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Year: 1873

If could persuade all the young people
of Elnira never to.treat each other, nor be
treated. think one half of the danger from
our strong drink would be gone, If I can
not get you TO sign the total abstinence
pledge, binding until you are %, would
be glad to have you promise three things:
First, never to drink on the sly, alone;
second, never to drink socially, treating or
being treated; third, when you drink, do
it openly. and in tie 'presence of some
man or woman whom you respect
: Now boys, if you wish to be generous
and treat each other, why not select some
other shop beside the liquor shop? Sup
pose, as you go by the post Office, you say,
Come, boys come in and take some
stamps These stamps willdo your friends
a real good, and viii cost you 10 more than
drinks all round. Or go by the tailor's
store and say, ''Boys, come in and take 3
box of collars" Walk up to the counter,
free and generous, and say, tWhat style
will you have" Why not treat to collars as
well as treat to drinks? Or go by a confec-
toners and propose chocolate drops al
round. Or say, sI'll stand jack-knife all
round"


How does itshappen that we have fallen
into a habit almost compulsory, of So
cial drinking? You drink many time
when asked to, when really you 90 not
want to- When a man has treated, you
feel mean and indebted, and. keep a sort OF
account current in your mind, and treat
him. And so in the use of Just that agent
which at the very best is a dangerous one,
you join hand and hand to help each Other
to ruin, instead of hand in hand to help
each other to temperanee.-TT Thomas K.
Beecher.
Year: 1873

Captain Jack, the chief of the tribe, is a
full=blooded Modocs of about thirty years of
age, though he looks much older. He has
good head, though, like all Indians, the
forehead is low and retreating. His com
plexion is dark, being h bright copper color,
and his eyes are black, full and piercing.-
His hair is long, hanging down the should
ers, and his face is entirely destitute of
beard. His mouth is large, and its shape
indicates frmness and determination, though
it by no means denotes cruelty and base
ness-traits which Captain Jack seems to
possess above all others. In manner he is
cool, self-possessed and very dignifed. He
insists upon being treated with the greatest
respect by all with whom he comes in cor
tact, and the chief ruler of forty millions
of people could not be greater sticklerfor
official etiquette than IS this same miserable
savage. He never smiles. His greeting of
his visitors on the occasion of the visit re-
ferred to was a splendid exhibition of in
difference and haughtiness, Notwithstanding
at the time he was SO i'll he could not stard
up. Before this act of treachery he Was
believed to be the soul of honor. Settlers
in the neighborhood who had many deal
ings with him said that they never knew
Captain Jack to do a mean or base act, nor
would he knowingly gly permit any member Of
his band to do one. If any of the ranch
men ever complained of any act of pecula-
ton OF other annoyance, Jack was sure to
visit punishment upon the head of the Of
fender. He was elected chief of the tribe
two or three years ago, and Squire Steele,
of Yreka, acted as judge of election-a fact
which has always made Steele Jack s fast
friend. He was the last man in the tribe
who it would be thought could be guilty of
SO base an act-an act entirely out of keep
ing with his past character.
Year: 1873

The Emperor Of Brazil has just
struck the last blow against slavery
in his dominions, by afixing his sign
manual to a decree which makes all
children born hereafter of slave pa
rents free. 1t has been weary pro-
cess, this abolition of human bondage
among civilized nations. At what
cost of blood and treasure this coun-
try has got rid of the curse, history
can attest on many sad page. Now
Cuba alone remains, and even there
the abolishment of the system is only
a question of time.
Year: 1873

Raymond was the son of small
farmer, and in his early youth sup
ported himself by teaching a district
school. Bennett, arriving in this
country friendless and penniless, also
earned his bread in Halifax by teach
ing. In his first struggles, Greeley
was likewise teacher in the rustic
regions of Vermont, as James Brooks
was at sixteen in the rural districts of
Maine. So the members OF the quar-
tette all had some experience in school
teaching before they found their vo-
cation in journalism. Thurlow Weed
was as much self-madeas any of them
and at the outset of his career was
cabin-boy on the Hudson River, but
soon broke into printing Office by
the irresistible law of his destiny.
Year: 1873

