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Year: 1873

pa The tide Of ofimmigration Is steadily set
ting in, and tho nrst thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
q new one of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two
Year: 1873

It is Ruskin, or Eastlake, or Launce-
lot, or another, who condemns exten-
sion-tables on the ground that your
table should be equally large at all
times to indicate that you are always
ready for your friends? Go to, East
lake and Launcelot Sincerity is the
watch-word of the new dispensation.
We must have the supports of our
brackets visible, and the chair-legs as
palpably as they are really and as really
as they are palpably firm but if the
table is to indicate that We are always
ready for our friend, the table becomes
at once a piece of household artfulness
and not of household art, for we are not
at all times equally ready. Honesty in
life must precede honesty in furniture.
| We need not direct our efforts to being
always ready to receive friends, but we
could do much in the way of trying not
to de disturbed by their coming when
we are not ready. If Serena could
have her own way, she would prefer
CeIestia's call to be in the afternoon
when the midday meal is over, the
dishes are washed and removed, and
Serena is calmly reposing in tidy dress
and comparative leisure. But if Celestia
must leave town by the noon train, and
runs in by 10 o'clock in the morning.
when Serena is trimming the lamps, and
there is much Odor of petroleum in the
air, and Serena's fingers are not whole
some to Celestia's gloves, shall Serena
be dismayed and apologize and mental
ly regret that she Is always Z" caught in
the suds?" Not the least in the world,
if she is a sensible and friendly woman.
If it is the proper time for her to be
cleaning lamps, and she Is IN the garb
proper to a lamp-cleaner, she has no
call to be disturbed though the queen
of England in crown and scepter should
pay her a morning visit. She should
not consider herself as Sc caught in the
suds,' or caught at all. She is in the
suds of her own free-will and by tho
| fore-ordination of Heaven, and if


ssHeaven itself should stOop to her,
il ought to find her nowhere else at
that hour. 1t would be very unbecom-
ing that she should be trimming her
lamps in & silk gown in the front par
/ Ior. Why not be entirely frank and at
ease. and if her work be pressing, bid
Celestia to a safe seat by the kitchen
fire. or if she can conveniently go off
duty for a while, take her pleasant chat
to the pleasant parlor?-GGI Ham
| iEEOu.
Year: 1873

whether I Icve thee, ask the stare,


Te which so oft breathed my hopes and fears
Whether I love thee, ask the rose
I sent thee, hedewed with lovers tears.
Whether I love thee; ask the clouds
Which oft to thee my messengers have been.
Whether love thee, ask the stream
In which thy lovely image have seen.
Whether [ love thee, ask thyBelf,
Though have never told my love to thee
Whether love thee, ask mine eyes,
In them my love forever thou wilt see.
Year: 1873

Yet cen the greatest grief
May be reliefs,
Could we but take them right and in their ways
Happie is he whose heart
Hath found the art
To turn his double pains to double praise.


George Herbert
Year: 1873

TIE hand is the minds only perfect
vassal, and when, through age or
illness, the connection between them IS
interrupted, there are few more affect
ing tokens of human decay.-Ttscker-
Year: 1873

This world is dark and dreary,
When we make it SO;
This world is bright and cheerful,
When we take it so.
Our friends are cold and distant
Wiener We doubt them;
Our friends are true and loving
Wiener we trust them.
Is't best to live in the dark,
Doubling day by day,
Or live in the light of Love,
Trusting day by day?
Year: 1873

Gifted with noble tendency TO climb.
Yet weak at the time,
Faith is a kind of parasitic plant
That grasps the nearest stem with tendTii rings
And as the climate and the soil may grant,
So is the sort Of tree to which it cliDgs.


