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Year: 1873

Aye, be kind to them! Ye who


have never felt the bitter pangs OF


hunger, who have never passed


through dreary winter with chatter


ing teeth and limbs palsied with cold,


who have never prayed for the sweet


forgetfulness of sleep, to shut out,


for brief season, the frost whose
icy breath struck chill to your heart,
and who have never been a prey to
the canker worm of grief and misery,
which all sufferings entail, we pray
you, bekind to the poorl


Be kind to the poor. Yes, for the
blessings OF prosperity which heaven
has showered upon you will yieldyou
] otrus happiness if others are starv-
ing. Heaven has placed you on earth,
has exposed you to like chances of
want and wretchedness. In a phar-
isaical spirit, then, thank not God
"that you are not as other men," but
rather with the publican, humbly sue
for mercy, and enhance the efficiency
of prayer by charity and kindness.


A satisfied conscience sheds q peace
and comfort through the heart and
soul, without which the immortal
spirit eau not be satisfied. Follow
not, then, after the selfshness of the
world around you, unless, like Dives,
thou wouldst hereafter share his re-
ward, and, amid thy torments, see
the poor man afar off in Abrahams
bosom.


Be kind to the poor. Earth has
more sorrow than the heart can CON
tain, more suffering than frail human
nature can bear. The widow, left
alone to toll and struggle beneeth the
desolat;on of bereavement,appeals, in
tones more eloquent than words, for
your sympathy and aid. The helpless
orphan, brought into the world and
left alone by the relentless hand of
death, claims your guardianship and
protection. SO do the children of
penmy, "because the poor ye have
always with you" and, as you expect
a continuance of the mercies and
blessings of heaven, SO be thou merci-
full to others; then shall the gate of
plenty be opened to thee, and the
pillow of peace kiss thy cheek.
Year: 1873

By many, teaching is looked upon
as a pastlme, or a stepping-stone


(which indeed it must necessarily be
In many cases, under present arrange
ments} to something higher and more
profitable. Some even look upon it
as kind of refining process, a nee
essary diciplining of the mind, pre-
pairing them fOrsome more useful oc-
cupation- Consequently, Teachers
should not expect such highC y wages.
Besides, the winter is rather an idle
time, and it would be that much saw
ed.


Now, whoever proposed to "cut
down the salaries Of our Legislators
and Congressman because their work
is done during the side" months of
winter? or of county officer, because
he IS furnished with an Office and can
WORK, wet and dry


We believe in economy; but we
ask in all eandor, is it good policy to
commence on the persons to whom
you commit the training of your sons
and daughters? You want them thor
oughly prepared for their work. This

requires time and labor ON theirpart,
and they should at least receive as
much compensation IS a good me-
chanic.


We make some extracts from an
article on this subject from the Oct.
No. Of ''The Public School Advocate"


':But we are told that the teacher
is not compelled to labor the number
Of hours per day that are required of
other laborers. We admit that the
number ofhours specified for actual la
Dor to constitute days service in the
school room, is less than is usually
required in most other departments
of service. But we are inclined to
think but few persons devote more
hours OF actual service to the interest
of their employers than the faithful
school teacher.


'It is contended that teachers
should not be paid for the time they
are not in actual service; we ask, why
not pay them for the time they do
serve a salary sufficient to support
them the balance of the year? In ev-
cry other kind of service, where en-
ployment can be secured only part
of the year, business men consider it
the part of wisdom to pay Duch
larger salary for the time in which
the laborer is employed than he
would for the same time, if he gave
him constant employment But the
school teachers are not only expected
to labor for less compensation than
an ordinary laborer who has constant
employment, but to devote much Of
the time during vacations to attend
ing institutes and training schools,
which not only prevents their seeking
other employment, but actually com
pels them to expend this small
amount of money they have accumu-
lated for the benefit of their employ
ers.


