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Year: 1873

] adopt this mode OF advertising my business
instead OF employing agents. My object 49, to
reduce the expense OF the business as much as
possible, so by purchasing OF me you pay no
agent fees. You can also save the expense of
delivering the work If YOU choose besides you
can select the Marble yourself and see the sytle
Of 1t, as it will be, so there is no possible chance
for being deceived or being disappointed.


BY taking tins course. there Is a saving of
from twenty to thirty per cent according 10
how far the purchaser comes.


You can readily see that the mone7 l save 10y
not keeping agents goes to the purchaser in
stead OF the agent.


Agents claim that they can furnish work
cheaper. That cannot be done. unless done by
Apprentices. | furnish no work OF that class
as | employ no Apprentices.


Ny work and material cannot be questioned.


Eay7 Patronize home, If you can, and save
money by so doing. 8l3
Year: 1873

THE REAsoN,-The reason of the I'M
precedented demand for DR. Price
Cream Baking Powder and Special Fla
vorings, Vanilla, Lemon etc, is the result
Of their being just as represented, Of su-
perior strength and uniform quality,
coupled with the equally potential fact,
that they contain not one grain of adulter-
alton. Having thoroughly tested them
ourselves we have no hesitancy in saying
that they will accomplish just what is
claimed for them, and one single trial viii
readily convince any person as to the truth
If our assertion.
Year: 1873

Have you ever tried NATURES HAIR
RESTORATIVE? You will be delighted
with it. Clean, safe, and efficient. 1t is
driving all the poisonous compounds out Of
the market. 1t is as clear as crystal
See advertisement
Year: 1873

Parchment was invented at Pergamos
in Asia Minor, but Renne's Pain Killing
Magic Oil was first made in Pittsfeld,
Mass, and almost every family there
keeps it in the house for daily use. 1t is
an honest and good article, and its use will
give you satisfaction.
Year: 1873

TNITCHELLS Draught Regulator can be ap-


! piled to any sort Of Stove or heater-saves from
Il to i Of the Coal by utilizing all the heat pro
dHced, and secures a constant, even temperature
with less than half the trouble in keeping fres on
exhibition and for sale at Harris Tea Store Teas
al reduced prices, free of duty diff
Year: 1873

From lands end TO lands end, that all may read
aud reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are the road to an untimcly grave
with bilious complaints there Is but truly great
and reliable remedy. and that is
Year: 1873

new daily Journal, to be called The Vienna
Times, s TO be published in the English language at
Vienna. 1t will devote especial attention TO the inter
ests Engshmen and Americans who desire to Dc pres
ent at the Exhibition in that city.


The Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, being advised that NJ Margry, Chief OF the Ar
chves OF the Ministry OF Marine and Colonies OF France
desires to dispose OF his valuable collection OF Ms re-
lating to early French travels and settlements in
America, has passed resolution calling the attention OF
Congress To this sale and expressing opinion that
purchase OF the papers by the nation is desirable.


According to the Journal des DSbats, after
the Cabinet Council at Madrid the ist OF February
King Amadeus told sehor Zorra that he wished have


conversation in private, and this the language he
used "Spain is prey to party quarres. During the
three that have been here progress has been
made Ny situation not tenabe object being pup
pet Lifelong TO the House OF Savoy, and do wish TO
lay myself open To be sent away. Iprefer going OF my
own free will have reelected deeply and my resolu-
ton quit the country placing my resignation In the
hands OF the Cotes Is not TO be shaken This resolution


shall execute very shortly, and have already given
orders for everything to be ready by Tuesday repeat
that my determination is rrevocabe. and beg you will
make no attempt 10 make me change my mind. You
can communicate this To the Council"
Year: 1873

TIE Maine agriculturist is said to be en-
phatic in his language as often as he gazes
upon that picture of farm operations for
March in the Farmers Almanack,n" where
men with their coats off are represented as
building post-and-rail fence. But if you wish
to make him explosive, say to him, ethereal
mildness, heavenly spring!7 We sincerely
hope that this allusion to agriculture will not
be considered as reflection upon the Maine
State Agricultural! Society; for we distinctly
declare thai we don't believe they have yet
undertaken to run the weather.
Year: 1873

A WASHINGTON despatch says that there
areless office-seekers in that city at the pres
ent time than on any Inauguration occasion
for many years. This is largely due to the
fact that under the civil service rules there
will not be any general change in the depart
ont
Year: 1873

How Uncle Joe DOPPle Let a RObber


Take His AIOnev Belt.


