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Year: 1875

Any one investing in these Bonds has the
satisfaction OF knowing that his bond IS GER
tain to be paid at maturity; and further that
he assists IN building in the city of New York
2 permanent Temple OF Industry, which will
be an ornament and a pride to every Ameri-
can.


Eaoh, Bondhoder. until his bond is re-
deemed, is n part owner of twenty two aeres
Of land situated in the heart of the city OF
New YORK, and estimated TO be worth Two
Million -Four hundred Thousand Dollars.
And the building which is estimated to cost
Seven Millions.


The excavations for the foundation was
commenced on the 20th of May, 1875, and the
building will be ready to receive the goods
from the Centennial Exhibition at its close.


NO investment fol, people Of small means
was ever offered equaling the Bonds Of the In
dustrial Exhibition Co. The bonds are se
cured by, mortgage which makes the principal
safe, and eminently secure, and in addition TO
which each bondholder participates four times
year, in the allotment of premiums above
named.


The difference between these bonds and n
lottery ticket is, in q lottery the helder must
lose his money or draw a prize, while the
hotder OF an Industrial Exhibition Bond can
not lose his investment. but must have re-
turned to him the principal and small rate
OF interest added. and in addition has an op-
$50 to $4,000.


The Board Of Directors and the Trustees Of
the mortgagage are among the most eminent
OF the business men Of New York, and is Of
itself guarantee that the bonds are a safe
and desirable Investment.


The Company ia not responsible for any
money sent. except it be by check, postal or
der, draft or express payable to the order Of
the Industrial Exhibition Company.


Circulars sent on application.


Address.


Industrial Exhibition Comnonv
Year: 1875

Cleveland Leader.


She was crossing the street, dressed in
the height OF fashion, with skirt drawn
tightly about her form, and it was with
some difficulty that she could move her
limbs sufficiently to walk When at
about the middle of the crosswalk she
dropped well-6lled wallet out OF her
hand. Then the trouble began in earn.
est. She stopped over in front to pick
it up, but her fingers could not reach the
wallet by eighteen inches She changed
her parasol into her right hand, and tried
to reach sideways for the wallet. 1t was
no 60, however, for her fingers did not
reach anywhere near the coveted article.
She then tried to get down on
her knees, but she might as we'll en-
deavor to pick up drop of water with
her ear. She reached backward but her
hand only extended downward on level
with her hips. She appeared TO be much
embarrassed. We could almost hear
her regret that she had not her
"stoopover' dress on. The wallet, no
doubt, contained considerable money, for
had it been trifling sum she would have
stepped over and passed on. What
could she do2 No one seemed to be
passing at the moment who could assist
her. Ah thought struck her suddenly.
Quickly turning her parasol with the
top on the ground, she glided pretty
little foot out from beneath her snow,
white skirts, and with gentle kick the
wallet lay in the oOueave parachute.
Year: 1875

WILL BUY a QUARTER BOND OF THE
w Industrial Exhibition Company Of New


Each Quarter Bond participates in Four
deemed.


The following Premiums show what any
Bond may receive. A quarter Bond would
receive one quarter Of the below named pre-
Year: 1875

The question is not how cheaply we


can manage to keep soul and body to-


gether, but how can we bring both body
and soul to the highest condition of vi
tality and power To live is something
more than to exist How can we live
most and best? How can we feed intel
lect, and affection, conscience, sympathy,


Imagination, reverence, as well as the
physical system? All pinching and re-
stricting of diet is injurious in the long
run. The bean man, the bean bread
man, the one meal-a-day man, the man
who goes mousing about the world in
tent on cheapness, never makes the scales
of power kick the beam. He wastes
more than he saves. He checks an in
come, instead of stopping an outgo.
The men who make the ado over the
petty prudences of life and perpetually
intrude their parsimonious practice on
public notice, never amount to anything
or do anything of account. Man wants
all he can use, assimilate, organize, re-
produce. The things that strengthen
and beautify his essential manhood, that
enrich his sentiments and refine his sem
sibilities, that ennoble his intellect, and
enlarge the scope Of his being, and the
horizon of his possibilities, belong to him
by right, as the crown and purple belong
to royalty.


