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Year: 1872

The gentleman who does the carving firmly takes the carving-knife in his right hand, then picks up the steel and sharp ems the knife little thereon then- with the left hand, takes the fork and inserts 1t in the breast of the turkey, one tine each side of the breast-bone, just about where the highest point is. With the turkey on it's back with the fork well in the breast of the bird /; with the head of the turkey toward his left hand-without any fussing, spattering, haggling, or saw ing-he cuts of the first joint of the wing farthest from him. Then he cuts away the second joint, giving fair play and full sweep to the knife, when comes the work of shaving from the breast. After the wing be cut and carved, with a nice dexterous movement he cuts off the first joint of the leg, letting the drum stick fall neatly down upon the side of the platter then he slaves off three or four slices from the second joint, that there may be enough dark meat to go around. Then he cuts the second joint out, all in 8 nice, artistic manner, being careful not to take out the fork or loosen his hold thereon.

 After he has taken off the wing and the leg and duly carved them, he lifts the turkey, changes ends with it, and serves the other side ia the same way, taking care not to spatter the gravy or flip the dressing all over the table and into the laps of the guests. After the limbs have been cut away, in thin slices he slaves the breast down with the point of the knife carving out all those little tid-bits which people of good taste generally like. Then he cuts into the dressing, and, if he pleases, follows up the work of dissecting without having taken the fork from the breast-bone till the bird is completely disjointed. In order to do this we'll, he must have a steady hand, sharp knife !; one with stiff back preferred. The point wants to be keen and substantial. He must do the work quickly-in less time than has been occupied in writing this much of this article.

 Then he asks the first lady on his right what part of the turkey she prefers if she will have it with or without dressing, gravy, &c., &c. When she is helped he asks the first lady on his left and helps her; then the second lady on his right :; then the second lady on his left, and so on to the foot of the table. He then helps the gentlemen in the same man. ner assisting his wife Cf he has one), who should be seated at the foot of the table, last of all, excepting himself.

 Never cut a. turkey or meat of any kind in chunks always cut it in slices. Never undertake to carve with 8 case knife, or dull knife, or one Timber like piece of tin, for such a performance will only secure for you the name of a 's5otch" and for your guests any quantity of grease-spots and just cause for com plaint.
Year: 1872

A certain doctor employed by the gov ernment at frontier post was not re- markable for amiability, and seldom wasted much time in this sswale" with out 8 TOW of some kind on his hands. A citizen living about twenty-five miles from the post requested his assistance upon an interesting occasion, and the doctor rode over to the ranch-a wretch ed hovel about eight feet high, flat dirt roof, and uniting parlor, bedroom and kitchen in one room. The place breath ed poverty from every pore, but the doc tor had the mild assurance to ask one hundred dollars in specie as his fee. The poor Cracker" went into his hovel and in short time appeared with twenty five dollars, which the doctor fatly re- fused in an angry manner. Again the ''Cracker" entered his house, and his weak spouse drew out of stocking two or three dollars which she had carefully hoarded for 8 rainy day. This was added to the sum before offered, but the doc tor refused to take less than his fee and abused the poor man in round terms The Cracker paused moment sadly; then again entering his hovel, he quick y returned with shotgun and rifle. An iron determination spread itself over his features, and, as if he had exhausted every other honorable means of settle ment, he thus addressed the now alarm ed physician: Doctor, we haven't nary other cent in the world, but you kin hev satisfaction! Choose your wepon." It is surmised that the doctor did not wait for his fee.
Year: 1872

The first light thrown on the child hood of Charles Dickens by his biograp- her, MT. Forster, reveals what interests without surprising us. People who suf- fer are commonly the ones who can de- pict suffering. The pathos, not to say the morbid sensibility, of portions of Dickens writings tell an unmistakable story to all analysis of human character. It now appears that at ten years of age Dickens was poor littie drudge in a blacking factory. He went through pri- vation, insult and misery. His compan- ions were coarse and aggressive and their enforced society was torture to him. In letter of his own first published by MT. Forster, he writes