"We think we hazard nothing in
saying there is no class of persons in
the community from whom SO much
is required, upon whom rests so great
o responsibility, who aremore deserv-
ing of the confidence and respect of
the public, and who receive a remun-
Grafton SO small in proportion to the
services rendered, as the teachers In
our public schools.
Year: 1873

A young lady has written a song in
which she asks: '.How can l tell him
1 love him no more?" There are sew
eral ways in which the information
may be impaired. For instance, il
the young lady lives in Philadelphia,
and the young man whom she doesn't
love any more resides in New York,
she might telegraph him, charges to
be collected; or, if she is not in a
dreadful hurry for him to hear the
words, she might leave it until she
visits New York or she could write
or she might employ her big brother
to go and tell him; OF, if both live in the
same city, she might call around after
tea, and bribe his sister to tell him
or-but there are so many ways, that
doubtless some of them have occurred
to her ere this.
Year: 1873

My first is in North, but not in West,
My second is in weary, but not in rest,
My third is in cap, but not in hat,


My fourth is in dog, but not in cat,
My fifth is in girl, but not in boy,
My sixth is in hope, but not in joy,
My seventh is not in East, but is in South,
My eighth is in chin, but not in month,
My ninth is in broad, but not in narrow,
My tenth is in plow, but not in harrow,
My eleventh is in loan, bat not in borrow,
Ny twelfth is inlaugh, but not in sorrow,
My thirteenth is in paper, but not in book,
My fourteenth is in rat, but not in mouse,
Ny sixteenth is in hut, but not in house,
My seventeenth is in wheat, but not in bran,
My whole is u noted military man..
Rag-weed Avenue. PAP'S 2i GAL
Year: 1873

A BOOK agent entered the open door of
a snug Pittsfeld. Mass, cottage one day
last week, and nodding to trim, bright
locking little woman who sat sewing by
the window, commenced volubly to des-
cant on the merits ofa great work which
he was for the first time giving mankind an
opportunity to purchase. 1t was univer-
sal biography, cook book, dictionary,
family physician, shorthand instructor,
and contained, besides, detailed history
of every important event that has trans
pired In the world from the apple incident
and Adams fall to Credit Mobilier and
the fall of Congress. The work con-
tanned 5000 chapters, all with running IL
ties. The agent, after talking on the
general excellences of the volume
about five minutes, commenced on the
headings of those chapters and as the
woman did not say word to interrupt
quest, and he ratified away so that she
took him nearly halfan hour, and as he
breathlessly went on the sweat started


on his forehead, and he made convulsive
grasps at his collar, and when he finished
he had hardly strength enough left to
put on bewitching smile and hand her
his ready pen wherewlth to subscribe her
name in the order book. She took the
pen, but instead of putting her autograph
on his list she lifted scrap of paper from
her work-box and wrote In plain letters:
''IME DEFE AND DUM." He said not
word, but the mutt rable things that he
looked, as he turned to the door, would
fill a ibrary.-Erchange.
Year: 1873

A PENNsYLvAIA farmer writing to the
New York Tribune upon some expert
ments on the cultivation of sorghum, says:


So little has been said of late upon the
cultivation of sorghum that am tempted
to believe that it has ceased to be consid-
cred matter of agricultural importance.
However this may be, there are doubtless
those who still grow 1t Tor the kindred
plant, Chinese sugar camel, ard to such !!
would like to make q suggestion that Will
prove, think, Of considerable practical
importance. would advise the breaking
or otherwise marring the seed stalk or
head 80 that the seed could by no p0ssi-
bility mature, and by 90 doing necessarily
exhaust q large per cent. Of the saccharine
matter of the plant in the formation of
the starch of the seed. I am led to make
this suggestion from observations made
while experimer ting In sirup-making
from the stalks Of sweet corn. found
by breaking of the incipient ears as they
appeared Ear larger yield and much
richer sap was obtained than when the
plant was suffered to mature It's seed, and
this would doubtlessly be the same with
the plants referred to.
Year: 1873