Every man ought to aspire and labor
to live generously, and have comfortable
and tasteful homes, and dsurround himself
and family with everything that tends
to increase happiness and create an at
mosphere of intelligence and refinement.
Beauty, elegance, art, society, music, are
our birthright. 1t is not waste to spend
what one has for things to foster noble
pride, heighten self respect, beautify
the body and cultivate the mind. 1t is
true economy that spends something for
books and pictures, for occasional glimp.
ses of nature and the entertainment of
the stage The charities and humani-
ties are not luxuries that the poorest man
on earth should deny himself of them.
The loving, trustful, adorning sympathy
that forgets his own wants and meagre
resources and breaks the costliest thing
it has on the head of the one beloved, is
not recklessness to be censured, but a
devotion to be commended for its divine
nobility. Saving may be ant-like and
beaver-like, but sacrifice is God-like.
Year: 1875

That wood ashes restore very much


what is taken away in the crop, Of the
inorganic, is conceded by all who have
any experience in their use, or who view


the matter from scientific stand. No


farmer can afford to sell them. The fol-


lowing from an exchange, speaks of


their virtues


Not every farmer in New England re-
alizes the value of wood ashes for farm
crops. Any one who will take the trou-
BILE to ride few miles in the country,
will see abundant evidence of the truth
of this statement. On a great many
farms he will see the ashes out of doors,
in barrels, which are but partially COW
cred, and which do but little to keep out
the rain and snow. The ashes are kept
constantly wet, and, except when frozen
IN the winter, process of teaching is
constantly going on. Now if farmers
realized that ashes are among the most
valuable fertilizers which they can en-
ploy, and that being wet reduces their
value from twenty-five to thirty-fve per
cent, they would certainly take greater
pains to save them and to keep them
from injury by the weather. Potash,
which enters into the composition of al
most all plants. and is necessary for
their vigorous growth, is deficient on
many New England farms; and, on ac-
count of this deficiency, the crops pro-
duced are much smaller than they were
many years ago. To restore these soils
to their original fertility, this material
must in some way be returned to the
land. Probably the cheapest way to do
this is by the use of unleached wood
ashes. They may be used with advan-
tage upon almost, if not every, kind of
farm crop. For onions and potatoes
they seem to be special manure, and
with oats and grass they largely increase
the yield. Ashes obtained from hard
wood are much better than those from
the soft varieties, but all that are made
upon the farm should be carefully saw
ed. And if it is necessary to buy fer
tilizers, money can hardly be invested in
any kind which in the end will pay bet
ter than hard wood ashes.
Year: 1875

HINT TO ALLwHo DO NOT PAY AS THEY


CO.


Being in town a few days ago, one of my
neighbors came up to the store where
was and said 1--WE just sold my hogs,
and | guess I'll settle up" Ny neighbor
paid his bill, quite large one by the
way, and noticed he had only fifteen
dollars in bills, and little fractional
currency left. That man this winter
will sell some corn, getenough money to
last him till about corn planting, and
then go "on tick till after havest, when
he will settle up again, only to repeat the
same old routine with, "pay as soon as
sell my hogs" Now this way of living is
wrong. 1t is wrong to the individual
farmer, wrong to the merchant, and
a wrong to the community, because, in
one sense of the word, he places himself
at the mercy of the merchant, who, per-
haps, presses the account at the very
time the farmer least wants to sell; but
sell he must, and at any price he can get
in the market. 1t wrongs the merchant,
because he, poor fellow, never knows ten
days in advance where the money is
coming from to pay maturing bill If
we would pay cash, the merchant would
be able to pay cash when he buys, and
this would enable him to sell on small
er margin; besides, he would not be
afraid of that bugbear, bad debt. And,
by the way, who pays these bad debts !?


