained,
gradually but surely will flow to
that town that, all things being
equal, advertises the best, and what
is very important, the stsodiest. Some
merchants have an idea that steady
advertising is no account; that the
effect is better if it is done Of a sud
den, uncertain manner, rushing out
with a great light to-day and then
leaving the people in utter dark
ness tomorrow. This view is op-
posed to the experience of every
noted advertiser. Ali the men of
experience agree that the effect is
gained only by steady and per-
sistent effort. In the sharp rival
ries and competitions between DIFF


ferent towns but few realize how
important an adjunct to the pros
perity of trade is a good newspaper
and its advertising pages.-Wau
kesha wis Democrat.
Year: 1876

The day OF Professors seems to
be at hand, and our only uneasiness
is that good men will be unable to
escape the disastrous deluge. The
day was when the term denoted
great attainment in some learned
department of life. Nowit is tackled
on to every itinerant vender of horse
collie medicine, or bear creased dan
dy who can torment eat-gut with a
handful or horse tail hairs, or it en-
bellishes some charlatan who affects
to load children without capacity
with his ramrod of learning in five
lessons. The term is getting disrep-
utable, and we arc not surprisd that
men of true worth are getting sen
sitive of its being pitched at them in
social salutation. The mountebank
rabble hold possession of the high
sounding term, and this in law is
equivalent to a nine tenths title
Let good and meritorious men pre-
pare to capitulate. They are DOOM
ed. .-Er.
Year: 1876

The Springfield Republican
points Gen. Grant to the fact that
melancholy days are coming: "One
short year more, and Grant will
yield up the political ghost. Re
signed or reluctant, willy-nilly, he
viii perforce take his journey to that
country from whose bourne no eX-
president returns. In a very little
while he viii be as dead, so far as the
living world of politics is concerned,
as Millard Fillmore or Franklin
Pierce, or James Buchanan. The
public will be busying itself
about the words and acts of his sue.
cessor; the present eye desires the
present object 1t may or may not
be a consolation to him, as he reflects
that he is sure to reappear presently
more or less idealized and maguided
on the canvas of history"
Year: 1876

If you cannot speak well Of your
neighbors, don't speak of them at all.
A cross neighbor may be a kind
one by kind treatment The true
way to be happy is to make Others
happy. To do good is a luxury.
If you are not wiser and better at
the end of the day, that day is lost
Practice kindness, even if it be but
to spell one word. Do not seem tC
be what you are not. Learn to
control your temper and your words
Say nothing behind ones back that
you would not say to his face
Year: 1876

creation they were placed in Eden's
gladstone bowers, ssNo wave of trou-
bic shall roll across their peaceful
breasts" Did the cares of life hard
press and cause them to drag out in
sorrow their pilgrimage on earth,
there Christ shall ease of every care,
and with tender hand will wipe
away their tears. In his bosom
shall they repose, and in the sun
light of his eountenance be free
from every harm. Even the pun
ishment of wicked friends will in
their view but magnify the justice
of Him who sitteth on the throne,
and cause them to rejoice the more
that by grace divine they have es-
capped the tortures of the internal
world. As the walls of damned
spirits ascend, with the smoke of
their torment, they viii send no
pang OF sorrow to their hearts, but,
with fresh-toned Tyres, they win
sound anew the praise of him who
died that even those, now stepped in
woe, might gain the glories of the
heavenly city.


Oh! is there a land of such pure
delight. haven of eternal repose,
"a house not made with hands, eter-
nal in the heavens?' Yes; and,
Christian, that land is yours, yours
eternally. If you hold out faithful
there are in store for you joys
which human thought has never
conceived, and glories which human
eye has never looked upon. Then
why despond "when cares like q
wild deluge come, and storms OF
sorrow fallY' Can you not endure
sorrow for awhile, in the glorious
thought that amid the gloIies Of that
better land no sorrow is ever known
Rather in the place of means and
sighs let peans of praise ascend to
heaven that you have In prospect
such a home and such a rest from
all your tolls. Soon the messenger
will come TO bid you to the Father
and then cares shall roll from your
burdened soul. and tears fall nc
more forever.
Year: 1876

The spirit of venality you mention


is the most deadly and alarming en-
emy America has to oppose. 1t is
as rapacious and insatiate as the


grave. This predominant avarice
will ruin America if she is ever
ruined. If God Almighty does not
interfere by his grace to control this
universal idolatry to the mammon OF
unrighteousness, we shall be given
up to the chastisement of his judge.
ments. l am ashamed of the age
live in II John Adams, Oct. s, 1776
Year: 1876