Nor is this all; think may 90 furthe-
and predict that plants so treated would
furnish sap that would readily yield
granulated sugar. To my apprehension
the formation Of the starch necessarily ex-
hausts, to great degree. that portion Of
the sap that crystallizes in sugar making.
The true cane, as l understand, natures
no seed, or Is used before the seed is ma
tured, its propagation being by suckers
or sprouts. The sap Of the maple will
not make sugar after the buds start,
though 1t yields a rich sirup. proving
that the formation of lignin or wood fiber,
which chemically is nearly identical with
starch, exhausts that portion of the sao-
charine matter which previously crystal
lized. Both starch and lignin are readily
reconverted into granulated sugar, differ
ing, it is true, somewhat from common
sugar-being what is know as grape sugar,
still, this very fact would seem to confirm
the idea that in their formation nature
used but some particular parts of the sap
of the plant.
Year: 1873

MEN have different spheres. 1t is for
some to evolve great moral truths, as the
heavens evolve stars, to guide the sailor
on the sea and the traveller on the desert
and it is for some, like the sailor and the
traveller, simply to be guided.
Year: 1873

About Thousand years ago colony
of Icelanders was planted on the west
ern coast of Greenland. They were hardy
people, Injured to cold and measer liv-
ing, and there seemed TO be no reason
why they should not take root in the
frozen soil of their new home. They
built stone church there and stone
houses to live in, of which the ruins are
still to be seen. But what became OF
the builders is a question that has never
been solved, and never will be. They
vanished from the face of the earth, and
that is all that is known. Whether cold
or pestilence or starvation took them of,
or whether wandering savages killed
them. no man call tell. Their settle
ment is known in history as Lost Green.
land,
Year: 1873

WH1 is ladder like prize-fght? ?
Because it is made up of rounds.
An Ohio editor publishes marriages
under the head of Attachment No
tees"


THAT the coming winter will be one OF
severe cold is Indicated by the thinness
of hair on new blacking brushes.
WHILE witnessing game OF base ball
out West boy was struck on the back
of his head, the bawl coming out OF his
mouth. ....
THERE was room with eight corners.
In each corner sat cat; before each cat
sat seven other cats /; and on each cats
tail sat cat. How many cats In all?
THE man who has nothing to boast
of but his illustrious ancestry is Like
potato-the only good belonging to him
is underground. Thomas Orerb,try.
A MERCHANT who has Sunday-school
class asked, "What is solitude ?" and
was visibly disturbed when miserable
boy answered, "The store that don't
advertise"


A MAN out West brags that all the
furniture and flooring of his house Is
made of live oak, but his wife who does
the hard work OF the house, says it's
nothing but scrub oak.


II you are told to do tIing,


And mean to do it really,


Never .et it be by halves,


Do i, fully, freely.


Do not make poor excuse,


Waiting, weak, unsteady;


All obedience worth the name


Must be prompt and ready.


When father calls, though pleasant be


The play you are pursuing,


Do not say, an come when


Have finished what m doing"
Year: 1873

Many a fatal case of dysentery is
caused by the want of q woolen under
shirt, or an extra blanket at night. The
sudden changes of temperature which
occur at this season of the year are very
irving to the constitution. People with
weak lungs quickly feel the effects OF
them. frequently the thermometer falls
many degrees within few hours. Not
only the feeble, but robust and strong
persons. sufferfrom such great variations
of temperature. When the weather
grows cold rapidly, the pores of the skin
are suddenly closed, and the result is fire.
quently bad cold, which may hold on
all winter and terminate in consumption
or fatal attack of dysentery, or that
dreadful disease, typhoid fever.


There are many ready-made coffins at
the cabinet shops and urdertakers-
little, short, tiny coffins-which are
going to be filed up soon by children
some of them as sweet and beautiful as
anybody's, as your own and just think
of it, these children might be left in
their bright homes if only warm shoes
and stocking, which keep little feet dry,
and warm clothes and woolen blankets
were more plenty.
Year: 1873

now TIE GREENLiNDERS DRESS.