We do. Pay them in the shape of
enhanced value on goods. Why? You
go and get an article at your merchants.
Until that article is paid for, it is not
yours. He holds mortgage upon your
honor and you are truly fortunate if he
does not foreclose the same in the shape
of dun or worse. The same mer-
chant my neighbor just paid discounts me
ten per cent. l pay cash. l do not
know whether hecan afford to make such a
discount or not, but | know he does do
it. l have not the least doubt, should
the farmers throughout the country,
agree to pay cash on the delivery, but
that the merchants, hardware men,
grocery men, machine manufacturers, all
the business community in general, would
make a liberal discount. But this ever
lasting charge it " =" I'll pay after har-
vest, or "I'll settle just as soon as |
'ell my hogs" is placing an untold and
dreadful burden upon the farmers of
this country; and railroad extortions
and "rings and "corners, sink into
mere nothingness in comparison with
his suicidal charge" Try 1875, fel-
ow-farmers, with cash. Itmay put you
% much inconvenience at first, but after |
TOu once getstarted you'll have no trouble
Year: 1875

II you have not the money to pay,
go without. Owe no man anything.
Keep out of debt, Avoid il as you
would war, or pestilence. Hate it with
lasting hatred. Abhor it with entire
and absolute adherence Dig potatoes,
break stones, shovel snow, do anything
that is useful and honest rather than
run into debt. As you value comfort
and Independence, keep out of debt.
Do you want healthy appetite, good
digestion, a placid temper, smooth pill
low, pleasant dreams and happy wax
ing? Then keep out of debt. 1t is the
hardest of all taskmasters, the most cruel
of all oppressors it is milestone about
the neck it spreads cloud over the
whole armament of mans being; it
eclipses the sun, it blots out the stars !;
it dims and defaces the beautiful blue
sky it breaks up the harmony of ma
ture, and turns to dissonance all the
voices OF harmony 1t burrows the fore
head with premature wrinkles; it plucks
the eye of its light, and drags the noble
ness out of the port and bearing of the
man it takes the soul out of his laugh,
and all stateliness and freedom from his
walk. Pass by it as you would pass by
aleper, or one smitten by plague. Touch
it not. Taste not of its fruits, for it
shall turn to bitterness and ashes on
your lips.


Finally, | would say to eachand to all,
but especially to you farmerr, keep out
of debt.
Year: 1875

An Iowa woman ends her views on
female suffrage with, You may look at
this matter in whatever light you will,
but simmer it down and it is but quar-
rel with the Almighty that we are not
all men,"
Year: 1875

DEATH FROM DRUNKENNEss.-Th
men who had drank of the wine cast
ashore ON Cape Cod from the wreck of
the barque Giovanni, wrecked there last
week, have died of their debauch, and
fourth was not expected to survive on
Sunday
Year: 1875




ing occurred during the late Delaware
flood, are the following;


woMAN's HERoIsM.


The most deplorable case / met with
IN Germantown was that of Patrick
Creighton and his family. Creighton
was long an industrious employe of the
Erie railway company. Eight months
ago he lost his leg in its service. Since
then his wife and nine small children
have had severe struggle with want
as he has been unable to work. They
lived IN story and half framed house
on the flats, one of the houses nearest
the river. The coming of the flood was
so sudden that it was sweeping over the
flats before the people had hardly re
ceived warning. Creighton's neighbors
fled on every hand. Before one of the
very few articles that composed his
household goods could be gathered up
the great blocks of ice were battering
against his house, and the lower end was
knocked out and the water and ice be-
gan pouring in. Mrs. Creighton seized
her crippled husband, and driving the
children out at the front door, started
with him in her arms for safer quarters.
She is slight woman and he heavy
man. The flood was gaining on them,
when they were seen by some of the
neighbors, and aid was given just in time
to save their lives. They lost everything.
L could but express to Mrs. Creighton
this morning my admiration for the
bravery displayed in saving her help
less husband


F" ., sir, it was nothing, shure. But
would you b'lave, sir, that whin Pat
found the wather was upon us, he says
to me, Put me down, darlint, an save
yersilf'"
Year: 1875

THE LESSON OF .GRIEF.-I hold it to
be truth of great import that, while
grief i'll borne demoralizes and deterio-
rates, grief well borne-borne with for
titude, patience and wisdom yields the
soul bountiful harvest of compensation.
Increased moral power is developed by
this battle with pain. 1t is easy to sur
render and give way to despair; easy to
complain and NOPE, and forget the wants
of the world in our own private misery !;
easy to become so absorbed in the indul-
gence of our own emotion that by de-
grees, we lose the consciousness of high
duty to mankind. But it is very hard
to suppress the pain in our hearts, and
pluck out of the wound the barb that
has pierced. Yet grief is disintegration
Of character unless we subject it to
this tempest we are overborne, and we
infict useless agony on ourselves if we
choose to break rather than bend. In a
stern struggle with disaster, nevertheless.
lies its only power to bless in the end.
The effort we must make, painful as it
is, to get the mastery of our own souls.
There is no sadder sight than to see one
permanently crushed and broken in
spirit, under sorrow, and there is no
grander spectacle than that of free
soul rising superior to evil, distilling
honey like the bee of Samarcand, out of
poison and death. Vigor of will and
nobility of character are to be learned
nowhere but in the stern school of mis-
fortune.
Year: 1875

