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Year: 1870

SOME supeiflously "loyaP members OF
the Board of Trade in Buffalo, New
York, tried to have the Albany 4rgas
excluded from the Ei,es Of the Beard, on
the ground that it had not paid proper
respect to the memory of Secretary
STANTON. TIE Argu8 wants the names
of those who supported this proposition
being curious to see how long it will DO
before we see their names again in the
lists of bankruptcy. 1t wisely predicts
that men who thus carry their politics
into their trade, will be likely to fail in
business, from having no customers but
such as share their narrow partisan in
tolerance.
Year: 1870

FOSTER BLoDGETT, chairman of the
Radical State Executive Committee OF
Georgia is the man who is to take gen.
eral charge Of the Republican members
in the newly arranged Legislature OF
his State. Having been indicted for
perjury there is no doubt Of bis genuine
"loyalty" and con sequeutftness for the
nosition assigned him.
Year: 1870

The confirmed dyspeptic may almost say,
with Saint Peter, die daily" The object Of
this article is not tot Iremind him of his
pangs, but to show him IL how to Danish them
forever The means of immediate and perma-
nent relief ara proffered him in
Year: 1870

An old FELLOW being visited By his pas.
tor. he assured him he could not ba good
christian unless he took up his daily eIoss.--
Whereupon be caught up his wife and begaa
Juggling her about the room.
Year: 1870

That was a profound philosopher who
compared advertising to growing crop lie
said The farmer plants his seed, aud while
be is Sleeping the corn is growing. So with
advertising while you are sleeping or eating
vour advertisement is being read by thousands
Of persons who never saw sou or heard OF you
or heard of your business, nor never would
had it not been for your advertising"
Year: 1870

Apropos OF weddings, the latest code
of etiquette I'm regard to young ladies
about TO be married Is said to he that
they should not make calls after the
engagement Is announced. There is
also another new decree of fashion in
this connection It Is not in good
taste to divulge In advance the direc-
tion to be taken in the wedding tour.
One young lady observed this rule so
strictly as to decline taking any men,
Der of the family, even her mother,
into her confidence as regarded this Inn
portant mstter.-M y. World.
Year: 1870

Child, amidst the flowers at play,
While the red light fades away;
Mother, with thine earnest eye,
Ever following silently;


Father, by the breeze of eve.
Called by harvest work to leave:
Pray. ere yet the dark hours be:
Lift the heart and bend the knee.
Traveller in the strangers land,
Far from thine own household band:
Mourner, haunted by the tone
OF a voice from the world gone:
Captive, in whose narrow cell
sunshine hath lot leave TO dwell
Sailor on the darlxening sea:
Lit the heart and bend the knee.
Warrior, that from battle won,
brcathe1t now at set OF sun:
woman, Ger the lowly slain
Weeping on his burial plain;
le that triumph, We that sigh,
kindred by one holy tie;


Heavens first star alike you see:
Lift the heart and bend the knee.
Year: 1870

MILITIA.


The subject of the organization of the
State militia is one that ought not to be
longer delayed. 1t is quite unnecessary Tor
me to repeat the arguments in favor OF 4
well-organiZed and efficient militia. The
mast experience of every State in the Union
amply Yindicates their correctness. There
are peculiar reasons which now. more than
ever, demonstl ate the absolute necessity of
an organized militia in this State. In case
of riot or organized resistance to the en-
forcement of the laws, the Executive has no
force at his command with which to vindl-
cate the authority with which be is clothed
bv the Constitution. In the late municipal
difficulties in this city the cOntrolIof sin
gle company fwell-organized and equipped
militia would have enabled the Executive
to quell, in its incipieney, that, disgraceful
and most unjustifable inSurrection against
the laws Of the Commonwealth. But he
then had neither officer nor private under
his command, and he has none now. Even
the public property Of the State is guarded
by officers sworn i'll as special policemen of
the city of Richmond, and subject to its
control. Itisstru that / employ these
guards, and pay them out Of the contingent
fu,ad. because absolutely necessary for the
protection of the public property but 1t is
equally true that they are not the officers
Of the State, nor technically under the con-
troll Of the State authorities.