A correspondent of the New York
Tribune, with the Juniata expedition,
saws of the Greenlanders that, to one
ignorant of their style of dress, and the
similarity of the dress of both sexes, it
would be difficult to distinguish the
man from the woman. The man combs
his hair straight down and over his
forehead, only parting it sufficiently to
enable him to see directly ahead of him,
while the woman combs her hair in
long plait, forming it into q knot on the
top of the head, which is elevated about
four inches from the scalp, and tied
with strip of ribbon either of black,
blue, or red color-the widow being
distinguished by black ribbon, the
wife by the blue, and the maiden by the
red one. The complexion is coppery
like that of the Indian, their hair black,
and their nose fat, while their cheek
bones are broad and prominent, nearly
hiding the nasal appendage when the
profile is presented. The kapetah, or
jumper with hood attachment, worn by
both sexes, the hood of the woman's
being made larger in which to carry the
young babe, is of seal-skin with trim
mings of dog. skin. The pantaloons
and boots are also worn by both sexes,
those of the women being in most cases
very deliberately and artistically trimmed.
The pantaloons of the women reach
only to the knee, while the boots, made
of finely tanned seal-skin, nicely crimped
and sewed with the sinews of the deer,
make them look comfortable.
Year: 1873

NOW LONE PINE WAS "RUN" BY


GEORGE WATSON.


Lone Pine is town in California. It
can't be much of town, but appears to
be too big to be run by one man.
George Watson had to leave it months
ago on account OF some numbering he
had done there. He made tour Of the
mines under another name and came
back to Lone Pine with reinforced
opinion of his ability to stay there,
and some money in his pockets-the
fruit of his wandering and thieving
operations among the miners. He was
in the habit of killing or robbing a man
whenever he took fancy to such
amusement, and. having been quite sue,
cessful in these enterprises, he came
back to Lone Pine with his arms and
ammunition, and announced his inten-
ton TO "run" the town. His first act
of government was to beat and nearly
kill an inofiensive English speaking In
dian, because he was an Indian. The
same evening, pistol in hand. he turned
all the occupants out of a saloon, and,
standing in the door, announced that he
was able to whip any man in the crowd,
and that if some one did not take him
up and fight him instantly, he would be
under the necessity of shooting some
body. Just then he got a gun-shot
through the heart, and the Coroner was
unable to find out who did it. That
is the way George Watson run Lone
Dine
Year: 1873

Old Ginguzzle was the terror OF the
Junior bar. Any OF US would as lief
have faced the master we believed him
to serve, as encounter "Old Gin, as
we called him, in the trial of case.


There wasn't quibble he wasn't up
to, nor a trick he wouldn't stoop to.
Then his manner of treating a youthful
opponent-supercilious is no name for
tit was like administering a spanking
in open court. It was no use appealing
to the Judge. Old Gin bullied him as
much as he did the lest of US. 1t was
only the jury he took pains to be polite
to, and how he did bamboozle them


Old Gin rode the circuit and the
deuce of it was, you could never tell
when he would be rung il on you.
Your case might be called for trial you
might rise to open, counting on square
fight with one for whom you felt your
self fully match, when, at the last
moment, Old Gin, just retained on the
other side, would haul up his chair,
and begin to stare you out of counte-
nance.


I had pet case-it was a SUIT for
slander-and Pope Failowbrain. not a
legal giant, but the youthful author OF
much unpublished poetry, was en-
ployed to conduct the defense. 1 was
confident Of brilliant victory--if only
Old Gin kept his fingers out Of the pie.
Ithoughtenceofs securing him onmy side
but knew he would take all the credit
to himself, and 1 had no wish to be
shorn of my laurels.


When my case was reached, much TO
my relief, Old Gin was not on hand. 1t
was early in the term, and residing IN
another county, he had not made his ap-
pearance yet.


1 announced myself ready but, much
to my disgust, ar. Fallowbrain asked
for q days postponement. His client,
he said, had lately employed Mr.. Gin
guzzle. who was expected that evening,
and the defense would be ready to go on





tomorrow.


Ipro.es.ed against the delay, and in
sisted that the unexplained absence OF
one counsel, when another was present
especially one as competent as my
learned friend-was no ground Tor ad-
iourning trial.


