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Year: 1876

The Boston Post, in an article con
cerning the crowd of Indiana people
under the name of editors recently in
Washington, says: Editors cannot
spend great deal OF their time in
travel. When they do they neces-
sarly part with their profession. In
point of fact the real journalist, or ed
tor as some insist, is personally about
the least known of all living individ-
uals who WELD an equal amount of in
fuence or perform an equal amount
of work, The preacher appears week
ly to the public in the sacred desk ;
the physician visits his patients daily
and talks with them the lawyer har.
angues juries and pleads with judges;
the journalist alone is unseen and pop
ularly unknown. He is content to
see the silent but effective operation
of his influence. 1t is his journal that
speaks for him. He would as soon
think of prancing about the country
exhibiting himself to the public in
different cities as he would of stand
ing On the corners and hawking his
own sheet. He would much sooner
perform under Barnum at the Centen-
NAL than perch himself in the gallery
of the United States Senate for exhi-
bition. He is not in the habit Of
wearing a chalkel hat, sleeping in free
beds at hotels, promising puffs for his
ratious, orjoining a travelling troupe
of men with flying hair or young wo
men with flowing feathers. His life
is one of work, and not of excursions.
When he goes forth to inhale the fresh
air and bask in the sunshine of this
outer world, no one is greater stran-
ger than he, and the last subject you
can induce him to talk about is a
newspaper. This troupe of Hoosier
"editors" is party that has been or
ganlzed to see the country and feast
on its products without having to ex-
pend dollar. 1t is the other kind of
editors the real editor-that hoiels,
railroad companies, Congress and po.
litlcal managers would be only too
glad to entertain.
Year: 1876

WOULD not be leaf, oh no,
To wait for April winds to blow ..
Before should have power to grow;
would not be q leaf, to lose
The red and gold Of autumn hues,
And drop when giddy winds should choose
would not be brook that strays
Through pastures and sweet hidden ways
And nowhere oiters or delays
A brook that hurries here and there,
Whether the day be dark or fair,
Till caught within the frostS white snare
would not be bird that weaves
Her dainty nest beneath the caves,
And has no peace for fear of thieves;
would not be bird to triIl


And teach my fledglings with a will,
And find one day the nest quite still;
I would not be q bee to roam,


Seeking the sweetness far from home
With which to fill my honey-comb;
Nor would be red rose, born
With many hidden cruel the IN,
Where children's fingers might be torn.
But would simply choose to be
A little child at mothers knee,
Ofyears that number ons, two, three
0 that Is far the best for me !


Mary " Prescott, 81 Nicholas for March
Year: 1876

No, dort mean ragged clothes,
but folks who act like rags some
times, you have seen dozens of them.
They go about smiling and cheerful
just as long as prosperity smiles on
their plans and wishes, but the mo-
ment that trouble comes they grow
limp as wet rag and while the
backbones ofthe family are tugging
and sweating to give the wheel an
other turn, those wet rags fold them:
selves up and slip away quietly into
corner, where they lop down and
watch the proceedings until all is Sc
rene and lovely again, when they ap-
pear once more upon the scene and
bravely help bear the honors. I'm
out Of all patience with such people;
why they don't even make rustic as
they walk. Whenever | meet them l
feel like taking a big bowl of starch
and dipping them in and hanging
them out to dry. But then | suppose
they are some good in the world, for
if everybody We're always cheerful and
happy there wouldn't be anybody to
pity SO let them softly fulfil their
mission while We thank our lucky
stars that we don t belong to the rag,
ged folks.
Year: 1876

A Touch CANADIAN AND A .ToUGH-
Err SroRY.-About forty years ago, n
young man named Wilson, residing
near the town of Perth, Canada, con-
ceived the lunatic idea of leading q
hermit's life. The youth had from
his early age showed symptoms OF
arrangement, and this proceeding on
his part was not considered strange
by his friends. The chosen place of
of his hermitage was three quarters of
a mile from his parental homestead,
in the recess of dense brush, where
he erected a small hovel and furnised
it with an old log canoe, which he
used as a couch to sleep in. Dlvest-
ing himself of all clothing, he has
ever since remained perfectly nude.
with the exception of a tattered rem
nant Of a shirt which his fancy leads
him to retain. In this nude state for
forty years he has lived, walking in
the depth of Winter through the snow,
and yet he has never been known to
have received frost bite. When he
requires drink he walks deliberately
into the river, it mattering not to him
what season of the year it may be-,
and wades out till the water reaches