Under the authority of joint resolu-
tion, approved February 1S, 1870, the Su.
perintendent Of the Penitentiary, with my
approval, employed twenty =. Temporary
guards for sixty DAYS to guard the State
psisoners and the peniLentiary. In default
of any other provision for supplying this
necessary service, this guard has ever since
Year: 1870

Frank Byre, highly respectable and in-
telligent farmer of Galena, Kent county, Nd,
gives the following as a sure cure for the bite
of a mad dog. As will be seen, he has tested
it with the most gratifying results:


Elecampane is plant we'll known to most
persons. and is to be found in many of our
gardens. Immediately after being bitten,
take one and half ounces of the root OF the
plant-the green root is perhaps preferable,
but the dried will answer, and may be found
III our drug stores, and was used by me-
slice or bruise, put it into pint of fresh milk
boil down to half pint, strain, and when cold
drink it, fasting at least six hours afterward.
The next morning, fasting, repeat the dose
prepared as the last, and this will be sufficient.
1t is recommended that after each dose nothing
be eaten for at least six hours.


! have a son who was bitten by mad dog
eighteen years ago, and four other children in
the neighborhood were also bitten, they took
the above dose, and are alive and we'll to this
day. And have known a number of others
who were bitten and applied the same remedy.


1t is supposed that the root contains a
principle which, being taken up by the blood
in its circulation, counteracts or neutralizes
the deadly effects of the virus of hydrophobia.


feel so much confidence in this simple
remedy that am willing you should give my
name in connection with this statement.
Year: 1870

"When was little girl, we lived among
the hills of Scotland, where my father had
large sheep-farm ''Temperance," was never
heard of then, aud every day for dinner We
had homemade beer, aud all drank Us much
as they wanted aud no friend ever came in
without being asked to have some old whis-
key. On market aud fair days have seen
men come home Sick as little folks were told
aud all the remark that would be made about
it was, "Folks must have q little fun some-
times" fused to think that getting sick was
queer fun but as grew to understand that
it vas the whiskey that made them sick,
would wonder how people would take so much
trouble to brew anything that made them sick
and cross for n long time after they drank IL


"Oue day shall never forget; We were in
the kitchen with our mother, who was speak
ing very kindly to poor crazy woman, who
had stopped to rest and beg cup of milk
Mother felt so sorry for the old woman that
she brought glass of hot whiskey aud offered
it to her. In an instant, glass and whiskey
were hurled to the back of the fire. Her eyes
sparkled She screamed out, "How dare you
give me drink of fire-fre, saw" We
did not know what to think, aud clung to
mother, who tried to quiet the old woman, but
it was of no use. IL want TO warn you and
your pretty little ones, mover to taste the stuff
that has burned up my husband and child,
and left me to wander without home. Twas
married to as fine n lad as ever walked, and
we had sweet little babe aud cozy home
My husband aud always kept the jug 10 the
corner of the cupboard. After n while |
thought il had TO be filed great deal oftener
than when we were FIRST married, aud not only
that, but Joe-my husband-would stay too
long when out with friend and would
mix some hot drink to put mo to sleep, and
sometimes would drink SO much l could
scarcely remember even to 30 to bed aiterward.
So you see was getting fond of it, too.


"One night left the baby in Joe's care,
and set the jug and glass ON the table for
company, while l staid with a sick neighbor.
Before morning we heard n noise, and going
out, found il was my house In flames; butby
the time we got there the roof had fallen in
on Joe and the baby. They never would have
been buried up if he had not had the jug for
company. He must have drunk himself stu
pid, and let the candle or his pipe fall into
the cradle. learned to hate it too late
but want you to hate it as much as l do"


"My dear children" said our grandmother,
when she had finished the story, ''that was
our first lesson in temperance, and it was
good one. Not one of us who heard the old
beggar-woman ever would drink after that
We did not have Bands Of Hope in those days;
but am THANKFUL we have now, and bless
God that my dear little grandchildren belong
to one."-H Stuart, IN Me National Tenn
perance Advocate.
Year: 1870

A letter from Harrisonburg to the Bald-
more San says:


"About twenty years ago an infant, aged
about five months, was abandoned by its
mother aud left at the door of the residence
of a gentleman near HarrisonbIrg. A note
was left with the child, stating that Il had
been born the previous December, and ro.
ouesting that il be named Maria Catharine.
it was well dressed, and gave evidence Of
having been under the care of person of
taste and refinement. The gentleman at
having a sufficient family of his own, sent il
to the county almshouse, where it was left in
the tender care of pauper nurses, and in short
while it disappeared from public interest and
sight Last week letter was addressed to
the clerk of Rockingham county, from tho
mother of the child, making inquiry as TO its
whereabouts The mother says she was COM
PEELED, from the fear of losing her own and
the childs life, to leave il as she did, intend
ing TO reclaim il when free to do SO. Twenty
years have passed, and only few weeks ago
death relieved her Of this fear, and she imme-
diateIy took steps to recover her child, who Is
now, If living, grown woman. The mother
dates her letter from the White Sulphur
Springs, where che is spending the, summer
The letter is we'll dictated, but is evidently
spelled and written in n disguised naDDer.-
Mary of our citizens remember the child, and
the incident was mentioned in the local papers
at the time. Inquiry has been made, but tho
whereabouts of the child are not yet dis
covered"
Year: 1870

At the recent term of our District Court a
suit was determined at the suit of the Gall
weston Ne,cs involving question of some in
teres. to publishers of newspapers and their
subscribers The defendant had prepaid his
subscription to the Ne'cs for six months, after
the expiration of which time, without any
express renewal of the subscription, the pub
fishers continued to send the paper and the
subscriber to receive it.


When the bill was presented the subscriber
refused to pay it on the ground that having
subscribed and paid for definite time, and
not having authorized continuance, it was
the duty of the publisher to discontinue the
paper at the end of the term. The plaintiff
contended that upon the facts there was an
implied contract to pay for the paper at the
rates previously agreed upon, and that it was
the duty of the subscriber to refuse to receive
the paper, if he did not intend to pay for it.


The verdict of the Court was for the plain
tiffs, thus affirming the correctness of the
News. We understand that the case will not
be appealed to the Supreme Court by the de-
fendant, and the decision of the District Court
therefore stands for law.-Brehanu BANNER.
Year: 1870

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS s-The adVeftis-
ing columns of local newspaper may always
be regarded as infallibIe mirrors of town.
The fact has also been established, that not
only does advertising and merit open the way
to fortune, but those who advertise are moro
liberal dealers, and inasmuch as they keep
themselves and their wares constantly before
the public, it is certain evidence that they
have what they advertise, and are anxious to
obtain customers, whom they will exert them
selves to retain by liberal dealing. We can
point to our advertising columns, and say 70
our friends, by all means bestoW your patron-
age upon those whose advertisements there
appear, as they will be found to he honest.
liberal minded, correct and accommodating
men of business.
Year: 1870

There lives band of men


Whose Precepts are divine;
Whose pure aud worthy deeds


With growing lustre shine.
Though linked by bands Of truth
In a sacred brotherhood,
Their faith has oft been tried,
And many storms withstood-
But they held fast to the banner
of fidelity and love,
Served well their Holy Master,
The Eternal God above;
On their light path they walk,
Rejoicing in their might,
Rejoicing in united strength


ofcharity and right
And one of their Grand Order.
The prince of his proud land.
hath nobly said their honor


Shall upheld be in his hand.
Where are those men of mark
That thus so ateadfast stand!
They are found in every cline
In the great Masonic band.
Year: 1870

JET BLACK VARN1sH FOR SHoEs.-Dis-
solve 10 parts of weight of shellac and of
turpentine, in 40 of strong alcohol. in which
fluid should be previously dissolved part of
extract of logwood with some neutral chro-
mate of potassa and sulphate of indigo. The
varnish is to be kept in well stopped bottles.
Year: 1870

An exchange says: ITO make white
wash that will not rub off. mix up half pail
full of lime and water; take half pint of
-four and make starch of it, and pour it into
the whitewash while hot. Stir it we'll and
apply as usual"
Year: 1870

nently reduced, and the interest ceases for all
time to come.


Ny wish is that the Legislature shall provide
some way to ntilize the balance, which cannot
be prevented from accumulating, and l commit
the subject to their wisdom.