FRONTING ON TEMPLE STREET,
on the East side of Pearl, and South of Canal
and Reservoir streets. About four minutes
walk from Temple Block.


The Surveyor is now Mt work surveying
these lots. They are not to be laid out in the
stereOtyped style, in square blocks-in order
to get the greatest number of lots, with no re-
gard To the grades of the streets-but
Year: 1875


body was drawn to the surface. There
werethose who suspected William was
instrumental in causing his death; but
the hole in the pipe was the only evidence
of crime, and that was not considered
conclusive enough to warrant the arrest
of the. suspected man. The body Of the
victim was carried to his home in North
ern Vermont, where funeral service was
held and the corpse consigned to its last
long resting place on the hillside.


Poor Jenny grieved deeply for her dead
lover; and her grief was by no means as
suaged when William came 10 her and Of
fered his heart and hand. She repulsed
his advances; and the rejected suitor
soon left his New England home for the
Far West. His friends and relatives lost
sight of him altogether, Notwithstanding
they made di]ligent efforts to ascertain
his Whereabouts. 1t is not known whcth-
er he is still in the land of the living or
not; but if he is there must be terrible
load upon his Conscienco-a weight
which all time and eternity can never re-
move.


Many years have passed since that mur
der was comm itted. Jenny never married,
and she is an old woman now. Her hair
is silvered over with the frosts of many
winters. Still her early love is ever fresh
in her mind, and she often visits the grave
Of John Atkins, and holds his memory
dear as she did his love when he was her
affianced husband.
Year: 1875

Countless accidents, as everyone knows
arise from the use Of matches. To obtain
light without the danger of setting things
on fire an ingenious contrivance now used
by the watchmen of Paris in all maga-
zines where explosive or inflamablc mate
rials are kept. ANY one may easily make
trial Of it. Take an oblong phial Of the
whitest and clearest glass, and put into it
a piece of phorus about the size Of a pea.
Pour some olive oil, heated to the boiling
point, upon the PHOSPHORUS; fill the
phial about one tAird full, and then cork
it tightly. To use this novel light, remove
the cork allow the air to enter the phial,
and then recork 1t. The empty space in the
phial will become luminous, and the light
obtained will be equal to that Of u lrnp.
When the light grows dim, its power can
be increased by taking out the cork, and
allowing fresh supply of air to enter tue
phial In winter it is sometimes necessa-
ry to heat the phial between the hands in
order to increase the fuidity of
the. oil. The apparatus, thus prepared,
may be used for six months.
Year: 1875




Maine. The company sailed in little
coasting craft for the scene of operation.
A ship had recently been sunk, and as
certaining the precise. spot, the divers set
to work. The meu worked in pairs, or by
twos. Each two men we're furnished with
divers armor, air pump, and apparatus.
While one, clothed in the armor, was
down in the water at work, the other
would remain above and work the pump
which furnished air to his comrade.


1t so happened that William and Johu
worked together. One day while John
was down many feet below the surface of
the water, and William furnished him
with the air necessary to sustain lite,
through long India rubber tube, a dia-
bolical scheme for revenge upon his rival
was conceived by William. Ever since
the night Of the party, when Jenny show
ed her preference for his comrade, he had
maintained bitter hatred against him al
though there was an outward appearance
of friendship.