We were a hungry jury, kept out by
an obstinate judge, who told US the case
was very plain one, at the same time
taking good care not to tell us on which
side it was so plain.


Most of the testimony on both sides,
we were convinced, was false; and the
problem to be solved was one not unusu-
ally presented in lawsuits-to find out
the truth by striking a balance between
contradictory lies. Being in for a night
of it, and having regained toward each
other a good temper we had lost in quar-
reling over the case, the next point was
how to get through the time.


Somebody tell story" suggested
the foreman. ''Mr. Dopple, you're an
old settler, and must have met with
some adventures in pioneer times that
would be worth telling"


''Wen, Ihave seen some queer things, -
said Mr.. Dopple-''Uncle Joe" his
neighbors called him, hale old man
of about sixty, with face full of good
humor and good sense. tI have seen
some queer things, but am not much
at narrating them. If you'll excuse
mistakes I'll tell you about case that
might have turned out good deal more
seriously than this one. J"


$50 on, was urged.


This is how it was, began Uncle Joe,
clearing his vocal hatchway by rolling
an immense quid into one cheek.
When I'd made up my mind to come
oat here and buy, mother, as I call my
wife, made me a belt to carry my money
in. Them was the days before green
backs, and bank-notes were no great
shakes if they got too far from home.
So land buyers mostly carried what
they had in specie, in belts, buckled
around their bodies-a dodge the rob
bers soon got up to, and the first thing
they did when they got hold of chap,
was to look for his money belt.


Well, I kissed mother, and bid her
goodbye one morning, and set out to
hunt a new home for us, carrying the
price of it Ia hard cash. One night I
stopped at a cabin and asked for lodg-
ings.


''You can have it, was the answer ;
g that is, provided You don't object to
sleeping double, for another stranger
is here before you"


/ didn't exactly like the idea but
Year: 1873

Sixty cents day is considered good
wages for a working man In any of the
European countries, except Great Brit
ain, where the wages are somewhat
higher. In the Tyrol silk region and
in Italy they often do not get more than
ten cents. In the country in Germany
ten cents is the common pay. Women
there often get but five cents. In Swe-
den, men often work from four o'clock
In the morning till nine IN the evening,
and do not get any more. During the
war many poor women in Berlin were
hired to knit stockings fer the soldiers
for five cents. The profits of the poor
who keep petty shops, sell trinkets IN
the street or act as suffers, do not aver
age more than three or four per cent.
BARRIERS in Berlin, since the raising OF
their prices, get five cents for hair cut
ting and two and half cents for shaw
ing. Servants at hotels get from three
to eight dollars month. Servants girls
in private families often get but ten
dollars a year. Sometimes these classes
cannot get work at any price.


MODEST expression Is a beautiful set
ting to the diamond Of talent and ge-
MUS Chaplin,
Year: 1873

to take part In the conduct or discus


sion of any diplomatic question, nor


should its attitude at time when seri-


Gus international difficulties are posi-


BILE, be held to indicate anything more


than a determination on the part of a


military department of the government
| to be prepared for action, should the


necessity for action arise. A respecta-


bic 70, ce of vessels and monitors are
already on the sea, and concentrating at


the station nearest the scene of our pos


sible difficulties. Our whole available
iron-clad feet is in hand, and every


wooden war vessel that viii float is in


active preparation at the various naval


stations. These Will be ready for sea,
fully fitted, as fast as proper crews can
be provided for them and, if the ne
cessity for action should come, before
the time for it arrives, all there is of the
American navy which can be put afoat
on the Atlantic ocean viii be in condi-
tion and position to take its proper
part. Inadequate, says the secretary,
as this force may be deemed to the re-
sponsibilities and pretensions of a gov
ernment like ours, and greatly at a dis
advantage as we certainly will be in
respect to the number and character of
our vessels in a contest with the feet of
any respectable naval power, believe
the skill, science and experience of our
navy will be found equal to any diff
Guilty which courage viii dare to meet
or energy will avail to conquer.


