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Year: 1872

80 Ii ls natural for man to indulge II the i!lu-
sions OF hope. this old saying is particularly
true IN a country where ali the roads to political
Aonors are open and free to all who desire to
travel along them. Ambition finds u America
the greatest field for ITS qualification: thou
sands are struggling for the topmost round.
though but few reach it, many attain noble
elevation. While such opportunities call ont
many true and great men, it cannot lie denied
that the surrounding temptations are fearful,
look at our history from the foundation Of the
government until to-day, and it is strewL
with brilliant wrecks who have sacrificed prop
erty and honor that they might for moment
WELD the scepter 81 the nations power The
theory OF our government Is that the people
rule and the people choose their officers If this
be true, 1t should be left TO the people, aud DO
man Of true, noble spirit, no man who feels
any of that modesty which chsracterzes the
truly great, would for q moment think Of
pressing, crowding and frantically urging HIM
self on the people for any position.


In every political campaign il lie urged in IA
vor Of candidates who are striving for nomins-
ton that they have put everything into the
campaign that they have staked their all on
the issues OF q convention, and II they do not
WIN they are ruined. Well suppose they are
ruined, what OF il? Who is TO blame What
business has a candidate in sueh plight, who
is shouting reformi


Candidates, please bear your beft on those
questions a little.
Year: 1872

he supposed the entertainment of the


Yankee general and his cortege to be.


How could he tell he asked, what his
servants might do or might not do in
feeding so many men who were hated


by the whole community? He could
not think of incurring the risk of pro-
viding bread and meat for conquerors.
When this reply was made known to
General Butler, he sent for the recu-
SAINT landlord and asked if he had
been rightly informed. The landlord
said he had, and he repeated to Gen.
Butler the statement which he had
made to another member of the staff
who had given him orders. The city
was excited; his servants shared the
general indignation, and he could not
say that Gen. Butler and the others of
his suite might not eat or drink poi
son in the food that was placed before
them on the table. Nor can /. sir =
said Gen. Butler in reply: but you
will go on and give the requisite order.
We shall eat the food you provide, and
If we be poisoned, why. in the asonies
Of death we shall have one satisfac-
tlon-namely, that zee h,ao.o sgho keeps
his hotetF On the strength of that
order the innkeeper returned to his
duty. Boston advertiser.
Year: 1872

the fashion Of those days, employed
in culinary preparations.


And some distance from her, sat q
young man in rustic garb, looping
off the knots from the broken branch
of tree.


The officer told her he came in King
Christiern's name to demand the rebel
Gustavus, who he knew was concealed
under her roof.


The dauntless woman never chang
ell color: she Immediately guessed the
man whom her husband had intr oduced
as miners son to he the Swedish
hero


The door was blocked up BY sold
iers.


In an instant she replied. without
once glancing at Gustavus, who sat
motionless with surprise


If YOU mean the melancholy gentle
man my husband has had here these
two days, he has just walked out into
the wood, or the other side of the hill.
Some of these soldiers may readily
sicze him, rs he has no arms with him.


The officer, not suspecting the ca 81
simplicity Of her mahner, ordered part
OF his men to 90 in quest of him.


At that moment. suddenly turning
her eyes on Gustavus. she flew UP tos
him and sxatching the stick out okhis
hand cxclaiming in an argry voice


'Unmannerly wretch, What, sit be-
fore your betters: Don't YOU see the
kings officers in the room. Get out
OF my sight, or soEr of them Shall
Civ, YOU druDoing


As she spoke she struck him a blow
on the back with all her strength and.
opening side door, There, get into
the scullery. cried she, 1T is the littest
place for such company And giving
him another knock, she flung the stick
after him, and shut the door


Sure added she, in a great heat,
never woman was plagued with such
lout of slave.


The officer begged she would not
disturb herself on his account, but She.
affecting great reverence for the king,
and respect for his representative,
prayed him to enter her parlor, while
she brought him some refreshments.