BOND OF THE TREASURER.


The bond now required of the Treasurer is
$4,000. III any bond can furnish the State ad-
ditional security where the officer has at stake
not only his reputation, but his character for
the faithful performance of a public trust, then
this bond is ridiculously Inadequate as o safe
guard to the State. To secure such safeguard
through this agency, the bond should be largely
increased, and recommend that it DC raised to
a sum not less than $3.50, 900.


CREDIT OF THE STATE.


The vocation of those who once insisted that
our debt could never be paid ended the moment
we began to reduce its total. In like manner
the people will not be apt to believe those who
insist that our financial affairs are mismanaged,
in the face of the inexorable fact that Pennsyl-
yania maintains credit in every money market
and on stock exchange superior to that of any
State in the American Union.


am justified, l hope, in congratulating the
Legislature on the excellent condition of our
finances; on the fact that the estimated reve-
nues are sufficient for the current year; that no
increase of taxation is necessary; that the pros
perity of the people renders the usual income
sure, and that, under this prosperity, we are
each year paying, without distress to our citi-
zens the great debt bequeathed to us by the last
generation.


The Legislature has cast upon it the RESPONSE
bility of levying all taxes, by means of which
money flows into the Treasury. By their direc-
tion alone can any money be paid out AS they
have the responsibility of providing ways and
means, and directing all expenditures, so, too,
have they right to all the honor which must
flow from the successful working of our finan-
cial affairs Economy in legislation relating to
expenditures on their part and an intelligent
management on the part of the executive officer
whom they choose to collect AID manage the
revenue, now seem to be the only things neces-
sary to enable Pennsylvania to speedily pay off
the residue of her once enormous debt, and to
assume q position OF prosperity which shall
render her alike the pride of her own people
and the envy of her sister States.


Very respectfully, your obedient servant,


r. w. MACKEY,


State Treasurer.
Year: 1870

The questiOn-''are our public
schools a success or a failure ?" is one
of vast importance to every individ-
ual whose home is in the "Great
West"


BY "our public schools"-I mean
the public schools of the Northwest
for that they are a success in the
eastern and middle States, no sane
man will deny but the same cannot
be said with so much certainty of the
vast scope of country from Pennsyl-
vania westward. And there are those
who are ready with powerful argu-
ments to show that so far as a vast
portion of this territory is concerned,
they have been failure not that
any one would be so reckless as to as
sert that they have not accomplished
something, but they claim that they
have failed to accomplish the object
for which they were designed. But,
however, much which they claim
that the schools have failed to accom-
plish, cannot by any fair. reasoning,
be said to be the result of a failure on
the part of the schools, for they never
had any juries' dictation on the mat
ter, nor was it the fault of either
teacher or school officer that they had
not.


What / mean is simply this, that in
many localities large portion of the
young men have grown up ignorant,
immoral and vicious, and are now a
pest to society instead of an orna-
ment, as they ought to be; and this is
pointed out as positive evidence OF
the ineffieiency of our school system.


Now, it never has been the design
of the system to go out and drive these
young Abarbarians into the school
room and there force knowledge into
their heads and morality into their
hearts; or, in other words, to take the
crude material of the coursest kind
and make of it, gentlemen. No, that
Year: 1870

the department at time when there
was more to do than months before,
writing, as a clerk said, "cOrds Of dis
patches,n from the notes during the
day, and sometimes taking the more
hurried work home in the evening.


Meanwhile she got the meals for
three borders with her own hands
and doctored her husband and sister
entirely herself, leaving a colored
nurse to look after them during her
absence each day at the Department.
And besides this she snatched a few
minutes every day to make two dress
es and garments that she needed.
Secretary Seward was quite proud OF
his little scribe. He took her home
daily in his carriage, and showed her
every attention in the Department,
and remarked at the end of her six
weeks work that he thought she
knew more about our foreign relations
than any woman in the country. This
lady with considerable pluck, after
having graduated at two medical col
leges in this country, has gone alone
to Vienne to complete her studies.
Year: 1870

1t is not every one who can write a
book. Many, and for various reasons,
have not the thoughts, ideas and aspi-
ratiOns for this. And many, who
have these, have not the literary at
tainment to express their thoughts in
written words. Yet, every human
being is recording his own history,
and although an attempt may be
made to conceal some of it's pages, yet
they must all be read-wOrds and
deeds live forever. 1t is wise to learn
lessons from the varied histories of
humanity.