Several Western Congressman who
have pocketee their share of the salary
grab are tiring themselves out by
writing letters two or three columns
in length to explain why they did it.
1t is a waste OF ink and paper, gentle
men. That money belongs in the
United States Treasury, and a simple
statement that you have deposited it
there is the only thing your constitu-
ents want from yeu.-[N. Y. Tribune
Year: 1873

/ am composed of 16 letters.
My first is in you, but not in me,
Ny second is in two, bat not in three,
My third iSin cure, but not in kill,
My fourth is in mountain, but not in hill,
My fifth is in March, but n9tin May,
My sixth is in straw, but not in hay,
My seventh is in day, but not in night,
My eighth is in blue, also in white,
My ninth is in pink, but not in red,
My tenth is in chair, but not in bed,
My eleventh is in rabbit, but not in quail,
My twelfth is in ant, but not in snail,
My thirteenth is in many, but not in few,
My fourteenth is in one, but not in two,
My fifteenth is in new, but not in old,
Ny sixteenth is in bought, but not in sold.
My whole is something in which take weekly
Height. PAP'S I'd GAL.
Ragweed AYenue.
Year: 1873

In Indiana associations are being
organized and money raised, to op-
pose the enforcement of the temper
ance law of that State. The friends
Of the law, however, are not idle, for
they are forming associations and
raising money to- assist in the execu-
ton of the law and the maintenance
of good order in the State
Year: 1873

A good book and a good woman
are excellent things for those who
know how justly to appreciate their
value. There are men, however, who
Judge Of both from the beauty Of the
covering.
Year: 1873

A Georgia colored lyceum discuss
ed the question "whieh is the most
useful, paper or gmpowder?" The
debate was closed by disputant who
spoke as follows: "NTr. president,
s'pose dar was a bar at de door, and
you was to go dar and shake de pa
per at him, you'd see what de bar
would do; but jess shoot a cannon at
him and see wot comes! I calls for
de question" The president forth
with decided in favor Of powder.
Year: 1873

Write we know is written right,
When we see it written write;
But when we see it written wright,
We know tits not then written right,
For write, to have it written right,
Must not be written right nor wright,
Nor yet should it be written rite;
But W-R-I-T-E-for so it's written right.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Greenfield
Chief furnishes that paper the follow
ing very interesting memoir of the
late Col. Rogers, one of the early
pioneers of this county, whose death
has been briefly noticed in our col
Year: 1873

The Irish potato is the subject of a long
article in Connecticut paper. ''They are
large and fair, 1--WE are told and when you boil
them they burst their jackets and overflow in
cataracts of vegetable snowfakes" That is
nnmistakable poetry; and we read with a
shock, directly after the expression, that they
cost but one dollar bushel.
Year: 1873

Tommy rather got the better of the teach
er last term by declining to spell perpendicu-
larity.-on the ground that he had been
taught by his excellent mother to avoid hard
words as he would blows or any other out
rage to another.
Year: 1873

Line Stock Insurance reply to the corres-
pondent who asks what decision was reached in
the Chester county courts last week, in refer
Ance to the affairs OF the Mutual Live Stock In
Hurance Company As we understand, the bus
mess transacted was mainly criminal, and no
civil causes were adjudicated The suits refer
red to are not mentioned in the West Chester
papers, and we presume were not tried
Year: 1873

Last week we said that
Judge Thurman made but one
speech in the Senate on the
subject Of the salary grab, and
that was not in opposition to
the bill, but to ridicule the
speech of a Republican who
had just spoken against it.
This is a statement which has
been disputed by those Demo-
Gratis who work in secret. Ii
wouldn't do for them to deny
it publicly. Now, to establish
its truth, we hereby challenge
the Democratic Central Com
mittee of Vlnton county to
prove by the official record
that such is not the fact, and
for that purpose we hereby
agree, on presentation of the
official record of any other
speech than that referred to
above, on the subject of in
creased salaries, to publish it
in our columns as evidence
that we were mistaken.
Year: 1873

votes, again he is not fit for
the position to which he as
pireS.