his waist, and then he stoops and
quenches his thirst. His food is
brought to him by his friends, and
when given to him is eaten with the
voraciousness of an animal, which he
resembles more than that of a man,
his body being as heavily coated with


hair as that of COW. He never
shows dangerous disposition, and
chatters in monosylables. When
people cross his path he invariably
begs for tobacco, for which he has an
evident partiality, and in chattering
tones will utter "bacca" until his re-
quest is granted. His hair is long,
gray, and unkempt, falling far over
his shoulders, and his beard, which is
similar, reaches down! below his waist.


He is now between 60 and 70 years
of age, and he is possibly the only
living being ever known to have lived


year after year perfectly naked, and
exposed to all the incIemencies of
weather which mark our Canadian


Winters. - Exchange. s.
Year: 1876

/ pity them folks who won't be-
lieve anything only what they can
prove.


A lie Is like brush heap on fire ;
it is easier to let it burn out than try
to extinguish it.


Young man, you had better over
rate than underrate yourself; the world
are very apt to take man at his own
price.


Revenge makes a hornet respecta-
BILE, but it is the very basest passion
in man.


The more intellect man has got,
the more simple he can afford to he.


After all said and done, if there
wasn't anything but lambs in this
world, life and mutton would be a
great drug.


A defeat suffered gracefully is half
a victory.


Everybody laughs alta monkey, but
nobody respects them.


Don't hunt for fame-lets fame, ,huut
for you.


There is lots of people who, when
they have changed one sin for anoth
er, think they have repented of the
first one.


Liberty don't consist in doing as
you please, or in doing as others
please, but in splitting the difference.
After q man has reached the height
of his ambition, the first thing he does
is to be disgusted with it.


The majority of the world don't
know of any other way to get ahead
than to pull somebody back.


l notice one thing when a man IN
tends to punish the world by retiring
from it the world steps gently one
side and lets him wait.


Young man, you can't learn any
thing new by hearing yourself talk.


The road to ruin is always kept in
good order, and those who travel it
pay the expense.


What blessing it is to be simple !;
TO have the body satisfied with simple
food and the mind satisfied with SIM
pie truth.


The bottom round Of the ladder is
safer than the top one.


If men of brains were always men
of honor this world would be compar-
atively safe.


1t is tough to be poor, but to be
ashamed of it is putting salt onto a
sore.


We are all of us poor just as we
want more, aud rich as we want less.


Good luck is not only scare bit
mighty uncertain, for even good
luck may prove to be bad luck in the
end.


A dollar is worth saving, but it
amt worth spending twenty shillings
to get.


All frauds, when exposed, are more
remarkable for their thlnness than for
anything else.


One of the biggest fools in the
world is the man who is hunting for
that he has irrecoverably lost.


1t is quite an accomplishment to be
able to mind our own business.


If you want to make yourself pau
per and your friends enemies give
them all they ask for


Forgive others first and yourself
afterward,


Dogs can bite as we'll in the dark
as in the daylight


The quality of your friends is CT
much more Importance than the num-
ber.-[ Josh Billings, in New York
", pkly.
Year: 1876

If there is anything in which Nose
ly believes most implicitly it is home
cpathy. Previous TO Christmas ne
had simply an ordinary, luke warm
confidence in it; but since then it he's
been, so to speak, part and parcel of
his religion and fully incorporated in
his creed; hut with all this he has his
doubts about the expediency of using
that Tor indeed any system in domes.
tic doctoring at all-in fact he doesn't
believe IN domestic doctoring at all.
Some time since he was complaining
to a friend of his about the size of his
doctors bills, and that friend sat down
with him and told over his experience
with homeopathy, and how, in Ger
tam space of time he had saved
enough to buy piano by simply in
vestigating in a good, instructive
manual" and accompanying case of
somebody Or others "specifics," all
contained in nice little bottles, and
mighty handy and convenient. He
not only told him this, but further ex.
planned what nice thing it was for
babies and how he had saved several
human lives--includiug that of his
mother-in- law, an act which since he
had greatly regretted-one time when
they were all up in the country, and
it was impossible TO get doctor un.
der three hours in sholt he so worked
upon Moseley's mind that that gentle
man went off the next day anI bought
Just such another ''manua" and case
of ''specifics' as those possessed by
his friend everything about which out
fit was IN perfect order, and reduced
to the finest system, every bottle, be.
ing duly marked, numbered and la
beled, shoppers numbered to CORE
spond, and the whole recorded in The
"mannual" in such a way as to show
what each bottle would do, if given
an opportunity.