Character grows; it is not some
thing to be put on, ready made with
manhood Or womanhood; but day
by day, here a little there a little, it
grows with the growth and strength
ems with the strength, until, good
or bad, it becomes almost a coat of
u,ail
Year: 1876

Cairo is in danger of being made
an island city. The Mississippi riv-
er is eating its way into the Illinois
shore above the town, so that it is
but a quarter of a mile across the mar
row neck to the Ohio river.
Year: 1876

There is no place IN the "wide,
wide world,' like home. It is the
dwelling place of our hearts treas
ure, and the first duty of our lives
we owe to it and it's inmates. To
make it pleasant and attractive,
should be the aim of every man.
Year: 1876

An American citizen was called on
as a witness in a case before one of
the justices lately and when the oath
was administered he raised both
hands, and said. "If 1 spoke nod
dings what amt drew, if ever hope
to die so quick as a minutep'
Year: 1876

A German chemist has now dis
covered a way to make artificial
grindstones, and as soon as he can
invent a boy who'd rather turn a
grindstone than to fish, the world
will be well fixed.
Year: 1876

A rural editor, wishing to be Sc
we're upon an exchange, remarks =.
"a subscriber Cf tho in this
place tried, a few days ago, to carry
home some lard in a copy of that
paper; but on reaching home, found
that the concentrated lie had chang
ed it to soap"
Year: 1876

The pencil marks you see around bbis
paragraph (thus1 mean thai your sab
seription is outor unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone win Yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you wiz comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. = We solicit your favor.


u We enter no new names ON cur
books without the money in adxance-
Year: 1876

Man can fully appreciate the ter
ror of winter when he awakes near
morning and finds the bed clothes on
the floor and himself engaged in a gi-
gantic struggle to crawl up under his
shirt
Year: 1876

ASrWe SAID on q former occasion,
the session of the Legislature will
be the eliminating point in the
credit of the State. This convic-
ton should take fast hold on the
minds of the people and impress
them with the absolute necessity
for electing members, honest and
able enough to meet the issue, and
fearless enough to take the respon-
sibility likely to be incurred by q
faithful discharge of their duty. But
it may be asked, where are such men
TO be found, and how elected?
They are TO be found both in town
and county, and as the time has
come when every sensible man, anx-
ious to maintain the credit of the
State and promote its honor and
prosperity, should rise above pre-
judice, it is contemplate to be con-
trolled by mere locality, in the
choice of competent representatives.
Such can be elected by discarding
personal and local prejudices, and
by union of factions, kept apart
more by sheer love of opposition
than by any difference of opinion
upon subjects material to the gen
eral welfare of the State. These
differences, usually trivial and al.
ways mischievous, can easily be har-
monized by sober reflection and an
honest desire to cultivate unity as
the one great essential to success.
If any differences have arisen out
of past issues that are settled, can
there be any good results from keep
ing alive those differences when the
causes have ceased to operated
The unity among the people may
be measured by the harmony in the
legislature. and the intelligence n
the people may be accurately deter
mined by the competency of theil
representatives. No two men think
alike on all subjects, and the test o


their patriotism is the sacrifice o
minor opinions each is willing tt
make to secure the success of i'm
portant measures.


The burden resting upon the tax
payers ought, of itself, to induce
concert of action in the selection
of suitable representatives, especial
ly when they remember that, willis
they are wrangling about what par
of the county he is TO be choseI
from, the non-tax paying, floating
population, led by some selfish dem
agogue, elect some incompeten


man and they who are most to blamr
are the first to rail out against tn,
Legislature for its Incompetence
to protect, or to promote, the soliC
hinterest of the people. Even thu
Grangers, so confidently relied up
on to correct abuses o. this kind
seem as slow to learn as if they hat
not organized FOR tho protection o
the interest Of agriculture, and thI
advancement of their own knowledg'
Of the high duties which deyolv'
upon them. We throw out thes'
suggestions, long in advance of th'
election, with faint hope of inducing
the people-especially the farmers
to reflect upon a subject Of suci
deep interest to them and every
other CLarEsvills Chronicle.
Year: 1876

If we commit ourselves to God
in faith, he will do everything for
US we need. His promises cover all
our wants, all our desires; and they
are just as truly and fully ours. as
if there was no other person on
earth to receive them. Study the
promises. See how great they are.
Believe them in their fullness, and
be obedient to all the known viii
of God, and $50 shall He increase
you more and more"
Year: 1876