The secretary concludes as follows
In taking the action above referred to,
the navy department has already incur
red considerable expense, and has been
forced to assume some responsibilities
unusual in times of peace but, con-
Yirced of the wisdom of prompt and
decided action, I have not shrunk from
these responsibilities nor hesitated, |
with the approval of the president, to
make warlike preparations in the inter
ests of peace and humanity. conf
IDENTIFY rely for support in this attitude
upon the patriotism and good sense of
the American people and their repre-
sentatives, who cannot fail to remember
that our naval condition is the result of
causes which have been constantly pres
sed upon their consideration, but which
have failed to receive full attention,
doubtless on account of the more pres
sing requirements and obligations, and
who Will doubtless realize that the
duties constantly postponed are certain
to be more difficult and much more ex-
pensive when performed in haste under
the pressure of imperious necessity.
The department has had no necessity to
oyerstep its appropriations, even if it
were lawful to do so but the pressing
demands of the present viii consume
now what was provided for the service
of the year in several of the working
bureaus. These moneys must be prompt
~ replaced if the work is to go on. The
occasion has clearly shown, I think,
that our navy as it exists should at least
be put in condition for active service,
and in any event a moderate appropria-
ton for this purpose ought at once to
be made, and, if war should by any pos
sibility come, we must be literally pro-
vided to utilize the means we have and
to provide others to meet the emer-
gency.
Year: 1873

forgotten in whole or in part. By and
by, when their funds become exhausted
and themselves 6lase, they return home
dissatisfied and queru1ous. They are
no longer content with their own coun-
try, and know not how to set about the
necessary measures to secure its eleva-
ton to the high level of the countries
they have visited. They are spoilt
Japanese, with yearnings after the in
definite, of no use abroad, and of little
at home"
Year: 1873

The secretary Of the interior, in his
annual report, regards the situation in
the Indian service as favorable, and as
a vindication of the humane policy in
augurated at the beginning of Presi-
dent Grants executive term. He
recommends that the system of cash
annuities be abolished, and that pay
ments to the Indians be hereafter made
in goods and supplies. He says the
Sioux nation is almost completely sur
rounded by tribes that are really friend
Iy to the government and at the same
time bitterly hostile to the Sioux. If
these friendly tribes could be literally
supplied with improved firearms and
ammunition, the present supremacy of
the Sioux might in a few years be de-
stroyed with but little aid from the
army.


The secretary refers to the lawless
condition of the Indian territory, and
says if the Okmulgee constitution with
the proposed amendments is not adopted
at the next meeting Of the Indian coun-
Gil, and Congress shall not deem it ad-
visabIe to erect territorial government
within the territory, he trusts that the
necessary Legislation may be obtained
to at least provide for the organization
of court or courts.


The secretary invites the attention of
congress to the request from the colony
of Mennonites residing in Southern
Russia for a modification of the exist
ing land laws In certain particulars to
enable them to settle upon our public
domain in compact colony. The en-
tire area they will probably require viii
be about five hundred thousand acres.
Year: 1873

THEY who are most weary Of life, and
yet are the most unwilling to die, are
such who have lived to no purpose-whO
have rather breathed TO no purpose.
Clarendon.


EVERY great man Is an unique. The
scipionism of Scipio is precisely that
part he could not borrow ksmeTs0Ia
Year: 1873

Since the commencement of the pres
ent month, events have taken place
which made it proper that the navy
should be put at once upon a footing
for active service. II IS by no means
the province Of this department a. 5aeh
Year: 1873

The most appalling case of deafness
that we ever came across outside of an
asylum was that of an old lady who
lives just across the street from the Navy
yard. The other day they fred salute
Of twentJ-one guns. The old lady was
observed to start and listen as the last
gun was fred. and then she exclaimed,
"Come in
Year: 1873