But to return to the salary
business. There is much being
said and written on this subject
by the press and speakers of
both political parties which is
advanced merely to catch
votes, and this controversy with
Mr. Neal is of that class OF stuff.
1t was gotten up by thin. headed
individuals who think they are
smart enough to fool the peo-
pie. For ourselves we are dis
gusted with their professions
Of excessive virtue. We entire
ly disapprove Of the new salary
law in all its features-back
pay, present pay and future
pay; but while it is a law Mr.
Neal and every other Congress
man has both a legal and a
moral right to the benefit OF its
provisions. MIR. Meals says, and
we have no doubt he will make
his words good, that he will
work for its repeal. If he does
that honestly and faithfully on
the assembly of Congress it is
all his constituents can reson-
ably ask OF him. When he fails
to do that, he may properly be
arraigned as a salary grabber,
and it will be by his action in
Congress that he will get his
proper credit. In the mean
time, We do not object to him
drawing his salary, for whether
he draws it now or not, the re.
peal law when passed will in all
probability be retroactive, fix
the salary for this and future
Congresses, and at any rate
Mr.. Neal will not get any more
in the end than the law allows,
nor more than any fellow-mem-
Der will finally get, whether he
draws it now or at the end oil
the year. 1t was a put up job
on Neal in the first place, and
We are glad to say that the
Democrats of this county gen.
orally, as Tar as we have been
able to learn from them by
extended conversations, see





through and despise the trick
and repudiate the trickster, for
know all men that they and
their Central Committee deny
that the letter of Mr.. Bowen,
was ever authorized by any
acIlon of the committee. In
deed they claim that the first
intimation they ever had of the
matter was from its pu blication
In the Record. Such being the
case, what we blame the com
mite for, is for not making an
apology to Mr.. Neal as public
as was the insult offered in
their name by Mr.. Bowen. By
failing to do SO, they show
that while they profess to de.
spise the trick, they are will
ing to profit by it.
Year: 1873

The ring are actively at work
for Lyle, using as an argument
that the question is not Bay or
Lyle for Representative, but
who will we have for United
States Senator Thurman or
some Republican. Itis a sorry
state of affairs. for their candL
date when they are compelled
10 concede the better qualif.
cations of his opponent, and
run him on the qualifications Of
some other man, as if all a Rep
resentative has to do is to vote
for a United States Senator,
The people OF this county can
well bear the burdens which
either the defeat or election Of
Judge Thurman will bring
much easier than they can bear
the burdens which are likely
toll brought upon them by the
blunders OF such legislators as
the candidate presented by the
ring. But the argument Of the
ring for their candidate is with,
out foundation IN fact. The
election of a United States
Senator will not depend on the
vote of a member from Vinton,
1t is pretty generally conceded
that Hamilton county with its
13 members will decide that
matter. Vote TOR Bay. You
have expressed yourselves free.
ly that he makes a good repre-.
sentative, faithful to your in.
terests as citizens. Vote for
him.
Year: 1873

his COW, and a hardware store,


where he tries to find pastur.
age for himself. He is the only
colored farmer On our ticket,
and his candidacy for SO i'm.
portant an office bespeak the
progress made by the noble
Democracy IN behalf of the
equality of man. George has
lived in Vinton county for for
ty years, and was the first coli
ored farmer that ever voted in
the county.
Year: 1873

Porter Du Hallway, our car
didate for Judge is also a iarm-
er, as are all the other lawyers
on our ticket. All being farm.
ers, of course all our farmers
will vote our ticket fin a horn J
Year: 1873

AioNu hJlS 10 OuT Cduul.
date for Representative. He
is a talented young farmer, ell
oquent and bald-headed. The
boys say he wore all the hair
off of his head carrying a bot
tie in his hat. We are author
lied to deny this. Harrison is
a miniSter-he IS also q farmer
and it was his shine book"
and not a bottle, he carried In
his hat. He sang a great deal
out of this book, and one of
the brothers being jealous of
his beautiful voice, preferred
charges against him and had
him turned out of church. Mr..
Lyle is myrtar and is also a
farmer. There is not a weed
in his farm. The people should
all 60 to Allensville and see
his farm. He keeps it in a
blacksmith shop. The farmers
will all vote for Lyle, for he is
a farmer. [ They'll vote for him
to stay at home and take care
of his blacksmith shop.)