THoUg0g EOOTf
Year: 1873

The Friend.
Not on the store Of sprightly wine
Nor plenty OF delicious meats,
Though generous nature did design
To court US with perpetual trea.s,-
'Tis not on these we for content pend
So much as on the shadow of q Friend


-MeGader.
Year: 1873

Miss Nettire's thin face was crimson.
What sermon she had preached with
that paletot for a text What a scape-
goat for the sins of the community was
that luckless horse in her estimation
and how much she had added to Mrs.
Hauton's heavy burdens How natural
simple and inevitable looked the very
things that in her eyes had been mex
cusable
Year: 1873

We commend the following extract TO
the thoughtful study of the young Moth
ing is SO disgusting and repugnant to the
feelings of the good and thoughtful as to
bear the young, or even the old, use pro-
fame, low. or vulgar language. The young
of the towns are particularly guilty ofpro-
family. In our day it seems the hoy
does not leel himself "man unless he
can excel in this great vice:


Ave would guard the young aginst the
use ofevery word that is not strictly prop
er. Use no profane expression-allude to
no sentence that will put to blush the most
sensitive. You know not the tendency Of
habitually using indecent or profane lan-
guage. 1t may never be oblterated from
your heart. When you grow up you may
find at your tongues end some expression
which you would not use for any money.
1t was used when quite young. By using
care you will save yourself great deal oil
modification and sorrow. Good men have
been taken sick and become delrous. In these
moments they use the most vile and indecent
language imaginable. When informed ol
it after their restoration to health, they had
no idea of the pain they caused they had
learned and repeated the expressions il
childhood. and though years had passed
since, they were indellibly stamped upon thu
heart. Think of this, you who are tempt
ed to use improper language, and never dis
grace yourself or your friends"
Year: 1873

There is not creature on the face OF
the earth that is not dear to God. We are
accustomed to think that Christians have
God, while the heather have him not but
do you know that seven men out Of every
ten on the face of the earth are heather
And do you believe that God brings into
life generations. in numbers as countless as
the drops of the sea, or as the drops Of dew
do you believe that God creates the vast
uncountable multitude Of mothers, fathers,
children, young men and maidens, swarm
ing through Africa, through Asia, through
all the latitudes of the world, and that only
two or three out Of every ten are his chill
dren, all the rest, as they are brought in
through successive ages--myriads, myriads
myriads of them-being nothing to him
Is not God One who "maketh his sun tc
rise on the evil and on the good, and send
eth rain on the just and on the upjust2'
You might aswel appropriate the rain, aud
parcel out the sunshine, and say that mont
shall have one or the other except on socis
and moral conditions, as to say that mont
shall have God, or Christ, or hope, or sal
vation, except such as hold certain belief
or belong to given sect. They are uni
versal, and belong to whomsoever will taxi
them.-H w. Beecher.
Year: 1873

There is a call to gadness and thankful.
ness not only that we have the privilege Of
life that is more than meat and raiment,-
life intellectual and virtuous and spirit
but also that there are such free and
ample opportunities for gaining and enjoy
ing It. 1t is easier to secure the good that
belongs to substantial life than that Of the
senses aud the superficial nature. If the
energy that is now expended iD the interest
Of avarice, or for show, or excitement, or
reputation, or a heetiug power, were ex-
pended for any line Of real good,-iu the
stimulus and enlargement of any Of our
immortal faculties-what might not human
nature be 1t is hard to heap up great
fortune, to get an official position that will
not be insecure, to win long lease Of SEN
suous pleasure how great the array Of
means and labor to insure what will not
satisfy as it promised to, what looks attrac-
tive in the distance, but pales and dwiudles
in the actual grasp But whoever heard
of toll for truth being without result, or
the appetite for wisdom turning to weari-
ness and disgust, or any effort at the cul-
ture of faculty being fruitless, or pure
taste for beauty dstracting human peace,
or intercourse with nature yielding no sat.
isfaction, or the soul returning unfed and
disappointed when it has swept off into the
great fields of wonder and mystery TT


Starr King.
Year: 1873

Moral Courage" was printed in large
letters and put as the caption Of the follow
ing items, and placed in conspicuous place
on the door Of systematic merchant in
New York for constant reference, and fur
nished to us by him for publication


Have the courage to discharge a debt
while you have the money in your pocket.