The sound of doors opening and clos
| ing softly, of muflled footsteps along
the hall, awaken us. 1t is yet dark A
bright star twinkles through the curtain,
telling Us the good news. Toilets are
dispatched with no great ceremony, and
muffied in overcoat and shawl we hurry
down to find a hundred other masked
figures on the spacious platform in the
faint twilight. We stumble over a huge
chain. What is it? Every twenty feet
chain cable comes through the platform
from its anchorage in the rock beneath,
passing over the hotel similarly secured
on the other side--a windy suggestion.
Does it ever blow here Look at the little
building which is the signal-station. The
four little brass cups of the thermometer
are absolutely motionless not breath
stirs-a rare case on Mt. Washington.
Cast your eye about, peer down into the
gloom--so different from the gloom of
the coming night. Dim, shadowy out
lines Of mountain outlines discerna-


bic against the deeper shadows that mark
the profound gulfs between. In strange
contrast with this indefinite darkness be-
low is the flaming light of the morning
star high up the eastern sky. How weird
ly the dawn comes! How persistently
the darkness fingers. A cold gray light
at last creeps down the valley, there lie
along the rivers long white lines of fog,
resembling the glaciers of Alpine valleys;
there is the silvery sheen of some noun
tain lake. A faint, cold blush of color
fills the eastern heavens, which, for
wonder, are cloudless. 1t is the clearest
day of the whole summer. But there Is
no sun, though it is day. Nor can we
see where he is to rise; no glow on the
horizon marks his golden gate. Sudden
ly unheralded, flash of red, cleaning
fire, stationary for q moment-then it
blazes higher, redder, and more fiery.
A thin bar of black cloud clips its
upper margin, making new horizon
and repeti tion Of the sudden fash of
fiery red. Soon the great, round orb,
red, but less intense, lifts sluggishly from
his mountain couch, and with shout
we, Fire-worshipers, pronounce the sun
rise accomplished. = Cor. N. Y Times.
Year: 1873

in times of peace, and not be thus an
athamized more by those claiming to
favor right, law and liberalism. The
Chronicle is out of its line, and we pray
that at least, under the head of its dis
courses on kuklux and the like, It give
our jaded and long tormented people
rest.n


The Chronicle surely cannot resist this
last touching, tender appeal, and the
people who read the WOTldl, 'Jaded and
tormented,v y need "rest" In truth, this
miraculous editorial came near giving
us nfinal rest''-and this Helena man
will he fhe death CT US.
Year: 1873

Z is predicted that the approaching winter
4 be mild one, basing the prediction on
fact that when the sun last "crossed the
e", the wind was from the south, which in


htes that the majority of next winters
Ids will blow from that direction.
Year: 1873

Tho Danbury Nees says; The


day Mr.. Ruby across the way was
40 be buried, Mrs. Moriaty told her
daugl,tey Clarinda that she guessed
she would attend, as she wasn't
feeling very well, and ride would
do her good. She knew there
would be several covered carriages
furnished st the expense OF the fam
jly, and she was equally confident
il could DO SO managed that she
wOpld occupy portion of one of
them. She Yas among tho first at
iho house and occupied a promi-'
pept position. AS the other friends
arrived, che took occasion to recall
"Reminiscences of the late Ruby
that brought tears to their eyes,
and when tho services were over,
Us the first coach drove up for ifs
load, the distress of Mrs. Moriaty at
tho death Of Mr.. Ruby was so
marked as to excite tho livcliest
sympathy. Tben the SECOND coach
came up. Mrs. Moriaty had got
down to the gate BY this time, and
as the door of the SECOND coach
was opened and o call made for the
occupants, it scemed extremely
doubtful If she could hold up an
other instant. She leaned against
the post and stared into the coach,
and over the rich upholstering, and
said the late Ruby seemed more
like son to her than neighbor.
Whereupon the usher looked appro
prjately sad, and called up the third
and last coach. This had yellow
cushions and pink straps, and Mrs.
MOriaty didn't hesitate to protest
that in the death of Mr.. Ruby the
community had met a loss it was
not possible to recover from, and
that she would follow him to his
last resting place il she had to do il
on her knees, apd would feel CRATE
full for the opportunity Then the
third and last coach filled and
drove off to take iis place in the
line, and Mps. Moriaty dried hei
tears, choked back the sorrow OF
her heart with one mighty gulp,
and strode into her own house,
shutting the font door without the
aid Of the knob. She told Clarinda
that ii was the scaliest affair that
she ever went to, and had it not
been for the body there would have
been no funeral ut all.
Year: 1873