The Dane civilIy complied; perhaps
glad enough to get from the side Of
Gusta,us, whom she had bolted in.
and by means Of back passage, con-
Quoted him III a moment to the bank
Of the lake where the fishers boats
lay, and, giving him direction to an
honest curate across the lake, commit
ted him 10 Providence.
Year: 1872

a CHARACTERISTIC STORY OF BUTLER
IL New ORLEANs.-When Gen. Butler
first landed in New Orleans he select
ed the celebrated st. Charles hotel for
his head quarters and at once sent di-
rections thither that arrangements
should he made for himself and staff.
When. however, they arrived at the
hot /, after the necessary delays of
landing, the general was informed that
the keeper of the house demurred TO
the proposition, 50 far as it involved
his providing the meals FOR his nav
visitors, and wished that for their food
some other arrangements might be
made. 1t proved indeed on inquiry


that the man protested himself unwiI


To assume the responsibility OF ;
charge so unpopular as at that momeu
Year: 1872

Oar job rooms have been r.
plenished with a large variety
Of new type, Of tie latest cut, am
We fatter ourselves hat the - orr.
turned out CT Our Office for the
past year his been second Ia
none ever done n this city. OuI
prices ore low, md will COM
pare favoraa.y with those Of any
other place, Those who have
work which they wish done in &
neat and workmanlike manner,
had better give US a call, and ex.
anime our work and prices
Year: 1872

SCHOOLS FOR Sco1DINa.-Some evi- dence given before the Poor Law Com mittee in the earlier part of the present century shows that the street language was in former days taught as an art. ''About two years ago." says the witness ssthere was an old woman who kept a night school, not for the purpose of in structing children, but for the sole pur- pose of teaching them the street language that is, to scold: this was for females particularly. One girl according to this curious declaration to me, would act the part of Mother Barlow and the ether Mother Cummins; these were the ficti- tious names they gave. The old woman instructed the children in all the maneu- vres of scolding and clapping their hands at each other, and making use of the infamous expressions they use. This led them into the most disgraceful scenes. When these children met, if one entered into the department of the other, the next day they were prepared to defend their stations and to excite a mob"
Year: 1872

PooR CURATEs. Rev. Robert Collyer relates the following anecdote in illustra- tion of the poverty and struggles often curates of London: ''I had, in the sum- the church of England, who was then rector of church which gave him a very fair living; but before this he had been curate in London with @ very large family, as ministers generally have, and an income of less than hundred pounds year-not more than eighty if my memory serves me. It was desperate work, he said, to make ends meet-so desperate that there came time when there was not penny or crust left in the house or pint of milk for the bairns. Then he said, T sat down to think what I should do; and when I made up my mind about the course I must take, I went up to my wife las noble and true woman as ever this world heard of) and said, My dear, we have done our very best and this is the end, Now, I will tell you what we must do. We are citizens of London, have paid our rates and taxes right along, and are entitled to all the help there is. We will go te the poorhouse Tomorrow morning and ask them to take US in. We have per feet right to go there, and we will go. 2 She said, sThat is right" and began at once to get ready for the poorhouse, but that day got letter from some one, inclosing five pounds. There was no signature; don't know to this day who sent it, but that five pounds saved us from taking that step, and tided us over to quarter day."
Year: 1872

Tne feeble and debilitated usually fancy they in hopeless condition than they really are. The re- sources of nature easily exhausted Even when strength and appetite fail when the eyes heavy and ustreess the complexion palid the nerves tremulous the body atenuated and the mind depressed there is generally of latent power behind sh palpabe evidences of weakness Various modes of treatment resorted by physicians in the hope of developing and rendering available this of sleeping vitality but the sures and indeed the only thoroughly safe and reliable of awakening the dormant energies of the system is of Hostetters Stomach Bitters. Elec trcity shower baths the flesh brush, bathing &c., may be well enough in their way auxlaries but they do reach the of the evil All physical debility proceeds either from Arrangement of the functions of the assmilating secretive and vital organs from a sluggish constitution In either and also in where both exist the Btters will invariably duce immediate and sautary change in the condition of the patient and eventually effect complete None the dangerous akalods too often administered toncs be otherwise than deleterous under such circumstances and to give mercury is positively crmi- nal The direct effect of the great vegetable specific will be manifested in improved appetite, more cheerful frame of mind gradual return of strength increase of hesh and healthier complication. Mean whe however the constitution if inert and feebe will have been reused and renovated by the subtitle clements ofinvigoration contained in the Bitters.
Year: 1872