Have the courage to do without that
which you do do not need, however much
your eyes may covet it.


Have the courage to speak your mind
when it is necessary that you should do so,
and hold your tongue when it is prudent
you should do SO.


Have the courage to speak to a friend in
a "seedy" coat, even though you are in
company with rich one, and richly attired.


Have the courage to own youare poor,
and thus dsarm poverty Of its sharpest
sting.


Have the courage to tell man why you
refuse to credit him.


Have the courage to tell man why you
will not lend him your money.


Have the courage to cut the most agree
able acquaintance you have when you are
convinced that he lacks principle friend
should bear with friends infrmities, but
not with his vices.


Have the courage to show your respect
for honesty, in whatever guise it appears,
and your contempt for dishonesty and du-
plicity, by whomsoever exhibited.


Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can pay for new ones.


Have the courage to prefer comfort aud
propriety to fashion, in all things.


Have the courage to acknowledge your
ignorance, rather than to seek for knowl'
edge under false pretenses.


Have the courage, in providing an enter
tainment for your friends, not to exceed
your meaus.


Have the courage to insure the property
in your possession, aud thereby pay your
depts in full.


Have the courage to obey your Maker
at the risk of being ridiculed by man.
Year: 1873

Madame de Stael was pitiless talker.
Some gentlemen, who wished to teach her a
lesson, introduced person to her, who, they
said, was very learned man. The blue
stocking received him very graciously; but,
eager to produce an impression, began to
talk away, and asked thousand questions
so engrossed with herself that she did not
notice that her visitor made no reply.
When the visit was over, the gentlemen
asked Madame de Stael how she liked her
friend. "A most delightful man! was
tho reply; "what wit and learning
Here the laugh came in--the visitor was
deaf and dumb.
Year: 1873

Some one has offered to subscribe fifty
or one hundred pounds toward the compile
tion of telescope that shall be powerful
enough to discover human beings--if exist
ing--on any of the planets. 1t would be
aggravating for our American race to see
anybody walking around there without be-
ing able to put them on reservation.
Year: 1873

HE Fl. ST. PHILIP CANAL prominent
citizens Of New Orleans are considering project
that, it is claimed will revolutionize the trade of
the Northwest. st point about eighty miles be-
low New Orleans is narrow neck of land which
divides the main channel OF the Mississippi River
from Breton Island Sound. On that neck is located
Fort st. Philip, massive structure. which ia
standing testimony that firm foundation can
be had for the proposed canal. A few miles east
of this narrow barrier is the harbor which it is
proposed shall be connected with the Mississippi
River by means of a ship canal. The harbor which
1t is intended to reach opens due east with clear
and unobstructed way to the high sea, having an
even and increasing depth all the way out varying
from about 30 feet until all soundings are lost.
When constructed, the canal will be filled only
with salt water from the Gulf, and the lifting lock
will be placed at the river end. 70 avoid the ,,os-


sibiity OF injury from unusual storms. grand lock
will also be erected near the outer end of the canal
on Sable Island. For the canal. as stated two
doors projected-one TO overcome the differ
encc OF level between the river and the gulf: the
other to close the canal its outer end during the
continuance OF hurricanes. TIE first viii be of
the ordinary form of canal locks, but will be larger
than before projected built 1t is to be 400
feet long between gates, 50 feet wide, and ~ feet
water sills. 1t is to be built timber plat.
form, and of beton, making the structure of sin
gle artificial stone. The gates are to be of iron
and hollow, with sufficient fotation to support
their own weight-fotation to be regulated by
water ballast to suit changes in the heights of tiles
The water for the lift Will be taken from the near
surface of the river. to be received on cushion OF
salt water to prevent deposit and will be dis
charged outside of the canal The guard lock is
to be of similar construction BUT it will only have
one pair of gates. The whole is to be rested on
courses Of timber bolted together, and these will
be rested on the firm blue clay which has been
found to exist there The gulf entrance to the ca.
nal Will be between two parallel piers, one mile in
length, built with timber piles and stones filed n
between the piles to the level of extreme high
water. The entrance to the river will be between
timber wharves 400 feet long.
Year: 1873