"How easy it would be-" he thought to
himself, ito shut off Johns wind, and
strangle him to DEATH"


No sooner was the idea born, than 1t
was acted upon. Taking knife from
his pocket, William cut hole in the air
pipe, just beneath the surface Of the wa
ter. Finding his supply OF air failing
him, John pulled the signal cord for his
comrade to draw him to the surface; but
the latter answered not the signal. 1t can
never be kown what transpired IN the
mind Of the victim, as he struggled with
death in the depths Of the water. No
doubt he thought Of Jenny, and knew
that his rival w~s numbering him. Per.
haps he imagined the shutting off Of air
WAS the result Of an accident. What an
age 70 poor man the few seconds of life
that remained TO him must have seemed =!
Year: 1875

What does man take with him when
from the extreme verge of life he
launches in what lies beyond? IL looks
as if he took nothing. Death seems to
pass sponge over all that has gone be-
fore. Be it the end, or be it a new be-
ginning. 1t seems total breaking of
from all that life has hitherto consisted
in. This is what makes it terrible.


But if we look at it truly, his past life
is just the one thing that man takes
with him when he dies. He takes him
self. And that self is the product of all
his past experience and actions. As an
oak bears in itself the result of every
shower that through long years has
freshened it, of every gale that has
toughened it or stripped its boughs. of
sunshine that has fed it and the drouth
that has parched it, so n man, when he
stands at the end of life, is what he has
been made by all his joys, and suferings
and actions. That is what he takes into
another world-his own character.


The life to come, and the life that now
is, are parts of one another. They are
related. The man is not the same that
the boy was, but what the boy was en-
tered into the man as part Of him. The
strength we gain by our victories this
year, and the weakness into which we
come by defeat, will be part of us next
year. So, there is not an act, not a word
but casts its influence forward into the
Tomorrow that lies beyond death
Exchange.
Year: 1875

The Philadelphia Record, reviewing
the past Revolutionary history of the
Bell of independence at Philadelphia,
says: "Since the bell was cracked it has
several times been tinkered at, IN the eff
fort to make it sOnorous once more. At
one time the seam was filled, we think,
with silver, or an amalgum of silver:
but the sound would not come back.
They then undertook to ream out the
crack, causing it to present less sharp
and ragged edge on the singular theory
perhaps that it could be made to ring
like the little globnlar sleigh bells that
tinkle though they have an opening to
let the sound out. But the result was,
very naturally, by no means successful,
it being clear enough beforehand, one
would say, that the vibrations in the
metal, when struck would conflict at the
crack and spoil the hoped-for arrange
ment. The filings of metal that were
bored ont in this process were made over
into little bells as Revolutionary relics,
Henry Clay, We believe, receiving the
first of these much priced mementoes.
Some people have also been guilty, as
the bell shows, of clipping and splinter
ing fragments from the rim as relies.
We have not much faith that the bell
will be restored to its old resonance, but
we should be very glad to hear that there
was prospect of doing so by new pro-
cesses.'
Year: 1875

Ex-Secreta-y McCnlloch writes to the
New York Tribune of the comparative
military strength of Germany and
France, as follows:


"Were the armies which are now in
preparation for war disbanded, there
would be no breaches of the peace be-
tween nations, and there would speedily
be no national debts. A period of peace
is especially needed by France, and she
would have that peace if she disbanded
her army. The Empire is peace was
the remark of the Third Napoleon.
What blessing it would be to France,
and to civilization everywhere, if she
would now say, The Republic is
peace and verify the saying by follow
ing the example set by the United
States at the close of the late civil war!
If she should do so she would shame
every European nation into doing the
same. France is a rich country, but
there a is limit to her wealth. She has
high financial credit, but there must be
eventually an end of her ability to bor-
row. United Germany, unless her
strength should be distracted by eccles-
iastical questions, which IL not proba.
ble-for when the test il applied il will
he found that Catholic Germans are
more German than Catholic-United
Germany, with her freedom from debt
and her full military chest, her larger
population, and the greater submission
to discipline Of her citizen soldiers,
will always be more than a match for
France in war. France, indeed, has
everything to lose and nothing to gain
by another contest with Germany. As
a military nation she il not equal to
Germany, but she il superior to Ger
many in the excellence Of her soil, the
variety of its productions, and in the
taste, the skill and refinement of her
people. The aim OF France should be
to excel all nations in the arts of peace.
This she now does to a great extent, and
she would do so in a still greater degree
if she would forget her triumphs under
the great Corsican, and get over the de
lusion which she indulges that she must
become again the great war power oi
| Europe"