Then he went to work and studied
up and got hold of the principles Of
the thing so that he could subdue a
collie or q stomach ache with tolerable
expedition, although there was (and
is) way down in his heart Of hearts a
slight leaning in the direction Of hot
toddy as a remedial agent in such
cases.


His Christmas dinner had not
agreed with him very well, and he
felt so bad along in the evening that
he got out his doctors shop with due
solemnity, and made light attack on
the sturdy quarter OF a mince pie that
he felt was troubling him, and then,
getting ready another dose, he took it
down stairs to his wife, who also was
slightly indisposed, but nevertheless
busy with her household affairs. Like
any man, he lett his medicine chest
open upon the bed in the front room.


1t being Christmas night, the three
year ole boy was given little more
latitude than usual, and allowed to
stay up beyond his regular bedtime ;
in consequence of which he was circu-
lating around IN highly animated
manner, and fully taxing the watch.
fulness of the sixteen-year old, lately
landed nurse-girl, who had him in
charge While Moseley, ST., was
down stairs, Mospley, Jr., and his
nurse wandered in the front room,
and while the glrl was buried over
head and ears in gaudy toy picture
book beloupino to bsr innocent
Year: 1876

Every exercise of evangelical
love and every act of gospel obedience
has some comfort attending it i; while
every departure from Christ produces
darkness and distress, unless the soul
be deluded and deceived by some
false comtort.-[ An old author.
Year: 1876

MEN sometimes work for years to
accomplish certain purpose, and dis
cover just as the end is attained that
there is nothing in it. When one de-
sires to kiss pretty girl, and after
much time and persuasion obtains
the coveted favor only to discover
that she has abominable breath, there
is perceptible feeling that the reality
hardly equals the anticipation. Some
such sensation will, we think, glide
along the spinal column of the propri-
etor of the San Francisco Chronicle in
short time. For the past eight
years that paper has been fighting for
the Associated Press dispatches, and
now when another Association is
furnishing more, better and later dis
patches for less money, the Chronicle
is admitted into the Associated Press
ring.
Year: 1876

We are told by good authority that
If our people will prepare the road
bed and lay the ties from here to Col
ton that the Southern Pacific will
furnish the iron, build the road and
furnish the rolling stock. If this is
true, and we have no reason to doubt
it, we should confer with the railroad
company and close contract at once.
This would not prevent the building
of the Santa Monica road. To prepare
the road bed and lay the ties from
here to Cotton could, it is estimated,
be done for $4,000. Men who are un-
able to pay money could turn out
with their teams and pay their SUBJ
scriptien with work. The road when
completed would enhance the value of
our property ten times the amount of
the original cost. The interest OF the
Southern Pacific and our interest
would then be unit.-ArguS.
Year: 1876

Said an intelligent and over average
fair minded Republican the other day:
"It is plain to all Why BRIsTow was
not the Cincinnati nominee. He
meant reform, and reform is just what
the managers of the Republican party
do not want.n This is as true as Holy
Writ, and it is this truth that has
created feelings of doubt and distrust
in the rank and file of the party as to
the honesty of their leaders. BRIsTow
is an honest man, and it was this rare
Characteristic among Republican
leaders that forced him from President
GRANTS cabinet. He found knaves
in high places. He discovered incom-
petent and dishonest officials plunder-
ing the people, and he inaugurated
measures for freeing his department
from this class of men. This brought
about a demand for his resignation.
He was cabinet officer of the old
school, and his notions of honesty
were not at all in accord with the pro-
gramme of the administration. He
believed that the people had rights
which should be protected. He be-
lieved that public officers were public
servants, accountable to the people
for their acts, and he believed that
when an official proved himself dere-
lict in the performance of his duty
and dishonest in handling the peoples
money, he should be called to account
and, if found guilty, dealt out the same
punishment that is inflicted on every
ether thief. For entertaining these
old time opinions BRIsTow was
thrown out of the cabinet, and because
he would not renounce them he was
refused the Republican nomination
for the Presidency.
Year: 1876

the battle away. The Republican
nominee, by his letter Of acceptance
or in any other manner, should lead
the people to believe his election
would be continuation of Grantism
II he should falter on the currency
question or show leaning toward the
corrupt disgraceful.