 "No words can express the secret az ony of my soul as I sunk into the com panionship compared these every day associates with those of my happier childhood ; and felt my early hopes of growing up to be a learned and distin- guished man crushed in my breast. The deep remembrance of the sense had of being utterly neglected and hopeless of the shame felt in my position of the misery it was to my young heart to be- ieve that, day by day, what I had learn ed, and thou ght, and delighted in, and raised my fancy and my emulation up by, was passing away from me, never to be brought back any more-cannot be written. My whole nature was so pene. trated with the grief and humiliation of such considerations, that even now, fa- nous and caressed and happy, I often forget in my dreams that I have dear wife and children-even that am a man and wander desolately back to that time of my life" "

 The picture is sorrowful indeed ;, yet we cannot look upon it without preceiv- ing how much Dickens future ability and usefulness to the world depended upon his going through just such an ex- perience. Poets "learn in suffering what they teach in song," and the lesson taught by the noveliest must be gained, for the most part, in much the same way.
Year: 1872

Thss at least true of the old method treating long
abused and much abused human body 1t longer
cred wise to patient to the
ut disease in which pain already the energies
OF his system True science itself the side of
and endeavOrs to assist her in her fight disease
is the province of HOsetter stomach Btters the ap
proved tonic advertised in this country may be
mended as fall medicine, excellence; for it is
that bousness dyspepsia and maarOuS especially
prevalent The Frame exhausted by the heats of summer
relaxed and feeble at its close and requires may
NANDs artificial assistance Afford it assistance occa
siena doses Of HOsetters Stomach Btters and
iered to be escaped Throughout the and
the steamng auva of the Southern rivers all the varieties
OF periodical fever probably rife to-day Had course OF


iosteers Bitters been commenced by the sufferers
ago e. before the unhealthy
them would in all probability be in their usual
present time So much for much
not keeping in the house and using daily the best
against epidemic and endemic fevers.


As hOcks OF mpOsters and mitaors trying to follow in
the wake of the great American remedy therefore
that the article you buy is genuine and verified by the
trade marks The true article only obtained in
Beware OF the spurious bters sold by gallon keg
Year: 1872

II is said by many ladies that have them in use.
that they are very truly named. Any person that has
used the DOy Machine can ihIs without any
difficulty the process OF washing is much the same,
except TINT II washes much faster Il will wash about
double the quantity OF goods a time II will wash
them quicker and cleaner; II only works half hard
the DOty or any other machine IhnI takes in as
great bulk OF goods at time. The family size have
The capacity OF washing six sheets in three minutes
have washed with the Hotel size, eight sheets and
eight pillow cases in three minutes in public by the
watch. all made of IOerably heavy goods What
say OF II am prepared TO prove by practical demon
straiIOn whenever required TO do so.


II s believed ny many that clOhIng washed in ihi,
Machine will last about twice long as # washed
on The washbOhrd.


The PrIcG of this Machine is Reduced to suit the
times from SI5 10 SI2 at factory, and freigh
added, II freghted All orders by mail promptly at
tended 10 Satisfaction is guaranteed in all cases
Any person not satisfied after using the Machine
months. and giving ii fair trial and have no OIhe
reason save that II does not work satisfactorily suci
a one can return It, and The money will be refunded
Year: 1872

Why should you blame girls for set
ting their hearts on matrimony? tits
what girls were made for. No sensible
girl desires to be an old maid. Heaven
did not mean it. A poodle or an "ism''
will never satisfy her, neither will a
vote. What she wants is home and
a fre-side-a great, good, loving fellow
to cherish and protect her there, and


his children to call her ''mother. p
''The world of the affections is her
world-not that of mans aspiring;;'
and if she looks her prettiest and does
her best to become possessed of a place
in it, what wonder? Of course, she
should marry for love, and not for mo-
ney; and in spite of all the talk to the
contrary, most women think they do.
But ones perfect deal is seldom met
with; and if after declaring that only
an Apollo with superhuman intellect
could possibly satisfy her girl mar
ries a rather frivolous young man,
with no pretence whatever to good
looks, she has not necessarily done so
without love. The greenest kind of
men and women have mysterious fas-
cination for some one individual Of the
opposite sex. No one ever hears it al
legged as a fault that young Brown is
determined to marry, but in Miss
Brown it is a terrible crime. Why,
heaven knows! He pays der board,
Year: 1872

oh, it is pleasant to tzink of the
fss1iea ana co5mmHnns s5 na 1iTn ins 81 sdeTIng
dust which years have nearly mingled
with earth. Did they not once walk
the earth with us? Did they not sit
beside us, their eyes glowing with af-
fection, their warm hearts beating in
unison with our own?