tits we'll understood, we believe,
that when mpn has a sore head
some one will hit him there, and if
he has q sore foot some one will
step on IT. We don't know why
this is, but il IS. We remember
that when We were o boy, and had
q boil whero boys frequently have
their gojls, some facetlous wretch
would be sure to come around with
p long lath, and slap it across that
poll. We are reminded of this sin
gular fatality, by an incident that
happened to o Pine street man, last
Thursday. He has got a "run
around" on one finger and q partly
healed wound from cut on anoth.
Or, both members belonging to the
right hand. On Thursday an un.
Gle from Sherman came to see him.
and the uncle being one of your
whole.souled and hearty men, the
Pine street man was glad to SEQ
him, sad ppconsciously y extended
his hand, The uncle from Sher.
man grasped it in his own brawny
fist, and gave it squeeze that split
the "run around" in two, smushed
in the wound and made every Joint
in the hand say something. 1t was
the business Ofthe Pine street man
10 tell his uncle IN WALL IN o,I
have a chair. But he didn't. As
soon as he got loose, he ran out in
tho yard after the axe, and if the
uncle from Sherman bad not gath.
ercd from the Htterences of his ncph.
ew an impression that the census
Of Sherman was in danger, and had
had the sagacity to have been inAu
enced by it, there might have been
a sickening tragedy TO record
panbury News.
Year: 1873

The food that has been cooked in the kitchen
must be re- cooked in the stomach before it can be
applied TO the nourishment Of the body. As a
where the process is slowly and imperfectly per
formed. HOstetter's Stomach Bitters is invaluable.
1t promotes the generation of heat in the living
laboratory in which the crude materials for build
ing up and recruiting the human frame are turned
into convertible aliment. But this is not all, 1t
acts bene6cially upon the cellular membrane which
seeTetes the gastric joiee. upon the liver, which
produces that natural laxative. the bile upon the
vessels which receive the digested food. and upon
the absOrbants which connect the digestive organs
with the channels of circulation. If any portion Of
this complex machinery is out of order the Bitters
will set it right, thus promOtng vigorous digestion
healthy secretion, and the production Of pure, rich
life. sustaining blood. decl0tolT
Year: 1873

The Merry 81. Andrew" DON'T CrachN
| Nut.


| To the Editor Of The State Journal


The editor of The Southside virglnlan
fails to crack the nut l furnished him in
recent article, and says the disguise OF
Settler is altogether too thin, and inti-
mates that my article was an "effort Of
| THE STATE JOURNAL to turn the board
of settlers into a political organization"
Now be it known to him that l am an
| actual "settler" of Virginia, and on terms
| of personal acquaintance and friendship
with himself, and THE STATE JOURNAL
had nothing to do with that letter except to
publish it.


am one of large class who do not
like beinp called "northern adventu-
rers. white renegades, scalawags or carpet
haooers ), and these are the only
classes of white Republicans ever
mentioned by the Conservative press OF the
state. OF the names mentioned in my
letter. the editor says: Happily, however,
as we have reason to believe, they are not
all prepared to support Radicalism." Now
| defy him to point out one of the persons
mentioned who is not as firm IN his Repub-
lican faith as when he crossed Mason and
Dixon's line. They, in common with large
majority Of the actual settlers. feel if ever
there was time for Republican settlers to
stand by their colors it is now, when the
battle cry of the Conservative party is
Virginia for Virginians," and the desire is
so plainly shown, by its organs, to disfran-
chise all not born on Virginia's sacred soil,
unless they happen to be of the stripe Of
"Gilbert the Handsome. We do not
make Virginia our home for the sake Of
Office or its emoluments, but we do not like
to feel that we are disqualified from holding
Office by the accident of our birth being
north Of certain parallel of latitude,
yet we are continually treated by the Con-
servative party and its organs as though
we we're. And selfrespect, if nothing
more, demands of us now to be true to our
principles but there is stronger motive
for our allegiance to our party; the
principles of equal, legal and political
rights for all are too dear to us to be laid
aside like loose-6tting garment, and this
monarchy-loving subject of good Queer.
Victoria talks ignorantly when he talks of
our turning over to the Conservative party.


Yours truly,


SETTLRE.