PER11s or INTANGIBLE is not hard to destroy the life of a child. The vanity, or imprudence of fond mother often causes the calamity she would have given her life to avert. For instance, what an army of children have been de- stroyed by the absurd custom of expos ing their necks and arms And yet this fashion is tolerated because it is ''so pretty" To illustrate the danger to which child is thus exposed, it Is only necessary to say that many children have been cured of habitual cough and hoarse- ness by keeping their arms and hands warm. Another fruitful sourse of dan ger to the young, is found in the foolish indulgence which will not withhold from them colored candies. An English chemist recently made an examination into the quality of these sweetmeats, and found that out of thirty-fve different kinds, obtained from twenty different dealers, twenty-eight were colored with poisonous material. The poison most commonly used is some preparation of lead. The diseases caused by lead poi son are among the most terrible which are produced by anything. This experi- ment will serve as warning to parents to practice greater care in providing sweetmeats for their children. If they are to be used at all, it is safer to make them at home. Then you know what they contain.
Year: 1872

EDITORIAL NOTICES are so common that it is almost impossible for an editor to ex- press his honest opinion of the merits of an article without being suspected of interested motives. This fact, however, shall not deter us from saying what we think of new addition to the Materia Medica to which our attention has been recently directed. We refer to DR. J. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BITTERs, remedy winch is making it's way into more families just now than all the other advertised medicines put together. Its popularity, as far as we can judge, is not based on empty pretention. There seems to be no question about the potency of its tonic and alternative properties, while SC contains the great negative recommen- dation of containing neither alcohol nor mineral poison. Thrt it is a specific for Indigestion, Biliousness, Consumption, and many other complaints of nervous origin, we have reason to know; and we are assured on good authority that as a general invigerant, regulating and puri- lying medicine, it has no equal. It is stated that its ingredients (obtained from the wilds of California;, are new to the medical world; and it's extraordinary effects certainly warrant the conclusien that it is a compound of agents hitherto unknown. If popularity is any criterion, there can be no doubt of the efficiency of the VINEGAR B1TrERs, for the sale of the article is immense and continually increas- ing.-Com.
Year: 1872

PooR CH11D.-A lame girl, who had not, for fourteen years, once left the third-story back room in which she lived, was among those who participated in the late children's excursion in Phila- delphia. When carried to the park she asked what the grass and trees were, and had to be told the names of the most common objects. She lay on the grass all day, drinking in the air and sunshine, and was seen to weep softly every little while from pure joy.
Year: 1872

THE DIAMOND WEDD1NG.-InB Bohemia the sixtieth anniversary of the wedding is termed the Diamond Wedding. :" Formerly it was kept on the seventy-6fth anniversary. It may be imagined few wedding day come round, and probably that is the reason why fifteen years have been taken off. Tn the last week of car- nival this year an aged couple celebrated their Diamond Wedding in the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost in Prague. The husband is eighty-fve years old and the wife eighty three. The old mana cooper by trade-has lived and carried on business in the same house for sixty years. The church was crowded, for, in addition to the interest attached 10 the wedding, Cannon Stultz, a much beloved and popular clergyman, gave an address, after which mass was read. The old couple were led to the altar, as mark of respect, by masters of the trade of coopers, Kneeling down they repeated the promise made to each other sixty years ago, and then they re- ceived the priests blessing. Many per- sons of distinction were in the church, and made the aged couple various pres ents in money and other useful articles. A banker in Prague presented them with six ducats. These coins appeared to please the pair exceedingly, particularly the old lady-perhaps they brought to her mind the wedding present which in some parts of Bohemia the bridegroom is bound to provide for his bride, and these coins threaded upon ribbon, she wears upon her forehead. There is a couple in Prague of higher rank in life, who have been married seventy-four years and, should they live to See next carnival, it is said they will celebrate the veritable diamond wedding of olden times. There seems to be every possi- bility that they will be able to carry out their intention.
Year: 1872