The dead-they are gone. Nay, do
not say they are gone. Let us still
enjoy the hope that they hover round
us in spirit, as once they did in body.
Snatch not from us the solacing belief
that their eyes are upon us, though
unseen.


When gloom oppresses our spirits,
when the heart aches with the infic-
tions of life's dull realities, then indeed
the memory Of the dead is pleasant to
us. Say, ye beloved dead who once
shed with us tear for tear, and breath
ed sigh for sigh, are ye now needless of
the anguish of our souls? Have ye
forgotten that we once loved one anoth-
er? And thou, best of all, thou on
whose knee we first learned to lisp the
accents of affection-mother! 1t is
long since our eye beheld thee, and we
are a child again when we think of
thee. Thy grave is far from us. We
have been a wanderer among strangers.
We are dweller in strange land
Many years have passed away since We
wept over the little hillock underneath
which was buried the bosom to which
our infancy clung.
Year: 1872

Rosseau said that no woman with
fine teeth could be ugly. Any female
mouth with a good set of teeth is kiss
able. The too early loss of the first
teeth has an unfavorable influence upon
the beauty and duration of the second.
The youngest should accordingly be
made to take care of them. All that
is necessary is to brush them several
times day with little ordinary soap
Or magnesia and water. After eating,
the particles of food should be care
fully removed from the teeth by means
of a toothpick of quill or wood, but
never of metal. Camphorated and a.
cid tooth powders are injurious, both
to the enamel and the gums, and if
employed, every particle should be re-
moved from the gums by careful rim
sing. The habit which some ladies
have of using a bit of lemon, though
it may whiten the teeth and give a
temporary frmness, and give a color
to the gums, is fatal to the enamel, as
are all other acids. No one, young OF
old, should turn their jaws into nut
crackers, and it is very dangerous for
women to bite off as they often do the
ends of the thread in sewing. It is
not safe to bring very hot food or drink.
especially if Immediately followed by
anything cold, in contact with the teeth
Year: 1872

Our principal joker, who is simply
incorrigible, says that in one respect he
thinks that Grant has the start of Gree
ley in this campaign, for Grant quietly
smokes his cigar and Greeley takes the
stump.
Year: 1872

RESI-


This is the last of The Press We wish
to state our experience as briefly as posi-.
BILE, SO that there may be no misunder.
standing.


| We made two mistakes when we began
this paper; in our estimate of the prosperi.
ty, of the county, and in estimate of the
amount of Democratic support we would
receive. We did so; we have. in doing
so, run into debt, which it will take labor
elsewhere to pay off; We have given the
paper thorough trial, and the result is
that we find there are large number Of
Democrats throughout the county who
prefer to give their subscriptions and ad-
,vertising patronage to Republican paper
We don't object to this; every man has a
right to patronize what suits him. We
only mention it as fact; and we bear
testimony to the fact that a Democratic
paper will not be supported here, and hope
that no other foolish printer will waste his
time in renewing our experiment. ss


1t was qualification to US to be given
the county printing; but that printing is
not of the value that many seem to suppose.
The county has not much printin: to be
done now; and with county scrip almost
valueless, it is not worth much. 1t would
be of assistance, in connection with gener-
al and hearty support of the paper among
Democrats with sueh a support, the paper
could be continued; but it cannot be got.


The Press did its duty at election time.
1t tried to help some who did no. try to
help it. 1t can say ~ have fought good
fight; have ke.t the faith"


We withdraw from the county cheerIully f;
we willingly surrender to others all our
interests in the benefits of the big ditch !;
and trusting that all the people of Trinity
may soon enjoy more prosperous times we
bid one and all a kind good by-Trinity
Press, Dec. 18th 1871.