It would be wise for all, particular
ly for young men, to learn q lesson
from a few pages in the history of
J. X. Bear--but short time since a
respected, honest citizen of Brown
ville-now fugitive from justice, dis
graced, dishonored, fallen. And it
would be well, too, for rum-sellers,
saloOn-keepers and prOprietOrs of
gambling dens to learn a lesson. 1t is
no use for them to say they are not to
blame-'let every one look out for
himself" Are they utterly ignorant
of the power of physiological impress
ion. How utterly impossible it is fOI
some conditions of mind to resist
doing an evil act when the temptation
is presented.


Who will doubt this? Who has
heard John B. Cough, the reformed
drunkard and eloquent temperance
lecturer, tell how absolutely impOs-
sible it is for him to resist the wine
cup when offered him, if he get but
one drop. The only safety for such
ones is to keep temptation from them.


How absurd for a man to open a
place of destruction, and then say he
is not to blame if people are destroyed
in it.


The case of J. K. Bear is a sad one,
view it in any light, from any point or
with the most charitable construction.
! What parents heart would not be
crushed were it his or her son in his
place {? running his career? writing
such dark pages in history?


I had two bright, beautiful, little
boys, but the angels came and car
ried them away to live with them in
/ the beautiful summer-land.


One of these little boys, a lovely
child Of four summers, came with US
in our long, weary journey from the
east to the far west. In few short
months he grew sick and pale-he
went away. A little grave was made
on the prairie of NebTaska--iH the
| BrownviIle cemetery they laid the
dear little form of my darling, out of
my sight. However, long 1 may be
/ permitted TO remain on the earth, /
can never outlivethese bereavements.
/ The wound will ever be fresh; the
blow bearing upon me. oh! how
much one can suffer and yet live
how one can smile and be cheerful
when the heart is breaking. Yet how
much better can / endure all this than
/ could to have seen my little boys
live on the earth to make out such a
history as that of J. X. Bear.


When will men cease to open ways
of destruction for his fellow man
When will men have moral power
enough to resist temptation and cease
to.rush on to ruin.


If the destroyer thinks his history
less black, his career less ruinOus than
his victim, he will find himself mis-
taken. JENNETTE HARDING.
4
Year: 1870

George d. Prentice, according to all
accounts, ought to be pretty familiar
with what men usually term stimu-
lants, writes thus truly and beauti-
fully:


"There is a time when the pulse
lies low in the bosom and beats low in
the veins, when the spirit sleeps
which, apparently knows no waking,
sleeps in its house of clay, and the
windows are shut, the doors are hung
in the invisible Grape of melancholy (;
when we wish the golden shunshine
pitchy darkness, and wish to fancy
clouds where no clouds be. This is a
state of sickness where physic may be
thrown to the dogs. for we wish none
of it. What shall rise the spirit !?
What shall make the heart beat music
again, and the pulse through all the
myriad thrOnged halls in the house of
life? What shall make the sun kiss
the eastern hills for us with all his old
awakening gladness, and the night
overflow with moonlight, love and
flowers? Love itself is the greatest
stimulant, the most intoxicating of
all, and performs all these miracles,
and is q miracle itself, and is not at
the drug store, whatever they say.
The counterfeit is in the market, but
the winged god is not a money chan
ger, we assure you.


"Men have done many things, but
still they ask for stimulants.


"Men try to bury the floating dead
of their own souls in the wine cup,
but the corpse rise. We see their
faces in the bubbles. The intOxicatiOn
of drink sets the world whirling again,
and the pulse to playing music, and
the thoughts gallOping, but the clock
only runs down sooner, and an unnat-
ural stimulant only leaves the house
it filled with the widest revelry, more
sad, more deserted.


"There is only one stimulant that
never intOxicates-duty. Duty puts
a clear sky over every man into which
the skylark-happiness-always goes
singing"