The following beautiful lines were placed In
scrap book OF e now deceased wife about a wee
before her demise. How beautiful and touchir
they are under the circumstances She expecte
when placing them In the book, to live but a sho
time:


Come near me, let me lay my hand


Once more upon thy brow,
And let me whisper in thine car


loves last and fondest vow.
TIE lips that breath these trembling words,
When they lie CO d In death.
And thy dear cheek can feel no more
Their warm AMI loving breath.
20 frum thee: Col only knows


How have lnnged TO stay;
How have shuidered thu. to thread
The long and Swallowed way.
Faith tells me that soon mus know
The joys he blessed find,
And yet falier, when cas-


A lingering look behind
] see tree bowel before me here,


In bitterness and tears:
But can leave thee something still,
t. light thy weary years;
Young tender forms will cling TO thee,
Will MISS lpucs
And though they may not share thy grief,
Thou wilt not feel alone.
Fold them closer TO thy breast.


And sOoth their childish woe
And cheer the many lonely hours


The metheriess must know.
The world. with all It's hopes and joys
VIII sometimes make thee glad;
But they mast linger round the hearth
Still desOlate and sad.
And, oh, when time shall calm thy grief,
Perchance the time may come
When thou wilt win another form
To share thy heart and home
When thou wilt welcome to thy board
A younger, fairer face,
And bid thy children smile on her,
Who takes their mothers place.
But think not, could speak to thee,
That l would frown or blame,
Though they should love the stranger oae
And call her by nay name,
For they viii speak TO thee Of me,
Ny memory is their trust;
Aword, a smile, look like mine
Will call me from the dust.
Yet make my grave no place OF tears,
But let the dear ones bring,
To cheer their mothers lonely home,
The blossoms Of the spring;
and thsre thoa too u.ayst knoSi.
And sofsly press the earth
That covers her, whose face oaes gave
A brightness to thy hearth.
Then will the forms Of early years
Steal softly to thy side,
And for an hour thou ean'st forget
Thou has. another bride.
She may be all thy heart can ask,
So dear, SO true to thee;
But oh, the spring time OF thy love,
lis freshness was for me.
May she be blest. who comforts thee,
And with n gentle hand
Still guide our little trembling ones
Who make our household band.
She cannot know the tenderness
That fills their mothers breast.
Blu. she can luve them for thy sake,
And make thee more than blest
Year: 1876

\ poor ay, who. lured forth by the
insidious siren-like heat Of q red hot
stove, had the misfortune yesterday
to light on the proboscis Of . red
nosed visitor with soap and lead pen
ellis to sell, got his feet singed 50
badly that be limped every time be
6f
Year: 1876

The following beautiful lines were placed in a
scrap book OF e now deceased wife about week
before her demise How beautiful and touching
they are under the circumstances She expected,


when placing them In the book, to live but short
Year: 1876

10 the EdftOr Of The Tribune


Sir: Sdrely every alumnus Of Princeton Col
lego ought proud aud grateful to you for the g
and trathu article ON its present and future aims ana
needs In your edition OF Saturday last Both Ior lAe
Prominent position you give 1t in your paper and Tor tue
just crcsm OF the college and its President accept the
thanks OF at least alumnus


The deccnns OK my class occurs in 78 IL being also
ten years then since dearly beloved exPrcsident
John Mclean, like Washington of old returned from
long and honorable position among men in the quiet
shades Of a modest home.


As We were The last class TO graduate under him, II
would be exceedingly appropriate for to bring up TO
our alma mater that decenuial day an offering both
worthy Of graduates and acceptable to the college And
what more worthy what more acceptable, than statue
OF dear "old Johnny who for than half century


stood by the ips tuition through thick aud tn occupy
mg with distinguished ability well nigh all its professor
snlps at different periods OF its history, and who Dow
taouxh longer its honored head, s takes lively In
Year: 1876

The embalmed body of Joseph Henry Louis,
Baron de Palm taken from the vault OF the Lutheran
Cemetery near Williamsburgh yesterday afternoon pre-


paratory to being sent to Washington, Penn, where 1t


will be cremated in the apparatus recently erected by
DIR r. Julius lie Moyne Baron de Palm died in this city
last Nav short time previous to death he made
the request TO his two executors Col Henry s. Olcot


and Henry Newton that his remains should bo burned
Az there was no cremation furnace completed at that
ti,ne tie body was embalmcd and with appropriate
ceremonies deposited in tho vault from which is was
taken yesterday. The body was In an excellent state
Year: 1876

ammunition for ships fitting for sea- 1t is ev1uenty
possible the stock until some other
storage Is provided however For the purpose OF pro-
curing propcr storage appropriation Of 100000 Is
rpcu
Year: 1876

The fluctuations of the barometer yesterday not
important, the record leaving off during slight do
cline There is noteworthy change in temperature,
which still remains below freezing point The coming
change the weather is evidently OF slow approach.