SAN FRANCISCO, June 29th.-Seve-
raj leading Democrats have been in
terviewed and expressed the utmost
qualification in Tilden's nomination.
Advices from the interior say that the
utmost enthusiasm prevails among
the Democrats.


The Young Mems Democratic Club
met last evening and had a hilarious
time. All the speeches over the NOM
ination and platform were of a very
eulogistic character.
Year: 1876

Now the people have prospect that
peace and prosperity will once more
revisit their homes. Now there are
indications that retrenchment and re-
form will be heard of elsewhere than
in party platforms and campaign
speeches. Now there are grounds for
hoping that the time is approaching
when our nations credit will be re-
established, and her power and re-
spectability once more acknowledged
among the civilized nations of the
world. It is now foregone conclu-
sion that Republican control of our
Year: 1876

Mr.. Bassett OF the HERALD said this morn
Ing at an early hour, "If theyzonly nominate
Hendricks for Vice-Presidentthe devil him.
self can't beat the ticket" We can only re-
mark that the latter gentleman is not rum
ming on the Republican ticket. Republican.


THE gentleman in black is not, per-
haps, on the ticket, hut if we may
Judge from the oppression and misery
the Republican party has brought up
on the people we are justified in say
ing that a couple OF. his favorite lieu
tenants are running on the ticket.
Year: 1876

regret to notice the desponden-
cy manifested by the Federal officials
about this city since the nomination
of TILDEN and HENDRICKS. Place
your house in order gentlemen. Your
time will soon be up.
Year: 1876

Brooklyn man writes to the Sun


- drank moro Intoxicating liquor from the
year 1857 to the last day Of 1873 than aoy
other person ever knew or heard Of; aud 10
the meantime, knowing this sure cure, did not
practice it on myself, but, for fun, did practice
it on many Others, and effected permanent
cures. The remedy Of the cure is this When
person finds he must have drink LEI him
take drink Of water, say two or three sVal-
lows, as often as the thirst or craving may
desire. Let him continue this practice. His
old chums will laugh but let him persevere,
and it will not be week before the appetite
for any kind Of stimulant will disappear alto
ee,her, and water will be taken to quencb the
natural thirst. If at any time the victim
should feel craving, Jet him take the first
opportunity and obtain a swallow Of water,
and he can pass and repass all saloons. When
he goes home at night be viii feel satisfied and
be sober and have money in his pocket. /
commenced this practice the FIRST day Of 1874,
and never think Of taking drink Of stimu-
lants."
Year: 1876




trench became so narrow that only one
man could work in it, and that only with
difficulty. They then commenced Dig
|ging trench around the we'll 80 feet
in diameter, which proved to be the
most successful plan of operation. They
toiled diligently, but were worn out,
as some of them left their homes be-
fore dinner and had eaten nothing.
At 3 A. NJ. they had got down about 7
feet on the new plan. At 4:30 as those
at the we'll were tired out, the rolling
mill whistle sounded the fire alarm,
which brought a lot of fresh hands to
the spot, and the work progressed
more rapidly. As the earth had been
continually giving way under Bellman,
his feet fully 18 feet below the surface
when heHwas rescued, which was at
$40 o'clock Monday morning. When
first taken out he was as limp as dish
rag, but was cheerful; and when Offer
ed some brandy, said he did not want
it, but would like an oyster stew. His
ears, nose, moutll,s and eyes were filled
with dirt, and he could not speak above
a whisper. His legs were as cold as
a stone and entirely helpless, as the
circulation had stopped entirely, and
his face wore a cadaverOus look that
was pitiful to behold. He was placed
upon stretcher and carried to his
home on First street, where he was
examined by DR.. Flandrau. He was
found to be very badly bruised from
head to foot, but more especially about
the hands and limbs, but no bones
were broken. He was washed in IL
qlor and wrapped in warm blankets,
and before noon the blood began to cir
culate, and he slept a very little. In
the afternoon he was able to move his
limbs a little, but was very weak, and
could only whisper. He is being fed
on beef tea and little brandy, and
the doctor is confident that unless in
flammation sets in he will get around
all right in a few days. In CONVERSE
ton with your correspondent Bellman
said that lie never lost his courage
but once, and that WAS after he had
once been where he could see the day.
light and breathe the clear air, and
then was covered up again by more
than a wagon-load of dirt. He says
that the pump afforded protection for
his head, and had it not been for that
he would have been crushed entirely,
and that lthe air pump did him i'm.
mense service, as he was almost
suffocated when it reached him. The
10 hours during which he was con-
fined seemed longer to him than a
month, and he does not know how to
thank the willing hearts and helping
hands that saved his life and restored
him to his family. This is the second
incident of the kind that has occurred
II this samesWell;;f Aboaltg l3 years ago
4 colored man was cleaning it when
the walls caved in, in nearly the same
manner that they did this time. He
was got out alive in about 10 hours,
but was more seriously injured than
Bellman is, as one of his legs was
broken and one of his hips badly crush
ed. The well will now be entirely
filled up.''
Year: 1876