The system of middle men, as they
are called, has become so permanently established
CARRYING on the business of the country, that it
cannot be readily, If ever, abolished. In some
places middle men are not only beneficial in facli-
itating the progress of business, but they are alb


solutely indispensable In other cases they are
not only dspensable, but it is absolutely necessary
to the highest prosperity of the producing and
manufacturing classes that they should he dis
pensed with Immediately. But in order to accom-


plish this, there must be better understanding,
and concert of action between the manufacturers
and the farmers. twill be one of the greatobjects
OF the GRANGE ADVANCE to bring these two classes
Year: 1873

In another Column we publish the proceedings
o1 the Olmsted County Union Of p of H.


Inc manner IN which they have gone to work
strikes us as the most simple and practical method
yet hlt upon. They have assigned as will be seen
Dy reading the account, subject to each one of
INC subordinate oranges in the County for invest-
Salon, discussion and report. These questions
are all OF common sense order Every one of
thcm deals with some subject in which the farmer
Is Immediately interested. With these separate
subjects gone over by the different members of
The several oranges, and all the information COL
s1ectcd that can be brought together by SO manv
dlnerent persons, and then all this accumulation
o1 thought, knowledge and experience brought IN
TO the County Council by the delegates, we expect
to see PRACTICAL and most important results.


There is ano,her thing about the action Of this
convention, that is most worthy of praise, and that
IS the clear ringing resolution in favor of home
manufactures. 1t is refreshing to see practical
views taken OF practical subjects. The great
sroub'e with this world is that men fail to recog-
nize the good in those things which are nearest
to them. The writer seeks tho clouds or the stars
for sublime thoughts. when the sublimest thoughts
lie at the nib Of his pen. People refuse to re-
cognize either home talent or genius, drive away
their own sons, those raised in their own house
hold or neighbcrhood and take up with the carpet
Dagger, whose anteccdcnts are unknown and who is
great only because his past Is shrouded in mystery,
Ihey Kill their own prophets, and say of their
savior, lis not this the carpenters soE:'


Ladies must go to Paris for their fashions, no
matter how much they are compelled in following
them, to deform the beautiful symmetery of FORM
or destroy the beautiful blending of colors, which
God has given to body and face. 1t is a sad fact
that some of the greatest inventors, philosophers
and discoverers, have been ridiculed starved per
secuted and killed by their own people, and their
own age, while their works have gone out to bless
ailmanklnd and their names have been almost wor
shipped by succeeding generations.


Inis same tendency is seen in every day life,
We are constantly paying tribute to the distant
and unknown. That which would be stamped as
ahumbug If originating in our immediate vicinity
seems like very promising and fair speculation il
only of few hundred miles.


Men pay out thousands every year merely to
crafty this foolish propensity, and not only pay
it ont, but pay it where it will never return.


Now that Patrons begin to see the folly of this
old way of doing things and are beginning to recog.
nize the importance of building up home indus.
tries and manufactures, that the products of the
country may be retained instead of being
shipped away, and remain to be returned to the
soil that an equilibrium may be sustained and the
West kept from being drained of all its wealth.
Year: 1873

face to face in order that 50 far possible. they
may deal directly with esch other. This can not
be accomplished in day. Systems of business
long established cannot be abolished suddenly, no
matter how imperfect incompetent, and costly
they may be. This result can only be reached BY
earnest, persevering, and intelligently directed
effort.


With view to commencing this work we have
talked extensively with farmers, manufacturers
and middle men. The farmers tell Us that they
are daily robbed by the two latter classes. The
manufacturers tell US that neither the farmers or
Oranges approach them in business way, but
that they demand single articles at wholesale
prices. The middle men tell US that they do more
work for their money than any other class, and
that they are doing an invaluable work in setting
up machines, and instructing the farmers in run.
ming their machinery.