The Judge knew was right, but he
was too much afraid of Old Gin to say
so. He knew what a rumpus the old
fellow would raise when he came, II the
case was forced on in his absence. The
trial, accordingly, was set down for the
following day, then to go On peremp-
torily. #- G-


/ left the courtroom much chagrined.
! think | could have heard with COM
posure Of an accident to the train Old
Gin was coming on, il nothing worse
had happened than breaking the old
sinners neck


II was in this frame of mind that
met my friend Sam. Pokefun, the best
fellow at the bar, only little too much
inclined TO practically joke.


/ explained the situation to Sam.
< "H Old Gin could be put out OF the
way for day, it would be all right,
wonld IT p he asked


"0f course it would" l answered.
The judge knows the case should have
gone on to-day, and has ordered it tc
Proceed tomorrow peremptorily."


have an idea, said Sam ; and ht
proceeded to unfold it. What it was
The reader will see in the sequel.
Year: 1873




Henry Ward Beecher's paper, the
Christian Union, has manly article on
the duty, no less than the right, to
"bolt." 1t shows that bolt was the
foundation of every reform the world
has known. Nothing save organization
is SO venerable or respectable as bolt
ing. History, both sacred and profane,
teens with the recital Of it. Noah was
q bolter from the unanimous beliefs of
his time. Much faith and courage he
needed, too, to Withstand official scorn,
popular ridicule, the sneer of good So
ciety, and the cold shoulder of the
fashionable world. which thought his
airs of superior virtue the merest con-
ceit. The majority in Sodom wholly
disagreed with Lot. More than once
Moses was in q minority of one, the
whole people being united in the opinion
that he was a stiff-necked fellow who
might better go with the party. Every
one of the early Christians was bolter.
The Christian Church itself, not to speak
it profanely, was bolt from the Judaic
synagogue. That of Constantine was a
bolt from the Pagan established faith.
The Reformation bolted the Romish
platform and candidates. The Puritan
revival bolted the regular organization
of the English Church. The Declara-
ton of Independence was the most dar-
ing and apparently hopeless bolt OF
modern times. Washington, Franklin,
and all their fellow-rebels simply as
serted the right of private judgment in
politics rs opposed TO an inherited ira
dition of loyalty to sacred majesty.
Garrison and Phillips asserted the right
of private judgment as opposed to an
inherited tradition of loyalty to sacred
Constitution. The feeble bolt of dozen
eccentrics forty years ago is become the
enormous Republican organization of
to-day. In the nature of things, snc-
cessful party becomes in time corrupt
party. For every soldier of fortune is
bound to train under the victorious
banner, while honest men will not use
that vigilance which alone can keep these
bummers from electing themselves Off
GERS, that they may divide the spoils.
There comes a day, therefore, when
those same honest men, having refused
to bolt nomination or scratch ticket,
are sorrowfully forced to bolt the party
instead. But when that day has really
dawned is a question which must be
referred to private judgment.
Year: 1873

There is, again, talk of fencing the plaza, and of boring for arteslan water in It. Both ought speedily be done We favor both projects, and will assist with money Mir Lovi Bashford says be will give s2O0 to aid in the work. He we think, will do better than that. Other business men will do fully as we'll SO we ask for speedy action In these matters and would suggest that a committee bc appointed or elected. With fenced plaza and good flowing well, this town and vi. cinity could soon be made "prctty as a big sun flower" The money that would be spent in do. ing the work would be circulated here, and go our.citizcns would derive n two-fold benefit by carrying out these enterprises. Then, If success fu in finding artesian water here, farmers on "dry ranchesn would surely find it In many pla. ces and this whole section would be improved and beauti1ed at railroad speed
Year: 1873

The dual, or mual, Modocs who profess to edit the Yuma Sentinel have been roreii-ed into sticking their thckly inhabited heads out of the mud of the Colorado, and arc now craving enlightenment from us just as if 1t were possible to enlighten such apes.