W. ". Belford is another in
teresting young farmer. He
used to have his farm in a shoe
maker shop at Allensville, but
he moved 1t to Macarthur and
has been farming two years In
the Auditors office. He is "the
best Auditor Vinton county
ever had," and can draw all ad-
vertlsement for proposals Tor
public works with such exceed
ing skill and ability that the
ring can have a contract let to
the highest bidder just as easy
as rolling off a log. This is
the best paying branch of
farming. The ring made 1910
off of one crop at the poor
farm by it. 1t costs the people
something to put in the crop,
but what of that, when theihar
vest is so sure, and we have the
best auditor Vinton county
ever bad, who "never blots his
books9' We almost forgot to
say that Mr.. Belford is a farm
er.


Patrick Kelly is our candi
date for Commissioner. MIR
Kelly is farmer. He works
on the poor farm. The farm
has been getting poorer every
day since he commenced work
ing there. 1t is so poor now
that lis product won't support
a Martin. One now quartered
there subsists on the county at
large. The people should avail
themselves of Mr.. Kelly's
knowledge in having it brou'ht
immediat ely into a more thrift.
ty condition. He knows Just
how, and where and when it
got in its present fix, and of
course would know just where
new fences are needed, where
grass, should be re-sown, and
where it would now require
manuring to raise black beans.
A new Commissioner would
have to find all these things
out before he could apply the
corrective. Mr.. Kelly is a
farmer. If anv farmer don't
believe Mr.. Kelly Is a farmer
let him go to the Poor Farm
and see how he has farmed it
out to ring favorites.


Farmer McGilIivray was our
candidate for Prosecuting At
torney, but he has moved TO
the headwaters of Salt River,
in search of quarters for the
ring, and Farmer Cunning takes
his place,


His Honor, Judge Craig, our
candidate for Surveyor, is a
farmer. He used to carry on
his farm in the Probate office,
but got burned out. A spark
from a blackberry bush burned
hole in the iron door Of his
safe, the fire communicated 70
his books and the crop account.
Year: 1873

The Temperance Reform Club in Cape


Elizabeth numbers one hundred families, and


it is fact that no family in the village has


received aid from the town this winter.


The Camden Herald says that while Willis


Williams of Islesboro,' aged Is years, was
out cunning last week, he accidently shot
himself He had loaded his gun with heavy


charge of shot, for sea gulls. Returning
without game, he was walking along over the
ice using his gun as cane, holding the mug
zle in his right hand, when he slipped and
the contents of his piece into his
thigh The flesh for space IS large as tea
cup was completely chopped and torn into
mince meat. About this wound thirty-nins
shot holes were counted. Young Williams
walked some eight or ten rods halloing for
help when his strength failed him. Finding
that his cries were not heard, he called his
dog to him, besmeared him with blood, and
sent him OF home, which soon brought his
friends who conveyed him to the house and
did what they could to stop the fow of blood.
Hopes are entertained that his life may be
saved.
Year: 1873

EDITOR ENQUIRER in this town there lives man whose habits are so good and regular that they ought to be held up to the rising generation Gas well as to the present. as an example. For the last six years and six months ending July 1st, he has been to church every Sabbath, 338 in succession, rain or shine, one and one fourth miles and can tell who preached Gf any one) every Sabbath. He is not an enthusiast on any subject, but liberal on all his habits have been so god and reg ular that his health corresponded to them. He is a man of property and works every day. Last winter while the snow drifts forbade much labor, he kept count to see how many days he could go without drink ing anything, which proved to be something over 200 days. He seldom ever drinks tea or coffee or any spirituous or malt liquors, nor does he use tobacco in any form. He is middle aged man and un- married at present. A few years since he lost his young and loving wife; and, about the same time, his barn was struck by lightning and burned to the ground full of hay. These affiictions, coming so heavy and so near together, he received great sympathy from a confding public. He has small farm, with money in bank, a new house with nice surroundings, and these any lady in the land could do no better than to occupy. He is mill wright by trade, and son of the late Jere- miah Guild of Milton, one of the greatest mill-wrights in this country. Abner (the son) works at mill-wright, joiner work, and farming in summer, and in the wagon shop in winter. The G l;ld family are mo- ted for their ingenuity, good workmanship and honesty, of; which this town may

 justly feel proud. Will the young men of his county go and do likewise.