In noticing the commencement of the
Press at Weaverville over a year ago, we in
dicated that it would prove failure and that
its publisher would find himself involved in
financial embarrassment. The idea of
many of the Democrats of Trinity was
that when the Press obtained the County
printing it could live easy enough, but pub
fishers of papers in mountain counties are
well aware that the profits of county prin.-
ing, after deductng cost of material. is not
much of an OBJECT. and is merely drop in
the bucket-towards making up the revenue
necessary to sustain decent paper


The Journal, the old established paper of
Trinity, has absorbed the materials on
which the Press was printed, and pursues
the even tenor of its way
Year: 1872

PACKING BUTTER.-A Michigan dairy
man has lately published his method of
packing butter. He has oaken tubs, with
heads at each end. They are fourteen
inches in diameter at the top, nine inches
at the bottom and sixteen inches high.
In packing, cambria bag is made to fit
the tub. The butter is packed in the tub
as it stands on the small end-the sack
being long enough to extend above the
edges of the tub-anda is pressed down
firmly until within an inch and half of
the top, when circular cloth is laid over
it, the edges of the sack turned down over
that, and layer of fine salt placed on it.
7 he head is now put in ITS place, the tub
turned UP, and the butter in the sack, of
course falling down to the bottom, leaves a
space all around it, which is filled with
brine, poured through hole in the small
end. When full the hole is corked up
tight. The butter floats in the brine and
is effectually preserved.
Year: 1872

Tho many who have to take the world
rough and tumble are prone to envy those
who roll through it in cushioned vehicles
on patent. springs. The toiler, as he
,,umbles through its thorny thickets, and
climbs over its foot blisterlng gravel, is apt
to curse the luck that placed him on such
a hard road, and to sigh for seat in enc
of the splendid equipages that glide SO
smoothly over Fortunes macadamized turn
pike. Bora with pewter spoon in his
mouth, be covets the silver one which is
thss birth gift of his donothing neighbor.
The more fo1l he Occupation is the sim
mediate jewel" of life 1t is true that
riches are no bar to exertiou-quite the
reverse when their use is properly under
stood. But the discoutented worker, who
pines for wealth without being willing to
worker for it, regards the idleness in which
it would enable him TO live as the acme of
temporal happiness.


We have no sympathy with sensuous
longnes. People who indulge in them
never acquire wealth. They lack the
energy to break their way to the worldly
Independence for which they yearn and
whine. They don't know how much
more glorious it is to tear affluence from
opposing fate by main strength OF will and
inaexibility Of purpose, than to receive it
as windiall. There is infinitely more
satisfaction in conquering fortune with
brain and muscle then was ever experlen-
ced by s'lucky heir" obtaining golden
store that some thriftier haud had accu-
mulated. Your accidental Cresus knows
nothing of the pride of success-of the
earnest exultation with which the selfmade
man locks back upon the impediments he
has overcome, and forward into the fair
future which he has earned a right to en-
JOY.
Year: 1872

ALEXIS AT THE BALL.-T New York
Express gossips in this way: The Prince
at the ball slouched around as independ
emily as Westerner in a steamboat cabin
The impression was that he had revolver
or two in his belt and was satisfied to
clear out the whole concern If required
He danced pretty much as Westerner
would dance, going through the figures
with looseness very refreshing, and at
times mixing up his partners most bewild-
eringly in its subtle mazes. In the pauses,
when more blaze and courtly Princes
would have simpered at their partners. he
drew in q huge breath through his royal
expanse of lucg, and caressingly fondled
his growing mustache
Year: 1872

OF the innumerable questions which
printers are called upon to answer, the fol
lowing are the most sensible:


Do you print on both sides of the paper
at once?


How long does it take to make news
paper


Spose you write everything you print,
don't you?


Why are these boxes of different sizes,
and bow do you koow where to find :. GER
tain letter?


Can't you print picture of anything
you want to ?-I should think you could
Why can't you?


(Afler printing some horse bills for a
man not long ago, he found fault with
them because the ''cut'' was not just like
his horse. On another occasion, a gentle
man came to us with the Information that
he had left his horse in front of the Off
and he wanted picture of it taken and
some bills printed


If you print 100 bills for So | suppose
you will let me have four for II cents


l should think it would be just fun to
be an editor-you don't do anything but
sit down and read newspapers and stories
all day!


Do you throw your type away. after you
have printed upon it once?


You don't care if take handful Of
this type, do you?


1t can't be very hard work to set type
all day--is it, now


Would it do any harm if l should knock
this down 2? You could easily pick it up
again-you are printer.