The new leather tanning process,
which was put into operation on an ex-
tensive scale at Detroit, Mich, some
two months ago, promises to be pro-
ductive of important results. The great
feature is the short time required to
do the work. BY the new plan work
which under the old process required
one in two years time can be accom-.
plished in from three to SIX weeks.
Under the old process the hide lies in
the vat with the bark many months,
the longer the better, gaining firmness
and strength with the lapse of time.
BY the new process the tanning is done
in an hour, and all the time spent is
that required for currying and dress
ing. The process is q chemical one,


performed by the action of certain in
expensive chemical materials, the
compounding Of which in the right
proportions is secret. Robes tanned
with the hair on are said to be as soft
Year: 1876

ONE of the hottest regions Of the
earth is along the Persian Gulf where


little or no rain falls. At Barhin the


arid shore has no fresh water, vet a
comparatively numerous population
contrives to exist there, thanks to CO.
pious springs which burst forth from
the bottom of the sea. The fresh wa
ter is got by diving. The diver, sit
ting in his boat, winds a great goat
skin bag around his left arm. the hand
grasping its mouth; then he takes in.
his right hand a heavy stone, to which
is attached strong line; and thus
equipped he plunges in and quickly
reaches the bottom. Instantly open
ing the bag over the strong jet of
fresh water, he springs up in the as
current, at the same time
closing the bag, and is helped aboard.
The stone is then hauled up, and the
diver, after taking breath, plunges
again. The source of these copious
submarine springs is thought to be in
the green springs of Oman, some 500
or 600 miles distant.
Year: 1876

The Way TO BECOME Pay
cash for everything you buy at the


time of purchase. If this rule was


adopted everybody would live well,


live happy and prosper. Everybody


wishes to buy cheap and sell high.
Nothing can please man more than
getting good round price for what he
has to sell. But supplies and demand
rule these things. The credit system
does more in keeping prices high than
anything save supply. To start out,
the man that buys of the producer for
cash, can buy lower than if he buys
on credit. Then the merchant buys of
the importer for cash, and saves an
other item Of cost. Next the retail
from the retailer, from the wholesaler,
buys for cash, and another item is
saved. The goods are retailed to the
people at large, and the man who sells
his time can sell at ten per cent. less
for cash than he could on credit Pay
cash and you will be independent. Pay
cash and save cash. Pay cash and
you will not be compelled to pay high
tariffs to pay other people. Pay cash
and you can buy bargains. Pay cash
and you can hold up your head and
ook the world of mankind in the face.
Pay cash and you will grow rich.
Year: 1876

AND Mr.. Merriweather paused at
the gate as he adjusted his continen-
tai oilcloth coat and gave his torch
the proper slant over his shoulder, to
shout to his neighbor over across the
way:


at is time that demands men,
men of nerve and intelligence anti
courage; men of clear ideas and pure
convictions, and the citizen who stands
idly waiting when the country calls
him is heartless, and negligent and



And then Mrs. Merriweather's voice
was heard floating over the front fence
like the song of bird in the night:


"Erastus Merriweather, if you SO
off without splitting up enough wood
for the kitchen stove, I'll do some hay
in that carroty hair O yourn
that'll make you wish this country
never had Presidentw


And it's just such chilling influences
as these that shut so many of our best
men out of public life.