 l.. F. ScoTT.
Year: 1873

There is considerable agitation in New York again over the old subject of the Catholics and the public schools. The May or made the mistake of leaving Catholics off the school boards; and then thereis al- ways the old issue of the reading of the bi- ble in the schools. Protestants should be scrupulously fair and unsectarian in their dealings with this great matter of educa- tion. No doubt most of the Catholic ob- jections are mere pretexts, but we cannot afford to furnish pretexts to such shrewd opponents as the Catholic clergy.
Year: 1873

We are little in doubt whether Col. Scott has not taken a contract to supply the place of the lady whose loss, together with that of barn full of hay, aroused ''the sympathy of a confding public, ''and whether he is not getting little gratui- tous advertising out of us with that end in view. Still the letter is such an excel lent specimen of its kind that we cannot in conscience withhold it from our read CTS:
Year: 1873

The swindler, Gordon Gordon, has been the occasion of more trouble. Persons in the employ of his New York bail under took to capture him in Canada, just north of Minnesota but instead of catching Gordon they were themselves captured and four of them have been committed with out bail on charge of kidnapping. This miserable pretender has certainly victim ized an uncommon number of very smart Yankees. first and last.
Year: 1873

Persons absent temporarily from home can have letters forwarded under the new law without payment further postage. But, in order to take advantage of this provision, notice must be given at the of flee. Letters once taken out by friends of the person to whom they are addressed cannot be remailed without payment of the usual postage.
Year: 1873

The following which we find in the Conn
try Gtnten,an, may interest some of the
horse dealers and stock growers of Montana:
Considerable is written nowadays about
false economy in various ways. My obser-
vation leads to the conclusion that one inn
pOrtant item is almost entirely overlooked,
and thousands of dollars are lost each year
by the careless wintering of farm horses.
For instance. farmer A. owns fine span OF
horses he is not much of horseman, but
in the summer he works them, and keeps q
man who takes good care of them. In the
fall after work is over, the horses are put
into the stable and fed all the hay they will
eat, (be the same good or bad, are left per-
haps week or two at time, with little or
no exercise and when they are driven, are
let 60 at the top of their speed. Fast driving
with their stomachs full of undigested hay,
is the very worst of treatment. The result is
that in year or two, the horses have the
heaves badly, and are spoiled for market,
and are unable to do the usual amount of
service on the farm or road and this alone
causes loss each year so long as the team is
used


This could in some degree be avoided by
building a shed with yard for exercise, and
by feeding food of sufficient strength to keep
the muscles in full strength. Some say that
wintering horses in the field on hay alone,
will cause falling away Of muscles and
strength difficult to regain. No doubt, being
chilled by standing in cold barn is very in
furious to horses.
Year: 1873

ACCIDENT WHILE SHEDDING. view of tbs
reckless IN amer in which the boys conduct this
sport, and their entire disregard Of the safety Of
themselves and others while rafting swiftly down
the hull on sleds and jumpers, 1t is almost wonder.
Iui that more and serious accidents do not occur


girl was thrown of by the upsettinp of a sIed'
and had her hand run over by one following. and
badly cut. A little boy also had an arm Broken
by getting upset and run into. Slight ACCIDENT
were plentiful. and collisions were numerous.
WI Whch fortunately resulted in no greater damage
somewhat. This sport is extremely dangerous,
ana those indulging should exercise great care
penalty. F~' 'A'
Year: 1873

PoMEROY DEMOCRAT.-1hise excellent iour-
nal commences the new year with a number
even more sparkling and interesting than il
IA In this number assurances are given that the
Democrat in the future, will continue TO be a
lively, independent paper conducted in a manner
which cannot fail to render it welcome visitor
TO every household in the country. Every de-
Partment in this paper is carefully edited, and
the combined efforts of those engaged in its
publication, produce paper which is acceptable
in all respects.
Year: 1873

COLD WEATHER.-The weather, this morning
was doubtless colder than at any previous time
time this winter, the thermometer standing al
ten degrees above zero, at eight o'clock. Every.
thing was frozen lightly, and the windows were
covered with frost. Wonder how our exposed
and unprotected fire plugs have Jared? Would
1t have been an easy matter to have obtained
water from them in case of a FIRE early this
morning Surely this mattershould be attended
to.