Gap't l help you print something?


wish you would print my name for me;
it wouldn't be much trouble to print of
just one name.


Vi hat is this for what do you do with
that ? what do you do with that? what
makes that lock so funny? what are you
going to do now !? what for? why? what
makes you keep SO still you don't care if
fellow just talks, do you?


By the time man goes through with
this list of questions his company becomes
SO monotonous that he can't possibly fail
to perceive its effects upon his listeners,
and he walks off with the impression that
we have treated hiui uukindly and impolite-
Year: 1872

THE SENSE OF GuILT.-The atheist
may speculate, and go on speculating till
he is brought up by annihilation he may
then return to life, and reason away the
difference between good and evil; he may
even 90 further, and imagine to himself
the perpetration of the most atrocious
acts; and still he may eat his bread with
relish, and sleep scundly in his bed for
his sins, wanting, as it were, substance,
having no actual solidity to leave their
traces in his memory, all future retribu-
ton may ssem to him thing with which,
in any case, he can have no concern. -
But let him once turn his theory into prac-
tice, let him make crime palpable, in an
instant he feels its hot impress upon
his soul Then it is that what may happen
beyond the grave becomes no matter of
Indifference; and, though his reason may
seem to have proved that death is a final
end, then comes the question. What does
the reason know of death ? Then, last OF
all, the little word IF, swelling to fearful
SIZE, and standing at the outlet of his the


ories, like relentless giant, ready to de
molish his conclusions -ALLsToN.-
Year: 1872

WHY DO CHILDREN DIE Pin answer
to this question, the Medical Recorder
holds the following language: "The reason
children die is because they are not taken
care of. From the day of birth they are
stuffed with water, suffocated in hot rooms
and steamed in bed clothes. So much for
indoor. When permitted to breathe a
breath OF pure air once week in summer,
and once. or twice during the colder
months, only the nose is permitted to peer
into daylight. A little later they are sent
out with no clothes at all on the parts of
the body which most need protection.
Bare legs. bare arms, bare neck, eirted
middles. with an inverted umbrella to COL
lect the air and chill the other parts of
the body. a stout, strong man goes out
on cold day with gloves and over coat,
wooden stockings, and thick, double -soled
boots, with cork between ana rubbers over
The same day child of three years old,
an infant of flesh and blood, bone and con-
stitution, goes out with shoes as thin as
paper, cotton socks, legs uncovered to the
knees, neck bare, an exposure that would
disable the nurse. kill the mother outright,
and make the father an invalid for weeks.
And why To harden them to mode of
dress which they are not expected to prac
tice. To accustom them to exposure which
a dozen years later would be considered
downright foolery. TO rear children thus
for the slaughter pen, and then lay it to
the Lord, is too bad. We don't think the
Almighty had any hand in it.
Year: 1872

The great trouble among American
youth is the lack of application and
thoroughness in what they undertake.
Anything that cannot be learned by super
fetal study is given the go-by for somethi' g
less tedious and irksome. Study aud hard
labor are looked at from a wrong stand
point; and as a consequence the clerkship
ranks are full of unemployed young men,
and the professions are overfowing with
mediocrity. while good mechanics find
plenty of work at living prices. The evil
spoken of is seriously felt. And those
who work at trade do it in so loose and
careless a manner that they often are not
competent to do the work they promise to
do
Year: 1872

FEES AND SALARIEs-The Legislature
four years ago cut down fees and salaries
to low 6gure-to about living rate for
Z the officer and the tax payer; but the fol
lowing Legislature raised them again before
the first act had gone into effect The tax
payers are now anxious that the present
Legislature will do its duty and repass the
reduced fee and salary bill. The people
are willing to pay their servants fair and
living salaries and fees, but do most posi-
lively protest against anv law remaining
on the statute book by which officers ac-
.cumulate fortune Ng44xA
Year: 1872

"How have the mighty failed !" Poor
Tweed skulking for fear of an arrest for
felony! And Senator Casscrl WHO last
Fourth of July, at the invitation Of Tweed
and Tammany delivered the oration before
the Tammany Society in New York-tell
ing the United States Senate that the
Democracy of New York bad exposed the
frauds OF Tweed and Tammany 'r