Now, it is very plain that neither farmers or
Oranges can expect to obtain single plow at the
same rate that the middle man gets 100 plows, all
at one time. On the other hand it is very plain
one neignborhood, or one Grange will need at one
time fifty or one hundred piows, nor will they
want to buy more at any time than are actually
needed at that time, for if they are going to get
their plows at the lowest prices they must pay
cash, and they will have hone to much to pay for
what they need. How then are farmers ever going
to be able to procure their machinery at wholesale
prices


We think it Is plain that they never can without
organization and combination. We think it is
equally plain that such organization as is necessary
can be found in the Oranges. Suppose that in the
spring and the fall, at the proper time, each
Grange in the county ascertain how many of its
members want plows. Let each Grange then re-
port say to the County Council, and let the Council
appoint committee to deal with the manufactur-
ers. There can be no doubt that the manufactur-
ers will be glad to get such trade, and there will
be large competition among them to secure such a
trade.


But whatever course will be ultimately found to
be the best, we earnestly urge upon the Oranges
an earnest, an intelligent, and an immediate con.
sideraton Of this question.
Year: 1873

TIE regents of the Michigan State University
after an experience of three years. report, that
they find the young lady students just about As
smart as the gents and that they are able to keep
up in all their studies with the lords of creation
and that the co-education OF the sexes is success
1t is wonderful how many new things this age is
finding out, and it il little strange that the world
has not discovered this before 1t is also found
that it does not hurt young ladies to study which,
will probably be very good news to some OF the
ladies, but rather sad for others of the sex


a convention Of anti Chinese has been called TO
meet at San Francisco November 5th The Amer
lean Indians held great many anti-whitemen
conventions, but the white man came just the same
This American continent is large enough for all
who may chance to come, and one nationality has
as much right here as another. The present lnhab-
itants have come from all quarters OF the globe
and are not anxious to be classed among the ma
hVes. BY commingling of races new and stronger
nationality has been built up strong enough to re-
sist all the bad tendencies and reform the lowest
nations of the earth who may seek these shores
Every one OF these will bring something which
will be If use in subdung this continent in roud-
ing out and pcrfecting in all parts great nation
God opened up the new world in his own good
time as an asylum for the oppressed and down.
trodden of the old world, and has decreed that it
shonld be free for all. The man who fears the
competition Of an ignorant Chinaman, must he
ignorant and weak indeed, and is to be ptied


The Chinese are said to have just begun open
ing their coal beds, which are very extensive Oar
Northern Pacific coast NAV vet get its coal
from China They will need If in Alaska +o r..,,
their parlors and conservatores O. when their sup
ply OF fuel runs out.


The eligibility Of all persons 10 civil employ
ment universal auffrage, liberty of the press and
the tri-coor flag. is the platform on which the new
monarchy in France is to ride into power. There
is nothing easier in this world than for monarchs
to make promises for politicians to draft plat
1orms' they serve as kind of moasses. poured
OUT ana spread on literally to catch flies, what is
mhch the same thing voters. They do not cost
much and after serving their purpose, are of
course forgotten. An earnest vigilent determined
people may force obedience to these promises and
platforms which should be considered AZ solemn
compacts on the part of Off and rulers to carry
on the government in accordance with certain prn-
ciples, and any violation Of these compacts should
be met with swift and unrclenting Judgment. A
man who violates political faith should be retired
be invited to take back seut, .nA gire u,voy for
his 6etterS.


They had an informal election in Bushnell. ILL.,,
on the whlskey question the other day. at which
the ladies were permitted to vote, they voted
against license and the men got ashamed of them
selves and voted liquor to the dogs.
Year: 1873

The Nation, after discussing the pros
poets OF specie resumption, thinks eff have the
grace 10 let the currency alone, gold will come into
circulation before long, and then if there be wis.,
dom enough in Congress to order the government
to begin in some manner, and at some certain
time, the redemption of their notes in coin, we
shall have specie payment again. But the idea
that there will be resumption without somebody's
doing something about it is curious hallucina-
tion.:'