The first chapter of western novel has the following: ''All of sudden the girl continued to sit on the sand gazing on the briny deep, on whose heavine bosom the ships all went merrily by frcighted-oh! who can tell with how much joy and sorrow, and pine and i1sszze. Der and emigrants, and hopes and salt fish.
Year: 1872

OF oil the beautiful pictures


That hang ON memory's wall,
Is one of dim old forest,


That seemeth best Of all;
Not for its gnarled oaks olden,
Dark with the mistletoe;
Not for the viole.s golden


That sprinkle the vale below;
Not for the milk white lilies


That lean from the fragrant hedge,
Coquettiny all day with the sunbcAins,
And stealing their golden edge;
Not for the vines ON the upland
Where the bright red berries rest;
Nor the pinks, nor the pale, sweet cowslip
1t seemeth to me the best.
I-once had little brother


With eyes that were dark and deep
In tie lap Of that o.den forest


lie lleth in peace asleep1
Light as the down Of the thistle,
Free as the winds that blow,
We roved there the beautiful sum mers.
The summers of long ago;
But his feet on the hills grew weary,
And one Of The autumn ewes
l made for my little brother


A bed Of yellow leaves.
Swectly his pale arms folded


My neck in meek embrace,
As the light Of immortal beauty
Silently covered his face;
And when the arrows of sunset


Lodged in the ,ree-tops bright.
lie fell, in his saint-like beauty.
Asleep by the gates Of light.
Therefore, Of all the.pictures


That hangs on memory's wall,
The one of the dim old forest


Seemeth best of all.
Year: 1872

TConiinued from last week
gress TO aid in bringing about such Q
result.


A bill amending law in reference
to special elections was passed. This
bill is designed to provide for spec
ial election to be held in any town
ship in a county where it is proven
that an excess of votes have been
pollcd, without subjecting the whole
county to the expense and trouble OF
specia! election.
Year: 1872

Though silence and oolduess may part us for
Mid all the dull pain yelling deep in my


heart,
have come to tell you, at least it were well
And I, in forgiveness and friendship should


part.
That, though, could / see your fair form here


before me.


Faint sighs of the old love my face would


betray,
Once lavished upon you, it's fast drifting from


you;


'Tis waning and fading and passi g away.
Zen now, while the wound you inflicted is


paning,


A voice in my heart pleads in soft tones for


you,
Who wavered and faltered; were tickle and


altered;
Oh! why were you false when you should


have been trueG
/ loved you too well, and too well did you


know il,


drank. deep the friendship my vision had


scanned
That friendship you plighted, that friendship


you slighted;


The prize was worth nothing when held in


the hand.
My faith as a stage made its own early grave,
Although you once feared would be ever


true,
The vows that were spoken 10y you have beon


broken


From first unto last. was faithful to you.
NJ guile have used, 10: a link haveI severed;
If failings had, they were well known to


you.
Tho love you accepted first craved then


neglected


Whatever to Others, was faithful to you,
Your silence is well. Do not proffer reason |;
spare you the pain of that unpleasant


task,
S.y love must not letter pass on, and be better,
Be noble be trusr, Us al shat ask.
And so let the mystery lie just where you left


it;
III met you earnestly, your hsart can tell.
You know in your heart, was true to my


part,


You changed it; did not. With forgive


ness farewell.
The long years viii pass, and my name Be for
gotten,
New loves for day round your hedrt IN
twina,
New pleasures may greet you, new faces may


meet you;
But none be so tender Jr faithful III mine.
For what you once wer. shall love you as
ever,