In this city and vicinity the weather Of to-day will be
very nearly like that OF yesterday. but with more
frequent clouds Tomorrow is likely to be yet more
clouded and slightly warmer the fine weather being
near its end
Year: 1876

LARAMIE CITY, wv, March 23.-At about
o'clock this morning boiler in tie Union Pacific Com
panys rolling mill this place exploded with terrible
force completely wreckng the south half OF the MILL
-Four men were instantly killed and ten Others wounded
seriously. About 20 men were In the mill at the te
nearly every one of whom either killed or wounded


rho bor was carried through the stone wall OF the mill
and on; a quarter of mile the prairie. One OF the
wounded has since died and two Others VIII prob
ably die Every one Of the killed had families here
Laramie Tho wounded have been taken to the Sisters
Hospital here. 49, ooo


The damage done TO the mill IL estimated ut SlJ,0OO
Tire cause Of the explosion is not known.
Year: 1876

The Dramatic Committee of the Ladies Cen
tenna Union Fund regret that many persons entitled to
seats were unable to obtain them in the Union League
Thcater on the evening OF March 81. The Committee
were careful not TO sell sests than the theater
would hold, but more than a hundred persons forced
n and deprived the owners OF tickets o
their rightm places Precautions have been taken 10
prevent this happening again.
Year: 1876

OF the amount with their attached but at tho
ferry the money that received for toll OF vehicles ana
passen handed In at tho Treasrers office win no
account and attached. Mr. Reehiil states that
recently he received telegram asking him 10 ca AZ
Bellevue Hospital. but there was no person there oi
the signed to the db patch. he thinks some person
desired TO wayay lin account Of tine charges made Dy
Year: 1876

TIE BANKS To MoRRow--All the Banks
will be closed tomorrow with the exception
of the First National The latter on ac
count Of some particular business, which
will admit of no postponement, will be par
tally open in charge of one clerk.
Year: 1876

California to pay three prices for the
monopoly newspapers in order to
obtain the latest kilograms. 1t has
always sought for exclusive franchises
for the reason that its policy is so
mean and contemplate, that when
forced into competition with liber-
ally conducted line it at once loses all
patronage. For years this contempt
ible monopoly extorted four prices for
the services rendered, from the people
of Los Angeles. But from the day the
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com
pany opened an Office in this city, the
people turned from the Western Union
as Sinbad fastened from the old man
of the mountains who had so long hung
q dead weight about his neck. West
ern Union patronage in Los Angeles
now only comes on days when the mon-
opoly string happens to be working
and the Atlantic and Pacific wires are
imperative. To illustrate the extor-
tionate character of this company of
bailing wire lines, here is a case in
point. The heavy storm of last Sunday
night broke down the Atlantic and
Pacific lines for long distance and
the HERALD was deprived of its usual
kilograms over that company's wires.
Our Sacramento correspondent sent q
report of thirty words over the Western
Union line, and that magnanimous
company charged and collected from
us private message rates-one dollar
for each ten words. This is not exactly
highway robbery, because that is done
with a shotgun and this with a
piece of rotten bailing wire. But after
all there is something to be set down
in the extenuation of the acts of the
tottering old monopoly. 1t is on its
last legs. It's friends are fewest where
it is best known. In towns reached
by other lines it does no business, eX-
CeDU Ill casts SuCll oS We nav
toned. 1t only receives patronage
when the business cannot be done over
other lines, and when the patronage
is forced the old custom Of eXtOrtion is
resorted to- To new comers and those
who have not yet felt the weight Of
Western Union extortion, we say,
avoid the rotten old monopoly as you
would place where you know you
will be compelled to pay the largest
amount of money for the least possible
service. You may as we'll hope to beat
three card monte, thimble rigging or
the strap game as to do business at
reasonable rate over the v estern
Union wires when the other lines are
down.