Though what you are now may be nothing
to me,
truer;
Go-be You to them what wish you TO he.
freely and truly and wholly forgive you-
| No chidings within my sal bosom shall
glow;
And, ifI,lung TO you, remember twas through
you,
bent to your power when its spell was upon
But you must not blame me; ah full well
| you know
That you should not grieve me enough that
you leave me,
| am what / am it was you made me SO.
Year: 1872

A hasty word in anger spoken


BY her, my kind new friend.
Fell harshly on a heart that's broken
That broke, but could not bend.
An idle thing she may forget;


But II never can;
Oh call il not weak regret,


Nor deem me less man.
For what more manly than to feel
A friendship so sincere,
That time can never wholly heal
The wound that rankles here.
That rankles here about my heart,
And dims the summer day =
Until / feel how near thou art,


And yet SO far awayf
Year: 1872

A runaway couple in San Francisco chartered
steam tug and clergyman, determining to be
married out on the Pacific The weather was
rough, and the ceremony was continually inter
rupted by one or other of the party making a
precipitate retreat to the vessels side. Before
the happy pair were made one, the bride had
tainted, and the ceremony was concluded by all
parties, from very weakness, going through tho
services ON their knees.
Year: 1872

Keep unatered for any length Of time are portable,
cleanly, convenient and always effective. trial
will convince those who have never used them Of
the usefulness, hardness. economy, and prompt
energy of this indispensable medical agent A
fresh supply, just received by


E. BRINGHURST 4 CO.,


Corner Sixth and Market streets
Year: 1872

A SAVING TO THE PEOPLE Before the estab-
lishment Of the DAILY COMMERCIAL in Whining
ton, there was no prompt and cheap method Of
announcing funerals TO friends, relatives and
the public. The custom was to have notices
printed and served around town and this would
cost from - 50 to $500 Ia case OF the death
Of a member Of a beneficial society the cost
to the society to properly notify members Of the
funeral. was not less than jOU Notices
placed in the three daily papers now will coHt
but sl.5O and answer the purpose equally ar
we'll ar the old method
Year: 1872

In q recent speech at Great Falls
n. H., Senator Henry Wilson, refer
ring to some experiences i'll his early
life, said


feel that I have tho right to
speak for toiliny men. I was born
i'll poverty want sat by my cradle
I know what it is to ask Il mother
for bread when she has none to give.
I left my home at ten years of age,
and served an apprenticeship of
eleven years receiving a months
schooling each year and at the end
Of eleven years of hard work Il yoke
Of oxen and six sheep, which brought
me eighty-four dollars. A dollar
would cover every penny l spent
from the time I was born until I
was twenty-one years Of age. I
know what it is to travel weary miles
and ask my fellow-mcn to give me
leave to toll. I remember that in
September, 1883, I walked into your
village from my native town, and
went through your mills, seeking
employment. II anybody had offer
ed me IS OF Sc u mouth, I should
have accepted it gladly. 1 went
down to. Salmon Falls, i went to
Newmarket, and tried to get work,
without success, and l returned
home weary, but not discouraged,
and I put my pack on my back and
walked to the town where I now
live, and learned !, mechanic. !; trade.
Year: 1872

An editor in Victoria, Australia,
says "The people of this region
have become so yirtuous and wcll-be-
haved that it is impossible for us to
make an interesting daily paper.
We hear that ship load Of convicts
is ON the way to our virtuous port,
and we look for greater activity in
our local news department as soon
as its passengers shall set fairly
ashore"
Year: 1872

Is thinking an art to be acquired F.?
Are not all men endowed with the
power of thought ? Is there any
thing more necessary than for one to
close his eyes and let his mind have
free course in order to think To
answer these questions, it is neces-
sary to define what is meant by
thought. Ii day-dreaming, that act
of mind in which thought roves at
random, purposely and without ef-
fort, is thought, then the idiot thinks
in his poor fashion. There are 10